Complementary Cybersecurity

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Eugen F. POPESCU
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Surrounding Environment

The paper presents the need for enhancing the classical Cybersecurity domain of study with a set of complementary perspectives that are meant to support and facilitate a proper long-term human evolution, as well as a balanced and healthy environment. It describes the influence of human decisions on the technology, in its entire lifecycle, and likewise the technological feedback that is experienced both by the human and the nature, in return. It emphasizes the need for profound analysis of the influences that technology brings on humans – as individuals and as society – and on the surrounding environment. In the same time, it points towards the importance of adaptation of our daily lives to the technological advancements. The paper concludes with a set of necessities for raising the awareness and knowledge on these matters, in order to document and support the decisions that shape our realities.

scholarly journals An Accreting Stellar Binary Model for Active Periodic Fast Radio Bursts

2021 ◽  
Vol 922 (2) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Can-Min Deng ◽  
Shu-Qing Zhong ◽  
Zi-Gao Dai
Keyword(s):  
Compact Object ◽  
Radio Bursts ◽  
Reverse Shock ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Binary Model ◽  
Forward Shock ◽  
Long Lifetime

Abstract In this work, we propose an accreting stellar binary model for understanding the active periodic fast radio bursts (FRBs). The system consists of a stellar compact object (CO) and a donor star (DS) companion in an eccentric orbit, where the DS fills its own Roche lobe near the periastron. The CO accretes the material from the DS and then drives relativistic magnetic blobs. The interaction between the magnetic blobs and the stellar wind of the DS produces a pair of shocks. We find that both the reverse shock and the forward shock are likely to produce FRBs via the synchrotron maser mechanism. We show that this system can in principle sufficiently produce highly active FRBs with a long lifetime, and also can naturally explain the periodicity and the duty cycle of the activity that appeared in FRBs 180916 and 121102. The radio nebula excited by the long-term injection of magnetic blobs into the surrounding environment may account for the associated persistent radio source. In addiction, we discuss the possible multiwavelength counterparts of FRB 180916 in the context of this model. Finally, we encourage the search for FRBs in ultraluminous X-ray sources.

scholarly journals Perilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat (PHBS) Pada Anak Sekolah

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-52
Author(s):  
Endah Nurmahmudah ◽  
T Puspitasari ◽  
I T Agustin
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Healthy Living ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Implementation Method ◽  
Good For

PHBS stands for clean and healthy living behavior. It is a set of behaviors that are practiced on the basis of awareness in an effort to be healthy and active in helping the healthy of the surrounding environment. PHBS at an early age is very good for educating and instilling awareness of the importance of hygiene as an effort to maintain personal health and the environment. This PKM aims to provide knowledge and understanding of PHBS to students of TK Al-Fadhiilah and the students of SD Cibangunkidul, so that students can practice it in their daily lives. The implementation method was carried out by counseling using in-focus, note-book, and some teaching aids. PHBS counseling for school children went well, all participants were enthusiastic about participating in this PKM activity.

scholarly journals Bioplastics – An Eco-friendly Alternative to Petrochemical Plastics

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Selvamurugan Muthusamy ◽  
Sivakumar Pramasivam
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Global Estimate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Emission Of Greenhouse Gases

Plastics have varied application and have become an essential part of our daily lives. The use of the plastics has increased twenty-fold in the past half-century and is expected to double again in the next 20 years. As a global estimate, around 330 million tonnes of the plastics are produced per annum. The production, use and disposal of the plastics emerged as a persistent and potential environmental nuisance. The improper disposal of the plastics ends up in our environment, resulting in the deaths of millions of animals annually and also the reduction in fertility status of the soil. The bioplastics products are manufactured to be biodegradable with similar functionality to that of conventional plastics, which has the potential to reduce the dependence on petrochemicals based plastics and related environmental problems. The expansion and development of the bioplastics and their products would lead to the increase in the sustainability of environment and reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases. The bioplastics innovation would be a key to the long-term solution for the plastic pollution. However, a widespread public awareness is also essential in effecting longer-term change against plastic pollution.

Sleep Patterns and Affect Dynamics Among College Students during COVID-19 Pandemic (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Mousavi ◽  
Jocelyn Lai ◽  
Katharine Simon ◽  
Alexander P. Rivera ◽  
Asal Yunusova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Sleep Onset ◽  
Sleep Time ◽  
Sleep Onset Latency ◽  
Sleep Patterns ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Affect Dynamics

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbance is a transdiagnostic risk factor so prevalent among young adults it is considered a public health epidemic, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sleep may contribute to mental health via affect dynamics. Prior literature on contribution of sleep to affect is largely based on correlational studies or experiments that do not generalize to the daily lives of young adults. Furthermore, the literature examining the associations between sleep variability and affect dynamics remains scant. OBJECTIVE In an ecologically valid context, using an intensive longitudinal design, we aimed to assess the daily and long-term associations between sleep patterns and affect dynamics among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS College student participants (N=20, 65% female) wore an Oura ring continuously for 3-months to measure sleep patterns, such as average and variability in total sleep time (TST), wake after sleep onset (WASO), sleep efficiency (SE), and sleep onset latency (SOL), resulting in 1173 unique observations. We administered a daily ecological momentary assessment (EMA) using a mobile health app to evaluate positive (PA) and negative affect (NA), and COVID-worry once per day. RESULTS Participants with higher SOL and TST on the prior day had lower PA the next day. Further, higher average TST across the 3-month period predicted lower average PA. TST variability predicted higher affect variability across all affect domains. CONCLUSIONS Fluctuating sleep patterns are associated with affect dynamics at daily and long-term scales. Low PA and affect variability may be potential pathways through which sleep has implications for mental health.

Teenage Pregnancy and its Support System in Korea

2014 ◽  
pp. 137-163
Author(s):  
Naoko Sôma ◽  
Jiyoon Park ◽  
Sun-Hee Baek ◽  
Akemi Morita
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Single Parent Family ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Unmarried Mothers ◽  
Family Support Act

While family structure continues to diversify in Korean society, society’s rejection of unmarried mothers continues to be a strong obstacle. However, Korean teenage mothers increasingly are deciding to raise their own children and live their daily lives in communities that hold biases and express rejection towards them. At present, the Single-Parent Family Support Act is central to the development of support policies for unmarried mothers, but as pointed out in this study, it is important to implement detailed, individualized, comprehensive, and continual assistance, not limited to those who opt for childrearing but also towards all unmarried mothers who opt for adoption. While raising one’s own child, it is important to provide long-term and continual support and support that helps the recipient foresee how she can step her way up to independence, rather than short-term and sporadic handouts.

A Conceptual Framework for the Design and Development of AAL Services

2013 ◽  
pp. 568-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Queirós ◽  
Joaquim Alvarelhão ◽  
Anabela G. Silva ◽  
António Teixeira ◽  
Nelson Pacheco da Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Semantic Framework ◽  
Research Investment ◽  
Strong Focus

A digital environment with a pervasive and unobtrusive intelligence able to proactively support elderly people in their daily lives, enabling them to live independently for longer, and reducing the need for long term care is the fundamental idea of the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). After considerable research investment, there is a good understanding of the domain problem. However, the need to broaden the scope of problems being addressed is undeniable. Ecological approaches for design and development of AAL services are required in order to reinforce a strong focus on people. The chapter presents a comprehensive model based on the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) to characterize users, theirs contexts, activities, and participation, and to structure a semantic framework for AAL services.

Place-Making and Sustainable Community Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 253-272
Author(s):  
Rosario Adapon Turvey
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Sustainable Community

This review chapter explores place-making in terms of how it is linked with sustainable community development (SCD). Place-making as it relates to sustainable community development has not been understood in the practice of sustainability, urban planning, and community development. Here, place-making is a process of planning, designing, managing, and programming spaces to create patterns and activities in cultural, social, economic, and ecological terms to achieve a better quality of life, a prosperous economy, and healthy environment. As informed by research, it can be an approach to sustainability thinking as a strategy for transforming cities and public spaces to promote well-being and prosperity in a local place, urban area, or neighborhood. In the long-term, the theory and practice of sustainable community development relative to place-making will evolve and eventually produce well-grounded meanings and conceptualizations as we engage in more research on sustainability and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Encouraging Physical Activity during and after Pregnancy in the COVID-19 Era, and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7304
Author(s):  
Lou Atkinson ◽  
Marlize De Vivo ◽  
Louise Hayes ◽  
Kathryn R. Hesketh ◽  
Hayley Mills ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Postnatal Period ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Healthcare Experience ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Postnatal Women ◽  
Term Benefit ◽  
Significant Health

Physical activity is known to decline during pregnancy and the postnatal period, yet physical activity is recommended during this time due to the significant health benefits for mothers and their offspring. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions imposed to reduce infection rates, pregnant and postnatal women have experienced disruption not just to their daily lives but also to their pregnancy healthcare experience and their motherhood journey with their new infant. This has included substantial changes in how, when and why they have engaged with physical activity. While some of these changes undoubtedly increased the challenge of being sufficiently active as a pregnant or postnatal woman, they have also revealed new opportunities to reach and support women and their families. This commentary details these challenges and opportunities, and highlights how researchers and practitioners can, and arguably must, harness these short-term changes for long-term benefit. This includes a call for a fresh focus on how we can engage and support those individuals and groups who are both hardest hit by COVID-19 and have previously been under-represented and under-served by antenatal and postnatal physical activity research and interventions.

Beyond the Albanian–Slav Divide: Political Cooperation and National Identities in the Balkans at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-47
Author(s):  
Fabio Bego
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Political Cooperation ◽  
The Impact

This article investigates how some prominent and less known Albanian activists perceived their Southern Slav neighbors at the turn of the twentieth century. The research explores the way in which the spread of nationalism conditioned the positioning of Albanians and Slavs in the process of identity construction and how such identities mirrored their reciprocal political claims. Recent scholarship has often emphasized that the affirmation of national ideas led to the fragmentation of Balkan communities by turning Albanian-speaking populations and their Slavic-speaking neighbors into “others.” My analysis expands this assertion by elaborating a theoretical approach that allows us to explore the impact of nationalism on the post-1878 Balkan context from a more dynamic point of view. National discourses did not only lay the foundation for a differentiation between the Balkan communities, but were also tools for promoting joint political activism. National activists often felt it necessary to cooperate in order to deal with the challenges posed by the surrounding environment, which was common to both Albanians and Slavs. Various contingent circumstances led Albanian activists to project long-term forms of coexistence with their neighbors, and to imagine forms of political, cultural, and social synthesis with the Slavs.

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