Inborn Qualities Research Articles

Patterns Identification of Finger Outer Knuckles by Utilizing Local Directional Number

Finger Outer Knuckle (FOK) is a distinctive biometric that has grown in popularity recently. This results from its inborn qualities such as stability, protection, and specific anatomical patterns. Applications for the identification of FOK patterns include forensic investigations, access control systems, and personal identity. In this study, we suggest a method for identifying FOK patterns using Local Directional Number (LDN) codes produced from gradient-based compass masks. For the FOK pattern matching, the suggested method uses two asymmetric masks—Kirsch and Gaussian derivative—to compute the edge response and extract LDN codes. To calculate edge response on the pattern, an asymmetric compass mask made from the Gaussian derivative mask is created by rotating the Kirsch mask by 45 degrees to provide edge response in eight distinct directions. The edge response of each mask and the combination of dominating vector numbers are examined during the LDN code-generating process. A distance metric can be used to compare the LDN code's condensed representation of the FOK pattern to the original for matching purposes. On the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Finger Knuckle (IITDFK) database, the efficiency of the suggested procedure is assessed. The data show that the suggested strategy is effective, with an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 10.78%. This value performs better than other EER values when compared to different approaches.

The Inborn Qualities of Human Beings in the Holy Qur’an: A Pragmatic Objective Study (The Trait of Panic as a Model)

The Inborn Qualities of Human Beings in the Holy Qur’an: A Pragmatic Objective Study (The Trait of Panic as a Model)

Guo Xiang’s account of ideal personhood: Self-fulfillment without the admiration of sages

ABSTRACT Guo Xiang’s philosophy of life, presented in the Commentary on the Zhuangzi, is sometimes characterized as advocating that people should follow their inborn qualities and be content with their given social positions. It is thus criticized as implying a form of passivism and conformism. This paper analyzes Guo’s account of ideal personhood and argues that although Guo does not think that everyone should become a sage or mystic, he allows everyone engage in self-cultivation. This is because one is advised to attain self-fulfillment through following one’s spontaneous tendency (xing 性), which is not equal to inborn qualities and does not preclude learning. Furthermore, since only the existence of sage ruler can ensure that people attain self-fulfillment completely, in reality people are not required to conform to the status quo.

Exploring LGBT resilience and moving beyond a deficit-model: findings from a qualitative study in England

ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to critique and extend psychological approaches to resilience by examining retrospective accounts of LGBT people in England who had directly experienced or witnessed events that were salient as significantly negative or traumatic. Pre-screening telephone interviews identified ten individuals who matched inclusion criteria (mean age: 39 years; range 26–62 years) as part of a larger study. Interviews were semi-structured and informed by a literature review undertaken at the start of the study. We identified three themes of that extend the resilience literature for LGBTQ+ people: (1) identifying and foregrounding inherent personal traits – how non-contextual inborn qualities or attributes needed external effort to be recognised and operationalised; (2) describing asymmetric sources of social support and acceptance – the importance of positive environment is unequally available to LGBT people compared to heterosexuals, and uneven within the LGBT group; and (3) blurring distinctions between resilience and coping – experiential approaches to moving beyond distress. We suggest that narratives of resilience in the accounts of LGBT people can inform the development of resilience promotion models for minoritized individuals and support movement away from deficit-focused approaches to health policy.

A study on challenges faced by entrepreneurs in the 21st century

An entrepreneur is a person who plays a key role in any economic growth of a country. Mostly an entrepreneur can be regarded as a person who has the initiative, skill and motivation to set up a business or an enterprise of his own and who always looks for high achievement. He acts as promoter of social change and come up with an idea to produce goods and services. He looks for opportunities, identifies them and grabs them mainly for economic improvements. His motive is to earn profit through the production or distribution of socially beneficial goods or services. He is enriched with the inborn qualities of adventurism,willingness to face risks, innovative urge and creativity and is eager to make dynamic changes in the production process, introduce innovations and to find out new uses for raw materials. But now there are so many challenges faced by new entrepreneurs i.e., lack of sustained motivation, lack of patience in solving problems, Inability to dream and use subconscious etc. The main objectives of the study are to identify the challenges faced by the new entrepreneurs and to analyze the measures to overcome them.

Исследование свойств шкурок лисопесцового гибрида как перспективной продукции звероводческих хозяйств

Consumer interest and demand for new objects of fur farming products increases, among which a special place is occupied by various hybrids. When hybridization is carried out on an industrial scale, you can get amazingly beautiful, unique animals, such as fox-and-polar fox hybrids. At present white, blue and veil Arctic foxes are crossed with red, silver-black and other foxes. Depending on the selection of pairs and their inherited inborn qualities, offspring are obtained with skins of a wide range of colors, including original colors, which are several times more expensive than the original forms and are in high demand on the world fur market. The results of the study on commercial properties of fox-and-polar fox hybrid skins of the color types Sapphire Frost, Sapphire Gold Fox, Golden Island Shadow, Blue Frost Brown Type, sold at the Finnish fur auction Saga Furs are given in the article. The analysis of indicators of hair length of various categories, skin thickness, color and weight of fox-fox hybrid skins of various color types, depending on topographic areas: side, ridge and rump, is presented.

Statistical analysis of spinal cord injury severity detection on high dimensional MRI data

Staggered Segmenting on the programmed spinal rope form is a vital advance for evaluating spinal line decay in different infections. Outlining dark issue (GM) and white issue (WM) is additionally helpful for measuring GM decay or for extricating multiparametric MRI measurements into WMs tracts. Spinal line division in clinical research isn't as created as cerebrum division, anyway with the considerable change of MR groupings adjusted to spinal line MR examinations, the field of spinal rope MR division has progressed extraordinarily inside the most recent decade. Division strategies with variable exactness and level of multifaceted nature have been produced. In this paper, we talked about a portion of the current strategies for line and WM/GM division, including power based, surface-based, and picture based and staggered based techniques. We likewise give suggestions to approving spinal rope division systems, as it is essential to comprehend the inborn qualities of the strategies and to assess their execution and constraints. In conclusion, we represent a few applications in the solid and neurotic spinal string. In this task, an Automatic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is identified utilizing a staggered division technique.

СТИЛЕВЫЕ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ АКТИВНОСТИ В ОБЩЕНИИ СПОРТСМЕНОВ КОМАНДНЫХ И ИНДИВИДУАЛЬНЫХ ВИДОВ СПОРТА

Aim. The aim of this article is to determine style characteristics of communication activity in athletes of team and individual sports. Materials and methods. The study involved 119 people: 58 representatives of team sports (football, hockey, basketball, volleyball, handball) and 61 representatives of individual sports (athletics, artistic gymnastics, biathlon). The average age of participants is 18.7 years. For the diagnostics of communication activity in athletes we used Krupnov test. Multilevel communicative properties of the athlete’s individuality were studied with the help of Rusalov questionnaire on formal and dynamic individual properties (psychodynamic level) and Cattell’s 16 personality factor test. Results. We established that in the athletes involved in team sports parameters of communication activity are connected only with the conditions of communication. Such athletes demonstrate the correlation of dynamic, cognitive, and reflexively evaluative components of communication activity with the conditions of communication as a result of team activity. Representatives of individual sports show expressive speech characteristics of communication and treatment, i.e. those characteristics, which reflect communicative and interactive parts of communication. In the athletes involved in team sports we established the following style characteristics of social communication: “High energy level, courage”, “Control of activity and emotions”, “Restraint in communication”, though in the athletes involved in individual sports we revealed “Expansiveness, courage”, “Dominance”, “Flexibility”. Style characteristics are determined by psychodynamic and individual properties of athletes. Conclusion. Style characteristics of social communication in the athletes of different specializations depend on both inborn qualities of athletes and their sport activity (communication between athletes and a coach).

Eugenics, medicine and psychiatry in Peru.

Eugenics was defined by Galton as 'the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race'. In Peru, eugenics was related to social medicine and mental hygiene, in accordance with the neo-Lamarckian orientation, that predominated in Latin America. Peruvian eugenists assumed the mission of fighting hereditary and infectious diseases, malnutrition, alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution, criminality and everything that threatened the future of the 'Peruvian race'. There were some enthusiastic advocates of 'hard' eugenic measures, such as forced sterilization and eugenic abortion, but these were never officially implemented in Peru (except for the compulsory sterilization campaign during the 1995-2000 period). Eugenics dominated scientific discourse during the first half of the twentieth century, but eugenic discourse did not disappear completely until the 1970s.

A Short History of the Notion of Neurodegenerative Disease

The notion of heredity of degenerative constitutions of human beings contributed in the nineteenth century to the fear for deterioration of the human race and in the twentieth century to attempts by several Western Countries, particularly Germany, to improve the inborn qualities of their populations by eugenic measures. In the years following World War II, the term eugenics was eradicated from medicine. The qualification degenerative disappeared from genetics and psychiatry but remained in use to denote decay of tissues and cells. The adjective neurodegenerative came in vogue in neurology and was mostly applied to brain diseases. Definitions in the literature indicate that neurodegenerative diseases are considered as to be age related, incurable, and largely untreatable chronic progressive diseases of the central nervous system. Scrutiny of available data shows that the notion concerns an ill-defined group of genetic and idiopathic disorders. Genetic central nervous system diseases may become manifest at all ages and are accessible for symptomatic treatment. Investigations of animal models suggest that not all neurodegenerative diseases are inherently incurable. Alternatives for the terms neurodegenerative and degenerative are available.

The Possible Relationship of Cognitive Style Rigidity-Flexibility of Cognitive Control with Properties of Nervous System

Studying flexibility of thinking in cognitive style “rigidity-flexibility cognitive control” as a mechanism for word-figurative translation information, we come to question the nature of this kind of flexibility. Works of V.M. Rusalov. Relationship between basic properties of nervous system, temperament and abilities are indicated in a “chain of inborn qualities”: “the inborn qualitie.The first level (the properties of the nervous system)” - “the inborn qualities of second-level (temperament)” - “abilities”. Following V.M. Rusalov, our scheme is follows: “mobility of the nervous system” - “temperamental plasticity” - “flexible thinking - cognitive style rigid-flexible cognitive control”. The task is to find out the relationship between flexibility, properties of temperament and properties of the nervous system. The results of correlation and factor analyzes indicate a relationship between the flexibility of thinking with balance and mobility of the nervous system.

Molecular aspects of the pathogenesis of nodular goiters, thyroid nodules and adenomas.

One of the most significant results of recent molecular thyroid research on the pathogenesis of nodular goiters may be the finding that not only thyroid adenomas but also many thyroid nodules are clonal in origin and thus are true benign tumors. Both clonal and polyclonal nodules may coexist within the same nodular goiter. Since clonal nodules may secondarily acquire a heterogeneous phenotype, they can become morphologically indistinguishable from polyclonal lesions. The molecular mechanisms that generate thyroid nodules and adenomas are still poorly understood. Certainly, the recent detection of activating mutations in the TSH receptor and the Gs alpha gene in a subset of toxic thyroid adenomas and nodules may explain the generation of hyperfunction in these tumors, but there is strong evidence that these mutations are not the unique and primary cause of tumor formation. In this respect the concept of natural occurring heterogeneity of thyroid growth and function can provide a plausible explanation for the early stages of nodular transformation: If a thyrocyte has a high intrinsic growth potential or if it is affected by overexpression of a protooncogene or a growth factor or hit by an oncogene or other molecular events, the cell will outgrow and form a tumor. The inborn qualities of proliferating cells or the sequence of various genetic alterations in proliferating cells will in turn determine the phenotype and function of the tumor.

La théorie des groupes non compétitifs

In this paper, the author describes and criticizes the theory of non-competitive groups. According to this theory, the non-competitivity of social groups refers to the existence and the reproduction by heredity of a bi-univocal correspondence between the hierarchy of social groups and the hierarchy of employments. Such a relation comes from the fact that the social origins determine the level of education, the distribution of inborn qualities, and the preference functions of individuals. It is also the result of the demographic reproduction pattern of social groups. In such conditions, the incomes hierarchy is the result as well as the means of the hereditary reproduction of social structure and of non-competitivity. Two basic criticisms can be formulated. First, this theory is unable to justify most of the relation underlying the analysis. Second, the proposed explanation model is unable to account for the contemporary ways of non-competitivity such as indicated by the statistics on social mobility.

Die waarde van \'n perseptuele stimuleringsprogram vir die Sesotho-sprekende Graad 1-leerder

All people have the right to express themselves in their mother tongue. In this investigation, following a previous investigation on the value of a reading and spelling program for the Sesotho-speaking grade 1 learner the value of a program for the stimulation of perceptual skills is studied. Through methods, techiniques and subject matter this program provides learners exposure to and development of perceptual skills. This investigation emphasises the importance of developing natural inborn qualities of learners by means of the stimulation of perceptual skills during an initial reading and spelling program for school beginners. Key Words: Perceptual skills, stimulation of perceptual skills, initial reading and spelling program, school beginners. Journal for Language Teaching Vol.38(2) 2004: 262-285

From Aristocratic to Democratic Ideology and Back Again: The Thrasybulus Anecdote in Herodotus' Histories and Aristotle's Politics

T HE PERSISTENCE OF THE TERMINOLOGY of aristocratic values under the Athenian democracy has received much attention and elucidation by scholars over the past half century.1 A central question in the discussion has been whether the use of these terms reflects the continued importance of aristocratic values under the democracy. The consensus appears to be that although the language of aristocratic culture persisted, it was put to new uses under the changed political conditions of the Athenian democracy.2 Thus, for example, traditional aristocratic virtues such as dpcTij were now related to service to and honor from the democracy, and not inborn qualities of a wealth and birth elite. In this paper, I argue that the Thrasybulus anecdote in Herodotus' Histories (5.92.e.2-h. 1) provides an ideal ground for observing the adaptation of aristocratic values to the conditions of the Athenian democracy. I shall argue that the Thrasybulus anecdote derives from an aristocratic oral tradition of the Archaic period, yet shows the influence of Athenian democratic ideology of Herodotus' own time. By attempting to trace the stages by which this story was transformed in the oral traditions in which it was passed down, I hope to shed light not only on the process of adaptation of aristocratic values to democratic culture, but also on the nature, language, and symbols of Athenian democratic ideology in the fifth century. In so doing, I hope to show that Herodotus' Histories can be used profitably as a source for the ideology of the Athenian democracy.

Reproduction Technology for a New Eugenics

Eugenics acquired a bad press when the only way of determining the presence of deleterious genes was by observation of the parental phenotype, but today the store of genetic knowledge and reproductive technology is vastly greater than at any time in the past and the rate of acquisition of new knowledge and techniques for avoiding the transmission of defective genes to future generations is accelerating. The author discusses the brightening future for voluntary eugenic intervention, but warns against the dangers inherent in government regulation. Key Words: bioethics, Galtonian Revolution, eugenics, reproductive technologies, in vitro fertilization, cryogenic preservation, nuclear substitution The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the Galtonian Revolution will come to fruition. This new revolution in the new millennium, which I call the Galtonian Revolution (Whitney, 1995; 1997a) will be more momentous for the future of mankind than was the Copernican Revolution or the Darwinian Revolution. For with the Galtonian Revolution, for the first time, the major changes will not be to ideas alone, but rather the major change will be to mankind itself. In order to briefly discuss some of the reproductive technology that will contribute to the new eugenics, I need first to define the term eugenics. So many different people with so many different agendas have appropriated this neat word, coined by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, that the word by itself can stand for almost anything (Whitney, 1990). Surely to some is a route to prevention rather than mere treatment of the ills of humanity. Also a path to the greatest good for the greatest number. To others is a new blasphemy, a devil-word; a term of hate and abhorrence, a term that in word associations is supposed to be linked with Hitler, Holocaust, genocide and the murder of innocents. For the purposes of today's talk the definition of eugenics is one given by Sir Francis Galton himself, In 1904 at a meeting of the Sociological Society, Sir Francis said: Eugenics is the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage. It is interesting, and overlooked by many, that Galton's own definition included both nature and nurture approaches to the improvement of humanity. In that same talk Galton (1904) went on to briefly address what is meant by improvement. is meant by the syllable Eu in Eugenics, whose English equivalent is good? First of all, he explained, the goodness of a trait depended upon the balance of that trait with others in appropriate proportions, thus goodness was relative to the balance of traits in the individual and also to the make-up of the population. What was good might be much influenced by education, and the goodness or badness of traits was not an absolute, but relative to the current form of civilization. Thus Galton suggested that as much as possible we should keep morals out of the discussion and avoid absolutes, to keep out of endlessly entangling philosophical distinctions. One wishes that some of our current crop of so-called bioethicists would heed this advice. Galton suggested that although no agreement could be reached as to absolute morality, the essentials of Eugenics may be easily defined. All creatures would agree that it was better to be healthy than sick, vigorous than weak, well fitted than ill-fitted for their part in life. In short that it is better to be good rather than bad specimens of their kind, whatever that kind might be. So with men.'(Galton, 1904: 36). And so with men. As we approach the new millennium we have at our call a reproductive technology that is beyond any imagined by the early eugenicists. …

Some observations on the creative process.

A study of formation of visual imagery during various conditions yielded observations supporting the assumption that the creative process reflects both special inborn qualities and a postpartum lifelong adaptational process consisting of cultivation of mental mechanisms that significantly differ from the thinking processes of the average human. Better understanding of these mental mechanisms may promote our skills to help the newborn generation to develop their creative potentials fully.

SCIENCE VERSUS ENGINEERING IN THE SCHOOLS-A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON CERAMIC EDUCATION1

In discussing ceramic education it is suggested that (1) as it is the function of a technical school to impart as complete a scientific foundation as possible to its graduates, the tendency is to produce technologists rather than engineers; (2) engineering ability does not develop from formal training but from individual traits or inborn qualities; (3) the average-size plant should endeavor to make better use of the talents and ability of their so-called practical men by encouraging them to acquire technical knowledge through evening courses and extension work. The benefits of cooperative agreements with local educational institutions by maintaining scholarships are also pointed out.

Eugenics; Its Definition, Scope and Aims 1

EUGENIGS is the science which deals with all influences that improve and develop the inborn qualities of a race. But what is meant by improvement? We must leave morals as far as possible out of the discussion on account of the almost hopeless difficulties they raise as to whether a character as a whole is good or bad. The essentials of eugenics may, however, be easily defined. All would agree that it was better to be healthy than sick, vigorous than weak, well fitted than ill fitted for their part in life. In short, that it was better to be good rather than bad specimens of their kind, whatever that kind might be. There are a vast number of conflicting ideals, of alternative characters, of incompatible civilisations, which are wanted to give fulness and interest to life. The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens, causing them to contribute more than their proportion to the next generation; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilisation in their own way.