Modernization Of People Research Articles

Mind the gap: Development and validation of an evolutionary mismatched lifestyle scale and its impact on health and wellbeing

Identifying an integrative framework that could appropriately delineate underlying mechanisms and individual risk/protective factors for human health has remained elusive. Evolutionary mismatch theory provides a comprehensive, integrative model for understanding the underlying causes and mechanisms of a wide range of modern health and well-being problems, ranging from obesity to depression. Despite growing interest regarding its importance though, no psychometrically-sound measure of evolutionary mismatch yet exists to facilitate research and intervention. To construct such a scale, aimed at gauging individual differences in the extent to which people's modern lifestyles are mismatched with ancestral conditions, we conducted four studies (a pilot study, followed by 3 main studies, with a final sample of 1901 participants across the main studies). Results from exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses have produced a 36-item evolutionary mismatched lifestyle scale (EMLS) with 7 subdomains of mismatched behaviours (e.g., diet, physical activity, relationships, social media use) that is psychometrically sound. Further, the EMLS is associated with physical, mental and subjective health. We explore the potential of the EMLS as a tool for examining interpersonal and cultural variations in health and wellbeing, while also discussing the limitations of the scale and future directions in relation to further psychometric examinations.

Two Watersheds of Major Global Public Health Emergencies: History, Reality and Response

The 1918-1919 pandemic influenza and the COVID-19 are the watershed of major global public health emergencies in the industrial age and the digital age. The latter has generality and particularity. The problems faced in the process of coping with the COVID-19 mainly include: prejudice hinders international cooperation; Extreme egoism of some countries and personnel reduces the effectiveness of responding to incidents; Rigid governance system; The theoretical support is insufficient. The causes of the problems are: many problems are long-term; The modernization speed of some countries and personnel is slower than the speed of environmental change; In the process of modernization, the modernization mode of the industrial age is adopted. The macro way to deal with the COVID-19 is to promote the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity, and give birth to the combination of "new system, new capacity - new environment". The micro approaches are: strengthening international cooperation and optimizing the international governance system; Enhance the modernization of national governance and the modernization of people; Effectively innovate the concept and method of governance.

Boron nitride nanoplate-based improvement of the specificity and sensitivity in loop-mediated isothermal amplification for Vibrio parahaemolyticus detection

BackgroundNucleic acid testing based on DNA amplification is gradually entering people's modern life for clinical diagnosis, food safety monitoring and infectious disease prevention. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) are the most powerful techniques that have been the gold standard for quantitative nucleic acid analysis. However, the high nonspecific amplification rate caused by the formation of primer dimers, hairpin structures and mismatched hybridization severely restricts their real-world applications. It is highly desirable to explore a way for improving the specificity and sensitivity of PCR and LAMP assays. ResultsIn this work, we demonstrated that a nanomaterial boron nitride nanoplate (BNNP), due to its unique surface properties, can interact with the main components of the amplification reaction, such as single stranded primers and Bst DNA polymerase, and increase the thermal conductivity of the solution. As a result, the presence of BNNPs dramatically improved the specificity of PCR and LAMP. And BNNPs maintained the specificity even after five rounds of PCR. Moreover, the sensitivity of LAMP was also enhanced by BNNPs, and the detection limit of BNNP-based LAMP was two orders of magnitude lower than that of classical LAMP. Then the BNNP-based LAMP was applied to detect Vibrio parahaemolyticus in contaminated seafood samples with high specificity and a 10-fold increase in sensitivity. SignificanceThis is the first systematic demonstration of BNNPs as a promising additive to enhance the efficiency and fidelity of PCR and LAMP amplification reactions, thereby greatly expanding the application of nucleic acid detection in a wide range of laboratory and clinical settings.

Rice‐farming areas report more anxiety across two years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China

AbstractCultures responded to the COVID‐19 pandemic differently. We investigated cultural differences in mental health during the pandemic. We found regional differences in people's reports of anxiety in China over two years from 2020 to 2021 (N = 1186). People in areas with a history of rice farming reported more anxiety than people in wheat‐farming areas. Next, we explored more proximal mechanisms that could help link the distal, historical factor of rice farming to people's modern experience of anxiety. Rice areas scored higher on collectivism and tight social norms than wheat areas, and collectivism, rather than norm tightness, mediated the rice‐anxiety relationship. These findings advance our understanding of the distal sources of cultural differences, the proximal mechanisms, and mental health problems during the pandemics.

Research on the algorithm of image feature detection and matching

In-depth research on feature detection technology affects people's modern life. Modern artificial intelligence can act as the eyes of human beings and efficiently filter out effective information from complex pictures. Corner detection has now evolved into a tool for efficient image scanning. People's increasingly stringent requirements for image processing continue to promote the birth of new technologies. Corner detection methods have been improved and perfected, and have experienced detectors such as Harris, FAST, Scalriant Feature Transform (SIFT), Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF), Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints (BRISK), KAZE, AKAZE and Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF (ORB). In the face of many mainstream detectors, the main research purpose of this paper is to rely on Python and Computer vision to study the detection efficiency of various detectors in different environments. In this experiment, thirteen groups of pictures were selected, and after being flipped, complicated, and blurred respectively, they were detected by different detectors to obtain the results. Finally, by comparing the feature detection points, detection time and other factors, this study found that the ORB detector can be competent in most situations and is currently the fastest and stable feature point detection and extraction algorithm. On the other hand, the BRISK detector can handle highly blurred images more efficiently.

Salad Days: Pairwise Gene Edits Food to Topple Nutrition Barriers

Salad Days: Pairwise Gene Edits Food to Topple Nutrition Barriers

Discovering the Depth of the Walls: Prefabricated Timber Houses in Interwar Japan

Architects’ perennial discussions on the walls of the Japanese house started in the early twentieth century, when calls for the rationalization and modernization of people’s everyday lives became the impetus for their engagement in housing design. One of their solutions to this sociocultural issue was the introduction of western prefabricated wall construction, structurally contrasting with the conventional post-and-beam construction. This architectonic approach to modernizing Japanese life and dwelling was further activated by modernism, and oriented toward the standardization and industrialization of housing. This essay focuses particularly on the interwar years, when some modernist architects, including Tsuchiura Kameki, designed prefabricated houses using timber rather than steel. We explore their experimental attempts to discover the heretofore unexperienced features and meanings of panelized walls and materials, as well as the relationship between construction and architectural production. Their progressionist vision, predicting the future shift of building materials and methods, cognitively affected postwar home industrialization.

Application Value of Dynamic Graphic in Protection of Social Folklore Tradition-Taking Buyi Wedding Series Dynamic Graphics Design as an Example

With the development of network technology and the change of people’s life style, many social folklore traditions in China are gradually forgotten by people. For this reason, protection of social folklore tradition has received much attention in recent years. Based on the analysis of the cultural origin and characteristics of social folklore tradition, this paper proposes to apply the design and expression methods of dynamic graphic to the protection and dissemination of social folklore tradition in order to show them in a more interesting way. Additionally, taking Buyi wedding series dynamic graphic design as an example aims to better explicate the whole design process. This research is conducive to the establishment of social folklore tradition and new media connection, and close to its integration into people's modern life. It can be predicted that the new media based on network technology will become one of the important and efficient means to protect the social folklore tradition.

Research on Real Estate Economic Security and Government Control

With the development of economy and the progress of society, people's living standards are gradually improving, and the requirements for housing are also gradually improving. The development of the real estate industry provides conditions for people's modern life, and its development meets the needs of China's socialist development. In such a social background, the future planning of the real estate industry is gradually clear, promoting the steady rise of the real estate economy, which is an important development prospect of the current real estate industry. In this paper, through the analysis of real estate economic security and government control, aiming at the existing problems, put forward some effective measures to promote the advantages of real estate development and the combination of government macro-control to stabilize the healthy development of the real estate industry.

"This is why we play"

Professional sports constitute an important part of people's modern life. People spend substantial amounts of time and money supporting their favorite players and teams, and sometimes even riot after games. However, how team performance affects fan behavior remains understudied at a large scale. As almost every notable professional team has its own online fan community, these communities provide great opportunities for investigating this research question. In this work, we provide the first large-scale characterization of online fan communities of professional sports teams. Since user behavior in these online fan communities is inherently connected to game events and team performance, we construct a unique dataset that combines 1.5M posts and 43M comments in NBA-related communities on Reddit with statistics that document team performance in the NBA. We analyze the impact of team performance on fan behavior both at the game level and the season level. First, we study how team performance in a game relates to user activity during that game. We find that surprise plays an important role: the fans of the top teams are more active when their teams lose and so are the fans of the bottom teams in an unexpected win. Second, we study fan behavior over consecutive seasons and show that strong team performance is associated with fans of low loyalty, likely due to "bandwagon fans." Fans of the bottom teams tend to discuss their team's future such as young talents in the roster, which may help them stay optimistic during adversity. Our results not only contribute to understanding the interplay between online sports communities and offline context but also provide significant insights into sports management.

Managing sport-for-development and healthy lifestyles: The sport-for-health model

With increased globalization and modernization of people’s lives, lifestyle behavior has changed substantially in many countries around the world. This change has brought two key behavior modifications: a reduction in physical activity and an increase in unhealthy eating patterns. Consequently, non-communicable diseases have overtaken communicable diseases as a key health risk area. In response to this issue, healthy lifestyle initiatives and sport-for-development (SFD) programs are now implemented across the world, including projects in the heavily affected Pacific Islands region. In this paper, the authors critically reflect on their lived experiences and the underpinning management processes of the Wokabaot Jalens, a health-focused SFD initiative in Vanuatu. The authors propose the sport-for-health model as a flexible conceptual tool that establishes the nexus between sport management, health promotion, sociocultural development, policy, and sustainability. The authors provide practical and theoretical implications and suggest that the model can underpin and conceptually support other SFD initiatives—and specifically health-related development projects—in the Pacific region and beyond.

21.1: Invited Paper: Development Trend of LCD Technology

Recent strong requirement of higher image quality for LCDs are more important than ever along with improvement of transmission technologies such as 8K TV, 5G, and so on. This paper introduces BOE's development trend of LCDs including technical element, and design trend.The impressive influences of LCD in people's modern digital live force panel makers such as BOE to ponder on the development of LCD technology. How should the LCD become more vivid and more accepted by the user?When the 8K display and the age of 5G are coming, how should LCD undertake its historical responsibility in the ecosystem of the Internet of things? The development trend of LCD through technical elements and design elements are summarized below. LCD will become more and more magnificent.

社会基盤を支える鉄鋼材料の進化

社会基盤を支える鉄鋼材料の進化

Muslim Schools (Pondok) in the South of Thailand

This paper focuses on the ponoh/pondok Muslim schools of the south of Thailand. These schools, which are traditional institutions of religious learning and places of religious piety, have experienced conflict and contestations throughout the twentieth century. Pondok have been pulled by different modernizing forces including separatist violence. The paper concludes that the contestations and negotiations with the Thai government are about the development of the local Malay people's modern civic identity within Thailand. It suggests that the introduction of a secular curriculum has had (and still has) its benefits for empowering the Malay-speaking population by supplying them with the cultural tools to contest and civically negotiate their position, culture and heritage within the Kingdom. The paper also provides a history of these schools and their political relationship to the Thai government's policies and to separatist organizations, as well as an update of events relating to the schools during the recent period of separatist and counter-separatist activities.

Free independent travellers? British working holiday makers in Australia

There is a renewed interest among geographers in tourism and how tourism makes the world and its people modern. In this paper, I engage with this renewed interest by way of a case study: British working holiday makers in Australia. Drawing on two modes of research practice, ethnography and political economy, I argue that, while working holidays may be structured in numerous ways, they also involve challenges, active individuals, heterogeneous spaces, and slow time (for reflection and inscription), which together, in a sense, make their makers modern. I frame this engagement, this argument, with a debate familiar to geographers: the problem of Free Independent Travellers.

Concepts and Mentality Are Changing? An Exploratory Discussion on the New Technological Revolution and the Modernization of Mentality

These days the term people use most often is probably modernization. The meanings of modernization, however, far exceed what can be included in economic modernization; it embodies all of the developmental directions of society, including also the modernization of people's mentality [guannian].† The modernization of mentality has incomparably important significance for us to better meet the challenge of the world's New Technological Revolution. Speaking just in terms of current modernization as manifested by the New Technological Revolution in the world, it demands not only smashing our parochial [xia' ai] mentality of traditional agricultural small production, which was formed over several thousands of years and still has great influence currently, but also requires us to break through the psychological state [or state of mind] of closure and immobilization brought about by some thirty years of indiscriminate copying of foreign countries,* in order to shift to a modern mentality and attitudes [taidu] ...