“AT THE BEGINNING AND AT THE END OF TIMES” BY PAVLO ARIE: INTERMEDIATIVE ASPECT OF COMPREHENSION

LITERARY PROCESS methodology names trends ◽

10.28925/2412-2475.2019.1317 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Larysa Gorbolis

Keyword(s):

Facial Expressions ◽

Mental State ◽

Semantic Content ◽

General Concept ◽

Spiritual Life ◽

Difficult Situations

The article, based on the play «At the Beginning and At the End of Times» by the contemporary Ukrainian playwright Pavlo Arie and the performance of Lviv Lesia Ukrainka Academic Drama Theatку, directed by Oleksiy Kravchuk, ascertains the expedience to use an intermedial approach to find out the features of architectonics, genre originality, the role of the title, dedication, remarks, chronotope in the literary and stage modelling of the heroes, reflection of the general concept of works, visualization of the ideological and thematic direction. It studied the significance of remarks, details, scenery, music and video for disclosing the conflict of work, reflecting the character and the mental state of heroes. Vertical-horizontal coordinates of the material and spiritual life of the characters are described and analysed. The semantic content of the work, the author’s and director’s accents are oriented not only to the person, but also to the culture that is perished. The play heroes are in difficult situations of choice, searching for themselves, rethinking values. Working on the images and problems, P. Arie, O. Kravchuk skilfully conveyed the volatility of mood, a complex body of hero experiences, appealing to the audience’s feelings. With the help of music, details, colours, sounds, emotions, facial expressions, movements the director, artist and actors emphasize the characters at all levels of stage realization.

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Wiser Reasoning and Less Disgust Have the Potential to Better Achieve Suicide Prevention

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000709 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Chao S. Hu ◽

Jiajia Ji ◽

Jinhao Huang ◽

Zhe Feng ◽

Dong Xie ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Suicide Prevention ◽

Cause Of Death ◽

Facial Expressions ◽

Emotional Reaction ◽

Suicide Method ◽

University Teachers ◽

Advice Giving ◽

Prevention Techniques

Abstract. Background: High school and university teachers need to advise students against attempting suicide, the second leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds. Aims: To investigate the role of reasoning and emotion in advising against suicide. Method: We conducted a study with 130 students at a university that specializes in teachers' education. Participants sat in front of a camera, videotaping their advising against suicide. Three raters scored their transcribed advice on "wise reasoning" (i.e., expert forms of reasoning: considering a variety of conditions, awareness of the limitation of one's knowledge, taking others' perspectives). Four registered psychologists experienced in suicide prevention techniques rated the transcripts on the potential for suicide prevention. Finally, using the software Facereader 7.1, we analyzed participants' micro-facial expressions during advice-giving. Results: Wiser reasoning and less disgust predicted higher potential for suicide prevention. Moreover, higher potential for suicide prevention was associated with more surprise. Limitations: The actual efficacy of suicide prevention was not assessed. Conclusion: Wise reasoning and counter-stereotypic ideas that trigger surprise probably contribute to the potential for suicide prevention. This advising paradigm may help train teachers in advising students against suicide, measuring wise reasoning, and monitoring a harmful emotional reaction, that is, disgust.

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Ivan Ozhienko about the role of religion in Ukrainian national life

Ukrainian Religious Studies ◽

10.32420/2001.19.1163 ◽

2001 ◽

pp. 54-61

Author(s):

K. Nedzelsky

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Spiritual Life ◽

Human Soul ◽

National Unity ◽

Terrestrial Life ◽

Dedicated Service ◽

National Life ◽

Role Of Religion ◽

Spiritual Unity

Ivan Ogienko (1882-1972), also known as Metropolitan Hilarion, devoted much attention to the role and place of religion in the national life of Ukrainians and their ethnic identity in their scholarly and theological works. Without exaggeration it can be argued that the problem of national unity of the Ukrainian people is one of the key principles of all historiosophical considerations of the famous scholar and theologian. If the purpose of the spiritual life of a Ukrainian, according to his views, is to serve God, then the purpose of state or terrestrial life is the dedicated service to his people. The purpose of heaven and the purpose of the earthly paths, intersecting in the life of a certain group of people through the lives of its individual representatives, give rise to a unique alliance of spiritual unity, the name of which is "people" or "nation." Religion (faith) in the process of transforming the anarchist crowd into a spiritually integrated and orderly national integrity serves as the transformer of the imperfect nature of the human soul into perfect.

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THE ROLE OF METAPHOR IN HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE

Cultural code ◽

10.36945/2658-3852-2020-3-30-37 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 30-37

Author(s):

MARIYA PETROVNA LAPTEVA ◽

Keyword(s):

Semantic Content ◽

Cognitive Significance ◽

Historical Knowledge ◽

Positive Sense

The article continues the author's series of publications on the terminological apparatus of the historian. The problems of humanitarian science cannot have "final solutions". F.R.Ankersmith paid attention to the fact that the attitude to the role of metaphors knows not onli "ups" but also "downs". Exploring aspects of the conceptual arsenal associated with the explicit use of the metaphor. "Implicit use" refers to those semantic situations when a historian or another humanist enters into a kind of dialogue with other sciences, carrying out terminological borrowing. Since the semantic content of the term changes in this case, then, in essence, a metaphorical action takes place that does not require a special name. The article contains, the author's reflection on the circumstances and features of the use of metaphors. The author finds out how and why historiography becomes metaphorical. Referring to specialists who developed the cognitive basis of the theory of metaphor, the author analyzes different traditions of understanding what metaphor is. There is a search for a positive sense of metaphor usage with some ambiguity. Since the metaphor creates a new meaning of the word, its cognitive significance becomes unquestionable. By citing examples of various uses of metaphors in the texts of historians, the author shows how a metaphor helps clarify the uniqueness of historical situations.

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Aesthetics

10.1093/oso/9780199588367.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michael N. Forster

Keyword(s):

Systematic Approach ◽

Semantic Content ◽

Moral Values ◽

Science And Religion ◽

Individual Variability ◽

German Romanticism ◽

Philosophy Of Literature ◽

Aesthetic Values

Aesthetics, or the philosophy of literature and art, was one of Herder’s main focuses. By valorizing these areas of culture (in comparison with others such as science and religion) and in several other ways he prepared the ground for German Romanticism. He also established many principles of great intrinsic importance: rejecting apriorism and systematization in aesthetics in favor of an empirical, non-systematic approach; insisting that arts such as sculpture and painting express meanings and therefore require interpretation; recognizing the central role of genre not only in literature but also in such arts; perceiving the deep historical, cultural, and even individual variability of literature and art in respect of semantic content, genre, moral values, and aesthetic values, plus the major implications this variability has for both interpretation and evaluation; developing a set of radical views concerning beauty; and emphasizing the importance of literature and art as means of moral pedagogy.

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Building an Emotionally Responsive Avatar with Dynamic Facial Expressions in Human—Computer Interactions

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction ◽

10.3390/mti5030013 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Heting Wang ◽

Vidya Gaddy ◽

James Ross Beveridge ◽

Francisco R. Ortega

Keyword(s):

Facial Expressions ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Uncanny Valley ◽

Human Computer Interactions ◽

Basic Emotions ◽

Subjective Responses ◽

Dynamic Facial Expressions ◽

Nasa Tlx ◽

Computer Interactions

The role of affect has been long studied in human–computer interactions. Unlike previous studies that focused on seven basic emotions, an avatar named Diana was introduced who expresses a higher level of emotional intelligence. To adapt to the users various affects during interaction, Diana simulates emotions with dynamic facial expressions. When two people collaborated to build blocks, their affects were recognized and labeled using the Affdex SDK and a descriptive analysis was provided. When participants turned to collaborate with Diana, their subjective responses were collected and the length of completion was recorded. Three modes of Diana were involved: a flat-faced Diana, a Diana that used mimicry facial expressions, and a Diana that used emotionally responsive facial expressions. Twenty-one responses were collected through a five-point Likert scale questionnaire and the NASA TLX. Results from questionnaires were not statistically different. However, the emotionally responsive Diana obtained more positive responses, and people spent the longest time with the mimicry Diana. In post-study comments, most participants perceived facial expressions on Diana’s face as natural, four mentioned uncomfortable feelings caused by the Uncanny Valley effect.

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Symmetries from the solution manifold

International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics ◽

10.1142/s0219887815600166 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (08) ◽

pp. 1560016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Víctor Aldaya ◽

Julio Guerrero ◽

Francisco F. Lopez-Ruiz ◽

Francisco Cossío

Keyword(s):

Symplectic Structure ◽

Vector Fields ◽

Sigma Model ◽

Canonical Quantization ◽

General Concept ◽

Noether Theorem ◽

Preliminary Step ◽

Hamiltonian Vector Fields ◽

Solution Manifold

We face a revision of the role of symmetries of a physical system aiming at characterizing the corresponding Solution Manifold (SM) by means of Noether invariants as a preliminary step towards a proper, non-canonical, quantization. To this end, "point symmetries" of the Lagrangian are generally not enough, and we must resort to the more general concept of contact symmetries. They are defined in terms of the Poincaré–Cartan form, which allows us, in turn, to find the symplectic structure on the SM, through some sort of Hamilton–Jacobi (HJ) transformation. These basic symmetries are realized as Hamiltonian vector fields, associated with (coordinate) functions on the SM, lifted back to the Evolution Manifold through the inverse of this HJ mapping, that constitutes an inverse of the Noether Theorem. The specific examples of a particle moving on S3, at the mechanical level, and nonlinear SU(2)-sigma model in field theory are sketched.

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Oralizations in e-mail consultations: A study of general practitioners’ use of non-verbal cues in written doctor–patient communication

Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies ◽

10.1386/cjcs_00049_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 195-211

Author(s):

Maja Nordtug ◽

Jane Ege Møller ◽

Signe Schlichting Matthiesen ◽

Matilde Nisbeth Brøgger

Keyword(s):

General Practitioners ◽

Facial Expressions ◽

Eye Contact ◽

Spatial Arrangement ◽

Patient Communication ◽

Verbal Cues ◽

Spelling Errors ◽

Doctor Patient Communication ◽

E Mail

It is well-known that non-verbal cues are essential in doctor–patient communication. As doctor–patient communication is turning increasingly digital and written, it becomes relevant to explore the role of non-verbal cues in such communication genres. One more recent genre is the doctor–patient e-mail consultation. Research has found that while patients like e-mail consultations, they also miss facial expressions, eye contact, etc. In this study, we explored the different ways in which Danish GPs use non-verbal cues in e-mail consultations. We analysed 633 e-mail consultations written by 22 GPs. We applied the concept of oralization, which includes the use of emoticons and non-standard use of grammar and spatial arrangement. We found that the dominant types of oralizations were non-corrected spelling errors and lack of attention to capitalization. Overall, GPs used a limited number of other non-verbal cues. We discuss how these findings relate to norms of formality and professional context.

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The role of education in mini-mental state examination: a study in Northeast Brazil

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria ◽

10.1590/s0004-282x2004000200003 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 62 (2a) ◽

pp. 206-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Paulo Roberto de Brito-Marques ◽

José Eulálio Cabral-Filho

Keyword(s):

Mental State ◽

Formal Education ◽

Mini Mental State Examination ◽

False Negative ◽

Low Education ◽

Main Effects ◽

State Examination ◽

Better Than ◽

Total Test

BACKGROUND: There is evidence that schooling can influence performance in cognitive assessement tests. In developing countries, formal education is limited for most people. The use of tests such as Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), could have an adverse effect on the evaluation of illiterate and low education individuals. OBJECTIVE: To propose a new version of MMSE as a screening test to assess Illiterate and low education people. METHOD: A study was carried out enrolling 232 individuals, aged 60 or more of low and middle socio-economic classes. Three groups were studied: Illiterate;1-4 schooling years; 5-8 schooling years. The new version (MMSEmo) consisted of modifications in copy and calculation items of the adapted MMSE (MMSEad) to Portuguese language. The maximum possible score was the same in the two versions: total, 30; copy, 1 and calculation, 5. RESULTS: In the total test score ANOVA detected main effects for education and test, as well as an interaction between these factors: higher schooling individuals performed better than lower schooling ones in both test versions; scores in MMSE-mo were higher than in MMSE-ad in every schooling group. CONCLUSION: Higher schooling levels improve the perfomance in both test versions, the copy and calculation items contributing to this improvement. This might depend on cultural factors. The use of MMSE-mo in illiterate and low school individuals could prevent false positive and false negative cognitive evaluations.

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