427 research outputs found
Soft Skills versus Technical Skills: Finding the Right Balance for an IS Curriculum
Continuous improvement and development of a curriculum is an essential part of the success of information systems academic departments. In the current study, we facilitated focus group sessions with information technology executives to identify the critical skills they seek when hiring entry-level MIS graduates. The results follows the general trend that has recently been seen throughout the IT industry, as seven of the top ten skills were soft in nature, two were system skills, and only one could be accurately categorized as highly technical in nature
Taking reincarnation seriously: Critical discussion of some central ideas from John Hick
Reincarnation has not been entirely neglected in the philosophy of religion but it has not always been taken seriously or carefully discussed in relation to its role in believersā lives. John Hick is exceptional insofar as he gave sustained attention to the belief, at least as it features in the philosophies of VedÄnta and Buddhism. While acknowledging the value of Hickās recognition of the variety of reincarnation beliefs, this article critically engages with certain aspects of his approach. It argues that Hickās search for a ācriterionā of reincarnation is misguided, and that his distinction between āfactualā and āmythicā forms of the doctrine is over-simplifying
Thermalization of magnons in yttrium-iron garnet: nonequilibrium functional renormalization group approach
Using a nonequilibrium functional renormalization group (FRG) approach we
calculate the time evolution of the momentum distribution of a magnon gas in
contact with a thermal phonon bath. As a cutoff for the FRG procedure we use a
hybridization parameter {\Lambda} giving rise to an artificial damping of the
phonons. Within our truncation of the FRG flow equations the time evolution of
the magnon distribution is obtained from a rate equation involving
cutoff-dependent nonequilibrium self-energies, which in turn satisfy FRG flow
equations depending on cutoff-dependent transition rates. Our approach goes
beyond the Born collision approximation and takes the feedback of the magnons
on the phonons into account. We use our method to calculate the thermalization
of a quasi two-dimensional magnon gas in the magnetic insulator yttrium-iron
garnet after a highly excited initial state has been generated by an external
microwave field. We obtain good agreement with recent experiments.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, final versio
Hick and Radhakrishnan on Religious Diversity: Back to the Kantian Noumenon
We shall examine some conceptual tensions in Hickās āpluralismā in the light of S. Radhakrishnanās reformulation of classical Advaita. Hick himself often quoted Radhakrishnanās translations from the Hindu scriptures in support of his own claims about divine ineffability, transformative experience and religious pluralism. However, while Hick developed these themes partly through an adaptation of Kantian epistemology, Radhakrishnan derived them ultimately from Åaį¹kara (c.800 CE), and these two distinctive points of origin lead to somewhat different types of reconstruction of the diversity of world religions. Our argument will highlight the point that Radhakrishnan is not a āpluralistā in terms of Hickās understanding of the Real. The Advaitin ultimate, while it too like Hickās Real cannot be encapsulated by human categories, is, however, not strongly ineffable, because some substantive descriptions, according to the Advaitic tradition, are more accurate than others. Our comparative analysis will reveal that they differ because they are located in two somewhat divergent metaphysical schemes. In turn, we will be able to revisit, through this dialogue between Hick and Radhakrishnan, the intensely vexed question of whether Hickās version of pluralism is in fact a form of covert exclusivism.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-015-0459-
Theodicy and End-of-Life Care
Acknowledgments The section on Islamic perspective is contributed by information provided by Imranali Panjwani, Tutor in Theology & Religious Studies, King's College London.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Glucosinolate Biosynthesis (Further Characterization of the Aldoxime-Forming Microsomal Monooxygenases in Oilseed Rape Leaves)
Nova light curves from the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) - II. The extended catalogue
We present the results from observing nine Galactic novae in eruption with the Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) between 2004 and 2009. While many of these novae reached peak magnitudes that were either at or approaching the detection limits of SMEI, we were still able to produce light curves that in many cases contained more data at and around the initial rise, peak, and decline than those found in other variable star catalogs. For each nova, we obtained a peak time, maximum magnitude, and for several an estimate of the decline time (t2). Interestingly, although of lower quality than those found in Hounsell et al. (2010a), two of the light curves may indicate the presence of a pre-maximum halt. In addition the high cadence of the SMEI instrument has allowed the detection of low amplitude variations in at least one of the nova light curves
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