Institute Branch Meetings. Their Organization, Development and Influence

Preparing Decision Meetings at a Large Organization

Decision meetings may be considered inserted in a cycle of pre-meetings, meetings and post-meetings. The pre-meeting stage is useful for preparing the meeting and can be computer-supported. Aspects of the design of PRIME, a system intended for this purpose, are presented. The preparation of a meeting mainly consists of discussing the agenda beforehand. The discussion is organized in an IBIS-lik...

United Nations Industrial Development Organization Development Strategy Institute Ministry of Planning and Investment

Influence Activity and the Organization of Research and Development

The organizational design of research and development conditions the incentives of the researchers of the research project. In particular, the organizational form determines the allocation of effort of the researcher between time spent on research and time spent lobbying management. Researchers prefer to spend their time on research. However, the researchers only get utility from performing res...

Influence Rankings in Small Group Meetings

We address the problem of automatically detecting participant’s influence levels in meetings. The impact and social psychological background are discussed. The more influential a participant is, the more he or she influences the outcome of a meeting. Experiments on 40 meetings show that application of statistical (both dynamic and static) models while using simply obtainable features results in...

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Project description: C2-C5 alkanes, alkenes and alkynes are useful tracers of natural and anthropogenic emissions. With diverse emission sources and moderately short atmospheric lifetimes, non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) exhibit significant latitudinal, seasonal and vertical gradients [1]. They primarily react with the hydroxyl (OH) radical in the atmosphere, although also with ozone, nitrate,...