Immense World Research Articles

"An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" by Ed Yong, 2022 [book review]

"An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" by Ed Yong, 2022 [book review]

Effect of Quality of Sleep on Choice Reaction Time, Coordination and Fatigue Level in Football Players

Introduction: The relationship between sleep quality and athletic performance is an important but little-researched topic in the immense world of football. This study aims to provide insight into how sleep quality affect football players’ choice reaction time, coordination, and fatigue levels, providing important information for training optimisation and improving on-field performance. Aim: To examine the effects of sleep quality on the athletic performance of young football players. Materials and Methods: A total of 40, (U-17)-developmental stage male football players who were able to perform functional keys for choice reaction time task from Chandigarh Football Association were recruited using non-probability convenience sampling. Correlational design was employed to assess sleep quality and fatigue levels using Sleep Quality Scale-(SQS) and Fatigue Assessment Scale-(FAS). Choice reaction time and coordination was determined via Deary liewald reaction time task software and Hand-eye coordination test respectively. Quantitative analysis was conducted by Karl Pearson’s coefficient correlation. Results: Study found a non significant weak positive relationship between sleep quality and choice reaction time, [r (40)=0.025, p=0.881], significant moderate positive relationship between sleep quality and coordination, [r (40)=0.433, p=0.005], and significant moderate negative relationship between sleep quality and fatigue level, [r (40)=-0.517, p=0.001]. Increased sleep quality improved coordination and reduced fatigue levels, while choice reaction time showed no significant improvements. Conclusion: Sleep quality significantly impacts coordination and fatigue levels, but no effect was observed on choice reaction time. Future research should explore various sports with a larger sample size.

Taste

In his book on the ecology of perception (An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden, 2022), science writer Ed Yong emphasizes the simplicity of taste. He writes: "Taste, then, is the simpler sense. As we've seen, smell covers a practically infinite selection of molecules with an indescribably vast range of characteristics, which the nervous system represents through a combinatorial code so fiendish that scientists have barely begun to crack it. Taste, by contrast, boils down to just five basic qualities in humans - salt, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami (savory) - and perhaps a few more in other animals, which are detected through a small number of receptors. And while smell can be put to complex uses - navigating the open oceans, finding prey, and coordinating herds or colonies - taste is almost always used to make binary decisions about food. Yes or no? Good or bad? Consume or spit? It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

Analysis of Crime Rates of Different States in India Using Apache Pig in HDFS Environment

Background: In this astronomically immense world tremendous amount of data engendering in every minute from the different domain which is referred to Big Data. In the last few years the data is incrementing day by day across the world. This Research fixates on the analysis of malefaction rates of 5 different states year wise, all the analysis is done utilizing Apache Pig. Methods: The goal of the work is to analyze the astronomically immense malefaction data and find the estimate number of malefaction transpires in sundry states. This is done in Apache pig environment utilizing “Pig Latin” as language. A short code is indicted in Pig Latin which is utilized to load and process the data into Map reduce environment, afterwards the result are obtained with the detail of minimum and maximum mapper and reducer timing. Results: The data is visualized into graphs to make analysis to analyze the variation of malefaction rates in distinct states. After analyzing the malefaction against women, murder cases are very high in 2006-2010 as compared to other year groups whereas abducting and rape cases incremented perpetually from 2001 to 2014 respectively. Similarly all the reports regarding to different malefaction rates are visualized above by utilizing graphs. Conclusion: Various results are found with sundry queries and everything is represented graphically for better understanding and comparison. This avails us to find which state is affected by which crime. The expeditiousness of Apache pig can additionally be optically discerned as this immensely colossal crime data processed in short time with precision.

21st Century Pedagogy using Wikipedia

When the era of Constructivismis laced with a broad range of Web2.0 tools, a new form of learning has evolved. Knowledge construction and deconstruction has become easier as the means to write and rewrite information has continued to evolve. Wikipedia is one of the most powerful instruments through which this digital revolution of knowledge creation, co-creation and access has been redefined. This paper is a treatise, exploring the ease with which Wikipedia can be assimilated within the curriculum and how even a secondary school student can add to the immense world of knowledge.
 Wikipedia is a free access, free content platform that offers every person the capability and easy-to-use tools to become a contributor of knowledge. Since its inception in 2001, the online encyclopaedia hasgrown with a burgeoning number of articles being added, modified and reviewed by contributors worldwide by the second. The very nature of the website is collaborative, thus enabling collective learning and cooperative exchange of information. Placing a student in this infinite space as a collaborative contributor of information, which is governed by the website’s stringent governance policies and is open to review and critique across the world, makes him or her a conscientious creator of verified knowledge which consolidates the learning at the highest taxonomic level of education. This curricular integration of Wikipedia could thus be the very essence of constructivism, making it a highly desirable and viable method of digitising any pedagogy.

Orhan Pamuk and modernist liberalism

"Is there is a global culture today? I think there is. Its images come from movies, old and new, and from television; its sounds are rock-and-roll, rap, and heavy traffic on the street. But only the novel has the Faustian chutzpah to try to connect all the dots, to put this immense world together. Orhan Pamuk, one of the world’s great novelists, lives and works within shouting distance of Dissent. The least we can do is shout to our readers that he’s here. I don’t know him, but it’s a thrill to know he’s nearby. He spends half the year in New York, where he teaches comparative literature at Columbia, the other half in his hometown Istanbul, where he speaks truth and gets in trouble."

The New Global Health Movement: Rx for the World?

World health is at a critical crossroads. Diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS ravage many parts of the globe and new diseases such as SARS, West Nile virus, and avian flu threaten to spread quickly and virulently. A new global health movement is rapidly emerging to bring medical solutions to these immense world health problems. Desirable as this goal may be there are multiple negative consequences and side effects associated with this new movement. Using a biocultural approach, this article considers the wider social and cultural complications of the global health movement and questions whether the movement can really offer an untainted Rx for the world's ills.

The Era of Global Communication as Perceived by Muslims

Modern times had not yet finished disrupting life in the Muslim world when a new era arrived, the era of globalization. Technological innovations, especially in the field of communication, are expected exercise a profound cultural impact. From this perspective, Muslims are not the initiators but the victims of change. Their value system is being profoundly affected and many Muslim governments feel threatened by Western hegemony. Some have chosen isolation and have tried the impossible, that is to say the complete closing of their frontiers to the products of Western media (Iran, Saudi Arabia), while others select, censor and adapt these products to conform to their own tastes. However, nearly all Muslim communities are trying to disseminate their own cultures and to carve out a place for themselves in the immense world market of films and television programmes by appropriating the new technologies of communication. Thus can one affirm that a homogenization of cultures will take place? This article concentrates on the new tools of communication and concludes that the use that we make of these tools can effectively allow for both the preservation of one particular culture and its participation in a universal culture.

A Note on Teaching: The Graduate Program in Public Historical Studies

To THE QUESTION posed by David F. Trask-Do history and historians have a legitimate role to play in the task of making policy? -we are trying at the University of California, Santa Barbara to make a positive response. In the careers of such men as Trask at the Department of State, Wayne Rasmussen at the Department of Agriculture, and Richard Hewlett at the Department of Energy (and its predecessors) we observe distinguished examples of real possibilities in this direction at the level of Cabinet secretaries. Our concern at UCSB is to open up that almost limitless sea of state and local government in the fifty states and the immense world of private corporations. If we can build the notion here that the historical method is as valuable in understanding problems currently before decision makers as it is in understanding the Civil War, that it opens up dimensions formerly closed to them, then I believe we will have pushed open a door to a new professional role for historians which has almost no boundaries in terms of employment. We now have a second class in residence, and it may be useful to report something of what happened with the first. Essentially, our program is an option within our M.A. and Ph.D. programs, a second

The Architecture of Mathematics

(1950). The Architecture of Mathematics. The American Mathematical Monthly: Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 221-232.

The Educational Talking Picture

The success of the effort to solve our problems of educational administration depends largely upon the adequacy of our approach. We see evidences on all sides of attempts to develop curricula, to organize administrative programs, to develop teacher improvement movements, to set up child accounting, without a fundamental understanding of major problems or ultimate functions. In the consideration of the program of audio-visual instruction we must begin with the question is the function of an audiovisual program? The earliest human being was faced with the necessity for passing down the heritage of the race. This was done largely by precept and example, but the development of language helped immeasurably. The expansion of this knowledge from the local community to the outside world necessitated the use of drawings to supplement spoken language. The development of written language was a tremendous step forward but even more important was the coming of the printing press which made possible the wide dissemination of knowledge throughout the civilized world. The telescope added other planets to our heritage and the microscope opened up an immense world hitherto unknown. To the early school's use of these implements of learning science added the photographic likeness which approached still nearer to reality. Within the present century, science has made available to schools the moving photograph or motion picture which overcame many restrictions of time and space inherent in former methods of presenting subject matter. During the past decade this striving for a more nearly perfect method of reproducing life situations produced the talking picture. What was the motivating drive behind all this history? Simply

The Virus Tumors and the Tumor Problem

Not long ago, in the dark ages of medicine, one could think nearly anything about disease because one knew almost nothing. Theoretical system succeeded system, from humours to homeopathy. Opinions strongly held appeared like realities and were acted upon as such. Now for most diseases all this is at an end: fact has killed fancy. Not as concerns tumors, though. Knowledge of these is still so fragmentary that the mind can play at will, devising explanations as in the bad old days: the tumor problem is the last stronghold of metaphysics in medicine. But it is a stronghold closely besieged. Each new physical, chemical, or biological discovery is brought to bear upon it; and whereas formerly the doctor asked himself what this or that idea might mean for the tumor problem, now he is increasingly enabled to ask what this or that fact means. I will treat here of facts which show certain tumors to be due to viruses and will deal with the implications of this knowledge. Let us glance first at the general progress toward an understanding of the neoplasms. Since the turn of the century men have recognized that animal tumors provide an abundant material for studies of the general problem, and have succeeded by transplantation in perpetuating many of them for experimental purposes. Already familiar with the immense world of tumor morphology, they have worked out the laws regulating tumor growth; they know something of the chemistry of the neoplastic cell, and a good deal about hereditary factors in the incidence of cancer. Taking pattern from nature, they have learned how to induce tumor formation at will, through the action of various agents on the tissues; they have purified or synthesized some carcinogenic substances; and by investigations of their structure have taken a first step toward understanding how they act.