Encoded Perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-196
Author(s):  
Helena Shaskevich
Keyword(s):  
Computer Art ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Early Computer ◽  
Asset Class

Despite her status as an unpaid “resident visitor” for most of her nearly two-decade tenure there, Lillian Schwartz created some of the most important works of early computer art at Bell Labs. This essay unravels the conceptual frameworks of “vision” as they manifest in Schwartz’s early computer films made between 1970 and 1972, with a specific emphasis on vision as “information” and “data.” It argues that these specific films in Schwartz’s oeuvre explored a newly emerging model of vision based on the rendering practices of computers and scientific instruments, while navigating the fraught question of the role of the embodied viewer. Resisting this rationalized order of vision, which would ultimately result in the emergence of information as both a commodity and an asset class, Schwartz’s films instead explore the contingencies of rendering information with the newly developing medium of the computer.

scholarly journals Understanding the role of conceptual frameworks: Reading the ecosystem service cascade

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 428-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Potschin-Young ◽  
R. Haines-Young ◽  
C. Görg ◽  
U. Heink ◽  
K. Jax ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks

scholarly journals Initial coin offerings and the cryptocurrency hype - the moderating role of exogenous and endogenous signals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Thies ◽  
Sören Wallbach ◽  
Michael Wessel ◽  
Markus Besler ◽  
Alexander Benlian
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Initial Coin Offerings

AbstractInitial coin offerings (ICOs) have recently emerged as a new financing instrument for entrepreneurial ventures, spurring economic and academic interest. Nevertheless, the impact of exogenous and endogenous signals on the performance of ICOs as well as the effects of the cryptocurrency hype and subsequent downfall of Bitcoin between 2016 and 2019 remain underexplored. We applied ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions based on a dataset containing 1597 ICOs that covers almost 2.5 years. The results show that exogenous and endogenous signals have a significant effect on the funds raised in ICOs. We also find that the Bitcoin price heavily drives the performance of ICOs. However, this hype effect is moderated, as high-quality ICOs are not pegged to these price developments. Revealing the interplay between hypes and signals in the ICO’s asset class should broaden the discussion of this emerging digital phenomenon.

scholarly journals The implications for bank risk posed by the bail-in amendments to the ranking of unsecured senior debt instruments in insolvency hierarchy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Laurence Jones ◽  
Enrico Geretto ◽  
Maurizio Polato ◽  
Giulio Velliscig
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Bank Risk ◽  
Panel Data Regression ◽  
Data Regression ◽  
Bank Managers ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
European Banks

Given the scarce empirical research supporting the branch of literature investigating the shortcomings of the bail-in regime (Hadjiemmanuil, 2015; Walther & White, 2020; Tröger, 2020), this paper offers a contribution in this regard investigating the implications for bank risk posed by the amendments to the unsecured senior debt asset class required to enhance the bail-in regime. To this purpose, we use a sample of 46 banks distributed over 17 European countries over the period of Q1 2010–Q4 2019. We thus run a fixed effect panel data regression over the entire period and also over the subperiods before and after the start of the overhaul of the unsecured senior debt asset class. Our main result points out the significant role of unsecured senior debt in explaining bank’s risk after the start of the amendments campaign which allowed this asset class to serve the enhancement of the bail-in regime. We attribute this result to the uncertain gone-concern loss-absorbing capacity of unsecured senior debt and its material cost exacerbated by the bail-in buffer shortfall of many European banks. Our result pique policymakers’ attention to the side-effects of the amendments to the bail-in regime and further guide bank managers’ decisions about regulatory funding strategies.

Science for Everyone

2010 ◽  
pp. 344-354
Author(s):  
Charles A. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Data Streams ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Culture Of Learning ◽  
Directed Learning

Recent and emerging technologies offer many opportunities for exploration and learning. These technologies allow learners (of any age) to work with real data, use authentic scientific instruments, explore immersive simulations and act as scientists. The capabilities soon to be available raise questions about the role of schools and do rely on directed learning traditionally supplied by teachers. The prevalence of new tools and data streams can transform society, not just kids, into a culture of learning.

scholarly journals From right to good, and to asset: The state-led financialisation of the social rented housing in Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442094151
Author(s):  
Emanuele Belotti ◽  
Sonia Arbaci
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
The State ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Investment Fund ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Asset Class

Rental housing has been regarded as the new ‘frontier for financialisation’ since the 2007 financial crisis. But research examining financialisation of de-commodified rental housing is limited and is primarily focused on stock acquisitions by financial investors and the enabling role of either national or local governments. This critically overlooks the emergence of the financialised production of social rented housing, the interplay between levels of government (particularly with the regional level), and the leading role of the state in these processes. By combining a political sociology approach to policy instruments with a housing system studies perspective, the paper investigates how Italy, through the interplay between national, regional (Lombardy) and local (Milan) governments, led the financialisation of its social rented housing production. Through analyses of six decades of financial-legislative changes in the housing system regarding production/provision, finance and land supply, it identifies a three-stage journey towards financialisation: (1) the rise and fall of publicly-owned rental social housing (1950s to 1990s); (2) the regionalisation and marketisation of the sector up to the late 2000s; and (3) the upward transfer from the first local-scale experiment with the real estate mutual investment fund in Milan to the creation of a national-scale System of Funds for the production of social rented housing. The study shows that the re-commodification of housing and land initiated in the 1980s were intertwined and a conditio-sine-qua-non for financialisation; that the state played a crafting—rather than solely enabling—role in this process; and that trans-scalar legislative–financial innovations transformed social rented housing into a liquid asset class.

From analogue to digital: preserving early computer-generated art in the V&A’s collections

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Douglas Dodds
Keyword(s):  
Computer Art ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Early Computer ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analogue To Digital ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the UK’s emerging national collection of early computer-generated art and design. Many of the earliest works only survive on paper, but the V&A also holds some born-digital material. The Museum is currently involved in a project to digitise the computer art collections and to make the information available online. Artworks, books and ephemera from the Patric Prince Collection and the archives of the Computer Arts Society are included in a V&A display on the history of computer-generated art, entitled Digital pioneers. In addition, the project is contributing to the development of the Museum’s procedures for dealing with time-based media.

The “Organizational Development” of International Organizations

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 917-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe C. Schmitter
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
State Of Affairs

Inquiry into the nature and role of international organizations has not been a noticeably cumulative enterprise. Descriptive lacunae have been filled, new and more reliable techniques of observation and measurement have been introduced, and more sophisticated and powerful instruments of analysis have been brought to bear on various problems—all signs of change, even of progress—but the field as a whole remains “notorious for its lack of systematic and testable theory.” This state of affairs has been lamented generally and has been contrasted specifically with the situation which prevails in international organization's “stepfield” of regional integration. Here, previous paradigms and conceptual frameworks have been scrutinized critically and constructively; alternative measures and additional hypotheses have been proposed; originally divergent “perspectives” have acquired convergent properties; and speculative reformalizations have been advanced which seek to build upon past criticisms.

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