scholarly journals Alternative Facts in Musicology and Vechnaya Pamyat' in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 81-114
Author(s):  
Eileen Mah
Keyword(s):  
Russian Music ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Logical Fallacies ◽  
The Web

The assertions, refutations, and counter-refutations concerning two core pieces of Richard Taruskin’s studies on Russian music—Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5—provide a starting point for discussion about the possibilities, limits, and obligations of musicological interpretation.  Moreover, an important aspect of the discussion is the phenomenon of “alternative facts,” both in publication and in pedagogy, and possibly in music itself.             Taruskin argues against the logical fallacies of overly specific or overly simplistic interpretations, but hesitates to fully interpret certain music himself, thereby participating in the web of alternative facts.  Taruskin refutes popular myths about biographical meanings in Tchaikovsky’s symphony, but in so doing, also seems to reject a tragic reading of any kind.  He explains away various musical structures and extroversive references, but fails to explore why those elements are in fact present.             As for Shostakovich’s symphony, Taruskin notes its saturation with musical topics, but ignores their allusive specificity, downplaying their significance altogether for what he calls their transferability.  Yet Taruskin himself identifies an allusion to a specific Orthodox hymn, and therefrom draws specific conclusions.  His evidence for calling the passage a “literal imitation” is actually flawed, but a truly literal quotation of this very hymn may be present throughout the entire symphony, and may act as a sort of species of alternative fact itself.  In any case, something that specific, and its placement in the symphonic structure, deserve notice and demand specificity of interpretation.

scholarly journals Proyección y transferencia de los grupos de investigación de la Comunicación en España a partir del análisis de sus sitios web

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florencia Claes ◽  
Alejandro Barranquero ◽  
Eduardo Rodríguez-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
International Level ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
The Web

Research groups are professional structures that cooperate to produce knowledge and that must communicate their findings to make disciplines progress. This research analyzes how Spanish Communication research groups take advantage of the functionalities of the web 2.0 to transfer knowledge and promote closer collaboration with other academic entities. The starting point is an exhaustive census of research groups, prepared within the research project MapCom 2 and including groups belonging to communication faculties of public and private universities in Spain. Content analysis is then applied to examine how these groups use their respective websites, exploring six variables: navigability, dissemination of information and services, updating, international projection, SEO positioning, and possibilities of interaction with the audience. The analysis of the sites reveals disparate results in terms of the type of update, content, functionalities, and uses. Most of the groups listed have websites to present their lines of research and objectives. However, these spaces vary from one group to another (even within the same university), and many asymmetries can be detected in the information presented and in the fact that certain statements are not always accessible. The study of these variables –composed and designed for the present research– also allows us to analyze the knowledge transfer that the groups carry out, their possible level of interaction with citizens, or to determine whether they are more or less endogamic or have an external projection when promoting links with other members or groups at a local, state, or international level. The results show that Spanish groups have not yet managed to exploit the opportunities of the web 2.0 sufficiently to transfer knowledge as well as export and increase the visibility of their scientific production. Resumen Los grupos de investigación son estructuras académicas que cooperan para producir conocimiento y que necesitan comunicar sus hallazgos para fortalecer los campos y disciplinas científicas. La presente investigación analiza cómo los grupos españoles del campo de la Comunicación aprovechan las funciones de la web 2.0 para transferir el conocimiento y fomentar mecanismos de colaboración con otras entidades científicas. Se parte de la elaboración de un censo exhaustivo de grupos de investigación, elaborado en el marco del proyecto I+D MapCom 2, y que incluye grupos adscritos a las facultades de comunicación de universidades públicas y privadas en España. Se aplica un protocolo de análisis de contenido para estudiar cómo dichos grupos emplean sus webs en relación con seis variables: navegabilidad, exposición de informaciones y servicios, actualización, proyección internacional, trabajo de posicionamiento SEO, y posibilidades de interacción con el público. El análisis de las webs demuestra resultados dispares en cuanto a tipo de actualización, contenidos, funciones y usos. La mayoría de los grupos analizados cuenta con espacios online para exponer sus líneas de investigación y objetivos. Sin embargo, dichos espacios varían de un grupo a otro (e incluso dentro de la misma universidad), y se detectan abundantes asimetrías en la información expuesta y en el propio hecho de que ciertas declaraciones no son siempre accesibles. El estudio de estas variables –compuestas y diseñadas para la presente investigación– también nos permite analizar la transferencia de conocimiento que realizan los grupos, su nivel de interacción con la ciudadanía, y si estos son más o menos endogámicos o tienen una proyección externa al favorecer vínculos con otros miembros o grupos en escalas locales, estatales o internacionales. Los resultados demuestran que los grupos españoles aún no han conseguido explotar suficientemente la web 2.0 de cara a transferir conocimiento y visibilizar e internacionalizar su producción científica.

scholarly journals The World in the Post-Truth Era or How Too Much Love of TINA Will Kill You

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarl K Kampen
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Research Domains ◽  
Research Domain ◽  
The Eu

Aim: The temptation to provide simple answers to complex problems exists for politicians and scientists alike. This essay attempts to briefly outline the complexity of present day problems at global level, taking as a starting point the question “how quick will the EU collapse?” Design / Research methods: Brief discussions are given of separate yet interconnected, causally related and overlapping natural and social research domains, illustrating the need for qualified multidisciplinary spokesmen able to separate facts from “alternative facts.”Conclusions / findings:  Making the simple anthropological observation that people can choose policies that are self-destructive does not make social science politicized or value-biased. A society that considers global warming, depletion and pollution caused by fossil fuels as mere externalities makes a demonstrable erratic choice. Because one of the major goals of science is to establish (in)validity of “common sense,” it is duty of academics to tell our students that societies, including entire scientific departments, can make consistent erratic choices.Originality / value of the article: This essay may help scholars and practitioners to start to look at their research domain in a (much) wider global context.

scholarly journals QSalignWeb: A Server to Predict and Analyze Protein Quaternary Structure

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sucharita Dey ◽  
Jaime Prilusky ◽  
Emmanuel D. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Quaternary Structure ◽  
Sequence Similarity ◽  
Pfam Domain ◽  
Domain Architecture ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Crystal Lattices ◽  
Physiological Relevance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Quaternary Structures ◽  
The Web

The identification of physiologically relevant quaternary structures (QSs) in crystal lattices is challenging. To predict the physiological relevance of a particular QS, QSalign searches for homologous structures in which subunits interact in the same geometry. This approach proved accurate but was limited to structures already present in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Here, we introduce a webserver (www.QSalign.org) allowing users to submit homo-oligomeric structures of their choice to the QSalign pipeline. Given a user-uploaded structure, the sequence is extracted and used to search homologs based on sequence similarity and PFAM domain architecture. If structural conservation is detected between a homolog and the user-uploaded QS, physiological relevance is inferred. The web server also generates alternative QSs with PISA and processes them the same way as the query submitted to widen the predictions. The result page also shows representative QSs in the protein family of the query, which is informative if no QS conservation was detected or if the protein appears monomeric. These representative QSs can also serve as a starting point for homology modeling.

Managing Operational Business Processes with Web-Based Information Technologies

2009 ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
Ned Kock
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Team Coordination ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
Generic Framework ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Web

Traditionally management schools of thought that emphasize certain types of work structures usually appear earlier than information technologies (IT) geared at supporting those work structures. This situation has undoubtedly changed recently, arguably around the mid-1990s, with the explosion in the commercial use of the Internet and particularly the Web. This calls for the development of a generic framework that ties together relevant management ideas that help organizations strategically and operationally align themselves with new Web-based IT. Our goal with this chapter is to provide some basic elements that can be used by managers and researchers as a starting point to develop this generic framework. As such, we focus on a particular set of activities associated with team coordination and communication in production and service delivery business processes through the Internet and the Web.

Web Portal Gateways

2011 ◽  
pp. 1217-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Tatnall
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Base Site ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
E Mail ◽  
The Web

The term Web portal is overused and takes on a different meaning depending on the view of the author. This article will investigate the concept of a portal, the various types of portal, and how portals are currently being used. A Yahoo search of the Web in February 2004 revealed 85 million entries for the word portal, and even allowing for a considerable degree of overuse and overlap, portals are seen everywhere and span a bewildering range of topics and interest areas. It would be difficult to make any use of the Web without encountering one. In general terms, unrelated to the World Wide Web, the Macquarie Dictionary defines a portal as “a door, gate or entrance” (Macquarie Library, 1981, p. 1346). More specifically, a Web portal is seen as a special Internet (or intranet) site designed to act as a gateway to give access to other sites (Tatnall 2005a). A portal aggregates information from multiple sources and makes that information available to various users. In other words a portal is an all-in-one Web site whose prime purpose is to find, and to gain access to other sites, but also one that provides the services of a guide that can help to protect the user from the chaos of the Internet and direct them towards an eventual goal. More generally, however, a portal should be seen as providing a gateway, not just to sites on the Web, but to all network-accessible resources, whether involving intranets, extranets, or the Internet. In other words a portal offers centralised access to all relevant content and applications (Tatnall 2005b). Historically, the Web-portal concept probably developed out of search engine sites such as Yahoo!, Excite, and Lycos, which can now be classified as first-generation portals. These sites, however, quickly evolved into sites providing additional services such as e-mail, stock quotes, news, and community building rather than just search capabilities (Rao 2001). Eckerson (1999) outlines four generations of portals whose focus, in each case, is: generic, personalised, application, and role. The success of a portal depends on its ability to provide a base-site that users will keep returning to after accessing other related sites. As an entranceway onto the Web (or an intranet) it should be a preferred starting point for many of the things that a particular user wants to do there. A useful goal for those setting up a portal is to have it designated by many users as their browser start-up page.

Notes for a critical and ecological view of patriarchal capiltalism in the web of life

2020 ◽  
pp. 030981682092911
Author(s):  
Mina Lorena Navarro Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Ecological View ◽  
Continuous Dynamic ◽  
The Web

The starting point of this text is the concern for the impacts that the extractive offensive is generating in the territories and means of existence that have historically guaranteed the sustenance and reproduction of human and non-human life on the planet. This offensive is part of a historical and continuous dynamic of exploitation and appropriation of nature for the accumulation of capital, that has intensified in all the countries of Latin America in the last two decades. In this text, I present some interpretative guidelines and bridges between critical Marxism, ecology and feminism to understand the socio-ecological impacts that the metabolism of patriarchal capitalism generates in the web of life. about it and would be helpful if we knew the exact timeline.

scholarly journals Musical Structure as Narrative in Rock

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fernando Encarnacao
Keyword(s):  
Rock Music ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Musical Structure ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Sense Of Home ◽  
Quest Narrative

In an attempt to take a fresh look at the analysis of form in rock music, this paper uses Susan McClary’s (2000) idea of ‘quest narrative’ in Western art music as a starting point. While much pop and rock adheres to the basic structure of the establishment of a home territory, episodes or adventures away, and then a return, my study suggests three categories of rock music form that provide alternatives to common combinations of verses, choruses and bridges through which the quest narrative is delivered. Labyrinth forms present more than the usual number of sections to confound our sense of ‘home’, and consequently of ‘quest’. Single-cell forms use repetition to suggest either a kind of stasis or to disrupt our expectations of beginning, middle and end. Immersive forms blur sectional divisions and invite more sensual and participatory responses to the recorded text. With regard to all of these alternative approaches to structure, Judy Lochhead’s (1992) concept of ‘forming’ is called upon to underline rock music forms that unfold as process, rather than map received formal constructs. Central to the argument are a couple of crucial definitions. Following Theodore Gracyk (1996), it is not songs, as such, but particular recordings that constitute rock music texts. Additionally, narrative is understood not in (direct) relation to the lyrics of a song, nor in terms of artists’ biographies or the trajectories of musical styles, but considered in terms of musical structure. It is hoped that this outline of non-narrative musical structures in rock may have applications not only to other types of music, but to other time-based art forms.

scholarly journals MDA-based ontology infrastructure

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan Djuric
Keyword(s):  
Web Ontology Language ◽  
Model Driven Architecture ◽  
Ontological Engineering ◽  
Uml Profile ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Ontology Language ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Meta Object Facility ◽  
The Web

The paper presents Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) and Ontology UML Profile that enables using Model Driven Architecture (MDA) standards in ontological engineering. Other similar metamodels are based on ontology representation languages, such as RDF(S), DAML+OIL, etc. However, none of these other solutions uses the recent W3C effort-The Web Ontology Language (OWL). In our approach, we firstly define the ODM and Ontology UML Profile place in the context of the MDA four-layer architecture and identify the main OWL concepts. Then, we define ODM using Meta-Object Facility (MOF). The relations between similar MOF and OWL concepts are discussed in order to show their differences (e.g. MOF or UML Class and OWL Class). The proposed ODM is used as a starting point for defining Ontology UML profile that enables using the well-known UML notation in ontological engineering more extensively.

scholarly journals Algorithms of the Web

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 199-216
Author(s):  
Przemysław Szews
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Information Distribution ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
E Mail ◽  
The Web

The article tackles the problem of the existence of algorithms in selected services and Internet websites. The interfacing of media is the starting point for this discourse, aimed at presenting the processes of automation in information distribution, the individualisation of messages and profiling in websites. The threats resulting from dynamically developing enterprises aimed at providing the website user with artificial intelligence – in terms of both social networks and mobile applications – are explicated in detail. The examples presented in the article refer to Internet recommendation systems, e-mail applications, voice assistants, and mechanisms responsible for the functioning of social networks. Speculations on algorithms omnipresent on the Web lead us to reflect on how the journalism will be redefined in the future, since it seems that the role of the journalist will be to moderate discussion and select the themes to be discussed; it is quite likely, though, that the themes selected will be compiled by specialised software.

Hiding Your “Scuzzy Bits”

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-120
Author(s):  
Tanya Kant
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Browser Extension ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Data Tracking ◽  
The Web ◽  
Selection Of

This is the first of three chapters to scrutinize the horizon of possibilities that algorithmic personalization creates for users at the level of everyday life. The site of investigation that takes the focus of this chapter is Ghostery: a browser extension and privacy tool that allows web users to see and block the commercial data trackers that harvest, manage, and monetize the personal data that web users produce as they surf the web. Taking Ghostery’s rhetorical sum of “knowledge + control = privacy” as a conceptual starting point, this chapter draws on interviews with a selection of Ghostery users to explore their struggles for personal privacy in the context of algorithmic personalization. The author finds that Ghostery users’ negotiations with algorithmic personalization have implications in relation to autonomy, epistemic anxiety, and the protection—as well as potential “erosion”—of selfhood against data tracking.

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