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Computer vision driven recommendation system for London explorers
No full textThis paper presents an innovative system that uses computer vision and machine learning to improve tourists' experiences in London, UK. The system conducts real-time facial analysis using advanced algorithms like You Only Look Once (YOLO) for face detection and FaceNet for age, gender, and ethnicity prediction to automatically infer demographics without manual input. It leverages survey data and infers attributes to generate personalized landmark recommendations. The system is hybrid that uses demographic, collaborative filtering and content based. We achieve a precision of 79% and a root mean square error 1.26. The novel combination of computer vision profiling and recommendation techniques shows promise to transform urban tourism by automating personalization without explicit profile inputs
Exploring the correlation between academic pressure and mental health: a study of anxiety, stress, and depression levels among university students in Bangladesh
Get PDFBy utilizing the scores of academic pressures and mental health indicators (anxiety, stress, depression levels) from different university students in Bangladesh. The present investigation aims to explore association between them. This study will determine if these mental health issues are more prevalent in certain universities and departments, by examining this dataset drawn from a diverse set of schools. These results provide useful information for the design of focused interventions that could help to improve well-being in students. Methods: Using data from this survey, we assessed mental health in a variety of ways. That all in entire system the interacting different universities, departments and academic year was implemented to figure out major factors that causes student towards anxiety stress or how much. The study's findings will help to identify the roots of poor mental health in students and inform interventions tailored for student well-being. It aims for meaningful meta-analytic conclusions and implications to policy makers as well university administrators regarding various student populations around the world; emphasizing specialized mental health support systems should be designed according to distinct issues met by students in each country
RAISE Special Interest Groups (Early Career Researchers and Research & Evaluation) collaboration: A case study
Get PDFIn the academic year 2022/23, the RAISE Special Interest Groups for Early Career Researchers and Research & Evaluation collaboratively developed a professional development programme for HE colleagues new to writing about student engagement. The diverse audience ranged from Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to colleagues new to academic writing including those interested in writing about Student Engagement. The programme featured three online events (alongside virtual on-demand support) covering themes around barriers and challenges to publication; enabling collaboration and co-creation across institutional/disciplinary contexts and the opportunity to participate in an academic writing workshop. This case study will present an account of the process and experiences of delivering these events looking into the barriers/challenges experienced by ECRs, the community-based, peer-learning approach adopted (CoPs) to address these with the aim to facilitate the publication process and make it more inclusive and accessible for (a diverse range of) participants. The example is framed and contextualised through relevant literature and a wider higher education backdrop of work-life balance, principles of staff-student partnership and a 'publish or perish' culture
Decision making in uncertainty: the case of ship flooding
Get PDFOne critical aspect of a progressive flooding scenario on a ship is that its crew is uncertain regarding the water ingress rate. Furthermore, the calculation of residual ship stability and structural strength may be very challenging in the absence of ship-specific software. For this reason, this paper presents a decision-making methodology to deal with the option of an early abandoning of a bulk carrier in a flooding emergency. This study used a review of 25 cases from 15 years involving bulk carriers for hazard analysis. Then, a simulation was carried to four ships to identify the changes caused by progressive flooding of various cargo holds in the ship's trim, allowable strength and the time allowable to react. The importance of the ballast pump and water ingress alarm maintenance was also shown. The methodology is useful for ship operators to prepare ship-specific flooding contingency plans for crew familiarization in dealing with uncertain conditions
“Legalize Safe Standing” in English Football: Complicating the Collective and Individual Dimensions of Social Movement Activism
No full textOver the past 25 years, a hermeneutic struggle has unfolded in English football between those spectators who wish to stand at matches and the risks associated with this practice in all-seated stadia. Amid this tension, fans have had to negotiate a neoliberal and authoritarian regime. However, the struggles of supporters against social control in football are characterized by the building of a long-term social movement against all-seating. In seeking to break down the state’s disciplinary power and its marketization of football, this movement, “Safe Standing,” has achieved several recent policy-based victories in the United Kingdom and Europe and is now firmly embedded within sports stadia developments and the demands of fans in North America and Australasia. Although these different contexts are temporally and culturally sensitive, they are interdependently linked through relational time frames and discursive practices that make up the modern consumption of football. This research applies relational sociology to analyze the fan networks that successfully built this movement across the U.K. fan activist scene, characterized by relational collective action, which complicates the individual and collective dimensions of activism
Does the liberalization of masculine space improve experiences for sexual minorities?
Get PDFNorth American attitudes are liberalizing toward sexual minorities. This is even found within traditionally conservative, masculine, institutions, like fraternities, religion, and the military. However, evidence for Liberalization Theory is mostly derived from attitudinal change of sexual and gender majorities alongside policy changes, with less evidence from sexual and gender minority experiences. Thus, there remain questions as to whether, or to what degree, improved majority attitudes promote sexual minority experiences. To investigate the impact of liberalization of the masculine organizational culture of team sports, we used survey results from 793 openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) high school and collegiate athletes, representing 981 coming out experiences. We find that 92.5% of high school and 97.1% of college athletes’ coming out-of-the-closet to teammates experiences were deemed to be from neutral to perfect. We also found no significant differences in overall experience in being out to teammates in highly masculinized teams sports compared to other sports at either the high school or collegiate level. These results suggest that liberalizing North American sexual majority attitudes do translate into improved LGBT experiences within the socially conservative institution of educationally based team sports
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