Phenomenon Of Life Research Articles

Здоровый образ жизни: философское измерение

Introduction. The article deals with the issue of “healthy lifestyle” as a multidimensional phenomenon that requires complexity in the research process, and also substantiates the need to overcome the limitations of private scientific methodology. Philosophical understanding of the problem of health and the phenomenon of a healthy lifestyle is carried out in the modern context of the development of knowledge. Theoretical analysis. To substantiate the integrity, the intellectual potential of the philosophical tradition is involved, a critical analysis of the one-dimensionality of natural-scientific ideas about the corporeality of a person is carried out. The multifunctionality of a healthy lifestyle and its integration into the cultural and mental basis of modern civilization are analyzed. The potential of the ideas of idealism, realism, pragmatism and existentialism for the study of the problem of education and human development is revealed. The valeological component of life and health of the population of the country is indicated. The author’s vision of the phenomenon of a healthy lifestyle, as one of the phenomena of social life, is proposed. The role of education in the formation of a healthy lifestyle of the younger generation is determined. The consequences of the application of body-oriented practices as a new direction of culture are shown. Conclusion. It is generalized that a healthy lifestyle is a safe state of human existence. The necessity of creating a philosophy of a healthy lifestyle is substantiated.

Reductionism or holism? The two faces of biology

Reductionism and holism, that is, antireductionism, are two of the prevailing paradigms within the philosophy of biology. Reductionists strive to understand biological phenomena by reducing them to a series of levels of complexity with each lower level forming the foundation for the subsequent level, by mapping such biological phenomena inasmuch as possible to the principal phenomena within the fundamental sciences of chemistry and physics. In this way, complex phenomena can be reduced to assemblages of more elementary explananda. Holism, in counterpart, claims that there independently exist phenomena arising from ordered levels of complexity that have intrinsic causal power and cannot be reduced in this way. When dealing with the nature of biology and its unique foundations of essentialism, determinism and ethics, the pedagogical lens through which these foundations are conveyed to learners could provide a limited perspective if only the reductive approach is followed as it would not sensitise learners to the true complexity of the phenomenon of life and the study thereof, and it is the purpose of this article to frame the reductionist–antireductionist debate in order to illustrate this.Contribution: This article contributes new knowledge to the field of the philosophy of science; more specifically, the philosophy of biology by critically evaluating the pervasive dialectic between the theoretical frameworks of reductionism and antireductionism and alluding to the pedagogical consequences thereof.

An Analysis of Code-switching in Uygur, Chinese and English: From the Perspective of Sociolinguistics

Code-switching is a common phenomenon in daily life. With the improvement of social education level, we have not only mastered our mother tongue, but also other languages. Code-switching between native language, Chinese and English is an ubiquitous phenomenon in daily conversation for ethnic minorities. Previous studies merely focus on code-switching between two languages, but lack the analysis of code switching function in the dialogue between three language users. Code-switching among the three languages involves little communication in daily life. Bilingual education policy and multi-ethnic communication enrich the language of the nation.This paper analyzes the function of human transcribing in the daily conversation of language users.The author made a questionnaire, which designed whether code-switching would be involved in communication, under what circumstances would code-switching occur, and the intention of code-switching. The author collects and records the conversion of people's three languages in the natural state. Secondly, the author classifies and analyzes the recorded dialogues according to their functions.

К ВОПРОСУ О МИРОВОЗЗРЕНИИ КАК ДУХОВНО-ПРАКТИЧЕСКОМ СПОСОБЕ ОСВОЕНИЯ МИРА

The article is dedicated to analyze the worldview as a phenomenon of the spiritual life of society and individuals, as a way of spiritual and practical development and transformation of the natural and social world. It states that worldview cannot be reduced to any distinct form of social consciousness or to a combination of those forms, that it is not an average element in the structure of social or individual consciousness, but an integrating beginning of it.

Application of percolation model in spreading dynamics driven by social networks big data

Spreading dynamics is a common yet sophisticated phenomenon in real life, and percolation theory is widely applied in analysis of this dynamics due to its conciseness and efficiency. With the development of information technology, the quality and quantity of available data are being improved. Although this offers a chance to describe and understand empirical spreading phenomena more comprehensively and accurately, complicated dynamics brought by massive data pose new challenges to the study of social contagion based on percolation theory. In this prospective, we show, by analyzing examples, how the percolation theory is used to describe the information transmission on social networks driven by big data. We also explore the indirect influence mechanism behind the spread of scientific research behavior, and develop a new algorithm to quantify the global influence of nodes from the local topology. Finally, we propose, based on these example studies, several possible new directions of percolation theory in the study of social contagion driven by big data.

Bioelectricity in Plants: From So Simple a Beginning

Bioelectricity in Plants: From So Simple a Beginning

Energy Transformation and Flow

Energy is the driving force behind everything we know and experience. To ensure its availability we seek out energy sources of every type real and imaginable. Its presence in every aspect of our lives gives us the illusion that we understand what it is. Yet every branch of science has a different description of energy that is suitable in its own area of expertise, but is not applicable in general. It may come as a surprise then that energy has properties of its own, verifiable by experiment, that are universal and extend throughout all of Nature from the tiniest particles to the heavenly bodies and life itself. When we explore the universal properties of energy we will find that they are embodied most intensely in the phenomenon of life. We conclude in these pages that any scientific theory that claims to be complete must include life.

Systematic Literature Review: Analysis of Ethno-STEM and Student’s Chemistry Literacy Profile in 21st Century

Chemical literacy is students' understanding of chemical reactions, chemical theories and laws, the nature of chemical particles, and the implementation of chemistry in natural phenomena in everyday life. While Ethno-STEM research is the latest research in Indonesia. This is motivated by the socio-cultural diversity that is owned by Indonesia. The focus of this literature study is to map research topics on chemical literacy and Ethno-STEM that are implemented and analyzed opportunities for implementing chemical literacy and Ethno-STEM in learning. This study used the systematic literature review (SLR) method for the last 5 years (2017-2022). A comprehensive search returns thousands of articles from 4 keywords, namely Ethnoscience, STEM, Ethno-STEM and chemical literacy. After screening, 30 articles were found to be reviewed consisting of 7 STEM articles, 6 ethnoscience articles, 7 Ethno-STEM articles and 10 chemical literacy articles. The findings show that a) Ethno-STEM research in Indonesia is conducted on various topics, the biggest topic its self are about approach and learning models is 32% b) the trend of topics discussing chemical literacy is 62% discussing high school chemistry material; 7% discussed chemistry in college and 7% discussed chemistry topics in junior high school; c) Opportunities for implementing chemical literacy in learning must be fully implemented in learning activities, including the need for textbooks that integrate chemical literacy, standardized evaluation questions, chemical literacy learning videos and other media

REFLECTION OF FOREIGN CULTURAL INFLUENCES IN THE FOLKLORE AND LANGUAGES OF THE PEOPLES OF DAGESTAN

The article examines the influence of the Russian language and culture on the folklore and language of the peoples of Dagestan. It is noted that with the direct participation of otkhodniks at the beginning of the 20th century, the number of neologisms increases in the folklore and lexical composition of the Dagestan languages. This is explained by the fact that the dynamics of the phenomena of everyday life of otkhodniks of that period was associated with the city. The purpose of the study is to show the foreign cultural, urban, exotic influences reflected in the oral and poetic creativity, the languages of Dagestan. The authors made an attempt to identify the role of intercultural communication in these processes. Most clearly, other cultural, urban motifs are manifested in folklore, namely, in oral stories and non-ritual lyrics (songs about otkhodnichestvo). The otkhozhny trade has become widespread among a number of Dagestan peoples (Dargins, Lezgins, Laks and Tabasarans). Borrowed words and expressions found in folklore texts make it possible to trace the processes of interethnic contacts and intercultural communications of that era. Folklore and linguistic picture of the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. become a mirror of such communications. In general, the topic did not become the object of a special study. The issue of borrowing Russianisms is considered in monographs devoted to the branch vocabulary of the Dagestan languages, in articles on folklore.

Terada Torahiko, a Physicist and a Haikai Poet

Terada Torahiko is known as a scientific essayist in Japan, but hardly anyone knows he was a haikai poet as well as a physicist. According to him, haikai poetry and physics are two different ways of conceiving Nature, both valid and perhaps complementary to each other. Seeing his research in physics looking for regularities in apparently irregular phenomena in everyday life, we may say his haiku haikai spirit is manifest there and that he was pioneering a new science such as the one developed later by Ilya Prigogine. His association of haiku haikai poetry and Freudian interpretations of dreams leads us to rethink the relation between science and literature. This paper examines Terada's poetics as well as his research in physics in order to see how one can associate the Two Cultures separated from each other for such a long time.

Aristotelian-Thomistic Contribution to the Contemporary Studies on Biological Life and Its Origin

The phenomenon of life belongs to the most intriguing and puzzling aspects of reality, studied in various divisions of natural science, as well as in philosophy and theology. The purpose of this article is twofold. Firstly, it aims at bringing into the rich contemporary conversation on the nature, origin, and persistence of life a deeper and more thorough insight coming from the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy of nature and metaphysics. Secondly, in reference to the theological aspects of the debate, the article presents the two contrasting positions on the necessity of a direct divine intervention in the origin of life and analyzes them from the same Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective.

Dissociative Identity Disorder And Its Significance To Nina Sayer's Personality Development

AbstractThe portrayal of mental illness is often depicted in movies through characters’ characterization. As literary work’s purpose focuses on the words and on a conscious and consider arrangement of the words to produce a pleasing or enhancing effect, it can be concluded that movie is one of the best literary work as the tools for portraying the phenomenon of life. This research focuses on the movie entitled Black Swan that was released in 2010. By using that movie, the researcher aims to reveal the psychological issue suffered by the main character, Nina. Through the movie, it is believed that behind the soft and kind attitude of Nina, there was a master of evil and sensual role. Considering that, this research aims to reveal the portrayal of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) as seen through Nina in the movie. Furthermore, this research also aims to see the impacts obtained by Nina to her personality development. To conduct the analysis, the researcher used the DID theory by Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) as well as the personality theory by Carl Rogers. There are seven symptoms used to reveal the existence of DID in the main character. Meanwhile, there are three components of personality to see the personality development of the main character. To present the data, the researcher used descriptive qualitative methods to describe and explain the issue of DID and personality changing in Nina. Hence, the data are in the form of dialogues and scenes that were taken from the movie. The findings of this research found that Nina Sayer in the movie of Black Swan fulfilled all the symptoms of DID. Due to her DID, Nina also showed the personality changes, by showing her development on her self-worth, self-image, and ideal-self. It happened due to the tense and burden Nina got during her practice time as the Swan Queen. Keywords: Black Swan, dissociative identity disorder, personality.

Modeling the Amount of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Application: New Modified Alpha Power Weibull-X Family of Distributions

The use of statistical distributions to model life phenomena has received considerable attention in the literature. Recent studies have shown the potential of statistical distributions in modeling data in applied sciences, especially in environmental sciences. Among them, the Weibull distribution is one of the most well-known models that can be used very effectively for modeling data in the fields of pollution and gas emissions, to name a few. In this paper, we introduce a family of distributions, which we call the modified Alpha-Power Weibull-X family of distributions. Based on the proposed family, we introduce a new model with five parameters, the modified Alpha-Power Weibull–Weibull distribution. Some mathematical properties were determined. Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimates for the model parameters were derived. The MLEs, bootstrap and Bayesian HPD credibility intervals for the unknown parameters were performed. A Monte Carlo simulation study was performed to evaluate the performance of the estimates. A simulation study was performed based on the parameters of the proposed model. An application to the carbon dioxide emissions dataset was performed to predict unique symmetric and asymmetric patterns and illustrate the applicability and potential of the model. For this data set, the proposed model is compared with the modified alpha power Weibull exponential distribution and the two-parameter Weibull distribution. To show which of the competing distributions is the best, we draw on certain analytical tools such as the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. Based on these analytical measures, we found that the new model outperforms the competing models.

Exploring the philosophical concept of my death in the context of biology: the scholarly significance of the unknown

Contemplating one’s own death is a core aspect in the history of Western philosophy. In the modern era, existential philosophy has inherited this tradition and established unique discussions on the concept of “my death,” resting on the premise that this concept is unapproachable via scientific inquiry. Conversely, biological research is essentially conducted within the scope of life phenomena, with death being referred to in the sense of lifespan; thus, death is not among its inherent themes, which automatically excludes the concept of my death from its scope. To establish a dialogue between the two fields, this study questions the widely held premise that my death is unrelated to science and is best examined by philosophy. I consider the movement between continuity and discontinuity as foundational to scientific development, and integrate it with the relationship between the unknown and known. Furthermore, I extend this to the concepts of consciousness and body, and subsequently clarify and define the unknown divisions. Finally, I examine the kinds of unknowns that science confronts to interpret philosophically how an aspect of reproductive theory has unwittingly revealed a completely new dimension of life: my death. Overall, I argue that my death is an essential point of contact between philosophy and biology that reveals the scholarly significance of the unknown.

Responsible fatherhood: a sociological reflection on paternal abandonment

This article aims to reflect on responsible parenthood and the phenomenon of paternal abandonment from a sociological perspective. The existence of this phenomenon is assumed, accompanied by a social invisibility: that it exists, but is not debated. In the final considerations, it is observed that the phenomenon of paternal abandonment has worsened since modern times, but there are traces of its existence since classical Greek antiquity, also serving as an alert to the need to remove this phenomenon of invisibility social life and to encourage ways of overcoming it.

B. A. Larin as researcher in bilingual lexicography of 16th-17th-сentury Muscovite Rus’ epoch

The contribution of B. A. Larin to the formation of a new lexicographic tradition in Russian science associated with the study of bilingual lexicons of the epoch of Moscovite Rus’ is analyzed. The events from the history of Soviet philology of the 1930s–1940s are commented on. The name of B. A. Larin is introduced into the context of contradictory phenomena in the public life of the country and the struggle against “cosmopolitans”. Attention is drawn to the originality of the scientist’s approach to the formulation and solution of the problem of understanding and introducing into research practice unique textual monuments compiled by foreigners. B. A. Larin’s painstaking work on deciphering and linguistic commenting of dictionary texts is noted. It is emphasized that for the first time in the philological tradition, Russian-foreign phrasebooks and dictionaries have become the object of attention of scientists as a linguistic and cultural phenomenon, which made it possible to give objective information about the features of everyday speech of different social strata of the population of Moscovite Rus’ in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is said about the prospects of this direction and subsequent developments in the study of dictionary bilingualism in domestic and foreign science. The role of the Larin school in the continuation of the historical and linguistic traditions of I. I. Sreznevsky, A. A. Shakhmatov, L. V. Shcherba is highlighted. The papers concludes on the originality of B. A. Larin’s ideas and their scientific value in modern lexicographic theory and practice.

PERFORMANCE OF H. PLESNER’S PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: ECCENTRIC POSITIONALITY AND THEORY OF PERSONAL SOCIALIZATION

Helmut Plesner’s philosophical anthropology introduces not only the division of the world of the living being into self and environment, but also a superstructure over the zip distribution: eccentric positionality. This reflexive ability of the self to relate to itself allows the formation of personal-relative, i.e., social life. The aim of the article is: to trace the possibilities of methodological renewal of sociotheoretical discourse, which opens for him the principle of eccentric positionality.The study uses historical-comparative and logical-analytical methods. Research results. H. Plesner in the idea of eccentric positionality unfolds the perspective and possible practical consequences of the establishment of human openness in the world, not stopping at the danger of finally breaking the anthropological framework of his philosophy, dissolving it in the concept of personal socialization.Conclusion. Plesner’s «social» is presented as a life phenomenon – it is the highest manifestation of life, and the process of personalization of life manifestations is a process of socialization. Taking the self beyond oneself in eccentric positionality is something more than separating oneself from the environment, opposing oneself to it and establishing an attitude towards it. In the course of establishing the relation to oneself, the self does not form it automatically – the positioning of eccentricity cannot be carried out directly – which enables a special space favorable for the «inter-self» existence of living beings, a specific sphere of «inter-self» relations – the sphere of social existence.

Determinants of Duration of the First Birth Interval Using the Semi-parametric Survival Model in Uttar Pradesh, India: Evidence from NFHS

Background: First birth is an important phenomenon in women life. It not only affects the duration of the rest of birth intervals but also affects the reproductive pattern of women. The study aims to explore the determinants of the duration of the first birth interval.Subjects dan Method: The cross-sectional study data of 33,275 women married between the years 2005-2021 aged (15-49) years from Uttar Pradesh, were selected from NFHS-5 data. The NFHS-5 sample is a stratified two-stage sample. Socio-demographic, socio-economic and cultural factors were taken as independent variables. The dependent variable was the first birth interval variable. Data analysis was performed on SPSS version 23 software and R Programming language for graphical representation. Cox proportional hazard models were applied for analysis.Results: The mean age of women at first marriage was 19.4; SD=3.26 years and the mean age of women at first birth was 21.39; SD=3.24 years. The median duration of the first birth interval was22 months with an IQR of 14 until 32 months. Cox hazard proportional analysis revealed that religion, residence, (ever) fetal loss, age at first birth, heard family planning, and women or husband education were found to be statistically significant factors associated with the duration of the first birth interval (p<0.001).Conclusion: There is a need to change the mindset of people towards the concept of the use of family planning methods to increase the length of the birth interval, regardless of various factors. This would help to increase the duration of the birth interval, improve the health of women and children, as well as help reduce population growth. Keywords: Uttar Pradesh, birth interval, semi-parametric, cox model, hazard plot. Correspondence:Jai Kishun, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences. Lucknow – 226014, India; email: jaikishan.stat@gmail.com

Actual questions of the philosophical understanding of tourism

The article is devoted to topical issues of philosophical understanding of tourism as a significant phenomenon in public life and an important component of economic development. With each new period of civilization development, the phenomenon of tourism is becoming more and more multifaceted. In a number of countries its development is a priority, taking into account the percentage of employment and high financial profitability. Tourism has long been the basis of the hospitality industry.The article describes the main components of the philosophy of tourism. The axiological meaning of philosophical tourism is revealed. The philosophical praxeology of tourism is explained. The antinomies of unlimited tourist activity are substantiated.There are many examples of completely unnecessary, and sometimes simply inappropriate use of the term “philosophy”. Leaving such arbitrariness on the conscience of their authors, let us emphasize that the “purpose” of philosophy in its classical and modern form is to determine for people by its means and capabilities the meaning-forming guidelines of life, thereby attracting them to the world of wisdom, the realm of sophistication. Developing the idea of a common, universal form of cultural wealth, philosophy reveals and formulates in theoretical concepts the invariable “eternal” principles of human worldview, worldview and worldview. The urgent task of philosophical culture is to substantiate the methodology of finding solutions to the increasingly complex problems of human existence in a rapidly changing world (“Heraclitian flow”), to equip the individual in his/her discovery of new meanings of his/her own existence.Let us state the range of philosophical definitions used to explain various realities of social life and human activity has recently expanded significantly. “If in the late nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth century the sciences of man and society were considered completely separated from philosophy, today they are undergoing a kind of “refilosophy”, which leads to changes in the relationship between the sciences of man and society themselves”.

Development of a Mitochondrial Targeting Lipid Nanoparticle Encapsulating Berberine.

Delivering drugs to mitochondria, the main source of energy in neurons, can be a useful therapeutic strategy for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Berberine (BBR), an isoquinoline alkaloid, acts on mitochondria and is involved in mechanisms associated with the normalization and regulation of intracellular metabolism. Therefore, BBR has attracted considerable interest as a possible therapeutic drug for neurodegenerative diseases. While BBR has been reported to act on mitochondria, there are few reports on the efficient delivery of BBR into mitochondria. This paper reports on the mitochondrial delivery of BBR using a lipid nanoparticle (LNP), a "MITO-Porter" that targets mitochondria, and its pharmacological action in Neuro2a cells, a model neuroblastoma. A MITO-Porter containing encapsulated BBR (MITO-Porter (BBR)) was prepared. Treatment with MITO-Porter (BBR) increased the amount of BBR that accumulated in mitochondria compared with a treatment with naked BBR. Treatment with MITO-Porter (BBR) resulted in increased ATP production in Neuro2a cells, which are important for maintaining life phenomena, compared with treatment with naked BBR. Treatment with MITO-Porter (BBR) also increased the level of expression of mitochondrial ubiquitin ligase (MITOL), which is involved in mitochondrial quality control. Our findings indicate that increasing the accumulation of BBR into mitochondria is important for inducing enhanced pharmacological actions. The use of this system has the potential for being important in terms of the regulation of the metabolic mechanism of mitochondria in nerve cells.