Out of Time

A review of Sarah Sharma, In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 2014)

CURRENT ISSUES ON CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

Public organizations that manage to successfully maintain its competitiveness change not look like a unique event, but as an ongoing process, necessary for survival, development and perfecting them. Change must be perceived as an intrinsic element of an organization and should be integrated into the philosophy and models of its action.management, organization, government, public, change, crisis

CHANGE MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIZATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

The process of change involves major crises and conflicts and is not usually predictable. Change leadership is not directed only to improve results, but also to determine people to behave in line with the perspectives, values and beliefs as "correct". But culture change is driven by values - change effort is geared towards the socialization of individuals to determine to adopt new values and concepts so as to act accordingly, thus improving quality of life within the organization. Such changes are deemed necessary when the current fundamental beliefs leading to adverse effects.management, change, organization, public, knowledge, economy

CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS - SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE IMPACT OF THEIR INSOLVENCY

The global economic crisis and exacerbation of wage claims more frequently arises the question: "The State, public organizations or institutions may enter into insolvency?"management, change management, organization, public organization, insolvency

Dirty Spaces: Communication and Contamination in Men’s Public Toilets

This paper examines the spatiality of men’s public toilets in Australia. It considers public toilets as cultural sites whose work involves not only the literal elimination of waste but also a form of cultural purification. Men’s public toilets are read as sites where heteronormative masculinity is defined, tested and policed. The essay draws on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of homosociality and on Mary Douglas’s conception of dirt as a destabilizing category. It treats the “dirtiness” of public toilets as a submerged metaphor within struggles over masculinity. The essay considers a range of data sources, including interviews, pop culture, the Internet and a novella

Tessitura changes in music theatre repertoire for the soprano voice

While the term tessitura is often poorly defined and loosely applied, certain statements about its application to singers and their repertoire may be made. For vocal repertoire, tessitura refers to the prevailing note or range of notes in a vocal line. For singers, it refers to the area in which the voice is most comfortably resonant. The definition most frequently used to capture the concept in relation to both singer and repertoire is the range of pitches where a voice or song “sits”. While attempts have been made to quantify tessitura, most references to this term remain largely subjective. This study attempts to objectively measure tessitura by redefining it as an average pitch. A protocol was developed based on Rastall’s formula for calculating a pitch centre of gravity (PCG), taking into account not just the frequency of pitches, but also their duration. This protocol was used to measure changes in tessitura in soprano music theatre repertoire from the 1920s to the 2000s. Although anecdotally recognised by pedagogues and practitioners, the hypothesis that the tessitura of female music theatre repertoire has lowered over time has never been formally tested, despite the existence of parallel studies on the lowering of speaking fundamental frequency (SFF). The results of our study revealed a statistically significant lowering of tessitura in soprano music theatre repertoire over time. The implications of this, and further possible applications of the methodology, are discussed

Aromatherapy Oils: Commodities, Materials, Essences

This article examines the essential oils that are the central tools of aromatherapy and uses them as a case study for different approaches to material culture. It considers the conceptual and political implications of thinking of essential oils as, in turn, commodities, materials and essences. I argue that both cultural studies and aromatherapy have something to learn from each other. Classic materialist approaches might do well to focus more attention on the material properties and effects of things. Aromatherapy, on the other hand, could benefit from the enriched political understanding associated with classic materialist critique. New materialist strains of cultural studies may also find the vibrancy of matter that underpins many CAM/New Age practices worthy of examination

Design of Information Systems Using the Portlet Technology

Portlets are Java-based Web components, managed by a portlet container, that process requests and generate dynamic content. Portals use portlets as pluggable user interface components that provide a presentation layer to information systems. The next step, after servlets in Web application programming, portlets enable modular and user-centric Web applications. In this paper are described the principal characteristics and the functionalities of the portlets. There are presents some notions of administration of a J2EE server which suports this technology (IBM WebSphere Application Server).portlets, java components, application server