Geo Time Travel – An Explosive Adventure

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Porta ◽  
Andrea Mazzon ◽  
Cristina Usardi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Doing School ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Near Future

<p>The recent legislative and ministerial standards require to the teachers to change the way of "doing school" and to put “emphasising on the needs in order to build, through dialogue between the different disciplines, a coherent and unified profile of cultural meanings”. The National Guidelines regarding OSA (specific objectives of learning) formulated on the European directives based on the “knowledge society”, recommend to improve interdisciplinary connections. The predominantly linear path of disciplinary knowledge, found in text books, consents an internal order in the mind rather than to induce the “ability to connect”, encouraging the development of complex thought. This methodology created over time a superficial knowledge that leads to permanence of “commonplaces” and “misconception”.</p><p>These are the questions: is theatre foreign to science? Is it possible to promote scientific knowledge through drama? This tool indicates the separation or the link between 'two cultures'?</p><p>Our proposal was to produce a training module. We realized a scientific script with didactic value titled “Geo Time Travel – An Explosive Adventure”.</p><p>The plot tells of a near future, where the most technically advanced school classes will have the opportunity to confront each other in breathtaking cultural challenges in order to win the coveted prize up for grabs. Just before the start of the semifinals we know the science teacher who will accompany her most brilliant students during the test. The group is informed that the next test is timed and will consist of a journey through time, so in a few seconds the team is preparing to start. It is precisely the haste to be a bad adviser: in a cloud of smoke, the participants find themselves in a completely different era from the one they have planned. How far back have they gone? How will the group get away with gladiators, famous naturalists, mysterious traders and Sibylline prophecies? Will students be able to move on to the final phase?</p><p>The procedure predicted:</p><ul><li>- the analysis of pedagogical needs</li> <li>- the analysis of the misconceptions or prior knowledge</li> <li>- the selection of the focalised scientific concepts</li> <li>- the application of the new knowledge</li> </ul><p>The teacher, in this case a scriptwriter, composed the script, inserting interdisciplinary topics, developing a good plot to capture the attention but being careful not to trivialize main concepts. It was important to introduce playful scenes in order to make the show more dramatic and a little less academic.</p><p>The role of the teacher changed: she was the director or was joined by the director. Each student received a role: who the actor, who the prompter, who the lighting or audio technician.</p><p>We created the schedules to observe before, during and at the end of the experience.</p><p>It was important to change the traditional way to evaluate the performances of students.</p><p>We’ll represent the drama in theatre and the research will focus on understand the reaction of both a general public and a public of students. The data collected will be analysed with different statistic methods.</p>

The double and triple role of L-(+)-tartaric acid and dimethyl urea: A prevailing green approach in organic synthesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashid Ali ◽  
Ajay Kumar Chinnam ◽  
Vikas R. Aswar
Keyword(s):  
Tartaric Acid ◽  
Organic Synthesis ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Organic Transformations ◽  
Green Approach ◽  
Dimethyl Urea ◽  
Low Toxicity ◽  
The One ◽  
Near Future

: The deep eutectic mixtures (DESs), introduced as novel alternative to usual volatile organic solvents for organic transformations has attracted a tremendous attention of the research community because of their low cost, negligible vapour pressure, low toxicity, biodegradability, recyclability, insensitive towards moisture, and readily availability from bulk renewable resources. Although, the low melting mixture of dimethyl urea (DMU)/L-(+)-tartaric acid (TA) is still infancy yet much effective as it play double and triple roles such as solvent, catalyst and/or reagent in a same pot for many crucial organic transformations. These unique properties of DMU/TA mixture prompted us to provide a quick overview of where the field stands presently, and where it might be going in near future. To our best knowledge, no review dealing with the applications of a low melting mixture of DMU/TA appeared in the literature except the one published in 2017 describing only the chemistry of indole systems. Therefore, we intended to reveal the developments of this versatile low melting mixture in the modern organic synthesis since its first report in 2011 by Köenig’s team to till date. Hopefully, the present review article will be useful to the researcher working not only in the arena of synthetic organic chemistry but also to the scientists working in other branches of science and technology.

scholarly journals Natural Language Understanding: Methodological Conceptualization

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 431-443
Author(s):  
Vitalii Shymko
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Natural Language Understanding ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Matter Field ◽  
Language Understanding ◽  
Composite Function ◽  
Motivational Influences ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

This article contains the results of a theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of natural language understanding (NLU), as a methodological problem. The combination of structural-ontological and informational-psychological approaches provided an opportunity to describe the subject matter field of NLU, as a composite function of the mind, which systemically combines the verbal and discursive structural layers. In particular, the idea of NLU is presented, on the one hand, as the relation between the discourse of a specific speech message and the meta-discourse of a language, in turn, activated by the need-motivational factors. On the other hand, it is conceptualized as a process with a specific structure of information metabolism, the study of which implies the necessity to differentiate the affective (emotional) and need-motivational influences on the NLU, as well as to take into account their interaction. At the same time, the hypothesis about the influence of needs on NLU under the scenario similar to the pattern of Yerkes-Dodson is argued. And the theoretical conclusion that emotions fulfill the function of the operator of the structural features of the information metabolism of NLU is substantiated. Thus, depending on the modality of emotions in the process of NLU, it was proposed to distinguish two scenarios for the implementation of information metabolism - reduction and synthetic. The argument in favor of the conclusion about the productive and constitutive role of emotions in the process of NLU is also given.

scholarly journals Effect of Musical Training on Leadership, Motivation and Curiosity-Exploration amongst Instrumental Musicians and Non-Musicians

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rini Kaushal ◽  
Aradhana Balodi Bharadwaj
Keyword(s):  
Social Preferences ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
Democratic Leadership ◽  
Data Links ◽  
Leadership Motivation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

Music is the natural surge in the numinous ocean of the mind. It is the one of the most influential form of art in debt of its own qualities of eccentricity and dynamicity and functions as a medium of studying, pleasure, and entertainment. An effective contribution in listening to and performing music is valuable to everyone throughout the different societies around the globe. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of musical training in enhancing social attributes such as leadership, motivation and curiosity-exploration amongst instrumental musicians and non-musicians, where the hypotheses stated that instrumental musicians will show greater tendencies of leadership, motivation and curiosity-exploration. A sample comprising of 40 instrumental musicians (20 male and 20 female) and 40 non-musicians (20 male and 20 female) from the age group 17-35 years were studied using an online version of the questionnaires. The results revealed that musicians showed greater tendency of practicing democratic leadership than non-musicians who preferred authoritarian leadership slightly more, whereas no significant difference was found between the motivational levels and curiosity-exploratory skills of both the groups. Further analysis of the data links the role of environmental factors, socio-economic background and the constant transforming trends for the change in the approaches of both musicians and non-musicians, which in turn also influences their social preferences.

scholarly journals Zarządzanie w antropocenie, czyli co w czym i co z tego. Analiza literatury dotyczącej splotu zjawisk

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-42
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Ćwikła
Keyword(s):  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Will ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

Management in the Anthropocene and What Comes Out of It. Analysis of the Literature on the Entanglement of Phenomena The Anthropocene is a term that not only conjures up all kinds of images in the mind but provides an impulse to reconsider the scope of human responsibility for man-triggered processes and its place in the system of related factors on our planet. At the same time, it is a term treated by many with ambivalence, reluctance, and caution, as it often harbingers the imminent environmental doom, the awareness of which may change the current balance of political and economic forces. Additionally, it is still involved in emphasizing the central role of the human, it is sometimes romanticized and can lead to an aestheticization of the climate catastrophe instead of taking actions resulting not from the will of heroism, but from humility. The ongoing debate on the Anthropocene in the field of management studies is of extraordinary importance, because it provides a framework for undertaking any activity – the activity which either aggravates or alleviates the negative environmental impact. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contexts in which the scientific literature in the field of management talks about the Anthropocene and to explore the level of gravity that is assigned to management in this conventional geological and cultural era. Particular attention is paid to the dominant trends of reflection which illustrate a wide variety of attitudes towards the Anthropocene, including the one that places the Anthropocene against the background of efforts to maintain the status quo and the one that perceives it as a prelude to concocting alternative or even anarchist visions of management. The paper focuses on theoretical voices, which determined the method of analysis based on the study of language and the interpretation of narratives and metaphors.

scholarly journals SYNTAX AS AN OBJECT OF PARODY

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Boris Ju. Norman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Text Collections ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Communicative Effect ◽  
Linguistic Units

In the mind of the native speaker, there is an idea of the syntactic “optimum”, which allows them to use linguistic units most effectively to achieve a desired communicative effect. It contains a set of pieces of intuitive (“naïve”) knowledge about the parameters of the sentence, the organization of its structure, the rules of correspondence of lexical and grammatical meanings, etc. Deviations from this optimum can become independent objects of not only scholarly research, but also parody in a literary text. The article analyzes the problem lying on the borderline between linguistics, literary criticism and psychology: What syntactic features of the original text are enhanced or hyperbolized in parody? Analysis of numerous examples from Russian fiction allows the author to make a conclusion about the metalinguistic significance of certain features of the structure of the text. Collections of literary parodies (by A. Arkhangelsky, A. Ivanov, etc.) were subject to a special (continuous) analysis. The following syntactic phenomena were identified as the object and reason for their reflection in the parodies: a) excessive length of the sentence; b) artificial complication of its structure, specifically by means of chains of consecutive subordination, homogeneous members, abundance of epithets, etc.; c) absolutization of elements of oral, official and other speech styles, including the “telegraph style”; d) violation of the isosemy rule; e) non-realization of obligatory syntactic valency (unmotivated ellipsis); f) separation from the sentence of its part (parcellation), etc. These phenomena, used systematically, obtain a linguo-psychological characterization of salience (identifiability against the general background). As a result of the study, the author made up a list of syntactic facts that acquire the role of secondary signs in a work of fiction, along with other stylistic categories. Such a list, on the one hand, is intended to serve the convergence of scholarly (“academic”) and mass (“secondary school”) grammar, and, on the other hand, is of interest to experimental psychology, which studies the problems of perception and comprehension of the text.

Digital Media in Grassroots Anti-Corruption Mobilizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Mattoni
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Principal Agent ◽  
The Public ◽  
Principal Agent Problem ◽  
The One ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Situated Approach

Corruption is a global problem that affects millions of people, and activists all over the world mobilize against it. When they do so, they increasingly employ various types of digital media. First, the chapter discusses two leading roles that digital media might have in grassroots anti-corruption struggles, each of them linked to one specific approach to corruption. On the one hand, they are in line with a view of corruption as a principal–agent problem, hence assisting activists in enlarging the monitoring and denouncing capacity of people concerning corruption. On the other hand, they can sustain a view of corruption as a collective action problem, hence helping activists in increasing the public awareness on corruption to change the normative understanding of what corruption is and does to societies. Second, the chapter addresses digital media as they entangle with big data. While anti-corruption activists have always relied on data of all kinds to support their struggles, this section tackles three specific types of data-related practices (data production, data embedment, and data transformation). It also shows how they are in tune with either the collective action or the principal–agent approach to corruption. Third, the chapter discusses another, more pragmatic, and situated approach to corruption and, in its framework, the potential role of digital media for anti-corruption activists, arguing for the development of comparative studies on the subject matter. Finally, conclusions revisit the previous sections, taking into consideration three main directions toward which research on anti-corruption from the grassroots and its relationship with digital media might develop in the near future.

DNA methylation in satellite repeats disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 757-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Francastel ◽  
Frédérique Magdinier
Keyword(s):  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Human Genome ◽  
Repetitive Dna ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Satellite Repeats ◽  
Tremendous Progress ◽  
Genes Encoding ◽  
Dna Elements ◽  
Near Future

Abstract Despite the tremendous progress made in recent years in assembling the human genome, tandemly repeated DNA elements remain poorly characterized. These sequences account for the vast majority of methylated sites in the human genome and their methylated state is necessary for this repetitive DNA to function properly and to maintain genome integrity. Furthermore, recent advances highlight the emerging role of these sequences in regulating the functions of the human genome and its variability during evolution, among individuals, or in disease susceptibility. In addition, a number of inherited rare diseases are directly linked to the alteration of some of these repetitive DNA sequences, either through changes in the organization or size of the tandem repeat arrays or through mutations in genes encoding chromatin modifiers involved in the epigenetic regulation of these elements. Although largely overlooked so far in the functional annotation of the human genome, satellite elements play key roles in its architectural and topological organization. This includes functions as boundary elements delimitating functional domains or assembly of repressive nuclear compartments, with local or distal impact on gene expression. Thus, the consideration of satellite repeats organization and their associated epigenetic landmarks, including DNA methylation (DNAme), will become unavoidable in the near future to fully decipher human phenotypes and associated diseases.

You Are the One I Want to Communicate With!

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Pierucci ◽  
Olivier Klein ◽  
Andrea Carnaghi
Keyword(s):  
Memory Bias ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Communication Partner ◽  
Shared Reality Theory ◽  
The One ◽  
Study Participants

This article investigates the role of relational motives in the saying-is-believing effect ( Higgins & Rholes, 1978 ). Building on shared reality theory, we expected this effect to be most likely when communicators were motivated to “get along” with the audience. In the current study, participants were asked to describe an ambiguous target to an audience who either liked or disliked the target. The audience had been previously evaluated as a desirable vs. undesirable communication partner. Only participants who communicated with a desirable audience tuned their messages to suit their audience’s attitude toward the target. In line with predictions, they also displayed an audience-congruent memory bias in later recall.

The Formation of Intermediate Product I in a Purified System The Role of Factor IX or of its Precursor and of a Hageman Factor-PTA Fraction

1961 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 224-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. T Yin ◽  
F Duckert
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Product ◽  
Factor Ix ◽  
Assay Method ◽  
Lag Phase ◽  
Factor X ◽  
Haemophilia B ◽  
Hageman Factor ◽  
One Stage ◽  
The One

Summary1. The role of two clot promoting fractions isolated from either plasma or serum is studied in a purified system for the generation of intermediate product I in which the serum is replaced by factor X and the investigated fractions.2. Optimal generation of intermediate product I is possible in the purified system utilizing fractions devoid of factor IX one-stage activity. Prothrombin and thrombin are not necessary in this system.3. The fraction containing factor IX or its precursor, no measurable activity by the one-stage assay method, controls the yield of intermediate product I. No similar fraction can be isolated from haemophilia B plasma or serum.4. The Hageman factor — PTA fraction shortens the lag phase of intermediate product I formation and has no influence on the yield. This fraction can also be prepared from haemophilia B plasma or serum.

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