jp5d ago
Tyler Perry’s Acrimony thinks you’re too dumb to know what “acrimony” means — and somehow that’s not even its worst offense. A movie that insults its audience, its characters, and basic logic in equal measure. Flashbacks, voice-over, a deadly steering wheel, and a yacht called “Mrs. Gayle.” You can’t make this stuff up… but Perry did.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #TylerPerry #Acrimony #CinemaFail #UnintentionalComedy #BadMovies #MovieAnalysis #CriticalReview
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/acrimony/
Acrimony (2018): Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Eighteen Years…

It’s always a bad sign when the first thing we see in a movie is the definition of its title. It’s bad because it assumes we’re either too dumb to know what the word acrimony means (hardly a ten-do…

90% of Everything is Crap
Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺Jul 16, 2024
#DOTD in #ModernChina: Hu Xiansu 胡先驌 (1894–1968), #Chinese botanist and co-founder of the journal #CriticalReview #學衡, in whose first issue he severely criticised attempts by Hu Shih #胡適 (no relation) and others to write poetry in the Modern Vernacular #白話文. #新文化運動
IHCMar 14, 2024

📖 Pedro Aires Oliveira escreveu uma recensão crítica da obra coordendada por António Costa Pinto, "O Estado Novo de Salazar. Uma Terceira Via Autoritária na Era do Fascismo", que publicou na revista Ler História.

🔓 Para ler em #AcessoAberto: https://journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/12334

#Histodons #EstadoNovo #Fascism #Salazar #HistoryOfPortugal #CriticalReview #PoliticalHistory #RecensãoCrítica #HistóriaDePortugal #Fascismo #HistóriaPolítica

António Costa Pinto (coord), O Estado Novo de Salazar. Uma Terceira...

Quão “global” foi o apelo do salazarismo, um regime eminentemente nacionalista e paroquial, liderado por um ditador tímido e misantropo, que enquanto chefe de governo não visitou outro país estrang...

Dr. JenniferJan 31, 2024

Our paper is out ! "Alternate Stable States Theory: Critical Evaluation and Relevance to Marine Conservation"

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/12/2/261

The #AlternateStableStates theory has been invoked widely as a red flag within discussions of #climatechange impacts without ensuring that its basic assumptions are fulfilled. It's also a plea for more mathematical modeling in ecology to strengthen theory and its applications.
#revisingecologicaltheory
#tippingpoints #marineprotectedareas #criticalreview

Alternate Stable States Theory: Critical Evaluation and Relevance to Marine Conservation

In their 2023 book, “The Blue Compendium: From Knowledge to Action for a Sustainable Ocean Economy”, Lubchenko and Haugan invoked alternate stable (AS) states marginally as an undesired consequence of sources of disturbance on populations, communities and ecosystems. They did not provide detailed arguments, but considered the existence of AS states as a given. Conversely, May, in his 1977 Nature article, pointed out that, when applied to systems that are complex, “the [AS states] theory remains largely metaphorical”. This is the starting point of this critical review, which aims to re-examine the general theory behind AS states in ecological systems and its applications to marine ecology and conservation. The focus is first on theory, taking as examples communities that sustain competition and studying the relative importance of the fluxes of individuals between simple low-dimension, interconnected systems. We find that a minimal formulation of fluxes is sufficient to obtain a set of non-null multiple stable (MS) states and to trigger shifts between AS states when fluxes become large enough. This provides new insights into the theory of rescue and mass effects by distinguishing them through a threshold at which the system dynamics shift from one stable equilibrium to another. Then, we consider how the theoretical framework of AS states has been applied in marine environments. It appears that many applications have confounded shifts between AS states and changes in the structure of systems, particularly when the complexity of the systems increases. The main difficulty for any application remains that the concepts of MS and AS states can only be established and validated for low-dimension systems and simplified experiments. This is because the mathematical properties of models that describe large-dimension, complex systems deviate from the observed characteristics of their real-world counterparts. There are many intriguing scientific challenges around the plausible shifts between AS states, but a deeper understanding and characterization of their occurrence in nature would require a significant investment in modeling to formulate predictive ecosystem models.

MDPI
Dr. JenniferJan 29, 2024

Article accepted this morning ! It was inspired by a challenging question : why is it so difficult to prove the existence of alternate stable states in ecological systems ? An important question because the theory has been invoked so widely as a red flag within analyses of #climatechange impacts and for environmental activism.

#tippingpoints #marineprotectedareas #theory #criticalreview #alternatestablestates #competition

Michael Höckelmann 何彌夏🇹🇼🇭🇰🇪🇺Nov 24, 2023
#DOTD age 38: Liu Boming #劉伯明 (1887–1923), first Chinese to obtain a doctorate in #philosophy, contributor to #CriticalReview #學衡 journal. Notable publication: Outline of Western #Ancient and #Medieval Philosophy 西洋 #古代 #中世 #哲學 史大綱. #ChinesePhilosophy #ModernChina
European RadiologyMay 1, 2023

#CriticalReview: Need of advanced research concerning appropriateness and quality of indication of #clinical care in #diagnostic #imaging. (Felix Walther et al.)

Read the article here 👉 https://insightsimaging.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13244-023-01409-6

#InsightsIntoImaging #OpenAccess

Measuring appropriateness of diagnostic imaging: a scoping review - Insights into Imaging

In radiology, the justification of diagnostic imaging is a key performance indicator. To date, specific recommendations on the measurement of appropriateness in diagnostic imaging are missing. To map the study literature concerning the definition, measures, methods and data used for analyses of appropriateness in research of diagnostic imaging. We conducted a scoping review in Medline, EMBASE, Scopus and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Two independent reviewers undertook screening and data extraction. After screening 6021 records, we included 50 studies. National guidelines (n = 22/50) or American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria (n = 23/50) were used to define and rate appropriateness. 22/50 studies did not provide methodological details about the appropriateness assessment. The included studies varied concerning modality, amount of reviewed examinations (88–13,941) and body regions. Computed tomography (27 studies, 27,168 examinations) was the most frequently analyzed modality, followed by magnetic resonance imaging (17 studies, 6559 examinations) and radiography (10 studies, 7095 examinations). Heterogeneous appropriateness rates throughout single studies (0–100%), modalities, and body regions (17–95%) were found. Research on pediatric and outpatient imaging was sparse. Multicentric, methodologically robust and indication-oriented studies would strengthen appropriateness research in diagnostic imaging and help to develop reliable key performance indicators.

SpringerOpen
Deutscher BildungsserverFeb 22, 2023

🎙️ Bildung auf die Ohren: #Forschungsdaten für #Literaturreview|s – was und wozu?

Carolin Keller im Gespräch mit Michaela Achenbach, DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation,
über Herausforderungen und Erfahrungen bei der Genese von #CriticalReview|s im BMBF-Metavorhaben Digitalisierung im Bildungsbereich (Digi-EBF).

https://blog.bildungsserver.de/forschungsdaten-fuer-literaturreviews-was-und-wozu/

Forschungsdaten für Literaturreviews – was und wozu?

Ein Gespräch über die Relevanz systematischer Literatursuche für den Datenbestand und die Analyse der Forschungsliteratur In einer neuen Folge der Kategorie „Bildung im digitalen Wandel“ berichtet Carolin Keller (DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation) im Gespräch mit Michaela Achenbach über Herausforderungen und Erfahrungen bei der Genese von Critical Reviews im BMBF-Metavorhaben Digitalisierung im Bildungsbereich (Digi-EBF).

Bildung auf die Ohren
Deutscher BildungsserverJan 27, 2023

Zur Zeit durchstöbern wir die aktuelle Literatur zur Vermittlung von #Informationskompetenz mit Hilfe digitaler Medien 📲 in der Schule.

❓Welche Studien sollten wir nicht verpassen?

#CriticalReview #digiEBF

Show threadTimo van TreeckJan 27, 2023
@DeutscherBildungsserver #criticalreview wäre sicher auch was ergiebiges für #Hochschuldidaktik - sehe aber gerade nicht von welchem Geld / mit welchen Ressourcen...