Vital Space Research Articles

Adolescents Becoming Feminist on Twitter: New Literacies Practices, Commitments, and Identity Work

AbstractThe author investigated the relation between young people's new literacies practices and identity development on Twitter and found that participants used three new literacies practices (live‐tweeting, hashtagging, and information sharing) in unique ways to develop feminist identities in this social media space. Participants mobilized popular culture to initiate dialogue about feminist issues, such as the wage gap, to participate in social activism (e.g., advocating for women's reproductive care), and to provide informal counsel to peers. Twitter can be a vital space for young people to become feminists, providing opportunities to learn, develop, and participate.

Vivir la Alhambra. Mujeres en la Alhambra nazarí y cristiana

A presença feminina na Alhambra tem sido geralmente escondida, tanto pela potência do próprio grupo monumental, quanto pelas fontes tradicionais que, sistematicamente, tornaram-na invisível. Pouco a pouco, está se reconhecendo a necessidade de incluir o gênero como um elemento fundamental para entender completamente os processos históricos e também, obviamente, para interpretar os usos dos edifícios. Este artigo trata de contextualizar os espaços da Alhambra sob a ótica feminina, identificando aqueles que foram, tradicionalmente, designados, porém não somente esses. Objetiva-se transitar da mulher objeto, ideal romântico de princesa cativa esperando por seu amado, ou a esposa diletante deitada entre almofadas, à mulher enquanto sujeito que habita. Porque na Alhambra viveram sultanas inteligentes, musicistas inspiradas, rainhas estadistas, ceramistas, parteiras. E, na Alhambra, trabalham mulheres que documentam, restauram, catalogam, cuidam, difundem, limpam, guiam, explicam e protegem a cidade palaciana como esta é, um espaço vital onde, como poucos, a metade são mulheres.

The psychological genesis of the female-teacher’s vital space

The dissertation is devoted to defining genesis, psychological peculiarities, factors and regularities of potentials for the constitution of a female-teacher’s vital space as a dynamic integral entity. Conceptualized the creative creation of woman in the system of living space determination, which is considered as the integral formation of interaction of nonpersonal, personal, interpersonal, activity and daily measurements of women's life activity, which corresponds to the non-reflexive-reflexive continuum of personality potential. Measurement of everyday life (non-reflexive level) as the dynamics in the sphere of reflexive activity (personal, professional fields) outlines the limits of the living space of a person as a subject. 
 The constitution of the vital space of a woman-teacher is considered as a derivative of the deep, physiological, anatomical and sociocultural ability of a woman to create (creation of life), in close interdependence of actual gender stereotypes, childbirth, creation of a family, professional (active) implementation and self-realization. The genesis of constituting a woman's living space is regarded as a process of life-creation, transcendence, overcoming the limit of their own possibilities, of existential elevation over passivity and the chance of its existence. The semantics of the concept of "world-creation essence of a woman" is determined by metatheoretical analysis of philosophical, psychological, theological, and historical studies on the problem of women's ability to create. A model for constituting the living space of a woman is created, taking into account the depth-psychological determination, archetype-role integrity and activity mediation. 
 The vital space of a woman-teacher and deepened the idea of the sovereignty of the living space as a form of subjectivity, personal activity, manifested in the ability of man to control, to establish his psychological space are presented. The theoretical significance of the results of the study is based on the experimental verification of the idea of a harmonious combination of Anima and Animus as a source of creative energy for a woman-teacher in constituting a living space; in the conceptualization of the category "the living space of a woman-teacher" in connection with the architectural determination of the functions of personal creativity (world creation), which embodies a meaningful for the individual the measurement of the primary doping of the truths, the constitution of which is provided by the transcendental subjectivity. 
 It is stated that the predominance of androgyny in women as the most productive and harmonious state for the realization of their potential in all spheres of their life-giving activity. However, high levels of anxiety, internal conflict, rigidity of the psyche and behavior are destructive factors that offset the creative potential of the individual and his ability to create his or her living space. For the first time, it has been determined that the women of the scientific and pedagogical sphere of activity are dominated by the androgenic type of gender identity. For the first time, it has been experimentally proved the need to update the masculine qualities of the woman's personality androgynous type to reduce the level of anxiety, conflict, rigidity and increase the creative potential of the subject; determined levels of creativity, anxiety, conflict, rigidity / lability among female teachers depending on the presence or absence of children, marital status (married, unmarried, divorced, widow), age periodization and place of residence and work (rural schools, city schools, university). The interdependence of the constitution of female-teacher’s vital space in connection with the peculiarities of the formation of professional self-consciousness is determined. 
 The psychological model of the optimal harmonious living space of a woman is constructed. The three-factor structure of the constitution of the living space of a woman, presented by the following factors: "expansive creative activity", "manipulative-regressive femininity", "projective-anxiety control", is developed. The conceptual model of the creative creation of a woman is realized. The regularities and tendencies of the ability to constitution a woman's own living space in the conditions of purposeful psychological influence on the model of genetic-oriented psychotherapy are revealed.

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

Digital media and digital infrastructures keep playing an important role in promoting social interaction and responsible citizenship. The Internet has been a vital space for interaction, mentoring, and informal learning. Digital citizenship refers to the ability to participate in online society. It promotes equality and equal participation in all areas of life regardless of race, gender, and ethnicity. This paper provides a brief introduction to the concept of digital citizenship, its opportunities and challenges.

A2AD Concept in the Modern Security Environment

Abstract In the 21st century, the international scene witnesses major changes in the security environment. There are many actions aimed at redefining spheres of influence and reaffirming states as great powers. The international scene is dominated by two entities that were antagonistic during the Cold War: Russia and NATO. In recent years, Russia is trying to impose itself again as a global actor and is therefore trying to consolidate its power in Europe and the world, both by reforming its armed forces and by participating in various conflicts in the hot zones of the world. Russia perceives NATO as its main adversary, which is trying to get closer to its vital space, reduce its spheres of influence and isolate it. As a reaction, Russia initiated a series of complex actions aimed at both maintaining buffer zones and banning access and limiting NATO's freedom of movement in the immediate vicinity of its borders. To this end, Russia has developed a series of capabilities to prevent the opponent from entering a certain area and to reduce or even forbid him any freedom of action once he has entered the area, this approach of Russia being part of the A2AD (Anti-access, Area Denial) policy

Green Chemistry – An Environmentally Benign Chemistry

: Chemistry is a distinguished part of our daily lives. Food and drink has been made safe to consume, the development of cosmetics allowed us to beautify and venerate our appearances and the whole area of pharmaceuticals has permitted to develop and synthesis of new chemical entity to cure illnesses and diseases, all because of chemistry. However, the new developments in chemical field also fetch new environmental problems and unexpected harmful side effects.1 Green chemistry guises pollution bar at the molecular scale and it is an especially vital space of chemistry since the significance of chemistry in our nowadays life with in the world and the insinuations it can how on the environment. Read more…..

Screening dirt: public health movies in colonial Nigeria and rural African spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s

From the inception of colonial film-making in British West Africa in the early 1930s, dirt and the cinema were closely connected. Numerous educational movies were produced to show Africans the economically, physically and morally degrading consequences of “dirty habits.” By the early 1940s, the Colonial Office had come to realise that, within the cinema spaces created by mobile health units across Africa, intended audiences processed images and messages through their own aesthetic, spiritual, moral, economic and political value systems. These systems exceeded colonial projections and defied assimilation into colonial categories of dirt. This article focuses on the complexity of intended audiences’ responses to the simple ideological formula of colonial health and hygiene films. It argues that the presence of local aesthetic tastes and values in media archives on public health and hygiene in colonial Africa represents a vital space of mediation that must be considered alongside film content and film-makers’ intentions.

Architectural and ecological integration of postindustrial landscapes revitalization into socially oriented space of the embankment

The architectural and ecological model of civil engineering of socially oriented spaces of coastal landscape aimed at providing comfortable vital environment, development of the greatest possible variety of city activities, solution of environmental and social problems of the city, and development of the embankment as a self-valuable fragment of well-arranged natural landscape is substantiated. The research objective is the development of methodical bases for the process of architectural revitalization of postindustrial coastal landscape. The researchers utilize the methods of system analysis, reviewing of design practice, analysis of available scientific databases as well as referential and normative resources. The methods of modeling and experimental projecting were also used in the study. Architectural proposals on integration of the revitalized postindustrial coastal areas into socially oriented area of the Volgograd embankment are presented. The analysis of the experience in building and recovery of postindustrial landscapes of river basins is preformed to substantiate the proposed architectural and ecological principles of revitalization, "tree of properties" with the definition of environment quality indicator, the sequence of stages in planning of socially oriented area of the city embankment, and experimental project on integration of the studied coastal area into the vital space of the city of Volgograd.

КРИТИЧЕСКИЙ ДИСКУРС САМООПИСАНИЯ

The article presents the analysis of relations between the real and the imaginary. The imaginary is thought of as a broken discourse of narcissistic subject trying to conceal the horror of the real under simulacra – death of the thing, name, God. The world of the imaginary – advertising, design, theatre, cinema, etc. – allows a human to survive since simulacra and simulations inspire, excite and play with us. But it is necessary to enter the real – to restore things, not their imitations, to restore the trust to the world, to oneself. The way of returning to the subject is a critical discourse of self-description. There was a time when people were interested in the way they could meet God; today they scratch head over the manner they get caught in the lens of cameras and television. Montage, make-up, colors, peacocks, Papuans, caviar, whatever one needs for happiness is all over the world. However, in 1920s the Russian constructivism demonstrated the desire to create a minimalistic space, almost empty, bright, including minimum of things (see: Rodchenko’s “Canteen for the Workers”), to break the ground to touch the quality of things, to create a vital space for people’s trust and communication. Its followers tried to restore the broken continuity through sincerity, trust, and self-criticism, to enter the discourse of self-description. Emptiness, silence, trusts in something simple and clear open the return path back to oneself, filling with the joy of “full speech”: I am the one who speaks for myself. Finally, it’s time to live on your own.

Il corpo incarcerato: l'insalubrità carceraria specchio di una immanente cultura dell'afflittività vendicativa della pena in Italia

The author hypothesizes that Italian unhealthy and unhygienic prison living conditions have been resilient to any reforms during last sixty years and notwithstanding any prison building programs they persist because of deeply rooted afflictive punishment culture permeating, on the one hand, society at large, on the other hand criminal justice system and correctional bu-reaucracy. In this context, the author outlines cultural elements revealing corporal punishment as real enduring sociological feature of detention, a mere social ritualized revenge still nowadays, when severe restriction of the detainees minimum vital space and afflictive living conditions have been resisting any reforming and prison building policies and attempts to reduce prison weight as a sanction have failed as well.

Euclidean Distance Based Classifier for Recognition and Generating Kannada Text Description from Live Sign Language Video

<p class="Abstract">Sign language recognition has emerged in concert of the vital space of analysis in computer Vision. The problem long-faced by the researchers is that the instances of signs vary with each motion and look. Thus, during this paper a completely unique approach for recognizing varied alphabets of Kannada linguistic communication is projected wherever continuous video sequences of the signs are thought of. The system includes of three stages: Preprocessing stage, Feature Extraction and Classification. Preprocessing stage includes skin filtering, bar histogram matching. Eigen values and Eigen Vectors were thought of for feature extraction stage and at last Eigen value weighted Euclidean distance is employed to acknowledge the sign. It deals with vacant hands, so permitting the user to act with the system in natural manner. We have got thought of completely different alphabets within the video sequences and earned a hit rate of 95.25%.</p>

Co-evolution at the Interface of a Family Firm and its Niche

The interface of the organization and its industry constitutes a vital space for development. Conducting a systematic literature review, we confirm that management research has paid rather little a ...

Marshall on Time and Mathematical Analysis

The essay offers an account of Alfred Marshall’s approach to mathematics and aims to deepen our understanding on his methodological considerations and views on Time. Contrary to what is commonly believed, 19th century mathematics developed in a manner similar to the evolution of political and economic ideas i.e. through passionate intellectual debates between opposing ideological parts. Time and the seek for its true meaning, constitutes a peculiar aspect of this controversy that the Cambridge Mathematical Tradition offers vital space for reflection. It is due to this educational background that Marshall separates between ‘t’ and ‘T’ and develops his skepticism against analytical reasoning. His thoughts on real time processes and on translating mathematical statements to economic language, advocates in favor of his unique intellectual depth. Research is textual, based on primary as well as secondary sources.

Population dynamics of Telenomus fariai (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), a parasite of Chagas' disease vectors. V. Parasite size and vital space.

Some ecological aspects of the developmental process of the endophagous egg parasite Telenomus fariai when reared in Triatoma phyllosoma pallidiPennis eggs, have been investigated. It was shown that mortality among pupae and last instar larvae does not account for the constancy in parasite progeny emergence per host egg, suggesting that if there is any population regulation mechanism based on larval competition, it would be operating among the youngest instars. Simple and multiple linear correlations between parasite size and host egg volume, and progeny production per host egg show that both factors are relevant in determing parasite size, but the effect of progeny production per host egg is on the average three times as important as host egg volume. Vital space (mm3 of host egg volume available per parasite) shows an extremely high correlation (0.970) with parasite size. The elasticity function of vital space on parasite size shows that with increasing values of the former, there is always a higher percentile increase of the latter.

Socio-Physical and Environmental Evaluation of Courtyard Space and Courtyard-Lifestyle in the Context of Swahili Architecture and Culture-Case Study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

This study was meant to analyze courtyard space in Magomeni neighborhood, which comprises Swahili architectural buildings arranged in grid iron pattern built in 1940s as African settlement. Three field surveys were conducted in 2012, 2013 and 2014 where, 99, 100 and 99 households samples were consecutively picked up for spatial, social, environmental and cultural analysis. In each survey, courtyard spaces were studied based on previous functions in terms of physical, environmental and socio-spatial roles in the Swahili architecture and lifestyle of the people. The original intended role of courtyard spaces were analyzed and compared with the current situation where most of them have lost their functions (architectural, environmental, cultural and social) due extension of rooms in the courtyard spaces which is caused by urbanization and socio-economic needs for renting spaces in areas within a walking distance from the city center. The physical analysis was followed up by the socio-statistical investigation where the results from the two analytical methods were discussed with the results as follows: Pragmatically, the courtyard spaces in Swahili architecture had central role in the physical, environmental and social layout of buildings which in this study it is considered as a “center of life” or genius loci of the Swahili architecture. The alteration in most of the buildings by extending rooms into the courtyard space has caused a downfall of this very vital space which has resulted into change of lifestyle of the residents. Discomfort due to lack of cross ventilation was reported by most of the respondents. Consequently, there is an excessive demand for artificial cooling and ventilation appliances which has increased the cost of living in the neighbourhood. Although residents have shown some efforts to plant trees to improve the living condition, a holistic approach from both the government and the community is needed in the redevelopment of the neighbourhood.

‘Educate a Woman and You Educate a Generation’

This essay discusses the geographies of learning and the vital creative cultural space of the public library. Discussion attends to how public libraries have facilitated emancipatory spaces for learning, highlighting the importance of the public library both in its employment of and the cultural opportunities it has afforded women. Based on verbatim records, a creatively written account of a pre-school parent’s book club shows how individual librarians and library users have come together to ‘stage’ a book club held within a public library. It records the vital enrichment of collective book reading to a group of people who may otherwise get forgotten in discussions of cultural need, and serves as a reminder of how public libraries are able to facilitate the habit of reading enriching the lives of those involved and who witness such an act.

«THE RUSSIAN WORD IN KYRGYZSTAN» MAGAZINE AS COMMUNICATIVE PLATFORM FOR DISCUSSION OF QUESTIONS OF VITALITY OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

During formation of the new independent PostSoviet states Russian, like the former citizens of the former Union, was influenced by all expenses of process of sovereignization connected with narrowing of his vital space. So rapid replacement of Russian from such spheres of public life as policy, education, culture, media, etc. Became result of hasty, and therefore unreasoned and unbalanced introduction of language of the title nations as the only state language. Often process of fixing of the dominating positions of title languages was directly connected with infringement of positions of Russian and the rights of the Russian-speaking population. Changes in language policy of the republic have affected also education. And education is the future of the country. Reduction of social functions of Russian in Kyrgyzstan, reduction of his demand in socially staticized spheres of communication has led to considerable decrease in level of his vitality (viability). The term «language policy» «has steadily registered» in media that proves high degree of politicization of a «language question», when the language factor begins to play a role of an ethnic identifying marker, not habitual for itself, but even more often becomes a change in the solution of political affairs, the instrument of realization of political ambitions of the authorities. The information and analytical magazine «The Russian Word in Kyrgyzstan», which is issued the KyrgyzRussian Slavic University since 2011 is the open area for discussion of problems of Russian in all regions of the republic, on his pages speeches of scientists-philologists are placed, public and statesmen, teachers of schools, methodical materials for the aid to the teacher of Russian and literature, data on novelties of the Russian-speaking literature, which is published in Kyrgyzstan and in Russia, ets. Despite obvious reduction of the field of vitality (viability) of Russian in Kyrgyzstan, interest in him in the republic doesn't decrease that proves the review of publications of the «Russian Word in Kyrgyzstan» magazine for 2011-2016 concerning preservation of Russian-speaking space presented in this article.

ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS BY MONITORING GAS CONCENTRATIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

Analysis of main environmental components must be appropriate and useful for establishing decision-making elements regarding environment quality, the need for intervention and remediation in major cases, or improvements and development forecasting for local specific situations or subsequent climatic behaviour and composition transformation processes. In this respect, the usefulness of the information gathered from environmental analysis largely depends on how monitoring actions and environmental analysis (inspection and measurement) are planned. Pollutants discharged from use of various technological gases must be measured and analysed to avoid potential hazards and protect vital space and man against direct and indirect effects of noxae. To this end, the current paper aims to analyze certain internationally recommended methods for measuring and monitoring main gases which have negative impact upon the environment and human health, such as physicochemical analysis/evaluation/radiography of gases and dusts from the Jiu Valley urban area s atmosphere, trying to asses the state of the environment in this area.

De vizinhos a piqueteiros: movimentos de trabalhadores desempregados e grupos subalternos na Argentina recente

A partir da década de 1980, para as frações mais débeis dos grupos subalternos urbanos na Argentina, o bairro torna-se espaço vital – o único – de ação e organização política. Este artigo pretende analisar as significativas mudanças que o surgimento e o desenvolvimento dos Movimentos de Trabalhadores Desempregados (piqueteiros), a partir de meados dos anos 1990, operam na ação e no pensamento político desses setores populares, ainda que o bairro siga sendo a espinha dorsal da organização política desses grupos. Avaliamos que os MTD argentinos expressam, de forma significativa, várias facetas da reconfiguração da relação entre capital e trabalho no capitalismo contemporâneo (pós-1970) As reflexões apresentadas aqui derivam de nossa pesquisa de doutorado, cujas fontes foram documentos produzidos por MTD – jornais, periódicos, panfletos, comunicados – e entrevistas temáticas e de história de vida realizadas com trabalhadores desses movimentos.

Becoming Sociological: Disciplinarity and a Sense of ‘Home’

This short reflective piece uses the concept of ‘home’ to explore sociology as an intellectual and disciplinary pursuit. Drawing on autobiographical reflections and ethnographic study of sociology writing, I consider some of the trajectories of academics into sociology and what these tell us about the discipline itself. In light of increasing incursions by audit culture and marketisation of academia, Holmwood has drawn attention to a lack of clear internal identity as being ‘sociology’s misfortune’ – that sociology loses out, and is weakened by lacking theories and methodologies specific to the discipline. This essay takes a more optimistic view of sociology’s position, and instead argues that it is this very ambiguity which keeps the discipline a lively and vital space for explorations of the social.