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An autoethnography exploring the engagement of records management through a computer mediated communication focused co-operative inquiry
No full textThis thesis is an autoethnography exploring the engagement of records management (RM) through the vehicle of a computer mediated communication (CMC) focused co-operative inquiry. CMC is defined as, “communication that takes place between human beings via the instrumentality of computers” (Herring, 1996, p.81). The PhD stance was that with the advent of new technologies, such as CMC, the role and place of RM has been challenged. RM practitioners needed to evaluate their principles and practice in order to discover why RM is not uniformly understood and also why it fails to engage many CMC users and information professionals. The majority of today’s information is generated as the result of unstructured communications (AIIM, 2005 and 2006) that no longer have a fixed reality but exist across fragmented globalised spaces through the Cloud, Web 2.0 and software virtualisation. Organisational boundaries are permanently perforated and the division between public and private spaces are blurred. Traditional RM has evolved in highly structured organisational information environments. Nevertheless, RM could lie at the heart of the processes required for dealing with this splintered data. RM takes a holistic approach to information management, establishing the legislative requirements, technical requirements and the training and support for individuals to communicate effectively, simultaneously transmitting and processing the communications for maximum current and ongoing organisational benefits. However RM is not uniformly understood or practiced. The focus of the thesis was to understand how RM engagement can and should be achieved.
The research was conducted by establishing a co-operative inquiry consisting of 82 international co-researchers, from a range of disciplines, investigating the question, ‘How do organisations maximise the information potential of CMC for organisational benefit, taking into account the impact of the individual?” The PhD established a novel approach to co-operative inquiry by separating, managing and merging three groups of co-researchers (UK Records Managers, UK CMC users, international Records Managers and CMC users). I was embedded as a co-researcher within this wider inquiry personally exploring as an autoethnography the relevance of RM to the wider research question, the ability of RM practitioners to advocate for RM and the co-researchers’ responses to the place of RM within this context.
The thesis makes several contributions to the research field. It examines how records managers and RM principles and practice engaged through the inquiry, articulating the reasons why users sometimes failed to engage with RM principles and practice, and what assists users to successfully engage with RM. It was found that national perspectives and drivers were more significant as to whether or not individuals engaged with RM concepts than age, gender or professional experience. In addition, users engaged with RM when it was naturally embedded within processes. In addition, as a result of the inquiry’s discussions and actions, the thesis suggests that RM principles and practice need to be refined, for example in regards to the characteristics that define a record. In this respect it concludes that there is rarely likely to be an original archival record surviving through time given the need for migration. The research delivered a novel approach to co-operative inquiry whereby merging groups through time produced new learning at each merger point. The thesis recommends further research to build upon its findings
La síntesis emergética: una valoración de los servicios de los ecosistemas con base termodinámica
No full textEl cambio global ha abierto un intenso debate sobre el papel y el valor de los servicios de los ecosistemas entre la reducción a lomonetario, propuesta por las corrientes Neo-clásicas de la Economía a través de la Economía Ambiental, y la ampliación a lo físico y lo social, a través de la Economía Ecológica, en una aproximación multi-criterio. Dentro de esta última corriente se sitúa la Síntesis Emergética. Se trata de un método de valoración de los servicios de los ecosistemas con bases termodinámicas que pretende valorar aspectos físicos del proceso económico con el objetivo de ofrecer herramientas a la toma de decisiones. El método gira en torno a la denominada memoria energética o emergía, una medida en unidades comunes de los flujos de materia, energía, dinero, información, etc. que contribuyen a generar un producto o sistema. Para ello se desarrollan los conceptos de calidad de la energía, jerarquía de energías y transformicidad, así como el principio de máxima potencia emergética, que sirve para escoger entre diversas configuraciones, de acuerdo con criterios de carácter socio-político
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Luis Barragán y Juan Sordo Madaleno: El plan maestro de Lomas Verdes
No full textThe master plan for Lomas Verdes (1965-1967) of Luis Barragán Morfín (19021988) and Juan Sordo Madaleno (1916-1985) was a residential development for 100,000 inhabitants in the north-east of the city of Mexico. It is little known because it was partially executed and only a few publications dealt with it. Nevertheless, it was a meaningful project in the careers of two of the most influential twentieth-century Mexican architects. Its outset, development and partial completion took place in the Everlasting Sixties. Hence, Lomas Verdes accurately reflects the social, political and economic unrest of that time. Thus, it becomes an essential contribution to the understanding of the 1960s Mexican architectural urban history. The following essay presents a critical reconstruction of the project based on archival material and secondary sources. The aims of this analysis are, on one hand, to understand the crucial position of Luis Barragán and Juan Sordo Madaleno within the Mexican architectural debate; on the other, to specify their dialectical contribution regarding the urban problems that were affecting Mexico City in those years.En 1967, Luis Barragán Morfín (1902-1988) y Juan Sordo Madaleno (19161985) completaron el plan maestro de Lomas Verdes (1965-1967): se trataba de un desarrollo de cien mil habitantes que se construiría al noreste de Ciudad de México. El plan maestro es poco conocido porque fue ejecutado parcialmente y fue objeto de un número muy limitado de publicaciones. Sin embargo, es un proyecto de importancia fundamental en las carreras de dos de los arquitectos mexicanos más influyentes del siglo XX . Nacido, desarrollado y extinto en la Década Larga, Lomas Verdes fue el fiel reflejo del convulsionado clima social, político y económico capitalino que se vivía en ese momento y, en cuanto tal, representa una contribución esencial para la comprensión de la historia urbana y arquitectónica mexicana durante los años 60. El siguiente ensayo presenta una reconstrucción crítica del proyecto que se basa en materiales de archivo y fuentes secundarias. Los objetivos finales del análisis del Lomas Verdes son dos: por un lado, especificar la contribución dialéctica de los arquitectos con respecto a los problemas urbanos que afectaban a Ciudad de México en esos años; por otro, entender la posición crítica de Barragán y Sordo dentro del debate arquitectónico mexicano
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
Influencia de las redes sociales en los hábitos alimentarios de adultos jóvenes que asisten al gimnasio LOMAS GYM de la ciudad de Riobamba.
No full textLa investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar la influencia de las redes sociales en
los hábitos alimentarios de adultos jóvenes de 18 a 26 años que asisten al gimnasio
LOMAS GYM de la ciudad de Riobamba. Se trata de un estudio con enfoque
cuantitativo descriptivo, el mismo que permitió describir la relación de las variables
de la población de estudio, en el cual, se encuesto una muestra de 130 jóvenes que
cumplieron los criterios de inclusión y exclusión, la prueba que se utilizó para describir
y analizar los datos obtenido fue la prueba Chi cuadrado de Pearson. Como resultado
los adolescentes presentan interés en temas relacionados con alimentación y son
seguidores de páginas de esta índole, el 69% considera haber sido influenciado en
ciertos hábitos alimentarios con el uso y la información de las redes sociales. Por lo
que se concluye que las cuentas de comida saludable influyen en el consumo de lácteos
de la población de estudio ya que el valor de P<0.05, a diferencia de los otros grupos
de alimentos de consumo no existe relación significativa.The objective of the research was to determine the influence of social networks on the
eating habits of young adults between the ages of 18 and 26 who atten the LOMAS
GYM in the Riobamba city. It is a study with a descriptive quantitative approach, the
same one that allowed describing the relationship of the variables of the study
population, in which a sample of 130 young people who met the inclusion and
exclusion criteria was surveyed, the test that was used to describe and analyze the data
obtained was Square Chi Test Person. As a result, adolescents show interest in topics
related to food and are followers of pages of this nature, 69% consider they have been
influenced by certain eating habits with the use and information of social networks.
Therefore, it is concluded that the healthy food accounts influence the dairy
consumption of the study population since the value of P <0.05, unlike the other groups
of consumption foods, there is no significant relationship
Jair, Montañas Rocallosas, Lomas de Chapultepec
No full textI.O. En el reverso: "JAIR, MONTAÑAS ROCALLOSAS LOMAS DE CHAPULTEPEC, D.F. 2002. DEL "DIARIO DeAntes". "DANTE BUSQUETS P/A 1". Dante Busquets, V.F. 868894. Ver: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dantebusquets/ (última fecha de consulta: 06/08/10)
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Ministers and Ministerial Training
No full textProtestant Dissent was assailed by Anglo-Catholics in England and by the Mercersburg Theologians in the United States for its fissiparous tendencies, sectarian nature, and privileging of emotional conversionism over apostolic order and objective, sacramental religion. Yet this chapter argues that personal conversion was essential to the faith of Dissent and the key to its spirituality, worship, and congregational life. Whether conversion was gradual or instantaneous, it remained the point of entry into the Christian life and the full privileges of church membership. Spurred by the preaching of the gospel and sometimes, but not always, accompanied by the application of the divine law, the earlier underpinning of conversionism in Calvinism gave way to an emphasis on human response. Popular in both the United States and Great Britain, the ‘new measures’ of the Presbyterian evangelist Charles Finney, in which burdened souls were called forward to ‘the anxious bench’ and prayerfully incited to undergo the new birth, brought thousands into the churches. However, in more liberal circles especially, conversion had by the end of the century become less of a crisis of guilt and redemption than a smooth progression towards spiritual fullness. Although preaching was often linked, especially in the first part of the century, with revivalist exuberance, it remained a mainstay of congregational life. Mainly expository and practical with a view of building up congregants in the faith, it was accompanied by hymn singing, scriptural readings, public prayers, and the two sacraments or ‘ordinances’ of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Sermons tended to become shorter as the century progressed, from an hour or so to thirty or forty minutes, while the ‘long prayer’, invariably offered by the minister, tended to be didactic in tone. From mid-century onwards, there was a move towards more rounded worship, though congregations would sit (or sometimes stand) for prayer, but not kneel. The liturgical use of the church year with congregational recitation of the Lord’s Prayer became slowly more acceptable. Communion, either monthly or quarterly, was usually a Zwinglian memorial of Christ’s atoning sacrifice. The impact of the temperance movement during the latter part of the century dictated the use of non-alcoholic rather than fermented wine in the Lord’s Supper, while in a reaction to Anglican sacerdotalism, baptism too, whether believers’ baptism or paedo-baptism, progressively lost its sacramental character. Throughout the century, Dissenters sang. In the absence of an externally imposed prayer book or a standardized liturgy, hymns provided them with both devotional aids and a collective identity. Unaccompanied at first, hymn singing, inspired mostly by the muse of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and, in Wales, William Williams, became more disciplined, eventually with organ accompaniment. Even while moving towards a more sophisticated, indeed bourgeois mode, Dissent maintained a vibrant congregational life which prized a simple, biblically based spirituality.</p
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