scholarly journals Does Exposure to Animal Cognition Research Influence the Zoo Visitor Experience?

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-618
Author(s):  
Bonnie M. Perdue ◽  
Bailea Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Animal Cognition ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Visitor Experience ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Visitor Behavior ◽  
Attitudes Towards Technology ◽  
Stay Time ◽  
Public Perspective ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge

Zoos average about 183 million visitors per year, which makes them a major source for educating the public due to the diverse and wide-ranging demographic that visit. Zoos are increasingly a source of scientific research in a variety of subfields, including animal cognition, although much of this research takes place behind the scenes. Bringing this research to the public perspective has the potential to increase engagement of zoo visitors. However, it is not always possible to show live research, but videos have been found to be an effective educational approach in other domains. Here, we presented a brief video illustrating cognitive research involving sun bears at Zoo Atlanta to determine the potential effect on visitors. We measured several aspects of visitor behavior (stay time and actual behaviors in the exhibit), attitudes (towards both animal research and educational technology), and knowledge gained at the exhibit. We also presented a control video that focused on sun bear enrichment to tease out whether potential effects on visitors were related to the research focus of the video, or merely an effect of a video playing in the exhibit space. Visitor behavior, attitudes, and knowledge were determined by observing a randomly selected visitor’s behavior throughout their time in the exhibit space, and then requesting completion of a survey when they exited the exhibit (N = 148). We compared various aspects of behavior, attitudes, and knowledge across the Scientific Video, Enrichment Video, and No Video conditions. There were no differences between the Scientific Video and the Enrichment Video conditions; however, some differences were found between visitors who experienced a video during their visit (scientific or enrichment video) versus those who did not. Attitudes towards technology in the exhibit space were generally positive. There was also a significant correlation between visitor stay time (overall time spent in the exhibit space) and knowledge gained. Visitors learning about research in zoos remains important, but it is unclear if a video is a sufficient means to share that information.

The Surgical Elimination of Violence? Conflicting Attitudes towards Technology and Science during the Psychosurgery Controversy of the 1970s

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian P. Casey
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Activists ◽  
Attitudes Towards Technology ◽  
Brain Operations ◽  
The One ◽  
Psychiatric Establishment

ArgumentIn the 1970s a public controversy erupted over the proposed use of brain operations to curtail violent behavior. Civil libertarians, civil rights and community activists, leaders of the anti-psychiatry movement, and some U.S. Congressmen charged psychosurgeons and the National Institute of Mental Health, with furthering a political project: the suppression of dissent. Several government-sponsored investigations into psychosurgery rebutted this charge and led to an official qualified endorsement of the practice while calling attention to the need for more “scientific” understanding and better ethical safeguards. This paper argues that the psychosurgery debate of the 1970s was more than a power struggle between members of the public and the psychiatric establishment. The debate represented a clash between a postmodern skepticism about science and renewed focus on ultimate ends, on the one hand, and a modern faith in standards and procedures, a preoccupation with means, on the other. These diverging commitments made the dispute ultimately irresolvable.

scholarly journals Discurso y resistencia: la cultura de la deportación de los migrantes mexicanos

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez ◽  
Guillermo Hernández Orozco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Methodological Strategy

It was sought to know the meaning of deportation for Mexicans who were returned from the United States in the last decade, based on their ideas, attitudes, and beliefs, from the educational approach and the analysis of content as a methodological strategy. Empirical material consisted of 25 digital narratives from the public archive “Humanizing Deportation,” six in-depth interviews conducted between 2016 and 2017 in Tijuana, Baja California, and five historical testimonies located in bibliographic sources. Findings show that post-deportation irregular re-emigration underlines a political behavior of resistance that suggests the existence of a culture of deportation, which differs from the culture of migration and the culture of clandestine border crossing, even though the current penalty for illegal reentry has inhibited or postponed these practices.

scholarly journals Code-Switching on Advertisement: A Case of Food Advertisements in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Eugenie Mainake
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bilingual Speakers ◽  
Food Advertisements ◽  
Public Perspective ◽  
Tv Commercials ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

Code-switching is a natural linguistic phenomenon for individuals who understand and use two or more languages interchangeably. Grosjean (2010) argues that code-switching will likely occur to bilingual speakers’ speech. Hoffman (1991) confirms that a code-switching is a form of speech creativity of bilinguals. Recently, studies have shown that code-switching is also found on TV commercials in some multilingual countries. In Indonesia alone, Da Silva (2014) has investigated the frequency of English words in Indonesian TV advertisements and Sintya’s (2017) study also disseminated products whose advertisements were Indonesian-English code-switching. The present study further explored particular ads, food products for code-switching, and the types of code-switching used. The findings revealed Indonesian-English switches and demonstrated intra-sentential switching as the dominantly used switch in the advertisements. The study proposed to investigate the public perspective on such code-switching and the impacts towards the public interest of purchasing the products. Lastly, the author finds it important to view the

scholarly journals Giving and Receiving: A Case Study of the Stowaways Exhibit in Blood, Earth Fire - Whāngai, Whenua Ahi Kā at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lynne Carmichael Allan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Visitor Experience ◽  
Visitor Studies ◽  
Museum Exhibit ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual

<p>The role that the physical environment of an exhibition plays in the visitor's experience of a museum is a topic that, though increasingly acknowledged in museum studies, has not yet received detailed attention from researchers. The interaction of exhibitor and visitor, in and through exhibitions, can be situated in the wider context of the recent paradigm shirt within museum practice, towards communication with the public and developments in museum theory, which consider the qualitative aspects of the visitor experience as an active dialogue, conversation or a process of meaning-making. This dissertation examines the interactive exhibit Stowaways in the permanent exhibition, Blood, Earth, Fire - Whāngai, Whenua, Ahi Kā, at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. It considers the question 'How does the physical environment affect the meanings that the visitor makes in and after visiting the exhibition?' The study builds on existing New Zealand research, which questioned the gap between exhibition creation and visitor reception. A theoretical framework was constructed from relevant strands of the literature of museum studies, visitor studies and exhibition design. A qualitative approach was employed, in order to examine in detail both the exhibition development process and then how the visitor responded to the exhibition. Several methods were used to conduct the research, such as archival research and interviews with both the museum staff and seven visitors, who came with their families to the exhibit. The findings provide interesting evidence of the complex and deep affect that the built exhibition space can have on the visitor, not just at the time of the visit but long afterwards. This was an affect that rippled out from the individual to their family group and everyday life. This dissertation makes a small but significant contribution to museum studies in New Zealand, through an integrated examination of the production and reception of a museum exhibit, from the perspective of both the visitor and the museum. One of the main conclusions was to re-iterate the important role of exhibition evaluation in facilitating a more complete communication between museum and visitor, by allowing museum professionals to build on the experience of the development process in a way that can inform future practice.</p>

The Public Perspective: Should Health Insurance Cover IVF for Cancer Patients?

2012 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. S11
Author(s):  
Evelyn Mok-Lin ◽  
Stacey Missmer ◽  
Katharine Correia ◽  
Lisa S. Lehmann ◽  
Elizabeth S. Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
The Public ◽  
Insurance Cover ◽  
Public Perspective

scholarly journals Promoting healthy dietary behaviour through personalised nutrition: technology push or technology pull?

2014 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Stewart-Knox ◽  
Audrey Rankin ◽  
Sharron Kuznesof ◽  
Rui Poínhos ◽  
Maria Daniel Vaz de Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Dietary Behaviour ◽  
Personalised Nutrition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
Public Perspective ◽  
Dietary Behaviour Change ◽  
The Eu

The notion of educating the public through generic healthy eating messages has pervaded dietary health promotion efforts over the years and continues to do so through various media, despite little evidence for any enduring impact upon eating behaviour. There is growing evidence, however, that tailored interventions such as those that could be delivered online can be effective in bringing about healthy dietary behaviour change. The present paper brings together evidence from qualitative and quantitative studies that have considered the public perspective of genomics, nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition, including those conducted as part of the EU-funded Food4Me project. Such studies have consistently indicated that although the public hold positive views about nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition, they have reservations about the service providers’ ability to ensure the secure handling of health data. Technological innovation has driven the concept of personalised nutrition forward and now a further technological leap is required to ensure the privacy of online service delivery systems and to protect data gathered in the process of designing personalised nutrition therapies.

‘What the public values...’ The stakeholder-oriented business model approach as a tool for planning and managing innovation in public and nonprofit management – A qualitative inquiry into public value creation in German healthcare

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-33
Author(s):  
Matti Znotka ◽  
Florian Brandt ◽  
Jörg Lindenmeier ◽  
Martin Dietrich
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Nonprofit Management ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Public Perspective ◽  
Model Approach

In democratic environments, the integration of the public perspective is vital to the continuous legitimization and acceptance of publicly managed systems, as it justifies the organizations’ existence for the stakeholders who provide the financial support. An integration of the public perspective in the design of innovative business models requires an identification of citizens’ values to enable public managers and entrepreneurs to ascertain if their decisions have the potential to create value according to the public will. As healthcare in Germany is largely funded by the public, we asked the German public about crucial values in healthcare. Three value dimensions, ‘proper organization’, ‘skilled treatment’ and ‘social principles’, consisting of nine value categories, could be identified as potential guidelines.

Technology-Driven Revolutions in Military Affairs

Vulcan ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Azriel Lorber
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Unmanned Vehicles ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Chemical And Biological Weapons ◽  
Military Affair

Abstract The term Revolutions in Military Affair (rma) was originally coined by the Soviets realizing that the US planned to utilize electronics and computers to improve both its weapons and battle management. Other such revolutions were caused by the emergence of aircraft, submarines, mechanized warfare, precision-guided munitions (pgms), unmanned vehicles and Net-Centric-Warfare. Beside its effect on fighting, military technology also affects the public and its leadership. Several technological developments, such as rockets and drones, cyberwarfare, and homemade explosives and chemical and biological weapons, are already changing current concepts and conduct of warfare through their direct effect on warfighting and by their potential effect on the public and its leadership. Consequently, rmas should be analyzed in terms of the linkages between the rear, where chaos can be created, and the front, where the armed forces typically operate.

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