Reasoning with Multiple Points of View: A Case Study

The calls for repatriation and restitution of African objects and human remains in unlawful Euroamerican custody are gaining global momentum. This paper examines how bioarchaeological analyses are done on legitimately excavated or acquired human remains. Such studies are assessed in tandem with the negative eugenicist practices associated with the looted African human remains that were studied in Europe and America during the periods of slavery and colonization in Africa. It further examines the issues surrounding the repatriation of human remains and discusses the implications of this practice on the ethics and cultural rights of societies in Africa. Excavated human skeletal remains from Begho are examined within their culturalcontext as a Ghanaian case study. By exploring these issues, we are of the view that the complexities in the nature of acquisition and return of human remains requires a holistic comprehension from multiple points of view rather than from a single subjective perspective. Such multiple approaches must include the need for adequate provenance and bioarchaeological research to bear on the contexts and practices associated with the anthropology of death in the societies of origin.

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ON THOMAS BERNHARD’S NARRATIVE THINKING: «ETERNAL RETURN» AND A POLYPHONIC WRITING

Human Being Image and Essence Humanitarian Aspects ◽

10.31249/chel/2020.03.03 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 27-54

Author(s):

V.V. Kotelevskaya

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Literary Interpretation ◽

Eternal Return ◽

Multiple Points ◽

Traumatic Memories ◽

Narrative Thinking ◽

Other Hand ◽

Thomas Bernhard ◽

Points Of View ◽

The One

The article explores the typological principles and genesis of narrative thinking of Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989). It reveals the paradoxical nature of his writing, which combines, on the one hand, archetypal structures, implied ‘genre memory’, and on the other hand, a unique, innovative style. Bernhard’s constructive principle is repetition, which allows the embodiment of the idea of «eternal return» (Eliade) throughout the poetical structure, whether it is a sacred event of a myth or an «obsessive repetition» (Freud) of the traumatic memories of the protagonist or the narrator. The fragmented world is under constant reorganizing with the help of Bernhard’s polyphonic writing, which finds itself mostly in the imitation of the non-figurative, purely expressive, self-referential «art of fugue» (Bach), oriented to the cyclic, rather than linear-historical concept of time. In contrast to the literary interpretation of the «polyphonic novel» (Bakhtin) with its coexistence of multiple points of view, our attention is shifted to the musicological interpretation of the fugue’s polyphony as the embodied idea of the continuity of time, the closeness and infinity of the divine universe.

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The role of maintenance in improving company's competitiveness and profitability

Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management ◽

10.1108/jmtm-04-2013-0033 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 441-456 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Damjan Maletič ◽

Matjaž Maletič ◽

Basim Al-Najjar ◽

Boštjan Gomišček

Keyword(s):

Gap Analysis ◽

Research Problem ◽

Maintenance Policy ◽

Content Type ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Points Of View ◽

Potential Improvement ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of maintenance in improving company's competitiveness and profitability. In the first part the paper aims to discuss the potential improvement areas from the company perspective. Second part of this paper examines maintenance impact on company's business. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical case study was utilized aiming to provide an understanding of the role of maintenance in improving company's business. The empirical data for this study were collected from a Slovenian textile company. A gap analysis was used in order to address the research problem and to identify potential improvement areas. Findings – Based on the gap analysis, the results suggest that from respondents’ points of view, maintenance practices related to condition-based maintenance approach represent the highest opportunity for improvement. The most notable empirical results of the case study showed that around 3 per cent of additional profit could be generated at weaving machine, especially if all unplanned stoppages and loss of quality due to decrease in the productivity would be prevented. Practical implications – This paper demonstrates to managers the potential benefits of maintenance policy in terms of productivity, quality and profitability. In this regard, this paper builds on a premise that company can gain higher performance benefits using more effective maintenance policy. Originality/value – The proposed conceptual model contributes to the existing literature by showing the interactions between maintenance and company's competitiveness and profitability. Empirical findings of this study therefore, acknowledge maintenance's potential of increasing the overall profit. In addition this study advances prior studies by utilizing a gap analysis which is rare in this type of research.

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Am I Speaking Prose? Rejoinder to “Critical Language and Discourse Awareness in Management Education”

Journal of Management Education ◽

10.1177/1052562919871986 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 43 (6) ◽

pp. 680-685

Author(s):

Allan R. Cohen

Keyword(s):

Management Education ◽

Multiple Points ◽

Language Discourse ◽

What Works ◽

Communications Skills ◽

Points Of View ◽

The One ◽

Skills Education

This essay claims too much and too little for Critical Language Discourse, an interesting subject, but in my view not necessary as a separate topic from Needed Communications Skills Education. Those skills are best learned in context, working on specific challenges with specific audiences where there are particular communications problems to be overcome, then discussed from multiple points of view, including numerous relevant theories and concepts. Frequent iterations between challenges tackled, what works under which circumstances, what does not, and so on, builds a deeper understanding of oral and written communications, without necessarily learning theoretical names for the one form of theory.

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A Guide to Non-Disclosure Agreements for Researchers

Handbook of Research on Information Security and Assurance ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-855-0.ch030 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 347-359

Author(s):

Paul D. Witman

Keyword(s):

Information Assurance ◽

Academic Research ◽

Annotated Bibliography ◽

Legal Counsel ◽

Multiple Points ◽

Academic Researchers ◽

Research Environments ◽

Points Of View ◽

Information Assurance And Security

This chapter provides a set of guidelines to assist information assurance and security researchers in creating, negotiating, and reviewing non-disclosure agreements, in consultation with appropriate legal counsel. It also reviews the use of non-disclosure agreements in academic research environments from multiple points of view. Active academic researchers, industry practitioners, and corporate legal counsel all provided input into the compiled guidelines. An annotated bibliography and links are provided for further review.

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A Guide to Non-Disclosure Agreements for Researchers Using Public and Private Sector Sources

Information Systems Research Methods, Epistemology, and Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-040-0.ch006 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 104-119

Author(s):

Paul D. Witman

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Private Sector ◽

Academic Research ◽

Legal Counsel ◽

Multiple Points ◽

Public And Private ◽

Academic Researchers ◽

Research Environments ◽

Points Of View ◽

Public And Private Sector

This chapter provides a set of guidelines to assist information systems researchers in creating, negotiating, and reviewing nondisclosure agreements, in consultation with appropriate legal counsel. It also reviews the use of nondisclosure agreements in academic research environments from multiple points of view, including the perspectives of both public and private sectors. Active academic researchers, industry practitioners, and corporate legal counsel all provided input into the compiled guidelines. An annotated bibliography and links are provided for further review.

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Exploiting Inter- and Intra-Base Crossing with Multi-Mappings: Application to Environmental Data

Big Data and Cognitive Computing ◽

10.3390/bdcc2030025 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hicham Hajj-Hassan ◽

Anne Laurent ◽

Arnaud Martin

Keyword(s):

Spatial Location ◽

Point Of View ◽

Environmental Data ◽

Sensor Data ◽

Global Ocean ◽

Global Changes ◽

Geospatial Information ◽

Multiple Points ◽

Points Of View ◽

Single Data

Environmental data are currently gaining more and more interest as they are required to understand global changes. In this context, sensor data are collected and stored in dedicated databases. Frameworks have been developed for this purpose and rely on standards, as for instance the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) provided by the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC), where all measurements are bound to a so-called Feature of Interest (FoI). These databases are used to validate and test scientific hypotheses often formulated as correlations and causality between variables, as for instance the study of the correlations between environmental factors and chlorophyll levels in the global ocean. However, the hypotheses of the correlations to be tested are often difficult to formulate as the number of variables that the user can navigate through can be huge. Moreover, it is often the case that the data are stored in such a manner that they prevent scientists from crossing them in order to retrieve relevant correlations. Indeed, the FoI can be a spatial location (e.g., city), but can also be any other object (e.g., animal species). The same data can thus be represented in several manners, depending on the point of view. The FoI varies from one representation to the other one, while the data remain unchanged. In this article, we propose a novel methodology including a crucial step to define multiple mappings from the data sources to these models that can then be crossed, thus offering multiple possibilities that could be hidden from the end-user if using the initial and single data model. These possibilities are provided through a catalog embedding the multiple points of view and allowing the user to navigate through these points of view through innovative OLAP-like operations. It should be noted that the main contribution of this work lies in the use of multiple points of view, as many other works have been proposed for manipulating, aggregating visualizing and navigating through geospatial information. Our proposal has been tested on data from an existing environmental observatory from Lebanon. It allows scientists to realize how biased the representations of their data are and how crucial it is to consider multiple points of view to study the links between the phenomena.

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Parentheticals and the presentation of multipersonal consciousness: A stylistic analysis of Mrs Dalloway

Language and Literature ◽

10.1177/0963947014528112 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 175-187 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yaxiao Cui

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Degree Of Freedom ◽

Stylistic Analysis ◽

Multiple Points ◽

Single Sentence ◽

Research Gap ◽

Points Of View ◽

Free Indirect Style ◽

Narrative Techniques

The presentation of consciousness in Mrs Dalloway has long been a focus of study, and many scholars have investigated Woolf’s narrative techniques in this regard, especially her use of Free Indirect Style. However, most of the existing studies mainly concentrate on the consciousness presentation of individual characters. Few studies have provided adequate accounts concerning the arrangement of the shifting narrative viewpoints and the linguistic mechanism that facilitates the ‘multipersonal representation of consciousness’ in this novel (Auerbach, 2003 [1953]: 536). This article attempts to fill this research gap by examining the use of parentheticals in Mrs Dalloway. The syntactic independence of a parenthetical gives it a degree of freedom to digress from its host, which makes this construction a convenient device to bring in new sources of consciousness and thus shift the narrative viewpoint from one character to another. The frequent viewpoint shifts subvert the convention of adhering to a single coherent narrative point of view. Meanwhile, using parentheticals allows Woolf to present multiple points of view within a short stretch of text, even within a single sentence. In this way, a sense of simultaneity is created. Distinct sources of consciousness are brought closer to each other; the very boundaries between individual minds seem to be blurred.

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The Translation Perspective as an Alternative to the Policy Diffusion Paradigm: The Case of the Swedish Methadone Maintenance Treatment

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279405008822 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 365-388 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

BJÖRN JOHNSON ◽

BO HAGSTRÖM

Keyword(s):

Methadone Maintenance Treatment ◽

Maintenance Treatment ◽

Methadone Maintenance ◽

Continuous Process ◽

Policy Diffusion ◽

Policy Ideas ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Points Of View ◽

Distribution Of Power

In the policy sciences the study of dissemination phenomena is usually connected to the concept of policy diffusion. In view of what has been produced using this perspective, there is every reason to develop alternative points of view. In this article we present the main features of one such alternative: the constructivist translation perspective. The translation perspective depicts policy diffusion as an imitation process, where meaning is constructed by disembedding policy ideas from their previous context and using them as models for altered political structures in a new context. The translation metaphor draws attention to the importance of a deepened problematisation of the policy concept, the personal character of the translation, and to the fact that translation processes are always tied to local contexts. Policy translation should be seen as an open, continuous process, never independent of the societal distribution of power. In this article the translation perspective is outlined and illustrated by a detailed case study of the Swedish methadone maintenance treatment programme.

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The Dry Revolution: Evaluation of Three Different EEG Dry Electrode Types in Terms of Signal Spectral Features, Mental States Classification and Usability

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19061365 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (6) ◽

pp. 1365 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Gianluca Di Flumeri ◽

Pietro Aricò ◽

Gianluca Borghini ◽

Nicolina Sciaraffa ◽

Antonello Di Florio ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental States ◽

Signal Quality ◽

Multiple Points ◽

Dry Electrodes ◽

Dry Electrode ◽

Common Opinion ◽

Comprehensive Comparison ◽

The Common ◽

Points Of View ◽

Neuroimaging Techniques

One century after the first recording of human electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, EEG has become one of the most used neuroimaging techniques. The medical devices industry is now able to produce small and reliable EEG systems, enabling a wide variety of applications also with no-clinical aims, providing a powerful tool to neuroscientific research. However, these systems still suffer from a critical limitation, consisting in the use of wet electrodes, that are uncomfortable and require expertise to install and time from the user. In this context, dozens of different concepts of EEG dry electrodes have been recently developed, and there is the common opinion that they are reaching traditional wet electrodes quality standards. However, although many papers have tried to validate them in terms of signal quality and usability, a comprehensive comparison of different dry electrode types from multiple points of view is still missing. The present work proposes a comparison of three different dry electrode types, selected among the main solutions at present, against wet electrodes, taking into account several aspects, both in terms of signal quality and usability. In particular, the three types consisted in gold-coated single pin, multiple pins and solid-gel electrodes. The results confirmed the great standards achieved by dry electrode industry, since it was possible to obtain results comparable to wet electrodes in terms of signals spectra and mental states classification, but at the same time drastically reducing the time of montage and enhancing the comfort. In particular, multiple-pins and solid-gel electrodes overcome gold-coated single-pin-based ones in terms of comfort.

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