Topics Of Talk Research Articles

Invited African-American Radiation Oncology Grand Rounds Speakers: DEI or Die?

Invitations for grand rounds are typically used to evaluate faculty promotion in Radiation Oncology. To shed light on potential barriers to career progression, we conducted a study examining the racial and gender demographics of invited speakers and the inclusion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-related talks among African-American radiation oncology speakers. Radiation oncology programs in the US were contacted to obtain a list of speakers invited to their institution along with their topics presented between January 2021 and December 2022. Speakers were categorized demographically by race and gender; speaker demographics were determined by facial recognition and internet investigation. Non-faculty were eliminated from analysis. Talk topics were categorized as either DEI or non-DEI from the speaker's talk title. The Fisher's exact test was used for statistical analysis, with significance set at p < 0.05. A total of 252 invited speakers and their associated talk topics were obtained from 51 radiation oncology programs. Of these speakers, 98 were female (38.9%) and 16 were African-American race (6.3%). The invited talk topic was DEI-related in 7% of total cases. Among speakers not of African-American race, this was 4.2% (10/236); among African-American speakers, it was 50% (8/16). This difference reached statistical significance (p < 0.0001). A significant proportion of invited African-American radiation oncology grand rounds/visiting professor talks are focused on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), compared with less than 5% of non-African-American invited speakers. Targeted efforts to expand African-American representation in non-DEI topics are needed to ensure and expand diversity in Radiation Oncology.

Big Data : Analysis

The amount of data in world is growing day by day. Data is growing because of use of internet, smart phone and social network. Big data is a collection of data sets which is very large in size as well as complex. Generally, size of the data is Petabyte and Exabyte. Traditional database systems is not able to capture, store and analyse this large amount of data. As the internet is growing, amount of big data continues to grow. Big data analytics provide new ways for businesses and government to analyse unstructured data. Now a days, big data is one of the most talked topics in IT industry. It is going to play important role in future. Big data changes the way that data is managed and used. Some of the applications are in areas such as healthcare, traffic management, banking, retail, education and so on. Organizations are becoming more flexible and more open. New types of data will give new challenges as well. The present paper highlights important concepts of Big Data. In this write up we discuss various aspects of big data. We define Big Data and discuss the parameters along which Big Data is defined. This includes the three V's of big data which are velocity, volume and variety. The authors also look at processes involved in data processing and review the security aspects of Big Data and propose a new system for Security of Big Data and finally present the future scope of Big Data.

Sentiment Analysis of Prabowo Subianto as 2024 Presidential Candidate on Twitter Using K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm

The presidential election is one of the most talked topics at this moment. Based on many surveys, Prabowo Subianto is one of strongest candidates for the upcoming 2024 presidential election. This research aims to see how the public sentiment towards Prabowo Subianto as the presidential candidate tends to be positive or negative. Sentiment classification was conducted using the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) algorithm. This algorithm classifies sentiment based on the k value of the nearest neighbor. This analysis was conducted in several stages such as data collection, text preprocessing, data labelling, data classification using the KNN algorithm, and evaluating the accuracy of the model in classifying sentiment. In this research, the results of the sentiment classification were 2731 positive sentiments and 76 negative sentiments. Where the accuracy rate produced by the model using the value of k = 3 on the division of training data and testing data of 80:20 is 97,33%.

Invited African-American Radiation Oncology Grand Rounds Speakers: DEI or Die?

Invitations for grand rounds/visiting professor speakership are a sign of national expertise and are used to evaluate faculty promotion and advancement in Radiation Oncology. Consequently, evaluation of the demographics of faculty receiving such invitations may play a role in elucidating barriers to career advancement. We performed this study to assess the demographic racial and gender representation of invited Radiation Oncology speakerships, as well as the proportion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)-related talks among invited African-American radiation oncology speakers. Radiation oncology programs in the United States were contacted by telephone and e-mail to obtain a list of speakers (grand rounds speakers and/or visiting professor) invited to their institution along with their speaking topics presented between January 2021 and December 2022. Speakers were categorized demographically by race and gender; speaker demographics were determined by a previously validated combination of facial recognition and internet investigation (PubMed.gov identification numbers 30996695 and 34919411). Speakers who were not faculty (i.e., residents, medical students) were eliminated from analysis. Talk topics were categorized as either DEI or non-DEI talks from the presence/absence of DEI-related content in the speaker's talk title. The Fisher's exact test was used for statistical analysis, with significance set at p < 0.05. A total of 252 invited speakers and their associated talk topics were obtained from 51 radiation oncology programs. Of these speakers, 98 were female (38.9%) and 16 were African-American race (6.3%). The invited talk topic was DEI-related in 7% of total cases. Among speakers not of African-American race, this was 4.2% (10/236); among African-American speakers, it was 50% (8/16). This difference reached statistical significance (p<0.0001). A significant proportion of invited African-American radiation oncology grand rounds/visiting professor talks are focused on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), compared with less than 5% of non-African-American invited speakers. Targeted efforts to expand African-American representation in non-DEI topics are needed to ensure and expand diversity in Radiation Oncology.

Level of physical activity of students from the police force academy in Bratislava

Background and Study Aim. A healthy and active lifestyle is becoming one of the most talked topics amongst people from all over the world. Being more physically active has never been more important than today as both jobs and leisure activities are becoming increasingly sedentary. Humans have moved from being very physically active to being less and less active each year. The aim of our study was to find out the degree of satisfaction and the frequency of performing leisure activities among students of the Police Academy in Bratislava, Slovakia. Material and Methods. For the purpose of our study, we have used a short version of International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) that consisted of 7 questions. The survey was attended by 439 students of the Police Academy located in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Our study group was divided into two groups according to their gender, the first group consisted of 249 female students and the second o 190 male students. The overall average age of our students of 21.55 years. Our survey was carried out at the end of the summer semester in June 2022. Questionnaire was carried out online and created through Google forms. The results of the questionnaire were later compared based on the participants gender and analysed using homogeneity test of two independent samples, two-sample t-test with equality and inequality of variances and the chi-square test at the level of significance p &lt; 0.01 or p &lt; 0.05. Results. When compared, male students in general were more active than female students - median of 30 minutes a week. Male students engaged in vigorous intensity physical activity on average more than 15 minutes a week compared to female students. Moderate intensity physical activity difference was even bigger (23,09 minutes a week) in favour of male students, these results have proven to be also statistically significant at the level of significance p &lt; 0.01. Female participants of our study were slightly more active in walking physical activity, 2.92 minutes a week on average, but the difference between our two studied groups have not proven to be statistically significant at the level of significance p &lt; 0.05. Conclusions. Here in our study, we’ve looked at physical activity, physical activity levels and how much students attending Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava engage in them. By comparing our survey participants to adults from other countries we can conclude that both our male and female participants have shown higher physical activity levels.

How musicians can utilize the guitar’s acoustic properties

Guitars are extremely versatile instruments due to the myriad of ways in which the player can alter the timbre. Specific adjustments are made to the guitar that correspond to stylistic distinctions between genres of music. This study explores how the timbre of the guitar is affected by the string type, gauge, and excitement location, in addition to the previous talk topics. Using the spectra, we can determine how our results can be utilized by musicians. Continuing from the first talk on the physical implication of these alterations, I will focus on how the results justify guitarist’s artistic decisions in Flamenco, Irish Traditional, and country/folk music. Understanding the connection between the technical and artistic aspects of the guitar can guide a musician in creating the effects appropriate for each genre.

Effects of Small Talk With a Crowd of Virtual Humans on Users' Emotional and Behavioral Responses.

In this contribution, we empirically investigated the effect of small talk on the users' non-verbal behaviors and emotions when users interacted with a crowd of virtual humans (VHs) with positive behavioral dispositions. Users were tasked with collecting items in a virtual marketplace via natural speech-based dialogue with a crowd of virtual pedestrians and vendors. The users were able to engage in natural speech-based conversation in a predefined corpus of small talk content that covered various commonplace small talk topics such as conversations about the weather, general concerns, and entertainment based on similar real-life situations. For instance, the VHs with the small talk ability would ask the users some simple questions to make small talk or remind the users of their belongings. We conducted a between-subjects empirical evaluation to investigate whether the user behaviors and emotions were different between a small talk condition and a non-small talk condition, and examined gender effects of the participants. We collected objective and subjective measures of the users to analyze users' emotions and social interaction behaviors, when in conversation with VHs that either possessed small-talk capability or not, besides task or goal oriented dialogue capabilities. Our result revealed that the VHs with small talk capability could alter the emotions and non-verbal behaviors of the users. Furthermore, the non-verbal behaviors between female and male participants differed greatly in the presence or absence of small talk.

What’s Impossible – to Distinguish or to Equate? «Male» and «Female» Perception of their Generation’s Life (Kyiv Case)

The article deals with certain features of perception by men and women, which were related to life of their generation. The author points out that the results of analysing these features make the symbolic aspect of gender inequality suitable for decoding. Understanding of gender inequality in the interpretativism context is outlined. In this context, one of the most relevant areas for gaining new knowledge is deciphering of various «male» and «female» markers in the cities. The article disclosed how socially and culturally determined differences in the life perception by men and women relate to broadly perceived notions of «male» and «female» home things, talk topics, leisure activities, and character traits. It was found that both «male» and «female» life perception in a big city were «split up». There were almost completely no tendencies to follow «male» values for men, as well as to follow «women» values for women. There was no difference between men and women in morality for people with different dominant values. Regarding the differential subjects of everyday experience, there was a synthetised, «male-female» life perception too, with some coincidences of biological sex with stereotyped social «male» or «female» accent. Both men and women rarely remained reflections of the images of «originally genuine men» and «originally genuine women», while there was mutual «borrowing» features from traditionally opposing images. In most cases, both men and women were equally motivated to developing, both physically and socially and in self-realisation. From the «male» things left for men, there was more attention paid to those objects of everyday life, which some kind of hobby materialises in, as well as to entertainments in general, politics, sports, all scientific, technical, and technological things, «nature and weather» themes and outdoor rest, planning and discussion on the future, active intellectual and passive creative leisure activities, and negative manifestations of human nature. From the «female» things left for women, there was more attention paid to books and reading, relatives, housework and outdoor work, health, theaters, fashion and secular life, and positive manifestations of human nature.

Reasons for Flouting Maxim in Talk Show

This study is entitled Reasons for Flouting Maxim in Talk Show. The aim is to analyze the types of flouting maxim used by the participants in the talk show through their utterances based on theory of Conversational Maxim proposed by Grice and supporting theory Context of Situation by Halliday &amp; Hasan to see how the maxim is flouted. The data was taken from one of the famous American talk shows which contains various topics of talk and the implementation of the conversational maxim, it is The Ellen Show. The data was collected by using observation method. Descriptive qualitative method was used as a method and technique of analyzing data. The data was presented in a form of words and sentences. The results show that all types of maxim are flouted in the talk show. The most flouted maxim found in conversation is maxim of quantity because the participants deliver more information than it is required even though that experience is based on their experiences.

Topic Modelling and Hotel Rating Prediction based on Customer Review in Indonesia

The growth of the tourism sector and the use of hotel online booking platforms lead to the creation of textual data sources in the form of customer review. Motivation of this study is to add value to the customer review, using more than 50,000 samples taken from 510 hotels across Indonesia. First added value is understanding most talked topics by hotel customers. Using topic model latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), this study revealed that services, price/food, facility, comfort and location are the most talked topics. Secondly, numerical hotel rating is derived from textual data using ridge regression. In addition, regression coefficient indicates the sentiment of each word in the customer review. Finally, the output of this study is expected to be useful for customers in assessing hotel service quality and in making booking decisions, and for hotel operators to get additional input during management decision making.

Topic modelling and hotel rating prediction based on customer review in Indonesia

The growth of the tourism sector and the use of hotel online booking platforms lead to the creation of textual data sources in the form of customer review. Motivation of this study is to add value to the customer review, using more than 50,000 samples taken from 510 hotels across Indonesia. First added value is understanding most talked topics by hotel customers. Using topic model latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), this study revealed that services, price/food, facility, comfort and location are the most talked topics. Secondly, numerical hotel rating is derived from textual data using ridge regression. In addition, regression coefficient indicates the sentiment of each word in the customer review. Finally, the output of this study is expected to be useful for customers in assessing hotel service quality and in making booking decisions, and for hotel operators to get additional input during management decision making.

But the computer say me the time is up: the shaping of oral turns mediated with and through the screen

Research on mode in computer-mediated communication and language learning has primarily focused on mode-as-channel of communication such as audio- or videoconferencing. However, increasingly sophisticated technological tools now facilitate communication in multiple ways so that learners can convey and respond to peers and screen-based resources, both orally, visually and/or through touch with the screen. By highlighting learner-to-learner turns as well as screen related turns, this paper looks at how learners’ oral meaning making is shaped through both verbal and non-verbal resources. This can provide a better understanding of how the interplay between modes and resources on interfaces might be harnessed to increase learners’ oral turns and identify potential interface-related difficulties learners might face. Audio recordings of six dyads are analysed using discourse analysis, with notions from conversational analysis, alongside interface screenshots. Results reveal that screen-based resources become: 1) embedded or modified in oral turns; 2) resources to initiate and support oral turns; 3) diverse topics of talk. It was also found that learners orientate towards some resources as 4) agentive turn-takers (e.g. pop-ups, to initiate an action). Such multimodal experience reveal how peer-to-peer talk can occasionally resemble a multi-party encounter whereby some resources can act as participants in the interaction. It is proposed that a fuller understanding of this interplay can help teachers and designers optimize computer-mediating communicative language learning tasks.

Intrusive Busybody or Benevolent Buddy: Phatic Communication among Javanese Women

Phatic communication is a discourse mechanism used primarily to establish and maintain social bonds. It operates differently across societies as well as genders within the same society. Thus, failure to understand such differences might result in misunderstanding and communication breakdowns. This paper discusses the phatic communication of the Javanese, the largest ethnic group in Indonesia. We focus primarily on the Javanese women who represent the majority of the Javanese population. Understanding the unique characteristics of their phatic communication would certainly play an important role in the cross-cultural network. The sociopragmatic approach is used for the analytical procedure to scrutinize the characteristics of Javanese women's phatic communication and the data are collected by taking field notes, conducting in-depth interviews, and distributing Discourse Completion Tasks (DCT) questionnaire. The findings show that Javanese women use phatic communication for initiating a conversation, intensifying camaraderie, pleasing others, expressing happiness, and consoling others. The main function is to sustain social rapport. Some phatic talk topics that may be regarded in certain cultures as intrusive and humiliating, such as those which concern one’s private life, are not considered so among Javanese women. To Javanese women, phatic communication is crucial in maintaining and promoting solidarity. Understanding phatic communication among Javanese women would contribute to successful cross-cultural communication in building social networks and business affairs, definitely.

The Measurement of Customer Satisfaction Index with Method of Importance-Performance and Gap Analysis

Customer satisfaction was the most talked topics in the service industry. Customer satisfaction is the main priority of the success of management of banking. Banking was always innovating and training human resources in order to reduce the needs of customers. Researchers analyze whether the Bank's service is in compliance with the hopes of the customer. Research conducted at the Bank Syariah Mandiri Samarinda. This research utilized 450 respondents as samples and a Cartesian diagram as performance level. The result obtained (1) the existence of a cash machine were the important factors but management had not been fullest implement according to the wishes of the customer, (2) generally, the client was very satisfied over Bank Syariah Mandiri services, the average customer satisfaction above BSM performance with 97.36%.

LANGUAGE IMPOLITENESS IN JAKARTA LAWYERS CLUB TALK SHOW 2014

The objectives of this descriptive qualitative study were to discover: (1) the types of impoliteness strategy, (2) types of attacks, and (3) how the responses to the impolite attack in Jakarta Lawyers Club (JLC) Talk Show on TVOne. The source of data were the participants’ utterances in JLC Talk Show from the topics of Talk Show namely Badai Demokrat Menerjang Kemana–Mana, Anas Siap Digantungdi Monas, and Dibalik Bungkamnya Nazaruddin in order to find out therecurrences and the pattern of the data based on the problem of the study. The data were identified, analyzed and categorized based on Culpeper’s (1996) theory. The findings of the study shows that: 1) there were four types of impoliteness strategies appeared in JLC Talk Show, namely Bald On Record Impoliteness (37.5%), Positive Impoliteness (27.5%), Negative Impoliteness (25.0%), and Sarcasm (10%), 2) there were two types of attacks appeared in JLC Talk Show namely Attacks on Quality Face (92.5%) and Attacks on Social Identity Face (7.5%), and 3) in responding to the impolite attacks, there were three ways appeared in JLC Talk Show namely not responding (52.5%), countering defensively (32.5%), and countering offensively (15.0%). The findings shows that JLC Talk Show was a formal context of Talk Show in which its participants were educated people who mostly use a direct strategy of impoliteness (Bald On Record Impoliteness) in attacking on the other participants’ personal quality (Quality Face) but the attacks dominantly were not responded by them. Therefore, it can be concluded that in communication, everyone may convey his or her opinions, arguments, and feelings but he or she should express the good attitude to communicate. Some suggestions are directed to those who are interested in understanding impoliteness strategy as found in practice.

Gender and Cultural Conditioning of Victorian Small Talk

This paper focuses on the influence exercised by the gender and social and cultural factors over women’s speech in the communicative situation of small talk, one of the main situations of the Victorian female discourse. The following structural elements are found to be constant in terms of their cultural dependence: language (standard English of the mid-to-late 19th century), communication mode (everyday discourse), addresser (a female representative of the upper / middle classes), aim (establishing and maintaining contact), tone (neutral) and place (social events). It is proved that the small talk topics arrangement – weather, travelling, arts, literature, food, household items, etc. – depends on the type of communication, a mono- or a cross-gender one. The topics of stylish entertainment, pastimes and health are characteristic of the former and entertainment, pastimes and arts are typical for the latter while “the weather” and “clothes” are mentioned by the Victorian woman least of all in the corresponding communicative situations. Another feature stipulated by the character of the situation under study is the component of only secondary social groups in its symmetrical and asymmetrical variants where the woman has a role of a socialite. On the whole, the communicative situation under consideration is aimed at implementing a positive politeness strategy of “Presuppose, raise, assert common ground” and establishing a community of interacting individuals. The strategy is explicated in the woman’s speech with the help of vocabulary and syntactical units (including formulaic expressions) that denote discussed subjects.

Measuring Critical Thinking in Science: Systematic Review

The review aims to explore possible methods for critical thinking assessment in science from previous studies. For a long time, critical thinking has been among most talked topics among researchers and academicians, due to its nature in improving one&amp;rsquo;s quality of life such as becoming an effective problem solver and logical thinkers. In this study, literature search for related studies was conducted through online databases, The Educational Resource Information Centre (ERIC) dated from the year 2010 till 2017 using keywords such as critical thinking, science, science education and measurement. Only refereed/peer-reviewed journals that fulfilled criteria needed were selected for the study with the findings from web-based service providers, including Sage Journals, Springer, Taylor &amp;amp; Francis, Science Direct, and Wiley Online Library. The findings were analyzed using document analysis technique to answer research questions of this study. This systematic review reveals that critical thinking can be assessed using quantitative or qualitative methods depending on the scope and dimensions of the research. Although there are studies on critical thinking in science, the assessment tools used are instrumented for critical thinking in general setting which focuses in general context. However, when it comes to assessing critical thinking in science secondary school/high school, the findings were limited.

Exploring societal-level privacy rules for talking about miscarriage

Communication privacy management (CPM) theory posits that culturally specific understandings of privacy guide how people manage private information in everyday conversations. We use the context of miscarriage to demonstrate how societal-level expectations about (in)appropriate topics of talk converge with micro-level decisions about privacy rules and privacy boundary management. More specifically, we explore how people’s perceptions of broad social rules about the topic of miscarriage influence their disclosure decisions. Based on interviews with 20 couples who have experienced pregnancy loss, we examined how couples described miscarriage as a topic that is bound by societal-level expectations about whether and how this subject should be discussed in interpersonal conversations. Participants reflected on their perceptions of societal-level privacy rules for protecting information about their miscarriage experiences and described how these rules affected their own privacy management decisions. We discuss these findings in terms of CPM’s theoretical tools for linking macro-level discourses to everyday talk.

What is agenda setting in the clinical encounter? Consensus from literature review and expert consultation

ObjectiveTo establish consensus on the core domains of agenda setting in consultations. MethodsWe reviewed the healthcare literature and, using a modified Delphi technique to embrace both patient and clinician perspectives, conducted an iterative online survey, with 30 experts in health communication. Participants described agenda setting and rated the importance of proposed domains. Consensus was determined where the group median was ≥5 on a 7-point Likert-like response scale, and the interquartile range fell to within one point on this scale. ResultsRelevant publications were identified in three overlapping bodies of healthcare literature. Survey respondents considered that agenda setting involved a process whereby patients and clinicians establish a joint focus for both their conversation and their working relationship. Consensus was obtained on six core domains: identifying patient talk topics, identifying clinician talk topics, agreement of shared priorities, establishing conversational focus, collaboration and engagement. New terminology – agenda mapping and agenda navigation - is proposed. ConclusionWe identified core agenda setting domains that embraced patient and clinician perspectives. Practice implicationsAn integrated conceptualization of agenda setting may now be used by researchers and educators in both clinician and patient focused interventions.

Seminar “Nonlinear Dynamics”

The workshop of the Nonlinear Dynamics scientific-educational center continued its work in 2014, focusing on methods of the dynamical system analysis and studies of their behavior. More than 30 talks in the field of scientific-educational center research have been made this year. The talk topics included numerical analysis of traveling waves in the Fisher–KPP equation with delay and simulations of the twophase heat distribution problem using heterogeneous computing architectures. In a number of talks normal and quasi-normal forms of differential equations with several delays were derived and studied, also one talk considered a problem of optimal control of a telescopic manipulator. The selected talk abstracts are presented in this issue of the journal.