Historical Reconstruction Reveals Recovery in Hawaiian Coral Reefs

Coral reef ecosystems are declining worldwide, yet regional differences in the trajectories, timing and extent of degradation highlight the need for in-depth regional case studies to understand the factors that contribute to either ecosystem sustainability or decline. We reconstructed social-ecological interactions in Hawaiian coral reef environments over 700 years using detailed datasets on ecological conditions, proximate anthropogenic stressor regimes and social change. Here we report previously undetected recovery periods in Hawaiian coral reefs, including a historical recovery in the MHI (∼AD 1400–1820) and an ongoing recovery in the NWHI (∼AD 1950–2009+). These recovery periods appear to be attributed to a complex set of changes in underlying social systems, which served to release reefs from direct anthropogenic stressor regimes. Recovery at the ecosystem level is associated with reductions in stressors over long time periods (decades+) and large spatial scales (>103 km2). Our results challenge conventional assumptions and reported findings that human impacts to ecosystems are cumulative and lead only to long-term trajectories of environmental decline. In contrast, recovery periods reveal that human societies have interacted sustainably with coral reef environments over long time periods, and that degraded ecosystems may still retain the adaptive capacity and resilience to recover from human impacts

Gendering the careers of young professionals: some early findings from a longitudinal study. in Organizing/theorizing: developments in organization theory and practice

Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce – not even, in many cases, describing workers as assets! Describes many studies to back up this claim in theis work based on the 2002 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference, in Cardiff, Wales

Macrosocial determinants of population health in the context of globalization

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Market Performance: Concepts and Measures

The need exists for new criteria to reflect the qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of market performance. Also emphasized in the report is the multidimensional nature of performance. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Marketing Science Institute jointly sponsored a project to evaluate current market performance concepts and measures and develop new or improved ones. At this point, industrial organization theory provides the only analytical framework of market performance that is well developed and empirically tested. The structure of markets and their performance have been found to be related—but not in a linear fashion. Vertical market relationships need further analysis to expand on the few existing insights into market performance. Empirical and theoretical work have focused mainly on horizontal relationships. This report brings together several recent efforts to expand conceptual models of vertical market systems. Two new measures are presented: The value of retail exchange services and an Index of Consumer Satisfaction. These attempt to overcome the lack of attention given by existing measures to the level and distribution of consumer satisfaction with goods and services. Given the numerous and changing dimensions of market performance, and the narrow focus of most performance measures, a multidimensional information system on market performance needs to be set up. Such a system could provide greater continuity among the uses of existing performance measures, assimilate the findings of individual studies, and act as a catalyst for further examination of the factors influencing market performance

Critical care transfers

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University of Regina, Department of Visual Arts Faculty Show

Includes artist's statements by the 12 exhibiting faculty members working in various media, and a history of the university's association with the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Biographical notes. 1 bibl. ref

Changing international student and business staff perceptions of in-sessional EAP: using the CEM model

This article addresses the question of whether the existing approach to EAP delivery implemented at the University of Northumbria is supporting the learning needs of the international student body. In addressing this the article documents the background, research and preliminary findings relating to provision of an in-sessional English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programme to international students studying in a business context. The article focuses on the management of the delivery of the EAP programme and is based on the experiences of two ‘subject champions’ from the English Language Centre and the postgraduate (PG) area of Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University. It documents research which has begun with an analysis and critique of past practice. This has led to the recognition of key issues which can influence the attendance and participation of overseas students on an in-sessional EAP programme. The article identifies and discusses the role of the three key concepts of contextualisation, embedding and mapping of the programme, as the foundation for managing in-sessional EAP delivery. The resulting model, the CEM Model, is designed to facilitate improved management of the provision of the EAP programme in a postgraduate business context. The findings show that application of the model can demonstrate added value in the key areas of design and content of an in-sessional EAP programme impacting on student attendance, understanding and integration of the programme with PG degree programme learning objectives and outcomes. To address the issue of sustaining the practice and benefits of the CEM Model the work concludes with the articulation of a framework which establishes the integration of the EAP programme within academic programmes both at the strategic level through Teaching and Learning policies and operational processes