Ongoing Experience Research Articles

Webcam-based eye tracking to detect mind wandering and comprehension errors.

Recent advances in computer vision have opened the door for scalable eye tracking using only a webcam. Such solutions are particularly useful for online educational technologies, in which a goal is to respond adaptively to students' ongoing experiences. We used WebGazer, a webcam-based eye-tracker, to automatically detect covert cognitive states during an online reading-comprehension task related to task-unrelated thought and comprehension. We present data from two studies using different populations: (1) a relatively homogenous sample of university students (N = 105), and (2) a more diverse sample from Prolific (N = 173, with < 20% White participants). Across both studies, the webcam-based eye-tracker provided sufficiently accurate and precise gaze measurements to predict both task-unrelated thought and reading comprehension from a single calibration. We also present initial evidence of predictive validity, including a positive correlation between predicted rates of task-unrelated thought and comprehension scores. Finally, we present slicing analyses to determine how performance changed under certain conditions (lighting, glasses, etc.) and generalizability of the results across the two datasets (e.g., training on the data Study 1 and testing on data from Study 2, and vice versa). We conclude by discussing results in the context of remote research and learning technologies.

Experiences and Perceptions of Older People Making the Transition to Living in a Care Home: An Integrative Literature Review

Globally, along with population ageing, there is an increasing trend for older people with complex care needs to reside in care homes. It is recognised that moving into a care home can be a complex and emotional experience for the individual and their families. Despite this there is a paucity of research that takes into consideration an individuals experiences of the move. An integrative literature review and a thematic synthesis supported the identification of themes describing the experiences and perspectives of older people making the transition. A systematic search was conducted in six English electronic databases (CINAHL complete, ProQuest health and medical collection, PyscINFO, and Scopus). The quality of the research papers selected were assessed using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses (PRISMA) and the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP). Four predominant themes emerged from the review: (1) Decision making and control, (2) Process of transition, adjustment, and adaptation, (3) Psychological reactions, and (4) Connectedness, support, and companionship. Within the current body of literature there is a lack of understanding of the processes older people undergo that describe their experiences during the day to day adjustment and adaptation to living in a care home. Furthermore, there is limited research into the psychological and/or social experiences of older people moving into a care home that takes into consideration the total relocation process, incorporating residents, early and ongoing experiences during the transition.

Теоретико-методологические основания включения концепта "когитальная идентичность" в понятийный аппарат постнеклассической психологии мышления

In modern psychological discourse there is an increase in anthropologically oriented concepts and methodological tools that contribute to the comprehension of multidimensional human existence in a rapidly becoming more complex and changing world. The conceptosphere of post-non-classical psychology is replenished with interdisciplinary concepts and metaphors necessary to comprehend the multilevel dynamics of the human life world. The relevance of this work is determined by the need to comprehend the phenomenon of actualization by a person in his own thinking of stable subject-thematic dominants and the embodiment of his own motivational and semantic intentions in it. At the level of the target setting, this requires a reasonable introduction of the concept of “cognitive identity” into the conceptual and conceptual apparatus of the anthropologically oriented psychology of thinking. This concept, from the point of view of the author, will allow “shedding light” on the existential dynamics of thinking, which includes transtemporal, chronotopic aspects of a person's ongoing mental experience and the topology of his cogital individuation. The study of this dynamics is a promising area for the development of the psychology of thinking, since it opens up opportunities for finding correspondences and principles for synchronizing the existential and cognitive planes of thinking. The author believes that the disclosure and description of the phenomenology of cogital identity will make it possible to combine such properties of a person's mental experience as transtemporality, chronotopicity, multidimensionality and personification. This will make it possible to comprehend the phenomenon of the selective sensitivity of a thinking person to certain mental dilemmas and contradictions, his ability to constitute a personal anthology of thinking, to overcome the dispersion of the ongoing history of thinking into many discrete episodes of the empirical subject's mental activity. Cogital identity is considered as an integral psychological formation, thanks to which synchrony, synarchy of the transects of thinking and the transects of identity are possible. The article reveals the dialectic of the processes of authentication and self-transcendence, which constitutes the central drama of the formation of a person's cogital identity: on the one hand, a person authenticates himself as a carrier of stable, cross-cutting thematic and motivational-semantic dominants, cognition, takes root in the corresponding noematic space; on the other hand, he reveals a readiness for decentration and self-transformation in alternative or subsequent series of thinking, overcomes the boundaries of the actual mental space specified by the existing cognitive schemes and attitudes.

The association between posttraumatic stress symptoms and suicidal ideations among Palestinians: The mediating role of spirituality, social support and mindfulness.

The current study aimed to test whether social support, spirituality and mindfulness mediated the association between posttraumatic stress symptoms and suicidal ideation among Palestinians. The study sample consisted of 520 Palestinian adults selected using online tools. The findings of the study revealed that posttraumatic stress symptoms positively correlated with suicidal ideations (r=.32, p<.01), and negatively correlated with social support (r=-.34, p<.01), spirituality (r=-.16, p<.05) and mindfulness (r=-.72, p<.01), whereas suicidal ideations negatively correlated with social support (r=-.46, p<.01), spirituality(r=-.27, p<.01) and mindfulness (r=-.72, p<.01). Results of the path analysis showed that social support, spirituality and mindfulness mediated the association between posttraumatic stress symptoms and suicidal ideations. Developing intervention programs to enhance social support, mindfulness and spirituality to mitigate the effect of ongoing traumatic experiences among Palestinians is crucial to reducing suicidal ideations. Further studies are also recommended to investigate the role of potentially protective factors that may reduce suicidal ideations and appropriate techniques to deal effectively with traumatic and stressful events.

Capital account liberalization: the ongoing experience of Morocco

Capital account liberalization: the ongoing experience of Morocco

Whites Only: Race and Mobility in Kym Ragusa's The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging and Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric

Whites Only: Race and Mobility in Kym Ragusa's <i>The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging</i> and Claudia Rankine's <i>Citizen: An American Lyric</i>

Building an archive for 'future pasts': Undergraduates document their local Covid-19 'moment' in World History

A substantial body of history teaching scholarship links student archival engagements and primary source work to various desirable educational outcomes, among them an enhanced capacity for historical thinking and imagination. A related scholarly literature considers the interface between pedagogy and public memory-making. This article enters and links these points of discussion by reflecting on a collaborative classroom project of digital archivebuilding, using the online Dublin Core-complicit platform Omeka. At the University of Johannesburg, during the first six months of 2021, first-year students in an online world history classroom produced, submitted, and categorised a body of primary sources-both textual and visual. These submissions reflected their own, ongoing experiences of Covid-19 and of lockdown policies. They used photographs and wrote in their home languages to convey the disruptions, innovations, hardships, and resiliences felt as young people within diverse lifeworlds. Aligned to photovoice methodologies, the exercise promoted a reflection of historical consciousness in two ways: first, by situating the pandemic of the present within a broad global history; and, second, by considering 'future pasts' as a politics of memory, research, and representation. The article describes the production of the archival database, 'Joburg21', and considers the pedagogical challenges and rewards of building a digital 'archive for the future'.

A articulação de contextos curriculares e o uso de tecnologias digitais na construção de uma plataforma de Ciência Aberta

ABSTRACT This article1 reports an ongoing experience involving the application of research to teaching that articulates various disciplines and curricular contexts within a Post-graduate Program in Literature and Literary Criticism. Through the use of active teaching-learning methodologies and digital information and communication technologies, we seek to put some core dilemmas of literary studies into dialogue with notions and practices of open science. Throughout this process, we laid the groundwork for a digital platform that would bring together the results of research developed in the context of these various disciplines and make them readily available to their respective audiences and sociocultural territories. By raising awareness concerning the social impact of the program’s research, this report should prompt reflection on how to foster articulation between heterogeneous academic and social contexts, both within the classroom connected to other environments and in open scientific productions, accessible to different audiences.

“Belonging Analytics”: A Proposal

It is well-established that a student’s sense of belonging is associated with successful transition into higher education, along with a raft of positive outcomes including enhanced learning, well-being, and attainment for all students. The importance of belonging was further heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic, as the increased shift to online learning highlighted the challenges of monitoring and supporting student belonging in online settings. A significant challenge lies in the contested nature of belonging, as well as its complexity – students’ experience of belonging is both dynamic and contextual. In creating a new agenda connecting the fields of belonging and learning analytics, we propose the idea of “belonging analytics” to address the challenge of tracking students’ belonging. We present the emerging landscape of belonging by discussing how the advancements in the learning analytics field indicate great potential for the field to explore how digital trace data, narratives, textual data, or a combination, could be harnessed to gain insights into the ongoing experience of belonging, and consequently, to support belonging. We conclude with a set of open questions to interested researchers, to advance the field of belonging analytics.

“Belonging analytics”: A proposal

Students’ sense of belonging is associated with successful transition into higher education and a range of positive outcomes including enhanced learning, well-being, and demonstrated achievement. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of belonging as the shift to online learning highlighted the challenges of supporting and monitoring student belonging. Attending to belonging is not simple, however; students’ experiences with belonging are complex, dynamic, and contextual. In creating a new agenda connecting the fields of belonging and learning analytics, we propose the idea of “belonging analytics” to address the challenge of supporting and tracking students’ belonging. In this paper, we discuss how the understanding of belonging may be enhanced through learning analytics. Advancements in learning analytics, such as digital trace data, narratives, textual data, or a combination, may be harnessed to gain insights into ongoing experience of belonging, and consequently to support belonging. We conclude with a set of open questions to interested researchers and practitioners, to advance the field of belonging analytics. LIFT Learning: The authors recently presented on the topic of Belonging Analytics at Indiana University’s 5th International Learning Analytics Summit. Engage with part of this discussion through this article’s companion LIFT Learning site where the authors describe their proposition and lay out the key concepts and challenges associated with belonging. As part of this, the authors discuss the case study presented in the article in greater detail, and provide additional contextual information that enhances the reader’s understanding of the proposal. The LIFT Learning site is available at https://apps.lift.c3l.ai/learning/course/course-v1:LEARNINGLETTERS+0104+2023

Türk Korku Filmlerinde Kadının Sunumu: “Ötekilik” Kavramı Bağlamında Göstergebilimsel Bir Analiz

Cinema is a field of struggle that focuses on individual and mass experiences as a branch of art at the center of social memory. Thus, almost every cultural, economic, and social change and transformation are naturally evaluated within the spectrum of cinematic experience. At this point, the change of gender, that is, the roles of men and women have also been added to the film culture as a part of the complex cinematic experience and has even turned into codes repeated for years through some genres. In this context, horror cinema can be indicated as one of the strongest carriers of these ongoing cinematic experiences in the context of gender as it is often the result of a heteronormative perspective created in the accompaniment of male-dominated codes. Accordingly, it can be asserted that this cinematic point of view forms its own victims. In line with this argument, the main concern of this study is to discuss 4 different Turkish horror movie posters released in 2021 in the context of the marginalization of women's identity. In this direction, the movie posters have been analyzed with semiotics, and as a result, it has been observed that despite all feminist struggles in cinema and the art world, the mentality about women is still portrayed with a negative approach.

Crisis: Sovereign or Distributed?

In the face of a proliferation of texts framing ongoing events and experiences in terms of crisis, a new critical literature has emerged to interrogate the political, moral, and epistemological assumptions and blind spots of this way of understanding the modern world. In this special issue, we engage with this new body of work on crisis by distinguishing between two models—sovereign and distributed. While the sovereign model of crisis fleshes out the link between crisis and political power, the distributed model points to the social fragmentation and confusion that crisis-claims can provoke when they are made outside established institutional channels—when they are distributed across disparate audiences. Understanding the relationship between crisis and sovereignty on the one hand, and between crisis-claims and their audiences on the other, sheds new light on the narrative and performative effects of crisis.

The Role of Personal Centrality of Ingroup Victimhood in Intergroup Relations and Political Agenda in Northern Ireland

Even though the violent conflicts during the Troubles officially ended decades ago, the memories of violence and division between Catholics and Protestants linger in Northern Ireland. We argue that the personal centrality of collective victimhood, which is formed by the memory and perception of past and ongoing victimization, may play an important role in people's attitudes in postconflict societies. The current study investigated both the antecedents and outcomes of the personal centrality of ingroup victimhood in Northern Ireland and examined the vital role it plays in the aftermath of a violent intergroup conflict among Catholics and Protestants. The results demonstrated that ongoing experiences of victimization such as personal and group‐level discrimination and memories of personal and close others' suffering are strongly related to people's personal centrality of ingroup victimhood. The centrality of ingroup victimhood, in turn, predicted various strategies for intergroup interaction and policy preferences such as collective action, support for nonviolence, and attitudes toward reunification of Ireland, which were moderated by group membership. The findings provide empirical evidence for the role of the centrality of ingroup victimhood as a link between experiences of victimization and intergroup interactions as well as policy preferences.

Successful scaling of Edible City Solutions to promote food citizenship and sustainability in food system transitions

Sustainable, productive and biodiversity-friendly urban landscapes are a strategic step in transitioning to future-proof, liveable and healthy cities Edible nature-based solutions, otherwise known as “Edible City Solutions”, comprise a wide range of different forms of sustainable urban food production, distribution and consumption which use innovative principles of ecological design combined with closed material and energy flows. Edible City Solutions contribute to a local green economy, reduce cities' overall ecological footprint, enhance social cohesion, human health and wellbeing and contribute to bridging the gap between “farm and fork”. These benefits have been tested and monitored in Living Labs where a wide portfolio of different solutions have been implemented and scaled in order to accelerate their uptake and use in urban landscapes. The study documents and analyses different scaling practices and activities of the co-created Living Labs – together with local actors within the “scaling community” in Andernach, Berlin, Havanna, Oslo and Rotterdam. We follow a mixed method approach and analyse data by applying the different scaling pathways of scaling up, scaling deep, scaling wide, scaling across and scaling soft previously identified through a systematic literature review. Results are presented as ongoing scaling stories, experiences and challenges in the Living Labs. The study also highlights examples of scaling practices beyond the Living Labs and suggests strategic plans for future scaling. Scaling processes, strategies and approaches are critically reviewed and discussed. Observations are condensed into eleven recommendations for scaling edible nature-based solutions.

Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour

Self-reported experiences of racial discrimination are quite prevalent among the adult population of colour in South Africa. This article will argue that ongoing experiences of racial intolerance encourage participation in hate crime. To validate this thesis, two models are tested: (a) the Common Ingroup Identity (CII) and (b) Social Identity Threats (SITs). The former suggests that experiences of discrimination can help create a shared ‘disadvantaged’ identity that produces intergroup tolerance. The latter contends that group discrimination undermines social norms and the stress caused can encourage aggression. The study examined participation in anti-immigrant violence as well as behavioural intention towards the same. Nationally representative survey data from the South African Social Attitudes Survey was used. Multinomial regression analysis found that experiences of perceived personal and collective discrimination influenced participation in hate crime. This finding was consistent with the SITs model rather than the CII model. Socio-economic status was found to buffer the influence of racial discrimination, showing how economic advantages helped people cope with adverse situations. Study outcomes demonstrate how the legacy of white settler colonialism has contributed to xenophobia in the post-apartheid period. Policy interventions (especially those targeting the poor) that reduce racial discrimination will decrease public participation in hate crime.

PANDEMIC VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE FINDINGS FROM THE COVID-19 COPING STUDY

Abstract The COVID-19 Coping Study aims to investigate social, behavioral, health, and economic impacts of the pandemic on the health and wellbeing of aging Americans. A total of 6,938 adults aged ≥55 were recruited from all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico from April-May, 2020, using a multi-frame online recruitment strategy. Participants completed a 20-minute baseline survey and a subset were recruited to complete monthly follow-up surveys for one year. A random subsample of 57 participants completed semi-structured interviews in May-July, 2021. This symposium will share novel mixed-methods insights into the ongoing experiences, perspectives, significant life events, and mental health changes among aging US adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, Kobayashi will describe the dynamic, longitudinal relationships between loneliness, anxiety, and COVID-19 worry with cognitive function and abilities. Second, Abrams investigates long-term employment outcomes and mental health trajectories among a particularly vulnerable group of older adults: those who experienced work disruptions and job loss early in the pandemic. Third, Meltzer will share how particular groups of older adults were more likely to report greater closures of key places to socialize in their neighborhoods since the pandemic onset. Fourth, Finlay will present a qualitative thematic analysis of ongoing pandemic sources of risk and vulnerability among marginalized and underserved aging adults. The symposium highlights diverse strengths and resiliencies to cope with adversities of the pandemic. Findings may inform individual- strategies and community-level policies to support aging adults during times of collective stress and trauma.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT RECESSION: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RECESSION EXPERIENCES AND DAILY INDICES OF WELL-BEING

Abstract The current study examined the associations of positive and negative experiences during the Great Recession (GR) with levels of daily well-being. In 2012, participants from the Midlife in the United States Refresher survey reported on their positive or negative GR experiences related to job, housing, or finances. A subsample, selected into the National Study of Daily Experiences (N=782), also reported on their daily levels of health and well-being across eight consecutive days and provided saliva samples, from which cortisol was assayed. The number of negative GR experiences reported related to poorer daily well-being (negative and positive affect, physical symptoms, stress severity, and cortisol daily peak-to-nadir ratio), whereas, the number of positive GR experiences was only related to lower severity of daily stressors (β=–0.03, p=.03). Examining specific GR experiences revealed that individuals who reported bad housing experience during the GR reported higher daily levels of negative affect (β=0.14, p&amp;lt;.001), physical symptoms (β=0.90, p&amp;lt;.001), and frequency of stressor days (β=0.01, p&amp;lt;.001), and lower daily levels of positive affect (β=–0.19, p=.02). Bad financial experience was related to more physical symptoms (β=0.62, p&amp;lt;.001) and greater severity of daily stressors (β=0.14, p=.03). Conversely, positive financial experiences were related to greater cortisol daily peak-to-nadir ratio (β=1.98, p=.03), but also greater frequency of stressor days (β=0.05, p=.01). Results highlight the potential influence of major economic strains on our ongoing daily experiences. This work has implications for policy and interventions around supporting midlife and older adults facing economic strains, in order to improve daily well-being.

421 CARDIO-NEURO ABLATION WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION USING THE CARTO 3 SYSTEM CFAE MODULE

Abstract Introduction Ganglionated Plexi (GP) ablation has been revived by the recent interest in cardioneuroablation (CNA) in the field of vasovagal syncope (VVS). Many small observational studies and a multicenter registry showed a valuable effect of GP ablation on vagal hyperactivity modulation, eliminating the need for a permanent pacing device implantation in both functional atrioventricular block (AVB) and sinus node block (SNB). We suggest a standardized approach to fragmented activity signal analysis and automated workflow using CARTO3 mapping system (Johnson &amp; Johnson Biosense Webster Inc., CA, USA) built-in CFAE software to pursue vagal denervation in different clinical settings. Methods The first patient enrolled was a 28-year-old lady admitted to the emergency department of IRCCS Cà Granda Hospital, in Milan, for yet another episode of syncope of undetermined origin complicated by facial trauma. Since the rest electrocardiogram (ECG) was completely normal and family screening was negative for sudden cardiac death (SCD), we decided for long term ECG monitoring with an implantable loop recorder (ILR). During follow-up, another traumatic syncope occurred and a 26 sec sinus arrest interrupted by a single escape beat was recorded. We advised a pacemaker implant proposing the CNA as a therapeutic alternative. Technique: We used CARTO3 mapping system and the ablation and mapping catheter for electroanatomical model creation of both atria. Left atrial access was granted via transeptal puncture using a Brockenbrough Needle (BRK1, Abbott) and a Preface 8.5 f transeptal sheath. We used the complex atrial fractionated electrograms (CFAE) software to localize the GP. The target signal was characterised by more than 3 deflections, named confidence interval levels (ICL) on the system, lasting at least 2 msec each and an amplitude above 0.06 millivolts. Since the system acquires points analyzing 2.5 sec (2 sec before and 0.5 sec after the reference), in this time the total number of ICL is strongly dependent on the heart rate (HR). The settings for the color bar confidence level extremities should be established considering the number of beats every 2.5 sec and the desired minimum number of ICL plus the ventricular deflection in the areas surrounding the mitral and tricuspid valves. It must be considered that this feature, whose intention was to map AF, interferes with the accuracy of the window of interest including the ventricular far fields in the counts. We choose duration value intervals ranging from 2 msec, to include rapid deflections of the fragmented activity, to 140 msec to be as inclusive as possible. The selected threshold values ranged from 0.06 millivolts, in order to exclude noise and necrotic areas, to 1.5 millivolts, trying to avoid ventricular far field signals. We set the color bar limits from 15 to 20, eliminating the less fragmented signals as we decided to target areas with more than 7 deflections (Figure 1). The maps we obtained showed fragmented activity in the areas corresponding to the right superior GP in the superior vena cava, the right inferior GP close to the fossa ovalis, the left superior GP on the anterior aspect of the left superior pulmonary vein antrum and the left posteromedial GP in the posteromedial region, behind the aortic non coronary cusp. We started the CNA in the right atrium and then in the left atrium and we observed progressive increase of HR. ILR monitoring after ablation highlighted a reduction of daily heart rate variability and an increase of average heart rate especially at rest, confirming the effectiveness of CNA. Conclusions We find that CARTO3 mapping system may be used for GP detection and ablation as effectively as other mapping systems in a “non-visual” approach. Automatization and optimization of the workflow requires further improvements in the CFAE module. The opportunity to avoid device implantation in younger with functional syncope is, in our humble opinion, a milestone in the history of electrophysiology. In our ongoing center experience, the GP ablation is proving to be a promising option also for quality of life improvements in brady-tachy patients.

Agricoltura di montagna in divenire: Approcci alle sfide agroalimentari in Trentino

The current paper belongs to a set of ongoing multi-scalar and trans-disciplinary research studies investigating potential approaches for regenerating rural areas in the Alpine areas of Italy, which have been suffering for years from underused phenomena (Balducci, 2019; Gretter et al., 2018a).The paper focuses mainly on the territory of the Autonomous Province of Trento to investigate how farmers face the current challenges in different ways while looking for sustainable and viable systems from the ecological and socio-economic perspectives (Bender & Haller, 2017). Trentino’s cultural context reflects a long tradition of specific law rules, which have granted a degree of self-government capabilities in various sectors such as territorial planning and land use policies, culture and school system, or social services (Gretter et al., 2018b).Rather than present specific results based on deep quantity-qualitative analysis, the goal of the manuscript is to overview the peculiar features of this alpine territory, opening a series of inputs of reflection and discussions. Some have already been locally activated, but most must be addressed in a broader and systemic approach, involving a more comprehensive series of stakeholders, moving from public authorities to citizens.In this manuscript, we highlight ongoing experiences that the Trentino Agro-food value chain faces today and how this impact the territory and its cultural landscapes’ preservation.

Mountain Farming in the Making: Approaches to Alpine Rural Agro-food Challenges in Trentino

The current paper belongs to a set of ongoing multi-scalar and trans-disciplinary research studies investigating potential approaches for regenerating rural areas in the Alpine areas of Italy, which have been suffering for years from underused phenomena (Balducci, 2019; Gretter et al., 2018a).The paper focuses mainly on the territory of the Autonomous Province of Trento to investigate how farmers face the current challenges in different ways while looking for sustainable and viable systems from the ecological and socio-economic perspectives (Bender & Haller, 2017). Trentino’s cultural context reflects a long tradition of specific law rules, which have granted a degree of self-government capabilities in various sectors such as territorial planning and land use policies, culture and school system, or social services (Gretter et al., 2018b).Rather than present specific results based on deep quantity-qualitative analysis, the goal of the manuscript is to overview the peculiar features of this alpine territory, opening a series of inputs of reflection and discussions. Some have already been locally activated, but most must be addressed in a broader and systemic approach, involving a more comprehensive series of stakeholders, moving from public authorities to citizens.In this manuscript, we highlight ongoing experiences that the Trentino Agro-food value chain faces today and how this impact the territory and its cultural landscapes’ preservation.