scholarly journals The Scientific Contributions of Bernard Cohen (1929–2019)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Maruta
Keyword(s):  
Motion Sickness ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Autonomic Systems ◽  
Mal De Debarquement Syndrome ◽  
Mount Sinai ◽  
To Come

Throughout Bernard Cohen's active career at Mount Sinai that lasted over a half century, he was involved in research on vestibular control of the oculomotor, body postural, and autonomic systems in animals and humans, contributing to our understanding of such maladies as motion sickness, mal de débarquement syndrome, and orthostatic syncope. This review is an attempt to trace and connect Cohen's varied research interests and his approaches to them. His influence was vast. His scientific contributions will continue to drive research directions for many years to come.

‘Between Politics and Scholarship’: The First Decade of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1949–1958

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-271
Author(s):  
Mathew Turner ◽  
Tony Joel ◽  
David Lowe
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
German Society ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
To Come ◽  
Nazi Past

Through the consultation and examination of meeting minutes, correspondence, and memoranda, this article contends that a political-scholarly nexus characterized the formation of the Munich-based Institut für Zeitgeschichte and directly shaped its research activities within the first decade of its existence, from 1949 to 1958. As a government-funded body it was obliged to service the needs of those governments at a federal and state level, in response to bureaucratic, administrative, and judicial demands – most notably the construction of expert reports (or Gutachten) in response to government requests for advice. The research directions of the Institute were driven by the demands of West German society beginning to come to terms with its Nazi past, and expressed through its political representatives.

The “Three Ages” of Cinema Studies and the Age to Come

PMLA ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudley Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Cinema Studies ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Teaching Positions ◽  
To Come ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Function

The october 1999 job list prepared by the society for cinema studies has just appeared: fifty-one teaching positions involving film. What does it mean that only ten of these are situated in designated film programs, while thirty-six are hosted by departments of literature, primarily English? It means, among other things, that departments of literature are redefining and deregulating themselves. They may have cautiously welcomed film for a half century but hardly at this scale: fifty-one open positions suggest hundreds of positions permanently in place and thousands of students studying this subject each year. The confidence the humanities shows in this field is shared by most of my students, who are younger than cinema studies and must sense it to be, if not august, at least well established, rather as English seemed when I majored in it and assumed it to be as old as England. However, any census of course catalogs reveals cinema's uncertain location and function from campus to campus, posing questions of general expectations and standards—indeed, putting in question the definition of cinema studies. Evidently universities want to offer film. Bravo! But in what manner and for what purpose? What “qualifies” the hundreds of applicants applying for these fifty-one positions? Where did they gain their expertise or self-confidence?

Defining the relationship between consumers and retailers through user-generated content: insights from the research literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Harmanjit Singh ◽  
Somnath Chakrabarti
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Causal Chain ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fashion Retail ◽  
To Come

PurposeThe purpose ofthis study is to synthesise the findings of existing research on brand-related user-generated content (UGC) in the context of fashion retail and to come up with future research directions.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review of 33 research papers, selected using well-defined criteria, was done. Further, the thematic analysis identified underlying themes and their inter-linkages.FindingsThe inter-linkages of 12 emergent themes were showcased in the form of a causal-chain conceptual framework, highlighting antecedents, mediators, moderators and consequences.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research involves six directions, and researchers should empirically test out the proposed conceptual framework and take the given research directions forward.Practical implicationsRetailers should understand UGC motivators to launch targeted campaigns to amplify UGC with firm-generated content and increase overall engagement and sales of a brand.Originality/valueFirst, this study fills the gap of missing synthesis of existing studies on UGC about fashion retail by analysing the publication distribution, paper types, data collection tools and techniques and data analysis methods. Second, the authors have proposed a causal-chain conceptual framework based upon thematic analysis of the research literature. The emergent themes touch upon three crucial aspects of marketing on enabling technology, consumer behaviour and marketing tactics. Finally, the academic contribution of this study lies in coming up with six vital research agenda for future research.

Engagement and Competence in VR and non-VR Environments

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 2082-2085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew B. Pierce ◽  
Philip A. Young ◽  
Shawn M. Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Motion Sickness ◽  
Oculus Rift ◽  
The Past ◽  
Demographic Survey ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Difference ◽  
To Come ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Immersive Technology

There has been a general push within the past five years to commercialize virtual reality (VR) gaming for public use. Devices such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, and Samsung VR on the market have emerged with more to come in the future. With these immersive technologies becoming more accessible, researchers can more easily test the idea of levels of engagement in VR games compared to non-VR games on the console or PC. VR companies market their immersive technology to be more engaging experiences but very little research has been conducted with newer models. The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference in engagement when using a VR version or a non-VR version of the game Thumper. The study will have 60 participants of varying expertise who will play Thumper for twenty-three minutes and then will be asked to take a demographic survey, the GUESS measure, and a motion sickness survey. This study is in progress and expects to shed light on the relationships between immersion and virtual reality.

Towards Indistinguishable Augmented Reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Yuta Itoh ◽  
Tobias Langlotz ◽  
Jonathan Sutton ◽  
Alexander Plopski
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Head Mounted Displays ◽  
To Come ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Visual Realism

Adding virtual information that is indistinguishable from reality has been a long-awaited goal in Augmented Reality (AR). While already demonstrated in the 1960s, only recently have Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays (OST-HMDs) seen a reemergence, partially thanks to large investments from industry, and are now considered to be the ultimate hardware for augmenting our visual perception. In this article, we provide a thorough review of state-of-the-art OST-HMD-related techniques that are relevant to realize the aim of an AR interface almost indistinguishable from reality. In this work, we have an initial look at human perception to define requirements and goals for implementing such an interface. We follow up by identifying three key challenges for building an OST-HMD-based AR interface that is indistinguishable from reality: spatial realism, temporal realism, and visual realism. We discuss existing works that aim to overcome these challenges while also reflecting against the goal set by human perception. Finally, we give an outlook into promising research directions and expectations for the years to come.

Diversity Management Interventions for Enhancing Competitive Advantage

2022 ◽  
pp. 114-136
Author(s):  
Alamuri Surya Narayana
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Literature Base ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
To Come

Diversity and diversity management is a new organizational paradigm and a business imperative. We already have a vast and rich literature base on these two. Many and varied empirical findings are also available from earlier qualitative and quantitative research studies. An attempt is made in this chapter (1) to examine various theoretical concepts and constructs used in diversity and diversity management, (2) to come up with a synthesis of management research and current literature on diversity and diversity management, (3) to develop a theoretical framework, and (4) to suggest directions for future research as well. This chapter lists some of the challenges faced by firms, the major issues to be addressed, potential research directions, and themes in the Indian context before finally coming up with a conceptual model detailing the antecedents and consequences of diversity and diversity management.

They just walk out a door. It’s circular, begins again. It’s a very complicated handling of narrative. Going back to that fight in Motion Sickness, it has an ending in the sense that the two men separate, but who is the winner? You know that they’re in a relationship with each other, but the question of who won or lost will depend on the version of the story you’re going to hear from each of the participants. What does it mean to come to a conclusion? Jouissance, I suppose. Coming to a conclusion. PN: In ‘Madame Realism’, we’re told that ‘stories do not occur outside thought. Stories, in fact, are contained within thought. It’s only a story really should read, it’s a way to think’ (MR, 108). The point seems to be that narratives shouldn’t be locked up in a distinction between true and false, but are actually ways of articulating ourselves. LT: Yes, I was trying to take narrative out of the realm of untrue, irrelevant, not profound…. Some people say ‘I never read a novel, I read theory’, and so on. The same people might argue against a high/low split but say they don’t read novels. You could say the novel’s an old form; with the computer why should people read stories and novels? I wanted to argue that any form you use represents a way of thinking, ideas. Do you read things only because you identify with them or can you disidentify with them too? PN: One of the interesting things about these stories is the connection you seem to pursue between narrative and the familial, the Oedipal. ‘All ideas are married’, says Madame Realism (A, 105), and in the story called ‘Absence Makes the Heart’, the death of the father seems somehow connected with the idea of the Woman as solitary and mystified—‘Her reluctance must be read as a mystery, a deception from one whose own creation was exampled in the stories he loved’ (A, 69). It’s not immediately clear to me whether the loss of the father signals the failure of narrative or freedom from it. LT: What if the loss of the father, her recognition of him as now symbolic, in fact enables her to see herself in the story, a story that men have of her? PN: She becomes the narrator instead of being just the Woman? LT: That’s right. It’s like saying: you’re placing me in the story in certain ways but I have needs, I have desires. I’m the subject of my own story, I’m not just the object in your story. PN: There’s a passage in Motion Sickness where the narrator remembers her father’s voice: ‘It’s my father’s voice at the Leaning Tower, distracting me just the way he does when I eat veal

2005 ◽  
pp. 59-59
Keyword(s):  
Motion Sickness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

Diversity Management Interventions for Enhancing Competitive Advantage

2018 ◽  
pp. 82-111
Author(s):  
Alamuri Surya Narayana
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Literature Base ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
To Come

Diversity and diversity management is a new organizational paradigm and a business imperative. We already have a vast and rich literature base on these two. Many and varied empirical findings are also available from earlier qualitative and quantitative research studies. An attempt is made in this chapter (1) to examine various theoretical concepts and constructs used in diversity and diversity management, (2) to come up with a synthesis of management research and current literature on diversity and diversity management, (3) to develop a theoretical framework, and (4) to suggest directions for future research as well. This chapter lists some of the challenges faced by firms, the major issues to be addressed, potential research directions, and themes in the Indian context before finally coming up with a conceptual model detailing the antecedents and consequences of diversity and diversity management.

The Federal Role in Education

1982 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Harvard Educational Review ◽  
New Federalism ◽  
Sunday Afternoon ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Mount Sinai ◽  
To Come

I appreciate the invitation of the Harvard Educational Review to come here to discuss the evolving federal role in education and relate it to our New Federalism theme. Since this is a Sunday afternoon I would like to begin by talking a little bit about Moses. As you know, Moses was summoned to the top of Mount Sinai, and there the Lord appeared to him in the form of a fiery cloud. And to the accompaniment of thunder and lightning,God presented him with the Ten Commandments. I want to be a little bit like that this afternoon.

The Particular Theory of Exchange

1975 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Davis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
To Come ◽  
Past Half

For the past half-century economic anthropologists have been trying to come to terms with the obvious, recognised, indisputable fact that non-industrial economies “feel different” from industrial ones. How to express and communicate that difference? Some people thought they could do it sociologically, preserving as much as possible offormal economic theory, explaining deviation by invoking social influence on universalrationality, allowing the possibility that their evidence and insights might contributeto the proper development of a body of theory acknowledged imperfect and unstable (i). Others thought they could do it economically: they invoked distinct principles of integration and gave them an analytical status equal to rationality (2). For the most part different people took these rather different paths; they were academics and quickly engaged in controversy, tied labels to their opponents (formalist to the first, substantivist to the second) and held no truck with them. Firth alone tried to avoid entrenchment and was prepared to make propositions in both modes (3).

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