Practicing Transdisciplinary Engineering in a Global Development Context: The Transferring, Translating and Transforming Approaches

2017 ◽  
Vol 02 (04) ◽  
pp. 1750017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bang Mathiasen ◽  
Rasmus Munksgaard Mathiasen
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Far East ◽  
Parent Company ◽  
Global Development ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Development Context ◽  
The One ◽  
Theoretical Conceptualization

The paper addresses the consequences of using a one-size-fits-all approach when practicing transdisciplinary engineering (TE) in a global development context and suggests a method to cope with these consequences. The theoretical conceptualization is a practice-based understanding of development activities, which entails knowledge being embodied and contextually embedded. Two cases, each addressing three TE projects, are studied. Each of the six TE projects embraces a parent company located in Denmark and one of two facilities abroad, located in the Far East and Eastern Europe, respectively. Two projects are conducted successfully. Significant drawbacks and thus costly iterations are necessary in three projects; the companies do not understand the consequences of a higher level of perceived newness and interdependence than anticipated from the outset. Similarly, the last project is terminated after some costly iterations. The analysis reveals a lack of TE competences to handle increasing newness/interdependence projects; practitioners’ understanding habitually draws on existing solutions; because the nature of the handed-over knowledge differs, the one-size-fits-all approach to gain a convergent understanding is inappropriate. Three approaches to obtaining a convergent understanding are suggested: (1) transferring, (2) translating and (3) transforming.

Marine investigations in the Lakshadweep Islands, India

Antiquity ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (282) ◽  
pp. 827-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sila Tripati
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
The One ◽  
Lakshadweep Islands

The Lakshadweep Islands lie on the sea route between west Asia and Africa on the one hand and south Asia and the Far East on the other. In maritime history, these islands have played a vital role by providing shelter, fresh water and landmarks to navigators through the ages. Recent discoveries made during marine archaeological exploration and excavations in the Lakshadweep have revealed evidences of early settlement and shipwrecks. The findings suggest that the islands had been inhabited much before the early historical period.

Why Not Islam?

1975 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Zaehner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Rigid Structure ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World

As everyone knows, since the end of the Second World War there has been a sensational revival of interest in the non-Christian religions particularly in the United States and in this country. The revival has taken two forms, the one popular, the other academic. The first of these has turned almost exclusively to Hindu and Buddhist mysticism and can be seen as an energetic reaction against the dogmatic and until very recently rigid structure of institutionalised Christianity and a search for a lived experience of the freedom of the spirit which is held to be the true content of mysticism, obscured in Christianity by the basic dogma of a transcendent God, the ‘wholly Other’ of Rudolf Otto and his numerous followers, but wholly untrammelled by any such concept in the higher reaches of Vedanta and Buddhism, particularly in its Zen manifestation. On the academic side the picture is less clear. There is, of course, the claim that the study of religion, like any other academic study, must be subjected to and controlled by the same principles of ‘scientific’ objectivity to which the other ‘arts’ subjects have been subjected, to their own undoing. But even here there would seem to be a bias in favour of the religions of India and the Far East as against Islam, largely, one supposes, in response to popular demand.

scholarly journals The position of women in the Far East villages in the period of «late» socialism

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-295
Author(s):  
Andrey Aleksandrovich Grinko
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Far East ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Late Socialism ◽  
The One ◽  
Working And Living Conditions

The paper analyzes the transformation of the female rural population position of the Far East in the USSR in 1970 - the first half of 1980 under the influence of a set of factors. The peculiarities of the geographical location of the region, its level of development, acceleration of life processes in rural areas, rapid dissemination of information and other factors had a significant impact on rural women. This influence was controversial and ambiguous. On the one hand, the role of a woman in the family changed, her activity as an employee increased, her well-being, cultural and educational level increased. On the other hand, becoming more independent, the woman aspired to better working and living conditions, career growth, free time increase, but in rural areas it was difficult. Despite the special attention of the state to the Far East and the activities aimed at the development of rural areas, life in the villages did not meet the urban views of local residents. The result of this transformation was a focus on childlessness for a large part of young people and moving to urban areas. Against the background of the village it was perceived as an incomparably better place of residence.

Toward a Corporeal Orientalism: Foregrounding Arabian Erotic Figures in Algernon Swinburne and Aubrey Beardsley

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-64
Author(s):  
Eleonora Sasso
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Sexual Freedom ◽  
Arabian Nights ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
The One ◽  
The Hill

Chapter 2 investigates the corporeal Orientalism envisioned by Swinburne and Beardsley, two Pre-Raphaelite sympathisers who envisioned the East as a sexual dimension inhabited by Oriental female figures such as Scheherazade, Dunyazad, Salome and Bersabe – namely, hur al-ayn – evoking the sensual and pornographic content of the Arabian Nights. Both Swinburne and Beardsley exalted Sir Richard F. Burton and his uncensored translation of the Arabian Nights, which aimed to reveal the erotic customs of the Muslims. On the one hand, Swinburne’s cognitive grammar reveals the use of binary world-builders (West and East) attesting to the superiority of the East, as exemplified by his poems dedicated to Burton and The Masque of Queen Bersabe. On the other hand, Beardsley’s conceptual metaphor East is sexual freedom is projected on to his grotesque pen-and-ink illustrations of Salome and Ali Baba and on to his Oriental poems (‘The Ballad of a Barber’ (1896) and Under the Hill) by blending together the sacred and the profane, the Middle East and the Far East. His radical mode of repatterning old Oriental schemas into new ones is aimed at desacralising the Orient and, in a way, at (de)Orientalising Western and Eastern schemas.

FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY: (NOT) TYPICAL CASE OF MODERN RUSSIAN REGIONAL POLICY

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3/1) ◽  
pp. 82-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. PESTSOV ◽  
A. B. VOLYNCHUK
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Far East ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Basic Approaches ◽  
The One ◽  
Modern Russian

The main subject of the research in this article is the development  policy of the Far East as one of the aspects (components) of the  strategy of pivot to the East, declared and implemented by the  country's leadership from the beginning of the 2000s. The case of  Russian policy related to the development of the Far East has a  scientific and practical interest in two respects. On the one hand, as  a means of ensuring success in Russia's general pass to Asia, on the other, as an example, allowing judging the content, basic  approaches and principles of modern Russian regional policy as a  whole. The main features and peculiarities of this policy are  considered by the authors in the context of the discussion about the so-called new paradigm of regional policy that is unfolding in  recent years. The article analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of  the new regional policy, and evaluates its effectiveness. 

scholarly journals Mental and nervous diseases in the Far East

2020 ◽  
Vol IX (4) ◽  
pp. 172-229
Author(s):  
E. V. Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Hereditary Predisposition ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The One

In the ethology of mental and nervous diseases in the Amur Territory, which from ancient times acquired the notorious reputation of the area with an extremely large number of suicides, alcoholics, demented and feeble-minded, as everywhere, in addition to organic diseases in general, have an outstanding condition on the one hand hereditary predisposition other.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF POWER ENGINEERING AND ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY IN THE FAR EAST OF THE USSR (1950S – MID-1970S)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 218-224
Author(s):  
Aleksey V. Maklyukov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Power Engineering ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Management Reform ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Electrical Industry ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The One ◽  
Far Eastern

The article examines the historical aspects of the formation of enterprises of power engineering and electrical indus-try in the Far East in the 1950s – mid 1970s. It was revealed that the limited management reform, the reluctance of the center to co-ordinate decisions with the region, the one-sidedness of the development of industries, did not bring the expected results. The Far Eastern region poorly provided itself with electrical products, which in many types were delivered from other regions of the USSR.

scholarly journals «Firm Prices» for Sugar in Eastern Russia During the First World War and Civil War

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Sinichenko ◽  
◽  
Galina Tokarevа ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
First World War ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The One ◽  
First World ◽  
Eastern Russia

The article states that in the conditions of war, first the royal government, then the provisional government, moved to impose fixed food prices. The introduction of «firm prices» for food products has caused shortages. The shortage of goods led on the one hand to hyperinflation and depreciation of money, on the other hand to the growth of smuggling operations and saturation of the Far East market with smuggled food from abroad.

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