An Appreciation of Sir Alexander Cunningham’s Explorations at Taxila in the Light of His Methodological Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 140-148
Author(s):  
Ifqut Shaheen ◽  
◽  
M. Ashraf Khan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Archaeological Methods

Indian archaeology adopted sounder and viable conceptual tools for fieldwork in the later nineteenth century. The name of Sir Alexander Cunningham, the two times head of Archaeological Survey of India, is of special significance in this connection. This paper particularly focuses on his methods for archaeological survey and data collection. In the first place, Cunningham’s arrival into India has been traced. Next, his archaeological methods and approach have been delineated. It is followed by outlining what Cunningham did at Taxila especially in line with his conceptual understanding. Finally, all this has further been related to the intellectual environs of the time.

scholarly journals COMPLEX THINKING suPPOrTING CArE sTrATEGIEs FOr THE PrEVENTION OF sTDs/AIDs IN ADOLEsCENCE

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 859-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ítalo Rodolfo Silva ◽  
Francisca Georgina Macêdo de Sousa ◽  
Marcelle Miranda da Silva ◽  
Thiago Privado da Silva ◽  
Joséte Luzia Leite
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Study Cohort ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Complex Thinking ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
Related Process

ABsTrACTThis was qualitative research performed with 15 nursing professionals of a study cohort on adolescent health, in the capital of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. The objective of the study was to discuss nursing care strategies for the prevention of STDs/AIDS in adolescence, from the perspective of complexity. A semi-structured interview was used for data collection from January to August of 2012. Grounded Theory was used as the methodological framework. The category "Starting points for the nursing care of adolescents in the context of STDs/AIDS" is presented, which discusses aspects related to interdisciplinarity; multidimensionality and specificities of the adolescence-related process, in the midst of vulnerabilities to STDs/AIDS, thereby revealing the importance of contemplating the phenomenon as delimited by its complexity.

The Virtual Infernal: Philippe de Loutherbourg, William Beckford and the Spectacle of the Sublime

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain McCalman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
William Beckford ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Drury Lane

Abstract In the autumn of 1781, shortly after being elected to the British Academy of Art as a landscape painter, Alsatian-born artist Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg was hired by the wealthy young aesthete William Beckford to prepare a private birthday spectacle at his mansion in Wiltshire. De Loutherbourg, who was also chief scenographer at Drury Lane theatre and the inventor of a recent commercial “moving picture” entertainment called the Eidophusikon, promised to produce “a mysterious something that the eye has not seen nor the heart conceived.” Beckford wanted an Oriental spectacle that would completely ravish the senses of his guests, not least so that he could enjoy a sexual tryst with a thirteen year old boy, William Courtenay, and Louisa Beckford, his own cousin’s wife. The resulting three day party and spectacle staged over Christmas 1781 became one of the scandals of the day, and ultimately forced William Beckford into decades of exile in Europe to escape accusations of sodomy. However, this Oriental spectacle also had a special significance for the history of Romantic aesthetics and modern-day cinema. Loutherbourg and Beckford’s collaboration provided the inspiration for William to write his scintillating Gothic novel, Vathek, and impelled Philippe himself into revising his moving-picture program in dramatically new ways. Ultimately this saturnalian party of Christmas 1781 constituted a pioneering experiment in applying the aesthetic of the sublime to virtual reality technology. It also led Loutherbourg to anticipate the famous nineteenth-century “Phantasmagoria” of French showman, Gaspard Robertson, by producing in 1782 a miniature Gothic movie scene based on the Pandemonium episode in Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Who We Are

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-46
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Fitzpatrick ◽  
Matthew L. Spialek
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Recovery Processes ◽  
Before And After

Chapter two describes the methodological framework and design for this project. The authors present a discussion of the methods used to select persons for both face-to-face interviews and online surveys, along with the follow-up strategies used to talk with civilians and organizational officials involved in the recovery process. This chapter discusses both the approach to the data collection, as well as what specific data the authors were interested in acquiring as it pertained to understanding how displacement and recovery processes varied across individual survivors. Finally, the chapter discusses in detail the numerous strategies employed to tell the survivors’ stories—pictures, maps, tables, charts, and narratives, along with additional data from secondary sources to help characterize the places where survivors were living both before and after the disaster.

scholarly journals Teacher knowledge of error analysis in differential calculus

Pythagoras ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunice K. Moru ◽  
Makomosela Qhobela ◽  
Poka Wetsi ◽  
John Nchejane
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Error Analysis ◽  
Teacher Knowledge ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Differential Calculus ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Error Identification ◽  
Knowledge For Teaching

The study investigated teacher knowledge of error analysis in differential calculus. Two teachers were the sample of the study: one a subject specialist and the other a mathematics education specialist. Questionnaires and interviews were used for data collection. The findings of the study reflect that the teachers’ knowledge of error analysis was characterised by the following assertions, which are backed up with some evidence: (1) teachers identified the errors correctly, (2) the generalised error identification resulted in opaque analysis, (3) some of the identified errors were not interpreted from multiple perspectives, (4) teachers’ evaluation of errors was either local or global and (5) in remedying errors accuracy and efficiency were emphasised more than conceptual understanding. The implications of the findings of the study for teaching include engaging in error analysis continuously as this is one way of improving knowledge for teaching.

scholarly journals Production of nursing thesis and dissertations in portugal, 2000-2010: a bibliometric study

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida Baggio ◽  
Manuel Alves Rodrigues ◽  
Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann ◽  
Maria do Céu Aguiar Barbieri Figueiredo ◽  
Margarida Maria da Silva Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Bibliometric Study ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The University

The study identifies Portuguese nursing research, produced in the period 2000 - 2010, published via Master's dissertations and doctoral theses, analyzed according to the following variables: institution training masters and doctors, studies' distribution by institution, study supervisors and co-supervisors with their respective titles, supervisors' productions, keywords/descriptors, topics studied, theoretical framework, methodological framework, subjects, data collection and data analysis. In this exploratory, descriptive and bibliometric study, dissertations from the Catholic University of Portugal and the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Porto were collected, as were doctoral theses from both these institutions and the University of Lisbon, totalling 41 theses and 273 dissertations. The results describe the theoretical, methodological and bibliometric aspects of the strictu sensu scientific production of Portuguese nursing. It is concluded that nurse researchers, in having knowledge of the specific areas of the studies, can improve them to achieve quality and excellence of the training of Master's and doctoral students.

scholarly journals EFFORT TO IMPROVE CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF NATURAL RESOURCE-RELATED ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF CIRCUIT LEARNING MODEL

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riski Fitriana Sativa ◽  
Soegiyanto Soegiyanto ◽  
Sadiman Sadiman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Academic Year

<em>The objective of this research is to investigate the improvement of conceptual understanding of natural resource-related economic activities through the application of Circuit Learning model. This research used classroom action research with two cycles. Its data were collected through in-depth interview, observation, test, and documentation. They were validated by using content validity and data collection technique triangulation. The data were analyzed by using the Miles &amp; Huberman’s interactive model of analysis. The result of the research shows that prior to the treatment 5 out of 31 students (16.13%) fulfilled the minimal learning completeness criterion of 70. Following the treatments, the number of the students who fulfilled the criterion was 13 students (42%) in Cycle I and 26 (83.87%) in Cycle II respectively.</em> <em>Thus, the Circuit Learning model can improve the conceptual understanding of natural resource-related economic activities of the students in Grade IV of State Primary School Karangasem IV No. 204 of Surakarta in Academic Year 2017/2018.</em>

scholarly journals PU SAPI DAN LEMBU AGRA: KAJIAN ANTROPONIMI BERDASARKAN ISI PRASASTI JAWA KUNO (ABAD KE-9–16 M)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Chacuk Tri Sasongko ◽  
Nini Susanti Susanti
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Sociocultural Development ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Animal Names ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Javanese literary works, especially the Panji tales, often feature human characters with animal names, such as Kuda Narawangsa, Kebo Kanigara, and Kidangwalangka. This naming phenomenon can also be found in old Javanese inscriptions. Recent studies generally concluded that such naming tradition occurred during the Kadiri-Majapahit era, and this was closely related to the banner of the army and the identity of <em>makasirkasir</em>. This study aims to reveal the motivation behind the naming tradition and the relationship between personal name, social status, and occupation of the person so named throughout the ancient Javanese era. This study uses Nyström’s onomastical approach, especially the concept of anthroponomics, namely the presuppositional meanings of proper names consisting of categorial, associative, and emotive meanings. This research utilized archaeological methods which involved data collection, data processing, and interpretation. Results show that this naming phenomenon was generally motivated by people’s appreciation of certain animals that had a special place and played an important role in the ancient Javanese society and culture. The correlation between the names and the characters’ social status and occupation has been found to be influenced by the sociocultural development during the Ancient Mataram and Kadiri-Majapahit periods.</p>

Applied tensional analysis: Engaging practitioners and the constitutive shift

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J Mease
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Organizational Experiences

This article introduces applied tensional analysis as a methodological framework that integrates constitutive ontologies (that depict organizations as processes in constant states of emerging or becoming) with the applied need for practitioners to understand and navigate the everyday exigencies of their organizational experiences. Applied tensional analysis centers analysis on tensions as the key to understanding organizational becoming in contrast to approaches that assume organizations are stable entities and consequently focus on patterns, themes, or laws. The applied tensional analysis framework offers four analytical foci (context, tensions, enacted responses, and repertoires) organized into two loops (analytical and change) as guides for data collection and analysis. While the analytical loop orients scholars to the current and past configurations of an organization’s emergence, the change loop emphasizes the multitude of available responses to a particular tension and the constitutive implications of those responses for organizational becoming. As a new methodological approach, applied tensional analysis suggests that organizational knowledge requires more than awareness of what an organization is and includes awareness of organizational potential and what an organization might become.

The Marlowe corpus revisited

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Ilsemann
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Christopher Marlowe ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Cult Of Personality ◽  
Traditional Scholarship

Abstract Following Dr Barber’s unfortunate criticism (Barber, 2018, Marlowe and overreaching: a misuse of stylometry. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34:1–12), in which she, with an obvious lack of familiarity with them, subjected the Rolling Delta procedures used, to the caveats of Delta and traditional stylometry, this article makes use of an extended methodological framework and applies Rolling Delta to the target texts with a totality of reference texts. The outcome is different from the expected, since the author of Tamburlaine 1 and 2 emerges as stylistically also dominant in the anonymous play The Tragedy of Locrine, in Kyd’s closet play Cornelia, in Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar and David and Bethsabe. In contrast, the official Marlowe corpus relates stylistically to contemporary authors, but not to the two Tamburlaines. Traditional scholarship and learning do not refute conjectures of misattributed Peele plays and there are also strong indications that plays associated with Lord Strange’s Men nominally became Marlowe plays when Henslowe acquired them in 1594 for his Admiral’s Men and printers made use of the cult of personality, in which the author’s death became an important factor in the marketing of printed playbooks. Otherwise, there is no documentary and empirical evidence that Marlowe wrote the plays in question. The canonization of the plays occurred only in the nineteenth century, and the Marlowe we have inherited—the poet, spy, atheist, homosexual, and so on—is almost entirely an invention of the twentieth century (Hooks, 2018, Making Marlowe. In Melnikoff, K. and Knutson, R. (eds), Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade. Cambridge: University Press, p. 98).

Energy and railway workshops: An archaeology of the FEPASA complex (Jundiaí, Brazil)

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan M Cano Sanchiz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Transport Industry ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Written Sources

Railway workshops overlapped the fields of energy and transport and witnessed profound technological evolution over time due to changes in energy production, distribution and consumption. Here, I use archaeological methods to investigate the railway workshop owned by the Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro in Jundiaí (Brazil), in operation from the end of the nineteenth century to 1998 and today known as FEPASA Complex. In doing so, I aim to highlight the role of energy and power supply in the evolution of railway workshops, and how this influenced its organization of space and labour. I state that, even when written sources are available and abundant, archaeology can offer an important angle to understand the transport industry.

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