scholarly journals Agile Uncertainty Assessment for Benefit Points and Size Points

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Jo Erskine Hannay
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Uncertainty Assessment ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Agile Methodology ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

AbstractAgile methodology purports to deal with uncertainty through continuous monitoring and learning. To do so, we need to see how productivity is faring against our plans, as in the previous chapter. But we also need to communicate what our uncertainty is realistically. This is regularly done for cost, but must also be done for benefit to obtain a complete picture. In this chapter, we show how both benefit points and size points can be instantiated with values reflecting different levels of uncertainty.

Accessing offshoring advantages: what and how to offshore

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 262-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alona Mykhaylenko ◽  
Ágnes Motika ◽  
Brian Vejrum Waehrens ◽  
Dmitrij Slepniov
Keyword(s):  
Performance Outcomes ◽  
Offshore Outsourcing ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Captive Offshoring ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Governance Modes ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advance the understanding of factors that affect offshoring performance results. To do so, this paper focuses on the access to location-specific advantages, rather than solely on the properties of the offshoring company, its strategy or environment. Assuming that different levels of synergy may exist between particular offshoring strategic decisions (choosing offshore outsourcing or captive offshoring and the type of function) and different offshoring advantages, this work advocates that the actual fact of realization of certain offshoring advantages (getting or not getting access to them) is a more reliable predictor of offshoring success. Design/methodology/approach – A set of hypotheses derived from the extant literature is tested on the data from a quantitative survey of 1,143 Scandinavian firms. Findings – The paper demonstrates that different governance modes and types of offshored function indeed provide different levels of access to different types of location-specific offshoring advantages. This difference may help to explain the ambiguity of offshoring initiatives performance results. Research limitations/implications – Limitations of the work include using only the offshoring strategy elements and only their limited variety as factors potentially influencing access to offshoring advantages. Also, the findings are limited to Scandinavian companies. Originality/value – The paper introduces a new concept of access, which can help to more reliably predict performance outcomes of offshoring initiatives. Recommendations are also provided to practitioners dealing with offshoring initiatives.

Following Gesture Following: Grounding the Documentation of a Multi-Agent Music Creation Process

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Boutard ◽  
Catherine Guastavino
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

The documentation of electroacoustic and mixed musical works typically relies on a posteriori data collection. In this article, we argue that the preservation of musical works having technological components should be grounded in a thorough documentation of the creative process that accounts for both human and nonhuman agents of creation. The present research aims at providing a ground for documentation policies that account for the creative process and provide relevant information for performance, migration, and analysis. To do so, we analyzed secondary ethnographic data from a two-year creation and production process of a musical work having a focus on gesture following. Using grounded theory, we developed a conceptual framework with different levels of abstraction and consequent levels of transferability to other creative contexts. Finally, we propose several paths for grounding a subsequent documentation framework in this conceptual framework.

Anti-corruption: prevention and control

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
James L. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Corruption Prevention ◽  
And Control ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Do So

The chapter takes its point of departure from the fact that scandals of the kind considered in the previous chapter are important in driving efforts to tackle problems like corruption because they create the public pressure needed to ensure they are taken seriously. Against this background the chapter considers, first, the conditions under which measures to tackle corruption are likely to be more or less successful, bearing in mind that any given measure may work well in some contexts, less so in others. Then it asks about the conditions under which the authorities’ efforts to tackle corruption will be greater or lesser – bearing in mind that in order for the authorities to make any attempt to combat corruption, they have to be aware of it; they have to want to combat it, and they have to have adequate means to do so. Finally, in light of the factors influencing the efforts the authorities are likely to make in tackling corruption, the chapter considers what they are actually doing.

On Islands and Deserts

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-236
Author(s):  
Tristan Leperlier
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Rachid Boudjedra ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

Abstract This article argues for the necessity for world literature and postcolonial studies to examine both global hierarchies of literary legitimacy and those local practices which might challenge them, and give perspectives for other significant geographies. To do so, it focuses on the bilingual and transnational Algerian literary field; this requires different levels of interconnected analysis, namely of the two linguistic subfields, the intermediary level of national literary field and the two Francophone and Arabophone transnational literary fields. Trajectories and literary works of three very different yet linked writers, Rachid Boudjedra, Tahar Djaout and Tahar Ouettar, are examined in turn. The article traces both the global and linguistic inequalities to which they were subjected as well as their practices in order to argue that they reveal unexpected vectors of circulation between spaces and languages. Finally, this piece explores how and why each writer reinvents a world within their desert novels, that is, by narrating wanderings in the desert that are also explorations of national identity.

USING RESTRICTED RANDOM WALKS FOR LIBRARY RECOMMENDATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE SPACE EXPLORATION

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 355-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARKUS FRANKE ◽  
ANDREAS GEYER-SCHULZ
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Random Walks ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Knowledge Space ◽  
Online Catalog ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Cluster Level ◽  
Do So

Implicit recommender systems provide a valuable aid to customers browsing through library corpora. We present a method to realize such a recommender especially for, but not limited to, libraries. The method is cluster-based, scales well for large collections, and produces recommendations of good quality. The approach is based on using session histories of visitors of the library's online catalog in order to generate a hierarchy of nondisjunctive clusters. Depending on the user's needs, the clusters at different levels of the hierarchy can be employed as recommendations. Using the prototype of a user interface we show that, if, for instance, the user is willing to sacrifice some precision in order to gain a higher number of documents during a specific session, he or she can do so easily by adjusting the cluster level via a slider.

Roman Knossos: Discovering the City through the Evidence of Rescue Excavations

2010 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 339-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Sweetman
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City ◽  
Do So

Thus far, much of the analysis of Roman and Late Antique Knossos has been based on the material culture produced through research excavations such as the Villa Dionysus and the Unexplored Mansion. Such excavations provide a tantalizing view of select aspects of the community and city and are essential for an understanding of the chronology of much of the material culture. However, these excavations cannot provide a complete picture of the character and diachronic range of the entire city. To do so, it is necessary to turn to the hitherto unpublished rescue excavations undertaken in dispersed locations of the valley. These range from the many graves located on the slopes of the surrounding hills, to monumental architectural remains in the area to the east of the Villa Dionysus, and to mundane features such as cisterns and roads in the modern village. In this paper, within the context of the published Roman material and with a focus on mosaics and ceramics, the evidence of the rescue material is used to develop a better perception of the city and all its residents, including the layout in terms of administrative, residential, and industrial areas from the first to the seventh centuryad.Μέχρι σήμερα ένα μεγάλο μέρος της εξέτασης της Κνωσού κατά τη ρωμαϊκή περίοδο και την ύστερη αρχαιότητα έχει βασιστεί στα υλικά κατάλοιπα από συστηματικές ανασκαφές, όπως στην Έπαυλη του Διονύσου και την Ανευξερεύνητη Οικία. Αυτές οι ανασκαφές παρουσιάςουν μία δελεαστική όψη επιλεκτικών εκφάνσεων της κοινότητας και της πόλης. Επιπλέον είναι σημαντικές για την κατανόηση της χρονολόγησης ενός μεγάλου μέρους των υλικών καταλοίπων. Ωστόσο, δεν μπορούν να παρουσιάσουν μία συνολική εικόνα του χαρακτήρα και της διαχρονικής αλληλουχίας όλης της πόλης. Για να γίνει κάτι τέτοιο είναι απαραίτητο να στρέψουμε την προσοχή μας στο μέχρι σήμερα αδημοσίευτο υλικό των σωστικών ανασκαφών που έχουν πραγματοποιηθεί σε διάφορες θέσεις στην πεδιάδα. Αυτές οι ανασκαφές ποικίλλουν: από τους πολλούς τάφους στις πλαγιές των γειτονικών λόφων, στα μνημειακά αρχιτεκτονικά κατάλοιπα στην περιοχή ανατολικά της Έπαυλης του Διονύσου και τα κοινότοπα στοιχεία, όπως δεξαμενές και δρόμοι στο σύγχρονο χωριό. Στο άρθρο αυτό, μέσα στο πλαίσιο του δημοσνευμένου ρωμαϊκού υλικού και με έμφαση στα ψηφιδωτά και την κεραμεική, τα δεδομένα από το υλικό των σωστικών ανασκαφών χρησιμοποιούνται για την καλύτερη κατανόηση της πόλης και όλων των κατοίκων της συμπεριλαμβανομένης της διάρθρωσής της ως προς τις περιοχές διοίκησης, κατοίκησης και βιοτεχνικής παραγωγής από τον πρώτο μέχρι τον έβδομο αιώνα μετά Χριστόν.

scholarly journals Coeducation as a perspective for History teaching in Secondary Compulsory Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidora Sáez-Rosenkranz ◽  
Elvira Barriga-Ubed ◽  
Ilaria Bellatti
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la perspectiva coeducativa de tres unidades didácticas de innovación docente dirigidas a diferentes niveles de la Educación Secundaria en el ámbito de la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales (Atenas; Amores y Revolución). Para ello hemos realizado dos procedimientos de análisis, uno asociado a los materiales en sí y el otro, a su puesta en práctica. El análisis de los materiales se ha realizado mediante el análisis del contenido, mientras la aplicación ha sido realizada a partir del análisis de notas de campo extraídas a través de observación no participante. De estos análisis es posible establecer que tanto las unidades, como su aplicación, abordan la perspectiva coeducativa, aunque su explotación en la práctica educativa queda condicionada por la acción docente. En este sentido, sería necesario profundizar en la formación inicial y continua del profesorado. The objective of this article is to analyze the coeducational perspective of three teaching innovation proposals: Athens, the origin of democracy, The loves of my life and Women and Industrial Revolution. The three proposals are oriented to different levels of Secondary Compulsory Education in the field of social sciences teaching. To do so, we have carried out two analysis procedures, one associated with the materials themselves and the other, with their implementation. The analysis of the materials has been done through content analysis, while the application has been made from the analysis of field notes extracted through non-participant observation. From this analysis, it is possible to state that both, the units and their implementation, put into practice several dimensions of coeducational perspective, although its exploitation in educational practice is conditioned by teaching action. In this sense, it would be necessary to the didactic designs as well as in initial and continuous teacher’s training programs.

Analyzing the active audience: Reluctant, reactive, fearful, or lazy? Forms and motives of participation in mainstream journalism

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 827-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia-Paschalia Spyridou
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Active Audience ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Creative Effort ◽  
Do So

Participation has become a key issue in contemporary journalism studies, yet research on how the participatory space is being appropriated by users is rather limited. This article attempts a methodological contribution by offering a way to analyze participatory journalism in reference to variant participatory affordances enabling different levels of creative effort, control, and editorial permeability. To do so, it understands participation as the active involvement of users, and makes an analytical connection among technological affordances, motivations, and contextual factors. The article offers empirical evidence challenging both cyber-optimist and cyber-pessimist assumptions about participation. Drawing on insights from a web-based survey, it is argued that the ‘reluctant audience’ paradigm may be interpreted in terms of the ‘lazy audience’ and the ‘fearful audience’, which seem to coexist along with the ‘reactive audience’.

scholarly journals An experimental test of a Bayesian method for inferring extinction with varying search efforts

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Clements ◽  
Tamsin Lee ◽  
Micheal A McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Test ◽  
Bayesian Method ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Experimental System ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Search Effort ◽  
Prior Expectation ◽  
Effective Conservation ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

Determining whether a species is extinct or extant is notoriously difficult, but is fundamental to both our understanding of biodiversity loss, and our ability to implement effective conservation measures. Many methods have been proposed in an attempt to infer quantitatively whether a species has gone extinct, with many seeking to do so by using sets of historic sighting events. Until recently, however, no methods have been proposed that explicitly take into account search effort (the proportion of a habitat searched when looking for a species), a key determinant of if/when historic sighting events have occurred. Here we present the first test of a recently proposed Bayesian approach for inferring the extinction status of a species from a set of historic sighting events where the search effort that has produced the sightings can be explicitly included in the calculation. We utilize data from a highly tractable experimental system, as well as simulated data, to test whether the method is robust to changing search efforts, and different levels of detectability of a species. We find that, whilst in general the method performs well, it is susceptible to both changes in search effort through time, as well as how detectable a species is. In addition, we show that the value of the prior expectation that the species is extant has a large impact on the accuracy of the methods, and that selecting correct priors is critical for accurate inference of extinction status.

scholarly journals Experiências Anômalas e Dissociativas em Contexto Religioso: Uma Abordagem Autoetnográfica

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Everton de Oliveira MARALDI
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Altered States Of Consciousness ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Significant Similarity ◽  
Subjective Data ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

The present study explored the phenomenological characteristics of anomalous experiences (AEs) reported during Umbanda rituals, a mediumistic Brazilian religion, with the aim of comparing AEs reported during rituals involving the use of Ayahuasca (an entheogen frequently used in some Umbanda contexts) and rituals without the use of this substance. In order to do so, we compared individuals with different levels of involvement with the mediumistic practices. The study was based on an auto-ethnographic approach. This methodological perspective allowed us to confront subjective data with the available knowledge in the scientific literature about AEs, dissociative phenomena and altered states of consciousness and was of fundamental importance for a more sensitive understanding of the nuances and characteristics of these experiences. The results attest to a significant similarity between the experiences reported with and without the use of Ayahuasca in mediumistic contexts. In both groups, the experiencers were able to identify certain similarities in their experiences regarding a reduction of voluntary motor control, changes in memory and perception, communicability and accessibility of experiences, anomalous information reception and increases in interpersonal sensitivity. The results support the methodological feasibility of autoethnography as a research tool and point to its relevance to a deeper understanding of AEs and other subjective experiences usually of difficult investigation by other research methods.

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