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Mele, Alfred. "History and Personal Autonomy." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 23, no. 2 (June 1993): 271–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1993.10717320.
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John Christman, in ‘Autonomy and Personal History,’ advances a novel genetic or historical account of individual autonomy. He formulates ‘the conditions of the [i.e., his] new model of autonomy’ as follows:(i) A person P is autonomous relative to some desire D if it is the case that P did not resist the development of D when attending to this process of development, or P would not have resisted that development had P attended to the process;(ii) The lack of resistance to the development of D did not take place (or would not have) under the influence of factors that inhibit self-reflection;and(iii) The self-reflection involved in condition (i) [sic] is (minimally) rational and involves no self-deception. (11)
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Colwell, C. "Michel Foucault: Personal Autonomy and Education. James D. Marshall." Isis 91, no. 1 (March 2000): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/384650.
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Chaika, G. V. "PERSONAL TRAITS SUPPORTING POSITIVE RELATIONS WITH OTHERS." Ukrainian Psychological Journal, no. 1 (13) (2020): 223–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/upj.2020.1(13).14.
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The article examines the psychological qualities and characteristics that support positive relations with others as they are understood in C. Ryff 's model of psychological well-being and compares them with those personal qualities that usually understood as supporting an individual 's personal autonomy. To solve this task, we used the corresponding scale from the Ryff 's Scales of Psychological Well-being; the Test of Meaningful Life Orientation of D. A. Leontiev; Test-Questionnaire of Self-Attitude of V. V. Stolyn, S.R. Panteleyev; Self-Efficacy Scale proposed by R. Schwarzer and M. Jerusalem (adapted by V. G. Romek), S. Maddi 's Hardiness Scale (adaptated of D. A. Leontiev et al.), the Self-Actualization Test (CAT), the self-expression scale from the self-determination test of Osin E. et al. In total, 150 respondents - students of Kyiv universities participated in the research. The study data show that there are strong correlations between positive relations with others and such personal traits as life process and life results and other indicators of meaningfulness of life; self-expression, which reveals whether life is experienced as consistent with one 's own desires, needs and values; self-respect and expected attitudes of others and several other indicators of self-attitude and general scale of self-attitudes; self-actualizing value and psychological hardiness. The predictors of successful positive relations are commitment, expected attitudes of others, self-expression and self-respect, existing life goals and positive life results. High locus of control on self and control as a factor of psychological hardiness can prevent from development of warm, good and deep relations. The obtained results show that there is a line of personal characteristic that support personal autonomy and positive relations with others, namely, self-expression, self-respect, life-goals. That is why we cannot argue the idea that personal autonomy and positive relations with others are totally opposite personal traits and that need in autonomy can is fulfilled by neglecting relationships with others.
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McConnell, Roland C. "Benjamin Arthur Quarles, Ph. D. 1904-1996. A Personal Memorial Tribute." Journal of Negro History 86, no. 2 (April 2001): 200–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jnhv86n2p200.
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Karlsson, Leena. "PERMISSION TO WRITE." Philologia hispalensis 1, no. 34 (2020): 159–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ph.2020.v34.i01.09.
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In this narrative auto-ethnographic paper, I experiment with a version of “post-academic” writing. I explore how I could improve and develop my craft as a narrative inquirer and strengthen my written voice as an expression of my practitioner-researcher autonomy. I tell the story of two writers, myself and Laura, my student, by bringing us as characters into the same story. We are both students of writing and in the process of developing our thinking and awareness of educational experience through our writing. We use writing as inquiry, as a method, and our texts emerge from the shared storytelling world of language counselling. We both experiment with personal reflective writing as a way of claiming ownership of this open-ended writing practice and of expressing our autonomy. In this paper, I give glimpses of our stories with a view to how Laura’s story worked on me as a practitioner-researcher and a scholarly writer.
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Santarpia, Ferdinando Paolo, Laura Borgogni, Chiara Consiglio, and Pietro Menatta. "The Bright and Dark Sides of Resources for Cross-Role Interrupting Behaviors and Work–Family Conflict: Preliminary Multigroup Findings on Remote and Traditional Working." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 22 (November 20, 2021): 12207. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212207.
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Using boundary management and conservation of resources theories, we examined how job resources (i.e., job autonomy and goal-oriented leadership) and a work-related personal resource (i.e., personal initiative at work) relate to cross-role interrupting behaviors—i.e., interrupting the work (or non-work) role to attend to competing non-work (or work) demands—and how, in turn, they correlate with work–family conflict. Furthermore, we examined differences in the proposed nomological network between workers adopting traditional and remote ways of working. Using a multigroup structural equation modelling approach on a sample of 968 employees from an Italian telecommunications company, we found that: (a) job autonomy was positively related to both work interrupting non-work behaviors and to non-work interrupting work behaviors, (b) goal-oriented leadership was negatively related to non-work interrupting work behaviors, (c) personal initiative at work was positively related to work interrupting non-work behaviors and, finally, (d) cross-role interrupting behaviors were positively related to work–family conflict. Additionally, our findings revealed previously undocumented results; (a) mediating patterns in how resources relate, through cross-role interrupting behaviors, to work–family conflict and (b) non-invariant associations among job autonomy, cross-role interrupting behaviors and work–family conflict across traditional and remote workers. The limitations and theoretical and practical implications of the present study are discussed.
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Menegale, Marcella. "USING LOGBOOKS WITH SECOND AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: LEARNER AUTONOMY IN PROGRESS." Philologia hispalensis 1, no. 34 (2020): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ph.2020.v34.i01.06.
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This paper reports data from a study recently carried out with university language students attending a Master’s degree programme in Language Sciences. The study aimed at exploring to what extent logbook writing could allow them to progress in their learner autonomy by engaging in more reflective, conscious, and responsible second/foreign language learning. The class was asked first to write a logbook for a week with the purpose of keeping track of their personal language learning process and then to answer some reflective questions to give an account of their perception about the logbook experience. By taking an interpretive approach to the investigation and adopting qualitative data analysis, it was found that the logbook was generally perceived as useful in improving language learning and stimulating meta-cognitive reflection, self-awareness and learner’s intervention. While limits were identified in the use of this tool (i.e., persistence needed to regularly keep logs, time availability and appropriate organisation skills), some students declared their intention to use the logbook in the future, after making personalised adjustments according to their learning needs and goals.
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KALETNIK, Grygorii, Inna HONCHARUK, and Yuliia OKHOTA. "The Waste-Free Production Development for the Energy Autonomy Formation of Ukrainian Agricultural Enterprises." Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism 11, no. 3 (June 11, 2020): 513. http://dx.doi.org/10.14505//jemt.v11.3(43).02.
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Agriculture has been considered as one of the priority countries sectors in our research; the share of agriculture in the gross domestic product of the world leading countries was investigated. The theoretical and practical aspects of non-waste agricultural production development using animal waste and crop residues fermented in biogas plants are revealed. The authors substantiate the relevance and potential of the introduction of waste-free technology which has considerable advantages of energy autonomy both for the enterprise and the country. The state of humus content in soils of Ukraine is also considered. International experience has been evaluated, which consists in the ability of agricultural waste both to produce alternative sources of energy and to use the products of their processing as organic fertilizers that significantly increase crop yields.
The first steps of the Ukrainian agricultural enterprises to introduction of non-waste production on the example of the company LLC Organic-D have been presented; it heats and electrifies the complex, dries crops, and also uses organic fertilizer (digestate) due to waste processing in the biogas station. As a result of the research, it was found that the application of organic fertilizer can have a positive effect on soil recovery, because the soil acidity has changed from a level of weak acid (5.4 pH) to a level close to neutral (6 pH) for one year of its application. To conclude, the obtained results prove the relevance of the research problem.
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Shen, Ching-Ju, Chung-Yao Yang, Huan-Yun Chen, Wei-Chun Chen, Ting-Chang Chang, and Chao-Min Cheng. "Clinical Evaluation of a Self-Testing Kit for Vaginal Infection Diagnosis." Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2021 (August 6, 2021): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/4948954.
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Vaginitis is a common disorder among women of varying ages that arises from a change in the normal pH balance of vaginal bacteria or an infection. Characteristic symptoms of itching, irritation, and odor cause considerable discomfort and increase the risk of contracting other sexually transmitted infections. Because of the sensitive and personal nature of the condition, some women may be reluctant to seek treatment. This behavior not only fails to solve the problem but may also delay medical treatment and result in additional medical complications. The pH changes associated with vaginitis and vaginosis, which are characterized by the presence or absence of inflammation, respectively, are well known but can vary. For example, bacterial vaginosis and trichomoniasis infection will raise vaginal pH above 4.5, while vulvovaginal candidiasis does not result in any measurable change to pH. Nonetheless, diagnostic tools relying on pH measurement are a valuable approach from which additional testing and treatment may be launched. Here, we focused on the use of a vaginal self-test tool and tested 50 patients, including pregnant women. When used according to the instructions, the Hygeia Touch Self-Testing Kit for Vaginal Infection demonstrated over 88% accuracy compared to a clinical diagnostic workup, with a sensitivity of 87% and a specificity of 89% in the patients where the swab was correctly interpreted. This study demonstrated an effective self-test method with high acceptability among women that provided them with greater autonomy regarding health management.
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Li, Alex Yang, and Virginia Braun. "Pubic hair and its removal: A practice beyond the personal." Feminism & Psychology 27, no. 3 (November 30, 2016): 336–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353516680233.
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Pubic hair removal, now common among women in Anglo/western cultures, has been theorised as a disciplinary practice. As many other feminine bodily practices, it is characterised by removal or alteration of aspects of women's material body (i.e., pubic hair) considered unattractive but otherwise “natural.” Emerging against this theorisation is a discourse of personal agency and choice, wherein women assert autonomy and self-mastery of their own bodies and body practices. In this paper, we use a thematic analysis to examine the interview talk about pubic hair from 11 sexually and ethnically diverse young women in New Zealand. One overarching theme – pubic hair is undesirable; its removal is desirable – encapsulates four themes we discuss in depth, which illustrate the personal, interpersonal and sociocultural influences intersecting the practice: (a) pubic hair removal is a personal choice; (b) media promote pubic hair removal; (c) friends and family influence pubic hair removal; and (d) the (imagined) intimate influences pubic hair removal. Despite minor variations among queer women, a perceived norm of genital hairlessness was compelling among the participants. Despite the articulated freedom to practise pubic hair removal, any freedom from participating in this practice appeared limited, rendering the suggestion that it is just a “choice” problematic.
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Anglim, Jeromy, and Sharon Horwood. "Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being." Social Psychological and Personality Science 12, no. 8 (January 12, 2021): 1527–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550620983047.
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The current study assessed the effect of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on subjective well-being (SWB) and psychological well-being (PWB) and whether the pandemic moderated the effect of personality on well-being. Measures of Big Five personality, SWB (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect), and PWB (positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, and self-acceptance) were obtained from a sample of young adults in Melbourne, Australia ( n = 1,132; July 13–August 11, 2020) during a second wave of viral transmission and lockdown and an identically recruited pre-COVID sample ( n = 547). Well-being was lower in the COVID sample, and differences were largest for positive affect ( d = −0.48) and negative affect ( d = 0.70). While the effect of personality on well-being was relatively robust, the effect of personality on well-being was slightly reduced, and the effect of extroversion on positive affect was particularly attenuated during the pandemic.
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Bondar, L. D. "Linguistic Research in the Scientific Expedition to Siberia (1719–1727): D. G. Messerschmidt and Ph. J. Strahlenberg." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 21, no. 8 (October 24, 2022): 44–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2022-21-8-44-66.
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Linguistics is, perhaps, the only field of scientific studies of two colleagues, who were companions on the Siberian journey – D. G. Messerschmidt and Ph. J. Strahlenberg – in which historians of science cannot reach the consensus on whom give the palm and title of the pioneer in the study of the languages of the Siberian peoples and whose contribution in the formation of comparative linguistics was more significant. The article presents the materials from the personal collection of the first researcher of Siberia, German scholar D. G. Messerschmidt, stored in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It analyzes information about linguistic research conducted in the expedition of D. G. Messerschmidt (1719–1722) at the time when his Swedish companion Ph. J. Strahlenberg was on this voyage (till 1722). The research goal is to establish the degree of participation of both scholars in collecting and analyzing language materials. Comparison of the data from archival sources information contained in the book, published by Ph. J. Strahlenberg in Stockholm in 1730, shows that both German and Swedish researchers collected and processed language materials independently; they had different linguistic interests and research goals. For Ph. J. Strahlenberg, comparative language study and etymology issues were areas of his special interest; the priority of D. G. Messerschmidt lied in the purposeful and systematic compilation of natural science nomenclatures, comparative studies became the focus of his attention much later. At the same time, the research trajectories of the two traveling scholars inevitably intersected due to joint travel and long-time joint work – even if the travelers did not share their notes, they could not help but share ideas and conclusions.
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Borzova, Tatyana Vladimirovna, and Elena Sergeevna Plotnikova. "Manifestation of self-determination in personal, activity and social self-realization of students." Психолог, no. 4 (April 2020): 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8701.2020.4.33082.
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The subject of this research is the manifestation of self-determination in personal, activity and social self-realization of students. The goal consists in examination of correlation of the parameters of self-determination with personal, activity and social self-realization of students. The research methodology contains the concepts and theories of the following sholars: E. Deci and R. Ryan (people are able to become self-determined when their need for autonomy is fulfilled); D. A. Leontiev (self-determination as the superior form of self-regulation); S. L. Rubinstein (self-determination as an internal condition of activity for self-determination); A. Maslow and K. Rogers (self-realization as a process of personal growth); S. I. Kudinov (polysystemic model of self-realization). The empirical methods of research included: “Test for Self-Determination” of E. N. Osin – modification of the scale of self-determination of K. Sheldon; “Test for Life Meaningful Orientation” of D. A. Leontiev; “Ability to Self-governance” of N. M. Peysakhov; “Questionnaire on Self-Realization” of S. I. Kudinov; “Test for Self-Actualization” of L. Y. Gozman and M. V. Kroz. The result of the conducted research consists in determination of a positive correlation of the meaningfulness of life and self-expression with all types of self-realization. However, in consideration of the link between self-expression and personality, activity and social self-realization following pattern was established: self-expression on high and low levels has a tendency towards decline of the indicators of self-realization; while the average level of self-expression demonstrates higher indicators of personal and activity self-realization of the respondents.
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Chaudhury, Habib, Lillian Hung, Tiana Rust, and Sarah Wu. "Do physical environmental changes make a difference? Supporting person-centered care at mealtimes in nursing homes." Dementia 16, no. 7 (January 12, 2016): 878–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301215622839.
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Purpose Drawing on therapeutic physical environmental design principles and Kitwood’s theoretical view of person-centered care, this study examined the impact of environmental renovations in dining spaces of a long-term care facility on residents’ mealtime experience and staff practice in two care units. Method The research design involved pre- and post-renovation ethnographic observations in the dining spaces of the care units and a post-renovation staff survey. The objective physical environmental features pre- and post-renovations were assessed with a newly developed tool titled Dining Environment Audit Protocol. We collected observational data from 10 residents and survey responses from 17 care aides and nurses. Findings Based on a systematic analysis of observational data and staff survey responses, five themes were identified: (a) autonomy and personal control, (b) comfort of homelike environment, (c) conducive to social interaction, (d) increased personal support, and (e) effective teamwork. Implications Although the physical environment can play an influential role in enhancing the dining experience of residents, the variability in staff practices reveals the complexity of mealtime environment and points to the necessity of a systemic approach to foster meaningful culture change.
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Tukara, Drago. "Razvoj biskupske i prezbiterske službe u prvim stoljećima Crkve." Diacovensia 26, no. 2 (2018): 255.—275. http://dx.doi.org/10.31823/d.26.2.4.
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The article implicitly addresses the Church as an institution and organization, while it directly and more explicitly presents those that make a part of Church hierarchy, bishops and presbyteries. To better present and understand the existence and mission of bishops and presbyters, it was necessary, at least briefly, to highlight the very nature of the Church. The author divides the article in three chapters. In the first chapter, he represents the Church that has had its roots in the Old Testament and found its fullness and foundations in the Person of Jesus Christ. She has been present in God’s plan since the Old Testament times when the prophets announced her in images. In the second chapter, the author discusses the office of bishops in the early Church. This part addresses what the Church Fathers said about bishops, and their role and place within the early Church, and how particular councils and synods have defined them. The author brings the Church Fathers’ personal reflections and understanding of the office of bishop as well as certain canons that have emerged as the fruit of bishop’s collegiality and unity. The third chapter talks about presbyters. The author first presents the role of presbyter in the early Church, and then indicates the developmental path from terminology itself to the area of action at particular times in the life of the Church. The presbyter is put in a co-relationship with the bishop, he is dependent on him, but in time, due to new circumstances, he has gained a certain autonomy within the community. The author also emphasizes the importance of formation and education of church officials in areas of theology and morals.
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Sajkovic, Radmila. "Zagorka Micic: On the occasion of her 100th anniversary." Theoria, Beograd 46, no. 1-4 (2003): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo0304017s.
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In this text the author reviews the life and work of Zagorka Micic, famous Serbian woman-philosopher, in honour of the 100th anniversary of her birth. She was one of the first students of Edmund Husserl, and her Ph. D. thesis was among the earliest ones in phaenomenology, which was waking in that time. Her cooperation with Husserl has continued for a decade. After the World War II Zagorka Micic worked as a professor of logic and history of philosophy at the University of Skoplje (now FYRM). Stressing her individual qualities, the paper is full of personal memories and reminiscences of mutual encounters.
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Portacolone, Elena, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Julene K. Johnson, Robert L. Rubinstein, and Jodi Halpern. "Walking the Tightrope between Study Participant Autonomy and Researcher Integrity: The Case Study of a Research Participant with Alzheimer’s Disease Pursuing Euthanasia in Switzerland." Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 14, no. 5 (June 10, 2019): 483–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1556264619853198.
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This article addresses ethical issues in the conduct of ethnographic research with vulnerable study participants, such as individuals with cognitive impairment. Seven ethical issues emerged from this case study, in which a participant diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease wished to pursue euthanasia in Switzerland: (a) How to protect the participant’s autonomy while ensuring his decision had not resulted from untreated depression or modifiable social factors; (b) How to interpret self-harm; (c) How to protect the research team members’ “mandated reporter” status; (d) How to counteract the attractive qualities of pro-euthanasia videos depicting an easy end to personal suffering; (e) How to find a better alternative to the common practice of reporting self-harm cases to Adult Protective Services and then removing these cases from studies; (f) How to leverage a participant’s trust to address these issues; and (g) Whether researchers should do anything further to help address unmet needs in similar situations.
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Romero-Ayuso, Dulce, Cristian Cuerda, Carmen Morales, Ricardo Tesoriero, José Matías Triviño-Juárez, Antonio Segura-Fragoso, and José A. Gallud. "Activities of Daily Living and Categorization Skills of Elderly with Cognitive Deficit: A Preliminary Study." Brain Sciences 11, no. 2 (February 10, 2021): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11020213.
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Cognitive dysfunction affects the performance of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and the quality of life of people with these deficits and their caregivers. To the knowledge of the authors, to date, there are few studies that focus on knowing the relationship between personal autonomy and deductive reasoning and/or categorization skills, which are necessary for the performance of the ADL. The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between ADL and categorization skills in older people. The study included 51 participants: 31 patients with cognitive impairment and 20 without cognitive impairment. Two tests were administered to assess cognitive functions: (1) the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA); and (2) the digital version of Riska Object Classification test (ROC-d). In addition, the Routine Tasks Inventory-2 (RTI-2) was applied to determine the level of independence in activities of daily living. People with cognitive impairment performed poorly in categorization tasks with unstructured information (p = 0.006). Also, the results found a high correlation between cognitive functioning and the performance of ADLs (Physical ADL: r = 0.798; p < 0.001; Instrumental ADL: r = 0.740; p < 0.001), a moderate correlation between Physical ADLs and categorization skills (unstructured ROC-d: r = 0.547; p < 0.001; structured ROC-d: r = 0.586; p < 0.001) and Instrumental ADLs and categorization skills in older people (unstructured ROC-d: r = 0.510; p < 0.001; structured ROC-d: r = 0.463; p < 0.001). The ROC-d allows the assessment of categorization skills to be quick and easy, facilitating the assessment process by OT, as well as the accuracy of the data obtained.
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Shinina, T. V., and O. V. Mitina. "The Scale of Early Childhood Communication Signals: Evaluation of Child-Parent Interaction." Cultural-Historical Psychology 18, no. 1 (2022): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/chp.2022180102.
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The research is aimed at developing a scale for evaluating the communication signals of an early-age child, which can help to assess the predictors of the development of behavioral, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills in a child. This system of fixing the child's communication signals is based on the periodization of the ontogeny of communication between M. Lisina and her followers (E. Smirnova, D. Godovikova, S. Meshcheryakova, etc.), which allows us to consider specific forms of communication between a child and an adult in the new social situation of modern children's development. The materials of an empirical study conducted on a sample of dyads of mothers and young children are presented. The study (N=55) involved dyads of mothers and children aged 2,4 to 3,3 years (M=2,9; SD=0,40), of which 62% were girls. The study included a video recording of a mother's playtime interaction with a child for 15 minutes. The resulting video clips were analyzed and encoded using the "Observer-XT 14" program. To evaluate video protocols, experts used the evaluation of the child-parent interaction method "Evaluation of child-parent interaction" [ECPI- 2 ed.], the scale of "Child communication signals". The method of main components was used for processing expert assessments, which allowed us to distinguish three factors of children's indicators ["Exploratory activity"; "Personal autonomy"; "Emotional alienation"]. Based on the results, we can talk about the stability of indicators-factors that characterize the child's communication signals. Based on the array of experimental data [49,500 seconds of video tape], a model has been developed for analyzing dynamic changes occurring in the process of child-parent interaction. All factors are stable over time: autocorrelation dynamic series are characterized by high values of correlation coefficients. It is noted that the formation of personal autonomy when interacting with a significant adult and the emotional alienation of a child from an adult can ambivalently influence the child's research activity.
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Almeida dos Santos de Souza Pastana, Ieda Carla, Erika Cardozo Pereira Cardozo Pereira, Janaina Cristina Santos Lima Cristina Santos Lima, and Mariana Cabral Schveitzer. "Práticas humanizadoras na Atenção Básica: uma revisão sistemática qualitativa." BIS. Boletim do Instituto de Saúde 20, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.52753/bis.2019.v20.34476.
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Objetivos: identificar práticas de humanização na Atenção Básica. Método: revisão sistemática, partindo das seguintes fontes de in-formação: PubMed, CINAHL, Scielo, utilizando-se a palavra-chave primary health care, associada separadamente às seguintes pa-lavras-chave: humanization of assistance (humanização), holistic care/health (cuidado/saúde holístico), patient centred care, user embracement (acolhimento), personal autonomy, holism, attitude of health personnel (atitude dos profissionais). Método: Revisão sistemática qualitativa. Resultados: Foram incluídos 17 estudos identificados entre 2012 e 2018. Os dados foram sistematizados em sete categorias: (a) Oferta de práticas humanizadoras, (b) Difi-cultadores das práticas humanizadoras, (c) Facilitadores das prá-ticas humanizadoras, (d) Necessidade de capacitação sobre as práticas humanizadoras, (e) Vínculo profissional-usuário, (f) Efei-to positivo das práticas humanizadoras no trabalho em equipe e (g) Atitudes e crenças que refletem as práticas humanizadoras. Considerações Finais: As práticas humanizadoras continuam a ser desenvolvidas na Atenção Básica e seus efeitos positivos são re-conhecidos pelos profissionais de saúde. Por isso, investimentos no desenvolvimento dessas práticas e também em pesquisas de-vem continuar, incluindo também as percepções de usuários e dos órgãos gestores.
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Beukema, Lindy, Jacomijn Hofstra, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Andrea F. de Winter, and E. L. Korevaar. "Supporting Adolescents with Mental Health Problems in Secondary Education: Feasibility of a Supported Education Intervention." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 11 (May 31, 2022): 6754. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116754.
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Mental health problems in adolescence can have a profound influence on school functioning, educational attainment and thus future societal participation. Supported education (SEd) is a potentially useful method for educational professionals to help adolescents with mental health problems in secondary school improve their functioning by stimulating collaboration, ownership, and participation. In this study, we examined the feasibility of SEd in secondary education by examining its acceptability, implementation, and preliminary effectiveness. We performed a mixed-methods study using quantitative data (questionnaires) and qualitative data (interviews) from educational professionals (EP) and adolescents, aged 13–17, about their experiences with a SEd intervention. Regarding the acceptability of the intervention, three main themes emerged: (a) structure, (b) autonomy, and (c) applicability of the intervention. Themes regarding the implementation were: (a) lack of time, (b) personal attitude, (c) mastery, and (d) complexity of the school environment. The findings show that, for those that followed the intervention, SEd is a promising approach to support adolescents with mental health problems to improve their functioning and participation in school. Further research is needed on the effectiveness of the intervention.
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Marenco-Escuderos, Ailed Daniela, Dayana Restrepo Cervantes, and Laura Isabel Rambal-Rivaldo. "Resilience Profiles Associated with Social Support and Engagement for Overcoming Academic Obstacles in Undergraduate Education." Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics 19, no. 8 (December 2021): 139–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54808/jsci.19.08.139.
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The main objective of this work was to explore the configuration of those elements that allow students to better adapt to university environments and persist even in the presence of difficulties. The sample consisted of 371 undergraduate students (60% female), of low socioeconomic level, enrolled in public universities in the Caribbean region of Colombia. The methodological approach was based on a cluster analysis, in which, using the hierarchical agglomerative method, groups were extracted according to their similar characteristics of resilience in 12 dimensions assessed by the SV-RES scale and subsequent analyses of variance reported how each style was associated with engagement, and with a particular constitution of personal support networks, assessed respectively with the UWES-S scale, and from a square matrix of reticular data on the social networks of each participant. The results showed four profiles of students, characterized by: a) low resilience, high engagement, and strong support networks; b) resilience with low engagement, and dispersed support networks; c) resilience with high autonomy, intermediate levels of engagement, and weak support networks; and d) resilience, high engagement, and strong social support networks.
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Anwar, Ch Mahmood. "Innovative Esteem: Antecedents and Relationship with Job Performance." E+M Ekonomie a Management 23, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 137–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2020-4-009.
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This study aims to present and validate a new psychological construct, i.e. innovativeness-based self-esteem or shortly “innovative esteem” which reflects that innovative individuals evaluate their innovative capabilities to determine their significance, successfulness, and worthiness in organizations. Innovative esteem reflects attributes and capacities manifested by individual’s innovativeness specific feelings and evaluations about self. Standard procedures were followed to test construct and predictive validity for the new construct. Testing 546 paired responses from subjects working in hi-tech and R&D sectors, this study empirically identified that personal innovativeness, organization-based self-esteem, learning goal orientation, and job autonomy significantly contribute to innovative esteem in organizational setting. Test of theory of interaction revealed that learning goal orientation and job autonomy interact with each other to determine innovative esteem. In addition, this research correlated innovative esteem with employee job performance by considering it as independent index. Innovative esteem is found to be significantly and positively correlated to employee job performance. The study further applied regression analysis to strengthen the finding, and found that innovative esteem significantly predicted employee job performance in time lagged setting. To establish evidence of stability of innovative esteem over time, data were collected again after one year. The test-retest reliability correlation provided the evidence of stability of innovative esteem over time. Present study proposed that innovative works can best be performed by employees high in innovative esteem which could be further confirmed empirically. It is suggested that organizations can outperform if managers consider innovative esteem of employees along with other dispositional factors. It is further suggested that significance of innovative esteem should be explored further in personality psychology and organizational behaviour.
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Jennings, Len, Ashley Sovereign, Nancy Bottorff, Melissa Pederson Mussell, and Christopher Vye. "Nine Ethical Values of Master Therapists." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 32–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.27.1.lmm8vmdujgev2qhp.
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This study employed the Consensual Qualitative Research method (Hill, Thompson, & Williams, 1997) to reanalyze interview data from a previous qualitative study of the personal characteristics of master therapists (Jennings & Skovholt, 1999). Previous research has demonstrated that therapists utilize a variety of resources when making ethical decisions, including professional codes of conduct and their own values. The current study's analysis of 10 master therapists' interviews resulted in the identification of nine ethical values related to their clinical practice: (a) relational connection, (b) autonomy, (c) beneficence, (d) nonmaleficence, (e) competence, (f) humility, (g) professional growth, (h) openness to complexity and ambiguity, and (i) self-awareness. Conducting oneself ethically is a critical task of the competent therapist (American Psychological Association, 2002). Making the best ethical decisions can be extremely challenging for most therapists due to the multitude of complex ethical situations that arise in practice. The goal of this study is to examine the ethical values of therapists considered to be "the best of the best" by their professional colleagues. It is hoped that such an examination will help to illuminate the ethical values that these master therapists seem to draw upon in their work.
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BERREZOUG, Hanaà. "The Socio-Cultural Impress on the Promotion of Self-Directed-Learning in Algerian Universities." Arab World English Journal 12, no. 3 (September 15, 2021): 216–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol12no3.15.
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The Algerian universities have witnessed significant changes since the establishment of the three-tier system composed of Licence, Master, and Doctorate (LMD). The latter necessitates many changes in the learning process as well as teaching methods. Yet, to achieve self-directed learning, the learner should first achieve autonomy at the personal level. Thus, this paper is mainly devoted to analyzing the impress of Algerian cultural and social traditions on the development of self-directed learning. This study addresses the following question: Do the Algerian cultural and social traditions enhance and facilitate self-directed learning or impede its implementation at university? The main aim of this paper is to investigate the aspects of the Algerian culture that hinder the promotion of self-directed learning. The research has been conducted in Saida University among Master students. To investigate the socio-cultural impact on the development of self-directedness, the researcher used a questionnaire and an interview that was related to Hofstede’s six-D Model. Discussing the Algerian culture through the lens of Hofstede’s six-D Model helped the researcher to diagnose the reasons behind the failure to promote self-directedness. The main finding of this research is that the collectivist nature of the Algerian culture retards the progress of self-directed learning. This paper also suggests that if the Algerian culture does not favor self-directed learning, educators should adopt new approaches and strategies that engage their learners in the learning experiences. Educators should counterbalance the parochial and paternalistic traditions with glocalization and multiple perspective curricula.
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Wada, Mineko, Sarah L. Canham, Lupin Battersby, Judith Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, Mei Lan Fang, and Andrew Sixsmith. "Perceptions of home in long-term care settings: before and after institutional relocation." Ageing and Society 40, no. 6 (January 9, 2019): 1267–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x18001721.
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AbstractAlthough moving from institutional to home-like long-term care (LTC) settings can promote and sustain the health and wellbeing of older adults, there has been little research examining how home is perceived by older adults when moving between care settings. A qualitative study was conducted over a two-year period during the relocation of residents and staff from an institutional LTC home to a purpose-built LTC home in Western Canada. The study explored perceptions of home amongst residents, family members and staff. Accordingly, 210 semi-structured interviews were conducted at five time-points with 35 residents, 23 family members and 81 staff. Thematic analyses generated four superordinate themes that are suggestive of how to create and enhance a sense of home in LTC settings: (a) physical environment features; (b) privacy and personalisation; (c) autonomy, choice and flexibility; and (d) connectedness and togetherness. The findings reveal that the physical environment features are foundational for the emergence of social and personal meanings associated with a sense of home, and highlight the impact of care practices on the sense of home when the workplace becomes a home. In addition, tension that arises between providing care and creating a home-like environment in LTC settings is discussed.
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Karamushka, Liudmyla, and Marta Tychenko. "Psychological readiness of creative industry workers to pursue a professional career: content, structure, research methods." Організаційна психологія Економічна психологія 3-4, no. 27 (November 25, 2022): 85–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.31108/2.2022.3.27.9.
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Introduction. A professional career is becoming more and more multifaceted and industry-specific. Creative industry, which has a great economic potential and plays an important role in the development of Ukrainian and world economy, offers good possibilities for employees' career development. Aim. To determine the content and structure of the psychological readiness of creative industry workers to pursue a professional career and to substantiate the methods for its research. Results. The main components of the creative industry workers' readiness to pursue a professional career have been found to include: a) motivational and value component (career values, career motivation); b) cognitive component (understanding the goals and objectives of the industry, its prestige, innovativeness, social effect, employees' financial opportunities and autonomy); c) operational component (career self-efficacy, career adaptability, career involvement, propensity for cooperation/competition); d) personal component (creativity, professional viability, ability to introspect). The authors have also substantiated a diagnostic toolkit for studying different components of the creative industry workers' readiness to pursue a professional career. Conclusions. The knowledge of the content and structure of the components of the creative industry workers' readiness to pursue a professional career as well as the methods for studying this readiness can be helpful for career counsellors.
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Tjin, Anna, Angeline Traynor, Brian Doyle, Claire Mulhall, Walter Eppich, and Michelle O’Toole. "Turning to ‘Trusted Others’: A Narrative Review of Providing Social Support to First Responders." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 24 (December 8, 2022): 16492. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416492.
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First responders, such as paramedics and firefighters, encounter duty-related traumatic exposures, which can lead to post-traumatic stress (PTS). Although social support protects against PTS, we know little about how first responders’ families, spouses/partners, friends, and care-partners (i.e., ‘trusted others’) provide social support. This narrative review explores support behaviors, coping strategies, and resources trusted others use to support first responders. A structured literature search yielded 24 articles. We used House’s (1981) conceptual framework to inform our analysis. We identified three main themes: providing support, finding support, and support needs. Additionally, we describe trusted others’ self-reported preparedness, coping strategies, and barriers to providing social support. We found that trusted others provided different types of support: (a) emotional (fostering a safe space, giving autonomy over recovery, facilitating coping mechanisms, prioritizing first responders’ emotional needs); (b) instrumental (prioritizing first responders’ practical needs, handling household tasks, supporting recovery); (c) appraisal (active monitoring, verbal reassurance, positive reframing), and (d) informational (seeking informal learning). In their role, trusted others sought formal (organizational) and informal (peer and personal) support and resources, alongside intrapersonal and interpersonal coping strategies. Identified barriers include inadequate communication skills, maladaptive coping, and disempowering beliefs. Thus, we offer practical, treatment, and social support recommendations.
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Anderson, Daniela R., Avi Leader, Theodore G. Karrison, and Wendy Stock. "D-Dimer As a Predictor of Thrombotic Events during Early Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Therapy." Blood 136, Supplement 1 (November 5, 2020): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2020-140324.
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Background Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at increased risk of thrombotic and or bleeding events during chemotherapy, especially when receiving L-Asparaginase (ASP). Previous studies have identified variables associated with increased thrombotic risk in ALL including age, body mass index (BMI), sex, platelet count, and ASP use (Orvain 2020); however, to date no ALL-based study has examined D-dimer, a marker of fibrinolysis that has been shown to predict thrombosis in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) (Libourel 2016), in this context. We sought to examine the utility of D-dimer as a biomarker for risk of thrombosis or bleeding events during ALL treatment. Methods In this retrospective cohort study we identified 61 adult patients with newly diagnosed ALL from a single center between 2008 and 2020. Patient demographic details, treatment regimens, and biomarkers including D-dimer (ordered routinely at diagnosis as a serum assay in mcg/ml FEU) were ascertained. Patients were stratified according to D-dimer level using a cut-off of ≥4 mcg/ml (high) and <4 mcg/ml (low-moderate) based upon previous work examining D-dimer and thrombosis in AML (Libourel 2016). The disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) score according to the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) was calculated at diagnosis. Major and clinically relevant non-major bleeding and first arterial or venous thrombotic event (confirmed by imaging) within 100 days of ALL diagnosis were recorded. The 100-day cumulative incidence of thrombosis was calculated for both D-dimer groups. Event rate was compared between D-dimer groups using chi-square analysis. Logistic regression was used to examine D-dimer as a continuous or categorical variable and compare events through 100 days. Six multivariate models, each including D-dimer and one of six previously identified thrombosis risk factors were performed. A receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was generated and area under the curve (AUC) calculated. Results Sixty-one patients with ALL were included; 52% were female and 48% male. Median age was 36 years (range 18-84). Patients were 18% Black, 26% Latinx, 52% White, and 3.3% Asian/Mideast Indian. Immunophenotypes included B-cell (82%), T-cell (8.2%), and mixed phenotype ALL (9.8%), with 24% of patients having Ph + or Ph-like status. ASP-based regimens were utilized in 67% of patients. The median D-dimer level was 2.1 mcg/ml (range: 0.26 to 20). The 100-day cumulative incidence of thrombosis was 53% (95% CI 26.4-73.8) in the high D-dimer group (N=17, 28%) and 14% (95% CI 5.5 - 25.5) in the low-moderate D-dimer group (N=44, 72%) (Figure 1). The rate of thrombosis was higher in the high D-dimer group, X2 (1, N=61) =10.2, p=.001. The odds of thrombosis within 100 days increased by 1.65 per every 3-unit increase in D-dimer (95% CI 1.2-2.27). The association between D-dimer and thrombosis remained after including additional confounders such as BMI, age, sex, ASP status, DIC score, and initial platelet level in covariate logistic regression models. ROC analysis demonstrated 60% sensitivity and 80% specificity for a D-dimer cutoff of 4 mcg/ml, with an AUC of 0.798 (95% CI 0.67-0.92). Clinically relevant bleeding occurred in 8 patients (13%) during the first 100 days after diagnosis and was not significantly associated with initial D-dimer level, BMI, age, sex, ASP status, DIC score, or initial platelet level. Conclusion High D-dimer (≥4 mcg/ml) at ALL diagnosis is associated with an increased rate of venous or arterial thrombosis within the first 100 days, with no increased rate of clinically relevant bleeding. D-dimer as a continuous variable appears to have good independent diagnostic discrimination for thrombosis. Prospective studies aiming to create ALL-specific thrombosis risk assessment models are warranted and should consider D-dimer level at diagnosis together with previously identified risk factors (Al-Ani 2020, Orvain 2020). Disclosures Leader: Bayer Healthcare: Other: personal fees ; Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Israel Ltd.: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: personal fees .
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Lewis, Marie. "Midwives' Experience of Providing Continuity of Care in a Pilot Project: Findings of a Prospective Qualitative Research Study." International Journal of Childbirth 10, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/ijcbirth-d-20-00009.
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INTRODUCTIONThere has been a strategic drive for several years in midwifery to improve models of care and enable women to receive care from a known midwife. However over the past decade new models of care to achieve this have not been sustained and some midwives have expressed opinions that such models can never be sustainable for the staff working them. This study was designed to explore the midwives experience of working a continuity of care model, develop understanding of the lived experience of midwives, and provide insight into how such models can be sustainable from the midwives perspective. A local trust initiative to pilot a small team continuity of care model in one geographical area was introduced and a group of midwives interested in working differently were recruited onto the study to share their experiences. This article details the process and themes identified through a small qualitative research study to explore midwives' experiences of working in a new way to provide increased continuity of care for women. The study results are written in response to a local drive for change and within the context of a small group of midwives taking part in a service improvement project. The article specifically identifies themes in the midwives' experiences and lessons learnt for sustainable change in relation to continuity of care within midwifery services.METHODThe study was a qualitative descriptive study. The main purpose of the study was to gain further understanding of the personal experiences of midwives. Data was collected over a 12-month period from eight midwives who took part; reflective diaries, notes from team meetings and data from the team's “WhatsApp” group chat were used to capture the data over time. Themes identified were then verified with the participants through one to one semi structured interviews.FINDINGSThe research data has been organized into four overarching themes related to May's (2009) normalization process theory: Coherence—same difference, cognitive participation—operational workability, collective action—relationships and reflexive monitoring—personal sustainability.DISCUSSIONA key theme running throughout the data was the importance of autonomy, flexibility, and trust, enabling midwives and women to build effective therapeutic relationships. This is important to note when developing systems for care. Staff needed to feel trusted in order to work flexibly and take control over their own work/life balance. The findings indicate that where staff felt enabled to organize their own workloads they did in fact work harder to meet the needs of the women. A shift in culture in maternity systems would need to be embraced for this level of control to be afforded all midwives. It should be noted that the study was conducted in one specific area and with a small number of midwives. Hence the findings cannot be generalized and will need to be explored further across different cultures.
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Markina, N. V., E. L. Soldatova, I. L. Kachuro, and A. Gavriliuc. "Personal and existential-psychological resources of form tutors working with gifted children." Education and science journal 23, no. 1 (January 16, 2021): 102–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17853/1994-5639-2021-1-102-135.
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Introduction. The article deals with the problem of identifying the resources of teachers – form tutors, focused on working with gifted students. This problem is considered in the context of the methodological shift from the classical to the post-non-classical scientific paradigm, from the “deficit model” to the model of “success and resilience” (S. Maddi, Ph. Hiver). A review of modern research on the problems of professiogenesis of form tutors is carried out.Aim. The aim of the present research was to empirically test the possibilities of a resource approach to the study of personal and existential-psychological aspects of the activities of teachers working with gifted children.Methodology and research methods. The methodological framework of the research is based on the provisions of the subject-activity, existential-psychological approaches to the development of the personality, to its being formation. Based on the analysis of the literature, personality traits (professional consciousness, creativity, a picture of the world, ego-identity, resilience, and others) are identified. These personality characteristics can be considered as the resources for professional development of teachers – form tutors. The severity of various types of reflection and their ratio are determined on the basis of a differential reflexivity questionnaire by A. V. Karpov and V. V. Ponomareva. The profile of ego states was built using the transactional questionnaire of D. Jongeward (in V. K. Kalinenko’s and V. A. Petrovsky’s adaptation). The Existence Scale developed by A. Langle, K. Orgler (revised by S. V. Krivtsova, I. N. Majnina and A. Yu. Vasanov) was applied for the diagnosis of indicators of existential performance as a person’s quality of life associated with a feeling of fullness of life with a particular meaning, free choice and responsibility. The features of hardiness and a method for solving the existential dilemma were identified using the S. Muddy’s Hardiness Survey (modified by D. A. Leontiev, E. I. Rasskazova).Results. The outcomes of an empirical study of the ratio of personal and existential resources of the professional activity of teachers working with gifted students are demonstrated. Significant differences were revealed in the manifestation of hardiness and reflexivity in relation to form tutors with different types of personality ego-structures. Factor analysis made it possible to identify two factors, which demonstrate the existential-psychological and personal resources of the activity of form tutors working with gifted students: “existential choice of a new professional experience” and “detachment from externally given rhythms and attitudes”.Scientific novelty. The empirical capabilities of the existential-psychological, subject-activity and resource-based approaches to the study of the problems of the psychology of giftedness and the professiogenesis of teachers are tested.Practical significance. The demonstrated results can be used as part of a programme for developing the resources of professional activity of teachers working with gifted students.
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Aust, Gabriela, Irina Lehmann, Sandy Laue, and Werner A. Scherbaum. "Activated and interferon-γ producing thyroid-derived T cells are detected in Graves' disease, thyroid autonomy as well as in non-toxic multinodular goiter." European Journal of Endocrinology 135, no. 1 (July 1996): 60–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/eje.0.1350060.
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Aust G, Lehmann I, Laue S, Scherbaum WA. Activated and interferon-γ producing thyroid-derived T cells are detected in Graves' disease, thyroid autonomy as well as in non-toxic multinodular goiter. Eur J Endocrinol 1996;135:60–8. ISSN 0804–4643 The relative numbers of activated and interferon gamma (IFN-γ)-producing peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and thyroid-derived lymphocytes (TL) were determined using double surface and intracellular labeling techniques in flow cytometry. Cells were analyzed from 10 patients with Graves' disease (GD), eight patients with thyroid autonomy (TA) and five patients with non-toxic multinodular goiter (NTG). A maximum of 1% IFN-γ+ cells were detected both in unstimulated PBL and TL. Stimulation caused a two- to threefold higher number of IFN-γ+ cells in TL (GD, 48 ± 12%; TA, 48 ± 11%; NTG, 50± 15%) as compared to PBL (GD, 15 ± 7%: TA, 16 ± 8%; NTG, 18 ± 10%) of the same patients. Nearly all IFN-γ+ TL in GD were CD3+ T cells, whereas 10–20% of IFN-γ+ TL in TA and NTG were NK cells. In PBL 80% and in TL almost 100% of IFN-γ+ cells were antigenprimed CD45RO+ cells. Only 25–35% of IFN-γ+ thyroid-derived T cells expressed the CD4 antigen. About 42 ± 10% thyroid-derived T cells in GD, 33 ± 11% in TA and 34 ± 13% in NTG expressed the HLA-DR molecule but not the interleukin 2 (CD25) or the transferrin receptor (CD71). Forty per cent of these HLA-DR+ T cells showed an intracellular staining for IFN-γ and half of them co-expressed the activation antigen CD69. Immunofluorescence double labeling on thyroid cryostat sections demonstrated that HLA-DR+ T cells were also present in situ. The presence of activation antigens on thyroid-derived T cells not only in patients with GD but also in TA and NTG suggests failsafe mechanisms such as anergy, suppression or cytokine regulation in so-called non-immunogenic goiter. Gabriela Aust, Department of Internal Medicine III, Endocrinology, University of Leipzig, Ph.-Rosenthal-Str. 27, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany
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Sakač, Nikola, Dean Marković, Bojan Šarkanj, Dubravka Madunić-Čačić, Krunoslav Hajdek, Božo Smoljan, and Marija Jozanović. "Direct Potentiometric Study of Cationic and Nonionic Surfactants in Disinfectants and Personal Care Products by New Surfactant Sensor Based on 1,3-Dihexadecyl−1H-benzo[d]imidazol−3-ium." Molecules 26, no. 5 (March 4, 2021): 1366. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26051366.
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A novel, simple, low-cost, and user-friendly potentiometric surfactant sensor based on the new 1,3-dihexadecyl−1H-benzo[d]imidazol−3-ium-tetraphenylborate (DHBI–TPB) ion-pair for the detection of cationic surfactants in personal care products and disinfectants is presented here. The new cationic surfactant DHBI-Br was successfully synthesized and characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometry, liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) and elemental analysis and was further employed for DHBI–TPB ion-pair preparation. The sensor gave excellent response characteristics for CTAB, CPC and Hyamine with a Nernstian slope (57.1 to 59.1 mV/decade) whereas the lowest limit of detection (LOD) value was measured for CTAB (0.3 × 10−6 M). The sensor exhibited a fast dynamic response to dodecyl sulfate (DDS) and TPB. High sensor performances stayed intact regardless of the employment of inorganic and organic cations and in a broad pH range (2−11). Titration of cationic and etoxylated (EO)-nonionic surfactant (NSs) (in Ba2+) mixtures with TPB revealed the first inflexion point for a cationic surfactant and the second for an EO-nonionic surfactant. The increased concentration of EO-nonionic surfactants and the number of EO groups had a negative influence on titration curves and signal change. The sensor was successfully applied for the quantification of technical-grade cationic surfactants and in 12 personal care products and disinfectants. The results showed good agreement with the measurements obtained by a commercial surfactant sensor and by a two-phase titration. A good recovery for the standard addition method (98–102%) was observed.
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Sawyers, L., C. Anderson, M. Boyd, P. Williams, and L. S. Toh. "Astropharmacy: Exploring the Pharmacist’s Role in Space travel." International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 29, Supplement_1 (March 26, 2021): i9—i10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijpp/riab016.012.
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Abstract Introduction Significant alterations occur in human physiology and the way medications function in space (1). Understanding the efficacy and pitfalls of pharmacological intervention and developing space-related pharmacy services is therefore integral to ensuring a sustained presence for human spaceflight. In contemporary society, the pharmacist plays a significant role in a person’s health. However, pharmacist input towards the spaceflight participant’s health is minimal to nil. Aim: T o explore stakeholder perspectives towards the role of Astropharmacy in the space sector. Methods Pharmacists (n = 18) across the globe and space sector participants (n = 18) from governmental, commercial, and space tourism sectors participated, via 27 qualitative interviews and three focus groups. Participants were recruited via purposive and snowball sampling. A six-step thematic analysis was used and mapped into the Job Characteristics Model (JCM). JCM is a theory within work design, aiming to promote work experiences and personal outcomes. There are five job dimensions – skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback which influence three psychological states required for a well-designed job. The three psychological states are meaningfulness, responsibility, and knowledge of work results, which lead to positive work and personal experiences (2). Results Three key themes were generated: medication management, medication research, and regulation/licensing. Medication management encompassed safeguarding the space traveller’s health, like space tourists, by conducting medication reviews (pre-and post-flight), medication advice (digital astro-telepharmacy information services during spaceflight) and developing personalised medication. Medication management also included ensuring shelf-life and continuous medication supply for deep space exploration. Medication research included novel drug development, innovative manufacturing, and understanding clinical applications of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes of medications in space. Innovative manufacturing like 3-D printing raises questions regarding the need for regulations/licensing of medications use and manufacturing in space. Based on the JCM our findings indicate that Astropharmacy possesses diverse duties eliciting meaningfulness, with clear responsibility and observable workplace results promoting task significance, and both the medication and patient focus promoting task identity. Autonomy was blurred within Astropharmacy as a degree of autonomy is needed due to the field’s novelty, but workforce regulations by governmental space agencies are expected. Lastly, workplace feedback can be achieved in Astropharmacy through performance reviews. Conclusion The Astropharmacy role is perceived to involve medication management, medication research and regulation/licensing of medications for space. The work design of astropharmacy is well-reflected in the JCM, implying that a novel and energising opportunity for the pharmacy profession is forthcoming. Although the data generated by qualitative research are not generalizable to other settings, these themes represent the first study to investigate the space sector qualitatively in the context of pharmacy, providing rich foundational data for future research. Consequently, the amalgamation of two previously distinct workplace domains may be a conceivable reality for the future of pharmacy practice. References 1. Blue RS, Bayuse TM et al. Supplying a pharmacy for NASA exploration spaceflight: challenges and current understanding. Npj Microgravity. 2019;5(1):1–12. 2. Hackman RJ, Oldham G. Motivation through the design of work: Test of a theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance. 1976;16(2):250–279.
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González-Hernández, Providencia, Ana Lago, Jorge Pasán, Catalina Ruiz-Pérez, Juan Ayala, Ana Afonso, and Verónica Pino. "Application of a Pillared-Layer Zn-Triazolate Metal-Organic Framework in the Dispersive Miniaturized Solid-Phase Extraction of Personal Care Products from Wastewater Samples." Molecules 24, no. 4 (February 15, 2019): 690. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules24040690.
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The pillared-layer Zn-triazolate metal-organic framework (CIM-81) was synthesized, characterized, and used for the first time as a sorbent in a dispersive micro-solid phase extraction method. The method involves the determination of a variety of personal care products in wastewaters, including four preservatives, four UV-filters, and one disinfectant, in combination with ultra-high performance liquid chromatography and UV detection. The CIM-81 MOF, constructed with an interesting mixed-ligand synthetic strategy, demonstrated a better extraction performance than other widely used MOFs in D-µSPE such as UiO-66, HKUST-1, and MIL-53(Al). The optimization of the method included a screening design followed by a Doehlert design. Optimum conditions required 10 mg of CIM-81 MOF in 10 mL of the aqueous sample at a pH of 5, 1 min of agitation by vortex and 3 min of centrifugation in the extraction step; and 1.2 mL of methanol and 4 min of vortex in the desorption step, followed by filtration, evaporation and reconstitution with 100 µL of the initial chromatographic mobile phase. The entire D-µSPE-UHPLC-UV method presented limits of detection down to 0.5 ng·mL−1; intra-day and inter-day precision values for the lowest concentration level (15 ng·mL−1)-as a relative standard deviation (in %)-lower than 8.7 and 13%, respectively; average relative recovery values of 115%; and enrichment factors ranging from ~3.6 to ~34. The reuse of the CIM-81 material was assessed not only in terms of maintaining the analytical performance but also in terms of its crystalline stability.
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Gage, Anastasia J., Francine E. Wood, and Pierre Z. Akilimali. "Perceived norms, personal agency, and postpartum family planning intentions among first-time mothers age 15–24 years in Kinshasa: A cross-sectional analysis." PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (July 9, 2021): e0254085. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254085.
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Unintended pregnancy is an important global health problem and frequently occurs during the immediate postpartum period. However, few studies have examined postpartum family planning (PPFP) intentions among adolescent girls and young women. This study assessed whether perceived norms and personal agency predicted PPFP intentions among first-time mothers age 15–24 in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Data were derived from the 2018 Momentum Project baseline survey. Analysis was based on 2,418 nulliparous pregnant women age 15–24 who were approximately six months pregnant with their first child in six health zones of Kinshasa. Overall PPFP intentions were low and ten to thirteen percent of women stated they were very likely to discuss PPFP next month with (a) their husband/male partner and (b) a health worker, and to (c) obtain and (d) use a contraceptive method during the first six weeks following childbirth. The results of multivariable linear regression models indicated that the PPFP intention index was predicted by description norms, perceptions of the larger community’s approval of PPFP, normative expectations, perceived behavioral control, self-efficacy, and autonomy. Rejection of family planning myths and misconceptions was also a significant predictor. Interaction terms suggested that the association of normative expectations with PPFP intentions varied across ethnic groups and that the positive association of injunctive norms with PPFP intentions was significantly increased when the larger community was perceived to disapprove of PPFP use. Normative expectations and PPFP-related self-efficacy accounted for two-thirds of the variance in PPFP intentions. The results suggested that understanding different normative influences may be important to motivate women to use contraception in the immediate postpartum period. In addition to addressing institutional, individual, and social determinants of PPFP, programs should consider integrating norm-based and empowerment strategies.
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Cao, Zhen. "Editorial." Wearable Technology 3, no. 1 (June 16, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.54517/wt.v3i1.1682.
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<p class="Text">In this issue, we will focus wearable technology on two themes. One is sports and fitness, and the other one is how to provide special protection and mobility aid for vulnerable groups, such as infants, elderlies and disabled persons.</p><p class="Text">Two editor board members offered related articles for us. Prof. Paul D. Rosero-Montalvo from Salamanca University developed the embedded system inside the intelligent textile to realize the early warning and prevention (falls, burns and personal injuries) of accidents for infants in crawling stage. Meanwhile, Prof. Carlos Alberto Catalina Ortega from Burgos University developed advanced augmented reality (RA) technology and Internet services and mobile device interfaces specially designed for the elderly to provide autonomy and better quality of life in their daily activities. These articles were published firstly in Spanish, and we requested the authorization to translate them into English and republish.</p><p class="Text">Also, we collected some articles on wearable technology in sports and fitness, including related policies in different countries, competitive advantage of wearable technology in sports training, great potential of wearable skin-interfaced microfluidic systems and so on.</p><p class="Text"> </p><p class="Text" align="right">Editor-in-chief</p><p class="Text" align="right">Dr. Zhen Cao</p>
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Salvá, Julián R., Miguel Sierra, Ana K. J. Alanis, Sigal Kaplan, and Carlo G. Prato. "Role of Social Climate in Habitual Transit Use by Young Adults to Work and Leisure Activities." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2512, no. 1 (January 2015): 22–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2512-03.
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As mobility has increasingly become a vehicle for producing meaning and culture, and public transport has traditionally formed a dense and diverse social climate in which social interactions habitually occur, assessing the relationship between social climate and transit use is extremely important, especially in the younger populations that will shape the future of transport systems. This study proposes a behavioral framework founded on the theory of planned behavior and the social climate model. The study presents a tailor-made, web-based survey and a structural equation model for analyzing transit use as a function of attitudes toward public transport, subjective norms, social ambience in public transport, travel independence and autonomy, family (house) rules, and perceived quality of service. This study focuses on transit systems in cities in North and South America that have a much higher public transport ridership, tighter design standards in terms of personal space, and a higher degree of informal social interaction than transit systems in Europe, where previous studies have been conducted. Estimation results from a structural equations model show that (a) transit use frequency is significantly related to the perceived behavioral control of using transit and the social climate; (b) attitudes, norms, and perceived behavioral control are associated with perceived service quality; (c) gender differences exist in the user experience and appreciation of the social climate in transit; and (d) the residential social climate is linked to the transit social climate.
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Palsokar, Gouri, and Madhukar Tajne. "POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH IN PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES IN INDIA: A SURVEY OF SELECT PHARMACY PROFESSIONALS." International Journal of Current Pharmaceutical Research 9, no. 4 (July 14, 2017): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.22159/ijcpr.2017v9i4.20983.
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Objective: Research is a systematic investigation that involves the study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. Post-graduate pharmaceutical education develops the necessary skills among students which help them build their professional carriers and contribute towards the betterment of the healthcare industry and society in general. Hence, it is essential and mandatory to carry out some appropriate research work as a requirement of post-graduate courses in Pharmaceutical Sciences in India and abroad. In an era, where technology is changing rapidly, the research carried out by students must always be relevant to the present day, so that it can act as a bridge between innovation and utility with regard to patient care and compliance. The present work aims to investigate, as to how, the research at postgraduate level in pharmacy, could be carried out in a way so that it benefits the students and make their research relevant to the current industry needs.Methods: The opinions of academicians from select academic institutions, professionals from pharmaceutical industries and postgraduates and Ph. D. students across India, were collected through questionnaires and by taking personal interviews. Data thus obtained was subjected to standard mathematical interpretations.Results: About 48% (65) of faculty members and 46% (156) of Postgraduate and Ph. D. students from various parts of the country opined that projects in postgraduate courses should be executed partly in academic institutions and partly in industries. However, about 61% (180) respondents from the pharmaceutical industry were of the view that the postgraduate students should undertake industrial projects. At the same time, some professionals were of the view that, students carrying out research work fully in the industry are many times left on their own as their industrial supervisors are unable to spare time to guide them.Conclusion: The execution of research work carried out by post-graduate students should be evenly distributed in academic institutions as well as pharmaceutical industries, under the supervision of faculty and with active inputs from the industry.
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KOREN, CHAYA. "The intertwining of second couplehood and old age." Ageing and Society 35, no. 9 (April 8, 2014): 1864–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x14000294.
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ABSTRACTSecond couplehood in old age is a growing phenomenon alongside increases in life expectancy. Lately, a shift has occurred in that individual diversity of ageing is perceived to depend on the physical and social contexts in which older persons experience change. Thus, the purpose of the study on which this paper reports was to examine second couplehood in the context of old age and old age in the context of second couplehood using an existential-phenomenological theoretical orientation. Twenty couples were recruited using criterion-sampling: men aged 65+ and women aged 60+, with children and grandchildren from a lifelong marriage that had ended in widowhood or divorce, living in second couplehood – married or not – in separate houses or co-habitating. Forty individual semi-structured interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed according to phenomenological tradition. Five sub-themes emerged, demonstrating couplehood and old age intertwining: (a) enjoying life while still possible; (b) living with health-related issues; (c) relationships with adult children: autonomy versus dependency; (d) loneliness: living as a couple is better than living alone; (e) self-image: feeling young–feeling old. Findings support the existence of positive and negative aspects of old age. Our discussion suggests the need to replace perceptions of old age as either a negative burden or a positive asset towards a period of balancing between gains and losses. Furthermore, we acknowledge the role of second couplehood in older peoples’ wellbeing on the personal–micro level through love, the familial–mezzo level through care-giving and the social–macro level by reducing prejudice.
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Kamble, Shanmukh, Sangeetha P. Mane, Charlotte Petitfils, Maria Teresa Muñoz Sastre, and Paul Clay Sorum. "Mapping Young Indians’ Views Regarding the Acceptability of Surrogate Motherhood: A Pilot Survey." Universitas Psychologica 18, no. 3 (October 16, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.upsy18-3.myiv.
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The objective was to map young Indians’ views regarding the acceptability of surrogacy, and to delineate the circumstances under which surrogacy is considered as especially problematic. In India, the number of fertility clinics currently operating in the whole country is estimated at over 3,000, making India the international leader in surrogacy. Very recently, however, surrogacy has become controversial. Participants (N = 430) were presented with scenarios depicting the circumstances in which a couple has contracted with a surrogate mother, and they were asked to indicate the extent to which such a contract may pose a moral problem. The scenarios involved four factors: the type of surrogacy (traditional or gestational), the mother’s level of autonomy, the family context, and whether surrogacy was of the commercial or the altruistic kind. Four different personal positions were found: a group for which (a) surrogacy always posed a moral problem (22%), (b) traditional surrogacy but not gestational surrogacy always posed a moral problem (15%), (c) surrogacy did not pose a problem each time the husband agrees with the procedure (40%), and (d) a group that chose not to express any position (23%). Although surrogacy is legal and big business, young people’s opinion seems to be divided on this issue. Even those who consider that surrogacy is not within itself an unacceptable procedure disagree regarding the conditions of its acceptability. This complex set of diverging attitudes, if replicated on large, representative samples, may explain the current government wavering on this issue and its recent decision that surrogacy services are forbidden for foreigners.
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Sergeichik, Elena M. "Global values of the global world." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 37, no. 3 (2021): 532–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.313.
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The article is devoted to the problem of global values, whose existence is problematized in the face of increased regionalization as a vector of world development. Regionalization is not “the end of globalization”, but its stage, which is “the revolution of plurality” (M. Naim) — distribution regularities of the network society on the whole world. The global world is not a homo geneous world of mankind based on the same values, rather the global world is a combination of diverse social communities striving for autonomy and self-determination. Building on the concepts of M. McLuhan, A. Toffler, D. Bell and N. Luhman, the article analyzes the information society in which the main element is communication as a source of social innovations. Digital technologies contribute to the development of human abilities and personal qualities without which social progress is impossible. If the vision of humanity in the development of the network society, where relations between the countries, regions, social communities and people are built on the basis of the values of life, liberty, creativity, justice, law, etc., then these values should be recognized as global. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the reaction of various social communities on regionalization, which finds its expression in the deepening of social inequality, increasing conflict of generations and other phenomena that contribute to disseminating conservative ideas and moods. Based on the works of J. Derrida, N. Luhman and D. Kean, it is shown that global values are not the achievements of exclusively European culture but are to varying degrees implemented and developed in all cultures. Against the background of the crisis of multiculturalism, the integration of cultures should be based on intercultural communication, for which the process of coordinating positions is important. The purpose of intercultural communication is not only the exchange of cultural values, but the demonstration of the benefits of life in those communities that are guided by global values.
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Verkerk, Robert, Naseeba Kathrada, Christof Plothe, and Katarina Lindley. "Self-Selected COVID-19 “Unvaccinated” Cohort Reports Favorable Health Outcomes and Unjustified Discrimination in Global Survey." International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research 2, no. 2 (August 12, 2022): 321–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.56098/ijvtpr.v2i2.43.
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Self-reported data collected independently by the UK-based Control Group Cooperative between September 2021 and February 2022, inclusive, from a self-selected international COVID-19 “unvaccinated” population are discussed. Data come from a cohort of 18,497 participants who provided questionnaire responses monthly. The largest numbers are from Europe, North America, and Australasia. Data were skewed towards the 40-69y age range and included 60% female respondents. Reasons for avoiding COVID-19 “vaccines” were: a preference for natural medicine, distrust of pharma, distrust of government information, poor/limited trial data, and fear of long-term adverse reactions. During the survey period, the greatest incidence of COVID-19 disease was reported in the 50-69y range, peaking at 12.3%, in January 2022. Persons at 70y and above were least affected (1.3%), with 10.7% and 3.8% in the 20 to 49y band, and in the 1 to 19y group, respectively. Most rated their symptoms as “mild” (14.4%), with 2% reporting “severe” disease. Fatigue, cough, muscle/body aches, and fever were the four most common. Just 0.4% of the cohort reported hospitalization (as in- or out-patients). Nearly two-thirds reported taking vitamin D, C, zinc, quercetin, or a combination, for prevention, with 71% using vitamin D, C, and zinc for treatment. Nearly 45% reported “moderate” to “severe” mental health issues (depression) during the survey period. Menstrual abnormalities were reported by 36% of women in the 20-49y age band. Reported job losses were greatest in Australia and New Zealand at 29%, followed by 13% in North America. Between 20% and 50% reported being personal targets of hate because of their vaccination status. Between 57% and 61% of respondents in Southern Europe and Western Europe, Australia/New Zealand and South America, reported being targets of governmental victimization. The cohort may not be representative of wider populations given its reliance on self-care. The findings suggest that opting out of the world’s largest medical experiment, relying on natural immunity, self-care with supplements, and/or ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, appeared to contribute to low incidences of severe disease, hospitalization, or death. The results imply the urgent need for prospective studies of “unvaccinated”, “partially vaccinated”, and “fully vaccinated” persons investigating long-term outcomes, behaviors, choices, and discriminatory responses by the state, institutions, or employers based on “vaccination” status. Public dialogue about the touted “safety and effectiveness” of vaccines, contrasted with strategies to enhance immune resilience, all in the context of authoritarianism versus autonomy, self-care, personal responsibility, and freedom of choice is needed.
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Shevtsov, S. V. "Workshop as Form of Existing of Philosophy in University." Науково-теоретичний альманах "Грані" 21, no. 10 (November 19, 2018): 148–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/1718141.
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Critical thinking, reflection, multiple methods of researching need a preparation, discipline, training. Classical forms as lectures, seminars don’t response of contemporaries challenges, because of a subject-object installation between a lecturer and students. It’s impossible to create researching atmosphere at an auditorium. The aim of the article is clarification of conditions of creating of workshop as a form of existing of philosophy in higher education.Workshop as a specific pedagogical form isn’t something principal new thing. Pedagogic measurement is a fundamental component of workshops of painters (for example, workshops of Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer van Delft etc.). Something like that we can observe in theatrical workshops.In 1922 was created French Group of New Education (J. Piaget, H. Wallon, P. Langevin etc.). They rethought ideas of J.-J. Rousseau, I. Pestalozzi, J. Korczak, A. Makarenko etc. and formulated six rules of pedagogic workshop: a) active position of a teacher and students; b) priority of autonomy during education; c) confidence of every student’s talent; d) using of critical thinking; e) intersubjective character of thinking; f) accuracy of calculation of psychological statesю.I’ve proposed seven components of a philosophical workshop. The first is informative that consists of two aspects: a) topological – a philosophical workshop as a communicative space; b) technological – a philosophical workshop as a developing skills and proficiencies. The second is a historical component that includes: a) foundation of our university; b) personal roots of our philosophical workshop (V. Karpov – a founder of our department of philosophy and the first rector of the same time, G. Zajchenko – the first doctor of philosophical sciences); c) opening of specialized academic council in 1992 by P. Gnatenko; d) opening a branch ‘philosophy’ in our university. The third component is developing of three fundamental humanitarian practices – speaking, reading, writing. The fourth component is methodological as familiarization of classical (analyses, synthesis, observing, describing etc.), non-classical (hermeneutics, structuralism etc.), post-non-classic (synergic) methodologies. The fifth is organizing component – priority of communicative-praxeological approach under lectures. The sixth component is communicative as forming of creative atmosphere during class. And the last – theoretical component as possibility of creating of own metaphysics.
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Myloslavska, O. V. "Interpersonal dependence and differential types of reflection in students – boys and girls." Law and Safety 71, no. 4 (December 27, 2018): 111–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.32631/pb.2018.4.16.
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The article presents results of the study of interpersonal dependence in the context of reflection as a necessary condition for personal autonomy and the mechanism of constructing and organizing a life perspective in adolescence.
The psychological content of the phenomenon of interpersonal dependence is revealed, its destructive influence on the personality is emphasized, the positive role of reflection as a factor of actualization of the autonomy of the individual and the neutralization of interpersonal dependence is substantiated.
The purpose of the study was to identify the relationship of interpersonal dependence and differential types of reflection in students – boys and girls.
The scientific novelty of the research is determined by the fact that in the work for the first time the peculiarities of the functioning of interpersonal dependence and differential types of reflection on the students were determined, differences in the structure of the interrelationship between these phenomena in students – boys and girls were analyzed.
The Interpersonal Dependency Inventory by R. M. A. Hirschfeld, Relationship Profile Test by R. F. Bornstein (both – in an adaptation by O. P. Makushina) and Differential Test of Reflexivity by D. A. Leontiev and E. M. Osin were applied to solve empirical problems. The sample consisted of 96 students of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. The first group included of 45 boys, the second – 51 girls. For the mathematical processing of data the Spearman rank correlation coefficient was used.
It has been established that in both groups an increase in the propensity to unproductive types of reflection is a potential for the development of manifestations of interpersonal dependence. Both boys and girls, with increased introspection, there is an aggravation of destructive overdependence. It was also found that in young men the increase in such manifestations of interpersonal dependence, such as the need for emotional reliance on others, lack of self-confidence, and dependence in general, occurs along with the actualization of the tendency to introspection, while in girls – with the actualization of the tendency to quasi-reflection, together with than in these subjects, destructive overdependence grows. It should be noted that healthy dependence is involved in relationships with the differential types of reflection only in the group of girls, in which its severity increases with increasing ability to systemic reflection and inhibition of quasi-reflection.
Results can be used for gender specification of psychological programs for the prevention and correction of interpersonal dependence in the students age. It is noted that the prospect of further research is to study the psychological characteristics that may act as inhibitors of interpersonal dependence in adolescence.
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Motovilin, Oleg Gennad'evich, Yulia Andreevna Shishkova, Sergey Ivanovich Divisenko, Ekaterina Andreevna Andrianova, Elena Viktorovna Surkova, and Ivan Ivanovich Dedov. "Psychological aspects of glycemic control in young patients with type 1 diabetes." Diabetes mellitus 13, no. 1 (March 15, 2010): 66–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.14341/2072-0351-6019.
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Aim. To elucidate the relationship between glycemic control (assessed by the level of HbA1c) and psychological status of the patients. Materials and methods. The study included 115 patients with type 1 diabetes aged 13-27 years. The following tests were used to assess the psychological statusof the patients status (emotional state, social relations, attitude toward disease): State-trait-anxiety Inventory (Spielberger C.D., Hanin Y.L), Center for EpidemiologicStudies Depression Scale (CES-D), Social ajustment scale by A.K. Osnizkiy based on Q-Sort Adjustment Scale developed by R. Dymond andC.R. Rogers (1954), Lusher colour test , Colour attitudes test, A.M. Etkind original technique, method for the assessment of attitude toward disease developedin V.M. Bekhterev Research Psychoneurologic Institute, Sankt-Peterburg. The patients were allocated to 3 groups differing in terms of 33.3% percentile ofHbA1c levels. Results. Patients with good glycemic control (mean HbA1c level 7.4%) show the lowest level of social adaptation and emotional well-being. The reason for thisphenomenon is the excessive focus of patient on the disease and narrow scope of interests, which suggest psychological dependence on diabetes. Patients withpoor glycemic control (mean HbA1c level 13.1%) also experience emotional discomfort due to increased anxiety. Despite the fact they exhibit a higher degreeof social adaptation than the patients of the above group, the main concern is the low level of communicative autonomy and the feeling of being unable to copewith the disease. Such personal characteristics also create a psychological dependence on diabetes, although of a different type than in the first group of patients.Patients with average glycemic control (mean HbA1c level 9.5%) in the sample have the most favorable psychological state in comparison with the other twogroups. Their emotional state and social adaptation are significantly better than in the other two groups. These patients tend to psychological autonomy and independenceand maintain multifaceted life motivation in terms of diabetes. They perceive the disease as a given, some life condition that allows to maintaina positive psychological state, high daily activity, not to feel overwhelmed with diabetes and at the same time pay attention to diabetes self-management evennot quite sufficient.Conclusions. Glycemic control and psychological status in young adults does not coincide with each other, although there is a close relationship among them.Attitude toward the disease is the most important mediator of this relationship. Professional psychological help and educational interventions designed to developskills of the practical management of diabetes may contribute to improvement of metabolic control, psychological well-being and social adjustment of patients.
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Матејевић, Марина, and Светлана Стојановић. "ВАСПИТНИ СТИЛ РОДИТЕЉА И РЕЛИГИОЗНОСТ СТУДЕНАТА." ГОДИШЊАК ЗА ПЕДАГОГИЈУ 1 (October 14, 2020): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/gped.1.2020.01.
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In this paper, we deal with parenting style and students` religiosity. Parenting styles, according D. Baumrind, authoritative, authoritarian and permissive, are viewed through their dimensions, the first through dimensions of connections, regulation and autonomy, and the second through dimensions of coercion, verbal hostility and notexplaining. Religiosity, according Glock and Stark, is viewed through the dimensions of belief, ritual and consequences. The survey was organized with the aim of finding a correlation between parenting style and religiosity of students. We used descriptive methods, scaling techniques, as instruments, assessment scales. The sample consisted 200 students from various University of Serbia, who evaluated the parental procedures of their parents, father and mother separately, and expressed personal views about religiosity. Results of the research show that the most common parental style is authoritative, that the parental styles of parents associated with sex of students, socio-economic status of the family and place of residence. The average score of students’ religiosity is associated with sex and place of residence of students, and according to the ritual dimension with fathers education. The only connection between parenting style and religiosity of students, is negative, and refers to coercion as a dimension of fathers authoritarianism and ritual and consequences, as well as the dimensions of religiosity. So, there is no statistically significant correlation between parenting style and religiosity of students, in general terms, except the coercion as a fathers parental procedure which is associated with ritual religiosity and consequences, in terms that the coercion pronounced by the father means less expressed practical religiosity. It turned out that religiosity is, indeed, a specific phenomenon that is quite difficult to realistically perceive and quantify, and our recommendation is to do so by combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, respecting the pluralism of scientific paradigms to avoid unambiguous interpretation of collected facts, which would enabled an integral, multidisciplinary understanding of the problem.
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Guzik, Aldona, and Grzegorz Dutka. "BETWEEN ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL REALITY. TECHNOLOGIES AND FUNCTIONALITIES OF DEVICES IN THE BUYING PROCESS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF (POLISH) CONSUMERS." Studia Humanistyczne AGH 18, no. 3 (2019): 75–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/human.2019.18.3.75.
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In modern times, the buying process involves utilisation of technologies from the virtual world as well as appropriate devices and their functionalities. Strategies of this type are also appreciated by young Polish people for whom balancing between actual and virtual reality is becoming an intrinsic element of consumer awareness. Based on selected papers and research reports, including their own and ones not yet published, the authors of the paper present various ways of moving between two realities throughout the whole buying process, from the stage of creating needs to completion of the purchase. In this respect, they draw attention to such issues as the kind of devices and their functionalities used or preferred in this process, the differentiation of actions in the individual buying categories, the involvement of third parties in the buying process, responses to messages, and willingness to disclose personal information. In addition to the empirical character (presentation of the relevant data obtained during the research) of the study, the authors consider the extent of autonomy and rationality of consumer decisions. The paper presents empirical research as it was based on the authors’ consumer studies, the full descriptions of which, along with the conclusions, are included in two reports constituting elements of a project implemented by the Social Research Institute at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Pedagogical University of Krakow (IFiS UP) and the Interia Group, under the name ‘Studies on the construction of an innovative platform, compliant with the latest global trends and enabling creation of services in the “Shopping Assistant” model’, funded by the Regional Operating Programme for Mazowieckie Province for 2014–2020 (Priority axis 1: Knowledge Economy; Action 1.2 Research and innovation in enterprises, Sub‑measure 1.2.1 R&D projects for enterprises).
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Darsana, I. Ketut, Muner Daliman, Suwarsono Warnomartoyo, Sri Wahyuni, and Jamin Tanhidy. "The implementation of Jesus' transformative leadership in leaders and activists of the Protestant Christian church in Bali, Indonesia." International Journal of Humanities and Innovation (IJHI) 4, no. 4 (December 30, 2021): 149–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33750/ijhi.v4i4.131.
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Jesus Christ is a role model for leaders, with His leadership still relevant until now. Jesus brought transformation to His community, and this transformative leadership model is needed to renew church ministry and evangelism. This article aims to find out the level of implementation of Jesus' transformative leadership among church leaders and activists of the Protestant Christian Church in Bali (GKPB) at Denpasar. This “traditional” church needs transformation to improve its quality and range of services outside Bali Island. The research used a quantitative method by measuring the Four Dimensions (D) in the concept of transformative leadership of Jesus according to the Gospel of Matthew. Results show that first, the implementation of Jesus' transformative leadership among GKPB Denpasar leaders and activists was found to be in "moderate" level due to the leadership model that was still committed to the system of institutional centralization and local autonomy based on tradition, which became an obstacle to develop mission work outside Bali. Second, the implementation of Jesus' transformative leadership among GKPB Denpasar leaders and activists was more dominantly influenced by the understanding of the Kingdom of Heaven (D2), meaning that leaders of GKPB Bali had practiced the Jesus transformative leadership model. However, the adequate salary and facilities provided by the synod created anthropocentric comfort, which diluted the spirit of the mission. Third, the background of "long-serving" (L5) dominantly influenced GKPB Denpasar leaders and activists to adjust Jesus’s transformative leadership model, but this was not yet able to fully optimize the practice. Therefore, GPKB Denpasar leaders and activists need to shift from the traditional paradigm to the transformative one to carry out personal and institutional transformations to improve their quality, range of services and answer future challenges.
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Latysh, Yu. "PETRO SHELEST, VOLODYMYR SHCHERBITSKY AND RICHARD NIXON: AMERICAN “TRACE” IN THE FALL OF THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF UKRAINE." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 144 (2020): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2020.144.7.
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The article deals with the impact of disputes of leaders of the USSR over the visit of US President R. Nixon to the fall of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine P. Shelest. The article was published in the ‘Washington Post’ by D. Anderson, which based on the CIA's secret materials contained information about the conflict between L. Brezhnev and P. Shelest regarding R. Nixon's visit and the support of General Secretary by V. Shcherbytsky, are analyzing. P. Shelest's position in the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee on the politics of Détente, R. Nixon's visit and his assessment of the foreign policy of L. Brezhnev is revealed. The positions of other members of the Politburo have been covered. The reasons and circumstances of the increasing influence of L. Brezhnev on the foreign policy of the USSR and the defeat of the supporters of the hard course and the class approach were found out. The role of the international factor in ending the political career of P. Shelest and ascending to the top of the political Olympus of the USSR V. Shcherbytsky was investigated. As a result of the study, it became known that P. Shelest was an conservator in the foreign policy of the USSR, demanded the suppression of the “Prague Spring”, was skeptical of the Détente and attempts of L. Brezhnev to establish personal contacts with Western leaders. The brutal bombing of North Vietnam and the death of Soviet citizens were a good reason for P. Shelest and N. Podgorny to endure R. Nixon's visit. P. Shelest's removal was due to internal reasons: his independence position, desire for economic autonomy, insufficiently decisive struggle with dissidents, complaints of other Ukrainian leaders. However, the sudden replacement of the leader of the republic on the eve of the arrival of the President of the United States in Kiev may have been caused by P. Shelest's position regarding Détente and visit of R. Nixon.