scholarly journals The Theory of the Cultural Industries: A “Milieu” for Building Dynamic Knowledge

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric George
Keyword(s):  
Nous Allons ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Social Logic

Over the past 40 years, important work has been done on cultural industries through the close collaboration of researchers in Québec and France, to the point that it has become a question of the theory of cultural industries. In this article, I first examine the institutional contexts that have supported the development of research on this theme within French and Québécoise research groups. I then focus on discussions around the very nature of “the cultural industry” as a research object, as well as its unique characteristics. Thirdly, I address another issue of debate among the protagonists of this text, the concept of a “social logic” (or “model”). Finally, I conclude with a few open-ended questions with the goal of deepening research in this domain.Depuis une quarantaine d’années, d’importants travaux ont été effectués sur les industries culturelles en collaboration étroite par des chercheurs francophones à la fois au Québec et en France tant et si bien qu’il est dorénavant question de théorie des industries culturelles. Dans le cadre de ce texte, nous allons tout d’abord revenir brièvement sur les contextes institutionnels qui ont favorisé le développement de travaux sur ce thème au sein des équipes de recherche française et québécoise. Par la suite, nous mettrons l’accent sur les discussions consacrées à la nature même de l’objet de recherche « l’industrie culturelle », ainsi qu’à ses caractéristiques, voire ses spécificités. Après quoi, nous aborderons un autre enjeu de débat parmi les protagonistes, à savoir celui qui porte sur le concept de « logique sociale » (ou de « modèle »). Enfin, nous conclurons sur quelques questions restées en suspens en vue d’approfondir les recherches dans le domaine.

scholarly journals PyroMEMS as Future Technological Building Blocks for Advanced Microenergetic Systems

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Jean-Laurent Pouchairet ◽  
Carole Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Building Block ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Function Block ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Safety And Reliability ◽  
Electronically Controllable

For the past two decades, many research groups have investigated new methods for reducing the size and cost of safe and arm-fire systems, while also improving their safety and reliability, through batch processing. Simultaneously, micro- and nanotechnology advancements regarding nanothermite materials have enabled the production of a key technological building block: pyrotechnical microsystems (pyroMEMS). This building block simply consists of microscale electric initiators with a thin thermite layer as the ignition charge. This microscale to millimeter-scale addressable pyroMEMS enables the integration of intelligence into centimeter-scale pyrotechnical systems. To illustrate this technological evolution, we hereby present the development of a smart infrared (IR) electronically controllable flare consisting of three distinct components: (1) a controllable pyrotechnical ejection block comprising three independently addressable small-scale propellers, all integrated into a one-piece molded and interconnected device, (2) a terminal function block comprising a structured IR pyrotechnical loaf coupled with a microinitiation stage integrating low-energy addressable pyroMEMS, and (3) a connected, autonomous, STANAG 4187 compliant, electronic sensor arming and firing block.

Simulation Model of Cultural Industry Agglomeration Based on SD-System Dynamics Theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 584 ◽  
pp. 312-317
Author(s):  
Yong Jun He ◽  
Li Ping Fu
Keyword(s):  
System Dynamics ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Industry Agglomeration ◽  
Research Situation

The experience of countries and regions with developed cultural industries has shown that environment of gathering development could boost the cultural industries with distinctive character and good brand, which supports the development of the whole regional cultural industries. Gathering development could strongly bring the cultural industry stronger. This paper, on the current research situation of cultural industry agglomeration studying, introduces system dynamics theory into the research of cultural industry gathering, builds its model on system dynamics theory.

Design and Marker-Based Validation of a Biplane Fluoroscopy System for Studying the Foot and Ankle

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Iaquinto ◽  
Richard Tsai ◽  
Michael J. Fassbind ◽  
David R. Haynor ◽  
Bruce J. Sangeorzan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Precise Measurement ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Body ◽  
Initial Evaluation ◽  
Foot And Ankle ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Biplane Fluoroscopy ◽  
Model Based Analysis

The ability to accurately measure three dimensional (3D) bone kinematics is key to understanding the motion of the joints of the body, and how such motion is altered by injury, disease, and treatment. Precise measurement of such kinematics is technically challenging. Biplane fluoroscopy is ideally suited to measure bone motion. Such systems have been developed in the past for both radiographic stereo-photogrammetric analysis (RSA) [1] and the more challenging model-based analysis [2]. Research groups have studied the knee [3,4], shoulder [5] and ankle [6] motion with similar techniques. The work presented here is an initial evaluation of the performance of our system, i.e., a validation that this in-house system can detect magnitudes of motion on-par with other existing systems.

The Primacy of Politics

1951 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
James K. Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Generous Time ◽  
The Status ◽  
Do So

In presenting my valedictory to this distinguished Association which has honored me by selecting me as its President, I should like to point out by way of introduction what has happened to this office, and therefore to me, during the past year. I have heard of one of my distinguished predecessors some twenty-five years ago who had little else to do as President of this Association than work all year on his presidential address. This was important work and I have no word of criticism of it. But the Association has changed, and today it leaves to the harried wearer of its presidential toga little time to reflect about the status of political science and his own impact, if any, upon it. An active Association life, now happily centered in our new Washington office, is enough to occupy the full time of your President, and universities as well as this Association might well take note. Therefore, in presenting my own reflections to you this evening in accordance with the custom of our Association, I do so without the benefit of the generous time and scholarly leisure which were the privileges of some of my distinguished predecessors.Nevertheless I do base my presidential address today upon my own active participation in the problems of government, as well as upon my scholarly experience. I have extracted it in part from the dynamics of pulsating political life. It has whatever authority I may possess after having been exposed these twenty-five years to the cross-fire of politics, domestic and foreign, as well as to the benign and corrective influences of eager students and charitable colleagues.

Editorial Policy of PMLA

PMLA ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 74 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 488-488
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Younger Men ◽  
Selection Of

We Venture to reaffirm the policy which has guided the selection of articles during the past decade, namely, that PMLA should reflect the most distinguished American scholarship in the modern languages and literatures. It is not a place for beginners to try their wings, unless those wings are used for sure and significant flight; and it is not a place for established scholars to publish their incidental writings, unless those writings compare in excellence and value with those of younger men. As the official Publications of the Modern Language Association of America PMLA should publish to the learned world the most important work of members of the Association.

A Different View of Surfactant Development

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-173
Author(s):  
JOHN KATTWINKEL
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Distress Syndrome ◽  
Respiratory Distress ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Distress Syndrome ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Joint Product ◽  
International Joint ◽  
Neonatal Respiratory Distress ◽  
Better Than

To the Editor.— Dr Lucey has praised the neonatology profession for finally "getting it right" in its recent development of surfactant therapy for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome.1 Although, in some respects, I agree that we have done it better than in the past, I believe there needs to be an opposing view presented to his uniformly rosy assessment. Yes, we do have a "therapy which we know works and is safe," and which was an international joint product of research groups, industry, and the Food and Drug Administration.

Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience

2021 ◽  
pp. 146954052110620
Author(s):  
Lars de Wildt ◽  
Stef Aupers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural Industry

Videogame companies are selling religion to an overwhelmingly secular demographic. Ubisoft, the biggest company in the world’s biggest cultural industry, created a best-selling franchise about a conflict over Biblical artefacts between Muslim Assassins and Christian Templars. Who decides to put religion into those games? How? And why? To find out, we interviewed 22 developers on the Assassin’s Creed franchise, including directors and writers. Based on those, we show that the “who” of Ubisoft is not a person but an industry: a de-personalized and codified process. How? Marketing, editorial and production teams curb creative teams into reproducing a formula: a depoliticized, universalized, and science-fictionalized “marketable religion.” Why? Because this marketable form of religious heritage can be consumed by everyone—regardless of cultural background or conviction. As such, this paper adds an empirically grounded perspective on the “who,” “why,” and “how” of cultural industries’ successful commodification of religious and cultural heritage.

The Study of Heikhalot Literature: Between Mystical Experience and Textual Artifact

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ra'Anan S. Boustan
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Complex Material ◽  
Jewish Mysticism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Heterogeneous Nature ◽  
Material Conditions

This essay outlines the fundamental methodological and empirical advances that the study of Heikhalot literature has experienced during the past 25 years with the aim of encouraging specialists and enabling non-specialists to approach this complex material with greater precision and sophistication. The field of early Jewish mysticism has been profoundly shaped by the increasing integration in the humanities of cultural and material histories, resulting in an increased focus on scribal practice and other material conditions that shaped the production and transmission of these texts. Against previous assumptions, recent research has shown Heikhalot literature to be a radically unstable literature. This article will review the research tools (editions, concordances, translations, etc.) that now allow for careful analysis of Heikhalot and related texts. Tracing recent research, I demonstrate how our new understanding of the fluid and heterogeneous nature of the Heikhalot corpus will better enable scholars to pursue the important work of understanding its social and religious significance, within the broader landscape of late antique and medieval religions.

scholarly journals Implementing Multi-Criteria Analysis in the Selection of AUCHS for the Integration of Digital Technologies into the Tourism Offering: The Case of MeDryDive

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 4460-4472
Author(s):  
Angelos Manglis ◽  
Paschalina Giatsiatsou ◽  
Dimitra Papadopoulou ◽  
Vasiliki Drouga ◽  
Anastasia Fourkiotou
Keyword(s):  
Site Selection ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Underwater Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Appropriateness Criteria ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Selection Of

Focusing on both physical and virtual accessibility, this paper presents the methodology developed by MeDryDive for the selection of AUCHS (Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites) in Greece, Italy, Croatia, and Montenegro. MeDryDive is a project that aims at the promotion of AUCHS in the Mediterranean as distinctive tourism destinations through personalized dry dive experiences. The candidate sites are assessed in order to be included in the transnational thematic tourism product “Dive in the Past” and promoted through Creative and Cultural Industry (CCI) applications, including a Serious Game, Augmented and Virtual Reality applications, and promotional videos, all developed in the context of the project. The main goal of the methodology is to meet the requirements for both the sustainability of the thematic tourism product and the digital applications’ development. The assessment of AUCHS is based on specific criteria that result from setting weighing factors and classifying indicators as either critical or non-critical. The criteria are categorized into core (feasibility) criteria and complementary (appropriateness) criteria for determining the total level of readiness. This set of criteria enables site selection through an elimination method, identifying the suitable pilot and follow-on sites for the integration of digital technologies into the tourism offering.

scholarly journals New Ideas for the Development of Tea Culture Tourism Economy in the Internet Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 01051
Author(s):  
Fei Deng
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Times ◽  
Tourism Economy ◽  
Rich History

Tea originated in China and flourished in China. Tea has a long history for China. Tea has given birth to rich history and culture in the long river of history. Tea culture has become an important part of our excellent traditional culture, which has given birth to countless traditional cultural industries. Although with the development of the times, Chinese traditional cultural industry is facing many challenges. Fortunately, the arrival of the information age has brought new opportunities for the traditional cultural industry. This paper analyzes the new ideas brought by the era of “Internet” for the development of tea culture tourism economy, and discusses how to better use information technology to help the development of traditional cultural industry.

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