Intersection Of Spaces Research Articles

Гетеротопия инфраструктуры и инфраструктура гетеротопии: священник в пространстве больницы

The article is devoted to the experience of hospital priests’ serving. M. Foucault's philosophical ideas about the nature of medicine, as well as his historical works devoted to the formation of the power-disciplinary functions of medical institutions were chosen as the theoretical framework of the study. In addition, we used his theoretical reflections on heterotopia. Thus, the author focuses on issues related to the intersection of multiple spaces with their own social rituals on the territory of the hospital. The author of the article has studied, described and analyzed the experience of prayer service, as well as the experience of the presence and interaction in the hospital space of its various inhabitants, in particular priests and medical personnel. The article presents the results of a field study conducted at the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute in 2018-2019. The research was carried out in the form of participant observation, later supplemented by an interview. The data obtained allows us to describe the practices of interaction between the priest, patients and the hospital's medical staff. We are making an attempt to analyze the specifics of the hospital space in which this interaction takes place. We pay special attention to the place the priest takes in this space and the significance he has: on the one hand, we strive to discover the influence which the priest has in the interaction with other inhabitants of the hospital space, and on the other hand, to show the influence that he himself experiences being in this space. These observations allow us to assert that the hospital space has the signs of heterotopy and creates opportunities for the alternative ordering of interaction. These opportunities are realized by priests and at the same time, their implementation does not depend on the level of the priest’s awareness about them. Our observations were supplemented by interviews, the analysis of which allows us to confirm our assumption about the unintended overriding of the order of interaction on the part of the priest. In addition, interviews allow us to expand our understanding of the hospital space, complementing it with details from the subjective experience of our informants.

Tipping Toward a New Academic Consciousness

The COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning of 2020-2021 have led many faculty in higher education to see the profession and their place in it in a new light (Walton, 2022). While people are broadly engaged in a large-scale cultural re-evaluation of work, labor conditions, and equity, this awakening has posed an existential threat to many academics’ senses of identity, purpose, and community. Through autoethnographic narratives, the authors make meaning of this tipping point through the feminist intersections of space, power, and consciousness. The authors explore coaching and mutual mentoring as strategies for creating and holding space for disrupting these norms and expectations and for reimagining mentoring, collaboration, and collective action in ways that respond to our current realities and to changing academic work, moving us toward professional work that supports faculty flourishing.

Photogrammetric Processing of Tianwen-1 HiRIC Imagery for Precision Topographic Mapping on Mars

The High-Resolution Imaging Camera (HiRIC) onboard China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe aims to acquire detailed imagery of the Martian surface to comprehensively investigate its topography and geomorphology. The HiRIC is a pushbroom camera comprising three CCDs to simultaneously achieve sub-meter resolution and a large swath. However, processing HiRIC images using the conventional photogrammetric workflow is difficult due to the large shifts and narrow overlapping among the CCD lines. This paper presents a novel approach for photogrammetric processing of HiRIC images for precision topographic mapping that incorporates 1) the fitting of the initial Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPCs) of images from the HiRIC position and pointing data, 2) a deep-learning-based method for tie-point matching between adjacent CCD images and cross-orbit images, 3) the bundle adjustment of multiple CCD images for tripled-epipolar image generation to ensure inner-orbit consistency, 4) the block adjustment of multiple orbit images to ensure cross-orbit consistency, and 5) dense image matching and space intersection based on the refined RPCs to generate Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). Experimental analyses were conducted using HiRIC images covering the landing region of the Zhurong rover. The results revealed that subpixel accuracy was achieved for image residuals among multiple-CCD or multiple-orbit images. Comparison with the reference data (HiRISE and MOLA DEMs) revealed a mean deviation of less than 7 m in terms of the geometric accuracy and the subtle topographic details of the HiRIC DEM. The presented approach offers a reliable solution for using the new dataset of HiRIC imagery for Mars topographic mapping.

Investigating spatial behaviour in different types of shared space

The shared space concept has been implemented in many European cities to promote barrier-free movement and encourage road users to rely on social behaviour and mutual respect. By minimising traffic control and reducing segregation between traffic modes, it attempts to enhance the role of pedestrians in the space. Yet, shared space design is context-based, relying on local policies, cultural behaviour and the use of different design elements. There is a wide variety of schemes and, due to the complexity of modelling social behaviour in shared spaces, it is still a challenge to analyse the impact of different designs on traffic behaviour. Therefore, investigating existing implementations can be useful to illustrate the potential effect of a certain design approach. In this paper, road users’ trajectories from different types of shared space schemes are analysed and compared in regard to spatial behaviour. For that, five schemes in Germany were selected and recorded. The results indicate that cyclists and motor vehicles move with comparable speeds and mostly follow similar trajectories in the case study areas. However, to avoid conflicts, cyclists might choose to ride on the edges of the circulation zone or seek refuge in the safe zone. Some patterns of pedestrian movement were observed in similar schemes. Pedestrians are more likely to walk in the circulation zone in shared space intersections than in street segments. Nevertheless, this comparative analysis has shown that pedestrian movement is still diverse and hard to predict solely on the design. Even though the shared space design influences how people use the space, the presence of motor vehicles might have a stronger impact on spatial behaviour and should be better explored in future research. In practice, implementing the shared space concept does not necessarily create a balance in space usage or behaviour. It is crucial to integrate design elements and policies to better accommodate the needs of vulnerable road users.

Can people talk about their past practices? Challenges, opportunities, and practical applications of biographic inquiry for geographic research on consumption

AbstractWithin human geography, there is increasing interest in the application of theories of practice for understanding resource consumption and for pursuing sustainability goals. In stressing the routine, performative, and contextual dimensions of action, research on geographies of practice is faced with particular methodological challenges. A lively debate concerns the utility of talk‐based methods for investigating routine practices, such as those relating to everyday consumption. While it has been compellingly argued that people can talk individually or in groups about their practice, as of yet, these methodological debates have not been extended to the question of whether people can talk about past practices over the life course. This is despite the fact that attending to practice dynamics at the life‐course scale can reveal important insights into the intersections of structure, agency, time, and space in consumption practices. Seeking to address this gap, this methodology‐focused paper explores biographic inquiry as an empirical strategy for research on geographies of practice and consumption. After identifying significant challenges in representation associated with researching routine action in general, and past practices in particular, it outlines key learnings garnered during a biographic study on domestic consumption in Ireland. Central methodological features supporting talk‐elicitation include zooming‐in‐and‐out of temporal registers, multi‐modality, and phased implementation. The paper concludes that people can talk about past practices in often very detailed, intricate ways and that retrospective talk is a valuable tool for understanding practice dynamics at the life‐course scale.

Controlling Mixed Connected and Non-Connected Vehicle Traffic Through a Diamond Interchange

Diamond interchanges (DIs) allow movement of vehicles between surface streets and freeways for all types of vehicles, including normal non-connected human-driven vehicle (NHDV) traffic and the connected vehicles (CVs). Unlike simple intersections, DIs consist of a pair of closely spaced intersections that are controlled together with complicated traffic movements and heavy demand fluctuations. This paper reviews the movements being controlled at DIs and presents a dynamic programming (DP)-based real-time proactive traffic control algorithm called MIDAS, to control both NHDVs and CVs. Like seminal cycle-free adaptive control methods such as OPAC and RHODES, MIDAS uses a forward recursion DP approach with efficient data structures for any large set of phase movements being controlled at DIs, over a finite-time horizon that rolls forward, and then uses a backward recursion to retrieve the optimal phase sequence and duration of phases. MIDAS captures Eulerian measurements from fixed loop detectors for all vehicles, and also captures Lagrangian measurements like in-vehicle GPS from CVs to estimate link travel times, arrival times, turning movements, etc. For every time horizon MIDAS predicts future arrivals, estimates queues at the interchange, and then minimizes a user-defined metric like delays, stops, or queues at an interchange. The paper compares performances of MIDAS with those of an optimal fixed cycle time signal control (OFTC) scheme and RHODES control on a simulated DI. The simulation is of Phoenix, AZ, DI (on I-17/19th Ave.) that uses the VISSIM micro-simulation platform. Performance is evaluated for various traffic loads and various CV market penetrations. Results show that MIDAS control outperforms RHODES and OFTC.

Uncharted Surrealism: the Emotional Cartography in Diao Yi'nan's Films

In the contemporary time, the Chinese cinema has seen the emergence of various cinematic strategies in representing filmic cities. Among the sixth-generation directors, the topophilia strategy is most frequently discussed. However, Diao Yi'nan, an often neglected sixth generation director, emerges to the spotlight with his ground-breaking crime drama, Black Coal, Thin Ice and continues to gain attention ever since. Differing from the typical topophilia approach, Diao adopts distinct cinematic strategies to explore the intersection of individual sentiments and urban spaces. This essay builds itself on past research to analyze these strategic differences. The key theory adopted is the "emotional cartography", a psychogeography concept that explores the intersection of spatiality and subjectivity. Viewing filmic city as an "emotionally heightened space", the emotional cartography allows for the unveiling of hidden social relations as mediated by feelings and sensibility in a specific spatial system. The anxiety of living in a fleeting material world and changing social relation could be thus seen as the implicit political message hidden in Diaos narrative. The second part is built on past research and analyzes the narrative force of Diao Yi'nan's film. Affirming the logic of "atypical affects" () proposed by Qi Wei, the second part argues that the logic of atypical affects is also the underlying force for Diao's emotional cartography. Last but least, the essay argues for Diao's use of surrealism adheres to the logic of affects and externalize characters' psychologies.

Olli Jalonen’s Literary Explorations of Time, Space, and Existential Meaning

ABSTRACT I argue in this article that five of the Finnish literary author Olli Jalonen’s post-1999 novels – Yhdeksän pyramidia (2000; Nine Pyramids), 14 solmua Greenwichiin (2008; 14 Knots to Greenwich), Karatolla (2012; A Winter Bonfire), Taivaanpallo (2018; The Celestial Sphere), and Merenpeitto (2019; The Surface of the Ocean) – are intellectually connected: forming an intertextual web, all these works explore the existential significance and mutual connectivity of spatiotemporality, impermanence, and subjective meaning-making. In elaborating on this argument, I take my primary theoretical cues from two sources. First, I draw on twentieth-century existentialism’s basic tenets that we humans are “time-haunted ani-mal[s],” due to our awareness of our own mortality, and that this predicament “demands that we actively make our destiny.” Second, in challenging the assumption that the spatial turn has rendered temporality an outdated interest in literary studies, I draw on the work of Adam Barrows, who argues, convincingly, that both time and space should be brought to bear on the study of fiction. As this article shows, the ways in which time and space intersect and intertwine in Jalonen’s narratives significantly contribute to his fictional representations of existential meaning-making.

Characterization of Smooth Symbol Classes by Gabor Matrix Decay

For \(m\in \mathbb {R}\) we consider the symbol classes \(S^m\), \(m\in \mathbb {R}\), consisting of smooth functions \(\sigma \) on \({\mathbb {R}^{2d}}\) such that \(|\partial ^\alpha \sigma (z)|\le C_\alpha (1+|z|^2)^{m/2}\), \(z\in {\mathbb {R}^{2d}}\), and we show that can be characterized by an intersection of different types of modulation spaces. In the case \(m=0\) we recapture the Hörmander class \(S^0_{0,0}\) that can be obtained by intersection of suitable Besov spaces as well. Such spaces contain the Shubin classes \(\Gamma ^m_\rho \), \(0<\rho \le 1\), and can be viewed as their limit case \(\rho =0\). We exhibit almost diagonalization properties for the Gabor matrix of \(\tau \)-pseudodifferential operators with symbols in such classes, extending the characterization proved by Gröchenig and Rzeszotnik (Ann Inst Fourier 58(7):2279–2314, 2008). Finally, we compute the Gabor matrix of a Born–Jordan operator, which allows to prove new boundedness results for such operators.

“The Time of That Other Interpretation”: Gesture, Symptom, and Rilke’sThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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Urban Squares in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: a Street View on Ancient Near Eastern Governance

Urban Squares in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: a Street View on Ancient Near Eastern Governance

Accuracy Improvement of points elevation located by space Intersection

This paper aim to create method to observe elevation of points, tower and structure that can’t be reach (or don’t be need to reach), this method depend on concept of space intersection where intersect two known direction vectors start from two known location points or can be located from simple computation. This paper discuss too accuracy improvement for points elevation observed by above method.

Regulating sense and space in late Renaissance Florence

AbstractThis article examines the sounds and smells of late Renaissance Florence by analysing stone inscriptions posted in public streets and squares by the city's policing officials, the Otto di Guardia, during the Medici grand ducal period (1569–1737). The plaques contain sensory regulations prohibiting sounds, smells and sights considered socially and environmentally polluting. Unpublished archival records, printed materials and material artifacts reveal how sensory legislation developed as an increasingly public element of late Renaissance Florentine governance, while at the same time revealing how Florentines often resisted or ignored sensory regulation. Digitally mapping the sensory legislation plaques visualizes the intersections of sense, space and social history in new ways.

Living (alone) together in metropolitan Japan: shifting boundaries of dwelling, relating, and belonging

Staying unmarried and not starting a nuclear family is increasingly common around the globe. At the same time, living arrangements are diversifying. Both living alone and sharing housing are growing trends, especially in urban areas. This is also true in Japan, where experts anticipate the emergence of a so-called ‘Hyper-Solo-Society’, despite the norm to get married remaining strong. In this regard, Japan can serve as an excellent case study for investigating the relationship worlds of unmarried adults through and in relation to their living arrangements. My data draw on a qualitative study of unmarried individuals—primarily women—between the ages of 24 and 45 in different living arrangements in Tokyo and Kyoto and point to a diversification of relationship worlds, offering insights into how this development is interwoven with the diversification of living arrangements and revealing the shifting, partly blurring boundaries of dwelling, relating, and belonging. Furthermore, the data indicate that ‘new’ spaces of relating and belonging—spaces of one’s own, spaces of (unfocused) embeddedness, and spaces of togetherness with friends, partners, or one’s family of choice—are emerging and/or actively being created. These spaces, which partly break with conventional gendered configurations, are fluid and comprise ambivalences and ambiguities, but they can play a salient role for shifting notions of what ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ mean. By identifying changing perceptions of home and belonging, this paper contributes a new perspective to current global debates on ‘singles’ and their practices of relating and belonging at the intersection of gender, mobility, and space.

Cognitive Optimisation and Schizophrenia: Assembling Heterogeneity, Overcoming the Precariousness of Life, and Challenging Public Health Policies in Psychiatry in France.

Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) aims to optimise cognitive abilities of people who suffer from schizophrenia in order to improve their social adaptation. This therapeutic orientation was developed in psychiatry in the 1980s and 1990s, at a time when the disorder was being redefined as a neurocognitive deficit disorder. In this article, I describe CRT as an assemblage that lies at the intersection of multiple, overlapping theories and spaces of mental disorders and psychiatric care. To do so, I draw on 18months of ethnographic research conducted in a French hospital unit dedicated to the development of CRT. I argue that the focus on cognitive health and cognitive abilities (or deficits) is not only redefining the logics of care and reshaping medical conceptualisations of schizophrenia, but it is also opening up to a new understanding of people's precarious life conditions, where emotional, biological, and cognitive fragility is intertwined with social and economic uncertainty. I then examine the extent to which psychiatrists have extended the goals of CRT to include psychosocial rehabilitation in order to mitigate not only the effects of cognitive deficits, but also the effects of limited social and professional integration encountered by patients. Finally, I conclude with a consideration of how CRT has become, for its proponents in France, a means to develop a policy and organisational project for French psychiatry.

Zooming In and Out of Virtual Jewish Prayer Services During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

AbstractThis netnographic study examines Reform Jewish rituals transmitted by virtual platforms, Facebook and Zoom, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Reform Judaism, which supports modern liberal theology, has adopted the usage of technology for Shabbat services. The transition from the physical space to the virtual one challenges the performance of the ritual: Rabbis change the ritual's structure, and during online services, the congregants have different feelings toward the congregation and their own spiritual worship, made manifest in changes in their usual religious gestures. A positive result of the move to the virtual space is that though the Reform Jewish congregations, as non‐Orthodox communities, have been excluded by the state, virtual prayers further expose Reform services to Israeli society. However, this might hinder societal support if it is shown that the community can conduct its services without an actual formal space. This study illuminates the intersection of virtual space, religious praxis, and political conflicts.

What is ‘local’ about Smart Local Energy Systems? Emerging stakeholder geographies of decentralised energy in the United Kingdom

As governments worldwide address the climate crisis, energy systems are becoming both decarbonised and decentralised. In this study, we aim to increase understanding of the spatial dimensions of new forms of decentralised energy systems that integrate electricity, storage, transportation, and heating. Drawing on workshops and secondary data from three, early-stage case studies funded under a UK government programme, we examine how stakeholders responsible for development construct the ‘local’ in Smart Local Energy System (SLES) demonstrators. We employ three analytical concepts to address this aim: emplacement, place-framing, and place/boundary-making. In terms of emplacement, stakeholders use place-based narratives that draw on distinctive infrastructural, social, ecological, and political characteristics to argue that diverse locations (Oxford city, Oxfordshire, and the Orkney Islands) are ‘suitable’ places for decentralised energy. Stakeholders frame projects around non-local goals of creating technological and business models for replication across the UK and worldwide, even if some community-centred benefits are recognized. Lastly, our findings on place-making show pragmatism in flexing ‘local’ boundaries in order to align with project objectives. The three analytical concepts provide a useful framework to uncover ‘local’ complexities of early-stage decentralised energy projects, and emphasise intersections of space, place, and justice that deserve further scrutiny, notably in later stages of project implementation.

ADAPTATION OF A CLASSROOM OBSERVATION PROTOCOL FOR ACTIVE LEARNING

In our work, we are focusing on the use of classroom observation to provide feedback on instructional space design. An initiative to redesign teaching space began a decade ago at a large, research-intensive institution. In September 2018, a large-scale (477 seat) active learning classroom became operational. The affordances of this space are intended to enable active teaching and learning in large classes. However, it is difficult to assess how successful this space is for active learning. A multi-year study has been undertaken to observe teaching practice in situ, with the goalof developing design principles for instructional space and technology that support the development, design, and implementation of teaching activities. Existing teaching observation protocols do not fully capture the interaction between the instructor and the space because such protocols were generally intended for other purposes. The goal is to develop a protocol that captures activities that are both intrinsic and extrinsic to teaching. This paper describes the development and use of an observation protocol. The core of the protocol is the wellknownTeaching Dimensions Observation Tool (TDOP). The scope of the TDOP is extended to active learning activities drawing from the Active Learning Classroom Observation Tool (ALCOT). The resulting extended protocol, TDOP+, was used for coding both live and recorded classroomobservations in the Winter 2020 term. This extended protocol allows the researchers to capture information that characterizes the intersection of pedagogy, space, and technology through Activity Theory. In future work, the data gathered through observations will be analyzed using theDifferentiated Overt Learning Activities (DOLA) framework, to provide insight into what types of teaching activity happens in a large-scale active learning classroom across STEM education and how active learning in large classrooms compares to pedagogy in other spaces.

Examining STEM Teaching at the Intersection of Informal and Formal Spaces: Exploring Science Pre-service Elementary Teacher Preparation

ABSTRACT There is a growing emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education focused learning spaces vis-à-vis science education in the US public schools. These STEM learning spaces mostly take place in informal learning spaces such as STEM makerspace, coding academies, and STEM camps. With this emphasis, teachers teaching science in elementary grades may find themselves being asked to teach in STEM focused learning spaces that lay outside of their areas of expertise in science teaching to teach STEM concepts and skills (e.g., computational thinking, 3-D Modeling, TinkerCAD). This problem is further compounded by the fact that many informal spaces (e.g., STEM makerspaces) are now being integrated into formal school structures and schedules. This paper shares findings by examining the preparation of elementary pre-service teachers for teaching in one informal space—a STEM makerspace. We used an exploratory qualitative design method and share results that indicate including preparation in informal STEM teaching may be beneficial in one elementary teacher preparation program.

Moduli Space of Quasi-Polarized K3 Surfaces of Degree 6 and 8

In this paper, the authors study the moduli space of quasi-polarized complex K3 surfaces of degree 6 and 8 via geometric invariant theory. The general members in such moduli spaces are complete intersections in projective spaces and they have natural GIT constructions for the corresponding moduli spaces and they show that the K3 surfaces with at worst ADE singularities are GIT stable. They give a concrete description of boundary of the compactification of the degree 6 case via the Hilbert-Mumford criterion. They compute the Picard group via Noether-Lefschetz theory and discuss the connection to the Looijenga’s compactifications from arithmetic perspective. One of the main ingredients is the study of the projective models of K3 surfaces in terms of Noether-Lefschetz divisors.