Perceptions and Realities

Obesity in African-Americans: Perceptions and Realities

Human Perceptions Mirror Realities of Carnivore Attack Risk for Livestock: Implications for Mitigating Human-Carnivore Conflict

Human-carnivore conflict is challenging to quantify because it is shaped by both the realities and people's perceptions of carnivore threats. Whether perceptions align with realities can have implications for conflict mitigation: misalignments can lead to heightened and indiscriminant persecution of carnivores whereas alignments can offer deeper insights into human-carnivore interactions. We ap...

Flood Realities, Perceptions and the Depth of Divisions on Climate

Research has led to broad agreement among scientists that anthropogenic climate change is happening now and likely to worsen. In contrast to scientific agreement, US public views remain deeply divided, largely along ideological lines. Science communication has been neutralised in some arenas by intense counter-messaging, but as adverse climate impacts become manifest they might intervene more p...

Putting Lifeworlds at Sea: Studying Meaning-Making in Marine Research

An individual’s “lifeworld” guides perceptions, the attachment of meaning and in sum, the interpretation of reality in everyday life. Yet the lifeworld (Ger. Lebenswelt) has been an undertheorized concept within interdisciplinary marine research. Through a two-stage analysis, we critically engage with the philosophical foundations, heuristic value and the methodological versatility that the int...

Surveying Introspection of Architecture of Jame` Mosque of Isfahan with Emphasis on Grounded Study of Unseen Concepts of Hafez' and Mulavi's Lyrics

There are close relationships between hidden structures of mosques and unseen concepts embodied in Persian language and literature of Iran that show that construction of famous mosques in Iran, especially in Isfahan Style are immortal and timeless.  A question arises in this context as to what factors have led to the manifestation of unseen concepts in the architecture of Isfahan mosques object...