263 research outputs found
CMS Conference Report
No full textCMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) will be one of two general purpose detectors at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Its main feature is a strong solenoidal magnetic field ensuring high momentum resolution for charged particles. The detector consists of an inner tracker with an embedded pixel detector, a crystal electromagnetic calorimeter, a copper-scintillator hadron calorimeter and a dual muon system made up of tracking chambers and special trigger chambers. Forward calorimetry is also foreseen. The discovery potential of CMS for the Standard Model Higgs, the SUSY Higgses and other supersymmetric particles is presented. Presented at Second Latinamerican Symposium on High Energy Physics (II-SILAFAE), San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 8-11, 1998 Published in AIP Conference Proceedings 444 (467 - 478) CMS Concept and Physics Potential Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz Institut f#ur Hochenergiephysik, # Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Nikolsdorfergasse 18, A-1050 Vienna, Austria Abstract. CMS #Co..
Calling for better crops: an exploration of social upgrading through two mobile phone-based agriculture extension projects in Uganda
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.In recent years, mobile phones have become increasingly enmeshed in the daily routines of communities across the globe. This exponential swell of mobile teledensity in developing nations, especially in rural areas, gives evidence to mobile phones as being a contributing factor towards social and economic changes in local livelihoods driven by agriculture. In this study, any economic upgrading is organised under the concept of overall social upgrading. This dissertation investigates such evidence by exploring the social effects from the use of mobile phones through two agricultural extension projects in Uganda
The CMS Silicon Strip Tracker: Concept, Production, and Commissioning
No full textWith the start of the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, and the huge detectors along this particle accelerator, the largest high energy physics experiments ever are underway. One of the experiments is the CMS detector (Compact Muon Solenoid). With this experiment over 3,000 scientists and engineers worldwide will search for answers to fundamental questions in high energy physics. Oliver Pooth describes the silicon strip tracker of the CMS detector. With a sensitive silicon area of 200 m² it is a central part of the experiment and able to precisely measure charged particles originating from high energy proton collisions at the LHC. In total, more than 15,000 individual silicon strip detector modules were built and tested before they were integrated on larger substructures of the silicon strip tracker. The author discusses methods of quality control that are new to the field of particle detector physics. These methods were established to guarantee a uniform behaviour of all detector modules which were built and tested in various places worldwide. After integration into the CMS experiment and commissioning, the silicon strip tracker is now ready to operate for at least ten years of LHC running
The role of postgraduate students in co-authoring open educational resources to promote social inclusion: a case study at the University of Cape Town
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Distance Education on 24 Jul 2012, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01587919.2012.692052.Like many universities worldwide, the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa has joined the open educational resources (OER) movement, making a selection of teaching and learning materials available through its OER directory, UCT OpenContent. However, persuading and then supporting busy academics to share their teaching materials as OER still remains a challenge. In this article, we report on an empirical study of how UCT postgraduate students have assisted in the process of reworking the academics' teaching materials as OER. Using the concept of contradictions (Engeström, 2001), we endeavor to surface the various disturbances or conflicts with which the postgraduate students had to engage to make OER socially inclusive, as well as Engeström's “layers of causality" (2011, p. 609) to explain postgraduate students' growing sense of agency as they experienced the OER development process as being socially inclusive
Aufbau eines Bewertungsprototyp für CMS aus kommunikativen Perspektiven
No full textTitle Page and Acknowledgement
Zusammenfassung
Executive Summary
Table of Content
Table of Charts
I.
Introduction
1.1
Why CMS? Is Content Management A Big Concern?
4
1.2
Problem Factors and Challenges
4
1.3
CMS Trend Forecast and Market Chances
7
II.
CMS: Concept and Technology Developments
2.1
Why Content Management System? And What It Is?
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2.2
The Landscape of CMS Related Concepts and Technologies
10
2.3
CMS Software Development Trends - A Short Summary
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III.
CMS: The Study and the "Collaborative Function Model"
3.1
Why a Study on CMS with Communicative Perspectives?
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3.2
The Study: First CMS Knowledge Portal in the Chinese-speaking Areas
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3.3
Structure and Method - The "Collaborative Function Model"
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IV.
Why CMS?
Utility Analysis on CMS from Functional and Business Value Perspectives
4.1
Utility Analysis on CMS � Functional Perspective
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4.2
Analysis on CMS - Business Value Perspective
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V.
How CMS? Design Your Own Content Management System
5.1
Design and Implement CMS-Business Project Perspectives
44
5.2
Design and Implement CMS - The "Collaborative Function Model"
52
VI. Conclusion: What a CMS Product Won't DO?! 95
VII. Literature 97
VIII. Appendices
(A) Glossary - Content Management Terms and Definitions
100
(B) Categorized Online Resources and Active Commentator List
115
(C) The Certificate of DAAD Sponsorship/Scholarship
130
(D) The Certificate of Authorization from Infopark AG, Germany
131
(E) The Contract with Infopark AG, Berlin, Germany (16/16)
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(F) The Contract with Struktur AG, Sttugart, Germany (19/29)
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(G) The Certificate of CMS (the proposed Dissertation) in the 6th
National Technology Innovation Contest (TIC100) Taiwan 2004
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(H) CV of the Author
169Content Management System (CMS) is booming both in Europe and in the U.S.
Through literature reviews, the research firstly makes an overview on market
trends and the landscape of the CMS concepts and technologies. Then, with
utility analysis on CMS from both "Functional" and "Business Value"
perspectives, the research shows that CMS could improve the internal
communication and collaboration mechanisms in modern enterprises. Finally,
based on Nakano's theory, the research develops a both IT- and communication-
oriented "Collaborative Function Model" with 16 criteria to help modern
enterprises evaluating their CMS deployment projects and the designing a CMS
based web site. The CMS glossary and online resources list in appendix are
useful tools for further researches in this field.Der Begriff Content Management System (CMS) ist in drei Elementen geteilt,
weil wir glauben, "Content", "Management" und "System", jedes Wort präsentiert
eine wichtige Dimension in unserem Forschungsbereich. Die Ordnung der Wörter
CMS spielt auch wichtige Rolle bei der Konzeption dieser Arbeit. In unserer
Sicht: Nur wenn man erst verstehen, daß "Content" die Folge einer Reihe von
internen und externen Interaktion- und Kommunikationsprozesse ist und Content
muß auch in engen Verknüpfungen mit den geplanten geschäftlichen Zielen,
Verhalten und Management stehen, dann sind die Design, Entwicklung und
Implementierung eines "Content Management Systems" sinnvoll
A Foucauldian investigation of CSR and the concept of responsibility
No full textPurpose – The dissertation aims to highlight a potential new intellection of CSR – and especially of the concept of responsibility – from CMS theoretical perspectives and Foucault’s theories of sovereignty and governmentality.
Design/methodology/approach – The reinterpretation proposed in this paper is based on the denaturalization and subsequent theorization of CSR as an expression of the new spirit of capitalism. The author connects Foucauldian notions of sovereignty and governmentality and the post-modern shift in the concept of responsibility.
Findings – The ideological core of the CSR concept corresponds to a Foucauldian sovereign approach to responsibility, in contrast to a contemporary neo-liberal governmental one shaping individuals.
Originality/value – The paper proposes to go beyond the nature of CSR – i.e. an expression of the new spirit of capitalism (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005) – as the only sufficient reason to explain and justify why CSR was meant to fail or not even worth a try. A view of CSR as a place of paradox for the concept of responsibility is argued.
Dissertation type – Conceptual dissertation.
Purpose – Extended – Previous research in the Critical Management Studies (CMS) field have failed to go beyond the nature of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as an expression of the new spirit of capitalism (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005). The outcome of the denaturalizing process was taken as the only sufficient reason to explain and justify why CSR was meant to fail or not even worth a try. This dissertation examines the relationship between the idea and implementation of CSR and Foucauldian notions of sovereignty and governmentality. In particular, the dissertation exhibits a shift in the concept of responsibility resulting from a modification of the traditional authority of the state and identifies a paradox between an “old” version of responsibility tied to the notion of sovereignty and kept as ideal for corporations to follow in CSR literature, and a “new” version of responsibility attached to the notion of neo-liberal governmentality shaping individuals
A Foucauldian investigation of CSR and the concept of responsibility
No full textPurpose – The dissertation aims to highlight a potential new intellection of CSR – and especially of the concept of responsibility – from CMS theoretical perspectives and Foucault’s theories of sovereignty and governmentality.
Design/methodology/approach – The reinterpretation proposed in this paper is based on the denaturalization and subsequent theorization of CSR as an expression of the new spirit of capitalism. The author connects Foucauldian notions of sovereignty and governmentality and the post-modern shift in the concept of responsibility.
Findings – The ideological core of the CSR concept corresponds to a Foucauldian sovereign approach to responsibility, in contrast to a contemporary neo-liberal governmental one shaping individuals.
Originality/value – The paper proposes to go beyond the nature of CSR – i.e. an expression of the new spirit of capitalism (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005) – as the only sufficient reason to explain and justify why CSR was meant to fail or not even worth a try. A view of CSR as a place of paradox for the concept of responsibility is argued.
Dissertation type – Conceptual dissertation.
Purpose – Extended – Previous research in the Critical Management Studies (CMS) field have failed to go beyond the nature of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as an expression of the new spirit of capitalism (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005). The outcome of the denaturalizing process was taken as the only sufficient reason to explain and justify why CSR was meant to fail or not even worth a try. This dissertation examines the relationship between the idea and implementation of CSR and Foucauldian notions of sovereignty and governmentality. In particular, the dissertation exhibits a shift in the concept of responsibility resulting from a modification of the traditional authority of the state and identifies a paradox between an “old” version of responsibility tied to the notion of sovereignty and kept as ideal for corporations to follow in CSR literature, and a “new” version of responsibility attached to the notion of neo-liberal governmentality shaping individuals
Evaluating the development of wearable devices, personal data assistants and the use of other mobile devices in further and higher education institutions
No full textThis report presents technical evaluation and case studies of the use of wearable and mobile computing mobile devices in further and higher education. The first section provides technical evaluation of the current state of the art in wearable and mobile technologies and reviews several innovative wearable products that have been developed in recent years. The second section examines three scenarios for further and higher education where wearable and mobile devices are currently being used. The three scenarios include: (i) the delivery of lectures over mobile devices, (ii) the augmentation of the physical campus with a virtual and mobile component, and (iii) the use of PDAs and mobile devices in field studies. The first scenario explores the use of web lectures including an evaluation of IBM's Web Lecture Services and 3Com's learning assistant. The second scenario explores models for a campus without walls evaluating the Handsprings to Learning projects at East Carolina University and ActiveCampus at the University of California San Diego . The third scenario explores the use of wearable and mobile devices for field trips examining San Francisco Exploratorium's tool for capturing museum visits and the Cybertracker field computer. The third section of the report explores the uses and purposes for wearable and mobile devices in tertiary education, identifying key trends and issues to be considered when piloting the use of these devices in educational contexts
Narratives of social inclusion in the context of Roma school segregation
No full textDespite a series of judgements from the European Court of Human Rights and the enactment of the EU Racial Equality Directive, the educational segregation of Roma pupils persists in several European states. State action plans submitted pursuant to the European Framework for Roma Integration rarely provide clear targets and do not commit to inclusive schooling. Taking education as a principle indicator of social inclusion, this article identifies that structural inequality and entrenched discriminatory attitudes are the main obstacles to Roma inclusion. This can only be addressed through the diffusion of legal and social norms that mainstream equality. Focusing on the legal obligations, it is argued that the European Commission must be more decisive and effective in the enforcement of non-discrimination rules. A closer dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the EU institutions, grounded in a non-targeted social inclusion frame, could provide a platform for European consensus which may help to secure meaningful change
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