David Hole, Jim Marsh and Mike Hudson
Provides details of the case study company’s background and highlights the need for quality of service. Describes in detail the re‐design process and the methodologies used;…
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Provides details of the case study company’s background and highlights the need for quality of service. Describes in detail the re‐design process and the methodologies used; discusses the need to balance hard (re‐engineering) issues with soft (people) ones. Finally, details some of the major benefits gained from this approach to re‐design.
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David Carless and Kitrina Douglas
This article reports an experimental golf programme initiated for people with severe and enduring mental health problems partly to promote physical activity and partly as a…
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This article reports an experimental golf programme initiated for people with severe and enduring mental health problems partly to promote physical activity and partly as a socially inclusive activity. The programme was organised for a small, pilot group and evaluated using qualitative case study data collected during the programme. The success of the programme was indicated by the high attendance rates of participants, their voiced enthusiasm for the sessions and for the social interaction after the games, and the fact that many members of the first group continue to play and new members have joined the group, even though sessions are no longer being organised and paid for.
In this chapter, I utilize insights from symbolic interaction to analyze the identity work processes of larp subculture participants to construct and perform their in-game…
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In this chapter, I utilize insights from symbolic interaction to analyze the identity work processes of larp subculture participants to construct and perform their in-game identities. I extend the research on larp subcultures in two ways. First, I place larping within the larger context of leisure subcultures and society by arguing that larping is representative of changes in leisure and subcultures in postmodern society. Second, I draw upon ethnographic data collected among the New England Role-playing Organization (NERO) to analyze larpers character identity performances. RPG and Larp researchers have developed several theories about the relationship between larp participants and their character performances. While these concepts provide a helpful framework for understanding the participant-character relationship, they undertheorize the in-game constructed performance of identity. Using symbolic interaction theory, I analyze the identity work processes larpers use to construct and perform their larp identities extending our understanding of the similarities between everyday identity and larpers' character identity performances.
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The Winter Conference held on 11–12 December 1991 in Zurich was regarded by participants to have been one of the most successful among recent EIPC conferences, both for the…
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The Winter Conference held on 11–12 December 1991 in Zurich was regarded by participants to have been one of the most successful among recent EIPC conferences, both for the organisation and the quality of papers. Highlighted papers included Dr Nakahara's presentation of Trends & Technology in PWBs in the Asian Market, a presentation by Bosch of Requirements for PCBs in the 90s from the point of view of a User, a technical report from IBM Japan on the development of Surface Laminar Circuits, as well as various papers from Fuba, Cicorel, Alcatel, etc.
LAUNCHED at the Farnborough International Airshow last year by FT Technologies Ltd. the FT280 Synchro/Resolver Test Set incorporates in one versatile instrument an Angle Position…
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LAUNCHED at the Farnborough International Airshow last year by FT Technologies Ltd. the FT280 Synchro/Resolver Test Set incorporates in one versatile instrument an Angle Position Indicators, Simulator and Reference Oscillator and is designed for testing and evaluating a wide range of synchro and resolver‐based avionics equipment.
It is no surprise that it is difficult to teach critical thinking skills. Are students willing to question the very basis of the society in which they hope to succeed? Often not…
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It is no surprise that it is difficult to teach critical thinking skills. Are students willing to question the very basis of the society in which they hope to succeed? Often not. Ironically, it seems that the two courses most able to teach students how to critically approach a topic are the two courses that receive the least amount of respect from students and faculty. These two courses, composition studies and research instruction, are often thought to be “training wheel” courses. Everyone needs to know these foundations of scholarship, but few educators are willing to give the necessary time or money to teach the acquisition of these skills.
W. Chad Carlos and Shon R. Hiatt
This paper examines how cultural holes that exist at the intersection of institutional fields influence the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. Through an exploration…
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This paper examines how cultural holes that exist at the intersection of institutional fields influence the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. Through an exploration of physician-founded ambulatory surgery centers in the United States, we examine how the presence of cultural holes presented doctors with alternative beliefs, values, and practices to overcome the cultural constraints around entrepreneurship within the medical profession. In doing so, this study extends cultural entrepreneurship research by bringing cultural holes to the forefront, empirically showing how they facilitate entrepreneurial action and proposing other contexts where cultural holes may affect entrepreneurial actions and outcomes.
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Ryspek Usubamatov and K.W. Leong
The purpose of this paper is to investigate theoretically the process of jamming in the peg‐hole type parts and to derive a mathematical model of jamming.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate theoretically the process of jamming in the peg‐hole type parts and to derive a mathematical model of jamming.
Design/methodology/approach
The mathematical model of the jamming of the peg‐hole type parts in assembly process was performed and its boundary conditions, which lead to jamming, defined.
Findings
The equation of the critical angles of declination for the peg, which leads to the peg‐hole jam, was derived. The boundary condition of the angles of declination and the depth of the peg insertion into the hole were defined.
Research limitations/implications
A mathematical model is developed for rigid parts with a hole and for the peg clamped in the rigid assembly mechanisms. The research has not considered flexible deformations and stiffness of the assembly mechanisms, which result in the peg's declination in the assembly process.
Practical implications
The results are represented in the form of the peg's critical angles of declination and critical depth of insertion into the hole, which leads to jamming of the peg‐hole type parts to be assembled. On the basis of the obtained results, it is possible to formulate the tolerances of the declination angles for the assembly mechanisms, which clamp the peg‐type parts.
Originality/value
The proposed method calculating the critical angles of the peg's declination and critical depth of the peg's insertion into the hole for assembly of the peg‐hole type parts, enables one to increase the reliability of the assembly process in the manufacturing industry.
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Ronald S. Burt and Jennifer Merluzzi
The structural holes to which a person is connected are embedded in a broader organization or market. High status in the broader context signals a reputation that can make a…
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The structural holes to which a person is connected are embedded in a broader organization or market. High status in the broader context signals a reputation that can make a would-be broker more attractive, more likely to engage opportunities to broker, and allay audience concerns about proposed brokerage. The implications are correlation and contingency. We offer illustrative evidence of both implications and conclude that status and structural holes are so closely related in concept and fact that advantage is more clearly revealed when the two network forms are analyzed together as complements defining the hubs in a network.
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An appreciation of the material from which modern printed circuit board drills are fabricated and an understanding of the salient geometric design features incorporated in such…
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An appreciation of the material from which modern printed circuit board drills are fabricated and an understanding of the salient geometric design features incorporated in such tooling will help those involved with the drilling process in determining optimum operating procedures and in identifying the underlying causes of hole deficiencies.