Dynamic Reality Research Articles

Experiencing through the voice in Stanislavski’s psycho-physical approach

At the centre of Stanislavski’s acting approach is the actor’s connection with the imaginary circumstances and the action, a connection that is imaginatively experienced – not represented and illustrated – and is embodied vocally and physically to reach both “the life of the human spirit of a role” and the audience. A key part of the action for Stanislavski is verbal action. Voice and speech, though, can be technically taught as skills separate from acting process. Language can be tackled from a static, literary perspective in rehearsals. Stanislavski viewed voice and speech not as ends in themselves but as flexible, changing responses to an imaginary, dynamic reality suggested by the text. The article examines how voice may be integrated within an organic acting process and be part of an embodied experience, and also draws on the views of Stanislavski-based practitioners and contemporary neuroscience and linguistics to validate Stanislavski’s psycho-physical approach and later rehearsal methods. In the final part, it gives an insight into how to integrate understanding of acting process into vocal instruction, and how to integrate voice into acting exercises and text.

Contested spaces in policy enactment: a Bourdieusian analysis of language policy in Singapore

The basic structure and rhetoric of national language policy in multilingual Singapore has remained essentially unchanged since independence with four official languages positioned within the national quadrilingual framework and used in all public spheres, and individual bilingualism encouraged in the private sphere. However, also since independence, there has been an active undercurrent of inconsistencies, suggesting that the apparent top–down, uncontested language policy is in fact an active contested space, particularly in how these policies are implemented in schools. Specifically, we are interested in language shift, maintenance and medium of instruction policies, their consistencies and discontinuities. To understand the apparent tension between static quadrilingual language policy and planning and the dynamic reality of policy shifts, we adopt Bourdieu’s metaphor of field. In so doing, we take analyses beyond a Fishmanian domain-based framework (Fishman in La Linguist 1(2):67–88, 1965) which frequently informs language policy analysis in Singapore but fails to capture fully the paradoxical shifts and impacts that different fields have on each other with respect to language and the power dynamics involved (Savage and Silva in Cult Sociol 7(2):111–126, 2013. doi:10.1177/1749975512473992). We refer to Chinese and Indian language varieties as our primary examples, showing how a field analysis illuminates the different developments and paradoxes in policies for these languages.

The Schengen Space and the Primary Form of the European Legal Humanism. Revisiting Tony Honoré’s Opus, Ulpianus. Pioneer of Human Rights

Abstract The author proposes here “the first Romanian attempt at a hermeneutic systematization of the philosophy of European law”, a field that is approached from an organic, integrating perspective. It has to be seen as a synchronic lectio magistralis on the ineluctable role of the spiritual roots when deciphering and assuming national identity. The complicated “euronomosophical” discourse, whose beginning is an excellent page of self-history about the “Europe” of the author, voices an appeal to a deeper self-knowledge. A complex, dynamic reality: from euromyth to euro-oniria and PaxEuropaea. Such incursions into the universe of law certainly involve an instructive and pedagogical side, building a patchwork of ideas, suggestions and themes that could be further developed.

Shedding Light on the Etiology of Sports Injuries: A Look Behind the Scenes of Time-to-Event Analyses

The etiological mechanism underpinning any sports-related injury is complex and multifactorial. Frequently, athletes perceive "excessive training" as the principal factor in their injury, an observation that is biologically plausible yet somewhat ambiguous. If the applied training load is suddenly increased, this may increase the risk for sports injury development, irrespective of the absolute amount of training. Indeed, little to no rigorous scientific evidence exists to support the hypothesis that fluctuations in training load, compared to absolute training load, are more important in explaining sports injury development. One reason for this could be that prospective data from scientific studies should be analyzed in a different manner. Time-to-event analysis is a useful statistical tool in which to analyze the influence of changing exposures on injury risk. However, the potential of time-to-event analysis remains insufficiently exploited in sports injury research. Therefore, the purpose of the present article was to present and discuss measures of association used in time-to-event analyses and to present the advanced concept of time-varying exposures and outcomes. In the paper, different measures of association, such as cumulative relative risk, cumulative risk difference, and the classical hazard rate ratio, are presented in a nontechnical manner, and suggestions for interpretation of study results are provided. To summarize, time-to-event analysis complements the statistical arsenal of sports injury prevention researchers, because it enables them to analyze the complex and highly dynamic reality of injury etiology, injury recurrence, and time to recovery across a range of sporting contexts.

Impact of Environment GIS Modeling on Sustainable Water Systems Management

GIS modeling of environment is a complex process of collecting, processing, organization, storage and access on huge amount of data which represents certain part of reality (space). Database, formed in this way, is applicable for analysis, forecasting and decision making about activities and aims related to the environment. This paper, in spite of their undoubted advantages and importance, focuses on some deficiencies of GIS. Those deficiencies could appear as a consequence of fact that analysis of dynamic reality is made on the base of historical data, which consequently means that available data represent the past i.e. they are not, or they are only partially adequate to present state of the considered reality. In the same time, the collected data contains particular errors, which could influence quality of decision related to activities connected with environment, feasibility and sustainability of technical solutions. Errors especially could influence the sensitive and rare resources as freshwaters because of increasing demands and limited available sources. This paper deals with GIS modelling error of environment influence on waterpower engineering.

Usability in 4D AR: Visualising Multi-temporal Real-time Geo-data in Augmented Reality Environments

Even though advantages of 3D visualisation of multi-temporal geo-data versus 2D approaches have been widely proven, the particular pertaining challenge of real-time visualisation of geo-data in mobile Digital Earth applications has not been thoroughly tackled so far. In the emerging field of Augmented Reality (AR), research needs comprise finding the optimal information density, the interplay between orientation data in the background and other information layers, using the appropriate graphical variables for display, or selecting real-time base data with adequate quality and suitable spatial accuracy. In this paper we present a concept for integrating real-time data into 4D (three spatial dimensions plus time) AR environments, i.e., data with “high” spatial and temporal variations. We focus on three research challenges: 1.) high-performance integration of real-time data into AR; 2.) usability design in terms of displaying spatio-temporal developments and the interaction with the application; and 3.) design considerations regarding reality vs. virtuality, visualisation complexity and information density. We validated our approach in a prototypical application and extracted several limitations and future research areas including natural feature recognition, the cross-connection of (oftentimes monolithic) AR interface developments and well-established cartographic principles, or fostering the understanding of the temporal context in dynamic 4D Augmented Reality environments.

Atlas geográfico y satelital de la provincia de La Pampa, Argentina

Disponer de información actualizada, acompañada de una expresión gráfica apropiada, permite conocer y analizar la compleja y dinámica realidad de cualquier espacio; conocimiento indispensable para concretar distintos proyectos de ordenamiento territorial. Por este motivo, para el desarrollo económico y social del país se requiere información cartográfica, catastral y geográfica de precisión.Los atlas son un conjunto de cartas temáticas integradas que permiten, a los distintos usuarios, conocer y comprender el espacio y su complejidad, despertando el interés de los usuarios en diferentes actividades.En esta comunicación se enfatizan los aspectos metodológicos del proyecto de investigación “Atlas geográfico y satelital de la provincia de La Pampa, Argentina”. Presenta los avances de los primeros meses de trabajo y cómo se pretende continuar con la elaboración de la cartografía.Esta investigación intenta dar respuesta a la necesidad de disponer de información confiable, actualizada y de fácil acceso para diferentes usuarios. Por este motivo se pretende gestionar el conocimiento geográfico y satelital de esta provincia diseñando y construyendo una herramienta interactiva y permanente que permita analizar, explicar e interpretar la realidad socio territorial de la provincia y sus desigualdades, a partir del empleo de cartografía estática y de un visualizador de datos geoespaciales, sustentado en un Sistema de Información Espacial.Actualmente, por la necesidad de confeccionar mapas que se puedan actualizar fácilmente y que además sean precisos y claros, es casi indispensable la adopción de medios que respondan a estas exigencias y permitan el desarrollo de operaciones que, de otra manera resultan largas y onerosas. En este caso, la cartografía digital y otras tecnologías de la información, poseen un gran número de funciones y facilidades para la producción de mapas, incorporadas en el diseño asistido por computadora, los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) y la percepción remota, entre otras.Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Volumen 8, Número 2 Otoño, 2015; 29-40

Journeying Toward Business Models for Sustainability

Scholars increasingly recognise that business contributions to sustainable development are founded in new business models. However, most research in this field remains conceptual and offers a rather static view of a complex and dynamic reality. This article contributes to understanding how new business models for sustainability are fashioned through the interactions between individuals and groups inside and outside companies. Based on two case studies, our findings show that three elements contributed to the path of transformation toward business models for sustainability: building networks and collaborative practices for learning and action around a new vision, the deployment of new concepts drawn from outside the company, and elaborating an implementation structure within a reconfigured network. Our findings reveal the complexity of the process, which went through four subprocesses: identifying, translating, embedding, and sharing. Our results also highlight the importance of considering value destruction as well as new ways to create and capture value.

Are our cornea waiting lists dynamic enough?

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dynamic reality of the corneal transplant (CT) waiting list and if the CT candidates are really eager to operation. We evaluated the response of consecutive 96 CT candidates to call for operation. The age, functional visual acuity, CT indication, waiting period, and the excuse of refusal for candidates that postponed the operation were also evaluated. The patients were classified into two groups according to the availability (Group 1, available; Group 2, unavailable). To find an available candidate for transplantation of 48 consecutive corneal tissues, 96 patients had to be called. The mean age of the patients was 57.49±18.75. The mean age of Group 1 and Group 2 was 54.28±18.12 (13-80) and 60.44±19.01 (9-88) years, respectively (p=0.108). It was found that the call refusal was higher in patients elder than age 70 (p=0.04). The mean time between being added to the list and the call was 22.96±7.80 (9-39) months for Group 1, 27.02±8.25 (9-53) months for Group 2 (p=0.015). The estimation point for waiting period was 22months (p=0.044). The most common reasons of excuse were inconvenience of timing, giving up operation, and secondary health problems, whereas anticoagulant use was the most common reason for postponement. As the waiting period gets longer and CT candidates get older, they tend to give up operation. The secondary health problems and use of systemic anticoagulants are important problems that might cause postponing the CT surgery and ruin the dynamicity of the waiting lists.

A cybernetic dream: how a crisis in social sciences leads us to a Communication for Innovation-Laboratory

After the first paradigm shift from the deficit model to two-way communication, the field of science communication is in need of a second paradigm shift. This second shift sees communication as an inherently distributed element in the socio-technical system of science and technology development. Science communication is understood both from a systems perspective and its consecutive parts, in order to get a grip on the complex and dynamic reality of science, technology development and innovation in which scientists, industrial and governmental partners and the lay public collaborate. This essay reflects on the under-development of system thinking in science communication and the need to fix this. Legitimation for the second paradigm shift is found in the ‘crisis in social sciences’ that has led to a revival of system theory to balance the deterministic thinking in our grounding discipline. This essay concludes with the idea of a ‘Communication for Innovation-Lab’ as an experimental setting in which whole/part thinking in science communication can be shaped according to this second paradigm shift, forming seed crystals for future developments.

A ‘Reference Culture’ That Divides.

This article seeks to demonstrate that America’s unique ability to invent models of ‘modernity’ lies at the heart of its continuing role as a ‘reference culture’. However, this forceful and dynamic reality has a profoundly dividing effect on every society with which it comes into contact. The consequent cleavages, I suggest, are an enduring outcome of any engagement with America’s power as a reference culture of modernity.

Dynamic Design for Quality for Total Quality Advantage: A Benchmarking Case Study from Indian Automobile Manufacturing Sector

This paper examines the design for quality aspect as not any static one time activity but a dynamic reality for the organisations. Authors developed and implemented a benchmarking tool for measuring quality design effectiveness by field survey. Even if mature, established and reputed organisations are time‐tested for producing quality products, various index parameters were found where one company could prioritise their design improvement initiatives. This paper takes the design for quality issue beyond the predominantly static product prelaunch act to a continual dynamic endeavour of on‐going nature, which was not addressed this way in prior literatures. Limitations exist both in its scale and scope, which require further research for establishing cross‐case patterns. An implication will be to expand the ambit of field data from across the various other sectors towards building a consensus on dynamic design for quality management as a cornerstone for the general innovation structure management of the organisations. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Editorial: Pathways towards sustainable landscapes

Researchers and practitioners with an interest in a holistic conception of landscape argue for more deliberate approaches to plan, develop and manage landscapes (e.g. Beilin et al. 2012; Bohnet 2008; Dramstad and Fjellstad 2011, 2013; Musacchio 2009, 2013; Pearson and McAlpine 2010; Potschin and Haines-Young 2006; Tress et al. 2003; Wu 2013). These scholars argue that in order for landscapes to be considered sustainable they must fulfil multiple functions and values, including the provision of healthy food, clean water, fresh air, livelihoods and recreational opportunities, productive and healthy ecosystems, as well as reflecting on aesthetic and cultural values. To date, landscape theory and practice has advanced the possibilities with its focus on the development of new paradigms, conceptual frameworks, new governance models, and tools and processes on how to effectively engage with multiple stakeholders. These are intended to improve discussions about potential trade-offs between competing landscape values, effects of land use and management changes, and decisions about future landscapes (e.g. Beilin et al. 2012, 2013, 2014; Bohnet and Smith 2007; Bohnet 2010; Bohnet et al. 2010, 2011a, b; Angelstam et al. 2013; Kasemir et al. 2003; Sayer et al. 2013; Van Paassen et al. 2011). However, recognition of new paradigms, complex decision frameworks and models is just a first step in the dynamic reality that is the quest for sustainable living and species survival. As an example, we can integrate food production regimes within vastly more polycultural landscapes and achieve conservation goals without sequestering land in isolation from food systems if we recognise the need to constantly negotiate the meaning and character of sustainability (Estrada-Carmona et al. 2014; Milder et al. 2014; Scherr and McNeely 2008). This special issue in sustainability science originated in the collaboration between the two guest-editors. We are landscape scholars and research practitioners. We work across multiple disciplines to gain a better understanding of the complex dynamics that arise from interactions between multi-scalar social and ecological systems, i.e. landscapes, to inform theory and practice. With the idea in mind that farming and the production of food present key challenges in most landscapes, we organised a session on sustainable landscapes at the Agri-Food XX 2013 resistance, resilience and security conference, held at the University of Melbourne from 2 to 5 December 2013. Six papers in this special issue were presented at that organised session. All other papers were from the open call for papers on the journal’s webpage or invited contributions. We have been building this special issue with a tacit or explicit recognition that the sixteenth century concept of ‘landskip’ itself has always provided a ‘view’ that intended to be inclusive, and tie the visible elements of that view I. C. Bohnet CSIRO, Land and Water Flagship, Cairns, Australia

Vortex Filaments in Grids for Scalable, Fine Smoke Simulation.

Vortex modeling can produce attractive visual effects of dynamic fluids, which are widely applicable for dynamic media, computer games, special effects, and virtual reality systems. However, it is challenging to effectively simulate intensive and fine detailed fluids such as smoke with fast increasing vortex filaments and smoke particles. The authors propose a novel vortex filaments in grids scheme in which the uniform grids dynamically bridge the vortex filaments and smoke particles for scalable, fine smoke simulation with macroscopic vortex structures. Using the vortex model, their approach supports the trade-off between simulation speed and scale of details. After computing the whole velocity, external control can be easily exerted on the embedded grid to guide the vortex-based smoke motion. The experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of using the proposed scheme for a visually plausible smoke simulation with macroscopic vortex structures.

Virtual communication processes of open and distance education: Some contributions from the cultural studies field

The pressures of the information and digital culture exhibit innovation, but also a hegemonic power, and act in reciprocity with the global economy. Theoretical concepts and practical actions need to be revisited, to build equity in virtual communication. A sociological-cultural focus of communication mediated by technology, cannot occur without holistic and trans-disciplinary attention, and its contrast in practice. This will result in wider interpretations with regard to the socio-historical, political and cultural explanations related to face-to-face and virtual socialization/education programs. The cultural studies and critical theory contribute to situate and deepen the study of these sociological-cultural-technological variables, within digital trans-media dynamic reality. They show how technology drives contradictory far-reaching changes in the anthropological, epistemological and communication/educational social dimensions; and, then, in open and distance education programs. The dominant hegemonic logic is linked to the privileges of artefacts, which are not always the most suitable and/or transparent, within the late capitalism system which legitimizes only one sector of a socio-political–economic structure, with power, although it is said that ICT for open learning is more equitable. Many contradictions hold the illusion of a horizontal pluralism, currently more so with Massive Open Online Courses.

The Middle Term: Kierkegaard and the Contemporary Debate about Explanatory Theism

AbstractContrary to what many hold, Kierkegaard does not champion the God of classical theism. On the contrary, he criticizes the ideologies, anthropomorphisms and misleading objectifications of classical theism. He understands God not as a perfect being but as the fundamental dynamic reality of love without which nothing else could and would exist. In his view God is not a first cause or a necessary being but the infinite or eternal actuality of creative and transforming love: a love that is self-communicating and the source of all life and love in heaven and on earth

Proportionality – A New Mega Standard in European Copyright Law

Modern copyright law is designed so as to accommodate the needs of a dynamic reality through the extensive use of open standards, aimed at reconciling conflicting interests. In the past few decades the tension between the competing interests has intensified, and contemporary global copyright discourse has focused on the relationship and tension between traditional copyright interests and fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression, data protection and privacy. Against this background, a new path is gradually emerging in European and English copyright law, in which a new standard -- "proportionality" -- is being established to moderate the growing constitutional tension. The notion of "proportionality" is an acknowledged principle in European law. This article attempts to examine the relatively brief, recent history of the proportionality test as implemented in the copyright sphere, and understand its potential trajectories. Proportionality has been adopted as a measure for scrutinizing remedies granted in cases of copyright infringement. A growing body of literature acknowledges that remedies affect the scope of rights. The implementation of the proportionality test as a remedy-based measure in the copyright context firmly supports this position. The development of the new standard in European and English copyright law thus far, sketches a picture of a sophisticated vehicle for adjusting remedies to constitutional tensions within the substantive civil-copyright arena. The strength of this mechanism lies not only in its flexibility but also in its ability to simplify acute conflicts between competing fundamental rights and transform them into a dialogue which involves a more factually oriented balancing of interests, examined through the prism of remedies. The proportionality test therefore, may indeed take European intellectual property law to its inevitable new constitutional phase.

BrainX 3 : a real-time dynamic and interactive virtual reality reconstruction of the human brain connectome

BrainX 3 : a real-time dynamic and interactive virtual reality reconstruction of the human brain connectome

Exploring leadership culture change within a non-profit organization

How we conceptualize organizations and leadership in organizations is transforming as organizations face increasing dynamism. To understand this dynamic organizational reality, researchers and practitioners alike are increasingly directing their attention at understanding leadership in more complex adaptive organizational forms. However, although extant literature does provide some insight into the nature of leadership in complex organizations, the difficulties associated with the actual transition from traditionally top-down structured leadership to complexity leadership are less well understood. In this study, we explore a two-year long leadership culture change within a non-profit organization using an ethnographic approach. We draw from Complexity Leadership Theory as well as theorizing about organizational change and literature on the dynamics of organizational culture to understand how leadership culture changes. Five core themes encapsulating the stages of the leadership culture change process emer...

Polityka informacyjna administracji publicznej w sytuacjach kryzysowych

Public administration, in view of its essence, must satisfy social expectations. In addition, to modernization resources, reorganization, should also modify its mentality. Otherwise without systematic adaptation to a dynamic reality it fails and will transform into the dysfunctional structure. In the risk society, the information society, and this undoubtedly we are, the information policy, especially in crisis situations, has become the boiling issue. It is useful to characterize its essence and impact on the environment, would introduce entities those who are interested in security adjustment recommendations on key issues. It should be remembered that the vast majority of society is assessed on the bases of random information from the mass media rather than on detailed analysis of the public administration.