Teaching Cultural Studies in Tunisian Universities: Post-Theory in Limbo

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami NIGHAOUI
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
General Argument ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Critical Overview

This article examines key issues in the conception of the content and methodology used in the teaching of CulturalStudies in Tunisian universities by setting out the range of areas where education policymakers and curriculumdesigners fail to grasp the rationale behind the very idea of teaching the course. The discrepancy between whatshould ideally be taught and how it provides a backdrop for the general argument that the difficulty with teachingCultural Studies lies not so much in its inimicality to disciplinariation as in the effort and skills required in the processof delineating goals and scopes for the course. A critical overview of the Cultural Studies curriculum eventuallyhelps to identify the flaws and pitfalls of the current approach.

The Riddle of Vagueness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crispin Wright
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Borderline Case ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Sorites Paradox ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Pure Mathematics ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Original Treatment

This anthology includes fourteen of Crispin Wrights’s highly influential essays on the phenomenon of vagueness in natural language, collectively representing almost half a century of cutting-edge systematic research. Key issues addressed include whether or under what assumptions vague expressions’ apparent tolerance of marginal changes in things to which they apply indicates that they are governed by inconsistent semantic rules, the varieties of Sorites paradox and the roots of the plausibility of their respective major premises, what it is for something to be a borderline case of a vague expression, whether vagueness should be viewed as fundamentally a semantic or an epistemic phenomenon, whether there is ‘higher-order’ vagueness, and what should be the appropriate logic for vague statements. The essays reprinted here jointly document the development of a distinctively original treatment of the philosophy and logic of vagueness, broadly analogous to the intuitionistic philosophy and logic for pure mathematics. Richard Kimberly Heck contributes an extended introductory essay, providing both an insightful critical overview of the development of the distinctive elements of Wright’s thought about vagueness, and indeed an invaluable advanced introduction to the topic.

scholarly journals Understanding Socialist Television

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Mihelj
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Cold War

This article develops a number of conceptual and methodological proposals aimed at furthering a firmer agenda for the field of socialist television studies. It opens by addressing the issue of relevance of the field, identifying three critical contributions the study of socialist television can make to media, communication and cultural studies. It then puts forward a number of proposals tied to three key issues: strategies of overcoming the Cold War framework that dominates much of existing literature; the importance of a multilayered analysis of socialist television that considers its cultural, political as well as economic aspects; and the ways in which we can challenge the prevalence of methodological nationalism in the field.

scholarly journals Genomic Epidemiology with Mixed Samples

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommi Mäklin ◽  
Teemu Kallonen ◽  
Jarno Alanko ◽  
Veli Mäkinen ◽  
Jukka Corander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Genomic Epidemiology ◽  
Preparation Step ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Reaching Accuracy ◽  
Major Pathogens ◽  
Mixed Samples ◽  
Health Applications

AbstractGenomic epidemiology is an established tool for investigation of outbreaks of infectious diseases and wider public health applications. It traces transmission of pathogens based on whole-genome sequencing of colony picks from culture plates enriching the target organism(s). In this article, we introduce the mGEMS pipeline for performing genomic epidemiology directly with plate sweeps representing mixed samples of the target pathogen in a culture plate, skipping the colony pick step entirely. By requiring only a single culturing and library preparation step per analyzed sample, we address several key issues in the current approach relating to its cost, practical application and sensitivity. Our pipeline significantly improves upon the state-of-the-art in analysing mixed short-read sequencing data from bacteria, reaching accuracy levels in downstream analyses closely resembling colony pick sequencing data that allow reliable SNP calling and subsequent phylogenetic analyses. The fundamental novel parts enabling these analyses are the mGEMS read binner for probabilistic assignments of sequencing reads and the high-throughput exact pseudoaligner Themisto. In conjunction with recent advances in probabilistic modelling of mixed bacterial samples and genome assembly techniques, these tools form the mGEMS pipeline. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach using closely related samples in a nosocomial setting for the three major pathogens Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Our results lend firm support to more widespread consideration of genomic epidemiology with mixed infection samples.

scholarly journals Cognitive Modeling of Destructive Malicious Impacts on Critical Information Infrastructure Objects

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
E. Maximova
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Cognitive Modeling ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Information Infrastructure ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Destructive Effect ◽  
Critical Information ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Key Issues

The security of a subject of critical information infrastructure (CII) is one of the key issues of its life support. The current approach (legal and regulatory) regulates solutions of this issue without taking into account the influence of the violator, which can have a destructive effect on the SCII. This, in our opinion, leads to significant errors in the analysis of the information security of the CII, therefore, reduces the effectiveness of the information protection means declared information security tools for CII objects. The purpose of this work is to develop a model of an information security (IS) intruder, presented in a formalized form using the "violator’s potential" parameter in the space of their implementation of destructive effects on the objects of the CII. The proposed model for assessing the capabilities of the offender to implement destructive influences on the CII subject as a set of objects is implemented in the developed cognitive map "Assessment of the IB of the CII Subject" for dynamic changes in the parameters of the "Malicious actions on the CII object" vertex.

The sense of obligation is culturally modulated

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bender
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Sense Of Obligation ◽  
Cross Cultural Studies

Abstract Tomasello argues in the target article that, in generalizing the concrete obligations originating from interdependent collaboration to one's entire cultural group, humans become “ultra-cooperators.” But are all human populations cooperative in similar ways? Based on cross-cultural studies and my own fieldwork in Polynesia, I argue that cooperation varies along several dimensions, and that the underlying sense of obligation is culturally modulated.

Probing vacancies and structural distortions at individual defects in ceramics using EELS

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 678-679
Author(s):  
D. J. Wallis ◽  
N. D. Browning
Keyword(s):  
Structural Information ◽  
Core Loss ◽  
Nearest Neighbors ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Atomic Scale ◽  
Structure Property ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Key Issues

In electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), the near-edge region of a core-loss edge contains information on high-order atomic correlations. These correlations give details of the 3-D atomic structure which can be elucidated using multiple-scattering (MS) theory. MS calculations use real space clusters making them ideal for use in low-symmetry systems such as defects and interfaces. When coupled with the atomic spatial resolution capabilities of the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), there therefore exists the ability to obtain 3-D structural information from individual atomic scale structures. For ceramic materials where the structure-property relationships are dominated by defects and interfaces, this methodology can provide unique information on key issues such as like-ion repulsion and the presence of vacancies, impurities and structural distortion.An example of the use of MS-theory is shown in fig 1, where an experimental oxygen K-edge from SrTiO3 is compared to full MS-calculations for successive shells (a shell consists of neighboring atoms, so that 1 shell includes only nearest neighbors, 2 shells includes first and second-nearest neighbors, and so on).

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