3,276 research outputs found
Religion, Education, and the âEastâ. Addressing Orientalism and Interculturality in Religious Education Through Japanese and East Asian Religions
This work addresses the theme of Japanese religions in order to rethink theories and practices pertaining to the field of Religious Education. Through an interdisciplinary framework that combines the study of religions, didactics and intercultural education, this book puts the case study of Religious Education in England in front of two âchallengesâ in order to reveal hidden spots, tackle unquestioned assumptions and highlight problematic areas. These âchallengesâ, while focusing primarily on Japanese religions, are addressed within the wider contexts of other East Asian traditions and of the modern historical exchanges with the Euro-American societies. As result, a model for teaching Japanese and other East Asian religions is discussed and proposed in order to fruitfully engage issues such as orientalism, occidentalism, interculturality and critical thinking
Cyberbullying in educational context
Kustenmacher and Seiwert (2004) explain a manâs inclination to resort to technology in his interaction with the environment and society. Thus, the solution to the negative consequences of Cyberbullying in a technologically dominated society is represented by technology as part of the technological paradox (Tugui, 2009), in which man has a dual role, both slave and master, in the interaction with it. In this respect, it is noted that, notably after 2010, there have been many attempts to involve artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize, identify, limit or avoid the manifestation of aggressive behaviours of the CBB type. For an overview of the use of artificial intelligence in solving various problems related to CBB, we extracted works from the Scopus database that respond to the criterion of the existence of the words âcyberbullyingâ and âartificial intelligenceâ in the Title, Keywords and Abstract. These articles were the subject of the content analysis of the title and, subsequently, only those that are identified as a solution in the process of recognizing, identifying, limiting or avoiding the manifestation of CBB were kept in the following Table where we have these data synthesized and organized by years
Investor sentiment and statistical moments of the return distribution in the German stock market. A three stage empirical analysis.
This dissertation contributes to an increasing body of literature through a holistic perspective in research and model development to investigate the relationships between investor sentiment and the lower- and higher-order statistics of the return distribution in the German stock market utilizing the market-wide CDAX stock index as an exemplary sample.
Since empirical studies on investor sentiment are conducted mainly with USmarket-based data, comparatively few academic contributions are made to the German investor sentiment literature. Moreover, previous findings for other countries cannot necessarily be generalized to Germany, especially as Germany appears to be mainly influenced by global trends and investor sentiments owing to its high dependence on foreign trade.
Consequently, the empirical evidence for Germany in this research domain, which includes both cross-sectional and longitudinal perspectives, is sparse. As various approaches exist to measure and assess the links between investor sentiment and capital market movements, a proprietarily defined investor sentiment categorization system is established, in which each investor sentiment indicator is assigned. This dissertation's underlying investor sentiment sample consists of all three categories of the dedicated categorization system for investor sentiment indicators and covers up to 20 years to 2021.
With regard to the thesis structure, a comprehensive overview of the literature and current research on market efficiency and investor sentiment is initially elaborated before the applied methodology and the evaluation results are analyzed. Of particular note is the three-stage empirical analysis conducted in this thesis: First, a principal component analysis-based investor sentiment risk factor is established to improve model performance in traditional cross-sectional multifactor models as measured by the corrected coefficient of determination and additional metrics.
Second, the application of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) artificial recurrent neural network architecture models to account for time-varying investor sentiment risk premia explaining and predicting the return distribution's lower- and higherorder statistics leads to notable findings.
A performant model for the German stock market results from fitting a deep neural network fed with 73 sentiment indicators without dimension reduction and performing out-of-sample tests.
Third, an insightful exploratory Twitter study of social investor sentiment in the German stock market in times of COVID-19-induced market turmoil is elaborated. The study investigates the impact of incorporating unstructured data into investor sentiment analysis to improve discriminatory power and predictive accuracy and employs elaborate processing techniques. The exploratory study is based on a unique hand-curated dataset of almost two million tweets on the German stock market, exclusively collected for this study. In this context, the importance of investor sentiment in social media for volatility in the German stock market is investigated and highlighted.
As a result, all three empirical studies address many vital matters, although new challenges worthy of investigation are as well raised and discussed in the final part of the thesis.AdministraciĂłn y DirecciĂłn de Empresa
The psychologisation of natal astrology in the twentieth century
This thesis discusses the idea that natal astrology was psychologised in the twentieth century through an examination of âpsychological astrologyâ. It is the first in-depth exploration of psychologisation in the English-speaking world through textual analysis of astrology books. It takes as a starting point the argument from Wouter Hanegraaff that magic survived the disenchantment of the world due to a process of psychologisation, which broadly means that magic has adapted along psychological
lines to become a different sort of magic to that previously found before the period characterised by disenchantment. The main reason for this adaptation is to acquire legitimisation from a subject, psychology, deemed to be scientific and acceptable in the modern world. The thesis asks whether the issues raised by Hanegraaffâs psychologisation thesis, and wider ideas on psychologisation, apply to the natal
astrology of the twentieth century, focusing on the form known as psychological astrology.
The question is tackled through textual analysis of the works of the three major astrologers identified by existing scholarship as having contributed to the twentieth
century development of psychological astrology: Alan Leo (1860-1917), Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) and Liz Greene (1946- ). Significant consideration is also given to the major
psychological influence on Rudhyar and Greene: the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961).
Wider definitions of psychologisation considered include Christopher Plaisanceâs extension of Hanegraaffâs work through his four-fold typology of psychologisation as
applying to esoteric discourse.
In exploring conceptions of psychologisation and modernity as presented within the works of the key psychological astrologers, the thesis demonstrates that the label of
psychologisation may be partly applied to psychological astrology. However, this form of astrology does not represent a fully adapted, disenchanted form seeking
legitimisation but is an adaptation for modern people for philosophical reasons and principally to maximise the use of astrology to enhance free-will and psychological
development. In doing so it can be characterised as more enchanted than disenchanted
Mainstreaming of Nature-Based Solutions for the mitigation of hydro-meteorological hazard: governance analysis of a socio- technical change
The Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) concept and approach were developed to simultaneously face challenges such as risk mitigation and biodiversity conservation and restoration. NBSs have been endorsed by major International Organizations such as the EU, the FAO and World Bank that are pushing to enable a mainstreaming process. However, a shift from traditional engineering âgreyâ solutions to wider and standard adoption of NBS encounters technical, social, cultural, and normative barriers that have been identified with a qualitative content analysis of policy documents, reports and expert interviews. The case of the region Emilia-Romagna was studied by developing an analytical framework that brought together the social-ecological context, the governance system and the characteristics of specific NBSs
LIPIcs, Volume 274, ESA 2023, Complete Volume
LIPIcs, Volume 274, ESA 2023, Complete Volum
Federalism and the âLaw of Diversityâ: A new theoretical approach to diversity management
This study aims to provide a general overview of the trends related to the accommodation of diversity within the constitutional tradition. Based on these observations, some theoretical considerations in support of the introduction of a renovated conceptual framework will be offered. The analysis attempts to provide a global perspective on this issue, by taking into account the most innovative traditions and legal instruments of the Global North and Global South. As a result, it will become apparent that this field of study, traditionally dominated by a Global North approach based on majority-minority and rights-based discourse, is undergoing significant evolutions. In the Global North, legal sources at both domestic and international levels show signs of an emerging approach that understands and legally addresses diversity as a general phenomenon, the management of which requires the dynamic and proportionate employment of a wide set of legal instruments, regardless of the recipientsâ differential condition and legal status. Alongside non-discrimination â a basic and essential guarantee for every individual â and minority and indigenous peoplesâ rights, other legal approaches and tools are emerging. Along with international developments and their various implementations, further and âless orthodoxâ forms of accommodation have emerged in the Global North. The latter are meant to accommodate diversity beyond non-discrimination, and diverge, to different degrees, from the traditional structure of minority and indigenous rights â primarily focussing on governance rather than rights. As concerns the Global South, two regions of the world will specifically be addressed, namely, South America and Southeast Asia. They are thought to reflect comprehensive constitutional traditions that complement the mainstream liberal-democratic approach to constitutionalism and diversity accommodation through the introduction of innovative constitutional concepts and approaches. The description of the innovative perspectives related to diversity accommodation in the Global North and Global South â which will underscore the changes this area of law is experiencing â will represent the first step of the study. A more analytical and theoretical part will then follow. The second part of the work will be devoted to assessing the appropriateness of the existing âmainstreamâ theoretical tools and concepts â in particular minority and minority-related concepts as well as rights discourse â to grasp the ongoing evolution of this field of law. A reconsideration of the traditional conceptual categories and the introduction of the expression âLaw of Diversityâ will be proposed as a theoretical framework to grasp the ongoing developments in this area. The expression âLaw of Diversityâ will be advanced to comprehensively describe the wealth of legal instruments that are sensitive to the numerous differential elements of human beings (also referred to as models for the accommodation of diversity) originating from various constitutional approaches, departing from the mainstream theoretical framing. Among the models studied in this work, those emerging in the Global North appear to be the most in need of theoretical recognition, validation and explanation. To this end, in chapter 6, it will be argued that the theory of federalism may serve a rather unexplored theoretical (or, as will be defined, meta-theoretical) function. It will therefore be argued that federal theory may be a very useful theoretical instrument to frame, explain and provide emergent instruments for the accommodation of diversity, as well as practical solutions for their development
Social and structural aspects of language contact and change
This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others investigate the specific processes of contact-induced change that were involved in the emergence and development of these languages. A third set of papers look at how new datasets and greater sensitivity to social issues can help to (re)assess persistent theoretical and empirical questions as well as help to open up new avenues of research. In particular they highlight the heterogeneity of contemporary language practices and attitudes often obscured in sociolinguistic research. The contributions all focus on language variation and change but investigate it from a variety of disciplinary and empirical perspectives and cover a range of linguistic contexts
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