Responding to increasing concerns with the quality of care in both Sweden and England, this paper explores the way in which caring practice emerges out of the interplay between personal and social agency. Working from a socio-cultural perspective, results from an English and a Swedish study conducted independently of each other were used to explore the construction of caring practice. The English

This paper analyses a recognition of prior learning (RPL) placement process where health care assistants' prior learning is recognised through dialogue with and observation by tutors. This process is part of a procedure that uses RPL for accreditation through the administration of an in-service training program in the health care sector. The aim of the reconstructive analysis in this paper is to e

This paper argues for the significance of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition for understanding recognition of prior learning (RPL). Case studies of the experiences of RPL by paraprofessional workers in health and social care in the UK and Sweden are used to explicate this significance. The results maintain that there are varying conditions of recognition. These conditions are often fluid, negoti

This article focuses on a process of recognition of prior learning (RPL) in higher education. It is based on experiences from a project carried out in collaboration between the University of Lund, Linköping University and two trade unions in Sweden. The aim of the project was to find ways of recognising prior learning for accreditation of course credits at university level. In the project and its

This article discusses a process of recognition of prior learning for accreditation of prior experiential learning to qualify for course credits used in an adult in-service education program for health care assistants at the upper-secondary level in Sweden. The data are based on interviews and observations drawn from a field study, and Habermas's theory of communicative action is used for analysis

This article explores the role of the interactive researcher by drawing on Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action to develop the concept of virtual participant. An ideal interactive research project is used to explore the issues faced by interactive researchers in three phases - initial, implementation and conclusion. In each phase, an interactive research project is used to demonstrate

This paper adopts the industrial marketing approach to investigate how companies strategize in networks, and to link network strategies to different effects. Based on a case study from the optical recording media industry, the paper finds five types of strategies: complementary, shared, copying, company-rooted, and challenging. Effects indicate how the focal company's strategies triggered reaction

The book is a collection of the articles the author has published between 2003-2015, in Romanian or English, in various academic journals. Some of them are concerned with the dramaturgy of Mihail Sebastian (Jocul de-a vacanța), of Marin Sorescu (Paracliserul), the translations and versifing of the Psalms by Dosoftei, Derrida's deconstruction philosophy as opposed to Saussure's structuralism, teach

Intermarriage with natives has the potential to enhance immigrant integration, as intermarried immigrants gain access to resources such as language skills, information about institutions and customs, and native networks. Due to these spillover effects, immigrants in intermarriages are more likely to be successful in the labour market. However, a positive relationship between intermarriage and econ

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) based distributed algorithms can attain the largest capacity region asthe centralized Max-Weight policy does. Despite their capabilityof achieving throughput-optimality, these algorithms can eitherincur large delay and have large complexity or only operateover non-fading channels. In this letter, by assuming arbitraryback-off time we first propose a fully distr

It has been known that load unaware channel selection in 802.11 networks results in high level interference, and can significantly reduce the network throughput. In current implementation, the only way to determine the traffic load on a channel is to measure that channel for a certain duration of time. Therefore, in order to find the best channel with the minimum load all channels have to be measu

In order to meet the incremental requirements from clients, fifth generation Wireless Local Area Network(WLAN) protocol IEEE 802.11ac provides a lot more throughput than his predecessors. However, in all distributed channel access 802.11 protocols, probability of packet loss increases with respect to number of available stations; consecutive packet losses in link layer activates congestion control

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)constitutes a large fraction of traffic in the mobile Internet.Mobile devices often use video delivery over Wi-Fi, which is asignificant energy drain. Dynamic Power Saving Mode (DPSM)is one of the most widely-used approaches for Wi-Fi devices tosave power and shorten packet delay. However, DPSM uses afixed timeout before a device goes to sleep, leading to