Endless Process Research Articles

Optimal Forecast Model For Erbil Traffic Road Data

The paper is a study of the urgent problems of Erbil city - the issue of Transportation System. The paper analyzes traffic data in one of the main entrances street of the city, offers a model based on the theory of time series, to solve problems and improve the Erbil city's transportation system. There is verifying the behavior of the traffic flows and propose the best model for the traffic. Then offer an optimal forecast model. The models will help to structure the problem, to reorganize the transportation system and manage the endless process of development based on the principles of forming continuity. It is trying to predict transport traffic, which is a significant interest in areas such as traffic monitoring, control traffic flows, and management. Carefully forecasting and selected model can identify and predict the most important characteristics of traffic flow in the city.

‘For our garden of remembrance is somewhere else’: Narratives of separation through the eyes of Freud's patients

Translations of summaryThis article presents a unique collection of narratives of separation – unique because the separation here is from psychoanalysis and from Freud as analyst. These narratives were published as part of memoirs written about Freud by three of his patients. Their narratives of separation give us an innovative point of view on the psychoanalytic process, in particular with respect to the importance they place on the termination phase of the analysis at a time when Freud himself had not given it much consideration. The three autobiographical texts are Abram Kardiner's memoir (1977); the memoir of Sergei Pankejeff, known as the Wolf Man (Gardiner, 1971a); and ‘Tribute to Freud’, by the poet H.D. (1974). These three distinguished narratives are discussed here as works of translation, as understood by Walter Benjamin (1968 [1955]), Paul Ricoeur (2006 [2004]), and Jean Laplanche (1999 [1992]). They express translation under three aspects: reconstruction of the past (the work of memory), interpreting the conscious residues of the transference (the work of mourning), and, as a deferred action, deciphering the enigmatic messages received from Freud as the parental figure. This representation of the analysand's writing suggests that the separation from analysis is an endless work of translation within the endless process of deciphering the unconscious.

Growth in containership sizes to be stopped?

Purpose The increase of containership sizes driven by the need to create greater economies of scale seems to be an endless process. Vessels of more than 21,000 TEU are presently on order. The purpose of this paper is to question whether a positive effect still remains at present mega ship sizes and, even if this was the case, whether such presumably small effect would be outweighed by costly operational impacts for the lines and the ports out of the huge ship sizes. Design/methodology/approach The effect of increasing ship sizes on the three major cost items in container shipping have been investigated by extrapolating founded regression curves, applying respective physical laws and referring lumpsum crewing cost (as the major part of the vessel’s running costs) to various ship sizes. Findings In this paper, it is shown that further effects of lower slot costs lessen while ships get larger. Hence, a further increase in ship sizes would not significantly reduce transport costs anymore. In contrast, the necessary efforts to prepare the ports for ships of ever-increasing size are growing over proportionally with every additional metre of draught and/or beam. It is shown that an ongoing increase of containership sizes, e.g. in the Europe-Far East trade, does not bring any further benefit, neither for the ports and their terminals nor even for the lines itself and not even for the shippers! It is an amazing mechanism that all stakeholders act rationally on their own, but the overall effect for all of them (including the public) has turned into negative. Originality/value The results may pave the way for a closer cooperation among ports, e.g. within the Hamburg-Le Havre range. Ports and terminals may see the opportunity to escape the spiral of ongoing efforts for deepening and widening the fairways and installing ever-bigger gantry cranes by agreeing on a joint policy with regard to maximum ship size.

Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) in Curriculum Development

Using Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) as the main framework for the multiple data-gathering methods utilized in the study, the researcher addressed the following objectives: (1) to assess the educational needs of the Lumad and peasant communities in light of the implementation of Republic Act 10533, and (2) to develop a curriculum that addresses the needs of the Lumad and peasant communities considering the learning competencies stipulated by RA 10533. Freire’s method of education was maximized as participants in the research included men, women, and children who learned to assess their role in their community as agents of change with the goal of achieving social transformation through education. Still adhering to Freire’s method of education, the intended curriculum that was designed is simple and easy to understand, integrative, and perceptive of the social realities surrounding the Lumads and other peasant learners. From the state-approved curriculum, the new alternative curriculum ensured the presence of lessons and activities with a positive influence on all the aspects of a child’s development: physical, emotional, social, linguistic, aesthetic, and cognitive through the application of the outcomes-based education (OBE) framework. Curriculum design also utilized the Makabayan (nationalist), Makamasa (mass-oriented), and Siyentipiko (scientific) (MMS) orientation, which is based on rooted assessment of the needs of the community learners. The integration of OBE with MMS framework is expected to result in transformative education that can produce lifelong learners who will aspire to be part of national development while promoting their identity and the good of their communities. The research process undertaken proved that community immersion provides an opportunity for self-reflexivity that can result in a more inclusive curriculum design. Lastly, it can be concluded that community organizing in education is a painstaking and endless process of collaborations, which, if purposeful and sustained, can positively impact the communities.

Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) in Curriculum Development

Using Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) as the main framework for the multiple data-gathering methods utilized in the study, the researcher addressed the following objectives: (1) to assess the educational needs of the Lumad and peasant communities in light of the implementation of Republic Act 10533, and (2) to develop a curriculum that addresses the needs of the Lumad and peasant communities considering the learning competencies stipulated by RA 10533. Freire’s method of education was maximized as participants in the research included men, women, and children who learned to assess their role in their community as agents of change with the goal of achieving social transformation through education. Still adhering to Freire’s method of education, the intended curriculum that was designed is simple and easy to understand, integrative, and perceptive of the social realities surrounding the Lumads and other peasant learners. From the state-approved curriculum, the new alternative curriculum ensured the presence of lessons and activities with a positive influence on all the aspects of a child’s development: physical, emotional, social, linguistic, aesthetic, and cognitive through the application of the outcomes-based education (OBE) framework. Curriculum design also utilized the Makabayan (nationalist), Makamasa (mass-oriented), and Siyentipiko (scientific) (MMS) orientation, which is based on rooted assessment of the needs of the community learners. The integration of OBE with MMS framework is expected to result in transformative education that can produce lifelong learners who will aspire to be part of national development while promoting their identity and the good of their communities. The research process undertaken proved that community immersion provides an opportunity for self-reflexivity that can result in a more inclusive curriculum design. Lastly, it can be concluded that community organizing in education is a painstaking and endless process of collaborations, which, if purposeful and sustained, can positively impact the communities.

Territorial Government Reforms at the Time of Financial Crisis: The Dawn of Metropolitan Cities in Italy

The Italian system of local government has experienced a series of fundamental innovations during the last decade. Although Italy’s territorial government has moved from a light to a stronger decentralization, the Country has been embedded in an endless transition process. The last few years have witnessed a hectic period of draft constitutional amendments whose results remain to be seen. On 1st Jan. 2015 a new institution, the metropolitan city, took its place among the Italian territorial authorities. Despite its incorporation in the Italian Constitution since 2001, the metropolitan city only become a reality only when the national government carried out process of reform and transformation of Italian territorial government by transforming ten large cities and into metropolitan cities and depriving other intermediate governments (regions and provinces) of their fundamental competencies. This paper critically reviews the activation of metropolitan cities and the reshuffle of Italian territorial authorities made by the ‘Delrio’ Law. It stresses the way in which this reform marks the shift towards a new phase of the Italian regionalism, which is dominated both by a dynamic of re-centralizing intergovernmental relations and by the resulting loss for provincial and regional governments.

Law and compassion: between ethics and economy, philosophical speculation and arche-ology

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship between law and compassion from the perspective of two diverse scholars. For philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, rejecting the ideahomo homini lupus,there can simply be no organised societybutfor a primordial, unauthorised, human vocation for compassion (egoism and violence, for him, are nothing but attempts to repress this). Levinas, however, must be understood, as speaking of compassion not in the usual sense, that is as involving a human capacity for, and cultures of, empathy; he defines it, rather, in phenomenological terms, as an irreducible excess of affectivity for the ultimately meaningless suffering of another, beyond all theodicy and causality, whom one is ethically commanded to offer succour to as if s/he is a ‘higher’ and absolutely unique Other, prior to any comparison and judgment. General legal principles and rigorous rules, Natural Justice and positive law are equally ‘born’ of such an-archic, individuated, compassion for which one can only retroactively account. Justice is ‘born’ as one attempts to justify to third parties why one's care benefits some but not others; the paper argues that this perspective is preferable to prioritising empathic compassion over law for it binds compassion with responsibility. Turning to Giorgio Agamben, the role of compassion takes on a darker character; his historicised investigations of the ‘Western-Christian’ paradigm shows how the Greek and Roman legal principles ofepieikeiaandaequitasmerged with the Christian postulates of God-dictated philanthropy and ‘divine economy’ (Gr:oikonomia), leading to – instead of ethical anarchy followed by with infinite responsibility (Levinas) –anomie,legal exceptionalism and social control via patronage and other biopolitical practices to spectacles of compassion. This suggests that what Levinas calls ‘ethical anarchy’ has been captured by economic rationality and endless processes of anomic management that are equally free of ethical constraints as they are from legal and political decision. With reference to contemporary examples from the ‘law and emotion’ debates, medical laws and humanitarianism, the paper asks the reader to ponder upon the importance, if any, of Levinas's thesis in a world where the expediency of managerial rationality, the secular heir of divineoikonomia,prevails over moral, legal and political principle.

Competition Commission of India on Pre-merger Notification: An Attempt to End the Endless Process Mergers in a Multistage Process: ‘Substance’ v. ‘Structure’ of a Transaction

Competition Commission of India on Pre-merger Notification: An Attempt to End the Endless Process Mergers in a Multistage Process: ‘Substance’ v. ‘Structure’ of a Transaction

The Future of Globalization Under New Political Realities

At a time when many state that globalization is stalled, if not suffering reversals, there are indications that international cooperation on trade issues is alive and can deliver results, provided adequate and timely leadership is exercised. Foreign investment continues to flow, capital markets continue to be global, and trade liberalization continues to take place (not always multilaterally but certainly on a bilateral or plurilateral basis). At the same time, processes of national integration—a sort of national globalization—continue to take place as measures such as the recent national sales tax reform in India, to say nothing of several policies applied in China and elsewhere, all reflect the robust growth of the middle class in emerging economies. Globalization is an endless process that has accelerated and deepened in the last decades and presumably will continue to do so. This implies that the forms and processes of globalization also change. It is therefore very important to have in mind what the drivers of these changes are in order to better understand the necessary adjustments and adaptions. The backlash against globalization is also strong and undeniable. One does not need to go too far to see the political consequences. Different surveys confirm a decline in the support of globalization.

Bacterial metallothioneins

Abstract Heavy metals are found in all living organisms where, as indispensable microelements (e.g. zinc, iron, copper), are involved in endless metabolic processes. However, living organisms are also at a risk of exposure to highly toxic metals, including cadmium or lead, which do not play any physiological role. Among multiple mechanisms associated with the maintenance of micronutrient homeostasis and detoxification of unwanted metals, there is a family of low-molecular-weight, cysteine-rich proteins, able to chelate multiple metal ions i.e. the metallothioneins (MTs). They are widely distributed among Eucaryota, however, they have also been found in some limited Procaryota, including cyanobacteria, pseudomonads and mycobacteria. These bacterial MTs differ in terms of primary structure, the number and type of metal ions they bind, as well as with regard to their physiological functions. The expression of bacterial MTs is regulated by metals via metalosensors. MTs from cyanobacteria seem to be involved in zinc homeostasis, while in Pseudomonas they are linked to cadmium detoxification. In Mycobacterium, MTs bind copper ions and may play a pivotal role in the virulence of these bacteria. The presence of MTs in other groups of bacteria remains questionable. Problems with identification of new bacterial MTs are mainly associated with low level of homology between MT amino acid sequences of different bacterial groups. Further research is needed to evaluate the physiological functions of metallothioneins in Procaryota. 1. Introduction. 2. The history of discoveries of bacterial metallothioneins. 3. Structure and metal-binding properties of bacterial MTs. 4. Functions of bacterial metallothioneins. 5. Regulation of metallothionein gene expression. 6. Presence of metallothioneins in bacteria. 7. Summary 1. Wstęp. 2. Historia odkryć metalotionein u bakterii. 3. Budowa i sposób wiązania jonów metali ciężkich przez bakteryjne MT. 4. Funkcje metalotionein bakteryjnych. 5. Regulacja ekspresji bakteryjnych metalotionein. 6. Obecność metalotionein u bakterii. 7. Podsumowanie

Portrait of His Body

Portrait of His Body Jean Braithwaite (bio) Genres people love to hate People who express blanket distaste for contemporary creative nonfiction in any given decade are usually fixated on trends in one of two subgenres, memoir or personal essay, and they usually have one or both of the following reasons: 1) that people have a tendency to tell (self-serving) lies, or 2) that they’re (self-centered) windbags going on and on about trivia, displaying nothing more significant than their own tics and hobbyhorses. “Who Cares? Except Your Mother” was the title of a talk I once attended by Natalie Kusz, author of Road Song (1990). A memoirist herself, Kusz was of course not dismissing the whole concept of memoir, but trying to say how to do it right, to articulate memoir’s potential to speak meaningfully to a great many reading selves having no prior attachment to the author. Anyway, could there be anything more self-centered and self-aggrandizing than fiction? Memoirists at least attempt to depict themselves interacting with people other than themselves, navigating through a world not of their own making; conversely a fiction writer says to us, “Here, spend some time inside a pretend-world I created myself, populated with characters I invented myself and plot events I invented and put into an order designed to manipulate you into certain psychological states. I’ll just feed you the pretend-information a bit at a time while pretending I’m not here.” Who cares about that? Except your mother. No, actually, I love fiction, but it has to be outstandingly well crafted before I find it more engaging than reasonably proficient nonfiction. And I’m not atypical: the appetite for nonfiction is primal. Consumers of narrative care deeply whether an account presents itself as describing actual events and people, or made-up ones. If this were not the case, why bother to end so many crappy movies with that stark black screen and those white words floating in quiet authority: “Based on a True Story”? That it really happened automatically ratchets up a story’s emotional impact, and the fact that this opens us humans up to exploitation by all manner of shoddy or dishonest craftsmen, demagogues, and spinners of urban legends does not mean that the predisposition itself is contemptible or naive. “Based on is a license to lie,” I tell my students in Intro to Creative Nonfiction. “Moviemakers like that are trying to have it both ways: they get to claim the emotional power of reality and still make stuff up at will.” In this “post-truth” political era, there have been articles and articles about people’s imperviousness to facts that disrupt their ideological commitments, their willing embrace of “news” sources that can easily be shown to be highly dubious. But even that doesn’t mean people don’t hanker for accurate accounts of things as they really are; it just means it’s not the only thing we hanker for. We also prefer to be morally comfortable. We want to be on the right side of an issue already, not to have to go through an endless process of fact-checking, interpretation, and soul-searching. Sturgeon’s law There are not many fiction writers who tempt me, proportionate to the sum total of all published fiction, but it stands to reason that in any artform, most practitioners and most productions are going to be average. Sturgeon’s Law (you can google it): “90 percent of everything is crap.” By the same token, proportionately, we really only need a few fine memoirs or personal essays to uphold the value of those genres. It was suggested to me that I concentrate particularly on Lee Gutkind and Phillip Lopate in the writing of this piece. The two are not philosophically similar: Gutkind recommends writing nonfiction that reads like fiction and uses the techniques of fiction; Lopate speaks of the centuries-long traditions of the essayistic personality who doesn’t disappear into the mimetic scenery but stays right there with us on the page, keeping us company. Nothing against Gutkind, nothing against scene-based, action-oriented narrative nonfiction, but, well—that subgenre is plenty healthy...

‘Übersetzen’ als Kulturprozess: Thesen zur Dynamis gemachter Welten

AbstractCultures – though showing, as modern sociology has it, a strong tendency towards being treated as ‘reified’ – are not a pre-existent ‘given’, neither as an ‘entity’ nor as a ‘system’, but ought to be seen as ‘structures’ continuously built and re-built by their members in an endless collective process of appropriatory, and performative, construction and re-construction. It is in this sense that the constitution, tradition, and modification of cultures can be described as a never-ending process of ‘translation’. Drawing above all on Yuri Lotman’s dictum that “the elementary act of thinking is translation” (1990: 143), but also on Bruno Latour’s suggestion to see ‘society’ as a relational network of mediating actors ‘making others do’ things as well as on Patrick Hutton’s idea of seeing ‘history’ as an ongoing process of continuously structuring the previously unstructured, and on a concept of ‘discourse’ that defines it as a system of thought and argumentation predominantly articulated in texts, the article develops twelve theses trying to propose that what is conceived of as the constitution of ‘culture’ must be seen as an interminable dynamic process of an unfathomable plurality of individual hermeneutic acts (con/dissensually) translating ‘understanding’ into ‘understanding’.

Reasons in Support of Data Security and Data Security Management as Two Independent Concepts: A New Model.

Introduction:Any information which is generated and saved needs to be protected against accidental or intentional losses and manipulations if it is to be used by the intended users in due time. As such, information managers have adopted numerous measures to achieve data security within data storage systems, along with the spread of information technology.Background:The “data security models” presented thus far have unanimously highlighted the significance of data security management. For further clarification, the current study first introduces the “needs and improvement” cycle; the study will then present some independent definitions, together with a support umbrella, in an attempt to shed light on the data security management.Findings:Data security focuses on three features or attributes known as integrity, identity of sender(s) and identity of receiver(s). Management in data security follows an endless evolutionary process, to keep up with new developments in information technology and communication. In this process management develops new characteristics with greater capabilities to achieve better data security. The characteristics, continuously increasing in number, with a special focus on control, are as follows: private zone, confidentiality, availability, non-repudiation, possession, accountability, authenticity, authentication and auditability.Conclusion:Data security management steadily progresses, resulting in more sophisticated features. The developments are in line with new developments in information and communication technology and novel advances in intrusion detection systems (IDS). Attention to differences between data security and data security management by international organizations such as the International Standard Organization (ISO), and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is necessary if information quality is to be enhanced.

Place, Non-Place, Multi-Place and the (Non)Possibilities of Identity: Philosophical, Social, and Communicational Aspects

Michel Foucault in the text “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” wrote that “the present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space”. Space, place, and territories are social productions. Territory is a polysemic concept. Place is “events” created by territories, fluid areas of control produced by territorial negotiation (horizontal dynamics) and negotiations between places (vertical dynamics). Space produces places and is produced by places. Moreover, space, place and territories can be seen as the waves of territorialization and deterritorialization in an endless process. It is a form of seizure in the world, an a priori for Immanuel Kant, an ontological need for Martin Heidegger. Territory is a space, governed by a set of rules, named “code”. Territorialization is then synonymous of a certain codification, or the symbolical organization of space. Places are created by territorializational dynamics. They are the sum of “events”. The place and its territory is not “natural”, but it is a cultural artifact, a social product linked to desire, power and identity. The changes of the functions of places (what Foucault called heterotopy) are an important subject of contemporary studies. There are also many new temporary uses of these spaces and different emerging functions, including new forms of control, access, surveillance, new forms of openness and closeness (passwords, access profiles, etc.). Informational territory creates new heterotopias, new functions for places and a redefinition of social and communicational practices. It is not the end of a concrete place and its territory, but rather, a new meaning, sense, and a function for these spaces. The contemporary meaning of place and space has a visible tendency in creating ambivalence of sacrum and profanum, which means the secularization of the sacred and the sacralization of the secular. One of the sides of this tendency is sacralizing market and marketing the sacral. At the same time space has become a powerful tool of the ideological mobilization of people. The case which is analyzed in some articles in this issue of non-places (factories, department stores, sport complexes, etc.) is an example of absence of cultural references, its denial of a place. Also, the cases of textile factory Drobė and supermarket Prisma which are found in the above-mentioned papers are good examples of a situation when one version of the non-place was changed by another. Place is an essential dimension of human activity and existence. The place and territory are requirements for such a kind of human activity as subsidiarity, struggle for human rights, relation to Others, public experiences, personal and collective identification (“subjective” aspects of the object of identification) including some new aspects of gender, arts, performance in various contexts, the images and dreams about planning environment, borders disappearance and strengthening, the realization of the biopolitical mechanism. At the same time, the borders of a place are particularly revealing a line and a space for a social research, especially in the present era of a growing globalization. Border is a place where “past” and “future” are permanently clashed. On the borders of different places there is no inherently determinated relationship between the past, the present, and the future. Foucault’s idea corresponds with our understanding of space over time and contests the traditional notion of linear time, asserting that concepts of time have been understood in various ways, under varying historical circumstances. A closer analysis of the concept of space and all form of human activity there, is a central focus for contemporary social and humanitarian studies.

You complete me: the Lacanian subject and three forms of ideological fantasy

Lacan’s work on subjectivity provides the foundation for a number of unique developments in the understanding of how social stratification is maintained through belief in ideology. For Lacan, the subject is structurally lacking due to the lack inherent in signification and language. The response of subjects is to seek out the object cause of desire—a subject, object or discourse believed capable of filling the void in the subject. Lacan calls this endless and impossible process fantasy. By providing enjoyment and sustaining the desire of the subject fantasy is a tranquilizing force capable of justifying or masking the contingent, hierarchical, artificial and violent components of ideological discourses. This article examines the presence and affects of fantasy within Judaeo-Christian scripture, fascist doctrine, consumerism and human rights discourses. Through a comparison of ideological religious, political and legal discourses the striking similarities in the role of fantasy in maintaining belief in the universality, eternality and altruism of these discourses can be observed. Three recurrent forms of fantasy are highlighted—the fantasy of completeness in the present though adherence to the ideological discourse, the fantasy of completeness in the future through adherence to the ideological discourse and the blaming of incompleteness on scapegoats. It is argued that fantasy plays a significant role in ensuring the continuation of hierarchical social relations created and maintained by ideological discourses.

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE OF YEREVAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY. IDENTIFICATION OF THE MAIN STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLANNING STRUCTURE OF A DWELLING UNIT

The article discusses some features of planning solutions of apartments in the architecture of Yerevan, which are typical to different periods, since the turn of 19-20th centuries to the present day. Housing is the chief determinant of human activity. In the process of societal development the house is the foundation of a family, and the family, on its turn, is the key to the stable state. Nevertheless, the time influences the residential architecture. Societal progress periodically affects the living environment. Therefore, housing formation process never reaches the stage of completion: it is always in an endless process of development. The above mentioned primarily concerns the evolution of the planning structure of the apartment. In this context, the dynamics of evolution of housing in Yerevan has accelerated in the second half of the 19th century. The centuries-generated space-planning system of apartment begins to develop in accordance with the rapid changes of social, urban planning and life processes of the time (extension of industry, formation of new socio-economic relations, rapid growth of population, acceleration of construction processes). The impetuous transformation of the dwelling structure is reflected in the complex process of evolution - starting from the traditional houses and ending with the apartments in high-rise buildings. The research of the problems of the traditional dwelling structure, its transformation in the first apartment buildings and diverse improvements of apartment planning solutions contributes to the definition of the main development stages of the dwelling units during the last century, which are observed in the article. Identification of the characteristics of each stage and the multilateral evaluation of different qualities of spatial-planning arrangement of apartments allow working out proper solutions for dwelling units in the future.

English

The present article focuses on Judith Butler’s theory of ‘gender performativity’ and its application to Joanna Russ’s science fiction, The Female Man (1975). Butler applies Foucault’s genealogical methodology in Gender Trouble (1999) to trace the processes by which identity is constructed within language and discourse. She sees the subject as the effect of institutions and discourses rather than the other way round, which implies that the subject cannot simply be but is always already instituted. She believes that since the subject is always involved in the endless process of becoming, it is possible to reassume or repeat subject hood in different ways. Butler’s genealogical critique of the category of the subject coincides with her notion that gendered and sexed identities are performative. She extends Beauvoir’s (1908-1986) famous statement that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” and suggests that Beauvoir’s claim can be read as a formulation that shows gender as a process which has neither origin nor end, so that it is something that we ‘do’ rather than we ‘are’. Gendered identities are therefore performative i. e., based on repetition and since the repetitions which form the subject’s identity never finish, gender identity is never fixed. Russ (1937-2011) depicts four women from different worlds with different attributes which affirms Butler’s belief in performativity of gender that challenges the presumed fixed gender identities. Keywords: Joanna Russ; The Female Man; s cience fiction; gender performativity; womanhood DOI: http://doi.org/10.17576/3L-2016-2201-13

Origin of Life: A Consequence of Cosmic Energy, Redox Homeostasis and Quantum Phenomenon

Origin of life on earth transpired once and from then on, it emerges as an endless eternal process. Matter and energy are constants of the cosmos and the hypothesis is that the origin of life is a moment when these constants intertwined or interacted. Energy from the cosmos interacted with inorganic matter to support matter with retention of this riveted energy, as energy to be circulated within the primitive channelized structures to conserve energy by the materialization of the proton homeostasis mechanisms developed from the obtainable inorganic matter. The driver for these processes as we now confirm, exists in the quantum world and through quantum phenomenal processes could have combined these constants to create the magic of life. Primitive earth was a chemical reactive system that triggered a macromolecular evolution by means of open thermodynamic systems, driven by cyclic gradients of temperature, electromagnetic radiation and chemical potentials which sustained life and proto-consciousness in the first life forms driven by the quantum processes. The origin of life is always an intriguing topic but the purpose for finding the cause should never be inclined towards obliterating it; for if that is the case, the further we seek, the farther it will go.

Vectoriality and protension vs symmetries and endless processes in minimalist music : some reflections stemming from the analysis of the sketches of Steve Reich's It's Gonna Rain

Vectoriality and protension vs symmetries and endless processes in minimalist music : some reflections stemming from the analysis of the sketches of Steve Reich's It's Gonna Rain

Перманентное обновление вещей как способ демонстрации статуса в обществе потребления

The cultural phenomenon of consumerism is dynamic in nature, transforming over the course of time. Consumption gives rise to specifically defined values, which are based on strong attachment to material objects, high awareness of fashion trends, and the chase after novelty (which ultimately turns out to be illusory and false). Such attitudes put great emphasis on constant consumption, and as the industry of the consumer civilization keeps spawning more and more new gadgets, this only stokes the flames of desire for continually acquiring new possessions. Consumer society is dominated by the imperative to perpetually renew one’s personal possessions (the principle of permanence). Industrial production is driven not just by certain needs, but by the continual rise of demand. It is geared towards manufacturing an increasingly large amount of items, including those that have little practical use but are considered to be prestigious status symbols. With the fashion constantly changing, consumption turns into an endless process. By buying the latest models of certain items, consumers show the people around them that they are keeping up with the times and following the imperatives of fashion. This is their way of constructing their identity. By ceaselessly acquiring new goods to retain their social status, consumers follow the behavior pattern that is forced on them by the consumption infrastructure. They show their independence by being dependent on fashion trends: such is the paradox of consumer society. It must be noted that the constant renewal of personal possessions has an adverse impact on the environment.