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Cuteness, josō, and the need to appeal:otoko no ko in male subculture in 2010s Japan
No full textThe new millennium in Japan has seen the bifurcation of male subcultural imagination rooted within the otaku hub into diverse directions. Towards a rejection of the age of commercialised love and neo-liberal capitalist life and riaju (reality), and, on the other hand, a growing focus on beautiful boy cross-dressed characters in the media-mix of animation-manga-computer games, and from 2010, cross-dressing embodied in otoko no ko - ‘boys’ presenting themselves as beyond gender-boundaries and discourse, in the form of cute girls. This article examines the 15 year evolution of fashion transgenderism and considers the several dynamics behind the drive to appeal
Abstracta and Abstraction in Trope Theory
No full textTrope theory is a leading metaphysical theory in analytic ontology. One of its classic statements is found in the work of Donald C. Williams who argued that tropes qua abstract particulars are the very alphabet of being. The concept of an abstract particular has been repeatedly attacked in the literature. Opponents and proponents of trope theory alike have levelled their criticisms at the abstractness of tropes and the associated act of abstraction. In this paper I defend the concept of a trope qua abstract particular by rejecting arguments that purport to show that tropes should not be understood as abstract and by arguing that the abstractness of tropes plays an indispensable role in one of our more promising trope-theoretic analyses of universals and of concrete objects
Distributed Adaptive Time-Varying Group Formation Tracking for Multiagent Systems with Multiple Leaders on Directed Graphs
No full textThis paper proposes a fully-distributed control protocol that achieves time-varying group formation tracking for linear multi-agent systems connected via directed graph. The group formation tracking often leads to sub-formations especially when the leaders are placed far apart or they have separate control inputs. In the proposed approach, the followers are distributed into several subgroups and each subgroup attains the predefined sub-formation along with encompassing the leaders. Each subgroup can be assigned multiple leaders, contrary to the single-leader case considered in most of the existing literature, which makes the current problem non-trivial. When multiple leaders exist in a subgroup, the sub-formation attained by that subgroup keeps tracking a convex combination of the states of the leaders. A distributed adaptive control protocol has been introduced in this paper which uses only relative state information and thus avoids direct computation of the graph Laplacian matrix. Due to virtue of this, the proposed scheme remains effective even when some of the agents get disconnected from the network due to sudden communication failure. An algorithm is provided to outline the steps to design the control law to attain time-varying group formation tracking with multiple leaders. Towards the end, a case study on multi-target surveillance operation is taken up to show an important application of the proposed adaptive control technique
Addressing Rising Caesarean Rates: Maternal Request Caesareans, Defensive Practice and the Power of Choice in Childbirth
No full textThe number of caesarean sections performed in high-income economies has been rising for decades. In this paper I expand on feminist scholarship to argue that the likely explanation for this trend is defensive practice in obstetrics. I argue that the harm caused by defensive practice is that women are not being empowered to choose their childbirth. I demonstrate that this same harm is evident when women are denied the opportunity to opt for an elective caesarean. In this paper I seek to demonstrate how routinely offering women elective caesareans is the best solution to rising caesarean rates in high-income economies
'Signature of Mediocrity'?:Variability and Uncertainty Associated with PhD Assessment Processes in the UK
No full textThis chapter is focused on the assessment processes surrounding PhD degrees in the United Kingdom (UK). Its main aim is to explore how variations in these assessment processes create different types of uncertainties and concerns for all those involved. In this chapter, we review literature to identify key practices and concerns which, from various theoretical perspectives, have become associated with PhD assessments. As a central feature of the chapter, we also report a review of institutional assessment practices. The review highlights topical issues relating to, for example, the appointment of examiners, the role of PhD supervisors, and the conduct of oral examinations. We contend that the lack of standardisation surrounding PhD assessment processes creates inevitable uncertainties for academics and candidates. We conclude the chapter with a discussion about whether it is desirable to move towards more standardised inter-institutional PhD assessment processes particularly in an era of commodification of the Higher Education sector within the UK
Justinus’ <i>Book of Baruch</i> (Hippolytus <i>Ref</i>. 5.25-27):A New Translation and Introduction
No full textMulti-Perspectives of Cloud Computing Service Adoption Quality and Risks in Higher Education
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Scientific translation
No full textAddressing research questions and issues relevant to scientific translation requires reflection ontwo key concepts, science and translation. The concept of translation is critically examined in avariety of ways by translation scholars who seek greater understanding of the place oftranslation in the world. The concept of science, no less complex, receives abundant criticalexamination in a different body of scholarship. The overlapping fields of science studies, scienceand technology studies (STS), and science, technology and society (also STS) are concerned withgreater understanding of the place of science in the world. Both science studies and translationstudies are inherently interdisciplinary and employ a wide range of theoretical and empiricalapproaches to address historical, philosophical, social, cultural and political questions. Ourunderstanding of the place of scientific translation in the world may therefore benefit greatlyfrom scholarship at the confluence of these two disciplines