Events In Space Research Articles

Political tools or ‘supercrips’? Civilian interpretation of wounded veterans at the Canada army run

ABSTRACT The figure of the wounded veteran is a significant problem for the state as visual wounds make manifest the toll of war. If not appropriately mediated, veteran injury may communicate to the public that the cost of war is too high. The state and media organizations working on its behalf thus manage mediated representations in ways that rehabilitate the wounded veteran, communicating narratives of redemption, hope, and overcoming. Significant work has critiqued the political work of mediated depictions of wounded veteran-athletes at events like the Invictus Games and Paralympics, but little work has explored civilian responses. This paper explores civilian responses to the presence of wounded veterans at a military-themed amateur athletic event, the Canada Army Run, as determined through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 40 event participants. Though wounded veteran-athletes comprise a tiny minority of Army Run participants, their presence captures the imagination of many civilian runners. Analysing civilian participants’ interpretation of wounded veteran-athletes allows for insight into the degree to which rehabilitative discourses dominating media depiction of wounded veterans at the Invictus Games and Paralympics has permeated the popular imaginary. I found that while veteran injury was often taken for granted as inevitable, veterans’ wounds generated significant support for servicepeople specifically, and to a lesser extent the Canadian Armed Forces at large. However, affects of sympathy and support did not preclude critique of veteran treatment by the state, demonstrating that even at explicitly pro-military events space for dissent is possible.

Time after Time: Preserving Temporal Memories When Experiences Repeat.

Remembering when events occur in time is fundamental to episodic memory. Yet, many experiences repeat over time creating the potential for interference when attempting to recall temporally specific memories. Here, we argue that temporal memories are protected, in part, by reinstatement of temporal context information that is triggered by stimulus repetitions. We motivate this argument by integrating seminal findings across several distinct literatures and methodologies. Specifically, we consider key insights from foundational behavioral studies of temporal memory, recent electrophysiological and neuroimaging approaches to measuring memory reinstatement, and computational models that describe how temporal context representations shape memory processes. We also note several open questions concerning how temporal context reinstatement might influence subsequent temporal memory, including potential mediating effects of event spacing and event boundaries. These ideas and questions have the potential to guide future research and, ultimately, to advance theoretical accounts of how we preserve temporal memories.

A novel spatial-aware deep learning approach for exploring the environmental context of terrorist attacks and armed conflicts

The quantitative assessment of terrorist attacks and armed conflicts (TAACs) is a crucial component of global public safety research and is vital for societal stability and national security. This study addresses the spatial dependency of such events, i.e., the relationship between the outbreak of an event and its environment. Based on geographic big data and artificial intelligence (AI), we propose a spatial feature utilization pattern that takes into account the impact of the event environment, and established a deep learning (DL) framework of features within the joint event location and space neighborhood to improve the precision of the quantitative assessment. The results demonstrate that in scenarios under a combination of 14 social, natural, and geographic driving factors, models that incorporate spatial features outperform those that only use location features during both the training and testing phases. Furthermore, models that consider both location and spatial features outperform models using only a single feature across various evaluation metrics. Global attribution analysis further confirms the spatial dependency of events, manifested in the mutual influence on the likelihood of events occurring among adjacent cities and the correlation with various environmental factors, particularly elements related to human activities and living environments. We find that both prosperous urban centers and underdeveloped rural areas are hotspots for TAACs, and that such events more likely to occur in harsh climatic patterns characterized by high temperatures and low precipitation. This enhances our understanding and preparedness for managing and preventing such events.

ESTRATÉGIAS DE CONFORTO AMBIENTAL PARA QUADRAS FECHADAS VOLTADAS A ESPORTES DE ALTO RENDIMENTO

Sports architecture, with its particularities, is essential to optimize the efficiency of environments, considering the specific needs of each sport. This article addresses environmental comfort strategies applied to indoor courts intended for high-performance sports, highlighting the importance of an architecturally planned environment to ensure the well-being of athletes and optimize their performance. The study focuses on thermal, visual, acoustic and ergonomic aspects, and analyzes how each of these factors influences sports performance. In addition, it explores the interaction between the body and the physical environment, proposing solutions that favor the creation of functional and comfortable spaces for sports practice and competitive events. The research, of a bibliographic and exploratory nature, brings together concepts of environmental psychology and athletic performance, in addition to highlighting the construction strategies of ventilation, lighting and acoustic control that can be applied to indoor courts with the aim of promoting human well-being. The work proposes solutions so that sports centers offer adequate conditions for sports practice, supporting the creation of environments that favor both the satisfaction and the enhancement of the performance of athletes. From this study, it is possible to define the importance of the preparation and competition environment in the performance of high-performance athletes, and architecture, linked to environmental comfort, is shown to be a tool for the development of these spaces, essential for success in national and international sports competitions.

Quantum anomaly detection in the latent space of proton collision events at the LHC

The ongoing quest to discover new phenomena at the LHC necessitates the continuous development of algorithms and technologies. Established approaches like machine learning, along with emerging technologies such as quantum computing show promise in the enhancement of experimental capabilities. In this work, we propose a strategy for anomaly detection tasks at the LHC based on unsupervised quantum machine learning, and demonstrate its effectiveness in identifying new phenomena. The designed quantum models-an unsupervised kernel machine and two clustering algorithms-are trained to detect new-physics events using a latent representation of LHC data, generated by an autoencoder designed to accommodate current quantum hardware limitations on problem size. For kernel-based anomaly detection, we implement an instance of the model on a quantum computer, and we identify a regime where it significantly outperforms its classical counterparts. We show that the observed performance enhancement is related to the quantum resources utilised by the model.

Geo-spatial hypertext in virtual reality: mapping and navigating global news event spaces

ABSTRACT Every day, a myriad of events take place that are documented and shared online through news articles from a variety of sources. As a result, as users navigate the Web, the volume of data can lead to information overload, making it difficult to find specific details about an event. We present News in Time and Space (NiTS) to address this issue: NiTS is a fully immersive system integrated into Va.Si.Li-Lab that organises textual information in a geospatial hypertext system in virtual reality. With NiTS, users can visualise, filter and interact with information currently based on GDELT on a virtual globe providing document networks to analyse global events and trends. The article describes NiTS, its event semantics and architecture. It evaluates NiTS in comparison to a classic search engine website, extended by NiTS's information filtering capabilities to make it comparable. Our comparison with this website technology, which is directly linked to the user's usage habits, shows that NiTS enables comparable information exploration even if the users have little or no experience with VR. That is, we observe an equivalent search result behaviour, but with the advantage that VR allows users to get their results with a higher level of usability without distracting them from their tasks. Through its integration with Va.Si.Li-Lab, a simulation-based learning environment, NiTS can be used in simulations of learning processes aimed at studying critical online reasoning, where Va.Si.Li-Lab guarantees that this can be done in relation to individual or groups of learners.

The Role of Mosque Istiqlal Osaka, Japan: Preliminary Observations on Islamic Religious Practices for the Indonesian Migrant Worker Society

This research paper presents preliminary observations on the role of Mosque Istiqlal in Osaka, Japan, in facilitating Islamic religious practices for the Indonesian migrant worker society. As globalization has led to increased migration flows, many Indonesian workers have moved to Japan in search of better economic opportunities. However, living in a non-Muslim majority country presents challenges for practicing their faith. The study aims to investigate how Mosque Istiqlal serves as a religious and social hub for the Indonesian migrant worker community in Osaka. Through qualitative research methods including interviews, participant observations, and document analysis, this research explores the various functions of the mosque in supporting the religious needs and social integration of Indonesian migrants.The findings reveal that Mosque Istiqlal plays a crucial role in providing a space for collective worship, religious education, cultural events, and social support for the Indonesian migrant worker society. The mosque serves as a center for fostering a sense of community, preserving cultural identity, and offering a familiar environment for religious practices in a foreign land.Through this preliminary study, we highlight the significance of religious institutions like Mosque Istiqlal in supporting the well-being and integration of migrant communities in host countries. The research underscores the importance of further exploration into the role of religious institutions in facilitating the religious and social needs of migrant populations, contributing to a better understanding of the intersection between religion, migration, and community building.

Examining the Mega‐Event Space???Perception Nexus: An Advanced Epicenter Effect Perspective

Previous research emphasizes that residents living within an event’s epicenter (i.e., host city) will exhibit the greatest positive and negative event legacy perceptions. However, given that mega‐events often include multiple event spaces to operationalize hosting (e.g., satellite cities), a single epicenter perspective is challenged. We examined residents’ social legacy perceptions of a mega‐event with multiple event sites to test an epicenter effect within this event ecosystem. Data were collected via surveys from 1,901 residents living within four event spaces: Host City, Satellite, Provincial, and National. Statistical analyses revealed event space significantly influenced residents’ social legacy perceptions but not linearly as previously theorized. Rather, Satellite residents perceived the highest positive legacies, not Host City residents. This evidence advances epicenter effect theorizing by highlighting how various event spaces can amplify or diminish residents’ perceptions. Event managers should leverage multiple event spaces to maximize positive legacy perceptions while minimizing negative legacy perceptions.

Public Spaces and Events

This review identifies research articles published in Event Management that discuss the use of public spaces for events. Events and festivals utilize public spaces, which are specific geographic locations in cities. These public spaces transform into places when imbued with meaning through experiences related to events and festivals. This article reveals that uniqueness, emotions, and cocreation through social interaction are important in facilitating events and festivals, although there is also the danger of becoming exclusive, commercialized, commodified, and privatized. Considering the dearth of studies looking at public spaces, future studies may delve into analyzing public space utilization during events and festivals, aiming to unveil spatial trends pertinent to both a city’s overarching urban policies and its tailored event (and tourism) strategies.

Image and verbal text interfaces of internet memes: a cognitive analysis

The article focuses on image-text interface types of Internet memes mocking the same viral event – Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican Party convention. The future first lady’s address contained borrowings from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic Party convention. The relevance of the study is accounted for both by the social significance of visual-verbal Internet memes as a tool influencing the formation of the Internet users’ views and by the need to elucidate the principles of interaction between the verbal and visual modes of memes in creating a humorous effect, which is the aim of the study. The application of cognitive linguistics methods, in particular, the tools of the theory of conceptual integration for multimodal analysis of communication, made it possible to establish four types of visual and verbal text interfaces. It has been concluded that simple visual-verbal metonymy underlies memes, in which the humorous effect is achieved through the interaction of an image that provides access to a viral event mocked by the meme and a verbal text that activates a certain metonymic association highlighting a feature of the event that is incompatible with the expectations provided by the generic space of the viral event. In memes built on the basis of visual metonymy and verbal allusion, incompatible conceptual structures are activated with the help of allusive connection. Radial visual-verbal metonymy occurs when an image engages a series of metonymic features linked by a radial semantic link, whereas the verbal text highlights the incompatibility of these features with the actual features of the viral event. The interaction of allusion and diffuse visual-verbal metonymy is the cognitive basis of memes, in which access to a viral event is provided by verbal allusion, while the image contains signs of absurdity and triggers metonymic associations that are not based on expected connections.

Условия применения образовательных технологий для создания событийного пространства в приходской педагогической деятельности

The present article draws attention to the fact that modern parish educational activities, in addition to a narrowly specialized orientation, can become an additional, replenishing and enriching resource for the general school education in terms of spiritual and moral upbringing of children and their harmonious development when changing pedagogical approaches to the organization of the educational process. It is noted that Sunday schools today are experiencing a crisis of children's and especially teenagers' departure from Sunday schools and, as a result, from the church. In this regard, it is proposed to seek and use all the opportunities and resources of parish activities in order to create an interesting, enriching event space, which includes children, parents, teachers and clergy. The eventfulness, which is created due to jointly divided activities, meets the needs of adolescents, taking into account their age-related psychological.The article substantiates the opinion that innovative educational technologies (creative workshops, experimental laboratories, bibliodramas, hagiodramas, educational pilgrimage, etc.) contribute to the creation of eventfulness. Active interaction with objects of the surrounding world, personally significant interactivity, cooperation and dialogical communication of participants, emotional experience from joint discoveries and obtained results, the possibility of feedback - can be considered as significant advantages of such technologies.This paper, as sharing of experience, presents a description of two creative workshops for teenagers and Sunday school teachers and notes their educational, upbringing and developmental potential. However, to make educational technologies an effective means for achieving the priority goal of the parish education - spiritual development and growth of children in faith, it is necessary to observe certain pedagogical conditions, which are indicated in the presented article.The determined pedagogical conditions impose special requirements on the teaching staff engaged in the educational activities at the parish.This article contains references to other articles by the author that will help to form a comprehensive understandung of pedagogical views on the problem of parish care of children in modern realities and may prove useful for teachers in the organization of educational and upbringing activities at the parish.

Cluster Scanning: a novel approach to resonance searches

We propose a new model-independent method for new physics searches called Cluster Scanning. It uses the k-means algorithm to perform clustering in the space of low-level event or jet observables, and separates potentially anomalous clusters to construct a signal-enriched region. The spectra of a selected observable (e.g. invariant mass) in these two regions are then used to determine whether a resonant signal is present. A pseudo-analysis on the LHC Olympics dataset with a Z′ resonance shows that Cluster Scanning outperforms the widely used 4-parameter functional background fitting procedures, reducing the number of signal events needed to reach a 3σ significant excess by a factor of 0.61. Emphasis is placed on the speed of the method, which allows the test statistic to be calibrated on synthetic data.

A new orthogonal sum in Random Permutation Set

Random Permutation Set is a newly proposed method for handling uncertainty, which considers the order of the elements in evidence. However, how to fuse RPSs efficiently is still an open issue. To solve this problem, the space composed of order code is defined. Then the mutual mappings between this space and permutation event space are also presented. Finally, the new orthogonal sum is proposed. Compared with the existing left orthogonal sum, the new orthogonal sum can obtain more accurate results with lower entropy and deal with extreme situations. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the superiority of the new orthogonal sum.

MOBILE APPLICATION FOR RESERVATION OF MEETING ROOMS AND EVENT SPACES AT MARQUEE EXECUTIVE OFFICES

Increasing efficiency and ease in the meeting room and event space reservationprocess is an important need for modern companies such as Marquee Executive Offices. Making a mobile application is an effective solution for managing the reservation process. Utilizing Laravel technology and the Flutter framework, this application is able to provide users with the convenience of making reservations quickly and accurately. At the development stage, the main problems faced were the complexity in integration between the backend and frontend platforms, as well as the need for a system that could handle many reservation requests simultaneously. The solution adopted involved a structured approach to development using Laravel for the backend and Flutter for the frontend, allowing the application to run smoothly and responsively. The main benefit of the application that hasbeen developed is increasing efficiency and productivity in the meeting room and event space reservation process. Users can easily view space availability, make reservations directly via mobile device, and receive instant reservation confirmation. This not only optimizes the use of space, but also improves the overall user experience, thereby strengthening the company's image as a sophisticated and efficient service provider.

Fashion and pilgrimage: Discourses constructing Romani identity

Our study interprets the activities and products of Romani Design, a Budapest-based high fashion company. We discuss their creative technique and ideology, which programmatically construct a distinctive Romani identity in their fashion products. Their activities take part not just in the maistream world of fashion shows and fashion business but they also appear in special spaces of representation, for example, in a major city museum exhibition, mobilizing visual parallels with eighteenth-century artistic paintings. They also take part in a religious, ritual event, the dressing of the statue of the Virgin Mary in a church in the Romani community space of the Csatka pilgrimage feast. All three event spaces serve to position a “Gypsy” identity, as well as a confident but also contradictory Romani bodily-spiritual projection through objects and their placement. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .

Co-creating hospitable moments in event experiences: Omotenashi at the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup

Within Japan, Japanese hospitality or omotenashi is seen as distinct from ‘western’ hospitality, which is seen as a transactional service, focusing on the provision of food and beverages. Omotenashi, on the other hand, is based on the cultivation of a relationship between host and guest and an anticipation of needs. This article examines the role that volunteers played in delivering omotenashi and in co-creating a hospitable environment at the 2019 Rugby World Cup (RWC) in Japan. To welcome visitors, 13,000 volunteers were mobilized in host cities across the country, the highest number of volunteers in the history of the RWC. As a social event, the tournament offered many opportunities for interaction between the hosts and visitors, allowing for a co-created experience. Employing a walking methodology and participant–observation conducted within the event spaces, this article demonstrates how the engagement of the local communities through hosting, volunteering and direct interaction with visitors contributed to the co-creation of the event experience, and how omotenashi was embedded in the experiencescape. The research finds that although visitors were provided with a space in which their service needs were met, the hospitable environment was largely created through interactions between visitors and volunteers and between visitors and other visitors, both domestic and international. Significantly, volunteers displayed omotenashi, engaging with visitors in (fleeting) relationships, rather than as service providers, contributing to a clear sense of communitas and welcome that would not be found in typical transactional hospitality.

Mathematical Techniques for Computing the Reliability of a Parallel-series System of Order (2,3,1) under Rayleigh Failure Laws

Some well-known mathematical techniques have been used to compute the reliability of a parallel-series system of order (2,3,1). The system is composed of four units labelled as A, B, C and D. The configuration involves two parallel subsystems: the first containing units A, B and C arranged in series and the second comprising a single unit D. The failure rate of units is assumed to follow the Rayleigh distribution. With the use of the decomposition method, cut set method and event space method, expressions for both reliability and Mean Time to System Failure (MTSF) have been derived. By considering all units to be identical, the reliability measures have been obtained numerically for specific parameter values. The trends of these measures have been represented graphically to understand the effect of parameters. The study has its practical significance in assessing the reliability of solar panel system. . KEYWORDS :Parallel-series System, Rayleigh failure laws, Decomposition method, Cut set method, Event space method.

Problems of the crisis of spatial design of art events in conditions of military aggression (Ukrainian experience)

Rethinking the processes accompanying spatial design from the correlation of the environment to the social, material, and spiritual aspects of its creation produce driving systems, even in the crisis period of wartime. In this regard, the study of the spatial design of art events is an urgent issue that requires a thorough study of the trends in the adaptation of spatial design to the modern demands of the artistic space of Ukraine. The purpose of the scientific work is to study the phenomenon of “spatial design”, as well as to study the problems of the crisis, in particular, the Ukrainian design of the space of the events of the artistic direction in the realities of martial law. To study the issues of the crisis state of the spatial design of Ukrainian artistic events, the method of analysis, the descriptive method of research, and the survey were used. As a result of the scientific research, the real state of the crisis of spatial design of artistic activities in Ukraine was studied and analysed, as well as the focus of the vision and trends introduced in the field of spatial design in the conditions of war were studied and described. The development of digital technologies and their use in the field of design has greatly reduced the material and time costs associated with the mobility of planning and creating a project of artistic space, but in order to create a universal modern project of spatial design of artistic events, the designer needs to understand the context of wartime. That is why the comfort of the atmosphere, where people will feel safe and comfortable, is one of the main requirements for the space of artistic events that take place during military operations. In the scientific work, in addition to studying the issues of the crisis of spatial design of Ukrainian art events, the requests of visitors to art events in Ukraine were investigated using a survey. Based on the answers and the wartime context, the main requirements for the spatial design of artistic events in Ukraine under the conditions of military aggression from Russia were formed.

Monte Carlo Analysis for Evacuation in Multipurpose Event Spaces

This paper addresses the evacuation of people from multipurpose halls and introduces an innovative approach that uses a probabilistic model, specifically the Monte Carlo method, to analyse iterative evacuation processes. The aim is to explore how this modern technology can contribute to the development of effective and safe evacuation plans for mass events. The Monte Carlo method was applied to a specific example of a multipurpose hall that offers different configurations for events such as sports matches, concerts, or performances. The evacuation of people was analysed for two configurations: a hockey match with a capacity of 9500 people and a concert with a capacity of 11,000 people. In both cases, the total evacuation of people from the hall was analysed, and the evacuation time was evaluated when two parameters were changed: speed of movement and preference for door selection. The results of the simulations can provide valuable information for the design of effective safety measures in multipurpose halls and other similar multipurpose venues. This innovative approach to evacuation analysis allows for a comprehensive assessment of the evacuation process, identification of critical areas, and verification of the layout of the space.

Transformation of Various Measures of Financial Risks with their Limitation on Outcomes Associated with Losses

In assessing the risk of investing in various financial assets, risk management focuses on the analysis of the worst possible losses (the right tail of the loss distribution). At the same time, most often, when speaking about losses, it is assumed that losses can, in principle, take on negative values (which corresponds to receiving positive profits). However, there are many theoretical studies suggesting that losses take only positive values. Many risk managers use only a portion of the sample of data that corresponds to positive losses when assessing the relevant risk measures using the statistical method or the Monte Carlo method. The purpose of this paper is to study the transformation of risk estimates of various levels of catastrophicity with such a change in the space of elementary events, and hence the law of loss distribution. The paper uses methods of analysis of financial risks of various levels of catastrophicity, including methods developed in the author’s previous papers. As a result of the study, it turned out that with such a transformation of the random value of losses, all the most important estimates are significantly transformed with the help of risk measures of various catastrophicity. The author concludes that the theoretical conclusions of the work will also contribute to a more conscious understanding of the theoretical results and the results of practical risk assessments, depending on the basis on which this assessment was made: allowing losses to accept negative values or focusing only on their positive values.