Space Of Connections Research Articles

Социальность в социальном. Постсоциальность как возможность

The article substantiates the distinction between social and sociality as two levels of social ontology. The concept of the invariant of sociality is introduced to denote the ability of a set of active agents of natural or artifi cial origin to form a stable homogeneous or heterogeneous unity by orienting each agent to the coordination and coordination of interactions. The analysis of the polemics between J. Habermas and K. Popper regarding the explanation of the mode of emergence of symbolic objects that are part of intersubjective life worlds allowed the author to clarify the peculiarities of interactions in digital communications. If the life world of an individual is constructed for him in the space of the technosystem, and is not a product of the cultural tradition of practices of a certain community, then the content of symbolic formations necessary for interactions with other individuals also arises in the information space organized and fi lled with the technosystem. The conditions of the possible transition of society to a post-social state are considered. According to the author, post-sociality emerges as a format of patterns of interactions between individuals in interactions with imaginary Others. These patterns are objectifi ed symbolic formations and are incorporated into the practices of interactions with the Other in three parallel spaces: a) in the space of direct interpersonal interactions, b) in the space of network interactions mediated by patterns of virtual origin, and c) in the space imposed by network platforms in the form of ‘digital twins’. These three spaces in the intersubjective life world are now being formed as regulators of the behavior of individuals not only in the interhuman, but also in the space of inseparable connection with the digital technosystem.

How Is TikTok #Interreligious?

This study analyzes how TikTok allows users to make interreligious practices visible and share them, highlighting the coexistence between different religious traditions. Through the platform, creators showcase scenes of daily coexistence, interreligious events, and mixed ceremonies, while also denouncing the discrimination and disapproval associated with interreligious relationships. Three main themes were developed using inductive thematic analysis: Interreligious Sentimental Relationships (67.9%), Interreligious Experiences (21.8%), and Interreligious Facts and Information (10.3%). The study suggests that TikTok acts as a space for self-representation and interreligious connection through the hashtags #interreligious and #interfaith, overcoming echo chambers and increasing the visibility of interreligious content. The creation of religious content on TikTok materializes faith and expands the individual-group-Sacred interaction to a global environment, where religious practices are shared and reinterpreted.

Students With and Without Disabilities Using Social Media: Relationship Benefits and Implications for Education

A pandemic in 2020 resulted in economic and social disruption of unprecedented scale. Social distancing — or physical distancing while in public spaces — was required, and social media usage spiked globally as people turned to these online spaces for information and connection. Today’s postsecondary students, in particular, are frequently immersed in social media; it can offer them social supports, such as a greater sense of belonging during times of transition and crisis, but also inherent risks, including cyberbullying and online harassment. Although many studies have examined the social connections or supports for learning that college students without disabilities experience by using social media, few studies have explored these phenomena among college students with disabilities, including neurodevelopmental disabilities such as anxiety disorders (e.g., social anxiety, autism, attention deficit disorder) that make socialization difficult for these young adults. It is important that educational research advances understanding of the socialization experiences of these students with disabilities because students’ sense of belonging and peer support is critical to their engagement and success in K-12 and postsecondary schooling.

How Do Home Care Workers Experience A Client's Death, Professionally and Personally? A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.

Background: Home care workers (HCWs) may frequently experience client death. This critical interpretive meta-synthesis aimed to identify the impacts of client death to offer preliminary recommendations with respect to support. Method: Five electronic databases, APA PsycINFO, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Scopus, were searched systematically using keywords and subject headings. Results: Eight papers focusing on HCWs' experiences of client death were identified. Constructs were elicited and interpreted via Reciprocal Translation Analysis. The interpreted line of argument highlighted four interrelated themes: ''Personal grief: The impact of loss', 'Disenfranchised grief: no space for humanity and connection'', Inherent tension between self-care and organisational expectations: "You need a moment to hit the reset", and 'I wish someone was there to talk to: HCW support needs'. Conclusions: The findings demonstrate that HCWs are affected in multiple ways by client death, but these impacts are not consistently recognised or responded to by their organisations.

A remark on the relative Lie algebroid connections and their moduli spaces

We investigate the relative lie algebroid connections on a holomorphic vector bundle over a family of compact complex manifolds (or smooth projective varieties over [Formula: see text]). We provide a sufficient condition for the existence of a relative Lie algebroid connection on a holomorphic vector bundle over a complex analytic family of compact complex manifolds. We show that the relative Lie algebroid Chern classes of a holomorphic vector bundle admitting relative Lie algebroid connection vanish, if each of the fibers of the complex analytic family is compact and Kähler. Moreover, we consider the moduli space of relative Lie algebroid connections and we show that there exists a natural relative compactification of this moduli space.

Analysis of relaxation characteristics of multi-bolted connections under the transverse cyclic load

A modeling method under lateral cyclic loading is proposed for the complex multi-bolt connection loosening problem. Firstly, the thread stress surface is divided into n small sectors, and the self-relaxation mechanical model of multi-bolt connection is established considering the interaction between bolts. Secondly, the self-relaxation model is solved by MATLAB software and compared with Nassar model to verify the correctness of the model. Finally, considering the influence of different bolt number, hole clearance and connection spacing, the relaxation characteristics of multi-bolt connection are studied. The results show that during the loosening process, the bolt head undergoes a bending-sliding-bending cycle process, and the bolt tension shows a wave downward trend. When multiple bolts are connected, the number of loosening cycles decreases linearly with the increase of hole clearance. With the equidistant increase of bolt connection spacing, the number of bolt loosening cycles shows a decreasing trend. Compared with the number of bolts, the change of bolt hole clearance and connection spacing is more likely to affect bolt loosening.

‘A Rustling Sound’: Voices of WWII Italian Detainees from The Multilingual Archive of Australia

National archives, libraries, and museums both expose and, directly or indirectly, collude with the military, legal, political, and rhetorical processes of exclusion that tend to obfuscate people’s subjectivities. In this article, official spaces assigned to preserve national memory are placed into dialogue with other archival sites of memory preservation and retrieval of family and community past. By looking at the connections between diverse documents related to Italian-speaking individuals who were prisoners of war and civilian internees in Australia, during World War II, the article investigates how this material can be used to question hegemonic discourses and counters the ‘monolingual paradigm’. Letters, diaries, and memoirs that account captivity and marginalisation during wartime offer cases of polyvocal texts as both creative and privileged sites of speech acts, discursive and material interactions where we can locate spaces of agency, connection and affect.

Carving to excise, carving to create: Conversations on creating and sustaining safe spaces in higher education

AbstractIn this piece, we grapple with the conditions of creating and sustaining liberatory, healing spaces connected to higher education, delivering our analysis through a fictive podcast format. We present three different scenes authored by undergraduates, tied together by common, intersecting threads of both struggle and resistance, community in/as healing amidst layered crises and traumas, and deep desires for universities to fulfill their potential as learning spaces of safety, structural critique and connection. We consider our individual and collective roles as faculty and program directors in these institutional settings, and the conditions that help and hinder opportunities for students to co‐construct or live into liberatory spaces. We also consider the threats to the sustainability and viability of these initiatives, as well as the disproportionate impact on minoritized students, staff, and faculty. These learnings are in line with research that highlights the importance of students' sense of safety and belonging, the role of student agency, and perspectives that position educators through the lens of accompaniment.

Assessing the strategic role of urban green spaces for habitat connectivity in multi-family residential plots

Urban green spaces are key for maintaining and restoring habitat connectivity within cities. Despite substantial investigations on the contribution to connectivity of different types of urban green spaces, the specific contribution of green spaces located in multifamily residential (MFR) plots has yet to be assessed. Estimating this contribution is crucial given the multiple roles fulfilled by these green spaces in urban planning. To achieve this goal, we focused on four taxa: the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), the Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), forest passerine birds and moths. We assessed the potential habitat connectivity for each taxon across the metropolitan urban area of Lyon (France), with landscape graphs built using 1-metre resolution land cover maps. Considering the current state as a reference, we then designed five land cover change scenarios affecting habitat distribution in the MFR plots: (i) maximum and (ii) minimum theoretical connectivity (references), (iii) improve quality of existing green spaces, (iv) improve quantity of green spaces with sub-optimal quality and, (v) maximum restoration (management scenarios). The taxon- and scenario-specific impacts highlight the crucial contribution of private spaces to habitat connectivity. For all taxa, while the MFR only cover 8 % of the study area, connectivity would increase by up to 60 % if these plots were greened. In contrast, sealing these plots could reduce overall connectivity by up to 40 %. The interpolation of local connectivity metrics for each habitat patch and each MFR plot allowed us to identify the most relevant plots for urban greening. Because our approach can improve habitat connectivity at different scales, from neighbourhoods to entire urban areas, it could prove useful for landscape planning in most urban settings.

Exploring variations in the weight, size and shape of liquid hydrogen tanks for zero-emission fuel-cell vessels

We report an exploration of liquid hydrogen (LH2) tank technology, determining if improving LH2 tank weight, multiplicity or shape enables more hydrogen to be stored on hydrogen vessels. The improvements investigated are well beyond the current LH2 technology state-of-the-art. The platform for this study is a monohull H2 Baseline research vessel powered 100% by hydrogen.Regarding weight reductions, we found that the research vessel does not benefit significantly from large weight reductions of the LH2 tanks. A 50% reduction in mass of the inner pressure vessel led to a 3.1% reduction in the total research vessel weight. Reducing the LH2 tank weight to the asymptotic limit of zero results in a 7.1% reduction in the overall research vessel weight. This maritime application, while benefitting from a reduction in LH2 tank weight, is not a strong driver for LH2 tank weight improvements.The two large LH2 tanks of the H2 Baseline Vessel can be replaced with a multitude of smaller LH2 tanks. In two Multiplicity design variants, the total amount of stored LH2 was ∼5–9% less than that of the H2 Baseline Vessel, which does not motivate conducting the needed R&D that would drive the technology to smaller high-performing LH2 tanks.We did find a significant benefit to improving the shape of LH2 tanks, towards prismatic tanks that would better match the vessel hullform. Considering a “Shape Variant” that included space-consuming features such as tank connection spaces, manifolding and ventilation, we found a 26% improvement in stored LH2 compared to the H2 Baseline Vessel. The large improvement in storage capacity could warrant further LH2 tank R&D that can enable high performing prismatic LH2 tanks, such as pressure vessel steel developments allowing for higher strength/ductility at 20 K, improved insulation systems, methods for efficiently building prismatic tanks with insulation systems fit for 20 K service and flare-less techniques for managing heat leak (venting).The results are reviewed considering the current regulatory restrictions as well as prevailing limitations in LH2 tank manufacturing.

Invariants for Second Type Almost Geodesic Mappings of Symmetric Affine Connection Space

Invariants for Second Type Almost Geodesic Mappings of Symmetric Affine Connection Space

지속가능한 평생교육 공간으로서 에코뮤지엄에 대한 연구

Objectives The purpose of this study is to study the potential of the ecomuseum as a sustainable lifelong education space. In this study, the potential of the ecomuseum as a sustainable lifelong education space was derived through analysis of the meaning and structure of the ecomuseum from a lifelong education perspective. Methods This study was a literature study and collected domestic and international literature focusing on the topics of sustainability, lifelong education, educational space, and ecomuseum. This study analyzed domestic and international literature collected using educational elements and educational system of lifelong education as an analysis framework. Results First, from a lifelong education perspective, the meaning of the ecomuseum appeared as a region-based expansion space, a connection and integration space of the local environment, and a learning space centered on local residents. Second, from a lifelong education perspective, the structure of the ecomuseum appeared as a cultural heritage learning space of various types in the horizontal dimension and as a learning space of various generations in the vertical dimension. Third, the potential of the ecomuseum as a lifelong education space were as a self-directed learning space for knowledge, a reflective learning space for action, and a community learning space for living together. Conclusions As a sustainable lifelong education space, the ecomuseum needs to build an integrated learning space to improve learners’ potential, a systematic learning space for learners’ continuous growth, and a local community-based learning space for learners’ community learning.

Impact resistance performance of precast reinforced concrete barriers with grouted sleeve and steel angle-to-plate connections

This study presents the experimental and numerical investigations on the impact resistance of precast reinforced concrete (RC) barriers with grouted sleeve and steel angle-to-plate connections. Four full-sized precast RC barriers were prepared and tested using the pendulum impact facility. Three main parameters, including spacing of grouted sleeves, number of steel angle-to-plate connections and impact energy, were considered in the tests. The failure mode, impact force and lateral deflection of barriers were recorded and analyzed. Under impact loading, the spider-web-like cracks mainly occurred on the rear surface of the barrier, and the presence of the grout sleeve and steel angle-to-plate connections ensured strong anchoring. Additionally, finite element (FE) model was established and calibrated with the test results. With the calibrated models, the dynamic motion process, distributions of stress and strain, and energy absorption of precast RC barrier were analyzed and compared with the cast-in-place barrier. Finally, the influences of impactor mass, impact velocity, grouted sleeve spacing, and steel angle-to-plate connection spacing on the impact resistance were evaluated in the parametric analysis.

Towards a feminist praxis and pedagogy in higher education: knowledge-building and social action in Pakistan

ABSTRACT The fourth wave of feminism in Pakistan represents a significant departure from earlier movements, evolving into an intersectional force with widespread participation from younger women. Recent scholarship notes this shift, highlighting how activists are not only demanding equal rights but also critiquing the private/public dichotomy by centreing the intimate spaces where patriarchy is most entrenched. In light of this new phase in the feminist landscape, this article examines the overlooked narratives and experiences of women activists at the Feminist Students Collective (FSC), a student-led collective based in Lahore, Pakistan. It is argued that FSC activists employ a feminist praxis to analyse coloniality and neoliberalism’s entanglement with patriarchy in higher education and beyond. Through mediums such as writing, dance, poetry, theatre, and social media activism, they counter Eurocentrism in institutional spaces of learning and forge epistemic connections across class, religion, ethnicity, and social location in activist spaces.

From Avoidance to Action: A Call for Open Dialogue on Hate, Harassment, and Extremism in the Gaming Industry

Over the past few decades, digital games have become increasingly important for social connection and community building. However, the features that make games fantastic spaces for social connection also harbor toxicity, including hate, harassment, and the propagation of extremist ideologies. Despite the growing prevalence of these issues, there has been a lack of public-facing efforts from the gaming industry to address these concerns. One roadblock in particular has been the challenge of initiating open dialogue about these topics. In this study, we conducted focus groups with professionals across the game industry to facilitate discussions about the solutions and barriers they see in addressing the challenges associated with hate harassment and extremist ideologies in gaming spaces. Several barriers were identified, as well as actionable solutions for the industry's future.

Deploying the Affordances of Social Media

Educational scholars have highlighted how social media platforms can be powerful sites of learning and organizing for social change. Research into informal social media learning has suggested that it promotes life-wide education, offering opportunities to learn through networks of connection, co-create knowledge with others, and foster self-directed learning. Studies of social media-based activism, for instance linked to movements like Black Lives Matter and Me Too, have demonstrated that it leads to the acquisition of subject-matter expertise, development of capabilities such as organizing for change, development of capacity for self-reflection, and personal transformation such as increased belief in one’s ability to shift political systems. However, universities are yet to fully leverage the affordances of social media for learning. Many institutions offer online classes, and many individual instructors utilize social media in their teaching. Yet, university learning has not transformed to a degree that is commensurate with the radical ways in which, in our post-digital era, learning has come to be transformed in society at large. In this context, a question to be asked is why universities, those institutions charged with educating individuals for personal and societal benefit, stake such minor claims in what has emerged as an integral learning space of our era. Universities’ slowness to embrace change means they are abdicating important spaces of learning, connection, and change to private corporations like X and Facebook, which lack both the skills and motivation to promote learning in the public interest. This presentation argues for a university-owned social media platform, which would use the media’s affordances to advance a post-classroom vision of learning; classes would continue to be part of the educational experience, but they would be decentred as the primary site of learning. Further, this presentation tells of the presenter’s work in exploring the possibility of prototyping such a platform within their own university. It builds on Networked Learning (NL) scholarship, specifically expanding Lee and Bligh’s (2023) expanded design framework for transformative NL, and drawing inductively on relevant NL literature to put forward six design principles for a university owned platform. The platform would connect formal and informal learning. It also would connect learners, staff, and faculty to each other and to the community outside the university. It would be comprised of three virtual spaces, dedicated to: (1) learning and organizing for social change; (2) student-initiated community building and learning; and (3) university-led news, events, and discussion.

Line bundles on the moduli space of Lie algebroid connections over a curve

We explore algebro-geometric properties of the moduli space of holomorphic Lie algebroid (L) connections on a compact Riemann surface X of genus g≥3. A smooth compactification of the moduli space of L-connections, such that underlying vector bundle is stable, is constructed; the complement of the moduli space inside the compactification is a divisor. A criterion for the numerical effectiveness of the boundary divisor is given. We compute the Picard group of the moduli space, and analyze Lie algebroid Atiyah bundles associated with an ample line bundle. This enables us to conclude that regular functions on the space of certain Lie algebroid connections are constants. Moreover, under some condition, it is shown that the moduli space of L-connections does not admit non-constant algebraic functions. Rationally connectedness of the moduli spaces is explored.

The wor(l)d is out -You are not alone: Toward a healing organizational autoethnography in/through feminist reading and writing

This paper recounts herstories of domestic violence and separation, where by reading and writing of/through one another’s physical and emotional bruises, we create a healing autoethnographic space for connection. We argue that doing so allows us to acquire the feminist relational power necessary to resist when forms of patriarchal violence threaten to hit us again. Our embodied text converses with eclectic feminist works that empower us to write down our wor(l)ds, conceptualizing reading and writing as relational healing processes in this critical autoethnography. Engaging with a healing organizational autoethnography, we suggest, allows us to make sense of the violence and marginalization that masculine organizational norms enact on othered bodies; it leads to understanding knowledge creation more broadly as the relational labor of vulnerable bodies who care for each other. This autoethnographic exploration extends critical autoethnographic work and contributes to feminist debates on writing differently, underscoring the healing potential of reading in relation to writing to voice long-seated trauma in organizational research and experience. In this way, we also amplify the need to create organizational initiatives and spaces that make healing possible.

Affective encounters in higher education

ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how thinking with affect theory offers fertility within higher education studies to see and do teaching and learning differently. For many educators in universities, the idea that teaching is a cognitive process of information transmission is still taken-for-granted. These beliefs are visible through the persistence of nomenclature such as ‘content’, predictable learning ‘outcomes’, and by the dominance of linear teaching aids (such as PowerPoint slides) across the sector internationally. An alternative conception of what teaching and learning is, and does, posits the classroom as a space of emergent relational connections in which learning is experienced as an affective force that constitutes being-in-the-world. To sketch shapes for understanding the affective encounters of teaching and learning, we think with the concept of inconvenience from the work of cultural theorist Lauren Berlant. We offer three illustrative examples of how teaching might be understood as an opportunity to surface, to welcome, and to problematise the inconvenience of others. Our argument is that an engagement with the affective in education can help us in understanding how power relations make themselves felt within the affective currents of educational encounters, as well as enabling educators to recraft their teaching in creative and meaningful ways. We conclude by contending that critical theories of affect can enhance educators’ work towards fostering social justice in the classroom, as well as in moving closer to an enriched understanding of the discomfort and challenge of what it means to teach and to learn.

Previous motor task performance impacts phase-based EEG resting-state connectivity states

Abstract The resting human brain cycles through distinct states that can be analyzed using microstate analysis and electroencephalography (EEG) data. This approach classifies multichannel EEG data into spontaneously interchanging microstates based on topographic features. These microstates may be valuable biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases since they reflect the resting brain’s state. However, microstates do not provide information about the active neural networks during the resting state. This article presents an alternative and complementary method for analyzing resting-state EEG data and demonstrates its reproducibility and reliability. This method considers cerebral connectivity states defined by phase synchronization and measured using the corrected imaginary phase-locking value (ciPLV) based on source-reconstructed EEG recordings. We analyzed resting-state EEG data from young, healthy participants acquired on five consecutive days before and after a motor task. We show that our data reproduce microstates previously reported. Further, we reveal four stable topographic patterns over the multiple recording sessions in the source connectivity space. While the classical microstates were unaffected by a preceding motor task, the connectivity states were altered, reflecting the suppression of frontal activity in the post-movement resting state.