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Representing the entrepreneurial process with design in mind:walking the artefactual journey in space and time
No full textPurposeThis article synthesizes two strands of entrepreneurship discourse: the entrepreneurial design lens and the entrepreneurial narratives perspective to empirically reveal an introduced notion of an ‘artefactual journey’ taken by a single entrepreneur.Design/MethodologyA single longitudinal case reveals an entrepreneurs’ sense of 'design heuristics’ related to venture development through an artefactual journey. ‘Walking and talking’ interviews expose the interplay of past and future possibilities in the designed entrepreneurial environment. The narrative demonstrates movement between researcher observations, author interpretations, and participant reflections. Questions are asked regarding the nature of design led artefactual journeys - and the use of walking interviews - to better expose entrepreneurial design heuristics.Findings The utilization of space is informed by the entrepreneur’s design heuristics drawing on past actions (resonance) and future projects (evocation), in entrepreneurial spaces. Findings inform an agential conceptualization of artefactual journeys in space and time and contribute to the entrepreneurial narratives perspective by empirically exposing inner narratives and exploring reflection and projection in context. A case is advanced to consider artefactual journeys as actualized opportunities. Originality/valueThe use of walking interviews offers methodological novelty and authenticity in uncovering movement through space and time. Theoretically, the article contributes to discussion as to how entrepreneurial agency links past and present in design actualization using ideas of reflection and projection that occur in a designed environment. Evocation and resonance are presented as the contextually attuned cognition of entrepreneurs reflecting a designed environment to imagine the future of their enterprises. <br/
PDNet:a lightweight attention-guided CNN for efficient pallet racking defect detection on edge devices
No full textThis study presents three algorithmic innovations aimed at optimizing Convolutional Neural Network architectures for automated defect detection in pallet rack inspection scenarios. First, a domain-specific Augmentation Algorithm is introduced to expand the training dataset, mitigate overfitting, and enhance the model’s generalization by emphasizing critical visual features associated with structural defects. Second, a guided CNN Development Mechanism facilitates architectural optimization by systematically refining filter sizes, neuron counts, and convolutional block configurations, enabling high performance with reduced parameter overhead. Third, the proposed PalletDetect Module (PD-M) enhances computational efficiency by adaptively refining feature representations at the input tensor level, reducing complexity while preserving discriminative capacity. These algorithms collectively produce PDNet, a compact CNN that enables real-time pallet racking inspection on resource-constrained edge devices. PDNet achieves an accuracy of 92.07%, with a computational complexity of only 32.31 million multiply–accumulate operations (MMAC) and a compact memory footprint of 31.36 MB. Compared to modern lightweight CNNs such as MobileNetV3 and ShuffleNetV2, PDNet offers a superior balance between accuracy, speed, and computational efficiency, demonstrating its potential for real-time industrial inspection applications.</p
Slotted Photo Microsensor Array for A New High Speed Spindle Error Motion Measurement System
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Creative Practice explores the role of creativity as a tool for critical engagement with heritage. It provides a comprehensive study of ways in which heritage and creative practice intersect, in research, in practice and in a transnational context.This book introduces researchers, students, creative and heritage practitioners to contemporary practices from a breadth of perspectives. The transnational nature of its scope is key to the exploration of how ‘heritage’ and ‘creativity’ are ever evolving, conceived of differently in different contexts, and intersect in interesting ways through the work of creative practitioners. The volume argues that heritage itself is a creative practice, such that the ‘creative’ work that occurs in these examples is not singular and distinct; rather the symbiotic reciprocity between heritage and creativity is intersectional and embedded. The international array of authors and differing approaches from around the world, including case studies from Africa, Bahrain, Brazil, Caribbean, Columbia, China, Hong Kong, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Oman, Qatar, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates provide a global approach to the subject, while the diverse range of topics covered, including urban renewal, the coronavirus pandemic, memorial culture, public art and colonial heritage, allows readers to gain insight into the richness of practices across a diversity of disciplines and contexts.This volume offers a significant and new contribution to heritage studies that will be of interest to scholars and students in heritage and museum studies, as well those in the fields of art, architecture, anthropology, design, digital and curatorial studies. It also provides a valuable resource for artists, arts professionals, architects and museums and heritage practitioners
Co-design of pathway and manual for a dietitian-led approach to the management of type 2 diabetes in Nepal
No full textBackground: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a global public health problem, and its prevalence in resource-poor countries like Nepal has been rapidly increasing. However, there is a lack of a contextual and consistently structured, guided approach tailored to the integrated management of T2D in Nepal. Therefore, this study aims to co-design a pathway and manual for a dietitian-led dietary approach to the management of T2D in Nepal. Methods: The study used a co-design method guided by the “Design Thinking” approach. Data were collected through a purposively selected group of 14 participants who participated in a co-design workshop, and nine participants with whom qualitative interviews were conducted to validate the co-designed contents. Before conducting the co-design workshop, nineteen one-on-one consultative meetings were carried out with various stakeholders. The data analysis followed the content analysis technique and presented results under common broader themes. Results: The results from the first part of a co-design workshop are presented under themes including complexities of diabetes management in the Nepalese context, social and behavioural challenges, dietary adherence challenges and service providers’ responses, and treatment approaches. The results from the second part of the workshop are presented under the themes, including the pathway for the dietitian-led dietary approach for the management of diabetes and the contents and design of the Nutrition Education Manual for the management of T2D. Conclusions: The pathway co-designed for integrated management of T2D offers a contextual framework for understanding the mechanisms of change underlying the integrated efforts in T2D management. At the same time, the Nutrition Education Manual provides practical guidance for promoting healthy dietary behaviours among patients with T2D.</p
Introduction:Re-Framing and Re-Thinking
No full textThis introduction situates the various strands of thought in the book Rethinking the History of Technology-Based Music. It provides an overview of current thinking as well as highlighting the gaps that this volume fills in terms of new research
An investigation of the language assessment interests and needs of professional registration bodies in the UK:An unconsidered perspective?
No full textThis project explored the interests and needs relating to language assessment of a group of (potential) test score users. Through in-depth interviews, the researchers engaged with representatives of bodies for professional registration in the UK to investigate how they understood and, in many cases, applied English language proficiency requirements, tests and test scores. The aim was to provide a better understanding of these test users’ interests and concerns, consequently allowing language testing professionals to consider how they might communicate more effectively with staff members at registration bodies about their use (or not) of tests of English as a second/foreign language in pathways to professional registration and offer support in decision-making on this topic. Some of the registration bodies, particularly in the healthcare sector, used commercialEnglish language tests as part of their registration processes. Other bodies did not usually use language tests to provide evidence of satisfactory English language and communication skills but, instead, relied on applicant performance in tests of professional knowledge and skills or in interviews and written application forms submitted as part of the registration process. Registration body representatives all acknowledged the importance of satisfactory language and communication skills for registrants in the professions they oversaw. Having them was viewed as part of a professional responsibility to be an effective and safe practitioner. Overall, the registration bodies were confident in the approach they took to confirm these skills, whether using commercial language tests or less overt methods. Commercial language tests were seen to deal efficiently with a complex decision on behalf of the registration bodies. Direct tests of language were generally required only for applicants whose education and professional training was completed outside the UK. Applicants trained in the UK were assumed to have the language and communication skills required to operate in an English-language workplace. Registration bodies tended to trust test providers to convince them of the quality of a test, and they paid more attention to practical aspects of this than to construct-related aspects. Several interviewees were keen to establish a more transparent and robust procedure to follow to evaluate new language tests for use. They were conscious of the importance of this task, the resources required to do it well, and the need for an independent view of the suitability of a test for a specific workplace context. The provision of templates providing a framework to review a new test or evaluate current practice would therefore respond to needs expressed by interviewees in the study. Developing such a framework might be carried out as a collaboration between a registration body and language testing professionals
"Lawfare" Is Worth Defining
No full textThis foreword explores the conceptualisation of “lawfare” through the diverse definitions found in the existing literature and examines its influence on how international crimes are perceived within the broader international community, including the emerging poles of today’s multipolar world order. It departs from two main categories: “external / international lawfare” and “internal / domestic lawfare”, each of which shapes the legal fields discussed in contemporary debates. Particular emphasis is placed on “external / international lawfare”, reflecting both the dominance of this category in the literature and the thematic orientation of the contributions to this issue of Athena, which are then connected to intersections with “internal / domestic lawfare” in contexts such as unilateral coercive measures and “denialism” laws. In this light, the foreword challenges the prevailing “us” versus “them” dichotomy that has long characterised the lawfare discourse, and calls for the development of a neutral, universally accepted definition that moves beyond the impulse to counter an adversary’s supposed “lawfare strategies”. It concludes by arguing that legal scholars must acknowledge today’s multipolar reality and prioritise dialogue over the weaponisation of law
Mitigating Health Risks After Floods and Landslides in Nepal:A Public Health Perspective
No full textIn summary, the current floods reveal the deeply seated public health vulnerabilities in this disaster-ridden region, and they are a grim reminder of the catastrophic impacts of climate change on our environment. Massively reducing the immediate risk of disease outbreaks requires immediate interventions. At the same time, longer-term strategies need to address the psychological and infrastructural wreckage. Through strengthening health systems, increasing community understanding and improving preparedness for disasters, Nepal can reduce the public health impact of future disasters and protect the well-being of its people
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