The impact of regulation, ownership and business culture on managing corporate risk within the water industry

Although the specifics of water utility ownership, regulation and management culture have been explored in terms of their impact on economic and customer value, there has been little meaningful engagement with their influence on the risk environment and risk management. Using a literature review as the primary source of information, this paper maps the existing knowledge base onto two critical questions: what are the particular features of regulation, ownership and management culture which influence the risk dynamic, and what are the implications of these relationships in the context of ambitions for resilient organizations? In addressing these queries, the paper considers the mindful choices and adjustments a utility must make to its risk management strategy to manage strategic tensions between efficiency, risk and resilience. The conclusions note a gap in understanding of the drivers required for a paradigm shift within the water sector from a re-active to a pro-active risk management culture. A proposed model of the tensions between reactive risk management and pro-active, adaptive risk management provides a compelling case for measured risk management approaches which are informed by an appreciation of regulation, ownership and business culture. Such approaches will support water authorities in meeting corporate aspirations to become "high reliability" services while retaining the capacity to out-perform financial and service level targets

PELATIHAN PENGURUSAN JENAZAH BAGI SISWA MADRASAH ALIYAH NEGERI (MAN) 3 JOMBANG

Funeral and corpse management, or Tajhizul Janaiz, is one of the obligations that must be carried out by Muslims, both young and old. The phenomenon in society is that the management of moslem corpses is handed over to the elders, and it is rare for the younger generation to have the knowledge and skills. Therefore, this community service activity takes partners from the high school level. The method used is service learning with five stages: investigation, planning, implementation, reflection, and demonstration. The output of this service activity is in the form of: 1) knowledge regarding corpse management; 2) practical understanding of corpse management; 3) skills in handling corpses; and 4) preparation of partners as the younger generation who have responsibility for managing corpses. Training for high school students, apart from providing an active learning model whose methods are not only theoretical in class, also provides a sense of responsibility as part of society

Partisipasi Masyarakat Dalam Pengelolaan Sampah Masa Pandemik Covid 2019 Di RT 026/ RW 006 Kelurahan Oebufu Kecamatan Oebobo Kota Kupang

Handling household waste requires serious attention from various parties to protect the environmental ecosystem from being damaged. Community service provides benefits for the active role of the community in handling household waste with the target of community participation at the level of understanding the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in handling waste. Community service methods by conducting lectures, socialization, counseling, and waste management; demonstration of organic and inorganic waste containers; simulation videos; physical activity in the form of community service; non-physical activities in the form of socialization and distribution of leaflets; assistance to residents on waste management; evaluation of activities, and sustainability of activities. Presentation of devotion in a descriptive and narrative manner. The results of the activity show that the participation of community members in RT 026 RW 006 Oebufu Village, Oebobo Kupang District in controlling household waste with a system for handling used materials, waste or household waste materials showed in activities community service, the desire to get information and willing to be invited in the evaluation and assistance of waste management. The percentage of waste management knowledge before the intervention reached 81%, namely in the good category, after the intervention, the knowledge of the residents increased to 94%. Attitudes about waste management before the intervention reached 77%, namely in the good category, after the intervention increased to 89%. Behavior regarding waste management before the intervention reached 51%, namely in the good category, after the intervention increased to 58%

Queue Management Performance Evaluation of REM, GRED, and DropTail Algorithms

As the new user applications and Internet traffic are increased rapidly Rapid growth, the need for developing the Internet infrastructure that guarantee good level of quality of service became necessary. Congestion that is caused by uncontrollable amount of traffic remains as a main problem that threats the Quality of Service (QoS) on the Internet. Proactive Queue Management Mechanisms employed in the Internet routers help in improving the performance of responsive applications such as TCP applications. The selection of Active queue management mechanism plays an important role that leads to well network performance and utilization. In this project, we performance evaluation for examining the performance of the some of the known queue management mechanisms, namely DropTail, REM, and RED proposed for IP routers to achieve performance among competing sources. The purpose of this performance examination is to identify the key parameters to improve the fairness and link utilization in TCP/IP networks. In addition, this will help obtaining a better understanding of these mechanisms by identifying and clarifying factors that influence their performance in order to improve TCP/IP networks performance overall

NYS PROMISE Learning Community Group Concept Mapping: Fall 2016 Case Manager Experience - Final Report

Beginning in 2014, the Federal Government provided funding to New York State as part of an initiative to improve services that lead to sustainable outcomes for youth receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. As part of the NYS PROMISE initiative, Concept Systems, Inc. worked with the Learning Community to develop learning needs frameworks using the Group Concept Mapping methodology (GCM). The GCM projects gather, aggregates, and integrate the specific knowledge and opinions of the Learning Community members. This allows for their guidance and involvement in supporting NYS PROMISE as a viable community of practice. This work also increases the responsiveness of NYS PROMISE to the Learning Community members’ needs by inspiring discussion during the semi-annual in-person meetings. As of the end of year three, three GCM projects have been completed with the PROMISE Learning Community. These projects focused on Outreach and Recruitment Project 1), Case Management and Service Delivery (Project 2), and Case Manager Experience (Project 3). This report discusses the data collection method and participation in the Case Manager Experience GCM project, as well as providing graphics, statistical reports, and a summary of the analysis

Active Virtual Network Management Prediction: Complexity as a Framework for Prediction, Optimization, and Assurance

Research into active networking has provided the incentive to re-visit what has traditionally been classified as distinct properties and characteristics of information transfer such as protocol versus service; at a more fundamental level this paper considers the blending of computation and communication by means of complexity. The specific service examined in this paper is network self-prediction enabled by Active Virtual Network Management Prediction. Computation/communication is analyzed via Kolmogorov Complexity. The result is a mechanism to understand and improve the performance of active networking and Active Virtual Network Management Prediction in particular. The Active Virtual Network Management Prediction mechanism allows information, in various states of algorithmic and static form, to be transported in the service of prediction for network management. The results are generally applicable to algorithmic transmission of information. Kolmogorov Complexity is used and experimentally validated as a theory describing the relationship among algorithmic compression, complexity, and prediction accuracy within an active network. Finally, the paper concludes with a complexity-based framework for Information Assurance that attempts to take a holistic view of vulnerability analysis

MOSAIC roadmap for mobile collaborative work related to health and wellbeing.

The objective of the MOSAIC project is to accelerate innovation in Mobile Worker Support Environments. For that purpose MOSAIC develops visions and illustrative scenarios for future collaborative workspaces involving mobile and location-aware working. Analysis of the scenarios is input to the process of road mapping with the purpose of developing strategies for R&D leading to deployment of innovative mobile work technologies and applications across different domains. One of the application domains where MOSAIC is active is health and wellbeing. This paper builds on another paper submitted to this same conference, which presents and discusses health care and wellbeing specific scenarios. The aim is to present an early form of a roadmap for validation

One step ahead: the experience at Sabancı University in enhanching student responsibility towards society:

This paper is about a discussion on educating citizenship and social responsibilities at universities through a real life example from Turkey. The recent literature on corporate social responsibility is searching for new ways of education. This paper summarizes one of these new innovative programs, Civic Involvement Projects (CIPs) developed at Sabanci University. The paper starts with a summary of educational issues in the corporate social responsibility literature, including examples of methods and tools used at universities across the world. This overview might help us to see the uniqueness of the CIP experience. The paper concludes with suggestions to universities that are developing or planning to develop their own social responsibility programs. The main question will be to find the ways in reaching major goal of education for social responsibility to assist in understanding, values, and action skills that will help students to work with others to improve the quality and sustainability of their natural and social environments. There is more than one solution in achieving this goal; hence this paper will show just one of these potential solutions based on a real life experience. The methodology of the paper will be a literature review and a case study