Nature Of Act Research Articles

Acting creativity in audiovisual art as a type of artistic and aesthetic activity

The nature of acting, like audiovisual art, has undergone significant transformations and is deeply interdisciplinary. Scientific research is an attempt to investigate the peculiarities of acting creativity in audiovisual art as a type of artistic and aesthetic activity from the point of view of the peculiarities of the development of audiovisual art in Ukraine. The differences between the terms “audiovisual”, “cyber”, “media” and “screen art” are defined. It has been established that the reason for the extremely wide usage of the terminology is the rapid development and transformation of both art forms and the means of reproduction, creation and realization of audiovisual products. An attempt was made to structure the actor’s creative activity, as a result of which it was proposed to distinguish the actor’s personal and professional qualities as well as skills, the necessity of which is determined by the specifics of the technologies used in the creation of an audiovisual product.

Latent Classes of Lifetime Sexual Victimization Characteristics in Women in Emerging Adulthood: Differential Relations with Emotion Dysregulation.

The aims of the present study were to investigate latent classes of sexual victimization among young adult women based on characteristics of their victimization experiences (e.g., relationship with the perpetrator, nature of act, frequency), and examine differences in dimensions of emotion dysregulation across these classes and among non-victims. Participants were 491 women in the age range of 18-25 years from the United States; of these, 335 participants (M = 22.0, SD = 2.22) reported at least one experience of sexual victimization during their lifetime. Latent class analysis was employed to identify groups of women based on characteristics of their sexual victimization experiences. A three-class solution was found to be most parsimonious. The classes were labeled as High severity developmental revictimization (DRV; 43.3%), Low severity child/adolescent sexual abuse (CASA: 20.3%), and Low severity adult sexual assault (ASA; 36.4%). The DRV class reported higher rates of penetrative abuse and longer duration of abuse than the CASA class, and higher rates of injury during assault than the ASA class. Further, the DRV class reported greater difficulties in three dimensions of emotion regulation than the ASA class and greater deficits in emotional clarity than the CASA class. Finally, the three latent classes reported greater difficulties in at least four dimensions of emotion regulation than the non-victimized group. Findings of different classes of sexual victimization suggest the multidimensionality of these experiences. Results also highlight the potential utility of interventions aimed at improving emotion regulation among women with severe childhood sexual abuse.

Madness in the Method? the Acts of the Apostles in Current Study

Scholarship on the book of Acts frequently proceeds under the 'no final con flict' slogan when it comes to employing a diversity of methods. In this essay, however, some of the fundamental assumptions and approaches to Acts in recent scholarship are examined and challenged, raising questions related to the proliferation of method in New Testament and early Christian studies, the underlying methodological assumptions of particular interpre tive approaches, and the sublimation of theology and ideology in scholar ship. The past 15 years of Acts scholarship provides the context for this broad survey and interaction. The essential contours of the discussion are focused around matters related to genre, the nature of Acts as 'text', the book's connections to its broader socio-cultural and historical worlds, and, finally, to matters related to post-critical interactions with Acts. No easy solutions are offered in this essay; rather, the broad discussion of method in current Acts scholarship pushes for a return to greater methodological awareness and reflection in the discipline.

Clunies-Ross v. Commonwealth of Australia and Others

International organizations — United Nations — Non-self-governing territories — Duty of administering State — Cocos Islands — Transfer to Australia — Duty in respect of self-determination — Rights of principal landownerTerritory — Self-determination — Cocos Islands — Nature of act of self-determination — The law of Australia

Lamb and Another v. Phillip Morris Inc and Another

493Relationship of international law and municipal law — Act of State and justiciability — Nature of act of State doctrine in United States law — Contemporary purpose of doctrine — Respect of sovereign independence of State — Judicial restraint in matters of foreign relations — Requirement to establish that case turns on effect of an official action by a foreign sovereign — Burden of proof — Allegation that corporation secured valuable privileges by bribery — Enquiry into motives of foreign government in granting privileges — Whether barred by act of State doctrine — The law of the United States

Associated Container Transportation (Australia) Ltd v. United States and Others

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Act of State and justiciability — United States act of State doctrine — Nature of act of State doctrine in United States law — Requirement of sovereign independence of State — Judicial restraint in matters of foreign relations — Antitrust investigations — Companies required to divulge communications with foreign government — Possibility of enquiry into the motives behind the granting of shipping rights by foreign governments in later proceedings — Whether requirement to divulge communications barred by act of State doctrine — The law of the United States

Williams and Others v. Curtiss-Wright Corporation

516Relationship of international law and municipal law — Act of State and justiciability — Nature of act of State doctrine in United States law — Origins in respect for sovereignty of foreign State — Contemporary purpose of doctrine — Separation of powers under United States Constitution — Judicial restraint in matters of foreign relations — Exceptions to doctrine — No exception for ministerial, as opposed to discretionary, acts of foreign government — The law of the United States

Clayco Petroleum Corporation v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Others

522Relationship of international law and municipal law — Act of State and justiciability — Nature of act of State doctrine in United States law — Contemporary purpose of doctrine — Respect for sovereign independence of States — Judicial restraint in matters of foreign relations — Allegations that United States corporation secured oil concessions by bribery — Inquiry into motives of foreign government in granting concessions — Whether barred by act of State doctrine — Exceptions to doctrine — Commercial activity exception — Whether part of United States law — Whether act of granting concession a commercial activity — United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — Public prosecution — Whether contrary to act of State doctrine — Difference between public and private actions — The law of the United States

Republic of Ghana Case

Sovereign immunity — Foreign States — Order for security for costs against foreign State — Whether Foreign State entitled to immunity — Whether such order a measure of execution — Immunity from execution — Whether sovereign nature of act or claim relevant — The law of Switzerland

Weitzenhoffer. v. Germany.

War — Reparation — Different Kinds of Responsibility — Occupation of Enemy Territory — Nature of Acts Performed by the Occupant — Article 297 (e) of the Treaty of Versailles.