Place In Human Life Research Articles

Geochemistry landscape classification: toxicity of chemical elements and their impact on human health

In the article, the following were considered: classification of geochemical landscapes of the investigated territory, migration and accumulation of toxic chemical elements and their impact on human health. The research article was carried out in two directions: the first part-migration patterns of the chemical elements. The migration of chemical elements by landscape types has been identified, and a map has been developed showing the migration of chemical elements across the landscape. The second part of the article explores the toxicity of chemical elements that are common in the area and examines the relationship between the diseases observed in areas where the toxic elements are most commonly encountered and their effects on human health. The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the geochemical transformation of landscapes in the research area (of the Kura intermountain basin) based on the patterns of concentration and migration of macro-compounds and trace elements found in samples of mountain rocks, soil, plants and water, for which a comparative method of research and the relationship of landscape components was used. For the first time, a medium-scale "Geochemical classification of landscapes" and then "map scheme of diseases caused by anomalous concentration of microelements" of this region were compiled. The article reveals the characteristic features of the compiled maps and the features of the geochemical transformation of the study area. The geochemistry of landscapes studies the patterns of migration of chemical elements in the Earth's geographical shell. It deals with patterns of substance migration in that shell of the Earth that is the place of human life. The landscape is a fundamental concept of natural science as "chemical element," mineral, "soil." The landscape is a large and complex nonequilibrium dynamic system of the Earth's surface, in which the elements of the lithohydrology and atmosphere are interpenetrated.

Metaphors of the prospective teachers regarding the concept of music

How teachers perceive concepts and facts is very important because teaching is a profession capable of shaping the cognitive, affective and behavioural behaviours of society through education. This research aims to determine the perceptions of prospective teachers studying at teacher education programmes of different fields regarding the concept of music. The main purpose here is to determine how music, which has an important place in human life with its individual, social, cultural, economic and educational functions, is perceived by prospective teachers. This research was conducted according to the descriptive survey model. The participants of the research consisted of three categories and a total of 186 people: prospective teachers attending departments whose curriculums do not include music lessons (PT, n = 57), prospective teachers attending departments whose curriculums include music lessons (preschool teaching, classroom teaching) (PTM, n = 66) and prospective music teachers (PMT, n = 63). The data were obtained through a form asking the participants to complete the statement ‘Music is like ... because ...’. The analysis of the produced metaphors was carried out in five steps: (1) coding and extracting, (2) collecting sample metaphors, (3) developing categories, (4) ensuring validity and reliability and (5) transferring data to Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for quantitative data analysis. As a result of the research, based on 83 different metaphors produced by prospective teachers, these metaphors were divided into seven categories. When the distribution of perceptual categories by participant type was examined, it was observed that the perceptions of the participants changed according to whether they took music lessons and how often they took them.
 Keywords: Metaphor, music, perception of music, teacher education.

Preparação para a aposentadoria: intervenção em um serviço público municipal

O trabalho ocupa um lugar de centralidade na vida humana, de modo que intervenções acerca da transição trabalho-aposentadoria vêm sendo desenvolvidas objetivando facilitar o desenvolvimento profissional ao longo da vida, sobretudo no estágio de desengajamento. Este estudo objetivou descrever e analisar os resultados de um programa de preparação para a aposentadoria (PPA). Em quatro anos do programa participaram 122 pessoas com idade média de 57 anos (DP=1,52). O programa foi desenvolvido em oito encontros, nos quais foram abordados os seguintes temas: vida financeira, empreendedorismo, saúde e envelhecimento, família, vida social, trajetória socioprofissional e projetos de futuro. Por meio de autoavaliações, comparando a situação pré e pós intervenção, os participantes registraram mudanças relevantes nos sentimentos e recursos internos para enfrentamento da transição trabalho- aposentadoria. Foram apontadas possibilidades de aprimoramento do programa e de implementação de políticas públicas para a aposentadoria e o envelhecimento digno, considerando o cenário econômico e previdenciário brasileiro.

KAZAN-TATAR TÜRKLERİNİN HALK ANLATILARINDA ÖLÜM

It is known that death has a rather evident place in human life being the last phase of life. It has been one of the matters humankind has struggled the most to understand and interpret for its inevitability and the acceptance that comes with it; its obscurity and the fear that comes with it. The feeling of desperation in the face of death, avoiding death, the obscurity the afterlife, and the search for immortality to cling on to life have unavoidably accompanied beliefs about death and the practices that formed around these beliefs. As in all societies, the Turks also attempted to understand and interpret the meaning of death. The way the Turks perceived the soul and the death, and their beliefs and traditional practices formed around death can be seen in the written sources since the earlier times up to the present. As in the Turkic world, death has a rather significant place also for Kazan-Tatar Turks, who managed to preserve their culture although they were subjected to religious and cultural oppression by Russians for a long period. As a widespread theme in the folk narratives, folk beliefs and practices related to death were reflected in the narratives to a large extent. These beliefs and practices at stake can often be seen particularly in epics, legends, and tales that are of folk narratives. This study aims to examine in what way the beliefs of Kazan-Tatar Turks about the death and the soul, and their traditionally shaped practices were reflected on the examples of epics, legends, and tales that are of folk narratives.

KOMPETENSI GURU DALAM PEMBELAJARAN

Nowadays education is growing more rapidly and more complex, education problems faced is not a challenge that is left alone, but it requires constructive thinking in order to achieve the quality of the goal of good education. The problems in question include the competence of teaching teachers because teachers as people who deal directly with learners should have good competence in the implementation of teaching and learning process. Learning takes place in human life because of the interaction between two or more people, the interaction between two or more people, the interaction between two or more people, the interaction that involves the exchange of information that is unknowingly done in our daily lives. So that learning reinforces through experience. Learning has a charge that involves two or more people. Learning takes place as long as each individual builds mutually agreeable and satisfying cooperation. Learning is strived to provide interaction and communication that ensures the common good so that in the learning can be a mutually ripe process. Learning as a process is done by the individual to gain a whole new behavioral change, as a result of the individual's own practice in his interaction and environment. Learning is different from Teaching, learning does not have English roots. Learning is different from learning. Therefore learning if translated into English learningization is the efforts of educators to make learners learn (to makes people or student learn). In every lesson effective conditions must be planned and cultivated by the teacher deliberately in order to avoid adverse conditions (prevention efforts), and restore optimal conditions in case of damaging things caused by the behavior of learners in the classroom.

The Effect of Titanium Nano Oxide and Heat Treatment on Physical Properties of Hornbeam (<i>Carpinus betulus</i>) in Golestan Province

The use of wood has been considered for a long time and to this day, it has a special place in human life. Modification of wood and lignocellulosic materials is done by various methods, including modification of physical, mechanical, chemical and thermal, that as a new technology, it leads to the improvement of their undesirable features. Among these methods, heat correction is a useful method to improve dimensional stability and leads to increased resistance to water absorption and decay. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the titanium Nano oxide and heat treatment on the physical properties of hornbeam species. Samples were saturated with titanium Nano oxide solution at a concentration of 5000 ppm and pressurized 7 times in a pressure tank. The samples were divided into three groups: control, heat and Nano thermal treatment. Heat and saturated samples with titanium Nano oxide were heat treated at three temperature levels of 150&#8451, 175&#8451 and 200&#8451 for 4 and 6 hours. All three groups underwent physical tests. Heat and Nano thermal oxide treatments led to reduced water absorption and thickness swelling. Comparison between heat and Nano thermal treatment showed a further decrease in water absorption and thickness swelling in Nano thermal samples.

Wind Turbine Data Collection using IoT

Renewable energy resources have gained an important place in human life. It is a fact that the amount of non-renewable energy resources is decreasing rapidly, at the same time, the need for renewable energy resources increases. The history of humanity teaches us to use the resources prudently and efficiently. This can happen only with well planning and devising ways to realize the same. Even in the case of efficient use of renewable energy, the data analysis has greater value, since better the analysis, better the efficient and effective use. This paper is an outcome of making the data analysis of a wind turbine by collecting and communicating the data to the cloud server. These details can be accessed locally with the use of an LCD module, and remotely with the web browser or through a mobile app.

Place as a Social Determinant of Health: Narratives of Trauma and Homeland among Palestinian Women.

Despite calls for greater social work attention to the centrality of place in human life, the profession has yet to hone frameworks that fully capture the role of place in individual-collective identity and well-being. To move this agenda forward, this article draws on data from a series of focus groups to explore the placed experiences of women in Palestine. Analytically, it is informed by critical place inquiry, which emphasises the deeply interactional relationships between people and places, views place-centred practice and research as catalysts for active responses to the spatialised nature of power and injustice, and focuses centrally on the geographic and spatial dynamics of colonisation, and particularly settler colonialism, as key determinants of individual and collective well-being. Women's spatial narratives revolved around individual-collective identity and sovereignty, focusing in particular on three interdependent factors: freedom of movement; possession and dispossession; and continuity of place. Findings also illuminated spatial practices of resistance by which women defend and promote identity and sovereignty. We conclude with recommendations for more explicit, critically informed attention to place in social work practice, education and research.

A new digital image tamper detection algorithm based on integer wavelet transform and secured by encrypted authentication sequence with 3D quantum map

In this paper, a new gray scale image authentication technique is proposed in the integer wavelet transform (IWT) domain. Digital images as an extensive media today have a special place in human life. Therefore, the importance of protecting the main concept of images and preventing the change of its original content is of particular importance. Today, a variety of methods are proposed to protect digital images that watermarking based authentication is an example of them. Some of the methods presented in this area do not have enough security at the algorithmic level, and they are usually used a common logo without encryption in embedding algorithm. This causes security weaknesses for the algorithm. So, to prevent this type of security problem for the algorithm, as well as to create a long-key encryption concept, in this paper we have used a 3D quantum map. This map has a large key space and provides long-term security for the algorithm. In addition, a new permutation algorithm is proposed and after image permutation and 2 × 2 blocking the block based Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) performs on image. The U matrix of each block is encrypted with the generated sequence by the chaos map. After generating the authentication sequence, the embedding algorithm inserts the encrypted sequence into the IWT coefficients. The simulation results of the proposed algorithm reflects the efficiency of this technique in terms of embedding visual quality, maintain the structure of the cover image, low running time and detection accuracy which have been evaluated by PSNR, SSIM, NCC, TDR, FPR and FNR metrics.

Poszukiwanie prawdy moralnej w życiu i twórczości Johna Henry’ego Newmana

Prawda zajmuje w życiu człowieka istotne miejsce, a sam człowiek wezwany jest ku temu, aby odkryć jej pełnie. Pytania dotyczące prawdy i jej natury pojawiały się już w starożytności i nurtowały umysły najwybitniejszych filozofów, a później z całą konsekwencją wędrowały poprzez przestrzenie wieków aż ku nowożytności. Kwestia prawdy obecna jest w żywy sposób także w nauczaniu Kościoła.Obecny zakres debaty dotyczący pojęcia prawdy w jej znaczeniu obiektywnym może być różnie formułowany. W zróżnicowanej oraz wieloaspektowej strukturze człowiek, aby odnaleźć swoją tożsamość i przebić się przez degradację pojęciową, potrzebuje jasnych znaków, które ukażą mu właściwy kierunek postępowania i odczytywania rzeczywistości w jej najgłębszym wymiarze. W tym znaczeniu prawda jawi się jako warunek sine qua non w odniesieniu do ludzi, pragnących prowadzić swoje życie zgodnie z wymaganiami zapisanymi na kartach Ewangelii.Poniższy artykuł podejmuję próbę przybliżenia rzeczywistości prawdy w jej ujęciu moralnym w oparciu o życie i twórczość wybitnego teologa, jakim był John Henry Newman. To postać, którą należy rozpatrywać jako jednego z najwybitniejszych myślicieli XIX wieku, wyjątkowego pisarza oraz wielkiego intelektualisty. Życie tego znamienitego człowiek przepełnione było umiłowaniem prawdy, co wielu badaczy zamyka w kategorii pasji, podkreślając szczególnego rodzaju dyspozycję ukierunkowaną ku prawdzie. Temu, kto sięga po jego dzieła oraz spogląda na jego twórczość daje się poznać jako gorliwy uczeń prawdy, który kochał ją ponad wszystko inne. Fascynująca historia wiary i odwagi angielskiego konwertyty, stała się wyznacznikiem wszelkich podejmowanych przez niego decyzji, a on sam do dziś stanowi inspirację dla wszystkich, którzy pragną kształtować swoje życie w oparciu o fundament, jakim jest Prawda.

Classifying White Blood Cells Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Blood and its components have an important place in human life and are the best indicator tool in determining many pathological conditions. In particular, the classification of white blood cells is of great importance for the diagnosis of hematological diseases. In this study, 350 microscopic blood smear images were tested with 6 different machine learning algorithms for the classification of white blood cells and their performances were compared. 35 different geometric and statistical (texture) features have been extracted from blood images for training and test parameters of machine learning algorithms. According to the results, the Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) algorithm performed better than the other methods with an average 95% test success. The MLR can be used for automatic classification of white blood cells. It can be used especially as a source for diagnosis of diseases for hematologists and internal medicine specialists.

Examining the Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Furniture

Furniture is a phenomenon that takes place in human life as a design product. This phenomenon is located at the intersection of many fields of study that seem distant from each other, such as engineering, natural sciences, and art approaches in their historical process. When looking at the historical process of furniture, if the term furniture designer is used, it can be seen that these designers are sometimes an artist, architect, artisan, engineer, industrial product designer and interior designer. These disciplines and professional groups, which have differences in common as well as common aspects, can be considered as an indication of the extent of furniture occupying human life. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of the industrial revolution on furniture design.

Social protection of the population of Ukraine in the context of social policy and integration processes

The subject of the work the conditions, characteristics and trends of creation of effective system of social protection of the population. The aim of this work is to study the main directions of state social policy in the context of integration processes. The methodology of work. The work is done on the basis of studies of modern scientific views on the definition of the nature and development of social protection and social policy in Ukraine under conditions of integration processes. The results of the work. The article is devoted to social protection issues in the context of social policy, because the main objective of this policy is improving the welfare and the promotion of comprehensive state protection of the intellectual potential of society, given the characteristics of integration processes. Assessed the status and trends of development of financial provision of social protection in Ukraine and assess its compliance with the European norms and standards. Formulated proposals for the development of system of financial provision of social protection in Ukraine in the context of processes of European integration. Conclusions. The analysis of current formations of the essence of the term "social protection" have shown that it is interpreted by scientists around the same, this implies a system of measures which compensate for the social inequality of citizens, to ensure equal access of every person to a certain minimum of social benefits, to protect every individual against social risks, which always have a place in human life. Ascertained the need and trends of gradual reform of the social protection system in Ukraine with the aim of as close as possible to her baseline conditions in the relevant international norms and standards embodied in ILO instruments and European Union, which are designed to guarantee a decent life to every person upon the occurrence of the relevant social risks regardless of gender, age, duration of stay in a particular country.

Hermenéutica, autonomía y valor del arte

From a new-hermeneutical position, Bertram criticizes the paradigm of the autonomy of art (represented, in his opinion, by Danto and Menke) and defends that there is continuity between art and other human practices and that only by reference to these, art reaches its value. In a certain way, this new position takes on the recent development of art (something that classical philosophical hermeneutics did not achieve), but it has some shortcomings. In this paper, I first discuss Bertram’s criticism of Menke and Danto’s positions. Secondly, using De Azua’s arguments, I question if this new figure, ultimately Hegelian, really accounts for what does give art its place in human life and what does distinguish art and human life. Therefore I am defending the thesis of the autonomy of art, against Bertram.

Some theoretical issues of land restoration

The state of land resources in Ukraine is close to the critical one. Constant deterioration of the quality of land in Ukraine can have catastrophic consequences both for the environment and for human health, as well as for the development of the national economy. Legal problems of land restoration are extremely topical in modern conditions. The choice of the topic of the article is determined by the relevance of individual theoretical issues in the field of land restoration. It should be emphasized that the public relations in the field of land restoration remain insufficiently regulated. In legal literature were proposed different approaches to determination of essence of concept “ restoration ” natural resources and lands in particular. So, if it is a question of restoring the qualitative properties of the land (in particular, the fertility of the soils), it is expedient to use the term “ restoration ”. At the same time, the state of the land is being reduced from the existing negative to the original quality state (it is a question of certain positive changes in the account and the soil fertility). It should be noted that the quality of land is characterized by a certain aggregate of both positive and negative properties of lands. Public interest in the use of land is primarily in the preservation and restoration of land as a condition and place of human life, the main national wealth, sources of agricultural production and guarantees of economic and food security in the state as a whole. Land restoration is the direction of their protection. Public relations arising from the restoration of land is an independent component of land relations, and, therefore, included in the subject of land law. Certain specific characteristics are inherent in these relations, such as: a volitional character; in the regulation of social relations arising in connection with the restoration of lands, we are talking about the dominance of the imperative method of legal regulation; inequality of the parties of such legal relations; close relationship of social and legal nature.

WOOD-MAIN USED MATERIAL IN BUILDING "ECOLOGICAL" VS. "MODERN" HOUSES

From the oldest times, man has been using wood as prime material in building houses, as well as manufacturing tools needed around the house. Romanians, being strongly connected with the forests, they have been observing the way some wooden species are behaving to different stimulus and so being able to choose the species with the highest resistance from the durability, physic -mechanic characteristics, visual aspect and industrial prime matter points of view. An "ecological" house, for a simple man, represents the manual handcrafting of the wood and also using it in various domains such as building shelters, tools and other useful items that are a day by day necessity around the house. A "modern" house is an upgrade of what massive wood has meant in construction, tools and objects are using new crafting and finishing techniques, which are well superior to those already known by elder people. The construction of a "modern" house also involves the use of new materials that can meet people's needs; and so the used wood proportion is decreasing, placing itself in a secondary plan and increasingly used in combination with other materials. The environment has been, is and will always be a witness of all civilizations and everything that means evolution and modernization, knowledge and development; the forests, , in our opinion, always occupying the most precious place in human life.

On the Importance of an Ethnomathematical Curriculum in Mathematics Education

Cultural values, traditions, and symbols are manifested in the life every society. Culture, therefore, occupies a very important place in human life and society, affecting economic, social, religious, and educational activities. Education in general and mathematical education in particular is also affected by cultural values. This essay discusses the importance of the development and implementation of math curricula that integrates cultural and folkloric elements and values from the daily life and society of the students, including folklore stories, games, and tools, and their contribution to increasing student motivation to study math, which in turn improves their academic achievements in this subject.

Relationship among Nurses Role Overload, Burnout and Managerial Coping Strategies at Intensive Care Units

Work life takes up an important place in human life, and an employee faces many stimuli from internal and external environments and is affected by them in a positive or negative way. Aim: was to investigate relationship among nurses role overload , burnout and managerial coping strategies at Intensive Care Units in Assiut University Hospital. Results: Showed that role overload had highest mean score in General and Casuality ICUs. In addition, coping strategies highest mean scores of rational problem solving , resigned distancing, and seeking support/ventilation were in Casuality and post operative ICUs respectively except passive wishful thinking had highest mean scores in General and Casuality ICUs respectively. Also, burnout had highest mean scores in post operative and general ICU respectively. Conclusions: Nurses employed at ICUs in Assiut University Hospital reported high burnout and use managerial coping strategies as rational problem solving, resigned distancing, seeking support/ ventilation and passive wishful thinking to handle burnout and role overload except passive wishful thinking not used with role overload.

An Exploratory Study of Hope and Its Process Using Focus Groups and Phenomenological Analysis

Snyder (2000) describes the beginning of hope with the story of Pandora, beautiful maiden who was sent to earth by the Gods to fulfill revenge from Prometheus as he had stolen fire. Sent with beautiful jar, Pandora could not wait to open it though being instructed not to do so. She was horrified to see all the evils being out of the jar and she quickly shut it close leaving hope behind in it. Snyder developed the hope theory which has received the most attention since the 1990s.Snyder defines hope as: is the sum of perceived capabilities to produce routes to desired goals, along with the perceived motivation to use those routes. One form of the definition was, a positive motivational state that is based on an interactively derived sense of successful agency (goal-directed energy) and pathways (planning to meet goals) (Snyder, Irving & Anderson, 1991). A second definition described it as a cognitive set that is based on reciprocally-derived sense of successful agency (goal-directed determination) and pathways (planning to meet goals) (Snyder, Harris, Anderson, Holleran, Irving, Sigmon, Yoshinobu, Gibb, Langelle, & Harney, 1991).Goals work as an anchor in the process of hoping and have been seen as cognitive components. These goals could be short term or long term and not necessarily as visual images or verbal descriptions. When one is sure of achieving the goals, one need not hope for it and when one is certain of not being able to achieve them, then also one does not hope. It is in the intermediate probability of achieving goals that hope flourishes the most. The routes which individuals use to reach their goals are termed as Pathways thoughts. In simple words it means to think as to how can one reach from Ato B. Agency thoughts are understood as mental force which motivates individuals to use the located routes to reach out to their goals. It is this agency thinking which provides us with 'push' to move ahead whenever we are faced with impediments to reach our goals.Snyder (1994) also proposes that hope has no hereditary contributions and it is rather an entirely learned cognitive set about goal-directed thinking. The teachings of pathways and agentic thinking is seen as an inherent part of parenting which helps the child to bring in the components of hopeful thinking in place by the age of two years. Pathways thinking is the basic cause and effect learning that the child acquires from interactions with caregivers and this is achieved before age one year with agency thinking developing around age one year. Snyder (1994, 2000) has stated that strong attachment to caregivers is crucial for imparting hope.Hope has received little attention due to its superficial analysis. Philip Pettit (2004) in his conceptual paper 'Hope and its place in mind' argues that the term 'hope' should be utilized in more specific way. Such usage would give hope characteristic identity of its own. He believes that hope is very distinctive state of mind and has rational andubiquitous place in human life. A prerequisite to hope is to believe that hope is not forlorn. One must believe that hope is true and will be realized.Pettit also agrees that hope requires elements of beliefs and desires but with this it also requires something else and that something else gives hope its characteristic identity. Hope is rational as it helps us to bring ourselves out of the panics and depressions and gives us control and direction. Without hope, we would collapse in despair and uncertainty. Hope is also seen as cognitive counterpart of planning wherein an action plan is seen as way of handling the rough and tumble of desire which keeps anything else which is inconsistent at rest. Such planning gives kind of coordination in an uncertain and uncompanionable world.In another conceptual paper 'An Anatomy of Hope' by Roberts Mills (1979), finds common roots between the words 'hope' and 'hopelessness'. …

Study and Redefining Beneficiary Participation in Process Of House Design

Since housing has a special place in human life and his physical, psychological and interactions, so in addition the unity of humans, multiplicity and diversity of them must be considered. This possible only by beneficiary participation in the design process, but because society has different economic and social texture and classes; and settling suit because of the time and place of special indexes are entitled, so prepare a comprehensive model includes the testimony and circumstances; identify factors influencing participation optimum need to selection population and certain species of private construction. Standard tool to study topic does not exist, so in order to produce tools using qualitative research methods; interpretation - historical correlation to extract components and variables and their effects on each other and enjoyed target table Content consisting of four domains of general knowledge - specialized knowledge of participation - participation mechanisms and factors influencing participation achieved. Extracted factors are: the initial formation of partnership - partnership executive process - the role of participant - optimal participation; by study and analyze the theoretical model. Due to history and social aspects; cultural participation in Shiraz; promote scientific and participatory approach designed to make operating housing; bed and new horizons of development of facilities and areas in the design of residential environment created and due consultation and decision making in addition to beneficiary participation to promote optimum utility of space; mutual flexibility and utilization of space; increase fixation and motivation will lead beneficiary reside” and the main question: “how is the model of scientific position optimal participation planning instrument in private housing in the city of Shiraz, in the process of design, implementation and use”.