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Engelhart, Monica. "The Dancing Picture - The Ritual Dance of Native Australians." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 16 (January 1, 1996): 75–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67224.
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What kind of message does -or did — the dance convey to the Native Australians? Several types of communication can be distinguished in ritual dance. There is the narrative aspect, i.e., the dramatization of a myth, or of certain social relations, there is an aspect of explanation, i.e., the visual performance of significant conditions, an expressive aspect of worship, and even an aspect of transmission, as when the body of the dancer is thought to mediate divine power to the audience. When a dancer is considered possessed, the boundaries between his human identity and the divine are wiped out. This last aspect leads us to the second item of interest regarding the ritual dance in Australia, an issue that has been discussed at length regarding masked dancers in other societies, i.e., the question of whether the dancer is identified with the being represented, or merely performs as an actor in a play. In this discussion, the very technique of dancing may have some explanatory faculty, at least as long as we are dealing with Native Australian ritual dance.
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Fung, Annabella S. K. "Music enables the holistic development and discovery of self: A phenomenological study of two Christian musicians." Psychology of Music 45, no. 3 (September 16, 2016): 400–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305735616665911.
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Music draws on body, space, time and relationships to offer a sacred experience. Musicking makes personal, social, emotional and spiritual connections with people. Cultural identity is formed through the arts, and the spirituality in music is a medium through which people explore their identities. This study examines how music facilitates the holistic development of two Melbourne-born Chinese-Australian Christian musicians. The Confucian Evolving Self Model, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs, and music education aims offer conceptualising scaffolds to illuminate their self-discovery. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to report on multiple semi-structured interviews undertaken over three years. This study considered the interaction of various value systems – the fusion of Confucianism, Christian and psychological cultures in the process of musical development and identity formation. It fills a research gap and complements existing approaches to understanding the social contexts influencing the acquisition of musical skills and musicians’ occupational choices. The permissive parenting that both participants experienced might account for them being able to follow a career in music without familial resistance. The current findings can advocate for music education because the spiritual aspects of musical experiences were perceived as a mirror in fostering the holistic development of both participants.
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Absattarov, R., and I. Rau. "HUMAN AND HUMANITY: SOCIAL ASPECTS." BULLETIN Series of Sociological and Political sciences 77, no. 1 (March 15, 2022): 48–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2022-1.1728-8940.07.
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The article deals with the social aspects of human and humanity, which have not yet been sufficiently studied in sociological and political science. The article in more detail discusses the issues - general in the definition of a person, altruism as a fundamental value of a person, a human and an animal, a human and human-likeness, about "extra" people, the number of mankind, about the future of mankind. The article notes that a person who is a product of culture, since the latter appeared, has the ability to move from culture to culture. In the early stages of a child's development, this is a local culture; in later stages, it is regional or global. At the same time, human is a product of biological evolution, which confirms all the organs of his body, including his brain. Humanity is not biologically transmitted from biological fathers and mothers. It is given along with the soul, its potentialities of freedom and creativity. Also, the article pays attention to debatable issues.
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Martin, Angela, Megan Woods, and Sarah Dawkins. "How managers experience situations involving employee mental ill-health." International Journal of Workplace Health Management 11, no. 6 (December 3, 2018): 442–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijwhm-09-2017-0069.
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Purpose Mental health conditions such as depression are prevalent in working adults, costly to employers, and have implications for legal liability and corporate social responsibility. Managers play an important role in determining how employees’ and organizations’ interests are reconciled in situations involving employee mental ill-health issues. The purpose of this paper is to explore these situations from the perspective of managers in order to develop theory and inform practice in workplace mental health promotion. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 Australian managers who had supervised an employee with a mental health issue. Interview transcripts were content analyzed to explore themes in managers’ experiences. Findings Managing an employee with a mental health issue involves becoming aware of the issue, taking action to understand the situation and develop an action response, implementing the response and managing the ongoing situation. Each of these tasks had a range of positive and negative aspects to them, e.g., managing the situation can be experienced as both a source of stress for the manager but also as an opportunity to develop greater management skills. Practical implications Understanding line managers’ experiences is critical to successful implementation of HR policies regarding employee health and well-being. HR strategies for dealing with employee mental health issues need to consider implementation support for managers, including promotion of guiding policies, training, emotional support and creating a psychosocial safety climate in their work units or teams. Originality/value The insights gained from this study contribute to the body of knowledge regarding psychosocial safety climate, an emergent theoretical framework concerned with values, attitudes and philosophy regarding worker psychological health. The findings also have important implications for strategic human resource management approaches to managing mental health in the workplace.
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Mellor, David, Alice Hucker, Monique Waterhouse, Norul Hidayah binti Mamat, Xiaoyan Xu, Jamie Cochrane, Marita McCabe, and Lina Ricciardelli. "A Cross-Cultural Study Investigating Body Features Associated With Male Adolescents’ Body Dissatisfaction in Australia, China, and Malaysia." American Journal of Men's Health 8, no. 6 (April 3, 2014): 521–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988314528370.
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This study investigated how dissatisfaction with particular aspects of the body was associated with overall body dissatisfaction among male adolescents in Western and Asian cultures. One hundred and six Malaysian Malays, 55 Malaysian Chinese, 195 Chinese from China, and 45 non-Asian Australians aged 12 to 19 years completed a questionnaire assessing dissatisfaction with their overall body and dissatisfaction with varying aspects of their body. Dissatisfaction with the face, height, and hair was positively correlated with overall body dissatisfaction among Malaysian Malays after body mass index, age and dissatisfaction with body areas typically included in measures (weight/shape, upper, middle, and lower body, and muscles) had been controlled for. Dissatisfaction with the face was positively correlated with overall body dissatisfaction among Malaysian Chinese. These findings demonstrate the differences in body focus for males from different cultures and the importance of using assessment measures that address all possible areas of body focus.
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Payne, Phillip G. "Critical Curriculum Theory and Slow Ecopedagogical Activism." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 31, no. 2 (October 15, 2015): 165–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2015.32.
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AbstractEnacting a critical environmental education curriculum theory with 8- to 9-year-old children in 1978 is now ‘restoried’ in a ‘history of the present/future’ like ‘case study’ for prosecuting five interrelated problems confronting progress in environmental education and its research. They are: the intense heat of the Anthropocene; the accelerating speed of the Dromosphere; the deep cuts of neoliberalism's policing of the cognitive capitalism of the corporate university and public education; the entrepreneurial entry of sustainababble into the discourse of education; and the digital colonisation of its pedagogical practices. The once radical promise of environmental education to serve as a critique of education partially through its ‘language’ (Le Grange, 2013) of empowerment, agency, transformation, contestation, ideology, ethics, action, praxis and change demands revitalisation; hence, this belated restorying of the 1978 case. The time is right; at least in some academic/educational settings where the ‘new materialism’ notions of critical, agency and action remain much more than a fading memory or convenient text. New theory helps restory this old curriculum theory and its slow ecopedagogical activism. In this ‘old’, the critical curriculum theory (re)positioned young children and their teacher as action researchers of their own embodied socio-environmental relations. Through highly inclusive and participatory practices of outdoor and indoor ecopedagogy, children became ethically active ‘citizens’, capable of democratically enacting political and Political change. This ‘active responsibility for the environment’ was, indeed, a key purpose, or promise, of environmental education when the field was formalised in the 1970s. Elements of children's (eco)aesthetics-environmental ethics and ecopolitics are described in this case account of the ‘environmental design’ of a radical curriculum innovation that critically emphasised the ‘humanly-constructive’ educational conditions that enable agency (Payne, 1995, 1999a). Such enablements were only ever assumed in the ‘socially critical’ theorisations of curriculum and pedagogy developed in Australia in the early 1980s. For researchers, this partially autoethnographic narrating of the old case describes the children's (embodied) experiences and locally emplaced agencies in newer theoretical ‘figurations’ of their ‘body~time~space’ relationalities. Children's outdoor ‘expeditions’, interdisciplinary inquiries, literacy development, scientific investigations, and personal and public activisms are described. Revealing these micro figurational relationalities in slow ecopedagogical contexts of the environmental design of education (Payne, 2014) is consistent with Robottom and Hart's (1993) too often forgotten ‘old’ call for researchers and practitioners to clarify the presuppositions they make about the trilogy of ontology-epistemology and methodology in framing, conceptualising, contextualising, representing, and legitimating the research problem and its questions. This restorying and history of the present/future is alert to (but cannot develop) aspects of contemporary ‘high’ theory drawn from the humanities, social sciences and arts that prioritises the politics of ontological deliberation and the ecologies of things, (re)claims a material disposition in empirical inquiry and critique while speculating about non-anthropocentric ‘thought’ responsive to the ‘new’ rallying point of, for example, the Anthropocene. In sum, new theory helps restory the critical, creative, expressive and experimental forms of re-theorising the persistent problematic of human and non-human nature relations and the role of education — well on display in this ‘old.’ This revitalised history of the present/future aims to revive critical optimism and imagination about how agencies of socio-environmental change once promised by critical environmental education and its research can be re‘turned’. The article concludes with some post-critical retheorising of key critical components of the 1978 curriculum theory.
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BEJANYAN, ARMEN. "HARMONIOUS INTERACTION OF HUMAN BODY PARTS AND PERSONALITY’S PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY." Main Issues Of Pedagogy And Psychology 7, no. 1 (April 19, 2015): 105–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/miopap.v7i1.108.
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The article seeks to identify the place of extreme situationsinthe general system of investigations on psychological aspects of security. A psychological analysis of the extreme situation, its influence on mentality and people behavior is given. The security is regarded as the key conception in social and scientific evaluation of the problem. Security psychology is regarded as a systematized field of psychological knowledge the component of which is considered psychology of extreme situations.
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Stanev, V. "The physical and social aspects of the human body as a reagent for the consumption." Trakia Journal of Science 13, Suppl.1 (2015): 179–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.15547/tjs.2015.s.01.030.
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Karpin, V. A. "Medical and social aspects of the problem life expectancy (literature review)." Medical Science And Education Of Ural 22, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 137–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.36361/1814-8999-2021-22-1-137-140.
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The current demographic situation is characterized by a significant increase in the aging of the population. The aging process is accompanied by the inclusion of certain active mechanisms that contribute to the disruption of the life of the human body. The complex of these mechanisms fits into the concept of metabolic syndrome. The presented materials convincingly prove that the problem of metabolic syndrome is largely a gerontological problem. Its development contributes to premature aging of the body and shortening the life span of the population of the planet. The development and widespread implementation of special dispensary Programs, as well as complex targeted therapy of various pathogenic manifestations of this syndrome, will significantly improve public health and increase life expectancy.
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Khokhlov, A. L., and D. Yu Belousov. "Ethical aspects of the Internet of Bodies." Kachestvennaya Klinicheskaya Praktika = Good Clinical Practice, no. 2 (August 13, 2021): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.37489/2588-0519-2021-2-89-98.
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This article outlines bioethical issues related to the application of the Internet of Body (IoB) technology in health care so-called medical IoB devices. Manufacturers of medical IoB devices promise to provide significant health benefits, improved treatment outcomes and other benefits, but such IoB also carry serious risks to health and life, including the risks of hacking (cyberhacking), malfunctioning, receiving false positive measurements, breaching privacy, deliberate invasion of privacy. In addition, medical IoB products can directly cause physical harm to the human body. As human flesh is intertwined with hardware, software, and algorithms, the IoB will test our social values and ethics. In particular, IoB will challenge notions of human autonomy and self-government as they threaten to undermine the fundamental precondition of human autonomy. Thus, the protection of human autonomy should become the main ethical principle of the use of medical IoB devices.
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Shmeleva, N. V., and A. V. Babaeva. "Deontological aspects of perceiving people with disabilities in the context of contemporary culture." Psychological-Educational Studies 9, no. 1 (2017): 125–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/psyedu.2017090113.
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The article analyzes the problem of negative influence of the mass culture on value orientations of a modern person when the corporality is idealized. The priority of the visual principle in the mass culture of the XXth – beginning of XXIst centuries changes the human relation to his/her own and someone else's body, because the visual is inextricably linked to the reproduction of uniform idealized visual images, as well as to defining static social and cultural human roles judging just by the physical body condition (when positive characters often have an idealized appearance, and embossed body contours while negative ones have physical limitations). The desire and, at the same time, the inability to attain a perfect body condition becomes one of the significant reasons for social and cultural tension when a growing negative attitude towards people with disabilities is detected. In order to overcome the social tension, specific solutions are required. That makes it actual to appeal to deontology (a science about what must be done, aimed at the moral renewal of society). Ethical and deontological culture, pedagogical, environmental and social deontologies are of great importance as these are developing a concept of new system of values destined to overcome social and personal contradictions. The work is carried out with support of Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation № 05.043.11.0025.
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Nikolova, Yana D. "Objectification and Instrumentalization: The Activation of Thanatos in Connection with “Body-Power”; or the Human Body as a Critical Object of Power in the Resent Social Reality." International Journal of Psychological Studies 13, no. 4 (October 8, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v13n4p1.
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This paper is about the ways in which the human body has been objectified under and through the use of power. The article explains the different aspects and ways of objectification of the body and the hidden nature of human behaviour that results from activation of the inner human instincts - the death drive, called Thanatos (Note 1) and the life drive called Eros as a response to Thanatos. By using the theories of Freud, Nussbaum, Erikson, Fanon and Foucault, the relationship between the human body and external power is examined. Using some recent events (such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the world lockdown and the Black Lives Matter movement) human behaviour is seen to result from activation of the inner drives (Eros (Note 2) and Thanatos), but also to be linked to the psychosexual and psychosocial aspects of human development.
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de Groot, Jasper H. B., Gün R. Semin, and Monique A. M. Smeets. "On the Communicative Function of Body Odors." Perspectives on Psychological Science 12, no. 2 (March 2017): 306–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691616676599.
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Humans use multiple senses to navigate the social world, and the sense of smell is arguably the most underestimated one. An intriguing aspect of the sense of smell is its social communicative function. Research has shown that human odors convey information about a range of states (e.g., emotions, sickness) and traits (e.g., individuality, gender). Yet, what underlies the communicability of these states and traits via smell? We fill this explanatory gap with a framework that highlights the dynamic and flexible aspects of human olfactory communication. In particular, we explain how chemical profiles, associative learning (i.e., the systematic co-occurrence of chemical profiles with state- or trait-related information), and top-down contextual influences could interact to shape human odor perception. Our model not only helps to integrate past research on human olfactory communication but it also opens new avenues for future research on this fascinating, yet to date poorly understood, field.
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Stranger, Mark, Erica Bell, Dianne Nicol, Margaret Otlowski, and Don Chalmers. "Human genetic databanks in Australia: indications of inconsistency and confusion." New Genetics and Society 27, no. 4 (December 2008): 311–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636770802485400.
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Вохмина, Yu Vokhmina, Джумагалиева, L. Dzhumagalieva, Хадарцева, K. Khadartseva, Филатова, and O. Filatova. "Philosophical aspects of homeostasis for biosystems: from human body to societies and earth biosphere." Complexity. Mind. Postnonclassic 3, no. 2 (May 21, 2014): 34–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/5517.
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V.I. Vernadsky´s ideas of individual autotrophy should be extended to social autotro-phy. Russia has three order parameters that pretend us from evolving; we "flicker" within some bounded space. From the prospective of theory of chaos and self-organization we should decide where the final attractor is and move to there. American and European developmental models have no perspectives for evolution, but the initial vector of development was chosen right. Thus, not each motion is evolution, since evolution means shifting center of quasi-attractors. Each system element (each person in society) is important to participate, otherwise, evolution will not happen. A leader cannot provide evolution of all society, but he can simply interrupt the process (to choose wrong vector of development is enough). Human organism has organs that are main and that also can stop evolution of the body (as ageing) or hold fatal outcome, although death is teleologically determined in contrast to society.
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McHale, J. V. "The Human Body and the Law." Journal of Medical Ethics 18, no. 2 (June 1, 1992): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.18.2.110.
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Ferdenzi, Camille, Stéphane Richard Ortegón, Sylvain Delplanque, Nicolas Baldovini, and Moustafa Bensafi. "Interdisciplinary challenges for elucidating human olfactory attractiveness." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1800 (April 20, 2020): 20190268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0268.
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Many species use chemicals to communicate. In humans, there is increasing evidence that chemicals conveyed by the body are extremely important in interpersonal relationships. However, many aspects of chemical communication remain to be explored to fully understand this function in humans. The aim of this article is to identify relevant challenges in this field, with a focus on human attractiveness in the context of reproduction, and to put forward roadmaps for future studies that will hopefully extend to a wider range of social interactions. The first challenge consists in not being limited to body (mal)odours from the axilla. Preliminary data on how the odour of the face and head is perceived are presented. Second, there is a crucial need to increase our knowledge of the chemical bases of human chemical communication. Third, cross-cultural approaches must not be overlooked, because they have a major input in understanding the universal and culture-specific aspects of chemical communication. Fourth, the influence of specific cultural practices such as contraceptive and fragrance use is likely to be prominent and, therefore, needs to be well described. The fifth and last challenge for research projects in this field is the integration of different disciplines such as behavioural sciences, social sciences, neurosciences and microbiology. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Olfactory communication in humans’.
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Ruzinazarov, Shukhrat, and Liliya Achilova. "SOME ASPECTS OF HUMAN LEGAL PROTECTION AND DIRECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF COPYRIGHT TO THE HUMAN BODY IN VIRTUAL SPACE." Review of Law Sciences 6, no. 1 (March 15, 2022): 46–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.51788/tsul.rols.2022.6.1./lsqa7252.
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This article reveals various approaches and scientific concepts of human status in the virtual space. The author defends the idea that the formation of legal protection and a special electronic culture takes place in the life of modern society since it affects the change of its values. The subject of a separate analysis was the concept of digital personality in the process of computer games and interaction on social networks, which, at the same time, are among the most obvious ways of entering virtual reality. The virtualization of consciousness, the expansion of digital reality and many other processes related to ICT and the Internet - all requires constant modernization of legislation in the virtual space, and the gradual development of the concept of «digital personality» and «digital avatar». The author defends these ideas using the achievements of modern legal science and the conclusions of constructive analysis.
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Fischer, Wolfram. "Sensual Construction of Body and Biography. Suggestions to Mutually Improve Deficient but Widespread Body Concepts and Biographical Research." Qualitative Sociology Review 18, no. 4 (October 31, 2022): 38–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.18.4.03.
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Against the backdrop of an increasing interest in visual methods in social research, this paper examines some theoretical foundations of human (inter-)action by reflecting on the interplay between senses, the body, and biography. The main purpose of the paper is to combine an integral, non-Cartesian concept of the self as body (respectively the lived body as self) with biographical research—thus enriching research on the body, as well as on biography. Criticizing the Cartesian split of body and mind, classical phenomenological (Leib) and recent concepts of the body (“embodiment”) are sketched, resulting in a processual model of the sensual construction of the lived and living body in its environment. Given the interplay of bodily foundations of the self and processes of biographical structuring, so far, distant fields of research are converged. Some suggestions for conceptual improvements, an attentional shift to body aspects, respective research topics, and the extension of methods exceeding the narrative biographical interview in biographical research are indicated.
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MIREANU, Constantin. "THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY." BULLETIN OF "CAROL I" NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERSITY 10, no. 4 (January 10, 2022): 112–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.53477/2284-9378-21-50.
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Defining reality and the mechanisms by which people perceive it is a difficult and challenging task in this age of post-truth, where everything is relative, interpretable, and dynamic, without generally accepted norms. However, there is a close relationship between the human and the social environment. This binomial is a construction that integrates the human mind, body, spirit and environment. The continuous interaction between the human and the social environment creates the reality that manifests itself as a continuous process of coding and decoding. But, the way we interpret a situation determines the consequences of our actions and even the way things can evolve, so starting from the wrong premises, from a wrong interpretation of a situation, people behave accordingly. Therefore, in this material starting from the way the representation of the individual is formed about the environment, society, world from the perspective of neuroscience, social psychology, cognitive sociology, the main aspects of how to construct reality will be reviewed.
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Schaffhauser-Linzatti, Michaela Maria, and Stefan F. Ossmann. "Sustainability in higher education’s annual reports." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 19, no. 2 (February 5, 2018): 233–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-05-2016-0093.
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Purpose Higher education institutions are regarded as forerunners and pioneers of sustainability. However, it is to question whether they actually fulfill their role model function. This paper aims to reveal whether selected universities in Australia and Austria meet the reporting expectations about their activities on sustainability in very heterogeneous environments. Design/methodology/approach Annual reports of selected universities in Australia and Austria are screened by the qualitative text analysis suggested by Mayring to identify their information policy on sustainability. Following the standard definitions, sustainability comprises economic, environmental and social aspects as main categories, which are supplemented further by specifically adapted eight subcategories. Findings The results reveal that the universities concentrate on economic information, preferably on accounting, whereas social aspects are of second importance. Environmental activities that essentially shape the image of sustainability for the majority of the stakeholders are mostly unattended. Research limitations/implications For further research, the authors suggest analyzing the reports of additional countries to get a bigger picture on the role of sustainability information in university reporting. Possible limitations are because of language use and time requirements, as each report must be encoded manually. Practical implications The results reveal the gaps that standard setters should fill by enforcing sustainability content in universities’ reports. Originality/value This paper is the first to analyze the annual reports of international universities in respect to sustainability. Hereby, we further fill a gap by applying a qualitative text analysis on the basis of individually derived categories to reveal the sustainability aspects more precisely.
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Kopsov, Igor. "A New Theory of Human Behavior and Motivation." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 8, no. 10 (November 3, 2021): 365–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.810.11088.
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We introduce a novel and comprehensive theory of human behavior and motivation, which incorporates within it both the laws of biology and core aspects of the social sciences. In continuation of the governing postulates of natural sciences we formulate the principle of preservation as the primary law of psychology; provide precise criteria for the definition of basic human needs and uncover their origin; explore the relation between body and mind; and show correlations between individual and social perspectives of life. Subsequently, we integrate these concepts into a unified model of human behavior. We reevaluate the place of psychology within the overall domain of social science and postulate the key role of psychological drives in formation of social processes both in the current and historical perspectives. The paper signifies a step towards establishment of a common paradigm of psychology.
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Mintel, M. V., М. А. Zemlyanova, and I. G. Zhdanova-Zaplesvichko. "SOME ASPECTS OF SYNERGISTIC ACTION OF ALUMINUM AND FLUORINE ON HUMAN BODY (LITERATURE REVIEW)." Human Ecology, no. 9 (September 14, 2018): 12–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.33396/1728-0869-2018-9-12-17.
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Moreno, Margarita, and Leticia Visbal. "The Application of Anthropology in Clinical Practice: A Public Health Program for Peri-Menopausal and Menopausal Women." Practicing Anthropology 21, no. 3 (July 1, 1999): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.21.3.y146x4q258065gp6.
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Anthropology is the science concerning human populations and the holistic analysis of biological, behavioral, cultural and social processes. Excluding human pathology accepted universally as within the field of medicine, it has been suggested that everyone who studies aspects of the human body is actually doing physical anthropology even if they do not realize it.
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Singh, Ravinder. "The Pain: How Does Anthropology Look at it? Suffering of Body and Mind." Ethnologia Actualis 17, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 123–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eas-2018-0006.
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Abstract This paper reviews pain, social and physical, and its suffering in and beyond the body. It has reviewed evidences for neuro-chemical and neural overlap between social and physical pain. It also explores the consequences of this overlap followed by the sociocultural aspects of pain through an anthropological lens. This is an anthropological exploration of pain for the benefit of the understanding of our clinicians about human pain and suffering beyond the body in their local world.
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PFUELLER, SHARRON L. "Role of bioregionalism in Bookmark Biosphere Reserve, Australia." Environmental Conservation 35, no. 2 (June 2008): 173–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892908004839.
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SUMMARYBioregionalism claims that interaction between the biophysical and human components of a region generates place-based environmental and social understanding and concern, which lead to locally shared power and responsibility in cooperative land management and governance. The Man and the Biosphere Programme's Seville Strategy calls for local community participation in a multi-stakeholder ecosystem-based approach to conservation, but it is unclear if tenets of bioregionalism play a role in its implementation. Bookmark Biosphere Reserve (BBR) in Australia has substantially succeeded in scientific research and monitoring, conservation, environmental education and sustainable land-use initiatives. Aspects of bioregionalism (for example recognition of the region's unique identity, local community sense of responsibility, integration of local knowledge, presence of motivated local leaders and cooperative community-based management through a network of groups) have contributed to success. Other crucial factors were funding, technical and scientific information and support from government agencies, leadership from members of state and federal government and from private philanthropic foundations, community capacity-building for sustainable land management and availability of volunteers from outside the region. Nevertheless, conflict arose in relation to governance, originating from the recognized difficulties of reconciling a diversity of allegiances, motivations, management styles and personalities, and resulted in division of BBR into two, one section being managed largely through the private sector and community volunteers, the other (renamed Riverland Biosphere Reserve) coordinated by a committee with more diverse affiliations. Bioregionalism can play a role in biosphere reserves but motivations and resources of external public and private organizations are also vital. Avoiding weaknesses of bioregional approaches requires greater attention to social aspects of environmental management. Governance structures and processes need to be inclusive, flexible and equitable in decision making and access to funds. They should support both agency and community-initiated activities and include conflict resolution mechanisms.
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Xu, Xiangyun, and Wei Ma. "The regulation of the body by smart wearable devices and their social risk progression." Wearable Technology 2, no. 1 (June 16, 2022): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.54517/wt.v2i1.1656.
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<p>Smart wearable devices, as one of the directions of smart terminal development, show great potential for application and penetrate into all aspects of social life. In the application of smart wearable devices, the features of body discipline such as obtaining body data precisely to complete quantified self, human–computer interaction from explicit interaction to implicit interaction, and monitoring of the body from expert dependence to technological dependence and the new human–computer relationship hidden behind them are increasingly highlighted, and the social risk concerns of smart wearable device application will also come into play, which will lead to personal privacy leakage and technological risks. The social risks arising from the disclosure of personal privacy and technological risks, the loss of human subjectivity and the degradation of working capacity, the distortion of social life and the difficulties of social interaction, the deepening of the digital divide and the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the formation of a “digital leviathan” and the potential for public safety, etc., should be of sufficient concern to society.</p>
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Pollmann, Kathrin, and Daniel Ziegler. "A Pattern Approach to Comprehensible and Pleasant Human–Robot Interaction." Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 5, no. 9 (August 27, 2021): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mti5090049.
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HRI designers are faced with the task of creating robots that are easy and pleasant to use for the users. The growing body of research in human–robot interaction (HRI) is still mainly focused on technical aspects of the interaction. It lacks defined guidelines that describe how behavioral expressions for social robots need to be designed to promote high usability and positive user experience. To achieve this goal, we propose to apply the concept of design patterns to HRI. We present a design process that provides step-by-step guidance and methods for HRI designers to generate high quality behavioral patterns for social robots that can be used for different robots and use cases. To document the resulting patterns, we developed a documentation format that provides a clear, standardized structure to note down all relevant aspects of a pattern so that others can understand its design recommendations and apply them to their own robot and use cases. In the present paper, we demonstrate our pattern approach based on an example and describe how we arrived at a pattern language of 40 behavioral patterns that found the basis for future social robot design and related research activities.
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Volkov, Alexey Department of Philosophy and Culture studies. "TRANSPLANT TECHNOLOGIES AND ORGAN DONATION: CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS." Studia Humanitatis 15, no. 2 (August 2020): 24–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j12.art.2020.3564.
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The purpose of the study is to reconstruct the basic concepts of the mind-body continuum underlying transplantation technologies. Using modern research, the author shows that the application of transplantation technologies is based on ambivalent ideas: on the one hand, tissues and organs act as purely biological entities, on the other hand, they also imply the values of the subject’s personal and сultural identity. This involves an understanding of the challenges and requirements that accompany contemporary transplantation technologies: patients need to develop the ability to switch from one bodily identity to another (so-called «intercorporeality»), while transplant physicians need the ability to work with an intentional sphere of human mind. Using a number of cross-cultural studies, this paper offers a view of how the conception of death, body and identity varies in different cultural and social settings.
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Ushakov, Alexey. "Political and Legal Aspects of the Protection of Constitutional Social Rights of Citizens in Russia." Legal Concept, no. 1 (May 2022): 30–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2022.1.4.
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Introduction: the paper analyzes the legal features of the formation of the legal positions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in the field of protection of social rights of citizens in the Russian Federation. As the practice of law enforcement and human rights activities shows, the constitutional social rights of Russian citizens are most often violated. For this purpose, the court rulings issued in the field of protection of social rights by citizens have been studied. Using the methods of scientific cognition, first of all, the system analysis of judicial and regulatory legal acts, the peculiarities of the formation of legal positions of judicial legal instances of the Russian and international level are revealed. Results: the study has revealed the existence of controversial issues in the formulation of legal positions of the interstate human rights body and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Conclusions: during the formulation of legal positions by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the principles of protection of social rights of citizens are formulated; however, when making decisions by the European Court of Human Rights, a political aspect is often manifested.
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Kozhukhovskaya, A. A. "ANTHROPOLOGICAL STANDARDS OF MODERN BIOMEDICINE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS." Intellect. Innovations. Investments, no. 6 (2022): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.25198/2077-7175-2022-6-53.
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The achievements of biological science, clinical medicine, pharmacology, psychology and all other scientific areas involved in the field of human diagnostics and treatment are increasingly being introduced into practice. The relevance of the work lies in the fact that today in the field of modern medical practice, along with the historically established social institution of medical medicine, the phenomenon of biomedicine is increasingly manifesting itself. The latest biomedical technologies affect the deep levels of the human body and have an indirect biological effect. The achievements of modern biomedicine have contributed to the improvement of the quality of human life, thus, it has become possible to treat many diseases that were not available before. It should be noted that certain risks and threats are hidden behind a certain number of prospects, for example, changing and constructing the human genome is a transformation of the deep processes of the human body. In the absence of proper regulation of the permissibility of biomedical effects on the human body, such interventions can threaten the further existence of the human race in its natural form, which is especially evident in the project of transhumanism. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to qualitatively update those anthropological approaches that are associated with the impact of medical technologies on humans. It seems that it is possible to overcome the theoretical and practical difficulties that arise in this case using a new epistemological approach, the method of which is the philosophical interpretation of medicine as a practically effective anthropology. Main results: the implementation of this approach allows us to state that the factor of human morphological immutability should be chosen as the leading anthropological standard of modern medicine. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the development of normative-value regulators of modern biomedicine, based on a purposeful orientation towards stabilizing the evolutionary image of a person against the background of a steady increase in the technical component of culture, including the field of medicine, which are able to prevent those threats and risks that may accompany this process.
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Tamari, Tomoko. "The Phenomenology of Architecture." Body & Society 23, no. 1 (December 13, 2016): 91–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034x16676540.
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This piece focuses on the work of Juhani Pallasmaa who introduces phenomenological aspects of kinesthetic and multisensory perception of the human body into architecture theory. He argues that hand-drawing is a vital spatial and haptic exercise in facilitating architectural design. Through this process, architecture can emerge as the very ‘material’ existence of human embodied ‘immaterial’ emotion, feelings and wisdom. Hence, for Pallasmaa, architecture can be seen as an artistic practice, which entails multisensory and embodied thought in order to establish the sense of being in the world.
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Pila, Justine. "Intellectual property rights and detached human body parts." Journal of Medical Ethics 40, no. 1 (July 26, 2012): 27–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2012-100761.
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Gollan, Natalie, and Kate Barclay. "'It's not just about fish': Assessing the social impacts of marine protected areas on the wellbeing of coastal communities in New South Wales." PLOS ONE 15, no. 12 (December 30, 2020): e0244605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244605.
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Managing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is about managing human behaviours, but decision-making processes have traditionally focussed on ecological aspects, treating social aspects as secondary. It is now becoming more evident that an equal focus on the ecological and social aspects is required. Without the collection of information about social aspect such as impacts and sharing this as well as ecological information with communities, MPAs are at higher risk of opposition and social acceptability problems. This paper explores the development of a wellbeing framework to understand the social aspects, including the impacts of MPAs on the wellbeing of local communities. This research investigates two case study MPAs: Cape Byron and Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Parks in New South Wales, Australia. The MPAs are multiple-use and were implemented in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The research began with a review of the literature, followed by fieldwork, including semi-structured qualitative interviews with community members. Through thematic coding of the interview transcripts in light of the literature on assessing the social impacts of MPAs, a community wellbeing framework of domains and associated attributes was developed to investigate social impacts. Our analysis shows; first, local perspectives are crucial to understanding social impacts. Second, understanding social impacts gives insight into the nature of trade-offs that occur in decision-making regarding MPAs. Third, the intangible social impacts experienced by local communities are just as significant as the tangible ones for understanding how MPAs operate. Fourth, governance impacts have been the most influential factor affecting the social acceptability of the case study parks. We argue that failure to address negative social impacts can undermine the legitimacy of MPAs. We propose that the framework will support policymakers to work towards more effective, equitable and socially sustainable MPAs by employing much-needed monitoring of human dimensions of conservation interventions at the community level to shape adaptive management.
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M, SAJITHA. "Myriad Aspects of Secular Thinking on Malayali Cuisine." GIS Business 14, no. 3 (June 26, 2019): 202–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/gis.v14i3.4670.
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Food is one of the main requirements of human being. It is flattering for the preservation of wellbeing and nourishment of the body. The food of a society exposes its custom, prosperity, status, habits as well as it help to develop a culture. Food is one of the most important social indicators of a society. History of food carries a dynamic character in the socio- economic, political, and cultural realm of a society. The food is one of the obligatory components in our daily life. It occupied an obvious atmosphere for the augmentation of healthy life and anticipation against the diseases. The food also shows a significant character in establishing cultural distinctiveness, and it reflects who we are. Food also reflected as the symbol of individuality, generosity, social status and religious believes etc in a civilized society. Food is not a discriminating aspect. It is the part of a culture, habits, addiction, and identity of a civilization.Food plays a symbolic role in the social activities the world over. It’s a universal sign of hospitality.[1]
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Bortolotti, Alessandro, Simone Fullagar, Bruno Mora, Niamh Ni Shuilleabhain, Nicola De Martini Ugolotti, Alessandra Xavier Bueno, Antonio Donato, Eduardo Galak, and Leonardo Tonelli. "More-than-human Perspectives on Physical Activity, Health and Education." Saúde em Redes 8, no. 3 (December 29, 2022): 513–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18310/2446-4813.2022v8n3p513-527.
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The Culture/Nature dualism has supplied post-Enlightenment philosophers, scientists and social scientists with a neat way to set limits on the respective concerns of the social and natural sciences (see Barad, 2007; Braidotti, 2013; Fullagar et al., 2019), and has enabled the creation of distinctions between “modern” (read “civilised”) and “traditional” (read “primitive”) bodies and ways of being-in-the-world (Denowski and Viveiros de Castro, 2014). Yet, when critically exploring issues of embodiment, the influence of the built environment on well-being, climate transitions and/or the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic such distinctions start to become problematic, as eloquently argued in the last three decades by feminist, post-human, new-materialist and political ecological –among others– debates and propositions. Giving continuity to an ongoing dialogue started in 2018 between scholars and activists from Latin America and Europe (see Donato, Tonelli, Galak, 2019) this seminar explored how the interrelated domains of health, physical activity, and education can look like from perspectives that de-stabilise established ontological boundaries between nature, culture, the body, and their relationship. It did so through a dialogue between Alessandro Bortolotti, Simone Fullagar, Bruno Mora, Niamh Ni Shuilleabhain, four scholars from Australia, Italy, United Kingdom and Uruguay. The online event took place as the first of a two-parts online seminar series on Re-assembling the nature-culture-body nexus: practices and epistemologies.
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Rameezdeen, Raufdeen, Jian Zuo, and Jack Stevens. "Practices, drivers and barriers of implementing green leases: lessons from South Australia." Journal of Corporate Real Estate 19, no. 1 (April 3, 2017): 36–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcre-04-2016-0018.
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the practices, drivers and barriers which influence the implementation of green leases in South Australia. Despite some efforts on legal aspects of green leases, only a few studies have examined these aspects from an operational perspective. In addition, very little empirical evidence was presented in previous studies to show how green leases work in real-life settings. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with landlord and tenant representatives who have considerable experience in green leases. These interviewees were selected via a purposive sampling technique that identified buildings which use green leases in South Australia. The concept of interface management (IM) was used to operationalize this research. Findings The green leases were found to be mainly initiated by tenants while government involvement, economic and environmental benefits are the main drivers in South Australia. Drivers such as staff retention, well-being and corporate social responsibility are found to be more relevant to tenants. Lack of awareness and transaction costs are the main barriers to the implementation of green leases. Research limitations/implications This study focuses on the South Australian context and mainly covers dark green leases. There are implications for the government’s continued involvement and the promotion of lighter shades of green leases to overcome operational issues and barriers identified in this study. Originality/value This study contributes to the body of knowledge on the subject of green lease implementation from an operational perspective. In addition, the study introduces a conceptual framework via IM that could be used in future research endeavours.
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Kravchuk, S. "Theoretical and legal aspects regulation public relations." Uzhhorod National University Herald. Series: Law, no. 69 (April 15, 2022): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24144/2307-3322.2021.69.4.
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The article defines the means of social regulation, which include legal, moral, corporate, social customs, etc. At the same time, the norm is not the only means of influencing human behavior, as such means also embrace individual instructions, authoritarian orders, measures of physical, mental, organizational coercion and so on. Therefore, the legal regulation of social relations is defined by the author as a purposeful action on human behavior and public relations with the help of legal (juridical) means.
At the same time, the legislator faces the difficult task of maintaining a balance between legal regulation and social self-regulation. Before subjecting a public relation to normative regulation, it is necessary to substantiate the necessity and expediency of such a step, since the efficiency of legal regulation is determined by the compliance of the final result of legal regulation with the goals set by the legislator in the relevant legal norm. Therefore, the aim of the article is to determine the level of potency of legal norms that correspond to the objective conditions and laws of development of the society in which they operate. At the same time, their content must correspond to the social consciousness of the population, first of all to the principles of morality and the level of legal awareness, as well as to agree with the norms of its other branches.
Since the subject of legal regulation is social relations, the legal regulation is conditioned by certain objective and subjective factors. The author identifies the following factors: the level of economic development of the society; the social structure of the society; the level of maturity and stability of social relations; the level of legal culture of citizens; the level of determinancy of the subject, means and methods of legal regulation.
In a modern democratic state, the nature and types of these means are determined by a set of factors, among which the article highlights the patterns of development and fundamentals of the law system, as well as the level of the declared and actually valid rights and freedoms of man and citizen, enshrined both in acts of national law and in international legal acts ratified by the legislative body of this state.
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Umnova-Konyukhova, I. A., and I. A. Aleshkova. "The Impact of Scientific and Technological Progress in Biotechnology on Human Rights and Principles of Law." Actual Problems of Russian Law 17, no. 10 (September 26, 2022): 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.17803/1994-1471.2022.143.10.034-045.
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The paper raises ethical and social problems of biolaw, consideration of which is necessary to improve its principles and norms. The authors are convinced that biolaw is designed to take into account both the advantages and problematic aspects associated with the impact of new technologies on the human body that can change a person as a physical individual and, accordingly, transform society and humanity as a whole. The paper touches upon two key aspects of biolaw: the development of biorights or rights related to the human body in the system of rights of a new generation and the definition of principles of biolaw that ensure the unity of legal and ethical-social regulators in biotechnology. One of the important conclusions is that, although human biorights and the principles of biolaw are interrelated institutions, in the system of legal regulation they have features of content and action. Having identified the need to develop a new approach to understanding the principles of biolaw, the authors emphasize the need to create a theory of biolaw taxonomy or biotaxonomy, within which special importance should be given to the principles of biolaw as a dogmatic and sustainable means of legal regulation that form a systemic relationship with the principles of bioethics, constituting a single, dialectically interrelated homological series. Thus, the paper gives an opportunity to think about the development of the theory of biopraw and the prospects for its development in the paradigm of interaction with ethical and other social regulators.
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Pogodzinski, Ben. "The microfoundations of human resources management in US public schools." Journal of Educational Administration 54, no. 5 (August 1, 2016): 537–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-09-2015-0076.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the extent to which human resources (HR) decision making is influenced by the social context of school systems. More specifically, this study draws upon organizational theory focussed on the microfoundations of organizations as a lens identify key aspects of school HR decision making at the district and school level. Design/methodology/approach – Interview data were collected from district-level HR directors and local union presidents across 11 districts in Michigan and Indiana. The interviews provided information on the formal and informal aspects HR management. The interviews were audio recorded and transcribed, and the constant comparative method was used to move from initial codes to higher levels of abstraction (Miles and Huberman, 1994; Strauss and Corbin, 1990). Multiple data collection methods were utilized to help validate the interview data that were collected (Stake, 2004). Findings – The key findings show that social relationships, particularly at the school level, influence the distribution of teachers within a district. The findings support the need for closer attention to be given to the social dynamics of school systems and the impact this has on HR decision making, particular with regard to the influence of informal organizational structures and day-to-day interactions within systems. Originality/value – The current body of research does not fully attend conceptually or empirically to the broader social context of a school system which shape HR decisions. Specifically, researchers and practitioners need to further address the ways that the social dynamics of school systems shape administrative decision making with regard to HR management.
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Tang, Melody. "Contributions of Capitals to Chinese International Graduates’ Employability in Australia." Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education 14, no. 5A (January 14, 2023): 52–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v14i5a.5066.
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This research explores the employability of Chinese international graduates in the Australian labor market. It captures the significance of six forms of capital (i.e., human, social, cultural, psychological, identity, and agentic) to Chinese international graduates when they develop their careers in Australia. The research employed Bourdieu’s theory of practice and a capitals-based approach as the theoretical framework. Data were collected via an online survey (N=203) and in-depth interviews (N=14). The findings reveal that in addition to getting employments in Australia, the graduates also benefited from developing and utilizing these six capitals in terms of sustainable employments, professional growth, and well-being. As such, this research argued for a broad definition of employability which include different capitals as the inputs and different aspects of employability outcomes as the outputs, namely, employment outcomes, sustainable employments, professional growth, and well-being. The findings also implied that various stakeholders should share responsibilities to support international students in building multiple capitals.
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Gooroochurn, Nishaal, and Guntur Sugiyarto. "Competitiveness Indicators in the Travel and Tourism Industry." Tourism Economics 11, no. 1 (March 2005): 25–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/0000000053297130.
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The competitiveness of tourist destinations is important, especially as countries strive for a bigger market share. However, competitiveness is a complex concept, encompassing various aspects that are difficult to measure. This paper discusses an innovative approach for measuring tourism competitiveness using eight main indicators – price, openness, technology, infrastructure, human tourism, social development, environment and human resources – for over 200 countries. Weights for each theme are derived using confirmatory factor analysis in order to compute an aggregate index, and it is found that the social and technology indicators have the highest weights while the human tourism and environment indicators have the lowest. Cluster analysis is used to group destinations according to their performance level. The USA, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Australia are found to be the most competitive destinations, while Burkina Faso, Chad, Benin, Ethiopia and Cambodia are the least competitive.
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Thalluri, Jyothi, and Joy Penman. "Transition to First Year University Study: A Qualitative Descriptive Study on the Psychosocial and Emotional Impacts of a Science Workshop." Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology 16 (2019): 197–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4297.
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Aim/purpose The purpose of this article is to discuss the psychosocial and emotional outcomes of an introductory health science workshop designed to support and assist incoming health science students before starting their university study. Background For the past two decades, a South Australian university offered an on-campus face to face workshop titled ‘Preparation for Health Sciences’ to incoming first-year students from eleven allied health programs such as Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medical Imaging. While many were locals, a good number came from regional and rural areas, and many were international students also. They consisted of both on-campus and off-campus students. The workshop was created as a new learning environment that was available for students of diverse age groups, educational and cultural backgrounds to prepare them to study sciences. The content of the four-day workshop was developed in consultation with the program directors of the allied health programs. The objectives were to: introduce the assumed foundational science knowledge to undertake health sciences degree; gain confidence in approaching science subjects; experience lectures and laboratory activities; and become familiar with the University campus and its facilities. The workshop was delivered a week before the orientation week, before first-year formal teaching weeks. The topics covered were enhancing study skills, medical and anatomical terminology, body systems, basic chemistry and physics, laboratory activities, and assessment of learning. Methodology In order to determine the outcomes of the workshop, a survey was used requiring participants to agree or disagree about statements concerning the preparatory course and answer open-ended questions relating to the most important information learned and the best aspects of the workshop. Several students piloted this questionnaire before use in order to ascertain the clarity of instructions, terminology and statements. The result of the 2015-2018 pre- and post-evaluation showed that the workshop raised confidence and enthusiasm in commencing university and that the majority considered the workshop useful overall. The findings of the survey are drawn upon to examine the psychosocial and emotional impacts of the workshop on participants. Using secondary qualitative analysis, the researchers identified the themes relating to the psychosocial and emotional issues conveyed by the participants. Contribution The contributions of the article are in the areas of improving students’ confidence to complete their university degrees and increasing the likelihood of academic success. Findings Of the 285 students who participated in the workshops from 2015 to 2018, 166 completed the survey conducted at the conclusion of the initiative, representing a 58% response rate. The workshops achieved the objectives outlined at the outset. While there were many findings reported (Thalluri, 2016), the results highlighted in this paper relate to the psychosocial and emotional impacts of the workshop on students. Three themes emerged, and these were Increased preparedness and confidence; Networking and friendships that enhanced support, and Reduced anxiety to study sciences. Some drawbacks were also reported including the cost, time and travel involved. Recommendations for practitioners Students found the introductory workshop to be psychosocially and emotionally beneficial. It is recommended that the same approach be applied for teaching other challenging fields such as mathematics and physics within the university and in other contexts and institutions. Recommendations for researchers Improving and extending the workshop to provide greater accessibility and autonomy is recommended. A longitudinal study to follow up the durability of the workshop is also proposed. Impact on society The impacts in the broader community include: higher academic success for students; improved mental health due to social networking and friendship groups and reduced anxiety and fear; reduced dropout rate in their first year; greater potential to complete educational degrees; reduced wastage in human and financial resources; and increased human capital. Future research Addressing the limitations of cost, time and travel involved, and following-up with the participants’ academic and workplace performance are future directions for research.
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Doronin, B. M., T. F. Popova, L. A. Klimova, N. V. Kornach, A. A. Shtobbe, and M. V. Popov. "Clinical and functional changes of condition of patients with ischemic stroke during rehabilitation programs." Bulletin of Siberian Medicine 7, no. 5-1 (December 30, 2008): 111–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.20538/1682-0363-2008-5-1-111-116.
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The complex rehabilitation programs make an impact on physical, psychological and social aspects of quality of life of the patients with acute brain stroke. The sanatorium stage of treatment is a great important because there are a lot of harmonious combinations of drugs, psychosociological, natural and physiotherapeutic methods of influence on human body.
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Anderson, Adam K., and Elizabeth A. Phelps. "Expression Without Recognition: Contributions of the Human Amygdala to Emotional Communication." Psychological Science 11, no. 2 (March 2000): 106–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00224.
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A growing body of evidence from humans and other animals suggests the amygdala may be a critical neural substrate for emotional processing. In particular, recent studies have shown that damage to the human amygdala impairs the normal appraisal of social signals of emotion, primarily those of fear. However, effective social communication depends on both the ability to receive (emotional appraisal) and the ability to send (emotional expression) signals of emotional state. Although the role of the amygdala in the appraisal of emotion is well established, its importance for the production of emotional expressions is unknown. We report a case study of a patient with bilateral amygdaloid damage who, despite a severe deficit in interpreting facial expressions of emotion including fear, exhibits an intact ability to express this and other basic emotions. This dissociation suggests that a single neural module does not support all aspects of the social communication of emotional state.
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Riley, Tamara, Raymond Lovett, Joanne Thandrayen, Bonny Cumming, and Katherine A. Thurber. "Evaluating Impacts of a One Health Approach to Companion Animal Health and Management in a Remote Aboriginal Community in the Northern Territory, Australia." Animals 10, no. 10 (October 1, 2020): 1790. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10101790.
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This study evaluated a community-driven animal health and management program in the remote community of Wadeye, Northern Territory. This evaluation used a pre-post design to assess changes in animal and human health outcomes over a 12-month period of program implementation, from June 2018 to June 2019. The evaluation assessed the program by comparing animal health outcomes before versus one year after program implementation and comparing human health outcomes before versus during the first 12 months of the program. Outcome measures included the desexing status of dogs and cats, body condition and hair score of dogs, and rates of people presenting to the health clinic for a dog bite. Animal health outcomes significantly improved after program implementation. From pre to post program, there was a 77% increase in the prevalence of good body condition score among dogs and a 9% increase in the prevalence of good hair score among dogs, and the prevalence of desexed dogs and cats more than doubled. There was no significant change in the number of people presenting to the health clinic for a dog bite. Consideration on how to further incorporate human and environmental health aspects into the program could be useful for future One Health programs.
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Goold, Imogen, Loane Skene, Jonathan Herring, and Kate Greasley. "The human body as property? Possession, control and commodification." Journal of Medical Ethics 40, no. 1 (December 13, 2013): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2013-101945.
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Mews, Gregor Helmut, and Milica Muminovic. "Observations on Death and Life of Public Space in Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Public Space, Vol. 5 n. 3 (November 30, 2020): 173–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v5i3.1366.
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“Do not touch me, touch and deal with other people in the spirit of love” is stated upfront in Zizek (2020) recent reflection on the unprecedented global pandemic that has a firm grip on our societies. The quote makes two strong points that highlight the essence of this commentary. First, it implies that during the global COVID19 pandemic each and every one of use is forced to deal with their on human spirit embodied through the ontological state of existence and apply mindfulness and accountability for their actions in their everyday life routines. Second, public life in cities is different. Quickly the ‘new normal’ dictates our everyday life routines while systemic spatial issues being amplified, while social distancing measures are in place and restriction on social encounter being enforced. We present an argument that is based on direct observations of lockdown conditions during the first wave in 2020 in the Australian context. Careful framing around the concepts of ‘urban loveability’ and public space allows us to critically examine the synergy between aspects of the human spirit that celebrate and unite us. Whether the ‘new normal’ embraces death or life is evident if we pay attention to detailed traces of dynamic and intangible elements in public spaces. They remind us what makes us human and holding the possibility to realise a new ontological state of existence.
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Thornquist, Eline, and Anna Luise Kirkengen. "The lived body - a historical phenomenon." European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 8, no. 2 (August 18, 2020): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v8i2.1840.
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Drawing on an authentic sickness history the present paper provides arguments for epistemological and ontological shifts in current clinical practice. The kind of sickness accounted for, impairing the health of a person to the extent of full incapacitation, is medically unexplained. Likewise, its pathogenic sources are unidentified, which results in a lack of options for treatment or even amelioration. Given the considerable healthcare investment in this particular “case”, the insufficiency of both diagnostic and therapeutic approaches calls for a different conceptual framework. When applying a socially and phenomenologically informed frame of reference, the lived experience of violation emerges as a salient background for understanding how disrespect and powerlessness have been inscribed with lifelong impact and how they became reactivated by biographic particularities reminiscent of previous objectification. A biomedically unexplained incapacitation is rendered logical when read with a view recognizing the social and corporeal aspects of human experience.
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Karki, Binod Kumar. "Postmodern Perspective towards Human Health and Illness." KMC Research Journal 4, no. 4 (December 31, 2020): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v4i4.46476.
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Health and illness, as widely used terms in postmodern society leave a wide scope as to their definition and conceptual interpretation. The medico-technical perspective refers to health and illness as objective changes in the structure and functioning of the human body and mind, as a result of which the bodily and mental integrity of the human organism is affected detrimentally. On the contrary, the social sciences, and especially medical sociology, define health and illness essentially in terms of the social system within which they occur. The main task of medical sociology is to pay attention to those social systemic and sociocultural aspects of health and illness which are sometimes grossly neglected or insufficiently understood by the medical sciences, thereby to contribute to a comprehensive approach to these phenomena.This study is based on review of the related literature to postmodern perspective towards health and illness. The aim of this study is to explore the postmodernist perspective towards health and illness. Thus, I will be exploring the various concepts of health and illness and also explain the postmodern perspectives of health and illness in different ways.