Putting Localism in Place: Conservative Images of the Good Community and the Contradictions of Planning Reform in England Malcolm Tait & Andy Inch To cite this article: Malcolm Tait & Andy Inch (2016) Putting Localism in Place: Conservative Images of the Good Community and the Contradictions of Planning Reform in England, Planning Practice & Research, 31:2, 174-194, DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2015.1...

Quantum codewords are highly entangled combinations of two-state systems. The standard assumptions of local realism lead to logical contradictions similar to those found by Bell, Kochen and Specker, Greenberger, Horne and Zeilinger, and Mermin. The new contradictions have some noteworthy features that did not appear in the older ones. PACS: 03.65.Bz, 89.80.+h, 89.70.+c ∗Permanent address: Depar...

In most existing systems that give expert advice, efforts are made to ensure that the rules in the knowledge base do not give rise to contradictions. This is partly to avoid confusing the user, and partly for fear that a logical system that generates even a single contradiction must collapse. We argue that not only can contradictions be tolerated, but they can even be useful. In a legal context...

Drawing from qualitative data gathered at two correctional facilities, this paper empirically illustrates employee reactions to organizational contradictions in a total institution and advances a theoretical model positing that organizational tensions may be framed as complementary dialectics, simple contradictions, or pragmatic paradoxes— each accompanied by attendant organizational and person...

According to anecdotal evidence, project managers working on information technology (IT) projects are occasionally replaced, although the literature on information systems (IS) and project management (PM) makes little mention of it. With a view to narrowing this knowledge gap the authors examined the reasons behind the practice. The authors took an interpretive approach to the data gathering an...

The recent sovereign debt crisis raises a debate on whether the cancelation of sovereign debt is compatible with democracy. Scholars opposed to the cancelation of sovereign debt refer to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the British government began to make the people as a whole liable for the obligations incurred by their government. These scholars argue that this commitment formed the...

Contradictions have been recognized as important factors in learning (conceptual change), because they require students to engage in deep reflection that leads to accommodation and learning. However, in the face of uncertainty, confirmation bias and the theory-laden nature of observation may not allow the recognition of a situation as harboring a contradiction. In the present study, I analyze a...

PROBABLY the most fundamental characteristic of the human mind is its hatred for contradictions. All of our thinking is fundamentally influenced by this dislike; and the rôle of the mathematician, in his relation to reality, may be described in a fairly adequate manner by saying that it is his business to remove all contradictions from our discussions and, by gradually extending the scope of th...

Resilience is commonly portrayed as a positive capability that allows individuals, groups, and organizations to thrive in dynamic contexts.This paper questions this oversimplified view based on a dialectical analysis of a telehealth innovation within a network of collaborating hospitals. We analyze the major contradictions that characterize the adoption of the innovation. First, we analyze cont...

The specification of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) involves the identification of a large number of entities and their relationships. This is a non-trivial task that requires managing different views of the system. Many problems concerning this issue originates in the presence of contradictory goals and tasks, inconsistencies, and unexpected behaviours. Such troublesome configurations should be de...