For a quarter of a century, comparative rankings produced in the Places Rated Almanac have offered to help people find their ‘best’ place to live, spawned a mini industry, and provided a benchmark for the evolution of rankings of modern communities in North America and around the world. This paper examines the context of their emergence, their success, and also their limitations in the predicti...

A study about the role of leadership and technology in successful and sustainable airline management was conducted to further the knowledge concerning the effects these factors have on the sustainability of airline business. The goal of the study was to identify suitable leadership approaches, core and enabling technologies that are of importance for airline executives in the context of the glo...

The growing orientation of public universities towards the corporate sector has had a significant impact on higher education discourse. The rhetoric of the free market, manifested most tangibly in business-related lexis, is now firmly established in the discursive repertoire employed by academic leaders, politicians, the media, as well as parts of higher education research. Within this rhetoric...

Barbara Therese Murphy, MD, MB, BAO, BCh, FRCPI, widely beloved and world-renowned transplant nephrologist, scientist, visionary, passed away on June 30, 2021, at the age of 56. was born in 1964 South Dublin, Ireland. After attending medical school Royal College Surgeons Ireland, she completed internship, residency, clinical nephrology training Beaumont Hospital Dublin. Presaging Barbara’s futu...

Our esteemed colleague and friend, David A. Ahlquist, MD, passed away on November 1, 2020 due to complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Dr Ahlquist was a visionary leader, compassionate clinician, dedicated mentor, exemplary friend. Dave also an imaginative innovator, with unique ability deconstruct complex challenges define elegant solutions, guided by his “North Star” of redu...

This paper introduces a project recently started by the authors on the relationship between European integration and regionalisation in both extant member states and applicant countries. Our main question is whether we are witnessing a process of Europeanisation in relation to sub-central state structures; a common pattern of regional governance within member states. Related to this, we are con...

Introduction Over the past two decades Cairns landscape has transformed from a remote tourist town beside Great Barrier Reef to an international, tropical city with new focus on culture and arts. A number of important urban design projects have enabled this transformation, including key waterfront redevelopments, addition large shopping mall convention centre, renovated museum, now performing a...

This paper examines the limits of Cynical parrhesia. Based on fieldwork with artist-activists in post-recession Dublin, I recount their fraught efforts to use adventurous artistic expression provoke a critical awakening an audience strangers, who instead respond derision. My focus is thus narrow but prevalent feature artists’ work and lives, public’s experience challenging genres provocative pu...

The tech startup is a globally admired and emulated form of enterprise, celebrated for its capacity to turn lines digital code into lean lucrative businesses. Drawing on recent work in the anthropology money, I argue that startup's rise not only leading people pursue new ways making money but also giving constructions character value itself. article follows two founders Singapore – where techno...

As an indicator of nations' prosperity and economic competitiveness, research impacts the mounting roles requirements placed upon academic researchers. Internationally, researchers are expected to effectively operate in fast-changing demanding environment. Such effectiveness corresponds mainly their ability establish international interdisciplinary collaborations, secure internal external grant...