Hybrid Phenomena Research Articles

HISTORICAL ROADS OF PUBLIC POLICIES FOR EDUCATION IN THE BRAZILIAN SCENARIO WITH EMPHASIS ON THE MAIS EDUCAÇÃO PROGRAM

The present text named “Historical Paths of Public Policies for Education in the Brazilian Scenario with Emphasis on the Mais Educação Program”, is the result of a research developed at FICS - Interamericana Facultad de Ciencias Sociales of the Postgraduate Program in the Master of Science in Sciences. of Education - whose general objective is to analyze in a critical-reflexive way the Mais Educação Program, about the activities carried out at the Municipal School Benjamin Farah in the municipality of Bom Jesus da Lapa - BA. This is an excerpt from the dissertation carried out which deals with this theme in which, specifically, it has as its main function to identify the situation of the educational space and the service in relation to the offer of activities of the Mais Educação Program in the researched school. For this, the qualitative methodology was adopted as a guideline, which is engendered in the analysis of historical, hybrid, complex and antagonistic social phenomena that produce the most diverse social transformations. A priori, bibliographic sources were used in articles, texts and books to collect the necessary information and elaborate the guiding data of the research, as basic elements that historicize the context of the Mais Educação Program and the struggle for the effectiveness of this modality, as a public policy, which will enable the expansion of knowledge in line with what is prescribed. The research results reveal that the way in which the Mais Educação Program was implemented in the researched school needs adjustments to effectively serve the students with quality and carry out the actions in a significant way. In this work, paths are pointed out by which we believe that the PME can contribute to emancipation, as we believe that the transformation of this situation in which the students find themselves can only be carried out with the change of public educational policies and a more humanist and holistic view.

The Principle of Hybridization in the Structural Organization and Evolution of Electromechanics Objects

Abstract The systemicity of hybridization phenomenon is analyzed. This study summarizes the mechanisms of manifestation and forms of submission of the hybridization law, which determines the principles and boundaries of structure formation, taxonomy, methodology of synthesis and analysis of hybrid electromechanical objects at the intraspecies and intergenic levels of their structural organization. The results of the study are important for the further development of the theory of genetic evolution of technical systems.

Hybrid cities and new working spaces – The case of Oslo

Recent decades have seen the emergence of hybrid models of living and working associated typologies. These developments have been analysed from the perspective of different disciplines, each with their own interpretation of this phenomenon. Planning and architecture have addressed hybridization as a specific form of interaction between spatio-functional features (such as mixed use, multi-functionality and flexibility) and social features (such as formal and informal interactions and the spontaneous appropriation of spaces) or have sometimes simply focused on the spatio-functional dimension in urban spaces. Studies from other disciplines (e.g. mobility networks, transportation, sociology and information technology) have shown that hybrid spaces cannot exist without access to digitalization technologies. Such technologies are accelerating hybridization processes. This study examines the complex and layered phenomenon of hybridization as a possible combination of (or interaction between) spatio-functional, social and digital features within the planning debate and related fields. Most of the case studies explored by scholars so far have focused on interactions occurring between residential, social and recreational functions, but working functions are playing an increasingly important role. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the development of new forms of hybridity in cities. As a consequence, the rising use of hybrid (on-site and on-line) working practices, planners, policy makers and stakeholders, as well as scholars, have increasingly discussed the concept of hybridization. In this context, various hybrid typologies of urban spaces have materialized in forms such as new working spaces (NWS) which include co-working spaces, incubators, as well as some cafés and multi-functional public libraries, which have recently provided working spaces. This paper focuses on the evolving concept of hybridity from the planning perspective. Based on five hybrid NWS including their surrounding neighbourhoods in Oslo, it provides empirical evidence for an understanding of the phenomenon that may support the development of hybrid spaces and buildings and develops suggestions for planning strategies.

Stacking sequence effect on flexural behavior of hybrid GF/CF biocomposite used in orthopedics

In the field of orthopedic medicine, hybrid biocomposites with epoxy matrix reinforced with carbon fibers and glass fibers are being used. Through the hybridization phenomenon, appropriate properties can be obtained for the use of these biocomposites in the bone plate and external fixation. The paper presents the manufacture of hybrid laminate with epoxy matrix reinforced with carbon fiber and glass fiber, three-point bending test method and the laminate layering sequence influence upon the bending behavior of composite biomaterial.

Crater-rim collapse at Stromboli volcano: understanding the mechanisms leading from the failure of hot rocks to the development of glowing avalanches

The failures of volcanic crater-rims frequently lead to the development of avalanches of glowing rocks, a hybrid phenomenon between rock avalanches and pyroclastic density currents, reaching considerable distances from the eruptive centres and therefore be a serious threat for inhabited areas. The collapse conditions have been here taken in to account by means of slope stability analysis using a Limit Equilibrium Method analysis on the crater-rim of Stromboli volcano (Italy). A Stromboli, crater-rim collapses occurred frequently (at least seven events in the last two decades) and were always associated with high-level of magma within the conduits, testified by the increased eruptive activity and ground-deformation. The more frequent/intense eruptive activity produced a greater accumulation of volcaniclastic material, whereas the high level of magma increased magmastatic thrust on the deposits. Volcaniclastic material was modelled by combining the nonlinear failure envelopes as the Generalized Hoek and Brown criterion, with the addition of the failure's envelope of the rockfill-like material described by the Barton-Kjaernsli criterion, taking into consideration the presence of discontinuities within proximal, partially welded, volcaniclastic masses. In addition to the lithological and morphological characteristics of the crater terrace rim and the magmatic thrust, the effects of the explosions in terms of seismic ground acceleration and disturbance factor (D) of the volcaniclastic material were also considered here. While the ground acceleration compatible with the explosive activity of Stromboli has little influence on the stability of the crater terrace rims, the increase in D increases the proneness for failure.

A critical air quality science perspective on citizen science in action

ABSTRACT Air pollution is a hybrid phenomenon, understood and produced through social practices and material environmental processes. This hybridity leads us to engage critically with how air quality science is carried out. In dialogue with the critical physical geography subdiscipline, we propose a critical air quality science (CAQS) framework to study air pollution’s sociomateriality. We use CAQS to illuminate four tensions in the dynamics of knowledge production during a citizen science air quality monitoring project: making undone science matter, blurring “insiderness”/“outsiderness”, traffic as both life and death, and changing behaviours versus changing systems. Drawing on interviews with citizen scientists, we outline the implications of these tensions for air quality research design and reporting. The CAQS framework provokes critical thought about the consequences of how air quality science understands, creates and communicates knowledge, and how we can reconfigure our relations with the air to minimise air inequalities.

The effect of stacking sequence on flexural behavior of laminated hybrid epoxi biocomposite reinforced with glass and carbon fibers used in the bone plate and external fixation

In the field of orthopedic medicine, hybrid biocomposites with epoxy matrix reinforced with carbon fibers and glass fibers are being used. Through the hybridization phenomenon, appropriate properties can be obtained for the use of these biocomposites in the bone plate and external fixation. The paper presents the manufacture of hybrid laminate with epoxy matrix reinforced with carbon fiber and glass fiber, three-point bending test method and the influence of the laminate layering sequence on the bending behavior of composite biomaterial.

Plasmonic hybridization properties in polyenes octatetraene molecules based on theoretical computation

Relationship of plasmonic properties of multiple clusters to molecular interactions and properties of a single cluster or molecule have become increasingly important due to the continuous emergence of molecular and cluster devices or systems. A hybrid phenomenon similar to plasmonic nanoparticle hybridization exists between two molecules with plasmon excitation modes. We use linear-response time-dependent density functional theory, real-time propagation time-dependent density functional theory, the plasmonicity index, and transition contribution maps (TCMs) to identify the plasmon excitation modes for the linear polyenes octatetraene with –OH and –NH2 groups and analyze the hybridization characteristics using charge transitions. The results show that molecular plasmon hybridization exists when the two molecules are coupled. The TCM analysis shows that the plasmon modes and hybridization result from collective and single-particle excitation. The plasmon mode is stronger, and the individual properties of the molecules are maintained after coupling when there is extra charge depose in the molecules because the electrons are moving in the molecules. This study provides new insights into the molecular plasmon hybridization of coupled molecules.

First-Principles Study of the Effect of Titanium Doping on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Properties of Zirconium-Cobalt Alloys

It is very important to study impurity gas poisoning in ZrCo alloy because it is associated directly with the performance of ZrCo alloy as a hydrogen storage material. In this work, the effects of atomic replacement on the mechanism and properties of CO impurity gas poisoning in doped (Ti) ZrCo hydrogen storage alloys were investigated using the first principles method, based on the pseudopotential plane wave method. The adsorption energy, lattice constant, density of states, and charge density difference of the compounds before and after doping were calculated. Then, surface adsorption models of the ZrCo and Zr0.8Ti0.2Co alloys were established with the assistance of a conventional model. The resulting adsorption energy values of the clean surface and the surface adsorption energy values in the presence of CO impurity gases manifested that the Ti element-doped Zr0.8Ti0.2Co alloy was more susceptible to CO gas poisoning compared to ZrCo, which was consistent with the existing experimental results. In addition, by analyzing the conventional model, the electrons from the doped atoms overlapped with the surrounding electrons of C atoms, the phenomenon of orbital hybridization occurred, and the interactions increased. Consequently, Ti doping was not conducive to ZrCo to improve the ability to resist CO poisoning. The research results of this paper have laid a good foundation for the study of the effect of Ti doping on the antitoxicity performance.

New Results for Hybrid Delay Systems With Initial Data: Razumikhin-Type Stability Criteria

This brief work focuses on the stability of a novel hybrid dynamical system formulated by hybrid phenomena, finite memory and initial data. To solve this issue, the main idea is to explore the pre-asymptotic stability and uniform pre-asymptotic stability of a hybrid delay model with initial data by developing the unique properties of hybrid memory domain, hybrid memory arc, generalized hybrid memory solution and continuation. Then, by introducing the Razumikhin-type function method, new pre-asymptotic stability and uniform pre-asymptotic stability theorems for hybrid delay systems with initial data are proposed in the framework of generalized hybrid solutions containing finite memory and initial data. Finally, an example analysis is conducted to reveal the validity of the proposed criteria.

Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1911–2011

Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1911–2011

What Is Immersion? Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Reality

Abstract Although the importance of the concept of immersion in game studies is indisputable, its meaning remains imprecise and ambiguous. My goal here is to develop a phenomenological clarification of this concept. I begin by clarifying how immersion has been understood in game studies. I further contend that immersion in digital games should be recognized as one modality of immersion among others. This basic realization allows one to open a dialogue between game studies and phenomenology. I develop a phenomenological conception of immersion, which relies on Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology of multiple realities and Theodor Conrad’s phenomenology of immersion. Although such an approach provides us with a general conception of immersion, it does not clarify what specific features characterize immersion in digital games. I argue that this form of immersion is a hybrid phenomenon, which shares certain features with immersion in non-digital games and other features with immersion in other types of digital media. I further demonstrate that immersion in digital games is characterized by a specific function of embodiment. With this in mind, I conclude my analysis by introducing a phenomenologically grounded distinction between actual and virtual embodiment, thereby clarifying in which sense immersion in digital games is an embodied and a disembodied experience.

Ambivalent rituals of belonging: (Re)theorising hybrid, violent media events

Abstract The updating of media event theory for the digital age has been underway for some time, and several researchers have pointed out that the complexity of the hybrid media environment poses a challenge when it comes to understanding how media events in the present digital context ritually create belonging. In this article, we examine violent media events as hybrid phenomena and discuss their ritual workings in the present digital media environment. We apply what we call the 5 A’s – actors, affordances, attention, affect, and acceleration – as key analytical tools to empirically study such events. We also develop the concept of hybridity in relation to media events by proposing three auxiliary A’s: assemblage, amplification, and accumulation. Building on our earlier work, we call for more analytical consideration of the ambivalences in the ritual constructions of belonging (and non-belonging) in such violent events. We use the Christchurch massacre of 2019 as a case study to illustrate these conceptual developments.

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION - OPPORTUNITY AND NECESSITY IN THE CONTEXT OF EXPANSION AND DIVERSIFICATION OF HYBRIDITY

In an era of internet, highly developed technology, and hugely exploited and omnipresent information environment, communication in the field of defence and security has acquired remarkable significance. In an age of expansion and diversification of the hybrid phenomenon, of an assertive geopolitical competition based in large measure on any methods and means employed so as to ensure the fulfilment of own state interests, it is easy to notice the use of media and social networks more than any time before, in order to influence and even manipulate public opinion meant to change perceptions, mislead, polarize and divide. This gave rise to the necessity of emergence of strategic communication concept, developed in the western world, including at the level of North Atlantic Alliance in order to support the achievement of security goals of the Alliance and the Member States. The present article is a plea for raising awareness upon the increased importance of strategic communication, at military and political levels, in the context of expansion and diversification of hybrid phenomenon as a reality that needs revealing and countering, when coming from our opponents, and used for reaching own goals.

THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF A NATIONAL MARITIME SECURITY STRATEGY GIVEN THE ”HYBRIDIZATION” OF THE MARITIME DOMAIN

Maritime strategies have always been part of the solution to strengthen maritime security. in the currently changing geopolitical environment, they apparently need to be readapted to threats that are completely different from the ones in the past: the hybrid ones. in order to cope with this mutant threat comprising all the elements making up the hybrid phenomenon, there is an acute need for revised and even innovative strategic response options. The aim of the paper is to prove that the only way of offering decision-makers a coherent and fully integrated vison, meant to ensure the security of maritime traffic and infrastructure, is the implementation of an adequate maritime strategy. Although it may not be a universal and fully guaranteed solution in this regard, the conclusion of the article shows that it is the only viable and decent answer to the ongoing maritime hybridity.

Curriculum Hybridization and Cultural Glocalization: A Scoping Review of International Research on Early Childhood Curriculum in China and Singapore

Purpose This article presents a scoping review of the internationally published research on the early childhood curriculum (ECC) reforms, policies, measures, and effectiveness in China and Singapore, to explore the joint and interactive effects of globalization and localization in ECC in two different contexts. Design/Approach/Methods We reviewed and analyzed the chosen studies with a multilevel curriculum framework: formal curriculum, perceived curriculum, operational curriculum, and curriculum ideology. Findings The synthesis of evidence indicated that in both China and Singapore (1) a constructivist orientation is relied upon to construct the formal curricula; (2) the perceived curricula have been heavily influenced by the indigenous values and contextual realities; and (3) the Western ideology embedded in the formal curricula has not been realized, as reflected in the operational curricula. Originality/Value The phenomenon of curriculum hybridization has been scrutinized to explain these findings regarding curriculum ideologies and practices. As confirmed by the findings and theoretical explanations, the 3CAPs framework (culturally, contextually, and child-individually appropriate practices) can be employed to guide the development of ECC in policies and practices.

Morphological characteristics of the micropyle and micropylar cone in red spotted grouper ( Epinephelus akaara ) and sevenband grouper ( Epinephelus septemfasciatus ) during fertilization process

In order to understand the phenomenon of cross-species hybridization between grouper species, we investigated the morphological characteristics of the micropyle and micropylar cone during fertilization process of Epinephelus akaara and E. septemfasciatus using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). This species has one micropyle, which is found at the animal pole of the eggs. Various size pores (0.11–2.17 μm in diameter) were observed in a concentric circle only around the micropyle. The outer aperture of the micropyle and various size pores were in an open state before fertilization. The micropylar diameter of E. akaara and E. septemfasciatus was 5.91 ± 0.57 μm and 6.22 ± 0.69 μm respectively. The micropyle was a circular flat crateriform and type I, and consisted of a vestibule and canal. The ridge of the micropylar vestibule was reinforced in a clockwise eight to nine spiral arrangement. After fertilization, the vestibular ridge initially swelled by activation of the ridge. The micropylar cone with a pillar or dome shape was projected from the micropyle and completely plugged the micropylar aperture. The pores were closed and nodules were not observed on the chorionic surface. These results suggest that the micropylar size and the structure of the grouper species are similar but induced the prevention of polyspermy by micropylar cone.

Genetic and Phenotypic Characteristics of the Salmo trutta Complex in Italy

Salmonid fish have become ecological and research models of study in the field of conservation genetics and genomics. Over the last decade, brown trout have received a high level of interest in research and publications. The term Salmo trutta complex is used to indicate the large number of geographic forms present in the species Salmo trutta. In Europe, the S. trutta complex consists (based on mitochondrial DNA control region analysis) of seven major evolutionary lineages: Atlantic (AT), Mediterranean (ME), Adriatic (AD), Danubian (DA), Marmoratus (MA), Duero (DU) and Tigris (TI). In several nations, the difficulty of identifying some lineages derives from their wide phenotypic and geographic plasticity and the presence of mixed lineages (due to introgressive hybridization with domestic AT populations). In Italy, the S. trutta complex populations living in the Tyrrhenian area and on the main islands (Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica) showed high genetic diversity. Currently, on the Italian Red List, the protected (near threatened) populations are the AD and ME lineages. Recent studies based on traditional (mitochondrial and nuclear markers) and NGS (next-generation sequencing) analyses have clarified some genetic differences between the populations of the Tyrrhenian region, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. Native populations in Sardinia belong to the AD lineage, while those living in Corsica are mainly characterized by the AD, MA and ME haplotypes. In Sicily, in the area of the Iblei mountains, an AT lineage (North African) exists. According to some authors, the term Salmo macrostigma should only be used for populations in North Africa. The use of genotyping methods based on mtDNA and nuclear markers and the latest generation sequencing techniques can improve the study of populations and evolutionary lineages in areas where there are overlaps and hybridization phenomena.

Genome Dominance in Allium Hybrids (A. cepa × A. roylei).

Genome dominance is a phenomenon in wide hybrids when one of the parental genomes becomes “dominant,” while the other genome turns to be “submissive.” This dominance may express itself in several ways including homoeologous gene expression bias and modified epigenetic regulation. Moreover, some wide hybrids display unequal retention of parental chromosomes in successive generations. This may hamper employment of wide hybridization in practical breeding due to the potential elimination of introgressed segments from progeny. In onion breeding, Allium roylei (A. roylei) Stearn has been frequently used as a source of resistance to downy mildew for cultivars of bulb onion, Allium cepa (A. cepa) L. This study demonstrates that in A. cepa × A. roylei hybrids, chromosomes of A. cepa are frequently substituted by those of A. roylei and in just one generation, the genomic constitution shifts from 8 A. cepa + 8 A. roylei chromosomes in the F1 generation to the average of 6.7 A. cepa + 9.3 A. roylei chromosomes in the F2 generation. Screening of the backcross generation A. cepa × (A. cepa × A. roylei) revealed that this shift does not appear during male meiosis, which is perfectly regular and results with balanced segregation of parental chromosomes, which are equally transmitted to the next generation. This indicates that female meiotic drive is the key factor underlying A. roylei genome dominance. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping further suggested that the drive has different strength across the genome, with some chromosome segments displaying Mendelian segregation, while others exhibiting statistically significant deviation from it.

Novam viam или «тупик» оперы в современном социокультурном пространстве

The aim of the study is to comprehend in a theoretical manner the principles of opera as a synthetic genre, namely taking into account the symbiosis of the properties related to the plot and storyline and musical properties themselves. The paper examines the development of opera in modern realities, the phenomenon of hybridity and openness of the genre. The author focuses on the mixed nature of opera as a result of the search for new means of expression. The scientific novelty of the study lies in defining modern opera as a hybrid, mixed genre, which together with modern technologies, means of performance and interpretation creates new contexts of musical expression, temporality and imaginary space. As a result, it has been determined that the evolutionary movement of opera has a centuries-old history and has always consisted of the confrontation of the new and the conservative, the elitist and the democratic, while opera was able to absorb the “intonation vocabulary of a specific era” and remain viable.