61 research outputs found
Visual outcome of mega-dose intravenous corticosteroid treatment in non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy – retrospective analysis
Microstructure development during rapid solidification of highly supersaturated Cu-Co alloys
The Impact of Expertise on the Capture of Sketched Intentions: Perspectives for Remote Cooperative Design
peer reviewedThe paper describes the way expertise and field-knowledge can
impact the transfer of graphical intentions during architectural cooperative
design. The analysis of 28 controlled experiments reveals what matters in
transmitting architectural intents and more specifically underlines how novices’
intuitive, deductive processes based on previous and embodied experiences
interestingly complement experts’ knowledge of the architectural field and its
semantics. The results directly inform how we, as researchers, designers and
engineers, should take advantage of both novices’ and experts’ strategies to
develop tools, methods or interfaces to support next generation cooperative
design
Unsocial capital. Patronage and cronysm in postmodern power
Not always the relational capita is also a "social" capital. Often, this type of capital tough composed of bonds and interactions, appears nonetheless as a capital which is profoundly unsocial.
This happens in two cases: either when the laces do not bind to each other, or when they bind well between them but do not bind to the wider society in which they are also inserted. It presents itself then, as a capital that binds but not as one that unites, which connects but not that which integrates. It is the capital of linkages and of small groups, which however do not amalgamate into larger forms of cohesion. The illustrative image may be that of many small aggregations that do not however make a single large network. It is the capital of narrow ties rather than relations which are broader and inclusive.
Or it is the case of strong ties and closure forms of pseudo-community. In this case that we speak of capital which bonds rather than which bridges, to use an expression which is dear to the dominant literature on the subject . For these reasons, it ends up making more for the convenience "of" the society, than “for" the society and therefore social cohesion and amalgamation are clumped into many small social circles and just for very exclusively selected affinities.
The hypothesis that in these pages we intend to support is that the unsocial capital is the product of "certain forms" of relational particularism, which produce a patronage degeneration of power. At question therefore is not relational particularism "in itself", but rather relational particularism "under certain conditions" or "with certain characteristics" which are able to mark a continuum between unsocial capital and forms of patronage (but also nepotistic or familistic) of power. The story of the power of Rome can help us to grasp some of these unexpected relational consequences
Prolonged Tpeak-to-Tend Interval on the Resting ECG Is Associated With Increased Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
“No Damn Cat, and No Damn Cradle”: The Fundamental Flaws in Fundamentalism according to Vonnegut
A Population-Based Study of Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Following Cataract Surgery
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