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Community engagement at Roger Williams University: community service - service learning - civic engagement
Service to the local community has become a part of the college tradition as more campuses incorporate service into their curricular and co-curricular cultures. Roger Williams University parallels this trend. Service has evolved from “a nice thing to do” to an important element in our academic and co-curricular culture. We have outgrown the blanket term “service” and can place campus-wide service activities in three distinct categories: community service, service learning, and civic engagement. While based on the common goal of promoting active citizenship, each category contains distinct experiences with distinct learning outcomes
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The 'Commentaires de Blaise de Monluc' in the historiography of the French Wars of Religion
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Corruption, fiscal policy, and growth: A unified approach
Copyright @ 2011 Brunel UniversityIn this paper, we study the effects of bureaucratic corruption on fiscal policy and the subsequent impact on economic growth. Here corruption takes three forms: (i) it reduces the tax revenue raised from households, (ii) it inflates the volume of government spending, and (iii) it reduces the productivity of ‘effective’ government expenditure. The analysis distinguishes between the case where fiscal choices are determined exogenously to ensure a balanced budget and the case where the government optimally sets its policy instruments. Our policy experiments reveal the complexity of the channels through which corruption impacts upon growth, and the conditions under which the direction of the effect takes shape. The findings from our unified framework could rationalise the diverse (and sometimes, apparently conflicting) empirical evidence on the impact of corruption on economic growth offered in the literature
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Implementing section 404 of the sarbanes oxley act: Recommendations for information systems organizations
Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Act addresses the effectiveness of internal controls,
which in most organizations are either fully or partially automated due to the pervasiveness
and ubiquity of information technologies. Significant or material control deficiencies have to be
reported publicly. The adverse impact on organizations declaring deficiencies can be severe, for
example, damage to reputation and/or market value. While there are many practitioner-led manuals
and methods for dealing with 404, there has been little published in the academic research
literature investigating the role of Information Systems organizations in implementing Section
404. The paper addresses this gap in knowledge. We used institutional theory as the lens through
which to examine the experiences of Section 404 implementation in three global organizations.
We used the case study method and an abductive strategy to gather and analyze data respectively.
Our findings are summarized in six recommendations. We found that institutional pressures play
a critical role in the implementation of Section 404. In particular, organizations face coercive
pressure to achieve Section 404 compliance, without which punitive sanctions can be imposed by
regulators. Organizations tend to imitate one another in the methods they use so that each is perceived
to be in line with their competitive environment. Organizations face normative pressures to
act in ways that are socially acceptable, which is to achieve compliance. Failure to do so would
be a signal to the market that the organization does not take controls seriously. We expand these
findings in terms of power and influence tactics that IS organizations can use when implementing
Section 404. Our findings provide directions for practice and lines of enquiry for further research
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Complexities of large-scale technology project failure: A forensic analysis of the Seattle popular monorail authority
“Being stuck in traffic doesn’t have to be a way of life.” This beautiful prologue came from the Elevated Transportation Company (ETC) board’s letter in the ETC Seattle Popular Monorail Plan, one of the largest public works projects ever proposed in the city of Seattle. Three years after this proposal, the Seattle Monorail Project (SMP) was shut down by voters on November 8, 2005. This paper critically analyzes the SMP through the lens of stakeholder theory. This perspective provides valuable insights into the failure of the SMP. We theorize that SMP’s failure might have been avoided had its leadership recognized the many stakeholders that had power over the plan and, more importantly, the dynamic changes in relationships between the stakeholders. Failure might also have been avoided by managing conflicts in stakeholders’ expectations. Specifically, we use stakeholder theory to develop four propositions that are relevant in the context of large-scale technology projects. One, organizations are more likely to succeed when have effective mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating interactions between stakeholders and changes in their positions in relation to their strategic innovation projects. Two, organizations are more likely to succeed when they tradeoff the conflicts in expectations and interests that stakeholders hold. Three, organizations are more likely to implement complex technology projects by understanding stakeholders’ expectations and the interplay between stakeholders. Four, organizations are more likely to achieve their innovative projects when they define stakeholders in terms of their power over their strategic objectives. The paper makes a contribution both to the research and practice of major technological infrastructure projects, strategic innovations, and government technology management
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DNA fragmentation index (DFI) as a measure of sperm quality and fertility in mice.
Although thousands of genetically modified mouse strains have been cryopreserved by sperm freezing, the likelihood of cryorecovery success cannot be accurately predicted using conventional sperm parameters. The objective of the present study was to assess the extent to which measurement of a sperm DNA fragmentation index (DFI) can predict sperm quality and fertility after cryopreservation. Using a modified TUNEL assay, we measured and correlated the DFI of frozen-thawed sperm from 83 unique mutant mouse strains with sperm count, motility and morphology. We observed a linear inverse correlation between sperm DFI and sperm morphology and motility. Further, sperm DFI was significantly higher from males with low sperm counts compared to males with normal sperm counts (P < 0.0001). Additionally, we found that viable embryos derived using sperm from males with high DFI (62.7 ± 7.2% for IVF and 73.3 ± 8.1% for ICSI) failed to litter after embryo transfer compared to embryos from males with low DFI (20.4 ± 7.9% for IVF and 28.1 ± 10.7 for ICSI). This study reveals that measurement of DFI provides a simple, informative and reliable measure of sperm quality and can accurately predict male mouse fertility
Designing a novel virtual collaborative environment to support collaboration in design review meetings
Project review meetings are part of the project management process and are organised to assess progress and resolve any design conflicts to avoid delays in construction. One of the key challenges during a project review meeting is to bring the stakeholders together and use this time effectively to address design issues as quickly as possible. At present, current technology solutions based on BIM or CAD are information-centric and do not allow project teams to collectively explore the design from a range of perspectives and brainstorm ideas when design conflicts are encountered. This paper presents a system architecture that can be used to support multi-functional team collaboration more effectively during such design review meetings. The proposed architecture illustrates how information-centric BIM or CAD systems can be made human- and team-centric to enhance team communication and problem solving. An implementation of the proposed system architecture has been tested for its utility, likability and usefulness during design review meetings. The evaluation results suggest that the collaboration platform has the potential to enhance collaboration among multi-functional teams
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