scholarly journals The hipster subculture and its representation in Lena Dunham’s tv series girls.

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-258
Author(s):  
María Dolores Narbona Carrión
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

Hipsters are considered as one of the most relevant American subcultures at present. However, the term hipster is notoriously difficult to define and has not received sufficient academic attention, especially when referring to women. Thus, one of the main objectives of this interdisciplinary study is to reverse this situation by bringing to light information and bibliography about this prominent cultural phenomenon in the US context. To prove its importance, this theoretical aspect will be complemented by its practical implementation, as this essay includes the evaluation of the representation of the hipster in one of the main cultural products which have reflected it, television and, more concretely, in Lena Dunham’s TV series, Girls. This analysis responds to the aim of discerning if Girls’s alleged hipsterism can be considered authentic and of elucidating the reasons that may have led Dunham to this choice for the creation of her characters and, also, for her self-branding.

THE CONCEPT OF COMPETITIVE VALUE CHAINS IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AS AN INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OPERATING ON NETWORK PRINCIPLES

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Niyaz Mustjakimovich Abdikeev ◽  
Anton Alekseevich Losev ◽  
Andrey Ivanovich Gaydamaka
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Software Product ◽  
The Creation

The Concept of competitive value chains in production systems, as an institutional structure operating on network principles, was the impetus for the development of a system of models of inter-industry digital platform for the management and optimization of cooperation of high-tech network production systems. The article describes the ways of integration into business processes of production systems of simulation and cognitive models. The practical implementation of the system of these models is a separate software product - an interdisciplinary digital platform for participants in the creation of new high-tech products and their components.

ПРИНЦИПИ ПІЗНАННЯ ПОБУТУВАННЯ ПЕРФОРМАНСУ

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Admink Admink ◽  
Жанна Шкляренко
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Dividing Line

Стаття присвячена дослідженню шляхів вивчення перформансу як культурного явища. Зростаюча увага до цього феномену зумовлена відсутністю лінії розмежування його з життям, створенню особливої реальності, спроможністю викликати потужні емоційні стани та взаємоемпатії. Проблематичність у вивченні його полягає у складності архівування, хиткий своєрідний наратив, що вислизає зі сприйняття непідготовленого глядача, міграція з виставкових зал у соціальну сферу, супроводжувана жанровими новоутвореннями. Даним дослідженням зроблено спробу аналізу шляхів пізнання культурного явища перформансу, визначені особливості побутування, виявлено закономірності проявів та варіативність в сучасній культурі. The article is devoted to the study of ways to research performance study as a cultural phenomenon. The growing interest in the phenomenon of performance art is due to the lack of a dividing line with our life, the creation of a special reality, the ability to cause strong emotional states and mutual empathy. The difficulty of study is also in trouble archiving it, shaky kind of narrative which escapes the perception of the unprepared viewer, the migration of the exhibition halls and in the social media sphere, followed by the creation of new genres. This analyzes the ways of understanding the cultural phenomenon of performance art. The features of being are determined, patterns and a variety of its manifestations in modern culture are revealed.

From Start-Up to Scale-Up

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Duruflé ◽  
Thomas Hellmann ◽  
Karen Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
The United States ◽  
Smart Money ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Creation

This chapter examines the challenge for entrepreneurial companies of going beyond the start-up phase and growing into large successful companies. We examine the long-term financing of these so-called scale-up companies, focusing on the United States, Europe, and Canada. The chapter first provides a conceptual framework for understanding the challenges of financing scale-ups. It emphasizes the need for investors with deep pockets, for smart money, for investor networks, and for patient money. It then shows some data about the various aspects of financing scale-ups in the United States, Europe, and Canada, showing how Europe and Canada are lagging behind the US relatively more at the scale-up than the start-up stage. Finally, the chapter raises the question of long-term public policies for supporting the creation of a better scale-up environment.

Cross-border copyright, complexity and collaboration: Approaching intellectual property across an international consortium of photo archives

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Melissa Gold Fournier
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Open Access ◽  
International Consortium ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Platform ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Cross

AbstractWhat are the cross-border intellectual property and copyright issues faced by PHAROS, an international consortium of photo archives, in the creation of an open access research platform? How does the consortium define open access? Are approaches to copyright in reproductive media across the US, UK and EU compatible, and can 14 partners from six countries agree to assess and express rights in the same way? Developments in the field and the consortium's 2020 International Copyright Workshop project have helped PHAROS define and address these issues.

From the Rise of Authentic Italian Restaurants in America to the Creation of New Multicultural Food Tourism Experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Alessandra Campanari ◽  
Alessio Cavicchi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Italian American ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Food Tourism ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Food Identity

With the emergence of culinary multiculturalism in the globalized world, ethnic restaurants have become central symbols of postmodern life, no longer relegated to a domestic and community sphere, but able to attract non-ethnic customers without necessarily destroy food cultural heritage. In line with this trend, the article aims to contribute to the literature on new food tourism experiences by examining contemporary Italian restaurants in the US to investigate how Italian food identity in ethnic restaurants is advertised and sold. Starting from the literature on Italian culinary immigration in America, from the rise of the first Italian restaurants to the invention of the Italian American culinary tradition, the article provides an ethnographic study to understand the changing business environment that is leading new entrepreneurs in foodservice to diversify their business models towards the creation of new food tourism experiences as a result of an ever-changing dialogue between tradition and innovation.

scholarly journals Discriminating between Long Memory and Volatility Shifts

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aonan Zhang ◽  
Robertas Gabrys ◽  
Piotr Kokoszka
Keyword(s):  
Long Memory ◽  
Change Point ◽  
Kernel Estimator ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Point Model ◽  
Variance Estimators ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Us ◽  
Change Point Model ◽  
Stock Indexes

We develop a practical implementation of the test proposed in Berkes, Horv´ath, Kokoszka, and Shao (2006) designed to distinguish between a change-point model and a long memory model. Our implementation is calibrated to distinguish between a shift in volatility of returns and long memory in squared returns. It uses a kernel estimator of the long-run variance of squared returns with the maximal lag selected by a data driven procedure which depends on the sample size, the location of the estimated change point and the direction of the apparent volatility shift (increase versus decrease). In a simulations study, we also consider other long-run variance estimators, including the VARHAC estimator, but we find that they lead to tests with inferior performance. Applied to returns on indexes and individual stocks, our test indicates that even for the same asset, a change-point model may be preferable for a certain period of time, whereas there is evidence of long memory in another period of time. Generally there is stronger evidence for long memory in the eight years ending June 2006 than in the eight years starting January 1992. This pattern is most pronounced for US stock indexes and shares in the US financial sector.

scholarly journals Ecological and economic aspects of optimizing the creation and functioning of drainage systems in accordance with modern requirements

2021 ◽  
Vol 285 ◽  
pp. 02009
Author(s):  
Anatoly Rokochinskiy ◽  
Yuri Mazhayskiy ◽  
Pavlo Volk ◽  
Roman Koptyuk ◽  
Lubov Volk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Local Optima ◽  
Drainage Systems ◽  
Simulation And Optimization ◽  
The Creation

Land reclamation is important in the development of agricultural production for unfavorable climatic conditions. This necessitates the improvement of scientific and methodological approaches to the creation and operation of water management and reclamation facilities, including drainage systems, which are adapted to these changes. Approaches to the type and design of drainage systems based on a combination of a modern progressive optimization approach with the traditional water balance method, hydrodynamic and hydraulic methods are presented. Approaches to the systemic optimization of technological and design solutions for the creation and operation of drainage systems have been determined. It seems that the drainage system is a complex natural and technical ecological and economic system. Finding the general optimum in such a system based on the system optimization consists in substantiating local optima for all its main components of heterogeneous elements in the system effect - mode - technology - design in their interconnection. The practical implementation of a complex of predictive-simulation and optimization calculations in projects for new construction, reconstruction and modernization of drainage systems based on the developed scientific, methodological, information and software can be carried out using the appropriate toolkit, which is CAD and modern BIM technologies. The transition to optimization methods will improve the feasibility and overall technical, technological, environmental and economic efficiency of the creation and operation of water management and reclamation facilities in accordance with modern requirements.

scholarly journals ‘transformative’ potential of translanguaging and other heteroglossic educational practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-289
Author(s):  
M. Rafael Salaberry
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Heritage Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
The Us ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Heritage Speakers Of Spanish

Over the last few decades, there has been an increased awareness about imprecise, inaccurate and, thus, unfair conceptualisations of language based on monoglossic views of language that delegitimise the linguistic repertoire of multilingual minorities as is the case of heritage speakers of Spanish in the US or speakers of Lingua Franca English worldwide. At the same time, there are theoretical and educational proposals that offer new conceptualisations of multilingualism focused on the concept of heteroglossia, which, in contrast with monoglossic views, focuses our attention on the fluid and full use of all linguistic resources available to language learners/users as they engage in the process of interacting with their interlocutors. In the present paper, I describe an important challenge that compromises the valuable agenda of heteroglossic approaches to develop multilingualism: the effect of listeners’ biases and reverse linguistic stereotyping. That is, educational programmes designed to counteract the negative effect of monoglossic approaches to second language learning in general cannot adopt a segregationist approach (neither in their theoretical design nor in their practical implementation). To place this challenge in context, I describe in detail the specific example of Spanish heritage second language learners at the tertiary level of education in the US setting and I also provide a broad outline of potential improvements in the curricular design of such programmes.

Digitalization Of The Management System Of Administrative-Territorial Units Of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya Metelenko ◽  
Iryna Khlivna ◽  
Yevheniia Syta ◽  
Nazar Hlynskyy ◽  
Anton Simonenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Current State ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The article is devoted to the theoretical and methodological aspects of the digitalization of the management system of the administrative-territorial units of Ukraine. The authors studied the main problems of the modern administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine and their consequences, the definition and criteria for assigning settlements to the corresponding categories of administrative-territorial units and clearly presented their classification. Analyzed the administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine and assessed its practical implementation. Based on the study, they proposed a mechanism for the digitalization of the management system of administrative-territorial units of Ukraine. They showed, using an example, an assessment of the current state of readiness for digitalization of the system of administrative-territorial units of Ukraine. Further aspects of improvement, the authors highlighted the creation of a roadmap for the digitalization of the management system of administrative-territorial units of Ukraine.

Beyond the Railway

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-244
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Guerrilla Warfare ◽  
World War ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

This concluding chapter provides a summary of the discoveries of the Great Arab Revolt Project (GARP) from the conflict landscape of the Hejaz Railway. A decade in the desert revealed the anthropological archaeology of the Arab Revolt of 1916–18 to be more than the excavation of historically recent places or the survey of ruinous station buildings. It was rather an interdisciplinary study of the railway’s heritage from 1900 to the present, its role as a catalyst in creating a unique conflict landscape, and its intriguing relationships with earlier Hajj routes. The railway was also entangled with the beginnings of modern guerrilla warfare, the creation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and a complex and sometimes volatile mix of traditional Bedouin culture, modernity, religion, and local and national politics. Furthermore, the Revolt itself was embedded in the wider regional and geo-political framework of the First World War and its many aftermaths: the collapse of the Ottoman Empire; the creation of the modern Middle East; the rise of Arab Nationalism; the Second World War; the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq; the destructive legacy of the Islamic State’s short-lived Caliphate announced in 2014; and Syria’s descent into a tortuous and tragic civil war.

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