scholarly journals Current challenges and innovative approaches in the development of peripheral regions in Bulgaria: The case of Ivaylovgrad municipality

Spatium ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Elena Dimitrova ◽  
Angel Burov
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
Native Place ◽  
Innovative Approaches ◽  
Peripheral Regions

The paper approaches territorial cohesion in SEE from the perspective of social equity with regard to the opportunity to choose to live in one?s native place without compromising the quality of life. It is interested in border areas - both physical and virtual; in real life situations as meeting points of theories and policies influencing human lives; and in the emerging challenges there that often make us question once and again our concepts and actions as experts. Based on the Bulgarian case-study analysis, the authors discuss the effectiveness and current challenges of real-life implementation of EU and national policies aimed at sustainable development of peripheral regions. The rural peripheral municipality of Ivaylovgrad is an indicative case study for the ongoing processes in the peripheral regions of Bulgaria and the efforts to overcome a continuing loss of working places, services, markets and further isolation from the rest of the country since the early 1990s. The paper presents a critical view of initiatives and projects undertaken by interest and local groups in the period 2006-2010. Possible innovative approaches for regional revival are considered and conclusions are drawn about the importance of creating development strategies sensitive to the existing and emerging socio-cultural patterns.

Allocating nodes to hubs for minimizing the hubs processing resources: A case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-827
Author(s):  
Ali Balma ◽  
Mehdi Mrad
Keyword(s):  
Telecommunication Network ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Total Flow ◽  
Nonlinear Formulation ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Processing Resources ◽  
Reformulation Linearization

This paper addresses the problem of allocating the terminal nodes to the hub nodes in a telecommunication network. Since the flow processing induces some undesirable delay, the objective is to minimize the total flow processed by the hubs. This study focuses on a real life network of the tunisian operator Tunisie Telecom whose operations managers are concerned by the quality of service. We provide three compact formulations that give optimal solutions for networks of large size. In particular, the last two are obtained by applying the Reformulation-Linearization Technique to a nonlinear formulation of the problem. The latter formulation derived within this approach is the most computationally effective, as pointed out by the computational experiments conducted on the real life network of Tunisie Telecom with 110 nodes and 5 hubs. Finally, we discuss and compare between the single allocation and double allocation configurations.

scholarly journals (2012) 30 Windsor Y B Access Just 103 A VIEW FROM WITHIN: RECONCEPTUALIZING MEDIATOR INTERACTIONS

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie De Girolamo
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Third Party Intervention ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
Participant Observer

This paper explores mediator interactions from within the mediation process. It is difficult to obtain access to mediations due to issues of confidentiality and litigation privilege, thus restricting direct empirical research. During a yearlong ethnographic study during which the author was a participant-observer of a number of commercial mediations, the nature of mediations was explored from an independent observational perspective – separate from the process yet within the process. In this study, real life patterns of interactions are examined through case study analysis. It offers a reconceptualization of the nature of mediator interventions, one that moves beyond the accepted understanding of third party intervention. It suggests that the mediator has a fugitive identity in mediation, reflecting a traditional neutral third party intervener role, a party role and an adviser role.Dans le présent document, l‟auteure explore les interactions des médiateurs dans le cadre du processus de médiation. Il est difficile d‟obtenir l‟accès aux séances de médiation en raison du secret professionnel et du privilège relatif au litige, et cette difficulté limite la recherche empirique directe. Au cours d‟une étude ethnographique qui s‟est déroulée sur une année et à laquelle l‟auteure a participé comme observatrice d‟un certain nombre de médiations commerciales, la nature des médiations a été explorée d‟un point de vue observationnel indépendant – distinct du processus bien qu‟au sein du processus. Dans la présente étude, des situations réelles d‟interaction sont examinées au moyen de l‟analyse d‟études de cas. L‟auteure offre une reconceptualisation de la nature des interventions du médiateur, qui va au-delà de ce qui est reconnu comme l‟intervention d‟une tierce partie. Le médiateur aurait une identité fugace dans le processus de médiation, cette identité s‟expliquant par un rôle traditionnel de tiers intervenant neutre, un rôle de partie et un rôle de conseiller.

Exploring Shared Work Values and Work Collaboration With a Network Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Aizhan Tursunbayeva ◽  
Stefano Di Lauro ◽  
Gilda Antonelli
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Organizational Network ◽  
Substantial Interest

A real-life case study presented in this chapter reports on how organizational network analysis approach was used in a medium-sized Italian company with circa 100 employees to examine how the company employees were connected by shared values at work, what these values are, and whether and how their value connectedness impacted the quality of their collaboration. The findings indicate that there was a positive correlation between shared work values and work collaboration, present benchmarks for network parameters, as well as propose macro-categories of work values. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to use the network-analysis approach to explore shared values and employee collaboration at work. The chapter should be of substantial interest not only to academic scholars but also to organizational leaders and HR practitioners.

‘Death by Twitter’: Understanding false death announcements on social media and the performance of platform cultural capital

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjorn Nansen ◽  
Dominic O'Donnell ◽  
Michael Arnold ◽  
Tamara Kohn ◽  
Martin Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Cultural Responses

In this paper, we analyse false death announcements of public figures on social media and public responses to them. The analysis draws from a range of public sources to collect and categorise the volume of false death announcements on Twitter and undertakes a case study analysis of representative examples. We classify false death announcements according to five overarching types: accidental; misreported; misunderstood; hacked; and hoaxed. We identify patterns of user responses, which cycle through the sharing of the news, to personal grief, to a sense of uncertainty or disbelief. But we also identify more critical and cultural responses to such death announcements in relation to misinformation and the quality of digital news, or cultures of hoax and disinformation on social media. Here we see the performance of online identity through a form that we describe, following Bourdieu as ‘platform cultural capital’.

scholarly journals The Need for a Robust Review System to Improve the Quality of Environmental Impact Statements: An Indian Case Study Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
A. K. A. Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Appraisal System ◽  
Review System ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Environmental Impact Statements ◽  
Final Output ◽  
Review Mechanism

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) report, the final output of the EIA process forms the basis for environmental impact statement (EIS) review and decision-making, implying the need for its good quality. This empirical study is based on the literature review, opinions of EIA consultants, and views of experts associated with the EIA system in India. It is inferred that the overall quality of the EIS is below par and there are several inadequacies in the EIA appraisal system. Given the strong correlation between a robust EIS review system and a good quality EIS, a two-tier structured, transparent, and criteria-based review mechanism based on good practices is suggested. Further, it is crucial to adopt a professional approach for appraisal and capacity building of the professionals engaged in conducting the EIA and reviewing the EIS.

scholarly journals Using Generic Inductive Approach in Qualitative Educational Research: A Case Study Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisha Liu
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Inductive Approach ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
English Major ◽  
Effective Use

<p>Qualitative research strategy has been widely adopted by educational researchers in order to improve the quality of their empirical studies. This paper aims to introduce a generic inductive approach, pragmatic and flexible in qualitative theoretical support, by describing its application in a study of non-English major undergraduates’ English learning transition from school to university in China. Through an analysis of how this case study was conducted, the main features of the generic inductive approach are discussed in detail. Subsequently, some suggestions for its effective use are put forward so that this approach can help to provide meaningful interpretive power to make sense of the findings in educational research.</p>

scholarly journals Quality of Protection Evaluation of Security Mechanisms

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Ksiezopolski ◽  
Tomasz Zurek ◽  
Michail Mokkas
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Multimedia Systems ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
System Protection ◽  
Quality Of Protection ◽  
Model Preparation

Recent research indicates that during the design of teleinformatic system the tradeoff between the systems performance and the system protection should be made. The traditional approach assumes that the best way is to apply the strongest possible security measures. Unfortunately, the overestimation of security measures can lead to the unreasonable increase of system load. This is especially important in multimedia systems where the performance has critical character. In many cases determination of the required level of protection and adjustment of some security measures to these requirements increase system efficiency. Such an approach is achieved by means of the quality of protection models where the security measures are evaluated according to their influence on the system security. In the paper, we propose a model for QoP evaluation of security mechanisms. Owing to this model, one can quantify the influence of particular security mechanisms on ensuring security attributes. The methodology of our model preparation is described and based on it the case study analysis is presented. We support our method by the tool where the models can be defined and QoP evaluation can be performed. Finally, we have modelled TLS cryptographic protocol and presented the QoP security mechanisms evaluation for the selected versions of this protocol.

Quality of Resilient Cities, the Issue of Urban Waste

2016 ◽  
pp. 197-223
Author(s):  
Elzbieta Dagny Rynska ◽  
Anna Teresa Oniszk-Poplawska ◽  
Urszula Kozminska
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Construction Waste ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
European Guidelines ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
Explosion Impacts ◽  
Environmental Burdens

This chapter focuses on the metabolic concept for the management and treatment of construction waste and organic fraction of municipal solid waste in urban areas. Analysis of related Dutch, German and Polish guidelines for environmental zoning of industrial plants, allows formulation of conditions for an optimal siting of waste infrastructure within urban unit. Protection zones are defined in accordance with specific requirements for waste facilities, which treat and recycle both municipal and construction waste. Distances from inhabited areas are related to environmental burdens generated by such facilities (incl. parameters such as odours, noise level, explosion impacts and emissions of other substances). Moreover, this chapter provides the analysis of a selected case studies of waste facilities processing. A comparison of European guidelines and implementation of practical solutions is described in the case study analysis, including the issues open for the discussion about sustainable siting for waste processing infrastructure within an urban unit.

Quality of Resilient Cities, the Issue of Urban Waste

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-249
Author(s):  
Elzbieta Dagny Rynska ◽  
Anna Teresa Oniszk-Poplawska ◽  
Urszula Kozminska
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Construction Waste ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
European Guidelines ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
Explosion Impacts ◽  
Environmental Burdens

This chapter focuses on the metabolic concept for the management and treatment of construction waste and organic fraction of municipal solid waste in urban areas. Analysis of related Dutch, German and Polish guidelines for environmental zoning of industrial plants, allows formulation of conditions for an optimal siting of waste infrastructure within urban unit. Protection zones are defined in accordance with specific requirements for waste facilities, which treat and recycle both municipal and construction waste. Distances from inhabited areas are related to environmental burdens generated by such facilities (incl. parameters such as odours, noise level, explosion impacts and emissions of other substances). Moreover, this chapter provides the analysis of a selected case studies of waste facilities processing. A comparison of European guidelines and implementation of practical solutions is described in the case study analysis, including the issues open for the discussion about sustainable siting for waste processing infrastructure within an urban unit.

scholarly journals Scientific arguments in policy-making

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-213
Author(s):  
Corina Andone ◽  
José Alfonso Lomeli Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Burden Of Proof ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Scientific Arguments

Abstract This paper focuses on the use of scientific insights for justifying decisions in policy-making. Because in policy-making the politician argues for a future course of action by pointing at its positive consequences, the burden of proof should concern not only the scientific arguments, but also the pragmatic arguments. We show how the political justificatory process takes place that combines the two argument types, and we propose criteria for assessing the quality of the justifications. Based on our theoretical findings, we provide a case-study analysis of the Paris Agreement on climate change in which we demonstrate how the politicians attempt to meet their burden of proof imposed by pragmatic and scientific argumentation.

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