Reality Environment Research Articles

A Mixed Methods Investigation on the Relationship Between Perceived Self-Regard, Self-Efficacy, and Commitment to Serve Among Military Medical Students.

Routinely faced with potentially traumatizing situations, resilience is critical for military physicians. However, related studies are limited in scope. The current study distinctively combines hyper-realistic immersion training for military medical students with emotional intelligence and hardiness measures. With self-reflection shown to improve performance, qualitative inquiry was concurrently conducted in a mixed methodology approach to provide a uniquely comprehensive perspective on the resilience training needs of this population. Thirty-four osteopathic military medical students participated in a week-long training simulating real-life combat and mass casualty events. The Emotional Quotient-Inventory 2.0 (EQ-i 2.0) and Hardiness Resilience Gauge were administered as pre- and post-test measures. Paired t-tests were used to determine statistically significant gains, and a multiple case study analysis of a six-student focus group allowed for the synchronization of quantitative and qualitative data. Institutional Review Board approval for the study was obtained through Rocky Vista University with a reciprocal agreement with Touro University California's Institutional Review Board. All students participating in the study received written informed consent. Qualitative findings for this study aligned with this current year's findings of statistically significant results in the improvement of the Overall EQ-i and Overall Hardiness. Qualitative responses thematically analyzed demonstrated environmental realism, adaptation, increased awareness, and positive interpersonal and clinical outlook. Notable increases occurred in all EQ-i domains except Decision-Making and Stress Tolerance. The Self-Perception domain saw significant increases in Self-Regard and Emotional Self-Awareness while Well-Being and Optimism simultaneously improved. This unique pilot study showed that quantitative and qualitative results aligned, supporting the finding that a safe trauma-related training environment can improve the confidence and resilience in military medical students. The goal of this training was to promote resilience and mitigate trauma. Results demonstrate improved self-efficacy and enhanced commitment. Increases in self-awareness and confidence made participants more inclined to see their worth and strengthened their sense of duty as described in their qualitative responses. Pervasive gains suggest that the training aligned well with its purpose, and the methods employed enhanced participant experience. Long-term follow-up studies are needed to assess outcome sustainability.

Black College Students’ Perceptions and Conceptualizations of Intimate Partner Violence

ABSTRACT Although Black college students are believed to be at greater risk for intimate partner violence (IPV), there is a gap in the available literature that explores this social problem in comparison to the experiences of their non-minority counterparts. This qualitative study explored Black college students’ conceptualizations of IPV, and the psychological, social, and cultural influences of IPV perpetration and victimization. Students (N = 49; 40.8% males), aged 18–24 years, on two campuses, one Historically Black College/University (N = 31; 45.2% males) and one predominantly White institution (N = 18; 33.3% males) in the Southeastern part of the United States participated in 15 focus groups. Results indicate an agreement among students that the term “violence is violence” best describes their conceptualization of IPV. Four additional themes emerged as prominent influences of perpetration and victimization among students: power and dominance, social media, structural impact of oppression, and silence and minimization. The findings undergird the importance of taking a multi-faceted, culturally responsive approach to investigating IPV among Black college students. Implications support college campuses investing resources in ensuring that prevention and intervention programming normalizes inclusivity for diverse groups of students, and incorporates important social, cultural, and environmental realities of the students they serve.

User Perceive Realism of Machine Learning-based Drone Dynamic Simulator

The drone will be a commonly used technology by a significant portion of society, and simulating a given drone dynamic will be an essential requirement. There are drone dy-namic simulation models to simulate popular commercial drones. In addition, there are many Newtonian and fluid dynamics-based generic drone dynamic models. However, these models consist of many model parameters, and it is impracticable to evaluate the required model parameters to simulate a custom-made drone. A simple method to develop a machine learning-based dynamic drone simulation model to simulate custom- made drones mitigates the issues mentioned above. Specifically, the authors’ research is associated with the development of a machine learning-based drone dynamic model integrated with a virtual reality environment and validation of the user-perceived physical and behavioural realism of the entire solution. A figure of eight manoeuvring patterns was used to collect the data related to drone behaviour and drone pilot inputs. A Neural Network-based approach was employed to develop the machine learning-based drone dynamic model. Validations were done against real-world drone manoeuvres and user tests. Validation results show that the simulations provided by machine learning are accurate at the beginning and it decreases the accuracy with time. However, users also make mistakes/misjudgments while perceiving the real-world or virtual world. Hence, we explored the user perceive motion prediction accuracy of the simulation environment which is associated with the behavioural realism of the simulation environment. User tests show that the entire simulation environment maintains substantial physical realism.

Social and Humanitarian Support for the Professional Development of an Employee of the Internal Affairs Bodies

The object of research in the article is the process of professional development of an employee of the internal affairs bodies in the system of higher professional education. The subject of the study is the social and humanitarian support of the process of professional development of an employee of the internal affairs bodies. Social and humanitarian support is understood as the process of creating psychological and pedagogical conditions for optimizing the interaction of psychological and pedagogical support for self-actualization of the student's personality as a necessary condition for an in-depth understanding of modern problems of social and humanitarian knowledge and the existential orientation of the teacher's personality. The axiological component of this interaction is the creation of specific situations in the educational activities of the future employee of the internal affairs bodies, which requires him to psychologically move away from the state of learned helplessness, imitation of the understanding of the lack of subjectivity. The novelty of the research lies in the combination of problem-based learning and the student's psychological preparedness for action in extreme situations. This combination is achieved by combining modern psychological knowledge and practices with the social construction of the reality of the educational environment. The interaction of educational psychologists, professional psychologists, consultants and teachers of social and humanitarian disciplines is based on a departure from the existing reality that deforms the personality of the educational environment of higher education institutions of the power profile. The main method here is a philosophical dialogue between the student, the teacher-psychologist and the teacher of social and humanitarian disciplines. The main goal of this dialogue is the creation of groups-meetings aimed at creating a facilitative (helping) environment for self-actualization of the student's self, as a necessary psychological and pedagogical component of his professional maturity.

Impact of strategic agility on the financial performance of commercial banks in Jordan

The Jordanian banking sector has been able to achieve remarkable growth rates at various levels. This sector is based on a robust infrastructure and is subject to the supervision of the Central Bank, which guarantees the likes of banks operating to financial reporting standards in order to maintain good financial soundness indicators. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the impact of strategic agility on the financial performance of commercial banks in Jordan. The study population was represented by senior managers. The purposeful sampling method was used to collect primary data from (188) respondents who constituted (81.74%) of the sent questionnaires. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was applied to test the study's hypotheses. The results showed that strategic agility had a positive impact on financial performance, as the greatest impact was strategic sensitivity, followed by resource fluidity, and finally leadership unity. This study contributed to the development of a logical framework supported by empirical evidence about the possibility of developing financial performance in dynamic environments. Hence, senior managers recommended focusing on making rational decisions derived from studying the reality of the work environment and adjusting organizational structures to become more flexible in response to the volatile business environment.

Frustration and deprivation in ecology and in people’s life

The article analyses the significance of human frustration and deprivation caused by life conditions or ecological frustration/deprivation. Ecological frustration means deprivation of access to some objects of the environment, more precisely, human environment. Ecological deprivation means formation of a psychological view of an individual (social group) on unfair deprivation of benefits due to it, those connected with the use of environmental resources. The article presents a classification of types of ecological frustration and deprivation. The structure of any frustration and deprivation is based on subjects and objects thereof, and its characteristics are intensity, localisation and spread. The subject of frustration (deprivation) is a person or a group of persons – bearers of the given psychological phenomenon (individual, group or mass mentality); the object thereof is an element of the environment which, in case of its inaccessibility, causes frustration or deprivation. The intensity of these phenomena is measured as an indicator of integral manifestation of their subjects’ response. The localisation of both frustration and deprivation is determined by the composition of the affected societal groups, and their spread – by the proportion of these people in such group or in the society as a whole. Frustration and deprivation of life conditions represent critical factors in shaping environmental attitudes. For most people, poor environment is not a result of analysis of a set of physico-chemical and biological indicators. It is a perception of environmental reality formed under the influence of various frustration and deprivation feelings. Monitoring the processes of formation and spread of such phenomena in the society and analysing the results thereof can prevent numerous socio-ecological conflicts. Frustration and deprivation of life conditions that are prevalent in the society should be taken into account when developing environmental education and training programmes.

신문 기사를 통해 본 식민지기 조선인 산파의 노동 환경과 사회적 위치

A midwife is an agent of hygiene policy related to the child birth that is the basis of human society. Therefore, studying midwives is to clarify the path of modernization and civilization, and also to investigate the reality of women's employment problems and life in modern era. However, the amount of research on midwives in colonial Korea is still small, and there are still many questions for clarification about the labor of midwives in colonial Korea. The aim of this paper is to analyze the perception of midwives and the reality of midwives's Labor Environment in Gyeongseong. mainly through media materials from the 1920s. Moreover, this paper aims to establish the position of midwives in the female occupation of colonial Joseon. As a result, the following became clear. In the 1920s, the midwife of Gyeongseong was recognized as a considerably high-income profession among the profession of women. In addition, because it was easy for individuals to start a business, it was recognized as a good job for women to become independent. Furthermore, by investigating the midwife's own voices on the media, it was confirmed that they recognized that they had have a good earnings for a woman, but also they complained their income was unstable. And they were dissatisfied with and criticize Korean society because of lack of understanding about necessity of midwifery. From their criticisms, it was confirmed that they were internalizing a hygiene policy strategy based on the Governor-General's theory of civilization and helping to establish a discourse on medicalization of childbirth. Furthermore, the common statement of midwives of Gyeongseong that the Korean society lacked an understanding about them, which suggests that the hygienic idea of using midwives was not widespread in urban areas in the Korean society.

The Effects of Physical Coherence Factors on Presence in Extended Reality (XR)

This research investigates the influence of physical coherence factors on presence during user-object interactions in XR environments. Physical coherence was defined through four factors (force, occlusion, lighting, and material) and was examined through a perceptual matching experiment, where participants selected factors they intended to improve in a given XR environment to reach an acceptable level of presence. Research outcomes indicate that presence is enhanced with the improvement of physical coherence across all four factors. Also, the transition probability distribution and improvement route derived from a Markov Chain analysis found the force factor to be the most contributing factor when inducing presence, with the occlusion and lighting factor holding the subsequent priority. While most participants chose the force and lighting factor initially, the force and occlusion factors were most likely to be enhanced to the highest for final acceptance. Furthermore, findings suggest that the force and occlusion factors affect interactivity, while lighting affects visual realism of an XR environment. Connecting these findings, it is interpreted that the interactivity has a higher contribution to presence than the visual fidelity of virtual objects and /or virtual environment. Thus, sufficiently realistic and predictable movements of a virtual object can potentially counteract its visual discrepancy from reality. Moreover, this research provides the insight that the degree of interactivity of an XR environment is of essence to generate a high level of presence.

The Unity of the Impression and its Technical Components and its Objective Frameworks in Hashim Gharaibeh's "Hmoom Saghira"

The strategy and idea of this study stem from the research hypothesis on the extent to which anecdotal units are represented, by the overall impression unit and its artistic constituents of personality, attitude, emotion, and space-time. The group is still qualified for critical handling as a landmark in the Jordanian storytelling process, in its ability to build a symbolic and iconic world for the Jordanian countryside and its thinking in the last third of the twentieth century, and its launch, and involving them in the spaces of narrative rhythm: temporal, spatial and humanity, The current trend of social realism, and its monitoring of environmental reality within a historical and civilized moment of the personality of the village society with its intellectual, cultural, economic, social and mythical elements. Therefore, reading the story in this research tends to be an exploratory tour of the components of the story and its elements; To reveal the role of the narrative components in the construction of the literary work and the harmony of its stylistic elements, narrative techniques and artistic elements that the writer invested for achieving unit impression.

ANTARA “IDE KEMAJUAN” KOLONIAL DAN REALITAS LINGKUNGAN: JALAN RAYA DALAM PEMBANGUNAN PRASARANA PERHUBUNGAN DI PESISIR BARAT KALIMANTAN

This paper aims to find out the considerations of the colonial government in building transportation infrastructure to facilitate economic exploitation on the west coast of Kalimantan. For this reason, this paper questions road construction as the only option for the colonial government when faced with the idea of constructing a railway which at that time was the latest trend in land transportation and the environmental realities that had been built, namely waterway. The problem was studied using the historical method with an urban studies approach. The result shows that road construction that is “a middle ground” is in line with “the idea of progress” that was emerging in the Nederland Indies in the context of the New Order (the New Colonial World). The “ideas” consisting of expansion, efficiency, and welfare are detected from (1) the embryo of a coastal road that has been developed since the second half of the 19th century, (2) pacification and supervision for coastal areas which were the former centers of the Kongsi Wars, (3) optimization of economic connectivity, and (4) development of alternative roads.

El taller educativo como estrategia para promover la conciencia ambiental en estudiantes de secundaria

A documentary research of reliable and pertinent information was carried out regarding the conceptual realities of the study: "The educational workshop and environmental awareness in high school students". The objective was to describe the theoretical bases and find the link between the educational workshop and environmental awareness, with the purpose of proposing the theoretical bases for the subsequent implementation of an educational workshop that allows to transform the knowledge, values and practices of young people to change the environmental reality. In the documentary review, different repositories, magazines, web portals, digital bibliography were investigated to extract those aspects that would be useful to support the work and it was synthesized in tables and figures. The theoretical review managed to select the theoretical foundations of both the educational workshop and environmental awareness and also the conceptual link between both theoretical realities.

BUILDING A COUNTYWIDE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA RESOURCE INVENTORY

Abstract As a BOLD Public Health Program grantee, the Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health (DPH) was funded to translate national ADRD priorities to the local level. Guided by the social ecological framework, DPH aims to address ADRD by engaging a multi-pronged approach that meaningfully considers the intersection of social, political, and environmental realities when developing and implementing key strategies. As part of this effort, DPH developed a resource inventory and simultaneously created a dedicated website to host and disseminate this information. The target audience for this resource inventory includes the general public; people living with ADRD and their caregivers and families; health professionals; and community-based and allied health professionals. The resource inventory encompasses a wide range of educational information, training materials, local programs, and services related to ADRD such as trainings for healthcare providers to strengthen their knowledge and ability in screening and diagnosing ADRD and legal/financial planning tips for caregivers. In developing the inventory’s scope, DPH relied on multi-sector partners to understand the needs of LAC’s diverse communities especially keeping in mind communities disproportionately impacted by ADRD (e.g., Black and Latinx communities). Stakeholders highlighted the need to ensure that resources addressed both ADRD topics and critical community needs related to the social determinants of health. The final inventory drew extensively from a wide range of existing national, state, and local resources. This presentation will outline DPH’s resource inventory development process and share how results will be used to identify resource gaps and inform local ADRD-focused efforts.

Designing and offering legend-based experiences: Perspectives of Santa Claus in the Joulupukin Pajakylä

Humans, more than ever before, pursue connections with legends and legendary figures, not least at intentionally designed settings. This quest has endured for millennia as a reflection of legendary narratives that inform the origins, cosmologies, and festivities of people. This study, grounded in an environmental psychology theoretical lens, attempts to reveal what constitutes a legend-based experience. The study analyses visitors' experiences at Lapland's legend-based Joulupukin Pajakylä. The findings deliver understandings of how people interact with a real person acting as a legendary figure and being located amidst the legend and reality environment in a legendary informed setting. The study contributes to the interdisciplinary socio-psychology, business, design, art/folkloric and tourism discourse, relating to the legend-place-visitor triad.

Natural Capital and Its Services in the Caatinga Phytogeographic Domain

A new millennium has begun, and a new paradigm in exploitation of natural resources to generate products has emerged. In this sense, a model in line with local environmental reality and based on the sustainable development goals (SDG) proposed by the UN is required. The document addresses the suitability of natural capitals in the Caatinga phytogeographic domain (CPD) for generating products, encompassing primary (solar energy and rainfall) and secondary (soil and vegetation) natural resources. These resources have well-defined scarcity (water, soil, and vegetation) and abundance (solar radiation) characteristics. Water is scarce due to uncertain rainfall and frequent droughts. Due to their fragility, soils, when shallow and/or with a low organic matter content, are susceptible to erosion and salinization. In turn, vegetation is scarce due to low potential for biomass production (50% of the area has a biomass production below 2 Mg ha-1. As for solar energy, there is no uncertainty regarding its occurrence in the CPD. Moreover, the region has the highest solar radiation intensities in Brazil, with daily averages ranging from 4.8 to 6.0 Kwh m-2 within a year. Therefore, a new model must be adopted, in which socioeconomic development is based on the potential of local natural resources. In short, abundant resources should be prioritized over scarce ones. Furthermore, exploitation must be democratized and not only in the hands of few privileged individuals

‘Release orpheus!’: understanding historical time in a mixed/augmented reality environment through embodied learning

‘Release orpheus!’: understanding historical time in a mixed/augmented reality environment through embodied learning

Understanding burnout in Pediatric residency through the lens of the ‘Areas of worklife’

ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Burnout is a widespread problem in medicine, especially among trainees. Despite this, data on effective interventions are limited. An organizational context for burnout entitled Areas of Worklife identified six areas of the work environment that can affect burnout through mismatches between individuals expectations of that area and the reality of the work environment. This study aimed to gain a deeper understanding of pediatric residents’ perspectives of the Areas of Worklife to allow programs to utilize this framework in the development of future interventions. Methods Using qualitative methodology founded in grounded theory, we employed an iterative data collection by conducting semi-structured interviews, until data saturation was achieved, with 15 pediatric residents in 2018. We recorded interviews and transcribed them verbatim. Content analysis was conducted concurrently with data collection using constant comparison methods; the principal investigator and co-investigators worked jointly to generate codes and identify themes. Results Themes were identified for the individual Areas of Worklife that represented resident perspectives and mismatches with the work environment. Overall, patient care was a central focus connecting the areas of control, reward, values, and workload; themes in these areas concentrated on resident’s ability to interact with and learn from patients. Conclusions Residents’ definitions of the Areas of Worklife can be used to identify mismatches between residents’ expectations and their work environment, which can inform organizational interventions. These findings highlight the importance of a patient-focused approach to residency training, which is consistent with literature that shows patient care is a means to find meaning in their work. Resident definitions of the Areas of Worklife offer residency programs a practical approach in their battle against burnout by providing focused direction to respond to resident needs and identify tangible targets for intervention.

Toward a System Theory of Corporate Sustainability: An Interim Struggle

In response to the prevailing sustainability problems that are difficult to solve since they are characterized by complex interdependencies, and the effort to solve one aspect of a sustainability problem may lead to other problems, the present study’s objective is to develop an interim, system-based theory of corporate sustainability to fill in significant gaps in the corporate sustainability field. The paper starts by outlining the gaps, introducing a theory building approach, followed by discussing components of the emerging theory. As a system-based theory, the emerging theory is demonstrated through the Corporate Sustainability system, comprising Sustainability Culture, Resilience and Corporate Sustainability Performance subsystems. These subsystems interact to ensure a continuous delivery of sustainability performance outputs and outcomes. The resulting theory is highly dynamic in nature with a feedback loop of learning to reflect the actual reality of high-velocity environment. Implications for corporate practitioners and theorists are also discussed.

Learning Within Socio-Political Landscapes: (Re)imagining Children’s Geographies

Over a century ago, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, one of Bank Street College’s founders, put into practice a vision of teaching and learning enmeshed in the physical, social, and political city spaces of young peoples’ daily lives. Central to her work was reimagining geography, grounding the discipline in the here and now of children’s neighborhoods, connecting with community members and city spaces as a means to explore complex relationships within the wider world. Mitchell considered working across different modes of engagement as an integral practice for children to learn about their worlds and their roles within it: physical movement, like walking and subway riding, and the construction of maps with varying scales, materials, and symbols (Mitchell, 1991). Mitchell also envisioned movement and mapping as essential for teachers’ learning, leading multi-day Long Trips along the eastern seaboard to make visible educators’ connections to contemporary social, political, and environmental realities, and connecting city and rural locales. Temporally, these practices and tools acted as playful intermediaries between visible and invisible interrelationships constituting children’s and adult’s lives and livelihoods.

‘A human values issue’: Actors, arguments, and regulatory change in the Florida land‐based shark fishery

Abstract Recreational shark fisheries have been the subject of recent public attention because of the possible impacts on shark populations and conflicts between stakeholders. A case study is presented based on discussions that took place in summer 2018 about potential changes to policies regulating recreational land‐based shark fishing in Florida. Comments from public meetings and workshops (totalling 15.8 hours) and online comments (1,050) submitted to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) were analysed using the lens of actor–network theory. The case study explores the intersection of conflicting stakeholder interests and types of knowledge, including how stakeholders variously defined the problem of user conflict in a coastal public space, and how they aligned themselves in relation to the problem and to each other. It further illustrates how shifting values and norms can intersect with changing technologies and environmental realities to produce new or increasing conflicts between natural resource user groups. This study underlines the importance and potential benefits of regulatory agencies explicitly and transparently engaging with value trade‐offs when managing conflicts among users of natural resources.

Proposiciones a docentes de nivel primario para preparar actividades de educación ambiental

The work provides theoretical and practical proposals to primary level teachers, to work in environmental education; The authors of the article only offer references that may or may not be assumed but in no way, this is an explicit proposal. The theoretical starting points and others of a practical nature can be useful to model activities close to the educational and environmental reality faced by the educator and the students. It is assumed that environmental education is an inseparable part of the comprehensive training of children, so that, by understanding the main global environmental problems, it is being contributed to an eventual identification in the immediate environment of the school and with this it is also possible to support the developing an awareness of the urgent need to protect where live the subjects involved in the teaching-learning process. The educational excursion is revealed as a recommended form of organization to teach to face environmental problems, in close links between home and school. The photographic record of the activities carried out and their analysis in the group of teachers of the cycle is important, which will allow the improvement of this type of activity in future editions.