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Contextualized Analysis of Movement Events
For understanding the circumstances, causes, and consequences of events that may happen during movement (e.g., harsh brake, sharp turn), it is necessary to analyze event context. The context includes dynamic attributes of the moving objects before and after the event and external context elements such as other moving objects, weather, terrain, etc. To explore events in context, we propose an analytical workflow including event contextualization, context pattern detection, and exploration of the spatio-temporal distribution of the detected patterns. The approach involves clustering of events based on the similarity of their contexts and interactive visual techniques for exploration of the distribution of the clusters in time, geographic space, and multidimensional attribute space. In close collaboration with domain experts, we apply our method to real-world vehicle trajectories with the purpose of identifying and investigating potentially dangerous driving behaviors
Being-in-the-world-with: Presence Meets Social And Cognitive Neuroscience
In this chapter we will discuss the concepts of âpresenceâ (Inner Presence) and âsocial presenceâ (Co-presence) within a cognitive and ecological perspective. Specifically, we claim that the concepts of âpresenceâ and âsocial presenceâ are the possible links between self, action, communication and culture. In the first section we will provide a capsule view of Heideggerâs work by examining the two main features of the Heideggerian concept of âbeingâ: spatiality and âbeing withâ. We argue that different visions from social and cognitive sciences â Situated Cognition, Embodied Cognition, Enactive Approach, Situated Simulation, Covert Imitation - and discoveries from neuroscience â Mirror and Canonical Neurons - have many contact points with this view. In particular, these data suggest that our conceptual system dynamically produces contextualized representations (simulations) that support grounded action in different situations. This is allowed by a common coding â the motor code â shared by perception, action and concepts. This common coding also allows the subject for natively recognizing actions done by other selves within the phenomenological contents. In this picture we argue that the role of presence and social presence is to allow the process of self-identification through the separation between âselfâ and âother,â and between âinternalâ and âexternalâ. Finally, implications of this position for communication and media studies are discussed by way of conclusion
Disillusionment with Chinese culture in the 1880s : Wang Tao\u27s Three classical tales
Leading scholars of modern Chinese literature have long discussed how the May Fourth became a hegemonic force and have sought to uncover the âburdens of May Fourthâ; that is, those discourses eclipsed by the May Fourth intellectuals as they promoted the goal of openness and pluralism in the New Culture Movement. They have discovered Chinese modernity in the Late Qing writings as early as the mid-nineteenth century, decades before the May Fourth movement. Particularly, some scholars have argued that features of modernity might have stemmed from indigenous genres or classical language. My study of how the West is portrayed in three classical tales written by the pioneering Late Qing thinker Wang Tao çé in the 1880s contributes to this discussion. These three classical tales, âBiography of Maryâ ćȘæąšć°ćł, âTravel Overseasâ æ”·ć€ćŁŻé, and âWonderland under the Seaâ æ”·ćșć„ćą, were first published as literary supplements in Dianshizhai Pictorial é»çłéœç«ć ± and later reprinted in Wang Taoâs story collection Songyin manlu æ·é±æŒ«é. They are notable because they represent the first tales in Chinese literary history to imagine Western cities and Western womenâas opposed to any other places or races or ethnicitiesâin a period when Chinese intellectuals had begun looking to the West for ways to modernize their nation.5 I argue that these three tales reveal signs of disillusionment with traditional Chinese culture surfacing as early as the 1880s, a time when most reformers were advocating solely for technological and institutional changes. Even more interesting, modern sentiments are expressed in classical Chinese. Wang Tao utilized the traditional narrative form of the classical tale to lament the degeneration of the very civilization in which it had flourished
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People centred eco-design: consumer adoption of low and zero carbon products and systems
Literature review, research model and findings of exploratory empirical research on consumer adoption and effective use of low and zero carbon technologies ranging from a hybrid car to solar water heating systems
Micro-strategies of Contextualization Cross-national Transfer of Socially Responsible Investment
This paper examines how individuals select and mobilize local institutions when they transfer business practices across societies that are construed as dissimilar to one another. We investigate empirically how the American business practice of socially responsible investment (SRI) was transferred to France and Quebec. Our analysis identifies five micro-strategies that were employed to contextualize SRI, namely filtering, rerouting, stowing, defusing, and coupling. This repertoire of micro-strategies extends previous research on contextualization, translation, and institutional transfers and links them to one another. They may also help explain why some transfers succeed while others fail.Contextualization; transfer; translation; institutional theory; socially responsible investment
Public consciousness, political conscience and memory in Latin American nueva canciĂłn
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