Aesthetics, Medium, and Method: An Introduction to the Differences and Similarities Between Arts and Non-arts Entrepreneurs

A topic not often addressed in entrepreneurship literature is the broader similarities and differences between arts and non-arts entrepreneurs and the implications these analogous distinctions have in the classroom. This article is an initial exploration of the topic and outlines a minimal, broad-based hierarchy of the artistic process. Further, we attempt to identify the fundamental similarities of the two entrepreneurs and suggest they both engage not only in an analogous process, they are somewhat distinct in the “meta” materials used. Through comparison, we posit that the “meta” process used by artists is also used by non-arts entrepreneurs. By drawing attention to these analogies, educators will likely discover components applicable to traditional entrepreneurship courses; the inverse is already occurring within the medium of creative and arts entrepreneurship.

Recruitment and disengagement: two sides of the same coin or different phenomena?

We investigate the disengagement of four former activists of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra—MST) in Brazil. The MST is the largest Brazilian social movement and has mobilized activists for over 30 years. The trajectories of recruitment, participation and disengagement of its activists serve as emblematic cases for the study of disengagement in social movements in general. This research contributes to the understanding of the activists’ disengagement from a social movement, a phenomenon that has been little studied. It sheds new light on the study of disengagement in two ways. First, some characteristics of the MST, in particular that many activists live in tight-knit communities, children participation and the activists’ long-lasting participation, open up new possibilities for the analysis of factors that influence disengagement pointed out in previous studies. In addition, the analysis of former activists’ whole trajectories of recruitment-participation-disengagement allows us show that considering disengagement as the analogous process as recruitment cannot explain all of its aspects. Given that the reasons that make someone leave a movement are, not always, the same that made someone join it. A multiple-case study design was used. The semi-structured interviews encompassing the engagement trajectories of the former activists served very well to the purpose of evidencing the multi-level character of the disengagement decision-making. Our analysis reveals how the social context, the movement and the activists’ personal characteristics in conjunction play a pivotal role.

The $Q_2$-Free Process in the Hypercube

The generation of a random triangle-saturated graph via the triangle-free process has been studied extensively. In this short note our aim is to introduce an analogous process in the hypercube. Specifically, we consider the $Q_2$-free process in $Q_d$ and the random subgraph of $Q_d$ it generates. Our main result is that with high probability the graph resulting from this process has at least $cd^{2/3} 2^d$ edges. We also discuss a heuristic argument based on the differential equations method which suggests a stronger conjecture, and discuss the issues with making this rigorous. We conclude with some open questions related to this process.

Data Analytics in Master Cam Setup Sheet for Improved Manufacturing

The paper focusses on providing the awareness of smart manufacturing utilizing simulation through modelling in order to facilitate data analytics. Data analytics related to manufacturing will prove its noteworthy benefits to processes involved in industry. Models simulated for manufacturing techniques can be utilized to facilitate data analytics in numerous ways. The provision offered in Mastercam offer programmers to support models simulated to various sectors like logistics, management, transportation, health systems and manufacturing making simulation tool a popular one. It provides three types of stages of process knowledge namely a machine level, a shop level and a universal level. The universal level is related to the knowledge of a process independent of machine or individual shop which facilitates the process. Furthermore, analogous process knowledge like shape capabilities of machining and manufacturing processes offers to progress processes involved in manufacturing through Mastercam.

A functional investigation of the suppression of CpG and UpA dinucleotide frequencies in plant RNA virus genomes

Frequencies of CpG and UpA dinucleotides in most plant RNA virus genomes show degrees of suppression comparable to those of vertebrate RNA viruses. While pathways that target CpG and UpAs in HIV-1 and echovirus 7 genomes and restrict their replication have been partly characterised, whether an analogous process drives dinucleotide underrepresentation in plant viruses remains undetermined. We examined replication phenotypes of compositionally modified mutants of potato virus Y (PVY) in which CpG or UpA frequencies were maximised in non-structural genes (including helicase and polymerase encoding domains) while retaining protein coding. PYV mutants with increased CpG dinucleotide frequencies showed a dose-dependent reduction in systemic spread and pathogenicity and up to 1000-fold attenuated replication kinetics in distal sites on agroinfiltration of tobacco plants (Nicotiana benthamiana). Even more extraordinarily, comparably modified UpA-high mutants displayed no pathology and over a million-fold reduction in replication. Tobacco plants with knockdown of RDP6 displayed similar attenuation of CpG- and UpA-high mutants suggesting that restriction occurred independently of the plant siRNA antiviral responses. Despite the evolutionary gulf between plant and vertebrate genomes and encoded antiviral strategies, these findings point towards the existence of novel virus restriction pathways in plants functionally analogous to innate defence components in vertebrate cells.

Memoria histórica e imaginación jurídica: políticas estéticas de la memoria, desde la justicia poética al "forensic turn"

El propósito de este ensayo es indagar en las interrelaciones entre los distintos discursos narrativos de elaboración del pasado dictatorial, particularmente entre los no-fácticos —estético, literario, cultural, etc.— y los fáctico-disciplinarios —el jurídico-legal y el historiográfico—. La hipótesis de este ensayo es que los lenguajes de la historia, del derecho y de la cultura conforman una formación discursiva (Foucault) o interdiscurso de la memoria histórica, esto es, un modelo discursivo de segundo grado, basado en la conjunción de distintos discursos particulares y en base a una serie de analogías e interrelaciones. El ensayo analizará hasta qué punto la judicialización de la política corresponde a un proceso paralelo que podría llamarse judicialización del discurso estético o cultural. Este proceso forma parte del así llamado ‘forensic turn’ o ‘giro forense’. En un sentido amplio, lo forense apunta al hecho de que todos los discursos reivindicativos sobre el pasado constituyen prácticas ‘forenses’, en la medida en que constituyen ‘foros’ de la justicia. Es también en este sentido que puede hablarse de un interdiscurso de la memoria. Se darán algunas pautas para analizar las analogías y transferencias entre discursos fácticos y discursos estéticos. En un primer paso se recuentan algunas interrelaciones entre los tres discursos sobre el pasado. Estas interrelaciones se explican por una serie de analogías intrínsecas o rasgos compartidos, entre otros, su carácter representativo (o epidíctico), narrativo, epistémico, demostrativo y reivindicativo. En contextos de justicia histórica, estas características son inseparables de su función ético-social-restitutiva, retributiva y/o reparadora. En un tercer paso analizaremos algunos axiomas del giro forense, particularmente sus asunciones materialistas y poshumanas y su repercusión en el campo cultural.The paper deals with how factual (historiographical and legal) and nonfactual (aesthetic, literary, cultural, etc.) discourses on the past intertwine. It starts from the hypothesis that the languages of history, law and culture form a discursive formation (Foucault). In the first part, the essay analyzes to which point the judicialization of politics is paralleled by an analogous process of judicialization of cultural and aesthetic discourses. These processes seem to be related to a more general turn in cultural studies, referred to as forensic turn. In the second part, the paper proposes a conceptualization of the interrelations between factual and non-factual narratives of the past. In the third part, the essay discusses some ideological presuppositions of the forensic turn, mainly its materialist and post-human assumptions, as well as its influence on the cultural field.

Quantum Nonlocality from Higher-Derivative Gravity

A classical origin for the quantum potential, as that potential term arises in the quantum mechanical treatment of black holes and Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridges, can be based on 4th-order extensions of Einstein's equations. The 4th-order extension of general relativity required to generate a Bohmian quantum potential is given by adding quadratic curvature terms with coefficients that maintain a fixed ratio, as their magnitudes approach zero. Black hole radiation, and the analogous process of quantum transmission through an ER bridge, can then be described classically. Quantum transmission through the classically non-traversable bridge is replaced by classical transmission through a traversable wormhole. If entangled particles are connected by a Planck-width ER bridge, as conjectured by Maldacena and Susskind, then the classical wormhole transmission effect gives the ontological nonlocal connection between the particles posited in Bohm's interpretation of their entanglement. It is hypothesized that higher-derivative extensions of classical gravity can account for the nonlocal part of the quantum potential generally.

Re-designation of Ethnic Muslims as Bosniaks in Montenegro

The purpose of this article is to analyse the dynamics of the process of re-designation of ethnic Muslims as Bosniaks in Montenegro. Through a comparison with the analogous process in Serbia, certain specificities are indicated in the context of Montenegro. In line with the premises of the elite theory, we point to the divergent influence of the socially engaged members of the Slavic Muslim cultural corpus in Montenegro on the process of ethnic self-identification of Slavic Muslims in the country. The willingness of a part of this corpus to adhere to the views of the elite part of the population that opposed the ethnonym “Bosniak,” and insisted on retaining the ethnic designation “Muslim,” is interpreted through the lens of social constructivism. The article indicates the formation of the socio-political constructs of “Montenegrin” and “Muslim” that occurred in the last decade of the twentieth century. These two constructs are interlinked; the former is superior as it has ethnic and ethical-political semantic layers, while the latter is subordinate, and it partially stems from the positive sentiment of Slavic Muslims towards Montenegro as the country they inhabit. The relationship between these constructs interferes with the process of accepting national Bosniakhood in a part of the Muslim population in Montenegro. A comparison of the results from the last two population censuses in Montenegro indicates a trend of acceptance of the ethnonym “Bosniak” among the Slavic Muslim population in Montenegro. However, given the slow dynamics of the process, affected by the continuous exposure to factors that increase its complexity, national divergence of Slavic Muslims in Montenegro will most likely prevail.