Chaotic Situation Research Articles

Genealogi Moral Menurut Foucault dan Nietzsche: Beberapa Catatan

This article shows that what Foucault understands as genealogy is in many ways still in line with Nietzsche, that in terms of the basic concept of genealogy, using history, reveals the Herkunft – the origin of values that will dismantle the assumption of finality. Morality is born in the midst of a chaotic situation that forces individuals to make decisions and in the experience of a fragmented and unstable body. While through Entstethung one can see how the dominations that play behind any value are considered noble, the noble value is not in the hands of an independent subject. But there are also differences, since Foucault calls for the death of the subject, while Nietzsche is not up to that extreme. Another point of difference is that Foucault’s genealogy is practiced in a strict study discipline, wrestling with historical documents and writing down the detailed facts, while Nietzsche does not. The author argues that through Foucault’s thought, one might find a new meaning of the subject, that the subject is not an autonomous entity, but merely a production of power. The appearance of the subject is considered as a result of domination-relationships. In other words, these are the result of a disciplining effort.

A Historical Perspective of China’s Peaceful Policies and its Rise as World Economic Power

China’s rise as an economic power on the canvas of world politics is immensely being discussed by the scholars and experts around the globe whether it will create a chaotic situation or it will be peaceful for global peace and security. World seems astonished by experiencing the speed of Chinese economic development and getting its maximum share in international trade. The descriptive-analytical approach is used to investigate that how at present the history of China plays a significant role in development and promotion of its passive and non-violent image. Liberal Institutionalism has been applied for the data analysis and further explaining the situation. This study focuses on historical peaceful and accommodating political character of China while interacting with its neighbouring states. The same is going to happen in the scenario of current rise of China and especially its mega project of “Belt and Road initiative.” While studying the political and military nature of historical China, we can easily assess that China is ready for collaborating and cooperating not only with its neighbouring countries but also seems serious to bring the other countries in the nexus. China is very well aware of the suspicion, misconception, fear and threat that prevails in the regional states viz-a-viz the status quo world powers that powerful China could create threats for their security and survival.

Structured redesign of a hospital-based code response team using Six Sigma tools and human factors principles to facilitate teamwork

Abstract Introduction Response to in-hospital cardiac arrest (a “code”) requires the coordinated efforts of a team of medical professionals in a high-stress, high-risk healthcare setting. This can lead to a chaotic situation. Excessive noise and confusion must be improved to deliver the most effective care. Purpose To develop a paradigm for efficient and effective code response. Methods An interprofessional team used Six Sigma tools to identify characteristics of an “ideal” process for the two identified phases of code response. Further discussion and application of human factors engineering principles produced a paradigm for the code response process. Discussion/conclusions The aim of this structured redesign of our institution's code response process was to reduce the amount of nonproductive noise and confusion during code response through clarification of roles and responsibilities of code team members. The application of engineering principles and interprofessional nature of the redesign group were vital to the successful redesign process.

Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily

ABSTRACTThe recent surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search of protection has presented a major challenge for the whole European Union. What has been labelled as a ‘refugee crisis’ is first and foremost a crisis of international politics and the result of inadequate response mechanisms at local level. This paper focuses on the case of Sicily, the second main area of arrival, after Greece, when migration to the Mediterranean reached its peak. With a long history of immigration, since 2015 the Italian island has seen the implementation of a new approach based on ‘hotspots’: designated areas for the separation of those deemed as economic migrants from ‘genuine asylum seekers’. In the view of some, this has made Italy into a model of migration management, as opposed to the chaotic situation of the Greek islands. The hotspot approach, however, has been also criticised for being engrained on practices that many deem unlawful, actively producing discrimination and condemning many migrants to an illegal status on the Italian soil. Informed by findings from an international research project (EVI-MED), this paper examines this complex scenario, exploring the social, legal and human implications of the refugees’ reception system in Italy.

Boj med Ilirijo in Primorjem za prevlado v slovenskem nogometu in nastanek reprezentančnega ljubljanskega nogometnega moštva z imenom SK Ljubljana

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Key words: history of sport, football, 1919–1940, Ljubljana, SK Ilirija, AŠK Primorje, SK Ljubljana Abstract: The article deals with the football rivalry between the biggest, most successful and most dominant Slovenian football club of the first half of the 20th century named SK Ilirija (Sportni klub Ilirija) and its main rival, the main football club of the people from the Primorska region living in Ljubljana named AŠK Primorje (Akademski športni klub Primorje). The author points out that the rivalry cost both clubs tremendous moral and material resources; instead of focusing on sports endeavors, they fought for power in the Ljubljana Football Sub-association, trying to score by administrative decisions when unable to win games on the pitch. The main objective of the article is to present the background of the chaotic situation in Slovenian football in the 1920s and 1930s that was the result of struggle between two most successful Slovenian football clubs in the first half of the 20th century. The article also comments on the circumstances that led to the merger of the football teams of SK Ilirija and AŠK Primorje and the foundation of the new, national football team from Ljubljana named SK Ljubljana (Sport klub Ljubljana).

San Jerónimo, traductor paradigmático

The Apostolic Constitution Scripturarum thesaurus, promulgated by His Holiness John Paul II on April 25, 1979, has made the figure of St. Jerome return to the foreground as a model translator of the Holy Scriptures. Referring to the Saint from Estridonia the Roman Pontiff affirmed that he "continues being like a teacher". These words are confirmed by the facts that show the value of the Latin version of this great Doctor. In order to demonstrate its worth we will look at three time periods in which there crose many versions of the Bible, but all of which gave way to the "Vulgate", translation which the New Vulgate Bible or "Neovulgata" usually follows. The first period corresponds to the end of the fourth century. lt is a moment of great proliferation of latin versions of the sacred books. Unfortunately, the desire to spread the Word of God throughout the world was not matched by a mastery of the art or translation. Consequently, the many versions didn't always agree, creating a truly chaotic situation and motivating the Bishop of Rome, St. Damasus, to try and remedy the problem; he puts St. Jerome in charge of unifying, at least with the New Testament, the numerous group of conflicting translations. It was the beginning of the great work that would bring so much fame to the monk of Bethlehem. After revising and unifying the New Testament and having been solicited by many to continue, St. Jerome set forth on the arduous task of translating all the books of the Old Testament directly from the originals. Throughout his difficult job, the saintly translator enjoyed great satisfaction in seeing the welcome reception his work received in determined sectors. But he also had to suffer incomprehension and merciless attacks by many others, who could not see the worth of a translation based on an original in hebrew, work of a set of Jesws who were most bitter enemies to christianity during those times. Whatsmore, this translation implied a certain scorn towards the version of the LXX, used by the inspired writers of the New Testament and regarded by many as inspired. Both this state of affairs and the violent and passionate character of St. Jerome lead him to justify his version. Many of his works, therefore, contain references to his task and set forth the reasons that moved him to its undertaking. From these writings we can extract some of the basic principles that were present in the elaborating of the Vulgate. A translation that has withstood the march of sixteen centuries surely can still teach us something. The first important lesson we learn from the Estridontine is the importance of working with the originals. No translation, for all ist worth, can ever be more faithful to what the inspired writer said than that which he himself wrote. Admittedly it is true that, strictly speaking, in the case of the Bible, the originals themnselves have not been conserved; but it is also true that a copy of that written by the sacred author will always be of more value than a translation of the same. St. Jerome also gives great importante to the precision and elegance of his translation. This does not go to say that his prose is not clear and simple; precision implius above all that the reader understands what he reads. This leads us to see a third principle of St. Jerome: the translation must always aim at the meaning of that which is translated, rather than being slave to a literalism which makes the understanding of what the sacred writer wanted to say impossible. The Stridonian priest also used as long possible the same way of speaking that the Church had been trying to conserve throughout the decades. He respects as much as possible the traditional terminology and avoids phrases that could sound strange to his readers. Similarly, the great Doctor is extremely concerned in interpreting the text in accord with the interpretation of the Holy church, and more than once consults the opinion of Rome. Finally, it is obvious that our translator views the Holy Scripture as inspired by God, and meritous of an attitude of faith and reverence which would make possible, with the divine help, a translation made in the same spirit in which were written the sacred books.

Traffic Woes, Metro Manila, and Collaborative Problem-Solving: A Case Study of Computer-mediated, Collaboratively Built Information Infrastructure in the Field of Transportation in the Philippines

The chaotic traffic situation in Metro Manila has been characterized as a major roadblock to the country’s economic development and has turned into an important discussion point in political debates. In this paper three traffic related web services, aimed at helping their users gain an insight into the traffic situation of Metro Manila and beyond are analyzed in regards to their use of cooperation using Benkler’s concept of Collaborative Peer Production. The three web services differ starkly from each other in their concept – PH-Commute.com is a blog, Taxikick.com is a service for short messages pertaining to misbehaviors of taxi drivers, Sakay.ph is a navigation service. As I conclude, all three however share in common that they are indeed highly dependent on cooperation on different layers. Determined by the underlying concept of each of the websites, they incorporate inputs from their users, but they might also let their users help them in developing their software by publishing their source code, and they rely on community-created, open-source software infrastructure to be able to run their own.

Wilderness and Marginality of a Cuban Intellectual in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogía Sucia De La Habana (1998)

The article explores how the novel Trilogía sucia de la Habana (1998), by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, depicts the decline of the subject identity heavily constructed by the paternalist ideology, promises and morals of the Cuban nation-state during the revolutionary period. Instead, emptiness, loss of faith, despair and wild survival became distressing effects of the nineties crisis. Pedro Juan's marginal existence, constrained agency and sense of lost time embodies a common place for many Cuban intellectuals, trapped in the absurdity of a chaotic national situation. With Trilogía, Gutiérrez re-imagines the Cuban nation at the turn of the century as a dystopian place of material decadence, dehumanization, revival of colonial stereotypes and a rough culture of daily survival by all means. In those circumstances, the present is the only time that really counts and the hypersexualizing of the body became the privilege space for individual agency. The novel moves the spotlight from the collective incarnation of the "New Man" in the official revolutionary propaganda, to the voice of forgotten individuals massively converted into marginal beings. This article dialogues with texts by scholars Odette Casamayor, Guillermina de Ferrari, José Quiroga y Esther Whitfield, and with theories by Pierre Bourdieu, Roberto Bolaño, Frantz Fanon and Stuart Hall.

MULTI-CANONS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The development of English as a global of medium has given rise and recognition to various English and this also involves a vital multicultural issues. The present paper envisages to throw light on Multi Canons and the Development of English language today. It emphasizes the need of understanding multicultural issues and norms and traits of various cultures in the process of learning and teaching of English language all over the world. The process of learning and teaching of English language is boosted further if we understand the cultural traits of a language in the light of the cultural traits of the target language. Culture is really an integral part of language learning and teaching. Part of learning and teaching is learning and teaching cultural norms in the language. In the early stages of language learning, students should be encouraged to use the language just to establish the fact that they can use it. Too much emphasis on so called appropriateness may result in an overwhelmingly chaotic situation for beginners or slow learners.

BYOD Supported Crowd Interaction System

Crowed is a large gathering of people, mostly in unorganized manner. The conventional crowd interaction systems for opinion acceptability is driven from the retrieval mechanisms of the crowd data using Verbal or Non-verbal means. The Verbal communication from the crowd leads to chaotic situation where the chances of data loss is quite higher with no privacy. The non-verbal interaction leads to a more efficient method of data retrieval as it bounds the unwanted noise and provides better security measures to the system. In this work it is proposed a BYOD[1] supported non verbal crowd interaction framework that can provide an instant user feedback in situations like public speking, live concert or class room teaching learning. The user’s own device interface prompts with a quick response code[23], that work as a transient identity and an intermediary optical link for exchanging responses. The proposed system also effective for mobile supported pervasive data exchange with optical marker as trigger and security. The experiments and anecdotal results depicts a higher level of user satisfaction that paves a way for furthermore technology driven enhancements in the cost effective crowd interaction systems.

Malkom Khan’s Approach Toward Political Modernization from above in Iran

Malkom Khan (1833-1908) was a very significant scholar in the Qajar and constitutional era and the first to propose political modernization in order to change the traditional structure of government and replace it with a new and modern one. He was aware of the fact that Iran’s backwardness and chaotic situation was the result of the traditional and despotic political structure of government. This paper examines the political thought of Malkom Khan and his approach toward modernization of the political structure of government in the first period of his political life as activist and theorist. Research shows that his approach toward the political modernization program was political modernization from above or in other words, a form of state-building. His strategy to accomplish this goal can be described as getting Iranians to accept western civilization and the principles of order without changing them.

The management of survivors’ guilt through the construction of a favorable self in Hiroshima survivor narratives

This study examines how Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors linguistically construct favorable selves – that is, selves that they want to present to others – in stories about events where they may feel survivors’ guilt. While discourse analysts started studying Holocaust narratives in the past decade, the field has not yet investigated narratives from Hiroshima survivors, nor has guilt been extensively investigated linguistically. In narrating those episodes where guilt can be attributed, Hiroshima survivors use various prosodic and syntactic devices to maintain their favorable selves by describing their powerlessness in a chaotic situation. Focusing on the telling of the same experience by three different survivors, the analysis reveals that narrators use various linguistic strategies to protect their positions as moral persons. The study contributes to a better understanding of the linguistic management of emotion, especially survivors’ guilt. Furthermore, linguistic examination of Hiroshima stories brings a discourse perspective to the study of global tragedies.

Based on Professional Standards in the Perspective of Cohesion Study Training High Vocational Personnel—in Marketing Major, for Example

Higher vocational education in the cohesion is the important measure of modern vocational education system and build a reasonable set of cohesion in vocational curriculum system is the reality of higher vocational talents training in the solution. This article is based on the talent training in vocational fragmented, curriculum chaotic situation, this article marketing major, for example, put forward one platform, two foundation, four modules course of cohesion. Implementation of higher vocational education personnel training cohesion, on the training target, training content, the curriculum to connect, comprehensive training professional knowledge, professional skills, high, high comprehensive quality of the high skilled talents.

A Record of Peaceful Ruling Written in a Turbulent Age - Focused on Beimengsuoyan, Biji in the early Song Dynasty -

An author of Beimengsuoyan, Sun Guangxian was born towards the fall of Tang Dynasty and went through the period Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and died watching the founding of Song Dynasty. About 400 various stories of Beimengsuoyan include reports about a chaotic situation of fragmentation and collapse of many countries, the private life of officials and that of commoners offering a glimpse at everyday life and custom of those period.BR And compiling and recording historic facts in the traditional Chinese society was considered the way to provide moral criteria and to build justification for dominant hierarchy. Thus, it can be inferred that Sun Guangxian had a purpose to offer a political vision to the dominant class and morality to posterity writing his reports. From this point of view, in this paper, I

Engineering and validating security to make cloud secure

With ever increasing demand for cloud computing services, the rate for the security threats has amplified drastically and this cannot be overlooked. Cloud-based systems can be used for storing and processing highly confidential data. These threats create a chaotic situation that is restricting the adoption rate of cloud-based services. In this paper, we anticipate giving a proposal that identifies and handle the security issues present in the system. Our proposal would first find the potential threats to the cloud system, and then algorithms implemented by the existing systems are evaluated by calculating the security index to check if they can protect the system from identified threats. Security index is the metric representing the risk measure of live threats in the system.

Pak-Afghan Relations (2001-2017): A Prisoner’s Dilemma Analysis

Pak-Afghan relations in post-Taliban era are a narration of mistrust and a display of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Despite Pakistan’s efforts to maintain good neighbourly relations, it is being blamed for chaotic situation in Afghanistan, providing safe havens for miscreants in FATA, sponsoring terrorism and suicide bombing in the latter. On the other hand, Pakistan is also suspicious of Afghanistan’s India-centric policies, which results in insurgency and unrest in FATA, Balochistan and different parts of the country. Despite several commonalities and both being allies in the war against terrorism, the trust gap however is so broad that both the countries cannot decipher their disagreements bilaterally. Resultantly, both have become a recipe of never ending violence and allowing regional powers to interfere in their affairs and exploit the situation to their own advantage. Pak-Afghan relations cannot afford mistrust and hostility, which has repeatedly caused negative repercussions on their relations. The paper employs Prisoner’s Dilemma approach to examine the nature of Pak-Afghan relations and draw a conclusion for trust building via its repeated reciprocal strategies. In addition, the theoretical framework explains that reciprocal strategies, if adopted, will enable Pakistan and Afghanistan to break Prisoner’s Dilemma, sustain trust and convert their limited cooperation into full cooperation based on mutual trust.

Methodology for Fast Processing of Purchase Requisitions, Elimination of Backlog and Improvement of Customer Service in Procurement Organizations

Objective: A new methodology was developed to process purchase requisitions in a fast manner, eliminate backlog and improve customer service in procurement organizations. Background: Procurement organizations normally have in place their own procedures to approach purchase requests under normal conditions. When there is a sudden change in purchase requests behavior such as a sudden increase in demand, decrease in purchasing capacity or other related causes, a phenomenon known as backlog appears and procedures in place are not suited to approach the new chaotic situation. Under a large backlog scenario, customer service decreases dramatically and the procurement department becomes more of a customer complaints management department instead. Method: The procurement process was assessed and diagnosed through KPI measurements and process reengineering techniques. Results: The bottleneck that created the conditions for backlog was discovered, a new methodology was developed to solve it and a prototype project plan is presented to show how to implement the methodology. Conclusion: This methodology allows to process large numbers of purchase requisitions in a fast manner, eliminate backlog and improve customer service in procurement organizations. Application: Most procurement organizations are candidates to implement this methodology.

Video saliency detection algorithm based on biological visual feature and visual psychology theory

In order to solve the problems of video saliency detection and poor fusion effect, a video saliency detection model and a fusion model are proposed. Video saliency detection is divided into spatial saliency detection and temporal saliency detection. In the spatial domain, inspired by the properties of visual cortex hierarchical perception and the Gestalt visual psychology, we propose a hierarchical saliency detection model with three-layer architecture for single frame image. The video single frame is simplified layer by layer, then the results are combined to form a whole consciousness vision object and become easier to deal with. At the bottom of the model, candidate saliency regions are formed by nonlinear simplification model of the characteristic image (dual color characteristic and luminance characteristic image), which is in accordance with the biological visual characteristic. In the middle of the model, the candidate regions with the strongest competitiveness are selected as the local salient regions according to the property of matrix minimum Fresenius- norm (F- norm). At the top level of the model, the local salient regions are integrated by the core theory of Gestalt visual psychology, and the spatial saliency map is obtained. In the time domain, based on the consistency assumption of a moving object in target location, motion range and direction, the optical flow points detected by Lucas-Kanade method are classified to eliminate the noise interference, then the motion saliency of moving object is measured by the motion amplitude. Finally, based on the difference between the visual sensitivity of dynamic and static information and the difference in visual sensitivity between color information and gray information, a general fusion model of time and spatial domain salient region is proposed. The saliency detection results of single frame image and video sequence frame image are represented by the gray color model and the Munsell color system respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed saliency detection method can suppress the background noise, solve the sparse pixels problem of a moving object, and can effectively detect the salient regions from the video. The proposed fusion model can display two kinds of saliency results simultaneously in a single picture of a complex scene. This model ensures that the detection results of images are so complicated that a chaotic situation will not appear.

Exploring the Future of Malawi’s Environment Using Scenarios Approach

Discussed in this paper are results of the study that was conducted as part of the process of compiling Malawi’s State of the Environment and Outlook Report for the year 2010. The status of the country’s economy and the nature of governance were identified as critical drivers, i.e., “critical uncertainties”, in determining the future state of the environment in Malawi. Four environmental scenarios were developed, namely: Scenario 1: “Mkaka ndi Uchi”, a combination of good economy and good governance; Scenario 2: “Penda Penda”, a combination of poor economy and good governance; Scenario 3: “Wafa Wafa”, a combination of poor economy and poor governance; and Scenario 4: “Chonchobe/Ndawonera Momwemo”, a combination of good economy and poor governance. Each of the four scenarios will be uniquely influenced by the prevailing economic and governance situation in the country, and hence impact differently on Malawi’s environment. Economy and Governance were selected as critical determinants out of seven key environmental drivers: demography, governance, social change, economy, environment and climate change, technology, and culture and tradition. From the above listed scenarios, it is only Scenario 1, Mkaka ndi Uchi, which will result in a prosperous Malawi while the rest portend the prevalence of a chaotic situation in the country, more so Scenario 3, the Wafa Wafa scenario.

PERUBAHAN TUTUPAN HUTAN DI KABUPATEN PASER, KALIMANTAN TIMUR: PENJELASAN DARI PENDEKATAN KELEMBAGAAN

This study has been done by using institutional approach, with the aims is to study forests cover change in Paser Regency, East Kalimantan. The collected data was consisted ofquantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data was used to analyze the land cover changes from forested land to be non-forested land. The qualitative data was collected through interviews with snowballing method. The results showed that the forest cover in Paser Regency both located in forest area and in other areas had been transformed into a landscape with a variety ofcover types, such as: shrubs, settlements, swamps, ponds, farming, agriculture, vacant land, and mining. Three factors caused the changes in such forest cover, namely: (1) the development ofinvestment-based land resources, (2) the existence oftransactional politics that makes the forest as goods to be transacted for various interests, and (3) the chaotic situation offorest management with the openess of organization networking in the community. In order to reduce the on-going excessive forest conversion, the results ofthe study suggest that both central and local governments together need to immediately enforce the property rights over the remaining forest resources.