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Post-structuralism, Complexity and Poetics.
Post-structuralism and complexity are plural and diverse modes of thought that share a common subscription to the Ăąïżœïżœanteriority of radical relationalityĂąïżœïżœ. They nonetheless subscribe to a different ethic of life because they address the anteriority of radical relationality in different ways. Complexity remains strategic in its bid to become a power-knowledge of the laws of becoming. It derives that strategic ethic from its scientific interest in the implicate order of non-linearity that is said to subvert Newtonian science. Post-structuralism is poetic. It derives its poetic ethic from Heidegger and from the re-working of orphic and tragic sensibilities to radical relationality with the radically non-relational. Observing that all poetry is complexity avant la lettre, the paper illustrates these points with the Odyssey and concludes that while complexity is ultimately concerned with fitness, post-structuralism is pre-occupied with justice
Development of an efficient milk production profile of the Irish dairy Industry
End of project reportFluctuation around milk price will be the biggest factor that the dairy industry will experience over the next number of years. This fluctuation is being driven by fluctuation on the world dairy markets. In the past, when intervention was a much bigger feature of the CAP regime, the fluctuation in world markets had little effect on the EU price. This was because the Intervention system bought product from the market when prices were depressed and placed products on the world market when the price rose. This in effect meant that the CAP regime was having a regulatory effect on the world market as well as the EU markets. An example of the type of fluctuation observed on the world market can be gleamed from the Fonterra milk price in 2006-2007 (7.90/kg MS). This corresponds to a 76% increase in price in 1 year. For the Dairy Industry in Ireland to prosper under these conditions all sectors will be required to be as efficient as possible from the farm, processing and marketing sectors. This report deals with; (1) Milk payment (2) Optimum milk production systems and (3) Seasonality of milk supply.
(1) Milk payment systems in Ireland currently do not adequately reward high solids quality milk. Virtually all milk payment systems include a positive constant which reward the production of volume rather than the production of protein and fat kilograms. The A+B-C system of milk payment would adequately reward the production of protein and fat while at the same time correcting for the volume related processing costs.
(2) Optimum systems of milk production will be built around the maximization of grass utilization in the future. Grazed grass is the cheapest feed that can be fed to dairy cows. Stocking rates nationally are 1.74cows/Ha around the milking platform and therefore when dairy farms are expanding they should do so by increasing stocking rate. The inclusion of supplementary feeds will reduce profitability for the vast majority of dairy farmers and could only possibly lead to increases in profitability when coupled increases in stocking rate.
(3) Grass based systems while substantially reducing costs at farm level result in a seasonal milk supply profile. This results in a reduced capacity utilization of the milk processing facilities as well as restricted product port folio. However the production of Winter milk will lead to significant cost increases at farm level and should only be encouraged if the specific product produced would be sufficient to cover the additional costs associated with over winter production. Within spring calving systems milk payment systems should be used to encourage an efficient milk supply profile with a mean compact calving date of mid February.Teagasc acknowledges with gratitude the support of Dairy Levy Funds and EU Structural Funds (FEOGA) in financing the research programme
The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement in Higher Education: Applying an Earnings Function
This paper uses an earnings function to model how class size affects the grade students earn. We test the model using an ordinal logit with and without fixed effects on 363,023 undergraduate observations. We find that class size negatively affects grades. Average grade point declines as class size increases, precipitously up to class sizes of ten, and more gradually but monotonically through class sizes of 400 plus. The probability of getting a B plus or better declines from 0.9 for class sizes 20 to about 0.5 for class sizes of 120 and almost 0.4 for class sizes of 400
Epilogue The Scandal of the Refugee: Some peflections on the "Inter" of International Relations
The refugee is a scandal for philosophy in
that the refugee recalls the radical instability of meaning and
the incalculability of the human. The refugee is a scandal for
politics also, however, in that the advent
of the refugee is always a reproach to the
formation of the political order subjectivity
which necessarily gives rise to the
refugee. The scandal is intensified for any politics of identity which presupposes
that the goal of politics is the realization
of sovereign identity. The principal argument,
then, is that what I will call the scandal of the refugee illuminates both the fundamental ontological determinations
of international politics and
the character of political action, because
the refugee is both a function of the intentional
political destruction of the ontological
horizons of people's always
already heterogeneous worlds, and
effects an equally fundamental deconstruction
of the ontological horizons
which constitute the equally heterogeneous
worlds into which, as refugees, these
people are precipitated. It is precisely on
this concrete and corporeal site that both
the ontological horizons and the allied
political decision-making of modern
politics are thrown into stark relief and
profoundly called into question. For it is
precisely here that the very actions of
modern politics both create and address
the incidence of its own massive and self-generated, political abjection. If that is
one of the principal ends of international
relations, one is forced to ask, what does
it take as its beginning? If, in other words,
the vernacular political architecture of
modern international power commonly
produces 1:115 forcibly displaced people
globally, one is inclined to ask about
the foundations upon which that architecture
is itself based.La réalité du refuge est une scandale pour
la philosophie en cela que le réfugié nous
rappelle l'instabilité radicale de la signification
et l'incalculabilité de l'humain.
Mais le réfugié est aussi un scandale pour
la politique en cela que l'avĂšnement du
réfugié est toujours un reproche à la formation
de l'ordre politique ou de la subjectivité
qui suscite nécessairement
l'apparition du réfugié. Le scandale est
intensifié par toute politique de l'identité
qui présupposeque le but du politique est
la réalisation de l'identité souveraine. Le
principal argument, dans ce cas, est que
ce que je nommerais le scandale du réfugié
illumine à la fois les déterminations ontologiques fondamentales de la politique
internationale et le caractĂšre de l'action
politique, car le réfugié est à la fois une
fonction de l'intentionnelle destruction
politique des horizons ontologiques des
mondes toujours - déjà hétérogÚnes des
peuples, et il entraĂźne une tout aussi fondamentale destruction
des horizons ontologiques
qui constitue les mondes tout
aussi hétérogÚnes dans lesquels, en tant
que réfugiés, ces peuples sont précipités.
C'est exactement sur ce site concret et
corporel que les horizons ontologiques
et les prises de décision corollaires de la
politique modernes ont mis Ă nu et fermement remis
en question. Car c'est exactement
ici que l'action effective de la
politique moderne crée et envisage les
incidences de sa propre abjection politique,
massive et autogénérée. Si cela est
une des principales finalités des relations
internationales, force est de demander
que se donnent-elles comme point de départ?
En d'autres termes, si l'architecture
politique vernaculaire du pouvoir
international moderne produit ordinairement 1:115 personnes globalement déplacées
de force, on est en droit de poser
des questions sur les fondements sur lesquels
repose une telle architecture
Systemic innovation in native title
This paper explores the implications which flow from the fact that native title institutions comprise a complex system, or meta-system, and examines the extent and value of innovation within the native title system. It looks backwards to identify and assess a number of key innovations since the Mabo High Court decision, which had whole of system implications. It then looks forward to identify and consider potential future systemic innovations within the native title system. The paper concludes by suggesting that the quality of innovation in the native title system will have a significant impact on the nature and form of the national process of reaching an equitable settlement between mainstream and Indigenous interests in Australia
Emerging strategic issues in native title:future political and policy challenges
In the 25 years since the Mabo High Court decision, native title claims, litigation, determinations, and land use agreements have proliferated with the result that native title is now an undisputed component in the Australian nation's core institutional framework. This has been a remarkable development. The emergence of public policy for native title over the past quarter century, built on a complex array of conceptual foundations which derive from Indigenous tradition, the common law, statute law, anthropology, history and politics, invites the question: what next? Where will native title policy be in 25 years' time? What are the emerging issues which will most shape that future?
This paper attempts to explore and answer those questions from a public policy perspective, adopting an explicitly political frame of analysis from international development theory, political settlement theory. Emerging issues of national, regional and local significance are considered and assessed from both the perspective of public policymakers, and Indigenous interests.
It is argued that there are strong grounds for both policymakers and Indigenous interests dealing with native title issues to be more proactive than has been the case to date in managing the emerging strategic challenges identified
Learning Happens: Incorporating a Rhizomatic Perspective into Teaching and Learning
This session will review a rhizomatic perspective of teaching and learning. Data from research regarding a community leadership program will be utilized as an example of applying this perspective
Choice of Optimal Planting and Marketing Decisions for Fresh Vegetable Producers: A Mathematical Programming Approach
This study combines whole farm economic analysis with biophysical simulation techniques in order to achieve a twofold objective. First, the study seeks to develop a multiple enterprise vegetable farm model with a production and marketing decision interface and, second, to determine optimal production practices for Kentucky vegetable growers. Three vegetable crops are examined: tomatoes, bell peppers and sweet corn. The findings indicate that the risk associated with vegetable production can be significantly mitigated with diversification of production mix and with a greater number of transplanting dates. However, this reduction in risk comes at a high cost in terms of expected net returns.vegetable production, mean-variance, biophysical simulation, farm management, Farm Management, C61, C63, D81,
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