Invisible Actions Research Articles

Operational excellence in online food delivery service: the role of food biosafety measures

PurposeThis study explores how food biosafety measures (FBM), electronic service quality and product quality influence consumer satisfaction and loyalty in the online food delivery service (OFDS) sector. It also integrates the technology acceptance model (TAM) and the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to form a robust framework for assessing consumer behaviours and providing insights for this sector.Design/methodology/approachData from 877 Colombian urban consumers were collected. The proposed theoretical model was tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) in the SEMinR package of the R program (an open-source programming language).FindingsThe results reveal that food biosafety measures and product quality are the most essential factors for OFDS consumers. Besides, food biosafety measures strongly affect product and e-service quality, which in turn significantly and directly impact consumer satisfaction and loyalty. This means that it is necessary to consider both visible actions strongly related to product quality and invisible actions that highlight the role of e-service quality in ensuring operational excellence.Practical implicationsTo maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty, OFDS managers should consider first working with restaurants that practice high food biosafety measures so that the order leaves the restaurant in good condition. However, OFDS should maintain these measures to ensure operational excellence from the order on the platform until delivery to the end consumer.Originality/valueThis innovative study demonstrates how FBMs directly affect perceptions of service, product quality, satisfaction and loyalty. This goes beyond traditional findings suggesting that food biosafety measures' influence is only indirect and mediated by satisfaction.

The lived experience of a primary physical education teacher educator engaging in action research: cycling into change

ABSTRACT This paper presents the lived experience of a practitioner researcher working as a teacher educator engaging in action research with primary pre-service teachers (PSTs). Aligning with the work of Cook (2009) [‘The Purpose of Mess in Action Research: Building Rigour Though a Messy Turn.’ Educational Action Research 17 (2): 277–291] this paper aims to make visible the decisions and reflections that occurred during the multiple cycles of action research that were significant in the transformations that occurred throughout the study. We argue that embracing and acknowledging the chaos and messiness of the process is essential to initiating change. Therefore, in making visible the often invisible actions and discomfort experienced this paper hoped to contribute as a catalyst for greater articulation of mess across research. Employing a seven-phase longitudinal action research approach, this paper draws on data from the practitioner researcher’s reflective journal maintained throughout the research and field notes based on participant observation. The challenges, complexities, and benefits of action research are discussed including the impact on the research study and the practitioner researcher’s practice as a teacher educator in primary physical education. Making visible the challenges of being comfortable in the uncomfortable elements of data collection, in accessing the PSTs, and the multiple roles of the researcher throughout the research are discussed.

Основні педагогічні закони у канонічному праві

Canon law is closely related to pedagogical phenomena. After all, a person needs to learn, educate, give him the opportunity to develop. To do this, use different natural laws and patterns. We believe that the best pedagogical laws follow from canon law. We believe that the following basic pedagogical laws follow from the Ten Commandments of God: love; prevention of passions; prevention of blasphemy; recreation; respect for parents and elders; prevention of metaanthropological murder; fornication prevention; prevention of defamation; prevention of envy. It should be emphasized that these laws apply separately to the body, soul and spirit, which will reflect the real actions of man, for your Supreme Court. The implementation of the pedagogical laws of the Sinai imperative reveals, substantiates and solves all the problems of social phenomena. Polemical and pedagogical phenomena become instructive, do not have a worldview breakthrough, which follows from the Ten Commandments of God. The pedagogical law of love is fundamental in canon law. The supernatural reality of love changes man, his existential principles. Love is an unshakable foundation in human development, education and training, forms the supernatural and natural law regime, its vital functions. Ontological love gives a person and a person who has the greatest pedagogical canonical influence on it, and provides visible and invisible action. For the action to be ontological, it is necessary to nourish the love existentials and transcendents who give the psychic power that creates good. The main thing in the law of love is worship as metaphysical respect, unquestioning obedience and general commitment to all of God's creation. The law of prevention of passions as a strong sense of certain motives: stable, intense, purposeful. While these motivations may be for the better, they should not take the lead in levels with your ontological purpose. The law states that man is the image of God, so in the likeness of God's duty to be not with the help of strong earthly feelings, but only with the help of sentient sensibility. Of course, there may be some earthly favorites after the manifestations of heavenly feelings, but they should not be in the first place, because in canon law it is regarded as idolatry, inventing an idol, apostasy, etc. From a pedagogical point of view, the passion leads to vanity and pride. After all, a person with great passions (even in the field of good) is often praised, glorified, which is vanity. The pedagogical law for the prevention of blasphemy states the unforgiveness of sins of this type. Blasphemers deserve death. The Dictionary of Religious Studies states that blasphemy is in the narrow sense a verbal image of God, in the sincere sense - disrespect for the objects of religious worship. Blasphemy is sometimes overturned by various forms of criticism or rejection of religion. Followers of any religion accept disrespect only for their own shrines. In a simultaneous critique of other shrines, they study it as a struggle for "true faith." In many countries where state regions, blasphemy is considered a criminal offense [9, p.43]. In earthly life there are part-timers, when a person complains about God and God's will, there is a misunderstanding with God and holiness and mockery of them, is inconsiderate in prayer, utters false oaths and gods, uses abusive words with God's call in empty talk. These spiritual norms are very great and need to be explained in detail.

All That’s Happening behind the Scenes: Putting the Spotlight on Volunteer Moderator Labor in Reddit

Online volunteers are an uncompensated yet valuable labor force for many social platforms. For example, volunteer content moderators perform a vast amount of labor to maintain online communities. However, as social platforms like Reddit favor revenue generation and user engagement, moderators are under-supported to manage the expansion of online communities. To preserve these online communities, developers and researchers of social platforms must account for and support as much of this labor as possible. In this paper, we quantitatively characterize the publicly visible and invisible actions taken by moderators on Reddit, using a unique dataset of private moderator logs for 126 subreddits and over 900 moderators. Our analysis of this dataset reveals the heterogeneity of moderation work across both communities and moderators. Moreover, we find that analyzing only visible work – the dominant way that moderation work has been studied thus far – drastically underestimates the amount of human moderation labor on a subreddit. We discuss the implications of our results on content moderation research and social platforms.

There is no cure: Paratexts as remediations of agency in Red Dead Redemption 2

Towards the end of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018), the main character Arthur Morgan contracts tuberculosis. The videogame is set in the United States in 1899, a time when many died from the respiratory infection. The videogame does not provide a cure for the disease, nor does it show when the contagion happens. It is presented as the consequence of an invisible action. Combining auto-ethnographic analysis with (para-)textual readings, in this article, I articulate my engagement with the game and with YouTube videos in which players claim to have identified a strategy to save Arthur. I argue that these paratextual practices address, without fully resolving, an affective response that originates from an unresolved reading of the videogame ( Consalvo, 2016 ; Genette, 1987 ). The videos on Arthur’s sickness remediate (in the double sense of restoring upon and healing) players’ agency ( Bolter and Grusin, 1999 ). I argue that this imagination of a restoration of the player’s agency insists on two levels: a narrative level, interpreted as a navigable database of events, and on the environment, seen as a ‘gamespace’ of resources and non-player characters to exploit or keep at distance ( Jennings, 2019 ; Stang, 2019 ; Anikina, 2020 ; Wark 2007 ). The duration of the auto-ethnography overlaps with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article concludes by exploring some recent mediations of the virus, observing how they restore a view of human agency that runs parallel to that which players of Red Dead Redemption 2 have articulated in a much more marginal context. The case studies, although diverse in nature, gravity and scale, shed light on the variety of contexts in which agency is negotiated, on the affective potential of these negotiations, and on the pervasiveness of white and able-bodied normativity in contemporary digital culture.

“What kind of cop are you?”: Disco Elysium’s Technologies of the Self within the Posthuman Multiverse

Abstract I suggest in this article, drawing upon Francesca Ferrando, Karen Barad and N Katherine Hayles, that Disco Elysium illustrates the human through the mode of a ‘posthuman multiverse’. Per Ferrando, humans and other beings act as nodes in a material multiverse while what we think, eat, our behaviours and relations, create part of a rhizomatic ecology that can be understood as who and what we are. This, I illustrate, overcomes a complicated tension in existing posthuman theory, particularly as it relates to game studies. Although theorists have detailed the entanglement of players and machines, and the new materialist nature of becoming, it is unclear to what extent human-machine assemblages can be said to be a singular ‘thing’. This is tackled in Disco Elysium as the seemingly mundane and often invisible actions the player takes, all play a role in constructing Harry Dubois and the world that is also endlessly producing him. Game actions, therefore, can be viewed as ‘technologies of the multiverse’, the ontological functions through which beings come to exist in a dimension. The game positions the player in a ‘relational intra-activity’ not only with the actions and outcomes of play, as discussed in previous scholarship, but also with the hypothetical outcomes of choices they have not made. When read through the lens of Ferrando’s philosophical posthuman multiverse, Disco Elysium represents a valuable resource for bridging gaps in contemporary posthuman scholarship.

Sistem Informasi Pelayanan Jasa Pencucian Mobil Dan Motor Pada Max Car Wash Berbasis Web

Service is the provision of a performance or invisible action from one side to another side. One of the companies that focus on services is Max Car Wash, Max Car Wash is a company engaged in car wash and motorcycles services located at Jalan Raya Batubulan, Sukawati, Gianyar, Bali. Issues contained among the recording transactions are still on a note and ledger, the distribution of commissions to the staff is not maximum yet. In addition, the service to customers is less satisfactory seen from the behavior of some existing customers that can’t wait for his vehicle in the wash. Based on these problems, Max Car Wash needs a service system that is expected to assist in serving the process of payment transactions and recording commission staff each workmanship. In this system is also available queue booking feature, where customers can make a booking queue first. This study has been successfully built an information system service car and motor wash. This system aims to help the company by improving customer service and provide ease in obtaining the reports desired company.

Stubborn Sets, Frozen Actions, and Fair Testing

Many partial order methods use some special condition for ensuring that the analysis is not terminated prematurely. In the case of stubborn set methods for safety properties, implementation of the condition is usually based on recognizing the terminal strong components of the reduced state space and, if necessary, expanding the stubborn sets used in their roots. In an earlier study it was pointed out that if the system may execute a cycle consisting of only invisible actions and that cycle is concurrent with the rest of the system in a non-obvious way, then the method may be fooled to construct all states of the full parallel composition. This problem is solved in this study by a method that “freezes” the actions in the cycle. The new method also preserves fair testing equivalence, making it usable for the verification of many progress properties.

Gaslighting by Crowd

Most psychological literature on gaslighting focuses on it as a dyadic phenomenon occurring primarily in marriage and family relationships. In my analysis, I will extend recent fruitful philosophical engagement with gaslighting (Abramson, “Turning up the Lights on Gaslighting” [2014]; McKinnon, “Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice” [2017]; Ruiz, “Spectral Phenomenologies” [2014]) by arguing that gaslighting, particularly gaslighting that occurs in more public spaces like the workplace, relies upon external reinforcement for its success. I will ground this study in an analysis of the film Gaslight, for which the phenomenon is named, and in the course of the analysis will focus on a paradox of this kind of gaslighting: it wreaks significant epistemic and moral damages largely through small, often invisible actions that have power through their accumulation and reinforcement.

A Developmental Milestones Map of Type 1 Diabetes Self-Management Transition From Parents to Adolescents.

Transitional diabetes self-management (DSM) for children and their families is complicated. This article was undertaken to provide an exemplar of DSM strategies used by one family that were based on developmental milestones from preschool through college age. Two brothers who were both diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before the age of 2 years reflected on how their parents began a DSM navigation process during their early preschool years. Personal strategies and recommendations successfully resulted in both youths transitioning to college. With the parents serving as DSM coaches to the boys, an interdependent relationship was built. Key recommendations include 1) starting early, 2) being consistent and flexible, 3) using “invisible actions” and “what ifs,” 4) incorporating technology and community resources into DSM, and 5) building confidence with shared problem-solving.

Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model

This paper outlines the IoT Databox model as a means of making the Internet of Things (IoT) accountable to individuals. Accountability is a key to building consumer trust and is mandated by the European Union’s general data protection regulation (GDPR). We focus here on the ‘external’ data subject accountability requirement specified by GDPR and how meeting this requirement turns on surfacing the invisible actions and interactions of connected devices and the social arrangements in which they are embedded. The IoT Databox model is proposed as an in principle means of enabling accountability and providing individuals with the mechanisms needed to build trust into the IoT.

Normative support and practice implementation of the procedural procedure of grant of the authorization for the conduct of unknown investigate (invisible) actions under the conditions of military, emergency or in the area of anti-terrorist operation

Annotation: the article analyzes the peculiarities of the procedure for granting permission for conducting secret investigative actions in the conditions in the martial law, emergency or in the area of anti-terrorist operations. It is noted that the nascence as well as the currently existing problems of practical and applied nature connected with the implementation of the provisions of Article 615 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine. Summarizing the above, by partially resolving issues relating to the peculiarities of pre-trial investigation in the conditions of a military, state of emergency or in the area of ATO, the law simultaneously put new, even more serious and complicated, caused by the nature of the changes. The separate aspects of the institute of pre-trial investigation that are considered within the article testify to the lack of legal certainty in many issues, which leads to the uneven application of these provisions in practice. In this regard, article 615 of the CPC of Ukraine needs legislative correction.

Особливості вокально-сценічного втілення персонажів оперного твору.

Метою статті є виявлення театрально-сценічних принципів і вокально-виконавських прийомів, що сприяють втіленню образних характеристик оперного персонажу. Методологічна основа статті полягає в історико-стильовому з особливою увагою до естетичного походження опери та смисловому призначенню музики, музикознавчому аналітичному, театрознавчому й стильовому підходах. Наукова новизна полягає в розгляді важливих вокально-виконавських, драматургічних і театрально-сценічних аспектів втілення персонажа оперного твору. Висновки. Таким чином, при роботі вокаліста над створенням образу оперного персонажа, слід враховувати, що дія трактується як сукупність реакцій людини на обставини, вона входить до складу вчинку і підпорядковується її спонукальним мотивам та прагне до досягнення мети. Але дії та рух заздалегідь зазвичай не плануються лише у повсякденній реальності; сценічне життя, навпаки, передбачає наявність у виконавця обдуманих реакцій – навмисно видимі руху і дії, що здійснюються від імені персонажа з єдиною метою – розкрити свідомі, несвідомі або приховані рухи думки, переживання героя. Отже, лише у стані перевтілення співака в співака-актора, розпоряджаючись його психофізикою, сам персонаж виявляє дієву свободу.Ключові слова: опера, оперний персонаж, сценічний образ, театрально-сценічні засоби виразності.

TEACHING FUNDAMENTAL COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS USING PALPABLE INTERACTIVE VISUAL LEARNING AIDS

Pointers have long been the Achilles heel of mechanical engineering students attempting to master dynamic memory allocation in mechatronic applications. They are abstract and intangible, both opposing characteristics of a discipline based on the concrete (and often hands on) physical world. With this said, pointers are considered an important threshold concept opening the door to the implementation of complex microcontroller applications in our digitally connected world.One of the primary challenges in learning the application of pointers is that the programming syntax and the abstract memory management concepts are often taught simultaneously. The natural progression of learning is to first comprehend the concepts followed by the syntax. Further newer learning theories suggest a conceptual understanding can only result through abstraction of experiences using metaphorical linkages.The following research body is focused on proposing a new strategy for teaching this complex concept using low cost physical props as a palpable interactive visual medium to provide the requisite experiences for concept abstraction. The learning aids are designed to enforce a strict process flow mimicking the invisible actions occurring internal to the microprocessor. Data is collected via questionnaires administered pre and post lecture delivery. Analysis of the results suggest moderate to high improvement in student comprehension of computer memory allocation concepts

Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country

In this article, we investigate the daily work entailed in maintaining informal transnational childcare relationships between migrant parents and the children's kin or non-kin caregivers in the country of origin. By applying the concept of 'kin work', we seek to understand how work is performed within transnational care relationships. Using a simultaneous matched sample methodology that gives equal weight to data on both sides of the transnational relationship, a team of researchers collected ethnographic data from Ghanaian migrant parents in the Netherlands and from their children's caregivers in Ghana. This approach allowed us to investigate the day-to-day care work from two perspectives - namely the visible and the invisible actions of the people involved in creating the kinship relationships of care work. Discrepancies in perceptions were uncovered because we compared data obtained on both sides of the relationship. These findings contribute to our understanding of the ways in which long-distance practices facilitate the maintenance of kin relationships and how the inability to perform these can lead to tensions.

Power modulation of electroencephalogram mu and beta frequency depends on perceived level of observed actions

IntroductionThe ability to understand actions and intentions of others is of great importance to social relationships and is associated with the mirror neuron system of the human brain. Whether conscious perception of specific actions is necessary to trigger activity in this system, or alternatively whether this response is independent of conscious perception is not known.MethodsWe addressed this issue by rendering videos of right hand movements invisible to conscious perception, and measuring electroencephalogram (EEG) power suppression in the mu (8–13 Hz) and beta (15–25 Hz) range as index corresponding to the magnitude of mirror neuron activity.ResultsIn the beta range over bilateral sensorimotor sites, we find that suppression indices follow the reported perceptual level of subjects with stronger suppression for consciously perceived trials. Furthermore, in the nonperceived trials, oscillation power is significantly suppressed relative to baseline. In the low mu range (8–10 Hz), oscillation power over the left sensorimotor site is significantly more suppressed in the consciously perceived versus nonperceived trials.ConclusionsOur data suggest that the intensity of mirror system responses during action observation decreases with the observers' perception level yet remains significant during observation of invisible actions. Such subliminal activity could help explain phenomena such as covert imitation.

Zones of Authentic Pleasure: Gentrification, Middle Class Taste and Place Making in Milan

Zones of Authentic Pleasure: Gentrification, Middle Class Taste and Place Making in Milan

The Spaces in Between: A Comparative Analysis of Municipal Climate Governance and Action

Ongoing efforts by local governments to mitigate (reduce) greenhouse gases are often tracked through a reporting or milestone process. In Canada, a new and similar milestone process is being developed for climate adaptation activities. Yet research into Canadian local government response reveals that activities and actions are underway which the milestone process neither identifies nor tracks. Local climate action milestones tell us what is happening and when actions are completed at the local level, but little about who is driving action, the process of implementation, and the barriers to implementing actions. This paper asks whether the milestone process accurately reflects the range of climate activities municipal governments in Canada are undertaking and the implications for climate action and governance if there is a disconnect between the milestones commonly used to measure progress and the reality of municipal action. Based on preliminary results from a national survey of municipal governments in Canada, the paper reveals that Canadian municipal governments are engaged in many invisible climate activities and processes that common inventories and reporting systems do not capture. The paper suggests that these ‘interstitial activities’ – these invisible climate actions that take place between initiation and completion – are very important to understand as they have meaningful implications for future climate action and governance.

Computing with Actions and Communications

The paradigm of computer science is nowadays shifting from computation to communication. In this paper we aim to give an impression of the algebra of actions and communications as it has been developed during the past quarter of a century. We present specifically the system ACP, Algebra of Communicating Processes. Here $a, b, c, \ldots$ denote atomic events (or actions, or steps). For example, $a{\cdot}a{\cdot}(b + c)$ is the process able to perform two $a$-steps followed by a $b$-step or a $c$-step. This differs from the process $a{\cdot}a{\cdot}b + a{\cdot}a{\cdot}c$, due to the different timing of the choice between a $b$- and a $c$-step. Process $x$ can operate in parallel with process $y$, notation $x \| y$, where some actions in $x$ may happen simultaneously with some actions in $y$; the resulting actions are called communication actions. Such actions are `half actions', needing their counterpart for the execution as a full action. In daily life a handshake is an example of a pair of half actions. We even have ternary communication actions on the keyboard of a PC: control-alt-delete. In music we find also quaternary actions, etc. The results of such internal communications we want to abstract away. This is formalised with the invisible action $\tau$ (`silent move'), facilitating the composition of modular hierarchies of process systems. The classical triple specification-implementation-verification then takes a straightforward form. The specification of the desired external behaviour is a simple process SPEC. The implementation is a complicated process IMP. The verification that the implementation is indeed correct, can be a purely algebraic, equational computation that a suitable abstraction of IMP yields SPEC: ABS(IMP) = SPEC. Next to an overview of the process algebraic framework, we present a soundness and completeness proof for the axiom system underlying this framework, with respect to a fundamental semantics called rooted branching bisimulation. Thus a derivation of ABS(IMP) = SPEC implies that the implementation and its specification satisfy the same behavioural properties (soundness), while on the other hand the absence of such a derivation implies that the implementation and its specification are not rooted branching bisimulation equivalent (completeness). Computing with actions and communications, process algebra, is logically and mathematically interesting. On top of that, process algebra contributes to security and comfort: current process algebra tools are used to prove correctness of railway emplacements, helicopter software, and communication protocols in the remote control of a television set. This paper has grown out of an invited lecture of the second author at the Joint Mathematical BeNeLuxFra Conference in Ghent, May 2005. Slides of that lecture can be found at www.cs.vu.nl/~jwk.

Double Depth First Search Based Parametric Analysis for Parametric Time-Interval Automata

In this paper, we propose a parametric model checking algorithm for a subclass of Timed Automata called Parametric Time-Interval Automata (PTIA). In a PTIA, we can specify upper- and lower-bounds of the execution time (time-interval) of each transition using parameter variables. The proposed algorithm takes two inputs, a model described in a PTIA and a property described in a PTIA accepting all invalid infinite/finite runs (called a never claim), or valid finite runs of the model. In the proposed algorithm, firstly we determinize and complement the given property PTIA if it accepts valid finite runs. Secondly, we accelerate the given model, that is, we regard all the actions that are not appeared in the given property PTIA as invisible actions and eliminate them from the model while preserving the set of visible traces and their timings. Thirdly, we construct a parallel composition of the model and the property PTIAs which is accepting all invalid runs that are accepted by the model. Finally, we perform the extension of Double Depth First Search (DDFS), which is used in the automata-theoretic approach to Linear-time Temporal Logic (LTL) model checking, to derive the weakest parameter condition in order that the given model never executes the invalid runs specified by the given property.