Character Projection Research Articles

Contemplating on my Linking Standards to Quality Practice (LiSQuP) Journey in the Philippines: An Autoethnography

Professional development systems help teachers enhance their practice, though the impact of mechanisms with this agenda only sometimes yields positive results. In the Philippines, the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Philippine Normal University (PNU) implemented the Linking Standards to Quality Practice (LiSQup) to help its teaching workforce improve. It trains teachers to optimize their instructional delivery through rigorous training under online programs at PNU, requiring Job-Embedded Learning (JEL) tasks associated with DepEd professional assignments. This autoethnographic study was conducted to demonstrate how LiSQup influences teachers. Using the author’s reflective narrative of his experiences posted on social media, themes were developed: character projection, cognitive processing, and career progression. The findings of this study demanded considerations in the program relative to the well-being of the students. This study contributes to the present explorations on how teachers can grow through professional advancement programs, implicating similar mechanisms in the global setting.

Peace and Conflict in Two Friends: A Naturalistic Short Story

As a mover and shaker man of letters, the French short story writer Guy de Maupassant penned hundreds of groundbreaking stories, yet sundry of them are still eclipsed owing to the rarity of reviews. Two Friends (1882), one of his eloquent works, is a pertinent case worth reading and analyzing. As a corollary, this article comes to terms with Two Friends to uncover the story’s narrative structure, point of view, setting dimensions, historical context, style, and symbolism to cognize readers about the significance of this piece of work that comes to grips with two dialectical phenomena which are peace and brutality. This juxtapositional datum in human nature echoes how realistic literature in the 19th century represented societies by shedding light on divergent issues in Two Friends and conversing about the impulse that thrusts Guy de Maupassant to tell about the faith of two commoners living in Paris. This investigation indulges realism in Maupassant’s work through the projection of commoner characters entangled with the dire reality of armed conflicts. Besides, naturalism discloses the reasonable forces of the environment and innate heredity that navigate the characters' actions. This will inform us about how war sometimes has the repercussions of foolish decisions or human greed, out of which innocent human beings are the overt victims who pay a heavy price.

Wafer-scale nanofabrication of sub-5 nm gaps in plasmonic metasurfaces.

In the rapidly evolving field of plasmonic metasurfaces, achieving homogeneous, reliable, and reproducible fabrication of sub-5 nm dielectric nanogaps is a significant challenge. This article presents an advanced fabrication technology that addresses this issue, capable of realizing uniform and reliable vertical nanogap metasurfaces on a whole wafer of 100 mm diameter. By leveraging fast patterning techniques, such as variable-shaped and character projection electron beam lithography (EBL), along with atomic layer deposition (ALD) for defining a few nanometer gaps with sub-nanometer precision, we have developed a flexible nanofabrication technology to achieve gaps as narrow as 2 nm in plasmonic nanoantennas. The quality of our structures is experimentally demonstrated by the observation of resonant localized and collective modes corresponding to the lattice, with Q-factors reaching up to 165. Our technological process opens up new and exciting opportunities to fabricate macroscopic devices harnessing the strong enhancement of light-matter interaction at the single nanometer scale.

Leadership as service: developing a character education program for university students in Spain

This paper describes the development and implementation of a character education program at the University of Navarra. The Leadership as Service Program has been developed in collaboration with the Oxford Character Project, and has adapted its Global Leadership Initiative to the Spanish context. The purpose of the Leadership as Service Program is to help students develop a sense of personal purpose, and virtues that are specific to leadership, such as prudence, humility, gratitude, resilience, and service. The methodology of the program follows the seven strategies of character education and includes a mentoring program. In order to adapt the Global Leadership Initiative to the Spanish context, the Leadership as Service Program was integrated as much as possible into the fabric of the University of Navarra by means of (1) facilitating a new initiative to develop workshops on purpose; (2) incorporating an existing mentoring program; (3) positioning local actors as experts, and (4) dialogue with stakeholders within the university. First results indicate that the Leadership as Service Program makes a valuable contribution to the ethical and professional development of students, which corroborates with the findings of the Oxford Global Leadership Initiative.

A BETTER LEADERSHIP COMPASS

AbstractMary Crossan is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Strategic Leadership at the Ivey Business School, Western University. Corey Crossan is a research and teaching fellow at The University of Oxford with The Oxford Character Project. Bill Furlong is an executive in residence at the Ivey Business School, and a co‐founder with Mary Crossan of Leader Character Associates Inc. In this article, “the story we tell is about a paradigm shift to elevate character alongside competence in our work and our lives as a foundation for transformation.” Their Figure 1, the Leader Character Framework, depicts judgment in the middle, while radiating out are the terms (with brief explanations), transcendence, drive, collaboration, humanity, humility, integrity, temperance, justice, accountability, and courage. These terms are further delineated in the extensive Virtues and Vices Index Table 1. They also present a variety of character‐related questions, which in their words include: Are we operating at the highest level of understanding how character influences our well‐being and sustained excellence? Do we believe we can change? Does our lifestyle enable us to change our character? Do your peers enable or undermine your character? Do the cultural norms of your organization and society enable or undermine your character?

Potential of E-beam lithography for micro- and nano-optics fabrication on large areas

The availability of high-resolution and high-throughput lithographic fabrication technologies, such as electron-beam lithography, based on variable shaped beam writing and character projection opens the way for the flexible use of various optical nano-structures for some of the most demanding applications. We discuss the technical features, advantages, and limitations of these pattering approaches and show how they can favorably be combined to realize optical nano-structures for applications, which are as diverse as gratings for ultra-short laser pulses or high-resolution spectrometers, computer generated holograms for asphere testing, various optical meta-structures (lenses and gratings), or UV-polarizers.

A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty. By Edward A. David

The proper subject of corporate religious liberty claims is group action, not individuals or corporate persons per se. And groups are best understood as verbs, not nouns. These striking claims, ‘mostly alien’ to modern ears, warrant the inclusion of A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Liberty in the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion series. That series promises fresh perspectives on timely disputes in philosophy of religion. And Edward David’s retrieval and application of classical resources to a fraught contemporary debate is a welcome interpolation. David is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Oxford Character Project. That interdisciplinary milieu helps explain the book’s twin target audiences: ‘theologians and their church communities’ and, ‘equally’, ‘political theorists and philosophers of law’. Aspirational parity notwithstanding, the heart of the book, Chapter 4, ‘A Modest Account of Corporate Religious Liberty’, is decidedly philosophical, not theological. David answers there his central question: to what or to whom are owed the duties correspondent to corporate religious liberties? As noted, his surprising reply is group action.

A Multi-Layer Transcription Model – concept outline

This paper discusses the assumptions of a Multi-Layer Transcription Model (hereinafter: MLTM). The solution presented is an advanced grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion method that can be implemented in technical applications, such as automatic speech recognition and synthesis systems. The features of MLTM also facilitate the application of text-to-transcription conversion in linguistic research. The model presented here is the basis for multi-step processing of the orthographic representation of words with those being transcribed gradually. The consecutive stages of the procedure include, among other things, identification of multi-character phonemes, voicing status change, and consonant clusters simplification. The multi-layer model described in this paper makes it possible to assign individual phonetic processes (for example assimilation), as well as other types of transformation, to particular layers. As a result, the set of rules becomes more transparent. Moreover, the rules related to any process can be modified independently of the rules connected with other forms of transformation, provided that the latter have been assigned to a different layer. These properties of the multi-layer transcription model in question provide crucial advantages for the solutions based on it, such as their flexibility and transparency. There are no assumptions in the model about the applicable number of layers, their functions, or the number of rules defined in each layer. A special mechanism used for the implementation of the MLTM concept enables projection of individual characters onto either a phonemic or a phonetic transcript (obtained after processing in the final layer of the MLTM-based system has been completed). The solution presented in this text has been implemented for the Polish language, however, it is not impossible to use the same model for other languages.

Interpreting the Palu’e Legend Pio Pikariwu

ABSTRACT This article explores the Palu’e legend Pio pikariwu and how the main character Pio is contested by two traditionally rival politico-ceremonial domains on Palu’e island. The stateless clan-structured societies of eastern Indonesia, such as the Palu’e, are not known to have stranger-king myths, the weight of the analysis therefore lies on whether Pio pikariwu fits this category. The relevant themes are compared with the established stranger-king tropes, while basic conceptual tools of comparative Austronesian ethnology, such as that origin establishes precedence, are used to explain the significance of the legend in contemporary society. The legend concurs with several themes of the stranger-king myth, despite that Pio neither becomes a sovereign or has a genealogy. The stranger theme concurs more with a divine kingship related to the South Sulawesi origin histories of founding rulers and a horizontal cultural transfer is plausible due to geographic adjacency and historical connections. A local character projection is also considered. The real-life contestation for Pio involves spiritually potent material heritage and exemplifies how tradition creates new events based on an original event believed to have happened, and that precedence issues extend beyond the domain and its alliances. The demonstrated inherent ambiguity reveals an arrested (divine) stranger-king myth, representing the rejection of kingship.

Visualisation of female characters in Huturu Hwemavanga (Vernom from the Scars), Chakwesha (The Boss) and Nguva Yakaoma (Hard Times)

ABSTRACT This paper is a comparative exegesis of Zimbabwean novelists’ visualisation of female characters. It avers that in addressing business management issues through literature, selected Shona novelists’ projection of female characters fosters hopelessness and despair into the unsuspecting readership since works of art is never neutral but rather ideological. Utilising Chakwesha (The Boss), Huturu Hwemavanga (Vernom from the Scars) and Nguva Yakaoma (Hard Times) as the prisms for the study, this paper holds that in business management and administration issues; women are cast as tricksters, opportunists, fraudsters and responsible for businessmen’s downfall in their pursuit of business triumphalism. In all the selected primary sources for this paper, women are the perpetrators, whereas their male counterparts are the victims. Furthermore, the paper argues that this illumination fosters pessimism instead of a life-affirming and life-guaranteeing consciousness in the audience through the manner these Shona novelists pit male and female characters against each other. Since literature helps shape people’s attitudes and identity, novelists have to elucidate on the predatory nature of the capitalistic economic system, which undergirds a neo-colonial system, which in turn impacts on respective female characters’ morality that these novelists tend to magnify. Appreciation of these selected African literary works is guided by Africana Womanism against the backdrop that it places cultural and historical circumstances in the explication of issues related to the condition of African women.

Form-factors and complete basis of observables via separation of variables for higher rank spin chains

Integrable mathfrak{sl} (N) spin chains, which we consider in this paper, are not only the prototypical example of quantum integrable systems but also systems with a wide range of applications. For these models we use the Functional Separation of Variables (FSoV) technique with a new tool called Character Projection to compute all matrix elements of a complete set of operators, which we call principal operators, in the basis diagonalising the tower of conserved charges as determinants in Q-functions. Building up on these results we then derive similar determinant forms for the form-factors of combinations of multiple principal operators between arbitrary factorizable states, which include, in particular, off-shell Bethe vectors and Bethe vectors with arbitrary twists. We prove that the set of principal operators generates the complete spin chain Yangian. Furthermore, we derive the representation of these operators in the SoV bases allowing one to compute correlation functions with an arbitrary number of principal operators. Finally, we show that the available combinations of multiple insertions includes Sklyanin’s SoV B operator. As a result, we are able to derive the B operator for mathfrak{sl} (N) spin chains using a minimal set of ingredients, namely the FSoV method and the structure of the SoV basis.

Micro-Optical Line Generator Metalens for a Visible Wavelength Based on Octagonal Nanopillars Made of Single-Crystalline Silicon

Conventionally, silicon is less often selected as the material of dielectric metasurfaces in the visible band than other lossless materials, including titanium dioxide, silicon nitride, and gallium nitride. The reason is its relatively high extinction coefficient and resulting low transmittance. This study demonstrated that accurately designed nanopillars made of single-crystal silicon could be used satisfactorily on a metasurface, even in the visible band. Four line-focusing metasurface lenses were designed to verify the lens performance effectiveness of silicon nanopillars in the visible band. In addition, a combination of the character projection and the variable-shaped beam modes in the electron beam lithography was operated to evaluate the compatibility between mass productivity and accuracy. We successfully obtained a highly efficient line-focusing metasurface lens composed of single crystalline silicon nanopillars. The parameters of the metasurface lens at a wavelength of 532 nm were as follows: lens thickness, 300 nm; focal length, 3.91 mm; square aperture, 2 mm; numerical aperture, 0.25; measured transmittance, 38.4% to 46.8%; and measured beam spot width, <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3.68\,\, \mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> (full width at half maximum, FWHM) at the focal point. The results obtained in this study show a promising use of silicon metasurface for optical sensor applications in the visible band.

Collaboration of Teachers and Parents in the Formation of Students’ Virtuous Morality

Teachers and parents must be synchronous and integrated into providing education to students, especially for the moral formation of students. This study describes the program, form, and implications of cooperation between teachers and parents in forming student morality at SDI Mohamad Hatta and MI Al-Marhamah, Malang. This research uses a qualitative approach using case studies and multi-site designs. The research population at SDI Mohammad Hatta was 30 teachers, 368 parents, and 368 students, with a sample of 15 teachers, 50 parents, and 50 students. At MI Al Marhamah, on the other hand, there are 14 teachers, 150 parents, and 150 students with a sample of 7 teachers, 50 parents, and 50 students. Interviews, observations, and document search were used for data collection. The findings of this study are that there are three collaborative programs between teachers and parents in forming students' noble character, namely parenting, home visits, and self-development project programs. Collaboration between teachers and parents takes the form of activities to develop the learning process, talent, mentality, and culture. The implications of the cooperation program for teachers are to understand students' backgrounds better, appreciate parents' efforts in moral formation, and improve communication with parents. As for parents, they better understand their role, gain new perspectives about schools and teachers, and appreciate the role of teachers more. Students will have a more positive and quality personality. This research is expected to be able to provide new input and discourse to educational institutions in collaborating between teachers and parents in the formation of commendable morals of students as well.

COMPARSION OF COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES AND MOVIE CHARACTER COSTUMES IN TERM OF DESIGN FEATURES

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Projections in Moduli Spaces of the Kleinian Groups

A two-generator Kleinian group f , g can be naturally associated with a discrete group f , ϕ with the generator ϕ of order two and where f , ϕ f ϕ − 1 = f , g f g − 1 ⊂ f , g , f , ϕ : f , g f g − 1 = 2 . This is useful in studying the geometry of the Kleinian groups since f , g will be discrete only if f , ϕ is, and the moduli space of groups f , ϕ is one complex dimension less. This gives a necessary condition in a simpler space to determine the discreteness of f , g . The dimension reduction here is realised by a projection of principal characters of the two-generator Kleinian groups. In applications, it is important to know that the image of the moduli space of Kleinian groups under this projection is closed and, among other results, we show how this follows from Jørgensen’s results on algebraic convergence.

Similarity and Difference Between Landscape Character and Townscape

The phrases 'townscape' and 'landscape character' are not used very often in common language, although we meet the meaning of these notions day after day. In scientific language, the definitions of settlement and landscape sometimes merge into each other, while at other times are totally different. What do we mean by townscape and what by landscape character? Is it possible to separate the two? The answer is constantly changing during history, according to the spirit of the age and the field of science. Despite the differences and formation, the various approaches converge in many aspects: we always mean a continuously changing, dynamic, spatial, physically distinct visual, and also a geographical spatial unit, which surrounds us. The definition of this, and a deliberate and controlled development are becoming more and more important in landscape and urban planning. At the end of 2016, a new genre, the so called Townscape Design Guide was introduced by law on local planning. In 2016, the national landscape character project had also begun. The phrases in the title refer to these new, national professional ’genres’. The aim of the study is to get to know these two, parallel processes, to reveal their connections by interpreting the Hungarian legal system, and the international background that influences it.

Fast and Accurate Recognition for Codes on Complex Backgrounds for Real-Life Industrial Applications

In the food and beverage industry, the existing recognition of code characters on the surface of complex packaging usually suffers from low accuracy and low speed. This work presents an efficient and accurate inkjet code recognition system based on the combination of the deep learning and traditional image processing methods. The proposed system mainly consists of three sequential modules, i.e., the characters region extraction by modified YOLOv3-tiny network, the character processing by the traditional image processing methods such as binarization and the modified character projection segmentation, and the character recognition by a Convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) model based on a modified version of MobileNetV3. In this system, only a small amount of tag data has been made and an effective character data generator is designed to randomly generate different experimental data for the CRNN model training. To the best of our knowledge, this report for the first time describes that deep learning has been applied to the recognition of codes on complex background for the real-life industrial application. Experimental results have been provided to verify the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed model, demonstrating a recognition accuracy of 0.986 and a processing speed of 100 ms per bottle in the end-to-end character recognition system.

Uniform projection of the Weil character

In this paper we obtain a decomposition formula of the uniform projection of the Weil character of a finite reductive dual pair consisting of a symplectic group and an even orthogonal group. This is the first and major step to prove the conjecture by Aubert-Michel-Rouquier.

Moral Transformation, Identity, and Practice

Standard ways of conceptualizing moral development and measuring pedagogical interventions in ethics classes privilege the growth of moral judgment over moral sensitivity, moral motivation, and moral habits by too often conflating improvement in moral judgment with holistic moral development. I argue here that if we care about students’ construction and cultivation of their ethical selves, our assessment design principles ought to take seriously the transformative possibilities of philosophy as a way of life and be based on a more robust and holistic account of moral development. I illustrate these principles of assessment design through an examination of the Character Project, which I created to help students engage in their own deliberate ethical transformation through self-directed, individualized, and concentrated practice. Finally, I conclude with a discussion about how to appropriately and fairly assess this kind of deeply personal learning.

Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran Charakter Project Citizen Berbasis Outdoor, Minat Belajar dan Berfikir Kritis Terhadap Prestasi Siswa

The purpose of this research 1) To know the influence of the outdoor based character project citizen learning model toward the students achievement of partially fifth grade students at Mutiara Harapan Elementary School Lawang; 2) To know the influence of learning interest toward students learning achievement of partially fifth grade students at Mutiara Harapan Elementary School Lawang; 3) To know the influence of critical thinking toward students learning achievement of partially fifth grade students at Mutiara Harapan Elementary School Lawang 4) To know the influence of outdoor based character project citizen learning model, students interest, and critical thinking toward students learning achievement of simultaneously fifth grade students at Mutiara Harapan Elementary School Lawang.Based on research objectives which basically research that is used including applied research. Applied research is aimed at solving practical life problems. As the techniques used in collecting data in this research are documentation and questionnaires. The analysis on this research using multiple regression analysis with the SPSS program for Windows.The result of this research showed that 1) The first hypothtesis test results obtained no significant influence from outdoor based character project citizen models toward students learning achievement of partially fifth grade students at Mutiara Harapan Elementary School Lawang. Data analysis result with pearson test obtained the coefficient correlation of 0,121 with significancy of 0,343. Therefore it can be said that the effect of X1 on Y is not significant. Ho accepted and Hi rejected. 2) The second hypothesis test obtained any significant influence from outdoor based character project citizen models toward students learning achievement of partially fifth grade students at Mutiara Harapan Elementary School Lawang. Data analysis result with pearson test obtained the coefficient correlation of 0,411 with significancy of 0,001. Therefore it can be said that the influence of X2 on Y is significant. Ho rejected and Hi accepted. 3) The third hypothesis test results obtained any significant influence of critical thinking toward students learning achievement of partially fifth grade students at Mutiara Harapan Elementary School Lawang. Data analysis result with pearson test obtained the coefficient correlation of 0,472 with significancy of 0,000. Therefore it can be said that the influence of X3 on Y is significant. Ho rejected and Hi accepted. 4) The fourth hypothesis test result say there is influence of outdoor study based character project citizen models, learning interest and critical thinking toward students achievement of simultaneously fifth grade students at Mutiara Harapan Elementary School Lawang. The value of the determinant coefficient (R) of 0,652 which means that the independent variable is outdoor based character project citizen models (X1), learning interest (X2), and critical thinking (X3) able to explain the dependent variable students achievement (Y) of 65,2% while the rest is 34,8% explained by another variable outside the model. It shows that the dependent variable has a significance influence.