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Digital Preservation and Archiving: Safeguarding the Future of Digital Scholarly Journals
No full textDigital journals are now the norm for accessing scholarly information in the twenty-first century. Researchers have become accustomed to having information at their fingertips. Yet, how secure are these resources? In this talk, Professor Martin Paul Eve will examine the systems of digital preservation that we have in place and appraise the extent of their uptake, based on a study of 7m items with digital object identifiers (DOI). The conclusion is that there is much about which to be alarmed: our digital heritage is far less secure than we would like to imagine
The work-life interface and global diversity management
Full text linkWhile organizations may claim they want their employees to ‘bring their whole selves to work’, this is not always matched by organizational policies and practices facilitating genuine inclusion for employees with diverse nonwork-related commitments. This chapter explores the interface between employees’ work and personal life in the context of global diversity management. It examines diverse ways in which work and ‘life’ roles are conceptualised and positioned relative to one another, as well as cross-cultural variation in personal life role demands and resources. Variation in organizational work-life policy approaches across national contexts are identified along with impacts for diversity management, including in multinational enterprises. The chapter concludes by positing that HRM and diversity management functions in organizations need to be more closely aligned to fully leverage the benefits of work-life initiatives for attracting, retaining and supporting a diverse workforce. Directions for future work-life-related research in the diversity management literature are identified
Thinking black and decolonial feminist in higher education: a black British womanist perspective
No full textBook synopsis: How do different gender identities interact with the key challenge of decolonising higher education?
Editor Jan Etienne brings together a range of experiences from a diverse group of feminist scholars to explore how perspectives of race, class, gender, and social identity can impact and inform decolonising activism.
Ideal reading for students of Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory Studies, Black Studies, Decolonial Studies, Activism Studies, and other related and interdisciplinary courses, this book will be of interest to all scholars interested in the decolonisation of the higher education curriculum
Exploring the development of face recognition across childhood via logistic mixed-effects modelling of the standardized Cambridge Face Memory Test
Full text linkIndividual differences in face identity recognition abilities are present across the lifespan, but require developmentally differentiated methods of assessment. Here, we examine the empirical validity of a widely-used face identity recognition measure, the Cambridge Face Memory Test for Children (CFMT-C). Logistic mixed-effects modelling of a large data set (607 children, 5 – 12 years) replicates and extends the findings of the only previous normative study of the CFMT-C (Croydon et al., 2014). This novel analytical approach enables us to take into account sources of variability typically overlooked in a classical analysis. We consider variability introduced by the task, alongside variability across children, to provide the first comprehensive characterisation of the interactive effects of factors inherent to participants (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity), and the test (stage: face learning, simple recognition, harder recognition) on face memory performance. In line with past findings we clearly observed age-related improvement in the task. Additionally, for the first time we report that this developmental effect is significantly more pronounced in the later, harder stages of the task; that there is an effect of gender, with females having better performance; and that consideration of participant ethnicity or testing context did not alter the best fitting model of these data. These results highlight the value of applying multi-level statistical models to characterise the factors driving performance variability, providing evidence of the divergence in recognition abilities across genders, and confirming the stability of the CFMT-C in assessing face recognition abilities across variable experimental contexts and with diverse participant groups
The politics of mysticism and the Mexican Baroque in the Spanish Republican exile film: Cantar de los cantares [Song of Songs] (Manuel Altolaguirre, 1959)
Full text linkAlthough practically unknown, Cantar de los cantares, the last film directed by Manuel Altolaguirre, is the most representative of his aesthetic and religious interests. Cantar takes the masterpiece of mysticism adapted by Fray Luis de León and recreates and reinterprets it in a Mexican setting. Its plot is essentially a mystical representation of the Bride/Church’s quest for her Bridegroom/God, which leads her through different Mexican natural landscapes and iconic elements of pre-Columbian and (especially) New Spanish Baroque architecture and sculpture. This article begins by analysing the film as a formal exploration of the capacities of cinematic language applied to a classic text of mysticism that reflect developments in film history later defined by Deleuze with the concept of the time-image. It then considers the extent to which Cantar articulates a coherent, celebratory vision of the role of Catholicism and, by extension, the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It concludes by arguing that an interpretation along these lines explains why the film was viewed favourably by the Franco regime and accepted for screening out of competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 1959
A one-dimensional energy balance model parameterization for the formation of CO2 ice on the surfaces of eccentric extrasolar planets
Full text linkEccentric planets may spend a significant portion of their orbits at large distances from their host stars, where low temperatures can cause atmospheric CO2 to condense out onto the surface, similar to the polar ice caps on Mars.The radiative effects on the climates of these planets throughout their orbits would depend on the wavelength-dependent albedo of surface CO2 ice that may accumulate at or near apoastron and vary according to the spectralenergy distribution of the host star. To explore these possible effects, we incorporated a CO2 ice-albedo parame-terization into a one-dimensional energy balance climate model. With the inclusion of this parameterization, oursimulations demonstrated that F-dwarf planets require 29% more orbit-averaged flux to thaw out of global waterice cover compared with simulations that solely use a traditional pure water ice-albedo parameterization. Whenno eccentricity is assumed, and host stars are varied, F-dwarf planets with higher bond albedos relative to theirM-dwarf planet counterparts require 30% more orbit-averaged flux to exit a water snowball state. Additionally,the intense heat experienced at periastron aids eccentric planets in exiting a snowball state with a smaller increasein instellation compared with planets on circular orbits; this enables eccentric planets to exhibit warmer conditionsalong a broad range of instellation. This study emphasizes the significance of incorporating an albedo parameter-ization for the formation of CO2 ice into climate models to accurately assess the habitability of eccentric planets,as we show that, even at moderate eccentricities, planets with Earth-like atmospheres can reach surface tempera-tures cold enough for the condensation of CO2 onto their surfaces, as can planets receiving low amounts of instel-lation on circular orbits.
Vidya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5638-4344 [email protected], Aomawa L. Shields, Russell Deitrick, Eric T. Wolf, and Andrew Rushb
A method for estimating buyers’ shared responsibility for oil palm expansion
No full textOil palm expansion is a leading contributor to forest loss in Southeast Asia. While concerns about biodiversity loss and land disposition have led to debates about the crop, the main concern has to do with the degree to which deforestation for oil palm expansion and sharing the responsibility for those emissions appropriately across supply chains could contribute to policy or initiatives to incentivize better behavior in the sector. This paper presents a method for assigning shared responsibility for oil palm emissions costs between producers and buyers, based on estimating the degree to which each benefit from transacting in a market where social costs for byproducts like greenhouse gas emissions are not internalized. The method is demonstrated by estimating domestic and international buyer’s shared responsibility for the value of greenhouse gas emissions from the elimination of aboveground woody biomass for oil palm expansion in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, and Sabah, Malaysia. These calculations demonstrate that even with a restrictive definition of targeted emissions and low carbon process, the values at stake are substantial. These examples are supplemented with an analysis using the recently available Trase Indonesia Supply Chain dataset, which results in an estimation that domestic and international buyers of oil palm from Indonesia from 2001 to 2022 is around US$5.8 trillion. Future developments of this approach should consider the intertemporal dimension of assigning shared responsibility, as well as considering how estimates like these might be used to incentivize more sustainable agricultural practices
Lenin and the image in time
Full text linkLenin has been represented in photographs, film, paintings
and in other modes. Beginning from some of the discussions about
adequate portrayals of Lenin, whether in time-based or more ‘auratic’
media, the politics of aesthetics and concomitant aesthetics of politics is
here investigated as standing in broader relation to the politics of time,
dialectics and mobility and what genius means. After some observations
on various considerations of Lenin in relation to Western Marxism and
avant garde aesthetics, another context, derived from a short review by
Walter Benjamin of Lenin’s letters to Gorky, excavates the constrasting
dialectical context of ‘Creative Indifference’ (Salomo Friedlaender/Myona).
Benjamin’s review attempts to place Lenin in relation to post-Nietzschean
and absurdist strands of thinking that transform both the assumptions
conveyed by the Westernness of Western Marxism and the modes of
avant gardism typically associated with Bolshevism. Conclusions about
the reactionary nature of a demand for genius and the collapse of public
and private life into something prior to both are what Walter Benjamin
draws from his Lenin lessons.
Keywords: Image; Walter Benjamin; Dialectics; Trotsky; Stalin; air-Brushing, Friedlaende
Researchers' experience of publishing academic books open access
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