scholarly journals Exploratory walk and local cohesion— the concept and application

Mobilities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Dorota Bazuń ◽  
Mariusz Kwiatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Local Cohesion

‘We are still here’: The impacts of street music and street art during the 2020 London lockdowns

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Jonathan Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
School And Community ◽  
Children’S Voices ◽  
Local Cohesion

This article summarises the impacts of a spontaneous arts initiative involving the residents of eight London streets during the 2020 lockdowns. A local arts organization devised small-scale, informal street music projects that were evaluated by the residents themselves. Responses suggested that such events had a strong positive impact on the feelings of community. Common responses included reaffirming the importance of local cohesion, recognizing music as an accessible means of developing new connections in ‘distanced’ conditions and a new appreciation of family togetherness. Those involved suggested that researchers could learn much about the characteristics of cohesive, supportive communities from similar initiatives. The project confirmed that more research was needed on the role schools could play in bringing communities together and how music can be used to build bridges between school and community. Feedback raised questions about the absence of children’s voices in post-COVID-19 planning for ‘the recovery curriculum’.

Ego-network stability and exploratory innovation: the moderating role of knowledge networks

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingbei Wang ◽  
Naiding Yang ◽  
Min Guo
Keyword(s):  
Moderate Level ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Structure Stability ◽  
Network Stability ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Exploratory Innovation ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Local Cohesion ◽  
Global Cohesion

PurposePrevious studies examined the effect of inter-organizational collaboration relationships on organizational innovation. However, most focused on the configuration of the network from the static network perspective, and few examined the influence of network structure stability on an organization's exploratory innovation from the ego-network perspective. This study addresses this research gap by focusing on ego-network stability and its effect on an organization's exploratory innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical setting is the smartphone collaboration network from 2004 to 2017. We selected one-site schemes and panel data of patents from the Derwent Innovation Database. A negative binomial model with fixed effects was used to test our hypotheses.FindingsThe regression results show that an organization's ego-network stability has an inverted-U-shaped relationship with its exploratory innovation. Global cohesion of the focal organization's knowledge network moderates the process in such a way that when it is at a high level, an organization's exploratory innovation can benefit more from a moderate level of ego-network stability. However, local cohesion moderates in such a way that, at a low level, an organization's exploratory innovation can benefit more from a moderate level of ego-network stability.Originality/valueThis study highlights the importance of ego-network stability and its effect on the focal organization's exploratory innovation. It contributes to the literature on the relationship between ego-network stability and exploratory innovation by investigating the moderating role of global cohesion and local cohesion in knowledge networks.

scholarly journals Local Cohesion in Chinese and English: An Approach to Clause Combining

1984 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Cumming
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Clause Combining ◽  
Chinese And English ◽  
Local Cohesion

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 465-471

Thermal Study of the Dry Sliding Contact With Third Body Presence

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Richard ◽  
Mathieu Renouf ◽  
Yves Berthier ◽  
Ivan Iordanoff
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Study ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sliding Contact ◽  
Dry Sliding ◽  
Third Body ◽  
Contact Conditions ◽  
Microscopic Scale ◽  
The Third ◽  
Local Cohesion

The objective of this paper is to highlight the influence of the rheology of a third body in dry sliding contact conditions. It has been shown that the local cohesion of the third body can create an asymmetric dissipative field through its thickness. The present study puts forward the consequences from a thermal point of view, overcoming the inherent experimental difficulties at this microscopic scale.

Using Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to describe the development of coherence in interpreting trainees

Interpreting ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gracie Peng
Keyword(s):  
Global Structure ◽  
Structure Theory ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Functional Units ◽  
Local Cohesion

Making global sense has long been seen as one of the most important criteria for judging the success of a given interpretation. For consecutive in particular, special emphasis is placed on the coherence and structure of the rendition. This study addresses the question of how to investigate coherence in interpreting and observe its development in trainees. We propose Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), as a framework for exploring how coherence is realised in interpretations produced by professional as well as trainee interpreters. A corpus of 66 consecutive interpretations, by eight novice and three professional interpreters, of three Chinese and three English speeches, was transcribed, segmented into functional units, and mapped into a tree-like RST description. The analyses and results reveal that novices tend to focus on local cohesion while professionals tend to emphasise the global structure of the discourse. This difference can usefully be addressed in training.

scholarly journals Cohesion in the Narrative Writing of Young EFL Learners: Correct and Incorrect Use of Local Cohesive Ties

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-177
Author(s):  
Pedro Antonio Férez Mora ◽  
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Yvette Coyle ◽  
Juan Antonio Solís Becerra
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Old Spanish ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Local Cohesion

This study examines the correct and incorrect use of local cohesive ties and local cohesion errors in the written narratives of eleven- to twelve-year-old Spanish learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at different proficiency levels. The study was carried out with pairs who collaboratively wrote a narrative text in response to a picture prompt. The young learners’ written texts were examined to identify their correct and incorrect use of four categories: lexical, referential, conjunctive and temporal cohesion. The results show that higher and lower proficiency learners are significantly different in their use of the causal conjunction because, personal pronouns and noun phrases containing possessive, definite, indefinite and zero determiners. The two groups also differ in their incorrect use of pronouns, simple verb forms and noun phrases containing definite, indefinite and zero determiners. Attention is drawn to the need to explore the diversity in young learners’ use of cohesion and some pedagogical implications are drawn.

Devolution and Local Cohesion Policy: Bureaucratic Obstacles to Policy Integration in Italy

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
SERIDA L. CATALANO ◽  
PAOLO R. GRAZIANO ◽  
MATTEO BASSOLI
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Contextual Variables ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Local Cohesion ◽  
Implementation Stage

AbstractThis article analyses and compares the multi-dimensional co-ordination of employment and social policies at the Italian local level, especially focusing on the policy implementation stage. It departs from developing a theoretical framework to take into account the crucial variables that might potentially impact on the co-ordination of social cohesion policies. In particular, following a neo-institutionalist approach, great emphasis is placed on the legacy of the Weberian bureaucratic model, and its implied ‘specialisation ethos’. In addition, the effect of other contextual variables, such us social capital and the rate of unemployment, are considered.The empirical analysis confirms the crucial impact of the specialisation ethos in preventing inter-policy co-ordination from occurring at the Italian local level, and the relevance of other contextual variables in causing policy integration within services, rather than between services.

Community Engagement as a Strategy to Facilitate the Immigrant-Local Cohesion

2021 ◽  
pp. 261-274
Author(s):  
Tshimangadzo Selina Mudau
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Mitigating Factors ◽  
Local Cohesion

The hostility directed towards immigrants has been studied and reported through various forms of media and literature. Similarly, mitigating factors have been explored to establish and restore peace and immigrant-local cohesion. The chapter explored different community engagement strategies implemented to enhance immigrant-local cohesion. The chapter is anchored on Ubuntu philosophy. The philosophy has been integrated with the evolution of immigration and different policies and guidelines to promote and protect immigrants' lives globally. Data have been analyzed through critical discourse analysis. Critical discourse analyses assisted in deconstructing hegemonic social practices such as social practices, language, texts, and constructs as social-cohesion facilitators. Conclusions are that social constructs can create and perpetuate acceptance, integration, and formation of networks to enhance positive relationships between migrants and locals.

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