Lighting Effects on Older Adults’ Visual and Nonvisual Performance: A Systematic Review

Lighting plays an important role in daily life: It helps people perform daily activities independently and safely, and also benefits their health. This study assesses the research evidence of lighting’s impacts on older adults in four domains: (a) performance of activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living; (b) circadian rhythm; (c) fall prevention and postural stability; and (d) sleep quality. A comprehensive review of lighting studies on older adults’ visual and nonvisual performance was conducted using a modified PRISMA systematic review process. For the first domain, some older adults had difficulty in using the toilet, preparing meals, and doing laundry under lower illuminance. For the second domain, brighter and bluish lighting improved older adults’ circadian rhythm. For the third domain, low-intensity LED lighting affixed on door frames can help older adults maintain postural stability and prevent falling during nighttime movement. Finally, some studies concluded that receiving outdoor daylight during exercise was beneficial to older adults’ sleep quality. This study provides several methodological, theoretical, and collaborative suggestions for developing a more conclusive evidence base for lighting standards and strategies for older adults.     

The middling mobile: finding place in the liquid city

The middling mobile, differentiated by their modest and unsure mobility, are a vast of bulk of people who intend or expect to move on. As they travel, they tread differing intensities of rhythm and social embeddedness felt to be chaotic, constraining, liberating, or comforting. Owing to their aspirations to ‘get out’ of a rhythmic life, or to move somewhere familiar, the middling mobile use movement and rootedness to navigate and manage everyday life in the liquid city. My analysis offers a holistic exposition of a life that flows between mobility/immobility and rhythmic/arrhythmic forms, and the transitions between them.     

The efficacy and safety of short-acting testosterone ointment (Glowmin) for late-onset hypogonadism in accordance with testosterone circadian rhythm

Introduction: It is well known that there is a reduction of circadian rhythm in blood testosterone levels with aging. Our previous report revealed that 3?mg of short-acting testosterone ointment (Glowmin: GL) elevated serum testosterone levels to within the physiological range for 4–6?h. The aim of this study was to clarify the clinical efficacy and safety of GL used topically once every morning, to enhance the circadian rhythm of testosterone, for late-onset hypogonadism (LOH).

Methods: A total of 61 LOH patients received 3?mg of GL topically once a day in the morning on scrotal skin for 24 weeks. The clinical efficacy of GL was evaluated by the aging males symptoms (AMS) scale, and blood sampling tests were measured before and after GL treatment.

Results: Mean patients age was 55.3?±?9.2 years old. Total AMS scores at 4, 12, and 24 weeks after GL treatments significantly decreased. The results of sub-analysis of AMS, including psychological, physical, and sexual factors also significantly improved after GL treatments. No severe adverse reactions or abnormal laboratory data were reported.

Conclusions: This study shows that TRT for LOH with once daily GL treatment supports testosterone circadian rhythm and should be considered to be an effective and safe therapy for LOH.     

在社会律动中看高职创业教育的目标定位

高职院校的创业教育呼应着社会律动的脉搏,但其目标定位仍有浅层次、游移不定,甚至功利片面的缺陷,因而构建科学的创业教育目标体系亟需优先予以探讨。概括地说,高职创业教育在目标内涵上,重在培养与专业技能相结合的可持续发展能力和建设性态度;在目标外延上,重在以点带面培养大多数高职生受益终身的创业精神和品质。这将为统筹规划创业教育的实施奠定基础。     

表现的深切,格式的特别——鲁迅《秋夜》的内在节奏及其相关的诗学问题

在中国现代文学史上,鲁迅的《野草》是一个非常独特的文本。很多研究者从不同角度进行了深入探索,但依然有许多问题待进一步研究。《秋夜》是《野草》的第一篇,对我们从诗学和思想内涵的角度理解《野草》具有非常重要的意义。《秋夜》是鲁迅审美创造活动的呈现,它是作者心物交融的产物。＂心＂＂物＂之间呈现出动态互动关系,它表现出一个有规律性的交替变化,这构成了审美活动的内在节奏。这一节奏由三个节拍构成,每个节拍构成如下：物→心→物→心→物。就其思想内涵而言,是鲁迅对未来想象的消极乃至绝望;整个诗篇在形式上具有明显的对话性和复调性。     

医学生自我控制对主观幸福感的影响：生活节奏和兴趣爱好的作用

在福建省某高校选取704名医学生,采用自编人口学变量问卷、自我控制量表、生活节奏量表、主观幸福感量表进行问卷测试。结果发现自我控制与主观幸福感呈显著正相关（r=0.511,P＜0.01）;自我控制与生活节奏呈显著正相关（r=0.494,P＜0.01）;生活节奏与主观幸福感呈现显著正相关（r=0.409,P＜0.01）。自我控制水平正向预测主观幸福感(β=0.41, P<0.01),自我控制水平能够正向预测生活节奏(β=0.49,P<0.01)。生活节奏正向预测主观幸福感(β=-0.22,P<0.01)。生活节奏在自我控制和主观幸福感中起部分中介作用。中介效应为0.1059,占总效应的20.7％。兴趣爱好在自我控制和主观幸福感中起到调节作用（β=0.084, t=2.73,P<0.01）。     

视觉的粉墨登场——论时尚消费类杂志视觉元素的运用

本文以在经济全球化和中国城市化进程加速的历史背景下,与大中城市中产阶层快速形成相对应而快速发展成熟的时尚消费类杂志为考察对象。快速发展的经济和信息过度消费,分割并吞噬着中产阶层稀缺的时间资源,形成了＂浅阅读＂的市场需求。这种需求,既创造了时尚消费类杂志的受众市场,也为大量中高端消费品找到了准确的市场接口。＂浅阅读＂作为中产阶层主要的阅读方式,不但催生读图时代的降临,并与时尚消费杂志的视觉化体现形成准确对位。本文通过对此类杂志产业及市场的考察,结合多种成功的案例评析,从影像逻辑、视觉节奏、视觉美感的专业角度,进一步论述了此类杂志对视觉吸引力及保持视觉新鲜度的倚重原因。高质量的视觉体现和精美的形式感,不但是这类杂志的竞争优势,更是在未来媒体分众化趋势中的立足之本。     

藏舞中膝关节发力特征及带来的舞蹈韵律探究

藏族舞蹈之所以能够用别具一格的舞蹈美感和舞蹈韵律给观众留下深刻的印象,是因为藏族舞蹈一个重要部位——下半身尤其是膝关节的舞蹈韵律和膝关节的发力,而膝关节在藏族舞蹈运用中的独特性在于舞蹈的发力点几乎全在膝关节处。藏族舞蹈风格特征的基础,也是藏族舞蹈动作不断发展变化的重要基因。     

Eyjafjallajökull 4′33″: A Stillness in Three Parts

Abstract

This paper uses the work and musical theory of the composer John Cage as a point of departure for considering the disruption caused by the ash cloud originating at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Mobility has been defined as a constellation of movement, representation and practice; this definition is used to structure an analysis of what Eyjafjallajökull meant for the pace of air travel, how it unsettles common‐place cultural understandings of air travel, and what it could mean for the practice of aeromobility in the future. The literature on stillness is engaged to inform a discussion of air travel, with the airport as its exemplar space, and its potential to act as a focal point for debate on the nature of contemporary citizenship.     

标语语言的韵律特点

标语是中国极其重要的一种社会用语,在对标语语言大量语料的考察基础上.运用韵律学相关知识分析其节奏特点,为标语实际制作更加规范提供借鉴.