Personal Thoughts Research Articles

Self Efficacy dapat Meningkatkan Manajemen Perawatan Luka Gangren pada Pasien Diabetes Mellitus

Introduction: Self Efficacy affects how a person thinks, feels self-motivated, and acts. Beliefs encourage self-control processes to maintain the behaviors needed to administer care. High self-confidence in diabetes mellitus patients is needed so that they have confidence and success in carrying out independent management. Individuals with high self-efficacy will be able to manage symptoms, treatment, physical changes, and lifestyle to adapt to their conditions. Objectives: This study aims to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and management of gangrenous wound care in patients with diabetes mellitus. Method: This type of research is quantitative with a cross-sectional approach. The design in this study used a correlation or correlation study with a total sampling of 40 respondents at the Bogor City Hospital. The instrument used was the Self Efficacy and Wound Care Management questionnaire sheet, which consisted of 40 questions. Then the data were analyzed using the Chi-Square test. Result: The results of the analysis obtained a p-value = 0.022 which means p-value < 0.05 in other words there is a significant relationship between Wound Care Management and Self Efficacy. Conclusion: This study concludes that there is a relationship between self-efficacy and management of gangrene wound care in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Jacques Sesiano, An Ancient Greek Treatise on Magic Squares

The two earliest Arabic treatises explaining the construction of magic squares date from the 10th century ad. One is found in the Commentary on the Arithmetical [Introduction] (Kitāb tafsīr al-Arithmāṭīqī) by ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Anṭākī (d. 376 H/ad 987). Only book 3 of the original three books is extant, and that in a single manuscript. This book is divided into three chapters: the first is a collection of arithmetical definitions, statements of propositions, and identities assembled from Greek and Arabic sources; the second is on magic squares; and the third deals with “hidden numbers”, in which a person thinks of a number and another discovers it after operations are performed on it. Curiously, none of these chapters have anything to do with Nicomachus’ Arithmetical Introduction, on which the book is supposed to be a commentary. Reviewed by: Jeffrey A. Oaks Published Online (2022-07-31)Copyright © 2022 by Jeffrey A. Oaks Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/39089/29778 Corresponding Author: Jeffrey A. Oaks,University of IndianapolisE-Mail: oaks@uindy.edu

Virtual reality-based learning through the lens of eudaemonic factors: Reflective thinking as a game changer

This study aims to explore what determinants affect learners’ intention to continue using virtual reality (VR) for learning in formal classroom settings. In the proposed theoretical framework, three eudaemonic factors, namely perceived utility, curiosity, and superior influence, were adapted as external stimuli. Moreover, individuals’ cognitive absorption and reflective thinking were set as mediators, while the traits of openness and digital literacy were set as moderators. A total of 463 school students (grades 9/10, M = 284, F = 179) participated in the designed experiment based on a personal computer-based immersive environment. Then, the students were asked to complete a perceived utility scale, superior influence scale, curiosity and cognitive absorption scale, reflective thinking scale, digital literacy and trait of openness scale. The results demonstrated that eudaemonic factors positively influence students’ cognition (cognitive absorption and reflective thinking) and learners’ intention to continue to use VR for learning. Notably, individuals’ digital literacy and openness traits significantly moderate personal reflective thinking in an immersive environment. In this study, we illustrated the conceptual view of learners’ intention to continue using VR for learning, which has theoretical and practical implications for educators, researchers, and policy-makers.

People from the U.S. and China think about their personal and collective future differently.

We investigated how people think about their personal life and their country by testing how participants in the U.S. and China think about personal and collective events in the past and future. Using a fluency task, we replicated prior research in showing that participants in the U.S. had a positivity bias toward their personal future and a negativity bias toward their country’s future. In contrast, participants in China did not display a positivity or negativity bias toward either their personal or collective future. This result suggests that the valence dissociation between personal and collective future thinking is not universal. Additionally, when people considered the past in addition to the future, they displayed similar valence patterns for both temporal periods, providing evidence that people think about the past and the future similarly. We suggest political and cultural differences (such as dialectical thought) as potential explanations for the differences between countries in future thinking and memory.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13421-022-01344-9.

Individual Psychology in Novelist Thilagavathi’s Award Winning Novels

This article that is entitled "Individual Psychology in Award-Winning Novels" deals with novelist Thilagavathi and other personal behaviors such as the rise of love, greed, and self-confidence. Writer Thilagavathi has created a name for herself in the world of Tamil literature; she has given new ideas through Modern Tamil literature to protect the welfare of the people. Her works are mostly women-centric and explore their social issues. When researching them from a psychological perspective, the mentality of the creator and the mentality of the characters are evident. Generally, individual problems may naturally arise at works. In this way, this article examines the behavior of the individual based on the events of personal thoughts, actions, and depictions of inner memories found in Thilagavathi's novels 'Pathini Pen' (The Virtuous Woman) and 'Kalmaram' (The Stone Tree).

Domesticating: A Meditation on Self-Reliance

Domesticating: A Meditation on Self-Reliance

Everyday Adaptation: Theorizing climate change adaptation in daily life

Climate science to date demonstrates that natural and human systems must urgently adapt. Adaptation refers to changes in societies and ecological systems as they respond to both actual and anticipated impacts of the changing climate. While adaptation is not limited to the level of planning and policy, existing adaptation practice privileges institutional action. We argue that the definition of adaptation should be broadened to include the small, incremental changes made in our daily lives to accommodate the shifting ecologies in which we live. Drawing on critical adaptation research and our own ethnographic fieldwork in the Global South, we define everyday adaptation as the shifted ways a person works, eats, lives and thinks in response to climate realities, rather than the hardening of coastlines or the relocation of vulnerable structures. We integrate and build on existing scholarship on adaptation and the everyday to theorize the logics of everyday, hyperlocal adaptation. This hyperlocal scale is a critical component of any definition of adaptation and a useful lens for studying the way much of the global population adapts and will continue to adapt their lives to climate change. We offer two theoretical components of adaptation revealed by the everyday - adaptation labor and value adaptation – as lenses to see changes in everyday action. Through considering hyperlocal action, we then identify and explore four logics of everyday adaptation actions: lifestyle stability, socio-ecological reactivity, livelihood flexibility, and community capacity. Everyday adaptations are limited by individuals’ capacity to adapt and thereby determine the longevity, livability, and quality of life of places on the frontlines of climate change. We argue for understanding the aggregate effects of everyday adaptation in order to better align the actions of those living with climate change in their everyday lives and the large-scale adaptation projects aiming to protect them.

Etkileyici Pazarlama Uygulamalarının Post-Hakikat Kavramı Bağlamında İncelenmesi

Dijital dönüşüm tüketicileri de birer içerik üreticisi konumuna taşıyarak markalar ve tüketiciler arasında gerçekleşen iletişim sürecinin dinamiklerinin değişmesine neden olmuştur. Bu sürecin bir sonucu olarak ortaya çıkan etkileyici pazarlama, markalar ve tüketiciler arasında samimi ve güvenilir ilişkilerin inşa edilmesini kolaylaştıran bir pazarlama stratejisidir. Diğer yandan dijitalleşme ile hayatımıza giren ve sosyal hayatın hemen her alanında etkisini hissettirmeye başlayan bir diğer kavram olan post-hakikat, kamuoyu oluşturmada kişisel inanç, duygu ve düşüncelerin nesnel gerçeklerden daha etkili olması durumu olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Etkileyici pazarlama ve post-hakikat ile ilgili literatür incelendiğinde bu kavramların ortaya çıkmasına ve yükselişe geçmesine zemin hazırlayan unsurların benzerlik gösterdiği görülmektedir. Buradan hareketle bu çalışma ile ilk olarak post-hakikat olgusunu etkileyici pazarlama açısından analiz etmek, ikinci olarak ise etkileyici pazarlama uygulamalarının hedef kitle üzerindeki etkilerini post-hakikat bağlamında tartışmak amaçlanmaktadır. Bu amaçlar doğrultusunda çalışmanın literatür taraması bölümünde etkileyici pazarlama ve post-hakikat kavramları ele alınarak uygulama kısmında 14 katılımcı ile yarı yapılandırılmış görüşmeler yapılmış ve elde edilen veriler betimsel analiz yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda katılımcıların takip ettikleri etkileyiciler bağlamında kişisel inanç, duygu ve düşünceleri ile hareket ettikleri, takip edilen etkileyicilerin samimi ve güvenilir bir bilgi kaynağı olarak kabul edildiği ve WOM’un başlatıcısı ve dağıtıcısı konumunda oldukları tespit edilmiştir. Bu doğrultuda post-hakikatin etkilerinin etkileyici pazarlama uygulamaları aracılığıyla tüketicilerin davranışlarına da yansıdığı ve etkileyicilerin doğrudan ya da dolaylı olarak post-hakikat olgusunun meşrulaşmasına ve pekişmesine zemin hazırlayabilecekleri sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Deep Learning based Emotion Analysis and Recognition for Movie Review

Abstract: In the present world of AI-based systems, image processing is a prominent emerging method. One of the topics covered by artificial intelligence machine learning techniques is emotion recognition. Emotion Recognition is the process of analyzing facial expressions, body posture, gestures, and voice to interpret a person's thinking and current mental state. This allows one to determine whether or not the individual is interested in the continuing action. The Audience Feedback Analysis' fundamental functionality Using Emotion Recognition allows you to collect and analyze every individual's facial expression during or after a seminar, discussion, lecture, or keynote, and provide an analysis of the average emotional state of the audience. The major goal of the proposed system is to offer the event organizer or administrator with accurate and unbiased feedback by analyzing the expressions of the crowd during the duration of the event or at a specific time interval. Keywords: Convolutional Neural Network(CNN), Emotion recognition, Deep-Learning, ReLU.

Conversation and the logic of history

The problem of the logic of understanding history is discussed. We propose a model of understanding history as a conversation, which the person thinking about history has with interlocutors (sources) of previous epochs. The epoch is interpreted as a special way of problematizing human's understanding of him (her) self and the world around. At the same time, three gifts — attention, recognition and name — underlie the connection of the historian in conversation with interlocutors (sources) from other eras. They are not given in advance but are results of a struggle for the recognition. In choosing his (her) interlocutor (source), the historian chooses him (her) self. By giving this interlocutor (the source) the opportunity to be heard, the historian, at the same time, receives a gift from the source — the opportunity to express what would otherwise remain unspoken in the historian's own mind. The logic of conversation, designated as transduction, is not the connection through the identification of the beginning and the end of the discourse, which is appropriate and necessary within the speech of each of the conversationalists, but the connection of the beginnings of these discordant discourses among themselves.

Investigating Doctor of Physical Therapy Student Stress During Pandemic Related Curricular Changes

Introduction: Stress level in physical therapy students has been a focus of research due to multiple documented effects related to physical health, mental health, and ability to learn. Self-reflection has also been a focus of education research, relating it to personal learning, critical thinking, and demonstrable development of professional behaviors and skills. The aim of this study is to investigate student stress in response to programmatic changes wrought by the pandemic and whether stress impacted student self-reflection. Review of literature: Self-reflection is positively associated with growth of professional behavior and academic performance. Student level of self-reflection has been shown to be negatively impacted by stress. Subjects: A convenience sample of 35 students entering the program fall 2019 made up the participants. Methods: Outcome measures were collected six times over two academic years. The Self-Reflection Insight Scale (SRIS) consists of 20 statements rated on a 5-point Likert scale with 3 subscales: need for reflection (N), engaging in reflection (E), and insight (I), scoring from 10 to 100. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) is a 10-item questionnaire rated on a 4-point Likert scale, scoring from 0 to 40. Results: SRIS scores increased significantly from time 1 to 2, prior to the campus closure; no significant change for times 3 through 6. PSS scores indicated a higher percentage of students reporting a high level of stress at time 3 in the months after campus closure, decreasing significantly from time 3 to 4 during virtual/hybrid learning and increasing from time 5 to 6 as students prepared for clinical internship. No correlation was seen between SRIS and PSS, however a negative correlation was observed between SRIS subscale I and PSS at time 4 and 5. Discussion: Student perceived stress decreased during the study despite a universally stressful time. Student stress increased as students prepared for their first clinical internship experience, consistent with prior research. Initial gains in student self-reflection did not significantly change during the 1.5 years of the pandemic indicating that despite multiple academic and social challenges, students were able to maintain, but not grow, their level of professional self-reflection. Research is needed to further describe the relationship between stress and insight. Conclusion: The Program’s response to pandemic mandates may have positively influenced student stress.

Separated by a Common Heterodoxy. Illich, Freire and the Perilous Spell of Radical Canonicity

Many scholars, students and teachers who admire and continue to find inspiration in Paulo Freire’s and Ivan Illich’s work often insist on a shared common ground. This is done for good reason: Illich and Freire sought a sense of hope and liberation beyond the limitations by which large sections of humanity remain oppressed. It is therefore too easy to argue that texts like Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Deschooling Society can be aligned in sustaining a liberating and emancipatory approach, just as Illich’s case for the disestablishment of education would make a lot of sense if it were aligned with Freire’s critical pedagogical narrative. However, as this paper begins to show, though noble, such an approach would be detrimental to the one foundational aspect which both works happen to share: the claim to heterodoxy by which both Freire and Illich have endeared to make their case. More than a standard academic paper, this is a reflection on decades of being engaged with these two books. In a mix of personal and academic thoughts, and mostly taken from an Illichian perspective, the author argues that one must clearly separate these books by further submitting them to a reading that would immediately dispense with the gloss by which they remain canonized though often confused. While not exhaustive, this paper is meant to provoke more questions than give any specific answers.

Overview of the Incidence of Depression in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis at Dr. Moewardi Surakarta Hospital

Chronic renal failure or chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global public health problem with the prevalence and incidence of kidney failure increasing. Changes in the quality of life in patients with Chronic Kidney Failure will cause depression. Chronic kidney failure patients with depression will experience emotional disturbances, prolonged emotional related mental processes (thought patterns, feelings, activities), negative personal thoughts, decreased mood, loss of motivation, slow in thinking and decreased activity. The aim of this study was to describe the incidence of depression in patients undergoing hemodialysis. The type of research used in this research is descriptive correlation with a survey approach. Respondents undergoing hemodialysis who experience mild depression will lose interest, enthusiasm, reduced energy and also get tired easily. This will lead to reduced self-esteem and self-confidence, decreased activity, concentration and attention. The conclusion from the results of this study is that the majority of chronic kidney failure patients undergoing hemodialysis experience mild depression, namely 48 people (80%) and 12 people (20%) experiencing moderate depression. There was none of the respondents who experienced major depression and none who did not experience depression.

In The Production of A Language Culture, The Existence of Literature Works; Hindu-Buddhist Education in the Kingdom of Kediri

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the presence of literary works in the kingdom of Kediri, the role of ancient Javanese language in Hindu-Buddhist education, and the relationship between the presence of literary works and the role of ancient Javanese language in Hindu-Buddhist education in order to produce language culture. This study employs the historical method and is based on the findings. Literary works are concrete images that create charm with language tools that communicate the human person's experiences, thoughts, feelings, ideas, passions, and beliefs in the shape of experiences, thoughts, feelings, ideas, passions, and beliefs. The existence of literary works in producing linguistic culture in Hindu-Buddhist education.

The hammer, the mallet, and the nail

The hammer, the mallet, and the nail

The Use of Pragmatic Documents in Medieval Wallachia and Moldavia. Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century

The Use of Pragmatic Documents in Medieval Wallachia and Moldavia. Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century

From Nostalgia to Anachrony

This essay offers a close reading of two rarely discussed videos by moving-image artists Omer Fast and Michael Robinson. Fast’s T3–AEON (2000) and Robinson’s Light Is Waiting (2007) stand as representative of home video appropriation. Utilizing home video’s time-shifting properties, Fast and Robinson returned to home video purchases of cinema and television programs—respectively, The Terminator and Full House—as well as to analog technologies at a moment when they were being eclipsed by the digital. While the return to would-be outmoded or obsolescent technologies is typically tinged with the romanticism of nostalgia, their work pushes through the traps of nostalgia and opens into the times of anachronies. Drawing upon the writing of philosopher Jacques Rancière, anachronies simultaneously configure multiple temporal lines, instilling an ever-changing transformation of personal history, cultural memory, and historical thinking in the present. Revealing the connection between their practice and the multiple temporal lines present via home video appropriation, this essay offers a critical rethinking of nostalgia and anachronism—aesthetically, culturally, and theoretically—through the site of two artists’ moving-image practice.

Pedagogical technologies for the emotional intelligence of a music teacher

Today, in higher artistic and artistic-pedagogical educational institutions, emphasis is placed on the formation of the technological culture of future music teachers through the application of innovative technologies in vocal education. In higher artistic and artistic-pedagogical educational institutions, special attention is paid to the formation of the technological culture of future music teachers through the application of innovative technologies in vocal education. The teacher is considered to be a professional with personal phenomenon thinking, technical knowledge, practical skills, and the ability to use creative pedagogical tools, based on the value of technological culture, the ability and the way of technology worldview, and this is formed and applied to creative artistic and pedagogical activities. In this study, it was requested to determine the opinions of the music teachers who teach in modern education conditions on the pedagogical approaches to the concept of emotion. Within the scope of this research, interviews were conducted with 25 music teachers. The study group was selected on the basis of volunteerism for the research. Three unstructured interview questions prepared by the researcher were asked. As a result of the research, it was explained by using the content analysis method. It has been concluded that emotional intelligence gains positive attitudes in the music education process.
 
 Key words: Music teacher, emotional, technology, pedagogy, education, teaching;

Linguistic and stylistic features of the essay as a journalistic genre

The article concretizes the concept of essay as a journalistic genre, outlines its specific genre features. Research on the stylistics of essay texts by various authors is analyzed. It is stated that essays are considered mainly from the point of view of the theory of journalism and literary criticism, the general linguistic and stylistic features of the essay text have not been outlined yet. The aim of the article was to determine the structural-compositional, syntactic, lexical-semantic, phraseological linguistic means used in the essay. The essay is interpreted as a small artistic and journalistic prose work on abstract-philosophical, aesthetic, literary-ethical theme, which has an arbitrary composition and reproduces the personal thoughts and impressions of the author on a particular occasion or issue, and is not an exhaustive and defining interpretation of the theme. The features of the essay, such as the logic of the opinion, are identified; attention to the artistic form of the text; subjective judgment of the author about an object; the possibility of involving the general cultural context of the background knowledge of the addressee; ease of speech; imagery, aphorisms, metaphors, etc. The structural and compositional means of the essay are outlined, which include the argumentative nature of the unfolding of the text, which is manifested in the logical acts of comparison, opposition, analogy, proof; in the judgments and reflections of the addressee of the speech; key sentences that determine the theme and content of the work; means of communication, including repetitions, parallel constructions, antitheses. The syntactic means of essay texts include inversion of words, rhetorical questions, sentences with different types of syntactic connection, exclamatory statements; means of expressive syntax are represented by ellipse, repetitions, gradation, inversion, parallel constructions. It is noted that the most expressive lexical and semantic feature of this genre is the wide expressive possibilities of the artistic word, in particular imagery. Therefore, at the lexical-semantic and phraseological levels, the characteristic means of the essay are the constant use of tropes: metaphors, personifications, comparisons, epithets, symbolic and allegorical images. A striking feature of the essay text is intertextuality, which finds expression in aphorisms, sentences, maxims, quotations. Keywords: essay, essays, essay genre, essay text, linguistic and stylistic features of the essay.

Optimized adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system based on hybrid grey wolf-bat algorithm for schizophrenia recognition from EEG signals.

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that impairs a person's thinking capacity, feelings and emotions, behavioural traits, etc., Emotional distortions, delusions, hallucinations, and incoherent speech are all some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, and cause disruption of routine activities. Computer-assisted diagnosis of schizophrenia is significantly needed to give its patients a higher quality of life. Hence, an improved adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system based on the Hybrid Grey Wolf-Bat Algorithm for accurate prediction of schizophrenia from multi-channel EEG signals is presented in this study. The EEG signals are pre-processed using a Butterworth band pass filter and wICA initially, from which statistical, time-domain, frequency-domain, and spectral features are extracted. Discriminating features are selected using the ReliefF algorithm and are then forwarded to ANFIS for classification into either schizophrenic or normal. ANFIS is optimized by the Hybrid Grey Wolf-Bat Algorithm (HWBO) for better efficiency. The method is experimented on two separate EEG datasets-1 and 2, demonstrating an accuracy of 99.54% and 99.35%, respectively, with appreciable F1-score and MCC. Further experiments reveal the efficiency of the Hybrid Wolf-Bat algorithm in optimizing the ANFIS parameters when compared with traditional ANFIS model and other proven algorithms like genetic algorithm-ANFIS, particle optimization-ANFIS, crow search optimization algorithm-ANFIS and ant colony optimization algorithm-ANFIS, showing high R2 value and low RSME value. To provide a bias free classification, tenfold cross validation is performed which produced an accuracy of 97.8% and 98.5% on the two datasets respectively. Experimental outcomes demonstrate the superiority of the Hybrid Grey Wolf-Bat Algorithm over the similar techniques in predicting schizophrenia.