Bodily Loss Research Articles

Detecting banking frauds with analytics and machine learning

Bank fraud is the bodily loss of a Bank or maybe the loss of very sensitive info. For detection, there are lots of machine learning algorithms which can be used. The study shows many algorithms which could be used for deciding transactions as fraud or perhaps real. The information set employed in Bank fraud Detection was utilized in the research. The SMOTE method was used for oversampling, since the dataset was incredibly imbalanced. Moreover, include choice was performed, and the set was divided into two parts, test data and instruction information. The algorithms used in this study were Logistic Regression, Multilayer Perceptron, Random Forest and Naive Bayes. The results show that every algorithm could be used with good precision for fraud detection of banking solutions. For the detection of extra constipation, the proposed model might be used.

Existential aspects documented in older people’s patient records in the context of specialized palliative care: a retrospective review

BackgroundDocumentation of older people’s end-of-life care should cover the care given and provide an overview of their entire situation. Older people approaching the end of life often have complex symptoms, live with bodily losses, and face an unknown future in which existential aspects come to the forefront. Knowledge of the existential aspects recorded in palliative care documentation is sparse and merits improvement. This knowledge is relevant to the development of more holistic documentation and is necessary in order to promote reflection on and discussion of documentation of the sensitive existential considerations arising in palliative care. The aim of this study was to describe the documentation of existential aspects in the patient records of older people receiving specialized palliative care.MethodsData were obtained from a retrospective review of the free-text notes in 84 records of randomly selected patients aged ≥75 years enrolled in specialized palliative care units who died in 2017. The notes were analysed using an inductive qualitative content analysis.ResultsThe notes documented existential aspects in terms of connotations of well-being and ill-being. Documented existential aspects were related to the patients’ autonomy concerning loss of freedom and self-determination, social connectedness concerning loneliness and communion, emotional state concerning anxiety and inner peace, and state of being concerning despair and hope. The notes on existential aspects were, however, not recorded in a structured way and no care plans related to existential aspects were found.ConclusionsExistential aspects concerning both ill-being and well-being were sparsely and unsystematically documented in older people’s patient records, but when notes were extracted from these records and analysed, patterns became evident. Existential aspects form an important basis for delivering person-centred palliative care. There is a need to develop structured documentation concerning existential aspects; otherwise, patients’ thoughts and concerns may remain unknown to healthcare professionals.

Gender, loss, and the erosion of bodily capital: A study with women diagnosed with late stage breast cancer

ABSTRACT To learn about the gendered experience of bodily loss, this paper analyzes interviews with women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (N = 32). Across the interviews, we find that specific bodily sites – hair, breast(s), thinness – and the gender norms associated with these sites do not loosen their grip near the end of life, but rather constitute meaningful sites of loss. Interviews demonstrate that when women lose a valued physical characteristic they also feel the loss of gendered statuses associated with that aspect of the body. We theorize the resulting emotional experience as positionality grief, or sorrow over an injured sense of self and that is tied to a sense of lowered place on social hierarchies. For feminist scholars, our study links women’s complex desires with their particular forms of embodiment that delimit spaces of possibility in the social world. For Bourdieusian scholars, our study calls attention to the importance of focusing not just on the acquisition, but the loss of embodied capital in social life. The implications of these bodily changes, therefore, structure how women grapple with gender and sexuality over the course of their lives.

GOODBYE TO THE BODY AND THE SOUND OF SILENCE IN THE EXAMPLE OF THE MOVIE SOUND OF METAL

In this text, the movie "Sound of Metal" is discussed in terms of body philosophy, body anthropology, and health sociology. Sound of Metal is about the experiences of a person and couple after hearing loss. This film has been examined especially with reference to David Le Breton's important works titled Goodbye to the Body, Anthropology of Pain and Ivan Illich's Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. In the film, Ruben's focus on bodily loss and the process of not being able to cope with it are actually discussed through the mind-body distinction of the modern age, the desire of man to transform into a mind or a machine, and the social and cultural iatrogenesis that Illich mentions. It is also emphasized in the text that health, illness, physical "losses" are cultural, political or sociological phenomena rather than individual, physiological, medical issues and that they should be approached differently. In addition, it has been argued that human ontologically is an ear/hearing/speech/language/meaning entity, but modern scientific, medical and technological culture imprisons humans in a mechanical, visual and technical world. The result of such a culture is undoubtedly the loss of meaning that many thinkers bring to the agenda in their criticism of modernity. Therefore, the scientific, technological, medical culture we live in has to be re-evaluated based on these philosophical and sociological criticism points.

Understanding the lived experiences of short- and long-term consequences on daily life after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A focus group study.

To explore and gain in-depth understanding of how out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors experience the short- and long-term consequences on daily life. A qualitative exploratory design. A purposive sample of 32 survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Data from six audiotaped focus group interviews were collected in either November 2018 or in March 2019. Analysis and interpretation of the transcribed texts was performed using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach guided by Ricoeur for unfolding lived experiences. Three narratives were identified. The survivors narrated how they in the early phase after the cardiac arrest experienced: (a) 'a fragmented memory at the mercy of the system'. The analysis further showed how the participants were: (b) 'living in the shadow of anxiety and mixed feelings' and with the: (c) 'lost sense of self' up to several years after survival. The participants in our study experienced distinct bodily impairments, suffering, and the lost sense of self in the return to daily life from early on to several years after resuscitation. There seem to be an urgent need for an early initiated post-arrest transitional care program led by an expert cardiac arrest nurse. In particular, the healthcare professionals need to pay attention to survivors in employment and with children living at home. Facilitated cardiac arrest peer support groups might minimize the long-term suffering, heighten the self-image, and install a new hope for the future. To ease the post-arrest return to daily life for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors it seems important that a transitional care program from the inhospital setting to the community consist of: (a) screening for and education on bodily losses at an early stage, (b) provision of support on the often prolonged emotional reactions, and (c) referring for further individual and targeted psychological and neurological follow-up and rehabilitation if needed.

Body Experience in the Analysis of the Older Woman

ABSTRACTPsychoanalysis has yet to probe the experience of living in an aging body. Analytic writings on aging scarcely mention the body, while those on body development or the body in treatment hardly mention aging. I argue that we must focus more intently on body experience in our work with older patients—the patient’s, the analyst’s and ours together. I explore how the experience of bodily self-awareness—the body sense—is constructed and how it continues to be “remade” throughout our lives, even in older age. I decry our society’s “triumphing over the body” narrative, which dictates that we ignore, battle, or remodel our aging bodies at the very time they are becoming more vulnerable and in need of special attention. In analytic treatment, the older patient’s body-self development, like her self development in general, must be taken up from the point where it was earlier derailed. I explore three bodily themes in the analysis of the older woman: (1) Confronting and mourning bodily loss, (2) building embodied self-awareness, and (3) facing mortality. I propose that older women are actually primed to experience our bodies more deeply and pleasurably, because our bodies are quieter, slower and less driven to action. A transformational new capacity for body awareness, or embodiment, is an unrecognized benefit of aging, and, as I illustrate in the case of Judith, one which can mobilize other crucial psychological capacities.

Performing the Sea: Fortune, Risk, and Audience Engagement inPericles

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Once Bodies Have Remembered

This essay discusses leprosy patients’ lived realities during the transformation of Quy Hòa, a former Catholic-run leprosarium in south central Vietnam, from a religious care center into a state socialist institution. The change in leprosy care resulted in a radically divergent experience in which subjectivities were reshaped by socialist citizenship amid rampant poverty. Meanwhile, hard physical labor for economic survival, one prominent feature of this period, significantly disfigured bodies already afflicted by leprosy, rendering bodily loss a mnemonic for this memorable era.

Arteterapia y proceso de adaptación

This is the second part of “Art therapy as a coadjuvant in chemotherapy” article published in this magazine in 2010. In this case I want to share the second part of my diary referred to art therapy photographic project that helps me and improved my quality of life in mourning and bodily loss process and deal to mastectomy.

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The aging process is natural and irreversible, bringing diseases of aging and bodily losses. However, it is possible to prove that exercise can be an excellent choice to reduce the causes of this process and to age with more health. In this sense, the objective of this research was to survey existing research in order to understand what the effects caused by exercise that contribute to the functional autonomy of the elderly. The methodology used to develop the research was qualitative type of literature, from a survey of journal articles and academic books. The results were that exercise promotes well-being and optimizes the quality of life, independence / functional autonomy, slows the diseases of aging, prevents diseases like diabetes and hypertension, and also promotes the increase in maximal oxygen consumption. Given the results, the final considerations of this research are that the exercise by causing positive effects on the practitioner, helping to optimize the functional independence of older people.

Aerobreakup of Newtonian and Viscoelastic Liquids

In this review, we consider and unify all aspects of the dynamics of Newtonian and viscoelastic liquid drops in high-speed gas flows, including shock waves. The path to understanding is opened by novel, laser-induced fluorescence visualizations at spatial resolutions of up to 200 pixels for millimeter and exposure times as low as 5 ns. The central role of the competition between Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities is assessed in the frame of rich aerodynamics, from low subsonic to supersonic, and the multitude of characteristic length scales and timescales at play with varying liquid properties. Acceleration and liquid redistribution (drop deformation) early in the evolution set the stage for this competition, and we insist on an interpretation of the drag coefficient that is physically meaningful. Two principal breakup regimes (patterns of bodily loss of coherence) are identified depending on whether the gas finds its way through the liquid mass, causing gross disintegration, or goes around to induce, through shear, a surface-layer peeling-and-ejection action. Corresponding criticalities are quantified in terms of key physics, consistent with experiments. This covers in a unified fashion all liquids, independent of viscosity and elasticity, and the potential role of direct numerical simulations in supporting further advances is forecast. The resulting particle-size distributions (in a final equilibrium cloud) depend crucially on the pattern of breakup, although in this respect the role of elasticity obtains a special significance in terms of the underlying entangled-polymer-chain dynamics. From a more general perspective, we explain the canonical significance of this fundamental problem and summarize the wide range of its practical relevance, including the recently renewed interest in predicting shock-induced fluidization (or high-speed, atmospheric dissemination) of large masses of liquid agents (so-called weapons of mass destruction).

Marked bodies and selves: A literary-semiotic perspective on breast cancer and identity

A diagnosis of breast cancer is not just life-threatening but often also disfiguring. Breast cancer research has pointedly focused on the connection between bodily loss and loss of self. We will examine the narratives of two Danish women who have been treated for breast cancer and are dealing with the consequences of their treatment. Drawing upon theories of phenomenology and literary-semiotics we demonstrate how the women are negotiating their identities. In narratives of breast cancer bodily practices play a prominent role in helping or hindering the re-construction of identity. We will focus on breast reconstruction as a bodily practice and seek to understand how and why breast cancer survivors either accept or reject the possibility of reconstructing their identity through breast reconstruction. We suggest that the literary-semiotic concept of marking can lead to a broader understanding of the connection between illness, body and identity. Breast reconstruction and the refusal of breast reconstruction can be viewed as part of a semiotic monitoring and marking of the body that can take place in the aftermath of treatment for breast cancer.

The Politics of a Mel-placed Passion and Displaced Bodies

Gibson’s Christ has a body, and a body of hope at that. However, this Christ is little more than a bare body, a body made naked without its without a full covering of life (or rather it is a body reduced to barest life), and therefore a body that lacks the multiple extensions in space and time that characterise bodies and their being available to and for other bodies. This paper seeks to trace Gibson’s series of losses and their political implications, three of which are not only particularly important but are interdependent. Drawing metaphorically on the terms of the C4th Trinitarian theologies, this is argued to constitute something of a deadly tri-unity of threefold bodylessness, a perichoretic (interdependent co-inherence) perversity which triply enforces the terror against bodily (con)textuality. This sense of bodily loss flows directly from the nature of the abstraction involved in the film’s selected focus, and manifests itself triunely in the “Jewish-problem”; the life of the Christ; and the nature of the saving achieved by the sufferings of the condemned Jesus.

The Effect of Hairdressing on the Self-Esteem of Men and Women

This study investigated the effect of enhancement of physical appearance through hairdressing on the self-esteem of men and women. In a pilot study, 20 clients (equal genders) of a hairdressing salon completed a 33-item questionnaire on aspects of self-esteem, prior to having their hair dressed, and the same number did so after hairdressing. Later, 100 clients completed 20-item parallel-form versions of the same instrument both before and after hairdressing. Women initially scored significantly higher on the self-esteem measure than did men, and they also achieved a significant gain following hairdressing, whereas men did not. There was a small but insignificant gain in inherent self-esteem with age for women, but not for men. Our finding of a higher initial self-esteem for females runs counter to the majority of previous results, but the gain following physical enhancement is in line with earlier studies. Possible influencing factors include the psychoanalytic view that haircutting (for men in particular) may symbolize bodily loss, that the social ambiance of the salon may have played a part, that social comparison may be involved, and that hairdressers may play a counselling role. Key Words: Self-esteem, hair, hairdressing, physical beauty, narcissism, gender differences, behavior therapy, adolescence There is much evidence to show that we tend to be favorably biased toward people we perceive as being physically attractive, and that this is at least partly due to a generalized assumption that what is beautiful is also good (Brehm, 1985). The present study was conceived to investigate whether or not this relationship also applies to the way in which we regard ourselves. If we like they way we look, are we likely to have a positive self-image, and will this in turn boost our self-esteem? Shavelson and Bolus (1982) argued that self-- concept is not homogenous, but is multi-faceted. They suggested that there is both an academic domain and a non-academic one, the latter comprising social, emotional, and physical self-concept. Within the latter there are aspects of both physical abilities and physical appearance. Research by Brown, Cash, and Lewis (1989) on women with eating disorders, found that marked body image disturbances resulted from negative evaluations of appearance, coupled with the belief that being physically attractive is a psychologically salient goal to be strived for. A study on the possible relationship between self-perceived physical attractiveness and subjective well-being was carried out by Diener, Wolsic, and Fujita (1995) on an apparently normal student population. Their findings showed that there was indeed such a link, but that the effect was small. Moreover, the relationship was unidirectional in that high attractiveness was related to positive affect but, in contrast to the work of Brown et al. (1989) with binge-purgers, low attractiveness was not linked to negative affect. The finding of Diener et al. (1995) serves to confirm the observation of Abbott and Sebastion (1981, cited in Brehm, 1985, p. 71) that one's physical appearance has only a small impact on optimism and confidence. Casual observation of those with whom we come into contact might suggest that there are gender differences in the importance that outward appearance has for people. A study by Abell and Richards (1996) investigated whether or not the relationship between a person's feelings about their body, and their overall self-esteem, was as powerful for young men as it was for young women. Their findings revealed that members of both genders reported a significant, positive relationship between overall body image and self-esteem. However, the men were significantly more dissatisfied with their weight than were the women, due to a desire of the former to be heavier. On the other hand, higher self-esteem scores generally correlated with figure satisfaction for women but not for men. If the outcome of the study reported above seems to be rather contradictory, it is apparently because satisfaction or dissatisfaction with one's body does not necessarily have an effect on self-concept. …

Coming to Terms with Bodily Losses and Disruptions Evoked by AIDS

This article uses interview data to examine (1) the prominent bodily losses and disruptions experienced by men with AIDS and (2) the effect these losses and disruptions have on friendships, work, and leisure activities. By focusing on these themes, the article illustrates some of the vexing self-challenges encountered by men with AIDS as their illness advances and alters their bodies and relationships. It also reveals the strategies they rely on to address these challenges and sustain a sense of self-value.