scholarly journals Taboo on spiritual incest: justification of the anthropic principle

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-116
Author(s):  
Mikhail Strigin
Keyword(s):  
Anthropic Principle ◽  
Evolutionary Pattern ◽  
Isolating Mechanisms ◽  
Evolution Of Life ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Impact

This article makes an attempt to demonstrate that the evolution of culture is isomorphic to the evolution of life, and thus, such isomorphism can be considered a basic metaphor for studying the evolution of culture. Such research allows explicating the key cultural processes, which are imperceptible to other methods, and suggest algorithms for adjusting these processes. Leaning on fact that life due to the impact of isolating mechanisms of nature constantly forms different taxa, in which the evolution rapidly fades, it is proven that isolation of cultural memes leads to their degeneration. The emergence of certain taboos, such as the taboo on incest, cause fusion of taxa, which accelerates the evolution and results in structural revolutions. Such evolutionary pattern can be described with Freud’s metaphor from the eponymous book “Totem and Taboo». Totemism explicates teleologicity of evolution as the need for uniting all taxa into one. The work displays that culture has already formed the plurality of “semantic taxa”, which require unification, or at least, interaction with each other; such interaction should stimulate the taboo on “spiritual incest, which means limitation of evolution within a single semantic taxon.

scholarly journals Changes in the themes, aesthetics and functions of public images in Kyiv due to the influence of socio-cultural processes in the society of 1990-2010

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Mariia Ospishcheva-Pavlyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theoretical Developments

On the back of the rapid development in public art in recent decades, and in particular graffiti and muralism, interest in them has grown significantly among cultural studies scholars, art critics, architects, sociologists, and urban planners. Numerous works that have appeared in the West and in Ukraine are devoted to various aspects of the visual public art existence. This theme continues to be one of the most relevant for contemporary visual art. This article complements the bunch of acquired knowledge with a detailed study of the impact of socio-cultural processes in society on the changes that took place in monumental painting, graffiti and muralism in Kyiv during 1990–2010, i.e. during the most important changes in politics and society in recent decades. The peculiarities of each historical stage of this influence are analysed and outlined in the study, and the theoretical analysis is displayed by the description of the most characteristic works. Most of them are researched in detail. In addition, the process of decline of monumental painting in the late 1980s and early 1990s is analysed, the factors of graffiti flourishing in the 1990s are identified and highlighted, and the origins of the rapid development of muralism after 2004 and especially after 2014 are explored. At each stage, changes in the themes, aesthetics and functions of public images are traced. The definitions, such as muralism and graffiti, are updated in this paper, taking into account changes in art and the latest achievements in its analysis. The manifestations of the national-patriotic themes in the contemporary art of muralism are considered in detail, the classification of art work on this subject is given, the corresponding examples are given. Such concepts as public art, synthesis of arts, monumental painting, graffiti, muralism are attentively aligned. The study of the nature of the socio-cultural processes and visual arts correlations is promising for further scientific and theoretical developments and the practical aspect for better understanding of the specific works

scholarly journals Application of Agent-based Modeling for Cultural Information-based Decisions Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 8-28
Author(s):  
Rimvydas Laužikas ◽  
Darius Plikynas ◽  
Vytautas Dulskis ◽  
Leonidas Sakalauskas ◽  
Arūnas Miliauskas
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Agent Based Simulation ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Impact

The impact of cultural processes on personal and social changes is one of the important research issues not only in contemporary social sciences but also for simulation of future development scenarios and evidence-based policy decision making. In the context of the theoretical concept of cultural values, based on the system theory and theory of social capital, the impact of cultural events could be analyzed and simulated by focussing on the construction/deconstruction of social capital, which takes place throughout the actor’s cultural participation. The main goal of this research is the development of measuring metrics, and agent-based simulation model aimed at investigation of the social impact of cultural processes.  This paper provides new insights of modeling the social capital changes in a society and its groups, depending on cultural participation. The proposed measurement metrics provide the measurement facility of three key components: actors, cultural events and events flow and social capital. It provides the initial proof of concept simulation results, - simplified agent-based simulation model showcase. The NetLogo MAS platform is used as a simulation environment.  

Maintaining the Representation of Female Power through Beskalan Putri

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Sunardi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Space ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Female Power ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter examines some of the ways in which artists have maintained cultural space for the representation of female power through Beskalan Putri as they have adapted, taught, remembered, learned, performed, and talked about this dance. It focuses on representations of female power through Beskalan Putri because, building on the senses of history explored in the previous chapter, this dance and the femaleness performers associated with it were critical to their senses of Malangan tradition. This analysis thus further illustrates the selection of tradition and the construction of gender as mutually constitutive cultural processes. Considering artists' concerns with preservation as well as the impact of social, political, and cultural climates on the ways artists represented female power through this dance, this chapter argues that artists represented female power strategically—that is, in a “safe” way in times following trauma.

scholarly journals Reproduction costs can drive the evolution of groups

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy Pichugin ◽  
Arne Traulsen
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycles ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Structured Population ◽  
Evolution Of Life ◽  
Undifferentiated Cells ◽  
Reproduction Costs ◽  
The Impact

AbstractA fascinating wealth of life cycles is observed in biology, from unicellularity to the concerted fragmentation of multi-cellular units. However, the understanding of factors driving the evolution of life cycles is still limited. We investigate how reproduction costs influence this process. We consider a basic model of a group structured population of undifferentiated cells, where groups reproduce by fragmentation. Fragmentation events are associated with a cost expressed by either a fragmentation delay, a fragmentation risk, or a fragmentation loss. The introduction of such fragmentation costs vastly increases the set of potentially optimal life cycles. Based on these findings, we suggest that the evolution of life cycles and the splitting into multiple offspring can be directly associated with the fragmentation cost. Moreover, the impact of this cost alone is strong enough to drive the emergence of multicellular groups, even under scenarios that strongly disfavour groups compared to solitary individuals.

scholarly journals Common evolutionary features of the envelope glycoprotein of HIV-1 in patients belonging to a transmission chain

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxime Beretta ◽  
Julie Migraine ◽  
Alain Moreau ◽  
Asma Essat ◽  
Cécile Goujard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infected Individual ◽  
Neutralizing Antibody ◽  
Viral Escape ◽  
V3 Loop ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Evolutionary Pattern ◽  
Transmission Chain ◽  
Evolutionary Features ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hiv 1

Abstract The diversity of the HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins (Env) is largely a consequence of the pressure exerted by the adaptive immune response to infection. While it was generally assumed that the neutralizing antibody (NAb) response depended mainly on the infected individual, the concept that virus-related factors could be important in inducing this response has recently emerged. Here, we analyzed the influence of the infecting viral strain in shaping NAb responses in four HIV-1 infected subjects belonging to a transmission chain. We also explored the impact of NAb responses on the functional evolution of the viral quasispecies. The four patients developed a strong autologous neutralizing antibody response that drove viral escape and coincided with a parallel evolution of their infecting quasispecies towards increasing infectious properties, increasing susceptibility to T20 and increasing resistance to both CD4 analogs and V3 loop-directed NAbs. This evolution was associated with identical Env sequence changes at several positions in the V3 loop, the fusion peptide and the HR2 domain of gp41. The common evolutionary pattern of Env in different hosts suggests that the capacity of a given Env to adapt to changing environments may be restricted by functional constraints that limit its evolutionary landscape.

ETHNOGENESIS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE UZBEK PEOPLE

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Nurullo Tursunov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethnographic History ◽  
The Impact

The article aims to study the ethnographic status of the studied region, the impact of historical events on ethno-cultural processes, the role of socio-political processes in the material culture of the region's population based on historical and ethnographic materials

scholarly journals Evolution of multicellular life cycles under costly fragmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e1008406
Author(s):  
Yuriy Pichugin ◽  
Arne Traulsen
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rates ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Cell Loss ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Additional Risk ◽  
Structured Population ◽  
Evolution Of Life ◽  
Undifferentiated Cells ◽  
A Cell ◽  
The Impact

A fascinating wealth of life cycles is observed in biology, from unicellularity to the concerted fragmentation of multicellular units. However, the understanding of factors driving their evolution is still limited. We show that costs of fragmentation have a major impact on the evolution of life cycles due to their influence on the growth rates of the associated populations. We model a group structured population of undifferentiated cells, where cell clusters reproduce by fragmentation. Fragmentation events are associated with a cost expressed by either a fragmentation delay, an additional risk, or a cell loss. The introduction of such fragmentation costs vastly increases the set of possible life cycles. Based on these findings, we suggest that the evolution of life cycles involving splitting into multiple offspring can be directly associated with the fragmentation cost. Moreover, the impact of this cost alone is strong enough to drive the emergence of multicellular units that eventually split into many single cells, even under scenarios that strongly disfavour collectives compared to solitary individuals.

scholarly journals SOCIAL COMPETENCIES AND PERSPECTIVES OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN LOGISTICS ORGANIZATION

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramunas Palšaitis ◽  
Kristina Čižiunienė ◽  
Kristina Vaičiutė
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
Logistics Service ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Logistics Service Quality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

Clients of logistics organizations often demand not only one service, but a total logistics package. Therefore, globalization of economic, social and cultural processes pose new challenges for human resource management. The paper analyzes the impact of human resource competence features and its use as a tool for development of logistics organization and logistics service quality assurance. Competence measurement is complicated, it requires sophisticated studies, thus competence is often assessed on the grounds of simple, easily expressed, but often frustrated total image indicators, such as education and training. The conducted qualitative research enabled the identification of human resource social competence problematics in logistics organizations.

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