Clinical study on metabolic differences in the limbic system between non-demented Parkinson's disease patients and Parkinson's disease dementia patients.

ABSTRACT Educating young people is an endeavour that inherently engages with their personal development. Cognition, social dynamics, personal identities, and other psychosocial processes inform how young people receive and respond to what they are taught explicitly and implicitly in schools. Truth and reconciliation commissions’ attention to the education sector must thus be attuned not only to curriculum, programming, and students’ understandings and attitudes, but also to how they make sense of these lessons. In this article, I describe conceptualised peace, a developmental, phenomenological framework, to guide the planning and structure of educating about history after armed conflict and human rights violations. This theory highlights youth’s agentic role in making meaning of educational lessons, informed by their identities and lived experiences of social-ecological contexts. The process has reverberations for their developing senses of self as citizens and how they act in the world. Overall, the developmental psychology lens of conceptualised peace can contribute to current work on historical consciousness and holds concrete implications for approaches to educating future generations after conflict and violence.

Migration studies play a fundamental role in understanding the transformations of contemporary societies and the identity configurations that emerge in integration processes. Migration not only implies a change in place of residence but also in relationships and the construction of personal and collective identity. Cultural and artistic aspects are addressed to raise discussions about the dilemmas and conflicts surrounding migratory processes. This work investigates identity reconstruction in the context of migration through phenomena of integration and territorialization observed in artistic and cultural practices during the celebrations of the Virgin of Copacabana and Urkupiña by the Bolivian community in the city of Puerto Madryn, in the province of Chubut, Argentina. Using a mixed methodological strategy, the article proposes the recording and analysis of different sources: census data, publications in local media, and photographic records. The festivities of the Virgin of Copacabana and Urkupiña in Puerto Madryn serve as key spaces where the Bolivian community reconstructs its identity and socially integrates through artistic practices that combine tradition and adaptation, promoting a plural, intergenerational, and constantly evolving culture.

Burnout is a pervasive challenge among healthcare professionals in training, with significant implications for both well-being and quality of care. This qualitative study, using a phenomenological design, explored the experiences of nursing residents regarding sources of stress, coping strategies, and organisational challenges, and how these factors contribute to the development of burnout. Three focus groups were conducted with 24 nursing residents. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Five themes were constructed: peer solidarity as a protective shield, navigating institutional abandonment, the crushing weight of unmanaged demands, the “lottery of learning,” and the sacrifice of personal identity. Participants described residency as a demanding and disorganised stage, characterised by heavy workloads, inconsistent educational opportunities, and scarce institutional support. These conditions fostered emotional exhaustion and frustration, but peer networks were identified as a crucial protective factor, providing informal learning, solidarity, and resilience. The findings highlight the need for organisational reform in residency programmes, including greater educational equity, improved leadership, and spaces for dialogue and mentoring. Recognising the role of peer support alongside institutional responsibility can contribute to building more humane, sustainable, and ethically grounded training environments.

In this article, we argue that the narrow focus on explicit coercion in assisted dying obscures more pervasive forms of implicit coercion operating at interpersonal and institutional levels. Drawing on complex adaptive systems theory, we conceptualise healthcare systems as environments in which coercive dynamics emerge non-linearly and cannot be adequately mitigated through linear procedural safeguards.We look at the potential for implicit coercion within the unique context of terminal illness and consider how end-of-life emotional distress and attachment style shape individuals' responses to vulnerability, dependency and care, influencing how choices are expressed. We also examine the erosion of personal identity in terminal illness, arguing that beyond decision-making capacity and voluntariness, the authenticity of decision-making should be an important consideration in requests for assisted dying.We then turn to structural and institutional coercion, focusing on the influence of social roles, norms and professional authority. We examine how structural constraints and choice architecture affect freedom of choice. The Mental Health Act in England and Wales is used as a case study to illustrate how institutional coercion can emerge in practice despite the presence of statutory safeguards.Finally, we argue that assisted dying legal frameworks fail to adequately address implicit coercion and offer mitigation strategies to reduce the risk of it arising in complex healthcare systems.

This paper critically examines Denmark’s proposed amendment to its Copyright Act, particularly section 73(a), which aims to grant individuals intellectual property protection against the unauthorized sharing of realistic, digitally generated imitations of their physical traits (deepfakes). While recognizing the well-intentioned aim, this study contends that the Danish proposal is fundamentally flawed both conceptually and teleologically. The analysis demonstrates that copyright law is an inappropriate framework for safeguarding elements of personal identity. A significant teleological mismatch exists: copyright law promotes economic and cultural objectives by encouraging the creation of works, whereas personality rights are grounded in the principle of human dignity. This misalignment risks turning intrinsic personality traits into commodities and undermining the coherence of the copyright system. The study proposes that Spain’s Organic Act 1/1982 on the civil protection of the right to honour, privacy and one’s own image offers a more suitable alternative. Despite its origins in the 1980s, this act’s substantive and procedural design effectively addresses technological challenges such as deepfakes without requiring major reforms. The paper concludes that reinforcing existing civil protection mechanisms provides a more consistent solution than relying on copyright law.

Intercultural Competence (IC) has gained prominence as a strategic priority in higher education; however, the socio-emotional mechanisms through which it develops in structured short-term academic mobility remain underexplored. This qualitative study addresses this gap by examining the intercultural learning experiences of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from Trakia University, Bulgaria, who participated in a two-week winter academic program in Zhuhai, China, hosted by the Beijing Institute of Technology. Employing a triangulated qualitative design that combines semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and content analysis of institutional discourse, the study foregrounds emotional regulation as a central process underpinning intercultural competence development. The findings indicate that navigating culturally unfamiliar situations and “disorienting dilemmas” within a multicultural co-living environment facilitated stable behavioral adaptations, including active listening, reflective pausing, empathy, and tolerance. These adaptations supported emotional well-being by reducing uncertainty and fostering a sense of belonging and psychological safety within the multicultural learning community. Repeated emotional engagement with cultural difference enabled participants to internalize values of openness and mutual respect, contributing to the formation of intercultural attitudes that extended beyond the immediate learning context. These processes functioned as a feedback loop through which intercultural competence became integrated into participants’ emerging personal and professional identities. The study demonstrates that even short-term academic exchanges, when pedagogically structured and emotionally immersive, can foster meaningful intercultural learning, leadership readiness, and professional orientation. By highlighting emotional regulation as a pathway to emotional well-being (belonging and psychological safety) and to identity integration, the findings contribute to broader social science discussions on student well-being and identity formation in transnational higher education.

ABSTRACT Ideologies in educational research focused on the experiences of mixed ethnic children, and the importance of mediating tools of language (fundamental in Vygotskian thinking), fail to incorporate the unique contributions and agentic ways in which this group of children choose to share ‘knowledge'. What appears to be missing in discourse is the child's perspective on how they choose to categorise their mixed ethnic identity. Building upon sociocultural theorisation to respond to the research question: what are the key influences on mixed ethnic children's ability to relate to and connect constructs about their ethnic identity in an early years setting? This article contends that identity development employing children's perspectives enables educators to acknowledge and respond to their unique personal identities. Created are opportunities to validate insights about how children choose to co-construct and ascribe meaning to their mixed origins. Aligned with empowerment and development of self-efficacy, praxeological methods utilise play-based experiences to generate data for accessing children's ‘voices’. Drawing on the preferences of children who can identify with more than one racial group, findings reveal mixed ethnic children use new emergent terminologies of brown, light brown and whiteish with established societal classifications of black and white interchangeably in their dialogic conversations.

ABSTRACT This article explores how homogenising views of equality and the lack of academic research on LGBTQI+ issues in Finnish social work contributes to the invisibility of gender and sexuality topics in social work education. It discusses the Finnish historical context of LGBTQI+ legislation and the struggle for legal equality. The article considers Finnish social work research on LGBTQI+ issues highlighting the shortcomings of social work practice knowledge with these communities. Through a multidimensional survey of master’s-level social work students across five Finnish universities, the study explores students’ attitudes, knowledge, and perceived readiness to work with LGBTQI+ service users. The findings show that students report positive attitudes toward LGBTQI+ people, but they also indicate significant gaps in knowledge, especially regarding structural discrimination and the specific needs of gender and sexual minorities. These gaps were more pronounced among heterosexual students, suggesting that personal identity may play a greater role than formal education in shaping awareness of LGBTQI+ issues. The findings of the limited survey imply the need for more explicit inclusion of LGBTQI+ perspectives in social work curricula, which require further research and pedagogical strategies that promote critical reflection, intersectional analysis, and LGBTQI+ affirmative practice.

Identifying completely unknown individuals is a major challenge in forensic and emergency medicine. Radiology offers a promising solution by using unique anatomical features on medical images to identify both living and deceased persons. Although emergency or postmortem images could be matched against large clinical databases, such applications remain largely experimental. This review examines current methods in automatic radiology-based personal identification, evaluates their performance, and highlights potential applications in forensic and clinical settings.A narrative review of studies published from 2018 onwards was conducted using PubMed and Google Scholar. Included studies applied automated or semi-automated personal identification to panoramic radiographs (PR) or computed tomography (CT) using reference datasets. A narrative approach was used to synthesize results descriptively due to heterogeneity in study design, dataset size, and methodology.Of the 32 included studies, 15 focused on PR-to-PR, 8 on head CT-to-CT, 7 on body CT-to-CT, and 2 on CT-to-PR identification. The most commonly applied approach was descriptor-based computer vision (CV), used in 9 studies. Deep learning was applied in 8 studies for feature extraction, and in 2 studies each for classification and bone segmentation.Several methods perform well in controlled settings. Descriptor-based CV provides the most flexibility and strongest evidence, especially for large-database comparisons and postmortem applications. Deep learning approaches, including feature extraction, classification, and automatic bone segmentation, also show promise for cross-individual matching but require further validation. Automatic radiology-based personal identification holds significant potential for forensic and clinical use, yet the development of standardized large-scale reference databases and robust automated pipelines remains a key challenge. · Radiological images enable automated personal identification of unknown individuals.. · Descriptor-based computer vision is flexible and robust for large database matching.. · Deep learning shows promise for cross-individual matching, but requires further validation.. · Postmortem applications are feasible, yet under-investigated.. · Ethical frameworks are necessary for handling sensitive imaging data.. · Heinrich A. A Review on Automatic Personal Identification Using Panoramic Radiographs and Computed Tomography. Rofo 2026; DOI 10.1055/a-2808-8851.

This study aims to analyze the representation of self-love as a motivational message in Kim Namjoon’s (RM) speech at the United Nations General Assembly in 2018. Using qualitative Discourse Analysis method, this research examines how self-love is constructed linguistically and rhetorically through Discourse Representation Theory (Kamp & Reyle, 1993) and Self-Compassion Theory (Neff, 2003). The primary data consist of the official transcript of RM’s UNICEF speech, which was analyzed by identifying and categorizing utterances related to self-love. The findings reveal that self-love is represented through three main dimensions: personal identity, collective identity, and motivational elements. Linguistic strategies such as pronoun use, lexical choice, and repetition, as well as rhetorical devices including metaphor, direct address, and narrative technique, play a significant role in strengthening the message. The analysis shows that RM constructs self-love as a reflective, shared, and action-oriented process, encouraging audiences particularly adolescents and young people to accept themselves, recognize common human struggles, and confidently express their identities. This study contributes to discourse analysis by highlighting how motivational messages are shaped through language and offers insight into the role of public speeches in promoting psychological well-being among youth.

Abstract Rangelands cover over 50% of the land surface area in the Western U.S., providing important economic, social, and environmental benefits. The resilience of western rangelands, however, is increasingly threatened by climate change impacts. Although climate skepticism among agricultural producers is often cited as a barrier to adaptation, emerging evidence suggests that producers adapt regardless of climate beliefs. This raises critical questions about the relationship between climate beliefs and adaptive behavior. To investigate this relationship, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 23 ranchers in Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, to examine how they perceive, experience, and adapt to climate change. We found that ranchers’ understanding of climate change is more complex than a binary belief in or rejection of climate change. Most ranchers doubted anthropogenic climate change yet described detailed observations of a changing climate. Ranchers adopted a range of adaptation strategies but did not attribute these behaviors to climate change. We identified recurring themes, including climate politicization, regulatory fear and perceived powerlessness, and reframing of responsibility, that illustrate the sociopolitical context shaping these seemingly contradictory positions. Climate skepticism may function as a mechanism for managing dissonance, allowing ranchers to reconcile personal observations of environmental change with dominant community beliefs while preserving their personal identity. Our findings challenge binary framings of belief and behavior and highlight the need for culturally grounded climate communication strategies. We recommend investments in localized climate services, co-produced policies, and outreach that emphasizes the co-benefits of adaptation and risk management while aligning with ranchers’ values and identities.

In the research and literature on pain-related suffering, a difference has recently been made between suffering processes of the minimal self in contrast to the hardships of the narrative self. This article proposes that an in-between layer of selfhood needs to be distinguished and studied to understand pain-related suffering in a more thorough manner: the enworlded self. Pain-related suffering is a complex phenomenon involving mood-related processes and everyday challenges on at least three different levels: lived bodily experiences, lifeworld matters, and questions about personal identity. These three different levels correspond to three connected aspects of layered selfhood: the minimal self, the enworlded self, and the narrative self. By using a published memoire focusing on chronic pain experiences, this article attempts to enlighten the middle ground of enworlded selfhood and also identifies two different regions of the lifeworld in which the damaging and alienating experiences take their toll: the work-world and the family-world. In addition, a third region of the lifeworld is identified: the patient-world, a region which is formed and expands as the chronic-pain sufferer searches for medical-professional advice and assistance. By addressing the three different layers of selfhood and how they interact in the everyday life of the patient, chronic-pain suffering can be better understood and, also, possibly alleviated by taking appropriate measures that fit the attuned pattern of the pain experiences of each individual.

Identity is a key concept in practically all fields of the humanities and social sciences. However, different approaches diverge dramatically in their conceptualization of identity, which makes mutual dialogue and integration markedly challenging. In this article, I present two key approaches to identity—Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Dialogical Self Theory (DST)—and discuss the possibilities of combining them. While the two theories stem from different subfields of psychology, I argue that their key concepts can be meaningfully mapped onto one another. In particular, I argue that the I-positions and we-positions of DST can be understood as the personal and social identities of SIT, respectively. Combining DST and SIT terminology in this way helps to address the blind spots of both theories. What SIT adds to DST is a detailed outline of the causes and consequences of we-position activation. What DST adds to SIT, in turn, is a more elaborate conceptualization of intrapersonal identity work. While the integrated approach I propose here is useful for the study of identity in general, I argue that it is particularly beneficial for the psychology of religion. Unlike mainstream psychologists, psychologists of religion have been especially interested in investigating the identities of people long since dead. Biblical scholars in particular have employed SIT in their investigations. In this article, I suggest that a dialogical (or more broadly narrative) conceptualization of identity is more readily applicable to the textual sources used by biblical scholars than the more mainstream SIT approach.

Personal identification allows for confirmation of a certain person, which is widely used in security certification and financial payment. Current personal identification methods, including passwords, fingerprints, voices, and facial recognition, are all facing counterfeit risk. Implantable wireless communication technology holds promise to significantly improve the safety for personal identification; however, the stretchability, biocompatibility, and power consumption of implanted sensors still remain great challenges. This study developed an implantable and stretchable magnetoelectric sensor (ISMS) based on biocompatible piezo-elastomer (BPEA)/cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) composites for synchronous realization of personal identification and activity monitoring. The piezo-elastomer is synthesized with high piezoelectricity and stretchability, which is favorable to a compound with high magnetostrictive CoFe2O4. The BPEA/CoFe2O4 ISMS presents a high response to electromagnetic waves of 54.56 dB at 2.4 GHz and 44.88 dB at 5 GHz, respectively, to realize personal identification, while its piezoelectric function further improves the identified safety by response to specific activities. Meanwhile, the ISMS shows cyclic elongation over 200% to satisfy synchronous in vivo movement with skin tissue, while its high biocompatibility ensures biosafety for long-term in vivo use.

BackgroundMuslim Nurses in Canada are experiencing Islamophobia in the workplace and in educational institutions. These experiences result in increased mental distress for these nurses, social isolation at the workplace, and considerations of leaving the nursing profession.AimThis study explores the experiences of Islamophobia for Registered Nurses who wear the hijab at work in Canada. This study is grounded in Critical Race Theory and aims to answer the following research question: What are the experiences of Islamophobia for female Canadian Registered Nurses who wear the hijab? The participants in the study described experiences from their workplaces and their experience attending nursing school in Canada.MethodA total of six participants were interviewed, and the findings were analysed using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method. Muslim nurses' experiences were characterized by their sense of belonging.FindingsKey findings consist of the experiences of Islamophobia being related to the negative stereotypical identity of what it means to be a Muslim woman, being associated with these nurses, how they discover their own identity as nurses and finally, how they reconcile their personal and social identities as Muslim women with their identity as Registered Nurses.ConclusionThis study uncovers the process of self-discovery that Muslim nurses undergo after experiencing Islamophobia through being assigned an identity. This process enables them to reconcile what it means to be Muslim nurses, allowing them to practice comfortably at the workplace. Recommendations are that policy changes should be enacted, which protect Muslim nurses and work to prevent incidents of Islamophobia. Secondly, anti-racism training should be provided to both nursing students and staff to foster more supportive workplaces.

Estimation of stature from hand length and hand breadth in undergraduate medical students: An anthropometric study.

Abstract Score-level fusion in multisensor fingerprint recognition is a technique that combines the individual confidence scores from different fingerprint sensors or matching algorithms to produce a single, more reliable final score for a person's identity. In this paper, the performances of fingerprint recognition systems using SDUMLA-HMT multisensor database acquired by FPR620 and FT-2BU sensors are compared, and a score-level fusion approach is proposed to leverage their strengths for person authentication. To this end, an end-to-end fingerprint recognition pipeline is designed using minutiae points for implementing both unimodal and multisensor fusion systems for person identification. Identical methods are applied, including preprocessing, minutiae extraction via the crossing number method, and Multiple SVM classification. Experimental findings show FPR620 outperforms FT-2BU, achieving accuracy (0.97 with EER = 0.03), recall (0.9722), precision (0.9743), F1-score (0.9732), and AUC (0.98) vs. accuracy (0.921 with EER = 0.079), recall (0.9178), precision (0.9236), F1-score (0.9206), and AUC (0.94). Notably, multisensor fusion yields improved performance: accuracy (0.984 with EER = 0.016), recall (0.9825), precision (0.9844), F1-score (0.9834), and AUC (0.99) using max rule and accuracy (0.979 with EER = 0.021), recall (0.974), precision (0.9785), F1-score (0.9762), and AUC (0.987) using weighted sum. These findings confirm FPR620's superiority and demonstrate sensor fusion's potential benefit.

This study examined the scope and functioning of peer recovery services across different roles and peer recovery programs. Specific aims included (a) considering the defining role of peer recovery specialists, (b) understanding how peer specialists achieve goals, (c) determining short- and long-term outcomes resulting from peer recovery services, and (d) identifying barriers and facilitators to service provision. A multimethod survey distributed via Qualtrics was used to collect responses from 108 peer recovery specialists, supervisory staff, and individuals receiving services across 23 programs. Qualitative responses were coded using an inductive coding strategy, whereas quantitative questions were analyzed using descriptive statistics and between-role comparisons. Participants endorsed lived experience and support as the primary roles of the peer recovery specialist, which facilitated connection to care and higher quality relationships. Several short-term outcomes were consistently endorsed across roles, including engagement in recovery services, social support, and crisis stabilization. Long-term outcomes were more variable. Peer specialists expressed challenges with maintaining boundaries with individuals given their personal experience and professional identities. Findings point to a shared understanding of the role of the peer recovery specialist and consistency in short-term outcomes across programs, both of which support the feasibility of establishing shared implementation (process) and outcome measures to guide evaluation efforts of peer recovery programs. We provide a short form, the Peer Recovery Services Checklist, to facilitate this goal. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Eco-conscious internal communication and psychological drivers of eco-centric creativity: A three-wave PLS-SEM study of Chinese SMEs.