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Reviews and Responses for Improving Efficiency Through the Publication of Expected Distances for Standard Terminal Arrival Routes
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DOI for the original paper: https://doi.org/10.59490/joas.2024.789
The Writer In-between: A Post-phenomenological Analysis of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their Implications for Writer-Tool Relations
Full text linkThis article explores the evolving dynamics between writers and their tools within the framework of AI-driven generative word processors, employing a post-phenomenological approach. It argues that despite the shift in complexity from user to tool—facilitated by advancements in technology such as Large Language Models (LLMs)—the interaction between writer and tool remains deeply reciprocal and co-constitutive. This relationship challenges traditional dichotomies of user versus tool, ancient versus contemporary, and digital versus non-digital, advocating for a nuanced understanding that transcends binary categorizations. Drawing upon post-phenomenology, the paper illustrates how even conventional technologies like pens engage writers in a mutual shaping process, suggesting that the essence of writing technology is not in the tool itself but in the relationality it fosters. This interaction suggests a move towards a livelier and less humanist ontology that embraces the complex intimacies and capacities of machine-human connections. We advocate for a framework that permits post-optimal analyses of relationality and fosters extended interactions across diverse milieus. Ultimately, the paper calls for a reconsideration of digital creation stewardship, emphasizing the need for an ethical framework that accommodates the profound implications of AI integration in writing and beyond, highlighting the capacity of writing machines for prodigious generation within these intimate and unfolding encounters
Transformational Leadership and Healthcare Supply Chain Modernization: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda
Full text linkThis study investigates the relationship between transformational leadership and the healthcare supply chain modernization, particularly in light of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The introduction highlights the crucial role of leadership in adapting to the rapidly advancing digital environment, which is essential for maintaining competitiveness and resilience. This study addresses a gap in the literature concerning how transformational leadership can have an impact on supply chain modernization. The study concentrates on three principal databases, including Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed to collect published papers. A total of 2,137 papers related to transformational leadership and supply chain management were initially identified. A systematic literature review was conducted, drawing on 22 peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2025, focusing on transformational leadership and its impact on supply chain modernization. The methodology followed the PRISMA guidelines to ensure a rigorous selection process, analyzing the relationship between transformational leadership and key outcomes in supply chain performance. The findings from the included studies suggest several ways in which transformational leadership may influence aspects of supply chain modernization through knowledge sharing, digital transformation, and organizational agility
A global review of vessel wave effects on land-water interfaces: collaborative baselining of issues, management strategies and future challenges
Full text linkWaterborne vessels of all types generate waves as a result of their movement through and displacement of water. These surface disturbances spread toward the boundaries of waterways, where they interact with both natural and built environments, often with adverse effects. The magnitude and frequency of impacts related to vessel waves are becoming increasingly evident in estuarine and coastal waterways worldwide. As an outcome of an international workshop, drawing on the collective expertise of academics, practitioners, and policymakers from various disciplines, this overview synthesizes the current \u27state of play\u27 regarding the varied effects of vessel waves in sheltered water bodies, associated use conflicts, and potential mitigation strategies. These insights are presented within the context of existing literature and include references to illustrative case studies. While there is broad recognition of the need to manage the impact of vessel waves on both built and natural environments, challenges such as gaps in process understanding, regulatory limitations, political complacency, and economic realities of global seaborne trade can impede effective mitigation of vessel wave effects on land-water interfaces. With an anticipated increase in waterborne transportation and recreational boating on one hand and the need to reduce adverse effects of intense waterway use on the other, vessel waves are a prominent topic, underscoring the future requirements for improved process understanding, monitoring, data sharing and the importance of holistic management of vessel-related impacts in waterways
The Sea Wall and the Kampung: A Debate on Architectural Cosmotechnics
Full text linkWe propose that architectural responses to planetary environmental challenges are a crucial domain for cosmotechnical action. We explore the possibilities of cosmotechnical design by analysing two contrasting responses to the effects of anthropogenic climate change in Jakarta: defensive sea-wall construction and adaptive community action. Jakarta is an essential case for exploring cosmotechnics: a world city at the forefront of planetary environmental challenges, and a capital with a conflicted urban history, deeply shaped by colonisation and by its immersion in global circuits of capital and trade
Shipwreck Architecture: A Speculative Hauntography
Full text linkShipwreck Architecture draws a connection between cosmotechnics, surrealism, and object-oriented ontology using an architectural design framework as a departure point. An academic introduction will connect the tragic aspects of Yuk Hui’s cosmotechnics, to the tragic pairings created by figurative surrealists Rene Magritte and Salvador Dalí, to the ontographic project of shipwreck hauntography. This trajectory of ideas is then projected into a creative project: a speculative history of shipwreck architecture where the cutting edge of biological research is projected into a technological future when the distant aims of today’s technology are ancient history: when the first generations of grown buildings are preserved as ruins, when giant decommissioned carbon-capture factories drift like ghost ships across lakes of their inky waste, when people remember when shipwrecks caused by the hazards of rising sea levels were later exposed by sinking sea levels and converted into hotels and theatres, and finally, when these theatrical memories provoke such nostalgia that shipwreck architecture would be replicated and fabricated
Cuckoo
Full text linkDrawing from the imag(in)ing of passing time as a cuckoo’s repetitive passing through a threshold, this article emphasises the active role of repetition in modulating spatio-temporalities and fostering variations. It argues that the systematic organisation and classification of the milieu emerge from the human capacity to perceive and assign differences within the spatio-temporal continuum. This process is enabled by iterative interactions with environmental stimuli, whether immediate or mediated through technological means, serving as an active process of evaluation and unfolding of environmental affordances. In this context, repetition simultaneously serves two seemingly opposing functions: it creates patterns of return to previous encounters while also opening potential lines of flight away from established norms. Intelligence transduces repetition into change, as it evolves through feedback loops, that is, non-linear operations that integrate information across various time scales and through diverse physical mediations, both embodied and exosomatic. As such, intelligence is re-conceptualised not as a state but as a symbiotic, responsive, and anticipatory process that unfolds through failing and adapting to environmental stimuli
Celestial Resistance: Norwegian World Bank Education Project in Zambia
Full text linkThe essay investigates the application of cosmotechnics in architecture through a case study of a large international construction venture, the Zambia World Bank Education Project. Financed in 1969 by the World Bank together with the Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD), the project envisioned the construction of sixty-five new secondary schools in under four years. A Norwegian consultancy company hired for the project proposed a modular semi-industrial building system and a computer-aided system of process management that defined the project’s cosmology. Not surprisingly, expectations of a new computerised modernity did not materialise, and the project was plagued by endless problems that seemed to be divine acts of resistance to which only celestial bodies could provide a solution. However, as this essay argues, these resistances can be considered sites of rupture, where the conflict between different cosmotechnics becomes apparent. Based on original archival documents, the essay interrogates these resistances to universalist ideas of technology and ontological assumptions embedded and perpetuated through the architecture of post-colonial “development” projects. This study serves as a first stepping stone towards further investigations into how Western homogenising technologies could be negotiated and challenged for a more pluralistic technological paradigm.  
Impact assessment of the Strategic Planning performance in Shared U-space volumes
Full text linkThis work analyses how the different U-space service providers (USSPs) managing a shared airspace volume will impact on the other’s performance. The paper demonstrates how the various strategic planning USSPs capabilities, ranging from procedures and policies, trajectory representation, as well as the deconflicting strategies, impact on the use of this common resource in terms of effective airspace capacity. The paper brings to practice the concept of Reasonable Time to React by proposing a planning timeline with common milestones for the implementation of the required authorization procedures prior to the flight. The paper analyses how these milestones impact on the effective airspace capacity. Also, the First-Come First-Served planning policy is compared with respect to a more efficient batch planning policy, where flight plan batches are processed to mitigate the potential conflicts existing at the strategic phase. Furthermore, the paper discusses how the capabilities supported by the USSP to represent the trajectory and its associated uncertainty will be also key to optimize the use the airspace. Based on a CORUS-XUAM VLD scenario, a simulation analysis will assess how the USSPs’ capabilities to manage flight planning activities impact on the effective occupation of airspace, jeopardizing in some cases not just the own performance but also that of other airspace users
Urbanism
Full text linkIn the Global South, urbanism is not accidental but shaped by history. In South Africa, policies of displacement created hybrid settlements, neither fully urban nor rural. Over time, these spaces evolved into displaced urbanism, where survival, tradition, and modernity intersect, challenging conventional definitions of the urban