scholarly journals Recent epidemics and their impact on the society: COVID-19, SARS, MERS, H1N1

2021 ◽  
Vol 308 ◽  
pp. 02017
Author(s):  
Hanzhi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Essential Knowledge ◽  
Airborne Disease ◽  
Back To Work

Even in 2021, people still have questions and concerns about the new Covid-19. It is very important for the public to learn about the disease and to understand how to protect themselves from it, which is a part of the public health's responsibility. Quarantine, social distance, and more facts about the disease will be beneficial for developing people's self-awareness when involved in a pandemic. Since Covid-19 is an airborne disease, people will have to keep their distance from each other and use masks if possible. Since lock-down passed down in China last year, the death rate and confirmed cases of covid-19 have been decreasing. While people want to go back to work and school, new methods have been come out to help people succeed during this pandemic. In order to help people prevent and protect themselves from Covid-19, this paper will systematically introduce the essential knowledge about Covid-19.

scholarly journals SPATIAL DATA: FROM CARTOGRAPHY TO GEODATABASE

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugo FALCHI
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Significant Acceleration ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Essential Knowledge

The final goal of this paper was to fix a brief summary on the status of geographic information in Italy due to the technological steps and national regulations. The acquisition, processing and sharing of spatial data has experienced a significant acceleration thanks to the development of computer technology and the acknowledgment of the need for standardization and homogenization of information held by pub­lic authorities and individuals. The spatial data represents the essential knowledge in the management and development of a territory both in terms of planning for safety and environmental prevention. In Italy there is an enormous heritage of spatial information which is historically affected by a problem of consistency and uniformity, in order to make it often contradictory in its use by the public decision-maker and private par­ties. The recent history of geographic information is characterized by a significant effort aimed at optimiz­ing this decisive technical and cultural heritage allowing the use of it to all citizens in a logic of sharing and re-use and may finally represent a common good available to all.

Who is watching over me? - Was the public’s perception of the anaesthetist changed by National Anaesthesia Day?

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-141
Author(s):  
S J Tanser ◽  
D J Birt
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Local Information ◽  
White Coat ◽  
Information Campaign ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Local Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

AbstractThe aim of National Anaesthesia Day on 25 May 2000 was to inform the public about the role and training of anaesthetists. We carried out two surveys of patients attending Derriford Hospital, Plymouth to assess the local impact of National Anaesthesia Day and to assess the public’s expectation of the preoperative visit. The first survey was held one month prior to National Anaesthesia Day and was completed by 93 patients. The second survey was held immediately following National Anaesthesia Day and was completed by 70 patients. Thirty five percent of the patients surveyed were unaware that anaesthetists were medically qualified. This result was not altered by National Anaesthesia Day despite a local information campaign. Moreover, knowledge about our role and training was only marginally improved from 1978. The majority of patients expected to see their anaesthetist preoperatively for less than 10 minutes and would not be concerned if they had not been seen one hour before surgery. Style of clothing was unimportant; few preferred a white coat but name badges were desirable. We conclude that the level of ignorance about our profession has not changed since 1978 and the impact of National Anaesthesia Day was not significant. This may be as a result of the anaesthetist’s portrayal on television, which is known to be an important source of public information on other areas of medicine. If these statistics are to change in the next 22 years new methods of public education need to be found.

scholarly journals CONFLICTOGENIC FACTORS IN VIRTUAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 886-895
Author(s):  
N.I. Pushina ◽  
N.I. Leonov ◽  
N.V. Makhankova ◽  
E.A. Shirokikh
Keyword(s):  
Situational Factors ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speech Characteristics ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Communication Conflict

This article aims to identify the causes of conflicts in communication upsetting the balance of interethnic relations, mutual understanding, interaction between representatives of different countries and peoples and to develop mechanisms for overcoming them in the discourse of political Internet, which occupies a special place in the Internet communication and enables politicians having access to the Internet to speak to the public. The article presents a typology of communicative failures, identifies what makes a communication conflict (situational factors, contextual factors; productive and receptive factors; ritualization of live speech communication, violation of ethical norms, leveling pragmatic speech characteristics, incorrect linear speech organization; reticence; shifting from one topic to another, etc.). Theoretical and methodological bases of the research are ontological and anthropocentric approaches: a person is recognized as a "measure of all things", he perceives the world through self-awareness in this world, and language, as a means of communication, acts as the main constitutive characteristics of thinking, speaking, and creating the reality person.

What about psychiatrists' attitude to mentally ill people?

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 423-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Lauber ◽  
Marion Anthony ◽  
Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross ◽  
Wulf Rössler
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Community Psychiatry ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Closeness

AbstractObjectiveFirstly, to assess and, secondly, to compare experts' and lay attitudes towards community psychiatry and the respective social distance towards mentally ill people.MethodComparison of two representative Swiss samples, one comprising of 90 psychiatrists, the other including 786 individuals of the general population.ResultsThe psychiatrists' attitude was significantly more positive than that of the general population although both samples have a positive attitude to community psychiatry. The statement that mental health facilities devalue a residential area has revealed most agreement. Psychiatrists and the public do not differ in their social distance to mentally ill people. Among both samples, the level of social distance increases the more the situation described implies ‘social closeness’.ConclusionThe strategy to use psychiatrists as role models or opinion leaders in anti-stigma campaigns cannot be realised without accompanying actions. Psychiatrists must be aware that their attitudes do not differ from the general public and, thus, they should improve their knowledge about stigma and discrimination towards people with mental illnesses.

Refiguring the Language of Race

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Garloff
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
Final Verdict ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
The One

This chapter jumps to the turn of the century, when the rise of racial antisemitism fostered a new Jewish self-awareness and rendered “interracial” love and marriage central to the public debates about German Jewish identity. It analyzes three German Jewish writers of different and paradigmatic political orientations, who used love stories to diagnose the reasons for the faltering of emancipation: the assimilationist Ludwig Jacobowski, the Zionist Max Nordau, and the mainstream liberal Georg Hermann. Their works, including Jacobowski's Werther the Jew (1892), Nordau's Doctor Kohn (1899), and Hermann's Jettchen Gebert (1906), show how love stories potentially escape the ideological constraints of increasingly racialized models of identity. On the one hand, the love plot affords an opportunity to expose the obstacles encountered by Jews seeking integration in times of rising antisemitism. On the other hand, the open endings of most love stories and the ambiguous use of racial language allow the authors to eschew a final verdict on the success or failure of integration. The chapter argues that the love plot generates a host of equivocations between the social and the biological, and the particular and the universal, creating a metaphorical surplus that opens up venues to rethink the project of Jewish emancipation and assimilation.

‘Your memorials shall survive the grave’: elegy and remembrance

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-149
Author(s):  
Alison Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Central Feature ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vernacular Culture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Broadside Ballads ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

The sixteen ballads and songs within this section fall into two camps: elegy and remembrance. Whilst a central feature of elegiac poetry is the way in which it remembers or memorialises the dead, the dead a poem which is one of remembrance is not necessarily an elegy. Several of the songs herein use the date of Peterloo as a temporal marker – with an eye both on the contemporaneous reader or audience and the future reader. Included in this section are broadside ballads by Michael Wilson and elegies by Samuel Bamford and Peter Pindar. These songs display a self-awareness in their significance in marking the moment for posterity and in their attempts to reach an audience beyond Manchester and ensure that the public knew what had happened on 16th August as well as preserving the event in English vernacular culture. It is also a quest for ownership of the narrative of the day; the speed with which so many of these songs were written and published not only suggests the ferocity of emotions surrounding events but also the need to exert some control over the way in which they were represented.

scholarly journals 'Wear your identity': Styling identities of youth through dress ‐ A conceptual model

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-99
Author(s):  
Jo Jenkinson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Public

Abstract This article exposes how young people use dress to negotiate, articulate and display identity. A diverse group of young people from Manchester, England, were asked to style themselves using items of clothing, or artefacts, which represented their individual and civic identities. Responses to this styling workshop and the accompanying interviews confirmed the powerful part that dressing can play, as young people navigate different cultural contexts and social environments in their everyday life. The research brings new insights into how dress is used as a catalyst for self-awareness, communication and development of self within multicultural urban settings. It proposes a new model for Dress, Youth and Identity (DYI) that provides a structure onto which young peoples' narratives of dress can be mapped and analysed, building upon the model for Dress and the Public, Private and Secret Self (PPSS) proposed by Eicher and Miller.

RELATIONS BETWEEN RELIGIOUS AND NONRELIGIOUS JEWS IN ISRAEL

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ephraim Tabory
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
State Level ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Positive Orientation ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Interpersonal Contact ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Orientation ◽  
Religion And State

This study investigates the cognitions, attitudes and behavioral intentions concerning interpersonal contact between nonreligious and religious Jews in Israel. The hypothesis examined is that distance from Jewish tradition is related to a negative orientation regarding questions of state and religion, tolerance for demands on the part of observant Jews to further religious goals on the state level, and the social distance between religious and nonreligious Jews. The data for this study are based on closed ended questionnaires completed by 671 Jewish male and female Israeli university students. The findings indicate that those who identify themselves as more religious observe more ritual, have a more positive orientation toward an intertwining of religion and state on a macro level and to the specific demands for the observance of religious life in the public sector, and prefer contact with religious persons over contact with nonreligious persons. At the same time, the social contacts between the religious and nonreligious are characterized by more informal than formal isolation. These findings are discussed with regard to the question of social integration among Jews in Israeli society.

The validity and reliability of the revised Chinese version of the Situational Self-Awareness Scale

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 743-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu-Feng Liu ◽  
Yong-Cong Shao ◽  
Ye-Bing Yang ◽  
Sheng-Jun Wu ◽  
Hai Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
The Public ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Public Setting ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

In this study a Chinese version of the Situational Self-Awareness Scale (SSAS; Govern & Marsch, 2001) was developed and tested for validity and reliability. Participants were 1,244 undergraduate students. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and other statistical methods yielded results indicating a good correlation of items in the Chinese (C-SSAS) and English version of the scale. When private self-awareness was assessed in a private setting the score of participants was significantly greater and likewise the public self-awareness scores were higher when the scale was completed in a public setting. Test-retest reliability was significant across situations and time. The reallocation of one item to public self-awareness in the C-SSAS from private in the SSAS was indicative of differences between Eastern and Western cultures and this is discussed. In general, the results indicated that the Chinese version of the SSAS has good reliability and validity. The scale should, therefore, be suitable as a reference to develop scales for evaluating personnel working in specific occupations.

scholarly journals Canadians Think that Nearly All of Us Will Be Allowed Back to Work around August

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan C. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Relevant Variable ◽  
The Public ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Back To Work

Business closures and work-from-home orders have been a central part of Canada's plan to slow the spread of COVID-19. The success of these measures hinges on public support, which cannot be taken for granted as the orders induce considerable economic pain. As governments consider when to re-open the economy, one relevant variable is when the public expects the economy to re-open. At minimum, if public perceptions differ from government plans then additional government messaging is required to better align expectations.

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