scholarly journals Autonomous Driving at Intersections: A Critical-Turning-Point Approach for Left Turns

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keqi Shu ◽  
Huilong Yu ◽  
Xingxin Chen ◽  
Long Chen ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Left Turns ◽  
Critical Turning Point

scholarly journals Recalling Victory, Recounting Greatness: Second World War Remembrance in Xi Jinping's China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Vincent K.L. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
World War ◽  
National Unity ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Second World ◽  
Critical Turning Point

Abstract The recent surge in public remembrance of the Second World War in China has been substantially undergirded by a centrally planned and systematically implemented discursive shift which has remained overlooked in the literature. This study examines the revised official narrative by drawing on three cases from China's school curriculum, museums and formal diplomacy. It finds that the once dominant trope of “national victimization” no longer represents the main thrust in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) rhetoric on the Second World War. Under Xi Jinping, this has been replaced by a self-assertive and aspirational narrative of “national victory” and “national greatness,” designed to enhance Beijing's legitimacy and advance its domestic and foreign policy objectives. By emphasizing national unity and CCP–KMT cooperation, the new narrative offers an inclusive and unifying interpretation of China's war effort in which the victory in 1945 has come to rival the 1949 revolution as the critical turning point towards “national rejuvenation.” The increasingly Sino-centric and centrally controlled narrative holds implicit warnings to those challenging Beijing's claim to greatness.

Social marketing at a critical turning point

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Beall ◽  
Jennifer Wayman ◽  
Heidi D'Agostino ◽  
Angie Liang ◽  
Cara Perellis
Keyword(s):  
Social Marketing ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Critical Turning Point

scholarly journals Hannah Arendt's Eichmann Controversy as Destabilizing Transatlantic Text

AJS Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Adam J. Sacks
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Pivot Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Judaic Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Turning Point

The controversy surrounding Hannah Arendt's reportage on the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and the subsequent book cannot be underestimated. For Arendt personally, the trial was the decisive event in the second half of her life and amounted to nothing less than a second exile. On the world stage, it marked not only a critical turning point in international consciousness of the Holocaust, but also both initiated and reflected a critical shift in intra-Jewish representations and expression. Arendt's book could in fact be considered as a master text for Judaic studies in the second half of the twentieth century. To mention two of many possible consequences, the controversy may be seen as a pivot point from which the culture of the public intellectuals of New York argued itself out of the spotlight, as well as a primary catalyst for two of the most significant works on the Holocaust penned by women: Lucy Davidowicz'sThe War against the Jews(1975) and Leni Yahil'sThe Holocaust(1987).

scholarly journals Blockchain Governance—A New Way of Organizing Collaborations?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrice Lumineau ◽  
Wenqian Wang ◽  
Oliver Schilke
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Relational Governance ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Critical Turning Point

The recent emergence of blockchains may be considered a critical turning point in organizing collaborations. We outline the historical background and the fundamental features of blockchains and present an analysis with a focus on their role as governance mechanisms. Specifically, we argue that blockchains offer a way to enforce agreements and achieve cooperation and coordination that is distinct from both traditional contractual and relational governance as well as from other information technology solutions. We also examine the scope of blockchains as efficient governance mechanisms and highlight the tacitness of the transaction as a key boundary condition. We then discuss how blockchain governance interacts with traditional governance mechanisms in both substitutive and complementary ways. We pay particular attention to blockchains’ social implications as well as their inherent challenges and limitations. Our analysis culminates in a research agenda that explores how blockchains may change the way to organize collaborations, including issues of what different types of blockchains may emerge, who is involved and impacted by blockchain governance, why actors may want blockchains, when and where blockchains can be more (versus less) effective, and how blockchains influence a number of important organizational outcomes.

Death by demography: 1979 as a turning point in the disintegration of the Soviet Union

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Duffy Toft
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Population Trends ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Critical Turning Point

The 1979 census conducted across the vast expanse of the Soviet Union revealed that the make-up of the country’s population had undergone enormous change. The census recorded low birth-rates among the Slavic population relative to their Central Asian compatriots, among other trends. The results were worrisome to Soviet planners in that they feared that these domestic population trends were going to undermine the country’s power. At the same time, Soviets faced the defeat of communist allies in Afghanistan at the hands of fighters beholden to religion, and an Islamic revolution in Iran. What these dynamics revealed was a complex interplay between domestic, regional and international politics. Interpreted through the lens of population dynamics, the convergence of these events revealed 1979 to be a critical turning point in the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

scholarly journals Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Patterson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The Third ◽  
Critical Turning Point

Understandably, the centenary of the Dublin Rising of Easter 1916, a critical turning point in modern Irish history, has generated literally shelves of new interpretations and commemorative volumes: some overtly celebratory; others more soberly reflective; yet others again offering quite fresh perspectives. Rory Sweetman’s Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 falls clearly into the third category, in many respects as a footnote to the mayhem, albeit an intriguing one. Focusing on an attempted rebel attack on the College on the first night of the Rising, and the defence that was mounted, the author strongly argues that what transpired has long been misinterpreted, when not completely ignored by Irish historians. In consequence, the efforts of a small group of primarily New Zealand soldiers have been consigned to the dustbin of history. He argues strongly that the contingent’s contribution was critical to saving the College from almost certain destruction in later fighting, thereby ensuring it survived to become the respected institution it remains.

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