Administrative Problems of the River Basin Surveys

1963 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Simultaneous Integration ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The One

AbstractWithin the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, administration and scientific research are closely integrated but separate efforts. The one depends upon the other and vice versa, throughout, yet they require different kinds of orientation. This basic principle of simultaneous integration and separation can and should be applied to all anthropological research. Problems that must be met in administration are those of finance and the fiscal year, personnel procedures, supply and equipment, geography and logistics, coordination of scientific needs and available funds, and finally specimen and record processing. All of these have their special aspects in the River Basin Surveys but apply in general to all phases of anthropological research.

Evaluation of Personality Traits for a Successful Career of Engineers

2014 ◽  
Vol 657 ◽  
pp. 1056-1060
Author(s):  
Armin Betz
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Aptitude Testing ◽  
Successful Career ◽  
The One

Various research on aptitude testing has been accomplished yet [1,2,. Experiences from many years of HR consulting and knowledge of the industrys needs regarding to and lack of specific scientific research in aptitude testing for engineers emerged into research acivities in this field. The paper presents the data and main results of the field of aptitude testing for engineers. Its present situation as well as the reasons for that are considered and its necessity is shown. The gotten insights are presented: the existence of personality traits typical for engineers, the existence of key criteria and deduction of HR development measures necessary for a career. A newly developed personality test was applied to the occupational area of engineers. With more than 1400 tests conducted, many deductions were possible.Through the innovative approach of standard profiles of corresponding average groups rather than with demografic equivalent results could be derived. These are typical traits on the one side and development areas on the other.

scholarly journals Incurably Religious? Consensus Gentium and the Cultural Universality of Religion

Numen ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob De Roover
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Western Scholarship ◽  
The One

Abstract For centuries, the question whether there were peoples without religion was the subject of heated debate among European thinkers. At the turn of the twentieth century, this concern vanished from the radar of Western scholarship: all known peoples and societies, it was concluded, had some form of religion. This essay examines the relevant debates from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: Why was this issue so important? How did European thinkers determine whether or not some people had religion? What allowed them to close this debate? It will be shown that European descriptions of the “religions” of non-Western cultures counted as evidence for or against theoretical claims made within a particular framework, namely that of generic Christian theology. The issue of the universality of religion was settled not by scientific research but by making ad hoc modifications to this theological framework whenever it faced empirical anomalies. This is important today, because the debate concerning the cultural universality of religion has been reopened. On the one hand, evolutionary-biological explanations of religion claim that religion must be a cultural universal, since its origin lies in the evolution of the human species; on the other hand, authors suggest that religion is not a cultural universal, because many of the “religions” of humanity are fictitious entities created within an underlying theological framework.

Patanjali Ayurveda Limited: Attraction of Ayurveda Products

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rambalak Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Mix ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Herbal Products ◽  
Fast Moving Consumer Goods ◽  
Marketing Mix Strategy ◽  
Short Span ◽  
The One ◽  
A Company

Patanjali Ayurved Limited (PAL) is a company in India that deals in Ayurveda and herbal products in food, personal care and home care categories. The company started with an aim to link the rising destiny of millions of rural masses on the one hand and many more suffering and leading an unhealthy lifestyle on the other. The company within a very short span of time had succeeded in getting its foothold in the competitive Indian fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market and has reached a gross revenue of ₹25,000 million (about US$380 million) in the fiscal year 2015. The case discusses the marketing mix strategy adopted by PAL and how it helped the firm get a competitive advantage over other players in the industry. Further, the case also discusses the challenges and road ahead for the PAL.

Theoretical themes for an anthropology of resources

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-153
Author(s):  
Motomitsu Uchibori
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
Ecological Resources ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
The One

This article is a synopsis of the research project embracing a variety of topics and themes concerning things that are accepted as resources in the multi-layered fields of human activity. The project aims at developing a new integrative perspective of anthropological research through focusing upon feedback processes between formations of ‘symbolic resources’ on the one hand, and of ‘ecological resources’ on the other. These two categories of resources combine to constitute the very basis that any human society works on. Theoretical attempts are directed at establishing the thesis that modes of their allocation, distribution and common sharing reveal the most fundamental aspects of social mechanisms.

scholarly journals Rekonstruksi Metodologi Pengembangan Sains Berbasis Agama

KALAM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Mohammad Muslih
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Scientific Paradigm ◽  
Scientific Reason ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
The One ◽  
Islamic Values

The development of an integrative scientific paradigm is certainly a very large scientific project, however, it must be admitted that the success of reconstructing the new paradigm is still insufficient, as it must be supported by the availability of a functional and effective methodology. This article is a study aimed at offering a methodology for integrative paradigm-based science development, which is not only functional and effective, but also ensures productivity, as well as secure from the pseudo-scientific of abusive practices and the excessive practice of ideological science. The reconstruction of a methodology of religious-based science development urged to do, on the one hand, to provide an answer to the doubt about its compatibility with the Islamic sciences, and on the other hand deny the fear of the disappearance of Islamic values, precisely with the continued execution of scientific research, or the development of scientific reason, in general.Pembangunan paradigma ilmiah integratif sudah tentu merupakan proyek keilmuan yang sangat besar, meski demikian, harus diakui, keberhasilan melakukan rekonstruksi paradigma baru itu masih belum cukup, sebab masih harus didukung oleh tersedianya metodologi yang fungsional dan efektif. Artikel ini merupakan kajian bermaksud menawarkan metodologi pengembangan sains berbasis paradigma integratif, yang tidak hanya fungsional dan efektif, tetapi juga menjamin produktivitas, sekaligus aman dari jeratan praktek kasar pseudosaintifik dan praktek berlebihan sains ideologis. Rekonstruksi metodologi pengembangan ilmu berbasis agama mendesak untuk dilakukan, di satu sisi untuk memberi jawaban atas keraguan akan kompetabilitasnya dengan ilmu-ilmu keislaman, dan pada sisi yang lain membantah kekhawatiran akan hilangnya atau terkikisnya nilai-nilai keislaman, justru dengan semakin dijalankannya riset-riset ilmiah, atau dikembangkannya nalar ilmiah secara umum

scholarly journals METAPHYSICITY OF EVIL

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Basic Principle ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Value System ◽  
Inappropriate Use ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

In this article, the author explores the metaphysical foundations of evil. Research shows that as a transcendental phenomenon, evil reveals itself in two “optics”. On the one hand, evil means certain ontological aspects, which are distortions of the mode of co-existence. On the other hand, evil is a deformation of the existential nature of man. Thus, evil is a condition for the deformation of the ontological foundations of being, penetrating the world through human. In other words, the metaphysical nature of evil appears as, firstly, “absence”, “void” (in being), and, secondly, “distortion”, “imperfection”. In this regard, evil appears as ontologically and chronologically secondary to good. It exists only on the basis of good as its distortion, defect, simulacrum. The emptiness, unreality of evil opens the sphere of its existence, that is, an illusion. This explains the fact that evil receives its “reality”, materiality and form only with the help of a person who is free in his choice and able to distort the nature of good and realize illusion. Good is knowledge, it can transform a person, it is a living spiritual knowledge that opens itself to a knowing person in the process of mastering the surrounding reality, it fills him / her with content and uniqueness. In this perspective, good is a universal value system, the basis of which is love, truth, faith, labor, spiritual perfection, etc. In contrast, evil realizes itself in the denial of higher values, distortion or inappropriate use of the Truth of human existence. The study shows that the nature of evil is selfish, atomic and separating. Evil is all that contradicts the interests of the whole, that is, love, good, truth, freedom. It is all that individualizes, fragmentes, distorts, destroys the Truth of the whole. Thus, the basic principle of evil is “It’s every man for himself, everyone is his own god”. Therefore, as noted by religious philosophers, evil in human is associated primarily with the loss of his / her integrity. A person who has embarked on the path of violence and self-destruction is evil. This person is mistaken and unhappy, because he has not formed as a person. Goodness in human is internal integrity, unity, submission of his / her mind and bodily life to a higher spiritual principles.

The Use of Watermarking in Stereo Imaging

2011 ◽  
pp. 331-345
Author(s):  
Dinu Coltuc
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Reversible Watermarking ◽  
Memory Storage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stereo Image ◽  
Stereo Pair ◽  
Disparity Map ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost

The manipulation and processing of stereo image sequences demand higher costs in memory storage, transmission bandwidth, and computational complexity than of monoscopic images. This chapter investigates scenarios for cost reduction by using reversible watermarking. The basic principle is to embed some data by reversible watermarking instead of either computing or storing/transmitting it. Storage and/or bandwidth are reduced by embedding into one frame of a stereo pair the information needed to recover the other frame. Computational complexity is reduced by embedding the disparity map. The cost of extracting the embedded disparity map is considerably lower than the one of computing it. Experimental results are provided.

scholarly journals Interviewer presence can affect learning with interview videos

2021 ◽  
pp. 204275302199531
Author(s):  
Fang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
The Other ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Attention Effect ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The One ◽  
Generative Processing

Interviews with scholars and experts are becoming more and more popular as e-learning materials. Yet how an interview video should be edited is mostly based on personal preference rather than on rigorous scientific research. Thus this study tested whether showing the interviewer in educational interview videos can affect the learning outcome. Two interview learning materials on two topics (eye tracking and text–picture integration) were conducted by the author and edited in two versions. One version was with the interviewer and the other version was without the interviewer, the latter’s image and voice being edited out. Psychology students ( N = 180) watched either the video with or the one without the interviewer and answered the corresponding questions. Results in an online experiment yielded a better learning outcome in the video without the interviewer than in the video with the interviewer. It is probable that the absence of the interviewer can protect participants from extraneous processing and a split-attention effect. The without-interviewer video, segmented by displaying interview questions in keywords on slides, seemed to assist participants in managing the essential processing. The absence of the interviewer may avoid the confusion of multiple instructors, which fosters the generative processing. This study provides practical and pedagogical implications and suggests that removing the image and voice of the interviewer is likely to promote learning.

scholarly journals Foreground and Background in a Narrative: Trends in Foreign Linguistic and Translation Studies

Slovene ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 494-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Urzha
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Free Indirect Discourse ◽  
Indirect Discourse ◽  
The One ◽  
Anaphoric Relations

The review accumulates the information on the Theory of Grounding and Saliency Hierarchy (based on publications that have not been translated into Russian) and describes the main modern trends in the study of grounding. The Theory of Grounding, designed in the last quarter of the 20th century, has since then been developing within linguistic, narratological, cognitive and translation studies, being applied to texts of various genres in many languages. Early works in this sphere elaborated the criteria characterizing the relative grounding of the clauses in the narrative (based on temporal sequentiality and transitivity), while later research, focusing on the wider range of texts including free indirect discourse and non-sequential prose, highlighted the subjectivity of grounding, including criteria of human importance and unpredictability into the analysis of the salient clauses. As a result the Theory of Grounding has contributed to various coexisting trends in the scientific research concerning subordination of clauses and anaphoric relations in texts on the one hand, and deixis, evaluation and perspective on the other. Touching upon these trends in the review, we pay special attention to the analysis of grounding within translation studies: the researchers focus on transitivity in translation, revealing and explaining the cases of non-intentional and purposeful changes in transitivity made by translators. The analysis of the deictic center shifts in original texts and their translations also contributes to our knowledge of grounding devices. Out of all publications, our special attention is drawn to the studies of grounding that employ Russian-language narrative materials.

scholarly journals Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessels from Sites in Nacogdoches and Panola Counties in East Texas

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
The Other ◽  
East Texas ◽  
The West ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Major Tributary ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Sabine River

The ancestral Caddo ceramic vessels discussed in this article are from four different sites in Nacogdoches and Panola counties, in East Texas. The one site in Nacogdoches County, namely the Gatewood site (41NA3) is located in the Angelina River basin, while the three Panola County sites (41PN5, 41PN15, and H. L. English Farm) are on tributaries that flow into the Sabine River. The Gatewood site is on the west bank of Attoyac Bayou, a major tributary of the Angelina River basin, in the easternmost part of Nacogdoches County. In 1939, a road grader working along a county road had exposed an ancestral Caddo burial feature with skeletal remains and three ceramic vessels. Gus Arnold, working on the University of Texas Archeological survey of East Texas, recorded the site and collected one of the ceramic vessels; no details were obtained on the other two vessels in the feature.

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