Broken Ties Research Articles

Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest

Attending to the broader wellbeing debates, this study examines the interplay between forest-based tourism practices and sustainability. It does so by building on Max Weber’s notion of disenchantment of the world to explore how planetary wellbeing can be cultivated through the commercial practice of forest bathing. In positioning the study within the Serbian context, we build on feminist new materialist ideas to explore the ways in which broken ties between postmodern humans and forests as our primordial home can be reclaimed through this tourism practice. Using the empirical data collected during two forest tours, we take the relational approach in our analysis of the meanings the forest tour attendees ascribed to their experiences. In extending scholarly understandings of the notion of sustainability, we discuss the ways of achieving planetary wellbeing through forest bathing and the potential of more-than-human entanglements to re-enchant the world. To conclude, we discreetly illuminate one way of reconceiving the idea of enchantment and encourage rethinking our everyday and tourist practices in disenchanted Anthropocene.

ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL CORROSION IN THE JOINTS OF COMPONENTS ON THE LIFE OF MULTIELEMENT ROD STRUCTURES

Purpose. The paper analyzes the reasons resulting in destruction of multielement metal structures. Attention is paid to the impact of deformation types on the corrosion of components of such structures as well as to their potential safe operation. Influence of local corrosion in the joints of rod structure members of rod on the terms of its bearing capacity exhaust has been studied. Methodology. To solve the life problem, a 16-rod flat frame has been considered as a simulation structure with design parameters, material characteristics, geometric outline, boundary conditions, and loading conditions. Results. A frame life problem has been considered taking into consideration local corrosion in the joints of rods. The problem involves two calculation schemes with common formulation but having proper peculiarities. Its common is in the availability of inverse association within the calculation models. The difference is as follows. If the number of parameters describing a corrosion process within the frame components is finite during the simulation process in the rod section, where it is fixed, it can be considered as a fragment of flatly stressed plate (FSP) where corrosion velocity depends upon stresses. Since stress-strain state is nonuniform in terms of its area, the number of such parameters tends to infinity. It is the peculiarity defining difference of the research from the majority of the known studies. Scientific novelty. Certain reasons of origination of typical defects and damages of rod metal structures have been considered inclusive of simulation of processes of damage formation as well as defect location. The tendency potential is to expand opportunities while forecasting the structure life with regard to its operational conditions. Practical value. Local corrosion neglecting in the rod joints gives rise to the substantial overestimation of analytical life value. In such a way, structural destruction does not result from bearing capacity exhaust of its component. It results from the broken ties between its separate components despite the fact that a reserve of their bearing capacity is still sufficient.

Support for Mothers, Fathers, or Guardians of Transgender Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review on the Dynamics of Secondary Social Networks.

Mothers’, fathers’, or guardians’ support for disclosures of diverse gender identity has significant relationships with decreased suicidality for transgender children and adolescents. They play an essential role in facing transphobia, protecting trans children, and strengthening the expression of their identity. These guardians need structural, emotional, and informative support; they need to be prepared to recognize and manage of their own feelings, as well as deal with the challenges that come with new social contexts of transphobia in schools, health institutions, and other community spaces. This study aimed to analyze the scientific evidence on the dynamics of secondary social networks to support mothers, fathers, or guardians of transgender children and adolescents. This is a systematic review of qualitative studies, guided by PRISMA guidelines. Controlled and free vocabularies were used to survey the primary studies in the following databases: EMBASE; Scopus; MEDLINE; Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); PsycInfo; Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS); and Web of Science. A total of 28 articles made up the final sample of this review. Secondary social networks were described as fragile, characterized by conflicting and broken ties with healthcare services and professionals, isolation and unpreparedness from schools, and emotional and informational support from peer groups and some qualified healthcare professionals. The literature shows the potential of the dynamics of secondary social support networks; however, it presented the unpreparedness of professionals and institutional policies for welcoming transgender children and adolescents and their families, with the peer group being the main emotional and informative support network.

Aerial Footage Analysis Using Computer Vision for Efficient Detection of Points of Interest Near Railway Tracks

Object detection is a fundamental part of computer vision, with a wide range of real-world applications. It involves the detection of various objects in digital images or video. In this paper, we propose a proof of concept usage of computer vision algorithms to improve the maintenance of railway tracks operated by Via Rail Canada. Via Rail operates about 500 trains running on 12,500 km of tracks. These tracks pass through long stretches of sparsely populated lands. Maintaining these tracks is challenging due to the sheer amount of resources required to identify the points of interest (POI), such as growing vegetation, missing or broken ties, and water pooling around the tracks. We aim to use the YOLO algorithm to identify these points of interest with the help of aerial footage. The solution shows promising results in detecting the POI based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. Overall, we achieved a precision of 74% across all POI and a mean average precision @ 0.5 (mAP @ 0.5) of 70.7%. The most successful detection was the one related to missing ties, vegetation, and water pooling, with an average accuracy of 85% across all three POI.

Vascular Epiphytes: Plants That Have Broken Ties with the Ground

Vascular Epiphytes: Plants That Have Broken Ties with the Ground

EROTICA – A CURE OR A DISEASE OF OUR DEMOCRACY? (ACCORDING TO THE BULGARIAN LITERATURE OF THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY)

Anyone who experienced the late 20th century remembers the astonishing sexualization of Bulgarian culture that erupted with the first steps of the longed-for democracy. Bulgarian literature likewise took an active part in this process. It used the erotic narrative as a sign of its own ability to evolve; it tried to tie up the broken ties with the modernism between the two world wars, emulating American writers such as Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski. The article examines the work of those writers who revived the erotic narrative in Bulgarian literature in the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century. It looks at the different genres of their writing: from the mass literature on mafia-and-crime themes through the attempt of the former emigrant Dimitar Bochev to become the “Bulgarian Bukowski” to the socially oriented novels of young at that time authors such as Palmi Ranchev and Stefan Kisyov. What all these authors have in common is their desire to become famous and marketable by reproducing the sexist Balkan model of male-female relations. Women’s Writing offered an alternative to this kind of literary erotica, which gained strength after the mid-1990s and found realization in the work of writers such as Silvia Choleva, Miglena Nikolchina and Emilia Dvorianova. The second part of the article is devoted to the erotic imagery in the work of Viktor Paskov. It traces its development from his earliest works (“Infantile Murders” and “Martina”) through the novel “Germany – a Dirty Tale” to his last book, “Autopsy of a Love”.

Особенности развития современного ребенка

The realities of the modern world are constantly changing. The rapidity with which our lives undergo transformations is much higher than twenty or thirty years ago. In the recently departed twentieth century, the child developed in small society (family, yard company, pioneer organization) with a clear reference to a specific adult. Today, the child is put in a situation of broken ties and chaotic flow of information without structural and logical connections. Modern children are very different not only from those described in their writings I.G. Pestalozzi, Ya.A. Komenskiy and V.A. Sukhomlinsky, but also from their peers of the last decade of the twentieth century.

Relacje z rodzicami a motywy bycia w związku. Analiza i interpretacja monologów osób dorastających w rodzinie z problemem alkoholowym

The study involved people who were brought up in families with an alcohol problem. The aim of the study was to identify key themes of the narrations about their relationships with parents during adolescence and to explore the links between these narrations and the narrations about their motives for being in a relationship. Seven people (four women and three men) living in a civil partnership participated in this qualitative study. The respondents were asked to deliver a monologue about their relationship with parents during adolescence and their motives for being in a relationship with their partners. The transcripts of their utterances were analyzed and interpreted using the procedure for isolating hidden stories from monologues (Kuncewicz et al. 2016). The repeatable results indicate skipping or superficial treatment of adolescence, family traumas, poor or broken ties with parents, deep involvement in family affairs and neglecting or attaching minor importance to the problem of addiction. Six statements about the participants’ motives for being with their partners revealed attempts to change the patterns of their relationship with the parent or parents. Two monologues clearly demonstrated that these patterns were followed in a reflective or unreflective manner.

Broken Ties in the Ferghana Valley

An anthropologist with long ties to a border town in Central Asia watched as nationalist sentiment turned what had been an informal boundary into a hard divide between erstwhile neighbors.

Matthew 5:17 and Matthew's Community

One of the central arguments in establishing the ‘Christian-Jewish’ nature of the Matthean community is the argument that Matthew’s community was law observant. In particular, Matthew 5:17–19 is said to argue in favour of a community that had not broken ties with Judaism. This paper argues that Matthew 5:17–19 is not primarily about demonstrating lawobservance, but fulfilment. When πληρόω is understood in light of its broader Matthean usage, it becomes apparent that ‘to fulfil’ means the coming about of what the law and prophets anticipated. What is therefore in focus is not the conservative nature of the community, but the arrival of Israel’s hope. This is further demonstrated by the inclusion of ‘the prophets’, which also points to the coming of Jesus, as well as by the antitheses of 5:21–48, which demonstrates the Christological focus of the passage. More prominent than Jesus’ view of the law is the law’s (and prophets’) view of Jesus. An additional factor pointing in this direction is the prominence of the kingdom in this section of Matthew’s gospel. Following on from the declaration in 4:17, the kingdom of heaven remains central throughout the Sermon on the Mount, not least in 5:17–20. When this theological motif is taken into account, it confirms that 5:17–20 has in view the fulfilment of the Jewish hope that God’s kingdom would come. What God’s people have awaited – as anticipated in the law and prophets – has arrived. Reading this passage as if it were a treatise on the Matthean community’s view of the law overlooks the theological context and makes that which is peripheral (conservatism on the law) central, while what is central (fulfilment in that the kingdom has come) is made peripheral. This passage ultimately points to the newness brought about by Jesus and the kingdom of God. Scholars who find support for a conservative community in Matthew 5:17 have failed to reckon sufficiently with the nature of fulfilment in this passage.Keywords: Matthew; law; fulfilment; kingdom; community

Repercussion of Segregation in the Lives of Children Separated by Leprosy

Introduction: Leprosy is a disease that carried the characteristic of incurable and disfiguring for years, causing the social segregation of patients before the family and society. Objective: To describe the repercussion of segregation in the lives of children separated by leprosy who lived in Oswaldo Cruz School. Method: This is an exploratory, descriptive study, with a qualitative approach and with the methodological framework Oral History of Life. Results: The sample consisted of 52 family members of former patients segregated in Hospital Sao Francisco of Assis Cologne Hospital, registered in the Reintegration Movement of People Affected by Leprosy in RN (MORHAN Potiguar). The network was structured from a zero point and consists of five collaborators. Data were collected through individual interviews, and through an instrument with open questions, which were recorded and transcribed. The texts were submitted to thematic content analysis, emerging four themes: broken ties; stigmatized; primary school; leprosy or Hansen's disease. Conclusion: It was evidenced that isolation has influenced the lives of the study participants. The historical records lived in the past are still present in the collaborators memory and directly reflected in thinking about leprosy today.

Descriptive Narration and Its Transmedial Aspects in Stanislav Krakov’s Novel “Wings”

This paper deals with the nature of ‘implicit intermediality’ in Stanislav Krakov’s novel Krila ( Wings ), which can be recognised within the ‘filmisation of novel’ procedure (Wolf 2008: 255). With regard to that, special attention is paid to descriptive narration as a scalar phenomenon position between a pure description and a pure narration. Descriptized narration, defined as such by Harold Mosher, is interpreted as a hybrid form in which the dynamic principle and teleological direction of narration lack progression because the temporal dimension is contaminated with the spatial one, and because of simultaneity of event sequences as well. The latter causes the disruption of static narration due to the moving image effect. Further effects of descriptized narration are: generalisation, iterative and repetitive events, impersonality of perspective, group, usually unnamed characters and use of present and progressive forms (Mosher 1991: 432–435). Also, descriptized narration plays an important role in the symbolic and poetic meaning of Krakov’s novel – repetitiveness of events hyperbolically underlies their feverish dramatic nature yet, paradoxically, their futility, fragmentary form and desperateness of the scene make an impression of distorted image, disharmony, cracks, broken ties that give space to chaos and nonsense.

Broken ties and corporate governance changes under uncertainty conditions. A longitudinal study of Italian boardroom network evolution

The recent systemic crisis that has affected the financial markets and real economies of major industrialized countries has had significant effects on the corporate governance and key organizational choices of large firms. In this context, the present study aims to verify whether the international crisis has significantly changed the structure of the interlocking directorate network that links large firms in the regulated Italian market. Furthermore the paper, which is a development of a preceding research study, also investigates the changes that have occurred in the interpersonal network of directors of the same firms previously observed. To this end, we present a preliminary analysis of the evolution of corporate governance in the main European regulated markets through a dynamic comparison of some synthetic statistical data observed at the end of the years 2006, 2008 and 2010. In the second part, after framing the interlocking directorate concept, we examine the evolution of the interlocking directorate network during the aforementioned observation period (2006-2010) with respect to larger Italian listed companies (FTSE MIB) and their directors

Ties that bind: parties and voters in Canada

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTES ON THE AUTHORS 1. Parties and Voters in Canada 2. the Progressive Conservatives: Broken Ties, Broken Dreams 3. The Liberals: Canada's 'Government Party' 4. The New Democrats: What's Left in Party Politics in Canada 5. The Reform Party: Reaching for the Right 6. The Bloc Quebecois and its Nationalist Predecessors: The Thread of Continuity in Quebec History 7. Continuity and Change in a New Era of Party Politics APENDICES

Broken ties: reciprocity and other factors affecting the termination of older adults' relationships

Exchange theory assumes that people prefer balanced support exchanges in their relationships. If there is an imbalance and no expectation of change in the future, a relationship might be terminated. The question is: Which relationships are discontinued? The data are from a longitudinal study of 2057 older adults who identify 18,915 relationships at T 1 . A relationship is regarded as discontinued if it is not identified by the older adult at the second and third observations. Of the T 1 relationships, 4042 have since been discontinued. The results of a multilevel logistic regression analysis show that the more intensive the support exchanges are at T 1 , the more likely it is for relationships to be continued. Relationships where older adults are overbenefited with instrumental support, i.e., receive more than they give, have a higher chance of being continued. However, if older adults are overbenefited with emotional support, this decreases the chance of the relationships continuing. The type of relationship has a significant effect on whether or not it is continued. Close kin relationships are most likely to be continued, and relationships with less close kin, friends, and neighbors have a higher chance of being discontinued. The costs of the relationship are also decisive; the higher the contact frequency and the lower the traveling time to the network member, the higher the chance of the relationship being continued. Furthermore, the larger the network of the older adult, the more likely it is for an unbalanced relationship to be discontinued.

Proust, Freud, and the Art of Forgetting

Proust's oeuvre is less a work of memory than a play of forgetfulness. Rather than establishing the primacy of regained memory in the work of art, Proust's novel almost seems to function like a creative manuel d'usage on how to lose presence of mind. And this absent-minded quality, it seems to me, accounts for the intensely poetic nature of the Proustian narrative, which even while it recounts a linear story, a chronological recit, nonetheless leaves itself open to poetic detours, extended prose poems in the text. In this paper, I shall read Proust as an absent-minded poet, and I shall suggest that poetic oubli has profound consequences for the order of the Proustian narrative, the assembly of Proust's prose. Thanks to oubli, rather than memory, Proust's syntactical discourse bears the dispersive marks of poetry, or figure.3 In the final scenes of Le temps retrouvi, Marcel is plagued by absentmindedness; he mislays objects, forgets appointments, neglects correspondence. His forgetful introversion is both a precondition and a symptom of artistic transport: Marcel's discovery of a vocation coincides with this vacation from ordinary daily commerce, with his loss of mooring in the mundane. Set adrift by his broken ties with the external world, his attention emptied of its usual central concerns, the antisocial artist has become ex-centric, disoriented, given over to a kind of amnesiac wandering among a jumble of resurrected images and experiences. For Proust, writing seems to be a diversionary, side-tracked process, which requires that the artist forget to