scholarly journals Our compositions have more than a touch of class - and a world-wide audience

2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (21) ◽  
pp. ibc
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Wide Audience

scholarly journals Embracing complexity: the post-secular pilgrimage of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 228-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Life Story ◽  
World View ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Spiritual Journey ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Transformative Process ◽  
Academic Philosopher

This article deals with the phenomenon of pilgrimage as a personal transformative process; an exploration of spiritual space rather than a journey undertaken to a physical place. The analysis focuses on the life story and authorship of the novelist and playwright Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (b. 1960). Schmitt began his career as an academic philosopher specialised in enlightenment rationality. A mystical experience in the deserts of Sahara, however, opened his eyes to the spiritual dimensions of reality and encouraged him to redirect his professional strivings from academic writing to fiction. Today, Schmitt has reached a world-wide audience with his plays and novels on interreligious dialogue, especially the series of five short novellas called Le cycle d’Invisible. These narratives all deal with inter-religious encounters in a complex and compassionate way as Schmitt is particularly concerned with preserving the mystery of the situations he describes. The atheist conviction of his previous life has thus given way to an agnostic and mystically inspired world view focusing on diversity, divinity and inexplicability: “I am obsessed with complexity”, as he puts it himself. The presentation is based on ethnographic material, and key themes to be addressed include pilgrimage as a spiritual journey, interreligious encounters and mystical experiences.

Putting Me in Media

2013 ◽  
pp. 221-240
Author(s):  
Christine Wells
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Authentic Learning ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Integrated Method ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Digital Assets

Like learning to read or write, or acquiring the fundamentals of mathematics, screen media literacy is rapidly becoming an essential life skill. This dominant and expansive interface for contact, culture, and commerce has become the way we communicate now. Given the power and reach of the screen, it seems essential that as with any other fundamental skill, we must begin to understand and create within this medium in a more foundational, intentional way. But the language of the screen is complicated, rapidly becoming almost as multidimensional and multifaceted as the number of users it encompasses. Additionally, given its reliance on technology, it is an ever-changing landscape fraught with the challenges of chasing the elusive cutting edge. This chapter looks at a more back to basics approach to screen media literacy by offering instruction in what screen media really is and how to create it in a more foundational and transferable fashion. Using simple, accessible technology, people become more screen literate and the creation process enables deeper, more authentic learning, with the credence and accountability of a potentially world wide audience. Focusing on an integral part of a process developed by the Rosebud Institute – an organization committed to making screen media literacy more broadly understood and accessible – this step-by-step, integrated method delivers a new understanding of media literacy. Using simple, accessible technology, participants create dynamic, original ePortfolio websites themselves and distribute their work to an ever-expanding audience. Developed along with Rosebud’s founder and director, Paul Chilsen, the process encourages individuals to find their own voice and embrace the me in media, moving us towards a future where people will instantly capture, identifiably own, intelligently store, and instinctively know what to do with their digital assets, allowing us all to communicate more effectively and thrive in a media-saturated world.

Putting Me in Media

2014 ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Christine Wells
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Authentic Learning ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Integrated Method ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Digital Assets

Like learning to read or write, or acquiring the fundamentals of mathematics, screen media literacy is rapidly becoming an essential life skill. This dominant and expansive interface for contact, culture, and commerce has become the way we communicate now. Given the power and reach of the screen, it seems essential that as with any other fundamental skill, we must begin to understand and create within this medium in a more foundational, intentional way. But the language of the screen is complicated, rapidly becoming almost as multidimensional and multifaceted as the number of users it encompasses. Additionally, given its reliance on technology, it is an ever-changing landscape fraught with the challenges of chasing the elusive cutting edge. This chapter looks at a more back to basics approach to screen media literacy by offering instruction in what screen media really is and how to create it in a more foundational and transferable fashion. Using simple, accessible technology, people become more screen literate and the creation process enables deeper, more authentic learning, with the credence and accountability of a potentially world wide audience. Focusing on an integral part of a process developed by the Rosebud Institute – an organization committed to making screen media literacy more broadly understood and accessible – this step-by-step, integrated method delivers a new understanding of media literacy. Using simple, accessible technology, participants create dynamic, original ePortfolio websites themselves and distribute their work to an ever-expanding audience. Developed along with Rosebud's founder and director, Paul Chilsen, the process encourages individuals to find their own voice and embrace the me in media, moving us towards a future where people will instantly capture, identifiably own, intelligently store, and instinctively know what to do with their digital assets, allowing us all to communicate more effectively and thrive in a media-saturated world.

A circuitous route

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Diana Jones
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Natural History ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Small Child ◽  
Conservation Science ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Circuitous Route ◽  
The Way

Little did I know as a small child with a love of nature and exploration that one day I would be doing exactly the same thing – studying biology, exploring new and exciting environments, and telling everyone about it! – as well as realising my wildest dreams. However, it has been a circuitous route, with several swerves and ups and down. On the way through, I have been resilient and developed skills in diverse areas, by taking advantage of whatever opportunities were offered to me and being receptive to new ideas and ways of doing things. My STEM background has affected and enhanced every position I have held in this broad, life-long education. My ultimate passion is unlocking the information contained in historical and contemporary natural history collections, and translating why this work is important and why we should be looking after our environment, to a world-wide audience. Hopefully, this will engender in young people especially a curiosity about their world and a desire to pursue careers in conservation science – just like me!

scholarly journals Art in the Space of the Internet World Network: Practical Aspects

2018 ◽  
pp. 178-183
Author(s):  
Maryna Mishchenko
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Screen Space ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Internet Network

The article investigates the practical aspects of the influence of the worldwide Internet network on artistic processes in modern society. Within the framework of research of modern interpretations and meanings of the screen space it is necessary to find out whether the World Wide Web space can be a valid background for displaying contemporary artistic processes. During the study, it was found that virtually the interaction of the Internet and art on the modern stage can be manifested in the following forms: ‒ The Internet is a platform for visualizing on-screen modern art projects, including those that can exist exclusively in the net; ‒ The Internet is a powerful source of information for creative artistic ideas; it introduces already-known classical works to a wide audience but and gives a powerful impetus to new genres of art. A person in the space of the World Wide Web can perform in several roles — the seeker, the consumer and the creator. Thus, it has been determined and argued that the influence of the Internet network on art is multifaceted and ambiguous — it can have both positive and negative colour. Despite all its advantages, the Internet at the same time can be one of the reasons for the depreciation of traditional art.

Rotational Characteristics of the Green Solar Corona: 1947-1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Rotation Period ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronal Emission Line ◽  
Homogeneous Data

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.

Electron Microscopy of Silicon Nitride-Based Ceramics

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 926-927
Author(s):  
Gareth Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Silicon Nitride ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Sintering Temperature ◽  
Liquid Phase Sintering ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Sintering Additives ◽  
Glass Forming ◽  
Dense Product

Silicon nitride and silicon nitride based-ceramics are now well known for their potential as hightemperature structural materials, e.g. in engines. However, as is the case for many ceramics, in order to produce a dense product, sintering additives are utilized which allow liquid-phase sintering to occur; but upon cooling from the sintering temperature residual intergranular phases are formed which can be deleterious to high-temperature strength and oxidation resistance, especially if these phases are nonviscous glasses. Many oxide sintering additives have been utilized in processing attempts world-wide to produce dense creep resistant components using Si3N4 but the problem of controlling intergranular phases requires an understanding of the glass forming and subsequent glass-crystalline transformations that can occur at the grain boundaries.

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