125 research outputs found
Digital information and the 'privatisation of knowledge'
Purpose of this paper: To point out that past models of information ownership may not carry over to the age of digital information. The fact that public ownership of information (for example, by means of national and public library collections) created social benefits in the past does not mean that a greater degree of private sector involvement in information provision in the knowledge society of today is synonymous with an abandonment of past ideals of social information provision. Design/methodology/approach: A brief review of recent issues in digital preservation and national electronic heritage management, with an examination of the public/private sector characteristics of each issue. Findings: Private companies and philanthropic endeavours focussing on the business of digital information provision have done some things - which in the past we have associated with the public domain - remarkably well. It is probably fair to say that this has occurred against the pattern of expectation of the library profession. Research limitations/Implications:The premise of this paper is that LIS research aimed at predicting future patterns of problem solving in information work should avoid the narrow use of patterns of public-private relationships inherited from a previous, print-based information order. Practical implications: This paper suggests practical ways in which the library and information profession can improve digital library services by looking to form creative partnerships with private sector problem solvers. What is original/value of the paper? This paper argues that the LIS profession should not take a doctrinaire approach to commercial company involvement in 'our' information world. Librarians should facilitate collaboration between all parties, both public and private, to create original solutions to contemporary information provision problems. In this way we can help create pragmatic, non-doctrinaire solutions that really do work for the citizens of our contemporary information society
Intergenerational Transmission and Support for EU Membership in the United Kingdom: The Case of Brexit
Euroscepticism is increasingly important to the shaping and understanding of contemporary European public opinion and politics. The origins of the trait, however, particularly the values that predispose individuals to view the European Union (EU) as a legitimate (or otherwise) political institution, remain poorly understood. Literature on political socialization identiļ¬es the family as a vital inļ¬uence on the development of many social and political attitudes. This study explores the role of the family in the development of Euroscepticism by examining evidence of intergenerational transmission of hostility towards membership of the EU between parents and children in the United Kingdom during its āBrexit referendumā. The study shows that the attitudes of parents during oneās politically formative years can be an important factor in shaping support for EU membership. It also ļ¬nds that this intergenerational transmission is different for mothers and fathers: while there is a greater likelihood of a childās attitudes being affected by those of their father, if they are affected by their motherās views they are more likely to eventually share their motherās position on EU membership. This identiļ¬es the family as a key source of the values that shape support for European integration, potentially accelerating or opposing other social trends that have resulted in successive generations typically being more supportive of EU membership
Capitalising on faith? An intergenerational study of social and religious capital among Baby Boomers and Millennials in Britain
This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this recordIntergenerational inequalities in economic security, health, and political participation are
frequently associated with inequalities in access to social capital. Millennials (those bornā¦)
are often regarded as the least civically active generation, suggesting that they have less access
to social capital, compared to other generations. Numerous studies have linked the decline of
religion with falling social capital, as younger generations are deprived of a valuable source
of social interaction; others, however, have claimed the link between the two is spurious
because Millennials have developed different ways of interacting with social institutions and
each other. Despite various studies exploring links between forms of religious and social
capital, the role of religious decline in contributing to the intergenerational inequalities of
today remains unclear. This study examines how religious capital is related to social capital
for Baby Boomers and Millennials in the UK. Our analysis shows that while lower levels of
religious capital are contributing to lower levels of social capital among Millennials, religious
activity is also a more effective source of social capital for Millennials than their elders. We
discuss possible interpretations of our data, including exploring whether greater religious
engagement among Millennials may protect against intergenerational inequality and conflict.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC
āFriends call me racistā: Experiences of repercussions from writing comments on newspaper websites
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Influence of the organic layer thickness in (Metal-Assisted) secondary ion mass spectrometry using Ga+ and C60+ projectiles
Intelligence, reason of state and the art of governing risk and opportunity in early modern Europe
Drawing upon primary and secondary historical material, this paper explores the role of intelligence in early modern government. It focuses upon developments in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century England, a site-specific genealogical moment in the broader history of state power/knowledges. Addressing a tendency in Foucauldian work to neglect pre-eighteenth-century governance, the analysis reveals a set of interrelated processes which gave rise to an innovative technique for anticipating hazard and opportunity for the state. At the intersection of raison dāĆtat, the evolving art of government, widespread routines of secrecy and a post-Westphalia field of European competition and exchange, intelligence was imagined as a fundamental solution to the concurrent problems of ensuring peace and stability while improving state forces. In the administrative offices of the English Secretary of State, an assemblage of complex and interrelated procedures sought to produce and manipulate information in ways which exposed both possible risks to the state and potential opportunities for expansion and gain. As this suggests, the art of intelligence played an important if largely unacknowledged role in the formation and growth of the early modern state. Ensuring strategic advantage over rivals, intelligence also limited the ability of England's neighbours to dominate trade, control the seas and master the colonies, functioning as a constitutive feature of European balance and equilibrium. As the analysis concludes, understanding intelligence as a form of governmental technique ā a way of doing something ā reveals an entirely novel way of thinking about and investigating its myriad (historical and contemporary) formations
Bioinformatics tools for cancer metabolomics
It is well known that significant metabolic change take place as cells are transformed from normal to malignant. This review focuses on the use of different bioinformatics tools in cancer metabolomics studies. The article begins by describing different metabolomics technologies and data generation techniques. Overview of the data pre-processing techniques is provided and multivariate data analysis techniques are discussed and illustrated with case studies, including principal component analysis, clustering techniques, self-organizing maps, partial least squares, and discriminant function analysis. Also included is a discussion of available software packages
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