22 research outputs found

    Relația dintre misiune și eclesiologie în viziunea Pr. Prof. Ion Bria

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    Scopul propus prin această cercetare este subliniat în mod direct de către titlul lucrării. Teologia Pr. Prof. Ion Bria conține poziții eclesiologice și misionare sau misiologice. În acest sens, mi-am propus să analizez relația sau raportul dintre misiune și eclesiologie, cu scopul de a înțelege dimensiunea misionară a Bisericii Ortodoxe. Prezenta teză se află în aria de cercetare a domeniului Teologie, specializarea Misiologie și Ecumenism. În mod evident, cercetarea va implica și elemente de eclesiologie, hristologie și pnevmatologie, care aparțin de specializarea Teologie Dogmatică. Premisa de cercetare are în vedere poziția oficială a Bisericii Ortodoxe care consideră că misiunea este parte integrantă a eclesiologiei. Din această perspectivă, există o unitate indisolubilă între misiune și eclesiologie, într-atât de mult încât din poziția teologilor dogmatiști separarea pentru analiză a celor două dimensiuni prezintă anumite riscuri. Din perspectivă misiologică, tema nu este una nouă, însă rămâne de actualitate. Dacă din punct de vedere protestant nu există Biserică fără misiune, din perspectivă ortodoxă nu există misiune fără Biserică. Pornind de la această permisă a teologiei ortodoxe, teza fundamentală pe care o voi demonstra în această lucrare este aceasta că în viziunea Pr. Prof. Ion Bria relația dintre misiune și eclesiologie este definită de conceptul liturghie după Liturghie. În consecință, acesta nu este un concept misionar, ci unul eclesiologic-misionar par excellence, exprimând cât se poate de clar că există o unitate între eclesiologie și misiune. Altfel spus, obiectivul principal al acestei lucrări este să demonstrăm că sintagma liturghie după Liturghie este un concept eclesiologic-misionar, care definește relația dintre misiune și eclesiologie în viziunea Pr. Prof. Ion Bria. Pentru atingerea acestui obiectiv principal, vom avea nevoie de câteva obiective secundare și anume: a) prezentarea activității și itinerariului misionar-ecumenic al Pr. Ion Bria; b) analiza critică a ideilor eclesiologice ale Pr. Ion Bria și a deschiderii sale ecumenice; c) clarificarea paternității sintagmei liturghie după Liturghie; d) definirea teologică a sintagmei liturghie după Liturghie și a legăturii dintre misiune și eclesiologie prin prisma acestui concept; e) receptarea sintagmei liturghie după Liturghie în diferite documente, consultații și în lucrările diferiților teologi. Pentru îndeplinirea obiectivului principal, dar și a celor secundare, planul lucrării va cuprinde trei capitole și anume: Itinerariul misionar, activitatea ecumenică și opera scrisă ale Pr. Prof. Dr. Ion Bria (capitolul 1); Eclesiologia Pr. Prof. Dr. Ion Bria și valoarea ei ecumenică (capitolul 2) și Concepția eclesiologic-misionară a Pr. Prof. Dr. Ion Bria: liturghie după Liturghie (capitolul 3). În mod evident, fiecare capitol va avea subcapitolele aferente, în funcție de specificul temelor abordate

    The Impact of Digital Technologies on Public Health in Developed and Developing Countries

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    This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval, ICOST 2020, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2020.* The 17 full papers and 23 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover topics such as: IoT and AI solutions for e-health; biomedical and health informatics; behavior and activity monitoring; behavior and activity monitoring; and wellbeing technology. *This conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic

    Troublemakers in the streets? A framing analysis of newspaper coverage of protest in the UK 1992-2017

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    The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to a more systematic understanding of how mainstream news media in liberal democracies report about protests. Existing research indicates that when mainstream news media report about demonstrations, protesters often face delegitimising coverage. This phenomenon, known as the “(journalistic) protest paradigm”, is thought to be a default mindset that leads journalists to emphasize the method of protesters over their message — restricting the impact of one of few tools citizens have to raise important issues. More recent studies, however, suggest a more mixed picture, indicating both that the protest paradigm is used more conditionally than previously thought and that there have been overall changes in protest reporting in recent decades. There are limitations to the existing literature, however. The scope of studies has been rather narrow, focusing only on single, often radical, protest events or scrutinize the coverage surrounding a specific issue or movement. Furthermore, there are limitations to the theoretical foundation of the protest paradigm. Consequently, operationalisation of the paradigm and the way results have been interpreted differ substantially across studies, which has even led to contradicting findings regarding one protest event in the past. The thesis uses a novel dataset of all articles published in eight national UK newspapers between 1992 and 2017 about domestic protests and demonstrations (N = 27, 496). To analyse coverage in this large corpus, I use an innovative approach to framing analysis that combines best-practice manual coding techniques with supervised machine learning. Using this approach provides a strong methodological and theoretical foundation for the analysis of protest coverage: the operationalisation of frames is more explicit than in existing studies of the protest paradigm and frames are found inductively from the data, rather than being derived from decades old theory. The analysis shows that a stable majority of articles uses frames linked to the protest paradigm throughout the time frame. At the same time, a substantial and growing number of articles employ legitimising frames — either on their own or co-existing with delegitimising framing. Specifically, I find seven distinct frames: four that follow the delegitimising patterns of the protest paradigm, two frames that legitimise protests and their message and one that is neutral. The results show that patterns of reporting about protest are not static and that the circumstances and features of protest events shape their coverage. Specifically, I find four main determinants for the use of the different media frames: (1.) violent protests get more delegitimising coverage, and less legitimising coverage; (2.) the goal of a protest matters for the kind of reporting it receives, yet relationships between frames and goals are complex and goals overall matter more for legitimising frames; (3.) protests receive less legitimising coverage from tabloid newspapers than from broadsheet outlets and one of the legitimising frames is used less often by right-wing media — which means that differences between outlet categories exist but are less pronounced than expected; and (4.) reports published more recently and longer after the start of an event have a higher chance of containing legitimising framing. Overall, the thesis adds to existing knowledge on how the media frames protest over time and provides insights into the conditional logic with which journalists use different frames. Moreover, it develops a new approach to framing analysis combining manual and automated content analysis

    After Conversion

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    This book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most specially with the relationship between origins and faith. It also deals with the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and on the production of knowledge and addresses questions such as dissimulation, dissidence, religious doubt and unbelief

    Improving Access and Mental Health for Youth Through Virtual Models of Care

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    The overall objective of this research is to evaluate the use of a mobile health smartphone application (app) to improve the mental health of youth between the ages of 14–25 years, with symptoms of anxiety/depression. This project includes 115 youth who are accessing outpatient mental health services at one of three hospitals and two community agencies. The youth and care providers are using eHealth technology to enhance care. The technology uses mobile questionnaires to help promote self-assessment and track changes to support the plan of care. The technology also allows secure virtual treatment visits that youth can participate in through mobile devices. This longitudinal study uses participatory action research with mixed methods. The majority of participants identified themselves as Caucasian (66.9%). Expectedly, the demographics revealed that Anxiety Disorders and Mood Disorders were highly prevalent within the sample (71.9% and 67.5% respectively). Findings from the qualitative summary established that both staff and youth found the software and platform beneficial

    Tracing Authoritarian Learning in Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine

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    The thesis addresses how authoritarian regimes remain in power, and the processes of learning they engage in, using the case studies of Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. I investigate six propositions, arguing that firstly, authoritarian learning differs from democratic learning because authoritarian regimes are concerned principally with survival and so learn best practices to ensure that they possess a full palette of survival practices. Secondly, there is a flattened learning hierarchy or network between authoritarian regimes. Thirdly, internal networks are important for learning among authoritarian regimes. Fourthly, success and failure are equally important for authoritarian learning. Fifthly, internal examples are as relevant to authoritarian learning as external examples. Sixthly, authoritarian regimes use a full palette of survival practices than just relying on repression. Therefore, authoritarian regimes are more likely to be concerned than democratic regimes about survivial, and so they develop a full palette of survival practices. The thesis argues that learning hierarchies are flattened. Success and failure are as important to authoritarian learning as each other, with authoritarian regimes drawing on both successful and failed examples. Similarly, internal sources of learning are as relevant to understanding authoritarian learning as external examples. Lastly, authoritarian regimes have a full palette of survival strategies than just relying on repression. Analysis of the four cases studies helps better understand how authoritarian regimes learn to retain control. Often learning comes from internal sources and this is particularly the case in Moldova and Ukraine. By analysing authoritarian learning in detail I expand existing literature and increase understanding of how authoritarian regimes survive

    The art of streamflow forecasting over Europe

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    While floods are among the most damaging natural hazards, they have helped shape human developments over the last millennia, fostering scientific understanding and technological advances in an attempt for their mitigation. We now more skilfully predict floods at increasing lead times, through probabilistic hydro-meteorological forecasting. But we are now facing new challenges. Have we reached the limits of predictability with seasonal streamflow forecasting? This thesis contributed to the implementation and design of operational seasonal streamflow outlooks, as part of the European and the Global Flood Awareness Systems. Openly available, they give users an overview of potential streamflow changes on sub-seasonal to seasonal timescales. The analysis of both systems highlighted current limits in seasonal predictability and the importance of initial hydrological conditions and the land surface memory. To tackle these limits of predictability, a sensitivity analysis was developed to guide developments for tangible future seasonal streamflow forecast improvements. Are technical and scientific advances increasing faster than the rate at which forecasts are usable for decision-making? As shown by the application of serious games and research interviews at the Environment Agency (to guide a successful transition to probabilistic forecasts for flood early warning in England), science (e.g. forecast skill) is not necessarily a limiting factor for decision-making. Improved communication between scientists and decision-makers, aimed for instance at understanding the complex landscape in which decision-makers operate, is key to a successful adoption of the latest science in practice. Art can help bridge the communication gap, and this thesis culminated in an art exhibition, ‘Gambling with floods?’, at The Museum of English Rural Life (Reading, UK) from 1 to 15 November 2019, created to reach a wide audience. Overall, this thesis has shown that a closer interaction between decision-makers, scientists and artists is urgently needed for a co-leadership on improving science for society

    Identity, tradition and fashion-able challenges

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    Tese de Doutoramento em Design, com a especialização em Design apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Doutora.Situada no cruzamento disciplinar do design, sustentabilidade, história, antropologia, estudos de cultura material, da moda e do vestir, esta tese confirma que a capulana é mais que um mero pano rectangular estampado industrialmente. É a indumentária nacional através da qual as Moçambicanas preservam e, ao mesmo tempo, atualizam as suas tradições e o seu sentido de pertença, a sua Moçambicanidade. O presente estudo parte duma pesquisa teórica aplicada sobre este pano, e é dividido em três fases cronológicas distintas. O passado, revelando a história da capulana para compreender a sua evolução no contexto das rotas comerciais do Índico. O presente, coolhunting, incluindo trabalho de campo e pesquisa de mercado em Maputo, situa a análise sobre a produção e o consumo da capulana. E o futuro, onde a capulana fashion-able é retratada na sua expressividade cultural e como instrumento passível de práticas de Design para a Sustentabilidade (D4S); esta última parte foi essencialmente realizada na grande Lisboa. Esta análise conclui que em Maputo, o status quo do pano tradicional é reiterado diariamente pela combinação de novas formas de vestir e pensar a capulana num diálogo constante com a roupa “estrangeira”, produzindo estilos e modas outros. Uma prática de vestir que aqui se defende como fashion-ability ou a habilidade de fazer moda. Sempre permeável, versátil e adaptável, a capulana é objeto do que se intitula nesta tese uma “tradição dinâmica”. Uma tradição sólida, porém, não estática. Ao longo dos tempos a capulana tem-se ajustado às influências quotidianas e ocasionais, dinâmica e permanentemente. Até à data, seja no seu contexto original seja no da diáspora, o pano é utilizado tanto na sua forma cortada como por inteiro. Contudo, hoje em dia, a “amarração” do pano é vista pelas novas gerações como antiquada, enquanto a sua forma cortada oferece maior e melhor resposta às exigências de se “ser moderno”. Esta pesquisa D4S, contemplou vários problemas socioculturais observados tanto em Maputo como em Lisboa. Sejam: as frágeis cadeias de design e produção; o papel dos alfaiates, as suas condições de educação (informal) e empregabilidade; como a tendência das jovens designers de moda para uma capulana cortada que abandona a tradicional forma de vestir o pano drapeado, enrolado e amarrado em torno do corpo. Neste contexto, o presente estudo tem como principal objetivo encontrar metodologias D4S para capturar - tanto funcional quanto simbolicamente - a dinâmica da tradição da capulana e desenvolver ações que, a partir do conceito fashion-able e através do (re) uso criativo da capulana, fortaleçam a identidade e sustentabilidade cultural da Diáspora em Lisboa. Ao identificarem-se os alfaiates Africanos e as jovens designers de moda Africanas como principais mediadores que transformam, traduzem, distorcem e modificam a significância do pano, pergunta-se: (1) como pode a moda quotidiana baseada na tradição de capulana contribuir para reforçar processos de identidade e a sustentabilidade cultural na diáspora? (2) como pode ser reforçado o papel do alfaiate Africano tanto em Maputo, como em Lisboa? (3) como pode o ofício de alfaiate ser reapropriado por um sistema de educação formal que atualiza os conhecimentos e habilidades dos alfaiates Africanos em Lisboa? E, finalmente (4) como pode o modo tradicional de vestir a capulana – como um rectângulo de tecido – ser atualizado de forma a reintroduzi-lo no sartório contemporâneo Africano? Com base numa metodologia teórico-prática combina-se uma análise histórica com uma pesquisa-ação-participativa para melhor contextualizar e mapear diferentes práticas atuais de vestir capulana e para desenvolver, posteriormente, em Lisboa dois laboratórios criativos: EPAT e Capulanar. Aqui, reconhecem-se os conceitos Co-design, Slow-fashion e Afetividade como conceitos culturais da capulana, para assim confirmar que as novas expressões criativas situadas em torno da fashion-ability do tecido tradicional podem ser a chave para a sustentabilidade do próprio pano. Contribuindo para um espaço de reflexão sobre as metodologias D4S, identidade, tradição e práticas fashion-able, esta tese conclui que o Conhecimento Cultural é uma das dimensões que consolidam estes quatro conceitos. Em paralelo permite repensar a ability do pano cujos resultados espelham a identidade africana e contribuem para uma mais eficaz sustentabilidade cultural das próprias comunidades envolvidas. Este trabalho procurou, em suma, alcançar o impacto positivo onde a moda, o design, a criatividade, a inovação e a sustentabilidade podem coexistir.ABSTRACT: The present study focuses on the role Design for Sustainability (D4S) methodologies play in defining fashion-able practices based on capulana’s “moving tradition” to reinforce identity processes and cultural sustainability in Lisbon’s diaspora context. Situated at the disciplinary intersections of design, sustainability, anthropology, material cultural studies, history, fashion and dress studies, this D4S approach takes on two creative and pedagogical practical applications, which simultaneously uses creative collaboration as a methodological strategy and Cultural knowledge as a tool to Co-design products that embody Affectivity and, for that matter, are driven towards Slow-fashion. Both theoretical and practical, this approach combines historical analysis with participatory action research to further contextualize and map out the complexities of capulana’s dress practices performed by African tailors and emergent African women fashion designers in Maputo and Lisbon. With the underlying questions: (1) How can tailoring be re-appropriated by a ‘formal’ education system upgrading the knowledge and skills of African tailors in Lisbon? (2) How can the traditional way of wearing capulana – as a rectangle of fabric – be updated in order to reintroduce it in contemporary African sartorial? Contributing to a space for inquiry on identity, tradition and fashion-ability, this thesis finally concludes that if we use Cultural Knowledge from the main agents in capulana’s innovation, we may be able to re-think the potential sustainability behind these practices and also propose results that can mirror the affirmation of African identity. Capulana‘s Slow-fashion, Co-design and Affectivity, as core cultural concepts, are therefore essential guidelines to develop sustainable solutions around both the re-usage of the cloth – in its, more or less, traditional (un)cut forms – and the fragile chains of design, production and consumption, especially by younger generations of consumers. Hence, this work looks forward to achieve the kind of positive impact where fashion, design, creativity, innovation and sustainability can co-exist.N/

    Overview of ImageCLEF 2018: Challenges, Datasets and Evaluation

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    This paper presents an overview of the ImageCLEF 2018 evaluation campaign, an event that was organized as part of the CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) Labs 2018. ImageCLEF is an ongoing initiative (it started in 2003) that promotes the evaluation of technologies for annotation, indexing and retrieval with the aim of providing information access to collections of images in various usage scenarios and domains. In 2018, the 16th edition of ImageCLEF ran three main tasks and a pilot task: (1) a caption prediction task that aims at predicting the caption of a figure from the biomedical literature based only on the figure image; (2) a tuberculosis task that aims at detecting the tuberculosis type, severity and drug resistance from CT (Computed Tomography) volumes of the lung; (3) a LifeLog task (videos, images and other sources) about daily activities understanding and moment retrieval, and (4) a pilot task on visual question answering where systems are tasked with answering medical questions. The strong participation, with over 100 research groups registering and 31 submitting results for the tasks, shows an increasing interest in this benchmarking campaign
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