scholarly journals Theory of meaningful information, background, excerpts and meaning representation

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Sunik
2021 ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Tetiana Voropayeva

The author of the article analyzes the collaboration of the domestic and foreign Ukrainians alike in the perennial intellectual support of restoring Ukraine‟s independence. The most important figures in this process were: V. Antonovych, M. Hrushevsky, M. Kostomarov, A. Krymsky, M. Maksymovych, I. Ogienko, O. Potebnya; V. Vytvytsky, M. Globenko, V. Holubnychy, S. Hordynsky, E. Glovinsky, D. Dontsov, A. Zhukovsky, Z.E. Kohut, I. Koshelivets, B. Kravtsiv, I. Krypyakevych, V. Kubiyovych, Z. Kuzelya, Y. Kuchabsky, V. Markus, M. Mikhnovsky, O. Ogloblin, E. Onatsky, J. asternak, E.-Yu. Pelensky, V. Petrov, S. Plokhii, N. Polonska-Vasylenko, O. Pritsak, I. Rakovsky, S. Rudnytsky, S. Smal-Stotsky, M. Stakhiv, O. Subtelny, A. Figol, V. Khvoyka, M. Chubaty, V. Shcherbakivsky, S. Yaniv; V. Balushok, V. Baran, M. Braichevsky, I. Gel, P. Grigorenko, J. Dashkevych, I. Dziuba, I. Drach, M. Zhulynsky, L. Zaliznyak, J. Isayevych, J. Kalakura, I. Kandyba, P. Kononenko, L. Lukyanenko, O. Nelga, G. Pivtorak, M. Popovych, O. Romanov, M. Rudenko, E. Sverstyuk, S. Segeda, V. Sergiychuk, V. Smoliy, V. Stus, M. Tymoshyk, V. Chornovil and others. The publishing of „Encyclopedia of Ukraine‟ was an extremely important event that became the means to centralize the worldview of the meaning field of the Ukrainian identity. „Encyclopedia of Ukraine‟ (Professor Volodymyr Kubiyovych, chief editor) is a scientific publication that combines the most significant systemized information in different scientific branches about the Ukrainianship, Ukraine, and Ukrainian world. Since Ukraine's study has a huge worldview potential, it is necessary to further fortify its influence on the forming of a complete worldview and common identity of Ukrainian citizens. We know that any political, economic, historical, and ethnocultural information requires the meaning processing when it is being studied. Because meaning is a unit of inner world of identity (O. Leontiev), while „the strive for the meaning‟ is one of the most efficient motivators of person's tendencies, and once it‟s gone people get trapped in an existential vacuum, alienation, depression, despair, etc. (V. Frankl). The meaning throughout the entire „Encyclopedia of Ukraine‟ could become a determinant of the worldview formation of the meaning field in Ukrainian identity (both personal and general). So, „Encyclopedia of Ukraine‟ with meaningful information and different forms (signs, symbols, images, axiological, etc.) of meaning representation may become a source of Ukraine‟s study competency and a system forming factor of centralizing the worldview of the meaning field of the Ukrainian identity, which was provided by the process of intellectual support of Ukraine's independence.


2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Grimley

One of the most poignant scenes in Ken Russell’s 1968 film Delius: Song of Summer evocatively depicts the ailing composer being carried in a wicker chair to the summit of the mountain behind his Norwegian cabin. From here, Delius can gaze one final time across the broad Gudbrandsdal and watch the sun set behind the distant Norwegian fells. Contemplating the centrality of Norway in Delius’s output, however, raises more pressing questions of musical meaning, representation, and our relationship with the natural environment. It also inspires a more complex awareness of landscape and our sense of place, both historical and imagined, as a mode of reception and an interpretative tool for approaching Delius’s music. This essay focuses on one of Delius’s richest but most critically neglected works, The Song of the High Hills for orchestra and wordless chorus, composed in 1911 but not premiered until 1920. Drawing on archival materials held at the British Library and the Grainger Museum, Melbourne, I examine the music’s compositional genesis and critical reception. Conventionally heard (following Thomas Beecham and Eric Fenby) as an imaginary account of a walking tour in the Norwegian mountains, The Song of the High Hills in fact offers a multilayered response to ideas of landscape and nature. Moving beyond pictorial notions of landscape representation, I draw from recent critical literature in cultural geography to account for the music’s sense of place. Hearing The Song of the High Hills from this perspective promotes a keener understanding of our phenomenological engagement with sound and the natural environment, and underscores the parallels between Delius’s work and contemporary developments in continental philosophy, notably the writing of Henri Bergson.


Author(s):  
Ксения Ивановна Голубцова

Статья посвящена рассмотрению проблем профилактики преступлений оперативными подразделениями исправительных учреждений (далее - ИУ). Автор, раскрывая роль оперативных отделов ИУ в общей профилактике правонарушений, указывает на ее двоякость, поскольку, с одной стороны, рассматриваемые подразделения обладают значительным преимуществом перед другими службами учреждения в выявлении негативных факторов (негласный метод получения оперативно значимой информации), с другой стороны - далеко не все условия, которые способствуют совершению преступлений в ИУ, можно устранить оперативным путем. Изучение специальной литературы позволило выявить в деятельности начальников ИУ определенные проблемы, связанные с оценкой состояния оперативной обстановки в ИУ, сложившейся ситуации; с отсутствием прогноза развития криминогенной ситуации в ИУ, а также с профессиональной некомпетентностью руководителей, неумением объективно оценивать результаты деятельности структурных подразделений. Автор особое внимание уделяет анализу статистических данных о совершенных и предотвращенных преступлениях лицами, находящимися в местах лишения свободы. The article is devoted to the consideration of problems of crime prevention by operational units of correctional institutions (hereinafter referred to as IA). The author, revealing the role of the operational departments of the IA in the general prevention of offences, points to its twofold. On the one hand, the units under consideration have significant advantages over other services of the institution in identifying negative factors (these are tacit methods of obtaining promptly meaningful information). On the other hand, not all conditions conducive to the commission of crimes in IA can be eliminated by operational means: For example, shortcomings in the activities of other departments and services (security department, duty shift, etc.). The study of special literature has made it possible to identify problems in the activities of heads of correctional institutions in the sphere of implementation of solutions in case of lack of objective and complete information on the state of the operational situation in IA, the current situation, the results of the activities of structural subdivisions; No forecast of the development of the crime situation in IE; Professional incompetence of managers, inability to objectively assess the results of activities of structural subdivisions. The author pays particular attention to the analysis of statistics on crimes committed and prevented by persons in detention.


Author(s):  
Pierre Taberlet ◽  
Aurélie Bonin ◽  
Lucie Zinger ◽  
Eric Coissac

Chapter 10 “Environmental DNA for functional diversity” discusses the potential of environmental DNA to assess functional diversity. It first focuses on DNA metabarcoding and discusses the extent to which this approach can be used and/or optimized to retrieve meaningful information on the functions of the target community. This knowledge usually involves coarsely defined functional groups (e.g., woody, leguminous, graminoid plants; shredders or decomposer soil organisms; pathogenicity or decomposition role of certain microorganisms). Chapter 10 then introduces metagenomics and metatranscriptomics approaches, their advantages, but also the challenges and solutions to appropriately sampling, sequencing these complex DNA/RNA populations. Chapter 10 finally presents several strategies and software to analyze metagenomes/metatranscriptomes, and discusses their pros and cons.


Metabolites ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 336
Author(s):  
Boštjan Murovec ◽  
Leon Deutsch ◽  
Blaž Stres

General Unified Microbiome Profiling Pipeline (GUMPP) was developed for large scale, streamlined and reproducible analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA data and prediction of microbial metagenomes, enzymatic reactions and metabolic pathways from amplicon data. GUMPP workflow introduces reproducible data analyses at each of the three levels of resolution (genus; operational taxonomic units (OTUs); amplicon sequence variants (ASVs)). The ability to support reproducible analyses enables production of datasets that ultimately identify the biochemical pathways characteristic of disease pathology. These datasets coupled to biostatistics and mathematical approaches of machine learning can play a significant role in extraction of truly significant and meaningful information from a wide set of 16S rRNA datasets. The adoption of GUMPP in the gut-microbiota related research enables focusing on the generation of novel biomarkers that can lead to the development of mechanistic hypotheses applicable to the development of novel therapies in personalized medicine.


2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez

The impact of new advanced technology on issues that concern meaningful information and its relation to studies of intelligence constitutes the main topic of the present paper. The advantages, disadvantages and implications of the synthetic methodology developed by cognitive scientists, according to which mechanical models of the mind, such as computer simulations or self-organizing robots, may provide good explanatory tools to investigate cognition, are discussed. A difficulty with this methodology is pointed out, namely the use of meaningless information to explain intelligent behavior that incorporates meaningful information. In this context, it is inquired what are the contributions of cognitive science to contemporary studies of intelligent behavior and how technology may play a role in the analysis of the relationships established by organisms in their natural and social environments.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-374
Author(s):  
David J. Zajac ◽  
Juliana Powell ◽  
Laura Perotta

Purpose Pressure-flow testing provides clinicians with estimates of velopharyngeal (VP) gap size during speech production. Traditionally, adequacy of VP function has been based on absolute area criteria. This clinical focus article provides a brief overview of pressure-flow testing and introduces the palatal closure efficiency index, a speaker-centered metric to interpret findings. Conclusions The palatal closure efficiency index provides information on a speaker's ability to achieve VP closure during oral plosives relative to his/her own VP opening during a nasal consonant. This approach provides both clinicians and patients with more meaningful information to interpret pressure-flow findings for both diagnostic and treatment outcome purposes.


1972 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Piziali ◽  
C. D. Mote

Paper reports research on dynamic system characteristics of snow skis. Laboratory and field measurements of frequency response, running surface pressure excitation, and static system characteristics are intended to provide a data base of physical information to guide future design and research. Laboratory testing procedures used give meaningful information for “straight running” but not for “turning.” In general, the turning and straight running maneuvers must be examined independently. This paper summarizes the general research observations with a minimum of detail included.


2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Feli Gonzalez ◽  
David Facal ◽  
Ana Belen Navarro ◽  
Arjan Geven ◽  
Manfred Tscheligi ◽  
...  

The HERMES Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging project proposes an integrated approach to cognitive assistance, promoting the autonomy of elderly users through pervasive technology. This work aims to describe elderly people’s opinions when they are presented scenarios developed in this project. Two focus groups were organized in Austria and Spain with a view to collecting their impressions about the way in which the technological device can cover their needs; complementarily, a second session was conducted including a quantitative questionnaire. Although some participants were reluctant to use the technology, they welcomed some functionalities of the HERMES system and they considered that using them can help them to become familiar with them. Usefulness, usability, and use of real-life information for functionalities such as cognitive games are considered to be key areas of the project. This evaluation has provided the developers of the system with meaningful information to improve it and it guarantees that the system addresses elderly people’s needs.


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