Practice-Led Research and Scientific Knowledge

2006 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Grech
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Academic Language ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Rational Argument ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Discourses

Practice-led research can sometimes develop discourses that are not always consistent with the grammatical logics of academic language. However, practice-led research can reproduce and/or explain what happens when an individual encounters things and events in the world. This dynamic may thus open up innovative ways of codifying and authenticating knowledge gained from the performance of everyday life that might otherwise remain inexplicable (or seem irrelevant or disconnected within the existing structures and grammars of scientific discourse). Such practice-led research can lead to new forms of expression in order to understand the individual's subjective experience. Thus, while practice-led research may challenge (and sometimes upturn) established methods of logic and rational argument, it also enables a researcher to develop explanations of events and encounters in the world that may otherwise not be accessible to them. Creative work can also make the impact of scientific research available to those who may not have a thorough working knowledge of scientific and academic discourses in the relevant discipline. The paper discusses these issues while focusing on a creative project/website developed through practice-led research.

scholarly journals CONFLICT ZONES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Svetlana CEBOTARI ◽  
Carolina BUDURINA-GOREACII
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
African Continent ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
The World ◽  
Virus Emergence ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work Table

One of the problems that are present not only on the international arena, but also on the work table, in the laboratories of virologists, in the scientific discourse of polymologists, political scientists, economists and specialists in other fields refers to the problem of the impact of COVID-19 virus on conflict zones. Although in the first three months of 2020 all the attention of the international community was focused on the emergence of COVID-19 virus and its impact on citizens, society and interpersonal relationships, it is worth paying attention to the conflict zones present in the world. At the end of the virus emergence, the international community's attention to conflict zones seems to be redirected to the issue of COVID-19. The purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 virus on conflict zones that are present on the international arena, such as those on the African continent, the Middle East, the Latin American continent and Europe.

scholarly journals A qualitative study of old patients’ experiences of the quality of the health services in hospital and 30 days after hospitalization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingvild Lilleheie ◽  
Jonas Debesay ◽  
Asta Bye ◽  
Astrid Bergland
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Old Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: The number of people aged 80 years and above is projected to triple over the next 30 years. People in this age group normally have at least two chronic conditions. The impact of multimorbidity is often significantly greater than expected from the sum of the effects of each condition. The World Health Organization has indicated that healthcare systems must prepare for a change in the focus of clinical care for older people. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines healthcare quality as care that is effective, efficient, integrated, patient centered, equitable and safe. The degree to which healthcare quality can be defined as acceptable is determined by services’ ability to meet the needs of users and adapt to patients’ expectations and perceptions.Method: We took a phenomenological perspective to explore older patients’ subjective experiences and conducted semistructured individual interviews. Eighteen patients (aged from 82 to 100 years) were interviewed twice after discharge from hospital. The interview transcriptions were analyzed thematically.Results: The patients found their meetings with the health service to be complex and demanding. They reported attempting to restore a sense of security and meaning in everyday life, balancing their own needs against external requirements. Five overarching themes emerged from the interviews: hospital stay and the person behind the diagnosis, poor communication and coordination, life after discharge, relationship with their next of kin, and organizational and systemic determinants.Conclusion: According to the WHO, to deliver quality healthcare, services must include all six of the dimensions listed above. Our findings show that they do not. Healthcare focused on measurable values and biomedical inquiries. Few opportunities for participation, scant information and suboptimal care coordination left the patients with a feeling of being in limbo, where they struggled to find balance in their everyday life. Further work must be done to ensure that integrated services are provided without a financial burden, centered on the needs and rights of older people.

scholarly journals When all doors close: Implications of COVID-19 for cosmopolitan entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 711-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niina Nummela ◽  
Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki ◽  
Riikka Harikkala-Laihinen ◽  
Johanna Raitis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Core Values ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic is an external shock that has disrupted the foundations of everyday life. For cosmopolitan entrepreneurs, the impact is even more decisive as it confronts their core values and jeopardises their identities, ways of working and the lifestyles they cherish. Cosmopolitans are individuals who identify themselves as citizens of the world and voluntarily move from country to country in pursuit of self-fulfilment in both life and work. Cosmopolitan entrepreneurs are future-oriented and open to the world and the opportunities it may provide. Beyond securing, maintaining and improving their professional and/or economic positions, their mobility is an elementary part of the cosmopolitan life itself, something they find attractive, interesting and stimulating. Thus, a cosmopolitan entrepreneur’s business is often non-location-bound to enable continued mobility. With our interview-based research, we shed light on how COVID-19 has changed the lives of Finnish-born cosmopolitan entrepreneurs, discussing what they feel about the changes and how they see their future.

scholarly journals The influence of fraction size on the chemical composition of winter wheat flour

2010 ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Tarján ◽  
Ágnes P. Barancsi ◽  
Zoltán Mezei
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Wheat Flour ◽  
Particle Sizes ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Fraction Size ◽  
Pattern Production ◽  
The Impact

Wheat is one of the most important cereals in the world and the bread made of its flour belongs to the everyday life of human  mankind.The Hungarian standard relating to the laboratory production of wheat flour (MSZ 6367/9-1989) does not mention the type of laboratory mill used for milling, and it only builds up some general criteria, such as: the laboratory mill should be provided  with four differently nicked barrels, a sieve with appropriate hole sizes, and also with the separated collections of the pilot flour and the bran. Our study was started at this point and the answers for the following questions were aimed to be found: do the flour patterns studied and produced with different sieving techniques, widely used in laboratory mills of the same wheat pattern show any alterations after the impact of the formula production as regards chemical constitutions. Various flours of the wheat pattern sieved with different particle sizes were studied in this experiment. In producing this pattern we used FQC109 type of mill. There were 5 different corn sizes of 250-200; 200-160; 160-125; 125-100; <100 μms used in the partition of the fractions. The results this research confirm that the quality of wheat flour can be modified by different methods of pattern production.

scholarly journals The Impact of Hajj on the Society of Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-128
Author(s):  
Md Thowhidul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Gender Interaction ◽  
Cultural Impacts ◽  
The World ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Impact

Millions of Muslims from around the world including Bangladesh pour perform Hajj every year. Being the largest gathering of the Muslims, the Hajj has got immense socio-economic and cultural impacts on every Muslim society as well as Bangladesh. Hajj develops a unique symbol of unity, equality, universality, co-existence, brotherhood, indiscrimination, peace and tolerance, through performing common rituals, among the individuals, societies and nations belonging to different races, castes, ethnicities, colors, and languages, which create differences in everyday life of human beings. Bangladeshi Hajjis’ views towards women are more positive as gender interaction is a natural part of Hajj, while it is uncommon in the country. The positive teachings of Hajj particularly of pure Aqidah, produced several revolutionary movements in Bengal such as the Faraidi movement of Hajji Shariatullah with the aim of purifying Muslim society from superstitious Aqidah and practices. Hajj works as a social platform of getting together for Bangladeshi people at Makkah and Madinah. Hajj has developed the private tour operating industries in Bangladesh to facilitate the Hajjis. Transaction of billions of dollars takes place commercially during Hajj, while many commodities are exchanged informally. The Hajjis enjoy a very special dignity and status in the society of Bangladesh. Hajj creates an inter-cultural amalgamation combining various elements of different cultures particularly of Arabian. Hajj increases knowledge of the Hajjis both experimental and theoretical through various means. Bangladeshi Hajjis consider Hajj as the preparation for death; and thus try to remain isolated from the worldly activities and observe the religious duties strictly. This transformative property enables the Hajjis to pursue a more purified life and they become a model of spirituality and religiosity. Hajj not only moulds the Hajjis into sincere and practicing Muslims, but also the society at large with their honesty and piety. Thus, Hajj brings immense impacts on the society, economy, education, religiosity and culture of Bangladesh. This chapter is aimed at analyzing the socio-economic and religio-cultural impacts of Hajj on the society of Bangladesh. It also included the perspectives of the society with a view to better understanding the influence of Hajj on the Hajjis, non-Hajjis and the society at large.

scholarly journals The Violence Against Women During the COVID-19 Pandemics

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-291
Author(s):  
Diana Stoica
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Area Of Study

One of the biggest crises of the modern world – the COVID-19 pandemic – brought with itself new measures to be implemented all around the world. The lockdowns imposed to prevent the spread of the virus affected terribly numerous aspects of everyday life but mainly created a hidden pandemic indoors. The purpose of this paper is to underline the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in what concerns the violence against women (VAW). Although it might seem early for estimating the damages produced in this area of study, there can be envisaged many statistics, a lot of system weaknesses, and possible solutions to help the victims. This article aims to resume the whole chaos installed on the Globe behind the closed doors, in the family - the most intimate place, where the joy and the love should dominate.

The Early Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis (1895–1913)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Don W. King
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Early Life ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Aesthetic Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

In the opening pages of C. S. Lewis's autobiography, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, he relates a story that explains the genesis of what he calls Sehnsucht. In brief, his brother Warren had constructed a toy garden in the lid of a biscuit tin that called to mind beauty and led him to experience joy. While the impact of this story has long been recognized as marking the central theme in the life and works of C. S. Lewis, what has not been noticed until now is how significant this incident is to the life and works of Warren Lewis (1895–1973). That is, in the making of that toy garden we see the defining mark of Warren's life: an approach that was tactile, practical, and utilitarian. While for Warren's younger brother the toy garden awakened a powerful, nurturing aesthetic sense, for Warren the episode illustrates that he was given to working with things, with objects in the world before him, and with the matters of everyday life. This essay explores Warren early life up until he entered Sandhurst in 1914, with a special focus upon his public school experiences at Wynyard School and Malvern College.

"The transfomation of the novel Crime and punishment in the V. Pietzuch’s remake The new Moskow philosophy (axiologisation of Russian classics) "

Lyuboslovie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 151-163
Author(s):  
Dehka Chavdarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The World ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

The idea of literariness of Russian culture, of the impact of literature on Russian life, is an axiom of Russian cultural consciousness, which however doesn’t cease to draw the attention of researchers. Russian literature itself, from the 19th century on to this day, manifests this idea, altering the semantics of the life-literature relationship. In Pietzuch’s story the attention is drawn to the metatextual commentary about the role and value of Russian classics (and literature in general), and about the literariness of Russian consciousness – a commentary close to scientific discourse. The writer conceptualises literature as an invariant embodying the spiritual experience of humanity, and reality as an imitation of literature, deprived of structure and meaning. He creates an image of contemporary Soviet reality, which is a travestied variant of the world of Dostoevsky in the novel “Crime and punishment”. The conclusion refers to the development of similar axiologisation of Russian classics in the post-modernist remakes from the 1990s to this day.

Mariusz Soltanifar, Mathew Hughes, Lutz Gocke – Digital Entrepreneurship, Impact on Business and Society (2021, Springer International Publishing)

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Ranković ◽  
Milena P. Ilić
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Business World ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Digital Entrepreneurship

Abstract The book by Mariusz Soltanifar, Mathew Hughes, and Lutz Göcke entitled “Digital Entrepreneurship Impact on Business and Society” (Soltanifar, M., M. Hughes, and L. Göcke. 2021. Digital Entrepreneurship Impact on Business and Society. Charm: Springer International Publishing; Springer) published by Springer International Publishing demonstrates the global challenges that companies and economies face related to digital entrepreneurship. The book emphasizes the impact that digital entrepreneurial activities have on business and society in a way that shapes the world business environment in the present time, and will continue to the same in the future. The book provides the reader with an overview of the processes, means, and challenges that are transforming the business world, giving the possible opportunities to companies and citizens, but also threats as well that also shape their everyday life and society as a whole.

scholarly journals Лиса в фольклоре и религиозно-магической практике башкир

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 951-960
Author(s):  
Azaliya F. Ilimbetova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethnic History

Introduction. The article analyzes vestiges of the fox cult among Bashkirs. The animal used to be a most revered one in religious and mystical beliefs of the nation. Goals. The work seeks to study the fox cult in all its manifestations in everyday life and economic activities on the basis of folklore, ethnographic and other materials. The main sources involved are ethnographic, folklore, linguistic publications, as well as the author’s field data. Methods. The research rests on theoretical, retrospective and comparative historical analyses of the mentioned sources. Results. The study is first to analyze various data on the fox cult among Bashkirs, which makes it possible to reconstruct some aspects of Bashkir ethnic history and is also instrumental in identifying the historical and genetic roots of ethnic spiritual culture. The paper employs new folklore and ethnographic materials, and introduces them into scientific discourse. Conclusions. The traditional ethnic worldview contains the idea of kinship and identity between Bashkirs and the fox; the former proclaims a possibility of mutual reincarnation and somewhat absence of any fundamental difference between the latter ― all this to constitute the essence of the ancient man’s ideas about his place in the world. Folklore and rituals maintain vestiges of faith that individual clan groups are descended from the fox. When viewed as a totemic ancestor, the fox takes on the roles of a patroness, protector, adviser and helper of people that gives health, prosperity and family happiness. Bashkir oral literature contains materials that recognize the fox as a zoomorphic deity, the mistress of nature and personification of the sun. In everyday traditions and folk choreography, there are traces of a totemic ritual of honoring the fox as a totem and totemic ancestor. Being a sacred creature, the fox was a tabooed animal in customs and beliefs of the Bashkirs.

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