scholarly journals Features of the personality of the people identifying themselves with different generations

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Sivrikova ◽  
Natalya Artemyeva ◽  
Nadezhda Sokolova ◽  
Elena Moiseyeva ◽  
Vera Borodina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Short Questionnaire ◽  
The People ◽  
Direct Question ◽  
Generational Identity ◽  
Post War

The issue of existence of real differences between generations is actively discussed by researchers. The discussion which is conducted in scientific community does not manage to respond to the practice request. Therefore, differences between generations need scientific studying. The purpose of this research is consisted in comparison of personal features of the Russians identifying themselves with different generations (Post-war, Soviet, Transitional and Post-Soviet). 212 people participated in a research. The generational identity of the people was decided upon the direct question of what generation they associate themselves with. The Russianspeaking version of the short questionnaire of the Big five (TIPI) was applied to studying of features of the identity of participants of a research. The obtained data confirm the idea that the representatives of the senior generations and the younger generations are more focused on collectivism values and on individualism values respectively.

scholarly journals Conscientiousness as a Predictor of Relative Longevity

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Felix Uchechukwu Udoh ◽  
Aloysius C. Anyichie
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Pearson Product Moment Correlation ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
The People ◽  
Selection Of

<p>This study examined the Conscientiousness domain (of the Big-Five Inventory [B5]) and its facets as predictors of Relative Longevity (RL). Its methods of investigation involved the administration of the B5 to a sample of 350 people from Anambra State (of Nigeria, West Africa) who had RL. These participants were drawn from the representative towns of the three senatorial zones in the State. Stratified sampling technique was employed in the selection of the respondents. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation analysis and Multiple Regression analysis were used in data analyses. The results of the research indicated that there was no significant correlation between Conscientiousness domain and RL. However, its (Conscientiousness) facet (of Thorough) correlated significantly with RL. Besides, Conscientiousness did not predict RL, but its facets (Thorough, Reliable, Organized, and Goal-directed) were found to be significant predictors of RL. The study’s conclusion is that although Conscientiousness was neither a correlate nor a predictor of RL among the people of Anambra State, some of its Facets were (correlate and/or predictor/s).</p>

scholarly journals Γενετικά τροποποιημένες καλλιέργειες εναντίον βιοποικιλότητας; Επιστημονικές και φιλοσοφικές προκλήσεις

Bioethica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Κωνσταντίνα Π. Μυλωνά - Γιαννακάκου (Konstantina Mylona-Giannakakou)
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Agricultural Biotechnology ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Ecosystem Integrity ◽  
The People ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Moral Choices

Regarding the issue of balance between environmental sustainability and the inherent ecological interventions of agricultural biotechnology, multiannual studies substantiate that loss of biodiversity, due to the use of GM crops, is globally less important than several other practices. Thus, what explains this diametrically extreme confrontation, from part of the scientific community? I presume, that the controversy is a philosophical one, and is expressed mainly by two contrasting materialistic approaches; the so called reductionist (or molecularist) view and the opposing holistic (or organismic) view, both of which, in their comparative analysis, prove, in my view, their incapability in definitely resolving such dilemmas.The first, as an anthropocentric approach, seems unsuccessful in building any concept of ecosystem integrity on the basis of moral duty while the second, as a biocentric approach, does not take into consideration the effects in human populations, and provides limited guidance with respect to the environments in which agriculture has already replaced the natural order. Norton’s concept provides a new perspective, since it recognizes the human duty to conduct agriculture, in a manner that supports survival for the people on this planet, while simultaneously it maintains the ecological dynamics that sustain life. Based on Norton’s “weak anthropocentrism”, we can be easily led to the “convergence” of policies, through a “contextualized” hierarchy of moral choices for the issues of agricultural biotechnology.

scholarly journals REVIEW: 'Embedded' with the invaded Iraqi people

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-224
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
The People ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Post War ◽  
Policy Failures ◽  
Insight Into

Wilson's Long drive Through A Short War is a personal account of their time in Iraq during the invasion and a subsequent post-war visit to the country to see the fate of the people he had met.  Hersh's Chain of Command provides many of the missing links to those seeking greater insight into the wider struggle of Iraq's civil war unleashed by the failure of US post-invasion policy, even if this is not officially admitted. His 'muckracking' investigations concentrate on the policy failures, corruptions and abuses of power. 

Colossus, Codebreaking, and the Digital Age

Colossus ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Budiansky
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

The paths that took men and women from their ordinary lives and deposited them on the doorstep of the odd profession of cryptanalysis were always tortuous, accidental, and unpredictable. The full story of the Colossus, the pioneering electronic device developed by the Government Code and Cypher School (GC & CS) to break German teleprinter ciphers in the Second World War, is fundamentally a story of several of these accidental paths converging at a remarkable moment in the history of electronics—and of the wartime urgency that set these men and women on these odd paths. Were it not for the wartime necessity of codebreaking, and were it not for particular statistical and logical properties of the teleprinter ciphers that were so eminently suited to electronic analysis, the history of computing might have taken a very different course. The fact that Britain’s codebreakers cracked the high-level teleprinter ciphers of the German Army and Luftwaffe high command during the Second World War has been public knowledge since the 1970s. But the recent declassification of new documents about Colossus and the teleprinter ciphers, and the willingness of key participants to discuss their roles more fully, has laid bare as never before the technical challenges they faced—not to mention the intense pressures, the false steps, and the extraordinary risks and leaps of faith along the way. It has also clarified the true role that the Colossus machines played in the advent of the digital age. Though they were neither general-purpose nor stored-program computers themselves, the Colossi sparked the imaginations of many scientists, among them Alan Turing and Max Newman, who would go on to help launch the post-war revolution that ushered in the age of the digital, general-purpose, stored-program electronic computer. Yet the story of Colossus really begins not with electronics at all, but with codebreaking; and to understand how and why the Colossi were developed and to properly place their capabilities in historical context, it is necessary to understand the problem they were built to solve, and the people who were given the job of solving it.

scholarly journals Cross-cultural examination of the Big Five Personality Trait Short Questionnaire: Measurement invariance testing and associations with mental health

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. e0226223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Mezquita ◽  
Adrian J. Bravo ◽  
Julien Morizot ◽  
Angelina Pilatti ◽  
Matthew R. Pearson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Invariance Testing ◽  
Short Questionnaire

scholarly journals Commentary: Serving the nation, serving the people: echoes of war in the early NHS

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-156
Author(s):  
Roberta Bivins
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
State Institution ◽  
World War ◽  
Total War ◽  
The People ◽  
Post War ◽  
British People

It is something of a cliché to speak of Britain as having been transformed by the traumas of World War II and by its aftermath. From the advent of the ‘cradle to grave’ Welfare State to the end of (formal) empire, the effects of total war were enduring. Typically, they have been explored in relation to demographic, socioeconomic, technological and geopolitical trends and events. Yet as the articles in this volume observe across a variety of examples, World War II affected individuals, groups and communities in ways both intimate and immediate. For them, its effects were directly embodied. That is, they were experienced physically and emotionally—in physical and mental wounds, in ruptured domesticities and new opportunities and in the wholesale disruption and re-formation of communities displaced by bombing and reconstruction. So it is, perhaps, unsurprising that Britain’s post-war National Health Service, as the state institution charged with managing the bodies and behaviour of the British people, was itself permeated by a ‘wartime spirit’ long after the cessation of international hostilities.

Arts and Crafts of Nigeria: Their Past and Future

Africa ◽  
1943 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Murray
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Industrial Processes ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Social Reconstruction ◽  
Industrial Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
Post War ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
And Control

Opening ParagraphThe indigenous crafts of West Africa are so primitive in comparison with the mechanized industries of Europe that they may easily be omitted from schemes for future progress. Plans have been suggested for the extensive development of backward areas such as Nigeria as part of the post-war aim of the expansion of world trade. Large measures of social reconstruction, together with the starting of new industries and the improvement of old have been advocated in order that poverty may be lessened and the equipment of public services increased. Of many of these schemes there is no doubt that, if they were possible of achievement, industrial organizations would be set up that would have no relationship to African life as it is now. Experts in materials and industrial processes are not usually interested in sociological questions, nor are they accustomed to take them into account. They are concerned with efficiency, and have only to satisfy themselves that there is a sufficient supply of labour which is capable of manipulating machinery. Experts in the science of economics, for their part, have to decide whether there will be a market for the products of new or improved industries and therefore must necessarily examine some aspects of the life of the people in the area which they are studying. But the predominating factors of advertisement and price enable them to disregard deeper questions of cultural disintegration. Yet thorny questions would eventually arise upon which Africans would have decided opinions: such as the use of land for the exploitation of minerals, and the ownership and control of industries. The supply of labour might at first appear to Africans an innocuous, even a beneficial function, but later it might be discovered that the movement of workers into industrial towns was undermining the whole basis of their society

A Dose of Our Own Medicine: Alternative Medicine, Conventional Medicine, and the Standards of Science

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Haavi Morreim
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Conventional Medicine ◽  
Acupuncture Points ◽  
Free Ride ◽  
The People ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

The discussion about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is sometimes rather heated. “Quackery!” the cry goes. A large proportion “of unconventional practices entail theories that are patently unscientific.” “It is time for the scientific community to stop giving alternative medicine a free ride. There cannot be two kinds of medicine — conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not, medicine that works and medicine that may or may not work.” “I submit that if these treatments cannot withstand the test of empirical research, … then we have wasted a lot of time and effort. The time has been wasted on all the people who have spent years learning falsehoods about acupuncture points and the principles of homeopathy. And the patients have wasted their time, money, and efforts receiving treatments that were not what they were represented to be or were harmful.”

Statistics in the Soviet Epoch / Statistics in the Soviet Epoch

1998 ◽  
Vol 217 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Sheynin
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The People ◽  
Post War ◽  
Ideological Resistance ◽  
New Crop

SummaryThis paper is based on a large number of Soviet and western sources and describes the development of statistics in the Soviet Union. After ca. 1922, Russian statisticians were able to work successfully drawing on the contemporaneous national and foreign professional knowledge. From 1927 onward, however, many of them were labelled saboteurs or enemies of the people, arrested and even shot. Pre-Soviet statistics was denied, and its classics were called ideologists of the bourgeoisie (Siissmilch, Quetelet) or enemies of materialism (Pearson). The new crop of Soviet statisticians, largely composed of ignoramuses, restricted the aims of statistics to confirming Marxist political economy. In the post-war period, ideology continued to dominate over statistics, econometrics had to overcome great ideological resistance, and genetics, crushed in 1948, in particular because of its ties with statistics, did not return to life until the 1960’s.

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