scholarly journals Cataloging practices through an ethnographic lens: workarounds, disagreements, and manifestations of culture

NASKO ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Wan-Chen Lee
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Local Adaptations ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Third ◽  
Demographic Group ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Group Term ◽  
Theoretical Developments

Cataloging models emphasize selective aspects of cataloging and serve the purposes of conceptual debates and theoretical developments. Many complexities, uncertainties, dilemmas, challenges, and “rare” scenarios that catalogers encounter in practice are not presented in the models. To study cataloging practices, the author presents cataloging scenarios observed from an ongoing fieldwork. Through weekly participatory observations and unstructured interviews of catalogers, the work presents cases among the diverse and complex cataloging practices, and surfaces the tensions and time involved in cataloging. This paper will focus on three themes: workarounds, disagreements, and manifestations of culture in cataloging practice. The first scenario describes a non-linear cataloging process and the different workarounds applied. The workarounds highlight the tacit knowledge of experienced catalogers. The second scenario shows catalogers’ different perspectives about the authorship of stone rubbings. Disagreements, negotiation, and compromises in cataloging process are often not documented or explained. This scenario examines cataloging contexts that we cannot observe from analyzing cataloging standards or records. The third scenario describes the proposal of a Library of Congress Demographic Group Term (LCDGT): Zhiqing, and how it was approved as a LCSH: Zhiqing generation instead. The term encompasses a combination of regional, temporal, and cultural aspects of a demographic group. In the proposal process, I identified cultural manifestations in cataloging process through observing “the missing pieces” and local adaptations. This study contributes to the knowledge organization literature by presenting cataloging scenarios that require prolonged engagement to study.

Overcoming “The Third Way” Concept

2006 ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
L. Evstigneeva ◽  
R. Evstigneev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Linear

“The Third Way” concept is still widespread all over the world. Growing socio-economic uncertainty makes the authors revise the concept. In the course of discussion with other authors they introduce a synergetic vision of the problem. That means in the first place changing a linear approach to the economic research for a non-linear one.

scholarly journals Coworking with Roma: Exploration of Slovak majority’s cooperation intention using content analyses and networks of free association

Human Affairs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-211
Author(s):  
Juraj Petrík ◽  
Branislav Uhrecký ◽  
Miroslav Popper ◽  
Lenka Nôtová
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Image Theory ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
The Third ◽  
Demographic Group ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Roma People ◽  
Mental Constructs

Abstract This study, theoretically based on integrated threat and image theory, explored (1) the mental constructs produced by the Slovak majority in relation to cooperation with the Roma minority and (2) differences in thinking about different Roma demographic groups. In Slovakia, prejudice towards Roma people is a long-standing phenomenon. In this study there were 228 participants, mostly young adults, who produced 22 categories of associations, explored using content and network analyses. The frequency of category associations in the first and second research group was mostly the same, but the distribution differed for the demographic groups considered by the third research group, which was asked to produce associations separately for each Roma demographic group. The largest difference measured was between integrated and segregated Roma people – the associations were mostly positive for the first and negative for the second. These results provide the first empirical exploration of cooperation intentions with Roma people in the Slovak context and suggestions are made for future discourse on Roma.

Telling the Traumas of History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lipson Freed
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Distortions ◽  
Leslie Marmon Silko ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Small Things ◽  
The Third Person

Focusing on the novels Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, and The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, Chapter 2 uses trauma theory to explore how histories of imperial domination refuse to be confined to the past. These two novels invite readers to identify to varying degrees with their traumatized protagonists, holding out the possibility of a resistant and revisionary “history from below.” Ultimately, however, a careful analysis of these two works reveals how literary trauma theorists, in their eagerness to give voice to the voiceless, are too readily taken in by the imaginative construct of the third-person narrator. While individual characters in these novels may suffer the cognitive distortions of trauma, the fragmentary, non-linear account that their readers receive is, in both cases, mediated by the presence of a narrator whose choices are conscious, volitional, and strategic.

Energy matters

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-144
Author(s):  
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Indian Science ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theoretical Developments

The third chapter concentrates on how Indian science fiction met the representational challenges regarding energy during the non-aligned era. These decades were marked by chronic ‘energy crises’ in the country, involving massive shortages in food and fuel. Drawing on recent theoretical developments in Energy Humanities, the chapter suggests that much of the science fiction of the time was animated by attempts to present the pitfalls of thinking about energy exclusively in terms of resource and extraction and imagine what a non-exploitative energy-system could look like.

scholarly journals Adolescent Perception of Maternal Practices in Portugal and Spain: Similarities and Differences

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 5910
Author(s):  
Bárbara Lorence ◽  
Cristina Nunes ◽  
Susana Menéndez ◽  
Javier Pérez-Padilla ◽  
Victoria Hidalgo
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Family Intervention ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Third ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Adolescent Perceptions ◽  
Situated Perspective ◽  
Southern European Countries

The aim of this study was to compare parenting in two southern European countries, Spain and Portugal, according to adolescent perceptions from a situated perspective. A total of 445 Portuguese (58.88%) and Spanish (41.12%) adolescents completed a questionnaire about maternal practices and provided socio-demographic information. Portuguese and Spanish mothers were more responsive than coercive in controlling adolescents’ compliance and non-compliance situations. Spanish mothers scolded, revoked privileges, and punished physically more often than Portuguese mothers, who used dialogue more often. Multivariate analysis showed three groups of parenting practices. Portuguese mothers were represented mainly in the Indulgent group (81.70%), and Spanish mothers in the Authoritative group (74.40%), whereas the third group (Neglectful) was independent of the country of origin. These results support the theory that research and family intervention should recognize cultural aspects in order to grasp the parenting process.

scholarly journals Solving Non-Linear Fractional Variational Problems Using Jacobi Polynomials

Mathematics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harendra Singh ◽  
Rajesh Pandey ◽  
Hari Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Chebyshev Polynomials ◽  
Jacobi Polynomials ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Variational Problems ◽  
Algebraic Equations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fractional Variational Problems ◽  
Nonlinear Algebraic Equations ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Fourth Kind

The aim of this paper is to solve a class of non-linear fractional variational problems (NLFVPs) using the Ritz method and to perform a comparative study on the choice of different polynomials in the method. The Ritz method has allowed many researchers to solve different forms of fractional variational problems in recent years. The NLFVP is solved by applying the Ritz method using different orthogonal polynomials. Further, the approximate solution is obtained by solving a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. Error and convergence analysis of the discussed method is also provided. Numerical simulations are performed on illustrative examples to test the accuracy and applicability of the method. For comparison purposes, different polynomials such as 1) Shifted Legendre polynomials, 2) Shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind, 3) Shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the third kind, 4) Shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the fourth kind, and 5) Gegenbauer polynomials are considered to perform the numerical investigations in the test examples. Further, the obtained results are presented in the form of tables and figures. The numerical results are also compared with some known methods from the literature.

Variation of Inter-Item Associative Strength and Some Measures of Free Recall

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard R. Pollio ◽  
Edward G. Christy
Keyword(s):  
Free Recall ◽  
Associative Strength ◽  
Stimulus Word ◽  
Monotonic Function ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
The Third ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
The Relationship

Three groups of 20 Ss each were asked for the free recall of three different lists of 28 meaningful English words. Each list contained the associative responses evoked by a different Kent-Rosanoff stimulus word, and differed in the amount of its inter-item associative strength (IIAS). The words in a given list also differed in terms of the number of other words (Nc) in that list producing or cueing that word as an associate. Results showed that the number of items appearing in free recall was a non-monotonic function of IIAS. For two of the three word sets, Nc was positively correlated with the frequency of recall of individual items; while for the third set Nc value and frequency of recall were negatively correlated. The relationship between Nc and order of recall was non-linear, and some tendency toward alternating the recall of high and low Nc words appeared in the data. Thus, IIAS produced both facilitation and interference effects on free recall, the latter being the result of a factor similar to verbal satiation.

Wavelength dependence of the third order non-linear coefficient in hydrothermally grown ZnO crystals

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 997-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Zappettini ◽  
F. D'Amore ◽  
S. M. Pietralunga ◽  
A. Terio ◽  
M. Martinelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wavelength Dependence ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Linear Coefficient ◽  
The Third ◽  
Non Linear
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