2,278 research outputs found
Carbon Frontiers:An Interview with Hiroki Shin
Full text linkThis interview with Dr. Hiroki Shin (University of Birmingham, UK) took place via e-mail in December 2024. It has been edited for length and clarity. In it, Commodity Frontiers editorial collective member Dr. Simon Jackson offers a series of questions and prompts focused on the concept of carbon frontiers — its origins, applications, future, and audiences — as Dr. Shin sees them emerge in his own research
Carbon Frontiers:An Interview with Hiroki Shin
Full text linkThis interview with Dr. Hiroki Shin (University of Birmingham, UK) took place via e-mail in December 2024. It has been edited for length and clarity. In it, Commodity Frontiers editorial collective member Dr. Simon Jackson offers a series of questions and prompts focused on the concept of carbon frontiers — its origins, applications, future, and audiences — as Dr. Shin sees them emerge in his own research
Carbon Frontiers:An Interview with Hiroki Shin
Full text linkThis interview with Dr. Hiroki Shin (University of Birmingham, UK) took place via e-mail in December 2024. It has been edited for length and clarity. In it, Commodity Frontiers editorial collective member Dr. Simon Jackson offers a series of questions and prompts focused on the concept of carbon frontiers — its origins, applications, future, and audiences — as Dr. Shin sees them emerge in his own research
Energy Narratives in Past Energy Exhibitions
No full textIn our latest blog, Dr Hiroki Shin, Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, discusses how museum exhibitions have historically presented energy narrative
Energy Narratives in Past Energy Exhibitions
No full textIn our latest blog, Dr Hiroki Shin, Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, discusses how museum exhibitions have historically presented energy narrative
The age of paper: the bank note, communal currency and British society, 1790s–1830s
No full textIn the first detailed examination of Britain's transition to paper currency, Hiroki Shin explores how state, nation and community each played their respective role in its introduction. By examining archival materials and personal accounts, Shin's work sheds fresh light on societal, institutional, communal and individual responses to the transformation. The dominance of communal currency during the Bank Restriction period (1797–1821) demonstrates how paper currency derived its value from the community of users rather than the state or the intrinsic value of precious metal. Shin traces the expanded use of the Bank of England note – both geographically and socially – in this period, revealing the economic and social factors that accelerated this shift and the cultural manifestations of the paper-based monetary regime, from everyday politics to bank-note forgeries. This book serves as an essential resource for those interested in understanding the modern monetary system's historical origins
A successful model of regional healthcare information exchange in Japan: Case Study in Kagawa Prefecture
Full text linkIn this study, we focused on analysis of healthcare data exchange over the network. For the advance of broadband capability development, many governments expect online medical information exchange between medical institutions. Japanese government also has tried to deploy ICT in the healthcare field. In Japan, many healthcare ICT projects started, but almost of all the projects face many issues and failed to continue. This situation caused us to clarify the success factor of healthcare information exchange network. For inspecting the success factors, we analyzed information access of healthcare systems in Kagawa prefecture of Japan. Kagawa prefecture is one of the most advance areas for healthcare information technology. We analyzed four medical ICT projects in Kagawa prefecture: K-MIX, Critical Pathway for Diabetes, E-prescription, and PHR. In addition, we inspected characteristics of exchanged data in the network, and stakeholder involved in these projects. This analysis lets us find various types of healthcare ICT projects. Characteristic of data processed in the projects caused differences of characteristic of the projects. On the other hand, multiple systems process same data, though the project does not share the data itself. Considering various types of medical information exchanges projects, we propose classification and standard format of exchanged data according to their characteristic are critical for efficient business deployment. --e-Health,regional healthcare information exchange,EHR
The rise of temporary employment in Japan: Legalisation and expansion of a non-regular employment form
Full text linkThis discussion paper examines the institutionalization process of a non-regular employment form especially focusing on the establishment of the temporary dispatching work (haken) system. The institutionalization process of the haken system can be divided into three periods: delegalisation (1947-86), legalisation (1986-99), and diffusion (1999-). Declining labor strength, the emergence of deregulation bodies, and the changing attitude of the Ministry of Labor (MHLW) characterize the legal developments. Together with the liberalization of private job placement and the expansion of fixed-term contract work, temporary work became an important sources of flexible and skilled labor, and expanded more rapidly than other employment forms in the late 90s. In this development, temporary help firms started to reframe their business as 'personnel services,' and have positioned themselves to replace the traditional firm-internal supply of mobile employees such as shukkô and tenseki with external dispatched employees of temporary help firms. --Japan,temporary work,non-regular employment,labor market,(de-)regulation
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