Nature Of Things Research Articles

The Relationship Between Knowledge And Attitudes Of Mothers About Premenopause In Silau Paribuan Village Silau Kahean District

Premenopause is something that is very worried and feared by every mother. Changes that occur during the premenopause period will lead to decreased estrogen hormone production accompanied by psychological and physical complaints, which are characterized by irregular menstrual cycles with prolonged menstrual bleeding and large bleeding sizes accompanied by pain. This study aims to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes of mothers about pre menopause. This type of research is analytic with a cross sectional design in this study a population of 60 premenopausal women. The sample of this study was 38 people with purvosive sampling technique. The results showed that there was a relationship between knowledge and attitudes of mothers about premenopause (p = 0.00). Mother's knowledge in dealing with premenopause is lacking and mother's attitude in dealing with premenopause is positive. Mother's knowledge is lacking because the mother has never received information about premenopause and has never received health education about premenopause. A positive mother's attitude is caused because the mother is able to divert unpleasant feelings into positive things by doing various activities, and assumes that what is experienced during premenopause is a natural thing that will be experienced by every mother. It is hoped that health workers will provide health education about premenopause, and premenopausal mothers are expected to be proactive in seeking information related to premenopause.

Information as public good and public service media in Europe: Introduction to this special issue

The right to public life has been one of the most important achievements of modernity. It was a result of long and painful civil struggles for dignity in a democratic public sphere. While de jure we are all welcome in the public sphere, de facto rapid processes of fragmentation and numerous contexts of misinformation insulate the actual chances of meaningful contribution to public life. Platform users are aggressively approached as consumers of goods and services and continuously stimulated to produce large quantities of any content, just to feed the voracious platforms. The sobering truth is that many people on the private high-tech platforms do not act like true democrats, but like private individuals who pursue very personal aims. At the same time, a private person does not have a mandate to act in the public interest of the rest of the citizens. For these reasons, we turn to information as a public good and public responsibility in this special issue. It is about media as a public service that allows democracy to keep centre stage within a polity. When citizens interact with relevant public information, they build the capacity to control their political environment, to form informed opinions and act upon them. When this basic desideratum is not structurally at the core of society, one cannot even start to consider democracy as the first course of action for the generations to come. Information as a public good is not a thing of nature, but a purposeful action. We take this stance when we approach information as a public good, rather than some residual category of market failure. The scope of this special issue is to analyse and explore the resources and institutional settings that allow information to thrive as a public good in the European contemporary informational ecosystem.

The European Broadcasting Union: corporate management and voluntary work

Information as a public good is not a thing of nature, but a purposeful action. In my contribution, I explore an international association that got institutionalised around the idea of information as a public good by means of lucrative cooperation between public service broadcasters. It emerged after the Second World War, in a world where public services would become the norm rather than the exception, and has continued to a time when priorities switched fundamentally towards profit and liberalisation. The object of study is the European Broadcasting Union, the largest association of public service media providers in Europe and beyond, servicing more than one billion people as audiences via its members. In order to understand whether EBU's institutional practices still prioritise information as a public good or have moved towards a more neo-lib focus, I undertook an institutional analysis based on secondary data. The research shows that the combination of a neo-lib corporate layer with voluntary working groups from national PSMs makes EBU particularly successful; it looks like a new public management dream come true, except that EBU is not an accountable public organisation. Through the NGO structure, corporate management and voluntary work, it opens large avenues of cooperation for professionals to innovate together, at the end of the day enhancing information as a public good.

Are Mathematical Objects ‘sui generis Fictions’? Some Remarks on Aquinas’s Philosophy of Mathematics

Abstract This contribution proposes an interpretation of Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy of mathematics. It is argued that Aquinas’s philosophy of mathematics is a coherent view whose main features enable us to understand it as a moderate realism according to which mathematical objects have an esse intentionale. This esse intentionale involves both mathematicians’ intellectual activity and natural things being knowable mathematically. It is shown that, in Aquinas’s view, mathematics’ constructive part does not conflict with mathematical realism. It is also held that mathematics’ imaginative reasoning is coherent with Aquinas’s doctrine of formal abstraction and his realistism. It focuses on some of Aquinas’s texts, which it places within their textual and doctrinal context and interprets them in the light of some historical elements.

Spinoza, Liberation From Causation, and Community Health Promotion.

What sense does it make to say that a new program implemented in a community with roots as old as evolution caused an observed health benefit? Evaluation of community approaches has often sought to isolate the causal roles of interventions. Central to this is the assumption that there are causes to be proven and isolated. Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) dismissed the concept of cause, arguing that all things, "substances," are not caused but simply are. Actions of things in nature can influence each other, e.g., erosion of a mountain, but their substance, the mountains simply are. For Spinoza, satisfaction in life comes from realizing and acting in accord with our substance, but this requires communities that support such realization and action. Thus, communities and the vast influences they contain are central to human welfare. Interventions within them do not cause benefits but join with the history, culture, and numerous other features of the community in becoming part of how the community influences its members. Implications include a) expanding the social ecological model fully to embrace multiple influences - including innovative programs - and interactions among them, and c) varied research methods to identify practical lessons about how communities may adopt and incorporate innovations to engender change, rather than a catalogue of interventions that are supposed to change them.

“Who Eats the Forest?”: Forest Animacy among the Bahnar People of Vietnam

In this paper, we explore Bahnar perspectives on the agency of plants and forest, and human–forest relations in Vietnam. The Bahnar are among Vietnam's 54 recognized ethnic minority peoples 1 , many of whom live in proximity to the forest, gather its resources, and regard it as a spiritual abode in their cosmology. The Bahnar (Ba Na) people who inhabit the Central Highlands and are the main focus of this article have traditionally relied on the forest for subsistence, practising swidden cultivation, hunting birds and mammals, and gathering plants. Their forest knowledge is transmitted primarily orally; through the lexicon, everyday discourses, stories, and songs. It is acquired through participation in forest-related activities and informal learning of arts such as vernacular architecture, basketry, canoe-building, and textiles. The Bahnar see spirits in things in nature with which they have a connection or routine interactions (stones, streams, and trees) but not in everything. The Bahnar spiritual connection with the forest also guides their husbandry of increasingly scarce forest resources, such as rattan used in basketry, and large trees needed to make canoes. Certain plants and trees are protected by taboos, and certain parts of the forest are considered sacred, inhabited by gods and spirits, and not to be touched. Forests possess animacy for the Bahnar in that they are sensitive and responsive to a wide range of human behaviours, and must be treated with respect and care. This human–forest–spirit relationship is the primary lens through which the Bahnar perceive nature, and guides their daily interactions with it.

The Religious Sacred in the Novels of Khudair Falih Al-Zaidi

The religious sanctity constitutes a spiritual and moral value in the life of the religious person from ancient times until our present era, regardless of religions and backgrounds. For the individual, it is considered a powerful energy that is distinguished by its presence from other ordinary things, as it constitutes the religious identity of that society. Khudair Falih Al-Zaidi is one of the writers whose literary and fictional productions were not devoid of mention, criticism, and treatment of it, and who extended his sensory and emotional perceptions from it and emanated from the core of the environment or, let us say, the society to which he belongs. Since every society has sacred things of a religious nature that are appreciated and respected, especially whether in themselves, such as (God Almighty, the holiness of the heavenly books, the prophets, and the family of the Prophet) or those whose holiness is believed. In a society as diverse in culture and religions as the writer’s Iraqi environment, and thus its diverse sanctities of beliefs, rites, and rituals.

Analysis of PM10 Substances via Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision-Making and Statistical Evaluation

Air pollution is a situation that negatively affects the health of humans and all living things in nature and causes damage to the environment. The most important cause of air pollution is the amount and density of substances called “particulate matter” above guidelines. Particulate matter (PM) are mixed liquid droplets and solid particles with advective diameters less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5—fine particles) and between 2.5 and 10 μm (PM2.5–10—coarse particles). PM10 is defined as one that can remain in the air for a long time and settle in the respiratory tract, damaging the lungs. It is important to identify the underlying causes of air pollution caused by PM10. In this context, these criteria need to be evaluated to minimize the negative effects of PM10. In the study, monthly average PM10 data obtained from the Air Quality Monitoring Station in Kocaeli, Türkiye, between 2017 and 2023 are used. After determining the criteria for PM10, the criteria are prioritized with the Intuitionistic Fuzzy AHP (IF-AHP) method by taking decision-maker opinions. The proposed decision-making model aims to guide obtaining and focusing on the important causes of out-of-limit and dangerous PM10 concentrations in the air. Additionally, PM10 data is analyzed in the context of COVID-19 and a statistical analysis is conducted. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is used to evaluate whether there is a significant difference in average monthly data over the years. The Games–Howell test, one of the post-hoc tests, is used for determining differences between groups (years). In addition, monthly PM10 values for the future are estimated using the Expert Modeler tool in the software IBM® SPSS® Statistics 22. The study is important in that it provides a focus on the criteria affecting PM10 with an intuitionistic fuzzy perspective, along with statistical analysis.

Analysis of the relationship between heaven and man in Neo-Confucianism from an ecological perspective

Neo-Confucianism’s understanding of the relationship between heaven and man greatly reflects their view of nature and their aesthetic pursuits. Confucianism revolves around the perfection of human virtue, and the profundity of its theory of the relationship between heaven and humanity lies in the recognition of the value of all natural things. Therefore, the Confucian view of nature and humans emphasises the Unity of Heaven and Man by virtue. The concept of ‘the Unity of Heaven and Man by virtue’ unfolds the characteristic of symbiosis between humans and all things, which is manifested by the natural view of oneness of all things. The virtue of Sheng reflects the natural aesthetic consciousness of Confucianism. In Confucianism, virtue and beauty are unified, and this characteristic is mainly manifested as the beauty of ShengSheng. Sheng is not only a kind of great virtue but also a kind of great beauty, and the idea of the beauty of ShengSheng embodies the Confucian pursuit of the beauty of natural life.Contribution: This article mainly examines the relationship between humans and heaven in Neo-Confucianism. In particular, it focusses on the thought of ‘the Unity of Heaven and Man’, and analyses the natural aesthetic influence of this thought.

“Where Treasures Arise:” Mining Knowledge, Mining Sites, and the Spatial Rationalities of Mineral Resources in Qing China

A comparison between nineteenth-century Europe and Qing-dynasty Yunnan reveals how mining knowledge shaped ways of understanding and organizing mineral resources in space. In Europe, stratigraphic geology, prospecting technologies, and mapmaking generated new rationales to understand mineral resources and their distribution in space, a process entangled with the rise of the nation-state and its exercise of power over the qualities of its territory. In Qing China, due to the lack of modern mining and geological knowledge and the gulf between miners and officials, mineral resources and their distribution were understood purely by reference to mining sites, in particular chang (廠 mine, literally “factory”). Territorial administration, taxation, and transportation were the primary mechanisms utilized to organize these mining sites, and through them governments and officials controlled information on mineral resources and envisaged their spatial distribution. The map was not an authoritative tool for presenting mineral resources in space but instead demonstrated more the Qing's hegemony and local governance than the pursuit of precision. Drawing upon Margo Huxley's insights into spatial rationality, this study problematizes space in the epistemic understanding of mineral resources in a pre-modern context and reassesses historical implications of the legibility of nature for political rationalities governing natural things.

Role of green open spaces in the mental health and happiness of urban communities

Background: Mental health is the most important thing in human life, but in reality in Indonesia the level of mental health disorders is still high. People who live in urban areas are vulnerable to mental health disorders such as anxiety, stress and depression which are caused, among other things, by high work pressure and lack of recreational activities. Method: This article uses a non-experimental correlational method, collecting secondary data from various sources and journal articles without experimental manipulation. The focus is on urban communities. Findings: Difficulty accessing natural things, such as rural environments, even something "green". is one of the factors that makes urban residents easily experience depression. Depression can cause decreased energy, sleep disturbances, changes in appetite, and other physical problems, therefore fulfilling recreational needs that are cheap and easily accessible through public open spaces can be a solution to reduce people's stress levels. Conclusion: Green open space (RTH) provides an opportunity to escape from fatigue, work pressure, city crowds so that people can release their stress by immersing themselves in nature and connecting themselves with the natural environment. RTH has many positive benefits so its existence is very necessary, especially in densely populated residential areas. Novelty/Originality of this article: This study proposes a model for integrating green open space (GOS) into urban planning that considers physical aspects and therapeutic functions for mental health. This model combines evidence-based GOS design with community mental health programs, creating a 'green healing zone' that can be accessed and optimally utilized by city residents to reduce stress and improve mental well-being.

PENGARUH PERLAKUAN METODE BIRTHING BALL TERHADAP PENURUNAN INTENSITAS NYERI KALA 1 FASE AKTIF

Childbirth is a natural thing and will definitely be experienced by every woman who has a partner. However, the fact that cannot be denied is that many women feel anxious before giving birth, which can be influenced by various factors. The aim of providing Endorphine Massage with lavender aromatherapy is to reduce the anxiety level of mothers in the first stage of labor at the Sekar Community Health Center, Bojonegoro Regency. The design provides instillation, massage, Endorphine Massage with lavender aromatherapy to reduce the anxiety level of mothers in the first stage of labor at the Sekar Community Health Center, Bojonegoro Regency. The results of the instillation, giving Endorphine Massage pills with lavender aromatherapy which has no side effects in reducing the anxiety level of mothers giving birth at the Sekar Community Health Center, Bojonegoro Regency, so that mothers can apply endorphine massage with lavender aromatherapy to reduce the level of anxiety in labor without causing side effects in reducing Anxiety level

“Go on, get out, you've got this”: A qualitative study exploring engagement with a nature conservation intervention for older adults

This qualitative study evaluated a co-designed nature conservation intervention for older adults living in a retirement village. It explored if and how the intervention could support autonomous motivation to engage with nature. Participants were invited to “spot, count and record things in nature” for 6 weeks, tailoring (i.e., personalizing) this nature activity to their motivations, needs and abilities, and using resources provided (e.g., logbook). Following the intervention, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 participants. These interviews highlighted the wide range of barriers to engaging with the natural environment among older adults, even if it is easily accessible. Findings revealed that co-designing an intervention, tailored to different motivations, needs and abilities, providing a sense of purpose and connection, and supporting discovery and learning, can inspire older adults to spend more time engaging with nature.

The Importance of The Role of The Community in Amdal For The Goal of Environmentally Sound Sustainable Development

The State of Indonesia could be a nation that, in its improvement, puts forward the concept of good and solid natural perspectives recorded within the Structure Article 28H passage (1) and Article 33 passage (4) of the 1945 Structure. In this manner, Indonesia's natural administration and protection concept must have a Allow. Amdal. One of the things within the Work Creation Law No. 11 of 2020 that raises a problem is the expulsion of the article with respect to the commitment for an Natural Allow; within the Work Creation Law, Natural Grants are not entirely directed. In any case, to get a business allow, the candidate must get a choice with respect to natural feasibility. The substance of the Natural Allow contained within the UUPPLH has been changed to gotten to be an natural assention within the Work Creation Law. The issues contained in this article examine natural things contained within the Work Creation Law, look at issues of natural authorizing related to human rights, and give recommendations for advancements with respect to the environment within the Work Creation Law based on MK Choice No. 91/PUU-XVIII/2020, with the comes about of the trial uncovering the truth that the arrangement of the Work Creation Law did not give space for open cooperation. Indeed in spite of the fact that the Work Creation Law remains conditionally valid, if within 2 a long time the Work Creation Law does not make enhancements, the Work Creation Law will be declared unconstitutional. So, the modification of the Work Creation Law after the Sacred Court's choice with respect to the environment must organize human rights and maintainable improvement that's ecologically sound, especially by obliging environmental permit obligations in the form of an Amdal.

SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIATION OF HOMONYMOUS NOUNS OF THE MODERN GERMAN LANGUAGE

The article explores the semantic features of homonyms and the methods used to differentiate them in speech. A comprehensive sampling from the explanatory dictionaries Duden (2023), Langenscheidt (2019), and Wahrig (2018) revealed 2,128 homonymous nouns, which were grouped into 1,018 homonymous series. A component analysis of these homonymous nouns indicated that the majority refer to people or groups of people, as well as artificial objects. Other significant lexical-semantic groups, in descending order, encompass human social status, place names, fauna, mechanisms and devices, food and drink, measurements, actions, flora, art, language, human attributes, buildings, abstract concepts, natural things, and spatial objects. Statistical analysis shows that concrete concepts are more likely to be listed as the first or second homonym in the dictionary, while abstract concepts typically appear in third to fifth positions. This pattern reflects a broader principle in human activity organization, including language, where development progresses from simple to complex, from familiar to unfamiliar, and from observable to abstract. It has been determined that, in the majority of cases (86%), homonyms belong to different lexical and semantic groups, providing a natural form of differentiation within the language system. Homonyms that belong to the same lexical-semantic group are distinguished by factors such as grammatical gender, different plural forms, and social, regional, stylistic, or chronological markers. These distinctions enable a clear understanding of their meanings, reducing the ambiguity traditionally associated with homonymy. This observation suggests that the common belief that homonymy is a significant obstacle to communication may be overstated, as the above-mentioned factors allow for effective differentiation, ensuring that the risk of misinterpretation is not as frequent as one might expect.

The Influence of Gentle Birth on the Anxiety of TM III Primigravida Mothers in Preparation for Childbirth at TPMB Diah Arista, Wringinpitu Village, Tegaldlimo District”

Anxiety during pregnancy triggers changes in physical activity, nutrition and sleep, which have an impact on changes in the mother's mood and fetal development. The research design used was pre-experimental designs, using a one group pre test-post test design approach, in this study the population was Primigravida Mothers in Preparation for Childbirth, sampling using the Accidental Sampling technique obtained a sample of 30 respondents to determine the influence between the two variables The Wilcoxon statistical test was carried out with a significance level of 0.05. The research results obtained before the Gentle Birth were carried out, most of the respondents experienced a level of anxiety in preparation for the moderate category of birth, 17 respondents (56.7%) and after the Gentle Birth, almost all respondents experienced a level of anxiety in preparation for the mild category of birth, 28 respondents (93.3%) . Based on the results of the Wilcoxon statistical test with the SPSS 25 for Windows program, the calculated Z value was -4.964> Ztable -1.645 or Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) of p-value 0.000 <alpha 0.05 then H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. The position of gentle birth in a birth is to convey an understanding of how childbirth is considered a natural thing that is part of the human life cycle.
 Key words : Gentle Birth, Anxiety, Primigravida, Childbirth.

The Exception Rights Utilization Strategy to Enhance Defendant's Freedom Protection in Criminal Justice Proceedings

The criminal justice must be carried out based on the Code of Criminal Procedure. According to Article 156, paragraph (1), the exception is the right of the defendant to answer the indictment given by the Public Prosecutor. The memorandum of objection must be made well when observing the indictment. If there are weaknesses in the indictment, they must be disclosed in the exception appropriately so that the results are optimal in restoring the defendant's human rights that had been deprived, in the form of freedom if the defendant is detained. The case does not proceed as in the Interim Decision number 1473/Pid.Sus/2017/PN Jkt.Sel. When it wants to continue as a case, the prosecutor must make a new indictment. The goal is to optimize so that the rights of the accused remain protected. That then there are efforts of the public prosecutor is a natural thing. The research method in this study is juridical normative. Data collection by making court decisions is also done through literature research.

The Voice of the Non-Human: Scientific Knowledge, It-Narratives and Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century

This article examines the connection between early scientific ideas and It-Narratives in Britain over the long eighteenth century. A set of It-Narratives - fictional texts narrated by, or centred on, non-human entities like things or animals - will be read against the attempt to detect the voice of natural things by a number of early-modern experimental and natural philosophers. It will be argued that, although causal links are hard to prove, there is a degree of epistemic vicinity between these early scientific ideas and It-Narratives. In particular, it will be shown how in both disciplines fiction helped contemplate the possibility that non-human knowledge is more reliable than human-derived one.

Providence and Science in a World of Contingency: Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Divine Action

Providence and Science in a World of Contingency: Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Divine Action

Providence and Science in a World of Contingency: Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Divine Action

Providence and Science in a World of Contingency: Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Divine Action