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The disjuncture of learning and recognition: credential assessment from the standpoint of Chinese immigrant engineers in Canada
To better recognise foreign qualifications, many OECD countries have promoted liberal fairness epitomised by universal standards and institutional efficiency. This paper departs from such a managerial orientation towards recognition. Building on recognitive justice, it proposes an alternative anchoring point for recognition practices: the standpoint or everyday experiences of immigrants. This approach is illustrated with a qualitative study of the credential recognition practices of the engineering profession in Canada. From the standpoint of Chinese immigrants, the study identifies a disjuncture between credential recognition practices and immigrants’ career stage post-migration. Taking this disjuncture as problematic, it further pinpoints recognition issues such as redundancy and arbitrariness, a narrow focus on undergraduate education, and a deficit view of training from other countries. While some of these issues may be addressed by improving administrative procedures, others demand a participatory space allowing immigrants to become partners of assessment, rather than merely its objects. (DIPF/Orig.
Three body radiative decay in the PQCD approach
We study the three body radiative decay by
introducing the pair distribution amplitudes (DAs) in the perturbative
QCD approach. This nonperturbative inputs, the two meson DAs, is very important
to simplify the calculations. Besides the dominant electromagnetic penguin
operator , the subleading contributions from chromomagnetic
penguin operator , quark-loop corrections and annihilation type
amplitudes are also considered. We find that the branching ratio for the decay
is about
, which is much
smaller compared with that for the decay . It is mainly
because that the former decay induces by with small CKM matrix
element being proportional to . The prediction for the direct CP
asymmetry is , which is well consistent with
the result from the U-spin symmetry approach. we also predict the decay spectrum, which exhibits a maximu at the
invariant masss around 1.95 GeV.Comment: 17 pages,6 figures, Accepted for publication in EPJ
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