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Academics under pressure : Fear and loathing in finnish universities?

- Aarrevaara, Timo, Dobson, Ian

Authors: Aarrevaara, Timo , Dobson, Ian
Date: 2015
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Forming, Recruiting and Managing the Academic Profession p. 211-223
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Description: This chapter presents an examination of Finnish university academics and the pressures they encounter in the rapidly changing academic milieu. In addition to the evolution all societies are subject to, staff in Finnish universities has had to adjust to a Universities Act that came into force from 2010, and this ushered in fundamental changes in governance arrangements and confirmed a pattern of increasing managerialism. Evidence indicates that many academics feel little capacity to influence decision making, and some are trapped in a cycle of precarious employment by oft-renegotiated short contracts. In addition, universities find themselves in competition with other labour market segments for highly qualified knowledge workers, a factor which has the capacity to have an impact on universities and their academic workforce. Using quantitative data from the Changing Academic Profession survey and augmenting this with qualitative data from the EUROAC project, this chapter examines Finnish university academics perceptions of academic life in the twenty-first century. Â© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
Description: This chapter presents an examination of Finnish university academics and the pressures they encounter in the rapidly changing academic milieu. In addition to the evolution all societies are subject to, staff in Finnish universities has had to adjust to a Universities Act that came into force from 2010, and this ushered in fundamental changes in governance arrangements and confirmed a pattern of increasing managerialism. Evidence indicates that many academics feel little capacity to influence decision making, and some are trapped in a cycle of precarious employment by oft-renegotiated short contracts. In addition, universities find themselves in competition with other labour market segments for highly qualified knowledge workers, a factor which has the capacity to have an impact on universities and their academic workforce. Using quantitative data from the Changing Academic Profession survey and augmenting this with qualitative data from the EUROAC project, this chapter examines Finnish university academicsâ€™ perceptions of academic life in the twenty-first century. Â© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.

Changing employment and working conditions

- Aarrevaara, Timo, Dobson, Ian, Wikström, Janne

Authors: Aarrevaara, Timo , Dobson, Ian , Wikström, Janne
Date: 2015
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Academic Work and Careers in Europe : Trends, Challenges, Perspectives p. 95-115
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Description: This chapter considers the academic working environment in eight European countries and reports on academics' impressions of the changes that environment has undergone in recent years. We focus on the extent to which the content of academic work in these countries is similar or different; the nature of academics' working conditions and how they have changed; and what academics' affiliations are. The analysis also considers differences according to seniority. Based on interviews with European academics, we consider how changes in working conditions, employment and modes of operation have affected scholarly work and related activities, and the impact change has had on academic freedom. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.

Glory, spectacle and inoperativity : Agamben's praxis of theoria

- Abbott, Mathew

Authors: Abbott, Mathew
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Agamben and Radical Politics (Critical Connections series) Chapter 2 p. 27-48
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Description: In this chapter, I work to show how Agamben has extended and complicated his account of this differential relation in The Kingdom and the Glory. Connecting theoria with spectatorship, he intertwines a quasi-Marxist critique of spectacle with a Heideggerian thesis regarding the history of being as nihilism. The resultant political ontology has at its centre a dialectical notion of theoria as a form of praxis.

Information security governance: The art of detecting hidden malware

- Alazab, Mamoun, Venkatraman, Sitalakshmi, Watters, Paul

Authors: Alazab, Mamoun , Venkatraman, Sitalakshmi , Watters, Paul
Date: 2013
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: IT Security governance innovations: Theory and research p. 293-315
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Description: Detecting malicious software or malware is one of the major concerns in information security governance as malware authors pose a major challenge to digital forensics by using a variety of highly sophisticated stealth techniques to hide malicious code in computing systems, including smartphones. The current detection techniques are futile, as forensic analysis of infected devices is unable to identify all the hidden malware, thereby resulting in zero day attacks. This chapter takes a key step forward to address this issue and lays foundation for deeper investigations in digital forensics. The goal of this chapter is, firstly, to unearth the recent obfuscation strategies employed to hide malware. Secondly, this chapter proposes innovative techniques that are implemented as a fully-automated tool, and experimentally tested to exhaustively detect hidden malware that leverage on system vulnerabilities. Based on these research investigations, the chapter also arrives at an information security governance plan that would aid in addressing the current and future cybercrime situations.

Impact of meditation on physical and mental health and life satisfaction

- Alexi, Nektarios, Moore, Kathleen

Authors: Alexi, Nektarios , Moore, Kathleen
Date: 2012
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Stress and Anxiety: Application to Economic Hardship, Occupational Demands, and Developmental Challenges Chapter 9 p. 99-106
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Description: Many people in the western world perceive the practice of mediation as a mystic, exotic practice beyond the boundaries of everyday life; meditation is often associated by non-practioners with a specific life style, diet , and specific activities in which a meditation practioner should engage. The focus of this paper is to ascertain if the practise of meditation has an impact of people's well-being. Data from 100 participants of whom 50 were regular practioners of meditation and 50 volunteers from the community were available for analysis. All participants provided demographic data on gender and age, and completed a questionnaire containing the Beck Depression Inventory, Perceived Stress Scale, Diener's life satisfaction scale, and Pennebaker's Health Questionnaire. Results indicated that those who practiced meditation reported less depressive symptomology and greater life satisfaction but there were no differences on physical health symptoms or stress levels after controlling for years practising meditation. Implication of these findings will be discussed.

The adoption of ICT by SMEs in Australia

- Allan, Craig

Authors: Allan, Craig
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Working Together: Leveraging Social Networks & Technology for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises Chapter 7 p. 49-67
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Description: During 2003, six honours students undertook research into various aspects of the development of inter-organisational network relationships between small and medium sized enterprises in rural and regional areas. This book is a collection of the work undertaken.
Description: B1
Description: 2003000649

Methodology for measuring distortions to agricultural incentives

- Anderson, Kym, Kurzweil, Marianne, Martin, Will, Sandri, Damiano, Valenzuela, Ernesto

Authors: Anderson, Kym , Kurzweil, Marianne , Martin, Will , Sandri, Damiano , Valenzuela, Ernesto
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies p.
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The World Trade Organisation's Doha cotton initiative: a tale of two issues

- Anderson, Kym, Valenzuela, Ernesto

Authors: Anderson, Kym , Valenzuela, Ernesto
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2007 p.
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Description: FOR many developing countries, especially in Africa and Central Asia, cotton is an important cash crop. It is receiving attention of late because four poor cotton-exporting West African countries (the Cotton-4: Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali) have demanded that cotton subsidy and import tariff removal be part of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Agenda (DDA). Cotton subsidies are mostly provided by governments in high-income countries, and part of the US cotton subsidy programme has been ruled illegal following a WTO dispute settlement case brought by Brazil. Hence some reform can be expected soon, especially if the DDA is to live up to its name of being a development round (Sumner, 2006). This paper seeks to provide estimates of what is at stake in terms of cotton

Prior exposure to words in meaningful conceptual hierarchies improves recall of randomly arranged words

- Andrews, Glenda, Todd, Jo-anne, Maurer, Jade, Beinke, Kaya, Teese, Robert, Francis, Reiestad, Tallaksen, Magnus

Authors: Andrews, Glenda , Todd, Jo-anne , Maurer, Jade , Beinke, Kaya , Teese, Robert , Francis, Reiestad , Tallaksen, Magnus
Date: 2012
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Beyond the lab: Applications of cognitive research in memory and learning p. 25-41
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