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A framework to maximise the communicative power of knowledge visualisations
Knowledge visualisation, in the field of information systems, is both a process and a product, informed by the closely aligned fields of information visualisation and knowledg management. Knowledge visualisation has untapped potential within the purview of knowledge communication. Even so, knowledge visualisations are infrequently deployed due to a lack of evidence-based guidance. To improve this situation, we carried out a systematic literature review to derive a number of âlensesâ that can be used to reveal the essential perspectives to feed into the visualisation production process.We propose a conceptual framework which incorporates these lenses to guide producers of knowledge visualisations. This framework uses the different lenses to reveal critical perspectives that need to be considered during the design process. We conclude by demonstrating how this framework could be used to produce an effective knowledge visualisation
The Case of Petronia Iusta
This article examines a lawsuit from the 70s AD, concering a young woman from Herculaneum
Sexual and political liberty and neo-Latin poetics: the Heroides of Mark Alexander Boyd
This is a post-print version. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.comThis article examines responses to the
Heroides
by the Scottish neo-Latin poet Mark
Alexander Boyd, composed whilst in âexileâ in France during the 1580s and early
1590s. Boydâs engagements reflect the priorities of contemporary humanist interpretations
of the
Heroides
, on the one hand positioning Ovidâs poems as models for
elegant Latin verse composition, and on the other reading them as guides to female
sexual (mis)conduct. Such an approach tended to reinforce Renaissance prejudices
about sex and gender, as Boydâs efforts amply reveal. Yet the exorbitance of female
love elegy also permitted a limited critique of such norms, and this is demonstrated
in Boydâs second set of responses, the
Heroides et Hymni
(1592), which suggestively
collocate his personal political difficulties with womenâs sexual freedom
This disastrous event staggered me : reconstructing the botany of Ludwig Leichhardt on the expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, 1844-45
Ludwig Leichhardt had to abandon a large and important collection of botanical specimens during his Expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington. Here we attempt to assess the significance of the lost collection by identifying the botanical references in his detailed published journal from the journey. From Leichhardtâs description of the plants and their habitats, and with our accurate knowledge of current distribution, it has been possible, in most cases, to identity his botanical references to a single species. In other cases there is lower degree of certainty. Well over one hundred of the species recorded in Leichhardtâs journal would have been new to science at the time if specimens had survived. The record does identify some potential locations for species that would represent range extensions and suggests an indigenous status for a number of plant species that where previously considered exotic. Certainly Leichhardt was a talented botanist and his significant contribution to Australian natural science should be recognised
Whose Child is it Anyway? Awarding Joint Custody Over the Objection of One Parent
This Note addresses issues of joint custody of children in divorce cases where one parent objects to that arrangement. Part I examines New York\u27s approach to custody, and finds it unduly restrictive and thus likely to inhibit full consideration of joint custody as an alternative. Part II of the Note discusses the historical background of child custody and explains the emergence of joint custody as a result of perceived inadequacies inherent in the sole custody arrangement. Part III discusses different approaches taken by various jurisdictions to the controversial issue of awarding joint custody over the objection of one parent, and contains an analysis of Beck v. Beck, the leading case upholding such an order. Part IV takes the position that because under certain circumstances joint custody will serve the best interests of the child, the New York courts must adopt a flexible approach that will ensure full consideration of joint custody, even when one party objects. Finally, this Note recommends that New York join the majority of states that recognize that under proper circumstances, courts may award joint custody over the objection of one paren
Whose Child is it Anyway? Awarding Joint Custody Over the Objection of One Parent
This Note addresses issues of joint custody of children in divorce cases where one parent objects to that arrangement. Part I examines New York\u27s approach to custody, and finds it unduly restrictive and thus likely to inhibit full consideration of joint custody as an alternative. Part II of the Note discusses the historical background of child custody and explains the emergence of joint custody as a result of perceived inadequacies inherent in the sole custody arrangement. Part III discusses different approaches taken by various jurisdictions to the controversial issue of awarding joint custody over the objection of one parent, and contains an analysis of Beck v. Beck, the leading case upholding such an order. Part IV takes the position that because under certain circumstances joint custody will serve the best interests of the child, the New York courts must adopt a flexible approach that will ensure full consideration of joint custody, even when one party objects. Finally, this Note recommends that New York join the majority of states that recognize that under proper circumstances, courts may award joint custody over the objection of one paren
Investigating the impact of systematic reviews funded by DFID
Systematic reviews for international development originated 20 years ago. In 2010 the Department for International Development (DFID) introduced a programme of systematic reviews with a capacity building element that spanned multiple policy sectors. This study traces the impact of these systematic reviews both in the academic research literature and beyond academia, by looking at use within government and other organisations (for example through inclusion in documents, research repositories and decisions beyond academia). Systematic reviews were cited more often in academia than beyond, some for their substantive findings, and some for methodological debate. Beyond academia, of the 86 systematic reviews: 21 informed specific decisions or policies, 25 were cited to enhance understanding, one informed new procedures for embedding evidence in decision making, 19 appeared in existing procedures for decision making, and 21 appeared in portals, maps or databases to enhance knowledge accessibility. Reviews were used by academics (69 reviews), government (20), review advisors (2), other stakeholders (37), or none (14). Three models of knowledge exchange can explain how use of these systematic reviews beyond academia was achieved. Clearly communicated policy implications may lead to greater use for policy decisions (linear model of knowledge transfer). Greater involvement of policy teams in focusing and reporting the review may lead to reviews appearing more relevant beyond academia (relationship model). Organisations using multiple systematic reviews may be distinctive in terms of their investment in capacity of individuals, teams, institutions and a global support system for systematic reviews (dynamic systems model). The three models potentially overlap: a dynamic evidence system supporting policy input may lead to more relevant reviews with clearer implications for policy. Investment in systems and relationships to support the production of systematic reviews looks promising for systematic reviews that provide clearer implications for policy and greater use beyond academia
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The ethics of suspicion in the study of religions
In this essay I outline some beliefs and practices among lowland christianised peoples in the Philippines relating primarily to the existence of spirits which are believed to be responsible for causing illness, attending to their imbrication with Catholicism and local cultural notions and practices and post-colonial questions of identity. I sketch three interpretative frameworks that have been brought to bear on these religious beliefs and practices: an anthropological analysis that seeks to explain such beliefs and practices in terms of a cultural logic, a socio-historical account in which resonances are highlighted between such beliefs and the post-colonial question of Filipino identity, and a rationalist account in which the utility of such beliefs is assessed, at all times highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of these different interpretative frameworks vis-Ă -vis a phenomenological approach. I use the empirical material to demonstrate that the phenomenological commitment to religion as a sui generis phenomenon cannot reasonably be said to constitute a satisfactory theory of context and I argue that the phenomenological epochÄ is an inadequate response to the problem of representation
Bloomsbury\u27s Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
âBloomsburyâs Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Artâ examines the role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fryâs and Clive Bellâs narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as Art (1914), have been branded by art historiography as the prime movers in a Formalist, teleological narrative of Modern art still prevalent in textbooks today. Fryâs and Bellâs ideas were later adopted by important Modernist authors and cultural figures, such as Alfred H. Barr, Jr., first director of New Yorkâs Museum of Modern Art, and critic Clement Greenberg. Yet, less known is the integral role Byzantine art played in delimiting both Fryâs and Bellâs ideas of Modernism, and the art works they valued. Consistent with the international nineteenth- and twentieth-century interest in Byzantium, Fry and Bell each crafted an ahistorical idea of Byzantium. The Bloomsbury criticsâ highly subjective definitions of Byzantine art and the Byzantine era allowed both Fry and Bell to project onto Byzantium qualities that aligned with their own intellectual interests. My dissertation uses these varied characterizations of Byzantium to reinterpret both authorsâ writings on Modern art and subsequently to challenge canonical understanding of Western aesthetic Modernism. For instance, in my analysis of Fryâs and Bellâs idea of Byzantine art, I point to parallel qualities the criticsâ valued in Modern pieces; and suggest that they used their concept of Byzantium to define a more secular, universalized spiritual conception of art as an alternative and counterpart to mainstream religions. I also explain how the critics relied on their definition of Byzantium to each advocate for non-Western artâs aesthetic value, and I demonstrate how the authors utilized their characterization of Byzantine art to contest the precedent of both John Ruskin and establishment, Western art history. This dissertation unravels the myriad personal, intellectual, and contextual circumstances which led to Fryâs and Bellâs interpretation of Byzantine art, and, as a result, illustrates how art-world politics and world politics of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries impacted the writing of formative texts in Western Modern art
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