Dialectics and Catastrophe

Dialectics as Method and Approach in Educational Research

Geographic dialectics ?

As radical geography, inflected by Marx, has transformed into critical geography, influenced by poststructuralism and feminism, dialectical reasoning has come under attack from some poststructural geographers. Their construction of dialectics as inconsistent with poststructural thinking, difference, and assemblages is based, however, on a Hegelian conception of the dialectic. This Hegelian imag...

M/M/1 Feedback Queue Subject to Catastrophe and Repairment

‎In this paper‎, ‎an M/M/1 queue with instantaneous Bernoulli feedback is studied in the event of server failure‎, ‎the catastrophe occurs and after repair‎, ‎it starts to work again‎. ‎The transient response for the probability function of the system size is presented‎. ‎The steady state analysis of system size probabilities and some performance measures of system are provided‎. ‎Then the resu...

'What matters to Andrew'. The problem of premissary relevance in automated health advisors. Insights from pragma-dialectics.

OBJECTIVE To influence health behavior, communication has to be relevant on an individual level and, thus, fulfill the requirement of premissary relevance. This paper attempts to enrich the design of automated health advisors by, first, reviewing main solutions to the challenge of premissary relevance found in the literature and, second, highlighting the value in this field of the theory of arg...

Dialectics of sustainable building: Evidence from empirical studies 1987¬タモ2013

The dialectical approach has been established in the management fields to help address the interdependence of the elements of a system. There is a paradigm shift of regarding sustainable building (SB) as complex socio-technical systems embedded with multifaceted trade-offs. However, despite the worldwide promotion of SBs, no research has explicitly examined their dialectics. This paper aims to ...