Axis Of Time Research Articles

Radial motion of charged particles along axis of the Kerr–Newman– (anti-)de sitter space-time

The motion of uncharged particles in the Kerr–Newman–(anti-)de Sitter space-time has been studied by using the Hamilton –Jacobi equation. We have considered both charged particle Q and non-vanishing cosmological constant Λ , focusing on the equatorial plane and space time of the axis. For the study of radial of radial motion on the axis of space time an effective potential have been developto describe the turning points

Research on the Prewarning Method for the Safety of South-to-North Water Transfer Project Driven by Monitoring Data

In order to solve the prewarning problem of South-to-North Water Transfer Project safety, an intelligent cooperative prewarning method based on machine learning was proposed under the framework of intelligent information processing. Driven by the monitoring data of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, the single sensor in typical scenes was studied, and the security threshold was predicted along the vertical axis of time, firstly. With the support of the data correlation calculation, the sensors in the typical scene were intelligently grouped, and the study objectives were changed into sensor grouping, secondly. Then, the nonlinear regression model between the single sensor and the multisensors was built on the time cross section, and the model was used to dynamically calculate the safety threshold of the current sensor for the second time. Finally, in the framework of intelligent information processing, a double verification mechanism was proposed to support the construction of the intelligent prewarning method for the safety of South-to-North Water Transfer Project. The paper collected the monitoring data from November 2015 to September 2016 in the typical scenarios. The experimental results showed that the methods constructed in the paper can be able to identify the abnormal causes of data sudden jump effectively and give the different level prewarning. The method provides a strong theoretical support for further manual investigation work.

Postmodernism - Between Objective Reality and Subjective Artistic Impulse Markings into Romanian Sound Art

Abstract An incursion into the Romanian musical life is always a pleasure, a moment of harmony, feeling and excitement. However, the turmoil of contemporary life sometimes brings us back to reality, urging us to check its pulse and to objectively look towards the future. Postmodernism, with its multiple facets, is in such times a subject for reflection, given its force which touched not only the artistic dimension, but also the communicational one, creating mutations which were difficult to imagine several decades ago. The past and future brought into the present are oscillating on the axis of time, and the interference between art, science and technology are embodied into an indestructible entity. Bringing the mundane usefulness and derisory in relation with beauty and harmony, this phenomenon has become permanently set into the area of objective reality, generating at times conflict, at times coexistence in the creator – performer – public spectator relation.

Postcolonialism in Claire Denis's <em>Chocolat</em> and <em>White Material:</em> Africa Under the Skin

The identity of French culture is deeply rooted in its colonial past, and the questions of representation and ideology remain central in contemporary post-colonial cinema. Filmmaker Claire Denis has played an important part in inviting us to challenge our perception of history on a binary axis of time and consider cultures as processes rather than social facts. Her films Chocolat (1988), and White Material (2009) are set in Africa, each of them portraying a white female lead protagonist committed to the black African land. The paper explores the extent to which these fictions encompass an autobiographical dimension, as the two films are situated within the larger context of post-colonial theory in relation to French cinema.

The colonization of the future: An alternative view of financialization and its portents

ABSTRACTFinancialization is generally interpreted by heterodox economists to be a dysfunctional and thus historically transient outgrowth of contemporary capitalism: dysfunctional because it is seen to be driven by attempts to escape production and profit realization constraints in the real economy, transient because these attempts are seen to be ultimately futile. This article proposes the contrary argument that financialization is a functionally useful feature of contemporary capitalism that is entirely in keeping with the latter’s continuing development as a commodity system. Specifically, it will be argued that just as globalization represents the extension of the commodity principle along the axis of geographical space, financialization represents the extension of this same principle along the axis of time: the future is being colonized so as to make it take the overspill of the pressures on organizations operating in the present.

‘Chineseness’: The work of Lo Yuen-yi in memory of the women of nüshu

Abstract One of the difficulties facing art historians and curators when approaching recently produced artworks is how to interpret such works within the dominant narrative of art history and its traditional axis of historical time and geographical place. Often such works are interpreted as ‘global’ and effectively reduced to a western interpretation of the artworks. While this is a helpful approach for many artists and artworks, it can be less helpful to the interpretation of works that seek to address local issues that the ‘global’ approach might miss. Moreover, the criteria of the ‘global’ might exclude such works from being perceived as ‘contemporary art’. The problem today is acute when dealing with artworks in East Asia, especially China, because so many works have been accepted as ‘global’ only occasionally mentioning that they are ‘Chinese’. Hence the uneasy term ‘Contemporary Chinese art’ and the debate between its interpretation as ‘global’ and/or ‘Chinese’. If the latter perspective is applied, some form of ‘Chineseness’ will explicitly or implicitly be applied. This article takes the ‘local’ perspective in order to interpret a group of works by the Hong Kong/Macau artist Lo Yuen-yi in memory of the rural women who practised nüshu (women’s writing) through chants, embroidery and writing in Hunan province, China. In so doing, Lo can position herself within an alternative narrative of female literate and artistic ancestral narrative from which she is not excluded as a Chinese female artist. The article argues that the work cannot be fully understood from the ‘global’ perspective and thus requires a perspective that would necessarily adopt a strategic concept of ‘Chineseness’.

5.18 민주화 운동 기록물을 활용한 PBL모형의 교육 프로그램 개발 - 고등학교를 중심으로 -

출처가 다양하고 양적으로 방대한 5.18민주화운동기록물을 활용한 교육프로그램을 제안한다. 교육프로그램에 적용할 교육 모형은 PBL모형으로 다양한 기록물을 제시하고 기록관의 활용을 유도하기에 적합하다. 본 교육 프로그램은 PBL의 기본 형태를 따르되 단계를 다시 이분화하여 수업이전단계와 수업구현단계로 나누고 수업이전단계를 세분화하여 제안하였다. 제시될 기록물은 가로축과 세로축으로 구성되는 격자형 기록물지도를 사용하여 기록물 목록을 확보한 후 기록물을 선별하도록 한다. 본 교육 프로그램의 실현은 기록관 이용의 활성화와 기록물 활용의 확장, 학습자들의 역사의식 고취 등의 기대효과를 가질 것으로 예상되며 주제기록물에 대한 교육프로그램의 제안이라는 점과 학습현장에서 사용할 수 있다는 점에 의의가 있다.

Caring for tomorrow's workforce: Moral resilience and healthcare ethics education.

Preparing tomorrow's healthcare workforce for managing the growing complexity of care places high demands on students, educators, and faculties. In the light of worrying data about study-related stress and burnout, understanding how students manage stressors and develop resilience has been identified as a priority topic of research. In addition to study-related stressors, also moral stressors are known to characterize the students' first clinical experiences. However, current debates show that it remains unclear how healthcare ethics education should address them. In order to clarify this issue, this study first develops the notion of moral resilience as a response to moral stressors involving both situations of moral complexity and moral wrongness. Second, it explores the potential of healthcare ethics education in fostering moral resilience. For this purpose, it defines moral resilience operationally as a reduction of moral distress in a given axis of time measured by a validated tool. The educational transferability was assessed within an explorative, quantitative pre-post interventional study with a purposive sample of 166 nursing students. The educational intervention comprised a lecture introducing the typology of moral stressors. Before and after the lecture, students were presented vignettes depicting morally stressful situations. The competent research ethics committee confirmed that no ethical approval was needed. Informed consent was obtained from participants. Three of four vignettes showed a modest but statistically significant reduction in measured levels of distress after the lecture (p < 0.05, α = 5%). The study shows the potential of healthcare ethics education in providing students with transformative knowledge that fosters moral resilience. In times of global scarcity of educational resources, healthcare ethics education has an important contribution to offer in the promotion of students' mental and physical health by strengthening the knowledge base of moral resilience. This legitimates its costs for societies, faculties, and professional bodies.

Diet overlap between two cyprinids: eurytopic roach and rheophilic dace in tailwater submersed macrophyte patches

From May to August 2004, the available food base and diet of two cyprinid species, eurytopic roach, represented by 75 small specimens, and rheophilic dace, represented by 37 small specimens, were investigated in seasonal patches of submersed aquatic macrophytes (SAM) in the impounded lowland Warta River, Poland. The aim of the study was to recognize spatial and temporal patterns in the feeding of both species in relation to available resources, and to evaluate their food niche overlap. To distinguish homogenous classes of fish alimentary tracts on the basis of their contents, a Kohonen artificial neural network (i.e., a self-organizing map, SOM) was used. Indicator food categories were identified using the IndVal index. Roach and dace partitioned the food niche, which was demonstrated in this study by 1) insignificant values of the Schoener's interspecific diet overlap index on particular sampling occasions, and two SOM sub-clusters (homogenous diet classes) with alimentary tracts almost exclusively of roach (axis of resources), 2) zero or low percentage of specimens of both fish species coming from the same sampling occasions and assigned to any of the remaining homogenous diet classes (axis of time), and 3) absence of roach in May and dace in August in the SAM patches, i.e., on almost half of the sampling occasions (axis of space). The diet overlap was highest when the SAM patches and food base were most developed, which is congruent with the niche overlap hypothesis saying that maximal tolerable niche overlap can be higher in less intensely competitive situations.We recommend the combined application of SOM and IndVal index, which have both previously been used in biocoenology, to the analyses of animal diets. They effectively allowed getting insight into the complex trophic relationships.

The only one or one of many? A comment on the RDoC project

The only one or one of many? A comment on the RDoC project

Challenging the CSCW matrix: a rough draft of a new conceptualisation of collaborative practices in learning environments

This paper challenges traditional dichotomies that identify temporal and spatial restrains as relevant defining properties of learning environments. We present a critique of the current dominant computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) taxonomy. Although we believe that the taxonomy does provide useful information, we question whether the axis of time and space comprising the matrix pertains to relevant defining properties of the tools, technology or learning environments to which they are applied. Subsequently, we offer an example of an Adobe Connect e-learning session as an illustration of a different approach to learning situations based on the idea that tools, technology and learning environments are media through which participants simultaneously acquire proficiency to articulate and gain a perspective in order to decode what is going on. To effectively interact online, we contend that both teachers and students are required to modify and adapt their ‘perception abilities’ and ‘enacting strategies’ to appropriate a technology-mediated environment for learning purposes. The analysis illustrates the claim that particular collaborative or cooperative work practices attempt to appropriate tools, technologies and complete learning environments to accomplish their goals. From this different approach, we draw a tentative taxonomy of collaborative practices that allows appropriated media to be categorised relative to their use rather than their properties. The contention is that collaborative practices are an appropriate unit of analysis and that categories of such practices can be established by an axis of articulation work and an axis of the codification needed to express and coordinate knowledge and work efforts.

&lt;b&gt;A infância analisa a educação básica&lt;/b&gt; - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v35i2.20639

Current discussion deals with an understanding of childhood asan analytical category that visualizes the child within early childhood education and elementary education to provide reflections and challenges for the school in its endeavor to organize time and space as from the concept of childhood. The understanding of childhood will be undertaken from the three-fold axis of time, experience and invention. The essay will show how the concept of childhood should address early childhood education to primary education and investigate a type of early childhood education that would implement and not prevent the exercise of childhood.

Counseling as a Treasure Hunt

This article offers some reflections on the author’s working style, which is highly resource oriented. A selection of resources is presented on an axis of time that can extend into the past to birth or even beyond to ancestors as well as into the future all the way to death or beyond depending on the client’s belief about what happens after death. In addition to the resources of the past and the future, the author emphasizes the value of the archaic basic survival reflexes in the present, such as the impulses to fight, flight, or immobilization. The hope is that this article will contribute to a rich discussion about various working styles.

The Concept of the Ergonomic Spectrum

Forestry conditions differ among regions and nations. Moreover, labor costs, forestry mechanization, and environmental impacts are also different. These factors directly or indirectly influence the ergonomic state of nations. The ergonomic state of a nation can be described in terms of ergonomic factors such as labor productivity, work accidents, physiological burden, and stress. Labor productivity and work accidents can be defined as income or condition factors, and physiological burden and stress as outcome or result factors. Thus, the value of outcome factors must be examined in relationship to income factors. On the ergonomic spectrum, each factor can be conceived as a continuum from a negative to a positive ergonomic status. All factors can be set in a line, and the present state of each nation is indicated by a profile formed by the assembled factors. The locations of nations along the two-dimensional coordinates of the world standard can be realized by an ergonomic spectrum. Moreover, future directions for improvement can be obtained by reference to the three-dimensional coordinates, which include the axis of time.

Analyzing lateral root development: how to move forward.

Roots are important to plants for a wide variety of processes, including nutrient and water uptake, anchoring and mechanical support, storage functions, and as the major interface between the plant and various biotic and abiotic factors in the soil environment. Therefore, understanding the development and architecture of roots holds potential for the manipulation of root traits to improve the productivity and sustainability of agricultural systems and to better understand and manage natural ecosystems. While lateral root development is a traceable process along the primary root and different stages can be found along this longitudinal axis of time and development, root system architecture is complex and difficult to quantify. Here, we comment on assays to describe lateral root phenotypes and propose ways to move forward regarding the description of root system architecture, also considering crops and the environment.

Diagnosis in developmental–behavioural paediatrics: The art of diagnostic formulation

This paper considers diagnostic frameworks in developmental-behavioural paediatrics. The purpose of a diagnostic assessment is reviewed, and the use of categorical diagnoses is explored. A multi-level process of diagnostic formulation is outlined, highlighting the importance of a comprehensive focus on presenting symptoms, neuropsychological constructs, biological factors and environmental influences. The axis of time, developmental benchmarks and the enhancement of resilience are discussed as part of the diagnostic formulation framework. Limitations imposed on diagnostic practice by systemic and personal factors are reviewed. Implications for training and practice are discussed.

A high-throughput histoarray for quantitative molecular profiling of multiple, uniformly oriented medaka ( Oryzias latipes) embryos

Embryos of aquatic animal model fish have proven to be useful organisms for developmental biology and for early life stage toxicity tests. By virtue of their transparent chorions, imaging of normal and abnormal development can be detected and related to exposure or to alterations due to environmental factors. However, the detection of changes at sub-individual levels of organization is hampered by time required to detect important events within cells and tissues of affected organisms. We describe herein development of a highly cost effective embryo chip enabling stringent inter-individual comparisons and multiplex detection in embryos and eleutheroembryos. As a proof of principle we examine cell proliferation and controlled cell death in normoxic and hypoxic conditions and relate these to tissue turnover in individual organisms. Coupled with a recently developed whole adult animal platform, we can now move beyond the common approach focusing on single target organ to the detection and characterization of systemic phenomena (syndromes) affecting the organism. Taken together, we can now determine adult consequences of early life stage exposure and assess ability of exposed individuals to respond to stresses superimposed along the axis of time.

Electronic health records (EHR) adapted for clinical trials.

e16582 Background: The design of clinical trials requires standardized analysis of individual patients at presentation, their disease progression and treatment outcomes. ASCO “Practical Guide for Selecting and Implementing Electronic Health Records” has complies with the National Standard of Russia “The Electronic Health Record”, operating since 2008. Methods: The EHR National Standard of Russia based on experience acquired by design and implementation of EHR system of the NCH in Moscow. Our platform allows integrated data presentations on a uniform axis of time and access to all information, including laboratory data, diagnostic images, etc. It allows the integration of these data from multiple sources. This approach is important for evaluation of correlations and dynamic changes of clinical parameters Results: NCH EHR system has been used for more than 10 years by over 400 physicians. It contains a collection of approximately 3 million personal medical records on over 50 thousand patients treated NCH during this period. The use of this EHR resulted in a decrease of medical errors. It also proved to be an effective tool of clinical decision management, and allowed economizing time of the medical staff. We developed recommendations for the use of Internet technologies, for personal health records (PHR) collection on www.medarhiv.ru can be used in clinical trials, making patients active participants of treatment and reporting outcomes. It allows personal privacy and unites Internet-based PHR with clinical and administrative instruments Conclusions: Our PHR system uses currently available computer programs, and offers a fast integration of data. It also provides an option of active participation of patients and is compatible with most basic computer systems. The world community of hematologists and oncologists will greatly benefit from uniform approaches to conducting EHR. This approach will improve efficiency of therapy, telemedicine, referrals and recruiting patients for clinical trails

Numerical Simulation of Dynamic Response of Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composite Beam with Matrix Cracks Using Multiscale Modeling

A multiscale method for simulating the dynamic response of ceramic matrix composite (CMC) with matrix cracks is developed. At the global level, the finite element method is employed to simulate the dynamic response of a CMC beam. While at the local level, the multiscale mechanical method is used to estimate the stress/strain response of the material. A distributed computing system is developed to speed up the simulation. The simulation of dynamic response of a Nicalon/CAS-II beam being subjected to harmonic loading is performed as a numerical example. The results show that both the stress/strain responses under tension and compressive loading are nonlinear. These conditions result in a different response compared with that of elastic beam, such as: 1) the displacement response is not symmetric about the axis of time; 2) in the condition of small external load, the response at first order natural frequency is limited within a finite range; 3) decreasing the matrix crack space will increase the displacement response of the beam.

Scobit-Based Panel Analysis of Multitasking Behavior of Public Transport Users

With a focus on the multitasking behavior of public transportation users during travel, an examination is made of factors affecting activity participation along the axis of travel time. The probability of participation in an activity is represented by using a scobit (or a skewed logit) model, within which the widely used logit model is nested with the help of a skewness parameter. With this skewness parameter, it is not necessary to assume that individuals with a probability of 0.5 for performing an activity are most sensitive to changes in travel time or other influential factors. This analysis is the first attempt to apply the scobit model to transportation issues. An empirical analysis was conducted by using data (523 individuals) collected in Hiroshima City, Japan, in December 2008. Because multitasking behavior along the axis of travel time may be interrelated, the scobit model is extended to simultaneously incorporate the influences of state dependency and the remaining travel time as well as the other influential factors, by dealing with the data as panel data. As a result, a scobit-based panel model was developed. Model estimation results confirm the effectiveness of the scobit model. It was further revealed that introduction of a heterogeneous skewness parameter is more effective for representing activity participation than assumption of a homogeneous skewness parameter. Calculation results of travel time elasticity show that activity participation is sensitive to change in the travel time up to the first half of travel time and becomes less sensitive to travel time afterward.