Journeying Forth with the MAGNUM Group…: A Few Milestones along the Way to Digital Television Tape Recording

Author(s):  
J.J. Peters
Author(s):  
Hilde Roos

Opera, race, and politics during apartheid South Africa form the foundation of this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a so-called colored cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape. The La Traviata Affair: Opera in the Time of Apartheid charts Eoan’s opera activities from its inception in 1933 until the cessation of its work by 1980. By accepting funding from the apartheid government and adhering to apartheid conditions, the group, in time, became politically compromised, resulting in the rejection of the group by their own community and the cessation of opera production. However, their unquestioned acceptance of and commitment to the art of opera lead to the most extraordinary of performance trajectories. During apartheid, the Eoan Group provided a space for colored people to perform Western classical art forms in an environment that potentially transgressed racial boundaries and challenged perceptions of racial exclusivity in the genre of opera. This highly significant endeavor and the way it was thwarted at the hands of the apartheid regime is the story that unfolds in this book.


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
María-del-Rosario Fernández-Falero

The challenge of the electronic commerce for the new century is going to be the step to the digital television, so that we go away to having to adapt at the rate of a television been founded on the diffusion, to a set of services of digital video based on the access. Of this form, the spectator of television is going to meet the possibility of interacting with the way, which supposes a change in the industry of the broadcast, so then though till now they were the distribution companies of information and entertainment the only ones with possibilities of controlling such events, the possibility of interaction the way on the part of the spectators of the digital television it will allow them intervening in the diffusion of information, which supposes a significant change for the hearing of the television. The companies must elaborate contents directed a users who are going to have access to will: it is necessary to offer them what want, when they want - this is VOD (video on demand) - Then the digital television not only is going to modify the way of doing television, but also the way of seeing television. The electronic market is guaranteeing positions in the commercial Spanish panorama, growth that becomes clear in the increase so much of the number of users as of the volume of business, of the number of economic operations by Internet and of the number of web pages of companies dedicated to the trade across the Net. This positive evolution of the market shows how a way technologically so new as it is Internet, has allowed that in only 15 years it could speak about a historical evolution of the same one. This makes foresee that the step and evolution of the electronic market from Internet to the digital television could have a similar evolution in acceptance and consolidation. Finally, the future of the electronic commerce not only is subject to the appearance of new commercial models, but also to the technology; this way, the following step, technologically speaking, it is that of the digital television, which interactive and to allow to the user a use similar to that of Internet, does to the being that the challenge of the electronic trade is to go on to this way and to evolve in agreement with the characteristics of the same one. The first problem to which one is going to face this market is that of the user's change: in Spain the Internet user (according to the AECE, Spanish Association of Electronic Trade) is for the most part a male, with an age understood between 25 and 34 years; the television, nevertheless, is a very spread way and within reach of all, which will suppose a change both in the content and in the way of presenting the information (definitively, the product that is wanted to sell). El reto del comercio electrónico para el nuevo siglo va a ser el paso a la televisión digital, de manera que nos vamos a tener que adaptar al cambio de una televisión fundada en la difusión, a un conjunto de servicios de video digital basados en el acceso. De esta forma, el espectador de televisión se va a encontrar con la posibilidad de interactuar con el medio, lo que supone un cambio en la industria de la teledifusión, pues si bien hasta ahora eran las empresas distribuidoras de información y entretenimiento las únicas con posibilidades de controlar tales eventos, la posibilidad de interacción con el medio por parte de los espectadores de la televisión digital permitirá a estos intervenir en la difusión de información, lo que supone un cambio significativo para la audiencia de la televisión. Las empresas deben elaborar contenidos dirigidos a un usuario que va a tener acceso a voluntad: hay que ofrecerle lo que quiera, cuando quiera -es decir VOD (video on demand)- Luego la televisión digital no sólo va a modificar la forma de hacer televisión, sino también la forma de ver televisión. El mercado electrónico está afianzando posiciones en el panorama comercial español, crecimiento que se hace patente en el aumento tanto del número de usuarios como del volumen de negocio, del número de operaciones económicas por Internet y del número de páginas web de empresas dedicadas al comercio a través de la Red. Esta evolución positiva del mercado muestra cómo un medio tecnológicamente tan joven como es Internet, ha permitido que en apenas 15 años se pueda hablar de una evolución histórica del mismo. Esto hace prever que el paso y evolución del mercado electrónico desde Internet a la televisión digital pueda tener una evolución parecida en aceptación y consolidación. Finalmente, el futuro del comercio electrónico no sólo está sujeto a la aparición de nuevos modelos comerciales, sino también a la tecnología; así, el siguiente paso, tecnológicamente hablando, es el de la televisión digital, la cual por ser interactiva y permitir al usuario un uso parecido al de Internet, hace que el reto del comercio electrónico sea pasar a este medio y evolucionar de acuerdo con las características del mismo. Uno de los primeros problemas a los que se va a enfrentar este mercado es el del cambio de usuario: en España el usuario de Internet (según la AECE, Asociación Española de Comercio Electrónico)es mayoritariamente varón, con una edad comprendida entre 25 y 34 años; la televisión, sin embargo, es un medio muy difundido y al alcance de todos, lo que supondrá un cambio tanto en el contenido como en la forma de presentar la información (en definitiva, el producto que se desea vender).


2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hortigüela Alcalá ◽  
Alejandra Hernando Garijo

AbstractIt seems important to consider students’ attitudes towards physical education (PE), and the way they learn sports. The present study examines students’ perceptions of motivation and achievement in PE after experiencing three consecutive sport units. Two hundred and thirty seven students from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade in a high school in Burgos (Spain) and two teachers agreed to participate. They were divided into two groups in order to compare two instructional approaches. The experimental group (A), 128 students, experienced Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU), while the control group (B), 109 students, experienced a technical-traditional approach. Each group was taught by a different teacher. The study followed a mixed-method research design with quantitative (questionnaire) and qualitative (interview) data. Results revealed that group A showed greater motivation and achievement in PE than group B. Significant differences were found in achievement. Participants with better academic results in group A were more positive in sport participation. Meanwhile, students who practiced more extracurricular sports in group B were more actively involved in sport. Teachers disagreed greatly on the way sport should be taught in PE.


2021 ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
Tony Silva

The conclusion overviews the main themes of the book. It also argues that we need to eliminate prejudice and expectations of heterosexuality, not shame straight men who have sex with men for having an “incorrect” identity. Criticizing them for their identity makes it seem as though individuals are the problem when in fact it is larger structural forces that shape the way people identify and act. Heterosexuality is many things at once: an identity, an institution, a way of relating to the world, and a culture. Like all cultures, it has institutions that undergird it and communities that are connected to it. Most straight men do not have sex with other men, of course. Those who do, however, show how and why many men come to identify as straight and masculine. A key conclusion is this: heterosexuality should be considered less a reflection of attractions and sexual behaviors and more an indication of the way people live. This includes belonging to certain institutions, having relationships with particular people, feeling that it is necessary to identify as straight to be masculine, and of course enjoying being part of a socially dominant group. A shorthand for all these things is “straight culture.”


Africa ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tait

Opening ParagraphSince the household contains members drawn from the larger minor lineage group, we may expect to find that it functions within the framework of the latter. This is indeed the way in which Konkomba think of the household—as part of something larger, as something that is now isolated from and now merged in the larger group. The phrase ‘Ti je mfum mba’ (we are one) may refer to a household, a minor lineage group, a major lineage group, a clan, a tribe or the whole Konkomba people. When speaking of co-operation they speak in terms of the minor lineage group rather than in terms of the household. We shall try to differentiate the role of the household as a unit of reciprocal help, of social control, and of instruction, &c.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Qiongshan Liu ◽  
Weichao Li

Respiratory failure is the most common clinical symptom, seriously endangering people’s health, which is mainly caused by a series of reasons, leading to serious respiratory dysfunction and severe pulmonary respiratory disorders, damaging the pulmonary airway function, and causing disability to maintain normal human gas exchange activities. At present, the main treatment of respiratory failure is to use the ventilator to help patients exchange gas and keep their breathing unobstructed. The nursing method is also around the artificial airway mechanical ventilation. The nursing of patients with respiratory failure is mainly respiratory nursing and psychological nursing. In this paper, the main research is to explore the way of severe nursing of respiratory failure. Before the nursing of respiratory failure, we should carry out nursing detection of the ventilator and test its performance, tightness, pipeline safety, and airway patency. Then carrying on the respiratory failure mechanical ventilation nursing and clarifying its mechanical ventilation nursing process is the main work of intensive care, at the same time, giving consideration to the psychological nursing of respiratory failure and implementing comprehensive nursing. In this paper, 50 patients were selected and divided into group A and group B; group A was given comprehensive nursing, and group B was given general nursing. The experimental results show that a series of situations in group A are more optimistic than those in group B. There was no doubt that the PH value of the two groups changed significantly 6 months after discharge. The pO2 value of group A was higher than that before discharge, while the pCO2 value of group B was unstable and increased. The pO2 value of group A was 55.52 before discharge and 62.36 six months after discharge. The pCO2 value of group A was 54.31 before discharge and 50.61 six months after discharge. The pCO2 value of group B was 55.23 before discharge and 57.34 six months after discharge.


Author(s):  
Raúl Riesco Granadino ◽  
Javier Alfonso Cendón

Internet based networks and core competences; the way we communicate with each other and global economic pressure have changed the way we innovate. In this chapter, a new business model and work philosophy based on “open innovation” are presented. IDTVOS (INTECO Digital Television Operating System), developed by INTECO Labs dept., in collaboration with partners and end users, is the most recent success and serves as an example of this model. IDTVOS, a DTT decoder operating system, provides better interaction and accessibility to digital television services for disabled users. This project is a clear example of open innovation where the technologies developed provide added value for citizens, particularly those with more difficulties, while, at the same time, the knowledge and experience is open and shared with industry to create a new market.


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