Outline Of Methodology Research Articles

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Reflections on and approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration in archaeology, cultural geography and performance. With the outline of a potential methodology and proposals for practice that draw upon experiences of creative endeavours in the field and in which scholarly and artistic are combined; and with reference to a series of performative outcomes.

BCCS Approach for the Parametric Optimization in Machining of Nimonic-263 alloy using RSM

Machining of nickel-based alloys is one of the testing undertakings in the current research knowledge. Wire Electrical Discharge Machine (WEDM) is a propelled machine apparatus, broadly used to cut hard metals like nickel, titanium and other super composite alloys. Determination of WEDM process parameters to yield the coveted level of execution measures like metal removal rate and surface roughness is significant from quality and financial perspectives. In the present work an endeavor has been made to examine the impact of WEDM process parameters, for example, pulse on time, pulse off time, peak current and servo voltage in machining of Nimonic-263 alloys. A focal composite face focused outline of Response Surface Methodology (RSM) has been utilized for exploratory arrangement. The noteworthiness of process parameters are assessed by ANOVA investigation. Scientific forecast models are produced for metal removal rate and surface roughness by response surface methodology. In this paper a novel Hybrid Bee Colony Cuckoo Search (BCCS) optimization algorithm is incorporated to boost the process performance. The outcome of RSM and BCCS is compared and it shows the execution of the BCCS is superior to that of RSM. The machining information gathered for the Nimonic-263 amalgam will be valuable for the organization respectively.

Check the Score: Field Validation of Street Smart Walk Score in Alberta, Canada ( breakout presentation )

Walk Score® is an internet-based tool providing a common standard for measuring walkability between communities that is low-cost, easily accessible, and highly generalizable. Many studies have used Walk Score® to demonstrate how walkable communities promote physical activity, reduce obesity and overweight, and lower the risk of chronic diseases. However, Walk Score® has only been field validated for accuracy in metropolitan regions of the United States, leaving a knowledge gap for walkability researchers and practitioners in Canada and internationally. Our research aimed to address this knowledge gap in Canadian walkability research and practice by field validating Walk Score® with street-level observations from three communities situated along a rural to urban continuum in Alberta, Canada. Starting from the methodological outline and results of our field validation, we would like to begin a conversation with conference attendees about the benefits and disadvantages of using tools like Walk Score® to capture walkability and what it might mean for people living in different municipalities and regions internationally. We reverse-engineered 2181 Walk Scores® for locations in Bonnyville, Medicine Hat, and North Central Edmonton using ground-truth data obtained through systematic street-level observations. To conduct the field validation, we calculated Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficients (rho, rs), accounting for potential inflation of p-values due to spatial autocorrelation by means of the Clifford-Richardson adjustment, and calculated composite means, 95% confidence intervals, and t-tests (α=0.05), as measures of association between Walk Score® and our reverse-engineered index. Walk Score® was successfully field validated across the rural to urban continuum for three communities in Alberta, Canada. Our field validation produced very high Spearman's rho correlations for Bonnyville (rs=0.950, adjusted p<0.001), and high correlations for Medicine Hat (rs=0.790, adjusted p<0.001) and high correlations for North Central Edmonton (rs=0.763, adjusted p<0.001). Our field validation of Walk Score® addressed a knowledge gap ensuring the reliability of this internet-based metric for Canadian walkability research and practice. However, we caution against interpreting walkability solely using Walk Score®, and encourage conference participants to consider its integration with community-based participatory methods to more inclusively capture resident perspectives on walkability across different municipalities and regions.

Integrated Socio-Spatial Analysis of Soviet Era Modernist Urbanization and Its Consequences in Lithuanian Cities: Methodological Outline

Abstract The massive modernist urbanization of the Soviet era in Lithuania had brought new urban lifestyle models, caused the expansion of built-up areas and affected previously organically developing urban structures. Hence, its analysis and understanding are essential for further sustainable urban development. The research presents an outline of methodology for complex analysis and evaluation of modernization of Lithuanian cities during the Soviet era and its influence on Lithuanian past and present urban development as a socio-spatial phenomenon.

The concept of research on ecological, energy and reliability effects of modified marine fuel oils application to supply compression-ignition engines in real conditions

Within the article, basic assumptions of the research project financed by Regional Fund for Environmental Protection and Water in Gdansk were described. The project concerns the experimental investigations carried out on laboratory compression-ignition engine in conditions of its supply with a non-standard marine fuel oil. Configuration and measuring capability of laboratory test bed presently being constructed were introduced. The concept of engine tests implementation as well as a general outline of research methodology was characterised. After being accepted by Polish Committee for Stardarization they could become an effective and efficient verification tool for various types of modified fuel oils introduced on the market, both for the maritime administration officies and shipyards as well as ship owners in operation.

Utilizing the Project Method for Teaching Culture and Intercultural Competence

This article presents a detailed methodological outline for teaching culture through project work. It is argued that because project work makes it possible to gain transferrable and applicable knowledge and insight, it is the ideal tool for teaching culture with the aim of achieving real intercultural communicative competence (ICC). Preceding the pedagogical presentation, the term culture is conceptualized as small‐c culture/deep culture, that is, as the sociopsychological programming of a given community. This concept is developed with practical examples and conceptualizations for pedagogical implementability. Finally, a project course with American undergraduate students conducted in Germany is briefly presented. This presentation includes project sheets, the methodological rationale of each project, and the observations the participants made during the course. These observations include many aspects of the way German and U.S. American deep culture differ and also shed light on the “truth” behind some German cultural clichés.

What stories unfold: empirically grasping value co-creation

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to give an empirical illustration of value co-creation and to argue for narrative methodology as a fruitful analytical strategy when exploring the processes of value co-creation.Design/methodology/approachThrough an in-depth case study in the non-profit housing sector in Denmark, the research explored how residents perceive and co-create value in a long-term service relationship. The point of departure is an understanding of value co-creation as a phenomenological construct determined by the beneficiary, and the research is based primarily on the perspectives of service-dominant logic and customer-dominant logic.FindingsThe research elucidated how value is both socially created and deconstructed through stories. Moreover, narrative analysis revealed how residents’ perceptions of services are deeply embedded in context and time. In this way, the study highlighted that the co-creation of value is inherently social and temporal.Practical implicationsUnderstanding how value is perceived and negotiated by customers might assist practitioners to refine their understanding of value co-creation and lead them to address customers in more nuanced ways.Originality/valuePrevailing streams in service research on value co-creation argue for more studies and empirically grounded examples of value co-creation processes, especially those based in the customer sphere. This paper contributes to such an enhanced understanding of the process of value co-creation and gives the outline of a new methodology for studies in this specific area of service research.

The Identity of Local and Particular Catholic Churches. Methodological Outline

According to the Catholic faith the Church established by Jesus Christ subsistit in the Catholic Church as the Universal Church ( Ecclesia universalis , Catholica ). This Church is also communio Ecclesiarum and subsistit in local and particular Churches, and in community among them. Joseph Ratzinger, following the teaching of the Catholic Church, reminds that a local Church ( Ecclesia localis ) means a patriarchy or a `specific community of traditions and rites' and a particular Church ( Ecclesia particularis ) means a community of believers subjected to one bishop (a diocese). Post-conciliar Catholic ecclesiology has been mostly focused on the Universal Church. Such `universal' ecclesiology earned mature methodologies. But meantime, the Universal Church has also been present in local and particular Churches which are making their own history and identity day by day. For example, in 2016 the Catholic Church in Poland celebrated 1050 th Jubilee which itself offered an opportunity to describe its main dimensions and identity. So-called young Churches are on their way to establish their identity. By no means, in our times and eyes the `identity' becomes one of the key-words in theological refection on the Church. The more secular the modern world and culture become, the more clearly one can see the difference between them and the Church. This paper offers a methodological outline of the identity of local and particular Catholic Churches. Its purpose is to name and shortly describe main kinds of such identity (theological, historical, ethical-moral, cultural) and their components. But first, making some remarks as introduction is very much required.

Arbitrating the Ebla Treaty Tradition: A Discourse Analytic Approach

This essay descriptively presents the treaty tradition at Ebla through an organic discourse analysis of the treaty between Ebla and Abarsal (ARET 13:5) and several other treaty-related documents. The study first engages the notions of “treaty” and “treaty tradition,” and summarizes the “oil oath” as a significant treaty-based idiom. An outline of the discourse methodology implemented in the analysis follows, which focuses on distinguishing unique discourse varieties found in the Eblaite treaty materials, identifies all clause-level connectors in ARET 13:5, and identifies all Eblaic predicate structures in this treaty.

Institutional-synergetic approach in benchmarking of territorial industrial policy

The authors argue that an industrial policy for a territory is a crucial means for its development and suggest theoretical and methodological outline for its benchmarking. The fact of creating priority development areas (PDAs), which are similar to special economic zones, whose inefficiency is now recognized, confirms the suspicion that PDA creation is an outcome of political lobbing rather than economic planning. Governmental efforts on the federal, regional and municipal levels lack consistency. The current economic conditions lead to fierce competition for investment, which makes municipal and regional governments more open to investors, on the one hand, but on the other, may lead to some poor decision-making. The authors argue that in view of the current priorities of technological innovation, coordination of diverse stakeholders’ interests and goals in PDA dynamics, it is imperative to integrate a PDA development strategy into the industrial policy of a territory. Conceptually, this research relies on the institutional-synergetic approach to benchmarking of territorial industrial policies. This approach can help us develop an industrial policy for a specific PDA by building upon this area’s competitive advantages and by evaluating the available alternatives. To improve managerial decision-making, it is also recommended to study and adopt Russian and international experience in this sphere. PDAs should act as self-organizing systems in order to engage institutions and mechanisms of development ‘in the right place at the right time’ and employ tools of synergetic management (‘stimulate trigger points’) for positive synergetic effects.

THE LEGAL NATURE OF THE REMUNERATION TO THE GUARDIAN OF THE ADULT INCAPACITATED CITIZENS

УДК 347.163Статья посвящена анализу нормативных основ установления вознаграждения опекунам совершеннолетних недееспособных граждан и практики разрешения споров в обозначенной сфере. Регулирование указанных отношений нормами различной отраслевой принадлежности служит причиной неоднозначности их толкования. Судебные органы неверно интерпретируют целевое назначение указанных выплат, игнорируя их правовую сущность. Сложившаяся судебная практика не позволяет достичь поставленных законодателем целей и негативно сказывается на социальной защищенности таких граждан.

Surveillance and the Structural Transformation of Privacy

This article provides a conceptual and methodological outline for studying the social and political implications of digital surveillance, as it opens itself to journalists and media researchers. Digital surveillance yields a profound social transition, which can be tentatively called as “structural transformation of privacy”. We propose that the empirical analysis on this gradual and abstract process can proceed in two phases. Firstly, attention should be paid key stakeholders and their deeply conflicted positions on the issue of digital surveillance. Secondly, an analytical focus should be set on the dominant discursive principles and justifications that inform the suggested public solutions. This framework is illustrated by some empirical findings from a transnational empirical study that analysed opinionated journalism on Edward Snowden’s revelations from June 2013 to the end of 2014.

Assessment of Range of Olfactory Impact of Plant to Mechanical-biological Treatment of Municipal Waste

Plants (installations) to mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) of municipal solid waste belong to the object group being potential sources of odorants emission. One of the most important parameters of their characteristic is the range of the real olfactory impact. It depends on many factors, such as: the type of emitter (point or surficial) and its characteristics (among other things, height and surface, polluted air stream temperature), emission value and its variability in time, and also topography and land management method and local climatological and meteorological conditions. Assessment of range of olfactory impact of plants is the issue, which may be the subject of theoretical considerations. The search for answers for practical purposes is associated among other things with spatial planning (land use), decision-making on location and land management (improvement of the territory) around the MBT installation and resolving complaints and disputes arising from their nuisance for residents (inhabitants). In Poland, the range of onerous impact of waste management facilities has been, in the past, assessed mainly by the indicator method (based on the widths of the so-called protection zone), and currently is determined using mathematical modelling (especially for of planned undertakings) and direct olfactometric measurements (in the case of existing facilities).In the paper is presented a general outline of the methodology of assessment of a range of olfactory impact of fugitive emission from surficial sources. Theoretical considerations are illustrated on the example of the results of the examinations of large plant (installation) of the mechanical-biological treatment of waste. During the examinations, apart from usual odour emission and dispersion processes, the effect of the convective vertical flow of the odorant-polluted air effect was observed.The research program includes twelve series of direct olfactometric measurements (with field olfactometers) and odorimetric observations in measurement-observation (receptor) points, deployed in and around the MBT installation. In each series has been tagged the background of air polluted with odorants (on the windward side of MBT installation). The olfactometric examinations were carried out by method of identification and with characterizing the trail of the odour emitted from the explored source. The receptor points were determined mainly in the area, in which the odours were uniquely identifiable as to their origin. In addition, has been made one “intervention” series of odorimetric observations. During field examinations, olfactometric measurements were carried out with control of the current meteorological situation – measurements and observations of the weather conditions (wind, temperature and relative humidity of the air, the degree of cloudiness).

Stable Isotope Analysis: Outline of Methodology, and a Review of Studies in Siberia and the Eurasian Steppe

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis is one of the main techniques for assessing various aspects of life of the prehistoric populations including diet and economy. Here, we present the theoretical background of the method, and review the major stable isotope paleodietary studies relating to the Eurasian steppe and available by the end of 2013. Existing data show that the diet of various Chalcolithic to Early Iron Age populations in the region varied in time and space and included substantial amounts of fi sh. Variations in diet and economy between groups associated with the same archaeological culture were likely caused by adaptations to local environments and climates. Millet appeared in the area (in the Minusinsk Basin) only in the 14th century BC. The Minusinsk Basin thereby became one of the fi rst centres of millet cultivation in Siberia. The impact of climate, specifi cally precipitation, on the isotopic values of human bone tissue has also been recorded. Although studies of ancient Siberian and Eurasian steppe groups are numerous, paleodietary research using stable isotope analysis is still at the data acquisition stage. One of the main criteria of modern research in the region is a systematic and well-designed approach to the isotopic analysis of various archaeological populations. This analysis must include not only human bone samples, but also those relating to all potential dietary components such as terrestrial and aquatic animals as well as samples of associated plants.

Challenging the current climate change – migration nexus: exploring migrants’ perceptions of climate change in the hosting country

Along with the growing scientific and political concern on global warming, the relationship of climate and migration is framed as cause and consequence. Alarmist numbers of mass migration and related conflicts currently represent the main scientific narratives merging the issue of migration and climate change. This paper takes a different and explorative perspective: it suggests that scientific discourses on migration and climate change should be reframed by taking into consideration the diverse ‘knowledges’ offered by migrants. Employing an experimentalist approach, we aim at filling this gap in research and introduce an empirical perspective on climate framings among Italian and Chinese citizens in the local context of the city of Hamburg (Germany). Qualitatively analysing semi-structured interviews, the paper conveys an in-depth analysis of how Italian and Chinese migrants frame climate change and, furthermore, explores philosophical backgrounds informing them. We start with a theoretical and methodological outline on undertaking research with migrants and then turn to an empirical analysis in which we examine and discuss four prevailing categories found in the course of our investigation. The final section summarises the results and reflects upon the methodological and theoretical approach applied which refers to the relevance of migrants as active actors in local adaptation and mitigation processes of the hosting country.

Widersprüche im langen Sommer der Migration.

Today, the analysis of migration and migration policy from a perspective of critical political economy is necessary, because of the dramatic conflicts surrounding the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015/2016, but also because explicitly materialist analyses of these issues have been marginalized for years, with problematic effects. Thus, the article sketches a theoretical and methodological outline of a materialist border regime analysis. It first criticizes problematic aspects of the influential “ethnographic border regime analysis” approach and then, by relying on regulation theory, develops a materialist understanding of migration and border regimes. Starting from a discussion of the social and political conflicts around German migration policy in 2015/2016, the article then goes on to identify three migration-related structural contradictions that are regulated within migration and border regimes: accumulation by dispossession and the autonomy of migration;labour conflicts; and the structural chauvinism of national welfare states.

How to assess quality of life. Theoretical and methodological research aspects in cross-border regions

Abstract In our paper we deal with both the theoretical and methodological aspects of our research, which focuses on the quality of life in cross-border regions. The aim of the paper is to draw on the methodological system for assessment of the quality of life in those regions, taking into consideration both the objective and subjective dimension. The first part of the paper contains the use of qualitative methods when assessing the quality of life, which, in our understanding, are not sufficiently applied in the process of assessment of quality, not only in the field of Geography. We also focus on the definition of the key terms related to our work, such as ‘quality of life, border and border-region/neighbour’. The main emphasis of our work lies in the formulation of the theoretical and methodological model of the quality of life assessment in the cross-border regions. The methodological outline of researching this issue is presented in the chart. The scale of the region is a key element we take into consideration, since it is significant when choosing the appropriate method of life quality assessment. We also distinguish between the application of both the qualitative and quantitative research methods on various scales. In our opinion, the representation of the qualitative methods in research should increase with the increase in the scale of the area researched. In the conclusion we provide selected outcomes of our research at various scales, which confirm the validity of our theoretical basis, since we came to various findings, depending on the scales researched.

АНАЛИЗ СТАБИЛЬНЫХ ИЗОТОПОВ: ОСНОВЫ МЕТОДА И ОБЗОР ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ В СИБИРИ И ЕВРАЗИЙСКОЙ СТЕПИ

АНАЛИЗ СТАБИЛЬНЫХ ИЗОТОПОВ: ОСНОВЫ МЕТОДА И ОБЗОР ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ В СИБИРИ И ЕВРАЗИЙСКОЙ СТЕПИ

A grande aceleração &amp; o campo comunicacional

Desde a revolução industrial que inaugurou, no campo da comunicação, a era da reprodutibilidade técnica, novas tecnologias midiáticas não cessam de emergir em um ritmo cada vez mais intenso até se tornar verdadeiramente avassalador a partir do advento do universo digital. Essa emergência crescente de tecnologias midiáticas não é um fenômeno isolado, mas deve ser inserida no contexto bem mais amplo daquilo que os especialistas em mudanças climáticas e geologia estão chamando de “grande aceleração”. Para realizar tal inserção, este artigo tomou como roteiro metodológico o levantamento e estudo de dados bibliográficos, de um lado, relativos à evolução midiática desde a revolução industrial no século XIX até os nossos dias. De outro lado, relativos ao crescimento desmedido do gasto de fontes energéticas do planeta inteiramente imerso na circulação perversa do mercado capitalista. A comparação entre os dados tanto de um quanto de outro lado, conduziu esta pesquisa à constatação de uma interrelação indissolúvel entre ambos. Esse percurso nos leva à conclusão de que a aceleração midiática é parte integrante e contribui a seu modo para a grande aceleração que está levando o planeta Terra a uma nova era geológica.

Outline for a human-based assessment methodology of urban projects. The case of Polis Gondomar

This paper presents the results of a preliminary research project proposing an assessment methodology for the actual impacts of urban projects on city development [1] . At this stage, the research has focused on the identification of indicators about the success of urban projects according to the accomplishment, functioning and use of public spaces. A case study is presented as a means for exploring these indicators: the intervention made by the Polis Programme at Gondomar. Keywords: Urban Project; impact assessment indicators; use and outdoor comfort; benefits and economic values. http://dx.doi.org/10.17127/got/2015.7.008 Data de submissao: 2015-01-31 Data de aprovacao: 2015-05-16 Data de publicacao: 2015-06-30 [1] Research project framed by Projetos ESAP 2013 , entitled “ Referencias de base para a elaboracao de uma metodologia de avaliacao dos impactes de projetos urbanos no desenvolvimento da cidade ” with the reference ESAP/2013/P01/DARQ.