in modern decentralised health systems, district and local managers are increasingly responsible for financing, managing, and delivering healthcare. however, their lack of adequate skills and competencies are a critical barrier to improved performance of health systems. given the financial and human resource, constraints of relying on traditional face-to-face training to upskill a large and dis...

The Möbius-Kantor map {4 + 4, 3} [CMo, §8.8, 8.9] is a regular orientable map of type {8, 3} and genus 2. It is a 2-sheeted covering of the cube {4, 3}, branched over the centers of its six faces, each of which lifts to an octagonal face. Its (orientation-preserving) automorphism group is isomorphic to GL2(3), a double covering of the automorphism group PGL2(3) ∼= S4 of the cube. The aim of thi...

Complexity reduction in workload management is driving the development of goal-oriented workload managers (WLMs). Simultaneously, server consolidation of workloads with dynamically changing resource demands calls for these WLMs to be increasingly efficient in managing resources. We propose the Class-based Kernel Resource Management (CKRM) framework, implemented in Linux, for operating systems t...

This paper presents the design and the implementation of a resource management system for monitoring computing resources on a network and for dynamically allocating them to concurrently executing jobs. In particular, it is designed to support adaptive parallel computations|computations that beneet from addition of new machines, and can tolerate removal of machines while executing. The challenge...

Resource issues for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are characterised by heterogenous multiple users incurring diverse non-point source environmental impacts. Of particular concern is sediment and nutrient runoff caused by cattle grazing and sugar cane growing, among other practices in the lowland agricultural and upland grazing areas. In this paper we present a decision support tool for resource ...

Digital disruption introduces technology-enabled changes at a pace and scale that fundamentally shifts established ways of life and work. This paper addresses the ever changing world of digital disruption but more importantly how it affects the IT people that design and manage the technological changes that lead to digital disruption. The paper draws on i) situational awareness theory to identi...

Historically, managers in livestock production have focused on production management; however, as operations have grown they have spent more time managing employees. Increased time spent overseeing employees brings additional risks and challenges, and, hence, a greater need for human resource management (HRM) skills. This study investigated HRM practices in pork production and analyzed their ri...

This article explores how different types of managers respond to large-scale organizational change and what factors underpin differences in management attitudes and reactions. Through qualitative analysis of the introduction of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in two case study organizations, the authors argue that variations in managerial responses to organizational change relate to ...