'I'm as much an anarchist in theory as I am in practice': Fernando Pessoa's 'Anarchist banker' in a management education context

The performance of Fernando Pessoa?s novel The Anarchist Banker serves as an example for critical management education and allows for further insights into how anarchist theories may be reflected upon and practiced in a business school context. We explore elements of an ?anarchist aesthetics? that are created through dramaturgy, narration, and collective production and reception. The Anarchist Banker fits well with arts-based education in business schools and efforts to learn lessons for leadership through the use of drama. The literary source encourages to rethink salient issues in today?s global and finance-dominated capitalism and offers opportunities to search for alternative forms of organizing society and the economy by questioning charismatic leadership and managerial rhetoric in favor of collective reasoning. Elements of an anarchist aesthetic include the deconstruction of the hero and authoritarian discourse, dialogue and polyphony, collectivity and obstructionism that are at play artistically and socially, integrating anarchist theory and practice in content and form. The topic links to new forms of resistance, with critical artists opposing the business world and academics attempting to play out the ?banker? versus the ?anarchist?

Werden die heutigen Rinderzuchtprogramme den Anforderungen des Ökologischen Landbaus gerecht?

Aus der Literaturrecherche und der Umfrage lässt sich folgern, dass noch zu wenig praxisrelevante Methoden entwickelt sind, die eine direkte züchterische Verbesserung der Gesundheit bringen. Es sind aber verschiedene zukunftsträchtige Methoden in Entwicklung, die praxisreif gemacht werden müssen und die auch für die Rinderzucht im ökologischen Landbau wichtig werden könnten

Collective Action on Public Goods for Sustainable Development: Ethics in Action

Maintaining and expanding public goods is synonymous to promoting sustainable development but discussions are needed to clarify how policies need to be coordinated to enable collective action on public goods. Collective action for Public Goods will only be successful if all who partake in such actions can gain complementary benefits that would be either more costly or impossible to achieve without the collective effort

Effects of seed predators of different body size on seed mortality in Bornean logged gorest

Background The Janzen-Connell hypothesis proposes that seed and seedling enemies play a major role in maintaining high levels of tree diversity in tropical forests. However, human disturbance may alter guilds of seed predators including their body size distribution. These changes have the potential to affect seedling survival in logged forest and may alter forest composition and diversity. Methodology/Principal Findings We manipulated seed density in plots beneath con- and heterospecific adult trees within a logged forest and excluded vertebrate predators of different body sizes using cages. We show that small and large-bodied predators differed in their effect on con- and heterospecific seedling mortality. In combination small and large-bodied predators dramatically decreased both con- and heterospecific seedling survival. In contrast, when larger-bodied predators were excluded small-bodied predators reduced conspecific seed survival leaving seeds coming from the distant tree of a different species. Conclusions/Significance Our results suggest that seed survival is affected differently by vertebrate predators according to their body size. Therefore, changes in the body size structure of the seed predator community in logged forests may change patterns of seed mortality and potentially affect recruitment and community composition

Eccentric endurance training in subjects with coronary artery disease: a novel exercise paradigm in cardiac rehabilitation?

This study evaluated the effects of 8weeks of eccentric endurance training (EET) in male subjects (age range 42-66years) with coronary artery disease (CAD). EET was compared to concentric endurance training (CET) carried out at the same metabolic exercise intensity, three times per week for half an hour. CET (n=6) was done on a conventional cycle ergometer and EET (n=6) on a custom-built motor-driven ergometer. During the first 5weeks of the training program the metabolic load was progressively increased to 60% of peak oxygen uptake in both groups. At this metabolic load, mechanical work rate achieved was 97 (8)W [mean (SE)] for CET and 338 (34)W for EET, respectively. Leg muscle mass was determined by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, quadriceps strength with an isokinetic dynamometer and muscle fibre composition of the vastus lateralis muscle with morphometry. The leg muscle mass increased significantly in both groups by some 3%. Strength parameters of knee extensors improved in EET only. Significant changes of +11 (4.9)%, +15 (3.2)% and +9 (2.5)% were reached for peak isometric torque and peak concentric torques at 60°s−1 and 120°s−1, respectively. Fibre size increased significantly by 19% in CET only. In conclusion, the present investigation showed that EET is feasible in middle-aged CAD patients and has functional advantages over CET by increasing muscle strength. Muscle mass increased similarly in both groups whereas muscle structural composition was differently affected by the respective training protocols. Potential limitations of this study are the cautiously chosen conditioning protocol and the restricted number of subject

From Australia to Nebraska: Researching Social Value

Globally, there is a growing body of research on social capital through the lens of social value, or how the social connections translate into actions with tangible outcomes impacting livelihoods and well-being. In the United States, social value is a relatively new perspective that will add to the social capital discussion

Synthesizing a σ^z\hat{\sigma}_z spin-dependent force for optical, metastable, and ground state trapped-ion qubits

A single bichromatic field near-resonant to a qubit transition is typically used for $\hat{\sigma}_x$ or $\hat{\sigma}_y$ M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen type interactions in trapped ion systems. Using this field configuration, we present a novel scheme to synthesize a $\hat{\sigma}_z$ spin-dependent force instead; this basis change merely requires adjusting the beat-note frequency of the bichromatic field. We implement this scheme with a laser near-resonant to a quadrupole transition in $^{88}$Sr$^+$. We characterise its robustness to optical phase and qubit frequency offsets and demonstrate its versatility by entangling optical, metastable, and ground state qubits.Comment: O. B\u{a}z\u{a}van and S. Saner contributed equally to this wor

Breaking the entangling gate speed limit for trapped-ion qubits using a phase-stable standing wave

All laser-driven entangling operations for trapped-ion qubits have hitherto been performed without control of the optical phase of the light field, which precludes independent tuning of the carrier and motional coupling. By placing $^{88}$Sr$^+$ ions in a $\lambda=674$ nm standing wave, whose relative position is controlled to $\approx\lambda/100$, we suppress the carrier coupling by a factor of $18$, while coherently enhancing the spin-motion coupling. We experimentally demonstrate that the off-resonant carrier coupling imposes a speed limit for conventional traveling-wave M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen gates; we use the standing wave to surpass this limit and achieve a gate duration of $15\ \mu$s, restricted by the available laser power.Comment: S. Saner and O. B\u{a}z\u{a}van contributed equally to this wor

Odynophagia and Retrosternal Pain Are Common in Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Associated with an Increased Overall Symptom Severity.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Dysphagia is the hallmark symptom in eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). However, data are limited regarding the overall prevalence and potential implications of atypical symptoms like odynophagia and retrosternal pain. METHODS Patients enrolled into the Swiss EoE cohort study (SEECS) were analyzed regarding the presence of odynophagia and retrosternal pain. Demographics, other EoE-related symptoms, histologic and endoscopic activity were compared between EoE-patients with vs. without odynophagia and/or retrosternal pain. RESULTS 474 patients (75.2% male) were analyzed. In their individual course of disease 110 (23.2%) patients stated to have ever experienced odynophagia and 64 (13.5%) retrosternal pain independent of food intake, 24 (5%) patients complained about both symptoms. Patients with odynophagia consistently scored higher in symptom severity (p < 0.001), EREFS score (median 3.0 vs. 2.0, p = 0.006), histologic activity and a lower quality of life (p = 0.001) compared to patients without odynophagia. Sex, age at diagnosis, EoE-specific treatment, complications such as candida or viral esophagitis and disease duration were similar in patients with vs. without odynophagia. Also patients with retrosternal pain scored higher in symptom severity (2.0 vs. 1.0, p = 0.001 and 2.0 vs. 1.0, p < 0.001 in physician and patient questionnaire assessment, respectively). However, there was neither a difference in endoscopic/histologic disease activity nor in quality of life according to presence or absence of retrosternal pain. Due to logistic reasons, a stratification regarding the presence of concomitant dysphagia was not possible. CONCLUSION Odynophagia and swallowing-independent retrosternal pain are common symptoms in patients with EoE, associate with an overall higher EoE-related symptom severity and for the case of odynophagia lower quality of life. However, the influence of concomitant dysphagia and its severity remains unclear and needs to be included in future analyses

Secondary Prevention Through Cardiac Rehabilitation: Position Paper of the Working Group on Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology of the European Society of Cardiology

The purpose of this statement is to provide specific recommendations in regard to evaluation and intervention in each of the core components of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) to assist CR staff in the design and development of their programmes; the statement should also assist health care providers, insurers, policy makers and consumers in the recognition of the comprehensive nature of such programmes. Those charged with responsibility for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, whether at European, at national or at individual centre level, need to consider where and how structured programmes of CR can be delivered to the large constituency of patients now considered eligible for C