66 research outputs found
(Digital) tools as professional and generational identity badges in the Chinese creative industries
Animators, architects, designers, and others active in the Chinese creative industries are expert users of tools, both analog and digital. Performances of expert tool use (the wearing of professional identity badges) are strategic ways of signaling creativity understood as sets of skills and character traits essential for attracting work projects but also for professional identity formation. Analogue tools are generally associated with creative openness and fluidity whereas digital tools are discursively constructed as a technological other to the analogue. âOlderâ creatives (born before 1980) tend to apply some of the media-inflected discourse around the balinghou generation (born 1980â1989) to their younger competitors, including an assumed affinity with digital media and technologies (the pinning on of a generational identity badge). Such generational assumptions can have the effect of reinforcing project hierarchies and denying expert users of digital tools their claims to creativity
Deep saltwater in Chalk of North-West Europe: origin, interface characteristics and development over geological time
How societyâs negative view of videogames can discourage brands from sponsoring eSports
The purpose of this research was to identify the main motives that contribute to societyâs
negative view of videogames and that present a risk to the eSports sponsorsâ image. To achieve
this, an exploratory, qualitative, and integrative literature review was conducted. According to
the theoretical data, there are four main reasons why society has a negative perception of
videogames. It is commonly believed that: (1) gaming is an unproductive activity, (2) violent
videogames incite aggressive behaviors, (3) videogames lead to gaming-addiction, and (4)
eSports lead to eSports-related gambling addiction. However, while the literature presents
convincing evidence that gaming can create addiction and that eSports can promote gambling
addiction, there is no conclusive evidence to assume that violent videogames lead to
aggressiveness and there is evidence showing that playing videogames can be a productive
activity. Nevertheless, these four beliefs are a threat to the eSports sponsorsâ image and may
lead them to cancel their existing sponsorships or lead other brands to not want to sponsor
eSports to prevent being associated with these negative notions. This research will help expand
the minor literature on eSports sponsorships and advance the knowledge of why some eSports
sponsorships are terminated and why some brands may be reluctant to sponsor eSports.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Shining a Light on Exploitative Host Control in a Photosynthetic Endosymbiosis
Endosymbiosis allows hosts to acquire new functional traits such that the combined host and endosymbiont can exploit vacant ecological niches and occupy novel environments [1, 2]; consequently, endosymbiosis affects the structure and function of ecosystems [3, 4]. However, for many endosymbioses, it is unknown whether their evolutionary basis is mutualism or exploitation [5-9]. We estimated the fitness consequences of symbiosis using the interaction between the protist host Paramecium bursaria and the algal symbiont Chlorella sp. [10]. Host fitness was strongly context dependent: whereas hosts benefited from symbiosis at high light intensity, carrying endosymbionts was costly to hosts in the dark and conferred no benefit over growing autonomously at intermediate light levels. Autonomous Chlorella densities increased monotonically with light intensity, whereas per-host symbiont load and symbiont abundance peaked at intermediate light levels and were lowest at high light intensity. This suggests that hosts controlled the costs of symbiosis by manipulating symbiont load according to light intensity. Photosynthetic efficiency was consistently lower for symbiotic compared to autonomous algae, suggesting nutritional constraints upon algae in symbiosis. At intermediate light levels, we observed the establishment of small populations of free-living algae alongside the hosts with endosymbionts, suggesting that symbionts could escape symbiosis, but only under conditions where hosts didn't benefit from symbiosis. Together, these data suggest that hosts exerted strong control over endosymbionts and that there were no conditions where this nutritional symbiosis was mutually beneficial. Our findings support theoretical predictions (e.g., [5, 9]) that controlled exploitation is an important evolutionary pathway toward stable endosymbiosis
Predicting the effect of climate change on temperate shallow lakes with the ecosystem model PCLake
Evaluation of the feeding preference between the aquatic macrophytes Egeria densa and Chara indica by the invasive mollusk Melanoides tuberculata
Core Flooding Experiments and Reactive Transport Modeling of Seasonal Heat Storage in the Hot Deep Gassum Sandstone Formation
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