62 research outputs found
Time to rewrite your autobiography?
No full textAutobiographical memory is the “diary that we all carry about” said Oscar Wilde.
Autobiographical memory defines us. And because autobiographical memory is the
foundation on which we build our identity, we like to believe that our memories are
accurate, comprehensive and robust. Anything else would challenge our sense of self. But
over the previous decade, psychological scientists have shown that autobiographical
memory can be inexact, sketchy and frail. Various suggestive techniques can encourage
people to generate memories of whole events that never happened. And these illusory
memories are often held with great confidence, emotion, clarity, and vividness—but they
are not real. In this article, we discuss research showing that suggestion can create false
memories and change our autobiography
An autonomous buoy system for observing spring freshet plumes under landfast sea ice
No full text© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Laney, S. R., & Okkonen, S. An autonomous buoy system for observing spring freshet plumes under landfast sea ice. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 20, (2022): 15-25, https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10472.An ice buoy system was developed to measure oceanographic properties of freshwater plumes that occur in Arctic coastal oceans under landfast sea ice during the spring freshet. By implanting such systems into sea ice weeks or months in advance of the freshet event, sensors can be located immediately underneath the sea ice layer in situ at depths that riverine freshwater will occupy later when the freshet arrives. This observing approach is modular, can accommodate a wide range of sensors, is designed intentionally for use in remote regions, and can be readily deployed in any nearshore region that can be accessed by snowmachine. The buoy system incorporates an integral floatation collar that allows it to continue sampling as the coastal ocean becomes progressively ice free in the months after the freshet event. Automated sampling and telemetry via a satellite data network provide near-real-time observations of the timing and character of under-ice freshet plumes. An assessment study was done with an array of these ice buoy systems, outfitted with basic hydrographic and optical sensors and deployed in advance of the 2018 and 2019 freshets in landfast sea ice near the mouths of three coastal rivers in Stefansson Sound, Alaska.This work was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Carbon Cycle Science program (NNX17AI72G)
Diving into the World and Going Beyond the Screen: A Review of The Epic Story of Every Living Thing
No full textThe author reviews the young adult novel The Epic Story of Every Living Thing (2022) by Deb Caletti, providing analysis and suggestions for teaching
Spectra
No full textHannah Arendt has hardly ever been recognized as a source for sociological research. She herself has criticized the discipline for its alleged complicity with totalitarianism. Her analysis of society in The Human Condition, however, has found much acclaim in other disciplines. Following Seyla Benhabibs characterization of Arendts thought as a phenomenological essentialism, the author suggests that Arendts conceptual framework can still inspire sociological thinking if applied cautiously. Using excerpts from an extended field study of a German multi-level marketing financial planning company, the author demonstrates that Arendts distinction of practical human activities into "labor," "work," and "action" can still guide interpretative sociological research. The category of "labor" fits the way clients feature as statistically determinable beings within the representations produced by financial planners. The sales process as a whole, in turn, appears as "work" to the financial planners. Following Italian philosopher Paolo Virno, the author argues that this specific type of communicative work in a post-Fordist company is marked by an instability and precariousness that Arendt did not predict. With reference to the distinction between "fear" and "anxiety," the author explores ways in which this "industry of means of communication" (Virno) structurally undermines the stability of this social relation. A series of structural features, as well as the importance of story-telling and the "cultivation of the self" (Foucault) lead the author to conclude that forms of "action" have infiltrated the way this particular practice is organized. Through this exercise the author hopes to convince the reader that the topography of Arendts phenomenological essentialism can be turned into a more sociologically fruitful topology when we are ready to relate her concepts in a new fashion.Published versio
A study of the equal opportunity policies and matriculation patterns and graduation rates of African American students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 1980-1988, 1990
No full textThis study examined the equal opportunity policies utilized by a higher education institution and the effects these policies have on the matriculation patterns and graduation rates of African-American students. The selected policies were: (a) recruitment, (b) admissions, (c) financial aid, and (d) retention. The data were qualitative and included collection of official institutional documents and oral testimonies relating to the subject being investigated. Two research questions were designed to guide the investigation into the link between recruitment, admission, retention, and financial aid policies and enrollment and graduation of African-American students. The findings revealed there was a minor link between recruitment, admissions, financial aid, and retention policies and the number of African-Americans matriculating and graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1980-1988. It is hoped the findings and implications of this study will contribute to the literature in the field of higher education administration and related fields of knowledge
Central bank independence : a critical view
No full textWhile expansive literature on central bank independence contains some criticisms to the independent central bank quasi-paradigm, few critical analyses have been undertaken in the years between Friedman (1962) and Posen (1994). The author extends Posen's analysis to developing countries, discussing more broadly and systematically the reasons why merely instituting an independent central bank may not bring about its professed benefits, especially in developing countries. The author argues that widely reported empirical tests that are purported to support the central bank independence proposition are plagued by potential problems of simultaneity, reverse causality, missing variables, and measurement errors. Yet one can not make positive recommendations about institutional arrangements for central banks if causality relations are not well established. Institutions are shaped by a country's record of and preferences for inflation and may have little influence on them. The author also argues that the purported benefits of an independent central bank may be eroded by conflicts between fiscal and monetary policy and by inherent problems of central bank institutional design (especially mechanisms for board appointments, public accountability, and budgetary control). If these institutional problems are not solved, problems of dynamic inconsistency traditionally associated with monetary policy are not eliminated,but merely transformed. The author suggests that the benefits of central bank independence are less likely obtained in less developed countries with shallow financial markets. Accordingly, central bank independence should be granted at a later stage in a country's financial sector development. If a less developed country seeks to establish a low-inflation path, it should concentrate on instituting financial policy reforms (such as liberalization and privatization) that bolster opposition to inflation rather than easily reversible and practically meaningless changes in legal and institutional structures. This will better ensure the sustainability -- and hence the credibility -- of the government's anti-inflation stance. Fiscal policy is often at the root of macroeconomic disturbances in developing countries. Fiscal policy is more deserving of special protection from politics because of fiscal dominance over monetary policy and its greater vulnerability to private interests. The author suggests that the solution might be to make fiscal policy less susceptible to political pressures by creating an independent fiscal board. Tying the fiscal hands of government may seem a far-fetched idea. But would it not make more sense to force discipline on fiscal policy directly rather than indirectly through monetary policy?Economic Theory&Research,National Governance,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Stabilization,Macroeconomic Management
An analysis of the need for a job description plan with in the Administrative Operations Division of the Bureau of Parks and Recreation,City of Atlanta, 1979
No full textThis study was undertaken to find out what problems the Administrative Operations Division was encountering in the absence of a job description plan. Many employees in the division were not aware of their actual job functions. They have only been giver a class description of their jobs by the Bureau of Personnel, which is not the actual job functions. They have only been given a class description of their jobs by the Bureau of Personnel, which is not the actual description that they are entitled to from the division in which they are employed. A class description is a stigmatization of general duties performed by employees assigned to that class. A detailed job description is a listing of the specific and everyday duties of an employee assigned to that poison The study found that this is indeed a problem in the Administrative Operations Division. This paper recommends that the problem be corrected by developing detailed job descriptions for each employee in the division, and specific recommendations are made toward that end
A comparison of aspects of the strategy and performance of domestic and foreign owned companies in Australia
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Best Practices in Managing Customers Complaints in Selected Quick Service Restaurants in Dasmariñas City
No full textAbstract: This research was carried out to find out the best practices for dealing with customer complaints in Dasmarinas City's quick-service restaurants. The researchers of this study used the Purposive Sampling Technique to perform a descriptive survey among twenty QSR customers and ten QSR managers to learn about their insights founded on their own customer complaint experiences. Through data gathering, this study was able to find out that the demographic profile of customers affects the way they address their concerns to a QSR manager. Conversely, the demographic profile of the QSR managers affects the way they address the concerns of their customers. Most especially, their experiences from their educational attainments, given that the majority reached the college level, up to their working attainments where the majority are employees, make up the behaviors they have in a QSR. This study obtained information such as recommendations from all respondents about the best practices in managing customer complaints in QSRs, which whoever needs to know, may utilize for their own good such as students, researchers, and businesses.
Keywords: customer complaint management, customer satisfaction, food industry, quick service restaurant, QSR.
Title: Best Practices in Managing Customers Complaints in Selected Quick Service Restaurants in Dasmariñas City
Author: Maricris R. Ayate, Jhen Dela Cruz, Laney Valerie V. Buquid, Mae Casiles
International Journal of Thesis Projects and Dissertations (IJTPD)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022
Page No: 48-57
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published date: 28-June-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6772549
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Playing Through Music History: The Contextualizing Function Of Western Historical Music In Fantasy Role-Playing Video Games
No full textThis thesis focuses on the presence of Western historical music in contemporary video games. Through a combination of music-theoretical analysis, iconography, and Peircean semiotics, the author demonstrates that the nondiegetic soundtracks of fantasy role-playing video games utilize elements of major style periods in music history—including the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical eras—to enhance existing representations of time and place in their visual environments. This phenomenon is particularly apparent in three games, which serve as case studies: Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017), and Elden Ring (2022). Ultimately, the project contributes research to both ludomusicology and historical musicology, as it reveals that historical music serves an essential contextualizing function in role-playing video games and, by extension, that those same games can be sites of productive discussions about archetypal genres and styes from a wide range of periods throughout Western music history
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