Balanced Relationship Research Articles

The impact of participatory dementia research on researchers: A systematic review.

Participatory approaches are increasingly required and used in research. In this review, we examined the impact (benefits and disadvantages) of participatory dementia research on researchers as potential key actors to sustainably implement the participatory approach. Our aim was to provide information on how the participatory process could be improved. We conducted a systematic literature review covering the Cochrane Library, PsycNet, PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The inclusion criteria for publications were as follows: research (1) involving people with dementia as co-researchers, (2) including a description or discussion of the impact of participatory research for researchers, (3) published between 2000 and 2020, and (4) in English. We performed a quality assessment of the included publications. Our final review included nine publications; three categorized as high quality, five as medium quality, and one as low quality. Four of the publications categorized as high or medium quality implemented participation at the level of partnership, and two publications implemented participation at the level of delegated power. The beneficial impact of participatory dementia research on researchers consisted of an increased understanding of people with dementia that widened researchers' theoretical knowledge and perspectives and increased their competence in working with people with dementia. Disadvantages comprised the required additional effort and time as well as the difficulty of establishing a balanced relationship between researchers and co-researchers. Disadvantages may result from the lack of a definition and structure of participatory research and a lack of training on both sides. More well-designed and transparent methods of evaluating participatory research projects are needed.

The Concept of Character Learning: A Comparative Study of Al-Ghazali and Thomas Lickona’s Perspectives

The main goal in character education is to achieve noble character to create a harmonious human life, helping each other, being fair, and having a balanced relationship in social life. Because of that, instilling character in students is fundamental so that when they grow up, they can become the next generation of solid character. This study uses library research that compares the concept of learning the character of al-Ghazali and Thomas Lickona. The research method carried out in this study was carried out with several steps, such as collecting qualitative data based on reputable data sources and analyzing data to obtain final results. The study results show that Al-Ghazali's educational method is a traditional nuanced method of "lecture and uswah hasanah". Furthermore, Al-Ghazali's educational materials are all forms of teachings contained in the Islamic religion. More clearly and concretely, the concept of education initiated by Al-Ghazali contains two elements: transcendence (rububiyyah: divine) and humanization. Meanwhile, the concept of character learning initiated by Thomas Lickona formulates character learning that involves all components in the education process, both family, school, and community. In addition, the character learning process, according to Thomas Lickona is an effort that involves three aspects of intelligence, including cognitive through moral knowing, affective through moral feeling, and psychomotor through moral acting as follows: The purpose of character learning is to help students become intelligent and good in manners.

Rituales para la protección de animales domésticos en los solares de Yaxcabá y Yaxunah, Yucatán, México

The objective of this work is to identify the rituals related for the protection of domestic animals raised on the Mayan “solares” of Yaxcabá and Yaxunah, Yucatán, Mexico. On the “solar” are especially raised domestic animals (chickens, turkeys and pigs), which are an important element for peasant families, because they are part of economy, their daily food, in the festivities, ceremonies and rituals to give continuity to family and communal life. Our results show that the Catholic families of Yaxcabá an Yaxunah continue to perform ceremonies such as k’eex loj, the loj, the jets’ lu’um and primicia de saka’ (sacred corn drink), the purpose of these ceremonies is to ask permission and to thank the “owners” of nature for the use that is made of the resources, which favors a relationship of balance with them, in this way the “Owners” will take care of entire “solar” and the inhabitants of this space, the family members and the animals raised are safeguarded from the “malos vientos” or k'as k'aas íik', causing disease and calamities. This study highlights the vision of the world that persists in the peninsular Mayan communities, biocultural knowledge and practices are preserved that show the ways of relating to nature. The knowledge about the rituals of the owners of the site and a ritual specialist, called a spiritualist, is analyzed.

Explaining sociotechnical change: an unstable equilibrium perspective

ABSTRACT Within the domain of Information Systems, assumptions around sociotechnical change cohesively build on establishing a stable and balanced relationship between the social and technical structures. When these structures become too rigid, revolutionary moments that punctuate the status quo are required for the structures to accommodate to a new situation. Approaching sociotechnical change with “punctuation of equilibrium” is becoming increasingly ineffective. In line with rising instability and rapid digital development, we argue that new sociotechnical change approaches are needed. In this paper we investigate how individual knowledge workers respond to the increasingly complex challenges they face when orchestrating social and technical structures to support efficient and creative knowledge work. We suggest a new perspective that covers an unstable equilibrium emerging from the interplay between individuals and their usage of “the collection of rigid and flexible workplace technologies”. Our study is based on data from interviews made with 40 knowledge professionals over a period of three years, inquiring into individual experiences with sociotechnical change. Our study reveals contradictory patterns of both technological-individualisation and -socialisation. A universal generative mechanism emerges when these patterns complement each other and generates continuous change that seems to diminish inertia from rigid structures while also intensifying agile responses.

Intimate physical contact between people from different households during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study from a large, quasi-representative survey (Natsal-COVID)

ObjectivesPhysical distancing as a non-pharmaceutical intervention aims to reduce interactions between people to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Intimate physical contact outside the household (IPCOH) may expand transmission networks by connecting households....

CHARACTER EDUCATION IN SCHOOL BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM

Education is critical in shaping the character and culture of the nation. Education functions to improve human abilities, following Law No. 20 of 2003 concerning the National Education System in Article 3, which states that national education functions to develop capabilities and shape the character and civilization of a dignified nation in order to educate the nation's life, including aspects of hard skills, and soft skills. One way to hone skills is to carry out character education since school by paying attention to the local wisdom of an area. Character education in Tri Hita Karana (THK) based schools is character education that applies the character of a balanced relationship between school residents and the creator of God Almighty, the balance of relations between fellow school members, and the balance of relations between school residents and the overall school facilities and infrastructure. Character education in THK local wisdom-based schools needs to be developed systematically to increase local excellence, national interest, justice, and international competition in world civilization. By applying the local wisdom of THK, schools can develop into a basis for developing the character and personality of human resources (HR) with high work skills, intense work and learning culture, and a culture of serving people sincerely and reasonably.

Preoperative planning method based on a MOPSO algorithm for robot-assisted cholecystectomy.

Surgical robots have multiple manipulators with complex mechanisms and need to work in a narrow space in the patient's body. Therefore, for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS), it is very important to develop a reasonable preoperative planning before surgery. A preoperative planning method based on the premise of no collision between surgical instruments and endoscope, an evaluation index with visibility, operability and hand-eye coordination was proposed in this paper. To consider the balance relationship of global optimization index, a multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm was adopted. Because the physical characteristics of each patient are different, the method can determine the selectable area of the incision based on the relevant knowledge of anatomy. The simulation taking the cholecystectomy as an example was performed on a minimally invasive surgical robotic system. The analysis result showed that the proposed preoperative planning method based on the MOPSO could provide surgeons with a reasonable and effective preoperative planning. The proposed preoperative planning method based on the MOPSO is suitable for patients with different physical characteristics, and can provide a guidance for surgeons and effectively reduce the preoperative planning time and improve the safety and efficiency of the operation, especially a novice surgeon who lacks robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery experience.

KEPEMIMPINAN ORGANISATORIS SEBAGAI SHARING POWER DALAM MEWUJUDKAN KESEIMBANGAN HUBUNGAN ATASAN DAN BAWAHAN PADA MTsN 10 BIREUEN

Leadership in an organization is a leading activity carried out by a leader in carrying out the activities of the organization as a whole. Organizational leadership is intended to coordinate, empower and make decisions from various parts and existing organizational resources. The formulation of the problem in this article examines the steps for implementing organizational leadership as sharing power in realizing a balanced relationship between superiors and subordinates at MTsN 10 Bireuen. The results showed that organizational leadership as sharing power in realizing a balanced relationship between superiors and subordinates at MTsN 10 Bireuen was carried out with a normal mechanism that was persuasive legalistic, namely by delegating the leadership functions of the head of MTsN 10 Bireuen to several subordinates who were structurally assisted by the head of MTsN 10 Bireuen.

The Low‐carbon Equity Market: A New Alternative for Investment Diversification?

AbstractAddressing the topic of ethical investment, this paper considers stock market indices related to climate change and provides the first comprehensive analysis of the links between low‐carbon equities and conventional equities. Results show that in the long run, low carbon economy indices do not behave like conventional indices, and no balance relationship is identified between the two, such that investors can find in the low‐carbon sector an opportunity to diversify investment as an alternative to traditional equity investment. In the short‐run, the two investment segments display identical behaviour, especially in contemporary terms, with daily dynamics driven fundamentally by market factors. These results will help regulators and policy makers to design policies for sustainable equity investment according to macroprudential policies.

Research on the Protection and Development of Traditional Villages from the Perspective of Ecological Wisdom—Taking Yanfang Ancient Village in Ji An as an Example

As an important gene of traditional village culture, ecological wisdom embodies the wisdom of balancing human beings and nature formed by previous generations in the village, which not only preserves the success and glory, but also carries the bitterness and setbacks of our ancestors, becoming the nutritional foundation for future generations to draw experience. Taking Yanfang ancient village in Ji’an City, Jiangxi Province as an example, by cultivating the ecological wisdom of traditional villages, combining the ecological entropy theory, the lack of ecological function in the environmental system and the balance relationship between human beings and environment are analyzed, the ecological wisdom of traditional villages is summarized, and methods are proposed to solve the imbalance of ecological entropy system, which can help promote the ecological entropy system reach the balance state of sustainable and coordinated development and is of reference significance for rebuilding the strong vitality of traditional villages.

“Tri hita karana” Life ideology as a cultural identity of balinese society reflected in elizabeth gilbert’s eat pray love (Anthropological Approach In Literature)

This research paper discusses the everyday life ideology of Balinese society popularly called “Tri Hita Karana” as a local cultural identity reflected in a literary work of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love by using anthropological approach in literature. The result of the research indicates that Balinese society culturally applies and strongly relies on “Tri Hita Karana” life ideology to live a life on the basis of three sources of happiness. This life ideology continually becomes the typical-local-cultural identity of Balinese people since it evidently gives them happiness and prosperity. Balinese society really believes in “Tri Hita Karana” life ideology covering three concepts of balanced harmonious relationship, that is, “parahyangan”, “pawongan”, and “palemahan”. “Parahyangan” concept emphasizes on a harmonious relationship between humans and God, “pawongan” concept refers to a harmonious relationship between humans and humans, and “palemahan” concept refers to a harmonious relationship between humans and nature. In relation to “parahyangan” concept, Balinese society obediently performs some religious practices, several traditional rituals, and certain offering ceremonies. In connection with “pawongan” concept, Balinese people sincerely build up a good relationship by cooperating with others in many aspects of social life. Referring to “palemahan” concept, Balinese people maintain the nature around well, keep the environment clean, preserve the green forest, and conserve a lot of protected animals.

Analysis of Marine Economic Development and Innovation under Environment Constraint Based on the VAR Model.

Building a new development pattern based on the “double-cycle” is a major strategic plan of China. Under the background of the new development pattern of the “double-cycle” and the context of environmental constraints, this paper tries to explore the impact of marine economic development on marine cultural industry and marine innovation development, the extent of the impact of marine cultural industry on marine economic growth, and the internal relationship between them under the new development pattern of double circulation. In this paper, Fujian Province is taken as the research object to construct an indicator system of the marine culture development to reflect the living standard, employment level, and spiritual and cultural levels of people in the marine area, and the external influence of the marine economy and marine culture industry is taken as the indicator variable to measure the integrated development. The internal changes are regarded as the index to assess the integration level of the two, and the evaluation theoretical model of the dynamic evolution level of the marine economy and marine cultural industry is constructed. The vector autoregression model and impulse response function are used to study the interactive correlation between the growth of the marine economy and the development of the cultural industry. The results show the following: In the long run, there is a cointegration relationship between the marine culture industry and the gross ocean product (GOP), which is a long-term balanced and stable relationship. The development level of the marine economy and the development of marine culture industry are mutually influencing and promoting.

The innovation and value pursuit of the compensation system in the gig economy

With the rapid development of network technology, the gig economy has once again set off a new wave, and the public gradually accepts the new employment mode in the gig economy, and the emergence and development of the gig economy have significantly influenced enterprises. It is both an opportunity and a challenge for enterprise compensation management. This paper begins with an analysis of problems of employment compensation in the gig economy and further proposes some innovation strategies and value pursuits for the compensation system of enterprises. This paper will help enterprises and gig workers reshape the balanced employment relationship to promote the healthy and long-term development of the enterprise compensation system in the gig economy.

ARTISTIC ACOUSTIC PANEL RECYCLED MATERIAL FROM PLASTIC BOTTLES AND WASTE OF SAMPYAN, SAWDUST, HUSKS, STRAW

Background – The problem of waste is one of big problems arise from various sectors. Recycling and reusing can be one good solution. Balinese people who still carry out traditions including the event with various arts, one of which is a beautiful offering. This beautiful offering is in the form of sampyan from art coconut leaves which ends as waste. In the past, when Balinese were going to cook, they could use fuel from this dry coconut leaves waste. On The Holidays for ceremonies, there is a 30% increase in waste. Even though this is a ceremonial waste, a balance in the relationship with God/Hyang Widi must be maintained in accordance with the Balinese concept of Tri Hita Karana. This concept is in the form of a balanced relationship towards Hyang Widi/God, to the fellow humans and to the environment that causes happiness. Therefore, waste must be processed. Husks and straw waste from rise field in Bali amounted to 54.65 million tons of GKG, then alot of sawdust waste from wood carving and wood architecture industries. This waste is often burned even though some are used for planting media and fuel. On the other hand, the tourism community and people in Bali produce 829 tons of plastic waste per day. Currently, appreciation of buildings with “Green Architecture” is a concern for tourism and will become of destinations. Thus, it will very possible in Bali. Purpose – provide economic value added for the community, wood workers and farmers and make the world a better place. Findings –Artistic acoustic panel recycled material from plastic bottles and waste of sampyan, sawdust, husks, straw. Originality/value – Acoustic Panel Material and Artistic Acoustic Panels with Balinese Architectural Ornaments is an original. Design/methodology/approach – Recycled plastic waste with the right mixture composition is heated and printed with a hot press machine. In this study, the Transmission Loss test was carried out using an Impedance Tube. Research limitations – Measurement of transmission loss on sheet panels has limitations. Measurements should be developed into room research.

DEMOCRATIC DECAY IN INDIA: WEAPONISING THE CONSTITUTION TO CURB PARLIAMENTARY DELIBERATION

The scholarship on the practice of abusive constitutionalism or autocratic legalism has shown how autocrats nowadays use tools of constitutional or legal changes to establish their authoritarian projects. This paper is an attempt to expand this idea. It studies the approach to law-making of the current NDA government in India and argues that autocrats need not even bringing any overt constitutional or legal change if they could manoeuver within the existing constitutional framework. It shows that since the Government was elected to power in 2014, it has employed several constitutionally permitted tools to curb parliamentary deliberation in the law-making process. These tools have enabled the Government to neutralise Parliament, overpower the balanced relationship between the legislature and the executive, and undermine the republican aspect of the Indian democracy, all the while remaining within the bounds of the Constitution. This paper documents three tools employed by the government– the ordinance-making power, the anti-defection law, and the powers of the chair – which have contributed significantly to the incremental establishment of authoritarian rule in India.

Health Indicator Construction of High-Speed Rotating Bearings in Aerospace CMG Based on Physics-Inspired Machine-Learning Approach

Control moment gyro (CMG) is a critical component for attitude control of large spacecraft. To avoid its accidental failure caused by the performance degradation of high-speed rotating bearings, a metric, which is referred to as the health indicator (HI), should be constructed and monitored. Although the HI construction problem have been widely studied to evaluate the degradation process of machinery, the poor quality of telemetry data makes it impossible to apply existing solutions to the bearings in CMG. Therefore, a novel HI construction method based on energy theory and physics-inspired machine learning is proposed. Generally, the energy balance relationship of system would change with the degradation of its components. Based on this idea, a physics-inspired convolutional neural network model is established to formulate the relationship between monitoring signals and total energy consumed by driving motor. Then a transfer learning strategy is developed to capture the changes of model parameters and perform HI construction. Compared with existing approaches, the proposed method does not rely on vibration signals or high-frequency data, and can extract degradation information obscured by controller and other influences. A real dataset collected from an aerospace CMG is utilized to verify the effectiveness of proposed method. Results show that the constructed HIs have good performance in monotonicity, robustness, and time correlation. The application of constructed HIs for CMG anomaly detection is also discussed.

ВПЛИВ РЕАЛЬНОГО І ФІНАНСОВОГО СЕКТОРІВ ЕКОНОМІКИ НА ЕКОНОМІЧНИЙ РІСТ

The article is devoted to the systematization of economic thought on the features of the real and financial sector of the economy on economic growth, given that the functioning of one sector involves interaction with participants in another sector, and features and trends of interaction of these sectors determine the level, direction and effectiveness of socio-economic development. The importance of the real and financial sectors in the economic system is determined. The functions of the real and financial sectors, ways of their interaction and current trends are identified. It is established that the real and financial sectors act both as subjects and as objects of influence on each other and on economic growth in general. In economic thought there is an opinion that such an impact, depending on the specific economic conditions, may be positive, negative, neutral or non-existent, which accordingly affects the proportionality of macroeconomic processes and development. The negative impact of the financial sector is most pronounced in a weak economy, as it depends on a number of macroeconomic factors, while in developed countries, on the contrary, can create favorable conditions for investment and capital inflows into the real sector. Also the main ideas of economic theory on the influence of both sectors of the economy on the proportionality of macroeconomic processes and opportunities for economic growth are considered. The reasons for the disproportionate development of the real and financial sectors of the economy are identified. The complexity of the balanced relationship between the financial and real sectors of the economy, which has a corresponding effect on macroeconomic stability, has been confirmed. This is due to the socio-economic nature and institutional form of interaction between the real and financial sectors, which change with the development of the economic system. It was found that the type of level of development and proportionality of the real and financial sectors of the economy is determined primarily by the level of development of the economic system and requires an individual approach to analysis in a particular country.

Allelic Gene Polymorphisms Suspected to Diversify the Individual Early Metabolic Response Upon Influenza H3N2 and SARS-CoV-2 Infections

Allelic Gene Polymorphisms Suspected to Diversify the Individual Early Metabolic Response Upon Influenza H3N2 and SARS-CoV-2 Infections

Mice with genetic and induced B-cell deficiency as a model for disseminated encephalitozoonosis

Encephalitozoon cuniculi, an intracellular pathogen, lives in a balanced relationship with immunocompetent individuals based on the activity of T lymphocytes. We previously highlighted the greater susceptibility of B-1 cell-deficient mice (XID mice) to encephalitozoonosis. This study aimed to develop a model of disseminated and severe encephalitozoonosis in mice with combined immunodeficiency to elucidate the role of B cells. To address this objective, cyclophosphamide (Cy)-treated BALB/c and XID mice were inoculated with E. cuniculi, followed by the evaluation of the immune response and histopathological lesions. Immunosuppressed BALB/c mice manifested no clinical signs with an increase in the populations of T lymphocytes and macrophages in the spleen. Immunosuppressed and infected XID mice revealed elevated T cells, macrophages populations, and pro-inflammatory cytokines levels (IFN-γ, TNF-α, and IL-6) with the presence of abdominal effusion and lesions in multiple organs. These clinical characteristics are associated with extensive and severe encephalitozoonosis. The symptoms and lesion size were reduced, whereas B-2 and CD4+ T cells populations were increased in the spleen by transferring B-2 cells adoptive to XID mice. Moreover, B-1 cells adoptive transfer upregulated the peritoneal populations of B-2 cells and macrophages but not T lymphocytes and decreased the symptoms. Herein, we speculated the consistency in the development of severe and disseminated encephalitozoonosis in mice with genetic deficiency of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (Btk) associated with Cy immunosuppression develop with that of the models with T cell deficiency. Taken together, these data emphasized the crucial role of B cells in the protective immune response against encephalitozoonosis.

Nepal’s Relationship with India and China in the Changing Context

Nepal cherishes aged old relationship with India and China. The geo-physical proximity, socio-cultural resemblances in many instances, economy and trade bound historical linkages are few among many aspects, on backdrop of which Nepal has sustained a bilateral and trilateral relationship with India and China. Nevertheless, in course of time, the historical dynamism of relation has changed. This article, in this context, attempts to assess the present day changed dynamics of relationship among Nepal, India and China. It attempts to explore the emergence areas of priorities that have brought trilateral relationship into a newer avenue. I have purposively used a few source books relating to foreign policy of Nepal and Nepal, India, and China relationship to collect data and conceive ideas on trends of relationship development among these three nations. I have applied descriptive research design and attempted to analyze the observed events and incidents in the relationship among these three nations and present it in an understandable manner. The study overall revealed that the economic rise of India and China has brought myriad opportunities to Nepal. However, the emergence of these two immediate neighbors as regional rival and as pursuant of two different ideological interests has higher prospect to grit Nepal’s national interest, and entangle it into a grave tension if it fails to maintain a balance relationship with both the nations. To Nepal, it is a high time to safeguard its national interest and refrain herself from being under the influence of either of the nations as its card.