Spiral Dynamics Research Articles

CREATIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AS MEGATRENDS OF TOURIST BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DISSEMINATION OF EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE IN UKRAINE)

The relevance of the study is that along with the scientific and technological revolution there are anthropological and digital revolutions, the essence of which is a profound change in human thinking, forms of social life due to fundamental changes in value-target structures of society as a whole, which led to the transfer of basic social processes from the sphere of the material world to the digital sphere. The purpose of the research is theoretical and practical principles of forming the concept of creative digital technologies as megatrends of tourism business development in the context of dissemination of European experience in Ukraine. Objectives of the study: to analyze the concepts of "digital environment", "digital well-being", "digital comfort" and the value dimensions of digitalization; explore the concept of a "smart city" in the context of using the experience of Europe; to find out the development of agricultural tourism, rural and scientific tourism as new megatreds of tourism business; to identify the essence and directions of development of creative smart-tourism and e-tourism as forms of tourism of the new generation. As a result of the analysis, the concept of digital creative technologies as megatrends of tourism business development in the context of dissemination of European experience in Ukraine was developed; the concept of Digital-analytical information thinking and culture as a component of digital creative technologies in the tourism business is clarified; the directions of introduction of the concept of innovative development of tourist business in the conditions of COVID-19 are developed. Methodology of analysis. Methods - anthropological, axiological, phenomenological, ontological, systemic, structural-functional, phenomenological. Approaches - humanistic, cross-cultural, civilizational. Principles - integrity (proportionality), innovation, nonlinearity (deviation from equilibrium), openness, homeostatic (self-stabilization), self-determination (self-adjustment), self-regulation, self-management. Paradigms - synergetic, Agile-management (flexible), Enlightenment 2.0, human-centered model of balanced development, spiral dynamics, nonlinearity, synthesis of economics, culture and technology. Concepts and theories - smart-culture, smart-technology, smart-education, smart-man, smart-tourism, smart-management as a highly intelligent, high-tech, highly innovative development of society. As a result, the concept of innovative development of the tourism business through data-science, Digital-technologies, improvement of data-analytical thinking and culture of tourism companies was created

Spiral Dynamics, System Cycles and New Organizational Models: Pearlescent Enterprises

According to C. Graves, D. Beck, and C. Cowan’s Spiral Dynamics theory, the development of a socio-economic system, including an individual, organization, society, occurs discretely by moving from one level to another under the influence of change in the dominant value system. The authors of the Spiral Dynamics theory point to 8 levels, marked with a uniform color — from beige to turquoise. In this article, based on the analysis of trends in enterprises’ organizational models, the list of known organizational forms is supplemented by a new model — “pearlescent organization”. This form of an organization aims to strengthen employees’ emotional attachment due to an increase in the enterprise’s internal diversity, adaptability, and flexibility of the structure. The model of synthesis of the theory of linear change of value systems and cyclical change of four phases of the enterprise’s state is also developed in the article. Each of these stages is characterized by the dominance of the object, project, process, or environmental subsystems of the enterprise. The conditions for the transition from one stage of enterprise development to another, particularly the transformation of the turquoise stage into the pearlescent one, are shown based on this model.

Mapping the Galactic disc with the LAMOST and Gaia red clump sample: II. 3D asymmetrical kinematics of mono-age populations in the disc between 6–14 kpc

ABSTRACT We perform analysis of the 3D kinematics of Milky Way disc stars in mono-age populations. We focus on stars between Galactocentric distances of R = 6 and 14 kpc, selected from the combined LAMOST Data Release 4 (DR4) red clump giant stars and Gaia DR2 proper motion catalogue. We confirm the 3D asymmetrical motions of recent works and provide time tagging of the Galactic outer disc asymmetrical motions near the anticentre direction out to Galactocentric distances of 14 kpc. Radial Galactocentric motions reach values up to 10 km s−1, depending on the age of the population, and present a north–south asymmetry in the region corresponding to density and velocity substructures that were sensitive to the perturbations in the early 6 Gyr. After that time, the disc stars in this asymmetrical structure have become kinematically hotter, and are thus not sensitive to perturbations, and we find the structure is a relatively younger population. With quantitative analysis, we find stars both above and below the plane at R ≳ 9 kpc that exhibit bending mode motions of which the sensitive duration is around 8 Gyr. We speculate that the in-plane asymmetries might not be mainly caused by a fast rotating bar, intrinsically elliptical outer disc, secular expansion of the disc, or streams. Spiral arm dynamics, out-of-equilibrium models, minor mergers or others are important contributors. Vertical motions might be dominated by bending and breathing modes induced by complicated inner or external perturbers. It is likely that many of these mechanisms are coupled together.

Chaotic tip trajectories of a single spiral wave in the presence of heterogeneities.

Spiral waves have been observed in a variety of physical, chemical, and biological systems. They play a major role in cardiac arrhythmias, including fibrillation, where the observed irregular activation patterns are generally thought to arise from the continuous breakup of multiple unstable spiral waves. Using spatially extended simulations of different electrophysiological models of cardiac tissue, we show that a single spiral wave in the presence of heterogeneities can display chaotic tip trajectories, consistent with fibrillation. We also show that the simulated spiral tip dynamics, including chaotic trajectories, can be captured by a simple particle model which only describes the dynamics of the spiral tip. This shows that spiral wave breakup, or interactions with other waves, are not necessary to initiate chaos in spiral waves.

CRITICAL REVIEW OF FOREIGN RESEARCHES OF THE VALUES ROLE IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES

A review of the literature on change management of foreign researchers on the relationship of organizational values and the success of organizational changes has been presented. Identification instruments of organizational values have been considered. Typology of organizational culture on eight value systems in accordance with Graves’ emergent cyclical levels of existence theory and the concept of spiral dynamics by Beck and Cowan has been proposed. Characteristic of organizational culture depending on the level of value structure development has been given.

Organizational development as a modern management tool for transformation of the company (case of Ukrainian energy company)

The article is aimed at formation of the approaches and stages of organizational development for a large vertically integrated company, ensuring the country’s strategic security in the fi eld of energy. The methodological basis of this work is the theory of the company’s life cycle, and it is proposed to complement the mentioned theory with the theory of spiral dynamics, reflecting the evolution of the company’s values. The approaches to organizational development are analysed and organizational development is defined. The possibility and necessity of management of organizational development are substantiated. As a result of the study, there were described the features of the organizational development of large energy company, and this is for the first time. The analysis of publications and world experience in the development of energy companies allowed proposing four basic stages of organizational development: team building and life cycle dynamics, value management and implementation tools. There is offered the use of organizational development as an instrument of management, which enables to achieve not only company development goals, but also to manage its values, achieve maximum employee involvement in development, and to shift from the management of the company to team work. Further research in this area it is advisable to carry out in detail the stage of organizational development and description of each stage’s tools.

Can the Pain of Vystopia Help to Create a More Compassionate World?

Can the Pain of Vystopia Help to Create a More Compassionate World?

Spiral Tip Identification via Deterministic Learning

A spiral tip can be considered as a wave source, i.e. a wave is sent out after the tip rotates one circle. Therefore, the dynamics of the spiral tip is vital to understand the behavior of spiral waves. In this paper, we study the spiral tip dynamics from a new perspective by using deterministic learning. A Barkley model described by partial differential equations (PDEs) is employed to illustrate the method. It is first transformed into a set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by using finite difference method. Then, the position states of spiral tip are extracted from the spiral wave generated by the transformed Barkley model by using an isocontour method. Finally, with the recurrent trajectory of spiral tip, its dynamics is accurately identified by using the deterministic learning theory. It is shown that the dynamics underlying the periodic or recurrent trajectory of spiral tips can be accurately identified by using the proposed approach. Numerical experiments are included to demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method.

Spiral dynamics under feedback derived from a square-shaped domain in the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation

The complex Ginzburg–Landau equation (CGLE) is used to investigate the effect of a nonlocal feedback control on spiral dynamics in oscillatory media, where the feedback is derived from a square-shaped domain, and three kinds of controlled tip trajectories can be found. The tip trajectory usually tends to a square limit cycle concentric with the measuring domain when the initial tip location is near the periphery of the domain. If the spiral tip is initially located in the measuring domain, it will finally be fixed at a point in the domain. For some larger delay time, the spiral tip may have a motion pathway of small limit cycles. For the case of a square-shaped pathway, the modulus function of the feedback signal has a maximum value when the spiral tip approaches the midpoint of each side, and a slower change when the tip is close to each turning point. As the feedback gain is increased, the spiral tip moves along the same pathway with a greater speed, and multiple tips can be generated when the gain is very large. The final trajectory is also affected by the distance between the measuring center and the initial spiral tip, the size of the measuring domain, the delay time, the choice of positive and negative gains and the scaling parameter.

Adaptive, locally linear models of complex dynamics

The dynamics of complex systems generally include high-dimensional, nonstationary, and nonlinear behavior, all of which pose fundamental challenges to quantitative understanding. To address these difficulties, we detail an approach based on local linear models within windows determined adaptively from data. While the dynamics within each window are simple, consisting of exponential decay, growth, and oscillations, the collection of local parameters across all windows provides a principled characterization of the full time series. To explore the resulting model space, we develop a likelihood-based hierarchical clustering, and we examine the eigenvalues of the linear dynamics. We demonstrate our analysis with the Lorenz system undergoing stable spiral dynamics and in the standard chaotic regime. Applied to the posture dynamics of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, our approach identifies fine-grained behavioral states and model dynamics which fluctuate about an instability boundary, and we detail a bifurcation in a transition from forward to backward crawling. We analyze whole-brain imaging in C. elegans and show that global brain dynamics is damped away from the instability boundary by a decrease in oxygen concentration. We provide additional evidence for such near-critical dynamics from the analysis of electrocorticography in monkey and the imaging of a neural population from mouse visual cortex at single-cell resolution.

Internal Dynamical Control on Tropical Cyclone Intensity Variability – A Review

ABSTRACT The current understanding of internal dynamical processes responsible for tropical cyclone intensity variability is reviewed. These internal dynamic processes are small in horizontal scale and are constrained to characteristics of the vortex itself and less dependent on the environmental and oceanic conditions. Important internal dynamical processes for tropical cyclone evolution are: (i) spiral rainband dynamics, (ii) asymmetric deep convection, (iii) eye/eyewall mixing, and (iv) eyewall replacement cycles. It is shown that while there exists a reasonable understanding of these internal processes in idealized frameworks, there still remains a large gap in our understanding of these processes in the real atmosphere. Additionally, further research is warranted on the interplay of these internal processes with each other as well as their interaction with the environment.

Introduction to The Spiral Dynamics and The Spiral Coriolis Force

The spiral dynamics of a point-like body of mass m in spiral differential geometry are introduced. New ideal motions have been studied, the uniform spiral motion and the uniform spiral-polar motion. The analysis is proposed by comparing the ideal spiral motions with the ideal circular motions. The theoretical forces acting on a point-like body of mass m moving in spiral frames were analyzed. The spiral and polar components of the Coriolis forces were compared.

Reflections on Positive Emotions and Upward Spirals

We reflect on our 2002 article and the impact this research report has had both within and beyond psychological science. This article was both one of the first publications to provide empirical support for hypotheses based on the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions and a product of the genesis of positive psychology. We highlight empirical and theoretical advancements in the scientific understanding of upward spiral dynamics associated with positive emotions, with particular focus on the new upward spiral theory of lifestyle change. We conclude by encouraging deeper and more rigorous tests of the prospective and reciprocal relations associated with positive emotions. Such progress is needed to better inform translations and applications to improve people’s health and well-being.

Optimal Path Planning for a Remote Sensing Unmanned Ground Vehicle in a Hazardous Indoor Environment

Urban search and rescue robots are playing an increasingly important role during disasters and with their ability to search within hazardous and dangerous environments to assist the first respond teams. Surveying and remote sensing the hazardous areas are two of the urgent needs of the rescue team to identify the risks before the intervention of the emergency teams. With such time-critical missions, the path planning and autonomous navigation of the robot is one of the primary concerns due to the need of fast and feasible path that is comprehensive enough to assess the associated risks. This paper presents a path planning method for navigating an unmanned ground vehicle within in an indoor hazardous area with minimum priori information. The algorithm can be generalized to any given map and is based on probabilistic roadmap path planning method with spiral dynamics optimization algorithm to obtain the optimal navigating path. Simulations of the algorithm are presented in this paper, and the results promising results are illustrated using Matlab and Simulink simulation environments.

Starvation and Violence amid the Soviet Politics of Silence, 1928–1929

This study analyzes the Soviet politics of silence during Stalin's collectivization campaign in the context of peasant resistance, state violence, and the famine in 1928–1929, and illuminates the primary function of strategic silence—an information blockade which creates a space for violence and human suffering. Only in silence does the landscape of violence emerge and its spiral dynamics consume everyone, assailants and victims, proceeding swiftly to the eventual destruction of this landscape. In Ukraine, strategic silence and the relatively hermetic information blockade highlights the intentional nature of state violence: it produced a ghetto of exclusion that helped crush peasant resistance to collectivization and prevented Ukraine's potential secession from the Union. More profoundly, the politics of silence is analyzed as “cultural” violence and one of the most important building blocks in the foundation of genocide that routinely provokes and escalates direct violence, a phenomenon which culminates in massacres, repressions, and famines, as happened in the Ukrainian case.

Feedback-controlled dynamics of spiral waves in the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation

Spiral dynamics in the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation (CGLE) with a feedback control are studied. It is shown that the spiral tip follows a circular pathway centered at the measuring point after some transients. The attractor radius is a piecewise constant function of the initial distance between the spiral tip and the measuring point, and a piecewise linear increasing function of the time delay in the feedback loop. Many bumps or lobes can be formed from the circular attractor if the time delay becomes relatively long, and the tip path becomes complex. With an increase in the positive feedback gain, the attractor is not changed, but the drift velocity of the spiral tip along such an attractor is linearly increased. When the gain is negative, the tip is attracted to the measuring point from its initial position if the initial distance is relatively small. The variation of the scaling parameter $$\mu $$ in CGLE initiates also transitions between attractors of different size, and the attractor radius is a piecewise function of $$\mu $$ , where it is inversely proportional to a square root of the parameter on each piece. It is also demonstrated that the tip drift velocity has a power-law relation with $$\mu $$ and the wave speed. Some results can be understood by analyzing the drift direction of the spiral tip in the transient process.

Chaotic Oscillation via Edge of Chaos Criteria

In this paper, we show that nonlinear dynamical systems which satisfy the edge of chaos criteria can bifurcate from a stable equilibrium point regime to a chaotic regime by periodic forcing. That is, the edge of chaos criteria can be exploited to engineer a phase transition from ordered to chaotic behavior. The frequency of the periodic forcing can be derived from this criteria. In order to generate a periodic or a chaotic oscillation, we have to tune the amplitude of the periodic forcing. For example, we engineer chaotic oscillations in the generalized Duffing oscillator, the FitzHugh–Nagumo model, the Hodgkin–Huxley model, and the Morris–Lecar model. Although forced oscillators can exhibit chaotic oscillations even if the edge of chaos criteria is not satisfied, our computer simulations show that forced oscillators satisfying the edge of chaos criteria can exhibit highly complex chaotic behaviors, such as folding loci, strong spiral dynamics, or tight compressing dynamics. In order to view these behaviors, we used high-dimensional Poincaré maps and coordinate transformations. We also show that interesting nonlinear dynamical systems can be synthesized by applying the edge of chaos criteria. They are globally stable without forcing, that is, all trajectories converge to an asymptotically-stable equilibrium point. However, if we apply a forcing signal, then the dynamical systems can oscillate chaotically. Furthermore, the average power delivered from the forced signal is not dissipated by chaotic oscillations, but on the contrary, energy can be generated via chaotic oscillations, powered by locally-active circuit elements inside the one-port circuit [Formula: see text] connected across a current source.

Robustness of free and pinned spiral waves against breakup by electrical forcing in excitable chemical media.

We present an investigation on the breakup of free and pinned spiral waves under an applied electrical current in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Spiral fronts propagating towards the negative electrode are decelerated. A breakup of the spiral waves occurs when some segments of the fronts are stopped by a sufficiently strong electrical current. In the absence of obstacles (i.e., free spiral waves), the critical value of the electrical current for the wave breakup increases with the excitability of the medium. For spiral waves pinned to circular obstacles, the critical electrical current increases with the obstacle diameter. Analysis of spiral dynamics shows that the enhancement of the robustness against the breakup of both free and pinned spiral waves is originated by the increment of wave speed when either the excitability is strengthened or the obstacle size is enlarged. The experimental findings are reproduced by numerical simulations using the Oregonator model. In addition, the simulations reveal that the robustness against the forced breakup increases with the activator level in both cases of free and pinned spiral waves.

CHARACTERIZING SPIRAL ARM AND INTERARM STAR FORMATION

ABSTRACT Interarm star formation contributes significantly to a galaxy’s star formation budget and provides an opportunity to study stellar birthplaces unperturbed by spiral arm dynamics. Using optical integral field spectroscopy of the nearby galaxy NGC 628 with VLT/MUSE, we construct Hα maps including detailed corrections for dust extinction and stellar absorption to identify 391 H ii regions at 35 pc resolution over 12 kpc2. Using tracers sensitive to the underlying gravitational potential, we associate H ii regions with either arm (271) or interarm (120) environments. Using our full spectral coverage of each region, we find that most physical properties (luminosity, size, metallicity, ionization parameter) of H ii regions are independent of environment. We calculate the fraction of Hα luminosity due to the background of diffuse ionized gas (DIG) contaminating each H ii region, and find the DIG surface brightness to be higher within H ii regions than in the surroundings, and slightly higher within arm H ii regions. Use of the temperature-sensitive [S ii]/Hα line ratio instead of the Hα surface brightness to identify the boundaries of H ii regions does not change this result. Using the dust attenuation as a tracer of the gas, we find depletion times consistent with previous work (2 × 109 yr) with no differences between the arm and interarm, but this is very sensitive to the DIG correction. Unlike molecular clouds, which can be dynamically affected by the galactic environment, we see fairly consistent properties of H ii regions in both arm and interarm environments. This suggests either a difference in star formation and feedback in arms or a decoupling of dense star-forming clumps from the more extended surrounding molecular gas.

Oxidized Low-density Lipoprotein (ox-LDL) Cholesterol Induces the Expression of miRNA-223 and L-type Calcium Channel Protein in Atrial Fibrillation.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia causing high morbidity and mortality. While changing of the cellular calcium homeostasis plays a critical role in AF, the L-type calcium channel α1c protein has suggested as an important regulator of reentrant spiral dynamics and is a major component of AF-related electrical remodeling. Our computational modeling predicted that miRNA-223 may regulate the CACNA1C gene which encodes the cardiac L-type calcium channel α1c subunit. We found that oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) cholesterol significantly up-regulates both the expression of miRNA-223 and L-type calcium channel protein. In contrast, knockdown of miRNA-223 reduced L-type calcium channel protein expression, while genetic knockdown of endogenous miRNA-223 dampened AF vulnerability. Transfection of miRNA-223 by adenovirus-mediated expression enhanced L-type calcium currents and promoted AF in mice while co-injection of a CACNA1C-specific miR-mimic counteracted the effect. Taken together, ox-LDL, as a known factor in AF-associated remodeling, positively regulates miRNA-223 transcription and L-type calcium channel protein expression. Our results implicate a new molecular mechanism for AF in which miRNA-223 can be used as an biomarker of AF rheumatic heart disease.