scholarly journals Towards a Noncompliant Pedagogy of the Image: Reading Negentropic Bifurcatory Potentials in Video Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Masayuki Iwase ◽  
Joff P. N. Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Video Images ◽  
Video Abstract

Abstract The authors explore the noncompliant pedagogy of the image based on their video Autopoietic Veering: Schizo Socius of Tokyo and Vancouver (2021). It is not the kind of trendy modelized video abstract or kinetic presentation eagerly promoted by international publishers; it is a cross-cultural collaborative work intended to generate affirmative temporal ruptures of entropic habitual modes of seeing, memorizing, and thinking of human and nonhuman life in the cities of Tokyo (Japan) and Vancouver (Canada). The authors elucidate Stiegler’s (2015b) concept of a “global mnemotechnical system” that stores and produces human memories in vast digital archives and databases (tertiary retentions) through “mnemonic control” (Parisi & Goodman, 2011). The authors repurpose video images to interrupt and recontrol human perception and memories as “living engines” (Lazzarato, 2006). They foreground the philosophical work of Deleuze, Heidegger, and Virilio to rethink and revive the creative act of “critique” (Foucault, 1997) through “metamodelization” (Guattari, 1995; Manning, 2020); therefore, they plug these apparently incommensurable modes of thinking into their readings of the video’s images. They read the images as “time-images” and focus on their five dimensions that possibly activate “spiritual automation” (Deleuze, 1989), which they assess as “negentropic bifurcatory” potentials (Bradley & Kennedy, 2019).

Three-Dimensional Modelling for Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
pp. 418-443
Author(s):  
Luis Marques ◽  
Josep Roca
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
3D Modeling ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
3D Models ◽  
3D Modelling ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
The City ◽  
Model Visualization

The creation of 3D models of urban elements is extremely relevant for urbanists constituting digital archives and being especially useful for enriching maps and databases or reconstructing and analyzing objects/areas through time, building/recreating scenarios and implementing intuitive methods of interaction. The widespread data available online offer new opportunities to generate realistic 3D models without the need to go physically to the place. This chapter aims to demonstrate the potential 3D modeling and visualization/interaction of urban elements in the city for multiple purposes, and it is organized in four main topics: The first deals with the theoretical framework regarding the bases of the human perception of the spatial environment and the importance of 3D modelling. The second and third deal with technical procedures on terrestrial/aerial data acquisition and demonstrate alternatively data gathered online to generate 3D models for the visualization of urban elements of the city, and the fourth introduces 3D model visualization within an augmented reality environment.

scholarly journals The embodied and the cultural in the conceptualization of pitch space in Croatian

Jezikoslovlje ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Sanja Kiš Žuvela ◽  
Ana Ostroški Anić
Keyword(s):  
Human Perception ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Space Thickness ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Musical Pitch ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Linguistic Influences ◽  
Pitch Space

Most conceptual metaphors that conceptualize musical pitch rely heavily on human perception, images and experience structured through spatial and orientation image schemas such as the schema of verticality. The paper analyses conceptual metaphors that structure pitch relations in terms of vertical space, thickness and size as they appear in the Croatian musical terminology. The image schemas of verticality and size are analysed within the conceptual metaphors pitch relations are relations in vertical space and pitch relations are relations in size in order to define to what extent their motivation is embodied and universal, and what can be attributed to cross-cultural and cross-linguistic influences present in the creation and understanding of music terminology in Croatia.

Assessment of Zooplankton Injury and Mortality Associated With Underwater Turbines for Tidal Energy Production

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Schlezinger ◽  
Craig D. Taylor ◽  
Brian L. Howes
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Tidal Energy ◽  
Energy Potential ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Tidal Turbines ◽  
Video Images ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Tidal Turbine

AbstractCollaborative work between the UMASS-Marine Renewable Energy Center, the Town of Edgartown, and the Coastal Systems Program is focused on developing the tidal energy potential of Muskeget Channel. We have undertaken detailed oceanographic and environmental surveys to optimize in-stream turbine power generation and to quantify potential environmental effects. In 2011 and 2012, tidal turbine demonstration projects were conducted in Muskeget Channel to determine the combined effects of blade strikes, shear stress, turbulence, and cavitation on zooplankton. Single turbines may minimally impact zooplankton populations; however, full-scale projects may potentially alter zooplankton populations forming the base of coastal food webs. Static plankton tows were performed up- and downstream of the operating turbine axis. Integral flow meters allowed adjustment of tow duration to optimize zooplankton density in the concentrate. Samples were held at in situ temperatures, and sequential photomicrographs and video images were taken to determine particle density, size distribution, and the number of live organisms in samples taken up and down gradient of the operating tidal turbines within 3 h of collection. Statistical analysis showed no significant difference in the total number or size distribution of motile zooplankters, indicating tidal turbine operation did not cause significant mortality and suggested that impacts of commercial size tidal energy projects upon zooplankton populations in Muskeget Channel may be negligible.

Aha! “take on Me’s”: bridging the North sea with relational autoethnography

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trude Klevan ◽  
Bengt Karlsson ◽  
Lydia Turner ◽  
Nigel Short ◽  
Alec Grant
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Relational Practice ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how sharing stories of being a mental health professional and academic, based more broadly on serendipity and searching in life, can serve as means for bridging and developing cross-cultural understandings and collaborative work. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a relational autoethnography based on face-to-face and written conversational dialogue between five mental health academics from the UK and Norway. Findings The very practice of writing this paper displays and serves the purpose of bridging people, cultures and understandings, at several levels, in the facilitation of new research and writing projects. Troubling traditional boundaries between “us” and “them, and the “knower” and the “known,” the writing is theoretically underpinned by Friendship as Method, situated in a New Materialist context. Originality/value Through its conversational descriptions and explorations the paper shows how doing relational autoethnography can be purposeful in developing cross-cultural understandings and work at both professional and personal levels. It also demonstrates how autoethnography as relational practice can be useful in the sharing of this methodology between people who are more and less familiar with it.

scholarly journals Teaching Translation: A House with Windows Facing Different Directions

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Wensheng Deng
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The One

Globalization accelerates the pace to communicate with other nations. Foreign language plays a big player in the process of communication. Among the language abilities, translation competence is becoming more and more remarkable in cross-cultural interaction. What’s more, the pushing forces, derived from the One Belt and One Road Initiative and Telling Good Chinese Stories and Spreading the Positive Voice of China, have urged us to train more translators. However, translation training and education at college can’t meet the needs satisfactorily, because there are some problems there. Faced with the issues of translators’ training, the thesis is going to rethink about teaching translation. It proposes to open five windows, five dimensions with diversified orientations for students to develop translating competence. They are windows of linguistic, cultural, literary, political or ideological, functionalist and digital. But, the five dimensions can only help students to form or acquire translation abilities, rather only if the teacher could offer them the abilities once for all. Further, the thesis suggests students to integrate the six aspects to develop their competence.

Using Activity Theory to Assess the Effectiveness of an Online Learning Community

2010 ◽  
pp. 249-268
Author(s):  
Theodor G. Wyeld ◽  
Ekaterina Prasolova-Forland
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Activity Theory ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Triangular Relationship

Remote, collaborative work practices are increasingly common in a globalised society. Simulating these environments in a pedagogical setting allows students to engage in cross-cultural exchanges encountered in the profession. However, identifying the pedagogical benefits of students collaborating remotely on a single project presents numerous challenges. Activity Theory (AT) provides a means for monitoring and making sense of their activities as individuals and as a collective. AT assists in researching the personal and social construction of students’ intersubjective cognitive representations of their own learning activities. Moreover, AT makes the socially constructed cultural scripts captured in their cross-cultural exchanges analysable. Students’ reflection on these scripts and their roles in them helps them better understand the heterogeneity of the cultures encountered. In this chapter Engestrom’s (1999) simple AT triangular relationship of activity, action and operation is used to analyze and provide insights into how students cooperate with each other across different cultures in a 3D collaborative virtual environment.

scholarly journals Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Evidence of Validity of the Questionnaire d’Engagement Paternel

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Nunes Bossardi ◽  
Carolina Duarte de Souza ◽  
Lauren Beltrão Gomes ◽  
Simone Dill Azeredo Bolze ◽  
Beatriz Schmidt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Cross Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Reliability Indices ◽  
Brazilian Version ◽  
Psychometric Analyses ◽  
Back Translation

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the internal structure and reliability indices of the Questionnaire d’Engagement Paternel (QEP). It describes the process of cross-cultural adaptation and results of the evaluation of the psychometric proprieties of the instrument. The sample consisted of 300 participants (150 mothers and 150 fathers), who formed two-parent families. The psychometric analyses involved procedures including back translation, factor analysis, and reliability analyses of the instrument. The Brazilian version of the QEP is presented, containing a total of 36 items, divided into five dimensions. Twenty items were excluded, according to statistical and theoretical criteria. The results demonstrated satisfactory evidence of validity of the scale. Considerations regarding limitations of the study and recommendations for use in future research were indicated.

Evidence of cross‐cultural invariance of the big five personality dimensions in work settings

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. S67-S76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús F. Salgado ◽  
Silvia Moscoso ◽  
Mario Lado
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Work Related

This article explores the cross‐cultural invariance (construct validity) of two work‐related personality inventories based upon the Five Factor Model (the HPI and the IP/5F). The results show a good convergent and discriminant validity between scales that measure the Big Five personality dimensions. A factor analysis indicates that all personality scales load on the hypothesized Big Five dimensions. Some implications of these findings for the research and practice of personality measurement in personnel selection are discussed. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals The 16PF5 and the NEO-PI-R in Spanish and Swiss Samples: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Aluja ◽  
Jérôme Rossier ◽  
Luis F. Garcia ◽  
Sabrina Verardi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Factor Solution ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
The Mean

Abstract. This study compared the Spanish (Castilian) and French versions of the 16PF5 and of the NEO-PI-R in Spanish and Swiss samples. The five-factor solution for the 16PF5 only seems clear for the Castilian version, but not for the French version. Indeed, the congruence coefficients for the Tough-Mindedness and the Self-Control dimensions are low. On the other hand, the five-factor solutions are highly similar for both countries concerning the NEO-PI-R, and the congruence coefficients are above .95 for all five dimensions. The low cross-cultural replicability for the 16PF5 makes it difficult to analyze the differences at the mean level for this inventory. For the NEO-PI-R, the differences are generally very small and globally account for 2.6% of the total variance. Spaniards seem to have slightly lower scores on Actions and slightly higher scores on Dutifulness. These differences could either be due to translation problems, sample selection, or cultural differences.

Using Activity Theory to Assess the Effectiveness of an Online Learning Community

2011 ◽  
pp. 629-646
Author(s):  
Theodor G. Wyeld ◽  
Ekaterina Prasolova-Forland
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Activity Theory ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Triangular Relationship

Remote, collaborative work practices are increasingly common in a globalised society. Simulating these environments in a pedagogical setting allows students to engage in cross-cultural exchanges encountered in the profession. However, identifying the pedagogical benefits of students collaborating remotely on a single project presents numerous challenges. Activity Theory (AT) provides a means for monitoring and making sense of their activities as individuals and as a collective. AT assists in researching the personal and social construction of students’ intersubjective cognitive representations of their own learning activities. Moreover, AT makes the socially constructed cultural scripts captured in their cross-cultural exchanges analysable. Students’ reflection on these scripts and their roles in them helps them better understand the heterogeneity of the cultures encountered. In this chapter Engestrom’s (1999) simple AT triangular relationship of activity, action and operation is used to analyze and provide insights into how students cooperate with each other across different cultures in a 3D collaborative virtual environment.

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