scholarly journals La théâtralité académique. L’usage de la métaphore dans la recherche sociologique

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-126
Author(s):  
Gina Stoiciu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Life ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
Academic Practices ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Angle Of Reflection

We propose to grasp conferences as an institutional ritual, which deploys a whole institutional theatricality. To do this, we use the metaphor of the orchestra; indeed each participant in the conference plays their part by adjusting to each other. The metaphor of the art of composition allows us to detect the process of shaping the knowledge of an academic text. The wide angle of reflection finds its inspiration in symbolic approaches to communication. The use of the metaphor in the understanding of academic practices, drives us to an imaginary approach framing an image, making analogies between the image and the object under study, to then take advantage of this operation of transposing the meaning of the image to the object of study. We thus have access to a fresh and imaginary angle on the rituals which mark the academic life, and which are not only duty bound. ##plugins.themes.academic_pro.article.details##

scholarly journals Quality of Academic Life during COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Taibah University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-149
Author(s):  
Areej Yousef Ahmed Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Academic Support ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Academic Satisfaction ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Academic Practices

The current study aimed to identify the quality level of academic life during COVID-19 pandemic from students' perception of Taibah University, Yanbu branch. To this end, a descriptive approach was used to answer the following main research question: What is the quality level of academic life during COVID-19 pandemic from students' perception of Taibah University? The study tool consisted of a questionnaire to measure the quality level of the students’ academic life. The tool was ensured for reliability and validity and composed of three sections that contained indicators to measure the quality of academic life; academic practices, academic satisfaction, and academic support. The sample of the study consisted of 187 male and female students. Results showed high perceptions for the respondents in the quality of academic practices section (M=4.15, SD=1.03). The statement No.9 entitles “Rate the precautionary actions provided to you to activate the online education as an alternative to face-to-face education during COVID-19 pandemic” obtained the highest rank (M=4.63). The second section that measured the level of academic satisfaction recorded (M=1.76, SD=1.10), obtaining 58.71%. The statement 6 entitles “I felt my love to home increased during COVID-19 pandemic” obtained the highest rank (M=4.63, SD=.81, 98.93%). The academic support dimension recorded (M=4.33, SD=.93), Indicating that the level of academic support for students during COVID-19 pandemic was excellent (86.65%) as perceived by the study sample. The statement 5 which entitles “Rate the extent to benefit from academic counseling during COVID-19 pandemic” got the highest rank (M=4.67, SD=.72, 93.485). The most challenges encountered the students gradually categorized from the highest to the lowest were the poor Internet network, non-availability of laptop computers, low experience in working with blackboard, and poor technical experience. The study recommended the significance of academic support and suggested doing further studies on and the reality of quality of academic life from faculty members perspectives and the role of precautionary health during COID-19 pandemic to enhance the national loyalty for the university students.

scholarly journals Strictly Confidential Anthropology

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
László Kürti
Keyword(s):  
Academic Life ◽  
Secret Police ◽  
Covert Action ◽  
Family Secrets ◽  
Academic Practices ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
Knowledge Memory ◽  
State Socialist

Anthropological interest in secrecy and silence – and related aspects such as lying, knowledge, memory, and forgetting – has been long and precarious. Through what may be called personal anthropology, in this article, I describe both private and professional anthropological experiences including family memories, fieldwork sites, and academic practices. By recalling state socialist ideology, censorship, and family secrets, I illustrate how citizens have relied on each other in order to counter state hegemony. I highlight how surveillance in Romania expressly encouraged my informants as well as the secret police to engage in mutual intelligence and observation tactics as evasive tactics. Building on these strategies, I argue that academic life is not immune to secrecy, silence and covert action. I introduce an anthropologist who worked for the Hungarian secret police, and consider how academic life continues to rely on covert programs and an institutionalized hierarchy to promote and maintain its structures and interests.

scholarly journals The End of Flying: Coronavirus Confinement, Academic (Im)mobilities and Me

2022 ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Mimi Sheller
Keyword(s):  
Academic Life ◽  
Travel History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intrinsic Values ◽  
Academic Practices ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Virtual Meetings ◽  
Virtual Events ◽  
Different Cultures

AbstractThis chapter focuses on how the coronavirus pandemic disrupted ‘normal’ academic life and travel through an analysis of my own travel history over the past decade. After contextualising the ways in which quarantines and confinement radically decreased travel, the chapter has three parts. In the first part, I document my own curriculum vitae of academic travel over the past decade and quantitatively measure my estimated CO2 emissions. Next, I seek to situate the value of such academic travel in both quantitative and qualitative terms, through extrinsic measures such as publications and impact and through intrinsic values such as the experience of different cultures and places. Lastly, I look at the transition to virtual events and my own participation in online events during the past nine months and consider the relation between physical and virtual meetings within academic practices. Insofar as the pandemic demonstrated our ability to transform academic travel and accelerate the use of remote meetings within academic practices, a pressing concern is how to find ways of extending this into the post-pandemic phase. Among the questions I ask in conclusion are: What possibilities are there for more seriously extending remote no-fly meetings to address the climate emergency? And what are the implications of such changes, both positive and negative?

CBED Shadow Images and Cs:Aberration Measurement

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 696-697
Author(s):  
R. W. Carpenter ◽  
I.Y.T. Chan ◽  
J. M. Cowley
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Spherical Aberration ◽  
Optic Axis ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
Caustic Surface ◽  
Convergent Beam

Wide-angle convergent beam shadow images(CBSI) exhibit several characteristic distortions resulting from spherical aberration. The most prominent is a circle of infinite magnification resulting from rays having equal values of a forming a cross-over on the optic axis at some distance before reaching the paraxial focal point. This distortion is called the tangential circle of infinite magnification; it can be used to align and stigmate a STEM and to determine Cs for the probe forming lens. A second distortion, the radial circle of infinite magnification, results from a cross-over on the lens caustic surface of rays with differing values of ∝a, also before the paraxial focal point of the lens.

Reconstruction of Chitin-Protein Complexes Using Correlation Averaging Methods: Ovipositor of the Ichneumon Fly Megarhyssa

1980 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
L. T. Germinario ◽  
J. Blackwell ◽  
J. Frank
Keyword(s):  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Hexagonal Lattice ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
Optical Diffraction ◽  
Insect Cuticle ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Averaging Methods ◽  
Digital Correlation

This report describes the use of digital correlation and averaging methods 1,2 for the reconstruction of high dose electron micrographs of the chitin-protein complex from Megarhyssa ovipositor. Electron microscopy of uranyl acetate stained insect cuticle has demonstrated a hexagonal array of unstained chitin monofibrils, 2.4−3.0 nm in diameter, in a stained protein matrix3,4. Optical diffraction Indicated a hexagonal lattice with a = 5.1-8.3 nm3 A particularly well ordered complex is found in the ovipositor of the ichneumon fly Megarhyssa: the small angle x-ray data gives a = 7.25 nm, and the wide angle pattern shows that the protein consists of subunits arranged in a 61 helix, with an axial repeat of 3.06 nm5.

Developmental Risk Through a Wide-Angle Lens

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-55
Author(s):  
Jack P. Shonkoff
Keyword(s):  
Wide Angle ◽  
Developmental Risk ◽  
Wide Angle Lens

Wide angle view of the Universe

Nature India ◽  
2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Wide Angle ◽  
The Universe

Single-peak-regulation and wide-angle dual-band metamaterial absorber based on hollow-cross and solid-cross resonators

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 30901
Author(s):  
Yibo Tang ◽  
Longhui He ◽  
Jianming Xu ◽  
Hailang He ◽  
Yuhan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transverse Electric ◽  
Surface Current ◽  
Dielectric Substrate ◽  
Transverse Magnetic ◽  
Metamaterial Absorber ◽  
Absorption Peak ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Single Peak ◽  
Wide Angle ◽  
Surface Current Density

A dual-band microwave metamaterial absorber with single-peak regulation and wide-angle absorption has been proposed and illustrated. The designed metamaterial absorber is consisted of hollow-cross resonators, solid-cross resonators, dielectric substrate and metallic background plane. Strong absorption peak coefficients of 99.92% and 99.55% are achieved at 8.42 and 11.31 GHz, respectively, which is basically consistent with the experimental results. Surface current density and changing material properties are employed to illustrate the absorptive mechanism. More importantly, the proposed dual-band metamaterial absorber has the adjustable property of single absorption peak and could operate well at wide incidence angles for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) waves. Research results could provide and enrich instructive guidances for realizing a single-peak-regulation and wide-angle dual-band metamaterial absorber.

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