This is the only work to bring together the final versions of the thirteen major research papers, commissioned for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, Rio de Janeiro, June 1992), providing an authoritative and detailed survey and analysis of the effectiveness of 124 existing international agreements and instruments to protect the environment.
The style of leadership in an interdisciplinary collaboration is an existing gap in collaborative literature. Studying the leaders in an existing interdisciplinary collaboration provided a description of the leadership style of the collaborative leaders of three behavioral health teams in New York City. This qualitative phenomenological study used structured interviews of interdisciplinary disciplines to describe the leadership style of the collaborative leaders within a team environment. The data collection and analysis were conducted using codes to identify dominant themes. The themes presented perceptions and experiences of three teams interacting collaboratively. The coding process identified five major themes that are unique components of leadership that suggests new methods of building collaborative leadership within the interdisciplinary team dynamics.
With effective leadership or consultation, team members learn how to confront
conflict in the group, dispel the distorted images they have of one another, and
work together to construct consensual solutions to recurrent problems in
delivering care (Farrell et al.). O'Donnell et al. (1997) clearly delineated the
problems faced by disciplines when placed together in groups. Each discipline's
normal discourse is altered. The groups derive new systems of discourse that are
developed by the ...
Proposals for Better Organization and Decision Making
Focuses on international needs for science advise in the field of environment. The report offers several proposals. The audience for this report includes government officials in the U.S. and abroad.
EXISTING INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS AND THE UNMET NEED How
effective are present mechanisms in environmental fields that require
international research collaboration? What more or different would be useful? It is
important to recognize the strengths and potential contributions of the
international environmental programs and organizations that have evolved over
the past two decades.9 The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is in a central
position. The United Nations ...
Mr Arshad Ali has kept our records and accounts, and Mr Idris Beg has done the
constant running about. Thanks are due for much help of different kinds to Dr
Ramesh Rawat, Dr Farhat Hasan and Mr Ishrat Alam. Professor Shireen Moosvi,
Secretary, AHS, has looked after the entire organizational work and prepared the
bulk of the Index at short notice. Mr Rajendra Prasad and Ms Indira
Chandrasekhar of Tulika have borne cheerfully with our delays and last-minute
hitches. December ...
Mah. S.Y. (1985) Anthracnose fruit rot (Colletotrichum capsici) of chilli (Capsicum
annuum): causal pathogen, symptom expression and infection studies. MARDI
Teknol. Sayur-sayuran Jil. 1 , 35-40. Mah, S.Y., Cheah, U.B. and Syed, A.R. 1988.
Masalah sisa racun kulat pada sayur- sayuran di Semenanjung Malaysia. MARDI
Teknol. Sayur-sayuran Jld. 4,39-45. Mah, S.Y., Cheah, U.B and Syed, A.R. (1990)
An overview of the fungicide residue problem on vegetable crops in Peninsular ...
EVOLUTION OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND PORTER'S ROLE Edward H.
Bowman's (l990) assessment that the "academic field of policy/strategy went
through... a birth in the l960s" was one agreed upon by many other experts in the
field including Hussey (l990). Hofer and Schendel (l978), and Rumelt, Schendel.
and Teece (l99l) Earlier historical antecedents such as Barnard's The Functions
of the Executive (l938), Drucker's The Practice of Management (l954) and
Selznick's ...
Past research on multi-agent simulation with cooperative reinforcement learning (RL) for homogeneous agents focuses on developing sharing strategies that are adopted and used by all agents in the environment. These sharing strategies are considered to be reciprocating because all participating agents have a predefined agreement regarding what type of information is shared, when it is shared, and how the participating agent's policies are subsequently updated. The sharing strategies are specifically designed around manipulating this shared information to improve learning performance. This thesis targets situations where the assumption of a single sharing strategy that is employed by all agents is not valid. This work seeks to address how agents with no predetermined sharing partners can exploit groups of cooperatively learning agents to improve learning performance when compared to Independent learning. Specifically, several intra-agent methods are proposed that do not assume a reciprocating sharing relationship and leverage the pre-existing agent interface associated with Q-Learning to expedite learning. The other agents' functions and their sharing strategies are unknown and inaccessible from the point of view of the agent(s) using the proposed methods. The proposed methods are evaluated on physically embodied agents in the multi-agent cooperative robotics field learning a navigation task via simulation. The experiments conducted focus on the effects of the following factors on the performance of the proposed non-reciprocating methods: scaling the number of agents in the environment, limiting the communication range of the agents, and scaling the size of the environment.
This work seeks to address how agents with no predetermined sharing partners can exploit groups of cooperatively learning agents to improve learning performance when compared to Independent learning.
