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Book Review: The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization

The Triumph of Emptiness brings to fruition over 25 years of research and writing in organization studies by an author who is perhaps among the most prominent exponents and indeed originators of critical management studies (CMS). This distinctive and influential ‘school’ of business and management studies has grown to prominence in the past quarter-century as the growth of business and management schools has swept through higher education in the UK and Europe. In part born out of debates with labour process analysis, critical management studies has, however, escaped the rather provincial and parochial preoccupations of those still wedded to labour process analysis, a school of research made up of Marxist, neo-Marxist and radical Weberians, and characterized by one protagonist in the debate, doubtless unfairly, as an ‘M6 corridor’1 of academics. By contrast, CMS has in recent years established a strong presence at the Academy of Management whose current chair (Paul Adler) is schooled in the foundational theories of CMS and has done much to extend its appeal in the United States. Alvesson can make strong claims to have helped lay these foundations. His ground-breaking coedited volume with Hugh Willmott in 1992 introduced CMS to a wide audience in business schools and beyond, showing the relevance of Frankfurt School Critical Theory to the understanding of mainstream management specialisms (accounting, marketing, strategy, HRM etc.). Making Sense of Management, also co-authored with Willmott (1996), built on this by carefully laying out the underlying key theoretical principles and inspirations of CMS. Rooted in the critical theory of Adorno and Horkheimer, Habermas, and Marcuse et al., Alvesson and Willmott sought conversation, debate and hybridity with more contemporary and emerging currents of feminist and post-structural theory and, in their more recent edition (2012), have drawn more fully on critical race theory, and post-colonial and radical ‘green’ political theory. While post-2008 the mainstream curricula of the MBA continue to promulgate standard business models of growth, within a wider promotion of ‘business as usual’, only CMS can make credible claims to have offered a critical and alternative diagnosis of the now permanent economic crisis and state of exception. This is currently the cause of some discomfort among Deans of business schools, but in reading The Triumph of Emptiness they might achieve a better grasp of why their teaching programmes designed to assist the continued marketing of the business school as a place to train and credentialize corporate executives is dangerous and will ultimately fail socially, politically, culturally and environmentally. The Triumph of Emptiness offers a powerful explanation of these dangers and failures, and has already attracted impressive reviews. The distinguished Cary Cooper has written that this is a 601573OSS0010.1177/0170840615601573Organization StudiesBook Review research-article2015
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Influence of Leading Edge Tubercles on S823 Airfoil Behavior

Investigating the role of leading edge tubercles on the aerodynamic behavior of S823 airfoil tailored for wind turbine applications has been the forefront of the study. The aerodynamic characteristics of S823 airfoil effectuated by leading edge tubercles are ascertained at Reynolds number Re=200000 which is the usual operating range of most of the small-scale wind turbines. Firstly, the study elucidates the numerical investigation of baseline airfoil and later modified airfoils exhibiting different amplitude A and wavelength λ of the sinusoidal leading edge tubercles represented as A07W50, A12W50, and A07W25. The aerodynamic characteristics of the airfoils at Re=200000 and angles-of-attack ranging from 0 to 20 are evaluated numerically through k-ω SST turbulence model using ANSYS FLUENT software package. A preliminary comparison of the computational data shows that the coefficient of lift Cl of all the modified airfoils was visibly superior to the baseline model across the angles tested. A07W50, A12W50 and A07W25 registered 20.6%, 26.2%, and 8.7% increase in the Cl values as compared to the baseline model. Contrasting to the Cl values, the aerodynamic efficiency Cl/Cd of the baseline model was slightly better but only across the pre-stall regime and later culminated with a sudden hard stall. Promisingly, this type of hard stall was not true for the tubercled models that demonstrated a more gradual and restrained stalling characteristic, thus showcasing superior performance in the post stall envelope that was never observed for the baseline model. Based on the outcomes, A07W50 model that displayed better aerodynamic characteristics was eventually fabricated and experimentally tested for its performance in a low speed wind tunnel. The numerical results of A07W50 were in good agreement with the experimental results. The overall results of the study prove beyond any point of doubt that tubercles indeed aid in improving the aerodynamic characteristics by enhancing the lift Coefficient Cl, rendering soft stalling nature and extending the scope of operation for the airfoil under study. Finally, the study positively confirms that leading edge tubercles very much play a significant role in passively augmenting the fluid dynamic characteristics of S823 airfoil and also qualify them to be a competitive passive flow control device.
Description and Climate Simulation Performance of CAS‐ESM Version 2

The second version of Chinese Academy of Sciences Earth System Model (CAS‐ESM 2) is described with emphasis on the development process, strength and weakness, and climate sensitivities in simulations of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) DECK experiments. CAS‐ESM 2 was built as a numerical model to simulate both the physical climate system as well as atmospheric chemistry and carbon cycle. It is a newcomer in the international modeling community to provide sufficiently independent solutions of climate simulations from those of other models. Performances of the model in simulating the basic states of the radiation budget of the atmosphere and ocean, precipitation, circulations, variabilities, and the twentieth century warming are presented. Model biases and their possible causes are discussed. Strength includes horizontal heat transport in the atmosphere and oceans, vertical profile of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; weakness includes the double intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and stronger amplitude of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that are also common in many other models. The simulated the twentieth century warming shares a similar discrepancy with observations as in several other models—less warming in the 1920s and stronger cooling in the 1960s than in observation—at the time when there was a steep increase of anthropogenic aerosols. As a result, the twentieth century warming is about 60% of the observed warming despite that the model simulated a similar slope of warming trend after 1980 to observation. The model has an equilibrium climate sensitivity of 3.4 K with a positive cloud feedback from the shortwave radiation.
PEDESTRIAN FLOW CHARACTERISTICS AT AN INTERMODAL TRANSFER TERMINAL IN CALCUTTA

In recent years, walking as a transportation mode has gained recognition as a basic building block in urban design. It is highly suitable for a certain kinds of journeys. To encourage walking and to make it more safe, convenient and attractive, the physical facilities must be available to support the physiological and social needs of pedestrians. It is important, therefore, that the flow characteristics of pedestrians be understood properly to aid the planning and design of facilities. Keeping in view the above facts, a study has been conducted at an inter-modal transfer terminal in the Calcutta Metropolitan District, and relationships of speed, density, flow and space have been developed. The paper also discusses the problems of pedestrian movement in Calcutta and suggests a few policy decisions for providing safe, convenient and pleasant movement. Keywords Calcutta, density, flow, pedestrians, space, speed, walking
Best Practices in the Use of Hybrid Static-Dynamic Signs

Static signs are traditionally used to convey messages to the road users. The need to quickly communicate up-to-date messages to the road users has given rise to the increasing use of dynamic message signs (DMS). An alternative to DMS is hybrid signs, which display both static and dynamic messages on a single sign. A hybrid sign consists of a conventional retroreflective static sign that is embedded with one or more relatively small, dynamic, usually light emitting diode (LED) message panels. Potential advantages of hybrid signs over DMS include better legibility, shorter reading time, smaller size, and lower installation, operation, and maintenance costs. This report first provides a comprehensive state-of-the-practice review of existing hybrid sign applications in both the U.S. and around the world. The review focused on several application areas, including speed control, parking guidance, travel time and travel distance information, dynamic rerouting information, and graphical route information. Further, it also identifies the companies that manufacture and market hybrid signs in the U.S. It was found that only a small number of sign manufactures have hybrid sign products for applications other than variable speed limit signs. This report then describes an effort to identify potential hybrid sign applications on both freeways and arterials and evaluate them through a focus group study. A total of ten hybrid sign applications were selected and evaluated in terms of their usefulness, understandability, and preference for different sign designs. In total, ten focus groups involving 150 participants of different age, gender, and ethnic groups were conducted. For each application, the participants’ responses were analyzed by age group, gender, and education level, and when applicable, by frequency of using toll roads and public transit service. The participants found parking availability information, arrival time information at bus/train stops, comparative travel times for express lane facilities, drawbridge opening, and travel times on distance signs to be particularly useful. However, bus/train arrival time information and drawbridge opening applications, along with other similar countdown applications, were found to have the following two main limitations: their deployment might create confusion when the dynamic information is not present and the signs could potentially encourage speeding.
Reducing Drying Shrinkage of Bridge-Deck Concrete

A number of Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) engineers concur that concrete shrinkage is a primary cause of bridge-deck cracking, which is the main cause of premature deck deterioration and reduced durability in Alabama. Because shrinkage-compensating concrete (SCC) substantially reduces shrinkage and thus shrinkage cracking, the ALDOT engineers decided to examine SCC as a candidate material for bridge decks. These engineers also wanted to test new shrinkage-reducing admixtures (SRA) that reduce early drying shrinkage cracking of bridge decks. This article describes a research project conducted for ALDOT that tested the behavior and properties of fresh and hardened SCC and concrete employing SRA. The aim was to improve the durability of bridge decks in Alabama by reducing instances of early bridge-deck cracking. The research was limited to lab tests on fresh and hardened concrete for 4 mixtures.
Crash Frequency Modeling for Highway Construction Zones

Throughout the country, work zone safety issues have received considerable attention in recent years due to increasing work zone crashes along numerous highway renovation and reconstruction projects. In general, previous studies were able to consider limited number of contributing factors mainly due to the limitations in data availability. The main goal of this paper is to remedy this major problem related to data availability and estimate improved models using data from multiple sources. Work zone project drawings, crash database and straight line diagrams are used to create an integrated work zone safety database. Work zone crash data is plotted in time and space to validate, locate and adjust work zone related information. The negative binomial regression approach is used as the appropriate model to predict crash frequency within these work zones. Traffic volume is adjusted for daytime and night time conditions in terms of hourly distribution of daily traffic. The duration-based and period-based models are also developed to address relationship between potential factors and to predict crash frequency on work zones in terms of property damage only (PDO) and injury crashes. Compared with previous frequency models, additional parameters such as number of lanes closed and speed reduction are used. These additional factors identified as significant can help traffic engineers to further improve safety of work zone projects.
Blockbusters: The Five Keys to Developing GREAT New Products

How Do Companies Create Blockbusters? Do They Know Secrets That Others Don't? Great products are the lifeblood of great companies, yet approximately 60 percent of new products fail in the marketplace, after major investments and huge risks. Why? Gary Lynn and Richard Reilly now offer advice that will radically change the way new products are developed and launched: a plan for companies to survive -- and "thrive" -- in today's competitive and turbulent times. "Blockbusters" shares the results of a ten-year research study of more than 700 teams illustrated by the inside stories of nearly fifty of the most successful products ever launched -- true "blockbusters," familiar to consumers everywhere. These include Colgate's Total toothpaste (now the market leader after Crest dominated for thirty years! ), the Iomega Zip Drive, the Handspring Visor, the PowerShot staple gun, the Polycom SoundStation conference phone, the Apple IIe computer, and many others. Lynn and Reilly reveal and explain in detail the five keys to blockbuster success that companies ignore at their peril: the responsibilities of senior management, a compelling vision of the product, the role of prototyping, the collaboration of people under pressure, and the process of information exchange. In this book, the authors prove that without these crucial elements a blockbuster new product is virtually impossible! "Blockbusters" uses both winning and losing case studies to explode established myths and to chart a course for implementing the surprising strategies of history-making development teams. A must for senior managers, entrepreneurs, and team leaders alike -- and for any reader curious about how great products arecreated -- this heavily researched and groundbreaking book promises to become a classic in the fields of product development and organizational renewal.
Accuracy of self-reported height, weight and waist circumference in rural poor areas of China

Background There were different voices about the accuracy of self-reported data. This study was to assess awareness and accuracy of self-reported height, weight and waist circumference (WC) among adult residents in rural poor areas of China for the first time. Methods Multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling was used to sample. Intraclass correlations (ICCs), Bland-Altman plots with limits of agreements (LOAs), Cohen’s kappa were used to examine the accuracy. Multi-factor Logistics and multiple linear regression were used to explore the effect of demographic and socioeconomic variables. Results Awareness rate of height, weight and WC were 66.29%, 82.29% and 60.00%, respectively. Height was over-reported 0.67 cm, weight and WC were under-reported 0.00 kg and 1.09 cm. ICC for height was 0.92, weight was 0.93 and WC was 0.93. Mostly differences were within 95% LOAs, but 95% LOAs were wide, especially WC. The percentage agreement (kappa) for BMI was 82.10% (0.71), for WC were 83.56% (0.66). Overall, obesity, overweight and increased WC were underestimated by 0.56%, 2.64% and 6.89%, respectively. Regression analysis showed some demographic and socioeconomic variables could affect the awareness and accuracy. Conclusions The self-reported height and weight could be used in rural poor areas of China, but the WC should be used with caution. The main task now is to further improve the awareness rate and accuracy of self-reported data, especially the people with low awareness rate and accuracy in certain subgroups. In addition, differences from the developed countries should be more discussed and investigated: all others showed people tend to under-reported weight, but the self-reported weight is amazingly accurate in our study; and contrary to studies in developed county, we found people tend to under-report WC.
Mobbing: violence at work or semantic abuse – the evaluation of the phenomenon by professionally active nurses

Aim of the study: To assess the frequency of occurrence of mobbing in the work environment of professionally active nurses. Material and methods: In order to collect data, the diagnostic survey method was deployed. The research instru-ments were a questionnaire designed by the author of this paper and a standardised questionnaire: Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ). Data for the study were collected from a sample of 150 professional nurses. Most of the respondents worked as a staff nurse. Results: The assessed work environments were generally favourable in the group of respondents. On the other hand, the approaches to employees were perceived as mostly negative. The majority of the nurses participating in the research reported facing mobbing behaviour in the workplace. The majority of manifestations of mobbing that were experienced by the subjects in the last six months were creating rumours about the subjects, ignoring their views and opinions, and excessive control of their work. Conclusions: It is advisable to introduce wide research on mobbing based on a standardised survey method. It can help in a wider analysis and comparison of the mobbing aspects at workplaces. The results obtained could be used to develop recovery programs in health care. A. Study design/planning • B. Data collection/entry • C. Data analysis/statistics • D. Data interpretation • E. Preparation of manuscript • F. Literature analysis/search • G. Funds collection
The Project Method: The Use of the Purposeful Act in the Educative Process

The word ‘project’ is perhaps the latest arrival to knock for admittance at the door of educational terminology. Shall we admit the stranger? Not wisely unless two preliminary questions have first been answered in the affirmative: First, is there behind the proposed term and waiting even now to be christened a valid notion or concept which promises to render appreciable service in educational thinking? Second, if we grant the foregoing, does the term “project” fitly designate the waiting concept? Because the question as to the concept and its worth is so much more significant than any matter of mere names, this discussion will deal almost exclusively with the first of the two inquiries. It is indeed entirely possible that some other term, as ‘purposeful act’, for example, would call attention to a more important element in the concept, and, if so, might prove superior as a term to the word ‘project’. At the outset it is probably wise to caution the reader against expecting any great amount of novelty in the idea here presented. The metaphor of christening is not to be taken too seriously; the concept to be considered is not in fact newly born. Not a few readers will be disappointed that after all so little new is presented.
MODELLING ROUTE AND MULTIMODAL CHOICES WITH REVEALED AND STATED PREFERENCE DATA

One of the most ambitious projects of the Chilean government is the transformation of some 1,400 km of the so called Pan American Highway (currently just a B road in most parts) into a four-lane tolled motorway. However, President Frei has recently promised to substantially improve the railways, raising their commercial speed from some 40 to more than 100 km/hr. On the other hand, air traffic has been increasing at 15% per year and new operators are increasingly joining the market. Finally, the interurban coaches, which have easily the highest market share, are fiercely competitive and offer an outstanding quality of service. Thus, forecasting is not a simple matter in this case. This paper discusses the data collection, model structure, specification and estimation results of a system of forecasting models designed to evaluate the tolled motorway project from a social point of view. Stated Preference (SP) rank data for choice among car, coach, train and also plane in many O-D pairs is being collected for a huge sample of road users travelling between 50 and 1,000 kms, using mail-back questionnaires with block designs for various journey length strata. At the same time revealed preference data for bus and tram users with car access is also being gathered. Finally, binary route choice SP data is being collected for various cases: tolled bypasses vs city centre crossings, tolled motorway vs paved, gravel (B or C) and mountain roads. The model system has to combine all this consistently in order to forecast the motorway demand and examine the social worth of the project under several growth, car ownership, toll charge and public transport fare scenarios. The paper concludes by summarising the methodological contributions of the study and discussing the importance of its main assumptions on the results. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 889300.
Age and fitness effects on limb venous compliance, responses and tolerance to maximal lower body negative pressure

20 Introduction 20 Methods 21 Results 24 Discussion 26 References 29 CHAPTER 3. AGEAND FITNESS -RELATED DIFFERENCES IN LIMB VENOUS COMPLIANCE DO NOT AFFECT TOLERANCE TO MAXIMAL LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE IN MEN AND WOMEN. 38 Abstract 38 Introduction 39 Methods 40 Results 43 Discussion 44 References 4838 Introduction 39 Methods 40 Results 43 Discussion 44 References 48 CHAPTER 4. EFFECTS OF A 6 MONTH ENDURANCE TRAINING PROTOCOL ON CALF VENOUS COMPLIANCE AND RESPONSES AND TOLERANCE TO MAXIMAL LBNP IN OLDER ADULTS. 57 Abstract 57 Introduction 58 Methods 6057 Introduction 58 Methods 60