EXTENSIONS TO THE THEORY OF MARKETS AND PRIVACY: MECHANICS OF PRICING INFORMATION

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Biology is Easy, Understanding People is Hard. Musings of a Wolf Biologist with a Lot of Windshield Time

Our ability as natural resource professionals to measure, analyze, and thereby describe natural world complexities has reached unprecedented levels. But simultaneously our poor understanding of how society assimilates information limits the efficacy of articulating those concepts to the public.  Yet effective public dialogue is critical for informed natural resource management, conservation, and policy. Our traditional public relations methods of continuously distributing information at lower comprehension levels may be inadequate.  Here, I will discuss how the synergy of misinformation, groupthink, bias, politics, media, and the blogosphere impedes our ability to convey factual information to the masses.  I hope to show why we need a new public communication approach and offer some examples as catalysts to initiate the conversation

A Prolegomenon to Information Technology Ethics

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THE WIRED SOCIETY: PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE

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CIO's Beware: Very Large Scale Systems Projects

Very-Large Scale Systems (VLSS) play a powerful role in shaping what an organization does and can do in a practical sense. VLSS are deeply embedded in an organization's procedures, business plans, and strategies. These systems evolve over long periods of time, often not according to some rational plan, and for a limited time they provide a significant competitive advantage over other firms. In the long run, however, VLSS become strategic liabilities and must be rebuilt. Many organizations experience great difficulty rebuilding VLSS. Indeed, most organizations attempt to avoid rebuilding VLSS until the last possible moment. Often, the organization is in a state of crisis, a strategic transition. Because of the complexity and size of VLSS, existing methodologies often are not helpful. To make matters worse, the typical management incentive structure discourages rebuilding VLSS. In a typical VLSS effort, participants soon discover that they must rebuild the organization in order to take full advantage of new technologies. A major organizational engineering effort is often required. Senior management as well as systems management routinely underestimate the complexity of the task before them. Consequently, large errors are made in estimating costs and time. Drawing on research in both the private and public sector, this paper examines why VLSS fail, why are VLSS so difficult to rebuild, what are the strategy options, and how can senior management guide the rebuilding process.Information Systems Working Papers Serie

CIO's Beware: Very Large Scale Systems Projects

Very Large Scale Systems (VLSS) play a powerful role in shaping what an organization does and can do in a practical sense. VLSS are deeply embedded in the organizational procedures, business plans, and strategies. These systems evolve over long periods of time, often not according to some rational plan, and for a limited time they provide a significant competitive advantage over other firms. In the long run, however, VLSS become strategic liabilities and must be rebuilt. Many organizations experience great difficulty rebuilding VLSS . Indeed, most organizations attempt to avoid rebuilding VLSS until the last possible moment. Often, the organization is in a state of crisis, a strategic transition. Because of the complexity and size of VLSS, existing methodologies often are not helpful. To make matters worse, the typical management incentive structure discourages rebuilding VLSS. In a typical VLSS effort, participants soon discover that they must rebuild the organization in order to take full advantage of new technologies. A major organizational engineering effort is often required. Senior management as well as systems management routinely underestimate the complexity of the task before them. Consequently, large errors are made in estimating costs and time. Drawing on research in both the private and public sector, this paper examines why VLSS fail, why are VLSS so difficult to rebuild, what are the strategy options, and how can senior management guide the rebuilding process.Information Systems Working Papers Serie

Stratigraphic Crinoid Zonation in Iowa Mississippian Rocks

Iowa Mississippian rocks, rich in fossil crinoidea, lend themselves excellently for stratigraphic zonation. Zone index fossils have been chosen in the basis of stage of evolution and abundance of occurrence. The following crinoid zones are established: North Hill formation, Aacocrinus chouteauensis (Miller), Hampton formation, Rhodocrinites kirbyi (Wachsmuth and Springer), Gilmore City formation, Rhodocrinites serpens (Laudon), Burlington formation, Dolbe Creek member, Cactocrinus proboscidialis (Hall), Haight Creek member, Agaricocrinus planoconvexus Hall, Cedar Fork member, lower part, Azygocrinus rotundus (Yandell and Shumard), upper part, Dorycrinus quinquelobus (Hall), Keokuk formation, transition beds, Eutrochocrinus trochiscus (Meek and Worthen), main limestone unit, Actinocrinites lowei (Hall), Warsaw formation, Barycrinus spurius (Hall), St. Louis formation, Dichocrinus omatus Wachsmuth and Springer and Ste. Genevieve formation, Taxocrinus huntsvillae Springer

Elementi ekspresije u glazbi. Psihologijsko stajalište

Hanslick recognized the importance of the new auditory sciences of physiology and psychology for the study of feelings in music; but, in the auditory science of his day, he found no explanation of emotions within the complex art of music. A concept of the emotions given by William James in 1890 opened new possibilities. The so-called James-Lange theory proposed that emotions started in the motions and tensions of the body and were only later felt by the brain. Donald N. Ferguson in 1922 recognized the similarity of music\u27s elements of motion and tension to the bodily ones. He put forth a theory that music of great composers could represent, by its elements, an emotion or complex of emotions that humans feel. Two examples of Bach fugue subjects show his method. Reference is made to recent psychological studies.Godine 1853. i kasnije Hanslick je priznao važnost koju su nove znanosti fiziologije i psihologije sluha mogle imati za glazbu. Istraživao je objašnjenje koje su one mogle dati za «emocije» ili osjećaje u glazbi. Zaključio je da - premda ove znanosti mogu objasniti proizvodnju, prijenos i dolazak vibracija na pužnicu uha te njihov ulazak u živčani sustav - one ne mogu objasniti složenu umjetnost glazbe. Godine 1890. William Jones iznio je novu ideju o emocijama, poznatu kao James-Lange teoriju. On početak emocija nije smjestio u mozak, nego u napetost i motoričke impulse mišićâ, udova, organâ osjeta i unutarnjih organa, odnosno tjelesnih napetosti i akcija koje je mozak osjećao sa snažnim posljedicama. Godine 1922. Donald N. Ferguson proučio je Jamesovo djelo Principles of Psychology (Načela psihologije) i iznio teoriju da glazba ima elemente glazbenih napetosti i ritmova koji su paralelni s tjelesnima, te koje se pomoću tih elemenata može dovesti u vezu s bilo kojom emocijom ili kompleksom emocija. Pronašao je da takav pristup može razjasniti djela velikih skladatelja. Analiza može tako ići s onu stranu čisto tehničke analize. Da bi ilustrirao Fergusonovu teoriju, analizirao je dvije Bachove fuge, jednu s mirnim kretanjem i napetošću, a drugu s uzbuđujućim kvalitetama. Fergusonova teorija mora se priznati ili odbaciti prema tome važi li ili ne James-Langova psihološka teorija. Kako je ova teorija još uvijek prihvaćena u modernoj psihologiji s izvjesnim modifikacijama, sada možemo govoriti o zajedničkim elementima ekspresije koji istodobno pripadaju tijelu i umjetnosti glazbe

Evaporite Diapirs In The La Popa Basin, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Reconnaissance mapping and stratigraphic work in the La Popa basin of Neuvo Leon, northern Mexico, have revealed two large structural features with cores of gypsum and anhydrite at the surface. These features are interpreted to be the surface expression of evaporite diapirs. Geostatic loading is considered to be the most important mechanism for emplacement of the domes. -from Autho