Contributions of Mummy Science to Public Perception of the Past

2018 ◽  
pp. 257-282
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Nystrom
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals Trends in Patient, Physician, and Public Perception of Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction Using Social Media Analytics

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 232596712199005
Author(s):  
Jonathan S. Yu ◽  
James B. Carr ◽  
Jacob Thomas ◽  
Julianna Kostas ◽  
Zhaorui Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Ulnar Collateral Ligament ◽  
Return To Play ◽  
Social Media Analytics ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Collateral Ligament ◽  
The Past ◽  
Positive Sentiment ◽  
Negative Sentiment

Background: Social media posts regarding ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) injuries and reconstruction surgeries have increased in recent years. Purpose: To analyze posts shared on Instagram and Twitter referencing UCL injuries and reconstruction surgeries to evaluate public perception and any trends in perception over the past 3 years. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Methods: A search of a 3-year period (August 2016 and August 2019) of public Instagram and Twitter posts was performed. We searched for >22 hashtags and search terms, including #TommyJohn, #TommyJohnSurgery, and #tornUCL. A categorical classification system was used to assess the sentiment, media format, perspective, timing, accuracy, and general content of each post. Post popularity was measured by number of likes and comments. Results: A total of 3119 Instagram posts and 267 Twitter posts were included in the analysis. Of the 3119 Instagram posts analyzed, 34% were from patients, and 28% were from providers. Of the 267 Twitter posts analyzed, 42% were from patients, and 16% were from providers. Although the majority of social media posts were of a positive sentiment, over the past 3 years, there was a major surge in negative sentiment posts (97% increase) versus positive sentiment posts (9% increase). Patients were more likely to focus their posts on rehabilitation, return to play, and activities of daily living. Providers tended to focus their posts on education, rehabilitation, and injury prevention. Patient posts declined over the past 3 years (–28%), whereas provider posts increased substantially (110%). Of posts shared by health care providers, 4% of posts contained inaccurate or misleading information. Conclusion: The majority of patients who post about their UCL injury and reconstruction on social media have a positive sentiment when discussing their procedure. However, negative sentiment posts have increased significantly over the past 3 years. Patient content revolves around rehabilitation and return to play. Although patient posts have declined over the past 3 years, provider posts have increased substantially with an emphasis on education.

scholarly journals The brain seduction: the public perception of neuroscience

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. L01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donato Ramani
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Letter ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Brain

The increasing number of magazine covers dedicated to brain studies and the success of magazines and scientific journals entirely dedicated to brain and mind indicate a strong interest on these themes. This interest is clearly surpassing the boundaries of scientific and medical researches and applications and underlines an engagement of the general public, too. This phenomenon appears to be enhanced by the increasing number of basic researches focusing on non-health-related fMRI studies, investigating aspects of personality as emotions, will, personal values and beliefs, self-identity and behaviour. The broad coverage by the media raises some central questions related to the complexity of researches, the intrinsic limits of these technologies, the results’ interpretative boundaries, factors which are crucial to properly understand the studies’ value. In case of an incomplete communication, if those fundamental interpretative elements are not well understood, we could register a misinterpretation in the public perception of the studies that opens new compelling questions. As already observed in the past debates on science and technologies applications, in this case, too, we assist to a communicative problem that set against scientific community on one side and media, on the other. Focusing our attention, in particular, on the debate on fMRI, taken as a good model, in the present letter we will investigate the most interesting aspects of the current discussion on neuroscience and neuroscience public perception. This analysis was performed as one of the bid - brains in dialogue - activities (www.neuromedia.eu). bid is a three year project supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Program and coordinated by Sissa, the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste, aimed at fostering dialogue between science and society on the new challenges coming from neuroscience.

NINETY FIRST IN NINETY THIRD. THE TWO YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF THE EVENTS OF AUGUST 1991 IN THE PRESS DURING THE 1993 CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: BASED ON MATERIALS FROM PRAVDA, IZVESTIA, NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Anastasiya G. Gotovtseva ◽  
◽  
Tatyana V. Skokova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Current Field ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Future ◽  
Memorable Date

This article is devoted to the featuring the anniversary of the 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt on the pages of newspapers in 1993. The events of August 1991 did not disappear from the current field and were used both for the propaganda and for comprehending the past and forecasts for the future. The fact that a few months before the memorable date the trial of those arrested in the SCSE case began served to refresh the events in the public perception, and just a couple of weeks before that, an abridged version of the indictment was published in public sources.

scholarly journals The Past Is Male

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique H. van den Dries ◽  
Miyuki Kerkhof
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Popular Books

ABSTRACTQuantitative analyses of how the past and archaeological professionals are being depicted in, for example, exhibitions and popular books offer valuable—and sometimes confronting—insights about how presentation practices continue to reflect gender stereotypes. It turns out that very often archaeology and the archaeological past are still almost exclusively associated with males and masculine activities. This, of course, distorts the truth about what actually happened in past societies. It also raises the questions of whether or not such biases have an influence on public participation in archaeology and if they may hinder the sector's ambition to foster inclusivity. In this article, we will share some of the preliminary results of an ongoing systematic evaluation of presentation practice in Dutch archaeology and on the public perception of gender stereotypes in the past.

scholarly journals Rubber agroforestry system in Indonesia: Past, present, and future practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 305 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
D.S. Agustina ◽  
Fetrina Oktavia
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Agroforestry System ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
The Past ◽  
Innovative Solutions

Indonesia is the second largest rubber producing country after Thailand. The area of rubber in 2018 was about 3.7 million hectares with the total production of 3.6 million tons. Among those areas, 88.13% were owned by smallholders, and the rest belongs to private estate (5.16%) and government estate (6.7%). Productivity is still become the problem at smallholders’ level. Some efforts have been conducted in order to improve the productivity of smallholders. The concept of agroforestry has become increasingly relevant in recent days as they introduced new commercial opportunities to smallholders. Agroforestry, with its multiple environmental and economic benefits, can help the agriculture and forestry sectors find innovative solutions to present-day problems: including low profitability, environmental impacts, and negative public perception This paper presents the implementation of rubber agroforestry system at the smallholders’ level since the past, current situation and future scenario for agroforestry in order to support the sustainability of rubber smallholders.

scholarly journals Canadians’ perspectives on how much space nature needs

FACETS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela A. Wright ◽  
Farhad Moghimehfar ◽  
Alison Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conservation Targets ◽  
New Finding

Determining how much to set aside in a system of protected areas has been widely discussed. In the past, targets that have been set internationally and domestically are best described as politically driven. In recent years, there has been a call to shift towards evidence-based targets for conservation. One element that has been largely missing from this dialogue is public perception of how much to protect. We conducted an online, regionally balanced survey of just over 2000 Canadians to ask about their values for protected areas, including how much they thought was currently and should be protected. Overall, Canadians overwhelmingly agree that protected areas are necessary and think that approximately 50% of land and sea should be protected in Canada and globally. Nation-wide support for a significant increase in the amount of land/sea protected is a new finding in Canada, although consistent with applications of the same survey in other countries. As the timeline for achieving the current 2020 protected area targets approaches, countries are beginning to discuss what targets to set for the next decade. Our findings demonstrate strong public support for significantly scaling up Canada’s conservation targets, consistent with ecological evidence.

Feminist archaeologies and gender studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Esther Fries ◽  
Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Archaeology ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This chapter discusses the influence of feminist theories on theory construction, self-conception, and the public perception of archaeology and its various sub-disciplines. The theoretical foundations of gender archaeology are also considered. As there are many feminist theories as well as archaeologies, the chapter also summarizes what can be described as broad sets of overlaps, and to an extent simplifies the variety of different points of view. Feminist criticism as well as new questions, models, and methods based on it reached archaeology in the 1980s, later than the other humanities. Initial efforts could be classified as women’s studies that mostly aimed to balance a male-biased view of the past by adding a female view to it. Since the 1990s, the term ‘gender’ with its various aspects is the focus of discussion. The number, convertibility, and history of genders are also important topics. In addition, feminist archaeology focuses on archaeology’s own institutions, their social rules, their language, and their image, which are also linked to the gender expectations of the surrounding society. These aspects are also connected to the way images of the past are presented to the public, and which effects they have on gender discourses.

scholarly journals Food allergy: Mechanisms, diagnosis, and management

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Sowmya Arudi Nagarajan ◽  
Harsha Neramballi Subba Rao
Keyword(s):  
Food Allergy ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Early Introduction ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
True Prevalence ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Developed World ◽  
India And China

Food allergy (FA) is a dynamic field. It is not only evolving but also increasing in the prevalence and incidence all over the world. The term “Food allergy” is often misused, not only by patients, their families but also by health professionals. All adverse food reactions are erroneously labeled as “Food allergy.” This has to be recognized and avoided to make a proper evaluation, diagnosis and management. Surveys have shown that the prevalence of FA based on public perception runs as high as 60%, whereas the true prevalence is around is around 2–8%. FA is more common in early childhood days (6–8%) compared to adults (1–2%). There are several known and unknown reasons for changing picture of FA across the globe. In the developed world, the peanut sensitivity has doubled in prevalence over the past decade. In the developing world (namely, India, and China), the prevalence of Peanut sensitivity/allergy is much less, although the consumption of Peanuts is much higher. Lately, it has also been observed that early introduction of so called “allergenic foods” to infants and children early in life seems to actually reduce the incidence of allergies developing later in childhood.

scholarly journals Problems of introducing unmanned vessels on the basis of statistical studies of emergencies and ship losses

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
А.И. Епихин ◽  
М.А. Модина
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Shipping Industry ◽  
Cyber Terrorism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Statistical Studies

В статье проведено статистическое исследование, посвященное анализу аварийных ситуаций с судами мирового флота валовой вместимостью более 100 брутто-регистровых тонн на море на основе ряда информационных источников, таких как отчеты регистра Ллойда и статистика страхового общества Ллойда, национальных статистических данных, статистики международных морских организаций, статистики природоохранных организаций и прочих источников. Были рассмотрены: распределение аварий по годам, отражены причины потери судов, отдельно выделена статистика по аварийности в полярных широтах. Полученные результаты показывают, что если безэкипажные суда будут введены в эксплуатацию в соответствии с уровнем автономности 5 (с развитием технологий искусственного интеллекта), мы сможем ожидать меньшего количества типичных морских аварий, связанных с «человеческим фактором», однако, нет никаких предпосылок ожидать, что последствия потенциальной аварии будут ниже наблюдаемых. В настоящее время оценка безопасности не учитывает такие немаловажные факторы, которые не возникали в судоходной отрасли в прошлом - такие как киберпиратство или кибертерроризм. А он может быть источником более разрушительных последствий, которые существенно повлияют на безопасность мореплавания автономных судов и восприятие их общественностью. Опираясь на результаты анализа статистических данных, и оперируя к научным изысканиям в этой области, перспектива замены грузовых судов торгового флота с экипажами на борту на полностью автономные суда достаточно проблематична на данном этапе технологий, но с каждым годом научные изыскания развивают эту отрасль, стараясь учитывать все недостатки и возможные риски. The article presents a statistical study devoted to the analysis of emergencies with ships of the world fleet with a gross tonnage of more than 100 gross register tons at sea based on a number of information sources, such as Lloyd's Register reports and Lloyd's Insurance Society statistics, national statistics, statistics of international maritime organizations, statistics of environmental organizations and other sources. The following were considered: the distribution of accidents by year, the reasons for the loss of ships were reflected, statistics on accidents in polar latitudes were separately highlighted. The results obtained show that if unmanned vessels are put into operation in accordance with autonomy level 5 (with the development of artificial intelligence technologies), we can expect fewer typical maritime accidents associated with the "human factor", however, there is no reason to expect that the consequences of a potential accident will be lower than those observed. Currently, the safety assessment does not take into account such important factors that did not arise in the shipping industry in the past, such as cyber piracy or cyber terrorism. And it can be a source of more devastating consequences that will significantly affect the safety of navigation of autonomous vessels and their public perception. Based on the results of the analysis of statistical data, and operating on scientific research in this area, the prospect of replacing cargo ships of the merchant fleet with crews on board with fully autonomous vessels is quite problematic at this stage of technology, but every year scientific research develops this industry, trying to take into account all disadvantages and possible risks.

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