Wellness - Science topic

Ethical risk in procurement can include conflict of interest, fraud, corruption, and anything that prevents progress with regards to social, environmental, and economic outcomes

dear Zhonghe Pang,

it seems 500 C are reached in a well in Japan, at 3700 m depth.

See, Huang Hefu, study on deep geothermal drilling into a supercritical zone in iceland, report 2000, number 7, the united nations university.

Calculation:

% Alkalinity as NaOH = ml of std. H2SO4 solution consumed x 0.04 x 1.0 x 100 / Weight of sample

ml of standard H2SO4solution consumed = (15 ml - T.R. of 1.0 N NaOH)

Multi-sensory tourism is not a new one, it has been there for a long time in countries like India. It is more of experiential marketing to foster an increased understanding of tourist perceptions of and preferences for sensory stimuli in different destination environments. The sensory responses and reactions tend to concentrate on the five basic human senses – sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Ayurveda is one of the age-old multi-sensory and wellness tourism practised in India.

Hello Noemi Mocker

My searches have found these so far:

Zhong L, Deng B, Morrison AM, Coca-Stefaniak JA, Yang L. Medical, Health and Wellness Tourism Research-A Review of the Literature (1970-2020) and Research Agenda. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 16;18(20):10875. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182010875.

Béland D, Zarzeczny A. Medical tourism and national health care systems: an institutionalist research agenda. Global Health. 2018 Jul 16;14(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s12992-018-0387-0.

Park J, Ahn J, Yoo WS. The Effects of Price and Health Consciousness and Satisfaction on the Medical Tourism Experience. J Healthc Manag. 2017 Nov/Dec;62(6):405-417. doi: 10.1097/JHM-D-16-00016.

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I think many marketing agencies work to play on the emotions of their clients. Many on positive emotions, but some on negative emotions. That's how companies sell their products. In regard to "emotional well-being," I think in many cases companies take it into account. Offering after-sales services or guarantees are examples of this. Nowadays there are many other instruments.

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I humbly request your participation in an online survey that aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 PANDEMIC on the mental health and wellbeing of Adults. The research is based at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and led by Professor Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan. Your responses will help us make recommendations that may improve considerations for people’s wellness and well-being in this and future pandemics.

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Depends on age, level of today's preparedness, experience in sports in general and other types of martial arts in particular, motivation, material and technical base, time capabilities, individual characteristics of the body and much more.

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Interesting question....I think we can learn a lot from negative results.

I am Interested !

It is one of the research area I worked on in my MS dissertation. Well being and CRM.

I guess we work in same University. It would be nice to collaborate in one of the research area after discussion.

Email: shams-ul-hassan@comsats.edu.pk

Kind regards,

Shams

Yes and no. It strikes me as a bit humorous that we write to each other via high tech Internet groups, take planes to conferences where we then proceed to list only the failings in present and future science and technology.

When I was in the Ph.D. program in English with a husband who is an astronomer, I did encounter this view over and over. I mean, the saying that "Science will be the death of humanity."

I love the writing of Karel Capek, of course, and note that he combined much self-deprecating humor with his visions. This allows some distancing--maybe like Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt--between the writer and his didactic points. "Maybe I am wrong or we can do something about this before this not-too-funny thing occurs," Capek says in his witty way.

The ethos problem exists not just in scientists like Victor Frankenstein but in all powerful figures. Science doesn't exist in a vacuum tube to be approved or condemned.

Rather science, its findings or inventions are poured into a vessel of some kind of governing philosophy, monetary gain option, level of societal corruption, and pressure to conform to needs of the state. While some scientists grow rich and use their innovations for personal gain even when dangerous, others stay poor and try to give away helpful discoveries (Nicola Tesla). Why?

I like to interrogate positions and draw out the systems pulling on a subject from as many directions as possible just as the best SF does. One example I have used in class is Isaac Asimov's 1941 story "Nightfall." That story proposed the coming of "night," which nobody in the society understood because it occurred only once in a thousand years. (Still a unique plot.) The ways science is applied and the reactions of various groups in the society is both enlightening and very droll.

Poetry has been a constant source of deeper understanding for me - both reading, but more pertinently writing. During difficult times, when words and contact with people aren't enough writing allows me to express my thoughts in a way which is more me. Gerard Manley Hopkins and his thinking on 'inscape' was a lodestone to my well-being.

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Hi Sundara!

You can find information on how to extract temperature from satellite imagery using the thermal band here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.140.5218&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Information on how to convert a TIFF image to jpg (8-bit) using open-source software can be found here: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/143584/convert-a-tiff-float32-image-to-8bit-tif-or-jpeg-image-using-gdal-and-python

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Hope this is helpful...

Good luck!

Best regards,

Karolina

I appreciate the assistance Béatrice! I am trying to find full-text for the last two articles.

If you obtain information about measurement tools to assess and track reintergration it would be informative to post here. Thank you and I hope your research endeavors are productive.

You can apply quantum inspired swarm intelligence. Since quantum based applications are multi-faced in nature, the algorithm can cover multi-modal aspect of intrusion. Quantum PSO can be one suitable approach. You can also substantiate the proposal with some mathematical convergence proofs. You can refer to an article on Evolutionary PSO.

Hi Pradosh,

Please refer to my Surf. Sci. Rep. review for the detailed explanations about this question.

 Y. Gan*, Atomic- and Subnanometer Resolution in Ambient Conditions with Atomic Force Microscope, Surface Science Reports, 64 (2009), 99-121.

Here is the DOI link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfrep.2008.12.001.

This paper can also be downloaded from my RG website.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Yang

Hi Idheba,

You need to convert the nominal attributes into numeric ones. This also includes the class attribute. 

HTH. 

Samer

usually this depends on the concentration of your SYBR green reagent. too much SYBR green in your reaction greatly inhibit activity of polymerase and finally decrease your limit of detection

You want to read about:

- Franck-Condon factors

- molecular electronic excitation

- vibronic coupling

Dear Hadar,

I also would suggest using film clips that are validated to elicit a particular emotion with some specificity. If unsure, you may also run a pilot experiment if this is really the case.

Here are some further reads: 

(Moderately long) film clips are useful when you want to just elicit an emotion and measure the emotional response, but also if you have a rather short-lived task that you want to affectively prime afterwards. The emotional effect on a subsequent task will fade with time. 

If you are interested in priming a multitude of single trials of a subsequent task, e.g., over different within-subjects conditions and in a randomized fashion, then brief emotional primes might be better suited such as pictorial cues with short SOA. Regarding the latter, however, I would also go for sets that elicit particular emotions with some specificity (unless you are interested in broader valence- or arousal effects): e.g., a fear-specific subset of the IAPS (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21839700).

Best, Stefan 

Hi Maite! Hope things are well other than your background problem.

First of all, what types of plates are you using? Are they Nunc Maxisorp plates or other high protein capacity ELISA plates? We used casein in TBS (not TBST) for those plates since the manufacturer did studies on blocking agents and that was the best. I can send you the protocol if you like since the protein is not very soluble at neutral pH and it's a bit of a hassle.

Other than that, there are chronic viral infections which elicit immune complexes that strongly bind to ELISA plates despite methods to block them. The interaction is thought to be hydrophobic, so adding Tween or other proteins may or may not help. Is there any chance that there are immune complexes in your sera? I'm attaching some papers including one with a protocol that uses acidic pH to disaggregate the complexes prior to adding to the plate.

Good luck!

Chris

hi see my paper regarding resistance TB(MDR-TB)

Yeah I know sample peeling is possible but suppose if it is not there actually what measurements I am taking it just finishes in 2 Hr (30 min saturation, CV and LSV) so after that interval I want to replace my sample with different component. 

No peeling off have happened now? 

Hi,

although I had not the chance to see it for myself, i.e., watching the sequencing in action, etc., there are now numerous publications out that successfully demonstrate the application of the ONT MinION sequencer for various organisms. The references below focus on rather recent works, but really are just a small selection of what is going on in the field.

Most notably here are microorganisms (http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v12/n8/abs/nmeth.3444.html), but there is also a preprint on sequencing human-derived genomic DNA (http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/20/128835).

The MinION has also been used to sequence metagenomic data, i.e., DNA extracted from a microbial community rather than from isolates (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28327976).

Finally, multiple computational solutions have been developed to cope with the particularities of ONT data, i.e., increased error rates and increased length. These include work on mapping/aligning (http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-56970-3_5), error-correction (http://simpsonlab.github.io/2017/03/16/nanopolish-0.6/), or binning (https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/nar/gkx348; full disclaimer - I am the first author).

In terms of what read-lengths are achievable, you might want to have a look at http://lab.loman.net/2017/03/09/ultrareads-for-nanopore/.

Hope that helps.

Best,

Cedric

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Thanks for your suggestions. I will try heat denaturation. Supercoiling might be a problem.

The nearest epicentral distance is 14 km in JS2 well from 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake (Chia et al., 2002) according to published data or I'm wrong?

Professor Martin Christopher is very well known person in this field which is written a very cited article bout that. His model is very great, but this model developed in last decade.

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Hi Jia,

I agree with Cesare. They just don't do well after they got confluent once. Also I think if I remember the ATCC data sheet correctly they should only be used until P15 or so...we usually culture them in BME Medium incl 10% FCS &1% L-Glut, if u usually do u can of course add 1% Pen-Strep to the medium.

Good luck w/ your experiments.

Perhaps you need to try and devise a way to dry or lyophilize the nanoparticle.  If this has never been done before, this is a potential publication.  

G. Lowe - Health related effects of creative and expressing writing- Health Edu 2006

J Warren, MM Morgan,...- Breathing words slowly: creative writing and couselor self-care the writing workout-Journal of Creativity-Taylor & Francis 2010

JW Pennebaker- Writing about emotional experiences as a therapeutic process- 1997 Sage

As a teacher of Medical Humanities, the process of creative writing and wellbeing is an interesting topic

already have a glance on these articles. Any one who work on animals, birds or others similar living organisms, needs their help. 

Hello,

Please find attached paper will helpful for you,

All the well wishes for your endeavor,

Hi,

Please find attached some articles for your literature.

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of course I am interested. kindly provide me details and procedures

Sanjeev Bansal,

I can answer this question from my own experience. Twelve years ago, I started up a team benchmark for wellness at the company I have worked for the past 23 years.  The wellness program started out as a pilot project offering in a lottery fashion to a few groups of employees.  The first 100 out of 3400 employees got in with a free plan for one year. The idea was to sell it to those in leadership by offering them a plush plan at a very plush gym in Dallas Texas.  Other staff was offered low discounts at area Gyms in the City on contract with the company. Since this was over 10 years ago, it has changed drastically in favor for the company as well as the employees.  In the first two years, the organizations' CEO was proud to report a savings in health care claims for $4M, and a reduction of absenteeism which is also a cost saving for the company.

 Current day activities include training, and healthy lifestyles practices are utilized through other vendor companies. In addition to that, the company saves by doing business with a variety of HMOs.  The employees are taking advantage of an A La Carte of motivating health services (e.g., weight loss programs, fitness training, seminars, webinars, monetary incentives for success point systems, etc). In addition, the cost savings has made allowances for the success of the human capital department (HR) which is the administering and managing the program. ). Although, I was not offered a position in the second startup, I am pleased to know the idea came from me.

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Hello Affiqka

On-line, the instrument that you mention seems to be for sale, rather than readily available, but one of the authors is a RG member and could perhaps help?

Sears, L. E., Agrawal, S., Sidney, J. A., Castle, P. H., Rula, E. Y., Coberley, C. R., ... & Harter, J. K. (2014). The Well-Being 5: development and validation of a diagnostic instrument to improve population well-being. Population health management, 17(6), 357-365.

Very best wishes

Mary

Thank you for your answer! I understand there is more in this than I excpected from the beginning. I wonder about the variables recieved by the more consumer-based activity monitors and whether their variables are valid compared to activity monitors such as ActiGraph. 

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I was involved with a bit of research on this topic about 15 years ago. While I appreciate the importance of quantitative studies on the topic, there are so many variables that it may be difficult to really draw many conclusions. I think it's important to contextualize and localize any studies you find.

For example, climate affects volunteering for seniors in a northern city (Canada) with a lot of snow and long winters, often making them more homebound or at risk for falls themselves. In smaller cities and towns, there may be transportation considerations that prevent seniors who no longer drive from being able to be as mobile and available for volunteering. And of course there are gender differences.

The other point I would like to suggest you consider is: what is volunteering? Gender plays a role here -- many older women provide a great deal of care to neighbours and those in their social networks but may not be doing so in the context of a formal community agency. My own disciplinary focus might consider such activities to be volunteering, but the women themselves might not necessarily name it that way.

Good luck with your project and I hope you are able to find the studies you need. Sorry I wasn't able to directly answer your question.

In psychology  it is so but I'll back up with references: 

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volume 55, Issue 5, pages 539–551, May 1999

The hope construct, will, and ways: Their relations with self-efficacy, optimism, and general well-being

Philip R. Magaletta andJ. M. Oliver

"findings suggest that will, ways, self-efficacy, and optimism are related but not identical constructs"

Self-efficacy and psychological well-being of wheelchair tennis participants and wheelchair nontennis participants.

Greenwood, C. Michael; Dzewaltowski, David A.; French, Ron

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, Vol 7(1), Jan 1990, 12-21.

Investigated the relationships among sport participation, self-efficacy, and psychological well-being in 127 wheelchair-mobile (WM) individuals. 87 WM competitive tennis players (TPs) and 40 WM nonparticipants (NPs) in sports or exercise completed (1) wheelchair tennis and wheelchair mobility self-efficacy scales formulated according to A. Bandura's  recommendations and (2) the Profile of Mood States. TPs were more positive in mood than NPs, who displayed high levels of anger and fatigue. Compared with NPs, TPs were more confident about their capability to perform tennis skills and general wheelchair mobility tasks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Partly the answer to your question above is contingent on your research question--what you want to learn from participants.  Spiritual well-being would be a much tighter and more objective, hence easily measured, variable as Cinar indicates. This is particularly true for a quantitative study. Spirituality is a broader construct that can have many aspects such as spiritual beliefs, spiritual behaviors, spiritual support, etc. It would be better measured quantitatively with a scale, though both can be (and have been) scaled. Spirituality also does not preclude suffering which would be one antithesis of spiritual well-being.

Hello Valerie

Some of these papers discuss job satisfaction rather than career satisfaction, as did quite a few that I looked at; career satisfaction suggests a longer term view of a chosen occupation? But job satisfaction could be correlated with psychological well-being at work?

This paper is available on Researchgate:

Parasuraman, S., Purohit, Y. S., Godshalk, V. M., & Beutell, N. J. (1996). Work and family variables, entrepreneurial career success, and psychological well-being. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 48(3), 275-300.

Faragher, E. B., Cass, M., & Cooper, C. L. (2005). The relationship between job satisfaction and health: a meta-analysis. Occupational and environmental medicine, 62(2), 105-112.

The above paper references this paper, also available on ResearchGate:

Sousa-Poza, A., & Sousa-Poza, A. A. (2000). Well-being at work: a cross-national analysis of the levels and determinants of job satisfaction. The journal of socio-economics, 29(6), 517-538.

Very best wishes

Mary

Thanks for your insightful comments and questions, Kris. Yes, there is a gap between family therapy practice and research.

Richard Niolon (2011) summarized some of the challenges and findings in family therapy research:

...Pinsoff and Wynne (2000) answer that family and/or couples therapy is better than individual therapy for:

schizophrenia

marital distress

adult substance abuse

adolescent conduct disorders and substance abuse

anorexia in young females

childhood autism

aggression and non-compliance in ADHD children

dementia

and cardiovascular risk factors

and is better than no treatment for all of the above in addition to

obesity

hypertension

child conduct disorder

and chronic illness in childhood

Gurman and colleagues (in Garfield and Bergin) would add “medical” disorders (like eating disorders, diabetes, and asthma), anxiety, and phobias to the list of problems that benefit more from family or couples therapy than individual therapy. Gurman and colleagues offer that, generally, about two thirds of clients in any kind of family therapy get better, which is fairly similar to the numbers gained in individual therapy intervention research. They would add more specifically that:

Better gains are found when both members of a couple work on marital problems.

Better gains occur when the therapist is more active in the early phases of therapy.

Basic mastery of the theory and techniques by the therapist seems enough to halt deterioration, but more skill by the therapist is required for positive growth in therapy.

Therapy with two therapists is just as good as therapy with one therapist.

And short term therapy (20 sessions and under) can produce positive results.

In summary, we can say this. The research regarding the effectiveness of family therapy is complicated. However, generally speaking, research supports that family therapy, when conducted by people who know the theories and techniques well, can be helpful for a wide range of problems, although not for all problems. It would seem that overall, the different models of family therapy are equally valid and effective."

Neither are degraded by cells. Once the nanotubes are functionalized appropriately they become hydrophylic and could be better used for tissue engineering purposes. Hydrophylic (functionalized) carbon nantoubes are more biocompatible and less cytotoxic.

Using ultra short nanotubes may make it possible for cells to degrade them http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201305526/abstract

In addition to the comprehensive response by Sabrina Rodriguez-Campos, the spoligotyping data show to what extent your strains are related to each other and to previously isolated strains from various regions of the world, and what is the approximate evolutionary distance between the strains. Strains with the same spoligotype may have a common source of infection, though in this case the identity should be confirmed with more detailed genotyping technique, e.g., RFLP IS6110. Strains with different spoligotypes originate from different patients, as the cases when two or more different strains are isolated from the same patient are extremely rare. Ideally, if you have detailed genotypes of all strains from all patients, along with patients' personal data, you can figure out who infected whom and when.

I would recommend European Commission report http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-905_en.htm

Sea bathing has become one of the most popular hobbies these days. William Buchan wrote in 1701, in his book 'Domestic Medicine', that he advocated the practice of sea bathing as it was thought to have medicinal benefits. The ocean contains all the vital elements, vitamins, mineral salts, trace elements, and amino acids (which is, by the way, a really good reason for using sea salt in our diet, as opposed to 'table' salt). Sea water is bacteriostatic and the cleansing and healing properties of saline have been recognized for many years. Naturopaths believe that bathing in sea water acts directly on chronic health disorders. They believe that cool sea water calms down overwrought nerves, tranquillizing the whole body. By the same token, they believe that warm sea water, during the summer months improves circulation and relaxes muscles. The high salt content also provides natural buoyancy, which also helps with relaxation. It is also considered that the magnesium content of sea water is sufficiently strong to have a nutritional and calming effect on our nerves, which would explain why we find sea water bathing so relaxing. It is easy to see why it would be thought that the motion of the waves in the sea help to massage the body and assist in the removal of toxins.

You might look at the experience sampling literature. One place to start:

Differentiating Emotions Across Contexts: Comparing Adults With and Without Social Anxiety Disorder Using Random, Social Interaction, and Daily Experience Sampling.

Kashdan, Todd B.; Farmer, Antonina S.

Emotion, Feb 10 , 2014

Well, that's quite difficult to measure presenteeism. First thing is how You define presenteeism - as being at work while ill or as loss of productivity. All the scales I know, are based on self-report and majority of them regard productivity loss (e.g. in %) - see e.g. Mattke S., Balakrishnan A., Bergamo G., Newberry S.J. A Review of Methods to Measure. Health-related Productivity Loss. Am J Manag Care. 2007, 13 (4) or Schultz A. B., Chin-Yu C., Edington D. W.: The cost and impact of health conditions on presenteesim to employers. A review of the literature. Pharmaeconomics. 2009; 27 (5), When considering attendace while ill, researchers usually simply ask one question such as "How many times have you been at work, despite feeling ill?", "Has it happend that you have been at work despite feeling ill?" (or others like that). Usually it regards the period of former 12 months, but sometimes it is 6 months, 3 month or even weeks. There are different problems with such measurment, e.g. people simply do not remeber how many times/how often they were at work while ill... In our department we are working on the project about presenteesim and at first we planned to use Stanford Presenteeism Scale, but eventually we have created a new tool. We have checked its psychometric properties - they are satisfactory and we would like to publish it soon. The concept is that people have a stronger or weaker tendency to go to work despite feeling ill (though moderated by different indivdual, e.g. job satisfaction, and contextual factors, e.g. organisational culture) and that presenteeism might be negative or positive for the individual and for his/her enviroment (co-workers and employer).Contact me (awezyk@imp.lodz.pl), if You would like to know more about our research and the measure.

I respectfully disagree. The WHOQOL and SF12/36 are ... not terribly useful outside of a purely medical context. The questions are focussed heavily on symptoms and loss of function. Even in the context of the WHO-ICIDH they do not cover the levels of participation particularly well - and hence cannot really measure anything positive about quality of life. That is, if you are measuring some group that has some medicalized condition and you are expecting functional or symptomatic improvement then these will do. For anything positive, they really won't.

Without knowing more about your project it is hard to give guidance. However, some good starting places would be the QOLI, SWB scales, hope scale, etc available through http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/ppquestionnaires.htm. You may well need to go farther afield if you have a particular subjective conception of wellness in mind.

Thank you very much Michael, This means a lot to me I will look at all of the references you have given. God bless!

In a recent article in Psychiatric Times (Psychiatric Times. Vol. 30 No. 5 ) the authors Patricia Watson and Yuval Neria discuss the determinants and resilience factors post trauma. This article contains much useful information on the use of active problem solving approaches and the need for practicing a variety of coping strategies. In a group situation I would concentrate on discussing what strategies the participants have found useful in building their resilience.

This paper may be of interest. It raises some interesting issues relating to application of existing Quality of Life questionnaires to children/young people with autism (this is with children who are verbal, though). 'Finding out what matters: Validity of quality of life measurement in young people with ASD (2012). Rodgers J; McConachie H; Barron E; Tavernor L'