Change of Good

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Selvi Şenel
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Clear Point ◽  
Good And Evil

In the postmodern era, concepts, notions, even ideologies that used to be concrete lost their precision. On the contrary to the clear point of view of modernism with linearity, postmodernism is circular and holistic. Thus, concepts like good and evil must not be seen as a total contrast. With the holistic approach of postmodernism, there can be evil in good and good in evil. In the popular fantasy texts that have been made especially in the last decade, this change easily can be seen in the characters. In this part, change of the good and the evil concepts in the fantasy genre will be examined in the context of postmodernism and developments in these concepts will be approached with the roles as hero, villain, anti-hero, anti-villain.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of efficiency of democracy in Ukraine according to the indices of democracy The Economist Democracy Index, Freedom In the World and Polity IV

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Kateryna Fedoryshynа
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Integral Point ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Final Score ◽  
Legal Restrictions

This article represents an analysis of efficiency of Ukrainian democracy within the framework of three popural indices of democracy – The Economist Democracy Index, Freedom In the World index and Polity IV. Comparative analysis shows the core factors which bring three different democratic concepts, used in the indices, to the integral unity. Finding correlation between factors of Ukrainian democracy, measured in the indices through a certain time period (2006-2018), helps getting integral look at the problem of non existent universal theoretic base for understanding democracy. The basic idea of the analysis, represented in this article, shows that different factors, used by indices in measuring democracy, do not evenly correlate in practice, though they represent holistic approach to the essence of democracy. Choosing specific theoretical approach of understanding democracy makes it hard for indices to fully measure real democracy. This analysis aims at searching correlation in different basic factors of democratic models, used by indices with different approaches. As the result of the analysis the article ranks a number of basic factors, used in three popular indices of democracy, according to the strength of correlation of these factors with other factors of the index they represent and with the final score of the index. Integral choice of the basic factors, which correlate with the change of Ukraine’s democratic trends according to the three indices, covers several dimensions of democratic model. Ukrainian democratic trends in the specific time period (2006-2018), as the analysis shows, from integral point of view correlates the most with the changes in electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties and legal restrictions of the executive power. Political culture, political participation and individual rights show weak correlation with Ukrainian democratic trends within the period of time, chosen for the analysis.

scholarly journals Assessing the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' Surveillance Problems and Actual Solution Options from the Different Stakeholders' Viewpoint

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianka Károly ◽  
Balázs Sághi
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Global View ◽  
Actual Solution

The problems related to the integration of the unmanned aerial vehicles into national airspaces is one of the main topics that the scientific researchers are dealing with these days. Despite that, none of them are investigating the UAVs from the surveillance point of view. For that reason, highlighting the problems that have to be dealt with and assessing them through a holistic approach is the aim of the paper. Therefore, the paper takes the different stakeholders view and identify the key factors that have to be taken into account. The authors propose the surveillance technologies that can be considered and evaluated them along the revealed factors through a global view. The results can be applied as a base for the further research in UAVs surveillance domain.

scholarly journals Geographic Information System (GIS) and Its Application in Urban Planning and Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
Masood Safari Ali Akbari
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Clear Point ◽  
Data Layers

Using satellite data and GIS, the location of various urban land uses, including new methods for locating is quick. This study, based on a method of analysis - descriptive, and benefit from the resources in this area to assess the effectiveness of GIS in urban planning and environment, is discussed, and attempted to make a clear point of view, this can provide. Our results indicate that, nowadays, several researchers, from capabilities of GIS are used for localization. Because GIS is able to analyze large amounts of data layers is. Use of GIS in urban planning, with the rapid expansion of cities and increased levels of SAM binding information that must be processed for urban management, is clear. Abnormal location for the development of suitable sites for the establishment of urban green spaces, places for waste disposal and land evaluation, and its features and many other environmental issues, it can be pointed out.

scholarly journals A holistic engineering approach to aeronautical product development

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (1268) ◽  
pp. 1545-1560 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Staack ◽  
K. Amadori ◽  
C. Jouannet
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Regulatory Decisions

ABSTRACTProduct development, especially in aerospace, has become more and more interconnected with its operational environment. In a constant changing world, the operational environment will be subjected to changes during the life cycle of the product. The operational environment will be affected by not only technical and non-technical perturbations, but also economical, managerial and regulatory decisions, thus requiring a more global product development approach. One way to try tackling such complex and intertwined problem advocates studying the envisioned product or system in the context of system of systems (SoS) engineering. SoSs are all around us, probably in any field of engineering, ranging from integrated transport systems, public infrastructure systems to modern homes equipped with sensors and smart appliances; from cities filling with autonomous vehicle to defence systems.Since also aerospace systems are certainly affected, this work will present a holistic approach to aerospace product development that tries spanning from needs to technology assessment. The proposed approach will be presented and analysed and key enablers and future research directions will be highlighted from an interdisciplinary point of view. Consideration of the surrounding world will require to look beyond classical engineering disciplines.

scholarly journals BASE: a sustainable path for the University of Milano-Bicocca

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 04005
Author(s):  
Cristina Messa ◽  
Giacomo Magatti ◽  
Massimiliano Rossetti ◽  
Matteo Colleoni ◽  
Massimo Labra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

Since its foundation, in 1998, the University of Milano-Bicocca has been pursuing the objective to make its structures sustainable from an environmental, social and economic point of view. To this end, in 2015 the University of Milano-Bicocca created BASE (Bicocca Ambiente Società Economia - Bicocca Environment Society Economy), an internal office aimed at promoting the interaction between research and training and at stimulating sustainability both within the University and outside. BASE proposes a holistic approach to sustainability including energy efficiency, waste reduction, sustainable mobility, climate change attention and water and food supply. The report will focus on the interventions recently carried out in the various fields, paying particular attention to the issues of waste management and of mobility.

Ethics of Reading

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Essential Feature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
Moral Thought ◽  
Ethics Of Reading ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Moral Claims ◽  
Good And Evil

The ethics of reading connects with but is not identical to the field of ethical criticism. Often pursued as a normative inquiry into morality, ethics may be better understood in historical terms. From this point of view, the inquiry into ethics is not a matter of good and evil (or universal moral correctness) but rather of understanding historically variable and socially conditioned regimes of subjective self-construction (ethics). Thus, moral thought may be taken to be one specific modality of the ethical, not its essential feature. A social and historical inquiry into the ethics of reading must then examine the ethical impulse itself, the recurring attraction of ethical questions, normative moral claims, and the search for moral models in literary and cultural texts. Various strands of ethical criticism have treated literary characters as approximations of persons or have considered the way reading itself may be a morally healthful act. Understanding these approaches and their limitations helps one recognize an alternative ethics of reading, focused on the social and historical reconstruction of the category of the ethical, as well as a more specifically literary-critical style of reading, focused on a single ethical injunction: fidelity to the object of critical attention.

scholarly journals Strategic Tools in Regenerative and Translational Dentistry

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Tatullo ◽  
Bruna Codispoti ◽  
Francesco Paduano ◽  
Manuel Nuzzolese ◽  
Irina Makeeva
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Adult Stem Cell ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Local Inflammation ◽  
Differentiation Potential ◽  
Clear Point ◽  
Regenerative Ability ◽  
Stem Cell Populations

Human oral-derived stem cells can be easily obtained from several oral tissues, such as dental pulp, periodontal ligament, from gingiva, or periapical cysts. Due to their differentiation potential, oral-derived mesenchymal stem cells are promising for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The regenerative ability showed by some oral tissues strongly depends on their sleeping adult stem cell populations that are able to repair small defects and to manage local inflammation. To date, researchers are working on effective and efficient methods to ensure safe and predictable protocols to translate stem cell research into human models. In the last decades, the challenge has been to finally use oral-derived stem cells together with biomaterials or scaffold-free techniques, to obtain strategic tools for regenerative and translational dentistry. This paper aims to give a clear point of view on state of the art developments, with some exciting insights into future strategies.

A model of housing demand - an analysis from the point of view of owners, owners-investors and investors

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Jacek Łaszek ◽  
Krzysztof Olszewski ◽  
Hanna Augustyniak
Keyword(s):  
Financial Models ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Housing Demand ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Investment Good ◽  
The Future ◽  
Residential Demand ◽  
Consumer Model

An apartment is both a consumption and an investment good. The aim of this article is to present a holistic approach to the assessment of housing demand. The residential demand may be divided into purely proprietary demand combined with a form of allocation of savings, active investing in property that generates income from rents, and speculations, consisting in buying and waiting for increase of prices in the future. These three types of demand affect each other. In their analysis, the authors rely on the basic microeconomic and financial models and those associated with the market of housing properties, that is the consumer model, interim consumption, and the financial investor. On the basis of calculations, a housing demand on the primary hosing market was established for the six largest cities of Poland.

scholarly journals Skuteczność Narodowego Programu Mieszkaniowego w zakresie społecznej polityki mieszkaniowej

Studia BAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (66) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Michał Sobczak
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Social Part ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Complex Housing

In the first 20 years of the 21st century, the social housing policy in Poland underwent many changes. They resulted from the lack of consistency in this respect and low patience of the ruling parties, which led to profound modifications in the approach to the housing policy practically with every new government. Until the implementation of the National Housing Programme (NHP), the housing policy in Poland was characterised by fragmented solutions, without any comprehensive approach to the issue in question. The aim of the article is to verify the effectiveness of the NHP, especially in terms of its social part, i.e., Mieszkanie Plus [Apartment Plus] package. The programme was described using the framework of theoretical assumptions of the social housing policy and the implementation of this policy in Poland after the year 2000. The author claims that the NHP is the first housing policy in Poland which applies a holistic approach and moves away from the practice of short-term, fragmented solutions. He recommends that those who are in power should exercise patience and refrain from introducing alterations after a very short period from the point of view of investment processes, as the implementation of such a complex housing policy as the NHP is planned for many years.

scholarly journals Data Infrastructures in Ecology: An Infrastructure Studies Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Millerand ◽  
Karen S. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Data Infrastructures ◽  
Infrastructure Studies

The development of information infrastructures that make ecological research data available has increased in recent years, contributing to fundamental changes in ecological research. Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the subfield of Infrastructure Studies, which aims at informing infrastructures’ design, use, and maintenance from a social science point of view, provide conceptual tools for understanding data infrastructures in ecology. This perspective moves away from the language of engineering, with its discourse on physical structures and systems, to use a lexicon more “social” than “technical” to understand data infrastructures in their informational, sociological, and historical dimensions. It takes a holistic approach that addresses not only the needs of ecological research but also the diversity and dynamics of data, data work, and data management. STS research, having focused for some time on studying scientific practices, digital devices, and information systems, is expanding to investigate new kinds of data infrastructures and their interdependencies across the data landscape. In ecology, data sharing and data infrastructures create new responsibilities that require scientists to engage in opportunities to plan, experiment, learn, and reshape data arrangements. STS and Infrastructure Studies scholars are suggesting that ecologists as well as data specialists and social scientists would benefit from active partnerships to ensure the growth of data infrastructures that effectively support scientific investigative processes in the digital era.

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