Musical Algorithms as Tools, Languages, and Partners

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex McLean ◽  
Roger T. Dean
Keyword(s):  
Research And Practice ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Algorithmic Music ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Modern Era

This is an introductory chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music, and the practical, historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives that it covers. This chapter outlines the structure and scope of the book, provides some background and motivation for its focus, covers points of terminology, and summarizes the development of the field in the modern era. It then signposts the following chapters and relates them to one another in terms of some of the key issues that are covered. As algorithmic music is a fast-developing field, the chapter then outlines contemporary directions in order to look forward to the next steps in both research and practice. The chapter concludes with further signposting, this time to literature which may be read in partnership with the present volume.

Introduction

Tap ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anindya Ghose
Keyword(s):  
Smart Phones ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
Present Volume

This introductory chapter begins with an explanation of the motivation behind the present volume. The author goes back to sometime in late 2009 or early 2010, when he first heard the phrase “we live in an era of smart phones and stupid people.” He recalls being both very amused and intellectually intrigued by this statement, not so much about what smartphones would eventually do to human intelligence, but more by how it could become an exceptional source of intelligence for businesses. The chapter then sets out the book's purpose, which is to demystify the mobile economy and take the uncertainty out of the process of harnessing the power of mobile data and delivering value to consumers. It concludes with an overview of the three parts of the book.

Reflections on Knowledge Management Research and Practice

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Murray E. Jennex
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues

This is the third volume in the Advances in Knowledge Management and I thought it appropriate to start this volume with some reflection on where KM is at and where it is going. This chapter reflects on two key issues—the need to ensure KM is relevant and the risk of KM becoming a fad. The chapter concludes with reflection on the future of KM.

scholarly journals Quantifying government media relations in Queensland

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Leslie Pearson ◽  
Hamish McLean
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Real Cost ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Administrative Review ◽  
Modern Era

This article draws upon historical and contemporary data to attempt to identify key issues in government media relations and to discuss the processes and challenges involved in attempting to quantify the expenditure on this activity in the state of Queensland in the modern era. A combination of investigative journalism and academic research methods have been used to position government media relations as a practice and to gauge expenditure, staffing, and cost to the taxpayer of government media relations in Queensland. The Electoral and Administrative Review Commission’s Report on review of government media and information services (EARC, 1993) was the first comprehensive measure of such costs and since then only some insights were offered by premiers Beattie and Bligh in 2006 and 2008 in response to parliamentary questions on notice. This article reviews these costs, canvasses expert estimates of the real cost of government media relations, and debates some of the competing interests at stake.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Corsino
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
World War ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Personal Community ◽  
Group Characteristics

This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the emergence of the Italian Mafia in one particular setting. It examines a long-standing organizational component of the Chicago Outfit—namely, the Chicago Heights boys. It looks at the Chicago Heights operation from its beginning in the early 1900s to the heyday of Outfit activities in the post-World War II era. Along the way, the book attempts to unravel the mix of social and cultural discriminations against Italians in the early part of the last century, the consequential group characteristics that emerged within the local Italian population, and the appropriation of these characteristics as social capital resources in the collective pursuit of social mobility. The remainder of the chapter discusses the personal, community, and public contexts of the present volume, followed by an overview of the subsequent chapters.

scholarly journals The landscape of European science communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. A01
Author(s):  
Sarah Rachael Davies ◽  
Suzanne Franks ◽  
Joseph Roche ◽  
Ana Lucia Schmidt ◽  
Rebecca Wells ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
European Science ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Project Quest ◽  
And Training ◽  
Empirical Material

European science communication project QUEST surveyed and reviewed different aspects of European science communication, including science journalism, teaching and training in science communication, social media activity, and science in museums. This article draws together themes that collectively emerge from this research to present an overview of key issues in science communication across Europe. We discuss four central dynamics — fragmentation within research and practice; a landscape in transition; the importance of format and context; and the dominance of critical and dialogic approaches as best practice — and illustrate these with empirical material from across our datasets. In closing we reflect upon the implications of this summary of European science communication.

scholarly journals Modern Era of the Theory and Practice of Learning Activity: Key Issues and Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
B.D. Elkonin
Keyword(s):  
Joint Action ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
General Method

The paper describes the main stages and transitions in the unfolding of the Learning Activity which is reviewed within the framework of D.B. Elkonin and V.V. Davydov’s concepts about the meaning and content of education. The unfolding of teaching/learning is explained through the emergence of a joint action of teacher and students, that is, the Mediative Action. The concept of the Learning Task as a basis for constructing the general method of action, central to the system of D.B. Elkonin and V.V. Davydov, is also considered as a source of learning motivation. The learning task is seen as the distinct opposition between the search for the method of acting (possible scaffolds of acting) and the very achievement of the result, i.e. the opposition between the consideration (of situation) and the immediate achievement (of result), and, therefore, the opposition between the intriguing (interesting) and the required. The paper also focuses on the evolution of modeling as the evolution of sign mediation in the student’s activity. As the student progresses from understanding and configuring the model to using it as a means of acting, the model evolves. Having gained the function of the means, the model becomes a resource of possible action, and that is how the experience of acting appears before the student him/herself. The unfolding of the learning task and modeling is conceptualized as the correlation between functional genesis and ontogenesis.

scholarly journals Integration of Next Generation IIoT with Blockchain for the Development of Smart Industries

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Aamir Iqbal ◽  
Mohammad Amir ◽  
Vinod Kumar ◽  
Aftab Alam ◽  
Mohammad Umair
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Modern Era

In modern era, a wide range of smart industries is being focus on automation-based applications. Various technologies are rapidly implementing in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for manufacturing sectors that helping to achieve advanced schedule production framework and on time delivery of products. The integration of IIoT platforms with the blockchain are challenging service in manufacturing system. The primary objective of this article is to characterize various issues and challenges that are implementing IIoT and blockchain in industries. The proposed work is an integration of IIoT and blockchain in industrial processes for solving the security issues in real-time. Also, identifying various enablers of blockchain and issues of IIoT from smart industries manufacturing using a survey tool is formed in the form of questionnaire. Based on these responses Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) technique has been implemented for categorizing these challenges into cause and effect. In this paper, we introduce the general layout with their key issues and challenges of IIoT and blockchain that signifies the safety requirements to design the IIoT and blockchain. Further, we describe how IIoT can be integrated to the blockchain for smart Industrial applications. Finally, various recommendations are the proposed to upcoming IIoT and blockchain developments. The proposed work will be highly beneficial for the smart industries to develop a next generation IIoT and blockchain based framework.

Introduction: Slavery, Social Revolutions and Enduring Memories

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Lane ◽  
Kevin C. Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Approach ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Slavery played an important role in the economies of most historically documented African states of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This introductory chapter considers the regionality and relative antiquity of various forms of enslavement on the African continent, as well as a range of emergent archaeological studies on the subject. Further, the lingering impacts of slave economies and the memories of enslavement are critically assessed, including consideration of recent efforts to document and ‘memorialise’ both the tangible and intangible heritage of slavery on the continent. The contributions to the present volume are situated within these issues with the aim of drawing out commonalities between chapters and emphasising the value of an inter-regional comparative approach.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Beatrix Busse
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Presentation Modes ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century

In her introductory chapter, the author specifies the aims of the study and its theoretical background. Basing her approach on Leech and Short’s (1981) and Semino and Short’s (2004) categories of discourse presentation, she further develops their model to suit 19th-century fiction and to enable corpus annotation for quantitative next to qualitative investigation, in order to allow for systematically investigating the previously impressionistic observations about discourse presentation modes in historical English on a sound empirical basis. She further outlines how her corpus-stylistic approach will be enriched by contextualization to address the portrayal of subjectivity as well as diachronic pragmatic differences between 19th- and 20th-century narrative fiction. Defining the key issues in her approach of New Historical Stylistics, the study is to provide new insights into the nature of 19th-century narrative fiction that are useful for corpus stylistics, text-linguistics, historical linguistics and pragmatics, as well as narratology and literary criticism.

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