Conceptual Frame Research Articles

Close Encounters of the Archival Kind: Affect and Transnational Solidarities in African Diaspora Archives

Recent explorations of affect in the archives have focused on the experiences of users and particularly the distress archival collections could possibly cause them. Perhaps because they have, until recently, been trained to think of themselves as engaged in objective and neutral work collecting and preserving memory, archivists rarely reflect on or talk about their work, how they engage with the materials they manage, and how they personally feel about what they encounter in the course of their professional lives. Using an autoethnographic conceptual framing, this article uses four archival encounters in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to reflect on affect in the archives invoked by archival work. Through these encounters, the article seeks to demonstrate archives of the African diaspora as both a locus of transnational African diasporic identities and solidarities, as well as a critical site for the (re)building of the same. Finally, it also hints at how such affective experiences can, in fact, further the cultural and political work of Black archivists and archives.

A "poly-matter network" conception of biological inheritance.

Here we intend to shift the "DNA- and information-centric" conception of biological inheritance, with the accompanying exclusion of any non-DNA matter, to a "poly-matter network" framework which, in addition to DNA, considers the action of other cellular membranous constituents. These cellular structures, in particular organelles and plasma membranes, express "landscapes" of specific topologies at their surfaces, which may become altered in response to certain environmental factors. These so-called "membranous environmental landscapes" (MELs), which replicate by self-organization / autopoiesis rather than self-assembly, are transferred from donor to acceptor cells by various - vesicular and non-vesicular - mechanisms and exert novel features in the acceptor cells. The "DNA-centric" conception may be certainly explanatorily sufficient for the transfer of heritable phenotype variation to acceptor cells following the copying of DNA in donor cells and thereby for the phenomenon of biological inheritance of traits. However, it is not causally sufficient. With the observation of phenotype variation, as initially manifested during bacterial transformation, the impact of environmental factors, such as nutrition and stress, in the differential regulation of gene expression has been widely accepted and resulted in intense efforts to resolve the underlying epigenetic mechanisms. However, these are explained under a conceptual frame where the DNA (and associated proteins) are the only matter of inheritance. In contrast, it is our argumentation that inheritance can only be adequately understood as the transfer of DNA in concert with non-DNA matter in a "poly-matter network" conception. The adequate inclusion of the transfer of non-DNA matter is still a desideratum of future genetic research, which may pave the way for the experimental elucidation not only of how DNA and membrane matter act in concert to enable the inheritance of innate traits, but also whether they interact for that of acquired biological traits. Moreover, the "poly-matter network" conception may open new perspectives for an understanding of the pathogenesis of "common complex" diseases.

When I say … haunted curriculum.

As medical and health professions education (HPE) fields shift towards frameworks of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI), there has been an increased focus on addressing the environments of learning to understand hierarchies of power and create better learning experiences for students who have historically been marginalised in these fields. We propose the haunted curriculum as an evocative conceptual framing to engage with the aspects of medical and HPE that are toxic and troubling to learners and to understand how violent histories continue to loom large and permeate the present. The haunted curriculum examines how forms of oppression and injustice, such as racism and ableism, are always ever-present and often arise in unexpected ways during training. The haunted curriculum also helps to uncover how environments of training and professionalisation may themselves inflict these forms of oppression and injustice and may be ideal spaces to counter them.

The concepts of technological frame revisited and technological frame parts

The concepts of technological frame revisited and technological frame parts

Developing Conceptual Framework for Life Skills: The Employability Requisite in the Hospitality Industry

New generation needs fundamental life skills in order to achieve their full potential. Life skills also known as psychosocial competencies are considered essential for employability, social inclusion, and individual growth. This study has a twofold objective, firstly it makes a distinction between the terms skills, life skills, soft skills and competencies as these terms often overlap in the literature reviewed; secondly, the study also explores whether life skills are required by graduates for employability in the hotel/hospitality industry. A critical review of the extant literature on soft skills, employability skills, competencies and employer’s expectations with an emphasis on soft skills, from different sources, was conducted. A psychosocial competency framework was established. It was determined that the three domains of psychosocial competencies – the personal, social and cognitive domains impact job performance. Finally, a framework for life skills for employability was conceptualized for the hotel industry. This study contributes to the existing knowledge by developing a strong foundation of life skills. Individuals will be able to develop employability skills needed for the job. The study also gives the scope for an academia – industry interface for developing a life skills customer centric curriculum as it is a futuristic requirement for enhancing employability. Key Words: Life skills, Soft skills, Competencies, Employability, Hotel Industry, Conceptual frame work.

Experts consensus on standard items of the cohort construction and quality control of temporomandibular joint diseases (2024)

Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) diseases are common clinical conditions. The number of patients with TMJ diseases is large, and the etiology, epidemiology, disease spectrum, and treatment of the disease remain controversial and unknown. To understand and master the current situation of the occurrence, development and prevention of TMJ diseases, as well as to identify the patterns in etiology, incidence, drug sensitivity, and prognosis is crucial for alleviating patients'suffering.This will facilitate in-depth medical research, effective disease prevention measures, and the formulation of corresponding health policies. Cohort construction and research has an irreplaceable role in precise disease prevention and significant improvement in diagnosis and treatment levels. Large-scale cohort studies are needed to explore the relationship between potential risk factors and outcomes of TMJ diseases, and to observe disease prognoses through long-term follw-ups. The consensus aims to establish a standard conceptual frame work for a cohort study on patients with TMJ disease while providing ideas for cohort data standards to this condition. TMJ disease cohort data consists of both common data standards applicable to all specific disease cohorts as well as disease-specific data standards. Common data were available for each specific disease cohort. By integrating different cohort research resources, standard problems or study variables can be unified. Long-term follow-up can be performed using consistent definitions and criteria across different projects for better core data collection. It is hoped that this consensus will be facilitate the development cohort studies of TMJ diseases.

Numerical model of the aortic valve prosthetic frame

Aim: To perform a quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of three concepts of heart valve prosthesis support frames from the perspective of their safety under the most critical loads, conducted through numerical modeling.Materials and Methods. The study utilized three computer-generated concepts of stent-like support frames, created based on the analysis of similar balloon-expandable prostheses. The modeling was conducted using Abaqus/CAE software and included the analysis of two key loads characteristic for this element: compression and implantation phases. A linear description of cobalt-chromium was used as the material model. The feasibility of the concepts was quantitatively assessed using von Mises stress and its qualitative distribution on the surface of the models as stress contours.Results. The analysis revealed that two of the three proposed models experienced stresses exceeding the strength limit (933 MPa) – 999.6 and 954.0 MPa during the compression phase and reaching 1022.4 and 1044.7 MPa, respectively, during the implantation phase. Concept 3 had significantly lower stresses during loading; however, in the working state, the indicators approached the threshold, reaching 924.2 MPa.Conclusion. Numerical modeling identified the inefficacy of concepts 1 and 2 and directions for optimizing concept 3 – reducing amplitudes to form a “strength reserve” for stress. The analysis emphasized the importance of numerical modeling in the early assessment and optimization of medical devices.

A phenomenon-based approach to handling multiple paradigms: Investigating power in international knowledge transfer through active categorization

In this article, we propose a phenomenon-based approach as a suitable way of handling multiple paradigms in practice. We implement the phenomenon-based approach by means of active categorization to be differentiated into three steps – differentiation, integration, and patterning – and apply this approach to international knowledge transfer (IKT) in multinational enterprises (MNE). Via differentiation, we classify the IKT literature into six theoretical perspectives. Via integration, we identify power as the common element underlying knowledge transfer in MNEs. This leads us to conceptualize power as an influence on IKT through the paradigms and power assumptions of the Burrell-Morgan matrix and the characteristics of power proposed by Clegg. Via patterning, we draw implications for phenomenon-based multi-paradigm research, such as the dominance of regulative and functionalist power-assumptions over interpretive and critical ones and structural power lenses over rules of practice. We deduce recommendations and propose research questions for multi-paradigm research. With our conceptual frame, we enable researchers and practitioners to conceptualize power in more sophisticated ways. We contribute to multi-paradigm studies in Cross Cultural Management by exemplifying the benefits and implications of a phenomenon-based approach as a way to handle multiple paradigms in practice and propose further fields of application.

Addressing Fascism: A New Politics of Experience?

(1) Background: The rise of fascism in American and, indeed, throughout the world, prompts a question: why does fascism remain persistent in human existence? The question is one that Karl Jaspers might have asked regarding the origin and goal of history. The political description of fascism is not adequate to describe the lived experience of those drawn to it, and to assume such people to be irrational does not suffice. Rather, culture provides semiotic structure, which is phenomenologically embodied by people in a Mitwelt. (2) Results: Perhaps what is needed is not a political description of fascism but a communicological analysis that proceeds as a semiotic phenomenology of fascism as it is culturally embodied. Jaspers’ concept of evil frames fascism as colonialism turned against itself, disguised banally in such phenomena as Schadenfreude, as described by Lanigan. (3) I approach this question using a semiotic phenomenological method. (4) Conclusions: The fading colonial dominance in the form of cultural hegemony creates Laingian ontological insecurity and a desire for one’s inner fascist to identify itself in others. Addressing fascism requires new politics of experience.

Learning Spaces of Higher Education for Postdigital Citizens

AbstractCitizen science research is often interdisciplinary, responsive to public concerns and inclusive of community knowledge. It can also involve multiple voices coming together to address ‘wicked’ problems. In this paper, we introduce CmyView, a visual and creative methodology that is suitable for research projects in citizen science, particularly those focusing on learning spaces. CmyView’s conceptual framing is informed by research in embodied cognition, digital heritage, networked learning, and the postdigital. The paper discusses the CmyView methodology, as grounded on five core actions: walking, capturing, sharing, connecting, and documenting via public participation. We argue that the CmyView methodology and its accompanying app can offer an innovative way to understand, manage, document, engage with, and study the social and educational significance of learning spaces through community participation.

Internal CSR and the decline of organised labour: a possible elective affinity?

Purpose This paper aims to explore the potential relationship between internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the decline of organised labour in countries of the global North. Given the opposing trends since the late 20th century and the widespread adherence of internationally recognised labour standards in CSR codes, standards, and reporting frameworks, questions arise about the disparity between CSR rhetoric and practice regarding the collective rights of in-house employees. The paper further explores the tendency in CSR scholarship to overlook violations of collective rights for in-house employees in the global North. Design/methodology/approach To examine whether there is an elective affinity between the rise of CSR and the decline of organised labour, the paper uses a discursive institutionalism approach, providing a meta-theoretical analysis of academic literature on internal CSR. A scoping review methodology was used to identify relevant literature and compile it into an empirical corpus for a metatheoretical analysis. The empirical corpus, consisting of 38 articles, was generated through a Google Scholar (GS) search guided by the following questions: (1) What are the dominant conceptual framings of internal CSR? (2) What are the dominant roles and practical aspects of internal CSR? Findings The paper identifies two key disparities in the literature: (1) between rhetoric and practice regarding the collective rights of in-house employees in the global North and (2) between the extensive CSR research on violations of collective rights of value chain workers and the limited attention to in-house employees’ collective rights. The analysis highlights two factors contributing to these disparities: the integration of internal CSR into the corporate managerial toolbox and the distinction in CSR discourse between core labour standards and workplace issues. The analysis shows that internal CSR has an elective affinity with the decline of organised labour. Research limitations/implications While scoping reviews are often standalone studies, this paper used the methodology for its stated purpose. Limitations include the broad span of internal CSR across various academic fields and reliance solely on GS. Measures taken to enhance inclusivity were unlimited review period, refined inclusion criteria and keywords during the selection process and cross-checks of cited articles. Social implications Considering the implications of the decline of organised labour on workers’ collective voice, poverty and the distribution gap in wealth and income, this paper suggests that for CSR to play a significant role in advancing sustainable social justice, scholars and practitioners should look at ways to reduce the disparity between rhetoric and practice regarding employees’ voice and collective rights. Originality/value The paper lays the foundation for a better understanding of the potential links between internal CSR and the decline of organised labour. It addresses a gap in the literature on the interrelations between CSR and organised labour in the global North and proposes root causes of this gap. This contribution enriches the scarce literature exploring the potential elective affinity between CSR and transformations in the global economy and labour markets since the late 1980s. Finally, the paper deepens the understanding of the implications of CSR for employees’ collective rights and voice as well as for organised labour.

Beginning teachers’ descriptions of ball games as pedagogic practice in Swedish physical education

Teaching approaches in ball games in school physical education (PE) have traditionally focused on technical proficiency. Technical approaches have been criticised for being teacher-centred, exclusive, and lacking meaning. Game-based approaches (GBAs) have been presented as an alternative way to teach ball games. Employing GBAs is, however, not without challenges. Scholars have pointed to teachers’ limited content knowledge of games, their poor understanding of GBAs, and cultural expectations of ball games as factors that constrain teachers’ work with GBAs. The aim of this article is to provide an understanding of how beginning teachers describe ball games as a pedagogic practice in Swedish PE. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 beginning teachers who had graduated from two physical education teacher education (PETE) institutions. Bernstein's concepts of classification and framing were used to analyse the teachers’ descriptions of pedagogic practice. The findings illustrate how the classification of ball games knowledge varies. Some of the beginning teachers aimed to develop pupils’ understanding of games while others instead used ball games as a means for developing general movement capability or cooperation. Ball games teaching was characterised by a combination of GBAs and technical approaches. The influence of competitive sport outside of school was seen as a challenge, and the beginning teachers used strong framing and different teaching strategies combined with assessment to manage this challenge. The findings raise questions about ball games education in PETE in relation to specific national contexts.

Enhancing the natural absorbing capacity of rivers to restore their resilience

Abstract Resilience, which can also be described as absorbing capacity, describes the amount of change that a system can undergo in response to disturbance and maintain a characteristic, self-sustaining regime of functions, processes, or sets of feedback loops. Rivers exhibit varying levels of resilience, but the net effect of industrialized anthropogenic alteration has been to suppress river resilience. As changing climate alters the inputs to rivers and human modification alters the morphology and connectivity of rivers, restoration increasingly considers how to enhance resilience. Characteristics that underpin river absorbing capacity include natural regimes, connectivity, physical and ecological integrity, and heterogeneity. River management emphasizing channel stabilization and homogenization has reduced river absorbing capacity. We propose that the paths to restoring rivers include defining relevant measures of absorbing capacity and understanding the scales of restoration and the sociopolitical elements of river restoration. We provide a conceptual framing for choosing measures that could be used to assess river absorbing capacity.

On cultural appropriation and cultural transpropriation: a Latin American perspective

This article analyses the reception of debates on ‘cultural appropriation’ in Latin America, as the term landed in the region in the late 2010s straight from the US and Canada. Upon arrival, the Anglo-Saxon meaning of ‘cultural appropriation’ competed with the literal equivalent apropiación cultural (or apropriação cultural in Brazil), known in Latin America previously, although with a totally different sense. By examining such a clash of meanings and examples of resistance against the Anglo-Saxon version and inconsistencies in its local use, its applicability in Latin America is discussed. It is argued that, due to the specificities of the local ethnic-racial dynamics, some types of interethnic migration of cultural elements can indeed be analysed as variants of cultural appropriation, while others become incomprehensible when interpreted with conceptual frames developed for North American realities. For the latter, this article presents the term ‘cultural transpropriation’ as an alternative.

Enacted emotionality: a missing concept for directing affective screen acting?

ABSTRACT Creating emotionally truthful screen performances is often thought the performance elixir for screen actors and directors, but how this process is approached is subject to significant, and often idiosyncratic, variation from both actors and directors alike. During my own experience as a professional director working in filmed drama, I recognised the struggle rationalising a response to each performed take. In this article, I attempt to identify a conceptual frame implicit in many approaches to directing screen acting but not explicitly referenced or conceptualised as a directorial skill or intrinsic directorial process. This analysis aims to identify enacted emotionality as a missing concept from the directing screen acting literature. This analysis rooted in the theories of distributed cognition, a constructed theory of emotion, and affect theory attempts to explain how the process of directing screen acting can be more explicitly defined as characterising the range of cognitive activities involved in, and experienced by, screen directors and actors while making Film/TV drama. This inter-disciplinary approach offers a conceptual contribution towards the application of an enacted emotionality as a missing concept in the directing screen acting literature that can benefit future media education and practice for screen directors, actors, and media scholars.

Frame representation of quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert space

Abstract There exist many attempts to define a Wigner function for quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert space, each of them coming with its advantages and limitations. The existing finite versions have simple definitions, but they are based only on the existence of a formal analogy with the continuous-variable Wigner function and do not allow an intuitive state analysis. The continuous versions have more complicated definitions, but they are closer to the original Wigner function and allow a visualization of the quantum states. The version based on the concept of tight frame we present is finite, but it has certain properties and applications similar to those of continuous versions. It allows us to present a new graphical representation of qubit states, and to define new parameters concerning them. An important advantage of frame representation follows from the use of redundant information. The values taken by the frame version of Wigner function are not independent. They have to satisfy a large number of mathematical relations, useful in error detection and correction.

AI Integration on Capacity Building among University Graduate in Tourism Industry

The study assessed integration of AI in capacity building among university graduate in Tourism Industry. The study was started by identify the application of AI in tourism industry and evaluate graduate capability on applying those AI applications related to tourism industry. An additional objective was to identify challenges and provide solution by examine under which circumstances the adoption of AI applications could enable tourism graduates to increase their performance and competency in job market. Furthermore, the study explored the contribution of AI awareness and AI tools optimization to improve graduate employability through Conceptual frame work derived by RBV theory and Goal setting theory. The researchers utilized descriptive research methodology which employed both qualitative and quantitative method. A sample of 55 students from the institute of tourism SUZA were provided by questionnaire to answer specified questions and interview was used to get data from experts in tourism industry. Subsequently, SPSS and Thematic analysis were used to analyze the responded data. The findings noted various tourism students using AI technology in different activities such as Google translator, Google map, gps track, self-service kiosks etc. Moreover, the results of the findings explored the adequacy of existing AI infrastructure at tourism institute is not good in terms of curriculum adaptation. However, the findings further revealed that, there were few number of students who have no idea about AI which result delaying factors during job application and less awareness of online information. Moreover, the findings indicated that high percentage of graduate students agreed that AI has great impact on studies that enhance graduate employability in today world.

Maternal Subjectivity Behind the Couch: The Analyst’s Secondary Dependency and Its Implications for Political Psychoanalysis

In the international discussion on psychoanalytic technique, there is a controversial discourse on the use of the countertransference. In this paper, I discuss positions that recognize the shared experiences of regression of analyst and analysand in the analytic process, focussing on undifferentiated affective states in the analyst and their effect on the process. Starting from the metaphor of the maternal analyst, I think about these positions through the prism of the current discourse on maternal subjectivity. The naturalization of motherhood and the consecutive denigration of secondary dependency of actual mothers on a facilitating environment is described and compared to the position of the analyst in the regressive process. Referring to feminist and psychoanalytic literature on motherhood and reproductive labor, I discuss reasons for resistance against the recognition of secondary dependency. I argue that the patriarchal structuring of society and psychoanalytic culture seems to be a defense against vulnerability and the recognition of emotional needs. I outline the implications of the full recognition of emotional needs of the analyst for our understanding of the psychoanalytic process. In conclusion, the possibility of expanding the concept of the psychoanalytic frame to political circumstances as facilitating environment of the mutual regressive process is discussed.

Thinking politically about social work in child protection and welfare: A radical Reappropriation of the works of Hannah Arendt

This article presents a theoretical exposition of Arendtian political philosophy for child protection and welfare social work. The aim is to better understand and inform social work in the field of child protection and welfare, whilst accounting for the political context of practice. Sustaining the exposition is the view that power-laden child protection systems are ultimately socio-political through their authority to intervene in private family life. This is partly owing to the instrumental power inherent in child protection systems to exert dominance and control over service users and social groups leading to raced, gendered and classed outcomes in child welfare. To unpack the political nature of social work in child protection and welfare, a tripartite conceptual frame of private, public and social domains is derived from Arendt’s philosophical work. This is critically applied to put forward seven propositions for how social work can develop in child protection and welfare, with respect to practice in a socio-political context. Practical implications for future social work include implementing evidence-informed advocacy efforts and conducting empirical research toward preserving balance in social work attention to public and private life.

Pragmatics of TAM: Its Descriptive and Observational Adequacy

The Tense-Aspect-Modality (TAM) system of English illustrates a subsystem of grammar that situates events, states, or actions in time. However, such generic conceptual framing requires a more complex description of not only the structural forms of TAM itself, but more importantly, adequate observations of pragmatic contexts in which these forms manifest themselves in social interactions. Hence, there are two issues to address: 1) the inadequate description of the TAM system in many grammar books and 2) the inadequate observation of how the system is used in real-life communicative scenarios. The former is about describing the structural properties such as the difference between the “simple past” and “present perfect”, which is not always straightforward in situating an action in time; the latter presents semantic complexities as every TAM structure must be anchored in how interlocutors interpret it in conversations, such as the meaning of “I’m reading the book” as an ongoing act or as an expression of state. This paper addresses these two ends of the grammatical spectrum and advocates for a more nuanced understanding of the form and function of TAM in English that can benefit grammarians and teachers of English (especially those who teach English as a second language). Keywords: tense-aspect-modality system, descriptive adequacy and observational adequacy, pragmatics, form and function