Suicide Bereavement and Differences in Religiosity
CRISIS-THE JOURNAL OF CRISIS INTERVENTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION
Authors: Feigelman, William; Cerel, Julie; McIntosh, John L.; Brent, David; Gutin, Nina
Abstract
Background: The trauma from experiencing a loved one's suicide is often seen as an instigator of change in a person's religious life. Aims: We sought to examine whether suicide-bereaved adults were any differently disposed to religious participation and observances compared with the nonbereaved and whether religiously involved bereaved had any better mental health compared with religiously disaffiliated bereaved. Method: The 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) presented 11 new questions identifying suicide bereavement status. We examined how the bereaved (n = 516) compared with the nonbereaved (n = 916) in terms of their religious beliefs and participation. We also investigated whether suicide bereaved religiously committed adherents, who prayed at least weekly (n = 372), showed any better mental health compared with bereaved who were religiously disaffiliated (n = 102). Results: Initially, results showed the bereaved more inclined to pray and to believe in an afterlife compared with the nonbereaved. However, after sex differences were controlled for, most of the remaining differences between these contrasted groups faded. Limitations: Caution is advised regarding generalizations from these data to all subgroups of suicide bereaved due to the modest number of respondents in many subpopulations.The GSS does not include potentially important grief-related indices, and importantly, most of the current sample were friends of the deceased and not first-degree relatives. Conclusion: We discuss the implications of these findings and the need for further research on the interconnections between religiosity and suicide bereavement.
METHODOLOGY FOR VALUATION OF SHUNT CAPACITOR BANK IN POWER GRID
2019 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING, COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES (ICCCNT)
Authors: Sharma, Nidhi; Sharma, M. P.; Singh, Satyaveer; Vyas, Bhavesh
Abstract
At present there are no strict guidelines in routine to judge the deployment of capacitor banks in the grid and practicing loss reduction in real time is an iterative task, without any guaranteed results. Therefore, research work carried in this paper tries to provide a base to the system engineer for valuation of shunt capacitor bank in power grid. The research paper models a fifteen-bus network, (agriculture rich) consisting of a 220-kV grid substation named as Hanumangarh city (Rajasthan, India) feeding power to six 132 kV stations in connection. Practices have been made to acquiesce better ways of shunt capacitor positioning by including surge impedance loading levels, ampacity level and grid planning instructions as a part of observation at conductor operations side. Real time data capturing and assessment of peak hours from April-2017 to June-2018 has been drilled altogether. Simulations are performed with recorded peak load to predict and calculate capacitor requirements at each GSS. Studies have been carried to mark the utilization level of equipment's engaged in the system. Lastly comparisons of the existing situation prevailing along with proposal exercised in the paper is discussed with suitable results obtained via power flow studies of test system covering substation losses, MVA as well as ampere loadings of transformers, lines and effect over swing bus loading levels too are briefed with possible future scopes.