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How emotional attachment and knowledge sharing in Korean companies results in a co-owned ‘integrated’ marketing strategy.
Get PDFGrounded in network theory and human interaction, this paper focuses on how emotional attachment facilitates the knowledge sharing process so that mutually beneficial relationships are developed and result in knowledge conversion resulting in a co-owned ‘integrated’ marketing strategy.
Four propositions were developed from the literature review and tested through data collection involving an open-ended questionnaire completed by 15 senior B2B marketing managers based in 3 international South Korean companies. The data were analyzed using the open coding, axial coding and selective coding method.
The findings suggest that there are four different types of ties such as (1) relational ties; (2) mindset ties; (3) resource ties; and (4) relational resource ties; which are interconnected and work differently in terms of senior B2B marketing managers building and developing a co-owned ‘integrated’ marketing strategy. Business relational attributes interact with relational resource ties and influence the knowledge conversion process. Different types of ties work as a catalyst for activating interaction and reducing mentally induced boundaries, thus enhancing learning that improves the resource capability of the organization.
Only three international South Korean companies participated in the study, and it was not possible to obtain data from staff in partner/supplier organizations.
A hybrid organizational culture that nurtures a similar attitude among staff in relation to sharing knowledge and remaining open minded in terms of learning different views from different management groups. This will enhance unification of an organizational culture and allow staff to adopt a flexible governance mechanism that ensures that company policy is adhered to.
We explain how the process of developing emotional attachment between actors invigorates sense-making and enhances the quality of interaction between partner organizations, which occurs through four types of ties. These ties support the mechanisms and processes that contribute to positive interaction within partner organizations
Structural controls on simultaneous earthquake clustering and normal fault synchronization
Get PDFSlip-rate fluctuations over multiple seismic cycles are a key factor to consider regarding the behaviour of active faults, as they are associated with clustering of earthquakes in space and time and may alter the earthquake recurrence on neighbouring faults. However, processes that produce slip-rate fluctuations are yet to be fully defined. This paper tests whether the interaction between neighbouring along-strike brittle faults/viscous shear-zones can produce slip-rate fluctuations associated with simultaneous earthquake clustering and fault synchronization. To achieve this, we study nine normal faults/shear zones of the Central Apennines fault system (Italy), organised in six different arrangements of along-strike pairs with different values of fault spacing and strike variation. We combine cosmogenic 36Cl dating of tectonically exhumed fault planes and modelling of the mutual differential stress changes within the fault/shear-zone pairs. Our results reveal a mechanism for the occurrence of simultaneous earthquake clusters, based on the synchronization of high driving stresses for the viscous shear-zones underneath the brittle faults, that is strongly controlled by the spacing and strike changes between faults/shear-zone pairs. In settings with low along-strike spacing and minimal strike change between neighbouring faults/shear-zones, earthquake clusters cause positive differential stress variations on neighbouring shear-zones of sufficient magnitude to induce positive slip-rate variations on their overlying brittle faults. This in turn produces positive feedback that sustains the occurrence of earthquake clusters that will continue to positively load the neighbouring shear zones. This positive feedback mechanism contributes to the understanding of fault dynamics at multiple timescales and to seismic hazard assessments
Less is more: improving cell-type identification with augmentation-free single-cell RNA-Seq contrastive learning.
Get PDFMOTIVATION: Cell-type identification is one of the most important tasks in single-cell RNA Sequencing (scRNA-Seq) analysis. Recent research has revealed contrastive learning's great potential in handling multiple cell-type identification tasks.
RESULTS: In this work, we proposed a novel augmentation-free scRNA-Seq contrastive learning (AF-RCL) algorithm, which simplifies the conventional data augmentation operation and adopts a new contrastive learning loss function. A large-scale empirical evaluation suggests that AF-RCL not only outperformed other contrastive learning-based cell-type identification methods but also obtained state-of-the-art predictive performance compared with other well-known cell-type identification methods. Further analysis also shows AF-RCL's advantages in learning high-quality discriminative feature representations based on scRNA-Seq expression profiles.
AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28830311.v1 and at https://github.com/ibrahimsaggaf/AFRCL. The pre-trained AF-RCL encoders can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15109736, and the scRNA-Seq datasets used in this work can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8087611
Getting external access to BuddyPress's notifications (for Knowledge Commons)
No full textAs part of my work on Knowledge Commons, I want to make more of our development process open, welcoming, and transparent, by using blogging. So I will be writing some technical posts on what I'm doing there and how I've overcome various technical challenges. In this post, I want to set out how I got BuddyPress notifications into a separate application (our new "Profiles" app)
Políticas de la mística y el barroco mexicano en el cine del exilio republicano: Cantar de los Cantares (Manuel Altolaguirre, 1959)”
Get PDFCantar de los cantares, último y malogrado proyecto cinematográfico dirigido por Manuel Altolaguirre es, aunque prácticamente desconocido, el más próximo a sus intereses estéticos y religiosos. Cantar recrea y reinterpreta, en un entorno mexicano, un texto cumbre de la mística adaptado por Fray Luis de León. Su trama representa, en clave mística, el recorrido de la Esposa/Iglesia en busca de su Esposo/Dios, lo que la lleva a atravesar diferentes paisajes naturales mexicanos, icónicos elementos de la arquitectura y escultura precolombinas
y, especialmente, del barroco novohispano. El artículo analiza
la película, primero, como propuesta formal sobre las capacidades del lenguaje cinematográfico aplicadas a un texto clásico de la mística que coinciden con desarrollos de la historia del cine definidos más tarde por Deleuze con el concepto de imagen-tiempo; segundo, en qué medida en Cantar se articula, a través de la mística y del barroco colonial, un discurso de apoyo a la hispanidad, es decir, una visión coherente y celebratoria sobre el papel del catolicismo y, por extensión, la conquista española en México. Se termina argumentando que una interpretación en este sentido explica que la película fuera vista con buenos ojos por el franquismo e invitada a presentarse fuera de concurso en el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián de 1959
Navigating the unspoken: the impact of socio-institutional factors on employees’ understanding of implicit promises
Get PDFPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the under-studied construct of implicit promises within the broader field of psychological contracts by highlighting the impact of external, socio-institutional factors on employee perceptions of implicit promises.
Design/methodology/approach: A total of fifty-three in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted in four foreign MNEs operating in Pakistan. A purposive sampling technique was applied and the four-case study MNEs chosen differed considerably in terms of size, subsidiary age, organizational structure, HR strategy and industry/sector.
Findings: Our findings highlight that employees continually process their social environments, subsequently constructing a web of unwritten, perceived obligations and implicit promises, that are influenced by a range of external factors outside organizational control such as social stratification, relational networking both within and outside the employing organization, the economic health of the industry/sector etc. We underline how implicit promises are socially constructed and therefore, the socio-institutional components of implicit promises are likely to vary across contexts/countries and time.
Originality/value: Despite extensive literature on psychological contracts, implicit promises in particular remain theoretically and empirically under-operationalized, largely because of methodological challenges and a preponderance of cross-sectional, self-reported and a-contextual studies in extant psychological contract literature. Our study offers a reworked definition of implicit promises that highlights the impact of contextually-specific, socio-institutional factors on employees’ unspoken expectations and beliefs about future organizational outcomes and opportunities
Material pathologies: caring for personality disorder in prison
Get PDFThe British prison estate is characterised by an elaborate mental health infrastructure, an edifice often rearranged to meet the near-permanent mental health ‘crisis’ in its walls. From ‘trauma-informed’ prisons to behaviour change programmes, care for mentally ‘vulnerable’ people in prison has sedimented into the backbone of penal strategy. Much of this is developed through appeals to inclusion: of the vulnerable, disadvantaged, and traumatised people who are increasingly recognised as comprising a disproportionate number of prisoners. One category around which this infrastructure is organised is ‘personality disorder’. Since New Labour's demarcation of this ‘offender group’ in the early 2000s, they are now thought to comprise a majority of the prison population. This article, grounded in prison documents and interviews with former prisoners, looks at the disorder's operationalisation in prison. It shows the disorder to be a broad and malleable category that works to mediate between prisoners, as individual subjects, and an expanding, complex, and shifting prison structure. Prisoners are explained in terms of the diagnosis, as the category’s borders are wide and shifting enough to absorb all kinds of behaviour, beliefs, and experiences. We thus see how the diagnosis simultaneously works to dismiss prisoners’ inner lives at the very moment it claims to understand them—and how this move facilitates penal management. The article uses Althusser's work on subjects and interpellation to make sense of this situation, and prisoners’ tactical navigation of it. The material practices that make the diagnosis real are emphasised, and connected to the imperatives of prison management
Stepwise recruitment of chaperone Hsc70 by DNAJB1 produces ordered arrays primed for bursts of amyloid fibril disassembly
Get PDFThe Hsp70 chaperone system is capable of disassembling pathological aggregates such as amyloid fibres associated with serious degenerative diseases. Here we examine the role of the J-domain protein co-factor in amyloid disaggregation by the Hsc70 system. We used cryo-EM and tomography to compare the assemblies with wild-type DNAJB1 or inactive mutants. We show that DNAJB1 binds regularly along α-synuclein amyloid fibrils and acts in a 2-step recruitment of Hsc70, releasing DNAJB1 auto-inhibition before activating Hsc70 ATPase. The wild-type DNAJB1:Hsc70:Apg2 complex forms dense arrays of chaperones on the fibrils, with Hsc70 on the outer surface. When the auto-inhibition is removed by mutating DNAJB1 (ΔH5 DNAJB1), Hsc70 is recruited to the fibrils at a similar level, but the ΔH5 DNAJB1:Ηsc70:Apg2 complex is inactive, binds less regularly to the fibrils and lacks the ordered clusters. Therefore, we propose that 2-step activation of DNAJB1 regulates the ordered assembly of Hsc70 on the fibril. The localised, dense packing of chaperones could trigger a cascade of recruitment and activation to give coordinated, sequential binding and disaggregation from an exposed fibril end, as previously observed in AFM videos. This mechanism is likely to be important in maintaining a healthy cellular proteome into old age
A multi-proxy record of climate variability during the Loch Lomond Stadial (GS-1) at Old Buckenham Mere, East England, UK
Get PDFNorthwest Europe experienced high-amplitude climate change at the onset and end of the Younger Dryas (YD; ca 12,800-11,600 cal a BP), a crucial period to develop our understanding of natural climate dynamics. European palaeoclimatological records generally suggest a bipartite structure of the YD, potentially due to a northward retreat of the polar front around 12,100 cal a BP. However, several recent studies have shown more complex climate dynamics during the YD. Here we present new high-resolution palaeotemperature records for the YD (Loch Lomond Stadial; LLS) at Old Buckenham Mere. We show cooling of ca 3 °C at the onset of the LLS followed by an early LLS phase with relatively cool summer temperatures (ca 11.5 °C). The mid LLS experienced milder temperatures of ca 13 °C and was potentially characterised by wetter conditions. Summer temperatures initially decreased to values of ca 10 °C at the onset of the late LLS, before a gradual increase. Temperatures abruptly increase by ca 3 °C at the onset of the Holocene. This study is the first to show the occurrence of a tripartite LLS climate evolution in E England and fills an existing knowledge gap in our understanding of YD climate dynamics
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