Old Wine In New Wineskins Research Articles

Is the Technology Acceptance Model just old wine in new wineskins? Exploring issues for further model development

For about three decades, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been a crucial source of information for understanding the factors and processes that influence the integration of technology. The TAM has been extensively studied in various educational settings, involving students and teachers across different academic levels and specific technologies. The diverse range of applications has generated a vast body of evidence affirming the model’s relevance in education. However, despite its success, the research on the TAM still has some unresolved issues and limitations. In this commentary, I address these existing concerns and describe further areas for improvement, including the model itself, the measurement of TAM constructs, and existing gaps and conflicting findings in the current body of evidence. By shedding light on these issues, I hope to guide future research endeavors that build upon and refine the TAM.

Old wine in new wineskins: Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, and the problem of essentialism in explanations of religiopolitical conflict

AbstractIn 2001, John Levi Martin published a critique of authoritarianism scholarship, arguing that it was marred by fundamental biases of tautology, selective interpretation, and overtheorization of some research subjects but neglect of others. Drawing from this critique, I argue that Christian nationalism scholarship in sociology operates as a variant of authoritarianism research, exhibiting similar claims, strengths, and shortcomings. In a short span of time, the Christian nationalism research agenda has come to dominate the sociological study of religion and enjoyed a high profile in public discourse, presumably due to its relevance to matters of acute political concern. However, this literature interprets empirical results based on unverified assumptions of essentially authoritarian goals and motivations while ignoring plausible alternative explanations. It further neglects respondents who are low on Christian nationalism measures, despite evidence that these respondents play a role in religiopolitical conflict. The result is an essentialist account of Christian nationalism that is politically resonant but theoretically problematic. I propose that these issues can be addressed by a shift away from essentialist and toward social models of belief systems, which offer important advantages: greater consistency with current theories of political polarization, a stronger sociological element, and less susceptibility to researcher bias.

Old Wine in New Wineskins: Professionalism and Managerialism in the Performance Appraisal Interviews of Pastors in the Church of Norway

Performance appraisal interviews are a distinct feature of modern work organisations. A generic organisational script, appraisals have also been adopted by traditional professions within old religious institutions. Based on the theory of institutional logics, this article aims at providing new knowledge about the interplay of professionalism and managerialism in pastoral appraisals. It addresses the following research question: How do professional and managerial logics intersect in performance appraisal interviews of pastors in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway? This study clarifies the function, contents and ambiguity of appraisals by interviewing pastors and their leaders and analysing their experiences and expectations of appraisals. The author discusses how ideal-typical professional and managerial logics are demarcated and hybridised in appraisals. With the church in a state of transition, this study shows how the pastor profession constructs itself in appraisals by drawing on both logics yet primarily safeguarding professionalism.

Commentary: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics: Just the Old Wine in New Wineskins?

Commentary: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics: Just the Old Wine in New Wineskins?

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics: Just the Old Wine in New Wineskins?

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics: Just the Old Wine in New Wineskins?

Old wine in new wineskins? Understanding the cooperative movement: Catalonia, 1860–1939

AbstractDifferent factors have been proposed to explain why in some regions there is a greater tendency to form cooperatives. The debate remains open. In this study, we look at the spread of cooperativism within Catalonia from 1860 to 1939. Catalonia was not just the leading industrial region in Spain but also where cooperatives first emerged and had a greater presence. In line with the existing evidence, we find that cooperativism spread from coastal municipalities to the hinterland. In particular, it seems that local conditions (literacy and social capital) facilitated this process, while accessibility to the transport network and neighbouring effects also played a significant role.

Old wine in new wineskins. Hamman-Rich syndrome has much in common with severe COVID-19: Do they share any link of pathogenesis or depend on the similar aetiological factor(s)?

For the first time the acute interstitial pneumonitis as a main cause of adult idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome was described in 1933–35 by the American medical scholars Louis Virgil Hamman and Arnold Rice Rich as “acute fibrosing alveolitis” later given the eponymous name Hamman-Rich syndrome. This disease targets the interstitium of the lungs and characterized by fulminant onset, acute respiratory disorder with possibility of respiratory failure, being clinically similar to respiratory distress syndrome with the pathomorphologically revealed diffuse alveolar damage. Hamman-Rich syndrome is characterized by rapid progression from symptoms of common cold such as cough, fever, chills and dyspnea to severe respiratory failure. The syndrome affects apparently healthy individuals and is not associated with any anamnestic chronic lung diseases, smoking habits, neither with patients’ age or sex. The aetiology and pathogenesis of the Hamman-Rich syndrome are not clear yet. The familiar genetic predisposition is of definite meaning, especially related to mutations of surfactant proteins and their metabolism. The possible mechanistic links of this fulminant lung disease involve: NK-cells, auto-aggressive immune activation and certain types of cytokines during their excessive systemic action, so-called cytokine storm (e.g. interleukin-18 and interleukin-2), which play the leading part in the patho-genesis of acute lung cell injury resulting in diffuse non-remitting pneumofibrosis. But all these clinical and pathogenetic features are also common for severe COVID-19. Computed tomography is used for instrumental diagnosis of Hamman-Rich syndrome and also gives the lung images quite similar to that of COVID-19, including ground glass opacity symptoms. The authors hypothesize that the same link(s) of pathogenesis underlie the severe course of COVID-19 and Hamman-Rich syndrome. It is possible that cases of Hamman-Rich syndrome were due to the circulation in populations of a less virulent, unrecognized coronavirus, which interacts with the immune system of genetically susceptible individuals in a way similar to SARS-CoV2. For sure, the identification of the characteristics of the genome of patients with Hamman-Rich syndrome will shed light on the genetic mechanisms that predispose to the severe course of COVID-19 and vice versa — the experience of severe COVID-19 treatment can be applied to the therapy of Hamman-Rich syndrome as well.

Pathway-based financing: old wine in new wineskins?

Pathway-based financing: old wine in new wineskins?

Old Wine in New Wineskins? A Trial of Restorative Justice in a Korean Criminal Court

AbstractThe concept of restorative justice emerged from efforts to find an alternative to the traditional punitive, retributive reaction to crime. The belief that face-to-face meetings are able to address the diverse needs of all involved parties has eventuated in the proposal of an informal process to discuss the aftermath of crime. One local district court in Korea was very keen to test this process and conducted a project to examine the applicability of restorative justice in Korean criminal trials. Investigating the processes and outcomes of this project, this study identifies challenges in officially adopting such a programme in Korea. In particular, this study raises questions regarding what form of justice Korean citizens truly desire.

‘Old Wine in New Wine-Skins?' – Towards a New University Curriculum

‘Old Wine in New Wine-Skins?' – Towards a New University Curriculum

Putting Old Wine in New Wineskins: A New Synthesis of the Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew that is Neither new nor a Coherent Synthesis

the Hebrew verbal forms, scattered in various journal articles and book chapters, appear together here in a work whose scope is ambitious. In the first four chapters, he discusses the basics of the inventory of forms and their semantic and text-linguistic functions (chap. 1), he provides an overview of the system through an examination of the oppositions among the verbal forms (chap. 2), he explores meaning variation for the verbal forms due to interactions with lexical semantics, adverbial modification, and similar syntactic configurations (chap. 3), and he treats inter-clausal relationships among verbal forms (chap. 4). At this point he returns in detail to the the wayyiqtol, qatal, predicative participle, yiqtol and weqatal, and the volitives, respectively (chaps. 5 9). The final three chapters he devotes to text-linguistic perspectives on the verbal forms (chap. 10), changes to the system in late Biblical Hebrew (in contrast to the focus of his work on the Classical Biblical Hebrew corpus; chap. 11), and the function of the verbal forms in poetry (chap. 12). In the back of the book are a bibliography, index of Scripture references, and a detailed table of contents, which presumably serves in lieu of a topical index.

The New Neighborhood Policy of the EU: An Appropriate Response to the Arab Spring?

This article analyzes the extent, substance, and underlying objectives of the European Union's (EU) new neighborhood policy in response to the Arab Spring. It questions whether the new policy approach constitutes a major policy shift or is just “old wine in new wineskins.” The article discusses the causes for much continuity and limited change in the new policy from a neo-institutionalist perspective. It concludes that both continuity and change primarily result from constraints inherent to the EU. In particular, the interaction between the Commission and the Council shapes a policy that corresponds with the normative aspirations and realist interests of the EU but hardly with the needs and expectations of the partner states.

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Writing the History of the English Bible: A Review of Recent Scholarship

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Writing the History of the English Bible: A Review of Recent Scholarship

Old Wine in New Wineskins? Appraising Professor Bergelson's Plea for Comparative Criminal Liability

Old Wine in New Wineskins? Appraising Professor Bergelson's Plea for Comparative Criminal Liability

Editorial: Old Wine in New Wineskins

Editorial: Old Wine in New Wineskins

Special Creation and Evolution in the Classroom: Old Wine in New Wineskins?

Special Creation and Evolution in the Classroom: Old Wine in New Wineskins?

Percutaneous Absorption After Twenty-five Years: Or “Old Wine in New Wineskins”

Two developments have greatly added to our knowledge of percutaneous absorption over the past quarter century: (1) proof that the entire stratum corneum is the effective barrier layer of the skin, and (2) the advent of highly sensitive analytical techniques. The first enabled us to measure permeation rates on excised skin and the second greatly extended the kinds of substances that could be studied in vivo and in vitro. The process of percutaneous absorption is beginning to be understood more quantitatively. New light has been shed on the elementary mechanisms of permeation, the site of diffusional resistance at the molecular level, the effect of specific functional groups on solute permeation, the role of skin appendages, and the effects of vehicles.

Old wine in new wineskins

Old wine in new wineskins

Old Wine in New Wineskins

VERY generation is faced with the difficult problem of making the Christian relevant and meaningful to the needs and knowledge of its time. Such a venture is never popular, for the defenders of the faith are leery of any change. Yet such a revision is not only necessary, but also inevitable. Every aspect of man's experience is subject to growth. Religion is no exception. It is my firm conviction that the Christian gospel needs to be reinterpreted today in a way as revolutionary as Luther's reformation was for his day. This article is one person's testimony as to the direction which today's reformation should take. I believe in God as a result of my own investigation and personal experience. I conceive of God as a Spirit who is personal, yet more than personal as we humans understand personality. It seems to me that God must have at least the highest categories that man has: thinking, feeling, and willing; but far more than that. God is immanent in that He is present with us; He is transcendent in that He is far greater than we are. I like to think of God as a Father if by that term is meant much more than a human father. I feel that I can talk