Applying a Sectoral System of Innovation (SSI) Approach to the Australian Red Meat Industry with Implications for Improving Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Australian Agrifood Industry

This paper describes an action research study conducted over four years (2002-2006) in the Australian red meat industry. The study aimed to extend the body of knowledge on innovation and entrepreneurship. It also sought to explore options for improving practice through interventions that would accelerate the development of innovation culture and capabilities. A conceptual framework was developed leading to a new Systems Innovation Intervention Framework. The framework was subsequently implemented via 30 individual pilots. The outcomes of the research study were tested for relevance more broadly within the Australian food industry and high levels of acceptance were reported.innovation, sectoral innovation systems, innovation system failures, intervention strategies, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Q10, Q16,

Double Life. Illusion - Disillusion

In order to make my life and therefore my art more exciting I often imagine being someone else. While working on art projects, usually for several months, I have lived double lives as art historians and political scientists, but mostly as artists who should have been famous.To trick my audience into believing the fantasy figures I fabricate are real, I use circumstantial evidence. But with the help of that same audience, the double lives I live become far more interesting. It is their imaginative power that really brings my alter egos to life.

Sectionalism and Local Color In The Short Stories of The Plains States, 1870-1928

Robert Ramsay in his Short Stories of America has mapped out the United States in twenty- five literary groups . He has left without sectional designation a strip through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and has shaded it on his literary map of local color regions as neutral . This, a region unexplored or explored but unsuccessfully as yet, “is to be known in this study as the Plains States. The strip will be broadened out to reach the boundaries of these states, thus including small portions of the sections which Professor Ramsay designates as the Corn Belt and the Wheat Belt and a considerable strip of the Cattle Country. This study cannot hope even to touch on the minor provincial sections of the six states but attempts rather to stress the better known characteristics of the section as shown by the cattlemen, the sheepmen, the bad men , the politicians, the grafters, and the promoters of the period

Resilience at UMass Amherst: A Sustainable Sites Initiative Inspired Master\u27s Project

A new movement to plan and design monitorable green stormwater infrastructure is beginning to emerge. Faced with the imminent effects of climate change, sustainability is becoming a more important part of municipal long-term planning and design strategies. Accumulating evidence demonstrating the myriad of environmental and aesthetic of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) has given rise to programs that offer sustainability guidelines such as the sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) guidelines. SITES encourages resilient landscapes that are designed to: maximize ecosystem service benefits, be monitored for benefits or lack thereof, provide educational opportunities, and improve human health and well-being. In using these wholistic guidelines on a range of projects at multiple scales, municipalities may develop resilient and responsive sustainable landscape practices, in which the ecological management of stormwater plays a critical role. This master\u27s project proposes that the University of Massachusetts Amherst pilot an ecosystem-service based green stormwater infrastructure demonstration site and educational platform in front of the Fine Arts Center, utilizing the SITES guidelines to explore monitoring methods that could provide useful data for future campus GSI planning initiatives

Children's conceptual thinking and biblical studies units

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityProblem: The problem of this dissertation is to appraise the use of certain Bible study units as a means for guiding children's conceptual thinking about Christian concepts of God, man, and their relationship, in light of present understandings concerning conceptual thinking of children. Procedure: The dissertation begins with a consideration of the rationale for the use of the Bible in Methodist Church School Curriculum as set forth in statements of the Board of Education and its editorial division. The body of the study consists of two approaches to the problem: a study is made of conceptual thinking with special reference to children's thinking and their concept capacities; then, an analysis of the biblical studies units of the Closely Graded Courses is made in terms of the concepts of God, man, and their relationship. The concept of God is analyzed for concepts of God as Creator, Provider, Revealer, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. The concept of man is analyzed in terms of the spiritual nature of man's conscious selfhood, his role as questor, and as responder to God. The concept of the relationship between God and man is analyzed in terms of the God-pupil relationships of love, trust, discipline, and the relationship in the community of the church. Next, the conceptual expectations indicated by the data of the analysis are examined in the light of the study of conceptual thinking. Then, in order that the appraisal might include how well pupils who study the Closely Graded Courses are able to indicate their understanding of content taught that would appear to be difficult to learn, a field research project is undertaken at the local church level.[TRUNCATED