Drivers of Disrupted Communication

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-208
Author(s):  
Alison Wray
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Impact Model ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
Communication Partners ◽  
The Many ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Communicative Impact

This chapter opens part 3, within which the focus is a new understanding of why communication is challenging in the dementia context and how improvements could be made to practice. The Communicative Impact model is used to shed light on how the various ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ causes of dementia interact with the generation of messages, and why failing to achieve the intended change in one’s world negatively affects one’s confidence and self-esteem. Attention is paid to the high risk of a mismatch of contextual information between people living with a dementia and their interlocutors (communication partners). The many ways in which either party can attempt to fix communication problems is then considered, noting that such solutions can create additional problems, one of which is awkward pragmatic gaps, where the speaker is not sure why an issue has arisen and, thus, how to respond. Finally, brief consideration is given to similarities between communicating with people living with a dementia and people using a second language in which they are not fully proficient.

scholarly journals Some Thoughts Regarding Generation Z's Social Abilities Pro

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
László Kárpáti
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Social Abilities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Many ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
Shed Light

Parents of the current generation are likely to have difficult times in the future, as it becomes ever more demanding to safeguard their children against the outside world. They also face the new challenge of cooperating and cohabiting with the ones they swore to protect from any harm. As a result of children spending an ever growing number of time stuck to the screens of their devices and handing over long hours to the internet, there is a high risk to be accounted for here, particularly in the life of teenagers. The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the many negative aspects of using smart devices in the everyday life of emerging adults. Beyond revealing these effects, it also seeks to offer feasible and working solutions to the above mentioned issues in order to compensate for the possible negative influences that are to be discussed.

scholarly journals Some Thoughts Regarding Generation Z's Social Abilities Pro

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
László Kárpáti
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Social Abilities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Many ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
Shed Light

Parents of the current generation are likely to have difficult times in the future, as it becomes ever more demanding to safeguard their children against the outside world. They also face the new challenge of cooperating and cohabiting with the ones they swore to protect from any harm. As a result of children spending an ever growing number of time stuck to the screens of their devices and handing over long hours to the internet, there is a high risk to be accounted for here, particularly in the life of teenagers. The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the many negative aspects of using smart devices in the everyday life of emerging adults. Beyond revealing these effects, it also seeks to offer feasible and working solutions to the above mentioned issues in order to compensate for the possible negative influences that are to be discussed.

Ambivalence in the World Risk Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
David Le Breton
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Self Testing ◽  
The World ◽  
Character Building

Risk is most often associated with danger and perceived as a harmful aspect of life, as an insidious and unwelcome threat that should be avoided. Risk-taking, however, is sometimes a singular passion, a source of pleasure that becomes a way of life. When freely pursued as a valorised activity, it can be a path to self-fulfilment, an opportunity to confront new situations, and a means for redefining one’s self, testing personal abilities, increasing self-esteem or gaining recognition. Deliberate risk-taking is a form of character building. It accommodates life’s intensities. It is extremely popular in high-risk physical activities and sports and postmodern forms of adventure.

scholarly journals ACE2 polymorphisms as potential players in COVID-19 outcome

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Salim Khayat ◽  
Paulo Pimentel de Assumpção ◽  
Bruna Claudia Meireles Khayat ◽  
Taíssa Maíra Thomaz Araújo ◽  
Jéssica Almeida Batista-Gomes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South American ◽  
Angiotensin I ◽  
Biological Aspect ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme ◽  
Protein Receptor ◽  
Biological Explanation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Regulatory Sites

AbstractThe clinical condition COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, was declared a pandemic by the WHO in March 2020. Currently, there are more than 5 million cases worldwide, and the pandemic has increased exponentially in many countries, with different incidences and death rates among regions/ethnicities and, intriguingly, between sexes. In addition to the many factors that can influence these discrepancies, we suggest a biological aspect, the genetic variation at the viral S protein receptor in human cells, ACE2 (angiotensin I-converting enzyme 2), which may contribute to the worse clinical outcome in males and in some regions worldwide. We performed exomics analysis in native and admixed South American populations, and we also conducted in silico genomics databank investigations in populations from other continents. Interestingly, at least ten polymorphisms in coding, noncoding and regulatory sites were found that can shed light on this issue and offer a plausible biological explanation for these epidemiological differences. In conclusion, ACE2 polymorphisms should influence epidemiological discrepancies observed among ancestry and, moreover, between sexes.

scholarly journals Skala TAI-G Untuk Kecemasan Menghadapi Ujian Pada Siswa Sekolah Menengah Atas

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Hasnaa' Zahuna Nayu
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Alpha Reliability ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Total Item

Anxiety facing exams refers to the student's tendency to understand evaluativ situations where their performance will be assessed, such as high-risk exams, as they are very threatening. The threat here is their self-esteem, fear will be judged negatively by teachers, friends, or parents.  The purpose of this research is to seek the validity and reliability of the TAI-G scale. This research uses a quantitative approach. The number of samples of this study was 101 SMA/SMK students in Magelang with an age range of 15-17 years. Sampling in this study used simple random sampling techniques. The results of the analysis show 21 items declared valid with a correlation of item-Total 0.25, 1 invalid item with a total-item correlation of 0.25, and an alpha reliability of 0.907.

scholarly journals Rhetorical training in higher education as the basis of professional speech practice of a lawyer

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
I. A. Nikulina
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Law School ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Legal Rhetoric ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Communication Problems

The article examines the speech competencies formed in practical classes in the disciplines “Rhetoric for lawyers” and “Legal rhetoric in the activities of a lawyer”: communicative, textual, lexical and orthological. The article is based on the methodological understanding of rhetoric as an academic discipline that improves the speech-thinking activity of students in the direction of training “jurisprudence”. This is expressed in the ability to create professionally meaningful texts, replenishment of vocabulary in accordance with professional and intellectual needs, solving communication problems at various levels. The author of the article believes that the successful professional speech practice of a lawyer, which requires well-formed communication skills, is due, inter alia, to linguistic training at a university. The purpose of the disciplines of the humanitarian cycle is to form the rhetorical skills of students, necessary to create eff ective argumentation, the ability to speak in public and influence the persuasion of listeners; updating the writing skills of a future lawyer. The author identifi es a number of issues that are most signifi cant in teaching rhetoric, such as the formation of language competence, including communicative, textual, orthological aspects and teaching methods. The latter are based on general didactic teaching methods. Taking into account the specifi cs of training in a law school, the most eff ective is a student-centered approach to learning, namely: methods of explanation, practice, self-esteem, control and self-control. The author describes an example of a lesson methodology aimed at developing the above competencies.

scholarly journals The graffiti art and the discover of the Keith Haring’s mural in Amsterdam

2020 ◽  
pp. 236-249
Author(s):  
Caterina Soliani
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Continuous Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Made In

The purpose of this work is to contribute to the continuous growth of the art world (Street Art in particular) and to discuss how it is essential for the discovery of artists. These artists have been pioneers and forerunners of new pictorial techniques, freeing creative and psychological flair, and combining the latter with the artistic technology that promises great things despite limited materials.  The intention of this article is to consider the elements of artistic expression that are less commonly subject to discussion, such as the world of Street Art. This form of artwork has not always been understood or accepted, with street artists waiting for the opportune moment to express the narrative, experiences, and emotions of society through their artwork, a power that unites sentiment and encourages change.  It is art which affects the community, the population and society. It is designed above all others to become part of the collective memory through violence of image and colour.  This project led me to come into contact with one of the many artistic artefacts of the Street Art movement, the Keith Haring’s mural in Amsterdam, a piece that makes me. understand and appreciate the problems inherent to these type of works, simple, synthetic, but never simplistic.  Therefore, a project, a study and a restoration hypothesis were conducted on one of the many works by Haring. The purpose of this was to shed light once again on the mural made in 1986 by the artist, situated in the Groothandeles Market of Amsterdam. No longer visible for thirty years, the mural was covered by insulation panels placed two years after its creation. With professors Antonio Rava and William Shank, the association Keith Haring Foundation of New York, the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, in collaboration with the gallery Vroom & Varossieau, specialised in road art, on 8 June, the large metal sheet panels were removed and one of the greatest murals by Haring could once again be admired.

scholarly journals The 4-Level Approach: Prevention of Suicidal Behaviour Through Community-Based Intervention

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Hegerl ◽  
Ines Heinz ◽  
Ainslie O'Connor ◽  
Hannah Reich
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
The Many ◽  
Different Levels

Due to the many different factors contributing to diagnostic and therapeutic deficits concerning depression and the risk of suicidal behaviour, community-based interventions combining different measures are considered the most efficient way to address these important areas of public health. The network of the European Alliance Against Depression has implemented in more than 120 regions within and outside of Europe community-based 4-level-interventions that combine activities at four levels: (i) primary care, (ii) general public, (iii) community facilitators and gatekeepers (e.g., police, journalists, caregivers, pharmacists, and teachers), and (iv) patients, individuals at high risk and their relatives. This review will discuss lessons learned from these broad implementation activities. These include targeting depression and suicidal behaviour within one approach; being simultaneously active on the four different levels; promoting bottom-up initiatives; and avoiding any cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry for reasons of credibility.

scholarly journals Influence of CAG Repeat Polymorphism on the Targets of Testosterone Action

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Tirabassi ◽  
Angelo Cignarelli ◽  
Sebastio Perrini ◽  
Nicola delli Muti ◽  
Giorgio Furlani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Neurodegenerative Disorders ◽  
Genetic Parameter ◽  
Cag Repeat ◽  
Repeat Polymorphism ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Psychiatric Status ◽  
Male Sexual Function ◽  
The Many ◽  
Shed Light

In the last decade, ample evidence has demonstrated the growing importance of androgen receptor (AR) CAG repeat polymorphism in andrology. This genetic parameter is able to condition the peripheral effects of testosterone and therefore to influence male sexual function and fertility, cardiovascular risk, body composition, bone metabolism, the risk of prostate and testicular cancer, the psychiatric status, and the onset of neurodegenerative disorders. In this review, we extensively discuss the literature data and identify a role for AR CAG repeat polymorphism in conditioning the systemic testosterone effects. In particular, our main purpose was to provide an updated text able to shed light on the many and often contradictory findings reporting an influence of CAG repeat polymorphism on the targets of testosterone action.

scholarly journals Not All Risks Are Equal: The Risk Taking Inventory for High-Risk Sports

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 479-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Woodman ◽  
Matt Barlow ◽  
Comille Bandura ◽  
Miles Hill ◽  
Dominika Kupciw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Population Attitudes

Although high-risk sport participants are typically considered a homogenous risk-taking population, attitudes to risk within the high-risk domain can vary considerably. As no validated measure allows researchers to assess risk taking within this domain, we validated the Risk Taking Inventory (RTI) for high-risk sport across four studies. The RTI comprises seven items across two factors: deliberate risk taking and precautionary behaviors. In Study 1 (n = 341), the inventory was refined and tested via a confirmatory factor analysis used in an exploratory fashion. The subsequent three studies confirmed the RTI’s good model–data fit via three further separate confirmatory factor analyses. In Study 2 (n = 518) and in Study 3 (n = 290), concurrent validity was also confirmed via associations with other related traits (sensation seeking, behavioral activation, behavioral inhibition, impulsivity, self-esteem, extraversion, and conscientiousness). In Study 4 (n = 365), predictive validity was confirmed via associations with mean accidents and mean close calls in the high-risk domain. Finally, in Study 4, the self-report version of the inventory was significantly associated with an informant version of the inventory. The measure will allow researchers and practitioners to investigate risk taking as a variable that is conceptually distinct from participation in a high-risk sport.

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