Ein Zuhause, das mehr als Heimat ist

My contribution interrogates how to conceive belonging and how to clarify conceptual connotations of this and other concepts as ›home‹ or a ›dwelling in a place‹ according to their meaning for orienting our social life and identities. Methodically, I start with the phenomenological consideration of ›operative concepts‹ and how these might be reflexively brought into work with experiencing loss of belonging, negation of a home to stay in, and infraction of identity as they are expressed in personal life-stories.

Dance as therapy: embodiment, kinesthetic empathy and the case of contact improvisation

Dance as a form of expression of the embodied consciousness has been a part of phenomenological considerations for some decades now, thanks to key works such as those by Sheets-Johnstone. However, the possible applications of dance and the phenomenological consideration of the consciousness of the dancing subject in treatments that are thought to refer to bodily ruptures, such as the ones we find when considering alimentary disorders, is yet an area rather unexplored. This is precisely the general topic and the first approach that I propose in this article from the consideration of notions such as embodiment, habit, and body image, notions that are imminently phenomenological taken from the works of Merleau-Ponty, and from the consideration of contact improvisation as a way to overcome the ruptures that become evident in the tactile bodily feeling of the subject with alimentary disorders.

Methodology of research into the earth's crust structure via remote sensing technologies

Five fundamentals to investigate Earth's crust structure using remote aerospace technologies are given conceptual and phenomenological consideration. The first principle refers to the paragenesis of the oppositely directed physical forces. These are, namely, the force of attraction, and the force of repulsion. The second principle underlies the two groups of the geological driving forces (internal and external ones) that determine the appearance and the evolution of the lithospheric structure. The third principle of applying remote sensing application for geological purposes is based on two types of deformations: plastic (quasiplastic) rock deformation and brittle (quasibrittle) deformation. The fourth principle underpins dynamics of both permanent and interrupted energy-mass-exchange in the natural Earth's geosystems, which is a property of matter and its forms of motion. The fifth principle states that specific modern landscapes and their anomalies (being geoindicators of interior structure of the geological substrate and energy-mass exchange) are differentiated by the spectral features of the reflected, absorbed, and emitted electromagnetic radiation in variable wave ranges. As a result, they are distinguished by these characteristics and may be imaged and identified via remote sensing data.

Safety Design and Evaluation in a Large-Scale Japan Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor

As a next-generation plant, a large-scale Japan sodium-cooled fast reactor (JSFR) adopts a number of innovative technologies in order to achieve economic competitiveness, enhanced reliability, and safety. This paper describes safety requirements for JSFR conformed to the defense-in-depth principle in IAEA. Specific design features of JSFR are a passive reactor shutdown system and a recriticality-free concept against anticipated transients without scram (ATWS) in design extension conditions (DECs). A fully passive decay heat removal system with natural circulation is also introduced for design-basis events (DBEs) and DECs. In this paper, the safety design accommodation in JSFR was validated by safety analyses for representative DBEs: primary pump seizure and long-term loss-of-offsite power accidents. The safety analysis also showed the effectiveness of the passive shutdown system against a typical ATWS. Severe accident analysis supported by safety experiments and phenomenological consideration led to the feasibility of in-vessel retention without energetic recriticality. Moreover, a probabilistic safety assessment indicated to satisfy the risk target.

Getting the Correct Answer

This paper investigates the question: What does it mean to experience correctness in school mathematics? Drawing on interviews and observations of classroom interaction, the author describes possible experiences of students when they get an answer, when they cannot get the correct answer, and when they get the right answer but do not understand how they got it. Questions surrounding student perseverance in getting the correct answer and the relationship between power and the possession of a correct answer are considered. Emerging issues of schools as correctional institutions, teachers and textbooks as sole authorities, and mathematical truth and rightness as absolutes are discussed. Through a phenomenological consideration of the embodied experiences of students, the author challenges the prevalent preoccupation with correctness and offers an alternative pedagogy that is informed by a sense of ethics rather than correctness. As students begin to view correctness as embedded in incorrectness, maybe their experiences of ambiguity and uncertainty can be welcomed. Perhaps school mathematics can embrace human experiences.