Dual Position Research Articles

Quasi-Polyadic Algebras and Their Dual Position

Infinite-dimensional quasi-polyadic algebras and cylindric algebras are the best-known algebraizations of first-order logic. Quasi-polyadic equality algebras (QPEAs), due to Paul R. Halmos, are special polyadic algebras; nevertheless, for a long time, these algebras have been considered only as a version of cylindric algebras (CAs), because their behavior seemed to be very similar to that of CAs. However, in researching QPEAs, over time it turned out that many properties of QPEA are different from those of cylindric algebras. The reason is the presence of the polyadic operator, the transposition pij (missing in CAs). The author states and documents that QPEAs have a dual position in algebraic logic. In many respects, this class is like CAs, following the cylindric paradigm, but, in other respects, as an effect of the polyadic paradigm (of the transposition), QPEAs are different from CAs. The paper is a survey on quasi-polyadic algebras with particular regard to the foregoing documentation, and it fills an existing gap in the literature.

Dual Position Relationship Transformer for Image Captioning.

Employing feature vectors extracted from the target detector has been shown to be effective in improving the performance of image captioning. However, it is considered that existing framework suffers from the deficiency of insufficient information extraction, such as positional relationships; it is very important to judge the relationship between objects. To fill this gap, we present a dual position relationship transformer (DPR) for image captioning; the architecture improves the image information extraction and description coding steps: it first calculates the relative position (RP) and absolute position (AP) between objects, and integrates the dual position relationship information into self-attention. Specifically, convolutional neural network (CNN) and faster R-CNN are applied to extract image features and target detection, then to calculate the RP and AP of the generated object boxes. The former is expressed in coordinate form, and the latter is calculated by sinusoidal encoding. In addition, to better model the sequence and time relationship in the description, DPR adopts long short-term memory to encode text vector. We conduct extensive experiments on the Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context (MSCOCO) image captioning data set that shows that our method achieves superior performance that Consensus-based Image Description Evaluation (CIDEr) increased to 114.6 after training 30 epochs and runs 2 times faster, compared with other competitive methods. The ablation study verifies the effectiveness of our proposed module.

The relationship of investment policies with corporate governance An empirical study on a sample of Iraqi banks

The study aimed to define the concept of investment policies and their impact on corporate governance and its mechanisms represented by (board size, independence of the board of directors, concentration of ownership, institutional ownership, board ownership, dual position, size of the audit committee, independence of the audit committee, number of annual board meetings). To achieve this goal, the study dealt with the content analysis method for the annual financial statements of a sample of (15) banks listed in the Iraqi Stock Exchange for the period from 2010-2020. Correlation and regression models have been used in examining the relationship and influence between these variables. The study concluded that there is a positive correlation with a significant between investment policy and corporate governance in general and with all its mechanisms (except for the size of the board). Meaning the higher the level of efficiency of the investment policy accompanied that a rise in the level of governance strength and the application of its mechanisms in the study sample banks.

ПОЛ И ЕГО ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЕ В ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ А. Л. ИВАНЧЕНКО

The article is devoted to analysing the perception of concepts related to the human sex in the novels and essays of A. Ivanchenko. The article specifies that this author's prescription is primarily due to Buddhist philosophy. The novel «SWEDENBORG. The Separate Life of the Genitals» demonstrates the external suppression of man's higher spiritual movements, and, as a result, the moral and mental decay due to the hero's absorption in the lust for existence, especial-ly the lust for sexuality. It is one of the basic darkening aspects of Buddhism that plunges one into suffering: sensual attachment, or raga, which Ivanchenko believes to be the main one. The artistic conception of the novel «SWEDENBORG. Separate life of the genitals» is also due to the symbolic (phallic) interpretation of the title image in N. Gogol’s novel «The Nose» and the mysticism of E. Swedenborg, who also discussed the posthumous consequences of adultery. The hero of the novel takes a dual position: on the one hand, he realizes and exposes to the reader the cor-rupting nature of modern reality, on the other, he accepts this situation and thus debunks it even more by the example of his own life. The novel «Monogram» and essays included in the cycle «Homo Mysticus». «The Sutras of the Sun-strokeSunstroke» offer various Buddhist ways to overcome gender and, more broadly, sensual affection to samsaric reality: comprehending the consequences of bad existence, discovering the illusory nature of a person, turning to meditation cultivating aversion to the sensual in the human mind.

Cylindrical MIMO-SAR Imaging and Associated 3-D Fourier Processing

In this paper, we propose a new three dimensional cylindrical imaging system based on the combination of a multiple-input multiple-output arc array in azimuth and a synthetic aperture radar on the vertical dimension for applications focused on buried threat detection. Imaging algorithms are adapted to these specific transceiver distributions in order to accelerate reconstructions in the Fourier domain. Following theoretical developments, an experimental proof of concept is proposed at 6 GHz using a circular dual positioning system specifically designed for these new studies. The validity of the proposed techniques is extended to larger cylindrical arrays using numerical simulations of complex volumetric scenes in the 5–12 GHz band. This work allows for significant gains in computation time for these specific imaging systems, which are more than three orders of magnitude shorter than those of conventional backpropagation techniques in the studied cases composed of more than 250,000 voxels.

Modeling and Simulation of Ship-Borne Weapon Stabilization System Based On Double Position Loop Control

In order to solve the problem of increasing system cost and low control accuracy by adding gyroscope or inertial navigation system, a dual position loop control ship-borne stabilization system is proposed in the paper. The mathematical model is established to analyze the influence of ship rolling factors on the space pointing of single position loop weapon system. On this basis, the control strategy of double position loop is proposed, and the simulation structure and control method of inner position loop and double position loop are described respectively. The simulation results show that the method can isolate the factors of ship rolling, realize the closed-loop stabilization control of weapon system in geodetic coordinate without adding system hardware cost, and have good control effect as well.

Factors Affecting Delay in Reporting Village Government Financial Accountability in Delima Subdistrict, Pidie Regency

The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that affect the delay in reporting village government financial accountability in the Delima District, Pidie Regency. The sample in this study were 44 financial groups. In determining the sample using saturated sampling andfield research method. While the analysis toolused is multiple linear regression. From the results of the analysis obtainedThe factors that cause the dominant delay are the HR factor on the educational background indicator, information technology on the application update indicator, supporting facilities on the internet indicator, the internal control system on the dual position indicator, and the rule of law on the indicator of minimal understanding of legislation. The implication of this research for the working unit is that it can improve the quality of timely submission of financial reports .

Deleuze Becoming-Mary Poppins: Re-Imagining the Concept of Becoming-Woman and Its Potential for Challenging Current Notions of Parenting, Gender and Childhood

In this paper, we consider the major and controversial lexicon of Deleuze’s ‘becoming-woman’ and what an alternative re-working of this concept might look like through the story of Mary Poppins. In playfully exploring the many interesting aspects of Travers’ character, with her classic tale about the vagaries of parenting, we attempt to highlight how reading Mary Poppins through the Deleuzian lens of ‘becoming-woman’ opens up possibilities, not limitations, in terms of feminist perspectives. In initially resisting the ‘Disneyfication’ of Mary Poppins, Travers offered insights and opportunities which we revisit and consider in terms of how this fictional character can significantly disrupt ideas of gender performativity. We endeavour to accentuate how one of its themes not only dismantles the patriarchy in 1910 but also has significant traction in the twenty- first century. We also put forth the idea of Mary Poppins as an icon of post-humanism, a nomadic war machine, with her robotic caring, magic powers and literal flights of fancy, to argue how she ironically holds the dual position of representing the professionalisation of parenting and the need to move beyond a Dionysian view of children as in need of control and regulation, as well as that of nurturer and emancipator. Indeed, in her many contradictions, we suggest a nomadic Mary Poppins can offer a route into the ideas of Deleuze and his view of children as de-territorialising forces and activators of change.

The fate of urban wetlands in Kumasi: An analysis of customary governance and spatio-temporal changes

This study uses the city of Kumasi to explore two burning issues in urban Africa: a. implications of public and customary land governance for wetland sustainability; and b. depletion of urban wetlands. Officials of state and customary institutions were interviewed for in-depth information on the politics around wetlands management; while changes in land use and land cover (LULC) were tracked using GIS techniques. The study reveals 39% loss of wetlands between 1986 and 2019 to residential, commercial and industrial uses. This is explained by the dual positions of customary and state institutions in the management of wetlands; and the various conflicting outcomes their interplay produce. The study proposes functional collaboration between customary and state institutions in the management of urban wetlands.

Векторный субъект в фактуальной онтологии К. Мейясу

The concepts of contingency, factuality, and correlationism introduced by Meillassoux are clarified in the article. The question of the contingency of the forms of correlation is revealed in the context of the functioning of post-Kantian philosophy. The contingency of the correlationist theories of a subject is established. The article substantiates the thesis about the dual position of the subject in the factual ontology: Meillassoux reaches the antisubjectivist contingency through a radical overcoming of the various paradigms of the subject, then, the philosopher recovers the position of a strong subject from the non-human contingency. Basically, the article deals with the ontological status, characteristics and factual ethics of the vector subject. It reveals the way in which Meillassoux thinks of the subject in the context of the radical unreasonableness: this is the simultaneous holding, on the one hand, the order of the actual given and, on the other, the contingency of the given and the subject. The factual character of the subject-object dichotomy restored by Meillassoux is clarified. It’s established that non-Hegelian dialectics is the main manner of navigating the subject in the contingent universe. The key property of the subject, its “vectorness”, is determined. The main characteristics of the actual and virtual World are highlighted. Furthermore, it’s investigated how the subject is activated in the direction of the virtual World. It’s noted that the thinking of the vector subject is more focused on temporality than on space. The ontological foundations of the “spiritual exercises” prescribed to the vector subject are analyzed.

Juridic Review Filling Membership of the Regional Representative Board of the Republic of Indonesia Post the Decision of the Constitutional Court Number 30/PUU-XIV/2018

Positions as functionaries of Political Parties with DPD membership are not common before the 2019 General Election as a political practice that is prohibited by Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections jo. KPU Regulation Number 21 of 2018. However, with the Constitutional Court Decision Number 30/PUU-XVI/2018 jo. KPU Regulation Number 26 of 2018 states that concurrent positions of political party functionaries in the DPD membership are a violation of the law, so all parties should obey it. In this study, analysis and discussion of the legal aspects of the dual position practice will be carried out after the Constitutional Court's Decision.

Does the board's on-site decision inhibit over-investment.

It is an effective expansion of the research on the Board of Directors to do the research based on different board meeting forms and their effects sampling A-share companies listed in 2007–2017, the article empirically tests the impact of the times of board meetings, the proportion of on-site board meetings on listed companies’ over-investment. Consequently and significantly, the times of board meetings is positively correlated with over-investment, while the proportion of on-site board meetings is negatively correlated with over-investment. That is, the on-site meeting for the Board decision-making will better inhibit the enterprises’ over-investment behaviors. Further research shows that when there is a controlling shareholder in the company or in a dual position, the on-site board meeting no longer has a significant inhibitory effect on over-investment. By research on the independence of the Board of Directors, it is found that when selecting on-site board decision-making, the existence of independent directors has an over-investment suppression effect, and the higher the proportion of independent directors, the more obvious the inhibitory effect is. The samples are divided into state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, the study found that when choosing on-site board meetings, state-owned enterprises have a greater inhibitory effect on over-investment than private enterprises. The findings of this study will enrich the research of the board meeting and provide a new testing method for the relevant research of the Board of Directors.

Introduction: Special Issue on Women and Operation Iraqi Freedom

Might the voices of women veterans cast a new light on the realities, ravages and aftermath of war? At a time when we have an increasing number of women in active combat, what would it mean to see war through their eyes? What might their writings and reflections have to teach us? During the Iraq War, American women made history insofar as they participated in combat on an unprecedented scale. Yet, public discourse rarely spotlighted or celebrated this achievement. The Iraq War is groundbreaking in both historical and literary terms: first, women not only served but also fought openly as women for the first time in a full-scale war waged by the United States; second, authors have begun to feature openly female combatants as the centerpieces of war narratives. This special issue of <em>The Journal of Veterans Studies</em> focuses on the double bind that females face as both women and service members within a hyper-masculine U.S. military culture that often casts this dual position as an inflexible binary, and asked its contributors to reflect on the ways that the Iraq War has produced a body of literature in both fiction and first-person memoir that portrays women as active combatants and participants instead of spectators or victims.

Introduction: Special Issue on Women and Operation Iraqi Freedom

Might the voices of women veterans cast a new light on the realities, ravages and aftermath of war? At a time when we have an increasing number of women in active combat, what would it mean to see war through their eyes? What might their writings and reflections have to teach us? During the Iraq War, American women made history insofar as they participated in combat on an unprecedented scale. Yet, public discourse rarely spotlighted or celebrated this achievement. The Iraq War is groundbreaking in both historical and literary terms: first, women not only served but also fought openly as women for the first time in a full-scale war waged by the United States; second, authors have begun to feature openly female combatants as the centerpieces of war narratives. This special issue of <em>The Journal of Veterans Studies</em> focuses on the double bind that females face as both women and service members within a hyper-masculine U.S. military culture that often casts this dual position as an inflexible binary, and asked its contributors to reflect on the ways that the Iraq War has produced a body of literature in both fiction and first-person memoir that portrays women as active combatants and participants instead of spectators or victims.

Looking back at “our science” and “our history”: an exploration of Korean preservice science teachers’ encounters with East Asian history of science

Despite the long-standing interest among science educators in using history of science in science teaching, little has been discussed around whether and how non-Western histories of science could be incorporated into science education. This study considers some opportunities and challenges of addressing East Asian history of science (EAHOS) in the science teacher education context, drawing on postcolonial science studies and global history of science. Eight undergraduate preservice science teachers (PSTs) participated in sessions on EAHOS. Our aim was to investigate the PSTs’ perceptions relating to the nature of EAHOS and its relevance to science teaching. Using interviews and reflective essays, we explore the tension coming from their dual positions as science teachers and East Asian people as they entered into the unfamiliar territory of EAHOS. When they were considering themselves specifically as science teachers, they tended to focus on the aspects of EAHOS as knowledge and concluded that it has little to do with achieving the aims of science teaching because is not part of modern science. On the contrary, when they were talking about their roles as teachers in general, they were able to come up with several educational benefits that EAHOS can offer to students, particularly in its relation to worldview and history. Additionally, several mixed feelings were expressed about the way EAHOS is often portrayed as “our” history about “our” science. Overall, the experience of exploring and discussing EAHOS provided the PSTs with an opportunity to critically reflect on science education and their responsibility as teachers in the context of broader society and culture.

Shariah Compliance for Islamic micro financing (Exploratory study in BAITUL MAAL WATTAMWIL in Depok City, Indonesia)

This study aims to analyze and evaluate the supervision of shariah compliance in the Baitul Maal Wattamwil (BMT) in the Depok City. The institutional and system approach is used to see the level of supervision carried out. This study uses primary data through interviews with the shariah supervisory board (SSB) and secondary data in the form of regulations issued by the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises and similar research. This study found that the implementation of sharia supervision through an institutional approach or through a system approach still needed to be improved. In the institutional approach, there are still SSB that have not met the expected qualifications and the coaching process that has not yet run optimally, even though the composition, position, dual position and length of service of SSBs are in accordance with established rules and have been independent in carrying out sharia supervision. Whereas in the system approach carried out by the internal audit function, the external auditor and the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises represented by the Dinas Koperasi have not been running optimally. Keywords: shariah compliance, shariah supervisory board, baitul maal wattamwil.

Understanding Heritage-Led Development of the Historic Villages of China: A Multi-case Study Analysis of Tongren

ABSTRACT Historic villages in China have dramatically changed in recent years, particularly those in poor areas where local culture and a lagging economy constitute the socio-economic framework. The critical relationship between preservation and commodification has become the focus of debate, but little attention has been paid to how different historic villages have been changed through heritage-led development processes and different patterns of stakeholders involved. In this paper, a case study is presented, which focuses on three historic villages in Tongren, China. The findings confirm the idea that heritage preservation as a governance technique is vulnerable to changing socio-economic circumstances. Three transformational approaches with different patterns of stakeholder engagement are identified. In addition, the coalition between the government and real-estate development enterprises played a dominant role in the government-led approach. In the case where the government and enterprises are not strongly present, village elites and village cadres are the power holders in leading to the heritage-led development despite their dual position in heritage preservation and profit-making. This paper suggests that the rigorous, scientific investigation in the planning and project-making involving a shared platform of stakeholders should be developed to address a shared future for the historic villages in China. Abbreviations: VRP: Village Rectification Plan; VEMC: Villages with Ethnic Minority Characteristics; HCTVs: Historical and Cultural Towns and Villages; CTVs: Chinese Traditional Villages; COEs: County-owned enterprises; ESMV: Ethnic Solidarity Model Village.

Nursing students’ evaluation of clinical learning environment and supervision in a Norwegian hospital placement – A questionnaire survey using CLES+T scale

AimThe clinical learning environment and supervisor-student relationship play vital roles in the learning outcomes of nursing students. The aim of this study is to evaluate nursing students’ experiences with the clinical learning environment and supervision in a hospital placement organised with a dual preceptor team – preceptors holding dual positions both in the clinic and the nursing faculty in addition to the standard one-to-one supervision by a clinical preceptor. DesignThe study is a paper-based survey based on a validated questionnaire developed and tested in hospital settings in various European countries, including Norway. MethodThe Norwegian version of the CLES+T Evaluation Scale, was distributed to all second-year students in three different years (2015–2017) at a nursing faculty. ResultsA total of 61% students (n = 261) returned the questionnaire. Overall, the students considered that their hospital placement provided a good clinical learning environment. The results suggest that the dual preceptor team on top of one-to-one supervision did not interfere negatively with the clinical learning environment Nevertheless, the dual preceptor model did not compensate for a poor relationship with the clinical preceptor. Thus, the association between a reported ‘strained relationship’ with the clinical preceptor and low scores on the CLES+T, reported on by other studies, remained in our data. ConclusionsTo better grasp the complexity in this area, various methods are needed, such as in-depth interviews with students, nurse teachers and clinical preceptors. Further studies need to elaborate on students’ experiences of clinical learning environment according to how supervision is organised.

One surgeon's learning curve with single position lateral lumbar interbody fusion: perioperative outcomes and complications.

Single position (SP) lateral transpsoas lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF) with posterior pedicle screw fixation (PPSF) reduces operative time compared to dual positioning. However, the learning curve has not yet been described. The purpose of this study was to define the learning curve SP LLIF with PPSF. This retrospective case series included the first 161 consecutive patients who underwent SP LLIF and PPSF with the senior author. Primary analysis of operative time versus case number included single level cases without adjacent level procedures. Secondary analyses included 1-3 level cases without adjacent level procedures. Operative time for 2 and 3 level procedures was normalized to single-level cases. The learning curve was assessed with linear regression, which was found to fit the data better than logarithmic regression as judged by R2 values and data visualization. Perioperative outcomes as a function of case number were analyzed by least squares linear regression and Mann Whitney U-tests. For single level surgeries without adjacent procedures (n=87), operative time decreased by a total of 28.7 (95% CI, 9.6, 47.9) minutes over the series (P<0.001). For 1-3 level cases with no adjacent procedures (n=131), normalized operative time decreased by 23.1 (7.6, 38.6) minutes (P<0.001). Post-operative change in hematocrit, length of hospital stay, post-operative change in lordosis, 90-day complications, suboptimal screw placement, and 6-week post-operative Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) score did not correlate with case number. Intraoperative fluids decreased 3.7 mL (95% CI, 0.7, 6.7) per case (P=0.015). In SP LLIF with PPSF, case number correlated with decreased operative time, but not complications. The surgeon's prior experience with dual position (DP) LLIF likely contributed to the minimal learning curve observed. Surgeons adopting SP LLIF with minimal prior DP LLIF experience may experience a steeper curve.

Evaluation of cardiovascular disease program in Sleman District, Indonesia

Cardiovascular disease remains the biggest cause of death, while hypertension is the biggest risk factor for heart disease for 12 years from 2000 to 2012. Various programs to prevent and control hypertension have been carried out throughout the Sleman District Health Center, but the achievement of minimum service standards (SPM) hypertension has not met the target. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cardiovasculer program in Sleman Regency, Indonesia. This research was mixed method design, with the sample consisted of 25 staff holding cardiovasculer program programs in health centers in Sleman Regency. The instruments used in this study were interview guides and check lists. Quantitative data analysis was conducted by entering data in spreadsheets and then categorizing, while qualitative analysis was conducted by using content analysis based on findings obtained from quantitative data. The results showed problems in the input aspect, namely the availability of human resources and facilities were still considered to be lacking, dual positions disturbed work effectiveness. In the aspect of the process it's good but there are still obstacles that are felt by the program holders. In the output aspect, Sleman Regency has not yet reached the SPM target for hypertension services.