Studying Infection Worries by Ecological Momentary Assessment: Development and Causal Factors in Sweden during the Early Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schulz ◽  
Elin Andersson ◽  
Nicole Bizzotto ◽  
Margareta Norberg
Keyword(s):  
Study Design ◽  
Preventive Action ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Perceived Severity ◽  
Assessment Development ◽  
Infection Susceptibility ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Type ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Special Case

BACKGROUND The foray of Covid-19 around the globe is sure to have instigated worries in many humans, and lockdown measures may well have created their own worries. Sweden, in contrast to most other countries, had first relied on voluntary measures, but had to change its policy in the face of an increasing number of infections. OBJECTIVE The aim was to better understand the worried reactions to the virus and the lockdown measures. To grasp the reactions, their development over time was studied. METHODS Results were based on an unbalanced panel sample of 261 Swedish participants filling in 3218 interview questionnaires by smartphone in a 7-week period in 2020. Causal factors considered in this study include the perceived severity of an infection, the susceptibility of a person to the threat posed by the virus, the perceived efficacy of safeguarding measures and the assessment of government action against the spread of Covid-19. The effect of these factors on worries was traced in two analytical steps: the effects at the beginning of the study, and the effect on the trend during the study. RESULTS Findings confirmed that the hypothesized causal factors (severity of infection, susceptibility to the threat of the virus, efficacy of safeguarding and the assessment of government preventive action did indeed affect worries. CONCLUSIONS The results confirmed earlier research in a very special case and demonstrated the usefulness of a different study design, which takes a longitudinal perspective, and a new type of data analysis borrowed from multi-level study design.

Islamists between revolution and the state: an epilogue

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Ghani Imad
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Heavy Burden ◽  
New Type ◽  
Political Realities

The problematic addressed in this article is the challenge initiated by the Arab revolutions to reform the Arab political system in such a way as to facilitate the incorporation of ‘democracy’ at the core of its structure. Given the profound repercussions, this issue has become the most serious matter facing the forces of change in the Arab world today; meanwhile, it forms the most prominent challenge and the most difficult test confronting Islamists. The Islamist phenomenon is not an alien implant that descended upon us from another planet beyond the social context or manifestations of history. Thus it cannot but be an expression of political, cultural, and social needs and crises. Over the years this phenomenon has presented, through its discourse, an ideological logic that falls within the context of ‘advocacy’; however, today Islamists find themselves in office, and in a new context that requires them to produce a new type of discourse that pertains to the context of a ‘state’. Political participation ‘tames’ ideology and pushes political actors to rationalize their discourse in the face of daily political realities and the necessity of achievement. The logic of advocacy differs from that of the state: in the case of advocacy, ideology represents an enriching asset, whereas in the case of the state, it constitutes a heavy burden. This is one reason why so much discourse exists within religious jurisprudence related to interest or necessity or balancing outcomes. This article forms an epilogue to the series of articles on religion and the state published in previous issues of this journal. It adopts the methodologies of ‘discourse analysis’ and ‘case studies’ in an attempt to examine the arguments presented by Islamists under pressure from the opposition. It analyses the experiences, and the constraints, that inhibit the production of a ‘model’, and monitors the development of the discourse, its structure, and transformations between advocacy, revolution and the state.

NEW INSPIRATION FROM CHINA'S PHILOSOPHY OF "UNITY OF MAN AND HEAVEN": CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNDER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
PU JINGXIN
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Human Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Type ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Self Protection ◽  
Harmonious Community

Abstract: The danger of the novel coronavirus has not yet come to an end, and new variants have begun to attack the world. What philosophy should humankind’s strategy be based on when human society as a group is fighting against Covid-19, as the pandemic ravages the world? Unfortunately, political leaders of various countries have failed to achieve the overall awareness of attacking the pandemic for a shared future for mankind so far. In the face of the pandemic, mankind as a whole urgently needs to break through the narrow nation-oriented ideology of seeking only self-protection. The International Community should establish a new type of international cooperation featuring the concept of harmony of "all things under heaven as a unity". The international relations system dominated by the power ofwestern discourse is now in a bottleneck. The main aim of this article is to study the ancient Chinese wisdom of "the Unity of Man and Heaven" philosophy and build a global harmonious community. The author argues that the “export” of the aforementioned wisdom must be a priority for Chinese scholars. Keywords: Tao; Unity of Man and Heaven; Novel Coronavirus; Anthropocentrism; Harmony.

scholarly journals Development of a New Type Cutter "Revolving Type Pinion Cutter" for the Hobbing of the Face Gear

1977 ◽  
Vol 43 (373) ◽  
pp. 3526-3534
Author(s):  
Kin'ichi SHlNJO ◽  
Masafumi SAKAMOTO ◽  
Md.Rezaur RAHMAN
Keyword(s):  
Face Gear ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Type

The Radical Right in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Backes
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right ◽  
Special Case

This chapter analyzes and compares political developments in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It highlights the common ground between groups on the right-wing fringe of each country’s party system. To an extent the differences between the way right-wing groups developed in each of these countries is due to the different histories of the respective states. Recently however, they have moved closer to each other in the face of very similar problems. To a degree Switzerland is a special case because of its multilingual cantons and the early development of a pluralist civic culture that sustains an extraordinarily dynamic democratic constitutional state. This is particularly true given the autocratic relapses toward right-wing politics in neighboring German-speaking countries.

scholarly journals Modelling and Vulnerability Analysis of Cyber-Physical Power Systems Based on Interdependent Networks

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 3439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Zhang ◽  
Minfang Peng ◽  
Josep M. Guerrero ◽  
Xingle Gao ◽  
Yanchen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Power Grid ◽  
Malicious Attack ◽  
The Face ◽  
Failure Propagation ◽  
New Type ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact

The strong coupling between the power grid and communication systems may contribute to failure propagation, which may easily lead to cascading failures or blackouts. In this paper, in order to quantitatively analyse the impact of interdependency on power system vulnerability, we put forward a “degree–electrical degree” independent model of cyber-physical power systems (CPPS), a new type of assortative link, through identifying the important nodes in a power grid based on the proposed index–electrical degree, and coupling them with the nodes in a communication system with a high degree, based on one-to-one correspondence. Using the double-star communication system and the IEEE 118-bus power grid to form an artificial interdependent network, we evaluated and compare the holistic vulnerability of CPPS under random attack and malicious attack, separately based on three kinds of interdependent models: “degree–betweenness”, “degree–electrical degree” and “random link”. The simulation results demonstrated that different link patterns, coupling degrees and attack types all can influence the vulnerability of CPPS. The CPPS with a “degree–electrical degree” interdependent model proposed in this paper presented a higher robustness in the face of random attack, and moreover performed better than the degree–betweenness interdependent model in the face of malicious attack.

On the optimality of LEPT and μc rules for parallel processors and dependent arrival processes

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 979-996
Author(s):  
Arie Hordijk ◽  
Ger Koole
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Programming ◽  
Parallel Processors ◽  
Arrival Process ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Cost Structures ◽  
Markov Decision ◽  
New Type ◽  
Arrival Processes ◽  
Special Case

In this paper we study scheduling problems of multiclass customers on identical parallel processors. A new type of arrival process, called a Markov decision arrival process, is introduced. This arrival process can be controlled and allows for an indirect dependence on the numbers of customers in the queues. As a special case we show the optimality of LEPT and the µc-rule in the last node of a controlled tandem network for various cost structures. A unifying proof using dynamic programming is given.

scholarly journals Face-on SS 433 Stars as a Possible New Type of Extragalactic X-Ray Sources

2001 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 268-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Fabrika ◽  
A. Mescheryakov
Keyword(s):  
X Rays ◽  
Relativistic Jets ◽  
Expected Frequency ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Ss 433 ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Supercritical Accretion ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Type ◽  
Positive Correlations

The object SS433 is a well-known source of relativistic jets, which are formed in supercritical accretion disk. It is very probable that the disk has polar channels and their radiation is collimated (the photo-cones). A face-on SS433 object can appear as ultra-bright and highly variable X-ray source, Lx ˜ 1040 − 1042 erg/s. We discuss the properties of these hypothetical objects and their frequency expected in galaxies. We describe a search for such objects using the ROSAT All Sky Survey and RC3 catalog of galaxies. Among the total 418 positive correlations we find that 142 sources in S and Irr galaxies are unknown as AGNs. Nuclear sources among them still contain many AGNs. Non-nuclear (offset) sources are rather hard, their X-ray luminosities are 1039 − 1041 erg/s. Their observed frequency is about 4–5% per galaxy, that is in agreement with expected frequency of the face-on SS 433 stars. The only way to recognize such stars is their expected violent variability in X rays.

scholarly journals Constructive basis for the development of the extreme zones of Siberia and the Russian arctic

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.13) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Tat'yana Sarvut
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Irreversible Process ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Type

The paper describes the constructive basis for building and structure designing in the difficult regions of Siberia and the Russian Arctic and development of a new approach to the design of buildings and structures in the Russian Arctic in the face of climate change. Severe climate and weather conditions of the northwestern territories of Russia are rapidly changing due to the global warming. The structural changes in development and construction, following this irreversible process, are highlighted and discussed in relation to the foundations and constructive systems. The paper provides an overview of methods and technological approaches to the extreme zone construction. The application of modern methods of design and construction with the involvement of competent "practitioners" increases the pace of construction and reduces its cost; Architectural and constructive solutions should focus on the developing areas of business and tourism. We suggest the possible protective measures against the transgression of the World Ocean and thawing of the permafrost. The term “special Arctic bases”, denoting the new type of settlements in the Russian Arctic, is introduced. The introduction of constructive solutions and the development of planning solutions for the bases will help to ensure a stable activity in the region.  

scholarly journals Mutations in AP3D1 associated with immunodeficiency and seizures define a new type of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome

Blood ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 127 (8) ◽  
pp. 997-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Ammann ◽  
Ansgar Schulz ◽  
Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann ◽  
Nele M. G. Dieckmann ◽  
Klaus Niethammer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Onset ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Delay ◽  
Neurologic Involvement ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Infection Susceptibility ◽  
New Type ◽  
Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome

Key Points A phenotype with albinism, early-onset seizures, neurodevelopmental delay, infection susceptibility, and neutropenia is caused by AP3D1 mutations. AP3δ deficiency destabilizes the AP3 complex and defines a novel type of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome with severe neurologic involvement.

scholarly journals War, Disease and Aesthesis.

TECHNOLOGOS ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Myshkin Oleg
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Autoimmune Reaction ◽  
Political Body ◽  
Biological Analogy ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Type ◽  
Definition Of

Instead of a critical attitude of Modernity this article establishes naivety as a means to describe transformations that human experience is forced to undergo being affected by hybrid (in Latour’s terms) and nonhuman agencies. To compare the image of the modern war with a new type of conflict that has developed over the past decades in terms of space-time it attracts allies such as Gilles Deleuze, оbject-oriented ontologists, S. Shaviro and Alfred Whitehead. The new type of conflict in question is the terrorist activity guided by the doctrine of Taqiyya, or strategic (dis)simulation, described by Reza Negarestany in his essay The Militarization of Peace: Absence of Terror or Terror of Absence? The reason for this choice of objects for comparison is the fact that this new wave of terrorism decomoses the space-time framework of war established by Modernity proliferating like a virus and functioning according to the “bottom up” principle. That’s why it is potentially the most successful – and therefore dangerous – for it actively exploits the “biological” analogy of society and the tree internalizing itself into the structure of the political body and causing an excessive allergic autoimmune reaction on its part and then destroying the political body from the inside. In this respect the logic of its unfolding repeats at the macro-level of society the logic of spreading the virus at the micro-level of the individual's body, as described by Eugene Tucker in the essay Nosos, nomos, and bios. In the face of these threats, definition of the spatial and temporal framework for the functioning of terror and viral infection becomes a necessary condition for survival. Such a definition, in turn, requires a revision of the modern concept of space-time with it’s notions of the fundamental locality of actual entities, the linearity/discreteness of time and the relations of internal/external. In other words, it requires a revision of our concept of aesthesis.

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