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Change and continuity in managerialism: 100 years of administrative history at the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza
Get PDFThis paper offers a long-term perspective on the debate on managerial transformations in the public sector: how public sector organisations actually arrived at such changes, what processes, discourses and practices are transformed and how. This is investigated through archival research and a longitudinal analysis of 100 years of the administrative history of an Italian museum. Taking a historical perspective allows us to account for organisational changes that occurred over time, including major reforms in the governance structure and the dynamics of some core managerial features. Such an approach enables a more in-depth, empirically grounded and historically aware discussion on the so-called rise of managerial issues in the public sector. © The Author(s), 2011
Measurement of the tau lepton lifetime with Beta A Beta AR
No full textThe mean lifetime of the tau lepton is measured from the decay length distribution of 3-prong tau decays from e(+) e(-) collisions at the &UUpsilon;(4S) resonance. A data sample of 80.0 fb(-1) collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B Factory is used for this measurement. The measured tau lifetime is: τ(-) = 289.40 ± 0.91 (stat.) ± 0.90 (syst.) fs. All the results are preliminary
Improved determination of with decays
Get PDFThe HFLAV end 2018 t branching fractions fit results and FLAG 2019 lattice QCD results are used to compute updated |Vus| determinations using recently published radiative corrections for(equation presented)
Process to Process Communication over Fastbus in the Data Acquisition System of the ALEPH TPC
No full textThe data acquisition system of the ALEPH TPC includes a VAX/VMS computer cluster and 36 intelligent Fastbus modules (ALEPH TPPs) running the OS9 multitasking real-time operating system. Dedicated software has been written in order to reliably exchange information over Fastbus between the VAX/VMS cluster and the 36 TPPs to initialize and co-ordinate the microprocessors, and to monitor and debug their operation. The functionality and the performance of this software will be presented together with an overview of the applications that rely on it
Measurement of the branching fraction by B A B AR
Get PDFThe BABAR collaboration measured the decay branching fraction B(B'→D∗-πππ+) =(ι∈l∞∞(stat.)±l 3∂ ∞(syst.)) × ∞l-∂ using a sample of (470.9 ± 2.8) × 106 BB pairs. This measurement will facilitate the measurement of B(B' → D∗- τ+ντ) with τ+ → π+π-π+ντ at hadronic colliders, improving the experimental precision on the normalization branching fraction B(B' → D∗-'π+ π-π+)
Formal planning and the reshaping of public sector professional work
Get PDFThis paper deals with the ‘managerialization’ of public sector professional work. Specifically,
it will focus on the role of formal planning practices (as expressed in strategic planning,
project management and budgeting practices) in changing public sector professional work.
Planning and accounting are at the heart of public sector reforms, responding to a logic of
having public service professionals transparent on what they do, on how they pursue their
goals, and accountable on the use of resources and on results. Thus planning and accounting
practices have been transferred from private sector management models to public,
professional organizations. Yet public sector professional organizations can be conceived as a
pluralistic setting characterized by diffuse power, fragmented objectives and knowledgebased
and are deeply embedded in public administration regulatory logics: how can
management models deriving from private, hierarchical firms be applied to the specificities
and complexities of public, pluralistic settings? What is the specific meaning of formal
planning practices in such complex contexts?
Based on a qualitative, single case study design, this paper will show how the planning
system (in its manifestation of strategic planning, project management and budgeting) applied
in a public hospital apparently ‘fails’ when its deliberate role of serving as a tool for decisions
is considered. Yet it is widely in use and widely accepted by professionals as well.
Conclusions on the value of formal planning when other emergent roles are taken into account
will be discussed
Results in online data processing with the data acquisition system of the ALEPH TPC
No full textSince August 1989 the ALEPH detector is collecting data on e+e- collisions provided by the LEP storage ring at CERN. Its main tracking detector, a time projection chamber, has about 50,000 channels, each recording 512 samples of incoming ionization. The ALEPH TPC data acquisition system is based on 768 triple width Fastbus modules, named TPDs, and 36 double width Fastbus modules, named TPPs. The TPC DAQ system performance has been satisfactory since the beginning of LEP physics in 1989, throughout more than two years of operation. The task to coordinate, to reliably operate, to monitor and to maintain several hundreds of complex custom hardware devices has been accomplished. In this paper the performance and the implementation of the TPC DAQ system are presented; furthermore, it is shown how online data processing is used to obtain a substantial reduction of the data volume
Experimental Review on Lepton Universality and Lepton Flavour Violation tests at the B-factories
Get PDFSince 1999, the B-factories collaborations BABAR and Belle have accumulated
and studied large samples of tau lepton pairs. The experimental results on
Lepton Universality checks and Lepton Flavour Violation searches are reported.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table (To be sumitted to the proceedings of
the Kaon International Conference 2007
Measurement of , , and , by
Get PDFWe report preliminary measurements of the branching fractions of the decays τ− → K−nπ0 ντ (n = 0, 1, 2, 3) and τ− → π−nπ0 ντ (n = 3, 4), excluding the contributions that proceed through the decay of intermediate K0 and η mesons. The measurements are based on a data sample of 435 million τ pairs produced in e+ e− collisions at and near the Υ (4S) peak and collected with the BABAR detector in 1999-2008. The measured branching fractions are B(τ− → K−ντ ) = (7.174 ±0.033 ±0.213) × 10−3, B(τ− → K−π0 ντ ) = (5.054 ±0.021 ±0.148) × 10−3, B(τ− → K−2π0 ντ ) = (6.151 ± 0.117 ± 0.338) × 10−4, B(τ− → K−3π0 ντ ) = (1.246 ± 0.164 ± 0.238) × 10−4, B(τ− → π−3π0 ντ ) = (1.168 ± 0.006 ± 0.038) × 10−2, B(τ− → π−4π0 ντ ) = (9.020 ± 0.400 ± 0.652) × 10−4, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second one systematic
Traiettorie e prospettive di cambiamento della professione di commercialista: uno studio esplorativo
No full textQuesto volume raccoglie i risultati di una ricerca sulla Professione di Commercialista, sulle direttrici dei cambiamenti in corso che ne stanno rimodellando l’essenza e i confini. L’obiettivo è esplorare i cambiamenti intervenuti negli anni, lo stato dell’arte e le possibili prospettive per la Professione, così come sono vissuti e percepiti dai protagonisti di questo scenario, ovvero i Professionisti stessi. Una prima parte del volume sarà è dedicata ad una ricostruzione “macro” del “Discorso ufficiale”, ovvero una rassegna dei temi e dei numeri della Professione ad oggi, così come sono riflessi nel dibattito esistente, sia nazionale che internazionale, riguardante i tratti principali del processo di cambiamento della Professione.
Nella seconda parte saranno invece presentati i risultati della ricerca sul piano “micro”, ovvero i “discorsi dal campo”, un’esplorazione di come gli attori stessi concepiscono la Professione oggi, le sfide rispetto al passato e le potenzialità future, a partire da una serie di interviste in profondità condotte con una selezione di Studi nel territorio bolognese.
In conclusione, verranno ripresi tutti i risultati e discussi nel loro insieme, nella speranza che questo studio possa animare ulteriori domande e sostanziare alcune riflessioni sullo stato dell’arte della Professione, per chi la vive o ci si affaccia
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