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Learning tacit knowledge in life science graduate programs in Taiwan
No full textIn this paper we describe preliminary results of a three-year project that examines the enculturation of doctoral students in life science programs in Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore. The purpose of the study is to examine how doctoral students in life science enrolled at universities in these three countries learn to become scientists and how information and communication technologies affect such processes. The project is in its first year, and we completed data collection in Taiwan during the summer of 2009. Data was collected using quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, and time-diaries from advisors and doctoral students in life science programs in three Taiwanese universities. Preliminary results show that current students tend to have problems related to too great a reliance on computers, kits, and the Internet, and as a result, they fail to assimilate tacit knowledge that is invaluable in becoming the next generation of scientists
Bangladesh in 2009: The peril within
No full textThe year 2009 heralded an auspicious beginning for Bangladesh because national elections were held after a two-year period of the non-democratic caretaker government. The enthusiasm of returning to democracy was soon marred by an unprecedented event during which military officials were massacred by the Bangladesh Rifles in a mystifying mutiny that stunned the nation. Bangladesh\u27s economy was also negatively affected by the global downturn, and environmental degradation in the country continues. © 2010 by the Regents of the University of California
Orozco, Guillermo (Coord.) (2007). Un mundo de visiones. Interacciones de las audiencias en múltiples escenarios mediáticos y virtuales. Distrito Federal, México: ILCE
Get PDFGuillermo Orozco reúne catorce ensayos de estudios de audiencias desde diferentes perspectivas e investigaciones cualitativas de corte empírico que comparten métodos como la entrevista a profundidad, grupos de enfoque y análisis de contenido y/o discurso en contenidos mediáticos
La cobertura mediática del conflicto campo – gobierno. Un estudio de caso
No full textEste trabajo estudia la cobertura que Clarín, el diario más leído del país y el de mayor circulación en el mundo de habla hispana, realizó del conflicto campo – gobierno, suscitado a partir de la aplicación de retenciones móviles a la exportación de algunos productos primarios (Resolución Nº 125/2008). El objetivo es conocer la relevancia noticiosa que cobró este caso a lo largo del tiempo y los temas predominantes en la información publicada. La base conceptual del trabajo empírico es la teoría de la Agenda Setting. Ciertas premisas de esta perspectiva teórica son clave para el análisis del tipo de cobertura que realizó el matutino Clarín sobre este conflicto
Academic content, research productivity, and tenure
No full textThis study examines the influence of a Finance doctoral program\u27s academic content on the research productivity of the graduates at the time of the tenure decision. The results of this investigation show that a Finance program\u27s academic content has no influence on the total number of publications of program graduates, but finds a significant relationship between academic content and graduate\u27s records of publications in top finance journals by the time of the tenure evaluation. More precisely, doctoral programs requiring more mathematically oriented classes such as Continuous Time Finance and/or Stochastic Calculus produce graduates who have a better record of publication in top finance journals at the time of tenure than those graduating from programs without these requirements. © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008
Music: A metaphor for industrial ecology
No full textThe term industrial ecology (IE) with its emphasis on symbiotic factories represents a metaphor for how the manufacturing sector can be reconstituted and sent down the path of sustainable development (SD). However, that journey cannot proceed until several obstacles have been removed or circumvented. The one discussed and analysed in this paper deals with how to initiate organisationally an IE undertaking composed of multiple members. Transaction cost economics provides the conceptual foundation for revealing why the exchanges among the IE members are problematic. These exchange difficulties have been aggravated by the universalist stance usually implied in the SD literature. To counter this, the music metaphor (emphasising performers working together) provides the mental vehicle for demonstrating that IE projects can be hypothetically organised both universally and particularly. To put realism into this conjecture, brief vignettes of industrial icons from the European Union, India, and the USA show that cultural preferences for industrial organisation do exist. These \u27national\u27 preferences (labelled conductor, master, and star) when applied to the universal cement kiln introduced herein show that there are culturally superior methods for organising national IE undertakings and moving industrial actors in a more sustainable direction. Copyright © 2010 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
An intervention of diet, exercise, and medication to reduce the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and obesity among hispanic male population in south Texas border cities
No full textCardiovascular disease (CVD) is highly prevalent among Hispanics. Recently, there has been an increase in reported cases of CVD. Finding measures to deal with the prevention and treatment of these diseases are high on the agenda among healthcare providers, community leaders, and local and state legislatures. These issues are being considered by healthcare professionals and community leaders to bring the situation under control and for prevention of these diseases. The issues are investigated on the basis of the cause of the disease and the relationship among various factors unique to the population and the circumstances that are highly prevalent in the population. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is highest among Hispanic adults. Actos and other similar drugs are considered thiazolidinedione anti-diabetic agents that depend on the presence of insulin for their mechanism of action.11 Actos also decreases insulin resistance in the periphery and in the liver resulting in increased insulin-dependent glucose disposal and decreased hepatic glucose output. Treatment methods of the disease using these medications will be discussed using a number of drugs available in the markets and impacts of them on various age groups consist of male patients
Regresusing WarpPLS in e-collaboration studies: An overview of five main analysis steps
No full textMost relationships between variables describing natural and behavioral phenomena are nonlinear, with U-curve and S-curve relationships being particularly common. Yet, structural equation modeling software tools do not estimate coefficients of association taking nonlinear relationships between latent variables into consideration. This can lead to misleading results, particularly in multivariate and complex phenomena like those related to e-collaboration. One notable exception is WarpPLS (available from: warppls.com), a new structural equation modeling software currently available in its first release. The discussion presented in this paper contributes to the literature on e-collaboration research methods by providing a description of the main features of WarpPLS in the context of an e-collaboration study. The focus of this discussion is on the software\u27s features and their use and not on e-collaboration study itself. Particular emphasis is placed on the five steps through which a structural equation modeling analysis is conducted through WarpPLS. © 2010, IGI Global
Strategizing of China\u27s major players: A Bourdieusian perspective
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose Bourdieu\u27s theory of practice (TOP) as a useful framework for conceptualizing agents\u27 strategizing by considering players\u27 strategizing as based on their habituses and capitals as well as their assessments of their relevant field(s). Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws on Bourdieu\u27s theory to better understand the strategizing of some of China\u27s major players. The basic concepts of the model - strategy, field, habitus, and capital - are defined and developed for the major players studied. Findings: This paper conceptualizes the strategizing as a dynamic set of players playing within and between multiple fields. It applies the fractality - in social space - of Bourdieu\u27s TOP into specific agents or fields not only encompassing but going beyond isolated cognitive, cultural, and institutional considerations of one or more players to offer the possibility of taking into account structure and agency, variability and commonality and diverse degrees of granularity and heterogeneity. Originality/value: Most strategy research considers strategizing from either a structuralist or a rational perspective. The paper adds comprehensiveness to strategy studies and improves strategy\u27s identification by applying Bourdieu\u27s TOP. In addition, the paper expands the level of attention previously given by Bourdieu\u27s TOP to commonality and diversity as well as to multiple levels by visualizing Bourdieu\u27s TOP in a fractal fashion. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Relaciones de comunicación e interacción televisiva de familias que habitan viviendas de escasos recursos (casos del área metropolitana de Monterrey)
No full textEste proyecto se centró en conocer desde una perspectiva cualitativa, las posibles afectaciones que las relaciones de comunicación en las familias de escasos recursos presentan a partir de la interacción establecida con el medio televisivo. A través de observación no participante se logró captar el contexto al interior de las viviendas y 8 entrevistas a profundidad permitieron identificar las características de las relaciones de comunicación en la práctica diaria y cómo dentro de esa cotidianeidad se inserta el ver televisión, provocando reacciones positivas o negativas entre los distintos integrantes del hogar. La perspectiva teórica empleada en este proyecto fue la teoría sociológica del Interaccionismo Simbólico, lo cual permitió entender las particularidades de las relaciones intrafamiliares y de comunicación, además, del sitio que el medio electrónico guarda en el hogar; el vínculo emocional hacia el aparato, el consumo televisivo como parte de la rutina, el status que guarda el televisor en los hogares y el significado atribuido a los contenidos masivos, según la voz de los participantes que desde el contexto de los escasos recursos compartieron su experiencia familiar. Los resultados muestran distintas formas de convivencia en cada grupo familiar; en todas está presente la interacción constante con el medio masivo de comunicación y sus contenidos. Se exponen las preferencias televisivas y los vínculos que los distintos integrantes del grupo establecen con el medio, y la incorporación o no de los contenidos mediáticos en su rutina, además de actividades simultáneas a la exposición televisiva. Los resultados revelaron distintas situaciones que las familias enfrentan a raíz de la interacción televisiva, además del significado que las entrevistadas le otorgan a aspectos como las negociaciones y los desacuerdos, la legitimidad o el rechazo a los contenidos mediáticos, así como al entretenimiento y compañía que se obtienen del medio