Shared Paradigm Research Articles

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: Revaluing Academic Labor and Recognizing the Centrality of Carework

Abstract This paper examines the often-overlooked yet crucial role of carework within the academic ecosystem. Challenging the dominant paradigm that prioritizes research output, the paper argues for recognizing academic labor as a spectrum where teaching, research, and service hold equal value. Drawing on Rajan's (2023) framework of “academic carework,” the paper demonstrates the inseparable link between care and knowledge, highlighting how carework forms the foundation for knowledge production and reproduction. The analysis situates academic careworkers within the complex administrative landscape of higher education institutions, exploring the challenges posed by managerialism and external pressures. The paper introduces the “Argument from Shared Paradigm,” positing that academics, through their shared experiences and values, are uniquely positioned to advocate for and safeguard care-centered practices in research and teaching. By recognizing carework's essential contributions, this paper calls for a re-evaluation of academic reward systems and a shift towards a more inclusive academic culture.

Sustainable logistics and passenger transport in smart cities

The rapid growth of urban populations, coupled with the imperatives of decarbonization and the relentless march of urbanization, has thrust modern cities into a crucible of multifaceted challenges. In response, the Smart City concept has emerged as a shared paradigm for addressing these urban complexities. This transformative approach touches upon various facets of urban life, encompassing areas such as the economy, education, and governance. Among these, logistics stands out as a pivotal component of the Smart City framework, necessitating innovative and sustainable solutions. This article delves into the intricate nexus between sustainable logistics systems and the evolution of the Smart City concept. Drawing from both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, including multivariate analysis, the study synthesizes data from primary sources collected during a series of European projects conducted from 2020 to 2023, in addition to secondary data sources. A central inquiry revolves around the symbiotic relationship between e-commerce dynamics and the sustainability of smart city logistics solutions. The findings of this investigation illuminate a compelling correlation between the profitability of logistics enterprises and the key indicators of logistics development underpinning smart cities. By unveiling these interdependencies, this research contributes to our understanding of how sustainable logistics and passenger transport systems are pivotal to the ongoing development of smart cities, offering valuable insights for urban planners, policymakers, and industry stakeholders alike.

Incentive Sharing: A Consumer-Data Privacy Trusted Sharing Paradigm Via Proximal Policy Optimization in Industry 5.0

Incentive Sharing: A Consumer-Data Privacy Trusted Sharing Paradigm Via Proximal Policy Optimization in Industry 5.0

Folkloric memory: (Re)connecting the dots for broader perspectives

This article explores various dimensions of the memory-folklore nexus to contribute to interdisciplinary dialogues between folkloristics and memory studies by drawing on a shared paradigm; examining the historical, theoretical, and methodological intersections; and mapping out overlapping approaches in each area. It thus establishes and introduces the concept and approach of folkloric memory to provide broader perspectives on common issues such as referential, migratory, transmedial, mimetic, aesthetic, schematic, and procreative aspects of collective and cultural narratives. The article ultimately aims to review the correlation between memory and folklore, delve into previously unexplored aspects of this connection, develop an interdisciplinary approach, and establish a groundwork for future research.

The Integration of Cultural Ecosystem Services and Cultural Routes Based on the Sharing Paradigm

The Integration of Cultural Ecosystem Services and Cultural Routes Based on the Sharing Paradigm

System dynamics modeling for traumatic brain injury: Mini-review of applications

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a highly complex phenomenon involving a cascade of disruptions across biomechanical, neurochemical, neurological, cognitive, emotional, and social systems. Researchers and clinicians urgently need a rigorous conceptualization of brain injury that encompasses nonlinear and mutually causal relations among the factors involved, as well as sources of individual variation in recovery trajectories. System dynamics, an approach from systems science, has been used for decades in fields such as management and ecology to model nonlinear feedback dynamics in complex systems. In this mini-review, we summarize some recent uses of this approach to better understand acute injury mechanisms, recovery dynamics, and care delivery for TBI. We conclude that diagram-based approaches like causal-loop diagramming have the potential to support the development of a shared paradigm of TBI that incorporates social support aspects of recovery. When developed using adequate data from large-scale studies, simulation modeling presents opportunities for improving individualized treatment and care delivery.

Design of a "Cobot Tactile Display" for Accessing Virtual Diagrams by Blind and Visually Impaired Users.

Access to graphical information plays a very significant role in today’s world. Access to this information can be particularly limiting for individuals who are blind or visually impaired (BVIs). In this work, we present the design of a low-cost, mobile tactile display that also provides robotic assistance/guidance using haptic virtual fixtures in a shared control paradigm to aid in tactile diagram exploration. This work is part of a larger project intended to improve the ability of BVI users to explore tactile graphics on refreshable displays (particularly exploration time and cognitive load) through the use of robotic assistance/guidance. The particular focus of this paper is to share information related to the design and development of an affordable and compact device that may serve as a solution towards this overall goal. The proposed system uses a small omni-wheeled robot base to allow for smooth and unlimited movements in the 2D plane. Sufficient position and orientation accuracy is obtained by using a low-cost dead reckoning approach that combines data from an optical mouse sensor and inertial measurement unit. A low-cost force-sensing system and an admittance control model are used to allow shared control between the Cobot and the user, with the addition of guidance/virtual fixtures to aid in diagram exploration. Preliminary semi-structured interviews, with four blind or visually impaired participants who were allowed to use the Cobot, found that the system was easy to use and potentially useful for exploring virtual diagrams tactually.

The Directional Knowledge Sharing Paradigm: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of the Interaction between Organisational Culture and Intra-Organisational Knowledge Sharing

A partially mixed-methods case study in a Fortune 50 technology company was conducted to delineate the interaction between organisational culture (OC) types (competitive, bureaucratic and clan) and intra-organisational knowledge sharing (KS). This study provided empirical evidence that show differences in KS horizontally (peer-to-peer) and vertically (between direct-report and manager) within an organisation. By focussing on “socialization” adopted from the organisational knowledge creation theory, the iceberg theory and the competing values framework, we addressed an unexamined area within the body of knowledge. Survey data of 82 employees and interview data of 23 employees were analysed. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was used to analyse the quantitative survey data. The qualitative interview data were analysed through content analysis. A triangulation design was then followed to merge the data through an equivalent status ([Formula: see text]) interpretation to derive meta-inferences. MANCOVA displayed a statistically significant interaction between OC and KS via socialisation. The triangulated results showed that OC types distinctly impacted KS via socialisation with differences between seeking, contributing and the direction of knowledge flow (vertical and horizontal). The empirical evidence shows that organisations must consider the direction of knowledge flow (vertical or horizontal) when enforcing cultural values to drive KS via socialisation. Similarly, researchers should not ignore the directional knowledge sharing paradigm, nor the organisational knowledge creation theory, when examining intra-organisational KS.

Interdisciplinary Data-integrated Approaches

Rapid urbanization with the associated land cover and land use change, as well as resource depletion, contribute to the degradation of ecosystems and biodiversity and have a negative impact on human health and well-being. Societal calls for responses and results pose a significant challenge for research and education in the various fields concerned with the environment. Alongside the current environmental crisis there is a pressing need for developing ‘green solutions’ for the built environment with the help of datadriven methods, workflows and tools.
 In view these developments, a shift from narrow disciplinary and domain-specific approaches towards broader interdisciplinary, multi-domain and multi-scalar strategies is required. This includes dataacquisition, data-sharing and data-integration, as well as data-driven modelling to enable the complexity of sustainability problems arising from rapid urbanization to be tackled. While there have been efforts to address the challenges of multi-domain approaches, for instance in the fields of sustainability, the urban and architectural sciences, as well as the interoperability of methods and tools, the actual problem goes deeper, requiring interdisciplinary knowledge exchange to develop adequate shared paradigms, concepts, methods and tools.
 Cyber-physical Architecture (CpA) issue 5 addresses these challenges by engaging with experts from a range of disciplines involved in environmental concerns while utilizing data-acquisition, data-sharing and integration, and data-driven modelling in a discourse that identifies modalities for a broader interdisciplinary, multi-domain and multi-scalar approach.

Whose Crisis? Syrian Refugees and the Turkish Stage

Since the eruption of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the arrival of refugees in Turkey has been unprecedented in the country's history. Theatre practitioners have been slow to address this migratory moment, but an exception has been Istanbul-based Dostlar Tiyatrosu's 2017 production Göçmenleeeer, a translation of Romanian–French playwright Matéi Visniec's Migraaaants. Developed in the context of Europe's own migratory ‘crisis’, Migraaaants is composed of a series of vignettes that critique European refugee policy and the deadly economies that it has prompted in the continent's borderlands. What happens when Migraaaants is produced in a national context where the binary of European ‘hosts’ and non-European ‘refugees’ gives way to another set of political identities? How do we assess the emergence of a shared paradigm of ‘crisis’? And finally, where does crisis stand in relation to our ability to imagine a transnational aesthetics of political resistance to anti-immigration policies?

The Shared Pleasure Paradigm: A study in an observational birth cohort in South Africa

Mother–infant dyads in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) may be exposed to a range of factors associated with suboptimal development. Optimal infant development is likely supported by synchronicity in the early mother–infant relationship, but limited corroborative research is available in LMICs. The Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS) provided an opportunity to study this synchronicity and its associations in South Africa. A South African birth cohort study investigating early-life determinants of child health in a LMIC context provided participants. The Shared Pleasure (SP) paradigm helped assess early mother–infant synchronicity in videos of a sub-set of 291 mother–infant dyads at their 14-week well baby visit. General linear regression models investigated the relationship between selected maternal and infant characteristics and the presence of Shared Pleasure moments. Out of a possible 291 dyads, 82% (n = 239) yielded Shared Pleasure moments. The mean age of mothers was 27 years, while infant sex distribution comprised 54% females and 46% males. The shortest single Shared Pleasure moment lasted at least 0.5 s and the longest 28 s. Shared Pleasure moments were associated with higher gestation age at delivery (p = 0.008) and higher infant birth weight (p = 0.006), but were not related to mother's mental health and infant health outcomes at 14 weeks. The high frequency of positive Shared Pleasure moments in reciprocal dyadic interactions in this sample suggests that significant disruption in shared pleasure may be present only in extreme cases (e.g. mothers with severe mental disorders). Further work is needed to investigate the mechanisms underlying the associations between early mother–infant synchronicity and better outcomes noted here, and to assess whether SP may serve as a culturally appropriate screen for assessing connectedness.

Sandbox Computing: A Data Privacy Trusted Sharing Paradigm via Blockchain and Federated Learning

As a new trusted data sharing pattern with privacy protection, the integration mechanism of blockchain and Federated Learning has attracted extensive attention. Generally, this mechanism uses blockchain technology to supervise the original data and calculation results, which ignores the supervision of the Federated Learning model and computing process. Therefore, we introduce the concepts of the sandbox and state channel to construct a new data privacy sharing paradigm via Blockchain and Federated Learning. Under this paradigm, we use state channel to connect Blockchain and Federated Learning. And state channel is used to create a “trusted sandbox” to instantiate Federated Learning tasks in the trustless edge computing environment. Meanwhile, we also mainly solve problems about data privacy sharing in Federated Learning and system performance degradation caused by data quality. The simulation results show that the proposed method has better performance and efficiency than the traditional data sharing method.

Twelve Principles to Guide a Long-Overdue Paradigm Shift

If human behaviors are associated with climate change, it relates to how we consume, entertain, travel, do business, relate to "natural resources", to ourselves and to each other. The authors posit that human behaviors are but the visible tip of the iceberg, sustained underwater by a voluminous mass comprised of our values, beliefs, assumptions, the anchors of our identity and shared paradigms. They trace back the history of a shared paradigm that has become dysfunctional and introduce the Sustainability Mindset Principles - a scaffolding to address the complexity of the paradigm. This paper describes how the dysfunctional paradigm can be brought back into balance by developing neglected aspects of a Western-Northern worldview that has been shaping our behaviors for centuries. By naming these aspects, the authors propose a language to incite the readers' imagination of what is possible. Naming creates reality.

Research on Indigenous knowledge systems: the search for cognitive justice

ABSTRACT Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) are referred to differently in different contexts and circumstances. Related conceptions include ‘Traditional Knowledge Systems’ (TKS), ‘Endogenous Knowledge Systems’ (EKS) and ‘Classical Knowledge Systems’ (CKS). A focus on IKS implies an archaeology and re-appropriation of those knowledges that were not allowed to ‘be’, to enhance our human understanding, and develop, protect, and promote them. Most exigent in a decolonised context is the transformative challenge of developing appropriate protocols, codes of conduct, and terms for any dialogue and integration. This paper argues that at a systems level, IKS demands: establishing an ethically sound and ecologically constituted way of thinking; affirming the multiplicity of worlds and forms of life; creating a shared paradigm shift; self-reflexive praxis; becoming critical explorers of human and societal possibilities; establishing new evaluation and appraisal criteria; and a transformation to new futures. Such a transformation recognises cognitive justice as a plurality of ways of knowing.

Teoria descolonial na Ásia Oriental? Delineando um paradigma partilhado das epistemologias do Sul

This paper explores the challenges and potentialities of establishing a shared paradigm of transformative knowledge based on the dialogue between East Asian experiences and the rest of the global South, particularly Latin America. It gathers and organizes a general overview of significant attempts of framing East Asian struggles within resistances against Western hegemonic epistemological impositions. It makes the case for seeking shared links and critical differences that can help to incorporate East Asian experiences within the paradigm of epistemologies of the South. This study also problematizes the articulation of a propositional methodology of comparison that could nurture the production of local, decolonial approaches and foster the exchange of practices and knowledges from and to East Asia.

Unifying atmospheric biology research for the U.S. scientific community.

A global COVID-19 pandemic, rising asthma and allergies, along with climate change impacting storm intensity and frequency, point to an urgent need to unify U.S. atmospheric biology research. To this end, we briefly define atmospheric biology, summarize its fragmented history, and then outline how to unify the field to provide benefits for the U.S. science community and its citizens. Atmospheric biology refers to the study of concentrations, sources, sinks, transformation, and impacts of airborne microorganisms inclusive of pollen, fungal spores, algae, lichens, bacteria, viruses, cellulose fibers, and other biomolecules or fragments of cells. Here our focus is biological particles, both respirable (PM10 ) and systemic (PM2.5 ). Due to its interdisciplinary dependencies and broadness of scales from nanometers to kilometers, atmospheric biology research is highly fragmented in the U.S. science community. It lacks shared paradigms and common vocabulary. This deficit calls for recognizing atmospheric biology as a research community in its own right, thereby linking human health to climate change. We need to recognize atmospheric biology's importance to national security and science diplomacy. Advanced atmospheric biology research is being conducted in Europe, Russia, and China, not in the United States.

Spectrum Sharing Paradigm Under Primary Interference and Nakagami-m Fading: Security Analysis

The spectrum sharing paradigm is a promising countermeasure to the spectrum under-utilization problem. However, it causes both primary interference (inflicted by primary transmitters upon secondary receivers) and secondary interference (inflicted by secondary transmitters upon primary receivers) and un-secures information transmission. Most works ignored the primary interference and considered the Rayleigh fading in evaluating the information security of the spectrum sharing paradigm. This paper generalizes these works with considerations of the primary interference and the Nakagami-m fading. First, the exact expression of the secrecy outage probability is proposed for the spectrum sharing paradigm under considerations of both primary/secondary interferences, the Nakagami-m fading, and the peak transmit and interference power constraints. Then, computer simulations are provided to corroborate the proposed expression. Finally, numerous simulation/theory results are generated to assess the security performance in key system parameters such as the fading severity degree, the primary interference level, the peak transmit power, the peak interference power, the security threshold.

Cognitive Backscatter Network: A Spectrum Sharing Paradigm for Passive IoT

In this letter, a novel spectrum sharing system referred to as cognitive backscatter network (CBN) is proposed to support passive Internet of Things (IoT) transmission via backscatter modulation, in which the primary system transmits a sinusoidal carrier in addition to its own signal. In contrast to existing ambient backscatter communications, the proposed CBN does not require perfect symbol synchronization between the IoT and the primary transmissions. We maximize the data rate of the IoT transmission subject to the minimum rate requirement of the primary system by jointly optimizing the time sharing and power allocation parameters. Numerical results have demonstrated the superiority of the proposed CBN over conventional TDMA scheme.

Shared Context-Based Compression Paradigm for Ubiquitous Local Transmissions

Data compression is extremely important for all kinds of networking applications, but most existing compression algorithms are only based on utilizing the redundancy characteristics of data source. This paper proposes a novel compression paradigm, which explores another kind of redundancy that is provided by the correlated state information shared between sender and receiver of a local transmission. Such kind of redundancy reflects the knowledge of two peers about each other before a transmission really takes place, with the aid of possibly existing cloud data center or sensing interfaces equipped. We formulate a typical representation of shared context as inequality constraints for the general case in ${n}$ -dimensional Euclidean space, and provide a constructive proof for the existence of a bijective mapping used for compression and decompression with the shared context. By experimenting on compressing geographic spatial–temporal data for efficient transmissions, analysis and simulation demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the well-known Huffman coding and Delta algorithms in terms of compression ratio.

The Compensation for Losses to Indigenous Peoples Due to the Arctic Industrial Development in Benefit Sharing Paradigm

This article discusses the results of research on the benefit sharing system in Russia focusing on compensation of losses to indigenous peoples due to industrial development in the Arctic. The authors analyzed a Russian case-study on the economic mechanisms of coordination and harmonization of multi-vector and conflicting interests in the process of industrial development of traditional lands. The developed recommendations will allow, on the one hand, compensating the losses of the indigenous communities, and, on the other hand, to engage indigenous peoples in the process of environmental management and socio-economic development of their territories. The object of the research was the Republic of Sakha and the indigenous communities of the remote Anabar region. The calculation of losses was considered. The authors suggest using this tool for the traditional lands development, because it helps to define fair compensation due to project impacts and to form a fund for sustainable community development. The considered project was exploring and extracting placer diamonds in Polovinnaya River in Yakutia. This paper also presents the social poll results organized in the indigenous communities in 2017. The results helped to formulate the recommendations for the business on benefit sharing agreements with Anabar communities.