The Survival of the Fittest in "ISO-Land": The Role of Quality in Technical Communication

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A.C. Klaasse
Keyword(s):  
Technical Communication ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest

From great man to fittest survivor: Reputation, recapitulation and survival in Victorian concepts of Wagner's genius

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 415-445
Author(s):  
Bennett Zon
Keyword(s):  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Scientific Terminology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Musical History ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest

The transposition of the Great Man into the Fittest Survivor is at the very root of an endemic interchange between the sciences and the arts in late Victorian culture, giving rich metaphoric substance to more heavily concretised scientific terminology. Herbert Spencer's famous phrase, “survival of the fittest” is, arguably, one of the most commonly transposed and consequently influential scientific expressions of the Victorian period, and as such, one of its most malleable idioms. In Victorian musicology this influence is especially obvious in biographical works which privilege Richard Wagner as the greatest genius of musical history. Thus in Mezzotints in Modern Music (1899) James Huneker declares that “Wagner carried within his breast the precious eucharist of genius. ” It is the attitude of Huneker and like-minded musicologists, like C. Hubert H. Parry, William Wallace, Francis Hueffer and Richard Wallaschek, which forms the basis of a three-part exploration of Wagner's genius, covering (1) the role of “endurance” in Victorian definitions of genius, from Carlyle and Sully to Galton; (2) the influence of German morphology on evolutionary terminology in Britain, with particular reference to ontogeny, phylogeny and recapitulation; and (3) Spencer's adaptation of German morphology and his influence on Victorian perceptions of Wagner's genius. These collectively argue through the paradigm of Wagner that the formulation of late Victorian musical genius was incomplete without recourse to evolutionary terminology of survival. Indeed, for Victorian musicology, Wagner, the Great Man, had evolved Into Wagner, the Fittest Survivor.

scholarly journals Taking a Holistic Perspective on Technical Communication and Lean

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Pernilla Ingelsson ◽  
Ulrika Löfstedt ◽  
Ingela Bäckström ◽  
Lena-Maria Öberg
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Holistic Perspective ◽  
The Status

<div><strong>Purpose:</strong> The purpose of this paper is to present best practices and areas of improvement in Technical Communication (TC) analyzed with Lean values as a base. The purpose is also to analyze the results from a holistic perspective using the Synergy-4 model, a multi-perspective approach which considers four different spheres of an organization at a time in order to discover synergies.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Methodology/Approach:</strong> To fulfill the purpose, 15 interviews in four different companies were conducted. These were then analyzed and the results were categorized into a number of predefined Lean areas. The results from the Lean values were then further analyzed with the Synergy-4 model as a base. </div><div> </div><div><strong>Findings:</strong> Taking a Lean perspective could enhance the status of TC with regard to finding ways to incorporate the customer’s voice more clearly when it comes to strengthening the role of TC. The result from the analyses indicates that Lean and Synergy-4 can enrich each other.</div>

Survival of the fittest: How the rice microbial community forces Sarocladium oryzae into pathogenicity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
K J Peeters ◽  
K Audenaert ◽  
M Höfte
Keyword(s):  
Null Model ◽  
Toxin Production ◽  
Pairwise Interactions ◽  
Helvolic Acid ◽  
Community Forces ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest ◽  
Endophyte Community ◽  
Rice Endophytes ◽  
Sheath Rot

ABSTRACT The fungus Sarocladium oryzae (Sawada) causes rice sheath rot and produces the phytotoxins cerulenin and helvolic acid. Both toxins show antimicrobial activity but only helvolic acid production in the rice sheath correlates with virulence. S. oryzae isolates that differ in their toxin production were used to study their interaction with the rice culturable bacterial endophyte community. The diversity and community structure was defined in the edge of sheath rot lesions, followed by a null model-based co-occurrence analysis to discover pairwise interactions. Non-random pairs were co-cultured to study the nature of the interactions and the role of the toxins herein. Compared to healthy sheaths, endophyte diversity strongly increased when infected with the least virulent S. oryzae isolates producing low amounts of toxins. Virulent S. oryzae isolates did not affect diversity but caused strong shifts in species composition. The endophyte community of healthy rice plants was dominated by B. cereus. This bacterium was enriched in lesions produced by low-virulent S. oryzae isolates and caused hyphal lysis. Contrarily, helvolic acid producers eliminated this bacterium from the sheath endosphere. We conclude that S. oryzae needs to produce antibiotics to defend itself against antagonistic rice endophytes to successfully colonize and infect the rice sheath.

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