scholarly journals Amelioration vs Perversion

2020 ◽  
pp. 260-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Marques
Keyword(s):  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Road

Words change meaning, usually in unpredictable ways. But some words’ meanings are revised intentionally. Revisionary projects are normally put forward in the service of some purpose—some serve specific goals of inquiry, and others serve ethical, political or social aims. Revisionist projects can ameliorate meanings, but they can also pervert. This chapter draws attention to the dangers of meaning perversions, and argues that the self-declared goodness of a revisionist project doesn’t suffice to avoid meaning perversions. The road to Hell, or to horrors on Earth, is paved with good intentions. Finally, and more importantly, it tries to demarcate what meaning perversions are, in the hope that it will help us assess the moral and political legitimacy of revisionary projects.

The Slabbing Mechanics Analysis of the Tunnel Lining

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 3530-3537
Author(s):  
Zu Song Wu ◽  
Guang Qi Chen ◽  
Kou Ki Zen ◽  
Xin Rong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Tunnel Lining ◽  
The Self ◽  
Road Tunnel ◽  
The Road ◽  
Mechanics Analysis ◽  
The Stability

When the road tunnel is excavated, the multi lining is used to being applied. In order to keep the surrounding rock stabilize and arouse the self-stability of the surrounding rock, building the first support is essential. But the slabbing often occurs near the spring line on the surface of the first lining, and because the slabbling is a common failing and not attracted our most attentions, it will develop to the crack and threaten the stability of the structure finally. This paper uses the line elastic method to analyze the mechanics that causes this slabbing phenomenon via the interaction between the surrounding rock and the first lining, and suggests the measure that escape the slabbing.

Reconstructing Accounting Research: Beyond Theory without Data and Data without Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shizuki Saito
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spontaneous Order ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
The Road ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Accounting Rules

Abstract Although we have been incessantly trying to construct accounting studies as a proper academic subject over half a century, neither what we have attained is great nor the road ahead easy. Nonetheless we have no choice but to pursue the way of positive (not necessarily empirical) scientific research with productive feedback between theoretical and empirical analyses, going beyond theory without data and data without theory. It is crucially important to grasp rationally the self-development of accounting rules as a spontaneous order without any preconceived rigid understanding of rationality, and accordingly we must first build a consistent conceptual framework in consonance with accounting norms and phenomena as the vital analytical tool for the development of accounting research based on solid foundation.

scholarly journals The Road to Genocide: The Propaganda Machine of the Self-declared Islamic State (is)

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elewa Badar
Keyword(s):  
Third Reich ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mass Action ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
International Courts ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich

In the same manner as the Third Reich, Islamic State (is) uses law, terror and propaganda as ‘techniques of governance’ that serve to advance their political aims: securing themselves in power, preparing and waging war, and fostering the idea of an Islamic state. is have successfully used print and radio media systematically for the dissemination of lethal ideas and for the mobilization of the population on a grand scale in order to materialise these ideas. When such propaganda is laced with the dolus specialis of the crime of genocide, the severity of the mass action it brings about can be disastrous. This article analyses the hate propaganda used in the online publications of is. Evidence will then bring to light the fact that their hate propaganda amounts to direct and public incitement of others to commit genocide and the propagandists could, thus, be prosecuted for this crime at national or international courts.

scholarly journals Automatic Generation of Multidestination Routes for Autonomous Wheelchairs

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1121-1136
Author(s):  
Yusuke Mori ◽  
◽  
Katashi Nagao
Keyword(s):  
Texture Analysis ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Surfaces ◽  
Surface Image ◽  
Route Information ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Route Search

To solve the problem of autonomously navigating multiple destinations, which is one of the tasks in the Tsukuba Challenge 2019, this paper proposes a method for automatically generating the optimal travel route based on costs associated with routes. In the proposed method, the route information is generated by playing back the acquired driving data to perform self-localization, and the self-localization log is stored. In addition, the image group of road surfaces is acquired from the driving data. The costs of routes are generated based on texture analysis of the road surface image group and analysis of the self-localization log. The cost-added route information is generated by combining the costs calculated by the two methods, and by assigning the combined costs to the route. The minimum-cost multidestination route is generated by conducting a route search using cost-added route information. Then, we evaluated the proposed method by comparing it with the method of generating the route using only the distance cost. The results confirmed that the proposed method generates travel routes that account for safety when the autonomous wheelchair is being driven.

The Significance of Time, Being and Transcendence on the Road to the Heideggerian Authentic Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Volkan Çifteci ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road

This paper attempts to reveal the meaning of Heideggerian self on the basis of time. In the course of this, it examines Heidegger’s following terms: time, the self, the world and Being. In the present paper, the notions of anxiety, death, the call, freedom, transcendence, resolution and temporality (time) constitute a frame for articulating the meaning of the authenticity of Dasein. The road to the authentic self is challenging since it is not something already given; rather, the self is something to be accomplished. Dasein must accomplish it by making life its own. To achieve this, the elaboration of the meaning of “the Being of beings” in the exploration of Dasein must be the first step. For it is Dasein who can give an answer to the question of the meaning of “Being”.

Navigating The CrossRoads Of Development In Children And Adolescents( A Preprint )

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Marie Warrick
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Road ◽  
Developmental Factors ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Destructive Methods ◽  
Made In

This manuscript is a compilation book of log notes based on collected research applied to theory that sequesters on the projective who, what, where, when, why and how that is determinate of the outcomes with the developmental factors for the youth of today. This query of relativity poses for contemplation as to what direction taken will qualify the identification of the self for our youth with the choices made in childhood through adolescence that steers the course to the Route objective for a symbiotic communication that channels the personification of the conscience for the youth mind. This is achieved whether the road toward self-actualization be guided by constructive or destructive methods of assimilation into a community of attachment and security that equates with belonging for youth.

Outwork

2019 ◽  
pp. 155-190
Author(s):  
Eileen Boris
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
The Self ◽  
International Union ◽  
The Road ◽  
Important Group ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Home Work ◽  
Transnational Network ◽  
The Way

This chapter charts the road to the Home Work Convention, 1996 (No. 177), whose passage paved the way for “excluded” workers to press for rights and recognition at the ILO. Changes in the global economy led international union federations and ILO sectorial meetings to support a convention. Efforts of the Programme on Rural Women also proved crucial. The Self Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA) led by Ela Bhatt became the most important group organizing home-based workers and documenting their lives. It lobbied for international redress as a strategy to enact and enforce national measures. However, the campaign by an emerging transnational network of women in HomeNet International required amplification by the labor federations. Research alone was insufficient to gain the attention of the Governing Body or win at the International Labour Conference, though lack of statistics served as an excuse for inaction. Support by the Workers’ group proved necessary, galvanized by Dan Gallin of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF). Conflicts over who was an employee and rejection by the entire Employer’s group revealed cracks in the ILO’s structure.

Improving the Self-Explaining Performance of Czech National Roads

2017 ◽  
Vol 2635 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Ambros ◽  
Veronika Valentová ◽  
Ondřej Gogolín ◽  
Richard Andrášik ◽  
Jan Kubeček ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
The Self ◽  
Crash Frequency ◽  
The Road ◽  
Horizontal Curves ◽  
Floating Car Data ◽  
Control Devices ◽  
National Road

Improving the road network according to the principles of self-explaining roads is a promising way to increase the level of safety; however, there are no universal guidelines on how to measure and improve the self-explaining performance of existing roads. To apply this approach on Czech national roads, the present study was conducted, consisting of five steps: ( a) automated segmentation into tangents and horizontal curves; ( b) collection of floating car data and calculation of speed; ( c) development of multivariate speed models for estimation of speed, including on segments not covered by floating car data; ( d) networkwide application of the models and evaluation of speed consistency, such as differences in speeds on tangents and following curves; and ( e) identification of substandard curves, and categorization and proposal of optimization for consistent placement of traffic control devices or reconstructions. The paper describes all the steps as well as several checks conducted along the way, such as comparison of profile speed and floating car speed, interpretation of regression models, and validation of predicted speed consistency against long-term average crash frequency. The methodology has been certified for use in practice and will be applied by the Czech national road agency.

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