Ohio\u27s Balanced Growth Program: a Case Study of Collaboration for Planning and Policy Design

This paper describes the collaborative planning process for a new landscape planning programme in Ohio that seeks to influence land urbanisation patterns through joint local land use decision making on a watershed basis. The programme was developed through a collaborative process by a state agency-appointed task force that included agency staff and a wide range of stakeholders. The paper describes the process in terms of the collaborative mechanisms, the participants, the programmatic outputs, and the social and organisational outcomes that set the foundation for enhanced watershed quality through better land use decision-making practices. Key collaborations formed during the process were inter-agency collaborations, a non-profit organisation that partnered with the agencies, and that of state agencies with local governments to develop watershed-based land use plans. A most critical outcome was creation of a learning community, through an exploratory research process that used multiple methods of data gathering and consensus-building deliberation. The paper is based on a review of published documents and plans, meeting minutes, participant observation of committee and workgroup meetings and interactive research

Case Study: The Impact Of Emerging Technologies On Cybersecurity Education And Workforces

A qualitative case study focused on understanding what steps are needed to prepare the cybersecurity workforces of 2026-2028 to work with and against emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Conducted through a workshop held in two parts at a cybersecurity education conference, findings came both from a semi-structured interview with a panel of experts as well as small workgroups of professionals answering seven scenario-based questions. Data was thematically analyzed, with major findings emerging about the need to refocus cybersecurity STEM at the middle school level with problem-based learning, the disconnects between workforce operations and cybersecurity operators, the distrust of Non-Traditional Training Programs, and the need to build digital security generalists’ curriculum and training. Recommendations are also made for possible next steps

A Narrative Study of Nurses' Interactions When Using Health Information Technology

abstract: Nurses are using health information technology during patient care activities in acute care at an unprecedented rate. Previous literature has presented nurses' response to technology obstacles as a work-around, a negative behavior. Using a narrative inquiry in one hospital unit, this dissertation examines nurses' interactions when they encounter technology obstacles from a complexity science perspective. In this alternative view, outcomes are understood to emerge from tensions in the environment through nonlinear and self-organizing interactions. Innovation is a process of changing interaction patterns to bring about transformation in practices or products that have the potential to contribute to social wellbeing, such as better care. Innovation was found when nurses responded to health information technology obstacles with self-organizing interactions, sensitivity to initial conditions, multidirectionality, and their actions were influenced by a plethora of sets of rules. Nurses self-organized with co-workers to find a better way to deliver care to patients when using technology. Nurses rarely told others outside their work-group of the obstacles that occurred in their everyday interactions, including hospital-wide process improvement committees. Managers were infrequently consulted when nurses encountered technology obstacles, and often nurses did not find solutions to their obstacles when they contacted the Help Desk. Opportunities exist to facilitate interactions among nurses and other members of the organization to realize better use of health information technology that improves quality and safety while decreasing cost in the patient experience.Dissertation/ThesisPh.D. Nursing and Healthcare Innovation 201

Behavioral Health Politics in Texas: Lessons from Austin and the 86th Legislature

How can behavioral health stakeholders engage effectively with Texas' government? To answer this question, my thesis examines three theories of effective advocacy: 1. Effective advocacy attempts to sway public attitudes. 2. Effecive advocacy attempts to change who holds office. 3. Effective advocacy introduces policymakers to new ideas. As the thesis brings nuance to each argument, it also provides readers with a basic understanding of the Texas Legislature, Texas politics, and key actors in state government. Analysis is integrated with narrative vignettes and distilled into seven chapters, each covering one topic in behavioral health policy. These topics include behavioral health lobbying, mental health insurance policy, the Early Childhood Intervention program, the mental health in schools movement, substance use prevention, and the politics of homelessness and comorbid mental illness. Each chapter introduces readers to subfields in public mental health and the political processes relevant to them. Personal experience, secondary research, and a small set of interviews with policy professionals inform the thesis. Ultimately, I hope to empower stakeholders to press the levers of public power and improve Texas' behavioral health care system.Plan II Honors Progra

An Architecture for Improving Timeliness and Relevance of Cyber Incident Notifications

This research proposes a communications architecture to deliver timely and relevant cyber incident notifications to dependent mission stakeholders. This architecture, modeled in Unified Modeling Language (UML), eschews the traditional method of pushing notifications via message as dictated in Air Force Instruction 33-138. It instead shifts to a pull or publish and subscribe method of making notifications. Shifting this paradigm improves the notification process by empowering mission owners to identify those resources on which they depend for mission accomplishment, provides a direct conduit between providing and dependent mission owners for notifications when an incident occurs, and provides a shared representation for all with authority for that dependent mission. Once the incident\u27s impact is assessed, the architecture provides a conduit for the mission stakeholder(s) receiving the incident notification to then notify their downstream users of their status should it have changed because of the incident. The proposed architecture significantly speeds incident notification by eliminating multiple layers of processing and does so in a relatively noise-free environment as compared to current notification methods

Effects Of Interdisciplinary Designers Reflecting-In-Action During Design

As a specific type of reflective practice, reflection-in-action emphasizes that unique and uncertain situations are understood through attempts to change them, and changed through the attempts to understand the situations (Schön, 1983). The purpose of this interdisciplinary research was to study reflection-in-action regarding three aspects of design activity (content, context, and process). The study addressed four research questions: (a) what is the impact of reflection-in-action on evaluation processes while a design is developing and not yet complete, (b) what effect does reflection-in-action have on keeping a design project moving forward toward implementation, (c) what impact does the design\u27s problem-solution relationship have on the reflection-in-action process, and (d) what impact does a designer drawing from a repertoire of precedents inside and outside the project have on the reflection-in-action process? The phenomenological research design studied reflection-in-action using a qualitative approach and used a purposive convenience sample of eight participants designing real projects in their design environments. Using five data collection methods: (a) interviews (b) participant reflective journals, (c) design project timeline, (d) project artifact analysis, and (e) a field journal, data were collected and trustworthiness was established through credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. A constant comparison method was used to compare information units applicable to categories and to integrate properties of categories. For each research question, three to five themes emerged. Interesting and compelling themes that have implications for instructional design included when participants reflected-in-action, they took stock in and reacted to external representations, which were rich in context, information, and constraints. Participants interacted with information and a lack of information, which kept the design project moving forward. Participants moved the design forward toward implementation by turning what ifs to design decisions. Through receiving and gathering information and working with constraints, participants better understood the problem-solution relationship. Drawing from outside of the design validated design direction, guided the design, and provided what ifs . Drawing from inside the design informed what could and could not be done, supported the design purpose, and guided the design. Drawing on participants\u27 experience provided design context and made uncertainty more certain

An Analysis of Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity among Air Force Information Management Professionals

The role of enlisted Air Force Information Management professionals has been expanded beyond traditional boundaries to include a new area of responsibility called workgroup management. Workgroup management duties include front-line support for the life-cycle management of information, maintenance of desktop computers and networks, development and management of web pages, performance of initial system diagnostics, and management of client workstation configuration and software. Anecdotal evidence suggested the new, broader role of workgroup manager, combined with the fact that the majority of these individuals are assigned to positions in non communications units, may promulgate role conflict and role ambiguity. Role theory literature indicated that role conflict and role ambiguity lead to increased tension, decreased job satisfaction, and a higher propensity to leave (Kahn et al., 1964; Bedeian & Armenakis, 1981). A previously tested model that incorporated the influences of role conflict and role ambiguity on tension, job satisfaction, and propensity to leave was tested among workgroup managers. Furthermore, an additional construct, perceived role, which addressed perceptions surrounding the workgroup manager role, was introduced into the model. Results supported the addition of this construct into the model. Results partially supported the proposed relationships and warrant further research. Furthermore, findings suggest workgroup managers assigned to non communications units experience more role ambiguity, a higher degree of perceived role, and a lower degree of job satisfaction than those assigned to communications units. Therefore, additional research should be conducted in this area to further explore these findings

Columbia Chronicle (05/09/2016)

Student newspaper from May 9, 2016 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 48 pages and is listed as Volume 51, Issue 30. Cover story: 2015-2016 Year in Review Editor-in-Chief: Kyra Senesehttps://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cadc_chronicle/1994/thumbnail.jp

Automotive Regions: Present and Future, Final Report of the Network

Automotive Regions - Present and Future has been produced to provide an insight into the work carried out by the Network of Automotive Regions, a project part funded by Interreg IIIC European Funding. There are 16 partners in this network from regions in Belgium, The Netherlands, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. By its very nature this report has had to be just an introduction and summary. The work presented here is the culmination of the research and deliberation of a benchmarking exercise to identify good practice in partner regions plus the work of the contributing thematic work groups that have been set up to investigate the implications of the supply chain; process innovation; intelligence on policy and diversification; and labour market issues and training