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Republicans and the Hollywood crowd seldom seem to be a very good match.
Good reasons exist for this standoff. With a few notable exceptions, Hollywood types are more liberal in their thinking than most Republicans, especially on social issues.
Family values are another place the two part company. Certainly not all Republicans behave themselves, but as a whole, their expectations are much higher.
And when it comes to money, Hollywood has been much more generous to the last two Democratic presidents than it has to Republicans.
But why, when a filmmaker wants to film in a New Mexico community is there so often resistance?
They bring jobs. They buy in the community. They're not that seedy, are they?
And why, when a movie claims the 25 percent tax rebate, does the governor charge that the money is coming from children's education?
New Mexico needs jobs. We're in bad fiscal shape but does the 25 percent rebate further bust our budget?
Other red states, such as Louisiana and Georgia, rebate even more and think they're getting a good deal.
So is it just New Mexico Republicans that don't like Hollywood?
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Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
The Cirque du Soleil performers present a musical and artistic allegory depicting the stages of human and cosmic development. Historic sites around the world serve as the backdrops for the performances, with the climax at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
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A Performative ApproachAlbu, Oana Brindusa (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation provides a critical analysis of transparency in the context of organizing. The empirical material is based on qualitative studies of international cooperative organizations. The dissertation seeks to contribute to transparency and organizing scholarship by adopting a communication centred approach to explore the implications of pursuing ideals of transparency in organizational relationships. The dissertation is comprised of four papers each contributing to extant debates in organizational studies and transparency literature. The findings indicate that transparency, in contrast to being a solution for efficiency and democratic organizing, is a communicatively contested process which may lead to unintended consequences. The dissertation shows that transparency is performative: it can impact authority by de/legitimating action, shape the processes of organizational identity co-construction, and its intersection with new media technologies can create tensions. Thus, the dissertation questions instrumental tendencies which regard transparency as full disclosure, the opposite of secrecy, and a way to achieve a consistent organizational identity. The dissertation provides a framework of organizational transparency which underlines its negotiated, power-infused and paradoxical nature. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8916
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And Transformations in Health CareJuul Nielsen, Annegrete (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The 'health society' is a mainstream reality Kickbusch (2007) argues: "Health, as we understand it and live it today, is not only an outcome of other social and economic developments but a significant defining factor" (ibid: 144). Indeed, it seems difficult to disagree on the general relevance of health to the constitutive dynamics of contemporary societies and organizations. Plenty of policies, politics and programs preoccupied with the health of the worker, the patient, the children, the old or society at large are being launched. The success of these programs is related to their geographical spread. If a health care program does not leave the desk where it first saw light, its chances of influencing those it would like bear down on is bound to be minimal. For a health care program to have an effect it must be able to travel or move between practices. Some health care programs successfully accomplish this task. They come to be widely adopted, apparently having global relevance, as for example the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, which has been adopted by countries as diverse as Japan, Australia and Denmark. But how does this happen and which effects does traveling have on a health care program and its place of arrival? This question is the starting point for the following text. In this introduction I start out introducing my approach to health care programs as traveling technologies. Then I very briefly introduce the reader to the two health care programs, Joint Health Plans and the Chronic Disease Self- Management Program, which have served as case studies for the thesis. Finally, I outline the content of the thesis chapter by chapter. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8212
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An Ethnographic Study of Trust, Distance, Control, Culture and Boundary Spanning within Offshore Outsourcing of IT ServicesTøth, Thomas (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD dissertation is an ethnographic field study of the collaboration between Berlingske Media, one of the leading media companies in Denmark, and their Indian IT service provider, HCL – one of the largest IT service providers worldwide. The dissertation studies the day-to-day operational collaboration between actors from the client organization and the vendor organization in order to understand how vendor-side actors, as individuals and as a collective, can be constructed as trustworthy collaborators in the eyes of the client-side actors. While trust is the theoretical epicenter of this thesis it is, in acknowledgement of the contextual and dynamic nature of trust, subjected to an interdisciplinary analytical framework. Thus, the four analytical chapters in Part II introduce four different factors that influence the client-side actors' perceptions of vendor-side actors' trustworthiness: distance, control, culture and boundary spanning. The analytical conclusions are summarized in Part III of the dissertation. Based on these analytical conclusions a number of practice-oriented suggestions on how the client-side actors' perceptions of the vendor-side's trustworthiness can be improved are presented and discussed. Furthermore, the theoretical implications are presented and discussed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9115
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On the production of the stress-fit, self-managing employeePedersen, Michael (København, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Routine work‐process, lack of self‐management, and long work‐hours have traditionally been the main topics of discussion within the occupational stress literature, constituting the primary factors that make people breakdown and burn out. But within the last couple of years, this discussion has expanded its focus from issues concerning the disciplinary work‐space. Increasing attention is now being placed on the problems related to the burgeoning interest in employee empowerment and self‐management in contemporary work‐life. In short, how stress relates to self‐management. These working conditions, which put a great deal of emphasis on the subjectivity of the employee and the ability of the employee to self‐manage in a pursuit of an organization's goals, are thus no longer regarded as something that decreases stress, but rather as something that evokes it. However, as this thesis argues, one can regard stress as more than a crisis we are faced with in our work‐life. It is also an element that co‐produces what it is to be a efficient employee‐subject within this work‐life. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's ontology of flows and machines, this sketches out how stress among self‐managing employees, and in particular the manner in which stress is reduced to a matter of individual coping, can be viewed as an organising process that separates, joins and codes the ontological fabric of our lives. In this regard, certain modes of existence centred on stress issues and the coping strategies of individuals are themselves produced as an individual responsibility for maximizing one's own productivity as a self‐managing and committed employee. As I will argue, the production of this mode of existence of the employee‐subject revolves around the assumption of an employee subject that is able to tune its feelings, desires and thoughts in to a life of productivity without breaking‐down their body and soul. In fact, the potential break‐down of stress should act as an internal limit for personal productivity, as a way of rebooting to an ever more efficient self‐management. All in all, we can therefore talk of a production‐process revolving around the presumption of an always fitter, happier, more productive employee. The questions raised in the investigation of this particular form of production of subjectivity are: what notions of subjectivity as a productive resource are we presented with when not only self‐management but also the management of the stress this self‐management might entail becomes an underlying foundation for a flexible and efficient organization? What can an employee think, do and hope for under such circumstances? What are the dynamics that drive such a notion of subjectivity? And with what necessity does this notion set itself forth? All in all, the claim made in the thesis is that for this fitter, happier, and more productive employee, dealing with oneself and stress are primarily matters of individual responsibility and personal development. But by turning stress into matters of individual responsibility, happiness and productivity, one thereby misses some of the underlying ontological processes working within selfmanagement theories and practices. These processes are pre‐personal or preindividual in the sense that they outline ways we can be produced as individual subjects. These not only produce stress as a possibility for any particular individual to assume, they also convert stress‐issues amongst employees into matters of being unable to adequately contribute towards the organization, leading in turn towards an understanding of these issues as something best handled if employees can improve their own coping abilities. If they can better their own self. We can hence talk of a commitment machine that produces a zone of indiscernability between the subjectivity of the employee and the efficiency of the organization connecting up with a coping machine that frames problems within this zone as a matter of personal problems regarding one's subjectivity. The coping machine serves to reinforce the production of the self‐managing employee by making the employees themselves each responsible for learning to take control of their own passion for working in the organization. The employee has to be passionate and committed, of course; but they now also have to distance themselves from this passion and commitment in order to perform well at their tasks. These passions are simultaneously considered both essential and problematic: the employee is both part of an ideal state and a pathological condition. The coping machine makes this pathological condition into a problem of personal commitment rather than making it a task for questioning how the production of the pre‐individual zone of indiscernability between the work and the employees' subjectivity is itself set up by the commitment machine. In other words, the coping machine produces a mode of existence wherein stress results from an overemphasis, on the part of the employees, upon the commitment towards their work and from a failure to deploy the most appropriate selfmanagement technologies. The thesis can thus be said to be guided by three ambitions in its unfolding of this tune in, break‐down and reboot motion. First of all, to give an account of the inherent modes of existence produced within the contemporary organizational ideal of the committed self‐managing employee. This is done through a reading of various discussions about the management of employee subjectivity ranging from the self‐leadership literature focusing on self‐management as intrinsically motivating and enjoyable through to discussions of incitements to self‐manage and commit as a subtle ways to encroach and exploit the employee's personal subjectivity to contemporary discussions of the new nature of capitalism and its focus on the active living forms of knowledge as the key to value‐production. The second ambition is to address a prevalent paradigm within the occupational stress and stress‐management literature, namely that of coping, as a reinforcement of this demand for a committed and self managing employee. This is done through a reading of some of the most influential scholars within stress and coping and best‐sellers on stress‐management. The third and final ambition is to describe this movement of reinforcement, or tune in, break‐down and reboot movement, through the Deleuzian notion of machines that in various dynamic ways produce and regulate ways of being or modes of existence. Consequently, it will be suggested that the nuts and bolts making up the relation between self‐management and stress is part of a mode of existence that sets up certain expectations about the problem of stress and the enterprise of dealing with stress as an individual productivity and enjoyment issue: being fitter, happier, and more productive rather than being regarded as part of the pre‐individual collective endeavor that constitutes us as these very subjects. Today in self‐management these machines of commitment and coping might produce us as a fitter, happier, and more productive subject. But this very machinic production that unleashes and confines our subjectivity as employees depends on an extremely unstable pre‐individual force. Tapping into this force always means that the foundation of these machines are themselves vulnerable and fragile, or as Deleuze might put it: we do not know yet what we are capable of as this fitter, happier, more productive employee, we do not know were the preindividual forces that animates the machines of commitment and coping might bring us, so we must tune in, breakdown, and reboot to find out. Besides a short introduction and a first chapter that highlight some of the most important notions in the thesis, such as self‐management, stress, subjectivity, modes of existence, pre‐individual forces and social machines, the thesis consists of three parts. The first part running from chapter two through five, is called Machines and Maps. Here I discuss the concept of machines as it is developed by Deleuze and Guattari. Of particular interest is their notion of a social machine. Also crucial is what a machinic approach in general implies when analyzing an object of research and how this approach is utilized to understand the production of subjectivity in contemporary work‐life. The second part Self‐management and the Commitment‐machine runs from chapter six to eleven. Here I outline two machinic indices of a self‐management, namely the 'subjectivity' and 'commitment' and the machinery that drives them; the commitment machine. In the third and last part Stress and the Coping‐machine, which runs from chapter twelve to fifteen, I shift my focus towards the two machinic indices of stress: 'the somatic subject' and 'the coping processes'. I end up with a description of the coping machinery that drives these indices and how this machinery connects up with the commitment machine resulting in the production of the stress‐fit self‐managing employee. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7761
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Et studie af 10-12 årige danske børns brug af internettet, opfattelse og forståelse af markedsføring og forbrugRasmussen, Jeanette (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandlingen har haft til formål at udvide den viden, vi har om markedsføring rettet mod børn. Børn i dag lever i en mere kommercialiseret barndom, børn betragtes i højere grad end tidligere som selvstændige forbrugere, markedsføringsmetoder på internettet er karakteriseret ved at være mere sofistikerede og mindre gennemskuelige, og der er stor markedsføringsmæssig fokus på yngre børn, og specielt de såkaldte tweens (defineres typisk som de 8-12 årige). Det har derfor været afhandlingens sigte at undersøge i et hverdagsperspektiv, hvordan 10-12 åriges brug af internettet, deres oplevelse og forståelse af markedsføring på internettet er relateret til deres forbrug (køb og forhold til mærker). Det er tweens oplevelse og forståelse af medier og forbrug, som er i fokus. Afhandlingens teoretiske grundlag er tvær-disciplinært, og derfor er relevante dele fra barndomsforskningen, medieforskningen og forbrugerforskningen blevet inddraget. Metodisk er der brugt en triangulering af empirisk materiale, da dette er specielt godt i forhold til undersøgelser om børn. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8563
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French National Habitus and the Rejection of American PowerFich, Christian (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Antiamerikanisme er et emne, der har tiltrukket sig stigende opmærksomhed gennem det seneste årti. Terrorangrebene den 11. september 2001 var udtryk for et ekstremt had mod USA, og mange amerikanere følte sig efterfølgende kaldet til at spørge ‖Hvorfor hader de os så meget?‖ (Zakaria 2001). Terrorangrebene fik et efterspil, der afslørede, at det kunne være nok så væsentligt også at spørge ‖Hvorfor er vi blevet så upopulære, selv blandt vores venner?‖ (Moïsi 2009). Forberedelserne til invasionen af Irak i foråret 2003 tydeliggjorde, at der var stor uenighed om mål og midler mellem USA og dets europæiske allierede for så vidt angår linjen over for Irak. Særlig ét europæisk land blev fremstillet som repræsentant for europæisk antiamerikanisme: Frankrig. Frankrig blev i amerikanske medier såvel som af ledende amerikanske politikere beskyldt for at agere spydspids for en politisk orkestreret modstand mod USA's udenrigspolitik, som væsentligst skulle være motiveret af en iboende fransk tendens til antiamerikanisme. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8026
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From Vendors to CustomersRiis, Philip Holst (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Enterprise Systems (ES) are generally considered the price of entry for running a business. With the increased scope of ESs to encompass nearly every function or business process of a modern organization, an increasing number of different users are adopting and using the systems. These users occupy a number of different organizational roles which include a wide variety of different tasks in organizations and have very different requirements for ESs. To ensure a better fit between users and ESs, a number of ES vendors have begun to focus on reflecting the concept of organizational roles of users in their systems. Limited research has, however, addressed these "role-oriented" ESs; this dissertation attempts to provide a better understanding of them by studying their design, implementation, and use. The research design for this dissertation is based on Case Studies and the Grounded Theory Method with qualitative empirical data collected across three types of actors in an ES ecosystem: Vendors; partner companies; and customers. The findings are primarily presented in six appended research papers that are aimed at both researchers and practitioners. The main contribution of the dissertation is an improved understanding of: Representation of organizational roles in the deep and surface structures of ESs; the mapping, configuration, and tailoring of predefined systems roles to fit actual roles of users in organizations; and the potential benefits and role-related misfits of role-oriented ESs. Through discussion of the findings, the dissertation also illustrates how the design of role-oriented ESs is influenced by the different actors in an ecosystem. The dissertation also illustrates how systems, organizations, processes, and roles can be aligned during implementation by shifting basis and conceptual focus in the requirements analysis. Finally, the dissertation explains the impact of roleoriented technology on organizational performance and how this technology may influence the existing perception of the role taking process in organizations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8512
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Case Study: the landscape architecture for people in CopenhagenYang, Binzhang (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Urban green spaces have a significant impact on the balance of urban ecosystem, the adjustment of urban environment and especially the enhancement of urban citizens' life and work quality. A city's image and its citizens' health and well-being is to a certain extent directly affected by whether the quantity of urban green spaces is sufficient, whether the distribution is reasonable and whether the functionality is complete. Therefore, the planning and construction of urban green spaces are already being viewed as a city's green infrastructure as well as the guarantee of a city's sustainable development. Currently, China is on the fast track of an urbanisation process. How to handle environmental protection and how to maintain the relationship between ecosystem, urbanisation and city construction are crucial projects China is facing. In this respect, developed Western countries is one step ahead of China and have aggregated massive valuable experience which China can learn from. With this as aim, this Ph.D. research discusses the relationship between urban green spaces and citizens' life by studying the creation and evolvement of green spaces in Copenhagen. The research focus is to discuss the development situation of this city's urban green spaces and what can be learned by China. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8795
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Towards a Critically Performative Foundation for InquiryHartmann, Rasmus Koss (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis sets out to study regulatory innovation inside government from the perspective of user innovation and to do so in a way that is critically performative. The empirical subject matter is 'laboratories' (Da. Styringslaboratorier): a form of innovation process focused on developing 'regulatory innovations' (i.e. administrative innovations used for purposes of regulating public sector organizations) in collaboration between regulators and users. This particular form of innovation process has been the subject of considerable debate in Denmark and been suggested as a way forward in public sector modernization after New Public Management. It is, however, also an underspecified phenomenon: while it is attributed some potential, it is unclear what this potential is and what it is about laboratories that make this potential plausible. We have only vague ideas about what gets done when people do laboratories. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8978
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Identitet som mulighed og restriktion blandt fabriksarbejdere på det aftayloriserede fabriksgulvPaludan, Trine (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling udforsker og belyser spørgsmål omkring identitet blandt en gruppe fabriksarbejdere på en højteknologisk industri-arbejdsplads i Danmark. - Men hvorfor et forskningsprojekt omkring identitet blandt danske fabriksarbejdere? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7047
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Interaction, Interconnection and PositionVedel, Mette (Copenhagen, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis reports the findings of one of three co-financed research projects under the heading: "Customer driven innovation in the building articles industry". The issue is value creation in triadic business relationships, and the aim is to explore in what ways the expansion from a dyadic level of analysis to the level of micro-networks can inform our understanding of value creation in intermediated systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8165
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Understanding Technology Decision MakingGimpel, Gregory (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Recent innovations have integrated information and communication technology (ICT) into the fabric of people's daily lives. Wireless technology, with its constant presence and transcendence of geographical boundaries, has profoundly influenced people's behavior and the consumption of technology and related services. During the past few years, wireless technologies have shifted from simple devices offering mobile phone calling to multipurpose devices that incorporate the capabilities of other devices. The multiple uses of these devices, coupled with the blurring of the work-home and utilitarianhedonic technology, creates the need for a new understanding of technology adoption and use.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8326
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Et eksplorativt studie af bygningers rolle i virksomheders værdiskabelseClausen, Rune Thorbjørn (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling er et eksplorativt studie af relokationen af en større dansk medievirksomhed fra en gammel kontorbygning til et nyt, skræddersyet hoveddomicil. Afhandlingen studerer, hvordan medarbejderne og deres gæster bruger bygningen, og der foreslås på den baggrund en mulig måde, hvorpå bygningers rolle i virksomheders værdiskabelser kan forstås og forklares. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8358
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En pragmatisk analyse af perception og synliggørelse af værdi i rekrutterings- og udvælgelsesarbejdetBrix, Ulrik Schultz (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: God og effektiv rekruttering og udvælgelse af medarbejdere fremhæves ofte som en afgørende betingelse for virksomhedernes konkurrenceevne og overlevelse, hvilket måske er årsagen til, at mange oplever denne del af HR-afdelingens arbejde som meget værdifuld. I et samarbejde mellem Center for Ledelse, Copenhagen Business School, DSB, Grundfos, LEO Pharma og Nykredit etablerede jeg et forskningsprojekt med overskriften "værdi i rekrutterings- og udvælgelsesarbejdet" (R&U-arbejdet). Forskere og praktikere bruger meget energi på at måle og synliggøre værdi i R&U-arbejdet og afhandlingen peger på, at de hidtidige måder at gøre det på ikke nødvendigvis er de bedste. Afhandlingen argumenterer for, at værdi i R&U-arbejdet perciperes1 og opleves, det vil sige, at værdi er afhængig af konsulenternes og ledernes perception af og forventning til arbejdet. Dette gør måling og synliggørelse af værdi utrolig kompliceret, da ydelsen produceres og konsumeres samtidigt. Værdi i R&U-arbejdet er derfor dynamisk og hele tiden i bevægelse, hvilket indebærer at værdi på et tidspunkt ikke afspejler værdi på et andet tidspunkt. På grund af værdiens dynamik, bliver synliggørelsen af denne en kontinuerlig proces og et dagligt problem for konsulenter og ledere. Problemet med at synliggøre værdi er ikke blot forbeholdt R&U-arbejdet, men synes mere eller mindre at omfatte al HR-arbejdet. Afhandlingen bidrager dermed potentielt til en mere overordnet diskussion af, hvad værdi i HR-arbejdet er og hvorledes dette gøres synligt. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8016
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A cross-cultural study of the relation between users´ cognitive style, context of use, and information architecture of local websitesNawaz, Ather (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Increasing globalization and technological development has led companies and people across the globe to connect through the global internet community. However, people with different cultural backgrounds may perceive the same information in different ways. One of the hurdles to use websites efficiently is the indifferent structures of information on website, and their relation with the characteristics of intended users and the context of use for the websites. The purpose of this dissertation is to assist HumanNComputer Interaction (HCI) practitioners and researchers with better design of website structures for user groups with different cultural backgrounds. This dissertation looks into issues related to website user experience (UX) and focus on how the structuring of information is seen from local users' perspectives. In particular, it attempts to look into the alignment between websites' information architecture (IA) and users' views of website information structure, by applying a crossNcultural and context of use perspective on the UX of websites in three countries: Pakistan, Malaysia, and Denmark. The researcher investigates to what degree users' cognitive styles and contexts of use are aligned with local websites' information architecture, and how this (lack of) alignment shapes the resulting UX. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8871
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Repurposing digital traces to organize social attentionKoed Madsen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the late 1990s, Google pioneered the idea of scraping and repurposing digital traces as a new form of data with which to understand people's preferences and behaviour. This way of generating empirical sensitivity towards the world can be termed digital methods and the last five years have seen such methods gain influence beyond the field of Internet search. Organizations of different kinds are increasingly mentioning the need to harness the intelligence of 'big' digital datasets, and the social sciences have similarly been marked by suggestions to move away from established methods such as surveys and focus groups, and learn from the way Google and other companies have succeeded in turning big datasets into knowledge of social dynamics. By enabling new combinations of data and software and by providing new ways of searching, aggregating, and cross-referencing empirical datasets, it seems probable that the spread of digital methods will re-configure the way organizations, social scientists, and citizens 'see' the world in which they live. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8746
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End user participation between processes of organizational and architectural designVåland, Marianne Stang (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the thesis, I explore the construction of mutual links between two design processes that have traditionally been considered separated and sequentially organized: the organizational and the architectural design processes. The general background for the study is the increasing interest in space and architecture as a potential strategic vehicle that has established within contemporary management during recent years. Scholars within organization studies seem to share this interest. However, only few research contributions are based on empirical studies. My aspiration with the thesis is to contribute to fill this gap. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8002
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Technological innovation and the role of regulation by law in information systems research: The case of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)Ronzani, Daniel (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper-based thesis attempts to answer the question how the adoption and diffusion of RFID can be balanced successfully between technological innovation and regulation by law. To answer this question, an abductive reasoning perspective has been applied. The first premise of abduction includes four sets of observations presented in four articles; the second premise of abduction includes two hypothetical claims, and the third premise of abduction builds the case, i.e., concludes the thesis. As first step, the definitional framework is established. Ten theories of adoption and diffusion of technological innovation (TRA, TPB, MPCU, SCT, TAM, TAM2, C-TAM-TPB, IDT, PCI, and UTAUT) and their characteristics are investigated. They frame the technological viewpoint. Then, the reasons for regulation (public interest theory, private interest theory, and institutionalist theory) as well as the means of regulation (regulation by law, norms, market, and architecture) and their application are investigated. They frame the regulatory viewpoint. As second step, four observations are made that constitute the first premise of abduction based on the findings of four individual research articles referred to as the Database Article, Marketing Article, Modality Mix Article, and Survey Article: Database Article: This research article evaluates the strategic advantage of placing RFID databases in certain territorial and jurisdictional regions based on database regulation. The analysis of the database regulation by law in Europe and North America revealed that, based on the creativity, skill and judgement, and investment doctrine, they do not protect RFID data in databases. It is claimed that protection of RFID data in databases should be regulated by other means of regulation, for instance, by regulation by norms or architecture. Observation 1 stipulates: Despite the amount of data anticipated to be stored and the regulation by law in the different countries where RFID is adopted and diffused, the location of the databases containing RFID data does not seem to play an important role for the technological innovator. Marketing Article: This research article applies a legal use case for the technological innovations marketed by the industry as active RFID tags. The analysis of the RFID industry's marketing efforts and the unfavourable regulation by law is possible, and likely. Adopting the broad legal interpretation of self-emitting devices (short-range devices) to RFID tags that need to transduce energy from an RFID reader (active RFID tags) might allow the search and seizure of transmitted RFID data without a warrant to be in line with the constitutional rights. It is claimed that within the RFID industry there should be more awareness of regulation by legislation and adjudication. Observation 2 stipulates: Extending the doctrinal definition of active RFID tags to include reader-independent and indiscriminate signalling might lead to unfavourable regulation by law. Modality Mix Article: This research article offers a reflection on how law must manage the evolution of technological innovation. The analysis of the Draft Recommendation (2008) by the European Commission shows that the focus on regulation by law is inappropriate for a manageable diffusion of RFID technology. An over-regulation of RFID technology by regulation by law is possible if the Draft Recommendation (2008) is implemented and comes into force. It is claimed that a more diverse set of modalities (regulation by norms, market, and architecture) is necessary to successfully regulate RFID technology. Observation 3 stipulates: The current adoption and diffusion of RFID technology do not seem to be following an appropriate mix of regulation. Survey Article: This research article provides a reverse perspective of current RFID issues by examining the RFID industry's view of regulation by law and consumers. The analysis of the survey data of the RFID industry shows three shortcomings by the RFID industry in its engagement of legal experts, its knowledge of regulation by law for RFID subject-matter, and its information policy to the general public. It is claimed that the exchange between the RFID industry and the legal regulator needs to improve. Observation 4 stipulates: The interaction between, and consequently also the exchange of expert know-how and standpoints of, (i) the RFID industry and the legal regulator and (ii) the RFID industry and the consumers seem insufficient. As third step, two hypothetical claims are made as second premise of abduction based on a literature review of characteristics of adoption and diffusion of technological innovation in IS research, namely IT, EDI, and RFID. First, the research shows that in IS research there are only a few regulation-by-law characteristics (5 of 150 different characteristics). Thus, a first hypothetical claim is made that in IS research there is a lack of legal perspectives. Second, the research shows that in IS research there are even fewer characteristics of other regulatory means, such as for example, social norms, market or architecture. Thus a second hypothetical claim is made that in IS research there is a lack of diversity in regulation of technological innovation. Finally, a case is built as third premise of abduction. It seems possible to conclude that (i) based on observation 1 and hypothetical claim 2, increasing the diversity of regulation modalities might have a positive effect on the strategic management decisions for the location of RFID systems; (ii) based on observation 2 and hypothetical claim 1, increasing the legal perspective in IS research might have a positive effect on the RFID industry's marketing strategy; (iii) based on observation 3 and hypothetical claim 2, a more thorough and precise review of essential regulation by law is necessary; and (iv) based on observation 4 and hypothetical claim 1, increasing the legal perspective in IS research might have a positive effect on the RFID industry's awareness of the legal challenges and their consequences. It is suggested that the four cases (conclusions) built in this thesis provide a solid foundation for the following four hypotheses that can be further tested with additional empirical data: 1. Increasing the diversity of regulation modalities has a positive effect on the strategic management decisions for the deployment location of technological innovation. 2. Increasing the legal perspective in IS research has a positive effect on the marketing strategy for technological innovation. 3. Increasing the thoroughness and precision in the review of essential regulation by law has a positive effect on other regulatory tools for technological innovation. 4. Increasing the legal perspective in IS research has a positive effect on the industry's awareness of the legal challenges and their consequences. Therefore, to prevent bits from falling once they have learned to walk, the legal perspective of regulation in IS research as well as the diverse implementation of regulation in IS research should probably be increased. Such an increase might augment the awareness for the potential of regulation in technological innovation, which, in turn, might foster the adoption and diffusion of RFID. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7930
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A Philosophical Examination of the Creative Manager, the Authentic Leader and the EntrepreneurGarmann Johnsen, Christian (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis undertakes a philosophical examination of three figures at the heart of post-bureaucratic thought – the figures of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur. While the figures of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur share the aim of resolving the crisis of Taylorism, this thesis argues that they produce their own internal crises. They do so because the figures of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur are inherently bound to concepts that resist transmutation into a managerial logic that would enable them to serve their functional purposes without betraying their conceptual dynamics. What philosophy offers us is not a ready-made solution to the crises of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur, but rather a point of departure for constructing concepts that enable us to explore the paradoxes embedded within these figures. Since philosophical concepts dwell in crisis, they enable the thesis to capture the paradoxes, aporias and impossibilities that inevitably accompany post-bureaucratic thought. Instead of regarding the crises in post-bureaucratic management thinking as an impasse, abyss or deadlock, the thesis shows how they can chart new ways of conceptualizing the postbureaucratic organization. Drawing on Derrida's concept of pharmakon, Deleuze's concept of simulacrum and Zizek's concept of fantasy, three concepts equally marked by their paradoxical nature, this thesis opens up a philosophical critique of the post-bureaucratic image of thought. This will be done by exploring the figure of the creative manager through a reading of Gary Hamel's popular management handbook The Future of Management informed by Derrida's concept of pharmakon; the figure of the authentic leader through a reading of Bill George's semiautobiographic self-help tome Authentic Leadership informed by Deleuze's concept of simulacrum; and the figure of the entrepreneur through a reading of Richard Branson's autobiography Losing My Virginity informed by Zizek's concept of fantasy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9186
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On the Vulnerability of Diversity ManagementMuhr, Sara Louise (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling handler om mangfoldighed og etik. Mere specifikt sætter den spørgsmålstegn ved mangfoldighedsledelsens etiske fundament. Mangfoldighed ønskes ledet med det udgangspunkt, at det er et etisk anliggende. Det er etisk korrekt at sørge for ligestilling, at tilgodese minoriteter og dermed at opbygge en arbejdsplads, der er social ansvarlig. Dette etiske ønske betvivler jeg ikke, men jeg sætter spørgsmålstegn ved det etiske grundsyn. Mangfoldighedsledelse beror på etiske retninger som utilitarisme, deontologi og dydsetik. Denne afhandling argumenterer derfor for et skift mod en nærhedsetik, der tager udgangspunkt i Levinas' lære om respekten for den Andens uendelige andethed. Derved argumenterer denne afhandling, at når forskelligheder på denne måde tydeliggøres og kategoriseres, øges fokus på forskellighederne—oftest negativt—i stedet for at tilgodese dem for hvad de i virkeligheden er. Afhandlingen konkluderes ved at sætte fokus på skrøbelighed. Først på den skrøbelighed i mangfoldighedsledelseslitteraturen, som 'kalder' på etisk afbrydelse, derved på skrøbeligheden i den Sydafrikanske situation, og til sidst på den skrøbelighed jeg som forfatter har overfor min egen tekst. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7736
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Whoever falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits in whole or in part, any form or request in similitude of the form or request provided by the Government for requesting a common carrier to furnish transportation on account of the United States or any department or agency thereof, or knowingly alters any form or request provided by the Government for requesting a common carrier to furnish transportation on account of the United States or any department or agency thereof; or
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Source(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 715; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K),Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
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Merry Christmas From Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta & Friends
Friends like Barbra, Tony Bennett, James Taylor
For the first time in three decades, Grease costars Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta have reunited on record with a new holiday album, This Christmas.
AARP caught up with the old friends, who talked about switching roles on "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (Travolta sings the reluctant girl's part), their favorite holiday songs, and how their personal heartbreaks inspired them to step into a recording studio together one more time.
AARP: It's just a charming Christmas album.
(Unison) Thank you!
AARP: Whose idea was it to reverse the roles on "Baby, It's Cold Outside"?
Travolta: (To Newton-John) Was it yours?
Newton-John: It was us!
Travolta: Well, it wasn't my idea. It was Olivia. I agreed. (Laughter)
Newton-John: We thought it would be a little cheekier.
Travolta: I have an actor's viewpoint, so I said, 'I'll do it if I can play it like, "I don't want to go, Liv, but I know it will be just too naughty if I stay ..." '
Newton-John: (Laughs)
Travolta: Like, "Oh my God, if I stay we're gonna do such bad things …"
Newton-John: (Hysterical laughter)
Travolta: "Oh, Liv, I really gotta go!"
AARP: That's a very complex reading of that song.
Newton-John: (Still laughing) We really had a good giggle!
AARP: You know those radio stations that start playing holiday music around Halloween? Which of these tracks would you like to hear playing on one of those stations 20 years from now?
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Newton-John: What would you pick, Bill?
Travolta: There you go!
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FORT DRUM — It's back to basics for several soldiers as the Army has sent a mobile team of Army and civilian instructors to show them how to lead the fitness routines of their own units.
"We're giving them the why behind these exercises," said Capt. Evan L. Abramson, one of the instructors on post Wednesday.
The four-week Master Fitness Trainers course runs through a wide range of exercises that correspond to the Army's standardized physical readiness training, along with a series of classroom sessions where soldiers learn about things such as nutrition, exercise science and Army regulations. As the weeks progress, soldiers slowly begin to take over the exercises.
Instructors see the course as a way to quickly pass along exercise information from higher leadership to lower level units.
"As soon as it meets in the middle it's going to have a huge impact," said Cory D. Schierberl, the lead civilian instructor for the team on post Wednesday.
He said the goal is to increase performance and reduce injuries occurring from overworking certain muscles.
The program was ended in 2001, but was brought back this year after a pilot program the previous year. The placement of mobile teams, featuring one Army and four civilian trainers, is seen as a way to save time and money by avoiding the cost of transporting and lodging classes of soldiers at Fort Jackson, S.C., where the course primarily is taught.
"We bring the course to the soldiers," Capt. Abramson said. Mr. Schierberl said at the moment there were six other mobile teams at installations across the country teaching the course.
During a brief period for the Times to view the program Wednesday, soldiers worked on shuttle runs and a series of short runs at the outdoor track and field of the post's Magrath Sports Complex. Though the teams can support the training of 50 soldiers, the class seen Wednesday had about 25, because of ongoing training exercises that pulled soldiers elsewhere.
During a shuttle run, Mr. Schierberl stressed for soldiers to work on their form as they moved from one cone and back.
"That was not the proper turn ... do it," he called out to a soldier who didn't bend his knee fully and touch the ground before turning around.
Each of the soldiers in the group was suggested for the program by his or her unit's commander, and had scored a 240 on a physical fitness test.
The current course, the second of three to be taught locally, is in its second week.
Capt. Abramson said the standardized exercises would be most applicable to the soldiers' work.
"We're training them to be better soldiers, not better body builders or better crossfitters," he said.
The course is not connected to the Mountain Action Warrior or the functional fitness programs that have gained momentum and substantial funding on post. In about the past year, the post has spent about $10 million to create and renovate its fitness offerings, including a new functional fitness center and smaller training areas at the battalion level.
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|LeGree, Fletcher Earn More All-America Accolades
|Written by Mike Flynn
|Tuesday, 14 December 2010 18:29
Appalachian State University defensive back Mark LeGree (Columbus, Ga./Pacelli Catholic) became only the third three-time honoree in the 24-year history of the Walter Camp Football Foundation NCAA Division I FCS all-America team when he and ASU defensive end Jabari Fletcher (Atlanta, Ga./Grady) were named 2010 Walter Camp all-Americans on Tuesday.
The Walter Camp all-America squad, which consists only of a 26-player first team, is selected by FCS coaches and sports information directors. LeGree is the first defensive player to ever earn FCS all-America recognition three times from the Walter Camp Foundation. He joins New Hampshire wide receiver David Ball (2004-06) and UNH quarterback Ricky Santos (2005-07) as the only three-time Walter Camp all-Americans since the organization began selecting an FCS team in 1987.
LeGree, a 6-0, 200-pound senior, finished his career as the active leader in NCAA Division I with 22 career interceptions, four more than any other FCS or FBS player active in 2010. The 22 interceptions are good for second in Southern Conference history and third in ASU's all-time annals. Despite opposing offenses steering away from the ball-hawking safety for much of the year, LeGree picked off five passes a senior, good for a tie for 20th nationally. He also broke up eight passes and made 49 tackles in his final collegiate campaign.
Fletcher, a 6-3, 265-pound senior, led the Mountaineers with nine sacks (good for a tie for 13th nationally) and 16.5 tackles for loss (tied for 19th nationally) this season. During the course of his spectacular senior campaign, he was twice named SoCon Player of the Week and was also recognized as the conference's October Player of the Month. With 22 sacks and 44.5 tackles for loss in his career, Fletcher is one of only seven players in ASU history to register 20 sacks and 40 tackles for loss in a career.
Both LeGree and Fletcher also garnered first-team all-America recognition from the American Football Coaches Association, were first-team all-conference selections by the SoCon's coaches and media and are among 20 finalists for the Buck Buchanan Award, which recognizes the nation's top FCS defensive player.
Several more organizations will announce their all-America honors in the coming weeks, including the Associated Press, which unveils its prestigious All-America teams on Wednesday. In addition to LeGree and Fletcher, other ASU all-America candidates include quarterback DeAndre Presley (Tampa, Fla./Middleton), linebacker D.J. Smith (Charlotte, N.C./Independence), offensive linemen Daniel Kilgore (Kingsport, Tenn./Dobyns-Bennett), Brett Irvin (Gaffney, S.C./Gaffney) and Pat Mills (Charlotte, N.C./Providence), place kicker Jason Vitaris (Seneca, S.C./Seneca), wide receiver Brian Quick (Columbia, S.C./Ridge View) and tight end Ben Jorden (Weddington, N.C./Charlotte Latin).
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SEBEC, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- A Sebec woman entered a contest and won the grand prize. Better still it was a nationwide small business contest held by Federal Express for $25,000.
Nicole Snow and her Darn Good Yarn company are importing and exporting yarn all around the world. Snow gets her product imported from India and Nepal. They are made out of recycled silks, cottons and linens. The arrangement also provides jobs for 250 women there where poverty levels are very high.
Snow says,"What happens in the manufacturing process for curtains and sheets and stuff you always have excess stuff left over. So what I have happen is people go in to these mills, get the excess that was going to be thrown out and take it back to a small family owned co op and they turn it in to yarns to my specifications and I sell it all over the world."
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Drugmaker Takeda faces thousands of lawsuits for their failure to warn that patients using Actos have up to a 40 percent higher risk of bladder cancer.
Fosamax has been associated with an increased risk of femur fracture and osteonecrosis of the jaw bone.
- Mirena
The Mirena IUD can slice into a woman's uterus or cut through it and travel into the body, but Mirena users were never told by the drug manufacturer.
Antipsychotic drug Risperdal may cause children and adolescents to develop a breast growth condition called gynecomastia.
Testosterone Treatments
Prescription testosterone therapies may double a man's risk of suffering a heart attack. Research has suggested the risk of heart attack, stroke, death and other cardiovascular events for years.
The FDA has informed doctors that newborns of mothers treated with Topamax during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing cleft palate or cleft lip.
Vaccine Injuries
Vaccine Injuries
People can experience rare and life-threatening reactions to certain vaccines.
There is no antidote to reverse Xarelto's effects if a user sustains an injury that causes internal bleeding. Some patients have bled to death as a result.
Use of the anti-nausea drug Zofran during the first ten weeks of pregnancy has been linked to the development of cleft lip, cleft palate, and congenital heart defects.
Taking Zoloft and some other antidepressants during pregnancy may increase an unborn baby's risk of developing cardiac birth defects.
Personal Injury
Asbestos & Mesothelioma
Asbestos & Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma is a fatal form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. But sometimes people work around asbestos without proper protection, and that isn't fair.
Concussions & Brain Injury
Concussions & Brain Injuries
Concussions are caused by a blow or jolt to the head or a part of the body that whips the head back and forth.
Construction Accidents
Construction Accidents
People can be killed or seriously injured if the massive machinery at construction and industrial sites is used negligently.
Dog Bites
Dog Bites
A dog owner may be held legally responsible for their dog attacking and injuring another person.
Nursing Home Injury & Abuse
Nursing Home Injury & Abuse
Nursing home staff negligence can lead to serious injuries that could have been prevented. Loved ones deserve better.
Slip & Falls
Slip & Falls
Dangerous or poorly maintained property conditions can lead to permanent injury or death.
Spinal Cord Injury
Spinal Cord Injury
A spinal cord injury can mean paralysis for life. When a spinal injury is caused by someone else's negligence, responsible parties must be held accountable.
Unsafe Products
Unsafe Products
Products can be defective and unsafe, which can lead to serious injuries or even death.
Wrongful Death
Wrongful Death
It's difficult to hear that your loved one's death could have been prevented.
Unsafe Medical Devices
Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II
Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II
The Stryker hip recall was due to the device's failure rate, including fretting and corrosion of the metal components, dislocations and adverse tissue reactions.
Biomet Metal Hip
Biomet Metal Hip
Patients with metal-on-metal hips experience hip replacement failure when the metal components grind together, shed debris into the body, and cause health problems.
DePuy ASR
DePuy ASR
Thousands of people from all over the country have filed lawsuits against DePuy addressing the pain and revision surgeries resulting from hip implant failure.
DePuy Pinnacle Hips
DePuy Pinnacle Hips
The metal components of the DePuy Pinnacle hip implant can grind together inside a person's body, shed metal debris into the bloodstream, and cause severe damage to surrounding bone and tissue.
Morcellator Cancer Lawsuit
Morcellator Cancer Lawsuit
Johnson & Johnson issued a worldwide recall of its Ethicon morcellation devices in July 2014. The surgical device may blast undetected cancer throughout a woman's body during a hysterectomy or a uterine fibroid removal procedure.
- Zimmer NexGen Knee Implant
Zimmer NexGen Knee Implant
When NexGen knee implants fail, patients have to deal with revision surgery, recovery time and expenses in addition to more pain, discomfort and scarring.
Zimmer Persona Knee Lawsuits
Zimmer Knee Lawsuits
The FDA recalled nearly 12,000 Zimmer Persona Trabecular Metal Tibial Plates in March 2015. The Tibial Plate is a major component of the Zimmer Persona Knee. The recall came in response to complaints that the implant can prematurely loosen and require revision surgery.
Medical Malpractice
Birth Injuries
Birth Injuries
When a hospital staff member fails to provide appropriate care sometime between labor and the postnatal period, a serious birth injury can result.
Brachial Plexus Palsy
Brachial Plexus Palsy
A mistake during delivery can leave a newborn with a lifelong disability known as brachial plexus palsy or Erb's palsy.
A wrong, missed and delayed diagnosis can results in death or injury from a condition that might have been treatable otherwise.
Group B Strep
Group B Strep
Group B streptococcal septicemia can infect newborns during delivery. Doctors sometimes overlook Group B Strep, which can cause debilitating injuries.
Heart Condition Misdiagnosis
Heart Condition Misdiagnosis
Delay in diagnosis or treatment of a heart attack or heart disease can cause serious heart damage or death, when the injuries may have been preventable.
Meningitis Misdiagnosis
Meningitis Misdiagnosis
When meningitis is not diagnosed quickly, this infection of the spinal cord fluid can cause brain damage, a deadly blood infection called sepsis, and other deadly problems.
Prescription Errors
Prescription Errors
A patient can be seriously hurt or killed if they receive the wrong medication from a doctor, nurse or pharmacist.
Motor Vehicle
Automobile Accidents
Automobile Accidents
Vehicle accidents are stressful situations that often require a lawyer who can navigate the process and obtain victims compensation for repair and medical expenses.
Airbag Failure
Airbag Failure
An airbag that doesn't deploy during a collision can lead to death or serious injury.
Bicycle Accidents
Bicycle Accidents
When drivers are negligent on the roadways, a bicyclist who collides with an automobile is likely to sustain severe injuries.
Bus Accidents
Bus Accidents
Bus accidents often involve numerous passengers who may sustain a range of injuries. Many people are involved, which can lead to a complex legal situation.
Distracted Driving
Distracted Driving
Drivers distracted from the road can kill or seriously hurt others, even if they look away for just a moment to text, put on makeup, reach for a drink or change the radio.
Liquor Liability
Liquor Liability
Nearly 30 people in the U.S. die in motor vehicle crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes, according to the CDC.
Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcycle drivers can be killed or seriously hurt when they collide with other motor vehicles.
Pedestrian Accidents
Pedestrian Accidents
Pedestrians are at a serious disadvantage when they're involved in motor vehicle accidents, and negligent drivers must be held responsible.
Truck Accidents
Truck Accidents
Truck accidents are complex situations that often require different types of investigation to determine who was at fault.
Vehicle Safety
Unsafe Car
Drivers and passengers can be killed or seriously injured when a defective car part leads to an auto accident.
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