Threefold Perspective Research Articles

The Slow Pace of Green Transformation: Underlying Factors and Implications

Concerns about climate change are a hot topic in the current debate about a sustainable future, and despite more than 30 years of international conferences, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP), the annual usage amount of fossil fuel-based energy sources has remained largely unchanged, and the green transition to a carbon-free energy system is progressing at a much slower pace than anticipated. This paper presents an original approach that consists in addressing the green transition’s dilemmas by analyzing the complex interplay of strongly interwoven forces hindering the rapid adoption of so-called green energy sources scrutinized from a three-fold perspective: socio-psychological; political–strategic and territorial; and technological. Moreover, these forces are ranked according to the magnitude of their impact on the anticipated transition to green, and it is estimated by logistic fit extrapolation that the total share of the contribution of low-carbon sources might reach a maximum of about 25% among all energy sources in 2050. A final original picture is presented, summarizing how all the involved forces are acting upon the expected transition as well as their consequences.

Decolonizing curatorial ways: Curating from Sámi perspective

The paper explores multiple perspectives on curating indigenous art and builds upon the case project of the nongraduate program for Sámicurators and its part realized in autumn 2022 at the SámiCenter for Contemporary Art in Karasjok. The curatorial ways are discussed from a threefold perspective: decolonizing curatorial practice, nonhierarchy of narratives, and pluriversal curating. The findings outline the main tools applied, such as the involvement of Sámicurators and scholars, nonindigenous scholars working with Indigenous art, the use of the lecture, presentation, and experience formats, and language use. The value of the project was in the unfolding of a broad perspective of what curating Indigenous art and research can be.

Overview of the city's cultural development and urban indicators

Urbanization (or urbanisation) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It can also mean population growth in urban areas instead of rural ones. It is predominantly the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas. Urbanization is often responsible for the myriad of modern problems facing humanity. Although the two concepts are sometimes used interchangeably, urbanization should be distinguished from urban growth. Urbanization refers to the proportion of the total national population living in areas classified as urban, whereas urban growth strictly refers to the absolute number of people living in those areas. It is predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed world will be urbanized. This is predicted to generate artificial scarcities of land, lack of drinking water, playgrounds and so on for most urban dwellers. The predicted urban population growth is equivalent to approximately 3 billion urbanites by 2050, much of which will occur in Africa and Asia. Notably, the United Nations has also recently projected that nearly all global population growth from 2017 to 2030 will be by cities, with about 1.1 billion new urbanites over the next 10 years. In the long term, urbanization is expected to significantly impact the quality of life in negative ways. This article defines "cultural experience" and places it in a holistic conceptual model; “the cultural city” where it plays a relevant role in improving the performing of cities. The conceptual model combines the basic elements of the heritage city, the smart city and the creative city. The city is interpreted from a threefold perspective; as a repository of resources, as a connective interface, and as the setting for citizens' life and social and professional experiences. In this context, each of these perspectives incorporates culture in a different way, enabling different models of value creation and different processes of production and reproduction of this value. In each of the urban models described above, production processes that combine symbolic, physical, financial, social, human and cultural capital in different ways and urban strategies are implemented to provide cultural experiences that ignite transformative effects through several spillovers.

Collaborative energy–water–carbon management based on energy substitution and multiple compound responses

Symbiotic consistency among several limited resources has become increasingly prominent. Dependence on fossil fuels, combined with energy consumption–induced water scarcity and excess carbon emissions, jeopardizes sustainable development. This study developed a provincial-scale energy substitution and response (ESR) model to (a) aggregate homogeneous regions and emphasize consistency of results; (b) formulate energy-substitution strategies based on ecological utility maximization; (c) explore responses from the threefold perspective of environmental improvement, economic utility, and system robustness; and (d) reveal the effects of the main factors and their interactions to support policymaking. An approach that combines the k-means algorithm, multiregional input–output analysis, ecological network analysis, and factorial analysis was applied to China to verify the models. It was found that the uneven transfer of interregional ecological flows across regions is not conducive to the health of metabolic mechanisms. Energy substitution can bring the multiple benefits of resource conservation, environmental improvement, profit growth, and sustainability enhancement. Regions I, IV, and V can take the lead in implementing substitutions while Regions II and III can adopt a joint substitution strategy to obtain compound effects. Natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas facilities should be built in more developed regions while clean energy subsidies should be supplemented in underdeveloped areas. This study's findings offer a new perspective for coordinating environmental, economic, and social development while avoiding high unemployment and regional population loss caused by energy system restructuring.

THREE WOMEN ON THREE FRONTS: THE FEMININE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR AS REFLECTED IN WAR JOURNALS AND LETTERS

The aim of this article is to provide a close reading of two illustrative texts for the feminine version of the war diary during WWI in the Romanian territory, namely Yvonne Blondel’s War Journal: 1916-1917 and Queen Marie’s unabridged version of the diary she kept between 1916 and 1918. The contrastive element is represented by Sextil Pușcariu’s Memoirs, which are relevant from a threefold perspective: gender, geography, and the representation of the feminine figure. The article will focus on six feminine roles: the nurse, the patriot, the diplomat, the wife, the mother, and the writer.

Drumming Action and Perception: How the Movements of a Professional Drummer Influence Experiences of Tempo, Time, and Expressivity

The present study approached drumming motion from a three-fold perspective: computational movement feature analysis, perceptual evaluations of movement animations, and both in combination. We motion-captured a professional drummer performing two rhythms at two tempi with varying combinations of dynamics and amount of movement. Movement feature analysis indicated that the drummer varied their movement such that movement fluidity was higher in slow tempo compared to fast tempo, in particular for experimental conditions involving more movement and softer dynamics. Movement complexity was highest when playing slowly in the “much movement” condition. Subsequently, a perceptual online experiment was conducted using the drummer's animations with and without audio, asking observers ( n = 114) to judge perceived passage of time, expressivity, and tempo. Results indicate that passage of time ratings were related to movement instructions, with much-movement performances being perceived to pass more quickly than little-movement ones. Furthermore, fast tempo stimuli were perceived to pass more quickly than slow tempo stimuli. Expressivity ratings were associated with the stimulus tempo as well, with fast tempo stimuli being rated as more expressive than slow tempo stimuli. Moreover, much-movement performances received higher ratings for expressivity, reinforcing the link between expressivity and movement. Including the movement features in the statistical model revealed that increased movement complexity and amount of movement related to higher perceived expressivity. While movement could be well distinguished between the different drumming conditions, the analysis regarding the other perceptual judgments (passage of time and tempo) indicated less influence of the movement characteristics, implying that participants rather focussed on other aspects when rating these. The outcomes suggest systematic links between bodily implementation of drumming and its perception related to time, tempo, and expressivity.

Cultural experiences in the framework of “cultural cities”: measuring the socioeconomic impact of culture in urban performance

This article defines "cultural experience" and places it in a holistic conceptual model; “the cultural city” where it plays a relevant role in improving the performing of cities. The conceptual model combines the basic elements of the heritage city, the smart city and the creative city. The city is interpreted from a threefold perspective; as a repository of resources, as a connective interface, and as the setting for citizens' life and social and professional experiences. In this context, each of these perspectives incorporates culture in a different way, enabling different models of value creation and different processes of production and reproduction of this value. In each of the urban models described above, production processes that combine symbolic, physical, financial, social, human and cultural capital in different ways and urban strategies are implemented to provide cultural experiences that ignite transformative effects through several spillovers. That means that culture, in its different dimensions, regains the role of a raw material and becomes the point of origin to activate development processes and improve urban performance. The integration of the dimensions of the heritage city, the creative city and the smart city through an enabling context is the core proposal of the “cultural city”. In alignment with the New European Agenda for Culture, we deepen the analysis in the specific spillovers on wellbeing and quality of life, citizen engagement and urban renewal as the backbone of a set of external effects of cultural experiences. In the final part of this article, we test the plausibility of this speculative proposal through some empirical evidence. We develop an OLS model with proxy indicators, that could be considered transitional indicators, for the three different potential strategies (heritage, smart, creative). The findings support the assertion that it is conceivable that the supply of cultural experiences through a variety of tactics (heritage city, smart city and creative city) can account in part for the growth of European cities in the years after the 2008 financial crisis. These strategies have contributed to the good performance of the urban device in a way that is positive, not negligible (accounting for around 50% of the variance in productivity) and statistically significant. The provision of a context that increases the cultural experiences for citizens has clearly improved the performance of European cities, and we develop some conceptual and empirical mechanisms to explain and measure the socioeconomic impacts of these processes.

Collaboration in Handling COVID-19 Turbulence from a Threefold Perspective: A Literature Review

The crisis due to COVID-19 can be called turbulence and its handling requires cross-border collaboration because complex problems tend to be overcome through multi-actor collaboration in networks and relationships to obtain common solutions. Collaborative governance is present as an instrument for implementing policies for handling COVID-19 to address the government's limitations in material, technical, and resource matters. Using a qualitative approach, this study aims to identify the implementation of collaborative governance in handling COVID-19 by countries in the world in a threefold perspective. This perspective is a new approach in collaborative governance that has the same basis as the Collaborative Governance Regime theory, but tends to narrow the thinking to three layers that support each other in the form of folds: values ​​(individuals and policies), decision structures (action situations and sub-systems). policy), and context (external variables, stable parameters, and external events). Public values ​​grow from the social context and are articulated in collaborative governance platforms and are important for the government to work on to improve community compliance with government programs. The turbulent COVID-19 situation creates space and decision-making. Each country has different choices, backgrounds, and policies but still bases the process of making and implementing policies on collaborative governance according to their respective preferences. In the folds of policy style and administrative culture, each country has its own dynamics. Countries with sufficient experience in handling outbreaks are able to make administrative adjustments more quickly, which helps speed up the response to the pandemic

Data Journalism and Ethics: Best Practices in the Winning Projects (DJA, OJA and Sigma Awards)

ABSTRACT Data journalism is a consolidated specialization in the newsrooms of many of the world's media outlets. Despite this, little research has been conducted on the ethical principles followed in this field of journalism. Data journalism uses different types of software to find its stories by statistically analyzing large datasets. Our research examines the winning projects of the Data Journalism Awards, Sigma Awards, and Online Journalism Awards, the last in the data journalism category, between 2012 and 2020. Using qualitative content analysis, we analyzed these projects from a three-fold ethical perspective: verification and data analysis, transparency, and privacy. Our main findings show that the winning projects complied with verification and data analysis, which is a standard practice to cross-check data from various sources and contextualize them adequately. In contrast, transparency and privacy principles were followed to a lesser extent. In light of these results, we propose that future research should focus on the perceptions of data journalists and users regarding the ethical standards that these projects meet.

AI and robotics to help older adults: Revisiting projects in search of lessons learned

Abstract This article is a retrospective overview of work performed in the domain of Active Assisted Living over a span of almost 18 years. The authors have been creating and refining artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics solutions to support older adults in maintaining their independence and improving their quality of life. The goal of this article is to identify strong features and general lessons learned from those experiences and conceive guidelines and new research directions for future deployment, also relying on an analysis of similar research efforts. The work considers key points that have contributed to increase the success of the innovative solutions grounding them on known technology acceptance models. The analysis is presented with a threefold perspective: A Technological vision illustrates the characteristics of the support systems to operate in a real environment with continuity, robustness, and safety; a Socio-Health perspective highlights the role of experts in the socio-assistance domain to provide contextualized and personalized help based on actual people’s needs; finally, a Human dimension takes into account the personal aspects that influence the interaction with technology in the long term experience. The article promotes the crucial role of AI and robotics in ensuring intelligent and situated assistive behaviours. Finally, considering that the produced solutions are socio-technical systems, the article suggests a transdisciplinary approach in which different relevant disciplines merge together to have a complete, coordinated, and more informed vision of the problem.

Twenty Years on: The Impact and Legacy of the Private Finance Initiative in UK Schools

AbstractBetween 1998 and 2010 public private partnership models, of which the private finance initiative (PFI) was the best‐known and most widely used, became the favoured option to procure school buildings and facilities in the UK. This article looks at the multifaceted legacy of PFI from a threefold perspective: financial, educational and architectural. It highlights the long‐term effects of those schemes on schools and local authorities and the challenges arising from the burden of the debt and the nature of the contracts. Positive changes have been observed over time, but also a growing financialisation of school projects which has deepened an already sharp divide between the different stakeholders. Financial value has been prioritised over educational value in the management of contracts, while the procurement and construction method has had a clear impact on the quality of school buildings. Twenty years on, the PFI experience in education shows the persistent flaws of a system in which public authorities cannot fully exercise control over projects but have retained responsibility for the provision of quality learning environments.

Origins and Evolution of Indian Cinema: A Caleidoscopic Vision of India

The Western image of India has traditionally been based on the attraction of stereotypes like the exotic, the mystical or the spiritual; if this imaginative construct is evident in literature, with examples like Paul Scott’s The Jewel in The Crown and E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India. I suggest that this recreation could also be applicable to cinema through stereotypcal visions that originally appear in films about India. In this article I aim to explain the evolution of Indian cinema as a genre of its own, using postcolonial concepts like ‘mimicry’, ‘hybridity’ or ‘liminality’ discussed by H.K. Bhabha in The Location of Culture (1994), and through the threefold perspective developed by Priyamvada Gopal in The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration (2009).

Educación Supranacional y Educación Superior: claves de transformación global para sociedades complejas

Those of us who coordinated this monograph, and singed this presentation, sought to address some issues we considered relevant regarding the alignment between Supranational Education and Higher Education. We wanted to match some hypothesis we initially had and that we tried to synthesize in the title of this article. We have been able to find evidences related to an increasingly stronger direct impact between the education policy of international organizations – analyzed from the Supranational Education – and the higher education institutions. That impact is increasingly broader from a threefold perspective: from the geographic perspective – with large regions of the planet, in a globalization context, affected by supranational trends -; from an intensity perspective – as the effect is increasingly inevitable by the higher education institutions-; and from a tematic perspective – as it increasingly covers a greater number of topics.We also confirmed that these impacts have had a broad effect on social change. The assumption of new mercantilist paradigms of the new approaches to quality, the social mission of higher education, or gender issues directly affect citizens’ lives. And they do so from global perspectives. Thus, we verify what we suggested in the title of this modest contribution to the monograph, that the Supranational Education and the Higher Education can be keys to global transformation for the complex societies in which we currently live: as frameworks to understand the changes and as levers to promote them.

BOOK REVIEW OF THE VOLUME MEDIEREA CONFLICTELOR FAMILIALE, AUTHORED BY IULIAN APOSTU, 2020

The book Mediation of family conflicts published by Pro Universitaria Publishing House in December 2020 is the latest publication by the authors Apostu Iulian and Voinea Maria. The paper develops a theoretical approach on the evolution of conjugal structures in the Romanian space, highlighting the resources that define these changes and their effects in terms of functional changes in the family. The originality of the work derives from the new vision that the book brings in this dilemma - mediation or separation – thus synthesizing the sociological and psychological elements about mediation, counseling and therapy. The book is an excellent landmark for those who want to understand the idea of mediation, an action viewed from a threefold perspective: sociological, psychological and of intervention in social work.

“Return of Mental Borders”: A Diary of COVID-19 Closures between Kehl, Germany, and Strasbourg, France

This paper retraces the author’s personal experience of the COVID-19 lockdown from March to July 2020 at the Franco-German border from a threefold perspective: that of a cross-border worker living in Kehl, Germany, and working in Strasbourg, France; that of a Franco-German citizen with a family and children of both French and German nationality; and that of a researcher specialized in border studies. The paper deals with national re-bordering policies and their direct personal and psychological consequences for borderlanders, and also questions whether such measures are adequate to contain the pandemic, especially in a context of European Union integration which is based on the principle of a “Europe without borders”.

A threefold perspective on the role of a pockmark in benthic faunal communities and biodiversity patterns

Pockmarks are circular-shaped depressions that increase seabed heterogeneity and are characterized by discontinuous fluid emissions. To understand how environmental conditions of pockmarks affect the structure of macro- and meiofauna, we investigated two sites in a pockmark field in the northwestern Madagascar margin. In a comparative approach, we explored the community structure of the dominant taxa (Polychaeta, Nematoda and hyaline foraminifera) in each component (macro-, metazoan meiofauna and foraminifera, respectively). The investigated active pockmark showed approximately two times higher meiofauna abundance compared to in a site away from another pockmark field, but macrofauna showed the opposite trend, with almost half density at the pockmark site. However, at both sites, macro- and meiofauna showed higher richness and abundance values in the top well-oxygenated layers of the sediment than in the underlaying ones. Polychaeta and Nematoda showed lower richness in the pockmark, opposed to hyaline foraminiferans, but lower evenness in the pockmark was found for the three groups. The detection of gas flares in the water column attests of the recent activity within the pockmark. High amount of sulfur-bearing minerals (mainly pyrite) evidences a production of dissolved free sulfides (not detected at the time of sampling) by sulfate reduction process driven by organic matter degradation and anaerobic oxidation of methane. Furthermore, recent increase in sedimentation rates in the past 70 years and organic matter inputs could have led to higher organic matter degradation rates resulting in reduced conditions and a high oxygen consumption. All this together seem to act as key factors in the determination of variation in richness, abundance and community composition of macrofauna and meiofauna. Additionally, some taxa seem to be more tolerant to these extreme conditions, such as species belonging to the Nematoda genus Desmodora and the phylum Kinorhyncha, which are highly abundant in the pockmark, and hence, may be considered as potential bioindicators of pockmark activity in this area. Further studies are required for a better assessment.

A psicanálise e a angústia da pandemia - a linguagem - o sintoma - a repetição

Este artigo trata o tema da pandemia do vírus Covid 19 na perspectiva da psicanálise lacaniana nos seus três registros: simbólico, real e imaginário. Para fins de transmissão usaremos a topologia e referências aos matemas através da lógica da psicanálise.

Przekład komentarza biblijnego jako ciąg decyzyjny tłumaczenia funkcjonalnego – studium przypadku

The Functional Translation of Biblical Commentaries as a Decision- Making Process – a Case Study The article is a case study exploring the translation of one biblical commentary representing a specific type of texts from the threefold perspective of a translator, translation theorist and translation trainer. The Author utilizes a concept of the functional translation by C. Nord, an idea of the translation as a decision-making process by J. Levý, and principles of the translation of scientific texts by Z. Kozłowska. Selected aspects of translating of a contemporary English commentary on the Gospel of Luke into Polish are investigated, including the following decision-making levels: selection of an appropriate Polish translation of the Bible, necessary adjustments of the chosen biblical translation, decisions related to intertextuality of the Bible, lexical choices. Problems concerning other functions of the source text, apart from its exegetical function, are also discussed as well as solutions concerning quotations, references and the paratext. Furthermore, information on bibliographic sources useful for translators of biblical and patristic texts was presented.

DP-FMEA: An innovative Failure Mode and Effects Analysis for distributed manufacturing processes

The Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a powerful tool to design and maintain reliable systems (products, services or manufacturing processes), investigating their potential failure modes from the threefold perspective of severity, occurrence and detection. The Process FMEA, or more briefly P-FMEA, is a declination of the FMEA for manufacturing processes (or parts of them). Being progressively characterized by decentralized networks of flexible manufacturing facilities, the current scenario significantly hampers the implementation of the traditional P-FMEA, which requires the joint work of a group of experts formulating collective judgments. This paper revises the traditional P-FMEA approach and integrates it with the ZMII-technique – i.e. a recent aggregation technique based on the combination of the Thurstone’s Law of Comparative Judgment and the Generalized Least Squares method – allowing experts distributed through organizations to formulate their judgments individually. The revised approach – referred to as “distributed-Process FMEA” or more briefly dP-FMEA – allows to manage a number of experts, without requiring them to physically meet and formulate collective decisions, thus overcoming a relevant limitation of the traditional P-FMEA. The dP-FMEA approach also includes a relatively versatile response mode and overcomes several other limitations of the traditional approach, including but not limited to: (i) arbitrary formulation and aggregation of expert judgments, (ii) lack of consideration of the dispersion of these judgments, and (iii) lack of estimation of the uncertainty of results. The description is supported by a real-life application example concerning a plastic injection-molding process.

Scaffolding L2 writers’ metacognitive awareness of voice in article reviews: A case study of SFL-based pedagogy

Halliday’s threefold perspective “learning language, learning through language, learning about language” (Halliday, 1993, p. 113) has shed light on the ways language learners learn to mean in contexts of use. Grounded in Halliday’s language-based theory of learning, this study explores how Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) metalanguage can scaffold language choices in the EAP writing classroom and help L2 writers learn how to mean in article reviews. This case study translates Halliday’s (1978) SFL and its recent development of the Engagement framework (Martin & White, 2005) into a pedagogical instrument, exploring how the framework can serve as a heuristic to scaffold L2 writers’ awareness of voice. The findings show that the Engagement constructs focused students’ attention on key voice resources and the rhetorical goals they enabled, providing a heuristic that students could use in their writing. Their varied uptake of Engagement metalanguage and the differential repertoires displayed in their writing reflected different metacognitive developments. Findings from this study can provide EAP instructors with immediately useful metalanguage for discussing voice with their students in more accessible ways, in their efforts to help students gain greater discoursal control of voice as their students manage to accomplish key rhetorical goals in article reviews.