Form Of Ambiguity Research Articles

Toward a Quantum-Inspired Framework for Modelling Legal Rules

There is a growing demand for the development of computational models of legal rulesets, yet scholars acknowledge an incompatibility between the deterministic nature of current legal coding processes and the indeterminate nature of the law. Previously, legal scholars have identified conceptual links between the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics and the law, but very few have attempted to formally model the law using a framework inspired by the formalism of quantum information. I highlight similarities regarding indeterminacy as it is understood by legal and scientific scholars, motivating the construction of a quantum-inspired framework to model ambiguous legal rules. I outline how multi-qubit systems can be used to represent ambiguous legal rules formally, wherein each state of the system represents competing orthogonal interpretations of the law. I show that the amplitude corresponding to an interpretation state can represent its likelihood of validity and secondary interpretive characteristics, such as jurisprudential alignment. Using measures of classical and quantum information theory, these states can be analysed to yield information relating to forms of ambiguity, intra- and intertextuality, and inconsistencies present in a legal ruleset and interpretations. Finally, I illustrate the potential for generative artificial intelligence to assist in producing these quantum-inspired models of legal rules.

Musical metapolitics and the Alt-Right

With some notable exceptions, research on the far-right and music has historically focused on rock-derived genres such as punk and metal. As the far-right have shifted political emphasis and sought to mainstream their political views, so, too, has research into the contemporary far-right demonstrated a distancing among political ideologues and parties as well as groups from both extreme lyrics and ‘harsher’ sounding elements. This has gone hand-in-hand with an embracing of a wider range of musical styles. Focusing on the music associated with the Alt-Right, a broad movement which sought to mainstream far-right politics, this article suggests that a cultural shift within the far-right went hand-in-hand with a mode of aesthetic appreciation among Alt-Right adherents, which has implications for the mainstreaming of far-right politics in relation to musical cultures and aesthetics. This form of musical metapolitics emphasized dissonant principles of irony and aesthetic pluralism as a form of strategic ambiguity, but still retained notions of racial superiority at its core despite an avowed openness to genre-based pluralism. Importantly, this process has implications for the mainstreaming of far-right messaging today using a wide variety of musical aesthetics.

Musical enchantment. Affective pragmatics and the making of intersubjective grief in lăutari funeral performance

This paper contributes to the expanding body of ltierature on affective performance by examining, from a semiotic perspective, the role of live musicians (lăutari) in the expression and shaping of grief during funeral ceremonies among members of the Roma in Romania. By conducting de detailed analysis of two funeral performances by Florin Salam, drawn from publicly available sources, this study illustrates how musicians utilize lyrical content with inherent affective potency, and exploit sound iconicity to imbue their vocal communication with emotional resonance. Additionally, the paper explores the use of various forms of pronominal deictic ambiguity by musicians, enabling them to indirectly engage either the entire audience or specific individuals. I show how the pragmatic function of the verbal and non-verbal strategies employed by performers is to transform the affective potentiality of a funeral event into actualized emotions. Furthermore, I emphasize the influence of local social aesthetics on both the actions of musicians and the modes through which participants articulate their emotions. Ultimately, I argue that the emotional impact of an affectively charged performance emerges from a confluence of factors, including vocal technique, discursive practices, musical instrumentation, and social dynamics. This paper contributes to the expanding body of ltierature on affective performance by examining, from a semiotic perspective, the role of live musicians (lăutari) in the expression and shaping of grief during funeral ceremonies among members of the Roma in Romania. By conducting de detailed analysis of two funeral performances by Florin Salam, drawn from publicly available sources, this study illustrates how musicians utilize lyrical content with inherent affective potency, and exploit sound iconicity to imbue their vocal communication with emotional resonance. Additionally, the paper explores the use of various forms of pronominal deictic ambiguity by musicians, enabling them to indirectly engage either the entire audience or specific individuals. I show how the pragmatic function of the verbal and non-verbal strategies employed by performers is to transform the affective potentiality of a funeral event into actualized emotions. Furthermore, I emphasize the influence of local social aesthetics on both the actions of musicians and the modes through which participants articulate their emotions. Ultimately, I argue that the emotional impact of an affectively charged performance emerges from a confluence of factors, including vocal technique, discursive practices, musical instrumentation, and social dynamics

What Does a Downvote Do? Performing Complementary and Competing Knowledge Practices on an Online Platform

Large-scale online platforms powered by user-generated content are extensively researched as venues of learning and knowledge production. In this ethnographically oriented study, we examine knowledge practices on a community question answering platform for computer programmers in relation to the platform mechanics of voting. Grounded in the practice theoretical perspective and drawing on the analysis of online discussion threads and platform-related online materials, our study unpacks the dominant practice of crowd-based curation, the complementing practice of distributed moderation, and the more marginal practice of providing feedback to content producers. The practices co-exist in tension and consonance, which are embedded in the materiality of the platform and are continuously enacted through user discursive boundary work, sustaining the mentioned practices as intelligible for other users, and outlining what counts as legitimately participation on the platform. The study contributes to existing research on the roles voting plays on online platforms, as well as offers implications for research on social and material organization of users' online practices. The study also discusses that it is the ambiguity around the mechanics of voting that allows practices to co-exist. While this ambiguity is often discussed by users as problematic, we suggest as potential implication of our study that it may be productive to design platforms for workable forms of ambiguity allowing knowledge practices to co-exist in tension and to provide space for user negotiations of these practices.

The Ambiguity in the Novel Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The purpose of this study is to reveal the ambiguity in the novel Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (2019). In conducting the study, the writers delimit only in analyzing the conflict of the main character Kya Clark in the novel. The design of this study is qualitative method because all of the data are in the form of words and quotations rather than numbers and the approach used Reader-Response, It focuses on the process of the types of ambiguity of the main character that produces the result. The study find that many forms of ambiguity, actions, intentions, abandoned, The implication of this study is to enrich the knowledge of the writers and the readers about the main character’s ambiguous that reflected in Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing. Moreover, it can be a reference for the students of English Department who are attracted to observe the similar research. Therefore, this research can conclude the novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, to show the ambiguity of the main characters.

Black Women’s Commemorative Recovery: Strategic Ambiguity as a Rhetorical Resource in The Embrace

When The Embrace, a monument to Martin and Coretta King, was unveiled in Boston in 2023, it drew mixed reactions from various quarters of the public. Some observers praised the statue for its representation of the Kings as a couple and praised the universal themes of love and unity they read into it, while others criticized its disembodied presentation and suggested it was not an appropriate commemoration of the work performed by such venerated figures. A significant element in the public’s interpretation of the monument involved its location in Boston, a city widely perceived to be uniquely plagued by memories of racist reaction. In this essay, I argue that, in a discursive context in which enduring memories of racist reaction constitute part of the city’s place meaning, the monument’s ambiguous presentation functions as an important rhetorical resource in recovering narratives of Black women’s agency during the civil rights movement. The resourcefulness of this form of strategic ambiguity is strengthened when the erection of monuments in prominent public spaces comprises an important element of contemporary campaigns to achieve racial justice.

Ketidaklangsungan Ekspresi Dalam Lirik Lagu Album Manusia Karya Tulus Dan Implikasi Pada Pembelajaran Sastra di SMP

This research approach is descriptive qualitative, which is in line with the research findings, namely in the form of a description of the Indirectness of Expression in the Song Lyrics of the Album Human Karya Tulus. This type of research is qualitative, because the data found were not obtained using statistical (quantitative) calculations but in the form of phrases, clauses or sentences contained in indirect expressions in the lyrics of the song Album Human Karya Tulus. The results of this research show that the analysis of deviations in meaning and creation of meaning in the lyrics of the song Album Human Karya Tulus obtained data that the indirectness of expression in the song lyrics in the form of replacement of meaning in the form of metaphor amounted to eight quotations, personification amounted to eleven quotations, deviations in meaning in the form of ambiguity amounted to six quotations , contradiction of three quotations, creation of meaning in the form of rhyme totaling six quotations and creation of meaning in the form of typography totaling three quotations. Thus, the indirect expression in the song lyrics that is most dominantly used in the Human Album by Tulus is the indirect expression in the song lyrics in the form of changing meaning in the form of personification totaling eleven quotes. The implications of the analysis of indirectness of expression in the lyrics of the song Album Human Karya Tulus for literature learning in junior high schools are expected to provide an understanding of the types of indirectness of expression in a song lyric. These implications are also expected to become additional teaching material to improve students' abilities in understanding the building blocks in a song lyric as well as creating a work of song lyrics.

Entente versus Alliance: When Should States Be Friends but Not Allies?

ABSTRACT When faced with a common threat, states have various alignment choices. Formal alliances offer explicit military obligations of support. Others, such as the Triple Entente that preceded World War I, are more ambiguous understandings. These entente-like alignments make no formal pledges of armed support in the event of hostilities. However, they do not entirely rule out military support either. Why might states embrace this form of strategic ambiguity over firm alliance commitments? Our formal explication addresses this question via the prism of collective action. Our modeling efforts, combined with historical precedents, suggest that an entente might be a more effective alignment choice than a formal alliance for states to balance against powerful threats. An entente permits states to strike the middle ground between entrapment and deterrence. The strategic ambiguity inherent in these two seemingly self-contradictory goals of an entente is a key component of its success as an alignment strategy, especially when external threats are large. However, asymmetry in strength between two states can result in divergent preferences between alliance and entente.

Strategic Communications, Ambiguity, and Taiwan

One of the biggest questions in the field of international security today, perhaps even this century, is whether Sino-US rivalry will metastasise into war. Taiwan is one of the most likely flashpoints. Will the People’s Republic of China (PRC) absorb the island state against its will, or will America commit whatever it takes for Taiwan to remain free to determine its own course? Responses to these questions from all sides are rendered in some form of strategic ambiguity. Each of the big players involved—Taipei, Beijing, and Washington, DC—eschews clarity and keeps the others guessing on key elements of its policy. Taipei is ambiguous about the form of independence it claims. Beijing is ambiguous about when it will consummate a unification it calls ‘inevitable’. Washington, despite President Biden’s May and September 2022 statements that US forces 66Defence Strategic Communications | Volume 12 | Spring 2023DOI 10.30966/2018.RIGA.12.4would defend Taiwan, is ambiguous about what it would be prepared to do to prevent a forceful takeover by the People’s Republic. But how much of that ambiguity is truly ‘strategic’? Do some benefits of strategic ambiguity come at the expense of good strategic communications?

Complexities of multispecies coexistence: Animal diseases and diverging modes of ordering at the wildlife–livestock interface in Southern Africa

The transmission of diseases between wildlife and livestock poses a major challenge to both conservation and livestock sectors in Southern Africa. Focusing on the cases of foot and mouth disease and trypanosomiasis in the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, this article explores the complexity of coexistence between humans, livestock, wildlife, vectors and pathogens. Multispecies coexistence, we suggest, is best understood not only through the relations between species, but also as characterized by a collision of modes of ordering. Drawing on expert interviews and a discourse analysis of policy documents and reports, we identify three modes of ordering coexistence: a categorical and increasingly disfavoured mode of species eradication, a territorial mode focused on containment and separation, and an infrastructural mode premised on connectivity between populations, landscapes and ecosystems. Together, these different modes of ordering pose a challenge to scientific knowledge production; where uncertainties present themselves not so much in the form of ignorance or knowledge gaps, but rather in the form of ambiguity: of knowing diseases and species differently. In this view, living with pathogens becomes a matter of recognizing the partiality of knowledge and the positionality of knowledge producers and users, as well as highlighting potential sites of alignment.

Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics

AbstractThis intervention is by a collective of scholars working on various facets of urbanisation in Asia. Focusing on the notion of arrangements/re‐arrangements, it seeks to extend the consideration of urban politics as a matter of surges, a provisional consolidation of intensities, inhabitants and their practices, affiliations and orientations that give rise to continuously mutating forms of sense, care, and collective action. Whereas the work and effects of institutions, with their genealogies, remits, and competencies, are to a large extent specifiable according to their operating norms and the various regulatory frameworks that govern their operations, the dispositions of arrangements – what they do, what they actually bring about – are not readily definable or clear, enacting a form of performative ambiguity. Involving workarounds, collaborations, exchanges, and agreements that exceed the familiar protocols of interaction among households, local authorities, markets, civil institutions, brokers, and service providers, arrangements entail the enactment of caring, provisioning, regulating, mapping, and steering as the purview of more provisional, incessantly mutating forms that fold in bits and pieces of discernible institutions. In this heuristic intervention we seek to further the ‘urbanisation’ of urban geography itself, in the sense of complexifying both the terrain and the methodological practices brought to bear. It attempts to open a way of speaking about urbanisation processes that exceed binary formulations, countervailing scales, or structural absences to encompass a broader range of processes at work in shaping dispositions that are materialised or simply potentiated. It proceeds from a process of collective composition whose objective is to diversify the working tools of urban analysis rather than simply offering new conceptual formulations.

The Mystery In Arabic Rhetoric, Its Eloquence And Images

Mystery, mystification, puns, and metonymy are all examples of rhetoric. They convey the meaning in different ways from that of the disclosure. It was found that mystery in Arabic rhetoric includes ambiguity. So, the study focuses on the forms of ambiguity in Arabic rhetoric in two topics: the first deals with two meanings and one word, while the second deals with two words and two definitions. The inductive method was used following the references of rhetoricians. And the analytical method when dealing with the evidence of ambiguity in the rhetorical lesson. Therefore, the research dealt with several forms of mystery in Arabic rhetoric, which intends the mastery of the methods and forms of speech. The results show the diversity of mystery images and the breadth of their meaning with several mystery forms in Arabic rhetoric. The study shows that means of Arabs flip the words away. Diversify the connotation, expands the knowledge, and indicate the methods of Arabs in expressing something, including hidden meanings, which are called puns. This research can help Arabic language learners understand the importance and hidden meanings of Allegory and what the book's author means. Knowledge of the Arabic language methods of metaphorical transcript and its characteristics change the meaning or evolution of the Arabic language.

The Storm Map as Digital Ambiguity

This article focuses on how digital platforms mediate disasters in the form of storm maps generating struggles over knowledge and authority. We focus on the dissemination of storm maps during Hurricane Dorian, one of the most severe hurricanes on record, as an example of an environmental disaster event that was widely circulated for public consumption. The storm map has become one of the most significant artifacts of the information age. Digital means now transcend the typical uses of the storm map as a guide to disaster planning, leading to two forms of digital ambiguity: hegemonic ambiguity and popular ambiguity. Hegemonic ambiguity refers to the uses of political power through digital tools to disrupt knowledge circulation and scientific legitimacy. Popular ambiguity involves digital technologies increasing the sheer number of perspectives by localizing representations. Actors incorporate smart phones, drones, and photogrammetric, remote-sensing, and GIS software into heterogeneous manifestations of the storm map. The comparison between these two forms of ambiguity demonstrates how digital platforms transform the underlying structure of authority, alter connections between knowledge production and dissemination, and multiply how disaster-related events are represented and interpreted throughout society.

Ambiguity, Familiarity and Learning Behavior in the Adoption of ICT for Irrigation Management

Subjective behavior of decision makers (DMs) is paramount when modeling information and communication technology (ICT) adoption choices in irrigated agriculture. Here, efficient ICT-aided irrigation plans often involve a certain degree of uncertainty, and differential attitudes toward it can cause uncoordinated actions between actors. Some DMs will implement ICT information, while others will not because they do not trust ICT reliability. This risks undermining the achievement of ICT benefits in terms of water saving at the irrigation district level. By distinguishing between different sources of uncertainty, taking the form of risk and ambiguity, in the present paper, we developed a new decision model to assess the impact that subjective behavior and learning processes have on the efficiency of ICT-aided irrigation plans. A case study was selected to implement the model in simplified settings. The results revealed the potential of ambiguity to limit ICT information implementation and to hinder water governance. Implications mainly concern the development of uncertainty management policies to favor DMs becoming familiar with the new ICT with lower ambiguity.

New risk assessment and prioritization failure modes based approach in a gas turbine system

The dependability occupies a strong place in the performance achievement of the system. It describes the mechanisms that lead to failures of systems. Failure mode and effects, analysis (FMEA) is a classical safety technique widely used in several safety critical industries. This method uses the risk priority number (RPN) to assess the criticality value and prioritize failure modes. However, it suffers from some drawbacks regarding the situation where the in-formation provided is ambiguous or uncertain. Thus, in this work, a fuzzy criticality assessment based approach is carried out to evaluate the failure modes of the relevant system and gives an alternate prioritizing to that obtained by the conventional method. In addition, a novel hybrid approach is proposed that combines the grey relational approach (GRA) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. This approach offers a new ranking of failure modes by solving the shortcoming concerning the lack of established rules of inference system which necessitate a lot of experience and shows the weightage or importance to the three parameters severity, detection, and frequency, which are considered to have equal importance in the traditional method. A real case study from a gas turbine system provides encouraging results regarding the risk evaluation and prioritizing failures mode with handling different forms of ambiguity, uncertainty, and divergent judgments of experts.

Uncertainty analysis in spatial planning application based on geographical information system (GIS) in Malang City

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the spatial information system based on Web-GIS in Malang city, Indonesia, related to the sources and types of uncertainty that happened, so that they do not have a negative effect on decision making. Process uncertainty analysis considering the various components of the so-called domains, which include Production-Oriented Uncertainty, Transformation-Oriented Uncertainty, and Application-Oriented Uncertainty. Based on the results of the analysis, obtained the uncertainty on the domain Production-Oriented form of vagueness and ambiguity caused by the non-synchronization of data between the central government and the city of Malang. Uncertainty on the Transformation-Oriented domain focuses on topological errors with an area gap value of 4,85 Km2, RMSE = 1,027, and a topology error percentage of 6.39%. Uncertainty in the Application-Oriented domain found an ambiguity due to the effect of the vagueness on Production-Oriented. It can be concluded that the source of uncertainty from the spatial information system based on Web-GIS in Malang city, Indonesia, is processed data in the Production-Oriented domain. Uncertainty in geographic information at this time should be considered an integral part of what must be built into our knowledge. Thus we can find out the complex nature of uncertainty in the spatial modeling sphere.

La Chronique d’Adon de Vienne († 875). Méthode, projet et public

Ado, the bishop of Vienne, wrote a universal Chronicle during the reign of Charles the Bald (d. 877). The identification of Ado’s principal sources (Quotvuldeus of Carthage, Raban Maur, Orosius, Jerome and Gennadius, Isidore, Bede, the Liber historiae Francorum and the Annales royales des Francs) enables one to understand which chronological and theological criteria the bishop chose and to conclude that Ado was not involved in a political objective, nor was addressed to a lay aristocracy, as it has recently been suggested. Ado writes a history of the church, the mystical body and the consistent institution of orthodoxy. He highlighted the value of a number of bishops of Vienne such as Mamert or Avit, without ever seeking to concentrate attention on the metropolis alone or to write Gesta. His will to dispel all form of dogmatic ambiguity asks us to see in the Chronicle his support for the teaching the bishop considered for the clergy of his diocese.

Management Information Systems Capabilities and Performance of Teachers Service Commission of Kenya

The need for Teacher Service Commission (TSC) to perform better, become more efficient operationally and more responsive towards its stakeholders’ needs in service delivery has seen increased automation of services through adoption of Management Information Systems (MIS) in the institution. This study sought to establish the influence of MIS capabilities on performance of the institution. The specific objectives were to establish the influence of communication capabilities, payment capabilities, human resource management capabilities and data management capabilities on performance of Teachers Service Commission of Kenya. The study was anchored on Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, Resource Based view theory, and Theory of Planned Behavior. The study adopted a descriptive research design. The target population consisted of 1,30 0 staff in various departments in TSC headquarters, Nairobi. The population was grouped into population into two sub - populations, namely - the management and the support staff. The study employed stratified random sampling technique for purpose of choosing a sample size of 130. The study used primary data which was collected with the help of the questionnaire. The questionnaire had both closed and open-ended questions. A pilot test was carried out to ensure that the questions in the questionnaire were thoroughly reviewed to ensure clarity and eliminated any form of ambiguity. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential analysis. The study found out that communication capabilities, accounting information systems, human resource management systems, and electronic data management system influenced performance of TSC. The study concluded that communication capabilities influenced performance of TSC in terms of speedy delivery of information and efficiency. The study also concluded that accounting capabilities had a positive influence on performance of TSC. It was concluded that human resource management capabilities had positive and significant influence on performance of TSC. The study recommended that TSC should continually adopt and implement management information systems in service delivery. The top management should continually support the adoption and implementation of MIS through budget allocation and also ensure proper orientation to the staff at all levels to ensure they have proper and adequate knowledge to use MIS effectively. The study will be of benefit to the management and staff of TSC; to other public institutions in Kenya who wants to adopt ICT in delivery of services; to the government of Kenya as the policy maker; and to researchers.

Compliance Behaviour Amidst Ambiguous Information: An Exploratory Study in the Context of COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic is an ambiguous situation due to the uncertainty associated with the outcome of the situation. This article aims at exploring the knowledge behaviour gap during a pandemic like COVID-19. The findings of this study indicate that individuals perceive different forms of ambiguity in different ways. Findings also suggest that, during a pandemic, attitude towards ambiguity and confidence in self-health significantly impact compliance behaviour. Interestingly, the findings also indicate that knowledge and perception about the context are not significantly associated with compliance behaviour. This study is one of the earliest attempts to understand the knowledge behaviour gap during a pandemic and contributes to the research literature by attempting a cross-fertilization of concepts from different streams of literature. This study also discusses the practical implications for the health sector, in particular health communication. JEL Codes: C9, D10, D81, D90

A kingdom of new cities: Morocco’s national Villes Nouvelles strategy

Morocco is one of the most active countries in the world in building new cities from scratch. Nineteen new cities are presently underway across the kingdom as part of a national city-building strategy, launched to manage uncontrolled urbanization and to support economic growth. Morocco’s city building is illustrative of the global trend in which states are creating urban mega-projects as part of national development strategies, but also reflects the unique local forces shaping new city building in the kingdom. This article provides the first overview of Morocco’s new city strategy and projects, which we contextualize within the kingdom’s recent extensive urban investments shaped by economic liberalism and persistent state authoritarianism. While new city building in Morocco is driven by the state and presented as a cohesive strategy in official discourse, it is characterized by ambiguity and confusion, introduced through the ‘hybrid’ role of city-building actors, an undefined policy status, and a lack of coordination among new city projects underway. By critically analyzing the national strategy’s forms of ambiguity, we examine the state’s modes of speculative interventions that maintain a ‘useful fuzziness’, raising issues of accountability, transparency, and disconnect in national development visions.