People Love Research Articles

The Tale of a Raju in The Guide: From a Guide to Peace-Maker

By nature, people love peace. But, sometimes, they reveal their devastating instincts both towards themselves and others. This phenomenon of conflict between love and hate prevails in many parts of the present world, especially in the Middle East and South-East Asia. Consequently, the extreme sufferings of humanity have impacted the creative writers of the world. This has, off late, become a popular area of literary exercise among fiction writers in South Asia. Following this trend, The Guide written by RK Narayan, portrays a bigger picture of a human and humane process peace-building that makes us constantly imagine of and get involved in establishing an ideal world. He, in the novel, proves how important it is for us to have peace in our life, which comes at the cost of self-sacrifice. This paper investigates, through theories and critiques, textuality and intertextuality, how Raju, the central character in The Guide, turns into a peace-builder, and how this peace-building puts back calm and happiness in his life as well as in the lives of others around him.

Excavations

The future of autoethnography lies in intersectional reflexivity and critical perspective taking, which the authors demonstrate in their pleated narrative. In a collaborative autoethnography, the authors use journals, recollected conversations, letters, memory work, and sociological introspection to reconstruct their romantic and intellectual relationship from thirty years ago when they were undergraduate students attending different colleges. The narrative, poetry, and scenes the authors share show similar goals (independence, academic focus), emotional resonance (hot and cold, friendship as opposed to romance and sex), and testing out of personas. They offer explanations for the end of their romantic relationship including the lack of models for independent people in love that combine romance, love, intellect, and supporting each partner’s work goals and argue that excavation of the past, and their relationship, is an example of how we return to memories to reconstruct the specific details we need to understand a present moment.

Joint transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis provides new insights into drought resistance in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus).

Watermelon is an annual vine of the family Cucurbitaceae. Watermelon plants produce a fruit that people love and have important nutritional and economic value. With global warming and deterioration of the ecological environment, abiotic stresses, including drought, have become important factors that impact the yield and quality of watermelon plants. Previous research on watermelon drought resistance has included analyzing homologous genes based on known drought-responsive genes and pathways in other species. However, identifying key pathways and genes involved in watermelon drought resistance through high-throughput omics methods is particularly important. In this study, RNA-seq and metabolomic analysis were performed on watermelon plants at five time points (0h, 1h, 6h, 12h and 24h) before and after drought stress. Transcriptomic analysis revealed 7829 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) at the five time points. The DEGs were grouped into five clusters using the k-means clustering algorithm. The functional category for each cluster was annotated based on the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database; different clusters were associated with different time points after stress. A total of 949 metabolites were divided into 10 categories, with lipids and lipid-like molecules accounting for the most metabolites. Differential expression analysis revealed 22 differentially regulated metabolites (DRMs) among the five time points. Through joint analysis of RNA-seq and metabolome data, the 6-h period was identified as the critical period for watermelon drought resistance, and the starch and sucrose metabolism, plant hormone signal transduction and photosynthesis pathways were identified as important regulatory pathways involved in watermelon drought resistance. In addition, 15 candidate genes associated with watermelon drought resistance were identified through joint RNA-seq and metabolome analysis combined with weighted correlation network analysis (WGCNA). Four of these genes encode transcription factors, including bHLH (Cla97C03G068160), MYB (Cla97C01G002440), HSP (Cla97C02G033390) and GRF (Cla97C02G042620), one key gene in the ABA pathway, SnRK2-4 (Cla97C10G186750), and the GP-2 gene (Cla97C05G105810), which is involved in the starch and sucrose metabolism pathway. In summary, our study provides a theoretical basis for elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying drought resistance in watermelon plants and provides new genetic resources for the study of drought resistance in this crop.

Detecting Substance Use Disorder Using Social Media Data and the Dark Web: Time- and Knowledge-Aware Study.

Opioid and substance misuse has become a widespread problem in the United States, leading to the "opioid crisis." The relationship between substance misuse and mental health has been extensively studied, with one possible relationship being that substance misuse causes poor mental health. However, the lack of evidence on the relationship has resulted in opioids being largely inaccessible through legal means. This study aims to analyze social media posts related to substance use and opioids being sold through cryptomarket listings. The study aims to use state-of-the-art deep learning models to generate sentiment and emotion from social media posts to understand users' perceptions of social media. The study also aims to investigate questions such as which synthetic opioids people are optimistic, neutral, or negative about; what kind of drugs induced fear and sorrow; what kind of drugs people love or are thankful about; which drugs people think negatively about; and which opioids cause little to no sentimental reaction. The study used the drug abuse ontology and state-of-the-art deep learning models, including knowledge-aware Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers-based models, to generate sentiment and emotion from social media posts related to substance use and opioids being sold through cryptomarket listings. The study crawled cryptomarket data and extracted posts for fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and other novel synthetic opioids. The study performed topic analysis associated with the generated sentiments and emotions to understand which topics correlate with people's responses to various drugs. Additionally, the study analyzed time-aware neural models built on these features while considering historical sentiment and emotional activity of posts related to a drug. The study found that the most effective model performed well (statistically significant, with a macro-F1-score of 82.12 and recall of 83.58) in identifying substance use disorder. The study also found that there were varying levels of sentiment and emotion associated with different synthetic opioids, with some drugs eliciting more positive or negative responses than others. The study identified topics that correlated with people's responses to various drugs, such as pain relief, addiction, and withdrawal symptoms. The study provides insight into users' perceptions of synthetic opioids based on sentiment and emotion expressed in social media posts. The study's findings can be used to inform interventions and policies aimed at reducing substance misuse and addressing the opioid crisis. The study demonstrates the potential of deep learning models for analyzing social media data to gain insights into public health issues.

Public Service Motivation and Factors Affecting Students' Learning Motivation - Research at Lam Dong Medical College

Working in the medical industry requires patience, sacrifice and love for people. People with personalities and awareness aligned with these qualities tend to be more inclined to meet the job demands, thus resulting in higher satisfaction and long-term commitment to their work. This study analyzes the impact of factors such as lecturers’ behavior, students' active learning orientation, positive learning environment, active teaching methods, public service motivation, and perception of future career opportunities on the learning motivation of medical students. The study surveyed 318 students who are studying at the Lam Dong Medical College. The results show that all six factors above have a positive impact on the learning motivation of students. In particular, the public service motivation factor has the strongest impact. Based on the research results, the authors propose some managerial implications to improve students' learning motivation.
 
 

“I Know It is a Stereotype, but People Love to See It”: Chinese Journalists’ Perceptions of Sexual Violence Victims

ABSTRACT Drawing on the concept of framing, this paper investigates the perspectives of Chinese journalists on sexual violence against women. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 Chinese journalists from official, commercial, and freelance media outlets. The study identified two primary frames relating to female victims of sexual violence: the “idealness” of victims and the newsworthiness of victims. The paper examines how these frames relate to China’s socio-economic, cultural, and organisational context. It is argued that the perceptions and news values of Chinese journalists regarding sexual violence are influenced by both macro-level factors—such as socio-economic, organisational, and cultural factors, and micro-level factors, such as the journalists’ professional reputation and personal values. This interplay of factors results in the symbolic erasure of certain victims of sexual violence. The findings of this study underscore the importance of examining the cognitive frames journalists use when reporting on sexual violence, identifying key factors that influence their reporting. In doing so, the study contributes to existing literature on the framing of women’s issues.

Analysing the Overseas Spread of Chinese Songs on TikTok Using Textual Analysis

The prevalence of short videos around the world, especially the huge success of TikTok overseas, has provided a brand-new opportunity for the spread of Chinese culture and China’s national image. Chinese songs, with their natural communication attributes and carrying Chinese cultural values, have spread rapidly around the world using TikTok as a communication platform and have crossed language and cultural barriers, touching people’s hearts deeply. It is with this unique charm that Chinese songs have successfully attracted the love and attention of overseas people through TikTok. In this era, the communication of China’s national image should proactively seize the opportunities of this era, make full use of various emerging communication platforms and channels, change the passive situation of overseas communication of the national image in the past, and take a more active and proactive attitude to show the world China’s charisma and elegance, so as to enable the world to better understand China’s culture, values, and development achievements.

Efficacy of Mindfulness based Psycho-Spiritual Intervention Program for Clergy in Myanmar

Spirituality appears to be important aspect in pursuing happiness for religious people. They believe that spirituality is a way through which their deepest desires are met by connecting with God, the transcendent (Corwin, 2014). As a result, religious people generally believe that dedicating their lives to God in the love and service of His people is the way to pursue happiness (Mudge, 2021). The purpose of this study was to develop and implement an adjunct therapeutic intervention for clergy who are low in their spiritual health and psychological health. The researcher developed a Mindful based Psycho-Spiritual Intervention Program integrating theories of cognitive, mindfulness and meaning management and coined a name as “MiPSIP”. The program intended to improve spiritual health and psychological health among the clergy in Myanmar. The study used true experimental research method, and pre-test post-test group design. This study was conducted in two phases: the first phase was the development of the intervention and the second phase was the experimental validation of the intervention. This intervention was subjected to expert validation. The result of the study shows a significant improvement of spiritual well-being and psychological well-being among clergy. The data obtained from the administration of the pre-test and post-test scores of SHALOM, PWBS and the personal data sheet were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statistics. Frequency and percentage were used to come with a presentation of the demographic profile of the participants. The pretest and post-test scores of the experimental group indicated significant differences as the results of frequency and percentage of participants on psychological well- being shows that 92% of novice clergy and 96% of senior priests reported high overall spiritual well-being. The result revealed that MiPSIP was effective in improving spiritual health and psychological health of clergy.

MONUMENT TO T. H. SHEVCHENKO IN IRPIN: TO THE HISTORY OF CREATION

The article is dedicated to the monument to Taras Shevchenko in Irpin by O. Sydoruk and B. Krylov (2017). Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko is a figure who long ago in the history of mankind became a symbol not only of genius, but also of courage, indomitability, extreme sensitivity to human grief and suffering, great love for people. This is perhaps the most respected figure in modern Ukraine and far beyond its borders. The secret of such deep respect for this unusual person who emerged from the depths of the people, his uniqueness lies in the fact that in Shevchenko's works, the soul of the Ukrainian people, passionate love for the native land – the motherland of Ukraine was embodied in a concentrated form. The greatness of Taras Hryhorovych, his importance in the struggle for freedom, for human dignity, for the development of culture, for the education of humanity is vividly highlighted in the memories of many of his contemporaries and in the statements of other prominent cultural figures. It is known that T.G. Shevchenko has the most monuments among the cultural figures of the world. Naturally, a significant part of them is located in Ukraine. The number of local communities wishing to have an image of Taras Hryhorovych is constantly growing even now, especially after Ukraine gained independence. The residents of the city of Irpen in the Kyiv region became such a community, where in August 2017 a monument (sculptural complex) appeared in the central square, in front of the city council building, in honor of the genius of the poet and artist Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to one of the most successful new monuments to Taras Shevchenko in Ukraine. The work of O. Sydoruk and B. Krylov, like all the previous works of the artists, differs from the existing works on this topic by the depth of the idea, originality, skillful execution and in all its characteristics corresponds to the person for whom the monument is being created. The article contains a description of the general concept of the monument, a description and interpretation of all the main details of the composition.

Design of Brand Culture Mental Model Based on Human-Computer Interaction in Artistic Visual Expression

Nowadays, people look at a brand not only to see the value of the brand itself, but to understand the cultural value conveyed behind the brand and experience the connotation of the brand culture. Human-computer interaction technology has also gained more application space with the development of the times. Therefore, a psychological model of brand culture based on human-computer interaction was designed in this paper, and a survey of related content was conducted. In terms of user satisfaction survey, it was concluded that the use of the brand culture mental model based on human-computer interaction technology could greatly improve users’ satisfaction with brand culture and make more people love brand culture; in terms of user participation survey, it was concluded that the brand culture mental model designed based on human-computer interaction technology could achieve better profit results at 21:00 on Sunday. Finally, a survey of user stickiness was carried out, and the test results showed that the brand culture mental model based on human-computer interaction technology established the stickiness between users and brands.

Increasing Sanfilippo Syndrome Awareness through Children's Literature and Music.

There is an ongoing effort to increase rare disease awareness amongst healthcare providers. This front is important and can help to address several challenges faced by rare disease patients, such as lengthy diagnosis times, difficulty in finding adequate providers of medical services and experts, and adequate treatment if one exists. On another front, there is the need for awareness among citizens and their support in the advocacy for public policies towards rare disease patients and families. Awareness campaigns are prevalent in social networks and fundraising events. In this poster, we present a complementary approach to engage society and promote rare disease awareness through children's literature and music. A Portuguese teenager wrote a book ('My Life with my sister'), describing simple and daily moments spent with her teenage sister affected by Sanfilippo syndrome. A professional illustrator designed and illustrated the book. The book is bilingual in Portuguese and English. The author, with the assistance of her music teacher, also composed a song which was recorded with the participation of professional musicians and made into a video clip telling their story and the books. The book and song promote the inclusion and love for people affected by rare diseases and their families. To increase outreach, sister organizations translated the book, adapted the song, and published/ recorded the material in Brazilian Portuguese and French. The proceeds from the sales go towards the Sanfilippo foundations in their respective countries to fund common research projects. The material is being advertised on social media, television, interviews, newspapers, podcasts, libraries, schools, bookshops, book fairs, and others. To date, more than eight hundred books have been sold to individuals and companies. The interviews and video clips add to more than twelve hundred views. The target audience is children, parents, teachers but also companies, and their employees.

ANALYSIS OF MUSABAQAH TILAWATIL QUR'AN ACTIVITIES IN INCREASING MOTIVATION FOR MEMORIZING THE QUR'AN IN MADRASAH ALIYAH TAHFIZHIL QUR'AN MEDAN

In memorizing the Qur'an, motivation is needed, both motivation to add new memorization, motivation to maintain memorization, and discipline motivation to divide time so that the quality and quantity of memorization are maintained properly. However, in reality, many memorizers of the Qur'an still have low motivation, so they have difficulty memorizing the Qur'an. Many want to memorize the Al-Qur'an but are worried that they will not be able to memorize it in the future. Musabaqah Tilawatil Qur'an (MTQ) is an effort to provide motivation to the younger generation to read, memorize and understand the Qur'an. With the existence of Musabaqah Tilawatil Qur'an (MTQ) it becomes a forum to increase motivation to memorize the Al-Qur'an and as a means for memorizers of the Al-Qur'an to test the quality of their memorization. The rapid development of MTQ in Indonesia is a manifestation of people's love for the Qur'an. MHQ in this case is considered to be able to motivate memorizing the Al-Qur'an, so that it is hoped that the students at Madrasah Aliyah Tahfizhil Qur'an Medan have good memorization skills and motivation to memorize. From this research it can be concluded that it can be concluded that the students who memorize the Al-Qur'an at Madrasah Aliyah Tahfizhil Qur'an Medan have their own way of memorizing the Al-Qur'an. This can be seen from their ability to apply self-motivation, self-management and preparation for MTQ.

Muslimah Event sebagai Upaya Membangun Karakter Muslimah dengan Al-Qur’an dan Bahasa Arab di Era Millenium

Muslimah Event is one of the routine activities which is carried out once a year by STIBA Makassar students. The activity with the theme Building Muslimah Character with the Qur'an and Arabic in the Millennium Era aims to restore people's love for the Qur'an and Arabic. This activity was enriched by a series of various competitions. This event took place at the Grand Diamond Ballroom by Myko Makassar because it is a strategic place and is in great demand by Muslim women in particular. This activity was carried out in collaboration with three SMEs; 1) Da'wah Department of the Women's Student Executive Council (DEMA); 2) Memorization Division of UKM Raudhatul Huffaazh Putri; and 3) the Language Development Division of UKM al-Fusha which synergizes with each other to spread the da'wah of the Qur'an and Arabic, especially in the city of Makassar. The results of its activities were successful in bringing as many as 1221 Muslim women. As a follow-up to the activity, 81 people formed Halaqah Tahsin and Arabic Language which were divided into 10 groups

Ho Chi Minh Thoughts on Love for People during the Revolution Period (1939-1945) and the Meaning of the Time

Ho Chi Minh's ideology on human love is one of the throughout contents of his ideological heritage. This is also considered a core content in Ho Chi Minh's humanistic thought. In particular, during the revolutionary period (1939-1945), it is considered an outstanding period of development in Ho Chi Minh's human love for poor, oppressed, and exploited workers. That love is expressed in both awareness and action, along with shared sympathy about life situations, associated with the action of fighting to liberate people in a comprehensive and radical way, towards independence and freedom, bringing full food and warm clothes to people.

Petshop Business Performance Analysis: An Marketing Approach

The need for a Petshop business in Makassar City is needed along with the increasing love of people for pets so that a marketing strategy is needed in marketing services for the products they sell. The population of this study was service users (3) three petshops in Makassar City, while the determination of this sample used the Probability Sampling Technique which amounted to 69 people in a random way without paying attention to the level that existed in the population members. Data collection techniques used are observation, questionnaires and direct interviews to parties related to the problem under study. The data were analyzed using multiple lenear regression analysis techniques, t-test, f-test and coefficient of determination with the help of SPSS 23 program.The results showed that (i) direct marketing communication did not have an effect on customer satisfaction, (ii) service quality directly affected and significantly affected customer satisfaction, (iii) simultaneously communication and service quality had a positive effect on customer satisfaction. Based on the coefficient of determination obtained from the results of data analysis, it is known that marketing communication and service quality have an influence of 61.6% on customer satisfaction of Petshop business in Makassar.

Linguistic-Cultural Features of Kyrgyz Song Discourse: Associative Experiment

The relevance of this study is due to important and insufficiently studied problems associated with song discourse. The lyrics of the song are a deep and mysterious product, which reflects not only the personal experiences and thoughts of the author, but also the peculiarities of the mentality of the culture as a whole. The topic of this work is relevant. To achieve this goal, the following research methods were used in the article: analysis, synthesis, observation, statistical analysis, interpretation and associative experiment. This experiment allows us to identify how song lyrics reflect social, cultural and political trends, what topics and problems are most often found in songs, what genres and styles are most popular among different segments of the population, etc. As a result of the association experiment, it was found that the lyrics are usually poetic and contain romantic and pastoral themes, such as love for nature, homeland and people. In addition, Kyrgyz songs have characteristic melodies and rhythms that reflect the cultural traditions and lifestyle of the Kyrgyz people. Kyrgyz songs are known for their unique linguistic and cultural characteristics, which distinguish them from folk songs of other cultures. One of these features is the use of incredible transitions from one tonal center to another. This creates a special harmony and originality of the melodies of Kyrgyz songs. The words in the songs reflect the centuries-old history of the people and their traditions, such as grazing cattle, national holidays, flower shows, as well as love and friendship. These texts often contain polysemantic words, symbols and images that convey ideas and national traditions. Kyrgyz songs are the wealth of the nation, which reflects the cultural heritage of the Kyrgyz people. They are a striking example of a combination of linguistic and cultural characteristics and are distinguished by their uniqueness and beauty.

Current situation and path of foreign minority language protection based on Internet of Things from the perspective of ethnic identity

Ethnic identity is an important reason for national unity. The formation of ethnic groups is mostly due to external and internal reasons, with a complex mechanism structure. When people’s environment is destroyed, this value identity will be stronger, national cohesion and solidarity will grow sharply, an unprecedented high. Minority languages are characterized by a wide variety, cultural generation, and dynamic evolution. The languages are complex and diverse, and are deeply influenced by their cultural heritage. This has led to the fact that for a long time, minority languages have been learned almost exclusively by people of their own ethnic group. This has led to a steady decline in the number of minority language speakers. However, the birth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has created an opportunity for the development of minority languages. Foreign minority languages have the following status (1) rapid decline (2) many endangered languages (3) low willingness to learn. In order to further investigate the current situation of minority language protection, the team conducted a survey in the minority cluster A. The results of the survey are as follows: most of the villagers are in love with the ethnic language and must inherit and promote the ethnic language, which is the wealth of a nation, but there are also a few residents who think that Mandarin should be used to replace the ethnic language. This reflects that most of the residents love the national language, but their young people as the inherited generation lose their love for the national language and are not willing to inherit and promote it. To solve this problem, an Internet of Things (IoT)-based ethnic language data system has been constructed so that the data system for ethnic minority language protection built through IoT technology can become the last line of defense for protecting ethnic languages, while allowing ethnic languages to be known and understood by more people through IoT technology, fostering the love and reverence of ethnic minority people for ethnic languages, and enhancing other ethnic groups’ sense of identity and support for ethnic languages. We propose to protect minority languages. Ultimately, we propose recommendations for the preservation of minority languages. (1) Increase publicity for minority language preservation. (2) Construct laws and regulations related to minority language protection. (3) Conduct in-depth research on minority language work and build an information base. (4) Promote minority language education.

“Remember me”: Thami Mnyele and the question of sacrifice

This essay looks at the short life of one artist, Thami Mnyele, assassinated in 1985. Mnyele sacrificed his life for a vague vision of equality and sincere love for ordinary people. The essay notes his growing commitment to serving the “common good,” both in his art and in his decision to become a MK soldier. Enduring times of extreme violence and distrust in the 1980s, he could not know that he was living on the cusp of radical change, when the strategies of power brokers on both sides were shifting away from the armed struggle. The essay argues that historians have a professional duty to depict honestly the growth of a commitment to self-sacrifice, and to ask uncomfortable questions, such as: did idealizing the masses and the ANC blind people to the dangers of populist rhetoric and the hijacking of a movement for personal gain?

All is fair in love and hypomania

BackgroundMany studies have found increased hypomanic scores in people in love. However, none controlled for the presence of cyclothymic or hyperthymic temperaments. Our primary objective was to test the hypothesis postulating that passionate love is similar to a hypomanic state while controlling for the presence of a susceptible underlying temperament. Our secondary objective was to look for an association between hypomanic symptoms and love intensity as measured by the Passionate Love Scale. MethodsAn online survey including the hypomanic check list-32 (HCL-32) and the passionate love scale (PLS) was administered to university students. ResultsTwo-hundred and eighty-two responses were retained. The mean age of the participants was 21.1 years (SD 2.8) and 62.1% (n=175) were females. 74.6% of participants in love were found to have a positive HCL-32 result as compared to 63.1% of participants who were not in love (p=0.038). The association remained significant and the difference more prominent after excluding people in whom a hyperthymic or cyclothymic temperament was suspected (70.3% vs 45%; p= =0.025). A statistically significant but weak correlation was found between the HCL-32 and PLS scores (Pearson correlation coefficient r=0.239; P=0.005). The latter association was lost after excluding participants in whom a hyperthymic or cyclothymic temperament was suspected. ConclusionsLove seems similar to hypomania, at least phenomenologically. It also seems that hypomanic symptoms are linked to the state of love per se, rather than to its intensity. The positive association between love and hypomania is also discussed from psychiatric, neurobiological, and anthropological perspectives.

For the love of fish, nature and people: A tribute to Professor Louis Bernatchez (1960–2023)

For the love of fish, nature and people: A tribute to Professor Louis Bernatchez (1960–2023)