Biosensing Stress

Living Data ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Celia Roberts ◽  
Adrian Mackenzie ◽  
Maggie Mort ◽  
Theresa Atkinson ◽  
Mette Kragh-Furbo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Physical Sense ◽  
Financial Trading ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Human Stress ◽  
Multiple Uncertainties ◽  
The Military

Stress is a notoriously slippery concept and experience: something many of us talk a lot about, and have a strong physical sense of, but which is difficult to grasp scientifically or medically. Human stress responses are complex and can be traced in multiple physical processes and changes, as well as in mental and emotional life. Attempts to biosense the physical signs of stress are inevitably bound up with these complexities, and reflect the multiple uncertainties of contemporary science and clinical medicine on this issue. Despite this, devices to monitor stress are increasingly available and are being taken up in various contexts, including workplaces such as the military and financial trading. In this chapter we explore how biosensing platforms articulate ‘stress’ and suggest how these devices and platforms might be used to further a bio-psycho-social understanding of human and non-human life.

“Wolves Shepherding the People”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongjie Wang
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Five Dynasties ◽  
The People ◽  
The Military

This essay examines notorious crimes perpetrated by the military men during the chaotic Five Dynasties and Ten States period (907–979) based on both official histories and biji筆記‎ accounts. Rapidly shifting political rule, contested boundaries, an excessively premium on martial values, and tensions between the military (wu武‎) and the civil (wen文‎) all contributed to the violence and instability of the day. The unending wars and volatile politics fostered an environment wherein a widespread contempt for human life became commonplace, particularly among the military men who rose to power through combat and slaughter.

CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE AND HUMAN LIFE

1957 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-379
Author(s):  
Erik Ingelstam
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Contemporary Science

scholarly journals A UTILIZAÇÃO DE CÃES PELA POLÍCIA MILITAR NA PREVENÇÃO E COMBATE A CRIMES NO ESTADO DE RONDÔNIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (207) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Andreia da Silva Oliveira ◽  
Ricardo Miranda Cavalcante ◽  
Franklin Vieira dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Military Police ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
The Military ◽  
Police Dogs

This article aims to examine the use of dogs by the military police, particularly in the state of Rondônia, in fighting and preventing crimes. We used a deductive method, by conducting a literature review, interpreting laws and regulations regarding police activities using these animals as tools. The study was developed following a logic sequence from general to individual knowledge, and resulted in a concise assessment of this instrument in the daily routine of crime prevention and repression by the military police. It was noted that the use of police dogs was a less lethal procedure for crime repression, whereas police work proved more agile, efficient and with greater psychological impact in relation to other tools used by the officers, mainly based on the International Convention on Human Rights. The officer must, therefore, respect and preserve human life, by minimizing damages and injuries.

scholarly journals Fungal physiology and the origins of molecular biology

Microbiology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 155 (12) ◽  
pp. 3799-3809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Brambl
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Cell Signalling ◽  
Fungal Cell ◽  
Experimental Systems ◽  
Hyphal Morphogenesis ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Basic Insight

Molecular biology has several distinct origins, but especially important are those contributed by fungal and yeast physiology, biochemistry and genetics. From the first gene action studies that became the basis of our understanding of the relationship between genes and proteins, through chromosome structure, mitochondrial genetics and membrane biogenesis, gene silencing and circadian clocks, studies with these organisms have yielded basic insight into these processes applicable to all eukaryotes. Examples are cited of pioneering studies with fungi that have stimulated new research in clinical medicine and agriculture; these studies include sexual interactions, cell stress responses, the cytoskeleton and pathogenesis. Studies with the yeasts and fungi have been effective in applying the techniques and insights gained from other types of experimental systems to research in fungal cell signalling, cell development and hyphal morphogenesis.

The Tragedy of the Kursk: Crisis Management in Putin's Russia

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan Barany
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Vladimir Mayakovsky ◽  
Organizational Behaviour ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Military

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to reconstruct both the Kursk incident and especially the reaction to it by Russian military and political authorities with the aim of gauging the extent of continuity and change of Soviet-era practices in three key areas of contemporary Russia's public institutional life: (1) the organizational behaviour and institutional culture of the Russian military; (2) the behaviour of Russia's executive political leadership, i.e. President Vladimir Putin; and (3) the media of mass communication. Reaction to such crises, the author argues, can shed much light on the actual behavioural patterns and operating assumptions of relevant institutions and leaders. The method employed is essentially a detailed forensic reconstruction of the incident and its aftermath from three angles: the reactions of the military authorities; the reactions of Putin; and the reactions of the mass media (and of the authorities to the mass media).The individual is nonsense, the individual is zero.Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1921Human life still costs nothing here.Leonid Radzikhovskii, 2000

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Army Soldiers’ Perceived Stress and Army Life Adjustment: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Stress Response and the Moderating Effect of Cohesion

2020 ◽  
Vol 185 (9-10) ◽  
pp. e1743-e1749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung Hee Ha ◽  
Juliet Jue ◽  
Yoojin Jang
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Response Scale ◽  
Military Life ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Introduction South Korea maintains a mandatory military duty, and high percentage of conscript soldiers have difficulty adjusting to military life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating effect of the stress response on the relationship between soldiers’ perceived stress and military life adjustment and to clarify the moderating effect of cohesion on this relationship. Materials and Methods The study’s participants were 285 Korean military soldiers who are obliged to serve in the military and they completed the Perceived Stress Scale, the Stress Response Scale, the Military Life Adjustment, and the Group Cohesion Scale. Analysis methods included descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, path analysis, bootstrapping, collinearity statistic, and hierarchical regression analysis. This research obtained the approval of the institutional review board of the university (HYI-18-229-1). Results First, a partial mediation effect of the stress response was found in the relationship between soldiers’ perceived stress and military life adjustment. That is, a high level of soldiers’ perceived stress was related to their military life maladjustment. Moreover, the greater the level of soldiers’ perceived stress, the greater the stress response, and, in turn, the greater the military life maladjustment. Second, we found the moderating effect of cohesion in the relationship between stress perception and military life adjustment. Conclusions The stress perceived by soldiers not only directly affects their military life adjustment but also indirectly affects their adjustment through the stress responses. In addition, soldiers’ levels of adjustment to military life change significantly based on cohesion levels only when they perceive less stress.

Molecular characterization of rat gastric mucosal response to potent acid inhibition

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin G. Nørsett ◽  
Astrid Lægreid ◽  
Mette Langaas ◽  
Sara Wörlund ◽  
Reidar Fossmark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Defense Responses ◽  
Acid Inhibition ◽  
Expression Levels ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Gastric Corpus ◽  
Gene Expression Levels

Potent acid inhibition with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) is widely used in clinical medicine, especially for gastroesophageal reflux disease. PPIs cause profound changes in the intragastric environment with near-neutral pH and increase serum concentration of the gastric secretagogue hormone gastrin. Long-term hypergastrinemia increases mucosal thickness and enterochromaffin-like cell density in gastric corpus mucosa and results in development of gastric carcinoids in experimental animals. Our aim was to study responses to potent acid inhibition by characterizing genome-wide gene expression changes in gastric corpus mucosa in rats dosed with the PPI omeprazole. Nine rats received 400 μmol/kg omeprazole daily for 10 wk. Seven rats received vehicle only. Analysis of gastric corpus with microarrays representing 11,848 genes identified 134 genes with changed gene expression levels in omeprazole-dosed rats. Several of the identified genes were previously known to be affected by potent acid inhibition. Of the 62 genes with known functions that changed gene expression levels after PPI dosing, 27 are known to be involved in proliferation and apoptosis and immune, inflammatory, and stress responses. Our study indicates that microarray analysis can detect relevant gene expression changes in the complex gastric tissue, and that cellular processes involved in cell growth and defense responses are strongly affected by PPI dosing. Many genes are identified that were not previously known to be affected by inhibition of gastric acid secretion or that have unknown biological functions. Characterization of the roles of these genes may give new insight into molecular responses to treatment with PPIs.

scholarly journals Can a Good Person be a Good Trader? An Ethical Defense of Financial Trading

2017 ◽  
Vol 159 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Rocchi ◽  
David Thunder
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Good Person ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Financial Trading ◽  
Proper Training

AbstractIn a 2015 article entitled “The Irrelevance of Ethics,” MacIntyre argues that acquiring the moral virtues would undermine someone’s capacity to be a good trader in the financial system and, conversely, that a proper training in the virtues of good trading directly militates against the acquisition of the moral virtues. In this paper, we reconsider MacIntyre’s rather damning indictment of financial trading, arguing that his negative assessment is overstated. The financial system is in fact more internally diverse and dynamic, and more reformable, than suggested by MacIntyre’s treatment. The challenge at the heart of MacIntyre’s claims can be crystallized in the question, “under which conditions, if any, can a person be an effective trader and simultaneously live a worthy human life?” We conclude that there are realistic possibilities of integrity and growth in moral virtue for those who work in the financial sector, at least for those operating in a work environment minimally permissive toward virtue, provided they possess characters of integrity and genuine aptitude for the skills and attitudes required in their professional tasks.

ROCK AS EXPERIENCE

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-308
Author(s):  
CASEY NELSON BLAKE
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Acid Rock ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
Art As Experience ◽  
The 1960S

Readers dismayed by the appearance of a review essay on hipsters, hippies, and rock music in the pages of Modern Intellectual History should take a deep breath (you may inhale) and consider the following passage from John Dewey's 1934 Art as Experience: Any idea that ignores the necessary role of intelligence in production of works of art is based upon identification of thinking with use of one special kind of material, verbal signs and words. To think effectively in terms of relations of qualities is as severe a demand upon thought as to think in terms of symbols, verbal and mathematical. Indeed, since words are equally manipulated in mechanical ways, the production of a work of genuine art probably demands more intelligence than does most of the so-called thinking that goes on among those who pride themselves on being “intellectuals.”It's impossible to know what Dewey would have thought had he lived beyond his ninety-two years and confronted the rock music and counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. Would he have found “intelligence” at work in “acid rock” or hippie culture? Or would he have reacted as rock critic Greil Marcus did in the famous opening line of his review of Bob Dylan's 1970 Self Portrait album: “What is this shit?” I’d like to think he’d have given the music a listen, if not at the Fillmore then perhaps on his home stereo. After all, Dewey had this to say about music: “Music, having sound as its medium, thus necessarily expresses in a concentrated way the shocks and instabilities, the conflicts and resolutions, that are the dramatic changes enacted upon the more enduring background of nature and human life.” If any music expressed the shocks, instabilities, and conflicts of its day—and did so “in a concentrated way”—it was rock ’n’ roll. In fact, sonic culture had a privileged place in Dewey's aesthetics as an expression of the emotional life of individuals and communities. “Generically speaking, what is seen stirs emotion indirectly, through interpretation and allied idea. Sound agitates directly, as a commotion of the organism itself.” A philosopher who refused to sever sensory experience from cognition might well have considered whether somewhere in the commotion of rock culture there was also thinking. The question for historians committed to that proposition today is how and where to locate thinking in all the feedback.

scholarly journals Psychological Well-Being as a Correlate of Physical Well-Being among the Spouses of Indian Armed Force Personnel

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bisht Prachi ◽  
Pande Lata
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Armed Force ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Military

Armed force is an organization where the process of deployment of soldiers or military personnel occurs very frequently. The soldiers are frequently deployed in either active field areas, high altitude areas and routine exercise because of which the families has to face separation for longer as well as for short duration influencing them emotionally, psychologically and mentally leading to stress responses, such as anger, irritability, sleeplessness, and anxiety, and significant levels of distress (Demers 2009) and triggers depression, anxiety, decreased marital satisfaction and stress among the wives of the military personnel and this may even lead to somatization. Therefore the present study establishes the correlation between the psychological well-being and physical health of the wives of Indian soldiers and intend to find how different dimensions of each variable influences each other showing the interaction of the dimensions of psychological well-being and physical health. Total 300 spouses were selected as respondents. Correlation analysis was used as statistical tool. The results of the analysis show significant and positive correlation between the psychological well-being and physical health.

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