Achieving Global Competitive Human Resources in the Industrial Revolution

Fourth wave of industrial revolution is marked by the use of information technology, artificial inteligence (A.I), and automatic engines. Competitive advantage has become a necessity for every business actor when they wants to competing in the global market. The current condition definitely encouraging the occurence of massive transformation at all business levels and units this condition happens because every business actor can enter from and any other countries markets easily. this condition making professionalism of every business actor is highly prioritized like many case in the business decision making and continous innovation.

Diverse Politics, Difficult Contradictions

In the San Francisco Bay Area, during the last nine years advocates have made major inroads in shifting local policies and approaches to urban agriculture. At the same time, the city’s landscape has undergone massive transformation. In this chapter, based on personal experiences as leaders in urban agriculture in the Bay Area and as researchers on the (transformational) politics of food systems, we propose that the justice-driven components of urban agriculture movements are subject to the influence of broader changes in political-economic context, and that urban agriculture is easily absorbed into existing neoliberal and pro-development political trajectories and projects. In this chapter, through the case of the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance, we analyze the movement’s composition, its genesis over time, and how the movement has confronted the tensions and limitations of neoliberal urbanization.

Digital Transformation and Organization Design: An Integrated Approach

The widespread implementation and adoption of digital technologies by organizations has given rise to a massive transformation with the potential to affect many organizations’ internal operations and processes. This transformation affects different levels and steps of output creation in companies, which eventually triggers changes in their organizational structures. This article develops an integrated picture on how digital transformation affects organization design by classifying and analyzing the effect on the process of output creation in firms. Based on this picture, it develops and elaborates on potential opportunities and challenges for companies resulting from digital transformation. Finally, it offers recommendations and decisions rules for dealing with these issues.

Massive Phase Transformation as a New Prospective on Microstructural Design in a Titanium Alloy - A Review

Microstructural design is generally applied to improve the mechanical property of titanium alloy by introducing different phase transformations and thermomechanical treatments. Aside from the martensitic and diffusion transformation, the occurrence of massive transformation occurs in Ti alloy. Massive transformation is categorized as civilian phase transformation, which resulted in the change of crystal structure of an alloy with a given composition without changing the chemical composition of its initial phase. It happened when the body centered-cubic β phase changed into hexagonal closed-pack α phase without decomposing into α+β. Massive transformation involves a diffusion and growth mechanism in a short-range and generally occurs during the introduction of high cooling rates to restrict the full diffusion mechanism. Owing to the nature of a rapid cooling rate as a requirement for massive transformation, the massive phase is normally found together with the product of martensitic transformation. On the other hand, the product of massive transformation is observed as a blocky grain with a featureless characteristic using optical microscopy and. Phase identification using electron backscattered diffraction shows that the region of αm shows only the presence of the α phase. It was reported for containing a high dislocation density similar to martensitic transformation. Specifically, in Ti alloy, the higher magnification using scanning electron microscopy shows fine sub-lamellar morphology, which observed as a combination product morphology between martensitic and diffusion transformation. It resulted in the mechanical property of the massive phase is between those two morphologies. Hence, it brings a new perspective on designing the microstructure of Ti alloy, which can be used to improve the mechanical property of Ti alloy.

Retracing the Tragic Hero in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Philip Roth's The Human Stain: تتبع البطل المأساوي في سوفوكليس الملك أوديب وفيليب روث وصمة عار الإنسان

This paper reevaluates the fundamental status of Coleman Silk in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex by testing their characters against Aristotelian tragic hero's elements. In spite of the verifiable comparisons to Oedipus, Coleman is not a neglected figure, but a subverted one that underpins Roth's proposal of "the different nature" of inconceivable postmodern American tragedy. In Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, the protagonist Coleman Silk is implicitly linked to Sophocles' classical figure Oedipus in Oedipus Rex. The plot is interwoven with allusions to Greek tragedies, but in The Human Stain Coleman lacks the stature and the real character of Oedipus. In addition, Coleman lacks, to some extent, the real elements of a tragic hero that constitute the Catharsis: the process of releasing and providing relief; a conflict which raises the question; is Coleman really a tragic hero? According to Aristotle, the tragic hero should experience a dilemma and a massive transformation from valuable standards to lower depth, and this person should suffer particularly after committing a mistake, or even thinking about his past deeds. The tragic hero should be relatively a commendable person whose comeuppance is brought about by his own fallacies which he did not commit out of defect or wickedness, but out of his own serendipity. Following the ancient Greek concept which asserts that fluke is associated with actions, Coleman is a fortuitous man at first, unlike Oedipus, despite being born as a black man. Because of this unlucky fact, he is capable of changing his identity and rising up to the level of preeminence.

Emerging Technologies in Agriculture

Technology has been a major contributing factor in how we live, communicate, travel, and interact in the modern society. The great boom of technology is having huge impact on all industries, especially agriculture industry. Agriculture is the backbone of most developing economies. Today, agriculture is going through massive transformation due to digitization. New technologies such as robots, drones, and machine learning are supposed to help farmers improve efficiency and maximize yield. Emerging technologies have already proven to be a key driver in the future sustainability and profitability of agriculture. This paper provides an introduction to emerging technologies in agriculture.

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Arab City

The urban world underwent a massive transformation at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. No region has escaped these changes, and many countries in the Arab Middle East have been particularly affected by them. This chapter analyzes how the construction of the Middle East as a concept has affected the evolution of a placeless urbanism in the region. In doing so, it illustrates the fluidity of identity under both colonial and modern conditions, but also discusses how old ethnic conflicts and religious rivalries in the age of globalization perpetuate different forms of exclusion that shape the contemporary Arab Middle Eastern City.