This provocation argues that the Academy of Management's Annual Meeting has become increasingly misaligned with the organization's stated commitments to inclusion, sustainability, and scholarly development. While AoM remains a vital institution, its flagship conference—now routinely exceeding 10,000 participants—undermines meaningful intellectual exchange and community formation through fragmenting scale, superficial paper sessions, and status-driven sociality. Two recent disruptions—the Covid-19 pandemic and the growing Trump-driven political precarity of the United States as a host location—have exposed the costs of organizational inertia and the normalization of risk and exclusion. Drawing on existing alternatives, including developmental formats within AoM and elsewhere, as well as confederated and hybrid approaches, the essay contends that the limitations of the current meeting can and should be addressed. Reimagining the conference as smaller, more developmental, and genuinely hybrid would reflect institutional care and align AoM's most visible event with its professed values.

This study compares premodern Joseon Tongsinsa and contemporary Hallyu (the Korean Wave) by focusing on how a transnational cultural phenomenon expands within Japanese society. Rather than proposing a direct historical causality, the study defines “prototype” as a structural affinity in the ways foreign cultural resources become socially legible and repeatedly consumed. To this end, it employs a mobility-representation-reproduction framework. In the premodern case, Joseon Tongsinsa (1607-1811) functioned not only as a diplomatic mission but also as a large-scale, highly visible event organized along specific routes. The procession and ritual scenes were repeatedly staged as spectacles within Japan’s viewing culture, while interpretive devices such as guides and print media helped audiences recognize and narrate what they saw. Accumulated travel accounts, dialogues, and related records further enabled the experience to circulate beyond the original sites and to be re- consumed over time. In the contemporary case, Hallyu in Japan has expanded through platform- based circulation, while its meanings have been shaped through coexisting media frames and public discourse. Moreover, participatory practices— especially subtitle production, translation, and online sharing—have facilitated secondary production and amplified diffusion. By juxtaposing these two cases, the study argues that Joseon Tongsinsa offers a useful comparative starting point for understanding long-term patterns in Japan’s reception of foreign cultural phenomena. The study is limited by its reliance on published materials; future research should incorporate broader visual sources, local reception cases, and platform-based data to test the framework more rigorously.

Abstract: The article explores late-medieval vierges ouvrantes (hinged Virgins that reveal Christological or Trinitarian interiors) as thresholds between secrecy and revelation. They translate the porta clausa of Ezekiel 44:2 and the hortus conclusus of Song of Songs 4:12 into sculpture, illustrating the paradox of a body that is both inviolate and permeable. Their mechanisms turn the Incarnation into a visible event and also expose cultural fears about vision, curiosity and trespass. Patristic writers framed these fears in theological terms. Jean Gerson condemned the vierge ouvrante as ‘unwarranted exposure.’ Later comparanda, from illuminated manuscripts, obstetrical collections and the Mechelen Besloten Hofjes , repeat the same tension between revelation and restraint. The article argues that both the opening and the later sealing or destruction of these statues reveal a theology of thresholds that reshaped the act of seeing.

Audio-visual event localization (AVEL) task aims to judge and classify an audible and visible event. Existing methods devote to this goal by transferring pre-trained knowledge as well as understanding temporal dependencies and cross-modal correlations of the audio-visual scene. However, most works comprehend the audio-visual scene from an entangled temporal-aware perspective, ignoring the learning of temporal dependency and cross-modal correlation in both forward and backward temporal-aware views. Recently, transferring the pre-trained knowledge from Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training model (CLIP) has shown remarkable results across various tasks. Nevertheless, since audio-visual knowledge of the AVEL task and image-text alignment knowledge of the CLIP exist heterogeneous gap, how to transfer the image-text alignment knowledge of CLIP into AVEL field has barely been investigated. To address these challenges, a novel Dual Temporal-aware scene understanding and image-text Knowledge Bridging (DTKB) model is proposed in this paper. DTKB consists of forward and backward temporal-aware scene understanding streams, in which temporal dependencies and cross-modal correlations are explicitly captured from dual temporal-aware perspectives. Consequently, DTKB can achieve fine-grained scene understanding for event localization. Additionally, a knowledge bridging (KB) module is proposed to simultaneously transfer the image-text representation and alignment knowledge of CLIP to AVEL task. This module regulates the ratio between audio-visual fusion features and CLIP’s visual features, thereby bridging the image-text alignment knowledge of CLIP and the audio-visual new knowledge for event category prediction. Besides, the KB module is compatible with previous models. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that DTKB significantly outperforms the state-of-the-arts models.

Recently, we have witnessed the politicizing effects of police killings in the United States. This project asks how such killings might (de)mobilize voters at the local level. We draw on multiple theoretical approaches to develop a theory of community contact with the police. We argue that when a highly visible event tied to government actions occurs—like a police killing—it can spur turnout. This is especially true where public narratives tie such events to government and structural causes. By comparing neighborhoods near a killing before and after election day, we estimate the causal effect on turnout. We find a mobilizing effect. These effects are larger when they “trend” on Google, occur in Black communities, or if the victim is Black. Proximity to a killing also increases support for abolishing the police. We conclude that police violence increases electoral participation in communities where narratives about racially unjust policing resonate most.

“Time Meant Nothing”: A New Reading of Pietro di Donato's <i>Three Circles of Light</i> beyond Autobiography and Stereotypes

In October 2016, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced a landmark reform package that ushered in a new era of global football governance known as FIFA 2.0. Despite decades of profitability for its most visible event - the Men’s World Cup (MWC) - FIFA’s leadership had come under intense scrutiny following a corruption and bribery scandal over the MWC selection process and hosting approaches. In this article, we use a critical investigative framework to examine the conjunctural politics of FIFA 2.0 through a critical analysis of official FIFA documents, published media reports, and official bid documents for the 2026 MWC - the first in the FIFA 2.0 era. By selecting the United 2026 bid, FIFA seemingly moved beyond market expansionism and urban redevelopment strategies, seeking instead to functionally and symbolically (re-)imagine the event’s purpose as a principal agent for promoting global peace, unity, and international diplomacy. We offer a rich genealogy of FIFA’s growing presence in global geopolitics – an approach we theorize as global peacemaking – and argue that FIFA’s approach is a rationally and purposefully constructed organizational strategy aimed at exploiting the material and symbolic value(s) of global unity, peace, and international diplomacy as a means of capital accumulation, neoliberal marketization, and an intensification and consolidation of FIFA’s global football empire. We discuss how FIFA’s global peacemaking has accelerated the commercialization MWC and led to an increasingly interdependent and mutually constitutive relationship between the MWC and FIFA.

Electrocardiographic Approach to Complex Arrhythmias: P, QRS, and Their Relationships.

&lt;p class="abstract"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Senescence is the final developmental phase of a leaf which starts with nutrient salvage and ends with cell death. The first visible event during senescence is leaf yellowing, which typically starts at the leaf margins and progresses to the interior of the leaf blade. Though, regulators of senescence adopt a range of physiological and developmental mechanisms which undergo senescence of plant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="abstract"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; Leaves of different species were collected from the green house, and then rinsed several times with sterilized distilled water. For discs of leaves, two same sized leaves were collected and made the same sized discs. The samples were infiltrated with specific senescence inhibitor. The discs then kept in distilled water and placed under condition at 25&lt;sup&gt;0 &lt;/sup&gt;C. Observed the phenotypes at two days interval, molecular based analysis was perfumed at 8&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; day of infiltration. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="abstract"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; In this study, innate senescence approach comparison to inhibitor based senescence has been performed in order to check its consequences on leaves of different crops such as; cauliflower, apple, tobacco, rose and Arabidopsis. Arabidopsis and apple have resulted in a narrative phenotype with high level of ion leakage. While in case of rose and cauliflower, the phenotype was characterized with yellow fading of leaves. Interestingly, in the tobacco&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;plants, intense yellowing of leaves developed along bottom. Further, in order to confirm the efficiency and pattern of senescence, we had also assessed the changes occurred during leaf senescence via ion leakage and chlorophyll content, expression of SAG12 (a senescence associated gene) and (PSA) photosynthetic associated genes expression as markers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusions:&lt;/strong&gt; It has been noted that progression of leaf senescence is a very critical and important factors affecting plant growth and development. It can be stated that initiation of leaves senescence can be controlled by using specific inhibitor.&lt;/p&gt;

Nurses are pivotal to an effective societal response to a range of critical events, including disasters. This presents nurses with many significant and complex challenges that require them to function effectively under highly challenging and stressful circumstances and often for prolonged periods of time. The exponential growth in the number of disasters means that knowledge of disaster preparedness and how this knowledge can be implemented to facilitate the development of resilient and adaptive nurses and health care organizations represents an important adjunct to nurse education, policy development, and research considerations. Although this topic has and continues to attract attention in the literature, a lack of systematic understanding of the contingencies makes it difficult to clearly differentiate what is known and what gaps remain in this literature. Providing a sound footing for future research can be facilitated by first systematically reviewing the relevant literature. Focused themes were identified and analyzed using an ecological and interactive systems framework. Ten of the 12 retained studies included evacuation, revealing that evacuation is more likely to occur in an aged care facility than a hospital. The unpredictability of an event also highlighted organizational, functional, and competency issues in regard to the complexity of decision making and overall preparedness. The integrative review also identified that the unique roles, competencies, and demands on nurses working in hospitals and residential health care facilities during a natural disaster appear invisible within the highly visible event.

Apoptotic process is highly heterogeneous, and a long‐standing question is what parameters define time and reversibility of the apoptotic response at a single cell level. Using multicolor fluorescence assay we characterized at a single‐cell and population levels sequence of apoptotic events induced by extrinsic (TRAIL) and intrinsic (staurosporine, actinomycin D and etoposide) apoptotic stimuli in Jurkat and HeLa cells. Regardless of the stimulus first visible event on a single cell level was rapid apoptotic volume decrease (AVD) and Na+ influx tightly coordinated with mitochondria outer membrane permeabilization (MOMP) and mitochondrial depolarization. These events happened largely asynchronous in the cell population. Activation of caspases 3/7 is slow process at a single cell level. It always starts after MOMP with significant delay and caspase activity linearly accumulates in a given cell for several hours.Cell‐to‐cell variability of the beginning of MOMP is well approximated by Gaussian distribution with CV about 35‐40%, while the γ‐distribution model describes cell‐to‐cell variability in the pre‐MOMP and MOMP‐to‐caspase activation stages. Sorting different subpopulations after induction of apoptosis we show that cells with intact mitochondria can recover after washout of apoptotic stimulus, cells after MOMP recover rarely and cells with caspase 3/7 activity can not recover at all. We propose a double‐stroke model for apoptosis execution/cell recovery.

This article examines an international controversy over the most visible scientific event of Brazilian physiology in the nineteenth century. In 1881, Brazilian scientist João Baptista Lacerda stated that he had found an efficient antidote to the poison of Brazilian snakes: permanganate of potash (nowadays, potassium permanganate). His findings were given great publicity in Brazil and traveled rapidly around the world. Scientists, especially in France, contradicted Lacerda's claims. They argued that permanganate of potash could not be a genuine antidote to snake bites since it could not neutralize snake venom when diffused in the body. Lacerda turned down such criticism, claiming that clinical observation provided solid evidence for the drug's local action, on the spot surrounding the bite. The controversy over the use of permanganate of potash as an antidote to snake bite illustrates different regimes of proof that could be mobilized in favor of a physiological discovery.

In the New Testament, the resurrection of Jesus is not described as a visible event, and for this reason, the resurrection was not represented directly in visual arts for about 1,000 years. Direct representations of the resurrection as an event appeared only after 1000 C.E. They were concrete, and they objectivized and historicized the resurrection in a problematical way.

While more research is emerging on women's capacity for successful resistance and the benefits of self-defense training for women, "resistance" to the idea of women's resistance remains high. In this note, I describe the importance of bringing true accounts of successful resistance to both academic and lay communities, and the benefits to women of recounting their own experiences of successful resistance to violence and harassment. Such accounts provide new scripts for women's options in responding to violence, mark attempted but thwarted rape as a visible event, and remind women of their own agency in the face of assault.

An annual and highly visible event of the HCI community, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) demonstrated the state of the art and trends in user interface technology. Even though the April 2009 conference did not focus specifically on visual user interfaces, which form the focus of IJCICG, about two dozen of the contributions—ranging from posters to full papers—presented promising ideas or addressed vital but as yet mostly overlooked issues in graphicsbased interaction. This event review summarizes some of the most interesting of those aspects seen at CHI 2009, and provides a set of event-related references as context.

The aim of this paper is to examine when signers start to recognize the lexical meaning of a sign. This is studied with movies of 32 mono-morphemic signs of Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN). Signs were presented in isolation or with preceding fidgets (e.g., rubbing your nose). Signers watched these movies at normal playing speed and had to respond as soon as they recognized a sign, which they were able to do, on average, about 850 ms after the coded beginning of the sign. By subtracting the time participants need to generate a motor response to a visible event, which was 310 ms on average, sign recognition was estimated to occur after around 540 ms. The results were further analyzed in relation to the sign’s movement phases (preparation, nucleus, and recovery) and for effects of participant characteristics, sign characteristics, and embedding conditions. The current findings are compared with earlier work on the time course of lexical sign recognition. Moreover, they are compared with findings from an earlier experiment on detecting the beginning of a sign (Arendsen et al., 2007) to study possible interference of lexical recognition with sign detection by signers.

TWENTY or so years ago, an Italian science-fiction writer would have assumed an Anglo-Saxon-sounding pseudonym in order to become popular at home. Valerio Evangelisti is one of the first such authors to have attained success using his real name. (1) As winner of the Premio Urania for science fiction in 1994 with Nicolas Eymerich, Inquisitore, he launched a prolific career during which he has since published sixteen novels. Although frequently characterized as an author of science fiction, Evangelistas works actually resist generic classification. Indeed, he is committed to a type of paraliterature characterized above all by genre mixing. (2) So any of his fictional works might include elements of the detective and/or the historical novel, fantasy, horror, science fiction and the fantastic. These latter two offer an effective approach to the opus of an author whom some consider to be the most famous Bolognese since Umberto Eco, for it is by means of science fiction and the fantastic that Evangelisti intends to liberate his reader's imagination in order to create a heightened awareness of the colonizing forces that shape our thoughts and beliefs systems. The decolonizzazione dell'imaginario is one of his primary goals. (3) How then might one arrive at an acceptable definition of the fantastic and of science fiction as far as the works of Evangelisti are concerned? According to such theorists as Pierre-Georges Castex (5-8), Louis Vax (53-4), or Tzvetan Todorov (29), the fantastic is always inextricably intertwined with known reality, which it thoroughly defies by recounting events irreducible to human logic and reason. Situated in the present with respect to the narrator, the fantastic erupts when a phenomenon impossible according to known scientific and rational knowledge occurs, thereby unleashing a mystery that is never solved. The disturbance provokes fear, insecurity and alienation; the moorings of stable reality are lost; our colonized imaginations are in a state of crisis. Clearly, the fantastic is different from science fiction therefore in the sense that the latter, futuristic, concerns scientific and especially technological discoveries and inventions possible within the realm of the narration. Evangelisti seems to concur with these views when commenting on lo sfondo [...] totalmente onirico of Maurizio Cometto's fantastic, for example, described as a bizarro che emergeva, poco alla volta, dalla quotidianita, (4) or in Prima della rivoluzione, Introduction to Antologia del Fantastico Italiano Underground, where he qualifies the fantastic as il preannuncio di una rivoluzione. Da sempre cio che e underground, se si aggrega, puo emergere. Prepariamoci a dubitare della realta che ci circonda (10). In contrast, Evangelisti notes that science fiction is quel filone [...] che situa le proprie storie nel contesto dei e degli incubi generati dallo sviluppo scientifico, tecnologico e socioeconomico di un'epoca data (Alphaville, Su Lovecraft, 143). Accordingly, the appearance of the fantastic in Evangelisti's novels exists in opposition to widely accepted truths and may therefore disappear once that view of contemporary reality changes owing to scientific discovery. In fact, many of Evangelisti's novels secrete their own scientific explanations. In this way, one set of sogni replaces another and contributes to the overall intention to decolonize the imagination. A second fundamental element of the definition of the fantastic pertains to the nature of the phenomenon of the uncanny itself. More precisely, need it be outside consciousness and in a sense concrete, a weird event experienced by more than one person? Can it also be exclusively inside consciousness, and as such personal, subjective, hidden from the outside world within the depths of someone's dreams, nightmares, or hallucinations? According to such theorists as Joel Malrieu, it can be both or either. He in fact insists that the fantastic can be an outward visible event as well as a uniquely personal phenomenon (49). …

Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes

One of the more recent annual cultural highlights in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, is the public celebration of Diwali, the Hindu ‘Festival of Lights’. Since 2002, Diwali has been presented to a wider New Zealand public as a particularly visible performance event. The festival is showcased as a way of celebrating New Zealand's various South Asian communities, and has been placed into a spatial terrain that has performance at its core. Drawing on ethnographic field research at Diwali celebrations in New Zealand over the past few years, as well from interviews with key informants, this article addresses insiders’ perceptions of the public Diwali festival in Wellington in terms of its significance in New Zealand's contemporary multicultural setting. The study draws on theoretical ideas from ethnomusicology and cultural studies, and shows how contemporary global processes and modes of cultural representation are played out in a public festival as a result of organizational intervention from outside the local South Asian community. It is argued that a study of this particular performance event, which provides an ethnomusicological case study in the dialectics of tradition and its transformation, creates a new spatiality that contributes to the analysis and understanding of diaspora in the New Zealand context, especially with regard to how identity is shaped and constructed through and as a result of performance.

Supernova explosions are the visible signature of the demise of a massive star. But as [Janka][1] explains in his Perspective, the visible event corresponds to less than 1% of the energy involved in a supernova. Recent models and observations are beginning to shed light on how energy is transferred from the collapsing core of the star to the ejected matter. [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/297/5584/1134