Unified Plan Research Articles

Development Countermeasures of Chongqing Tourism E-Commerce

In recent years, people pay more and more attention on E-commerce. Chongqing has abundant tourism resources and the rapid development of tourism E-commerce has brought new opportunities for Chongqing. However, at present, the development situation of Chongqing tourism E-commerce is not ideal now. There are many problems existing in Chongqing tourism E-commerce, such as the lower application level of tourism E-commerce , the lack of unified planning, the lag of “soft construction” and the poor sense of cooperation between tourism enterprises etc. Therefore, countermeasures were proposed in this paper from four aspects: chang tourists online consumption concept, strengthen the integration and supervisory work of Chongqing tourism E-commerce sites, strengthen talented person troop construction of the tourism E-commerce and strengthen laws and regulations construction of tourism E-commerce.

Water Governance in Aragon

Good management of water resources goes beyond a mere political or socio-economic exercise. It is a responsibility on a global scale, which has to begin with appropriate actions at a local level. The addition of small local projects under unified planning, regulation and management criteria will determine an inflection point in sustainable management of water at a planetary level. It is like a chamber orchestra where every instrument plays its role in a certain location, but always under the unified coordination of a conductor who sets the “tempo”, the intensity, the rhythm and the idiosyncrasy of each individual action.

The research on Zhongfang Town land use overall planning map compilation based on “one planning map”

The current round of the revision of the township land use overall planning has now entered into the stage of examination, approval and implementation. To resolve the shortcoming of excessive drawing achievements, less coherence and poor practicability, this article takes Zhongfang Town as an example to present a method to compile the town-level land use overall planning map based on the database building of “one planning map”. In order to meet the needs to implement the “one map” project of land and resources and to satisfy the standard for planning database establishment, it uses the MapGIS software to integrate all the township land use overall planning contents into one planning map, and simultaneously lays the foundation for the building of the unified national planning database.

Preliminary Study of Management Information Planning in Digital Campus Construction

In the 21st century digital campus is a natural model of university, and is the basis for achieving the modernization of education. Digital campus construction has become the focus of university information and hot spots. This paper analyzed the status of university digital campus and the main problem is, witout unified planning of management information and unified information standards. Based on this, this paper presented strategy and methods of information planning and management of university.

Operating a Metropolitan Planning Organization

The nation's 385 metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are required to maintain a comprehensive, continuing, and coordinated transportation planning and programming process. To perform these required tasks, operational funding is required to pay staff and other costs. This paper explores the sources of MPO funding and the disposal of those funds. The information contained was collected as a part of a larger survey that obtained responses from 133 MPOs from around the country. Federal assistance received through four different programs dominates the budgets of MPOs; however, all federal funds require a 20% match. Some states meet this match, but for many MPOs, funds must be raised locally. Seventy-eight percent of responding MPOs receive local money, which can be used to match federal funds, to pay for prohibited expenses, or to supplement the agency's budget. Methods for raising and expending local funds are discussed in detail. The requirements and characteristics of the Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) are discussed. Responding MPOs expend 25% of their collective budget on consultants, while informational or pass-through funds account for about 17% of the UPWP.

Conceptual unifying constraints override sensorimotor interference during anticipatory control of bimanual actions

Traditional approaches to research on bimanual coordination focus on sensorimotor interference, motor programming, and effects of perception and feedback guidance; surprisingly, little is known about high-level conceptual constraints that might unify separate movements into coordinated actions. We investigated two possible forms of high-level unifying representations on anticipatory control (i.e., reaction time: RT) in two-limb (bimanual) movements. Specifically, we adapted a paradigmatic bimanual task involving reaching to targets by adding two novel manipulations. One involved a visual-perceptual manipulation in which target-objects were presented either separately (i.e., two circles) or as a unified object (i.e., two circles connected by a bar). The other involved variants on language representation to elicit separate action plans (i.e., separate instructional commands joined by 'and') or unified action plans (i.e., a single verb applying to both hands). Typical forms of sensorimotor interference were virtually abolished when these unifying constraints were available. These findings provide strong support for the theoretical account that unifying conceptual representations are primary forms of bimanual constraint. Findings further suggest that the organization and content of the language used to form action representations can strongly influence anticipatory planning of bimanual actions.

A Comprehensive Review on the Development of Sustainable Energy Strategy and Implementation in China

China is faced with significant challenges in the energy sector such as energy shortage, environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emission, and energy supply in rural areas, which severely restrict its sustainable development. The promotion of a sustainable energy system is the key solution to tackling those issues. In this paper, the current status and trends of sustainable energy development in China are elaborated, taking account of renewable energy, nuclear energy, and energy efficiency. The strategies of sustainable energy in China are brought forward accordingly, and the corresponding implementations of sustainable energy development in China are expounded as well. Note that the development of clean coal and nuclear power with innovative technologies can vigorously promote China's sustainable development since renewable energy as a whole, with the exception of hydro power, is still very small compared with conventional generation. In the end, this paper concludes that China must set a step-by-step unified national energy plan to promote the construction of a sustainable energy system, which will be economically, environmentally, and socially viable, and, thus, China would play an important role to promote global sustainable development.

Total customer engagement: designing and aligning key strategic elements to achieve growth

Purpose – Businesses today face a number of difficult challenges that make customer engagement more important than ever. The usual way in which businesses operate makes it difficult to achieve high levels of consumer engagement. Perhaps the main problem with all the bits and pieces of ideas that would promote customer engagement – branding to consumers, internal marketing within the company, and service delivery – is how to fit all these together. The way to implement such models throughout the company is not clear and not easy to understand.Design/methodology/approach – The total engagement model puts everything together into an efficient and effective system. The key is focusing on aligning all activities of the company on a unified plan for customer engagement, including advertising, service, products and the internal culture. An important benefit of the total engagement model is the synergy through total brand strategy alignment throughout the company: the whole (through integration) is greater than t...

Standardization of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring of Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve in Thyroid Operation: To the Editor

The high average of equipment, dexterity, information, conscientious care and self-sacrificing humanity in operating rooms, great and small, here and abroad, are matters which some years of planned travel and laborious note-taking heartily attest; but evidence is not lacking that advance is very irregular where it might be all along the line, and erratic rather than on any studied and unified plan [1].

유비쿼터스 관광 정보서비스 구축 현황 및 사례 분석

최근 유비쿼터스 기술이 발달하고 일상생활에 접목되면서, 관광 정보 서비스에 유비쿼터스 기술 도입이 추진되고 있다. 그러나 유비쿼터스 기술을 적용하고 관광 콘텐츠를 개발하는데 있어 각 지자체는 선례나 기준이 없어 개별적이고 독자적으로 구축, 서비스하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구는 향후 가속화될 유비쿼터스 관광정보 서비스의 표준적이고 효과적인 구축 방안을 수립하기 위한 기초단계로서 현재 국내에서 구축, 서비스되고 있는 유비쿼터스 관광정보서비스의 사례를 수집, 분석하고자 하였다. 먼저, 문헌 조사를 통하여 관광정보서비스에 활용 가능한 다양한 유비쿼터스 기술 동향에 대해 살펴보고, 유비쿼터스 관광정보서비스의 대표적인 사례들을 수집하여 유비쿼터스 적용기술, 디바이스 활용, 서비스 콘텐츠의 내용과 형식 등 네 가지 측면에서 현황과 문제점을 분석하였다. 분석 결과를 종합하여 향후 유비쿼터스 관광정보 서비스의 개괄적인 구축에 대한 시사점을 네 가지 각 항목에 따라 토의하였다. 본 연구는 각 지자체가 개별적이고 독자적으로 구축하고 있는 유비쿼터스 관광 콘텐츠의 총괄적인 현황과 문제점을 파악할 수 있게 하며, 전국적인 표준안을 마련하여 통합, 구축 및 운영에 대한 필요성을 역설하고 구축을 위한 개괄적인 방향을 시사한다는데 의의가 있다고 하겠다. As ubiquitous technology has been developed and has come into everyday life, it has been integrated to tourism information service. However, each regional government develops ubiquitous tourism information service independently without successful example or standard. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze existing cases of domestic ubiquitous tourism information service as a foundation research to establish standard and effective development strategy for accelerating ubiquitous tourism information service in the future. First, ubiquitous technology trend which can be adapted to tourism information service was reviewed by secondary research. Second, representative cases of ubiquitous tourism information service were collected and analyzed in four aspects such as adapted ubiquitous technology, adapted device, service content and type of content. Finally, overall development strategy of ubiquitous tourism information service was discussed based on the analysis result. This paper contributes to get an outline of present conditions and problems of existing ubiquitous tourism information service, suggest overall development direction for ubiquitous tourism information service and point out necessity of the standard and unified plan for nationwide development and management.

"Ladinische Einheit" zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit

The article describes the historically induced linguistic division of the Ladin language region in Italy that has been decisively deepend due its administrative tripartite division. As the Ladin language is spoken only by a very small number of speakers, the author underlines the necessity of a unified language planning and standardization in order to preserve its vitality.

A Comparative Study of National Human Resource Development Plan Implementation Systems in Korea, the United States, and Japan

This article provides a comparative analysis of National Human Resource Development (NHRD) Plan implementation in Korea, the United States, and Japan. This study demonstrates that Korea is in a position very different from America`s and Japan`s with their unified NHRD Plans. First, while Korea provides systematic legal support in order to realize the NHRD Plan, especially with the enactment of the Human Resource Development Act, Japan and the United States lack such a legal basis. Second, from the perspective of systems to promote cooperation and participation, Korea has a key minister in charge of policy enforcement and an interagency process. Third, to win funding and support from policy-makers, Korea, the United States, and Japan fully recognize the importance of NHRD Plans and make their best efforts to win budget and support from top decision-makers. Fourth, in terms of the substantiality of annual enforcement plans, Korea has rather abstract criteria and less consistency in implementation. Fifth, as far as active publicity efforts are concerned, Korea lags behind Japan and the United States.

Possible Risks in the Implementation of Major International Projects (by Example of the Black Sea Ring Road)

In this paper the authors attempt to analyze the three main types of risks: financial and macroeconomic, geopolitical, and international, as well as technological and environmental. At the same time, the authors make the market optimistic that the creation of a modern transport infrastructure is so urgent problem that the Black Sea state, in any case be forced to take its decision within their territories, even without linking it with the unified plan.

Methodological Issues in Planning for Crises and Natural Disasters

Advance planning of actions for crises and natural disasters constitutes a significant element in the preparation of governmental agencies and local authorities from the executive branch, the legal entities and individual businesses, which have obligations under the legislation of the country. A basic requirement of emergency planning is coordination, which requires a unified planning methodology and the establishment of an interdepartmental organization to facilitate the process. The quality of advance planning is of great importance for the efficient management of forces and capabilities in order to ensure timely reaction to crises and natural disasters.

A Unified Approach to Planning Versatile Motions for an Autonomous Digital Actor

Enabling a digital actor to move autonomously in a virtual environment is a challenging problem that has attracted much attention in recent years. The systems proposed in several researches have been able to plan the walking motions of a humanoid on an uneven terrain. In this paper, we aim to design a planning system that can generate various types of motions for a humanoid with a unified planning approach. Based on our previous work, we add two additional motion abilities: leaping and moving obstacles into the system. In previous work, the order of moving obstacles is determined first, and then the corresponding paths for the pushing/pulling motions are generated. In this work, we take a unified approach that accounts for all types of motions at the same time. We have implemented a planning system with this unified approach for a humanoid moving in a layered virtual environment. Several simulation examples are demonstrated in this paper to illustrate the effectiveness of the system.

New Orleans' Recovery Following Hurricane Katrina: Observations on Local Catastrophe Recovery Management

Few local governments in the U.S. have faced the difficult task of managing catastrophic disaster recovery and there are equally few training guides geared toward improving local government's recovery management capacity. Our limited "toolkit"for local recovery management mostly reflects the learning from more moderate disasters. This paper reports on New Orleans' experiences in managing recovery from a truly catastrophic disaster. In particular, it describes two efforts: the 5-month Unified New Orleans Plan process, initiated in September 2006, and the city's Office of Recovery Management (now Office of Recovery Development and Administration), established in December 2006. It analyzes New Orleans' use of seven strategic recovery management practices that are proposed to enhance local management capacity and effectiveness following a disastrous event. Given the scale, complexity and multiple agencies involved in New Orleans recovery, this analysis is by no means exhaustive. It does, however, illustrate some of the areas where New Orleans' recovery management efforts have been effective as well as areas that could be strengthened.

Merging Two Universities: The Medical University of Ohio and the University of Toledo

On July 1, 2006, the Medical University of Ohio officially merged with the University of Toledo and became the third largest public institution of higher education in the state of Ohio. The combination of the two neighboring institutions occurred through the efforts of a number of individuals who recognized the potential advantages of a merger and worked quickly through challenges by early engagement of stakeholders in the merger process. The advantages of a larger, more diverse institution with increased budget and research funding outweighed the challenges of bringing two different cultures together. Changing the culture and leadership was necessary to allow the process to move forward. In addition, statewide political support was mobilized to carry forward the legislative actions that permitted the formation of the new institution. The transformation of a free standing medical campus to a part of a larger university required a fusion of the existing boards of trustees, a new organizational structure and a unified strategic plan, all of which occurred in the first 12 months after the merger. The college of medicine of the former Medical University of Ohio has been strengthened by the merger process, and the new University of Toledo has emerged as a much more diverse and complete institution.

Learning Disabilities

This article advocates an approach to supporting students who experience difficulties in learning, irrespective of nosology, particularly in the key areas of literacy and numeracy. In the state of Queensland, Australia, a distinction has been made between students' experiencing learning difficulties and those who have learning disabilities (LD). However, government priorities for improved achievement in literacy and numeracy have focused schools on the performance of all low-achieving students, without regard to diagnostic category. Many are now mobilizing a schoolwide effort that combines resources into a unified plan, using a three-wave approach. The first wave is high-quality classroom teaching, the second is early intervention, and the third is ongoing support for those students who have persistent difficulties, using adapted instruction and intensive tutoring. A further theme is the promise of neuropsychological advances for giving meaning to the underlying impairments of some students--who do have LD--that justifies the provision of adaptations to sustain their learning throughout their schooling and beyond. Throughout this article, the different yet converging understandings of LD in Australia and the United States are tracked, with suggestions made for future research that avoid the problems of operationalizing the definition of LD proposed by Keogh in 1982.

Defining Family-Centered Rounds

Background: Physicians are required to provide safe, effective, and high-quality care that is patient-centered. Continuing to meet the educational needs of residents and medical students in the setting of patient-centered care will require developing new models for hospital “work rounds.” Family-centered rounds is a model of communicating and learning between the patient, family, medical professionals, and students on an academic, inpatient ward setting. Unfortunately, in the medical literature, there is no consensus on the definition of family-centered rounds. Summary: Despite the increased utilization of hospitalists and the recognition that bedside teaching has many benefits, bedside rounds are underutilized. In this article, we present a description of family-centered rounds that is supported by a review of the literature on bedside teaching, family-centered care, and interdisciplinary care. The key difference between family-centered rounds and traditional bedside teaching is the active participation of the patient and family in the discussion. Interdisciplinary care implies that professionals from a variety of disciplines work collaboratively to develop a unified care plan. Family-centered rounding provides an interface between families and medical professionals that allows education of medical students and residents as well as the development of a unified care plan. Conclusions: Family-centered rounds hold potential to create a patient-centered environment, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes. The model is a planned, purposeful interaction that requires the permission of patients and families as well as the cooperation of physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff.

Management of Conventional Mass Casualty Incidents: Ten Commandments for Hospital Planning

The successful management of mass casualty incidents (MCIs) requires standardization of planning, training, and deployment of response. Recent events in the United States, most importantly the Hurricane season in 2005, demonstrated a lack of a unified response plan at local, regional, state, and federal levels. A standard Israeli protocol for hospital preparedness for conventional MCIs, produced by the Office of Emergency Preparedness of the Israeli Ministry of Health, has been reviewed, modified, adapted, and tested in both drills and actual events at a large university medical center in the United States. Lessons learned from this process are herein presented as the10 most important steps (ie, Commandments) to follow when preparing hospitals to be able to respond to conventional MCIs. The standard Israeli emergency protocols have proved to be universally adaptable, flexible, and designed to be adapted by any healthcare institution, regardless of its size and location.