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The brain is a complex dynamic system whose current state is inextricably coupled to awareness of past, current, and anticipated future threats and opportunities that continually affect awareness and behavioral goals and decisions. Brain activity is driven on multiple time scales by an ever-evolving flow of sensory, proprioceptive, and idiothetic experience. Neuroimaging experiments seek to isolate and focus on some aspect of these complex dynamics to better understand how human experience, cognition, behavior, and health are supported by brain activity. Here we consider an event-related data modeling approach that seeks to parse experience and behavior into a set of time-delimited events. We distinguish between event processes themselves, that unfold through time, and event markers that record the experiment timeline latencies of event onset, offset, and any other event phase transitions. Precise descriptions of experiment events (sensory, motor, or other) allow participant experience and behavior to be interpreted in the context either of the event itself or of all or any experiment events. We discuss how events in neuroimaging experiments have been, are currently, and should best be identified and represented with emphasis on the importance of modeling both events and event context for meaningful interpretation of relationships between brain dynamics, experience, and behavior. We show how text annotation of time series neuroimaging data using the system of Hierarchical Event Descriptors (HED; https://www.hedtags.org) can more adequately model the roles of both events and their ever-evolving context than current data annotation practice and can thereby facilitate data analysis, meta-analysis, and mega-analysis. Finally, we discuss ways in which the HED system must continue to expand to serve the evolving needs of neuroimaging research.

Snowfall/cover and snowmelt are essential determinants of winter soil processes/events that may force the biogeochemical dynamics of soils in temperate regions. Increasing variability of the European hydroclimate is expected to lead to more frequent intermittent warm periods, which cause snowmelt during winter and rapidly mobilize large amounts of dissolved organic matter (DOM). This study, conducted at the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory in Germany, seeks to address a significant gap in understanding the molecular impacts of snowmelt-induced DOM flows and their ability to alter soil ecosystems rapidly. During two snowmelt events between January and March 2021, we observed that DOM concentration and composition varied more in forest soil seepage than in grassland soil seepage. Forest seepage showed a pronounced DOM flux peak and synchronous increases in the relative abundances of aromatic DOM components, indicating surface-derived transport of plant litter carbon. In the grassland, however, peak DOM fluxes were characterized by a marked increase in nitrogen-containing (N-containing) DOM components, indicating a predominance of microbial carbon. Notably, the unique DOM components specific to each ecosystem increased during peak fluxes in the forest but decreased in the grassland. We suggest that an overall higher molecular richness and the broader functional metabolic potentials in grassland may account for its relatively greater DOM stability compared to the forest during peak snowmelt events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the work of algorithmic poetry, Máquina Cóndor (4.0), by Chilean artist Demian Schopf. The work uses a combinatorial system to generate alterations in a Gongorine poem based on data about the stock market and economic wars. It highlights how the author manipulates the particularities of generative literature to expand the fields of action of literature. Additionally, it observes how the machine evidences the presence of the reader and their effect on the contingency of the system that articulates the current reality. The work seeks to question the role of the author-programmer in generative literature and to evidence the relationship between the subject and the capitalist social structure. [Extracted from the article]

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This article is a collaborative commentary on the first volume of a two-part anthology of works by Hayden White, The Ethics of Narrative, edited by Robert Doran. Informed by the collection and inspired by the co-authors, in this paper we discuss White's writing. Herman Paul compares White's constructivism with that of Berger and Luckmann, and discusses the extent to which the tools of historical narrative criticism developed by White are expeditious in analyzing stories about the climate crisis. Kalle Pihlainen captures White's writing in a three-stage process of emancipatory politics of history, to further reconfigure it using the concept of fidelity. Jakub Muchowski writes about the relationship between the titular ethics and politics, asking to what extent White regarded them as separate spheres of practice, and whether in choosing the former White was apolitical. Ewa Domańska considers how White's critical approach to history might help to explore possibilities of bridging Indigenous and Western approaches to the past as well as reflects on White's attitude toward metaphysics. Finally, Miguel Valderrama considers the ways in which White uses the concept of event. The exchange closes with Robert Doran's response to all the commentaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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How does agency emerge eventfully in processes of organizational becoming? This article aims to address this question by developing a process theory of agency based on Gilbert Simondon's philosophical writings on individuation as a communicative phenomenon and Brian Massumi's writings on affect. This theory views agency as an affective force, expressed as a communicative event, that governs the transition from one process of individuation to another, producing an enhanced ability to act and potentially leading to a collective process of transindividuation that is essential to organizational becoming. In turn, this article not only offers novel theoretical as well as methodological insights for organizational research, but also highlights researchers' ethical responsibilities toward those whose individuation is precarious and who may not be able to partake in certain processes of organizational becoming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article considers the problem of measuring risks and threats created by the nature and charac-teristics of the human factor and affecting the efficiency and safety of activities at the micro level of the economy, in particular, in the environment of scientific and design organisations during the development of restoration projects at immovable cultural heritage sites located in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. A literature review of sources covering the problem under study is carried out. The objective of the study is formulated, which consists in attempting to measure the impact of human factor risks on the efficiency of scientific and design work, and the tasks are outlined, the solution of which will allow the objective to be achieved. The study focuses on the assessment of complex damage and indirect losses, and the subject is defined as the methods for measuring the impact of these risks. The methods and tools of the planned study are defined. A number of intermediate author՚s results are obtained, clarifying the nature of the human factor, the conceptual apparatus of the topic, the classification of risks, threats and dangers that can cause significant damage to an economic entity, market activity, business reputation and brand value. Partial results were discussed and five-stage conclusions were drawn. Promising directions for further joint research have been identified by the authors of the article, which can be considered as the starting point and the beginning of the path in the systematic study of the problem of human factor hazard metrics.

Since the middle of the last century, and especially in the contemporary era, dominated by the image, the power of a historical fact is not only political, social and archival, but also cinematographic: from its very beginnings, cinema possesses a strong capacity for rewriting that can produce a historical consciousness superior to that of any other text. Examining the specific case of the Spanish Civil War up to the collapse of the Franco dictatorship, the essay offers a reflection on the process of historical re-appropriation conducted in Spain through cinema. The cinema is not merely a summary of history’s events, but offers the possibility of establishing a historical-aesthetic relationship with the spectator that is functional to the understanding of one’s individuality connected to the processes of collective memorisation.

T he study interprets Alain Badiou’s philosophy using Vincent Descombes’ Le même et l’autre (The Same and the Other). We believe that placing Badiou in the context of French philosophy of the 20th century can show him in a new light. Descombes’ book forms an interpretive framework from which the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and G. W. F. Hegel emerge. We perceive Badiou as an author who connects two phases of French philosophy (postulated by Descombes): the period of the three H’s (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger) and the period of (post)structuralism (Nietzsche, Freud, Marx). T he study will try to show connections, but also differences, between these concrete philosophies. The goal, in the meantime, is to shed light on Badiou, who can still be described as an (sufficiently) author who isn’t reflected, through the philosophy of authors who have already been reflected. We will move into the center of Badiou’s thinking through his inaesthetics.

Deleuze's monograph on Foucault is often construed as a 'metaphysical fiction' (Frédéric Gros), which would attribute to Foucault a metaphysics of Deleuze's own issue. Notably, Paul Patton has argued that Deleuze thereby deeply mischaracterises Foucault's concepts of actuality, history, power and philosophy itself. Against this view, I argue that Deleuze's interpretation in Foucault clarifies the virtual force ontology that the two thinkers effectively developed in common. This ontological framework not only resolves Patton's specific objections; it also outlines a philosophy of the event demonstrating the conceptual consistency between Foucault and Deleuze on fundamental questions of philosophical critique and political agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the significance of the Arbaeen event as one of the most important religious tourism events for Shiites, the present study aims to explore the contexts and reasons for the enthusiastic participation of Iranian Shiites, as well as their experiences and perceptions of this activity, using a social interpretive approach. The research methodology is qualitative. Data was collected using conventional methods in ethnography and analyzed through grounded theory. The research results indicate that factors such as the inefficiency of the internal decision-making system, due to the government’s and administrative system’s encounters with various crises in political, economic, social, and cultural domains, and social inequality, play roles in the participation in this event. This inequality is interpreted by participants as a sense of religious discrimination and a lack of rights. The semantic reconstruction of the pilgrims’ experience and understanding of participating in this event serves as a channel for social participation and solidarity, cultural change, and a communication bridge between stakeholders and executive officials. The core category suggests that the Arbaeen pilgrimage event acts as an alternative to existing constraints.

The article reflects on Alain Badiou’s philosophy of the subject as a powerful resource in rethinking the link between philosophy and politics. It argues that there is a significant gap between power and governance as “management” without the true subject of politics as such. Modern politics must, therefore, constantly constitute the reasons for the existence of this subject, although it, like society and state, already disappeared with the advent of the post-imperial sovereignty or appears as a relic of the historical deterioration of the meaning of democracy. One of the main goals of the present paper is to inquire whether Badiou’s manifestos of thinking politics apart from the structural normatives actually mean that there are still potentials for the advent of “the revolutionary event” or do we today live in a world of “wars without revolutions”; the latter would suggest that politics has been left without a subject, and society without a substance, which is why the logic of absolute control is at work as the total mobilization of transcendent and immanent power.

The article is dedicated to researching the communication functionality of telegram channels, which should be used for organizing educational events. Attention is focused on the advantages of the cloud messenger and its threats, which are intensified against the background of PSYOP. The purpose of the study is to determine the technical aspects of the functioning of telegram channels and outline the principles of their content in organizing educational events. The analytical- synthetic method was used to determine the state of scientific treatment of the problem and outline the nature of the main terms. The method of synthesis and generalization optimized the theoretical presentation. The method of observation and analysis of information products was used to evaluate the content of the educational Telegram channel. The communication functionality of the Telegram channel is differentiated into two types: basic and additional. The tools that can be used when filling your Telegram channel, particularly on educational topics, are detailed within each. The following functionality of the messenger is detailed: basic (communication in Telegram chats; sending text, voice and video notifications; synchronization of content); additional (creating chatbots, closed or open groups and channels; blocking; automatic account deletion; registration of several accounts in Telegram; scheduled sending of messages; silent sending of messages; self-destruction of content; sorting of notifications by folders; search for videos and GIF files; pinning notifications at the top of the chat; disabling messages from the annoying subscriber; using hashtags). Telegram is a cross-platform cloud messenger with powerful, unique communication and information potential. It has quickly evolved from a platform for communication to a multiservice platform, where numerous resources are concentrated that allow the user to organize educational events and consume and produce information.

The physical world provides humans with continuous streams of experience in both space and time. The human mind, however, can parse and organize this continuous input into discrete, individual units. In the current work, we characterize the representational signatures of basic units of human experience across the spatial (object) and temporal (event) domains. We propose that there are three shared, abstract signatures of individuation underlying the basic units of representation across the two domains. Specifically, individuated entities in both the spatial domain (objects) and temporal domain (bounded events) resist restructuring, have distinct parts, and do not tolerate breaks; unindividuated entities in both the spatial domain (substances) and the temporal domain (unbounded events) lack these features. In three experiments, we confirm these principles and discuss their significance for cognitive and linguistic theories of objects and events. Public Significance Statement: Humans are able to parse and organize continuous streams of experience into individual mental units, such as objects (entities that extend over space) and events (entities that extend over time). The nature of these basic units of human experience is a foundational topic for the sciences of the mind. This study shows that mental units are connected across the spatial and temporal domains: Both objects and events are represented in terms of their structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article will pursue two goals. First, it compares Romano's notion of the event with Merleau-Ponty's notion of expression. They can be seen as fulfilling similar functions emphasizing the possibility of unexpected happenings. Both thematize the ability of the transformation that lies at the foundation of the very possibility of experience. Second, the article stresses the difference between these notions, which illustrates a certain methodological difference in Romano's and Merleau-Ponty's approaches. The former approach can be loosely described as transcendental, as it seeks to emphasize that events operate as a condition of possibility of experience and, as such, are not explainable by everyday experience. The latter approach relies on emphasizing the circular connection between our everyday experience and an unexpected possibility of reorganizing this experience: according to this strategy, unexpectedness should be seen as a reserve of everydayness, which always carries with itself a tacit possibility of transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As is well known, Deleuze reproaches Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and other classical phenomenologists for having burdened their descriptions of experience with structures derived from the empirical (in which the world is differentiated into objects of consciousness). His transcendental empiricism, by contrast, investigates the very genesis of the empirical within the immediate flow of an asubjective transcendental field. However, both Deleuze in his texts and Deleuzian literature dealing with his relationship with phenomenology almost completely ignore contemporary French phenomenology focusing, similarly to Deleuze, on the dynamic or eventful dimension of reality. This article examines some of the intersections between contemporary phenomenology in France (Maldiney, Richir, Marion) and Deleuze's metaphysics with regard to the question common both to phenomenology and Deleuze: that of the crisis of humanity, especially with regard to its social aspect. The article's main thesis is that the only possible solution to the crisis is an ethics of events, which includes a description of the deepest existential basis of social bonds, that is, the 'common presence' or 'transcendental interfacticity'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current technological developments have provided significant changes to information media, Information and communication media companies need to always innovate to maintain the company's image and remain the people's choice. The research aims to determine RRI Yogyakarta's brand communication at the 2022 Nusantara Student Festival event. This research uses a qualitative descriptive case study approach to explore and explore in depth. The theory used is brand communication strategy theory with brand visualization (logo) indicators. The research results show that the brand communication strategy implemented by RRI Yogyakarta includes a logo that is disseminated through branding media at the FPN 2022 event location and through Instagram social media, then direct marketing carried out door-to-door and radio broadcasts, social media via Instagram platform, promotions carried out include offers of collaboration and the use of influencers, marketing events through organizing the 2022 Nusantara Student Festival event, as well as sponsorship in the form of service support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that Role Shift in Japanese Sign Language involves a mechanism that is different in two respects from indexical shift observed in some spoken languages. First, its domain is not a clausal domain (CP or IP), but the thematic (propositional) domain, in which thematic roles are assigned. Second, what is shifted by this mechanism is not indexicals, but the objective Point-of-View from which the reported event is perceived. These characteristics apply to both Action Role Shift and Quotational Role Shift. It is claimed that Quotational Role Shift is a subcase of Action Role Shift where the thematic domain contains a predicate of propositional attitude. The attitude predicate takes a CP complement which in turn contains another operator. This second operator is the same as that found in some spoken languages, and it shifts the context for the interpretation of indexicals. The proposed analysis thus employs two types of operators, one taking the thematic domain as its scope and the other operating on the clausal domain. The analysis can be extended to account for crosslinguistic variation reported on the shifted interpretation of locative/temporal expressions in sign languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Virginia Woolf's extensive reflections on "the moment" have fascinated critics ever since the publication of "The Moment: A Summer's Night" in 1947, her conception of the moment has been interpreted as either a privileged instant (temporal) or an aleatory insight (psychological). These studies have neglected the influence of her contemporary and acquaintance Alfred North Whitehead, who claimed that reality is comprised of "events," or temporally autonomous, radically contingent, and non-substantialist units of reality. Woolf's "moment" reflects Whitehead's conception of "event" and, via Whitehead, has an unexpected afterlife in Gilles Deleuze's conception of "the event." The entanglement between Woolf's moment, Whitehead's "event," and Deleuze's l'événement yields an alternative modernist sensibility characterized by wonder at a world in which the most ordinary occurrences—such as the leaves fluttering across the lawn, or a bird taking wing—are baffling, miraculous, revolutionary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract\nPoints of interestFrom a disability studies perspective, we want to understand how to support young disabled adults to belong in their local community once the postsecondary transition has arrived. The force of imagination in the search for possibilities other than the often-fixed normalised pathways is investigated by looking at some important life events of Wout, a young man with Down Syndrome. The researchers experiment with the method of intuition of Bergson ([1946] 1992) by becoming part of the events shared through ‘walking-with’ Wout. Hereto a tracing-mapping (Lenz Taguchi 2016) exercise is followed to explore the open possibilities in Wout’s future, particularly in connection to employment. A speculative approach offers a conceptual and practical way to build concrete utopias (Bloch 1986) for the inclusive future Wout and his network are shaping.We examine the transition after secondary school, where finding a job is not always straightforward.A relational approach called walking-with involves listening to young disabled people and their families and is vital in the research process.The role of imagination creates openness for forward thinking and planning between history and future.In support, we need to clarify what young disabled adults like, prefer to do, and want to learn, with their passions and talents being central.At work, it is important for young disabled people to connect with others and be recognized for their meaningful contributions.We examine the transition after secondary school, where finding a job is not always straightforward.A relational approach called walking-with involves listening to young disabled people and their families and is vital in the research process.The role of imagination creates openness for forward thinking and planning between history and future.In support, we need to clarify what young disabled adults like, prefer to do, and want to learn, with their passions and talents being central.At work, it is important for young disabled people to connect with others and be recognized for their meaningful contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the processing power of mobile terminals increases, wireless network applications such as voice assistants can put more context-sensitive tasks on the mobile terminals, thus reducing the wireless network bandwidth needed and the cost of data storage in the cloud. Co-reference annotation, identifying the same semantics in context, is one of the critical techniques in these tasks. However, there are some problems with the existing co-reference annotation standards. First, the annotation is incomplete. Second, the types of annotated mentions are inconsistent. Third, there are currently no metrics for the above characteristics. Analyzing the above-mentioned issues, this paper proposes a new co-reference annotation standard. The new standard can annotate more semantics and co-reference relations and only adopts two types of mentions for annotation. Meanwhile, this paper presents a performance evaluation corpus and designs three performance metrics for evaluating the new standard according to the completeness of semantic annotation, the completeness of co-reference annotation, and the consistency of mention. The experiment shows that the new standard outperforms all the baseline methods and achieves 0.95 in the completeness of semantic annotation, 0.68 in the completeness of co-reference annotation, and 0.57 in the consistency of types of mentions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Where Being and Event was a book of meta-ontology, demonstrating how things be, Alain Badiou tells us that Logics of Worlds is an objective phenomenology demonstrating how (and what) things do. As such, it should also be considered a book about power: how objects function in their worlds, how change is possible, and what the event does to worlds and the objects in them. Attending to this, this article shows two conflicting forms of power emerge in Logics of Worlds, the power of appearance and the power of change. In this article, the author argues their incommensurability suggests an overall failure of a consistent account of power from Badiou. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents formal correspondences between the ontological and logical structures of Deleuze's theory of sense-events in the Logic of Sense as a "post-Cantorian orientation of thought" (Livingston 2012), grappling with an essential incompleteness or inconsistency at the heart of both Being and thought, one which Deleuze champions positively under the equation Ungrounding = Becoming. Through it, Deleuze's sometimes slippery use of the concept of singularity (and its relation to the virtual) is elaborated, elucidating a post-Cantorian metaphysics of events, distinct from and preceding Badiou's, that concretely defines the role of the singular in Deleuze's early major works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I respond to the provocation of this issue focusing on the action [reading] to theorize it in its openness to what is not present, as the texts are never present to be read. Using the Derridian quasi-concepts of trace and specter, I understand "reading" as a long exercise of responding to the otherness of the text. I defend that it is necessary to refuse the representational tradition of reading, to continuously deconstruct the metaphysical colonial legacy of what does it mean to read. Mostly, I argue that this process requires more and not less readings of what one seeks to deconstruct—a long preparation that is the research-event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Special events have gained popularity because they can contribute to the destinations' sustainability. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rise in xenophobia and racism, so the function of special events in society became even more critical. This study explores the potential of special events to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experiences through local festivals during COVID-19. The result of this study is that attendees' perception of the festival was the most salient in predicting personal DEI experience, particularly festival DEI practices and the trust of other festival attendees. In addition, attendees with a high level of festival pride significantly have more positive perceptions than those with a low level. Overall, the results of this study affirm the notion that special events foster diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), thereby aiding in the advancement of socially sustainable event planning and management practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This commentary discusses the progression of entrepreneurship-related research about event management and what is needed in the future to address research gaps. Research on entrepreneurship and events has evolved over the last 23 years in terms of topics covered but there are still many research gaps remaining in the literature that are related to changing practices. In this article previous research contexts are explained in terms of why entrepreneurship is endemic in an events context. The article closes by suggesting new areas of research on entrepreneurship and events to be conducted that will help to move the area forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural events and festivals play a key role in shaping the world's cultural tourism landscape. This article examines the multifaceted impact of cultural events and festivals on cultural tourism in economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions. A comprehensive review of existing literature and case studies highlights the important contribution of cultural events and festivals to the tourism industry and local communities. Cultural events and festivals have become important drivers of cultural tourism, offering unique experiences that attract tourists while shaping the identity and vitality of local communities. This article examines the multifaceted impact of cultural events and festivals on both cultural tourism and local communities, focusing on economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions. Through extensive literature and case studies, this study highlights the various ways in which cultural events and festivals contribute to tourism development and community well-being, addressing the challenges and opportunities of sustainable management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motion event description has received little attention in contact linguistics as compared to other branches of linguistics. To address this gap, I provide an overview of the grammatical and lexical resources for the encoding of motion events in Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA). 10 GPA speakers narrated the story of a boy, his dog, and his missing pet frog. The results revealed: (a) the participants used a relatively large number of path verbs and a comprehensive number of spatial particles; (b) they showed an overwhelming aversion to the description of manner in boundary-crossing and caused motion situations; and (c) they engineered coercive constructions to deal with semantically complex situations. Taken together, the linguistic evidence suggests GPA is developing into a verb-framed language type. This study adds a significant methodological and empirical weight to the existing literature and has the potential to encourage intra- and inter-disciplinary comparative work on motion event description. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Following the recent rejection of a formal Anthropocene series/epoch by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), and its subsequent confirmation by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the opportunity arises to reset the definition of the Anthropocene. The case for informally recognizing the Anthropocene to be a major planetary event of Earth system transformation offers a promising way forward, but this has been criticized by proponents of an Anthropocene series/epoch. In order to move on from the assumption that it must be a time interval, and to foster a more transdisciplinary and inclusive approach, the main points of the critique must be directly addressed. Plain Language Summary: The Anthropocene is best understood as an unfolding and intensifying event of human‐influenced Earth system change. Here we respond to criticisms of the case for the Anthropocene Event and explain why attention should be shifted away from the narrow question of date of start which has dominated debate up to now. The Anthropocene, we argue, is more than just a time interval. It is first and foremost a material happening or physical transformation which unfolds through time. Interdisciplinary research on the Anthropocene is more important than ever and must continue apace. Key Points: The Anthropocene is best studied as an ongoing event of human‐influenced planetary transformation rather than a time intervalThe Great Acceleration is an intensification of a larger unfolding Anthropocene Event that is spatially and temporally heterogeneousInterdisciplinary research on the Anthropocene is now more important than ever [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to clarify the role of the notion of rhythm in Whitehead's philosophy, considering the mediating character it has between the order of events and that of objects. Deleuze and Harman, when commenting on Whitehead's ontological system, have highlighted the value of events and objects, respectively. Here, we pretend to elucidate the limits of these readings and give relevance to the category between both planes, which is rhythm. This concepts evolve from a naturalistic view to a more metaphysical conception in Whitehead's later work, and its applications go from science to education and aesthetics. Thus, rhythm can be understood as a complex that has an eventual face and an objectual face, internally defining itself as a system of contrasts that mobilizes creation and intensity through time. This rhythmic process of creation leads us to think a poetics of experience, considering its aesthetic and compositional nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The COVID-19 pandemic generated large amounts of data on the disease pathogenesis leading to a need for organizing the vast knowledge in a succinct manner. Between April 2020 and February 2023, the CIAO consortium exploited the Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) framework to comprehensively gather and systematically organize published scientific literature on COVID-19 pathology. The project considered 24 pathways relevant for COVID-19 by identifying essential key events (KEs) leading to 19 adverse outcomes observed in patients. While an individual AOP defines causally linked perturbed KEs towards an outcome, building an AOP network visually reflect the interrelatedness of the various pathways and outcomes. In this study, 17 of those COVID-19 AOPs were selected based on quality criteria to computationally derive an AOP network. This primary network highlighted the need to consider tissue specificity and helped to identify missing or redundant elements which were then manually implemented in the final network. Such a network enabled visualization of the complex interactions of the KEs leading to the various outcomes of the multifaceted COVID-19 and confirmed the central role of the inflammatory response in the disease. In addition, this study disclosed the importance of terminology harmonization and of tissue/organ specificity for network building. Furthermore the unequal completeness and quality of information contained in the AOPs highlighted the need for tighter implementation of the FAIR principles to improve AOP findability, accessibility, interoperability and re-usability. Finally, the study underlined that describing KEs specific to SARS-CoV-2 replication and discriminating physiological from pathological inflammation is necessary but requires adaptations to the framework. Hence, based on the challenges encountered, we proposed recommendations relevant for ongoing and future AOP-aligned consortia aiming to build computationally biologically meaningful AOP networks in the context of, but not limited to, viral diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is still confusion on what participant observation connotes and scholars call for more studies on researchers' roles and emotional reflexivity in tourism. This interdisciplinary research aims to unpack participant observations at festivals. Findings from literary festivals in Ireland and Italy suggest that participant observations are Holistic Research Experiences and are characterised by four elements. First, they go beyond the visual and the multisensory nature, to be holistic experiences. Second, fieldwork is emplaced since researchers are situated in the field and can feel bodily sensations and empathy, but are not fully immersed. Third, the researchers' participation continuum does not go from complete observer to complete participant, but it goes from passive to active involvement in the festival activities. Fourth, different passive/active, intentional/unintentional encounters can take place: human, animal, space, material, and immaterial. Finally, the paper considers future areas for research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that Alain Badiou's theory of the subject offers conceptual resources that help make sense of ordinary life-experiences of 'evental moments' and enable the critique of hypertrophic forms of political or corporate agency. The article identifies a set of ideas through which Badiou's philosophy contributes to much-needed emancipatory thinking today. As it investigates the notions of horlieu and the event, the article stresses that true political change requires the emancipation of the 'quasi-totality', something that 'reactive' political or corporate subjects would not be able to deliver. The piece emphasises that, for Badiou, universalist equality is the indispensable game-changer of politics, and that every single person can contribute to genuinely egalitarian projects. In Badiou's view, there are no meta-subjects and meta-events. Everyone can experience truth in their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent global events have triggered compositional changes in the workplace (e.g., intentional diversification and sudden team member removal). This study investigates whether team gender diversity and the novelty of membership changes moderate the relationship between team processes and performance. We found that development of team confidence plays a pivotal role in shaping performance through its influence on backup behavior. Moreover, gender-balanced teams were better at translating their confidence into backup behaviors, and teams experiencing reduced novelty during membership change events tend to leverage these behaviors more effectively, leading to enhanced overall performance. We explored several theoretical and practical implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Citizen participation and acceptance play an increasingly relevant role in urban and regional development. This also applies to the success and sustainability of urban events. While research on participation is growing rapidly, participation in the context of events is underrepresented. Therefore, I investigate the role of participation and acceptance conditions regarding German regional garden shows using a mixed-methods research design (quantitative survey, multiple case studies). Citizen participation is a central factor for public acceptance. The active participation of volunteers is highly relevant before, during and after the event. Conflicts arise mainly concerning financing, environmental and monument protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attempts to elucidate the Deleuzian philosophy of the event between The Logic of Sense and A Thousand Plateaus, where it acquires clearly political nuances. With regard to The Logic of Sense, I show that (i) it takes up the definition of the event of Difference and Repetition, identifying it with that redistribution of pre-individual singularities or individuating differences at the level of the univocal being which defines the conditions of problems; (ii) the event is henceforth also the instance that makes possible the "communication" of the heterogeneous series of bodies and propositions from which the production of sense in language follows; and (iii) the counter-effectuation should be understood in this book as an ethics of the event. With regard to A Thousand Plateaus, I emphasize (i) the "return" to The Logic of Sense that the concept of assemblage entails, (ii) the reformulation of the notion of event that takes place in the new theoretical framework, and (iii) that of the counter-effectuation, which must henceforth be understood as a politics of the event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Financialized student accommodation has emerged as an international asset class and is a more visible and politically contentious feature of Irish cities. In this paper, I focus on Dublin which has seen the construction of for-profit Purpose Built Student Accommodation, and rent increases, skyrocket. Contributing to, as well as advancing, debates on rental market financialization, I present changes to student housing provision tied to financialization and explore the consequences for students' right to housing. I build my argument around qualitative research undertaken between 2019-2021, namely documentary analysis, focus groups, and key informant interviews. I explore how financialization is contested through engagement with the student housing campaign 'Shanowen Shakedown'. I present the political outcomes of this campaign and demonstrate that whilst it achieved greater housing rights for students, students continue to battle the uneven geographies of financialization. The paper argues student accommodation is implicated in wider transformations of Dublin's urban housing system and the ongoing financialization of the private rental sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is the relationship between language and event cognition? Past work has suggested that linguistic/aspectual distinctions encoding the internal temporal profile of events map onto nonlinguistic event representations. Here, we use a novel visual detection task to directly test the hypothesis that processing telic versus atelic sentences (e.g., "Ebony folded a napkin in 10 seconds" vs. "Ebony did some folding for 10 seconds") can influence whether the very same visual event is processed as containing distinct temporal stages including a well‐defined endpoint or lacking such structure, respectively. In two experiments, we show that processing (a)telicity in language shifts how people later construe the temporal structure of identical visual stimuli. We conclude that event construals are malleable representations that can align with the linguistic framing of events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chosen three times as the host city for the Summer Olympic Games (1940, 1964 and 2020), Tokyo's city layout is historically linked to the Olympics. Including the bid project for the 1960 and the 2016 Games, Tokyo has presented five Olympic projects, each time with five different urban visions which enlighten the nature of the past and present political Japanese regimes. The recurrence of the Olympic Games in the planning and growth of Tokyo leads to the idea of a major influence of the Olympics both on the physical evolution of the urban structure but also on that, immaterial, of its planning culture – or, in other words, on the representations, imaginary and practices of the institutional stakeholders of Tokyo's urban fabric. The aim of the paper is therefore double. First, it analyses each urban vision of the Games of 1940, 1964 and 2020. Secondly, it analyses the influence of each Olympic project on greater Tokyo's urban planning and regional development, as well as the influence of each Olympiad on the following ones. Doing that, the paper discusses the formalization of a planning culture through organizing the Olympics on the long run in Tokyo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper moves across the ecological assemblages of the Periyar basin in Kerala. It argues that the connectivities and unintentional designs that emerge bespeak the Anthropocene in its regional and political peculiarities. The river has never been a conduit of water alone. The narrative builds broadly on ecological relations entrenched in history, most visibly as hydrological regimes. Such regimes are significant because of the riparian densities that articulate the geo‐morphology. The different entanglements in ecology, as well as the successive productions of natures, gain significance as 'recognitions' during rupture events like the large floods. In contemporary contexts, the versatile flows of capital dissolve markers and boundaries and reconfigure regions in terms of capital. Vikasanam or new urban reforms, apart from political policies, are also ecological designs that normalise exceptions, otherwise reserved for special economic zones. The frictions with new materiality, post dam floods and hydrological controls, during developmental and neoliberal post developmental phases, become moments of recognition, making and unmaking sense of place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, I explore a pragmatist and processualist perspective on the interpretation of historical sources. By analyzing Horace M. Kallen's 1918 book, 'The Book of Job as a Greek Tragedy', regarded as an instance of pragmatist historical inquiry, this paper engages with recent processual and evental approaches to history. It elucidates a conceptualization of historical sources as 'actor-events'. Through Kallen's example, the paper demonstrates how cultural historians can effectively perceive sources as both actors that evoke meaning and as events that unfold. From this perspective, Kallen's work illustrates how diverse temporalities hold simultaneous significance and how cultural and social struggles related to what is emerging, in the future, give rise to the emergence of truth in historical sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Snowfall/cover and snowmelt are essential determinants of winter soil processes/events that may force the biogeochemical dynamics of soils in temperate regions. Increasing variability of the European hydroclimate is expected to lead to more frequent intermittent warm periods, which cause snowmelt during winter and rapidly mobilize large amounts of dissolved organic matter (DOM). This study, conducted at the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory in Germany, seeks to address a significant gap in understanding the molecular impacts of snowmelt-induced DOM flows and their ability to alter soil ecosystems rapidly. During two snowmelt events between January and March 2021, we observed that DOM concentration and composition varied more in forest soil seepage than in grassland soil seepage. Forest seepage showed a pronounced DOM flux peak and synchronous increases in the relative abundances of aromatic DOM components, indicating surface-derived transport of plant litter carbon. In the grassland, however, peak DOM fluxes were characterized by a marked increase in nitrogen-containing (N-containing) DOM components, indicating a predominance of microbial carbon. Notably, the unique DOM components specific to each ecosystem increased during peak fluxes in the forest but decreased in the grassland. We suggest that an overall higher molecular richness and the broader functional metabolic potentials in grassland may account for its relatively greater DOM stability compared to the forest during peak snowmelt events.