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    Information actors beyond modernity and coloniality in times of climate change:A comparative design ethnography on the making of monitors for sustainable futures in Curaçao and Amsterdam, between 2019-2022

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    In his dissertation, Mr. Goilo developed a cutting-edge theoretical framework for an Anthropology of Information. This study compares information in the context of modernity in Amsterdam and coloniality in Curaçao through the making process of monitors and develops five ways to understand how information can act towards sustainable futures. The research also discusses how the two contexts, that is modernity and coloniality, have been in informational symbiosis for centuries which is producing negative informational side effects within the age of the Anthropocene. By exploring the modernity-coloniality symbiosis of information, the author explains how scholars, policymakers, and data-analysts can act through historical and structural roots of contemporary global inequities related to the production and distribution of information. Ultimately, the five theses propose conditions towards the collective production of knowledge towards a more sustainable planet

    Displacement and the Humanities: Manifestos from the Ancient to the Present

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    This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this recordThis is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/Manifestos Ancient Present)This volume brings together the work of practitioners, communities, artists and other researchers from multiple disciplines. Seeking to provoke a discourse around displacement within and beyond the field of Humanities, it positions historical cases and debates, some reaching into the ancient past, within diverse geo-chronological contexts and current world urgencies. In adopting an innovative dialogic structure, between practitioners on the ground - from architects and urban planners to artists - and academics working across subject areas, the volume is a proposition to: remap priorities for current research agendas; open up disciplines, critically analysing their approaches; address the socio-political responsibilities that we have as scholars and practitioners; and provide an alternative site of discourse for contemporary concerns about displacement. Ultimately, this volume aims to provoke future work and collaborations - hence, manifestos - not only in the historical and literary fields, but wider research concerned with human mobility and the challenges confronting people who are out of place of rights, protection and belonging

    Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning

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    What is transdisciplinarity - and what are its methods? How does a living lab work? What is the purpose of citizen science, student-organized teaching and cooperative education? This handbook unpacks key terms and concepts to describe the range of transdisciplinary learning in the context of academic education. Transdisciplinary learning turns out to be a comprehensive innovation process in response to the major global challenges such as climate change, urbanization or migration. A reference work for students, lecturers, scientists, and anyone wanting to understand the profound changes in higher education

    Climate Justice and Participatory Research: Building Climate-Resilient Commons

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    Climate catastrophe throws into stark relief the extreme, life-threatening inequalities that affect millions of lives worldwide. The poorest and most marginalized, who are least responsible for the consumption and emissions that create climate change, are the first and hardest impacted, and the least able to protect themselves. Climate justice is simultaneously a movement, an academic field, an organizing principle, and a political demand. Building climate justice is a matter of life and death. Climate Justice and Participatory Research offers ideas and inspiration for climate justice through the creation of research, knowledge, and livelihood commons and community-based climate resilience. It brings together articulations of the what, why, and how of climate justice through the voices of energetic and motivated scholar-activists who are building alliances across Latin America, Africa, and Canada. Exemplifying socio-ecological transformation through equitable public engagement, these scholars, climate activists, community educators, and teachers come together to share their stories of participatory research and collective action. Grounded in experience and processes that are currently underway, Climate Justice and Participatory Research explores the value of common assets, collective action, environmental protection, and equitable partnerships between local community experts and academic allies. It demonstrates the negative effects of climate-related actions that run roughshod over local communities’ interests and wellbeing, and acknowledges the myriad challenges of participatory research. This is a work committed to the practical work of transforming socio-economies from situations of vulnerability to collective wellbeing

    Northeastern Illinois University, Academic Catalog 2023-2024

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    Behavior quantification as the missing link between fields: Tools for digital psychiatry and their role in the future of neurobiology

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    The great behavioral heterogeneity observed between individuals with the same psychiatric disorder and even within one individual over time complicates both clinical practice and biomedical research. However, modern technologies are an exciting opportunity to improve behavioral characterization. Existing psychiatry methods that are qualitative or unscalable, such as patient surveys or clinical interviews, can now be collected at a greater capacity and analyzed to produce new quantitative measures. Furthermore, recent capabilities for continuous collection of passive sensor streams, such as phone GPS or smartwatch accelerometer, open avenues of novel questioning that were previously entirely unrealistic. Their temporally dense nature enables a cohesive study of real-time neural and behavioral signals. To develop comprehensive neurobiological models of psychiatric disease, it will be critical to first develop strong methods for behavioral quantification. There is huge potential in what can theoretically be captured by current technologies, but this in itself presents a large computational challenge -- one that will necessitate new data processing tools, new machine learning techniques, and ultimately a shift in how interdisciplinary work is conducted. In my thesis, I detail research projects that take different perspectives on digital psychiatry, subsequently tying ideas together with a concluding discussion on the future of the field. I also provide software infrastructure where relevant, with extensive documentation. Major contributions include scientific arguments and proof of concept results for daily free-form audio journals as an underappreciated psychiatry research datatype, as well as novel stability theorems and pilot empirical success for a proposed multi-area recurrent neural network architecture.Comment: PhD thesis cop

    Metaverse. Old urban issues in new virtual cities

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    Recent years have seen the arise of some early attempts to build virtual cities, utopias or affective dystopias in an embodied Internet, which in some respects appear to be the ultimate expression of the neoliberal city paradigma (even if virtual). Although there is an extensive disciplinary literature on the relationship between planning and virtual or augmented reality linked mainly to the gaming industry, this often avoids design and value issues. The observation of some of these early experiences - Decentraland, Minecraft, Liberland Metaverse, to name a few - poses important questions and problems that are gradually becoming inescapable for designers and urban planners, and allows us to make some partial considerations on the risks and potentialities of these early virtual cities

    Women and leadership: the case of women managers in Lebanon

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    La present tesi doctoral pretén examinar alguns dels reptes que continuen dificultant l'avanç de les dones cap a rols de lideratge, per què algunes dones no accepten tenir una cap dona i si les subordinades dones sempre donen suport a la seva cap. Així, aquesta tesi consta de tres articles de recerca empirica i un article de revisió bibliomètrica, que poden proporcionar un conjunt de treballs coherents relacionats amb les dones gestores libaneses. La revisió bibliompetrica investiga l'estat de la diversitat de gènere a les organitzacions i les seves implicacions en el rendiment dels subordinats. Amb aquesta finalitat, hem analitzat nombrosos treballs de recerca i hem identificat les barreres que poden impedir la inclusió de dones en els consells d'administració de les empreses, així com els impulsors que podrien millorar la representació de les dones als consells d'administració. També vam examinar alguns dels factors que influeixen en la satisfacció dels subordinats, com ara la satisfacció amb el seu lider, el rendiment del seu lifer i el seu propi rendiment. Pel que fa als tres articles de recerca empírica, el seu objectiu era examinar alguns dels reptes que continuen dificultant l'avenç de les dones libaneses a rols de lideratge, explorar algunes estratègies de vida laboral i personal que poden implementar els homes i les dones liders libaneses per equilibrar el seu treball i les activitats de treball i promoure els seus rols com a liders, així com investigar els reptes i les oportunitats de les empresàries libaneses.La presente tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo examinar algunos de los desafios que continúan obstaculizando el avance de las mujeres a roles de liderazgo, por qué algunas mujeres no aceptan tener una jefa y si las subordinadas siempre apoyan a su jefa. Por lo tanto, esta tesis consta de tres artículos de investigación empírica y un artículo de revisión bibliométrica, que pueden proporcionar un cuerpo de trabajo coherente relacionado con las mujeres directivas libanesas. La revisión bibliométrica investiga el estado de la diversidad de género en las organizaciones y sus implicaciones en el desempeño de los subordinados. Con este propósito, analizamos numerosos trabajos de investigación e identificamos las barreras que pueden impedir la inclusión de mujeres en los directorios corporativos, así como los impulsores que podrían mejorar la representación de las mujeres en los directorios. También examinamos algunos de los factores que influyen en la satisfacción de los subordinados, incluida la satisfacción con su líder, el desempeño del líder y su propio desempeño. En cuanto a los tres artículos de investigación empíricos, su objetivo era examinar algunos de los desafios que continúan obstaculizando el avance de las mujeres libanesas a roles de liderazgo, explorar algunas estrategias de trabajo y vida que pueden implementar los líderes libaneses hombres y mujeres para equilibrar su trabajo y las actividades laborales y promover sus roles como líderes, así como investigar los desafios y oportunidades de las mujeres empresarias libanesas.The present PhD thesis aims to examine some of the challenges that continue to hinder women advancement to leadership roles, why some women do not accept having a female boss and whether female subordinates are always supportive of their female boss. Thus, this thesis consists of three empirical research articles and one bibliometric review article, which can provide a coherent body of work related to Lebanese female managers. The bibliometric review investigates the status of gender diversity in organizations and its implications to subordinates' performance. With this purpose, we analyzed numerous research papers and identified the barriers that can impede the inclusion of women on corporate boards of directors, as well as the drivers that might improve females' representation on boards. We also examined some of the factors that influence subordinates' satisfaction including satisfaction with their leader, their leader's performance, and their own performance. As for the three empirical research articles, their aim was to examine some of the challenges that continue to hinder Lebanese women advancement to leadership roles, explore some work-life strategies that can be implemented by Lebanese men and women leaders to balance their work and non-work activities and promote their roles as leaders, as well as investigate Lebanese female entrepreneurs' challenges and opportunities

    Continuous Rationale Management

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    Continuous Software Engineering (CSE) is a software life cycle model open to frequent changes in requirements or technology. During CSE, software developers continuously make decisions on the requirements and design of the software or the development process. They establish essential decision knowledge, which they need to document and share so that it supports the evolution and changes of the software. The management of decision knowledge is called rationale management. Rationale management provides an opportunity to support the change process during CSE. However, rationale management is not well integrated into CSE. The overall goal of this dissertation is to provide workflows and tool support for continuous rationale management. The dissertation contributes an interview study with practitioners from the industry, which investigates rationale management problems, current practices, and features to support continuous rationale management beneficial for practitioners. Problems of rationale management in practice are threefold: First, documenting decision knowledge is intrusive in the development process and an additional effort. Second, the high amount of distributed decision knowledge documentation is difficult to access and use. Third, the documented knowledge can be of low quality, e.g., outdated, which impedes its use. The dissertation contributes a systematic mapping study on recommendation and classification approaches to treat the rationale management problems. The major contribution of this dissertation is a validated approach for continuous rationale management consisting of the ConRat life cycle model extension and the comprehensive ConDec tool support. To reduce intrusiveness and additional effort, ConRat integrates rationale management activities into existing workflows, such as requirements elicitation, development, and meetings. ConDec integrates into standard development tools instead of providing a separate tool. ConDec enables lightweight capturing and use of decision knowledge from various artifacts and reduces the developers' effort through automatic text classification, recommendation, and nudging mechanisms for rationale management. To enable access and use of distributed decision knowledge documentation, ConRat defines a knowledge model of decision knowledge and other artifacts. ConDec instantiates the model as a knowledge graph and offers interactive knowledge views with useful tailoring, e.g., transitive linking. To operationalize high quality, ConRat introduces the rationale backlog, the definition of done for knowledge documentation, and metrics for intra-rationale completeness and decision coverage of requirements and code. ConDec implements these agile concepts for rationale management and a knowledge dashboard. ConDec also supports consistent changes through change impact analysis. The dissertation shows the feasibility, effectiveness, and user acceptance of ConRat and ConDec in six case study projects in an industrial setting. Besides, it comprehensively analyses the rationale documentation created in the projects. The validation indicates that ConRat and ConDec benefit CSE projects. Based on the dissertation, continuous rationale management should become a standard part of CSE, like automated testing or continuous integration

    2010 GREAT Day Program

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    SUNY Geneseo’s Fourth Annual GREAT Day. This file has a supplement of three additional pages, linked in this record.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/program-2007/1004/thumbnail.jp
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