Based on ethnographic research carried out in Codó, in the interior of Maranhão, this article seeks to answer how religious entities relate to the city. To achieve this goal, the field of ...Afro-Brazilian religion studies in the state is first contextualized, particularly regarding terecô, the religion covered in the article. This is followed by a look at aspects of cosmology and ritual that draw attention to the relationship between terecô, the enchanted spirits of Légua Boji Buá’s family, Codó and its woodlands. This is how the idea of a land of enchantment is elaborated. To move on to the final part of the text, the emic category “dwelling” is used to explore the constitution of land, earth, and houses based on the practices of people and entities. It suggests folds, dimensions, and layers mobilized by those who look at the city from the perspective of religion. As the argument unfolds, we conclude that thinking cartographically and administratively about the place is not enough: to think about the city and the terecô, we need to understand that Codó is a place of thought.
This article presents situations and reports of the relationships between the Pataxó Hãhãhãi People in the Caramuru-Paraguassu Indigenous Land, located between the municipalities of Pau Brasil, Itaju ...do Colônia and Camacã, in southern Bahia, and their multiple beings other than human, fundamental for everyday life and struggle. Thus, based on ethnographic research carried out at different historical moments, over two decades, events are described that involve the relationship of these people with the jurema, the pipe and tobacco, with the land, the people and the Enchanted. Finally, what stands out, above all, is the role of the ritual and action of the Enchanted in the actions to recover land carried out during thirty years of full occupation of the traditional territory.
With intriguing domes of pinkish granite surrounded by a sea of Hill Country limestone, Enchanted Rock State Natural Area attracts over 300,000 visitors every year who come to the park to hike, rock ...climb, spelunk, camp, picnic, and observe birds and wildflowers. Geologists from around the world come to Enchanted Rock to examine landforms that were shaped by forces on ancient continents of Earth more than one billion years ago! All of these visitors, however, are only the latest comers in a line of human history that stretches back 13,000 years to early Native Americans and includes Spanish explorers, Mexican and German settlers, and thirteen private and public owners up to the current owner, the state of Texas. Surprisingly, given the area's wealth of unusual geology, native plants and animals, and human history, no comprehensive guide to Enchanted Rock has been published before now. In Enchanted Rock, you'll find everything you need to fully appreciate this unique place. Lance Allred draws on the work of specialists in many fields to offer a popular account of the park's history, geology, weather, flora, and fauna. Whether you want to know more about how Enchanted Rock was formed, identify a wildflower or butterfly, or learn more about plant communities along the hiking trails, you'll find accurate information here, presented in an inviting style. Over a thousand color photographs illustrate the enjoyable text.
Purpose: Previous research has highlighted that employee wellbeing in the workplace is closely linked to equity, achievement, and interactions. However, gender inequality in employment opportunities, ...work-life imbalance, the gender pay gap, and the existence of the glass ceiling are workplace realities and generate failures that can reduce women’s happiness and wellbeing. Based on the theories of organisational justice, affective events, and transactional stress, this research attempts to identify the initiatives or actions that can act as true levers to promote equality and to contribute to the creation of inclusive and enchanting workplaces for female employees.Design: This study was carried out using the Delphi method. The panel consisted of a group of Spanish experts from the academic and professional fields who had close relationships with the topic of research.Findings: Parity objectives and flexibility measures are actions that can be effective in achieving gender equality in companies. Factors related to equitable, fair, and non-discriminatory treatment are the main determinants of female wellbeing in the workplace. The quality of female employment and having leaders capable of creating inclusive environments increases the attractiveness of organisations for women.Originality/value: This research yields interesting findings on the responsibility and role of companies in fulfilling the demands of female employees and in making women fall in love with the workplace. It may be especially relevant in the COVID-19 scenario.
The article is devoted to the last short story by Nikolai Gogol — “Enchanted Place” — which concludes the second part of the collection “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” (1829–1832). The article ...traces both borrowed from folklore or from the works of other writers, and original narrative techniques that make up a strictly thought-out system. Theese techniques aim to attract the reader’s attention, to intrigue him with the “strange” nature of the narrative, the “strange” events that make up the plot, as well as the defamiliarized images of space and time. It manifests not only at the stylistic level of the story, but also at the phonetic and figurative ones. Thus, the device of artistic ostranenie (the term described in the works of Viktor Shklovsky and other representatives of the formal school, usually translated as “defamiliarization” or “estrangement”) serves as one of the brightest exponents of Gogol’s work. The effects of strangeness and surprise help the author to influence the reader’s imagination in such a way that he believes in the reality of the described supernatural events, objects, creatures, as well as in the reality of the transformations of the landscape on different sides of the invisible border between “real” and “magic” worlds.
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) is just around the corner. This article presents the AI-based technologies that represent a significant change for the learning and teaching process. The ...article describes the potential of personalised learning, automated assessment, chatbots, predictive models, intelligent robots, and virtual and augmented reality for education, by reviewing scientific literature. Nowadays, knowledge of these technologies is essential for teachers. In this article we conducted a qualitative survey involving teachers. The aim of our survey is to assess the perceptions of educators about the use of AI in education. Our results show that educators are open to these technologies regardless of generation and discipline. The study summarizes the appropriate use of these technologies, the role of teachers, their attention to students and their active communication, as only this can lead to effective education in the age of artificial intelligence.
This article investigates the metaphor of the “black box” in artificial intelligence, a representation that often suggests that AI is an unfathomable power, politically uncontrollable and shrouded in ...an aura of opacity. While the concept of the “black box” is legitimate and applicable in deep neural networks due to the in- herent complexity of the process, it has also become a generic pretext for the perception, which we seek to critically analyze, that AI systems are inscrutable and out of control, as well as supposedly endowed with intel- ligence and creativity. To challenge these ideas, we will address what we call the supremacy of patterns and the two significant phenomena that result from it: enchanted determinism and the dictatorship of the past.
Walter Benjamin’s formulation about epic theater is well-known: Brecht succeeds in turning the theater from a “Bannraum” sort of spell room, into a “conveniently located exhibition space.” The epic ...playwright draws on “the great old opportunity of the theater in a new way – on the exposure of what is present.” Whether consciously quoting Benjamin or not, the words “exhibition” and “exposure” are often used by theater makers and scholars to reinforce the seriousness either of the act of showing or of the shown object. If something is being exhibited and not simply represented, the stress lies on the attempt to have an effect: to have consequences beyond the aesthetical as-if-frame. “Exhibition” and “exposure” seem first to recur with a precise and alternative sense in Benjamin, in Brecht and in the Russian avantgarde regisseur and author S. Tretiakov, who became a friend of Brecht in the 1920s. What they understand by “exhibition” seems to be something very specific, not a mere metaphor, rather an operational term. Benjamin uses it in various texts and different formulas (as, for example, the famous and enigmatic „Ausstellungswert“, or “exposition-value”, combined with “cult-value”, in a kind of historical dialectic of the work of art). But the concept of aura and its agony generally steal the show, while the concepts of „Ausstellen“ and „Ausstellungswert“ are often misunderstood according to our current idea of “exposition” from the context of museums, galleries and exhibitions, and according to our experience of “absolute visibility” as a paradigm of modern life (Agamben 2005). This easy to misunderstand, difficult to grasp “exposition-value” seems to name a different experience and an innovative chance that resides in modern reproducibility. Its difference could be not only relevant for theater and its history as an art form, but also for theater intended as a dimension and opportunity of social practice.
Background and purpose
This was an investigation of the differential effects of early intensive versus guideline‐recommended blood pressure (BP) lowering between lacunar and non‐lacunar acute ...ischaemic stroke (AIS) in the BP arm of the Enhanced Control of Hypertension and Thrombolysis Stroke Study (ENCHANTED).
Methods
In 1,632 participants classified as having definite or probable lacunar (n = 454 27.8%) or non‐lacunar AIS according to pre‐specified definitions based upon clinical and adjudicated imaging findings, mean BP changes over days 0–7 were plotted, and systolic BP differences by treatment between subgroups were estimated in generalized linear models. Logistic regression models were used to estimate the BP treatment effects on 90‐day outcomes (primary, an ordinal shift of modified Rankin scale scores) across lacunar and non‐lacunar AIS after adjustment for baseline covariables.
Results
Most baseline characteristics, acute BP and other management differed between lacunar and non‐lacunar AIS, but mean systolic BP differences by treatment were comparable at each time point (all pinteraction > 0.12) and over 24 h post‐randomization (−5.5, 95% CI −6.5, −4.4 mmHg in lacunar AIS vs. −5.6, 95% CI −6.3, −4.8 mmHg in non‐lacunar AIS, pinteraction = 0.93). The neutral effect of intensive BP lowering on functional outcome and the beneficial effect on intracranial haemorrhage were similar for the two subgroups (all pinteraction > 0.19).
Conclusions
There were no differences in the treatment effect of early intensive versus guideline‐recommended BP lowering across lacunar and non‐lacunar AIS.
In the ENCHANTED trial, mean blood pressure difference by treatment was comparable across participants with lacunar and non‐lacunar acute ischaemic stroke within the first week after randomization. There were no differences in the treatment effect of early intensive versus guideline‐recommended blood pressure lowering across the two subgroups.
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