The Institutional Work of Own the Podium in Developing High-Performance Sport in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew Dowling ◽  
Jimmy Smith
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Additional Funding ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sport Programs ◽  
Sole Product ◽  
Paralympic Games

This investigation examined how Own the Podium (OTP) has contributed to the ongoing development of highperformance sport in Canada. In adopting an institutional work perspective, we contend that OTP’s continuance has not been the sole product of Canada’s success at the Olympic and Paralympic Games or lobbying efforts to secure additional funding. Rather, OTP’s permanence can also be explained as the by-product of the activities and actions of OTP itself and its supporting stakeholders to embed and institutionalize both the organization specifically and high-performance sport more generally in the Canadian sport landscape. In short, OTP’s continued existence can, in part, be explained by ongoing institutional work. To support our contentions, we draw on and analyze documentation that was either produced by, or significant to the development of, OTP. Our analysis identifies a number of OTP-related practices (e.g., tiering, hiring of high-performance advisors, and the creation and support of new high-performance sport programs) that have further institutionalized OTP and the norms, routines, and practices associated with high-performance sport. More broadly, our investigation draws attention to the importance of individual and collective actors in shaping institutional settings in sport.

International Legal Sanction Processes

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Paust
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Legal Sanction ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
The Creation

This article views international legal sanction processes as richly varied and dynamic, involving numerous types of participants, with various sanction objectives, operating in both formal and less formal fora or processes, utilizing various types of resources, with varied effects and long-term consequences. It identifies certain areas of debate and suggests a future scholarly agenda. With that in mind, it is evident that increasing attention to the creation, shaping, and efficacy of international law outside such traditional institutional settings should be part of a future scholarly agenda regardless of one's jurisprudential bias. The discussion covers participants in the sanction process, sanction objectives, formal fora, less formal processes, and more specific sanction strategies or problems.

scholarly journals OPEN URBAN AND FOREST DATASETS FROM A HIGH-PERFORMANCE MOBILE MAPPING BACKPACK – A CONTRIBUTION FOR ADVANCING THE CREATION OF DIGITAL CITY TWINS

2021 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B1-2021 ◽  
pp. 125-131
Author(s):  
S. Blaser ◽  
J. Meyer ◽  
S. Nebiker
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Mobile Mapping ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Localization And Mapping ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
The Creation

Abstract. With this contribution, we describe and publish two high-quality street-level datasets, captured with a portable high-performance Mobile Mapping System (MMS). The datasets will be freely available for scientific use. Both datasets, from a city centre and a forest represent area-wide street-level reality captures which can be used e.g. for establishing cloud-based frameworks for infrastructure management as well as for smart city and forestry applications. The quality of these data sets has been thoroughly evaluated and demonstrated. For example, georeferencing accuracies in the centimetre range using these datasets in combination with image-based georeferencing have been achieved. Both high-quality multi sensor system street-level datasets are suitable for evaluating and improving methods for multiple tasks related to high-precision 3D reality capture and the creation of digital twins. Potential applications range from localization and georeferencing, dense image matching and 3D reconstruction to combined methods such as simultaneous localization and mapping and structure-from-motion as well as classification and scene interpretation. Our dataset is available online at: https://www.fhnw.ch/habg/bimage-datasets

scholarly journals Zooming in on Institutional Politics: Professional accountability systems as institutional weaponry

2019 ◽  
pp. 017084061986649
Author(s):  
Berber Pas ◽  
Rinske Wolters ◽  
Kristina Lauche
Keyword(s):  
Service Firms ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Accountability Systems ◽  
Institutional Control ◽  
Professional Accountability ◽  
Institutional Politics ◽  
Collective Actors

In this paper we focus on the development of professional accountability systems as a form of systemic power to enhance institutional control, particularly on the associated institutional politics – the interplay between institutional control and institutional work by different (collective) actors. We address the dialectical nature of these institutional politics and identify three types of power tactics underpinning institutional work: attacking, anticipating and defending. Articulating these power tactics revealed the dialectical flux of power tactics between different parties, and how this in turn arose from and affected the development and strength of (new) systemic power. This shows how gaining institutional control over mostly self-employed professionals (veterinarians) through systemic power without legislation is a more sophisticated process than often assumed based on studies of professionals working in large service firms.

The creation of hollow walls in carbon nanotubes for high-performance lithium ion batteries

Carbon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 384-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Pan ◽  
Hao Sun ◽  
Jian Pan ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Bingjie Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Lithium Ion Batteries ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Lithium Ion ◽  
The Creation

What makes a team brilliant? An experiential exploration of positivity within healthcare

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 591-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emeritus Liz Fulop ◽  
Louise Kippist ◽  
Ann Dadich ◽  
Kate Hayes ◽  
Leila Karimi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Hybrid Dynamics ◽  
Organisational Dynamics ◽  
Initial Framework

AbstractFollowing its positive outcomes in a state-wide survey, co-managers of the Queensland Cancer Control Analysis Team commissioned discovery interviews to explore these results. Eleven interviews were analysed by positive organisational scholars who drew on depreciating and appreciating organisational dynamics to make sense of Queensland Cancer Control Analysis Team’s high performance. An initial framework was devised, including appreciative, depreciative, and hybrid dynamics, with the latter representing an extension to an existing taxonomy. Findings revealed mainly appreciative and hybrid dynamics. To further understand these, the framework was expanded by reframing the dynamics as positive institutional work. This extension offers an experiential understanding of positive institutional patterns by incorporating the troika of experiential surfacing, agency as inquiry, and inclusion. The value of this framework is threefold, for it can be used as an analytic, a diagnostic, and an intervention tool to enable scholars and practitioners to operationalise positive organisational scholarship to examine, understand, and promote positive organisational experiences.

scholarly journals APLIKASI AGEN CERDAS UNTUK PEMBELAJARAN PEMPROGRAMAN BERORIENTASI OBJEK BERBASIS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khairil Anam ◽  
SEHMAN
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Object Oriented Programming ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Computer Laboratory ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Laboratory Learning ◽  
The Creation

The existence of a touch of technology on laboratory learning becomes another alternative as a supporter of laboratory learning. Different practitioner's wishes and intensity of relatively short laboratory practice which resulted in dissatisfaction in the implementation of a practicum. Thus, an intelligent learning alternative is needed. This intelligent learning aims to provide high-quality and high-performance training skills that can assist the practitioner in solving problems related to practicum materials. The intelligent learning system is a learning system that handles some student instruction without any intervention from a teacher.Alternative learning system that can support the creation of Intelligent Learning System is by Natural Language Processing (NLP) method. This final project provides an explanation of the creation and implementation of intelligent learning systems in the Object Oriented Programming Computer Laboratory. This system consists of several stages: parsing, similarity, stemming, Knowledge Base which is designed in an interactive form between praktikan and agent based dialoge based application. The success rate of this system in answering questions from praktikan session II is 88.75%.

scholarly journals High-strength concrete with new organic mineral complex admixture

2019 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Makhmud Abu-Khasan ◽  
Valentina Soloviova ◽  
Dmitry Soloviov
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
High Voltage ◽  
Transmission Lines ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Mineral Admixture ◽  
Line Lattice ◽  
Organic Mineral ◽  
The Creation ◽  
High Voltage Transmission ◽  
Lattice Towers

There are the great problems of the concrete for high voltage the transmission lines obtaining. One of them is the creation of reinforced concrete centrifugally spun transmission towers with enhanced reliability and durability for high-voltage transmission lines having voltage of 110-750 kV. The second problem is the creation of high-quality reinforced concrete foundations to fix overhead electric line lattice towers in the ground because more than 50% of operated reinforced concrete towers and foundations are in need of repair or were put into repair. A complex high-performance organic mineral admixture for tower bodies of high-voltage transmission lines is developed. The main components of the admixture are polycarboxylate polymere and silica sol. It insures increased compressive strength and tensile strength in bending, freeze resistance, waterproofing and corrosive resistance. The obtained positive results allow to reduce a compression zone width and a crack growth width. The paper can be useful for not only the transport construction but and for concrete obtaining with special properties at any fields.

Belfast Soundwalks

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Sarah Bass ◽  
Pedro Rebelo
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Smartphone App ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sonic Art ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article outlines the ongoing development of a locative smartphone app for iPhone and Android phones entitled The Belfast Soundwalks Project. Drawing upon a method known as soundwalking, the aim of this app is to engage the public in sonic art through the creation of up to ten soundwalks within the city of Belfast. This paper discusses the use of GPS enabled mobile devices in the creation of soundwalks in other cities. The authors identify various strategies for articulating an experience of listening in place as mediated by mobile technologies. The project aims to provide a platform for multiple artists to develop site-specific sound works which highlight the relationship between sound, place and community. The development of the app and the app interface are discussed, as are the methods employed to test and evaluate the project.

scholarly journals A High-Performance Computing Implementation of Iterative Random Forest for the Creation of Predictive Expression Networks

Genes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Cliff ◽  
Jonathon Romero ◽  
David Kainer ◽  
Angelica Walker ◽  
Anna Furches ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
High Performance Computing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Eqtl Analysis ◽  
Time To Completion ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Leave One Out ◽  
Performance Computing

As time progresses and technology improves, biological data sets are continuously increasing in size. New methods and new implementations of existing methods are needed to keep pace with this increase. In this paper, we present a high-performance computing (HPC)-capable implementation of Iterative Random Forest (iRF). This new implementation enables the explainable-AI eQTL analysis of SNP sets with over a million SNPs. Using this implementation, we also present a new method, iRF Leave One Out Prediction (iRF-LOOP), for the creation of Predictive Expression Networks on the order of 40,000 genes or more. We compare the new implementation of iRF with the previous R version and analyze its time to completion on two of the world’s fastest supercomputers, Summit and Titan. We also show iRF-LOOP’s ability to capture biologically significant results when creating Predictive Expression Networks. This new implementation of iRF will enable the analysis of biological data sets at scales that were previously not possible.

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