Merger mania? The Finnish higher education experience
- Authors: Aarrevaara, Timo , Dobson, Ian
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Mergers in higher education : the experience from Northern Europe p. 59-72
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Changing employment and working conditions
- 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.
Academics under pressure : Fear and loathing in finnish universities?
- 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. © 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 academics’ perceptions of academic life in the twenty-first century. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
No life is bare, the ordinary is exceptional : Giorgio Agamben and the question of political ontology
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Agamben and Law p. 65-78
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The creature before the law
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Agamben and Law p. 221-238
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On film in reality, cavelliam reflections on skepticism, belief, and documentation
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The thought of Stanley Cavell and cinema : turning anew to the ontology of film a half-century after the world viewed p. 228-244
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New Quarrels: Innovative poetry and the philosophical horizon
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Critical animalia: A decade between disciplines p. 155
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Glory, spectacle and inoperativity : Agamben's praxis of theoria
- 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.
The Myth of the Earth: Heidegger, Poetry, Politics
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Literature and Politics: Pushing the World in Certain Directions p. 84-94
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Lyric Poetry
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature Chapter 11 p. 221-239
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- Description: This chapter characterises an aspect of the relationship between philosophy and lyric poetry by giving an account of poetic thought: a mode of thinking in which philosophical contributions are made poetically. When one encounters poetic thinking, it will be harder to detach what has been said from how it has been said; hence poetic thought is resistant to paraphrase in a way that traditional philosophy typically isn’t. Yet this raises problems that will remain intractable unless we reconsider what it can mean to think philosophically. Taking poetic thought as this chapter recommends means we can insist on its cognitive and rational dimensions, but without overlooking the crucial role in it of feeling and embodiment.
Modernism and the discovery of finitude
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Michael Fried and philosophy modernism intention and theatricality Chapter 1 p. 18-32
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- Description: The discovery of finitude, after all, is a discovery of something that must have been true of human concepts from the start. Philosopher has a way of accounting for the mutual imbrication of classification and evaluation, which Fried argues is crucial to the modernist condition. Stephen Davies's remarks come in the context of a critique of "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics," a classic article by Morris Weitz from 1956, which influentially argued that "art" should be understood as a family resemblance concept in Wittgenstein's sense. Consider Weitz's worry that aestheticians who deploy definitions of art are smuggling subjective judgments of value into ostensibly objective accounts. Despite his claims about their supreme value, consider how bizarre aesthetic theories must actually look to Weitz. Despite their obvious differences, Dickie's account and that of Weitz both rely on a blunt distinction between classification and evaluation.
Grey gardens and the problem of objectivity : notes on the ethics of observational documentary
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience: New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives p. 108-122
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Martin Heidegger
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Agamben's Philosophical Lineage p. 63-75
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Religion after work: Christianity, morality, and serious leisure
- Authors: Abraham, Ibrahim
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Spirituality, Organization and Neoliberalism Chapter 8 p. 149-170
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- Description: Through extended retirement, unemployment or underemployment, expanding joblessness is changing the traditional hierarchical balance between work and earned leisure. This chapter explores the implications of such changes in the context of established religious and moral systems, particularly Protestant Christianity, which has been connected to conventional capitalist ideologies of work since Max Weber’s ‘Protestant Ethic’ thesis. Focusing on the concept of ‘serious leisure’, in which an individual makes a systematic commitment to a leisure pursuit, this chapter uses the case study of church-facilitated youth-focused action sports projects in South Africa to explore the ethical challenges of a leisure-driven life. Embodying an autotelic approach to life, emphasizing commitment to one’s own actions, emotions and outcomes, serious leisure can promote a form of neoliberal self-governance. Through its autotelic ethic, serious leisure may be more capable of fulfilling the ideological values of work promoted by earlier Protestant and secular ‘bourgeois’ work ethics, such as authenticity.
Contemporary Christian Music and Contemporary Worship Music
- Authors: Abraham, Ibrahim
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Routledge International Handbook of Sociology and Christianity Chapter 19 p. 242-253
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- Description: This chapter offers a critical overview of sociological aspects of and approaches to contemporary Christian music (CCM) and contemporary worship music (CWM), two related genres of abidingly evangelical popular music in which contemporary Christianity engages the spectacular capacities of consumer capitalism. Identifying CCM as musically diverse, yet united by the shifting values of American evangelicalism, and recognizing CWM as a sophisticated congregational practice increasingly integrated into the everyday lives of listeners, this chapter analyzes tensions and contestations in these cultural forms. It also identifies important theoretical concepts pertinent to the study of CCM and CWM: Emile Durkheim’s concept of collective effervescence, Theodor Adorno’s critique of the culture industry, approaches to music-based subcultures, and Christopher Small’s musicking paradigm. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Dennis Hiebert; individual chapters, the contributors.
Applications of power electronics in renewable energy systems
- Authors: Abu-Siada, Ahmed , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Power Electronics Handbook Chapter 23 p. 797-843
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- Description: The Kyoto and Paris agreements on global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions have prompted renewed interest in the adoption of clean renewable energy systems worldwide. Many renewable energy technologies have been well developed over the years and become morereliable, and cost-competitive with conventional fuel-based generation. The cost of renewable energy technologies is on a falling trend and is expected to fall further with the increase in demand and production. There are many renewable energy sources (RES) such as biomass, solar, wind, mini-hydro, and tidal power. However, solar and wind energy systems make use of advanced power electronics technologies, and therefore, the focus in this chapter will be on solar photovoltaic and wind power systems. © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Sticky and collapse temperature : Measurements, data and predictions
- Authors: Adhikari, Benu , Bhandari, Bhesh
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Food properties handbook Chapter 11 p. 347-380
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A Tool for Assisting Group Decision-Making for Consensus Outcomes in Organizations
- Authors: Afshar, Faye , Yearwood, John , Stranieri, Andrew
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: E-Supply Chain Technologies and Management p. 316-343
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Social media analytics, learning analytics and healthcare industry : risky drinking
- Authors: Ahmed, Ashir , Martin, Jennifer , McKay, Elspeth , Towl, David , Haussegger, Zac
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Manage Your Own Learning Analytics : Implement a Rasch Modelling Approach Chapter 5 p. 113-136
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- Description: Much is written about social media analytics, learning analytics and health care industry research projects. However, it is rare to find all three domains in the same study, as each discipline is usually kept separate from another. The concern with this isolation approach is the probability of missing essential synergies, leading to a combined effect more significant than the sum of their particular products. Social media analytics may uncover key social media search terms that reflect the language used by groups of people engaging in risky drinking behaviour. At the same time, the view of behaviour through a psychometric testing lens may reveal other things. This chapter describes both social media analytics and learning analytics from the perspective of the health care industry. The chapter explains the intersection of social media analytics and learning analytics; in the first instance, the Rasch measurement model is used to discover the probability of agreement relating to human behaviour issues; a case study amplifies health services provision outcomes. The results from the social media analytics revealed that groups’ risky drinking behaviour data collected by Talkwalker showed linguistic variations with the double meanings of words used, which affected results. The learning analytics of alcohol consumption included a post-hoc comparison using a Bonferroni correction t-test which revealed the mean of never-married people was significantly higher than married people. The significance of these findings demonstrates that data analysis should be open to using a mixture of data analytics tools to reach a finer-grained interpretation to model other complex problems. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Information security governance: The art of detecting hidden malware
- 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.