Intuitive Reading Research Articles

Affects of Objectivity: Decision-Making Practices in the Dutch Asylum Procedure

This article explores the pursuit of objectivity in the Dutch asylum procedure, where asymmetrical forms of intimacy and techniques of suspicion are used to gather sensitive information from asylum applicants and evaluate their case files. Firstly, I examine the procedural design and how objectivity is pursued in producing distance, detachment, and the rotation of several Immigration and Naturalization Department (IND) officers in and out of applications. Secondly, I focus on the authority granted to a specific kind of trained IND subjectivity, well-versed in a critical and intuitive reading of the ever-suspected asylum applicant. By analysing the entanglement of objectivity and subjectivity, this study contributes to existing scholarship on the interplay between emotions and legal judgment, as well as to scholarship on borders and bureaucratic practices within contexts of heightened control and securitization. By doing so I challenge the notion of ‘emotion management’ as a means to enhance objectivity, arguing that pursuing objectivity in these state practices is not merely managed affective work; more crucially, it privileges affects of suspicion.

‘The International Style’ multilingual three-dimensional grammar and hybrid designs

The present paper describes a multilingual shape grammar to recreate the work of three designers that preconized the ‘International Style’. This is a top-down three-dimensional formulation. Whilst most grammars are monolingual and univocal, this work creates a multilingual formulation within the same artistic movement. Typically, a grammar describes a family of design solutions. These are helpful mechanisms to describe patterns that can be used for analysis or design exploration. This multilingual three-dimensional parametric grammar allows the independent recreation of original designs from three designers and hybrid solutions. Shape grammar's difficult application can be linked to its evaluation process. The original contribution of the study lies in the use of quantitative and qualitative methods for grammar evaluation, using Principal Components Analysis and user questionnaires. The PCA provides a pragmatic analysis, and the questionnaires an intuitive reading. Together they corroborate the results which are discussed using hybrids that assist in delineating parametric spaces.

Some Remarks on the Logic of Probabilistic Relevance

In this paper we deepen some aspects of the statistical approach to relevance by providing logics for the syntactical treatment of probabilistic relevance relations. Specifically, we define conservative expansions of Classical Logic endowed with a ternary connective ⇝ - indeed, a constrained material implication - whose intuitive reading is “x materially implies y and it is relevant to y under the evidence z”. In turn, this ensures the definability of a formula in three-variables R(x, z, y) which is the representative of relevance in the object language. We outline the algebraic semantics of such logics, and we apply the acquired machinery to investigate some termdefined weakly connexive implications with some intuitive appeal. As a consequence, a further motivation of (weakly) connexive principles in terms of relevance and background assumptions obtains.

Debunking strategies for misleading bar charts

Graphs are useful to communicate concisely about complex issues. Although they facilitate intuitive reading of data, trends, and predictions, hasty readers may still come to the wrong conclusions, especially if graphs are misleading due to violated design conventions. To provide evidence about how to prevent misinformation from spreading by misleading graphs, this two-survey experimental study investigates the effectiveness of four correction methods as debunking strategies to correct bar charts with manipulated vertical axes. All four methods showed positive effects. The most effective one is aimed at correcting the initial image by presenting an accurate alternative graph. A reduced effect remained visible after one week.

THE EFFECT OF INTUITIVE REFLECTIVE AL-FATIHAH READING TRAINING TOWARDS REDUCING POST-TRAUMA ANXIETY LEVEL IN LOMBOK EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

Al-Fatihah is one of the surahs in the Al-Qur'an that must be memorized by all Muslims. The role of Al-Qur'an, especially Surah Al-Fatihah as a non-pharmacological therapy has begun and widely studied because of the benefits, not only for physical but also psychological health. This study aim to examine the effect of Al-Fatihah reflective intuitive reading training to Post-trauma anxiety level of Lombok’s earthquake victims in 2018. The study using an experimental method with pretest-posttest control group design. Each group consist of 12 adult woman. Post-trauma anxiety level was measured using anxiety sub-test from Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 42 (DASS). The result of Wilcoxon statistical test aim to examine the difference level of anxiety before and after treatment from one group. The result of Wilcoxon analysis showed that Al Fatihah reflective-intuitive reading training could reduce anxiety level significantly after training in experimental group (p = 0.002; p<0.05). Furthermore, Man-Whitney U analysis showed that the difference of anxiety level between control and experiment group (p= 0.001; p<0.05). This study showed that Al Fatihah reflective-intuitive reading training decrease anxiety level of Lombok’s earthquake victims.

Bayesian networks elucidate complex genomic landscapes in cancer

Bayesian networks (BNs) are disciplined, explainable Artificial Intelligence models that can describe structured joint probability spaces. In the context of understanding complex relations between a number of variables in biological settings, they can be constructed from observed data and can provide a guiding, graphical tool in exploring such relations. Here we propose BNs for elucidating the relations between driver events in large cancer genomic datasets. We present a methodology that is specifically tailored to biologists and clinicians as they are the main producers of such datasets. We achieve this by using an optimal BN learning algorithm based on well established likelihood functions and by utilising just two tuning parameters, both of which are easy to set and have intuitive readings. To enhance value to clinicians, we introduce (a) the use of heatmaps for families in each network, and (b) visualising pairwise co-occurrence statistics on the network. For binary data, an optional step of fitting logic gates can be employed. We show how our methodology enhances pairwise testing and how biologists and clinicians can use BNs for discussing the main relations among driver events in large genomic cohorts. We demonstrate the utility of our methodology by applying it to 5 cancer datasets revealing complex genomic landscapes. Our networks identify central patterns in all datasets including a central 4-way mutual exclusivity between HDR, t(4,14), t(11,14) and t(14,16) in myeloma, and a 3-way mutual exclusivity of three major players: CALR, JAK2 and MPL, in myeloproliferative neoplasms. These analyses demonstrate that our methodology can play a central role in the study of large genomic cancer datasets.

On interpreting ancient Egyptian funerary texts

Ancient Egyptian funerary texts have traditionally been read as providing detailed, literal descriptions of afterlife beliefs, but various aspects of this view have begun to be questioned in recent research. The present article reviews such contributions in contrast to the classical view of funerary texts as established by Kurt Sethe (1931), arguing that it is possible in several respects to extend their stances and conclusions. The resulting view is one in which the very notion of “funerary texts” as a text genre sui generis is questioned, along with the defining feature that such texts contain literal descriptions of a transcendent, personal afterlife. Instead, it is suggested with reference to both Egyptological and interdisciplinary ideas that funerary texts can fruitfully be viewed as sharing their structure and function with other ancient Egyptian ritual texts. In questioning the intuitive reading of the texts as descriptions of the afterlife, such an approach opens up new interpretive possibilities of relevance both within Egyptology and in cross-cultural comparison.

The concept of “demand” and its derivatives in the modern scientific insurance discourse

In the scientific literature concepts such concepts as “demand for insurance”, “demand for insurance services”, “insurance demand”, “demand for insurance products”, etc. are often used. While being simple in their intuitive reading, they are in fact not as unambiguous as they may seem at first glance. Since there is a semantic conditionality of the meaning of a derived word by the values of its components and they are also not always well-established, then terminological uncertainty arises. The negative effect is enhanced by the permissible mixing of concepts with each other or the creation of scholastic multivariability. Quite often, the definition of demand as a category is given a characteristic of the level of demand, and without taking into account its dimension and type. Moreover, there are defects in the choice of definitions and the construction of definitions, the dominance of recursive definitions that have no value for the full disclosure of the meaning and content of the defined. The author concludes about the inadmissibility of taking liberties in the interpretation of significant concepts and terms, careful construction of new turns with their participation. The problem of using concepts without giving meaning to their scientific content is posed.

A Stylistic Investigation of the Act of Murder in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing

This paper is a functional stylistic study of a selected passage from Doris Lessing’s novel The Grass is Singing. In the novel The Grass is Singing, a white woman in Rhodesia is killed by her black servant but surprisingly the murder instead of bringing a stir spreads a silence in the local white community. Further, the text on an intuitive reading seems to absolve the murderer of the crime which forms the research question of the paper. Thus, close and systematic textual analysis of the text representing the murder scene was conducted and it was found that the linguistic choices of the text does create a semantic universe where the murder and the murdered are allegorical figures representing nature and nurture in a mutual conflict. The methodology for linguistic analysis of the selected text is borrowed from Michael Halliday’s theoretical system Systemic Functional Linguistics. The text is analysed by means of transitivity system which provides the investigative tools to study the representational choices of the text.

On the categoricity of quantum mechanics

The paper offers an argument against an intuitive reading of the Stone-von Neumann theorem as a categoricity result, thereby pointing out that, against what is usually taken to be the case, this theorem does not entail any model-theoretical difference between the theories that validate it and those that don’t.

Tail dependence and smoothness of time series

The risk of catastrophes is related to the possibility of occurring extreme values. Several statistical methodologies have been developed in order to evaluate the propensity of a process for the occurrence of high values and the permanence of these in time. The extremal index \(\theta \) (Leadbetter in Z Wahrscheinlichkeitstheor Verw Geb 65:291–306, 1983) allows to infer the tendency for clustering of high values, but does not allow to evaluate the greater or less amount of oscillations in a cluster. The estimation of \(\theta \) entails the validation of local dependence conditions regulating the distance between high levels oscillations of the process, which is difficult to implement in practice. In this work, we propose a smoothness coefficient to evaluate the degree of smoothness/oscillation in the trajectory of a process, with an intuitive reading and simple estimation. Application in some examples will be provided. We will see that, in a stationary sequence, it coincides with the tail dependence coefficient \(\lambda \) (Sibuya in Ann Inst Stat Math 11:195–210, 1960; Joe in Multivariate models and dependence concepts. Monographs on statistics and applied probability, vol 73. Chapman and Hall, London, 1997), providing a new interpretation of the latter. This relationship will inspire a new estimator for \(\lambda \), and its performance will be evaluated based on a simulation study. We illustrate with an application to financial series.

Un soggetto scabroso, un progetto ambizioso: il “Giasone” va alla Scuola Primaria

Since 2007, Silvia Cancedda has held five/six-month-long listening workshops in primary schools, focusing on various operas, from Cenerentola to Il trovatore. For the 2017/18 school year, she chose Giasone, by Cicognini and Cavalli (1649). This is an opera that deals with embarrassing themes, and hence apparently not suited for an 8-year-old audience, since it centers on a criminal couple, Giasone and Medea, and on a love triangle in which both women, Medea and Isifile, are single mothers.The article describes the protocol followed in the workshop. Through language and content adapted to the target age group, the workshop aims at providing a historically sound, accurate description of the opera, as well as adequate comprehension of the work as a whole, through an examination of: (1) the literary sources; (2) the plot structure; (3) the constellation of characters and voices; (4) the system of poetic forms (and the basic elements of metric structures); (5) the system of basic musical forms; (6) the framework of the drama and segmentation of the action; (7) the combination of word/action/music (text, scene, singing). These activities are complemented by a (inasmuch as possible) complete listening-viewing of the work.Further points that are briefly addressed include: connections with other school subjects, first and foremost linguistic and historical subjects; the origins of the operatic genre; the relationships between the fabula of the myth and the plot of the opera; the system of voices; key scenes; the tools of the poetical metric system. Finally, an intuitive reading of the score is introduced. The effectiveness of the didactic process adopted is documented in the drawings created by the pupils, in photographs and videos.

Tunable Dual Temperature-Pressure Sensing and Parameter Self-Separating Based on Ionic Hydrogel via Multisynergistic Network Design.

Hydrogel-based wearable sensors have experienced an explosive development, whereas functional integration to mimic the multisignal responsiveness of skin especially for pressure and temperature remained a challenge. Herein, a functional ionic hydrogel-base flexible sensor was successfully prepared by integrating the thermal-sensitive N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) into another conductive double-network hydrogel based on polyvinyl alcohol-graphene oxide (PVA-GO) and polyacrylic acid-Fe3+ (PAA-Fe3+). Because of the multisynergistic network design, the triple-network hydrogel was endowed with excellent conductivity (∼170 Ω/mm), mechanical tolerance (1.1 MPa), and rapid recoverability (within 0.5 s), which demonstrated the potential use in pressure monitoring. Moreover, the introduction of a thermal-sensitive network allowed it to capture the changes in the human body temperature accurately simultaneously and to be further developed as a flexible temperature sensor. In particular, the unsynchronization of pressure and temperature strain (straining to stability within 0.5 s and more than 50 s, respectively) caused the two electrical signals to be automatically separated. Intuitive reading of data without involving complex parameter separation calculations allowed the hydrogel to be developed as an integrated dual temperature-pressure-sensitive flexible sensor. In addition, all above properties demonstrated that the as-prepared functional hydrogel could be extended to the practical application in human-machine interactions and personalized multisignal monitoring.

Arbitrary Screen-Aware Manga Reading Framework with Parameter-Optimized Panel Extraction

While reading Manga on smart devices, it is inconvenient to drag and zoom through contents. Therefore, this work proposes a user-friendly and intuitive Manga reading framework for arbitrary reading conditions. Our framework creates a reading flow by breaking pages into contextual panels, organizing panels as display units, grouping units as a display list according to reading conditions, and playing the list with designed eye-movement-simulated transitions. The core is parameter-optimized panel extraction, which uses the occupied area of extracted panels and the ratio of borders parallel to each other to automate parameter selection for matching up identified panel corners and borders. While applying to 70 Manga chapters, our extraction performs comparatively better against two state-of-the-art algorithms and successfully locates “break-outs.” Furthermore, a usability test on three chapters demonstrates that our framework is effective and visually pleasing for arbitrary Manga-reading scenarios while preserving contextual ideas through panel arrangement.

A Note on “Demediation”: From Book Art to Transmedia Storytelling

This article discusses two opposite meanings of the concept of “demediation”: on the one hand, the very specific and strongly materializing reading given by Garrett Stewart, who coined the notion in an essay on book art qua visual art; on the other hand, the general and more intuitive reading of the term, as sometimes used in the broader debate on digital culture as immaterialization. Putting a strong emphasis on the (broad) notions of materiality and medium-specificity, the article offers a critique of certain immaterializing tendencies in transmedia storytelling theory, while ending with the brief presentation of an example (the collaborative network Général Instin) that tackles, within the framework of ghost theory and dust theory, the dialectic relationship of materiality and immateriality.

Conservative translations of four-valued logics in modal logic

Following a proposal by Kooi and Tamminga, we introduce a conservative translation manual for every four-valued truth-functional propositional logic into a modal logic. However, the application of this translation does not preserve the intuitive reading of the truth-values for every four-valued logic. In order to solve this problem, we modify the translation manual and prove its conservativity by exploiting the method of generalized truth-values.

Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic PeriodMortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul

Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic PeriodMortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul

The Haunting Primacy of a Ghost Story: Secondary thoughts on the Hermeneutical Challenge of Kleist's “Das Bettelweib von Locarno”

This article discusses the hermeneutical challenge which Heinrich von Kleist's “Bettelweib von Locarno” poses to textual analysis. It argues that this short novella effectively exemplifies a fundamental principle of literature because it highlights the difference between the textual features of a literary work and its realization in the mind of a reader. Strategically approaching Kleist's novella in the manner of a close reading, this article shows that such an anatomizing analysis of the text is irreconcilable with an intuitive reading of it: while a first, unbiased reading construes Kleist's text as a ghost story with moral significance, a scholarly close reading breaks down the text into erratic components and insufficient causalities. The ghost story and its moral implications thus withdraw from the close reader. Ultimately, this article demonstrates that Kleist's ghost story provides rich insights into the interplay of a literary work's experiential superstructure with its textual basis.

Actions Arising from Intersection and Union

An action is a pair of sets, $C$ and $S$, and a function $f\colon C\times S \to C$. Rothschild and Yalcin gave a simple axiomatic characterization of those actions arising from set intersection, i.e.\ for which the elements of $C$ and $S$ can be identified with sets in such a way that elements of $S$ act on elements of $C$ by intersection. We introduce and axiomatically characterize two natural classes of actions which arise from set intersection and union. In the first class, the $\uparrow\mathrel{\mspace{-2mu}}\downarrow$-actions, each element of $S$ is identified with a pair of sets $(s^\downarrow,s^\uparrow)$, which act on a set $c$ by intersection with $s^\downarrow$ and union with $s^\uparrow$. In the second class, the $\uparrow\mathrel{\mspace{-2mu}}\downarrow$-biactions, each element of $S$ is labeled as an intersection or a union, and acts accordingly on $C$. We give intuitive examples of these actions, one involving conversations and another a university's changing student body. The examples give some motivation for considering these actions, and also help give intuitive readings of the axioms. The class of $\uparrow\mathrel{\mspace{-2mu}}\downarrow$-actions is closely related to a class of single-sorted algebras, which was previously treated by Margolis et al., albeit in another guise (hyperplane arrangements), and we note this connection. Along the way, we make some useful, though very general, observations about axiomatization and representation problems for classes of algebras.

IMIGRAN DAN PERANTAU YANG “GAGAL” DAN PULANG KAMPUNG: Sebuah Firman yang Membangkitkan dari Kitab Rut

This essay details how an “intuitive reading” of the Book of Ruth by a group of HIV carriers from Flores island, Indonesia, renewed their faith. The men caught the virus as economic migrants and then proceeded to give it to their wives on returning home sick. Rejected by family and by many members of the clergy, they have formed their own support group. Coming from the interior, most were not regular church goers before contacting the virus. Some years ago they began reading the Scriptures regularly once a month. They easily identified with Naomi and Ruth, with their failed migration, and with the tactics they were forced to use in order to survive on returning to Bethlehem. Members of the HIV support group, largely unsupported by the institutional Church or by their extended families, have discovered in reading the Bible together a liberating Word that has rekindled a deep personal faith in the God of compassion.
 
 Kata-kata kunci: HIV, perantau, migran, ODHA, Support Group, Syering, Kitab Suci, Rut.