Place In Nature Research Articles

Working with migrants and refugees - Ethical principles and dilemmas in psychiatry

AbstractMore than 100 million people are forcibly displaced including refugees, internally displaced persons and asylum seekers who have fled their homes to escape violence, conflict, and persecution. The vulnerable group of refugees and forcibly displaced people have a high burden of mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, idioms of distress, and prolonged-grief disorder, which are highly related to the load of traumatic circumstances surrounding refugees associated with human rights abuses, lack of human needs, and separation from others and many refugees are severely traumatized and suffer a variety of symptoms, and not all seek help. Their mental health problems are of emergency nature place a huge burden upon services which are difficult to deliver. This implies that mental health professionals and patients are more likely than ever to come from different cultural backgrounds. To have access to mental health care is often a challenge for them and most of them do not seek help. Unfortunately, these vulnerable groups are not treated equally according to ethical principles of mental health professionals. This presentation will focus on these dilemmas and discuss them.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Peanut Plant Development Strategy as a Leading Commodity in South Tinangkung District, Banggai Islands Regency

Agricultural development aims to improve the living standards of farmers and the welfare of their people. The prospects for the development of peanut farming business are very bright in order to increase the income and welfare of farmers, so there is a need for a strategy in the development of peanuts as a leading commodity. Thus, this study aims to develop a strategy for developing peanuts as a leading commodity in South Tinangkung District, Banggai Islands Regency. The research was conducted from June to November 2022 in South Tinangkung District, Banggai Islands Regency. The data used in this study is primary data. Primary data were obtained by conducting structured interviews and direct observations from certain natural places by circulating questionnaires to respondents. Furthermore, the research used the SWOT method, namely SO (Strength-Opportunity), WO (Weakness-Opportunity), ST (Strength-Threats), and WT (Weakness-Threats). The results obtained in this study are that the development of peanut crop commodities in South Tinangkung District is in the second tier (diversification). so that the most appropriate strategy to be applied is Strategy-ST, thus the main strategy for the development of peanuts as a superior commodity is to utilize the experience of farmers in farming peanut crops with the ability to carry out land management to overcome the shortage of Agriculture machinery needs, in addition to that, it can maximize the role of Agricultural cooperation and can reduce high labor wages.

Automated Interpretation of Place Descriptions: Determining Entity Types for Querying OSM

This paper is concerned with interpretation of natural language place descriptions, as they are a rich source of geographic information. A place description is interpreted by matching geographic entities occurring in the text against the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database. This paper is mainly concerned with interpretation of paraphrased places, i.e., entities for which no name is given and which may only by described. Our objective is to determine suitable entity types that allow querying the OpenStreetMap database for the respective place. For example, if we wish to identify a place to eat, we have to check for entities of an a-priori unknown type (cafe, restaurant, etc.). Challenges arise from the open-endedness of language, its ambiguity, and context-sensitivity as well as from mismatches between human conceptualization of place and database ontologies. The contributions of this paper are, first, to present a hard problem that is key to geo-information retrieval beyond named entities. Second, we propose context-sensitive methods for identifying place types based on semantic word similarity. We evaluate the methods on text extracted from Wikipedia and travel blogs, revealing their contribution to advancing automated interpretation of place descriptions to paraphrased places.

현대문학에 나타난 생태페미니즘

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ecological feminism in Korean literature. Jeong Jin-gyu's poem and Lee Yoon-ki's short story “Hole” talk about nature and women alike. However, while Jeong Jin-gyu's work reveals intact nature, femininity, principles of life, and vivid vitality, Lee Yoon-ki's novel criticizes the selfishness of humans(men) through femininity and ecosystems in crisis. Nevertheless, ｢hole｣ shows the possibility of re-recognition of the world through the realization of 'him'. Jeong Jin-gyu's poems are dedicated to expressing or admiring the feminine and productive principles of nature. This is effective in finding its place in nature and women who have been alienated or distorted in the reality of ecosystem destruction. Ecofeminist literature makes us recognize the reality that nature, women, and the world are distorted by socio-political institutions or power. It also urges the restoration of ecological ethics, heals the wounds of the separated world, and functions as a goddess to adjust the ecosystem in crisis.

ATTACHMENT TO PLACE AND COMMUNITY TIES IN TWO SUBURBS OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, CENTRAL FINLAND

ABSTRACT This article describes varied place attachments manifested in public (communal) places in the two socioeconomically weakest suburbs of the city of Jyväskylä in central Finland. We conducted ethnographic research and observations, interviewed local experts on their views of the suburbs, and analyzed discourses from various places where residents’ experiences of identity and social relations are connected to residential and community attachment. Our results show a strong connection to place evolving in both suburbs through bonds to the physical and the social environment. The local experts reported social connectedness and sense of belonging among the residents of both suburbs. The strength of the suburbs resided in a community spirit manifested in public places (community centers, local natural beauty spots, and recreational spaces). Residents are attached to their nearby natural environment and specific places in both suburbs. Attachment to place is undermined by negative media influence and by public discourse highlighting social segregation and insecurity.

Perilaku Makan Lutung Jawa (Trachypithecus auratus) di Pusat Rehabilitasi Lutung Jawa (JLC) Coban Talun Kota Batu

Javan langur population has decreased, because the natural habitat of Javan langurs is decreasing from year to year, in addition to the rampant fishing of langur for trading. In order to suppress and reduce the habitat destruction of these wild animals, an effective and sustainable land rehabilitation effort is needed by recording the types of forage plants that Javan langurs like and the behavior of Javan langurs in foraging for their food. One of the efforts made to create a natural breeding place. The purpose of this research is to determine whether there is a specific Javan langur eating behavior pattern, in addition to knowing whether there is a change in Javanese langur eating behavior towards the type of food given. This observation uses the Continuous Recording method of recording. The results obtained will be processed in a qualitative descriptive form (narrative). From the results of this study, it was found that there was a specific feeding behavior for each type of feed given based on the size of the leaves, when consuming calliandra with smaller leaves the langurs did not need to pick the leaves first, it was different when langurs ate mountain amethyst and telasih which were larger in size so they tended to picking and tearing it first to get smaller leaf size, and there is a change in the diet of the type of feed given, namely langurs tend to fight more for calliandra plants because calliandra has fruit as well as flowers and also smaller leaf size making it easier for langurs to eat it . This is also shown by the higher number of chews on calliandra, which is 25 chews for 10 seconds.

Probing light exotics from a hidden sector at c−τ factories with polarized electron beams

Future $c\text{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\tau}$ factories are natural places to study extensions of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics with new long-lived feebly interacting particles light enough to be produced in electron-positron collisions. We investigate prospects of these machines in exploring such extensions emphasizing the role of polarized beams in getting rid of the SM irreducible background for the missing energy signature. We illustrate this on the example of the $c\text{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\tau}$ project in Novosibirsk, where the electron beam is designed to be polarized to achieve much higher sensitivity to hadronic resonances and $\ensuremath{\tau}$ leptons. We investigate models with hidden photons, with millicharged particles (fermions and scalars), with ${Z}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ bosons and with axionlike particles. We find that the electron beam polarization of 80% significantly improves the chances to observe the signal, especially with large statistics. We outline the regions of the model parameter space which can be reached at this factory in one year and in ten years of operation according with the scientific schedule of tuning the energy of colliding beams.

Mast-step Coins in Roman Ships: Votive Offerings to Isis Pelagia?

Mast-step coins have been discovered in Roman shipwrecks dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 4th century CE, and their placement at the foot of the ship’s mainmast was a deliberate act with significant maritime and religious meaning. This article argues that, in antiquity, mast-step coins were votive offerings to a deity associated with the mast and sails of ancient sailing vessels, and it is proposed that this deity was Isis Pelagia, the inventor of navigation and mistress of the sea. Through a discussion of Isis Pelagia’s iconography and other aspects of Isis’ cult, including her sailing festivals and aretalogy, it is posited that the mast came to symbolize the goddess whose natural place was on the decks of Roman ships, holding their billowing sails and guiding them safely to shore. Allegorically, these coins may thus have been placed at the feet of Isis Pelagia.

Wrongs to Us

A huge number of tort suits in the United States are captioned Plaintiff & Spouse v. Defendant. Why? The answer is at once completely obvious and deeply puzzling. The plaintiff’s spouse is part of the case because, in almost every U.S. state, she has a claim against the defendant too—not for battery or negligence, as her spouse might, but for the loss of her spouse’s “consortium.” And yet, it’s not at all clear why a spouse should have a tort claim of this kind. A plaintiff who sues in tort, Judge Cardozo once explained, must always identify “ ‘a wrong’ to herself; i.e., a violation of her own right.” By this standard, however, a spouse’s consortium claim seems strange. The defendant violated her injured spouse’s rights, perhaps, but is it right to say the defendant violated hers too? At one point, tort law took the view that a husband had property rights in his wife, so that a wrong to his wife was a wrong to him too. That can’t be the right answer today, however, and it’s not clear whether there’s a more egalitarian rights-based answer to give. For that reason, rights-based theories of tort law tend to say that consortium claims have no proper place in a law of private wrongs, and critics of those theories can cite consortium claims as evidence that tort isn’t (all) about rights in the first place. In this Article, I suggest that both conclusions miss the mark. Consortium claims may have a natural place in a rights-based picture of tort law, so long as we have the right picture of rights (and rightsholders) in view. Partners in marriage-like relationships act together to construct a shared life, and that puts them in a position to hold joint claims against certain interferences with that life. Consortium suits make more sense, I propose, if we see them as a response to the violation of these joint claims—as a means to redress what partners in marriage-like relationships would rightly regard as “wrongs to us.”

Psychology Professionals in Educational Contexts: An Unavoidable Necessity

Mental health problems and psychological adjustment difficulties among young people are emerging as a personal, family, educational, social, and health challenge. It is necessary to address this emerging social defiance by studying and implementing strategies to promote emotional well-being and prevent psychological problems in educational contexts. The aim of this work is to highlight, based on the epidemiological data derived from the PSICE (Evidence-based Psychology in Educational Contexts) project, the importance of addressing mental health in school settings. First, an introduction to the study of human behavior and psychological adjustment problems is given. Secondly, the importance of educational centers as the natural place to promote the psychological well-being and child and adolescent mental health is discussed. Thirdly, the prevalence results derived from the PSICE study are mentioned. To conclude, a summary section highlights the imperative need to promote, protect, and care for mental health during childhood and adolescence in educational settings. The promotion of psychological well-being and the prevention of mental health problems in educational contexts are the best investments on the part of societies, governments, and institutions.

Human-Machine Collaboration in the Teaching of Proof

This paper argues that interactive theorem provers (ITPs) could play an important role in fostering students’ appreciation and understanding of proof and of mathematics in general. It shows that the ITP Lean has three features that mitigate existing difficulties in teaching and learning mathematical proof. One is that it requires students to identify a proof strategy at the start. The second is that it gives students instant feedback while allowing them to explore with maximum autonomy. The third is that elementary formal logic finds a natural place in the activity of creating proofs. The challenge in using Lean is that students have to learn its command language, in addition to mathematics course content and elementary logic.

Disease-associated oligodendrocyte signatures in neurodegenerative disease: the known and unknown.

Disease-associated oligodendrocyte signatures in neurodegenerative disease: the known and unknown.

The nature of a pandemic: Testing the relationship between access to nature, nature relatedness, wellbeing and belonging in nature using polynomial regression with response surface analysis

Past research has found that spending time in nature fosters increased wellbeing across both physical and mental health (Brymer et al., 2014; Hartig et al., 2011), and many theories suggest that participation in nature is something that carries similar benefits for all people (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of outdoor recreation and leisure increased significantly given that it offered a space for interaction, community, and enjoyment with decreased risk of transmission. Amidst COVID-19, nature offers wellbeing that could help individuals cope with the added anxiety, isolation and uncertainty amongst the pandemic. However, it is likely that not all individuals had similar access to this benefit, but little research has explored if this is the case. This study examines wellbeing outcomes and one's sense of belonging to a natural place as they relate to one's nature relatedness and access to nature. We hypothesized that the highest wellbeing benefit would be associated with those who had both high access to nature and high nature relatedness scores, and lowest for those without access to nature. Survey data from 558 participants was used to test these hypotheses. We implemented two polynomial regressions with response surface analysis to examine the congruent and discrepant effects of nature relatedness and access to nature on both wellbeing and belonging in nature. Findings suggest that those with the most access to nature and higher nature relatedness experience higher rates of wellbeing and a stronger sense of belonging to natural spaces.

The Natural and the Industrial Place in the Story Collection "Ginoon Wa Maa Ashbah" by Najman Yassin

The place is one of the most important elements that make up the beauty of the fictional text. The presence of the place in the fictional work is very important, as there is no story without a place. It is an element of the story and a general drive for the characters and events in the story. The writers are closely linked to the place, as Najman Yassin in this group (Junoon and the like). In this group, the place seems close to it psychologically and spiritually. This study reveals the aesthetics of the place in the stories (Junoon and the like), which is one of the most mature narrative experiences. This study seeks to distinguish the natural places from the industrial ones that the narrator mentioned in the story and analyze them, and his impressions in the fictional text. The first topic is concerned with the natural place, including (the sky, the river, and the mountain), while the second is concerned with the industrial place (the room, the café, and the basement). The study is based on a wide range of sources and references including: "Qaala AlRawee" by Saeed Yaqteen and "Chadal Al Qiraa" by Najeeb Al-Awfi. Finally, the study is relied on the analytical study of the place in the narrative texts to reveal the artistic and aesthetic value of the place.

Emotional Experience and the Senses

This paper investigates the nature of emotional experience in relation to the senses, and it defends the thesis that emotional experience is partly non-sensory. In §1 I introduce my reader to the debate. I reconstruct a position I call ‘restrictivism’ and motivate it as part of a reductive approach to mind’s place in nature. Drawing on intuitive but insightful remarks on the nature of sensation from Plato, I map out the conditions under which the restrictivist thesis is both substantive and plausible. I then present two arguments against it. The first argument, which I lay out in §2, draws on recent empirical results in emotion research to show that restrictivism cannot be reconciled with the possibility of knowledge of one’s own emotional state by acquaintance. The second argument, which I present in §3, individuates a claim on which most contemporary theories of emotional valence converge and uses it to demonstrate that restrictivism has a false implication: it must deny that valence is experientially felt.

MYTHOLOGICAL, HOLY OR CULT PLACES?

The question of the naturalness of natural holy places raised by Prof. J. Urtāns has attracted the attention of researchers and has recently become part of international discussion. There are at least two aspects to discuss. The first relates to language (namely to the translation of native terms into English for common use); the second touches on the concept of the natural holy place. Since nature is the usual setting for holy places of pre-Christian origin and the shape of these objects is mainly natural, the English term natural holy place seems to be relevant and appropriate for international use. The second section of the article provides an example of how complicated the understanding of natural holy places can be. Single stones and groups of stones discovered during an expedition along the River Neris in 2007 are briefly presented. The author is aware that all the stones possessing proper names have a certain meaning and play a particular role in the culture. There are definitely natural holy places among them, but an exact definition of the subject is hard to produce. It is clear that the matter of the concept of the English term natural holy places as applied to the Eastern Baltic is not resolved and should be raised in the broader international context.

MICROCOSMS AND BORDERS – ON CENTRALITY AND LINEARITY IN CONNECTION WITH HOLY OR SACRED PLACES

Thus, place-names are excellent sources on natural holy places of the past. At least they are guides to the location, but can never be used indiscriminately. There are many problems of denotation and language (e.g. Strid, 1993). Be- sides, the very spot itself was not supposed to be known in detail, only the area is pointed out by names. The social and the sacred are parallel meanings for holy places in nature. They cannot be separated. This view could also be formulated as saying that natural holy places express sanctity in both aspects. Neither can natural and other, more artificial sites easily be separated. They are both taboo, protected. They may serve as borders in themselves, but the borders between the profane and sacred seem to spread in more or less concentric rings around the centre. In fact the ring could be used as a metaphor and a symbol for them. The holi- ness of these spheres is often graded. Nature itself provides the simplest means of making borders to secluded space. Islands, or rather islets, are ideal in this sense. There is a certainly a cosmological quality in the meeting of land and sea on all sides. Another perfect border is provided by the coastline. But here the holy spots have to punctuate space at certain points along the line. If we had no burials or rock carvings, then these spots would be a priori uniden- tifiable. But we will never understand why precisely these spots were chosen. This is a secret, and was presumably a secret even in the past. Another observation, which may or may not be premature, is that the holy place itself may not be marked by a place-name or a sign, for example, a rock or tree carving or painting. It might be that these marks sometimes only point to the approach to a holy place. Any spatial centre must be discussed as just one component in a structure, the border zone being of utmost cognitive signifi- cance. Marking out the border to the surrounding area of the holy of holies, the centre of the denotation is a suitable alternative, comparable to the wider denotation of place-names. The very point of holiness (stone, tree etc.) could be considered as in-be- tween, a transitory place, ambiguous and a border between temporal space and the transcendent. It is reasonable, due to its specific function and its social con- text, that it was often kept as secret and inconspicuous as possible.

Familiarity with, perceptions of and attitudes toward butterflies of urban park users in megacities across East and Southeast Asia.

Perceptions of, and attitudes toward, wildlife are influenced by exposure to, and direct experiences with, nature. Butterflies are a conspicuous and ubiquitous component of urban nature across megacities that are highly urbanized with little opportunity for human-nature interactions. We evaluated public familiarity with, perceptions of and attitudes toward butterflies across nine megacities in East and Southeast Asia through face-to-face interviews with 1774 urban park users. A total of 79% of respondents had seen butterflies in their cities mostly in urban parks, indicating widespread familiarity with butterflies. Those who had seen butterflies also had higher perceptions of butterflies, whereas greater than 50% of respondents had positive attitudes toward butterflies. Frequent visits to natural places in urban neighbourhoods was associated with (i) sightings of caterpillars, indicating increased familiarity with urban wildlife, and (ii) increased connectedness to nature. We found two significant positive relationships: (i) between connectedness to nature and attitudes toward butterflies and (ii) between connectedness to nature and perceptions of butterflies, firmly linking parks users' thoughts and feelings about butterflies with their view of nature. This suggests that butterflies in urban parks can play a key role in building connectedness to nature and consequently pro-environmental behaviours and support for wildlife conservation among urban residents.

On the Mechanism of Heterogeneous Water Oxidation Catalysis: A Theoretical Perspective

Earth abundant transition metal oxides are low-cost promising catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Many transition metal oxides have shown higher OER activity than the noble metal oxides (RuO2 and IrO2). Many experimental and theoretical studies have been performed to understand the mechanism of OER. In this review article we have considered four earth abundant transition metal oxides, namely, titanium oxide (TiO2), manganese oxide/hydroxide (MnOx/MnOOH), cobalt oxide/hydroxide (CoOx/CoOOH), and nickel oxide/hydroxide (NiOx/NiOOH). The OER mechanism on three polymorphs of TiO2: TiO2 rutile (110), anatase (101), and brookite (210) are summarized. It is discussed that the surface peroxo O* intermediates formation required a smaller activation barrier compared to the dangling O* intermediates. Manganese-based oxide material CaMn4O5 is the active site of photosystem II where OER takes place in nature. The commonly known polymorphs of MnO2; α-(tetragonal), β-(tetragonal), and δ-(triclinic) are discussed for their OER activity. The electrochemical activity of electrochemically synthesized induced layer δ-MnO2 (EI-δ-MnO2) materials is discussed in comparison to precious metal oxides (Ir/RuOx). Hydrothermally synthesized α-MnO2 shows higher activity than δ-MnO2. The OER activity of different bulk oxide phases: (a) Mn3O4(001), (b) Mn2O3(110), and (c) MnO2(110) are comparatively discussed. Different crystalline phases of CoOOH and NiOOH are discussed considering different surfaces for the catalytic activity. In some cases, the effects of doping with other metals (e.g., doping of Fe to NiOOH) are discussed.

Density of composite places in function fields and applications to real holomorphy rings

AbstractGiven an algebraic function field and a place ℘ on K, we prove that the places that are composite with extensions of ℘ to finite extensions of K lie dense in the space of all places of F, in a strong sense. We apply the result to the case of any real closed field and the fixed place on R being its natural (finest) real place. This leads to a new description of the real holomorphy ring of F, which can be seen as an analog to a certain refinement of Artin's solution of Hilbert's 17th problem. We also determine the relation between the topological space of all ‐places of F (places with residue field contained in ), its subspace of all ‐places of F that are composite with the natural ‐place of R, and the topological space of all R‐rational places. Further results about these spaces as well as various classes of relative real holomorphy rings are proven. At the conclusion of the paper, the theory of real spectra of rings will be applied to interpret basic concepts from that angle and to show that the space has only finitely many topological components.