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Journal articles on the topic "Appearance work"
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Hannah Estrella. "Claiming appearances in Jacques Rancière’s work." International Journal of Science and Society 3, no. 1 (January 18, 2021): 138–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.54783/ijsoc.v3i1.279.
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The present article aims to analyze the notion of appearance in Jacques Rancière's philosophical work, with a view to delineating a digressive line of a long tradition that insists on affirming the power of thought and truth against the inconsistency of appearances. In this sense, an attempt is made to argue the potential that appearances have in the construction of new imaginaries and in the creation of other forms of common sense.
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Gordon, R. L. "Appearance‐potential spectroscopy and work function." Journal of Applied Physics 61, no. 4 (February 15, 1987): 1523–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.338950.
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Gempur Santoso. "Ergonomics of Work Performance and Work Productivity Aspects." International Journal of Integrative Sciences 2, no. 4 (May 1, 2023): 483–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/ijis.v2i4.3726.
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Need to be analyzed and discussed about the appearance of the body at work or the ergonomics of balance and aspects of employee productivity. Because ergonomic appearance, namely the balance of the body at work and work tasks, will affect several aspects of work productivity. This writing method is carried out by means of a literature study, meaning that all data from several opinions are obtained from the literature. Then, some of the scientific opinion data is analyzed and discussed. The inference method uses a combination of several opinions and then concludes inductively
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Antich, Peter. "Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Appearance." Idealistic Studies 50, no. 2 (2020): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/idstudies2020820115.
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Merleau-Ponty’s account of phenomena, or appearances, and their relation to things themselves, is obviously central to his project as a Phenomenologist. And yet there is no agreed upon interpretation of the account of appearance that he gives in the Phenomenology of Perception: many commentators suggest that that work is ultimately either Idealist or Realist, or even that his account of appearance there is simply inconsistent. In this article, I argue that Merleau-Ponty does, in fact, offer a coherent alternative to Realism and Idealism about appearances in the Phenomenology, and I examine some key features of the account that often give rise to the suspicion of inconsistency. I show that these features only appear inconsistent if we adopt certain assumptions about appearance that Merleau-Ponty would reject, and that we have good reason to question as well.
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Wilkie, Rhoda. "Academic “Dirty Work”." Society & Animals 23, no. 3 (July 14, 2015): 211–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341312.
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Human-Animal Studies (has) is an innovative field, tarnished by its politicized mixed-species subject matter. This paper considers how nonhuman animal scholars may also be tainted, for different reasons and to varying degrees, because of the academic “dirty work” they perform withinhas. As the field matures, tensions are emerging among this disparate scholarly group. These tensions are associated with the rise of Critical Animal Studies (cas), the extent to which animal scholars should engage in emancipatory-type scholarship and the appearance of the “animal as such–animal as constructed” axis withinhas. This paper draws on these intrafield tensions to form a potential framework that maps scholarly labor withinhas. As scholars begin to debate what counts as “good” and “bad” human-animal scholarship, this may engender the appearance of academic-moral havens. It is suggested that such enclaves may partly mitigate the personal challenges and professional stigma of working in a tarnished academic field.
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박천수. "Influence of Appearance Discrimination on School-to-Work Transition." Journal of Vocational Education & Training 14, no. 3 (December 2011): 259–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.36907/krivet.2011.14.3.259.
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Penman, L. T. I. "The First Appearance of Jacob Bohme's Work in Print." Notes and Queries 57, no. 3 (June 29, 2010): 419–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjq091.
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Liu, Chen, and Tobias Ritschel. "Neural Differential Appearance Equations." ACM Transactions on Graphics 43, no. 6 (November 19, 2024): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3687900.
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We propose a method to reproduce dynamic appearance textures with space-stationary but time-varying visual statistics. While most previous work decomposes dynamic textures into static appearance and motion, we focus on dynamic appearance that results not from motion but variations of fundamental properties, such as rusting, decaying, melting, and weathering. To this end, we adopt the neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) to learn the underlying dynamics of appearance from a target exemplar. We simulate the ODE in two phases. At the "warm-up" phase, the ODE diffuses a random noise to an initial state. We then constrain the further evolution of this ODE to replicate the evolution of visual feature statistics in the exemplar during the generation phase. The particular innovation of this work is the neural ODE achieving both denoising and evolution for dynamics synthesis, with a proposed temporal training scheme. We study both relightable (BRDF) and non-relightable (RGB) appearance models. For both we introduce new pilot datasets, allowing, for the first time, to study such phenomena: For RGB we provide 22 dynamic textures acquired from free online sources; For BRDFs, we further acquire a dataset of 21 flash-lit videos of time-varying materials, enabled by a simple-to-construct setup. Our experiments show that our method consistently yields realistic and coherent results, whereas prior works falter under pronounced temporal appearance variations. A user study confirms our approach is preferred to previous work for such exemplars.
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Shahbaznejad, Soroush, and Seyed Hossein Amirshahi. "Does CIECAM02 color appearance model work well for fluorescent samples?" Color Research & Application 46, no. 5 (March 23, 2021): 923–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/col.22661.
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Mangitov, Alimbay Kamalovich, Rajabbay Israilovich Israilov, and Kamiljan Abdukarimovich Yuldashev. "Histological Appearance Of The Liver In Experimental Injury." American Journal of Medical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Research 03, no. 09 (September 17, 2021): 28–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajmspr/volume03issue09-07.
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In this work, the morphofunctional state has been studied at various times after the simulation of experimental syphilis. It is noted that discirculatory and dystrophic changes develop in the early stages of the study. The appearance of focal and massive necrosis of hepatocytes is accompanied by the development of an inflammatory process in the form of lymphoid infiltration around necrosis and hypertrophy of Kupffer cells. Subsequently, lymphohistiocytic infiltration spreads along the portal tracts, in which plasma cells and eosinophils appear, which are characteristic of syphilitic inflammation.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Appearance work"
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Baysal, Irfan. "The Appearance of Evaluation Models inPsychiatry : Some Swedish Examples." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-10993.
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In recent years the knowledge and the practices in the field of evaluation have been accumulated and different evaluation models are being discussed in the literature. There are a variety of evaluation models which describe how to conduct a particular type of evaluation. As a human service organization, psychiatry has a particular organizational structure. Seeking to enhance understanding of evaluation models in psychiatry is a need to be covered. To understand the evaluation activity in psychiatry and to question a suitable evaluation model are the aims of this study. The method of this study is a theoretical analysis. By probing into analysing of some examples of evaluation in Swedish psychiatry, a number of core criteria are highlighted. As the results, it comes up that the evaluation activity in psychiatry seems to be “top-down” which is informative and traditional way. Despite evaluation tradition had been highly recognised in psychiatry, the evaluation model is still a question in the field. Based on implications, it emerges three variables in the context of evaluation in psychiatry; facts, values and participation of different actors. By containing these three variables in its context, stakeholder evaluation model seem to be suitable model in psychiatry. This article enables a theoretical ground for the appearance of evaluation in psychiatry and gives implications in regard to stakeholder model as an appropriate evaluation model in psychiatry for future studies.
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Madros, Nor Haliza. "The influence of the appearance of work positions on the occurrence of eye symptoms in office buildings." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367912.
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Saris, Katja. "Application of an appearance-based intervention to improve sun protection outcomes of outdoor workers in Queensland, Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/53265/3/Katja_Saris_thesis.pdf.
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Outdoor workers are exposed to high levels of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and may thus be at greater risk to experience UVR-related health effects such as skin cancer, sun burn, and cataracts. A number of intervention trials (n=14) have aimed to improve outdoor workers’ work-related sun protection cognitions and behaviours. Only one study however has reported the use of UV-photography as part of a multi-component intervention. This study was performed in the USA and showed long-term (12 months) improvements in work-related sun protection behaviours. Intervention effects of the other studies have varied greatly, depending on the population studied, intervention applied, and measurement of effect. Previous studies have not assessed whether: - Interventions are similarly effective for workers in stringent and less stringent policy organisations; - Policy effect is translated into workers’ leisure time protection; - Implemented interventions are effective in the long-term; - The facial UV-photograph technique is effective in Australian male outdoor workers without a large additional intervention package, and; - Such interventions will also affect workers’ leisure time sun-related cognitions and behaviours.
Therefore, the present Protection of Outdoor Workers from Environmental Radiation [POWER]-study aimed to fill these gaps and had the objectives of: a) assessing outdoor workers’ sun-related cognitions and behaviours at work and during leisure time in stringent and less stringent sun protection policy environments; b) assessing the effect of an appearance-based intervention on workers’ risk perceptions, intentions and behaviours over time; c) assessing whether the intervention was equally effective within the two policy settings; and d) assessing the immediate post-intervention effect. Effectiveness was described in terms of changes in sun-related risk perceptions and intentions (as these factors were shown to be main precursors of behaviour change in many health promotion theories) and behaviour.
The study purposefully selected and recruited two organisations with a large outdoor worker contingent in Queensland, Australia within a 40 kilometre radius of Brisbane. The two organisations differed in the stringency of implementation and reinforcement of their organisational sun protection policy. Data were collected from 154 male predominantly Australian born outdoor workers with an average age of 37 years and predominantly medium to fair skin (83%). Sun-related cognitions and behaviours of workers were assessed using self-report questionnaires at baseline and six to twelve months later. Variation in follow-up time was due to a time difference in the recruitment of the two organisations. Participants within each organisation were assigned to an intervention or control group. The intervention group participants received a one-off personalised Skin Cancer Risk Assessment Tool [SCRAT]-letter and a facial UV-photograph with detailed verbal information. This was followed by an immediate post-intervention questionnaire within three months of the start of the study. The control group only received the baseline and follow-up questionnaire.
Data were analysed using a variety of techniques including: descriptive analyses, parametric and non-parametric tests, and generalised estimating equations. A 15% proportional difference observed was deemed of clinical significance, with the addition of reported statistical significance (p<0.05) where applicable.
Objective 1: Assess and compare the current sun-related risk perceptions, intentions, behaviours, and policy awareness of outdoor workers in stringent and less stringent sun protection policy settings. Workers within the two organisations (stringent n=89 and less stringent n=65) were similar in their knowledge about skin cancer, self efficacy, attitudes, and social norms regarding sun protection at work and during leisure time. Participants were predominantly in favour of sun protection. Results highlighted that compared to workers in a less stringent policy organisation working for an organisation with stringent sun protection policies and practices resulted in more desirable sun protection intentions (less willing to tan p=0.03) ; actual behaviours at work (sufficient use of upper and lower body protection, headgear, and sunglasses (p<0.001 for all comparisons), and greater policy awareness (awareness of repercussions if Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was not used, p<0.001)). However the effect of the work-related sun protection policy was found not to extend to leisure time sun protection.
Objective 2: Compare changes in sun-related risk perceptions, intentions, and behaviours between the intervention and control group. The effect of the intervention was minimal and mainly resulted in a clinically significant reduction in work-related self-perceived risk of developing skin cancer in the intervention compared to the control group (16% and 32% for intervention and control group, respectively estimated their risk higher compared to other outdoor workers: , p=0.11). No other clinical significant effects were observed at 12 months follow-up.
Objective 3: Assess whether the intervention was equally effective in the stringent sun protection policy organisation and the less stringent sun protection policy organisation. The appearance-based intervention resulted in a clinically significant improvement in the stringent policy intervention group participants’ intention to protect from the sun at work (workplace*time interaction, p=0.01). In addition to a reduction in their willingness to tan both at work (will tan at baseline: 17% and 61%, p=0.06, at follow-up: 54% and 33%, p=0.07, stringent and less stringent policy intervention group respectively. The workplace*time interaction was significant p<0.001) and during leisure time (will tan at baseline: 42% and 78%, p=0.01, at follow-up: 50% and 63%, p=0.43, stringent and less stringent policy intervention group respectively. The workplace*time interaction was significant p=0.01) over the course of the study compared to the less stringent policy intervention group. However, no changes in actual sun protection behaviours were found.
Objective 4: Examine the effect of the intervention on level of alarm and concern regarding the health of the skin as well as sun protection behaviours in both organisations. The immediate post-intervention results showed that the stringent policy organisation participants indicated to be less alarmed (p=0.04) and concerned (p<0.01) about the health of their skin and less likely to show the facial UV-photograph to others (family p=0.03) compared to the less stringent policy participants. A clinically significantly larger proportion of participants from the stringent policy organisation reported they worried more about skin cancer (65%) and skin freckling (43%) compared to those in the less stringent policy organisation (46%,and 23% respectively , after seeing the UV-photograph).
In summary the results of this study suggest that the having a stringent work-related sun protection policy was significantly related to for work-time sun protection practices, but did not extend to leisure time sun protection. This could reflect the insufficient level of sun protection found in the general Australian population during leisure time. Alternatively, reactance caused by being restricted in personal decisions through work-time policy could have contributed to lower leisure time sun protection. Finally, other factors could have also contributed to the less than optimal leisure time sun protection behaviours reported, such as unmeasured personal or cultural barriers. All these factors combined may have lead to reduced willingness to take proper preventive action during leisure time exposure. The intervention did not result in any measurable difference between the intervention and control groups in sun protection behaviours in this population, potentially due to the long lag time between the implementation of the intervention and assessment at 12-months follow-up. In addition, high levels of sun protection behaviours were found at baseline (ceiling effect) which left little room for improvement. Further, this study did not assess sunscreen use, which was the predominant behaviour assessed in previous effective appearance-based interventions trials. Additionally, previous trials were mainly conducted in female populations, whilst the POWER-study’s population was all male. The observed immediate post-intervention result could be due to more emphasis being placed on sun protection and risks related to sun exposure in the stringent policy organisation. Therefore participants from the stringent policy organisation could have been more aware of harmful effects of UVR and hence, by knowing that they usually protect adequately, not be as alarmed or concerned as the participants from the less stringent policy organisation.
In conclusion, a facial UV-photograph and SCRAT-letter information alone may not achieve large changes in sun-related cognitions and behaviour, especially of assessed 6-12 months after the intervention was implemented and in workers who are already quite well protected. Differences found between workers in the present study appear to be more attributable to organisational policy. However, against a background of organisational policy, this intervention may be a useful addition to sun-related workplace health and safety programs.
The study findings have been interpreted while respecting a number of limitations. These have included non-random allocation of participants due to pre-organised allocation of participants to study group in one organisation and difficulty in separating participants from either study group. Due to the transient nature of the outdoor worker population, only 105 of 154 workers available at baseline could be reached for follow-up. (attrition rate=32%). In addition the discrepancy in the time to follow-up assessment between the two organisations was a limitation of the current study.
Given the caveats of this research, the following recommendations were made for future research: - Consensus should be reached to define "outdoor worker" in terms of time spent outside at work as well as in the way sun protection behaviours are measured and reported.
- Future studies should implement and assess the value of the facial UV-photographs in a wide range of outdoor worker organisations and countries.
- More timely and frequent follow-up assessments should be implemented in intervention studies to determine the intervention effect and to identify the best timing of booster sessions to optimise results.
- Future research should continue to aim to target outdoor workers’ leisure time cognitions and behaviours and improve these if possible.
Overall, policy appears to be an important factor in workers’ compliance with work-time use of sun protection. Given the evidence generated by this research, organisations employing outdoor workers should consider stringent implementation and reinforcement of a sun protection policy. Finally, more research is needed to improve ways to generate desirable behaviour in this population during leisure time.
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Reynolds, Katharine J. "Examining the Relationship between Body Work and Muscle Dysmorphia Symptoms." TopSCHOLAR®, 2010. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/184.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether men with a large amount of Muscle Dysmorphia symptoms had a more favorable outlook and opinion of body work. Participants in the current study were a convenience sample of men recruited from undergraduate classes at Western Kentucky University and the community of Bowling Green Kentucky and Somerset Kentucky. A total of 215 men completed the study. Participants completed the Muscle Dysmorphia Inventory (MDI) and the Attitude-Behavior Questionnaire (ABQ). Results indicate scores on the MDI were significant predictors of scores on the ABQ. This suggests that men with a high number of Muscle Dysmorphia symptoms have a more favorable outlook and opinion of body work.
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Cyrille, Celia. "Le travail de l'apparence des garçons sur les réseaux sociaux d'images. Un analyseur des rapports de genre et de sexualité." Electronic Thesis or Diss., CY Cergy Paris Université, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024CYUN1327.
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Cette recherche explore le travail de l'apparence masculin juvénile sur les réseaux sociaux d'images par un dispositif collaboratif auquel ont participé vingt-six garçons de quinze à vingt ans. L'ethnographie féministe et la socio-clinique institutionnelle en constituent les deux approches méthodologiques. Par une démarche (n)ethnographique incluant une immersion en ligne et des entretiens compréhensifs individuels et collectifs menés en présentiel ou à distance, la recherche interroge les pratiques socionumériques allant de la capture à l'édition et au partage d'images de soi. Le recours à des entremetteuses et des participants-entremetteurs, l'usage de la photo elicitation et le partage de récits de soi ont complété la fabrique du dispositif méthodologique. Les participants montrent que le travail de l'apparence varie selon le réseau social, les affordances des plateformes et les destinataires identifiés parmi leur groupe de pairs. La grammaire de l'image décrite par les participants sur Snapchat et Instagram, les deux réseaux sociaux d'images qu'ils utilisent le plus, s'imbrique dans la technicité dont ils font preuve pour produire et lire les images. Snapchat est perçu comme une caméra sociale, encourageant la capture d'images instantanées, humoristiques et éphémères, principalement partagées avec des liens forts. Instagram est identifié comme une vitrine qui expose des images esthétiques de soi sous divers formats, à un cercle de sociabilité plus large, composé majoritairement de liens faibles. Les garçons tendent à adopter une posture de spectateurs vis-à-vis des images partagées, notamment celles des filles, qui, selon eux, reproduisent les attentes esthétiques dans la manière de disposer de leur corps. L'institutionnalisation rapide des réseaux sociaux d'images semble ainsi contribuer au maintien de la domination instituée, en particulier en ce qui concerne les rapports de genre et de sexualitéThis research investigates boys' masculine appearance-work on image-based social media through a collaborative project involving twenty-six participants aged fifteen to twenty. Feminist ethnography and institutional socio-clinic form the two methodological approaches of this study. Using a (net)ethnographic method involving online immersion and in-depth individual and group interviews conducted in person or remotely, the research examines practices ranging from capturing to editing and sharing self-images. The research design incorporates the use of gatekeepers, photo elicitation, and the sharing of self-narratives. Participants revealed differences in their approach to appearance-work based on the social media platform, the affordances of each, and the recipients identified. The image grammar described by the participants on Snapchat and Instagram, the two image-based social media they use most, is interwoven with the technical skills they demonstrate in producing and interpreting images. Snapchat is perceived as a social camera that fosters the capturing of instant, humorous, and ephemeral images, primarily shared with strong ties. Instagram is described as a showcase for aesthetic self-images, shared in various formats with a broader circle of sociability, primarily composed of weak ties. Boys tend to adopt a spectator posture toward the images they share, particularly those of girls, who, in their view, reproduce aesthetic expectations in the way they present their bodies. The rapid institutionalisation of image-based social media appears to reinforce established forms of domination, particularly regarding gender and sexuality
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Pouillaude, Amélie. "Performances esthétiques : socialisation et évaluation des corps en twirling bâton et en gymnastique rythmique." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lille (2022-....), 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023ULILA030.
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Alors qu'ils demeurent des foyers importants de la pratique des femmes, les sports à vocation esthétique font l'objet de très peu d'enquêtes en sociologie. Leur intérêt réside dans le fait qu'ils se distinguent des activités sportives « ordinaires », en ce qu'ils entretiennent une proximité forte avec les pratiques culturelles et artistiques (Mennesson et Julhe, 2012). Ce faisant, l'apparence physique constitue une dimension centrale du processus de socialisation engagé par ces pratiquant·es et des évaluations formulées par les juges de ces disciplines. Ainsi, la thèse se centre sur la question des « possibles corporels » (Schotté, 2016) offerts aux pratiquant·es ainsi qu'aux juges, qui s'expriment via leur notation des performances.Menée sur deux terrains sportifs, à savoir le twirling bâton et la gymnastique rythmique, qui entretiennent une proximité forte sur les plans moteur et réglementaire, l'enquête ethnographique met au jour des configurations différenciées des modèles de genre (Connell et Messershmidt, 2015) promus au sein des deux disciplines, qui s'expliquent à la fois par un décalage dans leur recrutement social et sexué et dans leur degré d'institutionnalisation. Si certain·es entraîneur·es et juges tentent de s'affranchir des normes esthétiques et de genre en vigueur dans ces espaces, elles et ils ne parviennent finalement jamais à renverser l'ordre de genre hétérosexuel établi. Dès lors, ce travail permet de mettre au jour « les habits neufs de la domination masculine » (De Singly, 1993) dans des espaces historiquement appréhendés comme des voies d'empowerment pour les femmesAlthough they remain important areas of practice for women, aesthetic sports are the subject of very few sociological studies. Their interest lies in the fact that they differ from "ordinary" sporting activities, in that they maintain a strong proximity to cultural and artistic practices (Mennesson and Julhe, 2012). Physical appearance constitutes a central dimension of the practitioners' socialization, as well as of the judges' evaluations in these disciplines. Thus, the thesis focuses on the question of "bodily possibilities" (Schotté, 2016) offered to practitioners and judges, as expressed through their performance ratings.The ethnographic study has been carried out in two sports fields - twirling baton and rhythmic gymnastics - which are very similar in terms of motor and regulatory aspects. However, the two disciplines promote differentiated configurations of models of gender (Connell and Messershmidt, 2015). This can be explained by a discrepancy in their social and gendered recruitment and by a differentiated degree of institutionalization. While some coaches and judges attempt to emancipate from these spaces' aesthetic and gender norms, they never succeed in overturning the established heterosexual gender order. In this way, our work brings to light "the new clothes of male domination" (De Singly, 1993) in spaces historically apprehended as paths to empowerment for women
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Obrátil, Pavel. "Polyfunkční dům v Litovli." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227668.
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The diploma thesis was elaborated for as part of design documentation for new multifunctional building in Litovel. The building will be used for purposes of bus and train station, another way for administration purposes. The building contains the second and a third floor with a modern look suitably fits into the surrounding countryside. The significant emphasis was on both nice appearance of the building, so the correct process engineering and dispositional solution. The building is designed so that in terms of design and implementation easily accomplishable. Furthermore, to meet all the requirements for building physics and fire safety. During seminar work was solved problems of summer overheating of the room situated on the south side of the building. For the preparation of project documentation for construction was used CAD software and specialized software for structural calculations of statics and construction.
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Turrisi, Rob, Joel J. Hillhouse, Kimberly Mallett, Jerod L. Stapleton, and June K. Robinson. "A Systematic Review of Intervention Efforts to Reduce Indoor Tanning." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/31.
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This chapter reviews the literature examining interventions to reduce indoor tanning (IT). The first objective was to highlight programs that show promise for large scale dissemination. The second objective was to promote criteria and standards for future intervention research efforts. The scope of interest for this review includes universal (for everyone in the population), selective (for those in the population who are at a greater risk), and indicated (for those who already are experiencing conditions that identify them as at risk) programs. The evaluation of the interventions resulted in three levels of evidence: (1) most promising, (2) emerging, and (3) mixed. For an intervention to be considered “most promising”, it was required that ten criteria be met through examination of research findings in published reports consistent with Flay and colleagues (Prev Sci 6(3):151–175, 2005). Interventions that were classified as “emerging” met most of the criteria. Finally, interventions classified as “mixed” did not reach threshold on more than two criteria that were deemed critical. The results revealed that there was very limited research on IT interventions that meet all the evaluation criteria. Only one intervention approach met all of the criteria (Appearance Booklet) (Hillhouse and Turrisi, Behav Med 25(4):395–409, 2002; Hillhouse et al., Cancer 113(11):3257–3266, 2008). Although the number of published papers in the IT area has increased dramatically over the past decade, these efforts have yet to translate into rigorously conducted intervention trials. The review points to important issues that need to be addressed in future research on the prevention of IT. Keywords
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Ekemba, Chinedu, and Emin Ali Emurla. "Motivating Factors Influencing Consumers’ Brand Preferences for mobile phones: University of Gavle Students." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-25080.
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Title: Motivating factors influencing consumers’ Brand preferences for mobile phones: University of Gavle students Level: Final assignment for Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) Authors: Chinedu Ekemba and Emurla Emin Ali Supervisor: Professor Ehsanul Huda Chowdhury Examiner: Professor Maria Fregidou-Malama Date: 2017- June Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the motivating factors that influence University Gavle students to prefer a particular Mobile phone brand. Method: A qualitative study is carried out based on primary data; the primary data was collected through semi-structured interview with twenty of University of Gavle Students by the use of face to face interview. Result & Conclusion: The study finds out that, the role of word of mouth as extrinsic factors serves as the highest motivating factor, while prestige serves as intrinsic factors of motivation. Thus, word of mouth and quality are the highest motivating factors that influence University of Gavle students to prefer a particular mobile phone brand. This finding of this research will help mobile phone marketers and managers to develop strategy on how to capture Swedish consumers to prefer their companies brand products. Suggestion for future research: Future research could be done by considering different or more widely target groups instead of students of University of Gavle. Different perspectives can be combined in future research thus, further research can be conducted by more broadly with a variety of age groups and in a wider area. Also, further research could include comparison between mobile phone brand types and may consider different type of products. This will give understanding of the different segments in mobile phone market, and to determine if these different segments can cause any variety and change of motivating factors. Additionally, further research could be conducted in the long time period, thus can be explored in detail benefiting from the longitudinal study and could be include observations to understand long-term variables on mobile phone market and effects of motivating factors. Hence, this could bring more effective conceptualization of influencing factors of smartphone buying consumers and helps to achieve a more in-depth research. More so, the same study can be conducted with a combination of different Universities in Sweden. And also, same research can be carried out using quantitative research method for future research. Contribution of the Study: This study contributes with knowledge on which motivating factors influence customers brand preferences, and how these factors affect their purchase decision.
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Vierling-Kovar, Emmanuelle. "Le contrat de société en participation." Phd thesis, Université de Strasbourg, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00997288.
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La société en participation ne s'analyse pas comme une société classique. Elle ne se dissout pas, elle est résolue ou résiliée, comme tout contrat de partenariat. Sa force, sa réalité, demeure dans le contrat librement choisi par les participants, tant dans son élaboration que dans l'organisation même de la société, situation intermédiaire entre un contrat classique et les sociétés institution. C'est l'application du principe d'autonomie de la volonté. Dans ce cas de figure, l'affectio societatis se rapproche le plus de la notion de jus fraternitatis, du moins lors de l'élaboration des statuts, ce que certains auteurs nomment l'affectio contractus. Finalement, en raison de son caractère éminemment contractuel, à la place de société en participation, ne faudrait-il pas plutôt l'appeler contrat de société en participation ? Il s'agit dès lors de lui reconnaître son caractère de contrat à part entière, un contrat nommé du Code civil. La jurisprudence semble aller dans ce sens.
Books on the topic "Appearance work"
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MacMonagle, Don. Jackie: Keeping up appearances. [County Kerry, Ireland: Don MacMonagle, 2002.
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Zubova, Elena. Eyebrow and eyelash design technology. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. https://doi.org/10.12737/2063437.
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The tutorial reveals the technologies of eyebrow architecture, marking, haircut and correction using special tools, as well as eyebrow and eyelash coloring. The topics of the history of fashion for eyebrow shapes, color types of appearance, and facial proportions are touched upon. Special attention is paid to practical work, features and stages of its implementation. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of secondary vocational education of the latest generation. It is intended for students of secondary specialized educational institutions studying in the specialty 43.02.03 "Stylistics and the art of make-up".
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Halsema, Annemie, Katja Kwastek, and Roel Oever, eds. Bodies That Still Matter. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722940.
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Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most influential thinkers in academia. Her work addresses numerous socially pertinent topics such as gender normativity, political speech, media representations of war, the democratic power of assembling bodies, and the force of nonviolence. The volume Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler brings together essays from scholars across academic disciplines who apply, reflect on, and further Butler’s ideas in their own research. It includes a new essay by Butler herself, from which it takes its title. Organized around four key themes in Butler’s scholarship – performativity, speech, precarity, and assembly – the volume offers an excellent introduction to the contemporary relevance of Butler’s thinking, a multi-perspectival approach to key topics of contemporary critical theory, and a testimony to the vibrant interdisciplinary discourses characterizing much of today’s humanities research.
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Fafinski, Mateusz. Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463727532.
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Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles, charters, even churches and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructures, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after their creators have gone. Infrastructure can also rest dormant and be reactivated with a changed function, role and appearance. This is not a simple story of continuity and discontinuity: It is a story of adaptation and transformation, of how the Roman infrastructural past was used and re-used, and also how it influenced the later societies of Britain.
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Houghton, G. H. "A very fine appearance": The Vermont Civil War photographs of George Houghton. Barre: Vermont Historical Society, 2010.
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Lazarev, Andrey. In the footsteps of the living word. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1986683.
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The monograph reveals the scientific and pedagogical significance of the publications of the journal "Philological Notes", which stood at the cradle of Russian linguistics and pedagogy; the publication on the pages of which the heuristic methodology of intellectual and moral development "The Living Word" was formed.
The study of the history of the appearance of the metaphor "living word" in the Russian literary language, presented by modern philologists for the ethno-cultural constant of linguistic consciousness, is similar to the investigation of a detective case about the dramatic fate of domestic comparative linguistics and Slavic studies. The reader will be able to recognize the Russian national and cultural code as originally Slavic in the light of the mythological Indo-European and biblical heritage expressed in state symbols; against the background of the history and philosophy of the language.
It is of interest to specialists in the field of the history of Russian pedagogy and philology, for teachers and students of pedagogical universities and faculties, for school teachers.
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DeRose, Keith. The Appearance of Ignorance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199564477.001.0001.
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This volume presents, develops, and champions contextualist solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: The puzzles of skeptical hypotheses and of lotteries. It is argued that, at least by ordinary standards for knowledge, we do know that skeptical hypotheses are false, and that we’ve lost the lottery (unless one is in fact the winner of the lottery, in which case one does not know that one has lost, but is reasonable in thinking that one knows it). Accounting for how it is that we know that skeptical hypotheses are false and why it seems that we don’t know that they’re false tells us a lot, both about what knowledge is and how knowledge attributions work. Along the way, the following are all carefully explained and defended: Moorean methodological approaches to skepticism, on which one seeks to defeat, rather than refute, the skeptic; contextualist responses to skepticism; contextualist substantive Mooreanism; the basic safety approach to knowledge and the double-safety picture of what knowledge is; insensitivity accounts of various appearances of ignorance; the closure principle for knowledge; and the claim that our knowledge that we are not brains in vats is a priori, despite its being knowledge of a deeply contingent fact.
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Fitzsimmons, Michael P. The Appearance of the Fifth Edition. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644536.003.0005.
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Maradan quickly withdrew from the project, and years later than the stipulated deadline, Smits published the fifth edition, although the work was rushed into print when key figures working on it were proscribed after the coup of fructidor. The Convention had hoped that the dictionary would disseminate the values of the Revolution in the same manner as the earlier edition had for the ideals of absolute monarchy. The fifth edition, however, was filled with anachronistic ideas and suppressed institutions and barely took note of the Revolution, not even mentioning the French Revolution in its list of examples of revolutions. The sole acknowledgment was a brief and utterly inadequate supplement of new words in use since the Revolution, which at only 418 words was a fraction of the dictionary’s content. To the degree that it failed to capture the current state of language, the fifth edition was widely regarded as deficient.
Book chapters on the topic "Appearance work"
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Cunningham, George B. "Appearance." In Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Work, 177–206. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003413110-11.
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Garcia-Fidalgo, Emilio, and Alberto Ortiz. "Conclusions and Future Work." In Methods for Appearance-based Loop Closure Detection, 157–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75993-7_9.
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Hays-Thomas, Rosemary. "Ability, Appearance, Weight, Age; Religion, Social Class, and Work." In Managing Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, 317–52. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367808884-15.
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Afrouz, Rojan, and Beth R. Crisp. "Anti-oppressive Practice in Social Work with Women Wearing Hijab." In Exploring Islamic Social Work, 203–18. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95880-0_12.
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AbstractReligious beliefs are central to the identity of many people, often signalled by their physical appearance, for example, clothing, hair or jewellery. If prevented from such a form of self-expression, some take action against what they consider a contravention of their human rights. The predominance of this discourse can obscure the possibility that there are others who are forced to signal a religious viewpoint which they may not subscribe to. This chapter explores the wearing of hijab by Afghan women who have lived in Australia less than 10 years. While some choose to wear hijab, there were others who spoke of being forced to wear hijab as a form of domestic violence. Furthermore, whereas for some, not wearing hijab represents a freedom to dress in accordance with their understandings of Australia as a secular society, a few felt that wearing clothes which marked them as Islamic increased the likelihood of attracting xenophobia and discrimination. Hence, for many women, decisions around hijab represented compromise between the demands of their family, the Afghan community and the wider Australian society, rather than a free choice. Consequently, if social workers assume women’s religious beliefs and identity are congruent with their appearance they may inadvertently be contributing to women’s oppression. As such, this chapter explores notions of anti-oppressive practice when working with Muslim women living in non-Muslim majority countries, particularly in respect of dress codes which are associated with Islam.
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Huang, Shouwang, Ruiqi Fan, and Shichao Wu. "DisGait: A Prior Work of Gait Recognition Concerning Disguised Appearance and Pose." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 413–25. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4742-3_34.
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Sandström, Rolf. "Cells and Subgrains. The Role of Cold Work." In Basic Modeling and Theory of Creep of Metallic Materials, 145–67. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49507-6_8.
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AbstractIn almost all metals and alloys, dislocations are concentrated to narrow regions after plastic deformation that divide the material into cells or subgrains. The cell walls consist of tangles whereas the subgrains are surrounded by thin regular networks of dislocations. The cells are transferred to subgrains with increasing temperature. Although these substructures have been analyzed for many years, basic models of their development have only appeared recently. Models for substructures are presented for plastic deformation at constant stress and at constant strain rate. During straining the dislocations can move in opposite directions creating a polarized structure, where the possibility for recovery of dislocations is reduced. This can be expressed in term of a back stress. Its presence explains why creep curves at near ambient temperatures could have an appearance that is similar to that at elevated temperatures. It is also the basis for the effect of cold work on creep. The models can quantitatively describe why the creep rate can be reduced by up to six orders of magnitude for Cu after cold work.
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Vossen, Suzanne, Jaap Ham, and Cees Midden. "What Makes Social Feedback from a Robot Work? Disentangling the Effect of Speech, Physical Appearance and Evaluation." In Persuasive Technology, 52–57. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13226-1_7.
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"The Art of Appearance." In Daidalos at Work, 149–70. INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv9zcgz9.14.
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Kukkonen, Iida. "Who Performs Appearance Work, and Who Believes Appearance Works? Gendered Appearance Beliefs and Practices in Finland." In Appearance as Capital, 39–55. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-708-120210003.
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Baldwin, Thomas. "Thought’s Happy Suicide." In Appearance versus Reality, 73–92. Oxford University PressOxford, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198236597.003.0003.
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Abstract In the appendix to Appearance and Reality Bradley says that the main thesis of the work is contained in chapter 15 on ‘Thought and Reality’. The central theme of that chapter is that reality lies beyond any system of thoughts, however harmonious and comprehensive: the pursuit of truth, which is an essential characteristic of thought, carries thought beyond itself-to the Absolute.
Conference papers on the topic "Appearance work"
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Stromeyer, C. F. "Facilitation of Red-Green Perception by Luminance Pedestals." In Color Appearance. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ca.1987.tua2.
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My colleagues (G.R. Cole, R.T. Eskew, Jr. and R.E. Kronauer) and I have been studying how luminance information may aid perception of red-green color changes. Related work has been done by Hilz et al, (1974), Boynton et al. (1977) and Nick and Larimer (1983).
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Ban, Yuki, Masanori Kuroha, and Shin'ichi Warisawa. "Sharing Work Appearance for Improvement in Remote Work Productivity." In 2022 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cw55638.2022.00022.
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Arend, Lawrence E. "Simultaneous Color Contrast and Constancy." In Color Appearance. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ca.1987.mb2.
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The influence of surrounding colors on the appearance of a focal region is one of the oldest topics of vision research, and a wide variety of experimental paradigms has produced large quantities of data. From the beginning investigators were interested in the role of contrast in everyday color appearance. For the sake of close experimental control, most of that work involved very simple stimulus patterns. As a consequence relatively little systematic information has been available concerning the role of color contrast in patterns more closely approximating the conditions of everyday scenes. Most natural scenes involve many different chromaticies varying over the relatively small range produced by reflective surfaces under nearly white illumination. My colleagues and I have recently performed a series of experiments on contrast in complex patterns1,2.
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de Mattiello, M. L. F. "Interaction Between Saturation and Lightness of Pigmented Samples." In Color Appearance. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ca.1987.ma4.
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It is known that saturation and lightness are interdependent dimensions of colored surfaces. In the present study we are attempting to describe the interaction between those two variables in quantitative terms. We have noticed before (1,2) that when comparing samples of the same hue and colorimetric purity (Pc) but different reflectance (R), the observers (Os) assigned different values of saturation whether the hue were mixed with white or black. Also the discrimination of chromatic lightness varied in a different manner for high levels of reflectance as compared with lower levels. Our main concern in this work is to examine more closely these effects by dividing each chromatic continuum in two ranges of reflectance: one where samples move from pigment to white (P+W) and the other, ranging from pigment to black (P+B).
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Eisner, A. E. "Retinal Chromaticity Co-ordinates and Color Appearance." In Color Appearance. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ca.1987.tub4.
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Color appearance and color constancy depend upon the chromaticity co-ordinates of light falling on the retina, not on the cornea. Many factors can change retinal chromaticity co-ordinates of a given test patch, including viewing conditions, spatial frequency of the stimulus, pupil size, and aging of the lens and other eye pathology. The visibility of white or monochromatic stimuli has long been modeled by the modulation transfer function. Dupuy1 has described a model in which the retinal image is treated as a series of transformations of the physical image. The modulation transfer function of each ocular element is determined, then all elements are combined linearly. Similarly, a simple way to approximate the retinal chromaticity co-ordinates is to compute the contrast of the stimulus at each wavelength, with each factor contributing to a contrast reduction or filter, and with the contribution of factors combined linearly2. For stimuli in maximal (laboratory) viewing conditions, of a moderate range of wavelengths, less than 10 cpd, and viewed with a pupil 2 mm or smaller and a healthy eye, there is usually an insignificant amount of contrast reduction2,3 for an "average" observer. Often these conditions are not met; this paper adds to our previous work a description of the effects of variations in macular pigment and lens densities for observers using color monitors. Determining the change in retinal chromaticity co-ordinates is important for several reasons. First, given the wide range of intra-observer differences in ocular pigmentation and scatter, as well as refractive error, it should be determined whether a given stimulus has chromaticity co-ordinates similar enough across observers to ensure similar color appearance. Second, with the widespread use of color monitors and displays, it is important to know whether information intended to appear a given color will, in fact, appear as intended for all the likely combinations of spatial parameters and adjacent colors. Third, to understand the neural factors involved in color appearance and color contrast, the retinal stimulus must first be determined.
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Martínez-Prieto, Miguel A., Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto, Pablo de la Fuente, Pablo de la Fuente, Jesús Vegas, Jesús Vegas, Joaquín Adiego, and Joaquín Adiego. "Integrating Functionality and Appearance with the Electronic Work Logical Structure." In 2007 Latin American Web Conference (LA-WEB 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/laweb.2007.4383162.
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Martínez-Prieto, Miguel A., Pablo de la Fuente, Jesús Vegas, and Joaquín Adiego. "Integrating Functionality and Appearance with the Electronic Work Logical Structure." In 2007 5th Latin American Web Conference. IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/la-web.2007.8.
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Lu, Toby. "BlindSpot: An AI-Powered Intelligent Mirror Assisting with Facial Hygiene Analysis for Blind People." In 12th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET 2024). AHFE International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005485.
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Appearances are important for our everyday lives: it is how we present ourselves. Yet, for people who are blind or visually impaired, it can be challenging to notice or take care of their facial hygiene without sighted assistance. Furthermore, existing AI-powered visual assistive technologies such as Seeing AI do not provide such support.We first performed an online search to identify the needs of blind people and people who are visually impaired by checking their appearances. We found that checking appearances is a pertinent need shared by many people who are blind or visually impaired. For example, in the autoethnography by a blind girl [1], the author explains that growing up with visual impairments is physically and mentally strenuous on teenagers. In Li et al. [2], the authors find that people who are visually impaired “normally keep [their] appearance the same as before the loss of vision. This makes people focus less on [their] face and [their] visual impairments.” And that “people with visual impairments are attentive to their appearance,” by “applying makeup”, so that they “can control [their] appearance again.” Pradhan et al. [3] found that people with visual impairments care about their appearance as “they know people around them can see them,” they also “rely on sighted or partially sighted people to act as their mirrors.” Such prior work highlights the need to develop novel solutions and mechanisms to help blind people check on their appearances more independently. The advances in artificial intelligence, especially with regard to AI’s capabilities on analyzing images, brings tremendous potential to augment the vision of people who are blind or visually impaired. In this project, I propose the design of BlindSpot, which is an AI-powered intelligent mirror to help people who are blind and visually impaired check their appearances through uploading images to the platform. Our prior need-finding search revealed diverse needs by blind people on checking appearances, including checking food stains around mouth area, checking makeup quality, and checking cleanliness of their faces. To use BlindSpot, we imagine users can first upload a reference photo which displays their regular appearance, and then upload another photo that they wanted to have the intelligent mirror check for them. In cases where users do not have a reference photo, they can directly upload a photo of interest and ask BlindSpot to check their appearance for them. To evaluate the design concept of BlindSpot, we first constructed a repository composed of people’s headshot images with different appearance issues ranging from food stuck on teeth, to smudge of makeup. We then prompted GPT-4 to evaluate the headshot images and give users feedback for them to adjust their appearance. We found that in most of the scenarios, GPT-4 is able to generate accurate assessment and give helpful feedback. We report scenarios where GPT-4 makes mistakes and makes suggestions on how to further improve the design.
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Mihailov, Tatiana. "HOW TO USE THE ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE WHEN COMPLETING WORK DOCUMENTS." In International Scientific Conference ‘Digitalization of legal deeds in the context of the modernization of public services’, 35–39. Moldova State University, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.59295/daj2022.04.
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The current labor legislation gives a decisive role to the age criterion and conditions the appearance or termination of an employment relationship based on it. And if, in this particular case, the legality of establishing a minimum age for obtaining labour capacity is not in doubt, then establishing at the legislative level an age limit which, once reached, entails to the termination of contractual employment relationship, is to be analyzed in terms of legality and compliance with the non-discrimination principle within the employment relationships.
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Sun, Rui, Naisong Luo, Yuwen Pan, Huayu Mai, Tianzhu Zhang, Zhiwei Xiong, and Feng Wu. "Appearance Prompt Vision Transformer for Connectome Reconstruction." In Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-23}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/158.
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Neural connectivity reconstruction aims to understand the function of biological reconstruction and promote basic scientific research. The intricate morphology and densely intertwined branches make it an extremely challenging task. Most previous best-performing methods adopt affinity learning or metric learning. Nevertheless, they either neglect to model explicit voxel semantics caused by implicit optimization or are hysteresis to spatial information. Furthermore, the inherent locality of 3D CNNs limits modeling long-range dependencies, leading to sub-optimal results. In this work, we propose a coherent and unified Appearance Prompt Vision Transformer (APViT) to integrate affinity and metric learning to exploit the complementarity by learning long-range spatial dependencies. The proposed APViT enjoys several merits. First, the extension continuity-aware attention module aims at constructing hierarchical attention customized for neuron extensibility and slice continuity to learn instance voxel semantic context from a global perspective and utilize continuity priors to enhance voxel spatial awareness. Second, the appearance prompt modulator is responsible for leveraging voxel-adaptive appearance knowledge conditioned on affinity rich in spatial information to instruct instance voxel semantics, exploiting the potential of affinity learning to complement metric learning. Extensive experimental results on multiple challenging benchmarks demonstrate that our APViT achieves consistent improvements with huge flexibility under the same post-processing strategy.
Reports on the topic "Appearance work"
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Marienko, Maiia V., Yulia H. Nosenko, and Mariya P. Shyshkina. Personalization of learning using adaptive technologies and augmented reality. [б. в.], November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/4418.
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The research is aimed at developing the recommendations for educators on using adaptive technologies and augmented reality in personalized learning implementation. The latest educational technologies related to learning personalization and the adaptation of its content to the individual needs of students and group work are considered. The current state of research is described, the trends of development are determined. Due to a detailed analysis of scientific works, a retrospective of the development of adaptive and, in particular, cloud-oriented systems is shown. The preconditions of their appearance and development, the main scientific ideas that contributed to this are analyzed. The analysis showed that the scientists point to four possible types of semantic interaction of augmented reality and adaptive technologies. The adaptive cloud-based educational systems design is considered as the promising trend of research. It was determined that adaptability can be manifested in one or a combination of several aspects: content, evaluation and consistency. The cloud technology is taken as a platform for integrating adaptive learning with augmented reality as the effective modern tools to personalize learning. The prospects of the adaptive cloud-based systems design in the context of teachers training are evaluated. The essence and place of assistive technologies in adaptive learning systems design are defined. It is shown that augmented reality can be successfully applied in inclusive education. The ways of combining adaptive systems and augmented reality tools to support the process of teachers training are considered. The recommendations on the use of adaptive cloud-based systems in teacher education are given.
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Cortiñas-Rovira, S., and B. Salvador-Mata. Pseudociencia y sociedad en España. Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4185/cac179.
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Pseudociencia y sociedad en España. Estado de la cuestión e investigaciones recientes analyses the communicative strategies that pseudoscience uses for its social ex-pansion. This work begins with the definition of an epistemological framework that allows us to understand the phenomenon of pseudoscience and its rela-tionship with the main factors of contemporary society, such as relativism and liquidity. As a consequence of the postmodern condition, absolute certainties vanish and the possibility of not only ignoring science but even denying it be-comes real. In this sense, one of the main theses of this work is that the over-informed, postmodern and liquid society favours the expansion of pseudo-scientific discourses. Spain, like most countries, is no stranger to this expan-sion. To confirm this hypothesis, different social groups have been analysed to a) identify the degree of insertion of pseudoscience in these contexts; b) describe and categorise the communicative elements present in pseudoscien-tific discourses; and c) propose lines of action to limit the rise of these dis-courses. The present research has covered science journalists, literature, libraries, universities and different representatives of the biomedical field, such as pharmacists and healthcare professionals. Mixed methodologies have been applied: in-depth interviews to identify discursive patterns, content analysis, data analysis, and focus groups. Among the main conclusions, the followings stand out: 1) Pseudoscience uses fallacy, relativism, emotional reinforcement, opposition to a supposed dogmatic concept of science, antiquity, holistic or naturalistic arguments, among others to expand. 2) Pseudoscience normalizes its social discourse through its appearance in different contexts, in some cases openly, and in others in a discourse of risk minimization that favours its nor-malization as something innocuous. As a whole, the pseudoscientific discourse represents a challenge for scientific communication that must be addressed using all the communicative tools available.
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Lewinsohn, Efraim, Eran Pichersky, and Shimon Gepstein. Biotechnology of Tomato Volatiles for Flavor Improvement. United States Department of Agriculture, April 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2001.7575277.bard.
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The main objectives of the research project were: 1. The manipulation, by genetic engineering techniques, of the terpenoid pathway in tomato fruit. Specifically, to test the hypothesis whether overexpression of linalool synthase in tomato fruits will result in the diversion of intermediates of the carotene biosynthetic pathway to linalool, demonstrating that linalool synthase is a key regulatory enzyme, and possibly improving tomato flavor. 2. The elucidation of the biochemical pathway leading to eugenol and methyl eugenol, and the manipulation of this pathway to determine key enzymes and to improve flavor in tomato. Background, conclusions and implications The different proportions of volatile components present in foods often determine their flavor properties. Two of the ten most important flavor compounds in tomatoes, linalool and eugenol, are emitted by the flowers of Clarkia breweri, (Onagraceae), a plant native to California, and are also present in sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum, Lamiaceae). We have studied the key enzymes and genes involved in the production of these flavorants. Linalool synthase, the key enzyme in linalool biosynthesis and its corresponding gene were isolated and characterized from Clarkia breweri. The gene was coupled to a fruit-specific tomato promotor (E8) and was used to transform tomatoes. The transgenic tomatoes produced S-linalool and 1-hydroxylinalool, compounds absent from the fruits of controls. The transgenesis did not adversely affect the overall appearance of the plants nor the levels of other terpenoids present such as carotenoids and vitamin E. Our work has proven that the terpenoid pathway in tomatoes can be modified by the introduction and expression of foreign genes coding for the enzymes controlling the production of monoterpenoid flavor compounds. We have also isolated novel enzymes and genes that are involved in the formation of eugenol and methyl eugenol from Clarkia breweri and basil. An EST library of basil glandular trichomes (the site of eugenol and methyl eugenol biosynthesis) was prepared. More than 1,200 genes have been preliminary characterized and a few of them have been confirmed by functional expression, to be involved in eugenol and methyl eugenol biosynthesis. These genes have augmented the still small repertoire of genes that are available to modify the aroma of agricultural produce by genetic engineering.
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Prysyazhna-Gapchenko, Julia. VOLODYMYR LENYK AS A JOURNALIST AND EDITOR IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF UKRAINIAN EMIGRATION. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11094.
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In this article considered Journalistic and editorial activity of Volodymyr Lenika (14.06.1922–02.11.2005) – one of the leading figures of Ukrainian emigration in Germany. First outlined basic landmarks of his life and creation. Journalistic and editorial activity of Volodymyr Lenik was during to forty years out of Ukraine. In the conditions of emigration politically zaangazhovani Ukrainians counted on temporality of the stay abroad and prepared to transference of the created charts and instituciy on native lands. It was or by not main part of conception of liberation revolution of elaborate OUN under the direction of Stepan Banderi, and successfully incarnated in post-war years. Volodymyr Lenik, executing responsible commissions Organization, proved on a few directions of activity, which were organically combined with his journalistic and editorial work. As an editor he was promotorom of creation and realization of models of magazines «Avangard», «Krylati», «Znannia», «Freie Presse Korespondenz», newspapers «Shliakh peremogy». As a journalist Volodymyr Lenik left ponderable work, considerable part of which entered in two-volume edition «Ukrainians on strange land, or reporting, from long journeys». Subject of him newspaper-magazine publications directed on illumination of school, youth, student, cultural, scientific problems, organization and activity of emigrant structures, political fight of emigration, to dethronement of the antiukrainskikh Moscow diversions and provocations. Such variety of problematic of works of V. Lenika was directed in the river-bed of retaining of revolutionary temperament in the environment of diaspore, to bringing in of it to activity in public and political life. Problematic of him is systematized publicism and journalistic appearances, which was inferior realization of a few important tasks, namely to the fight for Ukrainian independence in new terms, cherishing and maintainance of national identity, counteraction hostile soviet propaganda. On an example headed Volodymyr Lenikom a magazine «Knowledge» some aspects are exposed him editorial trade.
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BIZIKOEVA, L. S., and M. I. BALIKOEVA. SOMERSET MAUGHAM - MASTER OF CREATING CHARACTERS. Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2021-13-4-2-111-121.
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Purpose. The goal of the present article is to study various means of creating a literary character. Analyzing the creative work of a famous English writer William Somerset Maugham and basing on the story «The Kite» an attempt is made to scrutinize Maugham’s peculiar style and lexico-stylistic devices he employs to create the main female characters of the story «The Kite». The main methods used in the research are: the method of contextual analysis and the descriptive-analytical method. Results. The results of the research revealed that the peculiar characteristic of the protagonists of the story “The Kite” is the author’s strong presence. Portraying the characters of Missis Sunbury and Miss Bevan, Somerset Maugham pays special attention to precise description of their appearances and manner of speech. Employing various lexico-stylistic devices, S. Maugham creates extraordinarily vivid characters. Practical implications. The received results can be used in teaching Stylistics of the English language, stylistic analysis of the text as well as theory and practice of translation.
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Elbaum, Michael, and Peter J. Christie. Type IV Secretion System of Agrobacterium tumefaciens: Components and Structures. United States Department of Agriculture, March 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2013.7699848.bard.
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Objectives: The overall goal of the project was to build an ultrastructural model of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens type IV secretion system (T4SS) based on electron microscopy, genetics, and immunolocalization of its components. There were four original aims: Aim 1: Define the contributions of contact-dependent and -independent plant signals to formation of novel morphological changes at the A. tumefaciens polar membrane. Aim 2: Genetic basis for morphological changes at the A. tumefaciens polar membrane. Aim 3: Immuno-localization of VirB proteins Aim 4: Structural definition of the substrate translocation route. There were no major revisions to the aims, and the work focused on the above questions. Background: Agrobacterium presents a unique example of inter-kingdom gene transfer. The process involves cell to cell transfer of both protein and DNA substrates via a contact-dependent mechanism akin to bacterial conjugation. Transfer is mediated by a T4SS. Intensive study of the Agrobacterium T4SS has made it an archetypal model for the genetics and biochemistry. The channel is assembled from eleven protein components encoded on the B operon in the virulence region of the tumor-inducing plasmid, plus an additional coupling protein, VirD4. During the course of our project two structural studies were published presenting X-ray crystallography and three-dimensional reconstruction from electron microscopy of a core complex of the channel assembled in vitro from homologous proteins of E. coli, representing VirB7, VirB9, and VirB10. Another study was published claiming that the secretion channels in Agrobacterium appear on helical arrays around the membrane perimeter and along the entire length of the bacterium. Helical arrangements in bacterial membranes have since fallen from favor however, and that finding was partially retracted in a second publication. Overall, the localization of the T4SS within the bacterial membranes remains enigmatic in the literature, and we believe that our results from this project make a significant advance. Summary of achievements : We found that polar inflations and other membrane disturbances relate to the activation conditions rather than to virulence protein expression. Activation requires low pH and nutrient-poor medium. These stress conditions are also reflected in DNA condensation to varying degrees. Nonetheless, they must be considered in modeling the T4SS as they represent the relevant conditions for its expression and activity. We identified the T4SS core component VirB7 at native expression levels using state of the art super-resolution light microscopy. This marker of the secretion system was found almost exclusively at the cell poles, and typically one pole. Immuno-electron microscopy identified the protein at the inner membrane, rather than at bridges across the inner and outer membranes. This suggests a rare or transient assembly of the secretion-competent channel, or alternatively a two-step secretion involving an intermediate step in the periplasmic space. We followed the expression of the major secreted effector, VirE2. This is a single-stranded DNA binding protein that forms a capsid around the transferred oligonucleotide, adapting the bacterial conjugation to the eukaryotic host. We found that over-expressed VirE2 forms filamentous complexes in the bacterial cytoplasm that could be observed both by conventional fluorescence microscopy and by correlative electron cryo-tomography. Using a non-retentive mutant we observed secretion of VirE2 from bacterial poles. We labeled the secreted substrates in vivo in order detect their secretion and appearance in the plant cells. However the low transfer efficiency and significant background signal have so far hampered this approach.
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Splitter, Gary A., Menachem Banai, and Jerome S. Harms. Brucella second messenger coordinates stages of infection. United States Department of Agriculture, January 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2011.7699864.bard.
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Aim 1: To determine levels of this second messenger in: a) B. melitensiscyclic-dimericguanosinemonophosphate-regulating mutants (BMEI1448, BMEI1453, and BMEI1520), and b) B. melitensis16M (wild type) and mutant infections of macrophages and immune competent mice. (US lab primary) Aim 2: To determine proteomic differences between Brucelladeletion mutants BMEI1453 (high cyclic-dimericguanosinemonophosphate, chronic persistent state) and BMEI1520 (low cyclicdimericguanosinemonophosphate, acute virulent state) compared to wild type B. melitensisto identify the role of this second messenger in establishing the two polar states of brucellosis. (US lab primary with synergistic assistance from the Israel lab Aim 3: Determine the level of Brucellacyclic-dimericguanosinemonophosphate and transcriptional expression from naturally infected placenta. (Israel lab primary with synergistic assistance from the US lab). B. Background Brucellaspecies are Gram-negative, facultative intracellular bacterial pathogens that cause brucellosis, the most prevalent zoonosis worldwide. Brucellosis is characterized by increased abortion, weak offspring, and decreased milk production in animals. Humans are infected with Brucellaby consuming contaminated milk products or via inhalation of aerosolized bacteria from occupational hazards. Chronic human infections can result in complications such as liver damage, orchitis, endocarditis, and arthritis. Brucellaspp. have the ability to infect both professional and non-professional phagocytes. Because of this, Brucellaencounter varied environments both throughout the body and within a cell and must adapt accordingly. To date, few virulence factors have been identified in B. melitensisand even less is known about how these virulence factors are regulated. Subsequently, little is known about how Brucellaadapt to its rapidly changing environments, and how it alternates between acute and chronic virulence. Our studies suggest that decreased concentrations of cyclic dimericguanosinemonophosphate (c-di-GMP) lead to an acute virulent state and increased concentrations of c-di-GMP lead to persistent, chronic state of B. melitensisin a mouse model of infection. We hypothesize that B. melitensisuses c-di-GMP to transition from the chronic state of an infected host to the acute, virulent stage of infection in the placenta where the bacteria prepare to infect a new host. Studies on environmental pathogens such as Vibrio choleraeand Pseudomonas aeruginosasupport a mechanism where changes in c-di-GMP levels cause the bacterium to alternate between virulent and chronic states. Little work exists on understanding the role of c-di-GMP in dangerous intracellular pathogens, like Brucellathat is a frequent pathogen in Israeli domestic animals and U.S. elk and bison. Brucellamust carefully regulate virulence factors during infection of a host to ensure proper expression at appropriate times in response to host cues. Recently, the novel secondary signaling molecule c-di-GMP has been identified as a major component of bacterial regulation and we have identified c-di-GMP as an important signaling factor in B. melitensishost adaptation. C. Major conclusions, solutions, achievements 1. The B. melitensis1453 deletion mutant has increased c-di-GMP, while the 1520 deletion mutant has decreased c-di-GMP. 2. Both mutants grow similarly in in vitro cultures; however, the 1453 mutant has a microcolony phenotype both in vitro and in vivo 3. The 1453 mutant has increased crystal violet staining suggesting biofilm formation. 4. Scanning electron microscopy revealed an abnormal coccus appearance with in increased cell area. 5. Proteomic analysis revealed the 1453 mutant possessed increased production of proteins involved in cell wall processes, cell division, and the Type IV secretion system, and a decrease in proteins involved in amino acid transport/metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, fatty acid production, and iron acquisition suggesting less preparedness for intracellular survival. 6. RNAseq analysis of bone marrow derived macrophages infected with the mutants revealed the host immune response is greatly reduced with the 1453 mutant infection. These findings support that microlocalization of proteins involved in c-di-GMP homeostasis serve a second messenger to B. melitensisregulating functions of the bacteria during infection of the host.
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Oltarzhevskyi, Dmytro. HISTORICAL FEATURES OF CORPORATE MEDIA FORMATION IN UKRAINE AND IN THE WORLD. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11067.
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The article examines the world and Ukrainian history of corporate periodicals. The main purpose of this study is to reproduce an objective global picture of the emergence and formation of corporate periodicals, taking into account the business and socio-economic context. Accordingly, its tasks are to compare the conditions and features of corporate media genesis in different countries, to determine the main factors of their development, as well as to clarify the transformations of the terminological apparatus. The research is based on mostly foreign secondary scientific works published from 1915 to the present time. The literature was studied using methods such as overview, historical, functional and thematic analysis, description, and generalization. A systematic approach was used to determine the role and place of each element in the system, as well as to comprehensively consider the object in the general historical context and within the current scientific discourse. The method of systematization made it possible to establish internal and external connections, patterns and contradictions in the development of the object of study. The main historical milestones on this path are identified, examples of the first successful corporate publications and their contribution to business development, public relations, and corporate communications are considered. It was found that corporate media emerged in the mid-nineteenth century spontaneously, on the wave of practical business needs in response to industrialization, company increase, staff growth, and consumer market development. Their appearance preceded the formation of the public relations industry and changed the structure of the information space. The scientific significance of this research is that the historical look at the evolution of corporate media provides an understanding of their place, influence, capabilities, and growing communicative role in the digital age.
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Syvash, Kateryna. AUDIENCE FEEDBACK AS AN ELEMENT OF PARASOCIAL COMMUNICATION WITH SCREEN MEDIA-PERSONS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11062.
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Parasocial communication is defined as an illusory and one-sided interaction between the viewer and the media person, which is analogous to interpersonal communication. Among the classic media, television has the greatest potential for such interaction through a combination of audio and visual series and a wide range of television content – from newscasts to talent shows. Viewers’ reaction to this product can be seen as a defining element of parasociality and directly affect the popularity of a media person and the ratings of the TV channel. In this article we will consider feedback as part of parasocial communication and describe ways to express it in times of media transformations. The psychological interaction «media person – viewer» had been the focus of research by both psychologists and media experts for over 60 years. During the study, scientists described the predictors, functions, manifestations and possible consequences of paracommunication. One of the key elements of the formed parasocial connections is the real audience reaction. Our goal is to conceptualize the concept of feedback in the paradigm of parasocial communication and describe the main types of reactions to the media person in long-term parasocial relationships. The research focuses on the ways in which the viewer’s feedback on the television media person is expressed, bypassing the issue of classifying the audience’s feedback as «positive» and «negative». For this purpose, more than 20 interdisciplinary scientific works on the issue of parasocial interaction were analyzed and their generalization was carried out. Based on previous research, the types and methods of feedback in the television context are separated. With successful parasocial interaction, the viewer can react in different ways to the media person. The type of feedback will directly depend on the strength of the already established communication with the media person. We distinguish seven types of feedback and divide them into those that occur during or after a television show; those that are spontaneous or planned; aimed directly at the media person or third parties. We offer the following types of feedback from TV viewers: «talking to the TV»; telling about the experience of parasocial communication to others; following on social networks; likes and comments; imitation of behavior and appearance; purchase of recommended brands; fanart.