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Work has historically been an important basis of identity, but the sharp decline in the availability of stable attachments to jobs, organizations, or occupations jeopardizes paid work's capacity to sustain identity. If available work opportunities are increasingly precarious and short-term, can the same be said for identities? Analysis of the efforts of members of an unusual occupational group -- stage actors -- to support an identity based on unstable work provides insights into the variability and indeterminacy of responses to structural employment uncertainty. Despite manifold identity threats, actors struggle to maintain identity as actors both in others' eyes and in their own.

L’histoire de la ville et de l’urbanisme algérois est souvent abordée comme une succession de productions « physiques » qui, par superposition ou extension, produisent la ville. Cette succession dans l’axe linéaire du temps nie certaines relations de cause à effet, de liens entre les formes produites et les pouvoirs organisateurs qui les produisent. L’approche en termes de récit présentée dans le texte permet d’englober l’ensemble des éléments hétérogènes qui constituent le fait urbain, les synthétisant dans un tout sous forme de système cohérent. Elle permet également de donner de l’épaisseur au temps et de re-diviser son axe par l’identification de plusieurs récits. L’article présente dans un premier temps un travail théorique visant à construire des outils méthodologiques pour l’étude des récits urbains. Il se base pour cela sur l’apport théorique de Paul Ricœur dans Temps et récits. Ensuite, il présente l’application d’une partie de ces outils sur le cas d’Alger et de sa période postindépendance.

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This paper examines challenges facing SMEs in emerging ICT adoption from
diverse actors’ perspective using data driven thematic analysis approach -similar
approach to grounded theory. This study deployed both unstructured and semistructured
interviews with the total of 26 interviewees drawn purposefully from
Crunch online database in Luton. Data collected from the interviews were analysed to
understand both the challenges faced by SMEs and actors that pose such challenges
during ICT adoption. The study developed a framework that revealed certain actors
that took part in emerging ICT adoption the challenges they pose that impede SMEs
from adopting emerging ICT successfully. The finding revealed that Poor knowledge
of ICT, and Time are challenges linked to SME managers. Limited ICT support, lack
of specialised skills, limited funding, and general support are linked to the
government. Dependent and untrustworthy are associated with IT consultants while
global solution is linked to IT experts. Commercial interest is linked to IT vendors.
The implication is that while some challenges encountered by SMEs originate from
them, majority are caused by diverse entities which has constantly limit the extent
SMEs embrace new technology.

Despite many recognized shortcomings, Rational Choice Theory remains the dominant perspective on decision-making in the literature on African conflict, whether overtly acknowledged or not. Prospect Theory, originally derived from the field of behavioural economics, can complement and advance this perspective not only by explaining the behaviour of actors, but also by allowing for predictions and the devising of strategies to avoid or end on-going conflicts based on a set of systematic biases that influence how actors make decisions. After a brief definition of Prospect Theory, this work will begin with an overview of the existing literature on decision-making as it relates to conflict, examine how Rational Choice is inadequate in explaining much human behaviour and thus how Prospect Theory can fill this gap. It will then move on to give a fuller definition of the various hypotheses derived from Prospect Theory that pertain to the study of conflict. An example of the application of Prospect Theory to a related field in which thorough research has been conducted, Deterrence Theory, will be used to demonstrate the model’s potential for study in other areas. This will be followed by a more in-depth analysis of the ways in which Prospect Theory can contribute to understanding the behaviour of actors in war, the causes of conflict, and the consequences in the African context. It will conclude with a summary and proposition for further research that can advance this analysis.

Decision-making about spatial projects is very complex. Decisions to develop the Rotterdam harbour are being taken in a network of local, regional, national, European and international actors, both public and private. These decision-making processes show a lot of complexity and the outcomes are of great importance for the development of the harbour. The complexity results from interactions between actors connected in different arenas all thinking about the same project. In this paper we use network theory and especially the concepts actors and arenas to highlight the complexity of decisions and the connections between various separate decisions. We also show the outcomes of the decision making process are a result of the various connections that are being made. The spatial project at the core of the paper is a harbour expansion project called Maasvlakte II.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework to analyse water politics and governance. The framework has been constructed from a social constructivist perspective. This theory places attention on the role of normative aspects like ideology, values, interests and culture in politics. This means that a theory of international relations such as neorealism, neoliberalism or structuralism would be appropriate but limiting for the analysis of water politics, in terms of the range of actors, processes and issues focused on. The framework’s niche lies in that it focuses attention on non-state actors. This carries the potential to widen the understanding of the role and involvement of such actors in water politics and governance. The framework has five components: description of the geographic area or issue; the actors involved in water politics and governance; the (hydropolitical) history of the issue; the actors’ power to enable change; and the type of interaction between the actors. In order to illustrate the components, examples from South and Southern Africa, and specifically the Kunene, Limpopo, Okavango and Orange River basins are used.

Dieser Beitrag stellt den von Renate Mayntz und Fritz W. Scharpf entwickelten Akteurzentrierten Institutionalismus (AZI) vor. Er führt zunächst die wesentlichen theoretischen Elemente des Analyserahmens ein: Akteure, Akteurkonstellationen und Interaktionsformen. Danach gibt er einen Überblick über einige der wesentlichen empirischen Anwendungsfelder des AZI in der Forschung zu Politikgestaltungsprozessen auf der nationalen Ebene und im Rahmen des europäischen Mehrebenensystems. Abschließend diskutiert er die Vor- und Nachteile des AZI als Instrument zur Analyse von Policy-Entscheidungen. Zu den wesentlichen Leistungen des AZI zählt die analytische Vereinfachung von komplexen politischen Entscheidungssituationen durch die Nutzung leicht erhebbarer institutioneller Informationen für die Modellierung von Akteurspräferenzen und die Konzentration auf die Analyse von Kernkonflikten zwischen den wesentlichen Akteuren mit Hilfe einfacher spieltheoretischer Instrumente. Schwierigkeiten hat der AZI dagegen mit Situationen, in denen die politischen Auseinandersetzungen nicht zwischen, sondern innerhalb verschiedener Organisationen verlaufen. Zudem birgt die theoretische Offenheit des AZI den Nachteil, dass er theoretisch zu unbestimmt ist, um zur Ableitung klarer theoretischer Hypothesen herangezogen werden zu können.

Using imperative programming to process event streams, such as those generated by multi-touch devices and 3D cameras, has significant engineering drawbacks. Declarative approaches solve common problems but so far, they have not been able to scale on multicore systems while providing guaranteed response times.
We propose PARTE, a parallel scalable complex event processing engine that allows for a declarative definition of event patterns and provides soft real-time guarantees for their recognition. The proposed approach extends the classical Rete algorithm and maps event matching onto a graph of actor nodes. Using a tiered event matching model, PARTE provides upper bounds on the detection latency by relying on a combination of non-blocking message passing between Rete nodes and safe memory management techniques.
The performance evaluation shows the scalability of our approach on up to 64 cores. Moreover, it indicates that PARTE’s design choices lead to more predictable performance compared to a PARTE variant without soft real-time guarantees. Finally, the evaluation indicates further that gesture recognition can benefit from the exposed parallelism with superlinear speedups.

Dopo Che ne sarà di noi (Giovanni Veronesi, 2004), istintivamente e senza prendermi troppo tempo per pensarci, ho subito indicato Elio Germano, classe 1980, come il miglior attore italiano non solo della sua generazione, la mia dopotutto -nato nel 1978, ma dell'intera storia cinematografica italiana, facilmente accostabile agli storici "moschettieri" del cinema nostrano come Sordi, Manfredi, Gassmann, Tognazzi e Mastroianni -tant'è che sarà proprio Germano a interpretare Nino Manfredi ne In arte Nino (Luca Manfredi, 2016). A lui vanno aggiunti altri ottimi attori, volti e corpi di prestigio del nostro cinema, che rispondono e ovviamente Carlo Verdone. Chi nato prima, chi nato dopo, tutti contribuiscono a una definizione del nostro cinema in senso autoriale, dando all'attorialità un comune denominatore ben radicato nella storia.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a framework to analyse water politics and governance. The framework has been constructed from a social constructivist perspective. This theory places attention on the role of normative aspects like ideology, values, interests and culture in politics. This means that a theory of international relations such as neorealism, neoliberalism or structuralism would be appropriate but limiting for the analysis of water politics, in terms of the range of actors, processes and issues focused on. The framework's niche lies in that it focuses attention on non-state actors. This carries the potential to widen the understanding of the role and involvement of such actors in water politics and governance. The framework has five components: description of the geographic area or issue; the actors involved in water politics and governance; the (hydropolitical) history of the issue; the actors' power to enable change; and the type of interaction between the actors. In order to illustrate the components, examples from South and Southern Africa, and specifically the Kunene, Limpopo, Okavango and Orange River basins are used.

Il 9 aprile Gian Maria Volontè, uno dei più grandi e più generosi attori italiani dell’epoca moderna, avrebbe compiuto ottanta anni. Se ne ando’ mentre nasceva la seconda repubblica. Negli ultimi anni guardava con amarezza più all’estero che all’Italia, dove l’impegno civile e politico andava sparendo. Oggi molti lo rimpiangono, non come un divo o un mito, ma per il suo modo di fare arte e per la sua idea di coscienza artistica. Un italiano, capace di rappresentare il valore alto della storia e in modo militante il bene e il male dell’Italia. Oggi dovrebbe essere ancora qui. Ci manca.

The article focuses on the role of historical consciousness, which is related to the role of memory in the creation and the existence of individual consciousness. The fact of identity, evidence of the sanity of the individual is expressed in the ability to recall the past, names and dates, own biography, the loved ones, relationship with them and the ability to tell about it. In the author’s opinion, conflicts with such «memories» are starting to adopt the international character and the socio-cultural and technological platform to change political realities is being actively formed.

Статья посвящена роли исторического сознания, которая родственна роли памяти в формировании
и в существовании индивидуального сознания. Факт самосознания, свидетельство вменяемости личности выражается в способности вспомнить прошлое, имена и даты, собственную биографию, своих близких, отношения с ними, рассказывать об этом. На взгляд автора, конфликты таких «памятей» начинают принимать международный характер, активно формируется социально-культурная и технологическая платформа для смены политических реалий.

In today’s world where celebrity endorsers have become an integral part of life and the numerous celebrities in the form of TV stars,
movie stars and even social media stars, it has made it difficult for any marketer to properly find out the credibility of any celebrity.
This research aims to find out if consumer contribution, consumption and affection towards their favorite celebrities on social media
have any impact on credibility and if credibility can be used as a criterion for measuring celebrity endorsers.

The present research study is undertaken to fulfil the following objectives:
1) To study the impact of social media engagement on celebrity credibility
2) To understand the effect of factors like consumption, contribution and affection towards credibility
3) To study whether there is a correlation between celebrity credibility and consumer preferences

Using imperative programming to process event streams, such as those generated by multi-touch devices and 3D cameras, has significant engineering drawbacks. Declarative approaches solve common problems but so far, they have not been able to scale on multicore systems while providing guaranteed response times.

Background: Evidence-informed policymaking has been promoted as a means of ensuring better outcomes. However, what counts as evidence in policymaking lies within a spectrum of expert knowledge and scientifically generated information. Since not all forms of evidence share an equal validity or weighting for policymakers, it is important to understand the key factors that influence their preferences for different types of evidence in policy and strategy development. Method: A retrospective study was carried out at the national level in Nigeria using a case-study approach to examine the Nigerian Integrated Maternal Newborn and Child Health (IMNCH) strategy. Two frameworks were used for conceptualization and data analysis, namely (1) to analyse the role of evidence in policymaking and (2) the policy triangle. They were used to explore the key contextual and participatory influences on choice of evidence in developing the IMNCH strategy. Data was collected through review of relevant national documents and in-depth interviews of purposively selected key policy and strategic decision makers. Thematic analysis was applied to generate information from collected data. Results: The breadth of evidence used was wide, ranging from expert opinions to systematic reviews. The choice of different types of evidence was found to overlap across actor categories. Key influences over actors' choice of evidence were: (1) perceived robustness of evidencecomprehensive, representative, recent, scientifically sound; (2) roles in evidence process, i.e. their degree and level of participation in evidence generation and dissemination, with regards to their role in the policy process; and (3) contextual factors such as global agenda and influence, timeline for strategy development, availability of resources for evidence generation, and lessons learnt from previous unsuccessful policies/plans. Conclusion: Actors' preferences for different types of evidence for policy are influenced not only by the characteristics of evidence itself, but on actors' roles in the evidence process, their power to influence the policy, and the context in which evidence is used.

, "The other seen by itself. Posthuman aesthetics in 'Rimini Protokoll's Uncanny Valley". Dr Macioszek Sabina (Poland), "Human-machines ecologies: theatre as a platform for creating specific relationships between humans and new technologies".