Reading Of Reality Research Articles

Reading Reality: Virtual Reality Hinders Real-world Gait And Balance Control Following Acute Exposure

Reading Reality: Virtual Reality Hinders Real-world Gait And Balance Control Following Acute Exposure

Unhiding the voices of women in the Parable of the Good Samaritan: A call for academic inclusion

The parables of Jesus are often susceptible to patriarchal, androcentric interpretations. By using a realistic reading and social-scientific criticism, this article will investigate the voices, roles, and presence of women in the parable of the Good Samaritan, and how the 1st-century audience of the parable would most likely have understood women to be present, even if not mentioned in the parable. Women played critical roles in terms of hospitality, travel, innkeeping, and healing. These roles and voices of women are often ignored by modern interpreters and exegetes. This article not only emphasises the valuable roles that women fulfilled in the time of Jesus but also critiques the lack, or absence, of women as a point of discussion, acknowledgement, and study in most biblical commentaries and books concerning the parable of the Good Samaritan. The aim of this research is to contribute to the unhiding of women voices in patriarchal, androcentric texts thereby reconstructing and deconstructing gender paradigms within biblical scholarship.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The interdisciplinary nature of this article contributes to the debate on the roles and importance of women in the church by investigating the value that women had in the parables of Jesus. By reading women as present in the text, emphasis is given to the voices of women in the Bible and the importance of their representation today. This research is also in line with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: Gender equality and women empowerment.

What should we talk about? Contributions from Freirean Thematic Investigation in health education with adolescents.

Adolescence is an essential stage of life for developing actions related to health promotion, especially in health education (HE). Public policies advocate for the expansion of participative technologies in this field, as well as different theoretical and methodological perspectives subsidize these. Among these, Paulo Freire's reference guide is practiced in Brazil and around the world. From the Freirean perspective, Thematic Investigation (TI) defines the content of the educational practice. This paper describes a methodological proposal of the Freirean Thematic Investigation for developing health educational practices and promoting health among adolescents. Initially, we describe the conception of the Freirean rationale that sets the grounds for the proposed method: human being, dialogical education and reality and their connections with HE with adolescents in a critical perspective. The methodological proposal is systematized into five stages: (i) Approaching adolescents and the field of educational practices; (ii) Reading reality; (iii) Seminars for analyzing reality reading and preparing the codifications; (iv) Critical analysis of reality; and (v) Planning educational practices. The TI confronts the adult-centric perspectives that characterize adolescent health care. Moreover, as a praxis, TI is a process of reflection and action with adolescents, allowing for not only the discovery of the themes that build educational practices but also for solutions (untested feasibility) for the individual and collective problems experienced by adolescents concerning their health.

Ordinal type theory

ABSTRACT Higher-order logic, with its type-theoretic apparatus known as the simple theory of types (STT), has increasingly come to be employed in theorising about properties, relations, and states of affairs – or ‘intensional entities’ for short. This paper argues against this employment of STT and offers an alternative: ordinal type theory (OTT). Very roughly, STT and OTT can be regarded as complementary simplifications of the ‘ramified theory of types’ outlined in the Introduction to Principia Mathematica (on a realist reading). While STT, understood as a theory of intensional entities, retains the Fregean division of properties and relations into a multiplicity of categories according to their adicities and ‘input types’ and discards the division of intensional entities into different ‘orders’, OTT takes the opposite approach: it retains the hierarchy of orders (though with some modifications) and discards the categorisation of properties and relations according to their adicities and input types. In contrast to STT, this latter approach avoids intensional counterparts of the Epimenides and related paradoxes. Fundamental intensional entities lie at the base of the proposed hierarchy and are also given a prominent part to play in the individuation of non-fundamental intensional entities.

혁명가의 책 읽기

This article examined how the socialist literary movement in colonial Korea in the 1920s imagined and recognized the “mass reader”. Socialist theory was embraced by colonial Korea as an alternative perspective for imagining the self-renovation and emancipation of non-Western colonized peoples. The fact that the magazine Kong-Je used disparate ideas as resources to unpack the meaning of labor, workers, and the labor movement is evidence that the concern of early socialists was not to accurately translate a particular theory. The magazine Kong-Je sought to address its unspecified readers as “workers” by providing them with an epistemological framework to critically perceive reality. Socialist theory was not used as an abstract theory, but as a theoretical framework for recognizing and critiquing real-world problems, and as a tool for critiquing existing perspectives on interpreting reality.
 In this respect, Yeom Sang-seop and Kim Hwa-san's critique of the socialist literary movement did not deny the possibility of socialist literature; they appropriated socialism as a theory and questioned what the goals of the socialist literary movement should be. This article examines Yeom Sang-sup's appropriation of socialist ideas and his literary theory based on them, focusing on a review he published in 1927. For him, socialism was about overcoming the notion of suppressing the “mental activity” of colonized Koreans, and therefore socialist literature should be read by readers to provide them with a critical lens through which to read reality. Kim Ki-jin's literary path in the 1920s resonated with Yeom Sang-sup's literary beliefs, as he saw the main purpose of the socialist literary movement as “educating” the masses, and constantly emphasized that literature had to be read to someone. These statements are not easily found in the socialist literary discourse produced in Korea at the time, and were made possible by applying Western “universal theories” of socialist ideology and its literary applications to the realities of colonial Korea.

Drivers of crisis in the Greek-Turkish protracted conflict: a Neoclassical Realist reading

ABSTRACT Greece and Turkey have been involved in a protracted conflict over the Aegean Sea for decades. After a period of relative calm, Greek-Turkish relations started to deteriorate again in the mid-2010s, culminating in a months-long crisis that began in 2020 and ushered the two countries into unchartered waters. This article focuses on what led to the rekindling of the Greek-Turkish protracted conflict and, particularly, the breakout of the 2020 crisis. Adopting a Neoclassical Realist framework and tracing the international systemic and domestic level drivers that triggered an international crisis prompting each state to engage in a cycle of disruptive interactions, this article argues that shifts in the international and regional system since the late 2000s were crucial in creating a strategic environment conducive to a crisis. At the same time, leader images and domestic considerations had a critical intervening role in filtering systemic stimuli and contributing to the outbreak of the crisis.

Reading Practices of Higher Education Students in North Andhra Pradesh: a Study

The aim of this research is to study the factors affecting the reading habit in the path of computer-generated and realistic reading. To this culmination, a study was led and the questionnaire among the students of the higher education. The replies have been studied by chart analysis. The consequences of the study have shown that most of the people already habituated to virtual reading and prefer to continue it. The reasons are ease of access from the root sources, availability of space for storage and forwarding from one to another within fraction of seconds. This could give enough to qualify the academic curriculum. This work would cover all the factors like language of reading, types of material, source of material, time spending on reading, purpose of reading, etc., influencing the students about their reading habits and reading behavior in the stated colleges. This study not covered several aspects due to restricted to Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, and Visakhapatnam locality only.

Performance Evaluation of Modern Time-Series Database Technologies for the ATLAS Operational Monitoring Data Archiving Service

The Trigger and Data Acquisition system of the ATLAS [1] experiment at the Large Hadron Collider [2] at CERN is composed of a large number of distributed hardware and software components which provide the data-taking functionality of the overall system. During data-taking, huge amounts of operational data are created in order to constantly monitor the system. The Persistent Back-End for the ATLAS Information System of TDAQ (P-BEAST) is a system based on a custom-built time-series database. It archives any operational monitoring data published online, resulting in about 18 TB of highly compacted and compressed raw data per year. P-BEAST provides command line and programming interfaces for data insertion and retrieval, including integration with the Grafana platform. Since P-BEAST was developed, several promising database technologies for efficiently working with time-series data have been made available. A study to evaluate the possible use of these recent database technologies in the P-BEAST system was performed. First, the most promising technologies were selected. Then, their performance was evaluated. The evaluation strategy was based on both synthetic read and write tests, and on realistic read patterns (e.g., providing data to a set of Grafana dashboards currently used to monitor ATLAS). All the tests were executed using a subset of ATLAS operational monitoring data, archived during the LHC Run II. The details of the testing procedure and of the testing results, including a comparison with the current P-BEAST service, are presented.

Understanding Hegel's Logic: On Houlgate's Hegel on Being

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Many-Worlds: Why Is It Not the Consensus?

In this paper, I argue that the many-worlds theory, even if it is arguably the mathematically most straightforward realist reading of quantum formalism, even if it is arguably local and deterministic, is not universally regarded as the best realist quantum theory because it provides a type of explanation that is not universally accepted. Since people disagree about what desiderata a satisfactory physical theory should possess, they also disagree about which explanatory schema one should look for in a theory, and this leads different people to different options.

From villainess to Eco-icon: the blossoming Poison Ivy

Nowadays, the entertainment industry produces countless works, many exploring well-known stories or characters from different perspectives and through different media. In order to sell, superhero comics must be able to adapt to their audience. Through recurring narrative events, in which characters are rearranged by different authors, different relevant traits are gradually selected, afferent to varying codes of reading reality, which change as the semiotic field of reference changes. Thus, the ways of coding and decoding the same character at the diachronic and synchronic levels are different. This paper aims to analyse the case of Poison Ivy in terms of the differences between encoding and decoding. Created in 1966 as a femme fatale associated with venomous plants, the enemy of Batman, and a deadly poisonous seductress, it turns out that she is perceived differently today. Poison Ivy, alias Pamela Lillian Isley, is seen by today's writers and readers as a bearer of very different values and, above all, as a bearer of strong ecological messages of hope and activism on behalf of Planet Earth. Therefore, the referential reading models and the shifts in the semiotic field that could explain how the character's perception has changed will be studied.

Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History

Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History

A Realistic Reading of the Short story Collection "Gorghaa Wa Dehkada"

در مورد داستان و داستان‌‌نویسی، کارهای زیادی در افغانستان صورت نگرفته و در محافل و دانش‌گاه‌ها، کم‌تر به این بخش از ادبیات ما پرداخته شده و همین امر، سبب گردیده است که رشدِ‌ داستان‌نویسی در کشور، پایین باشد؛ به هرحال، داستان‌نویسان، در کنار شاعران،‌ آثاری با میزانِ موفقیت خوب و گاهی کم، کار خود را انجام داده‌اند؛ از آن‌جمله،‌ حسین فخری‌است که از سال ۱۳۵۴، با داستانِ‌ کوتاهِ «مهمان کوچک»، در ردۀ داستان‌نویسان قرار گرفت. از او داستان‌های کوتاه، رمان و سفرنامه‌هایی منتشر شده است. از این میان، «گرگ‌ها و دِه‌کده»، مجموعه‌داستان کوتاهی‌است، که قابلیت خوانش ریالیستی آن فراهم بود؛ لذا، این تحقیق، باهدف خوانش ریالیستی این مجموعه و پاسخ‌یابی به میزانِ موفقیتِ این داستان‌نویس و چه‌گونه‌گی محتوا و ساختار آن شکل گرفته است. محدودۀ این پژوهش، مجموعه داستان «گرگ‌ها و ده‌کده» بوده است، که از مبانی نظری مکتب ریالیزم سود جُسته شده است. داده‌ها، به‌شیوۀ تحلیلی مورد بررسی قرار گرفته و یافته‌ها به‌گونۀ کیفی بیان شده است. یافته‌های پژوهش، بیان‌گر این هستند که: به استثنای سه داستان، هشت داستانِ دیگر این مجموعه، داستان‌های ریالیستی است، که روایت‌گر زنده‌گی جامعۀ سطح پایین و متوسط است. شخصیت‌ها به‌گونۀ کامل،‌ نمایندۀ طبقۀ اجتماعی شان هستند، صحنه‌پردازی‌ها، ساده و عام‌فهم است، زبان و لحن، معیاری و عامیانه است، و داستان‌ها به شیوۀ دانای کل و اول‌شخص روایت گردیده‌اند.

GoPro(blem)s and possibilities: Keeping the child human of colour in play in an interview

In response to the call for papers for this special issue and the questions it poses, the authors show how the ontological posthumanist shift of agential realism does not erase but keeps the child human of colour in play, despite the inclusion of the other-than-(Adult)human in its methodologies. Through a montaging technique, the authors explore the philosophical complexity of ‘decentering without erasure’ by re-turning to data from a large international research project – Children, Technology and Play (2019–2020). Through an agential realist reading of interview data ‘of’ ‘seven-year-old’ Henry when visiting him at home in an informal settlement in Cape Town, they show what else is going on, and the politically radical and subtle philosophical difference this makes for reconfiguring child subjectivity. To do more justice to the complexity of reality, the analysis bounces around like Henry's sack ball and zooms in on the role apparatuses such as GoPros play in research. The authors ‘follow the child’ literally but differently, without excluding or erasing the more-than-(Adult)human. In meeting Henry, they also meet Eshal, who introduces the GoPro(blem). By diffractively reading Karen Barad's scholarship through visual and aural texts, the authors respond to the question of how posthumanist research makes a difference to childhood studies. They show how the agential realist move(ment) from Object and Subject to Phenomenon explodes ageist, ableist, racist, extractive and settler-colonial logics in education research.

A realistic reading as a feminist tool: The Prodigal Son as a case study

The parables of Jesus have historically been attributed with a plethora of interpretations. The first hearers of the parables of Jesus had native (emic) knowledge of the social realities embedded in the parables told by Jesus, that is, cultural scripts present in the parables that might not be apparent to modern readers. Because of this, the modern reader of a parable might not be aware of all the different cultural scripts in a given parable, especially if these scripts are not specifically mentioned or explained by the gospel narrators. Using the parable of the Prodigal Son as an example, this study argues that there are voices in the parable most probably heard by its first hearers that modern hearers might not be aware of. These ‘muted’ voices not heard by modern readers of the parables often include the voices of women and other minority figures. In this study, a case is made for the possible value that a ‘realistic reading’ of familial parables could bring to the interpretation of the parables.Contribution: It is suggested that this reading can contribute to feminist biblical scholarship’s deconstruction and reconstruction of gender paradigms of Christian theology if the voices of women are ‘exhumed’ from or ‘unhidden’ within, patriarchal and androcentric texts.

Interpreting Mythorealism: Disenchanted Shijing and Spiritual Crisis in Yan Lianke’s Ballad, Hymn, Ode

“Mythorealism” is a formal literary experiment developed by Yan Lianke, whose 2008 novel Ballad, Hymn, Ode ( Feng ya song) produces a cumulative effect of absurdity that has provoked controversy over the extent to which it offers an effective social critique. In response to the scholarship based on realist readings of the novel, this article analyzes it from a “mythorealistic” perspective. It argues that the mythorealist narrative does not necessarily cancel out Yan’s social commentary but instead transfers his critical impulse to a psychological exploration of marginal intellectuals in a desymbolized society. In particular, this article is concerned with thematic interpretation and the relation between literary form and meaning in Yan’s parody of the Shijing in Ballad, Hymn, Ode. By focusing on Yan’s symbolic representation of sex and disgust, this article investigates how such imagery and motifs speak from their own space to reveal Chinese intellectuals’ spiritual crisis in an academic world pervaded with an instrumentalist ethos.

"Dinos cuándo sucederán estas cosas" (Mc 13, 4)

The study of Jesus’ speech on the Olivet Mountain shows how one of theevangelist’s main concerns is not so much to explain what is going to happen butto warn against erroneous (and interested) interpretations by third parties who seek tomanipulate the hope of believers. These warnings were especially valid in thepost-Jewish War, but also in the confusion of the current COVID period. Resituating the gaze of his listeners, Mark proposes not to be looking for great signs, but to learn to read reality – as if it were a parable – in order to discern what are thesigns of a Kingdom that is coming.

How substantial are Tractarian objects really

According to the Tractatus objects have an internal nature that is not exhausted by their possibilities of combination to form atomic facts. This internal nature cannot be used to bolster a case for a realist reading of the book, however, because the argument for this internal nature already assumes that the world is represented in thought.

Reichenbach: scientific realist and logical empricist?

Hans Reichenbach’s position in the debate over scientific realism is remarkable. On the one hand, he endorsed the programmatic premises of logical empiricism; on the other, he explicitly employed a realist approach to conceptions such as reference, causality, and inference to the best explanation. How could that work out? It will be shown in the present paper that in Reichenbach’s view scientific realism is not, as frequently assumed, opposed to logical empiricism but rather to logical positivism. A distinction without a difference? Not at all, at least for Reichenbach. As is well known, his particular—probabilistic—variant of logical empiricism was intended to circumvent what he considered the shortcomings of the Vienna Circle’s verificationist (reductionist) approach to the language of science. In Experience and Prediction (1938), Reichenbach became most explicit in this regard. However, I shall argue that his position remained notoriously unstable in the end. It oscillated between a full-fledged scientific realist reading and an eminently pragmatist reading. Nevertheless, Reichenbach’s contribution proved instrumental in preparing subsequent efforts at reconciling logical empiricism and scientific realism.

Re-imagining a New Normal: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Face of Social Interaction

Future communities have been imagined. When such communities confront us, we respond not by imagining but re-imagining the emerging communities so that we can cope with the new reality. But are there new realities, or is what we imagine as new a case and curse of historical recurrence? The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted communities as we have known them. Disruptions enable transformation through creativity. Disruptions introduce a semblance of newness that requires new ways of doing, seeing, reading and telling reality. This paper discusses how, in the face of global lockdown, quarantine and social distancing rules – the new normal ‒ the creative impulse of humans has responded and adapted to COVID-19 pandemic-induced change.