Personal Texts Research Articles

On the Translatability of Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary: A Critical View from the Twenty-First Century

On the Translatability of Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary:A Critical View from the Twenty-First Century Susan H. Gillespie (bio) Scene 1. Moscow, Russia, and Princeton and Philadelphia, USA. September 2015–January 2016. The Moscow Biennale and American Slought Foundation hold a series of events under the title "Straying. An itinerant project exploring urban errors, discrepancies, and territories in Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary (1926)." The project begins with an exhibition and accompanying events in Moscow and continues with symposia in New York and Princeton, and an exhibition and several events at Slought's Philadelphia gallery, featuring historical artifacts, projected media, and research. Scene 2. St. Petersburg, Russia. December 2016. Donald Trump has just been elected President of the United States. The "Critique of Humanities" and "Human Rights" Joint Seminar of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University holds a conference: "Art and Political Engagement. Walter Benjamin's thought in XXI century." The paper reprinted below is presented, in an earlier version, at that conference. Scene 3. St. Petersburg, Russia. November 2022. The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University is in the process of being closed; some of its professors and students are already in exile, others are just getting ready to leave the country. [End Page 871] Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary is a uniquely personal document full of candid reflections on the author's relationship to the 1917 Russian revolution and its reactionary aftermath, his unrequited love for Latvian revolutionary theater-maker Asja Lacis, his career as a bourgeois intellectual and critic, and the future possibility, for him, of writing. First published only in 1980, the journal provoked a spike of interest in 2015–16, in the form of an international series of art events hosted by the Moscow Biennale and the Philadelphia-based Slought Foundation. Does the Moscow Diary have something important to say to contemporary thinkers? The American sponsors of the series of events and exhibitions certainly thought so: Slought Foundation Executive Director and Chief Curator Aaron Levy found it "incredibly contemporary, a manual or a toolbox to navigate the current situation."1 In the following, I will draw on Benjamin's earlier essay "The Task of the Translator" (1923) to think with him about the translatability of the diary, and the experiences it reflects, into contemporary readers' understanding of the historical reality we confront now, almost exactly one hundred years later. "The Task of the Translator," I will argue, offers an approach to thinking about meaning in history that we can use to construe for the diary a uniquely and persuasively contemporary significance. We may do this, Benjamin would have insisted, only by paying explicit, concrete attention to the work's historicity. In employing one of Benjamin's most cited and difficult works to unpack the contemporary significance of a relatively obscure and personal text, I also hope to shed light on underappreciated aspects of the essay on translation. Method, here, is to think through the content of the diary based on the context of its creation and of what I deem to be Benjamin's understanding of the translatability of experience into thought and art, and the readability of the resulting works across time. The fact that, for Benjamin, this time is conceived as "eternal" and that the truth of "pure" language has a redemptive character, is paradoxically what allows him—and his sympathetic readers today—to make philosophical and ethical sense of the crisis Benjamin experienced in the 1920s and of the crisis that faces intellectuals a century later, as we confront the implosion of global capitalism and the violent aggression of Russia within its historical sphere of influence. In his opening salvo in "The Task of the Translator," Walter Benjamin insists: "Nowhere, when it comes to cognition of a work of art or an art form, is consideration of the recipient fruitful. For no poem is meant for the reader, no painting for the viewer, no symphony for its listening audience."2 Nor, for Benjamin, do artworks communicate content. Other forms of writing—journalism, advertising, popular literature—communicate content. Artworks do something greater, and the measure by which we recognize their...

ODP164 Asynchronous Diabetes Virtual Interventions, Support, & Empowerment (ADVISE) Program to Improve Glycemic Control in High-Risk Youth and Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

Abstract Background The use of personalized text messages to support and empower people with type 1 diabetes(T1D) has the potential to improve glycemic control, particularly in the parts of the world where access to high-quality diabetes care remains limited. Here, we examine the impact of the "Asynchronous Diabetes Virtual Interventions, Support, & Empowerment" (ADVISE) program on glycemic control in high-risk youth and young adults with T1D in Saudi Arabia. Methods We retrospectively coded all text messages, exchanged between healthcare professionals(HCPs) and patients with T1D enrolled in the ADVISE program between January and October 2020. Messages were categorized according to their direction ("outgoing" from HCPs to patients versus "incoming" from patients to HCPs) and type (problem-solving, coaching, encouraging, rapport building, strategic questioning, or appointment scheduling-related texts). Then, we examined: a) the change in patients’ A1C and CGM metrics from pre- to post-enrollment in the ADVISE program and b) the association between the type, direction, and frequency of the texts and change in glycemic control. Results The ADVISE program enrolled 74 high-risk youth and young adults with T1D [58% women, with a median(IQR) age of 20(16,27) years old and duration of diabetes of 8(4,14) years and an average pre-enrollment A1C of 10.1%]. Out of the 3,457 texts, exchanged between HCPs and patients with T1D, 2642 (76%) were outgoing from HCPs to patients, 815(24%) were incoming from patients to HCPs, and 2,203(83% of the outgoing texts) were coaching-related. Overall, A1C, TIR, and TAR have significantly improved throughout the study period. Patients who received virtual adjustments of insulin doses as part of the ADVISE program had significant improvements in TIR (from baseline: 41% to Month-3: 53% to Month-6: 55%) and TAR (Baseline: 52% to Month-3: 39% to Month-6: 37%). Whereas patients who received no virtual adjustments of insulin dose had no significant changes in any of the glycemic metrics. When examined by frequency of incoming texts, patients who sent ≥1 text/month to their HCPs noted significant improvements in TIR, TAR, and A1C, whereas those who sent <1 text/month noted no significant changes in any of the glycemic metrics. Similarly, A1C has significantly improved (from 9.6% to 8.6%, p<0. 01) in patients who received ≥8 texts/month from their HCPs, whereas those who received <8 texts/month had no significant change in A1C (9. 05% to 9%, p=0.24). Conclusion Our ADVISE program applies the four principles "Ps" of precision medicine to diabetes care (Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participative) and is associated with significant improvements in various glycemic metrics in high-risk youth and young adults with T1D. Our findings have implications to mitigate the health- and economic- burden of diabetes, particularly in parts of the world where diabetes is highly prevalent and access to high-quality care is limited. Presentation: No date and time listed

Promoting and Maintaining Changes in Smoking Behavior for Patients Following Discharge from a Smoke-free Mental Health Inpatient Stay: Development of a Complex Intervention Using the Behavior Change Wheel.

Evidence suggests that smokers can successfully quit, remain abstinent or reduce smoking during a smoke-free mental health inpatient stay, provided behavioral/pharmacological support are offered. However, few evidence-based strategies to prevent the return to prehospital smoking behaviors post-discharge exist. We report the development of an intervention designed to support smoking-related behavior change following discharge from a smoke-free mental health stay. We followed the Behavior Change Wheel (BCW) intervention development process. The target behavior was supporting patients to change their smoking behaviors following discharge from a smoke-free mental health stay. Using systematic reviews, we identified the barriers and enablers, classified according to the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). Potential intervention functions to address key influences were identified by consulting the BCW and Behavior Change Technique (BCT) taxonomy. Another systematic review identified effectiveness of BCTs in this context. Stakeholder consultations were conducted to prioritize and refine intervention content. Barriers and enablers to supporting smoking cessation were identified within the domains of environmental context and resources (lack of staff time); knowledge (ill-informed interactions about smoking); social influences, and intentions (lack of intention to deliver support). Potential strategies to address these influences included goal setting, problem-solving, feedback, social support, and information on health consequences. A strategy for operationalizing these techniques into intervention components was agreed upon: Pre-discharge evaluation sessions, a personalized resource folder, tailored behavioral and text message support post-discharge, and a peer interaction group, delivered by a trained mental health worker. The intervention includes targeted resources to support smoking-related behavior change in patients following discharge from a smoke-free mental health setting. Using the BCW and TDF supported a theoretically and empirically informed process to define and develop a tailored intervention that acknowledges barriers and enablers to supporting smoking cessation in mental health settings. The result is a novel complex theory- and evidence-based intervention that will be formally tested in a randomized controlled feasibility study.

Inferring sleep disturbance from text messages of suicide attempt survivors: A pilot study.

Identifying digital markers of sleep disturbance-a known suicide risk factor-may aid in the detection of imminent suicide risk. This study examined sleep-related communication and texting patterns in personal text messages (N=86,705) of suicide attempt survivors. Twenty-six participants provided dates of past suicide attempts and 2-week periods of positive mood, depressed mood, or suicidal ideation. Linguistic Inquiry Word Count was used to identify sleep-related texts via a custom dictionary. Mixed effect models were fitted to test the association between suicide/mood episode type (e.g., attempt versus ideation) and three outcomes: likelihood of a text including sleep-related content, nightly count of texts sent from midnight to 5:00 AM, and sum of unique hour bins from midnight to 5:00 AM with outgoing texts. Analyses with a sleep dictionary that was manually revised to be more accurate (but not the original unedited dictionary) showed sleep-related communication was more likely during depressed mood episodes than positive mood episodes. Otherwise, there were no significant differences in sleep-related communication or objective texting patterns across episode type. Although we did not detect differences in sleep-related communication tied to suicidal thoughts or behaviors, sleep-related communication may differ as a function of within-person mood level.

Improving cardiac rehabilitation patient adherence via personalized interventions.

ObjectivesDespite documented benefits and physicians’ recommendations to participate in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs, the average dropout rate remains between 12–56%. This study’s goal was to demonstrate that using personalized interventions can significantly increase patient adherence.MethodNinety-five patients (ages 18–90) eligible for the CR program were randomly recruited and received personalized interventions using the Well-Beat system. Adherence levels were compared to those of a historical control group. The Well-Beat system provided Sheba CR Health Care Provider (HCP) guidelines for personalized patient-therapist dialogue. The system also generated ongoing personalized text messages for each patient sent twice a week and related each patient’s dynamic profile to their daily behavior, creating continuity, and reinforcing the desired behavior.ResultsA significant increase in patient adherence to the CR program: Three months after initiation, 76% remained active compared to the historical average of 24% in the matched control group (log-rank p-value = 0.001).ConclusionsUsing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based engine that generated recommendations and messages made it possible to improve patient adherence without increasing HCP load, benefiting all. Presenting customized patient insights to the HCP and generating personalized communications along with action motivating text messages can also be useful for remote care.

The Effect of Climbing Grammar Mountain Game on Students’ Lexicogrammatical Features of Personal Recount Text Mastery (A Study at The Eigth Grade Students of MTS YPKS Padangsidimpuan In 2021/2022 Academic Year)

The purpose of this research was to found out: 1) The application of Climbing Grammar Mountain Game on Students’ Lexicogrammatical Features of Personal Recount Text Mastery, 2) The Students’ Lexicogrammatical Features of Personal Recount Text Mastery before and after using Climbing Grammar Mountain Game, 3) Whether there is any significant effect of Climbing Grammar Mountain Game on Lexicogrammatical Features of Personal Recount Text Mastery at the Eighth Grade Students of MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan.This research used experimental method with the pre-experimental designusing one-group pretest posttest design. The population of this research was the VIII grade students consist of 156 students and the samples were 25 students gotten by using purposive sampling. The writer used observation sheet and test as an instrument. The result of this research: 1) The application of climbing grammar mountain game was 3.7, it was categorized “Good”, 2) the mean score pretest of students’ lexicogrammatical features of personal recount text was 53,2 it was categorized “Bad”. Meanwhile after using climbing grammar mountain game was 73,4 it was categorized “Good”. 3) The result of data analysis showed that ttest= 10.6, while the table df score of ttable 5% significant level was 2.06. It means that ttest was higher than ttable(10.6> 2.06). So, the hypothesis is accepted. It means that, there is significant effect of using climbing grammar mountain game on students’ lexicogrammatical features of personal recount text mastery at the eighth grade students of MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan 2021/2022 Academic year.

Personalized Texts Can Boost Receipt of Second Influenza Shot for Young Children.

Vaccinating young children against influenza is a public health priority in the United States. Young children, particularly those under the age of 2, are at higher risk of experiencing serious complications if not vaccinated and could transmit the infection to other high-risk populations.1,2 The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices currently recommends that children get 2 doses of the vaccine 4 weeks apart if they are aged 6 months to 8 years of age and are receiving the influenza vaccine for the first time or only received 1 dose previously.3 Receiving 2 doses of the influenza vaccine may provide nearly 50% greater odds of reducing the likelihood of infection than if only 1 dose is received;4 however, many young children do not receive the recommended second dose,5,6 leaving them and the greater public at increased risk of infection.Finding ways to effectively communicate these recommendations to caregivers of young children is necessary to improve adherence. Reaching caregivers through in-person patient–provider communication or mass media campaigns has potential, but these communication methods require that caregivers be present, available, and willing to receive the message when it is delivered. Instead, sending personalized educational text messages about second-dose vaccination directly to caregivers’ cell phones may better ensure that the message is received, and then, if the recipient does not delete the message, allows for them to come back to the information later at their time and convenience.In this issue of Pediatrics, Stockwell et al7 present results from the Flu2Text randomized control trial that included a diverse sample of patients from pediatric practices across the United States, with a mix of census regions, urbanicity, and patient demographics (eg, race/ethnicity, insurance provider status) represented. Over 2 influenza seasons (2017 to 2018 and 2018 to 2019), caregivers of young children from 1 of 50 pediatrics primary care practices enrolled in the study were randomly assigned to either receive 5 text messages about second-dose vaccination for their young children (ie, intervention group) or were not sent any text messages (ie, usual care/control group). The authors found that the young children whose caregivers received the text messages were significantly more likely to receive a second dose of the influenza vaccine for both seasons and at both time points measured, after the last text message was sent (day 42 after the first dose) and by the influenza season end.The successful results from this study should, however, not be misinterpreted to indicate that all it takes are a few simple text message reminders to get caregivers to bring their children back in for a second dose of the influenza vaccine. The text messages sent in this study were personalized to the individual recipient, allowed for interactivity, and included educational information about vaccination. Messages included personal information such as the child’s name, sex, and practice location. They were delivered in either English or Spanish based on the caregiver’s preferred language. One message also allowed recipients to request additional information about influenza vaccination.Although the authors did not test the effectiveness of sending simple text message reminders versus personalized educational text messages, some research suggests that messages using personalization can improve receipt of health information if the messages are perceived as personalized.8,9 Pediatricians and health practitioners who wish to implement similar practices with their own patients must, therefore, ensure they have the resources and information to personalize messages and are available to respond to any patients who reach out for additional information.It is also important to note that caregivers in the current study were motivated caregivers who already brought their young children in to receive the first dose of the influenza vaccine and were not vaccine-hesitant, indicating that significant effects of sending personalized educational text messages may only be observed among patients who already indicate interest and willingness to engage with flu vaccination for their young children. Other potential limitations of this approach may be related to social determinants of health, such as caregivers having access to a cell phone to receive text messages and access to transportation and time off from work to get their children vaccinated. Nevertheless, the results from this nationwide study provide a promising intervention for improving influenza vaccination among young children using a low-cost, accessible tool such as personalized text messages, something many pediatric practices can employ.

Creative personality in the dimensions of the phenomenon of national and cultural memory

The purpose of the study is to substantiate the theoretical foundations of cultural understanding of the problem of creative personality as a creator, bearer, and representative of national and cultural memory. The research methodology is based on the application of the method of phenomenological analysis to reveal the essence of the phenomenon of memory, penetration into the implicit layers of value-semantic semantics of the content of the concepts "communicative memory", "cultural memory"; the method of hermeneutic interpretation is used to understand the phenomenon of "national-cultural memory"; method of semiotic analysis - when addressing the structures of consciousness that generate the value-content continuum of culture; the method of intentional analysis was used in the reconstruction of semantic intentions of the phenomenon of a creative personality. The scientific novelty of the article is that for the first time a theoretical concept was proposed, which allows considering the problem of cultural memory in terms not only of the collective but also of the individual dimension, namely - through the prism of the phenomenon of the creative personality. In this regard, it is substantiated that the methodological basis for the study of creative personality can be: the anthropocentric approach, personalized approach, as well as the method of "representative figures" and the biographical method. The author's clarification of the concept of "national-cultural memory" is offered. Conclusions. The problem of national and cultural memory is theoretically significant for modern cultural science and Ukrainian society in general. The concept of "national-cultural memory" in the dimensions of the phenomenon of creative personality can be interpreted as a sign-symbolic formation that accumulates significant values for national culture, ideals, norms and other cultural characteristics, can be created, stored and transmitted by creative personality texts that acquire the meaning of "places of memory", as well as works of art, in which in a conceptualized artistic form embodied and passed on to the next generation of symbolic codes and universal meanings as a spiritual heritage of the historically formed community of people.
 Key words: phenomenon of creative personality, cultural memory, communicative memory, national-cultural memory, culturological comprehension.

‘Home is Another Country’: A Foucauldian Reading of Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country

Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country is an intimate account of the lifelong search for ‘home’ by its autobiographical narrator, the child of exiled South African parents. My essay argues that Msimang’s figuring of a complicated, nationally-organized external realm through the exilic subjectivity of its narrator provides an opportunity to read a series of spaces in the text as what Michel Foucault, in ‘Of Other Spaces’ (1986), calls ‘utopias’ and ‘heterotopias’. Simply put, South Africa exists as a non-real space – a utopia – for most of the memoir. It carries down telephone wires and from television screens into the mind of Sonke, where it is reproduced as an alternate, imagined version of itself. On the other hand, ‘real’ spaces – living rooms, principals’ offices, family homes – all develop characteristics of Foucauldian heterogeneity. They are sites within sites or, as Peter Johnson explains, microcosms of reverse social ordering. Rather than producing an overly theoretical rendering of a deeply personal text, my essay aims to show the benefits of Foucauldian approaches in conceptualizing and understanding the complicated ways in which exiled-subjects occupy space in our nationally-organized world.

The Effects of Personalized Text Messages on Diet Quality and Anthropometric Markers in College Students – A Protocol for a 12-Week Randomized Control Pilot Study

ObjectivesConsumption of highly processed foods and beverages, and inadequate fruit and vegetable intake is common among college students. These low diet quality eating patterns may predispose students to excess weight gain, metabolic derangements, and risk for chronic health conditions later in life. It is currently unknown if personalized text messages can improve eating patterns in this population. The objective of the present study is to examine the effects of personalized text messages on diet quality and anthropometric markers in college students attending a public Midwestern university.MethodsA 12-week randomized, two-arm, parallel design pilot study will examine the effects of personalized text messages (INV) compared to generic text messages (CON) on diet quality and anthropometric markers. Recruitment will be delimited to healthy (i.e., no diagnosis of chronic health conditions), undergraduate students ≥18 years old with normal weight, overweight, or obesity, and a low diet quality score (assessed during the initial screening survey). Students without access to a text-capable mobile phone and those who engage in >420 minutes of physical activity per week will be excluded. One-way short message service (SMS) will be utilized, and text messages will be sent between 7 AM – 7 PM according to a pre-determined schedule (i.e., each participant will receive seven text messages per week during weeks 1–8 and five text messages per week during weeks 9–12). Thirteen areas of focus with five distinct text messages per area were created for the INV group using a validated diet quality screener. Text messages were reviewed by two dietitians and were further refined based on feedback from four virtual focus groups (n = 13 graduate nutrition and/or health majors attending U.S. universities). General, non-nutrition text messages (e.g., handwashing) will be utilized for the CON group, and each area of focus will consist of five distinct text messages.ResultsStudy approval has been granted by the University's Institutional Review Board. Recruitment activities have commenced, and data collection is ongoing.ConclusionsFindings will inform the development of effective and sustainable mobile health initiatives for college students.Funding SourcesBall State University.

Understanding Negotiation: A Text-Mining and NLP Approach to Virtual Interactions in a Simulation Game

Negotiation constitutes a fundamental skill that applies to several daily life contexts; however, providing a reliable assessment and definition of it is still an open challenge. The aim of this research is to present an in-depth analysis of the negotiations occurring in a role-play simulation between users and virtual agents using Natural Language Processing. Users were asked to interact with virtual characters in a serious game that helps practice negotiation skills and to complete a psychological test that assesses conflict management skills on five dimensions. The dialogues of 425 participants with virtual agents were recorded, and a dataset comprising 4250 sentences was built. An analysis of the personal pronouns, word context, sentence length and text similarity revealed an overall consistency between the negotiation profiles and the user verbal choices. Integrating and Compromising users displayed a greater tendency to involve the other party in the negotiation using relational pronouns; on the other hand, Dominating individuals tended to use mostly single person pronouns, while Obliging and Avoiding individuals were shown to generally use fewer pronouns. Users with high Integrating and Compromising scores adopted longer sentences and chose words aimed at increasing the other party’s involvement, while more self-concerned profiles showed the opposite pattern.

Virtual Voice Assistant for Smart Devices

Digital assistants have been a budding technology lately. In modern society, chatbots have found their way in many sectors of e-commerce. With widespread advancements in the field of artificial intelligence, developing machines to ease real life tasks is the norm of the day. Voice Assistants have gained a lot of popularity in this era of home automation and smart devices. These personal assistants, voice or text, can be easily programmed to perform many tasks by simply commanding them to. High tech industries like, Google have publicized voice-based search that is, especially, a bonanza for many like senior citizens who are not comfortable using the keypad/keyboard or English language as these assistants offer support in other languages like Hindi too. Any voice-based assistant works on two pivotal functions namely - listening to(detecting) commands and responding to the given commands given by user. Along with these two base functions, we need customized directive that will define the functionality of the voice assistant.

Personalized Digital Health Communications to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination in Underserved Populations: A Double Diamond Approach to Behavioral Design.

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated pre-existing health disparities. People of historically underserved communities, including racial and ethnic minority groups and people with lower incomes and educational attainments, experienced disproportionate premature mortality, access to healthcare, and vaccination acceptance and adoption. At the same time, the pandemic increased reliance on digital devices, offering a unique opportunity to leverage digital communication channels to address health inequities, particularly related to COVID-19 vaccination. We offer a real-world, systematic approach to designing personalized behavior change email and text messaging interventions that address individual barriers with evidence-based behavioral science inclusive of underserved populations. Integrating design processes such as the Double Diamond model with evidence-based behavioral science intervention development offers a unique opportunity to create equitable interventions. Further, leveraging behavior change artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities allows for both personalizing and automating that personalization to address barriers to COVID-19 vaccination at scale. The result is an intervention whose broad component library meets the needs of a diverse population and whose technology can deliver the right components for each individual.

Using Personalized Text Messages To Improve Heart Failure Hospital Readmission Rates

<h3>Purpose</h3> Would personalized text messages to patients after heart failure hospitalizations help reduce readmission? <h3>Background</h3> Patients with managed Medicare and some private insurances have triggers for an established telephonic hospital follow up within the health system. But patients with managed Medicaid, "straight" Medicare (part A and B only), and some patients under 65 with private insurance do not have formal follow up by the health system entity after discharge. Through system indicator reports, patients were identified who did not have a following agency. As the phone contacts began, a trend emerged that a phone call was not always an effective way to reach patients. It was hypothesized that a personalized text message might make a better connection with patients after discharge to mitigate transition of care issues and in turn decrease readmission risk. Heart Failure team members have met with the patients during the hospital stay and had established some rapport already. <h3>Method</h3> Patients received a call from the Heart Failure Program, but if the patient was not reached, a text message was sent to their phone. The text message included a personalized message specific to what was discussed during their heart failure education visit while in the hospital. <h3>Results</h3> : There were 29 patients identified and texted from June to December 2020. 86% were male and 14% were female with ethnic breakdown of 66% white, 28% Hispanic/Latino, 3% Asian, 3% Middle Eastern. The mean age was 53 years old. Six patients (21%) of 29 texted replied back to text or called directly to the program office to speak to the Heart Failure Coordinator. Three (10%) patients texted instantly returned calls to program office after text was delivered. There were no 30-day readmissions for the 29 patients. <h3>Conclusion/Discussion</h3> Personalized texting appeared to help reduce heart failure readmissions with this group of patients that did not have other formal entities following hospitalization. The group observed was small, but it is beneficial when even one or two patients can be navigated away from the acute care setting. Additionally, although there wasn't a high number of direct responses, the chances of patients seeing the text were still high. A message with content that is simple and personalized may have been a helpful reminder of engagement of some level of heart failure self-care. The text message may also have served as a reminder that there was a reasonably easy way to communicate with a member of the care team without navigating through the healthcare call center. The quick replies that were received appeared to be prompted by an urgent need for help connecting with their primary provider or with problems related to medications. The text messages further highlighted structural problems patients encounter after discharge, specifically medication disruptions and physician follow up. These identified problems helped direct further readmission reduction work.

Разграничение типов текста с побудительной модальностью в прикладном аспекте

The paper aims to identify the main characteristics of the text types “advice” and “instruction” and their application in studying controversial texts. The scientific originality of the research lies in the fact that it carries out a complex analysis of functional and extralinguistic typological characteristics of the text types “instruction” and “advice”, compares them and finds differences which are important for the interpretation of legally relevant texts, as well as provides a possible model for linguistic analysis according to the information received. As a result, specificity of realization of the communicative purposes of “advice” or “instruction” has been shown by the example of a personal note text, the main features of these types of text have been identified, the working process has been described in details, the material for the research has been characterized, the methodology to reveal the communicative orientation of a controversial text has been presented.

Value attitudes of the Russian nobility in the late 18th - middle 19th centuries: gender aspect

The purpose of the paper is to reveal the gender specifics of the behavioral norms of the Russian nobility in the late 18th - mid 19th centuries. The author stands on the positions of the approaches of historical anthropology, the history of everyday life and gender history. The conclusions are based on the analysis of sources of personal origin and literary texts of the era. The paper touches upon the problem of discursive differences between male and female writing, but the main attention is paid to behavioral differences. It is concluded that there are pronounced differences both in value attitudes and in the behavior of men and women. This was due to the fact that much more prohibitions were imposed on womens everyday life. Moreover, the behavior of unmarried representatives of the noble class was subjected to particularly strict regulation. Unlike the young men, they were under constant control and supervision from the family and the entire noble society as a whole. This was due to the category of honor, which also had significant gender specificity. If for a man, honor meant his qualities and merits, for a woman honor meant chastity, that is, the ability to abstain from sexual contact outside of marriage. Numerous taboos weaken after the marriage of a noblewoman, but internal attitudes and self-control determine the stability of their behavior patterns.

La puissante écriture intertextuelle de Marie Darrieussecq dans Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes

In 2010 Marie Darrieussecq published Rapport de Police, Accusations de plagiat et autres modes de surveillance de la fiction as a response to the accusations of plagiarism brought against her by Camille Laurens and Marie NDiaye. In this essay she claims her right to an openly intertextual writing. Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes belongs to this type of writing: Darrieussecq draws strong images from other texts to renew and extend them. In particular, she reworks certain topoi, such as love at first sight, heterosexual passion, and White-Black relations. Her main intertexts are Passion simple by Annie Ernaux, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Apocalypse Now, the film that Francis Ford Coppola made from it. She also uses several texts by Marguerite Duras, as well as songs, proverbs, key sentences, and anecdotes. She thus explores many clichés, including those relating to two legendary places, Hollywood and Africa. This rich intertextuality could have led to the dilution of her own voice if she had not also anchored her text in her own experience, by including the discreet presence of an auctorial I, and by ensuring through a large epitext that the autobiographical comparisons with its protagonist Solange are known as well as the fact that her text was also born from personal research on Africa and Hollywood. With Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes, Darrieussecq has written a powerful and personal text despite, or rather thanks to, its vast intertextuality.

Psychological Well-Being of Left-Behind Children in China: Text Mining of the Social Media Website Zhihu.

China’s migrant population has significantly contributed to its economic growth; however, the impact on the well-being of left-behind children (LBC) has become a serious public health problem. Text mining is an effective tool for identifying people’s mental state, and is therefore beneficial in exploring the psychological mindset of LBC. Traditional data collection methods, which use questionnaires and standardized scales, are limited by their sample sizes. In this study, we created a computational application to quantitively collect personal narrative texts posted by LBC on Zhihu, which is a Chinese question-and-answer online community website; 1475 personal narrative texts posted by LBC were gathered. We used four types of words, i.e., first-person singular pronouns, negative words, past tense verbs, and death-related words, all of which have been associated with depression and suicidal ideations in the Chinese Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (CLIWC) dictionary. We conducted vocabulary statistics on the personal narrative texts of LBC, and bilateral t-tests, with a control group, to analyze the psychological well-being of LBC. The results showed that the proportion of words related to depression and suicidal ideations in the texts of LBC was significantly higher than in the control group. The differences, with respect to the four word types (i.e., first-person singular pronouns, negative words, past tense verbs, and death-related words), were 5.37, 2.99, 2.65, and 2.00 times, respectively, suggesting that LBC are at a higher risk of depression and suicide than their counterparts. By sorting the texts of LBC, this research also found that child neglect is a main contributing factor to psychological difficulties of LBC. Furthermore, mental health problems and the risk of suicide in vulnerable groups, such as LBC, is a global public health issue, as well as an important research topic in the era of digital public health. Through a linguistic analysis, the results of this study confirmed that the experiences of left-behind children negatively impact their mental health. The present findings suggest that it is vital for the public and nonprofit sectors to establish online suicide prevention and intervention systems to improve the well-being of LBC through digital technology.

Almost a Teacher: Considering Curriculum Through Reflexion in the Liminal Space

This article examines the liminal space, “the betwixt and between” (V. Turner, 1969), that preservice teachers inhabit after they complete their last practicum and return to campus for final coursework. We look at preservice teachers’ expectations, assumptions, and understandings of questions and content in a senior-level curriculum course as uncovered through their assignment, the commonplace book. In this assignment they examined their understanding and meaning-making, or “truth-telling” (Huebner, 1999), in a personal text, which can allow for continued practice of reflection and reflexivity as they enter into their careers in addition to informing the researchers about how students experience growth in their understanding of issues in curriculum as experienced in the liminal space, grounded in historical, social, cultural, and experiential contexts.

Exercise and motivational text messaging to support physical activity behaviour change in a population with obstructive sleep apnoea: a feasibility study.

Introduction Patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) commonly present in primary care. Increasing physical activity reduces symptoms and severity of OSA. Low motivation is a barrier to physical activity in adults with OSA. Aim To investigate the feasibility and acceptability of an exercise and personalised text messaging programme to enhance motivation and support physical activity behaviour change in adults with OSA. Methods Participants were recruited from the local Sleep Clinic. Exclusion criteria were unstable angina, and/or poorly controlled hypertension. The intervention comprised three groups, who received either individual exercise prescription, personalised text messages or both over a 24-week period. Participants were allocated to one of the three groups. The primary outcome was feasibility of study design including participant recruitment and retention. Secondary outcomes were a change in 6-min walk distance and exercise self-efficacy over time. Results Thirty participants were recruited, 17 male and 13 female, with a mean age of 54.6 years. The study design appears feasible and the outcome measures used were acceptable to participants. Recruitment and retention rates were lower than anticipated. A trend towards increased functional exercise capacity was identified in all three groups, along with a corresponding increase in exercise self-efficacy over time. Discussion Exercise and personalised text messaging both appear to offer an acceptable and feasible means to increase physical activity in adults with OSA. A larger scale trial may provide justification for physiotherapist input to support patients with OSA to address physical inactivity.