Sort Of People Research Articles

Relationship between Vitamin D and Insomnia in Older Adults

Vitamin D is one of the common fat-soluble vitamins, which can be obtained from ultraviolet exposure and intake from particular food or supplementation. Insomnia caused by many reasons like diseases or health status, would also increase possibilities of suffering from other diseases, and has a prevalence to be common among all sorts of people, especially in older adults. Researchers found vitamin D associated with neurotransmitters, oxidative stress and inflammation. Many research also suggest vitamin D are relevant to insomnia, people with low serum vitamin D concentration have a higher possibility to suffer from insomnia, after a period time of supplementation of vitamin D insomnia patients, many of them get improved, but there are no significant difference on some on them either. The mechanism about vitamin D improving insomnia symptoms is not clear, there is no determine recommended dose and duration for patient, and also not enough clinical trials for further exploration. As an auxiliary means of insomnia treatment, vitamin D may have a good performance combined with other therapies. The current review summarizes some mechanism of vitamin D, both positive and negative evidence associated with vitamin D improves insomnia symptom, and have an outlook for the future study on insomnia between vitamin D.

Apprentice migration to London from Wales, 1600–1800

ABSTRACT This article uses digitised apprenticeship bindings from the Records of London’s Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) to investigate the migration patterns of those moving from Wales to enrol in 10 of the London guilds in the period 1600–1800. Engaging with existing historiography on metropolitan apprenticeship and migration from the English regions to London, this article outlines the sorts of people who travelled from Wales to join the livery companies as well as analysing their motives in terms of push and pull factors. It also compares Welsh migration with the smaller numbers of Irish and Scots who enrolled. Evidence from ROLLCO demonstrates that Welsh migrants moved to London in significant numbers during the early seventeenth century using similar migration routes to many of their English counterparts, but that livery companies did little to integrate Ireland and Scotland into a wider British economy.

Preferring to work from home

What sort of people like to work from home (WFH)? In this study 1185 adults from different sectors and countries completed a work-related personality test (HPTI) and a self-esteem measure as well as indicating their preference for WFH. Correlations showed that those who were less Adjusted, Conscientious, and Risking Taking showed a preference for WFH. The regression suggested the strongest indicator was sex, degree status, and trait Conscientiousness. We split the sample by sex, age and education and reran the six regressions. Conscientiousness was consistently significant, though other personality factors were important for non-graduates. Explanations and implications of this finding are discussed. The limitations of a cross-sectional study using only self-report data is acknowledged.

‘When something doesn’t fit the story’: human suspicion and discretion in frontline border checks in times of datafication and technologisation

ABSTRACT In this article, I ask how Finnish border guards negotiate their role as human decision-makers in frontline border checks in the current era of datafication and technologisation. I address this question by delving into the key decision made in frontline border checks: namely, whether to let travellers pass or to send them for further inspection. This decision is pivotal in the sorting of people crossing borders, that is, who is admitted, who is held up, and who is turned away. Through an analysis that borrows from Institutional Ethnography and argumentation analysis, based on interviews with border guards and observation at the Border and Coast Guard Academy, I show that even as security authorities are seeking to increase the use of technologies and automation, Finnish frontline border guards present their own discretionary powers as unchallenged by technology and automation and argue that human feelings, senses, and experience are key to the formation of suspicion at the border. Storytelling is placed at the centre of the decision-making process, in which suspicion is directed at those whose stories do not ‘fit’ or ‘feel right’. Border guards locate their professional skill and worth in their discretionary powers, manifested in their human ability to evaluate the entity of the ‘story-human’: the body, the story, the documents, and the setting. Data systems and technology only offer pieces. These insights exemplify how law translates into the sorting of humans at borders and can also guide future studies of street-level bureaucrats re-orienting in an increasingly automated world.

Mengidentifikasi Dan Memaknai Paribasa Bali Pada Cerpen Gedè Ombak Gedè Angin Pupulan Sawelas Carita Cutet Basa Bali Karya I Made Suarsa

Paribasa is used in everyday life to convey the ideas and emotions of the Balinese people, as evidenced by the short narrative Gedé Ombak Gedé Angin by I Made Suarsa and other Balinese discourses. Furthermore, I Made Suarsa's short novel Gedé Ombak Gedé Angin employs Balinese paribasa to convey moral, ethical, and social critique principles that serve as a set of guidelines for daily life. The purpose of this study is to identify the various forms and interpretations of Balinese paribasa in I Made Suarsa's short novel Gedé Ombak Gedé Angin.The present study employs many theoretical frameworks, including the theories of identification, meaning, short stories, Balinese paribasa, and sorts of Balinese people. Using interviews and literature study techniques, this study is qualitative in nature. The study's findings indicate that: (1) There are two varieties of Balinese paribasa in the short narrative "Lahru Kangkang Tinibanin Udan Sawengi." (2) Three different kinds of Balinese paribasa are mentioned in the short novel "Gedé Ombak Gedé Angin" The short novella "Mati Maha Prawiréng Rana" features three distinct varieties of Balinese paribasa. The short novella "Stri Ngarania, Apuy Padania" features two distinct varieties of Balinese paribasa.included five interpretations of the Balinese paribasa in I Made Suarsa's short story Gedé Ombak Gedé Angin

Raymond Williams’s Resources for Hope

ABSTRACT: All sorts of people had come to the Welsh countryside to spend the day talking about the history of labor radicalism: miners, organizers, researchers, politicians. But the star attraction was missing. Raymond Williams, the Cambridge scholar and socialist beacon, had agreed by letter to speak; rumor was that he would be arriving in a big car. Then, as a runner returned from the parking area to report the distressing news that no big car had arrived, a tall, craggy-featured man rose from the audience and made his way to the stage. He had been there all day, listening, watching, content among his people, not making a point of himself. There was no need to make a point; everyone in that world knew his name. It was not a merely local fame. Zadie Smith recalls that when she was an undergraduate at Cambridge in the 1990s, Williams sat beside Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes in the pantheon of social and literary theorists. He was Stuart Hall’s friend and collaborator, E.P. Thompson’s ally and sparring partner, Terry Eagleton’s teacher, and often worked side by side with Perry Anderson. When he died in 1988, Robin Blackburn wrote in the New Left Review that Williams was the “most authoritative, consistent, and radical voice” of the British left.

Raymond Williams's Resources for Hope

ABSTRACT: All sorts of people had come to the Welsh countryside to spend the day talking about the history of labor radicalism: miners, organizers, researchers, politicians. But the star attraction was missing. Raymond Williams, the Cambridge scholar and socialist beacon, had agreed by letter to speak; rumor was that he would be arriving in a big car. Then, as a runner returned from the parking area to report the distressing news that no big car had arrived, a tall, craggy-featured man rose from the audience and made his way to the stage. He had been there all day, listening, watching, content among his people, not making a point of himself. There was no need to make a point; everyone in that world knew his name. It was not a merely local fame. Zadie Smith recalls that when she was an undergraduate at Cambridge in the 1990s, Williams sat beside Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes in the pantheon of social and literary theorists. He was Stuart Hall's friend and collaborator, E.P. Thompson's ally and sparring partner, Terry Eagleton's teacher, and often worked side by side with Perry Anderson. When he died in 1988, Robin Blackburn wrote in the New Left Review that Williams was the "most authoritative, consistent, and radical voice" of the British left.

Motivate and Engage Our Youngest Writers

AbstractResearch suggests that when young children have many opportunities to write they start believing they are the sort of people who can write for intellectual, academic, and social purposes. They also learn foundational reading skills. Project‐like compositional writing involving design, strategies, and problem solving versus functional writing or shorter writing episodes, promises even more benefits. A question for teachers is how might we motivate young children toward complex projects when they are still learning basic literacy concepts. We take up this problem by focusing on the conditions under which young children might be motivated to write, specifically through the lenses of self‐determination theory and engagement. We suggest that making books, a complex compositional activity, linked to shared reading and study of multimodal picture books, combine for a vigorous social practice where children's motivational needs can be met. We offer practical recommendations for facilitating motivated, engaged writing in a classroom.

“They’re Just Watching You All the Time”: The Surveillance Web of Prison Needle Exchange

In 2018, the federal prison authority in Canada began implementing Prison Needle Exchange Programs (PNEPs) at select institutions. Despite longstanding and successful models of prison-based syringe distribution internationally, Canada’s correctional service introduced a highly restrictive security-based approach, placing prisoners who access the program into a surveillance web that implicates diverse actors and relies on methods such as bio-surveillance and security risk assessments. We examine these and other surveillant functions of the PNEP through the first-hand experiences of thirty former prisoners who were incarcerated at one of the prisons with such a program. These experiences point to how the surveillance web is constituted by multiple lines of sight and flows of information across health and security fields. It is further comprised of risk management practices and discretionary punishment carried out by correctional officers as well as the targeting and social sorting of people who use drugs. Former prisoner narratives also demonstrate how the PNEP is reflective of emerging forms of exclusion and processes of securitization that operate through the identification, management, and containment of specific groups. As a whole, the PNEP model implemented in Canada, and the practices that undergird it, target people who use drugs for increased surveillance, resulting in extremely low rates of program enrollment despite pervasive drug use in prison, and undermining access to an essential health care service to which prisoners are entitled. The study findings point to novel forms of carceral surveillance that enmesh observational, technological, and bureaucratic practices, and demonstrate how prisoner health and therapeutic objectives can be subsumed by securitarian logics.

The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK

Does growing up in a high-economic adversity area matter for individual economic, cultural, and political views? Despite a significant focus upon the effect of birthplace on economic outcomes, there is less evidence on how local economic conditions at birth shape individual attitudes over the long-term. This paper links the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) from English and Welsh respondents with historic localised information on unemployment, our measure of economic adversity. Our results, which control for composition effects, family background, and sorting of people across places, show that being born into a high-unemployment Local Authority has a significant, long-term impact on individuals. Birthplace matters beyond economic outcomes, as being born into a Local Authority of high unemployment makes individuals believe in more government intervention in jobs, less progressive on gender issues, and less likely to support the Conservative Party.

Depression prediction using machine learning algorithms

Nowadays, depression is one of the most common negative emotions between people. The goal of our paper is to predict whether the individuals has suffered depression according to the provided 23 features. This study classifies the characteristics and studies their impact on depression by random forest, naive bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and neural network. The authors test all those methods on the public dataset, which conclude that random forest and neural network achieve the same top-1 accuracy (which is 86.8%). Furthermore, the authors also conduct the feature correlation to exploit the most important factors. Results show that the most two influential features leading to depression is age and education level, which means the group of teenagers is the easiest members to have depression emotion. The study also analyses how can people sort the situation and decrease the possibility of suffering from depression.

Health, air pollution, and location choice

This paper provides evidence that air-pollution-related health conditions change how households evaluate clean air and, as a result, incentivize them to relocate to locations with better air quality. The evidence implies that naive estimations of the adverse effect of air pollution on health are biased, as people sort on air quality differently depending on their health. I employ a spatial-equilibrium model in which households choose a county to live in based on county-level characteristics including air pollution. Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data, I create a panel tracking respondents’ respiratory health shocks and county-level location for over three decades. The estimates from a multinomial mixed logit model support the hypothesis that households move to cleaner-air locations after an adult is diagnosed with asthma. I find that households react more strongly to an asthma diagnosis for an adult than to a child’s diagnosis. The estimated median increase in marginal willingness to pay for a one-unit reduction in Air Quality Index after a diagnosis of adult-onset asthma is $157–$830 (in constant 1982–84 dollars).

The Subject of Britain 1603–25 by Christopher Ivic

Reviewed by: The Subject of Britain 1603–25 by Christopher Ivic Andrew Hiscock The Subject of Britain, 1603–25. By Christopher Ivic. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2020. x+ 242 pp. £80. ISBN 978-0-7190-8870-4. Christopher Ivic's monograph is a very readable study and a timely corrective to received critical thinking inherited down the generations (and endlessly recycled) concerning Jacobean succession literature. Drawing itself explicitly into the lively scholarly debate relating to early modern formulations of what has been termed more recently the British nations or Archipelagic studies, Ivic's enquiry explores 'the complex and often contradictory ways in which the heterogeneous writing of Britain' might be understood and how these interventions introduced 'new ideologies and new ways of thinking about collective and individual identities within the context of the island's increasingly intersecting and intermingling peoples and [End Page 123] cultures' (p. 3). The first chapter concentrates on responses in 1603 to James VI/I's accession from a host of sources, and the following chapter builds on this discussion, analysing the panegyrics surrounding the Stuart king's arrival in London, paying particular attention to 'occasional texts' by Drayton, Daniel, and Jonson. The third chapter is in many ways the strongest and most revelatory in this study, focusing on print and manuscript union tracts and treatises, leading to a sensitive re-evaluation of Francis Bacon's role as counsellor/pragmatist (often angling for promotion) and making deserved space for a consideration of David Hume of Godscroft's De Unione Insulae Britannicae Tractatus (first published 1605) and 'De Unione Insulae Britannicae Tractatus Secundus' (unpublished). Ivic points out that Bacon was one of the few common-law lawyers in the Commons to support James's project of political union, which won support elsewhere among MPs in the Lords: 'Like Hume, Bacon sees a potential union as a Machiavellian occasione' (p. 135). The sequence of chapters is brought to a close with a study of Macbeth in the context of the Anglo-Scottish union debate. As was mentioned above, one of the key contributions of this study is the way in which it urges the reader to scrutinize received thinking about the critical status and function of so-called 'occasional' texts (that 'Jacobean succession literature was produced in the main by writers of little or no significance' (p. 12)); the 'simple for-or-against binary' (p. 53) of panegyric; and the parameters (or elisions) involved in formulating Brutayne/this Iland/this State/this Kingdome and so on at the turn of the sixteenth century. Apart from ongoing equivocation widely expressed concerning the statehood or political integrity of Ireland and Wales, for example, in these debates, Ivic underlines that James stressed in Basilikon Doron (1603): 'as for the Hielands, I shortly comprehend them all in two sorts of people: the one, that dwelleth in our maine land, that are barbarous for the most part, and yet mixed with some shewe of civilitie; the other, that dwelleth in the Iles, and are utterly barbarous, without any shew of civilitie' (p. 123). The Stuart king's political tract Basilikon Doron, ostensibly a handbook for kingship bequeathed to his son and heir Henry, was published in Scotland in 1599, but on his accession to the English throne in 1603 it was made newly available to London booksellers. James was far from being a solitary voice in this discussion of the matter of Britain. Ivic draws attention to Bacon's correspondence later, in which the Irish are described as 'a people barbarous and not reduced to civility' (p. 136), and goes on to make the more general point that the 'rethinking of group identities [in the period did not] […] include the Gaelic communities of Scotland and Ireland' (p. 4). More broadly, Ivic highlights that the Stuart accession was very far from being inevitable in the minds of many, even though on Elizabeth's death he was the eldest of Henry VII's living descendants. In this debate, figures such as Samuel Daniel and Michael Drayton are given very welcome attention and, indeed, could have been afforded even more prominent status for the ways in which they return attention in their writings to...

Virtue and the Paradox of Tragedy

What accounts for our pleasure in tragic art? In a widely-cited essay, Susan Feagin argues that this pleasure has moral roots; it arises when we discover ourselves to be the sort of people who respond sympathetically to another’s suffering. Although critical of Feagin’s particular solution to the tragedy paradox, I too believe that our pleasure in tragedy often has moral roots. I trace those roots differently, however, by placing the concept of virtue front and center. I argue that a noble pleasure arises when we perceive virtue in tragic characters and when we practice it ourselves as audience members. My account draws on insights from the history of philosophy, most notably Aquinas’s conception of the virtues of charity and mercy in the Summa.

Scribleriana Transferred: Portraits, Manuscripts, and Books, 2020–2022.

Scribleriana Transferred: Portraits, Manuscripts, and Books, 2020–2022.

Ideological sorting

This paper presents a model in which people sort between two districts based on economic and ideological preferences. People are either ideologues who prefer redistribution over a public good or non-ideologues who prefer a public good that benefits everyone equally. Individuals differ in their productivity with the distribution of productivities the same for both ideologues and non-ideologues. Ideologues back their ideology by working harder when there is redistribution even when not recipients, and non-ideologues work harder when the public good is provided. The tax rate in each district is chosen by majority rule with the median voter theorem identifying the winner. In the focal equilibrium, high productivity ideologues and non-ideologues locate together in a low tax district, and low productivity non-ideologues and ideologues locate together in a high tax district to benefit from redistribution. Middle-income individuals separate with non-ideologues locating in the low tax district and ideologues locating in the high tax district. Ideology thus results in a polarization interval in the middle of the income distribution. If ideology leads to partisanship and a strong party government that chooses the tax rate based on the party median, partisanship widens the polarization interval.

Andrzej Bobkowski and Józef Czapski

Andrzej Bobkowski and Józef Czapski

Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene

Migrants, Vagrants, and the Making of the Anthropocene

Becoming Italian

Becoming Italian

Design and Implementation of Intelligent Control Garbage Bin

Aiming at the problem that it was difficult to popularize accurate garbage sorting and delivery, a kind of intelligent garbage bin that is more intelligent, efficient, and functional than the traditional garbage bin was designed and manufactured. The design was based on the STM32 minimum system implementation. The speech recognition module was used to receive the key words and identify which type of garbage the item belongs to. At the same time, a speech reminder was given, and the steering gear was driven to automatically open the corresponding type of garbage bin lid, and the sorting collection was realized. In addition, the ultrasonic distance measuring module was used to detect the residual capacity of the garbage bin in real time. When it was about to be full, the data would be sent to the background management system through the WIFI module to remind the staff to clean it up. The experimental results show that the intelligent garbage bin can effectively help people sort and put domestic garbage and prevent garbage overflow from affecting the living environment, so as to realize the service of science and technology for human beings.