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Arif, Yasra, Rachel K. Spooner, Alex I. Wiesman, Christine M. Embury, Amy L. Proskovec, and Tony W. Wilson. "Modulation of attention networks serving reorientation in healthy aging." Aging 12, no. 13 (June 24, 2020): 12582–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.103515.
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Peng, Ningyue, Chengqi Xue, Haiyan Wang, Yafeng Niu, and Lei Wu. "Priming Effect of Colour on Aiding the Attentional Reorientation in Sequential Presentations of Temporal Data Visualization: Evidence From Eye-Tracking." Interacting with Computers 33, no. 2 (March 2021): 188–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwab021.
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Abstract In the present study, we focus on the priming effect of colour on mitigating the attentional reorientation cost, which is led by re-constructing the frame of reference for attention shift and visual search in sequential presentations of temporal data visualization. The study involves two experiments using complementary recordings of behavioural performance and eye-tracking events. Two aspects of colour primes are highlighted: the prime validity and the colour perceptual accessibility. A task paradigm integrating the feature search and keeping-track task was adopted in our experiments. In Experiment 1 (with a group of 16 participants), we confirmed the colour priming effect by comparing the priming condition to the neutral baseline. Furthermore, global colours that are with high perceptual accessibility generated more evident priming effects than local colours. However, more interferences in misguiding the attention to task-irrelevant regions were found when the global primes were invalid. In Experiment 2 (with another group of 15 participants), we verify the finding in Experiment 1 that global colours produced more pronounced priming effects in alleviating the attentional reorientation cost by comparing two groups of real-world visualizations with either global or local colours as the prime. Large saccades were initiated much earlier, and the search efficiency got improved when provided with global colours. We conjecture that the facilitatory effect from global colours may stem from its benefit on the pre-attentive processing of the search field. The research findings provide evidence for utilizing colours as the primes in mitigating the attentional reorientation cost and accelerating visual search in sequential presentations.
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Sassenhagen, Jona, and Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. "The P600 as a correlate of ventral attention network reorientation." Cortex 66 (May 2015): A3—A20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.12.019.
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Arrington, Catherine M., Thomas H. Carr, Andrew R. Mayer, and Stephen M. Rao. "Neural Mechanisms of Visual Attention: Object-Based Selection of a Region in Space." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 12, supplement 2 (November 2000): 106–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/089892900563975.
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Objects play an important role in guiding spatial attention through a cluttered visual environment. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) to measure brain activity during cued discrimination tasks requiring subjects to orient attention either to a region bounded by an object (object-based spatial attention) or to an unbounded region of space (location-based spatial attention) in anticipation of an upcoming target. Comparison between the two tasks revealed greater activation when attention selected a region bounded by an object. This activation was strongly lateralized to the left hemisphere and formed a widely distributed network including (a) attentional structures in parietal and temporal cortex and thalamus, (b) ventral-stream object processing structures in occipital, inferior-temporal, and parahippocampal cortex, and (c) control structures in medial-and dorsolateral-prefrontal cortex. These results suggest that object-based spatial selection is achieved by imposing additional constraints over and above those processes already operating to achieve selection of an unbounded region. In addition, ER-fMRI methodology allowed a comparison of validly versus invalidly cued trials, thereby delineating brain structures involved in the reorientation of attention after its initial deployment proved incorrect. All areas of activation that differentiated between these two trial types resulted from greater activity during the invalid trials. This outcome suggests that all brain areas involved in attentional orienting and task performance in response to valid cues are also involved on invalid trials. During invalid trials, additional brain regions are recruited when a perceiver recovers from invalid cueing and reorients attention to a target appearing at an uncued location. Activated brain areas specific to attentional reorientation were strongly right-lateralized and included posterior temporal and inferior parietal regions previously implicated in visual attention processes, as well as prefrontal regions that likely subserve control processes, particularly related to inhibition of inappropriate responding.
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Limpouchová, Zuzana, Karel Procházka, Vlastimil Fidler, Jiří Dvořák, and Bohumil Bednář. "Molecular Movements and Dynamics in Solutions Studied by Fluorescence Depolarization Measurement." Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications 58, no. 2 (1993): 213–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1135/cccc19930213.
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Theories allowing interpretation of the results of time-resolved polarization spectrofluorimetry in solutions are reviewed and their applicability under various conditions is discussed. For the reorientation of rigid molecules in an isotropic medium, the most frequently employed models are presented, such as rotational diffusion model, the Fokker-Planck-Langevin model, etc. Systems with internal rotation, systems in anisotropic media, systems with a complex electron relaxation and systems with energy transfer are discussed as examples of more complex systems. A special attention is devoted to the polarization fluorimetry of probes bound to/or sorbed at polymer and biopolymer chains. The review focuses on theoretical models of reorientational motion for interpretation of fluorescence anisotropy decays. Experimental studies and computer simulations are discussed only when it is necessary for comparison with theoretical predictions. Complicated models for simultaneous reorientational motion and energy transfer, solvent relaxation, etc., although very important for many applications, exceed the scope of this review and are mentioned only very briefly.
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Steinitz, Michael O., G. Shane MacLeod, David A. Pink, Bonnie Quinn, and Gillian L. Ryan. "Magnetoelasticity and the spin rotation transition in cobalt." Canadian Journal of Physics 82, no. 12 (December 1, 2004): 1077–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/p04-069.
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We study the spin reorientation process in cobalt using capacitance dilatometric measurements of the strain along the a- and c-axes of a single crystal and then apply a phenomenological theory of magnetostrictive interactions together with a theory of spin reorientation. We find no evidence of singularities in the behaviour at either of the temperatures at the beginning and end of this process. We calculate the temperature dependence of the magnetoelastic fourth-order single-ion anisotropy coefficient K4, and draw attention to the importance of higher order terms in the anisotropy. PACS Nos.: 74.25.Ha, 75.30.Gw, 75.50.Cc, 75.80.+q
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Baker, Kristen S., Alan J. Pegna, Naohide Yamamoto, and Patrick Johnston. "Attention and prediction modulations in expected and unexpected visuospatial trajectories." PLOS ONE 16, no. 10 (October 8, 2021): e0242753. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242753.
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Humans are constantly exposed to a rich tapestry of visual information in a potentially changing environment. To cope with the computational burden this engenders, our perceptual system must use prior context to simultaneously prioritise stimuli of importance and suppress irrelevant surroundings. This study investigated the influence of prediction and attention in visual perception by investigating event-related potentials (ERPs) often associated with these processes, N170 and N2pc for prediction and attention, respectively. A contextual trajectory paradigm was used which violated visual predictions and neglected to predetermine areas of spatial interest, to account for the potentially unpredictable nature of a real-life visual scene. Participants (N = 36) viewed a visual display of cued and non-cued shapes rotating in a five-step predictable trajectory, with the fifth and final position of either the cued or non-cued shape occurring in a predictable or unpredictable spatial location. To investigate the predictive coding theory of attention we used factors of attention and prediction, whereby attention was manipulated as either cued or non-cued conditions, and prediction manipulated in either predictable or unpredictable conditions. Results showed both enhanced N170 and N2pc amplitudes to unpredictable compared to predictable stimuli. Stimulus cueing status also increased N170 amplitude, but this did not interact with stimulus predictability. The N2pc amplitude was not affected by stimulus cueing status. In accordance with previous research these results suggest the N170 is in part a visual prediction error response with respect to higher-level visual processes, and furthermore the N2pc may index attention reorientation. The results demonstrate prior context influences the sensitivity of the N170 and N2pc electrophysiological responses. These findings add further support to the role of N170 as a prediction error signal and suggest that the N2pc may reflect attentional reorientation in response to unpredicted stimulus locations.
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BLINOV, L. M. "PHOTOINDUCED MOLECULAR REORIENTATION IN POLYMERS, LANGMUIR-BLODGETT FILMSAND LIQUID CRYSTALS." Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials 05, no. 02 (April 1996): 165–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218863596000143.
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A review of the experimental data on a photoinduced molecular reorientation in various molecular guest-host systems (dyes in liquid solutions, liquid crystals and polymer matrices), side-chain polymers and Langmuir-Blodgett films (LBFs) containing light absorbing chromophores is presented. The photoorientation may be reversible or irreversible. It is accompanied by the photoinduced dichroism and optical anisotropy which is widely used for optical recording information. Special attention is paid to the photoassisted poling of polymers and LBFs, a novel technique that allows for the preparation of the stable photoelectrets at room temperature possessing very promising nonlinear optical properties. The physical mechanisms of the photoinduced molecular reorientation are discussed.
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Parmentier, Fabrice B. R., and Pilar Andrés. "The Involuntary Capture of Attention by Sound." Experimental Psychology 57, no. 1 (October 1, 2010): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000009.
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The presentation of auditory oddball stimuli (novels) among otherwise repeated sounds (standards) triggers a well-identified chain of electrophysiological responses: The detection of acoustic change (mismatch negativity), the involuntary orientation of attention to (P3a) and its reorientation from the novel. Behaviorally, novels reduce performance in an unrelated visual task (novelty distraction). Past studies of the cross-modal capture of attention by acoustic novelty have typically discarded from their analysis the data from the standard trials immediately following a novel, despite some evidence in mono-modal oddball tasks of distraction extending beyond the presentation of deviants/novels (postnovelty distraction). The present study measured novelty and postnovelty distraction and examined the hypothesis that both types of distraction may be underpinned by common frontally-related processes by comparing young and older adults. Our data establish that novels delayed responses not only on the current trial and but also on the subsequent standard trial. Both of these effects increased with age. We argue that both types of distraction relate to the reconfiguration of task-sets and discuss this contention in relation to recent electrophysiological studies.
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Giménez-Fernández, Tamara, Dominique Kessel, Uxía Fernández-Folgueiras, Sabela Fondevila, Constantino Méndez-Bértolo, Nayamin Aceves, María José García-Rubio, and Luis Carretié. "Prejudice drives exogenous attention to outgroups." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 15, no. 6 (June 2020): 615–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa087.
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Abstract Exogenous attention allows the automatic detection of relevant stimuli and the reorientation of our current focus of attention towards them. Faces from an ethnic outgroup tend to capture exogenous attention to a greater extent than faces from an ethnic ingroup. We explored whether prejudice toward the outgroup, rather than lack of familiarity, is driving this effect. Participants (N = 76) performed a digit categorization task while distractor faces were presented. Faces belonged to (i) a prejudiced outgroup, (ii) a non-prejudiced outgroup and (iii) their ingroup. Half of the faces were previously habituated in order to increase their familiarity. Reaction times, accuracy and event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded to index exogenous attention to distractor faces. Additionally, different indexes of explicit and implicit prejudice were measured, the latter being significantly greater towards prejudiced outgroup. N170 amplitude was greater to prejudiced outgroup—regardless of their habituation status—than to both non-prejudiced outgroup and ingroup faces and was associated with implicit prejudice measures. No effects were observed at the behavioral level. Our results show that implicit prejudice, rather than familiarity, is under the observed attention-related N170 effects and that this ERP component may be more sensitive to prejudice than behavioral measures under certain circumstances.
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Mihaylov, Valentin. "Bulgaria’s geopolitical and geoeconomic reorientation (1989–2019)." Journal of Geography, Politics and Society 9, no. 4 (December 31, 2019): 12–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/jpgs.2019.4.02.
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Until the late 1980s and the dawn of the end of the Eastern Bloc, communist Bulgaria was considered to be the closest ally of the Soviet Union. Now, 30 years later, the Bulgarian state has been integrated into the main Euro-Atlantic organisations. Taking these radical changes as its starting point, this article outlines the process and consequences of post-1989 geopolitical and geoeconomic reorientation of Bulgaria. The aim was also to present the main geopolitical challenges in Bulgaria’s relations with Russia and Turkey. These states have been influencing the political, economic and cultural development of Bulgaria for centuries. The effects of their influence have remained problematic to this day. As Bulgaria remains a country with a complex geopolitical position, it continues its twentieth-century strategy and tries to maintain balance between its own national interest and the influence of the main centres of power. The author draws particular attention to the fact that the model based on the variability of geopolitical priorities was once again confirmed in the analysed period. This model is not only based on pragmatism in relations with the outside world, which is traditional for the Bulgarian political elite, but is also dependant on the temporary distribution of power within the Balkan geopolitical knot. It seems that the model will continue to be valid, at least in the near future.
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Chapman, Bruce. "Long Term Unemployment: The Case for Policy Reform." Economic and Labour Relations Review 4, no. 2 (December 1993): 218–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530469300400204.
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Long term unemployment is now Australia's most difficult and costly labour market problem. This paper argues the case for a different policy reorientation to what has been followed in the past. The first conclusion is that in the absence of a substantial reorientation of policy long term unemployment will remain very high, with the absolute number staying above the level inherited from the 1982/83 recession — which was until the current recession the highest in Australian history. Second, the equity and macroefficiency costs of not doing anything radically different are argued to be very high. A final part of the analysis considers the fundamental challenge of the Job Compact policy suggestion made in the Government's Green Paper on unemployment. However, the way in which the policy is to be instituted needs attention. It is likely that the use of the current JOBSTART wage subsidy scheme will not be enough to achieve the desired outcomes.
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Ling, Jessica. "Labors of Attention: The Parish Novel, Parochialism, and George Eliot's Endearing Parsons." Victorian Literature and Culture 47, no. 4 (2019): 785–812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150318001584.
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Tenure, the Anglican practice of residing and ministering within the small bounds of a parish, became the basis for a surprisingly wide range of Victorian novels. Its plot, which begins with the clergyman's arrival in a parish and ends with his leave-taking or death, echoes throughout the work of Gaskell, Oliphant, Trollope, and Eliot, but its origins and most condensed form lie in a minor, midcentury genre that I call the parish novel. In taking the parameters of tenure—its duration and its modest ambit—as their own, parish novels turned reading into a form of pastoral labor: a close, laborious, yet seemingly unproductive attention that simultaneously suffused everyday life with latent meaning and rendered such meaning a function of residence. The following essay traces the rise and fall of this genre against Anglicanism's reorientation from a set of beliefs to a formal activity whose goals aligned closely with the work of reading. Unlike earlier religious narratives, the parish novel offers a model of reading in which spiritual meaning is secured neither by a sense of providence nor by religious allegory but by the sustained exercise of faith.
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Risnain, Muh. "KRIMINALISASI HAKIM DAN EKSISTENSI PRINSIP JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE DALAM BINGKAI NEGARA HUKUM." Jurnal Hukum dan Peradilan 2, no. 3 (April 23, 2018): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.25216/jhp.2.3.2013.325-336.
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Legal policy throught criminalization of judge by the law are abuse of judicial indpence and threat of rule of law principle while regulate by the constitution. And it is shown that quo vadis of criminalization policy when drafting the law. To solve this problem, there are two step, firstly, House of representative and President as state organs who have authority to arrange the law must pay attention principle of judicial indepence and rule of law, second, reorientation of criminal policy. Keywords: Criminalization, Judicial Independence and Rule of Law.
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Yang, Pin, George R. Burns, and Mark A. Rodriguez. "Field-induced strain associated with polarization reversal in a rhombohedral ferroelectric ceramic." Journal of Materials Research 18, no. 12 (December 2003): 2869–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2003.0400.
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The polarization reversal process in a rhombohedral ferroelectric ceramic material was investigated using field-induced strain measurements and texture development. Special attention was focused on the difference in the field-induced strains between the first quarter cycle and subsequent loading conditions. Results show that the initial field-induced strain is about twelve times greater than the subsequent strain, which immediately suggests that mechanisms involved in these conditions during the polarization reversal process are different. The difference in the magnitude of field-induced strain is discussed in terms of 180° and non-180° domain reorientation processes.
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KAZOJĆ, KATARZYNA, and NORBERT OBRYCKI. "TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS IN ENERGY SECTOR AS DETERMINANT OF CHANGES EXPECTED IN POLISH COMPANIES." sj-economics scientific journal 31, no. 4 (December 30, 2018): 268–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.58246/sjeconomics.v31i4.67.
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The article demonstrates the importance of energy sector development in a proper economy growth. It presents trends influencing innovations in this sector and also set the direction of changes while focusing on the adaptive actions the polish companies ought to implement. There are introduced examples of energy sector innovation enterprises that significantly impact the sector's effectiveness as well as address sector's stakeholders expectations. The article makes it clear that global results can be achieved only by gradual companies' reorientation in the direction of innovation and attention to sustainable energy development.
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Ferrera, Maurizio. "FROM THE WELFARE STATE TO THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT STATE." Revista Direito das Relações Sociais e Trabalhistas 3, no. 1 (October 9, 2019): 53–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.26843/mestradodireito.v3i1.101.
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This paper discusses the basic rationale which has inspired the intellectual and policy reorientation towards “social investment”, with particular attention to child policy. The firstsection outlines the main features of the social investment approach, contrasting it with the more traditional “Fordist” approach. The second and third sections explain why and how early childhood education and care canmake a difference in termsofbothefficiencyandequity.Thefourthsectionbrieflysummarizes the British experience under New Labour, while the fifth section discusses issues of quality and accessibility. The conclusion wraps up, underlining the need to step up the shift to- wards social investment, overcoming the political obstaclesto reform.
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HANN, CHRISTOPHER. "“LE REGARD ÉLOIGNÉ” EURASIA IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF JACK GOODY." European Journal of Sociology 45, no. 3 (December 2004): 403–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000397560400150x.
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TWO NEW, COMPLEMENTARY ESSAYS BY JACK GOODY together add up to an impressive call for a general reorientation of academic perspectives concerning the mythologies and hypocrisies of “the West”. In addition to a detailed survey of the recent literature on the topic, each volume is also full of entertaining digressions, some of a personal nature, which provide insight into the long-term intellectual agenda of a remarkable scholar. In the course of this review I shall draw attention to some of the most pertinent of his earlier publications, in which themes touched upon in these high-level syntheses are explored more fully.
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Chew, Fiona. "The Relationship of Information Needs to Issue Relevance and Media Use." Journalism Quarterly 71, no. 3 (September 1994): 676–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909407100318.
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Utilizing the model of information needs which focuses attention on reorientation and construction in addition to orientation, this study compared questioning behaviors toward a low versus high relevance issue. Analysis showed that information needs varied by issue relevance. The high relevance issue elicited questioning behavior pertaining to obtaining expert opinion, gathering various viewpoints for decision making, and developing an opinion. Individuals focusing on the low relevance issue more frequently wanted to find out about how the issue affected them. By focusing on the qualitative differences in information needs, this research also showed that information needs affected the nature of media use.
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Prokopenko, Olha, Cholpon Toktosunova, Nurmira Sharsheeva, Rita Zablotska, Valerii Mazurenko, and Lina Halaz. "Prospects for the Reorientation of Investment Flows for Sustainable Development under the Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic." Problemy Ekorozwoju 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/pe.2021.2.01.
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The article is devoted to substantiating the expediency of reorienting international investment flows, under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, from traditional directions to projects related to social transformation. It is proved that such transformations should be expressed first of all in qualitative changes in education, medicine and employment. Particular attention is paid to the modernization of the paradigm of sustainable development, the components of which should be ranked from social to environmental. The necessity of interpretation of investment strategies implemented in the countries following their common problems is substantiated. Also, attention is paid to the substantiation of the cyclical component, its role in the redistribution of investment flows at the state level. The article proposed cluster investment to solve this problem.
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Zalewska-Meler, Agnieszka. "Hygiene practices: reorientation and searching for new solutions in care and education." Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze 608, no. 3 (March 31, 2022): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.8140.
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The problem presented in the article concerns the concept of hygienic care and the reasons for objectifying hygiene practices related to the body. The analysis of hygiene goals made based on a critical analysis of key publications and texts inscribed in the evolution of hygiene and educational activity was used to determine the methods of shaping hygienic body awareness in contemporary educational practice. The article attempts to define the common fields of influence of hygiene and pedagogy, draw attention to the reflective way of reading the canon of vital needs of children and adolescents to give them a pro-health meaning in the life cycle. The main conclusions resulting from the analyses carried out are: 1) departing in the education process from traditional thinking about hygiene, i.e. perceiving it as a set of norms and rules of purely medical origin (giving instructions, recommendations to guarantee hygiene safety, focusing awareness on prevention), 2) overcoming the model of preventive hygiene (negative, passive) for the release of hygiene care and education based on transgressive practices of caring for the body, 3) locating hygienic activity in the area of life skills, 4) inducing hygienic sensitivity based on the resources of the living environment and vital values.
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Niehues-Pröbsting, Heinrich. "Annäherung an Blumenbergs Philosophieverständnis." Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 70, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 64–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dzph-2022-0003.
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Abstract If one compares Hans Blumenberg with the dominant contemporary German-speaking characters of philosophy and heads of their own schools, Husserl, Heidegger and Adorno, then one sees that Blumenberg’s understanding of philosophy proves tobe emphatically unemphatic, withdrawn, and deeply stacked. He exchanges the big bills of those philosophies for small coins: Philosophy is attention first, thoughtfulness second, consolation third, and memory fourth. – An introduction is evidence of the reorientation that Blumenberg undertook in the 1950s with regard to his Catholic-theological and Heideggerian philosophical beginnings. This led him to redefine the modern age from one of crisis to one of overcoming the crisis.
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Bråten, Eldar. "The “Ontological Turn” in Anthropology: Self-Silencing Irrealism." Public Anthropologist 4, no. 2 (October 17, 2022): 160–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25891715-bja10036.
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Abstract This article calls attention to problematic effects of the so-called “ontological turn” that now gains ground in academic anthropology, especially the entailments of perspectival multi-naturalism. I argue that a consistent embrace of this approach challenges public anthropology at its core. The irrealist grounding of perspectival multi-naturalism encourages withdrawal from both analysis and engagement, rendering the application of anthropological knowledge dubious. In order to counter this development, I suggest a reorientation in terms of realist principles, notably those of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism. The diverging theoretical and ethical implications of these approaches are exemplified through a discussion of threats to health and life in Java, Indonesia.
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Nardi, Daniele, Brian J. Anzures, Josie M. Clark, and Brittany V. Griffith. "Spatial reorientation with non-visual cues: Failure to spontaneously use auditory information." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 72, no. 5 (June 13, 2018): 1141–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021818780715.
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Among the environmental stimuli that can guide navigation in space, most attention has been dedicated to visual information. The process of determining where you are and which direction you are facing (called reorientation) has been extensively examined by providing the navigator with two sources of information—typically the shape of the environment and its features—with an interest in the extent to which they are used. Similar questions with non-visual cues are lacking. Here, blindfolded sighted participants had to learn the location of a target in a real-world, circular search space. In Experiment 1, two ecologically relevant non-visual cues were provided: the slope of the floor and an array of two identical auditory landmarks. Slope successfully guided behaviour, suggesting that proprioceptive/kinesthetic access is sufficient to navigate on a slanted environment. However, despite the fact that participants could localise the auditory sources, this information was not encoded. In Experiment 2, the auditory cue was made more useful for the task because it had greater predictive value and there were no competing spatial cues. Nonetheless, again, the auditory landmark was not encoded. Finally, in Experiment 3, after being prompted, participants were able to reorient by using the auditory landmark. Overall, participants failed to spontaneously rely on the auditory cue, regardless of how informative it was.
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Balconi, Michela, and Laura Angioletti. "Interoceptive Attentiveness Induces Significantly More PFC Activation during a Synchronized Linguistic Task Compared to a Motor Task as Revealed by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy." Brain Sciences 12, no. 3 (February 23, 2022): 301. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030301.
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Currently, there is little understanding of how interoceptive attentiveness (IA) affects brain responses during synchronized cognitive or motor tasks. This pilot study explored the effect of explicit IA manipulation on hemodynamic correlates of simple cognitive tasks implying linguistic or motor synchronization. Eighteen healthy participants completed two linguistic and motor synchronization tasks during explicit IA and control conditions while oxygenated (O2Hb) and deoxygenated (HHb) hemoglobin variations were recorded by functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). The findings suggested that the brain regions associated with sustained attention, such as the right prefrontal cortex (PFC), were more involved when an explicit focus on the breath was induced during the cognitive linguistic task requiring synchronization with a partner, as indicated by increased O2Hb. Interestingly, this effect was not significant for the motor task. In conclusion, for the first time, this pilot research found increased activity in neuroanatomical regions that promote sustained attention, attention reorientation, and synchronization when a joint task is carried out and the person is focusing on their physiological body reactions. Moreover, the results suggested that the benefits of conscious concentration on physiological interoceptive correlates while executing a task demanding synchronization, particularly verbal alignment, may be related to the right PFC.
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Choy, Timothy, and Jerry Zee. "Condition—Suspension." Cultural Anthropology 30, no. 2 (May 25, 2015): 210–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.04.
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Atmospheric scenes compel anthropology into a dilution: a shift in concentration. Working through suspension as a condition through which to ask into life in the air, this Opening pauses with moments of arrest, distribution, and deposit by various airs. Such moments compel a reorientation of attention toward airy things even as they model a recomposition of anthropological inquiry by atmosphere. Exploring how sands shift and settle in a Chinese wind tunnel and how matsutake mushroom solids become aromatic vapors in Seoul, we move from considering materials in airborne states to a condition of suspension in atmosphere to which particulates and people alike are held. What could an anthropology in suspension become when its anthropos is subject to vaporization into a thing among others in the atmosphere’s composition?
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Elcokany, Nermine M., and Fatma Refaat Ahmed. "Effect of family reorientation messages on delirium prevention among critically ill patients." Journal of Nursing Education and Practice 9, no. 10 (July 15, 2019): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v9n10p50.
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Background: About 50%-80% of critically ill patients develop delirium during their intensive care unit (ICU) stay. Adverse events associated with delirium can range from functional disability, cognitive and psychological impairment, dementia and even death. Removal of invasive lines, self-extubation, prolonged sedation and ventilation therapies which delay the ICU liberation, and increase the overall hospital length of stay are also negative squeals of delirium. Delirium has series of adverse events that are not limited to the associated morbidies and mortality, but also extended to include the burden placed on caregivers, families and healthcare services, in addition to increasing the cost of care. Using auditory stimulation as a non-pharmacological intervention can stimulate the affected neural networks, accelerate brain plasticity and avoid sensory deprivation that could induce pain, agitation, and delirium and slow down the patients' recovery. It is evident that familiar auditory stimuli by a familiar voice is eliciting more responses to auditory tones as it can grasp patients' attention without much effort and disrupts ongoing cognitive activities. Accordingly, multicomponent family reorientation strategy has recently been proposed to achieve better outcomes.Methods: A quasi experimental research design was used in this study in which one tool was used for data collection: “Confusion Assessment Method-intensive care unit (CAM-ICU)”. Results: During the five-day intervention period, the delirium free days was all the days in the family voice group, four days in the unfamiliar voice group and no free days in the control group which indicates a significant difference among groups on number of delirium free days (MCp < .001*).Conclusion: Reorienting critically ill patients through recorded messages is an effective strategy to reduce the incidence of delirium. Furthermore, using a familiar family sound is more effective in reducing delirium as proved by the number of delirium free days. During the five-day intervention period, the family voice group shows more delirium free days than the unfamiliar voice group. The intervention used in this study is easy, costless and effective strategy in prevention of delirium among critically ill patients.
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Veuger, Jan. "Digitization and Blockchain in Finance, The Netherlands in 2020 and 2021." International Journal of Applied Economics, Finance and Accounting 11, no. 1 (October 25, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.33094/8.2017.2021.111.1.22.
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The exploratory research in 2020 received a lot of attention in trade journals in the Netherlands and in the international context of academic journals, webinars and conferences. This led to this research in 2021, including a reorientation on the structure of the research. Due to the further development of the faculty in 2020 and 2021, the questions from the research were further professionalized, peer reviewed by experts and supplemented. In addition, it is interesting and scientifically important to place the research more in both a national and international perspective, both with regard to professional groups and with regard to other studies, such as that of Controllers Magazine, After various inventorying discussions at the end of 2020, whether or not at the request of the stakeholders, this led to a reorientation on the conducting of the research. At the beginning of 2021, the study was therefore extended almost simultaneously to: (a) all members of the Working field commission (Werkveldcommissie; WVC) of the Accountancy (AC), Finance, Tax and Advice (FTA, formerly Fiscal Law and Economics) and Finance & Control (FC) programmes of the Academy of Finance, Economics and Management (FEM) at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, (b) all members of the foundation of collaborating chartered accountants and accounting and bookkeeping firms (SRA), a network organization of 375 independent audit firms with 900 branches in the Netherlands, and (c) international sister universities of Saxion University of Applied Sciences.
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Климин, С. А., П. С. Бердоносов, and Е. С. Кузнецова. "Оптическая спектроскопия крамерсовских дублетов иона Er-=SUP=-3+-=/SUP=- в двумерном фрустированном магнетике Cu-=SUB=-3-=/SUB=-Er(SeO-=SUB=-3-=/SUB=-)-=SUB=-2-=/SUB=-O-=SUB=-2-=/SUB=-Cl." Оптика и спектроскопия 129, no. 1 (2021): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.21883/os.2021.01.50439.250-20.
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Francisites Cu3M(YO3)2O2X (M = Bi or rare earth, Y = Se, Te, X = Br, Cl, I) attract grate attention due to their interesting magnetic properties, such as metamagnetic transitions in relatively weak magnetic fields, magnetic phase transitions including spin reorientation, as well as model systems for studying two-dimensional and frustrated magnetism. In this work, a low-temperature optical spectroscopic study is presented of erbium francisite Cu3Er(SeO3)2O2Cl. The observed splittings of the spectral lines corresponding to the f f transitions in the Kramers Er3+ ion unambiguously indicates the magnetic ordering of the crystal at a temperature TN = 37.5 K. The temperature dependence of the splitting of the main doublet of the erbium ion is determined. The contribution of erbium to the heat capacity and magnetic susceptibility of Cu3Er(SeO3)2O2Cl is calculated.
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Shankar, PR. "Prescribing Skills for Undergraduate Medical Students: Time to Redress the Neglect?" Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 3, no. 3 (September 30, 2013): 260–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v3i3.9186.
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Challenges in teaching health science students about rational use of medicines include reservations of faculty members about the new learning resources, unfamiliarity with small group teaching, lack of involvement of pharmacologists in teaching therapeutics during the clinical years of training and non-involvement of pharmacists and pharmacologists in patient care activities10. These challenges have to be overcome and a major reorientation and refocusing of pharmacology departments in medical schools towards rational therapeutics may be needed. Modern medical education I feel focuses heavily on diagnosis of disease conditions. Considering the increasing complexity of modern treatment regimens, cost of care and the different stakeholders involved it is time ‘prescribing skills’ receive the attention and resources it richly deserves!DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v3i3.9186 Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 2013;3(3): 260-261
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Casella, Eleanor Conlin. "‘Safe’ genders?" Archaeological Dialogues 13, no. 1 (May 15, 2006): 25–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203806231854.
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As historical archaeology has expanded from its origins in the ‘settler nations’ of the post-colonial world, an increasing number of European scholars have argued for a radical reorientation of the subfield. But if historical archaeology is to be accepted as the ‘archaeology of literate societies’, the profound interdisciplinarity of the subject must be embraced. While the presence of written documents can indeed be a luxury, providing for richer or more personalized interpretations of the past, it can also be a curse, demanding careful attention to the interplay between material and textual sources of evidence. Allison's example of ‘gendering’ the Roman military landscape provides a crucial first step towards a more socially oriented archaeology of the classical world. It also demonstrates both the opportunities and limitations faced by scholars of the literate past.
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Victor, Danciu. "Adapting and Modernizing the Post-Covid Marketing Policy Under the Impact of Consumption Challenges." Romanian Economic Journal, no. 79 (March 25, 2021): 2–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/rej/2021/79/01.
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The turmoil created by the COVID-19 pandemic in all components of the society has effects that become challenging for people and companies. This scientific approach aims at drawing attention primarily to the new trends in consumption and consumer behavior. The main trends identified are the reduction of expenses, the priority given to basic needs satisfaction, the changes of the structure of the consumer basket, the increasing digitalization, the increase of home delivery, the reorientation towards local shopping, the omnichannel services and increasing of the importance of the green content. The transformation, enrichment and improvement of marketing and especially of the marketing policy in accordance with the change of consumption is another objective of the research. Achieving these objectives will depend on the digital marketing practices and strategies and tactics of product, communication, distribution and price adapted to the new realities.
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Baldo, Mara Del. "Leadership models for a good governance. insights from some exemplary Italian cases." Corporate Ownership and Control 13, no. 3 (2016): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv13i3c1p5.
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The paper addresses the theme of responsible and good governance founded on a moral and ethical-based leadership approach. Firstly, the work describes the theoretical framework paying specific attention to ethical leadership theories, responsible leadership and governance. Subsequently it presents the first results of an empirical analysis centered on exemplary case-studies relative to Italian companies, which are included among the best performing ones and have for years built a responsible orientation in their mission and governance models. Findings underline how coherent leadership models based on a positive moral perspective, authenticity, and integrity act in promoting a cultural reorientation inside and outside the company, valorizing relationships with stakeholders, favoring trust and fairness in the interactions with employees and collaborators, and allowing to establish effective models of governance based on the sharing of information, openness and democratic participation
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Stuelke, Patricia. "Reparative Reading and the Drug Wars’ Queer Children." differences 33, no. 1 (May 1, 2022): 60–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10407391-9735455.
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This article posits that recent reparative responses to the opioid crisis are consistent with a longer history of reparative hermeneutics conditioned by the drug wars in the Americas, ones that attempt to repair but often reinforce the biopolitical logics produced by the artificial divide between licit and illicit drugs, a distinction that facilitates both racial and imperialist policing and racial capitalist profiteering. The humanities’ postcritical reorientation, and particularly the turn toward the reparative, is underwritten by such relations between state, capital, and drug policy. To investigate the reverberations of such contemporary political and academic investments in drug-war-fueled repair, the article focuses on a recent wave of black fiction and film that reenvisions the 1980s War on Drugs in the era of the opioid epidemic, with particular attention to Barry Jenkins’s film Moonlight (2016) and James Hannaham’s novel Delicious Foods (2015).
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Popescu, G., and J. Andrei. "From industrial holdings to subsistence farms in Romanian agriculture. Analyzing the subsistence components of CAP." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 57, No. 11 (December 2, 2011): 555–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/72/2010-agricecon.
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In terms of the EU enlargement from 15 to 27 states, the need to reform the CAP mechanisms was felt more than ever. Reorientation towards rural development measures and not towards supporting agricultural production raised a whole issue in which the efficiency criteria of the agricultural policies are concerned. If until now the Union entire attention was directed towards industrial farms, the option to promote family farms, with lower returns but with a high social impact by mobilizing the human resources from the rural area towards this field and preventing migration towards the city and the industrial areas, raised fierce debates. This paper presents a brief analysis of the impact of re-focusing the CAP towards promoting family-farms, mostly of the subsistence type, in the Romanian agrarian economy, in the context of an increased globalization of the agricultural relations.
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QIONG, HU XIAO. "Why China English should stand alongside British, American, and the other ‘world Englishes’." English Today 20, no. 2 (March 29, 2004): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078404002056.
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ENGLISH as the world's lingua franca has become a focus of attention for many scholars. Since China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), the motivation to learn English has dramatically increased. This paper questions the need for English in China to conform to any of the existing standard varieties, arguing that this objective is both undesirable and virtually unattainable, especially in respect to pronunciation, and that Chinese learners should therefore be learning ‘China English’. In an investigation with over 1,200 Chinese students at her university, the writer discovered that the vast majority had never heard of either World English or China English, believing instead that proficiency in standard American or British English should be their goal. She proposes both a reorientation of English language learning in China and a radical revision of the materials used there for both practical and cultural reasons.
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Bachmann-Medick, Doris. "Kulturwissenschaft in der Ermüdung? Anmerkungen zu einer Neuorientierung." Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1, no. 1 (September 1, 2016): 49–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kwg-2016-0006.
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Abstract Starting from the conviction that the study of culture(s) is much broader than a philosophizing history of ideas approach (one that often retains implicit Eurocentric assumptions), this article is a plea for a reorientation of the study of culture through the demonstration of a stronger commitment to a sociological, empirical and transcultural approach in the study of culture. Instead of focusing on cultural syntheses (i.e. along the main signatures and „Zeitgeist“ symptoms of epochs), my argument redirects attention to particularities, hidden dimensions, and the formation of differences, to cultural countermovements and contradictions. The article suggests a more complex and action-oriented „translational“ approach. It aims to foster a critical self-reflection of the research process of the study of culture itself with regard to its analytical concepts, its societal and ethical concerns, and its fruitful convergence of disciplines.
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Greta, Marianna, and Krzysztof Lewandowski. "AIDING CAR INDUSTRY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION." sj-economics scientific journal 8 (June 30, 2011): 201–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.58246/sjeconomics.v8i.489.
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This paper focuses on state aid to the car sector in the EU and its effectiveness. It presents how such support has been changing over time. At the beginning the general normative principles on state aid and the specific law provisions which are typical of the sector have been described. The next part describes the economic situation of the sector in the context of recent financial crisis. The following sections show the changes in EU policy towards state aid, especially an interplay of member states` policies and EC control. Special attention has been paid to the reorientation of the EU objectives – from the purely sectoral towards the horizontal ones. On the one hand there was a slowdown in the amount of aid granted, on the other this aid has been increasingly devised as regional development aid.
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van Teijlingen, Karolien. "The ‘Church of the Poor and the Earth’ in Latin American Mining Conflicts." Religions 13, no. 5 (May 16, 2022): 443. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13050443.
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Conflicts over large-scale mining in Latin America have received growing scholarly attention. Whereas this scholarship has provided very valuable insights into the anatomies of these conflicts, the role of religious ideas and actors has received scant attention. This is remarkable, since the largest church of Latin America, the Catholic Church, seems to be in the midst of an ecological reorientation and increasingly emphasizes its image of the ‘Church of the poor and the Earth’. This research aims to fill this gap and examines the role of Catholic ideas and organizations in mining conflicts. Combining document analysis and ethnographic research on a mining project in Ecuador, the paper argues that Catholic ideas and actors play a significant role in discourses regarding nature and the subsoil, and in configuring the power relations part of conflicts. However, when engaging a historical and gendered perspective, it becomes clear that this role is not without ambiguities and tensions. The paper particularly urges researchers to remain critical of the reinforcements of a patriarchal system of power as well as the essentialization of indigenous cosmologies that continue to undergird present-day discourses and interactions of Catholic organizations in mining conflicts.
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Schortman, Edward M. "Interregional Interaction in Prehistory: The Need for a New Perspective." American Antiquity 54, no. 1 (January 1989): 52–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/281331.
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Recent archaeological efforts to model processes of intersocietal interaction have been hampered by a dearth of conceptual tools suitable to these analyses. In particular, there is a need for a theoretical structure that shifts concern from our traditional focus on spatially distinct cultures and their relations to the physical environment. Without such a shift, questions of intersocietal contact cannot be addressed successfully. This article suggests that the concept of social identity has a role to play in this reorientation. The use of social identity focuses attention directly on intersocietal interactions by encouraging us to ask such questions as who is interacting with whom, under what conditions, and what are the effects of the contact on local social change? This paper defines social identity, provides examples suggesting its utility in archaeological research, and considers the specific questions raised by the application of social identity to archaeological materials.
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Cherevko, Georgiy, and Volodymyr Kolodiichuk. "The potential of maritime transport in logistics of Ukrainian grain export." Ekonomika i Organizacja Logistyki 1, no. 3 (October 17, 2016): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22630/eiol.2016.1.3.22.
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The article examines the historical background and logistical characteristics of maritime transport and focuses the attention to its advantages and disadvantages compared to other kinds of transport in the transportation of grain cargoes. It was found that the sea routes exported the majority of grain has considerable potential for the development of port infrastructure and shipbuilding in Ukraine. Old technologies and a significant depreciation of manufacturing equipment are problematic issues of port elevators, which reduce the efficiency of cargo handling. Investment attractiveness of maritime transport confirmed the participation of powerful multinational grain traders in the reconstruction of existing domestic ports and construction of new berths. In recent years the volume and capacity of grain mass transshipment were increased significantly. It is established that the loss of sea ports in temporarily annexed Crimea is not critical for Ukraine logistics grain flow and it caused their temporary reorientation to other ports.
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Spakowski, Nicola. "National aspirations on a global stage: concepts of world/global history in contemporary China." Journal of Global History 4, no. 3 (November 2009): 475–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022809990179.
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AbstractSince the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has witnessed a surge in world history research and a reorientation towards what is called a ‘global view on history’. This article will demonstrate, however, that the ‘global’ in these discussions is not regarded as the substance of the historical process but merely as the context for the development of the nation-state as the uncontested historical unit. This specific orientation is caused by a persistent nationalism, discursive traditions, and alliances of world history writing with contemporary political discourse. Three major concepts will be discussed: integration/interaction as a response to China's ‘open door’ policy and in connection with discourse on globalization; ‘modernization’ in its relation to the Four Modernizations of state ideology; and the ‘rise of the great powers’ as related to discussions of ‘China's rise’. Particular attention will be given to the problem of Eurocentrism in Chinese world history writing.
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Ashworth, Clive, and Christopher Dandeker. "Warfare, Social Theory and West European Development." Sociological Review 35, no. 1 (February 1987): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1987.tb00001.x.
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This paper explores the intellectual reasons for the failure of sociology to give sufficient attention to warfare and military organisation as central problems in social theory. These reasons are to be found in the dominance of liberal functionalism and Marxism as paradigms in the development of sociology. A reorientation of social theory is called for and it is suggested that writers in the neo-Machiavellian tradition provide an important corrective to sociological orthodoxy in respect of the role of war and military organisation in social life. The paper goes on to show that these factors are crucial components in an adequate account of one of the most important problems raised by sociology: why did hegemonic capitalism develop originally in the West and not elsewhere. Thus, ironically, those factors which sociology has tended to ignore are actually the key to solving one of its central problems.
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HRYSCHKEVICH, S. "THE FORMATION OF SIGHTSEEING AND TOURISM IN THE 1920s. THROUGH INITIATIVES OF LOCAL HISTORY OF INBELCULT." Herald of Polotsk State University. Series A. Humanity sciences 66, no. 1 (February 10, 2023): 65–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.52928/2070-1608-2023-66-1-65-69.
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In this article author says about the formation and developement of local history in BSSR in 1920s.. The study of local history was very important to the process of collecting and systematizing local knowledge for future touristic routes. The formation of tourism activity in the BSSR began with the development of local history, which in the BSSR was managed by the CBK under Inbelkult. The main means of communication between the management of the CBK and local history lovers was the magazine "Nash Kraj", which reflected the main trends and achievements in the study of local history at that time. Initially, special attention was paid to the study and preservation of architectural and historical heritage, but since 1926 a reorientation of local studies on "socially useful" topics were observed. Excursion routes were subsequently built on the basis of the knowledge collected by local historians.
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Irkha, K., H. Ahafonova, and V. Dudkevych. "The state of implementation of socio-economic transformations in Ukraine in the context of European integration policy." National Technical University of Ukraine Journal. Political science. Sociology. Law, no. 4(52) (December 21, 2021): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.20535/2308-5053.2021.4(52).248132.
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The author has analyzed ranking indexes of the state in the period before and after active European integrational practices – in 2013 and in 2019. The indexes which, by their content, correspond to the principles which serve as a foundation for social and economical policy of the EU have been paid attention to. As a result, it has been concluded that the reputational progress of Ukraine is conditioned by European integration reforms, in particular, in the areas of entrepreneurship, economic rights and freedoms, information openness in relation to economics and public finances, creating conditions for citizens to manage their property and labor. The study highlights those aspects of the socio-economic plane that are sensitive to European integration processes: migration processes to increase labor, touristic and academic mobility. It has been stated the dual nature of the geographical reorientation of labor migration from Ukraine to the West in contrast to the Russian Federation, due to both the worsening of labor conditions and environmental safety in Russia and the simplification of employment procedures in the EU countries. It is emphasized that this layering of circumstances, in fact, made a choice on behalf of people and European integration in this case is a favorable condition, not a key reason. Four levels of European integration factor in the socio-economic development of Ukraine have been emphasized: adaptation of domestic legislation to the integration of principles and values of EU policy into Ukrainian practices; support and acceleration of systemic reforms, correlated with the European integration course by means of macro-financial assistance and loans; assistance in activation and reorientation of social mobility of Ukrainians to the European direction – within the framework of labor migration, academic mobility and touristic flows; improvement of Ukraine’s reputation indexes in world’s rankings.
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Staggers, Trae Lawrence, and Shawn David Pollard. "Dynamic Bloch Chirality and Enhanced Velocities from Spin-Orbit Torque Driven Domain Wall Motion in Thick Magnetic Films." Magnetochemistry 8, no. 10 (October 6, 2022): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry8100119.
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Spin-orbit torque (SOT) driven domain wall motion has attracted significant attention as the basis for a variety of spintronic devices due to its potential use as a high speed, low power means to manipulate the magnetic state of an object. While most previous attention has focused on ultrathin films wherein the material thickness is significantly less than the magnetic exchange length, recent reports have suggested unique dynamics may be achieved in intermediate and high thickness films. We used micromagnetic modelling to explore the role of the vertically non-uniform spin textures associated with the domain wall in nanowires of varying thickness on SOT driven domain wall motion. We found large velocity asymmetries between Bloch chiralities near the current density required for reversal of the Bloch component of the magnetization and linked these asymmetries to a gradual reorientation of the domain wall structure which drives a non-negligible, chiral Néel component of the domain wall. We further explored the influence of saturation magnetization, film thickness, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and in-plane fields on domain wall dynamics. These results provide a framework for the development of SOT based devices based on domain wall motion in nanowires beyond the ultrathin film limit.
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Watkins, Mary. "Psychosocial Accompaniment." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 3, no. 1 (August 21, 2015): 324–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i1.103.
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This essay advocates for a paradigm shift in psychology toward the activity and ethics of accompaniment. Accompaniment requires a reorientation of the subjectivity, interpersonal practices, and critical understanding of the accompanier so that (s)he can stand alongside others who desire listening, witnessing, advocacy, space to develop critical inquiry and research, and joint imagination and action to address desired and needed changes. The idea of “accompaniment” emerged in liberation theology in Latin America, and migrated into liberatory forms of psychology as “psychosocial accompaniment.” This essay explores accompaniment and its ethics from a phenomenological perspective, highlighting differences from mainstream stances in psychology. Attention is also given to the effects of accompaniment on the accompanier. Efforts to decolonize psychology require careful attention to the psychic decolonization of its practitioners and to the cultivation of decolonizing interpersonal practices that provide a relational and ethical foundation for joint research, restorative healing, and transformative action. Such practices endeavor through dialogue to build mutual respect and understanding, promote effective solidarity, and contribute to the empowerment of those marginalized. The decolonization of psychology should enable practitioners to be more effective in working for increased social, economic, and environmental justice; peace building and reconciliation; and local and global ecological sustainability.
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Corvol, Andrée. "Mutations et enjeux en forêt de Soignes: les années 1900 | Changes and stakes in the forest of Soignes around 1900." Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen 156, no. 8 (August 1, 2005): 279–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3188/szf.2005.0279.
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The rupture between sylvicultural and agriculturally exploited areas, the regression of semi-urban forests that lost their function as wood producers over the course of the 19th century, the wish to create green spaces for the leisure activities of the population – all these points help to explain the power exercised today by the decision-makers of forest policy, i.e. the elite of the city. The message emerged at the end of the century and was spread by the media from the side of the opposition. Public power was the target of environmental associations. The study examines the reasons for the support the latter managed to rally and the attention paid to them. It also analyses the way in which associations are able use this attention to their own advantage. The study deals with the progression of the carrying themes including their reorientation and alteration. The associative result was considerable. The combined actions of public power and pressure groups helped the general population to take seriously the problems posed by urban extension to the legacy and history of the forest, particularly in Brussels. While the model might be suited to a capital it could be imprudent to impose it in other forests.
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KAZANIN, A. G. "ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IN THE YAMAL-NENETS AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT." EKONOMIKA I UPRAVLENIE: PROBLEMY, RESHENIYA 3, no. 8 (2020): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/ek.up.p.r.2020.08.03.005.
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Russia is one of the most important players on the energy shelf of the Arctic zone, with significant economic, political and political interests in the region, which is associated with significant natural resources, in particular oil and gas, in the Russian Arctic territories. The article analyzes the strategies of social and economic development of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The author identified the priorities of strategic regional development at the level of the oil and gas sector, which include the reorientation of the regional economy from gas production to the expansion of liquid hydrocarbon production, an increase in the region's share in the total volume of oil and condensate production in Russia, the expansion of oil and gas processing and petrochemicals in the region, the growth of production and transportation liquid hydrocarbons along the Northern Sea Route. Areas that are not given enough attention in the project approach are identified, and program activities for each period of the strategy implementation are analyzed.
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Langenbacher, Eric. "Introduction." German Politics and Society 40, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2022.400201.
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With Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the new coalition government’s resulting reorientation of German foreign and security policy—an epochal shift that jettisoned 30, even 50 years of policy the world immediately changed. The consequences and spillover effects of this paradigm shift or Zeitenwende will take years to become truly apparent and will rightfully seize the attention of academics, pundits, and policy analysts. Nevertheless, we should also not neglect other events from the recent past, namely, the most important election in the world in 2021. The September election for the German Bundestag was the most eventful, surprising, and momentous in that country for almost two decades, with an outcome that has already greatly affected Germany, Europe, and the world. It was also a novel election and outcome in several ways: it was the first election since 1953 without an incumbent chancellor running for re-election, and it resulted in the first three-party coalition government in over half a century.