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Beyond Education and Impact: Games as Research Tools and Outputs
Get PDFThe potential of games as learning and teaching tools is increasingly difficult to deny. However, the possibility of using games as tools for scholarly historical research and communication is much less widely accepted. This chapter notes this discrepancy and highlights three emergent approaches towards the use of games in academic study through the use of a "Gamic Mode" of history, the creation and modification of games as simulacra to explore historical arguments, and the possibilities presented by roleplay as a means to engage with history and historiography. The similarities between the educational and scholarly potential of these games is emphasized throughout the chapter and it is ultimately argued that the varied approaches highlighted here represent the emergence and consolidation of a new historical method.</p
Retrieving the universalism of critical sociology—Adorno, Hegel, and Rose.
Get PDFUniversalism (as an abstraction) has fallen into disrepute, and with it, the concept of the ‘social’ has fallen to the heterogeneity of the other. But to what extent is this another victory for the power of abstraction in the free market that shapes consciousness in its own image? In many respects, the protests against the domination implicit in universalist claims has been empowering for the marginalized and the excluded. But abstract universality so dominates the theorizing of the universal and the protests launched against it, that it also marginalizes and excludes anything other than abstract versions of the universal, therein denying the struggles for inclusion and justice appeal to any other or different concepts of universality, As such, it denies universal significance to any critique of abstraction. Perhaps it requires something of Adorno’s critical sociology and Gillian Rose’s speculative sociology to retrieve a universalism here. And if a retrieval of social universalism can challenge the universalism of abstract forms of consciousness by way of a retrieval of critical sociological consciousness, then this commends us to re-examine what sociological consciousness was, what its conditions of possibility were, and what shapes it might take in any reappearance
The efficacy of a tart cherry drink for the treatment of patellofemoral pain in recreationally active individuals: a placebo randomized control trial.
No full textPurpose: This study aimed to explore the efficacy of U.S. Montmorency tart cherry in treating recreationally active individuals with patellofemoral pain. Methods: Twenty-four recreationally active participants with patellofemoral pain were randomly separated into either placebo (males N = 8, females N = 4, age = 43.30 ± 7.86 yrs, mass = 72.10 ± 17.89 kg, stature = 171.16 ± 10.17, BMI = 24.31 ± 3.75 kg/m 2, symptom duration = 30.18 ± 10.90) or Montmorency tart cherry (males N = 9, females N = 3, age = 41.75 ± 7.52 yrs, mass = 76.96 ± 16.64 kg, stature = 173.05 ± 7.63, BMI = 25.53 ± 4.03 kg/m 2, symptom duration = 29.73 ± 11.88) groups. Both groups ingested 60 mL of either Montmorency tart cherry concentrate or taste matched placebo daily for 6 weeks. Measures of self-reported pain (KOOS-PF), psychological wellbeing (COOP WONCA), and sleep quality (PSQI) alongside blood biomarkers (C-reactive protein, uric acid, TNF alpha, creatinine, and total antioxidant capacity) and knee biomechanics were quantified at baseline and 6 weeks. Differences between groups were examined using linear mixed-effects models. Results: There was 1 withdrawal in the cherry and 0 in the placebo group and no adverse events were noted in either condition. The placebo condition exhibited significant improvements (baseline = 67.90 ± 16.18 & 6 weeks = 78.04 ± 14.83) in KOOS-PF scores compared to the tart cherry group (baseline = 67.28 ± 12.55& 6 weeks = 67.55 ± 20.61). No other statistically significant observations were observed. Conclusion: Tart cherry supplementation as specifically ingested in the current investigation does not appear to be effective in mediating improvements in patellofemoral pain symptoms in recreationally active individuals. </p
Archaeology, Heritage, and Wellbeing: Authentic, Powerful, and Therapeutic Engagement with the Past
No full textValue co-creation and innovation performance: insight knowledge from companies and customers in the Malaysian hotel industry
No full textBased on the DART model, this research aims to assess the influence of value co-creation (VCC) processes on hotels' innovation performance (IP) in terms of new service development and delivery processes. Moreover, this research aims to use content analysis to ascertain customers' experiences in the hotel industry during service interactions. Data were collected from 105 four-and-five-star rated hotels in Malaysia and analysed via structural equation modelling using SmartPLS software. This study examined 52 tourists' experiences and feedback data staying in eight different four-and-five-star hotels for content analysis. Results reveal that dialogue influences new service development, whereas access influences both the delivery process and new service development. Besides, risk assessment and transparency influence the service delivery process. This study highlights that business transactions in the hotel industry begin and end with the 'customer'
What do patterns of church court litigation tell us about social and cultural relationships in Hampshire between c1550 and c1610?
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Content biases in three phases of cultural transmission: A review
Get PDFCultural evolution theory proposes that information transmitted through social learning is not transmitted indiscriminately but is instead biased by heuristics and mechanisms which increase the likelihood that individuals will copy particular cultural traits based on their inherent properties (content biases) and copy the cultural traits of particular models, or under particular circumstances (context biases). Recent research suggests that content biases are as important, or more important, than context biases in the selection and faithful transmission of cultural traits. Here, evidence for biases for emotive, social, threat-related, stereotype consistent and counterintuitive content is reviewed, focusing on how these biases may operate across three phases of transmission: choose-to-receive, encode-and-retrieve, and choose-to-transmit. Support for some biases primarily functioning as biases of attention and memory, while others primarily function as biases of selection to share with others, and the implications for this in wider cultural evolution is discussed. Ultimately, a more consistent approach to examining content biases, and greater engagement with wider literature, is required for clear conclusions about their mechanism and potential differences across the three phases of transmission
