Plainware and Polychrome: Quantifying Perceptual Differences in Ceramic Classification Between Diverse Groups to Further a Strong Objectivity

For scholars, the internet provides a space to study diverse groups of people across the world and can be a useful way to bypass physical gender segregation and travel constraints. Despite the potential for new insights into people’s everyday life and increased attention from scholars, there is no standard set of ethics for conducting virtual ethnography on visually based platforms, like YouTube and Instagram. While publicly accessible social media posts are often understood to be a part of the public domain and thus do not require a researcher to obtain a user’s consent before publishing data, caution must be taken when studying members of a vulnerable community, especially those who have a history of surveillance, like African-American Muslims. Using a womanist approach, the author provides recommendations for studying vulnerable religious groups online, based on a case study of a YouTube channel, Muslimah2Muslimah, operated by two African-American Muslim women. The article provides an important contribution to the field of media studies because the author discusses a “dead” online community, where users no longer comment on the videos and do not maintain their own profiles, making obtaining consent difficult and the potential risks of revealing information to an unknown community hard to gauge.

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HOW STUDENTS DEFINE THEIR SUCCESS: A RESEARCH STUDY

Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) ◽

10.24908/pceea.vi0.14167 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Max Ullrich ◽

David S. Strong

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Research Study ◽

Survey Instrument ◽

Undergraduate Engineering ◽

Diversity And Inclusion ◽

Full Study ◽

Definition Of Success ◽

Definition Of ◽

Diverse Groups

How undergraduate engineering students define their success and plan for their future differs notably amongst students. With a push for greater diversity and inclusion in engineering schools, it is valuable to also better understand the differences in these areas among different students to allow institutions to better serve the needs of these diverse groups. The purpose of this research study is to explore students’ definition of success both in the present and projecting forward 5 to 10 years, as well as to understand to what level students reflect on, and plan for, the future. The proposed survey instrument for the pilot stage of this research includes 56 closed-ended questions and 3 open-ended questions. Evidence for the validity of the research instrument is established through a mixed-method pilot study. This paper will discuss the survey instrument, the pilot study, and outline plans for the full study.

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From the Synergy to the Discrimination - Analysis of Attitudes and Decisions of the Prison Staff Towards Muslim Prisoners in the Context of Multicultural Education

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.26417/ejis.v2i2.p81-97 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 81

Author(s):

Arkadiusz Urbanek

Keyword(s):

Multicultural Education ◽

Social Relations ◽

Ethnically Diverse ◽

Prison Staff ◽

Professional Activities ◽

Personal Attitudes ◽

The Subject ◽

Pragmatic Aspects ◽

Diverse Groups

The aspiration to keep the synergy in relations between majorities and minorities repeatedly emerges as the cause of conflicts in social relations. It is also a subject of the interest of the multicultural education, particularly in countries of Eastern Europe, building contacts with the culturally and ethnically diverse groups to a wider scale. Relations in culturally, religiously and ethnic diverse societies, are becoming more and more related to the personal attitudes and a given policy. These issues acquire in the prison circumstances even greater significance, as given moods and personal attitudes of the prison staff create the pragmatic aspects of the professional activities addressed to the sentenced. Additionally, the key role is played by the quality of the penitentiary policy and the legal culture. The article presents the comparative analysis of the research carried out in 2016 amongst the prison staff in Poland. The subject of the research concerned attitudes that influence the decisive processes. The personal relations have been analyzed in the context of the relation with the sentenced Muslims. The aim of the research was not only to reveal the quality of the decisions concerning the sentenced Muslims, but also the sources of such decisions. The latter, in consequence, may shift, as the research results prove, towards synergy or discrimination. The diversification of the discrimination was one of the intriguing aspects, disclosed at various levels that not always explicitly concerned the discrimination of the minority.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Human axillary odor: are there side-related perceptual differences?

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.1161771.623373 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Giurfa

Keyword(s):

Perceptual Differences ◽

Axillary Odor

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The perceptual differences between experienced Chinese chess players and novices: Evidence from eye movement

Acta Psychologica Sinica ◽

10.3724/sp.j.1041.2016.00457 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 48 (5) ◽

pp. 457

Author(s):

Fuxing WANG ◽

Xiujuan HOU ◽

Zhaohui DUAN ◽

Huashan LIU ◽

Hui LI

Keyword(s):

Eye Movement ◽

Perceptual Differences ◽

Chess Players

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Protecting Disaster Rescue and Recovery Workers

10.1093/oso/9780190662677.003.0034 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Dori B. Reissman ◽

Maryann M. D’Alessandro ◽

Lisa Delaney ◽

John Piacentino

Keyword(s):

Safety Management ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Medical Evaluation ◽

Worker Education ◽

Protection Strategies ◽

Training Worker ◽

Protective Strategies ◽

Disaster Event ◽

And Control ◽

Diverse Groups

This chapter describes disaster worker protection strategies and health surveillance activities in terms of temporal phases to address disaster safety management before, during, and after a disaster event. The protective strategies discussed in the chapter integrate assessments of on-scene hazards and health or safety impacts and require pre-event planning and coordination across multiple entities. The chapter also addresses the integration of physical, psychological and behavioral health approaches. The chapter addresses the complexities of hazard assessment and control, worker education and training, worker illness and injury surveillance, and access to healthcare services, along with a box on community preparedness. These activities are performed by diverse groups of occupational and environmental health professionals. Various illustrative examples are presented to describe how basic concepts of protection and medical evaluation are applied in specific situations. The U.S. federal system for protecting disaster rescue and recovery workers is described in detail.

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