Both the ancient Israel classic The Book of Job and Asking Heaven written by Qu Yuan from the state of Chu in the Warring States Period of China are composed of questions,conveying the characters’queries and doubts a...Both the ancient Israel classic The Book of Job and Asking Heaven written by Qu Yuan from the state of Chu in the Warring States Period of China are composed of questions,conveying the characters’queries and doubts about the universe,human affairs,ethics,etc.This paper analyzes and compares the theme of suffering reflected in the two classics by generalizing similar features of suffering caused by physical loss,broken relationship and spiritual trauma,and revealing several perspectives of differences as well.This research enriches the ideological studies of this area,contributing for a more profound knowledge of suffering from the perspective of cultural communication,as suffering is not a national but universal challenge.展开更多
To alleviate the extra suffering of people in the developing world caused by the pandemic, rich countries are called on to fulfill their legal and moral obligations to ensure that people there can also enjoy the right...To alleviate the extra suffering of people in the developing world caused by the pandemic, rich countries are called on to fulfill their legal and moral obligations to ensure that people there can also enjoy the rights to social security, health care, and education.展开更多
Relying on euthanasia’s definitionally derived set of propositions to provide its purpose,claims,and benefit,we obtain the core concept.Nonetheless,given its core concept,euthanasia is demonstrated to provide no bene...Relying on euthanasia’s definitionally derived set of propositions to provide its purpose,claims,and benefit,we obtain the core concept.Nonetheless,given its core concept,euthanasia is demonstrated to provide no benefit to the animal to justify its use.Euthanasia 1)cannot possibly,and therefore does not,end unbearable suffering,2)it fails to hasten death,and 3)it,therefore,provides no perceptible relief to the patient.These findings are significant because the argument’s validity does not permit euthanasia to satisfy its definitionally derived purpose,claims,or benefit on logical grounds.In other words,the argument is that as a form of legalized assisted suicide,euthanasia is wrong but not in the way principled arguments would suggest.Additionally,irrespective of euthanasia actually doing what it claims,if it is allowed to be provisioned,then euthanasia will affect vulnerable populations exactly like nonprincipled arguments claim.Therefore,despite sharing aspects with each type of argument in the extant literature,my argument against euthanasia can be categorized as neither principled nor nonprincipled,which makes it significant because it may be the first of a new category of argument against the concept and practice to enter the discourse on euthanasia.As a corollary,since we prove that unbearable suffering logically entails death,when it is authentic signifying that death is imminent,because euthanasia’s only purpose is to end unbearable suffering by inducing death,euthanasia is completely obviated.展开更多
1 Keith is an 88⁃year⁃old Army vet⁃eran(退伍军人)who recently suffered a stroke that left him unable to drive.At home,he cares for his wife,Renee,whose vision is so poor,and she can't drive ei⁃ther.He was on his w...1 Keith is an 88⁃year⁃old Army vet⁃eran(退伍军人)who recently suffered a stroke that left him unable to drive.At home,he cares for his wife,Renee,whose vision is so poor,and she can't drive ei⁃ther.He was on his way to the pharmacy(药店)on a mission to get batteries for an ancient pair of hearing aids when he realized he couldn't make it without help.展开更多
The article aims at exploring by the way of a traditional approach—Historical-Biographical the agony confronted by early Chinese immigrants in America based on the novel Shanghai Girls.Early Chinese Americans encount...The article aims at exploring by the way of a traditional approach—Historical-Biographical the agony confronted by early Chinese immigrants in America based on the novel Shanghai Girls.Early Chinese Americans encountered numerous pains:hardship in their work,discrimination in their lives,and the threat of deportation from the host government.Generally,the sufferings of theirs derive from three sources,namely,their powerless homeland,the hostility of the white and their low education status.Due to the poverty and powerless their homeland,both the sisters encountered countless insults.展开更多
In literature,there are many successfully created women characters. The essay chooses two of them: Tess and Marguerite. Tess was a typical example in British literature,while Marguerite was a typical example in French...In literature,there are many successfully created women characters. The essay chooses two of them: Tess and Marguerite. Tess was a typical example in British literature,while Marguerite was a typical example in French literature. Hardy and Dumas fils are the two who were greatly influenced by their own experiences; meanwhile,they witnessed the suffering of the women in the lower class of society. So they could vividly and truthfully depict the inner state of the women in their time. In fact,that's why the two characters were so real to the readers. Both of the two women were regarded as impure and unacceptable to the contemporary people,however,in the writer's eyes,they were not only pure,but also noble in nature. For although they suffered a lot after the turns in their lives,neither of them stopped treating others kindly. Especially when they found their true love,they courageously devoted to it. For their true love,they unexceptionally chose to suffer themselves in order to make their lovers happy after the strong conflict in their heart. In the end,each of the two won others' respect and their lovers' love and understanding.展开更多
Living in modern world,the civilization is highly developed.Human beings are living an unprecedented prosperous life,but the spiritual waste land is still invisibly existed.Highly mechanism alienates people even more ...Living in modern world,the civilization is highly developed.Human beings are living an unprecedented prosperous life,but the spiritual waste land is still invisibly existed.Highly mechanism alienates people even more serious than what it is in the Waste Land.So the fighting against the Waste land to salvage it as well as ourselves is endless and circulatory.The Waste Land thus is not decaying and hopeless,but natural and common as at any time.Moreover,the new conditions of life required“a new discipline of suffering”.So we should do as the poet does:accept reality,positively indulge in it to feel and experience fully,to suffer it.Then we will feel that The Waste Land brings us not a melancholy mood,but a positive encouragement for the salvage of ourselves.展开更多
DEAR EDITOR, Hemorrhagic septicemia is an acute, highly fatal disease that affects goldfish (Carassius auratus). To gain a better understanding of related immune genes, the transcriptomes of the skin and head kidney o...DEAR EDITOR, Hemorrhagic septicemia is an acute, highly fatal disease that affects goldfish (Carassius auratus). To gain a better understanding of related immune genes, the transcriptomes of the skin and head kidney of goldfish suffering hemorrhagic septicemia were sequeneed, assembled, and characterized.展开更多
Much research has been conductedabroad in recent years concerningacupuncture and moxibustion on theimmunologic functions of the organism.Anoutline of this is presented as follows.EFFECTS OF ACUPUNCTUREAND MOXIBUSTION ...Much research has been conductedabroad in recent years concerningacupuncture and moxibustion on theimmunologic functions of the organism.Anoutline of this is presented as follows.EFFECTS OF ACUPUNCTUREAND MOXIBUSTION ON NORMALIMMUNOLOGIC FUNCTIONS展开更多
The authors adopted bloodletting atWeizhong(UB 40)for the treatment ofacute lumbar sprain with good results.Incomparison with groups of massage andphysiotherapy,the present method was su-perior,as reported in the foll...The authors adopted bloodletting atWeizhong(UB 40)for the treatment ofacute lumbar sprain with good results.Incomparison with groups of massage andphysiotherapy,the present method was su-perior,as reported in the following:展开更多
In order to evaluate the clinical value of the lines described in the Standard Nomenclature of Scalp Acupuncture Lines, 105 patients suffering from cerebral infarction have been treated by needling along the anterior ...In order to evaluate the clinical value of the lines described in the Standard Nomenclature of Scalp Acupuncture Lines, 105 patients suffering from cerebral infarction have been treated by needling along the anterior and posterior oblique lines of vertex-temple, and the line 1 and line 2 lateral to vertex. The markedly effective rate was 71.43%, and the total effective rate 88.57%. After treatment, such symptoms as hemiplegia, lingual dysfunction, facial and tongue paralysis, and the laboratory indexes of blood fat, fibrinogen and hemorrheology were obviously unproved (P【0.01 or 0.05). The therapeutic effect of scalp acupuncture was obviously better than that of Western medicine (P【0.01).展开更多
Inpatients in the intensive care unit（ICU） are at high risk for healthcare-associated infections（HAIs）. In the current study, a bundle of interventions and measures for preventing and controlling HAIs were develop...Inpatients in the intensive care unit（ICU） are at high risk for healthcare-associated infections（HAIs）. In the current study, a bundle of interventions and measures for preventing and controlling HAIs were developed and implemented in the ICU by trained personnel, and the impact of the bundle was evaluated. The incidence of HAIs, the adjusted daily incidence of HAIs and the incidence of three types of catheter-related infections before and after the bundle implementation were compared. The execution rate of the bundle for preventing and controlling ventilator-associated pneumonia（VAP） was increased from 82.06% in 2012 to 96.88% in 2013. The execution rate was increased from 83.03% in 2012 to 91.33% in 2013 for central line-associated bloodstream infection（CLABSI）, from 87.00% to 94.40% for catheter-associated urinary tract infection（CAUTI）, and from 82.05% to 98.55% for multidrug-resistant organisms（MDROs）, respectively. In total, 136 cases（10.37%） in 2012 and 113 cases（7.72%） in 2013 involved HAIs, respectively. Patients suffered from infection of the lower respiratory tract, the most common site of HAIs, in 134 cases（79.29%） in 2012 and 107 cases（74.30%） in 2013 respectively. The incidence of VAP was 32.72‰ and 24.60‰, the number of strains of pathogens isolated was 198 and 173, and the number of MDROs detected in the ICU was 91 and 74 in 2012 and 2013, respectively. The percentage of MDROs among the pathogens causing HAIs was decreased in each quarter of 2013 as compared with the corresponding percentage in 2012. In 2013, the execution rate of the bundle for preventing and controlling HAIs was increased, whereas the incidence of HAIs and VAP decreased as compared with that in 2012.展开更多
基金This paper is granted by Funds from Shaanxi Social Science(2018M27)Department of Higher Education,Ministry of Education,China(202002325024).
文摘Both the ancient Israel classic The Book of Job and Asking Heaven written by Qu Yuan from the state of Chu in the Warring States Period of China are composed of questions,conveying the characters’queries and doubts about the universe,human affairs,ethics,etc.This paper analyzes and compares the theme of suffering reflected in the two classics by generalizing similar features of suffering caused by physical loss,broken relationship and spiritual trauma,and revealing several perspectives of differences as well.This research enriches the ideological studies of this area,contributing for a more profound knowledge of suffering from the perspective of cultural communication,as suffering is not a national but universal challenge.
文摘To alleviate the extra suffering of people in the developing world caused by the pandemic, rich countries are called on to fulfill their legal and moral obligations to ensure that people there can also enjoy the rights to social security, health care, and education.
文摘Relying on euthanasia’s definitionally derived set of propositions to provide its purpose,claims,and benefit,we obtain the core concept.Nonetheless,given its core concept,euthanasia is demonstrated to provide no benefit to the animal to justify its use.Euthanasia 1)cannot possibly,and therefore does not,end unbearable suffering,2)it fails to hasten death,and 3)it,therefore,provides no perceptible relief to the patient.These findings are significant because the argument’s validity does not permit euthanasia to satisfy its definitionally derived purpose,claims,or benefit on logical grounds.In other words,the argument is that as a form of legalized assisted suicide,euthanasia is wrong but not in the way principled arguments would suggest.Additionally,irrespective of euthanasia actually doing what it claims,if it is allowed to be provisioned,then euthanasia will affect vulnerable populations exactly like nonprincipled arguments claim.Therefore,despite sharing aspects with each type of argument in the extant literature,my argument against euthanasia can be categorized as neither principled nor nonprincipled,which makes it significant because it may be the first of a new category of argument against the concept and practice to enter the discourse on euthanasia.As a corollary,since we prove that unbearable suffering logically entails death,when it is authentic signifying that death is imminent,because euthanasia’s only purpose is to end unbearable suffering by inducing death,euthanasia is completely obviated.
文摘1 Keith is an 88⁃year⁃old Army vet⁃eran(退伍军人)who recently suffered a stroke that left him unable to drive.At home,he cares for his wife,Renee,whose vision is so poor,and she can't drive ei⁃ther.He was on his way to the pharmacy(药店)on a mission to get batteries for an ancient pair of hearing aids when he realized he couldn't make it without help.
文摘The article aims at exploring by the way of a traditional approach—Historical-Biographical the agony confronted by early Chinese immigrants in America based on the novel Shanghai Girls.Early Chinese Americans encountered numerous pains:hardship in their work,discrimination in their lives,and the threat of deportation from the host government.Generally,the sufferings of theirs derive from three sources,namely,their powerless homeland,the hostility of the white and their low education status.Due to the poverty and powerless their homeland,both the sisters encountered countless insults.
文摘In literature,there are many successfully created women characters. The essay chooses two of them: Tess and Marguerite. Tess was a typical example in British literature,while Marguerite was a typical example in French literature. Hardy and Dumas fils are the two who were greatly influenced by their own experiences; meanwhile,they witnessed the suffering of the women in the lower class of society. So they could vividly and truthfully depict the inner state of the women in their time. In fact,that's why the two characters were so real to the readers. Both of the two women were regarded as impure and unacceptable to the contemporary people,however,in the writer's eyes,they were not only pure,but also noble in nature. For although they suffered a lot after the turns in their lives,neither of them stopped treating others kindly. Especially when they found their true love,they courageously devoted to it. For their true love,they unexceptionally chose to suffer themselves in order to make their lovers happy after the strong conflict in their heart. In the end,each of the two won others' respect and their lovers' love and understanding.
文摘Living in modern world,the civilization is highly developed.Human beings are living an unprecedented prosperous life,but the spiritual waste land is still invisibly existed.Highly mechanism alienates people even more serious than what it is in the Waste Land.So the fighting against the Waste land to salvage it as well as ourselves is endless and circulatory.The Waste Land thus is not decaying and hopeless,but natural and common as at any time.Moreover,the new conditions of life required“a new discipline of suffering”.So we should do as the poet does:accept reality,positively indulge in it to feel and experience fully,to suffer it.Then we will feel that The Waste Land brings us not a melancholy mood,but a positive encouragement for the salvage of ourselves.
基金supported by a grant from the Key Project of Scientific and Technological Innovation of Blue Granary(2018YFD0901505)
文摘DEAR EDITOR, Hemorrhagic septicemia is an acute, highly fatal disease that affects goldfish (Carassius auratus). To gain a better understanding of related immune genes, the transcriptomes of the skin and head kidney of goldfish suffering hemorrhagic septicemia were sequeneed, assembled, and characterized.
文摘Much research has been conductedabroad in recent years concerningacupuncture and moxibustion on theimmunologic functions of the organism.Anoutline of this is presented as follows.EFFECTS OF ACUPUNCTUREAND MOXIBUSTION ON NORMALIMMUNOLOGIC FUNCTIONS
文摘The authors adopted bloodletting atWeizhong(UB 40)for the treatment ofacute lumbar sprain with good results.Incomparison with groups of massage andphysiotherapy,the present method was su-perior,as reported in the following:
文摘In order to evaluate the clinical value of the lines described in the Standard Nomenclature of Scalp Acupuncture Lines, 105 patients suffering from cerebral infarction have been treated by needling along the anterior and posterior oblique lines of vertex-temple, and the line 1 and line 2 lateral to vertex. The markedly effective rate was 71.43%, and the total effective rate 88.57%. After treatment, such symptoms as hemiplegia, lingual dysfunction, facial and tongue paralysis, and the laboratory indexes of blood fat, fibrinogen and hemorrheology were obviously unproved (P【0.01 or 0.05). The therapeutic effect of scalp acupuncture was obviously better than that of Western medicine (P【0.01).
基金supported by Chinese Nosocomial Infection Control Research Fund(No.ZHYY2013-028)
文摘Inpatients in the intensive care unit（ICU） are at high risk for healthcare-associated infections（HAIs）. In the current study, a bundle of interventions and measures for preventing and controlling HAIs were developed and implemented in the ICU by trained personnel, and the impact of the bundle was evaluated. The incidence of HAIs, the adjusted daily incidence of HAIs and the incidence of three types of catheter-related infections before and after the bundle implementation were compared. The execution rate of the bundle for preventing and controlling ventilator-associated pneumonia（VAP） was increased from 82.06% in 2012 to 96.88% in 2013. The execution rate was increased from 83.03% in 2012 to 91.33% in 2013 for central line-associated bloodstream infection（CLABSI）, from 87.00% to 94.40% for catheter-associated urinary tract infection（CAUTI）, and from 82.05% to 98.55% for multidrug-resistant organisms（MDROs）, respectively. In total, 136 cases（10.37%） in 2012 and 113 cases（7.72%） in 2013 involved HAIs, respectively. Patients suffered from infection of the lower respiratory tract, the most common site of HAIs, in 134 cases（79.29%） in 2012 and 107 cases（74.30%） in 2013 respectively. The incidence of VAP was 32.72‰ and 24.60‰, the number of strains of pathogens isolated was 198 and 173, and the number of MDROs detected in the ICU was 91 and 74 in 2012 and 2013, respectively. The percentage of MDROs among the pathogens causing HAIs was decreased in each quarter of 2013 as compared with the corresponding percentage in 2012. In 2013, the execution rate of the bundle for preventing and controlling HAIs was increased, whereas the incidence of HAIs and VAP decreased as compared with that in 2012.
