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Item Advancing Racial Equity in the Minneapolis Park System: How Could Organizations with Divergent Goals Work Together?(E-PARCC at Syracuse University, 2020) Yuan (Daniel), Cheng; Brooke, Dirtzu"Advancing Racial Equity in the Minneapolis Park System” is a role-play simulation designed to help students understand the challenges in creating a collaborative governance regime when actors involved have different understandings of the core issue. It also helps students understand how complex structural elements underpin systemic inequalities, and then learn strategies to advance racial equity in public service provisions. This simulation is relevant for classes dealing with collaborative governance, public engagement processes, stakeholder involvement, collaborative problem-solving, and increasing diversity and inclusion in public policy making.Item Ecotourism Assessment Alignment and Coordination Tool(2014) Butler, Megan; Elizabeth, Gering; Moua, Chou; Werden, KristinaTourism can stimulate economies, promote cultural preservation, and incentivize environmental conservation. The tourism assessment and planning process is a tool for facilitating tourism development at the community level by helping entrepreneurs to: • Assess the products and services they currently offer • Align their current tourism products with best practices for improving their business’ sustainability. • Coordinate efforts to harness the full benefits of sustainable nature-based tourism or ecotourism. Extension educators can use this tool to educate, coordinate and encourage tourism entrepreneurs to adopt practices that maximize the cultural, social, economic, and environmental benefits of local tourism by minimizing potential negative impacts.Item Ethics and Intelligence in Old and New Democracies(U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-07) Andregg, Michael M.“Ethics and Intelligence in Old and New Democracies” 1. Functions of Security Intelligence in “Democracies” versus “Totalitarian States.” a. Common missions: i. Protecting the people from external and internal threats. ii. Protecting the state from external & internal threats, and corruptions. iii. Gathering intelligence for early warning of both current and potential threats. Sometimes this includes warning of opportunities also. iv. Informing law enforcement or military units for action against threats. v. Managing Information Operations, both offensive and defensive. vi. Protecting the legitimacy of the state from corruptions and organized attacks by external forces. b. Contrasting missions: i. Democracies value their citizens over their governments, in theory. ii. Totalitarian States value the regime of the day over rights of citizens. iii. This fundamental distinction has profound consequences at every level of human existance, for professional conduct among police and soldiers of any kind, and even affects the probability of survival of human civilization entire. Therefore it deserves significant attention.* iv. It also has profound effects on the welfare of military, police and all “guardian” professionals tasked with protecting people, state or both. 2. Why “Ethics” matters at all for Spies and other “Intelligence Professionals.” a. Personal Survival b. Family Survival c. Mission Success d. Minimizing Blowback, and other “Unintended Consequences.” e. Do you think that people have Souls? If so, ethics might matter even more. 3. Does “Old” versus “New” Democracies matter as a distinction? a. The eternal problem of Corruptions of Governance. Old democracies are often more corrupt than brand new ones, as can be very old politicians. b. Why Guardian Professionals must take this problem more seriously than many do. (This has profound importance for your soul, if you have one). c. How to Balance tensions between loyalty to team versus loyalty to ideals. Supplimental References: Intelligence Ethics: the Definitive Work of 2007* Breaking Laws of God and Man: When is this OK for Intelligence Professionals? * Das Leben Der Anderen, (The Lives of Others) is a great movie on this topic, about how the East German “Stasi” surveilled everyone, ruining their country until it fell.Item How to Plot and Animate Data on Maps Using the R Programming Language(2021) Lilja, David JPlotting data on a map can be a powerful technique for visualizing geographical information. Animating that data -- that is, making it move -- can further enhance the understanding of the underlying data. This tutorial will teach you how to plot data on simple maps using ggplot2 (https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/) and animate it using gganimate (https://gganimate.com/articles/gganimate.html). You also will learn how to use dplyr (https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/) to partition data into subsets and compute summary statistics of these subsets to be plotted onto a map.Item Including Unincorporated Communities Into The Zoning Database(2022-05-09) Flores-Castillo, SandraItem Just Keep Teaching: An Inpatient Psychiatric Service Goes Virtual during the Pandemic(2020) Jawish, Rana; Wichser, Lora; Bajzer, Matej; Tsheringla, Sherab; Warner, ChristinaCOVID19 has fundamentally disrupted the delivery of healthcare, and while telemedicine is an established practice, inpatient psychiatric care has been slow to embrace this change. During the pandemic the authors identified an urgent need to disrupt the delivery of psychiatric care for the safety of their patients and trainees. At the University of Minnesota the authors developed a novel protocol for residents and undergraduate medical learners to deliver care to the inpatient psychiatric service remotely. They describe the development, implementation, and reception of a virtual care and education model in the inpatient psychiatric setting that has not been achieved at other graduate medical institutions. The authors utilized a survey to measure trainee perspectives on the effectiveness of their virtual care and education model. The survey results highlighted the benefits and challenges experienced. The authors argue that telepsychiatry will be an essential aspect of future psychiatric care and that further training in telemedicine during residency is essential.Item Management Option Simulation Model (MOSM) and supporting documents(2017) Cho, Se J.; Wilcock, Peter; Gran, Karen; Belmont, Patrick; Hobbs, Ben; Collaboratives for Sediment Source Reduction--Greater Blue Earth River BasinMOSM was developed in collaboration with scientists, engineers, and economists from three research universities (Johns Hopkins University, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities and Duluth), and Utah State University), and with a stakeholder group familiar with the watershed (agricultural producers, conservation groups, and members of state and local regulatory agencies). This collaborative development helped to identify relevant and plausible environmental management alternatives to include in the model, and guided development of the model structure, input data, and decision analysis. MOSM simulates movement of water and sediment across a watershed and evaluates the effects of various management option scenarios on sediment loading. It is a reduced-complexity watershed model where many components (i.e., spatial and temporal grids, and number of interacting state variables) and the degree of complexity (i.e., range of physical, chemical, and biological processes) have been reduced to include only those processes essential to represent sediment transport and surface water routing. MOSM is designed to be constrained by the best-available existing information, including stream gaging records, a complete watershed sediment budget, historical trends in the watershed, and independent measures of outputs, such as sediment fingerprinting and a suite of geomorphic change detection outputs.Item Sustainable Development: What is it, Why Care, and How can Korean businesses Profit from it?(Pusan National University, 2007-11) Andregg, Michael M.This is a 26 slide PowerPoint presentation on Sustainable Economic Development that accompanied the 11 page academic paper on same presented at the same South Korean Universities and trade associations.Item Wisdom: What is It, and How can It be Found?(2014-09) Andregg, Michael M.Wisdom: What is It, and How can It be Found? Whatever wisdom is, it is ephemeral, relative, subjective and relational which makes it very difficult to define or even characterize. This is one attempt. As knowledge is superior to data or information, wisdom has been refined by qualities superior to mere data, like kindness or compassion. Therefore wisdom has an ethical quality. The most brilliant scientists on Earth can create weapons capable of destroying civilization and perhaps our species. Wiser scientists chose not to create such weapons, because they can see the long term consequences of such acts. Therefore wisdom has a global, long-term quality, because it sees consequences for the whole as well as the part, and for the long-term as well as the short. Wisdom is inextricably bound up in human affairs. Therefore it requires both detailed and deep understanding of human behavior, and of the behavior of groups that people form. Therefore wisdom is also relative. What appears wise to Democrats in America, for example, often does not look wise to Republicans. Some of those differences are philosophical, or reflect profound differences in core values, so they are not easily resolved. And what is wise for the country as a whole often gets lost in battles over what seems wise for Democrats or Republicans. Another example would be that what seems wise to Jews does not always seem wise to Muslims. Here the devout derive their concepts of wisdom from different scriptures. Yet within both of these groups and every other religion I have studied, there are enlightened who see the unity behind their similar words. There are also brothers who fight each other over who will rule the earth. Those brothers violate the Golden Rule that lives within everyone’s scriptures. Yet they think they are exemplars of the prophets of ancient times. Thus does hubris corrupt true wisdom. Hubris is an ancient Greek term that means, roughly “overweening pride.” Thus one might infer that humility is a necessary constituent of wisdom. And so did many ancient sages claim .