Different Sets Of Relations Research Articles

Stellar population astrophysics with the TNG

Context. Asteroseismology, a powerful approach for obtaining internal structure and stellar properties, requires surface temperature and chemical composition information to determine mass and age. High-resolution spectroscopy is a valuable technique for precise stellar parameters (including surface temperature) and for an analysis of the chemical composition. Aims. We combine spectroscopic parameters with asteroseismology to test stellar models. Methods. Using high-resolution optical and near-IR spectra from GIARPS at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, we conducted a detailed spectroscopic analysis of 16 stars that were photometrically selected to be on the red giant and red clump branch. Stellar parameters and chemical abundances for light elements (Li, C, N, and F), Fe peak, α and n-capture elements were derived using a combination of equivalent widths and spectral synthesis techniques based on atomic and molecular features. Ages were determined through asteroseismic scaling relations and were compared with ages based on chemical clocks, [Y/Mg] and [C/N]. Results. The spectroscopic parameters confirmed that the stars are part of the red giant branch and red clump. Two objects, HD 22045 and HD 24680, exhibit relatively high Li abundances, and HD 24680 might be a Li-rich giant resulting from mass transfer with an intermediate-mass companion that already underwent its asymptotic giant branch phase. The stellar parameters derived from scaling different sets of relations were consistent with each other. The values based on asteroseismology for the ages agree excellently with those derived from theoretical evolutionary tracks, but they disagree with ages derived from the chemical clocks [Y/Mg] and [C/N].

Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises

The unprecedented scale of the climate crisis has led to a questioning of conventional approaches to sustainability in management education, centred around business case for sustainability narratives. Such critique gives rise to serious questions around how we approach teaching the universality of the climate crisis, species extinction and biodiversity loss differently. Working with Freire’s stress on the political role of the educator, action rooted in the concrete and the interconnections he establishes between pedagogy and political organisation, our contribution is to connect these interventions with Haraway’s call to stay ‘with the trouble’ and generate Communities of Compost – that is, collective more than human communities of multi-species flourishing. In doing so, we propose threading together ecocentric and political economy approaches in management education, to present an alternative to corporate sustainability solutionism and to politically rethink scalar mismatches – that is when problems and proposed ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis apply to different sets of relations. As a way of addressing this, we develop pedagogical practices around Haraway’s multi-species Communities of Compost and combine this with the political movement of La Via Campesina – focusing on its campaigns for agroecology and food sovereignty.

How Citizen Scientists See their Own Role and Expertise: An Explorative Study of the Perspectives of Beekeepers in a Citizen Science Project

The mission and definition of citizen science are vividly debated. One of the crucial aspects contested is who has the agency to define it; another is how precise a definition can and should be and how much these definitions are reflective of the heterogeneity of practices and perspectives subsumed under the label citizen science. In this paper we draw attention to how citizens themselves actively construct their own roles within a project in relation to both their histories and the project’s scientists. Drawing on a set of in-depth interviews with participating Austrian beekeepers in the INSIGNIA project, we show how even within a small, relatively homogenous sample of participants, there is considerable diversity in how the citizen scientists see their roles. We explore how citizen scientists articulate a different set of relations towards science, their own practice as beekeepers, and their desired role in the project. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of our findings for academic reflection on citizen science as well as practical implementation for citizen science projects.

Circle of Fear in Early China

Montesquieu wrote that “China is a despotic state whose principle is fear”. And indeed, in the early modern context in China, fear and despotism, on the one hand, were opposed to ziyou 自由 (“freedom”), on the other. These constructs created a discursive space in which theorists of the nation-state felt the need to articulate the complex relations binding despotism to fear. By contrast, during the early empires in China a different set of relations was imagined, wherein salutary fear was aligned against both despotism and freedom and, crucially, with according others a proper sense of dignity. For by the arguments of remote antiquity, “submission to instruction and fear of the gods” functioned both as a vital check on despotism and as the key barrier to the unchecked and unhampered self-assertion by subjects and rulers. Yet this notion of ritual operating within a circle of fear it helped to foster has so far escaped scholarly notice, perhaps because it does not square with the ritual theories that dominate our modern discourse and perhaps because such ritual fear has been dismissed easily as remnant, primitive superstition.

Doğakültürleri Büyülemek: Köy Seyirlik Oyunlari ve Pastoral Gelenek

Anatolian village plays and pastoral tradition commonly celebrate the harmonious union between people and the physical environment and reveal how such material entanglements are contingent on an anthropocentric desire for power and control over the natural world. They both, however, rely on early rituals for their form and content. These early ritualistic performances indicate the dependence of the social life on agricultural and meteorological events. This indication coordinates these works with popular celebrations of the co-evolution of the human and the nonhuman. By doing so, these ritualistic plays also uncover a materialist undercurrent about the acknowledgement of NatureCultures in that cultural changes are based on natural formations, or vice versa, hence producing a reciprocal relational network. However, this acknowledgement celebrates natural events only for the benefit of the human realm, hinting at weak anthropocentrism. As we will see in these works, union with the environmental forces is important for the survival of the human species. This union is further necessary to avoid punishment from venomous natural beings. In this respect, these cultural performances help us see very different sets of relations with more-than-human habitats. Elaborating on this complicated representation within different sets of relations, this article will analyse traditional folk performances and pastoral tradition in terms of their representing NaturalCultural formations.

Life in the Village is Free


 
 
 In this article I examine how Mengen working on and living near to a newly established oil palm plantation use the distinct categories of ‘village’ and ‘plantation’ to refer to different sets of relations and historical processes associated with the places. For the Mengen workers the plantation is simultaneously a place of hard and controlled labor, a site of earning sorely needed monetary income, and a place to momentarily escape relations in the village. The vast majority of Mengen workers are oriented towards village life and channel substantial amounts of their income back to the village. By examining the circulation of things and people between the plantation and surrounding villages, I look at how the two places, and the larger orders they represent, are in a direct, unequal, and complex relation with one another. While the surrounding villages subsidize the plantation and provide cheap labor, for the Mengen workers, the plantation is a place for reproducing village life and a generative place of forming new social relations. As both an oppressive and generative place, it is for the Mengen highly ambiguous, as are the larger orders it materializes and stands for.
 
 

Common Vision, Common Understanding

Church: Towards Common Vision (TCTCV) (1) is an ecumenically sensitive document that attempts to reflect the great diversity of beliefs and practices of the member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC). As self-described convergence text, there is much that may be affirmed from an Orthodox Christian perspective, such as the acknowledgement of the ecumenical councils that helped to maintain orthodoxy, the testimony of the primitive church to threefold pattern of ministry, and even nod to the scriptural roots of the episcopacy. (2) was especially pleased to read the acknowledgement that the divinity of Christ has been historically recognized as one of the essentials of the Christian faith. (3) document also includes thought-provoking questions and reflections for additional study at the end of each section. For example, the reflection at the end of Chapter II-D acknowledges that fundamental challenge to includes the lack of to discern between legitimate and illegitimate diversity. (4) My reflections today will touch upon those two issues--diversity and unity--through the lens of the document's reference to need for common criteria for discernment. I will refer loosely to Chapter I-C, The Importance of Unity, and Chapter II-D, Communion in Unity and Diversity. Some of you may remember the late pop star, Michael Jackson, singing I'm bad. What he was actually saying (in case you did not already know), was that he was really, really cool. In Southern California we have surfers and skaters who, when they refer to something as sick, really mean that it is awesome. When something is ill, it is even better than sick. superlative is insane. Therefore, bad, sick, ill, and insane are now all positive terms for growing subset of English speakers. In many ways it is becoming challenge to decipher new generation's terminological novelties--to find the current meaning behind basic terms once thought to be universally understood. Leaders in any organization today know that what may have been self-evident in the past can no longer be relied upon. ground is continually shifting around concepts whose meanings had been commonly understood in very different ways in the past than they are now. Shifts in meaning are also occurring in world Christianity, usually with corresponding ecclesiological shifts. Even such straightforward, foundational, and biblical terms as church, truth, communion, and especially its cognate, are in flux today. Let me elaborate this point by way of summary by Michael Root in his article, Essential Unity and Lived Communion: Interrelation of the Unity We Have and the Unity We Seek. (5) Root has pointed out that the modern ecumenical movement is driven by contradiction. Obviously, there is real disunity that plagues Christianity in the world, which not only burdens mission but is itself scandal. However, most Christian groups have come to recognize that they share some basic elements or aspects with other groups with which they are not in communion. contradiction arises, he believes, from the use of the term in distinct sense. Root suggests that way out of the contradiction could be to define as relation. If an ecclesial group or communion has something in with some other group--and through that commonality is formed--then what they have is kind of unity, in one sense. Then, again, another set of relations does not exist; therefore, they are not united in the second sense. According to Root's analysis, the diverse senses of unity refer to these different sets of relations. (6) An example might be that affirming the sacramental nature of the eucharist would create relation or a kind of unity between two groups, even though there may not be concomitant agreement about Christ's presence in the eucharist and, thus, no eucharistic sharing. …

Exploring the relationships between innovation and internationalization of small and medium‐sized enterprises: A nonrecursive structural equation model

AbstractThis article seeks to provide more insights on the two‐way link between internationalization and innovation by considering total, direct, and reciprocal effects using a nonrecursive structural model. Innovation is defined through product and process development, while internationalization is defined through inward and outward internationalization in both closer and farther markets. The results suggest that these two major sources of growth are linked by different sets of relations, from the investment in product and process innovation to outward internationalization in a closer market, or from inward and outward internationalization in farther markets to the investment in product innovation. Copyright © 2013 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Repopulating the Street: Contemporary Photography and Urban Experience

Over the past thirty years, the city as represented by art photography has been shown as progressively empty and alienating. While the emptiness of nineteenth-century streets was due to the limitations of photographic technology, it was actively pursued as a formal device by the New Topographics photographers. Recent art photography shows an even more pronounced trend towards showing the city as vacant. This contrasts starkly with the densely populated, bustling, urban environments typical of twentieth-century street photography. This essay argues that images of an empty contemporary city can be understood as a symptom of disciplinary relations internal to photography as an art form, and as a consequence of art photography's distancing of itself from vernacular representations of the city when the distinction between art photography and vernacular photography is at risk of collapsing. Empty urban images tell us about modes of experience in the contemporary city and about photography itself. This essay uses the trope of the banal as a way of locating the ‘extreme form of the everyday’ that typifies the contemporary photographic discourse of the street. Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Melanie Manchot both address the everyday street as an acute site for understanding the negotiation of public space and contemporary experiences of the city. Both refer to yet go beyond the dichotomy of the city as empty or full and reveal a different set of relations to the street through photography.

Ezra Pound's new order of artists: ‘The New Sculpture’ and the critical formation of a sculptural avant-garde in early twentieth-century Britain

Ezra Pound's essay ‘The New Sculpture’, published in The Egoist in 1914, was a pugnacious, eccentric and forthright contribution to sculptural criticism in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. Central to Pound's art criticism was the work of two young sculptors, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) and Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) who, like him, had chosen to launch their careers in London at the start of the twentieth century, but who were not British by birth. Drawing on what Pound describes as their ‘wild sculpture’, his essay registers a desire for a new kind of artistic community; what he describes as a new ‘order’ of artists. This paper takes ‘The New Sculpture’ essay of 1914 as a starting point for exploring the emergence of alternative identities for the modern sculptor and the formation of a sculptural avant-garde in the years leading up to the First World War. Through the example of sculptural practice, Pound envisaged a new kind of modern artist, and a different set of relations between...

September 11 as Heist

This article examines two films, James Marsh's Man on Wire and Spike Lee's Inside Man in relation to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It looks at both films as examples of the heist genre and explores the ways in which genre conventions enable the production of meaning about the terrorist attacks. The conventions of the heist film, it argues, help make sense of September 11 by producing a different set of relations to time and space that draw on the uncanny, rather than the traumatic, nature of the events. Narrating stories of transgression, both films place the horrors of September 11 in another context. Through the genre conventions of the heist, each film offers a view of New York in which the events of September 11 and the destruction of the World Trade Center stand as the center. Not yet complete in one, already destroyed in the other, the Twin Towers haunt these films. As Man on Wire and Inside Man each attempt to make sense of the world in which the city of New York is marked most powerfully by a profound absence, it is in their uses of the heist genre that they find a representational space in which to mourn the World Trade Center and the victims of the attacks.

Brownfield Development: A Comparison of North American and British Approaches

Over the past 30—40 years, urban change and deindustrialisation in advanced economies have created a legacy of vacant and derelict land that is increasingly seen as a development opportunity rather than planning problem. This paper investigates how the shared challenge of bringing such brownfield sites back into productive use has been interpreted differently in four countries: the US, Canada, Scotland and England. In each case, the particular policy environment has shaped the brownfield debate in distinctive ways, producing a different set of relations between the public and private sectors in brownfield redevelopment. Through this detailed comparison of the North American and British experience, the paper traces the maturity of policy and seeks to discover whether the main differences in understanding and tackling brownfield land can be attributed primarily to physical, cultural or institutional factors.

The Architectural Nervous System

The Architectural Nervous System

Communal Boundaries Reconsidered: Jews and Christians Appealing to Muslim Authorities in the Medieval Near East

Modern scholarship has produced an abundance of works on the history of Jews and Christians in Muslim realms. Quite often these works focus on the status of these communities as religious minorities.1 With regard to this theme, scholars have been divided as to whether Islam showed tolerance or oppression towards non-Muslims. Yet the question of status, interesting as it is, may in fact be misleading. This is primarily due to its underlying assumptions and the perspectives it compels us to adopt. It assumes a relationship of rulers and subjects based upon communal distinction, i. e. a Muslim is a ruler and a non-Muslim is hence a subject. Furthermore, it assumes a centralist ruling agenda derived from one center that essentially must be enforced upon an entire region in an equal manner. These assumptions do not take into account the possibility of a society that could have been structured under different terms and that adhered to different principles of governance. It does not take into account different sets of relations between different social layers.2 It

When the Personal Meets the Global at Home: Filipina Domestics and Their Female Employers in Taiwan

When the Personal Meets the Global at Home:Filipina Domestics and Their Female Employers in Taiwan Shu-Ju Ada Cheng (bio) Since Elsa started working here, I don't have to rush home to cook dinner. I can take my time. I don't have to worry about the messy house.... She picks up the children from school. She cooks them dinner. She prepares their lunch boxes. She helps them with the bath. They practice English with her.... Children really like her. I appreciate her too. But I am a bit jealous that they are so attached to her. They are becoming close to her like she was the mother.... My husband likes her too.... He is glad that I stop nagging him about helping me around the house. It's like she is becoming the mother and the wife.... I think about that a lot. Excerpt from an interview with Hui-Ling, a Taiwanese female employer of a Filipina domestic. When I interviewed thirty-seven-year-old career woman Hui-Ling in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1999, she had recently employed Elsa, a Filipina domestic. She had been juggling the double burden of family and work before she and her husband finally decided to hire live-in help. Her husband was concerned about the presence of a stranger at home, yet he was more than happy to be spared the constant pressure from Hui-Ling to take on more household responsibilities. Hui-Ling no longer had to perform the housework, but supervising the domestic became her new task. In addition, she had a certain ambivalence about the presence of another woman at home, as her narratives indicated. What did Elsa's emotional and physical labor say about the two women's respective status and role in the family? During our interviews, Hui-Ling expressed her anxiety about being a woman, a wife, and a mother. Many of the Taiwanese women employers I interviewed for my research on the global restructuring of home, child, and elder care shared her sense of crisis in identity. The Taiwanese government legalized the importation of foreign domestics [End Page 31] in 1992. Since then, many upper- and middle-class Taiwanese families have depended on foreign domestics as a source of cheap labor to address the deepening of privatization under globalization as well as the inadequacy of state provision for care.1 Foreign domestics have also become one of the major strategies for both sexes to attenuate conflicts over the allocation of household responsibilities. They have become the temporary solution to the unequal gender division of labor associated with the ideological construction of heterosexual masculinity and femininity.2 Not surprisingly, the presence of foreign domestics has compelled Taiwanese female employers to redefine their understanding of domesticity, womanhood, and motherhood in relation to the paid labor of "other" women. Foreign domestics' intimate knowledge of the households that employ them has also enabled them to critique their female employers and unveil the mythical construction of the latter's status superiority. In this article, I examine the competing meanings of domesticity, womanhood, and motherhood implicit in the global restructuring of care, focusing on the tension between Taiwanese female employers and Filipina domestics. I argue that meanings of domesticity, womanhood, and motherhood constitute central loci of identity struggles between these two groups of women under the context of globalization. I juxtapose their interconnected experiences and contending narratives to demonstrate the relational construction of identities between them. While the importation of foreign domestics has allowed Taiwanese female employers to redefine their domestic roles and to elevate their status as household managers, they have also struggled to reframe their conceptions of womanhood and motherhood. Their redefinitions occur partially because of foreign domestics' active challenges. Crossing national borders to work as live-in help has also compelled Filipina domestics to redefine their ideas of domesticity, womanhood, and motherhood. Occupying the position of the intimate other as well as the "outsider-within," they form resistance discourses surrounding these central identities.3 In other words, the personal meets the global at home. The process of globalization has introduced different sets of relations and dynamics of power within the private sphere Taiwanese female employers and their...

Quality Governance for Sustainable Development: India’s Obligation to Set a Model

Sustainable development and quality governance sound deceptively simple concepts. Any worthwhile development has to be sustained and sustainable over the long term. The major support for such sustenance in any modern organized society comes from the process of governing. This support may range from one extreme of state ownership and controlof production and all socioeconomic activity to the other end of merely providing legal regulation and material infrastructure. Research into this relationship can either take the empirical route comparing two or more actual systems of relations or a theoretical stance to work out the result of different sets of relations. This article does not take either of these academic routes for the obvious reason that the current provocation to define and explore this relation is the specific result of a series of identifiable developments in the last 50 years.

Recursion Relations for Unitary Integrals, Combinatorics and the Toeplitz Lattice

In a discussion in spring 2001, Alexei Borodin showed us recursion relations for the Toeplitz determinants going with the symbols e t(z + z−1) and \!. Borodin obtained these relations using Riemann-Hilbert methods; see the recent work of Borodin B and Baik Baik. The nature of Borodin's recursion relations pointed towards the Toeplitz lattice and its Virasoro algebra, introduced by us in AvM1. In this paper, we take the Toeplitz lattice and Virasoro algebra approach for a fairly large class of symbols, leading to a systematic way of generating recursion relations. The latter are very naturally expressed in terms of the L-matrices appearing in the Toeplitz lattice equations. As a surprise, we find, compared to Borodin's, a different set of relations, except for the 3-step relations associated with the symbol e t(z + z−1) . The Painlevé analysis of the Toeplitz lattice enables us to show the ``singularity confinement'' for these recursion relations.

Systemic Approach to Water Resources Decision Making

Decision making in water resources is very much related with the institutional water resources management framework, specific for each country.Different characteristics of hierarchical levels of decision making in a institutional water resources set up imply different sets of relations between the organizations that deal with water management.To understand these relations is absolutely necessary if changes in the water resources institutional structure are intended.A systemic analysis of these problems is presented using the metasystem paradigm approach and the similarity between decision making and control systems. The institutional water resources system in England and Wales, France, Spain and Portugal are analysed with a special focus for the Portuguese case, now in a reformulation process.Conclusions are drawn about future work on the application of metasystems paradigm to water resources management.

Energy Deposition in Laser-Heated Plasmas

A set of relations obtained by Brueckner between a bremsstrahlung spectrum and the underlying electron distribution do not hold if the energy dependence of the Gaunt factor is retained. A different set of relations is then derived. Their practical usefulness for interpretation of laser-heated plasmas appears to be limited.