Insights Of People Research Articles

Seeing through Events: Real-Time Moving Object Sonification for Visually Impaired People Using Event-Based Camera.

Scene sonification is a powerful technique to help Visually Impaired People (VIP) understand their surroundings. Existing methods usually perform sonification on the entire images of the surrounding scene acquired by a standard camera or on the priori static obstacles acquired by image processing algorithms on the RGB image of the surrounding scene. However, if all the information in the scene are delivered to VIP simultaneously, it will cause information redundancy. In fact, biological vision is more sensitive to moving objects in the scene than static objects, which is also the original intention of the event-based camera. In this paper, we propose a real-time sonification framework to help VIP understand the moving objects in the scene. First, we capture the events in the scene using an event-based camera and cluster them into multiple moving objects without relying on any prior knowledge. Then, sonification based on MIDI is enabled on these objects synchronously. Finally, we conduct comprehensive experiments on the scene video with sonification audio attended by 20 VIP and 20 Sighted People (SP). The results show that our method allows both participants to clearly distinguish the number, size, motion speed, and motion trajectories of multiple objects. The results show that our method is more comfortable to hear than existing methods in terms of aesthetics.

Korupsi Versus Hibah dan Hadiah

This study discusses the issue of corruption that occurs in human life. However, the problem is how the grants and gifts given to certain parties are categorized as corruption. This research is library research which is analyzed with a qualitative approach with national law and Islamic law perspectives. The results showed that from the point of view of Islamic law, people's insights were very limited to the issue of bribes and rewards. Some people think that bribery is not a crime, but only a small mistake. Some others, even so, that bribes are forbidden, but they do not care about the prohibition, let alone because they get the benefits. On the other hand, society perceives the bribe as a gift or a token of gratitude. Some even think of it as money for the help someone has given, so they don't feel it as a mistake or even a crime.

Pemanfaatan bahan baku lokal dalam pengembangan wisata Pulau Cinta di Desa Teluk Kenidai Kecamatan Tambang Kabupaten Kampar Provinsi Riau

Teluk Kenidai Village is located in Tambang District, Kampar Regency, Riau Province. Teluk Kenidai Village has the potential for natural tourism in the form of beaches, which are one of the alternative tourist destinations for the community. The activities carried out are playing various kinds of rides and swimming on the banks of the Kampar River. The visitors to the island of love in Kenidai Bay are the largest visitors of all tourist objects in Kampar Regency. The existence of the island of love tourism can develop the community's economy by providing special foods as souvenirs and drinks for tourist visitors. Alternative foods that can be done are processed crispy monitor fish and lime syrup drinks because these two things have very high potential in Kampar Regency, and can provide added value to people's lives. The purpose of the activity is to empower the people of Teluk Kenidai Village, to process various crispy monitoring fish and to increase the attractiveness of the island of love for visiting tourists. The benefits of the activity are opening up people's insights in increasing the potential of natural resources, gaining skills and abilities in making crispy monitor fish and lime syrup to improve the economy. The method is carried out by demonstration and hands-on practice in the manufacture of crispy monitoring fish and lime syrup. The target communities are the people living in Teluk Kenidai Village and village customary leaders and the Tourism Awareness Group (Pokdarwis) totaling 15 people. Evaluation is carried out by giving questionnaires to all participats before and after the delivery of counseling materials and practices. The results of the evaluation of the community service activities that have been carried out show that the increasing desire of the community in practicing extension activities to earn additional income by opening this bussines, especially in the tourist area of Pulau Cinta in Teluk Kenidai Village.

UNDERSTANDING QURANIC WORD OF KHIFTUM: A COMPARATIVE PERCEPTION ON POLYGAMY AMONG INDONESIAN AND MALAYSIAN SOCIETY

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare Indonesian and Malaysian Muslims in understanding the term of polygamy in Qur’an according to surah Annisa: 3 through their perspectives and perceptions of the word of khiftum.
 Methodology: This is a qualitative study which employs library material analysis with enrichment from questionnaire field observation and interview. Several material objects used such as Alwafi dictionary and Diwan dictionary. The difference in its meaning was analyzed by lexical decomposition. Field research was conducted in Indonesia and Malaysia. The impact of distinguishing between the words of khiftum meaning with polygamy’s theme in both countries compared and examined by descriptive statistics analysis.
 Main Findings: It was found that perception, the culture of context on polygamy and social views as well as legal policies of government on polygamy were influential in the translation of the word of khiftum in Qur’an.
 Applications: The significance of this research is to understand the correlation of different cultural backgrounds with people's insight into the related verses and people's responses to the practice of the verses.
 Novelty/Originality of this study: The current research contributes to the literature by providing in-depth knowledge about polygamy in two different cultures in light of the Quran and Islam. it will reveal the different meanings of the word of khafa, and describe the Malaysian and Indonesian Muslim points of view on the issue of polygamy as stipulated in Qur’an. The significance of this research is to understand the correlation of different cultural backgrounds with people's insight into the related verses and people's responses to the practice of the verses.

Marxist Art Understanding

Karl Marx, ekonomik ve toplumsal ilişkilere yoğunlaşarak kapitalist toplumun nasıl işlediğini, feodalizmin içinden nasıl doğduğunu, modern toplumdaki sınıfların üretimsel gelişimlerindeki tarihsel evrelerle nasıl bağlantılı olduğunu açıklamaya çalışır. Ekonomik ve toplumsal ilişkiler bağlamında kapitalizmin ardındaki temelde yatan sınıf mücadelelerini görünür kılarak üretici kaynakların sahibi olan burjuva sınıfının ve çalışmak zorunda olan proleterya sınıfının mücadelesini tarihsel materyalist bir bakışla ele alır. Zira Marksizm’de büyük öneme sahip olan “yabancılaşma kuramı”, “emek-değer kuramı” ve “materyalist tarih anlayışı”, kapitalist toplumun nasıl işlediğini göstermek ve feodal düzenden kapitalist düzene doğru insanların ekonomik temelli ilişkilerine yoğunlaşan evrimlerini açıklayan temel kavramlardır. Bu kavramlar aracılığıyla Marks, sosyal ve tarihsel bir varlık olan insana kapitalizmin dünyasıyla ilgili epistomolojik bilgi aktarımı yaparken, insanların maddi dünyaya dair kavrayışlarını güçlendirir. Düşünceler ve kavramlar insanların maddi etkinliklerine bağımlı olduğu için sanat, toplumsal değişmenin ve dönüşmenin en etkin kuvvetidir. Maddi yaşamın karşıtlıklarından dünyaya dair bir izlenim oluşturur. Bu makalede özellikle sanatın etkin olan yönü vurgulanarak, insan yaşamının sosyo-ekonomik koşullarına entelektüel bir çerçeve çizilmeye çalışılmıştır. Ulaşılan sonuçlar bakımından, Marksist perspektiften hareketle sanatın sosyo-ekonomik koşullara, politik etkilere yönelik ilgisini karakterize eden entelektüel faaliyet sorunlaştırılmaktadır. Marksist temellerden yola çıkan yeni sanat anlayışı ile birlikte dünyayı değiştirmeye yönelik devrimci nitelikteki pratik amaç işlevselci bir sanat görüşünü onaylayacak şekilde temellendirilmektedir. Buradan hareketle Marksist açıdan ekonomik, politik, ideolojik yapılanmalarla karakterize edildiği düşünülen sanatın ne olduğu sorusunun cevabı belirlenmektedir.

Growing Insights and Youth Knowledge in the NFT Hydraulic Application (Nutrient Film Technique)

The more rapid growth of technology allows humans to work effectively and efficiently. Technology proves the way humans change patterns of significant social change, from those that initially used human power to machines. The way humans use machines is inseparable from the ways and techniques of its use which are effective and efficient. One of the technologies used is the technology of crop cultivation without using soil as a planting medium. The technology introduced is hydroponics. Hydroponics as a way of farming is an approach that has several advantages, namely the use of agricultural land that is not extensive, and the system is not too complicated. The introduction of this technology aims to provide insight and knowledge to the public about the technology of crop cultivation in addition to conventional farming systems. This activity was carried out in Rayung gumuk Village, Glagah District, Lamongan Regency. The hydroponic system that we introduce is the NFT hydroponic system (Nutrient Film Technique). The goal is because the hydroponic system is easily applied and has several significant advantages. The first method of implementation is socialization.This is done to find out the extent to which people's insights and knowledge about hydroponics and the interests and interests of the community towards hydroponic using the NFT system. Moreover, the second is training. It aims to provide techniques and methods for assembling NFT hydroponic installations. From the results of our activities, the community's response to hydroponics is still minimal because some of them still consider hydroponic use too costly and their disinterest in agriculture.

#Cyberbullying in the digital age: Exploring people's opinions with text mining

ABSTRACTThis study used text mining to investigate people's insights about cyberbullying. English‐language tweets were collected and analyzed by R software. Our analysis demonstrated three major themes: (a) the major actions that needed to be taken into consideration (e.g. guiding parents and teachers to cyberbullying prevention, funding schools to cope with cyberbullying), (b) certain events that were important to people (e.g. the Michigan cyberbullying law), and (c) people's major concerns in this regard (e.g. mental health issues among students). Parents and teachers have an important role in educating, informing, warning, preventing, and protecting against cyberbullying behaviors. The frequency of negative sentiments was almost 2.45 times more than positive sentiments.

Educating on the margins: young people's insights into effective alternative education

ABSTRACTLike many countries, Australia has persistent rates of school exclusion, juvenile offending and recidivism. In response, there has been a growth of ‘alternative education’ provision – interventions that support young people to engage with learning opportunities outside the conventional education system. While alternative education programs educate more than 70,000 students each year across Australia, evidence of their effectiveness is lacking. There is a need to expand understandings of how alternative education provision works in practice, and what models best fit the complex needs of different groups of young people. This paper reports on Out Teach Mobile Education – an individualised alternative education program run by Save the Children, Tasmania. This unique program, operating out of a van, aims to engage young people, who have been involved with the criminal justice system, in further education and employment opportunities. In the paper, the young people involved identify how and why they believe the program works. The young people's perspectives provide valuable understandings of how ‘meaningful education’ in one specific program looks to the individuals involved. The article concludes by arguing that an authentic assessment of alternative education programs must include the voices of the young people whose lives these programs are aimed at improving.

Depth Echolocation Learnt by Novice Sighted People.

Some blind people have developed a unique technique, called echolocation, to orient themselves in unknown environments. More specifically, by self-generating a clicking noise with the tongue, echolocators gain knowledge about the external environment by perceiving more detailed object features. It is not clear to date whether sighted individuals can also develop such an extremely useful technique. To investigate this, here we test the ability of novice sighted participants to perform a depth echolocation task. Moreover, in order to evaluate whether the type of room (anechoic or reverberant) and the type of clicking sound (with the tongue or with the hands) influences the learning of this technique, we divided the entire sample into four groups. Half of the participants produced the clicking sound with their tongue, the other half with their hands. Half of the participants performed the task in an anechoic chamber, the other half in a reverberant room. Subjects stood in front of five bars, each of a different size, and at five different distances from the subject. The dimension of the bars ensured a constant subtended angle for the five distances considered. The task was to identify the correct distance of the bar. We found that, even by the second session, the participants were able to judge the correct depth of the bar at a rate greater than chance. Improvements in both precision and accuracy were observed in all experimental sessions. More interestingly, we found significantly better performance in the reverberant room than in the anechoic chamber. The type of clicking did not modulate our results. This suggests that the echolocation technique can also be learned by sighted individuals and that room reverberation can influence this learning process. More generally, this study shows that total loss of sight is not a prerequisite for echolocation skills this suggests important potential implications on rehabilitation settings for persons with residual vision.

Modality Specificity of Horizontal Metaphoric Representation of Time: A Comparison Study Between the Blind and Sighted People

The conceptualization of the abstract concept—— "time" need to be grounded on a more concrete conceptual domain——"space". It has been demonstrated that this "left-past, right-future" representation of time is psychologically real, and the experience responsible for the representation of time is related to the exposure of participants to a left-to-right orthographic system. That is to say, the reading/writing directionality affects the representation of temporal sequences. There are two theories which try to explain this finding:the perceptual symbol theory and the propositional symbol theory. Perceptual symbol theory assures that the left-right mapping of time is perceptual, while propositional symbol theory assures that this mapping is linked to the abstract, amodal concept of time. The most substantial difference between these two theories is whether a perceptual facilitation effect with temporal words focuses on a specific modality. The present study aimed to test whether it could be accessed through auditory modalities. Experiment 1 explored the modality specificity of horizontal metaphoric representation of time by the blind people who carried out a time nature judgement task on auditorily presented words referring either to the past or the future. A 2×2×2 repeated measure design was adopted with independent variables of temporal reference (past / future), target location (left / right) and response location (left / right).The results showed horizontal metaphoric representation of time only was observed at the motoric level of the blind people. The blind people were faster responding to past words or sentences with their left hands and to future words or sentences with their right hands. These results indicated that spatial information which was used to represent time was perceptual. Contrary to the reading directionality of the blind people, the writing directionality of the blind people is right-to-left. The results showed that the directionality of metaphoric representation of time was not coherent with the writing directionality of the blind people. It suggested that the sensory-motor experience was related to the reading habits of the blind people. In Experiment 2, the sighted people were divided into two groups: the sighed group and the blindfolded group. The procedure of experiment 2 was the same as in experiment 1. A 2×2×2×2 mixed design was used. Two groups of participants differing in the spatial frame of reference showed different results. Only when the words were auditorily presented on the right side, did the blind-folded show the patterns of congruency between response side and temporal reference at the motoric level. This result further proved the positions of perceptual symbol theory. It is well known that the spatial cognition of the blind people is different from the sighted ones. So, a comprehensive analysis of data of the two experiments above was made to test whether the three groups had different horizontal metaphoric representation of time. A 3×2×2×2 mixed design was used. The results of the blind people and sighted people were similar. Neither of them was affected by the auditory spatial information in the horizontal metaphoric representation of time, which suggested that the the spatial cognitive ability in the blind's motoric modality compensated the loss of sight.

The Roundup

The Roundup

To be ‘cool’ or not to be ‘cool’: young people's insights on consumption and social issues in Rio de Janeiro

Given the importance of material goods consumption to young people and the perception that to be ‘cool’ is fundamental to identity construction, this study investigates consumption in relation to social, economic and cultural inequalities. Qualitative individual interviews took place in November 2005, in Rio de Janeiro, with 14 high school students, age range 16–18, from public and private schools, and diverse backgrounds. In the context of global changes, Brazil is pushed towards a more advanced economic development, though basic needs of most of its population are not met. Serious contrasts continually reinforce and reproduce social and economic inequalities, through prejudice and segregation based on race, gender, residence and origin. Poor youngsters face the challenges of living in a globalised but unequal society, such as inadequate education, transition from school to labour markets, unemployment and less social participation. The data suggested that consumption is important to provide the feeling of being ‘cool’, ‘fitting in’ and experiencing inclusion though inequalities are an obstacle to consumption. In divided societies, to consume or dream of consuming create illusions of belonging to different classes, and escaping from poverty; however, respondents argued that education is the most important factor for improving social and economic conditions.

The Role of Visual Experience in Mental Scanning of Actual Pathways: Evidence from Blind and Sighted People

In this research we compare blind and normally sighted people in mental scanning of spatial maps using locomotor or visual/locomotor exploration of a real 3-D environment. Different types of visual experience were tested: early (congenital) and late (adventitious) onset of blindness, short-term deprivation (blindfolded-sighted), and full vision (sighted). Participants were asked to learn six positions in a large parking area with movement alone (congenital, adventitious, blindfolded-sighted) or with vision plus movement (sighted), and then to mentally scan between positions in the path. Finally, they had to describe how they imagined scanning the learned pathway. We found a significant linear relation between space and time, ie the classic mental scanning effect, in all tested groups. However, the linear component was lower in blind participants, especially congenital. Instead, short-term visual deprivation had minimal impact on mental scanning. Overall, blind participants had shorter scanning times than both sighted groups, and the effect was particularly evident with farther distances. These results suggest that there is a quantitative rather than a qualitative difference between the blind and the sighted. In addition, the mental scanning strategies reported by participants also affected mental scanning times. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.

Evaluation of hospital service level agreements

The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the development and use of service level agreements (SLAs) in a Belgian hospital from a client's point of view. The paper is based on a theoretical framework indicating the variables that influence the relationship between the use of a specific governance mechanisms and performance, a new instrument was developed and applied on a convenience sample of 107 SLA clients from a Belgian hospital. SLAs are useful for hospitals, as they improve people's insight into processes, stimulate people to think about performance measurement and, in some cases, also lead to improved services. The main advantages of SLAs do not really lie in improved relationships and better fits with clients' needs, but in improved process mapping and improved performance measurement. The questionnaire from this research study proves to be a useful and reliable instrument for evaluating internal SLAs from a client's point of view. The results of this study are limited, as they are only based on one Belgian institution. Other limitations include the posttest-only research design and the unequal distribution of the respondents over the different SLAs. Recommendations for future research include applying the questionnaire in other Belgian hospitals and in settings where both a pretest and posttest can be conducted. As far as known, no other studies have yet evaluated the effectiveness of SLAs in the healthcare sector. While a fairly-substantial amount of scientific literature deals with SLAs in the world of ICT, this literature is often very specific and cannot always be applied to other service sectors.

Letters

Children aged five to 12 will be given the opportunity gain insight into what it would be like to be visually impaired while raising money to support blind and partially sighted people across the UK. This is Action for Blind People's Insight Challenge.

Light of Day Scaffolding a Theology of Youth Ministry

Is Youth Ministry involved in the creation of new theology? This article assesses the potential of engaging in a 'living theology' by listening to and liaising with the spiritual insights of young people. The conditions for such a theology are created by three movements towards young people. Initially, by noticing and respecting their voices, secondly through crafting space within our theorising for young people's insight to shape theological understanding and thirdly by embracing the lives of young people as a site for connection with God and the construction of theology.

Muscularity, the Habitus and the Social Construction of Gender: Towards a gender-relevant physical education

This paper begins to develop the concept of gender-relevant physical education, combining the work of Pierre Bourdieu and his notion of the habitus and feminist philosopher Iris Marion Young's analysis of feminine motility. It draws on data generated from a study of young people's articulation of the relationships between muscularity, physicality and gender. The social construction of the body has been of central importance to the construction of femininities and masculinities, and has formed an enduring meta-theme through much of the research on physical education and gender. We build on the young people's insights to argue that Bourdieu's notions of the habitus and the exchange of physical capital provide a useful means of conceptualizing issues of embodiment and gender in school physical education and sport. We conclude by sketching an outline of gender-relevant physical education as a process of interrupting the habitus.

People's insight into their own behaviour and speech content while lying

The present experiment examined participants' insight into their own behaviour and speech content while lying. It was hypothesized that participants would believe that while lying they show more behaviour stereotypical of lying than they in fact do (Hypothesis 1), whereas they would believe that their own speech content while lying contains fewer stereotypical features than in fact is true (Hypothesis 2). A stereotypical response was defined as a response people generally believe liars usually show. A total of 86 nursing students were interviewed twice about a film they had just seen. During one interview they were asked to tell the truth whereas they had to lie in the other interview. All interviews were videotaped, transcribed and then scored by independent coders. The coders' analyses reveal participants' actual behaviour and speech content. Participants themselves were asked to indicate in a questionnaire how they believed they behaved and what they believed they said in both interviews. To test the hypotheses, comparisons were made between participants' actual responses and their beliefs about their own responses. The results support both hypotheses and implications of these outcomes for the detection of deception are discussed.

Desert Island Column: A Trip to Carthea

We travel from the port of Piraeus to the island of Kea by private boat. It takes ninety minutes to reach cape Sounio, and then another ninety minutes in the open seas of the Aegean to reach Kea. We follow the southern edge of the island moving east. The landscape is barren: small bushes, hills and mountains in the background, the odd farm, beautiful beaches. Every bay we pass seems inviting. But we are heading for Carthea. We find it, yet another bay among many. But it’s special too. This was the site of a 30,000 inhabitant city sometime 25 centuries ago. We set anchor in the bay. There are steep mountains all around, making the place unreachable by land. At the centre of the bay there is a hill with the remnants of a temple and a fortress, typical accessories for this kind of landscape anywhere in the world. Left and right from the hill there are valleys with fig trees and bushes. At the rightmost edge of the bay there is a sharp rocky cliff, with signs curved out (ancient? :::modern? :::who knows). There are stones everywhere, large, small, flat, round :::Could it be that the ancient city was built out of these humble stones? We reach the coast, climb up to the temple and admire the setting. We eat wild figs, and take some with us for the boat. As we walk downhill the sun is beating down on us hard. Then we reach the water, and it’s instant bliss. We swim where ancient seafarers launched their boats. We swim some more, back and forth between the beach and the boat. The water looks like patches of blue and green, feels cool and clean. There are no other boats or people in sight. Our bay is deserted. OUR bay!!! We will spend a day in Carthea. At night we sleep on the deck and watch the Milky Way in all its splendor till our eyes logout. Sleeping in the fanciest hotel never felt as comfortable as this. The air is crisp, there are no bugs, the temperature is perfect, and the universe is performing, just for us. This is my desert island. The rescue is on-site and the departure time is fixed. But, there is time to kill in the heat of the afternoon and the early hours of the evening. So, I check what reading material I brought along. Not much, actually, (“:::wise move John!” I think to myself) except for some required reading from my graduate course on “Requirements Engineering”. I choose to re-read the two papers by Doug Ross (Ross 1977a, 1977b), published in the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , January 1977 issue. I’ve read these papers many times over 20 years. Could it be that the landscape of Carthea will bring forward new inspirations? Let’s try. My perspective won’t be technical. I don’t believe that anyone can think technically on a desert island, certainly not me, and most definitely not in Carthea. (Hope this doesn’t disqualify me instantly from publishing in this column.) Instead, I’ll try to give a feel of how visionary Ross’ ideas were, then and now.

Insights and Applications Local Soil Knowledge: A Tool for Sustainable Land Management

Local soil knowledge is an important source of information when designing sustain able land management strategies. Local people's insights, perceptions, and manage ment strategies are often attuned to local soil conditions and can offer guidance for realistic land management. This article reviews the existing literature on local soil knowledge and suggests ways it can be used more effectively in sustainable land management. I discuss three genres of local soil knowledge writing: the ethno graphical literature, nomenclature descriptions, and more utilitarian writing. I then offer suggestions for future local soil knowledge studies, broadening local soil know ledge to include the knowledge of physical processes, linking soil knowledge with socioeconomic context, and integrating local with scientific knowledge through the use of participatory methodologies for future research. These suggestions will high light how local soil knowledge can be an effective tool in sustainable land manage ment.