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Schaarschmidt, Nadine, and Thomas Koehler. "Experiencing Emotions in Video-Mediated Psychological Counselling Versus to Face-to-Face Settings." Societies 11, no. 1 (March 11, 2021): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc11010020.
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How does using video technology influence the emotional experience of communication in psychological counselling? In this paper, the experience of emotion—as an essential factor in the communication between counsellor and client—is systematically compared for face-to-face and video formats. It is suggested that the research methodology for studying computer-mediated forms of communication links lab and (virtual) reality in an ideal way. Based on a sample of 27 cases, significant differences and their observed effect sizes are presented. The aim of this study is to investigate the emotional experience in direct and mediated interaction and thus to contribute to the systematic search for evidence as to whether and how the emotional experience in psychological counselling interviews changes during video-mediated transmission. The results suggest, among others, that negative emotions are more intense in the video format and positive emotions are intensified in the face-to-face format.
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Sigurdson, Eric, Malcolm Strang, and Terrie Doig. "What do Children Know about Preventing Sexual Assault? How can Their Awareness be Increased?*." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 32, no. 7 (October 1987): 551–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674378703200709.
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Recent awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse of children has resulted in a move to implement prevention programs. In conducting these programs the question of effectiveness is frequently asked. In an attempt to answer some of this concern, a questionnaire was developed and tested to determine children's base level of knowledge. The video format prevention program, “Feeling Yes, Feeling No”, available from the National Film Board (Canada) was tested as a method of increasing awareness. A school with a cross section of town and rural children, with differing socioeconomic backgrounds, participated in the study. The study consisted of a pretest of knowledge, a structured video interactive classroom prevention program, and a post-test measure of change. One hundred and thirty-seven students in grades 4, 5, and 6 participated. The program took 4 weeks to complete. When asked about their feelings with regard to the program, 97% of the children stated that they enjoyed it. The results indicated that while most children have a basic level of self-protective knowledge and assertiveness, they can, in a classroom setting, learn significant and additional facts about avoiding sexual assault. Eight of twenty-nine knowledge questions elicited a large change in response, suggesting increased awareness of self-protection. The most significant changes occurred with girls, the same group apparently most at risk.
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Baringer, Kathryn, Jeremy Lopez, and Dustin J. Souders. "Using Online Videos to Improve Attitudes toward Shared Autonomous Vehicles: Age and Video Type Differences." Future Transportation 4, no. 1 (March 20, 2024): 299–320. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/futuretransp4010016.
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Future adoption of shared automated vehicles (SAVs) should lead to several societal benefits, but both automated vehicles (AVs) and ridesharing must overcome their barriers to acceptance. Previous research has investigated age differences in ridesharing usage and factors influencing the acceptability and acceptance of AVs. Further complicating our understanding of SAV acceptance, much of the public lack accurate knowledge and/or actual experience regarding AVs. In this study, we employed a 3 (age group) × 4 (video condition) longitudinal mixed experimental design to investigate age differences in anticipated SAV acceptance after viewing different types of introductory videos related to AVs (educational, experiential, or both) or currently available ridesharing provided by transportation network companies (control). Younger, middle-aged, and older adults were randomly assigned to watch (1) an educational video about SAV technologies and potential benefits, (2) an experiential video showing an SAV navigating traffic, (3) both the experiential and educational videos or (4) a control video explaining how current ridesharing services work. Attitudes toward SAVs (intent to use, trust/reliability, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, safety, desire for control, cost, authority, media, and social influence) were measured before and after viewing the video(s). Significant differences in how SAV attitudes changed were found between the educational and experiential video conditions relative to the control video and between different age groups. Findings suggest that educational and/or experiential videos delivered in an online format can have modest but significant improvements to their viewers’ attitudes toward SAVs—particularly those of older adults.
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Ji, Dongying. "Marvel Transformation in the Face of the Impact of Short Video Platforms." Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences 31, no. 1 (November 10, 2023): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2754-1169/31/20231499.
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This research essay explores how Marvel has transformed its marketing strategies in response to the impact of short video platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels. With the rise of these platforms, the way content is created and consumed has drastically changed, and companies like Marvel have had to adapt to remain relevant and engaging to their target audience. This research topic is significant as it aims to investigate how Marvel has responded to this change and how effective these responses have been in engaging audiences. The research questions are focused on understanding the impact of short video platforms on Marvel's marketing strategies, the specific changes Marvel has made in response, the effectiveness of these changes, and how Marvel has leveraged its existing fan base on social media platforms to engage with audiences on short video platforms. Through a literature survey method and case analysis, this essay examines key strategies Marvel has implemented, such as embracing short-form content, engaging with fans, experimenting with new formats, and collaborating with influencers. The essay also evaluates Marvel's success in responding to short video platforms, the effectiveness of its strategies, and the impact on its audience and market position.
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Choi, Bogeum, Heejun Kim, and Jina Huh-Yoo. "Seeking Mental Health Support Among College Students in Video-Based Social Media: Content and Statistical Analysis of YouTube Videos." JMIR Formative Research 5, no. 11 (November 11, 2021): e31944. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/31944.
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Background Mental health is a highly stigmatized disease, especially for young people. Due to its free, accessible format, college students increasingly use video-based social media for many aspects of information needs, including how-to tips, career, or health-related needs. The accessibility of video-based social media brings potential in supporting stigmatized contexts, such as college students’ mental health. Understanding which kinds of videos about college students’ mental health have increased viewer engagement will help build a foundation for exploring this potential. Little research has been done to identify video types systematically, how they have changed over time, and their associations on viewer engagement both short term and long term. Objective This study aims to identify strategies for using video-based social media to combat stigmatized diseases, such as mental health, among college students. We identify who, with what perspective, purpose, and content, makes up the videos available on social media (ie, YouTube) about college students’ mental health and how these factors associate with viewer engagement. We then identify effective strategies for designing video-based social media content for supporting college students’ mental health. Methods We performed inductive content analysis to identify different types of YouTube videos concerning college students’ mental health (N=452) according to video attributes, including poster, perspective, and purpose. Time analysis showed how video types have changed over time. Fisher’s exact test was used to examine the relationships between video attributes. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to test the association between video types and viewer engagement. Lastly, we investigated the difference in viewer engagement across time between two major types of videos (ie, individuals’ storytelling and organization’s informational videos). Results Time trend analysis showed a notable increase in the number of (1) videos by individuals, (2) videos that represent students’ perspectives, and (3) videos that share stories and experiential knowledge over the recent years. Fisher’s exact test found all video attributes (ie, poster, perspective, and purpose) are significantly correlated with each other. In addition, the Mann-Whitney U test found that poster (individual vs organization) and purpose (storytelling vs sharing information) type has a significant association with viewer engagement (P<.001). Lastly, individuals’ storytelling videos had a greater engagement in the short term and the long term. Conclusions The study shows that YouTube videos on college students’ mental health can be well differentiated by the types of posters and the purpose of the videos. Taken together, the videos where individuals share their personal stories, as well as experiential knowledge (ie, tips and advice), engaged more viewers in both the short term and long term. Individuals’ videos on YouTube showed the potential to support college students' mental health in unique ways, such as providing social support, validating experience, and sharing the positive experience of help-seeking.
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Bujić, Mila, Mikko Salminen, Joseph Macey, and Juho Hamari. "“Empathy machine”: how virtual reality affects human rights attitudes." Internet Research 30, no. 5 (June 30, 2020): 1407–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/intr-07-2019-0306.
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PurposeThis study aims to investigate how media content consumed through immersive technology may evoke changes in human rights attitudes. It has been proposed that our inability to empathize with others could be overcome by stepping into another's shoes. “Immersive journalism” has been postulated as being able to place us into the shoes of those whose feelings and experiences are distant to us. While virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree news videos have become widely available, it remains unclear how the consumption of content through immersive journalism affects users' attitudes.Design/methodology/approachUtilizing a between-subject laboratory-controlled experiment (N = 87) this study examined participant scores on the Human Rights Questionnaire before and after consuming 360-degree video immersive journalism content via VR (n = 31), 2D (n = 29), and Article (n = 27) formats. Collected data were analysed using statistical inference.FindingsResults indicate that immersive journalism can elicit a positive attitudinal change in users, unlike an Article, with mobile VR having a more prominent effect than a 2D screen. Furthermore, this change is more strongly affected by users' higher Involvement in the content.Originality/valueThese findings are relevant for grasping the distinct effects novel and recently popularized technologies and media have on attitudinal change, as well as inform the current debate on the value of VR as “empathy machines”.
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Ryan, Kathleen. "Pin Up! The Interactive Documentary." Interactive Film and Media Journal 2, no. 1 (January 30, 2022): 122–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i1.1513.
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Pin Up! The Movie: An Interactive Documentary uses oral history to explore an international subculture. In it, women and men adopt vintage style and advocate for social and political change. Specifically, they use the subculture to advocate for anti-racist practices, call for body positivity, and lobby for full equity and acceptance of LGBTQI subcultural members. These advocates do this with acknowledgement of historical racism and sexism, which is sometimes echoed in the contemporary subculture. This i-doc intentionally uses non-professional storytelling tactics (vertical video, online video recordings, strait to camera interviews) to transform notions of a proper “aesthetic” within the documentary genre. It also invites subcultural members to take over its social media feeds. This paper argues that actively approaching the i-doc as a shared authority demonstrates how emerging formats, gamification of storytelling, and non-narrative structures can result in a sense of subcultural authenticity: a way to use the documentary format to provide agency to both members of the subculture featured in the project, as well as to audience members.
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Pahrulroji, Andri, and Zakarias Sukarya Soeteja. "A Case Study on Behavior of Performing Art Appreciators in Public Space: Indonesian Puppet (Wayang) Performance Arts and Video Mapping." Journal of Industrial Product Design Research and Studies 1, no. 2 (February 25, 2023): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/jipdrs.v1i2.53657.
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The presence of video mapping performances in Indonesia influences the behavior of appreciators in public spaces through acculturation. The propagation of Islamic teachings through wayang (puppet) shows had a fascinating impact on the history of public performances in Indonesia. Cultural acculturation can affect the behavior of public space appreciators or vice versa. This situation depends on the adaptability of appreciators with an Indonesian cultural background to changes in the format of public space performances. This change pertains to performance art incorporating innovative technology, such as wayang performances and video mapping. In order to conduct research on changes in appreciator behavior in public spaces, a descriptive-analytic method with an ethnographic and ethnological approach was required to examine Indonesian appreciators' ethnicity through wayang performances and literature studies. Then, it was compared to how the observatory video mapping performance was analyzed, such as Carl Gustav Jung's theory or Pierre Bourdieu's habitus perception, where the memory of previous inherited behavior influences current behavior or individual behavior is influenced by its social experience. This study's analysis revealed that the behavior of appreciators in public spaces, such as video mapping performances in Indonesia, which are renewable with the use of technology, is nearly similar to that of wayang performance appreciators.
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Adalberon, Erik, Trond Eiliv Hauge, and Roger Säljö. "Pre-service teachers’ experiences with a digital examination design: The inter-relation between continuity and change in an institutional context." Acta Didactica Norge 13, no. 3 (November 20, 2019): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/adno.6864.
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AbstractThis article reports a study of a full-scale digital examination in a five-year master program of teacher education in Norway. The innovative design involves observing a video case based on an authentic classroom situation and analysing the case in light of educational theory and subject content knowledge. All parts of this format are to be solved on a computer with Internet access. The study is centred on the pre-service teachers’ experiences of this open-ended and unfamiliar testing format. More specifically, the intention has been to analyse (a) what kinds of preparations they engaged in; (b) how they solved tasks during the examination; (c) their reflections on this mode of examination. Interviews with 11 informants have been conducted, and the content is summarized in three selected cases, and finally across the interview sample. The results indicate that innovations like this are interpreted and approached against the background of pre-service teachers’ expectations, and the open format engaged the pre-service teachers to draw upon a wide range of resources both when preparing and solving the tasks. It is, however, timely to question whether the introduction of the examination format, based on faculty interest and intentions, will have the intended impact on evaluation procedures in an established learning culture.
Keywords: digital examinations, Higher education, teacher education, video,
Lærerstudenters erfaringer med et digitalisert eksaminasjons-design: Den gjensidige relasjonen mellom kontinuitet og forandring i en institusjonell kontekst
SammendragI denne artikkelen rapporteres en studie av en fullskala digital eksamen som har blitt benyttet i et femårig masterprogram i norsk lærerutdanning. Det innovative designet er en firetimers nettbasert og digital eksamen basert på observasjon av en video case fra en autentisk klasseromssituasjon, og en analyse på bakgrunn av pedagogisk og fagdidaktisk teori. Hele eksamenen besvares via en datamaskin med nettilgang. Studien er rettet mot studentenes erfaringer med denne åpne og ukjente eksamensformen. Mer spesifikt er intensjonen å analysere a) hva slags forberedelser de gjorde, b) hvordan de løste eksamensoppgavene under selve eksamen, og c) refleksjonene de hadde etter en slik eksamensform. Intervjuer med elleve informanter ble gjennomført, og innholdet oppsummert i tre case-studier samt en tematisk studie på tvers av utvalget. Resultatene tyder på at slike innovasjoner blir tolket og bearbeidet på bakgrunn av studentenes forventninger, og at de benyttet en rekke ulike ressurser for forberedelsene til og gjennomføringen av eksamen. Det er imidlertid betimelig å stille spørsmål om innføringen av et slikt eksamensformat, basert på fakultetets interesser og intensjoner, vil ha den ønskede påvirkningen på vurderingsprosedyrer i en etablert læringskultur
Nøkkelord: eksamen, høyere utdanning, lærerutdanning, video, digital eksamen
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Hintermann, Mirjam, Dennis-Peter Born, Jörg Fuchslocher, Raphael Kern, and Michael Romann. "How to improve technical and tactical actions of dominant and non-dominant players in children’s football?" PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (July 22, 2021): e0254900. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254900.
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As young football players develop important technical and tactical skills during competitive matches, this study investigated quantity and quality of technical and tactical actions in real game conditions in a 4v4 compared to the traditional 7v7 match format. In total, three matches of each format were played by 103 young football players (10.3±0.6 years) and video monitored for subsequent manual tagging of technical and tactical events. Based on the number of technical and tactical actions in the 7v7 matches, players were classified as dominant or non-dominant and changes in these subgroups were assessed during the 4v4 match format. The 4v4 match format significantly (P<0.001) increased total number of actions per player per minute compared to the 7v7 matches (5.59±1.44 and 2.78±0.73, respectively) and the number of successful (2.88±0.92 and 1.15±0.49, respectively) and unsuccessful (1.05±0.42 and 0.67±0.23, respectively) actions. Both dominant and non-dominant players increased their number of actions during the 4v4 compared to 7v7 match format. Despite a missing significant interaction effect, there was a larger percentage increase in number of actions for the non-dominant players (143%) compared to dominant players (72%) in 4v4. The 4v4 match format shows twice as many technical and tactical actions in real game conditions and, therefore, may improve players’ skill development.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "How to change video format"
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Moody, Catrina V. "How Interactive Video (ITV) Web-Enhanced Format Affects Instructional Strategy and Instructor Satisfaction." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1045.
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This qualitative study explored the quality of technology associated with interactive video (ITV) classes in distance education programs and the resulting satisfaction of the instructors teaching this format. The participants were full time instructors of a rural community college that used the ITV format. Community college ITV instructors are knowledgeable about the ITV technology and are in need of research that explores the satisfaction of that technology. Distance education theory, social constructivism, individual and collaborative learning, and technology formed the foundation for the research. Grounded theory was used to generate a theory about the perceptions of the instructors. Data collected included surveys, interviews, and observations of the interviews. Data were analyzed using theoretical sampling, constant comparison, open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. Analysis indicated that instructors' perceived greater satisfaction teaching in an ITV environment when the structure of the class was optimum for the course, the audio/visual technology worked effectively, the Web-enhanced component of the course ran smoothly, IT was available, quality training was offered, and transactional distance was perceived as minimal. This grounded theory provides positive social change for other educators and administrators who teach ITV by guiding their efforts to use ITV course delivery systems in ways that ensure the fulfillment of needs for both instructors and their students.
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Engelman, Jonathan. "How College Students' Conceptions of Newton's Second and Third Laws Change Through Watching Interactive Video Vignettes: A Mixed Methods Study." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1481031972802564.
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Senger, Saesha. "Gender, Politics, Market Segmentation, and Taste: Adult Contemporary Radio at the End of the Twentieth Century." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/150.
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This dissertation explores issues of gender politics, market segmentation, and taste through an examination of the contributions of several artists who have achieved Adult Contemporary (AC) chart success. The scope of the project is limited to a period when many artists who figured prominently in both the broader mainstream of American popular music and the more specific Adult Contemporary category were most commercially viable: from the mid-1980s through the 1990s. My contention is that, as gender politics and gendered social norms continued to change in the United States at this time, Adult Contemporary – the chart, the format, and the associated music – was an important, if overlooked or even trivialized, arena in which these shifting gender dynamics played out. This dissertation explores the significance of the Adult Contemporary format at the end of the twentieth century through analysis of chart performance, artist image, musical works, marketing, and contextual factors. By documenting these relevant social, political, economic, and musical factors, the notable role of a format and of artists neglected by scholars becomes clear.
I explore these issues in the form of lengthy case studies. Examinations of how Adult Contemporary artists such as Michael Bolton, Wilson Phillips, Matchbox Twenty, David Gray, and Mariah Carey were produced and marketed, and how their music was disseminated, illustrate record and radio industry strategies for negotiating the musical, political, and social climate of this period. Significantly, musical and lyrical analyses of songs successful on AC stations, and many of their accompanying promotional videos highlight messages about musical genre, gender, race, and age. This dissertation ultimately demonstrates that Adult Contemporary-oriented music figured significantly in the culture wars, second and third wave feminism, expressions of masculinity, Generation-X struggles, postmodern identity, and market segmentation.
This study also illustrates how the record and radio industries have managed audience composition and behavior to effectively and more predictably produce and market music in the United States. This dissertation argues that, amid broader social determinations for taste, the record industry, radio programmers, and Billboard chart compilers and writers have helped to make and reinforce certain assumptions about who listens to which music and why they do so. In addition, critics have weighed in on what different musical genres and artists have offered and for whom, often assigning higher value to music associated with certain genres, socio-political associations, and listeners while claiming over-commercialization, irrelevance, aesthetic insignificance, and bad taste for much other music.
Books on the topic "How to change video format"
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Sam, Gregory, ed. Video for change: A guide for advocacy and activism. London: Pluto Press in association with Witness, 2005.
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Reality is broken: Why games make us better and how they can change the world. New York: Penguin Group, 2011.
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McGonigal, Jane. Reality is broken: Why games make us better and how they can change the world. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
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(Editor), Sam Gregory, Gillian Caldwell (Editor), Ronit Avni (Editor), Thomas Harding (Editor), and Peter Gabriel (Preface), eds. Video for Change: A How-To Guide on Using Video in Advocacy and Activism. Pluto Press, 2005.
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Dua, Ruben. Click Record: How Overcoming Fear, Storytelling, and Video Marketing Can Change Your Life. Independently Published, 2021.
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Using Water: How You Use and Change Water (Video Field Trip-Enviromental Science). Scholastic, 1993.
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Unoffendable Video Study: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better. HarperChristian Resources, 2023.
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Still, Bill, and Patrick S. J. Carmack. The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America, Video Script (In Book Format). Reinhardt & Still Pub, 1998.
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D'Errico, Mike. Push. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190943301.001.0001.
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This book shows how changes in music software design in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps. Emerging alongside developments in digital music distribution such as peer-to-peer file sharing and the MP3 format, digital audio workstations (DAWs) such as FL Studio and Ableton’s Live encouraged rapid music-creation workflows through flashy, user-friendly interfaces. Meanwhile, software such as Avid’s Pro Tools attempted to protect its status as the industry-standard “professional” DAW by incorporating design elements from predigital technologies. Other software, such as Cycling ’74’s Max, asserted its alterity to “commercial” DAWs by offering users just a blank screen. The book examines the social, cultural, and political values designed into music software and how those become embodied by musical communities through production and performance. It reveals ties between maximalist design in FL Studio, skeuomorphic design in Pro Tools, and gender inequity in the music products industry. It connects the computational thinking required by Max and iZotope’s innovations in artificial intelligence with the cultural politics of Silicon Valley’s “design thinking.” Finally, it examines what happens when software becomes hardware and users externalize their screens using musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) controllers, mobile media, and video-game controllers. Amid the perpetual upgrade culture of music technology, Push the book provides a model for understanding software as a microcosm for the increasing convergence of globalization, neoliberal capitalism, and techno-utopianism that has come to define our digital lives.
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Hansen, Brant. Unoffendable Study Guide Plus Streaming Video: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better. HarperChristian Resources, 2023.
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Haugan, Siri, Eivind Kværnø, Johnny Sandaker, Jonas Langset Hustad, and Gunnar Orn Thordarson. "Playful Learning with VR-SIMI Model: The Use of 360-Video as a Learning Tool for Nursing Students in a Psychiatric Simulation Setting." In How Can we Use Simulation to Improve Competencies in Nursing?, 103–16. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10399-5_9.
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AbstractEducational institutions can elevate student perspective and activation so that playful learning is formed by looking for new teaching possibilities. Didactical methods need to provide a safe environment where students can focus on interpersonal interactions with patients while being aware of how their own emotions can influence their situational awareness and decisions. The authors believe that relevant scenarios in a 360-degree video format will be beneficial for nursing students, specifically in preparation for the clinical setting. The potential of 360-degree video in virtual reality (VR) gives the instructor flexibility to create systematic, experiential learning and shapes emotional learning in collaboration with students. 360-Degree video can be seen as a playful way to learn in new situations. Playfulness of this kind can affect teachers and students motivation, as well as the opportunity to promote learning. This field lacks studies exploring the use of 360-degree videos in psychiatric simulation settings. This chapter will provide knowledge about the practical use of 360-degree video in VR, insight into technical potential, as well as challenges. Background information on why this method is suitable for promoting nursing students’ competence in mental health work will be presented. Another function of this chapter is to give an introduction and inspire exploration of 360-degree video in VR in professional education, with particular focus on how this can be used as a tool for nursing students in psychiatric simulation settings, like the VR-SIMI model, which is discussed later in the chapter.
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Heywood, Emma. "Conclusion." In Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change, 225–32. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35985-9_8.
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AbstractThis chapter summarises the evidence that radio, as the main source of information in the three countries under discussion, can play a significant role in promoting women’s empowerment. However, to achieve this, there must not only be a clear understanding of the many perceptions of this concept but the different levels of empowerment and their perceptions must also be considered at the programming design stage. Starting these initial conversations about radio’s empowering role based on the content it broadcasts, the manner in which it broadcasts (format and platforms), and the choice of who is involved in the broadcasting as producers, editors, presenters, or guests is important. If women are portrayed in non-stereotypical ways and are included in the production and output of broadcasts, radio can influence how women perceive topics, how they perceive themselves, and, importantly, how society perceives them.
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Koskela, Merja, Mona Enell-Nilsson, and Cecilia Hjerppe. "Texts Complying with Societal Pressures: Changing Genres in Finnish Companies’ CSR Reporting." In Nordic Perspectives on the Discourse of Things, 45–69. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33122-0_3.
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AbstractDrawing from the Nordic tradition of sakprosa research, this chapter aims at analysing how generic and intertextual resources are used in Finnish companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting. Longitudinally, we study the reporting format, that is, whether the companies are reporting about their sustainability issues separately or as part of their annual report. A comparable synchronic approach is applied to intertextuality between reports and sustainability pages on corporate websites. The data stems from companies listed in the Nasdaq Helsinki Stock Exchange (OMX25 index). It comprises CSR reporting from the financial years 2016–2020 and sustainability pages of three companies. The study shows a tendency of keeping the chosen reporting format irrespective of its kind. However, two types of variability occur: selective variability referring to one format change in the investigated time span, and hybridity, combining features of different formats. Three intertextual strategies between the texts of reports and web pages were detected: convergence, adaptation, and divergence. Our results show how choices of reporting format and intertextual strategies are governed by the company context and practices, and also by governance issues and regulation. In this way, the complexity of text-society relationships as postulated by sakprosa research is illustrated in the context of business texts.
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Heywood, Emma. "Radio, Women, and Politics." In Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change, 55–85. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35985-9_2.
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AbstractThis chapter examines women’s empowerment through the role of radio in promoting participation in politics and decision-making approaches. It focuses on the output of two radio studios, one in Niger and one in Mali, which both broadcast a series of women-related programmes on political engagement.Radio as a communicative tool draws on multiple formats to promote listener engagement and information retention. Broadcasts must be designed to be ‘listenable’ for their intended audience, and the format and content must therefore ensure that both the message giver (the radio studio) and the message receiver (the listener) have their information needs met.The chapter analyses the benefits and shortcomings of the formats used by the two studios to allow various voices to be heard and to promote political participation among women in the two countries. In doing so, it questions how the provision of information can help women make first-order strategic choices or decisions on a macro level and whether to engage in politics while meeting their civic responsibilities and gendered expectations.
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Dang, Thi Phuong Anh, Tú Anh Hà, and Quang Anh Phan. "Writing Non-fiction Books on National Culture for Vietnamese Children in the Age of Globalisation: The Process of Building Intercultural Competence." In Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam, 203–21. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9093-1_10.
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AbstractThis paper tracks down the process of writing non-fiction books on national culture for Vietnamese children to help them understand their identity and respect cultural differences in the age of globalisation. By self-reflecting on the writing experience, this essay elucidates the process of building intercultural competence in its relationship with national identity through the case study of “Kể chuyện văn hóa Việt”. The paper provides a discussion among the three authors in the format of an interview with the co-author who also wrote the non-fiction book series that we focus upon. The first part reflects on intercultural competence as a concept, and the second half considers how the book series emerged and put this concept into practice. The research results show that constructing national identity, individual agency, and intercultural competence for children must be transferred naturally from each book’s topic to the flow of the story. In this case, the most striking feature is the main character’s interaction with his family. In addition, the context needs to integrate both global and local elements. The series creates situations in which there is a comparison between the past and the present, between Vietnam and other countries. It helps readers engage in different worldviews and address diversity by examining their community and nation, thus becoming more tolerant of others. This paper suggests guidance for creating similar books and helps the audience understand the author’s journey to create a trade book series featuring culture-related content.
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Steinbach, Ingo, and Hesham Salama. "Tutorial 1: OpenPhase." In Lectures on Phase Field, 93–102. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21171-3_9.
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AbstractOpenPhase is a robust open-source microstructure simulation software project targeted at the phase-field simulations of complex scientific problems involving structural transformation and phase change in systems undergoing first-order phase transformation. The multi-physics models that are contained in the phase-field approach allow for the simulation of a wide variety of material processes, including but not limited to solidification, heat treatment, mechanical testing, and many more. This chapter gives an introduction to OpenPhase, the open software library for microstructure simulation. After providing a concise overview of the main features of the library, the next section will walk you through the process of installing and compiling the software library. Finally, it describes the format of the simulation input file as well as how to comprehend and make use of each input parameter.
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Blom, Joleen. "The Player’s Interpretative Agency and the Developer’s Disruptive Powers: How Blizzard Enforces Authorial Intention in Overwatch." In Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch, 49–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82767-0_4.
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AbstractDue to constant internet connection many games nowadays require developers of games such as Overwatch to alter the structure of their video games directly and frequently. This chapter argues that, because of such modern technologies, Blizzard is able to change the meaning of the game content whenever it wants so that players are constantly forced to follow the changing authorial intention if they wish to continue playing the game. An illustrative example of game content to which authorial intention is applied are the Overwatch’s heroes, where the players’ interpretations of the characters as game pieces and fictional beings are systematically outplayed by the developer. This chapter thus demands to critically re-evaluate our perception of the author’s influence over the interpretation of a cultural product.
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Luby, Stephen, and Dorothy L. Southern. "Content of Quantitative Papers." In The Pathway to Publishing: A Guide to Quantitative Writing in the Health Sciences, 41–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98175-4_3.
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AbstractThe title and abstract of the manuscript should provide a clear summary of the work. For a manuscript to be legible to scientific readers, it should be organized in the standard format of introduction, methods, results, and discussion. The introduction explains why the study question engaged by your manuscript is important. An introduction should focus only on those issues relevant to the study question and not try to present a more general summary of the topic. The method section describes how the study team addressed the study question. The method section should be written in chronological order, should clarify key sample size assumptions, and should emphasize the steps taken to protect human subjects. The results present the new findings from the study. The discussion section explains the conclusions or scientific inferences the authors draw from this study. This section also explains the limitations to scientific inference from the study and how the results should be interpreted because of these limitations. Avoiding naïve theories of change when making recommendation based upon the results improves the credibility and impact of the work.
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Xiao, Bing. "The Growth of Minority Supervisors: Supervision of Pre-service Teachers’ Field Experiences." In To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture, 253–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25584-7_16.
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AbstractThe anthropologists are outsiders to the culture who were studying in traditional ethnography. I understand this since I identify as both an insider and an outsider when I instruct, supervise, and advise my American students. I am an “insider” in the teacher education program but an “outsider” of American school culture. I am originally from China, but I am immersing myself in my doctoral studies in the American education system. I instruct teaching methods classes and have served as a supervisor for students’ field experiences for around ten years. As a minority educator, I am faced with multiple challenges, especially supervising student teachers. The purpose of this chapter will explore the challenges of the minority supervisors’ growth and those influences on pre-service teachers. The research used the video-cued multivocal ethnographic method. I conducted focus-group interviews with university supervisors and the instructors of a teaching methods course. I presented video clips from students’ field teaching experience to the interviewees and discussed how videos impact teaching and teacher preparation notions. Additional data comes from my own experience. The chapter expands on Foucault and Bourdieu’s work to better understand how power flows in the field experience and how power changes supervisors’ and pre-service teachers’ habitus and behaviors. It also draws from Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT) theoretical lens to investigate how different actors, such as the university, local schools, mentor teachers, supervisors, and pre-service teachers, change their action transforms the field experience.
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Zolyomi, Agnes. "How to Make Policy-Makers Care about “Wicked Problems” such as Biodiversity Loss?—The Case of a Policy Campaign." In Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship, 527–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84248-2_17.
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AbstractPolicy-makers define our lives to a great extent, and are therefore the people everybody wants to talk to. They receive hundreds of messages in various forms day-by-day with the aim of making them decide for or against something. They are in an especially difficult situation as regards the so-called “wicked” or “diffuse” problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss (Millner and Olivier, 2015; Sharman and Mlambo, 2012; Zaccai and Adams, 2012). These problems are limitedly tackled at the policy level despite their major socio-economic and environmental implications, which is often explained by their complexity with a sense of remoteness of effects (Cardinale et al., 2012; WWF, 2018). Communicating advocacy or scientific messages of biodiversity is therefore both a challenge and an under-researched topic (Bekessy et al., 2018; Posner et al., 2016; Primmer et al., 2015; Wright et al., 2017), where both social and natural sciences and both scientists and practitioners are needed to contribute (Ainscough et al., 2019). In order to be successful in delivering messages, communication not only needs to be self-explanatory and easy to consume but novel as well. It additionally helps if the message arrives in a more extraordinary format to draw even more attention. Based on experiences drawn from a conservation and advocacy NGO’s work, this chapter will divulge various socio-economic theories about creative methods, communication, and influencing decision-makers through a campaign fighting for the preservation of key nature legislation. It will be demonstrated how different EU policy-makers, including representatives of the European Commission and Members of the European Parliament, the general public, and other stakeholders, were addressed with various messages and tools (e.g., short films, social media campaigns, fact sheets, involvement of champions). In addition to other key factors such as public support, knowledge of the target audience and political context, the probable impacts and limitations of these messages will also be elaborated. The relevance to the integration and employment of better socio-economic theories into improving communication is straightforward. It is crucial to tailor-make future advocacy work of “wicked problems” such as biodiversity loss and climate change, since these are not usually backed up by major lobby forces and are, therefore, financed inadequately compared to their significance. Understanding the way in which policy-makers pick up or omit certain messages, as well as what framing, methods and channels are the most effective in delivering them to the policy-makers, is pivotal for a more sustainable future.
Conference papers on the topic "How to change video format"
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Učakar, Andrej, Patricija Selič, and Raša Urbas. "Use of codecs in video uploads." In 10th International Symposium on Graphic Engineering and Design. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of technical sciences, Department of graphic engineering and design,, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24867/grid-2020-p73.
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In recent decades, linear communication has largely been replaced by visual depictions that contain not only moving images but also sound, text and other (visible or invisible) data. It is therefore not surprising that video has become so popular, especially among young people. So-called multimedia communication is transmitted via a variety of media. Since there are many ways and means of transmission, we wanted to investigate how the type of encoding that allows efficient file reduction affects the characteristics of the video format. For this purpose, we encoded selected videos using the three most common encoding mechanisms H.264/AVC, MPEG-2 and H.265/HEVC at high and medium bitrate. The newly created video files were then uploaded to three popular platforms – Instagram, YouTube and Gmail. Changes in file size, colour gamut, frame and bitrate, resolution and other visually recognizable details are presented in the paper.
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Cojan, Mihaela, Ion Verzea, and Adrian Vilcu. "AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO SELF-PRESENTATION FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES IN A VIDEO FORMAT." In eLSE 2017. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-17-053.
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In this age of digitalisation, of sudden changes and of globalisation, well developed and refined self-presentation skills are a crucial advantage when it comes to finding a high-quality job immediately after graduation. An ever-increasing number of employers use online tools to search and select their employees. Thus, in addition to the traditional job recruitment websites that provide the opportunity for direct recruitment, employers often use "indirect" methods, searching their future employees among candidates - specifically individuals who are present and visible in the online environment or have been recommended by others, who are not actively pursuing a new job at the moment. Aside from searching on social media, blogs, and other links that include the name of the prospective candidate, more and more employers will use, as recruitment method, a Skype interview and/or will request a self-introduction video presentation. Despite being avid users of internet, a significant number of young people are not yet sufficiently versed in the use of such techniques, and often find it difficult to introduce themselves as valuable candidates during the first interviews in their career, thus missing very good job offers, despite being well qualified professionally. These are the main reasons which, in our opinion, bode well for the preparation of a "Guide" meant to teach students how to introduce themselves and highlight their professional strengths even before having completed their studies, by using new means of communication in the virtual environment, which are nowadays available to almost anyone. To this end, by considering principles drawn from the field of psychology, as well as psychotherapy, marketing, and management of human resources, our paper aims to develop an introductory guide for online self-presentation for professional purposes, which could be used as a tool for improving the self-presentation skills of students within the Career Counselling and Orientation Centres in universities. But not lastly, this tool, meant to be used by professionals in the field of career counselling and orientation, could also serve as a self-reflection technique for a better understanding, development, and strengthening of one's identity, which is a decisive factor determining the future personal and professional evolution and performance of today's students.
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Pick, Louise, Krishnagoud Manda, Jonathan Cole, Charles McCartan, and Paul Hermon. "A mathematics peer assessment process for flexible modes of delivery." In SEFI 50th Annual conference of The European Society for Engineering Education. Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1117.
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Educators have experienced significant challenges managing assessment processes over the last two years, particularly when converting in-person interactive and groupbased activities to an online format. This was of immediate concern during the initial stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, when interim measures for online assessment were introduced rapidly without the benefit of prior planning and design. As we emerge from the emergency phase of the pandemic, it appears there will be lasting changes to delivery and assessment in higher education, involving more hybrid and blended solutions. This paper discusses how an on-campus peer feedback assessment process for mathematics has been converted to a digital format to facilitate flexible modes of delivery either on-campus or online. A weekly paper-based peer-feedback process had been previously established in our large (150+) first-year engineering mathematics class. The new process involves weekly submission of work through the university Learning Management System (LMS), Canvas, which is peer marked by students using model video solutions for selected questions. Students complete a rubric and provide comments. After each session, students complete a reflective journal, considering their work over the week and the comments they have received. Engagement with the new flexible process has been shown to be comparable to the old system, while the quality of feedback given to peers in the online process is superior to those provided in the paper-based system. The system has been shown to be robust when rapid changes in delivery modes occur.
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Yeo, Hyunho, Sunghyun Do, and Dongsu Han. "How will Deep Learning Change Internet Video Delivery?" In HotNets-XVI: The 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3152434.3152440.
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Eckstein, Eugene C., Vinay Bhal, JoDe M. Lavine, Baoshun Ma, Mark Leggas, and Jerome A. Goldstein. "Nested First-Passages of Tracer Particles in Flows of Blood and Control Suspensions: Symmetry and Lorentzian Transformations." In ASME 2017 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2017-69549.
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Theory of molecular Taylor-Aris dispersion (TAD) is an accepted framework describing tracer dispersion in suspension flows and determining effective diffusion coefficients. Our group reported a pseudo-Lagrangian method to study dispersion in suspension flows at FEDSM-2000. Tracer motions were studied in a steadily moving inertial reference frame (SMIRF) aligned with the flow direction; increments of change of axial position of individual tracers were collected to demonstrate how the tracer moved as they, individually, interacted with similar collections of other bodies brought to and from the region. First, individual tracers with no apparent axial velocity component (NAAVC) were identified; they exhibited fixed positions in video recordings of images collected in the SMIRF. Then, time increments were measured for tracers to pass at least 5, but usually 10 pre-selected, nested distances in the up- or downstream direction laid out with respect to the zero-site in the SMIRF. Such data were richer than measurements of tracer spread over time because stations along each path were serial first-passages (FP) with probabilistic meaning. Dispersion of various types of suspension and two transformation rules for combining velocity components are discussed herein. Traditional low-speed continuum theory and particle dynamics use Galilean transforms. Yet, to recognize the limited speed in laws for channel flows, Lorentzian transformations may be appropriate. In a four-space, deterministic paths would begin at NAAVC sites and continue in time-like conical regions of four-space. Distances in this space are measured using Minkowski’s metric; at the NAAVC site and on the boundary of the space-time cone, this metric has the format of the Fürth, Ornstein, and Taylor (FOT) equation when only terms to order t2 are used. Data shown at FEDSM-2000 can be reinterpreted as “prospective paths” in time-like regions that were consolidated in normalized cumulative probability distributions to provide retrospective descriptions. The ad hoc sign alteration of the FOT equation to fit the data of FEDSM-2000 is now taken as a part of measuring lengths using a Minkowski metric, which signifies a hyperbolic geometry, for which an inherent scaling constant is a negative curvature. The space also has an intrinsic distance of ℓ = Sτ, obtained from fitting parameters (S, τ) for the FOT equation. Integrals of the area under the FOT curve have units of volume, which are considered as describing an average volume of dispersion on S3, the 3-sphere. Path motion through this volume was kinematic dispersion, S2τ, which was the form for effective diffusivity in continuum theory used in FEDSM-2000. Weiner and Wilmer describe transformations in four-spaces in terms of commutating rotations on orthogonal planes, a concept readily linked to symmetries in the hyperbolic space typical of Lorentzian transformations; they also describe a second order ODE like the FOT equation.
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Weisz, Justin D., and Sara Kiesler. "How text and audio chat change the online video experience." In Proceeding of the 1st international conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1453805.1453809.
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HRABOVSKYI, Y. "How to Enhance the Management and Quality of Electronic Publications?" In Quality Production Improvement and System Safety. Materials Research Forum LLC, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781644902691-50.
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Abstract. The electronic publication format has become valuable and easy to access for a modern person. Many readers prefer electronic publications to print ones. Publication houses that want to access more customers and enhance their sales should consider including electronic formats in their product offers. Managing a publishing company requires constant modification and diversification of products. To a large extent, the offer of publications in electronic format has a chance to attract more customers than the traditional printed form. It is primarily about easy access to the searched reading items. The customers can purchase the publication in various electronic formats, e.g., PDF, MOBI, or ePUB format, according to their needs. It does not require going to the library, reading room, stationery store, or waiting for the parcel at the place of residence. The purchased product, paid or free, immediately becomes available after downloading to the appropriate device. It is a very convenient and quick way to get to publications. Therefore, publishing houses should keep up with the times and offer publications in electronic format. However, a number of factors must be taken into account before such a product is created. Often, there is a need to convert the print version of publications into electronic format - a need to convert documents on formats of computer editorial systems in electronic formats. In the paper, the method of changing the orientation of the page of the elevation publication is proposed. Then a set of parameters of the arrangement elements is developed. The algorithm for the automatic change of page orientation of the viewing edition is created. Based on this algorithm, tools have been developed to automatically change the edition page as an appropriate prototype of automation tools (Adobe, USA product) in HTML format using JavaScript programming language (Japan). For the qualitative work of the prototype, the basic rules of the set and layout were analyzed. The designed complex of typical page layouts, in terms of laying elements on the page. An orientation change algorithm with its restrictions has been developed for each typical layout.
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Imaino, W., H. Rosen, K. Rubin, T. Strand, and M. Best. "Extending the Compact Disk Format to High Capacity for Video Applications." In Optical Data Storage. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ods.1994.wa4.
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Optical storage disks with multiple data layers1 offer large potential increases in capacity over standard single layer disks. In this approach individual data layers are spaced far enough apart so that any significant crosstalk is avoided and arc accessed by moving the objective lens in the focus direction. The large numerical aperture of the objective allows data layer separations that arc small enough to permit access by standard focus actuators in existing optical storage mechanisms. This scheme requires no change in the CD format and is fully backward compatible with CD Audio, CD ROM and CDR disks and provides a favorable development path for the delivery of compressed video. Two times current CD capacities would enable playback of MPEG 1 compressed full length movies from a single disk, while higher capacities would permit improvements of the video quality.
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Jost, Céline, and Brigitte Le Pévédic. "How to integrate interactions into video editing software?" In Workshop on Multisensory Experiences. Brazilian Computing Society, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sensoryx.2022.20004.
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This paper explores an idea to enrich existing mulsemedia editing software, getting inspiration from music scores, to have them integrate actions coming from the viewer while editing a mulsemedia. In this paper, we reflect on the possibility to do it with a unique timeline. Thus, we propose to completely change the point of view. Instead of trying to insert the interaction in the timeline, we propose to cut the media into several parts and insert them into the interaction.
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Munteanu, Dan, and Nicoleta Munteanu. "SENTIMENT ANALYSIS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO CHILDREN IN LOGICAL GAMES FROM NONFORMAL EDUCATION." In eLSE 2020. University Publishing House, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-20-007.
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This paper presents an analysis of the behavioural and temperamental changes of children in non-formal education lessons within the Logic Games discipline. The experimental setup was made using 2 video cameras that alternatively recorded and monitored groups of 2 children during the lessons from the Logic Games discipline for the entire scholar year. Emotion plays an important role in the lesson of non-formal education. Chess as part of the Logic Games involves the training of qualities such as will, ambition, perseverance, attention to detail, distributive attention, patience, evaluation and anticipation of many alternatives and possibilities to move both your own and your opponent's and to choose the moves. optimal. It is very important to be mentally trained to deal with the negative emotions generated by losing or losing the match. Therefore, before learning how to win you must learn how to lose. The sentiment analysis in this paper refers only to the automatic recognition and identification of facial expressions. The images extracted from the video recordings were processed, and then classified into the categories: happy, sad, angry, disappointed, pleasantly surprised, proud, panicked / worried or stressed Deep Learning techniques such as Convolutional Neuronal Network, RCNN, Faster RCNN and Mask RCNN and Transfer Learning technique were used to classify the images. The contribution of the paper is given by the application of these image classification algorithms in the non-formal education process. There was a correlation between the feelings detected, frequency of occurrence and the end result of the game in order to improve the educational process to optimize the automatic feedback needed by the teacher to adjust the instructional-educational process, benefiting from the support of an automatic assistant. The results were illustrated in graphs regarding the evolution of the behavioural states/the flow of feelings of the children during lessons throughout the experiment.
Reports on the topic "How to change video format"
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Leslie, Katie L., Rachel L. Welicky, Maureen A. Williams, and Chelsea L. Wood. Parasite Biodiversity. American Museum of Natural History, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5531/cbc.ncep.0150.
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In this module, students have the opportunity to discover the hidden world of parasites: they will come face to face with living parasites, learn about what differentiates parasites from free-living species, observe some common adaptations to a parasitic lifestyle, explore the ecological role of parasites in food webs, and assess how parasite abundance might change in a changing world. To accomplish these goals, this module includes an introductory PowerPoint presentation (including a video of parasite ecologist Dr. Chelsea L. Wood delivering this introductory lecture) and two exercises. The first exercise is a wet lab that involves dissecting an easy (and disturbing) source of live parasite material: fresh fish from your local seafood market. The second exercise is a computer lab that will allow students to engage with real data to answer the question: how do human impacts on ecosystems change the abundance of parasites in wildlife? This module will introduce students to the basics of parasite ecology and provide an opportunity to practice their data analysis and interpretation skills.
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Bartolino, Valerio, Birgit Koehler, and Lena Bergström, eds. Climate effects on fish in Sweden : Species-Climate Information Sheets for 32 key taxa in marine and coastal waters. Department of Aquatic Resources, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54612/a.4lmlt1tq5j.
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The purpose of this publication is to summarize the state of knowledge on the effects of environmental variability and climate change for individual species and stocks based on literature review, giving species-climate information for 32 key taxa in Swedish marine and coastal waters. The report is written in English. The extent and scale of recent changes in climate due to global warming is unprecedented and causes increasing effects on ecosystems. In oceans, ongoing warming leads to, for example, increased water temperatures, decreased ice cover and effects on hydrology and water circulation patterns that can in turn influence salinity. The environmental alterations affect species distribution, biology, and hence also the delivery of marine ecosystem services and human well-being. The results of this review on the effects of environmental variability and climate change on marine taxa are presented as species-climate information sheets designed in a user-friendly format aimed to enhance accessibility for professionals spanning different fields and roles, including e.g. scientific experts, NGOs affiliates and managers. The species-climate information sheets presented here cover 32 key taxa selected among the economically and ecologically most important coastal and marine fish and crustacean species in Swedish waters. The species-wise evaluations show that climate change leads to a wide range of effects on fish, reflecting variations in their biology and physiological tolerances. The review also highlights important data and knowledge gaps for each species and life stage. Despite the high variability and prevailing uncertainties, some general patterns appeared. On a general level, most fish species in Swedish marine and coastal waters are not expected to benefit from climate change, and many risks are identified to their potential for recruitment, growth and development. Boreal, marine and cold-adapted species would be disadvantaged at Swedish latitudes. However, fish of freshwater origin adapted to warmer temperature regimes could benefit to some extent in the Baltic Sea under a warming climate. Freshwater fish could also be benefitted under further decreasing salinity in the surface water in the Baltic Sea. The resulting effects on species will not only depend on the physiological responses, but also on how the feeding conditions for fish, prey availability, the quality of essential fish habitats and many other factors will develop. A wide range of ecological factors decisive for the development of fish communities are also affected by climate change but have not been explored here, where we focused on the direct effects of warming. The sensitivity and resilience of the fish species to climate change will also depend on their present and future health and biological status. Populations exposed to prolonged and intense fishing exploitation, or affected by environmental deterioration will most likely have a lower capacity to cope with climate change effects over time. For both the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, it is important to ensure continued work to update and improve the species-climate information sheets as results from new research become available. It can also be expected that new important and relevant biological information and improved climate scenarios will emerge continuously. Continued work is therefore important to update and refine the species-climate information sheets, help filling in currently identified knowledge gaps, and extend to other species not included here. Moreover, there is need to integrate this type of species-level information into analyses of the effects of climate change at the level of communities and ecosystems to support timely mitigation and adaptation responses to the challenges of the climate change.
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Quality Assurance in HECA Colleges During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Analysis through the lens of QQI’s Core Criteria. Higher Education College's Assocation (HECA), May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22375/hqf.tos22.
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The National Forum’s 2020 Network and Discipline Fund was launched in November 2020 and focuses on Shared Solutions to Common Challenges. Its overarching aim is to support networks and discipline groups to work together to respond proactively to identified challenges in teaching and learning in higher education, including those that have come to light through the sudden move to online/remote teaching and learning. The National Forum’s 2020 Network and Discipline Fund, drawing on the Higher Education Colleges’ Association (HECA) members’ experience, provided the HECA Academic Quality Enhancement Forum(HAQEF) with opportunities to strengthen its networks and discipline group, support their efforts to enhance teaching and learning, and produce useful insights and resources into the application of quality assurance of blended and online learning. In the pandemic period, many colleges were forced to change from a face-to-face delivery model of education and training to an online format of delivery. This disruption meant that assumptions about and plans for how the courses were to be delivered and managed had to be rapidly reviewed. With government pronouncements advising all staff to work from home where possible, the majority of internal roles and processes of colleges were also affected. The quality assurance (QA) policies, processes and procedures that were developed by colleges had to be modified to reflect this change in circumstances. This document reports on the results of a mixed methods study of QA developments that came about as a result of the initial changes enforced by the pandemic and the move to working from home. It also looked at what was learned about the management of quality in this sector during this time. Data was collected by HAQEF via a survey of QA personnel from the member colleges of HECA and follow up interviews. The survey consisted of 11 questions, one for each Core Area of Quality, as set out in the QQI Core QA Guidelines (2016). The questions asked for reflections on each provider’s experience of managing this aspect of QA, what resources or instances of good practice they could share with practitioners and which stakeholders were involved in this adaptation. The interviews asked about the measures that were undertaken to adapt QA processes in the pandemic period and what challenges could be reported from this adaptation. The report is divided into 11 chapters, with each chapter centred on a discussion of one Core Area of Quality as set out in the QQI Core QA Guidelines. An overview of the core area is developed, followed by a commentary on common experiences of the group in this area. Most sections conclude with resources, volunteered by member colleges of HECA, that was rated as useful in how the cohort navigated the management of QA in this core area.