The paper discusses collectivity in an organizational context. Collectivity refers to the interface between the social and the cultural. It is a social ’unit’, but it is defined through the meanings, definitions and distinctions of the people involved. The paper addresses cultural and processual aspects on collectivity. Eight dimensions of collectivity are highlighted. Two case studies of consu...

I here recall Ryle's analysis of Heterologicality, but broaden the discussion to comparable analyses not only of Heterologicality but also other puzzles about self-reference. Such matters have a crucial bearing on the debate between representational and non-representational theories of mind, as will be explained. 1 [1] The most remarkable thing about the so-called Heterologicality Paradox is th...

Pion multiplicity in heavy-ion collisions at the beam energies of about 1 A GeV [1, 2] is usually overpredicted by transport calculations with vacuum cross sections. Recently [3] we proposed to take into account the in-medium modifications of the NN → N∆ cross section, namely, the exchange pion collectivity, vertex renormalization by the contact nuclear interactions and Dirac effective masses o...

the current research examines the role of postcolonial anddecolonization theories in the study of susan glaspell’s trifles, which hasalways been interpreted through feminism. application of postcolonial theoriesto this work is controversial; since neither the subject of the play, nor thesetting, nor the characters can be regarded as an instance of postcolonialliterature. this paper proves that ...

In biological function emerges from the interactions of components with only partially aligned interests. An example is the brain-a large aggregation of neurons capable of producing unitary, coherent output. A theory for how such aggregations produce coherent output remains elusive. A first question we might ask is how collective is the behavior of the components? Here we introduce two properti...

The microscopic description of collectivity in heavy nuclei in the framework of the configuration-interaction shell model has been a major challenge. The size of the model space required for the description of heavy nuclei prohibits the use of conventional diagonalization methods. We have overcome this difficulty by using the shell model Monte Carlo (SMMC) method, which can treat model spaces t...

Quadrupole deformation parameters, |β2,(p,p′)|, have been deduced for 36,38,40Si from measured inelastic proton-scattering cross sections. Due to the strong Z = 14 subshell gap, low-lying quadrupole collectivity in these nuclei is attributed to the excitation of valence neutrons. Enhanced collectivity at N = 26 indicates a reduced N = 28 shell gap at large neutron excess in this chain of isotop...

The fragmentation of one-nucleon knock-out strength at low energies is considered from the viewpoint of the two particle-one hole ~and two holeone particle! response propagator. The aim is to deal with particleparticle ~and hole-hole! as well as particle-hole collectivity simultaneously. This is achieved on a TammDancoff level by the so-called Faddeev approximation of the 2p1h propagator. Resul...