Self and others in team-based learning: Acquiring teamwork skills for business

Team-based learning (TBL) was applied within a third-year unit of study about ethics and management with the aim of enhancing students’ teamwork skills. A survey used to collect students’ opinions about their experience with TBL provided insights about how TBL helped students to develop an appreciation for teamwork and team collaboration. The team skills acquired through TBL could strengthen job readiness for business

Intrinsic time resolution of 3D-trench silicon pixels for charged particle detection

In the last years, high-resolution time tagging has emerged as the tool to tackle the problem of high-track density in the detectors of the next generation of experiments at particle colliders. Time resolutions below 50ps and event average repetition rates of tens of MHz on sensor pixels having a pitch of 50$\mu$m are typical minimum requirements. This poses an important scientific and technological challenge on the development of particle sensors and processing electronics. The TIMESPOT initiative (which stands for TIME and SPace real-time Operating Tracker) aims at the development of a full prototype detection system suitable for the particle trackers of the next-to-come particle physics experiments. This paper describes the results obtained on the first batch of TIMESPOT silicon sensors, based on a novel 3D MEMS (micro electro-mechanical systems) design. Following this approach, the performance of other ongoing silicon sensor developments has been matched and overcome, while using a technology which is known to be robust against radiation degradation. A time resolution of the order of 20ps has been measured at room temperature suggesting also possible improvements after further optimisations of the front-end electronics processing stage.Comment: This version was accepted to be published on JINST on 21/07/202

Foucault's overlooked organisation: revisiting his critical works

In this essay I propose a new reading of Michel Foucault's main thesis about biopower and biopolitics. I argue that organisation represents the neglected key to Foucault's new conceptualisation of power as something that is less political and more organisational. This unique contribution was lost even on his closest interlocutors. Foucault's work on power had a strong influence on organisation and management theory but interestingly not for the reasons I am proposing. In fact, although theorists in management and organisation studies have emphasised power in relation to discipline, control and subjectivity they have overlooked the transformative meaning of Foucault's organisation. His work on biopolitics has attracted opposition, too, as evidenced by the controversy sparked by Giorgio Agamben about Foucault's biopolitics. From Agamben's critique, it appears that Foucault's notions of politics and power do not allow a deconstruction of the violence of the concentration camp. However, a critical reading of Primo Levi's biographical narratives reveals the camp as a place where the prisoners’ ability to organise their daily lives secured survival. To make sense of Levi's revelation, I use John Dewey's notion of habits as forms of organisation and reconnect it to Foucault's organisation. A shared understanding of the objective conditions of human activity and experience highlights the similarities between Dewey's pragmatism and Foucault's pragmatic metaphysics. In the end, however, Foucault's metaphysical background has caught up with him, pushing him away from his own most radical proposal that organisation was the new form of power and the new substance of politics

Self and others in team-based learning: acquiring teamwork skills for business

Team-based learning (TBL) was applied within a third-year unit of study about ethics and management with the aim of enhancing students' teamwork skills. A survey used to collect students' opinions about their experience with TBL provided insights about how TBL helped students to develop an appreciation for teamwork and team collaboration. The team skills acquired through TBL could strengthen job readiness for business

Virtual reality in quotidian life

'Virtual Reality' (Realtà Virtuale) (2007), Maremmi Editori Firenze, a collection of three short stories in which science and technology are intertwined with the literary style of Michela Betta. In her work the author confronts changes caused by science and its application in the form of technology. Science and technology challenge tradition and permit us to resolve problems linked to constant new individual expectations. But, at the same time, they create new ethical dilemmas which push individuals to follow new virtues and to open themselves to new knowledge. The work 'Virtual Reality' captures the reader because it describes in a serene and relaxed way the responsibilities which originate from the changing times and the choices that each one of us makes during the course of our lives in that interminable attempt to find happiness. Michela Betta was born in Italy (Rovereto) and lived near Riva del Garda where she went to school. She studied a few semesters in Milan and then moved to Frankfurt (Germany) where she continued and completed her study and PhD in sociology, philosophy and linguistics. In 2000 Michela Betta moved to Melbourne where she is currently living and working. She has written extensively on theoretical topics such as biomedical research, human rights, cloning, the technological family, body and technology, freedom, choice, and manipulation, the genetic economy, and the technology of the self. Virtual Reality is her second published literary work

On accounting hell, mess, and blind boards - HIH and ENRON a management failure? Corporate Governance II: two case studies

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From society to organization: governing through management and accounting: corporate governance I: a conceptual approach

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