Pain-and-Suffering Damages in Tort Law: Revisiting the Theoretical Framework and the Empirical Data

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronen Avraham
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Pain And Suffering

scholarly journals Studies of Olfactory System Neural Plasticity: The Contribution of the Unilateral Naris Occlusion Technique

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Coppola
Keyword(s):  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Olfactory System ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Olfactory Pathway ◽  
Compensatory Responses ◽  
Occlusion Technique ◽  
Olfactory Plasticity ◽  
The Many

Unilateral naris occlusion has long been the method of choice for effecting stimulus deprivation in studies of olfactory plasticity. A significant body of literature speaks to the myriad consequences of this manipulation on the ipsilateral olfactory pathway. Early experiments emphasized naris occlusion’s deleterious and age-critical effects. More recent studies have focused on life-long vulnerability, particularly on neurogenesis, and compensatory responses to deprivation. Despite the abundance of empirical data, a theoretical framework in which to understand the many sequelae of naris occlusion on olfaction has been elusive. This paper focuses on recent data, new theories, and underappreciated caveats related to the use of this technique in studies of olfactory plasticity.

scholarly journals MOOCs and the claim of education for all: A disillusion by empirical data

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Rohs ◽  
Mario Ganz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Education Data

MOOCs have shaped the discussion on learning with digital media for the last few years. One claim of MOOCs in the tradition of Open Educational Resources is to expand access to education, mainly in the field of higher education. But do MOOCs meet this claim? The empirical data in this article confirm the suspicion that, despite all the heterogeneity of the participants, MOOCs are mostly used by people with a higher level of education. Data of participants from two MOOCs from Germany, as well as, empirical data from large providers and universities are used. But due to the different forms of MOOCs there is no comprehensive proof possible. With respect to the Knowledge Gap Theory and the Digital Divide, a theoretical framework is provided to explain possible causes of a different usage. The aim of the article is to point out the risks of an increase of inequalities as a consequence of hyping MOOCs and to stimulate a discussion about possible answers to make MOOCs an instrument of education for all.

scholarly journals The ‘WHAT OF’ and the ‘WHAT IF’ of Agential Realism – In Search of the Gendered Subject

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lis Højgaard ◽  
Malou Juelskjær ◽  
Dorte Marie Søndergaard
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Agential Realism ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The article explores Karen Barad’s theoretical framework, agential realism, to seek out theoretical perspectives that can be used as analytical approaches to empirical data. By selecting two pieces of data we aim to illustrate the analytical possibilities offered by this approach. The first piece of data stipulates an opening of ‘WHAT OF’ of the activities in a world of computer games: WHAT OF the myriad of real and virtual voices, sentiments and actions and their interconnections and meaning for gendered subjectification? The second piece is guided by ‘WHAT IF’ thinking: WHAT would we be able to see IF we brought insights from quantum physics, i.e. spacetimemattering, to the conception of thinking subjects. The examples show that agential realism offers a theoretical framework that allows access to a much wider set of enacting forces to be considered in the analysis. By reading agential realism diffractively with two different empirical examples and two different research ambitions, our attention is drawn to specificities of what the engagements may enact consequently.

scholarly journals Novel Televisual Environments

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Ilkin Mehrabov
Keyword(s):  
European Commission ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Stereoscopic Vision ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Immersive Media

This article focuses on one of the most ground-breaking technological attempts in creating novel immersive media environments for heightened televisual user experiences: 3DTV, a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission 6th Framework Information Society Technologies Programme. Based on the theoretical framework outlined by the works of Jonathan Crary and Brian Winston, and on empirical data obtained from author’s fieldwork and laboratory visit notes, as well as discussions with practitioners, the article explores the history of stereoscopic vision and technological progress related with it, and looks for possible reasons of 3DTV’s dramatic commercial failure.

The syntax of participial adjuncts in Eastern Bengali

1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Van Der Wurff
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Binding Properties ◽  
Case Assignment ◽  
Syntactic Properties

In this article I will discuss the syntactic properties of participial adjuncts in Eastern Bengali. From a GB-point of view, these constructions are quite interesting, because they can contain a nominative which is apparently not assigned by AGR, and because they show a quite intricate pattern of possibilities for coreference and disjoint reference, with some seemingly arbitrary differences among the three types of adjuncts. In Section 2, I shall present the empirical data for these constructions. In Section 3 I will discuss the relevant general syntactic principles of Eastern Bengali, specifically those responsible for Case-assignment, word-order, pro-drop (including ergative verbs) and binding properties. In Section 4, I will show that the characteristics of the participial constructions, including the apparently haphazard binding properties, follow from the general syntactic principles of Eastern Bengali, if we assume one simple statement for each type of adjunct. No further construction-specific stipulations need be made. To the extent that the analysis I propose can be upheld, it will constitute indirect support for the GB-mechanisms that are crucially involved in it. Apart from various principles of configurationality and binding, I will make use of the idea that there is no abstract AGR, in these cases at least, and also of the analysis of pro-drop as a silent clitic phenomenon, proposed in Safir (1985). It is of course a fact that the principles of grammar I appeal to still need to be investigated more carefully, and may have to be modified on the basis of data not yet taken into account or accurately analyzed. However, as they stand, the relevant principles of GB-theory appear to be able to account for the Eastern Bengali facts I discuss here. Apart from these more theoretical concerns, this paper naturally has an important descriptive component too, which I hope will make it also interesting to linguists working in a different theoretical framework and may stimulate linguists specifically concerned with Bengali to explore further the intricascies of this area of Bengali grammer.

scholarly journals Modeling Style Rotation: Switching and Re-switching

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-128
Author(s):  
Edward Golosov ◽  
Stephen Satchell
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Statistical Properties ◽  
Relative Performance ◽  
Style Rotation ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Style Switching

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics and statistics of style rotation based on the Barberis–Shleifer model of style switching. Investors in stocks regard the forecasting of style-relative performance, especially style rotation, as highly desirable but difficult to achieve in practice. Whilst we do not claim to be able to do this in an empirical sense, we do provide a theoretical framework for addressing these issues. We develop some new results from the Barberis–Shleifer model which allows us to understand some of the time series properties of styles’ relative performance and determine the statistical properties of the time until a switch between styles. In conclusion, we discuss potential applications of our findings to empirical data.

scholarly journals Attitudes of Students of the University of Split towards Asylum Seekers as a Realistic and a Symbolic Threat in the Context of Risk Society

2020 ◽  
Vol XVIII (2) ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Vlaho Kovačević ◽  
Krunoslav Malenica ◽  
Igor Jelaska
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Scale Reliability ◽  
Stratified Sample ◽  
Reflexive Modernity ◽  
The University

The aim of this research was to analyze the attitudes of the student population at the University of Split towards asylum seekers as a multidimensional threat to the community in the context of risk society. We have approached the empirical data collection within a multidimensional theoretical framework. The first part of our subject interest is the theoretical direction of reflexive modernity and risk society proposed by Ulrich Beck, while the second part deals with the theoretical explanations regarding the perception of asylum seekers as a threat. In accordance with the research objective, a stratified sample of 286 Croatian students from the University of Split expressed their attitudes toward asylum seekers using a scale. Reliability of the used questionnaire was assessed by using test and retest method. Results indicate that students perceived asylum seekers as a statistically significantly more realistic than a symbolic threat. The respondents thus recognize one, equally important yet diffuse phenomenon showing interest among the respondents for the rational choice but also for respecting the individual’s subjectivity.

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