Monumental Landscapes of the Maya

2020 ◽  
pp. 335-348
Author(s):  
Arlen F. Chase ◽  
Diane Z. Chase
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Remarkable Degree ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Transition Points ◽  
The Individual

In chapter 16, Arlen Chase and Diane Chase reflect on the topic of monumental landscapes of the ancient Maya. They consider the myriad ways in which the word “monumental” is aptly applied to describe the landscapes of the Maya world. Although the obvious towering temples and palaces of the Classic cities first and foremost come to mind when thinking of monumentality among the ancient Maya, Chase and Chase remind us that much of the monumental character of ancient Maya landscapes is represented by the horizontal transformation of the built environment. Beyond that, other landscape features represent visible reminders that the Maya heavily altered the natural environment to a remarkable degree. Importantly, the authors also remind us that through their worldview, the ancient Maya considered their landscape to be monumental and complex, involving layered worlds with earthly transition points between realms represented by caves and lakes and manmade, symbolic access points represented by temple doorways, the opening into an allegorical mountain or witz. The concluding chapter provides a big-picture, deep-time view of the Maya world, which reaffirms the approaches and conclusions of the individual case studies in this volume—monumentality pervades ancient Maya landscapes, physically, conceptually, and symbolically.

Juggling Porcupines

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Brad Johnson ◽  
Gerald P. Koocher
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
The Individual

This chapter presents an introduction to the title, and discusses the difficulties in being ethical in challenging roles and work settings. It explores the rationale for the title, and presents an overview of the structure that the individual case studies will take.

Introducing the Adherence Strategy Engineering Framework (ASEF)

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (03) ◽  
pp. 220-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Toftegaard ◽  
O. W. Bertelsen ◽  
S. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Patient Adherence ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
The Individual

SummaryBackground: Patients performing self-care in the unsupervised setting do not always adhere to the instructions they were initially provided with. As a consequence, a patient’s ability to successfully comply with the treatment plan cannot be verified by the treating healthcare professional, possibly resulting in reduced data quality and suboptimal treatment.Objectives: The aim of this paper is to introduce the Adherence Strategy Engineering Framework (ASEF) as a method for developing novel technology-based adherence strategies to assess and improve patient adherence levels in the unsupervised setting.Methods: Key concepts related to self-care and adherence were defined, discussed, and implemented as part of the ASEF framework.ASEF was applied to seven self-care case studies, and the perceived usefulness and feasibility of ASEF was evaluated in a questionnaire study by the case study participants. Finally, we reviewed the individual case studies usage of ASEF.Results: A range of central self-care concepts were defined and the ASEF methodological framework was introduced. ASEF was successfully used in seven case studies with a total of 25 participants. Of these, 16 provided answers in the questionnaire study reporting ASEF as useful and feasible. Case study reviews illustrated the potential of using context-aware technologies to support self-care in the unsupervised setting as well as ASEF’s ability to support this.Conclusion: Challenges associated with moving healthcare to the unsupervised setting can be overcome by applying novel context-aware technology using the ASEF method. This could lead to better treatment outcomes and reduce healthcare expenditures.

scholarly journals An Aristotelian interpretation of practical wisdom: the case of retirees

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Massingham
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Workforce Planning ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Global Population

Abstract This paper aims to improve understanding of the concept of practical wisdom. The theoretical lens used is Aristotle’s practical rationality or ‘phronesis’. Researchers argue that practical wisdom should be used as an organising framework for professional knowledge. Aristotle believed that practical wisdom as the highest intellectual virtue. Phronesis is the complicated interactions between general (theory) and practical (judgement). The contribution of this paper is to discuss the properties of practical wisdom and how they interact based on an interpretation of retirees’ knowledge. The paper summarises in-depth face-to-face interviews with nine retirees, i.e., nine separate case studies. A structured interview guideline based on a conceptual framework derived from literature was used to examine the nature of retirees’ practical wisdom. People with wisdom make better decisions. Whereas episteme’s technical knowledge may address complicated tasks, techne’s wisdom enables people to resolve truly complex tasks. Techne provides personal judgement which enables the professional to judge their actions from an external and internal perspective. Knowing that others and the individual themselves are happy with the quality of their work creates a morality that enables an inner calm and personal satisfaction leading to eudaimonia (feeling happy about life). People with wisdom behave differently. Phronesis’s cognitive properties create awareness of the knowledge that may be trusted to be seen to be behaving normally or appropriately in the organisation. The global population is ageing. This has implications for future workforce planning as experience is lost and capability gaps emerge. Retires may represent a valuable source of knowledge to help address this gap. The results are limited to nine individual case studies and four disciplines. The findings provide exciting opportunities for further research. The conceptual models may be further investigated with retirees in other disciplines.

Why Causal Mechanisms and Process Tracing Should Alter Case Selection Guidance

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 982-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Saylor
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Case Selection ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Ideal

Advice on case selection in small- N research emphasizes controlling for confounding variables to facilitate inferential tests of a cross-case pattern. Yet many researchers embrace the “mechanismic worldview” and aim to construct explanations. Explanations differ from inferences because one explains an outcome at the individual case level. Hence, explanatory case studies are not simultaneously inferential tests, rendering prevailing case selection guidance ill fitting. This article provides an alternative outlook on case studies and case selection. It conceives of case studies as things that engage an analytical ideal type. Researchers can construct case-specific explanations by coupling the general claims of an ideal type with contextual analysis. In terms of case selection, if a case has contextual features that make it relatable to an ideal type, one can viably study that case in relation to the ideal type, regardless of the case’s other characteristics. This criterion diverges sharply from the conventional wisdom on case selection and can embolden unconventional comparisons.

Introduction

Dread Trident ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-55
Author(s):  
Curtis D. Carbonell
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Dungeons And Dragons ◽  
The Individual

This chapter introduces key concepts that help theorize the modern fantastic and its relationship to tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs). In particular, it provides a foundation so that the analysis of the individual case studies is clear. It uses literary studies and modern studies to read core TRPG gametexts, such as those of Dungeons and Dragons or Warhammer 40k. It also focuses on how fantastic space emerges during gameplay. Key also is how humanism and posthumanism can be rethought through a focus on what this books considers to be ‘realized worlds’. These are spaces of enchantment that occur at the intersection of the analog and digital, two elements critical in a process of posthumanization, or a way to rethink the discourses of trans-and-posthumanism.

Andrea Handley in conversation with Jerome Carson

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-130
Author(s):  
Andrea Handley ◽  
Jerome Carson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
First Person ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of Andrea Handley. Design/methodology/approach In this case study, Andrea gives a short account of her background and is then interviewed by Jerome. Findings Andrea outlines a number of issues from her childhood that led to her later mental health problems. Research limitations/implications Individual case studies are of course just the story of one person’s difficulties. For too long in psychiatry, case studies were written by professionals about their lives and problems. First person accounts allow the individual to tell their own narrative. Practical implications Andrea is not the first person to talk about the delay in access to mental health services. As she notes, 16 years on, she is still waiting for that referral! She notes that a friend of her could not wait even the three months that she had been and tragically took her own life. Social implications So much of Andrea’s story is overshadowed by loss, especially the death of her brother when she was a teenager. As a society, we are no as well “prepared” for death, as older generations. The coronavirus pandemic is bringing our mortality home to all of us. Originality/value Patricia Deegan once asked, “How much loss could a human heart hold?” In this moving account Andrea lets us see the huge losses she has sustained and yet she is still determined to try and help others who are suffering. Hers is truly a remarkable life.

A Synthesis of Six Exploratory, European Case Studies of Successfully Exited, Venture Capital-Financed, New Technology-Based Firms

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Murray
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Economic Return ◽  
New Technology Based Firms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Venture Capital Investments

This research presents the summary findings on six case studies of successful, venture capital investments in new technology-based firms in four European countries. In all cases, the enterprises had been financed by specialist, early-stage, and technology-focused venture funds which had exited the investments at a significant economic return. The exceptional competence and track records of the founder managers, and their defensible product position in growing markets, each appeared to be a common feature across the individual case studies. The paper also questions the unitary nature of the entrepreneurial process, arguing for entrepreneurial resources to be seen as an eclectically sourced stock.

Book Reviews: Turning the wheel of history

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-250
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

Michael Hunter, Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-century Britain . Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 1995. Pp. xii+345, £55.00. ISBN 0-85115-594-5 Michael Hunter assembles in his new volume 15 chapters, under four heads, from articles and book reviews published over the period 1971-1992. Hitherto unpublished material appears in an introduction and two of the chapters. The introduction explains the provenance of the chapters and their historical significance in relation to ‘A new theory of intellectual change’. The new theory suggests that the intellectual history of Britain during the 17th century may be better understood from the individual case studies Hunter offers, rather than broad generalizations supported by accumulated instances, as provided, for example, by Keith Thomas in his Religion and the Decline and the Decline of Magic (1971).

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