Social Concern Research Articles

An IoT-Based Pill Management System for Elderly

The challenge to guarantee healthy aging has become a major social concern. Due to the cognitive deficits related to age, hectic daily activities, and multiple medications prescriptions, the elders often tend to forget their pills intakes. This has a colossal impact on their health and life. Moreover, the recent pandemic of COVID-19 has accentuated the importance to provide independent and autonomous living for the elderly. This paper presents a pill management system based on IoT intended for aged individuals. The proposed system is a smart pill dispenser associated with a mobile application. The main actors of the system are the patient, the doctor, the pharmacist, and the patient’s caregiver and/or relative, each having restricted access to the system via specific credentials. The prescription is directly edited on the mobile application by the doctor and the scheduling and filling of the pillbox is done wirelessly by the pharmacist. The reminding of medications intakes in this system is done gradually to help the patient adhere to his/her prescription. First, it notifies the patient about his/her scheduled pill by a mobile notification then via the pill dispenser using LCD, LED, and buzzer. The implemented system also allows the doctor and caregiver to keep a tab of the patient’s intakes. Furthermore, the pill dispenser is featured with a locking mechanism to ensure medication dosage control and prevent drugs abuse. Experiments show that the proposed system is appreciated by the elderly and encourages them to take their pills successfully and safely without causing any disturbance.

Patient Satisfaction With Medical and Social Concerns Addressed During Telemedicine Visits.

Purpose The use of telemedicine dramatically increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.Assessing patient satisfaction with this mode of healthcare delivery is an important metric of success as it is broadly implemented across various settings. Of additional importance are the ways social determinants of health impact health outcomes, with the first step in determining the scale of this impact being the identification of contributing factors. This study assesses patient satisfaction with the medical and social aspects of the care they receive via telemedicine at a university-affiliatedprimary care training clinic in Detroit, Michigan. Methods A survey was designed to assess patient satisfaction with the technical aspects of the visit, the visit itself, and with the social determinants screening tool used. During July 2020, 167 patients who had at least one telemedicine visit with a primary care physician from the clinic in the preceding months were contacted to assess their impression of the service provided. The responses were used to evaluate patient satisfaction with the comprehensive care provided via the telemedicine visit. Results Of the 167 patients contacted, 79 (47%) completed the survey. Respondents' age ranged from 18-74 years, with 66% identifying as femaleand 34% as male. For many, this was their first experience with telemedicine. The vast majority expressed comfort in sharing details about their health concerns via telemedicine, with only 3% reporting they were "uncomfortable." More than half of the patients (60%) felt some level of comfort with telemedicine after their first encounter; 14% stated that they were still uncomfortable, and 26% were neutral. Most of the patients (88%) asserted their willingness to participate in future telemedicine visits. Just under two-thirds (63%) of participants "strongly agreed" that concerns related to their social determinants of health were addressed, and 59% "strongly agreed" that the resources provided by their physician were helpful. Conclusion This survey evaluates multiple dimensions of patient satisfaction with their physician using technology to deliver a telemedicine visit instead of an in-office visit. Telemedicine was well received, with high satisfaction for addressing medical and social concerns. The results of this study support the use of telemedicine to assess social determinants of health in an underserved minoritized patient populationand will help physicians optimize future interactions with patients through telemedicine.

Poet R. Meenakshi’s Social Progress

Writers in their works highlights many events related to relationship system with the hope that the people in the society should live in harmony. Similarly, R. Meenakshi's poems is about the inequalities among the people, social concern, women's progress, individual human morality, self-sacrifice and humanity. There is nothing equivalent or comparable to the love and affection of a mother. Poets play an important role in such social progress. The article explores the strategies that Meenakshi put forward in the human society by removing the ignorance and ups and downs embedded among the people.

Antisocial behavior of Spanish adolescents: Prevalence and relationship with their perceived global health

Engagement in antisocial behavior during adolescence is a controversial issue causing social concern and with implications for the adolescents. This research is based on data from the 2014 Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) study and aims to determine the prevalence rate of antisocial behavior in 11-16-year-old adolescents and examine the relationship between antisocial behavior and perceived global health. The sample is composed of 9775 adolescents enrolled in school in Spain (50.95% girls). Results show a similar prevalence for boys and girls in all categories except in destruction, which is more prevalent in boys. However, discrepancies were found in the prevalence of engaging in antisocial behavior according to age, with a higher prevalence in older age groups. It was found that lesser antisocial acts are associated with a worse health score at all ages regardless of sex, justifying the need to carry out preventive interventions and tackle the circumstances that promote antisocial behavior.

School adjustment and bullying of Chinese left-behind children: Mediating role of social support

Bullying has become a social concern in schools in China, and school adjustment is an important factor affecting bullying. We explored the mediating role of social support in the relationship between school adjustment and bullying among 600 left-behind children in junior middle schools in Shandong Province, China. The students completed the School Adjustment Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and the Junior High School Bullying Questionnaire. Results showed significant differences in school adjustment, social support, and bullying between the children of families where only one parent had migrated to the city for work, and children of families where both parents had done so. School adjustment, social support, and bullying were significantly correlated among the left-behind children. Social support played a mediating role in the relationship between the school adjustment and bullying of these children. The results provide references for school teachers and family members to reduce bullying of left-behind children.

A Note on R&D Innovation with Socially Responsible Firms

This work revisits the R&D duopoly à la (d’Aspremont and Jacquemin, Am Econ Rev 78:1133–1137, 1988, d’Aspremont and Jacquemin, Am Econ Rev 80:641–642, 1990) (AJ henceforth) considering an economy with firms engaged in corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the traditional AJ setting without spill-over effects, firms invest in R&D as a sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium (SPNE) strategy, but they are cast into a prisoner’s dilemma. Socially responsible firms can get the same SPNE result. Preliminarily, we show that the level of firms’ social concern has a positive effect on the R&D investment. Unlike the basic framework, however, if the consumer welfare weights enough in each firm’s objective, investing in R&D becomes a firm’s utility-enhancing strategy also without R&D spillovers: the prisoner’s dilemma vanishes, and the R&D investment-decision game with CSR turns out to be an anti-prisoner’s dilemma, in which investing in R&D is the firm’s Pareto-efficient choice. Then, if firms are CSR-oriented, investing in R&D becomes a Pareto-superior outcome for society (with or without R&D spillovers). The article also shows that R&D subsidies can be used as a welfare-maximising tool.

Understanding perinatal mental illness as a governance concern in South Africa through health provider perspectives

ABSTRACT Women in South Africa experience a disproportionately high prevalence of common perinatal mental disorders (CPMDs). These disorders often remain a silent burden and a complex health, social, and policy concern, both nationally and globally. Moreover, policy efforts to address this concern have been fragmented. Greater understanding of the governance of perinatal mental illness is needed to address this complex issue. No research to date has focused explicitly on the importance of ‘issue framing’ to advance governance for perinatal mental health. We sought to achieve a more nuanced understanding of clinical governance and issue framing for perinatal mental health in South Africa by interviewing 24 key informants with expertise in perinatal mental illness. Dominant themes encompassed: framing of perinatal mental health determines its priority; perinatal mental health is not prioritised due to competition from other health concerns; and, screening policy responses are shaped by the framing. We found that understanding the varying views influencing perinatal mental illness provides insights into how experts frame the problem. Findings suggest that a better understanding of policy implementation and responses in South Africa is important in guiding research, policy, and practice, while improving the governance of perinatal mental illness.

Berkarya Melalui Film: Pendampingan Pembuatan Film Pendek Bagi Siswa Madrasah Aliyah

The importance of the soft skills of high school students today tends to be a social concern. Judging from the development of digitalization of existing media, high school students need to prepare and equip themselves to face the rhythm of learning in higher education, or be ready to enter the community with all their competencies. The purpose of this service is to provide assistance for high school students and/or equivalent to Madrasah Aliyah (MA) in the process of making short films. The service is carried out in two stages and is located at MAN 1 Special Program (PK) Surakarta. Through this service, the participants were given material about the initial concept of making a short film, as well as a number of stages in making a short film. Then, participants were asked to practice some simple techniques in taking pictures on film, and continued with the process of making short films. Overall, the participants are expected to have the ability and knowledge of how to make a short film, starting from drafting concepts and story ideas, making scripts, the execution process in shooting, as well as editing and the final stage.

Anxiety Sensitivity Social Concerns Predicts Electrodermal Activity during the Niacin Biological Challenge Paradigm

Anxiety sensitivity social concerns (ASSC), or the fear of observable anxiety symptoms, is a risk factor for social anxiety. ASSC predicts anxiety following the niacin biological challenge, a paradigm in which niacin is used to manipulate facial flushing during a speech task. However, it remains unclear if ASSC predicts physiological arousal during this task. The current study was designed to examine the effects of ASSC on self-reported distress and electrodermal activity (EDA) during the niacin biological challenge in a sample of undergraduates (N = 36; M age = 18.9, SD = 0.84; 69.4% female). Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 (100 mg niacin vs. 100 mg sugar) × 2 (instructional set) design. Participants completed a speech task in a virtual reality environment. Participants rated their distress halfway through the speech and EDA was averaged over four intervals. There was a main effect for ASSC on subjective distress. There was a significant ASSC by condition interaction predicting EDA, in that ASSC was related to EDA only in the niacin condition. ASSC also was more strongly related to EDA anticipating the speech. These findings highlight the role of ASSC in predicting anxiety and physiological arousal.

Vision-Based Anti-UAV Detection and Tracking

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been widely used in various fields, and their invasion of security and privacy has aroused social concern. Several detection and tracking systems for UAVs have been introduced in recent years, but most of them are based on radio frequency, radar, and other media. We assume that the field of computer vision is mature enough to detect and track invading UAVs. Thus we propose a visible light mode dataset called Dalian University of Technology Anti-UAV dataset, DUT Anti-UAV for short. It contains a detection dataset with a total of 10,000 images and a tracking dataset with 20 videos that include short-term and long-term sequences. All frames and images are manually annotated precisely. We use this dataset to train several existing detection algorithms and evaluate the algorithms’ performance. Several tracking methods are also tested on our tracking dataset. Furthermore, we propose a clear and simple tracking algorithm combined with detection that inherits the detector’s high precision. Extensive experiments show that the tracking performance is improved considerably after fusing detection, thus providing a new attempt at UAV tracking using our dataset. The datasets and results are publicly available at: <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/wangdongdut/DUT-Anti-UAV</uri> .

문화예술과 정치 관계에 대한 검토

The purpose of this study is to introduce the notion and characteristics of the Cancel Culture based on the Grounded Theory and to open a forum for discussion on conflicting perspectives. To this end, this study aimed to suggest implications by qualitatively following the logic of the Grounded Theory with related cases and examining their impact, focusing on the recent exclusion of Russian arts and culture among international institutions.&#x0D; The notion of Cancel Culture is a movement of depriving public figures of their social status or professions by publicly discrediting and boycotting those who are judged to be unethical and immoral. It might appear to be effective when legal remedies are not appropriate, by requesting immediate correction in an informal manner. On the other hand, due to the nature of public opinion driven by private censorship, it is apt to lose neutrality and tolerance, and thus threaten freedom of expression, besides undermining human rights.&#x0D; Under the circumstances that the Cancel Culture is getting attention as a social concern around the world, this study could be meaningful in identifying the need for related research to open a public forum in domestic arts and academic communities.

Have attitudes toward epilepsy improved in Germany over the last 50 years?

ObjectiveIn Germany, six previous representative surveys on attitudes toward epilepsy (AE) have been conducted between 1967 and 2008 using the four original Caveness questions (CQs) from 1949 to 1980. The aims of this study were (1) to investigate changes in AE over the time span of 50 years, including the current survey in 2018 (2) to investigate the first-time emotional reactions measured with the Scales of Attitudes toward People with Epilepsy (SAPE) (3) to identify predictors of AE. MethodsA representative face-to-face survey with CQ, in addition with the SAPE scales of Social Distance, Stereotypes, Personal Concerns, and Emotional Reactions was carried out in Germany in 2018. One thousand and twenty-six persons who ever had heard of epilepsy participated. Respondents who answered “don’t know” in the CQs were subsequently asked to answer only yes/no. The analysis of trends from 1967 to 2018 was based on the pooled data of the surveys. The four CQs in the 2018 survey were included in the SAPE item pool and an exploratory principal axis factor analysis was performed. General linear models were performed to identify predictors. ResultsFor all four CQs, the trend of improved AE was significant over the past 50 years. In the 2018 survey, excluding the “don’t know” answer option increased the proportion of negative responses for contact of one’s own children with a person with epilepsy (PWE) from 6.9% to 11.4% and for the marriage of one’s own children with a PWE from 13.9% to 23.8%. When encountering a PWE, 30.1% would feel insecure or uncomfortable and nearly 60% were concerned that the PWE might be injured in case of a seizure. Knowing what to do in case of a seizure, knowing that seizures can be treated successfully, personal contact with a PWE along with younger age, and higher education were found to be the strongest predictors for positive AE identified by multivariate analyses. Exploratory principal axis factor analysis revealed that three of the four CQs items loaded > 0.30 at the factors of Social Distance and Stereotypes of SAPE but none on the factors measuring emotional reactions. SignificanceAE measured by CQs have markedly improved in Germany over the last 50 years. Germany is to our knowledge the only country with such a long-term trend investigation in AE. Negative AE may be underestimated by survey questions with “don’t know” answer option. Emotional aspects of attitudes are underexposed resp. neglected in the CQs, which are used worldwide for measuring AE. Additional tools like SAPE can close this gap. The identified predictors may help to derive interventions against negative AE.

When quantity takes on a quality of its own: A retrospective exploration of the lived experience of cumulative harm

AbstractCumulative harm refers to the effects of an accumulation of adverse experiences in a child's life. An understanding of cumulative harm and its integration into practice frameworks, legislation, policy and service delivery is hailed as an imperative of critical social concern and has been demanded by researchers, practitioners, commissioners and coroners. However, there is minimal research exploring the nature and defining qualities of cumulative harm and the implications for individuals in adulthood. The present study uses interpretive phenomenological analysis to explore the lived experiences of cumulative harm in a sample of helping professionals. The findings of this study contribute knowledge to the definitions and typologies of child abuse, neglect and adversity, and draw on empirical evidence to broaden the scope of what constitutes childhood maltreatment. Further, the findings catalyse a paradigm shift that positions accumulation as a distinct harm type and clarifies the qualities which embody cumulative harm: persistent dysfunction, dysregulation, disadvantage and disconnection.

Analysis on the Employment Situation and Countermeasures of Sino-foreign Cooperative College Graduates in Central and Western China - Based on the Analysis of the School Running Projects of C University

Under the background of the new era, how to serve the "the Belt and Road" strategy and how to train and deliver talents for Sino foreign cooperation in running schools in central and western universities has become a matter of social concern. In addition, under the influence of COVID-19, the employment space of graduates from Sino foreign cooperative education projects has been severely compressed, and the contradiction between talent supply and demand has intensified. Based on the data of the School of International Education of University C from 2015 to 2021, the analysis of employment status shows that the employment rate of graduates has fluctuated due to the impact of external environment in the past seven years. The analysis of the four aspects of employment region, employment type, employment market, and employment quality shows that the comprehensive quality of students needs to be improved, employment information service needs to be strengthened, employment assistance and guidance needs to be improved, and the participation of grassroots employment projects is not high, It is expected to promote the employment of graduates of Sino foreign cooperation projects in colleges and universities in the central and western regions through the establishment of the employability enhancement project, the improvement of employment information service quality, the strengthening of employment assistance and guidance, and the vigorous publicity of grass-roots employment projects.

524 Tissue-engineered human skin age spot model with individualized hyperpigmentation lesion through high-resolution patterned 3D bioprinting and its use for the evaluation of cosmetic ingredients

Solar lentigines (SLs) are a major social and cosmetic concern to many individuals. To date, simple 2D monolayer cell cultures exposed to UV or classical reconstructed pigmented epidermis without dermal compartment are used to explore the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in SL disorders. However, none of these conventional approaches recapitulates the complexity of the SLs. Here, we developed the first 3D full-thickness in vitro model of age spot including a functional individualized hyperpigmentary zone (HPZ) surrounded by a defined perilesional zone (PLZ) by using a unique high-resolution patterned 3D bioprinting approach.

PREVALENCE AND TRIGGERING FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH UNINTENDED PREGNANCY IN SOUTH ASIA AND SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: EVIDENCE FROM DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY DATA

Unintended pregnancy is a global social health concern among women from developing countries. It plays a significant role in the women's health condition, their children, and their family economy, particularly in South Asia (SA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The prime concentration of this study was to explore the prevalence of unintended pregnancy and point out the factors associated with unintended pregnancy in the women from the SA and SSA regions. This study utilized the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data of 35 developing countries from the SA and SSA region for analysis purposes. Univariate analysis was conducted to calculate the prevalence, and bivariate and multivariate analyses were applied to explore associated factors of unintended pregnancy. Results revealed that unintended pregnancies accounted for 20.50 % of combined data of the SA and SSA region. There were 17.40% and 25.10% unintended pregnancies found in SA and SSA countries. Binary logistic regression indicated that the age of the respondent (OR=1.28, CI=1.20-1.36) was a highly influential factor for unintended pregnancy in the selected countries. Besides this variable, place of residence, educational level, family size, household head, wealth index, age at first birth, contraceptive method, and current residence with a partner were found to be significant critical factors in determining the risk of unintended pregnancy in both regions. Several intervention programs on reproductive and maternal health care, such as increasing awareness among teenage women from the rural areas, and women with wealthy family backgrounds, are highly recommended to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy.

Characteristics of site-specific response using the measured data from seismic accelerometers in Pohang Yeongil New Port under 9.12 and Pohang earthquakes

Recently, medium-sized earthquakes such as the Gyeongju 9.12 earthquake (September 12, 2016, ML = 5.8) and the Pohang earthquake (November 15, 2017, ML = 5.4) occurred in Korea, thereby increasing social concern about earthquakes. Because Korea is not located near the Circum-Pacific Belt, also referred to as the “Ring of Fire”, people in Korea are not used to earthquake disasters. Coastal areas in Korea are lined with multiple mega-cities and major industrial facilities. Most of them constructed on landfill, they have a high threat level to the damage to populations and structures leading to complex disasters in the event of an earthquake. However, studies of seismic hazards in ports is incomplete compared with those of onshore sites. Improving the understanding of seismic hazards and characterizing them catching up with related research from various perspectives being actively conducted. In this study, the site-specific response characteristics of the Pohang International Container Terminal in Pohang Yeongil New Port were analyzed using the S-wave energy of 10 sets of ground motions recorded by seismic accelerometers operated by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries based on the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (H/V ratio) method. As a result of analysis, the H/V ratio curves show that the peak frequency values for the target site averages 9 Hz, and the natural period values of the site were preliminarily predicted to average 0.11 s. In addition, site amplification characteristics are different based on the seismic wave calculation method. The result can be used as data for identifying ground dynamic characteristics and verifying the site amplification coefficients and design spectrum in the seismic design.

A dynamic capabilities perspective to socially responsible family business: Implications on social-based advantage and market performance

Despite the significant role played by family business firms in the economy, society, and environment of almost every country, there is limited knowledge as to their socially responsible conduct. This article presents the results of a study focusing on the drivers and outcomes of both internal and external CSR strategies adopted by these firms. Based on a sample of 193 family business firms in Cyprus, we confirm that certain dynamic capabilities, namely sensing, adaptive, and strategic flexibility, have a favorable effect on the development of both internal and external CSR strategy in family business. The implementation of these CSR strategies was also found to generate a social-based competitive advantage, which was conducive to heightened market performance. This impact of social-based advantage on market performance was revealed to be positively moderated by both competitive intensity and social public concern.

Research on Environmental Performance Evaluation of Metallurgical Listed Companies Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

In recent years, the public has paid more and more attention to environmental issues, and building a resource-saving and environment-friendly society has become one of the important goals of China's economic construction. Therefore, metallurgical listed companies urgently need to build a reasonable and effective environmental performance evaluation index system to evaluate the environmental management effect of enterprises. Based on analytic hierarchy process, aiming at the lack of environmental performance evaluation research of metallurgical listed companies at this stage, this paper will design and build an environmental performance evaluation index system for metallurgical enterprises, and reasonably and scientifically evaluate the environmental situation of metallurgical listed companies from the perspective of economic input, environmental governance, and social concern, and draw the following conclusions: (1) metallurgical listed companies should put environmental governance at the top of the overall environment, We will invest more in environmental protection projects and project the concern of enterprises to the society. (2) The environmental protection of listed metallurgical companies is not only the macro goal of the company, but also needs to enable more stakeholders to actively participate in the process of environmental governance. (3) To build an environment-friendly society, we need not only government supervision, but also all kinds of enterprises to enhance their sense of social responsibility.

The Effects of a Physical Activity Online Intervention Program on Resilience, Perceived Social Support, Psychological Distress and Concerns among At-Risk Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

COVID-19 restrictions have led to social isolation affecting youth's health, particularly at-risk youth. We examined whether an online mentoring health intervention (OMHI) would strengthen characteristics that can prevent risky behaviors: resilience, perceived social support, psychological distress, and crisis concerns. Fifty-six secondary-school students participated, 27 in the intervention group and 29 in the control group (mean age 16.18, SD 0.83 vs. 16.62, SD 0.82, respectively). The study took place between March and August 2020. The intervention group was less resilient pre-test, with similar resilience levels as the control group post-test. Intervention group participants presented a significantly higher crisis level pre- and post-test than the control group, as well as an increase in resilience (effect size = 1.88) and social support (effect size = 1.22), while psychological distress significantly decreased (effect size = -1.03). Both groups (intervention vs. control) predicted changes from pre-to-post test for resilience and crisis (adjusted R2 = 0.33, p = 0.001 and R2 = 0.49, p = 0.0001 respectively). OMHI participation was associated with improved resilience and social support, and decreased psychological distress, making it an effective strategy in health promotion for at-risk youth. An online intervention program combining mentoring in physical activity and interpersonal connections may constitute an effective health promotion strategy for at-risk youth, especially in times of crisis.