Everyday World Research Articles

Public health implications of plastic pollution: Reducing national healthcare burden

Among the materials that are most prevalent in use universally. They exist as one of the most commonly used materials in our everyday world although serious health hazards are associated with plastic pollution, which may result in higher nationwide health care costs. Understanding how plastic pollution affects health and how lowering it might lower medical expenses and enhance public health outcomes is necessary to address these issues. However, there are several matters through use besides discarding, like refuse accumulations in natural environments and landfills, corporeal harm to wildlife from taking in or becoming caught in plastic, chemical leaking from plastic substances, and the likelihood of plastics spreading substances to people and nature. The worldwide implementation of the SDGs has further proven to be effective in curtailing plastic pollution and hopefully would be fully achievable by 2030.

The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World by Cathy Yandell (review)

The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World by Cathy Yandell (review)

New Modes of Humanity and Everydayness in Gibson’s Cyberspace

The problem this article addresses is that we disregard the impact of cyberspace on our human development and everyday lives. We use cyberspace in our daily lives today through virtual work meetings and internet games. However, cyberspace can be more than a communication medium and game destination. It can be more than a matrix of networks in a science fiction story. Instead, cyberspace can be a space of human growth and where we experience our everyday lives. This article discusses the cyberspace described by William Gibson in his Sprawl trilogy, composed of the novels Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. The article shows how Gibson infuses cyberspace with everyday objects and situations. These everyday things enable the characters and readers to participate in a cyberspace that feels real and genuine. It depicts a cyberspace that is a new approach to being human and the emergence of a new everyday world. The research aims to show how cyberspace and our physical space are similar. It investigates how cyberspace contains a human dimension and human places. It examines how cyberspace can be as genuine as physical space. The research considers how cyberspace can provide a new everydayness and pathway for human living. From this research, the article hopes to show that cyberspace can be a place for human living in a world with fewer constraints. In this way, cyberspace can be an avenue for a new form of everydayness and greater human progress.

Latinx Youth as Linguistic Experts: Documenting Translanguaging Moments in Youth Participatory Action Research

ABSTRACT Drawing on Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and translanguaging frameworks, the purpose of this study is to demonstrate how Latinx youth leverage their community knowledge and language practices in community-based research. Through a multimodal and ethnographic examination of the students engagement in youth-driven research this article highlights how language is central to the expertise they cultivate of their everyday socio-political worlds. Findings showcase how the youth in this study drew on their linguistic expertise alongside their community knowledge and sociopolitical awareness to make sense of the various components of the research process. Further, they document translingual practices that are reflective of the lived realities and of the multilingualism located within their community. Engaging in translingual practices throughout the YPAR project reflected authentic, joyful, and critical practices of meaning making throughout their inquiry. Implications for this study include co-designing linguistically transformative spaces for youth and the importance of recognizing the community knowledge and experience that shapes their linguistic practices.

Perempuan di Sekitar Markas Besar Komando Djawa Kalibawang, Yogyakarta, 1948-1949

This research studies women's history at MBKD post during the Indonesia revolution period in 1948-1949 in Kalibawang, Yogyakarta. The history of the MBKD post has always been linked to the roles of men such as A.H. Nasution. Meanwhile, the study on women were mostly focused on their role in the public kitchen. There was no study which explored the women’s other life experience during this period of time in this particular place. Hence, this article aims to expose and explain the daily forms of women's experiences when the region was used as an MBKD post. This research uses historical method by gathering oral sources from the witnesses and perpetrators. Recalling daily experiences of women around the MBKD at the time of the second Dutch military aggression was gathered through deep interview with the witnesses. The findings of this study include insight on the forms and types of activities conducted by women during certain designated time, as well as social settings. The research also reveals the everyday world, the roots of social life, and the daily hopes of women at Kalibawang. There is also a new conception that arise among women about the diffusion of social life over the region. All of this occurred when Kalibawang was used as MBKD post in 1948-1949. Conclusively, this study may serve as inspiration on how to explore women’s history that goes beyond the issues of their status and role.

Scheler on the Concept of Productive Imagination in His Phenomenology and Metaphysics

Abstract The paper is a critical analysis of Max Scheler’s concept of productive phantasy as it functions in two ways that the author finds philosophically interesting. First, it examines critically Scheler’s attempt to overturn the basis for the claims of David Hume that there is no genuine productive phantasy, and that all phantasy is reproductive where it is at all legitimate. Scheler responds with a theory of perception through which he attempts to demonstrate that productive phantasy is an essential component of all perceptual acts. Second, it examines Scheler’s development of the theory of productive phantasy in his late efforts in metaphysics and aesthetics. Here he claims that productive phantasy functions in the Ground of Being in the process of world-creation, with humankind as its helpmate. The result is a genetic phenomenology exhibiting the ways in which the mind comes to constitute a coherent world. The author agrees with Scheler that productive phantasy is indeed essential for the constitution of the everyday world and for the works of art that illuminate that world, but contrary to Scheler, the author argues that Scheler’s claims about the function of the term are incoherent, and it therefore cannot serve as one of the foundations of his “possibly true” metaphysical system.

Linguists and teachers collaborating in an ELA classroom: Teaching around the test

In this paper, a scholar of English Education (Michelle) and a linguist (Chris) discuss their four-week research study in a ninth-grade classroom. Highlighting the collaborations with the classroom teachers, this paper discusses the importance of integrating linguistic concepts with current curricular demands. A focus on the final activity, in which students were asked to explore how linguistic concepts relate to areas of the everyday world like social media and the law, demonstrates that students were able to engage with the linguistic concepts in critical and important ways. The paper finishes with a discussion of how linguists can consider future collaborations with stakeholders in K12 spaces, and the importance of integrating these concepts into the existing curriculum.

Intrusion detection in machine learning based E-shaped structure with algorithms, strategies and applications in wireless sensor networks

In the everyday world of computer applications, from the cloud to the Internet of Things, distributed sensor networks are essential (IoT). These computer application devices are often connected to Arduino network connection and microcontrollers such sensors and actuators. Thus, a defensive network with an IDS serves as the need for contemporary networks. The intrusion detection system has unavoidably evolved throughout the years, but despite this, it remains a difficult study topic since the current intrusion detection system uses signature-based approaches rather than anomaly detection. Therefore, improving the current intrusion detection system is challenging since it is difficult to find zero-day attacks in IoT networks when dealing with varied data sources. Filtered Deep Learning Model for Intrusion Detection with a Data Communication Approach is presented in this study. The five steps that make up the suggested model are Initialization of Sensor Networks, Cluster Formation and Head Selection, Connectivity, Attack Detection, and Data Broker. It was discovered that the suggested model for intrusion detection outperformed both the current Deep Learning Neural Net and Artificial Neural Network. In comparison to the most popular algorithms, experimental findings revealed a superior result of 96.12 % accuracy. The E-shaped patch antenna is a brand-new single-patch wide-band microstrip antenna that is presented in this research. A microstrip antenna's patch has two parallel slots built into it to increase its bandwidth. Investigating the behaviour of the currents on the patch allows for the exploration of the wide-band mechanism. A broad bandwidth is achieved by optimising the slot's length, breadth, and location. Finally, a 40.3 % E-shaped patch antenna is developed, made, and tested to resonate at 7.5 and 8.5 GHz for wireless communications. Additionally displayed are the reflection coefficient, VSWR, radiation pattern and directivity.

“Sirens” by Joyce and the Joys of Sirin: Lilac, Sounds, Temptations

The article is devoted to the musical context of the works of James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov. Joyce’s Ulysses, one of the most important literary texts of the twentieth century, is filled with musical allusions and various musical techniques. The chapter “Sirens” is the most interesting in this context as it features a “musical” form and contains a large number of musical quotations. The myth of the singing sirens, recreated by Joyce in images and characters from the modern world, encapsulates the idea of erotic seduction, bringing threat and doom to the seduced. Joyce offers a new version of the sea world filled with music, creating a system of musical leitmotifs and lexical patterns within the text. Developing the themes of temptation, the danger that temptation entails, doom, uniting with the vital forces of the world, and loneliness, Joyce in “Sirens” reveals the semantics of music, showing the specific nature of its effect on listeners. Vladimir Nabokov, who praised Ulysses and devoted a lecture to “Sirens”, is much less musical than Joyce. However, he, like Joyce, also refers to the images of singing sirens and the accompanying images of the aquatic world. One of the central, meaning-making signs in his work is the “Sirin complex”, his pseudonym. This sign, which refers to a large number of pretexts, refers in particular to the lilac (siren’) and to the mythological “musical” sirens. As in Joyce’s work, sirens are present in his texts as mermaids and naiads, or as figures of seducers who fulfil their function and bring doom. Joyce and Nabokov are also united by the presence of recurrent leitmotifs, lexical patterns, and the presence of auditory impressions in their text that are evoked by the sound of the everyday world.

Sacraments of the Law: Discovering Common Ground of Law and Religion

Abstract This article proposes to identify ritualization—as the differentiation between the profane and the sacred—as the basic act underlying the creation of norms. In this light, we can perceive ritualization as a common ground of law and religion. This is particularly evident in ‘sacraments’, a specific type of ritual that culminates in the realization of the sacred within the profane. As ‘norm-facts’, sacraments draw the sacred into our everyday world. This connection has been evident since Roman times when ‘sacraments’ denoted performative signs of a juridico-religious nature. If one acknowledges that both religion and law draw not merely on essential ritual processes of generating normative meaning, but also use sacramental action to realize sacred norms within profane contexts, speaking of ‘law and religion’ reaches deeper than identifying the common topics of two separate spheres of the social. We have then in fact discovered an elemental and common foundation of law and religion.

GENRE AND NARRATIVE FEATURES IN THE NOVAL “OLGA” OF B. SCHLINK

The article analyzes the genre characteristics in the novel “Olga” of B. Schlink. The novel includes features of romance, detective and generation novels. The life of the main character Olga is revealed through everyday world of Germans and fits in well with a broad historical context. Author’s intention is mirrored in the novel via the imagery system, including presence of three narrators, textual montage, epistolary technique, motif of deafness with significant symbolic meaning. Contrast as a stylistic mean is realized at several levels – characters, ideas (meditative / dynamic wandering), structure.

Reminiscence of A. S. Pushkin’s <i>Tale about the Dead Princess</i> in B. L. Pasternak’s Poem <i>Hoarfrost</i>

Purpose. The poem Hoarfrost among the other works of B. L. Pasternak shows a problem of borders in three different ways: as the inner world of the lyrical hero, as a correlation of a fairy-tale and casual aspects of life, and as a state of nature. It is no coincidence that Hoarfrost is included in the “boundary”, transitional to the late stage of Pasternak's work, the Peredelkino cycle.Results. On the one hand, the theme of an end of a unique human life (in contrast to the endlessly reproduced cycle of death and rebirth of nature) is revealed in images of fear, deceptive order and mistrust. On the other hand, the creative gift of poetic (and childlike) vision brings semantics of consolation. The most surprising thing that happens to the lyrical hero is the discovery of correlations: all the solemn harmony of the environment turns out to be a living representation of the poetical harmony, such as Pushkin's quatrain in The Tale of the Dead Princess.Conclusion. Thus, the everyday world is an extension of the ideal, sacred sense. This discovery requires the efforts of the hero, who moves from a sense of discord between a human and the world to a dialogue with nature and the hope of being heard.

Enabling High-Level Machine Reasoning with Cognitive Neuro-Symbolic Systems

High-level reasoning can be defined as the capability to generalize over knowledge acquired via experience, and to exhibit robust behavior in novel situations. Such form of reasoning is a basic skill in humans, who seamlessly use it in a broad spectrum of tasks, from language communication to decision making in complex situations. When it manifests itself in understanding and manipulating the everyday world of objects and their interactions, we talk about common sense or commonsense reasoning. State-of-the-art AI systems don’t possess such capability: for instance, Large Language Models have recently become popular by demonstrating remarkable fluency in conversing with humans, but they still make trivial mistakes when probed for commonsense competence; on a different level, performance degradation outside training data prevents self-driving vehicles to safely adapt to unseen scenarios, a serious and unsolved problem that limits the adoption of such technology. In this paper we propose to enable high-level reasoning in AI systems by integrating cognitive architectures with external neuro-symbolic components. We illustrate a hybrid framework centered on ACT-R, and we discuss the role of generative models in recent and future applications.

Досуговые сообщества в условиях Специальной военной операции (на примере посткроссинга)

Opinion polls show a high level of support for the Special military operation in Russian society. The main task is we have a rather limited knowledge about the peculiarities of social perception of changes in the everyday world which are the consequences of a Special military operation. The sphere of leisure takes a special place here because western sanctions changed the place and structure of vacation for Russians, restricted access to certain cultural products, sports events, and social networks. This article presents the results of a study of a hobby community of postcrossing - the swap of postcards. The purpose of the study was to determine the specifics of the perception of changes occurring in leisure practice under the influence of the Special military operation. The choice of the postcrossing community as the subject of research is determined by the fact that this type of leisure was originally formed as an international exchange of postcards, which is outside politics. After the start of the Special military operation, this hobby faced a significant restriction of postal communications between Russia and other countries and the politicization of participants in international swaps, which seriously affected leisure practices. The methodology of the study is quantitative and qualitative content analysis of posts and comments of thematic groups of the VK social network. According to the results, the peculiarities of the emotional perception of the changes taking place were established, three main models of leisure activities in new conditions were fixed, as well as the peculiarities of the semantic understanding of hobbies within each of them. The authors are sure that the information obtained on the postcrossing can be extrapolated to a wide range of other leisure social groups, both related to exchange, collecting (philately, philocarty, etc.), and mainly women's leisure groups (scrapbooking, embroidery, etc.). It helps us more adequately understand the specifics of the influence of the Special military operation on the leisure sphere in as a whole.

Mindfulness as a factor of personal stability in a changing world

The everyday world, the sociocultural reality surrounding a person and its conceptualizations can nowadays change several times during the life of one generation. At the same time, changes occurring in reality, in ideas about it and in ideas about the changes themselves are often not synchronized, creating gaps between objective reality and its subjective interpretations. The most constructive response to the challenges of a changing world is mindfulness as a cultural practice and a special state of consciousness. Today, there are two leading approaches to the phenomenon of mindfulness, one of which belongs to the Eastern philosophical and religious tradition, and the other to the Western psychological tradition. A deeper analysis reveals the diversity of facets and interpretations of mindfulness in modern research. Awareness as a complex socio-psychological phenomenon allows us to record the processes of transformation of the modern world into a new state. The observed increase in awareness (and mindfulness) in everyday life and the increased interest in this phenomenon among scientists represents a spontaneous coping strategy in a situation of turbulence. Along with this, the thoughtful observer reveals the antinomic nature of the transformations taking place in the world, where the fashion for mindfulness is accompanied by the opposite process — mindlessness, or unawareness. Lack of mindfulness is associated with behavioral automatisms and schematisms of consciousness, with the absence of doubts about the legality and adequacy of the categories describing reality. The availability of alternative modes of interpretation, sensitivity to context and to the fluidity of change can transform mindlessness into mindfulness. One of the cultural practices that foster mindfulness and awareness today is the Stoicism movement. In methodological terms, mindfulness refers to those categories that correspond to transdisciplinary approaches and tasks of integrating psychological knowledge. This integration takes place both at the interdisciplinary level and within psychology, where the development of mindfulness unites various psychological approaches and practices and allows us to bridge the notorious gap between the academy and applied fields of knowledge.

Social coordination of individuals with disabilities in the context of sustainable development of an inclusive reality

The article actualises the need to search for and form a correct conceptual and categorical apparatus that serves as a methodological and theoretical basis for adequate representation, comprehension, interpretation and understanding of the whole range of problems of inclusive society formation. It is shown that the phenomenological analysis of various aspects of the everyday world of the inclusive society using the concepts of social coordination, social partnership and interaction is of particular interest. It is postulated that the context of the study of inclusive everyday life implies not only the representation and description of the life and local history of an individual with health limitations (HL) within the framework of social everyday life, but the emphasis is shifted to the analysis of multilevel transformations and transformations of inclusive reality in the course of everyday activities of various social groups. The aim of the article is to systematically investigate the concept of social coordination in the segments of manifestation of subjective time of an individual with HL, which makes it possible to consider the inclusive society as a special social group of people with HL from the position of interpretation of everyday inclusive reality. The methodological foundations of the study are determined by modern philosophical, pedagogical, and sociological sources that reflect the peculiarities of understanding, comprehension, and interpretation of various segments of the study of inclusive society, taking into account the conceptual apparatus of analytical philosophy and social phenomenology.

‘Immediacy’ in Whitehead and Blaga

In Whitehead’s metaphysics there is a concept of ‘immediacy’ which is interesting to interpret in relation to the concept of ‘immediacy’ found in Lucian Blaga’s metaphysics. Immediacy stands in opposition to the wholeness of existence and the complexity of reality in both thinkers. In Whitehead, immediate experience is merely a facet of the constructed series of events and processes fundamental for existence and reality and for connecting our objective, scientific and logical descriptions of the world, and the more everyday world of subjective experience. In Blaga, immediacy is the label for limited (animal-like) existence deprived of the metaphysical dimension. However, in Blaga, man is defined by the metaphysical dimension and thus, in terms closer to Whitehead’s view, always engaged in a crusade to comprehend both ‘physical multiplicity’ (the World) and ‘the infinite ground of all mentality’ (God), which is consonant with Blaga’s concept of man’s defining situation within ‘the horizon of mystery’. Both metaphysics accepted a perspective, or, an interpretation of the idea that God creates the World as well as the World creating God. In our view, the Unmoved Mover image of God remains as a ‘trace’ in the idea of permanent reference for the World. This is comparable with the perspective found in the metaphysics of Lucian Blaga, where the metaphysical center, the ‘Great Anonymous,’ ‘pushes’ backwards the human being, via limitative ‘divine differentials’ occasioning the limiting stylistic matrices for the creative and intrusive ontological and metaphysical drive of man.

Integrity, Structurality and Functionality of Everyday Practices of Scientific Mentoring as a Subject of Micro-sociological Analysis

Scientific mentoring at universities can be viewed not only as a scientific and educational institution, but also as a sphere and method of face-to-face interaction, in the process of which the meanings and motivation of the mentor’s and mentee’s research activities are born. Such an approach towards studying scientific mentoring is justified by sociological concepts of everyday life, but their key provisions require adaptation to the problems of scientific mentoring. The idea of science as the everyday life world of university researchers is revealed through a micro-sociological perspective. The interaction of a scientific mentor and a mentee student is interpreted as an element of their life world and is examined through this interaction manifesting in everyday academic activities. The purpose of the article is to examine the integrity, structure (routine actions, the objective world, language, space and time, rituals, signs and symbols, informal traditions) and functionality of everyday practices of scientific mentoring through the prism of sociological concepts of everyday life. A thesis is substantiated that everyday practices of interaction between a scientific mentor and mentee are a way of building and intergenerational translation of the meaning of research work and choice of academic profession.

Sport en de Bijbel

The New Testament speaks positively of physical exercise once (1 Tim. 6:12). It also emerges metaphorically as an image for the believer's life (Cor. 9:24-27). This metaphorical use has its background in the everyday world of the early Christians. In that world, sport was as important as it is today. Interestingly, the theme of 'training', askēsis, is the root of the phenomenon of 'asceticism'. For many, the ideal believer wore himself out and hardened the body to become a champion of renunciation in order to draw closerto God. In moderate form, the ascetic ideal was maintained in Reformation theology. It is still relevant to today.

Everyday Care: What Helps Adults Help Children in Residential Childcare?

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing trend towards the use of ‘therapeutic models’ in residential childcare settings in the U.K. and elsewhere. While some have argued that these developments have been driven, at least in part, by free market funding environments and organisational survival needs, others have suggested that many of these models, despite some of their theoretical and conceptual differences, offer a useful approach. Drawing on findings from an ethnographic research project in a residential setting in Scotland, we argue that the underlying processes of implementing and embedding a therapeutic model can create conditions that are conducive to the provision of high-quality, effective, relationship-based practice, which has real benefits for children in their everyday worlds. Moreover, we argue that the model itself is somewhat beside the point. If residential organisations can facilitate safe, ongoing opportunities for staff to (a) think deeply about themselves and others (children and staff), (b) practice ways of being and doing, and (c) be seen and valued, then this can contribute to a practice culture and context in which they feel able to create genuine, caring relationships with children. We argue that it is within these everyday, genuine, caring relationships that children can recover from difficult experiences such as neglect and abuse. In this way, the ‘therapeutic’ focus should be primarily directed at the adults to enable children to get on with being children.