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The argument for queering 'The origin of the work of art'
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As noted by Julian Young, Heidegger’s philosophies are contaminated with his own political perversions. T J Bacon proposes a queer reclaiming in the field of Heideggerian phenomenology through this provocation and manifesto.
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This book introduces the study and application of performance art through phenomenology, inviting readers to explore contemporary performance art and activate their own practices. Using queer phenomenology to unpack the importance of a multiplicity of self/s, the book teaches readers how to be academically rigorous when capturing embodied experiences. Through approachable exercises, definitions of key phenomenological terms, and interviews and insights from some of the best examples of transgressive performance art practice, the work enriches the wider scholarship of theater studies. Situated within contemporary phenomenological scholarship, the book will appeal to radical artists, educators, and practitioner-researchers
The way of the social media: focused on the needs for social-connection
No full textFacebook recently changed its name to META to focus on the Metaverse virtual world where people can game, work, and communicate using VR headsets. Defining a role of social media is significant, because it demonstrates where social media will be headed in the future. It is time to consider how social media—which uses technology such as Metaverse, AI and VR—can play a role in communication. Social media engagement is one of the most important marketing elements that must be handled to extend a brand in the era of the Metaverse. In general, brand engagement is created by establishing strong consumer-brand ties. Therefore, it is necessary to identify social media experiences that facilitate the development of positive customer relationships. Until now, social media has been examined mainly in line with the nature of information-sharing platforms. Therefore, it was focused on people's motivations when sharing information and the types of shared information. However, many people are establishing networks through virtual space and the space to work and communicate will be created in the social media in the near future. Considering the facts, social media is expected to provide social connection to users. Social-connection, the desire of feeling connected to society is one of the most fundamental human needs. What actions will consumers take on social media if they don't feel connected to others in the context of the recent COVID-19—that people have to work from home and had hard time building intimate relationships? This research aims to examine individuals—who experience a lack of social-connection—consumption behavior by focusing on their communication experience on social media. In this study, the compensatory consumer behavior model is applied to explain consumption behavior (information sharing or self-promotion) of consumers on social media who feel socially isolated in a real life. In addition, we would like to confirm the role of communication experience (experience through the actual self vs. experience through the virtual self) on social media, considering social media consumption behavior. This research analyzes communication experiences that might enhance the self and the relationship between experience and brand involvement. It will be able to identify consumer experiences that can strengthen the self-enhancement of customers who feel self-discrepancy resulting in increasing brand engagement. The study explained the direction of social media should take, including several new technologies and the way to advance sustainable growth of social media
Untersuchungen der Fähigkeitsadaption innerhalb des agilen Mindsets der Belegschaft unter Berücksichtigung der digitalen Transformation und der multifaktoriellen Brancheneinflüsse bei Personaldienstleistern: Ein Paradigma der Fähigkeiten und Maßnahmen
No full textDigitalization and the associated new requirements of the VUCA world of work, as well as the legal and economic or multifactorial influences, currently represent the greatest influencing factors for the HR services industry. As a result of these findings, the question arose as to how HR service providers will position themselves in the future in order to be able to meet the changed requirements of the new VUCA world. Furthermore, this dissertation examines the questions of which skills within the agile mindset must be developed into a target state among the workforce of staffing service providers and with which measures, and how an action paradigm can be derived from this specifically for the staffing service industry.
In the empirical part of the work 21 interviews with experts from the personnel service industry were accomplished and evaluated with the help of a qualitative content analysis after Mayring. Based on the analysis, it became clear that the following skills contribute to the success of the digital transformation and to coping with the multifactorial industry influences: willingness to change, not sticking to rigid behaviors, high degree of openness and transparency, affinity for technology, high quality awareness, courage to try new things, seeing mistakes as learning opportunities, mutual support and willingness to take responsibility, self-leadership and organization, entrepreneurship, self-starter mentality, ability to learn, customer-centeredness, critical faculties, flexibility, willingness to cooperate, innovation and communication strengths, and passion for the job. Likewise, the interview study revealed that the majority of staffing firms lack a capability adaptation concept to develop the aforementioned skills. The awareness of the importance of an agile workforce is present among the staffing service providers, but so far only few measures are taken to promote the agile skills of the employees.
In order to be able to develop the agile skills, appropriate measures are required, so in the dissertation recommendations were generated in terms of skill adaptation with regard to the agile mindset in the workforce. Within the scope of a trend analysis, the applicability and effectiveness of the recommendations were successfully validated. Based on the findings, an action paradigm of capability adaptation within the agile mindset in the workforce for human resources services was modeled
Using Sentiment Analysis on online product reviews for determining fairness
Get PDFProduct reviews became one of the most relevant ways customers have to make up their mind about buying specific products. The relevance of these reviews tempts companies to either use them to attack their rivals or to oversell their products by providing misguiding information that does not fit with the real product’s characteristics. Identifying this unfair situation is complicated but, at the same time, crucial to guarantee the reliability on the customer’s choice. In this work, we aim to simplify unlawful reviews by providing a simile mechanism. Our hypothesis claims that sentiment analysis can help to red flag unfair reviews and, consequently, simplify this difficult process. For that, we measure the correlation between unfairness and sentiments to check how much emotions are manipulated to guide shopping tendencies.
On the one hand, having access to meaningful information is, in fact, essential during the decision-making process and, on the other hand, observation of unfair data can prevent its negative impact on businesses and consumer choices, therefore this project focuses on exploring and experimenting how to detect unfair online reviews through Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning Techniques. The experiments focus on the discovery of unfairness in online product feedback through the process of establishing the accuracy of sentiment classification algorithms aims to detect existing unfairness towards the products
The vital parenting tasks: development of an integrative framework for working with parents
No full textBackground: The Vital Parenting Tasks (VPT) was developed in response to a need being identified (Jäderberg, 2019) for an integrative model to support professionals who work with children and young people, where work with parents is also indicated. A coherent, easy-to- use and flexible framework for assessment, stand-alone treatment, and/or integration into multidisciplinary treatment packages was developed by means of action research. It was researched and developed by the author from a proto-model (Jäderberg & Sarankin, 2013) focusing on parental capacity and the parent-child relationship through the lens of parenting ‘tasks.’
Methods: The proto-model was developed via action research with data collected from four sources: pilot clinicians who tested early stages of the VPT model handbook and protocol for clinical trial, focus groups, and an uncontrolled clinical trial with therapists using the VPT model with parent-child dyads. Methods included thematic analysis of clinician focus groups and the analysis of eight rich case records from the clinical trial. To mitigate and control against the risk of bias due to the author being an inside researcher, regular adjudication and audit were carried out by a Critical Friends Adjudication Group (CFAG). Furthermore, a creative journal was made by the author, with artefacts (paintings, music and film-making) in an attempt to underpin validity, and to reveal motivation for and possible preconceptions in the research.
Results: The resulting parent-child model is child-focused and asserts that there are 20 vital parenting tasks (for example attunement, capacity to play, consistency, non-narcissistic delight, reflexivity, empathy) with a foundation task of the parent to have integrated their own experience of being parented. Clinician and parent participants reported that the VPT supported the enrichment of the parent-child relationship, demystified parenting, highlighted strengths, and bolstered weaknesses. The model’s therapeutic methods include observation, therapeutic letter-writing, home visits, and cross-modal creative tasks, supporting the complexity of dyadic parent-child work. As a proof of concept, the clinical trial of eight parent-child dyads indicated a tentative signal of efficacy for the VPT model. There was an improvement across the cohort of parents of 25%, and 33% for their children with the validated PSYCHLOPS change measure. Furthermore, there was an improvement in parenting capacity, as reported by clinicians, of an average of 23%, using the newly developed Vital Parenting Tasks Assessment (VPTA). Aside from child and adolescent counsellors and psychotherapists, specialists working in adoption, parental alienation, couples work, and non-clinical professionals, such as foster home workers and social workers indicated that the VPT was adaptable to their caseloads. Although the research did not look to identify effectiveness in any particular group, unexpected findings suggested that the VPT may be beneficial for psychosomatic presentations. Products of the study include a handbook for professionals; a postgraduate training course and training for services working with children and parents; two book proposals; a journal paper; several conference presentations; child and adolescent services adoption of VPT model; VPT emotional first aid for parents’ groups; and a proof of concept for the VPT-A (assessment tool).
Conclusions: The VPT was shown to be easy to use and may be beneficial for use in CAP training and for early career clinicians, with potential for more sophisticated use as the clinician matures as well as uses for non-CAP professionals. There have been tentative signals of efficacy in a small number of parent-child dyads including those with psychosomatic presentations. Therefore, there are indications that a larger efficacy study would be worthwhile including a larger study to validate the VPT and the VPTA
Efficient, revocable, and privacy-preserving fine-grained data sharing with keyword search for the cloud-assisted medical IoT system
No full textThe cloud-assisted medical Internet of Things (MIoT) has played a revolutionary role in promoting the quality of public medical services. However, the practical deployment of cloud-assisted MIoT in an open healthcare scenario raises the concern on data security and user’s privacy. Despite endeavors by academic and industrial community to eliminate this concern by cryptographic methods, resource-constrained devices in MIoT may be subject to the heavy computational overheads of cryptographic computations. To address this issue, this paper proposes an efficient, revocable, privacy-preserving fine-grained data sharing with keyword search (ERPF-DS-KS) scheme, which realizes the efficient and fine-grained access control and ciphertext keyword search, and enables the flexible indirect revocation to malicious data users. A pseudo identity-based signature mechanism is designed to provide the data authenticity. We analyze the security properties of our proposed scheme, and via the theoretical comparison and experimental results we demonstrate that for the resource-constrained devices in the patient and doctor side of MIoT, in comparison with other related schemes, ERPF-DS-KS just consumes the lightweight and constant size communication/storage as well as computational time cost. For the keyword search, compared with related schemes, the cloud can quickly check whether a ciphertext contains the specified keyword with slight computations in the online phase. This further demonstrates that ERPF-DS-KS is efficient and practical in the cloud-assisted MIoT scenario
Offline signature verification using deep neural network with application to computer vision
No full textBiometric technologies, such as handwritten signature verification, are extremely useful for identifying individuals inside an organization or finance department. The improvement of picture categorization using deep learning (DL) neural networks has offered an opportunity to exhibit computer vision in contemporary research applications by applying image processing approaches. Manual signature verification is inefficient, error-prone, time-consuming, and inconvenient; therefore, it is critical to create an automatic signature verification recognition system. This research offers an automatic recognition method based on DL that makes use of the Grupo de Procesado Digital de Seales. The biggest publicly accessible handwritten signature dataset, the synthetic signature dataset, was used to classify the signatures of 100 people, each of whom possessed 24 genuine signatures and 30 forged signatures. An inception V3 transfer learning (TL) model is proposed by hyper-tuning different layers from the middle of its architecture and this model is fine-tuned by adding layers, such as flatten, dense (1024), dropout (0.5), and dense (1). The suggested model was tested against six well-known pre-trained TL convolutional neural network models: VGG 16, VGG 19, ResNet 50, ResNet 101, MobileNet, and EfficientNet. The suggested model surpasses the pre-trained models. Precision, sensitivity, and F1-score are likewise outperformed by the model, with the values of 88%, 88%, and 87%, respectively. The accuracy of the pre-trained models was evaluated as 80%, 81%, 77%, 73%, 71%, and 74%, respectively. The suggested fine-tuned inception V3 gives the highest accurate classifications, distinguishing between genuine and forged signatures with an accuracy of 88%. This study will aid researchers in developing more effective CNN-based models for offline signature verification with application to computer vision
Des panoramas de gâchis au nom de la mode: biographie mercantile, géographie du parcellement et gaspillage de vêtements à l’amont du consommateur au Cambodge
Get PDFThis paper advances existing research on both the geographies of fashion and the geographies of waste, utilising their shared interests in commodity biography. Empirically, it documents the use of textile waste from export-oriented garment factories in the peri-urban areas of Phnom Penh, Cambodia as fuel for nearby brick-kilns supplying the city’s booming construction sector. Interviews and documentary photography present the forms of living, labour and harm at both the brick-kilns and the garment dump from which the textile waste is sourced. Substantively, the paper argues for the consideration of preconsumer garment waste to complement the dominant preoccupation with postconsumer waste and reuse. Conceptually, the paper argues for geographical biographies of commodity culture that are attentive to things’ material dynamics of becoming, unbecoming and transformation across spaces, sectors and material forms: that is, to their ‘patch geographies’.Este artículo contribuye con la investigación existente sobre las geografías de la moda y las geografías de los residuos, utilizando sus intereses compartidos en la biografía de las materias primas. Empíricamente, documenta el uso de desechos textiles de fábricas de ropa orientadas a la exportación en las áreas periurbanas de Phnom Penh, Camboya, como combustible para los hornos de ladrillos cercanos que abastecen al sector de la construcción en auge de la ciudad. Las entrevistas y la fotografía documental presentan las formas de vida, trabajo y daños tanto en los hornos de ladrillos como en el basurero de donde provienen los desechos textiles. Sustancialmente, el artículo aboga por la consideración del desperdicio de ropa antes de su consumo para complementar la preocupación dominante con el desperdicio y reutilización post-consumo. Conceptualmente, el artículo aboga por biografías geográficas de la cultura de las materias primas que estén atentas a las dinámicas materiales de convertirse, descomponerse y la transformación a través de los espacios, sectores y formas materiales: es decir, a sus ‘geografías parchadas’ (Tsing, Citation2015).Cette communication joint les courants de recherche existant à la fois dans la géographie de la mode et celle du gaspillage, en utilisant leurs intérêts communs dans la biographie mercantile. Du point de vue empirique, elle documente la manière dont les restes de textiles venant des usines de vêtements pour l’exportation qu’on trouve dans les zones périurbaines de Phnom Penh, au Cambodge, sont utilisés comme combustible pour les usines de briques avoisinantes qui approvisionnent le secteur florissant de la construction de la ville. Des entretiens et des photos-documentaires présentent les formes de vie, de travail et de dangers dans les usines de brique et dans la décharge de vêtements d’où viennent les déchets textiles. Du point de vue substantiel, la communication soutient qu’on devrait prendre en compte ce gaspillage textile à l’amont du consommateur en complément de la préoccupation dominante concernant le gaspillage textile et la réutilisation à l’aval du consommateur. Du point de vue conceptuel, elle se prononce en faveur d’une culture géographique de la biographie mercantile qui se concentrerait sur les dynamiques matérielles des choses qui concernent le devenir, le non-devenir et la transformation à travers les espaces, secteurs et formes matérielles: c’est à dire, à leur « géographie du parcellement » (Tsing, Citation2015)
Design of virtual reality for students with autism, developed in a special school setting
Get PDFVirtual Reality (VR) has been used to augment physical systems or to provide virtual environments that are accessible via head displays. The Department of Education have initialised a special curriculum for students with special needs. In this project it will include people with autism spectrum disorder (Autism) between the ages of 8 and 17 described as
“Students with special needs”. The curriculum has 4 sections: Employment, Independent Living, Community Inclusion and Health. For these purposes the specific virtual reality (VR) prototype was developed to cover the requirements of the “Employment” and “Community Inclusion” sections. It achieves that by simulating common working and recreation areas which are commonly met and used in real life. VR environment has two locations representing mentioned areas: supermarket and caffe. Due to the diverse nature of autism, it requires certain precautions which are very problematic to implement since it is generally assumed that each case of Autism is unique for each individual and can cause different stimuli reactions which could cause discomfort, panic etc. Therefore, the feedback was required to develop further and narrow down the focus of the VR environment’s features. The investigation was conducted in the form of interviews with teachers who combined are responsible for over 100 students with different types of Autism in a school for people with special needs. The obtained results have increased the understanding of features required for development of the VR application for people with special needs and potential issues in its current state as well as its viability in teaching the students with special needs
Exploring the journey of parenting to understand parents’ perceptions of their families’ relationships
Get PDFThis dissertation explores the experiences of parents’ journeys of parenting and seeks to understand their perceptions of their families’ relationships. Seven sets of co-parents, a total of fourteen participants, were interviewed using paired depth semi-structured interviews. The interview data was analysed using a thematic analysis. The current study adopts a critical realist ontological position and an epistemological position of contextualism. A thematic analysis was used to analyse the data as this method gives the freedom to have the structure placed upon the method determined by the needs of the research study.
Two superordinate themes were identified, with each containing three subordinate themes, which collectively have a total of eight themes. The first superordinate theme highlighted the parents’ experiences of their parenting relationships, in relation to three subordinate themes; that of ‘parental solidarity’, ‘differences in individual parenting styles’ and ‘parents connecting with each other through their shared role of parenting’. The second superordinate theme identified the parents’ experiences of their parent-child relationships, in relation to three subordinate themes; that of ‘parents tune into their children’s needs’, ‘parents connecting with their children’, and ‘parent’s aspirations for their children’s futures influences their ways of being with their children’.
Existing literature on parents’ experiences of parenthood and of parenting interventions was utilised to shed light on the study’s findings. The clinical significance included a recommendation for the application of the findings to a parenting intervention that centres around supporting the development of healthy co-parenting relationships and strengthening familial relationships. Further qualitative research on this specific type of intervention as experienced by a diverse demographic of co-parenting units is recommended