scholarly journals Pottery Goes Public. Performing Archaeological Research Amid the Audience

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loes Opgenhaffen ◽  
Martina Revello Lami ◽  
Ivan Kisjes
Keyword(s):  
3D Imaging ◽  
Imaging Techniques ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Ceramic Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract The project Pottery Goes Public explores the potential of 3D analytical tools to assess to what extent they can provide us with new interpretations and insights into the technological aspects of ancient pottery manufacturing. However, developing innovative 3D imaging techniques for ceramic analysis is not the only aim of the project. Since its inception, Pottery Goes Public has been designed to involve a wider audience not only into the study of ancient potting techniques, but also into the very process of carrying out the research. As advocated by the proponents of a reflexive approach to archaeology, in order to make the past relevant to contemporary society it is imperative for the archaeologist to include all interested parties into every stage of the analysis, from the formulation of the research questions to the dissemination of outputs. In this sense, the deployment of modern 3D technologies proved to be an indisputably powerful medium of communication and interaction with the public at large. Performing live archaeological research with cutting edge tools is a key step towards opening up academic research to multiple actors and actively engaging them with the archaeological interpretative process.

scholarly journals Applications of Smart Helmet in Applied Sciences: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 5039
Author(s):  
Yosoon Choi ◽  
Yeanjae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modular Concept ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Cloud Servers

A smart helmet is a wearable device that has attracted attention in various fields, especially in applied sciences, where extensive studies have been conducted in the past decade. In this study, the current status and trends of smart helmet research were systematically reviewed. Five research questions were set to investigate the research status of smart helmets according to the year and application field, as well as the trend of smart helmet development in terms of types of sensors, microcontrollers, and wireless communication technology. A total of 103 academic research articles published in the past 11 years (2009–2020) were analyzed to address the research questions. The results showed that the number of smart helmet applications reported in literature has been increasing rapidly since 2018. The applications have focused mostly on ensuring the safety of motorcyclists. A single-board-based modular concept unit, such as the Arduino board, and sensor for monitoring human health have been used the most for developing smart helmets. Approximately 85% of smart helmets have been developed to date using wireless communication technology to transmit data obtained from smart helmets to other smart devices or cloud servers.

Norwegian Approach to Private Internal Investigations: An Empirical Study of Mandates for Fraud Examiners

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Petter Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Principal Agent ◽  
Financial Crime ◽  
Opportunistic Behavior ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Principal Agent Relationship

This article applies principal–agent relationship theory through an empirical study of private investigators’ mandates for fraud examiners in Norway. The business of private internal investigations by external fraud examiners has grown remarkably in the recent decades. Law firms and auditing firms are hired by private and public organizations to reconstruct the past when there is suspicion of misconduct and potential financial crime. Most reports of investigation are kept secret to the public and often also to the police, even when there is evidence of financial crime by white-collar criminals. For this study, we were able to identify and retrieve a total of 49 investigation reports in Norway for the 10-year period from 2006 to 2016. Reports are studied in terms of mandates defining the motive, purpose, scope, tasks, and goals. We find that mandates are deficient, thereby opening up for opportunistic behavior by both parties in the principal–agent relationship.

Research, Writing, Editorial Reviewing, and Publishing as Social Justice Issues: The Effects of Stigma

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-303
Author(s):  
Lee A. Crandall ◽  
Sharon M. Holder
Keyword(s):  
Social Stigma ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
The Way

People with disabilities face problems, not only because of their specific impairments but because of social stigma. This article focuses on stigma as it relates to a broad range of physical, social, and behavioral characteristics, and on the effect of stigma on academic research. Effects examined here include decisions regarding the ways in which research questions are defined, what research is funded and how it is funded, the ways in which research is conducted (e.g., the use of community-based participatory research versus traditional approaches), the way in which publication decisions are made, and the way in which research is received by professional colleagues and the public.

The practice of archaeology in China today

Antiquity ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (232) ◽  
pp. 282-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
China Today ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Great Wall

In the new opening-up of China to the outside world that has taken place in the last decade, archaeology and history has a major role. A walk on the Great Wall seems obligatory for visiting monarchs and presidents, while the jade princesses have themselves come to Europe. The excavation of the ‘terracotta army’ exemplifies the scale of active archaeological research, and its exposure to public view. But why is there such concern for the past, and its artefacts, in China today?

Private Equity Demystified

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gilligan ◽  
Mike Wright
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Private Equity ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Adverse Consequence ◽  
Risk Capital ◽  
Performance Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Established Firms ◽  
The Impact

This book deals with risk capital provided for established firms outside the stock market, private equity. It has grown rapidly over the last three decades, yet it is largely poorly understood. Although private equity has often been criticised in the public mind as being short-termist and having adverse consequence for employment, in reality this is far from the case. Dispelling some of the biggest myths and misconceptions about private equity, the book explains in detail what private equity involves and provides a review of the systematic evidence of what the impact of private equity has been. Written in a highly accessible style, it takes the reader through what private equity means, the different actors involved, and issues concerning sourcing, checking out, valuing, and structuring deals. The book contains summary tables of the academic research carried out over the past three decades across the private equity landscape, including the returns to investors, economic performance, impact on R&D and employees, and the longevity and life-cycle of private equity backed deal.

scholarly journals Auditing Subsequent Events: Perspectives from the Field

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. A10-A24 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Herda ◽  
James J. Lavelle
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Synthesis ◽  
Securities And Exchange Commission ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Company ◽  
Research Questions

SUMMARY: A research synthesis team formed by the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association recently authored a paper (Chung et al. 2013) addressing the audit of subsequent events (SEs). The audit of SEs is a difficult audit area, as approximately one-third of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's inspection reports and numerous Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement releases identify deficiencies in this area (Chung et al. 2013). Chung et al. (2013) developed a model and proposed a series of research questions encouraging future academic research in this area. In this paper, we address several of these questions by surveying 76 practicing auditors. We summarize the auditors' responses and present recommendations that may be useful in improving audits of SEs.

A Summary of Research and Enforcement Release Evidence on Confirmation Use and Effectiveness

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Caster ◽  
Randal J. Elder ◽  
Diane J. Janvrin
Keyword(s):  
Specific Problem ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Directional Bias ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Company ◽  
Audit Evidence ◽  
Research Questions

SUMMARY: Confirmations are extensively used and are often perceived by practitioners to be one of the most persuasive forms of audit evidence. Yet academic research has found limitations that restrict confirmation effectiveness for many management assertions. In addition, a number of problems with false and forged confirmations are identified in Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAERs). The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) have put confirmation evidence on their respective agendas. Academic research indicates that receivable confirmations can be effective evidence for the existence assertion. Low response rates, as well as respondent errors and directional bias in detecting errors, are key barriers to confirmation effectiveness. Our review of AAERs identified failure to authenticate responses, collusion between auditee management and customers, and concealed side agreements and special terms as specific problem areas. We also identify a number of research questions for future research.

scholarly journals Identitas Budaya, Kreativitas, dan Kajian Arkeologi Publik

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Andri Restiyadi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
View Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Foreign Culture

AbstractPublic Archaeology can’t be understood as a narrow-minded view point as an archaeological research and their object’s presentation and representation at the public only. However, public archaeology must be understood more widely as an archaeological view point for understand the public requirements and importance. These discipline have an important meaning for the socialization of supreme culture values at the past. On the future, those values will be reinforcing the national cultural identities from the foreign cultural influence. In order to those purpose, public role, active and seletive creativity in the foreign culture adoption without leaving any cultural identity, will be necessary.

Archaeology of Cuisine and Cooking

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-354
Author(s):  
Sarah R. Graff
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Public Outreach ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Archaeological Work

This review demonstrates that recent contributions by archaeologists to the study of cuisine and cooking present a new addition to the field of anthropology. Archaeologists situate their work historically and contextually by examining cuisines that are culturally constructed. Studying cooking and food preparation helps elucidate relationships among material practices, understandings of taste, identity, power, and meaning in a society. Archaeologists can not only discover specific ingredients in food, but also reconstruct recipes, decipher regional cuisines, ascertain sensory experiences, recover the tools in spatial context, recreate techniques used to prepare food in the past, and overall learn more about the social and cultural contexts of the human experience. This type of investigation is possible because archaeological work uses complementary data to explain social practices and because advances in archaeological methods make accessible previously undetectable data. Experimental archaeology focused on cooking in the past has not only revealed important social information but also captured the imagination of the public. Archaeological research on cooking and cuisine reveals social, political, religious, and economic practices in the past, and it has a unique ability to engage the present with the past through public outreach and solutions to food-related problems.

scholarly journals The Craft of Archaeology and Dialogue with the Public

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 563
Author(s):  
Staša Babić
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Researcher ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Other Hand

Over the last decades, especially among the postprocessualy oriented archaeologists, the link between the research into the past and various relations of domination in the modern world has been explicitly articulated, as well as the ways in which the discipline engages in the dialogue with its social context, widely encompassed by the notion of the public. On the other hand, the eminent representatives of other theoretical approaches in archaeology, such as Gordon Childe, have argued for the purpose of archaeological research in the search for knowledge leading to more just and human society much before this clearly value-oriented proclamation. The message conveyed by archaeologists to the public depends on the choice of the segment of this wide notion and whose interests an individual researcher decides to enforce, regardless of the theoretical and methodological inclinations.

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