scholarly journals Firekeepers

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. e2700
Author(s):  
Rossella Ragazzi
Keyword(s):  
Specific Form ◽  
Cultural Complexity ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Saami People ◽  
Northern Russia ◽  
High Level ◽  
Imagined Nation ◽  
Throat Singing

Sápmi is the term of the imagined nation of the Saami people, covering a territory that goes across Norway, Sweden, Finland and Northern Russia. The joik is the specific form of Saami chanting. It coveys lyrics, melody and throat singing techniques, with a high level of abstraction in rendering the relation to people, natural sites, places, animals and events,  that we attempted to understand contextually and historically. The cultural complexity emerging in this multivocal and multisited project shows the embodiment of verbal recollections, gestures, conversations, lyrics, chants, improvisations, outbursts and secretive features of the Saami chanting endeavor.  Among the socio-political issues that the film addressed is the poignant reality of fading away languages: Southern Saami is today spoken by less than 500 speakers in Norway.   

“Farewell to Unjustified Enrichment?” – A Common Law Response

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-337
Author(s):  
Steve Hedley
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
German Law ◽  
Unjust Enrichment ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
The Law ◽  
Unjustified Enrichment ◽  
High Level ◽  
Logical Process

In this article, Professor Steve Hedley offers a Common Law response to he recently published arguments of Professor Nils Jansen on the German law of unjustified enrichment (as to which, see Jansen, “Farewell to Unjustified Enrichment” (2016) 20 EdinLR 123). The author takes the view that Jansen's paper provided a welcome opportunity to reconsider not merely what unjust enrichment can logically be, but what it is for. He argues that unjust enrichment talk contributes little of value, and that the supposedly logical process of stating it at a high level of abstraction, and then seeking to deduce the law from that abstraction, merely distracts lawyers from the equities of the cases they consider.

A Tight Connection Among Wealth, Income, Sustainability, and Accounting in an Ultra-Simplified Setting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin L. Weitzman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Quantitative Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Relationship ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Tight Connection ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

In theory, and under some very strong assumptions, there exists a tight quantitative relationship among the following four fundamental economic concepts: (1) ‘wealth’; (2) ‘income’; (3) ‘sustainability’; (4) ‘accounting’. These four basic concepts are placed in quotation marks here because a necessary first step will be to carefully and rigorously define what exactly is meant by each. This chapter reviews what is known about this important fourfold quantitative relationship in an ultra-simplified setting. It identifies some basic applications of this simplified economic theory of wealth and income (and sustainability and accounting). While the contents of this chapter are expressed at a very high level of abstraction and require many restrictive assumptions, the fundamental fourfold relationship it sharply highlights should be useful for conceptualizing, at least in principle, what is ‘wealth’ and what is its theoretical relationship to ‘income’, ‘sustainability’, and ‘accounting’.

Lithic Procurement and Prehistoric Exchange on the Santa Barbara Coast: The Role of Franciscan Chert

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry D. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Cultural Complexity ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Hunting And Gathering ◽  
Significant Movement ◽  
New Research ◽  
High Level ◽  
Research Domain

The development of inter-regional exchange systems is one of the outstanding achievements of the native Chumash of southern California, a coastal hunting and gathering society characterized by a relatively high level of cultural complexity. Understanding the evolution of inter-regional exchange is a major research domain, and one element is to characterize the nature and intensity of prehistoric exchange between three macrozones: the offshore islands, the coastal plain, and the interior. Unfortunately, biases in the archaeological record downplay the significance of trade from the interior to the coast and thus skew current views about the evolution of inter-regional exchange. Analysis of an important lithic material—Franciscan chert—documents the significant movement of this resource from the interior to the coast and outlines new research approaches.

Sequential debugging at a high level of abstraction

IEEE Software ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Olsson ◽  
R.H. Crawford ◽  
W.W. Ho ◽  
C.E. Wee
Keyword(s):  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
High Level

Alcohol Expectancies in Relation to Personality and Aggression among Juvenile Delinquents in Northern Russia

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Roman A. Koposov ◽  
Vladislav V. Ruchkin ◽  
Martin Eisemann ◽  
Pavel I. Sidorov
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Juvenile Delinquents ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
Alcohol Expectancies ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Alcohol Prevention ◽  
Northern Russia ◽  
High Level ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

The relationships between alcohol expectancies, level of alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, aggression, and personality factors in 198 Russian male juvenile delinquents were assessed. A clustering procedure was used in order to establish main patterns of alcohol expectancies, yielding three major clusters. Level of alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, aggression, and personality factors were compared across the identified clusters. It was established that juvenile delinquents with a high level of positive alcohol expectancies and aggression represented a risk-group for higher involvement in drinking behavior as well as problem drinking, which in turn are related to specific personality traits. Implications of these findings for alcohol prevention among the youth are discussed.

scholarly journals Making Sense of ‘Global’ Social Justice: Claims for Justice in a Global Labour Market

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Winchester ◽  
Nicholas Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
International Forum ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
High Level

Inequality and social justice are key issues in a context marked by endemic interconnectedness. However, traditional accounts of social justice deploy explanatory frameworks that are state bound. By contrast, it is argued that globalisation has led to the emergence and entrenchment of forms and structures of power and influence that operate beyond and across national boundaries and that are capable of perpetrating inequity and injustice. In response theorists have begun to argue for the need to recognise the demands of social justice in non-state territorial contexts. Whilst extant theories offer a high level of abstraction, we ground these theories by examining the global labour market for seafarers as an example of a multinational workforce operating in a global context. The paper offers a detailed examination of these workers raising a global social justice claim within an international forum. In so doing we argue that this case leads to a significant problematisation of global social justice as an empirical phenomenon and conceptual object; one that escapes extant theoretical resources. In conclusion we highlight conceptual and pragmatic issues associated with theorising and realising global social justice, and the role that sociology has to play in this endeavour.

Chinese BRI in Balkans will rouse West’s concerns

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
High Level

Subject Chinese projects in Balkans. Significance China’s growing Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) footprint in South-Eastern Europe has put the EU and the United States on alert. Coupled with traditional Russian and Turkish influence in the region, Beijing’s economic diplomacy fuels fears of escalating geopolitical competition. Impacts Chinese investment projects will face greater EU scrutiny. Infrastructure development remains central to China’s presence but also raises concerns about high-level corruption and the rule of law. Unlike Russia, China will keep a low profile on political issues such as Kosovo.

scholarly journals CHARM 2010: EXPERIMENT SUMMARY AND FUTURE CHARM FACILITIES

2011 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
pp. 209-213
Author(s):  
JEFFREY A. APPEL
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Results ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
High Level ◽  
Summary Talk

The CHARM 2010 meeting had over 30 presentations of experimental results, plus additional future facilities talks just before this summary talk. Since there is not enough time even to summarize all that has been shown from experiments and to recognize all the memorable plots and results, this summary will give a few personal observations, an overview at a fairly high level of abstraction.

Time in Multidimensional Databases

2003 ◽  
pp. 166-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto O. Mendelzon ◽  
Alejandro A. Vaisman
Keyword(s):  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Data Warehousing ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Temporal Databases ◽  
Multidimensional Model ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Multidimensional Databases ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Level

In spite of the obvious importance of time in data warehousing and OLAP, current commercial systems do not support tracking the history of a data warehouse, either at the schema or instance level. In this chapter we address this issue, introducing the Temporal Multidimensional Model and a query language, denoted TOLAP, allowing expressing temporal OLAP queries at a high level of abstraction. Further, we show that previous work in temporal databases needs to be extended in order to handle evolution and versioning in OLAP. Finally, we present an implementation, along with preliminary experimental results.

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