201,299 research outputs found
Van Cassirers epistemologie tot Freuds metafysica. Over het artikel van Kilminster & Wouters
No full textFrom Cassirer\u27s Epistemology to Freud\u27s Metaphysics: On Kilminster\u27s and Wouters\u27s Article.
Benjo Maso\u27s "Elias en de neokantianen: Intellectuele achtergronden van Het civilisatieproces" ([Elias and the Neokantians: Intellectual Backgrounds of the Civilization Process]) identifies important philosophical tendencies prominent in Norbert Elias\u27s early education, helping to explain Elias\u27s battle against philosophy, especially neo-Kantianism. However, Maso is ambivalent about Elias, arguing that Elias fails to acknowledge that his theory of civilizing process is founded on the relational neo-Kantian epistemology espoused by Ernst Cassirer of the Marburg School, while praising Elias for his intellectual achievement and original application of epistemology. In contrast, by making a break with philosophy, Elias\u27s sociology became structurally different from philosophy in spite of terminological similarities. In Van Cassirers epistemologie tot Freuds metfysica: Over het artikel van Kilminster en Wouters (From Cassirer\u27s Epistemology to Freud\u27s Metaphysics: On Kilminster\u27s and Wouters\u27s Article), Maso replies that Kilminster\u27s and Wouters\u27s knowledge of Cassirer is based largely on secondary sources. Sigmund Freud is cited as an additional influence on the young Elias. Special attention is given to the intellectual climate of the Marburg school. 89 References. M. Meek
Elias and the neo-Kantians: an alternative view. A comment on Benjo Maso
No full textBenjo Maso\u27s "Elias en de neokantianen: Intellectuele achtergronden van Het civilisatieproces" ([Elias and the Neokantians: Intellectual Backgrounds of the Civilization Process]) identifies important philosophical tendencies prominent in Norbert Elias\u27s early education, helping to explain Elias\u27s battle against philosophy, especially neo-Kantianism. However, Maso is ambivalent about Elias, arguing that Elias fails to acknowledge that his theory of civilizing process is founded on the relational neo-Kantian epistemology espoused by Ernst Cassirer of the Marburg School, while praising Elias for his intellectual achievement and original application of epistemology. In contrast, by making a break with philosophy, Elias\u27s sociology became structurally different from philosophy in spite of terminological similarities. In Van Cassirers epistemologie tot Freuds metfysica: Over het artikel van Kilminster en Wouters (From Cassirer\u27s Epistemology to Freud\u27s Metaphysics: On Kilminster\u27s and Wouters\u27s Article), Maso replies that Kilminster\u27s and Wouters\u27s knowledge of Cassirer is based largely on secondary sources. Sigmund Freud is cited as an additional influence on the young Elias. Special attention is given to the intellectual climate of the Marburg school. 89 References. M. Meek
The doctor and the blue form: learning professional responsibility
No full textBook synopsis: This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society. The conditions for professional practice and learning are changing dramatically in the wake of globalization, new modes of knowledge production, new regulatory regimes, and increased economic-political pressures. In the wake of this, a number of challenges for learning emerge:
more practitioners become involved in interprofessional collaboration
developments in new technologies and virtual workworlds
emergence of transnational knowledge cultures and interrelated circuits of knowledge.
The space and time relations in which professional practice and learning are embedded are becoming more complex, as are the epistemic underpinnings of professional work. Together these shifts bring about intersections of professional knowledge and responsibilities that call for new conceptions of professional knowing.
Exploring what the authors call sociomaterial perspectives on professional learning they argue that theories that trace not just the social but also the material aspects of practice – such as tools, technologies, texts but also bodies and actions - are useful for coming to terms with the challenges described above.
Reconceptualising Professional Learning develops these issues through specific contemporary cases focused on one of the book’s three main themes: (1) professionals’ knowing in practice, (2) professionals’ work arrangements and technologies, or (3) professional responsibility. Each chapter draws upon innovative theory to highlight the sociomaterial webs through which professional learning may be reconceptualised. Authors are based in Australia, Canada, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA as well as the UK and their cases are based in a range of professional settings including medicine, teaching, nursing, engineering, social services, the creative industries, and more.
By presenting detailed accounts of these themes from a sociomaterial perspective, the book opens new questions and methodological approaches. These can help make more visible what is often invisible in today’s messy dynamics of professional learning, and point to new ways of configuring educational support and policy for professionals
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
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
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Responsibility matters: putting illness back into the picture
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore specific instances of junior doctors’ responsibility.
Learning is often understood to be a prerequisite for managing responsibility and risk but this paper
aims to argue that this is insufficient because learning is integral to the management of responsibility
and risk.
Design/methodology/approach – This is a “collective” case study of doctors designed to focus on the
interrelationships between individual professionals and complex work settings. The authors focussed on
two key points of transition: the transition to beginning clinical practice which is the move from medical
student to foundation training (F1) and the transition from generalist to specialist clinical practice.
Findings – Responsibility in clinical settings is immediate, concrete, demands response and (in)
action has an effect. Responsibility is learnt and is not always apparent; it shifts depending on time of
day/night and who else is present. Responsibility does not necessarily increase incrementally and can
decrease; it can be perceived differently by different actors. Responsibility is experienced as personal
although it is distributed.
Originality/value – This detailed examination of practice has enabled the authors to foreground the
particularities, urgency and fluidity of everyday clinical practice. It recasts their understandings of
responsibility – and managing risk – as involving learning in practice. This is a critical insight
because it suggests that the theoretical basis for the current approach to managing risk and
responsibility is insufficient. This has significant implications for policy, employment, education and
practice of new doctors and for the management of responsibility and risk
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Intern experience at CH���M Hill, Inc.: an internship report
No full textIncludes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical referencesA review of the author's internship experience with CH���M HILL, Inc.
during the period September 1975 through May 1976 is presented. During this nine month
internship the author worked as an Engineer II in the Industrial Processes discipline of this
large consulting engineering firm... The author's prime responsibility was as one of three
lead design engineers on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility for a pulp mill
in Hoquiam, Washington owned by ITT Rayonier Inc. The work generally consisted of the design
of individual treatment units and associated piping and pumping. The purpose of the project
was to provide wastewater treatment capabilities that would satisfy the effluent limitations
(standards) imposed upon the mill by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The author's assignment also entailed necessary
interaction with the project manager and other CH���M HILL design engineers and support staff
members, the client's representatives, and representatives of two other consulting engineering
firms working on the project. Thus, the internship position at CH���M HILL provided considerable
experience coordinating the author's work with the work of other engineers, guiding the design
and administrative efforts of a support staff, and interacting regularly with the client and
other consulting firms. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering and organizational
problems provided a valuable educational experience
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