Holding onto Moments in The Age of Innocence

Film Studies ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Steven Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Shared Time ◽  
The Age Of Innocence

This article offers an alternative to the predominant and pervasive theoretical approaches to discussing time in film. It adheres to ordinary language, and moves away from a ‘mapping’ of theoretical models or contextual analysis to concentrate on a films specifics. It considers the particular handling of time in a particular film: The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993). Fixing on specific points of style, the article examines the interplay of time and gesture, and the editing techniques of ellipses and dissolves. Both the article and the film hold their attention on the intricacy and intimacy afforded by moments, as they pass. Both explore how the intensity of a lovers relationship over decades is expressed in fleeting passages of shared time. In doing so, the article advances a vocabulary of criticism to match the rhetoric of the film, to appreciate the works handling of time. Detailed consideration of this achievement allows for a greater understanding of the designs and possibilities of time in cinema.

Public–Private Partnerships in the health sector: the Danish experience

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARSTEN VRANGBÆK*
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Danish Health ◽  
Private And Public

AbstractThis article investigates the current use of Public–Private Partnerships (PPP) in the Danish health sector based on an initial discussion of theoretical approaches that analyze PPP. The empirical analysis concludes that PPP has been used very sparsely in the Danish health sector. There are few examples of large-scale partnership projects with joint investment and risk taking, but a number of smaller partnerships such as jointly owned companies at the regional level. When defining PPP more broadly, we can identify a long tradition for various types of collaboration between public and private actors in health care in Denmark. An analysis of the regulatory environment is offered as an explanation for the limited use of PPPs in Denmark. Major political and institutional actors at the central level differ in their enthusiasm for the PPP concept, and the regulatory framework is somewhat uncertain. A number of general issues and concerns related to PPPs are also discussed. It is suggested that a risk-based framework can be useful for mapping the potential and challenges for both private and public partners. Such a framework can be used to feed into game theoretical models of pros and cons for PPP projects. In general terms, it is concluded that more empirical research is needed for the assessment of the various risk factors involved in using PPPs in health care. Most PPPs are still very young, and the evidence on performance and broader governance issues is only just emerging. Ideally, such assessments should include comparisons with a purely public alternative.

An Ironic Overlay: The Use of Voice-Over Narration in The Age of Innocence, by Martin Scorsese

Adaptation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175
Author(s):  
Cynthia Beatrice Costa
Keyword(s):  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Inside Information ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
The Age Of Innocence ◽  
Degree Of Association ◽  
The Voice

Abstract Often praised for its cinematic artistry and faithfulness to the homonymous novel (Edith Wharton, 1920), The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993) is sometimes seen, however, as a reminder of the perils of voice-over narration in fiction films (Herman). By examining its use in relation to notions of novel adaptation (Whelehan; Leitch) and approaching irony in the film as a rhetorical device (Booth; Hutcheon; MacDowell), this article counterpoints the opinion (Travers; Cahir) that the voice-over narration might have decreased the dramatic potency of Scorsese’s work. In doing so, two main hypotheses emerged: (1) displaying a voice that purposefully invokes the novel’s author might have enhanced the degree of association between adaptation and source material, and (2) in deepening the viewers’ understanding of certain scenes by revealing inside information, the voice-over adds an ironic overlay to the film.

scholarly journals MODERN THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING AND TOPICAL ISSUES OF RESEARCH ON THE TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION OF RECREATION AND TOURISM

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Дарья Владимировна Амелькина
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
National School ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Scientific Ideas ◽  
Recreation And Tourism ◽  
Territorial Systems

В статье систематизированы подходы отечественных ученых к исследованиям территориальной организации рекреации и туризма, выполненным на основе геосистемного анализа и классических теоретических моделей; подчеркивается преемственность научных идей отечественной школы социально-экономической и рекреационной географии в области изучения территориальных систем, связь с зарубежными экономгеографическими теориями и концепциями. Делается вывод о том, что актуальность исследований территориальной организации туризма в настоящее время формируется вызовами постиндустриальной эпохи и неразрывно связана с гуманитарными аспектами функционирования рекреационных систем, в т.ч. территориальными и ресурсными противоречиями, порождаемыми развитием рекреации и туризма. The article systematized approaches of domestic scientists to study the territorial organization of recreation and tourism, based on geosystem analysis and classical theoretical models; emphasizes the continuity of scientific ideas of the national school of socio-economic and recreational geography in the study of territorial systems, communication with foreign economy-geographical theories and concepts. It is concluded that the relevance of research on the territorial organization of tourism is currently formed by the challenges of the post-industrial era and is inextricably linked with the humanitarian aspects of the functioning of recreational systems, including territorial and resource contradictions generated by the development of recreation and tourism.

scholarly journals ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY: CONCEPTIONS AND EVOLUTION OF THEORETICAL MODELS

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Simone Boruck Klein ◽  
Frederico Cesar Mafra Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

In this research, a discussion is promoted regarding concepts, theories and main works that deal with the phenomenon of the Entrepreneurial University, with the aim of arousing instigations and reflections for the development of future research on this theme. The main contributions are the formulation of a frame of concepts, and the presentation of three predominant theoretical models, considering that the first uses the Institutional Theory, the second, the Systems Theory, and the third, a junction of these. To these contributions it is associated the presentation of theoretical approaches, used for the analysis of different objects at the Entrepreneurial University.

Campus sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1042-1060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moonhee Cho
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Recycling Behavior

Purpose Proposing an integrated model based on multiple theoretical approaches, such as the theory of planned behavior, the model of goal-directed behavior and self-determination theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine factors influencing college students’ campus recycling intention and actual recycling behavior. Design/methodology/approach An online survey method was used to test the proposed model with college students. A total of 434 students participated in the survey. Findings This study found that self-determined motivation, attitude toward recycling, perceived behavioral control and negative anticipated emotion had direct effects on campus recycling intention, while recycling intention and self-determined motivation influenced students’ actual campus recycling behavior. Research limitations/implications The findings of the study may not be generalizable to the broader population. Respondents’ self-reported assessment of their recycling behaviors may also be a drawback of the study. However, the study provides statistical evidence testing the proposed model of campus recycling. Practical implications The study’s findings provide communication planners for university recycling and sustainability departments with communication and message strategies to enhance college students’ recycling behavior. Originality/value The study proposes a more comprehensive, tailored model that integrates other compelling theoretical models, to address college students’ sustainability engagement on campus.

Potentiality, political protest and constituent power: A response to the special issue

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael PA Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
International Political Theory ◽  
Conceptual Relationships ◽  
Theoretical Developments

Emergent forms of political protest and constitution often provide limit cases for their contemporary theoretical models, and transnational protest movements from Occupy to Democracy in Europe 2025 are no exception. The recent special issue of the Journal of International Political Theory offers a number of different conceptual paths towards understanding these developments, revising and refreshing categories like civil disobedience, opposition, resistance, as well as constituent and destituent power. However, the plurality of perspectives in the special issue leads to a certain degree of uncertainty in the use of terms. This response to the special issue begins with a reflection on its major conceptual developments, addresses the missed encounter with Giorgio Agamben’s theory of ‘destituent potential’ and develops a framework for contrasting different theoretical approaches to political protest and constitution through their relation to potentiality. This taxonomy of emergent forms of political protest and constitution complements the substantial theoretical developments undertaken in the special issue by making the important conceptual relationships between them more readily visible. As well, by demonstrating the applicability of potentiality to the study of International Relations, this framework contributes to the project of the theoretical investigation of international politics.

The effects of theoretical models of materials and die on finite element predictions in a forging process of aluminum scroll

2020 ◽  
pp. 095440892095810
Author(s):  
HN Song ◽  
YS Kim ◽  
MS Joun
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Stress Component ◽  
Hot Forging ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Forging Process ◽  
Forming Load ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Die Stress ◽  
Insight Into

In this paper, the effects of theoretical models of materials and dies on finite element (FE) predictions of a hot forging process are presented, to provide process design engineers and researchers with some useful insight into the theoretical approaches on which they rely. The material was assumed to be rigid-viscoplastic or rigid-thermoviscoplastic and the dies were assumed to be rigid or elastic. The problem of die fracture occurring during the hot forging of aluminum fixed scroll was studied. This process is particularly sensitive to theoretical models, mostly because the die-stress component causing the die fracture has a relatively weak relationship with the forming load. A fully thermo-mechanically coupled FE analysis considered die elastic deformation and was first conducted to reveal die fracture with emphasis on the maximum die stress and forming load. The predictions for four simulated cases using different theoretical assumptions of the material and die were then compared. These were also compared with experiments, undertaken to observe the relationship between maximum die stress component and forming load, to reveal the effects of material and die models in FE predictions. The differences in forming load, die stress and their variation with time among the four cases were clarified quantitatively for different die and material models, to provide some insight into metal forming for engineers and researchers.

Is Reputation a Means or an End?

Reputation ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 28-61
Author(s):  
Gloria Origgi
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Social Trait

This chapter is devoted to the theoretical approaches to reputation developed in the different branches of social science that adopt the theory of rational choice. It answers the principal questions of whether reputation can be seen as a rational strategy or as a means to other ends or an end in itself. The chapter explores the various ways in which cultivating one's reputation, given the costs it imposes and the benefits it confers, can be a rational strategy. It examines how several most prominent social scientists approach the questions on reputation. It also treats explanations that synthesize evolutionary theory with rational-choice theory only as “theoretical models” useful for illuminating the conditions for the possibility of the emergence of a social trait, such as reputation.

scholarly journals A Diverse Community To Study Communities: Integration of Experiments and Mathematical Models To Study Microbial Consortia

2017 ◽  
Vol 199 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Succurro ◽  
Fiona Wanjiku Moejes ◽  
Oliver Ebenhöh
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Microbial Interactions ◽  
Microbial Consortia ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

ABSTRACT The last few years have seen the advancement of high-throughput experimental techniques that have produced an extraordinary amount of data. Bioinformatics and statistical analyses have become instrumental to interpreting the information coming from, e.g., sequencing data and often motivate further targeted experiments. The broad discipline of “computational biology” extends far beyond the well-established field of bioinformatics, but it is our impression that more theoretical methods such as the use of mathematical models are not yet as well integrated into the research studying microbial interactions. The empirical complexity of microbial communities presents challenges that are difficult to address with in vivo/in vitro approaches alone, and with microbiology developing from a qualitative to a quantitative science, we see stronger opportunities arising for interdisciplinary projects integrating theoretical approaches with experiments. Indeed, the addition of in silico experiments, i.e., computational simulations, has a discovery potential that is, unfortunately, still largely underutilized and unrecognized by the scientific community. This minireview provides an overview of mathematical models of natural ecosystems and emphasizes that one critical point in the development of a theoretical description of a microbial community is the choice of problem scale. Since this choice is mostly dictated by the biological question to be addressed, in order to employ theoretical models fully and successfully it is vital to implement an interdisciplinary view at the conceptual stages of the experimental design.

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