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Publication date: 1 January 1983

BRUCE ENGLAND

Second‐order cybernetics, as developed by Foerster, has shown that the perceived environment is our invention. Cyberneticians also need to realize that this invented environment…

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Second‐order cybernetics, as developed by Foerster, has shown that the perceived environment is our invention. Cyberneticians also need to realize that this invented environment occurs within a particular operational state of the nervous system in humans, and that a basic modification of this state creates another operational state. In the first state, cybernetic operations create an experienced reality of differentiated duality. The second state is noncybernetic because information creation does not occur, thus it has no content and is experienced as undifferentiated unity. The transition between states depends upon the shifting of attention away and back to from content creation. Awareness of the duality‐unity model creates a framework for a cybernetic theory of reality recomputation in which the content experience of duality is impacted and changed by the no‐content experience of unity. This theory within cyberneticians can be based upon the experience of others or upon personal experience.

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Kybernetes, vol. 12 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 1 February 2001

John Griffiths, Bruce Elson and David Amos

In turbulent, highly competitive markets corporate organisations are faced with the dichotomy of “downsizing” their costs, yet at the same time improving the service that they…

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In turbulent, highly competitive markets corporate organisations are faced with the dichotomy of “downsizing” their costs, yet at the same time improving the service that they offer their customers. This paper shows how a more market‐orientated approach can bring greater benefits for companies. Additional “soft” services can help to tailor a package of customer service and provide product and service differentiation, while inverting the traditional organisational structure can bring customer and supplier closer and lead to greater collaboration. This requires more open communication systems for the rapid capture, transfer and management of information. This has proved difficult in the past, but Web‐based technology is changing all of that. The paper concludes that all of these features are essential for a customer‐supplier interaction model that can provide the customer with added value in product and service delivery, and the supplier with increased business opportunities.

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Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, vol. 11 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0960-4529

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Publication date: 7 December 2018

Alison Taysum

The professional challenge the chapter addresses is Black, Asian Minority Ethnic Chief Executive Officers (BAME CEOs) who lead Multi-academy Trusts (MATs) in England need to…

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The professional challenge the chapter addresses is Black, Asian Minority Ethnic Chief Executive Officers (BAME CEOs) who lead Multi-academy Trusts (MATs) in England need to navigate turbulence to assure all schools within their MATs are high performing. In the investigation of this issue, the structures of MATs themselves emerge as causing turbulence. Evidence revealed the BAME CEOs with track records of improving failing schools to outstanding schools interviewed in this research are working in partnership with their communities. These BAME CEOs sustain their high achieving MATs and/or take on more schools that need improving and lead their change to outstanding schools with BAME communities, non-BAME communities and diverse communities. However, they were not given the opportunities to build capacity for high-performing schools by the current MAT structures. Rapid change to the organisation of Public Education Governance Systems has shifted power from local authority governance to public corporation governance without addressing any of the old problems in the change (Brighouse, 2017). The rapid change has led to a clash of cultures between those with the values of generic Public Governance Systems who have not been democratically elected by the public and do not require professional educational credentials, a track record of being ethical teachers, and a track record of leading ethical teachers in ethical communities in school improvement from ‘Needs Improvement’ to ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’. The rapid change has been hallmarked by a lack of full and free interactions and cooperation of the public in how the change in public education is being implemented. There has been no referendum on whether parents want their schools organised by their representatives they have elected in local councils or organised by public corporations financed by Private Finance Incentive (PFI) and Private Finance 2 (PF2) and operated by public corporations like Carillion.

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Turbulence, Empowerment and Marginalisation in International Education Governance Systems
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ISBN: 978-1-78754-675-2

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Publication date: 1 May 1945

In an aircraft having a wing, the combination with an enclosed engine chamber, an air‐cooled internal‐combustion engine in the chamber, a duct for heated air extending laterally…

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In an aircraft having a wing, the combination with an enclosed engine chamber, an air‐cooled internal‐combustion engine in the chamber, a duct for heated air extending laterally from the chamber through the wing to an air‐outlet near the trailing edge of the wing, a duct for exhaust gases extending from the engine entirely within the heated‐air duct, a duct for cold air extending from an air‐intake at the leading edge of the wing to enter the engine chamber laterally and at least partly surround the heated‐air duct at the place where it enters the chamber, and partitioning means within the chamber to cause the cold air admitted through the cold air duct to flow over the engine first in one direction and then in the reverse direction to the heated air duct.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 17 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 September 1958

In a combustion system for burning fluid fuel in a gaseous stream of combustion‐supporting medium, ducting immersed in the said stream and comprising first and second duct…

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In a combustion system for burning fluid fuel in a gaseous stream of combustion‐supporting medium, ducting immersed in the said stream and comprising first and second duct portions both extending gcnsrally in the direction of flow of said stream and enclosing between them an annular passage open at both ends, an annular ring portion extending radially from the downstream end of said second duct portion and away from said first duct portion so as to form a sudden enlargement of said annular passage, an annular fuel supply chamber comprising a wall of porous material adjoining that edge of said annular ring which is the more remote from said first duct portion and extending downstream from said edge, a third duct portion extending downstream from said annular fuel supply chamber, and a flame deflector spaced downstream from said fuel supply chamber and extending part way across said passage.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 30 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 October 1945

A temperature control for aircraft instruments comprising in combination an aircraft engine having a hot oil sump and a relatively cool oil sump, conduits from said sumps, a…

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A temperature control for aircraft instruments comprising in combination an aircraft engine having a hot oil sump and a relatively cool oil sump, conduits from said sumps, a mixing valve having intakes connected individually to said conduits, a discharge conduit from said mixing valve, and a thermostatically controlled balanced valve for varying the openings respectively from said hot and cold conduits to said discharge conduit, said thermostat control being housed within said discharge conduit and said discharge conduit extending to an instrument panel board.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 17 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 November 1945

In a wing construction for an aeroplane, the combination of a sheet metal surface, a channel‐shaped stringer member having outwardly extending flanges secured to said sheet metal…

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In a wing construction for an aeroplane, the combination of a sheet metal surface, a channel‐shaped stringer member having outwardly extending flanges secured to said sheet metal surface to co‐operate in supporting the same, said channel member being cut away at portions of said flanges to form transverse passages adjacent to the sheet metal surface, a web member extending transversely of and substantially perpendicular to said stringer member provided with a strengthening channel of slightly greater size than the channel of the stringer member, the top surface of the channel of the web member at the end of the web member being cut away to fit about the channel of the stringer member, and a holding member having a slot to accommodate the channel of the stringer member, said holding member having a part secured to said web member and a part at substantially right angles to the first part secured to the sheet metal surface.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 17 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 December 1998

Bonnie Cheuk Wai‐yi

This paper describes an in‐depth case study of auditors, and presents a non‐linear model of an information seeking and using process in the workplace. It argues for a model that…

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This paper describes an in‐depth case study of auditors, and presents a non‐linear model of an information seeking and using process in the workplace. It argues for a model that focuses on information users’ perceived situations at a particular time and place. The model comprises a set of critically different situations that auditors perceived in dynamic information seeking and using processes in their workplaces: task initiation situation, focus formulating situation, ideas assuming situation, ideas confirming situation, ideas rejecting situation, ideas finalising situation and passing on ideas situation. Distinctive information behaviours associated with each situation are identified. The model has important implications: first, it highlights the impracticability of modelling a “right” information seeking and using path for all auditors; second, it explains phenomena considered as exceptions in traditional information seeking models; third, it points out the changing meaning of information for auditors in different situations. The alternative model provides a framework for transcending current practices in information literacy education, information systems design and information management.

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Asian Libraries, vol. 7 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1017-6748

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Publication date: 9 March 2023

Kate Petty and Stacey Pope

This chapter examines English print media coverage of the England national women's football (soccer) team during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. It draws on a content analysis of…

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This chapter examines English print media coverage of the England national women's football (soccer) team during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. It draws on a content analysis of five English national newspapers from 24 May to 14 August 2015. A wide body of research has demonstrated that women's sport continues to be greatly underrepresented in the media but our findings are important as they demonstrate that during this tournament, women's football received a significant amount of print media coverage and that this coverage was largely positive. We argue that we have entered a new age of media coverage of women's sport in the United Kingdom, with a shift towards greater gender equality, and position this within the context of emerging professionalisation in the sport.

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Women’s Football in a Global, Professional Era
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ISBN: 978-1-80071-053-5

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Publication date: 26 August 2019

Veronica Cunningham

Purpose and Methodology – Championing a shared vision and strategy for informed learning (INFL) as an approach to information literacy (IL) education (ILE) centers on establishing…

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Purpose and Methodology – Championing a shared vision and strategy for informed learning (INFL) as an approach to information literacy (IL) education (ILE) centers on establishing a common understanding of IL/INFL that is sensitive to the variation in the ways stakeholders perceive their information context and conceptualize IL. Accordingly, the purpose of this chapter is to examine findings from a recent phenomenographic study of conceptions of IL that captures the understanding of IL held across multiple stakeholder groups in an international school community (Cunningham, 2017) and to use these findings to revisit Bruce’s (2008) RACER framework as a compass to champion INFL throughout an organization.

Findings and Originality – The phenomenographic study found that stakeholders did not hold one singular conception of IL but rather they shared a series of conceptions of IL to varying degrees, and that the variation in the ways IL was conceptualized prevailed across three continuums namely the individual-collective, affective-cognitive, and competency–personal mastery continuums. Furthermore, the comparative analysis of the series of conceptions of IL created the opportunity to develop a model of the common ground of conceptual understanding of IL thereby making an original contribution to knowledge. By undertaking a comparative analysis of this common ground model of IL with Bruce’s conceptions of IL/INFL and RACER framework for championing IL, the outcome is to present a new IL “without borders” model offering a blended strategic approach to advancing INFL/ILE based on a more representative understanding of the ways stakeholder groups perceive their information context and conceptualize IL.

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Informed Learning Applications: Insights from Research and Practice
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78769-062-2

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