Life Of Various Groups Research Articles

In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare

Abstract The pandemic revealed the workings of biopower in relation to people with disabilities. In focusing on lives worth living, decisions were made based on metrics about the quality of life of various groups. Ultimately, the pandemic revealed the power structure lurking behind a rhetoric of “care and compassion.”

The influence of the amount of caramel syrup on the processes of moisture transfer during the storage of marmalade

Storage problems for various types of confectionery products are associated with the physical state of the contained water and its migration processes. This work is aimed at predicting the storage capacity and increasing the shelf life of various groups of marmalade. The influence of the content of caramel syrup (5 - 25%) in jelly marmalade (JM) on apple (YP) and citrus (CP) pectin on the processes of moisture transfer during storage of products packed in BOPP film 20, 40 microns has been investigated. The composition and amount of molasses forms the features of the phase transitions of sugars and the ratio of free and bound moisture, which has a significant effect on the texture and organoleptic properties of FMs during storage. Moisture migration was characterized by the mass fraction of moisture and water activity. The results showed that over 12 weeks of storage, the moisture content of the sample with CP, containing 5% molasses, decreased from 22.0% to 19.6%, the rate of decrease in the mass fraction of moisture was 0.2% per week. For a sample containing 25% molasses, the rate of decrease in the mass fraction of moisture was 0.4% per week. For 12 weeks of storage, the mass fraction of moisture in the sample with NP, containing 25% molasses, decreased from 22.0% to 19.6%. As a result, for a sample made with YF containing 25% molasses, the rate of decrease in the mass fraction of moisture was 0.2% per week, and containing 5% molasses - only 0.1% per week. An increase in the mass fraction of molasses from 5.0% to 25.0% in the chemical composition of the FM leads to an increase in the rate of moisture transfer, approximately two times, while the water activity of the products practically does not change during storage and is 0.750 - 0.760. With an increase in the thickness of the polypropylene film from 20 ?m to 40 ?m, the rate of moisture transfer processes decreases approximately two times.

Psychological conditions for improving the subjective quality of life in an extreme region

The article presents summarized results of theoretical and empirical research on the problem of achieving and improving the subjective quality of life in an extreme region. One of the crucial factors influencing the assessments of the quality of life in various groups of respondents is found to be the principle of personal activity; the internal and external factors contributing to the “subject-environment” harmony are identified and a targeted model for achieving a high level of quality of life involving a combination of lifestyle parameters, personal resources, and external opportunities is proposed; the strategies of interaction within the “subject-environment” system in an extreme region at different levels of quality of life are described. The obtained results can give a start to new theoretical and empirical research on the specifics of the quality of life in different social groups and allow specifying the goals, objectives, directions, and the main ways of helping and assisting different segments of the population to ensure a high quality of life depending on both the nature of external influences and the subjective assessment of the environment.

Świadomość utopijna i ład społeczny. Uwagi socjologiczno-literackie

This essay discusses Utopian thinking and analyses its social and political determinants, transformational potential and functions fulfilled by Utopian projects of social order in the intellectual and cultural life of various groups and social wholes. The most important elements of Utopian discourses are the starting point for the analyses and are their theoretical scope. These elements take the form of categories and concepts from sociology, philosophy and social theory and are confronted with research materials in the form of selected utopias and dystopias in literature and examples from world history, which are usually used as exemplifications of the analysed ideas and tendencies. The assumption which lies behind the realistically oriented approach in sociological literature underlies this double analysis. According to this assumption, «literary utterances» can be treated not only as phenomena that are constructed socially, linguistically and aesthetically but also aselements of the dialectical process of social communication, which are full of a notional content, and a voice in the debate on issues important for theory. The aim of this paper is to describe the intertextual creative community that develops between the categories used by social theory when analysing utopias and social order and the topic explored by authors of utopian prose who test how some selected ideas operate in the worlds from novels. The «double viewpoint» (theory-literature) has been suggested for research purposes to identify and organize the most important elements of the interdisciplinary and cross-border area of the utopian universe, which can represent a contribution to a more detailed description of such a universe.

QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS IN THE MOSCOW REGION

Rationale: Chronic pancreatitis is characterized by progression with gradual insufficiency of pancreas and can be associated with complications. Various clinical signs and symptoms of the disease may affect patient's quality of life. Aim: To assess quality of life in various groups of patients with chronic pancreatitis, living in the Moscow Region, who have uncomplicated and complicated course of the disease, depending on their compliance level, compared to that in patients regularly seen by doctors of other specialities. Materials and methods: One hundred patients with chronic pancreatitis living in the Moscow Region completed the Medical Outcomes Study – Short Form (MOS SF-36) questionnaire. Results: In chronic pancreatitis patients, there was a clear decrease in quality of life parameters on all subscales. It was found that the presence of any complications did not contribute to deterioration of quality of life, with no significant difference in quality of life parameters in any subscale (р > 0.05). Quality of life was better in the patients who were fully adherent to their treatment (n = 28). In non-compliant patients (n = 72), there was a significant decrease (р < 0,05) of the following quality of life parameters: physical role functioning (29 points), emotional role functioning (45 points), as well as general health (32 points), pain intensity (44 points) and social functioning (51 point). Patients who were regularly seen by a gastroenterologist, had better quality of life (р < 0.05), compared to those seen by an internist, on the following subscales: physical role functioning (56 and 29 points, respectively), pain (60 and 45), general health (46 and 31), vitality (48 and 32), social functioning (69 and 52), emotional functioning (75 and 46). In patients who had not been regularly seen by any doctor, there was a statistically significant decrease in quality of life (р < 0.05) on the same subscales (0, 24, 17, 22, 35, 17 points, respectively). Conclusion: To improve quality of life in patients with chronic pancreatitis, it is necessary to increase the level of doctor's knowledge in pancreatology, to improve patient adherence to treatment, to ensure regular visit to doctors, as well as to establish the continuity of treatment from an in-patient to an out-patient unit.

Announcement of the awards of JSE Outstanding Papers

Journal of Systematics and Evolution (JSE) has a long history of publishing papers on plant taxonomy and systematics in general.The journal can be traced back to the 1920's as "Contributions from the Biological Laboratory of the Science Society of China,Botanical Series," an influential Chinese journal at that time.In 1951,it was established as Acta Phytotaxonomica.

Transforming the Professional Self

(2012). Transforming the Professional Self. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy: Vol. 62, Essays on Starting One’s First Therapy Group, pp. 381-386.

The Material Conditions of Family life (An Analysis of Family Life in Ashkhabad)

Experience has shown that analysis of general indices of the growth of production and sales of consumer goods does not give economists working on problems of domestic life, people's welfare, and standards of living an exhaustive picture of the subject, of the qualitative changes that have occurred in the requirements of Soviet people. A thorough study of these vital problems calls for the use of concrete data characterizing family budgets and the material conditions of life of various population groups. An analysis of such factual material would show which of the people's needs are developing and which are disappearing, and just how the structure and forms of the people's consumption are changing; it would help in more accurately determining realistic ways of eliminating more rapidly the gap between the conditions of life of various groups of the population and the developing communist way of life.