cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hyphaene guineensis Schumach. & Thonn.
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Arecales
Arecaceae
Hyphaene
Hyphaene guineensis

description: Hyphaene guineensis Schumach. & Thonn.
Palm tree, in wooded savannah, open forest and mangrove edge.
C.N.: mateba, ditemba, macoto (fruit) (kb); matebeira (pt).
Uses: food, artefacts, fibre, medicinal, rituals.
Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017); VU (Costa et al. 2019)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Bruchstellen einer diachronen Erfahrung
Creators: name: Waldenfels, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Experience is investigated according to those breaking points where the unexpected surfaces and the surprise of the extraordinary and the alien breaks through. What happens is always in the postponement between pathos and response; this represents the fundamental agreement of a responsive phenomenology: it is never a quiet succession, but always something arriving too early or too late. Threshold experiences such as hesitation, delay, waiting, pausing, stumbling are investigated in this framework.


 
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Der Leib als Urmedium und der Körper als Vehikel der Technik
Creators: name: Waldenfels, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Living corporeity is the intermediate element between nature and culture, which must be thought of as a reciprocal interconnection, since as corporeal beings we always move on a threshold. In the reflection of the bodily self, a doubling between the living body as a functioning subject and as a material object is revealed; after all, even one's own body sometimes takes on the features of a foreign body, as is the case in the experience of illness. In the technical instrument, the body is prolonged and this highlights the connection between the technique of the thing and the technique of the self; however, despite the gradual autonomisation of the technical element from the living corporeity, there remains what escapes calculation and looms large in the subtraction of the alien.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Das Unbewußte als Fremdes
Creators: name: Waldenfels, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Through a comparison of the phenomenological motif of the alien and the psychoanalytic motif of the unconscious, a critique is advanced against Cartesian dualism, which recurs today in the natural sciences and in the split of the contemporary individual, divided between spirit and nature, the proper world and the alien world, the inner sphere and the outer sphere. It is a matter of thinking of an original subtraction, an absent presence that begins with ourselves, in a slippage that achieves no synthesis.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Phoenix reclinata Jacq.
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Arecales
Arecaceae
Phoenix
Phoenix reclinata

description: Phoenix reclinata Jacq.
Palm tree, arboreal, in riverbanks and floodable lowlands.
C.N.: kalolo (kb); palmite (pt).
Uses: food, artefacts, fibre, rituals.
Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017)
F.Monteiro 1074 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Nicht parteipolitisch engagiert – mit Absicht : eine quantitative Erhebung mit Fokus auf dem parteipolitischen Engagement von Sozialarbeitenden vor dem Hintergrund der Verhaltenstheorie
Creators: name: Demircali, Selin
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 320: Politik
361: Sozialarbeit und Sozialhilfe

description: Das parteipolitische Engagement bietet für Fachpersonen der Sozialen Arbeit die Möglichkeit, politisch zu handeln und zugunsten einer sozialen sowie demokratischen Gesellschaft Gebrauch von ihren staatsbürgerlichen Mitteln zu machen. Trotz grundsätzlicher Befürwortung eines politischen Auftrags Sozialer Arbeit nutzen jedoch wenige Fachpersonen diese Option. Mithilfe dieser Masterthesis wird eine Antwort auf die Forschungsfrage gesucht, inwiefern die Einstellung, die subjektive Norm wie auch die wahrgenommene Verhaltenskontrolle die Intention der Fachpersonen der Sozialen Arbeit zur Ausübung eines politischen Amtes vorhersagen können. Dazu wurden in einer quantitativen Studie mittels Online-Befragungen auf Basis der Theorie des geplanten Verhaltens 92 Mitglieder des schweizerischen Berufsverbandes AvenirSocial der Region Ostschweiz befragt.
Die allgemeine Einschätzung der Absicht zur Ausübung eines politischen Amtes fiel auf die gesamte Stichprobe (N = 92) bezogen negativ aus. Anhand des statistischen Verfahrens der linearen Regressionsanalyse wurden in einem ersten Schritt gesamthaft 40 Prozent der Intentionsvarianz durch die Einstellung, die subjektive Norm und die wahrgenommene Verhaltenskontrolle aufgeklärt. In einem zweiten Schritt wurde durch eine hierarchische Regressionsanalyse zusätzlich das Alter als signifikanter Prädiktor festgestellt, der zusätzlich 18 Prozent der Intentionsvarianz aufklärte.
Die Leiblichkeit in der reflexiven Anerkennung
Creators: name: Failla, Mariannina
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The paper aims to analyse the role of Entfremdung in the process of self-awareness. In the Anmerkungen zur Phänomenologie der Intersubjektivität of 1920, Husserl reflects on the Entfremdung of the concrete bodily self, using the alterity or the meeting with the extraneous as a model. The conscious relation of the natural self to its soma (das Physische) is constituted in the context of the experience of the extraneous (das Fremde). The reference to the other than oneself also seems to occur in the transcendental self-reflection of the self, investigated in the late manuscripts on temporality (C- Manuscripts). Firstly, in such manuscripts, the living present (lebendige Gegenwart) is both identity and difference from self, and precisely as a continuous transition from identity to other-than-self, to difference from self, it constitutes the original ground of the transcendental ego. Secondly, it is possible to grasp a correlativity: that between the bodily self-reflection and the temporal self-reflection of the transcendental ego. Both are based on the opposition and mediation of subjective and objective. Following this path, it can be said that in the reflections on original temporality, the dynamics of bodily self-reflection are iterated: it is no coincidence that in the C Manuscripts Husserl designates the temporal Ego objectified in self-reflection as Non-Ego. Even in the case of the original temporal self-reflexivity, it is otherness that mediates the relation to the self, an otherness that is not identified with but connected to the transcendental body of others.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
An RDM toolkit for the research community
Creators: name: Chiarelli, Andrea
name: Johnson, Rob
name: Velten, Lennart
name: Ingram, Caroline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Research Data Management
RDM
Research Data
Toolkit

description: A poster on the release of the Jisc Research Data Management (RDM) toolkit, presented at the 7th INORMS conference, 4-7 June 2018, Edinburgh.
Additional file 1 of Meal support intervention for eating disorders: a mixed-methods systematic review
Creators: name: Ellis, Aleshia
name: Gillespie, Kerri
name: McCosker, Laura
name: Hudson, Carly
name: Diamond, Gideon
name: Machingura, Tawanda
name: Branjerdporn, Grace
name: Woerwag-Mehta, Sabine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Variations, Pause, and Restart
Creators: name: Spada, Enrica
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: In the following paper, we will focus in particular on the research and reflections carried out by the French anthropologist Philippe Descola, who offers us a useful perspective to radically rethink the conceptualisation that, through a millenary movement, has led our Western culture, represented by what he calls the Moderns (borrowing an expression from Bruno Latour), to objectify the natural environment and to deploy it as a separate and unmanageable entity to be dominated.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Geschäftsmodellinnovation in der Krankenzusatzversicherung
Creators: name: Dimitrievski, David
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 360: Soziale Probleme und Sozialversicherungen
658.406: Innovationsmanagement, Change Management

description: Die Schweizer Krankenzusatzversicherer sind mit diversen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. So muss das Geschäftsmodell aufgrund veränderter Kundenbedürfnisse und Megatrends wie der demografischen Entwicklung oder der zunehmenden Individualisierung angepasst werden. Auch die Veränderungen im Gesundheitswesen, welches künftig immer mehr durch Plattformökonomie und Ökosysteme geprägt sein wird, machen es notwendig, dass sich Krankenzusatzversicherer klar positionieren und ihr Geschäftsmodell anpassen. Trotz dieser Entwicklungen werden im Rahmen der Krankenzusatzversicherung keine radikalen Geschäftsmodellinnovationen vollzogen. Das generische Geschäftsmodell der Krankenzusatzversicherer hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten grundsätzlich nicht wesentlich verändert. 
Diese Bachelorarbeit untersucht, welches die Faktoren sind, die Geschäftsmodellinnovation in der Krankenzusatzversicherung beeinflussen und erschweren. Überdies sollen erste Ansätze zur Schaffung eines geschäftsmodellinnovationsfreundlicheren Settings gewonnen werden. 
Um die Zielsetzung dieser Arbeit zu erreichen, wird nach der theoretischen Einführung ein Interviewleitfaden erarbeitet, welcher in insgesamt sieben Expertinnen- und Experteninterviews mit Fach- und Führungspersonen aus der Krankenversicherung (CSS, Helsana, SWICA, Sympany) sowie Beratungsunternehmen (Ernst & Young, ti&m) zur Erfassung des Status quos und allfälliger Mitigationsmöglichkeiten eingesetzt wird. Die Interviews werden im Nachgang transkribiert und mittels qualitativer Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet, bevor die Ergebnisse zu den einzelnen Faktoren im Ergebnisteil präsentiert werden. Schlussendlich wird im Rahmen der Diskussion eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Faktoren, die Geschäftsmodellinnovationen beeinflussen können, erstellt, in welcher nebst den unterschiedlichen Faktoren deren konkrete Wirkung sowie mögliche Mitigationsansätze zusammengefasst werden. 
Die Arbeit kommt zum Schluss, dass von den durch die Expertinnen und Experten genannten Faktoren eine Mehrheit hinderlich betreffend Geschäftsmodellinnovation ist. Bei einer grossen Minderheit der Faktoren ist aufgrund ihrer ambivalenten Wirkweise ein zumindest in Ansätzen hinderlicher Einfluss zu beobachten. Lediglich wenige Faktoren erweisen sich hinsichtlich Geschäftsmodellinnovationsvorhaben als förderlich. Des Weiteren liefern die Ergebnisse erste Mitigationsansätze, mittels welcher die Schaffung eines innovationsfreundlicheren internen und externen Umfeldes gefördert werden kann.
title: Investigating the fluorous effect to direct the DNA origami assembly
Creators: name: Zou, Jiajia
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: DNA origami is a robust method for the creation of nanostructures with arbitrary shapes, whereby a long single strand is folded into extended patterns with the aid of hundreds of short stands. DNA origami has been shown as an ideal technique to control and organise individual molecules with nanoscale accuracy, which is of great importance in the fields like bio-sensing and nano-engineering. Assembly of DNA origami sheets into higher ordered structures is desirable for the fabrication of new materials and devices that are currently beyond the reach of top-down fabrication techniques. However, there are major constraints when attempting to create origami super-structures larger than one micron, including the inefficiency of attachment reactions between individual origami tiles, the complexity of the design, and the number of unique DNA sequences required. The primary focus of this thesis is to explore the fluorous-effect as a new method to promote DNA origami dimerization. Firstly, affecting factors to origami dimerization using stickyends strategy was explored. This work showed that changing the number and length of sticky-ends largely affect the dimer yield. Bridging strands work cooperatively when in proximity, when they were placed in distance, however, the binding of one doesn’t help the binding of another, thus they work independently. The fluorous effect was then introduced as a novel strategy to join distinct origami tiles together. Fluorous-fluorous interactions differ from conventional base-pairing interactions in that they are relatively strong and non-specific. This work showed that fluorous-tagged origami can be used as a mean to direct origami dimerization. Among all of the fluorous species that were explored, branched-RF8 tags were most efficient at directing origami dimerization. A hybrid linker system containing both fluorous strands and sticky-ends was then explored. It was found that the hybrid system significantly improves the dimer yield when compared to the equivalent DNA-only system. The fact that double extension sticky-ends are more efficient than single extensions may suggest that a more stable, higher-yield dimer could form with the use of double-extended RF-oligos. The final experimental chapter demonstrates the construction of an origami based FRET system comprising quantum dots and organic fluorophores. This works explored several dye patterns including linear, checkerboard and a quantum dot - dye complex to obtain an optimized energy transfer network. This is the first time that quantum dots have been used as a FRET donor in an origami platform. It is thought that this work has potential application in multiplex assays as quantum dots can, unlike fluorophores, serve as multiple acceptors.
The (im)possible Task
Creators: name: Vidali, Cristiano
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The compatibility between the phenomenological method and the subject of the unconscious has long been called into question, not only by external critics but also by authors whose theoretical background had been shaped precisely by their confrontation with Husserl’s phenomenology. To date, the evolution of Husserlian philology, on the one hand, has notably softened such stance, testifying to how the father of phenomenology himself directly and repeatedly grappled with this problem. On the other hand, however, there seem to be intrinsic aspects to the notion of phenomenology as such that would lead to underestimate its potential, outright excluding concepts or entire realms of experience, such as that gathered under the title of the unconscious. In this article, we intend to revisit certain moments in Husserl's work from which it becomes clear that not only is phenomenology capable of addressing the problem of the unconscious, but above all it proves to be particularly effective in accounting for it, providing important methodological indications for its analytical framing. In the concluding section, we will finally touch upon some possible avenues for a phenomenological investigation of the unconscious, differentiated by the assumption of distinct exemplary phenomena as guiding thread (Leitfaden) of the analysis.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Copy or Doubling?
Creators: name: Guccinelli, Roberta
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The question I intend to address here concerns the ontological status of the Doppelgänger (the Double). “Who” is the Double? How is it connected to our lives, and to other lives? I would like to describe, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the ambiguity of this figure, which has been interpreted in art and literature as a copy of the original or as a doubling of the self. Drawing on Waldenfels’s reflections on the experience of the alien, I will try to show that the intrinsic ambiguity of the Doppelgänger is rooted in an ambiguity that is even more original than that of the Double: the ambiguity of our own life, which is always intertwined with that of others, with what is alien. What makes us to some extent radically alien even to ourselves and, precisely for this reason, “founded” on our very “groundlessness” is our relational, contextual or responsive freedom.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Asparagus africanus Lam.
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Asparagus
Asparagus africanus

description: Asparagus africanus Lam.
Small climbing shrub, in open forest and wooded savannah; also in abandoned plantations.
C.N.: kakalulo (kb).
Uses: medicinal.
F.Monteiro 1306 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Erfolgsfaktoren für einen internationalen Markteintritt eines Schweizer Robotik Start-ups
Creators: name: Widmer, Maurin
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 658.8: Marketingmanagement

description: Schweizer Hightech Start-ups werden häufig in die internationale Expansion aufgrund eines zu kleinen lokalen Marktes getrieben. Der internationale Markteintritt ist jedoch kein einfacher Prozess für ein Start-up und hat viele Hürden, die zu überwinden sind. Von dem Entschluss bis zur Durchführung eines internationalen Markteintrittes müssen wichtige Entscheidungen getroffen werden, die wegweisend für die Zukunft eines jungen Unternehmens sein können. Mit diesem Problem befasst sich die vorliegende Arbeit. Sie sucht nach den Erfolgsfaktoren für den internationalen Markteintritt für Schweizer Robotik Start-ups. 
Die typischen Marktselektion, wie sie in der Fachliteratur für Start-ups erwähnt wurde, konnte bei den interviewten Robotik Start-ups nur teilweise festgestellt werden. Insbesondere bei jungen Start-ups ist die Marktselektion stark von opportunistischen Chancen getrieben. Meist wird erst in einer späteren Phase, wenn eine genügend grosse Nachfrage vorhanden ist, eine selektivere Marktauswahl vorgenommen. 
Bei der Wahl der Eintrittsform hat sich bei den analysierten Robotik Start-ups gezeigt, dass ein naher Kundenkontakt bei der Einführung eines neuen Produktes essenziell ist. Deshalb wählten alle Start-ups einen direkten Export als Eintrittsform. Nachdem die Unternehmen erste Erfahrungen gesammelt und den Markt kennengelernt hatten, haben sie dann auf einen indirekten Export gewechselt. Dies gibt den Start-ups den Vorteil, dass sie von dem lokalen Netzwerk der Partner profitieren können, um einen grösseren Markt zu erreichen. 
Aus der Arbeit hat sich herausgestellt, dass Start-ups, die international Tätig sein wollen, einen besonderen Fokus auf Mitarbeiter mit interkulturellen Erfahrungen setzen sollten. Eine weitere Schlussfolgerung ist, dass die Einschätzung der Bereitschaft der Firma und des Produktes eine wesentliche Rolle bei der Wahl des Marktes und der Eintrittsform spielen sollte. 
Abschliessend gibt diese Arbeit Handlungsempfehlungen für Schweizer Robotik Start-ups bezüglich einem erfolgreichen internationalen Markteintritt ab und gibt einen Ausblick auf zukünftige Forschungsbereiche.
Limit-Forms of Time
Creators: name: Nobili, Filippo
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: To establish what time is, as in Plato’s iconic definition (“moving image of eternity”, Timaeus 37d), one often has to emphasize its relation to what time is not. Time seems to be defined dialectically, in terms of what is not eternal, not extra-temporal, etc. Husserl’s phenomenology as well shows how experience involves several borderline forms of time.  But these sui generis forms of timelessness are for Husserl as many modes of time, they are variations of the same constituent temporality. Time thus presents its dialectical counterparts within itself, rather than being metaphysically drawn ex nihilo from eternity. Allzeitlichkeit, for example, is the capacity of idealities to be in any time; Überzeitlichkeit is the property of the I to function as the focus of appearance in any possible living experience; Zugleichkeit is the proper mode of the a priori of correlation, i.e. the fact that the intertwined processes of Objektivierung and Subjektivierung occur at the same time; Urzeitigung and Selbstzeitigung describe the primordial dimension of the absolute flow of consciousness (Urprozess); finally, Simultaneität and Gleichzeitigkeit refer respectively to the system of sedimented sense (secondary passivity) and to the modality of its reactivation. All these boundary forms do not negate time, but entertain a constitutive relationship with its becoming. Overall, then, Husserl’s view is that of a pluralistic and polyhedric unity of time.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Additional file 1 of Crtc1 deficiency protects against sepsis-associated acute lung injury through activating akt signaling pathway
Creators: name: Chen, Meng
name: Lv, Jian
name: Guo, Ningning
name: Ji, Tuo
name: Fang, Yu
name: Wang, Zhihua
name: He, Xianghu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Asparagus racemosus Willd.
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Asparagus
Asparagus racemosus

description: Asparagus racemosus Willd.
Small climbing shrub, in wooded savannah.
C.N.: kakalulo (kb).
Uses: medicinal.
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Between the Visible and the Invisible
Creators: name: Bizzari, Valeria
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: In this contribution I will attempt to sketch a phenomenology of dreaming in what appear to be its most important characterisations: for example, a specific (a)temporality, an essential ineffability, its relation to the waking world and a particular causality. In order to do this, I will be guided by two authors – Maria Zambrano and Maurice Merleau-Ponty – who seems to be apparently distant but who share a vision of dreaming as a life-world in continuity with the waking world, which is comprehensible only by adopting a non-rational gaze, such as that offered by poetry and myth. The final aim will be to rehabilitate the dreaming experience as a lived one, able to express deep subjective meanings.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
How to promote Swiss watches on Chinese social media platforms : impacts of influencer attributes on consumer's purchase intentions
Creators: name: Meraviglia, Flavio
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 658.8: Marketingmanagement

description: China's immense economic growth during the past decades lifted over 800 million people out of poverty and promoted a significant development of the nation’s digital infrastructure. The COVID-19 pandemic further pushed the digitalization trend, which resulted in an e-commerce user base of 812 million individuals spending over USD 950 billion in the first half of 2021. A perfect example of this economic growth is the luxury goods market, as it will be the largest in the world by 2025, according to a Bain and Company report. The combination of economic growth, a rapidly increasing digitalization trend and the COVID-19 pandemic are of great significance for the Swiss watch industry. Due to the sudden travel restrictions, Chinese luxury goods tourism declined drastically, and instead, an upsurge in Chinese luxury spending occurred domestically. As a result, exports of Swiss watches to mainland China have recorded an incline of 20.1% year on year, in 2020, translating to a total amount of roughly USD 2.6 billion. Every other of the industry’s top ten export market regions, including the United States and Hong Kong, recorded severe export declines during the same time period. To react to this rapidly transforming market, the Swiss watch industry needs to adapt to China's immense digital landscape. With China’s changes to an ever more digital market, a new opportunity arises. The popularity of social media has led to more and more brands working with micro celebrities known as social media influencers. Through these influencers marketing professionals are able to have an impact on their audience. The influencers showcase and promote a specific brand or product and, in return, receive benefits from a company. In summary, social media influencers are the key to reaching vast amounts of potential consumers online. In order to provide the Swiss watch industry with recommendations on collaborating with the right social media influencer, this study analyzed the impact of six influencer attributes on consumers’ buying intention. After conducting a survey with Chinese participants interested in Swiss watches, the findings show that the social media content characteristics of information and entertainment value, as well as the personal influencer attributes consisting of expertise, trustworthiness, attractiveness, and perceived similarity, positively affect the consumer’s buying intention.
Responding to the Appeal of Those Who Are not (yet) There
Creators: name: Menga, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Intergenerational justice represents a crucial theme in the on-going debate in ethics, politics and law. In what follows, I would like to show that a determined phenomenological perspective drawing from the motive of alterity can shed new light on such a topic. Importantly, my concern will be to display how this approach can provide a thorough justificatory underpinning for a responsibility towards future generations, while denouncing the main shortcomings that mainstream approaches reveal when dealing with this issue.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Asparagus undetermined
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Asparagus
Asparagus undetermined

description: Asparagus sp.
Climbing shrub, in grassy savannahs and thickets.
C.N.: kakaka-hakoko, kalala-ya-koko (kb).
Uses: medicinal, rituals.
F.Monteiro 641 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Encountering the Indeterminacy of the Self
Creators: name: Yazıcıoğlu, Sanem
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: In recent decades, phenomenology and hermeneutical phenomenology have taken the lead in addressing the question of personal identity through the inquiry of “who are you?”. However, this lead has questionable aspects in capturing the relationality between self, others, and the surrounding world, characterized by its ever-changing state. To understand personal identity in its ever-changing state of becoming, the primary focus of this paper is twofold: firstly, exploring how to reconcile these complex relations into a unified conception of personal identity by following Husserl’s notion of “indeterminate determinacy” and his theory of variation, and secondly, considering the limitations of defining this unity as an “autobiography or biography" in accordance with Arendt’s notion of a "life-story". In the final analyses the notion of life-story will be revised together with Waldenfels’s analyses on “radical alien” and Sözer’s “in-between”.  This will prompt a reconsideration of personal identity as a process, leading to a genetic phenomenological perspective that recognizes the “indeterminacy of the self”.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Aloe littoralis Baker
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Saxifragales
Crassulaceae
Aloe
Aloe littoralis

description: Aloe littoralis Baker
Fleshy perennial herb, in wooded savannah of coastal slopes.
C.N.: xandala (kb).
Uses: medicinal.
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Beyond the Primacy of Representation
Creators: name: Ciaramelli, Fabio
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The primacy of representation, to which – at least according to Paul Ricoeur – Edmund Husserl would have remained faithful, is radically questioned in Emmanuel Levinas’ famous essay on the "ruin of representation" (1959). The phenomenological structure of intentionality, in which “something appears as something”, confirms the need to “break out of the magic circle of representation”. Indeed, it is precisely by means of a detailed analysis of “intentionality”, insofar as the latter appears as characterized by an essential Mehrmeinun. Levinas brings out the overcoming of representation, that is, the abandonment of the latter's claim to subordinate thought to the objective necessity of presence. Within the horizon of presence, the necessity of being-thus-and-not-otherwise overwhelms the sense of the possible, and the actual evidence annihilates the being-able-to-be-otherwise of human experience. Through the analysis of intentionality and its potentiality, it is possible to bring out the transition from a philosophy of the necessary constraints of evidence, linked to the primacy of representation, to a philosophy of the power-able-to-be-otherwise. After all, the ruin of representation is the ruin of the instant or eternity of evidence, relegated into the actuality of consciousness. By subtracting itself from the self-referential necessity of evidence, the ethical Sinngebung evocated by Levinas at the end of his 1959 article connects intentionality to the sense of the possible, making explicit its openness to the future in radical form.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Aloe zebrina Baker
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Saxifragales
Crassulaceae
Aloe
Aloe zebrina

description: Aloe zebrina Baker
Fleshy perennial herb, in herbaceous savannah and wooded savannah.
C.N.: djimbelia, iandala (kb).
Uses: medicinal.
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Hermeneutics and Epistemology
Creators: name: Lecis, Pier Luigi
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: In a collection of essays published in the 1970s under the title Vernunft in die Zeitalter der Wissenschaft, Gadamer confronts developments in analytical epistemology, arguing about epistemology from a hermeneutical point of view. Relations between the two traditions remain difficult. Paolo Parrini was among the few who opened to a real dialogue, neither superficial nor formal. He considered the hermeneutical tradition from an epistemological point of view, finding many connections via a third view between metaphysical realism and strong relativism. This theoretically dense and challenging perspective was expressed in two essays – “Ermeneutica ed epistemologia” (1998) and “Ermeneutica ed epistemologia 2: Heidegger, Kant e la verità” (2011). Parrini focused on the concept of Offenheit der Erfahrung in Gadamer’s Wahrheit und Methode and, later, on Heidegger’s theory of truth as alètheia. In this paper the author argues that original results of Parrini’s research confirm the fruitfulness of the encounter between hermeneutics and epistemology. He tries at the same time to identify some friction points and theoretical constraints, for further comparative development, in theory of language and theory of history, on which Gadamer’s ontological hermeneutics lies. The first tends to eliminate any distance between experience and language; the second presents conflicting aspects about identity conditions of past events, as investigated in history. To become fully productive, the dialogue between epistemological and hermeneutical traditions will be able to face a deep revision about these topics.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Klassifikation mit Deep Learning im Bereich Ergo- und Physiotherapie
Creators: name: Bührer, Nils
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 006: Spezielle Computerverfahren
615: Pharmakologie und Therapeutik

description: Nachdem Personen einen Schlaganfall erlitten haben, wird mittels mehrerer Übungen untersucht, ob Beeinträchtigungen vorhanden sind. Diese Übungen werden im Normalfall von medizinischem Fachpersonal begutachtet. Bei einer dieser Übung handelt es sich um das Trinken aus einem Glas. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, diese Trinkbewegungen automatisch mit Deep-Learning-Modellen zu bewerten. Dazu werden Videos von Personen erstellt, welche ein Glas anheben, daraus trinken und es anschliessend wieder hinstellen. Bei der einen Hälfte der Videos handelt es sich um natürliche Trinkbewegungen, bei der anderen Hälfte wird eine kompensierende Bewegung simuliert. Aus den Videos der trinkenden Personen werden die Positionen der wichtigsten Körperteile extrahiert. Die Trinkbewegungen werden analysiert, um Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen kompensierenden und natürlichen Bewegungen zu finden. Um diese Analyse zu vereinfachen, wurde eine Funktion erstellt, welche die Bewegung der einzelnen Körperteile während des Trinkverlaufes grafisch darstellt. Die Ergebnisse aus der Analyse haben dabei geholfen, die Trinkphasen zu bestimmen.

Die extrahierten Datenpunkte aus den Videos werden nach der Analyse in eine geeignete und einheitliche Form gebracht. Es wurden mehrere Funktionen entworfen, die unterschiedlich eingesetzt werden können. Die Funktionen helfen dabei, verschiedene Ansätze der Klassifikation der Trinkvorgange zu vergleichen. Beim ersten Ansatz werden die Videos dem Deep-Learning-Modell als absolute Datenpunkte übergeben. Die Videos werden so geschnitten, dass der Zeitpunkt, an dem die Hand mit dem Glas den vertikalen Höchstpunkt erreicht hat, exakt in der Mitte ist. Bei einem weiteren Ansatz werden die Datenpunkte der Videos zentriert, bevor sie an die Modelle übergeben werden. Ausserdem wurde ein Ansatz überprüft, bei dem die Distanz zwischen jedem Körperteil und dem Kopf berechnet wird. Bei jedem Ansatz wurden mehrere Varianten der Frame- und Neuronenanzahl geprüft. Es werden mehrere Long-Short-Term-Memory- (LSTM) und Recurrent-Neural-Network-Modelle (RNN) evaluiert. Es stellt sich heraus, dass die Modelle auch mit nur einem Frame als Input sehr gute Ergebnisse liefern.

Bei dem Ansatz, welcher am besten für die Praxis geeignet ist, wurden die Videos in mehrere sich überlagernde Abschnitte unterteilt und mit einem RNN-Modell trainiert. Dieser Ansatz wurde verwendet, um ein Testsystem zu erstellen, bei dem das Livebild der Webcam kontinuierlich klassifiziert wird. Es wird eine Aussage getroffen, wie gross der Anteil der Kompensation während der Trinkbewegung war. Ausserdem wird ein Diagramm erstellt, welches einzelne Zeitabschnitte mit kompensierenden Bewegungen aufzeigt.
Starting with the Body Beyond the Body
Creators: name: Deodati, Marco
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this article is to focus on the double entanglement of the body as an original medium and as a vehicle of technique. It follows Waldenfels’ long course of investigations devoted to these issues. In particular, the author will try to highlight the strong points of his proposal, attempting to critically extend their range, on the one hand, and problematizing certain assumptions that may become the subject of further investigation, on the other. He will focus above all on the question of the bodily self as embedded in and structured by many gestures and practices that are properly technical. Finally, the author will show how the conceptual tools of this phenomenology can be employed in the analysis of some significant contemporary phenomena.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Gloriosa superba L.
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Liliales
Colchicaceae
Gloriosa
Gloriosa superba

description: Gloriosa superba L.
Annual climbing herb, in wooded savannah.
C.N.: dikumbelé, kumbelé (kb).
Uses: medicinal.
Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017)
F.Monteiro 899 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Editoriale
Creators: name: Baptist, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Bernhard Waldenfels is certainly one of the leading representatives of the contemporary philosophical tradition with a phenomenological orientation. His scientific education, his intellectual background and his very rich range of publications, many of which have been translated into the major languages, characterise him as a significant heir to the great German philosophical tradition, which he has enlivened in creative contact with contemporary thought, of which he is an acknowledged protagonist...
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Blockchain im Baumanagement : Automatisierung der Zahlungsprozesse
Creators: name: Hofmann, Christian
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 332: Finanzwirtschaft

description: Die Zahlungsmoral der Baubranche ist signifikant schlechter als in fast allen anderen Branchen. Zudem ist die Gewinnmarge im Branchenschnitt nahe am Nullpunkt. Zahlungsverzögerungen sind daher vor allem für kleinere Betriebe kaum verkraftbar. Die finanziellen Rücklagen solcher Unternehmen sind teilweise ungenügend, um längere Zahlungsverzögerungen bei mehreren und grösseren Projekten zu bewältigen.

Diese Arbeit untersucht, wie der Einsatz von Blockchain den Zahlungsprozess in der Baubranche verbessern kann. Es wird aufgezeigt, wie die Blockchain-Technologie Vertrauen und Transparenz erhöhen kann. Mangel an Transparenz und Vertrauen sind die kritischsten Elemente in einer wettbewerbsorientierten Auftragsvergabe, die zu einem feindseligen Umfeld führen und häufig in Rechtstreiten enden kann.

Um diesem Problem entgegenzutreten, werden Forschungsergebnisse in den Bereichen der Baubranche, des Eventstreamings und der Blockchain erfasst. Aus diesen Erkenntnissen werden Lösungsansätze für die vorliegende Fragestellung erarbeitet. Diese Lösungsansätze werden anschliessend konkret in einem Proof-of-Concept umgesetzt und auf ihre Wirksamkeit überprüft. Dabei kann aufgezeigt werden, dass eine Verbindung einer Blockchain mit einer Baumanagement-Lösung es ermöglicht, Arbeitsnachweise als NFTs festzuhalten und unveränderbar zu dokumentieren. Dadurch kann sichergestellt werden, dass eine bestimmte Arbeit zum Zeitpunkt der Beendigung wie erwartet erledigt wurde und dies von der Bauleitung sowie den Ausführenden genehmigt wurde. Bei späteren Konflikten liegt durch diese Lösung ein Nachweis zur Erledigung der nun bemängelten Arbeit vor. Weiter wird gezeigt, dass bei Beendigung einer Arbeit auch direkt Transaktionen über die Blockchain ausgeführt werden können. Dadurch werden Zahlungen direkt ausgelöst und der Zahlungsverzug wird somit eliminiert.

Weitere Projekte können die Frage beantworten, wie der zu überweisende Betrag definiert und dokumentiert wird. Dies bedarf unter Umständen eine Berücksichtigung der den Bauprojekten zugrundeliegenden Verträge. Abschliessend lässt sich festhalten, dass die Blockchain-Technologie es ermöglicht, wesentliche Probleme der Baubranche zu beseitigen. Die beiden erarbeiteten Lösungsansätze zeigen konkret auf, wie die Probleme gelöst werden können. Zudem werden alternative Geschäftsmodelle für Baumanagement-Lösungen vorgestellt. So kann das Preismodell an die Transaktionen der Blockchain angepasst und die Plattformkosten pro Transaktion berechnet werden. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt daher auf, wie Probleme der Baubranche gelöst werden können, zeigt alternative Geschäftsmodelle für Baumanagement-Lösungen auf und ermöglicht mit dezentralen autonomen Organisationen eine neue Form der Projektfinanzierung.
The Time Enigma
Creators: name: De Donato, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The essay aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the theoretical and aesthetic interpretation of Claude Debussy's musical work by Vladimir Jankélévitch, while simultaneously delineating how and why the phenomenon of Debussysm emerges as an innovative and revolutionary style, if compared to the previous tradition. The text discusses the potential relationships between philosophical Phenomenology and musical Impressionism, highlighting - also through the concepts of mystery and instantaneity - how the philosopher reads in the composer's music the emergence of a vision of reality centered on the punctuativity of events.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Commelina benghalensis L.
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina benghalensis

description: Commelina benghalensis L.
Perennial herb, in wooded savannah and open forest; also in disturbed sites.
C.N.: dakanhá, da-kalá, dakalé, ndakala (kb).
Uses: medicinal.
Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699