Daily Companion Research Articles

Evaluation of the e-Mental Health Intervention Make It Training From Patients' Perspectives: Qualitative Analysis Within the Reduct Trial.

Make It Training is an e-mental health intervention designed for individuals with cancer that aims to reduce psychological distress and improve disease-related coping and quality of life. This study evaluated the experienced usefulness and usability of the web-based Make It Training intervention using a qualitative approach. In this study, semistructured interviews were conducted with participants at different cancer stages and with different cancer entities. All participants had previously taken part in the Reduct trial, a randomized controlled trial that assessed the efficacy of the Make It Training intervention. The data were coded deductively by 2 independent researchers and analyzed iteratively using thematic codebook analysis. Analysis of experienced usefulness resulted in 4 themes (developing coping strategies to reduce psychological distress, improvement in quality of life, Make It Training vs traditional psychotherapy, and integration into daily life) with 11 subthemes. Analysis of experienced usability resulted in 3 themes (efficiency and accessibility, user-friendliness, and recommendations to design the Make It Training intervention to be more appealing) with 6 subthemes. Make It Training was evaluated as a user-friendly intervention helpful for developing functional coping strategies to reduce psychological distress and improve quality of life. The consensus regarding Make It Training was that it was described as a daily companion that integrates well into daily life and that it has the potential to be routinely implemented within oncological health care either as a stand-alone intervention or in addition to psychotherapy. e-Mental health interventions such as Make It Training can target both the prevention of mental health issues and health promotion. Moreover, they offer a cost-efficient and low-threshold option to receive psycho-oncological support.

Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Compounds from Edible Plants with Anti-Cancer Activity and Their Potential Use as Drugs.

Food is our daily companion, performing numerous beneficial functions for our bodies. Many of them can help to alleviate or prevent ailments and diseases. In this review, an extensive bibliographic search is conducted in various databases to update information on unprocessed foods with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties that can aid in treating diseases such as cancer. The current state of knowledge on inflammatory processes involving some interleukins and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) is reviewed. As well as unprocessed foods, which may help reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, both of which are important factors in cancer development. Many studies are still needed to take full advantage of the food products we use daily.

Development of the children’s internet segment: age characteristics in various electronic contents

The Internet is an indisputable factor in the development of society, children and teenagers in particular. It becomes our daily companion, some are so immersed in the World Wide Web that they lose their sense of reality. Young people, especially teenagers, are the most impressionable audience, so it is important to know and evaluate the content they are viewing. The article examines surveys from which it is possible to analyze the behaviour of children and adolescents in the Ukrainian-speaking segment of the Internet during the last 20 years. Unfortunately, few such studies were conducted, though they did not provide any answers to the questions about the correspondence between the needs and interests of schoolchildren and the reality of the functioning of electronic children’s content.However, by comparing the existing data, it is possible to form an idea about the activity of children and adolescents in the information space, to identify trends. The authors analyzed the research conducted in Ukraine from 2002 to 2022. It was established that computer use and access to the Internet grew rapidly, and in 2014 already 62-73% of children and adolescents played Internet games and accessed social networks daily. !e 2018 survey showed that all teenagers use or have used the Internet before "nishing school. The age when children begin to use the Internet has also decreased. Since the Internet plays a signi"cant role in the lives of children and adolescents, we have identi"ed and recorded the use of all social functions of the content: informational, communicative, recreational, cultural and educational. We can say that young people actively use all the opportunities provided by the worldwide network and prefer electronic media content

Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

Arabic version of the Hayling sentence completion test: scale validation, normative data and factors associated with executive functions in a sample of the Lebanese adults

BackgroundThis study was conducted for several reasons, primarily because of the lack of an Arabic version of the HSCT that could be beneficial in our clinical practice. Another reason is the need to find potential relationships between various factors with executive functions, especially problematic mobile phone use as suggested by many previous studies, since smartphones have become, nowadays, a daily companion of people from all generations. Thus, it is important to conduct this study in Lebanon to be adapted to the ideas, customs and social behavior of the Lebanese citizens. Hence, the objectives of the current study are to use the Arabic version of the HSCT in healthy community-dwelling Arabic-speaking adults in Lebanon, to check its validity compared to other versions of the test, as well as to identify risk factors that might affect the executive functions in these adults.MethodsBetween August–December 2019, 350 participants were randomly selected. The Arabic version of the HSCT, divided into automatic and inhibition conditions, was used; in each condition, participants’ response-time and number of errors committed were recorded.ResultsNone of the scale items was removed. For the automatic condition, response-time items converged over one factor (αCronbach = 0.905) and number of errors converged over seven factors (αCronbach = 0.334). For the inhibition condition, response-time converged over one factor (αCronbach = 0.943) and number of errors converged over four factors (αCronbach = 0.728). Using electricity as a heating method inside the house was significantly associated with a lower response-time, whereas higher problematic mobile phone use was associated with higher response-time. Using wood as a heating system inside the house and higher problematic mobile phone use were associated with higher number of errors, while using Arabian incense (bakhour) inside the house was associated with lower number of errors.ConclusionWe were able to set normative data for the HSCT Arabic version for use in the Lebanese population. Problematic mobile phone use was associated with lower inhibitory control in terms of response-time and errors number.

A Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Agent Mobile Learning System

Mobile devices have emerged as our daily companion whose applicability evolves as the day unfolds. One of such applications is in the area of learning, called mobile learning (M-learning). However, as with all new technologies, M-learning is faced with the issues of standard, content packing, and deployment. And like other distributed applications on ubiquitous networks, M-learning is challenged with performance issues. This work shows the implementation and evaluation of a model for intelligent mobile learning system (IMLS) using a multi-agent system (MAS), such as the Java Agent Development Environment (JADE) framework. Two M-learning applications (agent-based and non-agent) were developed, deployed and tested. The agent-based application is deployed using an HTTP-based Message Transfer Protocol (MTP). The results suggest that agents can increase the performance of an M-learning application up to eight times.

E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth‐Century Literature and the Constitutional Paradox

E Pluribus Unum: NineteenthCentury Literature and Constitutional Paradox W. C. Harris. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2005. This book is an extended comment on our national motto, E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one), which appears on Great Shield adopted by Continental Congress in 1782. It continues to be our daily companion on backside of one-dollar bill. The secretary, Charles Thomson, explained that shield and its motto represent several states all joined in one solid compact entire, supporting Chief, which unites whole & represents Congress. In valuable Afterword that I recommend reading first, Harris traces elusive origin of phrase E Pluribus. He rigorously and convincingly argues that slogan derived not from classical source such as Virgil or Horace, but was New World Latin invented to express both an ideal and tension of dilemma. Harris believes slogan's appearance was an important moment in conceptual search, a of writing, of finding words that are right and effective (198). He sees back and forth dialectic in founding period, with Declaration and Articles of Confederation expressing pluralism and quest for equality that was countered by unification of power represented in Constitution. The distinctiveness of this book lies in seeing these well-known polarities as continuing engagement with ancient metaphysical of the one-and-the-many, addressed in detail by Plato in Sophist (360 BCE) and by neoPlatonist Plotinus (205-270 CE) in collected writings called Enneads. Harris's machinery for treating this congeries combines extremely close textual readings with intensive reviews of political, social, and religious history. But above all, E Pluribus Unum illustrates assimilation of Continental metaphysics and discourse theory into American studies. Without even bibliographical reference to Derrida's Writing and Difference (1967) Harris discusses American literature's nineteenth-century engagement with work of difference, impulses of resistance against hierarchy in spirit of articulation, separation, and equality. Absent formal acknowledgment of French deconstructive inspiration, framework language is yet catechetical: issues are found at sites; positions are privileged; texts are decentered or imbricated; exhausted stances find textual expressions that recuperate them; hegemonic hierarchies are enforced through a quota of difference-work that can be disrupted, or fragmented; doctrines are textually inscribed or reinscribed. In significant footnotes regarding focus for this work, Harris rejects stringing our best writers in traditions (Daniel Rogers's phrase) but chooses instead neglected texts of major American Renaissance authors or texts by same authors which have not been read in light of one-and-the-many problem (210 fn5). The tendency to deal with textas-metaphysical puzzle results in some sentences of at least 100 words in length that show their syntactical pedigrees from Hegel, Heidegger, and Sartre that inspired deconstructionists. Here is shorter sample: What makes of many and one so thorny is constitution of social and compositional wholes on some version of problematic of unity which is less problematic, that is, which reassigns on less particularized basis inevitable quota of difference-work (33, author emphasis). Placed within such metaphysical framework, American literature, particularly Poe's Eureka, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and assorted works of Melville and William James can be seen as instances of attempted mediation between unity and plurality. Harris contends that in these authors we witness formation of kind of secondary American documentary culture, set of new literary charters meant to compensate for unresolved problems attached to originating Constitution of United States and Lincoln's assertive efforts to preserve Union. …

Handbook of External Diseases of the Eye

In the foreword, Dr Bohigian modestly cautions the reader that this pocket handbook is designed only as a reference manual and guide and should be used in conjunction with more detailed and current material. Used in that manner, this book is an excellent daily companion for the practicing ... this book is an excellent daily companion for the practicing ophthalmologist. The book is divided into three sections: clinical diagnosis and therapy, laboratory procedures, and therapeutics. The diagnosis section is the weakest of the three, describing a variety of diagnoses in brief outline form. Its value is chiefly as a quick review for the ophthalmologist already familiar with the entities covered. The laboratory procedures section is very well written, with excellent descriptions of the techniques of culture, scraping, and anterior chamber and vitreous taps. The cytology of conjunctival exudates is well described, but the single illustration is unfortunately limited to a

The Chaplain at Aldenham

The purpose of this article is to study the outlook on Catholicism of Sir John Acton, later Lord Acton the famous historian, when he was living in Shropshire as a young bachelor. During his boyhood the provision of a chaplain had been arranged with the Bishop by his mother. Lady Granville.A certain light is thrown on Acton's religious approach by an account of his dealings with the chaplains who served Aldenham between his coming of age and the final closing of the chapel. During the eighteenth century such chaplaincies, which were then at the hub of Catholic rural life, had been for the most part served either by the religious orders or by some relative or dependent of the squire's family. With the development of the big industrial populations, it became harder to obtain a suitable priest for work of an increasingly restricted scope. There were certain exceptional cases, like Wardour Castle, where the Jesuits had agreed to make a permanent provision. Aldenham, however, normally depended on the priests available in that section of the old Midland District.At this time the Aldenham appointment had a quite special significance. Lord and Lady Granville had now retired to London and the priest chosen would be the daily companion of the young baronet, who lived at Aldenham when in the country. It would, therefore, appear that the Bishop of Shrewsbury had allowed Acton to make his own suggestion.

The Acoustic Behavior of Induction Motors

The induction motor is the universally employed means for transforming electric power into mechanical work, in the home and the office, as well as the factory. As it is our daily companion at home and at work, experts in “Appearance Design” have been called in to give the motor an appearance that is pleasing, if not downright handsome. Now, there is a growing demand that the motor shall have good $ldquo;Sonance Design” as well. We want it to give out a pleasing steady hum, just loud enough to show that it is healthy and performing its functions properly, but not loud enough to disturb whatever we want to do in its neighborhood. This paper describes the acoustic behavior of the induction motor, and outlines the principles of good sonance design. Generally speaking, the stator of an induction motor comprises a laminated steel cylinder, supported in a steel or cast iron frame, and subjected to a series of radial and tangential magnetic forces, that vary at frequencies between 120 and two or three thousand cycles per second. The laminations can vibrate radially in elliptical or lobed patterns with 4, 6, or more nodes. The frame picks up the motions of the core through its supporting ribs, and translates them into a wide variety of “shivers,” depending on the degrees of freedom and resonant frequencies of the different parts. Each section of the frame surface acts as a loudspeaker diaphragm, sending out acoustic waves of intensities that depend on the ratio of the width of each vibrating surface to the wavelength in air of the sound frequency, as well as the amplitude and pattern of the motion. Besides these normal magnetic vibrations, the motor produces noise from resonant frequency shaft vibrations, from ball bearings, and from wind-age or fan effects. The varied problems encountered in calculating and controlling these different motor noises and in designing means for isolating, damping, or enclosing them in accordance with the requirements of each application pose a real challenge to engineers and scientists.

William Small, Jefferson's Beloved Teacher

It was my great good fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life that Dr. Wm. Small of Scotland was then professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication correct and gentlemanly manners, & an enlarged & liberal mind. He, most happily for me, became soon attached to me & made me his daily companion when not engaged in the school; and from his conversation I got my first views of the expansion of science & of the system of things in which we are placed. Fortunately the Philosophical chair became vacant soon after my arrival at college, and he was appointed to fill it per interim: and he was the first who ever gave in that college regular lectures in Ethics, Rhetoric & Belles lettres. He returned to Europe in I762 [sic], having previously filled up the measure of his goodness to me, by procuring for me, from his most intimate friend G. Wythe, a reception as a student of law, under his direction, and introduced me to the acquaintance and familiar table of Governor Fauquier, the ablest man who had ever filled that office. With him, and at his table, Dr. Small & Mr. Wythe, his amici omnium horarum, & myself, formed a parti quarry, & to the habitual conversations on these occasions I owed much instruction.'

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, 1946

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, 1946

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion

THE "British Journal Photographic Almanac" is one of those books that few photographers can afford to be without. This applies to all those who handle cameras or photographic materials, whether they be amateurs or professionals, interested in pictorial photographs or research involving the use of light-sensitive materials. The volume is published annually and, while much of the contents is little changed from year to year, a series of up-to-date articles forms an important feature of each issue. This year there is an editorial which deals with the development of photography from the days when all photographers started by serving an apprenticeship to learn the technique, until to-day when photography is being used more and more for scientific purposes where a knowledge of the behaviour of photographic materials is a necessary preliminary. The plea is for the professional photographer of the future to learn more of the science of photography and rely less on rule of thumb methods. Is it not even more important that the would-be research worker should be taught more of the science of photography so that he can, should the need arise, use photography intelligently as a tool to assist his research?

The Briths Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, 1934. Edited by G. E. Brown, F.I.C. Pp. 684. London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1934. Ppaper covers, 2s.; cloth bound, 3s.

The Briths Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, 1934. Edited by G. E. Brown, F.I.C. Pp. 684. London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1934. Ppaper covers, 2s.; cloth bound, 3s.

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, with which is incorporated “The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide” and “The Photographic Annual”, 1934

THIS almanac has been published as a book since 1861. Mr. Brown has edited it since 1906. Year by year he has made it a very worthy ‘daily companion’ for the photographer. While it contains, in each issue, brief working details of most of the common processes of photographic technique, it seems to keep thoroughly up-to-date. By means of good indexes, which cover advertisements as well as text, it has been possible to make the long series of volumes into a kind of encyclopaedic work from which not only details of technique may be learned, but also the development of photography may be followed. It can be recommended confidently to all who use photography.

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographers' Daily Companion, with which is incorporated The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide and The Photographic Annual, 1931

BESIDES the usual epitome of progress, formulae, tables, and miscellaneous information, this volume includes concise essays on the makers of photography, modern enlarging, and colour photography, with a note on bromoil. The “Makers of Photography” is by the editor, and is a history of the development of photography from the earliest times up to approximately 1890, though, as might be expected, the last twenty or so years of the period is very sketchily done. The value of this article lies in the history of the earlier periods, practically the first half of last century, as certain items which have only recently come to light are duly incorporated for, we believe, the first time. The other articles also are excellent summaries of the subjects with which they deal.

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, with which is incorporated The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide and The Photographic Annual, 1930

THIS welcome annual (for it is in no sense an almanac) again makes its appearance. The general arrangement is very much the same as heretofore. As this is the twenty-fifth year in which the present editor has had the arranging of it, the article which he contributes consists of his personal reminiscences (or some of them), which will be read with much interest. But we think that he has overstepped the mark to the detriment of the memory of Sir William Abney in stating that his various text-books display a pronounced disinclination to deal with the work of other investigators, and that therefore we have in English no comprehensive work similar to those of Eder in Germany and Fabre in France. Abney never attempted such a comprehensive work, although the editor states that “he was the one man to supervise” it, and perhaps the editor himself gives the reason when he says that “it was an obvious effort to him to present a subject in simple terms”. If Great Britain “suffered from the Abney predominance”, as stated here, that surely was the fault of his contemporaries, as this is a free country.

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion: with which is incorporated The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide and The Photographic Annual, 1928

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion: with which is incorporated The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide and The Photographic Annual, 1928

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, with which is incorporated The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide and The Photographic Annual, 1927

THis is no longer an almanac, except in name, for that particular feature of the annual has been omitted since a year or two ago, presumably because it was not appreciated. We appreciated it and often turned to it. After four articles dealing with the use of reflex cameras, arranging snapshots, developing and printing amateurs' films, and the use of ‘chlorobrom’ papers, follows the valuable “Epitome of Progress,” which is a concise and classified history of photography for last year. It includes a very brief summing up of the most striking advances, the events of the year, besides trade and legal items. The largest section of the epitome concerns apparatus, equipment, and processes, and consists of abstracts of the accounts of these that appeared during the year, with all necessary formulae and many illustrations. After the obituary, 65 pages of formulae and instructions for the current photographic operations, and 40 pages of tables, comes a section of miscellaneous information. This last includes an excellent “History in Brief” of photographic and photomechanical processes, and various directories. With the text are 30 photogravure reproductions of photographs by some of the most noted workers. The annual fully maintains the unique position that it has earned for itself during its sixty-seven years of issue.

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, with which is incorporated “The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide” and “The Photographic Annual,” 1926

The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographer's Daily Companion, with which is incorporated “The Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide” and “The Photographic Annual,” 1926