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Architects of time: Labouring on digital futures
Drawing on critical analyses of the internet inspired by Gilles Deleuze and the Marxist autonomia movement, this paper suggests a way of understanding the impact of the internet and digital culture on identity and social forms through a consideration of the relationship between controls exercised through the internet, new subjectivities constituted through its use and new labour practices enabled by it. Following Castells, we can see that the distinction between user, consumer and producer is becoming blurred and free labour is being provided by users to corporations. The relationship between digital technologies and sense of community, through their relationship to the future, is considered for its dangers and potentials. It is proposed that the internet may be a useful tool for highlighting and enabling social connections if certain dangers can be traversed. Notably, current remedies for the lack of trust on the internet are questioned with an alternative, drawing on Zygmunt Bauman and Georg Simmel, proposed which is built on community through a vision of a ‘shared network’
Cerebrovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease increase risk of complications with robotic partial nephrectomy
Giant Magnetic Moments of Nitrogen Stabilized Mn Clusters and Their Relevance to Ferromagnetism in Mn Doped GaN
Using first principles calculations based on density functional theory, we
show that the stability and magnetic properties of small Mn clusters can be
fundamentally altered by the presence of nitrogen. Not only are their binding
energies substantially enhanced, but also the coupling between the magnetic
moments at Mn sites remains ferromagnetic irrespective of their size or shape.
In addition, these nitrogen stabilized Mn clusters carry giant magnetic moments
ranging from 4 Bohr magnetons in MnN to 22 Bohr magnetons in Mn_5N. It is
suggested that the giant magnetic moments of Mn_xN clusters may play a key role
in the ferromagnetism of Mn doped GaN which exhibit a wide range (10K - 940K)
of Curie temperatures
On the third critical field in Ginzburg-Landau theory
Using recent results by the authors on the spectral asymptotics of the
Neumann Laplacian with magnetic field, we give precise estimates on the
critical field, , describing the appearance of superconductivity in
superconductors of type II. Furthermore, we prove that the local and global
definitions of this field coincide. Near only a small part, near the
boundary points where the curvature is maximal, of the sample carries
superconductivity. We give precise estimates on the size of this zone and decay
estimates in both the normal (to the boundary) and parallel variables
Theoretical He I Emissivities in the Case B Approximation
We calculate the He I case B recombination cascade spectrum using improved
radiative and collisional data. We present new emissivities over a range of
electron temperatures and densities. The differences between our results and
the current standard are large enough to have a significant effect not only on
the interpretation of observed spectra of a wide variety of objects but also on
determinations of the primordial helium abundance.Comment: Accepted to ApJ
NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Services The First Five Years 2009-2013
The 'NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service: The First Five Years 2009 - 2013' evaluation report was published in June 2014. The report showcases the effectiveness, reach, and health impact of the Service since it's inception in 2009
NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Services The First Five Years 2009-2013
The 'NSW Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service: The First Five Years 2009 - 2013' evaluation report was published in June 2014. The report showcases the effectiveness, reach, and health impact of the Service since it's inception in 2009
The employee as 'Dish of the Day’:human resource management and the ethics of consumption
This article examines the ethical implications of the growing integration of consumption into the heart of the employment relationship. Human resource management (HRM) practices increasingly draw upon the values and practices of consumption, constructing employees as the ‘consumers’ of ‘cafeteria-style’ benefits and development opportunities. However, at the same time employees are expected to market themselves as items to be consumed on a corporate menu. In relation to this simultaneous position of consumer/consumed, the employee is expected to actively engage in the commodification of themselves, performing an appropriate organizational identity as a necessary part of being a successful employee. This article argues that the relationship between HRM and the simultaneously consuming/consumed employee affects the conditions of possibility for ethical relations within organizational life. It is argued that the underlying ‘ethos’ for the integration of consumption values into HRM practices encourages a self-reflecting, self-absorbed subject, drawing upon a narrow view of individualised autonomy and choice. Referring to Levinas’ perspective that the primary ethical relation is that of responsibility and openness to the Other, it is concluded that these HRM practices affect the possibility for ethical being
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