Problem Of Self Research Articles

Modelling the situation of driving on the grip limit with DDPG algorithm

The number of papers in the topic of autonomous vehicle research is growing exponentially. This paper addresses the problem of self driving a car on tire grip limit, in other words it gives a simple model of a race car driver. Driving is transformed into a simple deep learning problem, where the agent has one action, that is the direction in which the actual speed vector needs to be modified for the next step, and the environment state contains of the actual position and speed. The environment models the race track as a two colour map, to decide on and off track positions, and the car as a point mass with maximal possible acceleration according to the so called GG diagram. Results show that the agent can learn how to drive on the track under the described circumstances.

The challenges of midlife women: themes from the Seattle midlife Women\u2019s health study

BackgroundMidlife, the period of the lifespan between younger and older adulthood, has been described as a period of transition in women’s lives. Investigators studying midlife have focused on women 40 to 65 years of age, who typically experience multiple social, psychological and biological challenges, among them the menopausal transition. Investigators have reported a diverse array of stressful events, for example, health concerns, family problems, work-related issues, deaths, frustrated goal attainment, and financial worries; however, none have identified which life events midlife women experience as the most salient. The purpose of this study was to understand the meaning behind the experiences that midlife women identify as the most challenging.MethodsParticipants were enrolled in The Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study, a longitudinal study spanning up to 23 years. Summative content analysis, incorporating manifest and latent analysis approaches, was used to identify life experiences that women described as the most challenging looking back over 15 years of being in the study. Eighty-one women responded to the question, “Since you have been in our study (since 1990 or 1991), what has been the most challenging part of life for you?”ResultsWomen identified the most challenging aspects of midlife as changing family relationships, re-balancing work/personal life, re-discovering self, securing enough resources, and coping with multiple co-occurring stressors. Within these themes the most frequently reported challenges were: multiple co-occurring stressors, divorce/breaking up with a partner, health problems of self, and death of parents. Few women mentioned menopause as the most challenging aspect of their lives.ConclusionWomen found themselves searching for balance in the midst of multiple co-occurring stressors while coping with losses and transitions, for some in a context of limited resources. Menopause was infrequently mentioned. Future research to identify the challenges experienced by more diverse populations of women and further understanding of the dynamics among multiple co-occurring stressors is needed to provide individualized health care appropriately to midlife women.

The efficacy of an EMR-enabled text messaging system to the expanded health beliefs, diabetes care profile and HbA1c of diabetes mellitus patients

As diabetes mellitus (DM) becomes a global emergency, there is a need to explore novel interventions to address problems in self – management. Literature agree in the potential of mobile phones to carry-out self-care for a wide-array of disease conditions. Diabetes Self – Management Support and Education Through Text – Messaging (DSMSET) is a low-cost, two-way text messaging system designed to deliver self - help, educational messages based on the nine (9) dimensions of health management. DSMSET serves as a plugin to SHINE OS+, an open – source electronic medical record (EMR) system. The research is also based on the Expanded Health Belief Model and explores the efficacy of SMS in improving Expanded Health Beliefs, Diabetes Care Profile and in decreasing HbA1C of adult patients with DM. A two-arm, randomized controlled trial, a total of 122 eligible subjects from UERM PO Domingo OPD Services Department of Medicine and Sweet Diabetics Club based in CHAMP Wellness Clinic were enrolled. Using simple table random digits, subjects were divided equally to trial arms between SMS and non – SMS. The SMS group received DSMSET intervention for 90 days and were required to reply pre-set codes. Both groups answered two sets of survey questionnaires. Patient profile data including demographics for both groups were collected using SHINE OS+ before and after 90-day period. At follow-up, 110 participants were distributed equally and were subjected to analysis with descriptive and inferential statistics using STATA15 and SPSS23. Results show that Total Expanded Health Belief Scores (8 Constructs), Diabetes Care Profile Score, Likelihood to Take Action Score of the SMS group increased compared to the non-SMS group. Combined Expanded Health Belief Scores also showed modest improvement. However, SMS group posted relatively unchanged HbA1c levels while the non-SMS group had increased HbA1c on average.

Hipótesis transdiagnóstica desde la Psicoterapia Analítica Funcional: La formación del Yo y sus problemas

Se presenta una hipótesis transdiagnóstica surgida desde las terapias contextuales, específicamente desde la Psicoterapia Analítica Funcional (FAP), según la cual habría problemas comunes en muchos transtornos psicopatológicos al haber problemas en la formación del Yo. Desde FAP el Yo se considera un concepto aprendido de tipo verbal y social, como una generalización aprendida desde muy temprana edad a partir de frases que incluyen al Yo como sujeto activo, como lugar o perspectiva desde el que se actúa. Desde FAP se considera que el grado de control privado y/o público que tenga ese aprendizaje del Yo puede dar lugar a problemas leves o graves, según se haya reforzado y mantenido por el contexto social. Se detalla la teoría sobre cómo se formaría el Yo verbal y social por etapas, así como los diversos tipos de problemas psicológicos a los que puede dar lugar. Finalmente, se revisa la evaluación e intervención desde FAP en estos problemas del Yo, especialmente los referidos a los trastornos de personalidad. Concluyendo sobre la necesidad de investigación y prueba de esta hipótesis en los casos clínicos o en estudios de análogos.

The problem of self in Nāgārjuna’s philosophy: a contemporary perspective

In this paper, I would like to examine Nāgārjuna’s idea of the self and its contemporaneity interpretations in philosophy. As we know, Nāgārjuna examines the emptiness (Śūnyatā) of various things in which the emptiness of the self occupies an important position in the Buddhist philosophical tradition. The main aim of this paper is to understand the meaning of emptiness to explain the nature of the self and to show how it is different from the substantial notion of self. However, Nāgārjuna’s idea of the self is not identical with the contemporary materialistic notion of self. The paper is divided into five sections. In the first section, I would like to explain the nature of emptiness in relation to self and how it is different from the substantial self. The second section will focus on the constituents of the self. The third section will bring out the nature of self. In the fourth section and last section, I would like to bring out Nāgārjuna’s idea of the emptiness of the self with respect to the contemporary debates on the nature of self.

Bodily Schemata and Sartre's <em>I and Me</em>: Reflection and Awareness in Movement

Philosophers have faced the problem of self or inner awareness since the self, itself, became something to be known and/or understood. Once dancers ‘let go of the mirror’ (Emily Claid 2006) they too began to face the problem and limits to bodily awareness, developing specific reflective practices to obtain access to their inner bodily selves. But for the phenomenologist, reflection requires an active process of perception, which problematises our grasping of the so-called hidden, organising structures of movement that are unable to be perceived (bodily schemata). For the dancer, then, how is it possible to access and have a deeper understanding of these nonconscious bodily structures? What are the limits to inner bodily awareness?In this article, I draw upon Jean-Paul Sartre’s challenge to Edmund Husserl’s pure ego with his notion of object transcendence in his essay of 1937, Transcendence of The Ego: An existentialist theory of consciousness. I do this as a possible means for understanding bodily schemata and its expression through interactive dance technologies. Using examples from dance, I suggest how bodily schemata can be accounted for if our attention is not directed towards an inner sensing of the body, but towards a site of interaction where objects or materials extend or supraextend our bodies in the form of clothing, costume and digital representations, and where the dancer becomes audience to these distally extended bodily reflections.

Two Wheeled Robot Self Balancing Control Research

According to movement balancing and position control problem of Self Balancing Two Wheeled Robot, a method based on H∞ Robust Control was proposed. We apply it onto the MIMO nonlinear model of robot, and simulated it in the MATLAB environment The simulation results shows that the robot can be balanced in fixed position well by this method, and also it have the ability to anti interference.

VERWINDUNG NIHILIZMA ĐANIJA VATIMA

Nihilizam se više ne može posmatrati isključivo kao pojedinačni, individualni problem svakog pojedinca ponaosob (problem sopstva), već kao <em>politički </em>problem (u smislu pojma <em>polis</em>, razumljenog kao zajednica ili zajedništvo). Ono što Vatima zanima jeste dokle možemo da stignemo sa pozitivnim nihilizmom, nakon Ničea i Hajdegera, odnosno, gde nas pretpostavljeni pozitivni aspekti nihilizma mogu odvesti, nakon što smo, ničeanskom figurom „savršenog nihiliste“ govoreći, uvideli da je nihilizam naša (jedina) <em>šansa</em>. Videćemo i na koji način Vatimo odgovara na ove krize metafizike, razuma, subjekta, ideja humanizma i prosvetiteljstva, za koje će se ispostaviti da ih nije baš tako jednostavno odbaciti, poput iznošenog odela.

Design procedure for info-communication system with the maximum throughput

The problem of self–similarity in various areas of science and technology has interested researchers for a long time. Packet losses result in an additional network traffic and, finally, ”congestions”. At high–speed of data transfer packet losses, expressed in portions of a per cent, lead to considerable information losses. It has been shown in numerous papers devoted to the research of network traffic that the abovementioned phenomena are related to the properties of the traffic self–similarity which is mainly caused by the TCP protocol behaviour. However to date models have not been offered which adequately describe the behaviour of the communication networks of information systems and which allow to apply the whole arsenal of classic methods of analyzing nonlinear dynamic systems. The paper suggests a new approach to analyzing the communication network behaviour of information systems with TCP protocol – considering them as nonlinear dynamic systems manifesting chaotic properties at certain values of parameters. Phase portrait of the system under study are built, Lyapunov exponents for different values of the main system parameters are calculated. Recommendations on designing and operating high-speed optical communication networks of information systems are suggested.

THE PROVISION OF TEENAGER’S SELF–ESTEEM ISSUE IN THE MODERN PSYCHOLOGY

The problem of self–esteem is discussed in the article. It is stated as the most modern and researched issue in the Modern Psychology. It is also spoken about the issue of the individual self–esteem of and transformations of demonstrated self–esteem of the teenager.

THU0491-HPR Patient survey driven designing of clothes for rheumatoid arthritis patients with deformities (indian senario)

BackgroundRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that affect multiple small and large joints.1It can be a disabling and painful condition and leads to substantial loss of functioning...

THE PHENOMENON OF AESTHETICAL ANTROPLOGY IN KONTEST OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE UKRAINIAN POETIC CINEMA

Becoming of modern philosophical space takes a place in the aspect of interdiscipline approach. As a result of co-operating of philosophy with many humanities, new directions of modern philosophical idea appear. Aesthetical anthropology is one of concepts of modern scientific knowledge which presents the theories of new type. In the structure of the poetic cinema aesthetical anthropology will be realized foremost in an author idea, and also by interpretation of cultural sense initiator through the prism of spectator. A question of development of the cinema art in the context of aesthetical anthropology, is actual and from a practical side represent «plural» and «many» approaches, in relation to the problems of self - development and self-knowledge of a man.

Regulation of antibiotic sales in Mexico: an analysis of printed media coverage and stakeholder participation

BackgroundRestricting antibiotics sales to those with medical prescriptions only is a central strategy for promoting appropriate use and containing antibiotic resistance; however, many low and middle income countries have not enforced policies that prevent widespread self-medication with antibiotics. In 2010, the Mexican government announced the enforcement of antibiotic sales regulations, a policy that gained media prominence. This study analyzes media coverage of issues, stakeholder representation, and positions taken during policy agenda setting, drafting, and implementation to shed light on policy making to promote appropriate antibiotic utilization.MethodsWe carried out a quantitative content analysis of 322 newspaper articles published between January 2009 and December 2010 in 18 national and regional newspapers. Additionally, we conducted a qualitative content analysis to understand the positions adopted and strategies developed by nine key stakeholders. Framing theory guided the analysis.ResultsThe Ministry of Health dominated media coverage, justifying the enforcement policy by focusing on risks of self-medication, and to a lesser degree dangers of increasing antibiotic resistance. Pharmacy associations appeared to be the leading opponents, arguing that the policy created logistical difficulties and corruption, and had negative economic impact for pharmacies and their clients. The associations developed strategies against the regulation such as attempting to delay implementation and installing physicians’ consultation offices within pharmacies. While medical associations and academic institutions called for a comprehensive strategy to combat antibiotic resistance, improve prescription quality, and create public awareness, these issues had little impact on media coverage. Consumer groups and legislators received very little media coverage.ConclusionsThe narrowly-focused and polarized media coverage ─centred on problems of self- medication and economic impact ─ was a missed opportunity to publicly discuss and to develop a comprehensive national strategy on antibiotic use in Mexico. It highlights the need for discussing and developing interventions within the framework of a pharmaceutical policy.

Creating an implicit measure of cognition more suited to applied research: A test of the Mixed Trial—Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (MT-IRAP).

Implicit cognition measures such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, &, Schwartz, 1998) have become increasingly common in many areas including research on prejudice, consumer preferences, political attitudes, psychopathology, and personality traits (Greenwald, Poehlman, Uhlmann, & Banaji, 2009), in part to avoid the problems of self- report such as susceptibility to self -presentation biases and introspective limits (Greenwald & Banaji, 1995). Implicit measures provide important additional information to explicit assessments, particularly in domains heavily affected by social desirability (Greenwald et al., 2009) or with automatic and spontaneous behaviors (e.g., Asendorpf, Banse, & Mucke, 2002). These measures have not become common in clinical settings, however, due to their procedural characteristics. The IAT, currently the most popular method, relies on the finding that individuals are generally faster at sorting stimuli based on two concepts to the same response key when these concepts are associated than when they are not. For example, an individual may be faster at sorting words related to flower and good to the same key than at sorting words related to flower and bad to the same key. There are hundreds of studies on the IAT (Greenwald et al., 2009), but it only assesses the relative strength of target concepts (De Houwer, 2002), which greatly limits its applied use. For example, if the IAT shows faster responding with flower-good/insect-bad trials than flower-bad/insect-good trials, it is unclear whether the effect is due to a flower-good association, insect-bad association or some relative contribution of both. The IAT design also limits its applicability to domains that go beyond simple associations and bipolar categories, which is often the case with the kinds of beliefs and attitudes applied issues present. Researchers have been working on a variety of alternative IAT designs (e.g., Cohen, Beck, Brown, & Najolia, 2010; Karpinski & Steinman, 2006; Nosek & Banaji, 2001), but none yet overcome these problems. Relational Frame Theory (RFT; Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, & Roche, 2001) researchers have developed an alternative measure, the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP; Barnes-Holmes et al., 2006). Participants are asked to select a relation (e.g., similar/different) between a target stimulus (e.g., substance user words) and a label stimulus (i.e., good/bad) in a series of trials. Two types of trial blocks are used, one in which the verbal relations are consistent with the participants' history of relating stimuli (e.g., addict is similar to bad) and the other where the responses are inconsistent (e.g., addict is similar to good). Participants are trained to emit these two opposing types of sorts (i.e., consistent and inconsistent responses) through an alternating series of practice trials. The difference in response latency between consistent and inconsistent trial blocks in subsequent testing is used to detect the implicit effect. The IRAP is more flexible than the IAT, particularly as it can be used to examine specific implicit relations with a target concept, rather than only relative associations, and to assess a broad range of relations beyond associations. The IRAP demonstrates predicted differences between known groups in a wide variety of areas including some of applied relevance such as self-esteem (Scanlon, Barnes-Holmes, Barnes-Holmes, & Stewart, under review; Vahey, Barnes-Holmes, Barnes-Holmes, & Stewart, 2009), attitudes towards different nationalities (Power, Barnes-Holmes, Barnes-Holmes, & Stewart, 2009), and sexual attitudes (Dawson, Barnes-Holmes, Gresswell, Hart, & Gore, 2009) among many others. The IRAP diverges from explicit self- reports in predicted ways (Barnes-Holmes, Murphy, Barnes-Holmes, & Stewart, 2010; Power et al., 2009), and is sensitive to variables that go beyond explicit reports (Roddy, Stewart & Barnes-Holmes, 2010). …

The State of the Network: Radical Anxiety, Real Paranoia and Quantum Culture

In this article, the author proposes to explore the state of the contemporary network society through an analysis of the human effects of the conditions of globalisation, fast capitalism, postmodern warfare and quantum culture. In the first section of the article, the author considers the problem of social relations in the global network society and, in particular, examines the effect of radical anxiety on self—other communication. Following this section, which turns off a consideration of the violence of fast capitalism, the author focuses on the relationship between the science of immunology, paranoia and postmodern warfare. Here, in the second section of the article, the author shows how the radical anxiety that plagues those who inhabit the lightning‐fast network resolves itself in paranoid reaction formations that make productive self—other relations more or less impossible. Finally, the author explores potential solutions to the problem of self—other violence in the network and concludes with a discussion of the stumbling‐block to the invention of a more humane social and political form of globalisation, neo‐liberal/neoconservative quantum culture.

Called to Self-care, or to Efface Self?

Called to Self-care, or to Efface Self?

Temperature distributions for a semilinear reaction — diffusion equation

An important special type of reaction — diffusion equation arising in the classical combustion theory is studied. We systematically obtain admissible classes of solutions having a special type of separation of variables. Of particular interest is a parameter δ ≥ 0. We obtain the critical value of δ, δ cr for a solution in a found class. Thus, the problem of self - ignition for a reactor vessel is solved completely. Remarks on some relevant applications of our results are also supplied.

Extended Self Organizing Feature Map: A Tagged Potential Field Approach

This paper proposes an escape methodology to the local minima problem of self organizing feature maps generated in the overlapping regions which are equidistant to the corresponding winners. Two new versions of the Self Organizing Feature Map are derived equipped with such a methodology. The first approach introduces an excitation term, which increases the convergence speed and efficiency of the algorithm, while increasing the probability of escaping from local minima. In the second approach, we associate a learning set which specifies the attractive and repulsive field of output neurons. Results indicate that accuracy percentile of the new methods are higher than the original algorithm while they have the ability to escape from local minima.

An overview of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is a public health agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services. CDC employs approximately...

Parental loss and family violence as correlates of suicide and violence risk.

Seventy-nine psychiatric inpatients were administered a battery of psychometric instruments that obtained information about early parental loss, exposure to family violence, and behavioral problems in themselves and in their first-degree relatives. These variables were correlated with suicide and violence risk measures. Suicide risk significantly correlated with all family variables whereas violence risk correlated with behavioral problems both in oneself and in one's first-degree relatives. Moreover, suicidal and/or violent patients had experienced maternal loss significantly more frequently than the nonsuicidal/nonviolent patients. In the suicidal/violent group, age of patient at death of parents was significantly lower than in the nonsuicidal/nonviolent group. Finally, family violence was significantly correlated with behavioral problems in self and in first-degree relatives. Findings are interpreted according to the authors' theoretical model of aggression regulation.