Common Project Research Articles

The Intuitive and the Counter-Intuitive: AI and the A ffective Ideologies of Common Sense

Animating the relationship between affect and ideology in histories of artificial intelligence, this paper explores how the transatlantic post-war quest to engineer common sense via computational means has profoundly shaped both the social logics of machine learning systems and the sensorial politics of everyday knowledge production. Focusing on the Cyc project, a logic-based AI endeavour to ‘codify human common sense’ which began at the USA-based Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation in 1984, and making links to MIT Media Lab’s Open Mind Common Sense Project inaugurated in 1999, I trace how the imperative within late twentieth-century computer science to make intelligent systems more intuitive by translating implicit human knowledge into explicit machine knowledge involved not only mathematical and technological challenges but also affective, ideological and socio-political ones. In tracking the interactions between intuition and common sense across these genealogies of machine intelligence, I tease out some of the key atmospheres, processes, and correlations via which AI technologies have become embedded with ideology, normativity and prejudice at the levels of logic, procedure and data. Through adjudicating the meanings of reason, truth and perceptibility as matters of algorithmically calibrated fit and popularity, intelligent architectures are also radically reconstituting the intelligible and the sensible ‐ in ways, I argue, that complicate any notion of a clean epistemological or ontological break between first and second wave AI. Dwelling within these unfinished histories, however, also points to how inhabiting counter-intuitive tendencies may open up new possibilities for (un)common sense and distributed intuition within computational cultures.

The Church in the Pluriverse: Open Orthodoxy for Worldwide Communion

precis: This essay explores the post- and decolonial concept of the pluriverse as it relates to the perennial tension between unity and diversity in the Christian faith. At root, the pluriverse is a vision of "a world in which many worlds fit" that entails respect and dignity across radical and incommensurable difference. Yet, the pluriverse also has space for common commitments and projects shared between radically different worlds. When applied to the Christian faith, the church itself can be understood as a pluriverse, and orthodoxy is reconfigured as a plural enterprise that takes shape differently in different settings, thereby assuming and celebrating particularity and difference even as a commitment to right belief is maintained across Christian contexts. Moreover, common ground in Christ and a common commitment to faithfulness opens space for interaction and mutual edification across difference. I deem this situated and connected practice "open orthodoxy." The structure of this proposal will unfold in two movements. First, I will present insights from the pluriversal discussion, which includes voices from postcolonial and decolonial thought, anthropology, sociology, ethics, and political theory. This section will be ordered around four aspects of pluriversal difference: radical difference, related difference, dignified difference, and aligned difference. Second, I will situate the church in a pluriversal setting to glean lessons from what has come before, beginning with a biblical argument for the church as a pluriverse and exploring the theological themes of confession, commonality, and orthodoxy as they relate to the pluriversal aspects of difference listed above. Ultimately, open orthodoxy will be presented as a viable practice for the church in a world that continues to recognize and reckon with its plurality.

Queer Studies Now; or, The (Political) Economy, Stupid

Abstract The 1990s witnessed the origin of a decades-long “discipline problem” in queer studies, a conflict between empirical and theoretical approaches, and the two monographs under review—lesbian and gay historian Marc Stein’s Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism and queer theorist Lee Edelman’s Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing—might seem like excellent candidates to reprise it. However, this review argues that the place where lesbian and gay history and queer theory have now caught up with one another is a structural one. What’s changed since the 1990s is less our disciplines and more the political–economic conditions that sustain them.What unites these two works in a common project, however, is the way each betrays an investment in the possibility—one might say, the hope—of political and social change.

Automate humans or humanize automation? The “Atque” Design and Communication System to redefine the relationship between knowledge and know-how

This paper introduces the research conducted by the “scientia Atque usus” Research Center for Generative Communication ETS (from now on: sAu Research Center) dealing with the relationship between new technologies and the enhancement of human creativity. sAu Research Center has been working on the impact of automation in social and creative processes and the research group has conceived and developed the “Atque” Design and Communication System: A suite of functional tools for carrying out activities of research, analysis, design, development, documentation, monitoring, communication and training. It is a system which is constantly transforming itself: it is based on the people who are using it and on the projects that have to be realized, so it changes as a living system. It is for this reason that the main characteristic is to be human-centered-design, it enhances human creativity and it fosters the collaboration among people who cooperate in a common project.

The research project as a method for developing investigative competence in students, an interdisciplinary approach

This article explores the role of research projects in developing students’ investigative competence, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches. The authors highlight the importance of integrating multiple disciplines into a common project, enabling students to apply and reinforce their knowledge in a complex, interconnected context. The paper also underscores the adaptability of this approach, allowing for both individual and collaborative work as needed. Additionally, it outlines how research projects contribute to the development of investigative competence in students by sparking intellectual curiosity and encouraging them to delve deeply into their subjects of study.

Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide

Kate Charlesworth’s graphic narrative Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide (2019), part memoir and part documentary of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex life and activism in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2019, remembers the time when the LGBTQI+ and feminist movements met and influenced each other deeply, namely in lesbian feminism of the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on feminist historiography and memory studies, this article discusses the role the figure of the lesbian has played in the collective memory of lesbian feminism. With a focus on the expressive capacities of comics, it examines how the work revisits this figure at a time when women’s and LGBTQI+ rights face a backlash led by anti-gender campaigners, some of whom draw on discourses associated with lesbian feminism. It concludes that the work challenges dominant narratives about the relationship between lesbian, queer, and trans feminism and enables a reconsideration of these movements as parts of a common political project.

Intercultural competencies in managers of agricultural universities in the era of building the Society 5.0

Purpose: Contacts with foreigners and their somewhat different ways of thinking and behavior (often incomprehensible to the Polish society), reaching back to the roots of the culture of a given country, region or community, are becoming an everyday reality nowadays. These processes also affect the change of standards in the field of intercultural competencies of managerial staff. The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of cultural competencies in managers that are necessary in the management of intercultural organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses the desk research method of analysis. The analysis of available subject literature and data obtained from the websites of six Polish agricultural universities enabled establishment of facts, verification of data and presentation of results. Findings: The considerations presented in the article indicate that the key element of the changes taking place in organizations are intelligent human resources with cultural competencies. International cooperation and foreign contacts are important – whether through participation in common projects, conferences, research or student internships. Joint actions are also required rather than individual actions and the initiatives undertaken are consistent with the concept of the society 5.0. Practical implications: A common space for development, modern technology, creative thinking and joint commitment of the managerial staff and the academic community enable the building of a super-intelligent society and universities fit for the 21st century. Social implications: The advances in technology should always be used with consideration of the needs and the good of people, regardless of cultural differences. The world of people, machines and their surroundings should be interconnected and all these elements should be able to communicate with each other. Originality/value: The article is an original approach to searching for solutions that influence the change of standards in the area of key competencies of managerial staff, including intercultural competencies. Keywords: cultural competencies, intercultural manager, changes in organizations. Category of the paper: research paper.

Дружба в науке длиною в 25 лет, или Как мы строили историографический мост «Омск - Челябинск». К юбилею В. П. Корзун

A note about the formation of the intellectual space between the Omsk and Chelyabinsk historiographical communities, common projects, and the special role of the outstanding scientist V.P. Korzun in this process.

Quantifying Fracture Dynamics in Clean Energy: A Novel Fractal Perspective

Geothermal energy, as an emergent source of power, has consistently been a focal point of scholarly investigation both domestically and internationally, with a particular emphasis on the prediction and assessment of its extraction efficiency. In common geothermal extraction projects, the seepage behavior of water within the fractures for the geothermal reservoirs significantly impacts the efficiency of resource extraction. This study introduces an interdisciplinary fractal model for geothermal extraction. An enhanced fractal theory, tailored for geothermal reservoirs, is proposed, employing four innovative fractal parameters— fracture fractal dimension, fracture tortuosity fractal dimension, fracture roughness parameter, and maximum fracture length—to quantitatively characterize the fracture structure. This refined fractal theory is applied to geothermal reservoir extraction under the complex thermal-hydromechanical coupling. The findings indicate that the proposed structural parameters effectively characterize the micro-macro interactions during the geothermal extraction process. Significant evolution of these fractal parameters is observed throughout the extraction process. Furthermore, there is an inverse relationship between geothermal extraction efficiency and two key fractal parameters—fracture tortuosity fractal dimension and fracture roughness parameter—while the reservoir stress is directly proportional to these parameters.

Avaliação da percepção dos professores sobre educação interprofissional em saúde por meio de grupos focais

This study evaluates the perception of professors on interprofessional education (IPE) from a public university in Brazil. Professors of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing participated in synchronous online focus groups reflecting on topics: (1) common disciplines, (2) interprofessional research and extension projects, (3) attention to social determinants in user treatment plans, and (4) collaborative practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. An accurate focus group transcription and interpretative descriptive analysis were used to assess four focus groups (n=10) using a structured instrument with 17 items about the 4 topics mentioned. According to professors, there are no common disciplines among health courses. Extension and research projects with an interprofessional approach are only individual initiatives by professors. According to participants, students consider social determinants in treatment plans. There were few collaborative practices during the pandemic. There was a need for IPE guidelines for graduation.

Polish-Romanian Joint Research Projects with a Focus on Internal Peripheries in Poland and Romania – Role of Endogenous and Exogenous Factors in Their Development Processes

Scientific collaboration between Polish and Romanian geographers is based on a very good and long tradition. It was long developed between human and physical geographers alike. The common bilateral projects had in view aspects related to the impact of natural and human process on the planning of mountain and hilly areas, the social-economic transformations in the Romanian and Polish suburban zones, the regional development in Central and Eastern Europe, the socio-economic development of rural areas in Poland and Romania. The last bilateral project on Internal peripheries in Polish and Romanian regions – role of endogenous and exogenous factors in their development processes, coordinated by Prof. Konrad Czapiewski from the Polish side, had as main research findings identifying common solutions serving the practical problems connected with the economic and social development of the internal peripheries in both countries.

Advanced basic layout of the HElmholtz LInear Accelerator for cw heavy ion beams at GSI

The design and construction of continuous wave (cw) high intensity linacs is a crucial goal of worldwide accelerator technology development. The standalone sc heavy ion linac HELIAC (HElmholtz LInear ACcelerator) is a common project of GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) under key support of Goethe University Frankfurt (IAP). In 2017 the first section of the linac has been successfully commissioned and extensively tested with beam at GSI, featuring the capability of 216.816 MHz multi-gap Crossbar H-mode (CH) DTL-structures. At present, the first fully equipped cryomodule of the HELIAC is under construction. In addition, six further superconducting CH cavities are being procured. The HELIAC beam dynamics concept foresees a total of twelve CH-cavities in order to accelerate ions with a mass-to-charge ratio of 6 up to an energy of 7.5 MeV/u. In this paper, an advanced very compact and less complex layout is presented, where the same number of accelerating cavities can be accommodated in three instead of four cryomodules, thus also reducing the number of solenoids and rebunchers. In addition, the integration and linking of the HELIAC to the GSI accelerator UNILAC will be outlined.

Clusters in industrial ecosystems – new innovative trends in the development of post-war Ukraine

The article discusses the importance of creating and developing clusters in the context of the digital economy and socio-ecological transformation. The main goal is to unite competencies and resources through common strategies and projects to increase the innovative potential of clusters and their participants. The article emphasizes the need to build and support industrial-technological partnerships worldwide as a key task for industrial clusters. The importance of developing the production sector and supporting one's own technological level for the development of the economy and ensuring national well-being, particularly in Ukraine, is also highlighted in the article.Different ways and motives are proposed for strategic partnerships between clusters, including cooperation in management training, identification of international innovations, exploration of new markets, and initiation of international scientific research projects.The need to create a professional management team of clusters was emphasized in times of digitalization, economic and socio-ecological transformation, as only clusters cover various areas of knowledge and will closely cooperate with other market participants. Moreover, increasing the innovation potential of clusters and their participants is becoming more and more important. This facilitates the pooling of competences and resources through joint strategies and joint projects.The importance of identifying structural gaps in industrial ecosystems to maximize the benefits of potential collaborations and promote innovative policies for upgrading business processes and equipment is considered. The geographical boundaries of the industrial ecosystem are determined by the interdependencies that connect organizations within its boundaries and new ties that strengthen beyond its boundaries. Industrial ecosystems are defined as multi-level production systems that include heterogeneous agents involved in value chains, as well as those who contribute to the realization of their potential and the country's productive capacity. The value chain can be divided into five main types of activities: inbound logistics, production, outbound logistics, marketing and sales, and after-sales services, and may also contain secondary or supporting activities that contribute to the effectiveness of the main activities. The article emphasizes that defining the real boundaries of industrial ecosystems is critical for governments interested in supporting them and transforming them into closed-loop innovation systems.

Increasing Sanfilippo Syndrome Awareness through Children's Literature and Music.

There is an ongoing effort to increase rare disease awareness amongst healthcare providers. This front is important and can help to address several challenges faced by rare disease patients, such as lengthy diagnosis times, difficulty in finding adequate providers of medical services and experts, and adequate treatment if one exists. On another front, there is the need for awareness among citizens and their support in the advocacy for public policies towards rare disease patients and families. Awareness campaigns are prevalent in social networks and fundraising events. In this poster, we present a complementary approach to engage society and promote rare disease awareness through children's literature and music. A Portuguese teenager wrote a book ('My Life with my sister'), describing simple and daily moments spent with her teenage sister affected by Sanfilippo syndrome. A professional illustrator designed and illustrated the book. The book is bilingual in Portuguese and English. The author, with the assistance of her music teacher, also composed a song which was recorded with the participation of professional musicians and made into a video clip telling their story and the books. The book and song promote the inclusion and love for people affected by rare diseases and their families. To increase outreach, sister organizations translated the book, adapted the song, and published/ recorded the material in Brazilian Portuguese and French. The proceeds from the sales go towards the Sanfilippo foundations in their respective countries to fund common research projects. The material is being advertised on social media, television, interviews, newspapers, podcasts, libraries, schools, bookshops, book fairs, and others. To date, more than eight hundred books have been sold to individuals and companies. The interviews and video clips add to more than twelve hundred views. The target audience is children, parents, teachers but also companies, and their employees.

Ethical reflections on groundwater in contaminated areas

Groundwater science has a well-known relationship with social issues when dealing with risk assessment, yet there is a lack of case studies on the topic. Here, we present reflections for dealing with two ethical challenges: (i) the access and use of public domain monitoring data and (ii) the dissemination of scientific research data and its controversial character. The case study is a long-term collaborative research project aiming to bridge the social and natural sciences to tackle ethical questions and their implications for technical reporting and scientific production in a highly contaminated area situated in Portugal. The method included comprehensive interviews with hydrogeologists within the common project, the consulting of documents and the collaborative analysis of situations in online meetings between sociologists and hydrogeologists. The interviews and formal discussions were recorded, transcribed and analysed. In the two cases related to groundwater assessment in contaminated areas we found that researchers refer to emotions and moral dilemmas when they come into regular contact with social actors. Results also show that a different kind of knowledge is produced in these cases and point to three types of researchers’ positionality. The significance of this paper is to encourage reflection and action on ethical issues in the scientific community and specifically in geoethics. Bringing researchers together to share their practice will help to disentangle some of the negative emotions and moral dilemmas of scientific practice and increase the attention researchers pay to other people’s points of view and interests so as to improve the robustness of scientific data.

Mexpert: An Algorithm for Finding Cross-disciplinary Experts Using Data Mining Techniques

Multidisciplinary research is the practice of bringing together experts from different disciplines or fields of study to work collaboratively on a common problem, project, or research question. This study proposes an expert finding algorithm, namely Mexpert, to bridge the gap between experts using data mining techniques. Our method has three steps. The first process is data preparation, which involves extracting information from research papers. The first process includes collecting data, extracting keywords, and discovering topics. The second process involves creating a model to group experts with similar knowledge and expertise. The last process involves analyzing the expert profiles using their experience in terms of h-index, average number of publications and total citations, followed by profile ranking. The corpus contains 17,679 papers obtained from SCOPUS. The experimental results reveal that there are four clusters out of 7 fields. We analyzed each cluster obtained from Mexpert and found that most cluster members published multidisciplinary research papers together. These results suggested that our approach can be applied to find a group of experts with different expertise.

Picasso, Schlemmer and beyond: Scenography and costume design from a critical disability studies lens

This article proposes a joint reading of the scenography and costume designs of Cubist artist Pablo Picasso and Bauhaus member Oskar Schlemmer, arguing that they share a common project of re-articulating the body and its movements that echoes contemporary concerns about how notions of normalcy govern the relationships between bodies and space. We propose that Picasso’s ballet Parade (1917) and Schlemmer’s Das Triadische Ballett (1922) can be productively read through the prism of critical disability studies (CDS), specifically in relation to Rosemarie Garland-Thompson’s feminist disability studies and her key concept of misfitting, enriched through the perspective of ecological affordances, as understood by James Gibson. This approach proposes to see disability from an ecological perspective that foregrounds the relationship between the body and space, as well as the affordances that are created and re-negotiated in the process of moving. By connecting Picasso and Schlemmer with CDS, this article puts forward a novel hermeneutic line from the artists’ work to the practice of contemporary artists Marco Donnarumma and Sandie Yi who share a relational conception of body, space and costume when designing in the field of crip couture, dance and AI prosthesis. This article proposes a CDS lens through which to re-evaluate the stage work of Schlemmer and Picasso, and their connection to contemporary artists’ interests, in order to open new paths of experimentation for contemporary artists and designers, as well as suggestive conceptual tools for both CDS and costume design scholars.

Demystifying the dynamic link between project value and design team networks: A socio-technical lean management framework

ABSTRACT Construction projects are complex networks of people with various backgrounds, perceptions, objectives, and dynamically changing project value expectations. Attaining common project objectives that satisfy all stakeholders’ value propositions requires collaboration whether formally or informally. Although the need for collaborative approaches on projects seems like an intuitive thought, the actual foundations and drivers needed to achieve effective implementation of a collaborative and value-based environment are usually plagued with hurdles. Moreover, previous research work and common industry practices remain mostly focused on the ‘product’ or technical end of the project while marginalizing the human-centric processes that can make or break the project. This research aims to help project managers attain higher value on projects through analyzing and managing the social context of project teams. Specifically, this research investigates the links between design team communications and project value performance as well as analyzing the evolving dynamics of value and network structures. Data analytics was used to reveal a potential correlation between the communication structures of project teams and value fulfilment on projects. Findings revealed that the inherent social dynamics and social network composition can reflect the team’s reported level of fulfilling value on projects. Such structures affect a team's ability to effectively exchange knowledge and coordinate design tasks. The research's contribution lies in introducing a sociotechnical approach for delivering value on projects through developing value-based social networks that help improve design communications and presenting a reproducible framework that enables teams to advance and align value propositions among different stakeholders.

415 Awardee Talk: Foraging for Collaboration: Beef-Forage System Strengths Unite Research and Extension Efforts in the Asas Southern Section

Abstract The American Society of Animal Science Southern Section has a rich history of collaboration and hosts an annual professional development meeting for ASAS members. The Section meeting includes scientific presentations, academic quadrathlon, undergraduate and graduate student competitions, symposia, and networking opportunities for its members. The Section has used strategic collaborations to foster multi-state projects and initiatives. One of the key discipline focus areas of the Section is forage-based beef production systems. The Section holds two symposia focused on research, Extension, and industry topics related to beef cattle management. The Bill E. Kunkle Interdisciplinary Symposium was started in 2014 to honor the impact of Dr. Kunkle, University of Florida, and fosters multi-disciplinary communication of beef cattle science. The SERA 41 Symposium is part of the regional NIMSS project focus-group on improving production efficiency of the beef cow herd in the Southeast US. The NIMSS group works collectively to create partnerships and common goal-oriented projects across the Southern Section states. The section is also home to the Randel Physiology Lecture series which was formed in 2016 to highlight Dr. Ron Randel’s commitment to the Southern Section physiology section, and to promote high-quality science for the next generation of physiologists and endocrinologists. More than 25 peer-reviewed publications and several webinars have resulted from these symposia and invited lectureships. This creates a referenceable resource for scientists on emerging topics and identifies potential priority areas of focus for scientists within the Southern region. Another highlight of the Section is the collaborative work of the Extension committee. The Extension committee collaboratively fosters Extension program development across the Southern region. The committee developed a regional webinar series in 2015 for regional training of Extension agents on livestock and forage management topics. Subsequent in-service training courses have emerged through both virtual and in-person delivery. Training is primarily focused on forage-based livestock management systems. Through these opportunities, the Southern Section has remained a gathering point for professional engagement and should continue to evolve to meet the needs of animal scientists.

A random arrival rule for airport problems with fuzzy costs

Airport games model situations in which a group of agents use a common facility and they are ordered according to the cost associated with the use that each one of them make of that facility. In this paper we assumed that the cost of the common project is precise but the individual costs are modeled using fuzzy numbers. Our goal will be to obtain a precise allocation of the cost of the common facility among the agents.