scholarly journals Optimization of Reproducing the Set Breathing Rhythm During a Cardiorespiratory Synchronism Test

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Polishchuk ◽  
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Marina A. Chelyadinova ◽  
Timur R. Gubaydullin
Keyword(s):  
Reference Group ◽  
Main Group ◽  
Instructional Video ◽  
Adaptive Capabilities ◽  
Cardiorespiratory Synchronism ◽  
Sensorimotor Reaction ◽  
Light Stimuli ◽  
Exact Reproduction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Study Participants

This article analyses optimization guidelines for assessment of human regulatory and adaptive capabilities (RAC) using the cardiorespiratory synchronism (CRS) method. The study participants aged 19 ± 1 were randomized into two groups: main group (n = 30) and reference group (n = 30). In the main group, before conducting the CRS tests, a number of techniques were applied to facilitate reproduction of the set breathing rhythm by the subject: relieving one hand from the ECG electrode by recording a single lead (II or III), which is sufficient to monitor heart rate, for the subjectʼs convenience (with detecting motor asymmetry of the hemispheres); viewing an instructional video showing the algorithm of the upcoming test to the subject; ideomotor training; detecting the latent period of a simple sensorimotor reaction to sound and light stimuli as a preparation for the test. The degree of correspondence between the reproduced and the set breathing rhythms in the main group was 47.0 ± 15.7 % (M ± SD), which is higher than in the reference group. The maximum number of exact respiratory cycles repeated in a row in the first test also demonstrated the advantages of the main group, where this indicator was 10.3 ± 3.4 cycles. The number of respiratory cycles from the beginning of the first test to the exact reproduction of the set rhythm decreased in the main group compared to the reference group by 76.3 %. The correlation analysis revealed no relationship between RAC and the accuracy of breathing rhythm reproduction (correlation coefficient was −0.115 at p = 0.536). Testing duration in the reference group significantly (p < 0.001 according to Mann–Whitney U-test) exceeded that in the main group (by 10.2 min). Thus, the research demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed techniques for optimizing the CRS test, which can contribute to an even wider spread of this method.

Two Cylices relating to the Exploits of Theseus

1889 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane E. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
General Consideration ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
Interesting Paper ◽  
Exact Reproduction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Made In

The subject of the exploits of Theseus as seen on Greek vase-paintings has recently been treated by Professor Milani in a long and interesting paper in the Museo Italiano di antichità classica (iii. 1, p. 236). I propose therefore to set aside all general consideration of the myth and its typography, and to confine myself to the discussion and elucidation of two hitherto unpublished vases (plates I., II.), one of them included in Professor Milani's list, one entirely unknown to him, and both, as I hope to show, having strong claims on the attention of archaeologists. They are (1) a red-figured vase, which for convenience sake I shall call from its owner the Tricoupi cylix; (2) the fragments of a red-figured cylix from the De Luynes collection in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.1. The Tricoupi cylix, plate I. When I was in Athens in the spring of 1888, Miss Tricoupi with her accustomed kindness, so familiar to all visitors to Athens, allowed me to examine at my leisure her brother's collection of antiquities. I found to my surprise that it contained a vase which I have reason to believe is from the hand of Duris, and of which, so far as I am aware, no mention has been made in the numerous discussions of vases dealing with the exploits of Theseus, and which therefore, I suppose to be entirely unknown. I record here my grateful thanks to Miss Tricoupi for her kind permission to publish the vase, and for her goodness in facilitating its exact reproduction. The drawing from which plate I. is facsimiled was made for me by M. Gilliéron under my own personal supervision, and I can therefore vouch for its perfect accuracy. I was specially anxious to secure its.immediate publication as, though the vase is at present in such safe hands, the security of antiquities in private collections is always precarious.

scholarly journals Ethical Development of Artificial Amniotic Sac and Placenta Technology: A Roadmap

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Verweij ◽  
Lien De Proost ◽  
Judith O. E. H. van Laar ◽  
Lily Frank ◽  
Sylvia A. Obermann-Borstn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Value Sensitive Design ◽  
Ethical Development ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Study Participants

In this paper we present an initial roadmap for the ethical development and eventual implementation of artificial amniotic sac and placenta technology in clinical practice. We consider four elements of attention: (1) framing and societal dialogue; (2) value sensitive design, (3) research ethics and (4) ethical and legal research resulting in the development of an adequate moral and legal framework. Attention to all elements is a necessary requirement for ethically responsible development of this technology. The first element concerns the importance of framing and societal dialogue. This should involve all relevant stakeholders as well as the general public. We also identify the need to consider carefully the use of terminology and how this influences the understanding of the technology. Second, we elaborate on value sensitive design: the technology should be designed based upon the principles and values that emerge in the first step: societal dialogue. Third, research ethics deserves attention: for proceeding with first-in-human research with the technology, the process of recruiting and counseling eventual study participants and assuring their informed consent deserves careful attention. Fourth, ethical and legal research should concern the status of the subject in the AAPT. An eventual robust moral and legal framework for developing and implementing the technology in a research setting should combine all previous elements. With this roadmap, we emphasize the importance of stakeholder engagement throughout the process of developing and implementing the technology; this will contribute to ethically and responsibly innovating health care.

scholarly journals Profiled physical education: methodological basis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 326-330
Author(s):  
Sergei Semenovich Korovin
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Functional Capabilities ◽  
Adaptive Capabilities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Personal Needs ◽  
Culture Development

The relevance of the presented material is due to the need to resolve the contradiction between the social need for human capital reproduction and creation and the insufficient methodological substantiation of the value potential of professional physical culture and profiled physical education in the upbringing of the essential cultural characteristics of the professionals personality as a subject of human capital. The subject of the research is the characteristics of profiled physical education components, while the goal is the methodological substantiation of profiled physical education in the upbringing of culturological characteristics of the professionals personality. It is shown that the methodological basis was formed by the personality-oriented and cultural approaches to the organization of educational processes. It has been substantiated that in the reproduction of human capital one of the leading places is given to the values of professional physical culture with the targeted use of which an optimal ratio is achieved in correcting the bodily-mental-spiritual conditions of a person, his professionally important motor and personal needs and abilities. The author approves the statement that their quality-quantity reflects the development of the individuals professional physical culture, the manifestation of the basic culture of the subject and, in general, characterizes the quality of human capital. It is shown that one of the fundamental types of professional physical culture is profiled physical culture education as a specially organized and specific pedagogical process of development, training and education of professionally significant value orientations, motor and personal needs and abilities of the professionals personality. It is substantiated that the structure of profiled physical education is represented by the following components: profiled physical education, upbringing and development, the implementation of which ensures the proper complexity and comprehensiveness in the development of the essential culturological characteristics of the professionals personality as a subject of human capital. The author claims that the main tasks of profiled physical education are the development of socially correct behavior experience; teaching professionally important (applied) motor skills and abilities; mastering the system of professionally oriented physical culture and sports knowledge and skills of physical culture self-improvement. Profiled physical education has the task of bringing the system of professionally important motor qualities to the proper state; reproduction and maintenance of professionally important personal properties and qualities; formation of a system of needs and motives in professionally oriented physical culture and sports self-improvement. Profiled physical culture development provides a solution to the problems of optimizing the main professionally important adaptive capabilities; correction of physical development and professionally important functional capabilities; development of professionally important mental processes and their types.

scholarly journals Analysis of leech therapy effects in patients with chronic apical periodontitis

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-85
Author(s):  
AI Abdullaeva ◽  
AG Prityko ◽  
PA Voronin ◽  
EG Mikhailova
Keyword(s):  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Main Group ◽  
Apical Periodontitis ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Gingival Index ◽  
Treatment Regimens ◽  
Pain Scores ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Novel Therapeutic

Chronic apical periodontitis (CAP) is characterized by tissue inflammation around the tooth tip. Unstable outcomes of current treatments against CAP dictate the need for novel therapeutic techniques and medications. The aim of this study was to analyzed the effects of hirudotherapy on the treatment course in patients with CAP. Forty-one study participants aged 25 to 40 years were divided into the main group (20 patients) and the control group (21 patients). Pain level and the gingival index (GI) were measured in all study participants. During the first visit, pain scores did not differ significantly between the control (5.81 ± 0.65) and the main (5.75 ± 0.92) groups. During the second visit, pain was almost unnoticeable in the main group patients (1.05 ± 0.34), whereas pain scores were higher in the control group (4.10 ± 0.7). Our findings suggest a positive effect of hirudotherapy used in combination with standard treatment regimens.

scholarly journals The «cut-off point» of vitamin D: a method of suppressing excessive secretion of PTH

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmila A. Suplotova ◽  
Valeria A. Avdeeva ◽  
Ekaterina A. Pigarova ◽  
Liudmila Ya. Rozhinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin D ◽  
Roc Analysis ◽  
Vitamin D Levels ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Excessive Secretion ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Pth Level

BACKGROUND: The subject of discussion is the issue of the separation point, which determines sufficient levels of vitamin D for bone health. When determining the adequate reference range of vitamin D, researchers are mainly guided by the results of research, where the level of 25(OH)D is determined, at which the PTH level decreases and reaches a plateau. AIM: To establish the cut-off point of vitamin D by suppressing excessive secretion of PTH. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Observational, single-site, single-stage, selective, uncontrolled study of the search for vitamin D levels by the effect on PTH secretion in residents of Tyumen region was conducted (n = 176). All selected study participants determined the level of 25(OH)D and PTH in serum. The calculation of the cut-off point was carried out using the method of searching for changes in the correlation dependence of PTH on the level of vitamin D, followed by verification of the data obtained using ROC analysis. RESULTS: A mathematical analysis of the dependence of 25(OH)D and PTH showed the cut-off point of vitamin D, equal to 23.6 ng/ml. CONCLUSION: The cut-off point of 23.6 ng/ml is optimal for suppressing excessive PTH secretion. The data obtained may be an incentive for further working out the cut-off point of vitamin D for the Russian population and can be used to clarify the classification of deficiency, insufficiency and optimal levels of vitamin D for the population of the Russian Federation.

The subject who thinks economically? Comparative money subjectivities in neoliberal context

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Joanne Verdouw
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Life Goals ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Life Values ◽  
Study Participants

Theoretically, neoliberalism is acknowledged as a powerful, discursive mode of governmentality, whose key tenets widely influence sociological discourses around the role of money in attaining quality of life and happiness. However, few studies qualitatively reflect in any detail on how neoliberalism is implicated in the making of particular subjectivities. In this comparative study, participants from different income contexts (middle and low income, and downshifters) are interviewed about money meanings with attention to the particular ways of living they narrate. The findings attest to participant adoption of, and/or resistance to, lay forms of neoliberalism in the ordering of their subjectivities around key themes: life values, life goals, monetary boundaries and future understandings. Their stories show the prevalence of the neoliberal subject and clarify the practical limits of neoliberal discourses, as well as demonstrating how moral alternatives to neoliberalism can transform self-understanding and practice.

A Flawed Construct? Understanding and Unpicking the Concept of Resilience in the Context of Economic Hardship

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Hickman
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Individual Resilience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Study Participants

Increasingly, the construct of resilience has been used by social scientists and (social) policy makers in relation to individual resilience to economic hardship. There are a number of issues within the literature on the subject that are unresolved including: whether it is an attribute or a process; the extent to which resilience is a positive phenomenon; the extent to which individuals living in economic hardship have agency; and whether it is finite. The article unpacks these issues, drawing on qualitative data from a longitudinal study in Northern Ireland. It found resilience to be a negative experience for study participants, although they did exhibit a number of attributes that may be described as being positive. They were often unable to exercise ‘positive’, transformative agency, because the choices available were limited and pernicious in nature. The article concludes that as an analytical tool for exploring the experiences of people living in economic hardship, the construct of resilience is not helpful.

scholarly journals Young people are not blameworthy: the generation’s awareness of COVID-19 and behavioral responses

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Pyo Jun ◽  
Hyoung Sun Yoo ◽  
Chul Lee
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Internet Searches ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractAt a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has been ongoing for more than a year, young people have been the subject of vigilant scrutiny and criticism regarding their active engagement in social activities. We posed the question of whether young people's response to COVID-19 was different from that of other generations and analyzed awareness and behavior to investigate this question. Specifically, we examined internet searches for information on COVID-19 and credit card consumption in South Korea among young people in their 20s and compared them to a reference group of people in their 50s. Our research has confirmed that there was no statistically significant difference between young people and the reference group in this regard. Furthermore, in the 25 sub-sectors of industry we examined, young people's consumption activities recovered significantly faster than the reference group in only three sub-sectors. This study demonstrated that young people showed stronger interest than the reference group in their response to COVID-19, and that they cooperated with the government’s social distancing policy by reducing their activities. Through this study, we presented a scientific approach for evaluating young people in regard to their response to COVID-19, offering useful implications for designing appropriate policies for public health.

scholarly journals The relationship between social sharing sites users’ personality beliefs and purposes of using social sharing sites of university student’s

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cemaliye Direktor ◽  
Cahit Nuri ◽  
Zihniye Okray ◽  
Anjelika Huseyinzade Simsek
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Private University ◽  
Narcissistic Personality ◽  
Site Use ◽  
Subject Variables ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Sharing ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Personality Beliefs

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between site use intentions and personality beliefs of social network users. The Education faculty students at a private university in North Cyprus were informed about the research and the questionnaires were applied by the researchers to volunteer students. From total of 198 students, 143 (72.2%) were females and 55 (27.8%) males. Socio-demographic Information Form and Personality Belief Scale were used. The results show that participants who reported political opinion had significantly higher scores of schizoid, antisocial and narcissistic personality beliefs than those who did not. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to predict personality beliefs of purpose, sharing and profile information. When the t-test is examined, it is seen that commenting on only the shares of the subject variables is a significant predictor of the narcissistic personality belief. In this study, participants who have narcissistic, passive-aggressive, paranoid and antisocial personality beliefs usually and more frequently share songs on social networks. Keywords: Belief, personality, social networks, university students, social sharing.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Media Video Pembelajaran Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial pada Siswa Sekolah Dasar

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (02) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Friendha Yuanta
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Instructional Video ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Learning Resource ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
Class Iv

Development of instructional media for learning valid and effective video learning media as a learning resource for social studies learning in grade IV elementary school. The development of this instructional video media uses the ASSURE model which has 6 stages: (1) analysis of students, (2) determining learning objectives, (3) choosing methods, media and materials, (4) using media and materials, (5) encouraging participation students, (6) evaluation and improvement. The subject of the development of this instructional video media is Grade IV students of SDN Pakis V. The development of this video media is declared valid to be used in social studies learning in class IV. This is obtained from the results of the validation of media experts, material experts, individual students, small groups, large groups / classical. After testing the experts and testing the students then conducted trials aimed at learning effectiveness using this instructional video media. Test results obtained in the use of instructional video media show that students have succeeded in getting grades above the specified KKM. Thus it can be denied that this instructional video learning media is effective for use in the learning process. Keywords: media development, video learning, social studies.

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