Situation Map Research Articles

Tree Species Distribution Change Study in Mount Tai Based on Landsat Remote Sensing Image Data

Located in the Mount Tai state-owned forest farm, this study adopted Landsat multispectral remote sensing data in 2000 and 2016 on the GEE (Google Earth Engine) platform and selected four phases of images each year according to the phenological period. By dealing with the current situation map of forestry resources in 2000 and the field survey data in 2016, the samples of tree species distribution in 2000 and 2016 were obtained. On the basis of topographic correction with the empirical rotation model, this study used the random forest (RF) classifier to classify tree species from remote sensing images in 2000 and 2016, achieving high classification accuracy. The results showed that, after 16 years of evolution, the percentage of pine species in the forest decreased from 55.69% to 50.22%, with a percentage decrease as high as 5.47%. The percentage of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) increased from 10.15% in 2000 to 13.75% in 2016, with an increase of 3.60%. Quercus also had a positive growth in the area. This result reflected the expansion of black locust.

Sustainable occupational opportunities in protected areas in Brazil

ABSTRACT Protected Areas (PAs) are central to environmental conservationism. Nonetheless, their implementation affects life circumstances and opportunities of communities living within and nearby their borders. Aim: To layout situational maps of PAs in four Brazilian biomes to understand wicked problems of living nearby or inside PAs and discuss how occupational therapy can promote sustainable occupational opportunities. Methods: We used case study and Situational Analysis to deal with data from 20 PAs, 82 interviews and four months of observations. Results: PAs have a negative effect on people’s life by limiting job and income options, promoting unequal access and use of PA for different economic groups, among others. However, some positive aspects of PAs include the development of sustainable income practices, access to information, leisure and tourism to urban populations, and fostering social organisation of traditional communities. We, finally argue that occupational therapists can engage in this debate and practice with occupational-based projects guided by critical education and collective action perspective.

Obraz kartograficzny miast Królestwa Polskiego 1815–1836

The years1815–1836 were very important for the cartography of Polish towns. As regards the technique of map production, Warsaw stood out against other towns, due to the fact that until the mid-19th c. the capital was mapped by the topographic corps of the army, which had at their disposal the most advanced technologies and the best specialist. A crucial development for the surveying and mapping of Polish towns was the establish-ment of the Town Committee within the structure of the Government Commission of Internal Affairs and Police on 4th January 1820. The committee was to supervise surveying and carto-graphic works. Its clerks prepared a new surveying instruction, published on 2nd September 1820; its next instruction, published on 28th March 1823, was in effect until 1836. It provided for the preparation of two maps of each town, at a scale of 1:1500 and 1:5000. Most of the large-scale maps prepared in the 1820s and 1830s were situation maps or situation-regulation maps, primarily reflecting data on real estate and development, sometimes with plans of regulating some parts or particular streets. Very few regulation maps of whole towns were produced at that time, an example being “The plan of Praga”, with a whole new network of streets and squares. Of the surviving large-scale maps from the Kingdom of Poland, particular attention is due to maps of those towns that were granted municipal right at that time. The growth of urbanization, especially in the western part of the Kingdom, was greatly stimulated by industrialization, particularly by the development of textile industry. Between 1815 and 1830 municipal rights were granted to six towns of the region: Babiak, Ozorkow, Aleksandrow, Zdunska Wola, Zgierz, Konstantynow and Tomaszow Mazowiecki.

The Role of Bias in Knowledge Translation: Lessons Learned from a Dissemination of Best Practices in Maternal Opioid Use.

Increases in opioid use during pregnancy fueled concerns among reproductive health advocates, policy makers, and providers in North Carolina, United States. A stakeholder group designed a set of knowledge translation (KT) interventions to increase the use of evidence-based practices across relevant health care and social service arenas. Efforts to decrease stigma was included as a best practice. Understanding the process and the contexts in which KT intervention activities occur can help increase their effectiveness. Toward that end, this study examined how stigma was addressed and how audiences responded to evidence-based messages. Data were collected over a seven-year period and included observations of KT activities (conferences, workshops, and community meetings), focus groups and interviews conducted with providers, and a review of publicly available documents, including KT intervention materials. Clarke's situational mapping was initially applied, and stigma emerged as a critical contextual element. Data were then analyzed to identify how stigma was addressed and how evidence-based messages were received. Despite direct stigma-reduction messages, biases against maternal drug use and ambivalence toward evidence-based recommendations of harm reduction principles were found in audience responses. Findings also revealed tensions around the interpretation of knowledge and the appropriate implementation of best practices between "experts" and among practitioners. Stigma and professional biases may serve as significant barriers to KT activities. Results suggest that even under the best of circumstances, evidence-based practices for highly stigmatized and controversial issues are difficult to disseminate and may require unique approaches.

К созданию карты атмосферных и водных экологических ситуаций Еврейской автономной области

К созданию карты атмосферных и водных экологических ситуаций Еврейской автономной области

“Grounded theory” as a method of psychological mapping of social situations

This article, of a methodological genre, substantiates the qualitative approach to the study of social situations. Acceptance of contextuality in cognition and action, the study of dynamic relationships of the individual and environment, objective and subjective measurements of their interaction in everyday life, the formation of the concept of man as a situation (L.Ya. Ginsburg) — modern psychology does not have tools for the realization of these theoretical aspirations in research practices. It is proposed to use one of the classical methods of qualitative analysis ‘Grounded theory’, familiar to sociologists and to a lesser extent psychologists. The following types of Grounded theory stand out: first generation (positivist) and second generation (postmodern). In reality, A.Clarke’s version of qualitative analysis turns into semantic mapping situations that closely resembles the Russian tradition of social cognition, which always takes into account the role of perception, categorization and interpretation of situations by their immediate participants as members of various communities and groups (G.M.Andreeva, N.V.Grishina). The article demonstrates the procedures for constructing situational maps: theoretical sampling, inductive-deductive (abductive) strategy of data analysis, constant comparative analysis, memo writing, and coding. The main steps and techniques of the method are illustrated by the results of the empirical study of magical practices (clairvoyance, astrology, palmistry, fortune telling) in the modern metropolis. Qualitative analysis of ten in-depth interviews with representatives from “magic professions” working in one of the esoteric centers of Moscow, allows for the creation of a semantic map of the marginal situation of their social activity. The article concludes that qualitative research methodology is ‘sensitive’ to the context and it can be considered as the most convenient tool for studying social situations. The specific method of Grounded theory, initially developed in sociology, is the answer to the quest of modern psychology, whose theoretical innovations to a large extent unexpectedly defined empirical research.

Emerging theory of teacher resilience: a situational analysis

PurposeThis study aims to explore the construct of teacher resilience. Researchers examined the relationship among complex risk (constraining) factors leading to burnout and attrition, as well as protective (enabling) factors that allow teachers to adapt and thrive within stressful school settings.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents results from three focus groups comprised of 33 English language arts teachers across diverse school districts. Utilizing situational analysis, developed from grounded theory, the research plan included six stages: development of initial situational map honoring theoretical sensitivity, theoretical sampling, data collection, coding, memoing, sorting, revising of the initial map based on analysis and literature review to develop the relational map.FindingsThree propositions emerged beginning to comprise a theory of teacher resilience. (1) Resilient teachers embed roots in their school communities to withstand challenges, pulling from a sense of purpose to navigate constraining factors and benefit from enabling factors. (2) Resilient teachers embrace uncertainty, reframing negative experiences into learning experiences. Reframing helps teachers retain power, not cede it to situations, which helps balance constraining and enabling factors. (3) Teachers use relationships with colleagues, students and school leaders to endure challenges. The dynamic interaction between internal and external enabling and constraining factors is depicted on the situational map illustrating how factors counterbalance to either predict positive outcomes such as resilience and agency or negative outcomes such as burnout or attrition.Originality/valueDespite a robust international evidence base, there is a dearth of US studies exploring teacher resilience. This study proposes a theory of teacher resilience relevant to US schools and recommends practical applications and future research.

Developing Strategy for Water Conflict Management and Transformation at Euphrates–Tigris Basin

Developing water technology and management systems is not sufficient to cope with the water shortage, where political decisions might be considered as a critical element in this context. The Euphrates–Tigris basin has been suffering for decades from political instability and mismanagement. The tension over the water allocation that was on the negotiating table since the 1960s ended with no substantial agreement between the riparian countries (Iraq, Turkey and Syria). The objective is to evaluate the impact of the political dimension by creating a conceptual model for the hydropolitical cycle, addressing the importance of the negotiation concepts to reach an agreement; the research also aims to develop a strategy that might support the transformation from conflict to collaboration. The approaches of situation map and systems thinking have been implemented to build the model. The tools of negotiation skills have been adopted to assist the water conflict. The results describe the challenges within different levels and demonstrating the hydropolitical cycle and adding a sustain toolkit to the theory of water conflict and transformation management. Moreover, the paper produces the structure and workflow of establishing the Global Water Security Council.

Understanding the building of professional identities with the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method using situational mapping and analysis

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the notion that social constructionist approaches to learning, which a building with the hands provides, is a “technique that leverages the potential of the hand-mind dynamic” as historically reported in the extant published literature.Design/methodology/approachThe use of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) method in the context of transformative learning in Higher Education was used to drive a Situational analysis with sixteen postgraduate nursing students, from African learning contexts. This methodological approach was used to specifically explore their identity as learners and then to facilitate processes of critical introspection on social constructivist learning opportunities.FindingsStudents’ perceived LSP permitted a deeper level of critical introspection on their transformative learning journeys than alternative approaches, such as written discourse or extended narratives, could have provided. They also perceived that a major benefit of using the LSP method was that it enabled them to understand and articulate their stories more easily than if they verbally reported them first.Research limitations/implicationsThe sampling the authors used was purposive and reflective of the Nigerian background of our research participants, who study at the University of Sunderland.Practical implicationsLSP was perceived as an effective vehicle for the facilitation of reflection and self-awareness, which consequently contribute to students’ capacities to function at a metacognitive level. This has the potential to contribute to authentic transformative learning. Academic learning at postgraduate level hinged on the capacity of students to develop a pragmatic and working knowledge of what acknowledging their epistemic cognition entailed.Originality/valueThe methodological approach implemented in this paper provides a unique means of harnessing a now common gamification technique in pedagogic practice.

A context-driven geospatial web service approach towards the design of situational awareness maps

Abstract. The recent development of internet-based map services has dramatically change how geospatial information is presented to users, novice or professional, for improving the quality and convenience of daily lives. Especially with the innovated internet and computer graphic technology, current map services are designed with comprehensive cartographic considerations and can be simultaneously accessed by multiple clients, with which users can metaphorically establish their understanding towards the phenomena in reality, regardless of where they are. Despite location-based services become increasingly popular, the serviced contents are nevertheless often “static” and the illustration seldom or even fail to adapt to the needs of presenting continuously or periodically changing situations in the real world. From the perspective of intuitive map reading, we argue it is necessary to include the needs of “situational awareness” into the design of map services, so as to improve the human computer interactions in the clients’ application environments. A context-driven approach for the design and mashup of map services are proposed. We first identify three types of map services, namely, reference map services, application-oriented map services and atomic map services. The context of each map services are analysed based on the considerations of theme, time, weather and transportation and described by a set of pre-defined “keywords.” These standardized keywords enable application developers to define rules to select map services with correct contexts and mashup them to meet particular situation needs, e.g., a rainy day map or an emergency medical map services. As the selected map services are already defined with context considerations, their mashup results would be automatically adjusted according to the situations acquired from the clients. By enriching the situational context and enhancing the transparent access of individual map services, a flexible and powerful bridging relationship can be built between the application developers and domain service providers. The proposed approach is hence not only an innovated thinking for designing map services, but should also be seen as a crucial strategy for facilitating interoperable application environments for the ecosystem of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Mapping Policy Issues: A Simple, Active-Learning Exercise for Critical Thinking

ABSTRACTMany students in my undergraduate American politics courses struggle to see policy issues as complex. Too often, they get stuck making surface-level observations or jumping straight to personal opinions, falling far short of critical thinking. This article introduces an active-learning exercise—situational mapping—that provokes students to recognize and think critically about the complexities of policy issues such as immigration, abortion, campaign financing, and guns. Adapted from a grounded-theory research technique, the goals of this mapping exercise are to (1) help students see policy issues as messy, (2) encourage them to “wallow in complexity” rather than oversimplify, and (3) provoke them to think through complexities before forming conclusions. The learning exercise actively engages every student, is simple to prepare and implement, can be completed during a 50-minute class, and is flexible in its application. It also involves teamwork, informal presentations, moving around the classroom, and opportunities for creativity.

Multi-Robot Obstacle Avoidance Based on the Improved Artificial Potential Field and PID Adaptive Tracking Control Algorithm

SummaryAs for the obstacle avoidance and formation control for the multi-robot systems, this paper presents an obstacle-avoidance method based on the improved artificial potential field (IAPF) and PID adaptive tracking control algorithm. In order to analyze the dynamics and kinematics of the robot, the mathematical model of the robot is built. Then we construct the motion situational awareness map (MSAM), which can map the environment information around the robot on the MSAM. Based on the MSAM, the IAPF functions are established. We employ the rotating potential field to solve the local minima and oscillations. As for collisions between robots, we build the repulsive potential function and priority model among the robots. Afterwards, the PID adaptive tracking algorithm is utilized to multi-robot formation control. To demonstrate the validity of the proposed method, a series of simulation results confirm that the approaches proposed in this paper can successfully address the obstacle- and collision-avoidance problem while reaching formation.

Establishment and application of one map of current situation of territorial spatial planning according to the foundations of natural resources: Taking Qingdao city as an example

Establishment and application of one map of current situation of territorial spatial planning according to the foundations of natural resources: Taking Qingdao city as an example

Environmental Emergency Management

the results of a study of the possibility of managing environmental emergencies are reviewed. The concept of environmental emergencies is given, their classification and sources are indicated. A work program has been proposed to study the socio-economic consequences of the onset of environmental emergencies. The hierarchy of situations that may arise from the point of view of the decision maker during the operation and development of the controlled object is determined. The main management modes, as well as the main factors that influence the management decision-making, depending on the current situation, are highlighted. Control functions are proposed in various modes, carried out in an automated system for managing emergency environmental situations, based on conducting a situational analysis in a scenario study of the behavior of the object under study. As an application, an example of the construction and analysis of a cognitive map of an environmental emergency situation in the Kuzbass coal basin of the Russian Federation is considered. The typical development scenarios for the realization of threats and the emergence of environmental emergencies, evaluation criteria, as well as possible ways to prevent them are considered.

ПРИМЕНЕНИЕ ИНСТРУМЕНТОВ МАРКЕТИНГА В ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ КОНСАЛТИНГОВОЙ КОМПАНИИ

The development of the consulting market and the growth of competition in it require modern approaches to the presentation of marketing strategies for consulting services. The article presents the types of marketing, recommended schemes of organization of the marketing system, and also proposed methods for building customer loyalty of a consulting firm (consultant). The purpose of the study is to justify the use of marketing tools in the activities of consulting companies in the implementation of marketing policies aimed at building such communications with customers that will demonstrate the high intellectual potential and professionalism of consultants, their independence and objectivity. To achieve this goal, the following methods were used: dialectical (research of processes and phenomena in interrelation and development), structural-functional, situational, comparative, graphical and tabular mapping of economic and factual data. The study showed that consultants, when promoting their services, should be presented in all areas and areas of advertising, and on the Internet (website, forum, newsletter), and offline (in newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, outdoor advertising). The use of marketing tools aimed at the promotion of consulting services, provides an opportunity to get real customers, contribute to the formation of loyalty to consulting in business, form the flow of information about the need to use consulting services to develop and strengthen business. In this regard, being a highly professional consultant is no longer enough; you must also be able to sell your services using the full range of marketing technologies and tools.

A kerosene summer dress

This article combines situational analysis with situationists dérive to weave a seemingly disjointed series of historical tableaux, materialities, marginalia, combustion and corporeal techniques in embryology, chemistry, geology, synthetics and magic. The double locus structuring this constellation is Hilde Proescholdt (1898–1924), a gifted German experimental biologist; and Abraham Gesner (1797–1864), Canadian physician, geologist and inventor of kerosene. Following Adele Clark’s SA research programme, I attend to situational maps recurring the experimental repertoires Gesner and Proescholdt with the material, social and artefactual historicities they environed. Through dérive, I narrate by displacement, cutting along the bias, rather than with the historical fabric. My aim is to contribute media ethology as variation on Robert Logan’s call for a broad spectrum media ecology that is agnostic to stable distinctions between content and container. I pay special appropriation to the signalling dynamics of the Spemann-Mangold organizer as an active media or, in complimentary phenomenal guise, Marshall McLuhan’s characterization of acoustic space as ‘all centres and no margins’. Proceeding through double-locus and doublemethod appropriates what Proescholdt’s supervisor, Hans Spemann, would have cautioned us against as bad magic by co-inducing interference between primary and the implanted organizing centres. Within the chapter, media ethology contributes a complex sum of SA+ dérive as a symmetrical mappings and non-obligate appropriations across inquiry and technique in the arts and the sciences. My discussion more broadly offers to enter debates on the relative merits and stakes for performative knowledge production and communication through the nexuses of art, science and technology studies.

Talking about depression during interactions with GPs: a qualitative study exploring older people\u2019s accounts of their depression narratives

BackgroundOlder people can struggle with revealing their depression to GPs and verbalising preferences regarding its management. This contributes to problems for GPs in both detecting and managing depression in primary care. The aim of this study was to explore older people’s accounts of how they talk about depression and possible symptoms to improve communication about depression when seeing GPs.MethodsAdopting a qualitative Interpretivist methodological approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted by IG based on the principles of grounded theory and situational analysis. GPs working in north east England recruited patients aged over 65 with depression. Data analysis was carried out with a process of constant comparison, and categories were developed via open and axial coding and situational maps. There were three levels of analysis; the first developed open codes which informed the second level of analysis where the typology was developed from axial codes. The typology derived from second level analysis only is presented here as older people’s views are rarely reported in isolation.ResultsFrom the sixteen interviews with older people, it was evident that there were differences in how they understood and accepted their depression and that this influenced what they shared or withheld in their narratives. A typology showing three categories of older people was identified: those who appeared to talk about their depression freely yet struggled to accept aspects of it (Superficial Accepter), those who consolidated their ideas about depression aloud (Striving to Understand) and those who shared minimal detail about their depression and viewed it as part of them rather than a treatable condition (Unable to Articulate). The central finding was that older people’s acceptance and understanding of their depression guided their depression narratives.ConclusionsThis study identified differences between older people in ways they understand, accept and share their depression. Recognising that their depression narratives can change and listening for patterns in what older people share or withhold may help GPs in facilitating communication to better understand the patient when they need to implement alternative approaches to patient management.

What are the research focuses regarding learning in the field of operations management in higher education? The case of Spain in 2017

Purpose: What are the current research topics being studied by higher education professors in the area of operations management in Spain with regard to the learning of their students? Are the approaches that support these investigations adequate?Design/methodology/approach: For the analysis, we have selected 25 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals published by Spanish authors in 2017, and we have encoded them using Atlas.ti.Findings: Most of the research centers on a very basic type of approach to learning, which reproduces the type of research typically conducted more than 40 years ago (type 1). For this reason, we propose an example of how to convert type 1 research questions into type 2 or 3 questions.Originality/value: This paper collects and summarizes the main works on learning research carried out by members of ACEDEDOT and published in 2017, identifying themes, methods, levels of teacher conception and focus on the type of student learning. We intend to use this information to create a map of the current situation and propose possible suggestions to implement evidence-based instruction on operations management.

Data Processing Method in Medium Range Coastal Radar Complex

The article presents the basic principles of design and development of integrated middle range Coastal Surveillance System (CSS) used for water surface lookout. It provides solutions for such missions as command and control of maritime forces, border monitoring and control, prevention of illegal activities such as piracy, smuggling, illegal immigration, illegal fishing, supporting search and rescue (SAR) operations, and creates a common situation awareness picture of the Naval Theatre. The system structure diagram is designed to solve computational overload problem when processing large volume of data received from radar stations. The measurement-level fusion algorithm is developed based on the JPDA framework, in which radar data received from a single or group of radars and AIS data is aggregated in a processing center. The servers and workstations make use of local area network (LAN), using standard Gigabit Ethernet technologies for local network communications. Acquisition, analysis, storage and distribution of target data is executed in servers, then the data is sent to automated operator stations (console), where functional operations for managing, identifying and displaying of target on digital situational map are performed.

The use of modern IT tools to acquire information about geographical space from archival maps

Rapid technological development observed for many years in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has enabled the application of this system in many areas of life, including: administration, infrastructure management, in environmental protection, spatial planning, in real estate management, in crisis planning and in many branches of industry, including mining. According to [1], the Geographic Information System should be understood as a system for acquiring, processing, verifying, integrating, manipulating, analyzing and presenting data that are spatially referenced to the Earth. It usually includes a spatial database and appropriate software. The article presents an example of obtaining spatial data from archival maps, which are an important, and sometimes even the only source of information enabling tracking changes occurring in the geographical environment and determining the location of objects whose time of using has come to an end. Using the GIS class software, the author made a multivariate calibration of the archival situational and altitude map of the area of the inactive “Saturn” mine. On the basis of the obtained results, she indicated the most appropriate method for this type of task. The map prepared in this way was used to locate liquidated mine excavations connected to the surface. Acquiring reliable information about the location of this type of excavations is particularly important because of the risk associated with the possibility of outflow of gases adversely affecting the atmosphere and thus health of people staying near them (mainly methane and carbon dioxide) as well as due to the possibility of occurrence of so-called discontinuous deformations.