Ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime

E-print/Working paper (2014)

Ratings, Rankings, Research Evaluation: How do Schools of Education Behave Strategically within Stratified UK Higher Education?

in Higher Education (2020), 79

While higher education research has paid considerable attention to the impact of both ratings and rankings on universities, less attention has been devoted to how university subunits, such as Schools of ... [more ▼]

While higher education research has paid considerable attention to the impact of both ratings and rankings on universities, less attention has been devoted to how university subunits, such as Schools of Education, are affected by such performance measurements. Anchored in a new institutional approach, we analyze the formation of a competitive institutional environment in UK higher education in which ratings and rankings assume a central position in promoting competition among Schools of Education (SoE). We apply the concepts of “ institutional environment” and “ organizational strategic actors” to UK SoE to demonstrate how such university subunits articulate their qualities and respond to the institutional environment in which they are embedded—by using ratings and rankings (R&R) to compete for material and symbolical resources as well as inter-organizational and intra-organizational legitimacy. Through findings from 22 in-depth expert interviews with members ofthe multidisciplinary field of education and a content analysis of websites (n = 75) of SoE that participated in REF 2014, we examine the stratified environment in which SoE are embedded (1). We uncover how R&R are applied by SoE within this competitive, marketized higher education system (2). Finally, we indicate the strategic behaviors that have been triggered by the rise of R&R in a country with a highly formalized and standardized research evaluation system (3). The results show both homogenization and differentiation among SoE in their use of organizational vocabulary and the applications of R&R while simultaneously revealing strategic behavior, ranging from changes in internal practices to changes in organizational structures. [less ▲]

Rational Architecture: Reasoning about Enterprise Dynamics

Postdoctoral thesis (2017)

Rational Necessities: on the Silence of Liberal Democratic Theory in Front of the Unreasonable Other

in Etica e Politica (2021), 23(2), 467-480

To take or think history seriously, The Concept of Liberal Democratic Law tells us, is to comprehend it as a constant process of denaturalization. Having presented us with a conception of history as an on ... [more ▼]

To take or think history seriously, The Concept of Liberal Democratic Law tells us, is to comprehend it as a constant process of denaturalization. Having presented us with a conception of history as an on-going earthquake that ruins and denaturalizes everything, does Van der Walt not in the end step back from this seismic vision of history? This engagement seeks to circumscribe this question in the textual body of The Concept of Liberal Democratic Law. It does so under the auspices of the following bet: to submit one’s literary enterprise as a reading is tantamount to submit one’s work to a process of denaturalization. After all, in other interpretations, the text does not live on. Interpretation marks off the text’s posteriority, its after-life. Therefore, by interrogating the way the text posits its possible readership, declaring silence to the foreseeable unreasonable reader, arguably one makes room to evaluate whether the text’s representation of what liberal democracy is about does not end up being a dissemblance between its maxim and practice when it declares that before an unreasonable reader, the discussion must come to an end. [less ▲]

Rational promoter selection for gene transfer into cardiac cells.

in Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology (2003), 35(7), 823-31

Cardiomyocytes (CMCs) are extremely difficult to transfect with non-viral techniques, but they are efficiently infected by adenoviruses. The most commonly used promoters to drive protein expression in ... [more ▼]

Cardiomyocytes (CMCs) are extremely difficult to transfect with non-viral techniques, but they are efficiently infected by adenoviruses. The most commonly used promoters to drive protein expression in cardiac myocytes are of viral origin, since they are believed to be constitutively active and minimally regulated by physiological or pharmacological challenge of cells. In recombinant adenoviruses, we systematically compared three different promoters: the cytomegalovirus (CMV), the Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), and a synthetic promoter with three MEF2 transcription factor-binding sites upstream of the heat-shock protein 68 minimal promoter. We determined their basal activity in primary cardiac cells as well as their possible stimulation by commonly used agonists. The CMV promoter was activated up to 60-fold by the phorbol ester phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) and/or forskolin in neonatal rat CMCs and cardiac fibroblasts. Primary adult rat CMCs had higher basal expression from the CMV promoter that was not activated by PMA or forskolin. The RSV promoter was less affected by agonists and was more active in cardiac myocytes compared to cardiac fibroblasts. The MEF2-responsive promoter showed high basal expression in both myocytes and fibroblasts, and minimal induction by phorbol esters and forskolin. The relevance of reporter gene induction was confirmed with a contractile protein, troponin T (TnT). The CMV promoter driving TnT could be induced more than 15-fold with phenylephrine or forskolin to replace the endogenous protein almost to completion at a multiplicity of infection of 10. These results suggest the following use of the tested promoters: an inducible system (CMV), a myocyte-enriched system (RSV), or a stable control system (MEF2). [less ▲]

"Rationale Trennung" oder "Marriage d'Amour"? Zum Verhältnis von Geschichte und Philosophie in der Erziehungswissenschaft

in Zeitschrift für Pädagogik (2015), 5

The contribution serves as an example of enabling permeability between philosophy and history within the frame work of educational science. It deals with the epistemological, material, political, and ... [more ▼]

The contribution serves as an example of enabling permeability between philosophy and history within the frame work of educational science. It deals with the epistemological, material, political, and categorical conditions, some of which initiate a separation of historical science from philosophy, whereas others allow, on the one hand, for history to profit from philosophy and, on the other, for philosophy to profit from history. It is shown how much is to be gained by both philosophy and historical science through reciprocal openness within educational science. A greater integration of philosophical thought into education history and vice versa may draw attention to blind spots on both sides, to unchallenged methodological archetypes and seemingly unavoidable mental dispositions, the reflection of which may contribute to an enrichment of educational research. [less ▲]

The RationalGRL toolset for Goal Models and Argument Diagrams

in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA'16) (2016)

Rationalised computational time in fracture simulation: adaptive model reduction and domain decomposition

Scientific Conference (2011, June)

Rationalitäten der Gesprächspraktiken im Jobcenter/"U25"

in Karl, Ute (Ed.) Rationalitäten des Übergangs in Erwerbsarbeit (2014)

Rationalitäten des Übergangs als Rahmenkonzept. Diskursive Verortungen und Erkenntnisinteresse

in Karl, Ute (Ed.) Rationalitäten des Übergangs in Erwerbsarbeit (2014)