This article draws on the multi-theoretical approach to governance and a qualitative research method to examine the extent to which the corporate approach is practised in Australian public universities. The findings reveal that in meeting the needs of multiple stakeholders, universities are faced with a number of structural, legalistic, and behavioural issues that are in tension with the corporate culture. The findings emerging from the interview data are: (a) the current constraints on the structural and operational framework of Australian public universities do not support corporate managerialism; and (b) the current governance framework of Australian public universities supports a pseudo-management culture. The findings help to explain the consequent type of governance control processes to be developed and implemented within the sector, and challenge the current myth that these universities are practising a corporate approach. The findings provide avenues for further research to confirm the findings.
Investigation of critical events requires dealing with heterogeneous document collections, and is usually done case by case. We address the case of VAST Challenge 2014 Mini-Challenge 1 with the two views of our AnnotatedTimeTree system: the document view and the GAStech view. The document view is a novel AnnotatedTimeTree design for current and historical news reports in Kronos; and the GAStech view is implemented specifically for GAStech employee profiles and email activities. Together the two views facilitate rapid summarization of both crucial events in Kronos history and GAStech employees in Mini Challenge 1. The AnnotatedTimeTree design provides semantic interactions such as searching, highlighting, annotating and expanding for maintaining reasoning process and reasoning results to the documents.
This article describes a real-time visual analytics process based on microblog and emergency call data to solve VAST 2014 Mini Challenge 3. We extended SMART system (Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit), developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's VACCINE Center. Our system consists of multiple linked views to allow the analyst monitor topic evolution, identify influential microblog users, observe geo-location patterns and examine correlations among different data sources. Extensions to our previous work include a time series view, a reply/retweet networks view, and integration of emergency call data.
Grays Anatomy, that classic beloved of medical students for over 100 years, is the fundamental work underlying Pocket Anatomy. But this is Grays with a difference with all the fine engravings of the original, but accompanied by fresher, more accessible text that explains in lay terms exactly how the hip bone is connected to the thigh bone, and all the other systems as well. The book contains 350 detailed engravings many of them in colour and is an invaluable guide for all students of anatomy, whether studying for medical or artistic purposes. It is also an appealing sourcebook for artists looking for inspiration from the exquisitely detailed engravings.