Being an important aspect of sustainable development, sustainable consumption has attracted great attention among Chinese politicians and academia, and Chinese governments have established policies that encourage sustainable consumption behaviors. However, unsustainable consumption behavior still remains predominant in China. This paper aims to classify consumers with similar traits, in terms o...

Marine oil spills can cause major social, economic, and ecological disruptions. Spill response managers must weigh different options and objectives when deciding what to do. We investigated the ways in which preferences for spill response objectives vary among those who are responsible for oil spill contingency planning and response in Buzzards Bay, Delaware Bay, San Francisco Bay, and Washingt...

Following a brief discussion of the meanings of constructivism an argument is made to the effect that Q methodology is a constructivist methodology in a sense that is compatible with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. A brief comparison of the ideas of Stephenson and Whitehead is followed by a section outlining Whitehead’s notion of the ‘event’ or ‘actual occasion’ as the core of a radic...

We study tne `q approximation of the sparsest solution of underdetermined linear systems. Mainly we present a condition on the matrix associated with an underdetermined linear system under which the solution of `q minimization is the sparsest solution of the system. Our condition generalizes a similar condition in [Candés, Romberg and Tao’06] ensuring that the solution of the `1 minimization is...

Andy Revelle is Social Sciences Librarian, Kevin Messner is Life Sciences Librarian, Aaron Shrimplin is Assistant Dean for Reference and Collection Services, and Susan Hurst is Business Librarian at Miami University; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. © 2012 Andy Revelle, Kevin Messner, Aaron Shrimplin, and Susan Hurst, Attribution-NonComm...

Aaron K. Shrimplin is Head of Reference and Collection Services, Andy Revelle is Social Sciences Librarian, Susan Hurst is Business Librarian, and Kevin Messner is Life Sciences Librarian, all at Miami University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], messnekr@muohio. edu. An earlier version of this manuscript was presented by Aaron K. Shrimplin and And...

How do policy analysts perceive the various roles that Models, Simulations and Games (MSG) have, or can have in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)? Fifty-five policy analysts in water management in The Netherlands and China were interviewed, following the procedure of the Q-method. Comparative analysis of the combined quantitative and qualitative data show that: (1) The debate on the ...

Nowadays much emphasis is given to innovative procurement in the road construction sector. However, typical discussions about it do not focus on all the stakeholders involved in the process and all aspects. However, one cannot forget that procurement is a complex system, and everyone’s perspective is important for success. This paper looks at the worldviews of stakeholders in the road construct...

Recently, CQ method has been investigated extensively. However, it is mainly applied to modify Mann, Ishikawa and Halpern iterations to get strong convergence. In this paper, we study the properties of CQ method and proposed a framework. Based on that, we obtain a series of strong convergence theorems. Some of them are the extensions of previous results. On the other hand, CQ method, monotone Q...