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Writing qualitatively is an immersive experience divergent to other forms of research writing. It is an active construction of reality characterized by integration of the socio-cultural context and in-depth analysis of data viewed through the lens of the writer's own experience of the phenomenon. However, these characteristics prove challenging and qualitative researchers are often at a loss on how to document their findings. Most studies provide a broad sweep of qualitative writing with few explicit examples in practice which further confounds researchers. Consequently, researchers find qualitative writing exacting and intimidating and tend to present their findings objectively with either scarce or excessive reference to the research paradigm, thwarting the full transformative potential of qualitative research. Drawing on my experience as an interpretive phenomenologist, I present the writing cul-de-sacs and alleys I navigated to illustrate my becoming as a qualitative writer. Specifically, I highlight three distinct strategies to write it right, qualitatively. To maximize findings, the writing style should conceptually align with the research philosophy. Textual cohesion and a multi-dimensional view of social reality can be generated through a mixed-genre writing approach. Finally, making the "I" meaningful by incorporating the researcher's experiences into the text affords a deepened understanding of the phenomenon. Tenaciously navigating cul-de-sacs in writing and finding solutions to exit no through roads, and walking those shadowy alleys of theoretical constraints, stylistic impositions, and tight word space endow a concrete visibility to the otherwise blurry aspects of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is there a discernable relationship between style and the development of punctuation in early modern English dramatic texts? This paper will focus on the comma in the early editions of Marlowe's Tamburlaine Part One (1590) and Ben Jonson's Volpone (1607). Throughout early editions of Marlowe's drama, the comma is used very flexibly and heavily. Its function ill-defined, it is rarely medial but occurs primarily at the end of lines of verse, often in complete disregard for syntax. Such comma usage facilitates a characteristically Marlovian style: extended passages of considerable beauty but imprecise sense produced by the open-ended accumulation of loosely coordinated phrases rich in vocabulary and pregnant with meaning. The most striking example is Tamburlaine's meditation on Zenocrate's beauty in 5.2.72-127 of Tamburlaine Part One. Systems of punctuation in the period, however, were tending toward more precise definitions of the functions of punctuation marks. The circumscription of the 's function and the increased use of other punctuation marks had stylistic consequences, necessitating a clearer articulation of the parts of sentences, the relations among those parts, and their coherence within a complete grammatical movement. The significance of these consequences can be seen Volpone's speech to Celia and Celia's reply in 3.7 of Volpone, a text whose printing Jonson carefully supervised. Sublime Tamburlainian fantasy gives way to the glittering, destructive, and ultimately exhausted rhetoric of itemized and commodified pleasures fit for the new realities of nascent capitalism. Moreover, Jonson's increasingly precise sense of the function of another punctuation mark, the dash, necessitates a change in Celia's character that suggests that the realm of the material object and its shallow seductiveness can be transcended only through its demystification and denial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: A humble leadership style promotes human relationships above transactional relationships. Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate predictors and differences in humble nursing leadership and team performance based on sample characteristics and the total scores of the concepts. Methods: Using a quantitative cross‐sectional design, convenience snowball samples of 260 participants distributed as nursing academics (66), senior nurses (94), and novice nurses (100) were recruited. An online poll was distributed in March 2022 in selected Jordanian public and private universities and hospitals. Using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), the general linear model (GLM) was used to determine predictors of humble leadership style and team performance. T‐tests or one‐way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were employed to detect the differences in the total scores of the studied concepts. Results: Academics, nurses, and teams were generally humble. The team functioned relatively well and effectively. Humble leadership scores correlated moderately with team performance. The ANOVA showed some significant differences between the two studied variables. Conclusions. A humble leadership style improves employees' and the team's performance. This study illuminates how a humble leadership style affects team performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article combines linguistic analysis and data mining methods to explore variations in speakers' evaluative meaning-making in conflict talks. It focuses on conflict style construction through evaluative language, specifically how disputants advance attitudes. The corpus consists of 230 minutes of family mediation talks involving 12 divorcing spouses. The research draws from the Appraisal framework to analyse evaluative meaning-making at a discourse semantics level, capturing both explicit and implicit attitudes, as well as the scaling and dialogic framing of attitudes. Data exploration uses clustering algorithms via RStudio to identify variations in disputants' discursive behaviour. The findings uncover three conflict styles based on disputants' preference for attitude advancement formulations, with varying degrees of assertiveness and forcefulness. This study's contributions include a holistic treatment of evaluative meaning-making, the marriage of digital tools to nuanced linguistic annotation, and a novel interpretation for conflict style. The findings offer fresh insights into disputants' discursive self-presentation in confrontational exchanges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gummed Guangdong silk a green ecological textile is a national geographical indication product of China. Its popularity among the public can be attributed to its distinctive double-sided heterochromatic structure and outstanding wearing properties. The glossy black front side and dull reddish-brown back side contribute to its unique appeal. This exclusive fabric structure imparts numerous commendable wearing characteristics to gummed Guangdong silk such as coolness softness breathability waterproofness electric resistance anti-friction wrinkle resistance antibacterial activity insect prevention electric resistance flame oxidation resistance and environment friendliness. The dyeing and finishing techniques of gummed Guangdong silk involve the formation of fabric structure and style playing a crucial role in determining its exceptional wearing properties. Consequently it is imperative to elucidate the alterations in fabric structure and style during the preparation of gummed Guangdong silk. Surprisingly despite numerous articles on the structure and properties of gummed Guangdong silk there is a conspicuous absence of explanations or reports regarding the evolution of the structure and style of gummed Guangdong silk. Therefore in this study samples were prepared according to the traditional dyeing and finishing techniques of gummed Guangdong silk. The pigment extracted from Dioscorea Cirrhosa Lour was utilized to dye the silk fabric repeatedly. When the pigment layer on the fabric reached a certain thickness the dyed fabric was coated with mud. By testing and characterizing different samples in the process of making Guangdong silk the changes of fabric structure and style in the preparation of gummed Guangdong silk were studied. Firstly a comprehensive analysis of structural parameters such as density square meter mass and thickness for each sample was conducted throughout the preparation process. The findings reveal that there is negligible alteration in both warp and weft density during the preparation. Notably the preparation process demonstrates no discernible impact on the fabric's density structure. However it is crucial to highlight that both the dyeing and mud-coating processes exert a considerable influence on the weight per square meter and thickness of the fabric. Results indicate a gradual increase in the weight per square meter and thickness during the dyeing and mud-coating finishing with no significant change observed after finishing by sand washing. An in-depth examination of the fabric' s surface morphology was undertaken to further clarify structural changes. SEM images reveal that the dyeing and mud-coating finishing processes lead to the formation of a tight coating structure on the fabric providing an explanation for the observed increase in weight per square meter and thickness. Although some damage and fluffing occur on the fabric's surface after sand washing it does not result in extensive harm to the fabric coating. This outcome elucidates why the weight per square meter and thickness remain largely unaffected even after sand washing. Secondly the evolution in the style of gummed Guangdong silk was elucidated by conducting tests and characterizing various samples based on style parameters throughout the preparation process. Results indicate that both dyeing and mud finishing processes lead to a reduction in the softness score and an increase in the stiffness score and drape index. Conversely these trends reverse after sand washing. Notably there is no significant change in the smoothness score of the fabric during the preparation. The findings emphasize that dyeing and mud finishing impart stiffness to the fabric necessitating further finishing by sand washing to achieve softness and smoothness for a comfortable touch. Subsequently an analysis of the wearability style of gummed Guangdong silk was conducted by testing color fastness to domestic laundering and color fastness to rubbing. Evidently the K/ S value of the fabric gradually increases during the preparation and the color fastness to domestic laundering is 5 demonstrating good color fastness. However the color fastness to dry / wet rubbing is 2 approximately demonstrating undesirable color fastness. Therefore further modification is required to achieve excellent color fastness of gummed Guangdong silk. Finally the UV protective characteristics were subjected to testing and characterization. It was observed that the UPF value increases significantly after dyeing with Dioscorea Cirrhosa pigment for five times surpassing 40. Furthermore there is a substantial reduction in UVA and UVB transmittance. Continuous dyeing and mud coating processes do not bring about significant changes in the UPF value UVA and UVB transmittance. However after finishing by sand washing the UPF value experiences a sharp increase accompanied by a considerable reduction in UVA and UVB transmittance. These findings underscore the exceptional UV protection style exhibited by gummed Guangdong silk. This study clarifies the alterations of the structure and style in the preparation of gummed Guangdong silk provides a theoretical basis for the structural and stylistic evolution of gummed Guangdong silk and may pave the path for the standardization of industrial manufacturing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contrastive analysis is valuable in second language teaching due to certain assumptions: learning difficulties are wholly or partially caused by differences between the mother tongue and the foreign language; the more significant the difference between the first language and the second language, the more pronounced the learning difficulties become; the results of the comparison between the first language and the second language are necessary to anticipate the problems and errors that may arise when learning a foreign language. This study aims to uncover the process and steps of contrastive analysis between Badi' science materials and the Indonesian language style. In this study, it yields Contrastive Analysis Steps: first, description—this step involves two stages, namely explaining the definition of Badi' science materials and elucidating the themes of language styles and their characteristics; second, clarifying the similarities and differences between Badi' science materials and Indonesian language styles; third, predicting difficulties. The author employs Clifford Prator's theory to predict or anticipate the challenges of learning Badi'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study determined the effectiveness of integrating podcasts into learners' lessons to enhance agricultural literacy. Through quantitative methods, including surveys and pre-and post-tests, the study assessed the effectiveness of podcast integration in improving learners' cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of agri-crop production. The researcher selected two sections of grade 7 from a junior high school in the division of Tanuan City. The researcher used an experimental method to determine the effectiveness of podcast integration. The study revealed that the respondents perceived the integration of podcasting as a localized learning tool in terms of localized lessons, localized discussions, and localized interviews as highly appreciated because of the relatability and practicality of the lesson. On account of the student's perceptions regarding the utilization of podcast design in terms of length, pedagogical approach, style, and fit with other materials, they strongly agree on all the indicators that were interpreted as highly favorable. Moreover, the study reveals a statistically significant difference in the level of agricultural literacy among students before and after the utilization of podcasting as a localized learning tool in agri-crop production across the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor competency domains. The use of the localized podcast content significantly increased their scores based on the administered assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we propose a data-driven method for short-circuit fault detection in transmission lines that exploits the capabilities of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). CNNs, a class of deep feedforward neural networks, can autonomously detect different features from data, eliminating the need for manual intervention. To mitigate the effects of noise and increase network robustness, we present a CNN architecture with six convolutional layers. The study uses a single busbar power system model developed with the PSCAD simulation program to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. The proposed CNN method is also compared with machine learning methods such as LSTM, SVM and ELM. Our results show a high success rate of 98.4% across all fault impedances, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed CNN methods in accurately detecting short-circuit faults based on current and voltage measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Closely, the stylistic diversity is connected to modern fine arts as a diverse technical movement that calls for change by refusing all forms of old traditions, values and norms. Thus, it refuses its reality, which is affected by political, economic, social and psychological aspects. Moreover, the reality leads to disintegration, self-destruction, and constant threat which are accompanied by anxiety and instability. The international artist revolted against society, language, sacred things, rules of mind and culture, and he or she opened up the fine arts with the works they contain (painting and sculpture) to their other arts to produce visual views that bear an alien characteristic and openness to the environment of its modern creative visual views. Due to the vital and aesthetic significance of this topic, the researcher sought to address it in her study. For this reason, the research problem was established according to the following question: (What is the stylistic diversity that changed the form and concept of modern fine arts?). Based on the research question, the researcher formulated the significance of research and the need for it to shed light on the important aspects in which this study was prepared. Then, she prepared the aim of this study where the researcher sought to reveal the stylistic diversity that changed the form and concept of modern fine arts. Also, the researcher determined the objective, spatial, and temporal limitations of the research. In addition, the researcher defined the terms for the keywords of the research. The researcher mentioned (the cognitive framework of modern artistic methods) and (the philosophical rules that explained the development and diversity of modern artistic methods), including visual semiology and its impact on modern stylistic diversity. She mentioned the art of an event and image and the development of social media. The researcher discussed (the stylistic diversity adopted by modern artistic currents). The findings of the current study are: (1) The abolition of artistic naturalization in modern fine arts due to their openness to each other and the production of hybrid arts, (2) Stylistic diversity led to the diversity of environmental spaces with an open visual view and (3) the variety of methods and techniques that took on an alien characteristic which were used by the artist in most of his or her viewed works. Finally, the researcher presented the conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the current research is to highlight the representations of technical diversity in contemporary Kurdish visual arts. The original research community included the artworks of 20 Kurdish artists from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Artistic works for each artist were collected from various sources, such as magazines, social media platforms, and the official websites of the artists, resulting in 5 artworks for each artist. The selected samples for the research consisted of 3 models chosen intentionally based on the following justifications: A. The diversity of technical performance in the selected sample models. B. The selection of models that have a clear and distinctive presence both locally and globally. After studying the technical diversity, the researcher concluded that this diversity plays an effective role in the performance and variety of artistic works concerning form and technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although James Joyce is famous for his stylistic difficulty, perhaps no feature of his writing is more paradoxical than what may be its most conventional technique: his frequent descriptions of light, or what I term photomimesis. This essay uncovers the theoretical tensions of this outwardly simple descriptive trope. Through readings of passages from across Joyce's oeuvre, I show how light, a classic emblem of literary beauty, repeatedly converges with literary effects that problematise the aesthetic distinctions his texts seek to establish. In Ulysses, the stubborn persistence of photomimesis undermines Joyce's experiments with what Brian Richardson calls 'anti-aesthetic' prose, and thus reveals his basic commitment to good style. Yet if the photomimetic sentence remains a hidden paradigm of literary beauty, it also disrupts the coherence of Joyce's aesthetic system. For Stephen Dedalus, light epitomises beauty in art. But the actual experiences of light narrated in Joyce's works imply that it also produces a sensuous pleasure rigourously excluded from Stephen's aesthetics. For Joyce, the very paradigm of literature's aesthetic autonomy is thus also a form of non-art: photomimesis at once short-circuits Joyce's experiment with the anti-aesthetic and violates his aesthetic ideal of radiance, or claritas, itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces a new perspective on the constitutive role of material culture for memory using the Knossian Kamares pottery style as a case study. It challenges prevalent approaches in mainstream memory studies, which confine memory to individuals' brains or minds, suggesting a deeper relationship between material culture and memory. Presenting a novel methodology rooted in cognitive archaeology to study the long-term making of Knossian Kamares decorations, I suggest that the Knossian Kamares pottery style is a transgenerational memory that enabled generations of artisans to remember, learn, and update technological skills and knowledge. I also claim that, in assuming this distributed, enactive, and non-representational stance on style as memory, it becomes evident that remembering is something we do: an active engagement that emerges with and through material culture in specific sociomaterial settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the linguistic landscape of refurbished historical streets to reveal the semiotic construction of antiquity and commodification of heritage. Based on signage data collected from four historical blocs in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo in East China, this study reveals how Chinese semiotic artifacts contribute to stylizing antiquity and reinvigorating the space of consumption. Results suggest that the fabricated historical streets sustain the tourism rhetoric of cultural pride and commercial profit by appealing to history, tradition, exoticism, and nostalgia. The study problematizes orchestrated heritage tourism and points to the use of English as potentially subversive in the Chinese linguistic landscape. • History is refabricated and commodified to satiate tourist desires. • Traditional Chinese language serves to authenticate ancient Chineseness. • Access to history-saturated semiotic resources is unequally distributed. • English potentially counteracts the spatial hegemony of historicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Architectural styles have evolved, with distinct periods marked by unique styles that reflect broader artistic movements. Despite extensive research on traditional and contemporary architectural styles, there remains a gap in understanding the distinctiveness and contributions of Parametricism as a 21st-century architectural style. This study aims to critically examine the emergence and development of Parametricism, aiming to highlight whether it represents a fundamental evolution in architectural thought and practice or primarily a methodological innovation. Through a comprehensive investigation of its formal characteristics, historical roots, and relationships with other architectural movements, this study seeks to discuss Parametricism's unique contributions to modern architecture. This research is crucial as it addresses the underexplored area of parametric design's impact on architectural theory and practice, offering a critical analysis that situates Parametricism within the broader context of 21st-century architectural styles. By clarifying the definition and position of Parametricism, this study aims to enrich both the state of the art and the state of practice in the field, providing valuable insights for scholars, practitioners, and students of architecture. Through this critical assessment, the paper contributes to the ongoing discourse on the evolution of architectural styles, highlighting the originality and significance of Parametricism in contemporary architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vivid imagery and intricate tapestry of linguistic features are essential to grasp literary significance and appreciation in Dylan Thomas' poems. This study focuses on one of his most significant poems, Before I Knocked for an in-depth investigation. The study is significant in because combining both the theory of foregrounding and the checklist is unique in this type of study. Therefore, the study aims to analyze Thomas' selected poem and demonstrate how and why various linguistic elements are systematically utilized to create value and quality in the poem. Concerning this, the study utilises qualitative descriptive analysis relying on stylistic analysis within which the theory of foregrounding supplemented by Leech and Short's checklist, is applied. Ultimately, the study finds that Thomas has employed linguistic features and foregrounding aspects systematically and coherently to carry meaning and theme and relate the form and the content of his work. The study also recommends integrating linguistic features in literary stylistic analysis is essential for learners and pedagogical purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aparece, en el siglo XIX, la figura del “soltero” (artista) como un gesto de resistencia ante el avance y la generalización de la vida burguesa y utilitaria que se impone en forma desmedida. À Rebours, de J.K. Huysmans, es la narración de un espíritu hastiado debido a dicha imposición. El capítulo seis de la novela recrea la figura del soltero en des Esseintes como un modo de vida de su pasado, que, a causa de la neurosis, se exacerba en un deseo de soledad y aislamiento hasta revelar un proceso de desintegración paulatina del personaje. Sostengo que, por causa de su composición estilística, esta novela desencadena hacia fin de siglo XIX un proceso declinatorio de desintegración de la figura decimonónica del soltero y crea una nueva figura, que es la del “solo”, por ello, concentraré esta lectura estético-hermenéutica en el capítulo mencionado.

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze repeatedly referred to a wide range of sports and games throughout his career. This article assembles a comprehensive view of the philosophy of sport seen from Deleuze's perspective. By studying the development of how he discussed different sports and games, and by pinpointing the concepts he constructed with reference to them, the article attests to the merits of a Deleuzian philosophy of sports. His term athleticism is utilised as a node to overview his allusions to sports and games in general. Special attention is paid to sport as a companion to the creative domains of science, philosophy, and art. Thus, it is concluded that what athletes create are moves, which amounts to inventing new styles which may alter the sport and attest to new ways of thinking through bodies in motion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a digital environment, this study tested how setting (museum vs. street), reputation (established vs. unestablished), and style (abstract vs. representational) affected people's aesthetic perception of art. Art novices, quasi-experts, and experts were randomly assigned to rate paintings that varied in setting, reputation, and style. Although there was no significant main effect of setting, follow-up pairwise comparisons showed that novices gave higher aesthetic judgment to paintings in street settings. There was a significant interaction between reputation, style, and expertise, such that the greater the expertise, the greater the differences in ratings between established and unestablished paintings, and the smaller the differences between abstract and representational style paintings. Quasi-experts and experts gave higher ratings to established rather than unestablished paintings, and all groups preferred representational over abstract style; however, the expert preferences reversed with unestablished paintings. The study found that the effect of reputation and expertise persisted after controlling for painting familiarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses the recent rise of populist radical right discourses in society as a cultural and political phenomenon to explore the role of popular music in constructing these discourses, with a focus on the Sweden Democrats (SD) and musician Peter Jezewski. By examining Jezewski's direct collaborations with the SD and his song 'My Land', the article uncovers how popular music culture participates in the construction of populist discourses of 'the people' in nativist terms. The article contends that certain subcultural styles in popular music resonate strongly with populist discourses of a 'silenced majority' in need of a strong populist leader and as such contribute to the construction of the 'people' versus 'elite' antagonism beyond the political realm. The case study of Jezewski's song and music video emphasises how nostalgic rock culture enables populist articulations by aligning with populist radical right anti-establishment, preservationist−nativist discourses and the performative construction of 'the people'. Drawing on cultural studies resources, the article hence investigates the practices that bring 'a people' into existence through cultural tropes and mechanisms to better comprehend the links between articulations of populism, popular culture and subcultural performances of counter-hegemonic resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze and interpret the linguistic and stylistic means by which the world of the novel Women. Voices. by Jasmina Musabegović is built. The paper analyzes and interprets the novel’s spoken language stylization, as its main stylistic feature. It is based on the assumption that orality, as a linguistic-stylistic feature of the novel, is primarily realized at the syntactic-stylistic level. In this direction, the elements of expressive syntax, such as spoken (oral) sentence length, elliptical, nominative, and fragmented sentences, as well as syntactic repetitions and accumulations, are especially explored. The mentioned syntactic-stylistic means are investigated to point out their stylistic potential in the revitalization of the tonal, rhythmic, intonation, and intensity values of the spoken language, based on which novelistic voices are generated as the narrative subject of the novel. Also, exclamatory and expressive interrogative sentences are explored in the paper as significant means of conveying emotional-expressive (affective) and intensifying the semantic values of a sentence. In doing so, it is particularly indicated that interrogative sentences, in addition to appearing as elements of expressive syntax, have a significant opening (cataphoric) value in developing the novel's narrative content. In addition, the paper points out the stylistic possibilities and values of the vernacular idiom in the stylization of novelistic expression with folk expression.

The article examines the mechanisms for creating comic effects in the texts of the famous poet, writer and post-war artist Heinz Erhard (1909–1979). The relevance of the study is determined, on the one hand, by the level of popularity of this author’s poems and texts that has not decreased for more than sixty years, and on the other hand, by the lack of linguistic or literary analysis of his works, which contradicts this fact. The purpose of the study is to describe the linguistic mechanisms of the appearance of the comic. The most common technique for creating a comic is described – changing the style. An analysis of more than 1,000 examples of creating a comic effect using a continuous sampling method showed that in 27 % of cases we are talking about a stylistic shift, a sharp change in stylistic coloring or text. The “reader’s work” to recognize the comic includes recognition of the functional style, sometimes declared by the author with one lexeme, recognition of a certain historical or artistic era, which is characterized by the prevalence of certain stylistic decisions. The speech variability of such authorial decisions can be philosophically interpreted as a limitation of ideological pathos towards certain historical and cultural phenomena in the German-speaking space, with the possibility of their recognition and acceptance.

الملخص: نهج بنو رسول في إنشاء المدارس نهج الأيوبيين بالاهتمام بها والإنفاق عليها، وتتكون المدرسة من مكونات عدة أهلتها للقيام بأداء وظيفتها، وهي مسجد المدرسة والفناء ومساكن الطلبة وقاعات الدرس وضريح المنشئ والكتاب (المعلامة)، إضافة إلى العناصر المعمارية الأخرى سواء ما وجد منها من أسلوب التغطية (القباب) والمحاريب والمآذن وغيرها، ولذلك يمكن تقسيم طراز مدارس بني رسول في اليمن حسب أهم عنصر معماري فيها، ألا وهو مسجد المدرسة إلى عدة طرز هي: أولا: تخطيط المدارس متعدد ومتنوع القباب، ثانيا: تخطيط المدارس ذات القباب الخمس، ثالثا: تخطيط المدارس ذات القباب الثلاث، رابعا: تخطيط المدارس ذات القبتين، خامسا: تخطيط المدارس ذات القبة الواحدة، سادسا: تخطيط المدارس المغطاة بأقبية، سابعا: تخطيط المدارس المغطاة بأسقف مسطحة، وسوف تتم دراسة طرز مدارس بني رسول من خلال التخطيط العام للمسجد في المدرسة باعتبارها أهم عنصر معماري اهتم به المعمار اليمني في عصر بني رسول إلى جانب إعطاء نبذة مختصرة عن تاريخ دولة بني رسول إضافة إلى مقدمة سريعة تبين نشأة المدارس وخاتمة تتضمن أهم النتائج المتوخاة من هذا الموضوع مذيلا بأشكال وصور توضيحية وقد اعتمدت الدراسة لمنهج الوصفي التحليلي. Abstract: The Banu Rasul inherited the rule of Yemen from the Ayyubids. The school consists of several components that qualified it to perform its function, which are the house of prayer, the courtyard, the students’ residences, the classrooms, the shrine of the originator, and the book (the teacher), in addition to other architectural elements, whether they are found in the style of covering (domes), mihrabs, minarets, etc. Therefore, the style of built schools can be divided Rasul in Yemen, according to the most important architectural element in it, which is the house of prayer, into several styles: First: the multi-domed school layout. Second: planning schools with five domes. Third: planning schools with three domes. Fourth: planning schools with two domes. Fifth: planning one-domed schools. Sixth: planning schools covered with basements. Seventh: Planning schools covered with flat roofs. The style of the Bani Rasul schools will be studied through the general planning of the prayer house in the school as the most important architectural element in which Yemeni architecture was concerned in the era of Bani Rasul, in addition to giving a brief overview of the history of the Bani Rasul state in addition to a quick introduction showing the establishment of the schools and a conclusion that includes the most important expected results. This topic is appended with illustrative forms and images. The study adopted the descriptive analytical approach.

The current presentation aims to identify the extent to which the ornaments and colors of the Asiri art Qatt influence in highlighting the social culture of the southern region, and to identify the distinctive character of the Asiri folklore. This research used both the inductive and analytical method, and a questionnaire was applied to a sample of (111) individuals from the southern region. The results of this research: There is a significant impact of the ornaments and colors of the Asiri Qatt in highlighting the cultural highlight of the southern region, and that there are great benefits to the signs of geometric designs and colors in the art of the Asiri Qatt; The commercial nature of models and printing could create a potential for a rise in contemporary painting. From Al-Asiri wall art (The Qatt) suitable for modern designs.

To the French critics who originally labelled certain films noir it seemed that a class of Hollywood products had gone darker during the war years – as though a dark filter had been placed over the lens. Films were not designed or marketed as noir, and retrospectively noir's status as a genre is still unsettled. Yet there is widespread interest today in experiencing diverse films as noir, and even in using a Noir Filter in Instagram and video games. Pursuing the filter clue, the noir experience can be thought of as subjection to a dark filtering of narrative. Image filtering styles can help to resolve not only the puzzle of noir's quasi-genre status but also an issue of general interest in aesthetic experience. The use of image filters makes a distinctively powerful contribution to the experience of a work or genre, or to the cultural dominance of an aesthetic regime, due to the unobtrusive formative role it plays in the economy of experience.

Chest X-ray report generation aims to generate expert-level radiology diagnostic reports that can be used in clinics on given chest X-ray images. Automatic chest X-ray report generation can assist doctors in writing radiology reports, which can not only improve the diagnostic efficiency of radiologists and meet the needs of a large number of patients but also remind some inexperienced radiologists of misdiagnoses or missed diagnoses. As a visual-language task, chest X-ray report generation can be achieved by existing image captioning methods. However, chest X-ray imagery exhibits a high degree of similarity, wherein diagnostically crucial abnormalities often manifest in minute regions of the images, posing a formidable challenge in discerning subtle visual differences and distinctive features. Further, the medical findings have been widely applied as labels to guide the image encoding module to focus on the salient regions in the image using the attention mechanism. However, existing methods neglect the relations between class features corresponding to different medical findings and the relationship between such local features and global features of the image. To tackle these challenges, we propose dual graph convolution networks (DGCN) that novelly incorporate the grid feature graph and class feature graph into the report generation process. In detail, the grid graph is used to explore the relationship between the grid regions on the whole image, and the class feature graph is used to mine the relationship between different medical findings (Dual GCN). Moreover, to explore the relationship between global features, such as grid features, and local features, such as class features, we introduce a multi-head attention module to help fuse different types of features and mine more useful relationship information (FFARM). Extensive experiments on the IU X-ray dataset underscore the substantial superiority of our model over the state-of-the-art chest X-ray report generation methodologies. Further ablation analyses reveal that both the class feature graph and the grid feature graph contribute significantly to enhancing the efficacy of chest X-ray report generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Allah Almighty revealed His book, the Holy Quran, in clear Arabic, making it a fundamental source of legislation. Every chapter and verse of the Quran contains numerous benefits and lessons. Among the most eloquent and significant of these benefits are its carefully chosen and distinguished styles. Indeed, anyone who contemplates the Book of Allah will find this evident and clear in the narrative style, which is the focus of our research here. The researcher has discussed this style in three sections. The first section provides an introduction to the narrative style in two topics, addressing the key terms of the research and the importance of stories in the Book of Allah. The second section discusses the Quranic stories in two topics, examining the types of Quranic stories and the different styles used within these stories. The third section addresses the importance of the narrative style in the Quranic stories, also in two topics, discussing the benefits of relying on the narrative style in the Holy Quran and the characteristics of the narrative style in the Quran. The conclusion includes some results and recommendations reached by the researcher at the end of the study, followed by a list of sources and references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I want to ponder one particular aspect of Michel Serres as a writer: the peculiar impression that his texts are written as if "in many tongues." Serres's ambition with writing was to "travel light," and indeed "lightning fast." His style, I will argue, is characterized by a chiastic crossing of light and time whose proportioning is cosmic and architectonic, and figures canons of how embodied knowledges can cohabit in a domain of wisdom and ethical respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I try to 'rethink' consistency as an educational quality for the 3rd millennium, following Italo Calvino's choice to take it up in his lecture series Memos for the Next Millennium, and despite the fact that the (final) lecture devoted to this quality remained unwritten. After reflecting on how consistency already plays a certain role in Calvino's other lectures, I expand on the specific educational implications of this role's unresolved ambivalence, in order to argue that this ambivalence, properly understood, might be fully constitutive of the educational significance of consistency. To achieve such an understanding I turn to Gilles Deleuze and his concept of style as a 'practice' of consistency. Not only does a stylistic understanding of consistency offer interesting possibilities for a more constructive approach to the said ambivalence—between consistency as static stability and dynamic keeping-together- but as such it also speaks to a number of issues that are directly and fundamentally educational in nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores Marc Shaiman's use of stylistic pastiche in Catch Me If You Can. Building on previous studies of style imitation in musical theatre, I develop a model for analysing different forms of pastiche. This model categorizes instances of pastiche according to the specificity of the stylistic reference, the function of the pastiche and how the pastiche is integrated into the song. Each component of the model is illuminated through a selection of examples. In Catch Me If You Can, I argue that Shaiman tends to use intra-opus (song) references in order to enhance the lyrical and narrative content, while his broader style references tend to be used for setting and reinforcing aspects of time and place. I conclude with the suggestion that this model could be deployed on other musicals. This will lead to a better understanding of how Shaiman's practices align or deviate from other composers who engage with this widespread technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The overconsumption of clothing has detrimental impacts on society and the environment. For consumers, reducing consumption is complicated by the vital role that clothing plays in individual expression. This study examined the influence of personal values and clothing style confidence on consumers' interest in upcycled clothing. An online Internet survey was used to gather data from a valid sample of 565 U.S. residents. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. Schwartz's self-transcendence and self-enhancement values were modeled as antecedents to clothing style confidence (CSC), which is a multi-dimensional construct composed of five factors, including (1) style longevity, (2) aesthetic perceptive ability, (3) creativity, (4) appearance importance, and (5) authenticity. CSC was predicted to mediate the relationship between self-transcendence and self-enhancement values and interest in upcycled clothing, including the purchase of upcycled clothing and interest in learning how to upcycle clothing. Findings showed that CSC mediated the relationship between self-self-transcendence and self-enhancement values and interest in upcycled clothing, as predicted according to value–attitude–behavior theory. Results suggest that bolstering consumers' confidence in personal style may provide intrinsic motivation for change, empowering individuals to embrace their personal style rather than follow fashion trends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article assesses mainstream sociolinguistic theory and methods in the context of world Englishes. Despite its obvious applicability, sociolinguistic theory has not always been the primary analytic model for world Englishes. The multilingual and sometimes mobile circumstances of world Englishes contexts do not always fit the usual definition of a Labovian speech community. This article extends classic sociolinguistic theory and method to studies of Outer Circle English situations to test their validity and scope. Predictions for class, gender, age, peer effects and identity are assessed, all initially developed in monolingual urban Western contexts. Methodological constructs such as apparent time, the sociolinguistics interview and social network metrics are also critically evaluated. The discussion shows that, although these new contexts challenge claims of universality, they often also uphold the original insights. A falsifiable theory of sociolinguistic variation and associated methods remain crucial for a principled understanding of variation and change in world Englishes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lakshminandan Borah is undoubtedly one of the best storytellers of the Ramdhenu era. Through his stories 'bhawana' and 'Sampatti', published in ramdhenu, he has made significant contribution to assamese literature. The collection of lakshminandan borah's stories are: 'Drishtirupa', 'Gaurirupak',' Kachiolir Kuwali', 'Man Mati Megh', 'Hei Sure Utola', 'Aai Roop Aai Chanda', 'Erabarir Leseri', etc. Most of the plot of the Lakshminandan Borah's stories are Assamese rural life. Borah is a prolific writer in drawing the real image of rural life and also his fluency of the language and the narrative style of story and artistic method is fascinating. Borah's story also entertains the readers for the qualities that can instill subtle feelings in the minds of the people. Lakshminandan Borah's short story has a special value to be acknowledge in terms pf short story gestures, art techniques, simplicity of thoughts, simplicity of narrative, etc. Many have discussed his story in many ways till date but there is still a wide range of discussions in this field. In this study paper, will try to discuss about Lakshminandan Borah's short stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education serves as the cornerstone of society, facilitating its growth and prosperity. Consequently, understanding how leadership perspectives are shaped becomes crucial. Scholars have long been fascinated by uncovering the interconnections among leadership, organizational culture, and emotional intelligence, a discussion spearheaded by Goleman. However, the persistence of traditional educational paradigms poses an additional challenge. Thus, the focus of this manuscript shifts towards leveraging empirical data to explore specific leadership styles in relation to emotional intelligence within a distinct context. Drawing insights from 110 respondents, this research utilizes a questionnaire designed with validated research instruments. Findings reveal a strong correlation between emotional intelligence and leadership styles, particularly highlighting a pronounced inclination towards transformational leadership. Notably, within the educational sector, commanding leadership emerges as the most prevalent style, followed by visionary leadership. Empathy, a key emotional intelligence competence, exhibits the lowest correlation with commanding style but the highest with affiliative leadership. Additionally, the research reveals that emotional self-control is the least developed emotional intelligence skill among educational professionals in the Republic of North Macedonia, indicating a vital area requiring enhancement and growth. This study reaffirms the interdependent relationship between leadership and emotional intelligence within organizational settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The piece "Da pacem Domine" (Give us peace, O Lord), by Arvo Part was inspired by a Gregorian antiphon from the 9th century. Written in the original tintinnabuli style, the piece uses numerous compositional techniques belonging to the early Renaissance period called Cantus firmus, parallel organum, faux bourdon, Landini cadence or anticipations, but also and even a modern way of vocal scoring: the "pointillistic polyphony". The work is divided into four sections, corresponding to the four verses of the prayer and the gravitational centre of the music is D. To impart expressive meaning to the musical performance, the interprets, both the conductor or singers can consider the following elements: homogeneity in individual voices and ensemble performance, different singing modalities (legato/non-legato) alternating between moments of cadence and the rest of the piece, the technique of attack and sound placement, finding and maintaining an appropriate inner state reflecting the ideas of the text and the general character of the piece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the work is to reveal the genre-stylistic and spiritual-content instructions of the German choral cantata and the peculiarities of its existence in the musical-historical tradition of the 18th-19th centuries. The methodology of the work has a complex nature and is based on a combination of the principles of interdisciplinary, historical-typological, hermeneutic, art history and genre-stylistic research methods. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that, for the first time, it offers a generalisation of the poetic-intonational specificity of the German spiritual cantata of the 18th-19th centuries and its genre-stylistic metamorphoses in the specified period. Conclusions. The genre specificity of the German spiritual cantata is determined by its contact with the liturgical practice of the German Protestant church. This genre is directly related to the church sermon and therefore was called "sermon music", "motet", "concert", "dialogue", summarised by the concept of Hauptmusik ("Main music of the day"). The contact of the German spiritual cantata with its Italian analogues and opera did not exclude the presence of original features in it, among which the Protestant chorale, based on traditional for the 18th-19th centuries, dominates. polyphonic forms, on the significant role of the instrumental beginning. An essential feature of the genre can be considered its figurative and semantic focus on the reproduction of the sacred aspects of a person's life path, their spiritual ascent-transformation, interpreted in the context of the instructions of the Lutheran faith. The German romantic cantata, represented in the works of R. Schumann, F. Mendelssohn, R. Wagner, and J. Brahms, on the one hand, reflected a wide genre and style spectrum of the creative searches of the named authors, within the framework of which the cantata was synthesised with the typology of various genres - from chamber a vocal cycle, a leader's play up to an oratorio, a dramatic scene (in the works of R. Schuman). On the other hand, the romantics' appeal to the poetics of the choral cantata symbolised the revival of the German spiritual and musical tradition, summarised by the name of J. S. Bach, which was directly reproduced in the cantata compositions of F. Mendelssohn, R. Wagner ("The Brotherly Meal of the Apostles") and works of Y. Brahms. Despite all the differences in the textual basis of the works of the named authors and their aesthetic guidelines (Y. V. Goethe, M. Horn, T. Moore, paraphrases of biblical texts), their unifying quality is the "memory of the genre", focused on the reproduction of the individual's spiritual path and the high didactic and ethical meaning of their inner transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the study is to reveal the figurative, semantic and symbolic specificity of the interpretation of the timbre of "Martenaut waves" in the music of the French avant-garde cinematography of the first half of the 20th century, including in the work of A. Honegger. Research methodology. Cultural-historical, interdisciplinary historicalcultural, as well as analytical-musicological methods were essential for this work. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that it introduces for the first time into the circulation of art historians the materials related to the film music of A. Honegger and its timbral specificity, marked by an appeal to the semantic and expressive features of the "Martenaut waves". Conclusions. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as a result of rapid scientific and technical progress, cinematography came to the forefront of world art. The unity of cinematography as a synthetic art and music is strengthened by the emergence of sound cinema in 1926-1927, in which music is recorded on the same film as the image. The use of electric musical instruments, including "Martenaut waves", becomes organic in this process. Thanks to their unusual timbre, they acquired the meaningful status of the embodiment of "the materialisation of the intangible." The world of hallucinations and dreams, mystical spiritual revelations and unusual natural phenomena - such was the range of images that were conveyed with the help of this instrument in French film music of the 1930s and 1940s. A. Honegger worked most fruitfully in this field during the mentioned period, whose creative output includes more than forty soundtracks, including those using "Martenaut waves". One of the first films in which the expressive timbre of this instrument is used was the science fiction film "The End of the World" (1931) directed by A. Gans, as well as the animated film "Idea" (1934) directed by B. Bartosh and artist F. Mazerel. In the musical accompaniment of these films, the timbre of the "Martenaut waves" occupies almost the most important place, revealing the connection of the instrument with the sphere of the Sacred and the Cosmic and the spiritual and stylistic searches of European modern culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the work is to reveal the poetic-intonational spiritual-symbolic aspects of the organ symphony "Noël" by P. de Malengro in the direction of stylistic and spiritual-philosophical searches of the Franco-Belgian culture of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Research methodology. An interdisciplinary, genre-stylistic, historical-cultural approach was essential for this work, allowing to explore the factors contributing to the discovery of the spiritual-semantic specificity of the concept of "symphony" in all its variety of meanings. The scientific novelty of the work is determined by the introduction into musicological use of materials from the organ symphony "Noël" by P. de Malengro, the poetics of which was formed at the intersection of the artistic, spiritual and musical traditions of the Northern Renaissance and French modernism. Conclusions. An overview of the use of the term "symphony" in the cultural-historical and spiritual practice of different eras testifies not only to the breadth of its semantic and applied meanings, but also to the presence of general semantic indicators, in accordance with which a symphony ultimately implies a certain integrity in which merge, different numerous components are combined. A symphony as a musical work is an equally complex and comprehensive concept that represents the most diverse "models" of this genre. The organ symphony "Noël" by P. de Malengro represents the typology of the "spiritual symphony". Its expressiveness, related to the biblical mystery of Christmas, is strengthened by the composer's appeal also to the masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance (Rogir van der Weyden and the van Eyck brothers). Symphony "Noël" is a free composition (4 parts) of the suite-variation type, a "symphony-mystery", the thematic basis of which is Gregorian chants, as well as the corresponding principles of their texture and mode-intonation development (monody, heterophony, various forms of polyphonic development, reproduction of the spiritual and vocal practice of discanting of the Notre Dame School). The poetics of such a "symphony-mystery" is significantly supplemented by an appeal to the timbre qualities of the so-called "symphonic organ", the universalism of performance, dynamic and timbre-intonation capabilities of which turned out to be literally correlated with the universalism of the symphony genre as such. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has been discussed throughout history how to teach a language other than the mother tongue. Method is defined as a comprehensive plan that the teacher follows according to his/her objectives and controls the teaching activity. Technique, on the other hand, falls within the scope of method as it is the partial steps followed in classroom lessons. The method in language teaching is one of the important factors affecting the learning process. Although these methods have often emerged as a result of opposing approaches, they have been developed from the past to the present. We can say that this development process was formed on the basis of historical necessity. Each method is seen as an alternative to the previous method. The diversity in language teaching has revealed the problem of which method is more effective. In this article, the most common language teaching methods are discussed and examined. These methods are; grammar-translation method, straight-arrival method (direct method), reading method, audio-linguistic method. Teaching methodsand their positive and negative features are mentioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Carolyn Cooper's influence as an academic converges with her important work as tastemaker and trendsetter for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. In this personal homage to Cooper, charted through their meetings in Haiti, Jamaica, and London, the author proposes that we see this convergence in historical continuity with the resistive potential of swag as manifested in Caribbean expressive performative traditions, including Jamaica's Junkanoo. The same subversive style ties together the Junkanoo reveler captured by Isaac Belisario and Carolyn Cooper's verbal wit and sartorial elegance. Her embodied wor(l)ds convey a powerful message that coolly brushes aside middle-class timidity and conformism to inspire postcolonial people not just in the Caribbean but across the global South, empowering people to wield the beauty of creolized language, music, and movement as decolonial weapons infused with pride and joy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that we should adapt our understanding of genre, style, and idiolect to encompass the personal and collective idiolects associated with particular bands. Focusing on progressive rock as an example, it is proposed that the collective idiolect of a band may not only transcend style, as suggested by Allan F. Moore, but also genre: that progressive rock may be usefully regarded as an assemblage of collective idiolects. Moreover, it is argued that greater attention should be paid to the classificatory activities of progressive rock fans whose "lay discourses" forge connections between the different bands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Michel Foucault establishes a form and style of work that allow him to create specific artifacts of thought. The Frenchman's thought opens up possibilities of singular approaches to certain problems arising in the interstices of history, the archive, the heterogeneity of spaces, discursive elements and power. In this paper I raise the possibility of a narrative journey that accounts for some implications and consequences of the creation of objects of research in Foucault's writing, pointing out a path of creation within his stylistic form of proposition of method, as well as its scope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diverging from studies that categorize influencers solely as advertising figures subject to interpretation within marketing frameworks, this research employs an extensive netnography to examine influencers through the lens of cultural production theory. It views them as creators and creative individuals who adeptly cultivate communities around themselves using communicative techniques akin to literary narration. On digital platforms, social connections are reshaped into a seductive game, unfolding on both aesthetic and communicative planes. This process yields influence indirectly, gradually reshaping the community imaginary, over time. Users become immersed in a realm of objects, each bearing the distinctive mark of the influencer who has imbued them with their unique style, "like that of the potter cradling a clay cup". Influencers' ability to invent and inhabit digital platforms effectively positions them as key figures in shaping the dynamics of these new environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1747 John Creed's proposal for a "Machine that shall write Extempore Voluntaries" was presented to the Royal Society. A transcriptive device with rotating cylinders and steel pencils, the "fantasy machine," as it has since come to be called, sought to inscribe and store the effusions of keyboard improvisations in real time. Musicological accounts of this machine have typically focused on its ostensible objective (almost always judged to have missed its mark) to record the fleeting improvisations of musical genius, undistorted by memory or later composerly reflection. But at the heart of Creed's quest to delineate what he called the "minutest Particles of Sound" were rather the "intelligible Characters" that appeared via a mechanized process of inscription. This article argues that Creed's preoccupation with character and line makes visible a version of knowing through and about music—about how sound could be conceived, captured, and communicated—that shaped perhaps the foundational concept in discourse about music for the next two hundred years: style. In the eighteenth century, style and stilus—manner and tool, expression and technology—were inextricable. The mechanical experiments of Creed and his contemporaries, the music of C. P. E. Bach, and the widely read theories of William Hogarth chart an understanding of inscriptive-semiotic matter that was premised on the intertwined workings of body and tool. This mid-eighteenth-century moment, I argue, reveals a foundational stylistic materialism in which style was not yet in the service of the biocultural taxonomies of nineteenth-century modernity, but indexed instead a more ambiguous and generative convergence of the syntactical, typographical, and corporeal—a complex nexus of tools, instruments, bodies, and techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding an artwork is essential for aesthetic experiences. But how does one form an understanding of art? To investigate this still poorly addressed process, we hypothesized that the easier a stimulus is processed (i.e., higher fluency), the easier it should be understood. We focused on artwork inherent features (i.e., style and content) and their interactions affect processing. Making use of the brightness–positivity association, the overall brightness of paintings (i.e., as stylistic feature) was manipulated to match their content (positive vs. negative). We hypothesized that a congruency of style and content would facilitate the processing of paintings resulting in a better understanding, but also, greater liking, and (exploratively) higher artistic value. Our data indicated no congruency effects between brightness and content, but that content alone was a strong predictor for art processing and—in an exploratory approach—highlighted the importance of individual differences in terms of art interest and knowledge in our sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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