92 research outputs found
An Innovative Concept of Simulation in the Art: Physiognomy of Places and Mimicry of the Structures
No full textThrough the statement "Architecture is frozen music" which reveals a universal theme of expression, the present study has shown the symbolic recognition of the music within the integrity of the neoclassical and romantic synthesis. In the first quarter of the 19th century, the Italian set designer Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga (1751-1831) penned his method of working on fine arts and its influences in general to the famous art collector Nikolai B.Yusupov (1750-1831), who had invited the designer to Russia as chief designer of the Imperial theaters. The semantic analysis of the ‘Information a mon chef’ written in French and stamped in 1807 in St. Petersburg has shown that the Italian scenographer Pietro G.Gonzaga had a habit of relating musical theory synonyms with internal and external structures. Thereupon he had proposed the possibility that all forms could be associated with the music of the eyes. In this context, innovative expressions such as physiognomy and facial expressions have emerged. This study argues that this creative concept, which metaphorically approaches the architecture-music analogy is the scenic space designed by the author himself and represents the synthesis of neoclassic and romantic symbolism which constitutes the semantic and semiotic body of this study. As a consequence this study aimed at revealing our perspective toward this conceptual symbolism, which has been emerged in the age of scientific discovery and invention which forms the basis of the technological advances of the next centuries
Self-objectification in women predicts approval motivation in online self-presentation
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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author [SC] upon reasonable request.Researchers have examined self-objectification – viewing oneself as an object rather than a subject – in terms of its impact on intrapersonal factors, such as mental health and cognitive performance. However, few have examined how self-objectification relates to interpersonal factors. The present research addressed this gap by testing the impact of self-objectification on social approval motivation among women. Study 1 (n = 103) found that individual differences in self-objectification correlated positively with approval motivation. Study 2 (n = 94) replicated these results and found that women who reported higher self-objectification were more willing to modify their social media profile pictures unrealistically. In Study 3 (n = 100), higher self-objectifying women were more willing to unrealistically modify their profile pictures even if this exceeded normative levels, which was replicated in Study 4 (n = 199). These results suggest that women’s self-objectification is associated with a desire for approval from others and this desire manifests in a willingness to modify self-presentation.This research was supported in part by the Henry Lester Trust awarded to the first author
The Immigrant and the Citizen: Out-Group Evaluations and Well-Being of Turkish Immigrants From Bulgaria
No full textKorkmaz, Leman/0000-0003-2755-7290; Cingöz-Ulu, Banu/0000-0002-6501-3975;This study examines the postulates of the Rejection Identification Model (RIM) and Rejection Disidentification Model (RDIM) in a sample of 314 ethnic Turks from Bulgaria who migrated to Turkey. We investigate the intervening roles of immigrant and citizen identifications between perceived discrimination and the outcome variables (well-being and out-group evaluations). The results indicate that perceived discrimination predicts negative affect and out-group evaluations. Besides, Turkish citizen identification significantly and positively predicts life satisfaction and satisfaction from living in Turkey, whereas immigrant identification negatively predicts satisfaction in Turkey. Citizen identification predicts positive, and immigrant identification predicts negative out-group evaluations. Immigrant identification plays a mediating role in the link between perceived discrimination and satisfaction in Turkey as well as in that between perceived discrimination and out-group attitudes. The results imply the importance of consideration of contextual factors, including historical and cultural backgrounds, and the meaning of different identities for minority groups in predicting well-being.Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu [110K058]The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (110K058)
The Augmented Movement Platform For Embodied Learning (AMPEL): development and reliability
No full textThere was an error in the affiliations of the co-authors Dr. Thomas Vervust and Prof. Peter Feys. Their correct affiliations are given in this correctionMoumdjian, L (corresponding author),
.Univ Ghent, IPEM Inst Psychoacoust & Elect Mus, Fac Arts & Philosophy, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
UMSC Hasselt, Pelt, Belgium.
Hasselt Univ, Fac Rehabil Sci, REVAL Rehabil Res Ctr, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium.
[email protected]
Network of positive affect and depression in older adults
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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) Research Bank following a standardized request process. Access requests can be directed to [email protected] or to the corresponding author. Data access is restricted due to participant consent terms requiring Older Australian Twins Study (OATS) investigators' review and approval of proposed secondary uses, regardless of data de-identification status.
Analysis code in R is available in the supplemental materials at the end of the manuscript. We report all data exclusions, manipulations, measures, and sample size determinations in the Method section.Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032725019718?via%3Dihub#s0080 .Background:
Depression in older adults poses significant health challenges, yet the protective role of positive affect remains understudied. This research examined the complex network of positive affect and depression in older adults using advanced network analysis techniques to identify potential targets for intervention.
Methods:
Bayesian Gaussian Graphical Models and Directed Acyclic Graph modelling were used to analyse associations between ten positive affect variables and depression. Exploratory and confirmatory network analyses ensured stability and node predictability quantified variable influence. Stepwise linear regression confirmed whether specific positive affective variables identified in the networks predicted lower depression scores.
Results:
Enthusiasm emerged as a key ancestral node with the highest predictability (R2 = 0.65), initiating cascades of positive affect. A primary pathway to depression was identified through feeling active (strength = 1.00, direction = 0.79), with an indirect pathway from feeling enthusiastic via active (strength = 0.98, direction = 0.79) to depression (strength = 1.00, direction = 0.79). Confirmatory longitudinal analysis showed that feeling active and enthusiastic consistently predicted lower depression scores (p < 0.001). The network structure remained stable across analyses.
Conclusions:
Enthusiasm was identified as a central catalyst in the positive affect network, revealing clear pathways through which positive affect may protect against depression in older adults. Enhancing enthusiastic and active emotional experiences emerged as potential effective, nonpharmacological strategies for preventing and treating depression in older adults.Funding for the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study was given by three National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Program Grants (ID No. ID350833, ID568969, and APP1093083)
A comparative analysis of fertility and mortality rates for the state of Georgia: 1921-1959, 1962
No full textPermian productidina of Britain and Malaysia
No full textThe British Permian Productidina have not been revised in detail since 1858. In the present study some 2000 specimens from 29 localities in north east of England have been collected and prepared in the laboratory and used together with museum collections. The fauna consists of four species of Strophalosia, one new species of Eostrophalosia, six species of Heteralosia (four new), three species of Craspedalosia (one new), two species of Howseia, four species of Horridonia (one new) and two species of Spinohorridonia new genus. The Strophalosiacea and Horridoniinae are divided according to a new classification produced in this research. British Permian productidinid species are often strongly variable. Some variants suggest possible sexual dimorphism while others are probably of ecological forms. The fauna as a whole is unique and exclusive to the Upper Permian Zechstein Sea. The British Permian fauna shows major radiation periods during the early EZla Ca and early EZlb Ca. In conjunction with these radiations, the Productidina become divided into two distinct assemblages, marking two biozones introduced in this thesis, the Horridonia horrida and Strophalosia excavata biozones. Little is known of the Malaysian Permian Productidina. They comprise one species each of Strophalosia, Craspedalosia, Institella, Antiquatonia, Reticulatia, Echi- noconchus, Linoproductus, Siepanoviella, Striatifera, Liosotella (with new species), Marginifera?, Paucispinifera, Retimarginifera (with new species) and Costispinifera, two species of Dictyoclostus, Waagenoconcha and Echinauris and three species of Cancrinella. Lower Permian productidinids are associated with Artinskian fusulines and show links with the South Tethyan cold water fauna. Upper Permian producti dinids contain a mixture of North Cathaysian elements and the warm South Tethyan lyttoniid fauna. Variation occurs within some of the Malaysian species, but owing to lack of material, no final deductions can be made. Similarly, although significant differences are observed in Malaysian productidinid distributions, tabulation of biostratigraphic zonation is left until more data is available
De kast op een kier - holebiseksueel verlangen onder moslimmannen en -vrouwen in België
No full text‘Unlocking the Closet – Same-Sex Desire among Muslim Men and Women in Belgiumnbsp;focuses on the intersections of same-sex sexualities, transnationalism and religion. The author interviewed lesbians, gays and bisexuals from Muslim backgrounds and focused on two different groups: sexual migrants and people from second and third generation migrant backgrounds. The Ph.D projectnbsp;several research methods: ethnographic interviewing and online asynchronous interviewing or e-mail interviewing. Because of the sensitive nature of the topic, participant observation was limited to the activities of LGBTQ associations and the LGBTQ scene in general in Hasselt, Antwerp and Brussels, three cities with a queer scene. Additionally, the study used solicited diaries: although I asked my interlocutors to reflect on sexuality and religion in their everyday lives, they had the freedom to add whatever they wanted to share. Since women are often conspicuously underrepresented in LGBT research, there was a great deal of extra effort to include women in the project. As a result of these efforts, 40% of the people I interviewed from the sexual migrant group and 50% of people from second and third generation backgrounds were women.
The aim of the project was threefold. First, in order to question the heteronormativity of migration studies, the study aimed to show that sexuality, structures the processes of migration and people’s motivations to migrate, but also the settlement processes and their transnational relationships. As such, the research project questions how narratives of sexual migration are often presented as movements from oppression to freedom. In thenbsp;country, sexual migrants find themselves in reconstituted asymmetries. Secondly, the study contributes to a growing body of scholarship that questions common understandings of ‘gay identity’ and ‘coming out’. LGBT and queer studies have a tendency to focus on white, gay, male, upwardly mobile, urban and secular citizens from a particular country, as these are the people who can most easily be reached by researchers. This fails to take into account that there are other ways of embodying and living transgressive sexualities. Therefore, the author argues against prevailing notions, which tend to universalize and essentialize human experience by assuming the relevance of western categories of sexuality and gender in the lives of people from other parts of the world. Thirdly, religious piety is often viewed as contradictory to same-sex sexuality, thus denying LGBTQ agency. Furthermore, despite a growing interest in LGBTQ religiosity, the existing literature is largely based on the experiences of LGBTQ Christians. The religious beliefs and practices of LGBTs is a research area that remains underdeveloped. Therefore, the project focused on non-heteronormative Muslims and their ritual practices and beliefs.
The project focused on three areas. First, how LGBs from Muslim backgrounds negotiate silence and disclose around their sexuality in everyday life, especially within kin relationships, both in Belgium and transnationally. Drawing on the notion of moral breakdown, the author argues that LGBs from Muslim backgrounds navigate the disjunctures and asymmetries of multiple heteronormative and homonormative institutional moralities and public moral discourses, some of which go across national borders. Therefore, the moment (or series of moments) when one realizes feeling (also) attracted to persons of the same sex, constitutes a particularly strong and influential moment of moral breakdown. In order to develop an alternative understanding of ‘the closet’ and ‘coming out’, the author demonstrates how many interlocutors played with locking and unlocking the closet, thus highlighting the importance of both tacit knowledge, on the one hand, and silence as a language, on the other hand.
Focusing on newly-arrived sexual migrants from Muslim backgrounds as they chart their way in the country of arrival, the author reveals the non-linear, complex and multiple transformations of the migrants’ sexual subjectivities, desirous practices and intimate lives. The author argues that the way a migrant gains entry to Belgium heavily informs the modalities through which sexual subjectivity is transformed, foregrounding the role of state institutions, ideologies, norms andnbsp;in this process. The incredible difficulties experienced by asylum seekers are situated at the confluence of differences in cultural frameworks and moralities of gender, sexuality and subjecthood and intersectional dynamics between class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race.
Lastly, the author looks at the conundrum that has plagued his interlocutors and preoccupied researchers on the links between same-sex sexuality and Muslimness, and same-sex sexuality and monotheistic religions more generally: how can one be gay, lesbian or bisexual and Muslim? The research project picks up where other authors left off by investigating how the moral self is constituted. Looking at the moral breakdown caused by the conflict between sexuality and religion, the author shows the insights generated by such moments of moral breakdown in relation to our understanding of moral selves. While some Muslims try to find a theologically-inspired solution to commensurate their faith and sexuality, others do not: they simply are Muslim and queer. The author argues that it would be better to understand moral selves as contradictory, ambiguous, ambivalent and fragmented, instead of coherent, unified, ordered and whole.
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The research project (FWO fellowship) will study
lesbian, gay and bisexual Muslims with a migration background in Flanders and
Brussels. The project wishes to contribute ethnographically andtheoretically
to the anthropology of religion, sexuality and migration.
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a minority within an ethnic and/or religious minority, the construction,
management and performance of identity of non-heterosexual Muslims is
considered to take on specific forms. On the one hand, they have to deal with
heteropatriarchy andndash; or biphobia within their own ethnic and/or religious
community, and, on the other hand, in the contemporary post 9/11-context, they
are confronted with religiophobia, islamophobia and (cultural) racism within
the ethnic majority group and gay community.
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main research question of the project is: what intersectional dynamics are at
play in the construction, management and performance of ethno- religious and
sexual identities of LGB Muslims? Ethnographic
fieldwork will be done in the urban setting of Flanders andBrussels. Data
collection will be based on the narrative method.
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Auditory-motor synchronization and interlimb coordination when walking to metronomes with different tempi and structures: A comparison study of children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder
No full textBackground: Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting motor coordination, impacting daily-life activities like walking. Accurate sensorimotor interactions are crucial for optimal coordination. Auditory-motor synchronization paradigms allow to examine these interactions with tempo and temporal structure of auditory stimuli potentially influencing synchronization and coordination. Therefore, this study aims to investigate auditory-motor synchronization and interlimb coordination in children with DCD and typically developing children (TDC) during walking. Research question: What is the impact of metronome characteristics (tempo, temporal structure) on auditorymotor synchronization, interlimb coordination and spatiotemporal variability in children with and without DCD during walking to auditory metronomes? Methods: Twenty-one DCD and 22 TDC children walked for three minutes to auditory metronomes with different tempi and temporal structures. Synchronization, interlimb coordination and spatiotemporal variability were analyzed using mixed model analysis. Results: DCD presented lower synchronization consistency, inferior interlimb coordination and higher gait variability (speed, step length) across all tempi and temporal structures. At preferred tempo, both groups demonstrated best synchronization and interlimb coordination. The least synchronization and coordination were observed at lower tempo, with DCD additionally showing diminished tempo matching and increased cadence variability. Discrete structures optimized synchronization accuracy and continuous structures enhanced interlimb coordination accuracy. Conclusion: The study highlights difficulties in auditory-motor synchronization, interlimb coordination and spatiotemporal variability in DCD during walking, which were enlarged at lower tempo. Considering various tempi and temporal structures can enrich walking assessments and protentional interventions for DCD. What this paper adds: This paper contributes to the understanding of auditory-motor synchronization and interlimb coordination in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and typically developing children (TDC) during walking. This study expands previous research by exploring the impact of varied tempi and temporal structures on synchronization and interlimb coordination, which has been a relatively unexplored area in the context of DCD. The key findings suggest that children with DCD exhibit lower synchronization consistency and interlimb coordination compared to their typically developing peers across different tempi and temporal structures. We extend previous findings of tapping literature that optimal synchronization and coordination was present at 0 % tempo. Additionally, worsened performance was found at lower auditory tempi (-10 %) than their preferred walking tempo.M.G. received funding from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO Vlaanderen, 11K8622N) and the Special Research Fund of Hasselt University (BOF21INCENT27) to conduct this study within the context of a PhD project. Co-author Dr. Lousin Moumdjian received funding from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO Vlaanderen, 1295923N).
We acknowledge the assistance in recruitment and data collection by master students (A. Vos, J. Roufs, K. Hennen, S. Roox, B. Slechten, J. Bielen, M. Bertels, J. Bijloos). We also thank dr. Joeri Verbiest for the pre-processing of the interlimb coordination and spatiotemporal gait parameters
Kinship and shifting intra-family focalism among Italo-Brussels Jehovah's witnesses.
No full textThe author reports on the observation of the communities of Italo-Brussels Jehovah's Witnesses over a 30-year period (research in 1976, 1996 and 2005). In the 1970s, "conversion" as the means of entry into a new religious community was dominant as a theme in the Kingdom Halls. Thirty years later, it is recruitment through kin and the "vécu" of kinship relations inside the religious enclaves which has become the main objective of these communities. The author analyses the processes in the composition of the socio-cultural basis and the structure of the intra-family relations in these communities between 1976 and 2005. He also tries to develop further the social network recruitment theories on this issue, not in order to object to the recruitment prractices, but in order to show the changes that have taken place, and the appearance of "internal" cultural bias in the system.status: Publishe
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