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Meadows, Rita E., and H. Thompson Fillmer. "DEPICTIONS OF AGING IN BASAL READERS OF THE 1960S AND 1980S." Educational Gerontology 13, no. 1 (January 1987): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0380127870130107.
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McConatha, Jasmin Tahmaseb, Frauke Schnell, and Amy McKenna. "Description of Older Adults as Depicted in Magazine Advertisements." Psychological Reports 85, no. 3 (December 1999): 1051–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1999.85.3.1051.
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Negative attitudes about aging have been widespread and films, television, radio, and print media may serve as an important source of socialization or reflect the current views of older adults. This study focused on examination of the frequency of depictions of older men and women in 765 advertisements appearing in Time and Newsweek national weekly news magazines, and on an analysis of their roles suggested in photographs depicting a total of 2,505 persons. These were collected over a one-year period and coded by three persons. Analysis indicated that older adults, especially older women, were not only presented infrequently but, when presented roles, were often passive or dependent as is consistent with social stereotypes.
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Miller, T. S., and Elizabeth Miller. "Tolkien and Rape." Extrapolation: Volume 62, Issue 2 62, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 133–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2021.8.
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J. R. R. Tolkien’s representation of women in his fiction has generated a number of controversies since its original publication. This essay examines two major issues: an evasiveness in Tolkien’s treatment of sexual violence against women that is not disconnected from a gendered terror that underlies several moments in his works and functions to link women’s sexuality and desiring with death. Specifically, we read the author’s depiction of Shelob and her appetitive, arachnoid monstrosity as at once displacing sexual violence onto the monstrous feminine and evoking a revulsion at the aging female body. We next explore the consequences of the author’s depictions of women and his handling of sexual violence in close connection with his own 1939 public performance of Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale, a comic narrative turning on two rapes that Tolkien nevertheless conceals in a comparable fashion to his elision of sexual violence in Middle-earth.
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Scheidt, Rick. "THE S.O.C. MODEL OF AGING IN DOCUMENTARY FILMS: POSITIVE ADAPTATION TO AGE-RELATED LOSS IN THEORY AND EVERYDAY LIFE." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1518.
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Abstract There is overwhelming evidence that “pop culture” depictions of age-related losses are primarily negative, ignoring positive adaptive experiences associated with the second half of life. Unfortunately, film as an entertainment medium often creates and reinforces this negative status quo. This presentation describes the usefulness of the Baltes and Baltes S.O.C. Model for offsetting losses – via narrowing and revision of goal priorities (Selection), locating and enhancing resources to achieve positive outcomes (Optimization), and using these to increase one’s personal limits and reserve capacities (Compensation). In addition, positive “S.O.C. Solutions” (Spiehs, 2018) are illustrated for everyday loss scenarios within four new documentary films. These include positive adaptations to four loss domains – personal autonomy (driving), physical capacity (sexual responsiveness), psychological well-being (loneliness and belonging), and environmental destruction (place dependency). Annotated sources will be made available.
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Shea, Jeanne L. "Dressing the Older Woman in Post-Mao China: Perspectives from Official Feminist Mass Media and Ordinary Chinese Women." Anthropology & Aging 35, no. 1 (December 1, 2014): 27–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/aa.2014.27.
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This article examines Chinese discourses on dressing the aging female body as a window into the tensions involved in the historical transformation of habitus in early post-Mao China. Drawing on Chinese media articles and ethnographic interviews conducted with Chinese women in their 40s-60s, the analysis compares depictions of new official ideals for older women’s dress that appeared in Chinese government-sponsored feminist media with ordinary older Chinese women’s personal sensibilities about dress. Assessing the applicability of dominant western feminist theories of gender, dress, and age, this article provides a historicized culture-specific application of practice theory, examining older women’s struggles with competing moral logics associated with past and present, and with official media versus personal experience. Overall, it documents experiences of ambivalence and compromise accompanying lifecycle adjustment in embodiment in the context of rapid social change.
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Peters, Vernon S., S. Ellen Macdonald, and Mark RT Dale. "NOTEAging discrepancies of white spruce affect the interpretation of static age structure in boreal mixedwoods." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32, no. 8 (August 1, 2002): 1496–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x02-060.
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Post-fire regeneration of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss on boreal mixedwood sites appears to be highly variable over time. Our objectives were to determine whether ground-level ring counts underestimate root collar age of understory P. glauca and whether aging errors increase with stand age. Trees were collected from one to nine stands in each of three fires occurring in mast years between 1961 and 1991. Trees were cut at ground level (humus soil level), and the belowground stumps were excavated, sectioned, and internally cross-dated with skeleton plots after identifying the root-collar location. Ground-level disks were visually cross-dated with a master chronology, which was constructed using the dendrochronology program COFECHA. Ground-level ring counts underestimated age by a mean of 2.4 years (range 06) and 6.4 years (range 013) in 20- and 38-year-old stands, respectively. Age underestimation was significantly greater at the root collar than ground level because of missing rings. Cross-dated age structures showed that apparent regeneration lags in 20- and 38-year-old stands were artifacts of ground-level ring counts and that the first year post-fire was the most important establishment year in all mast year burns. We conclude that aging errors have led to inaccurate depictions of regeneration patterns during early mixedwood stand development. Our results portray a different picture of P. glauca succession and have important implications for forest management.
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Cohen, Simon. "The Music Behind the Mask: Rossini’s Uncanny Salon." Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology 14, no. 1 (June 16, 2021): 83–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/notabene.v14i1.13399.
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Despite receiving scant attention from scholars and performers, Rossini’s Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), written between 1857 and 1868 for his private salon, have a unique and expressive stylistic language. In these works, the composer gives musical voice to the uncanny discourses that emerged around the idea of his “creative death.” This paper establishes how Rossini’s return to composition functioned as a musical “exhumation,” with his compositional activities functioning as a site for broader discourses about disease, aging, and death in nineteenth-century France. Close readings of visual depictions of Rossini by Eugène Delacroix and Antoine Etex shed light on changing attitudes toward the composer, which coincided with broader aesthetic shifts taking place at the time. The tensions engendered by Rossini’s precarious status as both living and dead, and his nostalgic relationship to the past, constitute a kind of doubleness that can be heard in his late compositions. Bringing together cultural history and musical analysis, I show that the privacy of Rossini’s salon gave rise to music with unique signifying potential that has not yet been duly acknowledged.
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Lin, Tingyi S. "Visual representation and communication." Information Design Journal 17, no. 3 (December 31, 2009): 261–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/idj.17.3.10lin.
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There is great potential for graphics to present quantities, processes, and spatial relations that make knowledge communication more effective through simple to complex visual languages. Visual representation conveys certain messages, directly or metaphorically. An effective visual representation communicates with users by offering core messages and other embedded qualities. These embedded qualities generate interest in the topics/issues, create desirable energy for seeking more knowledge in depth, and enable readers to explore their favorable influences. It is no longer enough to consider a visual representation to be merely attractive or pleasing; it also has to be designed in a way to effectively tell stories in order to better play its role as an information carrier and to meet users’ needs for multiple modes of usage. This study examines the ways in which visual explanation both tells stories and presents their underlying meanings. Visual information design not only presents concepts and events across time but also disseminates information widely through various media. This case study investigates various visual depictions of fertility rates and observes the causes and effects of viewers’ decision making. The total fertility rates in Taiwan dropped dramatically from 1951 to 2006, according to the Department of Household Registration Affairs, Ministry of Interior (MOI), Taiwan. This drop not only will render the aging population greater than other age groups in the near future, but also greatly changes social, economic, and environmental progress in this region. This study’s small effort in the information design field will help create a link between practitioners’ intelligence and researchers’ suggestions, thereby helping enhance the effectiveness of visual communication.
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Ylänne, Virpi, Angie Williams, and Paul Mark Wadleigh. "Ageing well? Older people’s health and well-being as portrayed in UK magazine advertisements." International Journal of Ageing and Later Life 4, no. 2 (February 26, 2010): 33–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.094233.
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The media, including advertising, is an important source of information about health and ageing. Furthermore, advertising makes certain discourses, vocabularies and imagery available as resources for age and health identity formation for older adults. The aim of this study was to investigate qualitatively the prominent themes relating to health and ageing that emerged from a sub-corpus of 140 British magazine advertisements depicting older adults. We focus on how these depictions construct health identity in older age through their underlying discourses. The six main themes included solutions to health problems; maintenance or regaining of independence and quality of life; managing risks; staying younger, healthy and active; taking pride in appearance; and discourses of responsibility and choice. The most prominent underlying discourse was the possibility, necessity and desirability to take positive action to maintain health and well-being in older age. We relate these findings to current societal discourses of active ageing and anti-ageing.
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Gibb, Heather, and Eleanor Holroyd. "Images of Old Age in the Hong Kong Print Media." Ageing and Society 16, no. 2 (March 1996): 151–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x00003275.
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AbstractThe present study set out to identify how the experience of being old in Hong Kong is represented through images commonly recurring in the print media. A case is presented for how the media not only reflect social images and views on ageing, but actively participate in the social construction of views about being old. Two newspapers in Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post (English medium) and the Sin Tao (Chinese medium), were surveyed and contents of stories depicting old age were analyzed, using a qualitative and quantitative methodological design. Dominant amongst the themes was vulnerability in old age. Newspapers used stories according to journalistic formulae to present both negative and positive depictions of old age; however, positive stories carried a sense of the exceptional rather than ordinary life. Results were analysed through a comparison between the two Hong Kong newspapers as well as a comparison with a similar study undertaken on the Australian print media.
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ROZANOVA, JULIA, EDWARD ALAN MILLER, and TERRIE WETLE. "Depictions of nursing home residents in US newspapers: successful ageing versus frailty." Ageing and Society 36, no. 1 (September 5, 2014): 17–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x14000907.
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ABSTRACTThe media shape both what people consider significant and how people think about key issues. This paper explored the cultural beliefs and stereotypes that underlie media portrayals of nursing homes. The analysis of texts of 157 articles about nursing homes published from 1999 to 2008 on the front pages of four major-market American newspapers (The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post) was conducted using a qualitative approach inspired by comparative narrative and critical discourse analysis. Results suggest two major themes, each with several narrative components: (a) managing disposable lives (bodies outliving bank accounts; making frailty affordable; and the economics of triage); and (b) retaining purchasing power as successful ageing (consumption as a sign of market participation, spending money as an indicator of autonomy; and financial planning as preparation for future decline). Thus, the results indicate that nursing home residency in-and-of-itself is not a marker of unsuccessful ageing. This, instead, depends, in part, on the extent of choice available as a result of the level of financial solvency. This study shines light on the betwixt and between zone that distinguishes the Third and Fourth Ages; that is, independence versus dependence in old age. If individuals in a nursing home retain control over the management of their lives through the maintenance of financial independence, even if physically frail, association of nursing home residence with the Fourth Age may be ameliorated.
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Oliveira Aquino, Ivana Figueiredo de. "A study on the comprehension of graphic representations of architectural project designs by elderly users." Information Design Journal 24, no. 3 (December 31, 2018): 254–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/idj.24.3.04oli.
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Abstract The elderly population is increasing worldwide, leading to a growing concern about the quality of life of this segment of the population, including housing issues. Aging brings several perceptual, cognitive and motor limitations that make it difficult to understand spatial information. These limitations have an impact on the elderly’s understanding of graphic representations of dwelling projects, as effectiveness in the communication between architects and elderly users may be jeopardized. With this in mind, a study on elderly users’ understanding of project representations was conducted in Brazil. The study investigated the understanding of three project representations: 2D technical drawings; electronic model with 3D static perspectives of the space; and digital simulation of virtual tour through a house project. 15 people took part in the study. In general, the results showed poor comprehension of all representations, the virtual tour representation yielding the most positive outcomes. The possible influence of age and gender on the performance of the participants is discussed. It is concluded that ageing and realism in depiction affect elderly users’ assimilation of information presented in architectural projects, corroborating the literature.
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Yokokura, Masamichi, Tatsuhiro Terada, Tomoyasu Bunai, Kyoko Nakaizumi, Kiyokazu Takebayashi, Yasuhide Iwata, Etsuji Yoshikawa, et al. "Depiction of microglial activation in aging and dementia: Positron emission tomography with [11C]DPA713 versus [11C](R)PK11195." Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 37, no. 3 (July 21, 2016): 877–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0271678x16646788.
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The presence of activated microglia in the brains of healthy elderly people is a matter of debate. We aimed to clarify the degree of microglial activation in aging and dementia as revealed by different tracers by comparing the binding potential (BPND) in various brain regions using a first-generation translocator protein (TSPO) tracer [11C]( R)PK11195 and a second-generation tracer [11C]DPA713. The BPND levels, estimated using simplified reference tissue models, were compared among healthy young and elderly individuals and patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and were correlated with clinical scores. An analysis of variance showed category-dependent elevation in levels of [11C]DPA713 BPND in all brain regions and showed a significant increase in the AD group, whereas no significant changes among groups were found when [11C]( R)PK11195 BPND was used. Cognito-mnemonic scores were significantly correlated with [11C]DPA713 BPND levels in many brain regions, whereas [11C]( R)PK11195 BPND failed to correlate with the scores. As mentioned elsewhere, the present results confirmed that the second-generation TSPO tracer [11C]DPA713 has a greater sensitivity to TSPO in both aging and neuronal degeneration than [11C]( R)PK11195. Positron emission tomography with [11C]DPA713 is suitable for the delineation of in vivo microglial activation occurring globally over the cerebral cortex irrespective of aging and degeneration.
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Dey, Deblina. "The Nostalgia of Values: Popular Depictions of Care Crisis towards Ageing Parents in India." Journal of Human Values 22, no. 1 (December 24, 2015): 26–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971685815608060.
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Michalik-Jeżowska, Magdalena. "About the Benefits of Pleasure-in-Others’-Misfortune. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev’s Depiction of Emotions as Adaptive Mechanisms." Studia Humana 5, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sh-2016-0015.
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Abstract This paper was inspired by two ideas: (1) the concept of emotions as adaptive mechanisms, which was suggested by Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, and (2) Robert Solomon’s criticism of the distinction between “positive” and “negative” emotions which functions in social sciences. In the context of the above mentioned theoretical perspectives I consider the infamous emotion of pleasure-in-others’-misfortune in terms of possible benefits for the experiencing subject. I focus especially on supposed adaptive quality of pleasure-in-others’-aging.
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Morin, Catherine, and Yamina Bensalah. "The Self-Portrait in Adulthood and Aging." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 46, no. 1 (January 1998): 45–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/u3p8-8ybf-0dl0-hv2p.
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Ninety-eight participants aged thirty to eighty-five, drew a self-portrait in which the depiction of face features and limb extremities was studied. Statistical multivariate analysis permitted to describe three classes of drawings with different modes of representation of hands and face features. The representation of the hands was problematic in most of the participants regardless of age. There was a relation between age and not representing the face features: 17 percent of the participants over sixty-five did not represent the face features vs. none of the younger participants. Results are discussed from a psychoanalytic perspective. The difficulties in representing the hands are discussed in relation to castration. The absence of face features in the portraits of some elderly drawers could indicate a minimal age-related defect of the network which establishes that the real mouth and eyes are both symbolic body orifices and imaginary face features. The comments made by some drawers strongly suggest that this absence may also represent an incapacity to face the losses imposed by aging.
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Jin, Bora, and Elizabeth A. Roumell. "“Getting Used to It, but Still Unwelcome”: A Grounded Theory Study of Physical Identity Development in Later Life." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 18 (September 10, 2021): 9557. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189557.
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Given the global trends toward an aging society and the increased desire for healthy aging in late life, this study examines older adults’ perceptions of aging and their physical identity through their engagement in physical activities. Adopting a grounded theory, we interviewed 15 individuals aged 65 years and older, who were involved in physical activities on a regular basis. This study provided a final model depicting (a) divergent and convergent modes of strategies and socioemotional aspects of physical identity development in later life and (b) different strategies employed between younger-old versus older-old age groups and between participants who have underlying health conditions and those who do not. These findings add a contextual explanation of identity development in later life and stress the recurring process of physical identity development.
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Valet, F., K. Ezzedine, D. Malvy, J. Y. Mary, and C. Guinot. "Assessing the reliability of four severity scales depicting skin ageing features." British Journal of Dermatology 161, no. 1 (July 2009): 153–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2009.09148.x.
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Mitzner, Tracy L., and Katinka Dijkstra. "Evaluating User Centered Design of E-Health for Older Adults." International Journal of Computers in Clinical Practice 1, no. 2 (July 2016): 24–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijccp.2016070102.
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Health care related technology, or E-health, has the potential to lessen the impact of the growing aging population on the health care system and support older adults' preference for aging in place. However, for technologies to be adopted by older users, research is needed to understand older adults' unique health care needs, their preferences for support, and their perceptions of technologies designed for health care. Specifically directed toward older users, this article highlights the need for user-centered design and the implications for technology acceptance, and describes studies that employed systematic subjective methods such as focus groups, interviews, and questionnaires to provide a rich, detailed depiction of older users' interactions with E-health. User-centered design evaluations involving older adults can help designers create products and services that are more likely to be adopted by older adult end users.
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González Velastín, Rodrigo. "Social policy and the production of age norms for later life: The case of ageing policies in Chile." International Journal of Ageing and Later Life 13, no. 1 (April 8, 2019): 5–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.17373.
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Social policies have been recognised as guiding narratives that promote and legitimise certain models of ageing. This finding, however, has been achieved by studies focussed on the reality of developed countries. Furthermore, little is known about how social policies promote age norms for later life in the context of developing countries. This research addresses this knowledge gap and focusses on the Chilean case, paying particular attention to what age norms are promoted by the two national ageing policies implemented by this country in 1996 and 2012. A critical discourse analysis method was used to identify the ways in which each policy conceptualises ageing as a social problem and the prescriptive behaviours and expectations that each policy promotes regarding old age. Results indicate that a rhetorical evolution can be observed in the analysed period, as each policy promotes different later life depictions and social norms.
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Kyllonen, Kelsey M., and Keith L. Monson. "Depiction of ethnic facial aging by forensic artists and preliminary assessment of the applicability of facial averages." Forensic Science International 313 (August 2020): 110353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110353.
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Latimer, Joanna. "Repelling neoliberal world-making? How the ageing–dementia relation is reassembling the social." Sociological Review 66, no. 4 (June 12, 2018): 832–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026118777422.
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Growing old ‘badly’ is stigmatizing, a truism that is enrolled into contemporary agendas for the biomedicalization of ageing. Among the many discourses that emphasize ageing as the root cause of later life illnesses, dementia is currently promoted as an epidemic and such hyperbole serves to legitimate its increasing biomedicalization. The new stigma however is no longer contained to simply having dementia, it is failing to prevent it. Anti-ageing cultures of consumption, alongside a proliferation of cultural depictions of the ageing–dementia relation, seem to be refiguring dementia as a future to be worked on to eliminate it from our everyday life. The article unpacks this complexity for how the ageing–dementia relation is being reassembled in biopolitics in ways that enact it as something that can be transformed and managed. Bringing together Bauman’s theories of how cultural communities cope with the otherness of the other with theories of the rationale for the making of monsters – such as the figure of the abject older person with dementia – the article suggests that those older body-persons that personify the ageing–dementia relation, depicted in film and television for example, threaten the modes of ordering underpinning contemporary lives. This is not just because they intimate loss of mind, or because they are disruptive, but because they do not perform what it is to be ‘response-able’ and postpone frailty through managing self and risk.
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Boenink, Marianne, Yvonne Cuijpers, Anna Laura van der Laan, Harro van Lente, and Ellen Moors. "Assessing the Sociocultural Impacts of Emerging Molecular Technologies for the Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease." International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 2011 (2011): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/184298.
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Novel technologies for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) will impact the way society views and deals with AD and ageing. However, such “sociocultural” impacts are hardly acknowledged in standard approaches of technology assessment. In this paper, we outline three steps to assess such broader impacts. First, conceptual analysis of the ideas underlying technological developments shows how these technologies redraw the boundary between Alzheimer's disease and normal ageing and between biological and social approaches of ageing. Second, imaginative scenarios are designed depicting different possible futures of AD diagnosis and societal ways to deal with ageing and the aged. Third, such scenarios enable deliberation on the sociocultural impact of AD diagnostic technologies among a broad set of stakeholders. An early, broad, and democratic assessment of innovations in diagnostics of AD is a valuable addition to established forms of technology assessment.
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Pickard, Susan. "On becoming a hag: gender, ageing and abjection." Feminist Theory 21, no. 2 (July 2, 2019): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700119859751.
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In this article, I explore, through the novels of Elena Ferrante, the role played by the ‘abject’ in mediating ageing in women, focusing on its role in the movement from a disempowered to a more powerful subject position. The article has three sections. The first describes the role of the abject in constituting the feminine, focusing on the place of temporality and ageing in this process. Represented by the symbolic figure of the hag, the old woman is a source of primal fear which forms the foundation of a violently misogynistic gendered (self-)formation. However, following Barbara Creed, there are two representational forms of the hag, that of victim (hag) and that of monster (Hag), which I argue also suggest alternative subjectivities associated with ageing femininity. In the second section, I explore the movement from one form to the other by means of conceptual models drawn from Simone de Beauvoir and Margaret Morganroth Gullette, in which process a battle over the symbolic meaning of abjection is central. Moreover, ageing itself is significant in mediating the shift from an oppressed/fragmented to a powerful/integrated subject position. Whilst the structures of feeling involved in this subjectivity are emergent, fiction and imaginative literature may provide helpful early depictions and in the last section I illustrate the psychosocial domain with material drawn from two early novels by Elena Ferrante.
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BARRETT, ANNA M., and CATHERINE E. CRAVER-LEMLEY. "Is it what you see, or how you say it? Spatial bias in young and aged subjects." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 14, no. 4 (June 25, 2008): 562–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617708080764.
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Healthy subjects demonstrate leftward bias on visual–spatial tasks. However, young controls may also be left-biased when drawing communicatively, depicting the subject of a sentence leftward on a page relative to the sentence object, that is, a spatial–syntactic, implicit task. A leftward visual–spatial bias may decrease with aging, as right-hemisphere, dorsal, visual–spatial activation may be reduced in elderly subjects performing these tasks. We compared horizontal and radial (near–far) visual spatial bias, and spatial–syntactic bias, in healthy young and aged participants. Both horizontal and radial visual–spatial bias were smaller in aged participants when explicitly, but not implicitly assessed. Mean implicit far bias was greater in aged subjects, although this varied by task. We observed less implicit, spatial–syntactic left bias in aged than young participants. These results may be consistent with relatively less dominance of right hemisphere, dorsal spatial systems with aging. (JINS, 2008, 14, 562–570.)
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H, Balamurugan, and Venkatesh S. "A review on deterministic and stochastic models for electrical treeing initiation and propagation in solid insulation systems from the perspective of prediction assessment techniques." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4 (September 17, 2018): 2271. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.18150.
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Electrical treeing is a challenging prospect related to degradation mechanism in dielectrics that eventually leads to its breakdown. Treeing propagation depends on dielectric and electrode configuration thus leading to types such as branch, filamentary, bush etc. Though researchers have attempted a gamut of studies related to treeing, it is evident that appropriate choice of prognostic model is essential for prediction of ageing of insulation that emulate features such as dendrite length, channel width, space charge etc. Although studies related to treeing modeling have taken up depictions such as Diffusion Limited Aggregation, Field Limiting Space Charge etc. to obtain estimates of electric potential based on boundary value equations (Laplace and Poisson) utilizing tools such as Fractal Analysis, Cellular Automata etc., challenges such as space charge, inhomogeneity factor etc. continue to confront researchers. This research gives a detailed insight into a wide spectrum of studies related to treeing and ageing prediction assessment of insulation based on physical, electrical, numerical and analytical models developed thus far. This study also summarizes succinctly, the merits and limitations in each method and avenues for improvement. Finally, this research gives clues into important future opportunities related to methodologies for development pertaining to treeing prediction and ageing assessment.
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Frank, Jane. "Ironbark and stone: Place and belonging in the nature novels of Inga Simpson." Queensland Review 24, no. 2 (November 17, 2017): 229–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2017.34.
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AbstractThis article discusses Sunshine Coast writer Inga Simpson's nature writing in three recent novels, Mr Wigg (2013), Nest (2014b) and Where the Trees Were (2016c). It addresses Simpson's self-categorisation as a nature writer, and shows how the recurrent motif of sacred trees allows three introspective protagonists to reach new understandings of universal themes: loss of love and innocence, ageing, inheritance, childlessness, sexuality, death, ancient cultures, cultural integrity and preservation of the environment. The article considers Simpson's ‘anti-Gothic’ approach to landscape in her novels, yet also shows how her ‘realist’ depictions of place evoke unease surrounding the issue of white belonging in Australia. Simpson's metaphoric self-identification with trees, particularly the Australian ironbark, is pivotal to the quiet power of her fiction's exploration of belonging in the Australian landscape.
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Raka Dewantara, Anak Agung Gede, I. Wayan Srijaya, and Ida Bagus Sapta Jaya. "Kajian Ikonografi dan Fungsi Arca Hindu-Buddha di Pura Agung Batan Bingin Pejeng Kawan." Humanis 24, no. 3 (August 28, 2020): 266. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/jh.2020.v24.i03.p05.
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Period Hindu-Buddha in Indonesian, Leaving behind a variety of archaeological heights. Research to investigate the definition statue Hindu-Buddha at Agung Batan Bingin Temple, Pejeng Kawan Village. The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the history of Balinese culture in the past especially its aspect of religment. The writer apply this method for accumulation file like library study, observasion, interview as well as analysis, iconography. The theory used to help analysis is the functional theory. Based on the results of the research Found that there is an iconography mark in the statues of Hindu-Buddha on Agung Batan Bingin Temple. Iconography mark show the variety of jewelry, clothing, art, and posture depiction. Statue Hindu-Buddha on Bingin Temple including to ancient Balinese periodic. Statue Hindu-Buddha on Agung Batan Bingin Temple untill now still being used as an instrument of veneration by the people of Bali performing religious ceremonies, the Balinese people used to call it "Penyungsung Pura". Statue Hindu-Buddha the, believed in society pejeng kawan village as a means of begging for protection, safety, and plants fertility in society Pejeng Kawan Village.
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Wulandari, Anak Agung Ayu. "Membaca Simbol pada Lukisan Pertempuran Antara Sultan Agung dan Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1974) Karya S. Sudjojono." Humaniora 6, no. 2 (April 30, 2015): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/humaniora.v6i2.3337.
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Sudjojono has produced hundreds of artworks, one of them is the painting of “The Battle between Sultan Agung and Jan Pieterszoon Coen”. Sizing 3 x 10 m, not only this painting is significant in size, it also shows Sudjojono’s in-depth study from aesthetic and historical side. The painting consists of 3 panels depicting Sultan Agung’s meeting with his royals, the battle scene between Mataram and Dutch troops, and the last panel depicting the meeting between JP Coen and Kyai Rangga. Some of the message conveyed by the painter is that the painting was 70% made of historical facts and did not come from the painter imagination only, better to be in peace than war and revenge and the last message is that western and eastern people are actually equal, and as eastern people should not need to have low self-esteem. Besides those messages there are still many symbols and signs that have in-depth meaning which will be studied and examined thoroughly such as figures involved in the battle, location of battle, clothing, etc.
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Man, Fuat. "Age discrimination at work and some reflections from job ads: The case of Turkey." European Journal of Management Issues 28, no. 4 (December 25, 2020): 162–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/192016.
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Purpose – to analyze the situation of age discrimination at work and to give some reflections from job ads in the case of Turkey.
Design/Method/Approach of the research. This study presents a limited depiction of age discrimination occurring in Turkey by analyzing job ads.
Findings. One of the most critical demographic issues for the entire world, especially for the advanced world, is aging. It is essential as it necessitates some critical regulations that have economic and social consequences. During this aging trend, job seekers over a certain age in labor markets face age discrimination. Although many countries, both developed and developing, have some legal regulations against age discrimination, it remains a crucial form of discrimination. Where we can easily see this kind of discrimination is job ads. This study examined more than fifteen hundred job ads posted by İŞKUR, state-affiliated Employment Agency of Turkey, for the cities of Marmara Region of Turkey were examined. Nearly 20% of all job ads is indicating some statement for age limit.
Research limitations/Future Research. Although just the age value indicated by employers in the ads itself does not mean an absolute age discrimination rate, 20 % is a vital implication for that kind of discrimination, and also, this figure implies the need for detailed further studies.
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Man, Fuat. "Age discrimination at work and some reflections from job ads: The case of Turkey." European Journal of Management Issues 28, no. 4 (December 25, 2020): 162–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/192016.
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Purpose – to analyze the situation of age discrimination at work and to give some reflections from job ads in the case of Turkey.
Design/Method/Approach of the research. This study presents a limited depiction of age discrimination occurring in Turkey by analyzing job ads.
Findings. One of the most critical demographic issues for the entire world, especially for the advanced world, is aging. It is essential as it necessitates some critical regulations that have economic and social consequences. During this aging trend, job seekers over a certain age in labor markets face age discrimination. Although many countries, both developed and developing, have some legal regulations against age discrimination, it remains a crucial form of discrimination. Where we can easily see this kind of discrimination is job ads. This study examined more than fifteen hundred job ads posted by İŞKUR, state-affiliated Employment Agency of Turkey, for the cities of Marmara Region of Turkey were examined. Nearly 20% of all job ads is indicating some statement for age limit.
Research limitations/Future Research. Although just the age value indicated by employers in the ads itself does not mean an absolute age discrimination rate, 20 % is a vital implication for that kind of discrimination, and also, this figure implies the need for detailed further studies.
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Handtke, Violet, Wiebke Bretschneider, Bernice Elger, and Tenzin Wangmo. "The collision of care and punishment: Ageing prisoners’ view on compassionate release." Punishment & Society 19, no. 1 (August 1, 2016): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1462474516644679.
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Most prisoners wish to spend their last days outside prison. Early release of seriously ill and ageing prisoners, commonly termed compassionate release, can be granted based on legal regulations but is rarely successful. The aim of this paper is to present the views of ageing prisoners on compassionate release using qualitative interviews. Participants argued for compassionate release on the grounds of illness and old age, citing respect for human dignity. Their hopes of an early release however often contradicted their actual experiences. Framing these results within Garland’s depiction of the criminology of the self and the criminology of the other, it is evident that in reality, the punitive strategy prevails. This strategy explains the rare use of compassionate release and how it negatively impacts prisoners’ access to end-of-life care. A possible solution is the welfarist criminology, strongly supported by a human rights approach. Awareness of the dominance of the punitive strategy is crucial for medical personnel as they are best placed to ensure access to end-of-life care for prisoners through compassionate release.
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Chareyron, Romain. "Haptic Vision and the Experience of Difference in Agnès Varda’s Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000)." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 7, no. 1 (November 1, 2013): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2014-0016.
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Abstract This article investigates how, in her documentary The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, 2000), French director Agnès Varda relies on the establishment of haptic vision in order to merge the experience of her own body with the representation of another “body,” that of people living at the margins of society and gleaning for food. In so doing, the article will bring out the director’s social and aesthetic concerns by positing that Varda turns to a sensuous depiction based on the textural properties of the image to deter any form of instrumental vision regarding the representation of the body and its connections to pre-determined norms of conduct. The article will show that, in its portrayal of a socially and economically alienated group of people, as well as in the rendering of her aging body, Varda’s miseen- scène brings forth a tactile form of knowledge that calls for a humanistic approach, thus defusing any form of mastery of the gaze over the image.
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Norrie, Louisa M., Keri Diamond, Ian B. Hickie, Naomi L. Rogers, Samantha Fearns, and Sharon L. Naismith. "Can older “at risk” adults benefit from psychoeducation targeting healthy brain aging?" International Psychogeriatrics 23, no. 3 (July 30, 2010): 413–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610210001109.
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ABSTRACTBackground:Multifactorial strategies that prevent or delay the onset or progress of cognitive decline and dementia are needed, and should include education regarding recognized risk factors. The current study sought to investigate whether older adults “at risk” of cognitive decline benefit from psychoeducation targeting healthy brain aging.Methods:65 participants (mean age 64.8 years, SD 9.6) with a lifetime history of major depression; vascular risk as evidenced by at least one vascular risk factor; and/or subjective or objective memory impairment were allocated to weekly psychoeducation sessions or a waitlist control group. The small group sessions were conducted over ten weeks by a team of medical and allied health professionals with expertise in late-life depression and cognition. Sessions focused on modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline including vascular risk, diet, exercise, depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance, as well as providing practical strategies for memory and cognition. Both the psychoeducation and waitlist group completed a 20-item knowledge test at baseline and follow-up. Participants in the psychoeducation group were asked to complete follow-up self-report satisfaction questionnaires.Results:Repeated measures ANOVA showed a significant interaction effect depicting improvements in knowledge associated with psychoeducation, corresponding to an improvement of 15% from baseline. Satisfaction data additionally showed that 92.3% of participants rated the program as “good” to “excellent”, and over 90% suggested they would recommend it to others.Conclusions:A group-based psychoeducation program targeting healthy brain aging is effective in improving knowledge. Additionally, it is acceptable and rated highly by participants.
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Mardini, Mamoun, Todd Manini, and Jennifer Schrack. "Smart Wearables in the Lens of Aging: Results From the ROAMM Study." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 798. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2894.
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Abstract Continuous, long-term monitoring with remote capabilities using wearable technology is ideal for capturing information about patient/participant symptoms synced to sensor-based information. The Real-time Online Assessment and Mobility Monitor (ROAMM) is a smartwatch framework configured to collect data in free-living settings from both sensor-based (location and movement) and responses to symptom notifications through a visual display. The symposium presents the overall framework and preliminary findings from a demonstration study in older adults with knee osteoarthritis. Karnati will present the general framework of ROAMM explaining the data flow from the smartwatch to end users (clinicians and research). He will highlight components in the design that makes the framework unique and highly flexible to serve different studies with different research questions. Rouzaud evaluated satisfaction, usability and compliance wearing a smartwatch and using the ROAMM app. Participants were compliant to ecological prompts about pain, fatigue and mood three times a day (82.5% compliance rate). Additionally, > 70% reported being satisfied with the function/usability and comfort with using ROAMM and wearing the smartwatch. Mardini examined the temporal relationship between ecological pain and derived life-space mobility features from Global Positioning System coordinates. Results suggested that higher level of knee pain in older adults was associated with lower life-space mobility. Manini examined physician perception towards an electronic health record (EHR) graphical interface of top ranked patient attributes of pain, falls, hydration and mobility patterns. Results indicated a relatively high level of usability of the EHR interface depicting smartwatch data.
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Franklin, Louise. "Untitled: Women’s clothing and ageing femininity in the portraits of Chaim Soutine." Clothing Cultures 5, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 315–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cc.5.3.315_1.
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Chaim Soutine’s (1893–1943) representation of clothes in his portraits has attracted very little scholarly or curatorial attention to date. For the first time in the near century of literature that has accumulated about the artist, this article discusses the women in Soutine’s portraits, focussing on their clothing and age, and ageing femininity more generally as a subject within Soutine’s practice. The status and fashions of women in inter-war France provide a context to demonstrate that youth, newness and fashionableness were not subjects for the artist, who instead favoured white women of middle- to older-age wearing their ‘Sunday best’ as his models. His practice of framing, containing and presenting women for inspection is also demonstrated for the first time, as well as the nuanced balance he strikes between accurately representing the details of studied garments and intensely working wider areas of colour in the same painting. The article’s wider conclusion is that acknowledgement of the complexity and rigour of Soutine’s art – including his detailed depiction of his sitters’ clothing – has consistently been blocked by the image of Soutine as purely expressionistic, uncontrolled painter, an image that must be released if new analysis of his work, such as that undertaken in this article, is going to take place.
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Hong, Xin, Cong Zhang, Feng Wang, and Xiao-Tao Wu. "Large Cytoplasmic Vacuoles within Notochordal Nucleus Pulposus Cells: A Possible Regulator of Intracellular Pressure That Shapes the Cytoskeleton and Controls Proliferation." Cells Tissues Organs 206, no. 1-2 (2018): 9–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000493258.
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Degeneration of the intervertebral disc, which is closely associated with the loss of vacuolated notochordal nucleus pulposus cells (NNPC), remains a major cause of lower-back pain and motor deficiency. Being the most defining characteristic of NNPC, large cytoplasmic vacuoles not only modulate the cytoskeleton and shape cell morphology but they also respond to the disc microenvironment and regulate the biological behavior of vacuolated cells as a potent reporter of the histocytological changes that occur at the beginning of disc aging and degeneration. Here we hypothesize a model in which large cytoplasmic vacuoles primarily function to maintain a reasonable intracellular pressure (Pv) that facilitates NNPC in resisting the extracellular mechanical loading (Pe), part of which is absorbed by the extracellular matrix (Pm), forming the equation Pe = Pm + Pv. By mimicking a situation of contact-induced growth inhibition, the crowded cytoplasmic vacuoles slow down the proliferation of NNPC and restrain the generation of nonvacuolated chondrocytic nucleus pulposus cells (CNPC), whereas increased mechanical loading (↑Pe) alters cytoskeletons and breaches cytoplasmic vacuoles, which in turn weakens the vacuoles-mediated proliferation check, increases the generation of CNPC that accumulates fibrocartilaginous matrix, and rebalances the increased loading with elevated Pm (↑Pm) and lowered Pv (↓Pv), equating to ↑Pe = ↑Pm + ↓Pv. By depicting the biological function and the disappearance of the cytoplasmic vacuoles, our model highlights a mechanical exhaustion of the notochordal cell resources, which might help to elucidate the histocytological changes that initiate disc aging and degeneration.
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Huang, Shao-Yi, Yue-Gau Chen, George S. Burr, Manoj K. Jaiswal, Yunung Nina Lin, Gongming Yin, Jingwei Liu, Shujun Zhao, and Zhongquan Cao. "Late Pleistocene sedimentary history of multiple glacially dammed lake episodes along the Yarlung-Tsangpo river, southeast Tibet." Quaternary Research 82, no. 2 (September 2014): 430–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.06.001.
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AbstractWe present a reconstructed lithologic column compiled from a series of lacustrine outcrops along a tributary of the Nyang River, a major tributary of the Yarlung-Tsangpo in southeast Tibet. The deposits were preserved between terraces at altitudes of 2950–3100 m asl. The stratigraphic record features at least two sets of coarsening-upward sequences depicting episodic aggradation and progradation of a glacially dammed lake related delta. Recognized facies changes illustrate the evolution cycles of depositional environments from pro-delta, delta front, to delta plain. Radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dates reveal an aging-downward trend in stratigraphic order and provide an approximate timeline for the formation of glacially dammed lakes in late Pleistocene. This result reflects that the Zelunglung Glacier had progressively advanced to block the Yarlung-Tsangpo river and the dam materials had stepwise stacked up to an altitude of 3095 m asl during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stages 4 to 2.
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Haase, Claudia, Deborah Wu, Sandy Lwi, Alice Verstaen, and Robert Levenson. "The Bright Sides of Sadness in Late Life." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 627. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2139.
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Abstract Sadness is often thought of as unpleasant and dysfunctional. Yet, evolutionary-functionalist approaches and discrete emotional aging frameworks suggest that sadness is an emotion that helps us deal with loss and thus may become particularly salient and adaptive in late life. This talk presents findings from a multi-study, multi-method research program using age-diverse samples and experimental and longitudinal study designs. Findings show (1) intact or elevated levels of sadness responding in late life (i.e., higher sadness expressions in response to distressing film clips; higher coherence between sad facial expressions and autonomic physiology in response to film clips depicting loss; stability in sadness behaviors in marital conflict interactions). Moreover, (2) higher levels of sadness responding are linked to adaptive outcomes in late life (i.e., higher social connectedness, higher compensatory control strategies) with some effects generalizing across age groups (i.e., links between sadness coherence and well-being). Implications for future research are discussed.
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Angjaya, Sonny. "THE POWER OF BU TEJO AND DIAN? THE ANALYSIS OF FEMINIST POWER RELATION IN THE FILM TILIK." Capture : Jurnal Seni Media Rekam 12, no. 2 (July 3, 2021): 132–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.33153/capture.v12i2.3613.
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Tilik is a short film directed by Wahyu Agung Prasetyo. Given that the film's plot is primarily focused on the relationships of its female characters, the problem of female representation cannot be ignored. This article focuses on the power dynamic between the film's two central female characters, Bu Tejo and Dian, through the lens of Amy Allen's feminist perspective on power. The analysis identifies four dimensions of representation that contribute significantly to the development of their power relationship: physical appearance, marital status, gender role depiction, and socioeconomic status. The underlying significance of the power relationship between Bu Tejo and Dian in the film is analyzed through qualitative Content Analysis and Contextual Analysis approaches. This study reveals that the film portrays both women ambiguously, how patriarchal society creates an ecosystem that pits women against one another for power, and how the minor male characters in the film continue to exert signifficant influence over Bu Tejo and Dian in acquiring, maintaining, and exercising their power in a patriarchal society.
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Koumpis, Adamantios, and Thomas Gees. "Sex with robots: A not-so-niche market for disabled and older persons." Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics 11, no. 1 (June 2, 2020): 228–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2020-0009.
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AbstractIn this article, we present our experiences from research into the healthy ageing and well-being of older people and we report on our personal opinions of robots that may help the elderly to have sex and to cope with isolation and loneliness. However, and while there is a growing industry for sex robots and other sex toys and gadgets, there is also a growing concern about the ethics of such an industry. As is the case with pornography, the concept of sex robots may be criticized, yet it has deep roots in human civilization, with erotic depictions that date back to the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Ages. So the need for an artefact that would offer sexually relevant functionality is not new at all. But what might be new and worrying is the potential for using artificial intelligence in sex robots in ways that might cause a repositioning of our entire value system. Such a threat is not related to the proliferation of sex robots per se but to the use of robots in general and in a variety of other fields of application.
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Stawarczyk, David, Christopher N. Wahlheim, Joset A. Etzel, Abraham Z. Snyder, and Jeffrey M. Zacks. "Aging and the encoding of changes in events: The role of neural activity pattern reinstatement." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 47 (November 23, 2020): 29346–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918063117.
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When encountering unexpected event changes, memories of relevant past experiences must be updated to form new representations. Current models of memory updating propose that people must first generate memory-based predictions to detect and register that features of the environment have changed, then encode the new event features and integrate them with relevant memories of past experiences to form configural memory representations. Each of these steps may be impaired in older adults. Using functional MRI, we investigated these mechanisms in healthy young and older adults. In the scanner, participants first watched a movie depicting everyday activities in a day of an actor’s life. They next watched a second nearly identical movie in which some scenes ended differently. Crucially, before watching the last part of each activity, the second movie stopped, and participants were asked to mentally replay how the activity previously ended. Three days later, participants were asked to recall the activities. Neural activity pattern reinstatement in medial temporal lobe (MTL) during the replay phase of the second movie was associated with detecting changes and with better memory for the original activity features. Reinstatements in posterior medial cortex (PMC) additionally predicted better memory for changed features. Compared to young adults, older adults showed a reduced ability to detect and remember changes and weaker associations between reinstatement and memory performance. These findings suggest that PMC and MTL contribute to change processing by reinstating previous event features, and that older adults are less able to use reinstatement to update memory for changed features.
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BARRETT, ANNE E., and MIRIAM NAIMAN-SESSIONS. "‘It's our turn to play’: performance of girlhood as a collective response to gendered ageism." Ageing and Society 36, no. 4 (February 9, 2015): 764–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x15000021.
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ABSTRACTIn our society that values men over women and youth over old age, sexism and ageism intersect to erode women's status more rapidly and severely than men's. However, limited attention is given to women's responses to their devaluation, particularly collective efforts to either resist or accommodate dominant beliefs about ageing women. We examine membership in the Red Hat Society, an international organisation for middle-aged and older women, as a response to gendered ageism. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with members (N = 52), our analysis focuses on the group's ‘performance of girlhood’, which involves adopting children's social roles, dressing up and playing. We examine its resonance with a dominant cultural metaphor for old age as ‘second childhood’, illustrating how it not only provides opportunities for resistance to gendered ageism but also contributes to its entrenchment. The behaviours constitute a performative act that resists gendered ageism by increasing ageing women's visibility and asserting their right to leisure. However, its accommodative features reproduce inequality by valuing youth over old age and depicting older women as girls engaging in frivolous activities, which can be seen as obstructing social change.
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Pezda, J., and A. Jarco. "Effect of T6 Heat Treatment Parameters on Technological Quality of the AlSi7Mg Alloy." Archives of Foundry Engineering 16, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/afe-2016-0091.
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Abstract Very well-known advantages of aluminum alloys, such as low mass, good mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, machining-ability, high recycling potential and low cost are considered as a driving force for their development, i.e. implementation in new applications as early as in stage of structural design, as well as in development of new technological solutions. Mechanical and technological properties of the castings made from the 3xx.x group of alloys depend mainly on correctly performed processes of melting and casting, design of a mould and cast element, and a possible heat treatment. The subject-matter of this paper is elaboration of a diagrams and dependencies between parameters of dispersion hardening (temperatures and times of solutioning and ageing treatments) and mechanical properties obtained after heat treatment of the 356.0 (EN AC AlSi7Mg) alloy, enabling full control of dispersion hardening process to programming and obtaining a certain technological quality of the alloy in terms of its mechanical properties after performed heat treatments. Obtained results of the investigations have enabled obtainment of a dependencies depicting effect of parameters of the solutioning and ageing treatments on the mechanical properties (Rm, A5 and KC impact strength) of the investigated alloy. Spatial diagrams elaborated on the basis of these dependencies enable us to determine tendencies of changes of the mechanical properties of the 356.0 alloy in complete analyzed range of temperature and duration of the solutioning and ageing operations.
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Bolton, Lucy. "Ageing, Vulnerable and Unstable: My Week with Marilyn and Popular Perceptions of Vivien Leigh." Journal of British Cinema and Television 14, no. 2 (April 2017): 143–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2017.0360.
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This article will argue that My Week with Marilyn (2011), despite its central focus on Marilyn Monroe, offers important peripheral insights into the way in which Vivien Leigh is popularly perceived as neurotic and unstable, particularly in relation to her ageing, and that it depicts a moment in her life and career that calls for deeper analysis than this film affords. Leigh, played by Julia Ormond, appears in six scenes in the film, which depict her as threatened by Marilyn Monroe on personal and professional fronts. Drawing on material from the Vivien Leigh Archive held by the V&A to assist in analysing Leigh's image and career at this time, it is possible to construct a counter-narrative which acknowledges her personal difficulties but also her professional successes, creating a more complex picture of Leigh that both resists some of the negativities conveyed by My Week with Marilyn and also enables a fuller understanding of the circumstances that led to this kind of depiction. This article reads the Vivien Leigh scenes in My Week with Marilyn as an inadequate mini-biopic and takes them as a departure point to highlight the caricature the film presents and examine some of the reasons why this might be the case. In doing so, it exposes the assumptions made about the role of ageing in the careers of Leigh and Ormond, and the significance of the elisions and omissions.
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Dijkhoff, Tineke. "The ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation and its relevance in the European context." European Journal of Social Security 21, no. 4 (December 2019): 351–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262719890980.
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This article discusses the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202). This instrument takes account of the global recognition that social security plays a key role in addressing major challenges such as financial instability, growing inequality, insecure labour markets, large-scale migration flows, and population ageing. A national social protection floor is meant as a tool to prevent and reduce poverty and social insecurity by providing, over the lifecycle, health care and income security for all, at least at a basic level. After briefly depicting the background, objectives and substance of the Recommendation, the article examines its relevance for EU countries. The usefulness of the Recommendation for states with well-developed welfare systems, is demonstrated by pointing to several topical social security issues that constitute a lack of compliance with the concept of social protection floors.
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Duduciuc, Alina, Monica Bîră, and Liora Zyrtec. "Advertising Challenges in the Ageing Society: The Preferences of the Regular Gym-goers towards Age Portrayals in Advertising." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 20, no. 1 (April 1, 2018): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2018.1.253.
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Research studies from various disciplines including sociology, psychology, social psychology, marketing, advertising and media research have analyzed the representation of old-aged people in advertising, as well as the consumers’ habits of a targeted population aged 50 and over. Despite the availability of data on inappropriate depiction of seniors in media (including advertising), little research has been done so far to understand which are the seniors’ preferences regarding their portrayal in certain advertising campaigns. The aim of the current study was to explore the preferences of middle-aged adults toward the representation of old age in advertising. Specifically, we tested whether there is a relationship between the preferences of Romanians gym-goers (45-60 years) on age-related advertising and their body image. The results showed that the middle-aged adults prefer models that do not necessary match their age, that is the young older model. Our data also revealed that the choices for age representations in advertising were not associated with respondents’ body image emotions in certain contexts or situations. No significant relationship between body image and preference towards age-related representations in advertising was obtained. Additionally, the analysis of the data also revealed that compared to men, women are more likely to express displeasure with their body weights, and they believe the body image strongly impacts their self-esteem during life.
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Farina, Nicolas, Asghar Zaidi, Rosalind Willis, and Sara Balouch. "Attitudes, knowledge and beliefs about dementia: focus group discussions with Pakistani adults in Karachi and Lahore." Ageing and Society 40, no. 12 (July 18, 2019): 2558–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x19000862.
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AbstractPakistan is a lower middle-income country, which to date has had very little research and policy making to address the challenge of dementia. This study aims to explore the perceptions of dementia in a group of Pakistani adults. A series of focus group discussions were completed during 2017 with men and women in two metropolitan centres in Pakistan (Lahore and Karachi) (N = 40). Two vignettes, depicting someone with mild dementia and someone with severe dementia, were used to facilitate discussions. An induction-led thematic analysis was completed. Five themes were identified, reflecting (a) dementia awareness, (b) responsibility, (c) barriers to health care, (d) identified support needs, and (e) religion. Most participants had little awareness and knowledge about dementia, commonly understood to be a disease of forgetting or just normal ageing. Thus, there is an urgent need of a nation-wide campaign to raise dementia awareness in Pakistan, though this needs to be accompanied by improved, accessible health and social care services.
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Hwang, Ji-eun, Youjin Choi, Yu-seon Yang, and Yumi Oh. "Gender differences in the perceived effectiveness of female-focused graphic health warnings against smoking in South Korea." Health Education Journal 79, no. 1 (July 9, 2019): 58–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0017896919862308.
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Objective: Numerous studies have examined the effectiveness of graphic health warnings on different population segments, including male and female smokers, in an effort to reduce health disparities in Europe and the USA. However, research exploring the impact of gender-specific tobacco control interventions on Asian smokers is lacking. This study aimed to assess the perceived effectiveness of graphic health warning images featuring women smokers compared to gender-neutral warnings on South Korean women and men, by smoking status. Setting: Online survey with 1,200 adults (500 women; 475 smokers) in South Korea Design: A survey with four graphic health warnings (two female-focused and two gender-neutral warnings). Method: Participants were assigned to view two female-focused warnings (depicting smoking during pregnancy and risk of premature skin aging) or two gender-neutral warnings (depicting lung cancer and oral cancer), and rated their effectiveness in terms of persuading smokers to quit smoking and non-smokers to not begin smoking. Results: A significant interaction between gender and smoking status was found with the pregnancy warning. A post hoc comparison showed a significant difference between female smokers and female non-smokers, between male smokers and male non-smokers, and between female non-smokers and male non-smokers in their perceptions of warning effectiveness. Female non-smokers showed higher perceived effectiveness than male non-smokers and female smokers. Male non-smokers rated its perceived effectiveness lower than male smokers. Regarding the gender-neutral warnings, a participant’s age affected their perceived effectiveness of the cancer warnings. Conclusion: Findings suggest that graphic health warnings of smoking during pregnancy are perceived more effective by female non-smokers than female smokers and male non-smokers. Gender-neutral warnings with cancer images are perceived differently by age group. Future studies need to examine how social and cultural factors surrounding female smokers in South Korea affect their perceptions about female-focused warnings and the effects of the warnings on their motivation to quit smoking.
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Calasanti, Toni M. "Participation in a Dual Economy and Adjustment to Retirement." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 26, no. 1 (January 1988): 13–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/mmcy-devw-0llk-l7gn.
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Past studies of adjustment to retirement have generally accepted social structure as a given, and have instead focused upon individual level variables. Based upon criticisms of the white-collar/blue-collar depiction of the work world, an alternative model of the economic system is introduced in an attempt to interject variability in the area of social structure. Utilizing a national sample of men derived from the National Opinion Research Center (1972–1977 inclusive), this dual economic model is employed to assess the effects of sectoral placement of workers on subsequent retirement satisfaction. Findings from multiple regression analysis suggest that such placement renders two qualitatively different groups of retirees, one which is primarily concerned with health, and one for which financial adequacy is more important for retirement adjustment. Overall, it was concluded that structural components must be included in research on the retirement process. In addition, the variability among the different scales used to indicate adjustment to retirement suggests that these may have to be altered to adequately reflect the process of adjustment for each of the groups of retirees. These changes must be based on the structural aspects of the economic order which mandate very different work experiences.