Full-scale system impact analysis: Digital document storage project

The Digital Document Storage Full Scale System can provide cost effective electronic document storage, retrieval, hard copy reproduction, and remote access for users of NASA Technical Reports. The desired functionality of the DDS system is highly dependent on the assumed requirements for remote access used in this Impact Analysis. It is highly recommended that NASA proceed with a phased, communications requirement analysis to ensure that adequate communications service can be supplied at a reasonable cost in order to validate recent working assumptions upon which the success of the DDS Full Scale System is dependent

Plan For Meeting the Academic Computing Needs Of the University: 1979-1985

Submitted to Vice President Durward Long May 25, 1979The Academic Computing Advisory Committee (ACAC) was established by Vice President Long in April 1978 to advise the University Administration "... on policy matters concerning the delivery of computer services to meet the academic needs of our University." In his letter of April 5, 1978, Vice President Long charged the Committee with the following tasks: 1. Assess the current state of computer services provided to support the academic programs of instruction, organized research, and public service; 2. Identify the near and long-range future requirements for computer support to academic programs; 3. Recommend a plan for meeting these needs; 4. Monitor the implementation of the plan; and, 5. Advise the Vice President for Academic Affairs on policy matters concerning the delivery of computing services to the academic programs. This report speaks to the first three items of the Committee's charge. It is submitted to the Administration after a year's work and study by ACAC and following University-wide consultation on the recommendations to alleviate the identified problems concerning academic computing services

Deepening understandings of rehabilitation in the Cook Islands: An action research study with Te Vaerua Rehabilitation Service

This study is a qualitative research project with Te Vaerua, a community based rehabilitation service in the Cook Islands, that had the aim of establishing a culturally-congruent framework for rehabilitation services provided by the organisation. It employed participatory action research (PAR) methods, drawing on data from focus groups, interviews and observations to look at the meanings and values of rehabilitation held by Te Vaerua. The participants included individuals associated with Te Vaerua: Board Members, therapists, funders, and the researcher, who was also employed as a physiotherapist during the data collection phase of August to October 2013. Thematic analysis identified three key emergent values: 1) rehabilitation is available, 2) rehabilitation has heart, and 3) rehabilitation gives hope, with an overarching concept of ‘people are the most important thing: Ko te iti tangata te mea maata’. In addition, Te Vaerua identified action points which were considered important to achieve a service that matched their values: the need for accurate data collection, the importance of service visibility, the importance of service links with other island-based providers and a strategic plan that aligns values with measurable goals in order to show success. Furthermore, this thesis provides guidance for other projects within the Pacific when establishing a new service: the importance of taking time to build relationships within the community and to offer contributions and reciprocal generosity as a basis for relationship building and service visibility. PAR as a research framework is explored in the context of community based rehabilitation (CBR), with discussion of the alignment evident between the underlying principles of PAR and CBR. This suggests that PAR is a good fit for qualitative research in these settings. Existing literature discusses challenges for both CBR and PAR related to gaining participation and the tension of reliance on overseas ‘experts’ to manage such projects. This study discusses these challenges as they arose in this research journey and reflects on three learnings related to the use of PAR: the need for flexibility to gain shared control, the importance of a research question that engages the participants, and early identification of key informants or project champions

State of Maine Information Technology Plans, 2000

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Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Applications

The thesis presents methods to isolate different tenants, sharing one application instance, with regards to he performance they observe. Therefore, a request based admission control is introduced. Furthermore, the publication presents methods and novel metrics to evaluate the degree of isolation a system achieves. These insights are used to evaluate the developed isolation methods, resulting in recommendations of methods for various scenarios

Data, Dependence, Democracy: Influence in the Secondary Use of Government Information

This study examines private sector use of information generated from government operations by focusing on how either or both parties come to mutually depend on such “secondary use” and the resulting impacts on government information, policy, and practice. Viewing government information as a potentially valuable economic resource, the study uses a theoretical framework that predicts that choices in the design of policies may result in unanticipated side effects that create or change incentives for interest groups, mass publics, or government decision-makers, resulting in actions that shape the environment in which the policy is implemented, creating dependencies, providing motivations or disincentives for action, and determining the bounds of the playing field for future policy decisions. To understand these relationships, the study focuses on cases in which one party is dependent and the other is not along with cases where there is mutual dependence. Using qualitative methods, including analysis of 250 documents and 65 interviews with the public and private sector employees involved, it investigates the extent to which the private sector seeks to, and gains, influence on the content, structure, or availability of government data and related policy and practice, how they attempt to exercise such influence, and its effects on the form or nature of the data, access policies and methods, decisions based on the data, or other government practices. The potential mechanisms and impacts of this dependence on secondary use of information are important to the study of government as lack of effective policy and controls to identify and manage its effects may allow the interests in or benefits obtained from this dependence to undermine the effectiveness of government programs, or weaken or divert government from its mission by affecting the nature of the data it uses, its priorities, resource allocation, or facets of its operations in service of these interests or benefits. The principal finding of this research is that such relationships exist and can have effects on practice, including priorities and policy, and to some degree data or its format, as well as introduce market values into public decision-making, impacts that are largely unregulated by government policy

Software test and evaluation study phase I and II : survey and analysis

Issued as Final report, Project no. G-36-661 (continues G-36-636; includes A-2568

Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in practice.

In my practice experience and exploration of literature, I discovered that there are limited examples and research about organisations that aim to change from a charity to a social enterprise. In addition to this, there are limited knowledge and understanding about what social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are and a lack of frameworks that will enable one to know a social enterprise and social entrepreneur when you see one. This research, therefore, is an exploration of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in practice, arriving at working definitions and frameworks. It examines the process, experiences and challenges that come with an organisation - Age Concern Bexley - changing from a charity to a social enterprise. The research then shares the experiences and the challenges that come with such organisational change The research also examines and exposes my role and experiences - as the Chief Executive, social entrepreneur, leader and change agent, during this period. The research then provides an insight into the self-discovery, self evaluation and reflections of a social entrepreneur in practice, especially from the insider practitioners' perspective, thereby enabling seeing social enterprise and social entrepreneurship from the lens of a social entrepreneur. This research does not look into the issues surrounding governance during this change; as recent researches concluded that governance have little impact in this context( Young,2006). My view is that governance is importany and relevant; although the experience during this research does highlight that it was not a major issue. However,I would recommend it as an area of and for future research. The research combines empiricism and rationalism with iterations. In the research, I applied methodical pluralism as overarching research methodology by applying a portfolio of methodologies, using different methods to gather necessary data from different sources. The research contributest o practice with the establishment of a social enterprise service at Age Concern Bexley whilst also developing a set of high-level challenges that organisations that aim to explore social enterprise need to be aware of and how to manage them. The research contributes to theory by arriving at a working definition and framework of social enterprise. It also provides a better understanding of social entrepreneurship in practice and the role of a social entrepreneur as a leader and change agent. Other contributions to theory are the employment of metaphors to explain organisational change,the application of socio-psychological theory of labelling to explain the deviancy of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship and argument for sector differentiation, that is, social enterprise as a distinct sector. Some other contributions to practice are the showcasing of social enterprise in practice, the establishment of Bexley Social Enterprise Consortium, the establishment of an international development social enterprise organisation - Hephzibah - and the aim of establishing a social enterprise academy in Nigeria. These are to enable me put into further practice, what I have learnt through this research. The research concludes that the practice of social enterprise is here to stay, that social entrepreneurial organisations need social entrepreneurs in leadership and that it will be challenging for existing charities to convert in totality to social enterprises. 1