Awareness Of Existence Research Articles

From Poem Bitten By a Man

From Poem Bitten By a Man Brian Teare (bio) Keywords poetry, Brian, Teare, disability poetry, handwriting, poetics, arrows, drawing Little shrine or altar— box of papers, worship's structure— the notebook bound to household gods. There's some ceremony in opening it, adjacency to the sacred. Ephemeral, local divinities preside inside, a charged atmosphere my hand enacts at home here no single thought my thought some are found, some given, others bribed. Whether accident, intention, or opportunity, all gods require offerings, their acute narcissism a place in which I can hide—until my failures accumulate weight on the wrong side of favor autobiography one thing after another, seasons, weather, friends, awareness of existence & mortality. Agnes the god of empty forms, of transcendence, a personable classical impersonality. Johns the god of the given world, of assemblage, an austere romantic modernism. R the trickier intimacy, the failure of representation. Other gods come & go, trailing ions that elicit thought, neural cascades. Chronic aesthete I do love what I've found the possibility the privilege of being here, suffering the mortal together. [End Page 611] In the archives of abstraction I hold pages of Agnes' handwriting—on lined paper, her school-girl cursive round & very neat. I love artist's writings the way I love handwriting, its adjacency to drawing. Sincere open loops like her ruddy cheeks, her manuscript has the look of dictation, it bears so few corrections. Johns in his sketchbooks truly tries things out, betraying proximity to his own embodied life where events occur without permission. Though finished artworks try to hide it, "finish" is often predicated upon denying the interdependence of the object & the artist's body. For a long time I lie in pain on the doctor's examination table's awkward paper, afraid to rip it, to move my body/to move my mouth/to move the words/to leave a trace shifting the object drives form in a certain way 2 systems figure ground irregular [End Page 612] The way painters summon a color through touch, a feeling gathers in my gut, continuous gesture a little closer to yellow, each thought not a long brushstroke but rough, interrupted, moving toward fragment, notation, parataxis. A feeling of being cold from inside my body. Thoraco-lumbar core ache areas of red, y, blue ? fill (?) thespace loosely. I want a theory of embodied life that is also a poetics, "a personal technique for communicating that does not lead to violation of the central self." What I too often leave out: three part-time jobs, two side hustles, unpredictable pay. "You can't make life or art," R says, "You have to work in the gap between." Then I what. Begin with the possibilities of the materials & let them do what they can do → Space everywhere (objects, no objects) M O V E M E N T to accommodate the actual Depositing $185 from a freelance gig I'm still overdrawn. -$2.58 for the week's groceries. To finish the job I'd left everything else unfinished to be exact, I'd left everything in writing unfinished. At the ATM debt settles in again. Chronic shift at my center of gravity. Money resides in my body next to illness. Low-income art. Symptomatic art. Everything connected below the surface. [End Page 613] I break language at an angle to ordinary life, a little awkward, the way one leg of this thrift store chair is shorter than the others. The words rock as I write. My father a book that has slipped into the grass, I search for it everywhere: Agnes with her hand-drawn grids, the appropriated commonplaces of early Johns. What I'm looking for isn't parental, it's directional. Tactically adjectival, queer like when her grid's messy at its edges, like when his canvas incorporates domestic objects the image arrives what does it displace what does it bring this summer of the word quotidian its index of particulars, poetic or tragic murmurings, all the daily drama of the body, oil & charcoal on canvas with objects. Of illness there still remains little record in the literature: appearing to us as lost to us, its abstract states...

Awareness of existence, knowledge, and acceptability of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among university students in Thailand

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Malaysian Public University Students on Risk Factors for Cardiovascular DiseasesMardhiah Mahada Ibrahim, Nor Azlina A. Rahman, Nor Iza A. Rahman, Mainul Haque

Public Perceptions About the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health: A Study of Bangladesh

The main purpose of this research is to analyze the perception of climate change impacts on human health in Bangladesh through data from nationality representative surveys conducted in some district of Bangladesh. In Bangladesh there have a few research has been conducted on public perceptions about the impact of climate change on human health. A structured questionnaire method was conducted, and data collected from 615 respondents. The findings of this study reveal that out of 615 respondents, 76.0% of the respondents replied positively while remaining 24.0%, almost one-fourth of total respondents, indicated that they have not heard the term climate change before. Knowledgeable in climate change, 92.5% of respondents agreed that climate change has an impact on human health while only 7.5% respondents disagreed with this statement. 90.5% of respondents argued that they are agreed with the opinion that climate change is a serious threat to human health. This study will contribute informatively to the scant information on the impacts of climate change affecting human health in Bangladesh. Theoretically, the study will also contribute to the previous literature on the public perceptions of climate change impacts on human health. Furthermore, the results of the study will be very useful for climate change policy makers, especially Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) for the making related policies and mechanisms in order to overcome with current human health impacts in Bangladesh. In addition, the awareness of existence, the impacts, and the causes of climate change will be possible to integrate climate change into policy planning, projects and daily activities as well as make the whole society to participate in the entire process to mitigate climate change.

Queering potentials: Negotiations of gender, parenthood, and family in polyamorous relationships in the Netherlands

Using a critical feminist perspective, this article provides an ethnographic account of negotiations of gender relations, parenthood, and family in polyamorous relationships in the Netherlands. A conceptual framework is developed and employed to analyze the queering potentials of polyamory by looking at (1) a difference-oriented self, (2) expansion of political community, (3) deconstructions of gender, (4) enduring and unexpected care, and (5) an awareness of existence with people we do not know. Based on a thick description of everyday negotiations, it is argued that the categories of “gender,” “parent,” and “family” are mainly stretched and diffused rather than fundamentally disrupted.

Teaching and Learning the Awareness of Existence in English Existential Sentences

This present study investigates the reasons that cause Chinese students’ difficulties, in learning English existential sentence, there-be structure. A set of questions are designed to examine their awareness of ‘existence’ in both languages. 609 participants attain this study. After data analysis, two findings indicate: (1) Students are used to selecting location as a subject starting an existential sentence which is similar to Chinese syntax, and there-be might be considered of using only when location is not given. (2) With the influence of Chinese syntax, the awareness between the place and the main noun forms because that a thing/object as a subject keeps have / has as its verb could change sentence construction and cannot effectively express the original existence in English. Therefore, this grammatical error stems not only from differences in awareness of existence between languages, but also from different grammar expressions about existence. In addition, in Chinese, existence (there-be) and possession (have/has), are expressed and translated by the only one Chinese character ‘有’. Most teachers normally adopt “have” idea to help interlingual translation to learn EES. However, this teaching might lead to a potential difficulty for students to be aware of existential difference between English and Chinese.

Awareness and factors associated with reported intake of folic acid-fortified flour among women of reproductive age in Ifakara, Morogoro region, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundFolic acid fortification of staple foods has been in place in many countries for over two decades. Studies have shown that folic acid fortification can significantly reduce incidence of neural tube defects. Tanzania adopted a mandatory fortification policy for commercially-produced wheat and maize flour in 2011. We determined factors influencing intake of folic acid-fortified flour among women of reproductive age (WRA).MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study among WRA during March–April 2017 in Ifakara Town Council, Morogoro region. Multistage cluster sampling was used to select study participants. We used a questionnaire to capture information on demographics, awareness of folic acid, awareness of existence of folic acid fortified flour in community and intake of folic acid fortified flour. Intake was defined as reported consumption of folic acid fortified flour products at least once within 7 days before interview. Univariate, bivariate, and multivariable logistic analyses were done to evaluate factors associated with intake of folic acid fortified flour.ResultsThe median age of the 698 participating WRA was 30 years (range: 18–49). Awareness of folic acid and folic acid fortified flour was 6.9% (95% CI: 5.2–9.0%) and 7.5% (95% CI: 5.7–9.6%), respectively. Consumption of folic acid fortified flour was 63.3% (95% CI: 59.7–66.8%). Independent factors associated with intake included being employed (aOR = 1.91; 95% CI: 1.19–3.06), having no children (nulliparity) (aOR = 2.59; 95% CI: 1.36–4.95) or having 1–4 children (aOR = 1.98; 95% CI: 1.17–3.33) (vs. 5 or more children), and folic acid awareness (aOR = 2.53; 95% CI: 1.30–4.92).ConclusionFolic acid fortified flour was used by most respondents in our study despite low awareness of existence of folic acid fortified flour in the community. Being employed, having fewer than five children, and folic acid awareness were independent factors associated with intake. We recommend scaling up of mandatory flour fortification program and doing further studies on blood folate level among women of reproductive age in Ifakara to assess fortification program effectiveness.

Gynecology healthcare professionals towards safety procedures in operation rooms aiming to enhanced quality of medical services in Greece

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the attitudes of healthcare professionals in Greece toward safety practices in gynecological Operation Rooms (ORs).Design/methodology/approachAn anonymous self-administered questionnaire was distributed to surgical personnel asking for opinions on safety practices during vaginal deliveries (VDs) and gynecological operations (e.g. sponge/suture counting, counting documentation, etc.). The study took place in Hippokration Hospital of Thessaloniki including 227 participants. The team assessed and statistically analyzed the questionnaires.FindingsAttitude toward surgical counts and counting documentation, awareness of existence and/or implementation in their workplace of other surgical safety objectives (e.g. WHO safety control list) was assessed. In total, 85.2 percent considered that surgical counting after VDs is essential and 84.9 percent admitted doing so, while far less reported counting documentation as a common practice in their workplace and admitted doing so themselves (50.5/63.3 percent). Furthermore, while 86.5 percent considered a documented protocol as necessary, only 53.9 percent admitted its implementation in their workplace. Remarkably, 53.1 percent were unaware of the WHO safety control list for gynecological surgeries.Originality/valueMost Greek healthcare professionals are well aware of the significance of surgical counting and counting documentation in gynecology ORs. However, specific tasks and assignments are unclear to them. Greek healthcare professionals consider surgical safety measures as important but there is a critical gap in knowledge when it comes to responsibilities and standardized processes during implementation. More effective implementation and increased personnel awareness of the surgical safety protocols and international guidelines are necessary for enhanced quality of surgical safety in Greece.

CATEGORISATION OF RURAL ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES AND ITS POPULARITY AMONG POLISH CITIZENS

The categorization of rural accommodation facilities has been operating since 1997. Unfortunately, the popularity among farmers in rating their accommodation facilities is very low. The reason of this may be in fact that the average Polish citizen has no awareness of existence of such system. This article discusses the essence of the categorization system of rural accommodation facilities and presents the results of the research on the level of knowledge of Polish citizens about the subject. Through questionnaire research carried out on a sample of 830 respondents can be concluded, that awareness of the existence of the categorization system and knowledge about it is among the Poles very small

Prevalence of chronic thyroiditis in a cohort of patients with Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid

Introduction Chronic thyroiditis (CT) is known to be associated with papillary carcinoma of thyroid (PCT). The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of chronic thyroiditis in a cohort of patients with papillary carcinoma of thyroid and to assess the pre-surgical awareness of existence of chronic thyroiditis. Methodology Patients who underwent thyroidectomy from August 2013 to August 2015 at Colombo South Teaching Hospital for PCT were included in the study. Presence of a presurgical diagnosis of CT was assessed by available details in request forms, histopathological and cytopathological reports and/or by direct telephone interviews. Results The total study population was 114 with a female preponderance (94/114, 82.5%). The mean age was 41.52 years and the highest occurrence was in 30 – 40 years age group. Out of 114 PCT patients 63.2% (72/114) were associated with background CT. Of these 32 (44.4 %) did not have a pre-surgical diagnosis of CT. Discussion Two thirds (2/3) of our study population with PCT had associated CT. Majority of them were not aware of CT until after the surgical resection of the gland. However, this study may under-estimate the prevalence of background CT in PCT in both histological and cytological assessments since the study is a review of reports rather than of slides. Conclusion Results of this preliminary study emphasize the need for further studies to establish the percentage of papillary carcinoma of thyroid associated with chronic thyroiditis in the Sri Lankan population. This may help in assessing the feasibility of a population screening programme.

Awareness in the Context of Prevalence of Vitamin A Deficiency Among Households in Western Kenya Using a Cross-Sectional Study

Increasing awareness of the role of vitamin A (VA) in human health has led to international efforts to eliminate VA deficiency (VAD) as a public health problem. This paper examined community awareness of existence, signs and symptoms, causes, control of VAD as well as attitudes, so as to identify knowledge gaps among health workers and caretakers/mothers. This was a community-based study within the catchment areas served by health facilities offering ante-natal care services in Busia and Bungoma counties in Western Kenya. The study adopted cross-sectional design and purposive sampling technique. Eight focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with pregnant and lactating mothers and eight key informant interviews with those in charge of health facilities until saturation. Data was audio recorded, transcribed, coded and thematically analyzed using ATLAS.ti version 6 software. Most respondents stated having heard about VA/VAD but very few had the correct knowledge of signs and symptoms, causes, and control of VAD. Their attitudes towards VAD and its control were generally indifferent with a general belief that they had no control over their circumstances to reduce VAD. Although VAD was prevalent in the study area, majority of the people in the community had low awareness. This study, therefore, stresses the need for health education to raise community’s awareness on VAD in such settings in order to augment prevention, control and elimination efforts.

The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives ed. by Richard C. Taylor and Irfan A. Omar (review)

Reviewed by: The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives ed. by Richard C. Taylor and Irfan A. Omar Charles H. Manekin Richard C. Taylor and Irfan A. Omar, editors. The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2012. Pp. 339. Paper, $29.00. A more apt title for this collection would be “Islamic Philosophy and Theology and Their Impact” since most of the essays deal with Muslim thinkers. The Jewish heritage is [End Page 544] represented by one essay, which discusses some examples of Arabic philosophy in Jewish writings (James Robinson), and the scholastic heritage by two essays, which treat topics in Aquinas and Albert the Great, with reference to Averroes and Avicenna (Barnardo Carlos Bazán and Jorg A. Tellkamp). Still, there is enough to support the claim that the essays collectively highlight common ground, if not collaboration, between the Abrahamic “religious and philosophical traditions.” The essays are consistently of a high quality, but this review will single out a few of interest to readers of this journal. A theme that runs through several of the contributions is the mutual influence of religion and philosophy. After discussing Averroes’s conception of the religious law (sharī’a) peculiar to the philosophers, Taylor examines the continuity between this law and the religious beliefs of the non-philosophers, claiming that in his theological writings Averroes seeks to replace kalaām (Muslim dialectical theology) with his own ‘Almohad kalām,’ understood as “dialectical religious reasoning founding views essential to the formation of a successful religious basis for Muslim political society” (281). One may question whether the use of “dialectical religious reasoning” by an Almohad philosopher is sufficient to label a method ‘kalām.’ After all, Averroes rejects both the method and doctrines of kalām as bad science that muddies up religion. He claims that what scripture requires of the believer are the basic theological truths discovered by philosophy, but in a rudimentary form, to be explained with informal proofs rather than strict demonstrations or technical premises. This suggests that Averroes’s theological writings may be used confidently, if cautiously, as a source for his philosophical views. The late Michael Marmura reads Avicenna’s formulation of his more theologically problematic doctrines as anticipating subsequent charges of heresy. For example, although the world emanates from God necessarily, Avicenna adds that it is not the natural necessity of the light proceeding from its source; although God knows particulars in their universal aspect, Avicenna cites the Quranic verse that “not even the weight of an atom escapes his notice”; although there is no return of the soul to the body, he cites the opinion of “some scholars” that souls experience something akin to physical pain and pleasure. Whether Avicenna merely wished to forestall criticisms with these formulations, or whether he was religiously or philosophically committed to them, is not clear from the essay. Avicenna’s “floating man” argument for the soul’s awareness of its existence and its distinctness from the body, which is mentioned in a fourteenth-century Hebrew encyclopedia (Robinson) is the subject of two essays that remove the argument from its psychological context. Aminrazavi proposes a mystical interpretation in which the soul’s self-awareness implies awareness of God, since this self-awareness is awareness of existence in its pure sense, that is, God. Deborah Black offers an intriguing suggestion that the soul’s self-awareness could have been developed by Avicenna as an individuating factor for humans, but he actually describes my understanding of myself as the understanding of “a definition to which is conjoined an inseparable accident” (270), which implies a bundle theory of individuation. This bundle theory underlies Avicenna’s famous claim that God knows particulars “in a universal way,” that is, as a collection of essential and non-essential universals. Even heavenly bodies that are unique instantiations of their species are still known qua their properties that, in principle, admit of multiple instances. Black appears to accept the traditional criticism that knowledge of particulars “in a universal way” is not sufficiently robust either as knowledge of particulars, or as grounds for anything more than a limited providence. When Avicenna claims that “not...

Madness or Mysticism? The Unconscious Ascetics of Power and Hunger

Bessie Head's A Question of Power and Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger present spiritual battles of a psychic rather than a psychological nature. Both novels rely on autobiographical protagonists who display an acute awareness of spiritual conflict. This manifests itself partially in their awareness of racism as a spiritual evil that responds to visible difference, but it moves beyond this awareness into a wider consciousness of states of being beyond empirical experience. This consciousness is not surprising from either an African traditional perspective, or from the perspective of any other form of mysticism, although empiricist readers have attempted to rationalise and categorise it. Even without training in ascetic practices, the protagonists of Marechera and Head experience visions which evoke those of the North African Desert Fathers, including St Antony. This paper raises the possibility that both Head and Marechera display awareness of existence, and conflict, in a spiritual dimension, and that this conflict takes on particular physical dimensions. The argument in Foucault's Madness and Civilization is applied to show how the diagnosis, or even suspicion, of insanity serves to isolate and alienate, and thus to obscure valid critiques of the nature of power in society, particularly in a post-colonial context.

A Study on the Expressive Aspects of Awareness of Existence in Choi Seung-Ja's Poetry

A Study on the Expressive Aspects of Awareness of Existence in Choi Seung-Ja's Poetry

Community awareness about risk factors, presentation and prevention and obstetric fistula in Nabitovu village, Iganga district, Uganda

BackgroundObstetric fistula is a worldwide problem that is devastating for women in developing countries. The cardinal cause of obstetric fistula is prolonged obstructed labour and delay in seeking emergency obstetric care. Awareness about obstetric fistula is still low in developing countries. The objective was to assess the awareness about risk factors of obstetric fistulae in rural communities of Nabitovu village, Iganga district, Eastern Uganda.MethodsA qualitative study using focus group discussion for males and females aged 18-49 years, to explore and gain deeper understanding of their awareness of existence, causes, clinical presentation and preventive measures for obstetric fistula. Data was analyzed by thematic analysis.ResultsThe majority of the women and a few men were aware about obstetric fistula, though many had misconceptions regarding its causes, clinical presentation and prevention. Some wrongly attributed fistula to misuse of family planning, having sex during the menstruation period, curses by relatives, sexually transmitted infections, rape and gender-based violence. However, others attributed the fistula to delays to access medical care, induced abortions, conception at an early age, utilization of traditional birth attendants at delivery, and some complications that could occur during surgical operations for difficult deliveries.ConclusionMost of the community members interviewed were aware of the risk factors of obstetric fistula. Some respondents, predominantly men, had misconceptions/myths about risk factors of obstetric fistula as being caused by having sex during menstrual periods, poor usage of family planning, being a curse.

Variant Facial Artery in the Submandibular Region

Facial artery has been considered to be the most important vascular pedicle in facial rejuvenation procedures and submandibular gland (SMG) resection. It usually arises from the external carotid artery and passes from the carotid to digastric triangle, deep to the posterior belly of digastric muscle, and lodges in a groove at the posterior end of the SMG. It then passes between SMG and the mandible to reach the face after winding around the base of the mandible. During a routine dissection, in a 62-year-old female cadaver, in Kasturba Medical College Mangalore, an unusual pattern in the cervical course of facial artery was revealed. The right facial artery was found to pierce the whole substance of the SMG before winding around the lower border of the mandible to enter the facial region. Awareness of existence of such a variant and its comparison to the normal anatomy will be useful to oral and maxillofacial surgeons.

Nigerian University Academics and Institutional repository: A case study of University of Jos, faculty of Natural Sciences lecturers

This research was designed to evaluate the Lecturers of University of Jos knowledge on Institutional Repository, awareness of existence of University of Jos Institutional Repository, willingness to submit personal research works to the Institutional Repository and challenges faced, using the lecturers of Faculty of Natural Sciences as a focal population. The entire population of 148 academic staff members in the faculty was adopted for the research. Descriptive survey was the research design used for the study. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and interview. Descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, percentages and cross- tabulations were used to analyze the data generated. The findings of the research revealed among others that the majority of the lecturers did not have any idea of what Open Access Institutional Repository means and also not aware of the existence of the University of Jos Institutional Repository. Nevertheless, most of the lecturers appeared undecided on willingness to submit personal research works to the university’s Institutional Repository. Hence, most of the lecturers indicated unawareness of the existence the university’s Institutional Repository as their major reason for not participating in the development of the Institutional Repository. It was therefore, recommended among others that the University’s Management through the Directorate of ICT unit in association with the University’s Library should continue to organize conferences, capacity building workshops and seminars to educate the lecturers on the relevance of Institutional Repository to the academic community. In this way, their knowledge on Open Access Institutional Repository will be enriched and they will then be willing to contribute to the development of institutional repository in the university.