People In State Research Articles

Cognitive computing method based on decoding psychological emotional states

The current artificial intelligence is constrained to passively executing human command control. It cannot perceive, learn, and guide itself. Furthermore, the majority of these systems are unable to comprehend the human psychological cognitive state or emotional intention actively. To enhance the universality and generalization ability of existing emotion recognition methods, a psychological emotion state decoding method combining singular spectrum analysis and entropy measure is designed based on an electroencephalography signal. This method is developed to empower the cognitive computing system with the ability to perceive emotions. The entropy measure is accelerated by the vector dissimilarity criterion. Finally, dynamic sample entropy model learning is used to realize the cognitive calculation of psychological and emotional state recognition. The results demonstrated that the computational efficiency of the proposed decoding algorithm was significantly improved. The average recognition accuracy of positive and negative emotional states reached 82.78±16.22. The best recognition accuracy of the proposed electroencephalography emotion recognition method was 84.64 %. The proposed electroencephalography emotion recognition method demonstrated an accuracy of 64.15 % in recognizing cross-individual positive, neutral, and negative emotional states. The proposed emotion recognition method shows better universality and generalization performance, and can effectively identify people's psychological and emotional states.

Analisis Hadis dalam Khanduri Laot pada Masyarakat pesisir Aceh Tamiang

The Khaduri Laot tradition is a traditional ceremony that must be carried out by the coastal communities of Aceh Tamiang, especially at the end of the west season or before the east season. This tradition has been carried out routinely by every village under the Panglima Laot area. For the local fishing community, Khaduri Laot reflects the relationship between humans, their creator, and the surrounding environment. This ceremony is believed to have a major influence on the safety of fishermen and the blessings of marine products. Khaduri Laot is considered a cultural tradition that must be maintained and preserved. Local people's beliefs state that not carrying out this ceremony can bring disaster or danger. On the contrary, the Khaduri Laot celebration is believed to bring blessings and abundant sustenance to fishermen and coastal communities. In addition, this ritual is also believed to provide protection and security for fishermen who sail at sea. This tradition not only has a spiritual dimension, but also a cultural one in maintaining harmony between humans and nature.

Autism and emotion recognition technologies in the workplace.

Technologies using artificial intelligence to recognize people's emotional states are increasingly being developed under the name of emotional recognition technologies. Emotion recognition technologies claim to identify people's emotional states based on data, like facial expressions. This is despite research providing counterevidence that emotion recognition technologies are founded on bad science and that it is not possible to correctly identify people's emotions in this way. The use of emotion recognition technologies is widespread, and they can be harmful when they are used in the workplace, especially for autistic workers. Although previous research has shown that the origins of emotion recognition technologies relied on autistic people, there has been little research on the impact of emotion recognition technologies on autistic people when it is used in the workplace. Through a review of recent academic studies, this article looks at the development and implementation processes of emotion recognition technologies to show how autistic people in particular may be disadvantaged or harmed by the development and use of the technologies. This article closes with a call for more research on autistic people's perception of the technologies and their impact, with involvement from diverse participants.

The Impact of Social Media on All Aspects of People

With the rapid development of information technology, social media has become an indispensable part of people's daily lives. The purpose of this thesis is to comprehensively explore the influence of social media on people's behavior, emotion and cognition. First, from the behavioral level, social media has changed people's communication methods, information access and social habits, making people's social behaviors more convenient and diversified. Secondly, from the emotional level, social media is not only a platform for emotional expression and sharing, but also a medium for emotional transmission and contagion, which profoundly impacts people's emotional state. Finally, on the cognitive level, social media influence people's thinking, values and decision-making process by providing a large amount of information and opinions. This thesis analyzes the impact of social media and puts forward corresponding suggestions and thoughts in order to provide a reference for people to use social media rationally.

Demonstratives as attention tools: Evidence of mentalistic representations within language

Linguistic communication is an intrinsically social activity that enables us to share thoughts across minds. Many complex social uses of language can be captured by domain-general representations of other minds (i.e., mentalistic representations) that externally modulate linguistic meaning through Gricean reasoning. However, here we show that representations of others' attention are embedded within language itself. Across ten languages, we show that demonstratives-basic grammatical words (e.g., "this"/"that") which are evolutionarily ancient, learned early in life, and documented in all known languages-are intrinsic attention tools. Beyond their spatial meanings, demonstratives encode both joint attention and the direction in which the listener must turn to establish it. Crucially, the frequency of the spatial and attentional uses of demonstratives varies across languages, suggesting that both spatial and mentalistic representations are part of their conventional meaning. Using computational modeling, we show that mentalistic representations of others' attention are internally encoded in demonstratives, with their effect further boosted by Gricean reasoning. Yet, speakers are largely unaware of this, incorrectly reporting that they primarily capture spatial representations. Our findings show that representations of other people's cognitive states (namely, their attention) are embedded in language and suggest that the most basic building blocks of the linguistic system crucially rely on social cognition.

Family resilience in a social-ecological context - emotional difficulties and coping strategies.

This research explored how crises such as the pandemic influence the family dynamic and the way that the parents and the children face new difficulties and challenges. The present study investigates children's and young people's emotional states, the dimensions of family resilience, and the types of coping strategies and parents' emotional states during the coronavirus pandemic. The final sample for the research was represented by 1,010 parents from Romania. The present scientific research is a transversal study with the scope to understand the emotional difficulties that parents and children/ young people face and the coping strategies that they adopt in a crisis, such as the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Parents with maladaptive coping strategies are more affected by the pandemic. Also, the results indicate that there is a significant correlation between parental coping strategies and the children's emotional states, and the adaptability level. Therefore, the high scores on the subscales which measure maladaptive coping indicate high scores of the levels of depression, anxiety, and stress of the parents. Family resilience, through the dimension of 'communication and problem-solving in the family' has a moderation role in the relationship between parental depression and the maladaptive coping strategy of rumination. Family resilience through 'maintaining a positive attitude' has a moderation role in the relationship between catastrophizing and the teenagers' level of adaptability. The results of the study pointed out the role and place of family resilience within the family system and how a period of crisis can affect this system.

ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ СУЧАСНОЇ АРХІТЕКТУРИ У БУДІВЛЯХ ПСИХІАТРІЇ

The article highlights the importance of architecture to mental health and the impact of space design on emotional state and productivity. The study shows that architects are using innovative approaches, such as biophilic design, to create healing environments, and mental health is becoming more relevant in the context of current challenges, including the pandemic. The article also reveals the contribution of architect Thomas Story Kirkbride to the development of the concept of "moral healing" and the use of light and safe space planning as key elements in supporting mental health. It is suggested that the conscious use of design can contribute not only to the physical but also to the mental well-being of people. Considering the important aspects of architectural design that affect mental health. The use of natural light, the introduction of biophilic design and the creation of open, spacious layouts can have a positive impact on people's emotional state and overall mood. The article also highlights the importance of green spaces, noise reduction, and the choice of colours and materials for mental well-being. It is noted that therapeutic spaces and the concept of inclusive design are important components for creating psychologically supportive environments. Architecture is a key factor in solving mental health problems by understanding the needs of residents and taking into account their emotions and feelings.

A RULE-BASED APPROACH USING THE ROUGH SET ON COVID-19 DATA

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only caused loss of life but also significantly affected people's emotional state. These emotional impacts have had serious consequences on societies and economies around the world. In order to repair these devastations in society, it is important to analyse these emotional effects in depth. In this study, the effects of the pandemic on human emotions are analysed using soft computing techniques. A rule-based approach is proposed for the analysis with the help of a rough set. The proposed method is based on two main components. The first one is the process of selecting the optimal subset (OFS) from the whole feature set with the help of k best known feature selection approaches. The second component involves the use of rough clustering methods to generate rules on the selected feature subset OFS. In the study, the first real data set called " Real World Concern Dataset", which is obtained from emotional responses to COVID-19, was used. The dataset consists of 5,000 items (2,500 short + 2,500 long). In the experimental studies, the proposed approach was tested with both labelled and unlabelled data, and it was observed that effective results were obtained with an accuracy rate of over 85%. It was also found that people were highly concerned about the future due to the pandemic.

On the Protection and Inheritance of the Evenki Ethnic Culture

In previous studies of the Evenki ethnic group, different perspectives have been presented regarding the research on Evenki language culture in various historical contexts and research periods: researchers from each era exhibit differences in research directions, angles, and awareness of issues. These differences are closely related to research objectives, external backgrounds, power relations, and the development of disciplines in different eras. This article suggests that an analysis of the Evenki language not only helps us understand the changes in ethnic language forms over different periods but also allows us to observe people's psychological states and practical needs against the backdrop of the times. In the context of today's era, this can effectively enhance our adaptability to linguistic and cultural transformation, and desktop research is a rapid method of reading literature and collecting language information categorization. The article demonstrates that the desktop learning research method proposed surpasses current typical language learning methods, helping us better adapt to the intelligent society and the era of big data.

Lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from a polarized scenario in Brazil.

The COVID-19 pandemic led many countries to adopt strict measures aimed at reducing circulation of the virus and mitigating the burden on health services. Among these, the lockdown (social distancing/confinement) was probably the most controversial and most widely debated, since it affected the population's daily life abruptly, with consequences for people's emotional state and the operational logic of various economic sectors. Analyze the relationship been Brazilians' opinions on lockdown during the pandemic and individual, sociodemographic, and belief characteristics. We conducted an online survey to evaluate Brazilians' opinions on the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. We prepared a questionnaire with questions on sociodemographic aspects and individuals' points of view toward the lockdown. We sent a link for the survey through social media and encouraged participants to also share the link in their respective social networks, as a snowball sample. Cluster analysis was performed to identify different opinion profiles. Cluster Analysis is a multivariate approach that aims to segment a set of data into distinct groups, using some classification criteria. From April to May 2021, the link received 33,796 free participations via social networks from all over Brazil. We analyzed data from 33,363 participants. Pro-lockdown opinions predominated in most of the sociodemographic strata. Cluster analysis identified two groups: pro-lockdown, aligned with the scientific recommendations, and anti-lockdown, characterized by economic insecurity and denialism. Anti-lockdown participants downplayed the pandemic's seriousness and believed in unproven measures to fight SARS-CoV-2. However, these same participants were afraid of losing their jobs and of being unable to pay their bills. In general, participants did not believe in the feasibility of a lockdown in Brazil or in the efficacy of the prevailing government administration's measures. The study identified a lack of consensus among participants concerning lockdown as a practice. Issues such as disbelief in the pandemic's seriousness, denialism, and economic insecurity were important in the determination of the profiles identified in the study. Denialism is believed to have been a subjective defense against the economic problems resulting from social control measures and the lack of adequate social policies to deal with the pandemic. It was also highlighted that political polarization and the lack of central coordination during social distancing are crucial aspects. The variation in results in different locations highlights the diversity of the Brazilian scenario. By analyzing Brazilians' opinions about the lockdown, considering individual characteristics, the study seeks insights to face the pandemic and prepare for future crises, contributing to more effective public health strategies.

Strategi Pelayanan Dalam Meningkatkan Kepuasan Nasabah di PT. Permodalan Nasional Madani Ulamm Syariah Cabang Bangko

Until now, there are still many who are afraid to start a business, including online business, so a real manifestation of a successful businessman has high self-efficacy/ability in starting a business. Apart from having the ability, a businessman must also be able to understand marketing planning and strategy. well in developing a business so that the business succeeds as expected, therefore the purpose of this research is to find out: 1) How is the self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in online business for FEBI students, 2) What is the strategy for developing entrepreneurship in online business for FEBI students, 3) What are the obstacles faced in developing entrepreneurs in the online business of FEBI students. This type of research is qualitative with a descriptive approach, and the methods used in data collection are observation, interviews and documentation. The subjects in this study were students who had been running their online business for more than 3 years. The number of subjects in this study were 10 people. The results of this study note that FEBI students have high self-efficacy in online business or entrepreneurship, students are confident in their abilities and have expectations for their abilities in doing business online, in building confidence students obtain from several sources, namely personal experience, other people's experiences, verbal persuasion and emotional state. In the student business development strategy it is still not running well and efficiently, and there are obstacles to student businesses such as suppliers, competitors, capital and customers.

Effectiveness and usage of written and verbal counselling information on anxiety in MRI at a tertiary care hospital in Chennai

Background: Many people have considerable anxiety when having magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Fear during an MRI causes the process to drag on longer and the quality of the images to decline, which increases expenses and requires labor loss. Objective: This study sought to determine how vocal and written information affected patients' anxiety during MRI procedures. Materials and Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study with 300 participants was conducted. The investigation occurred in March and April of 2022 at the tertiary care hospital's radiology department. Three participant groups were formed: group 1 received textual material, group 2 served as the control group, and so on; and group 3 learned about counseling. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), a measure of anxiety levels, was used to determine the people's traits and state of anxiety. Results: The three groups' trait anxiety scores did not significantly differ (p = 0.20) from each other's demographic features. Statistically speaking, group 3's state anxiety levels were lower than those of group 2 and the control group. Group 2's state anxiety levels were statistically lower (p<0.001) than those of the control group. Conclusion:Verbal and written information can help to lessen MRI anxiety. Written information may not be as good at lowering MRI anxiety as verbal information.

The effects of COVID-19 on wellbeing and resilience among Muslims in Turkey

ABSTRACT This cross-sectional exploratory study surveys the general perceived adverse effects of COVID-19 on people's wellbeing (including obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms (OCDS)) and the level of resilience shown against it, with specific reference to the role of religiosity and optimism. Data were collected in an online survey from 247 non-randomly selected participants in Turkey, aged 12–64. The questionnaire included a demographic form, a battery of COVID-19 scales, the Brief Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, a short-form Optimism Scale, and the Ok-Religious Attitude Scale. The results indicate that COVID-19 significantly and negatively influenced several aspects of people's lives, including finance, mood, life perspective, physical health, spirituality, and state of mental health. Furthermore, resilience, family solidarity, religiosity, and optimism played a positive role in overcoming the negative effects. Nonetheless, women, less religious people, pessimists, and anxiety-prone individuals, including people with OCDS symptoms, reported that they felt less resilient against the perceived adverse effects of COVID-19.

High prevalence of active trachoma and associated factors among school-aged children in Southwest Ethiopia.

Active trachoma is a highly contagious ongoing stage of trachoma that predominantly occurs during childhood in an endemic area. This study assessed the prevalence and factors associated with active trachoma among school-aged children. A community-based analytical cross-sectional study was done from March 1st to June 30th, 2021, in Southwest Ethiopia's people's regional state. A total of 1292 school-aged children were surveyed. The quantitative data were collected using a pre-tested, structured interview-based questionnaire and observation check list. The World health organization (WHO) simplified trachoma grading system was used to assess stages of trachoma. In this study, the prevalence of active trachoma was 570(44.1%), 95% CI (41.4, 46.9). Also, age group 6-10; being female; flies at household (HH), flies on child's face, improved water source, improved sanitation, presence of ocular discharge, presence of nasal discharge, and unclean faces of the child were significantly associated with active trachoma. The very high prevalence of active trachoma in the study area is significantly associated with; age group 6-10, female gender, presence of flies in household and on child's face, presence of ocular and nasal discharge, unclean faces, improved water source, improved sanitation in the household. Thus, environmental sanitation and facial cleans trachoma elimination strategy should be intensified in the study area.

The Today's Linguistic Paradigm: The Problem of Investigating Emotional Intelligence in the Learning of a Foreign Language

The relevance of the article is due to the increasing attention of researchers in the field of psychology and pedagogy to the problem of formation and development of emotional intelligence as a necessary component of the process of learning a foreign language. Success in professional and personal sphere to a large extent depends on the ability of a person to understand and accept the manifestation of their own and other people's emotional states. Social skills possessed by people with developed emotional intelligence include, first of all, the ability to control their own emotions and the emotions of other people. The development of such skills is especially necessary nowadays, when the use of digital technologies is growing and the value of interpersonal interactions is decreasing. The article defines the essence of the concept of "emotional intelligence"; defines approaches to the definition of the effectiveness criteria of teaching the English language and their relationship with emotional intelligence; investigates the emotional aspect of forming foreign language competences; investigates emotional intelligence in cadets and their relationship with foreign language competences. In our article the most effective way to develop emotional intelligence are the types and types of tasks that promote students' activity in dialogic and monologic statements, as well as in class discussions. In this organization of pedagogical activities students communicate and share their ideas in English.

Analisis Efikasi Diri Dan Pengembangan Usaha Pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Ekonomi Dan Bisnis Islam UIN Jambi

Until now, there are still many who are afraid to start a business, including online business, so a real manifestation of a successful businessman has high self-efficacy/ability in starting a business. Apart from having the ability, a businessman must also be able to understand marketing planning and strategy. well in developing a business so that the business succeeds as expected, therefore the purpose of this research is to find out: 1) How is the self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in online business for FEBI students, 2) What is the strategy for developing entrepreneurship in online business for FEBI students, 3) What are the obstacles faced in developing entrepreneurs in the online business of FEBI students. This type of research is qualitative with a descriptive approach, and the methods used in data collection are observation, interviews and documentation. The subjects in this study were students who had been running their online business for more than 3 years. The number of subjects in this study were 10 people. The results of this study note that FEBI students have high self-efficacy in online business or entrepreneurship, students are confident in their abilities and have expectations for their abilities in doing business online, in building confidence students obtain from several sources, namely personal experience, other people's experiences, verbal persuasion and emotional state. In the student business development strategy it is still not running well and efficiently, and there are obstacles to student businesses such as suppliers, competitors, capital and customers.

Algorithms used for facial emotion recognition: a systematic review of the literature

INTRODUCTION: We currently live in a society that is constantly changing and technology has developed algorithms that allow facial emotion recognition, because facial expression transmits people's mood, feelings and state of soul. However, it is required that future research can improve the quality of emotion detection by improving the quality of the data set and the model used, for this reason, it is necessary to investigate other machine learning algorithms in the recognition of facial emotions, as they exist. identification deficiencies that limit the discrimination of extracted structural features.OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the article was to analyze the most used algorithms for facial emotion recognition, through a systematic literature review, according to the PRISMA method.METHOD: A search for information was carried out in articles published in open access such as: Scopus, Web of Science (WOS) and Association for Computing Machiner (ACM) in the period 2022 and 2023, totaling 38 selected articles.RESULTS: The results obtained indicate that the algorithms most used by the authors are SVM and SoftMax with a total of 17.65% each.CONCLUSION: It is concluded that the SVM and SoftMax algorithms are the most predominant, playing a crucial role in achieving optimal levels of precision in the training of the models. These algorithms, with their robustness and ability to deal with complex data, have proven to be fundamental pillars in the field of facial emotion recognition.

Empirical test of a general process model of threat and defense: A systematic examination of the affective-motivational processes underlying proximal and distal reactions to threat

The general process model of threat and defense (Jonas et al., 2014) states that a common affective-motivational mechanism underlies threat-related solution strategies and threat-unrelated palliative responses to solvable and unsolvable (i.e., existential) threats. In a series of three studies (Ntotal = 683), we systematically tested the assumption that threat induces anxiety proximally (that is, immediately after a threat yet before a defense) and defense activates approach motivation distally (that is, after a defense has been implemented). We used an experimental design to manipulate both threat and defense and measured people's affective-motivational states following threat (proximal response) and following defense (distal response). We assessed people's proximal responses to unsolvable threats (mortality salience in Study 1; generalized uncontrollability in Study 2) and solvable threats (relationship conflict in Study 3). For the proximal threat response, the results showed that solvable and unsolvable threats activated feelings of anxiety proximally, mediated by increased need and expectancy discrepancies. A merged data analysis showed the predicted motivational function of defense following threat: Participants reported higher approach-related affect after engaging in resolution or palliation (but not after being distracted). Defensive engagement enhanced approach motivation only in the threat conditions. The findings support the notion that threat-unrelated palliation and threat-related resolution both reactivate approach motivation.

Food approach dynamics in daily life: Speed and force of food approach movements fluctuate with hunger, but less so for people with high BMI.

Researchers have suggested that the overconsumption of food, alcohol, and drugs could be explained by chronically elevated approach tendencies to rewarding but unhealthy stimuli. Here, we use the example of food to show that dysregulated rather than chronically elevated approach tendencies are associated with adverse health outcomes. To this end, we developed a new smartphone-based paradigm to measure dynamic changes in food approach tendencies outside the laboratory (piloted with n = 48). We demonstrated in three preregistered experiments (total N = 367) that food approach tendencies decrease from before to after people have eaten. We further show that in overweight and obese participants, these dynamics are disrupted as their food approach tendencies increase rather than decrease after meals. In addition to showing these effects based on traditional reaction time-based food approach tendencies, we also demonstrate these patterns in a novel measure of response force-a measure that has long been used to study motivation in animals but has received little attention in humans. Together, our findings suggest that both reaction time-based and force-based approach tendencies change dynamically in accordance with people's need states and that disruptions in these dynamics are associated with adverse health outcomes, such as overweight and obesity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

360° Digital Travel to Improve Emotional State and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Presence and Sense of Place.

The continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a decline in people's subjective well-being and emotional states. Digital travel based on 360° videos provides an alternate way for people to improve their mental health at home during this specific period. Yet, how to construct effective digital travel content that improves emotions remains an issue. This investigation assessed the impact of people's perceived presence and sense of place (SOP) on emotional improvement during a 360° digital travel experience. A total of 156 undergraduate students volunteered to participate, and anxiety, emotion levels, and life satisfaction were measured before and after the digital travel experience; presence and SOP ratings were also collected after the experience. A Latent Change Score model was then developed, and the results indicated that the greater presence and SOP individuals experienced during their digital travel, the better their digital travel experience and emotional improvement. Furthermore, the current data highlight that SOP has a greater impact on emotional improvement than presence. This result provides a novel understanding that how SOP is generated may be more critical to digital travel than presence. This new understanding should help improve relevant applications in the field of digital travel, such as the possibility of providing meaningful narrative context in a virtual environment to induce SOP more effectively, and improve the digital travel experience. Overall, the findings of this study expand our understanding of the digital travel experience and lay the groundwork for future research on SOP and digital travel.