Cause Of Embarrassment Research Articles

Siravedha - A Case Report on the Ayurvedic Treatment of Vatakantaka w.s.r. to Plantar Fasciitis

Vatakantaka is a very common complaint now days with mild to severe pain in the Pada (foot), Parshini (heel), Gulfa (ankle), Jangha (calf) of the patient. Contemporary medicine describes this condition as Plantar fasciitis which presents as pain in the plantar aspect of the foot frequently associated with heel and ankle pain. It usually does not respond to standard pain management medications, techniques and is a major cause of embarrassment and disability for the patient. This case report refers to the complete remission of Vatakantaka (plantar fasciitis) in a 49 year old female patient with the use of Siravedha (venesection/bloodletting) of the Sira (vein) located 2 Angul (finger width) above Padagata Kshipra Marma (vital point in foot). A total of 3 sittings of Siravedha were done with a gap of 9 days between consecutive sittings. The 1st sitting itself relieved the pain significantly with complete relief from pain and tenderness after all the three sittings were completed. The 3 month long follow up revealed that the symptoms did not reoccur. This case report serves as an example that classical Ayurvedic methods for pain relief such as Siravedha can be explored for improving the management protocols for diseases like Vatakantaka (plantar fasciitis). Further large sample studies are needed to confirm the findings.

Management of gummy smile with an interdisciplinary approach

In this extremely competitive society, esthetic appearance plays an important role in the acceptance and self-esteem of individuals. Facial expressions and smile are the primary constituents of fast and effective nonverbal communication. Gummy smile is a frequent finding that can occur because of various intraoral or extraoral etiologies. Gummy smile is considered unattractive and a major cause of embarrassment. Lip repositioning was first described in 1973 by Rubinstein and Kostianovsky as a conservative surgical method for correcting a gummy smile. This procedure minimizes the gingival display by limiting the retraction of the elevator smile muscles. This case report describes the management of gummy smile using an interdisciplinary approach. Despite other possible alternatives, the present case was treated with minimally invasive perioplastic surgery (crown lengthening and lip repositioning) and cosmetic restorations of maxillary anterior teeth. Surgical lip repositioning is a safe, predictable procedure with minimal risks or side effects.

Investigate the Influence and Moderators of the Embarrassment on the Continual Usage and Knowledge Sharing Intention in Virtual Communities

Embarrassment has been an important research issue in the domain of management. Previous studies indicated when embarrassment occurred between sales and customers, it could reduce the customers' intention to visit the store again. Virtual communities are also places for interaction between members; therefore, embarrassment could occurred as well. Goffman’s dramaturgic theory can be perfectly applied to the settings of virtual communities. They both address the interaction facet between people. Dramaturgic theory can also elaborate the occurrence of embarrassment. Thus, this study aims to resolve the possible reasons inducing embarrassment by dramaturgic perspective, and investigate the influence and moderators of embarrassment on members' continual usage and knowledge sharing intention towards virtual communities. In addition, two sets of interference variables were derived based on virtual community characteristics, and their influence on the above-mentioned correlations was analyzed. The research results can be a good reference for virtual community operators and managers to help them understand those causes of embarrassment that have a negative impact on those community members’ intentions, and to reflect on how they can reduce those causal factors by tweaking the design of community platforms.

Women, Writing and the Iraqi Baʿthist State. Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968–2003

Women, Writing and the Iraqi Baʿthist State. Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968–2003

Helping aphasic patients accomplish greeting exchanges

Background: This study explores greeting exchanges in stroke care, in particular the use of the ‘wai’ gesture. Method: Seventeen patients with Broca’s aphasia, some family members, six nurses from district public health centers, and four nurses from a district hospital in northern Thailand were given written consent forms for participation. Thirty counseling sessions were video-recorded in patients’ homes and analyzed using conversation analysis. Direct observation and in-depth interview were also used for supplementary data collection. Results: These showed a patient’s daughter helping her to accomplish a greeting. She was encouraged to use one hand to raise the other hand up. Another patient was only able to raise one hand to conduct the normal ‘wai,’ a potential cause of embarrassment for the patient, as the greeting is always formed by putting the two palms of the hands together. The nurse encouraged him to perform the greeting using one hand through different questions and statements. Discussion and conclusion: While the ‘wai’ gesture and the spoken greeting ‘sawatdi’ used for social functions plays an important role in stroke counseling, the nursing guidelines in the Barthel Index excluded them in the section on non-verbal communication assessment. This article suggests that they should be taken into account, in order to improve the nursing guidelines to fit the Thai context.

Documentary’s ethics of fremdschämen: neurodiversity, vicarious embarrassment and a subject’s right to agency

ABSTRACT This article uses the German idiom fremdschämen to discuss some of the ethical dilemmas posed by the representation of sexuality and mental disability in documentary. Fremdschämen roughly translates as vicarious embarrassment. It suggests that one can feel embarrassed on behalf of somebody else who seems oblivious to the cause of embarrassment. Does the representation of sexual desire in neurologically diverse people evoke such feelings? And if so, can fremdschämen reveal our own complicity with normative assumptions about neurologically diverse subjects? The article uses Sickles and Santini’s 2017 documentary Dina as a case study to examine these questions. Dina’s protagonist is a neurologically diverse woman who speaks openly about her sexuality and her desires, thus evoking and at the same time challenging normative cultural expectations. The article turns to the film to discuss the relationship between these expectations and the ethics of representing subjects like Dina. It revisits commonly held beliefs about responsibility in documentary filmmaking and reveals a potential conflict between protecting vulnerable subjects and acknowledging and respecting their agency. By introducing the concept of fremdschämen to the discussion of documentary ethics, it asks us to consider not the documentary subject’s ability to conform but our difficulty in accepting non-conformity.

The impact of pregnancy on a woman's health - stress urinary incontinence

Introduction: Urinary incontinence is an embarrassing problem that affects more and more women. The most common type of incontinene in women is stress urinary incontinence, which is defined as the involuntary loss of urine caused by an abnormal closure of the urethra. It happens most often during exercise, coughing or sneezing. The problem of urinary incontinence is extremely important due to the accompanying impact on the psyche of women. It causes a disturbance of self-esteem and is often a cause of embarrassment before visiting a doctor. Results: The pathogenesis of urine loss is multifactorial, but in recent times a lot of blame has been placed on the changes taking place in the body during pregnancy and childbirth. Childbirth weakens the pelvic floor muscles, causing temporary or permanent urine loss. The diagnosis of urinary incontinence is based on the basis of a carefully collected medical history, physical examination and additional tests. Conclusion: Physiotherapeutic procedures, pharmacological treatment and surgical treatment are used as a therapeutic procedures. Prophylactic pelvic floor muscle exercises also play an important role. The most popular treatment for stress urinary incontinence is physiotherapy, including Kegel exercises. The awareness of women about the problem of urinary incontinence should be increased to prevent them from limiting their daily activities and deteriorating sexual activity.

Overseas Singaporean attitudes towards Singlish

ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores the attitudes of Singaporean undergraduate students living abroad towards the colloquial variety of Singaporean English, also known as Singlish. The data, consisting of eight in-depth individual interviews, and the findings were analysed using a theoretical framework incorporating cognitive, affective and behavioural components of attitude. The findings demonstrate that Singaporeans have a ‘love and hate’ relationship with Singlish. While the distinctiveness of Singlish features allows Singaporeans to recognize and connect with fellow countrymen abroad, serving as a marker of identification and solidarity, it is also viewed as ‘improper’ and ‘a cause of embarrassment’. Singlish is considered a means by which non-Singaporeans can assimilate into the Singaporean community, and yet, it was found that there was an exclusivity about Singlish in that it could only be mastered by Singaporeans. The findings are discussed in relation to the implications that future research can have on attitudes towards Singlish.

Exploring the barriers for people taking protective actions during the 2012 and 2015 New Zealand ShakeOut drills

To reduce future earthquake injuries and casualties, it is important that people understand how their behavior, during and immediately following earthquake shaking, exposes them to increased risk of injury or death. Research confirms that protective actions can reduce injuries and that prior training can help prepare people to take appropriate actions. In this paper, we examine barriers to participation in the ShakeOut drills in New Zealand. Through citizen science research, volunteers observed people performing the drills in 2012 and 2015. Observers reported how long it took to perform the drill and why they thought some people may not have completed it. Our findings illustrate that children, elderly, and those with both mental and physical disabilities struggled with the drill. Furthermore, embarrassment was a reported leading cause for non-participation; we recommend more inclusive messaging to address potential causes of embarrassment.

Gingival depigmentation by free gingival autograft: a case series

A pleasing smile is desired by all, and forms the main focus of aesthetic dentistry. However, pigmented gums can be a major cause of embarrassment for patients, especially those with a gummy smile. Attempts have been made to meet these cosmetic demands by various methods such as using a surgical blade, diamond burs, electrosurgery, cryosurgery or a laser, but with limited results. Therefore, in the present case series, a free gingival autograft was used for treating gingival melanin hyperpigmentation with a follow-up of six months with no signs of repigmentation. CPD/Clinical Relevance: This review outlines a method of free gingival autograft as a treatment modality for gingival pigmentation.

Cloud Computing: Pricing Model

Cloud computing is the elemental aspect for online security of computing resources. It helps on-demand dividing of resources and cost between a major number of end users. It provides end users to process, manage, and store data so fast with reasonable prices. This is significant to know the causes of embarrassment between clients in relation to cloud computing services, particularly when it comes to a new price method. The price presents an important element, an indicator that often shows the quality of services, but on the other hand, the salesman with its offer on services has an impact directly on clients’ decisions to use them. For both providers and users of cloud services, identifying the common factors in cloud services pricing is critical. In this paper will be shown various pricing model for cloud computing, and how they affect in different resources, their comparison, also the pricing model for two platforms: 1) Google Cloud Computing; and 2) Amazon Web Services.

Gynecomastia: A review of literature

Gynecomastia is a benign enlargement of the male breast tissue, either due to the proliferation of glandular tissue or deposition of fat in breast tissue, usually caused by imbalance of estrogen and androgen hormones in body. Gynecomastia has a trimodal age distribution and begins as a small lump beneath the nipple which may be tender. Gynecomastia is usually benign but may be a cause of embarrassment for some. Evaluation of gynecomastia is performed with an aim at diagnosing the cause for the same. Individual treatment requirements can range from simple reassurance to medical treatment or even surgery depending on the etiology.

Terra firma-forme dermatosis: report of a series of 11 cases and a brief review of the literature.

Terra firma-forme dermatosis (TFFD) is a benign, yet little known disorder with very few cases reported in the literature. TFFD is considered to be only a cosmetic problem but can be a cause of embarrassment for the patients. Eleven patients with TFFD presenting in a tertiary care center over a period of 5 years were analyzed with respect to disease presentation, treatment, and possible factors involved in causation. The commonest cause in our series was ignorance regarding proper cleansing techniques, inadequate pressure while scrubbing the affected area, and a lack of concern, fear, or pain as in the case of surgical sites. Awareness among the clinicians about the existence of TFFD is essential to save time for the clinician and to reduce the economic burden on the patient by avoiding costly investigations and treatment. Proper counseling regarding the cleansing of surgery sites may help prevent the development of this condition in such situations.

Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature (review)

Reviewed by: Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature Elizabeth Bush Sullivan, George. Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature. Clarion, 2011. [208p.] illus. with photographs ISBN 978-0-547-18203-2 $20.00 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8. Baby Charles (Charley) S. Stratton did not appear destined to make a career of the "freak show" circuit in nineteenth century America. Though he weighed a normal nine pounds at birth, his growth stalled by age five; while the outgoing child coped quite well with his diminutive size, his stature was a cause of embarrassment for his older sisters and his future a cause of worry for his father. An introduction to P. T. Barnum, the notorious showman who had just riled his public with two wildly bogus attractions (the world's "oldest" woman and the Fejee Mermaid), set them both on the path to a successful, lifelong partnership. Barnum employed and mentored Stratton and, after naming him Tom Thumb, launched him to a height of stardom that wouldn't be seen again until the age of the Silver Screen. Sullivan follows the careers of both Stratton and Barnum, setting the display of human "oddities" into historical context, exploring the genuine respect between employer and entertainer, and emphasizing the cordial relationship that Tom Thumb developed with his audience through lectures and conversations. Insets on dwarfism appear early in the text, elucidating Tom Thumb's condition for readers without seriously interrupting the genial flow of the narration. Generous leading and a large stock of photographs and period reproductions will entice readers who shy away from longer works of nonfiction. Booktalk this with Candace Fleming's The Great and Only Barnum (BCCB 10/09) for a riff on celebrity—old school. [End Page 253] Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Caring for the person with haemorrhoids

To care effectively for a person with haemorrhoids requires an understanding of the causes of haemorrhoids, the treatment options and the associated care. This article provides insight into the many potential causes of haemorrhoids and also highlights the possible treatment options that may be available. A brief overview of the gastrointestinal tract is provided. This discussion emphasizes the need to assess each person individually and to offer care to people that is respectful and compassionate while offering assistance for a condition that could be a cause of embarrassment for the person. A glossary of terms is provided.

Truth telling and truthfulness in the care for patients with advanced dementia: an ethnographic study in Dutch nursing homes

The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the moral tension that exists in the care for demented nursing home patients, between the principle of respect for autonomy and the value that is attached to respect for the subjective world of the patient. To this end an ethnographical field study was carried out by two researchers in two Dutch nursing homes. Among the central topics that evolved were the different moral problems that nurses experience concerning truth telling and acting truthfully in relation to demented patients. In situations unrelated to the dementia and its diagnosis, the right to be informed is in principle respected, even if the information is sometimes painful. More specific questions of demented patients about their situation are a regular cause of embarrassment for their carers, who rely on various treatment strategies to deal with such questions. These strategies are often successful. However, when they fail, the nurses are faced with a problem they cannot solve, namely the loss of a common shared world and the resulting unmentionable truth about the diagnosis of dementia, as objective basis and legitimization for their approach to the demented patient. We conclude that in the training and professional support given to nurses, more attention should be paid to (awareness of) the moral problems that arise from this loss of a common shared world, so that they can react to the subjective world of demented patients without feeling that they are deceiving them.

Why is Implicit Religion Implicit?

To say that certain expressions of religion are ‘implicit’ is to suggest that there are good reasons why they cannot be made ‘explicit’. This paper accepts that religions are socially constructed systems of symbols (Geertz), but emphasises that they are also responses to the experience of a relationship with a transcendent presence. Qualitative and quantitative empirical data are presented to demonstrate that such experience is extremely commonplace in Britain. Yet public reference to this biologically built-in awareness is often the cause of embarrassment and fear of ridicule. The origins of this taboo are traced back to the damage done to relational consciousness by the possessive individualism that emerged in Europe during the seventeenth century. The rise of individualism is associated with interlinked changes in religious, philosophical, political and economic beliefs that continue to dominate Western economic and political life. During the nineteenth century the Young Hegelian Max Stirner demonstrated (and applauded) how the assumptions of individualism lead logically to an extreme form of atheism. However, since individualism is a social construct, it can potentially be deconstructed. Hence, in principle, religion need not continue to be as implicit as it currently is in many people’s lives.

Who is Embarrassed by What?

We investigated some types of triggers of embarrassment and their personality correlates. A total of 161 undergraduates indicated how embarrassed they would be in a variety of situations classified a priori into three types. The types were based on the kind of trigger they embodied and were derived in part from current theories of embarrassment. Several analytic techniques, including factor analysis, suggested that there are at least three sorts of situations people find embarrassing: committing a faux pas, being the centre of attention, and threatening another's social identity. We created a subscale for each subtype of trigger. Embarrassibility on each subscale was correlated with embarrassibility on the others, but the reliabilities of the subscales substantially exceeded their intercorrelations. Some personality variables, for example, Neuroticism (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975) correlated with all subscales, whereas other personality variables correlated differentially, for example, Revised Self-Monitoring (Lennox & Wolf, 1984), Interaction Anxiousness (Leary, 1983), and Rejection Sensitivity (Downey & Feldman, 1996). We believe, contrary to previous suggestions (Edelmann & McCusker, 1986), that there are subtypes of triggers of embarrassment and they they roughly correspond to the different causes of embarrassment as proposed by various theorists. We discuss the implications of our results for theories of embarrassment.

Embarrassment: its distinct form and appeasement functions.

The authors address 2 questions about embarrassment. First, Is embarrassment a distinct emotion? The evidence indicates that the antecedents, experience, and display of embarrassment, and to a limited extent its autonomic physiology, are distinct from shame, guilt, and amusement and share the dynamic, temporal characteristics of emotion. Second, What are the theoretical accounts of embarrassment? Three accounts focus on the causes of embarrassment, positioning that it follows the loss of self-esteem, concern for others' evaluations, or absence of scripts to guide interactions. A fourth account focuses on the effects of the remedial actions of embarrassment, which correct preceding transgressions. A fifth account focuses on the functional parallels between embarrassment and nonhuman appeasement. The discussion focuses on unanswered questions about embarrassment.

Reza de Wet herlees Alba Bouwer

Summary This article attempts to take a close look at the intertextual relationship between Reza de Wet's drama Diepe grond and the children's stories of Alba Bouwer. This relationship entails three aspects: confirmation, transformation and undermining. The concept “deep soil” in the title of the drama, the drinking of castor oil and scolding as manifestations of an authoritarian and unsympathetic parental attitude, fleas (lice) as something that need not be considered as cause for embarrassment, the “missing” father and mother, rain and water as religious symbols, the “killing” of the parents and other educators, corporal punishment and censuring of the erotic are signifiers from Bouwer's stories which are confirmed and exploited in Diepe grond. In the case of the following transformation takes place: from prose to drama, from the grave of a beloved member of the enemy to that of the hated parents, from the donning of parents’ clothes as a children's game to the same as preparation for a harrowing murder...