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Heritage buildings and objects’ digitisation and visualisation within the cloud (HERITALISE)
No full textHERITALISE mission is to research and develop advanced digitisation techniquesand solutions for documenting and representing diverse Cultural Heritageassets, giving a full comprehension of the diverse Cultural Heritage features, visible and non-visible. In addition, AI-powered tools including Machine Learning(ML) will be developed for improved and optimised data post-processing andintegration based on standard and expanded methodologies. All this will be connected through a knowledge graph environment that allows the individual aspects known about the CH object to be related and retrievable. As with Wikipedia, by following links it will be possible to learn more about a particular object, what research has been done, and what results have been derived from it. HERITALISE will provide the upcoming European Collaborative Cloud for CulturalHeritage with an interoperable web-based Ecosystem, advanced input data fromimproved digitalisation methodologies and preservation supporting tools, whichwill be achieved by meeting the projects general objectives
Designing a virtual museum ecosystem for the Cloud
No full textDigital exhibits are often commissioned from specialist organisations for a premium price and only available to prestigious national and international organisations that have the budget to match. Yet developments in underlying technologies, such as commodity computers, mobiles and networks, are increasingly capable of delivering rich heritage experiences. Consequently,the possibility of immersive and mobile technologies becoming part of the normal offering of community museums is in reach. A virtual museum ecosystem, which empowers community-based museums to embrace technologies to digitally enhance the capacities of a museum supporting the research, collection, curation and communication of heritage, has the potential both to contribute to sustainable development as well as mitigate against the threats to heritage
Hope as a theopolitical virtue:eschatology and end of time politics
No full textThis chapter explores the meaning of hope as a theopolitical virtue in a nihilist era. Within the nihilist horizon, hope as simultaneously a theological and a political virtue is envisioned as equidistant both from arguments that favour a sanitised separation of eschatology from politics and from those that tend to recruit it in the service of earthly, political or technoscientific, utopias. In this context, eschatological hope becomes a type of counter-politics that transforms the very idea of what politics stands for: neither the politics of sovereign or revolutionary violence nor the technoscientific effacement of politics, but rather the counter-politics of happiness, resistance, messianic profanation, and theocratic an-archy. In this perspective, hope as a theopolitical virtue is affirmed within a terrain where politics and theology are no longer separate or juxtaposed discourses and where a certain nihilist take on the theological is always already political, transforming the latter from within
The role of knowledge brokering in fostering connections between educational research, policy, and practice
No full textThis chapter introduces knowledge brokering as a concept and set of practices focusing on its applications, strengths, and challenges in education. The chapter is divided into five sections. First, we consider the sorts of knowledge it is possible to broker. Next, we focus on the various approaches to brokering knowledge, followed by the actors operating in the knowledge brokering landscape. Then, we consider the competencies that knowledge brokers require in order to tighten connections between research, policy, and practice, before concluding with a summary and recommendations
Shaping coral traits:plasticity more than filtering
No full textThe structure of an ecosystem is usually determined by the shape of the organisms that build it, commonly known as ecosystem engineers. Understanding to what extent plasticity and environmental filtering determine variation in the physical structure of ecosystem engineers is necessary to predict how ecosystem structure may change. Here, we explored coral survival and the plasticity of morphological traits that are critical for habitat provision in coral reefs. We conducted a reciprocal clonal transplant experiment in which branching corals from the genera Porites and Acropora were moved to and from a deep and a shallow site within a lagoon in the Maldives. Survival and trait analyses revealed that transplant destination consistently induced the strongest changes, particularly among Acropora spp. The origin of the corals had only marginal effects on some of the traits. We also detected variation in the way individuals from the same species and site differentiate in their shape, showing that traits linked to habitat provision are phenotypically plastic. The results suggest that in the quite common lagoonal conditions studied here, coral phenotypic plasticity plays a stronger role than environmental filtering, in determining the zonation of coral morphologies, and consequently the habitats they provide for other organisms
“Tachygraphers, notaries, and the formation of the ecclesiastical chancellery":making late Roman institutions historical
No full textThis note presents the main lines of section 3 of the book “The Collectio Avellana and then Development of Notarial Practices in Late Antiquity”, focusing on the issue of the development of the ecclesiastical chancellery. It presents the main contributions of this section in their historiographical context, highlighting the importance of the book for studies of late Roman institutional and social history
Cybersecurity disclosure:board commitment and regulatory impact in the UK
No full textSynopsisThe Research ProblemThis study investigates the relationship between board commitment to cybersecurity governance (BCCG) and corporate cybersecurity disclosures (CSD) in the UK. It focuses on how the UK's Network and Information Systems (NIS) 2018 regulation influences this relationship, considering cyber threats’ rising complexity and frequency.MotivationWith the digital age’s escalating cybersecurity threats, strong cybersecurity governance and transparent disclosure practices have become crucial. The study seeks to understand whether a board's commitment to cybersecurity, particularly in the context of the NIS regulation, affects the extent of a company's CSD.The Test HypothesesThis study tests two hypotheses. The first hypothesis posits a positive association between BCCG and the extent of CSD. The second hypothesis contends that the UK's NIS 2018 regulation positively moderates the relationship between board commitment and CSD.Target PopulationThis study should be of interest to boards of directors, policymakers, regulators, and various stakeholder groups.Adopted MethodologyThe study employed textual analysis using Python to analyze corporate disclosures, fixed effect regressions, Difference-in-Differences (DID), and Propensity Score Matching analyses.AnalysesWe examined the relationship between BCCG and CSD against the backdrop of the UK's NIS 2018 regulation. We first assessed the extent of CSD in the UK FTSE 350 firms using Python-based textual analysis. Then, we conducted a regression analysis to assess the impact of BCCG on CSD and the moderating effect of the NIS regulation. This was complemented by a DiD analysis to evaluate the changes in CSD before and after the introduction of the NIS regulation.FindingsWe find that BCCG is positively associated with the extent of CSD, and that the NIS regulation positively moderates this relationship. Our evidence suggests that firms with a greater focus on cybersecurity governance at the board level (e.g., directors with IT expertise, the presence of IT committees and cybersecurity policies) demonstrate a higher commitment to managing and reporting cybersecurity risks and solutions. Moreover, using DiD analysis, we find a significant increase in CSD levels among firms subjected to NIS regulation compared to control firms, post-NIS regulation. Overall, our study suggests that the interplay of BCCG and macro-social factors, such as NIS regulation, enhances firms’ sensitivity to institutional and stakeholder pressures, leading them to increase their corporate CSD.Keywords: Cybersecurity disclosure, board commitment, NIS regulation, Python, Textual analysis, UK.<br/
Valuing life
No full textAlistair Rider’s chapter explores how the term ‘lifework’, when applied in a cultural context, activates divergent conceptions of vitality and life. In the first section, he discusses how writers, artists, and critics who use the term have understood the life in question to be the property of a named individual. Conceived in this sense, a lifework is understood to be the animating force within an artist’s body of work. The term feels particularly applicable for creative individuals who refuse to distinguish between artistic and non-artistic pursuits, when doing and living blend into one. The second section turns to Adrian Heathfield’s relatively recent critical definition of a lifework, which espouses a conception of life which is less personal and more biological. Heathfield introduces the term to classify works of contemporary art in which the lived experience of the artist is integral to its content, and he focuses in particular on durational practices, which register traces of the creator’s actual physical transformation in real time. Rider argues that this definition of life – as an indefinite and less differentiated value – shares much in common with Gilles Deleuze’s understanding of life as an immanent force. In the final section, attention is turned to the London-based artist David Connearn, whose drawings can be classified as ‘lifeworks’ in Heathfield’s sense. However, Connearn has recently introduced additional layers of allegorical content into his works, in 2017 creating a series of drawings that refer to the contemporary refugee crisis. In so doing, the laborious, manual work his drawings involve can be read as a sustained act of empathy with lives lived in extreme states of precarity. This example is used to consider how the politicised understanding of life’s value that motivates Connearn’s project differs from the radically undifferentiated notion of life that we find espoused by Deleuze and his followers
Dominating experiences:psychic and symbolic violence against Romani women in Hungary
No full textThis chapter explores violence against Romani women in Hungary, not as individual discrimination or institutional racism, but as unconscious aggression that socializes and legitimizes violence. The chapter builds on the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu, who argued that there are forms of violence beyond the physical, including symbolic violence, which normalizes structural and physical violence in the repetitions of everyday speech. Through an application of theoretical contributions of the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi, the chapter introduces an additional form of violence: psychic violence, which is the unconscious denial of the subjective experiences of those imagined to be targets, imagined to be “other”. The chapter concludes with Ferenczi’s argument that in order to overcome such violence, each of us must reflect on the ways in which we might act out aggression on others, not only in terms of physical violence, but also the in ways that we speak and think