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Abubakar, Adamu, Nur Irdina Mohd Noorani, and Ummu Syafiqah Mohd Rashidi. "Understanding Muslims Self-presentation Strategies in Online Dating." International Journal on Perceptive and Cognitive Computing 6, no. 2 (December 14, 2020): 81–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/ijpcc.v6i2.163.
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This paper investigates the factors influencing online self-presentation strategies on dating platforms, and explore how Muslims users manage their online presentation on dating approach –associated with Muslim-oriented dating application and mainstream-oriented dating application in order to accomplish the goal of finding partner. Twenty-profiles from Tinder and MusMatch active online dating user was used for the study. Qualitative content analysis was used to explore the approaches of interactions associated with individual self-presentation. Four main themes were generated: Screen names, Terminal identities, Net Presence and Personal Profile. The findings reveal that both MusMatch and Tinder allow its users to choose their own screen names without any restrictions. The platforms showed how screen names can be used as a strategy to present certain impression. Users tend to post their personal interests in order to attract their potential partners on Tinder as well as MuzMatch. Users of MuzMatch used acronyms to identify themselves, whereas, users of Tinders are free to construct a socially desirable identity that may attract people’s attention and publicity. The frequency with which MusMatch users appear to interact for relationship that leads to marriage is far more than any other form of relationship. Tinder users are free to post anything as their profile picture, whereas in MuzMatch it requires authentic profile pictures. MusMatch provision for establishing relationship requires that a chaperone should be allow to mediate interactions among the potential partners in order to preserve Muslims-oriented dating style
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Chou, Shih-Wei, and I. H. Hung. "Understanding knowledge outcome improvement at the post-adoption stage in a virtual community." Information Technology & People 29, no. 4 (November 7, 2016): 774–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-05-2015-0121.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to solve the challenges in knowledge outcome (e.g. knowledge contribution, knowledge exploration) improvement at the post-adoption phase in the context of e-communities. This study develops a model by integrating dedication-constraint framework and self-presentation theory. The model proposes that knowledge outcomes at the post-adoption phase rely on relationship development between community members, conceptualized as commitment. The authors also hypothesize that members’ perceived online self-presentation quality, theorized as personal control and social influence, serves as the key means to motivate members’ commitment. Design/methodology/approach This study used survey instrument to collect data and adopted partial least squares to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings The results show that perceived online self-presentation quality positively affects relationship development, which in turn affects continuance intention for knowledge outcomes. Research limitations/implications This study expands the dedication-constraint framework by integrating the self-presentation theory. This study contributes new knowledge by proposing a model that delineates the relationship between online self-presentation quality, relationship development, and knowledge outcomes at the post-adoption stage. Practical implications This study shows that members’ perceived online self-presentation quality affects both affective commitment and calculative commitment, which in turn affect knowledge outcomes, suggesting the important role of the perceived quality in stimulating a member’s post-adoption reactions. Originality/value This study contributes to the research on post-adoption behavior in an e-community context by accounting for the influence of e-community features in self-presentation quality and dedication-constraint mechanisms on post-adoption phenomena.
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Sapozhkova, Zh Yu. "DOCTOR’S SELF-PRESENTATION IN ONLINE COMMUNICATION." Laboratornaya i klinicheskaya meditsina. Farmatsiya, no. 2 (2021): 4–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14489/lcmp.2021.02.pp.004-022.
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The doctor is a way of life, which includes monitoring and correction of themself presentation continuously. The physician is one of the socially significant and language-active professions. The language activity of doctors in the Internet is determined by their consciousness and communicative behavior in various genres of social media – a blog, a forum, a social network, a personal website, etc. Evidence indicates that electronic communication can improve health outcomes, for example by promoting professional development, emphasizing self-presentation, and also highlighting linguistic personality of physicians, which is based on verbal-non-verbal behavior. However, discussion of the dangers of these technologies in medicine has overshadowed the consideration of positive applications. Online communication has introduced profound questions about confidentiality, professionalism, and other issues of ethical and legal regulation for healthcare professionals. Understanding that will help to avoid mistakes, thereby maintaining a high level of the doctor's professional image.
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Goodman, Michele. "Let’s Eat! Encouraging Self–Feeding Behavior in Waterfowl." Wildlife Rehabilitation Bulletin 36, no. 1 (June 21, 2021): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.53607/wrb.v36.130.
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Waterfowl may not self– feed for a wide variety of reasons including species, food type or presentation, stress, underlying injury or
illness, or other husbandry concerns. Understanding natural history, wild diet, and food presentation methods can help to improve self–feeding behavior.
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Muka, Romira. "Self Presentation of Communist Albania Through the Antagonist Discourse." European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 2, no. 2 (April 30, 2016): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejis.v2i2.p222-227.
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Given the fact that totalitarian systems use the media as the most powerful tool to produce and disseminate the ideology, the text of this paper is the printed press of that period. I especially selected the journal Zëri i Popullit (Voice of People), as it was the main representative press organ of Communist Party which would later become the Labor Party. Understanding the past discourses paves the ground for understanding their continuity or their change during the new systems of governance as it will be after 1990's in Albania. The methodology of this paper is Critical Discourse Analyze. I will use Critical Discourse Analyze at the same time as theory for this study. Since the totalitarian system ruled Albania during that period, the study will be focused on analyzing the hegemonic discourse, seeing antagonism as the basic form of power’s self presentation. Also to understand the key moments of self presentation I have selected the articles during the national holidays such as 1st of May the Labor Day 28th of November the Independence Day and 29th of November the Liberation Day. The articles of press during national holidays are selected as key data, because these dates have always been important to deliver messages. This paper aims to establish discursive categories seeing antagonism as main feature of power legitimacy. Based on this argument the research question of this paper is; which are the elements used by printed press for its self presentation to legitimize the power?
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Muka, Romira. "Self Presentation of Communist Albania Through the Antagonist Discourse." European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 4, no. 2 (April 30, 2016): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejis.v4i2.p222-227.
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Given the fact that totalitarian systems use the media as the most powerful tool to produce and disseminate the ideology, the text of this paper is the printed press of that period. I especially selected the journal Zëri i Popullit (Voice of People), as it was the main representative press organ of Communist Party which would later become the Labor Party. Understanding the past discourses paves the ground for understanding their continuity or their change during the new systems of governance as it will be after 1990's in Albania. The methodology of this paper is Critical Discourse Analyze. I will use Critical Discourse Analyze at the same time as theory for this study. Since the totalitarian system ruled Albania during that period, the study will be focused on analyzing the hegemonic discourse, seeing antagonism as the basic form of power’s self presentation. Also to understand the key moments of self presentation I have selected the articles during the national holidays such as 1st of May the Labor Day 28th of November the Independence Day and 29th of November the Liberation Day. The articles of press during national holidays are selected as key data, because these dates have always been important to deliver messages. This paper aims to establish discursive categories seeing antagonism as main feature of power legitimacy. Based on this argument the research question of this paper is; which are the elements used by printed press for its self presentation to legitimize the power?
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Kobe, Zdravko. "True sacrifice on Hegel’s presentation of self-consciousness." Filozofija i drustvo 26, no. 4 (2015): 830–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid1504830k.
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The paper provides a modest reading of Hegel?s treatment of self-consciousness in his Phenomenology of Spirit and tries to present it as an integral part of the overall project of the experience of consciousness leading from understanding to reason. Its immediate objective is, it is argued, to think the independence and dependence, that is the pure and empirical I within the same unity of self-consciousness. This implies a double movement of finding a proper existence for the pure I and at the same time a breaking down of the empirical I?s attachment to particularity. It is argued that the Hegelian struggle for recognition intends to show how the access to reason demands the subject?s renunciation of its attachment to particularity, that is to sacrifice not only its bare life but every thing indeed, including its particular identity, and yet, to go on living.
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Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae, and María-Ángeles Chaparro-Domínguez. "From Youthful Experimentation to Professional Identity: Understanding Identity Transitions in Social Media." YOUNG 28, no. 2 (March 25, 2019): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1103308819834386.
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The process of self-presentation is significantly complicated for people growing up with social media. Many individuals have time-stamped digital footprints in social media from early youth to adulthood. However, little is known about long-term consequences for these individuals, their experience of time and their identity transition from youthful experimentation to a professional identity in social media. Through 15 in-depth interviews, our study explores challenges concerning identity transition and impression management in social media for young adults who have recently entered working life as journalists. Our participants described how they curated their image and self-censored both their previous and current self-generated content in social media. We also find that many have actively opted for passive and peace-keeping self-presentation and use of social media or for turning their usage into private messaging platforms, masking their online identity. Some participants indicated they felt trapped by their own identity making in social media.
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Smith, William B., Ashlie N. Thompson, and Abbigail R. Hines. "254 Effect of presentation method on understanding of organic chemistry in an undergraduate animal nutrition course." Journal of Animal Science 98, Supplement_4 (November 3, 2020): 186–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaa278.344.
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Abstract An educator’s goal is to always explain classroom material to his or her students in the most efficient way possible. Chemistry is a fundamental foundation to the study of animal nutrition, but the concepts of organic chemistry are very difficult to relay to students of animal science, possibly due to the different types of student learners. It could be that mode of presentation may aid in relaying this information to the students. The sample for this experiment included students enrolled in an animal nutrition course at Tarleton State University. Students were presented with five methods of presentation of carbohydrate molecular structure in a laboratory session, each with an increasingly tactile approach: written description, printed 2-dimensional model, printed 3-dimensional model, ball-and-stick model, and self-constructing molecular model kit. Students were then asked to complete a survey to address effectiveness of presentation method. Data were analyzed using SAS v. 9.4. When addressing effectiveness of presentation method, the written description and the printed 2-dimensional model were rated as slightly-to-moderately effective (48.4 and 67.8%, respectively), the printed 3-dimensional model was rated as moderately effective (58.1%), the ball-and-stick model was rated as very effective (48.4%), and the self-constructing model was rated as very-to-extremely effective (80.6%). Cluster analysis revealed that students chose any of the presentation methods over the written description with preference for the self-constructing model. Results are interpreted to mean that presentation of organic chemistry concepts in animal nutrition are more effective when kinesthetic presentation methods are employed.
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Cronin, Peter, Liam Peyton, and Eddie Chaplin. "Feeling down and understanding depression." Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities 11, no. 1 (January 3, 2017): 2–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/amhid-12-2016-0044.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a perspective on depression and self-help from two experts with lived experience of learning disabilites. Design/methodology/approach This paper outlines the authors’ presentation and experiences at the recent Learning Disability Today conference. Findings The paper shares some things we can do to help our mental wellbeing. Originality/value This paper offers the view of two people with learning disabilities lived experience of depression. The paper also offers and insight into some of the strategies they use to manage and encourage positive mental health.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Understanding of self-presentation"
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Polonski, Vyacheslav. "Commitment issues : toward an understanding of young people's social media choices in the multi-platform era." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6d738215-33d1-4de2-b680-dd3def88f1bd.
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Social network sites (SNSs) have become a common part of everyday life for billions of people worldwide. Not everyone uses the same sites, nor are sites functionally equivalent in the eyes of users. Both established platforms and new upstarts may provide novel features or access to new audiences, yet users tend to remain on a few dominant platforms, especially Facebook, the world's reigning social network site. The goal of the present study is to understand why people are committed to specific social network sites, given that no site encompasses either all of a person's social connections or all possible gratifications available from online participation. Further, individuals do not always wish to have a single real-name identity for all online interactions, thus implying the necessary use of multiple accounts or sites. To understand SNS commitment, this study employs a mixed-methods research design by combining findings from a survey of 800 respondents with 50 semi-structured interviews. The research focuses on young adults in the UK and their use of four popular SNSs: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Findings indicate that network size has only a marginal effect on commitment, whereas the effect of identity performance is more pronounced, albeit in different ways on different sites. Social and informational gratifications have the strongest effect across all four SNSs, suggesting that commitment is primarily driven by repeated habit-forming experiences. To further help explain SNS commitment, this thesis employs a typology of social media users based on attitudes towards digital technology. It is evident that attitudes explain more variation in commitment than either demographic factors or personality. Qualitative analysis reinforces this finding by showing how users employ specific gratification-based repertoires to determine which sites to use and when. These findings help advance research on affordances, self-presentation and SNS use, while also making practical recommendations for social media platforms.
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Wu, Yu-Xiang, and 吳宇翔. "Understanding political participation and self-presentation on Facebook: A cultural perspective." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16516730575016441114.
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碩士國立中山大學
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Founded in 2006, Facebook is one of the most popular social network sites around the world, and it also has the highest penetration in Taiwan. Related researches have proved that Facebook is an online stage for self-presentation, and is proved to help online political participation. However, related works have taken self-presentation and online political participation as a cultural universal phenomenon, and discussions through cultural perspective are insufficient. This research studied Facebook self-presentation and online political participation through a Taiwanese cultural perspective. Cultural factors such as harmony, face, and guan-xi was discussed in the current research. 14 in-depth interviews were conducted with 14 Taiwanese Facebook users in this research to understand how Taiwanese culture affects Facebook users’ self-presentation and political participation behavior. The research data indicates: 1. Users have gone through political socialization in different contexts. 2. Three different “roles” in political self-presentation are found including “lurkers”, “experts” and “idealists”. How culture influence these characters are discussed. 3. Under the “perfect performance” playbook, when Facebook users are engaging political discussions, they always try to save face (mianzi) for others. Also, they take a moderate (Zhongyong) way in political participations. 4. Facebook as a political participation space, being “rational” is one of the most important interaction premise. And users like to interact with other users who they think is worth talking to. Additionally, users tend to discuss political issues in private messenger implies that politics is stigmatized in Taiwanese social context. Limitations and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
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CHEN, BAO-NIAN, and 陳保年. "Employing Dramaturgy Theory in Understanding Self-Presentation in Social Media:An Introductory Study of Women Road Race on Instagram." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5322w2.
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The reason why those mobile social sharing applications are generally popular by users those have characteristics and charm of instant and convenient on sharing. One of them, Instagram, in a gesture of emerging social platform becomes the most popular filter shooting also a mobile social sharing application rapidly. At present, it has a large number of users and still grow up. The using of Hashtag on Instagram is not only added into text content , it also remains some message behind the scenes which users want to convey. Instagram as a research topic, Goffman’s Dramaturgy Theory as theory framework , the users who had taken part in a long-distance road race event《2017 WOMEN RUN Taipei》 as interview objects, this research tries to understand and explain the types and states of Hashtag, then comprehend how they did self-presentation on Instagram. Through in-depth interview and observational study with interview objects found that they often post and record daily life on Instagram. They do self-presentation because the factors of self-breakthrough and achieve the goals via a major event in life ─ road race. It is not just simply extended from presentation on off-line, but regard on-line field as a stage. Users could show themselves actively on Instagram. This study has found that Instagram has roles of information search and interactive communication, while also is a stage of performance. Along with the change of function, the line between front stage and back stage has been blurred. Users record life on platform, and do self-presentation due to four reasons for self-actualized, gain a sense of accomplishment, express emotions and evoke responses under the situation of road race. Meanwhile, users adjustment themselves by impression management, and show the ideal self of Goffman’s.
Books on the topic "Understanding of self-presentation"
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Walker, TJ. Presentation training A-Z: A complete guide to your audience understanding, remembering, acting upon, and telling other people about your message. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Media Training Worldwide, 2008.
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Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding. Yale University Press, 1992.
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1932-, Rosenwald George C., and Ochberg Richard L. 1950-, eds. Storied lives: The cultural politics of self-understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
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Stroud, Natalie Jomini. Understanding and Overcoming Selective Exposure and Judgment When Communicating About Science. Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan M. Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190497620.013.41.
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Before turning to an evaluation of strategies to overcome selective exposure and judgment, this chapter demonstrates that these selectivity processes occur with respect to science but not in all circumstances. Strategies to curb the occurrence of selectivity are discussed based on the information conveyed and the motivational state of a person encountering scientific information. Theories and research on accountability to others, anxiety, self-affirmation, defensive confidence, and normative information are discussed as ways to reduce selectivity. No one strategy emerges as a cure-all, prompting the presentation of a future research agenda to examine strategies to overcome selective exposure and judgment.
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Krauter, Cheryl. A Conversation of Hope and Healing. Edited by Cheryl Krauter. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190636364.003.0004.
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Cultural humility is described as a lifelong process and a commitment to self-evaluation and self-reflection that encourages an appreciation of growth and understanding. This puts healthcare providers and patients in a mutually beneficial relationship that attempts to diminish damaging power dynamics. The chapter includes the presentation and discussion of the following attributes of introspection: awareness of self and other; supportive interactions; mutual empowerment; partnerships; respect; optimal care; and lifelong learning. Cultural humility applies a variety of contexts, from ethnic and racial differences, to sexual orientation and identity, to social status, to interpersonal communication styles of different cultures, cultural belief systems, and practices.
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Naides, Stanley J. Viral arthritis. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642489.003.0102.
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Viral infection may cause sudden onset polyarthralgia or polyarthritis. Recognizing viral syndromes during the acute phase of illness is critical as markers of acute infection may fade during convalescence. While joint symptoms and signs in many cases are self limited, in others joint involvement may persist for months to years. Acute and chronic findings may resemble classic idiopathic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus. Some viral infections may manifest with rash, vasculitis, or organ involvement. Understanding of epidemiology, geography, clinical presentation, virus behaviour and host response assists diagnosis and selection of appropriate management. Understanding virus-host interactions may offer insights into mechanisms of pathogenesis in idiopathic rheumatic diseases.
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Holt, Robin. The Public. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199671458.003.0010.
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The chapter continues to discuss the association of judgment and sovereignty using Franz Kafka’s story Das Urteil (The Judgment). It does so in order to then introduce the public nature of spectating and how this has been played out in the thinking of Jurgen Habermas concerning speech situations, and in Hannah Arendt’s writings on the polis. Rather than pitch the public in contrast to the private, the chapter suggests spectating plays on the binary in ways that enrich both. This coming together of the private and public is then woven into the understanding of strategic inquiry as an organizational forming of self-presentation.
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Holt, Robin. Judgment and Strategy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199671458.001.0001.
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Judgment and Strategy makes a passionate plea for an imaginative, open, and altogether more humble understanding of strategic activity. Prompted by a reading of skeptical philosophy, the book defines strategy as the on-going presentation of an organization form to itself and others, and embeds this definition in a discussion of the wider modern project of ‘knowing and declaring oneself’. Three related and often interwoven kinds of strategic self presentation are identified: the use of representational knowledge, the creation of vision, and the assertion of will. All three assume the job of strategy is to work on and improve everyday life. This book flips such a concern, and asks whether strategic inquiry might benefit from being worked over by everyday life. Judgment is introduced as the poetic capacity by which this opening up can happen. Taking forays into the work of Georges Perec, Virginia Woolf, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, William Hazlitt, Rainer Marie Rilke, Judith Butler, William Shakespeare, John Ruskin, and Hannah Arendt, amongst others, the book argues for a form of judgment likened to ‘unhomely spectating’.
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Kottman, Paul A. Duel. Edited by Henry S. Turner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199641352.013.21.
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This chapter examines what it calls ‘philosophical dramaturgy’—a challenge to theatricality that comes from a powerful philosophical appropriation of drama—and its claim that drama, as a mode of human self-understanding, can and does free itself from needing re-enactment or sensuous expression in order to present an understanding of human agency, historical existence, and inter-personal dynamics. The chapter first considers a few aspects of the philosophical accounts of drama of Aristotle and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel before discussing an instance of ‘philosophical dramaturgy’ in modern philosophy: the presentation of the life-and-death struggle (or ‘duel’) in Thomas Hobbes’sLeviathanand Hegel’sPhenomenology of Spirit. It then looks at William Shakespeare’s response to philosophical dramaturgy and shows how he presents us with a kind of infinite theatricality that is no less philosophical but that differs absolutely in its mode.
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Lacoste, Jean-Yves, and Oliver O’Donovan. Existence and Love of God. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827146.003.0005.
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The lack of interest in love and God in Heidegger’s Being and Time is curiously suspended in a footnote that quotes Augustine and Pascal on love and the knowledge of the divine in the course of the presentation of the important concept of “affection.” Heidegger confines interest in God to the care of a positive historical theology, and so marginalizes both faith and God at the edge of existence, which is philosophy’s proper concern. But this strategy ignores the way in which anticipatory understanding of being can converge with interest in God in human existence. Love of divine things can be interpreted in terms of Heidegger’s “care,” while his “affection” can accommodate self-discovery not only in-theworld but before-God.
Book chapters on the topic "Understanding of self-presentation"
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Walsh, David. "Dignity as an Eschatological Concept." In Understanding Human Dignity. British Academy, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265642.003.0013.
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An eschatological concept is one we live within and therefore can never fully comprehend. Human dignity names what cannot be named. Rather than a claim to status it really marks the capacity to surrender all claim to status. Dignity is the flash of transcendence that is the epiphany of the person, the gift of self-presentation that is itself never fully presented. Rather than thinking of this as the core of the person we must acknowledge that persons are always more than any imputed core. This is what the language of rights has sought to affirm. That is, that within a world of limits, persons alone are inexhaustible. Each person is the whole of reality, as we perceive in the persons we love.
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Lin, Chien-nai, Yu-Tzu Lin, and Ching-Cha Hsieh. "Unfolding the Diminishing Image Control in Online Self Presentation." In Studies in Virtual Communities, Blogs, and Modern Social Networking, 26–35. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4022-1.ch003.
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As the young generations grow up using applications like Facebook and as fans of social networking technologies, understanding the presentations of self in a virtual community becomes a worthwhile topic to be addressed. Drawing on the theory of dramaturgical theory (Goffman, 1959), this interpretive research was conducted to observe the self presentation of the participants in a virtual community to analyze their online behaviors and interactions. The observations found that only in the early stage of interaction, people can have a high degree of control over the ideal images creation; however, the clues to reveal actual images are accumulated over time and across cyberspaces. This research suggested that personal control over image delivery in a virtual community weakens over time, which challenged the assumption made by prior literature regarding how people have greater control in creating ideal images in the virtual community. The findings of this research could provide insight for people who use virtual community to search for credible personal information or to build ideal images. Besides, this research suggested that although Internet technologies facilitate access to a rich source of information, the convenience in information acquisition and verification comes at the expense of personal privacy.
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Zhang, Heng, and Robert Andrew Dunn. "The Facebook Me." In Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age, 176–93. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3187-7.ch010.
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For a better understanding of social networking site usage, the present study examines the influence of gender, personality, and self-esteem on social media presentation. The researchers found that extroverted women posted more Facebook pictures than extroverted men did. Neuroticism was related to self-presentation, and agreeableness is related to Facebook friends. Lower self-esteem was related to more self-presentation on Facebook. Women were more likely to post gender role expressions than men were. And higher levels of neuroticism were related to greater gender role expressions.
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Kille, Tarryn L. "Understanding Strategies of Teacher-Student Interaction." In Creating Teacher Immediacy in Online Learning Environments, 212–34. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9995-3.ch011.
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In this chapter, we discuss the application of teaching strategies as a vehicle for investigating teacher immediacy in the online environment. Through the presentation of a descriptive case study, the chapter explores the theoretical perspective of strategies that intend to reduce psychological distance in the online environment. Specifically, the issue of effective interaction is investigated, including: (1) the application of formative feedback practices; (2) the application of student self-assessment to encourage deeper learning; and (3) the integration of rubric use in assessment activities. The chapter concludes, recommending that practical application of teaching strategies such as: (1) using rubrics; and (2) encouraging student self-assessment, has the effect of enhancing teacher interaction and improving both the student experience and the student learning outcomes in an online environment. The chapter aims to contribute to the literature associated with online university education by validating best practices which assists in developing more effective online courses.
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Gurau, Calin. "Self-Service Systems." In Electronic Services, 1689–702. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-967-5.ch103.
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The rapid development of online self-service applications has created the need for empirical studies about consumers’ perceptions and behavior during the adoption and use of such systems. An essential condition for understanding the elements that can enhance the adoption and use of these online systems is to identify the main factors that define the quality of self-service applications from the perspective of online users. After a presentation of the main streams of research focused on the analysis of online self-service systems, the article identifies eight quality dimensions defined by previous studies. The analysis of primary data permits a ranking of these quality dimensions in relation to users’ perceptions. On the other hand, the study investigates the influence of users’ personal characteristics (gender, age, Internet usage frequency and online self-service usage frequency) on the perceived importance of various quality dimensions, providing specific insights about the needs and wants of various categories of customers.
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Becker, Harold W. "Understanding Our Potential for Love and Peace." In Advances in Public Policy and Administration, 372–84. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch027.
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In this presentation, we explore a view of our human potential as an intuitive and evolving understanding on a personal level. Using a phenomenological approach, rather than a traditional analytical social science approach, we can discover the vital qualitative aspects that are not normally considered in a traditional quantitative analysis. The nature of universal love and peace are more experiential and subjective at a primary level, involving a deeper inquiry from the individual's perspective, interpretation and experience. Consciousness and self-awareness are central themes that are essential to a sustainable humanity and planet in this unparalleled epoch of quantum change. Technology, and the more recently emerging real-time worldwide social interactions, are accelerating this new paradigm where typical survival instincts are transforming into creative and collaborative, holistic actions on a global scale. Love and peace are the core attributes leading this shift of the ages and it is all beginning from within.
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Sanders, April M., and Laura Isbell. "Preservice Teachers' Self-Reflection Practices When Integrating Educational Technology in the Classroom." In Fostering Reflective Teaching Practice in Pre-Service Education, 254–71. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2963-7.ch014.
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As digital tools become common in the modern classroom, teachers must be equipped with understanding how to create lessons for modern learning. Reflective teaching practices are one such way to help preservice teachers learn quality skills for both creating and implementing digital tools. While working through the six traits of the reflective practitioner (Eby & Kujawa, 1998) over the course of one semester, 29 participants kept a reflective journal detailing their process of creating a lesson using technology. The creation process also included complete lesson plans and a video presentation of the lesson; the video presentation was submitted to an online education technology conference (www.c2lconference.com). Sources of data included reflective journals, lesson plans, self-reflection questionnaires, and conference evaluations. The emergent themes for both the reflective journals and the comments on the self-reflection were aligned to produce three main themes, which were then connected to the six traits.
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Neuwirth, Angelika. "The Qur’an and Scripture." In The Qur'an and Late Antiquity, translated by Samuel Wilder, 65–104. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199928958.003.0003.
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This chapter provides a study of the Qur’an’s self-presentation as a revealed and proclaimed text. The concepts of “writing” (kitāb) as well as the various terms used within the Qur’an to refer to revelation and the proclaimer’s delivery of scripture are discussed, and the relevant Qur’anic texts are studied. This leads to a discussion of the somewhat controversial concept of “inlibration,” or the supposed becoming-book of the text. The resulting image of the self-understanding of the Qur’an as text is a complex one, in which the self-conceptions of earlier scriptures are adapted to the pre-Islamic Arabian conceptual area.
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Johnsen, Jan-Are K. "Connecting with Ourselves and Others Online." In Patient-Centered E-Health, 26–46. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-016-5.ch003.
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In this chapter, we look at some fundamental aspects of communicating about ourselves and our health through technology. In particular, we examine how the social psychological theories of self-presentation and self-regulation might be applied to online health-communication. It is argued that the specific qualities of text-based communication might have unique benefits for health-communication through the interplay between the writing process and the concerns posed by health-issues. An understanding of how psychological processes are connected with online health communication is believed to be fundamental in understanding trends within self-help and user-driven health communication, and to predict possible outcomes of such behavior. Also, this knowledge might inform the design and development of patient-centered solutions for health-communication and heath-service delivery.
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Prigmore, Samantha, and Jane Scullion. "Understanding Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." In Adult Nursing Practice. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199697410.003.0015.
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The aim of this chapter is to provide nurses with the knowledge to be able to assess, manage, and care for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in an evidence-based and person-centred way. The chapter will provide a comprehensive overview of the causes, risk factors, and impact of COPD, before exploring best practice to deliver care, as well as to prevent or minimize further ill-health. Nursing assessments and priorities are highlighted throughout, and the nursing management of the symptoms and common health problems associated with COPD can be found in Chapters 2, 15, 18, and 22, respectively. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is predominantly caused by smoking and is characterized by airflow obstruction that is not fully reversible (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), 2010). This broad definition embraces previously used definitions such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and chronic asthma. Historically, perceptions of the treatment for and care of the patient with COPD were negative, because of the chronic nature of this progressive disease, which was often viewed as self-inflicted through its links with smoking. Current emphasis, regardless of aetiology, is that it is both preventable and treatable (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), 2010). Currently around 1 million UK citizens are diagnosed with COPD; prevalence data are higher, at 1.7 million (Britton, 2003). This appears to be underreported because it is thought that there could be as many as another 2 million people currently undiagnosed (British Lung Foundation, 2006). COPD is already a significant burden of disease area, with expectations that, by 2020, it will be the third largest cause of mortality (Murray and Lopez, 1997). Reasons for increasing prevalence include that:… ● an ageing population increases the likelihood of chronic disease development; ● diagnosis of COPD is better guided by both national and international COPD guidelines, with inclusion in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) in general practice bringing financial incentives for maintaining COPD registers and improving COPD care; ● increasing public awareness leads to more people seeking help on symptom presentation; ● more women being diagnosed, correlating to more women smoking, perhaps owing to greater social acceptability; ● other as yet unknown causes....
Conference papers on the topic "Understanding of self-presentation"
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He, Wu, and Yilin Shan. "Understanding the Dynamics of Young People's Self-Presentation on Social Media." In SIGMIS-CPR '18: 2018 Computers and People Research Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3209626.3209732.
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Trieu, Penny, and Nancy K. Baym. "Private Responses for Public Sharing: Understanding Self-Presentation and Relational Maintenance via Stories in Social Media." In CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376549.
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Mouli, T. Sai Chandra. "Towards Understanding Identity, Culture and Language." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-8.
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Knowledge of self is at the core of all human endeavours. In the quest identity assumes significance. It acquired greater relevance and respect on account of Postcolonial concerns. ‘Class’ emerged as the basis of a person’s identity. Subsequent to liberation of colonies from alien rule, postcolonial concerns gained ground. Focus on indigenous ways of life adds new dimension. Social, cultural, psychological and economic structures became the basis of one’s own view of identity. These dynamics are applicable to languages that flourished, perished or are on the verge of extinction. In India, regional, linguistic, religious diversity add to the complexity of the issue in addition to several subcultures that exist. Culture is not an independent variable. Historical factors, political developments, geographical and climatic conditions along with economic policies followed do contribute to a larger extent in fixing the contours of a country’s culture. Institutional modifications also sway the stability of national culture. Cultural transmission takes place in diverse ways. It is not unidirectional and unilateral. In many countries culture models are passed on from one generation to another through recitation. The learners memorize the cultural expressions without understanding meaning or social significance of what is communicated to them. Naturally, this practice results in hierarchical patterns and hegemony of vested elements. This is how norms of ‘high’ and ‘low’ are formed and extended to written works and oral/folk literatures respectively. This presentation focuses on the identity, culture and language of indigenous people in Telugu speaking states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in South India.
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Tyagi, Pawan. "Second Modified Student Presentation Based Effective Teaching (SPET) Method Tested in COVID-19 Affected Senior Level Mechanical Engineering Course." In ASME 2020 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2020-23615.
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Abstract Student presentation based effective teaching (SPET) approach was designed to engage students with different mindsets and academic preparation levels meaningfully and meet several ABET student learning outcomes. SPET method requires that students prepare themselves by guided self-study before coming to the class and make presentations to teach the whole class by (a) presenting complex concepts and systems appealingly and engagingly, and most importantly (b) serving as the discussion platform for the instructor to emphasize on complex concepts from multiple angles during different presentations. In class, SPET presentations address the conceptual questions that are assigned 1–2 weeks before the presentation day. However, the SPET approach becomes impractical for large class sizes because (i) during one class period all the students can not present, (ii) many students do not make their sincere efforts. This paper focuses on the second modification of SPET to make it practical for large classes. The method reported in this paper was tested on MECH 462 Design of Energy System Course. Unlike the first modified approach, all the students were expected to submit the response to the preassigned questions before coming to the class. In class, SPET group presentations were prepared by the group of 3–6 students, who prepared themselves by doing SPET conceptual questions individually. Students communicated with each other to make a cohesive presentation for ∼30 min. In two classes per week, we covered 5–6 group presentations to do enough discussions and repetition of the core concepts for a more in-depth understanding of the content. During the presentation, each student was evaluated for (a) their depth of understanding, (b) understanding other parts of the presentation covered by other teammates, and (c) quality of presentation and content. The student who appeared unprepared in the class group presentation were provided direct feedback and resources to address concerning areas. SPET approach was applied in the online mode during the campus shut down due to COVID-19. SPET was immensely effective and helped to complete the course learning outcomes without interruptions. SPET could be customized for the online version without any additional preparation on the instructor part.
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Trein, Fernanda, and Taíse Neves Possani. "Literature As a Mean of Self-knowledge, Liberation, and Feminine Empowerment: The Legacy of Clarice Lispector." In 13th Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference. Tomorrow People Organization, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52987/wlec.2022.004.
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Abstract: Access to books and literature is, above all, a human right. The acts of reading, creating, and fictionalizing are in themselves, acts of power. Accordingly, literature is a well-respected necessity in society; therefore, a universal human need. Thus, denying women the right to literature is also a form of violation. In this presentation, the author aims to reflect not only on literature by female authors but also its importance in the process of constructing women's subjectivity and identity, whether in reading fiction or in its production. To reflect on women's right to read and write literature, as well as their way of expressing their perception, anxieties, and ways of understanding the world, this presentation proposes a literary analysis of texts by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. Her works evidence the potential of bringing light to the processes of self-knowledge and freedom. These processes can be ignited because these texts can trigger the process of self-awareness and can then generate female empowerment. By reading Clarice Lispector's writing, it remains clear that she reveals human dramas specific to the female universe, as she opens up possibilities for readers to know themselves as women and to project themselves as producers of literature. It would seem that these realities are founded worlds and realities apart from those that dominated male perceptions during the 1950s to 1970s when she was writing; however, many of those predominant male perceptions prevail in today’s contemporary society. Keywords: Women's Writing; Reception; Self knowledge; Clarice Lispector; Empowerment.
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Tyagi, Pawan. "Student Presentation Based Effective Teaching (SPET) Approach for Advanced Courses." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-66029.
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A student activity based effective teaching approach can significantly improve student learning. However, implementing student activity based teaching for the advanced level courses can be very challenging. Incomplete course coverage and the amount of time required by an instructor for designing active teaching strategies are cited as the common inhibiting factors in the adoption of active student teaching. This paper discusses a student presentation based effective teaching (SPET) approach that covers more course material than that covered in the conventional or other student-active teaching methods. Moreover, SPET approach requires less preparation time on instructor behalf. This paper is based on the effective teaching experiments conducted on senior level science and technology courses at University of the District of Columbia. Under the SPET approach, students are given reading assignment to prepare ∼ 10–20 minutes long power point presentation on well-defined conceptual topics, questions, or chapter modules. In every class typically three presentations take place on the same questions or topics. However, non-presenter students are required to generate conceptual questions. These questions were asked during or after the presentation by the designated students. Students’ presentations were graded according to the rubric focusing on coverage of suggested topics, quality of presentation, and questions and answers. Hence, the whole class is engaged in understanding the topic either for making the presentation or for creating conceptual questions. These grades were posted right after the class in the Blackboard’s online grade center to provide quick feedback. The following are key advantages of this approach. (1) Students understand 50–100% about the intended topic during self-reading and while making a presentation or participating in class discussion. (2) Repeating same concepts thrice during a class period and occasionally with instructor’s insights enable deep learning. (3) Students get quick quantitative feedback after each class and qualitative feedback during the class from instructor and peers. (4) This approach allowed coverage of very complex topics. (5) Students improved their communication skills by making coherent presentations and doing class discussion. In the survey, students reflected a higher degree of satisfaction with their learning as compared to instructor’s lecture-based classroom education system. This approach is highly suitable for advanced-level elective courses with small enrollment.
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Low, Jen YF. "Forgiveness Meditation: Mindful Self-Healing." In 7th International Conference on Spirituality and Psychology. Tomorrow People Organization, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52987/icsp.2022.004.
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Abstract Rising like lotus blooms from bloodied war-torn devastation and muddied destitution of war crimes, divided societies and imperialistic ravages of Western colonialism, the two Indochina nations of Vietnam and Cambodia have shown amazing power of resurgence in less than 50 years. In many regional league tables, Vietnam notably, have even pulled ahead to show amazing achievements in GDP and education. What has happened seems like a distant past today. What are the unique cultural roots of this human resilience and socio-economic dynamism? At an individual level, it is not often that post traumatic stress disorder of abused victims show their mental and emotional suffering. One can only note the behavioral signs which impede normal life and block success. Part of this presentation is to share with the audience the clues to help one recognize such indicative signs with the objective of supporting those who are suffering. There is an effective way to uproot the self-blame, anger and hatred associated with suppressed memories and to overcome the submerged negativities in subconscious minds of the afflicted. Forgiveness meditation is a mindful self-healing way of peaceful living, and when paired as an integral part Insight Meditation, the underlying benefits can empower the healed to progress onward to bigger success. Real-life cases of two personalities who have taken different paths to demonstrate the power of mindful living towards human resilience and effective healing in the midst of bleak uncertainties are shared: A. A Cambodian (multiple) noble peace prize nominee who demonstrated not only to his people, but also the world, to seek the only resource where we can find true peace and genuine understanding of truths... in our own hearts. Like many of his compatriots, his entire family, friends and disciples were massacred. A forest monk and meditation master turned peacemaker at the United Nations, he walked step by step bringing forth the spring of hope in the hearts of the shell shocked survivors. Tens of thousands wept as he chants the timeless metta verses of loving kindness and other traditional spiritual chants lost in the unspeakable sorrows of war and ideological conflicts. B. A postwar Vietnamese case study of a globally successful social entrepreneur, she was left to fend for herself aged 16 years after her entire family was killed by foreign powers. Her social enterprise employed the war destitutes, former prostitutes and the disabled to produce quality handicrafts and furniture made from organic resources. Her voice is recorded here to illustrate her maxim of “one must forgive to move on but the painful lessons must never be forgotten” in order to sustain success. Keywords: forgiveness, meditation, self-healing, mindfulness
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Tyagi, Pawan, Wondwosen Demisse, Marzieh Savadkoohi, and Takele Gemeda. "Positive Intelligence Training to Develop Self-Awareness for Enhancing Student Learning Potential During Higher Education." In ASME 2020 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2020-23845.
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Abstract Positive intelligence (PI) training can produce a transformative impact on college students. PI, a branch of human psychology, provides a tool to identify significant compulsive habits that can inhibit students’ learning potential and ability to understand others. This paper discusses the two training methods adopted for teaching graduate and undergraduate students. It is considered that including such training is fundamentally crucial for developing 21st century STEM workforce with a well-rounded personality. However, PI training may consume a significant class time allocated for covering course contents under the degree-specific curriculums. Starting a new course may increase the credit overload beyond the approved BS and graduate credits. This paper discusses introducing different modules in the existing classes to foster PI training. The PI training method for undergraduate students focuses on self-education via online videos and freely available content and self-assessment tests. Undergraduate students were given a set of questions to guide them about the important PI topics and to pay attention while self-learning the PI elements. The PI assignment starts with the familiarization of the Maslow hierarchy of needs governing the motivation behind human actions. This assignment mainly focuses on understanding the “sage” mode in which a human tends to utilize his/her latent and earned skills towards the attainment of goals and living life purposefully. The PI assignment had several questions on self-sabotaging “saboteurs” and judging traits that almost everyone develops as a survival mechanism while facing emotional and physical survival challenges for an extended period. During class discussion, students were exposed to their hidden/invisible saboteurs which could be easily triggered by unrealistic mental threats and thus compromise their learning function and performance. Students were asked to take free online self-assessment saboteur test to find the numerical values of their traits and do self-evaluation and plan to counteract the effect of self-sabotaging habits. PI training fulfills ABET student learning outcomes focusing on developing their life-long learning skills. This paper mainly discusses the PI training for graduate students under the mechanical engineering department. PI training is one of the first and essential modules in the mandatory MECH 500 Research Methods and Technical Communication course. Graduate students enrolled in this course are first introduced to the importance of PI and its potential impact in developing self-efficacy. After the initial introduction, graduate students are asked to do the following (a) Complete the abovementioned assignment given to the undergraduate student, (b) prepare a presentation on PI by including their insights for class discussion. After the PI training, students were asked to reflect on their competence in PI and the ability to apply it. In the survey and direct feedback, students expressed the value and appreciation for the PI training. Students also expressed the need to provide this training to large masses for developing an emotionally mature society of parents, teachers, and students, producing creative, innovative, and emphatic civilization.
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Wang, James H.-C. "Tendon Stem Cells and Platelet-Rich Plasma for Repair of Injured Tendons." In ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2011-53204.
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Tendon injuries, including acute tendon injuries and tendinopathy, are common in both occupational and athletic settings. However, current treatments for tendon injury are largely ineffective, as they cannot restore normal structure and function to injured tendons. This challenge mainly stems from our incomplete understanding of tendon cell properties and responses to biomechanical and biochemical environments surrounding the cells. In recent years, however, significant progress has been made on two fronts. First, tendon stem cells (TSCs) have been recently identified. The tendon-specific stem cells can self-renew and posses multi-differentiation potential and as such, may be used to repair injured tendons more effectively. Second, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has now been widely used in orthopaedics and sports medicine to treat injured tendons. In this presentation, I will present data on TSCs, in terms of their differential properties with respect to tenocytes and their differential mechano-responses when subjected to small and large mechanical loading conditions. I will also discuss the basic scientific studies on PRP regarding its effects on TSCs, particularly on their differentiation, which is a critical issue related to the safety and efficacy of PRP treatment in clinics (Fig. 1).
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Alpert, Erika. "Men and Monsters: Hunting for Love Online in Japan." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.1-2.
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This paper presents the results of initial fieldwork on Online dating (netto-jô konkatsu, koikatsu) and other types of internet-based partner matching options in Japan, focusing on the possibilities for textual and interactional self-representation on different sites and apps available to single Japanese. This includes widespread international apps like Tinder and Grindr, along with local apps like 9 Monsters, a popular gay app that also incorporates light gaming functions, or Zexy En-Musubi, a revolutionarily egalitarian site aimed at heterosexual singles specifically seeking marriage. I approach this question by looking at the different technological affordances for profile creation using these services, and the ways users engage with those affordances to create profiles and to search for partners, based on examinations of websites, apps, and public profiles; interviews with website producers; and ethnographic interviews with past and current users of Online dating services. I primarily argue that self-presentation in Japanese Online dating hinges on the use of polite speech forms towards unknown readers, which have the power to flatten out gendered speech differences that are characteristic of language ideologies in Japan (Nakamura 2007). However, dominant cultural ideas about gender, sexuality, and marriage—such as patriarchal marriage structures—may still be “baked into” the structure of apps (Dalton and Dales 2016). Studying Online dating in Japan is critical because of its growing social acceptance. While in 2008 the only “respectable” site was a Japanese version of Match.com, in 2018 there are numerous sites and apps created by local companies for local sensibilities. Where Online dating was already established, in the West, there was little sociological study of it while it was becoming popular, in part because research on the internet also lacked respectability. By looking at Japan, where acceptance is growing but Online dating has not yet been normalized, we can gain a deeper understanding of its gender, sexuality, romance, and marriage practices. Japan’s experiences can also potentially provide a model for understanding how Online dating practices might develop elsewhere. In the US, Online dating faced many of the stigmas that it continues to face in Japan—such as that it was “sleazy,” “sketchy,” or desperate. In spite of these stigmas, however, Online dating grew slowly until it suddenly exploded (Orr 2004). Will it explode in Japan? By looking at how people use these sites, this paper also hopes to shed light on the uptake of Online partner matching practices.