Agent of Harm and Good Corporate Citizen? The Case of Tyson Foods

Industrial agriculture inflicts major harms on nonhuman animals, the environment and human health. How do agribusinesses culturally legitimize their harmful practices? Utilizing critical discourse analysis, I clarify the ways in which one large agribusiness, Tyson Foods, disguises their actions while at the same time presents the image of a benign, good corporate citizen. The discourses employed by Tyson gain legitimacy by drawing on and aligning with larger cultural discourses that are often taken for granted. This research, situated at the intersection of green and cultural criminologies, makes a contribution to these as well as to the burgeoning social harm approach within criminology

Intrinsic sparse LSTM using structured targeted dropout for efficient hardware inference

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are useful for speech recognition but their fully-connected structure leads to a large memory footprint, making it difficult to deploy them on resource-constrained embedded systems. Previous structured RNN pruning methods can effectively reduce RNN size; however, it is difficult to find a good balance between high sparsity and high task accuracy or the pruned models only lead to moderate speedup on custom hardware accelerators. This work proposes a novel structured pruning method called Structure Targeted Dropout (STD)-Intrinsic Sparse Structures (ISS) that stochastically drops grouped rows and columns of the weight matrices during training. The compressed networks are equivalent to a smaller dense network, which can be efficiently processed by Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). STD-ISS is evaluated on the TIMIT phone recognition task using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) RNNs. It outperforms previous state-of-the-art hardware-friendly methods on both accuracy and compression ratio. STD-ISS achieves a size compression ratio of up to 50× with <1% accuracy loss, leading to a 19.1× speedup on the embedded Jetson Xavier NX GPU platform

Cellular Bases of Barbiturate and Phenytoin Anticonvulsant Drug Action

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Reconstruction of structures after a crisis

Sammanfattning Titel: Återuppbyggnad av strukturer efter en kris Författare: Lisa Mattsson, Emma Lindmar Handledare: Camilla Wernersson Institution: Managementhögskolan, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Kurs: Kandidatarbete i Företagsekonomi, 10 poäng Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att ur ett meningsskapande perspektiv bidra till en ökad kunskap och förståelse om hur interaktioner mellan människor i en organisation kan återuppbygga strukturer efter en kris. Metod: För att nå vårt syfte har vi valt att arbeta med kvalitativa metoder. Vi har genomfört en gruppintervju med personal från hemtjänsten i Kronobergs län, vars strukturer rasade samman under stormen Gudrun. Vi undersökte hur de efteråt återuppbyggde strukturerna genom att analysera olika teman ur empirin. Slutsatser: Osäkerhet, samhörighet, roller, beslutsfattande och rationalitet, är teman som alla är länkade till varandra, till strukturåteruppbyggande och till meningsskapande. Detta resonemang leder till slutsatsen att meningsskapande kan underlätta för strukturåteruppbyggande, och strukturåteruppbyggande kan i sin tur underlätta för meningsskapande. Abstract Title: Reconstruction of structures after a crisis Authors: Lisa Mattsson, Emma Lindmar Supervisor: Camilla Wernersson Department: School of management, Blekinge Institute of Technology Course: Bachelor’s thesis in Business Administration, 10 credits Purpose: Our purpose of this paper is to, with a sensemaking perspective, contribute to a higher knowledge and understanding about how interactions between people in an organization can reconstruct structures after a crisis. Method: To achieve our purpose we chose a qualitative method. We did a group interview with staff from the social service in Kronobergs län, whose structures collapsed during the storm Gudrun. We studied how they reconstructed the structures afterwards by analysing different themes taken from the interview. Results: Insecurity, connections, roles, decision making and rationality are all themes that are linked to each other, to rebuilding of structures and to sensemaking. This discussion leads us to the conclusion that sensemaking can facilitate rebuilding of structures, and rebuilding of structures can facilitate sensemaking

Reconstruction of structures after a crisis

Sammanfattning Titel: Återuppbyggnad av strukturer efter en kris Författare: Lisa Mattsson, Emma Lindmar Handledare: Camilla Wernersson Institution: Managementhögskolan, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola Kurs: Kandidatarbete i Företagsekonomi, 10 poäng Syfte: Syftet med denna uppsats är att ur ett meningsskapande perspektiv bidra till en ökad kunskap och förståelse om hur interaktioner mellan människor i en organisation kan återuppbygga strukturer efter en kris. Metod: För att nå vårt syfte har vi valt att arbeta med kvalitativa metoder. Vi har genomfört en gruppintervju med personal från hemtjänsten i Kronobergs län, vars strukturer rasade samman under stormen Gudrun. Vi undersökte hur de efteråt återuppbyggde strukturerna genom att analysera olika teman ur empirin. Slutsatser: Osäkerhet, samhörighet, roller, beslutsfattande och rationalitet, är teman som alla är länkade till varandra, till strukturåteruppbyggande och till meningsskapande. Detta resonemang leder till slutsatsen att meningsskapande kan underlätta för strukturåteruppbyggande, och strukturåteruppbyggande kan i sin tur underlätta för meningsskapande. Abstract Title: Reconstruction of structures after a crisis Authors: Lisa Mattsson, Emma Lindmar Supervisor: Camilla Wernersson Department: School of management, Blekinge Institute of Technology Course: Bachelor’s thesis in Business Administration, 10 credits Purpose: Our purpose of this paper is to, with a sensemaking perspective, contribute to a higher knowledge and understanding about how interactions between people in an organization can reconstruct structures after a crisis. Method: To achieve our purpose we chose a qualitative method. We did a group interview with staff from the social service in Kronobergs län, whose structures collapsed during the storm Gudrun. We studied how they reconstructed the structures afterwards by analysing different themes taken from the interview. Results: Insecurity, connections, roles, decision making and rationality are all themes that are linked to each other, to rebuilding of structures and to sensemaking. This discussion leads us to the conclusion that sensemaking can facilitate rebuilding of structures, and rebuilding of structures can facilitate sensemaking