scholarly journals Postmodernism, Interpretivism, and Formal Ontologies

2012 ◽  
pp. 43-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Kroeze
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Logical Structure ◽  
Formal Ontologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Philosophy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter investigates the relationship between postmodernism, interpretivism, and formal ontologies, which are widely used in Information Systems (IS). Interpretivism has many postmodernist traits. It acknowledges that the world is diverse and that knowledge is contextual, ever-changing, and emergent. The acceptance of the idea of more than one reality and multiple understandings is part and parcel of postmodernism. Interpretivism is, therefore, characterized as a postmodern research philosophy. To demonstrate this philosophical premise more concretely, the creation of the logical structure of formal ontologies is sketched as an example of typical interpretivist and postmodernist activity in IS.

scholarly journals The professionalization of Brazilian nursing in the written media of the end of the nineteenth century: a gender analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1265-1271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Braga do Espírito Santo ◽  
Taka Oguisso ◽  
Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Professional School ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

The object is the relationship between the professionalization of Brazilian nursing and women, in the broadcasting of news about the creation of the Professional School of Nurses, in the light of gender. Aims: to discuss the linkage of women to the beginning of the professionalization of Brazilian nursing following the circumstances and evidence of the creation of the Professional School of Nurses analyzed from the perspective of gender. The news articles were analyzed from the viewpoint of Cultural History, founded in the gender concept of Joan Scott and in the History of Women. The creation of the School and the priority given in the media to women consolidate the vocational ideal of the woman for nursing in a profession subjugated to the physician but also representing the conquest of a space in the world of education and work, reconfiguring the social position of nursing and of woman in Brazil.

Confidentiality Issues within a Clinical Information System: Moving from Data-driven to Event-driven Design

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (04/05) ◽  
pp. 298-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Joubert ◽  
D. Fieschi ◽  
M. Fieschi ◽  
P. Staccini
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Clinical Information System ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Event Driven ◽  
Access Controls ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWithin a hospital, the moving of medical information systems from retrospective data-gathering methods to prospective clinical information systems raises the question of the confidentiality of patient data. A method of improving the traditional matrix model usually used to achieve access controls is described. The event-driven model refers to the way a security system ensures that a given user has a valid »need-to« relationship to a given patient. Events are defined as the occurrence of specific data that trigger the creation or the updating of the relationship between the identity of a user and the identity of a patient (e. g., admission, discharge, transfer, prescription, and report). The creation and the deletion of the relationships between users and patients are based on numerous repositories and working lists of patients. This implementation requires an organization of the hospital activities which is able to manage, in a real-time manner, those repositories as closely as possible to the steps occurring during the patient’s care process. Although this approach seems to reasonably fit the dynamic of the care process, it adds significant organizational constraints.

scholarly journals WANITA CANTIK DAN KEJATUHAN PEMERINTAHAN HEBAT DALAM FILEM “TUN FATIMAH” (1962)

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Ayu Haswida Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Main Factor

Beautiful women have often been associated with great men of authority and governance in various kingdoms. However, according to scholars, the beautiful female subject also serves as a domineering figure that monopolises the man himself. She can also be a contributing factor towards the downfall of an empire and the world of the man she exists in. For instance, this phenomenon occurred during certain Chinese dynasties. Hence, this research, using the film titled “Tun Fatimah” (1962), focuses on studying and analysing the relationship between the beauty of Tun Fatimah – the daughter of the “Dato‟ Bendahara” of Malacca and the wife of Tun Ali – and the creation of a “sultan” (king), who was still a bachelor and governed tyrannically. Subsequently, history witnessed the king‟s downfall as a ruler in the larger context of the Malay World. It also led to fissures within the great Malaccan sultanate. This research utilises a qualitative approach, focusing on the detailed textual-narrative analysis of the film, supported by the epistemology of desire. Findings show that Tun Fatimah‟s beauty, which was befitting as queen for the Malaccan sultanate, is the main factor in contributing to the libido imbalance of the king and the weakness of hegemonic masculinity in the empire. The imbalance triggered the king‟s irrationality as shown through his emotions such as the thirst for vengeance, anger, jealousy, guilt and regret. In conclusion, the factors proved they did contribute fully to creating a tyrannical Malaccan king.

scholarly journals Le abetine di Vallombrosa nel 1791. I monaci vallombrosani e l'assestamento forestale nel XVIII secolo: un patrimonio culturale da salvaguardare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Galipò ◽  
Duccio Baldassini
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Land Planning ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The study of microtoponomastics, the examination of sources and the use of new technologies for the creation of geographic information systems capable of gathering various layers of information, allows the extraction of extremely interesting materials for land planning. The case study of the Vallombrosa Forest, probably the best-known forest area in Italy, is indicative of how the exploration of the world of historical archives is important still today. From the evidence that the Vallombrosan Benedictine monks, in the last years of the eighteenth century, had already drawn up a forest regulation plan, we can see the need and urgency to preserve a real scientific and cultural heritage. The creation of a Silvomuseum in Vallombrosa is confirmed as a brilliant intuition and its careful and punctual realization represents the challenge that awaits the current managers of the millenary forest, the cradle of Italian forestry sciences.

scholarly journals From the Golem to Artificial Intelligence: science in the theatre for an existential reflection

2002 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. A04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Barbacci
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intelligence Science

This work analyses how the theme of the creation of thinking machines by man, particularly through artificial intelligence, is dealt with on stage, with reference to three plays addressing different topics and characterised by different types of performance. This analysis reveals the particular effectiveness of plays dealing with scientific topics, when the relationship between theatre and science results in reflections transcending the boundaries of its contents to address man and his essence and gives voice to the ancient question of the sense of the world.

scholarly journals Man‐Machine and Machine‐Man in Art: Meeting in Digital

2021 ◽  
pp. 112-127
Author(s):  
G.L. Tulchinskii ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Code ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Artificial Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Wide Horizon

Digitalization has given rise to a substantially new civilizational and existential situation. The mankind development was associated with the creation of collective memory in the form of culture as a system for generating, storing and transmitting social experience, including the creation of an artificial environment. For the main part of history, man likened the world to himself, which made the world understandable. However, over time, the tools and means became less and less anthropomorphic. The world has increasingly become like complex mechanisms. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the relationship between man and machine has become one of the main themes in art. They gave rise to a wide horizon of aesthetic comprehension of this topic: from the pathos of transforming reality (including the person himself) to alarm and horror. However, modern digitalization creates an artificial environment that involves not only the natural environment, but also the biological nature of man. The person himself turns into an artifact. Moreover, under the conditions of digitalization, culture turns into a kind of machine, when reality appears as the realization of a “transcendental” digital code, which acts as an original source for any number of artifacts as its copies. This situation cannot but affect art and aestheticization, which are reduced to the flow of processing digitized data. It is not about new digital technologies in art. It is about changing the format of the entire process of artistic creation and aesthetic reception. A person is transformed from a user of consumption and creativity options into one of the options for a digital mega-machine.

God Makes a World of Difference: The Dialectic of Motivation and Meaning at the Creation of an African Theistic Worldview

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-445
Author(s):  
Gary Burlington
Keyword(s):  
Original Research ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Worldview as a way to understand Christianity (Naugel 2002) and competing accounts of reality (Sire 1997, 2004) focuses on cognitive, rational structures of meaning. But how are worldviews created? What is the relationship of cognition to historical contingency and psychological motivation? To answer these questions, I present original research on the thoughts of Emilio Mulolani Chishimba, founder of Zambia's Mutima Church, and view them through the lens of Charles W. Nuckolls' (1996) theory of culture and myth formation. Missiologists are better prepared to engage the world when they understand the nexus of factors that create specific worldviews.

scholarly journals The Invention of Sacred Places and Rituals: A Comparative Study of Pilgrimage

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 649
Author(s):  
John Eade
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

During the last twenty years around the world there has been a rapid increase in the number of people visiting long established religious shrines as well as the creation of new sites by those operating outside the boundaries of institutional religion. This increase is intimately associated with the revival of traditional routes, the creation of new ones and the invention of new rituals (religious, spiritual and secular). To examine this process, I will focus on the European region and two contrasting destinations in particular—the Catholic shrine of Lourdes, France, and the pre-Christian shrine of Avebury, England—drawing on my personal involvement in travelling to both destinations and being involved in ritual activities along the route and at the two destinations. In the discussion section of the paper, I will explore the relevance of these two case studies to the analysis of power, agency and performance and the ways in which they expose (a) the role of institutions and entrepreneurs in creating rituals and sacred places and (b) the relationship between people and the domesticated landscape.

Death and Translation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haun Saussy
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Life Process ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Translational Equivalence ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

The first translation of a Baudelaire poem into Chinese, a 1924 version of “A Carcass” by Xu Zhimo, offers an example of creative adaptation in translation: in his version and preface Xu assimilates Baudelaire to the early Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi. This is a strange choice on general grounds, but reflects the translator’s strategy of creating a recognizable identity for the Flowers of Evil, and for modernist poetics generally, within the world of Chinese thought. Furthermore, the content of Baudelaire’s poem, the changes made to it in Xu’s translation, and the relationship Xu devises with the works of Zhuangzi together outline a different theory of translation: not the creation of equivalents, but the chewing, digestion, and assimilation of a previous text, whether native or foreign, as part of the life-process of a literary tradition. Xu’s version of “A Carcass” enacts what Baudelaire’s poem describes, thereby displacing the ground of translational equivalence.

Funkcjonalne piękno języka prawnego

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-143
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Lizisowa
Keyword(s):  
Logical Structure ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Aspect ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents a stylistic analysis of legal language by combining moral issues with the logical use of linguistic signs – text, sentences and words. Particular emphasis was placed on the prescriptive nature of the preamble and on the logical structure of a sentence in legal language. The article also reflects human reflection on the beauty of the text, which is based on observation of the world and results from the need to arrange it according to cherished values. In this systemic harmony of content and form, there is the moral aspect of creating legislative texts in order to ensure security and just rights for society, as well as their functional beauty. The article presents numerous examples of the relationship between the morality and beauty of legal language through the prism of the content of legal acts.

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