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The Value of Knowledge: The Economics of Enterprise Knowledge and Intelligence Knowledge services/ Timothy Powell.
No full textIn English.Knowledge is an economic asset of great importance and value to the modern organization; however, it is too often not managed carefully as such. This book presents practical frameworks and methods for the knowledge professional -- and his/her organization -- to identify, actualize, and maximize the economic value of knowledge.Frontmatter -- Series Editor's Foreword: About Knowledge Services -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction to the Value of Knowledge -- 2 Knowledge as an Enterprise Function -- 3 Knowledge as an Economic Resource -- 4 The Knowledge Value Chain -- 5 Increasing Knowledge ROI -- 6 Knowledge to Value -- 7 Knowledge Strategy -- Appendix -- About the Author -- Other books by Timothy Powell -- Acknowledgments -- Intellectual Property Notices -- Works Cited -- Index1 online resource (xxi, 240 pages
An observation of a transverse to longitudinal emittance exchange at the Fermilab A0 photoinjector:
No full textAn experimental program to perform a proof of principle of transverse to longitudinal emittance exchange has been developed at the Fermilab A0 Photoinjector. A new beamline, including two magnetic dogleg channels and a TM110 deflecting mode radio frequency cavity, were constructed for the emittance exchange experiment.
The first priority was a measurement of the Emittance Exchange beamline transport matrix. The method of difference orbits was used to measure the transport matrix. Through varying individual beam input vector elements, such as input x, x', y, y', z, or momentum and measuring the changes in all of the beam output vector's elements, output x, x', y, y', z, and momentum the full 6X6 transport matrix was measured. The measured emittance exchange transport matrix was in overall good agreement with our calculated transport matrix.
A direct observation of an emittance exchange was performed by measuring the electron beam's characteristics before and after the emittance exchange beamline. Operating with a 14.3 MeV, 250 pC electron bunch, longitudinal input emittance of 21.1+/-1.5 mm.mrad was observed to be exchanged with output horizontal emittance of 20.8+/-2.00 mm.mrad. Diagnostic limitations in the longitudinal output emittance measurement did not account for an energy-time correlation, thus potentially returning values larger than the actual longitudinal emittance. The horizontal input emittance of 4.67+/-0.22 mm.mrad was observed to be exchanged with the longitudinal output emittance of 7.06+/-0.43 mm.mrad. The apparent longitudinal output emittance growth is consistent with calculated values in which the correlation term is neglected.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-164)by Timothy W. Koet
W poszukiwaniu klucza do zrozumienia historii XX stulecia. Teoria historii i metodologia stosowana Timothy Snydera
No full textThe paper considers Timothy Snyder's applied methodology of history. Snyder's original field of interest as a professional historian was historical biography, but it did not take him long to put transnational history at the centre of his attention. The author posits that Snyder's practice in this historiographic paradigm has laid the foundation for his greatest academic achievements, leading to him being recognized as one of the best historians working today
„Skrwawione ziemie” Timothy Snydera. Krytyczne uwagi na temat konstrukcji krajobrazu historycznego
No full textTimothy Snyder’s "Bloodlands". Critical comments on the construction of historical landscape
Jürgen Zarusky's text is an extensive deconstruction of Timothy Snyder's narration presented in Bloodlands. The narration is based on the assumption, that both regimes – Nazi and Soviet – and their extermination practicies were similar. In Bloodlands Stalin's crimes are presented as a form of ethnic extermination. Thus Snyder suggested ideological kinship between both dictators without analysing specific ideologies. Although the author specifies the differences between these two ideologies he does not ask about their significance to the enemy image and extermination practicies. Snyder's narration concentrates excessively on Poland – as the core of “bloodlands”. In the closing chapter of the book Poles are depicted as the actual martyrs of “bloodlands” in Poland, as well as on the territory of the Soviet Union. Yet up to this day there are ethinc gorups – like Sinti and Romany - who have to fight for the recognition of their tragic experiences as the victims of crimes commited by German authorities. The author also does not mention about the victims of the agressive wars against the Soviet Union. Thus the point of Bloodlands is not to present all the victims of totalitarianism and the war, all the victims from “bloodlands”, but to present only the victims selected by the author.
„Skrwawione ziemie” Timothy Snydera. Krytyczne uwagi na temat konstrukcji krajobrazu historycznego
Tekst Jürgen Zarusky'ego to obszerna dekonstrukcja narracji Timothy Snydera zaprezentowanej w książce Skrwawione ziemie. Zasadza się ona na założeniu, że oba reżimy - niemiecki i radziecki - oraz ich praktyki eksterminacyjne były bardzo do siebie zbliżone. W książce przedstawiono stalinowskie zbrodnie masowe jako formę etnicznej eksterminacji. W ten sposób Snyder zasugerował ideologiczne pokrewieństwo między obu dyktatorami, nie podejmując się analizy konkretnych ideologii. Chociaż wymienia różnice między nimi, jednak nie pyta o ich znaczenie dla obrazu wroga i praktyk eksterminacyjnych. Narracja Snydera nazbyt koncentruje się na Polsce jako jądrze „skrwawionych ziem”. Polaków przedstawia w końcowym rozdziale jako właściwych męczenników „skrwawionej ziemi”, tak w samej Polsce, jak na terenie Związku Radzieckiego. Tymczasem niektóre grupy muszą do dziś walczyć o uznanie swojego tragicznego losu prześladowanych, jak choćby Sinti i Romowie, którzy masowo byli mordowani przez nazistowskie władze. W Skrwawionych ziemiach nie pojawia się słowo na ich temat. W książce nie znajdują także odbicia ofiary wojen zaczepnych, szczególnie skierowanych przeciwko Związkowi Radzieckiemu. W pracy Snydera nie chodzi zatem o wszystkie ofiary totalitaryzmu i wojny, w tym także nie wszystkie z terenów „skrwawionych ziem”, lecz o ich wybór dokonany przez autora
E. Randel T. Osburn and Timothy McDonald Being Arrested, circa 1985
No full textE. Randel T. Osburn and Timothy McDonald are shown being arrested by police at a luncheon sponsored by Winn-Dixie at Atlanta's Waverly Hotel. Written on verso: SCLC Officials, Rev. Randel T. Osburn and Rev. Timothy MacDonald [sic] being arrested by Cobb County, Georgia police while attempting to address Winn Dixie's policies at a luncheon sponsored by Winn-Dixie at Atlanta's Waverly Hotel. SCLC is boycotting Winn-Dixie for buying and selling products from South Africa, not using Black and women-owned businesses and not equitably reinvesting in the Black community. Picketing and demonstrations have escalated in several states with the arrests of elected officials, labor leaders, clergy, professors, students and others joining SCLC President Dr. Joseph Lowery in support of the boycott.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
The poetics of indefinition
No full textArtykuł jest owocem refleksji nad najnowszą poezją polską, szczególnie tzw. nowych dykcji. Bliska lektura początku poematu Bohdana Zadury 1 VIII 1979 7.45 - 22.45 [czternaście godzin z Piotrem Sommerem] oraz Wiersza o przecinkach Piotra Sommera prowadzi - z jednej strony - do sformułowania tezy o niewystarczalności dotychczasowych koncepcji poetyk momentalnych (autor podejmuje dyskusję z koncepcją "zgramatykalizowania systemu wersowego wytwarzania komunikatów" zaproponowaną przez Artura Grabowskiego), z drugiej zaś - do wypracowania koncepcji wiersza zaangażowanego po stronie zmian (w ramach szerszej charakterystyki modernistycznych poetyk nieokreśloności).This article is the product of reflection on contemporary Polish poetry, particularly the new diction. A close reading of the beginning of Bohdan Zadura’s poem "1 VIII 1979 7.45 - 22.45 [czternaście godzin z Piotrem Sommerem]" (1 August 1979, 7:45-22:45 [fourteen hours with Piotr Sommer]) and Piotr Sommer’s “Wiersz o przecinkach” (Poem About Commas) leads to, on the one hand, positing a thesis on the inadequacy of previous conceptions of poetics of the moment (the author enters into a discussion with the concept of "grammaticalizing the system of line-by-line production of messages" proposed by Artur Grabowski), and, on the other hand, to the development of a concept of the poem engaged on the side of change (within a broader description of modernist poetics of indefinition)
Timothy Findley's True Fictions: A Conversation at Stone Orchard
No full textHistory, myth, the process of writing and using language, and other works of fiction come together in Timothy Findley's work. The author sees parallels between fiction and history writers: he says that fiction writers are trying to articulate all the versions of reality, all the different points of view. While discussing two of his novels, Famous Last Words and The Wars, he elaborates on the difficulties of ever getting the complete story. The author attempts to land on just the right image, to say: "This is what was in that moment.
Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication
No full textScientific research is a competitive business – in order to secure funding, promotion and tenure researchers must demonstrate their work has impact in their field. To maximise impact researchers undertake high priority research, aim to get results first, and publish in the highest impact journals. The Internet now presents a new opportunity to the scholarly author seeking higher impact: s/he can now make their work instantly accessible on the Web through author self-archiving. This growing body of open access literature (coupled with new publishing models that make journals available for-free to the reader) maximises research impact by maximising the number of people who can read it, and making it available sooner. Open access also provides a new opportunity for bibliometric research. This thesis describes the relatively recent phenomenon of open access to research literature, tools that were built to collect and analyse that literature, and the results of analyses of the effect of open access and its effect on author behaviour. It shows that articles self-archived by authors receive between 50-250% more citations, that rapid pre-printing on the Web has dramatically reduced the peak citation rate from over a year to virtually instant and how citation-impact – now widely used for evaluation – can be expanded to include a new web metric of download impact
Data from: Testing the link between population genetic differentiation and clade diversification in Costa Rican orchids
No full textSpecies population genetics could be an important factor explaining variation in clade species richness. Here we use newly generated AFLP data to test whether five pairs of sister clades of Costa Rican orchids that differ greatly in species richness also differ in average neutral genetic differentiation within species, expecting that if the strength of processes promoting differentiation within species is phylogenetically heritable, then clades with greater genetic differentiation should diversify more. Contrary to expectation, neutral genetic differentiation does not correlate directly with total diversification in the clades studied. Neutral genetic differentiation varies greatly among species and shows no heritability within clades. Half of the variation in neutral genetic differentiation among populations can be explained by ecological variables, and species-level traits explain the most variation. Unexpectedly, we find no isolation by distance in any species, but genetic differentiation is greater between populations occupying different niches. This pattern corresponds with those observed for microscopic eukaryotes and could reflect effective widespread dispersal of tiny and numerous orchid seeds. Although not providing a definitive answer to whether population genetics processes affect clade diversification, this work highlights the potential for addressing new macroevolutionary questions using a comparative population genetic approach
Evidence from North Carolina Shows that Immigrant Students with Limited English Have a Very Minor Impact on Native Students' Performance
No full textMuch of the recent concern about undocumented immigration into the U.S. can be linked to the perceived burden that these immigrants may create on the public education system. But is this really the case? Through analyzing detailed information on the performance of students in North Carolina,Timothy M. Diette and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere find that the presence of students with limited English does have a negative, though small, effect on the math and reading achievement of natives that are male and black. They argue, however, that these effects are so small as not to warrant policy interventions. KEYWORDS: Education, English Language, Immigrants, Impact, Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education, Educatio
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