Workshop-Discussion Session

The purpose of the workshop-discussion session was to establish a list of ideas that would provide the best focus and direction to improve wildlife damage control programs. During this session the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) (Delbecq et al. 1975) was used to: 1) identify and rank obstacles that limit the effectiveness of wildlife damage control efforts, and 2) generate possible solutions to the most important obstacles. This format allowed equal and full participation and was successful in generating many original ideas

Creative enterprise in west Yorkshire Arts organisations

This report describes and theorises the findings of a workshop discussion, commissioned by WYLLN, into the views of arts organizations on the challenges they face in becoming more enterprising and less grant dependent

Workshop Discussion Topics Responses

Each of the Worcester Inter-University Refugee Workshop\u27s three sessions contained a series of questions for breakout group discussion. This document contains those questions as well as notes taken on the answers and responses provided by the various discussion groups

Workshop Discussion on Operationally Defining Ritual

Clips from the Seeing What Takes Place workshop on how to define \u27ritual\u27 and \u27religion\u27 in the context of creating immersive experiences of religious practices

BLOODHOUND@University workshop discussion and ideas

This is the summary of the lively discussion at the bLOODHOUND@University kick-off meeting held at the University of the West of England Bristol on 15th September 2009

Managing global privacy

On May 7, 2002, Dr. Benjamin Robinson, chief privacy officer for MasterCard International, led a workshop on managing global privacy for the Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Robinson described how changing business practices, industry consolidation, electronic commerce, and economic trends have positioned consumer privacy as a key issue in the financial services sector that must be managed. He discussed various privacy initiatives in other countries and compared them to the environment in the U.S. This paper summarizes the workshop discussion and is supplemented by additional research by the author.

Learning from Escaped Prescribed Fire Reviews Workshop Discussion Summary

This Joint Fire Science funded project seeks to understand individual and organizational learning from prescribed fire operations, particularly how existing review processes do or might promote capture and transfer of lessons from prescribed fire escapes. We seek to understand what aspects of current reviews (processes, venues/formats, timing, and distribution techniques) are most effective in promoting organizational learning

Customer service excellence II

In last year’s workshop discussion centred on the problems in the communication chain between publishers and librarians and what could be done to eliminate them. One year on, the presenters will share the results of their latest survey on customer service – have we moved on, or are the issues still the same? In addition the workshop will develop the idea of Charter Mark as a way to improve quality. As more and more university libraries adopt Charter Mark, is it time for publishers and intermediaries to make performance standards publicly available? Can we agree on them and will this make the communication process even more effective

Infrared observations of the dust coma

The main infrared observational results were briefly reviewed at the start of this session. The new results are summarized. All of these results have yet to be synthesized into a self-consistent picture of the dust grain composition, dust production history, outburst mechanisms, and composition of the nucleus. The workshop discussion was helpful in pointing out problems faced by theorists, such as data quality, the lack of the proper theory for computing the scattering and emission of irregular particles, and in some cases the lack of optical constants of realistic materials. It is expected that the gross spectral and dynamical properties of Halley's Comet can be understood in time, even if the details of the observations and the theoretical calculations continue to vex us in the future