Cooperative Creation Research Articles

Heterogeneous solvent dissipation coupled with particle rearrangement in shear-thinning non-Brownian suspensions.

Dense non-Brownian suspensions exhibit significant shear thinning, although a comprehensive understanding of the full scope of this phenomenon remains elusive. This study numerically reveals intimate heterogenous coupled dynamics between many-body particle motions and solvent hydrodynamics in shear-thinning non-Brownian suspensions. In our simulation systems, we do not account for frictional contact forces, reflecting experimental conditions under low shear rates where shear thinning occurs, while hydrodynamic interactions are directly incorporated using the Smoothed Profile Method. We demonstrate the spatially correlated viscous dissipation and particle motions; they share the same characteristic length, which decreases with increasing shear rate. We further show that, at lower shear rates, significant particle density changes are induced against the incompressibility of the solvent, suggesting the cooperative creation and annihilation of gaps and flow channels. We discuss that hydrodynamic interactions may substantially restrict particle rearrangements even in highly dense suspensions, influencing the quantitative aspects of macroscopic rheology.

Permission to Cry—Drifts on Research Based Theatre on Top of an Elephant

This article aims to propose a critical reflection on what it means to be a professional of drama-based practices. To do so, we promote a process of cooperative creation and research based on our own doubts, contradictions, and concerns about the different roles we play in our practice. The results of this process are presented in artistic form, using dramatic language and metaphor as doors to new spaces for reflection.

On the Structure of Legal Personality of a Legal Entity and Forms of Joint Activities of Business Companies

The article substantiates the need to regulate the structure (content) of the legal personality of a legal entity in the Russian Civil Code and, in particular, one of its elements — a legal provision, which, unlike the legal capacity of a legal entity, establishes a set of rights and obligations characteristic of a certain organizational and legal form of a legal entity. In addition, the legal status of a legal entity determines its position in civil turnover as the bearer of a certain object of civil rights (monopoly position, participation in the cooperative creation of a single product), it is impossible to talk about the turnover of a legal entity. Association (union) as a form of entrepreneurial activity coordination within a specially created legal entity, due to the additional costs of its maintenance, it is not widely used. Moreover, the authority of the parent organization to determine the decision of the organizations that are part of the organizational structure of the military-industrial complex is not designated in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation as an element of competence. The purpose of the study is to develop a modern understanding and to consider the forms of legal interaction of associations of legal entities in the process of joint activities. When studying the norms on a legal entity contained in the Russian Civil Code and other acts on their types, types, system-structural, concrete-historical, comparative-legal methods of scientific cognition of legal phenomena were used.

Digital Writing and Labor-based Grading: An Equitable and Inclusive Approach to Undergraduate Writing Instruction

Resumen The tradition of digital writing instructional practices is nearly 50 years old in the US (Handa, 2004). Sometimes, students fully online digital writing courses may fail to engage with and finish the course because they do not feel competent in handling the technologies in the academic context; thus, it is important to find out what equitable practices and what factors influence student success in these courses. Therefore, this study aims to examine digital writing assignments requested in a writing course, with the goal of demonstrating an inclusive and equitable practice: the Labor-based grading contract, in a way that promotes equal and fair grades. This practice is proposed as a solution to the shortcomings detected, since it has been observed that students inexperienced in pre-college education in the delivery of online writing assignments persist in their difficulties with technological educational platforms in college. The creation of a contract between the teacher and the students -at first-, fosters knowledge, motivation, involvement, or engagement with the task; thus, digital writing assignments go from being an unattainable goal to being a feasible task to engage in. Also, the cooperative creation of this online writing with an easy-to-use platform (Eli Peer Review) stimulates them to persist in the following tasks, as they have already reflected on them and have already found out among their peers what they consist of and how to deal with such tasks. In our research we present a case study of a course based on online writing instruction. Therefore, this study aims to examine a particular course in the United States in which multimedia writing assignments and labor-based grading allowed for deep student engagement and success (Dickson,1974; Inoue, 2019). The data comes from the use of mixed methods that combine qualitative information collected through document analysis (teacher materials: syllabi, guidelines, instructions; student materials: personal research, blog entries, and final letter); classroom observation field diaries and the semi-structured teacher interview, with the quantitative methods of a student survey. The results show that there is a high degree of alignment between the course and the best practices of online instruction, and that the nature of the assignments and the Labor-based Grading Contract (Dickson,1974, Inoue, 2019) appear to play key roles in student engagement and success in the course. Likewise, the most highlighted aspect by the students has been the emotional factor, since the tasks have allowed them to get involved and enjoy writing in the digital support. The systematic observation of this writing course aims to deeply understand its provenance, objectives, taxonomy and functionality, with the final purpose of highlighting the capabilities of this methodology in order to offer it as a model in other contexts to promote a fairer and more equitable education. Keywords assessment, case study, democratization, digital literacy, school performance monitoring

Two-in-one system and behavior-specific brain synchrony during goal-free cooperative creation: an analytical approach combining automated behavioral classification and the event-related generalized linear model.

In hyperscanning studies of natural social interactions, behavioral coding is usually necessary to extract brain synchronizations specific to a particular behavior. The more natural the task is, the heavier the coding effort is. We propose an analytical approach to resolve this dilemma, providing insights and avenues for future work in interactive social neuroscience. The objective is to solve the laborious coding problem for naturalistic hyperscanning by proposing a convenient analytical approach and to uncover brain synchronization mechanisms related to human cooperative behavior when the ultimate goal is highly free and creative. This functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning study challenged a cooperative goal-free creative game in which dyads can communicate freely without time constraints and developed an analytical approach that combines automated behavior classification (computer vision) with a generalized linear model (GLM) in an event-related manner. Thirty-nine dyads participated in this study. Conventional wavelet-transformed coherence (WTC) analysis showed that joint play induced robust between-brain synchronization (BBS) among the hub-like superior and middle temporal regions and the frontopolar and dorsomedial/dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) in the right hemisphere, in contrast to sparse within-brain synchronization (WBS). Contrarily, similar regions within a single brain showed strong WBS with similar connection patterns during independent play. These findings indicate a two-in-one system for performing creative problem-solving tasks. Further, WTC-GLM analysis combined with computer vision successfully extracted BBS, which was specific to the events when one of the participants raised his/her face to the other. This brain-to-brain synchrony between the right dorsolateral PFC and the right temporo-parietal junction suggests joint functioning of these areas when mentalization is necessary under situations with restricted social signals. Our proposed analytical approach combining computer vision and WTC-GLM can be applied to extract inter-brain synchrony associated with social behaviors of interest.

The case for case studies: Dialogic engagement and case study creation in a higher education classroom

As engagement and work with diverse others has grown increasingly important in the world, many educators have committed to enhancing students’ ability to address complex equity-based issues in their profession and everyday lives. Although there is growing literature on the value of using case studies and small group dialog, very little exists on dialogic, cooperative case study creation. Using critical pedagogy and constructivism as the epistemic lenses, this study qualitatively examines how students gauge their learning in a course focusing on knowledge development through dialog and cooperative case study creation. Findings indicate that the experiential and collaborative nature of the course fostered learning that has implications for engagement with diverse others and with dealing with equity-based issues. The study adds to knowledge about the functionality of case studies, particularly student-created case studies.

Popular Drama: The Traffic of the Stage

DRAMA is the cooperative creation of the author, actors, and audience. It exists, when completely realized, in a mutual relationship between these three, an intercourse from which it issues and on which it depends. Criticism which is embodied in production, like that Response of the audience which kindles and transforms the actors, is too evanescent to be captured or repeated, for all performances are different; yet it is only in such moments that the special richness, the living fullness of drama is displayed.

ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ЕФЕКТІВ КООПЕРАЦІЙНОЇ ВЗАЄМОДІЇ У СФЕРІ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ

One of the forms of response to the challenges of the globalized world is the cooperative interaction of higher education institutions. Cooperation of partner institutions is potentially forms effective mechanisms for implementing strategies, achieving goals and objectives, including access to education, which for many in a pandemic has become unattainable. Combating the long-term effects and changes in education caused by the year of the pandemic will be based on assessing the tools and opportunities of open educational resources and addressing the challenges that are better solved in partnership. The expediency of cooperation or its failure in the field of higher education can be confirmed by the presence of effects produced as a result of such interaction. The above named actualizes the issue of rethinking the theoretical and methodological basis for the development of new forms and approaches to ensuring the effectiveness of cooperation, assessment of its consequences and monitoring. The purpose of this work is to identify and justify the nature of the effects from cooperative interaction of key individuals in the market of educational services in the context of globalization challenges and trends in modern higher education. Cooperative entities are essentially integrated structures that unite several higher education institutions, including foreign ones, for such structures are characterized by the presence of a synergistic effect that is achieved through the effects of scale, integration, conglomerate. The synergy is also illustrates the inverse, negative effect in the long run period - the build-up of unilateral benefits for more powerful higher education institutions, the loss of scale. This can happen when the cooperative creation of higher education institutions unites diverse subjects of educational activity with different potential, specificity, wthat ultimately reduce the overall effectiveness from cooperative cooperation. Therefore, the formation of cooperatives should be carried out with a focus on the positive effects of such cooperation, and at the same time taking into account that the expansion of educational networks may lead to a reassessment of the positive effect. Taking these facts into account will make it possible to create viable educational associations and abandon unpromising and irrational agreements in the field of higher education on the basis of cooperation.

Customer-to-customer value co-creation in different service settings

PurposeThis study aims to identify and classify the types of value stemming from cooperative creation of experience among customers present in various social and interaction-rich service settings, thus leading to customer–customer value co-creation.Design/methodology/approachThis exploratory qualitative study uses phenomenological approach and involves ten semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted in different interaction-rich service settings. The interviews were analysed using soft laddering interview technique to uncover various customer-to-customer (C2C) co-created values.FindingsBased upon the literature available and the interviews conducted, the types of value classified in this study are hedonic value (further classified as relational/social/interactional value, emotional value, epistemic/novelty/learning/information-seeking, personal value and symbolic/expressive value), atmospheric value and economic/utilitarian value (efficiency and quality).Research limitations/implicationsOne of the major limitations would be the small number of interviews conducted in a few service setups, which makes it difficult to generalise the results. Also, customer–customer interactions, leading to value co-creation online, were not considered.Practical implicationsBy facilitating C2C value co-creation, service firms would be able to obtain increased contributory support among customers and also facilitate its customers in providing superior customer experience indirectly to others present, which is considered to be the ultimate goal of a firm.Originality/valueThis would be among the first studies to classify the types of value taking place when customers interact among themselves and to provide concrete suggestions for the managers fostering C2C value co-creation during a service.

A Human-Machine Cooperative Creation Method of Worker’s State Estimation System for Presence Sharing in Telework Environments

A Human-Machine Cooperative Creation Method of Worker’s State Estimation System for Presence Sharing in Telework Environments

Proyectos escénicos de expresión corporal en la formación de maestros

Se relata una experiencia realizada en la Escuela de Magisterio de Zamora, desde el área de Didáctica de la Expresión Corporal, que ofrece a los alumnos de 3.º y 4.º de grado experiencias reales con niños y niñas de un centro escolar. Son proyectos artísticos con desenlace escénico que se construyen como procesos de creación colectiva y cooperativa. Un gran banco de pruebas para vivenciar, desde el punto inicial, todo un desarrollo de enseñanza/aprendizaje del que todos salimos reforzados.

After Death: Public Mourning, Discourse, and Myth in the Afterlife Representations of a Tanzanian Movie Star

When the Tanzanian film actor Steven Kanumba suddenly died aged 28 in 2012, the shocking news spread quickly via word of mouth and through the media. Some 30 000 people and high-ranking politicians joined in the public mourning at the funeral service; hundreds of young women fainted and the police were barely able to keep control over the evolving mass panic. After the funeral, the media event of Kanumba’s death continued in literature, news scandals, discourses, and myth, as well as in his post-mortem appearance in a movie. This paper looks at these mass-mediated practices and discourses of mourning and commemoration to reveal Kanumba’s social function as a celebrity in Tanzania, as well as the meaning and significance people ascribe to both his death and the relation between the real person and his fictional character in films. With these after-life productions, producers, fans, family, friends, as well as former enemies engage in the cooperative creation of a postmortem mythology through which they make meaning of Kanumba’s life and death.

協創力創発のための対話型映画の提案:―NPO法人ワップフィルム作『未来シャッター』の事例から―

協創力創発のための対話型映画の提案:―NPO法人ワップフィルム作『未来シャッター』の事例から―

A Study of the Effects of Webtoon Contents and Cooperative Characteristics on Open Collaboration Platform Usage

With the remarkable development of digital technology, wireless communication, and smartphone device, there have been made various transformations in a wide range of technology. In addition, various service platforms appear as well, which gradually lead to the interest in digital content and portal sites as an open cooperative platform. However, practical use of digital contents has not well produced profits by using its strength properly so far. Thus, I investigated the impact of usage way of open cooperative platform as an example of successful case. For this purpose, I established Webtoon characteristic and the open cooperative factor as independent variables. I set and analyzed the participation of cooperative creation activity and user’s satisfaction as parameter to show the greater impact of elements by establishing user’ intention as an independent variable by applying various digital contents.

Statistic Supported Cooperative Creation of Training Corpora for the Extraction of Traffic Information from Microblogs

Microblogs like Twitter1 are sources for a lot of useful information. But these information are unstructured. To automatically process it, these information have to be extracted with the help of natural language processing techniques. Corresponding systems for information extraction have to be trained and validated with manual annotated data. This paper presents an approach for the cooperative creation of annotated corpora for training and validation of information extraction systems supported by statistical analyses.1https://twitter.com/

Characterizing the nature of interactions for cooperative creation in online social networks

AbstractMany aspects of online social networks (OSN) have been studied in recent years. In this article, we focus on the question of interactions in large OSN. We propose methods to study these interactions, and apply them on a platform called Nico Nico Douga (NND), with the aim of understanding cooperative behaviors, taking the form of collective creation of music videos in NND. Our first contribution is a method that, starting from the network of interactions between users, evaluates three aspects: the impact of the social structure on these interactions, their concentration, and their reciprocity. We characterize the nature of interactions in NND, and compare it with four different datasets. We find that interactions in NND are more similar to a diffusion process, such as retweets in Tweeter, than to interpersonal communications, or even to cooperation in science. Our second contribution is a typology of roles for productions in a cooperative process. These roles are attributed based on the neighborhood of the nodes in the network of references between productions. We define direct roles, relative roles, and indirect roles. We subsequently study the frequency of these roles in NND. We show a correlation between the category of the contribution of a video (song, animation, etc.) and its probability of having a certain role. We also find a positive correlation between the most active users and the production of videos playing an important role in the cooperation process.

Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha's experiences in central India

This paper seeks to locate in the experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a workers’ collective in Central India, an alternative model of technological transfer. Responding to the proposal of large-scale mechanisation of the iron ore mines in Central India, the workers along with engineers who collaborated with them, evolved a counter proposal of ‘semi-mechanisation’ and in the process showed that the active involvement of workers can indeed prove a driver for technological change, and that workers need not be silent recipients of a ‘received’ technology unsuitable to them. As the users of technology struggle to transform their workspaces and working conditions, they also drive the ‘development’ of new technological choices and spawn innovation. This paper also takes note of the policy implications of a more interactive technological transfer model, and of the replacement in the industrial space of the culture of competition by a counter culture of cooperative creation between workers.

Employment Generation by Co-operatives: Myth or Reality?

This paper examines the role of small-scale producer cooperatives in reducing unemployment, providing income and food to rural people of Amathole in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is widely acclaimed that cooperatives have shown success in reducing unemployment. An examination was therefore necessary in the context of Amathole district, given rampant unemployment in this district. The paper relied on secondary data to establish the relationship between co-operatives and reduction of unemployment. Findings revealed that cooperatives employ worker-members and could not hire employees, managers and other skilled personnel. Income and food were other notable benefits. The paper recommends that the expansion and growth of cooperatives can be promoted through the provision of capital resources by the government. This will enhance cooperative employment creation efforts. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n3p753

Subtitling as a didactic tool. A teacher training experience.

This paper seeks to show the evolution and results of a task-based project, carried out in groups in the framework of a class of Education university students, consisting of the cooperative creation of homemade subtitled English-speaking films of approximately five minutes each aimed at children. Their assessment was based not only on their proposals and their didactic appropriateness and linguistic rightness, but also in terms of their performance as a cooperative team, which was registered through final reports. Through this experience, the teachers-to-be were offered the opportunity to create their own teaching material and to deal with video editing and the use of subtitles as part of their ICT training

Holler If You Can Hear Me

Holler If You Can Hear Me Sharon P. Holland (bio) Bynam, North Carolina, is a town that you can literally look the other way while going through and miss entirely. In the town center, what was once a general store/post office is now a local venue for small events showcasing new Southern music and arts.1 Food trucks with gelato, hotdogs, and Eastern-style BBQ are parked just outside the front door and I swear the square footage of the trucks seems to outdo that of the General Store. Inside it is hot as h-e-l-l. I mean juke joint hot. Multiple fans buzz around us and little kids run from one end of the store to the other, opting in the end to bolt out the back door to lengthen the landing strip for their game of tag or whatever kids play at these days. I was there to help celebrate a lover’s birthday get-together: a concert by Justin Robinson and the Mary Annettes. I found myself at the most unlikely spot for a dose of hip hop, string band, old time, and R&B sound all smashed together. As one music critic notes, “The Mary Annettes … offer a future vision of what folk music could sound like, taking polyglot turns through several different strains. There’s hip hop and Appalachian tunes, indie-rock balladry and a touch of (thanks to Stohl) Klezmer. Their songs are testaments to integration or at the very least cooperative creation, where old ideas get stronger by colliding, fracturing and forming something new.”2 Back at the general store, the crowd was a mix of hipsters, thirty-somethings, and queer folks munching on vegan burritos and at times sitting perfectly still in the stifling heat waiting for Robinson’s band to play cuts from their debut CD, Bones for Tinder. Of Carolina Chocolate Drops fame, Justin Robinson was now with his own act, but with the memory of fiddler Joe Thompson’s sound and the soft echo of the holler not far behind. As many of us know, the Carolina Chocolate Drops took their name from the Tennessee Chocolate Drops—another black string band that recorded in the 1930s, their most anthologized piece being the “Knox County Stomp”—like the hip hop that we know today, string bands [End Page 151] seemed to proliferate these versions of territorial battling, each band coming out with a faster or meaner version of the original. Justin Robinson married a man in Boston, Massachusetts, because he could not do so in North Carolina.3 And he still can’t since on May 8, 2011, North Carolina voters passed an amendment to the state constitution. In short, it provided that “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts.” You have got to love the way in which the amendment both restricts civil liberties, while also safeguarding property rights and contract law. Nice. A woman just in front of me is sweating so profusely, I think she just might fall out. A man two rows down from me wears a T-shirt with a Confederate flag on the back and something about a history lesson scribbled under it—I pay little attention to him, except for the fact that he is blocking my narrow view of the stage. A tall black man in the crowd catches my eye and we both crank our chins in the direction of the man with the history T-shirt and we shake our heads: … it takes all kinds … bless his heart. When the Mary Annettes finally get going, I am mesmerized. I love it … all of it. Sure, I remember the Chocolate Drops—who wouldn’t remember lyrics like “Cornbread and butterbeans and you across the table/ Eatin’ beans and making love as long as I am able,” or the 2010 cover of Blu Cantrell’s “Hit Em Up Style.” But in...