Extension of Dancer’s Legs: Increasing Angles Show Motion

Usain Bolt’s Lightning Bolt pose, one arm highly extended to one side, suggests action. Likewise, static pictures of animals, legs extended, show animation. We tested a new cue for motion perception—extension—and in particular extension of dancer’s legs. An experiment with pictures of a dancer finds larger angles between the legs suggest greater movement, especially with in-air poses and in lateral views. Leg positions graded from simply standing to very difficult front and side splits. Liking ratings (a small range) were more related to Difficulty ratings (a large range) than Movement ratings (a moderate range).

Powell Flutes: Innovating Products and Markets

The purpose of this case study is to provide an understanding of how innovation is possible even when an artistic product has a 180-year history of design stability. Innovation does not come from a lightning bolt out of the sky. Rather, it emerges from an openness to new ideas and deep experience in your industry or product. There are numerous parameters on which a business can innovate, including materials, mechanics, aesthetic design and manufacturing technology. One approach is to eliminate constraints blocking innovation by working backwards from Z to A, rather than working incrementally forward from A to B to C. Market surveys must be conducted cautiously, as consumers may not be able to envision a hypothetical product for which a prototype is not yet available. When innovation breaks new ground, it can also create new markets or market segments. Therefore, it is generally preferable to own 100% of your own market segment than 10% of a highly competitive market.

THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN HIGHER EDUCATION ON TEACHERS AND STUDENTS - A PARALLEL STUDY

COVID-19 has struck our education system like a lightning bolt and shaken it to its core . The pandemic that has shuttered economies around the world has also battered education systems in developing and developed countries. The impact has been dramatic and transformative as educators scramble to put in place workable short-term solutions for remote teaching and learning, particularly in emerging markets, where students and schools face additional challenges related to financing and available infrastructure. Each and every institution are facing unique challenges. The COVID 19 Pandemic has imposed pressures to all sectors of the country and the education sector has also been imposed for the paradigm shift from traditional physical classroom education methodology to the Online classes. Lecturers are still struggling to maintain the same depth of engagement with students that they could have in a classroom setting. Just as the First Industrial Revolution forged today’s system of education, we can expect a different kind of educational model to emerge from COVID-19. This paper deals about the teacher’s adaptability to new methods of teaching the students in online classes, through videoconference like zoom meet, google meet etc.… and the challenges that they face. Also, this paper presents about the students and their financial difficulty and family support to connect themselves in online for their education and the obstacle they face to move from face to face learning to offline modem.

Ἀρχή and δῖνος: Vortices as Cosmogonic Powers and Cosmic Regulators. Study Case: The Whirling Lightning Bolt of Zeus

In the cosmogonic and eschatological narratives of the origin and end of the world, both in some early myths and in the Presocratics’ systems, the vortex and other spinning motifs act as necessary agents of both order and disorder. Their rapidity induces a separation of opposites, and they jointly cause the resulting masses to move towards their “appropriate” place in the universe and thus produce a constant pendulum between multiplicity and unity. Furthermore, vortices appear to be the cosmic agents of the divine will, and they constantly regulate divine law and justice. Every time the cosmic order they have established is threatened, the Olympians punish the hubristic wrongdoers and protect the equilibrium of the world, using their attributes – e. g., the trident, the kerykeion, or the thyrsus – which often feature whirling shapes, movements, and patterns. The best example is Zeus’ thunderbolt, which is described as a whirling weapon from Hesiod to Nonnos, evoking the tempestuous force and cosmic energy of its origins. Far from being incidental, the vortex was clearly at the centre of the Greek conception of the entire cosmos, from the rotation of the planets to the whirling winds and the tumultuous or serpentine rivers, to the symposium and everyday life, even to turmoil and other spinning inner emotional states.

Learning digital innovation

Purpose This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Design/methodology/approach Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Findings There has always been a mystique surrounding innovation that for many firms has no doubt hampered its development, and there are a number of probable causes for this. Innovation itself is seen as less of a process and more of a magic trick, to be conjured up on the spot or following a lightning bolt of inspiration. Innovators are imagined to be creative geniuses with the stereotyped behavior to match of a batty professor or aloof, turtleneck wearing idiot savant. Innovation processes are regarded as a cross between the Wizard of Oz and some hyper-expensive secret skunkworks, where people wait interminably for some amazing new product to be discharged from. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

‘LIGHTNING’ AND ‘THUNDER’ STONES IN TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF PERM KRAI: SEMANTICS AND APPLICATION IN MAGICAL PRACTICES

The article deals with the vocabulary and texts devoted to the so-called ‘thunder’ and ‘lightning’ stones that Perm Krai residents use in magical practices. Study of the ‘stone’ semantics of the nominative combination thunderbolt, which is most often used to refer to such a stone, has led us to the conclusion that the meaning of the lexical unit developed as a result of metonymic transfer of the name from an atmospheric phenomenon (lightning) to an object that was struck by lightning (stone). The mythologization of thunderstorms, thunder and lightning provided understanding of the stone thunderbolt as something possessing supernatural properties. The context analysis of the records of dialect speech that were made in rural areas of Perm Krai allowed us to identify several groups of meanings for the composite categories considered in the article (thunder stone, lightning stone, thunderbolt, lightning bolt). This identification is based on the presence / absence of semantic cohesion of these units with meteorological phenomena: a stone that is sand fused from a lightning strike – fulgurite; a stone that was struck by lightning; a dark red or brown stone; a smooth rounded stone; a conical stone representing the fossilized remains of extinct cephalopods – belemnite; a piece of exotic wood; a piece of metal elongated in shape. According to the records of the Russian dialectic speech of Perm Krai, these stones can be used for different purposes. First of all, they are used in folk medicine (for the treatment of people and livestock), they can be used by shepherds for apotropaic purposes (to protect livestock from predatory animals). According to the data from other territories, a thunderbolt can be used for producing purposes.

"She Was My Kind of Scientist"

In the late 1960s, the North American women's liberation movement was reaching a highpoint of activity, its militancy complemented by a flourishing literature. This was the environment into which Margaret Benston's 1969 Monthly Review essay, "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation," struck like a lightning bolt. At the time, many in the movement were describing women's situation in terms of sociological roles, functions, and structures—reproduction, socialization, psychology, sexuality, and the like. In contrast, Benston proposed an analysis in Marxist terms of women's unpaid labor in the family household. In this way, she definitively shifted the framework for discussion of women's oppression onto the terrain of Marxist political economy.