Observing linguistic evolution in an Irish archipelago

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Séamas Ó Direáin
Keyword(s):  
Research Project ◽  
Main Island ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
Complex Patterns ◽  
Linguistic Evolution ◽  
Aran Islands

Abstract This article describes the results of a research project carried out over a period of 25 years on the spoken Irish Gaelic of the Aran Islands, Co. Galway, Ireland. It combines microdialectology with sociolinguistics and investigates a wide range of phonological, grammatical, and lexical variables. In addition to revealing complex patterns of geolinguistic variation involving small local areas on the main island and on neighboring islands, it also shows the clear influence of age, gender, and individual creativity on the patterns of variation.

Discursive study of Orthodox religious identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor' Yurasov ◽  
Ol'ga Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
The Russian Federation

Considers the problem of the Orthodox religious identity from the point of view of the influence of five types of discourse, widely represented in the Orthodox semiotic picture of the world: philosophical, mythological, artistic, political and ideological. Selected types of religious identity: normative, marginalized, and folkloristically, and determined what type of discourse most pragmatically strongly influences the formation of a type of Orthodox identity. The authors come to the conclusion about the existence in the Russian Federation "rural" and "urban" Orthodox discourses. The first leads to the development of social strain in the area of religious identity and is the base of the formation polarisierung religious identity. The second sets the normative Orthodox identity, avoiding archaism and development of the centaur-ideas. This study was conducted in part supported by RFBR, research project No. 18-011-00164 on "Discursive study of religious identity." Designed for a wide range of sociologists, philologists, cultural studies and religious studies, as well as for a wide circle of readers interested in questions of religion.

scholarly journals All Parts of the Same Thing: Dispatches from the Creativity Everything Lab

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gauntlett ◽  
Mary Kay Culpepper
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Multiple Media

We established the Creativity Everything Lab at Ryerson University in 2018 as a place that would support and unlock “all kinds of creativity for all kinds of people.” In this article, we detail the transdisciplinary roots of our work and outline some of our activities and the thinking behind them. As a team of researchers developing projects and experiences that embrace a wide range of creators and creative practices, we are fashioning the lab to facilitate the actions of doing and making in a range of spheres: in everyday life, professional creative practice, and in learning and research. Three case studies – our ongoing efforts at supporting learning for students, a research project on platforms for creativity, and the community outreach of the 2019 Creativity Everything #FreeSchool – explore how teaching, research, events, and collaborations in multiple media intersect in a multifaceted system for relating to, and engaging with, creativity. Our studies suggest that creative practice as research helps people make connections that fuel curiosity and experimentation. We argue that engaging in multiple perspectives of the “everything” of creativity better equips our students, university, and public to reap its benefits and rewards.

The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Daniel Dennett ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range

Daniel C. Dennett began publishing innovative philosophical research in the late 1960s, and he has continued doing so for the past 45 years. He has addressed questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, the possibility of freedom, and the significance of evolution to addressing questions across the cognitive, biological, and social sciences. This book explores the intellectual significance of this research project, bringing together the insights of 11 researchers who are currently working on themes that are relevant to Dennett’s philosophical worldview. Some of the contributions address interpretive issues within Dennett’s corpus, and they aim to bring increased clarity to Dennett’s project. Others report novel empirical data, at least in part, in the service of fleshing out Dennett’s claims. Some of them provide a fresh take on a Dennettian theme, and others extend his views in novel directions. Like Dennett’s own work, these papers draw on a wide range of different methodologies, from appeals to intuition pumps and scientific data, to turning the knobs on a theory to see what it can do. But each of them aims to be readable, and approachable. And as a whole, the volume provides a critical and constructive overview of Dennett’s stance-based methodology, as well as explorations of his claims about metal representation, consciousness, cultural evolution, and religion.

Making a bricolage: An immanent process of experimentation

2019 ◽  
pp. 146394911985937
Author(s):  
Nina Odegard
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Recycled Materials ◽  
Early Childhood Research ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Hierarchical Relationships ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Early Childhood Pedagogy

This article draws on a new materialist paradigm to explore bricolaging data from an early childhood research project through an immanent ethical lens. This lens enables the researcher to stretch towards non-hierarchical relationships in between subjects and objects, thinking and doing. A bricoleur explores and builds different knowledge-production pathways, allowing experimentation with a wide range of methods and theoretical perspectives. The argument presented here is that bricolaging data could be a non-hierarchical tool through which the researcher considers materiality and artefacts as intra-active participators. Empirical matter – such as videos, photographs, dialogue transcripts, scribblings, sounds, vibrations, bodies and recycled materials – becomes visible through several reviews and rereadings. Here, the bricoleur explores how various data can be read by bricolaging it together, resulting in several narratives that may disrupt and challenge dominant discourses and present alternative perspectives in early childhood pedagogy.

scholarly journals Afraid to leave the house: issues leading to social exclusion and loneliness for people with a learning disability

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-175
Author(s):  
Liz Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disability ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range

Purpose Tackling social exclusion, which can lead to social isolation and loneliness, is an important current issue. People with a learning disability have a right to be full members of their communities, yet often experience social exclusion. Community connections play a key role in people developing reciprocal relationships. It is therefore important to know the barriers to full inclusion. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds on an inclusive research project exploring these issues (Mooney et al., 2019) and aims to place that study’s main findings in a broader academic, policy and practice context. Findings Whilst there is a wide range of literature about social exclusion, lack of friendships and loneliness experienced by people with a learning disability, there is a gap in knowledge regarding some of the specific social barriers that prevent wider social inclusion, and therefore opportunities to make and keep friends. Originality/value This paper relates the findings of an inclusive research project to the current literature. It identifies the social barriers that limit community involvement and draws on the experience of people with a learning disability to find possible ways forward.

Characteristic properties of embedding strength for the nailing of the gonfolo rose (Qualea rosea Aubl.)

Holzforschung ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Bleron ◽  
Gilles Duchanois ◽  
Bernard Thiebaut
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Test Apparatus ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Specific Test ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Strength Tests ◽  
Loading And Unloading ◽  
Steel Joints ◽  
Unloading Stiffness

Abstract Experimental results are presented with single nail joints of gonfolo rose which were loaded at different grain angles and compared to results obtained by Eurocode V. A wide range of embedding strength tests was conducted. The embedding behaviour across the grain was also investigated with a specific test apparatus. The results were analysed and modelled in terms of strength. Initial loading and unloading stiffness of the timber have been taken into account. The embedment strength of the nails varied according to the angle between the direction of loading and that to the grain. This work is part of a larger research project to establish a computer program for the prediction of stiffness and limit strengths of all timber-to-timber and timber-to-steel joints.

Spirituality and Hope in Africa: A Study in Five Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-346
Author(s):  
Anthony Balcomb ◽  
Sophie Chirongoma ◽  
Ini Dorcas Dah ◽  
Seblewengel Daniel Woldegiorgis ◽  
Paul Deouyo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
African Spirituality ◽  
The Everyday

This article documents a research project in five African countries related to African spirituality and hope. The methodology of the research was based on the need to recognize that spirituality could not be separated from the everyday experience of ordinary people and that the people should be given maximum opportunity to express their experiences and beliefs without outside interference. Over seven thousand pieces of data were gathered concerning a wide range of issues that informants raised as being important. Five of these are discussed: marriage, divination, the sacred environment, work and business, and religious tolerance.

scholarly journals Language attitudes in Catalonia: A contemporary perspective seen from pro-independence sociopolitical organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Steven Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Political Uncertainty ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
The City

In a context of increasing linguistic diversity and political uncertainty in Catalonia, this article reports on a research project which set out to explore the attitudes of members of six pro-independence sociopolitical organizations operating in the city of Girona toward Catalan and Spanish. On the basis of six focus groups and ten narrative interviews, this article analyses the respondents’ language attitudes using Ruiz’s framework of language-as-a-problem and language-as-a-resource. Four themes emerge in the informants’ discussion of Catalan and Spanish: ‘Marker of Difference’, ‘(Potential) Social Cohesion’, ‘Imposition’ and ‘Multilingualism as-a-resource’. The comments of the respondents indicate that Catalan and Spanish continue to be mobilized in diverse and varied combinations for a wide range of purposes in Catalonia.

scholarly journals A study of economic inequality in the light of fiscal sources: the case of Catalonia (14th-18th centuries)

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-167
Author(s):  
Jordi Morelló Baget ◽  
Pere Orti Gost ◽  
Albert Reixach Sala ◽  
Pere Verdés Pijuan
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Rich

This essay aims to present the first results of an ongoing research project devoted to study the evolution of the economic inequality in Catalonia based on different documentary sources and parameters. Here we focus on the strengths and limits of the rich fiscal sources preserved between the 14th and 18th century allowing us an analysis of inequality. This study is limited to the period before 1716 because we do not consider totally reliable connecting data from taxes before this moment, essentially focused on immovable wealth, with those from the Cadastre, which was levied on a wide range of incomes.

Investigation of phase change materials for efficient thermal management of electronic modules

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (HiTen) ◽  
pp. 000045-000051
Author(s):  
A. Novikov ◽  
J. Maxa ◽  
M. Nowottnick ◽  
M. Heimann ◽  
K. Jarchoff
Keyword(s):  
Phase Change ◽  
Power Electronics ◽  
Thermal Management ◽  
Phase Change Materials ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Critical Temperatures ◽  
Research Project ◽  
High Enthalpy ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Power electronics is a key technology for the advancement and spreading of electromobility applications and compact power supply devices on the market. The use of new WBG semiconductors (e.g. SiC, GaN) as well as highly integrated silicon-based power electronics enables a significant increase in power density with increasing integration. At the same time, however, this development requires costly thermal management solutions, since the power semiconductors generate considerable heat loss during operation. To ensure the robustness of the systems, the components must be protected from critical temperatures. Nowadays, a considerable effort for active and passive cooling by fans, microfluidic systems or heat pipes is operated. Compared with that, the usage of phase change materials (PCM) is a novel approach for sophisticated thermal management [1], [2]. In this paper some selected results of research project SWE-eT (Heat-retaining coatings for next-generation, efficient, compact power electronics) funded as part of KomroL program (Compact and robust power electronics of the next generation) of German Federal Ministry of Education and Research are presented. Main goal of this project is development, investigation and testing of efficient thermal management solutions based on heat-storing layer systems through phase transition processes. The research project was focused on investigation of sugar alcohols as PCM because of its wide range of melting temperature, high enthalpy of fusion and low cost.

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