In this article, we theoretically conceptualise the renegotiation of participatory action and activism through the formation of intellectual space that is self-reflective and upheld by what we metaphorically describe ...
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In this article, we theoretically conceptualise the renegotiation of participatory action and activism through the formation of intellectual space that is self-reflective and upheld by what we metaphorically describe as mirrors between parallel worlds. Rethinking what activism is and how an individual relates to their social group is dependent on different levels of self-reflection, self-criticism and competing scales of insertion of other people's struggles into one's own political vision in an effort to intellectually rectify the local tensions that emerge in a post-revolutionary context where people are disconnected from global-level activism. A significant aspect of this analysis is our interlocutors' imaginative capacity to draw from other people's experiences through cultural and visual artefacts and integrate them into their own life history with the intention to address national or group-specific dilemmas. While some have drawn attention to the importance of noting how spaces for activism are remade in the post-revolutionary context due to such sentiments as disappointment, we instead examine the formation of conceptual spaces of activism within the context of isolation in contemporary Iran. Empirically, we bring together a political analysis of the novel Bevatan by Reza AmirKhani, and interviews conducted with English literature students in Shiraz.
Smart technologies have advanced rapidly throughout our society and across geographic spaces and places. The "smart" developments have presented unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the discipline ...
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Smart technologies have advanced rapidly throughout our society and across geographic spaces and places. The "smart" developments have presented unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the discipline of geography. This special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers focuses on the theme of smart spaces and places from a wide range of perspectives. The collection of twenty-one articles included in this special issue offers stimulating discussion on emerging theories, conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and observations to address spaces, places, and smartness. The articles roughly belong to four topical categories: (1) spaces, places, and smartness;(2) analytical smartness;(3) critical smartness;and (4) smart sustainability and policy. Insights gained from the discussion will advance our discipline.
In this paper, we give a new inequality for weighted Lebesgue spaces called Bohr-Nikol'skii inequality, which combines the inequality of Bohr-Favard and the Nikol'skii idea of inequality for functions in diffe...
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In this paper, we give a new inequality for weighted Lebesgue spaces called Bohr-Nikol'skii inequality, which combines the inequality of Bohr-Favard and the Nikol'skii idea of inequality for functions in different metrics.
In this article, we explain the mechanisms that allow social enterprises to balance their missions, and the risk of mission drift as organizations grow. We empirically explore Incubator-BUS (I-BUS), a student organiza...
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In this article, we explain the mechanisms that allow social enterprises to balance their missions, and the risk of mission drift as organizations grow. We empirically explore Incubator-BUS (I-BUS), a student organization within a private Brazilian university, which sought to incubate cooperatives for vulnerable groups. Although initially successful in balancing its missions, I-BUS then failed. We show how scaling-up can complicate the balancing of different missions within the same organization. We propose that, to balance their missions, social enterprises-especially recently formed and democratically managed enterprises-need not only "spaces of negotiation," as suggested in the literature, but also "herding spaces" that connect an organization to its institutional context. We indicate why herding spaces are critical, but then show how scaling-up can result in organizational "compartmentalization" that undermines them.
This article discusses how digital technologies give students agency in creating new spaces for their reflective activity. Undergraduate art and design students from across fine art, textiles, fashion, interiors, grap...
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This article discusses how digital technologies give students agency in creating new spaces for their reflective activity. Undergraduate art and design students from across fine art, textiles, fashion, interiors, graphics and illustration and animation degree programmes experimented with digital tools, platforms and social media to document and examine their own making. The research took place at a further education college with externally validated higher education provision in the North West of England. Thirteen students signed up as research participants and shared blogs and documentation, had tutorials recorded and completed in-depth interviews. The research project investigated how and what technologies students used and whether their use stimulated in-depth reflection on their art and design practices and developing professional identities. This student-led pedagogy evidences an inclusive approach where they used autoethnography to support themselves as researchers into their own practices;the methodology became a strategy for critical and dialogic reflection. Participants took part in several unstructured interviews providing a wealth of rich phenomenological data. Thematic analysis as defined by Braun & Clarke (2006), was used as a method to analyse and identify patterns of experience, interpretations and descriptions across the data set, enabling me to see and make sense of these collective and shared meanings.
This essay analyses Concha Mendez's works of children's theatre. Specifically, we focus on the dramatist's use of theatrical techniques, as well as the spaces and times in which she places her works. In te...
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This essay analyses Concha Mendez's works of children's theatre. Specifically, we focus on the dramatist's use of theatrical techniques, as well as the spaces and times in which she places her works. In terms of techniques, we emphasize the ways in which Mendez maintains dramatic tension throughout the duration of her works to capture and sustain the attention of the children in her audience. In addition, we foreground the playwright's mastery in combining fantasy and reality in dramatic plots, alongside her employment of diverse cultural references from Eastern and Western traditions, among other sources. In terms of spaces and times, Mendez establishes specific and believable spatial and temporal axes. In particular, she carefully details stage design elements to achieve the goal of developing the dramatic action while fostering the joy and delight of the audience.
The global navigation satellite system(GNSS) is a well-established outdoor positioning system with industry-wide impact due to the multifaceted applications of navigation, tracking, and automation. At large, however, ...
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The global navigation satellite system(GNSS) is a well-established outdoor positioning system with industry-wide impact due to the multifaceted applications of navigation, tracking, and automation. At large, however, is the indoor equivalent. One hierarchy of solutions, visible light positioning(VLP) with its promise of centimeter-scale accuracy and widespread coverage indoors, has emerged as a viable, easy to configure, and inexpensive candidate. We investigate how the state-of-the-art VLP systems fare against two hard barriers in indoor positioning: the need for high accuracy and the need to position in the threedimensions(3D). We find that although most schemes claim centimeter-level accuracy for some proposed space or plane, those accuracies do not translate into a realistic 3D space due to diminishing field-of-view in 3D and assumptions made on the operating space. We do find two favorable solutions in ray–surface positioning and gain differentials. Both schemes show good positioning errors, low-cost potential, and single-luminaire positioning functionality.
The objective of this paper is to advance the state of the art of aggressive space mapping (ASM) by demonstrating how, for resonant structures, and microwave filters in particular, an ASM-based optimization procedure ...
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The objective of this paper is to advance the state of the art of aggressive space mapping (ASM) by demonstrating how, for resonant structures, and microwave filters in particular, an ASM-based optimization procedure may converge to the desired target performance in just one step. This behavior is first justifed in physical terms, using the electromagnetic cavity perturbation theory, and is then investigated numerically. Several practical filter design demonstrations are also presented. This paper is concluded with a conceptual definition of Space Alignment in the context of ASM.
This paper extends the research on practice adoption using qualitative data to study the implementation of the 'Agile Methodology' within a large established automotive company. Unlike prior research examining...
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This paper extends the research on practice adoption using qualitative data to study the implementation of the 'Agile Methodology' within a large established automotive company. Unlike prior research examining the implementation process of new practices as a whole, this study specifically zooms in the phase of trying out showing how change agents encourage teams at the front line. It has been identified that change agents only engaging in sense-giving, translating and theorization activities is not sufficient to successfully facilitate the trying out of new practices. Based on the findings, this study elaborates a process model that explains that change agents create social, physical and safe spaces in which organizational members disrupt previously habitualized behavior and taken for granted meanings while discovering and creating new patterns of behavior. To be specific, change agents use spaces to foster the trying out of new practices through the communication of knowledge, the utilization of physical environments and the development of an interpersonal climate and thereby improve the shared understanding of the new context during the implementation process. This research enhances the institutional understanding of practice adoption in three main respects: it takes the micro- level perspective and draws particular attention on the phase of trying out of during the implementation of new organizational practices focusing on the intra-organizational processes at the front line; it highlights the critical connection between practice implementation and behavioral change showing that the actions of change agents are a deciding factor to disrupt previously habitualized behavior; and it builds theory by identifying the role of spaces fostering the trying out of new practices, and therefore incorporates the concept of spaces to the literature on practice adoption.
Let χ= be a metric space and let ε be a positive real number. Then a function f: X→Y is defined to be an ε-map if and only if for all y∈Y, the diameter of f-1(y)?is at most ε. In Theorem 10 we will give a new pr...
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Let χ= be a metric space and let ε be a positive real number. Then a function f: X→Y is defined to be an ε-map if and only if for all y∈Y, the diameter of f-1(y)?is at most ε. In Theorem 10 we will give a new proof for the following well known fact: if χ is totally bounded, then for all ε there exists a finite number n and a continuous ε-map fε: X→Rn (here Rn is the usual n-dimensional Euclidean space endowed with the Euclidean metric). If ε is “small”, then fε is “almost injective”;and still exists even if χ has infinite covering dimension (in this case, n depends on ε, of course). Contrary to the known proofs, our proof technique is effective in the sense, that it allows establishing estimations for n in terms of ε and structural properties of χ.
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