Case Study: Effect of exercise programs during receiving in a commercial feedlot on behavior and productivity of Brahman crossbred calves: Results from a commercial environment and a comparison to the research environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 653-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. Daigle ◽  
Amanda J. Mathias ◽  
Emily E. Ridge ◽  
Ron Gill ◽  
Tryon A. Wickersham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exercise Programs ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Commercial Environment

The Promise and Problem of E-Assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 299-313
Author(s):  
Michael D. Franzen ◽  
Matthew J. L. Page
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Desktop Computers ◽  
Commercial Environment

There has been an explosion in the development of electronic methods for psychological assessment. These include use of handheld devices, desktop computers, and platform-based Internet methods. This development has occurred separately in the commercial environment and in the research environment. This development of new methods presents great promise to improve the accuracy, ecological validity, and range of constructs in psychological assessment. However there are also many problems involved in the development of these electronic methods, including the need to train clinicians in their use, the need to develop safeguards for privacy, and the need to develop methods to ensure the integrity of the data collected. This chapter outlines some of the main considerations in moving forward.

Old habits, new dynamics: a case study of Web 2.0 in collaborative humanities and arts research

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Dan Goren
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Virtual Research Environment

Whilst the application of online multimedia digital technology within arts and humanities research has burgeoned over the last decade, the practice of openly conducting collaborative and in particular discursive research publicly online remains one of the most unfamiliar and conceptually problematic areas for many academics in the field. Based on user surveys, blog posts, and forum discussions, this article provides both an account and assessment of Web 2.0 technologies in use on a large-scale arts and humanities research project. Examining usage by and impressions of both the project team and the wider community of users, it investigates both the advantages gained and problems faced through the use of a virtual research environment (VRE). It also pays special attention to the use of video and its implications for research practices.

scholarly journals Supporting the need for community exercise programs: a case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Repecki ◽  
Martha Sliwinski ◽  
Lawrence Harding
Keyword(s):  
Exercise Programs

DART – The dialogue annotation and research tool

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Weisser
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
English Only ◽  
Fixed Expressions

AbstractCorpus-based research into pragmatics is suffering from a distinct lack of suitably annotated corpora. This dilemma has so far generally forced researchers in corpus-based pragmatics to focus on well-known fixed expressions (e. g. discourse markers, politeness formulae, etc.) in their research, rather than being able to investigate interaction on the level of speech acts and other pragmatics-relevant features on a larger scale. This article describes a research environment that aims at remedying this problem (currently for English only) by making large-scale annotation of, and research into, speech acts and other linguistic levels possible in an efficient manner, at the same time discussing the difficulties and complexities inherent in such an endeavour. It then goes on to illustrate the efficiency of the approach, and how the resulting annotations represent an improvement over existing models in the form of a brief case study. The latter includes an illustrative discussion of the performance of the tool in annotating a subset of 100 files from the Switchboard corpus, plus a more detailed comparison of the automatically annotated version of one of the files with its original, manually annotated, version.

On the Concept of Automatic User Behavior Profiling of Websites

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Abhimanyu Panwar ◽  
Iosif-Viorel Onut ◽  
Michael Smith ◽  
James Miller
Keyword(s):  
User Behavior ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Log Files ◽  
Behavior Profiling ◽  
Behavior Profiles ◽  
Web Server Logs ◽  
Commercial Environment

User behavior profiling of websites can provide an operator with an estimate of what is actually transpiring on their site. This type of information is essential to keep ahead of the curve in a commercial environment where competition is extremely fierce and continuously evolving. The authors present an automated methodology that uses economically available web server logs to mine User Behavior Profiles (UBP) without adding significant overhead to an existing web system. They prepare user traces from the log files based on the 35 most common actions found on popular websites, and 9 user behavior profiles which describe the majority of current activity patterns identified from those sites. They classify the user trace into a UBP via a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based classification approach. The authors applied this methodology to the logs of a virtual e-commerce website, and an industrial case study to demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach.

Traditional Teaching and Its Effect on Research-Based Teaching

2014 ◽  
pp. 304-325
Author(s):  
LaToya N. Johnson ◽  
Dana-Marie Thomas ◽  
K. Y. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Computational Chemistry ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Science Instruction ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Traditional Teaching Methods ◽  
History Of

Land-based institutions that use traditional teaching methods have very well documented methods for providing students with the necessary skills, experience, and knowledge for becoming extremely productive scientists in different research areas that are traditional (chemistry, biology, and microbiology) and interdisciplinary (biochemistry, bioinformatics, and computational chemistry) in nature, and they have very few problems when transitioning into any research environment. However, online institutions do not have a well-documented history of students transitioning into land-based institution or research intensive environments. Within this case study, the authors express ways to help meet the needs of the students and educate students in becoming better scientists who have been educated in online institutions by using methods from land-based institutions and implementing other forms of technology into the classroom. The authors explore instruction, knowledge, and experience, and suggest how online science instruction can be supplemented with experience and technology that can increase their experience and knowledge to allow them to become better scientists.

‘Buying’ Power—Interpreting Retail Change in a Circuits of Power Framework

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 2125-2137 ◽  
Author(s):  
A G Hallsworth ◽  
M Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Food Retailing ◽  
Retail Geography ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Dynamic Element ◽  
Commercial Environment

The notion of a new retail geography poses the challenge to produce more critical and rigorous analyses of an important sector of the UK service economy. In this paper we suggest that our understanding of retail processes will be aided by devoting explicit attention to the role of interorganisational power in shaping the commercial environment of the retail sector. Regrettably, many notions of power are undertheorised and static. In particular there is a tendency to treat power as a commodity that may be ‘bought’ rather than as dynamic and relational. We therefore suggest that a modified version of Clegg's model of circuits of power can add a much-needed dynamic element to a new retail geography. The circuits of power framework is applied to a case study from UK food retailing. The approach clarifies the underlying and inherently dynamic processes of power-based inequality that are driving change.

Are Strategic Communication Management Competencies and Personal Attributes Global? A Case Study of Practice in Finland and New Zealand

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Brunton ◽  
Anne Kankaanranta ◽  
Leena Louhiala-Salminen ◽  
Lynn Jeffrey
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Management Competencies ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Interface Management ◽  
External Interface ◽  
Commercial Environment

The drive to both maintain competitiveness and to meet marketplace expectations using the strategic management of communication is a feature of the international workplace. In the complex and dynamic commercial environment of the new millennium, this drive includes the imperatives to employ competent communication professionals. Whether organizations are intent on acquiring or developing proficient practitioners, the ability to achieve these aims rests on the identification of relevant competencies and attributes. This study uses the Critical Incident Technique to explore the practice of Communication Management in a sample of practitioners in New Zealand and Finland—two geographically disperse countries. The identified critical incidents mostly related to managing crisis communication across both countries. To manage the incidents, communication practitioners predominantly used two competencies: stakeholder relationship management and external interface management. In addition, the personal attribute of adaptability was most commonly employed in both countries. Despite the similarity of incidents and the competencies and attributes required to manage them, also variability in practitioners’ strategic and personal responses was evident.

Power System Operator Certification

2012 ◽  
pp. 263-268
Author(s):  
K. Balaraman ◽  
B. R. Lakshmikantha ◽  
R. Nagaraja
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
System Operation ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
Market Operation ◽  
System Operator ◽  
Day To Day Operations ◽  
Electrical Utilities ◽  
Commercial Environment

The unbundling of the electricity industry has changed the way the energy supply business is handled from a mainly technical to a more commercially dominated one. This new paradigm shift has facilitated creation of new system and/or market operation entities in electrical utilities throughout the world. The increasing number of different companies with diverse interest participating in the electricity supply business leads to a shift from traditional tasks of power system operation among these companies to new additional job duties or even a complete new job as system or market operator. This case study examines the critical change that have taken place in the commercial environment in which power system operators now work both at the system operation level as well as in the generation operation and how that affects their day-to-day operations. This case study analyses the international scenario along with their performance targets that have already been implemented worldwide and would describe their impacts on the job to be performed by the system operator in India. Finally the training needs of system and market operators’ personnel both at the system operation and generation operation where these entities are separated are pointed out, focusing on the new points that have arisen because of the new commercial environment.

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