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WEAPON OF THE WEAK: THE HIDDEN TRANSCRIPTS OF ACADEMICS’ RESISTANCE TO POLICY IMPERATIVES IN INDONESIAN UNIVERSITIES
No full textPurpose This study examined how academics resisted and accommodated changes towards the reform process in higher education institutions in Indonesia which has introduced market-driven principle of New Public Management and the principle of Neo-Weberian model. Using the theory developed by Scott concerning the resistance patterns by powerless or subordinated groups through ‘weapon of the weak’, this study aimed at mapping the resistance exhibited by Indonesian academics. Methodology This study was a case study using semi-structured interviews conducted with 30 academics in three state universities in Indonesia. Findings The results of this study demonstrated that academics in Indonesian universities resisted and accommodated the policy reform using their discursive, unobtrusive tactics of resisting and accommodating. Practical Implication We believed that this study may be useful to give better understandings for policy makers on implementing policies by considering aspects of behaviours of academics as street level bureaucrats in accepting, interpreting, and implementing policy imperatives. These results might also be beneficial for policy makers from other sectors outside higher education in effectuating policy imperatives. Originality We argued that, academics actively responded to external pressures which contradicted their own values and beliefs with their unique intellectual strategies by which have been overlooked in the formulation of polic
Work Activity 4 "Business as Usual Deterministic Impact Studies"
No full textThis document presents scenario-based deterministic impact studies on the validated and representative low voltage (LV) feeders considering the business as usual integration of electric vehicles (EVs), i.e., uncontrolled charging of EVs. This report also assesses in economic terms the network reinforcements needed to cope with high penetrations of EVs. This makes then possible to link penetration levels to the potential costs of the uncontrolled adoption of EVs
Role of vascular channels as a novel mechanism for subchondral bone damage at cruciate ligament entheses in osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis
No full textOBJECTIVES: The purpose of this work was to test whether normal peri-entheseal vascular anatomy at anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments (ACL and PCL) was associated with distribution of peri-entheseal bone erosion/bone marrow lesions (BMLs) in inflammatory arthritis (IA) and osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: Normal microanatomy was defined histologically in mice and by 3 T MRI and histology in 21 cadaveric knees. MRI of 89 patients from the Osteoarthritis Initiative and 27 patients with IA was evaluated for BMLs at ACL and PCL entheses. Antigen-induced arthritis (AIA) in mice was evaluated to ascertain whether putative peri-entheseal vascular regions influenced osteitis and bone erosion. RESULTS: Vascular channels penetrating cortical bone were identified in knees of non-arthritic mice adjacent to the cruciate ligaments. On MRI of normal cadavers, vascular channels adjacent to the ACL (64% of cases) and PCL (71%) entheses were observed. Histology of 10 macroscopically normal cadaveric specimens confirmed the location of vascular channels and associated subclinical changes including subchondral bone damage (80% of cases) and micro-cyst formation (50%). In the AIA model, vascular channels clearly provided a site for inflammatory tissue entry and osteoclast activation. MRI showed BMLs in the same topographic locations in both patients with early OA (41% ACL, 59% PCL) and IA (44%, 33%). CONCLUSION: The findings show that normal ACL and PCL entheses have immediately adjacent vascular channels which are common sites of subtle bone marrow pathology in non-arthritic joints. These channels appear to be key determinants in bone damage in inflammatory and degenerative arthritis
Cheaper Faster Drug Development Validated by the Repositioning of Drugs Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
No full textPsoriasis:: the future
No full textThe umbrella term psoriasis is now understood to incorporate several distinct phenotypes or endotypes along the disease spectrum that in turn will dictate different therapies. A stratified medicine approach to psoriasis using this clinical information coupled with pharmacogenomic and immunologic data will become more widely acceptable in the future. Comorbidities associated with psoriasis, such as diabetes, depression, and Crohn disease, and the debate about the interdependence of psoriasis and cardiovascular disease will also dictate future research and holistic and management plans for this complex disease
Institutional entrepreneurship and sustainable consumption and production: national processors and institutional change in China’s dairy industry
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