Middelloopbaan-ontwikkeling deur spirituele lewenstylafrigting: Verkennende teoretiese perspektiewe

Middle-career development through spiritual lifestyle coaching: Preliminary theoretical perspectives. This study bases itself in the epistemological and methodological development of a broad and interdisciplinary dialogue where various voices in the form of different domains converse in order to establish an integrated whole. The research contributes to the actual corporative question regarding spirituality in the workplace, specifically aimed at the individual in the middle-career phase. This phase is characterised as a re-evaluation period aimed at personal and professional growth. A shift in emphasis to the meaning and sense of work is linked to spiritual intelligence as spirituality can be described and understood as atype of intelligence. The study shows that the middle-career experience provides opportunity for an altered future view. Lifestyle coaching serves as facilitating process and offers guidance in answering existential questions which are included in the spiritual. The probable outcome promises to add meaning as a manifesting component in a dynamic and transforminglife strategy

Mimicking the probability distribution of a two-dimensional Grover walk with a single-qubit coin

Multi-dimensional quantum walks usually require large coin spaces. Here we show that the non-localized case of the spatial density probability of the two-dimensional Grover walk can be obtained using only a two-dimensional coin space and a quantum walk in alternate directions. We present a formal proof of this correspondence and analyze the behavior of the coin-position entanglement as well as the x-y spatial entanglement in our scheme with respect to the Grover one. We show that our experimentally simpler scheme allows to entangle the two orthogonal directions of the walk more efficiently.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX

Groter geluk voor een groter aantal: Is dat mogelijk en wenselijk?

Er is groeiende steun voor de opvatting dat sociaal beleid zich meer moet richten op groter geluk voor een groter aantal burgers. Met de herleving van die klassieke leer wordt ook kritiek daarop actueel. Critici van het utilitarisme menen dat groter geluk voor een groot aantal mogelijk noch wenselijk is. In dit artikel worden hun bezwaren onderzocht. Daarbij wordt gebruik gemaakt van inzichten uit sociaal wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar geluk in de zin van levensvoldoening. Voor dat soort geluk blijken de bezwaren niet op te gaan

Dramatizing an Articulation of the (P)Artistic Researcher’s Posthumanist Pathway to a ‘Slow Professorship’ Within the Corporate University Complex

Within academia, the practical arts researcher endures an unstable status owing, in part, to the diverse research methodologies gathered underneath the umbrellas of Practice-[led/based/as/for]- Research. (P)Artistic Research is difficult to define, no less validate, in a result-oriented, data-driven, ‘performance’-measuring culture. The (P)Artistic Researcher embodies dissent in such contexts, as the nature of most artistic research is process-oriented, collaborative and solution-finding. In response to Berg and Seeber’s pleas for ‘slowness’ in The Slow Professor, this chapter reflects critically on the author’s habits and history as a (P)Artistic Researcher while moving through a ‘gap’ in employment, from a dramatic resignation at one institution to an acceptance of a new post at another institution, one year later. This writing is contaminated by aspects of the author’s ‘playwrighting’ practice, becoming a posthuman ‘playper’ in which forms of writing are intertwined, and structure, layout and grammatical positioning are used innovatively to produce new knowledge which is not ‘in-prism-ed’ by the narrow perspective of the corporate university. The content of the ‘playper’ offers a malleable frame with several pedagogical points of entry, including prompts, provocations and practical exercises which intend to slowly contaminate the classroom with a conscientious commitment to a posthuman understanding of the world

Quantitative criteria for choosing targets and indicators for sustainable use of ecosystems

The authors thank Simon Greenstreet, Cristina Herbon, Simon Jennings, Tiziana Luisetti, Lucille Paltriguera, and Christian Wilson for comments on previous versions of this paper. This work has resulted from the DEVOTES (DEVelopment Of innovative Tools for understanding marine biodiversity and assessing Good Environmental Status) project funded by the EU under the 7th Framework Programme, ‘The Ocean of Tomorrow’ Theme (No. 308392), www.devotes-project.eu. Further, A.G.R. was partially funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and the UK Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) within the Marine Ecosystems Research Program (MERP), C.P.L. by Defra (M1228), A.Z. by BIOsingle bondC3 within the joint Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme (EU 7th and Research Council of Lithuania, BONUS-1/2014), and M.C.U. by the Spanish Programme for talent and employability in I + D + i ‘Torres Quevedo’

Exploiting Polyhedral Symmetries in Social Choice

A large amount of literature in social choice theory deals with quantifying the probability of certain election outcomes. One way of computing the probability of a specific voting situation under the Impartial Anonymous Culture assumption is via counting integral points in polyhedra. Here, Ehrhart theory can help, but unfortunately the dimension and complexity of the involved polyhedra grows rapidly with the number of candidates. However, if we exploit available polyhedral symmetries, some computations become possible that previously were infeasible. We show this in three well known examples: Condorcet's paradox, Condorcet efficiency of plurality voting and in Plurality voting vs Plurality Runoff.Comment: 14 pages; with minor improvements; to be published in Social Choice and Welfar

Optical Scattering Measurements of Laser Induced Damage in the Intraocular Lens

This study optically determines whether the amount of light scatter due to laser-induced damage to the intraocular lens (IOL) is significant in relation to normal straylight values in the human eye. Two IOLs with laser-induced damage were extracted from two donor eyes. Each IOL had 15 pits and/or cracks. The surface area of each pit was measured using a microscope. For 6 pits per intraocular lens the point spread function (PSF) in terms of straylight was measured and the total straylight for all 15 pits was estimated. The damage in the IOLs was scored as mild/moderate. The total damaged surface areas, for a 3.5 mm pupil, in the two IOLs were 0.13% (0.0127 mm2) and 0.66% (0.064 mm2), respectively. The angular dependence of the straylight caused by the damage was similar to that of the normal PSF. The total average contribution to straylight was log(s) = −0.82 and −0.42, much less than the straylight value of the normal eye