Dominant Kind Research Articles

“The Shifting Light of History”: Addressing Philosophy of Memory in Julian Barnes’s <i>Elizabeth Finch</i>

This article discusses the narrative construction of various philosophical reflections on cultural memory in Julian Barnes’s novel <i>Elisabeth Finch</i>. It addresses the dichotomy between recollection and oblivion, presenting a memory process as a the “problem of forgotten evidence”, thoroughly discussed in today’s Cultural and Memory Studies. While contemporary scholars and philosophers aim at reflecting on the role of memory in metaphysics and epistemology, mainly relating the process of recollection either to personal identity, or the experience of time, space and epistemic rationale, the dimension of collective memory, and its foregrounding role in everyone’s self-perceptiveness, receives a considerably reduced critical attention. The literary analysis of <i>Elizabeth Finch</i> seeks to problematize this divisive understanding of functions of memory, proposing instead to consider the semantic complementarity of various processes of recollection/forgetting, connecting the narrative representation of events that one has personally experienced and the officially stated collective renderings of factual memory. It resists considering personal remembering and collective forgetting as ostensibly competing rationales, proposing to delve deeper into a tightly crafted relationship between the perception of one’s identity in time and epistemological framework of collective experience mostly focused on the officially stated dimension of memory. Revisiting discourses on religion associated with the narrative construction of borderlands in Julian Barnes’s <i>Elizabeth Finch</i>, this article contributes to reconsider collective memory and counter-memory not as mutually exclusive, but as synthetized and put into productive motion narrative dimensions. The intertextual articulation of discourses on religion fosters new theoretical perspectives for rethinking counter-memory not only as a mode of recovering silenced and contested versions of the European history, but also as a means of providing multidimensional and transcultural interpretation of the collective past. Perceived as a form of discursive resistance to any kind of political and social dominance, the narrative construction of “forgotten evidence” elucidates the complex post-dialectical relationship between official collective memory and marginalized counter-memory.

Fracasopolicy: toward a critical typology of policy failures

ABSTRACT Policy failures in response to crises become visible, and the social reactions they trigger change the world. Building on critical failure studies and ontology of Spanish fracaso in policy research we propose to approach policy failures as ‘fracasopolicy’ – regimes for which the issue of failure is inherent. Published work on policy failures in the pandemic allows us to map out three such regimes: (1) someone has to fail, (2) the failure that isn’t there and (3) everything we touch turns into failure. We discuss how policy-failure relationships reveal the entanglement of past oppressions and power configurations; and how they provide fertile soil for currently emerging kinds of domination – vaccine nationalism, pandemic necropolitics. Revealing the manifestations of fracasopolicy, we show, will allow us to develop critical knowledge about our world and demystify failures, though we should also be aware of the risks of developing a narrative that romanticizes and overrepresents these.

Revealing the interaction mechanism between bovine serum albumin (BSA) and a fluorescent coumarin derivative: A multispectroscopic and in silico approach

The interaction of biomacromolecules with each other or with the ligands is essential for biological activity. In this context, the molecular recognition of bovine serum albumin (BSA) with 4-(Benzo[1,3]dioxol-5-yloxymethyl)-7-hydroxy-chromen-2-one (4BHC) is explored using multispectroscopic and computational techniques. UV–Vis spectroscopy helped in predicting the conformational variations in BSA. Using fluorescence spectroscopy, the quenching behaviour of the fluorophore upon interaction with the ligand is examined, which is found to be a static type of quenching; fluorescence lifetime studies further verify this. The binding constant is discovered to be in the range of 104 M−1, which indicates the moderate type of association that results in reversible binding, where the transport and release of ligands in the target tissue takes place. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) measurements validate the secondary structure conformational changes of BSA after complexing with 4BHC. The thermodynamic factors obtained through temperature-dependent fluorescence studies suggest that the dominant kind of interaction force is hydrophobic in nature, and the interaction process is spontaneous. The alterations in the surrounding microenvironment of the binding site and conformational shifts in the structure of the protein are studied through 3D fluorescence and synchronous fluorescence studies. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations agree with experimental results and explain the structural stability throughout the discussion. The outcomes might have possible applications in the field of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.

The Future of Double Consciousness: Epistemic Virtue, Identity, and Structural Anti-Blackness

This paper considers two conceptual expansions of Du Boisian double consciousness—white double consciousness (Alcoff 2015) and kaleidoscopic consciousness (Medina 2013)—both of which aim to articulate the moral-epistemic potential of cultivating double consciousness from racially dominant or other socially privileged positions. We analyze these concepts and challenge them on the grounds that they lack continuity with their Du Boisian predecessor and face problems of practical feasibility. As we show, these expansions obscure structural barriers that make white double consciousness and kaleidoscopic consciousness unlikely antidotes to the kind of racial domination that double consciousness was introduced to illuminate. We conclude that while more intersectional and pluralistic accounts of double consciousness may be desirable, the project of expansion has moral limits. Identifying these limitations, we outline ways in which double consciousness—as a tool for conceptualizing the genealogy of structural anti-Blackness—remains valuable in the absence of ever-expanding revision.

Probabilistic linguistic prospect outranking risk decision making method based on stochastic dominance and application in emergency plan evaluation

In the decision-making process, probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) could represent decision-makers’ uncertain evaluation information. The combination of probabilistic and linguistic information assists decision-makers to depict their evaluation information more flexibly. In this paper, a prospect outranking decision-making method based on stochastic dominance is proposed for solving the multi-attribute risk decision-making problem under the probabilistic linguistic information environment. Firstly, to fully preserve the original probabilistic linguistic information, we give the definitions of the generalized probability distribution and the corresponding generalized cumulative distribution function of a PLTS for defining the distance measure between PLTSs. Secondly, based on the positive and negative ideal cumulative distribution functions, we propose the probabilistic linguistic prospect value functions. After that, considering the uncertainty of the relationship between alternatives, several kinds of novel prospect stochastic dominance and almost stochastic dominance relations are defined, which consider the decision makers’ distinction between gains and losses to measure the subtle relationship between alternatives. The stochastic dominance approach and the almost stochastic dominance approach under the probabilistic linguistic decision-making environment are put forward. Besides, we use the superiority and inferiority ranking method to solve the dominance ranking problem of the uncertainty relationship between any two alternatives. Finally, the proposed method is applied in the evaluation of emergency plans to show the accuracy and reliability, and comparative analyses are made to illustrate its availability.

Islamic communication as an invention of modern-western knowledge: critical analysis toward Islamic communication in Indonesia

ABSTRACT This article questions the idea that Islamic communication is rooted purely in the religion itself. By studying the field of Islamic communication studies in Indonesia, it analyzes discourses which produce knowledge of Islamic communication. Foucauldian archaeological method is employed to examine literatures, textbooks, and other sources which form regulated statements about Islamic communication tradition in Indonesia, developed by both public university scholars and Islamic scholars in the nation. The author argues that Islamic communication traditions in Indonesia are the product of modern developmentalism discourse which dominated in the New Order era (1966–1998). As a consequence, Islamic communication tradition in Indonesia is currently unable to provide an alternative perspective in much broader communication studies. This article proposes revisiting the history of Islamic communication within certain local contexts and use of the Islamic discourse as a criticism toward every kind of domination, including the domination of knowledge termed Islamic.

Women under the Panchayat Regime: Parijat’s Under the Sleepless Mountain as a Feminist Project

The representation of the female in Nepali fiction has been a fascinating subject for critics. This paper examines the representational position of the women as projected in Parijat’s Under the Sleepless Mountain. In this novel, the novelist critiques the patriarchal society’s treatment to women in a different social structure. Parijat’s female characters are projected as suffering and marginalized people of the Nepali society around the student’s revolution of the early 1980s. Other issues raised in this paper focus on students and subaltern characters who are treated badly as they raise voice against the oppressive Panchayat system and other kinds of dominance. She writes against social wrongs and ill intended human activities. She exposes the character’s desire for freedom, individuality and equal rights. Thus, the objective of this study is to find out the answers to whether the suffering of women, laborers and students are concretely represented in her novel or not. In this paper, this researcher explores the issues around the plight of the female, which are interpreted from the feminist perspective. The relevant feminist notions developed by the feminist critics such as Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, Catherine Belsey and Susan Bassnett have been adopted for textual analysis as a methodological tool. This paper concludes that the gender discrimination and political disharmony are the major obstacles to women upliftment.

TAG QUESTIONS: OLIVIA POPE'S WOMEN’S LANGUAGE DOMINANCE IN "SCANDAL" TV SHOW, SEASON 5

This research, titled Tag Questions: Olivia Pope's Linguistic Dominance in "Scandal" TV Show, Season 5, examined language features used mostly by women. The research sought to identify the tag question as one of the gender-specific linguistic elements utilized by Olivia Pope. This research focuses on Lakoff's (1975) idea of the linguistic characteristics of women. The formal and informal techniques are used to convey the analysis, which was conducted using qualitative methods based on Lakoff's (1975) theory about women's language. The data was gathered using the documentation method. The research revealed that the female main character employed one dominant kind of one of the 10 categories of women’s language traits. Because the female main character in this TV series season 5 was a typical independent woman who tended to turn a statement into a question to reduce the force of the statement, the results demonstrate that tag questions became the dominant type of women's language feature uttered in this TV series season 5.

Educational Experience, Pedagogical Research and the State’s Interest

This contribution makes the case that education has inherent purposes which distinguish it as a human practice; purposes that are distinct from those of the state. The philosophical and historical ancestry of these purposes is explored. This exploration reveals that educational experience is more properly understood as a live encounter with inheritances of learning than as a matter of transmission. The teaching of religion is taken as a concrete example to highlight this key difference. Where the state fails to recognise the inherent purposes of education, these purposes can become compromised. Accordingly, educational practice may fall victim to different kinds of domination. Some historical and more recent examples of such domination are identified and considered, as is an example of a healthy relationship between the state and educational practice. The consequences of the investigation for pedagogical research and practice, and for the proper relationship of the state to education, are then reviewed.

THE RUSSIAN STRATEGIC VISION IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION

This analytical study focuses on the importance of the Eastern Mediterranean region in Russia's strategic perception and the Russian policies in the region in terms of securing its energy security. Russia is aware that the Mediterranean Sea is its main gateway to openness outside the Eurasian sphere, which includes Europe and its security. The Mediterranean also provides access to other oceans and seas, including the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which represent Russia's strategic step towards land and sea areas that constitute important geopolitical nodes for it. The Mediterranean region is considered a vital area as it has not previously been subject to any kind of control or domination.

Social structures, everyday interactions, and subjectivity—where (and how) does decolonizing begin?—Attending to desires, fears, and pains

ABSTRACT When ‘decoloniality’ and ‘decolonizing’ have become words frequently used in conferences and journal publications in our field of Applied Linguistics/Language and Education, as well as on many academics’ lips, we start to worry about how they too can be easily co-opted as buzz words emptied of their critical meaning and actional potential and become appropriated as discourses with symbolic capital to add to one’s portfolio for academic promotion. What Kubota (2016) has cautioned about translanguaging can be equally true of the scholarship on decoloniality: … its knowledge is becoming another canon – a canon which is integrated into a neoliberal capitalist academic culture of incessant knowledge production and competition for economic and symbolic capital (p. 475). In this paper, we write about the pains, memories, fears, hopes and desires associated with experiencing colonizing acts across different timescales: in one’s everyday life (e.g. micro aggressions in social interactions), in how one’s own sense of self and the world (subjectivity) is shaped and reshaped (e.g. through academic socialization), and in embarking on what can be done to change the various social structures of (both colonial and other kinds of) domination and subordination. The journey is never purely academic or intellectual as it is always embodied, evoking painful memories, fears and discomfort. And from this journey of sorting out what has happened to us (and many people like us) who have been subjected to the exercising of colonial power mediated through many diverse agents, across many shorter-timescales happenings as well as longer-timescales events and processes (Lemke, 2000, 2008), we aim at finding a pathway ahead that is over and beyond just research publications and presentations. No doubt, research publications and presentations are important as a starting point, but they must lead to some further actions for them to be truly decolonizing (and not just ‘knowledge about decolonizing’). Then we’ll propose a tentative thinking and planning tool to work with teachers, students, administrators, policy makers and most importantly ourselves, to grasp what it means/what it takes, and simultaneously begin to work, to ‘decolonize’ ourselves, our curriculum, our pedagogy, our scholarship and then gradually our field of Language Studies and Education.

Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination, by Vincent W. Lloyd

Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination, by Vincent W. Lloyd

The goods (and bads) of self‐employment

The goods (and bads) of <scp>self‐employment</scp>

Experimentally testing mate preference in an avian system with unidirectional bill color introgression.

Mating behavior can play a key role in speciation by inhibiting or facilitating gene flow between closely related taxa. Hybrid zones facilitate a direct examination of mating behavior and the traits involved in establishing species barriers. The long-tailed finch (Poephila acuticauda) has two hybridizing subspecies that differ in bill color (red and yellow), and the yellow bill phenotype appears to have introgressed ~350 km eastward following secondary contact. To examine the role of mate choice on bill color introgression, we performed behavioral assays using natural and manipulated bill colors. We found an assortative female mating preference for males of their own subspecies when bill color was not manipulated. However, we did not find this assortative preference in trials based on artificially manipulated bill color. This could suggest that assortative preference is not fixed entirely on bill color and instead may be based on a different trait (e.g., song) or a combination of traits, or alternatively may be due to lower statistical power alongside the bill manipulations being unconvincing to the female choosers. Intriguingly, we find a bias in the inheritance of bill color in captive bred F1 hybrid females. Previous modeling suggests that assortative mate preference and this kind of partial dominance in the underlying genes may together contribute to introgression, making the genetic architecture of bill color in this system a priority for future research.

Future Vehicle Trend: A Comparative Study of the Fuel Vehicle, Electrical Vehicle, and Hybrid Vehicles

As the second largest carbon emission industry in the world, the automobile industry faces serious energy consumption and environmental pollution problems. The development of a low-carbon economy requires cars to achieve low energy consumption, lower emissions require the development of more advanced and environmentally friendly technologies. Three dominant kinds of vehicles, fuel vehicles, electrical vehicles, and hybrid vehicles will be explored in this paper. Section one introduces the types of fuel vehicles, the factors that affect them, and their negative impact on the environment. Section two focuses on the advantages of hybrid vehicles over gasoline and pure electric vehicles in terms of their operation and driving costs. Section two discusses the advantages of hybrid vehicles compared to gasoline and electric vehicles in terms of their operation and driving costs. In section three, the characteristics of various types of electric vehicles are comprehensively evaluated, and the prospects of the exhibition of electric vehicles are discussed. Finally, the future development trend of electric vehicles is forecasted.

Jejak Tinggalan Peralatan Obsidian Temuan Terbaru di Kawasan Danau Bandung Purba

The City of Bandung and its surrounding, was once a lake known as Bandung Purba Lake in the past. The current form is known as the "Bandung Basin". The area around the basin was assumed as the shores of the lake hence many remnants of past human activities were discovered. The dominant kind of discoveries found on the shores of the Bandung Purba Lake were obsidian tools, furthermore, other artifacts such as pickaxes and pottery also discovered. This article focuses on the obsidian tools. The existence of artifacts around Lake Bandung was adjusted to the life necessities and the availability of the materials. For this reason, this article will reveal the form of the remains made of obsidian on the site of the Bandung Purba Lake area. The method that being used is a descriptive method with an artifact-oriented analysis approach. The analysis showed that there were several forms of the remains such as flakes (used and retouched), core stones, sharp edges, knives/blades, and waste in the form of chips. Obsidian artifacts in the Bandung Purba Lake area can be grouped into two, the tool group and the non-tool group.

Aquila Optimizer with Bayesian Neural Network for Breast Cancer Detection on Ultrasound Images

Breast cancer is the second most dominant kind of cancer among women. Breast Ultrasound images (BUI) are commonly employed for the detection and classification of abnormalities that exist in the breast. The ultrasound images are necessary to develop artificial intelligence (AI) enabled diagnostic support technologies. For improving the detection performance, Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) models are useful for breast cancer detection and classification. The current advancement of the deep learning (DL) model enables the detection and classification of breast cancer with the use of biomedical images. With this motivation, this article presents an Aquila Optimizer with Bayesian Neural Network for Breast Cancer Detection (AOBNN-BDNN) model on BUI. The presented AOBNN-BDNN model follows a series of processes to detect and classify breast cancer on BUI. To accomplish this, the AOBNN-BDNN model initially employs Wiener filtering (WF) related noise removal and U-Net segmentation as a pre-processing step. Besides, the SqueezeNet model derives a collection of feature vectors from the pre-processed image. Next, the BNN algorithm will be utilized to allocate appropriate class labels to the input images. Finally, the AO technique was exploited to fine-tune the parameters related to the BNN method so that the classification performance is improved. To validate the enhanced performance of the AOBNN-BDNN method, a wide experimental study is executed on benchmark datasets. A wide-ranging experimental analysis specified the enhancements of the AOBNN-BDNN method in recent techniques.

Depiction of marginalized people in Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084

Mahasweta Devi is one of the most acclaimed Bengali writers of India. She is also an activist and a journalist. Her writings are seems to be a service for the marginalized people. She writes fiction, short stories and plays. The present article seeks to find out how marginalized sections of the society have been depicted in the famous play Mother of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi. Naxalite Movemement has a tremendous influence on her works. Life and problems of tribal folks is the main concern of Mahasweta Devi&#39;s writings. She does not present the romantic picture of tribal life. Her works try to expose the kind of domination that feudals have over poor people and their land. She wishes for metamorphic change in the existing system. She justifies violence where the system fails to do justice. The protagonists of her works are the victims of the repressive regimes and these sensitive individuals later in turn into rebels. The play Mother of 1084 deals with the issues of gender, class and politics. It’s a satire on government. At the end of the play we see Sujata leaning towards the ideology of her dead son and express her anger at people for being passive spectators. The play depicts the plight and anguish of sensitive mothers who have been forced to separate from their beloved sons.

The Lexical Cohesion Found in the Educational Article of Jakarta Post

The article writing found in the Jakarta post is essential to understand, especially in learning English and to know the quality of the article. This study aimed to determine what type of lexical cohesion is most prevalent in Jakarta Post educational articles and why that type of lexical cohesion is prevalent in the first place. The researcher used Halliday and Hassan's theories about lexical cohesion, which is lexical cohesion divided into two kinds, namely reiteration and collocation. There are five types of reiteration: repetition, synonymy, antonym, meronym, and hyponym. This study was conducted using the qualitative method. Data analysis used Miles and Huberman's model (reduction, display, and verification). The outcomes were discovered. Repetition occurred in nine items, synonymy in five items, hyponymy in an item, antonym in an item, meronym in an item, and collocation in five items. The most dominant kind that was found is repetition, with nine items. It is more dominantly found in educational articles because the article shows the quantity of affirmation of ideas or intensity and beauty in clarifying the contents of the text.

Verbal Aggressiveness against Public Figures’ Language: An Analysis of Tweeps’ Comments on Twitter

Aggressive communicators take opportunities to attack the self-concept of others on Twitter. Among other Twitter users, public figures tend to receive more verbally aggressive comments. This study identified the forms of verbal aggressiveness contained in the tweeps’ comments and analyzed the underlying rationales of the tweeps to express such verbally aggressive behavior. From 120 tweeps’ comments analyzed, character attack was found in 10 tweeps’ comments (8.3 %), competence attack was found in 3 tweeps’ comments (2.5 %), physical appearance attack was found in 22 tweeps’ comments (18.3 %), the dominant kind of verbal aggressiveness—insult was found in 38 tweeps’ comments (31.8 %), the minor kind of verbal aggressiveness—malediction was found in 1 tweep’s comment (0.8 %), teasing was found in 33 tweeps’ comments (27.5 %), and profanity was found in 13 tweeps’ comments (10.8 %). Of all verbal aggressiveness forms, politicians received verbal aggressiveness in the forms of character attack, competence attack, physical appearance attack, insult, teasing, and profanity. Then, celebrities received all kinds of verbal aggressiveness. However, practitioners only received physical appearance attacks, insults, teasing, and profanity. Environmental influence, pseudonymity, and dissatisfaction became the primary rationales of the tweeps to attack the self-presentation of public figures on Twitter.