scholarly journals The Impact of Language Loss on the Māori Performing Arts

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Ka'ai-Mahuta
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Language Loss ◽  
Parallel Development ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Impact

This article explores the close relationship between the loss of Te Reo Maori and the impact on Maori performing arts. The crucial role of language as the central component to Maori performing arts is examined, and the revival of Te reo Maori is considered as a parallel development to the growth in the number of Te Reo speakers since the 1970s.

scholarly journals The Syrkus couple and the global cause of modernism

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-508
Author(s):  
Martin Kohlrausch
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Nation State ◽  
World War ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
New Nation ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the role of modernist architects in Poland during the first half of the twentieth century. The article argues that against the background of economic catching-up processes and the establishment of a new nation state and capital, modernist architects could enter into a close relationship with the modernising state. This relationship could partially survive World War II, albeit under different auspices. By employing the example of Poland’s foremost modernist architect Szymon Syrkus and his wife Helena, and their extensive correspondence with other Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne architects, the article discusses, moreover, the impact of the deep breaks coming with the rise of authoritarian regimes in the 1930s, the coming World War and the Holocaust, and finally the establishment of communist regimes on modernist architects.

scholarly journals Maternal or Paternal Diabetes and Its Crucial Role in Offspring Birth Weight and MODY Diagnosis

Metabolites ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 387
Author(s):  
Valeria Calcaterra ◽  
Angela Zanfardino ◽  
Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti ◽  
Dario Iafusco
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Autosomal Dominant ◽  
Maternal Diabetes ◽  
Fetal Weight ◽  
Maturity Onset Diabetes ◽  
Heterogenous Group ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) represents a heterogenous group of monogenic autosomal dominant diseases, which accounts for 1–2% of all diabetes cases. Pregnancy represents a crucial time to diagnose MODY forms due to the 50% risk of inheritance in offspring of affected subjects and the potential implications on adequate fetal weight. Not only a history of maternal diabetes may affect the birth weight of offspring, paternal diabetes should also be taken into consideration for a correct pathogenetic diagnosis. The crucial role of maternal and paternal diabetes inheritance patterns and the impact of this inherited mutation on birthweight and the MODY diagnosis was discussed.

Consequences of changing expectations to law and its institutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 83 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 461-486
Author(s):  
Sören Koch
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
State Power ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Appellate Courts ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The 19Th Century

The paper focuses on the reasons for and effects of the establishment of appellate courts in Norway. Based on the assumption that the introduction of an appellate system was caused by – and at the same time produced – expectations of law, the author reconstructs central features of the Norwegian legal order and its surrounding legal culture. By especially looking at the crucial role of the legal office of the lawman (lagmann), both in the development of the judicature in general and especially in the courts of appeal, the legacy of the medieval popular assembly (þing / ting) is traced back to its historical roots. The author identifies a close relationship between the increasing influence of state power, the demand for an effective judiciary and prevailing ideals of justice. The result was a not always intended but continuous professionalisation of the judges until the 19th century. The introduction of a jury – consisting of lay judges – appears on this background as aberration. However, as expectations on law had changed, the participation of lay judges had become a political desire in Norway from approximately 1830. To support this political claim the judiciary was restructured by applying a deeply unhistorical perception of the judiciary’s historical roots. Due to contradicting political tendencies it took about 60 years to finally establish the jury-system. Despite the fact that the institution of the jury was constantly criticized by legal scientists and legal practitioners alike and despite losing its political backing already decades ago, it still continues to exist. Obviously, the romantic notion of folks-courts still has not lost its attraction jet. The paper demonstrates that this notion is – seen from a historical perspective – unsustainable.


Autonomic countertransference: the psychopathic mind and the institution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Rob Hale
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Autonomic Nervous System ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Personality Structure ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the crucial role of countertransference in the diagnosis and treatment of those with a psychopathic personality structure. The disturbing emotions aroused in the therapist are evoked via the autonomic nervous system. Violence provokes a sympathetic reaction, perverse sexuality a parasympathetic response; in each case this is at largely unconscious level and thus all the more powerful. The impact on the therapeutic process is then examined both at an individual and an institutional level. My definition of a psychopath is "someone who brings out the worst in me".

scholarly journals ENTROPY ANALYSIS OF WORD-LENGTH SERIES OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS: EFFECTS OF TEXT LANGUAGE AND GENRE

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (09) ◽  
pp. 1250223 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA KALIMERI ◽  
VASSILIOS CONSTANTOUDIS ◽  
CONSTANTINOS PAPADIMITRIOU ◽  
KONSTANTINOS KARAMANOS ◽  
FOTIS K. DIAKONOS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Probability Distribution ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Word Length ◽  
Entropy Analysis ◽  
N Gram ◽  
Text Language ◽  
The Impact

We estimate the n-gram entropies of natural language texts in word-length representation and find that these are sensitive to text language and genre. We attribute this sensitivity to changes in the probability distribution of the lengths of single words and emphasize the crucial role of the uniformity of probabilities of having words with length between five and ten. Furthermore, comparison with the entropies of shuffled data reveals the impact of word length correlations on the estimated n-gram entropies.

scholarly journals Exploring droplet impact near a millimetre-sized hole: comparing a closed pit with an open-ended pore

2015 ◽  
Vol 772 ◽  
pp. 427-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rianne de Jong ◽  
Oscar R. Enríquez ◽  
Devaraj van der Meer
Keyword(s):  
Impact Velocity ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Drop Impact ◽  
Impact Dynamics ◽  
Air Bubbles ◽  
Air Bubble ◽  
Impact Location ◽  
Impact Phenomena ◽  
The Impact

We investigate drop impact dynamics near closed pits and open-ended pores experimentally. The resulting impact phenomena differ greatly in each case. For a pit, we observe three distinct phenomena, which we denote as a splash, a jet and an air bubble, whose appearance depends on the distance between impact location and pit. Furthermore, we found that splash velocities can reach up to seven times the impact velocity. Drop impact near a pore, however, results solely in splashing. Interestingly, two distinct and disconnected splashing regimes occur, with a region of planar spreading in between. For pores, splashes are less pronounced than in the pit case. We state that, for the pit case, the presence of air inside it plays the crucial role of promoting splashing and allowing for air bubbles to appear.

scholarly journals Role of Time Scales in the Coupled Epidemic-Opinion Dynamics on Multiplex Networks

Entropy ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Robert Jankowski ◽  
Anna Chmiel
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Entire System ◽  
Epidemic Spreading ◽  
Multiplex Networks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Opinion Dynamic

Modelling the epidemic’s spread on multiplex networks, considering complex human behaviours, has recently gained the attention of many scientists. In this work, we study the interplay between epidemic spreading and opinion dynamics on multiplex networks. An agent in the epidemic layer could remain in one of five distinct states, resulting in the SIRQD model. The agent’s attitude towards respecting the restrictions of the pandemic plays a crucial role in its prevalence. In our model, the agent’s point of view could be altered by either conformism mechanism, social pressure, or independent actions. As the underlying opinion model, we leverage the q-voter model. The entire system constitutes a coupled opinion–dynamic model where two distinct processes occur. The question arises of how to properly align these dynamics, i.e., whether they should possess equal or disparate timescales. This paper highlights the impact of different timescales of opinion dynamics on epidemic spreading, focusing on the time and the infection’s peak.

scholarly journals The Soul of the Phonograph: Media-Technologies, Auditory Experience, and Literary Modernism in the Age of COVID-19

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Rolf J. Goebel
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Record Player ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Auditory Experience ◽  
Recurrent Theme

The unpredictable duration of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates renewed reflection on our collective reliance on video platforms such as Zoom and YouTube for telecommunication and music listening purposes, which have virtually filled the gap left by widely cancelled live performances. The affectively close relationship we forge with these services today echoes a recurrent theme in literary modernism: the tendency to endow early mechanical sound reproduction machines such as the phonograph and the record player with quasi-human subjectivity, emotions, and agency. This historical topos, in turn, anticipates posthumanism’s fascination with the seamless interface between machine-intelligence and its human users. Thinking about these cultural continuities may help the Humanities articulate the crucial role of media technologies and literary discourses under exceptional circumstances.

Democratic Openings and Country Visibility: Media Attention and the Allocation of US Democracy Aid, 1975–2010

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-396
Author(s):  
James M Scott ◽  
Charles M Rowling ◽  
Timothy M Jones
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Democracy Assistance ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Policy Priority ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Late in the twentieth century, the United States embraced democracy promotion as a foreign policy priority, a central component of which involved allocating democracy aid to governments, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations around the world to support and encourage democratization. Nonetheless, as a scarce resource, democracy assistance is allocated selectively: some states receive substantial commitments while others receive none. As previous studies have concluded, democracy aid allocations are, in part, strategic bets placed on the likelihood of progress toward and consolidation of democracy, as donors consider cues that identify situations where democracy aid is likely to be most successful. We introduce the role of media coverage as a key factor in democracy aid allocations and argue that a shift toward democracy within a potential recipient state interacts with media attention to that state to generate cues for aid allocators. To gauge the agenda-setting and cueing effects of media coverage on democracy aid allocations, we examine US democracy assistance from 1975 to 2010, weighing the impact of media attention, democratic openings, and other factors related to recipient characteristics and US political, strategic, economic, and ideational interests on democracy assistance. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings.

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