Simplified Presentations Research Articles

IDENTIFYING AND OVERCOMING SOME FATIGUE-CAUSING FACTORS EXISTING IN ONLINE READING CLASS OF AMIKOM PURWOKERTO PSDKU YOGYAKARTA DURING COVID-19 QUARANTINE

Abstract
 
 COVID-19 forced AMIKOM Purwokerto to convert its traditional classes to online learning. During this online learning, problems have started to unravel, and one of them is fatigue, which was confirmatively experienced by 55% students of Reading IV. This study, utilizing a quantitative research method, intended to find the causes of the fatigue and design practicable solutions. Through observations, group interview, and literature reviews, some main factors that caused fatigue were revealed: Zoom fatigue; tasks which were too difficult and numerous; presentation of materials which did not properly comply with the students’ online conditions and unfamiliarity to Google Classroom; eye fatigue (digital eye strain), bad postures during learning, lockdown fatigue, and frustration over signal and internet problems. To overcome the fatigue, the researchers reduced the time for video conferences and created asynchronous short videos for learning, selectively adjusted tasks in terms of number and difficulty, simplified presentations of materials and helped the students to become more familiar with Google Classroom, and addressed the problems from eye strain, bad postures, and lockdown fatigue in the reading materials so the students could solve those problems based on the texts given or find a more viable solution. Those solutions reduced the number of drained students to only 25% and in addition 60% students claimed that the modifications brought a positive impact on their learning.
 Keywords: fatigue, distance learning, COVID-19, Zoom fatigue

Is threat in the way they move? Influences of static and gait information on threat judgments of unknown people

Recognising intraspecies threat is essential for survival. However, this needs to be balanced against the undue avoidance of unknown others who may be useful to us. Research has shown that judgments of ‘aggression’ and ‘threat’ posed by an unknown person can accurately reflect that person’s general aggressive tendencies. To date, there has not been a within-sample comparison of the informativeness of static and walking stimuli for threat judgments. In this study, 193 participants rated the threat posed by 23 target people presented as both simplified gait presentations (point-light walkers) and still images. We analysed how threat judgments made by participants were predicted by the target’s self-reported aggression (accuracy), the sex of the targets and the medium of target presentation (point-light vs. still image). Our results showed that participants’ threat judgments accurately predicted targets’ aggression. Male targets received higher threat ratings than female targets and point-light displays were rated as more threatening than still images. There were no effects of target sex and presentation medium on accuracy of threat perception and no sex by medium interactions on judgments themselves. Overall, this study provides further evidence of the accuracy of threat judgments at detecting trait aggression. However, further research is needed to explain what features of the target people are enabling the accurate judgments of aggression.

Constructions of Nonagency in the Clients\u2019 Initial Problem Formulations at the Outset of Psychotherapy

This multiple case study investigated how clients construct nonagentic positions when formulating their problems in the beginning of their first psychotherapy session. The initial problem formulations of nine clients entering psychotherapy were analyzed with a detailed model drawing on discursive methodology, the 10 Discursive Tools model (10DT). We found ten problem formulation categories, each one distinguished by the tool from the 10DT model primarily used to construct nonagency. All clients gave several problem formulations from different categories and constructed nonagentic positions with a variety of discursive tools. When the resulting problem formulation categories were read in comparison with the descriptions of the client’s stance at the outset of psychotherapy as presented in two change process models, the Assimilation of Problematic Experiences Sequence and the Innovative Moments Coding System, some similarities were found. However, the 10DT model brought out much variation in the client’s nonagentic positioning in the formulations, forming a contrast with the more simplified presentations of the client’s initial nonagency given in the change process models. Therapists should pay close attention to how clients express their sense of lost agency at the outset of psychotherapy and how this positions both the client and the therapist as future collaborators in psychotherapy.

Sourcing stereotypes: constructing and challenging simplified knowledge

ABSTRACTThe social media uproar in Fall 2017 over a nursing textbook chart that presented generalised characterisations of minority groups generated an assumption that medical training needs more Religious Studies expertise. Analysing the sources that the chart cited, we trace the authors’ assertions to studies of varying quality and identify several specific processes involved in simplifying knowledge for dissemination, as the authors disregarded the limits of each specific study and ignored counter-evidence or otherwise evaded critical scrutiny. Comparing this example to examples from world religions discourse illustrates both differences and similarities in the process of constructing simplified presentations. While both presumably developed out of good intentions, they generate significant problems in their effort to shape material to support larger arguments. Thus, scholars across disciplines should critique and complicate their own processes for generating simplified knowledge.

Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews by Ted Geltner

Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews. By Ted Geltner. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, 2016. Pp. xiv, 414. $32.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-4923-7.) Most people can't deal with chaos. They can't deal with blood and bone and pain. They think that once you're hurt, you're hurt forever. And of course, you are if you're a wimp. Immodest as it is of me to say so, I ain't a wimp. I get down sometimes, but I always get up again (p. 232). These words were spoken by famed writer and University of Florida professor Harry Crews during one of his frequent periods of personal turmoil. With their mixture of gritty resolve, macho posturing, and resigned fatalism, they offer a fitting microcosm of the particular worldview and gift for language that made Crews such an important and controversial figure in southern literature in the twentieth century. The quotation also captures the central thesis of Ted Geltner's engaging and well-researched biography, which offers a detailed look at Crews's journey from deep poverty to worldwide renown. With its evocative and unflinching narrative, Blood, Bone, and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews is an important addition to our understanding of a crucial and complex figure. Framed by conversations that the author had with Crews during the final years of his life. Blood, Bone, and Marrow feels simultaneously epic and intimate. Geltner--a veteran journalist and journalism professor--blends a crisply drawn narrative with illuminating context. Geltner is particularly skilled at addressing the many intersections between Crews's life and written work without resorting to lazy, tortured-artist tropes or the essentialist cliches that often taint presentations of the South's artists. For example, Crews's difficult upbringing in Bacon County, Georgia, is an important touchstone for Geltner, just as it was for Crews himself and the biographer returns to this motif throughout the book. But Geltner also resists simplified or exotic presentations of southern deprivation by describing the various ways that these early years inspired Crews's stories and memoirs. Geltner follows a similar tone throughout the biography, demonstrating the varied life experiences (from military service to palling around with Madonna and Sean Penn) that Crews incorporated into the creation of his deeply ambivalent characters. No character was more ambivalent than Crews himself, and Geltner admirably avoids hagiography by presenting his subject as a difficult, alienating, and even harmful man. …

Route planning and cost analysis for travelling through the Arctic Northeast Passage using public 3D GIS

To plan undeveloped optimal routes between Asia and Europe via the Arctic Northeast Passages using a 3D geographic information system (GIS), voyage paths are simulated in a 3D visual form. This ensures that the distances are calculated accurately, and that other voyage data such as water depths, sea ice distribution, and seashore topology are also easily deciphered, giving a more direct and clear demonstration compared to simplified presentations on an Electronic Chart Display & Information System (ECDIS). This article also implements a higher-geometry maze router in ice zone areas to obtain the optimal path in relation to safety and costs. This article compares the optimal Arctic Northeast Passages with traditional routes through the Suez Canal for dynamic analyses of the cost efficiency (including time costs, fuel costs, and other factors) of travel between major ports in Asia and Europe. The average benefit assessment is around 30–45% in a bulk carrier comparison. Thus, a 3D GIS can easily obtain and demonstrate safe navigation routes, providing a very convenient tool for initial planning.

Kajian Interaksi dan Persepsi Visual pada Game Cut The Rope dan Angry Birds untuk Mengetahui Challenge Based Immersion

Technological progress supports the development of digital game, so that, through people's lifestyle that relies more and more on wireless devices, games become mobile, easy to access, likable and popular. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to find the relation between games and its players in regards to the communication process and interactive pattern that exist in Cut The Rope and Angry Birds as mobile physics game.This research is an explorative field analysis that uses Creswell case study divided into literature study, case identification, primary data collection and interpretation as the synthesis of the whole. The result of this research is focused on the visual perception and interaction between players and two researched objects.The result shows that visual element, game play, puzzle-like character and sound effect are the most influential aspects of the games since they are considered suitable to the condition and the ability of the casual game players. Besides that, it is known that visual perception is a representation of the function of a common-theme-object with its interpretation that fits the context in a game. Therefore, visual interaction between the players and the researched games are based on four crucial factors: theme, game play, physics movement and simplified presentations of the visual elements. Through the perceptive process, similar kind of games would create a bonding, called challenge based immersion experience, in which this involvement demands the players to understand rules of the games. Such interaction is not influenced by playing time duration and usually does not cause an addiction to the games. Hence, it is clear that the concept of a mobile game has to be understandable through the games' highly comprehensible way, rules, and purpose.This research is mostly focused on the study of the visual aspect of a mobile game, so others still have the chance to do deeply study of the other three crucial aspects of the mobile game: game play, puzzle-like character, and sound effect.

The Effect of Personal Philosophy on Orientation Toward School: African American Students' Views of Integrationist Versus Nationalist Philosophies

A total of 130 African American students in Grades 4 through 8 were interviewed about the merits and educational consequences of adopting the philosophies of integrationism and nationalism. Simplified presentations of the perspectives of Shelby Steele and Malcolm X were used to represent these philosophies. The students generally responded positively to the communal aspect of Malcolm X's position and Steele 's suggestion that no grudges should be heldforpast injustices by Whites. Students believed that adopting a particular philosophy would influence an individual's orientation toward learning and motivation for school. Overall, students believed that persons who adopted the philosophy of Malcolm X would be more motivated to do schoolwork and more willing to collaborate with classmates in learning. Students, however, tended to expect more positive consequences from the philosophy they preferred. Older students, more than younger ones, rejected the notion that teachers should promote one particular philosophy over the other