Everyday Life Research Articles

Simultaneous Remote Monitoring of Multiple Automated Vehicles

As vehicle automation continues to become a more prevalent part of everyday life, remote operators may be able to contribute to making this technology safer and more efficient. Such operators could be expected to monitor vehicles until it is necessary for them to intervene. In recent years several countries have passed legislation mandating the implementation of remote operation, making it a plausible scenario. For many practical reasons, operators may monitor more than one vehicle. This study provides an initial look into how remote operators might perform when asked to attend to multiple concurrent displays using simulated automated vehicles. The initial results indicate that participants retained a comparable level of accuracy in detecting failures in automation as the number of vehicles they monitored rose from one to two, albeit with a higher workload. The results and the methodology provide insights into potential task designs for remote operators of automated vehicles.

THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING MODEL ON THE MATHEMATICS LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT IN RELATION AND FUNCTION MATERIAL OF GRADE X STUDENTS AT SMK NEGERI 1 TOMA.

The specialist's point is to decide the impact of the Issue Put together Getting the hang of learning model with respect to the math learning accomplishment of class X understudies at SMK Negeri 1 Toma. This exploration utilizes quantitative strategies with a Semi Trial approach. Inspecting was done utilizing the Group Irregular Examining procedure, where the class was picked arbitrarily from every one of the populaces utilized by the scientist. There was likewise a complete exploration populace of 47. The classes picked by the specialists were the ATPH-X class with 18 understudies as the exploratory class and TKJ-X with 20 understudies as the control class. The instrument utilized is a test. The aftereffects of exploration information handling showed that the typical score for the trial class pretest was 45.48 and the control class was 41.00 and the exploratory class posttest was 78.61 and the control class was 61.75. Speculation testing utilizes the Free Examples Test where the Sig (2-followed) esteem is 0.000 < 0.05. It tends to be reasoned that there is a tremendous contrast in the Posttest of the two classes, implying that the Issue Based Getting the hang of learning model affects understudy learning accomplishment in relationship material and capability. This is impacted by understudies who assume a functioning part in tackling issues connected with regular day to day existence. The findings of this study ought to be taken into consideration by future researchers when choosing a learning model. They propose that: (1) the Problem Based Learning model becomes an alternative for teachers in order for students to maximize their learning outcomes, particularly with regard to the Relationship and Function material; (2) students are advised to improve their ability to understand the material through their knowledge of everyday life; and (3)

Together but still alone - A qualitative study exploring how family members of persons with incurable oesophageal or gastric cancer manage everyday life

BackgroundCancer affects not only the person with the disease but those around them. Being a family member is described as strenuous and, often, associated with stress, anxiety and feelings of loneliness. There is a heightened risk of distress for family of those with fast-progressing, severe oesophageal or gastric cancer. Early palliative care involving family is vital yet often overlooked. In order to include family members in early palliative care their management in everyday life needs to be explored.MethodQualitative inductive interview study using content analysis guided by Graneheim and Lundman.ResultThe analysis resulted in the overarching theme “Managing the disease together but still alone”. Three categories were identified: Adapting to the disease, Taking control of the situation, Processing emotions. Each category described family members management in various aspects of everyday life together with the ill person and alone.ConclusionThe results may contribute to an awareness of family members’ management of large parts of everyday life and, further, their feelings of loneliness, and indicates that family members should be included early in oesophageal or gastric cancer palliative care. Further studies are needed to develop the content of such family-inclusive early palliative care.

Correction Erratum to: Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life

Correction Erratum to: Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life

Play-responsive teaching as an alternative way of perceiving the relations between play, teaching and learning

Play, teaching and learning are notions that can be understood in many different ways. In this article which builds on many years of empirical studies in preschool we have developed an approach to early years education, labelled play-responsive ECE (Pramling et al., 2019). Together with preschool teachers we have tried out what happens when teachers enter into, or invite children to play. These situations are video-recorded, and analysed jointly between the teachers and researchers. In this process we discovered that it could be of help for the teachers to get input about intersubjectivity and alterity, metacommunication and narrative, which we gave them and they and they had to practise in every-day life in preschool. We also realised that the notions of as if, focusing on imagination, how something can become play and as is, culturally established knowledge – fact, both jointly become the way forward for the development of the present approach for teaching and children's learning.

Towards more inclusive understandings of creativity

Creativity research could advantageously turn away from the notion that being creative is solely connected to novelty, youth, and renewal, and that the ability to be creative declines with age. On the contrary, it seems that people can find great value in being active, participating in the community, and creating—in the vegetable garden, with knitting, or together with others in choirs and community life. This commentary on Adams-Price and Morse “Creativity, aging, context and culture: Reimagining creativity in everyday life in older adults” invites the authors to go even further in their theoretical exploration of models of creativity adding an even stronger lifespan perspective on creativity.

Individual happiness and well-being as a strategy to increase productivity

This research aims to examine the role of happiness and well-being as key factors in enhancing individual productivity. With the growing body of research on mental health and well-being, a new understanding has emerged regarding the strong connection between emotional well-being and productive performance. Through a literature review, this study identifies and analyzes various empirical studies that explore the impact of happiness and well-being on productivity in different contexts, both in the workplace and in everyday life. The review process employed a systematic literature review method, with inclusion criteria encompassing studies published within the last four years and written in English or Indonesian. The findings indicate that happiness and well-being not only contribute to improved performance but also play a pivotal role in fostering an environment that supports sustainable productivity growth.

MNCATM: A Multi-Layer Non-Uniform Coding-Based Adaptive Transmission Method for 360° Video

With the rapid development of multimedia services and smart devices, 360-degree video has enhanced the user viewing experience, ushering in a new era of immersive human–computer interaction. These technologies are increasingly integrating everyday life, including gaming, education, and healthcare. However, the uneven spatiotemporal distribution of wireless resources presents significant challenges for the transmission of ultra-high-definition 360-degree video streaming. To address this issue, this paper proposes a multi-layer non-uniform coding-based adaptive transmission method for 360° video (MNCATM). This method optimizes video caching and transmission by dividing non-uniform tiles and leveraging users’ dynamic field of view (FoV) information and the multi-bitrate characteristics of video content. First, the video transmission process is formalized and modeled, and an adaptive transmission optimization framework for a non-uniform video is proposed. Based on this, the optimization problem required by the paper is summarized, and an algorithm is proposed to solve the problem. Simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed method, MNCATM, outperforms existing transmission schemes in terms of bandwidth utilization and user quality of experience (QoE). MNCATM can effectively utilize network bandwidth, reduce latency, improve transmission efficiency, and maximize user experience quality.

City of New York’s Cabinet for Older New Yorkers is a Model for Age-Inclusive Policy Design and Implementation

The global population is aging with adults living longer and declining birth rates creating major implications for policy and infrastructure. The City of New York is cultivating an “Age-Inclusive” model that considers the needs of older adults today while laying the groundwork for tomorrow. Focused on cross-agency collaboration that approaches problem solving and design through the multi-dimensionality of every-day life, New York City Mayor Eric Adams introduced the Cabinet for Older New Yorkers (“Cabinet”) as a novel approach to imagining, designing and implementing policy, structural and systemic changes. Dozens of reforms have been developed and rolled out through the Cabinet, impacting the lives of thousands of New Yorkers across generations. The Cabinet is a model for policy design that can be replicated across cities and issue areas.

Wirtualna etniczność – nowa jakość czy nowe dekoracje?

This article analyses the concept of “virtual ethnicity” and, as this phrase indicates, it concerns the relationship between the Internet and ethnicity. Rooted in sociology term “ethnicity” is juxtaposed here with the modern technology of the global network. The Internet and related applications are changing numerous aspects of our lives, both individually and collectively. The change this technology brings is radical. Digitalization and global connections aff ect every aspect of social life – everyday life, customs, politics, economics, interpersonal relations and ways of organizing social life. Social phenomena as we know them are being transformed; new ones are also being created, such as virtual communities uniting people who, without sharing a common territory, feel a strong bonds and are able to act together effectively. The above comments also apply to the phenomenon mentioned in the title of the article. This work analyses ethnicity expressed through online communication practices. Comparing offl ine and online ethnicity, the article notes the numerous positive functions of the Internet for articulation of ethnicity and raises questions about the defi nition and methods of examining online manifestations of ethnicity.

Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany

Abstract This article presents a little-known story of Jewish-Muslim coexistence in Germany after World War Two. Using an ethnographic case study of Frankfurt am Main’s train-station district (Bahnhofsviertel), the analysis investigates long-term and partially forgotten Jewish-Muslim narratives, relations, and neighborhood encounters, paying particular attention to the changing political, spatial, and temporal dimensions that have blurred or closed symbolic boundaries between Jews and Muslims since the late 1960s. Bringing together the scholarship on symbolic boundaries and urban diversity, the theoretical discussion contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the variegated processes of Jewish-Muslim boundary-making and un-making over time, as well as the macro- and micro-level influences which shape these negotiations and outcomes. Studying Jewish-Muslim relations at the neighborhood level by adopting a boundary-related approach brings out more clearly the tensions over groupism and fluidity in theoretical debates and removes the current exceptionalism around Jewish-Muslim themes, making them more easily compared with other boundary processes within everyday life.

Activated carbon materials-derived from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic waste using H3PO4 activation for Rhodamine B removal in aqueous solution

Plastic items, which offer convenience, are ubiquitous in several manufacturing sectors and in everyday life. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a highly popular synthetic plastic that is seeing a growing demand. Annually, a substantial quantity of PET plastic garbage is released into the environment. Hence, it is imperative to devise an efficient remedy for the disposal of PET plastic waste. This work employed PET waste plastic to produce activated carbon by the chemical activation method. The activating agent utilized was H3PO4 acid. An investigation was conducted to determine the impact of the impregnation rate of PET waste plastic with H3PO4, as well as the activating temperature and activating time, on the surface areas of activated carbon. The activated carbon was thoroughly analyzed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis. The resulting product has a porous structure, a developed pore system, and a specific surface area of 892 m2/g, with effective adsorption capacity for RhB solutions with concentrations below 80 ppm (efficiency above 90%) in a neutral environment according to the Langmuir adsorption isothermal model, with a maximum adsorption capacity of 45.45 mg/g.

Peningkatan Minat Literasi Melalui Kegiatan Literasi Numerasi dan Literasi Digital

The Community Service Program with the theme "Literacy Village" is part of an effort to overcome this challenge. Through Kukerta MBKM (Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka), students are expected to be able to contribute directly to the development of literacy culture in villages in need. This activity aims to improve the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills of village communities, especially students. Jake Village, located in Kuantan Tengah District, Kuantan Singingi Regency, in the context of developing the Literacy Village program. With the increasing demands of the digital era, it is important for village communities to master numeracy literacy and digital literacy as a basis for facing challenges and taking advantage of existing opportunities. Jake Village, which is faced with educational challenges, where the literacy level of the population still needs to be improved. Therefore, the numeracy literacy and digital literacy programs are expected to provide access to the community to understand and apply basic technological concepts that are essential in everyday life. The method applied to increase interest in literacy is by providing an understanding of reading, numeracy, and digital literacy. The results achieved are that the school is able to make this literacy program a weekly routine that makes this program sustainable. It can be concluded that literacy interest can be built in various ways, one of which is providing an understanding to the community and students about the importance of reading, numeracy, and digital literacy.

Profile of Green Chemistry on Chemistry Education Students: Study on Developing Green Chemistry Practical Module to Support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The Society 5.0 era emphasizes production efficiency by transitioning from conventional to renewable energy sources. Thus, the Society 5.0 Era aligns with one of the goals of the SDGs, which is that industrial processes become more environmentally friendly and more efficient in using energy resources while increasing their value. Green chemistry is a comprehensive approach that designs safe chemicals ranging from environmentally friendly chemical products and processes to reducing the formation of harmful chemical substances. The type of research is descriptive and aimed at describing the student's early understanding of green chemistry. The subject of this study is a student of Prodi Education Chemistry at the University of Muhammadiyah Cirebon. The test instrument consists of 4 description questions compiled to measure the student's initial understanding of green chemistry. The analysis results show that the students understood the terminology for green chemistry. However, students still need to understand the 12 principles of green chemistry and their applications in everyday life.

Authentic Assessment Instrument on Redox Reactions to Assess Students’ Cognitive Skills

Authentic assessment is an assessment approach that enable students to demonstrate in-depth understanding and solve complex problem using systematic thinking skills, but teachers find it difficult to develop due to limited knowledge and time. The aim of this research is to produce an authentic assessment instrument for redox reaction materials; determine the characteristics, quality, and feasibility. The instrument development model used was a combination of Oriondo & Dallo-Antonio with Cohen Swerdlik. The development stages were assessment planning, instrument construction, and product testing. The research subjects were 155 of 10th-grade students from three public high schools in Bukittinggi, selected using random sampling technique. Data collection techniques were tests and non-test, the instruments were open ended questions and validation sheets. The authentic assessment instrument developed criteria are: (1) can assess students’ higher order thinking skills; (2) integrate knowledge with skills and various scientific disciplines; (3) develop 21st century competencies; and (4) involve real or everyday life contexts for cognitive aspect. The trial results were analyzed using the PCM 1-PL approach at IRT using Winstep and Parscale program. The characteristics of the item were stated fit because it met the acceptance requirements for MNSQ, ZSTD, and PT-Measure Correlation and the difficulty is in a relatively good level. The reliability of the instrument was classified as good, with test reliability of 0.72 and item reliability of 0.96.

A koronavírus-járvány társadalmi és gazdasági hatásai a határ menti térségek fejlődésére a magyar–szlovák határrégiók esetében

The Social and Economic Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Development of Border Regions in the Case of the Hungarian–Slovak Border Regions Borders in a given social context seem to be eternal and unchangeable, but their exact location, their permeability, their functions and the regulations assigned to them are in fact constantly changing according to the ideals of the respective societal eras. The SARS-CoV-2 neo-coronavirus infection, identified in December 2019 as the cause of Covid-19 disease, has become a global pandemic, causing a major health, economic and social crisis. The pandemic had an impact on the single market mechanisms established by the European Union, affecting freedoms—the free movement of services, goods, capital and people—and on almost every aspect of everyday life as it had been until then. In border regions, these effects were magnified. The active socio-economic interactions of the Hungarian–Slovak border regions were interrupted overnight as a result of the border traffic measures, causing significant negative changes and restructuring the functioning of cross-border processes.

The Consumerism Culture of the Younger Generation in Fashion

Fashion is one of the most widely known phenomena of everyday life, inextricably linked with art, communication, and mass culture. The scope of fashion includes clothing, forms of everyday life, cars, aesthetic and artistic tastes, etc. In most cases, researchers understand fashion as clothing patterns that are most popular in a specific historical period. A person always searches for his belonging, tries to identify himself with a social group that is a reference for him. Habit, following a model and imitation are the basis of self-determination, which ensures the rituality of culture and the mechanisms of its development and reproduction. Fashion helps to preserve cultural tradition, is a symbol of social status, directs behavior and sets the boundaries of what is permitted and desired, and acts as a means of achieving social recognition. In modern world, fashion has received much attention from both ordinary people and scientists. Being an interdisciplinary object, fashion attracts the attention of researchers from different fields of knowledge. More precisely than others, the essence and concept of fashion are reflected by those who create it. Therefore, the article studies and analyzes the understanding of fashion by famous couturiers. In conclusion, the author, according to literature materials, and combining the approaches considered, explain main attributes of the consumption culture of young generation. Keywords: fashion, consumption culture, youth, fashion industry, social recognition

Kompetencje cyfrowe Polaków w świetle teorii przyspieszenia społecznego

The dynamic development and spread of information and communication technologies have caused contemporary society, also known as modern or information society, to undergo constant changes. These are taking place both in the technological, economic and social spheres, becoming the focus of researchers in social, economic, engineering and technical sciences. As a result of these changes, we can even, according to Hartmut Rosa (2020), speak of a society of acceleration, in which technological acceleration is accompanied by an acceleration of the pace of living. As part of numerous consequences, acquiring new skills and improving those already acquired, especially in the use of ICT, becomes particularly important. Achieving an appropriate level of expertise turns out to be almost indispensable, both at the micro level - the realm of work and everyday life of individuals, and at the macro level, as a condition for stable and systematic socio-economic development. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to analyze the level of digital competence of Poles, primarily focusing on the level of overall digital skills and its changes over recent years, the type of digital skills that pose particular challenges, as well as to determine the rank of Poland as compared to other European Union member states regarding the subject matter. The source material is statistical data from Eurostat and Poland Statistics.

THE CONCEPT OF THE EXISTENTIAL FALL IN ALBERT CAMUS’ THE FALL AND WILLIAM GOLDING’S FREE FALL

The atrocities of World War II and the following grim period of recovery in Europe resulted in the fact that human innocence was wiped away and replaced by the state of never-ending guilt for crimes committed in the pre- and post-WWII period. The overwhelming majority of people realized that their lives were wrought by the previously dormant qualities of selfishness and hypocrisy leading them to experience their “fall”, standing for the loss of innocence and disappearing trust in the meaning of rationalised existence, from then on was undermined by the absurdity of everyday life. The concept of the existentialist fall is a recurrent theme both in Albert Camus’ The Fall and William Golding’s Free Fall. While The Fall is the forefather of many existentialist novels of the second part of the twentieth century, portraying man strangled in a hopeless and nihilist struggle taking place in the new historical environment, Free Fall, in its turn, written three years later, managed to become one of the best specimens of fiction dealing with the concepts of human sin, free will, guilt, alienation and loss of freedom. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyse and compare Camus’ The Fall with Golding’s Free Fall in terms of their treatment of the concept of the existentialist fall.

Increasing outcome measurement precision: Network analysis of items on the Outcome Questionnaire-45.

Psychotherapy outcome research mainly focuses on scale-level changes and constructs that were developed using cross-sectional statistical analysis, possibly concealing important findings on the level of single items, and limiting the clinical utility of outcome scales. Our goal was to explore changes in symptoms, interpersonal problems, and level of functioning in everyday life and to establish groups of items with similar rates of change that could be used to form more coherent targets for measuring different therapeutic outcomes. Triangulated maximally filtered graphs were used to model the network structure of the Outcome Questionnaire-45 in a data set of N = 12,075 university counseling center patients. Dynamic exploratory graph analysis was used to establish communities of items with similar rates of change. Five item communities (anxiety, hopelessness, interpersonal problems, well-being, and work impairment) were found. Compared to the original Outcome Questionnaire-45 subscales, they showed better fit to the data. The "hopelessness" community, which describes the extent of a patient's demoralization before the start of therapy, had a significantly higher rate of change compared to other communities. The discerned item communities provide clinicians with theoretically grounded, precise targets for outcome tracking, thereby enhancing the responsiveness and adaptability of treatment interventions to individual client trajectories. Such granularity enriches our understanding of therapeutic change, with direct implications for tailoring intervention strategies to maximize early therapeutic gains and sustain long-term recovery. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).