Collective Action in Common Pool Resource Management, Including Heterogeneity of Opportunities and Exit Options

The mechanism through which exit options and outside opportunities affect cooperation outcomes has not been well studied in the resource management literature, since a deep analysis of the concepts of “exit options” and “outside opportunities” is missing. This article analyzes these concepts across the common pool resource management literature, investigates the factors that underlie “opting out” decisions, and reviews potential ways to operationalize these concepts for empirical analysis. It also explores how the relationship of cooperation and exit options may be influenced by broad economic processes, such as economic integration.

Safety management of nasopharyngeal specimen collection from suspected cases of coronavirus disease 2019

This article introduces safety management strategies of nasopharyngeal specimen collection from suspected cases of coronavirus disease 2019 in a tertiary designated hospital.The key points include establishing a special sampling room,strict sterilization of the entire environment,training of professional nurses,enhancement of personal protection,standardization of methods and processes for swab collection,and a timely and safety sample submission.More than 11,000 nasopharyngeal specimens were collected by eight nurses,with an average of 1,375 specimen swab collections each nurse,and no one was infected.

The Role of Blood Station Quality Management System in the Quality Control of Blood Collection

With the continuous development of China’s medical industry in recent years,relevant staff has also paid more attention to the quality management of blood stations,and China has gradually improved during the setting of laws and regulations for blood station quality management.The policies set by the Chinese government have been fully implemented through the reasonable implementation of relevant staff.With the continuous development of China’s medical industry in recent years,relevant staff have also paid more attention to the quality management of blood stations,and China has gradually improved during the setting of laws and regulations for blood station quality management.The policies set by the Chinese government have been fully implemented through the reasonable implementation of relevant staff.On this basis,the management model of the Chinese blood station has been continuously innovated in the application process,and the blood collection work of the Chinese blood station has been greatly developed.However,when the blood station in China is conducting blood collection,its quality control program is still not fully mature.Therefore,in this context,it is necessary to do a good job in the construction of the corresponding blood station quality management system and make effective adjustments,which will give full play to the role of the management system in the quality control process of blood collection.In this paper,the construction plan of the blood station quality management system is analyzed to explore the role of the blood station quality management system in the process of blood collection quality control,aiming to provide assistance for the quality management of blood collection in China.

Urban garbage disposal and management in China

This paper, probing into the present situation of urban domestic garbage by analyzing its growing trend, compositional change and regional difference, reveals the problems existing in its disposal and management in China. Meanwhile, a questionnaire was conducted in five big cities around China for surveying urban residents' attitudes towards garbage disposal and management policies and measures. Results showed the output of urban domestic garbage in Chinese cities is ever increasing, and the recoverable materials and energy in garbage composition are also increasing. The population growth, economic development, and increase of residents' expenditure level are the main factors influencing the growing output and changing composition of the garbage. Information acquired from the questionnaire showed that majority of the urban residents are in favor of the garbage reduction policies and managerial measures and are willing to collaborate with municipal government in battling against garbage. Based on the analysis and questionnaire, some policymaking oriented suggestions such as operating the garbage disposal from a social welfare service to a sector of profit gaining enterprises, transferring the garbage management from passive end control to active source control, promoting the classified garbage collection in cities around China, and charging garbage fees for its cleanup and disposal, have also been put forward in the paper.

Participatory forest management in Burkina Faso: Members' perception of performance

This study examines variations in the performance of partic-ipatory forest management programs among four forest management groups (FMGs) in southern Burkina Faso, and assesses the factors that influence their members’ perceptions of performance through a house-hold survey of 216 members. Variations in performance scores among the FMGs were analyzed through multivariate analysis of variance while multinomial regression analysis was used to identify factors that influ-ence their perception of the performance. The results reveal significant differences in performance scores among FMGs. Members of some FMGs perceived that the participatory forest management program ena-bled them to get benefits from the sale of fuelwood while performance scores in the forest conservation and decision-making processes is gener-ally poor. The score for economic performance of FMGs in turn was related to better access to roads and markets. Group size tended to en-hance economic performance via its strong influence on annual fuelwood harvest, while the resource base appeared to be inconsequential. Mem-bers of the forest management groups perceived that large group size and group heterogeneity, particularly in terms of ethnicity, as well as knowledge and awareness of problems related to the forest environment have no influence on the performance of their respective groups. For rural communities to have a favorable disposition toward sustainable forest management, differences in member understanding of collective actions and their impact before and during the implementation of partic-ipatory forest management programs should be considered.

Global Memory Net and the development of digital image information management system: Experience and practice

Global Memory Net (GMNet) is intended to be an effective gateway to the world cultural, historical, and heritage image collections from selected academic educational and research partners in the world. Much of these unique collections of great value to education and research are not currently accessible due to distance, form, and technical barriers. This project is to find new ways to enable users to access and exploit these significant research collections via global network. As GMNet is ending its first 5-year phase in October 2005, it has contributed substantially to the community building in digital library development by ac- commodating numerous collaborators and technical staff from various parts of the world to spend 3 to 5 months as a full-member of the GMNet team in Boston. They have come from different parts of China—such as Sichuan, Hainan, Shanghai and Xi’an; Croatia; and Hanoi, Vietnam. In addition to contribute to the overall system development and enhancement of system function- alities, they have brought valuable sample image collections of their own institutions/countries, and actually developed prototype collections as a part of GMNet. This paper describes the exciting and productive experience of the first of this visiting research group in developing the GMNet’s Version 2.0 PHP-based system under Prof. Chen’s overall supervision. It also describes both the system’s technical level structure—user/Web-based application/data, and complex functionalities with multi-collection, multi-lingual, multi-modal searching capabilities; system management capabilities; as well as provisions for user uploads and retrieval for our own projects. This Version 2.0 system is built on the Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL platform. What is described in this paper is an actual case which has formed a base for further new development by others in the research group. It demonstrates fully the value of the synergistic collaboration among global partners for universal digital library development. More information can be found in http://www.memorynet.org/.

Critical Analysis of the Challenges of Solid Waste Management Initiatives in Keko Machungwa Informal Settlement, Dar es Salaam

Solid waste is inevitable because by nature every human activity generates a certain amount of solid waste. The rate of solid waste generated tends to increase with the increase in population. Despite existence of various efforts on solid waste collection, still the quantity of solid waste collected is small compared to the solid waste generated. The situation is even worse in unplanned settlements of developing countries, where, ineffective solid waste collection is contributed to by haphazard solid waste disposal and hence environmental pollution. Therefore, having an effective and efficient solid waste management system is a major challenge in cities of developing countries, and thus more consulted efforts are needed. This paper presents finding based on the study carried out in Keko Machungwa informal settlement in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The study explored challenges facing solid waste management initiatives in Keko Machungwa and recommended measures for improvement. Data for this study was collected through documentary review, household interviews, focus group discussions, physical observations and official interviews. The analysis reveals that solid waste generated in Keko Machungwa is 16 tones per day, among those, only 4.56 (less than 50%) are collected. About 11.44 tones of uncollected waste are illegally dumped into a seasonal stream and in different vacant lots hence causing blockage of the seasonal stream. Different groups engaged in solid waste collection are deterred by many challenges. The challenges include: lack of cooperation among the existing solid waste collection organs, inaccessibility in some places, low public participation, financial constraints and unwillingness of local community to pay for solid waste collection fees. The paper recommends four options on how solid waste management, particularly collection in Keko Machungwa can be enhanced. 1) Alliance among the existing organ, 2) placing dust-bins in different points within the settlement, 3) linking the fees of solid waste collection to other public services and 4) education and awareness creation campaigns accompanied by community stakeholder consultations.

Collective Finance Models for Sustainable Water Projects

Waterbasin management is an exemplar problem of collective action, since many actors influence and are influenced by changes in a waterbasin. The present paper uses the example of finance of control of surface water run-off as an instance of (potential) collective action involving finance. Five innovative financing schemes for new waterbasin management infrastructures are assessed with respect to the actors who provide the finance and how the projects are governed: 1) financing through taxes;2) third-party financing;3) financing by stakeholders;4) financing through fullcost pricing;and 5) financing by developers and/or landowners.

Comparative Analysis and Assessment of States’ Traffic Management Center Programs

This research presents a step-by-step guideline for traffic data collection standards set by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). This study reviews manual and automatic methods of traffic counting and provides detailed information on traffic volume and vehicle classification studies. This research also provides a detailed analysis of the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT)-TMC (Transportation Management Center) websites and compares it to selected Department of Transportation websites of other states such as Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, and Virginia. The purpose of the comparison is to analyze the data sources;user friendliness, accessibility, types of data available, presentation formats, and style for each state to determine how they compared to DelDOT-TMC. Although there were some similarities, the findings suggest that two major differences are present. The overall results revealed that DelDOT-TMC provides limited traffic and roadway weather data, and presentation formats to the public as compared to the other states. Further, a unitless variable, called the Capacity Factor (Q), has been developed within this study to represent this relative comparison. This study shows that DelDOT TMC performs well within the group of selected states and better than selected states of similar size and most selected states of larger size;where only Virginia performs better then DelDOT TMC. DelDOT TMC does not perform as well as selected neighboring states;however, it performs in an acceptable range relative to neighboring states.

Working Capital Management and Firms’ Profitability: Evidence from Quoted Firms on the Nigerian Stock Exchange

Over the years, it appeared that firms failed to subject short-term investments to proper management thereby leading to either excessive or inadequate working capital which in turn affected their profitability. To empirically satisfy this, this paper examined working capital management and firms’ profitability in Nigeria quoted firms on Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). A panel data methodology was used with different regression estimators to analyze this relationship based on a balanced panel of 10 listed firms during the period 2008-2017. It was discovered that cash collection period and cash payment period exerted a negative impact on return on assets, though the impact was only significant for cash payment period on the ground of −0.064 (p = 0.000 −0.032 (p = 0.077 > 0.05). Also discovered was that both the current ratio and inventory period exerted a positive impact on return on assets, though the impact was only significant for current ratio on the ground of 8.172 (p = 0.000 0.05). The study concluded that working capital management affected firms’ profitability in Nigeria. Therefore it was recommended that while the shorter collection was maintained, payment to creditors should not be elongated so as to enjoy cash discount (if any) and that firms should be proactive in the management of raw materials in order to avoid idle resources that might negatively impact their financial performance.

Waste Management Workers’ Safety Concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ghana

Waste management is one of urgent challenges in the world. In rapidly growing cities of developing countries like Accura, Ghana, waste collection is done without sufficient protection of workers. This situation became worse when the COVID-19 pandemic began to threaten the health and safety of waste collection workers. This paper aims to examine waste management workers’ safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. To better understand waste management workers’ safety concerns during the pandemic, we used the questionnaire survey. Our questionnaire survey was conducted among 60 waste management workers in Accra, the capital city of Ghana. The study then discusses how municipal waste management authorities can ensure safety of waste management workers during the pandemic. Our results showed that 58% of the respondents were worried about the COVID-19 pandemic, while 20% were not even sure of the existence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Besides their worry, we also found that about 40% of the respondents had access to face masks/shields at their workplace, and 30% had hand sanitizers. This paper highlights that providing more advanced safety protocols in terms of workers daily operations and safety measures will enable a safe working environment for the workers even in terms of future pandemics.

质量管理在血站采供血工作中的应用

目的 分析在血站采供血工作中质量管理的应用价值。方法 选取2021年7月—2022年7月在济宁市中心血站献血的70名献血者和11名护理工作人员,均实施质量管理,纳入研究组;另选择2020年5月—2021年5月在血站献血的70名献血者和11名护理工作人员,实施常规管理,纳入对照组。对比和分析工作管理效果。结果 研究组工作管理质量(设备维修保养、责任心、消毒工作质量、环境质量)各项评分高于对照组(P<0.05);研究组献血者总满意度为97.14%,高于对照组的81.43%(P<0.05);研究组一次穿刺成功率、采血质量达标率、健康教育覆盖率分别为92.86%、98.57%、100%,高于对照组的72.86%、85.71%、90.00%,研究组工作差错率为2.86%,低于对照组的17.14%(P<0.05)。结论 在血站采供血工作中质量管理应用价值较高,在工作管理质量、献血者满意度、一次穿刺成功率、采血质量达标率、工作差错率、健康教育覆盖率方面优势明显。

基于FOLIO平台的图书馆馆藏资源管理

“十四五”以来,智慧图书馆建设逐渐进入高质量建设深水区。新一代图书馆服务平台是智慧图书馆建设的重要抓手。上海图书馆云瀚平台是FOLIO的中国化。云瀚以“平台+应用”的模式为系统开发提供了足够的灵活性和可扩展性。FOLIO馆藏管理系统就是云瀚平台的首个应用模块。上海图书馆在前期用户需求调研基础上,利用云瀚平台的业务和技术底座,并复用FOLIO社区的LSP基座模块,扩展开发了3个基础App(详编、简编、数据导入)和5个业务App(验收、出入库、移库、清点、剔旧),初步实现了上海图书馆纸质馆藏资源的全流程管理。

吸纳性规制:农村集体资产经营中的基层政府行为模式

在农村集体经济全面转向以集体土地和物业出租为主要形式的租赁型经济条件下,基层政府针对集体资产经营的行为模式需要更加深入的探讨。基于政府规制理论的演进脉络和场景变迁,提出“吸纳性规制”概念,用以分析基层政府主导集体资产经营的政策实践。经验研究发现,基层政府一方面完善集体资产持有、交易、使用等环节的具体规则,持续推动行政监管扩容;另一方面通过基层组织支配和集体资产代管,完成对集体资产经营权的接收。二者构成了吸纳性规制的不同实践层次,展现了行政权力的边界延展与行政系统的职能扩充。在这一过程中,基层政府注重寻求“合法性策略”与“实质性目标”之间的平衡,将规范经济秩序、提高经济绩效作为获致集体资产经营主导权的重要基础。吸纳性规制具有促进集体经济规范运行、提高集体收益的积极功能,但是也可能带给基层政府更多应对复杂市场环境、介入集体产权纠纷的压力。

大数据驱动的税收征管与非上市公司高质量发展——基于创新行为的研究视角

作为我国经济发展的重要力量,非上市公司创新行为是社会技术进步不可或缺的推动力。利用独特的全国税收调查数据,以金税三期工程在我国各省市的逐步试点作为政策冲击,探讨大数据驱动的税收征管是否以及如何影响非上市公司的创新行为。实证研究发现,在金税三期工程试点实施后,非上市公司加大了创新投入。机制检验发现,这种影响主要是通过大数据税收征管的公司治理效应和信息质量效应获得实现。异质性检验发现,大数据税收征管对非上市公司创新投入的影响与金税三期工程实施的客观条件和主观能动性,以及企业融资约束程度密切相关。进一步分析发现,在金税三期工程试点实施后,非上市公司的创新产出有了明显提升。

多源地理产品数据的元数据统一设计与采集管理技术

面向多源地理产品数据管理应用的需求,明确了本文讨论的地理产品数据的范畴,分析了地理产品数据的存储组织及应用特点。基于存储组织需求,统一设计了数据大类小类两级分类目录及类别编码,设计了地理数据产品的元数据采集规范。提出了数据集-数据单元两级元数据的设计理念以便满足不同数据粒度的管理需求,分别设计了数据集元数据和数据单元元数据的详细组成,统一设计了空间地理产品数据与非空间地理产品数据的元数据,明确了数据集目录和数据单元的命名原则。设计并实现了能够自动采集多源地理产品元数据的软件,实现了基于统一元数据设计的数据管理软件。结果表明,这种方法能够满足用户对多源地理产品数据的统一存储组织、多粒度管理、高效便捷检索等需求。

集体林权制度下的安吉竹林经营认证模式探索与实践

分析了安吉县林业生产与社会经济条件、竹林认证历程和认证模式,阐述了集体林权制度下安吉县毛竹股份合作社的组织形式、经营管理与“协会+合作社”模式开展竹林经营认证的运行机制,总结了“协会+合作社”模式开展竹林经营认证对提高竹林经济效益、促进竹林生态效益、加快农村城镇建设进程中的作用。提出在当前我国南方集体林权制度下引入新型竹林经营主体、推进竹林专业化经营、健全竹林经营管理体系,对开展竹林经营认证有积极作用。安吉县以“协会+合作社”开展竹林经营认证,对促进我国南方集体林权制度下的林业可持续发展具有示范作用。

论集体公益性建设用地使用权的法律构造

集体公益性建设用地使用权的法律供给严重不足,学者观点又存在较大分歧。在“房地一体”登记下,集体土地所有权的代表行使主体享有独立的集体公益性建设用地使用权,并应平等、补充适用《土地管理法》与《民法典》。界分村级组织集体公益性建设用地使用权的登记主体是村民委员会还是农村集体经济组织,应尽量登记给村民委员会。集体公益性建设用地使用权的设立宜采取拨用而非划拨的方式,并经登记生效;其不能抵押,但可以在不降低公益效用的前提下,经政府机关批准和集体成员民主议定,采取转让、互换等方式处分。集体公益性建设用地使用权因集体公益收回应当符合比例原则,因经营性转化应当明确转化的条件、程序、方式和收益分配。