Contemporary photography practice: From landscape to expanded modes of place representation

Contemporary photographic practice has evolved into a broad field of possibilities, a flux of representational modes that represent emotions, experiences and feelings. In parallel the depth and layering of places offers a stimulating challenge to researchers and artists whom are willing to creatively explore nuances of land and nature as well as the multi-sensorial and spatial “reality” of places. The Waikato River is my research locale, located in the central North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. I draw on contemporary photography practice and theory to develop multimodal approaches to my research place, expanding objective modes of landscape and place representation. I trace a timeline from early landscape photography practice particularly during the British colonisation in New Zealand juxtaposing my photography practice as a counter approach to Eurocentric modes of place representation. This is informed by local Waikato Māori cosmologies and more contemporary readings on place. As a result I conceptualised a theoretical framework around the notion of place imaginaries as a creative platform for the development of expanded photographic modalities.

Miten analysoida sitä, mistä ei voi kertoa? – Käsikirja humanistiseen traumatutkimukseen

Colin Davis & Hanna Meretoja (eds): Routlegde Companion to Literature and Trauma. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2020, 496 pages. English summary of the review The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, edited by Colin Davis and Hanna Meretoja, introduces the reader thoroughly to the history and philosophies of trauma, theory and concepts of the field, and offers a variety of analyses of literary texts from the point of view of trauma. The introduction of the handbook is thought-provoking, cohesive, and summarizes well a broad field of studies and its history. One of its strengths is including the main critiques of the field, too. The chapters of the handbook offer ways to use concepts, such as perpetrator trauma and intersectionality, in analysis and suggest ways to develop them further. A section on future directions of the field includes viewpoints on postcolonialism, critical posthumanism and new materialism. As trauma studies has been criticized for its Eurocentric bias and failure to recognise the suffering of non-Western others, perhaps some silences of marginalized people in the analysed texts or their contexts could have been brought forward even more explicitly in the handbook.

Sustainable Manufacturing 4.0—Pathways and Practices

The manufacturing industry has undergone numerous revolutions over the years, with a unanimous acceptance of the greater benefits of being sustainable. The present industrial wave—Industry 4.0—by using its enabling technologies and principles holds great potential to develop sustainable manufacturing paradigms which require balancing out the three fundamental elements —products, processes, and systems. Yet, numerous stakeholders, including industrial policy and decision makers, remain oblivious of such potential and requirements. Thus, this bibliometric study is aimed at presenting an overview of the broad field of research on the convergence of sustainable manufacturing and Industry 4.0 under the umbrella of “Sustainable Manufacturing 4.0”, which has yet to be developed. It includes the dissemination of original findings on pathways and practices of Industry 4.0 applied to the development of sustainable manufacturing, contributing a bibliometric structure of the literature on the aforementioned convergence to reveal how Industry 4.0 could be used to shift the manufacturing sector to a more sustainable-based state. An initial research agenda for this emerging area has accordingly been presented, which may pave the way for having a futuristic view on Sustainable Manufacturing 5.0 in the next industrial wave, i.e., Industry 5.0.

Pedagogical studies: specificity - condition - problems - perspectives

My intention is to draw attention to pedagogical studies, and more specifically Pedagogy that according to ISCED-F 2013 classification belong to broad field named Education. The rationale for taking up this subject is the special and requiring reflection situation of pedagogical studies, including its relation to teacher training In my opinion, in Poland pedagogical studies has begun the next stage of its functioning and it will most likely change significantly in the upcoming years. In the article, I argue that the perspective of changes in pedagogical studies is determined not only by the general direction of changes in academic education, but also by following factors:(1) the new situation of pedagogy as a scientific discipline, which is the basis for the analysed field of study, (2) pedagogization of social life, which results in broadening the fields of activity for graduates in pedagogy. The aim of the article is to raise the issue of the specificity of pedagogical studies, to indicateitscurrent condition and to outline both the problems it face and perspectives it has

Critical Care Psychology and Rehabilitation

When contemplating the broad field of critical care and all of its complexities, rehabilitation and psychology practice is not likely among the top 10 things that clinicians, patients, or the public think of. However, just beneath the surface of this fascinating, multilayered environment, the need for psychologists and rehabilitation-oriented clinicians is everywhere, in large part because intensive care stands among the most emotionally intense and physically taxing hospital-based settings for everyone involved. This book provides an introduction to critical care for professionals who are interested in, or who are already providing services in, intensive care environments. It also organizes and expands upon the growing literature that emphasizes the benefits of integrating rehabilitative and psychological principles into the continuum of critical care practice. Chapters from international experts, on a broad range of topics, provide summative reviews of the literature, treatment techniques, and innovative developments in various intensive care settings geared toward helping professionals appreciate how integrated critical care practice can benefit all stakeholders—patients, families, caregivers, staff, institutions, and society at large.

Diverse biological and engineering strategies towards organ regeneration

Organ regeneration is an important, fascinating, and old topic while much remains unknown in spite of extensive investigations for decades. From March 25th to 27th, 2021, the Third Chinese Symposium on Organ Regeneration took place in the beautiful ocean city of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China. This biennial conference attracted ~ 300 academic attendees: students, postdoctoral fellows, and principal investigators, in addition to few industrial investigators. The mixed live and virtual talks covered the broad field of organ regeneration from different animal organisms to human organoids, and concluded with some impressive advances on inflammatory signaling, regenerative signaling mechanisms, new technologies, and applications for organ regeneration.

1st International Conference of Advanced Research on Renewable Energy for Universal Sustainability 2021 (ARUS2021)

Preface The 1st International Conference of Advanced Research on Renewable Energy for Universal Sustainability 2021 (ARUS2021) was organised by Arus Infiniti Sdn Bhd and supported by Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). In light of ongoing developments resulting from the COVID-19 globally and after deliberate discussion and thoughtful consideration with our co-organisers and collaborators, we have decided to move our ARUS 2021 Conference to a fully online, virtual experience held on 22-24th June 2021 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As much as we wish for a meaningful gathering full of respectable researchers, we cannot overlook the danger the COVID-19 might cause. We firmly believe that this was the safest approach for the well-being of our global participants and audiences. The main objective of the conference is to explore the frontiers of Science, Technology, Engineering and Management in various areas addressing innovative research in the broad field of renewable energy and green technology and discussing and entertaining topics that stretch into the future. It also provides a venue and many opportunities to meet and network with colleagues from this broad field, share personal experiences, and learn from others. We are thrilled that our virtual conference platform makes it possible for the learning opportunities and network engagement to happen during this pandemic in the comfort and safety of their home or office. List of Organising Committee, Advisory Committee, Technical Committee are available in this pdf.

The Software Engineering Workbook for Team Projects

Software Engineering is a broad field and many textbooks explain general topics that are critical for Software Engineers, but often in an abstract way. There is no substitute for hands-on experience and self reflection. This workbook contains a collection of exercises that are targeted to early career Software Engineers.

What do we mean by multicellularity? The Evolutionary Transitions Framework provides answers

The meaning of the word ‘multicellularity’ appears to be unambiguous – a concept that can be grasped with common sense. On closer inspection, however, there is notable disparity in the recent literature regarding the usage of the term ‘multicellularity’, which can describe complex organisms, simple microbial colonies or even multi-species biofilms. In addition, while emerging research directions, such as ‘the evolutionary transition to multicellularity’, have brought together a highly interdisciplinary community of researchers, they tend to (mis)use historically relevant language that does not adequately describe the marginal or nascent cases of multicellularity that are the focus of this new field. We argue that clarity can be achieved with the realisation that the various definitions of multicellularity are in fact describing different stages that can occur during the course of evolution. With the aim of gaining semantic continuity among researchers in this broad field, we provide a framework for identifying the stages of the evolutionary transition to multicellularity: from multicellular groups, to multicellular individuals, and finally to multicellular organisms.

The depiction of men in contemporary pornographic movies

This article describes how men are presented in pornographic materials available on one of the most popular thematic websites — PornHub.com. The article contains a disambiguation of the term ‘pornography’, and discusses the reach of the pornographic market, as well as the audience and specifics of PornHub. The main part contains an empirical study of fifteen movie productions divided into three categories: heterosexual, homosexual, and for women. The article presents both the physical description of what is happening in the film and the analysis of the gender roles of the depicted characters. All selected films were made in 2018 or later. Pornography research is an extremely broad field, which is looked into by many professions: sexologists, film experts, sociologists, psychologists and even feminist activists. Some findings were recalled at work, but this is only an outline of the matter.