This paper presents the perspective of a range of practising South African artists on the contextual factors influencing the recent surge in artistic creativity and innovation in their country. In particular, the ‘edginess’ of the everyday contexts of artistic endeavour is seen as a source of transformative learning for those having the courage to engage with it. Through such ‘dangerous’ learni...

Procedural content generation (PCG) is typically considered a feature of digital games. Commonly cited “first” uses of PCG are usually digital games from the early 1980s: Rogue or Elite. However, when broadly construed, PCG simply means that content is generated following a formal procedure—the agent that enacts this procedure is merely assumed to be a computer. The precursors to what we now ca...

Chocolate-flavoured cow’s milk has changed its image from a playful beverage for young children to a powerful post-workout beverage suitable for and helpful to elite athletes such as Ironman competitors. Elite athletes, as a respected hegemonic cultural class, have fuelled this shift in perception by endorsing chocolate milk consumption amongst both their own group and less elite athletes. This...

purpose this case study explores the lived experiences of an elite female paralympic powerlifting athlete. the focus is on restrictions and coping responses employed to manage the daily hassles within the cultural and ethnic requirements for achieving athletic excellence. methods with an unstructured interview, the narrative was acquired which ranged to a total of 75 minutes (approx) and 20 sin...

In this paper, we propose to integrate particle swarm optimization algorithm into cultural algorithms frame to develop a more efficient cultural particle swarm algorithms (CPSA) for constrained multi-objective optimization problem. In our CPSA, the population space of cultural algorithms consists of n+1 subswarms which are used to search for the n single-objective optimums and an additional mul...

Increased economic power has positioned China within the global elite, yet China’s legitimacy remains low with regard to hierarchies of taste. Drawing from Bourdieu and Elias, the paper offers an account of the global dynamics of status contests, and the role played by cultural capital and notions of civility and vulgarity. Specifically, we examine how U.S., UK and Chinese media represent Chine...

The discourse of participation in and about Brazil has contributed to the wider discourse of the public sphere. As anoccasion to revise the general concept of the public sphere, it carries its own limitations as well. The public sphereis an arena where citizens come together to discuss matters of general interest and through this discussion are thenable to influence the state. The c...

The main purpose of the study was to ascertain the attitude of rural elite farmers towards extension activities performed by Upazilla Agricultural Extension personnel of DAE and to explore the relationship between the selected characteristics of the respondents and their extent of attitude towards those extension activities under reference. The study was conducted in two unions, namely Ratanpur...