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Journal articles on the topic "Agente provocatore"
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Bourin, M. "Provocative agents in panic disorder." Biological Psychiatry 42, no. 1 (July 1997): 197S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3223(97)87731-1.
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Świerczek, Marek. "The role of provocative-deceptive actions in neutralizing the Belarusian opposition." Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego 14, no. 26 (May 11, 2022): 301–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20801335pbw.21.043.15703.
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The author analyzes the actions of the Belarusian authorities in the situation of the social rebellion triggered by the rigged elections in 2020. He puts forward a hypothesis that a significant role in extinguishing the protest potential was played by agent deception games conducted by the Belarusian KGB, as well as parallel repressive actions and the regime’s information offensive, which resulted in a synergy of propaganda and disinformation-agent activities.
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Jazini, Mahboubeh, Rasoul Roghanian, Omid Mirmosayyeb, Vahid Shaygannejad, and Sayyed Hamid Zarkesh Esfahani. "Assessment the Possible Association Between Neuromyelitis Optica and Cytomegalovirus as a Provocative Factor." Caspian Journal of Neurological Sciences 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/cjns.5.16.1.
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Background: Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) is an autoimmune inflammation of the central nervous system in which autoantibodies are released against Aquaporin-4 (AQP-4), astrocytic water channels. The disease is characterized by transverse myelitis and optic neuritis. Viruses could be inflammatory agents in the brain. Due to such inflammatory reactions, autoantibodies would cross the blood brain barrier. Therefore, recognizing the responsible viral agent may help us prevent or treat NMO. Objectives: To investigate the probable association between Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) and Neuromyelitis Optica. Materials & Methods: This descriptive study was performed on 25 patients with NMO, 30 patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) referring to an academic MS Clinic and 30 healthy individuals in Isfahan City, Iran in 2016. In order to detect DNA of CMV in the sera of the studied groups, real-time PCR technique was used with hydrolyzing probes such as TaqMan. Beacon Designer 7 was used to design a primer and probe. The Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis in SPSS 16. Results: Three study groups had no significant difference in terms of age (P=0.33) and gender (P=0.599). All of the samples were negative for CMV DNA. There was no significant difference between three groups of study (P=0.33). Conclusion: Regarding the negative real-time PCR results of all samples, and especially using higher specificity of primers and probes in detecting this virus, it can be inferred that no significant correlation exists between CMV infection and NMO disease.
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Thirunagari, Rajeev, Alexandra Marrone, Hannah Elsinghorst, and Lucy D. Mastrandrea. "Hematuria as an adverse outcome following provocative growth hormone stimulation testing in children." Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism 31, no. 5 (May 24, 2018): 539–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2017-0458.
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Abstract Background: Provocative growth hormone (GH) stimulation testing is used to evaluate short stature and growth failure in children. Agents commonly used for testing include clonidine, arginine and glucagon. While stimulation testing is generally considered safe, gross hematuria has been described as a rare idiopathic complication of GH stimulation testing. This study was designed to estimate the incidence of both microscopic and macroscopic hematuria following GH testing with different provocative agents. Methods: Subjects undergoing GH stimulation testing were invited to participate in the study. Prior to testing, vital signs were measured and baseline point-of-care (POC) urinalysis was done. The subjects performed urine testing at home on days 1, 2, 3 and 7 following GH stimulation studies. Families notified the study team with any positive findings and returned the data collection tool by mail. Results: In total, 34 subjects aged 11.14±2.71 years (91.2% male) completed the study. Agents used in provocative testing included arginine (73.5%), clonidine (94.1%) and glucagon (32.4%). Three subjects developed hematuria after GH stimulation testing (clonidine/arginine). The hematuria resolved by 7 days after testing. Additional adverse effects included nausea, vomiting and hypotension. Conclusions: In this study of children undergoing GH testing, hematuria was identified in three subjects. This study demonstrates that side effects to agents used for GH testing are self-limited, yet not rare, and should be discussed with patients and families prior to stimulation testing.
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Kamoun, Camilia, Colin Patrick Hawkes, and Adda Grimberg. "Provocative growth hormone testing in children: how did we get here and where do we go now?" Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism 34, no. 6 (April 12, 2021): 679–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2021-0045.
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Abstract Objectives Provocative growth hormone (GH) tests are widely used for diagnosing pediatric GH deficiency (GHD). A thorough understanding of the evidence behind commonly used interpretations and the limitations of these tests is important for improving clinical practice. Content To place current practice into a historical context, the supporting evidence behind the use of provocative GH tests is presented. By reviewing GH measurement techniques and examining the early data supporting the most common tests and later studies that compared provocative agents to establish reference ranges, the low sensitivity and specificity of these tests become readily apparent. Studies that assess the effects of patient factors, such as obesity and sex steroids, on GH testing further bring the appropriateness of commonly used cutoffs for diagnosing GHD into question. Summary and Outlook Despite the widely recognized poor performance of provocative GH tests in distinguishing GH sufficiency from deficiency, limited progress has been made in improving them. New diagnostic modalities are needed, but until they become available, clinicians can improve the clinical application of provocative GH tests by taking into account the multiple factors that influence their results.
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Blaufox, M. D. "Captopril Renography: Considerations in the Selection of Radiopharmaceuticals, Provocative Agents, and Hypertensive Subjects." American Journal of Hypertension 4, no. 12 Pt 2 (December 1, 1991): 675S—677S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajh/4.12.675s.
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Tremlin, Todd. "A Theory of Religious Modulation: Reconciling Religious Modes and Ritual Arrangements." Journal of Cognition and Culture 2, no. 4 (2002): 309–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685370260441017.
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AbstractThe modal theory of Harvey Whitehouse provides not only a provocative explanatory grid for the concatenation of variables that comprise religious behavior but also a fruitful theoretical framework for organizing a range of studies by scholars approaching religion via the cognitive sciences. One example is work on the cognitive underpinnings of ritual arrangements that marks the careers of E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley. Despite offering mutually exclusive hypotheses concerning the relation of ritual action to memory, Lawson and McCauley's work fits within Whitehouse's overarching modal approach. Other research, too, can be drawn into this framework. One variable not yet addressed by the modal theory is the role of conceptual schemes in shaping religious systems. Within the operational dynamics of religion, conceptual schemes matter, particularly as their contents include superhuman agent concepts — the central feature of religious representations and the object of religious response. This article argues for serious investigation of superhuman agent concepts within the framework of Whitehouse's modal theory, and it hypothesizes that psychological responses to contrasting conceptualizations of superhuman agents is one of the more important cognitive variables driving shifts, or "modulations" from doctrinal to more imagistic forms of religiosity.
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GREHAN, HELENA. "Rakini Devi: Diasporic Subject and Agent Provocateur." Theatre Research International 28, no. 3 (October 2003): 229–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030788330300110x.
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Burmese-Australian choreographer/performer Rakini Devi is informed by her diverse skills in the areas of classical Indian dance, visual arts and contemporary performance practice. She uses these skills as well as her satirical wit and storytelling abilities to create an intricate portrait of the lived experiences of a contemporary diasporic subject. This is a portrait that is not only aesthetically stimulating but also politically inflected and provocative at the same time. Through her work Devi encourages us to remember that diaspora is more than a theoretical trope, that it is a complex and often contradictory experience which results in joy as well as pain as it is played out on live bodies.
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Kohanteb, Paul A., H. Gabriel Lipshutz, Benedette Okonkwo, Kimberly Oka, Eli Kasheri, Jason Cohen, Moshe Barnajian, and Yosef Nasseri. "Provocative mesenteric angiography for localizing ambiguous gastrointestinal hemorrhage." American Journal of Interventional Radiology 5 (October 7, 2021): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/ajir_16_2021.
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Objectives: Five percent of patients with recurrent gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage have indeterminate origin by radiological and endoscopic examinations. To improve diagnostic accuracy and therapeutic embolization, the technique of provocative mesenteric angiography (PMA) has been developed. It involves the addition of pharmacologic agents to standard angiographic protocols to induce bleeding. Material and Methods: This is an institutional review board-approved, retrospective study of 20 patients who underwent PMA between 2014 and 2019. All patients had clinical evidence of GI hemorrhage without a definite source. PMA consisted of anticoagulation with 5000 units of heparin and selective transcatheter injection of up to 600 μg of nitroglycerine, followed by slow infusion of up to 24 mg of tissue plasminogen activator into the arterial distribution of the highest suspicion mesenteric artery. Results: Among the 20 patients who underwent PMA, 11/20 (55%) resulted in angiographically visible extravasation. Of these 11 patients, nine patients underwent successful embolization with coil or glue and were discharged upon achieving hemodynamic stability. Two patients spontaneously stopped bleeding. In our series, PMA resulted in the successful treatment of 9/20 (45%) patients with recurrent hemorrhage. No procedure-associated complications were reported with these 20 patients during the procedure and their course of hospitalization. Conclusion: In our experience, PMA is an effective and safe approach in localizing and treating the source of GI bleeding in about half of patients with an otherwise unidentifiable source.
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Niimi, Y., F. Sala, V. Deletis, and A. Berenstein. "Provocative Testing for Embolization of Spinal Cord AVMs." Interventional Neuroradiology 6, no. 1_suppl (November 2000): 191–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15910199000060s130.
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate efficacy and reliability of chemical provocative testing using neurophysiological monitoring prior to embolization of spinal cord AVMs (SCAVMs). We performed retrospective analysis of provocative testing using sodium amytal and lidocaine injected superselectively in 41 angiography and / or embolization procedures in 26 patients with a SCAVM, including 23 amytal and 26 lidocaine injections. All procedures were performed under general anesthesia using neuroleptic drugs, and with monitoring of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and trans-cranial motor evoked potentials (MEPs). After recording baseline SEPs and MEPs, 50mg of sodium amytal was injected through the microcatheter at the position of the intended embolization, followed by assessment of SEPs and MEPs. If no changes occurred, 40mg of lidocaine was then injected followed by recording of SEPs and MEPs. If again no changes were noted, embolization was performed using NBCA. If there was any change in either SEPs or MEPs, NBCA embolization was not performed from that catheter position. No false negative results of the provocative testing were experienced. One amytal test from the posterior spinal artery (PSA) was positive, causing loss of MEPs. Lidocaine testing was positive in 10 cases including 4 injections in the PSA (with loss of MEPs in two and SEPs in two), 5 injections in the anterior spinal artery (with loss of MEPs in four and SEPs in one), and 1 case involving the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (with loss of MEPs). Neither amytal nor lidocaine injection caused loss of both SEPs and MEPs. In conclusion, sodium amytal and lidocaine are complimentary as pharmacological agents for provocative testing, and SEPs and MEPs are complimentary to each other as physiologic monitoring methods. Provocative testing should be performed using both amytal and lidocaine with monitoring of both SEPs and MEPs.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Agente provocatore"
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Barrocu, Giovanni. "Le indagini sotto copertura." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trieste, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10077/3077.
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2007/2008Il lavoro di stesura della tesi si è proposto, in particolare, di analizzare e approfondire la tematica dell’agente undercover – oggetto di copiosi studi nell’ambito sostanziale – sotto il meno esplorato profilo del suo inquadramento nelle dinamiche processuali, al fine di verificare la legittimità del ricorso al tale strumento, i limiti operativi dello stesso nonché il suo apporto gnoseologico alla fase dibattimentale. A tale fine, si è proceduto attraverso una iniziale ricognizione evolutiva dell’istituto partendo dalle prime ricostruzioni dottrinali dell’ottocento sino alla normativa attuale. Gli aspetti di maggiore interesse procedimentale hanno avuto ad oggetto, innanzitutto, il tentativo di chiarire i dubbi ermeneutici relativi alla sua classificazione come attività di prevenzione, ovvero come vera e propria ricerca della prova, in funzione repressiva, all’interno di un procedimento penale regolarmente instaurato. Inoltre, si è proceduto all’analisi delle diverse normativa speciali – relative, tutte, a reati di particolare gravità o allarme sociale – che sotto la vigenza del nuovo codice hanno provveduto ad introdurre la possibilità di ricorrere all’agente undercover e, nel dettaglio, a verificare quali siano i rapporti fra i diversi soggetti protagonisti delle indagini preliminari alla luce del necessario inquadramento della disciplina speciale nell’ordinario ambito codicistico di svolgimento delle investigazioni stesse. Un altro importante aspetto della ricerca riguarda la posizione processuale che l’agente sotto copertura, una volta esaurita la sua attività mascherata, viene ad assumere. In tal senso si sono registrate le diverse ricostruzioni dottrinali e giurisprudenziali da un lato orientate al principio del cosiddetto “recupero del sapere investigativo” e dall’altro rivolte a non limitare il diritto di difesa e, ancor di più, il principio del contraddittorio nella formazione della prova, senza dimenticare i fisiologici problemi relativi alla tutela dell’identità dell’agente sotto copertura e della propria incolumità. Tali problematiche sono state affrontate al fine di porre in luce quali siano i riflessi sull’aspetto che indubbiamente suscita il maggior interesse per la sua capacità di influenzare la decisione: l’utilizzazione probatoria dell’attività undercover. Si è infine concluso con una breve indagine comparatistica degli ordinamenti continentali e di common law al fine di trarne utili indicazioni per apporti normativi de iure condendo.
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Ellison, Bruce. "Te reo o te ākonga me ngā whakapono o te kaiako : Student voice and teachers’ beliefs." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Education (leadership), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10496.
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The beliefs that teachers have about teaching and learning have an influence on the practices that teachers implement. This is particularly relevant, although not exclusively, to teaching practices that meet the needs of Māori students in our bicultural learning environments of New Zealand. There is a growing amount of research to support the use of student voice data, the benefits of which can be seen at a school level, at the classroom teacher level as well as for the individual students themselves.
This research project focused on exploring the impact of students sharing their thoughts and opinions about their learning, (i.e.: student voice data) on influencing teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning. In doing so it explores effective facilitation of this process in a bicultural learning environment. In particular it investigates the potential of a combination of specific tools, notably student focus groups and coaching conversations with teachers to influence teachers’ beliefs.
This study took place in two low decile schools in Christchurch. It involved focus groups of Māori and non-Māori primary-aged students, alongside teacher reflective interviews being conducted on repeated visits. Its findings identified approaches for accessing authentic student voice in a bicultural learning environment. The thoughts and opinions shared by Māori students highlighted a focus on their own learning as well as celebrating their culture. Teachers reacted to student voice by making connections to their classroom programmes, and by accepting or dismissing more provocative statements. These reactions by teachers helped emphasize the most helpful methods for reflecting on this data. Their reflections, used alongside a specially designed ‘Teacher Belief Gathering Tool’, ascertained that teachers’ beliefs were both reaffirmed and changed through guided reflection and coaching conversations on student voice data. Teachers’ knowledge of effective teaching and learning, their motivation for changing their teaching practices, as well as witnessing success were all considerable factors in teachers changing their beliefs.
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Gíria, João Filipe de Oliveira Coelho. "Do informador de polícia ao agente provocador." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/24613.
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The production of evidence is the central object of criminal investigation. Finding out the existence of a crime and determining its agents, allowing the discovery of the truth, prosecution of the guilty and the acquittal of the innocent is the basis for investigation of any wrongdoing.
The reconstitution of a fact is not always intelligible, so investigators must take into account all versions that arise on the criminal scenario. They should take into account that in addition to their investigation training, there are people who get information about a reality that is sometimes only possible to reach with their testimony.
The use of this gathered information can be a key catalyst for the accountability of perpetrators. However, investigators should be aware of how this information was obtained. The very relationship between the police officer and the human source of information must respect certain principles and rules so that the main subject of the criminal investigation is not accused under deceptive and offensive means against its rights, freedoms and guarantees.
In addition to the human sources of information, there are other evidence collection entities that some authors designate as reliable men. They all aim at identifying means and methods that can contribute to the investigation, but the line between legality and illegality is very thin, so there should be restraint on creating criminal scenarios that could compromise the legality of the investigation.A produção de prova apresenta-se como o objecto central da investigação criminal. Apurar a existência de um crime e determinar os seus agentes, permitindo a descoberta da verdade, acusação dos culpados e ilibação dos inocentes é a base de investigação de qualquer ilícito. Nem sempre a reconstituição de um facto é inteligível, daí que os investigadores tencionarão ouvir as vozes que clamam no cenário criminal. Devem atender que para além da sua formação investigatória, existem pessoas que obtém informação sobre uma realidade que por vezes só é possível atingir com o seu testemunho. A utilização das informações recolhidas pode ser um catalisador fulcral para a responsabilização dos autores criminais. Porém, os investigadores deverão perceber como essa informação foi recolhida. A própria relação entre o polícia e a fonte humana de informação deve respeitar determinados princípios e normas para que o objecto principal da investigação criminal não seja cumprido sob meios enganosos e ofensivos aos direitos, liberdades e garantias. Para além das fontes humanas de informação, existem outras figuras de recolha de prova a que alguns autores designam por homens de confiança. Todas visam a identificação de meios e métodos que contribuem para a investigação, mas a linha que separa a legalidade da ilicitude é muito estreita, devendo os meios na dependência do Estado se abster da criação de cenários criminais que possam comprometer a legalidade da investigação.
Books on the topic "Agente provocatore"
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Spencer-Hall, Alicia. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982277.
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This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More precisely, hagiography is most productively understood as cinematic media. Medieval mystical episodes are made intelligible to modern audiences through reference to the filmic - the language, form, and lived experience of cinema. Similarly, reference to the realm of the mystical affords a means to express the disconcerting physical and emotional effects of watching cinema. Moreover, cinematic spectatorship affords, at times, a (more or less) secular experience of visionary transcendence: an 'agape-ic encounter'. The medieval saint's visions of God are but one pole of a spectrum of visual experience which extends into our present multi-media moment. We too conjure godly visions: on our smartphones, on the silver screen, and on our TVs and laptops. This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liège'. In these texts, holy women see God, and see God often. Their experiences fundamentally orient their life, and offer the women new routes to knowledge, agency, and belonging. For the holy visionaries of Liège, as with us modern 'seers', visions are physically intimate, ideologically overloaded spaces. Through theoretically informed close readings, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens reveals the interconnection of decidedly 'old' media - medieval textualities - and artefacts of our 'new media' ecology, which all serve as spaces in which altogether human concerns are brought before the contemporary culture's eyes.
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Lamptey, Jerusha Tanner. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190653378.003.0008.
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The epilogue restates the central themes of the book and the objectives of this particular comparative feminist theological project. Dominant systems of privilege are invested in upholding boundaries, whether based on gender, race, or religious identity. Experience is authoritative. Embodiment matters. Ritual is a manifestation and site of change. Communities must reclaim agency and embrace the challenge of responsiveness. Denial is a form of invisibilization and injustice. Conscientization is essential. The prophetic example and transformative taqwa call us to do more than imitate. Interreligious spaces and engagements are opportunities that enrich both in their similarities and distinctions. It also reiterates the provocative and transformative nature of the Word of God in the world.
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Kanarek, Jane L., Marjorie Lehman, and Simon J Bronner, eds. Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764661.001.0001.
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The 'Jewish mother' figure is a hallmark of Jewish culture, one which appears in the works of rabbis, artists, poets, and activists across time and place. While depictions of mothers and motherhood abound in Jewish writings, they vary significantly according to social context. These representations therefore offer important insights into the Jewish cultural imagination, and the ways in which writers resort to the figure of the Jewish mother to comprehend and construct their world. This book highlights the complex network of symbols and images associated with Jewish mothers and motherhood as well as the vast array of social, historical, and cultural patterns that characterizations of mothers reflect. Each chapter treats the topic from a specific perspective, spanning from mother–daughter relationships in the Talmud to depictions of mothers in twentieth-century American Jewish children's literature. Collectively, they present a provocative examination of the ways mothers shape and problematize Jewish identity. The book seeks to give the figure of the mother a new and enhanced place at the heart of Judaism: not only as a central figure in family life, but also as a key agent in the transmission of Jewish religion and culture.
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Yi-chong, Xu, and Patrick Weller. The Working World of International Organizations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198719496.001.0001.
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International organizations (IOs) matter. Based on extensive interviews and exchanges with key players in IOs in the past decade, this book uncovers the regular working world of IOs, to challenge the orthodox view that member states alone decide what IOs do and how they operate. This book provides a realistic and provocative account of the way IOs really work, a picture that would be recognized by those who work there. The Working World of International Organizations specifically examines three groups of players in IOs—state representatives, as proxy for states and often with schizophrenic demands, the head of IOs as diplomat, manager, and politician, and the staff of the permanent secretariat with their competing solutions. It explores their actions and interactions by asking who or what shapes their decisions; how and when decisions are made; how players interact within an IO; and how the interactions vary across six IOs. It argues that each and all of them must contribute if any progress is to be achieved in managing global problems. It shows why this is the case by examining how decisions are made in three key areas: agenda-setting, financing, and decentralization.
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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. Real Sex Films. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.001.0001.
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Within the domain of film studies, the recent surge in films depicting graphic and high-impact sex and sexualized violence has been variously classified under the terms transgressive, brutal, provocative, real sex, and extreme cinema. These classifications, however, tend to underplay the films’ sociohistorical contexts and reflexive struggle for meaning. We argue that the similarities and differences between these real or simulated sex films are determined and mediated within geographical space and historical time. But every film book has its own personal historical starting point: in our case, this is the coming together as intertexts of the real sex film Intimacy with a major academic text, The Transformation of Intimacy, and as authorial agents of a television and documentary film producer and a media academic. This book argues that the meanings we attach to “real sex” cinema are discursively constructed not only by academic experts but by filmmakers, performers, audiences, and film reviewers. Debates about the meaning of real sex cinema are best understood in dialogue, and for the first time in interdisciplinary studies, we foster “mutual understanding” and “critical extension” among new risk sociology, feminist mapping theory, feminist film studies, and film reviewers, while also embracing film/media studies concepts of production, social audiences and spectators, genre, narrative, authorship, and stars. Above all, this is an interdisciplinary book, which engages with, supports, critiques, and extends each of these professional fields of discourse, each with its own schema of filmic understanding.
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Bronner, Simon J. The Practice of Folklore. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496822628.001.0001.
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This book proposes to answer the pressing philosophical as well as psychological question of why people repeat themselves. It redefines folklore as traditional knowledge that serves this need in human lives and develops a "practice theory" around this idea. Practice, more than other suggested keywords of performance or enactment in social theory, connects localized culture with the vernacular idea that "this is the way we do things around here." The term invites study of what people do repeatedly to understand what they have in "mind." Demonstrating the application of this theory in folkloristic studies, Bronner offers four provocative case studies of psychocultural meanings that arise from traditional "frames of action" and address issues of the day: labeling of boogiemen to express fear of sexual molestation, connecting "wild child" beliefs to school shootings, identifying the crisis of masculinity in adolescent expression. Turning his analysis to the analysts of tradition, Bronner uses practice theory to evaluate the agenda of folklorists in shaping perceptions of tradition-centered "folk societies" such as the Amish, unpacking the culturally based rationale of public folklore programming, interpreting the evolving idea of folk museums in a digital world, and assessing how the terms folklorists use and the things they do affect how people think about tradition. This is a book intended to think about what people do in the name of tradition, and why.
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Williams, Gareth, and Katherina Volk, eds. Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197610336.001.0001.
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This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid’s engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid’s close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component, however, has often been perceived as a feature subordinate to Ovid’s larger literary agenda; and because of the controlling influence conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion, ironizing, or parodying of philosophical sources and ideas. This book counters this tendency by (i) considering Ovid’s seriousness of engagement with, and his possible critique of, the philosophical writings that inform his works; (ii) questioning the feasibility of separating out the categories of the “philosophical” and the “literary” in the first place; (iii) exploring the ways in which Ovid may offer unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas; and (iv) investigating the case to be made for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental.
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Sun, Huatong. Global Social Media Design. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845582.001.0001.
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Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Huatong Sun, author of Cross-Cultural Technology Design, presents theory, method, and case studies to uncover the global interconnectedness of social media design and reorient universal design standards. Centering on the dynamics between structure and agency, Sun draws on practices theories and transnational fieldwork and articulates a critical design approach. The culturally localized user engagement and empowerment (CLUE2, or CLUE-squared) framework extends from situated activity to social practice and connects macro institutions with micro interactions to redress asymmetrical relations in everyday life. Why were Japanese users not crazed about Facebook? Would Twitter have been more successful than its copycat Weibo in China if not banned? How did mobilities and value propositions play out in the competition of WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, and KakaoTalk for global growth? Illustrating the cultural entanglement with a relational view of design, Sun provides three provocative accounts of cross-cultural social media design and use. Concepts such as affordance, genre, and uptake are demonstrated as design tools to bind the material with the discursive and leap from the critical to the generative for culturally sustaining design. Sun calls to reshape the crossroads into a design square where differences are nourished as design resources, where diverse discourses interact for innovation, and where alternative design epistemes thrive from the local. This timely book will appeal to researchers, students, and practitioners who design across disciplines, paradigms, and boundaries to bridge differences in this increasingly globalized world.
Book chapters on the topic "Agente provocatore"
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Geronazzo, Michele, and Stefania Serafin. "Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments: The Egocentric Audio Perspective of the Digital Twin." In Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments, 3–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04021-4_1.
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AbstractThe relationships between the listener, physical world, and virtual environment (VE) should not only inspire the design of natural multimodal interfaces but should be discovered to make sense of the mediating action of VR technologies. This chapter aims to transform an archipelago of studies related to sonic interactions in virtual environments (SIVE) into a research field equipped with a first theoretical framework with an inclusive vision of the challenges to come: the egocentric perspective of the auditory digital twin. In a VE with immersive audio technologies implemented, the role of VR simulations must be enacted by a participatory exploration of sense-making in a network of human and non-human agents, called actors. The guardian of such locus of agency is the auditory digital twin that fosters intra-actions between humans and technology, dynamically and fluidly redefining all those configurations that are crucial for an immersive and coherent experience. The idea of entanglement theory is here mainly declined in an egocentric spatial perspective related to emerging knowledge of the listener’s perceptual capabilities. This is an actively transformative relation with the digital twin potentials to create movement, transparency, and provocative activities in VEs. The chapter contains an original theoretical perspective complemented by several bibliographical references and links to the other book chapters that have contributed significantly to the proposal presented here.
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Pileri, Paolo. "L’Architecture de survie (1978) is Back Talking to EU Cities in Crisis. The Provocative Message by Yona Friedman as a Key for the Present and Future Urban Agenda." In Critical Planning and Design, 79–86. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93107-0_6.
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"Provocative Counterorganization." In Police, Provocation, Politics, edited by Deniz Yonucu, 72–95. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501762154.003.0004.
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This chapter begins with the Gazi incidents of 1995 when seventeen people were killed and hundreds wounded as a result of police and military violence in the predominantly Alevi-populated working-class neighborhood of Gazi. It shows that together the Gazi incidents constituted a “critical event” that gave rise to “new modes of action” and new forms of political agency both in and beyond the neighborhoods. Paving the way for the “bottom-up reorganization of political forces,” the chapter recounts how the Gazi incident marked the beginning of a new counterinsurgency strategy in Istanbul that combined overt repressive state violence with urban-centered and affect-and-emotion-generating provocative counterorganization techniques in an attempt to quell growing left-wing mobilization and subvert the Turkish and Kurdish left-wing alignment, which was becoming more cohesive at the time. The chapter also reveals how the police's simultaneous presence and absence in the neighborhoods during and after the Gezi uprising of the summer of 2013 helped the book's author understand why his interlocutors insisted on dividing the decade of the 1990s into two parts. The chapter then discusses the scapegoating of Alevis as putative organizers of the uprising as it unfolded in the mainstream media.
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Raisbeck, Peter. "Provocative Agents: Agent Base Modelling Systems and the Global Production of Architecture." In Association of Architecture Schools in Australasia. University of Technology, Sydney, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/aab.i.
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Loder Buechel, Laura. "Teachers as Agents of Change." In TESOL Guide for Critical Praxis in Teaching, Inquiry, and Advocacy, 85–107. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8093-6.ch005.
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Public school teachers in Switzerland often feel bound by decisions made by ministries of education as to materials used in the classroom. In teacher training, teachers are often taught superficially about reflective practices, equity, and equality, but in their training to teach English as a Foreign Language (EFL), the focus is too often on the mechanical aspects of foreign language teaching and the examples provided are often not provocative enough to allow for an anti-bias stance to education. Yet this stance is a tenet of most national curricula and is to precede subject-specific curricular aims. Therefore, neither teachers nor materials should shy away from or banalize topics around civil rights and social change. This chapter provides examples of how the dispositions for culturally responsive pedagogy scale and teaching tolerance social justice scales can be used in teacher training for analyzing and planning out lessons. Examples from lessons on the Black Lives Matter movement and general suggestions act as springboards for rethinking and unpacking EFL teaching.
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Proschan, Frank. "Against Curation: The Challenges of Community Self-Representation (or, Confessions of a Former Control Addict)." In Curatorial Conversations. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496805980.003.0006.
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Using the examples from Festival programs on Lao American and Greek American Folklife and reflecting on the author’s experience in operationalizing the UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, this chapter examines tensions between the authority/agency of the bearers and practitioners of intangible cultural heritage, on the one hand, and experts, scholars and curators on the other. It takes a provocative stance against conventional notions of “curation” of Festival programs if they do not include the agency or serve the capacity–building aims in service to the featured communities.
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Gardner, Sebastian. "Metaphysical Motivation." In Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, 96–122. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190464011.003.0005.
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A defining characteristic of classical German philosophy is its preoccupation with the concept of freedom. One central moment in the post-Kantian debate concerning the metaphysical conditions of human freedom is Schelling’s assertion, in his 1809 essay, that these include the reality of evil. Human freedom is meaningful, Schelling argues, only if it comprises a choice between good and evil. On this basis Schelling rejects as inadequate the conception of autonomous agency found in Kant and Fichte, and restores human freedom to a theological setting. My aim in this chapter is to explore Schelling’s intriguing and provocative idea in the context of Crime and Punishment—in which, I suggest, Dostoevsky tries to show how and why autonomous agency, conceived in familiar late modern “Kantian” terms, discovers itself to have need of, and is forced to retrieve, a conception of evil that modern ethical thought takes itself to have surpassed.
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Garrard, Greg. "Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and Literature." In Animalities. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400022.003.0011.
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Garrard explores the idea and practice of zoophilia in recent legal and cultural discourses, with particular attention to relevant literary texts and films. He reads representations of animals in human sexual contexts not as allegories but as reflections upon interspecies sexuality, tracking examples that he believes dramatize provocative interspecies sexual encounters: David Garnett’s Lady into Fox, Robinson Devor’s Zoo, and Marian Engel’s Bear. Rather than reading the literary texts as allegories, Garrard insists upon reading the animals as animals, with particular attention to the narrative strategies that make it harder to see them as either defenseless creatures without agency and in need of protection, or as simply hypersexualized and masculinized bundles of instincts.
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Alker, Hayward R. "Ontological Reflections on Peace and War." In Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems, 300–330. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-717-1.ch010.
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Responding to a provocative question by Hiroharu Seki about Hiroshima ontologies, this chapter reviews related thinking about the ontological primitives appropriate for event-data making, accessing high-performance knowledge bases, and modeling intelligent complex adaptive systems of use to researchers on war and peace. It cautions against “Cliocide,” defined as of the “silencing” or symbolic killing of collective historical-political or historical-disciplinary identities and identifying practices by historical or discipline deficient “scientific” coding practices. It proposes that more intelligent multi-agent models in the “complex, adaptive systems” tradition of the Santa Fe Institute should include the socially shared memories of nations and international societies, including their identity-redefining traumas and their relational/migrational/ecological histories of community-building success and failure. Historicity in an ontologically distinctive sense of the “time ordered self-understandings of a continuing human society” is still a challenge for the computationally oriented literature on war and peace.
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Hunter Evans, Jasmine. "The Antithesis of Culture and Civilisation." In David Jones and Rome, 145–70. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0007.
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Chapter 6 traces the complex dialogue Jones maintained with the works of Oswald Spengler from the 1930s onwards. While in the past critics have tried to distance him from the controversy that surrounded Spengler, this chapter examines Jones’s theories as direct and provocative responses to the historian’s ideas. Only by doing so can Jones’s concepts of ‘the Break’ between past and present, and the antithesis of culture and civilisation (in particular, through the divisions of truth-men and fact-men and of the feminine and masculine principles), be recognised as creative reformulations of Spengler’s ideas. When considered in this context, his visual artworks and poetic fragments—including ‘The Dream of Private Clitus’ (c.1940), ‘The Agent’ (c.1940), ‘The Tribune’s Visitation’ (1958) and ‘The Tutelar of the Place’ (c.1960)—act as creative spaces in which Jones was able to challenge Spengler’s nihilistic vision of decline and fight for the renewal of culture.
Conference papers on the topic "Agente provocatore"
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Christie, D. J., H. Diaz-Arauzo, and J. M. Cook. "REACTIONS OF DRUG-DEPENDENT ANTIBODIES WITH METABOLITES OF QUININE (Qn) AND QUINIDINE (Qd)." In XIth International Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Schattauer GmbH, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1644578.
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In many cases of drug-induced immunologic thrombocytopenia (DITP), a metabolite, rather than the native drug, is suspected of provoking the destructive drug-dependent antibodies (DDAB) responsible for this severe hemorrhagic disorder. However, this has not previously been investigated for Qn- and Qd-DDAB. We report evidence that the native drugs, and not their metabolites, are the provocative agents in Qn and Qd DITP. Reactions of Qn- and Qd-DDAB with platelets were studied with the native drugs and four of their metabolites: the N-oxide and 10,11-diol derivatives (quinuclidine ring modifications), the des-methyl derivatives (aromatic quinoline ring modification), and 2'-quininone and 2'-quinidinone (2'-oxo derivatives) (also quinoline ring modifications on Qn and Qd, respectively). Five antibodies were studied:two Group 1 DDAB (specific for compounds with native configuration at asymmetric carbon positions), two Group 2 DDAB (similar to Group 1 DDAB but also known to require the methoxy group on the quinuclidine ring for full activity), and one Group 3 DDAB (reactive with the native drug, its stereoisomer, and several nonmetabolic analogs of both compounds) . Using a complement-dependent 51Cr-lysis assay, the reactions of all DDAB with platelets and the four metabolites were similar to 100-fold weaker when compared to reactions obtained with the native drug, with these exceptions:Group 2 DDAB failed to react with the desmethyl and 2'-oxo metabolites and the Group 3 DDAB failed to react with 2'-oxo Qd. This observation shows that the activity of certain DDAB is critically dependent on the native quinoline ring structure. Importantly, none of the DDAB reacted more strongly with any of the metabolites tested when compared with reactions in the presence of the native drug. These findings indicate that DDAB react with platelets preferentially in the presence of the unaltered Qn and Qd molecules and suggest that, while the role of metabolites cannot be entirely ruled out, the native structure of the drug molecule is sufficient to stimulate production of the antibodies responsible for DITP.