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Healing built-environment effects on health outcomes: environment–occupant–health framework
Full text linkAn investigation examined the structured scientific evidence on healthcare facilities (the healing built environment – HBE) and its impact on patients’ health outcomes under a holistic conceptual evaluative framework. The integrative review considered 127 papers (of which 59 were review papers). It found there was no adequate framework that could integrate existing research findings holistically. Such a holistic framework needs to demonstrate the cumulative and interactive effects of various HBE characteristics on patients’ health outcomes and wellbeing. An environment–occupant–health (E-O-H) framework is proposed, taking a holistic perspective to identify and evaluate different HBE characteristics. The E-O-H framework should support future research by (1) identifying the HBE characteristics that affect health outcomes; (2) defining appropriate future research designs; and (3) understanding the need for holistic analysis of the integrated effects of diverse HBE characteristics on health outcomes
Do more immigrants equal more crime? Drawing a bridge between first generation immigrant concentration and recorded crime rates
Full text linkImmigration and its relationship with crime have long been discussed and researched in a variety of manners. There has been focus on a wide spectrum of research questions concerning the issue, such as public perceptions, immigrant perceptions, crime rates and immigration trends. The present article considers the crime rates in the areas of the UK with the highest concentrations of first-generation immigrants. The areas were gathered using census data and crime rates from police recorded statistics. The first-generation immigrants were categorised by their area of origin: Europe, Africa and Asia. Quantitative analysis showed that the areas containing the highest concentration of first-generation immigrants saw a drop in crime compared to the areas with the second highest concentration. Results also showed that certain immigrant groups combined in high concentrations make for lower crime rates. Such findings suggest that there may be a cultural aspect at play, and begs further research
The Formation of Voting Behaviour Explained by Voting for Anti-European Parties
Full text linkThe Brexit referendum and the last presidential election in the USA are just two examples of recent vote results that have been wrongly predicted. This research paper aims to identify the formation of voting behaviour to revaluate the necessary factors and variables in the correct and scientific prediction and analysis of voting behaviour. More specifically, this paper chose anti-European voting behaviour in Germany, which is also a current European-wide societal phenomenon, to analyse and explain the formation of general voting behaviour in detail. Many researchers, including Goodwin and Heath (2016), analysed the quality of existing polling methodology to explain the incorrect prediction of the Brexit result. This research forms a new approach towards the identification of voting behaviour by including more variables than usual. In collaboration with YouGov Deutschland GmbH, a strategic sample of the German population of 993 participants was formed. Participants were asked questions relating to individual differences, political ideology, attitudes towards daily political topics and socio-demographic factors. Voters who voted for the AfD, the main anti-European party in Germany, were more likely to be in some form of relationship, were more likely to be male, and over-represented the age group 40–49. Finally, voters voted for the AfD because the party engaged with political topics in a way that no other party did. This research is somewhat limited because the questionnaire focused on voters voting for the AfD. Furthermore, quantitative research can only identify and analyse individual human behaviour to a certain extent, whereas qualitative data, which this research lacks, can potentially help to identify voting behaviour. Relevant and important factors such as political ideology and individual differences, which are included here, but are usually not part of political research, must play a role in the future identification of voting behaviour
‘V’Oct(Ritual): the anatomy of an interactive composition' in CYBERNETICS (edited by Lanfranco Aceti)
No full textThis chapter looks at the technical and compositional methodologies used in the
realization of V’Oct(Ritual)(2011) with particular reference to the choices made with
regard to the mapping of sensor elements to various spatialization functions.
Kinaesonics[1] will be discussed in relation to the coding of real-time one-to-one
mapping of sound to gesture and its expression in terms of hardware and software
design.
Composing for kinaesonic interaction is an interdisciplinary activity that is not
confined to music alone. In terms of my own work with the Bodycoder System,
composition extends to the framing of the physicality of the performer: their
kinaesonic gestural control of live sound processing, spatialisation and navigation of a
Max/MSP environment in performance. Other compositional layers include the live
automation of sound diffusion (the physical movement of sound within a multichannel
speaker system), the programming of a range of evolving real-time instances
initiated by the performer and the design of a large palette of sound processing
objects
Medievalism, music and agency in The Wicker Man (1973)
Full text linkThe community of Summerisle is characterised by contradiction and ambiguity. The pseudo-pagan rituals in The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy, 1973) are enacted through elaborate trickery and deception, and ostensibly draw upon a set of local beliefs, rooted in occult historical practices related to springtime, fertility, and harvest. The villagers are framed as modern-day peasants, subject to the ultimate control of their feudal Lord, whose leadership of the community culminates in his role as master of ceremonies in the three-day ritual that provides the film’s narrative frame. The villagers are ultimately responsible for the sacrificial murder of policeman Sergeant Neil Howie, and seem unfazed by the brutality of their communal act. An ancient past, whose practices were revived by Lord Summerisle’s Victorian grandfather, is pitched against the urgency of the present in which Sergeant Howie searches for missing girl Rowan Morrison against the ticking clock of a murderous Mayday rite. The significance of medievalism found in The Wicker Man’s score lies in its role not only of underpinning the narrative through its blend of music history and folklore—both of which were genuinely revived in the nineteenth century—but also in its contribution to crafting a sense of moral legitimacy to the final, brutal climax, justifying the act of murder itself. The music of The Wicker Man possesses its own agency, but its placement and synthesis with the visuals makes it very difficult for the audience to know whether music signals something positive or negative; the effect is frequently unsettling
Securitization and structured finance : from shadow banking to legal harmonization
No full textSecuritizations affect the way a credit institution operates. Alongside structured finance, they allow a bank to free capital and transform risk management. In the literature of the last years, structured finance transactions have been frequently identified among the main suspects for the 2008 financial crisis. As such, these transactions are purported to pose a considerable threat to the financial markets and the reputed stability and transparency manifested therein. Thus, securitizations, the stereotypical transactions of this kind, have egregiously challenged the supervisory authorities, given the dearth of regulation in this area until a decennium ago. Nevertheless, securitization markets are still believed to provide operators with unique opportunities to raise finance through alternative funding and diversified funding sources. Against such a backdrop, this chapter seeks to critically discuss and analyse the structure of a securitization and the much publicized legal risks it presents. Furthermore, along the epistemological fil rouge of the shadow banking system, the analysis is focused on how recent regulation in the EU has managed to address, among others, some crucial elements: (a) the protection of the investor and his/her right to be informed while investing in asset-backed securities; (b) the due diligence process that regulated entities must observe in connection with such securities. Ultimately, the scope of the research is to assess whether structured finance transactions may emerge from the most obscure area of shadow banking and become, by virtue of the regulation, consistent with what, etymologically speaking, securitization should be, securitas, hence safety
The Missing Link in Training to Detect Deception and its Implications for Justice
No full textPurpose:
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of response bias and target gender on detecting deception.
Design/methodology/approach:
Participants were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: a stereotype condition (bogus training group), a tell-signs condition (empirically tested cues), and a control condition. Participants were required to decide whether eight targets were lying or telling the truth, based upon the information they had been given. Accuracy was measured via a correct or incorrect response to the stimuli. The data were then analyzed using a 2×2×3 mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine whether any main or interactional effects were present.
Findings:
Results revealed training condition had no significant effect on accuracy, nor was there a within-subject effect of gender. However, there was a significant main effect of accuracy in detecting truth or lies, and a significant interaction between target gender and detecting truth or lies.
Research limitations/implications:
Future research should seek a larger sample of participants with a more extensive training aspect developed into the study, as the brief training offered here may not be fully reflective of the extent and intensity of training which could be offered to professionals.
Originality/value:
Within the criminal justice system, the need for increased accuracy in detecting deception is of critical importance; not only to detect whether a guilty individual is being deceitful, but also whether someone is making a false confession, both to improve community safety by detaining the correct perpetrator for the crime but also to maintain public trust in the justice system. The present research provides a fresh insight into the importance of training effects in detecting deception
What You Always Wanted to Know about the Deterministic Part of IPC 2014 (But Were too Afraid to Ask)
Full text linkThe International Planning Competition (IPC) is a prominent event of the AI planning community that has been organised since 1998; it aims at fostering the development and comparison of planning approaches, assessing the state-of-the-art in planning, and identifying new challenging benchmarks. IPC has a strong impact also outside the planning community, by
providing a large number of ready-to-use planning engines and testing pioneering applications of planning techniques.
This paper focuses on the deterministic part of IPC 2014, and describes format, participants,
benchmarks as well as a thorough analysis of the results. Generally, results of the competition indicates some significant progress, but they also highlight issues and challenges that the planning community will have to face in the future
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