scholarly journals Intermedia and Intermittency

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
Bálint Veres
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Media Anthropology ◽  
Medial Area

Abstract It is commonly known that medial reflections have been initiated by attempts to secure the borders of discrete medial forms and to define the modus operandi of each essentialized medial area. Later on, the focus of study has shifted to plurimedial formations and the interactions between predefined medial genres. In the last few decades, taxonomic approaches to various multi-, inter-, and transmedial phenomena dominated the discussions, which offered invaluable support in mapping the terrain, but at the same time hindered the analysis of the ephemeral, time-dependent aspects of plurimedial operations. While we explore the properties of each medial configuration, we lose sight of the actual historical drivers that produce ever-new configurations. My thesis is that any discourse on intermediality should be paralleled by a discourse on cultural intermittency, and consequently, media studies should involve an approach that focuses on the “ecosystem” of the constantly renewing media configurations from the point of view of their vitalizing potential and capability to trigger heightened experiences. This approach draws much inspiration from K. Ludwig Pfeiffer’s media anthropology that gives orientation in my paper.

WIGNER MEASURES AND MOLECULAR PROPAGATION THROUGH GENERIC ENERGY LEVEL CROSSINGS

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1285-1317 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLOTILDE FERMANIAN KAMMERER
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Normal Form ◽  
Energy Level ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Type B ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Level Crossings ◽  
Normal Form Theorem ◽  
Uniformly Bounded

We study the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with matrix-valued potential presenting a generic crossing of type B, I, J or K in Hagedorn's classification. We use two-scale Wigner measures for describing the Landau–Zener energy transfer which occurs at the crossing. In particular, in the case of multiplicity 2 eigenvalues, we calculate precisely the change of polarization at the crossing. Our method provides a unified framework in which codimension 2, 3 or 5 crossings can be discussed. We recover Hagedorn's result for wave packets, from Wigner measure point of view, and extend them to any data uniformly bounded in L2. The proof is based on a normal form theorem which reduces the problem to an operator-valued Landau–Zener formula.

scholarly journals Contar la historia a través del cementerio: El comerciante Tomás Erades. El método biográfico-histórico en Antropología

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
Klaus Schriewer ◽  
Pedro Martínez Cavero
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
And Gender

El artículo analiza las diferentes perspectivas de estudio que, desde el punto de vista de la Antropología social, ofrece el cementerio a la hora de describir una sociedad y sus patrones culturales. Nuestro modus operandi se ejemplifica en el caso del cementerio municipal de Murcia, Nuestro Padre Jesús, y en la biografía de uno de sus moradores, el comerciante murciano Tomás Erades. Su estudio nos permite describir la sociedad murciana de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, sus patrones matrimoniales y de género, sanitarios y económicos. The article analyses the different perspectives of study that, from the point of view of Social Anthropology, the cemetery offers when describing a society and its cultural patterns. Our modus operandiis exemplified in the case of the municipal cemetery of Murcia, Nuestro Padre Jesús, and in the biography of one of its inhabitants, the Murcian businessman Tomás Erades. To study him allows us to describe the Murcian society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their marital and gender, health and economic patterns.

scholarly journals Trans-Disciplinary Pedagogy for Science and Journalism Majors Linking Water Resource Information to Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee John Florea ◽  
Adam J Kuban
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Stem Majors ◽  
Resource Information ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Project Deliverables

Water Quality Indiana is a learning platform that leverages collaborations, community partnerships, and active mentorship of transdisciplinary student cohorts. Since 2013, this platform has engaged teams of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and communication and media students to investigate water quality in east central Indiana (since expanded to other domestic and international locations) in an experiential problem-based learning environment. For community partners, Water Quality Indiana provides scientific data, analysis, and multimedia deliverables about water quality, and it has a successful record of finding solutions to real-world problems. From the point of view of faculty, project deliverables enhance several aspects of a faculty portfolio. For student participants, the goal is to increase metacognition, civic engagement, and confidence in processes associated with STEM and media studies, and, therefore, the transdisciplinary skills required in an increasingly competitive workforce. Assessing learning artifacts (e.g., assignment, quizzes, or other evaluative metrics) reveals a cognitive dissonance between metacognition and accuracy in declarative knowledge related to topics in water quality—student scores did not increase in posttest data despite an increased confidence in selected answers. In contrast, pretest and posttest results, synthesis reports, and focus group data suggest that confidence in procedural knowledge in both water quality and media production significantly increased by the end of the course. Students cited time constraints imposed by academic calendars and project deadlines as a limitation of the learning environment. Course data reveal differences based on academic background and gender: 1) media studies majors became more confident in their multimedia skills, while STEM majors became less confident; 2) note-taking style and detail is more organized and meticulous for female and STEM students compared to male and media studies counterparts.

Inverse effect and receptor dynamics – Coffee, Opium and Wine's secondary pharmacology

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (47) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Author(s):  
Andrea Maria Signorini
Keyword(s):  
Great Part ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Cell Sensitivity ◽  
Time Dependent Effect ◽  
Altered Cell ◽  
High Doses ◽  
Clinical Experiments

A homeopathic widespread belief is that the inversion of effect of the drugs in homeopathic medical practice is due to dilution or very low doses, but there are many homeopathic incoherencies. For example the first conception of the similia principle was obtained through planned, small sample, clinical experiments with ponderal/pharmacological doses in healthy and diseased subjects1. Furthermore the classical foundations of the similia principle in Organon2, the primary and secondary actions of drugs, were thought to be connected with opposite, time-dependent reactions of the body to high doses and the inversion of effect was seen in temporal sequence after a strong dose and not after changes of doses, so the idea that dilutions are responsible for inversion of effects is not suitable to the classical theory. And lastly homeopathic provings or pathogenetic trials have frequently mixed, unregarded to the doses, occasional toxicological symptoms and symptoms obtained through diluted substances3, reinforcing the idea that, on healthy subjects, in several cases many substances produce the same symptoms in pharmacological or infinitesimal doses. So at least the dose-dependent inversion of effect is not generalized in a great part of the collected symptoms. Biological foundations to similia principle have to be searched in other directions4, as in different sensitivity to drugs between health and disease, or in different time-dependent effect of drugs on specific, but different, cell sensitivity set point. In the vision described here both these possibilities represent the same phenomenon of altered cell sensitivity. It is aim of this article to show that the original hahnemannian idea to explain homeopathic similia principle starting from a pharmacological and biological point of view with ponderal doses, seems correct, rationally comprehensible and based on modern knowledges. The three pharmacologic examples that best illustrate this reasoning, coffe, opium and wine, will be discussed.

Precompound Decay from a Time-Dependent Point of View

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 1847-1855 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Harp ◽  
J. M. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Dependent Point

scholarly journals XXIX.—On the Variations of the Amount of Carbonic Acid in the Ground-Air (Grund-Luft of Pettenkofer)

1895 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-706
Author(s):  
C. Hunter Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Carbonic Acid ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Chemical Examination ◽  
Short Account ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Organic Decomposition

The chemical examination of ground-air, i.e., the air which is contained in the pores of the soil, was first made by Boussingault and Levy in 1853. Their results, however, attracted little attention till Pettenkofer, in 1857, pointed out that the determination of the amount of carbonic acid in the air of a given soil might be used as a means of estimating the organic decomposition going on there. In 1871 he first published his results, and since that time the subject has been worked at by many investigators both from the agricultural and hygienic point of view, including in the latter class Fleck at Dresden, Eodor at Buda-Pesth, Hesse in Saxony, and Nicholls in America. As researches of this nature have not attracted much attention in this country, a short account of the modus operandi may be interesting as a preliminary.

scholarly journals Johannes Knudsen: Danish rebel. The life of N. F. S. Grundtvig - og Ernst Nielsen: N. F. S. Grundtvig. An american study

1956 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-97
Author(s):  
Regin Prenter
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
American Study ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
High Valuation ◽  
The Church ◽  
New Phase

Johannes Knudsen: Danish Rebel. The Life of N. F. S. Grundtvig — and Ernest Nielsen: N. F. S. Grundtvig. An American Study. By Regin Prenter. These two books are typically American, but at the same time dependent on the Danish Grundtvigian tradition and recent Danish research on the life and writings of Grundtvig, with which they are both completely familiar. The two books do not contribute anything fundamentally new to the understanding of Grundtvig, but their American background makes it possible for them — especially in the case of Knudsen — to take up an independent attitude towards the divergent interpretations of Grundtvig in Denmark. Knudsens book is a well-written biography, factual and critical, without any hagiographical tendencies. Two concluding chapters of a more systematic nature (on the Church and on the nature of man) seek to show Grundtvig’s significance for the modern age. In his interpretation of Grundtvig Knudsen adopts the point of view that 1832 does not mark any decisively new phase in Grundtvig’s development. The new ideas are latent in the old. Grundtvig’s understanding of man is conditioned by his unterstanding of Christianity; but this includes a high valuation of what is human as the presupposition for what is Christian. Nielsen’s book is planned as a systematic investigation with Grundtvig’s understanding of the reality of the Spirit as its central theme. Its main thesis is that Grundtvig’s view of life is historical in contradistinction to every metaphysical or specualtive interpretation of existence. This point of view is worked out in an interesting way, but one could have wished that the author could have gone more thoroughly into a critical appraisement of this historical interpretation of existence than the very limited space at his disposal has allowed him to do. Both books are very much in sympathy with their subject, and a feature which they have in common is that they see Grundtvig as an ecumenical figure, and for this reason they betray a marked repugnance towards any attempt at a sectarian glorification of Grundtvig. It is much to be desired that these two books may awaken new interest in Grundtvig in America. But in order that this should succeed fully they must be followed by translations of Grundtvig’s writings.

scholarly journals Sublime, Race, Racialization: Formalisation, Necessity, Contingency

2017 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Jovita Pristovšek
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Figure Of Speech ◽  
Social Landscapes

If we speak about the sublimity of financial markets nowadays, this is mostly because we can already gaze into the contemporary version of ruins of (ambiguous) crises of capitalism and crisis politics, that left behind themselves desolated (social) landscapes, in which the absence of the human and of labor (read: gazing into the posthuman and at the emancipation within nonhuman terrain) once again testifies to a kind of sublimity. And from the historical point of view the revitalization of the discourse of (Cassius Longinus) sublime is situated precisely into a genealogy of treatises drawing the border between human and nonhuman, between society and nature. Thus, the sublime could only rise over not (yet) cultivated nature (while sovereignty could only rise over the cultivated one). Following from Longinus' most efficient sublime effect, when it functions as a hidden figure of speech, my field of interest will be predominantly a genealogy of race within the regime of aesthetics, from Edmund Burke's and Immanuel Kant's conceptualizations of aesthetics of the sublime, up until recent debates within contemporary aesthetics about subject-less experience and experience-less subject. This genealogy will serve as a display of procedure by which and since then the content (unrepresentable, race, terror) could be represented only in a certain way (as necessity), which led to a kind of asceticism (i.e. to formalism and immaterial), even more, to a return to objectnessless, which once again testifies to an encounter with the figure of silence, and with contingency. Article received: June 5, 2017; Article accepted: June 16, 2017; Published online: October 15, 2017; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Pristovšek, Jovita. "Sublime, Race, Racialization: Formalization, Necessity, Contingency." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 14 (2017): 45-56. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i14.202

Quasi-static electric and magnetic fields in vacuum

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Pierrus
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Induction ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Important Phenomenon ◽  
Electric And Magnetic Fields ◽  
Practical Standpoint

In this chapter, the transition from time-independent to time-dependent source densities and fields is made. It is here that Faraday’s famous nineteenth-century experiments on electromagnetic induction are first encountered. This important phenomenon—whereby a changing magnetic field produces an induced electric field (whose curl is now no longer zero)—forms the basis of most of the questions and solutions which follow. Some new and interesting examples—not usually found in other textbooks—are introduced. These are treated both from an analytical and numerical point of view. Also considered here is the standard yet important topic (at least from a practical standpoint) of mutual and self-inductance. Several questions deal with this concept.

The Absorption of Diamondoids from Time-dependent Density Functional Calculations

2011 ◽  
Vol 1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márton Vörös ◽  
Tamás Demjén ◽  
Adam Gali
Keyword(s):  
Density Functional ◽  
Quantum Confinement Effect ◽  
Infrared Region ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Hybrid Functional ◽  
Energy Part ◽  
Td Dft ◽  
Bulk Diamond

ABSTRACTDiamondoids are small diamond nanocrystals with perfect hydrogenated surfaces. Recent absorption measurements showed that the spectrum of diamondoids exhibit features that are not understood from the theoretical point of view, e.g. optical gaps are only slightly larger than the gap of bulk diamond which runs against the quantum confinement effect. Previous calcula-tions, even beyond standard density functional theory (DFT), failed to obtain the experimental optical gaps (Eg) of diamondoids. We show that all-electron time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations including the PBE0 hybrid functional in the TD-DFT kernel are able to provide quantitatively accurate results. Our calculations demonstrate that Rydberg transitions govern the low energy part of the absorption spectrum, even for relatively large nanodiamonds result-ing in low Eg. Since the optical gap of these diamondoids lies in the ultraviolet spectral re-gion, we investigated whether simple adsorbates of the surface are able to shift the gap towards the infrared region. We found that a double bonded sulfur atom at the surface results in a sub-stantial gap reduction.

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