scholarly journals INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY RANKINGS AS A SОCIOECONOMIC PHENOMENON AND A NEW INSTRUMENT OF GLOBAL GOVERNMENT SOFT POWER

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijana Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
Country Rankings ◽  
Global Government

One of the fundamental determinants of the last waveof the globalization process is the emergence and expansionof international country (economy) rankings.The popularity of these lists is increasing day by day.However, despite their widespread use, the existingbody of scientific knowledge about this complex socioeconomicphenomenon is modest, at best. Since internationalcountry rankings represent a relatively newphenomenon and an “industry” characterized by explosivegrowth, the paper will present the basic theoreticalfoundations of the phenomenon, with particular emphasison the economic dimension. The concept will beanalyzed through the context of mechanisms that determinethe appearance and functioning of global societytoday. It will also be noted that the international rankinglists which use the economic systems of countriesas the basic unit of analysis, i.e. certain elements of thegiven system, are a suitable instrument for shaping aneconomic reality and development flows of a modernsociety in accordance with the goals of certain interestgroups and centers of power. The findings that will bepresented in this paper constitute a prerequisite and astarting point for extensive research on the issues of internationalcountry rankings, especially regarding theimpact of this phenomenon on the economic sphere ofsociety.

scholarly journals Multimodality and dubbing in video games: A research approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Mejías-Climent
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Do So

This article discusses a new taxonomy of dubbing synchronies in the Spanish localized version of the video game Batman: Arkham Knight. To do so, the concept of the video game is first reviewed as the most sophisticated example of audiovisual text in terms of its multimodal nature. The article also describes how the message is conveyed through the different communication channels that form a part of its semiotic structure. Next, the research approach proposal is presented, based on the multimodal configuration of video games: game situations will be the unit of analysis used in this approach, since they are a basic unit with which to organize the content of a game and they distinguish video games as a unique type of audiovisual text. These game situations are used to analyse the specific features of dubbing and types of synchrony. Finally, some results are offered to confirm that the taxonomy of dubbing in video games discussed here applies to this particular case.

scholarly journals Holarchic HCI and Augmented Psychology ("AugPsy")

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suraj Sood
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
The Self ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Flow Experience ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Optimal Flow ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Significant Events

Consciousness enables experience, and each can be placed on a spectrum [1, 14]. Experience is more robust andmultidirectional, though the possibility exists for it to be bidirectional (particularly for the geometrician working along a line, but also generally when considering between two given options). Consciousness is synonymous informally with awareness. When one is conscious, they are aware, and vice versa. Awareness can be quantified in terms of being “greater” or “lesser”. For example, one may be more aware of certain aspects of experience than others given selective attention.Experience is the basic unit of analysis for phenomenology. While experience may be operationalized as qualia to address“what things are like” [20], the former may also be treated as a formal primitive. Phenomena are events as they appear to orpresent themselves for conscious perceivers. In ordinary use, experiences are assumed to be significant events or happenings.Phenomenal experience is qualitative. It is characterized as such by description through adjectives (e.g., “good” or “bad”).Experiences can be categorized into types, e.g. into the learning kind (as in the “learning experience”). If an experience is rich,then it has richness that may be qualified—described further in terms of what makes it so—or quantified. Growth may result from the victorious experience. This is so in battle-based role playing games (RPGs), where successfully defeating one’s opponent earns experience points that contribute to the possible level-up of one or more of the player’s team members (as in Pokémon and Fire Emblem, two of the most popular Japanese action-adventure RPG series).It is posited that the self, after being immersed in something greater than it, has potential to emerge greater than it was prior [2, 3]. Positive psychology recognizes such an immersed state as being one of flow or engagement. Subjective immersion [6] can be reported on to certain extents of meaningfulness and accuracy. Immersion can be qualified, e.g. via description of an activity’s meaning to the human actor, or perhaps quantified. Perhaps the optimal flow experience is only quantifiable as being infinitelyenjoyable, enriching, engaging, and/or meaningful, among other possible measures.

scholarly journals Discourse Analysis: Interpreting Repertoires

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berliani ◽  
Hermanola
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Neutral Medium ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The World

This article is a preprint of DA project. This study intended to describe approaches and explain the value of the interpretative repertoire as the first basic unit of analysis in Discourse Analysis. This study employ a methodological approach in wide form both in social psychology as well as modern theories of empirical exemplary discourse; the development of 'race' relationships. The data reveals and predicts that language and people are separate entities, and the language is a neutral medium between social actors and the world. This analysis tends to look for similar rather than variations within and across accounts, to merge accounts into categories like "attitude," and to shrink or ignore social action locations.

scholarly journals Eye-tracking multi-word units: some methodological questions

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Carrol ◽  
Kathy Conklin
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Formulaic Language ◽  
Unit Of Analysis

Eye-tracking in linguistics has focused mainly on reading at the level of the word or sentence. In this paper we discuss how the phenomenon of formulaic language might best be examined using this methodology. Formulaic language is fundamentally multi-word in nature, therefore an approach to eye-tracking that considers the “word” as the basic unit of analysis may require re-evaluation. We review the existing literature on single word and sentence processing, and also those studies that have used eye-tracking as a way of investigating formulaic language to date. We discuss how eye-tracking might elucidate the “added extra” processing advantage for formulaic language. We conclude with some suggestions about the best way to utilise eye-tracking within this sub-field of linguistic investigation.

scholarly journals ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ECONOMIC IN KAROL WOJTYLA'S TEACHINGS

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Mariia Dovhan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Human Value ◽  
Economic Sphere

The research provides a systematic analysis of Karol Wojtyla's views on human development in the context of economic development. Karol Wojtyla focuses on the analysis of the economic sphere of society in view of the observance of human rights and the realization of human freedoms, as well as the possibility of developing one's morality. It is substantiated that the current state of the economy leads to a single dimension of a human being, the crisis of identity and the degradation of human values. Given the misinterpretation of a human being in modern economic systems, where it is used as a tool, not an aim, the thinker emphasizes the need for economic transformation. It is established that Karol Wojtyla regards the development of the economy through the prism of the moral priorities of a modern human being. He connects human self-destruction with modern transformations of the scientific and technical sphere, and explains the emergence of nihilism through the crisis of rationality. The paper seeks to analyze the main dangers in the field of economics, due to which the understanding of human value is lost. Simultaneously, it considers the recommendations of Karol Wojtyla on changing this state of affairs. The thinker emphasizes the dignity of every person, because the recognition of a person as the highest value is not only the existence of laws and norms in the state which would guarantee a decent life in the socio-economic sphere, but also meeting national, cultural and spiritual needs. Without the right of private property, according to him, an autonomy and development of a person are inconceivable. Karol Wojtyla considers the formation of a new world economic system based on the principles of justice and equality to be the answer to the problem of a proper place of a human being in economic systems. In contrast to profit as a regulator of the economy, the thinker raises the importance of a human factor in economic development, emphasizes the key role of orderly and creative human labor and its components, namely initiative and entrepreneurship. The lack of knowledge and skills are viewed as reasons which do not allow getting out of poverty. It has been established that, according to Karol Wojtyla, impersonal being is a value and a moral obligation to the subject who is a person.

СТРАСТЬ КАК ФУНДАМЕНТАЛЬНАЯ СОСТАВЛЯЮЩАЯ МОТИВА НАСИЛЬСТВЕННОГО ПРЕСТУПНОГО ПОВЕДЕНИЯ

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 572-580
Author(s):  
О. М. Ігнатов
Keyword(s):  
Basic Unit ◽  
Criminal Behaviour ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Violent Criminal

В статье осуществлен анализ проблемы мотивации насильственного преступного по­ведения в криминолого-психологическом и теологическом научном дискурсивном поле. В качестве основной единицы анализа мотивационной сферы личности преступника была выбрана категория страсти, рассматриваемая в структурах духовно-психобиологической сферы личности совершающего насильственное преступление. Раскрыта роль и функции страсти как глубинной основы мотивации насильственного преступного поведения.   In the article the analysis of problem of motivation of violent criminal behaviour is carried out in crime-psychological and the theology scientific discursive zone. As basic unit of analysis of motivational sphere of personality of criminal were the category of passion, examined in the structures of spiritual-psychobiological sphere of personality of accomplishing crime of violence, is chosen. A role and functions of passion are exposed as deep basis of motivation of violent criminal behaviour.

Automatic extraction of meaningful units from corpora

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pernilla Danielsson
Keyword(s):  
Small Study ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Automatic Extraction ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
National Corpus

In this article, we will reconsider the notion of a word as the basic unit of analysis in language and propose that in an information and meaning carrying system the unit of analysis should be a unit of meaning (UM). Such a UM may consist of one or more words. A method will be promoted that attempts to automatically retrieve UMs from corpora. To illustrate the results that may be obtained by this method, the node word ‘stroke’ will be used in a small study. The results will be discussed, with implications considered for both monolingual and multilingual use. The monolingual study will benefit from using the British National Corpus, while the multilingual study introduces a parallel corpus consisting of Swedish novels and their translations into English.

Interest-Group Liberalism and Juridical Democracy

1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Grady
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Public Values ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Evaluative Criteria

Theodore Lowi's proposal for juridical democracy is inspired by a "crisis in authority" that has been generated under "interest-group liberalism," his designation for con temporary pluralist theory. Lowi suggests that the roots of the crisis lie in the pluralists' misreading of the Madisonian model. Juridical democracy is an alternative analytical and programmatic format which is designed to reintroduce the now lost benefits of the Madisonian model. Lowi's approach demonstrates, in contrast to interest-group liberal ism, that government coercion is essential and advantages some groups over others, and it provides a vehicle for testing whether consensus about public values exists. Both approaches accept "interests" as the basic unit of analysis, but neither affords criteria for assessing them. Interests make claims which are undemocratic, inegalitarian, and the like. Lacking evaluative criteria, both positions resort to social and institutional regularities and procedures as the essence of democracy.

The Perils of Averaging Data in Adapted Physical Activity Research

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Bouffard
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Structural Models ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Adapted Physical Activity ◽  
Standard Analysis ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Analysis Strategies ◽  
The Mean

This paper is a criticism of typical group research designs in which the data are analyzed by using standard analysis of variance structural models. A distinction is made between lawful relationships about averages and lawful relationships about people. It is argued that propositions about people cannot necessarily be derived from propositions about the mean of people because the patterns found by aggregating data across people do not necessarily apply to individuals. To find lawful universal relationships about people, data analysis strategies should recognize the person as a basic unit of analysis. Implications of this view for research conducted in adapted physical activity are outlined.

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