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The Engendered Concept of Competence and Its Consequences

Focusing on the concept of competence, the paper proposes that the concept itself is engendered, i.e., it is a concept that is defined in male terms. As such it functions to define women as a group as lacking or devoid of the traits, characteristics and/or behaviors that are necessary for being "seen" and being perceived of as competent in educational settings and on the labour market. The paper i

The Case for Methodological Individualism in Agency Autonomy Research

Over the past few decades, the literature on agency autonomy has increased rapidly. It still struggles, however, to find solid evidence for specific factors explaining variations in autonomy. This paper argues that a reason for this is basic assumptions in this line of research, and more specifically the tendency to focus on factors on the collective level. Using the distinction between methodolog

In The Loop : Rendering Culture and Multi-Targeted Ethnography in Applied Contexts

Power aware communications for wireless OptiMised personal area network

Numerical prediction of of heat transfer and fluid flow in a transonic turbine stag

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Lower bounds on the probability of deception in authentication

Remembering Romantically. Swedish Childhood Recounts in the Context of European Romanticism

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Global Ideas, Local Discourses: Private Education in the People's Republic of China

The paper will give a brief overview of developments and strategies in the private education sector in the People's Republic of China. The focus of the presentation will be on the question of how globally migrating ideas about marketization and privatization of education are reflected, negotiated, and (partly) transformed in the Chinese context. It will be demonstrated that ideas and practices of

Reconciliation and Reinterpretation of the Past: The "New" Israeli Historians and their Critics

Welfare, State and Class

Robustness and complexity of direction-of-arrival algorithms with application to adaptive antennas for third generation systems

Rural transformation and vulnerability to hardship. Production, prices and mortality in Sweden, 1750–1860

Trend analysis of Icelandic discharge, precipitation and temperature series

Prediction of intonation patterns of accented words in a corpus of read Swedish news

This paper describes an initial attempt at the construction of a data-driven model of Swedish intonation. The study is mainly concerned with model building and prediction of the intonation patterns of accented words in a corpus of read news in Swedish. Extraction of pitch information is achieved by performing a stylization of the pitch contours. The information is used to build a model for the pre

Does the Kuleshov effect really exist? Revisiting a classic film experiment on facial expressions and emotional contexts

According to film mythology, the Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov conducted an experiment in which he combined a close-up of an actor’s neutral face with three different emotional contexts: happiness, sadness, and hunger. The viewers of the three film sequences reportedly perceived the actor’s face as expressing an emotion congruent with the given context. It is not clear, however, whether or not the

What we must do in order to test pictorial competence in animals

Iran and Britain: The Politics of Oil and Coup D’état before the Fall of Reza Shah

British strategy in the Middle East consolidated around a sustained effort to prevent any adversarial penetration into the Persian Gulf, defending its position athwart the principal lines of communication and supply between Northern Europe and British India, and to protect the newly discovered Persian oil that was used to power the Royal Navy. Since the discovery of oil in 1908 by D’Arcy’s oil exp