3,195 research outputs found
A Sensemaking Perspective on Open Strategy
No full textOpen Strategy, both as a set of processes and practices, and as an emerging academic field, “promises increased transparency and inclusion regarding strategic issues, engaging both internal and external stakeholders” (Hautz et al., 2017: 298; see also Whittington et al., 2011). Open contexts, by involving greater transparency and inclusiveness, strongly impact the way multiple stakeholders make sense of strategy or, in other words, negotiate, disseminate, or even contest the issues at play in strategic change. The diversity that openness brings to the strategic table – a diversity of people (inclusion) but also of information and of perspectives (transparency) – offers organizations more possibilities to help them to make sense of their complex environment (Seidl & Werle, 2018). To uphold the dual promise of inclusion and transparency, Open Strategy would therefore benefit from sensemaking research’s attention to the detailed practices through which people form a shared understanding
Mit Reformen gegen die Jobmisere: Rückenwind für den italienischen Arbeitsmarkt?
No full textLike Germany at the beginning of the new millennium, Italy is in deep trouble as far as the job situation is concerned. With 'Jobs Act', the Renzi government has committed itself to the mission of an extensive but controversial labour market reform. Centrepiece is the reform of the dismissal protection. With the introduction of standardized employment contracts, the distinct division of the labour market in tenured jobs on the one hand, and non-tenured jobs on the other, should be overcome
Images of women in the „Trilogy of Virtues” by Ulrich Seidl
No full textThe aim of the article is to systematise the reflections on the way of portraying women in the work of Ulrich Seidl — with particular emphasis on the Trilogy of Virtues — which consists of films: Paradise: Love, Paradise: Faith and Paradise: Hope. The author will show that the director focuses on the issue of the body and perceives his protagonists through this prism. Thus, for Seidl, body and physicality become an element of narration that connects women of different ages and experiences, much more than the fact that they are related to each other. The body serves the Austrian as a medium for reflection on the problem of social exclusion, one of the causes of which is precisely physicality, which differs from the image of the body approved by contemporary culture. The author demonstrates that the director immortalises the body in the context of what remains isolated in culture in the taboo sphere, and thus remains an element of social and cultural exclusion.
The aim of the article is to systematise the reflections on the way of portraying women in the work of Ulrich Seidl — with particular emphasis on the Trilogy of Virtues — which consists of films: Paradise: Love, Paradise: Faith and Paradise: Hope. The author will show that the director focuses on the issue of the body and perceives his protagonists through this prism. Thus, for Seidl, body and physicality become an element of narration that connects women of different ages and experiences, much more than the fact that they are related to each other. The body serves the Austrian as a medium for reflection on the problem of social exclusion, one of the causes of which is precisely physicality, which differs from the image of the body approved by contemporary culture. The author demonstrates that the director immortalises the body in the context of what remains isolated in culture in the taboo sphere, and thus remains an element of social and cultural exclusion
Kinematic study of the spider system in a biomimetic perspective
No full textThe spiders' ability of walking and climbing on different surfaces and in different conditions is taken into account in this paper in order to define and study a suitable spider-model for a future climbing-robot prototype that can autonomously explore dangerous and extra-terrestrial surfaces. Indeed, the spider shows all of the requisites for the exploration in these non-structured environments: low mass, high motion capabilities, climbing abilities and embedded decision elements. In order to understand how the spiders can walk and climb, the attaching mechanisms, the dynamics of the adhesion and the legs' movements are evaluated. Thanks to this approach structural and dynamic directives for the model are found and the mobility of the real spider can be studied in order to define a suitable bio-mimetic model. The found simplified model is analyzed from a kinematic point of view considering the different conditions of contact and flight for the eight available legs. A kinematic simulator that controls the overall degree of adhesion of the system and the locomotion pattern of the developed spider model is implemented to confirm the effectiveness of the choices
A mechanical model for the adhesion of spiders to nominally flat surfaces
No full textIn dry attachment systems of spiders and geckos, van der Waals forces mediate attraction between substrate and animal
tarsus. In particular, the scopula of Evarcha arcuata spiders allows for reversible attachment and easy detachment to a broad
range of surfaces. Hence, reproducing the scopula’s roughness compatibility while maintaining anti-bunching features and dirt
particle repellence behavior is a central task for a biomimetic transfer to an engineered model. In the present work we model the
scopula of E. arcuata from a mechano-elastic point of view analyzing the influence of its hierarchical structure on the attachment
behavior. By considering biological data of the gecko and spider, and the simulation results, the adhesive capabilities of the
two animals are compared and important confirmations and new directives in order to reproduce the overall structure are found.
Moreover, a possible suggestion of how the spider detaches in an easy and fast manner is proposed and supported by the results
... Hans Pfitzner, von Arthur Seidl; mit neun vollbildern und zwei handschriftennachbildungen.
No full textEuropean forest disturbance maps
No full textDescription
This repository holds maps of annual forest disturbances across 35 European countries derived from Landsat satellite data. The disturbance maps currently cover the time period 1986-2020 and are accompanied by a map of disturbance severity (for the moment only until 2016) and a forest mask. The methodological details are explained in Senf and Seidl 2021 (see reference blow). The maps are available per country as geoTIFF. The spatial reference system is EPSG 3035 (ETRS89 / LAEA Europe). The most current version is 1.1.0. The maps will be updated annually. The maps can also be explored online.
Citation
Please cite the dataset including version number and following paper when using the maps: Senf, C. and Seidl, R. (2021) Mapping the forest disturbance regimes of Europe. Nature Sustainability. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00609-y
Version history
1.0.0 - Initial version, covering 2016-1986 and including a forest mask and an estimate of disturbance severity
1.1.0 - Map update until 2020 using same methods as in version 1.0.0. Not accompanied by disturbance severity.
1.1.1 - Planned update: Adding disturbance severity to version 1.1.0 (expected summer 2021).
Known issues
Some SLC-off artefacts visible in northern Serbia (both version 1.0.0 and 1.1.0).
Known false disturbances mapped in Norway in 2020 in version 1.1.
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