Charging for Collaboration: Exploring the Dynamics of Temporal Fit in Interdependent Constellations for Innovation

The development of a suitable public charging system for electric vehicles relies on inputs from many complementary organizations that need to synchronize interdependencies across different activities, organizations, and industries. Research on temporal fit has focused on synchronizing activities within or external to the organization, rather than exploring synchronization across multiple organizations with highly interdependent yet colliding temporal structures and multiple time-givers. Drawing on a case study of a collaborative effort to create a national charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, we theorize the interplay between various highly interdependent actors. The resulting theory posits that actors combine and shift between different innovation practices to organize time and explains how multiple, yet interdependent actors engaging in temporal work attempt to accomplish temporal fit. Three entrainment dynamics are identified: (1) temporal tug-of-war through ecosystem configuration; (2) temporal dictating through group politics; and (3) ecosystem navigation through temporal ambivalence. These dynamics arise both between and within groups of actors when they coordinate innovation practices across multiple temporal structures and time-givers. Together, the simultaneous pursuit of synchronization within and across these different coalitions appears to constrain the realization of the collective goal.

Cultural Appropriation: Erasure of Cultural Odour, Homolingualization, and Queer Erasure within English Adaptations of Japanese Anime

Introduction the first month of Pokemon Go is the only time this world knew peace @cake_hoarder (Twitter, September 2019) The above tweet illuminates the nostalgia and fondness that is often evoked by the memory of summer 2016, a summer that was characterized by the release of Pokemon Go, a smartphone app based on the anime series, Pokemon. The twitter user likens this period to “world peace”, a comparison that is rooted within the design of the game that motivated social interaction among its users. One of the ways that Pokemon Go promoted communal gameplay was through the inclusion of PokeStops, a digitized meeting hub that allows for players to collect Poke Balls. These digital hubs mirrored the ones featured within Pokemon, and similarly to the characters within the anime, players would often encounter other players while visiting Poke Stops. This allowed for players to interact with one another, leading many to exchange tips on where to find rare and hard to catch Pokemon and even forming teams to widen their scope. The fusion of nostalgia for the times of trading Pokemon cards in schoolyards, the collective goal of players, and the warm weather created a rose tint around the summer, one that almost felt like “world peace”.

Cultural Appropriation: Erasure of Cultural Odour, Homolingualization, and Queer Erasure within English Adaptations of Japanese Anime

Introduction the first month of Pokemon Go is the only time this world knew peace @cake_hoarder (Twitter, September 2019) The above tweet illuminates the nostalgia and fondness that is often evoked by the memory of summer 2016, a summer that was characterized by the release of Pokemon Go, a smartphone app based on the anime series, Pokemon. The twitter user likens this period to “world peace”, a comparison that is rooted within the design of the game that motivated social interaction among its users. One of the ways that Pokemon Go promoted communal gameplay was through the inclusion of PokeStops, a digitized meeting hub that allows for players to collect Poke Balls. These digital hubs mirrored the ones featured within Pokemon, and similarly to the characters within the anime, players would often encounter other players while visiting Poke Stops. This allowed for players to interact with one another, leading many to exchange tips on where to find rare and hard to catch Pokemon and even forming teams to widen their scope. The fusion of nostalgia for the times of trading Pokemon cards in schoolyards, the collective goal of players, and the warm weather created a rose tint around the summer, one that almost felt like “world peace”.

Ontologization of ethics in the traditional worldview of the Khakass

В статье рассмотрены основные аспекты онтологизации этики в традиционном мировоззрении этноса (космоцентрические, социоцентрические, эгоцентрические). На материалах хакасского фольклора показано, что нормы морали возникли в процессе одновременного сотворения природы, общества и человека, и именно поэтому они носят онтологический и экологический характер. Сохранение целостности, благополучия и полноты рода и народа в целом — зона ответственности каждого человека, залог его вечной жизни. Для традиционного мировоззрения хакасов особую ценностью представляла не столько индивидуальная жизнь, сколько коллективная цель — сохранение гармонии и полноты бытия. Это возможно при сохранении человеком чистоты мысли, чувства, слова, поступка. Строгая упорядоченность общества препятствовала проявлениям экзистенциального вакуума: человек в традиционном обществе обладал позитивным мировоззрением, что способствовало позитивной деятельности, ориентированной на творчество. The article deals with the main aspects of the ontologization of ethics in the traditional worldview of an ethnic group (cosmocentric, sociocentric, egocentric). Based on the materials of Khakass folklore, it is shown that the norms of morality arose in the process of simultaneous creation of nature, society and man, and that is why they are ontological and ecological in nature. The preservation of the integrity, well-being and completeness of the family and the people as a whole is the responsibility of each person, the guarantee of his eternal life. For the traditional worldview of the Khakass, the special value was not so much individual life as the collective goal — the preservation of harmony and fullness of being. This is possible if a person preserves the purity of thought, feeling, word, and deed. The strict orderliness of society prevented the manifestations of an existential vacuum: a person in a traditional society had a positive worldview, which contributed to positive activities focused on creativity.

Drafting the Discourse Structures of the Graduate School Academic Colloquium

Using the data transcriptions from the communicative events obtained from four participating universities, 33 graduate students, and 26 panel of experts, this paper examines several colloquium events in the Philippines to identify any existing “global” structure of discourse categorized into semantic and schematic superstructures (van Dijk, 1980). Results show that the semantic macrostructure of a colloquium is reflective of its collective goal, and that the participants focus on the improvement of graduate students’ paper. In addition, the discourse of the colloquium has a stable schematic superstructure that is always followed in realizing the collaborative end of the colloquium. Each phase consists of both obligatory and optional features that define/reflect the institution’s identity and practice. Understanding these structures may help candidates of graduate school degrees surpass the challenging task of writing theses and dissertations with an advantage.

Correction notices in psychology: impactful or inconsequential?

Science is self-correcting, or so the adage goes, but to what extent is that indeed the case? Answering this question requires careful consideration of the various approaches to achieve the collective goal of self-correction. One of the most straightforward mechanisms is individual self-correction: researchers rectifying their own mistakes by publishing a correction notice. Although it offers an efficient route to correcting the scientific record, it has received little to no attention from a metascientific point of view. We aim to fill this void by analysing the content of correction notices published from 2010 until 2018 in the three psychology journals featuring the highest number of corrections over that timespan based on the Scopus database (i.e. Psychological Science with N = 58, Frontiers in Psychology with N = 99 and Journal of Affective Disorders with N = 57). More concretely, we examined which aspects of the original papers were affected (e.g. hypotheses, data-analyses, metadata such as author order, affiliations, funding information etc.) as well as the perceived implications for the papers’ main findings. Our exploratory analyses showed that many corrections involved inconsequential errors. Furthermore, authors rarely revised their conclusions, even though several corrections concerned changes to the results. We conclude with a discussion of current policies, and suggest ways to improve upon the present situation by (i) preventing mistakes, and (ii) transparently rectifying those mistakes that do find their way into the literature.

Crossing back over the Rubicon: Collectivistic value orientation and independent self-concept jointly promote effective goal revision in task groups

When the ultimate goal of the group is found to be unattainable via the chosen means (i.e., a subgoal), effective goal management requires group members to disengage from that failing subgoal and reengage with a feasible alternative. The present study investigated the combined role of group members’ value orientation and their self-concept in collective goal revision in task groups. In a laboratory experiment involving 55 three-person groups, we induced either a collectivistic or individualistic value orientation and made salient either an independent or interdependent self-concept. As expected, groups that combined a collectivistic value orientation and an independent self-concept were less likely to be entrapped in a failing subgoal and more likely to reengage with the ultimate group goal via an available alternative. Also as expected, this effect was mediated by the degree of goal-related reflection among the members during group interaction. Implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.

Fighting And Chasing The Rogue Virus-Covid19

The novel coronavirus of 2019, COVID-19, also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has spread from its origin Wuhan, China to the rest of the world.It is important to note that while the number of new cases has reduced in China lately, they have increased exponentially in other countries including South Korea, Italy and Iran. In India, the COVID-19 trajectory appears assured to change modes. While the number of incidents grew slowly in February, they doubled in just five days in mid-March from 100 to more than 236, and now at the end of April, the cases reported are 29,435.These numbers are possibly an underestimate of the infected and dead due to limitations of surveillance and testing. . The Indian government declared a countrywide shutdown for a period of 3 weeks from 24th of March to help prevent the spread of the virus. Most of the affected people had connection with flyers from covid-19 affected countries; some of them had no such interaction, indicating that community transmission could have started in several parts of India. Thus an important collective goal is to reduce the outbreak and to flatten the peak of the outbreak curve. Cooperation is a crucial tool in the COVID-19 battle. There is a need to identify and find a way around the particular threats, the overarching cultural and social patterns in our area. This article discusses the tactics thatshould build for handling the crisis.

Nation’s Historical Past under Multicultural Conditions

The research issue is the historical past of the ethnic group as the most important component of social consciousness, which determines the social life practices and serves as the basis for the solidarity in society and the ground for its purposeful development. A wide range of concepts concerning the attitude to the historical past as one of the most important components of collective goal setting, in particular, theories of mentality, interpretation of texts and conflict of interpretations, historical hermeneutics, and conceptual models of history are investigated. It has been proved that the concepts of the single picture of ethnological history disappear under the influence of the multicultural characteristics, when the exclusive right of historical evaluation and interpretation is lost, and the changing set of situationally significant fragments becomes a priority. It is revealed that in the conditions of pluralism of thoughts and ideas caused by the emergence of non-state social actors, enhanced migration flows, increased communication opportunities of the society and internationalization of higher education, the appeal of social actors to their historical past in order to support their social and cultural borders and to forecast new social projects is complicated. A number of objective and subjective factors of disorganization of national history memory are stated in the research

Compositional Grounded Language for Agent Communication in Reinforcement Learning Environment

In a context of constant evolution of technologies for scientific, economic and social purposes, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) have seen significant progress over the past few years. As much as Human-Machine interactions are needed and tasks automation is undeniable, it is important that electronic devices (computers, cars, sensors…) could also communicate with humans just as well as they communicate together. The emergence of automated training and neural networks marked the beginning of a new conversational capability for the machines, illustrated with chat-bots. Nonetheless, using this technology is not sufficient, as they often give inappropriate or unrelated answers, usually when the subject changes. To improve this technology, the problem of defining a communication language constructed from scratch is addressed, in the intention to give machines the possibility to create a new and adapted exchange channel between them. Equipping each machine with a sound emitting system which accompany each individual or collective goal accomplishment, the convergence toward a common ‘’language’’ is analyzed, exactly as it is supposed to have happened for humans in the past. By constraining the language to satisfy the two main human language properties of being ground-based and of compositionality, rapidly converging evolution of syntactic communication is obtained, opening the way of a meaningful language between machines.