Chaotic Place Research Articles

Baildon Street: The Blackest Street in Deptford?

In 1899, one of Charles Booth's investigators, George Arkell, visited Deptford to revise the classifications provided on Booth's Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889. Arkell was more shocked and offended by Baildon Street than any other street he visited in Deptford. He was scathing in his comments and assessment of the street, and decided that it should remain coloured black, meaning ‘Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal’—an assessment that Booth agreed with. This article takes issue with Booth's assessment of Baildon Street and, in particular, with George Arkell's comments and the picture he painted of the lives and living conditions of those who resided there. The article shows that Baildon Street was not a chaotic place of social transience, nor was it a place systemically rife with prostitution, crime, violence, and child neglect. It also reveals the surprising ideas and factors that influenced Arkell in his investigative work.

Metvaerse’de İyilik ve Kötülüğün Ontolojik Değeri

The Metaverse is a world created with virtual reality technologies, providing an unlimited freedom space where people can perform all the actions they can imagine. In our study, the Metaverse is scientifically explained within the framework of how the human brain works. Considering that the human brain perceives both virtual and real-world experiences and emotions, emphasis is placed on the lack of a sharp distinction between the virtual and real worlds in the Metaverse. Additionally, the disappearance of the boundary between the virtual and real worlds demonstrates that human actions and behaviors have an ontological value from the perspective of human nature. Our study also draws attention to the important role that the Metaverse will play in religion, morality, and humanity. With the influence of advancing technological developments, the Metaverse will have an even more significant and dynamic place in human life. Therefore, the importance of establishing a moral and meaningful structure in the Metaverse is emphasized. The study emphasizes the crucial role that religion should play in this field, arguing that a virtual world devoid of religion and ethical rules could become a chaotic place full of pain for people.

Acil Servis Bekleme Salonları İç Mekanları için Öneriler ve Çözümler

Emergency rooms (ER) of hospitals could be chaotic places for people who experience them, because of factors including insufficient facilities of the space, and the conditions people are in while entering the ER. This study aimed to examine such deficient properties to have solutions and suggest information for the waiting rooms to increase the comfort level of emergency departments for patients and their companions. Three private hospitals in Antalya were selected by a hat draw to be used in exemplifying their most salient deficiencies. Case studies were evaluated with the help of the requirement list made from the literature review and the data obtained from the field. In conclusion, this study identifies several deficiencies, which can be based on the literature and on the experience of both users and companions. While analyzing the collected data, solutions for increasing the comfort level of an emergency service were also obtained.

Status, trends and enlightenment of global oil and gas development in 2021

By analyzing the distribution of global oil and gas fields and the reasons why some oil and gas fields are not in production, the distribution characteristics of oil and gas remaining recoverable reserves and their year-on-year changes, the distribution characteristics of oil and gas production and their year-on-year changes, and the development potential of oil and gas to be tapped in 2021, this paper sorts out systematically the current status and characteristics of global oil and gas development, summaries the major trends of global oil and gas development, puts forward enlightenment for international oil and gas cooperation. In 2021, oil and gas fields were widely distributed, the number of non-producing oil and gas fields was large; the whole oil and gas remaining recoverable reserves declined slightly, unconventional oil and gas remaining recoverable reserves dropped significantly; the overall oil and gas production continuously increased, the outputs of key resource-host countries kept year-on-year growth; undeveloped oilfields had abundant reserves and great development potential. Combined with global oil and gas geopolitics, oil and gas industry development trends, oil and gas investment intensity, and the tracking and judgment of hotspot fields, the major trends of global oil and gas development in 2021 are summarized. On this basis, the four aspects of enlightenment and suggestions for international oil and gas cooperation and development strategies are put forward: attach great importance to the obligation of marine abandonment to ensure high-quality and long-term benefit development of offshore oil and gas; adhere to the principle of not going to dangerous and chaotic places, strengthen the concentration of oil and gas assets, and establish multi stable supply bases; based on the multi-scenario demand of natural gas, realize the transformation from integrated collaboration to full oil and gas industry chain development; increase the acquisition of high-quality large-scale assets, and pay attention to the continuous optimization of the shareholding ratio of projects at different stages.

A New Traffic Sign Recognition Technique Taking Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm into Account

Everyday humans use cars to move faster, and the world is a chaotic place, and a little distraction or a mistake could be the reason for an accident and bring people great pain. An assistance system that can distinguish and detect signs on the roads and brings the driver's attention to road signs and make them aware of their meaning could be beneficial. The most important part of the Traffic Sign Recognition System is the algorithm. In this paper, a new way toward Traffic Sign Recognition algorithm taking the advantages of Color Segmentation, support vector machines, and histograms of oriented gradients on the GTSRB dataset is proposed. The unsupervised shuffled frog-leaping algorithm is employed for segmenting the images. The results show remarkable improvements by using meta-heuristic algorithms.

Cannabis and cannabidiol use among autistic and non-autistic adults in the UK: a propensity score-matched analysis

ObjectivesTo assess whether autistic and non-autistic adults differ in their cannabis and cannabidiol (CBD) use, their perceptions of cannabinoid products and their cannabinoid-related support-seeking behaviours.DesignCross-sectional survey.ParticipantsRespondents to an online survey,...

Indonesia in the Eyes of Australians through Media Coverage (A Qualitative Study about How Australians Portrays Indonesia)

Media reality, by far, tends to construct how people see things despite the objective reality. Indonesia, for this case, is a country that is known as its many conflicts and disasters through media coverage globally. Australia, as its neighbour, has also come to have some conclusions about Indonesia through the Australian Media, which then gives a sense of knowledge about Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to acknowledge how Australian Media portrays Indonesian and how the Australians perceive Indonesia because of it. This qualitative research conducted interviews with some Australians that are concerned about Indonesia.The result of the study concludes that the media portrays Indonesia less as a tourists place, even though it was advertised repeatedly but more like an unorganized, chaotic place for pedestrians and commuters. Indonesia is seen as a country full of disasters and conflicts which signals that the country needs a hand from Australia. It is seen as a violent and dangerous place.Despite the media coverage of Indonesia, and their agreement of Indonesia as a chaotic and dangerous place, Australians still consider Indonesia as a beautiful tourist place to go. Most believe that Indonesia is a young nation that is still developing, and as a young nation, it often has many issues, so it tends to be unorganized. The media has succeeded to portray Indonesia as it is.

A Renewed Call to Compassion

Hospitals are busy, often chaotic places with myriad requirements which take up nursing time - attending committee meetings, renewing certifications, making rounds, and providing care. Hospitals are places in which providing patient care is expected, but not necessarily caring.

A New Nonlinear Global Placement for FPGAs: The Chaotic Place

A non-linear analytical method is presented for global placement of logic cells in an IC, based on algorithms inspired in Dynamic Systems Theory, also known as Chaotic Systems. The related developed tool is called Chaotic Place. The two-dimensional structure of the cells of a circuit was obtained by the reconstruction of a Strange Attractor (Takens’ Theorem). The experiment was tested in the field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) using the “FPGA Place-and-Route Challenge” benchmarks. For comparison of results, the Half-Perimeter-Wire-Length (HPWL) was used as the main metric. The experiment results show a 6% reduction in wirelength, on average, when compared to the state-of-the-art placement tools for homogeneous FPGAs.

The Trusteeship Council and state failure – Trusteeship systems and the forgotten UN organ in the 21st century

This paper shows the historical path of the different types of trusteeship systems. It describes the evolution of the League of Nations’ Mandate System, the United Nations’ Trusteeship Council and their application to different regions. The paper identifies the problems facing the creation of a trusteeship system nowadays and tries to offer possible answers to them as well. The United Nations Trusteeship System supervised the relationships between non-self-governing territories and their colonial masters. The purpose of the organisation was purely the implementation of decolonisation measures. That is the reason why the Council suspended its activities in 1994. Thanks to the globalisation, the Negative Spillover Effects (NSEs) of the 21st century may make the trusteeship systems desirable once again. Security problems like state failure demand a more effective response from the international com-munity. The cases of Somalia, East Timor and Kosovo show that the UN Security Council was ready to create missions tasked with similar responsibilities as a trusteeship in the past. During the discussion about the war-torn Syria, creation of a “safe zone” was mentio-ned as well. The ultimate solution for these chaotic places could be a new type of trusteeship system. The paper argues in favour of the Trusteeship Council to be revitalized as the main organ responsible for the management of these problems.

Empirical lessons regarding contraception in a protracted refugee setting: A descriptive study from Maela camp on the Thai-Myanmar border 1996 - 2015.

Conflict settings and refugee camps can be chaotic places, with large and rapid population movements, exacerbated public health problems, and ad hoc health services. Reproductive health care that includes family planning is of heightened importance in such settings, however, funding and resources tend to be constrained and geared towards acute health services such as trauma management and infectious disease containment. Here we report on the complexities and challenges of providing family planning in a post-emergency refugee setting, using the example of the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, in existence now for over 30 years. Data from 2009 demonstrates an upward trend in uptake of all contraceptives, especially long acting reversible contraception (LARC) and permanent methods (e.g. sterilization) over time. Increased uptake occurred during periods of time when there were boosts in funding or when barriers to access were alleviated. For example a surgeon fluent in local languages is correlated with increased uptake of tubal ligation in females. These data indicate that funding directed toward contraceptives in this refugee setting led to increases in contraceptives use. However, contraceptive uptake estimates depend on the baseline population which is difficult to measure in this setting. As far as we are aware, this is the longest reported review of family planning services for a refugee camp setting to date. The lessons learned from this setting may be valuable given the current global refugee crisis.

Introducing the concept of salutogenesis to school leadership research: problematizing empirical methodologies and findings

This paper introduces and explores the concept of ‘salutogenesis’ as a way of interpreting school leadership research and its findings in two significant areas: its effect on student outcomes and the motivation of incumbents. In its original setting, salutogenesis describes an approach that focuses on health, rather than on disease, but regards both as points on the same continuum. ‘Pathogenesis’ is the opposite, more traditional view. The two make very different ab initio assumptions: pathogenesis starts by regarding illness as a departure from the natural state and something to be cured; salutogenesis regards illness as the natural condition, and health as something to be created. In the context of adapting these concepts to schooling, where ‘illness’ can be read as ‘dysfunction’, the latter approach would take the view that schools are inherently imperfect and chaotic places, and that the aim of leadership is therefore to create a more functional state. The pathogenic approach, on the other hand, assumes that the natural state is inherently stable so that the purpose of leadership is to ward off malfunction.

Berlin on My Mind: An Anti-Memoir

Berlin on My Mind: An Anti-Memoir Derek Cohen (bio) Though I’ve never been to Berlin, the city has loomed large in my life. Growing up in South Africa just after the war, I acquired an idea of Berlin primarily formed by Jewish people there who had felt the threat of Hitler to their families and friends—those who had been directly touched by the war. Berlin was the location of many large and formidable pro-Nazi rallies that spelled danger to all Jews: it was there that many aspects of the twentieth-century war of horror were nurtured and kindled. Berlin provided the backdrop for the Night of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht—that violent chaotic commencement of the Nazi war against the Jews. In my mind the Berlin of World War ii is a big bullying city of lethal size and deadly foreboding. I cannot think about Berlin without thinking about men in storm-trooper uniforms, lounging against large, black, shiny, and menacing Mercedes Benzes, their jackboots gleaming as they smirk into the cameras aimed at them, their guns and clubs casually draped over their arms, ready for use (they obviously relish being photographed). These men are the muscle of Nazism, and they belong to my Berlin. There are, of course, other Berlins, though none so dominant in my mind as this one. But Berlin is exciting in many ways: it is a playground for the rich and famous, and the headquarters of German money, political power, and old traditions. There is also the Berlin of backstreets and brothels and gorgeous blondes in slit skirts and high heels—a louche, decadent, suggestive, sexy, and exciting city, known to me only through books and pictures. It is impossible to separate the tantalizing sexual swamp of this underworld Berlin from the larger ideas of the city as a place of war and death. The Berlin of the war, in all its facets, is a paradoxical place of order and chaos. Nazi Berlin, dedicated to unswerving political power and conformity, is also a chaotic place of brutality and turbulence. Images of the ss careening around the city in their cars proudly assaulting those who do not conform: Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals are fair prey for the men in uniform who [End Page 245] seem thirsty for violent action. The ss bring order to the city, an order maintained by the rule of fear. The prevalence of this kind of order suggests that beneath its surface lies chaos seeking release. The ss is as strong and violent as the photographs show. Someone, another ss man, is taking those pictures with an eye to presenting the men in jackboots as heroes, their victims as vermin. The Berlin of this period is, as Berlin always has been, a place of culture. The arts thrive, though deformed by the imperatives of “useful” art dedicated to the betterment and celebration of the state that—it is decreed—this art must serve. In fear for their lives many true artists of Berlin leave the country to practice their trades in places where they will not be impeded by rules, laws, and terror. Berlin’s leading citizens and city managers pride themselves on their city’s cultural superiority and encourage the arts in which they profess to believe. Culture flourishes, despite Hanns Johst’s infamous remark that the word makes him reach for his revolver. To be sure, the culture of Nazi Germany is perverted by political imperatives; but an arrogance informs the ideal, as if culture can be ordered like a new suit or modified like an engine in its design and direction. Subversive, satirical, underground culture is soon quashed. The art of Nazi Berlin is infected with a brutal moral superiority; an insufferable hauteur pervades officially approved culture while cultural nonconformity is threatened and persecuted for its betrayal of the Nazi state. And the threats are not idle: violence is the wages of the individuality and independence that true artistic integrity requires. There is political correctness with a vengeance in this Berlin, a grinding and authoritative insistence that drives the makers of culture—the artists, poets, and musicians—in a single direction: the validation of the...

Madrid en los artículos satíricos costumbristas de Modesto Lafuente

El Madrid de la primera mitad del siglo es un lugar caótico en donde se desarrollan los más importantes acontecimientos de la vida política, cultural y económica de España. La capital se desarrolla y crece de la mano de miles de personas que viven con la esperanza de subirse al carro del progreso y transformar su realidad. Madrid será el escenario de infinitos cambios que muchos escritores plasmarán en los periódicos, cada vez más abundantes y poderosos, del momento. De entre estos observadores cabe destacar s Modesto Lafuente, crítico feroz de la realidad social y política de España que a través de su periódico Fray Gerundio (1837-1842), supo plasmar los más satíricos cuadros de los habitantes de la ciudad, desde el político irresponsable a las viudas y huérfanos que sobreviven pos sus calles. Este artículo se centra en este escritor y su exitoso periódico y en el uso que hace de Madrid como escenario de sus crónicas y críticas sociales.

Entrepreneurial Intensity in the Corporate Sector in Oman: The Elusive Search Creativity and Innovation

Entrepreneurial firms are attributed with the key characteristic of creativity and innovation which is one of the most intriguing competency that has generated substantial interest of academicians and practitioners and have received considerable attention in the literature. Creativity and innovation have been elevated to this pedestal by the virtue of its ability to enable firms to achieve the necessary competitive advantage in today’s chaotic market place. Ironically creativity and innovation is an elusive commodity and many firms particularly of the larger species struggle to display this competency. This study investigated the dimensions that promote or impede the concentration of creativity and innovation, measured through entrepreneurial intensity in the corporate sector in Oman. Data was collected from four participating organizations from four different sectors through a questionnaire survey. The findings indicate that 52% of the relationships between organizational characteristics and creativity and innovation are explained by entrepreneurial architecture dimensions. At the same time 55% of the relationships between organizational climate and creativity and innovation are explained by entrepreneurial frequency dimensions. Finally 43% of the relationships between macro economic conditions and creativity and innovation are explained by entrepreneurial degree dimensions. Further a general linear model explains 56% of the relationship between entrepreneurial architecture and entrepreneurial intensity dimensions (EF and ED). The findings are quite conclusive indicating that there is a strong relationship between organizational characteristics, organizational climate, macro environmental conditions and creativity and innovation.

Emergency Medicine

What is Emergency Medicine and who are the Emergency physician? These may be questions in many people’s minds, not just amongst medical personnel but also patients. If we look back 5 years, Emergency Medicine was far from our thoughts and understanding. As we all can imagine, Emergency Departments (ED) in Thailand are mostly chaotic places with lots of patients and physicians who were assigned to attend ED in addition to their daily jobs, on a part-time rotating basis. Those physicians might range from inexperienced extern to boarded physician, and might include specialists from internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, ophthalmology and otolaryngology, depending on each hospital’s policy.

Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste

Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste

Tubab by Beltrán Mena

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Professionalism in Kurosawa's Medical Dramas

Film director Akira Kurosawa (1918-1998) portrayed doctors and patients in 4 films that spanned the most productive phase in his career: Drunken Angel, The Quiet Duel, Ikiru, and Red Beard. Observing death and destruction during the Second World War and the social disintegration that followed it in Japan, Kurosawa viewed the world as a dispiriting, dangerous, and chaotic place. His response was an optimistic and humanist view that life's meaning lies in the service to others. Because his main characters are doctors and patients, the films have a connection to today's medical community trying to define a modern concept of professionalism and what it means to be a physician.

Practical Issues in Conducting Hospital-based Research

Hospitals do not lend themselves easily to research. Like any business, hospitals have their own unique focus and their own specific goals. The primary focus of hospitals is patient care, with an emphasis on the goals of timeliness, patient satisfaction, and cost-effectiveness. Hospitals have outside pressure from payors to quickly process patients, beginning with a swift admission and fast work-up, with rapid solution of the patient’s problem and a speedy discharge to an appropriate setting. Hospitals are also subject to external pressures and regulations from local, state and federal governments in addition to accrediting and certifying agencies. Hospitals must manage day-to-day pressures, such as staffing, morale, and unforeseen emergencies, as well as long-term pressures, such as patient outcomes and financial income. Hospitals are busy, chaotic places, dealing with everything from patients and families with compliments and complaints, to equipment and supplies with breakages and costs. Hospitals unquestionably have their own peculiar culture with unique priorities unrelated to research. Although the business of the hospital is patients, research in the hospital setting is important. Clinicians, patients and administrators can all benefit from learning more about the care and practices in hospitals and interventions that could improve outcomes, but the priorities, practices, policies and mores of the hospital can affect the feasibility of performing any type of research in the setting, as well as the reliability and validity of data collected in that setting. Patient, staff, administration and system issues can all impact research in the hospital. Those performing or assisting with research in the hospital setting should be aware of the potential challenges, so that plans can be made to avoid or minimize problems and adjust for planned and unplanned changes in the conduct of their studies.