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Remote Monitoring System of Digital Agricultural Greenhouse Based on Internet of Things
Authors: Lu Lu
Published: September 2023

In the actual operation process of the conventional digital agricultural greenhouse monitoring system, there are problems such as limited monitoring scope and large deviation between the monitoring results and the actual situation of the greenhouse. To solve this problem, a new remote monitoring system is proposed by introducing the technology of the Internet of Things. On the basis of the completion of the hardware design of the remote monitoring system, the optimal fusion data value of the remote monitoring of the digital agricultural greenhouse is obtained by establishing the monitoring data fusion model. The particle swarm optimization fuzzy control algorithm is designed to optimize the adaptive remote monitoring process of the system dynamically. The Internet of Things technology is used to deploy the remote monitoring system of digital agricultural greenhouses online to fully ensure the quality and timeliness of the remote monitoring system. The test results show that the new system can significantly improve the greenhouse remote monitoring deviation, and the monitoring value is close to the actual value.
Method for Identifying Motor Vehicle Traffic Violations Based on Improved YOLOv Network
Authors: Hao Zhengjun
Published: September 2023

The use of traditional manual supervision means to deal with motor vehicle traffic safety violations can result in a large amount of wasted manpower and oversight problems. To assist road managers in better directing traffic order and managing traffic situations, the study proposes an improved target tracking network model. Simple online real-time tracking, deep correlation metrics, and cascading open-source computer vision libraries are combined to create a tracking model for motor vehicle traffic infraction recognition. Pursuant to the experimental findings, the Institute’s upgraded target recognition network model had accuracy and recall rates of 95.7% and 99.7%, respectively, with an accuracy rate of 16.6% higher than the model’s historical counterpart. The recognition accuracy of the constructed motor vehicle traffic violation recognition and tracking model regarding the three basic traffic violations was 98.2%, 98.7%, and 97.9%, respectively; the missed detection rate was 2.0%, 0.31%, and 2.1%, respectively; and the false detection rate was 0.17%, 0.31%, and 0%, respectively. It shows that the improved network model of the study is advanced and the motor vehicle traffic offence model has a good recognition rate and stable performance, which can assist traffic managers in their operations to a certain extent.
A Hybrid Education Quality Assessment Method based on Heuristic Optimization Algorithm
Authors: Cui Lan , Zhi Yuefen
Published: September 2023

Hybrid education is the most effective process of education, which is the mixture of two education processes that help increase the student’s understanding level. In the study, it has been discussed that the intelligent learning environment influences the education style, which allows the students and the educator to understand the topic correctly. Also, from the study, a good bond between the teacher and the students increases the achievement rate in an education system. Therefore, the professional life of the students is also more developed. The study aims to consider the disadvantages of the modern or hybrid education system, and the communication gap is one of the significant disadvantages of education.
Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Design Personalized Exercise Programs for Health and Wellness
Authors: Lu Yan
Published: September 2023

The research paper showcases an elaborate study of machine learning, which is used in healthcare or medical platforms and can be used by healthcare professionals to adopt better diagnostic instruments and tools for examining medical issues or images. The paper highlights that a machine learning algorithm can be utilized in X-rays or MRI scans to examine disease and health issues. This paper will also discuss how this algorithm can help healthcare professionals, doctors, and nurses make accurate diagnoses for better services and patient outcomes. One of the major advantages of using the secondary research method in the following research is the abundance of the literature. All the data being used here are previously collected and evaluated with the result, and using these will increase the impact of the study overall. This method saves resources, including money, time, and manpower. This research method allows the researcher to build new knowledge and draw new conclusions based on existing expertise and knowledge. The chosen research philosophy is the Interpretivism research philosophy. The chosen research approach here is the inductive research approach. The chosen research design for this study is exploratory. All these help the research to achieve its objectives and reach the proposed goal of this research.
Analyzing Spectator Emotions and Behaviors at Live Sporting Events using Computer Vision and Sentiment Analysis Techniques
Authors: Xu Yang
Published: September 2023

It makes the reflection of humans’ emotions and intentions from watching live sports events. Watching the event keeps people entertained and changes their mindset from being stressed to joyful. Watching sports events encourages the athletes and the sports persons to participate. Reflection of the live sports event consists of many crowds as the event’s audience. This crowd’s emotions and intentions directly impact the changes in the event’s performance. It provides positive energy to the demotivated sports participants, making them perform better in the event. This study reflects the understanding of the facial emotions of the spectators from the live event. Then, they are decoded in the computer programming language, and an outcome is provided. It understands the emotions and sentiments of the people that affect the event’s environment. The representation by the computer analysis makes the understanding of the changes provided by the spectators of the live event. The effect of the audience’s emotions and behaviors in the crowd are computed by the utilization of computer software analysis and the effect of those reactions in the event. The collection of data is taken from the secondary sources of data collection, including the collection of information from the article and the journal based on the topic. The gathered data is analyzed by comparing them with their reaction and expressions in the live sports event.
Time Window Oriented IoT Vehicle Pathway Study for the Dynamically Changing Needs of E-Commerce Customers
Authors: Chen Xin
Published: September 2023

The main dynamic truck routing problem also presents a significant difficulty in the logistics sector, which is an unavoidable development trend of the contemporary technological changing society. A dynamic vehicle routing problem with time window model is suggested by the study in order to establish an effective and low-energy dynamic response method. The fundamental concept is to disrupt the conventional strategy of static dynamic consumers responding in time slots by dividing the dynamic time window into a static time window with several time slice intervals. The study makes use of cutting-edge ideas including dynamic attitude, before-and-after time slicing, and continuous optimisation while proposing a new method for model solution to optimise dynamic vehicle route issues effectively and affordably. The study employs the Solomon optimisation dataset and runs simulation studies on the Java platform to confirm its efficacy. The experimental findings demonstrated that the optimisation technique employed in the study reduced the cost of travelling by 83.8 miles while also considerably increasing the average vehicle utilisation by 3.6%. Because driving distance cost and vehicle number cost are typically positively connected with dynamic attitude, the study employs solutions that can increase dynamic response efficiency and save money. As a result, their robustness is higher.
Protecting Data and Privacy: Cloud-based Solutions for Intelligent Transportation Applications
Authors: Singha Surjit , Singha Ranjit
Published: September 2023

The interaction between transportation networks and intelligent transportation systems has been revolutionized by cloud computing. However, the reliance on cloud-based solutions raises security and privacy concerns. This article examines the challenges of safeguarding data and privacy in intelligent transportation applications and emphasizes the potential of cloud-based solutions to resolve these issues. Organizations can protect sensitive data and user privacy by employing encryption, access controls, threat detection mechanisms, and privacy protection measures. Adopting these cloud-based solutions will encourage the extensive adoption of intelligent transportation applications while infusing users and stakeholders with confidence.
Scalability and Sustainability in the Construction of a Social Sports Management Information Platform based on Web Technology
Authors: Wu Mengyan , Hou Yuanyuan , Tang Yueqin
Published: September 2023

Scalability and Sustainability are a major traits that a website requires. Moreover, in Social sports management, information platforms must be reliable. Thus, different tools for developing a platform based on web technology are discussed in an empirical study for the purposes mentioned earlier. For the study, secondary data was analyzed, and qualitative methods were used. In addition, it was noticed that there are some problems related to a web technology-based platform. It was found that an improved development strategy in the beginning aids in traffic management. In addition, an improved tech stack is directly related to the data analysis process of a sports management system. A lack of such factors in the construction process reduced the scalability and sustainability of a social sports management information platform. Thus, a complete discussion aimed at understanding the sustainability and scalability of a web management platform is done.
Reinforcement Learning-based Algorithms for Music Improvisation and Arrangement in Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things
Authors: Hu Xiaoling
Published: September 2023

The process of learning any new technology requires acquiring the best knowledge about the information of that technology. The better the knowledge humans get about digital technology, the more they become efficient in implementing technological development. In developing the musical rhythm and tuning, the application of programming technologies helps improve the quality. In constructing networking sites and sensing technologies, algorithmic learning processes help in effective development. This development occurs by making the systematic process of transforming a data processing language and data interpreter. Thus, it helps in performing programming effectively in the present as well as future purposes. Therefore, it reflects all the benefits of machine learning. Thus, the preference for machine learning increases technological impact. This development of the programming used in the computer makes humans learn about something easily and get the best information. The effectiveness of the technological development by the algorithm used in the data processing implements the best way to improve the technological language transformation from human language to computer operating language. There is a transnational perspective of the average beat commonness of each part of the music. “Reinforcement algorithms-based learning” incorporated with sensor networks has proposed compelling opportunities for improving “music improvisation” and interpretation.
Research on Space Image Fast Classification Based on Big Data
Authors: Wang Yunyan , Chen Peng
Published: September 2023

In order to improve the accuracy and effect of space image classification, the author proposes a space image classification method based on Big data analysis, aiming at the shortcomings of low accuracy and long time of current image classification. First, analyze the current research progress of image classification, find out the shortcomings of different classification methods, then collect aerospace images, preprocess the images, and use big data analysis technology to establish image classifiers, image classification was performed using an image classifier, and finally simulation experiments were conducted with other methods for image classification. The results indicate that: The average classification time of this method for aerospace images is 3.5 minutes, which saves 14 minutes and 29 minutes compared to traditional method 1 and traditional method 2, respectively. This indicates that this method has the shortest image classification time and improves the classification efficiency of aerospace images. This method has been proven to have high accuracy in image classification, the shortest classification time, and significant advantages compared to other image classification methods.
Application of Data Visualization Interaction Technology in Aerospace Data Processing
Authors: Lin Jia , Zheng Bigerng , Chen Zhijian
Published: September 2023

A visualization and interactive network topology model are studied based on real-time features generated during spaceflight. Start by establishing a consistent set of data and logical interaction interfaces. This paper presents a method of scenario model construction and application programming based on virtual reality technology. The scene elements are extracted into two types of primitives, namely logical type and simulated object type. This provides a unified architecture for the editing and processing of graphic elements. This system can realize the automatic creation of the scene. Then the point cloud data obtained by sparse reconstruction of SFM is reconstructed to the Poisson surface. You get a dense, uniform grid. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm can realize the 3D reconstruction of non-cooperative objects. The spatial feature points obtained in the spatial positioning of non-cooperative objects can provide necessary technical support for its orbit positioning. The model can quickly generate new model scenario pages according to the characteristics of the task. This method changes the display mode, which can only be static or limited dynamic before. It has also improved the efficiency of space mission preparation.
Role of nutrition management in the treatment of acute pancreatitis – comprehensive review
Authors: Kazzi Marcel , Bieniasz Jan , Dendys Konrad , Puła Michał , Wychota Marta
Published: September 2023

Introduction and purpose

The treatment of acute pancreatitis remains a clinically significant problem worldwide, as well as in Poland, where the incidence of the condition is nearly twice as high as in the global population. The aim of this study is to present the latest available guidelines regarding conservative management of patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, focusing on nutritional management and treatment methods.

 

Materials and methods:

The literature available in PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar databases, and guidelines from the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) was reviewed using the following keywords: "acute pancreatitis," "AP treatment," "nutritional treatment of acute pancreatitis," "enteral nutrition," "parenteral nutrition."

 

Description of the state of knowledge:

The approach to conservative treatment for acute pancreatitis has evolved over the years. Previously, the preferred route of feeding was parenteral with limited lipid content, aimed at reducing the stress on the pancreas. Current guidelines emphasize the superiority of enteral nutrition using a complete nutritional composition.

 

Conclusions:

The latest guidelines highlight the advantage of enteral nutrition over parenteral nutrition, with implementation within 48 hours of diagnosis. This approach reduces mortality, the risk of complications, and the duration of hospital stay for patients. The appropriate caloric intake should be adjusted to the individual needs of the patient, considering the severity of the disease and coexisting conditions. Meeting the patient's energy requirements, along with the choice of administration method and precise composition of nutritional formulas, play a crucial role in therapy.
Restoration of reproductive function in women with uterine septum and reproductive disorders using different types of metroplasty techniques and different types of electric
Authors: Yevseyeva O.
Published: September 2023

The purpose: to compare the effectiveness of restoring reproductive function in women with uterine septum and reproductive disorders with various metroplasty techniques using monopolar and bipolar surgical energy. Material and methods. 153 patients with a uterine septum (group US) and reproductive disorders were under prospective observation, of which 75 patients (group M) underwent metroplasty using a monopolar hysteroresectoscope, 78 patients (group B) underwent a bipolar hysteroresectoscope. In groups M and B, 2 groups were allocated: group MD - 39 women who underwent hysteroscopic monopolar dissection of the uterine septum; group MR - 36 women who underwent hysteroscopic monopolar resection of the uterine septum; BD group - 37 women who underwent hysteroscopic bipolar dissection of the uterine septum; group BR - 41 women who underwent hysteroscopic bipolar resection of the uterine septum. The observation of operated women was carried out for 2 years after metroplasty. Results. When using various types of electrical surgical energy and various techniques for performing metroplasty in women with reproductive disorders against the background of the uterine septum, when using bipolar removal of the septum, the overall frequency of pregnancy termination by childbirth and term delivery was the highest and exceeded similar indicators: with monopolar incision 2.20 times (OR 13.30 [3.95–44.72], p<0.01) and 2.85 times (OR 16.20 [5.10–51.50], p < 0.01), with unipolar septum removal – 1.20 times (OR 2.40 [0.64-9.02], p > 0.05) and 1.37 times (OR 3.44 [1.06-11.20], p < 0.04), with bipolar incision of the septum - by 1.26 times (OR 3.43 [0.97-12.09], p < 0.05) and 1.35 times (OR 3.90 [1, 23-12.36], p < 0.02). The overall frequency of childbirth in women with initial infertility was the highest among patients with bipolar removal of the septum - 95.24% and exceeded the same indicator in women with monopolar incision of the septum (35.29%) by 2.70 times (OR 36.67 [3, 90-344.85], p < 0.01) and with bipolar dissection of the intersection (66.67%) by 1.43 times (OR 10.00 [1.07-93.44], p<0.04) and had no probable differences with those in patients with monopolar septum removal (81.25%) (p > 0.05). The total number of births in women with initial miscarriage after bipolar incision was 2.17 times higher than that after unipolar incision (78.95% vs. 36.36%; OR 4.50 [1.13-17.99], p < 0.04), with bipolar resection was 2.34 times greater than that with monopolar incision (85.00% versus 36.36%; OR 6.80 [1.54–30.08], p < 0.02). Conclusion. The technique of choice when performing hysteroresectoscopic metroplasty in women with uterine septum and reproductive disorders is bipolar removal of the septum, which leads to a probable increase in the termination of pregnancy by urgent delivery and live births both in the general group and in the group of patients with initial infertility.
Vocabulaires de Barbara Cassin et de Jerzy Bartmiński – des perspectives philosophiques complémentaires ?
Authors: Brzezicka Barbara
Published: September 2023

CAN BARBARA CASSIN’S AND JERZY BARTMIŃSKI’S LEXICONS BE CONSIDERED AS COMPLEMENTARY PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES?The article aims to present two different approaches to ‘philosophical words’ or ‘names of values’, that is Vocabulaire européen des philosophies [2004] directed by Barbara Cassin and Axiological Lexicon of Slavs and Their Neighbours [2015-2019] directed by Jerzy Bartmiński. In the first part the two projects are presented in context and compared by analyzing their differences and similarities in order to prove certain complementarity between the two approaches. In the second part the concept of freedom/ liberty is analyzed. After presenting how it is treated in the two dictionaries, the author studies the occurrences of ‘minor’ words for freedom: liberty and swoboda, in David’s Graeber Debt and its Polish translation.
Hoca-Talebe İlişkisi Bağlamında Bir Hatıra Kitabı: Hocam Mustafa Düzgünman
Authors: AVCI Sait
Published: September 2023

Mustafa Düzgünman, babasından devraldığı aktarlık mesleğini sürdürmesinin yanında ebrucu, mûsikîşinâs, mücellid, fotoğrafçı, tespih koleksiyoncusu ve şair olarak da tanınmaktadır. Bu alanların hepsinde yetkinliğini ortaya koyan eserler vermekle birlikte, o daha çok ebru ile şöhret bulmuştur. Aynı zamanda Aziz Mahmud Hüdâyî Dergâhı’nın türbedarlığını yapan Mustafa Düzgünman’ın tasavvufi kişiliği ve ehl-i beyte olan muhabbeti de bilinmektedir. Bu çalışmanın konusu, T. Alparslan Babaoğlu tarafından yazılan, “Hocam Mustafa Düzgünman” isimli eserdir. Kendi ifadelerinden anlaşıldığı üzere Alparslan Babaoğlu, hocası ile tanıştığı günden onun vefatına kadar geçen zamanı en iyi şekilde değerlendirmeye çalışmış; bu çok yönlü şahsiyetin ilminden mümkün olduğunca istifade etmeye gayret etmiştir. Türk ebrusunun önde gelen isimlerinden Babaoğlu eserinde, hocası Mustafa Düzgünman ile olan hatıralarını ve onun sanata dair düşüncelerini aktarmıştır. Eserde, Mustafa Düzgünman’ın çok yönlü olarak sürdürdüğü çalışmalarında en büyük destekçisi olan eşi Süheyla Hanım ve Düzgünman’ın büyük dayısı aynı zamanda da hocası olan Türk ebrusunun önemli isimlerinden Necmeddin Okyay’ın onun hayatındaki yeri ve önemi üzerinde de durulmuştur. Başka kaynaklarda bulunması mümkün olmayan bilgilerin Alparslan Babaoğlu tarafından açık ve samimi bir üslupla aktarıldığı eser, muhteva özellikleri ve alana yaptığı katkılar bakımından incelenmiştir.
Halkbilimsel Metaetik Kuram ile Âşık Tarzı Kültür Geleneğinde Sistematik ve Zincirleme Molekül Etik Değerlerin Yapısı
Authors: ÇOBANOĞLU Sacide
Published: September 2023

Günümüzde ulaşılan teknoloji, hayatı kolaylaştırdığı ölçüde toplumların etik anlayışında olumsuz değişikliklere neden olmaktadır. Bugün dünya, kültürel yozlaşma sebebiyle gelir dağılımındaki adaletsizlik başta olmak üzere savaşlar, yoksulluğun küreselleşmesi, sağlık hizmetlerindeki yetersizlik, terör, ekolojik sorunlar, yapay zeka kullanımının getireceği problemler, çocuk/kadın/hayvan haklarındaki adaletsizlik gibi birçok etik sorunuyla karşı karşıyadır. Etik problemlerinin çözümünde her toplum; mitolojik arka planı, tarihi alt yapısı gelenek, görenekleriyle oluşturduğu halk felsefesinden faydalanacaktır. Bu noktada Türk halk felsefesini tanımlayan kaynakların başında halk edebiyatımız ve halk şairlerimizin ürünleri gelmektedir. Bu ürünler arasında Kazak Abdal’ın taşlamaları, döneminin zihniyetini aşarak evrensel etik anlayış çizgisinde, Türk halk felsefesinin temel unsurlarını temsil etmek bakımından dikkat çekicidir. Etik değerler toplumların dünya görüşünü ifade etmektedirler. Bir etik değerin, kendisiyle bağlantılı olan etik eylemlerden ve molekül etik değerlerden bağımsız olarak yorumlanması mümkün değildir.

Bu çalışmanın konusu; etik problemlerinin bir sistem dahilinde çözülmesini sağlayan kuramımız Halkbilimsel Metaetik Kuram ile taşlamalardaki etik değerlerin bağlamsal moleküllerini ve Türk halk felsefesindeki yerini ortaya koymak suretiyle günümüz etik problemlerine çözüm getirmeye çalışmaktır. Çalışmamız âşık tarzı kültür geleneğinde, etik değerlerin bağlamsal molekülleriyle yapılanan halk felsefesini farklı bir bakış açısıyla incelemek amacını taşımaktadır.
Queering and disrupting as acts of intervention: Proposals for engendering an attitude of practising in the performance workshop space
Authors: Allinson Jodie
Published: September 2023

This article proposes that collectively engaging in modes of practising that intentionally disrupt or queer habitual dynamics facilitates the emergence of transformed pedagogical approaches. It considers how power dynamics inform and emerge from pedagogical encounters between students and lecturer, and how engaging in practising that queers or disrupts these encounters reveals possibilities for teaching performance practice. It focuses on how encounters are spatially influenced and explores practices that disrupt normative ideas about how we position ourselves in space to enact social relations. These ideas are explored through reflecting on working with the MA Drama cohort at the University of South Wales. We explored normative ideas about what constitutes ‘good’ participation and group working practices in relation to the inhabitation of indoor and outdoor spaces and the performance of power. These experiences are considered in relation to failure, the queering of space and neuroqueering.
Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, Petra Kuppers (2022)
Authors: Laurence Miranda
Published: September 2023

Review of: Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, Petra Kuppers (2022)

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 280 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-45296-687-8, e-book, open access
Practising playing: Thinking through movement and the creative writing classroom
Authors: Elliott-Ryan Hayley
Published: September 2023

This article considers the role of play in the context of creative writing. Taking up Winnicott’s theory of play and Levi-Strauss’s definition of bricolage, I aim to provide a flexible framework that can benefit writers and educators across various creative fields, while avoiding rigid prescriptions of how playing might be enacted. Employing the motions swerving, rebounding and straying, and adding to this set the action of hesitating, I offer an exploded view of my writing practice which serves to demonstrate how practitioners can map the movements in their own creative process, encouraging a playful engagement with creativity that nurtures unexpected and unforeseen outcomes.
Teaching and practising gestures: An investigation of the work of Accademia sull’Arte del Gesto
Authors: Frasson Elisa
Published: September 2023

The article investigates the work of Accademia sull’Arte del Gesto, created in 2007 by Italian choreographer Virgilio Sieni, by examining the relationship within teaching and practising gestures with Delfina Stella, his artistic collaborator. Accademia sull’Arte del Gesto is a research project devoted to the study of the gestures, the meaning of body movement and the transmission of dance. This work on the art of the gesture aims to positively intervene on liveability and a possible sense of belonging, tending towards a renewal of the relationship between the body and the territory. The practice of gesture is transmitted both from the choreographer to the movers and vice versa. How are these practices of gestures open to a variety of people? To what extent is a somatic approach supportive in transmitting this practice? In what ways has Sieni, together with his collaborators, developed these pedagogies for gestures? The enquiry combines my own field research experience and narration around the creation , a project by Sieni.
Practising sameness: Inside a long-term dance improvisation practice
Authors: Millard Olivia , Barton Ashlee
Published: September 2023

This article describes the practising of a weekly group dance improvisation practice that has been taking place for more than ten years. The practice was/is instigated by Olivia Millard resulting from a three-year Ph.D. exploration. Although the practice is based in Millard’s own dance interests, the practice is not aimed at ‘teaching’ this practice or suggesting that this model of practising should be adopted or ‘learned’. Instead, the (non-deliberate) teaching that takes place emphasizes the ongoing act of practising itself. This article explores the embodied experiences of practising over time in two parts. The first is written by Millard who describes the way the practising is tied to the use of scores and how the significance of the practising lies in the regular doing of the same thing, over and over again. The second part of the article is written by a long-term participant, Ashlee Barton, who writes from the point of view of participating in this practice regularly and consistently over such a long period of time.
Destabilizing the habitus in contemporary dance technique training: The ‘reflexive-dialogical’ as a mode of ‘practising’
Authors: Rimmer-Piekarczyk Rachel
Published: September 2023

This article examines the notion of ‘practising’ through the lens of contemporary dance technique training. The author explores the extent to which a ‘reflexive-dialogical’ approach to contemporary dance technique training, which is an approach developed within the context of the author’s own action research, can cultivate a mode of ‘practising’ by emphasizing continuous, processual learning. The reflexive-dialogical approach focuses on positioning both dancer and teacher in a critical relationship with their respective practices; a dialogical mode of learning is used to expose and question the ‘how and why’ of physical and cognitive behavioural dispositions that are acquired through the process of embodying and transmitting dance techniques. Proposing that this critical relationship creates destabilization within the habitus, the author argues that such destabilization is required for teachers and students to notice and disrupt patterns of embodiment in the pursuit of maintaining a curious, practising approach to training that cultivates agency.
Nothing is happening
Authors: Lee Katie
Published: September 2023

This article explores the importance, and political agency of durational, experiential and process-based creative practice and pedagogical methodologies. I argue these methods resist capitalist models of productivity and efficiency by minimizing the importance of determined outcomes or ‘products’. In turn, this commitment to durational teaching/learning can connect us to different ways of being – promoting a different kind of exchange with the world, and what we expect in return.
Teaching practising: Its subtractive sensibilities
Authors: Pont Antonia
Published: September 2023

This article proposes that, alongside the teaching of the specific contents of any practice, we can better apprehend what informs a teaching of practising by invoking the notion of subtractive sensibility. The article disambiguates practices from practising per se, drawing on the author’s existing research in the field of practising theory and the four criteria of practising. The article then explores the idea of the subtractive via the works of philosopher, Alain Badiou and professor of education, Jakob Muth. Three subtractive sensibilities are then proposed: relaxation-in-the-face-of-difficulty, non-purposiveness and acausality. These are relevant to teaching not only discrete practices but also practising, where the latter is an approach to doing that invites transformation without undermining steadiness or going via destruction.
A Philosophy of Practising With Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Antonia Pont (2021)
Authors: Shaw Oliver
Published: September 2023

Review of: A Philosophy of Practising With Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, Antonia Pont (2021)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 230 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-47449-046-7, h/bk, £75.00
Teaching practising: Frameworks, experiments, conversations
Authors: Pont Antonia
Published: September 2023

This editorial is an introduction to the 15.1 Special Issue of Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices (JDSP). Written by guest-editor Antonia Pont, this editorial provides readers with an overview of the issue’s focus ‘Teaching Practising’, as well as reflection on the articles and reviews that make up this issue.
The Finnish film and TV industry in the COVID-19 crisis
Authors: Cañas-Bajo Jose , Rintala Heidi , Matila Ilkka
Published: September 2023

This article focuses on the challenges confronted by Finnish production companies as a consequence of the COVID-19 health crisis. We report on the decisions and strategies on the part of producers attempting to overcome the crisis and the production overcost, including shooting practices, teamwork and market relations. We collected quantitative responses to a detailed questionnaire and conducted in-depth interviews with producers to add a nuanced qualitative perspective. Despite the many uncertainties and difficulties associated with increased costs, human resources and complex shooting practices, the respondents showed flexibility in adjusting to the crisis and foresaw some positive trends for the future.
From television genre to film genre: Finnish Schlager music on small and big screens
Authors: Keinonen Heidi
Published: September 2023

Schlager shows were one of the main attractions on early Finnish television. Featuring a popular music genre, the shows were soon followed by a wave of Schlager films. In this article, I discuss Schlager film as an intermedial genre that sheds light on the early forms of cooperation between television, film and record industries. Focusing on the Schlager film Hit parade (1959), I suggest that while television was often seen merely as a competitor of the film industry, contributing to the crisis of Finnish film production, the relation between the two was more ambiguous than that: the case of Hit parade indicates that the film industry was also interested in the potential provided by the new medium.
Did television kill cinema? Contemporary writings on film and early television in Finland
Authors: Laine Kimmo
Published: September 2023

The aim of this article is to survey and re-examine writings on the emergence of television in Finnish film journals and newspapers in the 1950s and early 1960s. While film history has typically pictured film and television mainly as rivals, here the relation is discussed in terms not only of competition but also of interaction and cooperation. I classify the early writings into three groups according to the mode with which the relations between television and cinema are discussed: separationist, protectionist and cooperative. Based on this classification, I argue that it was only after 1963 that the narrative about television taking over – or, indeed, killing – cinema was retroactively established.
Orientalism meets Occidentalism in Tarkan versus the Vikings
Authors: Ball Kimberly
Published: September 2023

Tarkan Viking kani (Tarkan versus the Vikings) (), a low-budget feature film made in the heyday of Turkey’s prolific Yeşilçam film industry, anachronistically pits Viking against Hun in an allegory of Turkey’s position between East and West. By figuring Vikings as representatives of an essential westernness, this film partakes in what I propose is a Viking-film commonplace, but does so from a rare non-western perspective, positioning Vikings within a discourse that is both Orientalist and Occidentalist. This article examines Tarkan versus the Vikings in its historical and ideological contexts, using this film as a critical vantage point from which to consider the (mostly) western Viking film genre, and the stylized image of the West that is the cinematic Viking.
Editorial
Authors: Iversen Gunnar
Published: September 2023

Contributors to this issue consider different aspects of Scandinavian film and TV culture, from the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on film and television production, to Finnish hip hop on film and Turkish Viking films. Each article explores the rich field of Scandinavian audio-visual culture or how aspects of Scandinavian culture are represented in international film productions.
Introduction: Intertwining histories of film and television in the Nordic countries
Authors: Hochscherf Tobias , Laine Kimmo
Published: September 2023

The last few years have increasingly shown that the boundaries between film and television are porous. This In Focus section re-examines historical intermedial connections, calling into question the dominant narrative of rivalry and contest. Case studies on specific genres, film and television viewing practices and discourses on the emergence of television demonstrate that there were numerous points of contact and cooperation between the two media in the 1950s and 1960s, a reassessment that opens up new perspectives and paves the way for further intermedial research on film–television relations.
Remembering television as a new medium: Conceptual boundaries and connections
Authors: Van Belle Jono , Jernudd Åsa
Published: September 2023

Academic and industry discourses in Sweden blamed the rapid decline of cinema-going in the late 1950s on the introduction of television. Complicating the issue, Swedish television ties in with radio as a domestic medium, making the conceptual links between television and cinema seem less obvious. If we write a history of media characterized by replacement, we tend to overlook how new and old media exist simultaneously in everyday life. Our article investigates how television features in memory narratives of cinema in the context of quotidian life in the late 1950s and 1960s in Sweden. The study draws on memories collected through 60 oral history interviews in two large-scale projects. With a focus on cultural practices and Lisa Gitelman’s concept of ‘associated protocols’ in media use, we ask how cinema and television are conceived in relation to each other in hindsight when remembering television as new.
How do companies communicate their ‘sustainable’ material innovations on company websites?
Authors: Henninger Claudia E. , Brydges Taylor , Le Normand Aurelie , Luo Shuchan , Quijano Luis , Wood Jane , Yan Songyi
Published: September 2023

The fashion industry has long been criticized for its unsustainable practices in terms of production processes and the materials used to create garments and accessories. As such, sustainability in fashion is not new per se, but what is classified as ‘sustainable’ is changing as technology and new innovations are continuously emerging. This article focuses on material innovations centring on future materials that have been created to replace existing materials including, but not limited to, animal skins, plastics and other materials classified as ‘vegan’. These existing materials have previously raised concerns regarding sustainability practices. Thus, a key question that currently lacks in the research and is addressed within this article is: (1) whether these material innovations are ‘sustainable’, (2) to what extent are they sustainable and (3) what might make them a ‘better’ alternative. This article provides a critical account of such innovations by performing a comparative secondary analysis of 21 ‘innovative’ materials that are currently used or could be used by luxury fashion brands and fall within the self-proclaimed categories of either vegan, plant-based, plastic-free or sustainable. As these future materials are often seen as replacements for leather and synthetic materials derived from fossil fuels, this analysis provides insights into these materials, alongside how and what information is promoted to consumers on a corporate website.
Evaluating methods to achieve raw material transparency in fashion supply chains: A focus on cotton
Authors: Brown Emma
Published: September 2023

The global cotton and fashion industries are complex, inherently opaque and environmentally and socially exploitative. This is because of a long history of colonial practices founded in the cotton industry and a current fashion industry that is dominated by bottom-line focused large brands. Fashion supply chain transparency is needed to address the myriad of issues plaguing the fashion industry. As a tool for reaching a fair, just and sustainable fashion industry, transparency is a necessary step in reaching an accountable supply chain from the raw material level all the way to the retailer. The goal of this study is to identify the most impactful methods for increasing transparency throughout the entire fashion supply chain. Through in-depth, qualitative interviews with industry experts, six key areas were identified as methods for increasing transparency to the raw material (tier 4 or 5 level) and reducing risk within the fashion supply chain. These include restructuring of the cotton commodity market, the need for technology, increasing brand investment, trust and honesty, the need for policy, reduction of cotton certification reliance and the intervention of cotton advocacy organizations. Additionally, this research also brings to light a lack of real progress towards large-scale change within the industry and found that there is a need for complete structural change to both the cotton commodity market and the fashion supply chain if the goal of reaching a fair, just and sustainable fashion industry is to be possible.
Seatbelts in Selfridges: The innovative use of post-consumer waste by BELO bags
Authors: Martin-Woodhead Amber
Published: September 2023

This article focuses on BELO bags: a British-Brazilian company, founded in 2017, that specializes in producing handbags and accessories from decommissioned seatbelts. Drawing on an interview with the company’s co-founder Charlotte Bingham-Wallis, the article considers the environmentally sustainable credentials of the brand – considering how their redirection of seatbelts from landfill, and emphasis on product aftercare, repair and repurposing, positions the brand within circular fashion systems. The article considers how BELO’s reappropriation of unwanted waste materials into highly coveted, new luxury fashion accessories, which has been further reinforced by a recently secured concession within Selfridges, can be seen as a fashion practice that celebrates waste as opposed to concealing it. It argues that rediscovering and elevating the value of waste is perhaps key to unlocking more sustainable textile practices within the fashion industry: as reappropriating and revaluing materials that are already in existence, via imaginative and creative reuse, offers two-fold benefits of reducing both ‘waste’ from landfill and the production and use of virgin fibres.
A framework to investigate the potential of brewery wastes’ utilization in eco-friendly leather production: A consumer study
Authors: Pandya Anokhi , Rodriguez Carolina Quintero
Published: September 2023

The extensive utilization and increasing demand for leather and leather alternatives within the fashion industry has raised concerns surrounding ecosystems. To mitigate the environmental impact and excessive reliance on fossil fuels, a lot of effort has gone into substituting synthetic polymers with organic and biodegradable materials. As biotechnological revolution continues to better the leather industry, it is imperative to explore the potential of brewery waste as starting materials to respond to the environmental challenges and meet this demand backed by a framework for its bio-fabrication. An online survey was conducted to explore Australian consumers’ values, and experiences associated with leather and leather alternatives, and to identify their perception and expectations towards brewery waste-based leather as the determinants of its need and prospective fabrication based on the framework. The results indicate that consumers have high environmental awareness, expectations, and value inclination towards the credibility of brewery waste-based leather alternative based on their existing leather preferences. The study is the first to investigate the potentiality of brewery waste for its utilization in eco-friendly leather bio-fabrication in accordance with quantitative consumer research which collectively offers a valuable contribution to the literature by modifying the value-belief-norm (VBN) theory, theory of environmentalism, and by extending existing research on environmental innovation and product values to a preliminary framework for future lines of research within this field. The devised framework and the findings of this study can assist in the prospective development of an eco-friendly leather alternative derived from brewery waste. Overall, this work theoretically demonstrates that brewery waste could bridge the gap in the market regarding the need for a greener supply chain as well as a source of material that facilitates the production of an improved alternative to leather in line with the changing demands of the market and the increase in environmental degradation.
The role of different stakeholders in the transition to a sustainable fashion industry in Europe
Authors: Nauwelaerts Ysabel , Vingerhoets Margot
Published: September 2023

Today’s fashion industry is among the most unsustainable industries on the planet, responsible for around 3–5 per cent of global carbon emissions. Theory and literature show that making this industry more sustainable is possible by implementing circular economy (CE) principles and new technological developments along the entire value chain, but in practice there is still considerable reluctance and ignorance about implementing more sustainable practices in fashion. This article studies the role of different stakeholders in fostering the transition to a more sustainable fashion industry in Europe. We do this by using a conceptual framework with four groups of actors, namely companies, consumers, public authorities and NGOs. A literature review is supplemented with qualitative case studies of five Belgian companies active in the fashion industry and two public circular platforms. The study first reveals a clear lack of knowledge and information about circularity, both among companies and consumers. Knowledge dissemination should be considered a first important instrument for change. NGOs and public authorities can play an important role in creating social awareness and drawing attention to the issue. Furthermore, public authorities should create the necessary financial, economic and legal framework to stimulate sustainable business models and accelerate change in consumption patterns. The cases we have studied use one or a combination of sustainable practices, ranging from more sustainable design and material choices up to reuse and repair options, but they are still searching for an economically viable model in the longer term. Our study also shows that the realization of circular business models and its success largely depends on the interaction between the different stakeholders. The new EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles is a first promising step in this direction. The next crucial challenge will be to put this EU strategy successfully into practice. The transition to a sustainable fashion industry will require both substantial investments and conviction from all stakeholders, but this will pay off in the long run.