University College Cork

About: University College Cork is a education organization based out in Cork, Ireland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Irish. The organization has 12056 authors who have published 28452 publications receiving 958414 citations. The organization is also known as: Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh & National University of Ireland, Cork.

Accounting expertise and the politics of the product: Economic citizenship and modes of corporate governance

Abstract: The “rediscovery of the factory” has been one of the key events in American political and economic debates of the past decade. This paper addresses the complex of arguments, claims and strategies that have centered on the factory and manufacturing processes in American industry. These it terms the “politics of the product”. Accounting expertise, defined as a changing set of legitimated claims to competence, is fundamentally implicated in the politics of the product. For accounting expertise has been identified as an important part of the problem, rather than the solution. But the politics of the product is more than a set of claims and arguments. It also involves attempts to change the ways in which production processes are represented and acted upon. Three dimensions are identified: problematizations, programmes and technologies. Current attempts to reform the calculative technologies of accounting, through such mechanisms as activity based costing, are seen to be more than technical devices for better representing new manufacturing systems. Rather, they are considered to be an integral component of a significant shift in modes of corporate governance. Attempts to transform accountancy are held be intrinsically linked to attempts to foster a new form of economic citizenship. Changes in accounting expertise are thus seen to be centrally implicated in transformations in the government of economic life.

Re-interpreting plant morphological responses to UV-B radiation

Abstract: There is a need to reappraise the effects of UV-B radiation on plant morphology in light of improved mechanistic understanding of UV-B effects, particularly elucidation of the UV RESISTANCE LOCUS 8 (UVR8) photoreceptor. We review responses at cell and organismal levels, and explore their underlying regulatory mechanisms, function in UV protection and consequences for plant fitness. UV-induced morphological changes include thicker leaves, shorter petioles, shorter stems, increased axillary branching and altered root:shoot ratios. At the cellular level, UV-B morphogenesis comprises changes in cell division, elongation and/or differentiation. However, notwithstanding substantial new knowledge of molecular, cellular and organismal UV-B responses, there remains a clear gap in our understanding of the interactions between these organizational levels, and how they control plant architecture. Furthermore, despite a broad consensus that UV-B induces relatively compact architecture, we note substantial diversity in reported phenotypes. This may relate to UV-induced morphological changes being underpinned by different mechanisms at high and low UV-B doses. It remains unproven whether UV-induced morphological changes have a protective function involving shading and decreased leaf penetration of UV-B, counterbalancing trade-offs such as decreased photosynthetic light capture and plant-competitive abilities. Future research will need to disentangle seemingly contradictory interactions occurring at the threshold UV dose where regulation and stress-induced morphogenesis overlap.