Adverse Attitude Research Articles

Test research of the relation between velocity and heart rate during evacuation under adverse attitude conditions

Abstract Based on the dynamic cabin emergency evacuation tests environment, emergency evacuation tests under adverse attitude landing conditions are studied. The relation between average velocity and average heart rate under horizontal conditions is achieved by means of fitting test data. The test results show that cabin adverse attitude can both affect the move state and psychology of test members. The change trend of move velocity is different from heart rate change and displays a large difference. Change coefficient correlation with psychology is put forward and the relation with pitch and roll angle is attained by fitting the test data. This coefficient can be used to simulate the scared state at simulation adverse attitude emergency evacuation. The test also demonstrates the behavior of the test member can be analyzed by measuring biological parameters and providing a reference for building or modifying the emergency evacuation simulation model.

The metaphorical aspect in J. M. Coetzee‘s Age of Iron (1990)

The present study aims at examining the metaphorical aspect in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron. To make the investigation a purposeful one, the Psychoanalytic approach is employed taken Displacement as a means of coexistence and adaptation. The study also seeks to underscore how J. M. Coetzee employs the Psychoanalytic approach in portraying the character of Elizabeth Curren –the protagonist- to convey his contempt toward the oppressive practices of the ruling system of Apartheid in South Africa. In the present novel, Coetzee presents a model of a female white character who is not in line with the practices of the system. Mrs. Curren finds a means of revealing her suppressed feelings in writing a confessional letter to her daughter because of her inability to openly express her adverse attitude toward the ruling system in her community. In a word, the main objective of the study lies in exploring J. M. Coetzee’s vision of the dilemma of both the oppressed and the oppressor South Africans through Metaphor of the body of both the protagonist and the system to convey the theme of his novel.

Developing and Validating a Questionnaire to Measure Attitude toward Child Adoption: A Psychometric Process.

Despite the mutual benefit of adoption, due to the adverse attitude related to the barriers perceived by the couples, some people are not interested in adoption. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a questionnaire to measure attitudes toward child adoption. This secondary analysis is part of a larger study on 178 infertile couples referring to the Afzalipour Infertility Center in Kerman, Iran. Factor Analysis (FA) was performed. The sampling was conducted using the convenience sampling method. The questionnaire was implemented using a mixed-method approach in three phases. Firstly, a pool was created. The second phase involved content validity. Lastly, construct validity was conducted. The final version of the questionnaire with 20 questions had a total Cronbach's alpha of 0.70%. Six factors with eigenvalues of higher than 1.00 were extracted, which accounted for 52% of the total variance. These factors were "spiritual-psychological status of the new parents," "psychological status of the adopted child," "undesirable behaviors of others in the future," "anxiety of the new parents," "physical-behavioral characteristics of the adopted child," and "socio-economic factors." The model extracted from the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was confirmed by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The 6-factor structure adequately fitted the data (Comparative Fit Index (CFI) = 0.93; root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA] = 0.047; X2/df = 1.393; p = 0.002. The internal consistency and construct validity of the questionnaire were confirmed. This instrument can be used in clinical and research practices.

ADVERSE MATH ATTITUDES IN THE POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION OF RIVER STATE, NIGERIA: CAN METACOGNITION DO THE MAGIC?

There is growing concern about the increasing adverse attitude towards mathematics in Nigeria's educational system. Numerous research has underscored appropriate steps to address the challenge of mathematics attitudes. However, little is known about the role of metacognitive teaching in promoting healthy math attitudes. The present study employed a quasi-experimental design to examine the effect of the metacognitive instruction approach on students' mathematical attitudes in River State. Ninety-one (n = 91) students comprising males and females between the ages of 10 and 14 years with a mean age of (M=9.14) and (SD= 1.24) were randomly selected from different public secondary schools in River State as the study participants. The participants were grouped into two and were subjected to a pre-test and post-test study. The independent t-test conducted on the data following the pre-test and post-test studies proved that Metacognition enhanced the participants' mathematical attitudes at MD = 13.65 (95% CI, 8.91 to 16.17), t (89) = 6.328, p = .001. Thus, the result supported the study's hypothesis. It was concluded that Metacognition is effective in enhancing students' mathematics attitudes. The study recommends that teachers be regularly trained in using the metacognitive approach in the classroom.

ADVERSE MATH ATTITUDES IN THE POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION OF RIVER STATE, NIGERIA: CAN METACOGNITION DO THE MAGIC?

There is growing concern about the increasing adverse attitude towards mathematics in Nigeria's educational system.Numerous research has underscored appropriate steps to address the challenge of mathematics attitudes. However, little is known about the role of metacognitive teaching in promoting healthy math attitudes. The present study employed a quasi-experimental design to examine the effect of the metacognitive instruction approach on students' mathematical attitudes in River State. Ninety-one (n = 91) students comprising males and females between the ages of 10 and 14 years with a mean age of (M=9.14) and (SD= 1.24) were randomly selected from different public secondary schools in River State as the study participants. The participants were grouped into two and were subjected to a pre-test and post-test study. The independent t-test conducted on the data following the pre-test and post-test studies proved that Metacognition enhanced the participants' mathematical attitudes at MD = 13.65 (95% CI, 8.91 to 16.17), t (89) = 6.328, p = .001. Thus, the result supported the study's hypothesis. It was concluded that Metacognition is effective in enhancing students' mathematics attitudes. The study recommends that teachers be regularly trained in using the metacognitive approach in the classroom.

Emergency evacuation simulation and test research of civil aircraft complex groups based on the social attribute

Based on the basic social model, the social attribute effect factor is put forward. The desired velocity of individual is modified from sex, age, education, ride frequency, safety knowledge and experience. The influence of the individual behavior, group action and adverse attitude of landing are revised through panic parameter, follow force, leaning force and coefficient of speed damping ratio. Based on the dynamic cabin emergency evacuation test environment, the individual evacuation test, multiplayer evacuation test and group evacuation test are performed. The individual speed distributes and the adverse attitude effects on the individual velocity and group evacuation speed are analyzed. The test result show that the individual desired speed is about 1.5 m/s and the maximum desired speed is about 2.86 m/s. During evacuation, the average speed of male is higher than that of female. However, the proportion of panic of female during jump slide is higher than that of male. The fitting coefficient of speed damping ration based on the test data is consist with that from Lowe's Ship Club. Through comparing the simulation result with the test, the revised social model can be exact simulate evacuation process. The maximum deviation is 6.25 percent with group test performed in the test environment. The relative error is 3.7 percent with ARJ21-700 evacuation demonstrate test. The errors conform to the engineering requirement.

Infamous Gaming: The Intergroup Bias of Non-gamers in the Chinese Marriage Market.

The link between gaming and negative outcomes has been explored by previous research and has led to the widespread adverse attitude toward gaming (ATG) and gamers, especially from those who are unfamiliar with this activity. By implementing an audit study with gamers and non-gamers as participants (N = 1,280), we found that non-gamer participants rated gamers less as similar to their ideal marriage partners compared to non-gamers, while gamer participants did not differentiate between gamers and non-gamers in the ideal marriage partners similarity rating (IMPSR). The findings also revealed that the difference in IMPSR between gamer and non-gamer participants toward gamers was completely mediated by their ATG. These results imply that non-gamers consider gaming as an undesired characteristic, and this is due to the relatively negative attitude of non-gamers toward gaming. Current study provides a new perspective on exploring the effect of gaming by investigating the social interaction between gamers and non-gamers in real-world and suggests that the unfamiliarity of gaming can lead to the negative ATG, which may, ultimately, place gamers at a disadvantage in the context of mate selection.

Against the Current

The political reality of the European Union is not reflected in the general discourse on the relationship between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe, which is characterized by an adverse attitude towards the latter. This impacts identity construction on the European level, where Central and Eastern Europe has long been regarded as the “Other” against which the European “self ” was defined. However, a new discourse on this relationship has emerged in literary works written by scholars and journalists that are able to take an overarching perspective. The present study analyses four publications to see how the relationship between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe is portrayed in terms of the self and the Other, employing the Discourse Historical Approach and a spectrum of the self and the Other perspectives. It emerges that the discussed authors share a discourse which respects differences, focuses on similarities as well as differences and shows an awareness of the interwovenness of the narratives of the self and the Other. This new, shared discourse holds directions for the further development of a European-wide discourse that includes the same notions of respect and the interwovenness of narratives, and which could in turn influence European identity construction.

GOD’S MERCY OR JONAH’S ANGER? AN ORTHODOX APPROACH TO THE CASE OF NINEVEH

The Book of the Prophet Jonah challenges us to face a reality that justifies our quality of God’s children. Often, Christians are faced with a choice between creating or not the necessary frameworks for the redemption of the contemporary man who has sometimes an adverse attitude towards the Church. It is this choice that their privileged status of God’s chosen people, of holy people whose mission is to be a light among other people, depends on. Those who set themselves up as judges and punishers of others’ deeds are in conflict with God, by neglecting their vocation and the mission to which they have been called. For these reasons, the association with Jonah is extremely appropriate. The prophet refuses to preach in Nineveh in order to avoid being the instrument by which God brings redemption to an impressive number of sinners. The aim of this study is to fructify this behavioural paradigm to acknowledge the fact that disobedience towards God takes us out of communion and makes us lose the privileged status of God’s chosen one. In order to succeed in this endeavour, I shall bear in mind the most recent researches that try to solve the mystery of the prophet’s unexpected behaviour, but also the opinions of some personalities who represent the Jewish and patristic tradition, which mostly characterises the Christian East. These directions shall offer the reader the possibility of thinking more before choosing to get angry like Jonah or be merciful like God

Health Policy and Ladies Health Workers Stress During Fields Work: Case Study of District Muzaffargarh

Lady Health workers are playing a central role in the community health improvement of the nations all over the country. Especially their role in polio eradication, health improvement (Sahit key dastak): campaign cannot be underscored. Working lady health workers facing a whole set of troubles equally in their family as well as in their professional lives such role conflict and overload push them into extreme psychological stress. They have to deal with their job while maintain customary role that overlap household tasks. Hence, in addition to their customary roles, look likes to be one of the key sources of stress that working lady health workers have to face. They take part in their duty as a companion like a mother as well as an earner and give extra time to job also face public extra adverse attitude towards their personal and professional life. The data was reviewed, searched from different search engine that are Google scholar, yahoo, Public policy book Bing, Baidu, Duck Duck GO, the data was taken through the prescribed phone calls.

Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation in aortic surgery and dissection: A systematic review.

BACKGROUNDVery little is known about the role of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for the management of patients undergoing major aortic surgery with particular reference to aortic dissection.AIMTo review the available literature to determine if there was any evidence.METHODSA systematic literature search through PubMed and EMBASE was undertaken according to specific key words.RESULTSThe search resulted in 29 publications relevant to the subject: 1 brief communication, 1 surgical technique report, 1 invited commentary, 1 retrospective case review, 1 observational study, 4 retrospective reviews, 13 case reports and 7 conference abstracts. A total of 194 patients were included in these publications of whom 77 survived.CONCLUSIONAlthough there is no compelling evidence for or against the use of ECMO in major aortic surgery or dissection, it is enough to justify its use in this patient population despite current adverse attitude.

Assessing the Access to Finance by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises from Financial Institutions in Blantyre City-Malawi

SMEs are an integral part of the economy in Malawi. The paper assesses the access to finance by SMEs from financial institutions in Malawi by highlighting the obstacles that SMEs face in their effort to raise finance. The quantitative research approach was adopted in conducting the study. Questionnaires were circulated to 100 SMEs in the City of Blantyre-Ginnery Corner and the SMEs were selected using the random sampling techniques. The following major findings were revealed.  There are financial institutions that are willing to provide funds to SMEs for growth and expansion but most Malawian SMEs fail to meet the lending requirements demanded by these institutions. Chief amongst these is the inability by most SMEs to provide collateral or security and audited financial statements for their businesses. On the other hand, for the small number that is able to access finance, they are faced with high interest rates which make it very difficult for them to grow. The other constraints include lack of finance, stiff competition in the sector, high taxes and corruption and bribes to access contracts. Another interesting revelation is that SMEs relationship with their bankers is not healthy. Most SMEs consider their relationship to be average despite recent focus by the banks on SMEs businesses. The study recommends the enforcement of the Credit Reference Bureau Act 2010 to help financial institutions identify and lend to creditworthy SMEs; banks should soften their adverse risk attitude of over reliance on collateral rather than on business cash flows. The government should also consider provision of tax incentives to banks’ lending to SMEs; stabilisation of the economy to achieve lower inflation and interest rates and formulation of government policy on SMEs that would compel Ministries, Departments and Agencies to allocate a proportion of contracts to SMEs in any tender. Lastly, financial institutions should revisit their approach to SME banking.

Robust Planning of Energy and Environment Systems through Introducing Traffic Sector with Cost Minimization and Emissions Abatement under Multiple Uncertainties

Motor vehicles have been identified as a growing contributor to air pollution, such that analyzing the traffic policies on energy and environment systems (EES) has become a main concern for governments. This study developed a dual robust stochastic fuzzy optimization - energy and environmental systems (DRSFO-EES) model for sustainable planning EES, while considering the traffic sector through integrating two-stage stochastic programming, robust two-stage stochastic optimization, fuzzy possibilistic programming, and robust fuzzy possibilistic programming methods into a framework, which can be used to effectively tackle fuzzy and stochastic uncertainties as well as their combinations, capture the associated risks from fuzzy and stochastic uncertainties, and thoroughly analyze the trade-offs between system costs and reliability. The proposed model can: (i) generate robust optimized solutions for energy allocation, coking processing, oil refining, heat processing, electricity generation, electricity power expansion, electricity importation, energy production, as well as emission mitigation under multiple uncertainties; (ii) explore the impacts of different vehicle policies on vehicular emission mitigation; (iii) identify the study of regional atmospheric pollution contributions of different energy activities. The proposed DRSFO-EES model was applied to the EES of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region in China. Results generated from the proposed model disclose that: (i) limitation of the number of light-duty passenger vehicles and heavy-duty trucks can effectively reduce vehicular emissions; (ii) an electric cars’ policy is enhanced by increasing the ratio of its power generated from renewable sources; and (iii) the air-pollutant emissions in the BTH region are expected to peak around 2030, because the energy mix of the study region would be transformed from one dominated by coal to one with a cleaner pattern. The DRSFO-EES model can not only provide scientific support for the sustainable managing of EES by cost-effective ways, but also analyze the desired policies for mitigating pollutant emissions impacts with a risk adverse attitude under multiple uncertainties.

Difficulties to provide palliative care in west bengal, India

Objective: In a southern district of West Bengal, India almost 75% of cancer patient die a sad death of neglect due to lack of awareness about palliative care and low economic level. To identify and try to solve to the extent possible the main difficulties in giving palliative care to the terminal cancer patients of the area. Method: Home visit by volunteers and enumeration of the problems as discussed by the patient and their families. Result: Analysis the following data and identify these main problems. Patient problems: Pain, vomiting, respiratory distress, fatigue, etc. Our volunteers visited terminal cancer patients and their families in our areas. Family problems: Inability to match work life with the care of the patients. Adverse attitude of neighbors and local peoples. Social problems: Lack of awareness of the neighbor of local people about cancer and palliative care resulting in isolation of the family. Projected Intervention: Trying to relieve the patient’s problems through home based medications and intervention by volunteers and family members. Re-orientating the attitude of family members through discussions and other methods of communication i.e. get-together of cancer survivors. Social effort to raise the awareness of neighbors and local people through discussion and other audio visual method (i.e. poster, leaflet, slide presentation, etc). Conclusion: We believe that if we are able to continue our program for a long enough period the suffering of the terminal cancer patient and their families might be resolved to a large extent over time.

Difficulties to Provide Palliative Care in West Bengal, India

Objective: In a southern district of West Bengal, India almost 75% of cancer patient die a sad death of neglect due to lack of awareness about palliative care and low economic level. To identify and try to solve to the extent possible the main difficulties in giving palliative care to the terminal cancer patients of the area. Method: Home visit by volunteers and enumeration of the problems as discussed by the patient and their families. Result: Analysis the following data and identify these main problems. Patient problems: Pain, vomiting, respiratory distress, fatigue, etc. Our volunteers visited terminal cancer patients and their families in our areas. Family problems: Inability to match work life with the care of the patients. Adverse attitude of neighbors and local peoples. Social problems: Lack of awareness of the neighbor of local people about cancer and palliative care resulting in isolation of the family. Projected Intervention: Trying to relieve the patient's problems through home based medications and intervention by volunteers and family members. Reorientating the attitude of family members through discussions and other methods of communication (i.e., get-together of cancer survivors). Social effort to raise the awareness of neighbors and local people through discussion and other audio visual method (i.e., poster, leaflet, slide presentation, etc.). Conclusion: We believe that if we are able to continue our program for a long enough period the suffering of the terminal cancer patient and their families might be resolved to a large extent over time.

Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) Risk Attitude and Knowledge Level of Major Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases among 15-19 Years Eleventh and Twelfth-Grade Students of Lekhnath Municipality

Introduction: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) becoming a major public health problem in developing countries. Both developed and developing countries witnesses the increase in a number of lifestyle-related risk factors such as excessive smoking, tobacco, and alcohol consumption, a poor dietary habit among adult and adolescent. The social and economic burden of CVDS in developing countries is more intensifying compare to developed countries because of higher prevalence of these diseases among economically active or working age population.Objective: The aim of this study is to assess and identify the level of knowledge and cardiovascular disease risk attitude among 15-19 years age students of grade 11th and 12th in Lekhnath Municipality.Methodology: The institution base quantitative cross-sectional study was adopted where Proportionate multistage cluster sampling technique was used to recurit study respondents.Result: Only small percentages (11%) of the respondent have a good level of knowledge regarding CVD risk factors. On the other hand, approximately there a quarter of the respondents (71.9%) have a cardiovascular riskseeking attitude.Conclusion: Majority of adolescents in this study does not have sufficient knowledge about major cardiovascular diseases risk factors. Respondents’ cardiovascular risk adverse attitude was closely connected with knowledge of various cardiovascular risk factors. Thus it is necessary to increase adolescents’ knowledge about various risk factors to interruption the extensive social and economic impacts

On the internal stability of non‐linear dynamic inversion: application to flight control

Aircraft are highly non-linear systems, but flight control laws are traditionally designed from a set of linearised models. Due to the application of linear control laws on a non-linear system, the real performance ability of the aircraft is not fully utilised. In addition, in adverse situations like near stall, the aircraft develops significant non-linearities, and linear control laws do not perform well. This study therefore considers the design of a longitudinal flight controller for a fixed-wing aircraft using non-linear dynamic inversion technique or, in terms of control theory, partial exact feedback linearisation. A novel contribution of this study is the proposed combination of three different automatic flight controllers that provide complete 3-DOF longitudinal control. A detailed analysis of the internal dynamics for each controller is also presented. It has been shown that for each controller the internal dynamics are stable. This makes the controller suitable for various flight conditions. The aims of these flight controllers are threefold. First, to provide control of the flight path angle by tracking the pitch angle and the angle of attack. Second, to provide high attitude (pitch up or down) manoeuvrability. Finally, to provide automatic adverse attitude recovery of the aircraft in situations like stall, the switching strategy between the controllers are also discussed. A simulation carried out on a non-linear model of a multi-role fighter aircraft verified the proposed theoretical results confirming the suitability of the controllers.

Statistical Measurement of Nurses’ Level of Awareness of Value of Occupational Therapy Services in a Paediatric Ward

The study investigated the extent of information the nurses have about Occupational Therapy (OT) and its place within a health Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). It took place in the paediatric ward of the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Gauteng Department of Health. It was stimulated by the adverse attitude of the nurses to the OT staff and/or students from Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) for prescribed OT activities in that ward. The purpose of the study was to demonstrate that if nurses in a MDT setting did not understand OT purpose, then this may cause lack of their appreciation of OT activities and of occupational therapists. Forty-three nurses participated in the study. Most of them did not know much about OT and seemed to have different impressions about the OT profession. The study recommended that the nurses should be informed about other practitioners in the MDT of their workplace, how each one works and the scope of the nurses’ work.

Who is excluded and how? An analysis of community spaces for maternal and child health in Pakistan.

BackgroundThe maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) indicators of Pakistan depict the deplorable state of the poor and rural women and children. Many MNCH programmes stress the need to engage the poor in community spaces. However, caste and class based hierarchies and gendered social norms exclude the lower caste poor women from accessing healthcare. To find pathways for improving the lives of the excluded, this study considers the social system as a whole and describes the mechanisms of exclusion in the externally created formal community spaces and their interaction with the indigenous informal spaces.MethodsThe study used a qualitative case study design to identify the formal and informal community spaces in three purposively selected villages of Thatta, Rajanpur, and Ghizer districts. Community perspectives were gathered by conducting 37 focus group discussions, based on participatory rural appraisal tools, with separate groups of women and men. Relevant documents of six MNCH programmes were reviewed and 25 key informant interviews were conducted with programme staff.ResultsWe found that lower caste poor tenants and nomadic peasants were excluded from formal and informal spaces. The formal community spaces formed by MNCH programmes across Pakistan included fixed, small transitory, large transitory, and emerging institutional spaces. Programme guidelines mandated selection of community notables in groups/committees and used criteria that prevented registration of nomadic groups as eligible clients. The selection criteria and adverse attitude of healthcare workers, along with inadequacy of programmatic resources to sustain outreach activities also contributed to exclusion of the lower caste poor women from formal spaces. The informal community spaces were mostly gender segregated. Infrequently, MNCH information trickled down from the better-off to the lower caste poor women through transitory interactions in the informal domestic sphere.ConclusionA revision of the purpose and implementation mechanisms for MNCH programmes is mandated to transform formal health spaces into sites of equitable healthcare.

Dynamics of Bengal coal mining in the nineteenth century: Dissemination of mineralogical knowledge and railway networking

This study seeks to analyse the pattern of development of the coal mining industry in Bengal during the nineteenth century, and also its underlying causations. It reveals that though attempted for the first time in 1774, regular excavation of coal mines took off only around the mid-nineteenth century. I argue that mining in Bengal suffered initially from the adverse attitude of colonial governance and its institutions, and afterwards, from the lack of mineralogical knowledge, inefficient transport networks and the scarcity of labour. Once the style of governance shifted from the Company State to the rule of the British Crown, those impediments disappeared. These deliberations show how those successive events established a comparative cost advantage in favour of Bengal coal, enabling it to compete with British coal in the domestic market. The export ventures of the industry, especially in South and Southeast Asia, are also briefly discussed.