Human Flaws Research Articles

The Impact of Violence on Culture in Edward Bond’s Early Morning

Edward Bond's play, Early Morning, serves as a powerful exploration of violence in society by transcending temporal and cultural boundaries. Rooted in the Victorian era, Bond employs historical characters and anachronistic elements to create a narrative that critiques corruption and brutality through a reflection on contemporary societal challenges. The mixture of realism and stylistic experimentation in the play reveals a timeless commentary on morality, corruption, and societal decay. Bond's masterful blending of historical context with timeless themes invites readers and audiences to draw parallels between the Victorian world presented and the complexities of modern societies. It underscores the role of literature in exposing the darker facets of humanity and serves as a cautionary tale about the enduring nature of human flaws. The universality of violence depicted in the play prompts critical reflections on the human condition. Early Morning investigates the origins of human savagery and gives a striking representation of the aftermath of inappropriate power elements. This article investigates the connection between violence and power as depicted in Bond's play by working inside the system of Michel Foucault's arguments on power and its appearances.

INFLUENCE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON TEENAGERS' CONTENTMENT: INVESTIGATING THE MEDIATING INFLUENCE OF SELF-ESTEEM

The study investigates relationship among the self-esteem, emotional intelligence (EI) and life satisfaction among adolescents within the framework of positive psychology. Historically, research has often focused on human flaws, neglecting the strengths and positive aspects of psychology. Adolescence is a critical developmental stage marked by profound changes, making it crucial to understand how factors of the study variables during this period. Study sample n=157 from Government schools and colleges in Faisalabad city participated in the study. For measuring the study variables, the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Adolescents Short Form, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale used for measuring the study variables, respectively. Statistical analyses revealed a noteworthy positive relationship between the study variables among adolescents. Conversely, self-esteem did not mediate this relationship. These findings contribute to understanding the complex dynamics between emotional intelligence, self-esteem and life satisfaction in adolescents, emphasizing the importance of emotional intelligence for promoting well-being during adolescence. The study suggests implications for future research, including the need for larger and more varied illustrations, longitudinal studies to discover causal relationships and the expansion of interventions to improve emotional intelligence in adolescents for improved well-being. This research contributes to the growing body of existing researches on positive psychology and adolescent development, highlighting the significance of emotional intelligence in fostering life satisfaction.

Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century cE).

Phrenitis is ubiquitous in ancient medicine and philosophy. Galen mentions the disease innumerable times, Patristic authors take it as a favourite allegory of human flaws, and no ancient doctor fails to diagnose it and attempt its cure. Yet the nature of this once famous disease has not been properly understood by scholars. My book provides the first full history of phrenitis. In doing so, it surveys ancient ideas about the interactions between body and soul, both in health and in disease. It also addresses ancient ideas about bodily health, mental soundness and moral 'goodness', and their heritage in contemporary psychiatry, offering a chance to reflect critically on contemporary ideas about what it means to be 'insane'.

Trust and reliance on AI — An experimental study on the extent and costs of overreliance on AI

Decision-making is undergoing rapid changes due to the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), as AI recommender systems can help mitigate human flaws and increase decision accuracy and efficiency. However, AI can also commit errors or suffer from algorithmic bias. Hence, blind trust in technologies carries risks, as users may follow detrimental advice resulting in undesired consequences. Building upon research on algorithm appreciation and trust in AI, the current study investigates whether users who receive AI advice in an uncertain situation overrely on this advice — to their own detriment and that of other parties. In a domain-independent, incentivized, and interactive behavioral experiment, we find that the mere knowledge of advice being generated by an AI causes people to overrely on it, that is, to follow AI advice even when it contradicts available contextual information as well as their own assessment. Frequently, this overreliance leads not only to inefficient outcomes for the advisee, but also to undesired effects regarding third parties. The results call into question how AI is being used in assisted decision making, emphasizing the importance of AI literacy and effective trust calibration for productive deployment of such systems.

Reshaping Abraham’s Image in Early Qing China: A Comparative Study of Catholic and Jewish Interpretations

In the early Qing dynasty, the Jesuit missionary Louis de Poirot’s (He Qingtai 賀清泰, 1735–1814) Chinese rendition of the Bible, Guxin Shengjing (The Ancient and New Testament) (古新聖經), reshaped the figure of Abraham. Contrary to the depiction by Chinese Jews of the era, de Poirot portrayed Abraham as a sage, resonating with the traditional Chinese concept of the “five cardinal relationships” (rulers to subjects, fathers to sons, husbands to wives, among siblings, and between friends), and an exemplar of virtue and faith, devoid of human flaws. Key differences emerged in translating Abraham’s name, religious stature, and national identity, influenced by distinct belief systems, attitudes towards Confucian culture, and political dynamics. Analyzing these Catholic and Jewish perspectives on Abraham enhances our understanding of the Bible’s contextualization and informs contemporary religious localization.

ПОЕТИЧНИЙ ПРОСТІР ТВОРУ ДІОГЕНА ЛАЕРЦІЯ «ЖИТТЯ ТА ДУМКИ СЛАВНОЗВІСНИХ ФІЛОСОФІВ»

The article examines the poetic component in the discourse of the work of Diogenes Laertius "Life and Thoughts of Famous Philosophers" in the aspect of ancient biography and doxography and in correlation with the cultural and historical realities of ancient Greek panegyrics and invective. The stylistic features of epigrammatic poetry about philosophers are characterized: apotheosis, heroization and glorification or, on the contrary, satire, invective and parody. Panegyristics is embodied in the form of deification, ascension to heaven to the Olympians, invective - in ridiculing human flaws and the shortcomings of philosophers and discrediting their teachings. In the studied epigrams, philosophers, along with prominent historical figures and winners of all-Greek competitions, became objects of public worship for the first time. The poetic works of the philosophers themselves (Solon, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles, Epicharmus, Plato, Arkesilaus, Cratetus, Bion) are also analyzed. , quotations by various philosophers of ancient Greek poetry, their paraphrases and parodies of famous poets. The poetic discourse is described, presented both in the diachrony of the authors involved by Diogenes, starting from Homer and ending with late Hellenistic epigrammatists (more than 250 poems by 32 well-known and little-known authors), and in their genre diversity (epic, lyric, elegy, tragedy, comedy, canticles, oracles , epigram, epitaph, dialogue-diatribe). The metric schemes of poetic works, both quoted by Diogenes and the author's original poetry (dactylic hexameter, pentameter, logaeds, in particular, Archebulian measure, meliamb, prokeleusmatic, holiamb) are indicated; the source base of poetic works used by Diogenes is indicated, from ancient and Byzantine collections (Palatine Anthology, Planudеa Anthology) to scholarly editions of ancient Greek poetry. The rhetorical devices of the panegyric and much more often mocking epigrams of Diogenes himself, of which there are 52 works, are considered.

Conventional and Robot-Assisted Microvascular Anastomosis: Systematic Review

Abstract Background The complexity of plastic microsurgery yields many risks. Robot assistance has been sought to maximize outcome and minimize complications. Reportedly, it offers increased dexterity and flexibility with attenuated human flaws, such as tremors and fatigue. This systematic review will further investigate that claim. Methods A systematic search was conducted for operative outcomes and operator experience of reconstructive plastic microsurgery compared between conventional and robot-assisted procedures. Data were summarized then meta-analyzed or qualitatively assessed and critically appraised to determine the difference robot assistance offers. Results This review comprises four studies, mainly investigating robot-assisted microvascular anastomosis. Meta-analysis of anastomosis time reveals that robot assistance takes more time than conventional without offering substantial health-related improvements. However, it offers greater comfort, consistency, and flexibility for operators. Conclusion Robot assistance lengthens operative times because of its relative lack of implementation and subsequent lack of experienced operators. Times were quick to be improved as repeated procedures were performed and technical complications can be resolved by more experience with robotic equipment. Furthermore, it generally offers better operator experience. Despite this, robot assistance does not offer a better health outcome compared with conventional anastomosis, although its benefits may lie in aesthetic outcomes instead. Exploration of that aspect as well as nonsummarizable health outcomes are the two primary limitations of this review that warrants further investigation into the subject.

Franciscans in the Works of Nobel Laureate Ivo Andrić

Aim: Ivo Andrić (1892–1975) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. He was born and lived in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and forged particularly deep connections with the Franciscans, addressed by the people of Bosnia as “uncles”. This article presents all mentions of Franciscans in Andrić’s publications and his characterization of them.Methods: We studied all available literary works of Ivo Andrić.Results: Andrić was born in small town of Travnik in today’s Bosnia-Herzegovina, a Catholic surrounding in which Franciscan monks provided the religious needs of the parish. Therefore, Andrić developed friendships with Franciscans and cherished it all until his life. His first close Franciscan friend, Fra Alojzije Perčinlić, was the Pastor of Ovčarevo; the last Franciscan friend he made was Fra Ljubo Hrgić, a writer from Zenica. Andrić regularly referred to the Franciscans in his works, from his first book – Ex ponto – published in 1918, to his Omer Pasha Latas, a novel published posthumously in 1976. He used fifteen Franciscan works and monastic annals as major sources for his doctoral dissertation entitled The Development of Spiritual Life in Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule, which he defended in 1924 at the University of Graz. The dissertation described how the Franciscans lived, the role they played in people’s life, and the work they did in Bosnia and Herzegovina over a period of six hundred years. In gb his dissertation he named more than thirty Franciscans, and a total of 44 in his works.Conclusion: Andrić was well acquainted with the lives, virtues, accomplishments, and human flaws of the Bosnian Franciscans. Few writers presented the Franciscans as favorably as Ivo Andrić did in his doctoral dissertation and other works. Human flaws that he found in “uncles” were mere “a drop in the ocean” of his favorable accounts about the order.

Performing the Insect and Its Mysterious Metamorphosis

Insect metamorphosis fascinated Greek philosophers, bewildered Christian theologians, affirmed the beliefs of Chinese moralists, and continues to mystify science. Yet dramas representing human-animal transformations rarely involve insects. When they do appear, they usually serve as metaphors satirizing human flaws, but are also demeaning to the insect in their simplistic representation. In some 21st-century performances, however, that approach is evolving to better appreciate the multifarious intricacies of insect life.

The portrait of an imperfect person in contemporary Japanese and the means of conveying it in Russian: a study of the collocations with the word 残念 <i>zannen</i>

This article focuses on the word 残念 zannen and its transformed meaning in contemporary Japanese. Initially having the semantics of regret and used in reaction to an undesired outcome, 残念 zannen has come to be used in describing human flaws. The paper analyses the definitions of 残念 zannen in Japanese dictionaries and highlights the key semantic components that are not revealed in its Russian equivalents “вызывающий сожаление” (“regrettable”) and “досадный” (“disappointing”). The paper identifies the features that determine the dividing line between 残念 zannen and a closely related notion ダメ dame with regard to the description of a person. 残念 zannen is subsequently studied in the Japanese Internet discourse. The paper analyzes its semantics in collocations with the words 人 hito (person), 美人 bijin (beauty) and イケメン ikemen (handsome man), reveals the features linked to 残念 zannen, and provides their possible translations into Russian. The semantic components identified in the Japanese dictionary definitions and in discourse analysis are then used to translate the word 残念 zannen in contexts. Where possible, the translation of the word combination 残念 zannen-na hito into Russian should reflect the semantics of disappointment, imperfection, and the possibility for improvement, whereas the translated collocations 残念な美人 zannen-na bijin and 残念なイケメン zannen-na ikemen should convey the semantics of the conflict between the good looks and a flawed personality. The literal interpretation of 残念 zannen is inappropriate from both stylistic and semantic points of view, which can be compensated by translation transformations, such as concretization and loss-of-meaning compensation. The article is intended for Japanologists, cultural linguists, and translators, as well as Japanese language instructors and students.

Monitor the Strength Status of Buildings Using Hybrid Machine Learning Technique

Standard inspections of buildings are not always possible because of human flaws in prediction. Hence, we need more stable, scalable, and efficient automated processes. Structure Health Monitoring (SHM) is one of the automation systems for forecasting potential losses in building structures. This article suggested how to monitor the strength status of buildings by using Hybrid Machine Learning Technique (HMLT). HMLT contains two-hybrid procedures. One for identifying the most significant features in Dataset using Hybrid Feature Selection Method (HFSM). HFSM uses the combined features of Mutual information (MI) and Rough Set Theory (RST) for feature selection. Another method is optimized classifiers such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are used for the classification and predicting the accuracy i.e. predicting the strength status of buildings. Now the proposed method is applied on Earthquake Damage Dataset (Gorkha Earthquake in April 2015). Training and 10- fold cross-validation procedure pragmatic to features. Then the performance of proposed method has been evaluated using the F1-score and accuracy metrics and get 91% and 92% respectively. Finally, the result analysis demonstrates the importance of the proposed approach in predicting the status of the building strength.

Lirica populară de dragoste din aria Sălaj Codru

The Romanian folk lyric gives the interested reader a complex, interesting and all‑encompassing image of the issue of love, which, through richness, variety and artistic sophistication, fully confirms the native endowment of the anonymous creators and reveals the virtues, delicacy and soulful beauty specific to the Romanian peasant. In the present study, the author limits himself to the presentation of the specific faces of the pair of lovers, two partners of dreams, joy, happiness and often sufferings caused by love. The reference quotes come only from collections originating from Sălaj county and Codrului County, a territory that is currently divided between Maramureş, Satu Mare and Sălaj counties. Like the biblical bride and groom in the famous Song of Songs, our lovers mutually discover their beautiful and pleasant faces, which are attracted by uncontrollable mysterious forces. The situation of falling in love appears in images that reproduce particularly strong organic states, sometimes even the sensation of illness and the fear of death are present. He, mândrul, badea, drăguçul feels that love burns him and can bring him death. She, drăguça, mândra, nana, lelea îndrăgostită suffers from love’s disease as well. With all the waves of suffering, love brings young lovers beautiful moments of love. She gives birth to the song: Don’t be surprised that I cry, / Because I’m young and I love. / Bade, if you didn’t love me, / I would never cry. Cunning, hypocrisy and other human flaws are categorically rejected and the two can no longer meet. Only mutual physical attraction can be the foundation of a valid erotic relationship. The beloved, the proud, is metaphorically identified with a flower on earth and with the moon in the sky, and badea, the proud, seen as a beautiful fir tree and bright like the sun. Instead of conclusions, as is always the case, the author comments on the lyrical text Aşé‑i prúda sometimes, a comment that he reproduces in full and proposes to the reader to comment on a lyrical poem dedicated to the proud, Că, miucăță, faço lui, a text that is reproduced in entirety.

A hybrid optimization algorithm using BiLSTM structure for sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis can assist consumers in providing clear and objective sentiment recommendations based on large amounts of data, and it is helpful in overcoming unclear human flaws in subjective assessments. Existing sentiment analysis methods, on the other hand, must be enhanced in terms of robustness and accuracy. To improve marketing strategies based on product reviews, a reliable mechanism for forecasting sentiment polarity should be implemented. This paper proposes a new approach for sentiment analysis called Taylor–Harris Hawks Optimization driven long short-term memory (THHO- BiLSTM). By incorporating Taylor series in HHO, Taylor–HHO is formed, which aids in improving the BiLSTM classifier's performance by picking optimal weights in the hidden layers. The proposed method was evaluated using Amazon product reviews and reviews from the Taboada corpus benchmark datasets, yielding findings with 96.93% and 93% accuracy, respectively. When compared to existing approaches, the suggested model exceeds them in terms of accuracy. The proposed approach helps manufacturers improve their products based on user feedback.

An Analysis of Archetypes in Batangas Religious Legends

The study analysed samples of folk narratives, specifically three Batangas religious legends, from the lens of Archetypal criticism. In a collective sense, analysing the archetypes of religious legends revealed Batangueños’ spirituality, religiosity, and traits as a people. The theme of faith as an archetypal subject relates to the Batangueños’ deep trust in God amidst difficult circumstances. The caregiver female character archetype recurs in the legends, while the ruler, everyman, rebel, and sage are the male archetypes revealed by the study . The characters’ negative traits as embodied in the shadow archetypes reflect that, true to their nature as human beings, Batangueños have human flaws. The water that represents the archetypal image symbolises the Batangueños’ life cycle of birth-death-resurrection, purification and redemption, fertility, and growth. As gleaned from the two legends, the situation archetype may be related to the Batangueños’ ownership of patron saints as part of their religiosity. Since the study focused on the non-etiological classification of legends, future researchers may study other legends that may reflect the peculiar culture of their localities. Keywords: Archetypal criticism; folk narratives; Batangue ñ o religious legends, non-etiological, shadow archetypes

Sakharam Binder: A Narrative of Intrigues and Idiosyncrasies Eventuating in Devastation

Vijay Tendulkar has been one of the biggest names of Marathi theatre. His drama has been the representation of stark realities and human misfortunes arising out of the human flaws. He gave theatre a completely new perspective. Most of his plays have foregrounded issues which were previously withheld from any stage representation. His focus has chiefly been on representing the plight of women of Indian society at the hands of the male chauvinists. Moreover, the males in his works have usually been the domineering set who have commodified or objectified women in some way or the other, but this play Sakharam Binder, has a very distinctive theme. This play runs on two explicit themes of idiosyncrasy and intriguing. This is one of those plays where it becomes substantially important to understand the changing human relationships eventually ensuing in the climax. This paper therefore throws much light on the characters and their idiosyncrasies and intrigues which make it contemplative for the readers and the audience to judge who is to be blamed more.

Social Realism in Meena Kandasamy’s Novel The Gypsy Goddess

Social realism, as derived from the Marxist ideology, is something which adheres to reality, avoids romantic embellishments, and creates truthful portraits of life that expose human flaws. In it, we find characters with genuine jobs and problems. It records the life of an average farmer or labourer. The novel the Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy is an indictment of Communism and atrocities inflicted upon untouchable coolies and paddy workers. Mena Kandasamy presents the fictionalized version of the tragedy, portrayed on the documents taken from history and interviews of people who faced that actual incident. The landlords murder a communist leader. After that, the Dalit labourers go on strike, Dalit workers are forced to work back on farms, and those who refuse are assaulted and punished by the police. The democratic demand for justice by the untouchables farmers of Kilenmani, Tamil Nadu, are faced with a terrible series of actions which prove ‘might is right’, and the poor, helpless farmers are only left to suffer and die due to hostile conditions. The novel is a fine narrative of their plight and the traumatic conditions caused by the violence inflicted upon them. In brief, it is a fictionalized work on social realism. The present paper is a brief study of events that occur in the lives of Dalit, unprivileged paddy workers and their exploitation by so-called Upper Caste or Landlords and their realistic representation.

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Jonathan Swift’s Word-Book: A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand. Ed. A. C. Elias Jr., John Irwin Fischer, and Panthia Reid.

<i>Jonathan Swift’s Word-Book: A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand</i>. Ed. A. C. Elias Jr., John Irwin Fischer, and Panthia Reid.

PROVOKE: HOW TO LEAD WITH PURPOSE

AbstractThe authors contend that “the best leaders have the conviction to act. To just do something.” As they elaborate, “Action creates potential energy. Action allows you to position yourself to see the unfolding future sooner and more clearly than others. Action gives you the power to identify important trends and know if the key question is ‘if’ they will materialize or ‘when’ they will materialize to determine the right response.” Their work with CEOs led to a new book, Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future By Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws, in which they “identify five moves to enable leaders to recognize patterns and broaden their peripheral vision to move forward with not just progress, but also purpose.” Those moves are Envision, Position, Drive, Adapt, and Activate. They describe three “Provocateurs,” who have used these principles at a high level: Deborah Bial, of the Posse Foundation, Ryan Gravel, creator of the BeltLine in Atlanta, and Valerie Irick Rainford, of Elloree Talent Strategies. The latter and Bial are examples of using the Activate principle, and Gravel used the principle of Envision. The authors conclude that “we genuinely believe that we will all live in a better world if you just go out and do something!”

Hacking Humans? Social Engineering and the Construction of the “Deficient User” in Cybersecurity Discourses

Today, social engineering techniques are the most common way of committing cybercrimes through the intrusion and infection of computer systems. Cybersecurity experts use the term “social engineering” to highlight the “human factor” in digitized systems, as social engineering attacks aim at manipulating people to reveal sensitive information. In this paper, we explore how discursive framings of individual versus collective security by cybersecurity experts redefine roles and responsibilities at the digitalized workplace. We will first show how the rhetorical figure of the deficient user is constructed vis-à-vis notions of (in)security in social engineering discourses. Second, we will investigate the normative tensions that these practices create. To do so, we link work in science and technology studies on the politics of deficit construction to recent work in critical security studies on securitization and resilience. Empirically, our analysis builds on a multi-sited conference ethnography during three cybersecurity conferences as well as an extensive document analysis. Our findings suggest a redistribution of institutional responsibility to the individual user through three distinct social engineering story lines—“the oblivious employee,” “speaking code and social,” and “fixing human flaws.” Finally, we propose to open up the discourse on social engineering and its inscribed politics of deficit construction and securitization and advocate for companies and policy makers to establish and foster a culture of collective cyber in/security and corporate responsibility.