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The Health<->Work Toolbox: a one-stop resource for tackling avoidable sickness absence
No full textA biopsychosocial 'toolbox' could help managers intervene early to support workers with common health problems and prevent long-term absence
Ontologies and Big Data Considerations for Effective Intelligence
No full textOntologies and Big Data Considerations for Effective Intelligence is a key source on the latest advancements in multidisciplinary research methods and applications and examines effective techniques for managing and utilizing information resources. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as visual analytics, spatial databases, retrieval systems, and ontology models, this book is ideally designed for researchers, graduate students, academics, and industry professionals seeking ways to optimize knowledge management processes
Preparation and Synthetic Utility of Stable 1,3-Enynyl- and 1,3-Dienyl(aryl)iodonium Salts
Get PDFThe facile synthesis of stable enynyl- and dienyl(aryl)iodonium salts is achieved from terminal enynes. An X-ray crystal structure of an example of the latter is presented. These compounds are
shown to be useful in a range of transformations
Digitalisation and intermediaries in the music industry
No full textPrior to digitalisation, the vertical structure of the market for recorded music could be described as a large number of artists [composers, lyricists and musicians] supplying creative expressions to a small number of larger record labels and publishers who funded, produced, and marketed the resulting recorded music to subsequently sell these works to consumers through a fragmented retail sector. We argue that digitalisation has led to a new structure in which the retail segment has also become concentrated. Such a structure, with successive oligopolistic segments, can lead to higher consumer prices through double marginalisation. We further question whether a combination of disintermediation of the record labels function combined with “self-publishing” by artists, will lead to the demise of powerful firms in the record label segment, thus shifting market power from the record label and publisher segment to the retail segment, rather than increasing the number of segments with market power
Macrocognition applied to the hybrid space: team environment, functions and processes in cyber operations
No full textAs cyber is increasingly integrated into military operations, conducting military cyber operations requires the effective coordination of teams. This interdisciplinary contribution discusses teams working in, and in relation to the cyber domain as a part of a larger sociotechnical system, and the need for a better understanding of the human factors that contribute to individual and team performance in such settings. To extend an existing macrocognitive model [19] describing functions and processes into a conceptual framework that maps cognitive processes along cyber-physical and tactical-strategic dimensions (the Hybrid Space; [4]) to gain a better understanding of environmental complexity, and how to operate effectively in a cyber team context. Current experience from conducting cyber network defence exercises at the Norwegian Defence Cyber Academy and implications for future education and training are discussed
Embedding Responsible Management Education – Staff, Student and Institutional Perspectives
Get PDFThere is a resurgence in responsible management education, with business schools’ considering its adoption as vital for business courses. Nevertheless, initiating institution-wide changes for responsible management education is an inherently complex activity in business schools, requiring not only revisions in their curriculum, but also sustained faculty and institutional support. This paper explores this complexity in one UK business school, a signatory to the Principles of Responsible Management Education, who have commenced a programme of change in RME. Based on primary data obtained from two workshops with the business schools’ faculty, a student survey and a systematic analysis of the curriculum of four undergraduate degrees and two post-graduate degrees, we find that misalignment between faculty skills and institutional bureaucracy, together with an inconsistent focus on responsible management across the curriculum raises key challenges for its adoption. We extend the premise that significant change in RME, requires fundamental changes of a business school’s own ethos of what responsibility means to itself.
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Sound Source and Loudspeaker Base Angle Dependency of the Phantom Image Elevation Effect
No full textEarly studies found that, when identical signals were presented from two loudspeakers equidistant from the listener, the resulting phantom image was elevated in the median plane and the degree of the elevation increased with the loudspeaker base angle. However, sound sources used in such studies were either unknown or limited to noise signals. In order to investigate the dependencies of the elevation effect on sound source and loudspeaker base angle in details, the present study conducted listening tests using eleven natural sources and four noise sources with different spectral and temporal characteristics for seven loudspeaker base angles between 0° and 360°. The elevation effect was found to be significantly dependent on the sound source and base angle. Results generally suggest that the effect is stronger for sources with transient nature and a flat frequency spectrum than for continuous and low-frequency-dominant sources. Theoretical reasons for the effect are also discussed based on head-related transfer function measurements. It is proposed that the perceived degree of elevation would be determined by a relative cue related to the spectral energy distribution at high frequencies, but by an absolute cue associated with the acoustic crosstalk and torso reflections at low frequencies
Thinking Sculpturally
No full textThe biggest UK exhibition to date by leading sculptor Tony Cragg opened on 4 March 2017. New sculptures, drawings and works drawn from nearly five decades of Cragg’s practice survey and demonstrate the artist’s pioneering and continued mastery of materials in the Underground Gallery and open air.
The catalogue essay for Yorkshire Sculpture Park's exhibition focuses on aspects of Cragg's practice, including his investigations into seeing beneath and between the world of surface impressions and the world of material engagement
Extending the Instrumental sound world using electronics
No full textThis chapter is concerned with music for acoustic instruments with live processing and/or fixed media. This is a genre intrinsically bound up with advances in technology, as composers have made use of new tools and ever- increasing computing speed in order to process, spatialise and interact with sound in realtime. In this chapter, rather than teasing out specific technical and perceptual issues around the performance of such work, five broad areas are investigated: Pioneers; Rethinking Interaction; Spectral Mutations; Sampling; and
Current Trends. These headings are not considered mutually exclusive, but are permeable borders within which groups of composers and aesthetic trends can be discussed
Shadows and Reflections
No full textShadows and Reflections develops from an audiovisual collaboration between Monty Adkins and the painter Andy Fullalove exhibited at Bradford Cathedral in October 2016. The exhibition comprised a series of fourteen paintings and sound that responded to the newly restored altarpiece by William Morris as well as the priceless stained glass windows in the Cathedral made my Morris’s company, which include designs by Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Peter Marshall, and Philip Webb. During the creative process, the artists exchanged sound and images on a regular basis, discussed work in progress but left each other to develop work independently.
In the composition process Adkins was particularly drawn to the layering and textures of Fullalove’s paintings as well as their use of colour. He also found a correlation between the use of light in Fullalove’s paintings and the ways in which light streams through the stained glass windows of the cathedral, providing coloured halos and auras around concrete architectural forms in the building. Adkins was particularly interested in the ways in which the quality of light imperceptibly changed within the building over time.
In the two parts of the work Adkins wanted to induce a sense of mediation, contemplation and reflection. He wanted the sound to be constantly, though in some instances imperceptibly, changing so that one remained mindful of the music rather than allowing it to drift in to the periphery of one’s consciousness. He was reminded of Alan Wallace’s description of Samatha meditation as a “contemplative technology” designed to calm and stabilize the mind and
to cultivate “attentional stability and vividness”, and intend the music of Shadows and Reflections to cultivate a similar state. For Adkins, the focusing on a single organ timbre over an extended duration encourages a more attentive perception as the ear is drawn in to the micro-fluctuations within each of the extended phrases. One’s sense of time is dilated and there is a sense of envelopment within the soundworld
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