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2. The Transformation of Chinese Cultural Images of the Plague through Chinese Characters, Legends and Folkways1.
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Li, Ying
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CHINESE characters , *SOCIAL evolution , *SOCIAL attitudes , *FOLKLORE , *LEGENDS , *CHINESE people , *COVID-19 pandemic , *PREPAREDNESS - Abstract
The human experience of survival from a plague is about distinguishing the sick from the healthy as quickly as possible, establishing a barrier to stop the infection, and protecting healthy people. Nevertheless, the various quarantine rules and the acceptance and compliance of the population are a kind of battle between policy implementers and the public. This paper tries to understand how Chinese cultural attitudes (Henderson, 1984) unconsciously influence the Chinese people to be most cooperative with the strict containment and quarantine measures to confront the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article begins with the Chinese characters, exemplified by the four characters of disease and plague, to discuss how the pictograph nature and spatial structural way profoundly shaped the cultural mind. Then, through plague‐related Chinese legends, stories and folklore, the paper sets out the Chinese cultural attitudes which are also manifested in the analogical associations between disease, plague and seasons, the balance of the five elements of the universe and ghosts, gods and the government bureaucrats in the Kingdom of the Heaven. All of these approaches are well in line with Jung's method of associative amplification as a way to locate the archetypal wisdom that assures survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends in Strategic Management Research: The Case of Moderation Analysis.
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Li, Ming, Sharp, Barton M., Bergh, Donald D., and Vandenberg, Robert
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LEGENDS ,STRATEGIC planning ,RESEARCH management ,MYTHOLOGY ,CASE studies - Abstract
This paper examines whether methodological precedence in applying moderation analysis to strategic management research relies on myths and urban legends, and if doing so affected empirical conclusions, implications for theory development, and practical recommendations. An in‐depth analysis of 69 studies published in the Strategic Management Journal between 2000 and 2014 using moderation analysis finds that strategic management scholars typically rely on statistical myths and urban legends when applying moderation analysis including: (1) interpreting main effects separately from their significant interaction with other variables; (2) failing to report reliability values of interaction terms; and (3) relying on hierarchical approaches that can lead to interpretation errors. Further examples illustrate how these practices could lead researchers to draw incomplete and possibly inaccurate conclusions. Overall, problematic precedents have become the gold standards for testing and interpreting moderation models. Best practice recommendations for redirecting future research to more solid methodological grounding are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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4. Muhammad ibn al‐Zain's basin (baptistère de Saint Louis).
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Kłosowska, Anna
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RACE relations ,CRIMES against humanity ,RECRUITING & enlistment (Armed Forces) ,SLAVE trade ,METALWORK ,LEGENDS ,MILITARY decorations ,ANTISLAVERY movements - Abstract
The traditional baptismal font of the kings of France for centuries, the so‐called baptistère de Saint Louis is part of 1750s–1900s French national legend. Against all evidence, the name suggests that it is the spoils of Louis IX's crusade of 1250–1254. In fact, that large, copper vessel of exceptional quality, with gold and silver figural decoration, was probably produced in Damascus or Cairo in 1320–1340, almost a century after French downfall at the hands of the Mamluks in Northern Egypt in 1250. As part of the crown treasure of France and because of its outstanding artistry, it is one of the most thoroughly researched Islamicate objects in the Louvre. The association with Louis IX is pure fiction that illustrates the nonsensical and yet persuasive economies of French national legends. Paradoxically, the ransom that the French army paid to leave Egypt in 1250 was one of the stepping stones for the rise of the Mamluk dynasty, renowned for gold and silver incrusted metalwork objects, such as the basin. In another paradoxical turn, the Mamluks who ruled the Central Islamic area from 1250 to 1517 are the military elite recruited from enslaved non‐Muslims, including Turkic and Christian populations. The basin invites us to connect the points on the archipelago that includes France, the Eastern Mediterranean (fall of Acre, 1291), Cyprus and Armenia under the Lusignans, Sicily, Naples, and the South of Italy under the Angevins. Further still, this splendid and still enigmatic work of art brings together Ming China, Mongol Persia, Mamluk Islam, and Gothic France. This paper includes the earliest French description of the basin, from 1606, published in 1642 and reproduced later, including in 1742 (Piganiol de la Force, 1742). The paper also discusses the French tradition of medievalists opposing white supremacist fantasy of white, Christian medieval origins of the French nation. Finally, the paper notes some differences between French and U.S. mentalités in relation to race, in the context of recent events (2019), based on the French ideal of republican universalism, citing such symptomatic events as the replacing of the word "race" by "sex" in the French constitution, the reluctance to base activism on collective identitaire claims, the reluctance to think in terms of race and use race‐related or communautariste terms with which to think about complex social, historical, or artistic rights and responsibilities, and the prohibition to collect race‐based statistics, but also, often in advance of similar laws enacted in other countries, such acts as the Taubira law of 2001 that recognizes France's responsibility for slavery and slave trade beginning in the fifteenth century as a crime against humanity and provides for teaching, research, and commemoration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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5. The stories of four process safety legends.
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Willey, Ronald J. and Baulch, Arthur
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LEGENDS ,PERIODICAL articles ,EDITORIAL boards ,SAFETY - Abstract
In May of 2020, the editorial board of Process Safety Progress recommended that an article in the journal be dedicated to process safety legends as inspiration to others working in the field. This first article summaries the process safety career of four people: Daniel A. Crowl, Hans Pasman, Pete Lodal, and John Murphy. Combined they represent 180 years of process safety practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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6. Multidisciplinary Flux and Multiple Research Traditions Within Cognitive Science.
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Cooper, Richard P.
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COGNITIVE science ,FLUX (Energy) ,LEGENDS - Abstract
Núñez et al. (2019) argue that cognitive science has failed either "to transition to a mature inter‐disciplinary coherent field" (p. 782) or "to generate a successful [Lakatosian] research program" (p. 789). We argue that the former was never the intention of many early researchers within the field, while the latter is an inappropriate criterion by which to judge an entire discipline. However, we concur with Núñez et al. (2019) that the individual disciplinary balance within cognitive science has changed over time. Of particular concern is the fact that the use of computational methods appears to be on the wane. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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7. Legends of Allergy/Immunology: Thomas A.E. Platts‐Mills.
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Chapman, Martin D.
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ATOPY ,ALLERGIES ,FOOD allergy ,DERMATOPHAGOIDES pteronyssinus ,LEGENDS ,IMMUNOLOGY - Abstract
The article discusses the accomplishments and contributions of British allergy researcher Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills in the field of allergy and immunology. Topics include his medical training and fellowship in the U.S., his research on airborne allergens which led to the development of allergen avoidance procedures, products and devices and his merit award for his research on alpha-gal.
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- 2019
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