33 research outputs found
Health discipline and its relation to the degree of anxiety among diabetics
No full textهدفت الدراسة إلى الكشف عن طبيعة العلاقة الارتباطية بين درجة الانضباط الصحي ومستوى القلق لدى مرضى السكري وكذا معرفة الفروق في درجة الانضباط الصحي وذلك حسب كل من الجنس والسن ونمط السكري لدى عينة قصدية مكونة من30 فرد ذكور وإناث، حيث تم استخدام مقياس القلق لهاملتون واستبيان السلوك الصحي وذلك بتطبيق المنهج الوصفي المقارن وكانت نتائج الدراسة كالتالي:
* لا توجد علاقة ارتباطية دالة إحصائيا بين درجة الانضباط الصحي ومستوى القلق لدى مرضى
السكري.
* لا توجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية في الانضباط الصحي بين الجنسين بينما يوجد فرق بين الجنسين في مستوى القلق وكان لصالح الإناث.
* لا توجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية في الانضباط الصحي ودرجة القلق لدى مرضى السكري تبعا لمتغير السن.
* لا توجد فروق في درجة الانضباط الصحي ودرجة القلق بين مرضى السكري من النوع الأول ومرضى السكري من النوع الثاني.The study aimed at revealing the nature of the correlation between the degree of health discipline and the level of anxiety among diabetics, also, to know differences in the degree of health discipline according to sex, age and diabetes pattern in a target sample of 30 males and females.Hamilton's anxiety scale and health behavior questionnaire were used in accordance with the descriptive approach.The results of the study were as follows:*There was no statistically significant correlation between the degree of health, discipline and the level of anxiety among diabetics.*There was no statistically significant differences in health discipline between the sexes, while there is a gender difference in the level of anxiety and was in favor of females.*There were no statistically significant differences in health discipline and degree of anxiety among diabetics according to the age variable.*There were no differences in the degree of health discipline and degree of anxiety among type 1 diabetics and type 2 diabetes patients
Calendarium naturale magicum perpetuum profundissimam rerum secretissimarum contemplationem totiusque Philosophiæ cognitionem complectens [graphic].
No full textThe print depicts and describes a hermetic universe, with fourteen horizontal parts, each subdivided vertically into a number of sections connecting with others. The print incorporates alchemical, astrological and mystical elements.Ref.: Magic, alchemy and science 15th-18th centuries : the influence of Hermes Trismegistus, ed. Carlos Gilly, Cis van Heertum. Florence: Centro Di, 2002; The magical calendar: a synthesis of magical symbolism from the seventeenth century renaissance of medieval occultism, ed. Adam McLean. Edinburgh: Magnum Opus, Hermetic Sourceworks, 1979.Cf. Gilly: the reference to Tycho Brahe as inventor implies only that the Calendarium imitates the method employed by the Danish astronomer.Print lacking date, attributed to Matthaeus Merian after images and text by Johann Baptist Grossschedel von Aicha.Print with letters: Auth. Iohan Babtista [Gro]ssschedel ab Aicha; Io. Theodore de Bry excudeb.; Thico Brahae inuentor 1582.Three sheets joined on linen mount.The print depicts and describes a hermetic universe, with fourteen horizontal parts, each subdivided vertically into a number of sections connecting with others. The print incorporates alchemical, astrological and mystical elements.Mode of access: Internet.mlanAssessed: Condition report in research file
Paratext as Moral-Ethical Orientation in Harriet Jacobs's <i>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl </i>(1861)
No full textIn the preface to her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), Harriet Jacobs makes explicit her “desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition” of enslaved people (Jacobs n. pag.). The preface itself constructs an implied reader and gears their moral judgement towards condemning slavery. As is characteristic of the autobiographical genre, Jacobs’s narrative identifies her simultaneously as author, narrator, and protagonist. Thus, her “Preface by the Author” blurs the distinction between her textual status as narrator and her extratextual status as author. This conflation is key to constructing the implied reader of the narrative: the narrator does not address mere narratees but constructs the latter as real-life readers – women living in the Northern US – whose reading experience, the preface claims, could prompt a real-life sense of personal responsibility in the struggle against slavery. The rhetoric of the preface can be analyzed through the combined lenses of deictic theory and narrative ethics. Jacobs’s moral-ethical deixis includes markers like right/wrong, good/bad and true/false. Jacobs orients the implied reader towards Abolition, by instructing them to judge “Freedom” as good and “Slavery” as bad. Correspondingly, Jacobs associates slavery with “persecut[ion]” and “suffering” by presenting it as a “deep, and dark, and foul ... pit of abominations” (Jacobs n. pag.). This moral deictic system is solidified by Jacobs’s claim, as author-narrator, that to validate these ethical coordinates is to “realiz[e]” the truth (Jacobs n. pag.). The moral deixis of Jacobs’s preface is instrumental in constructing what James Phelan defines as “the ethics of the telling” and “the ethics of reading/reception” of the narrative (Phelan n. pag.). The invitation of the implied audience into Jacobs’s ethical perspective simultaneously assigns them “moral responsibilities” and “obligations” (Phelan n. pag.) vis-à-vis the diegesis and its narratio
The dynamics of social representations in a situation of immigration
No full textFor the author, globalisation, defined as the internationalisation of exchanges, involves bearing in mind the migration issue in great national and international strategic concerns. Discourses on migration are closely linked with social representations in migratory events. This article constitutes an attempt to focus on the dynamics of social relations in a multicultural situation generated by migration, the objective of which lies in deconstructing the socialrepresentations of the immigrant. With the aim of establishing a theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of immigrants’ representations and making the instability and fragility of these relations explicit, it presents a brief historical compendium of immigration, before situating the stages of the construction of the social representation, differentiating identity and otherness
Dynamic Delegation Based on Temporal Context
No full textAbstractDelegation is a very important part of the administrative process in access control systems; it provides resiliency and flexibility regarding to the management procedure. Delegation is the process of granting a specific authorization from a user to another user of the same system to carry out some functions on his behalf. The delegation, although widely used, is modeled in very little security policies because of its complexity. In this paper we aim to consider the delegation dynamically based on temporal context, to this end we redefine delegation for OrBAC using temporal nonmonotonic description logic. OrBAC is an access control model; it provides the mean to specify contextual authorizations, which facilitates modeling delegation features such as temporary delegation, multiple delegation, revocation, etc. The description logic that we use for the re-formalization process is T- JClassicδɛ. This logic gives the mean to specify nonmonotonic authorizations, and a better representation of the temporal aspects specific to a given delegation. This new representation augments the expressivity of the model and therefore it facilitates even more the representation and the management of the delegation characteristics
Training and assessing perspective taking through A Hole New Perspective
No full textIn recent years, the use of Augmented and Virtual Reality (ARNR) has taken a larger role within training and education of various fields, but not every individual experiences the benefits that AR and VR technology are thought to provide. The perspective taking skill of an individual may be a good indicator of the effectiveness that AR and VR training can achieve. However, we found that the tests in other research targeting small scale perspective taking are few and limited, as perspective taking is often hard to distinguish from mental rotation. Therefore, we designed and developed A Hole New Perspective, a serious game created specifically to test and train an individual’s perspective-taking ability. A Hole New Perspective focuses on the relationship between a 3D object floating in the air and a 2D hole on a moving wall. The core game mechanics consists of having the player rotate the object so that it fits in the hole, before the wall hits the object. Because players do not always have an aligned view with the hole, they have to call on their spatial perspective-taking abilities, in addition to mental rotation. We tested the game with a variety of test subjects, and compared these test results with the Perspective Taking/Spatial orientation Test. Early results have shown that performance in the game corresponds to mental rotation ability. Furthermore, there are indications that improvement in spatial ability through the game is selectively present for those with lower spatial abilities. This further substantiates the need for a more individualized approach when offering AR and VR in education. Additional training may be needed for some, but not all students.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Computer Graphics and Visualisatio
Representation of Women in "The silence of Mohammed" by Salim BACHI
No full text‘The Silence of Muhammad’ is a novel written by Salim BACHI, published in 2008, it is a fictionalized story based on historical facts recounting different facets of the life of the Prophet of Islam Mohammed – Peace be upon Him. He was a man like no other who began his life as a shepherd in Mecca. Then he became a successful merchant. In this novel, the author relates another aspect of the life of the Prophet according to the eyes of two of his wives, notably, Khadidja and Aicha. Hence, this paper tries to highlight the different facets of the life of the Prophet of Islam; our attempt is placed on the humanistic side of the Man before being a Prophet. Besides, attention is placed on the existence of women in the life of the Prophet through his two wives
Corpos Nzilas: A corporeidade poética da cena encruzilhada
No full textThe present article is a reflective report about the creative process of the show NZINGA, premiered in july 2022, in which the author coordinates, perform and direct. Discusses about the possible creative procedures in black theaters in the city of São Paulo from the beginning of the two thousand's, starting from her artistic trajectory, in a clipping of 15 years, reflecting advances and ruptures in her artistic doing.O presente artigo é um relato reflexivo sobre o processo criativo do espetáculo NZINGA, estreado em julho de 2022, no qual a escritora coordena, atua e dirigi. Discorre sobre os possíveis procedimentos de criação nos teatros negros paulistanos do começo dos anos dois mil, partindo de sua trajetória artística, num recorte de 15 anos, refletindo avanços e rupturas no seu fazer artístico
Daylighting Education in Practice: Verification of a New Goal within a European Knowledge Investigation
No full textTwo independent surveys were conducted in 2017 and in 2018 among architecture students across Europe to investigate their knowledge on daylighting and the impact of that knowledge on the visual perception of daylit spaces. A total of 600 responders were involved. This paper presents findings from the second survey, which was distributed in six European countries. Based on the findings from the first survey, a new goal was set for the second survey: to examine how daylighting knowledge may influence the visual perception of it and how the perception of a daylit space by a student population and by experts compare to each other. Three main findings were observed: i) the perceived comfort shows a better agreement with mood than with sky condition; ii) the judgments expressed by the experts and by non-experts are consistent with each other, confirming an outcome of the earlier study and iii) there is a lack of knowledge about daylighting metrics and regulations as well as a difficulty in implementing daylighting into the design process. These outcomes highlight the relevance of reconsidering the way daylighting education is delivered in current architectural programmes.Building Physic
Carrier transport properties measurements in wide bandgap materials
No full textThis dissertation examines the carrier transport properties, diffusion length, effective carrier lifetime, and resistivity in two wide bandgap materials, GaN and diamond. A combination of two methods was used to obtain these transport properties. The two were optical beam induced current (OBIC) and electron beam induced current (EBIC) time of flight transient measurements. These techniques consist of measuring the current response to the drift and diffusion of generated electron-hole pair carriers created by a short-duration pulse of radiation.
Under OBIC, a short duration pulsed optical source, with an electron beam excitation pulse time much less than the transit time of the material, was used to generate excess carriers within the absorption depth of the material. The second method of excitation, EBIC involved the use of a modified SEM with a photoemission source (L-EBIC) and a high speed pulsed thermionic electron source (T-EBIC) to generate an electron beam. This electron beam was used to create a large number of electron-hole pairs at various penetration depths within the materials.
Measurements on GaN found the diffusion length was 7.84 µm with the L-EBIC and 7.78 µm with the T-EBIC. After annealing at 900°C for 30 min. the GaN diffusion length increased to 9.89 µm (L-EBIC). The dark resistivity was 1.79 x 10¹⁰Ω-cm, and the carrier lifetimes were 1.7 µs with L-EBIC and 3.36 & 3.9 ns with OBIC. The author believed that the L-EBIC result was a good representation of the carrier lifetime within the material, while the shorter OBIC results were due to the combine high surface and interface recombination processes. The diamond dark resistivity was found to be 6.14 x 10¹¹Ω-cm and the diffusion lengths were 94.1 µm and 97 µm from the L-EBIC and T-EBIC respectively. All measurements were within 10 % spread.
The real value of this contribution lies in determining the diffusion lengths in GaN and diamond by the EBIC techniques, measuring the effective surface\interface and thin film carrier lifetime of GaN utilizing a combination of OBIC and L-EBIC techniques, and evaluating the dark resistivity in GaN and diamond materials. These measurements can lead to a better understanding and exploitation of the electrophysical behavior of these materials.Ph. D
