The sustainability challenges facing societies call for policies and governance systems that are attuned to the diversity of goods support enrich human life via ecological, technical other kinds systems, plurality values people hold across diverse cultures belief systems. A pluralistic evaluation framework (PEF) is here presented as a tool considering goodness perceived by stakeholders in desig...

Climate adaptation is a dynamic social and institutional process where the governance dimension is receiving growing attention. Adaptive governance is an approach that promises to reduce uncertainty by improving the knowledge base for decision making. As uncertainty is an inherent feature of climate adaptation, adaptive governance seems to be a promising approach for improving climate adaptatio...

Air quality monitoring is extremely important as air pollution has a direct impact on human health. In this paper we introduce a low-power and low-cost mobile sensing system for participatory air quality monitoring. In contrast to traditional stationary air pollution monitoring stations, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of GasMobile, a small and portable measurement system ...

The yield losses due to weeds vary depending on the weed species, their density and environmental factors. For controlling in wheat, farmers rely herbicides cost time effectiveness. Keeping these facts view a field experiment was conducted identify appropriate for wheat. carried out at three locations of Kapilvastu, Rupandehi Nawalparasi during 2016/17 2017/18. Pendimethalin 30 EC, Sulfosulfuro...

In relation to quality, evaluation is often used synonymously with quality assurance and monitoring processes (Ehlers et al, 2004). However, evaluation has other purposes, such as for development and knowledge (Chelimsky & Shadish, 1997). In this paper, I present a view of evaluation as an instrument of quality enhancement rather than quality assurance, one that can be used creatively and power...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate, with a focus on participation, an evaluation process developed by municipal managers and administrators of a health region in the state of São Paulo, considering the need for theoretical reflection on participatory health practices in the Brazilian context. METHODS Qualitative research that used the framework developed by Daigneault and Jacob (2009) to analyze the empir...

The performance of parallel and distributed systems depends significantly on how the programs’ execution is dynamically organized. Therefore, performance evaluation and efficient programming of parallel and distributed systems need the analysis of the internal behavior of such systems. For this purpose event-driven monitoring is an appropriate technique. Eventdriven monitoring reduces the dynam...

This ethnographic study examines how participatory spaces and citizenship are co-constituted in participatory healthcare improvement efforts. We propose a theoretical framework for participatory citizenship in which acts of citizenship in healthcare are understood in terms of the spaces they are in. Participatory spaces consist of material, temporal and social dimensions that constrain citizens...