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Political Theorizing as a Dimension of Political Life
2005
Quentin Skinner’s thesis ‘that political life itself sets the main problems for the political theorist’ marks a turning point in the study of the history of political thought. The Protestant princes who revised Luther’s doctrine of disobedience in order to save Lutheranism as a political force are the best example of this ‘Skinnerian revolution’ in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. This is in accordance with his claim that principles play a legitimating and innovating role in politics. A tacit implication of the thesis is that we should not only read theorists as politicians but also read politicians as theorists. The politician possesses a special competence in discerning betwe…
Monopolization, classification and symbolic violence: Pierre Bourdieu’s contribution to the analysis of State Nationalism
2021
The study of nationalism is usually split into its macro-sociological dimension and the political and coercive aspects on the one hand, and into micro-sociological, psychological and symbolic aspec...
An aggregate AQI: comparing different standardizations and introducing a variability index
2012
Many studies demonstrate a strong relationship between air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. For this reason, assessing air pollution, and conveying information about its possible adverse health effects, may encourage population and policy makers to reduce those activities increasing pollution levels. In this paper a relative index of variability, to be associated with the aggregate Air Quality Index (AQI) among pollutants proposed by Ruggieri and Plaia (2011), is developed in order to better investigate air pollution conditions for the whole area of a city/region. The most widely-used and up to date pollution indices, based mainly on AQI computed by the US Environmenta…
Exploring the Political Ontology of European Integration
2018
In this chapter, the author politicizes the ontological dimension of EU studies. He discusses ontology’s power to determine the real by analyzing some of its unformulated presuppositions and the links with knowledge and action. He argues that key European institutions like the European Commission do not change only because of institutional dynamics but also in relation to transnational interplays of differentiated agents operating simultaneously in multiple social spheres. Institutions and particularly institutional change have to be explained in the light of both new policy challenges and the preferences and habits of the agents making up these institutions and their surroundings. Such an …
Aksjologiczne aspekty wychowania
2017
<p>Artykuł ukazuje problematykę dotyczącą aksjologicznego aspektu wychowania, jest poszukiwaniem odpowiedzi na pytanie: Jak wychowywać młodego człowieka, by potrafił poruszać się w przestrzeni aksjologicznej, umiał odkrywać, tworzyć, akceptować wartości w poszukiwaniu swojego miejsca w świecie? Uważam, że aby wychować młodego człowieka, tak by żył zgodnie z wartościami uniwersalnymi, należy zadbać o to, by potrafił uczyć się obiektywnego poznawania i respektowania wartości, rozbudzał w sobie zainteresowanie życiem wartościowym. W artykule podkreślono, że aksjologiczny wymiar aktywności człowieka ulega przekierunkowaniu na wartości niższe (hedonistyczne, utylitarne, witalne, prestiżowe…
Project complexity and team-level absorptive capacity as drivers of project management performance
2018
Abstract Many believe that project complexity reduces project management performance. However, so far research has failed to establish this causal relationship conclusively. We extend research on project complexity by introducing the concept of team-level absorptive capacity and by studying its role as mediator between project complexity and project management success. Applying structural equation modelling to a sample of 285 respondents, we find an unequivocal, direct and positive statistical association between project complexity and delays and overspending. Further, we show that team-level absorptive capacity is critical for successful project management, but also that absorptive capacit…
Possibilistic Programming and Gas for Aggregate Production Planning under Vague Information
1999
In production planning activities, aggregate planning is surely the phase where the lack of information is more relevant. The reasons for that can be summarised in: a) the planning product is an aggregate one, very often not corresponding to actual products; b) the delay from the actual production is relevant so that information regarding actual production resources availability and performances are vague; c) the planning activity is often based on forecasts. On the other hand, all the subsequent production planning activities are based on the result of aggregate planning. In the paper a research going on at the Workgroup for Soft Computing Application in Manufacturing is presented. A Decis…
A computer system to perform structure comparison using TOPS representations of protein structure
2001
We describe the design and implementation of a fast topology-based method for protein structure comparison. The approach uses the TOPS topological representation of protein structure, aligning two structures using a common discovered pattern and generating measure of distance derived from an insert score. Heavy use is made of a constraint-based pattern-matching algorithm for TOPS diagrams that we have designed and described elsewhere (Bioinformatics 15(4) (1999) 317). The comparison system is maintained at the European Bioinformatics Institute and is available over the Web at tops.ebi.ac.uk/tops. Users submit a structure description in Protein Data Bank (PDB) format and can compare it with …
ICT adoption in hotels and electronic word-of-mouth
2015
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how information and communication technology (ICT) adoption in hotels contributes to satisfaction and loyalty from the consumer perspective, considering the online dimension of recommendations. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative research based on a structured questionnaire and using a personal survey method was developed. Surveys were conducted on 386 guests from Spanish hotels. Causal methodology by testing structural equation model was applied. Findings Significant relationships are obtained in the sequence “ICT use perception – satisfaction with ICT – overall satisfaction with the hotel – dimensions of loyalty” and the mediatin…
Klientu apkalpošanas centru informācijas integrācija Oracle datu noliktavā
2015
Klientu apkalpošanas centru informācijas integrācija Oracle datu noliktavā ir daļa no uzņēmuma datu ielādes procesa. Darbā aprakstīts klientu apkalpošanas centru datu ielādes process un atskaites. Darbs realizēts izmantojot Oracle Data Integrator 11g un Oracle Buisness Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g. Kvalifikācijas darbā iekļauta programmatūras prasību specifikācija, programmatūras projektējuma apraksts, testēšanas dokumentācija, programmatūras projekta pārvaldība, kvalitātes nodrošināšana, konfigurācijas pārvaldība, darbietilpības novērtējums, izmantotā literatūra un pielikums. Pielikumā pievienots: programmatūras koda piemērs, XML faili un tiem atbilstošās XML shēmas.