Search results for "Parallels"
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Latvian Writers’ Strategies of Resistance during De-Stalinisation: The Case of Gunārs Priede
2017
This paper traces developments in the Soviet Latvian literary scene between the late 1950s and early 1970s. The first part examines aspects of social organisation as demonstrated by the daily routines of so-called creative unions characteristic for the overall pattern of the way in which social mechanisms worked under Soviet rule, even if there were constant attempts to overcome the limits set to expression by the communist system. The second part provides a case study of the biography and creative work of Latvian playwright Gunārs Priede 1928–2000, a leading representative of the young generation of authors of that period. The paper not only points towards the parallels in social and aesth…
The role of expectation in music: from the score to emotions and the brain
2013
Like discourse, music is a dynamic process that occurs over time. Listeners usually expect some events or structures of events to occur in the prolongation of a given context. Part of the musical emotional experience would depend upon how composers (improvisers) fulfill these expectancies. Musical expectations are a core phenomenon of music cognition, and the present article provides an overview of its foundation in the score as well as in listeners' behavior and brain, and how it can be simulated by artificial neural networks. We highlight parallels to language processing and include the attentional and emotional dimensions of musical expectations. Studying musical expectations is thus val…
Progreso, complejidad y evolución
2020
Ensayos en honor de Eloy Rada. [ES]: El progreso biológico es un tema ampliamente debatido en biología evolutiva que tiene partidarios y detractores. Sin embargo, no es una cuestión, a pesar de su importancia, de la que podamos afirmar que está resuelta desde el punto de vista científico. En este trabajo presento un análisis del concepto basado en la teoría de la evolución por selección natural, sus paralelismos con el también debatido concepto de “progreso” en la historia de la humanidad y, finalmente, se intenta orientarlo hacia formas accesibles a la investigación científica. Para ello, en lugar del concepto de progreso, recurro al de “complejidad biológica”. Si tenemos formas de medirla…
Listening to the Literary: On the Novelistic Poetics of the Podcast
2020
In comparing the 300-year-old form of the novel and the more recent one of the podcast, Patrick Gill contends that there are indeed parallels between the two. In concentrating on the central ideas of scope, focus, affect, and narration, the essay argues that both the novel and the podcast exploit similar affordances to make their consumers feel actively engaged and emotionally involved in the media experience. Gill then analyses in how far the emphasis placed on these parallels by cultural commentators and podcast producers alike is due to essential similarities and in how far it derives from a desire to use the idea of the novel as a shorthand for an artefact that is somehow deemed more va…
Quantum Entanglement and the Issue of Selective Influences in Psychology: An Overview
2012
Similar formalisms have been independently developed in psychology, to deal with the issue of selective influences (deciding which of several experimental manipulations selectively influences each of several, generally non-independent, response variables), and in quantum mechanics (QM), to deal with the EPR entanglement phenomena (deciding whether an EPR experiment allows for a "classical" account). The parallels between these problems are established by observing that any two noncommuting measurements in QM are mutually exclusive and can therefore be treated as analogs of different values of one and the same input. Both problems reduce to that of the existence of a jointly distributed syst…
On Integrating Action Research and Design Research
2010
IS research has been criticized for having little influence on practice. One approach to achieving more relevance is to conduct research using appropriate research methods that balance the interests of both researchers and practitioners. This chapter examines the similarities between two methods that address this mandate by adopting a proactive stance to investigating information systems in organizations. These two approaches, action research and design research, both directly intervene in “real-world” domains and effect changes in these domains. We investigate these similarities by examining exemplars of each type of research according to the criteria of the other. Our analysis reveals int…
Las raíces del 'Brexit': institucionalización del euroescepticismo
2021
El Reino Unido votó abandonar la Unión Europea el 23 de junio de 2016, con un 51,9% de votos. Fue una decisión que sorprendió a todo el mundo, pese a que un análisis de la relación entre ambos actores puede denotar cierta ajenidad en el comportamiento del Estado británico respecto al organismo supranacional. Es por esto por lo que la tesis del presente estudio va a ser que la campaña del Leave basó sus argumentos en cuestiones identitarias y emocionales, para lo que reprodujeron las tradiciones históricas de la relación entre el Reino Unido y la Unión Europea. Para defenderla, se analizarán las razones esgrimidas en la campaña del Referéndum del 2016, a fin de buscar una explicación del fra…
Multi-Skill Call Center as a Grading from “Old” Telephony
2009
We explore parallels between the older telephony switches and the multi-skill call centers. The numerical results have shown that a call center with equally distributed skills is preferable compared to traditional grading-type design. The annex contains a short version of mathematical proof on limited availability schemes design for small call flow intensity *** and for large *** . The proof explores one excellent V. Benes' paper (from Bell Labs). On its own merit, the annex could initiate new mathematical research in call center area, more by now the powerful software for numerical analysis is available. Main conclusion is the following: numerical analysis of simple multi-skill call center…
Tésera celtibérica con “lobo cenital” procedente de Burgos
2018
Se presenta aquí una nueva tésera de hospitalidad celtibérica de bronce en forma de lobo en perspectiva cenital. No se sabe con seguridad el lugar de hallazgo de la pieza, pero parece proceder de la provincia de Burgos, lo que parece confirmar su análisis estilístico. Aunque la autenticidad del documento es, por tanto, problemática, sin duda la pieza merece al menos ser objeto del conocimiento por parte de la comunidad científica en razón de su texto celtibérico, useitio : magoniocum : car, y su sugerente iconografía, que pudiera relacionarse con un mito celta del final del mundo, conocido como el mito del “Lobo que devora al Sol” documentado en diversas monedas celtas y en la mitología ge…
Władysław Stanisław Reymont i Maksym Gorki w perspektywie biograficznej
2016
This paper is an attempt to present the numerous analogies in Władysław Stanisław Reymont‘s and Maxim Gorky‘s outlook on life. It seems that the affinity is partially determined by the coincident biographies of both writers. In literary studies thematic parallels in the writers‘ prose works are frequently mentioned. The paper constitutes a continuation thereof, presenting the problems from a biographical perspective. The paper dedicated to the Polish-Russian literary relations at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries belongs to the area of comparative studies.