Enterprise IT Operations

Over the past decade or so, for most enterprises, information technology (IT) has shifted from being a support function to be a synonym for business wellness. During the same period, though, the scale and complexity of IT for running business has grown significantly; today, performing any business function requires complex interplay of many, often invisible and dynamically changing, technology components. This is making design resilient and interruption-free IT a significant challenge. This chapter discusses limitations of traditional approaches for managing enterprise IT operations; introduces the concept of cognitive automation, a novel approach that blends intelligence with automation to transform enterprise IT operations; and describes the design of ignio™, a cognitive automation platform for enterprises. The author concludes by highlighting the challenges in driving cognitive transformation of enterprise operations and providing some suggestions for embarking upon this journey.

The impact of learning in a diversified environment: social and cognitive development of international students for global mind-set

Purpose This study aims to assess the socio-cognitive transformation and subject knowledge development of international students studying in China's universities with diverse learning environment. Design/methodology/approach The data was collected through on-line survey and quantitative approach was adopted on a Likert scale to assess students' cognitive and social development as a responsible mind-set, ethical awareness, understanding cultural diversity and subject knowledge development. The assessment scale consisted of 25 statements to cover the foundational indicators that represent socio-cognitive transformation. The questionnaire was pilot tested for internal consistency by calculating Cronbach’s alpha. Furthermore, exploratory factor analysis was applied to ensure the traits of the construct intended to measure. A total of 316 participants responded to the survey. With descriptive statistics, X2 of association and Friedman’s two-way analysis of variance by rank was applied to test the hypothesis. Findings This study argues that diverse learning environment has positive impact on learners’ socio-cognitive transformation. It enhances students' capability to understand cultural values to accept diversity and awareness about global community issues and also subject knowledge skill development. Originality/value In the current century, study abroad programs have increased the mobility of international students, and the role of higher education institutions has become immense, multifaceted and dynamic. Universities are taking a position to play a considerable role in creating learning opportunities for awareness of societal issues and transform social behavior. Studying abroad programs is a growing concept in response to learners' cogitative and socialized transformation. There is an absence of research conducted to explore the impact of a diverse cultural environment on the socio-cognitive transformation of international students. Therefore, the current study focused on exploring the cognitive and societal development of international students studying in China.

Corpo Transpessoal: O contributo espiritual da Performance para a construção pictórica.

After my practical-theoretical project - TRANSPERSONAL BODY - which seeks to question the meaning of the representing action of the transpersonal and numinous body in the context of the contemporary image (whether pictures and moving images). The practice is based on painting versus cinema as an expanded field, resulting from performative contexts, and on the relationship that is proposed in the experience of the poetry of the other.The paradigm underlying the pictorial processes as an extension of the performative will be considered, in the context of the practice of ritual performance, from an anthropological perspective of the body, the study of symbols and archetypes and the verification of psychology transpersonal. For this, the video will be considered not only a documentary medium of the performative records (Practice-led Research), as well as an independent artistic object — it results as another element in the construction of the narrative of the actions between the body and the image — the performative body ritualized as an video object.To the performativity intrinsic to the project, participative observation is proposed as a study method, using processes of personal and cognitive transformation in order to enhance expanded states of consciousness; as a contribution to the process of conquering the internal image (vision) and, in a concern with the transpersonal dimension, as well as for the visual (re) enchantment, relating art and spirituality.

Simultaneous Representation and Separation for Multiple Interference Allied with Approximation Message Passing

<p>Broadband reliable communication is a competitive 5G technology for cognitive communication scenarios, but meanwhile introduces multiform interference to existing broadband transform domain communication system (TDCS) transmission. In order to facilitate the improvement of the anti-jamming performance for the coexistence of diverse interference and TDCS signals in wireless heterogeneous networks, it is important to separated and eliminate various interference to TDCS systems. In this paper, a novel sparse learning method-based cognitive transformation framework of interference separation is formulated for accurate interference recovery, which can be efficiently solved by iteratively learning the prior sparse probability distribution of the interference support. To further improve the separation accuracy and iterative convergence, the principal component analysis and Bayesian perspective in orthogonal base learning are exploited to singly recover the multiple interference and TDCS signals. Moreover, utilizing different sparsity states of spectrum analysis, the proposed novel interference separation algorithm is extended to simultaneous separation based on state evolving of approximation message passing, which iteratively learns the belief propagation posteriors and keeps shrunk by iterative shrinkage threshold. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed methods are effective in separating and recovering the sparse diversities of interference to TDCS systems, and significantly outperform the state-of-the-art methods.</p>

Simultaneous Representation and Separation for Multiple Interference Allied with Approximation Message Passing

<p>Broadband reliable communication is a competitive 5G technology for cognitive communication scenarios, but meanwhile introduces multiform interference to existing broadband transform domain communication system (TDCS) transmission. In order to facilitate the improvement of the anti-jamming performance for the coexistence of diverse interference and TDCS signals in wireless heterogeneous networks, it is important to separated and eliminate various interference to TDCS systems. In this paper, a novel sparse learning method-based cognitive transformation framework of interference separation is formulated for accurate interference recovery, which can be efficiently solved by iteratively learning the prior sparse probability distribution of the interference support. To further improve the separation accuracy and iterative convergence, the principal component analysis and Bayesian perspective in orthogonal base learning are exploited to singly recover the multiple interference and TDCS signals. Moreover, utilizing different sparsity states of spectrum analysis, the proposed novel interference separation algorithm is extended to simultaneous separation based on state evolving of approximation message passing, which iteratively learns the belief propagation posteriors and keeps shrunk by iterative shrinkage threshold. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed methods are effective in separating and recovering the sparse diversities of interference to TDCS systems, and significantly outperform the state-of-the-art methods.</p>

The Question of Disclosure in Photography

Keeping aside discussions about theories of depiction of photography and the epistemic value of photography from the viewer’s perspective, I reconsider this techne from the photographers’ entire act of photographing. It presents the quest of the possibility to regain the world by the art of photography, especially in a situation where human consciousness of the living environment is overwhelmed by the photographic effects. The nature of the current technological environment—while disguising the manifestation of pure humanity, in the sense that it is the externalization of technology due to human nature—is completely destructive. Today, trying to save or regenerate philosophy should be nothing more than seeking a way for human beings to refuse being incorporated as an automaton in an endless track of automated reproduction processes. As one of those who wish to find a way to reconstruct the relationship between humans and nature or to reveal that human existence can only be established in such correlation, I seek a way of breathing human freedom, momentarily disputing this automated living and social environment. In other words, to regain or to play the art of photography, to unsettle what usually works as concrete support for the cognitive transformation making us unconsciously think of the technological environment as something inevitable and natural. It would be presenting a temporary retreat and a more positive way forward.

Sudden Switch to Post-COVID-19 Online Classes and Cognitive Transformation of ESL Learners: Critical Analysis of Discourse of Fear

The study investigates how COVID-19 has transformed ESL learners' cognition due to the sudden shift from traditional classes to complete distant-virtual learning under the perpetual discourse of fear. The data were based on the semi-structured interviews taken by ESL learners and teachers from Punjab, Pakistan. A purposive sample of 20 female ESL learners of various social backgrounds was selected to record their lived experiences of COVID-19, which transformed their cognition. Two male and three female ESL teachers, based on purposive sampling, were also selected to investigate the reasons for the cognitive transformation of ESL learners during the pandemic. The discursive themes were explored by codifying and interpreting the qualitative data. Findings revealed that contagion had promoted bizarre linguistic forms about socio-cultural and economic transformation, which generated the discourse of fear and equally affected learner’s cognition and learning process. Researchers used transformative cognitive learning as a lens to analyze the discourse of fear, which worked as a theoretical framework to portray a prevailing threat under the surveillance of COVID-19. Consequently, it resulted in the cognitive transformation of ESL learners in Pakistan due to social, psychological, economic, and technological factors. The study recommends that proper planning and support of higher authorities and better methodologies by teachers may help learners attain desirable language proficiency in such a scenario. Further, the use of neutral and contextual language by media and teachers can overcome the prevailing fear among ESL learners and maximize learning outcomes through distance or online learning.

The Crisis of Humanities in Contemporary Society: Causes and Effects

This article analyses the impact of information revolutions on culture, society, and education, as well as the individual. Contemporary technological consumer society presents a pathological model of relations between human beings and being – a situation that results in many social and cultural problematic features. This article explores these features of modern civilization from a philosophical (ontological) viewpoint, demonstrating that the current crises of humanities is rooted in this deeper ontological situation. The described features of modern information and cognitive metabolism in culture and education show the situation of the “ontological impasse”. In the current sociocultural situation, individuals have lost themselves as thinking entities and education has lost itself both as an institution and as a means of realizing the potential of a person’s spiritual and cognitive transformation. Knowledge has lost its value and sacredness, becoming based on pragmatism, usefulness and comfort. To overcome this situation, deep existential and ontological shifts are required. Keywords: person, culture, education, information and cognitive metabolism, writing, orality, knowledge, understanding, awareness.