Elements Of Contact Research Articles

Chinese College Students' Stigmatization towards People with Mental Illness: Familiarity, Perceived Dangerousness, Fear, and Social Distance.

Attribution models have been examined in Western countries. However, little is known about the applicability of the attitude-emotion-behavior model within Chinese culture. This study aimed to examine the association between familiarity, perceived dangerousness, fear, and social distance towards persons with mental illness (PMI) in the Chinese context. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted from October to November 2022 in mainland China. A total of 1493 college students completed a questionnaire evaluating familiarity, perception of dangerousness, fear, and social distance regarding PMI. Path analysis was employed to validate the model proposed in this study. Participants expressed moderate to high levels of stigma towards PMI. Familiarity was negatively associated with social distance (p < 0.01). Participants who perceived PMI as dangerous were more prone to exhibit a reaction of fear (p < 0.001), consequently leading to social distance (p < 0.01). However, the mediating effect of perceived dangerousness and fear on the relationship between familiarity and social distance was not significant (p > 0.05). The results of this study provide support for Corrigan's attributional model of stigma in the Chinese context. Contact-based interventions for stigma reduction should emphasize multiple elements of contact, including the quality of contact, rather than familiarity.

Black people in Ukraine: A content analysis of TikTok videos documenting discrimination against Black people attempting to flee at the onset of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war

This cross-sectional, descriptive study conducted on in June 2022 reviewed 100 TikTok videos using the hashtag #africansinukriane that depicted discrimination against Black people attempting to flee Ukraine at the onset of the war in February 2022. Two of the 16 themes were significant and present in over 50% of videos: raising awareness (67%) and racial discrimination (64%). Videos with elements of physical contact (N = 16, 76.2%), violence (N = 12, 75%), and dehumanization (N = 11, 68.8%) had higher shares than overall media shares. Less than 10% of the videos included dark humor (8%), sharing helpful resources (7%), and appreciation of countries that offered support (5%). Results indicate that videos that include raising awareness (p = .02), racial discrimination (p = .001), on-scene clips or war scenes (p = .007), physical contact (p = .006), and denied entry (p = .022). Their estimated differences in locations indicate that all of these themes were related to higher median shares of the videos. This study supports that TikTok is a place where marginalized groups can raise awareness about injustice and create counternarratives. This study exemplifies international anti-blackness with implications for health marketing and communication, human rights efforts, refugee health, and targeted mental health and policy support for those displaced by war.

How transformational leadership fulfills psychological contract for reinforcing better performance: a Thai case study

This study explores how psychological contract mediates the relationship between transformational leadership (TFL) and performance to see how far these concepts, widely studied in the western context, are applicable in a non-western context. This study utilized a mixed-methodology case study based on a market-leading company in the consumer-electronics business in Thailand. There are 282 samples for quantitative data collection and utilize the three-equation approach to test the mediating effect. There are 55 participants for qualitative data, and thematic analysis was used. To explain the process, this research found three themes, feeling valued, the family atmosphere, and needing to repay the company’s kindness. They need managers with TFL qualities to make them happen. This study reveals three insightful understandings of the concepts. Firstly, the distinction between transactional and relational elements of psychological contact is only apparent at the conceptual level, while in practice, they coincide. Secondly, job satisfaction contributes to organizational commitment. Lastly, the relational psychological contract reinforces the feeling of being overwhelmed by the company’s kindness making employees want to work for the company until retirement.

Reducing dementia-related stigma and discrimination among community health workers in Brazil: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial

IntroductionStigma and discrimination among healthcare workers can hinder diagnosis and the provision of appropriate care in dementia. This study is aimed at developing, delivering and evaluating the feasibility of a...

AN EVALUATION OF STREET CHARACTER AS A FACTOR FOR LIVELINESSA CASE FROM ISTANBUL

Streets, being vital elements of public spaces, provide mobility and social contact. Beyond their transportation character, streets are the locations where people may interact with each other, satisfy their needs, and express themselves. These functions contribute to the liveliness of streets and have a significant influence on social life in public spaces. This research examines street characteristics as factors of liveliness that help us to identify the street as a public space. Taking physical features, visual identity, functions, and activities as parameters of street character; the research examines Istanbuls Bagdat Avenue by emphasizing these parameters on the liveliest sections of the avenue. The two-stage organized research outputs have shown that the liveliest sections of the avenue include variety of businesses, individual retailers, segments with a unique identity, and buildings with permeable and articulated facades. It can be asserted that the streets characteristics encourage individuals to behave in a way that enhances publicity and that the streets characteristics help in creating a more attractive place and a lively atmosphere for people to behave in a comfortable way that strengthens the publicity. This research aims to contribute to academic literature to develop a framework for rethinking design and planning for revitalizing urban life and explaining the human aspect of environmental design.

Telehealth Delivery of a Multi-Disciplinary Rehabilitation Programme for Upper Gastro-Intestinal Cancer: ReStOre@Home Feasibility Study.

Simple SummaryThroughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many cancer care services have safely been delivered via telehealth. Multi-disciplinary rehabilitation programmes can help address the complex physical, nutritional and quality of life needs of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancer survivors, but it is unknown how well these multi-component programmes translate to a telehealth model of delivery. Therefore, we assessed the feasibility of running a 12-week exercise and nutrition rehabilitation programme for UGI cancer via telehealth. Participants found the telehealth model safe, convenient and highly satisfactory. Lower levels of technology skills were a barrier to recruitment, and some participants needed help with using the technology. Some adaptations to how the exercise programme was delivered were required. Participants recommended that future versions of the programme would have some element of in-person contact. Cancer survivors should receive all possible supports to enable their participation in telehealth programmes.Background: Telehealth has enabled access to rehabilitation throughout the pandemic. We assessed the feasibility of delivering a multi-disciplinary, multi-component rehabilitation programme (ReStOre@Home) to cancer survivors via telehealth. Methods: This single-arm mixed methods feasibility study recruited participants who had completed curative treatment for oesophago-gastric cancer for a 12-week telehealth rehabilitation programme, involving group resistance training, remotely monitored aerobic training, one-to-one dietetic counselling, one-to-one support calls and group education. The primary outcome was feasibility, measured by recruitment rates, attendance, retention, incidents, acceptability, Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ) and analysis of semi-structured interviews. Results: Characteristics of the twelve participants were: 65.42 ± 7.24 years; 11 male; 10.8 ± 3.9 months post-op; BMI 25.61 ± 4.37; received neoadjuvant chemotherapy 7/12; received adjuvant chemotherapy 4/12; hospital length of stay 16 days (median). Recruitment rate was 32.4%, and retention rate was 75%. Mean attendance was: education 90%; dietetics 90%; support calls 84%; resistance training 78%. Mean TUQ score was 4.69/5. Adaptations to the planned resistance training programme were required. Participants reported that ReStOre@Home enhanced physical and psychological wellbeing, and online delivery was convenient. Some reported a preference for in-person contact but felt that the online group sessions provided adequate peer support. Conclusion: Telehealth delivery of ReStOre@Home was most feasible in individuals with moderate to high levels of digital skills. Low level of digitals skills was a barrier to recruitment and retention. Participants reported high levels of programme adherence and participant satisfaction. Adaptations to future programmes, including introducing elements of in-person contact, are required.

Historical and social construction of the practices of auxiliary nurses and nurse technicians in Primary Care.

to analyze the practices of nursing auxiliaries and technicians in the context of Primary Health Care in a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo. transversal, quantitative study, realized with 104 nursing auxiliaries and 46 nursing technicians acting in the Primary Attention. The data, collected using structured questionnaires, are presented by descriptive statistics, and analyzed based on the essential elements of First Contact and Longitudinality. the professionals were, majority, women, married, with children, low political and collective participation. We identified thirteen activities related to the First Contact: and ten on Longitudinality. the insertion and capillarization of auxiliary and nursing technicians' practices show these professionals as the main ones responsible for the first contact in this context, highlighting their relevance in the longitudinality of care and the work composition of health teams, contributing to the consolidation of the Unified Health System (SUS).

Servage ritual “bread walking”: mythosemantics and cultural context

The article presents unique archival materials providing evidence that everyday magic practices, eschatological narratives and beliefs were common inBelarusduring the Second World War. The scientific commentary on the facts registered by Soviet scholars in folklore­ethnographic expeditions of 1945–1946 confirms that during the war archaic rituals and folk orthodox beliefs were actualized in folk culture. It is proved that the ritual “bread walking” and the distribution of “holy letters” belong to the forms of ritualistic amulets. They occupy a peripheral position in the system of occasional rituals of Belarusians. Their ideological content determines the synthesis of folk religious ideologies with elements of contact, initial and apotropic magic. At the stock level, the amulets are implemented as transmission practices. In addition, the work defines mythosemantics, ritual context and intertextual relations of the “bread walking” ritual.

The evaluation of the impact of anti-stigma training led by "experts by experience" on participants' attitudes towards persons with mental illness.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of anti-stigma training led by people who had previously experienced mental health crises (i.e., "experts by experience") on various aspects of participants' attitudes towards the people with mental illness. The three-hour workshops were attended by 185 people; the training was held in 17 groups, with 3-19 people in each (11 on average). Almost half of the participants (45.4%) were employees of the mental health care system. The participants were asked to fill out a set of questionnaires immediately before and after the training, which evaluated the following aspects of their attitudes: social distance, stigmatizing attributions, beliefs about self-determination/ ability to attain important life goals by people with mental illness, and also beliefs about the social value of people with mental illness. The respondents were asked to complete the same set of questionnaires again online a month and six months after the training. The data were analyzed based on a piecewise latent trajectory model. Out of the 185 people who participated in the workshops, 115 (62.2%) filled out the questionnaires a month after, and 87 (47.0%) six months after the training. The analyses showed an improvement in all four measures of attitudes expressed directly after the training. In three out of the four examined aspects of attitudes (intensity of social distance, stigmatizing attributions and beliefs about self-determination of people with mental illness) the positive impact of the training continued after six months. The results provide preliminary empirical evidence that the structured antistigma intervention under evaluation, using the elements of education and interpersonal contact can be an effective tool for improving social attitudes towards people with mental illness.

Constructive intercultural contact: yes we can. Introduction of a new concept

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of constructive intercultural contact. This concept refers to intercultural contact in which majority as well as minority participants are intercultural effective, i.e. can perceive themselves as comfortable and successful.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on exploration and review of intergroup, contact, acculturation and organization literature.FindingsFive input elements of constructive intercultural contact are distinguished: responsibility, deliberate choice to postpone judgment, acknowledging the relative relevance of cultural differences, perspective taking and respect. What participants have to do to make constructive intercultural contact in organizations not only possible between colleagues, but also in hierarchical relationships is elaborated by reflection on the interrelation between majority/minority and manager/employee positions in constructive intercultural contact.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to diversity management literature by introducing a new concept which, focusing on the interaction level, explains how participants can make intercultural contact into a comfortable and successful experience for both. Other contributions are the differentiation between majority and minority actors and the elaboration of the complexity of intercultural employee/manager contacts.

Influence of temperature on fatigue life or reinforced pavement by whitetopping

The article presents the influence of temperature on the fatigue strength of concrete slabs used for reinforcing susceptible flexible pavement. In Poland, so far, there is no research on thermal interactions on concrete pavement. The article presents an analysis of various climatic conditions occurring in Poland and temperature distribution in concrete pavement. The dependence of daily temperature fluctuations on the temperatures appearing in the concrete slab was demonstrated. An analysis of thermal stresses in concrete slabs depending on their parameters was shown, and then fatigue life was determined. The applied 3DFEM model includes elements of contact, friction, and gravity in order to better approximate the behaviour of the board from temperature change. On this basis, the significant influence of cyclical daily temperature changes on the durability of the concrete pavement was indicated. The presented analyses can be applied to reinforcements of existing flexible pavements.

Pismo Slovencu: vpliv Tomaža Šalamuna na brazilskega pesnika Narlana Matosa

Članek bo predstavil vpliv, ki ga je imel slovenski pesnik Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014, Slovenija) na poezijo brazilskega pesnika srednje generacije Narlana Matosa (1975, Itaquara, Bahia): osvetlil bo kontekst njunega srečanja in Šalamunov prvi vstop v brazilski literarni svet ter orisal prevajalsko in pesniško izmenjavo obeh avtorjev, prvine literarnega stika med dvema poetikama ter medbesedilne interakcije, ki se zrcalijo v poetiki brazilskega pesnika Matosa, zlasti v njegovi tretji zbirki Elegija novemu svetu in druge pesmi (Elegia ao novo mundo e outros poemas, 2012), v kateri se sklicevanje na Šalamuna udejanji zlasti v pesmi Pismo Slovencu. Matosov dialog s Šalamunovo poezijo poteka v nekaj ključnih točkah: v asociativnih preskokih in ludizmu ter v iskanju in posnemanju tipičnih ritmičnih vzorcev Šalamunovega verza in njegove glasbenosti.

Toward an Ecological Framework for Assessing Reservoirs of Vector-Borne Pathogens: Wildlife Reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi across the Southern United States.

Wildlife species are critical for both feeding vectors and serving as reservoirs of zoonotic vector-borne pathogens. Transmission pathways leading to disease in humans or other target taxa might be better understood and managed given a complete understanding of the relative importance of different reservoir species in nature. Using the conceptual framework of “reservoir potential,” which considers elements of both reservoir competence and vector-host contact, we review the wildlife reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi in the southern United States, where many species of triatomine vectors occur and wildlife maintain enzootic cycles that create a risk of spillover to humans, domestic dogs, and captive nonhuman primates that may develop Chagas disease. We reviewed 77 published reports of T. cruzi infection in at least 26 wildlife species across 15 southern states. Among the most well-studied and highly infected reservoirs are raccoon (Procyon lotor), woodrat (Neotoma spp.), and opossum (Didelphis virginiana), with aggregate overall infection prevalences of 36.4, 34.7, and 22.9%, respectively. Just over 60% of studies utilized methods from which an infectiousness index could be generated and show that raccoons and striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) are among the most infectious wildlife hosts. Triatomine-host contact has sparsely been quantified in the southern United States, but 18 of the 24 host species previously identified to have been fed upon by triatomines are wildlife. Future studies to parameterize the reservoir potential model, especially to quantify wildlife infectiousness, vector-host contact, and the epidemiological importance of parasite strains maintained by wildlife, could open new doors for managing enzootic cycles and reducing T. cruzi spillover risk.

“Mostra-me a tua glória”. Linguagem sagrada e retórica política em Ex 33,18-23

&lt;p&gt;O texto da Bíblia Hebraica como instrumento de projeção retórica de conflitos político-teológicos presentes no seu horizonte de produção. Objetiva-se analisar retoricamente Ex 33,18-23, aplicando-se à pericope procedimentos hermenêuticos próprios da abordagem histórico-social e da análise retórica, com a intenção de identificar possíveis relações entre a narrativa e o horizonte histórico-social de sua produção. Como etapas metodológicas, traduziu-se o texto hebraico de Ex 33,18-23, comparando-o com versões no vernáculo, analisou-se retoricamente cada seção da perícope e buscou-se identificar os elementos de contato entre a narrativa e o mundo histórico-social que a produziu e que lhe serve de contexto semântico. Concluiu-se tratar-se de texto crítico e sarcástico às prerrogativas sacerdotais que marcaram a transformação político-social de Judá após o cativeiro babilônico. A estratégia retórica da narrativa consiste em, na forma de um pedido dirigido à divindade, isolar o postulado sacerdotal no v. 18, confrontando-o nos v. 19-23 por meio de três negações categóricas por parte de Yahweh.&lt;/p&gt;

Artificial Landmark based Pose-Graph SLAM for AGVs in Factory Environments

In this paper, we propose and examine the feasibility of the robot-assisted behavioral intervention system so as to strengthen positive response of the children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for learning social skills. Based on well-known behavioral treatment protocols, the robot offers therapeutic training elements of eye contact and emotion reading respectively in child-robot interaction, and it subsequently accomplishes pre-allocated meaningful acts by estimating the level of children`s reactivity from reliable recognition modules, as a coping strategy. Furthermore, for the purpose of labor saving and attracting children`s interest, we implemented the robotic stimulation configuration with semi-autonomous actions capable of inducing intimacy and tension to children in instructional trials. From these configurations, by evaluating the ability of recognizing human activity as well as by showing improved reactivity for social training, we verified that the proposed system has some positive effects on social development, targeted for preschoolers who have a high functioning level.

Improving service quality through managing customer contact: case of airlines

Service products are consumed by customers as soon as they are produced and delivered. In the service operations, customer contact is an essential part of the service delivery process. Often, the mode and degree of customer contact affects the service quality, and thus customer contact could be an important determinant of service quality. Customer contact is an important element of service process design and management for such industries as airline, hotel, restaurant, etc. In customer contact, there are two aspects: quantity and quality of contact. In this paper, we focused on the quantity aspect of customer contact and investigated its impact on service quality. This paper examines the relationships between the degree of customer contact, i.e., a quantitative measure, and the service quality, and attempts: 1) to assess the impacts of customer contact on the service quality; 2) to identify important elements of customer contact that has significant impacts on the service quality. Data were collected from the customers who use airlines. Survey questionnaire was developed based on the previous research in this field, and used for data collection.

Origen in Augustine: A Paradoxical Reception

Abstract I argue that, paradoxically, Augustine embraced much of Origen’s system, especially in his anti-Manichaean polemic, exactly when he was convinced that he did not know his thought. The most remarkable point in his initial adherence to Origen’s ideas regards the apokatastasis doctrine, which he later condemned as heretical and felt the need to recant in his Retractationes (Second Thoughts). I point out many other elements of contact concerning philosophical arguments and Biblical exegesis, which the early Augustine drew from Origen and have escaped scholars who have investigated the Origen-Augustine relationship. With this I shall hopefully add an important piece to the study of Origen’s influence on Western Patristics. I thus explain how Augustine used Origen’s thought in defense of Christian orthodoxy against the Manichaean “heresy,” whereas, after he was informed about Origen’s thought by Horosius and Jerome, he began to find it heretical and condemned it, especially in De civitate Dei (The City of God) and De haeresibus (On Heresies), where he shows that he was misinformed about it. A remarkable role in this transformation was played by Augustine’s ­anti-Pelagian polemic: several of his expressions of blame directed against Origen’s ideas are found in his anti-Pelagian works. Another notable factor was Augustine’s ignorance of the important semantic distinction between αἰώνιος and ἀΐδιος, which got lost in the translation of both with aeternus. Moreover, I endeavor to clarify the ways and sources through which Augustine came to know Origen’s true thought when he did adhere to it, probably without being aware that it was Origen’s.

Il Rilievo Della Visione Movimento, Profondità, Cinema Ne Le Monde Sensible et Le Monde De L’Expression (Italian)

The Depth of Vision: Movement, Depth, and Cinema in The Sensible World and the World of Expression Is it possible to establish a connection between The Sensible World and the World of Expression and the fi nal thought of Merleau-Ponty? In what manner would a germinal formulation of ontological refl ection be present in the 1953 course? And what are the elements of contact and convergence that allow us to tracing out such a link? I intend to put forward this hypothesis from a consideration of the theme of vision in its relation to movement, sketching the points in which this link emerges and shows itself, both in a latent and a manifest way. I would like to show, in the development of this course, on the one hand, how is defi ned in its ontological value and comes to express the very relation which links the perceiving body and the perceived world, and, on the other hand, how, as the theme of optical experience happens to bring to light the relation between perception and expression in order to unveil its chiasmatic character. If the research conducted by Merleau-Ponty in the Phenomenology of Perception had delimited the relation of inherence and co-implication between the perceiving and the perceived, the course notes of Sensible World and the World of Expression come to designate a double movement between sense and the sensible, or, a reciprocal or bi-directional of expression and encroachment one another, in which we can catch a glimpse of a prefi guration of the chiasmatic and reversible relation which links the seer and the visible in the Merleau-Ponty's ontology of the flesh. There is a web which links the 1953 course with the refl ection of the fi nal Merleau-Ponty, particularly with Eye and Mind. I have again gone through the three modes, or rather the three movements of vision which emerge in a germinal state in the course notes. - The theme of vision in depth as the discovery of an active-passive relation between the seer and the visible, linked to the optical dimension as the opening to the link between vision and desire. - The notion of the spiritual eye that Merleau-Ponty takes from Paul Schilder, as the key concept for the conception of vision in Eye and Mind, which in addition represents a fundamental link between optical experience and the libidinal conception of one's own body, which is profoundly in sync with the role of scopic impulse in Lacan. - The theme of in fi lm as the culminating point of these references to vision, to the depth, to the being in relief or depth perception, which will emerge in some distant years, with painting, in Eye and Mind and in the course on Cartesian Ontology and Ontology Today.

トリポード形等速ジョイントのローラ挙動とスラスト力に関する研究(&lt;特集&gt;D&amp;D2009)

A tripod constant velocity joint is used in the driveshaft of front wheel drive vehicles. Thrust force generated by this joint causes lateral vibration in these vehicles. To determine mechanisms inducing the thrust force, a detailed model is constructed based on a multibody dynamics approach. Though the joint is equipped with three rollers and grooves, this model consists of principal parts concerned with one roller and groove in order to precisely analyze frictional phenomena occurring between the roller and the groove. These principal parts are defined as rigid bodies and are connected by force elements of contact and friction. The appropriateness of this model is verified by comparing computational and experimental results and it is clarified that the principal factors inducing the thrust force are three kinds of sliding friction force at a contact point between the roller and the groove. This paper also describes the reason that the third rotating order component of the thrust force is induced by one roller and groove.

Study on Roller Behavior and Thrust Force of Tripod Constant Velocity Joint

Tripod constant velocity joints are used in the driveshaft of front wheel drive vehicles. Thrust force generated by this joint causes lateral vibration in these vehicles. To determine the mechanisms inducing the thrust force, a detailed model is constructed based on a multibody dynamics approach. Although the joint is equipped with three rollers and grooves, this model consists of the principal parts for one roller and groove in order to precisely analyze frictional phenomena occurring between the roller and the groove. These principal parts are defined as rigid bodies and are connected by force elements of contact and friction. The appropriateness of this model is verified by comparing computational and experimental results and it is clarified that the principal factors inducing the thrust force are three kinds of sliding friction force at the point of contact between the roller and the groove. This paper also describes the reason why the third rotating order component of the thrust force is induced by one roller and groove.