Matter Of Life Research Articles

The use of humic acids in the fight against Varroa destructor (Mesostigmata: Varroidae)

Humic acids, which are known for their use in agricultural areas and are very popular in this field, have the potential to be used for all living things. These acids are yellow to black in color and are a component of the humic substances found in the humus of the soil. They are fully decomposed remains of organic life and natural matters obtained as a result of the microbial degradation of plants. Humic acid refers to a complex mixture of many different organic acids soluble in alkaline solutions. These acids, we encounter in a different area every day, are important in the beekeeping sector, as well. Even though Türkiye has met all the requirements of the beekeeping sector in terms of both climate and wealth of flora, it is known that honeybees’ health and quality and production of honey have fallen below the targeted levels. The major factor behind the low level of production and failing to keep bee colonies’ health is that beekeepers insist on sticking to conventional methods. The nutrition and health of individuals in bee colonies directly affect the quality and amount of honey they make. For this reason, humic acids can be regarded as an alternative product in order to maintain their nutrition and health. In this review, the causes of Varroa destructor infestations, the applied control methods and the applicability of humic acids were examined.

No Origin: A matter of life and death

No Origin: A matter of life and death

GRANICE KRYMINALIZACJI POMOCY DO SAMOBÓJSTWA – UWAGI NA TLE ORZECZENIA AUSTRIACKIEGO TRYBUNAŁU KONSTYTUCYJNEGO Z 11 GRUDNIA 2020 R. (SYGN. G 139/2019-71)

The article deals with the issue of limits of the criminalisation of assisted suicide. The reason for addressing this issue is the finding of the Austrian Constitutional Court on 11 December 2020 (ref. G 139/2019-71), in which the Austrian criminal provision penalising assisting another person to commit suicide (Section 78 of the Austrian Criminal Code) was unexpectedly declared unconstitutional. The Court not only confirmed that everyone’s right to autonomous and independent decision-making in matters of personal life includes the decision as to the time and manner of a dignified death, but also decided whether an individual’s right to selfdetermination includes obtaining the assistance of another person to undertake a suicidal act. The resolution of this issue is of universal significance – including for the Polish legal order, in which assisted suicide is currently penalised without exception. The aim of the paper is not only to provide an overview of the grounds for the finding and explain the limits of criminal liability under the revised Section 78 of the Austrian Criminal Code, but in particular to resolve the question of the admissibility and legitimacy of decriminalising assistance to suicide to the extent adopted in Austrian law, which may also provide some inspiration for the Polish legislator. The study uses a formal-dogmatic method of research, which is determined by its subject. In the final conclusions it was indicated that the Austrian legislator cautiously liberalized the prohibition of assisted suicide, which, however, is not without some controversy.

All lives matter. An analysis of internationals' living conditions in Seoul, Korea, using an extended image–satisfaction–loyalty mechanism

AbstractWe indirectly analyze the residential environment for long‐staying internationals in Seoul, Korea, by extending the image–satisfaction–loyalty mechanism widely used in tourism, specifically by examining the internationals' satisfaction and loyalty. We consider residential difficulties, sociodemographics, and survey years along with image as exogenous variables and evaluate satisfaction not only in terms of its absolute but also its relative level, which is the difference between absolute satisfaction (AS) and previous expectation. Tourism studies have measured loyalty using individuals' intention to recommend to another and their own revisit intention, but we evaluate the revisit intention with place attachment/hometown perception, which is more suitable for long‐staying residents. The variables are measured with 2016–2018 data from an annual quality of life survey for Seoul residents (n = 5279 individuals) and analyzed with structural equation modeling. Our results show that the conventionally used AS is associated only with recommendation intention, but the relative satisfaction (RS) both with recommendation intention and hometown perception. Regarding the exogenous variables, AS is substantially affected by image and RS is somewhat strongly influenced by residential difficulties. However, image is the principal determinant of loyalty level, whether recommendation intention or hometown perception. These findings confirm the applicability of the image–satisfaction–loyalty mechanism not only to short‐staying inbound tourists but also to long‐staying international residents.

Matematika Dalam Analisis Korupsi di Kota Medan Tahun 2023 serta Penanggulangannya

Mathematics always has an important meaning in life, everything in this world is inseparable from the name mathematics, therefore mathematics is also known as the Teacher of Life. With mathematics, all matters of life can be arranged systematically. What's more, besides managing the affairs of life, mathematics is also a reference in managing the future. The knowledge commonly used in mathematics is forecasting (Forecasting). Forecasting in mathematics is used to analyze conditions that may occur in the future, both in the near and long term. One of the applications of the mathematical method with the forecasting method that can be made is an analysis of the level of corruption in Medan City in 2023. This analysis is made as a reference for related parties so that they can socialize about the laws that apply to criminal acts of corruption in order to realize release to the public. The method used in the analysis of corruption figures in Medan City for 2023-2024 is a quantitative method using a mathematical model, namely Double Exponential Smoothing. The results of the analysis obtained are that the corruption rate in Medan City in 2023-2024 has decreased. However, this figure may not be achieved if corruption is not prevented in a certain way.
 Keywords: Forecasting, Mathematical Methods, Corruption, Community Service

Early Life Stress Detection Using Physiological Signals and Machine Learning Pipelines.

Pregnancy and early childhood are two vulnerable times when immunological plasticity is at its peak and exposure to stress may substantially raise health risks. However, to separate the effects of adversity during vulnerable times of the lifetime from those across the entire lifespan, we require deeper phenotyping. Stress is one of the challenges which everyone can face with this issue. It is a type of feeling which contains mental pressure and comes from daily life matters. There are many research and investments regarding this problem to overcome or control this complication. Pregnancy is a susceptible period for the child and the mother taking stress can affect the child's health after birth. The following matter can happen based on natural disasters, war, death or separation of parents, etc. Early Life Stress (ELS) has a connection with psychological development and metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. In the following research, the main focus is on Early Life Stress control during pregnancy of a healthy group of women that are at risk of future disease during their pregnancy. This study looked at the relationship between retrospective recollections of childhood or pregnancy hardship and inflammatory imbalance in a group of 53 low-income, ethnically diverse women who were seeking family-based trauma treatment after experiencing interpersonal violence. Machine learning Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are applied for stress detection using short-term physiological signals in terms of non-linear and for a short term. The focus concepts are heart rate, and hand and foot galvanic skin response.

The “Cruel and Unusual” Legacy of the Star Chamber

Supreme Court justices have read the “cruel and unusual pun-ishments” clause as prohibiting torturous methods of punishment, prohibiting grossly disproportionate punishments, and/or prohibit-ing arbitrary discretion over the infliction of the death penalty. All three accounts face familiar and formidable historical challenges. There is general agreement that the founders took the clause from Article 10 of the English Bill of Rights, and that Article 10 repudi-ated the sentence passed on Titus Oates by the infamous Judge Jef-freys in 1685. Yet, although the methods of punishment inflicted on Oates—two days of horrific flogging, recurring stands in the pillory, and life imprisonment—were horrific, they were not capi-tal, were not unusual in 1685, and were all included in the Crimes Act passed by the First U.S. Congress in 1790. None of the major interpretations of “cruel and unusual punishment” accounts for this puzzling aspect of the aftermath of the Oates case. Nor do they ex-plain the adoption of the Eighth Amendment, which primarily re-sponded to Anti-Federalist fears that Congress might adopt tor-turous methods of capital punishment. Prevailing theories fail to account for the disconnect between what the English provision did and what the American provision meant to do. This Article argues that prevailing accounts are breathtakingly incomplete. The full story begins not with the flogging of Titus Oates in 1685, but with the abolition of the Star Chamber in 1641. Sen-tencing Oates, Jeffreys claimed for King’s Bench all the Star Chamber’s lawless power to determine punishments less than capi-tal. The English Article 10 repudiated this attempt to resurrect the Star Chamber. Then Congress, responding to Anti-Federalist fears about Congress adopting European-style executions by torture, freighted the “cruel and unusual” language with two additional meanings. The clause now applied to capital, as well as noncapital, penalties. It now also restricted legislative as well as judicial discre-tion. Synthesizing the English original and the later concerns of the American founders, the Eighth Amendment forbids lawless dis-cretion in both capital and noncapital cases, and torturous methods of punishment. Proportionality was left to the legislature, subject to the powerful check provided by a constitutional requirement of even-handed enforcement. At a time when the Court is reconsidering longstanding prece-dents from originalist premises, this account is not only a major advance in the academic literature. It may also be, practically speaking, a matter of life and death.

Through a Glass Darkly: Introduction to Research Cluster

The study of suicide is an emerging and important interdisciplinary field in central and east European Studies. The importance of the topic is self-evident. Suicide is literally a matter of life and death, important in its own right; but the study of suicide is also a means of addressing larger questions in the history, culture, and politics of the region. Suicide is almost always an object of grave concern whenever and wherever it occurs, thus prompting a wealth of statistical and discursive documentation and information. It is a supremely individual act—arguably the supreme individual act—but also one that implicates and involves the community or society in which it occurs. This is especially true during times of seeming or actual spikes in the occurrence of self-killing, so-called “suicide epidemics” that demand immediate attention and explanation. But the reasons for suicide are also often highly elusive, creating what Irina Paperno has termed a “black hole” into which is drawn the explanations, rationalizations, and justifications of all those proximate to the act. In this way, to study suicide in its social context is also to study the attitudes and the anxieties of the society in question. It is to look through a glass darkly: to see a reflection of contemporary concerns and attitudes that might otherwise have gone unseen.

Dialogue Ethics: A Philosophical View

Human dialogue is an important means of building human civilization, because of its role in consolidating values and ideas and what it represents of a state of communication between people. Accordingly, adherence to the ethics of dialogue constitutes an advanced and effective case in building civilization and people by promoting the spirit of tolerance and understanding among all segments of society. Human dialogue is a necessity whose importance does not depend on life matters, but rather its necessity extends to include all areas of life, so we find that even at the height of conflict and conflict that may occur between the parties, in the end the parties tend to find the language of dialogue as a solution to the conflict, in addition to that dialogue It is important in being a way to get to know the human being. Dialogue is the best way to get to know the other and know his truth .

Virus as Metaphor in the Age of Catastrophe

Virus as Metaphor in the Age of Catastrophe

Neighborhood divides: Where you live matters for commuting and its efficiency

Excess commuting reflects a cits overall commuting efficiency by quantifying the proportion of non-optimal commute that would be avoided if resident workers could freely swap houses or jobs in a given urban form. This framework has been widely used to evaluate urban land use and transportation policy decision-makings. One major methodological limitation in the excess commuting literature is that most existing studies establish on an oversimplified assumption of homogeneous resident workers/jobs, which neglects the complexity of residential (and employment) location choices. To fill this gap, this research develops a methodology to measure excess commuting across worker subgroups differentiated by residential neighborhood type, which captures the comprehensive socioeconomic profiles of workers defined based on multiple attributes. Based on a cross-sectional study of Portland, Boston, New Orleans, and Detroit, it is found that the traditional method overestimates the commuting benchmarks and causes biased evaluation of commuting efficiency performance. Moreover, this research reveals significant disparities in excess commuting across different neighborhood types and identifies three representative subgroups of distinct excess commuting patterns, which are the traditional suburban subgroup, new starts subgroup, and socioeconomically disadvantaged subgroup. With this proposed methodology, more effective and heterogeneous policies targeting different population subgroups could be developed. • Measures excess commuting across worker subgroups by residential neighborhood type • Performs a cross-sectional study of Portland, Boston, New Orleans, and Detroit • The traditional method overestimates commuting benchmarks. • Reveals significant disparities in excess commuting across different neighborhood types • Identifies three representative subgroups of distinctive excess commuting patterns

Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice. By Cleo Wölfle Hazard

“Rivers matter for queer trans life,” begins Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice, by Cleo Wölfle Hazard (3). The concluding sentence of the introduction responds: “Queer trans lives matter for rivers” (35). The interplay between these two ideas structures the book, which brings together feminist science studies, Indigenous science, queer theory, and river ecology to advance both a method and an overlooked research subject: the hidden yet vibrant movements—both material and political—that percolate beneath surfaces. For Wölfle Hazard, these underflows encompass both the unseen hyporheic zone beneath a river’s bed and “latent discourses that lie hidden or disregarded,” from queer and trans sciences, to the Indigenous protocols ignored by settler-colonial governance regimes (8). The concept of underflows unites these various concerns and guides Wölfle Hazard’s assertion of queer trans thought as a vital strategy for “transfiguring settler-colonial riverine science into a tool for justice” (8). Embodying a dynamic approach to the “promiscuous ecological productivity of amphibious landscapes,” Wölfle Hazard’s methodology is itself wonderfully promiscuous as it embraces the interplay between metaphor and materiality (xvii). For example, they figure their methodology as the “raindrop nucleus” of Indigenous and co-generated research methods surrounded by the “condensate” of “kitchen table ethnography”—a playful, queer, and feminist response to traditional field ethnography—along with queer trans critical physical geography and ecopoetics (28). This dynamic methodology yields an exciting study that traverses five sites of water conflict and river restoration along the US West Coast. Through an ethics of collaboration with human and more-than-human communities, Wölfle Hazard explores how rivers—through their simultaneous sense of direction and unruliness—embody “resistance to Manifest Destiny projects” (8). Chapter 1 engages “hyporheic imaginaries” and multispecies commons while thinking alongside salmon and beavers about riverine ecology in California’s Scott River. The second chapter imagines a field praxis informed by queer-trans subjectivities spanning “fishy feelings from the field to sites of scientific performance” such as conferences, journal articles, and policy debates (82). In Chapter 3, Wölfle Hazard traces the contours of queer trans collaboration with beavers, noting how beavers “flout boundaries” and inspire their human collaborators to do the same, suggesting a “beavery trans ethics” that rejects settler management regimes (123). Chapter 4 thinks alongside queer performances of grief and mourning as a way for ecologists to affectively attune to species extinction. In the subsequent chapter, subtitled “Cruising a Waterfront with José Esteban Muñoz,” Wölfle Hazard engages queer ecopoetics to theorize queer ecologies in urban river waterfront spaces. He reflects here on “cruising the Duwamish in search of its specific histories and futurities of resistance to enclosure,” while thinking alongside Indigenous and environmental justice politics (191). The epilogue introduces a new collaboration with Karuk practitioners along the Klamath River to develop a river model of justice. Even as the book is organized into discrete chapters, six prefatory sections titled “Underflow” invite ways of thinking under, through, and beyond the chapters.

‘For a good [civic] purpose?’: Black immortal teachings of citizenship

Black experiences and discourse concerning citizenship are unique. Moreover, Black access to full citizenship is often a matter of life and death. The civic purposes driving this pursuit are often negated in conventional curriculum and pedagogy, especially in early childhood settings. Still, it is essential for educators and policymakers to understand the civic purposes that initiate and sustain civic engagement. The purpose of this study is to amplify the voices of young Black boys in regards to US citizenship. By employing notions of in the wake/wake work as the theoretical framework and curricular and pedagogical resuscitation (CPR) as the methodology, this study unearthed the power of children to examine the complexities and ironies of citizenship. More so, these first- and second-grade students linked Black citizenship to fundamental issues of life, death, and purpose. Ultimately, the authors call for instruction reflecting how for students, especially Black students, honorable civic purposes striving for full citizenship remain valued, respected, and enduring.

Convolutional Autoencoding of Small Targets in the Littoral Sonar Acoustic Backscattering Domain

Automated target recognition is an important task in the littoral warfare domain, as distinguishing mundane objects from mines can be a matter of life and death. This is initial work towards the application of convolutional autoencoding to the littoral sonar space, with goals of disentangling the reflection noise prevalent in underwater acoustics and allowing recognition of the shape and material of targets. The autoencoders were trained on magnitude Fourier transforms of the TREX13 dataset. Clusters in the encoding space representing the known variable of measurement distance between the target and the sensor were found. An encoding vector space of around 16 dimensions appeared sufficient, and the space was shown to generalize well to unseen data.

Numerological Study Proposing New Names for Sri Lanka and Rupees for Better Prosperity

Our country got many setbacks after it changed the name from Ceylon to Sri Lanka. In the Ceylon days we were one of the best countries of Asia. Even Singapore wants to be similar to our country. However, after the name was changed to Sri Lanka Tamil Elam war and Economic problems started in the country and it became one of the worst countries in Asia. In this paper authors tried to search that whether there was any impact on the name change to the existing prosperity of the country based on accepted numerological principles. Also, it was tried to study the possibility of a new name be applied to solve the country’s ongoing economic crisis and other related issues. A new name was proposed based on the numerology and a program was operated in an infinite loop of computer. Results were obtained by analyzing the media news on economic progress of the country. Numerology is a subjective system that can show us another level of interpretation in the matters of life. New names were made according to Chaldean Numerology and the results were analyzed the after.

Implementation of Sharia Bank Integrated Marketing Communication in Increasing the Number of Customers

This study aims: to describe the implementation of Integrated Marketing Communications that can increase the number of customers at Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI) Kcp Andi Djemma Palopo City. The type of research used by researchers is qualitative research with descriptive research types. The location of the research was carried out at Bank Syariah Indonesia KCP Andi Djemma, Palopo City. The subjects in this study were Marketing at Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI) KCP Andi Djemma, Palopo City. With the research instruments used, namely in the form of interview guidelines and observation guidelines. Data collection techniques used are observation techniques, interviews and documentation. The data analysis technique used is by means of data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The results of this study illustrate that: In the marketing process of Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI) Kcp Andi Djemma, Palopo City, which applies an integrated marketing communication model, it can be said that it is able to increase the number of its customers, this is based on efforts to carry out marketing and other things, namely in terms of awareness self and society's perspective on religion by paying attention to sharia matters in life. This certainly has a positive effect on the development of Islamic banking in Indonesia, which in fact is one of the countries with the largest Muslim community in the world.

PENERAPAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN KONTEKSTUAL DENGAN MEDIA PEMUTARAN FILM PADA MATERI KEHIDUPAN PRA AKSARA

To reduce verbalism, confusion of meaning and inappropriate perceptions of students towards the material provided by the teacher during the learning process, it is necessary to have a learning media in the form of teaching aids (models) as well as learning support facilities that support the times. This research is motivated by the desire to apply a contextual learning approach with film screening media to improve student learning outcomes in the subject matter of life in the pre-literacy period. This research is a classroom action research. The subjects were 32 students in VIIA class at SMP Negeri 6 Purworejo semester 1 of the 2020/2021 school year, consisting of 18 female students and 14 male students. This study aims to improve student learning outcomes. The implementation process is participatory collaborative with other teachers, and the principal which begins by conducting an initial fact-finding study then recycling which includes: (1) preparing plans, (2) carrying out actions, 3) observing (observation); (4) reflection. This research was conducted in two cycles, namely cycle I and cycle II.) Data collection techniques used: Test techniques, Observation, Documentation. Data analysis was carried out both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of classroom action research by applying a contextual learning approach with film screening media can be seen from several activities carried out by students during the learning process. The initial evaluation result indicator is at least 75% of all students in the class meeting the complete learning target, the learning outcomes of students with a score of 61 and above in social studies learning. Conversely, if learning social studies history in lesson I has not been said to be complete, it will be continued in the next lesson. In learning I the success reached 68%. In learning II student learning outcomes have reached 70%, in learning II this meets the target of complete learning. According to the results of preliminary observations of 32 students, there were only 15 students who scored more than 70 (said complete) in their initial abilities in a proportion of 46.8%. After learning was held in cycle II, student learning outcomes in class had reached 30 students (93.8%) of all students in the class meeting the complete learning target, which means students scored 70 and above in learning.

Statues that must stand not fall: The material agency of anarchism in the marble monuments of Carrara, Italy

Drawing upon international literature about breaking coloniality by removing its monuments, as inspired by movements such as ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’, I address what can be defined as a counter-case. While confirming the reasons for contesting the symbols of oppressive powers, this case exposes an alternative tradition of monuments that were not erected by states, churches or colonial companies but by combative workers. I refer to some of the dozens of anarchist statues and marble plaques that are disseminated in Carrara (Italy) and in the surrounding villages to memorialise facts and figures of local workers movements and antifascist resistance. The Italian capital of marble, Carrara is also a historical stronghold of class-struggle, anarchism and anarcho-syndicalist unions of marble workers. These monuments often correspond to places of popular sociability in specific squares, neighbourhoods or villages, and are still places of memorial contentions. Based on the analysis of documents from Italian anarchist archives and on numerous field visits, this paper also extends literature on the material turn in cultural and historical geography, analysing the symbolic and material relevance of Carrara marble matter for local workers. I finally call for a militant historical geography of monuments, one that can be relevant to political and societal debates by boldly and outspokenly saying which statues must fall and which must stand.

In memory of the teacher and scientis (on the centenary of the birth of L. H. Kerentseva)

The paper is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Larysa Hnativna Kerentseva, who was working for 20 years at Russian Language Department of our University. Her life path was not an easy one, which was common for the people of her generation. But, despite all the troubles of life, she was a sincere, empathetic person, a principled and demanding teacher, a good and reliable friend. In the memory of her students Larysa Hnativna remained forever as a teacher for whom philology was not a mere "higher school subject", but a matter of life. Though she was not a religious person, she always lived according to the biblical commandments: «Do not offend!», «Help!», «Be merciful!».

Pretty, meaningful lives: physical attractiveness and experienced and perceived meaning in life

ABSTRACT Three studies examined the association between physical attractiveness and meaning in life. Study 1 (N = 305 college students) showed that self-reported physical attractiveness positively correlated with meaning in life. Study 2 (N = 598 noncollege adults) replicated the association between self-reported physical attractiveness and meaning in life and extended those findings, demonstrating that outside perceptions of attractiveness are linked to outside perceptions of how meaningful a person’s life is. Study 3 (N = 331 targets, 97 raters) replicated these findings and probed the nuances of the relationships between outside ratings and self-reports of attractiveness and meaning in life. Across the studies, existential significance, or the feeling that one’s life matters, was the facet of meaning that primarily explained the link between attractiveness and meaning in life. In addition, a person’s view of their own attractiveness is more indicative of their well-being than outsider ratings. Implications for our understanding of meaning in life are discussed.