A Sense of Danger in the Air

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. ec169-ec169
Author(s):  
S. J. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Danger

A Sense of ‘Danger’ for Windows Processes

2009 ◽  
pp. 220-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Manzoor ◽  
M. Zubair Shafiq ◽  
S. Momina Tabish ◽  
Muddassar Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Danger

Sartre and Beauvoir

Traces of War ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Colin Davis
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Danger

Sartre and Beauvoir have been accused of having a rather easy Occupation, cementing their literary and intellectual careers and pursuing their sexual conquests. They certainly wrote a great deal. This chapter discusses their works written during and about the war, and considers the curious absence of a sense of danger or trauma which these texts suggest. There are nevertheless signs of a more traumatized, problematic experience underlying their deceptively calm texts.

The Purity of Dirt: Revisiting Mary Douglas in the Light of Contemporary Consumer Interpretations of Naturalness, Purity and Dirt

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 003803852093498
Author(s):  
Kia Ditlevsen ◽  
Sidse Schoubye Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Consumption Choices ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Sense Of Danger ◽  
Contemporary Interpretation

Food consumption and risks associated with it have changed substantially since the 1960s, yet the interpretation and conceptualization of ‘purity and danger’ have not evolved very much since Mary Douglas’ seminal work on the topic. In this study, we present an empirically based contemporary interpretation of purity and danger in relation to the consumption of food, dietary supplements and health-related everyday routines. Drawing on qualitative interviews from two recent Danish research projects, both situated within the field of consumption, we find that consumption choices are motivated by a (diffuse) sense of danger and anxiety about bodily contamination, resulting in a striving for purity. But in contrast with what was observed by Douglas in the 1960s, today’s purification strategies do not stress hygiene and sterility. Instead they focus on naturalness, even though ‘natural’ products are known to incorporate objectively dirty and non-sterile elements.

scholarly journals Climate and Ties in Workplace versus Sense of Danger and Stress, Based on Empirical Research in the Aviation Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5302
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Dobrowolska ◽  
Magdalena Ślazyk-Sobol ◽  
Maria Flakus ◽  
Agnieszka Deja
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Environment ◽  
Sense Of Danger

The climate of the workplace, as well as the issues of relations and ties in the professional environment have long aroused considerable interest among psychologists and management practitioners. The organizational climate, which is defined as a set of beliefs about the organization, its relations, the atmosphere of the workplace, circulation of communication, development opportunities, etc., has often been associated with well-being and job satisfaction. Performing work related to numerous stress factors and difficult situations may significantly affect how both the professional environment and employees’ well-being are perceived. Many empirical studies concerning work psychology and organization, including the works of Rosenstiel and Boegel, Gonzales-Roma, Peiro, Schneider and Earhart underline the importance of the organization climate in the construction of efficient and effectively functioning organizations. One of its important aspects is the level of social relationships and cooperation within an organization. Ties in the workplace are defined as the quality and depth of relations between members of an organization. Studies presented in this paper are of an exploratory nature due to the sector specificity, i.e., aviation and provision of services related to ground control operations. The aim of the empirical research presented herein is to verify the assumption about mutual relations between such variables as the perceived climate of the workplace and interpersonal bonds, as well as experiencing negative emotional states, such as the sense of danger and stress. The psychological literature suggests that low evaluation of the organizational climate parameters should be related to worse, more negative evaluation of the workplace and that the dissatisfaction within the scope of ties and relations with employees affects the perception of stress and threat. In the course of the study, 326 persons working at Pyrzowice and Szymany (Poland) and Kosice (Slovakia) have been examined. Polish employees dominated in this group (250 persons). The remaining group was constituted of individuals working at the Kosice (Slovakia) airport. The respondents represent a specific professional group. The authors tried to learn the specificity of the stress and threat experiencing process due to organizational variables—such as aspects related to evaluation of the workplace and the feeling of ties. To achieve this goal, in the course of statistical analyses, models were built to predict the sense of danger and stress among the surveyed population. A hierarchical regression analysis was carried out in order to determine which of the variables allow predicting the sense of danger and stress in the examined occupational group. The results showed that the higher sense of threat was predicted by the less positive views about the workload, the social support and by the higher ratings of ties in the workplace. In this model, the statistically significant predictors of the sense of threat were the perception of workload (β = − 0.184; s.e. = 0.29; t = −3.297; p < 0.001), the social support (β = − 0.272; s.e. = 0.52; t = −3.916; p < 0.001) and ties in the workplace (β = 0.115; s.e. = 0.51; t = 2.162; p = 0.031). Additionally, the higher level of sense of stress was predicted by the less positive views about the workload, fair play and by the higher sense of threat. The final model explained 12% of all variability regarding the sense of stress (R2 = 0.115; F [8, 317] = 5.122; p < 0.001). In this model, the statistically significant predictors of the sense of stress were the workload (β = − 0.120; s.e. = 0.11; t = −2.079; p = 0.038), sense of justice (β = 0.160; s.e. = 0.20; t = 1.965; p < 0.001) and the sense of threat (β = 0.219; s.e. = 0.02; t = 3.859; p < 0.001). The interest in employees from the aviation sector stems from the lack of empirical data on how people working in this industry function psychologically. This branch of industry is currently developing extremely dynamically and is expected to evolve even more in the wake of the industrial revolution 4.0. Work in the field of modern industry 4.0 forces the employees to acquire many important competencies related to managing new, automated working conditions. As suggested by some authors (Popkova, 2019; Neufeind, 2018), in the light of the 4.0 revolution, one must assume that both the requirements of the work environment and reactions and behavior of employees will differ from the more typical and stable organizational conditions. Meanwhile, in the light of automation and specificity of the industry in question, not much attention is paid to human resources, who—while cooperating in various teams (organic and inorganic)—experience various challenges, as well as difficulties resulting from their professional work.

Reminiscences and discoveries: The British 3-inch anti-aircraft rocket. Part one: Dive-bombers

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-239
Keyword(s):  
Red Hair ◽  
Norwegian Fjord ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Sense Of Danger ◽  
Member Of Parliament

In 1940 Duncan Sandys, aged 32, was already a Member of Parliament, and had piloted himself all over Russia in his own small biplane. He had resigned from the Foreign Office because they had misread the dangers of Hitler, and had become Winston Churchill’s son-in-law. He was tall, broad-shouldered and, with his red hair, exceptionally good-looking. He was forceful and extremely able. He could be very persuasive but, if he thought he was being unreasonably thwarted, ruthless. He had little sense of danger, be it physical or of any other person. He had independent means. To his friends he was loyal and generous to a fault. He had joined the Territorial Army as a second lieutenant in a Royal Artillery anti-aircraft regiment. He had his first experience of real soldiering in May 1940 when the four-gun site he commanded on the bank of a Norwegian Fjord suffered heavy bombing. For the part he played in the subsequent evacuation he was recommended for immediate promotion to major.

scholarly journals Female Mucopolysaccharidosis IIIA Mice Exhibit Hyperactivity and a Reduced Sense of Danger in the Open Field Test

PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. e25717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Langford-Smith ◽  
Kia J. Langford-Smith ◽  
Simon A. Jones ◽  
Robert F. Wynn ◽  
J. E. Wraith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Field ◽  
Field Test ◽  
Open Field Test ◽  
Sense Of Danger

An innate sense of danger

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polly Matzinger
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Danger

Interpreting Davidson

Dialogue ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-572
Author(s):  
Bjørn T. Ramberg
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Donald Davidson ◽  
Hermeneutic Circle ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Sense Of Danger ◽  
Emerging Pattern

To approach the philosophical anthropology (p. 4) of Donald Davidson is to get ready for an unusually high number of laps around the hermeneutic circle. Apparently a problem-oriented philosopher, Davidson presents his views in a continuing series of dense, tightly focussed papers on narrowly circumscribed topics. The lines of the big picture are mostly implicit. Yet it is the scope and the power of this picture that has made Davidson one of the most significant philosophers of this century. Naturally, this makes Davidson's work an extremely tempting—and extremely treacherous—target for the exegete with synthesizing tendencies. Until now, the sense of danger seems to have won out; secondary expositions have largely confined themselves to particular aspects of his thought. For those seeking to appreciate the cohesion and comprehensiveness of Davidson's vision, there has been no alternative but, as Ted Honderich says, to “struggle and learn,” working their way through Davidson's papers, continually calibrating and recalibrating interpretations of Davidson's detailed philosophical proposals with the emerging pattern of their interrelationships.

Are trees and shrubs unsafe hiding places? Impact of plant forms on the perception of danger in urban green spaces in crime hot spots

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Lis ◽  
Łukasz Pardela ◽  
Paweł Iwankowski ◽  
Antal Haans
Keyword(s):  
Urban Parks ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Perceived Danger ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Sense Of Danger ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Trees And Shrubs

Urban parks and forests are important for wellbeing, but feelings of unsafety limited their usage. Removal of vegetation from hotspots of fear is sometimes recommended as a means of boosting safety. However such actions should be approached with caution. One explanation, based on prospect-refuge theory, is that plants increase perceptions of danger because of their contribution to a setting’s effectiveness in concealing criminals. It is also believed that people do not like urban green spaces parks containing trees and shrubs that can act as hiding places because of the sense of danger that this vegetation evokes. To test this explanation, participants rated 57 photos of urban parks and forest parks settings park settings on perceived danger, effectiveness of concealment, and landscape preference. In addition, the effectiveness of concealment in the photos was measured assuming that the value of this variable is expressed by the percentage of the pixels occupied by trees and shrubs offering concealment in a photograph. Results confirmed that concealment and danger are highly correlated mediation analysis confirmed that the impact of concealment on preferences can be explained by perceived danger. When the danger was controlled, the efficiency of concealment had no influence on preferences.

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