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THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AS AN END OR AS A MEANS AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM: AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEWPOINT
After the demise of ârealâ socialism and the decline of âwesternâ socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social preference system oriented towards equality and social justice, to be implemented without systemic constraints in the organizational and institutional sense. At the same time there is a case for maintaining an institutional framework allowing different forms of economic organization, capitalist and non- capitalist, to compete on equal footing, in an evolutionary perspective, thus allowing the second to develop if proven efficient. Another way for a spontaneous extension of the domain of socialism could derive from the socialization of consumption, if the consumption of public goods continues to make up a growing component of real consumption.socialism, capitalism, third sector, socialization of consumption
Transient Analysis for Music and Moving Images: Consideration for Television Advertising
In audiovisual composition, coupling montage moving images with music is common practice. Interpretation of the effect on an audioviewer's consequent interpretation of the composition is discursive and unquantified. Meth-odology for evaluating the audiovisual multimodal inter-activity is proposed, developing an analysis procedure via the study of modality interdependent transient structures, explained as forming the foundation of perception via the concept of Basic Exposure response to the stimulus. The research has implications for analysis of all audiovisual media, with practical implications in television advertis-ing as a discrete typology of target driven audiovisual presentation. Examples from contemporary advertising are used to explore typical transient interaction patterns and the consequences of which are discussed from the practical viewpoint of the audiovisual composer
In the Battle for Reality: Social Documentaries in the U.S.
Provides an overview of documentaries that address social justice and democracy issues, and includes case studies of successful strategic uses of social documentaries
School Naming Rights and the First Amendmentâs Perfect Storm
In the past five years, public schools across the country have begun to explore a new avenue of fundraising: selling naming rights to school facilities. The popularity and monetary value of these sales, however, only highlight the importance of the First Amendment concerns they raise. This Article uses school naming rights as a lens through which to examine the conflicts between government speech, commercial speech, and forum analysis, three categories of First Amendment analysis that are simultaneously and problematically implicated by school naming rights sales. Courts and scholars have long noted the internal ambiguities within these three categories, but have not yet explored the sometimes irreconcilable conflicts among them. As the growth of school naming rights shows, government sponsorship arrangements collapse many of the artificial divisions between the First Amendmentâs categories and demonstrate the need for a better understanding of the categoriesâ interactions. This Article identifiesâand attempts to resolveâsome of the border disputes between these poorly defined and increasingly important areas of First Amendment law
Pupillometric measurement of operator workload
Pupillometry as a method of measuring workload is described. Pupillometric measures provide an indication of momentary fluctuations in central nervous system excitability that occur as cognitive operations are performed; the magnitude of these changes may serve as a sensitive indicator of the workload imposed by cognitive tasks
School Naming Rights and the First Amendmentâs Perfect Storm
In the past five years, public schools across the country have begun to explore a new avenue of fundraising: selling naming rights to school facilities. The popularity and monetary value of these sales, however, only highlight the importance of the First Amendment concerns they raise. This Article uses school naming rights as a lens through which to examine the conflicts between government speech, commercial speech, and forum analysis, three categories of First Amendment analysis that are simultaneously and problematically implicated by school naming rights sales. Courts and scholars have long noted the internal ambiguities within these three categories, but have not yet explored the sometimes irreconcilable conflicts among them. As the growth of school naming rights shows, government sponsorship arrangements collapse many of the artificial divisions between the First Amendmentâs categories and demonstrate the need for a better understanding of the categoriesâ interactions. This Article identifiesâand attempts to resolveâsome of the border disputes between these poorly defined and increasingly important areas of First Amendment law
Modeling BDN framework in ArchiMate: benefits management of IS investments applied in the context of media and television industry digital transformation
O alinhamento entre os investimentos em Tecnologia da Informação (TI) e a definição ao dos objetivos de negĂłcios e recorrentemente referido na literatura como uma tarefa primordial com impacto direto no lucro da organização. A Arquitetura Corporativa (EA) desempenha um papel importante na descrição das dependĂȘncias entre um roteiro de migração ao de TI e as contra- partes de negĂłcios, portanto, facilitando as decisĂ”es das partes interessadas. No entanto, as evidencias mostram que um nĂșmero significativo de projetos de TI nĂŁo consegue entregar os resultados desejados. Normalmente, as causas do fracasso incluem (i) a predominĂąncia de abordagens de gestĂŁo financeira de caixa preta que oferecem indicadores fracos, empheg, retorno sobre o investimento ou redução de custos, e (ii) nĂŁo identificar os benefĂcios de negĂłcios reais fornecidos pelo valor que pode ser gerado por um investimento em TI. Este artigo usa ArchiMate para propor um modelo para entender, projetar e gerenciar os benefĂcios do negocio. ArchiMate permite, entre outros, modelar camadas de negĂłcios, aplicativos, tecnologia ou estratĂ©gia e agora Ă© estendido com benefĂcios de negĂłcios. Especificamente, Ă© apresentado um ponto de vista da ArchiMate baseado no modelo Benefit Dependence Network (BDN). O objetivo dessa visĂŁo Ă© apoiar os stakeholders que estĂŁo ao gerenciando os benefĂcios a serem alcançados por um investimento em TI. A solução conceitual e discutida e demonstrada no contexto do caso de uso da industria de televisĂŁo ao e vĂdeo de mĂdia. Posteriormente, as deficiĂȘncias ontolĂłgicas desse modelo s ÂŽ ao discutidas utilizando o mĂ©todo Wand Weber e por meio de entrevistas com especialistas.The alignment between Information Technologies (IT) investments and business objectives definition is recurrently referred in the literature as a paramount task owning a direct impact on the
organizationâs profit. Enterprise Architecture (EA) plays an important role in describing the dependencies between an IT migration roadmap and business counterparts, therefore, facilitating
the stakeholderâs decisions. However, evidence shows that a significant number of IT projects
fail to deliver the desired outcomes. Usually, the failure causes are (i) the dominance of blackbox financial management approaches offering poor indicators, e.g., return-on-investment or
cost reduction, and (ii) not identifying the real business benefits provided by the value that can
be generated by an IT investment. This paper uses ArchiMate to propose a model to understand, design, and manage the business benefits. ArchiMate enables, among others, to model
business, application, technology, or strategy layers and is now extended with business benefits. In specific, an ArchiMate viewpoint based on the Benefits Dependency Network (BDN)
model is presented. The purpose of this viewpoint is to support the stakeholders that are managing the benefits to be achieved by an IT investment. The conceptual solution is argued and
demonstrated in the context of the media video and television industry use case. Afterward,
the ontological deficiencies of this model are discussed using the Wand Weber method and
through interviews with experts
THE RULE OF SĂNDOR PETĆFI IN THE MEMORY POLICY OF HUNGARIANS, SLOVAKS AND THE MEMBERS OF THE HUNGARIAN MINORITY GROUP IN SLOVAKIA IN THE LAST 150 YEARS
SĂĄndor PetĆfi was the greatest poet of the Hungarian romantic literature, but aft er his participation in the events of the Hungarian revolution of 1848 he became the legendary fi gure of the national liberty and republicanism. PetĆfi âs mysterious disappearance aft er the batt le of SegesvĂĄr further confi rmed the importance of his personal heroism and at the end of the 19th Century PetĆfi became an emblematic fi gure of the national freedom and independence not just in Hungary, but in Europe too.PetĆfi âs cult was signifi cant in the period between the two world wars too, mainly at the time of hundredth anniversary of his birth. A memorial banknote was issued on this occasion and were staged a national commemoration in 1925.In the communist era PetĆfi was the idol of the radical revolutionary republicans, who fought against the members of the oppressive ruling classes. His glorious and heroic image became one of the fi gures of the Hungarian communist pantheon. But also the anti-dictatorship young intellectuals viewed PetĆfi as a role model and founded PetĆfi Circle prepared for the events of the revolution of 1956.Until the end of the seventies PetĆfi became again the emblematic historical hero of the antiregime democratic opposition movement. Th e square at PetĆfi statue was the scene of many demonstrations. Th is square was also the favorite commemoration place also of the Hungarianliberal political party aft er the Hungarian political transition in the last decade of 20th Century
Learning to Look Around: Intelligently Exploring Unseen Environments for Unknown Tasks
It is common to implicitly assume access to intelligently captured inputs
(e.g., photos from a human photographer), yet autonomously capturing good
observations is itself a major challenge. We address the problem of learning to
look around: if a visual agent has the ability to voluntarily acquire new views
to observe its environment, how can it learn efficient exploratory behaviors to
acquire informative observations? We propose a reinforcement learning solution,
where the agent is rewarded for actions that reduce its uncertainty about the
unobserved portions of its environment. Based on this principle, we develop a
recurrent neural network-based approach to perform active completion of
panoramic natural scenes and 3D object shapes. Crucially, the learned policies
are not tied to any recognition task nor to the particular semantic content
seen during training. As a result, 1) the learned "look around" behavior is
relevant even for new tasks in unseen environments, and 2) training data
acquisition involves no manual labeling. Through tests in diverse settings, we
demonstrate that our approach learns useful generic policies that transfer to
new unseen tasks and environments. Completion episodes are shown at
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