bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Conclusion: local social innovation and welfare reform
Authors: Oosterlynck Stijn , Novy Andreas , Kazepov Yuri
Published: May 2020

In this chapter, we draw a range of overall conclusions from our case-study based investigation of how local social innovations operate as vehicles of welfare reform. We reflect on the impact of the increased interest of policy-makers in social innovation and on the relationship between social innovation and other social policy paradigms, notably the established paradigm of social protection and its main contender, the social investment paradigm. We also discuss our main findings with regard to the mix of actors, resources and instruments supporting localized social innovations, the multi-scalar nature social innovations, its empowerment dimension and relationship with knowledge. Finally, we look at the consolidation of social innovation in specific welfare-institutional contexts.
Domestic responses to European money: A theoretical perspective
Authors: Zimmermann Katharina
Published: May 2020

Chapter 3 draws on the perspective towards the local level developed in chapter 2 and discusses how local responses to EU policies tools can be grasped conceptually. By building particularly on the political-science Europeanisation literature and on sociological field approaches, a specific bottom-up perspective will be presented which puts analytical emphasis on the local contextual conditions. The main argument is that local contexts shape the way how actors respond to the ESF as a financial opportunity, and how this shapes local labour market policies. The Europeanisation literature and the field approach provide the background for the development of conditional hypotheses to be tested empirically in later chapters.
Data analytics
Authors: Shepherd Ifan , Hearne Gary
Published: May 2020

Data analytics have emerged in recent years as a family of overlapping, competing and hybridising products and practices. They have been championed by technology companies, academics, business users and governments alike, and in a short period of time have earned business developers and adopters billions of pounds in revenue and unprecedented levels of market domination. Data analytics have also provided distinct benefits in terms of an increasing democratisation of digital tools, but at the same time are giving rise to increasing levels of societal and governmental concern. This chapter has four aims: to help intelligent outsiders and old school data analysts make sense of the many competing methodologies and technologies that inhabit the data analytics ecosystem; to assist readers understand which of the many techniques and methodologies represent genuine additions to the state of the art rather than simply old wine in new bottles; to provide a brief overview of the software tools currently available for data analytics; and to identify societal issues and concerns that attend this family of technical and social practices, and the extent to which they are being adequately addressed by developers, users and society at large.
Labour market statistics
Authors: Bivand Paul
Published: May 2020

The chapter begins by identifying the theoretical roots of labour market concepts, notably the Phillips Curve relating unemployment and inflation. It then presents the definitions of “employment” and “unemployment” developed by the International Labour Organisation. These are measured by the quarterly Labour Force Survey, which provides not just simple counts but also flows between these categories, here presented graphically. One problem is that localised unemployment data use different definitions from the national headline rate, but a larger problem is that in all measures individuals must be counted as either employed or unemployed, when increasing numbers of workers work fewer or more hours than they wish, sometimes on variable hours contracts or as insecure sub-contractors in the “gig economy”. These new forms of work, generally disadvantaged, make gathering reliable data harder, and the chapter ends by discussing earnings data, and measuring the impact of minimum wage legislation.
Tax and spend decisions: did austerity improve financial numeracy and literacy?
Authors: Walker David
Published: May 2020

Democracy requires public understanding of the numbers underpinning tax and spend decisions. Austerity is the programme of government cuts in the UK since 2010. One might have expected this to have directed attention to political arithmetic and through improved public financial knowledge to have enhanced UK democracy. The flow of information has been deepened by the Office of Budget Responsibility, Whole of Government Accounts and the activism of the National Audit Office and the Commons Public Accounts Committee. In principle, the public could know more. Such developments sit comfortably with political commitments to restrain the state and sharpen its accountability and effectiveness. Yet austerity itself was necessitated by reference to ‘magical’ numbers – about spending and debt -- and aided and abetted by media mishandling of fiscal data. The decade from 2010 has also seen government ministers resist transparency in tax affairs, abandon financial accountability in health (in England) and condone the drying up of data across a swathe of social policy, especially welfare and education. It is hard to say that on balance the ‘fiscal conversation’ is any better informed. If ending austerity and assent to higher tax depend on better public understanding of numbers, prospects do not look bright.
The Radical Statistics Group: using statistics for progressive social change
Authors: Evans Jeff , Simpson Ludi
Published: May 2020

The UK-based Radical Statistics Group has a long-standing role in shaping statistics to support progressive social change. It has worked to demystify and critique official statistics, and to trace the consequences of using statistical models and their assumptions The Group has used its energies to encourage statistical literacy and campaigning effectiveness among progressive groups that seek its help. Its early days from the 1970s were characterised by a range of ‘progressive’ publications and well-received interventions in crucial debates and official consultations. In the 1990s it contributed to the wave of reforms of statistical outputs and procedures brought to fruition by the incoming Labour government. At the current time it provides ongoing resources of annual conferences, regular journal and email, a website and social media. Campaigns are often developed outside Radical Statistics structures, but with the key support of RadStats contacts, resources and ideas. At a time when it is archiving its first forty years of papers in the Welcome Library, Radical Statistics envisages a future enhanced by the activity of a range of allies, and the resources they provide, so as to formulate effective alternatives to the dominant discourses of our time.
Chemotherapy: the content of the moral economy of activation
Authors: Hansen Magnus Paulsen
Published: May 2020

Chapter 8 answers what the moral repertoire of activation is. All reforms are particularly driven by justifications from the paternal, mobility, investment and incentives cities, which are all tied together in multiple ways. The other three cities do not vanish completely, but in the qualification of the unemployed they are increasingly put to the margins and morally denounced as ‘passive’. In all four reforms the justification of coercive measures towards the unemployed is central. The chapter outlines how coercion play a particular role in the moral economy of activation that challenges the idea, mentioned earlier, that it is possible to distinguish between non-coercive ‘good’ activation based on ‘social investment’ and coercive ‘bad’ activation based on neoliberalism. The mapping of the moral economy of activation thus prompts to consider the explanatory and normative implications of both concepts.
Introduction: resisting neoliberalism in education
Authors: Tett Lyn , Hamilton Mary
Published: May 2020

This book arose from a seminar presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in September 2017. The seminar itself was prompted by a concern that although there was much discussion and many publications that critiqued neoliberalism, very few actually suggested how its impacts might be resisted. The seminar generated a lot of interest and so we felt that it was important to bring together ideas from across the spectrum of education into a book....
Accountability literacies and conflictual cooperation in community-based organisations for young people in Québec
Authors: Thériault Virginie
Published: May 2020

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Canadian and Québec Governments have increased their involvement with community-based organisations partly because of their potential economic benefits for society and the State. Community-based organisations can find themselves in a situation of ‘conflictual cooperation’, where they receive funding from the State, but also maintain a critical stance towards it. The chapter draws on an ethnographic and participatory study conducted in two community-based organisations for young people in the Province of Québec, Canada. The aim is to understand how youth workers managed to navigate an accountability regime and its literacies. Resourcefulness, awareness, and creativity were identified as key elements to navigate accountability literacies in the two organisations. Youth workers were forced to engage with neoliberal practices, but also found ways of adapting them so that they would be meaningful to the young people with whom they were working.
Everyday activism: challenging neoliberalism for radical library workers in English higher education
Authors: Quinn Katherine , Bates Jo
Published: May 2020

The purpose of this chapter is twofold: to examine the political position of academic librarianship in the context of recent changes in English Higher Education and to explore existing and emergent moments of radical educational possibility. Firstly, we argue for critical attention being paid to the university library – a site often perceived as self-evident, neutral, predictable – and highlight ways in which the work of the library has been affected by processes of neoliberalisation. Secondly, we investigate Radical Librarians Collective (RLC), an open, horizontalist organisation of library workers and supporters, as a potential site through which to counter these developments and foster radical alternatives. RLC’s successes are primarily within its aims to provide solidarity, space for discussion, and mutual aid nationally between like-minded library workers, and its support for everyday workplace practices of resistance. We conclude with suggestions for the collective’s development which focus on structure and local action.
Adult basic education in Australia: in need of a new song sheet?
Authors: Yasukawa Keiko , Osmond Pamela
Published: May 2020

Adult Basic Education (ABE) emerged in Australia as an organic, practitioner-driven field motivated by social justice concerns; however, neoliberal ethos has now overtaken the driver’s seat of the field. The changes in ABE from a practitioner led provision to what remains now is a story covering over four decades. Ironically, however, what has been most impactful in recent years is the absence of an identifiable policy. Tracing the ABE’s trajectory into a policy vacuum, and analysing the difficulty this vacuum presents for activists within the field, the chapter points to possibilities of resistance that may strengthen and restore an ethos of social justice in the field.
Housing precarity and advanced marginality in the UK
Authors: Bogue Kelly
Published: May 2020

This chapter presents concluding remarks about the impacts of the Bedroom Tax. It reflects on the processes through which housing insecurity is generated and how this is playing a central role in increasing urban marginality. It does so by drawing on studies about rising housing precarity and homelessness to consider how both the social and private housing sectors have been responding to reductions in housing benefit. This chapter argues that we need to re-consider how and in what ways the struggles over housing are being played out at the local level and how this can generate divisions in and between different groups. Particularly when people are re-negotiating a welfare state that is undergoing deep systematic reorganisation. It considers the relationship between austerity policies and their role in creating political dissatisfaction with the state of UK politics. Especially in areas where the full impact of austerity measures have been felt.
Institutionalizing Security Regionalism: Responsibility as ‘Response Ability’
Authors: Tan See Seng
Published: May 2020

This chapter examines the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) and its wider regional spinoff, the ADMM-Plus. It makes a case for how cooperative initiatives within the multilateral context of the ADMM and ADMM-Plus embody the R2Provide on instrumental and normative grounds. In contrast to the underwhelming performance of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the ADMM and ADMM-Plus have hitherto surpassed expectations with their strong military-to-military cooperation primarily in the form of substantive multilateral exercises in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR), counterterrorism, maritime security and the like. The relevance and value of the ADMM-Plus is underscored by its upgrading to an annual gathering and overtures from interested parties seeking to join the ADMM-Plus. However, there are legitimate concerns over the future viability of the ADMM and ADMM-Plus: they remain untested in real crisis situations; their ability to address regional flashpoints is still unclear; their members may struggle with participation fatigue given the likely increase in activities and commitments. All these considerations could get in the way of the collective development of a security regionalism that is responsible, meaningful and substantive.
Responsible Provision in HADR, Conflict Management and Human Rights
Authors: Tan See Seng
Published: May 2020

This chapter examines how the logic of responsible provision has been applied to three areas of intraregional cooperation – HADR, conflict management and human rights. The section on HADR cooperation looks at how, in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, crucial pieces of the regional architecture for HADR – the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER), the AHA Centre for disaster management, the ASEAN Militaries Ready Group (AMRG) on HADR, the ADMM and ADMM-Plus, as well as national-level assets like the Singapore-based Regional HADR Coordination Centre (RHCC) – have been put in place. The chapter also looks at how Southeast Asia’s response to the threat of terrorism has evolved not only in terms of the militarisation of national and regional counterterrorism strategies, but on a normative note, the growing acceptance of conflict management – previously eschewed because of the region’s fidelity to noninterference – in response to the changing tactics of the militants and terrorists themselves. Finally, the chapter examines how the region has addressed the human rights challenge, at best only in a half-hearted fashion.
Levinas and the Responsibility to Provide in Southeast Asia
Authors: Tan See Seng
Published: May 2020

Firstly, this chapter introducesLevinas’ ‘responsibility for the other’ notion as an alternative to the liberal and communitarian conceptions of responsibility and sovereignty. Both liberal and communitarian ethics are problematic because of theirshared assumption that responsibility is first and foremost to the self. The chapter introduces key features of Levinas’ ethics – the place and role of hospitality, reciprocity and justice in the responsibility for the other. It also examines how friendly critiques by interlocutors(Derrida, Ricoeur, Caputo, etc.) help moderate Levinas’ idealism without necessarily taking things in overly pragmatic or realist directions or, worse, blunting its moral force. Secondly, the chapter assesses the relevance of Levinas’ ethics to the questions of responsible sovereignty and the R2Provide in Southeast Asia. With reference to the regional conduct described in Chapters 4, 5 and 6, it is argued that Levinas’ ideas redefine the terms of the relationship between responsible providers and their recipients in three key ways: one, our assumptions and expectations over one’s extension of hospitality to one’s neighbours; two, the rethinking of mutuality and reciprocity between providers and recipients; and three, the ways in which the considerations for justice play out within the Southeast Asian context are concerned.
The Responsibility to Provide: Implications for the Region and Beyond
Authors: Tan See Seng
Published: May 2020

This chapter draws the study to a close with a summary of the book’s key claims and arguments.Judging by the region’s mixed record, a ‘cup half full’ approach allows at best the conclusion that Southeast Asian states and ASEAN are working toward realising their aspirations and turning words into deeds. So much more remains to be done. Essentially, rather than the mere absence of conflict and war, this book has sought, through the R2Provide, to offer a positive conception of Southeast Asia’s international relations, one that ultimately aims to improve the conditions and lives of the recipient countries and societies with whom responsible providers engage – even as, it should be said, the provider countries and societies are themselves enriched for having refreshed others. What this book has presented as the growing ethic of responsible provision undertaken by Southeast Asian countries – selectively and unevenly, needless to say, but incrementally – could be the proverbial small steps leading over time to a giant leap toward a more hospitable and responsible region. Paraphrasing Levinas, faced with their others, perhaps Southeast Asians will come to demand more of themselves.
A Spotlight on Negotiating Mobility in Paris: Ushering in Another New Era for the Migration and Climate Change Nexus
Authors: Nash Sarah Louise
Published: May 2020

This chapter explains that while much of the world was still preoccupied with scenes of people arriving at Europe's external borders in 2015 and the search for solutions to the crisis of migration that these scenes were widely taken to represent, in a setting that could not contrast more with the rawness of life and refuge being depicted in the viral images beaming their way around the world, negotiators from around the globe gathered in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The bureaucratic, meticulous, and technical world of climate change negotiations was, however, being explicitly connected to these emotional images, amid warnings that climate change would be the ‘Syria refugee crisis times 100’. The prominence of the topic of the large-scale displacement of people thus reportedly added ‘an ominous, politically sensitive undercurrent in the talks and side events’ in Paris. In a COP that was already being seen as highly relevant for the policy community on migration and climate change due to the large coordinated advocacy effort leading up to it, events playing out beyond the walls of the conference arguably brought even more relevance to this policy juncture. The chapter then considers mentions of human mobility within the Cancun Adaptation Framework and the Doha decision.
Solidarity Activism? Rethinking Citizenship Through Inaudibility
Authors: Shindo Reiko
Published: May 2020

This chapter looks at the acts of citizenship in more detail, showing that not only the visible but also the audible presence of noncitizens is constitutive of struggles for citizenship. Attention to audibility is particularly necessary to analyse multilingual migrant activism where migrant protesters become physically visible but remain inaudible on account of their language. To develop an understanding of citizenship that is attentive to the link between audibility and inaudibility, the chapter considers the works of Jacques Rancière and Gloria Anzaldúa. They both regard inaudibility as an inseparable aspect of the making of political subjects. From the vantage point of the gap between visibility and audibility, the supposed relationship of solidarity between migrants and their local supporters reveals its complexity. The chapter also studies how the limitations of linguistic proficiency, embodied as noncitizens' inaudibility, facilitate or limit the possibilities of solidarity in migrant activism.
Conclusion
Authors: Shindo Reiko
Published: May 2020

This concluding chapter reflects on the insights obtained from the study on multilingual migrant activism. It does so in two areas. First, the chapter assesses the broader significance of this study for not only the ‘politics of translation’ but also the politics of untranslation — translation that fails to make interactions intelligible. The politics of untranslation offers an effective critique to the persistently divisive political rhetoric about migration where knowing ‘the other’ conditions the acceptance of migrants. Second, the chapter explores the hidden aspect of untranslatability, as found in migrant activism. It discusses how an appreciation of these aspects is important to the ongoing inquiry about community in the fields of international relations and political geography.
A Review of Gang Literature
Authors: McLean Robert
Published: May 2020

Having outlined the purpose of the book in Part I, in the last chapter, chapter 2 reviews existing US and British gang literature. This chapter breaks down the gang concept and analyse literature form three resulting perspectives: the environment; the structure; and activities. This allows aspects of the gang to be analysed while also accounting for a holistic picture as well. The chapter then looks to explain how research has gradually brought closer concepts of ‘the gang’ and ‘drug harms’ - in that drug distribution has become a central feature when conducting gang research. After reviewing gang research the chapter then provides a brief overview on organised crime literature. This explains how aspects of the gang, at all levels, has come to be tied to various aspects of organised crime terminology. As a consequence, such perceptions retain potentially net-widening and criminalising properties.
Tackling Gangs and Organised Crime, and Rethinking Drug Policy
Authors: McLean Robert
Published: May 2020

The book began with two main objectives: a) to provide insight into contemporary gang organisation as a means for gang business; and b) to reengage Scottish scholarly gang literature back into the wider scholarly UK gang debate. This chapter seeks to evaluate whether the two main objectives have been achieved. A general summary of the book is given which also looks at factors which contribute to gang organisation, before the chapter moves towards how the research could be used and applied to practice and policy for law establishment, law enforcement, and wider practitioner groups. Within the discussion on policy and practice attention is drawn more to potential predictors which see ‘core’ or persistent offenders progress towards organised crime. The chapter finishes with a short reflection of the study as a whole, and in doing so draws attention to various limitations and future research areas.
Mobile Methodologies
Authors: Özkazanç-Pan Banu
Published: May 2020

This chapter starts off by noting that transnational approaches contribute a multiscalar understanding and analysis of mobile subjectivities such that attending them to them requires moving beyond comparative lenses. To clarify, a transnational paradigm does not discount the importance of the nation-state but rather, holds is as a precarious achievement and construction made possible by discourses of difference and belonging. Yet the nation-state and thus, ‘cultural values’ as reflections of nation-states cannot be the starting point for an analysis that aims to understand subjectivities that move across scales and the specificity of experiences associated with mobile encounters. This chapter provides examples of work that can attend to these issues under the notion of “mobile methodologies”. Under this approach, researchers move with the research object/subject over time, place and space as needed to understand the assembling of transnational lives, experiences and practices. The chapter contrasts these approaches with existing works within diversity and cross-cultural management research that adopt comparative and static methods that are unable to attend to mobile subjects. In sum, the chapter offers critique and new directions for methodologies that can be used to study transnational subjects.
Pathways to Conflict Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Authors: Bobić Marinko
Published: May 2020

Chapter three provides a medium-N, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) analysis of the empirical record, assessing the outcomes of all 20 militarised interstate disputes that have taken place in the post-Cold War era. QCA is the most proper method given that the focus of this study is on several conditions and their complex relationship. QCA results show that 9 of the 20 cases of asymmetric militarised disputes resulted in war, confirming the importance of this phenomena.
Moreover, the analysis reveals that not a single condition is both necessary and sufficient to explain the minor power's choice to go to war. However, the domestic crisis seems to be of particular importance, as it is a necessary condition for the outcome to occur. While this is somewhat expected, more surprising results indicate that domestic crisis is only sufficient when occurring together with a stable regime and either foreign support or window of opportunity. Likewise, regimes with anomalous beliefs tend to ignore the importance of conditions such as foreign support or window of opportunity. Given the limited number of cases, these results can be further strengthened through case studies, that is, process tracing and counterfactual assessment.
The Research Environment
Authors: Brannen Julia
Published: May 2020

This chapter focuses on the author's experiences of the conditions under which externally funded research is done by looking at a particular research workplace, the work practices that predominated, and the significance of research teams and mentors. There appear to be few references in the literature to the significance of the research workplace and its environs, even in texts devoted to the topic of researcher careers. Yet the research workplace — the organisational structures and cultures (which includes formal employment conditions) in which the researcher and the research project are embedded — is critical to the conduct of research, its quality, and its ethical practice. Most externally funded research is team based. Research teams are organised in different ways even within a research unit or department, with some more hierarchical in structure and culture than others. The chapter then explains that team leaders are crucial in determining whether team members are able to make an input into the study's ideas, methodological practices, written outputs, and the oral communication of the research findings.
Reconstruction of high-resolution 6×6-mm OCT angiograms using deep learning
Authors: Gao Min , Guo Yukun , Hormel Tristan T. , Sun Jiande , Hwang Thomas S. , Jia Yali
Published: May 2020

Typical optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCTA) acquisition areas on commercial devices are 3×3- or 6×6-mm. Compared to 3×3-mm angiograms with proper sampling density, 6×6-mm angiograms have significantly lower scan quality, with reduced signal-to-noise ratio and worse shadow artifacts due to undersampling. Here, we propose a deep-learning-based high-resolution angiogram reconstruction network (HARNet) to generate enhanced 6×6-mm superficial vascular complex (SVC) angiograms. The network was trained on data from 3×3-mm and 6×6-mm angiograms from the same eyes. The reconstructed 6×6-mm angiograms have significantly lower noise intensity, stronger contrast and better vascular connectivity than the original images. The algorithm did not generate false flow signal at the noise level presented by the original angiograms. The image enhancement produced by our algorithm may improve biomarker measurements and qualitative clinical assessment of 6×6-mm OCTA.
Impact of an axial non-confocal antenna on the on-orbit lasercom receiver analyzed by the simplified combination method of ray tracing and diffraction theory
Authors: Xie Xiaolong , Zhou Yanping , Yu Siyuan , Zhao Sheng , Ma Jing
Published: May 2020

For an on-orbit lasercom receiver, the space thermal environment, microgravity environment and the adjustment error will deform the optical antenna, distorting the received wavefront and deteriorating the system performance. The axial non-confocal antenna is a deformed antenna caused by the despace of the secondary or primary mirror. Based on the simplified combination method of ray tracing and diffraction theory (simplified CMRD, or SCMRD), the calculation model of the normalized intensity distribution (NID) and the normalized received power (NRP) is established for an axial non-confocal antenna. The numerical results show that, the axial non-confocal antenna will flatten the received light spot, causing interruption of the communication link and deterioration of the bit error rate (BER) performance. The quantitative relations of the NID versus the axial non-confocal distance and the NRP versus the axial non-confocal distance would provide a reference for optical design, structural design, thermal design, assembly and adjustment accuracy design and detector selection. Besides, the numerical results are compared to those calculated by the wavefront fitting method and CMRD. The pros and cons of all methods are discussed. This work would advance the development of extending the SCMRD to analyze other deformed antennas’ impact on an on-orbit lasercom receiver.
Phosphor-converted laser-diode-based white lighting module with high luminous flux and color rendering index
Authors: Wu Chenyu , Liu Zhe , Yu Zhiguo , Peng Xinlin , Liu Zehua , Liu Xuejian , Yao Xiumin , Zhang Yun
Published: May 2020

A laser-diode-based white lighting module is fabricated via spectral component optimization, which can achieve both high luminous flux and high color rendering index (CRI). In this work, the laser module is constituted by blue laser diodes (LDs) which excite YAG:Ce-Al2O3 and red LDs that can compensate for the lack of red spectrum to improve the CRI of the light source. To fulfill the requirements of flexibility and compactness of light source, the blue and red LDs beams are combined by optical fiber coupling. A simulation framework is employed to optimize the dominant wavelength of red LDs and the power ratio of red to blue LDs. According to the results of the integrating sphere, high luminous flux of 1102 lm and high CRI of 77.8 are achieved simultaneously, which is consistent with the simulation results. The tunable correlated color temperature (CCT) varying from 4000 K to 2800 K and high angular color uniformity (ACU) can be obtained.
Bewertung der Einsatzpotenziale und Risiken von Robotic Process Automation
Authors: Brettschneider Jennifer
Published: May 2020

In der heutigen Zeit nimmt die Bedeutung schlanker und effektiver Prozesse in Unternehmen vor dem Hintergrund des Wettbewerbs sowie Kostendrucks stetig zu. Um dieser Herausforderung entgegenzuwirken, fokussieren sich Unternehmen auf die Identifikation neuer innovativer Potenziale. Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass monotone und regelbasierte Prozesse durch Softwareroboter automatisiert werden können, ist das Interesse an Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in den letzten Jahren stetig gestiegen. Bevor sich Unternehmen allerdings für oder gegen den Einsatz von RPA entscheiden, ist es zunächst notwendig, dass die Entscheidungsträger ein Verständnis von RPA erlangen sowie die entsprechenden Einsatzpotenziale und Risiken einschätzen können. Dieser Artikel trägt diesem Bedürfnis Rechnung, indem es diese auf Basis einer Literaturrecherche ermittelt und bewertet. Im Ausblick wird das zukünftige Potenzial von RPA eingeschätzt.
Packers, dilators and the options for either male or female: Navigating movement of transgender and gender non-conforming bodies, appearances and luggage through airport security
Authors: Reddy-Best Kelly L. , Olson Eric D.
Published: May 2020

Abstract In this article, we investigate the experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) individuals leading up to and moving through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport lines. We used a qualitative research method and analysed fourteen in-depth
interviews of TGNC individuals. Based upon analysis of the data, three larger themes emerged, each with several subthemes. First, the TGNC participants engaged in extra packing or had additional packing considerations. Second, as participants moved through security, they frequently
experienced gender confusion from the TSA agents. Lastly, participants actively thought about passing, or tried to dress in a way where they were perceived as passing as a binary gender. TGNC bodies are rendered as potential threats in binary spaces, specifically those spaces with the
purpose of surveillance. In the case of TSA, they disrupt hegemonic expectations surrounding gender and require additional emotional, physical and financial labour. Despite proactivity from other parties to gain them equal access to binary spaces, TGNC individuals still experience, in some
cases, additional scrutiny, observation and intensified analysis before being granted access through entryways deemed suitable only to the long-standing hierarchy of the gender binary.
Hashtag Vogue: A content analysis of the differences between regional Vogue Instagram accounts
Authors: Rossol Evelyn , Lapolla Kendra
Published: May 2020

Abstract Fashion media is an essential part of the fashion industry in communicating cultural fashion, current trends and innovations. However, there are many differences due to cultural values, history and media access. A content analysis of Vogue magazine, Russia, India,
Brazil and Arabia is designed to identify differences in content between regional Vogue Instagram accounts. Images were screenshot from each account and then organized into themes resulting in four main categories for all accounts: one, how the Vogue woman was dressed, two, the personality/lifestyle
of the Vogue woman, three, the structure of the photo and finally commonalities between the accounts. The researcher found many differences and a few overlaps in values in these five Vogue accounts. Different regional areas maintain distinctions even though fashion is globally communicated.
The 'store of the future' in popular culture: Trends in press coverage of experiential retailing
Authors: Loranger David , Greene Marla
Published: May 2020

Abstract Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, the global retail market has witnessed massive demographic and technological changes that have re-defined consumer experience. Such changes include the rise of the millennial consumer cohort, and the introduction of retailers
implementing enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) data methodology to analyse business, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to enhance experience and co-customization interfaces. Two seminal pieces of literature regarding consumer experience are Ballantine and Parson's analysis
of consumer experience factors and Pine and Gilmore's (1999) Experience Economy. However, these studies were conducted nearly a decade ago, leaving a void in the literature that does not consider more current factors impacting consumer experience. The purpose of the present research was to:
analyse popular press coverage to understand trends in experiential elements; and to extend the Ballantine and Parsons' framework by proposing more current experiential elements. The researchers used the EBSCO database to generate a list of articles written from 2008 to 2018; these articles
were then analysed via a qualitative content analysis method, using Ballantine and Parson's and Pine and Gilmore's frameworks as a base. Emergent themes that did not fit the above frameworks were added, thereby updating and extending the current body of knowledge. Findings indicated an increased
emphasis on 'experiential retailing' over the years 2016‐18. Product display, employees, colour and comfort features emerged as the most important Ballantine and Parsons themes, while new emergent themes of technology, uniqueness/personalization and entertainment/escapism/discovery
were added to the Ballantine and Parsons framework, thus updating it to reflect current retailing trends. Implications for industry and academia, along with directions for future research are provided.
Fashion social marketing: Analysing reactions to Lane Bryant's #PlusIsEqual
Authors: Harmon Jennifer , Reddy-Best Kelly L.
Published: May 2020

Abstract In 2015, Lane Bryant, one of the first plus-size retailers, launched #PlusIsEqual, a social-marketing campaign to promote equality for fat bodies. Before this campaign, the intersections of social causes and marketing were largely absent from the fashion media landscape.
The purpose of this study was to analyse the reaction to Lane Bryant's campaign by following and analysing the Twitter hashtag and campaign website for six months. Notions of the fat body as beautiful were met mostly with positive reactions, which highlights how users who engaged with the
campaign, who themselves may have been overweight or plus-size individuals, could experience positive outcomes related to viewing such models and ideas in future-related campaigns.
Transformative technologies and the loss of privacy
Authors: Weiss Catharine
Published: May 2020

Abstract As conversational commerce and transformative technologies further develop connections between the retailer and consumer, the public at large tends to forget the amount of transparency allowed in order for these systems to work. As personalization and the integration
of tech become more sophisticated and culturally embedded through items such as home assistants, there are genuine concerns regarding the consumer's loss of privacy. The article reflects and suggests a pause in how much privacy society may be giving up in the search for a streamlined and personalized
shopping experience, by virtue of the power and knowledge AI provides the devices and systems that enable a consumer to shop online. The goal of the study was to investigate how much and why consumers are opting to relinquish privacy for efficiency in the retail experience. While it is often
acknowledged that consumers are opting to share more about themselves in the digital world, the paper looks at the background of why this has happened. In addition, the study includes a literature review and interviews with industry experts on their perspectives as both consumers and digital
and social media marketers.
Genetic characterization and risk factors for feline hemoplasma infection in semi-domesticated cats in Bangkok, Thailand
Authors: Do Thom , Kamyingkird Ketsarin , Bui Linh Khanh , Inpankaew Tawin
Published: May 2020

Background and Aim: Stray cats are a reservoir for various zoonotic diseases relevant to public health in Thailand. The vector-borne infection, hemoplasmosis, also known as infectious anemia, is one such disease carried by domestic and wild felids. This study focuses on molecular characterization and phylogenetic analysis of hemoplasma in semi-domesticated cats in Bangkok, Thailand. Materials and Methods: In total, 473 blood samples were collected from 53 temple communities in 34 metropolitan districts and assayed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify partial 16S rRNA genes for hemoplasma detection. Risk factors for hemoplasma infection (gender, age, free-roaming, and ectoparasite exposure) were analyzed using Chi-square tests, logistic regression, and odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) using R software (version 3.6.1). A phylogenetic tree was established from genetic characterization of hemoplasmas. Results: In total, 180 samples (38.05%) were positive for hemoplasma. Of half of the positive sequenced samples, 83.33% were infected with Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum (CMhm), 13.33% with Mycoplasma haemofelis (Mhf), and 3.33% with Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis (CMt). Cats over 5 years old were more likely to be infected than younger cats (p<0.005, OR=3.8, 95% CI=1.64-4.78). Cats were diagnosed as positive based on PCR assays in 97% (33/34) of districts surveyed. The phylogenetic tree showed two majority clusters with three clades of feline hemotropic mycoplasma. Conclusion: Overall, the survey shows the prevalence (38.05%) and distribution of feline hemoplasma in semi-domesticated cats. This information will contribute to effective prevention and control strategies to minimize infections by feline vector-borne pathogens in Thailand.
Megye vagy régió a közigazgatási középszinten?
Authors: Deák István
Published: May 2020

The biggest dilemma of the Hungarian public administration, state administration nowadays is the future of the medium level administration. There are fierce debates in scientific and political circles about whether the county strengthened in its competencies should fill this position or the region functionning not always satisfactorily in the field of the territorial development. The picture is compleated by the theory of the „big county system" reappearing from time to time in scientific literature. The European spatial development and the appareance of the „city regions" lead to different solutions and development strategies in the member states of the EU. In Hungary, there has no step forward yet. The competencies, tasks of the „small regions" need to be clarified, only ad-hoc solutions were born depending on the political circumstancies without any conceptions in the long run.
Az integrált vállalatirányítási rendszerek gyakorlatorientált oktatásának lehetőségei
Authors: Zörög Zoltán
Published: May 2020

In our accelerating world information, information flow and information disclosure are coming to the foreground to a greater extent. The world of business is changing day by day and obtaining information has several pitfalls as we can easily meet information systems that do not provide us with the piece of information expected. There are high expectations not only for the systems themselves but also for their operators, i.e. the fresh graduates who manage them. In my opinion the practice-oriented education of students is indispensable in this area, as well. While using integrated enterprise resource planning, the systematic way of thinking plays a vital role in addition to the fact that only the data that are to make a well-grounded managerial decision must be disclosed of the millions of recorded data at the right time. My paper aims at making the teaching of enterprise resource planning more practice-oriented and tailoring them to labour market expectations.
Most érdemesebb Budapest repülőteréről, mint Magyarország nemzeti légitársaságának jövőjéről gondolkodni
Authors: Gál József
Published: May 2020

There is a big change in Hungary about air services. We lost our Hungarian national airlines called MALÉV and the role of Budapest Airport has been changing. The national airline is definitely emblematic company for a country. Welcome to the traveler, announces the country's existence, presence arouses the interest and invites travelers. Malév was such a company with its typical painting, staff uniforms and kindness. It was the mediator of the Hungarian hospitality to foreigners. It is difficult to describe the feeling - which I also experienced a number of cases - when a Malév aircraft landed at a foreign airport, you could feel a little bit when we are home. Is a national airline to be just business issue, or more? In my paper - politics-free - I would like to describe termination of some media reaction to the team but not limited to. Suddenly, many people said their opinion, such a sound with a professional. The picture is very colorful and free of any emotion. We can not forget also that although it was a business-driven enterprise, which, however, was more than just an enterprise. It is interesting how to find new role of Budapest Airport.
Egy kvalitatív kutatás eredményei a dél-alföldi régió egyes mezőgazdasági vállalkozásainál
Authors: Vincze-Lendvai Edina , Szűcs Kata
Published: May 2020

In 2004 Hungary ha s afiiliated to the European Union. The country has been the part of a big economic integration. The (agri)products ofth e other counlries can flow without bordér. In our work we was wondered the effect of the connection to EU. In our investigation we made seven deep interviews with managers of the Hungárián agricultural, or food enterprises about the changes.
Vidékgazdaság, kultúra, lokalizáció
Authors: Kis Krisztián
Published: May 2020

Local economic conditions in rural areas are the outcome of processes that are an interplay of local and global forces. In this frame, economic performance of rural regions will depend on local responses, that are determined by the endowment of local resources. Commentators tend to agree that nontraditional (intangible or immaterial) resources are becoming increasingly important in social and economic development takes place in rural areas. An increasing body of literature stresses that local culture, as an intangible resource or capital asset is the major determinant of the pattern pursued by local economies of rural areas. This paper focuses on local culture - and its relation to rural (economic) restructuring - that play a crucial role in responding to the global forces originate from the current globalization process. In this approach, local culture is the major differentiating factor among rural economies, which may facilitate or hinder the rural economy's adaptation to globalization.
A láncos tárolás helymegtakarításának vizsgálata
Authors: Oláh Judit , Pauluk Júlia
Published: May 2020

Minden termelő vállalat életében nagyon fontos szerepet kapnak a készletek, illetve az, hogy a raktár működése zavartalan legyen, ezért elengedhetetlen a folyamatok folyamatos felülvizsgálata, új eljárások alkalmazása, hogy a hatékonyságot növeljék. A raktár működése folyamatosan változik, új, a hatékonyabb munkavégzést elősegítő eszközöket, rendszereket vezetnek be. Igyekeznek javítani a munkakörülményeken, a biztonságon, a folyamatok átláthatóságán és egyszerűsíteni azok nyomonkövetését. Kutatási célként a „láncos” tárolás helymegtakarításának vizsgálatát tűztük ki egy gumiabroncsgyártó vállalat raktárában. Első hipotézisünk az volt, hogy valóban helytakarékosabb a „láncos” tárolás. Második hipotézisként pedig azt fogalmaztuk meg, hogy 15% ennek a helymegtakarításnak a mértéke. A vizsgálat során egyaránt használtunk primer és szekunder kutatásokat.A primer kutatások során foként a raktárosokkal készítettünk interjúkat, melyek révén alaposan feltérképeztük a raktár működését. A vizsgálatok során megállapítottuk, hogy valóban helytakarékosabb a „láncos” tárolás. Az éves átlagkészletből és a július hónapi napi készletből kimutatott átlagos helymegtakarítás valamelyest eltér egymástól, viszont az első hipotézisünket mindkettő alátámasztja. A második hipotézisünket nem sikerült igazolni, ugyanis alábecsültük a megtakarítás nagyságát, hiszen a „láncos” tárolással 22-25% között mozog ez az érték szemben a becsült 15%-kal.