scholarly journals Field Observation on the Relationship between Topognsphy and Living Conditions of Marine Organisms in Man-made Rocky Coast

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Masao Inoue ◽  
Hiroaki Shimada ◽  
Hidetada Sakurai ◽  
Tadashi Tetsukawa
Keyword(s):  
Field Observation ◽  
Marine Organisms ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Rocky Coast ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Individual quality of life and the environment – towards a concept of livable areas for persons with disabilities in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Grabowska ◽  
Radosław Antczak ◽  
Jan Zwierzchowski ◽  
Tomasz Panek
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [1] highlights the need to create proper socioeconomic and political conditions for persons with disabilities, with a special focus on their immediate living conditions. According to the Convention, these conditions should be built to ensure that persons with disabilities have the potential to enjoy a high quality of life (QoL), and this principle is reflected in the notion of livable areas. The crucial aspect of this framework is the relationship between the individual QoL and the environment, broadly understood as the socioeconomic as well as the technical conditions in which persons with disabilities function. Methods The basic research problem was to assess the relationship between individual QoL for the population with disabilities as a dependent variable and livability indicators as independent variables, controlling for individual characteristics. The study used a dataset from the EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) survey carried out in 2015 in Poland. The research concept involved several steps. First, we created a variable measuring the QoL for the entire population with disabilities. To measure the multidimensional QoL, we used Sen’s capability approach as a general concept, which was operationalized by the MIMIC (multiple indicators multiple causes) model. In the second step, we identified the livability indicators available in the official statistics, and merged them with survey data. Finally, in the last step, we ran the regression analysis. We also checked the data for the nested structure. Results We confirmed that the general environmental conditions, focused on creating livable areas, played a significant role in shaping the QoL of persons with disabilities; i.e., we found that the higher the level of the local Human Development Index, the higher the quality of life of the individuals living in this area. This relationship held even after controlling for the demographic characteristics of the respondents. Moreover, we found that in addition to the general environmental conditions, the conditions created especially for persons with disabilities (i.e., services for this group and support for their living conditions) affected the QoL of these individuals. Conclusions The results illustrate the need to strengthen policies aimed at promoting the QoL of persons with disabilities by creating access to community assets and services that can contribute to improving the life chances of this population.

Incest Offences and Alcoholism

1974 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Virkkunen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Sexual Attitude ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alcoholic Drinks ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
At Home

The purpose of this study was to clarify whether alcoholic incest offenders differ from other criminals who commit these offences. The series consisted of 45 cases of incest, of which 22 cases (48.9 per cent) gave an indication of alcoholism in the offender. The alcoholics showed more evidence of previous criminal offences, and this was especially true when considering acts of violence only. The alcoholics had also exhibited more often than the others aggressive features at home before the detection of incest. Statistically, significant differences were not arrived at as to depression, psychotic disturbances, intellectual defects, problems of jealousy, psychiatric hospitalization, and earlier sexual behaviour. The spouse had a rejective sexual attitude towards the offender in alcoholic cases more frequently than in other cases. The cause of this appeared to be mainly disgust at the abuse of alcoholic drinks and its consequences, as well as the result of a large family and/or poor living conditions. In more than half of the cases of incest in both groups actual intercourse had taken place. Generally, the relationship had, however, started by only touching sexual organs and so forth. According to the offender the victim had shown activity in one-third of the cases of alcoholics. The alcoholic offender tended to be under the influence of alcohol at least at the beginning of the relationship more often than the non-alcoholic person. Offences or an offence were reported by the victim or the offender's spouse in the cases of alcoholics more often than in the other cases; then the informer was usually an outsider. However, the victim's and the spouse's fear of the offender was one reason for concealment when the alcoholics were involved.

Resilient Cyborgs

Extrapolation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-268
Author(s):  
María Ferrández-Sanmiguel
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Space ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Relationship

This article reads Pat Cadigan’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Synners (1991) from the perspectives of trauma studies and posthumanism to analyze the representation of the cyborged (post)human in cyberspace. My main focus is Cadigan’s depiction of a posttraumatic world whose living conditions invite escape, and how this depiction emphasizes the fact that escape through technological transcendence is not an option, and neither is the rejection of technology altogether. Despite this bleak scenario, the novel leaves some room for optimism in the figuration of a posthuman form of resilience, inspiring reflection about future forms of engagement with technology. As this article attempts to prove, Synners uses the tropes of the cyborg and cyberspace to explore the implications of subjectivity and embodiment within technoscience. In so doing, the novel opens a critical space for interrogation of the relationship between trauma, the posthuman body, and digital technology.

scholarly journals The Call for Sustainable and Resilient Policies in the COVID-19 Crisis: How Can They Be Interpreted and Implemented?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6466
Author(s):  
Ortwin Renn
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Policy Advice ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Distribution Rules ◽  
Fair Distribution ◽  
Inclusive Governance ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

Policy advice for dealing with the Corona Crisis has been focusing on two major concepts: resilience and sustainability. The paper explores the relationship between the two terms, illustrates the various concepts that are associated with each term, and suggests an integrative approach that is based on the ideal of maintaining critical services for reaching humane living conditions for present and future generations based on fair distribution rules and inclusive governance processes.

Housing satisfaction in a traditional neighborhood of Izmit, Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-266
Author(s):  
Nevnihal Erdogan ◽  
Pınar Kisa Ovali ◽  
Özgur Kayapinar
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Housing Satisfaction ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to investigate housing satisfaction in a traditional neighborhood of Izmit, Turkey. According to this purpose, it was investigated whether the perceived living conditions (PLC) were mediating the effect on participants’ general housing satisfaction caused by satisfaction with the perceived quality of facilities (FQP), satisfaction with performance of local authorities (LA), satisfaction with social relations (SR) and satisfaction with physical surrounding (PS) in the Topçular neighborhood of Izmit District in Kocaeli, Turkey. Design/methodology/approach According to the hypotheses developed within the framework of the theoretical model, by using structural equation modeling (SEM), first, the direct relations between the variables were tested (PLC → overall housing satisfaction (OHS); PS, SR, LA → PLC; FQP → LA), then the indirect relationships between the variables were analyzed with the mediated role of OHS (PS, SR, LA → OHS → PLC). Findings The results show that all factors affected the OHS through the PLC. In conclusion, as the living conditions of the individual living in the neighborhood improve, the conditions take an active role in the relationship between the OHS and the satisfaction with the other relevant factors in the neighborhood, namely, PS, SR and performance of LA. In this relationship, it is seen that the satisfaction with PS has a negative effect, while the satisfaction with SR and satisfaction with the performance of LA have positive effects. Research limitations/implications The study was applied only to Turkey’s Izmit Province. Research may also be applied to other cities apart from those in Turkey. A small sample was also used in the study. Reaching a wider sampling for SEM can lead to different results. Practical implications Planners and designers should consider satisfaction – including various factors involved in planning, designing and refurbishing the neighborhoods – as the most important design data. Social implications The results of this study show that living conditions had an active role in the relationship between OHS and certain factors in the neighborhood: satisfaction with PS, SR and performance of LA. This study offers a framework to LA such as policymakers and urban planners to develop relevant and effective strategies and to improve dissatisfactory conditions in new and peripheral areas. Originality/value The originality of the paper is based on revealing the factors affecting the housing satisfaction of people living in the province of Izmit. This study offers a framework to LA such as policymakers and urban planners to develop relevant and effective strategies and to improve dissatisfactory conditions in new and peripheral areas.

scholarly journals O TRABALHO COMO CATEGORIA ONTOLÓGICA: UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DA OBRA CINEMATOGRÁFICA “EU, DANIEL BLAKE”

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Luis Henrique Zago ◽  
Neiva Solange Silva ◽  
Allan Alberto Ferreira ◽  
Rodrigo Lima Nunes ◽  
Irineu Aliprando Tuim Viotto Filho
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
Human Formation ◽  
Materialist Theory ◽  
The Relationship

This paper thematizework as an essential category in the human ontological process using as a figurative element of this theme the film "I, Daniel Blake", which is analyzed in the light of dialectical historical materialist theory. Throughout the text we address the relationship between biological and cultural aspects in human formation and development; the role of work as essential in the teleological process of building something not immediately given by nature; the liberating character of this activity which, unlike animals, prey to necessity, enables us to evolve beyond the immediate; the conditions of alienated labor as a threat to this freedom and the impacts of this form of expropriation on subjectivity. We discuss the current precariousness of the living conditions of the working classes. Strangeness as a causative element of conflict and suffering. The film “I Daniel Blake” demonstrates in an artistic way the situation of conflict and suffering experienced by many workers today.

scholarly journals Social reproduction and anemia in infancy

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fujimori ◽  
Luciane Simões Duarte ◽  
Áurea Tamami Minagawa ◽  
Daniela Laurenti ◽  
Rosali Maria Juliano Marcondes Montero
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Working And Living Conditions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This study assessed the relationship between anemia in infancy and the social reproduction profile of the families. It was conducted with a representative sample of 254 children of the city of Itupeva, SP. Hemoglobin < 11g/dL, determined by portable hemoglobin analyzer, was used to define anemia. Profiles of social reproduction had been built by 2 groups of indicators: working and living conditions. Three social homogeneous groups had been defined: upper, intermediate, lower. Anemia was prevalent in 41.7%, and more frequent in lower social groups (13.2%; 40.6%; 46.2%), but with no significant difference (p>0.05). However, profile of social reproduction of anemic families showed significant difference (p<0.05). Occurrence of anemia was related to poor working conditions in lower social groups and consequently inappropriate living conditions.

Tourism and valorisation of cultural heritage: The case of the Castle of Lanhoso

Tékhne ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
António Cerdeiras ◽  
Bruno Pinheiro ◽  
Laurentina Vareiro ◽  
Raquel Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Northern Portugal ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Given the relationship of sustainability and mutual benefits that tourism and cultural heritage can and should establish, the present study aims to reflect on the importance of the development of creative activities in the Castle of Lanhoso, in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso (in northern Portugal), as a form of promotion and tourism valorisation of this heritage classified as National Monument. In this context, the study intends to stimulate and streamline the processes of monetization and preservation of the Castle of Lanhoso, making it suitable for sustainable tourism economic activity with the purpose of improving the living conditions of the population, generating employment and revenues, increasing tourism demand, promoting and preserving the identity and the local cultural heritage.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF MATHEMATICAL APPARATU FOR THE METHODOLOGY OF EMERGENCY PREVENTION ON SOLID WASTE LANDFILL WITH TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (154) ◽  
pp. 100-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Rashkevich
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Analytical Dependence ◽  
Load Force ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Technological Equipment ◽  
Waste Landfill ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The landfill with technological equipment becomes a clear danger of emergencies. The dangerous factors of emergencies there is landslides of waste mass, explosion of biogas on technological equipment. Modern scientific research aimed at establishing the laws of soil mechanics, obtaining the maximum amount of methane in the biogas composition, an unresolved part of the problem of ensuring civil security is the lack of an adequate method of emergency prevention. In the course of research, by the author was developed a mathematical model of emergency prevention on solid waste landfill with technological equipment. The mathematical model consists of an equation that describes the number of casualties due to an emergency and an equation that describes the existence of solutions to separate problems of estimating the conditions for determining the density, humidity, temperature of the waste mass. The desired solution of a separate problem is an analytical dependence that describes the relationship of the density of the waste mass in accordance with the variation of the physical parameters of the load force, porosity, height of waste storage. The desired solution of a separate problem is an analytical dependence that describes the relationship of the humidity of the waste mass in accordance with the variation of the input and visible fluid flows, density. The desired solution of a separate problem is an analytical dependence that describes the relationship of the temperature of the waste mass in accordance with the variation of the amount of heat supplied, generated, discharged. The number of people affected by an emergency is less than the objective level of the effects of the hazard, and the number of people with impaired living conditions is less than or equal to the objective level. Emergency prevention involves a set of measures aimed at preventing an increase in the number of victims, casualties, and persons with impaired living conditions from an object level to a higher level. Keywords: solid waste landfill, emergency, temperature, humidity, density.

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