scholarly journals Parasitic Architecture - Embodiment of Dystopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Marina Pomigalova
Keyword(s):  
Active Participation ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
New Form ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Over Time

<p>This thesis advocates for unconventional solutions in architecture, arguing that traditional approaches may no longer be successful within contemporary realities. Through searching for answers and inspiration within precedents and fictional realms, this thesis opens a door to a hypothetical place where architecture takes new form - to the territory existing between abstract and physical, where speculative ideas become a way of understanding negotiation between present and future in search of new architectural solutions. The thesis advocates for the importance of the speculative method in architecture, as such an approach allows one to imagine fictional possibilities in order to create more responsive structures, which are always modern.  Through analysis of parasitic behaviours, this thesis speculates on how architecture will respond to environmental and social changes, and what types of structures can evolve and adapt over time. Through experimentation and speculation, the thesis examines parasitic behaviors as a way for organisms to evolve, in order to test if such strategies could be successfully used in architecture. Speculating on conditions in which people are forced to find living alternatives, the thesis proposes new ways for contemporary design to evolve through active participation of habitants in the ongoing developments and expansion of the buildable space around.</p>

scholarly journals Parasitic Architecture - Embodiment of Dystopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Marina Pomigalova
Keyword(s):  
Active Participation ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
New Form ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Over Time

<p>This thesis advocates for unconventional solutions in architecture, arguing that traditional approaches may no longer be successful within contemporary realities. Through searching for answers and inspiration within precedents and fictional realms, this thesis opens a door to a hypothetical place where architecture takes new form - to the territory existing between abstract and physical, where speculative ideas become a way of understanding negotiation between present and future in search of new architectural solutions. The thesis advocates for the importance of the speculative method in architecture, as such an approach allows one to imagine fictional possibilities in order to create more responsive structures, which are always modern.  Through analysis of parasitic behaviours, this thesis speculates on how architecture will respond to environmental and social changes, and what types of structures can evolve and adapt over time. Through experimentation and speculation, the thesis examines parasitic behaviors as a way for organisms to evolve, in order to test if such strategies could be successfully used in architecture. Speculating on conditions in which people are forced to find living alternatives, the thesis proposes new ways for contemporary design to evolve through active participation of habitants in the ongoing developments and expansion of the buildable space around.</p>

Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Memory Theory ◽  
State Changes ◽  
New Form ◽  
Religious Material ◽  
Over Time

This study demonstrates the importance of references to religious material in Tacitus’ Annals by analyzing them using cultural memory theory. Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, emperor cult, and other religious material. Tacitus, who was not only a historian but also a member of Rome’s quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life. Yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes. Simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. The study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus’ narrative, to show how Tacitus views the development of this cultic ‘amnesia’ over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius’ failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero.

Gender, mobility and contact

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-167
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Travis ◽  
Inas Ghina
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Aceh Province ◽  
Rural Variety ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Abstract We examine variation in a rural variety of Acehnese spoken in Aceh Province, to better understand the impact of long-term contact with Indonesian and increasing urbanization. The Great Aceh variety is characterized by variable realization of word-final (t) as a dental vs. glottal stop. Analyses of over 2,000 tokens of this variable from a corpus of spontaneous speech from 35 speakers indicate that the variability is relatively stable among men, and among women of high mobility, measured in terms of education, occupation, and time spent outside Great Aceh. Women with low mobility produce the lowest rates of [t̪], and in this group we observe a higher rate of [t̪] by younger than older women, suggesting change over time. We thus find both stability – among those who have long enjoyed high levels of mobility – and change – among those most affected by recent social changes, namely low-mobility women.

scholarly journals Stress-related inflammation and social withdrawal in mothers after childhood cancer diagnosis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily K Lindsay ◽  
Tristen K. Inagaki ◽  
Catherine Walsh ◽  
Berhane Messay ◽  
Linda Ewing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Systemic Inflammation ◽  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Objective: Acute inflammation-induced sickness behavior involves changes in social behavior that are believed to promote recovery. Whether chronic inflammation can influence social behaviors in ways that promote recovery is unknown. In a sample of mothers of a child with cancer, this report explores the relationship between inflammation that accompanies the stress of diagnosis and changes in social network, cancer-related stress, and inflammation across one year. Three hypotheses were tested, that (1) initial stress would associate with initial inflammation, (2) initial inflammation would predict social changes over time, and (3) social changes over time would buffer stress and inflammation over time. Methods: Cancer-related stress (Impact of Events Scale), social network (social roles and contacts from the Social Network Inventory), and systemic inflammation (circulating IL-6) were assessed in 120 mothers three times after their child’s cancer diagnosis: following diagnosis (T1), 6-month follow-up (T2), and 12-month follow-up (T3). Results: Consistent with predictions, greater cancer-related stress following diagnosis (T1) was associated with higher IL-6 following diagnosis (T1; b=.014, p=.008). In turn, higher IL-6 following diagnosis (T1) was associated with a decrease in social roles over time (T1--&gt;T3; B=-.030, p=.041), particularly peripheral social roles. Finally, dropping social roles over time (T1--&gt;T3) was associated with decreases in cancer-related stress (B=21.83, p=.040) and slower increases in IL-6 (B=.940, p=.036) over time.Conclusions: This study provides a first indication that chronic stress-related systemic inflammation may predict changes in social behavior that associate with stress recovery and slower increases in inflammation in the year following a major life stressor.

Diachronic register change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Collins ◽  
Minna Korhonen ◽  
Haidee Kotze ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Xinyue Yao
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
American English ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Diachronic Change ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
Over Time

Abstract A number of studies have found that grammatical differences across registers are more extensive than those across dialects. However, there is a paucity of research examining intervarietal register change, exploring how registers change differently over time in different regional varieties. The present study addresses this diachronic deficit, focusing on grammatical developments – from the early 20th to the early 21st century – in corpora representing three written registers and two speech-based registers in Australian, British and American English. We conducted a factor analysis on 68 lexicogrammatical features to identify six dimensions of register variation, and subsequently investigated the diachronic change of the five registers across these dimensions. We interpret our findings in terms of the differential effects of broad social changes on individual registers, in light of existing findings on trends of change in different registers and varieties.

scholarly journals Managers Fail to Innovate and Academics Fail to Explain How

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
New Products ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Investor Returns ◽  
Over Time

I am stunned by the failure of so many organizations to create the capability for generating streams of new products and services over time. Organizations capable of ongoing innovation can create more profits, more value, more employment, more growth, and more adaptability to transformations in technologies and markets (BCG study of investor returns). Generating streams of innovation is even more important now, especially for organizations in emerging economies, because industrial transformations and global grand challenges (Ferraro, Etzion, & Gehman, 2015) demand continuous innovations in products, programs, business processes, and strategies. For example, digitalization is transforming business models from vertical industrial silos such as consumer goods, materials, or financials to horizontal platforms that orchestrate networks, create technologies, and provide services (think Amazon, Alibaba). New markets and technologies emerge unpredictably but will produce major economic and social changes. Emerging economies more directly face grand challenge complexities of poverty, water scarcity, inequality, and climate changes. Innovations in emerging economy organizations are also very complex, since they often include innovations in sales, distribution, and business models along with rigorous product design and development processes.

scholarly journals Linear Bandits with Feature Feedback

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
pp. 5331-5338
Author(s):  
Urvashi Oswal ◽  
Aniruddha Bhargava ◽  
Robert Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Real World ◽  
Time Horizon ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Bandit Problem ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
New Form ◽  
Feature Feedback ◽  
Over Time

This paper explores a new form of the linear bandit problem in which the algorithm receives the usual stochastic rewards as well as stochastic feedback about which features are relevant to the rewards, the latter feedback being the novel aspect. The focus of this paper is the development of new theory and algorithms for linear bandits with feature feedback which can achieve regret over time horizon T that scales like k√T, without prior knowledge of which features are relevant nor the number k of relevant features. In comparison, the regret of traditional linear bandits is d√T, where d is the total number of (relevant and irrelevant) features, so the improvement can be dramatic if k ≪ d. The computational complexity of the algorithm is proportional to k rather than d, making it much more suitable for real-world applications compared to traditional linear bandits. We demonstrate the performance of the algorithm with synthetic and real human-labeled data.

scholarly journals Racial Attitudes among South African Young Adults: A Four-year Follow-up Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy B. Smith ◽  
Christopher R. Stones ◽  
Anthony Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
The Many ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
Over Time

The many social changes that have occurred in South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994 warrant that careful scrutiny be given to the racial attitudes of South Africa's young adults. Their degree of acceptance of the doctrine of deracialisation and reconciliation represents a hope or a warning about the possibility of a stable future. A follow-up study was thus carried out in order to update data collected in 1995, with the hypothesis that, over time, greater acceptance of other racial groups would be reported. In this follow-up study, the authors examined differences among a new sample of 122 Xhosa-speaking Black, 73 so-called coloured, and 234 English-speaking White young adults. Data were collected using a questionnaire that assessed aspects of these groups' perceptions of themselves (identities) and their attitudes toward other racial groups (their prejudice). Statistical significance was found between groups and over time across measures.

scholarly journals Confession and the Cultural Turn: Revising the Historical Critique of Lídia Jorge’s The Murmuring Coast

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frans Weiser
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Narrative History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Historiography ◽  
Cultural Turn ◽  
Over Time

Lídia Jorge’s A costa dos murmúrios (1988) has been primarily theorized as a subversion of historical discourse. Similar to a number of Jorge’s examinations of social changes emerging as the Estado Novo declined, the novel juxtaposes two competing versions of the past, in this case a fictional representation of the colonial wars and a woman’s testimonial account twenty years later. This article reconsiders the novel’s status as historical deconstruction, arguing that its oral and visual strategies instead correspond to the methodology of cultural historiography that emerged during the 1970s and 1980s. Expanding Helena Kaufman’s reading of the testimonial as “deliterarization,” I analyze how a slippage of critical terminology over time has equated historical fiction with narrative history. After examining the competing agendas of cultural history and literary postmodernism, I demonstrate how reconceiving Jorge’s historical “annulment” as a productive revision of fiction provides a model of complementary history facilitating interdisciplinary engagement.

scholarly journals The Development Of The Merchant Advance Industry As An Example Of Innovation In The Financial Markets

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1325
Author(s):  
Dean Drysdale ◽  
David Gens
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Bond Markets ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
New Form ◽  
Derivatives Markets ◽  
Over Time

The capital markets, like all areas of business, evolve over time. This evolution is often made possible by the application of technology. In particular, stock and bond markets, as well as options, commodities and derivatives markets, have all undergone enormous and rapid transformations due to the application of technology (Gurbaxani & Whang, 1991; Carlsson & Stankiewicz, 1995). These transformations, because of economies of scale, have benefited large businesses more than small businesses. This article 1) outlines the development of a new form of financing for small business that has become possible as a result of technological innovation, 2) describes why it has advantages in some circumstances over existing forms of financing, and 3) examines why the existence of this form of financing may have positive effects in terms of job creation.

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