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Interview with Dr. Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Chief of Agricultural Meteorology Division of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Dr. Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Chief of the Agricultural Meteorology Division of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) speaks to Namitha Dipak of DRYNET on September 7th, 2007 at Madrid, Spain. Videography courtesy Silke Brehm. An edited version of the interview appears here.
Climate is serious business these days, and Dr. Mannava V.K. Sivakumar is amply qualified to give us a bird's eye view of climate change, and how some regions of the world are coping with it. In this conversation, Dr. Sivakumar discusses drought and the need for better spatial coverage of meteorological stations. He emphasizes that meteorological information has to be useful to the end user to enable them to act on it, adding that agricultural extension and NGOs networks have an important role to play in this transfer of knowledge. He highlights the preparedness levels of some Scandinavian countries to cope with climate change, which is a result of their focus on a win-win situation. Dr. Sivakumar lives in Switzerland, but his deep concern and ideas about India and its challenges in the climate change scenario were evident. Clearly, there is an urgent need to bridge the gap in knowledge levels and capacity in different countries, and the time to act is now, not 2010 or 2015.
ND: Recently the Minister for Science and Technology of India announced that "real-time" crop monitoring would be put in place in the country, and this could help to detect the onset of drought as well. It has apparently been started in one state and will be extended to other states over a period of time. What is your opinion on this, and how can we make such monitoring more effective?
MVKS: When we talk of drought monitoring, we have to look at the agricultural community that produces crops, the pastoral community who keep livestock or go from area to area searching for fodder, and of course the impact on forestry and fisheries. So it depends on what kind of monitoring you want to put in place in order to cover everything. For instance, is the drought confined to a small area or a district in Gujarat, or entire Gujarat or the entire north India? We have to see the intensity and magnitude and then of course the impacts.
Also, if you talk of drought monitoring, you must have very precise meteorological information on the various parameters, especially rainfall. Where rainfall is concerned, there are two aspects: the temporal and the spatial. Temporal is something like what was the rainfall last month, what is it this month? What is the normal rainfall for next month? Are we 40 per cent below the normal?
A very important aspect is spatial rainfall – how rainfall varies in space. This is where in many countries you do not have a good strong observation networks.
You said that the spatial coverage must be increased in your speech during the CST on the 6th of September.
Yes, I did. The important thing when we are talking about drought impacts and trying to mitigate them is to have a good spatial information…so for that you need to have a good network of meteorological stations.
Are you talking of India specifically, or will this apply to any country?
I am talking of any country. When you talk of the problem of drought, many times it crosses national borders. If you have drought in India, very likely you might have drought in Pakistan; or if it is in the eastern side, it could mean Bangladesh. And if you are talking of drought in a region like West Africa, many countries are affected. After all, climate knows no national boundaries…the boundaries are something we created. Atmosphere does not have boundaries.
Another important thing about drought, as opposed to floods, is that it is what is called a "creeping phenomenon". A flood comes and hits, and you see an impact very clearly within minutes or hours, and the flood passes away. Drought on the other hand is called "creeping" because the onset is not clear, and the ending is not clear. In floods you have structural damage …it washes away houses and it is visible – structural – bridges get washed away, you see cars floating, these are very striking images.
Just like a hurricane or tornado…
Exactly, but when it comes to droughts, the impacts are not structural. Of course you do see withering crops and other indicators, but these are not as striking. That is why when it comes to droughts, people tend to be a bit lazy. So, to come back to your question, when it comes to drought, any kind of monitoring that will give us an accurate picture of the spatial extent of drought and impacts, is very important. This monitoring will help us mitigate and measure the impacts. For example in India, if the drought happens in the South West monsoon time, then what kind of adjustments do we need to make for the North East monsoon? This is called contingency management: contingent on the drought happening, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to change your cropping patterns to meet the shortfall? In a given region, let us say you are growing maize, and there is a shortfall, so what are you going to do about it in the following season? Many areas in India depend on irrigation, so in the post-rainy season, a contingency plan can be put in place.
Is the WMO in any way interacting with the Indian government on this?
Well, the Indian Meteorological Department(IMD) is a member of the WMO. All countries around the world are members, and this doesn't mean just the meterological department of a country. All departments in a country will also come into the picture. Of course our main focus will be with the IMD, but we expect the department to bring in a countrywide perspective when they are interacting with us. So they need to bring in the agricultural department and perspectives from other departments.
To me, one of the buzz phrases during this COP appears to be "early warning systems". How challenging is it to implement early warning systems in such a diverse geographical area like India?
Regarding early warning systems, today we have very good tools for our disposal, as opposed to about 30-40 years ago. We are now able to give you information on what will happen in the next three months, six months, maybe even up to a year. Five years ago, the accuracy of these seasonal forecasts was not as good, but more reliable forecasts are becoming available. Of course, these are not perfect forecasts, that is the reason they are given in terms of probability. A forecast will mention what is the probability that the rainy season, for instance in 2008, will be normal, above normal or below normal.
What does that mean for the common person?
For example, if I say that the rain in 2008 will be 30% below normal, what we then do is take the information and downscale it. We take the normal patterns in northern, eastern, western and southern India, and the information from the seasonal forecast and then downscale it. For example, in Andhra Pradesh(a state in southern India), if the average rainfall in Hyderabad area is 780mm, 30% above average would be about 1000mm. On the other hand, if in another year you have 30% below average, than it means you only get 500mm. If there is a farmer who is used to cultivating crops with an average rainfall of 700mm, what does he do when he has 500mm of rainfall? Or when he has 1000mm of rainfall? The value of such information is that he will be able to make decisions. He has to change the cropping system, the cropping pattern, he has to change the variety. If there is a forecast for below normal rainfall, then he might want to reduce the amount of fertilizer he puts on the crops because the situation is going to be drier. Earlier, let us say he was applying 90kg of nitrogen, now he can reduce it. Similarly he can reduce the area planted with crops.
That means that the farmers have to be trained to cope with this information.
Exactly. That is why when such forecasts are available, it is very important to bring in agricultural extension services. And also NGOs, like your DRYNET network as well.
You also pointed out that often data producers and end users do not often interact…
Yes, this is the most critical component now. Meteorological departments generally tend to be desk-bound because of the nature of their work. They are mainly people collecting data, analysing it and providing it to the user community. But what is important is that there should be strong interaction with the end user.
So are you saying that the scientific community is important, but to some extent, some kind of sociological balancing act needs to be done at the ground level?
Yes, that is why the two words, science and society always go together. Unfortunately, we tend to operate in two distinct arenas. We think sometimes that scientific activity and societal activity are different. To me, science and society go together. The benefits of science must come to society, otherwise science has no meaning. Similiarly these forecasts that I was talking about – the benefits of these forecasts must go to the users. So whichever department it is, agriculture, meteorology, or forestry etc., the main target should be: how do we help the user community? So in that framework, who are the actors? The farming community, NGOs, local help organizations and so on. We have to work with all these people.
And in a country like India with 1.04 billion people now, and very soon 1.1 billion people, our problems are going to be enormous. I think that we should never trivialize our problems, because the population is huge and even a small shortfall in production would have a large impact. Yes, we have an economic growth rate that is reasonable. But the agricultural growth rate is not at the same level. Our prime minister is very concerned that agricultural growth rate is stagnant. With a stagnant growth rate in agriculture, imagine the impact of adding a few million people to the existing population. Look at the enormity of the task.
We need to have a new paradigm. A new paradigm where people have to come together, departments have to come together, and technology has to be used for the purpose of public good. We all have to work for the public and concentrate on the public. How do we achieve that? That can only be through collaboration. And so how do we make the technological benefits reach the people? For that there are many ways to get from Point A to Point B, but sometimes the straight line is often the best. But for you to do that, you need to have a lot of cooperation to make it happen.
What about specific drought monitoring centres? Can you give an example of a country where such centres are running successfully?
Yes, the WMO has a history of this. We established two drought monitoring centres, one for East Africa in Nairobi, and the other for southern Africa in Harare. These were established back in the 1980s in response to the needs of these countries. Those drought monitoring centres have been operating since then.
Recently, the centre in Nairobi become part of a political entity called IGAD, a governmental authority on drought, which is for East African countries. Similiarly, the centre in Harare become part of the SDAC – the Southern African Development Community.
What these two centres do is look at the issue on a regional basis, but provide information to each country. In each of these regions, eastern and southern Africa, the countries are small. And they do not have the human and institutional capacity to generate forecasts or satellite information and provide them to the people themselves. That is why they went for this regional board, where you have one regional centre that is providing information to the countries in the region.
When it comes to India, think of our states as countries. That's how we have to operate. Andhra Pradesh, the state where I come from, now has 70-80 million people. That's more than the population of Switzerland. I live in Switzerland, and look at the infrastructure and the information that the Swiss government is providing to the people. Of course Switzerland is rich, but in terms of the scale, both countries are the same. The states of Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh in India have huge populations, sometimes much bigger than some of the bigger European countries. So at the state level then, we should not be thinking small. We should think big. Act big.
Take hard decisions, like you said in your speech?
Yes, we have to take hard decisions. There is a good example from Australia when they had to restore degraded land. Restoring degraded land is a not a trivial task. You have to tell people: now, come on, you better stop doing this. Don't bring your cattle here. Don't degrade this land. Change your cropping system. Do this and do that. The government has to come in with very strict guidelines. They must ensure that the guidelines are implemented and take hard decisions. People are not going to like it. Democracy does not merely mean freedom – it means freedom with responsibility. If I am given freedom I must also be responsible. Then I can enjoy my freedom and you can also enjoy your freedom.
Coming back to your question about drought monitoring centres, in my opinion, if we have to deal with climate related issues in future, every state government should have a climate impact unit. Not just at the central level. For instance, in India there is a National Disaster Management Authority at the Centre and every state has its functionary. But climate is going to be a very important issue for India not just now, but also in the future, so every state government should have a climate unit, where you look at the climate of the state, the problems with some of the climatic extreme events, future scenarios, and how to help our local communities at the village level, district level and so on to cope with the projected impacts. I come back to the point I made earlier : our states should behave like some of the smaller European countries. Really, the people should be empowered. We have a good panchayat system (local level governance system) in India. We have a very good democracy at all levels.
Would you say the rural awareness in India is increasing? For instance in a state like Andhra Pradesh, with so many agencies who are doing a lot of good work.
It is increasing, but I think we need a higher level of activity, because time is short. We should not relax, that is how I feel.
Could you give us an example of local efforts that are helping to mitigate the effects of climate change?
There are some examples emerging now from some of the Scandinavian countries. Scandinavian countries are more proactive than reactive to what are the likely impacts of climate change. They are looking at win-win situations. And that's what we in India should also be looking at. A 2-3 degree increase in temperature – when translated to a local level – could mean something higher than 2-3 degrees. This 2-3 degree range is a global average. That is why some countries are taking very serious steps. They are already informing communities about the likely changes and how they should start shifting their cropping patterns. This summer is very warm, and the wine production in France is very seriously affected. So the wine producers in France and Italy are already looking at these issues. Similarly the wine producers in Switzerland are looking at this issue and exploring alternatives. So you are not going to wait for 2010 or 2015, you must start looking now.
The level of activism that you mention…can it be replicated elsewhere?
I think so. One important characteristic of people in India is resilience. Communities are resilient. When there is drought happening, communities are affected, but they are resilient. People help each other, somehow people try to cope with the situation, and a year or so later things get back to normal.
Can it be that this strength is also a failing (when it comes to preparedness)?
I don't think we should let things drift that way.
In some cities in India, like Bangalore, the changing climate in a single lifetime is becoming fairly evident. From personal experience, it appears that there are more rainy days, unseasonal rains, and the summers are more intense in Bangalore. Is this the right time to perhaps launch some kind of a national level campaign to convert this awareness into preparedness?
Yes, this is why I said that we need a climate unit at every state level. I know that at the national level, some sort of working group has been established to look at this whole issue of climate change and what needs to be done. But for a country like India with a huge population, an effort at the national level is not good enough. We should bring it down to the state level and the district level, so that you build the awareness quickly. With every passing year, the enormity of the problem is going to be much higher so I don't think we should wait and say let the national assessment be done and then let the states take the action and so on.
I think a similar procedure is followed for relief measures.
Relief is a little different – it is an economic issue. The centre has to provide the funds for the states and then it has to be distributed and so on. Building awareness is something different. Awareness does not have to wait for any economic help from anybody. Awareness has to be continuous. It is like a health issue, for example. If you are aware of a health issue you take care of yourself. Why do people get up and go for a jog, or walk? Or do yoga? It is because people are aware of the importance of doing these things. Similarly when it comes to climate change, the time has come for us to build the awareness quickly. State-wide, district-wide. India is an enormous country with many agro-ecological and agro-climatic zones. What you grow in the mountains you don't grow on the plains. What you grow in the delta areas, you don't grow inland. Every state produces a number of different food crops, there are different forest areas, and there is a lot of biodiversity. So I think we need to really bring it down to the state level quickly.
Have you had any discussion with anybody from the Indian government?
I have not had any opportunity to have an extensive discussion about this. Last year I had an opportunity to visit Kolkata. I know that the sea level rise is going to be an extremely serious issue for Bangladesh, and it won't be too long before we start having migration from Bangladesh into India. So I asked a friend in Kolkata whether the West Bengal state government had any brainstorming on this issue. And he said no. To me it is a very important issue and they should do the brainstorming right now.
Could a political perspective to these migrations add a sense of urgency?
Well, even without any sea level rise there is migration, but imagine if there is a sea level rise, because the area is at sea level. Even a small rise will have an impact. It is a serious concern.
Finally, having such a worldview of climate and other geophysical aspects of the Earth as you do, I would think it might feel like being up in space. What motivates you and keeps you going when you are at work?
When it comes to work, I am constantly inspired by the way different countries face challenges. Some countries make the problem smaller and try to focus on overcoming it, while a similar problem may bog down other countries because they let it overwhelm them. This difference in the way countries handle similar situations is very inspiring to me.
Dr. Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Chief of the Agricultural Meteorology Division of the World Meteorological Organization was present at the COP8(Conference of Parties) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) that was held between 3-14th September at Madrid, Spain.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized UN agency that deals with weather and climate, operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO) that was founded in 1873, and currently has a membership of 188 member states and territories.
Dr. Sivakumar is the WMO focal point for collaborative activities with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development(IFAD), and the Secretariats of the UNCCD and CBD. He has worked for over 20 years for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research(CGIAR). He is the recipient of the 2007 International Service in Agronomy Award of the American Society of Agronomy, which recognizes outstanding contributions in research, teaching, extension, or administration made outside of the USA by a currently active agronomist. According to a WMO press release, the ASA award has been given for the first time in its 40 year history to a scientist from a United Nations agency.
During the CST session on 6th September, Dr. Sivakumar gave a forceful speech summarizing the recommendations of the International Workshop on Climate and Land Degradation held at Arusha (Tanzania) in December 2006. A book "Climate and Land Degradation" co-edited by himself and Ndegwa Ndiang'ui was also presented then.


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If there is one aspect of dementia which has endlessly fascinated writers, especially in the past few decades, it is the essential malleability of what we perceive as 'real'. There are few medical conditions which incline themselves more fully to Cartesian explorations of individual discernment of reality, forcing the reader out of their comfort zone as they are led to contemplate what it is that defines any one perception of existence as being somehow more 'authentic' than others.
Kay is a multiple award-winning Scottish writer whose work has spanned poetry, prose and drama. The recipient of the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award Fiction Prize, amongst many others, she is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Over the years she has dealt with many weighty issues in her literature, and in choosing dementia as the central subject matter of Mind Away she brings all of her distinctive contemplation and sensitivity of characterisation to the ways in which the condition can demonstrate far-reaching effects on family relationships as well as influencing an individual's ability to connect with an essentially allusive reality (given that, after all, never was a notion more given to shifting interpretation in a postmodern world).
The play employs an elaborate dual narrative. The principal action concerns Nora (Sheila Reid), a sprightly woman in old age who is coping with the onset of dementia, who interacts with her feisty, warm-hearted daughter Mary (Siobhan Redmond), a novelist who has moved into Nora's flat following a painful break-up with her partner. During their playful interplay, where Mary does her best to buoy her mother through the painful difficulties of her condition by using her vivid creative imagination, the pair decide that Nora isn't losing her memories - rather, they eventually determine, her recollections are being stolen by a handsome young doctor. They are unaware, however, that elsewhere in Glasgow a certain Dr Mahmud (Raza Jaffrey) is finding his work constantly interrupted by a stream of consciousness that he cannot control - Nora's 'stolen' thoughts, manifesting themselves within Mahmud in unexpected and unwelcome ways, much to the consternation of his medical assistant (Lisa Livingston).
Mind Away presents its subject matter with real heart, greatly aided by earnest performances by Siobhan Redmond as a devoted but troubled daughter, and Sheila Reid's finely-controlled portrayal of Nora which adroitly tilts from affectionate recollection to livid antagonism in an instant. It is much to the credit of Kay, along with director Pip Broughton, that so many intricate layers of characterisation are hinted at so dexterously without ever lingering on any one issue excessively. Mary is constantly fighting to keep Nora anchored in the here and now, encouraging her mother to look forward with hope rather than continually harking back to bygone days. Yet Mary's own demons, reflected through her reliance on the bottle, are only too obvious to her mother in occasional, lucid moments of honest concern. Nora's perception of the present is sketchy and uncertain, leading her to revisit the past not out of nostalgia, but rather so that she can secure herself within an authentic reality. Mary's struggle, then, is to present an optimistic future for her mother to reach for instead, even while she herself feels precious little sanguinity for her own expectations.
Regularly cutting across the main action, Raza Jaffrey gives a commendable performance as a troubled professional who finds himself facing his own uncomfortable questions about personal autonomy. His portrayal of quietly understated panic as he finds his own notions of reality under subtle assault (at one point he gives himself a Mini Mental State Examination to analyse his own cognition), Mahmud is simultaneously unnerved and perplexed as Nora's life experiences continually intersect and overlap with his own. But is the doctor truly a discrete and autonomous individual, or simply a figment of Nora's increasingly fragmented imagination? Jaffrey's sincere and eminently restrained articulation of Mahmud's concerns leads to an unexpected and touching conclusion, which successfully communicates the play's overarching balance of thoughtfulness and tenderness.
Mind Away is a drama which combines congenial humour with bleak melancholy, and makes the most of its thirty-minute duration as it explores the extent to which an individual is a prisoner of their own perceptions. Jackie Kay succeeds admirably in examining the complexities of dementia, conveying not only the alienation that the disorder can bring but also fleshing out the efforts required to combat its difficulties. The immediacy of live theatre, even via the medium of live television broadcast, is especially well-suited to emphasising the unpredictability of behavioural shifts as well as (through some accomplished stage direction) challenging narrative expectations in powerful and unanticipated configurations.


Spiderman PS4 is not an origin story of Peter Parker, in fact, Peter has been the web-slinger for a few years now. While the story is mature and different from what we have seen in previous games, Peter is still a fun character with ESFP personality.
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Motor racing-FIA warns championships against post-pandemic 'turf wars'
por Dorothy Pruett (2020-06-08)
By Alan Baldwin
LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - Motor racing's world governing body has warned its various championships against waging 'turf wars' in rearranging their calendars once the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.
Formula One, the world rally and endurance championships and a swathe of other national and continental series are on hold and looking at cramming races into the second half of the year to complete their seasons.
That could lead to overlap and ??? television scheduling clashes.
"It´s crucial that we prioritise the staging of events," International Automobile Federation (FIA) deputy president for sport Graham Stoker said in the latest edition of the body's journal AUTO.
"What would be counter-productive would be to get involved in turf wars. Let´s not get involved in disputes about who has got which slot and what prior agreements might specify -- that approach will not work.
"The main priority is (to) get motor sport going again and if that means some `super weekends´ with multiple events happening, in co-operation and with flexibility, well, why not?," added the Briton.
Formula One has yet to start a season that had been due to get under way in Australia on March 15.
It is hoping to schedule 15-18 races between July and December, starting in Austria and ending in Abu Dhabi.
It has also cancelled the traditional three-week August factory shutdown to reschedule a string of postponed grands prix.
The Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race, which attracted a crowd of 252,000 last year to the French circuit, has been postponed from June 13-14 to Sept. 19-20 -- a weekend which does not currently clash with F1.
Stoker said it was important to get grassroots events, "the lifeblood of competition", and national series up and running to rebuild confidence.
He said the re-emergence of motorsport after both World Wars was driven by a grassroots desire to compete and it may be necessary to start from the bottom up again in a difficult financial landscape with carmakers suffering a slump in sales.
"Motor sport has got to pull together, and we´ve got to have flexibility in terms of events and venues and thinking outside the box in order to get things going again in a spectacular way that will obviously attract public interest," said Stoker.
"We should also demonstrate that motor sport remains relevant and a positive influence, through its messaging and actions." (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ken Ferris)


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Mitigation of sepsis-induced inflammatory responses and organ injury through targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling
Archna Sharma, Weng Lang Yang, Mahendar Ochani, Ping Wang
The Wnt/β-catenin pathway has been involved in regulating inflammation in various infectious and inflammatory diseases. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by dysregulated inflammatory response to infection with no effective therapy available. Recently elevated Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been detected in sepsis. However, its contribution to sepsis-associated inflammatory response remains to be explored. In this study, we show that inhibition of Wnt/β-catenin signaling reduces inflammation and mitigates sepsis-induced organ injury. Using in vitro LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 macrophages, we demonstrate that a small-molecule inhibitor of β-catenin responsive transcription, iCRT3, significantly reduces the LPS-induced Wnt/β-catenin activity and also inhibits TNF-α production and IκB degradation in a dose-dependent manner. Intraperitoneal administration of iCRT3 to C57BL/6 mice, subjected to cecal ligation and puncture-induced sepsis, decreases the plasma levels of proinflammatory cytokines and organ injury markers in a dose-dependent manner. The histological integrity of the lungs is improved with iCRT3 treatment, along with reduced lung collagen deposition and apoptosis. In addition, iCRT3 treatment also decreases the expression of the cytokines, neutrophil chemoattractants, as well as the MPO activity in the lungs of septic mice. Based on these findings we conclude that targeting the Wnt/β-Catenin pathway may provide a potential therapeutic approach for treatment of sepsis.
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Sharma, A., Yang, W. L., Ochani, M., & Wang, P. (2017). Mitigation of sepsis-induced inflammatory responses and organ injury through targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Scientific reports, 7(1), [9235]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08711-6
Mitigation of sepsis-induced inflammatory responses and organ injury through targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling. / Sharma, Archna; Yang, Weng Lang; Ochani, Mahendar; Wang, Ping.
In: Scientific reports, Vol. 7, No. 1, 9235, 01.12.2017.
Sharma, A, Yang, WL, Ochani, M & Wang, P 2017, 'Mitigation of sepsis-induced inflammatory responses and organ injury through targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling', Scientific reports, vol. 7, no. 1, 9235. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08711-6
Sharma A, Yang WL, Ochani M, Wang P. Mitigation of sepsis-induced inflammatory responses and organ injury through targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling. Scientific reports. 2017 Dec 1;7(1). 9235. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08711-6
Sharma, Archna ; Yang, Weng Lang ; Ochani, Mahendar ; Wang, Ping. / Mitigation of sepsis-induced inflammatory responses and organ injury through targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling. In: Scientific reports. 2017 ; Vol. 7, No. 1.
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Thousands say no to Kettering warehouse development which will 'destroy' woods
It could create 700 jobs, but environment campaigners are furious
Thursday, 14th May 2020, 6:00 am
More than 5,000 people have added their voice to a campaign to block a planned Kettering warehouse park which would see countless trees chopped down.
Buccleuch Property (Kettering Ltd) want to build a number of units on land off Weekley Wood Lane, near the Kettering police hub, in a development which could see up to 700 jobs created.
But plans show part of Weekley Hall Wood would be destroyed in the process with more than 40,000 sq m of woodland earmarked for the chop - and environment campaigners are refusing to let it go without a fight.
They have now launched a new campaign - Save Weekley Hall Wood - featuring campaigners from Extinction Rebellion, the Green Party, Labour, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Kettering Eco Group and other local supporters in a bid to conserve the much-loved beauty spot.
Their petition as part of the campaign has amassed more than 5,000 signatures with 500 people also sending in official objections to Kettering Council, who are currently considering the plan. A deadline for objections has been extended for a third time, to May 21.
Kettering Green Party campaigner Dez Dell said: "We have been overwhelmed and overjoyed by the amount of public support we have received already.
"We are now urging residents to contact their local Kettering councillors to express how much losing the area would mean to them."
Weekley Hall Wood. Picture by Dan Whitney.
The site is partly owned by the Boughton Estate and partly owned by Buccleuch Property. It was previously quarried and is now a mixture of mature plantation woodland, young plantation woodland and meadow grassland.
If approved the warehouses would total about 30,000 sq m with access from Weekley Wood Avenue by using the hamburger roundabout. There would be 400 car parking spaces with estimates of 700 full-time jobs and further indirect jobs.
In a planning statement, the developers say they will be creating new woodland on a like-for-like basis to reduce the impact of the development.
They said: "Where woodland close to the development boundary is likely to be lost, targeted native shrub planting will be utilised.
The campaign logo.
"This will create a natural barrier between the development and the woodland to reduce human impact on these areas as well as creating foraging and commuting habitat for species. To further reduce the potential impact of the proposed development during the construction phase, woodland creation at a 1:1 basis is to be undertaken, with 1.31ha to be created on site and the further 3.06ha to be undertaken within the wider land ownership."
It added: "Overall, after the proposed embedded and additional mitigation measures have been put into place, the potential impacts during the construction phase will result in predominantly negligible impacts and minor adverse impacts. These impacts are seen as not significant."
But campaigners say this isn't good enough. They say that, not only is the land popular with walkers, but it is of significant ecological value.
The Chequered Skipper butterfly has been extinct in England since 1976 but as part of a Lottery funded project was reintroduced in nearby Rockingham Forest in 2018.
An artist's impression of the warehouse site.
Campaigners say the grassland and wildflower meadow at Weekley Hall Wood was a historic habitat and is well within the Chequered Skipper's known range. They added that two closely related and rare butterfly species, the Dingy Skipper and Grizzled Skipper, have both been sighted there this spring, and the the famously-protected great crested newt is also near the site.
John Padwick, from Kettering Labour Party, said: "This application is a double whammy: it not only threatens the environment, part of the ancient Rockingham Forest, its plan for yet more warehousing would bring more of the same low skill jobs on the edge of town, when what we need in Kettering and north Northamptonshire is more investment in high skill employment in the town centre."
Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Northants spokesman Alan Heath said: "If built, the development will destroy a substantial area of countryside and biodiversity.
"Bees and other pollinators are particularly in decline due at least partly to a loss of 97 per cent of their habitat over the last 60 to 70 years.
"By pollinating crops these insects contribute millions of pounds to Northamptonshire's agricultural economy, so this has impacts beyond the conservation of our wildlife."
To find out more about the campaign visit www.saveweekleyhallwood.com, search for @SaveWeekleyHallWood on Facebook and Instagram and @WeekleyHallWood on Twitter.
A drawing of the proposed warehouse park.
To view a petition against the plan, visit https://bit.ly/saveourwoodpetitionKatharine Banham, a planning officer at The Wildlife Trust, has also spoken out against the plan.
She said: "The proposal to build warehouses at Weekley Wood Lane, Kettering, would have a negative impact on local wildlife.
"The development would result in the loss of sections of woodland and wildflower rich grassland, along with the many species they support.
"National planning guidance requires applications to benefit biodiversity and contribute towards the creation of Nature Recovery Networks. At the moment this application wouldn't do that."
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Dieser Artikel behandelt die mexikanische Nationalmannschaft bei der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2002.

Qualifikation
Mexiko war direkt für die Zwischenrunde qualifiziert. Dort traf man auf Trinidad und Tobago, Panama und Kanada. Nach einer überraschenden Niederlage gegen Trinidad und Tobago rückte man mit einem 7:0 im Rückspiel die Verhältnisse wieder gerade. Durch ein Unentschieden am letzten Spieltag gegen Kanada wurde man zwar Zweiter, dies hatte aber keinerlei Auswirkungen für den weiteren Verlauf.

In der Endrunde hatte Mexiko zu Beginn große Probleme. Nach der Hinrunde hatte man gerade einmal 4 Punkte auf dem Konto. In der Rückrunde konnte man sich dank einer deutlichen Leistungssteigerung (13 Punkte) doch noch für die WM qualifizieren.

Zwischenrunde:

Endrunde:

Mexikanisches Aufgebot

Spiele der mexikanischen Mannschaft

Vorrunde

 3. Juni 2002; 15:30 Uhr in Niigata Kroatien –  Mexiko 0:1 (0:0)

In der ersten Halbzeit ließ Mexiko den WM-Dritten von 1998 weitgehend agieren und beschränkte sich im Wesentlichen auf das Zerstören der kroatischen Angriffsversuche. In der zweiten Halbzeit verstärkten die Mexikaner ihre Offensivbemühungen. Die Schlüsselszene des Spiels war die 59. Minute, als Cuauhtémoc Blanco seinem Bewacher Boris Živković enteilte und dieser ihm nur noch die Beine wegziehen konnte. Weil die Regelwidrigkeit im Strafraum geschah, gab es Elfmeter für die Mexikaner. Der Gefoulte selbst übernahm die Verantwortung und stellte mit seinem verwandelten Strafstoß den 1:0-Endstand her. Die Verteidigung ihres knappen Vorsprungs fiel den Mexikanern relativ leicht, weil den neun verbliebenen kroatischen Feldspielern nach dem Platzverweis für Živković nicht mehr allzu viel einfiel.

 9. Juni 2002; 15:30 Uhr in Rifu Mexiko –  Ecuador 2:1 (1:1)

Der erste Schock für "El Tri" kam bereits am Tag vor dem Spiel, als Kroatien gegen Italien gewann und die Gruppe wieder völlig offen war. Insofern war ein Sieg nunmehr Pflicht, um den Drei-Punkte-Vorsprung auf Kroaten und Italiener zu halten und die Ecuadorianer abzuhängen. Der zweite Schock kam in der fünften Minute der Begegnung, als Agustín Delgado eine Flanke von Ulises de la Cruz zur überraschenden Führung für Ecuador einköpfen konnte. Danach dauerte es fast eine Viertelstunde, bis die geschockten Mexikaner wieder ins Spiel fanden. Der insgesamt verdiente Ausgleich fiel in der 28. Minute durch Jared Borgetti nach einer Flanke von Ramón Morales. Ein in der 56. Minute von Gerardo Torrado von der Strafraumgrenze abgefeuerter Schuss schlug unhaltbar für José Cevallos ein. Weil Mexiko danach weitgehend das Spiel kontrollierte und von Ecuador nicht mehr allzu viel kam, blieb es beim insgesamt verdienten 2:1-Sieg Mexikos.

 13. Juni 2002; 20:30 Uhr in Ōita Mexiko –  Italien 1:1 (1:0)

Die Ausgangssituation für Italien war denkbar ungünstig. Denn die "Azzurri" hatten bei Punktgleichheit nur eine um ein Tor bessere Tordifferenz (3:2) gegenüber Kroatien (2:2), die mit Schlusslicht Ecuador den vermeintlich leichteren Gegner hatten. Insofern mussten die Italiener zwingend auf Sieg spielen, um nicht Gefahr zu laufen, vorzeitig die Heimreise antreten zu müssen. Gleichzeitig drohte dem bisher verlustpunktfreien Tabellenführer Mexiko (mit einer Bilanz von 3:1 Toren) bei einer Niederlage selbst das vorzeitige Aus, da bei einem Sieg von Kroatien alle drei Mannschaften sechs Punkte auf ihrem Konto gehabt hätten.

Die Italiener begannen entsprechend offensiv und erarbeiteten sich in der ersten halben Stunde eine Reihe guter Möglichkeiten. Eine davon landete auch im Tor der Mexikaner, doch weil das Schiedsrichtergespann den Torschützen Filippo Inzaghi irrtümlich im Abseits wähnte, wurde dem Treffer die Anerkennung verweigert. Mexiko ging durch seine erste Chance in Führung. Nach einer Flanke von Cuauhtémoc Blanco köpfte Jared Borgetti den Ball geschickt seitlich mit dem Hinterkopf und unerreichbar für Italiens Keeper Gianluigi Buffon ins lange Eck. Wütende Angriffe der Italiener waren die Folge, doch Mexiko ging mit der Führung in die Pause. Nachdem die Italiener zunächst auch die Anfangsphase der zweiten Halbzeit dominiert hatten, kamen die stärker werdenden Mexikaner zwischen der 54. und 66. Minute zu insgesamt vier guten Möglichkeiten, die aber, wie alle bisherigen Versuche der Italiener, ebenfalls nicht von Erfolg gekrönt waren. Die Schlussphase gehörte dann wieder den Azzurri, die auf den Ausgleich drängten und durch einen Kopfball von Alessandro Del Piero in der 85. Minute belohnt wurden. Durch den gleichzeitigen Sieg von Ecuador im Parallelspiel gegen Kroatien waren sowohl Mexiko als auch Italien für das Achtelfinale qualifiziert und ließen es in den letzten Minuten des Spiels ruhig angehen.

Achtelfinale
 17. Juni 2002; 15:30 Uhr in Jeonju Mexiko –  USA 0:2 (0:1)

Zum ersten Mal überhaupt bei einer nicht im eigenen Land ausgetragenen WM winkte den Mexikanern der Einzug in das Viertelfinale, denn gegen den Erzrivalen USA galt Mexiko als Favorit. Entsprechend selbstbewusst begann "El Tri" die Partie und kam bereits in der dritten Minute zur ersten Chance. Den Führungstreffer aber erzielten die Amerikaner durch Brian McBride in der neunten Minute. Zwar drängten die Mexikaner danach vehement auf den Ausgleich, fanden jedoch keinen Weg, die sicher agierende Abwehr der USA zu knacken oder scheiterten in letzter Konsequenz an deren Torwart Brad Friedel. Nachdem das Schiedsrichtergespann den Mexikanern in der 57. Minute nach Handspiel von John O'Brien einen klaren Elfmeter verweigert hatte und Landon Donovan neun Minuten später einen der wenigen, aber stets gefährlichen US-Konter erfolgreich zum 2:0 abschloss, war die Partie im Prinzip entschieden.

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Q: MongoDB : Memory issue need advise I have aggregation pipeline in MongoDB. I try to run this pipeline with small number of document like 200K documents, it's seem to ok.
Then I try it with bigger sample ( longer timestamp period in $match) and I found that there is an error said
'$push used too much memory and cannot spill to disk. Memory limit: 104857600 bytes', 'code': 146, 'codeName': 'ExceededMemoryLimit'

So I google and see that $push is limited memory to 100 MB. Then I increased memory by using this command
db.adminCommand({setParameter: 1, internalQueryMaxPushBytes:2048576000});
db.adminCommand({setParameter: 1, internalQueryMaxBlockingSortMemoryUsageBytes:2048576000});

Then run the same query then it gave me longer running time then different error message like
{
    "ok" : 0.0,
    "errmsg" : "BufBuilder attempted to grow() to 67108865 bytes, past the 64MB limit.",
    "code" : 13548.0,
    "codeName" : "Location13548"
}

It's not always and permanent error, in same period of timestamp as this
            "$match": {
                "$and":
                    [
                        { "TID": /XP/ },
                        { "timestamp": { "$gte": "2021-05-15 00:00:00" } },
                        { "timestamp": { "$lte": "2021-05-25 23:59:59" } },
                        { "Col": /^\d.*$/  },
                        { "MT0": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "Row": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "TRM": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "WRLFTR_0": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "WRLFTR_1": /^\d.*$/ }
                    ]
            }

which 43,000,000 documents from $match stage I can get result from this code with no error message.
But In some period of timestamp
            "$match": {
                "$and":
                    [
                        { "TID": /XP/ },
                        { "timestamp": { "$gte": "2021-05-27 00:00:00" } },
                        { "timestamp": { "$lte": "2021-05-27 23:59:59" } },
                        { "Col": /^\d.*$/  },
                        { "MT0": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "Row": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "TRM": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "WRLFTR_0": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "WRLFTR_1": /^\d.*$/ }
                    ]
            }

which 7,000,000 documents from $match stage I got this error "BufBuilder attempted to grow() to 67108865 bytes, past the 64MB limit."
Here is the code, it's everything I just change parameter name from actual to something else.
    db.collection.aggregate(
    [
        {
            "$match": {
                "$and":
                    [
                        { "TID": /XP/ },
                        { "timestamp": { "$gte": "2021-05-15 00:00:00" } },
                        { "timestamp": { "$lte": "2021-05-25 23:59:59" } },
                        { "Col": /^\d.*$/  },
                        { "MT0": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "Row": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "TRM": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "WRLFTR_0": /^\d.*$/ },
                        { "WRLFTR_1": /^\d.*$/ }
                    ]
            }
        },
        {
            "$group": {
                "_id": {
                    "TID": "$TID",
                    "Opt": "$Opt",
                    "DSN1": "$DSN1",
                    "DSN2": "$DSN2",
                    "Col": "$Col",
                    "Row": "$Row",
                    "CSN": "$CSN",
                    "PID": {
                        "$switch": {
                            "branches": [
                                {
                                    "case": { "$eq": [ "$Opt","S5" ] }, "then": "6350"
                                },
                                {
                                    "case": { "$eq": [ "$Opt","FUNC" ] }, "then": "6400"
                                },
                                {
                                    "case": { "$eq": [ "$Opt","STR" ] }, "then": "6600"
                                },
                                {
                                    "case": { "$eq": [ "$Opt","FIN" ] }, "then": "6800"
                                },
                                {
                                    "case": { "$eq": [ "$Opt", "FTG" ] }, "then": "9000"
                                }
                            ],
                            "default": "$_id.Opt"
                        }
                    },
                    "CID": {
                      "$switch": {
                          "branches": [
                          {
                              "case":   { "$and":
                                            [
                                                { "$gte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 1.0 ] },
                                                { "$lte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 12.0 ] }
                                            ]
                                        },
                              "then": 1.0
                          },
                          {
                              "case":   { "$and":
                                            [
                                                { "$gte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 13.0 ] },
                                                { "$lte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 24.0 ] }
                                            ]
                                        },
                              "then": 2.0
                          },
                          {
                              "case":   { "$and":
                                            [
                                                { "$gte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 25.0 ] },
                                                { "$lte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 36.0 ] }
                                            ]
                                        },
                              "then": 3.0
                          },
                          {
                              "case":   { "$and":
                                            [
                                                { "$gte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 37.0 ] },
                                                { "$lte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 48.0 ] }
                                            ]
                                        },
                              "then": 4.0
                          },
                          {
                              "case":   { "$and":
                                            [
                                                { "$gte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 49.0 ] },
                                                { "$lte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 60.0 ] }
                                            ]
                                        },
                              "then": 5.0
                          },
                          {
                              "case":   { "$and":
                                            [
                                                { "$gte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 61.0 ] },
                                                { "$lte": [ {"$toDecimal": "$Col"}, 72.0 ] }
                                            ]
                                        },
                              "then": 6.0
                          },
                      ],
                      "default": 0.0
                  }
              },
                },
                "details": {
                    "$push": {                           // partition over
                        "MT0": "$MT0",
                        "WRLFTR_0": "$WRLFTR_0",
                        "WRLFTR_1": "$WRLFTR_1",
                        "TRM": "$TRM",
                        "timestamp": "$timestamp"
                    }
                },
            }
        },
        {
            "$sort": {
                "_id": 1.0,
                "timestamp": 1.0                        // order by timestamp
            }
        },
        {
            "$unwind": {
                "path": "$details",
                "includeArrayIndex": "array_idx"        // row_number
            }
        },
        {
            "$match": {                                // select only order 30 - 180 in array
                "$and": [
                    {
                        "array_idx": {
                            "$gte": 30.0
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "array_idx": {
                            "$lte": 180.0
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "$sort": {                                // sort TRM for percentile calculation
                "details.TRM": 1.0
            }
        },
        {
            "$group": {                                // group parameter back to array by partition "_id"
                "_id": "$_id",
                "timestamp": { "$push": {"$toDate":"$details.timestamp"} },
                "MT0": { "$push": {"$toDouble":"$details.MT0"} },
                "TRM": { "$push": {"$toDouble":"$details.TRM"} },
                "WRLFTR_0": { "$push": {"$toDouble":"$details.WRLFTR_0"} },
                "WRLFTR_1": { "$push": {"$toDouble":"$details.WRLFTR_1"} },
            }
        },
        {                                               // reporting "_id" and calculating
            "$project": {
                "_id": 0,
                "TID": "$_id.TID",
                "Col": {
                    "$toDecimal": "$_id.Col"
                },
                "Row": {
                    "$toDecimal": "$_id.Row"
                },
                "CSN": {
                    "$substr": [
                        "$_id.CSN",
                        2.0,
                        -6.0
                    ]
                },
                "Opt": "$_id.Opt",
                "PID": "$_id.PID",
                "DSN1": "$_id.DSN1",
                "DSN2": "$_id.DSN2",
                "CID": "$_id.CID",
                "MAX_TRM": {
                    "$max": "$TRM"
                },
                "Q3_TRM": {
                    "$arrayElemAt": [ "$TRM", {"$floor": { "$multiply": [0.75,{"$size": "$TRM"}] }} ]
                },
                "AVG_TRM": {
                    "$avg": "$TRM"
                },
                "MAX_WRLFTR_0": {
                    "$max": "$WRLFTR_0"
                },
                "MAX_WRLFTR_1": {
                    "$max": "$WRLFTR_1"
                },
                "MAX_MT0": {
                    "$max": "$MT0"
                },
                "MAX_timestamp": {
                    "$max": "$timestamp"
                },
                "DAY_ID":{"$concat":
                                [
                                    {"$substr":[{"$toString":{"$max": "$timestamp"}}, 0, 4]},
                                    {"$substr":[{"$toString":{"$max": "$timestamp"}}, 5, 2]},
                                    {"$substr":[{"$toString":{"$max": "$timestamp"}},8,2]}
                                ]
                        },
            }
        },
    ],
    {
        "allowDiskUse": true
    }
);

Additional :
Example of original document :
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("60934f0aaa31cda568956999"),
    "TID" : "MX17",
    "component" : "ABC-DEF",
    "unique_key" : "XP05ZAVF_20210405_063305_FEAT_none_A0000001_none_A0000002_660835-20210405063327",
    "timestamp" : "2021-04-05 06:33:27",
    "CSN" : "0x660835",
    "Col" : "14",
    "DefaultMHT" : "40",
    "DefaultNRR" : "2",
    "DefaultPRR" : "6",
    "DF_MRPM" : "2787",
    "DSN1" : "A0000001",
    "DSN2" : "A0000002",
    "EF_MRPM" : "2517",
    "FT0" : "-1",
    "FT1" : "-1",
    "FFT0" : "-1",
    "FFT1" : "-1",
    "FMT0" : "-1",
    "FMT1" : "-1",
    "FMT0" : "-1",
    "FMT1" : "-1",
    "IAVOk" : "1",
    "ICOnTemp" : "0",
    "IDFanSpeedOk" : "1",
    "IHO" : "1",
    "IOTO" : "1",
    "IS0PI" : "1",
    "IS1PI" : "1",
    "MT0" : "-1",
    "MT1" : "-1",
    "MT" : "15",
    "Operation" : "FEAT",
    "Row" : "12",
    "SHTemp" : "35",
    "SOn1" : "FEAT",
    "SOn2" : "FEAT",
    "TATT" : "-1",
    "TATT" : "-1",
    "TCCC" : "34.8",
    "TContMode" : "Ramp To Temperature",
    "TRef" : "25",
    "TRAux" : "29.9",
    "TRMain" : "32.1",
    "WRFT_Active_now" : "-1",
    "WRLFTR_0" : "-1",
    "WRLFTR_1" : "-1",
    "WRLRATTC" : "-1",
    "WRLRTFTA" : "-1",
    "WR_GNRR" : "-1",
    "WR_GPRR" : "-1",
    "WR_IOPWCBFT" : "-1",
    "WR_SIOWCBFT" : "-1",
    "WOT" : "-1"
}

Example of output :
{
    "TID" : "MX17",
    "Col" : NumberDecimal("70"),
    "Row" : NumberDecimal("16"),
    "CSN" : "107D81",
    "Opt" : "FEAT",
    "PID" : "9000",
    "DSN1" : "A0000001",
    "DSN2" : "A0000002",
    "CID" : 6.0,
    "MAX_TRM" : 29.1,
    "Q3_TRM" : 25.5,
    "AVG_TRM" : 25.26026490066225,
    "MAX_WRLFTR_0" : 38.0,
    "MAX_WRLFTR_1" : 0.0,
    "MAX_MT0" : 67.0,
    "MAX_timestamp" : ISODate("2021-04-05T04:48:58.000+0000"),
    "DAY_ID" : "20210405"
}


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Human Systems Management - Volume 3, issue 4
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Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal. It addresses the need to mentally grasp and to in-form the managerial and societally organizational impact of high technology, i.e., the technology of self-governance and self-management.
The gap or gulf is often vast between the ideas world-class business enterprises and organizations employ and what mainstream business journals address. The latter often contain discussions that practitioners pragmatically refute, a problematic situation also reflected in most business schools' inadequate curriculæ.
To reverse this trend, HSM attempts to provide education, research and theory commensurate to the needs to today's world-class, capable business professionals. Namely the journal's purposefulness is to archive research that actually helps business enterprises and organizations self-develop into prosperously successful human systems.
Crime prevention efforts: Victims or perpetrators?
Authors: Kochen, Manfred
Article Type: Editorial
DOI: 10.3233/HSM-1982-3401
Citation: Human Systems Management, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 225-226, 1982
Article Type: Other
Scanning the organizational environment: Some empirical results
Authors: Nishi, Kenyu | Schoderbek, Charles | Schoderbek, Peter P.
Abstract: Organizations acquire information concerning environmental changes through their scanning operations. Different types of environments are expected to call forth different scanning activities. This paper presents the analysis of an empirical investigation of the scanning process. The analysis is based on proposed relationships between different environmental states (dynamic and stable) and scanning behaviors (surveillance and search) of the executives. Analytical considerations are also given to hierarchical levels of executives (upper and lower) and to the functional specialities of the managers (marketing, technology, government, etc.). This study is unique in that it is one of the first to focus on scanning …behavior in Japanese industries. Its value lies in its concern for a vital corporate need—the need of organizations to know where and how they acquire information. Show more
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Abstract: A new form of uncertainty called possibilistic uncertainty is introduced. As opposed to probabilistic uncertainty, which is based upon an additive measure and is applicable in cases of repeated experiments, possibilistic uncertainty is based upon a non-additive measure and is a generalization of the idea of ease of attainment in a situation. We discuss the properties of possibilistic uncertainty and describe some prototypical examples. We also discuss the idea of language as being a generator of possibilistic variables. We introduce fuzzy subsets as a means of translating linguistic values into possibility distributions and the idea of approximate reasoning as a …means of simulating a large class of human reasoning operations. We introduce a measure of specificity of a possibility distribution and discuss applications of fuzzy set theory to intelligent quering of data bases and multiple criteria decision making. Finally, we introduce some ideas from fuzzy arithmetic. Show more
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The impact of a change in information representation and a change in the amount of information on decision performance
Authors: Ghani, Jawaid | Lusk, Edward J.
Abstract: Using elements from the human information processing frameworks proposed by Kochen, and Simon and Newell, environmental complexity and individual differences were examined in a laboratory experiment where individuals were required to abstract specific information as well as to perceive complex relationships among the information over time. Environmental complexity was induced by modifying the report formats and increasing the amount of information provided to decision makers. Individual differences were measured by the Group Embedded Figures Test and the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. The results of the study were that (1) the subjects indicated a strong preference for the information representation they used …initially even after having seen and understood or used an alternative representation, (2) after an increase in information or an increase in information and a change in representation an initial deterioration in performance resulted, (3) the popular notion that graphics are catagorically superior to tables is not supported either by the literature or this study, and (4) individual differences did not account for performance differences. Show more
Keywords: Decision support systems, representational change, information change
The nature of scientific theory
Authors: Blair, David C.
Abstract: It is important for researchers to know not only their own field of study, but to understand something of the nature of scientific theory and how scientists go about their work. Such an understanding is especially important for those who are interested in interdisciplinary fields, like the study of Human Systems, where the scientific status of theory may be unclear, and where the distinction between science and pseudo-science may not be readily apparent. This article will examine the philosophical work of Nagel, Popper, and Kuhn in a discussion of three questions: What is scientific theory? What is the difference between …good science and pseudoscience? How do scientists go about their work? The nature and development of Formal Decision/Utility Theory are examined in order to provide a model for discussing these questions. Show more
Keywords: Scientific theory, philosophy of science, decision theory, utility theory, evaluation of research, scientific paradigms, exemplars, pseudo-science
The planning and design professions
Authors: Nadler, Gerald
Abstract: Planning and design (P&D) involves the creation or restructuring of a situation-specific solution or system to achieve a purpose or desired results. Over thirty five P&D professions can be identified, yet everyone also engages in P&D. Three objectives measure the success of P&D: maximize the effectiveness of recommended solutions, maximize the likelihood of implemented solutions, and maximize the effectiveness of P&D resources. Several predicaments in P&D professions can be identified as a result of evaluating P&D performance in terms of these objectives. Various approaches to achieving P&D purposes are reviewed to identify points at which improvements can be made. Five …intertwined factors along a timeline are identified to demonstrate a different and more effective approach: pursuing a P&D strategy, specifying and presenting a solution, involving people, using information and knowledge, and arranging for continuing change. Show more
Keywords: Planning, design, creating artificials, systems, solution finding, professions, methodology, planning processes, design methods
Barriers to planning in business: Can information systems help to overcome them?
Abstract: Several barriers impede the formation and execution of long-range strategies for marketing and producing products, processes and services to meet the needs of potential customers. A key barrier to adoption of an innovation, for example, is lack of support by top management. Hypotheses about the potential of computer information systems for overcoming these barriers are proposed for testing. The main new tool proposed as an addition to the decision support repertoire is a guide to help business planners choose wisely among all the options that exist.
Keywords: Stategic planning, decision support systems, business information systems, planning support systems, barriers to innovation
Perspectives on high technology
Authors: LaPlaca, Peter J.
Article Type: Short Communication
Abstract: High technology can be viewed as the application of science for human benefit. It encompasses electronics, genetics, optics, metallurgy, and many other aspects of science. High technology product development takes place along the three dimensions of product, market, and technology. Successful introduction of high technology requires integration among all three dimensions.
Keywords: High technology, innovation, marketing, product development
Social impact of automation: Some specific problems of LDCs
Authors: Paula Filho, Wilson de Pádua | Luna, Henrique Pacca Loureiro
Abstract: The impact of automation in LDCs is discussed, with emphasis on specificities related to their phase of development. It is claimed that social counterpressures that have, in developed countries, softened the impact of automation, are absent in LDCs. The location of decision centers outside these countries is considered a major difficulty. Therefore, the pace of automation in LDCs must be regulated by their governments, in order to cushion effects on strategic dependence, unemployment, and others. Some degree of domestic development of technology is viewed as a necessary step in this direction.
Keywords: Less-developed countries, automation, social impact, technology, dependency, employment, decision centers, multinational corporations
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