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Open University of Catalonia
Education•Barcelona, Spain•
About: Open University of Catalonia is a education organization based out in Barcelona, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Higher education. The organization has 1943 authors who have published 4646 publications receiving 64200 citations. The organization is also known as: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya & UOC.
Topics: Context (language use), Higher education, Collaborative learning, The Internet, Educational technology
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TL;DR: It is argued that the current paradigm of the ethical engineer which prevails is that of the heroic engineer, a certain model of the ideal engineer: someone both quite individualistic and strong enough to deal with all the moral challenges that could arise in the authors' interrelated world.
Abstract: Engineering ethics is usually focused on engineers' ethics, engineers acting as individuals. Certainly, these professionals play a central role in the matter, but engineers are not a singularity inside engineering; they exist and operate as a part of a complex network of mutual relationships between many other people, organizations and groups. When engineering ethics and engineers' ethics are taken as one and the same thing the paradigm of the ethical engineer which prevails is that of the heroic engineer, a certain model of the ideal engineer: someone both quite individualistic and strong enough to deal with all the moral challenges that could arise. We argue that this is not the best approach, at least today in our interrelated world. We have achieved a high degree of independence from nature by means of technology. In exchange for this autonomy we have become increasingly tied up with very complex systems to which we constantly delegate new tasks and powers. Concerns about safety keep growing everywhere due to the fact that now we have a sensitive awareness of the huge amount of power we are both consuming and deploying, thus, new forms of dialogue and consensus have to be incorporated at different levels, in different forums and at different times. Within these democratic channels of participation not just the needs and interests, but also the responsibilities and mutual commitments of all parties should be taken into account.
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TL;DR: Agitation has an effect on healthcare use and costs in terms of longer length of stay, more readmissions and higher drug use, and further research is needed to estimate the burden of agitation and containment from the perspective of hospitals and the healthcare system.
Abstract: Agitation and containment are frequent in psychiatric care but little is known about their costs. The aim was to evaluate the use of services and costs related to agitation and containment of adult patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital or emergency service.
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TL;DR: The algorithm employs several biased-randomized processes: a first one for selecting a vehicle type; a second one for sorting the savings list; and a third one to define the number of routes that must be selected from the homogenous-fleet subsolution.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce Intimate Entanglements by proposing three interrelated shifts that result from juxtaposing experiences with different world-making practices at the intersection of care, care, and making.
Abstract: This article introduces Intimate Entanglements by proposing three interrelated shifts that result from juxtaposing experiences with different world-making practices at the intersection of care, tec...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how a volunteer-led organisation, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), acquires, stores and shares its project knowledge in the context of event management.
Abstract: Voluntary sector organisations are operated principally by volunteers who are not obliged to share their knowledge, as might be expected in a for-profit company, with a greater consequent loss of knowledge should individuals leave. This research examines how a volunteer-led organisation, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), acquires, stores and shares its project knowledge in the context of event management. Three annual CAMRA festivals of different sizes and maturity were selected to see how volunteers’ knowledge is managed in the process of organising their festivals. Key Festival Officers were interviewed and focus groups, comprising of festival volunteers, were conducted. While the maturity of a festival and its size seemed to influence the ways in which knowledge was managed there were some commonalities between festivals. Evident was a strong master-apprentice model of learning with little formal training or record keeping except, that is, where legislation and accountability in treasury and health and safety functions were necessary. Trust between volunteers and their need to know and to share information appeared to be dependent, in part, on their perception and confidence in the success of the overarching project organisation, and this helped shape volunteers’ knowledge-sharing practices. While there was evidence of a laissez-faire approach to codification and the sharing of knowledge, this was less so when volunteers recognised a genuine lack of knowledge, which would hinder the success of their festival. The analysis also highlighted factors related to the sharing of knowledge that, it is suggested, have not been identified in the for-profit sector.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Andrea Saltelli | 65 | 184 | 31540 |
Jose A. Rodriguez | 63 | 597 | 17218 |
Cristina Botella | 55 | 404 | 13075 |
Fatos Xhafa | 52 | 692 | 10379 |
Jaime Kulisevsky | 48 | 210 | 15066 |
William H. Dutton | 43 | 277 | 7048 |
Angel A. Juan | 41 | 284 | 5040 |
Aditya Khosla | 39 | 61 | 50417 |
Jordi Cabot | 38 | 106 | 5022 |
Jordi Cortadella | 38 | 226 | 5736 |
Antoni Valero-Cabré | 37 | 99 | 6091 |
Berta Pascual-Sedano | 34 | 87 | 4377 |
Josep Lladós | 33 | 271 | 4243 |
Carlo Gelmetti | 33 | 159 | 3912 |
Juan V. Luciano | 33 | 106 | 2931 |