Morality and institutions: an exploration

This paper explores the question of how culturally varying views of ‘morality’, ‘fairness’ and ‘justice’, particularly those held by the rural poor in developing countries, influence the way people evaluate,work within, use and (sometimes) resist, economic institutions – especially the institutions that emerge or are actively promoted during ‘development’ (market-oriented or otherwise)? It reviews the way this and related questions have been dealt with in a wide range of subjects, including social anthropology, institutional economics, economic sociology, experimental economics, and the study of rural protest. It then discusses how insights about morality and its interactions with institutions could be incorporated more widely into our understanding of the relationship between institutions and development and, in particular, whether we should begin to understand moralities as part of the wider domain of informal institutions which interact with formal institutions to shape behaviours

A Nine Month Progress Report on an Investigation into Mechanisms for Improving Triple Store Performance

This report considers the requirement for fast, efficient, and scalable triple stores as part of the effort to produce the Semantic Web. It summarises relevant information in the major background field of Database Management Systems (DBMS), and provides an overview of the techniques currently in use amongst the triple store community. The report concludes that for individuals and organisations to be willing to provide large amounts of information as openly-accessible nodes on the Semantic Web, storage and querying of the data must be cheaper and faster than it is currently. Experiences from the DBMS field can be used to maximise triple store performance, and suggestions are provided for lines of investigation in areas of storage, indexing, and query optimisation. Finally, work packages are provided describing expected timetables for further study of these topics

Agricultural Turns, Geographical Turns: Retrospect and Prospect.

It is accepted that British rural geography has actively engaged with the ‘cultural turn’, leading to a resurgence of research within the sub-discipline. However, a reading of recent reviews suggests that the cultural turn has largely, if not completely, bypassed those geographers interested in the agricultural sector. Farming centred engagements with notions of culture have been relatively limited compared with those concerned with the non-agricultural aspects of rural space. Indeed, agricultural geography represents something of an awkward case in the context of the disciplinary turn to culture, a situation that demands further exposition. In seeking explanation, it becomes evident that research on the farm sector is more culturally informed than initially appears. This paper argues that there have been both interesting and important engagements between agricultural geography and cultural perspectives over the past decade. The paper elaborates four specific areas of research which provide evidence for concern about the ‘culture’ within agriculture. The future contribution that culturally informed perspectives in geographical research can bring to agricultural issues is outlined by way of conclusion

South Dakota Farm and Home Research

Partnerships spur progress and. productivity: The South Dakota Ag Experiment Station boasts a long history of partnerships. Traditional alliances with the Cooperative Extension Service and classroom educators are being augmented by new linkages with business, industry, and government. [p] 1Modern, efficient dairy facility built as model for farmers: The new Dairy Research and Training Facility gives SDSU access to the latest dairy production technology in an .energy-efficient and labor-saving building. Researchers, students, and dairy producers will all benefit from the new facility. [p] 2SDSU satellite program serves North American cattle producers: Top beef production experts are bringing their knowledge into living rooms across the continent. The Cattlemen\u27s Satellite Shortcourse, a satellite teaching program developed at South Dakota State University, reaches viewers at over 800 sites in the U.S. and Canada. [p] 5Crop by-products find new uses as plastics, food additives, and \u27natural chemicals\u27: Traditional uses of corn have expanded to include ethanol fuel, and are about to expand further. From cookies made with distiller\u27s dry grain, an ethanol byproduct, to packing peanuts made from cornstarch, a wide variety of new products are being tested. [p] 8SDSU Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic laboratory renovation leads to increased efficiency: The new Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory at SDSU will be dedicated in June, but scientists and technicians are already moving in. The new quarters and equipment will speed testing and broaden research capabilities. [p] 12Soybeans-good for your heart and cancer fighters too: As a culture, Americans show a reluctance to accept the soybean as a food staple. But soybeans have many health benefits, and SDSU researchers are working to develop soy-based foods that will appeal to the American consumer. [p] 14SDSU scientist heads national team to save range soil: South Dakota has a great deal of highly erodible rangeland. Saving the soil on that land is a never-ending struggle. SDSU range scientist Dr. Pat Johnson is leading a team of ecologists, scientists, and livestock producers with the goal of easing that struggle. [p] 16SDSU graduates make a difference in rural South Dakota communities: They are out there, in every rural community in South Dakota, running businesses, providing services and cultural experiences, sharing their skills and knowledge. All across the state SDSU graduates are making a difference in their neighbors\u27 lives. [p] 19https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_sd-fhr/1165/thumbnail.jp

Behavioral Aspects of Organizational Learning and Adaptation

In this paper, I seek to understand the behavioral basis of higher organizational learning and adaption as a teleological dynamic equilibrium process to decipher the underlying psycho-physiological aspects of individual cognitive learning related to organizational adaption. Dynamics of cognitive learning has some differential paths within the neural circuitry which follows certain patterns that leads to individual as well as organized evolution in course of a learning process. I undertake a comparative analysis of human cognitive and behavioral changes and the active mechanisms underlying animal behavior and learning processes to understand the differential patterns of these adaptive changes in these two species. Cognitive behavioral learning processes have certain economic perspectives which help an individual to attain efficiency in workplace adaptation and in learning which however, the individual when being part of an alliance, ember positive influence on the society or organization as a whole. Comparatively, in primates, I review some empirical evidences drawn from chronological studies about cognitive behavioral learning process and adaptation as well as the presence of the capacity of making attributions about mental states, which exists in rudimentary form in chimpanzees and apes. Following this, I apply the outcomes of the findings on different aspects of human cognitive and adaptive behavioral learning-induced evolutionary changes and how human beings are able to exploit the presence of these additive advantages under cluster settings.Animal behavior, cognitive economics, motivational energy, neural adaptation, neuroscience, Organizational learning, organizational adaptation, teleological process

A department Self-Study Library Service Education - April 1969

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