Lack Of Imagination Research Articles

Recognition of Food Ingredients—Dataset Analysis

Nowadays, food waste is seen as a complex problem with effects on the social, economic, and environmental domains. Even though this view is widely held, it is frequently believed that individual acts have little to no impact on the issue. But just like with recycling, there may be a significant impact if people start adopting more sustainable eating habits. We suggest using a cutting-edge convolutional neural network (CNN) model to identify food in light of these factors. To improve performance, this model makes use of several strategies, such as fine-tuning and transfer learning. Additionally, we suggest using the Selenium library to create a dataset by employing the web scraping technique. This strategy solves the problem that many open-source datasets have with the overrepresentation of foods from the Asian continent by enabling the addition of foods to the dataset in a customized way. First, using the PRISMA methodology, a thorough examination of recent research in this field will be carried out. We will talk about the shortcomings of the most widely used dataset (Food-101), which prevent the ResNet-50 model from performing well. Using this information, a smartphone app that can identify food and suggest recipes based on the ingredients it finds could be developed. This would prevent food waste that results from the lack of imagination and patience of most people. The food recognition model used was the ResNet-50 convolutional neural network, which achieved 90% accuracy for the validation set and roughly 97% accuracy in training.

A study of Creativity, Innovation and Performance of the Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

The study examined the relationship between creativity, innovation, and performance of the hospitality and tourism industry in Ibadan, Oyo State. Lack of imagination and innovativeness in the hotel and tourism sectors in Oyo State is one of the reasons why the state is failing to establish itself as a worldwide player in the hospitality and tourism industries. The study specifically examined the influence of organizational support on performance of hospitality and tourism industry; ascertained the influence of new customer-firm interface on performance of hospitality and tourism industry. Works on creativity, innovation and performance of the hospitality and tourism industry in Ibadan, were reviewed. Descriptive research design was employed as the research methodology. Taro Yamane sample size formula was used to determine the sample size of 89 out of 481 study population. The findings revealed that the adjusted R square is 68.2%, which is a higher rate which supports the hypotheses, as it says that 68.2% the dependent variable was accounted for. F test result is also within the acceptance region which is higher than 10 points. The β is within the acceptance region which is higher than the generally accepted region of 0.020 with hypothesis two having a stronger beta than hypothesis one meaning that customer-firm interface has a very significant relationship to performance of the tourism and hospitality sector. Therefore, the study recommends that an increase attention should be paid by both researchers and practitioners to the question of how hotels might become more innovative.

Doing leadership differently as resistance: Care‐fully reworking Aotearoa New Zealand's research system

AbstractThe ‘research system’ in Aotearoa New Zealand is rife with obstacles for entry and retention of diversity. The research system's complexity and longevity gives the impression of stability and fixity, but we argue it is characterised by a lack of imagination around leadership that generates change. In this article, we examine the embodied experiences of research leadership, as encountered by participants at Aotearoa New Zealand's universities and a nationally funded Centre of Research Excellence. It is within such institutions and organisations, built on colonial and patriarchal values, that experiences of marginalisation, oppression and harassment have been documented. We destabilise the apparently static nature of this ‘research system monolith’ by taking up MacLeavy, Fannin and Larner's (2021) provocation of a feminist approach to boldly do leadership differently. Drawing from interviews with researchers, we argue that resistance to, and reworking of, the research system can be found in feminist modes of practice: in the everyday, mundane practices of care‐full research leadership that do leadership differently.

The crosscutting impact of higher education on the Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include access to higher education as a valued outcome, but universities also have a crucial role in supporting societies in achieving the full set of 17 goals. This task can be achieved through universities’ diverse functions of education, research, innovation and public engagement, as well as through their own campuses and communities. Nevertheless, despite their huge potential in this regard, current configurations of political economy present significant constraints. Seven of these barriers are analysed here: resources, recognition, marketisation, status competition, labour market links, difficulties of measurement and lack of imagination. These barriers are not insurmountable, and reimagined forms of higher education can play a major role not only in achieving the SDGs, but also in reinventing them for the post-2030 era.

Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: Tribal Women’s Inheritance Rights in India

In recognition of their distinct culture and identity, tribal communities in India enjoy constitutionally guaranteed autonomy and self-governance, which extend to customary laws for marriage, matrimonial rights and inheritance. In contexts where the tribal customary law has denied women inheritance rights, some women have approached the courts of law. The Hindu law on inheritance specifically excludes tribal communities from its application; yet, courts have found a way to apply it by reasoning that the parties to the case were ‘sufficiently Hinduised’. This article examines Indian judicial responses to this issue, and the ramifications for the inheritance rights of tribal women. The article critiques law’s lack of imagination and inability to capture the complex dynamics of social relationships in tribal communities, in a context of their massive dispossession from tribal lands. While highlighting the distinct relationship of property, community and family in tribal communities, it examines how law could ensure that tribal women retain their tribal identity and yet secure equal inheritance rights, rather than force a trade-off between tribal identity and securing inheritance rights on grounds of ‘sufficient Hinduisation’.

Perceived ease of use on visual learning application for mathematics using holography display for the topic on shape and space

Background: A person's life is built on a solid foundation of mathematics. Common causes of learning difficulties in mathematics include abstract ideas, a lack of imagination, and a lack of comprehension of the concepts being studied. Because 3D shapes are abstract concepts, the aim of this study is to better understand how to recognize them in primary school students. Methods: The development of the Mathematics E-Learning Visual application MEL-VIS(MEL-VIS) application involves the design of the Visual Learning Application Iteration-Evolution Development Model, MEL-VIS (PIEMEL-VIS), the MEL-VIS ID Model, and the MEL-VIS Application Module. The development methodology and ID model are built based on the application of various components such as learning theory, a visualization approach, a play-while-learning approach based on scaffolding techniques, as well as interaction and interface based on various touch technologies using tablet computers. The study's contributions are: (i) an iterative-evolutionary development model of the Visual Learning Application, MEL-VIS (PIEMEL-VIS); (ii) a MEL-VIS ID model; (iii) a MEL-VIS application prototype; and (iv) a usability testing instrument for the ease of use of the MEL-VIS application. Results: The usability testing of the MEL-VIS application was carried out through a case study involving 80 students at a primary school in Putrajaya. A task-based, semi-experimental approach was used to assess the ease-of-use construct. Research instruments such as questionnaires and observation checklists are used in this test. The results of the study found that MEL-VIS has a positive impact on students after using the application. Conclusions: Based on the test conducted, primary school students have given positive feedback to the prototype of the E-Visual MEL-VIS application. Thus, it can be concluded that the prototype of the E-Visual MEL-VIS application as a whole is effective, easy to learn and easy to use for student use for primary school mathematics subjects.

Sharaf al-Din ibn Hubayra, His Life and Poetry

Undoubtedly, there are many studies that have focused on the lives and poetry of famous poets. The majority of these studies have focused on the poetry of well-known poets. This does not indicate a weakness in these studies or their repetition, but rather the artistic characteristics, depth, and mystery of their poetry, and the variations in their collections would not have been revealed without those studies. However, this has resulted in neglecting other poets, or so-called obscure poets, not because of their lack of imagination or artistic talent, but because their poetry was less due to their political and personal circumstances. The poet we are studying is Sharaf al-Din bin al-Wazir Yahya bin Hubayra, who worked as a military commander and deputy in the ministry for his father. His circumstances prevented him from writing much poetry, but he would recite poetry when he read a poem that he admired, and he would compose a poem inspired by it, adding new meanings that the previous poet did not mention. His poetry was admired by the famous poet and literary writer Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, who mentioned him in his book "Kharidat al-Qasr" and "Jaridat al-Asr," which recorded the news of famous personalities of his time, such as caliphs, ministers, poets, writers, and celebrities. The news of the poet Sharaf al-Din is scattered in historical books, biographical sources, and media, and we do not know of a recent study that has collected his news and studied his poetry. However, there are two studies that have dealt with his father, the minister Yahya bin Hubayra: a doctoral thesis titled "The Minister Ibn Hubayra and his Jurisprudential Choices (A Comparative Study)," by Dr. Abd Sami Abd Muhammad al-Khalidi, and another study titled "The Delights of the Minister Ibn Hubayra al-Hanbali," by the author Sulaiman bin Saleh al-Kharashi. Both studies dealt with jurisprudential aspects. Therefore, we have conducted this research to study his life and poetry in an introduction and two chapters. The introduction briefly discusses the political life in the sixth century AH, as the poet was influenced by the political situation of his time. The first chapter discusses the poet's life, including his captivity, imprisonment, and death, and mentions news about his father and brother, as they worked together in serving the country during the reign of al-Muqtafi and his son al-Mustanjid. The second chapter discusses his poetry and includes poetic oppositions, and we analyzed a poem as a model for the study.

ВООБРАЖЕНИЕ КАК «ЭКРАН ВНУТРЕННЕГО ВИДЕНИЯ» В ТВОРЧЕСКОМ ПРОЦЕССЕ РАБОТЫ АКТЁРА НАД РОЛЬЮ

The relevance of this study is due to the fact that the concept of imagination, which is much talked about in psychology, remains incomplete outside of theatrical discourse, actor's and director's understanding of this category. Imagination is not a spontaneous, automatically developing process, but an in-depth process based primarily on the intellectual capabilities of the actor through the manifestation of his analytical abilities, which are directly related to the degree of development of his imagination, which determines the professional quality of the actor. The algorithm of the work of the imagination, its phased development is investigated. Examples are given from the pedagogical experience of the author of the article on activating the imagination of students - trainings and tasks that develop figurative thinking and, as a result, acting skills. An integral part of learning is tasks for the memory of physical actions, where the subject is imaginary, and actions with it are real. The problems of interaction between the actor and the spectator in the performances of the puppet theater are touched upon: the role of imagination control in theatrical activity. Lack of imagination or thoughtless departure from it leads to a negative result: instead of "co-creation", immersion in the picture created by the actor, repulsive feelings awaken in the viewer. Imagination has a special role in theater as a "three-dimensional art".

Editor’s Column: Summoning the “Honest Spirit” of John Steinbeck: Back to Ireland

Editor’s Column: Summoning the “Honest Spirit” of John Steinbeck: Back to Ireland

Are Fair Digital Objects and Digital Twins the same thing?

Semantically-defined Digital Twins (DTs) and Fair Digital Objects (FDOs) are similar in concept. They both adopt the "Find first" philosphy and they both point to data about some entity in the real world (where "entity" is a very loose definition of any asset, real or imaginary). Are there any parallels that we can draw? Can we use a digital twin plaform to host FDOs? Are Fair Digital Objects and Digital Twins the same thing? The objectives of the GO-FAIR organisation, that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable were originally designed to help human beings find and understand data. There has always been a side-helping of desiring computers and machine intelligences to find and use that same data. The FDOs that people normally think of are datasets, probably time-series data collected over a considerable period, amounting to a large file or a database of records. What if you took the concept of FDOs and compared it to Digital Twins? If you define a Digital Twin as a virtual representation of a real-world object, entity or concept in that its identity, metadata and data are stored “in the cloud”, then it’s not a big jump from that to an FDO. If you approach it from the opposite direction - reduce the size of an FDO until it’s an individual entity, not a collection, then you arrive at the same destination. In our proposed talk we will outline the ways that FDOs and semantically-defined digital twins overlap. We will show real-world examples of Digital Twins in action and argue that an FDO of sufficient granularity would serve a very similar purpose. The Venn diagram of FDOs and Digital Twins is not a circle. Digital twins have attributes that FDOs do not have. For example, they might have real-time feeds of data (such as current temperature, fuel consumption, heart-rate… ), or they might have a control interface to change their state (turn on or off, raise a draw-bridge, etc). These dynamic activities hint at one big difference between the two - digital twins have behaviour. They do things in real time. There’s nothing in the FDO specification that suggests that’s important or required, but we would argue that’s from lack of imagination, rather than lack of desirability. The other lobe of the Venn diagram - the properties that FDOs have that Digital Twins do not - is mainly concerned with historical data. Digital twins are about the “now” of an entity, while an FDO is a historical collection of data, possibly about many entities over a period of time. This mismatch can be overcome by using the Digital Twin concept to define the dataset and using the “data bypass” pattern to allow the dataset to be transferred “out of band” to the requestor, given sufficient access permissions. Perhaps the strict equivalence that FDOs are Digital Twins is going too far. They certainly share many common features and posit a world where machines and humans can cooperate using the same data. Maybe the answer is to have an admixture of the two?

Fiftieth Anniversary of Uncovering the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The Story and Timeless Lessons.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the uncovering of the Tuskegee syphilis study, when the public learned that the Public Health Service (precursor of the CDC) for 40 years intentionally withheld effective therapy against a life-threatening illness in 400 African American men. In 2010, we learned that the same research group had deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s, with the goal of developing better methods for preventing these infections. Despite 15 journal articles detailing the results, no physician published a letter criticizing the Tuskegee study. Informed consent was never sought; instead, Public Health Service researchers deceived the men into believing they were receiving expert medical care. The study is an especially powerful parable because readers can identify the key players in the narrative and recognize them as exemplars of people they encounter in daily life-these flesh-and-blood characters convey the principles of research ethics more vividly than a dry account in a textbook of bioethics. The study spurred reforms leading to fundamental changes in the infrastructure of research ethics. The reason people fail to take steps to halt behavior that in retrospect everyone judges reprehensible is complex. Lack of imagination, rationalization, and institutional constraints are formidable obstacles. The central lessons from the study are the need to pause and think, reflect, and examine one's conscience; the courage to speak; and above all the willpower to act. History, although about the past, is our best defense against future errors and transgressions.

Relativity 4-ever?

This essay is about superluminal motion. It is generally believed that special relativity prohibits movements faster than the speed of light. It is explained which motion is actually forbidden by special relativity and why. Tachyons are breafly discussed and it is explained that, due to internal instability, tachyon fields cannot be used to transmit information faster than the speed of light. However, as John Stuart Bell remarked, “what is proved by the impossibility proofs is lack of imagination”. Inspired by the Frenkel–Kontorova model of crystal dislocations, we demonstrate the way to overcome the light speed barrier by introducing elvisebrions. Elvisebrions are defined as objects that can exist in the case when some hidden sectors, very weakly interacting with the visible sector, are either not Lorentz invariant, or Lorentz invariant but with different limiting velocities. In this case, elvisebrions can move in a superluminal manner without violating our existing physical models.

Relationship between parental autistic traits and parenting difficulties in a Japanese community sample

BackgroundPrevious studies have suggested an association between higher levels of parental autistic traits and negative aspects of parenting; however, the domain of autistic traits specifically associated with parenting difficulties has not been investigated yet. Moreover, it remains to be determined whether this association exists even after controlling for children’s characteristics. AimsThis study examined the relationship between each domain of parental autistic traits and parenting difficulties after controlling for children’s characteristics in a Japanese community sample. Methods and ProceduresSurveys were administered to 1373 Japanese adults who were parents to children in kindergartens, nursery schools, and elementary schools. Outcomes and ResultsThe results showed that parents with higher levels of autistic traits had more parenting difficulties. Even after controlling for children’s sex, age, and emotional/behavioral problems, paternal impaired communication and maternal poor attention switching, impaired communication, and lack of imagination were related to higher parenting difficulties, while a higher maternal level of attention to detail was associated with lower difficulties in parenting. Conclusions and ImplicationsThe findings of this study highlight the importance of focusing on parental autistic traits and providing appropriate parenting support considering these traits.

Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and Its Political Spaces, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, March 11–13, 2021

Dystopian/Utopian Theatre in Britain after 2000 and Its Political Spaces, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, March 11–13, 2021

The Characteristics of Resilient Organizations within Crisis Management

Purpose: This paper examines crisis management literature, and historical rare events, alongside a recent rare event. The purpose of the paper is to ask whether we, as an industry, are achieving the resilience that technology and changing societies require, and are those societies responding effectively to the challenge of the diversity of this century’s global organizational resilience factor needs, of which climate change is just one. The paper seeks to facilitate a wider understanding of the organizational resilience, institutional, and individual limitations, and failures, contributing to those rare events. Originality: It is clear that with each decade, each generation, a lack of imagination appears to have corrupted institutional, organizational, and management responses. During this original literary presentation, in each situation, whether man-made or natural, greater imagination or foresight in the application of resilience processes may not have prevented the event, however, they would almost without exception have mitigated the losses. Approach: Presenting these events in this manner offers real, relatable situations, and should therefore be more contextual to the reality and purpose of resilience as an organizational quality. Although the exercise may appear simplistic, simplicity should not be confused with the clarity and candor of an inquiry-based learning implementation where the research is adapted to respond to its contemporary environment and is encouraged by a dearth of plain-speaking analysis of contemporary responses. Findings: This review of the reaction and response of the Oman National Emergency Management Centre to the challenges presented by Cyclone Shaheen, their preparedness, response effectiveness, and recovery… their organizational resilience.

Lack of imagination can bias our view of animal sentience

How an animal reacts to a sensory stimulus is often used to assess whether that animal can experience feelings such as pain and pleasure. This behavioural path is typically complemented with reference to how a human would normally respond to and experience an analogous stimulus. Together, these approaches can lead to a “hard to imagine otherwise” argument for feelings. It is time to go beyond these qualitative assessments and to now determine whether a nervous system can execute the neural functions necessary for sentience.

Integrating UUVs for naval applications

Underwater surveillance technology was an advent of the Cold War. This technology saw numerous advancements only once the technology was declassified and pursued by academia. One such advancement in the maritime domain was the development of the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) that has the ability to enhance war-fighting capabilities while de-risking human life. Though this technology has since been commercialised, it has found limited takers in the Navy. The limited inroad it has made has been driven primarily by the developers and the governments that fund them. However, since this technology offers numerous benefits to the military it needs to be integrated into the Navy sooner than later. This essentially means that to achieve greater acceptance for naval use/ applications, integrating this technology into the Navy is essential. This in return requires numerous queries to be answered and facts understood to create greater confidence in the technology and its potential. Accordingly, some of these queries that can help address the knowledge gaps to facilitate future acceptance and induction of the UUV technology into the Navy are discussed. Though an attempt to provide comprehensive answers has been made, these answers are not considered complete but only a start point for a debate. As it stands, the technology exists; however, it is a lack of imagination that is disallowing its usage.

Caricature and the Colonization Machine: The Nib's “Empire” Issue as a Comic Stretch of the Imagination

Abstract To see comicality in the reach of imperialism is to see the rhetorical force of empire itself in collective imaginations. This article approaches matters of empire through the lens of caricature. More specifically, it frames caricature as a rhetorical counterforce to images and ideas of imperialism. Comics publication the Nib put out an “Empire” issue in 2019. In an effort to figure out how a comic stretch of the imagination represents empire across histories, geographic locations, and cultural milieus for what it is—a mechanism of disimagination—I explore several standout comics and editorial cartoons in the issue. Looking at themes of monumentality and the taint of collective memory, historical revisionism and historiographical ridicule, and cultural dominion, I argue that caricature in the Nib's “Empire” issue reimagines imperialism, comically, as a complex (even if reductive) way of organizing a lack of imagination.

Associations of Autism Traits With Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms and Well-Being in Patients With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study

The aim of this study is to examine the association of autism traits with long-term obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms and well-being levels in patient with OCD. Participants comprised 18 outpatients from a tertiary hospital and 100 adults who were registered in a large Japanese internet marketing research company and met OCD criteria by the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview and were between the ages of 20 and 65 years. Clinical characteristics, autism trait assessed using the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), OCD symptoms assessed using Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), and well-being assessed using the Flourishing Scale were assessed. Multiple regression analyses showed that a greater total score of AQ, a greater subscale score “imagination” was associated with a greater score of Y-BOCS. Greater total score of AQ, a greater subscale score “social skill,” and “imagination” were associated with lower well-being score. Autism traits, especially lack of imagination, were associated with more severe OCD symptoms. Further, autism traits, especially social skill problems and lack of imagination, were associated with lower levels of well-being. Assessment of autism traits before treatment and a strategy designed for OCD patients with autism traits may be warranted.

Improving early childhood creativity through calligraphy activity from coffee dregs

Creativity in early childhood at TK Pertiwi 26-13 Bogares Kidul is still low. This situation can be seen from the lack of imagination, initiative, and confidence in children to try new activities while learning. The purpose of this research is to increase the creativity, interest, and enthusiasm of children in learning calligraphy. Besides that, it is also to reduce coffee waste in the coffee shops around TK Pertiwi 26-13 Bogares Kidul. This research method uses PTK. The CAR uses the planning, implementation, observation, and reflection stages. The research location was in group B2 in TK Pertiwi 26-13 Bogares Kidul, with 14 students. The study using tools such as research sheets along with study evidence. For the study of evidence using qualitative analysis. The effect of the research conducted shows that children’s creativity increases. With the data in the first cycle, it was found that 35.7% of the children’s creativity level was then continued in the second cycle, which could be increased up to 80%. Therefore it was concluded that the children’s creativity experienced an increase through calligraphy activities from coffee dreg