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- Tanner, Marie, 1965-, et al.
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In between self-knowledge and school demands : Policy enacted in the Swedish middle year classroom
- 2014
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In: Discourse. Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0159-6306 .- 1469-3739. ; 35:4, s. 554-569-
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article we focus on the interaction in a Year 5 classroom where students fill in a ‘self-evaluation form’ as a preparation for a forthcoming discussion on progress aiming at the production of an Individual Developmental Plan. Drawing on the theoretical concepts of fabrications and performativity (Ball, 2003; 2006), we understand this as an enactment of policy where both teacher and students become actors and subjects (Ball et al., 2012; Maguire et al. 2011). From using document analysis together with conversation analysis as a methodological approach, we show how the ‘self-evaluation’ in interaction becomes a successful exercise in fabrications as teacher and student negotiate conceptions of the ideal student in relation to self-knowledge and school demands. The article is an empirically grounded contribution to the understanding of how policies are interpreted and made into being by local actors in everyday practices, in this case teachers and students in schools.
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- O'Riordan, Niall, et al.
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The subsidiary strategising process for a competence-creating role
- 2023
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In: Multinational Business Review. - 1525-383X.
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- The authors' contention in this paper is that the expression of subsidiary strategy in IB literature has become fragmented and incomplete. Therefore, this study aims to propose a rethink on how IB scholarship approaches the important issue of subsidiary strategy by holistically examining the discrete and integrated set of activities, choices and decisions that constitute the subsidiary strategy process for, in this context, assuming a competence-creating role within the multinational enterprise (MNE).Design/methodology/approachA conceptual model is designed to illustrate the holistic process of subsidiary strategy from assigned to assumed role and how a subsidiary can navigate a pathway to elevated performance and survival.FindingsThe paper identifies the key integrated elements that constitute a holistic strategic process that can enhance a subsidiary's standing within the MNE and maximise its survival prospects.Research limitations/implicationsParticular focus is placed on subsidiaries that strategise to advance their internal corporate role to competence creator via upgraded knowledge capabilities.Originality/valueThis paper offers a roadmap for IB scholars to contribute to a future discourse around the subsidiary strategy process for assuming a competence-creating role.
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- Jarusriboonchai, Pradthana, et al.
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Understanding Children's Free Play in Primary Schools
- 2019
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In: 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITIES & TECHNOLOGIES (C&T). - New York, NY, USA : ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. ; , s. 178-188
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Various technologies (e.g., tablets, toolkits, and digital toys) are used in schools. However, they are often designed to introduce new play practices for serving pre-defined learning purposes. In this study, we are interested in constructive play 'in the wild' and how technologies can be integrated more organically into the ways young school children are already playing. This paper presents 4 one-week ethnographic study in four early primary school classrooms (children aged 5-7). The aim is to gain insights in children's free play and identify design opportunities for technology serving children's constructive play. Our findings illustrate children's interactions with resources and peers during free play, which often involve imitations and dynamically change between being solitary and social. We observed that children's constructive play was often associated with other forms of play. On this basis, we suggest three design implications for technologies that support and encourage constructive play during fee play in schools.
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- Laviña, Bàrbara
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Brain Vascular Imaging Techniques
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In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. - : MDPI. - 1661-6596 .- 1422-0067. ; 18:1
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Research review (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Recent major improvements in a number of imaging techniques now allow for the study of the brain in ways that could not be considered previously. Researchers today have well-developed tools to specifically examine the dynamic nature of the blood vessels in the brain during development and adulthood; as well as to observe the vascular responses in disease situations in vivo. This review offers a concise summary and brief historical reference of different imaging techniques and how these tools can be applied to study the brain vasculature and the blood-brain barrier integrity in both healthy and disease states. Moreover, it offers an overview on available transgenic animal models to study vascular biology and a description of useful online brain atlases.
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- Kastrati, Zenun, 1984-, et al.
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Using Context-Aware and Semantic Similarity Based Model to Enrich Ontology Concepts
- 2015
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In: Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319195803 - 9783319195810 ; , s. 137-143
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Domain ontologies are a good starting point to model in a formal way the basic vocabulary of a given domain. However, in order for an ontology to be usable in real applications, it has to be supplemented with lexical resources of this particular domain. The learning process of enriching domain ontologies with new lexical resources employed in the existing approaches takes into account only the contextual aspects of terms and does not consider their semantics. Therefore, this paper proposes a new objective metric namely SEMCON which combines contextual as well as semantic information of terms to enriching the domain ontology with new concepts. The SEMCON defines the context by first computing an observation matrix which exploits the statistical features such as frequency of the occurrence of a term, term’s font type and font size. The semantics is then incorporated by computing a semantic similarity score using lexical database WordNet. Subjective and objective experiments are conducted and results show an improved performance of SEMCON compared with tf*idf and $$\chi ^2$$.
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- Palczewska, M, et al.
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Characterization of calretinin I-II as an EF-hand, Ca2+, H+-sensing domain
- 2005
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In: Protein Science. - : Wiley. - 1469-896X .- 0961-8368. ; 14:7, s. 1879-1887
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Calretinin, a neuronal protein with well-defined calcium-binding properties, has a poorly defined function. The pH dependent properties of calretinin (CR), the N-terminal (CR I-II), and C-terminal (CR III-VI) domains were investigated. A drop in pH within the intracellular range (from pH 7.5 to pH 6.5) leads to an increased hydrophobicity of calcium-bound CR and its domains as reported by fluorescence spectroscopy with the hydrophobic probe 2-(p-toluidino)-6-naphthalenesulfonic acid (TNS). The TNS data for the N- and C-terminal domains of CR are additive, providing further support for their independence within the full-length protein. Our work concentrated on CR I-II, which was found to have hydrophobic properties similar to calmodulin at lower pH. The elution of CR I-II from a phenyl-Sepharose column was consistent with the TNS data. The pH-dependent structural changes were further localized to residues 13-28 and 44-51 using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy chemical shift analysis, and there appear to be no large changes in secondary structure. Protonation of His12 and/or His27 side chains, coupled with calcium chelation, appears to lead to the organization of a hydrophobic pocket in the N-terminal domain. CR may sense and respond to calcium, proton, and other signals, contributing to conflicting data on the proteins role as a calcium sensor or calcium buffer.
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