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Critical thinking perspectives on work integrated learning in information systems education
No full textWorld Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 64, Paris, France, 28-29 November 2012Students with high level skills are in demand, especially in scare skill environments. If universities wish to be successful and competitive, its students need to be adequately equipped with the necessary tools. Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is an essential component of the education of a student. The relevance of higher education should be assessed in terms of how it meets the needs of society and the world of work in a global economy. This paper demonstrates how to use Habermas's theory of communicative action to reflect on students- perceptions on their integration in the work environment to achieve social integration and financial justification. Interpretive questionnaires are used to determine the students- view of how they are integrated into society, and contributing to the economy. This paper explores the use of Habermas-s theory of communicative action to give theoretical and methodological guidance for the practice of social findings obtained in this inquiry.http://www.waset.org/Publications/?path=Publication
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Heftige verhalen van goede doelen: hoe verhogen ze steunintentie?
No full textHet is voor goede doelen belangrijk om hun doelgroep te betrekken bij hun organisatie met overtuigende boodschappen, zodat ze steun blijven ontvangen vanuit de samenleving. Storytelling is hiervoor een geschikte manier. Het is dus relevant voor goede doelen om beter te weten welke verhalen goed werken voor hun doelgroep. Daarom onderzoekt deze studie het effect van vertelperspectief in een verhaal (eerstepersoonsperspectief of derdepersoonsperspectief) en het persoonskenmerk altruïsme bij de lezer (hoog niveau of laag niveau) op steunintentie, na het lezen van een heftig verhaal afkomstig van een goed doel. Voor het experiment is een 2 × 2 tussenproefpersoondesign toegepast met als tussenproefpersoonfactoren Perspectief (eerste, derde) en Altruïsme (hoog, laag) en als afhankelijke variabele Steunintentie (gemeten in tijd en geld). De data is verkregen door het afnemen van een online vragenlijst. De respondenten kregen eerst een heftig verhaal te lezen van het goede doel KWF Kankerbestrijding, ofwel met het eerstepersoonsperspectief, ofwel met het derdepersoonsperspectief. Daarna volgden vragen over de steunintentie en zelfgerapporteerd altruïstisch gedrag. Op basis van de resultaten konden geen conclusies worden getrokken over de invloed van perspectief en altruïsme op steunintentie, want er bleken geen significante resultaten uit de analyses. Dit heeft waarschijnlijk te maken gehad met de heftigheid van het gekozen goede doel
Een goede moeder roman
No full textIn beslag genomen door een mysterieuze ziekte verliest een charmante actrice de grip op haar huwelijk, op haar dochter van elf en op haar leven. Haar bruisende bestaan in Amsterdam wordt steeds stiller; eerst voelt ze zich nog vertrouwd in haar eigen wijk, dan nog in de paar straten rondom haar huis, en uiteindelijk zoekt ze enkel haar toevlucht tot de matras dat voor de schouw in haar woonkamer ligt. Voor de buitenwereld wordt ze volledig onbereikbaar. Zelf overschat ze haar toestand en mogelijkheden, is jaloers op haar gezonde ex-echtgenoot en woedend op wat hij voor haar doet. De situatie verslechtert dermate dat ze haar dochter slechts eens in de week een uur onder toezicht mag zien.00Elk ongelukkig gezin is ongelukkig op zijn eigen wijze. 'Een goede moeder' beschrijft de dynamiek in zo?n gezin, de ontwikkelingen binnen een huwelijk en de ups en downs van ouderschap. Aan de hand van WhatsAppberichten, spraakmemo?s en medische dossiers creëert Van Mersbergen een schrijnend beeld van het zorgsysteem in Nederland en de angst daar een kind aan te verliezen. Met een scherp oog voor de psyche schetst hij de ervaring van het verlies van stabiliteit binnen een familie.00'Een goede moeder' is een dubbelzinnige liefdesverklaring aan een huwelijk en een schets van alle vormen die onmacht, loyaliteit en verraad kunnen aannemen. Ouders, kinderen en instanties draaien om elkaar heen om mogelijk te maken wat deze vrouw vertwijfeld wenst: een goede moeder te zijn
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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No full textCan archives of audiovisual TV interviews be used to make authors more visible to students, and thereby reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers in college classes? We examined students in a college course who learned about one scholar's ideas through watching an audiovisual TV interview (i.e., visible author format) and about another scholar's ideas through reading a formal text description (i.e., invisible author format). For the invisible author, native language speakers scored significantly higher than the non-native language speakers on a corresponding exam question (i.e., a cognitive measure), generated more words on the exam question (i.e., a motivational measure), and mentioned the author's name more often in answering the exam question (i.e., an affective measure). For the visible author, the groups did not differ on any of these measures. These findings provide evidence for the idea that making the author visible through audiovisual TV interviews can eliminate the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers. 3 Universities around the world serve students who are non-native speakers of th
Grassland management, soil biota and ecosystem services in sandy soils
No full textRecent legislative restrictions on the use of fertilizers and irrigation, and a quest for sustainable farming systems have drawn renewed attention to the functioning of the soil and the ecosystem services it provides. Soil biota play an important role in the provision of these ecosystem services, which may be influenced by grassland management. The two objectives of this thesis were 1) to gain insight into the effect of different grassland management measures on soil biota in sandy soils; and 2) to explore the effect of grassland management on the ecosystem services provided by soil biota
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
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