The Anatomy of Moments

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Fordham
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Suspended Animation ◽  
Multiple Responses ◽  
The Moment

Aesthetic moments of revelation – intense, sensual, internal, and individual –are so key to modernist culture that the idea of them in criticism has become commonplace. Here I seek to breath life into this humdrum formula of modernist criticism by exploring multiple responses to an alternative moment amongst British cultural figures: the declaration of War against Germany at 11.15 on September 3rd, 1939. This was also an intense moment, but it was social, political, communal, mediated and disseminated publicly by new technologies. As my archival research here reveals, a wide spectrum of responses were recorded, so we can think of such a moment as ‘prismatic’. I will also show how this moment was a shock to culture, which went into a state of suspended animation. As well as offering critiques of the moment as a fetishised form, I argue that modernist culture and the idea of the moment would never be the same again.

The Unbearable Lightness of the Image

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 109-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Della Ratta
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Real Time ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Life Activity ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Web

In this essay, I reflect on the aesthetic, political and material implications of filming as a continuous life activity since the beginning of the 2011 uprising in Syria. I argue that the blurry, shaky and pixelated aesthetics of Syrian user-generated videos serve to construct an ethical discourse (Ranciére 2009a; 2013) to address the genesis and the goal of the images produced, and to shape a political commitment to the evidence-image (Didi-Huberman 2008). However, while the unstable visuals of the handheld camera powerfully reconnect, both at a symbolic and aesthetic level, to the truthfulness of the moment of crisis in which they are generated, they fail to produce a clearer understanding of the situation and a counter-hegemonic narrative. In this article, I explore how new technologies have impacted this process of bearing witness and documenting events in real time, and how they have shaped a new understanding of the image as a networked, multiple object connected with the living archive of history, in a permanent dialogue with the seemingly endless flow of data nurtured by the web 2.0.

but at the same time the self-identity of evangelicals contrasted sharply with the secular individualist self which has often been taken as the normative development of the Enlightenment. It remains to make a few observations linking this distinctive evangelical self-understanding to the appearance within evangelicalism of an active and vocal laity. The narrative identity of evangelicals expressed through stories of conversion was embraced by a wide spectrum of society, including women as well as men, laity as well as clergy, and all orders from the lowest to the highest in social rank. If we take into view contexts such as Sierra Leone at the end of the century, we can add that this narrative identity included people of different races as well. Conversion was a central emphasis within evangelicalism and the genre of conversion narrative is correspondingly and surprisingly broad in its sociological reach. One of the implications is that the concept of the laity within evangelicalism, under the impetus of conver-sionism, became something more like the apostle Paul’s use of the term laos to refer to the whole people of God, comprehending both clergy and non-clergy. In the eighteenth century this came into focus in certain debates about call to the ministry, ordination and what constituted a legitimate min-istry. As Jerald Brauer writes, ‘The moment one argues for the illegitimacy of a minister because he has not had a genuine conversion experience, one opens the possibility of ministry to any who have had such a conversion experience.’ Thus, the narrative identity of evangelicals, expressed through

2003 ◽  
pp. 96-98
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Conversion Narrative ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Normative Development ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Conversion Experience ◽  
The Moment

Assessing Visual Literacy in the Consumers of New Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Felicidad García-Sánchez ◽  
José Gómez Isla ◽  
Roberto Therón ◽  
Cristina Casado-Lumbreras
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The People ◽  
The Moment

Since the appearance of the term visual literacy in the second half of the 20th century, many authors have spoken of visual competencies. These competencies are acquired through the use of visual language and an understanding that the use of human and cultural capabilities makes people free to create and interpret messages. Furthermore, since the incorporation of new technologies, any prosumer (producer and consumer) can generate visual communication. This research develops and validates a questionnaire proposal to observe visual literacy in users of new technologies to analyze the state of literacy of image prosumers. This questionnaire is composed of 61 items that are related to habits in the reception, consumption, and production of images; the capacities of perception and visual interpretation; and the cultural aspects of the people who use images as a communicative vehicle. The purpose of this proposal is to facilitate the analysis of common characteristics that explain the moment in which people live from the point of view of visual communication and the cultural differences that are related to this field.

Oxford Handbook of Urology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Reynard ◽  
Simon F. Brewster ◽  
Suzanne Biers ◽  
Naomi Laura Neal
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Outlet Obstruction ◽  
Stone Disease ◽  
Accident And Emergency ◽  
Urinary Tract Symptoms ◽  
General Surgeons ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Surgical Aspects ◽  
Emergency Doctors

The Oxford Handbook of Urology, fourth edition, is a comprehensive, yet concise, textbook summarizing the background, clinical presentation, investigation, and treatment of a wide spectrum of urological conditions. It is an essential tool for urologists, general surgeons, accident and emergency doctors, general practitioners, nurses, and medical students involved in the care of patients with urological conditions. It covers medical and surgical aspects of kidney, ureteric, bladder, urethral, prostate, and genitoscrotal disorders, and has proven to be an excellent revision guide for urology examinations, including the FRCS. The Oxford Handbook of Urology continues to provide a valuable overview of many different urological subjects, including lower urinary tract symptoms, bladder outlet obstruction, incontinence, haematuria, emergencies, trauma, cancers, infections, children’s disorders, andrology, infertility, problems in pregnancy, neurourology, renal transplant, basic science, and kidney stone disease. For this new edition, national and international guidelines have been comprehensively reviewed and updated, new technologies and techniques included, new topics added, and current urological controversies highlighted in order to keep urological knowledge and practice current and relevant.

THE EFFECT OF POLARIZED CURRENTS ON THE CRITICAL CURVE OF SINGLE-DOMAIN PARTICLES WITH QUARTIC CRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY

SPIN ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 1250003 ◽  
Author(s):  
EUGEN ONICIUC ◽  
LAURENTIU STOLERIU ◽  
ALEXANDRU STANCU
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Uniaxial Anisotropy ◽  
Critical Curve ◽  
Switching Behavior ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Critical Curves ◽  
Magnetic Switching ◽  
Crystalline Anisotropy ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Moment

The use of polarized currents as tools for influencing the magnetic switching of magnetic materials was an important step in the evolution of modern recording technologies. A new paradigm was opened and new technologies based on this new idea have been developed. However, the modeling effort did not followed at the same pace the technological developments. In this paper, we are analyzing the effect on switching critical curves of the polarized current, which seems to be the most sensitive tool for the moment in evidencing these effects. The most important point of this paper is that we took into consideration the effect of higher order terms in the series expansion of the uniaxial anisotropy free energy and we analyze how these terms are influencing the critical curve shape. The results are discussed in terms of the efficiency of the polarized currents on the switching behavior of macrospins.

scholarly journals Effective Model of Intellectual Property Commercialization

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Kupriyanova
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Successful Solution ◽  
Technical Potential ◽  
The Moment

The sphere of scientific and technical activity in our country is one of the most difficult in terms of regulatory and legislative support. At the moment, the state has not fully taken the steps necessary to transform scientific and technical activities into a full-fledged branch of the national economy. Indeed, the state is obliged to pay attention to scientific and technical activities, to create a legal framework that promotes the commercialisation of research and development results. Today, Russian organisations face problems related to the need to determine further ways of business development in the conditions of a significant reduction in export potential and increased competition in the domestic market. The successful solution of these problems, as well as ensuring the necessary level of competitiveness of products is impossible without the formation of a socially-oriented innovative development model based on the use of modern methods of management of innovative processes. One of the main instruments of formation of strategic potential of each enterprise (organisation) becomes introduction in the economic circulation of the saved-up scientific and technical potential, new technologies and knowledge. In this regard, the problems of involvement of intellectual property (IP) in the economic turnover of enterprises, its objective assessment, regulation of legal relations between the participants of innovations, registration and conclusion of license agreements are of particular relevance and require urgent solutions.  This article is aimed at research of scientific and practical bases of management of processes of commercialisation of IP in the conditions of market model of development. The purpose of the study is to substantiate and develop scientific and practical bases of management of IP commercialisation processes, which is a necessary condition for the transition to an innovative model of its development and competitiveness in market conditions.

scholarly journals MEM AS A TOOL OF INFORMATION WAR

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
Lidia Smola
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact

It is devoted to the problem of analyzing memes as a tool of information warfare. The article analyzes the history and origin of the study of memes as a phenomenon of information interaction and social technology. Memes can be interpreted as: image, idea, symbol, action, any cultural information copied by one person from another; the collective unconscious at the moment of acquiring verbal and visual form; specially created information message, which is distributed in the information space and is intended to form the necessary picture of the human world and make appropriate decisions. The meme influences the perception of reality and drives action. Different types, types of memes and their characteristics are considered. There is a diversity of spread of this phenomenon: global Internet memes, understandable to a wide range of people, and local memes that require specific awareness (gaming, hacking, scientific, professional). Emphasis is placed on the use of memes in contemporary armed conflicts. The information war, combined with the peculiarities of the modern information society, led to the use of new technologies to influence the mass consciousness, in particular, memetic weapons. The article analyzes memetic weapons as a technology of using memes for the distribution of beneficial information in the information space of the object of information confrontation. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of the perceptions of memes by ATO participants and volunteers. The urgency of the problem is determined by the need to analyze the impact of ideas reflected in Internet memes on the mass consciousness during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Within the framework of the Polish-Ukrainian project "Crisis Intervention – Support for NGOs in Ukraine Working with ATO Soldiers and Their Families", 20 flexible interviews were conducted. The focus of the study may be to analyze the perception and functioning of political Internet memes on social media. Empirical studies of the influence of Internet memes on the structural components of the psyche of Internet users are also promising. The war in eastern Ukraine reaffirmed the paradigm shift of modern warfare, demonstrated the thoroughness of a thorough study of the phenomenon and the need to develop entirely new approaches to the realization of political and military goals.

scholarly journals Owner Bound Music: A study of popular sheet music selling and music making in the New Zealand home 1840-1940

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jean Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sheet Music ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual

<p>From 1840, when New Zealand became part of the British Empire, until 1940 when the nation celebrated its Centennial, the piano was the most dominant instrument in domestic music making and the home pianist an important feature of New Zealand’s musical landscape. Many home pianists had their collection of individual sheets of music bound into composite volumes (“owner bound volumes”). This study’s sample of over 100 owner identified owner bound volumes (OBVs) examines the cultural and commercial significance of music sellers and music owners. Beyond the sample of OBVs, the study draws on personal and business archives, newspapers, directories and local and family histories in exploring music making over the course of a century. During the 100-year span of the study the music seller facilitated access to popular music by acting as a conduit between those composing and publishing sheet music, and the individual playing the piano in their home. As well as being a study in commerce and culture, the study is also located within the field of print culture. Sheet music was the staple sold by the music seller and the study explores the availability, sale and “consumption” of sheet music. The wide range of businesses selling sheet music in New Zealand between 1840 and 1940 affirms music’s significance to print culture commercially, socially and culturally.  This study examines the music seller’s and music owner’s role in domestic music making, and in particular, the distribution, ownership and longevity of the popular sheet music later bound into OBVs. Booksellers, newspapers and businesses selling all types of goods and services sold sheet music, but the biggest music sellers were the specialist music dealers who also sold musical instruments. Two of these, Begg’s (1861-1970) and the Dresden (1883-1936) achieved nationwide coverage and longevity. Often based in substantial and impressive premises, specialist music dealers occupied prominent positions in the main commercial streets of towns and cities. The study also explores the societal, cultural and commercial links between women, the piano and sheet music. Gender is a theme throughout as the amateur female pianist was the primary customer for composers, publishers and music sellers, and women were also piano teachers, “play over girls” in music shops, pianists for the silent movies and mothers eager for their children to learn the piano. The study identifies the owners of the OBVs, exploring the differences in their backgrounds between 1840 and 1940. Initially the daughters of the wealthy, the landed or the educated, by 1900 the owners of the OBVs were from a broader socio-economic span with fathers who were labourers, barmen and railway workers. The study relates home music makers to the desire for, and purchase of, pianos in the context of gentility and democratisation.  Musical taste is explored through an analysis of the individual sheets within the OBVs. The bulk of music changing hands was “popular”, music of the moment, rather than “classical” or “serious”. In this sense the study is one of popular culture. The small number of locally composed and published pieces highlights the importance of global influences on popular music for the home in New Zealand. The advent of the gramophone and the radio, although lessening the dominance of the piano, led to music heard on these new technologies to be sold, music that had been recorded by soloists and groups, the latest “hits” from musicals and “the talkies” and songs promoted by favourite singers or bands.  This study confirms the music seller’s place at the heart of a bustling commercial and cultural enterprise, supplying up-to-the-minute music for the piano which created lively home music making within the global popular music scene.</p>

scholarly journals Morphology of the Inner Ear in Mammals with Different Ecological Peculiarities in Ontogeny

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. e-1-e-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Solntseva
Keyword(s):  
Inner Ear ◽  
Auditory System ◽  
Cellular Differentiation ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Sensory Epithelium ◽  
Ecological Groups ◽  
Structural Variations ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Peripheral Auditory System ◽  
Species Ecology

Morphology of the Inner Ear in Mammals with Different Ecological Peculiarities in OntogenyThe inner ear is the first to form, as the core, phylogenetically most ancient formation of the peripheral auditory system both in phylogenesis and in ontogenesis. As the development of the inner ear continues, the other parts of the peripheral auditory system of different evolutionary age start to be formed, and the outer ear is the evolutionary youngest among them. All parts of the peripheral auditory system are multicomponent formations. As opposed to the outer and middle ears, which are characterized by different structural variations and a wide spectrum of adaptable transformations connected with the peculiarities of species ecology, the inner ear possesses a variety of functions in the repre-sentatives of different ecological groups and, therefore, keeps a similar structural organization. Usually, both in the cochlear and vestibular analyzers the topography, form and size of separate components vary. Basically, the anatomic formation of the structures of the inner ear finishes in the early prefetal period, while the cellular differentiation of the sensory epithelium of the cochlea, maculas and cristae in immature-born species continues up to the early stages of postnatal ontogenesis. In mature-born species (cetaceans, ungulates), the differentiation of the inner ear structures is complete by the moment of birth.

scholarly journals THE FEATURES OF POST-GRADUATE DENTAL TRAINING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION OF DENTISTS OF THE UKRAINIAN MEDICAL STOMATOLOGICAL ACADEMY

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
K. Udaltsova-Hrodzynska ◽  
O. Pisarenko
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
The Road ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Priority Direction ◽  
State Financing ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Second World

According to the requirements, the postgraduate education departments for dentists should be the first to adjust their programs and equipment to technological progress in the branch. During the last two decades the department solved issues of optimal implementation of each technology in the educational process. The object of the paper was the analysis of organization of practical dental training for residency/intern at the Department of Postgraduate Education for Dentists of the "UMSA". At the moment of establishing the Department the features of practical dental training included the maintenance of organized and decreed groups of population by the advanced principle of dispanserization, and also provided physical therapy in dentistry. The examination and rehabilitation of organized groups such as students of the medical school, medical college, participants and “children” of the Second World War, is the priority direction of dental care provision by residency/interns, lead by teachers up to this day. Since the beginning of the photopolymers (or light-activated resin) era in dentistry, a phantom course in restorative dentistry has been introduced in the form of a master class, the achievement of which now is a competition among dental residency/interns for the best restoring front teeth, entitled "The Road to the World of Excellence". Technologies in periodontology are required by trained specialists to improve results of periodontal treatment, which was reflected in programs of the Department and results as organization in 2009 the periodontology course supplemented with master class in Gracey curettes using. In 2007, the Department reviewed the curricula on endodontics standards and organized a phantom course with purpose to profess the method of lateral condensation. During the past 5 years, the course has been converted into a video for demonstration in larger groups to dental residency/interns with phantom equipment such as Endo training blocs, manual endodontic instruments that are close to machine driven ones. The close interaction of dentistry with oncology is realized by the creation of a regional scientific and practical Center for oral mucosal diseases in Poltava, which is a medical institution of the "UMSA", and has the main goal of preventing cancer and precancerous diseases. Professor of the Department, Skrypnikova T.P. is a member of methodical council of Center and she organizes demonstrative consultations for residency/interns which are directly involved in work with patients and treat them according to clinical pathway. Conclusions. 1. Analysis of dental practical training organization reflects the development of new technologies in dentistry, with a little delay. Organization of master classes, video demonstrations, phantom courses and the involvement of private offices as clinical bases of the Department provides opportunity for optimal acquaintance with or mastering over the modern technologies in dentistry, overcomes disadvantages of state financing, allows to set effective practical training and to reduce tedious of training.

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