scholarly journals Children’s Picturebook Goes Digital: Implications on Cognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Thales Estefani ◽  
João Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
Definition Of

The objects of analysis in this article are digital picturebooks, which may be called e-picturebooks. This research contributes to a definition of e-picturebook as a distinct storytelling experience from printed picturebook, introducing distributed cognition as a new theoretical perspective for the analysis of the phenomenon. This perspective emphasizes cognitive systems related to specific features of this category of digital book. In this sense, picturebook and e-picturebook are defined as cognitive artifacts that constrain storytelling tasks very differently from each other, not only because of their constitutive features but also because of the cognitive systems involved in the understanding of stories in each medium.

Distributed cognition

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Integrated Systems ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Key Dimensions

Synthesizing the domains of investigation highlighted in current research in distributed cognition and related fields, this paper offers an initial taxonomy of the overlapping types of resources which typically contribute to distributed or extended cognitive systems. It then outlines a number of key dimensions on which to analyse both the resulting integrated systems and the components which coalesce into more or less tightly coupled interaction over the course of their formation and renegotiation.

On Linkhood, Topicalization and Clitic Left Dislocation

2002 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
THEODORA ALEXOPOULOU ◽  
DIMITRA KOLLIAKOU
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Clitic Doubling ◽  
Left Dislocation ◽  
Information Packaging ◽  
Card System ◽  
Clitic Left Dislocation ◽  
Empirical Point ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Structural Definition

This paper focuses on the Information Packaging notion of linkhood and provides a structural definition of this notion for Greek. We show that a combination of structural resources – syntactic (left dislocation), morphological (clitic duplication) and phonological (absence of nuclear accent) – are simultaneously exploited to realize linkhood in Greek, a generalization that can be captured in a constraint-based grammar such as HPSG, which permits the expression of interface constraints. We assume Vallduví's (1992) approach to Information Packaging, and Engdahl & Vallduví's (1996) implementation of the latter in HPSG, but deviate from Vallduví's work in adopting Hendriks & Dekker's (1996) revised definition of linkhood that relies on non-monotone anaphora. From an empirical point of view, our approach directly accounts for the invariable association of Clitic Left Dislocated NPs with wide scope readings, as well as a number of systematic differences in felicity conditions between Clitic Left Dislocation and other apparently related phenomena (Topicalization and Clitic Doubling). From a theoretical perspective, our analysis departs from syntax-based notions of topichood or discourse-linking and supports a definition that unifies linkhood with other anaphora phenomena. As such, it arguably overcomes previously noted problems for Vallduví's treatment of links as the current-locus-of-update in a Heim-style file-card system.

Translation teams as cognitive systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-327
Author(s):  
Richard Pleijel
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Cognitive Artifacts ◽  
Archival Material

Abstract This paper aims to bring research on different forms of group-level cognition into conversation with Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS), the focal point of the paper being cognitive processes in translation teams. It is argued that an analysis of cognition in translation teams, which exhibit the properties of a cognitive system, needs to be placed on group-level. A case study of a team, translating the Hebrew Bible Book of Psalms into Swedish in the 1980’s, is presented. The empirical base for the case study consists of archival material in the form of draft translations and paratexts. The methodological question is thus raised whether, and if so in what way, cognitive processes may be analyzed retrospectively, and not only from a real time perspective. By treating the archival material as cognitive artifacts which have constituted an integral part of the team’s cognitive process, the question is tentatively answered in a favourable way. This, it is finally argued, opens up interesting possibilities for joining CTS with translator archives research, Genetic Translation Studies (GTS), and cognitive archeology.

scholarly journals Theoretical aspects of public administration electronic services

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Jozef Andraško
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Definition Of

The author deals with the issue of public administration electronic services from the theoretical perspective. In particular, author is analysing all elements of the term in question. Furthermore, the author focuses on different types of categorization of public administration electronic services. Moreover, author is dealing with the definition of the term in question from the perspective of Slovak legal order.

scholarly journals SMART POWER AS THE FACTOR IN THE SINO-U.S. RELATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2(71)) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Cheng Guo ◽  
Yin Qun
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Smart Power ◽  
Power Construction ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Definition Of

This research work analyzes the characteristics of American public diplomacy from the perspectives of smart power theory, comparing China and the United States’ smart power strategy. The article revealed that globalization and the process of technological evolution have led profound changes in the contempopary world politics and international relations, the smart power factors such as culture, science, technology, and information have become increasingly prominent in political science. These factors have not only created the fundamental theory of smart power, but also affected the form and definition of diplomacy. The research methodology is based on a complex combination of scientific methods, mainly comparative, analytical, systematic. The obtained conclusions can be referred that smart power as a key factor, has become a new theoretical perspective for understanding changes in contempopary international relations and foreign policy. It has naturally become the theoretical support for public diplomacy, meanwhile public diplomacy itself is also an important content and strategic path for smart power construction.

scholarly journals A balanced scorecard for assessing a strategic plan in a clinical laboratory

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-291
Author(s):  
Luisa Alvarez ◽  
Anna Soler ◽  
Leonor Guiñón ◽  
Aurea Mira
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Reference Laboratory ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Public And Private Sector

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a tool for strategic management that is used in many companies and organizations worldwide, both in the public and private sector. With this purpose it has also been used in healthcare organizations and institutions but there are not many studies on the implementation of BSC methodology in the day-to-day clinical laboratory. This review shows the strategy for the development of a BSC, which includes theoretical perspective objectives, as well as some indicators and goals with which the monitoring and quantitative measurement of the achievements of a strategic plan in a clinical laboratory can be done. Moreover, the results of the indicators allow the prioritization of the initiatives to be implemented each year. The methodology for the development of the proposed BSC includes the following steps: definition of theoretical objectives of each of the perspectives most used in the management of a clinical laboratory (customers, financial, internal processes and learning) taking into account the vision and the organizational model of the laboratory; creation of a strategic map of perspective objectives; definition of the relevant indicators to follow up on the objectives in a quantitative manner and establishment of the goals. Whether or not the laboratory is a reference laboratory, in which specific and infrequent analysis and health population programs are performed, is another fact to take into account. In this review a BSC for a reference clinical laboratory of the Spanish public sector is shown.

Effective governance of food safety regulation across EU Member States: Towards operationalization

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-572
Author(s):  
Giulia BAZZAN
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Safety Regulation ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Food Safety Regulation

AbstractThis article seeks to make a contribution to the food safety regulation literature, and to the broader framework of risk regulation, in the attempt to establish both theoretically and empirically what can be intended as effective governance of food safety regulation. The aim is to review existing measures of effectiveness of food safety governance, and to give a preliminary definition of effectiveness, together with a theoretical perspective on how to operationalise it, eventually proposing an empirical measurement. Effectiveness of food safety governance can be measured – on the one hand – as the capacity of consumers’ protection, and thus, as the minimisation of risk related to food, and – on the other hand – as the capacity of protection of producers’ interests, in order to ensure competitiveness within the market. Distinguishing food safety delivered from food safety perceived, the article seeks to analyse dimensions of effectiveness related to both the protection of consumers and producers, and to the minimisation of risk, drawing upon Elinor Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD) and, particularly, her conceptualisation of opportunistic behaviour.

scholarly journals Information Structure Representation And Extraction From A Corpus Of Patient Data, Using An Ontology

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276
Author(s):  
Christian Cote
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Information Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Information Process ◽  
Structure Representation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Semantic Object

We propose a methodology to model the information structure for its extraction from any medical text. We experiment this extraction in a corpus that represents the information system of a specific professional activity in the hospital pharmacy. the information structure represent how the meaning of a sentence is specified by the constraints of the information flow. But the information structure is systematically recognized and interpreted in the context of a text: it’s also the last object of the information system. Then we consider the text as a contextual frame to model the recognition and the extraction of the information structure. A text can’t be considered only as a linguistic object in a professional and information context: it’s an implemented (or externalised following situated and distributed cognition) ontology. The updated text articulates the ontology of the patient body and the referential dimension of the information. The model of the information structure presupposes we know what are the constraints of the information system on the symbolic entities (in a way to distinguish the information structure to any sentence description). In a way to determine these constraints, we propose to model the information process by the information flow: we represent in this way how any fact in the body of the patient is symbolised, conveyed and represented into a text. The information flow characterizes only the constraints of the information on the linguistic entities and structures. But the information is linguistically a referential semantic object: it’s the representation at distance of a new fact in the world in the frame of a text that accepts this information. Then the model of At last, The information flow allows the articulation of an ontology and a semantic precisely on the question of the information structure. We unify the model of the information structure by the definition of five primitives. A sign representation allows both the characterisation of the structure and of each of its components.

Sentimenti, emozioni. Potenzialitŕ e limiti della storia culturale

2012 ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Rolf Petri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
History Writing ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
Theoretical Status ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

The first part of the essay tries to elaborate a reasonable itemisation of the three main streams in the history of emotions: that of individual emotions, the study of the role that emotions have in historical processes, and the reflection about the influence of emotions on history writing. The second part is devoted to the methodological and theoretical status of the study of past emotions. The author criticises the definition of emotions as merely cultural phenomena. He argues in favour to a cross-disciplinary and theoretical perspective, and maintains that cultural history of emotions should be able to deconstruct its own history and contextualise historically the very paradigms of "culture" and "emotion".

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