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Journal articles on the topic "Disability and travel"
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Deka, Devajyoti. "Factors associated with disability paratransit's travel time reliability." Journal of Transport Geography 48 (October 2015): 96–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.08.020.
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Fattori, Lorenzo. "Disability: Between Mobility and Organizational Inclusion." puntOorg International Journal 7, no. 1 (April 6, 2022): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.19245/25.05.pij.7.1.3.
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Various charters of rights in Western society recognise a specific right to mobility, but it may actually be difficult to travel freely for some citizens. Indeed, people with disabilities often encounter technical or organisational problems that prevent them from enjoying this right. We believe that ensuring mobility is fundamental for the organisational inclusion of people with disabilities. Since the early 1990s, many legislative provisions have been drafted to create and improve travel possibilities for people with disabilities in Italy. Therefore, after thirty years, it is legitimate to investigate the state of the arts of such provisions nowadays. Thus, the following paper carries out a specific study of the functioning of transport systems from the point of view of people with disabilities so as to explore the possibilities of improvements. Furthermore, this study evaluates if further interventions are necessary regarding the legislative framework and, above all, the actual possibilities of mobility offered by transport systems, beginning with the railroad, which first, in the 1980s, started to offer specific services for people with disabilities.
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El Moghazy, Mona, and Nashwa El Sheriff. "Employing Persons with Mobility Disability in Travel Agencies: An Exploratory Study Applied to Egyptian Travel Agencies." International Academic Journal Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management 3, no. 3 (October 1, 2017): 221–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ijaf.2017.95542.
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Darcy, Simon. "(Dis)Embodied Air Travel Experiences: Disability, Discrimination and the Affect of a Discontinuous Air Travel Chain." Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 19, no. 1 (January 2012): 91–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jht.2012.9.
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Lancioni, G. E., F. Campodonico, and M. Mantini. "Supporting Independent Indoor Travel of People with Blindness and Intellectual Disability with Reduced Frequencies of Auditory Cues." Perceptual and Motor Skills 92, no. 1 (February 2001): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.2001.92.1.83.
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This study evaluated the feasibility of supporting independent indoor travel using reduced frequencies of auditory cues with two persons having total blindness and profound intellectual disability. For these persons, who had acquired satisfactory travel performance with cues occurring every 8 sec., the cue frequencies were reduced to one-half or one-third of the original level. Analysis showed that both participants could manage accurate travel under the new cue conditions, even though their travel time (efficiency) seemed negatively affected. Implications of the findings were discussed.
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Maizlish, Neil, Linda Rudolph, and Chengsheng Jiang. "Health Benefits of Strategies for Carbon Mitigation in US Transportation, 2017‒2050." American Journal of Public Health 112, no. 3 (March 2022): 426–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2021.306600.
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Objectives. To quantify health benefits and carbon emissions of 2 transportation scenarios that contrast optimum levels of physical activity from active travel and minimal air pollution from electric cars. Methods. We used data on burden of disease, travel, and vehicle emissions in the US population and a health impact model to assess health benefits and harms of physical activity from transportation-related walking and cycling, fine particulate pollution from car emissions, and road traffic injuries. We compared baseline travel with walking and cycling a median of 150 weekly minutes for physical activity, and with electric cars that minimized carbon pollution and fine particulates. Results. In 2050, the target year for carbon neutrality, the active travel scenario avoided 167 000 deaths and gained 2.5 million disability-adjusted life years, monetized at $1.6 trillion using the value of a statistical life. Carbon emissions were reduced by 24% from baseline. Electric cars avoided 1400 deaths and gained 16 400 disability-adjusted life years, monetized at $13 billion. Conclusions. To achieve carbon neutrality in transportation and maximize health benefits, active travel should have a prominent role along with electric vehicles in national blueprints. (Am J Public Health. 2022; 112(3):426–433. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306600 )
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Bearden, Elizabeth B. "Moctezuma’s Zoo: Housing Disability in Transatlantic Travel Literature and European Courts." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 17, no. 1 (2013): 161–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2013.0019.
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Bérubé, Michael. "Disability and Narrative." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120, no. 2 (March 2005): 568–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900167914.
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After a decade of working in disability studies, I still find myself surprised by the presence of disability in narratives I had never considered to be “about” disability—in animated films from Dumbo to Finding Nemo; in literary texts from Huckleberry Finn to Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays; and, most curiously, even in the world of science fiction and superheroes, a world that turns out to be populated by blind Daredevils, mutant supercrips, and posthuman cyborgs of all kinds. Indeed, I now consider it plausible that the genre of science fiction is as obsessed with disability as it is with space travel and alien contact. Sometimes disability is simply underrecognized in familiar sci-fi narratives: ask Philip K. Dick fans about the importance of disability in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and you'll probably get blank stares. But the Voigt-Kampff empathy test by which the authorities distinguish humans from androids was, Dick tells us, actually developed after World War Terminus to identify “specials,” people neurologically damaged by radioactive fallout, so that the state could prevent them from reproducing. That aspect of the novel's complication of the human-android distinction is lost in the film Blade Runner, but the film does give us an engineer with a disability that involves premature aging, which links him intimately to the androids who have life spans of only four years.
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Zhu, Tian Yang, Hui Min Wang, and Jun Liang Zhou. "Research on the design of travel aids for the elderly with partial disability of lower limbs." E3S Web of Conferences 275 (2021): 03037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127503037.
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As the population continues to age, the daily lives of those with disabled lower limbs have gradually become an unavoidable social welfare problem. Based on an investigation and analysis into the daily routines of the elderly with partial disability in their lower limbs, the product design experiment is proposed to solve any mobility difficulties in the elderly with partial disability in their lower limbs to provide practical help that can ensure their independence and social contact. Based on the literature research and market comparison, According to the assessment criteria for the Instrumental Activity of Daily Living Scale (IADL), the physiological functions and user behaviors of this elderly population were investigated, and the actual needs for outdoor walking were analyzed. The idea of focusing on auxiliary tools for the elderly with lower limb disability was proposed, and a tool to aid in short-distance travel was designed for this target group to improve their IADL travel index and optimize their mobility.
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Deshpande, Manasi, and Yue Li. "Who Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11, no. 4 (November 1, 2019): 213–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.20180076.
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We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs. We identify these effects using the closings of Social Security Administration field offices, which provide assistance with filing disability applications. Closings lead to a persistent 16 percent decline in the number of disability recipients in surrounding areas, with the largest effects for applicants with moderately severe conditions and low education levels. Disability applications fall by only 10 percent, implying that the closings reduce targeting efficiency based on current eligibility standards. Increased congestion at neighboring offices appears more important as a channel than higher travel or information costs. (JEL H55, I13, I18, J14)
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Disability and travel"
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Chiu, Sze-nga Cecilia, and 趙詩雅. "Transport policy for franchised bus passengers with disability." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36709293.
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van, der Westhuizen Yolanda. "Exploring the lived experience of leisure travelling for people with disabilities." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6661.
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Magister Scientiae (Occupational Therapy) - MSc(OT)Historically travelling was an option only for the affluent; however, with the turn of the 20th century, travelling shifted to an important form of free-choice learning by means of discovery. Travelogues of able-bodied travellers state that travelling offers them an opportunity for constructing new identities as it broadens their perspectives of self. This caused the researcher to question if the same experiences could be prompted amongst people with disabilities. Various disciplines recognise that travelling is a valuable opportunity for growth, but no literature could be found within Occupational Therapy. This led to the research question explored in this study: what is the shared, lived experience of travelling for people with disabilities? The objectives of this study are to describe and explore the purpose and overall experiences of travelling for people with disabilities, explore how people with disabilities perceive, understand and make sense of their experiences of travelling, and lastly to explore the meaning that travelling has for people with disabilities. The theoretical framework underpinning this study is the Peron-Environment-Occupation Model and the Model of Human Occupation, with specific reference to the philosophy of occupational science. Embedded in a philosophical worldview of social constructivism, a Hermeneutical Phenomenological design was chosen using a qualitative approach. Through purposive sampling, six participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was applied to analyse data subsequent to cross analysis, thereby developing a composite understanding of the meaning of travelling to the participants. The findings present three themes, namely: a Double edged sword which highlights the contradictory effects that travelling can have, followed by People are part of the package, which emphasises the participants’ interpretations of the immense role that society plays in disability, and lastly the most prominent theme Pilgrimage to self-discovery. Additionally, an Integrated Model was developed which integrates two prominent models within Occupational Therapy. Conclusively this study provides insight into how travelling facilitated the participants to develop a new identity.
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Maillette, Pascale. "Les représentations de l’incapacité au travail de travailleurs ayant subi une arthroplastie du genou." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/8143.
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Résumé : Problématique: Près de 40% des 57 718 Canadiens ayant subi une arthroplastie du genou entre 2013 et 2014 étaient des travailleurs; la majorité étant âgée entre 55 à 64 ans. Des indices démographiques et législatifs laissent entrevoir que ce nombre continuera d’augmenter dans les prochaines années. Environ 15 à 30% de ces patients éprouvent des difficultés à reprendre ou à demeurer au travail six mois après la chirurgie. Malgré l’ampleur du phénomène, la perspective des travailleurs quant à ces difficultés demeure inconnue. Objectifs : Ce projet vise à mieux comprendre, selon la perspective du travailleur, les mécanismes sous-jacents à reprendre, ou non, une vie saine et active au travail à la suite d’une arthroplastie du genou. Plus précisément, il s’agit de décrire les représentations de l’incapacité au travail de ces travailleurs. Méthode : Ce projet qualitatif est basé sur une approche narrative avec comme cadre conceptuel le modèle d’autorégulation de Leventhal. Un échantillon de convenance de huit travailleurs ayant eu une arthroplastie du genou et éprouvant des difficultés à reprendre ou à demeurer au travail a été recruté. Des entrevues individuelles semi-dirigées ont été conduites. La méthode de Landry a été suivie pour le codage. D’abord, le cadre conceptuel a permis l’élaboration du cahier de codification tout en laissant la place à des codes émergents. Une analyse thématique des verbatim a ensuite été réalisée à l’aide du logiciel AtlasTi par deux codeurs indépendants (PM et MFC) qui ont discuté des codes divergents. Une fois toutes les entrevues codées, des réunions en équipe multidisciplinaire (kinésiologue, psychologue et physiothérapeute) ont eu lieu pour discuter de chaque cas et profiter de l’expertise de chacun des membres de l’équipe pour une analyse en profondeur. Résultats : La moitié des travailleurs rencontrée était absente du travail au moment de l’entrevue. L’émergence de cinq thèmes principaux a permis d’identifier deux cas types, soient retournés au travail avec difficultés, mais présence de soutien, et non retournés. Les travailleurs de la première trajectoire rapportent une implication de l’entreprise dans les démarches de retour au travail et ont les conditions nécessaires pour prendre des moyens actifs afin d’améliorer leur condition. Pour les travailleurs de la deuxième trajectoire, différents obstacles nuisent à la reprise des activités dont des complications postopératoires, une perception d’exigences de travail élevées, un faible soutien de l’environnement de travail et peu de ressources pour les aider. Conclusion : L’identification d’une trajectoire qui est moins favorable au retour au travail permet d’identifier les travailleurs à risque d’être en situation d’incapacité au travail. Ces travailleurs pourraient bénéficier de services en réadaptation au travail pour favoriser la reprise d’une vie saine et active après l’arthroplastie du genou.Abstract : Purpose: Nearly 40% of the 57,718 Canadians who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) between 2013 and 2014 were workers; the majority of them were aged from 55 to 64 years. Demographic and legislative indications suggest that this number will increase in the coming years. Actually, 15 to 30% of these patients report limitations at work or are not able to return to work six months after the surgery. Despite this growing phenomenon, workers’ insight on what influence work disability remains unknown. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to understand the worker’s perspective on what contributes or impedes the return to an active working life after TKA. Specifically, we aimed to document workers’ representations of their disability following TKA. Method: This qualitative study was conducted based on a narrative approach using Leventhal’s Common Sense Model (CSM) as the conceptual framework. A convenience sample of eight workers experiencing limitations while at work or being fully disabled (on sick leave) after TKA was interviewed. We conducted semistructured interviews, and then we followed Landry’s method for coding. First, we used a mixed coding method whereby codes were established a priori using the CSM with the possibility for emergent codes. Second, two researchers (PM and MFC) independently coded all interviews, compared the codes, and discussed diverging results. Third, after coding all interviews and based on the coding, content analysis was performed in multidisciplinary team (psychologist, physiotherapist, kinesiologist). Each interview was discussed by the team to compare the analysis and to obtain consensus as we believe our disciplinary backgrounds might impact interpretation of the data by bringing new information to the case. Content analysis was performed with Atlas-Ti software. Results: Half of the workers were fully disabled because of TKA. We identified two typical cases: workers who returned to work with difficulties but perceived support from their environment and workers who did not returned to work. The workers that returned to work reported involvement of their work environment in the return-to-work process. They felt they had greater improvement after TKA, and this enables them to further improve their condition. Workers who did not return to work encountered various obstacles such as ostoperative complications, a more physically-demanding job, negligible support from their work environment, and few resources to help them. Conclusion: The identification of a case that is less favorable to return to work allowed us to identify workers at risk of work disability. These workers could benefit from work rehabilitation services in order to promote a better active working life after TKA.
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Raffin, Moerani. "L’impact sur la santé de la transition entrepreneuriale des dirigeants de PME en situation de handicap." Thesis, Montpellier, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MONTD014/document.
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La santé du dirigeant de PME, en tant que premier actif immatériel de l’entrepreneur, fait l’objet depuis une dizaine d’années d’un courant de recherche qui tend à démontrer que l’entrepreneuriat est vecteur de bonne santé bien que cette santé soit soumise à une plus forte amplitude d’émotions que celle des salariés. Ce travail doctoral s’inscrit dans ce courant de recherche en opérant une focalisation sur les entrepreneurs en situation du handicap. Cette thèse pluridisciplinaire adopte une posture épistémologique de type interprétative de nature inductive. Vingt entrepreneurs en situation de handicap qui ont opéré une transition entrepreneuriale (passage du salariat à l’entrepreneuriat) ont été interrogés. Afin d’avoir une compréhension globale de cette population, le type de handicap, la date de la survenance du handicap et le secteur d’activité n’ont pas été retenus comme critères de sélection pour appréhender une grande variété d’entrepreneurs en situation de handicap. Deux aspects ont été ainsi étudiés dans ce travail doctoral : les entrepreneurs en situation de handicap et la transition entrepreneuriale des personnes handicapées. Au niveau conceptuel, ce travail de recherche doctoral a appliqué les théories des motivations entrepreneuriales et de la salutogénèse entrepreneuriale. Les résultats de cette thèse mettent en avant deux constats : le caractère central du handicap dans la vie de l’entrepreneur et la difficile alliance entre l’entrepreneuriat et le handicapThe health of the SMEs owner, as the first intangible asset of the entrepreneur, has been the subject of a trend of research for ten years, which tends to show that entrepreneurship is a vector of good health, although this health is subject to a greater range of emotions than that of employees. This doctoral work is part of this research by focusing on entrepreneurs with disabilities. This multidisciplinary thesis adopts an epistemological posture of interpretative type of inductive nature. Twenty entrepreneurs with disabilities who made an entrepreneurial transition (transition from wage-earning to entrepreneurship) were interviewed. In order to have a global understanding of this population, the type of disability, the date of the onset of the disability and the sector of activity were not selected as selection criteria to apprehend a wide variety of entrepreneurs in disability. Two aspects were studied in this doctoral work: entrepreneurs with disabilities and the entrepreneurial transition of people with disabilities.At the conceptual level, this doctoral research work has applied theories of entrepreneurial motivations and entrepreneurial salutogenesis. The results of this thesis highlight two findings: the centrality of disability in the life of the entrepreneur and the difficult alliance between entrepreneurship and disability
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Hingant, Marie. "Le handicap physique au travail : évolutions, vécus et communication interne.Le cas des travailleurs sportifs et non sportifs." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC0063/document.
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En France le handicap connaît des mutations depuis les lois successives de 1975,1987 et de 2005. Malgré ces évolutions, les discriminations verbales, le chômage, le faible niveau de qualification et de formation, les aménagements de poste des travailleurs handicapés freinent considérablement les entreprises à employer des personnes en situation de handicap. L’exclusion des travailleurs handicapés en entreprise est-elle réellement liée à toutes ces raisons ? Les représentations sociales du handicap nous semblent être l’explication à tout cela. La principale nécessité des travailleurs handicapés est de faire évoluer et de changer les représentations au sujet du handicap en entreprise. Ce pour une meilleure intégration, une meilleure socialisation et une meilleure prise en compte du handicap en entreprise. Nous montrerons que la communication par le sport est un outil managérial à ne pas négliger en entreprise. En effet, le sport et le handicap se juxtapose depuis plusieurs années. Lier Sport, Handicap et Entreprise, semble être un trio gagnant pour faire évoluer les représentations sociales du handicap en FranceIn France, disability has undergone changes since the successive laws of 1975, 1987 and 2005. Despite these developments, verbal discrimination, unemployment, low level of qualification and training, post adjustment of disabled workers, to employ persons with disabilities. Is the exclusion of workers with disabilities in companies really related to all these reasons? The social representations of disability seem to be the explanation for all this. The main need for disabled workers is to change and change representations about disability in the workplace. This for better integration, better socialization and better consideration of disability in companies. We will show that communication through sport is a managerial tool not to be neglected in a company. Indeed, sport and disability have juxtaposed for several years. Tie Sport, Handicap and Compagny, seems to be a winning trio to change the social representations of disability in France
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Aimar, Damien. "Les compétences des travailleurs dyslexiques : des ressources cachées pour l’organisation ?" Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLED027.
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Dans un contexte où le législateur impose aux organisations françaises une intégration des personnes handicapées et où celles-ci sont le plus souvent perçues comme des ressources négatives, cette thèse interroge les potentialités des travailleurs dyslexiques en termes de compétences dans le but de déterminer si ces derniers peuvent constituer une ressource positive. En adoptant une méthode du récit de vie, cette thèse s’intéresse au processus d’élaboration des compétences des travailleurs dyslexiques. L’analyse des données recueillies montre que ce processus se met en place selon une combinaison de facteurs propres à la configuration neurologique de ces personnes, qui permet par la même la création de compétences idiosyncratiques. Si les résultats issus des entretiens nous démontrent que ces dernières sont détentrices de compétences utiles pour le contexte organisationnel, et constituent ainsi une ressource positive, un certain nombre de facteurs concourent le plus souvent à les rendre invisibles aux yeux des managers. Cette myopie des compétences idiosyncratiques des travailleurs dyslexiques contribue à faire de ceux-ci des ressources cachéesWhile the legislation imposes the integration of people with disabilities to French organisations, those people are often perceived as negative organisational resources. In this context, this PhD thesis focuses on determining if dyslexic workers’ can be a positive organisational resource by investigating their potential competencies. This work relies on the life stories of twenty dyslexic workers and sheds light on the process of competencies development in which they engage. The analysis stresses that the dyslexic workers’ neurological configuration influences this process, which in turn creates idiosyncratic competences. The findings emphasise that those competencies have organisational value and that, therefore, those workers are a positive organisational resource. However, it also reveals that some factors, such as the orchestration of resources, tend to make those competences invisible to managers. This myopia participates in making the dyslexic workers hidden resources
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Brun, Gaspard. "L’expérience de soi à l’épreuve des normes : Eléments pour une philosophie du handicap." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3089.
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L’interrogation première de cette thèse est issue de questionnements liés à notre activité professionnelle au sein de dispositifs dédiés à l’insertion professionnelle et au maintien en emploi des personnes handicapées. Comment mener des politiques spécifiquement destinées à ce public alors même que la définition de ce qui caractérisait les personnes handicapées n’était pas encore formalisée ? Après avoir fait porter nos analyses sur les limites des classifications actuelles du handicap, sur l’impossibilité de définir le handicap avec la rigueur des classifications scientifiques ou de le définir par le seul recours à la médecine, nous avons envisagé de concevoir le handicap comme une relation singulière entre normes sociales et expérience individuelle. En cela le recours aux premières œuvres de Foucault et à des écrits, pour une bonne part inédits, de Canguilhem nous était d’un grand secours. Ces auteurs nous permettaient de préparer notre formalisation du concept de handicap qui repose sur l’idée centrale de « corps-soi » empruntée à Yves Schwartz. Le handicap est alors considéré comme une expérience singulière du corps-soi à l’épreuve de normes sociales antagoniques. Notre thèse principale était alors la suivante : le concept de handicap peut servir de prisme pour renouveler l’analyse de pratiques humaines et de formes discursives théoriques. Nous l'avons alors soumis à trois procédures de test dans des domaines d’activité et des corpus théoriques pourtant bien connus. Notre thèse ainsi renforcée, nous avons pour finir tenté de proposer un réinvestissement de nos analyses dans les politiques publiques destinées aux personnes handicapéesThe original question this thesis started with arose in the context of our professional activities within organizations dealing with the integration of disabled people in the world of work. How could policies specifically addressed to this public be enforced when the very definition of what characterized disabled people had not yet been formulated? After focusing our analyses on the limits of the current classifications of disabilities, on the impossibility to define disability with the exactness of scientific classifications or by only resorting to medicine, we thought of conceiving disability as a singular relationship between social norms and individual experience. In so doing, Foucault’s first works and mostly unpublished writings by Canguilhem were a great help. These authors allowed us to prepare our formulation of the concept of disability which is based on Yves Schwartz’s central idea of “corps-soi” (body and self together). A disability is then considered as a singular experience of the “body and self” in the face of antagonistic social norms. This view of what disability is lead us then to present our main thesis: disability, considered as a concept, can be used as a prism to renew the analysis of human practices and of theoretical discourse. We then submitted our thesis to three different test procedures, so as to check if, with disability as a starting point, we could renew our understanding of activities and theoretical corpuses, well-known though they may be. We felt the process tended to validate our reflection and eventually made suggestions as to how public policies for the disabled could benefit from our thesis
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Perraud, Caroline. "Une ingénierie coopérative : des travailleurs, des professionnels et un chercheur dans le secteur du travail protégé (ESAT). Une enquête collective pour une amélioration des pratiques." Thesis, Brest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BRES0072.
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La visée d’une société pour tous est souvent remise en question dès qu’il s’agit des personnes présentant un handicap mental. Notre recherche s’empare de cette question et étudie une ingénierie coopérative dans un établissement et service d’aide par le travail (ESAT) du secteur médico-social. Notre cadre théorique s’ancre dans la théorie de l’action conjointe en didactique. Notre méthodologie est qualitative, ethnographique et clinique. Pour donner à voir et à comprendre la construction progressive d’un collectif de pensée, nous nous appuyons sur des exemples emblématiques. Nous les analysons dans un mouvement ascendant et compréhensif. Le dispositif étudié s’appuie sur les compétences de tous dans deux actions complémentaires et liées : un travail d’enquête collectif et une activité didactique dans les ateliers. Nous entendons les savoirs comme des puissances d’agir. Au cours de douze réunions de l’ingénierie coopérative, le collectif (les professionnels et le chercheur) élabore des hypothèses de travail, en réponse à des systèmes de questionnements issus du travail en atelier. Dans les ateliers de l’ESAT, au cours de l’activité ingénierique, ces hypothèses sont éprouvées par un petit groupe spécifique, composé d’un moniteur d’atelier, de travailleurs et du chercheur. De nouveaux problèmes émergent alors. L’analyse de ces actions tend à montrer qu’en travaillant ensemble, le collectif s’institue progressivement en une ingénierie coopérative, avec un style de pensée qui lui est propre. Ce faisant, dans un mouvement du comprendre/transformer, la perception et la conceptualisation de chacun (travailleurs, professionnels, chercheur) se trouvent transforméesThe idea of a society for everyone is often questioned as soon as mentally disabled persons are implied.Our research seizes this matter and studies cooperative engineering in a medico social institution(ESAT: Etablissement Service d’Aide par le Travail: institution for help to disabled adults through work).Our theoretical frame is anchored in the Joint Action Theory in Didactics. Our methodology is qualitative, ethnographic and clinical. To make visible and understandable the progressive construction of thought collective, we draw on emblematic examples. We analyse them in an ascending and understanding movement.The studied device is relying on everyone's skills in two complementary and linked actions: a collective inquiry work and a didactical activity in the workshops. We understand knowledge as power of action.Throughout twelves meetings of the cooperative engineering, the collective (professionals and the researcher) elaborates work hypotheses, in response to questioning systems derived from work in the workshops. In the ESAT workshops, during the engineering activity, these hypotheses are tested by a specific small group, comprised of one workshop instructor, workers and the researcher. New problems then arise.Analysis of these actions tends to demonstrate that by working together, the collective establishes itself as a cooperative engineering, with its own thought style. In doing so, in the understanding/transforming movement, the perception and conceptualisation of everyone (workers, professionals, and researcher)find themselves transformed
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Laloum, Cohen Joanna. "Conséquences de la valeur sociale accordée aux personnes en situation de handicap sur les autodescriptions, les performances et les buts poursuivis." Thesis, Reims, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015REIML009/document.
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Les statistiques concernant l’insertion professionnelle des personnes en situation de handicap nous informent que cette catégorie de la population est particulièrement vulnérable. Les exigences à l’égard de cette catégorie de travailleurs, considérée comme peu productive et peu autonome, dépassent largement celles demandées à un candidat valide, y compris pour des postes où le handicap n’est pas une barrière objective (Louvet, 2007). A contrario, on attribue plus de qualités personnelles aux handicapés qu’aux valides (Louvet, Rohmer, & Dubois, 2009). Les attitudes envers les personnes handicapées oscillent entre des attitudes bienveillantes quant à leurs « qualités personnelles » et des préjugés négatifs sur leurs compétences réelles. Ainsi, on peut parler d’un stéréotype ambivalent. Les conséquences de cette ambivalence sont au cœur de ce travail doctoral.L’objectif principal de la thèse était de montrer que cette image du handicap impacte largement les stratégies de présentation de soi des personnes handicapées mais aussi leurs performances réelles. Nous avons également montré que l’amorçage de la catégorie sociale du handicap auprès d’individus valides pouvait conduire à un effet d’assimilation, c’est-à-dire à des comportements conformes aux stéréotypes engagés. Dans une perspective théorique nous avons cherché à démontrer l’intérêt de la décomposition de l’utilité sociale, afin de l’appliquer à ce champ d’étude mais également à celui de la motivation. Ces résultats suggèrent que les personnes handicapées pourraient être centrées sur la production de l’effort et de maîtrise de la tâche, conduisant à des performances différant qualitativement des personnes validesStatistics on the professional integration of disabled people in society suggest that this category of population is particularly vulnerable. The requirements for this category of workers, perceived as wanting in productivity and autonomy, far exceed what is expected of a valid candidate, even when it comes to positions where disability is not an objective barrier (Louvet, 2007). However, disabled people are credited with greater personal qualities than valid workers: in particular, they tend to be considered as more "deserving" (Louvet, Rohmer, & Dubois, 2009). To sum up, attitudes and behaviours towards people with disabilities range from benevolent attitudes about their "personal qualities" to very negative prejudices about their actual skills.In this respect, the stereotype can be considered as ambivalent. The consequences of this ambivalence are at the heart of this doctoral work. The main aim of this PhD is to show that this image of disability widely impacts the self-presentation strategies of disabled people in a recruitment context and also their actual performance. It is also shown that preliminary briefing of valid individuals regarding the social category of disability could lead to an effect of assimilation, that is to say behaviours corresponding to the existing stereotypes. In a theoretical perspective, this PhD tries to demonstrate the interest of decomposing social utility, so as to apply it to this field of study but also to that of motivation. Overall, results suggest that people with disabilities may focus essentially on producing efforts and mastering tasks, and that their performance consequently differs qualitatively from that of valid persons
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Cesarano, Valentina Paola. "Le potentiel d'employabilité des jeunes adultes handicapés en Campanie : négociation entre obstacles et ressources." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100002/document.
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Il apparaît nécessaire, au niveau international, de former des compétences fonctionnelles aux exigences de la vie et du travail, en termes de : capacité à résoudre les problèmes, à prendre des initiatives autonomes et flexibles, à mobiliser les connaissances pour gérer des situations complexes et résoudre des problèmes. Au centre d'une bonne employabilité de la personne, se trouvent les compétences auto-dirigées (penser et choisir consciemment son propre avenir), à la fois celles de planifier et de se redessiner soi-même (life design). Dans le domaine de l'employabilité, la rencontre des jeunes handicapés et du monde du travail c’ est difficile, en raison de la persistance des stéréotypes et des stigmates, ainsi que de l'absence d'une réelle volonté politique et systémique d'appliquer et de faire respecter la réglementation. Il est donc nécessaire d'explorer la construction de l'employabilité non seulement d'un point de vue théorique, mais aussi à travers la perception que les jeunes adultes handicapés ont de leur employabilité afin de mettre en œuvre des formations et des conseils visant à explorer les compétences liées à l'employabilité de tous les jeunes adultes, dans une perspective inclusiveUne recherche exploratoire empirico-descriptive a été choisie. En particulier, l'outil AVO développé par l'IISFOL/INAPP a été utilisé pour explorer le potentiel d'employabilité des jeunes adultes handicapés de Campanie (18-30 ans). Il a également été choisi pour explorer, par des entretiens semi-structurés, l'histoire et le projet professionnel de 20 jeunes Campani handicapés. En ce qui concerne la méthodologie d'analyse des données il est prévu l'utilisation du logiciel NVIVO (Richards, 1999) pour l'analyse qualitative de l'ensemble des entretiens et l'utilisation du logiciel SPSS pour effectuer des analyses descriptives des données collectées. Les jeunes personnes handicapées qui ont participé à l'étude ont un potentiel d'employabilité moyennement faible et font état de difficultés dans la conception de leur projet professionnel. L’analyse qualitative a permis de confirmer cette difficulté et de cadrer le projet professionnel en termes de réorientation de soi entre ressources et barrièresIt is necessary, at the international level, to form functional skills to the demands of life and work, in terms of: the ability to solve problems, to take autonomous and flexible initiatives, to mobilize knowledge for Manage complex situations and solve problems. At the centre of a good employability of the person, are self-directed skills (thinking and consciously choosing one's own future), both those of planning and redrawing oneself (life design). In the field of employability, the meeting of young people with disabilities and the world of work is difficult, because of the persistence of stereotypes and stigmas, as well as the lack of a real political and systemic will to apply and make comply with the regulations. It is therefore necessary to explore the construction of employability not only from a theoretical point of view, but also through the perception that young adults with disabilities have their employability in order to implement training and advice to explore skills related to the employability of all young adults, from an inclusive perspective. A empirical-descriptive exploratory research has been chosen. In particular, the tool developed by the IISFOL/INAPP and computerized by the technology Section of the SInAPSi University Centre was used to explore the employability potential of young adults with disabilities in Campania (18-30 years). It was also chosen to explore, through semi-structured interviews, the history and professional project of 20 young disabled Campani. With regard to the data analysis methodology, the use of the NVIVO software (Richards, 1999) is foreseen for the qualitative analysis of all interviews and the use of SPSS software to perform descriptive analyses of the data Collected. Young persons with disabilities who participated in the study have a potential for employability Moderately low employability and report difficulties in the design of their professional project. The qualitative analysis confirmed this difficulty and frame the professional project in terms of reorienting oneself between resources and barriers
Books on the topic "Disability and travel"
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Fred, Rosen. How to travel: A guidebook for persons with a disability. Chesterfield, MO: Science & Humanities Press, 1998.
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Anna, Lawson, and Gooding Caroline 1959-, eds. Disability rights in Europe: From theory to practice. Oxford: Hart Pub., 2005.
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Rosen, Fred. How to travel in Canada: A guidebook for a visitor with a disability. Chesterfield, MO: Science & Humanities Press, 2000.
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Fred, Rosen. How to travel in Canada: A guidebook for a visitor with a disability. Chesterfield, MO: MacroPrintBooks, 2001.
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Best practice in accessible tourism: Inclusion, disability, ageing population and tourism. Tonawanda, NY: Channel View Publications, 2012.
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Ben, Roberts, ed. Access in Paris: A guide for those who have problems gettingaround. 3rd ed. London: Quiller, 1993.
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Couch, Gordon. Access in Paris: A guide for those who have problems getting around. 2nd ed. Surbiton: The London Communications and Mobility Cooperative, 1985.
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Escalating travel costs of claimant representatives at hearings conducted by Office of Hearings and Appeals: Management advisory report. [Washington, D.C.?]: Dept. of Health & Human Services, USA, Office of Inspector General, Office of Analysis and Inspections, 1989.
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Anderton, Evelyn. You want to go where?: A guide to China for travellers with disabilities and anyone interested in disability issues. Eugene, Or., U.S.A. (P.O. Box 3551, Eugene 97403): Mobility International, U.S.A., 1990.
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Disability claims management. Toronto: Butterworths, 1998.
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Suh, Kathryn N., and Anne E. McCarthy. "The older traveler and traveling with disability." In Essential Travel Medicine, 199–208. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118597361.ch18.
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Forsdick, Charles. "Travel Writing, Disability, Blindness: Venturing Beyond Visual Geographies." In New Directions in Travel Writing Studies, 113–28. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137457257_8.
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Khomsi, Mohamed Reda, Karl Delorme, and Cyril Martin-Colonna. "Online Travel Planning for Families with a Child with a Disability." In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022, 72–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94751-4_7.
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AbstractWhereas the search for information when starting to plan a trip is generally perceived as enjoyable, families with a disabled child may associate this step with anxiety and stress. This is due to a lack of information and poor consideration of disabled children’s needs in most tourist websites, making it difficult for such families to find answers to their questions. In this context, the present research attempts to understand the online travel planning process of families with a child with a disability in order to propose solutions adapted to these families’ needs.
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Mengue-Topio, Hursula, Séléné Conrad, Laurie Letalle, and Yannick Courbois. "Perception of Incidental Social Interactions During Independent Travel on Public Transport: An Exploratory Study with Adults with Intellectual Disability." In HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, 586–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04987-3_40.
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Kalender, Ute. "Queer Regenerative Work? New Eugenics? On the Travels of the IVF Embryo." In Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice, 118–31. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137456977_8.
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Forsdick, Charles. "DISABILITY." In Keywords for Travel Writing Studies, 72–74. Anthem Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvg5bsp2.29.
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"5 Adventurous Aging Through International Travel." In Disability and Aging, 95–114. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781626376519-006.
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Wells-Jensen, Sheri. "Welcoming disability as necessary in space travel." In The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty, 475–82. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192897985.003.0029.
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Abstract As more and more people venture into space, two very basic things have been demonstrated: space is a profoundly dangerous environment, and the work undertaken there is profoundly important. Humankind may, in fact, need space to save the species, and so a great deal of effort has been placed on protecting the health and safety of astronauts. Unfortunately, accidents and injuries are inevitable. Accepting this reality, space vessels and equipment must be designed so that astronauts who are disabled can not only survive but also successfully complete their mission. Once this is done, and space environments are made accessible, restrictions that prevent currently disabled people from being astronauts in the first place can be lifted. This will widen the pool of potential astronauts, permitting the recruitment of the best people for these jobs, regardless of their disability.
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McDonagh, Patrick. "Visiting Earlswood: The Asylum Travelogue and the Shaping of ‘Idiocy’." In Intellectual disability. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526125316.003.0011.
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In the 1850s, visitors to the Earlswood Asylum, also known as the National Asylum for Idiots, in Reigate, Surrey, wrote about their experiences for publication. Frequently, these reports were presented as forms of travel writing, with the narrator recounting the customs of the asylum natives. The middle-class, sane and (one assumes) intelligent target audiences lived far beyond the asylums, in terms of identity if not geography. The asylum inhabitants, meanwhile, are resolutely ‘other’, subjected to the visitors’ inquisitive, evaluative gaze. This chapter draws on primary documents including works by Charles Dickens and asylum propagandists such as Joseph Parkinson, Cheyne Brady and the Reverend Edwin Sidney, as well as numerous anonymous pieces, to explore how these asylum travelogues, through their own representations of ‘idiocy’, helped shape ideas of idiocy and inform social policy that affected the lives of people identified as ‘idiots’ and ‘imbeciles’ in the 1850s, 1860s and after.
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Beuret, Kris, and Roger Hall. "Why Travel? The Sociological Perspective." In Why Travel?, 99–118. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529216363.003.0006.
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This chapter explores sociological perspectives, demonstrating how travelling impacts social structures and well as mobility through class and social status. The examples of the search for freedom and social mobility show how mass movements have occurred due to the desire to move from the place and position in which people were born to different positions in the social structure. Moving from one socioeconomic group to another is strongly related with the ability to move jobs, housing, and social groups all of which are enabled by travel. The expansion of mass travel has enabled family structures to survive even though the traditional three generational family residing and working near to each other has largely disappeared. Of course, such ability to travel freely is not available to all equally and the chapter also flags up the disadvantages caused by lack of travel based on income, gender and disability. The chapter also considers the way in which travel shapes and reinforces political beliefs.
Conference papers on the topic "Disability and travel"
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Tianwu, Yang, Zhou Changjiu, and Shen Jiayao. "Virtual Reality Based Independent Travel Training System for Children with Intellectual Disability." In 2016 European Modelling Symposium (EMS). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ems.2016.034.
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Juodisius, Mantas, and Aiste Barbora Uspuriene. "Accessibility of Rural Tourism Services for the Disabled in Lithuania." In International Scientific and Practical Conference. TSNS Interaktiv Plus, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21661/r-551747.
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Rural tourism has great potential for attracting people with different interests, but it requires close cooperation in the planning and implementation of strategic development directions and measures related to tourism. At present time, the social model of integration of the disabled is becoming more and more established. A person with a disability needs adapted infrastructure to travel. Actions should be implemented in accordance with the principle that people with disabilities, like all people, need access and integration. Therefore, it is important to study the accessibility of rural tourism services for the disabled in Lithuania.
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Shadden, Shawn C., Ian A. Carr, Naohiko Nemoto, Robert S. Schwartz, and John R. Lesser. "Predilections of Cardiogenic Embolic Transport to the Cerebral Versus Peripheral Arteries." In ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2013-14667.
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One of the most compelling scenarios of embolic transport is for cardiogenic particles. These emboli are a major cause of death and disability, resulting in an estimated 20%–30% of ischemic brain strokes. Whether cardiogenic emboli continue distally in the descending aorta, or travel into the aortic branch arteries has critical consequences for stroke. Previous studies found that embolic particles tend to favor larger diameter arteries at bifurcations, which suggests that cardiogenic emboli should be preferentially transported to the descending aorta, even beyond expectations due to flow rate. However, extrapolating previous findings to this scenario is questionable because previous models do not represent the unique fluid dynamics and morphology of the ascending aorta. We utilized medical imaging and computational modeling to better understand the transport of cardiac emboli to the cerebral arteries. Results indicate that particle transport to aortic branch arteries, and subsequently the arteries to the head, has a strong size-destination predilection that varies markedly from volumetric blood flow distribution.
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Grippenkoven, Jan, and Alexandra König. "Mobility for everyone - a matrix-based approach to ensure accessibility of public transport." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002457.
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The target group of public transport is the general public. Public transport vehicles are the tools that are supposed to meet the mobility needs of a multifaceted population. A central difficulty for transport companies is to ensure accessibility for users with physical or cognitive restrictions. Disabled people, senior citizens and children are examples of groups that face a variety of challenges when they intend to use public transport. In this work a method to identify mobility barriers in a structured and replicable way is described. This method is based on two-dimensional matrices that relate detailed steps and subtasks of a passenger within his or her travel chain to functional components of health, based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as described by the World Health Organization (WHO) (REHADAT, 2022). This matrix offers a systematic approach to understand and analyze the impact of various sets of restrictions on the accessibility and usability of defined modes of public transport.
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Pernalete, Norali, Amar Raheja, and Stephanie Carey. "Haptic and Visual Feedback Technology for Upper-Limb Disability Assessment." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-67541.
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In this paper, we discuss the possibility to determine assessment metrics for eye-hand coordination and upper-limb disability therapy, using a mapping between a robotic haptic device to a virtual environment and a training algorithm based on Complex Valued Neural Networks that will calculate how close a set movement pattern is in relationship with that traced by a healthy individual. Most of the current robotic systems’ therapy relies on the patient’s performance on standardized clinical tests such as the functional independence measure (FIM), and the upper limb subsection of the Fugl-Meyer (FM) scales. These systems don’t have other standardized metrics for assessment purposes. There is a need to establish a more intelligent and tailored therapy that could be implemented for patients to use at home in between therapy sessions, or in the long term. This therapy should be based on performance data gathered by the robotic/computer system that will provide an assessment procedure with improved objectivity and precision. A set of complex and movement demanding virtual environments, representing various levels of difficulty labyrinths was developed in a virtual environment. The participants were instructed to use a haptic device (Omni) to follow the trajectories. This was completed while video data were collected using a Vicon motion capture system. Readings of traced trajectories, time, and upper limb motions are recorded for further analysis.
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Riyazi, İlgar, Dilek Özdemir, Aslı Cansın Doker, and Ömer Selçuk Emsen. "Dutch Disease and Iranian Economy: Has Orientation to Compulsory Autarky Suppressed the Disease?" In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c08.01848.
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The discovery of natural resources and its impact on the increase in export revenues is highly likely to affect production, consumption and foreign trade relations of non-natural resources sectors. The inertia condition created by the resource exploration is defined as the curse of natural resources. Additionally, the curse of the resources reveals negative repercussions such as the Dutch Disease, rent-seeking, overconfidence and neglect education. Within this aspect, the Dutch disease can be defined as a mechanism emerging through the discovery of natural resources and its exports, which causes negativity in other export products. As the disease will be expected to come out, war and embargo practices can also be considered to be self-sufficiency in diversity in the local/national economy. In this framework, it is discussed in this study, whether Iran falls to the Dutch Disability, or it is organized by external forces the period between 1980 and 2014. According to findings obtained from the time series analyzes, the natural resource richness was determined in Iran if the presence of the Dutch disease is not strong. In recent years, however, it can be said that the weakness of the disease has led to the war and embargo that Iran experienced especially in self-sufficiency.
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Reis, Ana Luísa Lopes Espínola da Costa, Leonardo Henrique Gandolfi de Souza, and Vitor Roberto Pugliesi Marques. "Ischemic stroke with agraphestesia signal focus." In XIII Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.470.
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Introduction: The ischemic stroke is one of the main causes of death and disability in Brazil. Among the main risk factors are age, atrial fibrillation (AF), diabetes, dyslipidemia and physical inactivity. The main etiology of stroke is cardioembolic, resulting in obstruction of the cerebral arteries by a thrombus of cardiac origin. The artery most affected in ischemic strokes is the middle cerebral artery. The stroke has main characteristics, with emphasis on the sudden onset of symptoms, involvement of a focal area, ischemia caused by obstruction of a vessel and neurological deficits depending on the affected area. Graphesthesia is defined as a cutaneous sensory ability to recognize letters or numbers traced on the skin. The loss of this sensory ability is known as agraphesthesia. Case Report: M.A.F.O. female, 78a, arrived at the UPA complaining of mental confusion. Patient denies previous stroke. Personal history of systemic arterial hypertension. Upon physical examination, the patient was conscious, self and disoriented and inattentive. He was able to repeat and evoke words, without measurable motor déficits. Left upper limb with agraphestesia. Computed tomography was requested, which showed an extensive hypodense area in the right parietoccipital region, which leads to the erasure of the furrows between the adjacent gyres, which may correspond to a recent ischemic event. Magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion-restricted area with correspondence on the ADC map, located in the right temporoparietal region inferring an acute ischemic event. An electrocardiogram was also requested, which showed an irregular rhythm, characteristic of atrial fibrillation, resulting in a diagnostic hypothesis of cardioembolic ischemic stroke. Discussion: The involvement of post-central ischemic gyrus lesions may correspond to paresthesia, anesthesia, hypoesthesia; the involvement of secondary and terciary areas of sensitivity in the upper parietal lobe, especially in the active movements of the hand and in the modalities of integrated sensitivity, their lesions may be clinically affected by: apraxias, dysgraphias, hemineglect, agraphestesia, stereoagnosia and spacial disorientation.
Reports on the topic "Disability and travel"
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Hwang, Ho-Ling, Tim Reuscher, and Daniel W. Wilson. Characteristics and Travel Patterns of New York Residents: Subpopulations of Persons with a Disability in 2009. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), August 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1302930.
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Kelly, Luke. Definitions, Characteristics and Monitoring of Conflict Economies. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.024.
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The idea of conflict economies is a broad concept encompassing several research angles. Definitions differ according to these focuses. Some of the main uses of the concept are to understand: • economic analysis of the motives for and likelihood of war • financing of state and non-state belligerents • how the continuation of conflicts can be explained by rational motives including economic ones • how conflict affects economic activity, and how conflict parties and citizens adapt Some distinctive characteristics of war economies are (Ballentine & Nitzschke, 2005, p. 12): • They involve the destruction or circumvention of the formal economy and the growth of informal and black markets, • Pillage, predation, extortion, and deliberate violence against civilians is used by combatants to acquire control over lucrative assets, capture trade networks and diaspora remittances, and exploit labour; • War economies are highly decentralised and privatised, both in the means of coercion and in the means of production and exchange; • Combatants increasingly rely on the licit or illicit exploitation of / trade in lucrative natural resources • They thrive on cross-border trading networks, regional kin and ethnic groups, arms traffickers, and mercenaries, as well as legally operating commercial entities, each of which may have a vested interest in the continuation of conflict and instability. The first section of this rapid review outlines the evolution of the term and key definitions. Most of this discussion occurs in the academic literature around the early 2000s. The second looks at key characteristics of conflict economies identified in the literature, with examples where possible from both academic and grey literature. The third section briefly identifies methodologies used to measure and monitor conflict economies, as well as some current research and programmes on conflict economies, from academic literature as well as NGOs and other sources. The findings have been derived via a literature search and advice from experts in the field. Given time constraints, the report is not comprehensive. The review is gender- and disability blind.
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Morbidity and disability among workers 18 years and older in the Wholesale and Retail Trade Sector, 1997-2007. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, October 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.26616/nioshpub2012158.
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