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Different Standpoints (different + standpoint)

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Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

A survey on mobile satellite systems

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, Issue 1 2010
Paolo Chini
Abstract Satellite systems represent a significant solution to provide communication services to mobile users in under-populated regions, in emergency areas, on planes, trains, and ships. In all these cases, satellite systems have unique capabilities in terms of robustness, wide area coverage, and broadcast/multicast capabilities. This paper surveys current mobile satellite networks and services from different standpoints, encompassing research issues, recent standardization advances (e.g. mobile extension for DVB-S2/-RCS, DVB-SH) and some operational systems (e.g. Globalstar, Inmarsat BGAN, Iridium, and Thuraya). The last part of this paper is devoted to qualitative and quantitative comparisons of the different mobile satellite systems to understand their characteristics in terms of services, capacity, resource utilization efficiency, and user mobility degree.Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Rally racing: knowledge and learning requirements for a winning team

KNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT: THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION, Issue 2 2001
Rafael Andreu
In this paper we discuss how a winning rally racing team was developed from scratch in Seat Sport, the racing division within Seat, one of Volkswagen's divisions, which decided to enter the World Rally Cup in 1995. The discussion focuses on how different types of knowledge were literally ,grown up' from practically nothing to a winning team. We start by describing the knowledge requirements stemming from the goal of developing a World Rally Cup winning team. Defining them in the form of success factors, we classify them from different standpoints (explicit versus implicit, individual versus collective, mental models, coordination schemes, etc.). Next, we show how these different knowledge requirements were acquired and developed at Seat Sport. Finally, we derive the actual learning processes that were present at Seat Sport and relate them to the different kinds of needs and requirements. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Death on the farm: Culling badgers in North Pembrokeshire (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 2 2010
Pat Caplan
The Welsh Assembly Government has recently announced its intention to cull all badgers from North Pembrokeshire on the grounds that they are vectors of bovine tuberculosis. This article considers some local reactions to this news, ranging from those who support the cull wholeheartedly to those who argue against it, and some of the reasons why people adopt different standpoints. The article considers a range of issues which help explain why people think as they do; these include perception of risk, ethnicity, ideas about animals and wildlife, the selective uses of both scientific literature and emotion, and finally some of the local and regional politics involved. [source]

Some Australian Children's Perceptions of Physical Punishment in Childhood

CHILDREN & SOCIETY, Issue 6 2008
Bernadette J. Saunders
Despite ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, children remain the only people in Australia against whom violence may be justified as discipline. This article presents findings from qualitative research conducted in the State of Victoria, in which children were invited to contextualise incidents of physical punishment by describing the experience from different standpoints and reflecting on the feelings and motivations of victims and perpetrators. The research provides new insights into children's experiences of childhood ,discipline', as children reveal the physical and emotional impact of being hit by a parent, the futility of ,physical punishment', parents' confusing reactions and children's awareness of double standards. Children suggest more positive ways to communicate and to resolve conflict, and provide insightful comments that have the potential to enlighten adults' thinking about the issue. [source]