Treatment of large and ptotic breasts

2021 ◽  
pp. 1367-1372
Author(s):  
Adam Searle ◽  
Albert de Mey ◽  
Christophe Zirak
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Techniques ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Vertical Scar ◽  
Areolar Complex ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Ptotic Breasts ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Normal Sensitivity ◽  
Wise Pattern

The breasts have always been considered a sign of femininity. The correction of breast deformities is therefore important from a physical and psychological point of view, improving greatly the quality of life. Many surgical techniques have been proposed to correct the shape and volume of the breast, and in recent decades techniques have been proposed to preserve the nipple sensitivity and increase the vascular safety of the procedure. Templates (such as the Wise pattern) have been proposed to improve planning and different pedicles for the areola have been described. During the last 20 years, new techniques have been introduced to minimize scars, leaving normal sensitivity in almost all cases, the possibility of lactation, and a pleasing shape. The periareolar scar is, unfortunately, always necessary to reposition the nipple–areolar complex. The vertical scar is necessary to resect the excess of skin of the lower pole of the breast. Effort has been directed to reduce or eliminate the horizontal submammary scar, leading to a vertical scar only, even in large reductions.

scholarly journals Quality of Life Philosophy V. Seizing the Meaning of Life and Becoming Well Again

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1210-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Niels Jørgen Andersen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Life Philosophy ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Taking Responsibility

This paper presents a positive philosophy of life developed to support and inspire patients to take more responsibility for their own lives and to draw more efficiently on their known or hidden resources. The idea is that everybody can become wiser, use themselves better, and thus improve quality of life, subjective health, and the ability to function.To be responsible means to see yourself as the cause of your own existence and state of being. To be the one who forms your own life to your liking, so that others do not shape it in the way they prefer to see you. Seen this way, taking responsibility in practice is one of the most difficult things to do. One of the greatest and most difficult things to do in this context is to be able to love. To be the one who loves, instead of being the one who demands love, care, awareness, respect, and acceptance from somebody else.Since almost all of us have had parents who maybe loved us too little and mostly conditionally, we all harbor a deep yearning to be loved as we are, unconditionally. A lot of our energy is spent trying to find recognition and acceptance, more or less as we did as children from our parents, who created the framework and defined the rules of the game. But today, reality is different. We have grown up and now life is about shaping our own existence. So we must be the ones who love. This is what responsibility is all about. Taking responsibility is, quite literally, moving the barriers in our lives inside ourselves. Taking responsibility for life means that you are willing to see that the real barriers are not all these external ones, but something that can be found within yourself. Of course there is an outside world that cannot be easily shaped according to your dreams. But a responsible point of view is that although it is difficult, the problem is not impossible; it is your real challenge and task. If there is something you really want, you can achieve it, but whether it happens depends on your wholehearted, goal-oriented, and continuous attempts. This paper describes the philosophy about seizing the meaning of life and becoming well again, even when there is little time left.

COMPETENCE APPROACH AS THE BASIS OF A NEW PARADIGM OF EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Rakhat Sulaimanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
Almost All

The article presents the analysis of the concept of competence approach from modern positions and from the point of view of the possibilities of transition to a new educational paradigm on its basis. The beginning of the new Millennium is characterized by global changes and profound processes in almost all spheres of human activity, especially in the field of communication technologies and education, as they are all closely interrelated. Currently, there is a transition to such an information society, in which the processes of generation, integration and dissemination of knowledge become a priority, and they should have a positive impact on the formation of a new paradigm of both education in General and private educational concepts and systems. This paradigm is aimed at the quality of modern education as a process and result of University practice and its quality management.

scholarly journals Self-Perceived Employability and Meaningful Work: The Mediating Role of Courage on Quality of Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 764 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Magnano ◽  
Giuseppe Santisi ◽  
Andrea Zammitti ◽  
Rita Zarbo ◽  
Santo Di Nuovo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Psychological Point

The concept of sustainability, from a psychological point of view, can be related to the promotion of personal resources that help people to find decent and meaningful work and live quality lives. In the psychological concept of sustainability and sustainable development, the sustainability of careers is related not only to individual career management, but also to the possibility for individuals to obtain a good quality of life despite the frequent changes and the unpredictability of the work context. The present study focuses on the constructs of self-perceived employability and meaningful work, analyzing their relationships with workers’ quality of life. An empirical study was conducted on 660 Italian workers using the following measures: Self-perceived employability scale, work and meaning inventory, courage measure, satisfaction with life scale, and the flourishing scale. The results showed direct effects of employability and meaningful work on the indicators of quality of life (life satisfaction and flourishing); moreover, indirect effects of employability and meaningful work on the quality of life were found to be caused by the mediation of courage.

scholarly journals Suspension of Care for Patients With Spasticity During COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical and Medico-Legal Point of View Starting From an Italian Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio De Donno ◽  
Adriano Acella ◽  
Carmelinda Angrisani ◽  
Giulia Gubinelli ◽  
Gianluca Musci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Life ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Provision Of Care

The COVID-19 pandemic has revolutionized the habits of entire communities, having even more profound negative effects on assistance for the chronically ill. The sudden demand for extraordinary resources caught all worldwide countries unprepared, highlighting shortages in provision of care services. This applies to all patients, affected by COVID-19 or not, as many need continuing access to chronic diseases treatments. Almost all of the energy available has been directed toward care of COVID-19 patients, and almost nothing has been done to continue therapy for patients with spasticity. This study builds on a recent article and discusses its results as a basis for highlighting the ethical dilemmas and unintended consequences of health systems changing their priorities during the pandemic. The above mentioned study has shown increased patient-perceived spasticity during lockdown (72.2%) with reductions in perceived quality of life (70.9%). Telemedicine tools have proved insufficient, with access by only 7.3% of these patients. Despite the health emergency, it cannot be denied that this situation is a violation of these patients' rights and dignity. The healthcare system will also have to bear increased costs in the future to recover the loss of previous therapies benefits, because of their interruption. The real challenge will be to exploit the critical issues emerged during the pandemic, and to resolve the measures needed to take the care to the patient, and not vice versa. This applies particularly to fragile patients, to respect their dignity and right to care.

Incorporating Human Factors in the Development of Context-Aware Personalized Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 362-382
Author(s):  
Nikos Tsianos ◽  
Panagiotis Germanakos ◽  
Zacharias Lekkas ◽  
Constantinos Mourlas
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
Objective Quality ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
E Learning

The notion of context in context-aware applications is not merely an issue of external situational circumstances or device/channel properties, but it could also refer to a wide array of user characteristics that have an effect throughout users’ interactions with a system. Human factors such as cognitive traits and current state, from a psychological point of view, are undoubtedly significant in the shaping of the perceived and objective quality of interactions with a system, and by defining context in that sense, personalization may as well become an essential function of context aware applications. The research characterthat is presented in this chapter focuses on identifying human factors that relate to users’ performance in Web applications that involve information processing, and a framework of personalization rules that are expected to increase users’ performance is depicted. The environments that empirical results were derived from were both learning and commercial; in the case of E-Learning personaliza tion was beneficial, while the interaction with a commercial site needs to be further investigated due to the implicit character of information processing in the Web.

scholarly journals Design and Operation of a Polygeneration System in Spanish Climate Buildings under an Exergetic Perspective

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7636
Author(s):  
Ana Picallo-Perez ◽  
Jose Maria Sala-Lizarraga
Keyword(s):  
Energy Savings ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Office Building ◽  
Air Handling Unit ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Energy And Exergy ◽  
Polygeneration System ◽  
Almost All

This work defines and analyzes the performance of a polygeneration system in five different locations in Spain to maintain the thermal comfort and air quality of an office building. The facility is based on a chiller and a CHP engine with PV panels that provide almost all the electricity demand of the chiller. According to the energy performance analysis results, the installation working in Bilbao is a full polygeneration system since no electricity needs to be imported from the grid in summer. To quantify the energy savings related to a separated production facility, polygeneration indicators (percentage of savings PES/PExS and equivalent electric efficiency EEE/EExE) have been calculated in energy and exergy terms. The main motivation for using exergy is based on the ambiguity that can arise from the point of view of the First Law. As expected, the exergetic indicators have lower values than the energetic ones. In addition, an in-depth analysis was conducted for the air-handling unit components. The study shows the behavior of components over the year and the efficiency values from both an energy and exergy point of view. From these facts, the need arises to develop methodologies based on exergy.

scholarly journals Psychological Aspects of the U.S. Election Campaign

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Turska-Kawa
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
American Elections ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
The U.S

Abstract Great diversity - racial and cultural as well as in terms of quality of life - in the United States forces versatility of electoral activities, pushing them to a certain level of generality, as specific, defined solutions may turn out too narrow for a broad electorate. In specific campaigns, psychological mechanisms become particularly important, especially those which in many ways provide a sense of closeness to the preferred candidate and build a relationship that leads to support and casting a vote in the elections. The present study focuses on three important - from a psychological point of view - issues, which are perfectly represented in the American elections - the narrative of the political image; communities created on the Internet thanks to management of specific electoral groups by politicians, and the presence of humor and satire in the campaign.

Incorporating Human Factors in the Development of Context-Aware Personalized Applications

2010 ◽  
pp. 309-329
Author(s):  
Nikos Tsianos ◽  
Panagiotis Germanakos ◽  
Zacharias Lekkas ◽  
Constantinos Mourlas
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
Objective Quality ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
E Learning

The notion of context in context-aware applications is not merely an issue of external situational circumstances or device/channel properties, but it could also refer to a wide array of user characteristics that have an effect throughout users’ interactions with a system. Human factors such as cognitive traits and current state, from a psychological point of view, are undoubtedly significant in the shaping of the perceived and objective quality of interactions with a system, and by defining context in that sense, personalization may as well become an essential function of context aware applications. The research that is presented in this chapter focuses on identifying human factors that relate to users’ performance in Web applications that involve information processing, and a framework of personalization rules that are expected to increase users’ performance is depicted. The environments that empirical results were derived from were both learning and commercial; in the case of E-Learning personalization was beneficial, while the interaction with a commercial site needs to be further investigated due to the implicit character of information processing in the Web.

scholarly journals Peran Status Emosi Bahagia Sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Kualitas Hidup ditinjau dari Sistem Fisiologi Manusia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chalista Ambarita
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Know How ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

To know how the quality of life can be affected by good emotional states, this research-based journal studies and interview to know how the correlations and how it can be. The result is that we can not deny that mental and physical health gives an effect one to each other. Although it is a bit confusing to relate this problem into physiology or psychology, both branches of study will complete each other. In Psychological point of view, emotional states are believed in affecting one’s physical health status, and from thus also related to the physiology of the human body. These literature studies end up with studying three main branches that are related in the human body, which is psychology, neurology and immunology, the three combines and form psychoneuroimmunology studies. From studying all the relation between those three, It is certain that emotional status could increase one’s life quality. And found that happiness is strongly engaged and produces an outcome that is good health.

COMBINATORIAL POLYNOMIALLY COMPUTABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBSTITUTIONS AND THEIR PROPERTIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR NIKONOV ◽  
◽  
ANTON ZOBOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Expectation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Small Range ◽  
Computational Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Bijective Function ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Element Base ◽  
Selection Of

The construction and selection of a suitable bijective function, that is, substitution, is now becoming an important applied task, particularly for building block encryption systems. Many articles have suggested using different approaches to determining the quality of substitution, but most of them are highly computationally complex. The solution of this problem will significantly expand the range of methods for constructing and analyzing scheme in information protection systems. The purpose of research is to find easily measurable characteristics of substitutions, allowing to evaluate their quality, and also measures of the proximity of a particular substitutions to a random one, or its distance from it. For this purpose, several characteristics were proposed in this work: difference and polynomial, and their mathematical expectation was found, as well as variance for the difference characteristic. This allows us to make a conclusion about its quality by comparing the result of calculating the characteristic for a particular substitution with the calculated mathematical expectation. From a computational point of view, the thesises of the article are of exceptional interest due to the simplicity of the algorithm for quantifying the quality of bijective function substitutions. By its nature, the operation of calculating the difference characteristic carries out a simple summation of integer terms in a fixed and small range. Such an operation, both in the modern and in the prospective element base, is embedded in the logic of a wide range of functional elements, especially when implementing computational actions in the optical range, or on other carriers related to the field of nanotechnology.

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