Enactivism and Performance Art: Putting on Display Our Perception

"Seeing, according to the enactive approach, is not something that happens inside our brain, rather it is something we do, but, as I will argue thanks to the performance art, it is something we do together. The performing arts, with their characteristics – autopoietic feedback loop, spectator/performer exchange, oscillation of the dichotomous subject-object pair - constitute a model through which to in-vestigate the nature of our perception, which is constitutively relational, participative, and transformative. Keywords: Enactivis, performing arts, percep-tion, enactive loniness, transformation. "

Perception to Heat Waves with Social Linkage of Communities As a Moderator in Taiwan.

The research examines the relationship between self-rated health situation and personal percep-tion of heat waves, and how social linkage of communities would be a moderator variable in residents’ perception of heat waves in Taiwan. This study uses the questionnaire conducted by Sinica “Responsive Capacity under Heat Wave: The Perspectives of the Locals”(2019), using OLS method for estimating the unknown parameters in multiple regression model. The author finds that the correlation of self-rated health situation and perception toward heat is significantly posi-tive. Also, social linkage in communities affects strongly as a moderator variable: While the sat-isfaction to with their community could reduce negative reaction to heat, contacts with neighbors could increase possibility people feel uncomfortable in high-temperature situation. This study ex-hibits the effects of social environment on community, and expects further related researches or practices to strengthen capability to resist heat wavesƒ for Taiwanese residents.

Online Learning: New Circuits of Student Fears and Worries during the Pandemic

The paper examines online learning as an innovative practice, the frequency of which has increased dra-matically during the pandemic. This caused signifi-cant changes in students’ assessment and percep-tion of online technologies, and also caused the formation of new fears in the context of digitaliza-tion of education. A comparative analysis of two stages of the survey of Ural Federal University stu-dents (2019, n = 150 and 2020, n = 70) made it possi-ble to demonstrate changes in the structure of mo-tives for refusing to use online education and in highlighting its significant shortcomings against the background of the pandemic. The main areas of growth of social fears of students in online learning are highlighted: social isolation, changes in re-quirements for the students themselves, the conse-quences of a sedentary lifestyle, a decrease in health potential, etc. The main field of activity of young people – education – becomes a source of growth of social fears and anxiety.

Digital Video Stabilization: Algorithms and Evaluation

Several devices have allowed the acquisition and editing ofvideos in various circumstances, such as digital cameras, smartphones and other mobile devices. However, the use ofcameras under adverse conditions usually results in non-precise motion and occurrence of shaking, which may compromise the stability of the obtained videos. To overcome such problem, digital stabiliza- tion aims to correct camera motion oscillations that occur in the acquisition process, particularly when the cameras are mobile and handled in adverse con- ditions, through software techniques, without the use of specific hardware, to enhance visual quality either with the intention of enhancing human percep- tion or improving final applications, such as detection and tracking of objects. This is important in order to avoid hardware cost and indispensable for videos already recorded. This work proposed three methods to perform digital video stabilization and two other techniques to evaluate video stabilization quality. 1.

sCool – Game-Based Learning in Computer Science Class: A Case Study in Secondary Education

In this paper we present a case study of the mobile learning game sCool [1]. Based on previous work presented Steinmaurer et. al. (2018) [2] we expand-ed our study by a second experiment and additional aspects. sCool is a mul-ti-platform game that should encourage children learning computational thinking and coding in Python. The learning content is highly adaptable; therefore, educators can create own courses, individual for the needs of the students. These courses involve a concept-learning and a practical mode. First, the students learn a certain concept and in a second step, they have to apply it in a practical task. For this purpose, we created a course to teach some basic programming concepts. Two student groups of different school types participated in class as a formal learning activity. In this paper we pre-sent the results of the evaluation of sCool in coding classes. Therefore, we focus on the performance, game engagement, emotions and the girls’ percep-tion. Within this study we found out, that the students are interested in learn-ing to code but do have problems to transfer the learned content to similar fields. We also found out, that there are slightly differences in the perfor-mance of the different types of students in terms of gender and school type.

Image of a family business and entrepreneur from a family business in the light of the Author’s surveys

Despite social changes that started at the time of the system breakthrough in 1989 in Po-land, for a long time, family entrepreneurs have felt concerns related to the social percep-tion of private enterprise. In the light of the studies carried out by the Authors, after 2014, a fundamental change in the perception of entrepreneurship has occurred. In the opinion of the respondents, family businesses are associated with high quality, tradition and relia-bility. In turn, according to 40 percent of the participants of the survey, a family entrepre-neur is an honest person.

Gessner Studies: state of the research and new perspectives on 16th-century studies in natural history

The field of Gesnerian studies is still to a large extent underdeveloped. This statement sums up in a nutshell the state of research on the body of work of the Zurich physician. Yet, no place for pessimism in this succinct conclusion: in what follows we trace some major tendencies and developments in the study of the Gesnerian corpus. On the whole, it is mostly his illustrations that have drawn scholars’ attention, providing interesting perspectives on art his¬tory and the representation of nature in the 16th century, as well as, through the study of the circulation of images, on the scholarly networks and knowl¬edge communication in the Renaissance. The second part of this article builds on concrete examples to provide possible perspectives on the paratext of Historia animalium, and on the various additions made to it by its author. In conclusion, it appears that numerous aspects of the Renaissance percep¬tion of nature remain unexplored, but also that a reading that makes use of precise lexicological and statistical tools is necessary and promising. This conclusion is positive and seeks to highlight the network established between scholars from different domains of the humanities, and also the technical means available at present, which open new possibilities for comparison, exchange and collating of research information.

RISK PERCEPTION AMONG FARM HOUSEHOLDS IN NORTH CENTRAL REGION OF NIGERIA: A LOWER PARTIAL MOMENT APPROACH

This study investigated the perception of production and price risk by farm households and the factors that influence their level of perception in North Central Nigeria. The study attempted to capture the opinion of farmers about the quantity of crops they expect to harvest at the end of the season, and the prices they also expect for each of the crop cultivated. It was confirmed that the households do have an opinion for the quantity of crops outputs cultivated and also for the price they expect at the end of every season. The study established that farm households do give negative allowances regarding the quantity expected of a crop for a particular land cultivated, this is also true for prices expected. In other words farm households were found to be aware of the possibility that the final output they get from their farming activity may not commensurate with the inputs invested and so therefore expect less than what should be the potential. Furthermore, it was discovered that household crop specific risk percep- tion varies within the region. Majority of the farm households perceived higher price risks for sorghum, rice, and yam crops.