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Apologizing for historical injustice : emotion, truth and identity in political discourse
No full textThe recent apology by the Australian Prime Minister to Indigenous Australians demonstrates the increasing willingness of nation states to apologize for historical injustices. In this critical discursive analysis of Rudd’s apology, we analyse the pragmatic and linguistic features of the apology in light of recent research on political apologies as a generic type of discourse. We demonstrate how the act of offering and justifying an apology was accomplished through the use of emotion and identity categories. In particular, we examine how the reason-emotion dilemma was managed rhetorically by tying emotion to facts, and how differing levels of categorization can all be used to evoke support for apologizing for historical injustice. In contrast to social-psychological experimental work on apologies and forgiveness, we show that different levels of categorization - the personal, intermediate and superordinate - can all be used flexibly in discourse to invoke empathy and identification with the ‘other’, and that rather than invoking emotions in the ingroup, humanizing the ‘other’ is a powerful strategy for eliciting support for redressing social injustice.
A novel approach on stabilization for linear systems with time-varying input delay
No full textThis paper presents new results on delay-dependent stability and stabilization for linear systems with interval time-varying delays. Some less conservative delay-dependent criteria for determining the stability of the time-delay systems are obtained in this paper. Based on the stability conditions, we propose a new state transformation technology to facilitate controller designing efficiently and computationally. The method is also applicable to the existing stability conditions reported by now, while the existing technologies may fail to derive computational control procedures from the stability conditions. Finally, some numerical examples well illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Investigating the role of organizational culture, performance evaluation formality and interpersonal trust from US multinational companies in Indonesia : a theoretical paper
No full textThe purpose of this study is to investigate the previous literature in the issues of national culture, organizational culture, performance evaluation and interpersonal trust in particularly for US multinational company (MNC) operation in Indonesia. This study also revealed a numerous of gap according to those issues. Therefore, various literatures have been acknowledged and analyzed in order to develop a comprehensive understanding on how MNC should be managed, especially in its subsidiaries (host-country) operation. Moreover, a conceptual framework which provides antecedentconsequence relationships among constructs is developed based on several research propositions.
Nepalese pharmacy students' perceptions regarding mental disorders and pharmacy education
No full textObjective To determine Nepalese pharmacy students' perceptions of whether mental disorders impact performance in pharmacy school. Method All first- and third-year undergraduate pharmacy students (n=226) in Nepal were invited to complete a modified version of the Mental Illness Performance Scale. Results Among the 200 respondents (response rate 88.5%), 14% reported that they had a mental disorder. The majority (92%) of third-year students agreed or strongly agreed that depression would interfere with a student's academic performance. Almost half of first-year students agreed or strongly agreed that alcohol or drug abuse would be grounds for both rejecting an applicant from pharmacy school (49%) and dismissal of a student from pharmacy school (46%). Conclusions Students perceived a high level of academic impairment associated with mental disorders, but the majority did not perceive that mental disorders were grounds for dismissal from or rejection of entry to pharmacy school. Students' attitudes may discourage them from seeking help or providing mental health support to others.
Foreign versus local investors: Who knows more? Who makes more?
No full textThis paper examines the nature of information asymmetry between foreign and local investors on the Helsinki stock exchange (HEX) for the period 1999–2004. We take into account the differences in informational characteristics by partitioning stocks into single-listed, cross-listed and internationally well-known stock categories, after which we compare foreign and local investors’ performance and trading advantages. Local investors have trading advantages in the short term in all stock categories. However, such local advantages diminish for Nokia, the only internationally well-known stock on HEX. Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Mediating relationships across research, policy, and practice in teacher education
No full textThis self-study explores my mediation as a literacy teacher educator in the context of a professional development undertaking that involved developing and leading an early school years literacy course. I examine the tensions that arose in the light of my own professional history and explore ways that the tensions led me to reconcile conflicting messages through processes of reframing. I describe how I put my reframings into action in the way I designed and presented the professional development course. This self-study advances knowledge about teacher education in terms of its role in mediating connections between research, policy and practice, identifying some of the tensions that occur in this mediation and illustrating how, as teacher educators, we can use these tensions to reframe our mediation.
