Can grassroots festivals serve as catalysts to connect and empower youth in urban informal settlements? A case study of art festivals in Indonesian kampungs

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how young residents in two Indonesian kampungs (urban informal settlements) participate in two grassroots art festivals and to what extent their participation affects their capacity and network. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a qualitative method. The data collection were done in 2017 and took the form of in-depth semi-structured interviews with 15 respondents in two kampungs, Kampung Dago Pojok, Bandung, and Kampung Bustaman, Semarang. Findings The results show that the grassroots festival can empower youth throughout its process while also influencing their networks. The festival could act as the catalyst for youth to gain event management skills and exchange cultural knowledge. This study also found that there are two sides the art festivals can bring to the youth regarding their network: while the festival was able to develop their internal and external network, it also led to social division within the community. Originality/value The originality of this paper lies in the context of the research where it contributes to understanding the implications of community-based art festivals in the developing context, particularly in the low-income informal settlements. The paper’s content also provides insights that festivals can also be understood as more than place marketing or branding but as collections of steps and efforts of the community to provide meaningful actions for their place and people.

GLCM of Fuzzy Clustering Means for Textural Future Extraction of Brain Tumor in Probabilistic Neural Networks

Brain tumor is one of the major causes of death among people. It is evident that the chances of survival can be increased if the tumor is detected and classified correctly at its early stage. normal strategies encompass obvious strategies, as an instance, biopsy, lumbar reduce and spinal faucet technique, to distinguish and installation thoughts tumors into generous (non unstable) and threatening (adverse). A pc supported give up calculation has been planned in order to build the precision of mind tumor region and grouping, and along the ones strains supplant traditional intrusive and tedious techniques. This paper offers a powerful technique for mind tumor grouping, wherein, the actual Magnetic Resonance (MR) snap shots are prepared into ordinary, non risky (thoughtful) cerebrum tumor and damaging (risky) cerebrum tumor. The proposed approach to the pursuit of three levels: (1) wavelet damage, (2) the texture extraction spotlight and (three) order. Discrete remodel Wavelet first achieved by using Daubechies wavelet (DB4), to deteriorate the MR image to various ranges loud and nitty coefficient of sand and the stage time darkness co-event lattice general, of which the insight of land, for example, electricity, differentiate, dating, homogeneity and entropy gain. Event co-grid results are then pushed right into probabilistic neural system for each order and identity of the tumor. The proposed technique has been achieved in the MR image is authentic, and the accuracy of clustering using probabilistic neural system is seen as roughly 100%.

Bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit human-like framing effects

Humans exhibit framing effects when making choices, appraising decisions involving losses differently from those involving gains. To directly test for the evolutionary origin of this bias, we examined decision-making in humans' closest living relatives: bonobos ( Pan paniscus ) and chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ). We presented the largest sample of non-humans to date ( n = 40) with a simple task requiring minimal experience. Apes made choices between a ‘framed’ option that provided preferred food, and an alternative option that provided a constant amount of intermediately preferred food. In the gain condition , apes experienced a positive ‘gain’ event in which the framed option was initially presented as one piece of food but sometimes was augmented to two. In the loss condition , apes experienced a negative ‘loss' event in which they initially saw two pieces but sometimes received only one. Both conditions provided equal pay-offs, but apes chose the framed option more often in the positive ‘gain’ frame. Moreover, male apes were more susceptible to framing than were females. These results suggest that some human economic biases are shared through common descent with other apes and highlight the importance of comparative work in understanding the origins of individual differences in human choice.