The Effectiveness of a Virtual Reality Marketing Video on the People Desire to Buy a Product

Virtual Reality technology can provide new experiences and different points of view of activities, events, or products for the users. In line with advances from VR technology, YouTube initiates to support the spread of VR videos by creating a VR feature on their platform. A hundred videos about a dangerous activity, Horror activity, and Marketing video of software or a movie product are found on the YouTube platform. Meanwhile, it is still not yet known how the effectiveness of an advertisement using VR video via the YouTube platform on the people desires to buy a product, especially in Indonesia, which then became the purpose of this study. In carrying out this study, a quantitative study was used by creating a digital questionnaire and distributed it with Google Forms. Then the data obtained will be processed by the respondent demographics and the 4 types of analysis, such as the Validity analysis, the Reliability analysis, the Ranking of VR applications on product promotions, and the Correlation analysis. Afterward, the study found that the B1 and B2 variables refer to Advertising, making it easy for us to understand the product has the most correlation coefficient. Moreover, 80% of the respondents stated that they like the VR advertisement product. It means that people are interested in trying and feel something new in the way VR technology is given to them. Ultimately, the respondents agree that VR advertising has informed them well about the product.

Perception of the cost benefit ratio of the stone crushing activity by actors in the informal sector of the Collines Department in Benin

Artisanal stone crushing is one of the income-generating activities practiced by many populations of the Collines Department in the Republic of Benin. It is a dangerous activity in which the actors ignore the occupational risks. This research was initiated to study the working conditions of crushing operators in the Collines Department, in order to assess the associated occupational risks. The methodological approach adopted to achieve these objectives consists of documentary research, surveys and field interviews with questionnaires, interview guides and direct field observation based on an observation grid. The data were collected from 64 artisanal stone crushers aged over 15 years 12 men and 52 women, ie a sex ratio of 4.3 in favor of women. The study was carried out at 5 sites in three Communes of the Collines Department. The data were processed with SPSS 21 software. The results obtained showed that the median age of the actors is 44 years with a minimum of 18 years and a maximum of 71 years. One in two people have not set foot in school. The average seniority in crushing is 16 years. The work provides less than 10,000f per month for three people out of 5. The daily working time varies from 5 to 12 hours. The majority work 6 days a week (84.4%). The complaints made by those involved in crushing are: heartache (59.4%), low back pain and back pain (12.3%), followed by accidents (9.4%) and respiratory ailments (9.4%). For 4/5, certain times of the year would be more at risk and for 45.3%, it is the rainy season. More than 77% of people recognize that there are specific risks to children, including the risk of accidents. For prevention, the majority of women wear pants to protect their private parts. Wearing shoes is not systematic. No one wears protective equipment for their hands, eyesight, hearing, or airways.

Analysis of the situation of the commission of the crime as an element of the criminalistic characteristic of the crime

Crime as a negative social phenomenon and as a socially dangerous activity can be characterized from various sides: sociological, criminological, criminal procedural, criminalistic. Forensic characteristics of a crime is a collection of such data about it, which contribute to the disclosure of crimes. Therefore, when investigating crimes, the forensic characterization of crimes is invaluable, which represents a system of information about the typical features of a certain category of crimes, the analysis of which contributes to the rapid and effective investigation of crimes. In the forensic description, data on the situation of the commission of a crime are the main ones, since they contain information about its other elements. Key words: forensic characterization, investigation, the elements, setting of the crime, criminal legislation

Is It Still Worth Challenging the Status Quo? A Design Process Article With an Example Application to Australian Jockey’s Safety Vests

Horse racing is a highly dangerous activity that imposes the compulsory wearing of jockeys’ safety vests. Although “design thinking” has gained popularity in many fields (e.g., business, health, information technology, education), product innovation is still not used widely in the design of some of the personal protective equipment available to jockeys. This article discusses about an Australian design case study on jockeys’ safety vests that used a qualitative research approach along with user experience design principles, which led to consider a revision of this framework to accommodate design dependencies in terms of a suggested dependency-based user experience design framework. Hence, this article calls for further research in this field.

Study on the Effect of Mining Activities on Floral Diversity in Western Rajasthan

The mining is a dangerous activity produced by humans for giving indispensable quality and security to their expectation for everyday comforts. The mining in the concerned zones gives crude materials as gravels, crusher and stones etc. for development of roads, railroad lines and other infrastructures. From the most recent couple of years the mining rate has expanded a few times. It brings about the loss of biodiversity of both vegetation and fauna and land form changes of the concerned zone. After the mining activity in any territory is finished, the indication of same lean back for quite a long time and might be until the end of time. It brings about formation of such huge numbers of environmental issues and health risks. During the investigation, effects of mining over plant biodiversity at Chaukri kalan have been assessed. At the investigation site, a sum of 81 diverse plant types of herbs, shrubs and trees were identified. The whole site is viewed as biodiversity rich, which have danger of loss because of mining and its related exercises.

Liability for Intelligent Robots from the Viewpoint of the Strict Liability Rule of the Hungarian Civil Code

The European Parliament resolution of 16 February 2017 on Civil Law Rules on Robotics proposed that the strict liability and the risk management approach are alternative legal instruments to achieve the goals set out by this instrument. The evolution of strict liability is parallel with technological change; our question here is whether the elaborated rules are appropriate for managing new problems. For establishing accountability, the question arises: who is to be held liable for damages and based on which form of liability? Setting aside the issues of product liability and setting aside the independent liability of the most sophisticated autonomous robots having ‘electronic personality’, this essay concentrates on liability questions of the user, and it examines the strict liability rules instituted by the Hungarian Civil Code and their application in practice. According to the results of our previous research, the judicial practice regarding the general clause of liability for dangerous activity (Section 6:535. HCC) is quite flexible and covers the liability issues of damage caused by artificial intelligence. We observed also that the criterion ‘dangerous’ means less and less risk of damage within normal circumstances, and this statement of fact in practice also successfully competes with other strict liability rules (i.e. product liability for malfunctioning medical devices, liability for dangerous animals, etc.). The capacity of the ‘keeper’ or ‘operator’ of the robot and the emerging new types of risks are also touched upon.

„Rennur blóð eftir slóð...“

This article discusses the phenomenon of self-harming or ”non-Suicidal Self-In-jury“ (nSSI). The International Society for the Study of Self-Injury defines non-sui cidal self-injury as the deliberate, self-inflicted damage of body tissue without suicidal intent and for purposes not socially or culturally sanctioned.“ The article discusses the cultural and social representations of self-injury, what is implied in it, who engages in it, and for what reasons. A lot can be deduced from interviews with self-harmers who use it to gain control over bad feelings and stress, by hurting their body and participating in risky behaviour. This dangerous activity often has more complicated sides with reference to rituals and spiritual associations to bloodletting, cleansing of all evil and healing, absolution and much wanted peace of mind. Finally, the changes in self-harming discourse and channels of communication are discussed. It has opened up during the last two decades with the arrival of social media. The self-harmers have built their own subcultures with special aesthetics and often preferring theatrical staging or performances instead of verbal expres-sion. These channels can have an uncanny power and influence over young and vulnerable people. The conclusion of the article is that all this requires an informed discussion as a special world, a special angst which is expressing itself in ways that might develop into suicidal behaviour if it is not taken seriously.

Pain characteristics and its influence in the labor activities in northeastern Brazilian farmers

Introduction: Agricultural work is considered a dangerous activity with physical and mental stress. Pain is one of the most common disabilities among agricultural workers. Objective: To determine the incidence, intensity, characteristic of pain and its impact on labor activities in farmers. Methods: Transversal study, pain evaluations consist of: 1) presence / intensity; 2) characteristic of painful experience; 3) episode of pain in the last 30 days and 4) interference of pain at work. Validated and specific pain scales were used, and descriptive statistics were applied. Results: 157 rural farmers were recruited, 128 farmers, 40.4 (11.4) years, participated in the study, 25% of the farmers reported pain at the time of evaluation with mean of 5.5 (0.47) intensity. The predominant pain characteristic was the evaluative type (34%), followed by affective (30%), 83 (65%) of farmers reported pain in the last four weeks, and 60% of these farmers reported pain interference in work activity. Conclusion: Pain, according to farmers in this study, is the main cause of absence and poor performance at work. To accurately assess the intensity of work-related pain, instruments may need to be applied over a continuous period of time, preferably during work day.Key-words: worker health, pain, pain assessment.

Danger in Public Spaces: Strengths and Limitations of Image- and Text-Based Warning Signs

This study examines the effectiveness of images on warning signs that communicate risk and risk avoidance in public spaces. Specifically, I compared data from 749 survey responses to determine whether the use of images can increase the effectiveness of a warning sign in a public space. Although the findings indicate that image-based warning signs are better at communicating risk and deterring dangerous activity, longer expository text-only warning signs may be more effective at helping people identify and participate in safe activities. Implications and future studies are offered in the conclusion.