Worse Life Research Articles

Deconstruction of Immersive Animation Image Interaction Design under Virtual Reality Technology

With the increasing pressure of social life, people generally have different degrees of psychological problems, which brings serious troubles to people’s life and work. As one of the main forms of art, animation is a good medicine for breaking fantasy and returning to reality. Animation is one of the ways of art therapy, and animation art design is the soul of animation therapy. However, the art design of traditional animation cannot bring a strong sense of resonance and cannot arouse people’s inner emotions. Virtual reality can bring users an immersive experience, so it can really immerse the audience and release psychological pressure. The article firstly reoptimizes animation modeling technology and then combines it with art design, comprehensively uses art design and interactive technology to generate virtual space, and finally puts forward the concept of animation art design based on virtual reality technology. It aims to construct virtual animation from animation art design to help patients relieve psychological barriers. After repeated comparison experiments, it can be found that in the process of watching interactive animations on the virtual reality platform, if the overall style of the animation is more comfortable and warm, the user’s psychological perception will reach 78%, and the emotional fluctuation range will be less than 10%. When the animation style is relatively dark and depressing, the user’s psychological perception is only 45%, and the audience is very likely to think of a bad life experience, and the possibility of causing psychological disorders is 69.1%. This shows that the warm and comfortable animation art design can smooth people’s emotional fluctuations and relieve psychological obstacles.

Proportion of ALGBT adult Brazilians, sociodemographic characteristics, and self-reported violence

Asexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (ALGBT) individuals face worse life conditions and violence rates than their heterosexual cisgender counterparts. Brazil is often highlighted for having one of the highest rates of hate-related homicides against ALGBTs in the world. However, to date, Brazil’s ALGBT population has not been investigated with a representative sample, and basic information such as population size or sociodemographic characteristics are mostly based in non-systematic data. We aimed to assess the proportion of asexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary adults in Brazil, their sociodemographic characteristics, and self-reported violence rates. In 2018, a sample (n = 6000) of the Brazilian adult population answered a face-to-face survey assessing sociodemographic characteristics, gender identity, sexual orientation, and self-reported psychological, physical, verbal, and sexual violence. Among Brazilian adults, 12.04% are ALGBT: 5.76% asexual, 0.93% lesbian, 1.37% gay, 2.12% bisexual, 0.68 trans, and 1.18% non-binary. Compared to heterosexual cisgender men, most ALGBT individuals have worse socioeconomic indicators and higher rates of self-reported psychological and verbal violence. All ALGBT groups and heterosexual cisgender women reported sexual violence more often than heterosexual cisgender men. It was reported between 4 up to 25 times more often by heterosexual cisgender women and trans individuals, respectively. The rates of the other ALGBT groups sit among the two. Our findings provide evidence of the important size of the ALGBT Brazilian population, as well as their socioeconomic vulnerability, and concerning violence levels experienced by the group. Policy makers may refer to the present article in order to mitigate this population’s vulnerability and to better understand its sociodemographic characteristics.

Implementation of Expressive Writing Therapy Through Writing Diary Coping Anxiety in Children Victims of Covid-19

Anxiety experienced by the child can be caused by bad life experiences, like the Covid-19 pandemic. This outbreak leads to the children's mental disorders seen from their changing behavior. This study examines the implementation of Expressive Writing Therapy through diary writing to cope with the child's anxiety of the victims of covid-19. The research method used was a literature study to discuss Expressive Writing Therapy through writing a diary. The data collection technique for this study was documentation through inanimate data sources, like the book of child anxiety, journal of expressive writing, and google scholar. The research showed that Expressive Writing Therapy through diary writing could decrease the level of child's anxiety since their parents passed away due to covid-19. Writing a diary can allow the child to channel their emotions into being more positive and sharpen their brain to be more active. Expressive writing is the way for the child to write freely, so there is no need to be afraid of it. Everything that is felt by the child, like the feeling of mad, happiness, and emotion due to the unpleasant incident, can be distributed into expressive writing. Thus, the child's anxiety can be tackled. Implementation of writing therapy with Islamic psychology becomes self-therapy to improve mental health.

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The cover picture shows air pollution or bad life habits could expose people to various forms of diseases. Development of advanced techniques can lend a great help to warn air toxicity, however a detector for all is lacking. Increasing evidences show that exhaled breath contains numerous gaseous biomarkers that can be used to discern respiratory infections or alert a possible pathological change. Integration of breath analysis and machine learning algorithms with various breath‐borne biomarker databases could offer early disease warning. More details are discussed in the article by Yao on page 1471—1477.image

Dietary Inflammatory Potential Is Associated With Sarcopenia Among Chronic Kidney Disease Population.

BackgroundSarcopenia, characterized by impaired muscle mass and function, is a common complication and the main reason for bad life quality and high mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Limiting systemic inflammation is a potable intervention for sarcopenia. Dietary inflammatory potential can influence systemic inflammation. However, research about the association between dietary inflammatory potential and sarcopenia in CKD is limited.AimTo investigate the association between dietary inflammatory potential and sarcopenia in the CKD population.MethodsWe conducted a cross-section study based on the public database of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). In total, 2,569 adult CKD participants who had complete data for dietary inflammatory potential and sarcopenia were included. The dietary inflammatory potential was calculated by the dietary inflammation index (DII) score based on dietary recall interviews. We assessed sarcopenia via low skeletal muscle mass measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Smooth curve fitting and a generalized linear mixed model were used to evaluate the relationship between DII and sarcopenia. Moreover, subgroup and sensitivity analyses were performed.ResultsThe overall prevalence of sarcopenia among patients with CKD is 19.11%. Smooth curve fitting results displayed that the DII score is near-linear positively associated with sarcopenia. Logistic regression confirmed sarcopenia is independently related to DII scores (odds ratio [OR], 1.17; 95% CI, 1.06–1.29). Subgroup analyses revealed relatively stronger associations between DII and sarcopenia among patients with CKD with other sarcopenia risk factors, such as hypoalbuminemia, low energy intake, low protein intake, and comorbidities.ConclusionThe dietary inflammatory potential is independently related to sarcopenia among patients with CKD. Anti-inflammatory diet patterns may be a protective intervention for CKD-associated sarcopenia.

The Criminal Offence of Child-on-Child Abuse With a Fatal Outcome

This research aims to analyse the legal protection for the child offenders in criminal offence of abuse with a fatal outcome, the judge's considerations in imposing imprisonment for the offence and the obstacles in the crime. Data obtained through empirical legal research. This research uses primary data obtained from empirical legal research in the form of interviews with respondents and informants and combines legal materials such as textbooks, theories, laws and regulations which are considered as secondary data. The results of the research showed that the legal protection provided to the child convicts is in the form of identity confidentiality, is treated well during the investigation process, is placed in a special place, the Judges in making considerations always refer to the mitigating factors such as the juvenile's age, the juvenile's mental state, the juvenile's background, the juvenile's family attitude and aggravating things such as a bad juvenile's life history and parents who are unable to educate them.. The things that indirectly hinder the process of settling this case are the parents negligence, lack of cooperation from both parties, and also the influence of gadgets. It is recommended to the law enforcement officers and Juvenile’s Special Development Institute should continue to cooperate in carrying out legal protection for child perpetrators according to applicable rules, the judge before imposing a prison sentence should prioritize the best interests of the child and to parents should contributing better in control the children's behavior.

Anonymity and Non-Identity Cases

Abstract I argue for the principle of Anonymity, according to which two populations are equally good whenever they have the same anonymous distribution of wellbeing. I first show that, given transitivity of the at-least-as-good-as relation, Anonymity is entailed by the ``Non-Identity Principle'', according to which the consequence of bringing better rather than worse lives into existence is, all else equal, better. I then argue for the Non-Identity Principle on the basis that if it were false, it would follow that we fail to improve the world when we make existing people better off, while at the same time replacing worse-off future people with different better-off future people. Since this is implausible, we should accept the Non-Identity Principle, and therefore Anonymity as well.

Developmental Twists: Only Human.

I first heard the news while sunning myself in the glasshouse. A call came through, informing me I'd been elected to the Academy's Developmental Biology Division. I nearly fell off my bench! I was being invited to attend the ceremony to accept the honour. Why me? I'd been highly recommended by a colleague.I could hardly contain my excitement when the day came. The arena was already heaving with famous scientists by the time I'd ported myself there. Everyone seemed to know everyone. To avoid gawping at them like an imbecile, I turned to study the portraits of past presidents. I was perusing a fine depiction, set in the Bay of Naples, when I heard: “An excellent resemblance, don't you think?” I turned to see the portrait's subject, Strongylocentrotus, inspecting the picture alongside me. “Those were the days,” said my companion, flexing her spines. “Morning bathe in the Med, then drop into the institute for an afternoon display. Not a bad life, eh?” I told her how I'd always admired her classic demonstration of totipotency. “Very kind of you to say so. Yes, amazing what can be conveyed through a simple routine.” Strongylocentrotus prodded me gently with one of her spikes. “Do I know you?” I introduced myself and explained that I'd just been elected. “Congratulations! I've never met a liverwort before”.We were soon approached by two others. “Ah, Xenopus and Gallus, this is Marchantia, the first liverwort to join us,” said Strongylocentrotus.“Welcome to the fold,” said Xenopus.“How's your audience getting on Xenopus?” asked Strongylocentrotus. “Still having trouble with interpretations?”I knew how tricky dealing with audiences could be. Audiences wanted to know whether their ideas might be right or not. But you couldn't tell them directly. Instead they had to play a guessing game. You gave a staged performance in the hope that they would glean the answer from your antics. If all went well, you got a joint publication. But it could go awry in so many ways – badly formulated ideas, poorly designed stage sets, lacklustre performances (one of my friends got stage fright while under a microscope objective), failures in interpretation.“I'm displaying the coolest expression patterns,” said Xenopus, “but my audience is so stuck in its ways it can't see their significance. So frustrating not being able to tell it what the patterns mean. We'll never publish at this rate”.“Mine's a washout,” said Gallus. “I mean, I send these magnificent eggs onto the stage, but the sets are lousy and the audience is continually dozing off or checking messages during the show”.Strongylocentrotus gave me a gentle prod. “How's yours doing?”The question took me by surprise. I'd been so absorbed in perfecting my routines recently, I'd hardly noticed my audience. “I'm not sure,” I said.“Well you'll have to do better than that if you are going to help them”.“Help them?”“They're like children finding their way. You can assist by giving them a little nudge every so often. Try a flamboyant gesture. Might trigger a new question or idea, if they're receptive that is.”“Mine's more of an obstinate brat than an inquisitive child,” said Xenopus.“I suppose we're lucky they chose us to put on stage,” I said.Xenopus inflated her throat to twice her body size and released a deafening croak: “Chose us? You've got it completely the wrong way round my friend! We're the ones who chose them, by putting ourselves in their path. Our audiences are so lazy they just go for whatever is around: Drosophila from garbage bins, Mus and Rattus from dirty dwellings, Arabidopsis from weedy gardens, Caenorhabditis from any old soil, Strongylocentrotus from swimming resorts and me from tropical ponds. And you're the common liverwort if I'm not mistaken?”Gallus, who had been nodding her head so vigorously it seemed in danger of dislocating, steadied herself and added “Not to mention those of us who put food on their plates, provide alcoholic beverages or flowers for their table. Zea, Pisum, Lycopersicon, Antirrhinum, Petunia, the yeast sisters, to mention just a few. And me of course.”The conversation was interrupted by an announcement that the admission ceremony was about to begin. I stood in line, observing those ahead of me going up to be anointed. I hoped I wouldn't wilt. Finally, my turn came: “For services in the understanding the evolution of morphogenesis.” I accepted the elevation on behalf of my kind.Since returning from the ceremony, I've been observing my audience more closely. It puts in long hours and takes endless recordings but doesn't seem to spend enough time thinking about what each performance means. I've decided to grow exaggerated curves in the hope of triggering its curiosity. Of course, there's no guarantee of success. It's only human after all.

THE COLOR TERMS FOR BLACK AND WHITE IN BULGARIAN, POLISH AND LITHUANIAN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS

The present paper is contrastive analysis of Bulgarian, Polish and Lithuanian phraseological units containing a color term naming black or white. It traces the way these components reflect the figurative meaning of the unit - through their color semantics or through their function as a cultural signs. The study classiffiеs Bulgarian, Polish and Lithuanian expressions as to their belongings to several groups, which refer to different concepts. In each group the comparison of the examples found in the three phraseological subsystems is based on their semantics, their lexical components and structure. Under observations are substantive, adjectival, adverbial and verbal phraseological units where the colors are used only as an adjective component. The analysis takes into consideration that black has negative symbolism and cultural connotations. Thus the phraseological units with black are linked mainly to the concepts such as death, sorrow, bad life, misfortune. The text suggests that color term for black is rarely used to express neutral or positive meanings. The white has a positive cultural connotation associated to whiteness, light, good life, goodness, but its meaning can vary to neutral or negative in phraseological system of the three languages. The present paper observes similarities of collected phraseological expressions and emphasizes their nation-specific features.

고대 지중해 세계 저승 관념의 등장과 변천

Since Neanderthal buried their ancestors, Human Beings made and developed the concept of the other world. According to the concept of after life of Neanderthal, the dead lived continually in the tomb after the same mode of this world. About 3000 B.C. Mesopotamians made the concept of the other world. According to the epic of Gilgamesh the dead didn’t live in his tomb but went to the place where only the dead lived. The other world was a vague and dark place.<BR> It is Zoroastrianism that made the differentiation of the other world for the first time. According to the doctrine of Zoroastrianism man should be judged about his doings of this world. If he lived bad life he should go to the hell. Plato developed similar thought. He thought the dead be responsible for his doing in this world, and the worst be sentenced to go to the hell. But at these stage the differentiation of the other world was not complete. Zoroastrianism taught the hell was a temporary purification place.<BR> It is Judaism that made the differentiation of the other world complete. About second century B.C. Judaism developed the concept of eternal hell and thought all bad men should go to the hell. The early Christianity made the concept of hell popularized.

Dietary Diversity and Healthy Aging: A Prospective Study.

Population aging is a global phenomenon. The present study determined the effects of dietary diversity score (DDS) and food consumption on healthy aging. A subset of the data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey was utilized in this study. DDSs were calculated using the dietary data collected in the years 2009 and 2011. A healthy aging score (HAS) was calculated by summing the standardized scores on physical functional limitation, comorbidity, cognitive function, and psychological stress based on the data collected in the year 2015, with a lower HAS indicating a healthier aging process. Life quality was self-reported in the year 2015. This study found that DDS was inversely associated with HAS (T3 vs. T1: β −0.16, 95%CI −0.20 to −0.11, p-trend <0.001). The consumption of meat and poultry, aquatic products, and fruits was inversely associated with HAS, and participants in the highest tertile of staple foods consumption had a higher HAS than those in the lowest tertile. HAS was inversely associated with good self-reported life quality and positively associated with bad life quality. In conclusion, food consumption may influence the aging process, and adherence to a diverse diet is associated with a healthier aging process in elderly people.

佛敎의 東進이후 民間故事 중 龍의 기능 변화 양상 고찰

Before Buddhism was introduced in China, dragons were already imprinted on the public mind with multiple images of God's character and animal character, worship and fear. Dragons, which are divine beings formed from totem and have animal characteristics, stayed around people's lives. Therefore, the dragon was suitable to replace the Nāga of the Indian Buddhist scriptures and was translated into the dragon during the translation process. Based on this background, the dragon was anthropomorphized, and the domain of activity was extended. The anthropomorphized dragon penetrated into the minds of the general public through the story as Yongawng(龍王) and Yongnyeo(龍女). If they had a special relationship, they could enter the palace. When humans enter the Yonggung, wishes that were not fulfilled in reality were solved. The Yonggung was a place full of all kinds of treasures that resolved the deficiencies of the human world. It was also a fantasy world in the water where all kinds of injustice, corruption, and irrationality in the human world do not exist. The story of Yonggung and Yongnyeo influenced by Buddhism is based on the universal life of mankind. Stories performed cultural functions that influenced human’s personality by revealing various types of good and bad life. Therefore, the story basically unfolds in a space of extremely ordinary human beings' daily activities. The crisis set up here and the process of overcoming reflected the aesthetic and life views of people in crisis. Folktale are essentially characterized by variability because they reflect the real-life environment of the public. These features were also applied to The Yonggung and Yongnyeo stories. Therefore, they influenced the diversification of the story distance and the multipolarization of the story space in the Folktale. In addition, it was positioned as the center of the Folktale and performed a cultural function that exerts influence.

Transfinitely Transitive Value

Abstract This paper develops transfinite extensions of transitivity and acyclicity in the context of population ethics. They are used to argue that it is better to add good lives, worse to add bad lives, and equally good to add neutral lives, where a life's value is understood as personal value. These conclusions rule out a number of theories of population ethics, feed into an argument for the repugnant conclusion, and allow us to reduce different-number comparisons to same-number ones. Challenges to these arguments are addressed, including the issue of comparing existence and non-existence in terms of personal value, the possibility of minimal quanta of time and life, and the meaningfulness of measuring closeness between outcomes with different population sizes. An asymmetry is uncovered between transfinite cycles of worseness and betterness, supporting a version of the weak procreative asymmetry. Transfinite transitivity principles are also favourably compared to the better-known principles of continuity.

Analysis of Demographic Characteristics and Psychological Factors of Opioid Addicts in Zhengzhou Area

Objective: To explore the demographic characteristics and psychological factors of patients with opioid addiction. Methods: A random number method was used to select 200 opioid-addicted patients admitted to the 7th People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou from January 2019 to February 2020. Demographic characteristics and psychosocial factors were analyzed. Result: The proportion of opioid addicts aged 21 ~ 30 was the highest; the proportion of men was significantly higher; the proportion of people who is between jobs/unemployed is the highest; the proportion of junior middle school was the highest, and the proportion of unmarried was relatively high; the proportion of opioid addicts with ignorance/curiosity for the cause of first addiction was the highest; the use of suction is snorting, accounting for the highest proportion. According to the analysis of relevant social and psychological factors, the proportion of single parent family group is the highest, the proportion of parent tension is the highest, and the proportion of bad life coping style is relatively high. At the same time, dependent psychology occupies the highest proportion in psychological factors of relapse patients. Conclusion: By analyzing the demographic characteristics of opioid addicts and the psychosocial factors of their addiction, we can strengthen prevention and management for specific groups to reduce the new addition and relapse of opioid addicts.

Pandemics in the past Eight Centuries: A Sociological Appraisal

The present article intends to reflect the appearance of different pandemics in different periods from sociological point of view. Earlier pandemics used to appear without being able to control them; at the historical times without medications, hospitals, motor vehicles, without communications etc. Millions of people died because of spreading unknown diseases such as flu, cholera, black death, plague and the like. Estimates show that the first 15 events killed over 85 million people. Plague in Italy during some years in the 17th century perished many people vs the least of facilities within reach. Similarly, great plague in Spain in mid 17th century took the lives of a large number of people. Great plague of London also in the second half of the 17th century killed more than 100,000 of citizens. Such events not only directly killed older household members, but created bad lives and deprivation for the younger remaining members in such households. Many of such children had to resort to orphanages. Cholera outbreak also appeared in early 19th century in India, Russia and Africa leaving behind a great number of deaths. The flu pandemic at the end of 19th century killed many people. Many countries came to know more on influenza since then. The outbreak of Coronavirus in 2020 is the worst very widespread and global affecting and infecting many people in all corners of the world. Coronavirus pandemic is wide spreading without being prevented. Despite all the existing facilities, it is killing more than the earlier pandemics in terms of time and space. As education and understanding of people are currently higher than before, they highly feel distressed and disordered.

The Sacred Meanings of Yearly “Dreadlock Haircut Ritual” As A Blessing Expectation for Dieng Plateau Society

This research paper discusses the Javanese yearly ritual culturally conducted to cut dreadlock hair of Dieng children in the glorified first month of Arabic calendar. The sacral ritual has been long preserved since Dieng native people believe that “dreadlock haircut ritual” is functioned to primarily drive away bad luck, calamity, and life uncertainty for the children when they grow up as well as a blessing expectation for local people life prosperity and happiness. This research is conducted by using descriptive-qualitative research method with profound observation in collecting the related data. The result of the research indicates that yearly “dreadlock haircut ritual”, as a matter of fact, has various sacred meanings in terms of psychological-social-cultural perspective, sukerto children, ritual procession, ritual attributes, and salvation ritual.

A survey of influencing factors of missed abortion during the two-child peak period

This study aimed to investigate the influencing factors of missed abortion during the two-child peak period in China. 220 pregnant women were divided into observation (presence of missed abortion, 100 cases) and control group (no presence of missed abortion, 120 cases). The single factor analysis of clinical data showed that, advanced age, premarital examination, genitalia abnormality, luteal insufficiency, spouse semen abnormality, mycoplasma infection, chlamydia infection, sexually transmitted diseases, perm or dyeing hair in pregnancy, radiation overload, primipara, spontaneous abortion history, smoking, drinking and overly intimate with pets had significant difference between observation and control group (p < .05). The logistic regression analysis results showed that, the advanced age, genital abnormality, luteal insufficiency, spouse sperm abnormality, pregnancy infection, primipara, spontaneous abortion history and bad life habits were the main risk factors of missed abortion. In the intervention for prevention of missed abortion, these factors should be paid more attention. Impact statement What is already known on this subject? There are many complex factors affecting the embryonic development and causing the missed abortion. What do the results of this study add? The advanced age, genital abnormality, luteal insufficiency, spouse sperm abnormality, pregnancy infection, primipara, spontaneous abortion history and bad life habits are the main risk factors of missed abortion. What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? These findings can provide a theoretical basis for the further prevention of missed abortion.

Neuroplasticity: The Brain Changes Over Time!

You might not expect it, but the brain is always changing—it adapts itself to good and bad life experiences. We call this neuroplasticity. Although neuroplasticity usually helps us cope with problems, sometimes things go wrong, and the changes produced by neuroplasticity are harmful to the person. In this article, we cover two cases of neuroplasticity, one positive and one harmful. The positive one is about changes that happen when we are young and have good social experiences. The harmful one is about phantom limb syndrome, a strange phenomenon felt by amputees in their limbs and organs … that no longer exist!

Avaliação multidimensional da fragilidade em idosos hospitalizados

Introdução: a Síndrome da Fragilidade (SF) pode representar um impacto significativo nos cuidados hospitalares aos idosos gerando desfechos com prognósticos funcionais variados.Objetivo: conhecer a multidimensionalidade envolvida no processo de hospitalização de idosos e a sua condição de fragilidade.Métodos: estudo transversal com abordagem descritiva que avaliou 150 idosos com 60 anos ou mais, internados em dois grandes hospitais na cidade de Curitiba, PR. Foram coletados dados relacionados à caracterização sociodemográfica; fatores cognitivos pelo Mini Exame do Estado Mental (MEEM); nível de fragilidade pela Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS); depressão pela Escala de Depressão Geriátrica (EDG-15); e força de preensão manual (FPM) verificada por dinamometria manual.Resultados: a média de idade foi de 70,0±7,9 anos e 92 (61,3%) eram homens. 30% dos idosos foram classificados como vulneráveis, 27,3% evoluindo como uma fragilidade leve, 22,7% moderada, 9,3% considerada uma forma grave e, apenas 10,7% normais. Fatores como diminuição de força de preensão palmar e depressão foram estatisticamente associados à condição de fragilidade, servindo como parâmetros analíticos dentro de uma multidimensionalidade avaliada.Conclusão: os colaboradores deste estudo apresentam-se mais vulneráveis, tanto físico como cognitivamente, levando a um cenário condizente a uma redução de suas habilidades motoras, pior expectativa de vida e consequente morte precoce.

El lugar de la revuelta: pulperías e insurgencia en Venezuela (1750–1850)

Las pulperías venezolanas fueron espacios que reunieron una gran diversidad de alimentos, formas, asistentes e ideas, muchas de ellas contrarias al disciplinamiento que estaba forjando la crisis de la sociedad colonial. Al ser un espacio que se sitúa «entre», donde afloran las tácticas de los desposeídos, podemos abordar los síntomas de una sociabilidad conflictiva que estaba redefiniendo conceptos «modernos» a la luz de estos «tugurios de mala vida», donde, según las ordenanzas, solo debían convivir una caterva de vagos y bandoleros. Quizá no el lugar de las «revoluciones orgánicas», pero sí el de las revueltas, intensas y fugaces.