Popular Attitude Research Articles

“Where Maga Falls, Guyman Go Wack”: Recollections of the Igbo Tortoise Figure in Selected Cybercrime Narratives

Where “Maga” Falls, “Guyman” Go Wack is a Nigerian cybercrime slang that metaphorises scamming a “Maga”, a potential victim. This sarcasm is often channelled towards the maga, whose “fall” is a “blessing” (wack) for the smart “guyman.” The ambivalence of “maga falls and guyman wack” dominates the internet scamming discourse where the contemporary trickster, the guyman, not only exhausts the entire wittiness to entrap the victim to do his bid, but also trivialises the deadly crime scheme as a game of wits in order to boost his ego towards committing more crimes. This popular modern attitude, which appears to have streamed from an overrated admirable qualities of the trickster figure explains the morale of this study. I examine deceitful strategies in two selected cybercrime narratives of Igbo authors (a novel and a short story) as well as six selected Igbo trickster (Tortoise) tales in order to reveal the shared similarities of trickery strategies of con protagonists that are worlds apart, where the tricksters’ egoism foreshadows self-imposed calamity. Using the Jungean Theory of Collective Consciousness, I reveal the belief of self-destruction as a traditional restraint measure to excessive opportunism where treachery constitutes a metaphor for brevity of life and other misfortunes.

Return to Sport Using Corticosteroid Injections for Knee Pain in Triathletes.

Introduction Despite the prevalence of corticosteroid injections in athletes, little is known about their efficacy in triathletes. We aim to assess attitudes, use, subjective effectiveness, and time to return to sport with corticosteroid injections compared to alternative methods in triathletes with knee pain. Methods This is an observational study during the COVID-19 pandemic.Triathletes answered a 13-question survey posted to three triathlon-specific websites. Results Sixty-one triathletes responded, 97% of whom experienced knee pain at some point in their triathlete career; 63% with knee pain received a corticosteroid injection as treatment (average age 51 years old). The most popular attitude (44.3%) regarding corticosteroid injections was "tried them, with good improvement".Most found the cortisone injection helpful for two to three months (28.6%), or more than one year (28.6%); of individuals who found the injections useful for more than oneyear, four-eight (50%) had received multiple injections during that same period. After injection, 80.6% returned to sport within one month. The average age of people using alternative treatment methods was 39 years old; most returned to sport within one month (73.7%). Compared to alternative methods, there was an ~80% higher odds of returning to sport within one month using corticosteroid injections; however, this relationship was not significant (OR=1.786, p=0.480, 95% CI:0.448-7.09). Conclusion This is the first study to examine corticosteroid use in triathletes. Corticosteroid use is more common in older triathletes and results in subjective pain improvement. A strong association does not exist for a quicker return to sport using corticosteroid injections compared to alternative methods. Triathletes should be counseled on the timing of injections, duration of side effects, and be aware of potential risks.

명말 청초 경계인 李漁의 초상 ― 『笠翁詩集』을 통하여

Li Yu has many facets and is a representative figure by whom we can look into the period of late Ming and early Qing society in detail. However, there is a prejudice that the popular and entertainment attitude shown in novels and comedies will lead to the estimating about creation of poetry, amid doubts about authenticity, studies on Li yu

Review: Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration, by Rachel Schreiber

Review: <i>Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration</i>, by Rachel Schreiber

Character education development model for children based on sintuvu local wisdom in Binangga Village, Marawola sub-district, Sigi regency

This article is based on the findings of a study driven by worries about the current state of education, which emphasizes the importance of developing children's character in society. Character crises are ubiquitous, as seen by the increasingly popular attitude of the younger generation, which has lost touch with society's manners or cultural values, pushing them to depart from established norms. The study objective is to offer a model for promoting children's character education by enhancing the local wisdom of Sintuvu values in Binangga Village, Marawola Sub-district, Sigi Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. In this study, the FGD (Focus Group Discussion) and interviews are used in a field research paradigm or a field study to do qualitative research. The findings of this study show that sintuvu, as mutual-cooperation values for the Kaili community in Binangga Village, should be instilled in children through education, both official and informal schooling. As a result, parental involvement in education has a substantial impact on aspects of children's character development beginning at a young age.

The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy

What prolonged implications does conflict escalation have on voting behavior? The literature focuses primarily on the immediate effect of violent events on voting in nearby elections, leaving open questions about longer-term consequences. This article examines this question by studying Israel, where violent escalation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s was followed by an unexpected electoral outcome: the emergence and consolidation of a new centrist bloc that transformed a longstanding Left-Right partisan divide into a three-bloc system. Using two decades of survey data, it is argued that this shift is best explained by a long-term attitudinal change toward the conflict by many Israelis after the escalation. Rather than a strictly hawkish shift, many voters have become ‘Doubtful Doves’: supportive of territorial compromise in principle, but skeptical about reaching an agreement with the Palestinians in practice. This underdiscussed attitudinal structure, dovish but doubtful, has formed a new electoral base for centrist parties, breaking the traditional Left-Right dichotomy. These findings illustrate that violent periods in conflicts can cause non-trivial long-term changes in popular attitude structures and voting patterns, which, under the right conditions, can trigger electoral re-equilibration.

Постмодерн как «не-объект». К критике онтологии и языка постмодернистской самоидентификации

The article considers the internal contradictions of the popular attitude, accord­ing to which postmodernism as such, in principle, “is not an object” (current, style, school, etc.). At best, it is assigned a set of intentions and conditions that characterize the “situation of postmodernism”. However, in postmodernism it­self, which rejects binary oppositions, the concept of an object is generally elimi­nated. In traditional logic, on the contrary, there is nothing that could not be an object in its proper and strict sense. These inconsistencies are generated by the forced mixing of languages – the inevitable inclusion of postmodern dis­course in traditional contexts. The semantic distinctions of the concepts of post­modernity, postmodern, postmodernism are introduced. The invariance of post­modernism as an object is revealed only at the level of form, including the basic characteristics of the language – its syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Language collisions continue in the relationship of the paradigms themselves. Modernity turns out to be a project, not only unfinished (Habermas), but also unfinishable, and postmodernity is a purely secondary phenomenon in its initial reactivity. This sets the limits of what is possible in the new search for a way out of post­modernism into post-postmodernism, neoclassicism, after-postmodernism, etc.

Carceral and Colonial Memory During Pandemic Times in the Philippines

#CommunityPantryPH is a mutual aid movement that began in the Philippines in April 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The movement is founded on the slogan ‘give what you can afford, take what you need.’ Instead of the movement receiving an overwhelming welcome, especially within conditions of food scarcity and health insecurity during the long-lasting pandemic, the Duterte government attacked volunteers with ‘red-tagging’ tactics—the malicious calling out of individuals as communists, which may result in harm both online and in real life to those red-tagged. The public response also circulated myths about the supposed indolence of Filipinos receiving aid and how the volunteers are fanning a culture of dependence among the poor. In this article, I introduce the concepts of ‘carceral memory’ and ‘colonial memory’ in understanding colonially inherited punitive, civilising, and self-deprecatory logics that have become embedded in postcolonial disciplinary regimes, and which suppress dissent and shape popular attitude and consciousness in the Global South.

Brentano's Fallacy: Moore's Arguments Against Brentano's Fitting Attitude Analysis of Value

Abstract According to the popular fitting attitude analysis of value, to be good is to be the object of a proattitude that it is fitting, in some sense, to have. One version of this analysis can be traced back to Franz Brentano, according to which “good” means “worthy of love.” In a review in Ethics of Brentano's The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong, G. E. Moore accuses Brentano of committing a fallacious inference, which I will call “Brentano's fallacy.” I shall show that Moore's accusation, properly formulated, hits the target and that his argument can be generalized so that it undermines other Brentano-like versions of the fitting attitude analysis.

Digilantism, discrimination, and punitive attitudes: A digital vigilantism model

In this article, I propose and apply a digital vigilantism model to a specific incident that occurred in Mexico, where the death of two innocent people was filmed through Facebook Live. Using a mixed methods approach and content analysis, I analyzed digilante Facebook posts ( N = 942) coding gender, digital vigilantism categories, discriminatory comments, and punitive attitudes aimed at the perpetrators and the inciter of the lynching. The categories include investigating, blaming, or rebuking, while the discriminatory comments include classism, racism, homophobia, and body-shaming. I coded the punitive attitudes distinguishing four categories: non-physical punishment (calling for God’s wrath and the guilty conscience of the targets), legal sanction, death, and other punishment. The findings reveal the key role gender played in digilantism: females tend to conduct more investigations and low level attacks (blaming) than males, but males tend to perpetrate more harsh attacks (rebuking) than females. The most popular punitive attitude is calling for the death of targets, revealing tensions between legal sanctions and digilantes’ desired punishment. This study suggests the presence of different expressions of discrimination and reasons to engage in digilantism, encompassing both legal and illegal behavior deployed in a mainstream social media platform such as Facebook.

An Open-Source Test Environment for Effective Development of MARG-Based Algorithms.

This paper presents an open-source environment for development, tuning, and performance evaluation of magnetic, angular rate, and gravity-based (MARG-based) filters, such as pose estimators and classification algorithms. The environment is available in both ROS/Gazebo and MATLAB/Simulink, and it contains a six-degrees of freedom (6 DOF) test bench, which simultaneously moves and rotates an MARG unit in the three-dimensional (3D) space. As the quality of MARG-based estimation becomes crucial in dynamic situations, the proposed test platform intends to simulate different accelerating and vibrating circumstances, along with realistic magnetic perturbation events. Moreover, the simultaneous acquisition of both the real pose states (ground truth) and raw sensor data is supported during these simulated system behaviors. As a result, the test environment executes the desired mixture of static and dynamic system conditions, and the provided database fosters the effective analysis of sensor fusion algorithms. The paper systematically describes the structure of the proposed test platform, from mechanical properties, over mathematical modeling and joint controller synthesis, to implementation results. Additionally, a case study is presented of the tuning of popular attitude estimation algorithms to highlight the advantages of the developed open-source environment.

Do Students and Professors Agree on the Attributes that Make up a Good Community College Professor?

Common terms used by students to describe a good professor, especially on websites like ratemyprofessor.com, a website that allows students to rate their professors, include “understanding,” “nice,” “engaging,” “lenient” and “kind,” all of which are indicators of a popular attitude known as student consumerism. As a consequence, some may say that student’s perspectives concerning the qualities that make up a good professor are to be taken with a grain of salt. However, evidence from surveyed students and professors shows that the majority of both community college students and professors agree that the most important qualities of a good professor are “caring” or “understanding,” “engaging” and “knowledgeable” about the source material.

Propaganda and Information Serving the Italian Sports Movement: The Case of the Periodical &lt;i&gt;Lo Sport Fascista&lt;/i&gt; (1928‒43)

Transformed from a mass rite into a real instrument of government, sports became the most effective and popular representation of the new aesthetic and pedagogy of fascist Italy by the end of the 1920s. At that time, the fascist regime, having completely reformed all major sports institutions, subjecting them to the National Fascist Party (PNF), realized the need to create a new periodical able to both emphasize the political value of sport for fascism and underline its popular attitude and mission. This in particular was the editorial mission of the monthly review Lo Sport Fascista, founded in the spring of 1928 under the auspices of the chairman of CONI, Lando Ferretti, and the secretary general of PNF, Augusto Turati. As an official organ of the Italian sports movement and mouthpiece of its achievements, the magazine deserves special focus for at least three reasons: it helped to make some disciplines, such as football and cycling, extraordinarilypopular in Italy, thus creating the conditions for their real exploit in the 1930s; it was able to combine propaganda and information in a truly original and unique way within the editorial offer of that time; and it fostered the myth of the great champions, turning sporting celebrities into ambassadors of fascism worldwide. The goal of this paper is to show in detail these features of the magazine, underlining its identity as a popular product, through a twofold analysis, one that is both aesthetic and political.

A comunidade nacional e o papel do patrimônio monumental na escrita das suas narrativas: o exemplo português de Alexandre Herculano

Autores e historiadores portugueses referem-se a finais do século XIV, mais concretamente 1383-1385, como início do processo de construção da comunidade nacional portuguesa. Na perspetiva de Alexandre Herculano, em 1385, pela primeira vez, o povo apoia e suporta o rei de Portugal, D. João I, mestre de Avis, contra o rei homónimo, D. João I de Castela, comungando a vitória na Batalha de Aljubarrota com o rei luso. Começaria a estar implícito nesta atitude o conceito de cidadão nacional, na medida em que há uma identificação do povo, mais do que da nobreza, com os propósitos reais. Contudo, apenas a partir do século XIX, e devido à ação do próprio Alexandre Herculano, é que se pode falar com propriedade na imaginação de uma comunidade nacional portuguesa. Herculano foi escritor e historiador, político e intelectual, tendo redigido a primeira história (científica) de Portugal, guiada na sua perspetiva pela preocupação com a veracidade dos factos. Introduziu o romance histórico e a prosa de ficção moderna em Portugal. Analisando algumas das obras de Alexandre Herculano pretendemos investigar a forma como Herculano nacionalizou alguns monumentos, constituindo-se num dos principais fundadores da nação portuguesa. Os atores dos seus romances são personagens da história portuguesa e o seu palco os principais monumentos nacionais, nomeadamente o Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória e o de Alcobaça, que foram sacralizados nas diversas obras herculanas. A partir da sua ação, monumentalizaram-se, nacionalizaram-se e transformaram-se esses antigos espaços religiosos em lugares de memória e berços da nação moderna portuguesa.

POLITIK IDENTITAS SEBAGAI MANIFESTASI ORIENTASI KEAGAMAAN

The Politics of identity has been a popular political attitude phenomenon nowadays. The negative effect of this attitude begins to affect harmonious life between different communities in Indonesia. This article attempt to explain the phenomenon and relate it with religious orientation to see if the shifting religious values affect the political attitude of political actors. It also tries to propose Islamic education as a form of solution.

МОВНА ПОЛІТИКА: ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКІ КРИТЕРІЇ І УКРАЇНА

The article discusses a much debated in Ukraine issue: what are the principles of language policy that can be labelled European, what are the major sources for the deduction of these principles and to what extant they could be implemented in Ukraine’s current language policy. It is argued that these principles can be deduced from the following major sources: national constitutions and legislative acts on language issues, international legal instruments (The European Charter of regional or Minority Languages), international declarations (The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights) that are not legal instruments at the moment, expert opinions of international committees and other bodies like the Venice Commission, OSCE, etc, scientific publications on language policy and language planning. The analysis of these sources gives justification to the following principles as reflecting the mainstream European conception of language policy and language planning: 1) maintaining the leading role of the official state language as the backbone of national unity, 2) protection of endangered languages and preservation of language diversity, 3) promotion of the bilingualism with sufficient competence in the state language, 4) effective management of the enforcement mechanism. The ratification by Ukraine of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages called attention to its implementation in Ukraine. The comparison of Ukraine with most European countries shows that in terms of linguistic rights the country’s main language (Ukrainian) is in a rather underprivileged position. There is growing awareness in the society that the idea of official or semi- official Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism was designed as an instrument of Russian foreign policy and became one of the key factors that provoked political instability in the country. Nowadays Russian is associated with the annexation of Crimea and justification of further aggression and the official upgrading of its status is perceived as a jeopardy for the Ukrainian national identity and statehood. The change of the popular attitude to the idea of the official bilingualism has modified the positions of the major political players.

Nonlinear Estimator Design on the Special Orthogonal Group Using Vector Measurements Directly

The convergence properties of popular nonlinear attitude estimators can be traced to the choice of an attitude error function. This paper considers a nonlinear deterministic direction cosine matrix estimator whose form is derived from an alternate attitude error function. While the resulting estimator shares several properties with those previously presented in the literature, the careful selection of an attitude error function results in an estimator with superior convergence properties. The attitude estimate is propagated using a rate gyroscope measurement and corrected using two or more vector measurements. Simulation and experimental results are presented that highlight the desirable properties of the proposed estimator.

An Integrated GNSS/INS/LiDAR-SLAM Positioning Method for Highly Accurate Forest Stem Mapping

Forest mapping, one of the main components of performing a forest inventory, is an important driving force in the development of laser scanning. Mobile laser scanning (MLS), in which laser scanners are installed on moving platforms, has been studied as a convenient measurement method for forest mapping in the past several years. Positioning and attitude accuracies are important for forest mapping using MLS systems. Inertial Navigation Systems (INSs) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) are typical and popular positioning and attitude sensors used in MLS systems. In forest environments, because of the loss of signal due to occlusion and severe multipath effects, the positioning accuracy of GNSS is severely degraded, and even that of GNSS/INS decreases considerably. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) can achieve higher positioning accuracy in environments containing many features and is commonly implemented in GNSS-denied indoor environments. Forests are different from an indoor environment in that the GNSS signal is available to some extent in a forest. Although the positioning accuracy of GNSS/INS is reduced, estimates of heading angle and velocity can maintain high accurate even with fewer satellites. GNSS/INS and the LiDAR-based SLAM technique can be effectively integrated to form a sustainable, highly accurate positioning and mapping solution for use in forests without additional hardware costs. In this study, information such as heading angles and velocities extracted from a GNSS/INS is utilized to improve the positioning accuracy of the SLAM solution, and two information-aided SLAM methods are proposed. First, a heading angle-aided SLAM (H-aided SLAM) method is proposed that supplies the heading angle from GNSS/INS to SLAM. Field test results show that the horizontal positioning accuracy of an entire trajectory of 800 m is 0.13 m and is significantly improved (by 70%) compared to that of a traditional GNSS/INS; second, a more complex information added SLAM solution that utilizes both heading angle and velocity information simultaneously (HV-aided SLAM) is investigated. Experimental results show that the horizontal positioning accuracy can reach a level of six centimetres with the HV-aided SLAM, which is a significant improvement (by 86%). Thus, a more accurate forest map is obtained by the proposed integrated method.

“No Fats, Femmes, or Asians”

Abstract A frequent caveat in online dating profiles – “No fats, femmes, or Asians” – caused an LGBT activist to complain about the bias against Asians in the American gay community, which he called “racial looksism”. In response, he was asked that, if he himself would not date a fat person, why he should find others not dating Asians so upsetting. This response embodies a popular attitude that personal preferences or tastes are simply personal matters – they are not subject to moral evaluation. In this paper, I argue, against this popular attitude, that a personal preference like racial looksism is indeed wrong. A preference like racial looksism is wrong because it is an overgeneralization that disrespects individuality by treating people as exchangeable tokens of one type, and such disrespect denies its objects appreciation that their dignity entitles them to. As it turns out, there is on my account a relevant moral difference between racial looksism and simple looksism.

The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler

<i>The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler</i>