Corporate Experience Research Articles

Body ecology: a new philosophy through cosmotic emersiology

Body ecology is a micro-ecology. It is a discipline derived from philosophical naturism, deep ecology and holistic body-mind practices developed since 1850 in the corporeal experience of body recreation, outdoor living, and body awakening techniques using emersiology. It is because we transform the practices of individuals that ecology is transformed. This paper seeks to explain the new discipline of body ecology, and its focus on the significance of micro-situations and micro-experiences.

ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЕ РАЗВИТИЕ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЙ О ГЕНИИ: ГЕНДЕРНЫЙ АСПЕКТ

The article is devoted to the philosophical problems of women’s creativity, which in the modern world acquire the status of a promising research area. Their relevance is conditioned by the historically adopted woman’s cultural anonymity. Participating equally in the historical and cultural process, often contributing immediately to the change of cultural paradigms, the woman has appeared deprived of the genius status. In this connection the author aims to trace the evolution of views on the phenomenon of genius and geniality, paying special attention to evaluating the place and importance of the woman in cultural development. Thus, the paper is intended to compensate for the existing gap in the studies on this issue. The originality of the study involves justification of ontological specificity of the woman’s true geniality: the woman’s subjectivity based on corporal experience comes out as a potential foundation for an alternative way of culture development.

Len Lye’s Kinetic Experiments: Sounds of Sculpture

When New Zealand artist Len Lye branched out into kinetic sculpture in 1958, his conceptualization was intimately connected to music. In the same way that some dance can enhance the music that accompanies it, Lye proposed that his kinetic sculpture was also naturally suited to this function as, like dance, its foundation is movement (Lye 1958: 7). Witnessing Lye’s steel sculptures in motion is a highly corporeal experience, with the sounds produced by their movements a key element in their sensory impact and appeal. To further strengthen the affective qualities of his sculpture, over a span of ten years Lye carried out numerous experiments incorporating various techniques and technology from both music and film, culminating in the idea to record and make these new sounds available to musicians and composers as source material for their compositions (Smythe 2006: 2). Focusing on a number of key events and a set of audio recordings held in the Len Lye Foundation Archive, this paper considers how, through such experiments, Lye was able to situate his motion composition outside the visual arts and within the field of music composition, to be viewed as “musical instruments rather than visual kinetic works of art” (Lye n.d.-a:8). When considered in relation to Lye’s achievements as a filmmaker and a sculptor, the audio recordings are easily dismissed as an interesting but isolated experiment. Driven by extensive primary research material, my aim here is to revisit and reappraise Lye’s experiments with sound, placing them within a critical framework informed by consideration of his working across the disciplines of experimental film, sculpture, and music.

SIGNIFICADOS DAS EXPERIÊNCIAS CORPORAIS DE PESSOAS COM TUBERCULOSE PULMONAR: A CONSTRUÇÃO DE UMA NOVA IDENTIDADE

RESUMO Objetivo: compreender os significados das experiências corporais de pessoas em tratamento para tuberculose pulmonar. Método: pesquisa qualitativa, realizada no município de Pelotas, Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Utilizou-se o referencial teórico da Antropologia em Saúde de Byron Good. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com dez pessoas na segunda fase de tratamento para a tuberculose, em seus domicílios, entre abril e maio de 2015. Para a análise dos dados empregou-se a técnica de Análise de Conteúdo Temática. Resultados: apreenderam-se duas categorias: O corpo sinalizador da doença que se revela na presença de sintomas (febre, emagrecimento, fraqueza) e O corpo doente que manifesta sofrimento, temor, estigma e afastamento. Conclusão: a presença da tuberculose no corpo é capaz de gerar apreensão, rompimento das atividades de lazer e trabalho, afastamento do convívio familiar e social. É essencial desenvolver um olhar para o cuidado, compreender as necessidades singulares de quem vive o adoecimento, valorizar a sua história de vida e a sua subjetividade.

VISUAL INTENSITY IN THE FENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS DISCUSSIONS

The article investigates the problem of "visual culture" in the context of phenomenological discourses E. Husserl, M. Merlot-Ponti, J.-P. Sartre It is shown the "output" of phenomenological consciousness in the world of human life, in the field of the experience of corporeality, which allows us to get a real vision of reality. The analysis of the problem of "sight" as an understanding of the spatio-temporal essence of the objective world and the place in it of its own "I" in relation to "Other" is carried out.

Thinking fashion photographs through queer affect theory

Abstract In this article, I suggest that the commonly used approaches to the study of fashion photographs could be fruitfully enriched by juxtaposing them with affect theory. I conduct a theoretical investigation of the benefits that affect theory, and in particular the strand articulated by queer theorists, may bring to the reflections on fashion photographs. I do so in a twofold way: by intertwining traditional visual analysis with an affective reading grounded in corporeal experience; and by illustrating how the queer affects circulating in fashion photographs might foreground issues of gender and sexuality and unfold possibilities of queer attachment. Two very different case studies, a photo spread by Corinne Day for The Face and the Gucci Pre-Fall 2016 advertising campaign, are chosen to explore how a specific affective register, i.e. ‘flat affect’, embedded in the images, might open up possibilities for envisioning queer aesthetic futures.

The process of internationalisation of higher education in Brazil: the impact of colonisation on south-south relations

ABSTRACTThis article presents a study that analyses interviews of African students participating in the PEC academic mobility programme, so to gain an understanding of the individual and corporate experience of living and studying in Brazil. However, our analysis also demonstrates a highly significant finding that the historical process of colonisation, experienced for centuries by the Great South, has impinged on the outlook held by individuals from the Great South, who tend to understand that the Great North is the desirable option. Consequently, this attitude has directly affected South-South relations and the cooperation between developing and emerging countries. The work of Franz Fanon, who is a pivotal figure in the process of decolonisation, serves as a framework for our analysis because it both conceptualises and demonstrates the symptoms of psychological violence in a colonised context. As it will become clear, this has ramifications for the process of internationalisation and globalisation of Higher Education.

Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies

A number of global initiatives designed in recent years address global food security and aim to reduce the vulnerability of small-scale and peasant farmers in the face of expanded transnational investment in large-scale agriculture and land acquisition. While there have been efforts to consider women within such initiatives, global governance institutions often overlook the complex gendered dimensions of food systems alongside agricultural land and labour markets. Although institutions emphasize the need for “women’s empowerment”, few policy recommendations have considered its practical application. Indeed, many governance initiatives that address food security or promote land security tend to depoliticize inequalities, which shows the importance of feminist food studies from the perspective of global food and land policy. Integrating a feminist food studies lens to the global governance of food and agriculture allows us to explore the complexities of gendered relations in agricultural practices. A more complete understanding of everyday material, socio-cultural and corporeal experiences within agricultural practices provides a greater understanding of the mechanisms by which gender relations structure food production, land ownership, resource access and governance processes. By using a feminist food studies lens we see a more complete picture of the realities of local resource management and the potential implications for global policymakers such as the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Committee for World Food Security (CFS). Through this framework, I illustrate how feminist analyses challenge conventional approaches to gender in global policymaking related to food and agricultural production.

Knowledge and Attitude Towards Corporal Punishment Among Primary School Teachers of Biratnagar Sub-Metropolitan City, Morang, Nepal

Introduction: School experience has remarkable effect on emotional and personal development of children. Intended developments can be achieved through qualified education. It is quite a challenging fact that corporal punishment is still being used in the schools of Nepal as reported in the news papers and other literature. However, there is littlie information about the knowledge and atitude of teachers towards corporal punishment.Objecive: To assess knowledge and atitude and to identify the association between the selected variables and knowledge and attitude towards corporal punishment among primary school teachers of Biratnagar Sub-Metropolitan City.Methodology Descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Biratnagar Sub-metropolitan City, Nepal. A total of 160 primary school teachers were included using total enumeration sampling technique. Data were collected by using self-administered, semi-structured questionnaire and Likert Scale. Written consent was taken from each participant and ethical approval was taken from Institutional Review Board of B.P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS.Results All respondents had heard about corporal punishment but most of them were not clear about the rules against corporal punishment in schools. The mean percentage score of knowledge was 58.81 ± 19.34 and for attitude 56.30 ± 6.98. There was a positive correlation (r=0.455, p <0.001) between knowledge and attitude towards corporal punishment. Majority of respondents scored less than the mean score. Females and government school teachers' knowledge and attitude were found to be more positive.Conclusion The study revealed that the teaching experience, training regarding corporal punishment and childhood experience of corporal punishment were significantly associated with teachers' knowledge and attitude. The government should begin public awareness campaigns to disseminate information on corporal punishment as violence through different media.Birat Journal of Health SciencesVol.2/No.3/Issue 4/Sep- Dec 2017, Page: 248-254

ANALYSIS OF EXISTING METHODS OF VALUE ADDED CALCULATION AT THE ENTERPRISE

Introduction. The analysis of business efficiency and enterprise management in terms of decision-making are key factors, which influence the outcome. That is why the search for methods of assessing the effectiveness of business processes that show the effectiveness of using embedded resources is the most important task of the modern economy. Using classical economic indicators to evaluate the company's performance does not show the results of using registered and invested resources, and, accordingly, does not allow making object-oriented decisions. World experience proves the expediency of using modern indicators of evaluating the performance of an enterprise based on the system of value added indicators using. Accordingly, the implementation of the experience of global corporations and the search for methods of effective assessment to obtain an effective and expedient result are actual directions for research. Purpose. The article aims to carry out the theoretical generalization and analysis of variation methods and models of value added calculation. Method (methodology). In order to reach the goal of the research we have used the following methods: empirical methods for the analysis of value added models, method of synthesis and analysis to clarify the essence of the concept of «added value», method of grouping and generalization for the systematization of value added models. Results. In the article, authors have proposed the new definition of the concept of «added value». We have analysed historical stages of the development of value added, reasons for its implementation and using as an alternative approach for determining the efficiency of the enterprise and management. The basic conceptual models of determining value added, which are used by the famous foreign transnational companies, have been considered. The authors have analysed the advantages and disadvantages of each model and the effective conditions for their use. The relevance of the implementation of this indicator in the activity of national enterprises for the construction of an effective system of management has been proposed.

"Sextualities": Taboo, Transgression and Subversion in the Poetry of Maria Teresa Horta and Luiza Neto Jorge

Our material experiences of our bodies and sexualities are fundamentally shaped by the ideological limits placed on them via the social hierarchisation of sexuality and the taboos that define which elements of the body and sexuality are acceptable or perverse. In this article, I compare the ways in which these limits are described and challenged in the poetry of Luiza Neto Jorge and Maria Teresa Horta. This article compares how each poet uses taboo elements of the female body to create new gender identities which would liberate the female body from the constraints placed on it under the strict political and religious social codes of twentieth-century Portugal. In particular, I will look at representations of the body and the use of language to empower the feminine in the poetry of Maria Teresa Horta, and to create a greater sense of fluidity in definitions of gender in the poetry of Luiza Neto Jorge. Using theories on sexuality from Foucault to Butler, I mean to address the question, to what extent one can claim that Maria Teresa Horta’s poetry constitutes a transgression of the limits of sexuality, whilst the poetry of Luiza Neto Jorge is a subversion of these limits? I will thus demonstrate how discourse can affect material experience, and compare the different ways in which poetry and language can be used to resist oppressive discourse and either redraw or completely obliterate the limits that define our corporeal and sexual experience by highlighting the poetic works of two of the most revolutionary of Portuguese women writers.

Трансформация корпоративного опыта для управления развитием территорий: возможности и ограничения

Трансформация корпоративного опыта для управления развитием территорий: возможности и ограничения

(Re)claiming Barbara Baynton’s Gothic Creek: An Analysis of Gillian Mears’ Foals’ Bread and Jessie Cole’s Deeper Water

The creek is a threatening site for women in Barbara Baynton’s Bush Studies (1902). The female characters in her stories are routinely represented as vulnerable, drowning, or murdered at the creek, and the slippery banks and murky waters have been established by Baynton as an Australian gothic space where women (and their bodies) are denied agency. Gillian Mears and Jessie Cole are two contemporary writers who challenge Baynton’s representation of the gothic creek. The female protagonists in their most recent Australian gothic novels, Noah in Mears’ Foal’s Bread (2011) and Mema in Cole’s Deeper Water (2014), understand the creek as a subversive site that accommodates alternative female corporeal experiences. While Noah in Foal’s Bread finds body autonomy in her use of the creek as a birthing space for her firstborn child, Mema in Deeper Water experiences body empowerment in her use of the creek as a space of sexual awakening. Though the gothic creek is a fearful site for women in Baynton’s establishing Australian gothic text, Bush Studies, both Foal’s Bread and Deeper Water demonstrate that the contemporary gothic creek is able to (re)negotiated as a site of female body autonomy and empowerment.

The Emergence of an Ecstatic-materialist Perspective as a Cross-genre Tendency in Experimental Music

This article proposes a perspective on certain practices within experimental music based on a particular understanding of sonic materialism. By tracing correlations and marking divergences between post-spectralism, minimalism, electroacoustic music, glitch and IDM’s offshoots, this article reflects onsound-in-itself, the conception of space and time in music, poietics, perceptual and cultural factors, and suggests that there is a particular understanding of sonic materialism – which I termecstatic-materialism– that is rooted in a synthesis of perception, theory and embodied actions.This perspective explores a new expressivity of sound in which the sound itself is the point of convergence for creative impulses and perceptual motives, sound being the common territory between composer and listener. By developing the idea of an ecstatic-sonic-materialism, various works across different genres can be brought together according to this mutual convergence on sound that embodies acoustic properties, intimate traces, external and corporeal experiences.

Towards radical praxis through a new formation in practice development

Background: This paper argues that achieving social and cultural transformation in healthcare, and beyond, needs to come from an orientation of an explicit ethical stance around critical awareness and articulation of the affects of historical, political, social and cultural structures of oppression. There is discussion around how practice development language forms a discourse of harm, and how practice development environments reproduce and maintain structures of oppression. Aim: Drawing on the work of feminist critical social praxis concerned with corporeal experiences and the affects emanating from embodied practices, this paper will bring to the fore marginalisations and oppressions experienced by particular bodies, and ask what do practice developers need to consider and act on to make practice development more socially just? Method: Application of feminist critical social praxis, a theoretical dimension thus far unexplored in the practice development field, as a framework for asking what practice development can learn. Particular attention is drawn to the benefits of orientating a new formation in practice development around the work of Black feminists and feminists of colour – of looking to the margins and bringing those centre. Findings: Illumination of new insights into how to build a feminist critical social justice oriented practice development through the explicit practice of naming and raising consciousness around the lived experiences and materiality of oppressed and marginalised peoples. Conclusion: Achieving radical cultural, social, political and economic transformation needs to come from an orientation of explicit critical awareness and recognition of the politics of affects of neoliberal, neo-colonial capitalist systems. Implications for practice: A feminist critical social justice ethical stance can enable practice development, as a methodology, and practice developers as implementers of that methodology, to respond to this paper’s invitation to stand in solidarity against systematic structural oppressions and form a new more reflective, critical and socially just practice development.

Re-enacting “Cossack roots:” embodiment of memory, history, and tradition among young people in southern Russia

This article draws upon ethnographic research which was conducted among young Cossacks (members of officially registered and informal Cossack clubs) in southern Russia. It presents young people’s participation in the Cossack “nativism” as a physical and material mode of socialization into the mnemonic community. The research puts forward an argument that such corporal and sensorial experiences is effective in recruiting some young members to the Cossack movement. At the same time, the performative character of neo-Cossack identity destabilizes contemporary Cossacks’ claims of authenticity related to the status of the legitimate heirs of historical Cossackdom. At the more general level of discussion this paper juxtaposes bodily activities, social memory, and revivalist discourses.

Attitudes mediate the intergenerational transmission of corporal punishment in China

This research aimed to examine the intergenerational transmission of corporal punishment and the role of parents’ attitudes toward corporal punishment in the transmission processes in Chinese societies. Based on social-cognitive theory, it was hypothesized that parents' attitudes toward corporal punishment would mediate the transmission of corporal punishment. Seven hundred and eighty-five fathers and eight hundred and eleven mothers with elementary school-age children (data collected in winter 2009) were recruited through convenience sampling techniques. The Chinese version of Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) and Attitude toward Physical Punishment Scale (ATPP) were used as the main assessment tools to measure parents' corporal punishment experiences in childhood, current use of corporal punishment and attitudes toward corporal punishment. Findings revealed that the strength of intergenerational transmission of corporal punishment was strong and parents' attitudes toward corporal punishment played a mediating role in the continuity of corporal punishment for both fathers and mothers in China. The findings highlighted the role of attitudes in the intergenerational transmission of corporal punishment within the Chinese cultural context and also suggested the need for intervention programs to focus on modification of maladaptive attitudes toward what is appropriate and effective discipline.

Znaczenie ciała w duchowości Karola de Foucauld

Autor artykułu bada znaczenie ciała w duchowości błogosławionego Karola de Foucauld. Pokazuje godność ludzkiego ciała stworzonego na obraz i podobieństwo Boga. Ta godność niepomiernie wzrosła dzięki wcieleniu Słowa i całemu dziełu odkupienia. Tekst podkreśla także znaczenie Mistycznego Ciała Chrystusa i Eucharystii w duchowości chrzescijańskiej. Wszystko to stanowi element „cielesnego” doświadczenia Boga, które to doświadczenia wymaga odpowiedniej ascezy.

Six Degrees of Separation: Connecting Research with Users and Cost Analysis

Shreya H. Dave graduated with her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Her research focused on the design and manufacture of graphene oxide membranes for water desalination, including fundamental characterization methods of graphene oxide, membrane synthesis, and economic analysis of the role of membranes in cost constraints of desalination plants. She also holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from MIT in Mechanical Engineering and Technology & Policy. Brent D. Keller completed his PhD in Materials Science & Engineering working with Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman on novel materials development for electronic devices. His work includes the first ever investigation of natural carbon materials such as coal and asphaltenes for thin film electronic and optical devices. He also led an industry and academic collaboration to improve and better understand atomic-layer-deposition-based approaches to two-dimensional semiconductor synthesis. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and holds degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Karen Golmer is currently the Innovator in Residence at the MIT Deshpande Center. She is an innovative industry leader who facilitates collaboration to advance new technologies, identify technical challenges, and find solutions to mitigate business risks. Karen is a chemist with an MBA and 35 years of corporate experience from lab professional to global program director with companies including GE, Ecolab, Calgon, Diversey, and Kodak. Jeffrey C. Grossman is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois, performed postdoctoral work at U.C. Berkeley, and was a Lawrence Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Grossman's group uses a combination of modeling and experiment to gain fundamental understanding, develop new insights based on this understanding, then use these insights to develop new materials with improved properties for energy conversion, energy storage, and membrane-based separation technologies.

Important Considerations for Environmentally Sustainable Broadcasting: The British Broadcasting Corporation Experience

Many people recognise the important role broadcasters have in providing people with an understanding of environmental issues through programs and other content, but broadcasters themselves also have a significant impact on the environment through the process of content creation and distribution. In this article we show how the carbon footprint of broadcasting is larger than most people appreciate, and then, using research undertaken by BBC R&D and its partners, we examine in more detail the pawer consumption of program distribution and viewing on a range of common technology platforms. In conclusion, some thoughts on the challenges facing this industry are shared as well as some suggestions on where efforts might productively be focused in order to reduce broadcasting's carbon footprint.