Memory Lane Research Articles

No Future in Retrospect

Life-writing by punks has grown at a remarkable rate and constitutes a significant new addition to the canon of punk cultural production that deserves an equal place alongside music, fashion, and zines. Punk has always sought to document itself in the form of recordings, film, photography, fanzines, and video. It is time to add memoirs to these archival impulses and examine how punk culture is now mediated and sustained by autobiography. Whereas punk life writing might be dismissed as so many nostalgic trips down memory lane, this article begins from the premise that writing about a life involves more than nostalgia. Considering punk memoirs as works that offer new ways of thinking about a life attached to punk, this article surveys a broad range of punk memoirs and asks questions that reframe some punk scholarship by emphasizing how individuals live within and outside of punk simultaneously. What are some of the dominant features of punk memoirs? What kinds of interventions do they make? How do they introduce and develop particular ways of documenting and thinking about punk culture and its legacies? How does life writing about the past transform punk in the present? What ways of thinking, lines of inquiry, understanding, and feelings do memoirs establish and examine as central to the thought of punk, in particular, and the study of culture more broadly? The article seeks to demonstrate how these trajectories might shift and renovate work undertaken by scholars of punk.

Experimental Photography Study by Kurnia Ngayuga Wibowo “Memory Lane”

The work Experimental Photo Memory Lane by Kurnia Ngayuga Wibowo is a notable piece that has been featured in various prestigious exhibitions, such as "Permata Youth Photostory" organized by Permata Photojournalist Grant and Pannafoto Institute, Bandung Photography Triennale, Bandung Photography Month, and SEA Reading Photobookdummies in Taiwan. This work is considered a masterpiece by Kurnia Ngayuga Wibowo and serves as a compelling example of experimental photography. The appreciation of such a work is often conducted through art criticism, which plays a crucial role in interpreting and appreciating the underlying content of a photographic work. Understanding and interpreting each photograph can vary significantly, depending on the perspective of the critic or the photographer. The purpose of this research is to explore and analyze the artistic elements and intentions behind the Memory Lane series through the lens of art criticism, specifically using Feldman’s art criticism theory. This qualitative study utilizes Feldman’s four-step approach to art criticism-description, formal analysis, interpretation, and evaluation—to gain a deeper understanding of the photography series. The findings of this research reveal that Memory Lane represents a form of experimental photography, which navigates various challenges inherent to the medium, particularly in terms of storytelling through images. The study demonstrates how art criticism can provide diverse perspectives on a single work of art and how these perspectives can be integrated with other art forms to enrich the overall interpretation. The implications of this research extend to the broader field of art criticism and photography, highlighting the importance of critical analysis in understanding the multifaceted nature of photographic art and its capacity to convey complex narratives.

Down memory lane with Bob Weiner: Methadone and more

Down memory lane with Bob Weiner: Methadone and more

Thorns of Failures: Views of Non-Passers of Criminology Board Examination

Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC) records show that the national passing percentage in the Criminologist Licensure Examination (CLE) is deteriorating. The number of unlicensed Criminology graduates throughout the country is increasing. This study explored the lived experiences of non-passers of the Criminologist Licensure Examination (CLE) through a qualitative research method. The informants of this study were 10 board exam flunkers throughout the Province of Cebu. Four informants were used for the in-depth interview, and six were used for the focus group discussion. Eight (8) emergent themes described the positive and negative experiences of the informants before, during, and after the board exam. For the positive experiences, four (4) themes were developed, namely: Take a Trip Down Memory Lane, Licensure Examination: The Main Event, Acceptance and Moving Forward and Contingency Plan: Look for a Job. For the negative experiences, four (4) themes were formulated, namely: The Chronicles of Review, Test Anxiety: The Feeling of Taking the Licensure Examination, Board Exam Result: A Flunker’s Nightmare and Mission Unsuccessful. For the plights of the informants before, during, and after taking the licensure examination, eight (8) emergent themes were formulated, namely: Procrastination and Idleness, Indiscretion of Reviewees, Financial Struggle: A Dilemma to Board Exam Takers, Family Problems: A Heavy Load to Carry, The Answer Sheet: A Fragile Piece of Paper, Bad Luck: In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time, Examinee’s Inability to Comprehend Questions: A Tough Assignment, The Fallen Leaves, and Disappointments and Failure to Meet Expectations: Adding Insult to Injury. For the reasons of the informants for not retaking the exam, two (2) themes were developed, namely: Age Limit in the Tri-Bureau: Crashing the Flunker’s Aspirations and Making a Fresh Start.

A journey through time: the story behind ‘eight decades of changes in occupational tasks, computerization and the gender pay gap’

ABSTRACT In this interview article, we embark on a fascinating journey through time alongside the winners of the 2023 DRUID Best Paper Award. DRUID,an annual research conference renowned as the hub of cutting-edge research on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional, and geographic change, bestows this award on the most innovative and exceptional conference submission. As longstanding allies of DRUID, Industry and Innovation offers an exclusive peek behind the curtains, unveiling the untold stories that underlie award-winning research. In 2023, this coveted DRUID prize was awarded to a paper by Ljubica Nedelkoska, Shreyas Gadgin Matha, James McNerney, Andre Assumpcao, Dario Diodato, and Frank Neffke. Their work stands out through an impressive data collection effort and the exploration of a compelling and urgent research question – how technological change has impacted the gender pay gap. Throughout this interview, the author team takes us down memory lane, retelling the story behind their research project. On this journey through time, we trace the genesis of the authors’ innovative ideas and the intricate pathways they navigated in their quest to understand the past as a means of unravelling the future of work and its implications for gender inequality in the labour market. This journey not only takes us back in time but also points to potential avenues for future research and open questions that lie ahead.

A Storytelling Therapy Technique for Dementia Patients through a Mobile Application: “A Stroll Down Memory Lane”

A Storytelling Therapy Technique for Dementia Patients through a Mobile Application: “A Stroll Down Memory Lane”

Sartorial commemoration of Princess Yennenga through Wiyaala’s War Costume Mimicry

History is an invaluable reflective resource for progressive national development. In Africa, various studies have delved into the memory lane to identify and commemorate past heroic or iconic figures for their diverse contributions to shaping the destinies of societies and nations. However, such commemorative studies are inexhaustive, as many unsung heroic or iconic figures still abound. One such unsung heroic figure is Princess Yennenga. The current study sets out to sartorially commemorate Princess Yennenga’s iconography by delving into Wiyaala mimicry of Princess Yennenga’s war costume regalia for a teaser movie shot by Mothertongue in Ghana. It adopted the methodological blueprint of qualitative historical design, with Wiyaala as the principal and homogeneous respondent purposively sampled and interviewed. An in-depth historical and thematic analysis of primary and secondary data found Princess Yennenga to be a warrioress of northern Ghanaian origin and the emblematic founding mother of the Mossi Kingdom in Burkina Faso. It was also established that the materiality, accessories, and props that constituted Wiyaala’s dramatic mimicry of Yennenga’s war costume were locally self-constructed. The study concludes that the wild, dramatic character projected by Wiyaala through her self-constructed war costume symbolically reimaged Princess Yennenga’s warrioress identity and thereby contributes to commemorating Yennenga’s heroic legacies in the historical development of the Dagomba and Mossi Kingdoms of Ghana and Burkina Faso, respectively. It will, therefore, be plausible if similar sartorial commemorative studies are conducted on other unsung heroic/iconic figures to highlight the instrumentality of costume art in heroic and iconic identity construction.

A trip down memory lane: Sustaining collective memory through old shophouses in Jalan Mendaling Kajang, Selangor

This research focuses on the adaptive reuse of old shophouses in Jalan Mendaling Kajang, Selangor. The city’s modern development has caused some old shophouses to be abandoned and demolished. Some of them have been renovated to lose their heritage value. This study aims to understand the form of adaptive reuse of shophouses in Jalan Mendaling Kajang and to measure the community’s perception of the adaptive reuse of heritage buildings in preserving their collective memory through heritage values, a sense of belongingness, and sustainability. This study used a mixed-method approach, combining a qualitative and quantitative analysis to provide research rigour. The quantitative data collection was conducted through a survey in the form of questionnaires given randomly to 386 respondents. The sampling selection was determined using Krecjie Morgan’s table. Meanwhile, the qualitative data collection involves an interview session with several informants from the professionals of Kajang Municipal Council, the premises owners, and the local community. Direct observation of shophouses in Jalan Mendaling Kajang was also conducted. In the meantime, the qualitative data were analysed using six steps thematic analysis by Clarke and Braun, whereas the quantitative data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) using descriptive analysis. The result highlights the role of the old shophouses in preserving the community’s collective memories of the past, which evokes their sense of identity and belongingness and eventually promotes heritage sustainability. This research contributes as a reference for the adaptive reuse of old shophouses in preserving and conserving old shophouses in the future in connecting the community’s identities and sense of belongingness through collective memories of the past.

Multivalent Cation Transport in Polymer Electrolytes – Reflections on an Old Problem

AbstractToday an unprecedented diversification is witnessed in battery technologies towards so‐called post‐Li batteries, which include both other monovalent (Na+ or K+) and multivalent ions (e.g., Mg2+ or Ca2+). This development is driven, among other factors, by goals to establish more sustainable and cheaper raw material platforms, using more abundant raw material, while maintaining high energy densities. For these new technologies a decisive role falls to the electrolyte, that ultimately needs to form stable electrode‐electrolyte interfaces and provide sufficient ionic conductivity, while guaranteeing high safety. The transport of metal‐ions in a polymer matrix is studied extensively as solid electrolytes for battery applications, particularly for Li‐ion batteries and are now also considered for multivalent systems. This poses a great challenge as ion transport in the solid becomes increasingly difficult for multivalent ions. Interestingly, this topic is a subject of interest for many years in the 80s and 90s and many of the problems then are still causing issues today. Owing to recent progress in this field new possibilities arise for multivalent ion transport in solid polymer electrolytes. For this reason, in this perspective a stroll down memory lane is taken, discuss current advancements and dare a peek into the future.

A trip down memory lane: 37 years of Geriatric Therapeutics

A trip down memory lane: 37 years of Geriatric Therapeutics

Lane change trajectory prediction considering driving style uncertainty for autonomous vehicles

Lane change trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous vehicles (AVs) to assess their own driving safety in advance. However, there are significant uncertainties in the implementation of such prediction, including different behaviors caused by agent–agent interaction and driving styles of drivers. While prototype trajectories can serve as a means to represent typical motion patterns and enhance trajectory prediction performance, their utilization in modeling motion patterns tends to overlook the influence of agent–agent interactions and vehicle dynamics. This paper proposes a fusion algorithm that considers driving style and vehicle dynamics to address these uncertainties. The algorithm involves a long short-term memory (LSTM) lane change behavior recognition model that mines key features of agent–agent interaction through the attention mechanism. The Gaussian process (GP) motion modeling trajectory prediction (GPMM-TP) algorithm considers the driving style of the prototype trajectory based on the behavior recognition results. To further improve short-term and long-term prediction, the interactive multi-model (IMM) algorithm is used to assign probability weights to the GP model and the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) model based on prediction accuracy, taking into account the driving styles and the vehicle dynamics. The proposed algorithm provides a promising approach to improving the accuracy of lane change trajectory prediction for AVs, and its effectiveness is demonstrated using the HighD dataset.

Down (my) Memory Lane: Has Economic Analysis Impacted CAP Reforms?

SummaryThis article elaborates the role of economic analysis in influencing the reform path of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) between 1992 and 2022 on the basis of publicly available information from a personal career experience in the European Commission. Analyses about the trade distorting impact of the pre‐1992 CAP were dominant in influencing the internal Commission debate before the Uruguay Agreement on Agriculture, and were mostly external from academia and international organisations. Developments leading to the Fischler reform in 2003 led to the broadening of analytical scope to cover the impact of food safety issues on market developments, non‐tariff barriers to trade, or alternative scenarios about an enlarged EU based on the increasing use of internal and external models. Evaluations and Impact Assessments played a major role in assessing options for CAP reforms after 2007, with the increasing role of NGOs and think tanks gradually shifting the analytical and policy focus in identifying CAP weaknesses in its environmental delivery. The new institutional reality of co‐decision complicated the link between analysis and policy decision making. However, though economic analysis is clearly not sufficient, it is still necessary and essential to jointly address the twin challenges of food security and climate change.

Down the Memory Lane of Computers in Medicine

Down the Memory Lane of Computers in Medicine

A Trip Down Memory Lane: Exploring the Use of a Learning Tool in Undergraduate Medical Education

Objective: To explore reflection as a learning tool in undergraduate medical education.Study Design: Cross-sectional survey.Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted among MBBS and BDS undergraduate students of CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan from 1st January 2022 to 30th June 2022.Materials and Methods: In this online cross-sectional survey, the Reflective practices questionnaire (RPQ) was administered to 290 medical (fourth and final year) and dental (third and final year) undergraduates. Data were analyzed through SPSS 24.Results: Out of 290 participants, the majority were female (179, 61.7%). Most of the participants were from MBBS (188, 64.8%). The overall mean score of the questionnaire was 73.493 ± 17.407 (95% CI: 16.286 ± 18.439) out of a total score of 96. The highest score of critical appraisal was 18.790 ± 4.248 (95% CI: 4.064 ± 4.608). There was no difference of the mean score of different domains based on gender, specialty or year of education.Conclusion: The undergraduate medical and dental students demonstrated good reflective practices. However, there is a need to improve critical thinking and appraisal among students to achieve better outcomes.

Reconciliation, a Road to Freedom, Unity and Development (Gen 32:3-33:20): Lessons for Nigeria as a Nation

Jacob and Esau are the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah. With the active and masterful connivance of Rebekah, Jacob, the younger of the two, deceitfully obtained from their father, Isaac, the final blessing he had intended for Esau, his first son. The ugly result is that, on account of the threat to his life by Esau, Jacob had to flee into exile, to Laban his uncle. However, after 20 years, he had to return to Canaan, at the behest of Yahweh, but had also to confront his otherwise bitter and estranged brother in the process, as narrated in Gen 32:3-33:20. Thus, although Jacob was initially highly dreadful of this encounter, the two brothers admirably reconciled during that meeting thereby leaving an example of perennial worth to all human beings. This article deeply dwells on this narrative in order to bring out its important details and emphases. The method employed in the study is sociological-theological. This is augmented with the Historical Critical Method of Exegesis so as to interpret the text under study. Through these methods, this paper highlights the fact that even though reconciliation is often difficult to arrive at in the face of conflicts, it is ultimately a blessing and greatly rewarding when achieved. On that score, it becomes highly recommended that all toe the praise-worthy line of these two brothers in the face of conflicts so as to avoid war or aggression which is its unwholesome alternative. This recommendation is especially pertinent to Nigeria, the fast-crumbling giant of Africa, where Christians, especially those in government, are particularly called upon to help to engender this national spirit among its citizens – an aspect that has sadly eluded them since the country’s independence. Significantly, therefore, this paper is a strong appreciation of the reconciliatory example of these twin brothers, with the suggestion, after going down the memory lane, that it is only such a development that would help to move Nigeria forward as a nation from its present debilitating quagmire and national decay.

Walk Down Memory Lane: Racial Injustice in Lewis Nkosi’s Mating Birds

Using as a stepping stone Mating Birds by the late South African novelist Lewis Nkosi, I take a trip down memory lane to grapple with the issue of justice in apartheid era South Africa. The paper argues that the scales of the judiciary under the system of institutionalized racism was heavily weighted in favour of the white minority who ruled the roost in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. Underpinned by a racist ideology that foregrounded the supposed purity of Afrikanerdom, the steamroller of the judicial system under apartheid denied any rights to South African blacks and coloured alike to the point of forefending love across the colour bar. The lead character in Mating Birds, to wit Sibiya, knows only too well the strictures of an unfair administration of justice. Sentenced to death by hanging for allegedly raping a white girl, his dogged impassioned denials fails to pack a punch as the laws of his country make it a crime for a black man to even have designs (no matter how sincere) on a white girl. Tapping into a methodology based on philosophical, sociological, psychoanalytic, psychological perspectives, the paper brings to light the multifaceted cruelty of race-spiked injustice as evidenced by Sidiya’s plight.

Down memory lane - unravelling the puzzle of gene regulation.

Down memory lane - unravelling the puzzle of gene regulation.

Review of “Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America”

Los Angeles is perhaps one of the most studied cities in the United States. Compared to older industrial cities, like Chicago and Detroit, or to Northeastern cities with high residential segregation rates, like Boston and New York, Los Angeles still represents a more recently established metropolis, with twelve-lane freeways, eternal glamour, and sunshine. An unmistakable feeling of freedom overtakes the visitor, who gets off the airplane and starts driving on West Century Boulevard, lined up with toll, beautiful palm trees. The sense of freedom and glamour, however, quickly wears off if the visitor continuous to drive into South Central Los Angeles or down memory lane to the beating of Rodney King and the riots following the police officers’ acquittal. The contradictions of Los Angeles as a modern metropolis are captured with detailed precision and historical insight by Leland Saito in his book “Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America.” The focus of the book is a juxtaposition of a well-known process of urban real estate development with the far less known building of a diverse coalition for social justice.

A Trip Down Memory Lane: IEEE SSCS Leuven Student Chapter and Benelux Chapter Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Transistor [Chapters

A Trip Down Memory Lane: IEEE SSCS Leuven Student Chapter and Benelux Chapter Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Transistor [Chapters

From a magnetoacoustic system to a J-T black hole: A little trip down memory lane

<abstract><p>We assign a Riemannian metric to a system of nonlinear equations that describe the one-dimensional propagation of long magnetoacoustic waves (also called magnetosonic waves) in a cold plasma under the inference of a transverse magnetic field. The metric, which in general is expressed in terms of the density of the plasma and its speed across the magnetic field, when specialized to a particular solution of the nonlinear system (the Gurevich-Krylov (G-K) solution) is mapped explicitly to a Jackiw-Teitelboim (J-T) black hole metric, which is the main result. Dilaton fields, constructed from data involved in the G-K solution, are presented - which with the plasma metric provide for elliptic function solutions of the J-T equations of motion in 2d dilaton gravity. A correspondence between solutions of the nonlinear plasma system (whose Galilean invariance is also established) and certain solutions of a resonant nonlinear Schrödinger equation is set up, along with some other general background material to render an expository tone in the presentation.</p></abstract>