16 research outputs found
Exploiting Macrofauna Diadromy for Assessing Anthropogenic Impact in American Samoa Streams.
v. ill. 23 cm.QuarterlyStream biomonitoring is increasingly used to identify and monitor changes in water quality, stream habitat, and even the surrounding watershed. An effective biomonitoring protocol must comprise attributes able to discriminate human-caused changes from natural variation. We attempted to identify such attributes for streams of American Samoa, which, in turn, might also have widespread applicability to other oceanic islands. Owing to the diadromous nature of the macrofauna, we assessed species richness, diversity, composition, dominance, and biomass of freshwater fishes, crustaceans, and mollusks in 50 m sections in midreaches of five streams with and five streams without anthropogenic influences at the estuarine reach. We electrofished for fishes and crustaceans, and we picked mollusks from stream substrates. We discovered that two species of neritid snails of the pan-Pacific genus Clithon were significantly more abundant in the midreach of streams undisturbed by human impacts at the estuarine reach, making them potentially useful bioindicators throughout the South Pacific
Social Media als Management-Herausforderung â AnsĂ€tze zur erfolgreichen Implementierung von Social Media-Strategien
Use of SMS texts for facilitating access to online alcohol interventions: a feasibility study
A41 Use of SMS texts for facilitating access to online alcohol interventions: a feasibility study
In: Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 2017, 12(Suppl 1): A4
Information asymmetry and co-creation in health care services
With the aim of addressing a gap in service research on co-creation in health care, this study discusses
the problem of information asymmetry in the service providerâuser relationship by adopting the Viable
Systems Approach. We develop a three-step interpretative framework to support the understanding of
the health service relationship by going beyond the traditional information asymmetry view towards a
framework capable of examining the human side of service interaction. Using the case of the Italian Health
System, we discuss whether and how the problem of information asymmetry affects the health care
providerâuser co-creation relationship. Our findings open up a wider view of information asymmetry,
suggesting a shift in focus from information sharing to interpretation schemes sharing, all the way up
to values sharing, offering new insights for co-creation in health care