New Way Of Life Research Articles

Engaging with Brown Buttabean Motivation for Sustained Weight Loss.

Context Brown Buttabean Motivation (BBM) is a grassroot Pacific-led organisation aiming to reduce obesity amongst Pasifika (Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand) and Indigenous Maori, helping them choose a healthy and active life-style for themselves, their children and their wider family. BBM offers a holistic approach to weight loss, recognising that mental health, family and cultural factors all play essential and critical roles in nutrition and physical activity patterns. Objective To understand how participants experience and engage with BBM. Study Design &; Analysis Qualitative study conducted by our co-design research team within a broader BBM research project. Initial inductive thematic approach followed by theoretical deductive analysis of coded data guided by Pacific Fonofale and Māori Te Whare Tapa Whā health models. In this meeting-house metaphor, the floor is family, roof is culture, house-posts are physical, mental, spiritual and socio-demographic health and well-being, surrounded by environment, time and context. Setting South Auckland, New Zealand 2021 Population Studied BBM participants Instrument Semi-structured interviews Outcome Measures Narrative data Results 22 interviewees (50% female) aged 24-60 years of mixed Pacific and Māori ethnicities. Majority self-reported weight loss (between three and 135kg) since starting BBM. Two researchers independently coded data with adjudication (kappa=0.61) Participants identified the interactive holistic nature of health and wellbeing from BBM. As well as physical, mental and spiritual benefits, BBM helped many re-connect with both their family and their culture. BBM is seen as a new way of life. Participants "immediately belong to BBM family" regardless of culture or size, "with no judgements" and adopt the BBM motto "no excuses". Conclusions Many weight loss studies provide programmes to improve physical exercise and nutrition, but seldom address sustainability and other core factors such as mental health and motivation. BBM is a community-embedded Maori and Pasifika-led intervention, with no reliance on researchers nor external authorities for its ongoing implementation. It addresses factors impacting participants' lives and social determinants of health, including vaccination drives, food parcels and adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns. Our three-year longitudinal cohort study assessing sustained weight loss is ongoing.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF LIVELIHOOD PRACTICES AMONG THE GARO COMMUNITY: A STUDY ON TANGAIL DISTRICT

This article focuses on the Garo ethnic group, which is among the most neglected indigenous people in Bangladesh. The study aims to understand their livelihood pattern from the past to the present and to identify the factors that have led to changes in their livelihood. The research was carried out among the Garo community residing in the Madhupur pazila located in the Tangail district of Bangladesh. The study used both historical and exploratory data, with historical data being obtained from secondary sources such as books, journals, reports, and census data. The study used qualitative research methods and selected 13 Garo people through purposive sampling. The study found that Garo's traditional way of life is under threat, and they are adopting a completely new way of life due to various internal and external factors such as Christianity, NGOs, globalization, and social development. As a result, their traditional culture, including language, food habits, dress patterns, and religion, is under threat. The study also revealed that the Garo people face various problems such as health, sanitation, communication, electricity, and security. They need better transportation systems, more educational facilities, easy communication and government and non-governmental assistance in terms of material and financial support.

Queering Gay Tourism as Activism: Guy Hocquenghem’s Political Journey in the United States

Consistent with Guy Hocquenghem’s reluctance in Le désir homosexuel (1972) to identify fully as a homosexual while being one, his travel guide entitled Le gay voyage (1980) uses the trend of gay tourism while denouncing its contributions to capitalism and normativity. Focusing on the entries dedicated to New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, this article shows how the guide politicizes the ways in which homosexuals in the United States have been inventing new ways of life, which, in the words of Jack Halberstam, elaborate queer understandings of time and space that can inspire the aftermath of the sexual revolution while resisting homonormativity.

Berdamai Dengan Ekosistem: Sebuah Kajian Implikatif Terhadap Eksposisi Yoel 2:18-27

The purpose of writing this article is to find out the meaning in the text of Joel 2:18-27 for the life of the Israelites during the post-exilic period which will later have implications for contemporary life. This text contains joy and hope for the people of Israel who are experiencing misfortune as a result of their commitment to live a new way of life. True worship is true life. The approach used to interpret the text is Historical-Apocalyptic hermeneutic. The results show that God's message in Joel's preaching depicts God who cares about the continuity of the life of His creation, God hears the lamentations and changes in the lifestyle of the Israelites so as to restore the nation's condition in peace. This also has implications for calls for peace between humans and ecosystems where this is the basis for restoring natural life for the better. God's people must live in the new covenant order with God through concern for responsibility for the environment, which must preserve and protect the natural surroundings. Obedient and faithful people will enjoy peace, both in the present and in the future.

On caring for the body: the press and hygiene in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro.

Intensive efforts to urbanize the city of Rio de Janeiro and civilize its inhabitants began in the nineteenth century. Many of the population's values and habits fell out of favor compared with the new way of life that was being disseminated. The press was considered one of the most important instruments in this process of civilization, publishing a wide variety of knowledge and novelties in its periodicals that suggested a new more urbane and civilized way for the population to live. This article examines the pedagogical discourse constructed during this period, specifically recommendations related to bodily hygiene and care.

«Красота повседневности»: выставки в утверждении новой эстетики архитектурно-пространственной среды в Швеции

The article reveals the role of decorative art and architecture exhibitions that took place in Sweden during 1914–1930 in the creation of the Swedish ideology of “design of everyday things” and the establishment of functionalism as the dominant style in modernization of the architectural and spatial environment and, in general, a new way of life. The author of the article carefully traces the history of art and industrial exhibitions in Sweden and analyses their significance. Particular attention is paid to the activities of the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, as well as to the work of architects E.G Asplund and S. Lewerentz, who organized the Stockholm Exhibition in 1930. An important socio-cultural result of the study is the statement that holding regular exhibitions was one of the main means of educating Swedish society and introducing all of its social classes to the principles of the design approach to making home and building the subject-spatial environment of the surrounding world.

Social Overview of Smartphone Use by Teenagers.

Information and Communication Technologies have led to a new way of life and, in particular, of socialization. The objective of this study is to analyse the image social media disseminate of news taken from digital newspapers, based on the opportunities and drawbacks attributed to smartphone use by teenagers. An essentially qualitative methodology was used, on a sample of 1704 news items published in digital newspapers. The results and conclusions show that smartphone use by teenagers improves development of their digital competence, presents new academic opportunities (through gamification or mobile learning) and provides them with digital tools for school and leisure. The widespread drawbacks reflect the effects of the device on the deterioration of health (dependence, stress, psychosocial problems) and emotions, thereby succinctly affecting academic performance. A noticeable increase of positive news about smartphones was published in the major newspapers in December, while that on its negative effects, in September.

Association between socio-economic factors and the risk of overweight and obesity among Chinese adults: a retrospective cross-sectional study from the China Health and Nutrition Survey

BackgroundWith the rising prevalence of obesity and overweight, increasing number of scholars paid attention to the negative effects on human health and life. Recent years, many studies have focused on the relation of socio-economic factors with the risk of overweight or obesity, but findings have been inconsistent. This study investigated the relationship between socio-economic factors and the risk of overweight and obesity among Chinese adults.MethodsThis study was based on the survey of the China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2015, with 9245 Chinese adults aged 18–65 years old. Overweight and obesity were assessed by physical measurements of weight, height, and waist circumference. Multiple logistic models were used to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of the association.ResultsOverall, the prevalence rates of general obesity and abdominal obesity were 15.5% and 22.6%, respectively. We found that education and per capita household income were positively associated with overweight and obesity risk in men. However, the association between education and obesity status was negative in women [general obesity: OR = 0.64, 95% CI (0.50–0.81); abdominal obesity: OR = 0.62, 95% CI (0.51–0.76)]. Occupational status was only associated with general overweight in men.ConclusionsResults suggested that higher education and per capita household income were associated with an increased risk of overweight and obesity among Chinese men, whereas the associations were negative for women. We recommended that men with high levels of education and income, women with low levels of education, can engage in some physical activity, modify dietary, and adopt a new way of life to maintain their weight and general health.

COVID-19 and the experiences of academics with mobility impairments in an open distance learning higher education institution in South Africa

ABSTRACT The article presents the narratives of two academics with mobility impairments who work in the largest open distance learning higher education institution in South Africa. We share our experiences as we navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic and reflect on this phase. For many people, life will never be the same after this pandemic; people have had to adapt and adjust to the demands of the “new normal” and will have to keep on adapting in the future as well. For all of us, this will be the new way of life. However, people with disabilities usually do not have a “normal”; they are often excluded, isolated and are considered to be the “other.” This article explores how we, who are considered as “other” academics, experience this “new normal.” Using the narrative research design, as authors of this article we present our personal narratives of living through the COVID-19 transition and its impact on our academic lives. The article also presents our conflicting emotions, as well as reflections on what the “new normal” is likely to bring to our academic lives. Dialogues in the field of people with disabilities and academia are usually uncomfortable because they focus on feelings of being stranded and how academics with disabilities cope with daily anxiety. In sharing our unique experiences, we assume that these narratives might add further insights to the dialogues.

The Impact on Bed and Breakfast Prices: Evidence from Airbnb in China

As a new type of accommodation and a new way of life, it is of great significance for the spatial optimization and price management of the tourist accommodation market to explore the spatial differentiation characteristics of and influencing factors on bed and breakfast (B&B) house prices. Taking Shandong B&B merchants on the Airbnb website as the research object, this paper discusses the spatial characteristics of and influencing factors on B&B prices in the Shandong province, combining spatial autocorrelation analysis and interpolation analysis to identify the B&B cluster region. Quantile regression was used to reveal the main influencing factors. The results show that: (1) the spatial agglomeration effect of B&B prices in the Shandong province is obvious, and the high value areas form a new pattern between the provincial economic circle and the Jiaodong Economic Circle; (2) the influence of different factors on B&B house prices is very uneven in space. From the regional point of view, there are “sub-regional effects” on the spatial distribution of the influences of various factors on B&B house prices. The results of the study provide references for reasonable pricing, scientific site selection, and spatial optimization of B&Bs.

“Creative city”: A way of life and a way of shaping the environment

Creativity as a real stimulus for modern development responds to the challenges of time, contributes to the generation of innovative ideas and the creation of new products and environments. A creative city and creative environment, being immanent properties of the modern world, are the key strategies for the development of cities/territories/environments and manifestation of their authenticity, contribute to the formation of a new way of life, and serve as symbols of success. Creative clusters are actively used for the renovation and gentrification of degrading territories and environments.

ADAT DAYAK DAN IMAN KRISTEN DALAM PENERAPANNYA DI TENGAH MASYARAKAT

Adat is a way of life that has been passed down from generation to generation, sometimes considered sacred, so that when religion with rules/teachings that are considered new by the community becomes a new way of life, it becomes a problem to be considered as throwing away custom, or people who have forgotten the land, or are arrogant. , fanatic or dubbed uncivilized. From a religious perspective, Christians are divided into several interpretations. The attitude of rejection, which considers customs a sin with the assumption that everything in the world is sin (1 John 2:15-16). Meanwhile, other interpretations are fully accepting of adat. Custom is a gift from God, the fall of man into sin has damaged and confused traditional values, customary values need to be tested with the Word of God. This study uses a qualitative methodology with an interview and literature approach. The result of the research is that Christians should not reject customs, they only need to sort out what is contrary to God's word and what is not contrary to God's word. Customs that are contrary to God's word must be abolished, while customs related to God's word must be cultivated. Conclusion: Christian faith must be above customs because Christian faith is directly related to faith in Christ

A research framework for digital nomadism: a bibliometric study

ABSTRACT Digital nomads live a new way of life that creates an ideal balance of work and leisure. Research on the phenomenon of digital nomads is still in its early stages and is not fully framed as a proper research category. Therefore, the present research aims to explore research on digital nomadism by study leading countries, authors and themes that can become a foundation for future research. This study is exploratory and interpretive – using bibliometrics, we systematically searched all articles indexed in the Web of Science database. The study presents the evolution of scholarly production, and identifies key authors and countries that have the potential to become pioneers in digital nomad research. We identified 17 core concepts of digital nomad research as well as concepts that have not yet received much attention from scientists. Additionally, our study provides a framework for research on digital nomadism and presents topics for future research: we determine how the 17 core concepts identified in this study affect the lives of digital nomads, research into legislation that directly affects digital nomads, study how COVID-19 has changed working styles, and offer a bibliometric analysis of data on digital nomads from other databases.

VIRTUAL EXCURSIONS

The modern century is characterized by a high level of development of technology and science, and conditions the improvement of the educational process and adaptation to a new way of life. One form of modernization is virtual excursions, which represent an imaginary visit to objects that are studied using modern information and telecommunication technologies. The purpose of this research is to determine the presence of virtual excursions in the teaching process and their impact on children of primary school age. The research was carried out in the area of the town of Krupanj. The research was conducted in the Elementary School "Borivoje Ž. Milojevic". The assessment of this research was carried out on a sample of 80 students from the above-mentioned elementary school. The age structure included in this research is 9+1 years. Based on the obtained data collected by the research, an analysis was performed and it was concluded that virtual excursions are represented in educational institutions and that both genders of students of this institution are equally subjected to virtual excursions.

The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing by Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Reviewed by: The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing by Jeanne-Marie Jackson Avram Alpert The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing, by Jeanne-Marie Jackson; 232 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. The world of postcolonial literary studies harbors a well-earned suspicion of claims to promoting liberal ideals like civility, rationality, and individuality. The liberal worldview, after all, arose in the same era as European colonial expansion. To many critics, this was not a coincidence: liberal ideals were often crafted in opposition to the peoples that Europeans were encountering around the world. Whereas these other peoples were supposedly bound to collective myths, unaware of the primacy of the individual, and condemned to violent passions, liberals claimed that Europeans used rationality to perceive the value of individual life, and, in so doing, had unlocked the key to promoting civilizational harmony. All that everyone else had to do to experience this new way of life was, in one of history's most wretched paradoxes, to succumb to colonial violence and join the empire of liberty. It is thus quite logical that anticolonial criticism would call into question the basic features of the liberal worldview. But in recent years, an interdisciplinary cohort of scholars—including Sankar Muthu in political science, Sanjay Subrahmanyam in history, Mukti Lakhi Mangharam in literary studies, and Ato Sekyi-Otu in philosophy—have come to question this consensus.1 Their challenge rests on an ironic problem of the critique of ideologies associated with colonialism: by criticizing topics like civility, rationality, and individuality as such, do we not play into the very Eurocentric idea that these ideas were invented by Europeans in the first place? As these scholars have shown across various disciplines, geographies, and time periods, this critique risks giving modern Europe too much credit. Ideals often associated with liberalism have antecedents around the world. Sometimes they are used to advance general equality and well-being; sometimes they subvert these ideals. As Jeanne-Marie Jackson argues in her trenchant new book intervening in these debates, The African Novel of Ideas, we thus need a criticism that is as much attuned to the critique of "false universalisms" as it is open to "the promise of one that is true" (p. 189). Throughout her book, Jackson argues that a reconstructed liberalism is not only fundamental to literature from Africa but that the critical neglect of this fact has distorted the general understanding of literature today. Critics—especially but not exclusively in the West—have become so accustomed to sniffing out hints of liberal, individualist ideology that they routinely cast aside the ways in which African philosophers and novelists have themselves sought to explore and transform these ideals. Jackson's argument is not that liberalism, as it stands, is a noble philosophy that has been unfairly jettisoned. Rather, she posits that African writers are developing a fundamental innovation by considering how they—who were so long exploited by European ideals—can nonetheless find [End Page 495] meaning in both alternative and emergent versions of these very same ideals. What their work emphasizes is the "process of getting from an African locality to its universal resonance" (p. 185). In other words, whereas Europeans had simply presumed that their view of the world should apply everywhere, the contemporary novelists and philosophers discussed in this book engage in thorough intellectual and conceptual labor to tease out how ideas generated in one place might speak (without force) to peoples around the world. Jackson advances this argument through an innovative mix of philosophy and literature. Rather than evoking the standard series of French philosophers summoned to explicate literature, Jackson frames her readings through the work of philosophers such as Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Emmanuel Eze. This allows her to shift the focus of her readings of literature from questions of language and close reading to underanalyzed topics in philosophy and literature, especially about how African literature enacts philosophical questions. She discusses topics ranging from the nature of the self and the meaning of rationality to a meta-interrogation on the purpose of philosophizing itself (pp. 16–17). That purpose...

Внутренний туризм в российской экономике: анализ современного состояния отрасли

The current difficult geopolitical situation, as well as the unfavorable epidemiological situation, have formed a new way of life, consumption and labor activity among Russians. Today, Russians are increasingly choosing neighboring or distant regions of our country for tourist trips, giving a new impetus to the development of domestic tourism. The article describes the current trends in the functioning of domestic tourism and its role in the socio-economic development of the country and individual regions.

Kuliah Kerja Nyata (KKN) di Desa Bendungan Kabupaten Kulon Progo Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

The 78th community service (KKN) was conducted in several villages in KulonProgo and GunungKidul Regencies. Authors were in group 87 and stationed in Bendungan Village, KulonProgo. This Community Service Program is focused on developing the potential of villages in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Considering the agricultural background of the Bendungan village residents, programs about the farming, group 87 made a program about the introduction of organic fertilizers and the cultivation of Cavendish Banana. This program can help the local community's economy which is currently declining due to restrictions in carrying out activities amid this pandemic. Cavendish Banana has a fairly high value in the market and is also in great demand from consumers. Apart from developing the village's potential, a program in the form of a pocket book about new normal was arranged. This pocket book contains insights about new normal and new way of life, for example using a mask when traveling, regular hand wash, and always carrying a hand sanitizer

Engineering Controls and Technologies to Enhance Safety in the COVID-19 Pandemic Landscape: Lessons for Laboratories and Non-Laboratories.

The global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic ushered in a new way of life in a short time, with many lasting impacts that have yet to be fully realized. This pandemic threat landscape resulted in massive efforts to increase safety, minimize person-to-person transmission, and rethink how society approaches personal and collective health issues. The buildings and environments in which we live, work, and learn now became environments that pose new risks. As a result, many institutions began asking what improvements could be made to those environments to reduce the spread of infection of SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases. The authors conducted a review of past projects and emerging technologies to evaluate which applications in containment laboratories could represent an example of how engineering controls can improve safety by protecting the workers inside the laboratories as well as the public interfacing the laboratories. Engineering controls, technology, and safety systems are hallmarks of modern containment laboratories that may provide some context into extrapolating these elements into non-laboratory environments, providing there is coordination with a risk assessment methodology. In this study, the authors explore new technologies proposed for controlling SARS-CoV-2 in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, and potential impacts to the operations and maintenance of those systems.

The Paradox of the Margins

Abstract The early growth prospects of the American-Based Seventh-day Adventist Church in Africa were blurry because of challenges that early missionaries encountered. However, against all odds, the denomination on this continent shook off setbacks related to its difficult beginnings in the 1900s. Through the investigation of familiar and unfamiliar themes, this article seeks to raise awareness about new dynamics in the context of global Seventh-day Adventism. Adventism would not cease to be a thing of Western origin, but its future can be decisively determined by the hands of its non-Western adherents, who naturally share little of Western culture. The change in the Adventist landscape is not simply a matter of new names of Black origin being added to the church records, but of imposing new realities that necessitate a new way of life, a new vision of leadership, new strategies for mission, and new thinking accommodative of cultural shifts.

체육계 근로 현장에서 긱 워커(Gig Worker)로 살아남기 : 스포츠 전문가의 독립형 근로 전환에 대한 내러티브

This study explores the stories and experiences of sports experts who are aiming for independent work in the field of physical education and sports. To this end, a narrative research method was used for trainers with 18 years of experience in athlete rehabilitation and physical fitness trainers. Data was collected through narrative interviews and participatory observation based on the life experiences of participants in the study from January 2020 to May 2022. The collected data were analyzed through cultural descriptive methods, and the results are as follows. First, the research participants face a new job environment after the change in trends in the sports industry and the Corona pandemic. Second, the research participants who felt the need for change decide to get out of the current work environment. Third, for change, they destroy the existing way of working and seek a new way of life. Fourth, to become independent workers, the research participants strengthen networking in their specialized areas, utilize online platforms, and maintain flexibility and non-exclusiveness of working conditions. Fifth, as independent workers, gig workers, they make an effort to build their own domain.