Journal articles: 'Technical advice'

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Goldston, David. "Technical advice." Nature 448, no. 7150 (July 2007): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/448119a.

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Industrial Split-Plot Experiments." Quality Engineering 22, no. 1 (December 7, 2009): 54–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08982110903438853.

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Sims, Ian M., Susan M. Carnachan, Tracey J. Bell, and Simon F. R. Hinkley. "Methylation analysis of polysaccharides: Technical advice." Carbohydrate Polymers 188 (May 2018): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.12.075.

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Quantile Plots to Check Assumptions." Quality Engineering 22, no. 4 (August 31, 2010): 364–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2010.502868.

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Residual Plots to Check Assumptions." Quality Engineering 23, no. 1 (December 3, 2010): 105–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2011.535696.

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PETKEWICH, RACHEL. "HOUSE PANEL SEES GAP IN TECHNICAL ADVICE." Chemical & Engineering News 84, no. 33 (August 14, 2006): 46–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cen-v084n033.p046.

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LEPKOWSKI, WIL. "BUSH SCIENCE ADVICE: Technical community is hopeful." Chemical & Engineering News 66, no. 49 (December 5, 1988): 4–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cen-v066n049.p004.

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Harris, Neil. "Planning policy, policy guidance and technical advice." Town Planning Review 72, no. 4 (January 2001): 393–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2001.72.4.393.

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Branscomb, Lewis M. "Supporting the president's need for technical advice." Technology in Society 10, no. 3 (January 1988): 305–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0160-791x(88)90012-7.

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Essential Elements for Quality Improvement Programs." Quality Engineering 23, no. 4 (October 2011): 395–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2011.604233.

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LEPKOWSKI, WIL. "SCIENCE ADVICE: Technical elite sends Bush its ideas." Chemical & Engineering News 67, no. 2 (January 9, 1989): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cen-v067n002.p004.

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Nyberg, Mette. "ADVICE FROM A PROFESSIONAL: The DNA of a Technical Communicator." Communication & Language at Work 2, no. 2 (January 26, 2013): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/claw.v1i2.7894.

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Unlike our peers in the US or UK, the technical communicators in the Danish/Scandinavian region have not had the luck of easy access to formal education within the field of technical communication. I claim that most of us technical communicators in the Danish/Scandinavian region do not have a formal technical communication degree. We have learned on the job – spiced with relevant courses (such as Information Mapping), and we have kept ourselves up to date by attending conferences, reading books and articles. For the past 10 years or so we have been blessed with the growing wealth of information on the Internet to keep us in the loop and the social media to exchange views and experiences.This article discusses the evolution of a technical communicator profile as known in the Danish/Scandinavian region and what it takes to become a good technical communicator. What is indeed the skill set of a good technical communicator? Is there at all a future for technical communicators - and is it a promising career path?

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Phase I and Phase II Control Charts." Quality Engineering 21, no. 4 (September 14, 2009): 478–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08982110903185736.

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Scientific Method and Approaches for Collecting Data." Quality Engineering 25, no. 2 (April 2013): 194–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2013.764228.

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Kobayashi, K., T. Ishigami, and T. Akiyama. "COSTA: A Computerised Support System for Emergency Technical Advice." Radiation Protection Dosimetry 73, no. 1 (September 1, 1997): 277–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032152.

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Ng, Terence Bu-Peow, and Premila Gowri Shankar. "Effects of Technical Department’s Advice, Quality Assessment Standards, and Client Justifications on Auditors’ Propensity to Accept Client-Preferred Accounting Methods." Accounting Review 85, no. 5 (September 1, 2010): 1743–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/accr.2010.85.5.1743.

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ABSTRACT: We conduct an experiment to investigate whether the effects of an SAS No. 90-like quality assessment standard (QAS) on auditors’ decision to accept a client-preferred accounting method is jointly moderated by the nature of advice from an audit firm’s technical department and the strength of the client’s justification. Results indicate that, in the absence of advice, the presence of QAS does not affect auditors’ decision, regardless of client justification strength. However, in the presence of advice from the technical department, the presence of QAS significantly reduces auditors’ propensity to accept the client-preferred method, but only when the advice explicitly recommends the use of the most appropriate method and the client’s justification is strong. These findings demonstrate the complementary roles that professional standards and audit firms’ technical departments play in enhancing the quality of auditors’ decisions, and indicate that the nature of advice matters.

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Statistical Process Control and Automatic/Engineering Process Control." Quality Engineering 22, no. 3 (June 7, 2010): 222–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08982111003800547.

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Stright, Lisa. "Ingredients to a technical paper: A professor’s advice about writing." Interpretation 7, no. 4 (November 1, 2019): 1N. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/int-2019-1015-fe.1.

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Mead, Ronald F., and Stephen R. Kennett. "Development of assurance techniques for information quality on technical advice." International Journal of Information Quality 3, no. 3 (2014): 228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijiq.2014.064059.

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Ersek, Robert A. "Bioplastique: Specific technical advice on its use and possible complications." Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 16, no. 1 (1992): 67–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00455151.

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Alimandi, L., R. Andrich, and B. Porqueddu. "Teleworking in Connection with Technical Aids for Disabled Persons." Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 1, no. 3 (September 1995): 165–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357633x9500100306.

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An experimental teleworking arrangement was established between Milan and Rome in order to evaluate the use of multimedia technology and remote working for improving the service provided by an information and advice centre for the disabled. This activity requires a highly interdisciplinary approach and both clinical and technical expertise. The hypothesis was that offering the lone expert in Rome the possibility of teleconsulting with colleagues in Milan (where the whole range of expertise was available) would provide a comprehensive service for disabled clients asking for advice on technical aids in Rome. The results of an experiment demonstrated the feasibility of such teleworking and allowed a teleconsulting method to be defined that fits the specific needs of the technical-aid information service and improves quality.

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D’Incao, F., and E. G. Reis. "Community-based management and technical advice in Patos Lagoon estuary (Brazil)." Ocean & Coastal Management 45, no. 8 (January 2002): 531–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0964-5691(02)00084-4.

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Experimental Protocol and the Basic Principles of Experimental Design." Quality Engineering 25, no. 3 (July 2013): 307–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2013.789278.

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Vining, Geoff. "Technical Advice: Design of Experiments, Response Surface Methodology, and Sequential Experimentation." Quality Engineering 23, no. 2 (March 2, 2011): 217–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15226514.2011.555280.

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Lippincott, Gail. "Moving Technical Communication into the Post-Industrial Age: Advice from 1910." Technical Communication Quarterly 12, no. 3 (July 2003): 321–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15427625tcq1203_6.

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O’Hara, Rachel, Lindsey Bishop-Edwards, Emma Knowles, and Alicia O’Cathain. "PP15 Non-technical skills in the delivery of ambulance service telephone advice." Emergency Medicine Journal 36, no. 1 (January 2019): e6.2-e7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2019-999.15.

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BackgroundAround 10% of calls to ambulance services in England are resolved over the phone (referred to as telephone advice or hear and treat). These calls are generally dealt with by clinicians following initial call-handler assessment. A systematic review concluded that telephone advice is a safe alternative for patients categorised as low priority but recommended the need to understand the skills required. Our research explores the non-technical skills (cognitive, social and personal) required.MethodsNon-participant observation of telephone advice in three ambulance services involved 40 hours of observation per service, (total n=27 clinicians and 20 call-handlers) and semi-structured interviews with clinicians (n=7), call-handlers (n=7) and managers (n=3). A framework approach and NVIVO qualitative data analysis software were used to analyse the data.FindingsSituation awareness was a necessary skill in gathering information by telephone. Strategies included visualisation, attending to tone of voice and listening to Background noise. Decision making skill was needed to select an appropriate course of action. For clinicians this involved reference to prior experience and risk judgement that the available information supported a safe decision. Call-handlers were more reliant on computerised triage systems. Communication skill required rephrasing technical questions, providing reassurance and assertiveness in managing expectations. Call-handlers had less discretion to rephrase computerised scripts. Personal resources were required to manage role demands that included dealing with high call volumes, task conflict and difficult conversations with callers expecting an ambulance response.ConclusionsThe findings have implications for the recruitment, training and ongoing development of call-handlers and clinicians involved in the delivery of telephone advice. There is scope for further research to provide a more detailed understanding of non-technical skills in the delivery of telephone advice to ensure the consistent delivery of appropriate and safe care that is acceptable to patients.

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Lepore, Stephen J., Bradley N. Collins, Howard W. Killam, and Barbara Barry. "Supportive Accountability and Mobile App Use in a Tobacco Control Intervention Targeting Low-Income Minority Mothers Who Smoke: Observational Study." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 9, no. 7 (July 2, 2021): e28175. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/28175.

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Background Smartphone mobile apps are frequently used in standalone or multimodal smoking cessation interventions. However, factors that impede or improve app usage are poorly understood. Objective This study used the supportive accountability model to investigate factors that influence app usage in the context of a trial designed to reduce maternal smoking in low-income and predominantly minority communities. Methods We conducted a secondary analysis of data (N=181) from a randomized controlled trial that included a smoking cessation app (QuitPal-m). Supportive accountability was measured by the number of times a participant was advised by their cessation counselor to use QuitPal-m. Participants reported app use helpfulness and barriers. Investigators tracked reported phone and technical problems that impeded app use. Results Most participants rated the app as very helpful (103/155, 66.5%), but daily use declined rapidly over time. App use was positively related to the level of perceived app helpfulness (P=.02) and education (P=.002) and inversely related to perceived barriers (P=.003), phone technical problems (P<.001), and cigarettes smoked per day at the end of treatment (P<.001). Participants used the app a greater proportion of the days following app advice than those preceding app advice (0.45 versus 0.34; P<.001). The positive relation between counselor app advice and app usage 24 hours after receiving advice was stronger among smokers with no plan to quit than in those planning to quit (P=.03), independent of education and phone or app problems. Conclusions Findings show the utility of supportive accountability for increasing smoking cessation app use in a predominantly low-income, minority population, particularly if quit motivation is low. Results also highlight the importance of addressing personal and phone/technical barriers in addition to adding supportive accountability. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02602288; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02602288

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Franklin, Cherry. "Updated online technical advice service for humanitarian engineers used for Nepal project." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 171, no. 3 (August 2018): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.2018.171.3.102.

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Ausubel, Jesse H. "The organizational ecology of science advice in America." European Review 1, no. 3 (July 1993): 249–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798700000624.

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One way that the American government has changed in the past 50 years is through the establishment and expansion of organizations providing technical expertise for decisionmaking. This essay reviews the performance of current structures from the diverse vantage points of elites, bureaucracies, the general public and activist minorities, drawing on studies of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, and the cultural theory of Mary Douglas et al. The apparently mature institutional landscape may well be ripe for change.

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Craft, Jonathan, and Michael Howlett. "Policy formulation, governance shifts and policy influence: location and content in policy advisory systems." Journal of Public Policy 32, no. 2 (June 15, 2012): 79–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x12000049.

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AbstractMost studies of policy formulation focus on the nature and kind of advice provided to decision-makers and think of this as originating from a system of interacting elements: a “policy advisory system”. Policy influence in such models has historically been viewed as based on considerations of the proximate location of policy advisors vis à vis the government, linked to related factors such as the extent to which governments are able to control sources of advice. While not explicitly stated, this approach typically presents the content of policy advice as either partisan “political” or administratively “technical” in nature. This article assesses the merits of these locational models against evidence of shifts in governance arrangements that have blurred both the inside vs outside and technical vs political dimensions of policy formulation environments. It argues that the growing plurality of advisory sources and the polycentrism associated with these governance shifts challenge the utility of both the implied content and locational dimensions of traditional models of policy advice systems. A revised approach is advanced that sees influence more as a product of content than location. The article concludes by raising several hypotheses for future research linking advisory system behaviour to governance arrangements.

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Constant, David, Lee Sproull, and Sara Kiesler. "The Kindness of Strangers: The Usefulness of Electronic Weak Ties for Technical Advice." Organization Science 7, no. 2 (April 1996): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.7.2.119.

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Du, Zhen Jie, Wan Yu Gao, Chang Jun Liu, Jian Yang, Sheng Jun Liu, and Feng Tian. "Study on a New Green Packaging Material Performance and Development." Advanced Materials Research 1030-1032 (September 2014): 181–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1030-1032.181.

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Reddrop, Alan, and Gido Mapunda. "Family businesses: seekers of advice." Journal of Family Business Management 5, no. 1 (April 13, 2015): 90–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfbm-08-2014-0018.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the often questioned willingness of family businesses (FBs) to seek external advice on challenges they face. Design/methodology/approach – Mixed methods were employed gaining 140 responses to a survey of FB CEOs on their use of advice, followed by 51 semi-structured interviews of FB owners, managers and advisers. It drew upon institutional theory and those concerning both trust and organisational knowledge creation; also upon experiential knowledge gained in advising FBs. Findings – Cost was found to deter use of professional advice, also unawareness of where it was to be found. Dissatisfaction with many advisers’ “soft” skills was prevalent. Clients took as given advisers’ technical knowledge; empathy and listening skills being the discriminants of successful practice. Effective means of skills creation were identified but seen to be obtained fortuitously, not systematically. The professional institutions of accountants, the most frequently used professional advisers, require tertiary institutions seeking their accreditation to develop their students’ “generic skills”, including “the ability to listen effectively”: conditions not being complied with. However, advice-seeking is found to be greater than assumed because of an unexpected resort to peers, often through networking. Widespread peers’ recommendations of professional advisers impart instantaneous “vicarious” trust, found to be more common than the “slow maturing” kind posited by previous researchers. Originality/value – This paper offers a rarely recorded FB client perspective on their use of external advice. It extends understanding of the trust upon which they rely. It discloses how some achieve a mutual learning that expands understanding of organisational knowledge creation. It describes a route, “shadowing”, through which professional advisers have achieved outstanding performance.

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Arandarenko, Mihail, and Milica Uvalic. "International Advice and Institutional (Mis)configuration." Southeastern Europe 38, no. 2-3 (November 21, 2014): 232–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18763332-03802003.

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International aid and assistance to the Western Balkans, which began more than two decades ago after the disintegration of sfr Yugoslavia, has been severely criticised on various grounds by academics, politicians, and domestic elites. One of the main points of criticism has been heavy foreign interference into domestic affairs, which deprives local policy-makers of ‘policy ownership.’ This paper uses four paradigmatic examples of reform in Serbia – in the areas of labor market, income taxation, pensions system, and privatization – to show that, despite the widely accepted view of the dominant role of international actors in the creation of the reform agenda, there was significant room for local policy-makers in Serbia to exercise full ownership over the ongoing reforms. What policy-makers really needed was expertise, a clear vision of the desired reforms, the determination to defend their agenda, and technical skills to implement it. The significantly different outcomes of the four areas of reform analyzed in this paper, despite involving virtually the same actors of international intervention, seem to illustrate well our hypothesis that the failure of some important sectoral reforms in Serbia during the post-2000 period was the result of the policy-makers’ own weaknesses, rather than the result of external conditionality.

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Warrington, Ian J., Barrie D. Wallace, and Sandy Scarrow. "International Perspectives in Horticultural Extension—A New Zealand Viewpoint." HortTechnology 14, no. 1 (January 2004): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.14.1.0020.

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The government-funded horticulture extension service, which provided a free service to New Zealand growers for nearly 50 years, was privatized in the late 1980s as part of major reforms to the primary production sector. That service had provided one-on-one on-farm visits, budget advice, provision of technical information, and facilitation of field days, workshops and discussion groups throughout the country. This government-funded service also provided policy advice, acted as an interface between industry and the research and development (R&D) sector, and responded to biosecurity incursions. A decade following privatization, the number of people involved in equivalent consultancy activities has almost halved with very little recruitment of new people into the profession. The emphasis is now much more towards providing advice on the overall management of an individual enterprise to ensure its financial viability, with less emphasis on technical transfer. Large horticultural businesses are increasingly employing specialists in-house who can provide technical solutions and advice on balance sheet management. Private consultancy companies now tend to work more at a local or regional level rather than at a national level and links with R&D providers have markedly weakened as research organisations are increasingly protecting intellectual property for their own commercial advantages and as information provision is now largely on a user-pays basis. In addition, biosecurity incursions over the past decade appear to have increased as a result of a weakened surveillance effort. Nonetheless, horticultural exports from New Zealand continue to grow at around 10% per annum and many sectors remain very competitive on world markets.

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Huff, Marie, and John Hodges. "A Practical Guide for Developing Effective Technical Standards in Social Work Programs." Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 15, no. 2 (January 1, 2010): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18084/basw.15.2.006445758x081026.

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Social work educators are increasingly faced with concerns about students who do not possess the technical standards (basic skills, values, and abilities) of the social work profession. This article discusses the purpose of technical standards, which ensure that social work programs admit, retain, and graduate students who possess the physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral attributes required for success. The history of technical standards, concerns about their use, and the growing need for technical standards are also addressed. Finally, practical advice on developing technical standards for social work education and examples of one university's standards are offered.

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Kirchner, James W., and Julia L. A. Knapp. "Technical note: Calculation scripts for ensemble hydrograph separation." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24, no. 11 (November 24, 2020): 5539–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5539-2020.

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Abstract. Ensemble hydrograph separation has recently been proposed as a technique for using passive tracers to estimate catchment transit time distributions and new water fractions, introducing a powerful new tool for quantifying catchment behavior. However, the technical details of the necessary calculations may not be straightforward for many users to implement. We have therefore developed scripts that perform these calculations on two widely used platforms (MATLAB and R), to make these methods more accessible to the community. These scripts implement robust estimation techniques by default, making their results highly resistant to outliers. Here we briefly describe how these scripts work and offer advice on their use. We illustrate their potential and limitations using synthetic benchmark data.

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Melenhorst, Mark, Thea van der Geest, and Michaël Steehouder. "Noteworthy Observations about Note-Taking by Professionals." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 35, no. 3 (July 2005): 317–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/pqyn-ndh6-tu6l-rebc.

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In this article we focus on professional readers who have to write recommendations in an online environment. We address the question whether taking notes on screen influences the reading process and the quality of the recommendations in terms of applicability, completeness, and persuasiveness. Seven participants each composed two pieces of advice on technical communication issues. They could use an electronic Notepad whenever they wished. Taking notes appeared to influence advice quality negatively, which may be caused by attention shifts from reading to taking notes on screen. Although we could not find a relationship between the contents of the notes and advice quality, we noted differences in note-taking approaches between the participants.

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Merrilees, D., and A. Duncan. "Review of attitudes and awareness in the agricultural industry to diffuse pollution issues." Water Science and Technology 51, no. 3-4 (February 1, 2005): 373–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2005.0612.

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The Scottish Executive considers ‘Diffuse Pollution from Agricultural Enterprises’ as a priority issue over the next 5-10 years and recognises the need to improve knowledge transfer, advice and training amongst farmers, crofters, contractors and advisers. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency commissioned SAC to survey advisory staff on diffuse pollution issues, mitigation measures and delivery of environmental advice to the farming industry. This showed that the impact of agricultural diffuse pollution on the environment is considered a serious problem as is the future impact of legislation on farm business. There is an urgent requirement to raise advisers' awareness of environmental legislation and of mitigation measures. Advisers consider that farmers have limited awareness of diffuse pollution problems but those that do would consider the impact on the environment to be serious. There is a lack of knowledge on the effectiveness of pollution mitigation measures. Better technical information, supported by research, is required. This information is best conveyed to advisers via the internet, technical notes and directly by environmental specialists and delivered on to farmers by farm visits. Lack of funds prevents most farmers adopting best management practices and more than 80% of advisers consider that environmental advice should be free.

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McDonic, G. F. "Planning and geology." Geological Society, London, Engineering Geology Special Publications 4, no. 1 (1987): 49–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsl.eng.1987.004.01.03.

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AbstractMost of those engaged in town and country planning are aware of the importance of geology regarding their subject. Indeed there are many geologists now engaged in the planning service.There are two areas, in particular, where geological skills will be required on an increasing scale in the future. These are in mineral planning and landfill and restoration on the one hand, and countryside planning on the other.Land use planning is a political process and has as its basis the positive role of development plans and the negative constraints of development control. Development control involves the approval and refusal of planning applications by planning authorities and the Secretary of State for the Environment. Many disciplines contribute technical advice regarding planning but technical advice is just one of the factors influencing any decision since planning authorities are charged with considering all material considerations.

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Aribowo, Irwan. "MENELISIK PERBEDAAN PEMBETULAN SPT DENGAN PENGUNGKAPAN KETIDAKBENARAN SPT." INFO ARTHA 5 (May 24, 2017): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.31092/jia.v5i1.62.

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Tax societies should understand well about taxregulations. Moreover a tax authority is expected to be able to provide tax advice to taxpayers well, oversee compliance of tax obligations, and analyze and propose control measures. An understanding of technical knowledge of taxation especially The General Provisions And Tax Procedures Law is extremely needed by both taxpayers and the staff of The Directorate General of Taxation. By understanding the regulation properly, a tax authority can provide guidance or an advise to the taxpayers in order to secure tax revenues.Thus,besides following“rulesof the game” in taxation, a taxpayers can also give contribution in financing national life.

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Wilson, Donald O., and John E. Ettlie. "Boundary Spanning, Group Heterogeneity and Engineering Project Performance." International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management 15, no. 06 (December 2018): 1950005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219877019500056.

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This study examines the concept of intra-organizational links as a way for boundary spanners to bring into the project group the information needed to deal with task uncertainty. Several studies have shown that heterogeneous groups are superior to homogeneous groups when novel or creative solutions need to be developed to deal with tasks characterized by high task uncertainty. For boundary spanners in engineering project groups, it is proposed that cross-departmental technical advice links are another source of the information needed to deal with task uncertainty. An empirical test supports the proposition that for high-performing project groups, boundary-spanning technical advice links may compensate for a lack of internal group heterogeneity and vice versa. This is not the case for low-performing project groups. Implications of these finding are presented, including the direction that the open innovation research stream might take to address the findings of this study.

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HARWOOD, R. R., A. H. KASSAM, H. M. GREGERSEN, and E. FERERES. "NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN THE CGIAR: THE ROLE OF THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE." Experimental Agriculture 41, no. 1 (January 2005): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0014479704002315.

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Judicious management of our natural resources is a major pillar of sustainable agriculture, broadly defined. It is, therefore, unfortunate that, until now, research in natural resources management (NRM) has not received sufficient support, or the recognition that other agricultural research topics have had. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) recognized, early on, the complementarities and synergies between NRM research and other themes, notably genetic improvement, and its research Centres have pursued some vigorous programmes for many years. The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to the CGIAR was supportive of such programmes from the start and provided advice to the CGIAR System on NRM research strategies. Highlights of such advice over the last 20 years are discussed, including the ecoregional approach, the 1996 study of Priorities and Strategies for Soil and Water Research, and the CGIAR Vision and Strategy of 2000. Recent developments at the Centres leading to the promotion of integrated approaches to NRM (INRM) are described, and a set of priority areas in INRM research for future CGIAR activities is presented.

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Jones, Benjamin T., and Shawna K. Metzger. "Different Words, Same Song: Advice for Substantively Interpreting Duration Models." PS: Political Science & Politics 52, no. 4 (May 14, 2019): 691–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s104909651900060x.

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ABSTRACTThe use of duration models in political science continues to grow, more than a decade after Box-Steffensmeier and Jones (2004). However, several common misconceptions about the models still persist. To improve scholars’ use and interpretation of duration models, we point out that they are a type of regression model and therefore follow the same rules as other more commonly used regression models. In this article, we present four maxims as guidelines. We survey the various duration model interpretation strategies and group them into four categories, which is an important organizational exercise that does not appear elsewhere. We then discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these strategies, noting that all are correct from a technical perspective. However, some strategies make more sense than others for nontechnical reasons, which ultimately informs best practices.

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Bentley, Jeffery W., Solveig Danielsen, Noah Phiri, Yakosa C. Tegha, Nixon Nyalugwe, Eduardo Neves, Eduardo Hidalgo, Abhishek Sharma, Vinod Pandit, and Dilli Ram Sharma. "Farmer responses to technical advice offered at plant clinics in Malawi, Costa Rica and Nepal." International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 16, no. 2 (February 26, 2018): 187–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2018.1440473.

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Morton, G., C. Walker-Dilks, F. Baldassarre, D. D’Souza, C. Falkson, D. Batchelar, E. Gutierrez, and K. Bak. "Delivery of Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer: Organisational and Technical Advice to Facilitate High-quality Care." Clinical Oncology 22, no. 7 (September 2010): 605–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2010.05.020.

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van Helden, Jan, Anders Grönlund, Riccardo Mussari, and Pasquale Ruggiero. "Exploring public sector managers' preferences for attracting consultants or academics as external experts." Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 9, no. 3 (August 24, 2012): 205–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/11766091211257443.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons why public sector managers approach either consultants or academics for their help in solving problems related to public sector accounting and management reforms.Design/methodology/approachA field study based on reactions to real‐life constructs and answers to questions about the experiences of public sector managers in Italian, Dutch and Swedish central government agencies.FindingsPublic sector managers approach consultants, due to their experience‐based knowledge, for solving well‐defined practical and technical problems. In the case of tacit knowledge, a strong interaction between the public sector manager and the consultant, denoted as socialization, is the typical way of knowledge transfer. In accordance with expectations, public sector managers approach academics for advice regarding value‐laden problems in their organization. However, academics also give advice about practical and technical issues, usually being the primary domain of consultants, but often when impartial advice is required. Although the authors expected academics to transfer knowledge rather detached from their clients (interiorization), this was not corroborated, because often academics work closely with their counterparts in the client organization.Research limitations/implicationsThe theoretical framework was helpful in explaining the role of consultants, but it required refinement in explaining the role of academics as external experts.Practical implicationsThe paper contributes to a better articulated set of preferences of public sector managers in asking advice from either a consultant or an academic.Originality/valueThe paper offers a simultaneous and systematic empirical examination of the roles that consultants and academics play in public sector management and accounting reforms.

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Droste-Franke, Bert. "Challenges and potential improvements of systems analyses for sector coupling." TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis 29, no. 2 (July 17, 2020): 45–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.14512/tatup.29.2.45.

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This paper discusses the challenges of systems analysis for policy advice in the context of sector coupling along the three dimensions of socio-technical problems: control, change, and action. Research shows that the challenges of systems analyses increase significantly when considering sector coupling, both with respect to the choice of areas of investigation and with respect to the basic methods and practices of systems analysis for policy advice. In particular, social aspects and practical expertise need to be considered, results of different studies should ideally be combinable for reflexive meta-analyses, and analyses should focus on key messages.

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Donovan, Amy. "Geopower." Progress in Human Geography 41, no. 1 (July 10, 2016): 44–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132515627020.

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This paper discusses disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the context of emerging geographical ideas about topologies and assemblages. It focuses on the role of expert advice in DRR and the resulting political and epistemological issues. The critical geography of disasters still struggles to communicate with persistent scientific technical-rational approaches to hazard assessment. Furthermore, recent studies have shown the potential for expert advice to be (mis)used for political purposes. Assemblage theory might be useful in opening up this hybrid area of research, as it allows a nuanced view of disasters and DRR that can incorporate complex human-environmental relationships and diverse knowledges.

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Francis, RICC, and R. Shotton. "“Risk” in fisheries management: a review." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54, no. 8 (August 1, 1997): 1699–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f97-100.

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``Risk'' has appeared more frequently in the fisheries management literature in recent years. The reasons for this are partly internal (scientists seeking better ways to advise fishery managers) and partly external (e.g., adoption of the precautionary approach). Though terminology varies, there is consensus that there are two stages in dealing with risk. The first (here called risk assessment) is the formulation of advice for fisheries managers in a way that conveys the possible consequences of uncertainty. This advice is in the form of an evaluation of the expected effects of alternative management options, rather than recommendations. Risk assessment has been undertaken in many fisheries, and there is general agreement as to how it should be done (although technical details differ). The second stage (risk management) is the way fishery managers take uncertainty into account in making decisions. Much fisheries risk management is informal, i.e., nonquantitative, undocumented, and loosely linked (if at all) with a risk assessment. The major reason for this is that the objectives of fisheries management are often conflicting and are rarely stated in a way that provides explicit direction to managers or scientists.

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