Areas Of Insight Research Articles

Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being

AbstractHope is a ubiquitous experience in daily life and acts as a force to help individuals attain desired future outcomes. In the current paper, we review existing research on hope and its benefits. Building on this work, we propose a new model of hope in romantic relationships. Our model seeks to expand the study of hope, addressing limitations of past research by bringing hope into the interpersonal domain and adding a future‐oriented perspective. More specifically, we argue that relational hope encompasses three facets, including relational agency, relational pathways, and relational aspirations, or what we call the wills, ways, and wishes people have in their relationship. We outline specific ways that these three facets may promote well‐being in romantic relationships. First, we propose that relational agency—the motivation to achieve relational goals—fuels approach‐motivated goals, which in turn promotes higher quality relationships. Additionally, we posit that relational pathways—the perception of sufficient strategies to pursue relational goals—enhance self‐regulation to support effective communication and conflict management with a romantic partner. Finally, we propose that relational aspirations—the positive emotions felt in anticipation of future relationship outcomes—foster growth beliefs which in turn promote relationship maintenance and commitment over time. While our model posits that relational hope has many potential benefits for relationships, we also discuss key contexts in which hope may undermine relationships and well‐being. Overall, our proposed model of relational hope offers a new area of insight into how hope may shape well‐being in romantic relationships.

Spiritual health from the perspective of Islamic mysticism

The subject of spiritual health, which is discussed in this article, is one of the most important topics in various fields of religion, philosophy, psychology and one of the most important and central moral teachings and the most effective element of construction and human need. Spiritual health in humanistic thinking does not exceed the passion of life and human relationship with others and living happily and has nothing to do with the supernatural, but in theology, especially Islamic mysticism, spirituality arises from the divine nature in which life, man is a special perfection. It is considered to manifest itself only in the light of faith in God and righteous deeds in the areas of insight, inclination and behavior. The contents of this article are organized in an analytical and descriptive method and the author has tried to introduce the subject of spiritual health in a number of texts of prose and prose of mystical literature. Mystical literature is reflected and individuals can achieve their original life and enjoy its achievements by relying and practicing spiritual health strategies in the realm of mystical literature in the current crises and world.

Development, Discernment, and Death: Dore on the South Korean Economy

Ronald Dore's 1977 article in Pacific Affairs, "South Korean Development in Wider Perspective," is a rare example of the scholar known for his writings on Japan applying his analytical lens on South Korea. What were some of this article's most notable areas of foresight and elision related to development studies? This essay answers this question by interpreting connections to publications before and after 1977 to analyze areas of insight under the rubric of "discernment" and overlooked subjects under "death." On one hand, Dore's essay was ahead of the curve in its deft foreshadowing of post-developmentalist, varieties of capitalism, and developmental state approaches to economic development. On the other, Dore sidestepped the effects of death on economic development in three forms: literal— effects of changing mortality rates on investments in education and human capital; industries related to death—wars, munitions production and arms expenditures; and the aftereffects of the death of a scholar—the revisiting and renewal of debates that can sometimes emerge as a result.

Robots and Computers Enhance Us More Than They Replace Us

Past fears that robots and computers would cause large increases in secular unemployment have proven unfounded. Some well-respected economists and other technology and labor analysts are worried again. Advances in algorithms have proven impressive, but experts on the mind and neuroscience remain skeptical about the extent to which robots and computers will be able to duplicate or surpass humans in areas of insight, judgment, and creativity. Certainly, for the foreseeable future, robots and computers will be more complements to human labor, than they will be substitutes for human labor, enhancing us more than replacing us. If we use the precautionary principle to justify heavy regulation of robots and computers, the benefits of enhancement will be fewer and will be delayed. JEL Classifications: J63, O33, L51, D83, O31

"We are doing it together"; The integral role of caregivers in a patients' transition home from the medicine unit.

BackgroundAn admission to hospital for acute illness can be difficult for patients and lead to high levels of anxiety. Patients are given a lot of information throughout their hospital stay and instructions at discharge to follow when they get home. For complex medical patients, the ability to retain, understand, and adhere to these instructions is a critical marker of a successful transition. This study was undertaken to explore factors impacting the ability of patients to understand and adhere to instructions.MethodsA qualitative design of interviews with patients and caregivers was used. Participants were adult patients and caregivers with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or community-acquired pneumonia being discharged home from three academic acute care hospitals in Ontario, Canada. Semi structured interviews were conducted with participants within one week following their discharge from hospital. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed. Five independent researchers participated in an iterative process of coding, reviewing, and analyzing the interviews using direct content analysis.ResultsIn total, 27 participants completed qualitative interviews. Analysis revealed the role of the caregiver to be critical in its relation to the ability of patients to understand and adhere to discharge instructions. Within the topic of caregiving, we draw on three areas of insight: The first clarified how caregivers support patients after they are discharged home from the hospital. The second highlighted how caregiver involvement impacts patient understanding and adherence to discharge instructions. The third revealed system factors that influence a caregiver’s involvement when receiving discharge instructions.ConclusionCaregivers play an important role in the transition of a complex medical patient by impacting a patient’s ability to understand and adhere to their discharge instructions. The themes identified in this paper highlight opportunities for healthcare providers and institutions to effectively involve caregivers during transitions from acute care hospitals to home.

Introduction to Mammalian Genome special issue: Informatics and Integrative Genomics--Part 1.

Last year, we celebrated 25 years of the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) resource from the Jackson Laboratory. The development of MGI and other global bioinformatics resources and analytical methodologies has accelerated over this 25-year period in a vast array of scientific disciplines and across many research groups. Informatics and integrative genomics is a huge field, driving forward new areas of insight in many aspects of mouse genetics and functional genomics. In this special issue, we are focusing on reviewing the breadth of work in the larger global bioinformatics infrastructure that underpins this area. The special issue is broken into two parts, with Part 1 reflecting on the 25 years of MGI. Part 1 begins with a historical perspective of MGI by Janan Eppig and colleagues reviewing how MGI has changed over the last quarter of a century and what plans are in place for the future. The review by Susan Bello et al. describes the Allele, Phenotype, and Disease data within MGI and plans in place to improve access and analysis. The use of mouse phenotype data to drive translational research into human disease has expanded rapidly, and this review describes methods implemented in MGI to enable researchers to identify novel human disease genes. Underlying all of the MGI data is the mouse reference genome and gene set. The article by Yunzia Zhu et al. focuses on the process of building this unified mouse gene catalog. Following on from this, Mary Dolan et al. describe how the mouse gene catalog is associated with orthologous human genes to enable comparative genomics. The review of the MGI Gene Expression Database (GXD) by Constance Smith et.al describes an integral part of the MGI resource which enables users to access a vast array of gene expression data in the context of other genetic-, functional-, phenotypic-, and disease-orientated data. Data accessibility is a key component of bioinformatics, and Howie Motenko et al. describe a new tool MouseMine, which is built on the InterMine framework to provide a new data warehouse for accessing mouse data from MGI. The special issue will continue in Part 2, to cover a vast array of other bioinformatics aspects from global mouse infrastructures, to underpinning resources for the reference populations, complex trait analysis, mutagenesis, and embryonic imaging to a final section on integrative genomics which will focus on cross-species applications.

Choice Blindness, Confabulatory Introspection, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A New Area of Investigation

The current study is the first to investigate confabulatory introspection in relation to clinical psychological symptoms utilizing the Choice Blindness Paradigm (CBP). It was hypothesized that those with obsessive-compulsive symptoms are more likely to confabulate mental states. To test this hypothesis, an experimental choice blindness task was administered in two nonclinical samples (n = 47; n = 76). Results showed that a confabulatory introspection is significantly related to obsessive-compulsive symptoms. There was evidence for its specificity to symptoms of OCD depending on the obsessional theme addressed in the choice blindness task. However, confabulatory introspection was also found to be relevant to other symptoms, including depression and schizotypy. The results highlight a potentially fruitful new area of clinical investigation in the area of insight and self-knowledge, not limited to OCD alone, but potentially other disorders as well.

The limits of current evaluation methods in a context of sustainable design: prudence as a new framework

This paper suggests that sustainable design within a perspective of precaution can complement dominant preventive methods of decision-making used for ecodesign. More specifically, it will show how a precautionary approach can be used with the logic of sufficiency to complement the traditional preventive approaches based on the logic of efficiency for establishing/assessing sustainable solutions. As a consequence precaution may allow designers to develop new areas of insight. Evidence suggests that environmental gains from technical improvements in product efficiency have historically been outweighed by an overall increase in consumption - rebound effects, where efficiency largely depends on technical innovations. Sufficiency relies on individual behavioural changes as well as on social innovation, improved well-being out of fewer goods and services. So a sustainable future can be founded on both efficiency (based on a preventive approach) and sufficiency (based on a precautionary approach).

Sociology and Anthropology as Promising Areas of Insight and Research for Christian Education

Sociology and anthropology have not often been the focus of attention for insight into Christian education. A survey of the first 25 years of the Christian Education Journal found the term sociology was used in 61 articles, while anthropology was found in 36 articles—about half of those refer to the discipline of anthropology, in contrast with a subcategory of theology or philosophy. Only three authors include sociology as part of their qualifications (an author of the present article was one of them), while only one includes anthropology in their qualifications. Usually sociology or anthropology is in the title of a cited reference, yet when mentioned in the body of an article they are mentioned without positive or negative comment. Positive comments were increasingly common, most frequently found in the last few years, while negative comments were fairly rare. Perhaps the most vivid example of a negative reaction is Kenneth Gangel's (2004) heading titled “Enemies of Spiritual Values” under which he lists sociology and may imply anthropology should be included. 1

Linking Information Services to Business Strategies

Cet article presente une methode pour reinventer les services d'information en creant des liens entre la gestion des services d'information et les strategies d'entreprise, et ceci a tous les niveaux : le marketing, le distribution, la production, l'administration et le financement. Les role professionnel du professionnel de l'information dans cette reorgnisation est souligne