Everyday Action Research Articles

Pembinaan Health Habbit di Panti Asuhan Vania Anak Indonesia

Health habbit development (healthy living habits) is healthy behavior that is carried out repeatedly without going through a thought process because this behavior is a response to something that is generally an everyday action. The aim of developing healthy habits is to improve the quality of life and individual well-being through implementing a healthy lifestyle. This coaching covers various aspects, such as a balanced diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management and personal hygiene. This research examines how health habits are fostered at the Vania Anak Indonesia Orphanage Jln. Captain M. Jamil Lubis, Medan Estate, Deli Serdang, Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra 20371. The aim of this research is to find out what the healthy living habits of orphanage children at the Indonesian Vania Anak Orphanage are. This research uses a qualitative approach and a case study type of research. The subjects of the research were orphanage managers. This research data was collected using observation, interview and documentation techniques. Data is processed by data reduction, data presentation, as well as conclusions and verification. The results of the research show that the implementation of healthy living habits in Indonesian children's orphanages has not been implemented well, therefore the research team was present to provide guidance on health habits (Healthy Living Habits).

Pembinaan Health Habbit di Panti Asuhan Vania Anak Indonesia

Health habbit development (healthy living habits) is healthy behavior that is carried out repeatedly without going through a thought process because this behavior is a response to something that is generally an everyday action. The aim of developing healthy habits is to improve the quality of life and individual well-being through implementing a healthy lifestyle. This coaching covers various aspects, such as a balanced diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management and personal hygiene. This research examines how health habits are fostered at the Vania Anak Indonesia Orphanage Jln. Captain M. Jamil Lubis, Medan Estate, Deli Serdang, Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra 20371. The aim of this research is to find out what the healthy living habits of orphanage children at the Indonesian Vania Anak Orphanage are. This research uses a qualitative approach and a case study type of research. The subjects of the research were orphanage managers. This research data was collected using observation, interview and documentation techniques. Data is processed by data reduction, data presentation, as well as conclusions and verification. The results of the research show that the implementation of healthy living habits in Indonesian children's orphanages has not been implemented well, therefore the research team was present to provide guidance on health habits (Healthy Living Habits).

No evidence for top-down expertise effects on action perception in sprinters using static images

Athletes have been found to demonstrate a superior ability to detect subtle variations in dynamic displays (e.g., point-light displays and videos) depicting expert actions compared to non-athletes. The current study aimed to determine whether this advantage also exists when dynamic information is unavailable (i.e., using static images). Using a staircase procedure, two frames from a video depicting an athlete either walking (everyday action) or performing a sprint start (expert action) were presented, and athletes (sprinters) and non-athletes were asked to indicate whether the images were identical or different. We examined whether presenting the images sequentially (temporal task) or simultaneously (spatial task) influenced participants' discrimination performance. We predicted that the sprinters would outperform the non-sprinters in the spatial task as body postures could be compared directly but not in the temporal task due to larger representational momentum effects for athletes. Contrary to our hypotheses, the sprinters and non-sprinters performed similarly in all tasks and conditions. In line with the prediction that representational momentum may impair performance, participants’ thresholds were lower for the spatial than the temporal task. However, post-hoc analysis suggested that this effect is likely to be better explained by a task order effect whereby participants who completed the temporal task first exhibited an advantage in the spatial task, while there were no performance differences for participants who completed the opposite task order. In sum, our results provide no evidence for the idea that motor expertise affects action perception (i.e., perceptual resonance) in a simple psychophysical task employing static images.

Return to the City to Claim It: Temporalities and Locations of Feminist Refusal

One of the main contributions of A Feminist Theory of Refusal is its connection of everyday action and prefigurative practices with an explicit commitment to structural change. But how such change happens, and what kind of relations it implies between ‘the city’ (as the existing political community) and feminist heterotopias of refusal, remains unclear. Reading Honig’s work as a prefigurative theory, I argue that it links moments of doing-otherwise with moments of institutional politics, sparking questions about the conditions of a successful return to the city. I then develop these conditions through a case study of the feminist activism of Women on Waves; and argue that feminist refusal can lead to political transformation if it durably connects practices inside and outside the city.

Toward Pedagogies for the Future to Address the Climate Crisis

This exploratory article offers contemplative learning exercises that foster connection and intuition in order to promote adaptive intelligence and anticipatory knowing to address the uncertain future related to climate crisis. The author provides personal snapshots and reflections regarding the impact of the climate crisis and explores hopeful paths for everyday action. In specific, the article suggests that everyday revolutionary acts such as slowing down, practicing humility, and aligning economic choices with core values can make a difference. Drawing on a critical pedagogy of place, the author suggests that connection to the ecological places we inhabit matters much in our efforts toward addressing the climate crisis. A simple solution is offered; we need to harm less, love more.

Planning-Related Protest as a Key to Understanding Urban Particularities

Planning-related protest is a “normal” and strategic form of political participation that manifests cause-related conflict and criticises dominant norms, situations, and institutions. It goes beyond the participation offered by the (local) state while claiming action by the state and other powerful actors. Given the multitude of such protests as well as the usually local and, therefore, often small-scale causes and claims articulated, we consider these actions by citizens as everyday practices. On the other hand, protest and movement theory has focused on structural aspects like resource mobilisation and opportunity structures. We, therefore, suggest that planning protest is one of the keys to understanding the particular, place-specific characteristics that make every city unique. Protest data mining as a newly developed method to identify planning protests in local databases, digital newspaper archives, and petition platforms in a standardised approach has produced datasets of hundreds of protests that allow for comparisons between cities. The exemplary analysis of this data allows us to discuss the structural dimension of everyday action.

43 Mood and Everyday Function in Older Adults: Analyses of Self-report and Performance-based Measures of Everyday Function

Objective:The relation between depressed mood and functional difficulties in older adults has been demonstrated in studies using self-report measures and has been interpreted as evidence for low mood negatively impacting everyday functional abilities. However, few studies have directly examined the relation between mood and everyday function using performance-based tests. This study included a standardized, performance-based measure of everyday action (Naturalistic Action Task, NAT) to test the prediction that report of depression symptoms are associated with self-report and performance-based tests of everyday function. Associations with anxiety symptoms and motivation/grit and everyday function also were explored.Participants and Methods:68 older adults without dementia were screened and recruited (n = 55, M age = 74.21, SD= 6.80, age range = 65 to 98) from the community and completed self-report measures of depression symptoms (GDS), anxiety (GAI), motivation (Short Grit-S), and everyday functioning (FAQ). Participants also performed the NAT, which requires completion of a breakfast and lunch task and is scored for task accomplishment, errors (micro-errors, overt, motor), and total time. Additionally, an informant also reported on the participant’s everyday function. Spearman correlations were performed and results showing a medium effect size or greater are reported.Results:Participant mood (GDS) was associated with self-reported function (FAQ; r =.45) but not performance-based measures of everyday function (NAT). Self-reported anxiety and motivation were not meaningfully associated with either self-reported or performance-based everyday function. Participant self-report (FAQ) and informant report of participant’s function (IFAQ) supported the validity of performance-based assessment as both were meaningfully associated with NAT performance (FAQ x NAT overt errors r = .34; I-FAQ x NAT micro-errors r = .34; I-FAQ x NAT motor errors r = .49).Conclusions:Mood, but not anxiety or motivation, was associated with self-reported everyday function but not performance-based function. When considered alongside the meaningful relations between self/informant-report of function and everyday task performance, results suggest mood does not impact everyday function abilities in community-dwelling older adults without dementia. We suggest that frameworks to be reconceptualized to consider the potential for mild functional difficulties to negatively impact mood in older adults without dementia. Additionally, interventions and compensatory strategies designed to improve everyday function should examine the impact on mood outcomes.

Why and how you matter: learning development as everyday leadership

For the learning developers, operating within the third space in higher education (between academic-faculty positions, and professional/learning services and administration) brings its rewards through supporting students and staff to succeed. However, well-documented challenges, such as uncertainty around own professional identity; own place in the institutional culture and infrastructure; entitlement to CPD; and career progression trajectory (Silvey, Pejcinovic and Snowball, 2018; Obexer, 2020; Clark, 2021). Learning Developers who often are employed as both academics and professional services may find themselves grappling with finding ways to capture and evidence impact of their activity on their students’ academic and broader experience and proving their worth to their institution and the sector on the whole (Riggio, 2020). Our institutions may feel like worlds of academic standards and managerial constraints, neither of which helps reinforce the feeling of empowerment and belonging among learning developers.
 Everyday leadership, as a position and behaviour of choice, can help navigate these challenges, at individual, institutional and LD community levels. Everyday leadership has links with a stronger sense of empowerment, self-fulfilment and belonging – to the collective LD community, and to the institution (Drury, Evripidou, and Van Zomeren, 2015). Everyday leadership implies influence, and therefore, impact. In this session, we applied our thinking from Cashman (2017) and Whitelaw (2020) and define leadership as extending your energy into “things that matter” (Whitelaw, 2020. NP), to create value for others. Everyday leaders are all individuals, notwithstanding of their status, who “influence others to achieve shared objectives for the good of the collective” (Riggio, 2020, NP). Our participants also explored, and reframed their activity from the angle of everyday leadership – such as influencing peers and students, mentoring peers, initiating or leading a project, speaking up, acting as an active bystander. Finally we referred to broad themes from the ALDinHE Leadership Community of Practice. Participants shared practice and came up with a range of everyday leadership ‘expressions’ which are meaningful to them, within the context of their value and purpose; empowerment and belonging; influence and impact. Participants were encouraged to commit to one new everyday leadership action/ behaviour.

Static Archetypes and Mobile Mountains: Upland Landscapes in the Historical Mediterranean

Deep-seated mythologies and powerful stereotypes have driven perceptions of mountain landscapes for millennia. Particularly damaging is the concept that mountains and mountain societies are static and stable, in both time and place. A critical approach replaces static and simplistic models of mountain practices with interaction among human and ecological communities within lively mountain landscapes. There are challenges to doing archaeological fieldwork in the mountains, but recent projects have shown how rich highland and rugged landscapes can be in archaeological material, particularly when systematic survey and historical analysis are combined with ethnological and ecological approaches. This is particularly productive when exploring the dynamic relationships among pastoralists, their animals, and their upland grazing grounds. Similarly, focusing on practices and socioecological relationships helps in understanding how human emotional connections with mountains can be expressed through everyday action and performance.

Everyday improvising in public space: The forest pub as a site for suburban being

ABSTRACT This study explores everyday improvising in the context of a forest pub in the suburb of Varissuo, Finland. The forest pub, maintained by the City of Turku, is an outdoor place where groups are encouraged to gather, socialize, and drink in public. Grateful for such an opportunity, the regulars embrace the forest pub, yet recognize its deficiencies in supporting public sociability and encounter. Through improvised action, the regulars respond to the limits and possibilities of their socio-spatial surroundings and find solutions to their everyday needs in the changing suburban landscape. This ethnographic study contributes to the discussions on the complex nature of spaces that exist on one hand as products of planning and control, and everyday practice and meaning on the other. Working between these aspects, urban improvising emerges as a contextualized, experimental, intuitive, and interactive everyday action, being central to the way people “keep life going” in their neighborhood. Everyday acts of improvisation unfold as a reflection of the regulars’ being and belonging in their suburb, suggesting an alternative view to spaces perceived as contested or marginal.

The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act

The relationship between power, control, and violence defines the experience of intimate partner violence, abuse that occurs within the context of a current or former intimate relationship. Coercive control, including using violence and threats of violence to restrict another’s freedom, is an especially dangerous manifestation of intimate partner violence. In this article, we point to an under-explored modality of power and control as well as resistance to intimate partner violence: the act of looking. Our analysis of interviews with 18 intimate partner violence survivors in the United States identified ‘looking’ as an emergent category in their experiences. We read these mentions of ‘looking’ through select insights from symbolic interactionism, post-structuralism, and postcolonial studies. We argue that acts of looking are everyday mechanisms for both the contestation and the maintenance of power and control in survivors’ lives, highlighting dynamics of intimate partner violence that extend beyond physical violence. Paying attention to everyday forms of interaction like looking helps illuminate the webs of power in which survivors’ intimate relationships are situated, including at the social and institutional levels. Tracing the ‘looks’ of survivors also underscores both the social nature of abusive intimate power and the social embeddedness of survivor healing.

Experiencing authenticity: Sociability and the double lives of middle-class migrant youth in Beijing

Youth spaces, public spaces established by urban youth to facilitate conversations and spiritual exchanges, have proliferated in China since 2012. Through participatory observation in one such youth space, Youth Space A, and in-depth interviews with 20 participants, this article examines the double lives experienced by middle-class migrant youths in Beijing under the conditions of institutionalized individualization. It argues that the highly competitive institutional environment of contemporary China, with the labor market as its core, has systematically pressured migrant youths into a utilitarian institutionalized life model. Under these circumstances, young migrants, on the one hand, are acting as “striving individuals” in order to adapt to these conditions; on the other hand, they are deeply suspicious and despondent, struggling with the paradox of institutional dependency and the need for autonomy. Constructing social interactions in youth spaces has become their way of exploring their “authentic selves”. In Youth Space A, migrant youths build transient “pure relationships” between strangers and participate in public life through noncompetitive relations and highly spiritual conversations. In so doing, they constitute an “authentic self” that enables them to reveal their true inner selves and resist social constraints. However, sociability in the youth space is built upon the premise of “anti-daily life” that precludes its integration into everyday action, and thus is incapable of changing the established structure of daily life. In fact, to a certain degree, it is confined by the logic of institutionalized life, such as utility and instrumentality, thus reducing migrant youths’ authenticity to a tangled, fragile, and place-specific experience. This study reflects on the utilitarian paradigm of the “striving individual” in the discussion of the individualization process in Chinese society, and among Chinese youths in particular. It furthers understanding of the dual connotations of institutionalized individualization. In addition, by analyzing the relationship between public life and the authentic self, it sheds light on the issue of the dilemma of publicness in the process of individualization, and its specifically Chinese manifestations.

Destigmatizing disfluency

Background: Typically understood as a symptom of a speech disorder, stuttering is the verbal repetition of sounds, words, or phrases that suspend the progression of a speaker’s turn. Method: Using conversation analysis, over 180 phrasal multisyllabic stutters were found in audio recordings of peer telephone support in the United States. Results: Most phrasal stutters arise from early, within-turn indicators of potential sequential, semantic, or syntactic trouble. Typically produced with quick pacing, the stutters are varied, including the latching of sounds across words, abbreviated words, word blends, and/or unintelligible sounds. Elongated or cut-off sounds often indicate the seeming end of a stutter, with either abandonment or a typically fluent completion of a current turn occurring upon a stutter’s conclusion. Importantly, the other interactant never interrupts or completes the stutter. Discussion/conclusion: These findings contradict prior conversation analytic studies of stutters and describe stuttering as a normalized everyday action, where speakers can successfully navigate disfluency to reach eventual fluency.

Embodied decision biases: individually stable across different tasks?

In everyday life, action and decision-making often run in parallel. Action-based models argue that action and decision-making strongly interact and, more specifically, that action can bias decision-making. This embodied decision bias is thought to originate from changes in motor costs and/or cognitive crosstalk. Recent research confirmed embodied decision biases for different tasks including walking and manual movements. Yet, whether such biases generalize within individuals across different tasks remains to be determined. To test this, we used two different decision-making tasks that have independently been shown to reliably produce embodied decision biases. In a within-participant design, participants performed two tasks in a counterbalanced fashion: (i) a walking paradigm for which it is known that motor costs systematically influence reward decisions, and (ii) a manual movement task in which motor costs and cognitive crosstalk have been shown to impact reward decisions. In both tasks, we successfully replicated the predicted embodied decision biases. However, there was no evidence that the strength of the biases correlated between tasks. Hence, our findings do not confirm that embodied decision biases transfer between tasks. Future research is needed to examine whether this lack of transfer may be due to different causes underlying the impact of motor costs on decisions and the impact of cognitive crosstalk or task-specific differences.

Counter-conduct and Persistence in Selected Works by Egyptian Women Writers

In this paper, Michel Foucault’s concept of “counter-conduct” and Judith Butler’s concept of “persistence” are deployed, explored, and applied to rethink the relationship between the dominant patriarchal power and women’s dissent as represented in the writings of Latifa al-Zayyat (1923-1996), Nawal El Sadaawi (1931-2021), and Salwa Bakr (1949). Analyzing al-Zayyat’s The Open Door [al-Bāb al-maftūḥ], El Sadaawi’s short story “The Picture” [al-Sura] and Bakr’s “Thirty-one Beautiful Green Trees” [Ihdā wa thālathūn shajarah jamīlah khadrā] in terms of the twofold approach allows in-depth explorations of various strategies of dissent and different modes of counter-conduct and persistence in the selected literary texts. It also allows for rigorous and authentic evaluation of how the female protagonists - Layla, Narjis and Kareema – endeavor to carve out other ways of being that lead to the emergence of their new subjectivities and their gendered identities. Keywords: Agency, Counter-Conduct, Everyday Acts of Resistance, Persistence, Women’s Writing

Solution Suggester Tool for Error

Abstract: Stack Overflow is a valuable resource for software development-related concerns. For a few years, most people have been utilizing stack overflow to discover answers to mistakes they have faced. Within a short period, stack overflow has been acquainted with the majority of users. While coding, we are all likely to encounter one or more various sorts of mistakes on a regular basis. Then stack overflow will enter the scene to provide solutions. And the everyday action in software development is to write code, execute it, and remove mistakes.

Održivost marketinga lične prodaje na savremenom tržištu

Sale as an economic activity of society is an inevitable and everyday act of functioning of the economic system that enables the product to reach the consumer and satisfy a certain need. With the evolution of sales from small to large business entities, sales have become a job of engaging one or more people employed in the company. For them, the sales segment becomes a regular, permanent job, i.e. a profession that received a series of names: salespeople, commercialists, sales representatives and engineers, sales consultants, sales agents, sales managers, etc.

An Extra Pair of Hands. A Story of Caring, Aging and Everyday Acts of Love by Kate Mosse

An Extra Pair of Hands. A Story of Caring, Aging and Everyday Acts of Love by Kate Mosse

Force and electromyography reflections of sensory action-effect weighting during pinching

Ideomotor theories suggest that different action-effects are not equally important in goal-directed actions, and that task-relevant information are weighted stronger during the representation of actions. This stronger weighting of task-relevant action-effects might also enable to utilize them as retrieval cues of the corresponding motor patterns. The aim of the present study was to investigate how the consistent presence or absence of a sound action-effect influenced the retrieval of the motor components of a simple, everyday action (pinching) as reflected by the pattern of force application and surface electromyogram (sEMG) recorded from the abductor pollicis brevis (APB) and first dorsal interosseous (FDI). Participants applied pairs of pinch impulses to a force sensitive resistor (FSR). The presence or absence of a sound action-effect and the between-action interval (BAI, 2 or 4s) were manipulated blockwise, whereas the target force level (low or high) was randomly cued from trial to trial. When actions resulted in a sound, force and sEMG activity were reduced. This effect was more pronounced for low target force level trials, which is compatible with a stronger weighting of the sound action-effect when the intensity of the tactile and proprioceptive action-effects is low. Surprisingly, the FDI activity was more variable within actions pairs in the 2s BAI conditions, which suggests that action pairs separated by the longer time interval might have been represented differently from those separated by the shorter interval.

Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life

Climate science to date demonstrates that natural and human systems must urgently adapt. Adaptation refers to changes in societies and ecological systems as they respond to both actual and anticipated impacts of the changing climate. While adaptation is not limited to the level of planning and policy, existing adaptation practice privileges institutional action. We argue that the definition of adaptation should be broadened to include the small, incremental changes made in our daily lives to accommodate the shifting ecologies in which we live. Drawing on critical adaptation research and our own ethnographic fieldwork in the Global South, we define everyday adaptation as the shifted ways a person works, eats, lives and thinks in response to climate realities, rather than the hardening of coastlines or the relocation of vulnerable structures. We integrate and build on existing scholarship on adaptation and the everyday to theorize the logics of everyday, hyperlocal adaptation. This hyperlocal scale is a critical component of any definition of adaptation and a useful lens for studying the way much of the global population adapts and will continue to adapt their lives to climate change. We offer two theoretical components of adaptation revealed by the everyday - adaptation labor and value adaptation – as lenses to see changes in everyday action. Through considering hyperlocal action, we then identify and explore four logics of everyday adaptation actions: lifestyle stability, socio-ecological reactivity, livelihood flexibility, and community capacity. Everyday adaptations are limited by individuals’ capacity to adapt and thereby determine the longevity, livability, and quality of life of places on the frontlines of climate change. We argue for understanding the aggregate effects of everyday adaptation in order to better align the actions of those living with climate change in their everyday lives and the large-scale adaptation projects aiming to protect them.