Appreciable Way Research Articles

Integrating pastoral care and appreciative inquiry for sex trafficking survivors: A framework for healing

Integrating appreciative inquiry (AI) and pastoral care may help address the complex issues of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. This article explores the benefits of incorporating AI principles into pastoral care for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking involve exploitation, degradation, and violence, making them complex issues. By understanding the sex trade, we can recognise that prostitution is an act of exploitation. Some scholars believe that prostitution and human trafficking are interconnected, with a focus on exploiting the poor, especially women and children. Commercial sexual exploitation can cause mental, emotional, and spiritual distress. Survivors require comprehensive aftercare to address their spiritual, self-esteem, and dignity needs. Organisational development-based AI is constructive and strength-based. Appreciative inquiry promotes positive development, community and individual strength, and resilience by re-contextualizing narratives and envisioning brighter futures. The use of AI could improve pastoral care and holistic rehabilitation. Pastoral caregivers using AI can promote reconciliation, development, and rehabilitation. Using strengths-based strategies, pastoral care practitioners can help survivors regain agency and purpose. Survivors receive spiritual support through the Appreciative Way, which combines contemplative spirituality and inquiry. Narrative exploration can help trauma survivors envision a bright future based on love and resilience. This study suggests that AI principles may benefit pastoral care recipients who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Pastoral caregivers can help survivors regain dignity, calling, and well-being by implementing an appreciative healing approach.Contribution: The article sheds light on the dehumanising consequences of sex trafficking on vulnerable populations in South Africa, particularly women and children. This article aims to explain how AI concepts can be applied to Practical Theology. Specifically, this article will demonstrate how the Appreciative Way can be utilised in pastoral care for healing from sex trafficking trauma.

The Ambiguous Religiosity of Justin Martyr

Abstract The comparison that Justin Martyr makes between the Christianity to which he converted and the traditional cults of his time has two sides that make Justin’s religiosity essentially ambiguous. On the one hand, Justin critically attributes the concepts and practices of ancient religiosity to the influence of demons. On the other hand, he wants to justify the universality of the Logos in human history. For this reason, he recognizes, in an appreciative way, certain traces of truth and morality in Greek wisdom, which finds its fullness and fulfillment in Christ, Logos made flesh. In the light of this ambiguous religiosity, one can understand why Justin coins the phrase “Christians before Jesus” as a category for Socrates and others. The driving force behind this operation is certainly confessional and proselytising, but for contemporary dialogue it can stimulate a sincere and passionate exchange with the religious position of one’s interlocutors.

Design and verification of q-axis perturbation based active islanding detection schemes for DG systems

The penetration of grid integrated distributed generation (DG) in the present decade, has benefited rural communities, the environment, and the power sector. These renewable power sources based DGs could eliminate the need of extensive transmission networks, especially in remote areas, reduce emissions and improve power supply reliability. A significant drawback of grid integrated DG systems is the islanding of DG units, which puts workers' safety at risk and raises the possibility of damaging electrical infrastructure. Therefore, islanding detection techniques are used to reduce the danger associated with islanded functioning of DG units. Fast detection, small non detection area and less power quality disturbance are the major requirements of any islanding detection method. To address this issue of islanding, researchers have proposed various islanding detection strategies. This paper compares various q-axis controller-based islanding identification approaches: sub-harmonic perturbation (SHP), complementary reactive power perturbation (CRPP), and even harmonic perturbation (EHP). In all three proposed methodologies, the perturbations introduced result in frequency deviations surpassing the predefined threshold values. But the time of islanding detection is least in the CRPP approach. CRPP can also drift the total harmonic distortion (THD) beyond the corresponding threshold in an appreciable way. The performance of these (Islanding detection methods) IDMs is evaluated through simulations using MATLAB-Simulink on a PV fed DG. The efficacy of the comparative analysis is ensured with necessary waveforms.

Gender and diversity competence in sport studies programs in higher education

Introduction Inclusion and diversity have become increasingly important in the context of sport in recent years. Numerous sports organizations and sports policymakers are committed to enable more inclusive sport. Led by the idea of a sport for all, everyone should be able to participate in sport regardless of gender, sexuality, dis_ability, race, or class. Inclusive sport does not only require specific structural conditions. It also demands social actors who have the skills to deal with the challenges of social diversity in an open, appreciative, and innovative way. Coaches, officials, teachers, journalists, and economists working in the field of sport need to be familiar with the topics of gender equity, diversity, and inclusion. This is where the project “Understanding and Experiencing Diversity” (funded by the Swiss Federal Office for Sport) comes in. It aims to develop and test a concept for promoting gender and diversity competence in sport-related higher education, thus enabling social actors to shape sport in a diversity-conscious and inclusive way. Methods The project is being carried out over a period of three years and consists of four project phases. After a phase of conceptual clarification regarding the theoretical framework and terminology, current approaches to gender and diversity competence (in the sport studies context) are being critically analysed. Against this background, phases three and four of the project will focus on the development of a sport-related teaching concept for gender and diversity competence and its testing at three different universities. Results/Discussion The understanding of gender and diversity competence developed in this project is theoretically based on the “trilemma of Inclusion” by Boger (2019). It thus refers to inclusion and non-discrimination as a complex structure of normalization, deconstruction, and empowerment. This is also linked to an intersectional perspective on social differentiation and discrimination (Degele & Winker, 2011). Regarding the promotion of gender and diversity competence in higher education, the attitude of social actors towards diversity and inclusion proves to be particularly important. This aspect has not yet been systematically considered in the context of sport-related higher education in German-speaking countries. The teaching concept developed in this project therefore emphasizes the aspect of attitude (Rischke et al., 2017).

On the deformability of additivated phosphatidylcholine liposomes: Molecular dynamic regimes and membrane elasticity.

Liposomes with enhanced elasticity have been proven to increase the efficiency of drug transport across the skin. The understanding of the background physicochemical processes driving the liposome viscoelastic properties is an essential feature for the design of effective formulations involving different lipids and additive molecules. In this work we use field-cycled nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry to analyze both the mechanical properties of liposome membranes, and their relationship with the involved molecular dynamics. Different liposomal formulations were considered. We show a correlation between the molecular dynamical regime and mesoscopic physical parameters that define the expected deformability of the vesicles. Results strongly suggest that the purity of the used lipids may influence the elastic properties of the membranes in an appreciable way. Common features in the behaviour of the involved dynamic variables were identified by comparing formulations with surfactants of similar molecular weight.

The Research on the Characteristics and Forms of Immersive Experience in Art Exhibitions—Take “Van Gogh—the Immersive Experience” as an Example

Immersive experience is a new type of interaction that integrates culture and technology, and it shows great promise for application by combining with multi-panel content. With the continuous development of virtual technology, immersive experience is also applied to art exhibitions and obtains surprising effects. People are not satisfied with the original way of art appreciation, and the increase of aesthetic demand also requires more diversified ways of exhibition, which has led to the prevalence of immersive exhibitions. In recent years, there have been few attempts at immersive art exhibitions, and the organizers have succeeded in creating very creative presentations. This paper takes “Van Gogh’s Secret World” as an objective, and the result shows the features of the immersive experience, include the concept and history of immersive experiences, and the expressions and characteristics of immersive experience in art exhibitions, hope can help people look into the future of the interactive art.

Role of Nalanda college of agriculture in promoting agricultural education in Tamil Nadu

The Study focuses on major areas in which agricultural education is imparted by incorporating major and minor courses which are related to agriculture and allied subjects which are helping in the promotion of career orientation. Another aspect of the study is Promoting greenery to the environment by the students of agriculture and earns hands on training in the areas like bee keeping, mushroom cultivation, Ornamental Nursery, Entrepreneurial Development, Commercial Seed Production, Dry land farming, sericulture, vermicompost production, azolla production which are giving way to the students in practicing of agribusiness and its initiatives in their region of residence. In this respect, this article addresses how an educational institution could train the students in making use of the available dry lands for effective crop production front by employing the agricultural labour force in making the dry lands into a big greenery. This might be an example to the dry land farmers to cope with and elevate their lifestyle in an appreciable way and it will also promote the farming initiatives with courage and confidence wherever the land and irrigation facility are available. Certain students are also taking the lands on lease to promote agriculture in a big way. This paper is a paradigm for the persons who are taking initiatives in agriculture to make farming as their career path.

A novel thiadiazole azo colorants as potent bio-active molecules: Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and biological investigation

The present work establishes the bio potency of novel synthesized azo compounds having 2-methyl, 1, 3, 4- thiadiazole. The structural aspects of the synthesized compounds were accomplished by using various analytical tools which includes FT-IR, 1 H NMR, 13 C NMR, UV–Vis and mass spectrometry. These compounds were tested for their biological efficacy and carried out antimycobacterial and cytotoxic studies. The results of the bio-chemical assays indicated the biological properties of the synthesized compounds in a very appreciable way. The obtained biochemical results were further analyzed by in silico molecular docking interaction studies against target receptor RpsA and exhibited good hydrogen bonding affinity with the target receptor. The synthesized compounds were also summarized with the Lipinski's rule of 5 in which all the compounds have shown no violation to the drug likeness.

Mixed methods participatory social justice community engagement model.

Context: This is a community engagement model based on a Mixed Methods Participatory Social Justice (MMPSJ) research project. The community engagement model evolved as both synthesis and dissemination were co-created with participants. Indigenous community members alongside researchers and Elders explored health literacy in an effort to illuminate root causes of the social determinants of health (SDoH) and to build community capacity. Objective: To better understand the connections between health and literacy from a local perspective (living on Treaty Six). Design: Mixed methods participatory social justice and community based participatory health research. Participants: There were: 12 participants; ten Indigenous intergenerational family members including an Indigenous Elder and two researchers. Expected Results: Local, contemporary, Indigenous perspectives were shared in ways that were meaningful to participants. Research Questions: In what ways can literacy be considered a social determinant of health from an urban Indigenous community? What literacy issues marginalize the community? How would you like this information shared or disseminated? Conclusions: Appropriate engagement with local community can inform the social determinants of health in an appreciative way, can enhance ethical space, and a richer understanding within community-based research. This capacity building approach will impact health care practitioners, educators, policies, and help to strengthen relations across systems. This research was reviewed and approved by the Behavioural REB at the University of Saskatchewan.

Interactive Cultural Communication Effect in VR Space of Intelligent Mobile Communication Network

Virtual reality technology can provide more display techniques to realize the interactive design of multiexhibition area of red humanities and natural resources. First of all, through the three-dimensional interactive display of cultural relics and scene reproduction of historical events, visitors can enjoy the unrestrained and immersive appreciation, make up for people’s lack of understanding of history, and let tourists personally feel the difficulties and hardships in the development of Chinese revolutionary history. Second, the digital method also provides for the pavilion and the scenic spot design personnel more creative method; dynamic scene reappearance interaction design based on virtual reality technology to promote education, protection of cultural relic collection and utilization, academic research, and the industrial development and multidimensional public welfare publicity results is blended in among them, through the panoramic, immersive, and interactive display technique, such as multilevel multiway spread red brigade culture. Virtual reality constantly imitates the real-life environment, and the application of perception sensing equipment has perception. This new technology requires us to continue to explore and research it. Virtual reality technology is a very cutting-edge subject and research field, which is very challenging. The communication form of culture has also been constantly evolving. Virtual reality technology (VR) has changed the way of traditional culture appreciation through the transmission of visual information, bringing people a new aesthetic enjoyment. Mainstream media is used to mobilize the red cultural heritage protection and scholars at home and abroad, to explore the application of virtual reality in the red culture tourist attraction planning, and to explore virtual reality applications in red open spot virtual roaming: exploration of virtual reality in the application of historical and cultural sites to red tourism management and exploration of virtual reality in the brand historical and cultural sites in the application of the travel marketing, to build an intelligent mobile communication network communication platform and broaden the new path of inheritance and protection. On the basis of studying the communication effect of traditional culture, this paper studies the possible communication effect of symphony orchestra under the new technology format under the framework of communication studies. It also analyzes and explores various factors such as the practical value, difficulty, civilized prestige, adaptability, and resistance to adversity of the culture in cultural communication and compares the methods of cultural communication. By developing a virtual instrument placed in the sphere of virtual reality space, the traditional symphony orchestra can be transformed into an interactive culture communication in virtual reality space. In this communication design, users can define their own instruments to play interactive culture communication, change the position of the instrument on the sphere interactively, and even change the sound effect of the symphony interactively by rotating or adjusting the size of the sphere, so as to achieve the best communication effect of the symphony.

The Role of Jamia Rizvia Faisalabad in Contribution of Islamic Teachings

JamiaRizvia “Mezher-ul-Islam” is located in Jhang Bazar Faisalabad. This great Islamic Institute was founded by HazratAllamaSardar Ahmad Chishti Qadri who was great Islamic Scholar, Researcher and Learned personality in the discipline of Quran, Hadith, Islamic Jurisprudence and Arabic Language.TheJamiaRizvia has produced many Ulamas, Orators, Debaters and Authorswhich are serving as Islamic Preachers, CivilGovernmental servants in different official Institution. This Islamic Institute is not only delivering the Islamic and Arabic studies but also current educational courses like as: English, Urdu, Mathematics, Sociology, and Computer Science Pak Studies. So, it can be said that the scholar qualified from this Institution has full command over the Islamic and Modern knowledges. Dueto great effective and appreciable way of Teaching, the last degree of Dars-i- Nizami(Al.Shahadat-ul-Alimyya)is considered equivalent to M.A Islamiat and Arabic.

A Novel Multi-Feature Fusion Method in Merging Information of Heterogenous-View Data for Oil Painting Image Feature Extraction and Recognition.

The art of oil painting reflects on society in the form of vision, while technology constantly explores and provides powerful possibilities to transform the society, which also includes the revolution in the way of art creation and even the way of thinking. The progress of science and technology often provides great changes for the creation of art, and also often changes people's way of appreciation and ideas. The oil painting image feature extraction and recognition is an important field in computer vision, which is widely used in video surveillance, human-computer interaction, sign language recognition and medical, health care. In the past few decades, feature extraction and recognition have focused on the multi-feature fusion method. However, the captured oil painting image is sensitive to light changes and background noise, which limits the robustness of feature extraction and recognition. Oil painting feature extraction is the basis of feature classification. Feature classification based on a single feature is easily affected by the inaccurate detection accuracy of the object area, object angle, scale change, noise interference and other factors, resulting in the reduction of classification accuracy. Therefore, we propose a novel multi-feature fusion method in merging information of heterogenous-view data for oil painting image feature extraction and recognition in this paper. It fuses the width-to-height ratio feature, rotation invariant uniform local binary mode feature and SIFT feature. Meanwhile, we adopt a modified faster RCNN to extract the semantic feature of oil painting. Then the feature is classified based on the support vector machine and K-nearest neighbor method. The experiment results show that the feature extraction method based on multi-feature fusion can significantly improve the average classification accuracy of oil painting and have high recognition efficiency.

The linguistic conceptualization in folk aesthetics

Abstract This Special Issue is dedicated to the analysis of the linguistic conceptualization of “beautiful” and “ugly” as the key concepts that are basic to aesthetic appreciation across languages and cultures within the framework of folk aesthetics. For this purpose, we present a collection of original research articles analyzing concepts related to folk aesthetics in seven languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Danish, Persian, and Mandarin Chinese. All studies in this Special Issue focus on words and concepts as representations of culture-specific ways of aesthetic appreciation. Most of the studies are corpus-based, therefore they draw their conclusions on significant linguistic data.

How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project

In the “contributory” citizen science project INSIGNIA, beekeepers carried out non-invasive sampling of their own honey bee colonies for an environmental investigation of pesticide residues and pollen plant origin. We surveyed several traits and attitudes of 69 of the volunteering beekeepers from ten countries. We found that their motivation was similar to that found in previous studies of environmental volunteer motivation, with helping the environment and contributing to scientific knowledge being strong motivators. Our results suggest that receiving laboratory analysis results of the samples from their colonies is the most meaningful way of appreciation for beekeepers, but is not their primary reason for participation. A citizen scientist beekeeper in this study spent on average 10.4 working hours on the project during a sampling season. Our study indicates that most of our volunteers would participate in similar future investigations, or would recommend participation to other beekeepers, underlining the potential of beekeepers as citizen scientists in honey bee research.

Appreciating Large Classes: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Foster a Hospitable Learning Space for Experiential Learning

Experiential learning has been documented as an effective method for student learning, yet its use in large-enrollment classes remains limited. Kolb’s experiential learning theory emphasizes that experiential learning requires a hospitable learning space (HLS) that is conducive to learning. In this article, we reframe the challenges to experiential learning in large classes as a failure to create and maintain an HLS, and we propose Appreciative inquiry as one solution to this problem. Appreciative inquiry is an organizational development methodology that practitioners have successfully used to engage large groups to leverage their strengths and resources. First, we describe the HLS as an overarching theoretical framework to address the lack of engagement when conducting experiential learning in large classes. Second, we use the principles of Appreciative inquiry to provide actionable suggestions to instructors facing these challenges. Finally, through the use of appreciative inquiry, we argue that some characteristics of large classes can instead be viewed in an appreciative way as available resources to generate an engaging experiential learning process for students.

Promising directions for increasing the efficiency of customs scanning devices

The purpose of the article is to summarize and comparative analysis of modern research in the field of scanning equipment for customs, airports and ports. Today, 70 % of scanning devices in the world are based on the use of X-rays. This equipment can significantly reduce the time of customs inspection of goods, but it also has significant drawbacks. Therefore, it is urgent to further search for modern technologies that would become the basis for the development of highly effective modern scanning devices capable of detecting illegal and hazardous materials, such as explosives, chemical weapons, drugs, radioactive materials, and the like during customs inspection of goods. One of the promising areas of introscopy of large loads is muon tomography. The advantages of muon tomography, such as high penetrating power, the absence of additional radiation exposure on personnel and controlled goods and vehicles, the ability to construct a three-dimensional image of the controlled object, and the identification of contraband goods in shielded containers, make it a promising method of introscopy for customs control of bulky cargo. It is important that muons are safe to use and do not pose any risk to human health (unlike, for example, X-rays), and do not harm the environment in any appreciable way. Therefore, their use is not regulated by safety regulations. Muon scanning technology is under development primarily due to poor muon statistics over a short period of time. For customs purposes, space muons can be used as follows: to detect shielded nuclear materials and to identify drugs and explosives. The reason that currently makes it impossible to introduce muon tomographs as an independent means of customs control in the practical activities of customs authorities is the absence of sensitive detector of muon radiation, the search for which is the goal of further research in this area.

BASKETBALL SPORTS SHOES SELECTION AND FEATURES

Present-day technology brings with several equipments which are the irrevocable components of sports besides success also in the competitive environment, and shows its influence on sports equipment in a appreciable way. While considering the stated amounts in the embarkments invested in the sports sector in the era we live in, the performance of the athletes additionally gains value in this giant sector. When we distinguish the factors that affect the performance of athletes as internal and external factors, trainer shoes confront as a very important external factor and a performance tool. Consequently, benefiting from all kinds of materials and technologies that will protect the athlete's sanitary and bear his/her performance to the best possible level will bring success with it. Basketball is a very popular team sport where players are intensely active on the court. The action, movement and success in balance of the athlete in the game frequently depends on the right choice of basketball shoes. The accurate basketball shoes are extremely significant for the athlete's health and performance on the court. Shoes and models produced in present-day technology are very successful products. However, that doesn't mean all shoes are appropriate for each athlete's feet. Due to the characteristics of basketball game, players have their positions and choosing shoes according to their positions is important. It is a complicated condition for a basketball athlete to choose suitable shoes for himself/herself among many brands and models. In this study of compilation, the place and importance of shoes, which are in the first place among the materials that come to mind when the athlete's performance and health are considered, was mentioned, and information about the points that should be considered in choosing the right shoes in basketball was given.

Dynamics of Gender Self and Other in Sharon Doubiago's South America Mi Hija

This paper explores the poetic feminist discourse of the South American poet Sharon Doubiago's epic South America Mi Hija and how she engenders and maintains her gender's visions and beliefs in masculine societies that still engulf the whole human world. She poetically defends herself and her gender refusing to submit to the standing patriarchal paradigm. She portrays herself as a modern spokesperson of her gender and its vulnerability to victimization. Doubiago also tries to cast her challenge against the dominant patriarchal power. Further, this paper sheds light on the poet’s optimism in winning the battle in the light of modern feminist analysis, providing relevant representations of her poetic discourse. It elucidates how the poet publicizes her feminist and gender thoughts despite the domination of the masculine power. As a result, as an intimate feminist poet, Doubiago succeeds in identification with her psyche and other similar selves that can assimilate with her soul and vision. In a broader sense, the focal hypothesis of this paper revolves around conceptualizing feminist poetics and gender in an appreciative receptionist way.

The impact of place and legacy framing on climate action: A lifespan approach.

Despite several decades of research on more effectively communicating climate change to the general public, there is only limited knowledge about how older adults engage with an issue that will shape and define future generations. We focus on two key factors that may motivate younger and older adults to engage in climate change action, legacy concern and place attachment, and assess whether older adults differ in any appreciable way from the general population in this domain. We randomly exposed participants of different ages to either a Legacy, Place, or control writing induction task before they completed various self-report measures. Both induction conditions were associated with significantly greater pro-environmental behavioral intentions and donations for all age groups when compared to the control condition. Legacy motivation and biophilia were used as manipulation checks and found to partially mediate these effects. Findings suggest that legacy and place message framing may be useful in prompting adults of all ages to take action to help combat climate change.

Team Coaching Psychology: Toward an Integration of Constructivist Approaches

The field of team coaching has been a prominent one in the discourse of business practice and organizational life. However, this expansion of a new genre of psychological practice has not been equally followed in the academic discourse of psychology. In this paper an integrative framework of constructivist team coaching psychology is offered. Three psychological perspectives – personal and relational constructivist, systemic, and solution-focused – are elaborated as a basis for an integrative approach to team coaching. In the first part of the paper, current conceptual understandings of team coaching are reviewed. In the second part of the paper, three psychological perspectives on team coaching are presented, including their principles, models and techniques. Finally, a platform for an integrative team coaching psychology is offered. The three approaches provide a comprehensive platform for understanding teams and facilitating change in teams. Personal and relational construct psychology brings its robust theory of change that translates very well into the project of changing teams. A systemic approach to team coaching provides a rich resource for conceptualizing possible content areas in working with teams, and stresses the importance of disrupting teams so they learn how to adapt to wider systemic changes. The solution-focused approach to team coaching brings its simple methodology of facilitating incremental changes in appreciative ways. The proposed integration contributes to the theoretical elaboration of constructivist approaches to team coaching, as well as to innovating the practice of team coaches who may find the constructivist integrative approach an inspiring resource for developing teams.