Value Life Research Articles

Ethics of Restoration Activities

The aim of the article is to analyze the concept of ethics of restoration activities and its impact on the results of restoration and preservation of cultural heritage sites.Research methodology. Since the concept under consideration belongs to the valuable worldviews and life guidelines, the study uses a philosophical approach. The application of the method of theoretical cognition, the ascent from the abstract to the concrete makes it possible to determine the general principles of ethics in a particular field of human activity, and theoretical analysis revealed forms of interaction between the elements of the concept.Results.The article considers the main aspects of professional ethics in restoration activities, which relate to the professional attitude to the object of restoration and the moral norms of behaviour of the art restorer. Ethics of the object of restoration considers the issues of choosing priorities in the concepts of preservation, the restoration of works with historical layers, the use of restoration materials, restoration interventions in the material structure of the work, documenting research results and restoration processes. Ethics of professional conduct is related to a person’s sense of responsibility for their obligations, the attitude of the art restorer to socially important issues, such as the exchange of scientific information, evaluation of the results of restoration, perception of criticism and public debate. It also touches the moral and ethical norms of the subject of restoration activities, both in the professional environment and in society. These ethical principles are reflected in many documents of international and national artifact protection legislation and are aimed at achieving the best results in the restoration and preservation of world cultural heritage.Novelty. The novelty of the analysis of restoration ethics lies in the structuring of the generalized philosophical concept. Consideration of its main aspects, such as the relationship to the object of restoration and the moral norms of behaviour of the art restorer, makes it possible to systematize the main issues of restoration, in which ethics plays an integral role.The practical significance. The analysis of the concept of ethics of restoration activities can be used in curricula and research projects in the field of restoration and protection of cultural heritage.

Laboratory testing for COVID-19 in suspected human cases and the impact of corona virus pandemic on the global health system

COVID-19, coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection has become pandemic after first appearing in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It destroyed the life of millions of people throughout the different parts of Europe, America, Asia and others in the world. Various groups of scientists throughout the globe have claimed on trialing for the corona vaccine and for finding out suitable medication for the treatment of COVID-19. No vaccine or medicines are successfully reported to short out the issue for saving the valuable life of human beings, till date. The mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 infection and organ invasion are not understood and it creates difficulty in clinical diagnosis and treatment of corona patients. The pathogenic mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 infection is not very much clear and it may invade multiple organ systems of respiratory, digestive and hematological in a confirmed case. The impact of corona virus outbreak on the global and Indian health systems is also reviewed herewith.

Research on home economics teacher training curriculum that approaches general-purpose skills by focusing on the essence of the subjects

Home Economics is a mandatory subject in Japanese schools. While the subject teaches valuable life skills, few understand the significance and the science behind this important topic. Professor Akiko Suzuki from the Graduate School of Our Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University, believes in the value of developing and teaching Home Economics in schools to prepare the children of today for the challenges of tomorrow. Akiko has been working on the curriculum for training Home Economics teachers at the University. In such an uncertain global environment, with the home becoming the centre of not only family life, but also work life, Home Economics is even more important than ever before. Suzuki believes that, through this work, her team can have a big impact on improving and supporting teacher training to provide students with lifelong skills and competencies.

Impact of parental alcoholism among adolescent

Parents have a significant influence on adolescent’s lives. As the children grow and navigate the challenges of adolescence, parental alcoholism has a direct impact on their behaviour and well-being. Parental alcoholism is psychological or physiological maltreatment and it is a type of child abuse. An adolescents of alcoholic parent may have decrease self-esteem, poor family interaction, poor security feeling, and poor coping. Adolescents need to be educated and trained to cope with the difficulties and to lead a valuable life in society. Keywords: Adolescent, Drug abuse, Family problems, Parental Alcoholism.

Nilai-Nilai Sosial dalam Novel Bidadari Untuk Dewa karya Asma Nadia

Popular novels are often underestimated because they are considered dry with valuable life values for their readers. This study aims to describe the social values contained in Asma Nadia’s novel Bidadari untuk Dewa. This type of research is a qualitative study using descriptive methods. The social values that were used as references in this study are those stated by Zubaedi (2012). The results showed that the three social values such as love, responsibility and life harmony were exist in the novel. The most dominant social value found is the value of caring for others which is included in the value of affection (Love). This is in line with the main message in the novel, which is to help others.

How Much Does Slaughter Harm Humanely Raised Animals?1

AbstractSome believe that it is immoral to harm animals, but it is not immoral to kill humanely raised domesticated animals. Implicit in this is the assumption that it is possible to raise and slaughter animals without harming them significantly. In recent years, a number of philosophers – DeGrazia, Harman, Bradley, and others – have claimed that slaughter harms an animal in proportion to the amount of valuable future life that an animal loses in dying, which seems to challenge this assumption. But a question remains: how much are domesticated animals, particularly humanely raised ones, harmed by their slaughter? Here, I take up this question. My answer may be surprising: in ordinary circumstances, slaughter hardly deprives humanely raised animals of any good life, and so is not very harmful to them. This result may strengthen the case for humane slaughter – or it may give us reason to revise our understanding of the harmfulness of death.

Decision Support Method for Upgrade Cycle Planning and Product Architecture Design of an Upgradable Product

An upgradable product is a product in which the valuable life is extended by exchanging or adding components. An upgradable product is both environmentally and economically advantageous compared with products requiring replacement because its functions can be improved by adding only a few components. Therefore, the design and sale of upgradable products represent effective methods for attaining a sustainable society. Previous studies of upgradable product design methods have assumed that products have a modular architecture, in which all components are functionally independent. However, actual products have both integral architectures and modular architectures. Achieving high-performance products through component optimization is easier with an integral architecture than with a modular architecture. However, the integral architecture makes it difficult to disassemble and replace individual components. It is difficult to achieve high levels of performance in products with modular architecture, but it is easy to disassemble and replace components. Therefore, upgradable product design must determine the most appropriate product architecture. Hence, this paper focuses on the product architecture of upgradable products and proposes a decision support method that yields the appropriate combination of product architecture and upgrade cycle. In addition, the authors propose evaluation models for the environmental load, cost, and customer dissatisfaction, as well as a comprehensive evaluation index based on these models. The overall model, which gives the evaluation index, considers the differences in the evaluated values resulting from differences in the product architecture and the number of upgrades. The proposed method was applied to a motherboard module design problem for a laptop computer. The results of this case study confirm that the proposed method successfully supports the designer during upgradable product design by deriving the most suitable combination from a set of product architectures and upgrade cycle candidates.

Reservoir sedimentation and estimating dam storage capacity using bathymetry survey: a case study of Abrajit Dam, Upper Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia

This specific study was conducted on the Abrajit reservoir in east Gojjam, Amhara region, Ethiopia. The general objective of the study was to investigate reservoir siltation and determination of the remaining valuable life span of the reservoir using ArcGIS 10.5 version and Golden surfer 16 latest version. A bathymetric survey using echo-sounding equipment (Garmin GPSMAP421s) was conducted and a topo map of reservoir data was used for assessment of the sediment volume. The accumulated sediment volume was estimated by subtracting the triangular interconnected network (TIN) map of the initial bed level from the currently measured bed level. The result of the research revealed that to date, 343,700.1 m3 bulk of sediment was accumulated in the reservoir that reduces 20% of the total reservoir capacity. In the results from the bathymetric investigation and software analysis, annually 28,641.675 m3 year−1 amount of sediment is coming from the catchments to the reservoir that contributed 1.66% of annual reservoir volume reduction. The measured recent storing capacity for the Abrajit Dam was 1,388,870 m3. From a comparison of remaining reservoir storage and annual sediment load, the reservoir will not serve more than 12 years. The estimated specific sediment yield (SSy) was found to be 4733.387 ton km−2 year−1. Therefore, to improve the estimated life span of the reservoir, watershed management is very important and further study is required to identify the area where watershed conservation will focus in the future. Upon the findings, the reservoir volume is running to reduce and it cannot serve all the demand what it designed for during the dry season. As a result, operation curves should be mandatory to give water service for the critical water needs, and regular monitoring of sediment accumulation in the reservoir is recommended.

Survey of Maximum Blood Ordering for Surgery (MSBOS) in elective general surgery, neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery at the Poursina Hospital in Rasht, Iran, 2017

IntroductionBlood is a valuable life resource that depends on the donation of blood by the community. As a result, it is crucial that the manner in which this expensive resource is used be correct and reasonable. ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to investigate the Maximum Blood Ordering for Surgery (MSBOS) in general, orthopedic and neurosurgical elective surgeries at the Poursina Hospital in Rasht in 2017. MethodsAccording to the patient file number information, such as gender, age, type of surgery, number of blood units requested, number of cross-matched blood units, number of blood units transfusion, number of patients undergoing transfusion, number of patients who were cross-matched, initial hemoglobin and the underlying disease, was extracted from the HIS (Hospital Information System). Based on the collected data, a descriptive report of the cross-match to transfusion ratio (C/T), transfusion index (TI) and transfusion probability (%T) was performed, using average and standard deviation, by using the SPSS 16. ResultsIn the present study, 914 patients from the neurosurgery, orthopedic and general surgery wards of the Poursina Hospital were studied. Of these, 544 were male (59.5%) and 370 were female (40.5%), aged 1–99 years, with a mean age of 43 years. The frequency distribution of C/T in this study was 1.29 in neurosurgery, 1.95 in orthopedic surgery and 1.96 in general surgery.This study indicated that the C/T index was above the normal standard level in four different kinds of surgery, including leg fracture (2.71), cholecystectomy(2.71), forearm fracture (2.70), and skin graft (2.62).The C/T index was at the maximum normal level in thyroidectomy surgery (2.5). The other surgeries had the normal C/T index. ConclusionOverall, all of the MSBOS indices were at the standard level in this study, although C/T indices were higher than the standard level in the surgeries for cholecystectomy, leg fracture, forearm fracture, hand fracture and skin graft.

Walking: towards a valuable academic life

ABSTRACT Frenetic digital timescapes reduce academic life to the endless achievement of metrics. These forces produce unsustainable work practices that disconnect us from ourselves, from ideas, from the natural world and from each other. While there is a substantial body of literature critiquing this, the use of arts-based inquiry into academic work is less common. In this article, we use slow ‘thinking-in-movement’ practices and arts-based methodologies to argue that beach walking enables us to resist the academic machine. We suggest that beaches act as liminal spaces where we may engage in post-feminist, new materialist c/a/r/tographies. Beach walking enables us to defamiliarize our bodies and interrupt the academic machine so that we might enact more embodied, contemplative ways of working. Written as a performative piece, this article intersperses citations of towards a valuable academic life. Come, join us as we walk …

Smart Accident Detection Device

(We live in a society where accidents happen daily and regularly due to which people loss their lives because they didn’t get the medical assistance at right time. In India more than one and a half lack persons die due to road accidents per year. Ina solution to this we have developed Smart Accident Detection Device (SADD) which provides medical assistance in time and save the valuable human life. This gadget can be fitted into Vehicles like Bus, Car and so on. Whenever any type of accident is detected this device inform to the nearest Hospital as well as police station, then after identifying patient it also informs to the Patient’s family member, through which we can save the human life).

Intensive Insulin Therapy Versus Conventional Glucose Control In Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Who Are On Parenteral Nutrition

<p>Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a valuable life saving intervention, which can improve the nutritional status of hospitalized malnourished patients. PN is associated with complications including hyperglycemia. This study was conducted to compare two methods of blood glucose control in traumatic brain injury patients who are on PN.</p> <p><strong>Materials & Methods:</strong>This study is a randomized , open-label, controlled clinical trial with blinded end assessment. This study was done in the surgical intensive care unit of Beni-Suef University hospital after obtaining approval from the ethical committee of the Institution and obtaining consent from relatives of the patients involved in the study. Seventy critically ill patients were choosen randomly according to the inclusion criteria from cases admitted to Beni-suef university hospital, then divided into two groups randomly:</p> <p><strong>Group </strong><strong>?</strong><strong> (Intensive insulin therapy):</strong>35 patients received continuous insulin infusion to maintain glucose levels between 4.4mmol/l (80 mg/dl) and 6.6mmol/l (110 mg/dl).</p> <p><strong>Group </strong><strong>??</strong><strong> (Conventional therapy):</strong>35patients not received insulin unless glucose levels greater than 10 mmol/l (>180 mg/dl).</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>In our study, it was shown that mean glucose concentration were significantly lower in IIT group vs conventional group. No hypoglycemic episode occurred in two groups. Triglyceride and C-reactive protein was decreased in the IIT group, significantly. There were also significant differences in the electrolytes, with magnesium and phosphorus being lower in the IIT group.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> In this study, Intensive insulin group improved some of parenteral such as hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia and electrolyte imbalances compared to Conventional insulin group.</p>

Financing homes by employing Ijara based diminishing Musharaka

Purpose This paper aims to examine how homes can be purchased and financed by using Ijara-based diminishing Musharaka (IDM) modes of financing and thus both the home buyer (HB) and Islamic Bank (IB) become joint owners and share rental income jointly according to their respective shares. Such practice can help to avoid interest-based mortgage financing and eliminates excessive risks of bankruptcy as it often happens in conventional interest-based system. Design/methodology/approach A mathematical model as well as rental income, payments and share schedules for IDM will be developed where both the HB and IB will initially own the home. As the HB gradually pays off the principal amount, his or her share will increase while the share of the IB will gradually decrease as stipulated in the contract. Eventually, the HB will buy back all the shares and thus will own the home without paying for mortgage interest and taking excessive risks of foreclosures or living in constant fear of losing home over approximately 20 to 30 years of the tenure of the mortgage payments. Findings The HB can own home without paying any interest and without taking excessive risks of foreclosures. The HB is not borrower rather partners in business. In addition, the HB can minimize the total payments compared to interest-based mortgage financing. In the current IDM model, payments are flexible, and the HB will not be required to make regular installment payments, rather he or she receives regular rental income if the HB chooses not to live in the home. Even if HB lives in the home, part of the home can be rented, and the HB will receive regular share of rental income in each month. The HB will not lose the home even if he does not pay any installment while in interest-based mortgage system, the HB may lose the home if the HB stops installment payments even for a couple of months after paying for 29 years for 30 years mortgage. IDM mode of financing is risk free and worry free, and it instantaneously creates rental income for the HB, like any other business. Originality/value The current IDM model is one of the most recent, and unique approach of home financing, and it is extremely flexible and free from many restrictions compared to the existing similar models. Many of the existing diminishing Musharaka models impose many restrictions on the HB, such as the HB cannot even own or rent the place, cannot remodel or rebuild the place unless the HB pays off all the outstanding price of the home. If the current flexible IDM model is implemented, it will be truly revolutionary and even the people from other faith group will be extremely interested to join as HB and buy their homes by pursuing IDM mode of financing because it is risk free as well as it will free HB from the financial slavery of monthly installment payments for about two to three decades, especially during the most important and most valuable prime life time of the HB. The IDM model will unveil a potential and a promise to financial freedom by removing all constraints and preconditions in purchasing and financing homes.

Some modest and practical advice for undergraduate researchers

AbstractOver twenty million students enroll in undergraduate programs in the United States every year and nearly three quarters of a million graduate with a science or engineering major according to the National Science Board. A large number of these students now engage in scientific research. They are the foundation of the research, development, and education workforce of tomorrow. Early involvement in the process of scientific inquiry will not only boost their future career potential, but also enable them to develop valuable life skills relevant to any professional career of their choice. At a time when scientific facts have come under attack in civic discourse, the importance of understanding how science works is more important than ever for well‐informed citizenship. Students aspiring to do research often have to take the important step of finding an advisor, who can help them choose a suitable research topic and apply for financial support, especially during summer. This involves making several important considerations which can be intimidating for anyone without experience. Some practical advice on the process of finding a research position and being successful in it may be useful and timely. In this article, I discuss a range of issues relevant to aspiring undergraduate researchers and offer practical advice for adopting practices that will help prepare them for the challenges of pursuing scientific inquiry. Although written with natural sciences students in mind, much of this advice is universally applicable and therefore also suitable for those in other disciplines.

Tracing Diverse Pathways to Teaching: Tales of Nontraditional Immigrant Women of Color Becoming Teachers of Young Children

Situated in New York City, this qualitative case study investigates nontraditional teachers, particularly immigrant women of color, and their diverse pathways into early childhood classrooms. Against the backdrop of the city’s expansion of public preschool programs and its efforts to ensure high quality through narrowly defined measures of professionalization for the early childhood workforce, I traced the lived experiences of nontraditional immigrant women of color, their becoming teachers of young children, and the ways in which their funds of knowledge shape their teaching practice. Findings reveal that although nontraditional immigrant women of color enter teaching with unique and valuable life experiences, they face many challenges in the changing landscape of early childhood education. Implications point towards the importance of cultivating a more diverse teaching force and supporting teachers’ development through culturally responsive and sustaining ways that honor the wealth of knowledge they bring to the benefit of young children and their families, especially those with diverse cultural backgrounds.

Intelligent Traffic Control System

Managing traffic maintaining order is the most demanding tasks in the contemporary day and age. Emergency vehicles such as an ambulance face lot of hardships when they get stuck in traffic, valuable human life is lost due to poor traffic management. In this paper a model is proposed for calculating traffic heaviness on roads using processing techniques for images with ambulance detection system and controlling model for traffic signals with the information extracted from images of vehicles on roads captured by video camera. The traffic intensity depends on the total vehicles on the road. The proposed model counts the vehicles in the lane and checks for the presence of emergency vehicles , whenever an emergency vehicle is detected that particular lane is allowed to move and the signal is turned to green.

Intelligent Traffic Control

Traffic Congestion is considered as one of the major dimensions of a smart city. With the rapid growth of population and urban mobility in metropolitan cities, traffic congestion is often seen on roads. In this paper we have made an attempt to Intelligent Traffic Control System (ITCS) is to achieve improvement in Safety less time the valuable human life delay as per the distance density. With the help of traffic control we can assign more time on the side where it’s required and less time on the side where it’s not required. This device can be fitted into Vehicles like Bus, Car etc.

A qualitative exploration of service users\u2019 and staff members\u2019 perspectives on the roles of inpatient settings in mental health recovery

BackgroundToday, international mental health care increasingly focuses on creating recovery-oriented systems of support. This study aims to unravel the daily practice of an inpatient psychiatric ward that engages with persons with complex mental health needs.Methods17 in-depth interviews were conducted with patients and staff of the ward. Data was analyzed by means of thematic analysis.ResultsThree important functions of the ward were identified in the participants’ experiences. First, it functions as an asylum, a safe environment where patients can ‘simply be’. Second, the ward is experienced as a particularizing space, as support is organized in an individualized way and patients are encouraged to reconnect with their own identity. Third, the ward functions as a transitional space towards a valuable community life, in which finding adequate housing is of central importance.ConclusionsThe results show that inpatient forms of support tally with personal and social dimensions of recovery and fulfill important roles in recovery-oriented systems of support.

Face pareidolia in schizophrenia

BackgroundFaces convey valuable daily life social signals. As in most psychiatric conditions, non-verbal social cognition or its components including face processing may be aberrant in schizophrenia (SZ). Social participation of individuals with SZ is vital for their quality of life, and remediation of social abilities in this population is of high relevance both for society and clinical care. MethodTuning to faces in non-face images such as shadows, grilled toasts, or ink blots is called face pareidolia. Humans possess high sensitivity to facial signals: even fetuses and infants are well tuned to coarse face cues. Here we assessed face tuning in individuals with SZ and person-by-person matched controls by using a new experimental tool, a set of food-plate images bordering on the Giuseppe Arcimboldo style. The key benefit of these images is that single components do not trigger face processing. Results and conclusionsThe outcome indicates that individuals with SZ exhibit aberrant face tuning in face-like non-face images (χ2(1) = 17.44, p = 0.0001) that can hamper adaptive interaction with peers and social participation hindering, in turn, clinical remediation. Face response rate in SZ patients was related to the scores on the event arrangement task tapping social cognition (Pearson product-moment correlation, r = 0.602, p = 0.01) and on picture completion task assessing visual perceptual organization (Spearman's rho = 0.614, p = 0.009). Therefore, poor performance on the face tuning task is unlikely to be accounted for by deviant general cognitive abilities, but rather by impairments in perceptual integration and social cognition. Comparison of these findings with data in autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions provides novel insights on the origins of face tuning in SZ and triggers brain imaging research.

Seeking a life partner with the use of internet technology

Since its beginning Internet has been used for matrimonial purposes. The first dating portals were launched in the United States already in the first half of the 1990s. The research shows that the number of people searching for partners and spouses via the Internet has been constantly growing. Searching for a life partner using online tools is also connected with the development of new strategies. The paper presents the results of a study conducted among singles . The research involved a qualitative study conducted among singles in the Silesian region and a nation-wide quantitative online study among the singles using sympatia.pl – one of the popular dating portal in Poland. The research findings show the interest of singles in searching for life partners on the Internet, but also their scepticism about the possibility of finding a valuable life partner in this way.