Views from the boundaries

This article explores how Norwegian record label managers understand their current positions and future possibilities in a market that is increasingly driven by on-demand subscription-based streaming. It adds to a growing body of research by adopting a qualitative approach, seeking to describe issues at a personal or company level, and provide nuance and dynamics in a discourse that is often described in dichotomies and on aggregate levels. The article argues that stakeholders have more varied attitudes than simply being for or against the innovation, the new economic models and their eff ects on their own business, and the market in general. It also demonstrates that perceptions change as markets develop, and stakeholders and their businesses adjust. The article uses four in-depth interviews to assess a 2013 government-initiated project, and provides insights into differing positions and changes over time.

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Graph Analysis for Detecting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Healthcare Data

AI Magazine ◽

10.1609/aimag.v37i2.2630 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 33-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Juan Liu ◽

Eric Bier ◽

Aaron Wilson ◽

John Alexis Guerra-Gomez ◽

Tomonori Honda ◽

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Keyword(s):

Network Structure ◽

Heterogeneous Network ◽

Graph Analysis ◽

Challenging Problem ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

Healthcare Data ◽

On Demand ◽

Potential Value ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

Detection of fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) is an important yet challenging problem. In this article, we describe a system to detect suspicious activities in large healthcare datasets. Each healthcare dataset is viewed as a heterogeneous network consisting of millions of patients, hundreds of thousands of doctors, tens of thousands of pharmacies, and other entities. Graph analysis techniques are developed to find suspicious individuals, suspicious relationships between individuals, unusual changes over time, unusual geospatial dispersion, and anomalous network structure. The visualization interface, known as the Network Explorer, provides a good overview of data and enables users to filter, select, and zoom into network details on demand. The system has been deployed on multiple sites and datasets, both government and commercial, and identified many overpayments with a potential value of several million dollars per month.

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Withdrawal from Sport and Schlossberg’s Model of Transitions

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.8.2.152 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 152-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Derek A. Swain

Keyword(s):

Career Change ◽

Horse Racing ◽

Common Experience ◽

Transitional Experience ◽

Personal Histories ◽

The Common ◽

The Individual ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Over Time

The present study involved three in-depth interviews with 10 informants who had voluntarily withdrawn from hockey, horse racing, football, and racquet-ball. The personal histories of the informants were examined for diversity and commonality of experience. A synthesized description of career change experience was written as a general story, identifying a sequence of experiential units that reflect the shifts in focus within the common experience. The general story indicated that withdrawal from sport was not simply an event but a process that began soon after the athletes became engaged in their career. This study supports and extends a model proposed by Schlossberg (1984) which attempts to account for diversity in the experience of transitions. The model is considered helpful in developing an understanding of the process of a transitional experience such as retirement from sport, considering the context in which the experience takes place, the meaning it has for the individual, and how it changes over time.

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New Media in Film Distribution in Bangladesh: Bane or Boon?

Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications ◽

10.30958/ajmmc.7-4-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 257-280

Author(s):

Saiyeed Shahjada Al Kareem

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Distribution System ◽

Distribution Systems ◽

Video On Demand ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Distribution Costs ◽

On Demand ◽

Film Distribution ◽

Depth Interviews

The research explores the little-understood phenomena of new media based film distribution system in Bangladesh, finds the consequences of new media in film distribution, and makes a recommendation for developing an effective film distribution system. This research employs a qualitative approach where in-depth interviews of people involved in traditional and online film distribution systems are taken to collect data. The study finds that new media based film distribution is an emerging sector in Bangladesh, and it will strengthen the overall distribution system by reducing the distribution costs and increasing revenue. Keywords: new media, internet, online, film distribution, video on demand

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THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF THE INTELLECTUAL WORKER INSIDE THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY

Educação & Formação ◽

10.25053/edufor.v1i3.1974 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (3 set/dez) ◽

pp. 3-19

Author(s):

Grant Banfield ◽

Helen Haduntz ◽

Alpesh Maisuria

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Academic Work ◽

Human Freedom ◽

Interview Data ◽

Research Project ◽

The University ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Shed Light ◽

Over Time

The university was born and has always existed in tension between the impulse to human freedom and resignation to the constraining powers of church, state and capital. In this era of neoliberalism where the global domination of capital is almost complete, the university has succumbed. The time has come to de-colonise, to de-capitalise and to build anew the universality (the university) of human freedom. In opening conversation around this provocation, work is drawn from a research project entitled The Changing Nature of University Academic Work. The project is an ongoing qualitative study employing in-depth interviews with Australian and English academics. It aims to shed light on how academics interpret changes over time to universities and their own day-to-day work. The analysis of interview data has revealed three dominant but inter-related themes: the rise of managerialism, the push to anti-intellectualism and the subservience of academic work to economic imperatives.

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Soldiers on the Wall

Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813056197.003.0007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 133-156

Author(s):

Bernice Kurchin ◽

Judith Bianciardi

Keyword(s):

Human Interaction ◽

Military Occupation ◽

Growing Body ◽

Roman Military ◽

Hadrian's Wall ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time ◽

Northern Frontier

Historically, literature dealing with the Roman military occupation in Britannia over the first four centuries AD did not address the experiences of individuals or communities. This chapter joins a growing body of scholarship that has turned to theories of identity—incorporating notions of agency, structure, practice, materiality, and the use and transformation of space/landscape—which assert that identity is a very complex and realistic concept with which to understand human interaction as it changes over time. The authors trace the long recursive trajectory of the identities of the original “barbarian” auxiliary soldiers who were permanently stationed in Hadrian’s wall forts along the northern frontier of Britannia, as their practices and interactions with native Britons in the vici transformed and in turn helped to transform the army and wider landscape. No longer the lowest-class soldiers, they became privileged Roman citizens with new identities that drew on Roman, British, and other genealogies.

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Changes Over Time in Parental Self-identity After the Loss of an Adolescent Child

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ◽

10.1177/00302228211033127 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003022282110331

Author(s):

Yewon Kim ◽

Dong Hun Lee

Keyword(s):

Professional Identity ◽

Spiritual Identity ◽

Future Research ◽

Relational Identity ◽

Self Identity ◽

Bereaved Parents ◽

Child's Death ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Over Time

This study explored bereaved parents’ responses to their child’s death in the 2014 Sewol Ferry sinking incident, focusing on identifying changes in parental self-identity two and five years after their loss. To understand the unique meaning of their loss and its impact on their self-perception, in-depth interviews were conducted with eight mothers and four fathers at two timepoints. Three patterns of parental self-identity: reintegration, disintegration, and coexistence emerged. Patterns emerged in five domains: (a) relational identity, (b) physical identity, (c) financial identity, (d) professional identity and (e) spiritual identity. Each of these domain-associated themes provided insights into the patterns and characteristics of the changes in bereaved parents’ self-identity following their loss. Recommendations for future research and potential implications are discussed.

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Comparison of two devices for measuring exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressures in patients with claudication

VASA ◽

10.1024/0301-1526/a000454 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (5) ◽

pp. 355-362 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Marie Urban ◽

Alban Fouasson-Chailloux ◽

Isabelle Signolet ◽

Christophe Colas Ribas ◽

Mathieu Feuilloy ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Oxygen Pressure ◽

Optical Sensors ◽

Chemical Sensors ◽

Transcutaneous Oxygen ◽

Starting Values ◽

Two Systems ◽

Transcutaneous Oxygen Pressure ◽

New Sensors ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time

Abstract. Summary: Background: We aimed at estimating the agreement between the Medicap® (photo-optical) and Radiometer® (electro-chemical) sensors during exercise transcutaneous oxygen pressure (tcpO2) tests. Our hypothesis was that although absolute starting values (tcpO2rest: mean over 2 minutes) might be different, tcpO2-changes over time and the minimal value of the decrease from rest of oxygen pressure (DROPmin) results at exercise shall be concordant between the two systems. Patients and methods: Forty seven patients with arterial claudication (65 + / - 7 years) performed a treadmill test with 5 probes each of the electro-chemical and photo-optical devices simultaneously, one of each system on the chest, on each buttock and on each calf. Results: Seventeen Medicap® probes disconnected during the tests. tcpO2rest and DROPmin values were higher with Medicap® than with Radiometer®, by 13.7 + / - 17.1 mm Hg and 3.4 + / - 11.7 mm Hg, respectively. Despite the differences in absolute starting values, changes over time were similar between the two systems. The concordance between the two systems was approximately 70 % for classification of test results from DROPmin. Conclusions: Photo-optical sensors are promising alternatives to electro-chemical sensors for exercise oximetry, provided that miniaturisation and weight reduction of the new sensors are possible.

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