scholarly journals Wondering Awe as a Perceptive Aspect of Spirituality and Its Relation to Indicators of Wellbeing: Frequency of Perception and Underlying Triggers

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arndt Büssing
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Mindful Awareness ◽  
Multidimensional Construct ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Core ◽  
Qualitative Part

Background: Spirituality is a multidimensional construct which includes religious, existentialistic, and relational issues and has different layers such as faith as the core, related attitudes and conviction, and subsequent behaviors and practices. The perceptive aspects of spirituality such as wondering awe are of relevance for both, religious and non-religious persons. These perceptions were related to perceiving the Sacred in life, mindful awareness of nature, others and self, to compassion, meaning in life, and emotional wellbeing. As awe perceptions are foremost a matter of state, it was the aim (1) to empirically analyze the frequency of wondering awe perceptions (i.e., with respect to gender, age cohorts, religious or non-religious persons) and (2) to qualitatively analyze a range of triggers of awe perceptions.Methods: Data from 7,928 participants were analyzed with respect to the frequency of Awe/Gratitude perceptions (GrAw-7 scale), while for the second part of the study responses of a heterogeneous group of 82 persons what caused them to perceive moments of wondering awe were analyzed with qualitative content analysis techniques.Results: Persons who experience Awe/Gratitude to a low extend were the youngest and had lowest wellbeing and lowest meditation/praying engagement, while those with high GrAw-7 scores were the oldest, had the highest wellbeing, and were more often meditating or praying (p<0.001). Gender had a significant effect on these perceptions, too (Cohen’s d=0.32). In the qualitative part, the triggers can be attributed to four main categories, Nature, Persons, Unique Moments, and Aesthetics, Beauty, and Devotion. Some of these triggers and related perceptions might be more a matter of admiration than wondering awe, while other perceptions could have more profound effects and may thus result in changes of a person’s attitudes and behaviors.Conclusion: Emotionally touching experiences of wondering awe may result in feelings of interconnectedness, prosocial behavior, mindful awareness, and contribute to a person’s meaning in life and wellbeing and can also be a health-relevant resource. These perceptions can be seen as a perceptive aspect of spirituality, which is not exclusively experienced by religious people but also by non-religious persons.

scholarly journals Exploring Factors Affecting the Emergency Specialists’ Decision-Making in Case of Emergencies in Patients

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbasali Ebrahimian ◽  
Seyed-Hossein Hashemi-Amrei ◽  
Mohammadreza Monesan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Department ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Emergency Decision

Introduction. Appropriate decision-making is essential in emergency situations; however, little information is available on how emergency decision-makers decide on the emergency status of the patients shifted to the emergency department of the hospital. This study aimed at explaining the factors that influence the emergency specialists’ decision-making in case of emergency conditions in patients. Methods. This study was carried out with a qualitative content analysis approach. The participants were selected based on purposive sampling by the emergency specialists. The data were collected through semistructured interviews and were analyzed using the method proposed by Graneheim and Lundman. Results. The core theme of the study was “efforts to perceive the acute health threats of the patient.” This theme was derived from the main classes, including “the identification of the acute threats based on the patient’s condition” and “the identification of the acute threats based on peripheral conditions.” Conclusions. The conditions governing the decision-making process about patients in the emergency department differ from the conditions in other health-care departments at hospitals. Emergency specialists may have several approaches to decide about the patients’ emergency conditions. Therefore, notably, the emergency specialists’ working conditions and the others’ expectations from these specialists should be considered.

Cybersecurity Awareness Framework for Academia

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 417
Author(s):  
Mohammed Khader ◽  
Marcel Karam ◽  
Hanna Fares
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Core ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Future ◽  
Students Attitudes

Cybersecurity is a multifaceted global phenomenon representing complex socio-technical challenges for governments and private sectors. With technology constantly evolving, the types and numbers of cyberattacks affect different users in different ways. The majority of recorded cyberattacks can be traced to human errors. Despite being both knowledge- and environment-dependent, studies show that increasing users’ cybersecurity awareness is found to be one of the most effective protective approaches. However, the intangible nature, socio-technical dependencies, constant technological evolutions, and ambiguous impact make it challenging to offer comprehensive strategies for better communicating and combatting cyberattacks. Research in the industrial sector focused on creating institutional proprietary risk-aware cultures. In contrast, in academia, where cybersecurity awareness should be at the core of an academic institution’s mission to ensure all graduates are equipped with the skills to combat cyberattacks, most of the research focused on understanding students’ attitudes and behaviors after infusing cybersecurity awareness topics into some courses in a program. This work proposes a conceptual Cybersecurity Awareness Framework to guide the implementation of systems to improve the cybersecurity awareness of graduates in any academic institution. This framework comprises constituents designed to continuously improve the development, integration, delivery, and assessment of cybersecurity knowledge into the curriculum of a university across different disciplines and majors; this framework would thus lead to a better awareness among all university graduates, the future workforce. This framework may be adjusted to serve as a blueprint that, once adjusted by academic institutions to accommodate their missions, guides institutions in developing or amending their policies and procedures for the design and assessment of cybersecurity awareness.

Considerations for Whole-Slide Analysis of Murine Xenografts Experiments

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
pp. 627-631
Author(s):  
Abigail R. Bland ◽  
John C. Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Cell Death ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Cell Counting ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Core ◽  
Necrotic Region ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Image Analysis Techniques ◽  
Immunohistochemical Analyses ◽  
Animal Models Of Cancer

Histochemistry of tumor sections is a widely employed technique utilized to examine cell death in preclinical xenograft animal models of cancer. However, this is under the assumption that tumors are homogeneous, leading to practices such as automatic cell counting across the entire section. We have noted that in our experiments the core of the tumor is largely or partially necrotic, and lacks evidence of vascularization (in contrast to the outer areas of the tumor). We note that this can bias and confound immunohistochemical analyses that do not take care to sample areas of interest in a way to take this into account. Design-based stereology with image analysis techniques is an alternative process that could be used to measure the volume of the necrotic region compared to the volume of the whole tumor.

scholarly journals Constructions with the verb EITI ‘to go’ in the 16th century Lithuanian writings

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Agnė Lisauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Frame Semantics ◽  
The Core ◽  
Motion State ◽  
The World ◽  
Motion Verb ◽  
Considerable Body

This research investigates the semantics and the structure of the constructions with the verb eiti ‘to go’ extracted from the old Lithuanian written texts, dating back to the 16th century. It aims to examine the meanings and the structure of the constructions that contain the motion verb eiti ‘to go’ within their structure. There is a considerable body of research investigating various aspects of motion verbs in different languages of the world, including Lithuanian. However, no studies have so far targeted constructions with the verb eiti ‘to go’, found in the 16th century Lithuanian writings. The present study is based on the qualitative content analysis, quantitative analysis, and frame semantics methodology. The concordances of the Lithuanian texts have been filtered out from the Database of Old Writings digitalised by the Institute of the Lithuanian Language. The examples were taken from Martynas Mažvydas’ Katekizmas (MžK) and Forma krikštymo (MžF), Jonas Bretkūnas’ Biblija (BB), Giesmės Duchaunos (BG), Kancionalas (BKa) and Kolektos (BKo), Mikalojus Daukša’s Katekizmas (DK) and Postilė (DP).The frames of Motion, State, Law, Eternity, Service, Opposition, Law, etc., evoked by the selected constructions, were examined using the frame semantics (FrameNet Project). The research has shown that the current constructions with the motion verb eiti ‘to go’ can form the core of the mentioned frames. The observation that has emerged from this analysis is that some meanings of the analysed constructions are conserved in the current Lithuanian language while others have already disappeared. This work could be useful for historical linguists.

Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Rhoda Olkin
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Attitudes Toward Disability ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Explicit Bias ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter is a review of the relevant literature on effecting changes in attitudes and behaviors toward people with disabilities. It begins with a discussion of the goals of the book and the activities in the book. There is discussion of the relationship between attitudes and behaviors, and whether a change in one is followed by a change in the other. The core research about the bases of attitudes toward disability and attitude change is reviewed. The move in the past few decades from attention to implicit bias to focus on explicit bias is highlighted. The rationale for not using simulation exercises is provided, as well as the social underpinnings of the activities.

Instrumentation-Driven Model Detection and Actor Partitioning for Dataflow Graphs

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Chukhman ◽  
Shuoxin Lin ◽  
William Plishker ◽  
Chung-Ching Shen ◽  
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Legacy Systems ◽  
Dataflow Graphs ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Legacy Code ◽  
The Core ◽  
Systems On Chip ◽  
Dataflow Model ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Dataflow Models

Dataflow modeling offers a myriad of tools to improve optimization and analysis of signal processing applications, and is often used by designers to help design, implement, and maintain systems on chip for signal processing. However, maintaining and upgrading legacy systems that were not originally designed using dataflow methods can be challenging. Designers often convert legacy code to dataflow graphs by hand, a process that can be difficult and time consuming. In this paper, the authors developed a method to facilitate this conversion process by automatically detecting the dataflow models of the core functions from bodies of legacy code. They focus first on detecting static dataflow models, such as homogeneous and synchronous dataflow, and then present an extension that can also detect dynamic dataflow models. Building on the authors’ algorithms for dataflow model detection, they present an iterative actor partitioning process that can be used to partition complex actors into simpler sub-functions that are more prone to analysis techniques.

For the love of our children: an Indigenous connectedness framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Saniguq Ullrich
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Child Wellbeing ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Indigenous Child ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Spiritual Connectedness ◽  
Ways Of Life

This article draws on Indigenous literature to develop a conceptual framework that makes visible Indigenous child wellbeing. A process of qualitative content analysis identified and examined the core concepts and mechanisms of Indigenous wellbeing. Central to the framework is the concept of connectedness. The premise of this article is that deepening our understanding of Indigenous connectedness can assist with the restoration of knowledge and practices that promote child wellbeing. When children are able to engage in environmental, community, family, intergenerational and spiritual connectedness, this contributes to a synergistic outcome of collective wellbeing. The Indigenous Connectedness Framework may be particularly useful to Indigenous communities that directly serve children. The hope is that communities can adapt the Indigenous Connectedness Framework to their particular history, culture, stories, customs and ways of life.

Conceptualization of the acidification theory in Swedish environmental research

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Gunilla Ôberg ◽  
Karin Bäckstrand
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Review System ◽  
The Core ◽  
System A ◽  
Chain Of Evidence ◽  
Hidden Patterns ◽  
Empirical Material

The aim of the present study was to describe and analyse the process of formulating the acidification theory in the Swedish research community. The empirical material was limited to articles written by Swedish researchers during the period 1950–1989 and published in international scientific journals utilizing a peer-review system. A model was developed to represent what Swedish researchers have regarded as the core of the acidification theory. Guided by the developed model, a qualitative content analysis of the scientific articles was conducted; i.e., we examined how central components and causal relationships of the theory have been explained and discussed. It should be emphasized that the present article describes an investigation of science itself (i.e., science in action) and is not an up-to-date review of acidification research. Our analysis revealed that some parts of the chain of evidence underlying the acidification theory were accepted before they were scrutinized by the scientific community and that the acidification complex was not conceptualized in accordance with the conceptualization of its various components. Actually, the acidification problem as a whole (i.e., the sum of all of its components) was not treated as a scientific theory that needed to be evaluated. This strongly indicates that the conceptualization was guided by factors that are generally, within the scientific community, considered to be external to the research process. There is no evidence that Swedish acidification research has adhered less stringently to scientific norms than environmental research in general has. Indeed, it is likely that such hidden patterns normally influence the conceptualization of science and we, therefore, conclude that the influence of factors that are not strictly a part of the research process must be further elucidated if the prerequisites and implications of research are to be clarified.Key words: scientific conceptualization, research process, acidification.

scholarly journals Illness Experiences and Attitudes towards Medication in Online Communities for People with Fibromyalgia

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 8683
Author(s):  
Sabrina Cipolletta ◽  
Silvia Caterina Maria Tomaino ◽  
Eliana Lo Magno ◽  
Elena Faccio
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Fibromyalgia Syndrome ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
Core Category ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Fibromyalgia is a chronic disabling syndrome, and the legitimacy of its diagnosis is still debated. Internet and online communities may become a relevant resource for affected people. This present study aims to understand the role of online communities relating to fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients’ illness experiences and their attitudes towards medication. A qualitative content analysis based on the grounded theory approach was conducted on 19 conversations from an online forum, and 14 online interviews. Illness experience, lack of reference points, online communities, personal role and attitude towards medication were the five categories identified, with the search for recognition as the core category. The study highlighted that online communities represent a resource that allows users to express and share their needs, especially in terms of legitimacy and recognition.

JAPANESE STRATEGIC DOCUMENTS: CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM GUIDELINES

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (30) ◽  
pp. 102-124
Author(s):  
Martina HECZKO ◽  
Josef SMOLÍK
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Collective Defense ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
Relationship Model ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Qualitative Part

The development and direction of Japan’s security policy is a topic of strategic importance in the region of East Asia, especially in the light of recent development of reinterpretation of the pacifist Constitution in terms of collective defense and its exercise. The aim of this article was to reveal and analyze trends and dissimilarities in Japan’s security policy after the end of the Cold War through the use of both quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The objects of the analysis were four subsequent revisions of National Defense Program Guidelines, a basic strategic document, from years 1995, 2004, 2010 and 2013. The first quantitative part revealed significant security concepts, which the strategic documents concentrated most on and their changes over time. The second qualitative part provided for a complex relationship model of security policy and influencing categories, and their gradual development in time.

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