Coherent Articulation Research Articles

“God Himself Is Dead”: Returning to Hegel’s Doctrine of Incarnation

This essay presents a certain defense of Hegel’s doctrine of Incarnation. For Hegel, the logic of the Incarnation constitutes not only the highest insight of religion and theology but, arguably, the key to philosophy itself, as the perfected self-knowledge of the absolute. Such knowledge is what Hegel calls “absolute knowing”, and marks the absolute reconciliation of the knowing subject and its object, substance, or in other words: of the domains of, as it were, historical knowledge and eternal truth. Hegel discovers in the Christian doctrine of Incarnation the logic of this very reconciliation of history and eternity: truth, or the absolute, coincides with the subject’s knowledge of it, which not only includes but privileges the historical “dismemberment” involved in such knowing. Only in Christianity does God dismember himself, or become historical—sacrifice himself, die—in order to know and become himself. But this “death of God” is for Hegel the very meaning of modern subjectivity. For this reason, or if Hegel is right, the Hegelian subject constitutes the sole way in which the desire of philosophy—namely, for the other that truth is—can keep itself from becoming incoherent after the death of God. It is not merely that Hegel’s doctrine of the subject remains valid despite the death of God; rather, the Hegelian subject, whose logic is incarnational and for this reason founds itself on the “death of God”, stands as the sole coherent articulation of this event, even and especially in its Nietzschean guise.

Minimal requirements for the epigenetic inheritance of engineered silent chromatin domains

Mechanisms enabling genetically identical cells to differentially regulate gene expression are complex and central to organismal development and evolution. While gene silencing pathways involving DNA sequence-specific recruitment of histone-modifying enzymes are prevalent in nature, examples of sequence-independent heritable gene silencing are scarce. Studies of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe indicate that sequence-independent propagation of heterochromatin can occur but requires numerous multisubunit protein complexes and their diverse activities. Such complexity has so far precluded a coherent articulation of the minimal requirements for heritable gene silencing by conventional in vitro reconstitution approaches. Here, we take an unconventional approach to defining these requirements by engineering sequence-independent silent chromatin inheritance in budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. The mechanism conferring memory upon these cells is remarkably simple and requires only two proteins, one that recognizes histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) and catalyzes the deacetylation of histone H4 lysine 16 (H4K16), and another that recognizes deacetylated H4K16 and catalyzes H3K9me. Together, these bilingual "read-write" proteins form an interdependent positive feedback loop that is sufficient for the transmission of DNA sequence-independent silent information over multiple generations.

Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille

Abstract: In the works of Djuna Barnes, and particularly the enigmatic final paragraphs of Nightwood , animals and animalistic qualities represent the terminal incapacity of language to encompass reality. Georges Bataille's concept of "animality," considered as a comparative heuristic, allows for a more coherent articulation of the theoretical underpinnings and implications of this presentation of the animal as a limit to the logical, sequential ordering of coherent meaning through language, or what Bataille refers to in shorthand as "discourse." Ultimately, Bataille theorizes and Barnes embodies an animal poetics that gives expression to that which is not strictly amenable to human sense, and both mark the literary as the site where it becomes possible to gesture beyond the human toward a mode of bestial expression that emerges from the breakdown of human signification.

Animality and the Limits of Discourse in Djuna Barnes and Georges Bataille

Abstract: In the works of Djuna Barnes, and particularly the enigmatic final paragraphs of Nightwood , animals and animalistic qualities represent the terminal incapacity of language to encompass reality. Georges Bataille's concept of "animality," considered as a comparative heuristic, allows for a more coherent articulation of the theoretical underpinnings and implications of this presentation of the animal as a limit to the logical, sequential ordering of coherent meaning through language, or what Bataille refers to in shorthand as "discourse." Ultimately, Bataille theorizes and Barnes embodies an animal poetics that gives expression to that which is not strictly amenable to human sense, and both mark the literary as the site where it becomes possible to gesture beyond the human toward a mode of bestial expression that emerges from the breakdown of human signification.

Social Support and Prevention of the Vulnerability Psychosocial in Bigger Caretakers of Adults with Insanity

Background: One of the illnesses that more deterioration functional and bigger stress provides to the caretaker is the insanity. Objective: To propose a program of social support for the prevention of the vulnerability psychosocial in bigger caretakers of adults with insanity residents in Santa Clara. The investigation embraced one period from January 2020 to January 2022 in a mental center health “Chiqui Gómez”. Method: Was carried out a study decriptive, restrospective, for sampling intentional non probabilistic composed by 11 bigger caretakers of adults. It gathers it of the data was carried out through the empiric method the questionnaire and for the analysis of the data the statistical calculation was used. Results: It allowed the introduction of improvements in their design toward bigger caretakers of adults with insanity. Conclusions: It contributed to the establishment of a logical and coherent articulation among the specific objectives and the projects psychosocial that compose the program.

Social Support and Promotion of the Wellbeing in Women of Half Age With Cancer of Non-Metastatic Suckle

Objective: to propose a program of social support for the promotion of the well-being in women of half age with cancer of not suckles metastatic residents in Santa Clara. The investigation embraced one period from January 2020 to January 2022 of the Province Hospital “Celestino Hernández Robau”. Materials and methods: for sampling intentional non probabilistic composed by 23 women of half age with cancer of suckles non metastatic. It gathers it of the data was carried out through the empiric method the questionnaire and for the analysis of the data the statistical calculation was used. Results: it allowed the introduction of improvements in their design toward women of half age with cancer of suckles non metastatic. Conclusions: it contributed to the establishment of a logical and coherent articulation among the specific objectives and the projects psychosocial that compose the program.

Social Support and Promotion of the Wellbeing in Women of Half Age With Cancer of Non-Metastatic Suckle

Objective: to propose a program of social support for the promotion of the well-being in women of half age with cancer of not suckles metastatic residents in Santa Clara. The investigation embraced one period from January 2020 to January 2022 of the Province Hospital “Celestino Hernández Robau”. Materials and methods: for sampling intentional non probabilistic composed by 23 women of half age with cancer of suckles non metastatic. It gathers it of the data was carried out through the empiric method the questionnaire and for the analysis of the data the statistical calculation was used. Results: it allowed the introduction of improvements in their design toward women of half age with cancer of suckles non metastatic. Conclusions: it contributed to the establishment of a logical and coherent articulation among the specific objectives and the projects psychosocial that compose the program.

Discourses on social innovation and abandoned land reutilization pathways. A case study on riverside landscapes in a mountain area of Spain

The article aims to analyze, based on a multiple case study, the discourses of the individuals that promote social innovation (SI) initiatives for the reuse of abandoned riverside landscapes, connecting SI theory with land reutilization and management through discourse analysis. Following a qualitative methodology, the text analyses the characteristics of the promoting actors, the discourses storylines and the main actors’ discourses, describing some relevant aspects regarding SI, such as why, where and when it takes place; how it has been developed; who has promoted it; its main results, as well as the barriers faced for its development and future opportunities for the territory. Two main discursive tendencies are identified: a negationist trend and a possibilistic one, adopted by individuals who are not promoting initiatives of SI and by promoters of these kinds of experiences, respectively. Possibilistic discourse underlines the coherent articulation between the economic-managerial dimension and the emotional-territorial one, and there is, in this case, a tendency to change in the visions of the territory, reconfiguring the social practices of the actors involved in these initiatives of SI. We conclude that discourses behind successful processes of SI are associated with certain positions on the interrelationships between individual- collective-institutionality-nature and that there is a complex articulation between discourses on SI and social practices developed by individuals as part of these initiatives, in such a reflexive way that discourses advance the desired changes, drawing and modifying the future vision of the subjects, and making the impossible possible.

The didactic and teaching of tourism in the virtual environment

This study addresses the concept of didactics and its intervention in the teaching of Tourism in the virtual environment. At the same time, certain contents related to the relevance, importance and objectives of said discipline are developed that guide the teaching and learning processes. The general characteristics of didactics are also addressed, emphasizing its purpose, contexts of application and systematization, articulated with the thematic axes and epistemological horizons that offer solidity to the teaching of tourism. In this way, the way in which didactics can contribute to the understanding and solution of the main problems identified in the analysis of trends and tensions that make up the basic core of teaching tourism as a profession is explained. All this aimed at the coherent articulation of tourism theory and practice, its importance in the quality of the teacher's micro-curricular planning as a basis for the development of the class. For this, it will be necessary to delve into defining issues of didactics in its pedagogical sense, related to the construction of knowledge and the encouragement of students to develop it. The study is based on the bibliographic review of different authors and the analysis of the experience of the pedagogical practices of the authors, which allowed the development of theoretical and practical research on the subject.

Understanding attitudes towards the adoption of nature-based solutions and policy priorities shaped by stakeholders’ awareness of climate change

Climate change is affecting cities worldwide. Accordingly, cities are required to find sustainable solutions to tackle climate change’s effects, designing bottom-up policies to enhance their success. The involvement of stakeholders plays a central role in the definition of appropriate policies to tackle the challenges posed to cities by climate change. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly proposed to adapt to and mitigate the adverse effects of climate change. This study aims to assess the coherence of the policies emerging from stakeholders’ perceptions of urban climate challenges and their preferred NBS to tackle them. Indeed, it considers whether departing from different urban climate challenges, stakeholders’ choices present a coherent articulation between priority interventions, proposed solutions and expected benefits. Using a survey applied to two Portuguese cities and the chi-squared automatic interaction detector (CHAID) algorithm, we analyse the answers provided by stakeholders. The stakeholders’ perceptions and preferences were not significantly influenced by their hierarchical position in their institutions, their city’s location and socioeconomic setting. Heatwaves and temperature rise together with drought and water scarcity are identified as future urban challenges in Portugal. Priority interventions, as well as preferred NBS and their expected benefits, are addressed. The results show that stakeholders may make decisions that form a coherent policy, in which acknowledgment of climate change’s effects interconnects with related priority interventions, suitable NBS and their benefits.

A critique of the participation norm in marine governance: Bringing legitimacy into the frame

Citizen and stakeholder participation is held to bolster the democratic legitimacy of. marine governance by building trust in the decision-making system through inclusion.However, a growing body of literature points to increasing disillusionment and.exclusion, and thus decreased legitimacy. In this study we apply a ‘legitimacy lens’ to.examine a dominant conceptualisation of participation in marine governance. We.argue that the social-ecological systems paradigm (SES) exerts a substantial.intellectual influence within marine governance. We identify that an ontological.underpinning of the conceptualisation of participation within this paradigm results in the.absence of a coherent articulation of democratic legitimacy in marine governance.scholarship. We suggest that the development of a more nuanced and overt account of.democratic legitimacy is necessary to strengthening the application of SES-informed.marine governance practices

Did Brexit Change EU Law?

Abstract This paper investigates whether the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union changed EU law. Brexit necessarily animated the law related to and produced by Article 50 TEU. Did it also imprint on fundamental premises of EU law that will continue to shape relations between the Member States and the Union, and between the Union and the wider world? These questions are examined through the examples of the legal force of political decision-making and the legal nature of relationships with third States. At one level, it will be seen that Brexit restored the centrality of Union institutions and processes in the EU law-making that responds to exceptional situations. At the same time, however, it has distorted and/or displaced some of the vital checks and balances that would normally apply. A course correction exploiting a rounded understanding of the effectiveness of EU law and provoking coherent articulation of the legal coordinates of Union membership is urged in response.

Learning emotions latent representation with CVAE for text-driven expressive audiovisual speech synthesis

Great improvement has been made in the field of expressive audiovisual Text-to-Speech synthesis (EAVTTS) thanks to deep learning techniques. However, generating realistic speech is still an open issue and researchers in this area have been focusing lately on controlling the speech variability. In this paper, we use different neural architectures to synthesize emotional speech. We study the application of unsupervised learning techniques for emotional speech modeling as well as methods for restructuring emotions representation to make it continuous and more flexible. This manipulation of the emotional representation should allow us to generate new styles of speech by mixing emotions. We first present our expressive audiovisual corpus. We validate the emotional content of this corpus with three perceptual experiments using acoustic only, visual only and audiovisual stimuli. After that, we analyze the performance of a fully connected neural network in learning characteristics specific to different emotions for the phone duration aspect and the acoustic and visual modalities. We also study the contribution of a joint and separate training of the acoustic and visual modalities in the quality of the generated synthetic speech. In the second part of this paper, we use a conditional variational auto-encoder (CVAE) architecture to learn a latent representation of emotions. We applied this method in an unsupervised manner to generate features of expressive speech. We used a probabilistic metric to compute the overlapping degree between emotions latent clusters to choose the best parameters for the CVAE. By manipulating the latent vectors, we were able to generate nuances of a given emotion and to generate new emotions that do not exist in our database. For these new emotions, we obtain a coherent articulation. We conducted four perceptual experiments to evaluate our findings.

PNM-29 Qualitative Analysis of Four Mental Ilness Sexual Stigma Questionnaire Domains

Mental illness sexual stigma (MISS) is correlated with important sexual negative outcomes at initial validation with 641 individuals with severe mental illness (SMI), Rio de Janeiro / Brazil, as evidenced by the MISS Questionnaire (Q). Unfortunately, 4 of the nine domains presented unsatisfactory validity: “(1) Locus of control;” “(2) Withdrawal;” “(3) Perceived attractiveness;” “(4) Mental illness Concealment.” We investigated the understanding of SMI patients of the above domains through qualitative, content analysis. Four women and three men, aged 39 - 57 years, with schizophrenia or mood disorder, heterosexual, mostly single without children, living with parents, with more than 11 years of education, unemployed underwent to an individual interview. Table 1 presents the questions. We found the following data, according to the domains: (1) doubts as to the articulation between concepts, which did not occur when separated, except to "control." (2) Rapid and coherent articulation after explanation. Example of content: "It is a male fantasy to relate to a madwoman." (3) Doubts about the term “attractiveness,” impairing the articulation of concepts. They suggested the question: "Why not ask if I feel attractive?" and words: "pleasant" and "desirable," as well as explanations: "when chemistry happens." (4) Easy articulation of concepts. The speeches ranged from "no problem revealing" to "only revealing after intimacy." We observed overlapping of meaning between the last two domains. Finally, the participants accepted well to talk on sensitive themes, but indicated the need for a brief previous explanation by the interviewer before answering the questions. The findings showed the complexity and ambiguity of the MISS.

Modelo de diseño didáctico para la construcción de cursos virtuales


 
 
 
 Esta investigación abordó la formulación de un modelo de diseño didáctico para la construcción de cursos virtuales, construido a partir del Modelo Pedagógico Mediacional de Educación a Distancia de la Universidad de la Amazonia y una revisión literaria, con aportes conceptuales y experimentales de los docentes de la modalidad de Educación a Distancia y desde el análisis de cuatro dimensiones fundamentales: organizacional, comunicacional, tecnológica y didáctico-pedagógica. Estas dimensiones orientan la estructuración de un curso virtual. El objetivo principal de la investigación se enmarcó en la formulación de una propuesta de modelo de diseño didáctico que oriente la construcción de cursos virtuales para la mediación didáctica en la modalidad a distancia. Se tomaron como referentes autores eruditos, publicaciones de la especialidad y experiencias de instituciones en educación virtual. A partir de lo planteado se realizó un estudio en el ámbito educativo de tipo descriptivo, interpretativo y transformativo, con enfoque mixto (cualitativo-cuantitativo) y fundamentado desde la teoría de la didáctica crítica, el cual dio como resultado avances hacia la construcción de lineamientos pedagógicos y didácticos que permitan articular de manera coherente la pedagogía, la comunicación, el currículo y la tecnología en función de la construcción de cursos virtuales de calidad mediante el uso pedagógico de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC).
 
 
 

Re-examining the Judicial Funciton

Courts throughout the common law world are under increasing social, political and economic pressure. Too often portrayed as mere private dispute resolvers, the public good performed by courts as vital institutions of governance is commonly sidelined. There is, in such an environment, an increasingly pressing need to explain what it is that courts actually do; to articulate precisely the function of a judge. This article presents a systematic and coherent articulation of that judicial function, with its unique institutional blend of dispute resolution and social governance. This article develops a taxonomy for the systematic characterisation of dispute resolution methods generally, which clearly delineates the judicial form of dispute resolution. Following, it outlines how dispute resolution mechanisms can operate as tools of social governance, and explores specifically how the judiciary operates as such an institution. The expansive articulation of function set out in this article moves beyond a cursory description of the judicial role. It seeks to fully explore the limits, constraints, and purposes of the judicial role as seen from within the legal system.

Karl Marx and the Geographies of the Present

Abstract The oversaturation of information that characterizes the “digital age” is not only a question of large numbers of competing discourses blurring meaning itself out, but also of a fundamental disassociation between words and their use, between the constative and the performative dimensions of language. Baudrillard has analysed how the mutability of signs in our society has rendered meaning meaningless, through an infinite game of simulacra and simulation that forecloses our understanding of reality rather than making it legible. Meanwhile, Sloterdijk and Žižek have approached the same problematic from a different angle, analysing how actions perform an ideological foreclosure that cannot be observed when analysing signs alone. What discourses say and what they actually do today is often contradictory and this contradiction fulfills an ideological function. This is especially troubling when discourses declare themselves to be counter-hegemonic yet actively participate in the reproduction of the status quo. In this context, it is pertinent to return to the work of Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times.

Harnessing the Potential of Nigeria’s Creative Industries: Issues, Prospects and Policy Implications

ABSTRACTThis article argues that Nigeria has rich creative industry sectors with great potential and global footprints. Through the kaleidoscope of film, music and creative writing, the article critically appraises Nigeria’s creative industries and contends that although the country is a visible player on the global landscape, it is yet to optimize the full potentiality of its creative industries sectors. The paper recommends that a clear mapping of the sector coupled with a coherent policy articulation and execution will enhance the viability of the creative industries. As the country seeks to diversify its economy away from dependency on oil revenues, the creative industries, based on their current economic value, provide a veritable incremental source of employment, revenue and growth.

Online-Psychotherapie als digitalkulturelle Innovation

Digitalization as a transformative process of cultural change is increasingly affecting the culture of healing. In particular within the disciplinary field of psychology, options of online-psychotherapy, e.g. for persons suffering from depression, prominently attest to this trend. The putative attractiveness of internet-based forms of therapy is fueled partly by commercial interests of the health-industry, partly by an unreflected enthusiasm for technical progress. The attractiveness of internet-based therapy has a cultural background that can best be understood in terms of a second phase of postmodernity. From a psychoanalytic angle there are massive reasons justifying a skeptical attitude towards options of online-psychotherapy. The present article provides a coherent articulation of these reasons

The training of school principals: A study in the Cuban context

The article analyzes the results of a study in which the objective was to assess the process of school principals’ training in Cuba. Data collection was done through the revision of existing documents and administering of questionnaires to subjects involved in the training process. Universities and provincial and municipal departments of education in eight provinces as well as schools in the province of Holguín were included in this study. The triangulation of the information obtained allowed analysts to conclude that the formation of a school principal is recognized as a specialized process, of a strategic nature, that must be carried out in stages. The conception of its implementation helps to prepare candidates and existing school principals in office for their professional management activity. However, conception of training does not ensure a coherent articulation between its stages and does not allow it to fully fulfill its fundamental role in the specialization and professionalization of the school principals. The enhancement of preparation for school management during initial teacher training, the accreditation of pre-service training of candidates, and the promotion of postgraduate academic training programs should be considered as ways for training and improvement of the didactic–methodological conception of the training process.