Contemporary Australian Literary Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Driscoll
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
Book Industry ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Literary Magazines ◽  
Chain Stores ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Big Box ◽  
Work Done

Contemporary Australian literary culture is formed through networks of institutions that support writing and reading. This infrastructure, itself shaped by Australia’s history as a former British colony and its current status as a medium-sized market in a global book industry, creates specific conditions for the production and reception of Australian literature. Institutions do not comprise the whole of Australian literary culture, and many individuals and groups position themselves as outsiders, or as members of counter-networks. Nonetheless, the work done by literary organizations enables significant acts of writing, access to reading, and debates about the role of literature in contemporary Australian society. Six networks are key to Australia’s literary culture. First, publishing in Australia is structured by a mix of local offices of multinational companies and independent presses, whose list building—and consequent effects on Australian authors and readers—is influenced by their market position and capacity for digital innovation. Distribution of books in contemporary Australia occurs through libraries and bookshops; book retail is predominantly a mix of online bookshops, independent bookstores, and discount department stores, following the closure of many Australian big-box bookshops and chain stores in 2011. Australia has a growing network of literary festivals, including flagship events that attract tens of thousands of readers as well as focused events that nurture particular genres or groups of writers. Australia’s calendar of literary prizes also supports writers, builds canons, and maintains the visibility of literary culture. These expansive networks are complemented by the smaller, though influential, readerships of Australian literary magazines, which foster new writing and drive cultural debates. Finally, schools and universities institutionalize Australian writing through their curricula and increasingly provide training and employment for writers. Together, these active networks provide an outline for the form of contemporary Australian literary culture.

Harnessing Visible Representation to Mitigate Bias

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Shropshire ◽  
Kerri L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Evaluative Reactions

Numerous attempts to improve diversity by way of changing the hearts of decision makers have fallen short of the desired outcome. One underappreciated factor that contributes to bias resides not in decision makers’ hearts, but instead in their minds. People possess images, or mental representations, for specific roles and professions. Which mental image or representation springs spontaneously to mind depends on the current status quo within a field. Whether or not an individual or groups’ appearance matches visual stereotypes results in perceptually mediated preferences and prejudices, both of which harbor pernicious assumptions about who belongs in a professional setting and why. Leveraging these scientific insights can enact change. Shifting visible exemplars can change people’s mental representations and their heart’s evaluative reactions to others.

scholarly journals A Literature Review of Retailing Sector and Business Retailing Types

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MSc. Kujtim Hameli
Keyword(s):  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Chain Stores ◽  
Vending Machines ◽  
Discount Stores ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Final Consumer

retail sector probably is the most important sector of economy because it has to do directly with consumer. It includes all stores, from kiosks and small groceries to supermarket chains and shopping malls that sell products and services to final consumer for personal and household use. The aim of this paper is to make an investigation of retail sector and its business type. To gather the data, second resources has been used. A deeply scanning of literature has been performed. According to the investigation, the retailing sector generally is organized in two main groups: the retailing within the store and retailing out of the store.Retailing within the store is classified according to different characteristics, but the most important types of classification are those based on the form of the ownership, merchandise and price. According to the ownership-based classification, the most important types are independent stores, chain stores, franchising and leased department stores. According to the merchandise-based classification the most important types of retailing are department stores, supermarkets, specialty stores, convenient stores, superstores and retailer services. According to the price-based classification, the most important types of retailing are discount stores, factory outlets, category killers, off-price stores, warehouse clubs and hypermarkets. According to the place-based classification the most important type of retailing are shopping centers. The most important types of retailing out of the store are direct selling, direct marketing and automatic vending machines selling.

scholarly journals Distributed data management on Belle II

2020 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 04007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siarhei Padolski ◽  
Hironori Ito ◽  
Paul Laycock ◽  
Ruslan Mashinistov ◽  
Hideki Miyake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Distributed Data ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Distributed Data Management ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
Belle Ii ◽  
Work Done

The Belle II experiment started taking physics data in April 2018 with an estimated total volume of all files including raw events, Monte-Carlo and skim statistics of 340 petabytes expected by the end of operations in the late-2020s. Originally designed as a fully integrated component of the BelleDIRAC production system, the Belle II distributed data management (DDM) software needs to manage data across about 29 storage elements worldwide for a collaboration of nearly 1000 physicists. By late 2018, this software required significant performance improvements to meet the requirements of physics data taking and was seriously lacking in automation. Rucio, the DDM solution created by ATLAS, was an obvious alternative but required tight integration with BelleDIRAC and a seamless yet non-trivial migration. This contribution describes the work done on both DDM options, the current status of the software running successfully in production and the problems associated with trying to balance long-term operations cost against short term risk.

scholarly journals Current status of drinking water sources in the world

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Čajka ◽  
Tomáš Swiatlowski
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Potential Risk ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
Specific Position

Questions regarding the water have a specific position in the context of environmental challenges. The possibility of escalating tensions between individuals, social groups, states or groups of states may even be higher for water-related issues than with other environmental problems. According to many pessimistic forecasts in the course of the 21st century water conflicts occur, which can have tragic consequences. Even though such conflicts have not yet reached a significant regional or global dimension, the risk of such a conflict cannot be ruled out. The aim of the research is to identify other potential risk areas where the water situation will most likely worsen, which may result in a threat of violence, conflict. At the same time, we were comparing the state of renewable water resources in individual countries of the world..

International Cooperation in Developing a Digital Library Software and South Asia Network

2014 ◽  
pp. 239-255
Author(s):  
A. Neelameghan ◽  
K.S. Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
International Level ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Work Done

Inter-country cooperation in any sector almost invariably begins with information exchange among the nations or groups involved. Briefly Describes international collaboration and networking in developing user-interfaces for selected Indian languages for an open source software - the GSDL (Greenstone Digital Library) software - for creating digital libraries of multilingual multimedia information resources, more particularly for the South Asia region. The steps in the formation of the related GSDL South Asia Network, the tasks assigned to the institutions in the SAARC countries, and the plan of work are mentioned. The role and contributions of the participating institutions and the organizations at the international level and in different countries is also briefly described. Further developmental work needed and problems to be solved as identified from the work done on user-interfaces in Indian languages are highlighted.

scholarly journals Discrimination against customers by retail chain stores and the impact of the law

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
K Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Chain Store ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Disadvantaged Area ◽  
Chain Stores ◽  
Customer Perceptions ◽  
Retail Chain ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
South African Constitution ◽  
The Impact

Profit and other related objectives of business emphasise the need to distinguish between different customers or groups of customers. The South African Constitution, on the other hand, specifically prohibits unfair discrimination. This paper examines the legal principle of non-discrimination, as set out in the Constitution and the Equality Act, as well as the impact that these provisions have on discrimination against customers. The literature study shows that there is a legal obligation on business to ensure the provision of equitable customer service. An exploratory study was conducted among the customers of retail chain store outlets in Clermont, a historically disadvantaged area, to identify examples of differentiated treatment of customers by retail chain stores. Customer perceptions have in fact shown areas of differentiation which could be viewed as unfair discrimination unless justified

scholarly journals ‘Tinned Literature’? Literary Discussion in The Brisbane Courier (1930)

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Dale
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Literary Materials ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Australian Literature

To date, histories of literary culture in Queensland have not paid particular attention to newspapers, despite the fact that metropolitan and regional publications carried considerable material that allows us insight into the ways in which books were circulated and evaluated. Reviews and essays sat alongside advertisements run by department stores, specialist retailers, large distributors and newsagents, in turn jostling for attention with interviews with authors, poems, reports of literary gatherings and substantial critical essays. This article offers a ‘case study’ of literary materials in The Brisbane Courier, part of a project on the representation of literature (broadly conceived) in Australian newspapers from 1930. The year 1930 was chosen because the interwar years are so frequently characterised, in discussion of the critical study of Australian literature in particular, as a time of neglect, and the Depression as a catalyst for the gradual narrowing of literary horizons. Our larger aim is to understand this historical period better, as well as to calibrate the discussion of Australian literature against the discussion of literature generally. By focusing on a single year for data collection, we have been able to assemble a rich and detailed picture of ‘talk about books’. This, in turn, has enabled us to analyse the significant differences between, for example, the ways in which books are discussed and represented as commercial and aesthetic objects in regional and metropolitan newspapers (see Dale and Thomson 2010).

scholarly journals Decommissioning of the Astra research reactor: Review and status on July 2003

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Radiation Protection ◽  
Research Reactor ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
Organizational Planning ◽  
Work Done

The paper describes work on the decommissioning of the ASTRA research reactor at the Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf. Organizational, planning, and dismantling work done until July 2003 including radiation protection and waste management procedures as well as the current status of the project are presented. Completion of the decommissioning activities is planned for 2006.

scholarly journals Jiskefet, a bookkeeping application for ALICE

2020 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. 04023
Author(s):  
Marten Teitsma ◽  
Vasco Chibante Barosso ◽  
Pascal Boeschoten ◽  
Patrick Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Current Status ◽  
Alice Experiment ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Electronic Logbook ◽  
Rest Api ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Large Ion Collider ◽  
Collider Experiment ◽  
Future Plans

A new bookkeeping system called Jiskefet is being developed for A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) during Long Shutdown 2, to be in production until the end of LHC Run 4 (2029). Jiskefet unifies two functionalities: a) gathering, storing and presenting metadata associated with the operations of the ALICE experiment and b) tracking the asynchronous processing of the physics data. It will replace the existing ALICE Electronic Logbook and AliMonitor, allowing for a technology refresh and the inclusion of new features based on the experience collected during Run 1 and Run 2. The front end leverages web technologies much in use nowadays such as TypeScript and NodeJS and is adaptive to various clients such as tablets, mobile devices and other screens. The back end includes an OpenAPI specification based REST API and a relational database. This paper will describe the organization of the work done by various student teams who work on Jiskefet in sequential and parallel semesters and how continuity is guaranteed by using guidelines on coding, documentation and development. It will also describe the current status of the development, the initial experience in detector stand-alone commissioning setups and the future plans.

Neighborhood Activism and Slow Growth

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-167
Author(s):  
Jan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Slow Growth ◽  
Chain Stores ◽  
Minority Participation ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Big Box ◽  
Growth Preservation

Introduces the rise of neighborhood activism in Northeast Los Angeles in the 1980s against the backdrop of “slow growth” preservation and local control movements in California and around the nation. Case study of Eagle Rock, where The Eagle Rock Association (TERA) led a series of protests against mini-malls, condominiums, mansions and “big box” chain stores, in favor of better coordinated land-use planning preservation of natural and architectural landmarks, and “Take Back the Boulevard” for bikers and pedestrians. The case of Highland Park, where citizen activists and preservationists worked to create a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ) to save historic buildings and better regulate land-use planning. It chronicles the rise of the Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition to oppose the veritable warehousing of the Southwest Museum and storage of the collection in Burbank by its new owner, the Autry National Center of the West. Examines the internal politics of neighborhood activism, the significant participation of women leaders, and the question of minority participation. The chapter finishes with the political legacy of the slow growth movements of Northeast Angeles, which are expressed through a progressive coalition of neighborhood activist organizations with Democratic Latino city councilmen.

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