In How Many Days Will He Meet His Wife?

In how many days will he meet his wife? This is a question asked at the end of each of two problems embedded in the verses of the last chapter of the Vyavahāra-gaṇita (‘Mathematics of Transaction’) of Rājāditya of 12th century. He infuses elegance in those two problems by choosing the charming idea of a husband’s meeting with his wife after their quarrel. This paper not only presents the algorithms offered by Rājāditya to solve them on their own terms as well as on modern terms and discusses the historicity of the categories of those two problems but also provides an insight into why he posed them using those three terms, namely, the wife, the husband, and the quarrel between them

Researching Digital Entrepreneurship: Current Issues and Suggestions for Future Directions

This report documents the outcomes of a professional development workshop (PDW) held at the 40th International Conference on Information Systems in Munich, Germany. The workshop focused on identifying how information systems (IS) researchers can contribute to enriching our knowledge about digital entrepreneurship—that is, the point at which digital technologies and entrepreneurship intersect. The PDW assembled numerous IS researchers working on different aspects of digital entrepreneurship. Jointly, we delineated digital entrepreneurship from related phenomena and conceptualized the different roles that digital technologies can have in entrepreneurial endeavors. We also identified relevant strategies, opportunities, and challenges in conducting digital entrepreneurship research. This report summarizes the shared views that emerged from the interactions at the PDW and our collaborative effort to write this report. The report provides IS researchers interested in digital entrepreneurship with food for thought and a foundation for future research

Afterschool Matters Spring 2004

Perils and Promise: Afterschool Programs on School Territory By Joseph L. PolmanSituating community-based afterschool programs on school grounds has its risks, but there can be significant rewards as well. 10 pages. Leveraging Resources to Promote Positive School-CBO RelationshipsBy Christopher Wimer, Margaret Post, and Priscilla LittleAnalysis of the Harvard Family Research Project’s database of program evaluations suggests ways community-based afterschool programs can negotiate with schools to share financial, physical, social, and intellectual resources. 9 pages. Acts of Invention: The Afterschool Program as a Site for Building CommunityBy Kirsten ColeAn afterschool program struggles to foster kindness and civility among youngsters whose environment too often fails to promote such values. 6 pages. Civic Spaces: Retooling Public Libraries to Attract and Engage Teens after SchoolBy Lisa Wahl Moellman and Jodi Rosenbaum TillingerPublic libraries are uniquely poised to provide meaningful opportunities for teens to learn and grow outside of school—if they listen to what teens want and need. 9 pages. Youth-Adult Partnerships: A Powerful Force for Community ChangeBy Shuan ButcherA nationwide initiative involves youth and adults as equal partners in projects that improve community life. 7 pages. In Addition Afterschool Mathematics Program: Principles, Practice, and PitfallsBy Judith McVarish and Patricia BirkmeierAfterschool math learning goes beyond worksheets and drills to engage young people in exploring the math principles that surround them in their communities. 8 pages. Rites of Passage: Preparing Youth for Social ChangeBy Susan Wilcox, Khary Lazarre-White, and Jason WarwinA unique program empowers urban teenagers to define themselves as leaders who are committed to their community. 9 pages.https://repository.wellesley.edu/afterschoolmatters/1004/thumbnail.jp

Game Scoring: Towards a Broader Theory

“Game scoring,” that is, the act of composing music for and through gaming, is distinct from other types of scoring. To begin with, unlike other scoring activities, game scoring depends on — in fact, it arguably is — software programming. The game scorer’s choices are thus first-and-foremost limited by available gaming technology, and the “programmability” of their musical ideas given that technology, at any given historical moment. Moreover, game scores are unique in that they must allow for an unprecedented level of musical flexibility, given the high degree of user interactivity the video game medium enables and encourages. As such, game scoring necessarily constitutes an at least partially aleatoric compositional activity, the final score being determined as much through gameplay as traditional composition. This thesis demonstrates this through case studies of the Nintendo Entertainment System sound hardware configuration, and game scores, including the canonic score for Super Mario Bros. (1985)

THE EVERYDAY MATHEMATICAL EXPERIENCES AND UNDERSTANDINGS OF THREE, 4-YEAR-OLD, AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN FROM WORKING-CLASS BACKGROUNDS

This qualitative study examined the everyday mathematical experiences and understandings of three, 4-year-old, African-American children from working-class backgrounds. The study drew on Street, Baker, and Tomlin's (2005) broad, ideological model of mathematics as "social" and their analytic concepts of mathematical events (units of analysis consisting of occurrences of mathematical activity) and mathematical practices (patterned uses, meanings, and ways of engaging in mathematics). Mathematical events were examined through four interrelated dimensions that were adapted for this study, constituting the mathematics (content) in and the social aspects (purpose and setting, values and beliefs, and social relations) situating the children's mathematical activities. Characteristics of mathematical events were determined through an analysis across the children's mathematical events. Adapted naturalistic observation methods were used to yield data specifying children's everyday mathematical events within their homes, informal day care setting, and other familiar contexts. An iterative analytic process using inductive analytic procedures was employed to examine and interpret children's mathematical events and to determine characteristics of these events. The three children each engaged in distinct, spontaneous mathematical experiences and understandings that reflected their unique family lives, individual predispositions, and knowledge development. For example, the values of one mother gave rise to many contexts fostering her daughter's nominal, ordinal, and numeric meanings for number. Findings indicated mathematical understandings that are not typically recognized in early childhood mathematics education research and practice and portrayed conditions that fostered children's meaningful engagement in and learning of mathematics. The children's everyday mathematical events tended to: emerge from their intrinsic motivation, involve their pursuit of goal-directed activities or interest in mathematics for its own sake, and promote their purpose-oriented verbal interactions with others. Recognizing the unique, interrelated, and complex social aspects that underlie and support young children's everyday mathematical experiences and understandings, broadening what counts as evidence of mathematical thinking in early childhood, and creating conditions in formal settings that reflect characteristics of children's everyday mathematical events can foster children's continued meaningful engagement in and development of mathematical thinking in early childhood learning environments

you are variations

you are variations is a ten-year-long study of tree water-cycles in which scientific climate change research has provided environmental data on sap flow that is here transposed into a musical score. The score is enacted live – including in-situ – in collaboration with electro-acoustic ensembles. By turning climate data into sound-performances, the research draws attention to the sophisticated energy balance of trees under changing environmental conditions, contributing to scientific research concerned with climate futures, and evidences a committed stance in art as sustained experimental (re-)search into transformative power. Inspired ecopolitically by Isabelle Stengers, Donna J. Haraway and Bruno Latour, aesthetically by Pauline Oliveros and Catherine Christer Hennix et. al., the project exercises how to think and work across wounded worlds together. In gathering disciplines that are unfamiliar to each other – linking environmental, cultural and mental ecologies – the project reveals ‘difference’, theoretically drawing on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy and Elizabeth Grosz. The key methodology, ‘ecology of translation’, incites gaps and transpositions as acts of mediation in a complex process of evolving relationalities between art-music, science and the climate. It conceives of ‘trans-lation’ as human, and more-than-human activity; creative in the making of a ‘re-lational, resonant kinship’, based not on sameness, but alterity. It is the experience of wholeness that is the significant outcome of this transdisciplinary practice across a vast range of contemporary climate urgencies. The conclusion elicits a new term for the felt experience of wholeness instantiated by you are variations performances: /wi/. Addressing the problematic term ‘we’, exclusive in its presupposed inclusivity, /wi/ denotes the experiential communion of tree, you and self, exemplified in the poetic, ecopolitical movement the research brought about: in asking ‘Can we learn to listen to a tree?’ you are variations advocates how to become /wi/ with the world

Disunity in society, fractures at home: family relating in the context of divisive socio-political issues

Section A A systematic literature review conducted to identify and explore research that has investigated adult intrafamilial relationships and divisive political issues since 2016. Ten papers are included in the review. The studies are critiqued using a mixed-methods risk of bias tool. Findings are collated using narrative synthesis. The synthesis focuses on relational responses—to divisive political issues—the potential reasons for these responses, and their consequences. Review findings are discussed in relation to previous theoretical and empirical literature. Finally, clinical and research implications are presented. Section B A grounded theory study to develop an understanding of adult intrafamilial invalidation in the context of social and political change. Brexit and COVID-19 serve as the contextual lens through which the phenomenon was observed. Data from 11 participants and 45 screening questionnaire respondents were analysed as part of the study. A model of family “Rejection of You” experiences is presented outlining foundational and contextual factors that frame the experience, the experience itself, and relational, behavioural, cognitive, and emotional consequences. Findings are discussed in relation to previous theory and previous empirical research. Clinical implications are considered and possible directions for future research are set out

Situating Sustainability

Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through an emerging international terrain of concepts and case studies. These approaches include material practices, such as extraction and disaster recovery, and extend into the domains of human rights and education. This volume addresses the need in sustainability science to recognize the deep and diverse cultural histories that define environmental politics. It brings together scholars from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, law, behavioral science, urban studies, design, and development to argue that it is no longer possible to talk about sustainability in general without thinking through the contexts of research and action. These contributors are joined by artists whose public-facing work provides a mobile platform to conduct research at the edges of performance, knowledge production, and socio-ecological infrastructures. Situating Sustainability calls for a truly transdisciplinary research that is guided by the humanities and social sciences in collaboration with local actors informed by histories of place. Designed for students, scholars, and interested readers, the volume introduces the conceptual practices that inform the leading edge of engaged research in sustainability

Situating sustainability : a handbook of contexts and concepts

Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through an emerging international terrain of concepts and case studies. These approaches include material practices, such as extraction and disaster recovery, and extend into the domains of human rights and education. This volume addresses the need in sustainability science to recognize the deep and diverse cultural histories that define environmental politics. It brings together scholars from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, law, behavioral science, urban studies, design, and development to argue that it is no longer possible to talk about sustainability in general without thinking through the contexts of research and action. These contributors are joined by artists whose public-facing work provides a mobile platform to conduct research at the edges of performance, knowledge production, and socio-ecological infrastructures. Situating Sustainability calls for a truly transdisciplinary research that is guided by the humanities and social sciences in collaboration with local stakeholders informed by histories of place. Designed for students, scholars, and interested readers, the volume introduces the conceptual practices that inform the leading edge of engaged research in sustainability.VertaisarvioitupeerReviewe