scholarly journals The vulnerability of quasi-professional experts: A study of the changing character of US airline pilots’ work

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 867-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L Fraher
Keyword(s):  
High Tech ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Airline Pilots ◽  
Sociology Of Professions ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Work Intensification ◽  
Career Options ◽  
High Sense

This article contributes to ‘sociology of professions’ theory through the study of changes that occurred in US airline pilots’ work. Findings reveal that airline pilots are quasi-professional experts who developed specialized skills based on talent and experience which allowed them to work autonomously and enjoy a correspondingly high sense of trust and prestige for which they were often well compensated. However, results of this study suggest high labour costs and weak professional communities leave quasi-professional experts vulnerable to managerial cost-cutting and work intensification agendas, particularly during periods of merger, downsizing and other forms of industry restructuring. Findings signal a deprofessionalization of some elite fields in which experts’ specialized skills become devalued and the industry-specific nature of their expertise reduces career options and job mobility. Although the present study identifies this trend in aviation, recent changes in a wide range of industries from healthcare to high-tech portend applicability in a variety of domains.

Comparative Effects of High-Tech Visual Scene Displays and Low-Tech Isolated Picture Symbols on Engagement From Students With Multiple Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 693-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Holyfield ◽  
Sydney Brooks ◽  
Allison Schluterman
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Visual Scene ◽  
Future Research ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Difference

Purpose Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is an intervention approach that can promote communication and language in children with multiple disabilities who are beginning communicators. While a wide range of AAC technologies are available, little is known about the comparative effects of specific technology options. Given that engagement can be low for beginning communicators with multiple disabilities, the current study provides initial information about the comparative effects of 2 AAC technology options—high-tech visual scene displays (VSDs) and low-tech isolated picture symbols—on engagement. Method Three elementary-age beginning communicators with multiple disabilities participated. The study used a single-subject, alternating treatment design with each technology serving as a condition. Participants interacted with their school speech-language pathologists using each of the 2 technologies across 5 sessions in a block randomized order. Results According to visual analysis and nonoverlap of all pairs calculations, all 3 participants demonstrated more engagement with the high-tech VSDs than the low-tech isolated picture symbols as measured by their seconds of gaze toward each technology option. Despite the difference in engagement observed, there was no clear difference across the 2 conditions in engagement toward the communication partner or use of the AAC. Conclusions Clinicians can consider measuring engagement when evaluating AAC technology options for children with multiple disabilities and should consider evaluating high-tech VSDs as 1 technology option for them. Future research must explore the extent to which differences in engagement to particular AAC technologies result in differences in communication and language learning over time as might be expected.

scholarly journals Features of the use of additive technologies in operative orthopaedics

TRAUMA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
A.N. Kosiakov ◽  
A.Ye. Loskutov ◽  
K.A. Hrebennikov ◽  
A.V. Miloserdov ◽  
Ye.M. Fedin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Additive Technologies ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Current State ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Standard Tool ◽  
Level Of Training ◽  
High Level

Background. Additive technologies are increasingly making their way from university laboratories and high-tech industries into routine clinical practice and even into our everyday lives. Any enthusiast, having a PC and a 3D printer at his or her disposal, can create any physical object — from children’s toys to works of art. The presence on the market of a wide range of software pro-ducts, equipment, and consumables along with the data from mo-dern diagnostic methods, a high level of training and cooperation between doctors and engineers provide practical medicine with unprecedented opportunities. We are finally able to fully customize our treatment and diagnostic procedures: to perform precise preoperative planning; to draw up a detailed plan of the operation; to rehearse the intervention on full-scale anatomical prototypes using a standard tool; to conduct the surgery as quickly and atraumatically as possible; to minimize risks; to ensure the optimal functional result and to manufacture and install customized implants in the most difficult cases. The purpose was to draw the attention of our distinguished colleagues to the aspects of application of additive technologies in modern orthopaedic practice, to introduce them into the history and current state of medical prototyping, as well as to share technological nuances with them. Materials and methods. While writing this article, we incorporated the data of recent publications in specialized domestic and foreign periodicals, several monographs, materials from thematic conferences, the results of informal conversations with colleagues in the operating rooms, at the computer and production site, as well as our own experience (over 200 cases of prototyping). Conclusions. The availability of equipment, software, and consumables allows for the introduction of additive technology into the everyday practice of nearly every modern orthopaedic and trauma clinic.

scholarly journals Competitive advantage of the sustainable digital economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 06004
Author(s):  
Oksana Nurova ◽  
Tatiana Freze
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
High Tech ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Banking And Finance ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Wide Range

This research focuses on factors that influence the competitive advantage of the sustainable digital economy. Digital economy helped to speed up the exchange of information flows which, in turn, impacted on the creation the new forms of business and socio-economic interactions. Such sectors as banking and finance or hospitality and services are all influenced by the advancements of the digital economy that include sharing economy or Blockchain technology and its related applications. In this article, we show that digital economy is more sustainable due to the fact that it requires less energy sources and can itself contribute to the formation of the green economy and the acceptance of the renewable energy. All these features constitute its competitive advantage that needs to be further supported and fostered. In addition, we discuss key strategies and the development of skills to adapt to a digital economy and provide an overview of high-quality training for high-tech workers. It was assumed that in future, people would be able to easily acquire new skills through vocational training and vocational training. However, the spread of digital technologies has changed the way we work and has increased the need for high-quality training for workers in a wide range of professions. To use such technologies effectively, workers in an increasing number of sectors and professions need both general and advanced ICT skills.

High-Tech Workers, Management Strategy, and Globalization

2011 ◽  
pp. 42-57
Author(s):  
Jasmine Folz
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Contingent Employment ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Policies And Practices

Based on qualitative interviews with Seattle area high-tech workers, this chapter explores their positioning within and reaction to globalization processes. Looking especially as cost-cutting labor strategies of contingent employment, importation of foreign workers, and the outsourcing of professional high-tech work, it is argued that these are essentially restrictive employment strategies that benefit employers at the expense of employees. While some of the interviewees more or less approved of these practices as logical from the corporate perspective, and were confident that their jobs were too complex to be at risk, most are questioning these processes and some were actively trying to organize in an effort to halt or at least slow down such trends. How and why high-tech workers accommodate or resist management policies and practices they disagree with is analyzed with attention to the impact of ideology.

scholarly journals The Mathematical Approach to the Identification of Trouble-Free Functioning of Mining Facilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 02009
Author(s):  
Fares Abu-Abed
Keyword(s):  
High Tech ◽  
Mathematical Approach ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Well Drilling ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Technological Information ◽  
Drilling Equipment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Drilling Rigs

Modern drilling rigs are complexes of high-tech equipment operated in difficult climatic and technological conditions, characterized by sudden spasmodic changes in the process of drilling a well, which contributes to increased wear of drilling components and increases the likelihood of pre-emergency and emergency situations. Drilling equipment has a wide range of characteristics and technological parameters, the values of which are available during drilling due to the use of modern software and hardware systems for processing geological and technological information. In order to single out the most frequent pre-emergency situations in practice and to preliminarily determine the set of signs necessary for their recognition, a corresponding analysis of the complications arising during well drilling has been carried out.

A Role-Based Approach to Adult Development: The Triple-Helix Model

1989 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne McCreary Juhasz
Keyword(s):  
Adult Development ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Developmental Progress ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Life Journey ◽  
Role Based ◽  
Career Options

The triple-helix role model presented in this article offers a synthesized developmental approach to the understanding and study of adulthood. It incorporates three major roles: family, work, and self, each powered by the drive for self-esteem. This conceptualization of adult development processes accommodates a wide range of possible patterns and varied timing of life events relative to career options, family and relationship choices, and emphasis on self-development. Because it is becoming increasingly difficult to designate with certainty age-stage periods, the triple-helix role model is proposed as a different frame of reference for the perception of acceptable developmental progress. It could offer insight into the complexities of adults' lives and free us from the restriction of viewing the life journey as “on or off time,” “in or out of harmony,” “normal or abnormal.”

An economic analysis of a 10 year rate of stocking trial with fine-wool

1978 ◽  
Vol 18 (92) ◽  
pp. 370 ◽  
Author(s):  
JM George ◽  
RA Pearse
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Stocking Rate ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Wool Yield ◽  
Stocking Rates ◽  
Price Relationships ◽  
Clover Pasture

Merino ewes were grazed for 10 years at stocking rates of 8, 12 and 16 ha-1, lambing in winter, spring or summer on a phalaris/white clover pasture on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. Wool production, wool yield and count, and lambing and weaning rates were established for the wide range of climatic conditions experienced. A spring lambing is indicated under the within-year price relationships experienced. Under a wide range of wool and lamb prices the optimum stocking rate varied from 12 to 16 ewes ha-1 depending on labour costs.

scholarly journals Analyzing and Classifying Risks Arising During Innovation Project Implementation in Aircraft Motor-Building

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
T. B. Timofeeva ◽  
E. A. Ozdoeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Aircraft Engines ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Scientific And Technological Development

The current Strategy of Innovative Development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020 and the Strategy of Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation determine the goals, priorities and objectives of the state innovation policy and scientific and technological development of the country. A significant role is given to areas that allow us to obtain scientific and technical results that are the basis for increasing the innovative level of production and consolidating the country's position in the foreign market. Among the priority areas is the aviation industry, namely the sector of aircraft engine construction. The creation of aircraft engines is currently one of the most science-intensive and high-tech tasks of the domestic aircraft industry. However, the analysis of the current state of implementation of programms in this area shows that the problems of their functioning and development are not always solved taking into account a wide range of emerging risks, the negative impact of which can lead to significant financial losses. To develop effective methods for assessing and minimizing risks, it is necessary to first analyze and classify them. In the article, based on the analysis, a system of classification of risks arising during development aircraft engines. The results obtained will allow us to give a preliminary qualitative assessment of the negative events that occur at various stages of the development of aircraft engines.

scholarly journals New Strategic Approaches to Gaining from Emerging Advanced Manufacturing Markets

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Yuri Simachev ◽  
◽  
Anna Fedyunina ◽  
Maksim Yurevich ◽  
Mikhail Kuzyk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
Industrial Policies ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Current Context

Advanced Manufacturing (AM) markets are a major factor of contemporary worldwide growth that to a large extent determines countries’ competitiveness. Strengthening and/or optimizing the positions on AM markets is among the major challenges for modern industrial policy. This article discusses the structure and dynamics of the development of advanced manufacturing markets, as well as the specifics of the policies of the countries strengthening their positions in these markets. Gaining entry into AM markets currently implies individual countries’ and industries’ adopting different models which combine a wide range of factors. Small nations are rapidly applying such approaches, gaining advantages and thus increasing their competitive edge, which creates certain challenges for leading high-tech countries too slow to adjust their industrial policies. So far the basis for Industry 4.0 markets is just emerging, and remains limited to a few nations including developing ones. Country cases are presented below to illustrate the development of AM markets. The authors conclude that in the current context, no universal approaches to shaping a successful industrial policy remain. The most productive strategy is to combine the unique advantages of a particular economy.

scholarly journals Professional Education in The Post – Industrial Economy : Challenges of Digital Transformation

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
E. S. Sadovaya
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Main Factors

The article analyses the development trends of professional education in the context of global shifts taking place in the modern economy due to its technological development. The transfer of business processes to the digital environment leads to a radical reformatting of the entire sphere of labor, a change in its quality, as well as forms of interaction between people in the production of goods and services. The author identifies the main factors that have a decisive influence on the evolution of the professional activity of the person, radically changing the requirements for the professional education system, both in terms of its content, and methods of getting it. The main factors of the ongoing transformations, according to the author, include the rapid spread of digital platforms, replacing the traditional sectors of the economy, and the automation of cognitive activity based on the algorithmic repetition of a certain set of actions. Analyzing the effect of these factors, the author notes their contradictory effect on the sphere of professional employment and vocational education, comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to radically change the very paradigm of the development of vocational education, implement non-trivial organizational decisions in the process of transforming its institutional infrastructure. The article emphasizes that professional education in modern conditions is becoming not just a connecting link between the labor market and a person, but it is the beginning to fulfill a wide range of social functions. This is especially important in the context of a reduction in the scope of labor in the high-tech digital economy.

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