Influence of science education on mental health of adolescents based on virtual reality.Bo Wu,Changlong Zheng &BenjaminHuang -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.detailsThis work is developed to explore the form of mental health education, strengthen scientific educational ideas, and improve the effect of psychological therapy. Virtual reality technology is innovatively applied in adolescent mental health treatment and education. Based on this, the mental health treatment and system design based on virtual reality technology are discussed, and the feasibility of applying VR technology to adolescent mental health education is explored. Second, the research concept of adolescent mental health is discussed. Based on the VR (...) platform setup, questionnaire survey is implemented to analyze the factors influencing the mental health of primary and secondary school students in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, and five factors are obtained. Based on this, the adolescent mental health treatment system based on VR is designed, and the effectiveness of the system is tested and evaluated. The results show that the integrated delay of the VR equipment used is 29 ms, which can effectively provide service. There are significant differences in mental health status among adolescents of different genders, different ages, only children and non-only children, parents’ accompaniment during growing up, and urban and rural adolescents. Finally, after 3 months of psychological treatment, the mental health score of the experimental group of teenagers is 50–55 points. However, the mental health scores of the control group remain at 56–65 points, indicating that the mental health treatment system designed in this work can effectively help the adolescents to improve their mental health, thus proving the effectiveness of the system. To sum up, this work provides scientific reference for adolescent mental health education in schools. Psychological treatment system can help teenagers improve their psychological problems and promote the development of mental health education. (shrink)
Forum on Making Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations.Marilyn Strathern,Jade S. Sasser,Adele Clarke,RuhaBenjamin,Kim Tallbear,Michelle Murphy,Donna Haraway,Yu-LingHuang &Chia-Ling Wu -2019 -Feminist Studies 45 (1):159-172.detailsAbstract:In this forum, Marilyn Strathern and Jade S. Sasser review Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway's edited volume Making Kin, Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018). Responses from multiple authors featured in the book follow.
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Creating Human Nature: The Political Challenges of Genetic Engineering.Benjamin Gregg -2022 - Cambridge University Press.detailsHuman genetic enhancement, examined from the standpoint of the new field of political bioethics, displaces the age-old question of truth: What is human nature? This book displaces that question with another: What kind of human nature should humans want to create for themselves? To answer that question, this book answers two others: What constraints should limit the applications of rapidly developing biotechnologies? What could possibly form the basis for corresponding public policy in a democratic society?Benjamin Gregg focuses on (...) the distinctly political dimensions of human nature, where politics refers to competition among competing values on which to base public policy, legislation, and political culture. This book offers citizens of democratic communities a broad perspective on how they together might best approach urgent questions of how to deal with the socially and morally challenging potential for human genetic engineering. (shrink)
Punishment by Securities Regulators, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Cost of Debt.Guangming Gong,XinHuang,Sirui Wu,Haowen Tian &Wanjin Li -2020 -Journal of Business Ethics 171 (2):337-356.detailsThis study examines whether penalties issued to Chinese listed companies by securities regulators for violations of corporate law affect the cost of debt, and the moderating role of corporate social responsibility fulfillment on this relationship. Our sample consists of firms listed on Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2011 to 2017 and the data are collected from the announcements of China Securities Regulatory Commission. The findings are as follows: punishment announcements by regulatory authorities increase the cost of debt; and the (...) effect of punishment announcements on the cost of debt is partially offset by prior CSR performance. These findings are shown to be robust. The reputation insurance effect of CSR is more pronounced in state-owned enterprises and in an institutional environment with low marketization, a weak legal environment, and low information transparency. The findings support the reputation insurance hypothesis of CSR and employ the cost of debt as a governance mechanism. (shrink)
What We Owe the Psychopath: A Neuroethical Analysis.Grant Gillett &JiaochenHuang -2013 -American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 4 (2):3-9.detailsPsychopaths are often regarded as a scourge of contemporary society and, as such, are the focus of much public vilification and outrage. But, arguably, psychopaths are both sinned against as well as sinners. If that is true, then their status as the victims of abusive subcultures partially mitigates their moral responsibility for the harms they cause. We argue, from the neuroethics of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), that communities have a moral obligation to psychopaths as well as a case (...) against them. A reflection on the genesis and developmental epidemiology of psychopathy reveals an individualist, attribution-type error evident in much Western psychological and legal thinking—an error that obscures important moral truths about psychopaths. The resulting analysis makes us reconsider the distinction between disorders and moral failings and the ethical significance of the biological or neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning psychopathy. We claim that casting aside the deficit model (based on the presupposition that psychopaths are intrinsically unlike the rest of us) in favor of a relational and holistic view of personality potentiates a more informed and inclusive set of ethical, forensic, and therapeutic attitudes. (shrink)
Determinants of Social Commerce Usage and Online Impulse Purchase: Implications for Business and Digital Revolution.Huang Xiang,Ka Yin Chau,Wasim Iqbal,Muhammad Irfan &Vishal Dagar -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.detailsSince their introduction in the early 2000s, the use of social networking websites has exploded. Many businesses are seeing increased revenue due to their social commerce strategy. Despite the popularity of social commerce websites, some consumers are still hesitate to use them. This study aims to evaluate the factors that influence the adoption of social commerce. A sample of 721 Chinese We Chat users took part in the research. The findings reveal that social capital mediates the positive effect of social (...) commerce adoption and perceived ease of use on techno-stress and online impulse purchasing. Likewise, information overloading mediates the positive effect of social commerce adoption and PERU on techno-stress and online impulse purchasing. The findings have implications for both practice and research in understanding social commerce adoption in emerging economies. (shrink)
Virtual worlds: a journey in hype and hyperreality.Benjamin Woolley -1992 - Cambridge, USA: Blackwell.detailsIn Virtual Worlds,Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality.
Polemicization: The Contingency of the Commonplace.Benjamin Arditi &Jeremy Valentine -1999 - Edinburgh University Press.detailsCovering the theories of, among others, Derrida, Lefort and Laclau, this volume opens up space to the political (polemicisation). Chapters cover themes such as social structure, ethical arguments, and political organisation.
Service Innovation in Human Resource Management During COVID-19: A Study to Enhance Employee Loyalty Using Intrinsic Rewards.Muhammad Ibrahim Abdullah,DechunHuang,Muddassar Sarfraz &Muhammad Waqas Sadiq -2021 -Frontiers in Psychology 12.detailsThis research focuses on the employee loyalty aspect of private hospitals in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic, seriously impacted by strict work demand and work-family conflict. To manage this issue, social rewards and psychological rewards played a role as a mediator. The study uses a causal research design with a correlational study design in a non-contrived environment. Minimal researcher interference has been assured. AMOS 24 has been used to deal with the mediation in study design with bootstrap methodology. The study (...) was conducted on 250 nurses of different private hospitals across Punjab province using a proportionate stratified sampling technique. A finding of this study suggests that nurses remain loyal to their organizations despite having uncompromising work demands and facing work-family conflict when they are provided with social and psychological rewards on their job by their organizations. (shrink)
明夷待访录导读.Xueyuan Ji,ZongxiHuang &Xingyuan Gui -1992 - Chengdu: Sichuan sheng xin hua shu dian jing xiao. Edited by Zongxi Huang & Xingyuan Gui.details本书内容分两部分:一.介绍了全书概况及其在中外文化史上的重要作用;二.是该要籍的精选和简注。.
Implementation and profitability of sustainable investment strategies: An errors-in-variables perspective.Benjamin R. Auer -2021 -Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 30 (4):619-638.detailsBusiness Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, EarlyView.
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Do Socially Responsible Investment Policies Add or Destroy European Stock Portfolio Value?Benjamin R. Auer -2016 -Journal of Business Ethics 135 (2):381-397.detailsUsing a new dataset of environmental, social, and corporate governance company ratings for the European market, this article examines whether socially responsible stock selection adds or destroys value in terms of portfolio performance. From 2004 to 2012, we find the following: Negative screens excluding unrated stocks from a representative European stock universe allow investors to significantly outperform a passive investment in a diversified European stock benchmark portfolio. Additional negative screens based on environmental and social scores neither add nor destroy portfolio (...) value, when cut-off rates are not too high. In contrast, governance screens can significantly increase portfolio performance under similar conditions. Thus, investors in the European stock market can do well while doing good. Because of a loss of diversification, positive screens can cause portfolios to underperform the benchmark. This implies that investors should concentrate on eliminating the worst firms. Our results are robust along several dimensions, namely, choice of performance measure, time, test parametrisation, portfolio weighting scheme, approximation of the risk-free rate, and consideration of transaction costs. (shrink)
The Becoming-Other of Politics: A Post-Liberal Archipelago.Benjamin Arditi -2003 -Contemporary Political Theory 2 (3):307-325.detailsThe discussion about the double inscription of the political is a familiar trope among progressive thinkers, whose discussions have focused primarily on the ontological presuppositions of the political at the expense of a theoretical reflection on politics. This article shifts the emphasis to the latter. It develops an image of thought of our political actuality that moves beyond the commonplace observation that politics exceeds electoral representation. Its underlying assumption is that modernity is characterized by a continual process of political territorialization (...) and re-territorialization whereby the political frontier has experienced a series of displacements along a migratory arc that goes from the sovereign state to liberal party democracies. However, it does not stop there, for as politics colonizes new domains and carves up novel places of enunciation, the cartography we inherited from democratic liberalism experiences a Copernican de-centring that throws us into a scenario best described as an archipelago of political domains. This announces the becoming-other of politics, the post-liberal setting of our political actuality. (shrink)
The Fit Between Integrity and Integrative Social Contracts Theory.Mark Gosling &Heh JasonHuang -2009 -Journal of Business Ethics 90 (S3):407 - 417.detailsThe concept of integrity appears in many arguments and theories in business ethics and organizational behavior where it plays multiple roles. It has been shown to have desirable organizational outcomes and is held as important by the academic and practitioner alike. Yet despite its prominence there are a variety of approaches to defining and conceptualizing it and little existent theory to explain its nature. We offer integrative social contracts theory (ISCT) as a framework that can anchor integrity in ethical theory (...) and also encompass aspects of integrity such as wholeness, consistency, and authenticity. In addition we show how ISCT can resolve some of the challenges to definitions of integrity that have been raised in the literature and hence we provide some suggestions for future academic research and suggestions for the practitioner. (shrink)
Three Ideas from American Pragmatism Interpreted in Terms of Whitehead's Metaphysics.Benjamin Andrae -2019 -Process Studies 48 (2):254-272.detailsThis article is an attempt to examine and clarify the truth theory of American pragmatism. Three central ideas of this truth theory will be considered in light of Whitehead's metaphysics: a rejection of the correspondence theory of truth, a defense of fallibilism, and a recognition of the temporality of truth.
Principal leadership effects on student achievement: a multilevel analysis using Programme for International Student Assessment 2015 data.Huang Wu,Xingyuan Gao &Jianping Shen -2019 -Educational Studies 46 (3):316-336.detailsThis study examines the relationship between principals’ leadership and student achievement. Based on the Programme for International Student Assessment 2015 United States data, a two-level...
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Hume on Miracles: Begging-the-Question against Believers.Benjamin F. Armstrong -1992 -History of Philosophy Quarterly 9 (3):319 - 328.detailsThe best defence against the suggestion that Hume’s use of the laws of nature is question-begging is the both-sides-need-the-laws’ response in its variations. Efforts along these lines by Antony Flew, J L Mackie, and more recently J C Thornton are shown to fail. Hume intends to rule out miracles by ruling out, e.g., resurrections, not just rule out calling resurrections miracles’. The both-sides-need-the-laws’ objection can target only the latter and it fails to do even this.
Choisir la vie: le judaïsme à l'épreuve du monde.Benjamin Gross -2014 - [Paris]: Éditions de l'Éclat.detailsL'injonction biblique : "Tu choisiras la vie" est a l'origine de ce livre sur la place du judaïsme dans le monde contemporain, mais aussi sur les propositions que le premier est en mesure de faire par rapport à la crise profonde du second. Et son parcours suit celui de la vie même de l'auteur,Benjamin Gross, tout entière consacrée à "lire, traduire et étudier", pour mieux "comprendre, penser et créer", et qui n'a jamais cessé pour cela de regarder le (...) monde en face, d'affronter son "actualité", tout porté qu'il était par cette force vive du judaïsme qu'est l'amour au sein du couple, dont la conclusion du livre donne un extra-ordinaire témoignage à la première personne. (shrink)
Genetic Engineering Revolution.Benjamin Gregg -2023 - In Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf,Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer. pp. 505-510.detailsGenetic engineering in general, and human genetic editing in particular, is revolutionizing humankind’s self-understanding: an evolved organism taking ever greater control of its own evolution. This Anthropocenic phenomenon is deeply equivocal (Gregg B. Human genetic engineering: biotic justice in the anthropocene? In: DellaSala D, Goldstein M (eds) Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, vol 4. Elsevier, Oxford, pp 351–359, 2018). While delivering humans from some risks, it renders them vulnerable to unintended consequences as well. Even in the face of seemingly intractable differences (...) of opinion about how best to understand genetic manipulation culturally, and how to evaluate it ethically, political communities and international organizations alike must address its possible future legal regulation. Governments and other elite institutions would do well to include the general public, to the extent possible, in deliberations about regulation, even as genetic engineering is based on highly specialized knowledge. (shrink)
The Moral Value of Telemedicine to the Physician‐Patient Relationship.Benjamin S. Wilfond -2023 -Hastings Center Report 53 (4):28-29.detailsCovid‐19 heralded a natural experiment with telemedicine. My experience as a clinician was very positive, and learning how to use telemedicine has made me a better doctor. Telemedicine has flipped the medical service paradigm; families do not need to conform their busy lives to the medical office workflow. An appointment can be a virtual house call that takes less time for my patient's family and allows me to learn even more about their home. While there are limitations of telemedicine, there (...) are good ethical reasons for clinicians to support the broader use of telehealth, including equity, efficiency, effectiveness, and respecting preferences. Empirical health‐services research that assesses satisfaction, quality, and health outcomes will be necessary to determine the impact of telehealth on a population level to ensure that is used in a way that promotes equity in care. (shrink)
Introduction.Matt Zwolinski &Benjamin Ferguson -2022 - In Matt Zwolinski & Benjamin Ferguson,The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism. Routledge. pp. 1-9.detailsStrict libertarianism, as one of us has defined it elsewhere, is “a radical political view which holds that individual liberty, understood as the absence of interference with a person’s body and rightfully acquired property, is a moral absolute or near-absolute, and that the only governmental activities consistent with that liberty are (if any) those necessary to protect individuals from aggression by others.” Strict libertarianism is a radicalized form of classical liberalism that is, characteristically, rationalistic, monistic, and (relatively) absolutist in its (...) approach to political principles. One advantage of bringing so many well-informed proponents and critics of libertarianism together in the same volume is that it makes clear the tremendous diversity of libertarian thought. Libertarians are a methodologically, normatively, and even politically diverse group. The chapter also provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. (shrink)
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Surface-Based Spontaneous Oscillation in Schizophrenia: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Xianyu Cao,HuanHuang,Bei Zhang,Yuchao Jiang,Hui He,Mingjun Duan,Sisi Jiang,Ying Tan,Dezhong Yao,Chao Li &Cheng Luo -2021 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 15.detailsSchizophrenia is considered as a self-disorder with disordered local synchronous activation. Previous studies have reported widespread dyssynchrony of local activation in patients with SZ, which may be one of the crucial physiological mechanisms of SZ. To further verify this assumption, this work used a surface-based two-dimensional regional homogeneity approach to compare the local neural synchronous spontaneous oscillation between patients with SZ and healthy controls, instead of the volume-based regional homogeneity approach described in previous study. Ninety-seven SZ patients and 126 HC (...) were recruited to this study, and we found the SZ showed abnormal 2dReHo across the cortical surface. Specifically, at the global level, the SZ patients showed significantly reduced global 2dReHo; at the vertex level, the foci with increased 2dReHo in SZ were located in the default mode network, frontoparietal network, and limbic network ; however, foci with decreased 2dReHo were located in the somatomotor network, auditory network, and visual network. Additionally, this work found positive correlations between the 2dReHo of bilateral rectus and illness duration, as well as a significant positive correlation between the 2dReHo of right orbital inferior frontal gyrus with the negative scores of the positive and negative syndrome scale in the SZ patients. Therefore, the 2dReHo could provide some effective features contributed to explore the pathophysiology mechanism of SZ. (shrink)
Confucian Political Philosophy: Dialogues on the State of the Field.Robert A. Carleo &YongHuang (eds.) -2021 - Springer Verlag.detailsThis book debates the values and ideals of Confucian politics—harmony, virtue, freedom, justice, order—and what these ideals mean for Confucian political philosophy today. The authors deliberate these eminent topics in five debates centering on recent innovative and influential publications in the field. Challenging and building on those works, the dialogues consider the roles of benevolence, family determination, public reason, distributive justice, and social stability in Confucian political philosophy. In response, the authors defend their views and evaluate their critics in turn. (...) Taking up a broad range of crucial issues—autonomy, liberty, democracy, political legitimacy, human welfare—these author-meets-critic debates will appeal to scholars interested in political, comparative, and East Asian philosophy. Their interlaced themes weave a portrait of what is at stake in discussing Confucian values and theory. Most importantly, they engage and develop the state of the field of Confucian political philosophy today. (shrink)
Why Believe in Collective Agents? Because You Did Something Wrong!JeffreyBenjamin White -2008 -Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 50:845-851.detailsThe focus of the following paper is the phenomenon of the collective agent; what constitutes the appearance of a collective agent? I begin by investigating one simple argument for the existence of collective agents. Two critical issues emerge: does it make sense to hold a collective agent blameworthy, and, what is the motivation for doing so, one way or the other? I then dissolve these issues with a distinction, that between blameworthiness and responsibility. In light of this distinction, there appears (...) to be no use for the introduction of collectives as agents in their own right, outside of expedience of reference and deference of blame. (shrink)
Confessions of a late‐blooming, “miseducated” philosopher of science.Benjamin B. Alexander -2016 -Zygon 51 (4):1043-1061.detailsThis article provides a survey of Walker Percy's criticism of what Pope Benedict XVI calls “scientificity,” which entails a constriction of the dynamic interaction of faith and reason. The process can result in the diminishment of ethical considerations raised by science's impact on public policy. Beginning in the 1950s, Percy begins speculating about the negative influence of scientificity. The threat of a political regime using weapons of mass destruction is only one of several menacing developments. The desacrilization of human life (...) from cradle to grave leads Percy to assert that modern science's impact is often radically incoherent. In The Moviegoer, Percy finds his existential and theistic voice that would enable him to advance his critique of science. (shrink)
Establishing Connections with the Ancestors throughUmxhentso Dance.Benjamin Obeghare Izu &Alethea de Villiers -2023 -Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 12 (1):65-82.detailsThrough the ages, ritual dances have been part of human culture. Although artistic, the _umxhentso_ dance is a ritual dance performed by the Xhosa _amagqirha _(traditional healers) to establish connections with supernatural beings. During the dance performance, the amagqirha enter a state of trance and connect with the spiritual realm. During this state of trance, they seek guidance and vision from their ancestors. The _amagqirha_, in all the Xhosa communities, perform these dance rituals at initiation and healing ceremonies. The objectives (...) of this study were to examine the religious and social purposes of _umxhentso_ dance in amagqirha rituals and determine how it assists amagqirha in establishing connections with their ancestors during ceremonies. This study adopted the naturalistic research approach in studying the _umxhentso_ dance during the amagqirha ceremonies. The researchers examined, evaluated and assessed the research participants’ actions and behaviours in a natural setting within a societal and cultural framework. (shrink)
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Feng Qi's Ameliorism: Between Relativism and Absolutism.Huang Yong -2002 - In Chung-Ying Cheng & Nicholas Bunnin,Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 211–234.detailsThis chapter contains section titled: Wisdom: Theory of Dialectical Logic: Theory Transformed into Method Freedom: Theory Transformed into Virtue.
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Heidegger and the Space of Life.JeffreyBenjamin White -2008 -Proceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 19:181-188.detailsHeidegger is perhaps best known for stressing the function of time as temporality on the phenomena of life. There is a sense, however, in which the full significance of these insights can be best understood only through an exploration of the function of space as spatiality in the phenomena of life. At their juxtaposition, there is a privileged perspective on the meaning of life, and most importantly on what is the most meaningful life on the Heideggerian account, thephilosophical life. The (...) following short exploration uncovers this standpoint through an analysis of the word “clearing” as temporally expansive space. Through this device, there is a clear view of the role of philosophy, of truth, and of the meaning of life in Heidegger’s Being and Time. (shrink)
Class Grade Book.Benjamin W. Van Riper -1916detailsVan Riper kept this class grade book for second semester, 1916- 1917, for philosophy and psychology classes he taught at Pennsylvania State College.
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The Moving Tablet of the Eye: The Origins of Modern Eye Movement Research.Nicholas Wade &Benjamin W. Tatler -2005 - Oxford University Press.detailsEye movements are a vital part of our interaction with the world. They play a pivotal role in perception, cognition, and education. This book is unique in tracing the history of eye movement research. It shows how great strides were made in this area long before modern recording devices were available. Anyone interested in the origins of psychology and neuroscience will find much to stimulate and surprise them in this valuable new work.
In Their Own Image: Ethical Implications of the Rise of Digital Twins/Clones/Simulacra in Healthcare.Benjamin Amram,Uri Klempner,Yehuda Leibler &Dov Greenbaum -2023 -American Journal of Bioethics 23 (9):79-81.detailsBioconvergence is a growing area within the evolving bioeconomy that seeks out synergistic opportunities at the intersection of engineering and the life sciences (Greenbaum 2023). One example is th...