scholarly journals Text usability test of French braid instructions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 223-234
Author(s):  
Klaudia Bracisiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Usability Test ◽  
Bullet Point ◽  
Continuous Text ◽  
Bold Type

Usable texts should be extremely clear and functional. The present article focuses on instructions as a genre. Using French braid instructions as an example, the author presents how the form and layout of a text influence its usability. To this end an experiment was conducted on a sample of 32 individuals. The subjects received four versions of the same instructions — in the form of continuous text, in the form of continuous text with fragments in bold type, bullet point instructions and bullet point instructions with illustrations. The objective was to compare various forms of instructions (a form of text often used in everyday life, the clarity of which should consequently be as high as possible) in order to test their usability.

scholarly journals Gender discrimination in societal and familial realms: Understanding agency among Chinese marriage migrant women in Switzerland

2021 ◽  
pp. 011719682098159
Author(s):  
Yali Chen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Professional Women ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Leftover Women ◽  
Foreign Wives

To understand the agency of Chinese marriage migrant women in Switzerland in their everyday life, the present article examines the reasons why Chinese women marry European men and their post-migratory life in Switzerland. Based on interviews with Chinese marriage migrant women, the article discusses their gendered representations before migration (as “leftover women” or “divorced women”) to being “foreign wives” after migration to Switzerland. Their migration from China to Switzerland also resulted to a change in their roles from “professional women” to “homemakers.” The gender-related discrimination the women encountered from China to their post-migration life in Switzerland demonstrates a continuum of gender discrimination in which they highly exert their agency that has also been enhanced by acts of resistance.

Representations of Evil in the Novels Miss Christina, The Snake and Isabel and the Devil’s Waters by Mircea Eliade

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Constantin Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
The Fantastic

"Representations of Evil in the Novels Miss Christina, The Snake and Isabel and the Devil’s Waters by Mircea Eliade. The present article analyzes some representations of evil in the novels Miss Christina, The Snake and Isabel and the Devil’s Waters by Mircea Eliade. In particular, we draw attention to the evil that directly refers to the mysterious dimension and, therefore, outlines a perception that exceeds the mundane experience of everyday life. In this sense, the emergence of unfathomable aspects and phenomena can only be explained in an imaginary approach. This type of representation of evil is perceived within the limits of a manifestation of the supernatural, in an unveiling of the evil through ill-fated, Mephistophelean characters or in the potentiation of “heresies” in the folkloric imaginary. The paper aims to examine how this evil, most often related to some almost occult experiences and fueled by local folklore, is capitalized in the fantastic prose of Mircea Eliade. Keywords: mysterious, fantastic, magical, imaginary, representation, evil, devil "

scholarly journals Forensic Fiction and the Normalization of Surveillance

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liv Hausken
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
To Come

Abstract This essay investigates forensic fiction as a trend in televised crime fiction and argues that this trend or subgenre is particularly interesting if we are to understand how surveillance is portrayed in contemporary society. The essay looks particularly into an extremely popular example of forensic fiction, namely CSI and its two spin-offs CSI: NY and CSI: Miami. Through a discussion of the conceptions of knowledge, crime and power, which seem to come forth in the three CSI series, the present article argues that the particular blend of technological optimism, positivism and moralism that can be witnessed in forensic fiction in general, and in CSI in particular, is important to understanding how popular culture lends a certain normalization of surveillance to everyday life

scholarly journals PRINCIPIOS DEL SECTOR COOPERATIVO EN EL MUNICIPIO DE EL ESPINAL (COLOMBIA)

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jairo Hernández Sánchez ◽  
César Augusto Cruz Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Operative Management ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
Research Technique ◽  
Cooperative Principles

El presente artículo es producto de una investigación desarrollada en el sector cooperativo adscrito al municipio de El Espinal, departamento del Tolima (Colombia). El objetivo del estudio consistió en determinar si las entidades del sector cooperativo cumplen efectivamente con la aplicación de los principios del cooperativismo. El tipo de estudio fue exploratorio y descriptivo; en tanto que el método de investigación utilizado fue cuanti-cualitativo, la técnica de investigación fue la encuesta, que se aplicó a los asociados de las diferentes cooperativas. Los resultados mostraron que pocos asociados reciben formación respecto a los principios del cooperativismo y a la gestión cooperativa, situación que dificulta su aplicación eficiente. En conclusión, el sector cooperativo de El Espinal-Tolima requiere fomentar la cultura de formación y apropiación de los principios cooperativos de sus asociados para que sean aprovechados en el quehacer diario. Esto exige a los directivos generar estrategias de divulgación oportunas, que fortalezcan la interiorización y aplicación de la filosofía y principios cooperativos, de manera que se produzca un crecimiento económico y social al interior de la empresa. ABSTRACTThe present article is the result of a research developed in the cooperative sector in the municipality of “El Espinal”, department of Tolima (Colombia). The aim of this study consisted of determining if the entities of the cooperative sector comply with the implementation of cooperative principles. The type of study was exploratory and descriptive; while the research method used was the quantitative-qualitative one; a survey was the research technique applied to the associates of the different co-operatives. The results showed that few associates receive formation with regard toco-operative principles and the co-operative management; this situation makes their application difficult. In conclusion, the co-operative sector in ”El Espinal”, Tolima, needs to promote the culture of formation and appropriation of co-operative principles of its associates for them to be used in everyday life. This demands managers to generate appropriate dissemination strategies, which strengthen the internalization and application of Philosophy and co-operative principles, so that an economic and social growth takes place within the company.

scholarly journals Everyday Life of German Prisoners of War in the Russian Empire during World War I (on the basis of personal documents)

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
С.Р. Повалишникова ◽  
О.В. Захарова
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Eastern Siberia ◽  
World War ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Russian Research

Основной массив современных отечественных исследований направлен на изучение положения русских военнопленных в годы Первой мировой войны. В настоящей статье сделана попытка проанализировать бытовые условия содержания военнопленных, находившихся на территории Российской империи. Эти условия во многом зависели от звания и национальности пленных. В статье делается акцент на источники личного происхождения. Особое внимание уделяется воспоминаниям немецкого генерала Э. Людендорфа, немецкого журналиста А. Курта и находившегося в Восточной Сибири немецкого военнопленного Э. Двингера. The vast majority of modern Russian research is aimed at the investigation of the position of Russian prisoners of war during World War I. The present article attempts to analyze the conditions of everyday life of German prisoners of war who lived in the Russian Empire during World War I. The conditions largely depended on the rank and nationality of prisoners of war. The article analyzes personal documents. It focuses on memoirs written by E. Ludensdorff (German general), A. Kurt (German journalist), who lived in Eastern Siberia, and E. Dwinger (German prisoner of war).

scholarly journals Developing of students diagnostic skills for working with adolescents with deviant behavior as a factor in the ethical principle of objectivity

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
O.R. Busarova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Ethical Principle ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Diagnostic Skills ◽  
Task Model ◽  
Causal Approach ◽  
Diagnostic Work ◽  
Principle Of Objectivity

The aim of the present article was to study the question of do special exercises for the formation of students-psychologists skills determine the causes of deviant behavior of adolescents, based on the provisions of the causal approach in psycho-diagnostics A. F. Anufrieva, the principle of objectivity. The study involved 30 future psychologists. After performing the exercises in the course "Psychodiagnostics" the students solved the task, which simulates diagnostic work of the psychologist with decriminalised teenager with deviant behavior. Students were asked to solve a problem in professional discourse – to put forward hypotheses about the causes of deviant behavior in everyday life is to point out the culprits of the situation. Additionally, students assessed their similarity with the hero of the diagnostic event. The results show that students who have managed to build up diagnostic skills to identify psychological causes of deviant behavior, both professionally and in everyday discourse grappled with the task model, regardless of the number of subjective similarities with her character. Students who have not sufficiently developed diagnostic skills, to avoid bias failed.

Concealing the urban dominant: The socio-spatial dialectic and urban protest in Gonzalo Torrente Ballester’s La saga/fuga de J.B.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Michael L. Martínez, Jr
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Critical Pathway ◽  
Urban Protest ◽  
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

In the post-Fordist world, cities emerged as increasingly contested terrains upon which capital and ordinary citizens struggled to control the urban process. Henri Lefebvre discerned this contestatory dynamic early on and in response developed the ‘urban’, a concept that cleaves a critical pathway towards a host of material, cultural and ideological processes that attach to capitalist modernity. Around the same time, the Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was working to sketch the contours of his magnus opus La saga/fuga de J.B. Torrente would eventually come to recognize the roles that the urban process and the socio-spatial dialectic play in mediating contemporary urban life. The present article thus carries out first a close reading of Torrente’s personal journals to detail the ascendency of the ‘urban dominant’ as a central structuring component of his fictional writings. Thereafter, the critical analysis of La saga/fuga de J.B. will reveal that the ‘urban dominant’ stands concealed at the heart of this notoriously complicated novel. This urban cultural studies reading of La saga/fuga de J.B. will argue that, like Lefebvre, Torrente denounces capital’s static conception of space at the same time that he draws upon historical movements of urban protest for textual inspiration. And what will eventually emerge is that, beyond a master of the metafictional novel, Torrente was also an astute observer of everyday life in the urban context.

Athletic Aggression: An Issue of Contextual Morality

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Jo Bredemeier ◽  
David L. Shields
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Ambiguity ◽  
Social Scientific Research ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Unique Context

The designation of an act as aggressive involves an implicit or explicit moral judgment. Consequently, research on aggression must address the value issues involved. The present article suggests that Haan’s theory of interactional morality can be used to provide a framework for social scientific research into moral issues. Haan’s model, however, must be adapted to the unique context of sport. This study applies the concept of frame analysis as a procedure for clarifying the moral reasoning associated with athletic aggression. In contrast to similar acts in everyday life, moral ambiguity characterizes some sport acts intended to deliver minor noxious stimuli. The label of aggression must be used with caution when designating such acts.

scholarly journals Creativity and Deviance: The Present State of the Issue in Psychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 86-107
Author(s):  
N.V. Meshkova ◽  
S.N. Enikolopov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Present State ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Refined Model ◽  
Deviant Behaviour ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship

Creativity is realised in various types of the criminal and deviant behaviour in almost all the spheres of activity. The interest of psychologists in this phenomenon is growing but the issues of the diagnostics of malevolent creativity (MC), predictors of the realisation of original decisions in the behaviour, and the evaluation and examination of negative creativity (NC) remain unresolved. While the results of the MC harm are clear to both the idea generator and the victim, the results of NC cannot always be assessed and examined due to the absence (or the disguise) of the intent to cause harm. The present article aims at reviewing the results of the research of the relationship between creativity and deviance. We provide a review of the types of deviant behaviour in business, science and everyday life situations and the analysis of its predictors. Based on the analysis of the results of the research of prosocial creativity in various branches of psychology, the authors identify the factors that promote the manifestation and inhibition of the relationship between creativity and deviance, and suggest preventive measures for MC and NC. Predictors of MC and NC, diagnostic methods and problems of expertise are analysed. A refined model of the relationship between creativity and deviance is proposed: the psychological characteristics of the leader and implementers, types of the situations of the MC and NC manifestation are expanded. The following factors are highlighted: a) the resistance to negative innovations; b) the factors that affect the assessment and expertise of both one’s own and other’s creativity and deviance.

The impact of Turkish on the English language – An overview of borrowing in the manifold lexical domains influenced by Turkish over the centuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Julia Landmann
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
English Language ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Oxford English Dictionary ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

The present article sets out to shed light on the Turkish influence on the English vocabulary over the centuries. The results provided by this study rely on a close analysis of a comprehensive lexicographical sample of Turkish borrowings listed in the Oxford English Dictionary Online. This study will provide an overview of the diversity of subject areas and spheres of life influenced by Turkish down the ages, which has as yet been considered little in existing investigations. On the basis of their meanings, the various Turkish-derived items have been grouped into several different semantic domains, ranging from the natural sciences, gastronomy, people and everyday life to faith and religion. A number of typical examples of borrowings will be given, in order to illustrate the impact of Turkish on the English lexicon from a historical point of view.

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