»[E]ine Art Experiment in unserer Phantasie«

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-174
Author(s):  
Diba Shokri
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Experimental Practice ◽  
Academic Reading ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This essay1 documents the participation of the Würzburg professor for ›Literaturgeschichte‹ Hubert Roetteken in a series of experiments conducted by the psychologist Karl Marbe and published in 1901 as part of the research program of the so-called ›Würzburg school‹. It suggests that Rotteken’s Poetik from the following year was positively influenced not only by Marbe’s criticism of Ernst Elster’s poetics, but by his own first-hand account of Marbe’s experimental practice. The article demonstrates how this adaptation represents a change in Roetteken’s ideal of academic reading and the making of ›Literaturgeschichte‹ and contextualizes his position in the broader development of the relationship between ›Germanistik‹ and ›Psychologie‹ as evolving academic disciplines.

Tinkering with cognitive gadgets: Cultural evolutionary psychology meets active inference

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Benjamin Badcock ◽  
Axel Constant ◽  
Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Active Inference ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
Cognitive Faculties ◽  
Cultural Evolutionary ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Cognitive Gadgets offers a new, convincing perspective on the origins of our distinctive cognitive faculties, coupled with a clear, innovative research program. Although we broadly endorse Heyes’ ideas, we raise some concerns about her characterisation of evolutionary psychology and the relationship between biology and culture, before discussing the potential fruits of examining cognitive gadgets through the lens of active inference.

Experimental Investigation on Rotary Punching by the Compression of Polyurethane Pad

2014 ◽  
Vol 941-944 ◽  
pp. 1802-1807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Liu ◽  
Jing Tao Han ◽  
Jing Liu ◽  
Xiao Xiong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Penetration Depth ◽  
Process Parameters ◽  
High Load ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Bear Capacity ◽  
Hole Edge ◽  
Quality Degradation ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Blanking Process ◽  
The Relationship

Rotary punching is a sheet metal blanking process which utilizes shearing tools fixed to a pair of rollers. The polyurethane pad is adopted as the die instead of rigid mold because it has the advantages of wide hardness range and high load-bear capacity. Due to the application of polyurethane pad, the surrounding region adjacent to the pierced hole will occur to plastically deform and deflect, which greatly differs from that in the conventional blanking. In this paper, the effects of blank material and thickness, polyurethane hardness, punch penetration depth on deformation behavior were mathematically analyzed and modeled, and then a series of experiments through varying process parameters were conducted to validate the relationship between process parameters and product quality. The degree of sample deflection was exactly measured by scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results show that the deformed area varies with different blank elongations and increases with increasing blank thickness for a given material. When polyurethane pad with low hardness level is employed, it results in large area deformation and quality degradation. Moreover, the deflection degree around the hole edge becomes more severe along with punch penetration, but the penetration depth along blank thickness is not in proportion to the amount of punch advancement.

What Kind of Studies Is Comics Studies?

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Benjamin Woo
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Page Layout ◽  
Recent Growth ◽  
Comics Studies ◽  
Communications Theory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literature And Film

Dramatic recent growth in comics research suggests that comics studies has matured as a field, perhaps even constituting an emergent discipline. Yet important questions about the nature of this field and how it relates to established academic disciplines remain unresolved. This introductory chapter examines the genealogy of comics studies and explores the relationship between theory and method as a proxy for the field’s “paradigmatic” status. Four theories of page layout are analyzed as examples of theorization in comics studies. Drawing on Robert T. Craig’s “constitutive metamodel” of communications theory, the chapter ultimately rejects both attempts to retread the path of established humanities disciplines such as English literature and film studies and arguments against disciplinarity as such, calling instead for a dialogic conception of academic disciplines that continually reflects on the differences through which they are constituted.

scholarly journals Creativity Unbound: The Interaction of Disciplinary Contexts and Extradisciplinary Thinking in Creative Processes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Peacock ◽  
Gregory Tate ◽  
Rebecca Hoyle
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores how academics in different disciplines articulate the role creativity plays in their work. Instead of attempting to test a pre-existing theoretical model of creativity, 32 qualitative interviews and 4 focus groups were conducted in which 7 academics working in diverse fields were encouraged to explore creativity in their own terms and discuss the extent to which it was relevant in their disciplines. Thematic analysis of their data generated a number of themes; those presented here describe the relationship between creativity and disciplinarity. Participants in different fields shared a tendency to characterise creative work as drawing on ideas and practices commonly utilised in their particular discipline but also requiring methods and styles of thinking falling outside those norms. Creative work in academic disciplines, therefore, may require both a fluency in one’s own disciplinary ways of working and the capacity to transcend those conventions when required. Practitioners in different disciplines placed different degrees of emphasis on these two elements and drew upon different language when describing the relationship between them. This paper uses these points of comparison to investigate how ideas about creative working interact with and sometimes transcend disciplinary contexts.

scholarly journals Optimization of Superplastic Forming Process of AA7075 Alloy for the Best Wall Thickness Distribution

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-261
Author(s):  
Manh Tien Nguyen ◽  
Truong An Nguyen ◽  
Duc Hoan Tran ◽  
Van Thao Le
Keyword(s):  
Wall Thickness ◽  
Deformation Temperature ◽  
Numerical Optimization ◽  
Thickness Distribution ◽  
Superplastic Forming ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Wall Thickness Distribution ◽  
Surface Method ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Relationship

This work aims to optimize the process parameters for improving the wall thickness distribution of the sheet superplastic forming process of AA7075 alloy. The considered factors include forming pressure p (MPa), deformation temperature T (°C), and forming time t (minutes), while the responses are the thinning degree of the wall thickness ε (%) and the relative height of the product h*. First, a series of experiments are conducted in conjunction with response surface method (RSM) to render the relationship between inputs and outputs. Subsequently, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) is conducted to verify the response significance and parameter effects. Finally, a numerical optimization algorithm is used to determine the best forming conditions. The results indicate that the thinning degree of 13.121% is achieved at the forming pressure of 0.7 MPa, the deformation temperature of 500°C, and the forming time of 31 minutes.

scholarly journals Encompassing the Sacrifice: On the Narrative Construction of the Significant Past in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 77-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Hegarty
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Complex Orientation ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Sacrifice

Cardiff University The Mahābhārata has, for millennia, been pivotal to processes of the construction of ideas of the cosmic and social past in South Asia. The text has also been of critical importance in establishing connections between Vedic and post-Vedic cosmic and social self-understandings. The key theoretical issue that underlies both these roles is of the nature of the relationship between narrative and the construction of forms of significant social knowledge in human social groups. The investigation of this relationship presents challenges to received conceptions of culture, history and structure within the academic disciplines of both Anthropology and History. Thisstudy explores the complex orientation to the past evident in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata. It also addresses the relationship between ideas of the past and issues of self-presentation in the text. I argue that the text constitutes itself as a ‘reflective’ or ‘theoretical’ technology in early South Asian religious discourse and that this strategy is intimately related to antecedent Vedic forms of knowledge and practice. I argue that this understanding of the text can shed light on wider processes in the formation and consolidation of Sanskritic knowledge systems in early South Asia. I also suggest that the example of the Mahābhārata can help refine more general theoretical orientations to the relationship between narrative, history and culture.

Using practice analytics to understand variation and support re-flective practice: A protocol for a comprehensive digital health re-search program (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Janssen ◽  
Stella Talic ◽  
Dragan Gasevic ◽  
Tim Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Electronic Data

BACKGROUND There is an increasing quantity of electronic data sitting within the health system. This data has untapped potential to improve clinical practice if extracted efficiently and harnessed to change the behavior of health professionals. Furthermore, there is an in-creasing expectation by government and peak bodies that both individual health pro-fessionals and healthcare organisations will be utilising electronic data for licensing and accreditation. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to understand how digital technology for harnessing elec-tronic health data can be used effectively by health professionals to support practice reflection. METHODS A multidisciplinary approach was used to connect academic experts from core disci-plines of Health and Medicine, Education and Learning Sciences, and Engineering and Information Communication Technology (ICT) with government and health services partners to identify key problems preventing the healthcare industry from using elec-tronic data to support health professional learning. The approach was used to design a large-scale research program to solve this problem. The program will be delivered by doctoral candidates undertaking research projects with discrete aims that run in paral-lel to achieve the program’s overarching objectives. RESULTS The research program commenced in March 2020. Since this time four PhD Candidates have commenced their research projects. Preliminary findings are expected from indi-vidual projects in late 2021. CONCLUSIONS The approach used in this research program has potential to successfully unpack elec-tronic data siloed within clinical sites and enable health professionals to use it to reflect on their practice and deliver high quality care. Key outputs of the program will include fostering stronger connections between industry and academia, interlinking doctoral research projects to solve complex problems, the creation of new knowledge for clinical sites on how data can be used to understand performance and strengthening profes-sional development programs to align them with clinical practice. Key contributions of this paper include presenting a description of Practice Analytics, and describing the foundational academic disciplines that contribute to it. It will also present a method for designing a Practice Analytics research program.

People and the contemporary environment

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Eden
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Ecological Science ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Geographical approaches to human-environment relations have been diverse and dynamic over the last century. They have also been heavily influenced not only by academic disciplines outside geography but by popular and policy concerns outside academia. From an initial flurry of activity about how the environment influences society in the early part of the century, British geography then took a detour to other topics even as other disciplines discovered the environment as a topic of interest. This left geographers playing ‘catch-up’ in the late twentieth century, as the discipline sought to reoccupy the ground previously abandoned. This is not over yet: in the 1990s, research into ‘the environment’ and ‘nature’ was scattered across academia. This chapter examines the relationship between humans and the contemporary environment, focusing on environmental protection, environmental management and ecological science, environmental policy and management, environmentalism, and environment and history.

Atrial pressure, distension, and pacing frequency in ANP secretion in isolated perfused rabbit atria

1991 ◽  
Vol 260 (1) ◽  
pp. R39-R46 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. W. Cho ◽  
K. H. Seul ◽  
S. H. Kim ◽  
K. M. Seul ◽  
G. Y. Koh
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Atrial Natriuretic Peptide ◽  
Natriuretic Peptide ◽  
Atrial Pressure ◽  
Atrial Pacing ◽  
Atrial Myocytes ◽  
Volume Changes ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rabbit Atria

It has been suggested in this laboratory that the principal stimulus for the secretion of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is the reduction of atrial distension and that the secretion of ANP is dependent on both atrial reduction volume and reduction frequency. To investigate the relationship among the changes in atrial pressure, distension, pacing frequency, and ANP secretion, we performed a series of experiments in the isolated perfused rabbit atria. Increase in atrial pressure without changes in transmural pressure and thus without volume changes did not raise immunoreactive ANP (irANP) secretion. Atrial distension without changes in intracavitary atrial pressure increased irANP secretion with the reduction. Electrical stimulation with atrial distension resulted in an increase in irANP secretion in proportion to pacing frequency. Incremental response of irANP secretion to electrical stimulation was accentuated by increasing atrial distension. Neither atrial pacing without distension nor distension without pacing raised irANP secretion. These results suggest that the direct and principal stimulus for irANP secretion in response to atrial pacing and distension is the length shortening of atrial myocytes and that the incremental response of irANP secretion to increasing pacing frequency is the result of an increase in frequency of the length shortening of atrial myocytes.

Relationship between resistive loads and P1 peak of respiratory-related evoked potential

1997 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 918-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Knafelc ◽  
Paul W. Davenport
Keyword(s):  
Linear Relationship ◽  
Magnitude Estimation ◽  
Evoked Potential ◽  
Neural Activation ◽  
Resistive Load ◽  
Physical Magnitude ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Positive Peak ◽  
Resistive Loads ◽  
The Relationship

Knafelc, Marie, and Paul W. Davenport. Relationship between resistive loads and P1peak of respiratory-related evoked potential. J. Appl. Physiol. 83(3): 918–926, 1997.—This study investigated the relationship between resistive-load (ΔR) magnitude, the first positive peak (P1) amplitude of the respiratory-related evoked potential (RREP), and load-magnitude estimation (ME). The first experiments determined the subject’s ( n = 9) ME of five ΔR magnitudes randomly presented at the onset of an inspiration or by interrupting an inspiration. No significant differences were found in the slopes of the two different presentations, but the subjects estimated the interrupted inspiratory loads to be of lesser magnitude than loads presented at the onset of the breath. In the second series of experiments, the subject’s ( n = 6) RREPs were recorded in response to three ΔR magnitudes. The amplitude of the short-latency P1 peak of the RREP significantly increased with increases in the ΔR magnitude. A log-log plot of the group-averaged P1 amplitudes showed a linear relationship with ΔR. These results were consistent with the hypothesis that the perceptual magnitude of the respiratory load was related to the P1 amplitude of the RREP, suggesting the physical magnitude of the load-related stimulus was correlated with the amplitude of the cortical neural activation.

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