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King, Robert. "Caseload Management, Work-Related Stress and Case Manager Self-Efficacy Among Victorian Mental Health Case Managers." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 43, no. 5 (January 1, 2009): 453–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048670902817661.
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Objective: In Australia and comparable countries, case management has become the dominant process by which public mental health services provide outpatient clinical services to people with severe mental illness. There is recognition that caseload size impacts on service provision and that management of caseloads is an important dimension of overall service management. There has been little empirical investigation, however, of caseload and its management. The present study was undertaken in the context of an industrial agreement in Victoria, Australia that required services to introduce standardized approaches to caseload management. The aims of the present study were therefore to (i) investigate caseload size and approaches to caseload management in Victoria's mental health services; and (ii) determine whether caseload size and/or approach to caseload management is associated with work-related stress or case manager self-efficacy among community mental health professionals employed in Victoria's mental health services. Method: A total of 188 case managers responded to an online cross-sectional survey with both purpose-developed items investigating methods of case allocation and caseload monitoring, and standard measures of work-related stress and case manager personal efficacy. Results: The mean caseload size was 20 per full-time case manager. Both work-related stress scores and case manager personal efficacy scores were broadly comparable with those reported in previous studies. Higher caseloads were associated with higher levels of work-related stress and lower levels of case manager personal efficacy. Active monitoring of caseload was associated with lower scores for work-related stress and higher scores for case manager personal efficacy, regardless of size of caseload. Although caseloads were most frequently monitored by the case manager, there was evidence that monitoring by a supervisor was more beneficial than self-monitoring. Conclusion: Routine monitoring of caseload, especially by a workplace supervisor, may be effective in reducing work-related stress and enhancing case manager personal efficacy.
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Garbelli, Maria, Asta Adukaite, and Lorenzo Cantoni. "Value perception of world heritage sites and tourism sustainability matters through content analysis of online communications." Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology 8, no. 3 (October 2, 2017): 417–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhtt-09-2016-0046.
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Purpose The debate on tourism sustainability and its contribution to local development has been very active, especially in connection with world heritage sites (WHSs). The analysis conducted was intended to evaluate the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in promoting sustainable tourism, stating the relevance given online by local and international operators to the fact a destination was a WHS and to its commitment over sustainability issues. With this aim, the authors aim to take the perspective of a person navigating online to collect information on possible travel to a specific globally recognised WHS: the Victoria Falls. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, for its structure, the authors propose the UN World Tourism Organisation book on sustainability (Sustainable Tourism for Development Guidebook, 2013) to define a framework suitable for a content analysis of websites and mobile applications – available to a prospective traveller, interested in visiting the Victoria Falls, one of the most known WHSs in Africa, not directly for a heritage end. Findings There are 91 available online resources that have been studied to assess whether the Victoria Falls is an area recognised and protected by UNESCO; the presence of sustainability-related contents; and the importance of information providers covering this topic and sharing with readers. A potential tourist to the Falls is not well informed online about issues related to sustainable tourism; his attention is likely not to be drawn to such issues, at least not explicitly. The results show there is plenty of room to improve the online communication value of an area recognised by UNESCO. Originality/value Literature does not offer other studies linking both WHSs and sustainability (and the related issues) to ICTs and adopting the tourist point of view. Using a WHS case, the results give evidence of the lack of a proper online communication, underlying the outstanding value of the area, and the destination’ initiatives towards sustainability. Results suggest how relevant could be for a destination to offer a proper and complete online communication, to educate travellers about the several implications of being a WHS and about a sustainable and responsible behaviour in case they choose to visit it.
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Kornakova, Maria, and Alan March. "The role of citizens in DRR planning exercises: when to inform or consult." International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment 8, no. 02 (April 10, 2017): 209–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijdrbe-12-2014-0077.
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Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to explore the role and effectiveness of particular participation styles that affect the effectiveness of urban planning being integrated with disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted using a heuristic approach to the examination of urban planning and DRR practices focussing particularly upon citizens’ participation in four case studies internationally: the UK floods in 2007; Hurricane Katrina in the USA in 2005; wildfires of 2009 in Victoria, Australia; and Swiss avalanche prevention and preparedness. Desktop research was conducted to analyse cases and identify key findings, confirmed and augmented by interviews with relevant specialists in each country through semi-structured interviews. Findings The research reveals some similarities across all four cases studied. It appears that urban planning and DRR approaches, particularly those with a regulatory outcome and based on highly technical tests, are common. Further, it is apparent in the cases studied that circumstances where deeper technical knowledge and/or self-interest are strong factors, that informing and sometimes consulting styles are the most appropriate. While the scope of the paper means that this principle cannot be widely applied, there is a need to investigate these issues further. Research limitations/implications The heuristic and inductive nature of this research limits the potential for in-depth analyses of the case studies, but rather provides a base for future research in this area, which currently has limited literature. Originality/value This study provides a wide base for future research and partially addresses the gap in the literature on the topic of integration of urban planning and DRR with a focus on the community involvement in it.
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Jones, Anna Maria. "CONSERVATION OF ENERGY, INDIVIDUAL AGENCY, AND GOTHIC TERROR IN RICHARD MARSH'STHE BEETLE, OR, WHAT'S SCARIER THAN AN ANCIENT, EVIL, SHAPE-SHIFTING BUG?" Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (December 6, 2010): 65–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000276.
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There is a familiar critical narrativeabout the fin de siècle, into which gothic fiction fits very neatly. It is the story of the gradual decay of Victorian values, especially their faith in progress and in the empire. The self-satisfied (middle-class) builders of empire were superseded by the doubters and decadents. As Patrick Brantlinger writes, “After the mid-Victorian years the British found it increasingly difficult to think of themselves as inevitably progressive; they began worrying instead about the degeneration of their institutions, their culture, their racial ‘stock’” (230). And this late-Victorian anomie expressed itself in the move away from realism and toward romance, decadence, naturalism, and especially gothic horror. No wonder, then, that the 1880s and 1890s saw a surge of gothic fiction paranoiacally concerned with the disintegration of identity into bestiality (Stevenson'sThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886), the loss of British identity through overpowering foreign influence (du Maurier'sTrilby, 1894), the vulnerability of the empire to monstrous and predatory sexualities (Stoker'sDracula, 1897), the death of humanity itself in the twilight of everything (Orwell'sThe Time Machine, 1895). The Victorian Gothic, thus, may be read as an index of its culture's anxieties, especially its repressed, displaced, disavowed fears and desires. But this narrative tends to overlook the Victorians’ concerns with the terrifying possibilities of progress, energy, and self-assertion. In this essay I consider two oppositions that shape critical discussions of the fin-de-siècle Gothic – horror and terror, and entropy and energy – and I argue that critics’ exploration of the Victorians’ seeming preoccupation with the horrors of entropic decline has obscured that culture's persistent anxiety about the terrors of energy. I examine mid- to late-Victorian accounts of human energy in relation to the first law of thermodynamics – the conservation of energy – in both scientific and social discourses, and then I turn to Richard Marsh's 1897 gothic novelThe Beetleas an illustration of my point: the conservation of energy might have been at least as scary as entropy to the Victorians.
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Benavent, D., M. Garrido-Cumbrera, C. Plasencia, L. Christen, H. Marzo-Ortega, J. Correa-Fernández, P. Plazuelo-Ramos, D. Webb, and V. Navarro-Compán. "AB0500 IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN OVERALL HEALTH AND FUNCTIONING IN PATIENTS WITH AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS: RESULTS FROM THE REUMAVID STUDY (PHASE 1)." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 80, Suppl 1 (May 19, 2021): 1277.2–1278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-eular.2153.
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Background:Evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the overall health and functioning in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is scarce.Objectives:To analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the overall health and functioning in patients with axSpA.Methods:Data from axSpA patients participating in the first phase of the REUMAVID study were analysed. REUMAVID is a cross-sectional, observational study collecting data through an online questionnaire of unselected patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs), recruited by patient organizations. The survey was disseminated during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (April-July 2020) in seven European countries (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom). Patients with axSpA who completed the ASAS health index (ASAS-HI) questionnaire were included in this analysis. Descriptive analyses were used to present socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as daily habits. Overall health and functioning were defined according to the ASAS-HI (0-17), as follows: good health (ASAS-HI ≤5), acceptable health (ASAS-HI 6-11), and poor health (ASAS-HI ≥12). As secondary outcomes, well-being (WHO-5), self-perceived health status, and HADS for anxiety and depression were assessed.Results:Out of 670 axSpA patients, 587 (87.6%) completed ASAS-HI. Of these, 70.4% were female, 72.6% were married or in a relationship, 46.7% had university studies and 37.6% were currently employed. Mean age was 49.9±12.8 years and mean BMI was 26.7±5.5. Regarding extraarticular manifestations, 13.6% had psoriasis, 12.1% inflammatory bowel disease and 18.7% uveitis. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 50.9% were receiving biological drugs, 46.3% NSAIDs, 26.4% painkillers, 24.7% conventional DMARDs, and 11.9% oral corticosteroids. According to the ASAS-HI, 19.6 % of patients were classified as having poor health, with the most affected aspects being pain (92.0%), movement (86.5%), maintenance of body position (80.6%), energy (79.0%) and sleep (75.3%). Regarding self-perceived health status, 14% reported their health status as “bad” or “very bad”, and 46.8% reported worsening health during the pandemic (Table 1). A distribution of the results of the total ASAS-HI scores can be seen in Figure 1.Table 1.Overall health and well-being, disease activity, and mental health.Primary Outcome (ASAS-HI)Mean ± SD orn (%)ASAS-HI (0-17), n=5878.0 (±3.9)ASAS-HI <5 (good health)159 (27.1) 5-12 (acceptable health)313 (53.3) ≥12 (poor health)115 (19.6)Secondary OutcomesWHO-5 WHO-5, (0-100), n=58446.3 (±23.1) WHO- 5 Poor wellbeing WHO- ≤50330 (56.5)Self-perceived health status, n=585 Very good33 (5.6) Good214 (36.6) Fair256 (43.8) Bad69 (11.8) Very bad13 (2.2)Change in health status during lockdown, n=587 Much worse than before54 (9.2) Moderately worse220 (37.6) Same as before270 (46.0) Moderately better35 (6.0) Much better than before6 (1.0)HADSHADS Anxiety (0-21), n=5878.4 (±4.1)HADS Anxiety No case (0-7)248 (42.7) Borderline case (8-10)151 (26.0) Case (11-21)182 (31.3) HADS Depression (0-21), n=5877.0 (±4.3)HADS Depression No case (0-7)329 (56.6) Borderline case (8-10)134 (23.1) Case (11-21)118 (20.3)Figure 1.Distribution of the result of ASAS-HI scores (N= 587)Conclusion:One out of five patients with axSpA reported poor health and functioning according to the ASAS-HI, and almost half of patients reported worsening self-perceived health status during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Keywords: COVID-19, axial spondyloarthritis, ASAS-HI, healthDisclosure of Interests:Diego Benavent Grant/research support from: Abbvie, Novartis and Roche, Marco Garrido-Cumbrera: None declared., Chamaida Plasencia Grant/research support from: Pfizer, Sanofi, Novartis, Roche and Lilly, Laura Christen Employee of: Novartis Pharma AG, Helena Marzo-Ortega Grant/research support from: Abbvie, Celgene, Janssen, Elli-Lilly, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, José Correa-Fernández: None declared., Pedro Plazuelo-Ramos: None declared., Dale Webb: None declared., Victoria Navarro-Compán Grant/research support from: Abbvie, BMS, Lilly, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, UCB.
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Roberts, Fiona, Frank Archer, and Caroline Spencer. "“We Just Want to Help” - Nonprofits Contributions to Community Resilience in the Disaster Space." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 34, s1 (May 2019): s22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x19000645.
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Introduction:The National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (NSDR) characterizes resilient communities as having strong disaster and financial mitigation strategies, strong social capacity, networks, and self-reliance. Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) embrace many characteristics of a disaster resilient community. NPOs do not operate for the profit of individual members. Community groups like Lions and Rotary Club have long histories, and while not established to respond to disasters, they frequently have heavy involvement in preparing for or recovering from, disasters.Aim:The study aims to address the question, “What is the potential role of nonprofit organizations in building community resilience to disasters?”Methods:An applied research project was carried out, using theories of resilience, social capital, and the Sendai framework to conceptualize the frameworks and guide the process. Qualitative research methods, thematic analysis, and case studies helped identify Lions, Rotary, and Neighbourhood Houses Victoria strengths, barriers, and enablers.Results:Research demonstrated how NPOs made significant contributions to building communities’ resilience to disasters. NPOs facilitate three Sendai guiding principles of engaging, empowering, and enabling the community to build disaster resilience. Actions included raising awareness to disaster risk, reducing disaster risk, helping prepare for disasters, and contributing to long term disaster recovery. NPO strengths included local knowledge, community trust, and connections, which matched characteristics listed in the NSDR for a disaster resilient community. However, barriers to participation included traditional emergency services ignoring NPOs, lack of role definition, and lack of perceived legitimacy.Discussion:As the first Australia research to scientifically analyze the contributions of these NPOs to build community resilience, before, during and after disaster, this study enhances understanding and recognition of NPOs and assists in identifying means to facilitate their disaster resilience activities and place them more effectively within Emergency Management strategic processes. Greater utilization of such assets could lead to better community outcomes.
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Mechkaroff, Nicole, Saumya Kaushik, and Mary Ann Jackson. "Re-framing Built Environment Practice: Towards an Accessible City." Journal of Public Space 7, no. 2 (June 26, 2022): 183–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v7i2.1491.
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As practising architects in Victoria, Australia, we have observed significant, systemic industry failure, impeding the development of accessible and inclusive cities. Contemporary built environment design practice and design values push ‘accessible design’ to the margins, often considered as an after-thought and only in terms of technical and regulatory compliance. Built environment practice needs to be challenged into deeper ways of thinking – ones that stimulate professional discourse and heighten industry awareness of both its control over built environment accessibility outcomes and, critically, its accountability in serving the public good.Cities invariably comprise neighbourhoods. To begin to understand built environment inaccessibility at the neighbourhood scale, the built environment mindset must change to properly engage with complex, socio-ecological, public-realm (public space) built environments. Design practice must improve its neighbourhood site analysis approach, going beyond private, contractual site boundaries and immediate physical surrounds, to understanding end-user experiences, neighbourhood journeys, and the broader scale of (in)accessibility. Industry attitudes, practice approaches and the way disability is positioned by industry must change to embrace processes that necessitate diverse actors working together across multiple disciplines and sectors with people with disability being core actors in decision-making.We believe that opportunities exist in building industry interest and capacity. Research-informed built environment practice embracing systems-thinking, human rights-based approaches, and transdisciplinarity can be effective for aggravating industry change and the way industry positions disability. This paper adopts an analytical, collaborative autoethnographic approach, examining case studies of neighbourhood-scale accessibility assessment, outputs from activities questioning why built environment practitioners believe inaccessibility exists, and self-reflection on 10 to 35+ years of working in architectural practice. Importantly, this paper argues that in working towards achieving universally accessible public spaces for all, built environment practitioners, and architects in particular, must accept accountability for the impact of their actions on people with disabilities’ lived experiences.
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Bruder, Anne. "Dear Alma Mater: Women's Epistolary Education in the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, 1873–1897." New England Quarterly 84, no. 4 (December 2011): 588–620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00131.
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Anna Ticknor, a Boston Brahmin, founded America's first correspondence school. Hailing from across the nation, all students were women. The letters they exchanged with their instructors between 1873 and 1897 opened up flexible spaces of self-definition, encouragement, and disguise that came to mediate—and enable—a new kind of women's education in Victorian–era America.
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MARVIN, ROBERTA MONTEMORRA. "Verdian opera burlesqued: a glimpse into mid-Victorian theatrical culture." Cambridge Opera Journal 15, no. 1 (March 2003): 33–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586703000338.
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Through brief case studies of burlesques of Ernani, Il trovatore and La traviata written for nineteenth-century London, this essay makes a preliminary examination of the nature of Victorian operatic burlesques, why they existed, and how they functioned artistically and sociologically. My larger purpose is threefold: to investigate the manner in which burlesque interpreted the foreign art form of Italian opera in a culture self-consciously identified as English, to consider how these works traversed class differences in an evolving socio-cultural milieu, and to ask how we might understand the these works in relation to the cultural codes of Victorian London.
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Hager, Kelly. "JASPER PACKLEMERTON, VICTORIAN FREAK." Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 1 (March 2006): 209–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150306051126.
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ONE OF THEOED'S DEFINITIONSof the word “freak” is that of a freak of nature, “a monstrosity, an abnormally developed individual of any species; a living curiosity exhibited in a show.” The freak of nature I wish to focus on in this essay is marriage, and specifically, marriage as it is “exhibited” in Dickens's novelThe Old Curiosity Shop(1840–41). To refer to marriage in a Victorian novel as a freak of nature is perhaps surprising. To refer to the sacred institution as freakish in a Dickens novel may seem to border on heresy. After all, Dickens is the self-appointed novelist of hearth and home, the creator of conservative domestic plots that celebrate marriage as the institution that establishes closure for the novel and for the society it represents. Despite this apparent conservatism and despite our vague sense that most marriages in Dickens are as happy as David and Agnes's, Esther and Allen Woodcourt's, Biddy and Joe's, it is in fact the case that in all his novels, fromThe Pickwick PaperstoOur Mutual Friend, Dickens is fascinated–in a multiplicity of ways both large and small, in a manner that is alternately comic, tragic, melodramatic, ironic–with marriage's discontents. In fact, the disintegration of the institution is one of the things that Dickens makes fictions from, giving the failure of marriage a surprisingly high degree of visibility and presenting the breaking of the matrimonial bond with remarkable clarity and persistence. Dickens novels are full of wives who leave their husbands (Edith Dombey, Lady Dedlock, Louisa Gradgrind), breach of promise suits (inPickwickandOur Mutual Friendmost famously) and characters who try to find legal ways of escaping their marriages (Stephen Blackpool, Betsey Trotwood,Nickleby's Madame Mantalini). This essay, then, is an analysis of how Dickens undermines the institution early in his career, and of how the comic and grotesque display of the body, the sprawling, teeming physical surfaces ofThe Old Curiosity Shop, both conceal and reveal a story of marital skepticism.
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Fromer, Julie E. "“DEEPLY INDEBTED TO THE TEA-PLANT”: REPRESENTATIONS OF ENGLISH NATIONAL IDENTITY IN VICTORIAN HISTORIES OF TEA." Victorian Literature and Culture 36, no. 2 (September 2008): 531–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150308080327.
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These words were penned by a professor of the Royal Medico-Botanical Society in the late 1830s to commemorate the “recent discovery in British India of the Tea Plant” (vii). Yet although written near the beginning of the Victorian era, their sentiment – that tea was both an element of national self-definition and a stimulator of the individual prosperity and wellbeing on which that polity was based – nonetheless epitomizes the broader sweep of the nineteenth century's engagement with that article of consumption. How tea came to occupy this role, and why, is the subject of this essay, which focuses on the book-length tea history – a slightly peculiar genre that blurs the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, advertisement and travelogue, personal account and scientific treatise. These histories appeared throughout the nineteenth century and often were explicitly funded by various segments of the tea industry (thus resembling the nineteenth-century equivalent of an infomercial). Because of their direct relationship to commercial and trading concerns, their role in recording and shaping the taste for the beverage, and their dissemination across a fairly broad public, tea histories offer an important, intertextual index of the Victorians' relationship to the beverage, as well as the way in which the relationship between home and Empire was constituted and changed over the course of the century.
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Silva, Dayse Karoline Santos da, Larissy Alves Cotonhoto, and Mariane Lima de Souza. "Body self-perception in age school children with Down Syndrome." Journal of Human Growth and Development 30, no. 1 (March 27, 2020): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.v30.9970.
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Introduction: The notion of body or body perception is of great importance in the development of motor skills and functionality. In atypical development situations, as in the case of Down syndrome (DS) there is a delay in the development and motor skills are compromised, which possibly is reflected in the quality of body self-perception in children with DS.
Objective: To assess the characteristics of body self-perception in school age children with DS.
Methods: This is an exploratory and descriptive study involving 10 children aged between seven and nine years. To assess body perception, it was used the Body Notion factor from the Psychomotor Battery (BPM). Data analysis was performed qualitatively and quantitatively according to the criteria established by the instruments and the researchers.
Results: The participants' performance regarding the notion of body was not related to their age. The right and left discrimination capability was the body notion sub-factor with the worst performance and the self-image was the sub-factor with the best performance. The drawings of the human figure were split into two categories: unidentifiable (Class A, n = 8) and recognizable (Class B, n = 2).
Conclusion: It is suggested that the self-perception of children with Down Syndrome analyzed in this study has a strong relationship with the body and environmental stimuli together with psychomotor and cognitive development, which, however, does not coincide with their chronological age.
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Ryan, Liam. "Nonconformity and socialism: the case of J. G. Greenhough, 1880–1914." Historical Research 92, no. 258 (October 9, 2019): 771–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12285.
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Abstract This article examines the life, thought and activism of the prominent Baptist minister John Gershom Greenhough. Existing scholarly and popular narratives generally focus on the key role played by Nonconformity in nurturing the labour movement in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Using Greenhough as a case study this article posits an alternative interpretation of this relationship, contending that the individualistic religious culture of Nonconformity was often deeply hostile to socialism. This hostility motivated Greenhough, and others like him, to abandon their historical allegiance to the Liberal party in the early twentieth century in favour of the Conservatives. More broadly, this article investigates the process of political and ideological conversion and challenges dominant historical readings that characterize anti-socialism as being synonymous with middle-class economic self-interest.
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Heath, Kay. "IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: VICTORIAN AGE CONSTRUCTION AND THE SPECULAR SELF." Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 1 (March 2006): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150306051035.
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AT AGE FIFTY-TWO, THOMAS HARDYwas beginning to feel uneasy about aging. On October 11, 1892, he wrote to his friend Arthur Blomfield: “Hurt my tooth at breakfast-time. I look in the glass. Am conscious of the humiliating sorriness of my earthly tabernacle…. Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his own body!” (F. Hardy 13–14). This moment of specular disgust was ultimately recorded in a poem: I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, “Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!”For then, I, undistrestBy hearts grown cold to me,Could lonely wait my endless restWith equanimity.But Time, to make me grieve,Part steals, lets part abide;And shakes this fragile frame at eveWith throbbings of noontide. (T. Hardy,Complete Poems81)
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Zhang, Lan, Guowen Huang, Yongtao Li, and Shitai Bao. "A Psychological Perception Mechanism and Factor Analysis in Landsenses Ecology: A Case Study of Low-Carbon Harmonious Discourse." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13 (June 28, 2021): 6914. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136914.
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Landsenses ecology has been widely applied in research into sustainable consciousness and behavior and the notion of landsense creation realizes the unity of the macro physical senses and micro psychological perceptions. However, a great deal of current research about landsenses ecology has concentrated on the dimension of the physical senses, while there have been relatively few studies on the dimension of its psychological perception. This paper begins by clarifying the concept of self and explaining out that the psychological perception mechanism of landsense creation represents a process of guiding people to know themselves and realize their ecological self. It then utilizes the example of low-carbon discourse to explore the factors contributing to the resonance of ecological self-vision. Our results show that the perceived self-efficacy, environmental concern and environmental knowledge triggered by ecological discourse are the main factors contributing to the resonance of sustainable vision, thus clarifying the indicators of landsenses ecology at the level of psychological perception. Our purpose is to effectively guide the landsense creation of harmonious discourse and promote people to engage in potentially more sustainable behavior.
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Gates, Barbara T. "INTRODUCTION: WHY VICTORIAN NATURAL HISTORY?" Victorian Literature and Culture 35, no. 2 (June 29, 2007): 539–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150307051625.
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VICTORIANS WERE IN LOVE WITHnatural history. David Allen describes their passion as a series of crazes – over geology, over shells, and over ferns, as in pteridomania (mania over ferns) – to cite just a very few examples. Lynn Merrill, on the other hand, delineates a more comprehensive, cultural romance, one extending over many years. Whatever we choose to call this love, we are still in the process of discovering just how deep and lasting it was. Like many love affairs, it was marked at first by a blush enthusiasm and fascination with otherness. This was followed by curiosity and a rage to risk self in the quest to know more about the other – and sometimes, as a result, by ridiculous missteps. Think of George Eliot and George Henry Lewes sloshing around at the seashore, ill-equipped but determined to find out enough to write about what they were trying to capture and study. Or recall Mary Kingsley out in Africa in a canoe propelled by several Congolese, tumbling out of the boat but saving her trusted copy of Albert Günther's 1880Introduction to the Study of Fishes, tenacious in her desire to bring back labeled specimens to the British Museum of Natural history. Earlier, in a similarly resolute quest to record birdlife, John and Elizabeth Gould globe-trotted to the extent that they put Elizabeth's life and their growing family at risk. And people like explorer/naturalist Thomas Bowdich died of fever for their fervor over natural history, in Bowdich's case as he worked to detail facts about specimens in Porto Santo, off the coast of West Africa. Bowdich left a wife to fend for herself and their family via her own study of natural history, and one result was Sara Bowdich Lee's beautifully illustratedFresh-Water Fishes of Great Britain(1828). The romance with nature certainly cut across class and gender barriers. Stonecutter Hugh Miller could lose himself as easily in geological pursuits as could Charles Darwin or Sir Charles Lyell and Marianne North's passion for plants may well have matched or exceeded that of Kew's famous botanist, Sir Joseph Hooker.
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Rieger, Christy. "Chemical Romance: Genre andMateria Medicain Late-Victorian Drug Fiction." Victorian Literature and Culture 47, no. 2 (2019): 409–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015031800150x.
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Despite Macfie's vivid assertion, studies of Victorian medicine and literature have not paid special attention to the pharmaceutical field, perhaps because of its messy associations with trade or inferiority to more respected healing practices. After all, it is Doctor Lydgate's refusal to prescribe the expected drugs inMiddlemarchthat proves his commitment to evidence-based Parisian medicine. As I aim to demonstrate, however, pharmacy and its products have a distinct and two-edged history in late-Victorian England. Medical writers increasingly assert the scientific authority and physiological promise of pharmacology. At the same time, they begin to show interest in the romance of drugs: their origins in alchemy and the occult, harvesting in the furthest outreaches of empire, and, at home, display in the magical space of the chemist's shop. This productive tension between medicinal drugs as stuff of ancient mystery and sign of medical progress informs their depiction in the transforming drug narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson'sStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1886), Arthur Machen's “Novel of the White Powder” (1895), and Rudyard Kipling's “Wireless” (1902). Bringing romance and drugs together invites readers to think about their respective claims to invigorate, transport, even remake the self.
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Smith, Elizabeth Megan. "‘It gets very intimate for me’: Discursive boundaries of pleasure and performance in sex work." Sexualities 20, no. 3 (November 22, 2016): 344–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716665781.
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Sex work has enjoyed a wealth of sociological interest over the last three decades. However, sexual pleasure experienced by women sex workers with their clients has been largely missing from the conversation. This article seeks to redress this gap by looking at the qualitative narratives of nine women who were working in sex work in Victoria, Australia in 2009. By viewing these narratives through Foucault’s power/knowledge/discourse nexus, together with his later work on ethics of care of the self, it posits that sex worker women draw on and resist various discourses around intimacy, performance, and pleasure in regards to their sex work and their personal lives. With this interplay in mind, the analysis supports the third feminist perspective that sex work is a complex space where dominant and subjugated discourses mingle to produce myriad experiences traversing the exploitation/empowerment binary represented by the feminist sex wars.
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Abdelrahman NuggedAlla, Motaz Ahmed. "Perception and Significance of Basic Sciences for Clinical Studies." International Journal of Human Anatomy 1, no. 2 (August 29, 2018): 26–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.14302/issn.2577-2279.ijha-18-2221.
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Background: Faculty of Medicine and Health sciences at University of Kassala, Sudan was established 1990. It adopts the traditional curricula, which implemented in preclinical (basic sciences) and clinical phases. This study was held to explore students' perception and attitudes towards the basic sciences. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted during April- August 2017 among 251 medical students. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. It was collected and analyzed using SPSS 16.0. Results: A total of 251 of participants in different phases of education in faculty of medicine and health sciences were included in the study; preclinical 116 (46.2%), 113 clinical (45.0%), and 22 (8.8%) were in internship. 95 (37.8 %) were males and 156 (62.2%) were females. The study revealed that physiology was the most preferable subject. Students' satisfaction to syllabus for anatomy, physiology and biochemistry was 61.4%, 43%, and 28.7% respectively. However, 46.6% of students spent a long time to understand biochemistry and 33.1% considered it as overloaded syllabus. Participants showed poor ability to link between theoretical and practical work in case of biochemistry (26.7%), where as anatomy and physiology were represented by 76.9% and 42.2% respectively. Less than half of students were able to integrate the subjects of basic sciences and basic with clinical sciences. Conclusion: In this study, the students determined the difficulties of recalling of information, poor integration between basic and clinical sciences and even integration within the subject. Development of integrated curriculum is necessary to improve the quality of education.
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Tiwasing, Wichanat, and Nopadon Sahachaisaeree. "Distinctive Design Perception: Toy packaging design." Journal of ASIAN Behavioural Studies 2, no. 3 (April 1, 2017): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v2i3.189.
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The present research uses toy packaging as an exploratory case study to test the research design. The case study is so selected since it involves merchandizes in conflict between the needs of children and the trust of guardians. It also engages the role of playing as a learning process promoting children’s imaginary and creativity thinking. Visual stimuli along with self-report questionnaires are used to test the perceptual response of both children and guardians on the aspects of attractiveness, safety, value and taste. The study found a number of contradictions on preferences between children and parents which demands design rethinking.
Keywords: children’ visual perception, package design
© 2017. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
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Ramani, Donato. "The brain seduction: the public perception of neuroscience." Journal of Science Communication 08, no. 04 (October 30, 2009): L01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.08040101.
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The increasing number of magazine covers dedicated to brain studies and the success of magazines and scientific journals entirely dedicated to brain and mind indicate a strong interest on these themes. This interest is clearly surpassing the boundaries of scientific and medical researches and applications and underlines an engagement of the general public, too. This phenomenon appears to be enhanced by the increasing number of basic researches focusing on non-health-related fMRI studies, investigating aspects of personality as emotions, will, personal values and beliefs, self-identity and behaviour. The broad coverage by the media raises some central questions related to the complexity of researches, the intrinsic limits of these technologies, the results’ interpretative boundaries, factors which are crucial to properly understand the studies’ value. In case of an incomplete communication, if those fundamental interpretative elements are not well understood, we could register a misinterpretation in the public perception of the studies that opens new compelling questions. As already observed in the past debates on science and technologies applications, in this case, too, we assist to a communicative problem that set against scientific community on one side and media, on the other. Focusing our attention, in particular, on the debate on fMRI, taken as a good model, in the present letter we will investigate the most interesting aspects of the current discussion on neuroscience and neuroscience public perception. This analysis was performed as one of the bid - brains in dialogue - activities (www.neuromedia.eu). bid is a three year project supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Program and coordinated by Sissa, the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste, aimed at fostering dialogue between science and society on the new challenges coming from neuroscience.
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Shamloo, Soraya Elizabeth, Valeria De Cristofaro, Valerio Pellegrini, and Marco Salvati. "Masculinity and Leadership Effectiveness (Self-)Perceptions: The Case of Lesbian Leaders." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 24 (December 18, 2022): 17026. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192417026.
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In line with the gay glass ceiling effect, sexual minorities are often target of discrimination within work-related contexts, thus potentially undermining their wellbeing at work. For gay men, discrimination may partially be attributed to gay men’s stereotypical feminine perception, which does not fit with the stereotypically masculine traits required for leadership positions. Yet, when considering lesbian women, the masculine stereotypical view associated with them may come to represent an advantage in work-related contexts, especially when compared to heterosexual women. In Study 1, N = 303 heterosexual participants rated a lesbian vs. a heterosexual woman as a job candidate on stereotypical gender (masculine vs. feminine) traits as well as leadership effectiveness. Results showed that being lesbian was associated with higher levels of masculinity (but not femininity), which in turn was related to high leadership effectiveness. In Study 2, N = 268 lesbian and heterosexual women rated themselves on the same measures. Results showed that both groups associated masculine traits with enhanced leadership effectiveness. These studies provide a better comprehension regarding how lesbian women may be perceived in work-related contexts and shed light on the role played by gender stereotypical perceptions in shaping both heterosexual and lesbian perceptions of leadership effectiveness.
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YOON, Jung-Ah. "A Study on Cases applying to the DMT Program in the Process of creating Dance." Korea Dance Movement Psychotherapy Association 6, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 65–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.30768/kdmpa.2022.6.2.65.
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The purpose of this study is to research and analyze cases applying to the DMT(Dance Movement Therapy) program in the process of creating dance. Each session of the program that consisted of a total of 8 sessions was carried out in 60 minutes per week. The qualitative case research method was conducted based on accumulated date such as research participants(dancers)’ self-reports on each session, video records, in-depth interviews, and group discussions. The research results showed that the DMT program applying to Whitehouse’s active imagination was divided into 3 main areas and 12 sub-areas. Research participants’ physical perception(physical discomfort, physical transformation), emotional perception(trust, stability, responsibility, vividness, happiness, inspirational motivation, positive feeling, sorriness), and thinking perception(expansion of self-perception, expansion of creative· autonomous thinking perception) were drawn from the research. Through these research results, this study got developmental outcomes in expanding dancers’ physical, emotional, and thinking perception, in being specific about sending work images through integration, and in conveying physical meaning in the creation process. It is expected that follow-up studies continue as being interested in applicability of the DMT program in the process of creating dance.
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Mentzel, Peter. "Conclusion:Millets, States, and National Identities." Nationalities Papers 28, no. 1 (March 2000): 199–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905990050002515.
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The previous essays have presented a (frequently tragic) history of the Muslims of Southeastern Europe. The development of national identities among the Muslim populations has been an important chapter in this story. A recurring theme in the different case studies presented in this special issue is that the ways in which the Balkan Muslim population perceived itself did not always match the perception of the Christian population, especially the nationalists. Likewise, while the non-Muslim population often considered all Muslims to be an undifferentiated mass (usually referred to as “Turks”), the Muslims themselves often had highly nuanced and complex self-perception. While this self-identification included Islam as an important component, Islam was by no means the only, or even most important, aspect of identity.
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Tofani, Laura Rocchietta, and Kate Wheeler. "The Recent-Traumatic Episode Protocol: Outcome Evaluation and Analysis of Three Case Studies." Journal of EMDR Practice and Research 5, no. 3 (2011): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1933-3196.5.3.95.
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This article evaluates and illustrates the application of the recent-traumatic episode protocol (R-TEP) with three diverse clients: a child with chronic illness, a woman with a significant loss, and an adolescent who self-harmed. The R-TEP is an adaptation of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) protocol for early EMDR intervention. Sessions are presented in detail to highlight the shifts in information processing that occur during treatment. Observed markers used to analyze the flow of processing are identified, which include distancing from the trauma; reduction in negative affect or change in reported emotions; accessing more adaptive information; changes in the Subjective Units of Disturbance scale; and the Validity of Cognition scale and Impact of Event Scale—Revised indicating shifts in perception of the traumatic memory. Pre-post R-TEP treatment gains were noted for all clients, with changes in behavior and functioning. Theoretical underpinnings of the R-TEP are discussed with respect to the reported observations. The specific contribution of the protocol is highlighted, considering its procedural components and related plausible mechanisms of change.
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Ikalovic, Vedrana, and Leonardo Chiesi. "Dispersion of Home in Contemporary City: A Case Study of Perception and Behavior in Young Tokyoites." Space and Culture 23, no. 4 (May 31, 2018): 508–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331218775916.
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This article explores the multidimensional concept of home through the relationship of the self and the city. The case study is Tokyo, and sense of home and homelike activities of its young dwellers are explored, analyzed, and discussed within the integrated unity of their spatial, sociocultural, and psychological/temporal properties. Semistructured interviews were conducted in order to grasp the rhythm and the dynamics of the daily lives of the respondents and to recognize significant places in the city where homelike activities happen. As a result, a dispersed model of home is revealed, which is juxtaposed to the existing, more traditional, concept. In this model, home becomes a territory, a collection, or network of (semi)public and (semi)private places connected by routes made by an individual who gives them specific values and meanings. Spatially, home is transposed from the singular space of a house/dwelling to a field of activities and actions, giving the city and its systems significant roles.
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Sari, Pratiwi Indah, and Redi Indra Yudha. "Developing Individual Students through Changes of Thinking Pattern and Self Perception on Learning Activities." AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan 14, no. 4 (September 1, 2022): 4891–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35445/alishlah.v14i4.1685.
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The purpose of the study was to know the development of students through the changes of thinking patterns and self-perceptions of students during learning process. The design of research was qualitative research. The informant or the most appropriate key person was the 2016 Students of Economic Education Study Program. The research data was collected with observation, interviews and documentations. The research concluded that there was an increase in student understanding positively. This was because, the students were more invited to participate in depth through various case studies given on course materials rather than just observing. Thus, it can be concluded that the learning process that is on the bench of college or college education level was very different from other education level, which in the learning process is put forward the development of insights and deeper patterns of thinking. Nevertheless, there was still a tendency of student minds that had not been directed so that they could be free to create through various opinions that certainly could be accounted for.
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Vicinus, Martha. "Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial." Journal of British Studies 36, no. 1 (January 1997): 70–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386128.
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How and when did society first recognize women's homoerotic bonds? Were these romantic friendships fully accepted, or were they seen as problematic? Did the women involved see themselves as lesbians? These and other questions have been raised over the past twenty years by historians of lesbian sexuality. When Lillian Faderman in her pioneering survey of European and American lesbians declared the nineteenth century as the golden age of unproblematic romantic friendships, historians quickly responded with evidence to the contrary. Much of this debate has been focused on whether or not women could be considered “lesbian” before they claimed (or had forced on them) a publicly acknowledged identity. But the modern lesbian did not appear one day fully formed in the case studies of the fin-de-siècle sexologists; rather she was already a recognizable, if shadowy, subject for gossip among the sophisticated by at least the 1840s and 1850s. By examining closely a single divorce trial, I hope to show that literary and legal elites acknowledged lesbian sexuality in a variety of complex ways. Their uneasy disapproval encompassed both a self-conscious silence in the face of evidence and a desire to control information, lest it corrupt the innocent. Yet who can define the line between the ignorant and the informed? The very public discussion of the Codrington divorce, and most especially the role of the feminist, Emily Faithfull, in alienating Helen Codrington's affections from her husband, demonstrate the recognition of female homosexual behavior.
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WHITNEY, SHILOH. "Affects, Images and Childlike Perception: Self-Other Difference in Merleau-Ponty’s Sorbonne Lectures." PhaenEx 7, no. 2 (December 16, 2012): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/p.v7i2.3817.
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I begin by reviewing recent research by Merleau-Ponty scholars opposing aspects of the critique of Merleau-Ponty made by Meltzoff and colleagues based on their studies of neonate imitation. I conclude the need for reopening the case for infant self-other indistinction, starting with a re-examination of Merleau-Ponty’s notion of indistinction in the Sorbonne lectures, and attending especially to the role of affect and to the non-exclusivity of self-other distinction and indistinction. In undertaking that study, I discover the importance of understanding self-other distinction and indistinction in terms of their affective significance. For Merleau-Ponty, self-other indistinction is a virtual or imaginary participation in others’ orientations that he defines as an affective phenomenon. Further, Merleau-Ponty’s account of the advent of the body proper—the aspect of the body image that circumscribes the body as a distinct and private space—theorizes it as an affective innovation. Rather than being a fact of which we at first are ignorant and gradually grow to recognize, distinction from others in the sense that is important to Merleau-Ponty is a situation that must be cultivated and maintained through the negotiation of affective intimacy. Understanding indistinction and distinction in terms of the affective forces that sustain them explains how it is possible for them to coexist.
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Aronson, Jane. "Anne Opie. Beyond Good Intentions: Support Work with Older People. Wellington, New Zealand: Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1995, pp. 253." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 16, no. 2 (1997): 384–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800014422.
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RésuméL'étude qualitative sur l'efficacité des pratiques de service social menée par Anne Opie auprès des soignants naturels qui s'occupent de parents atteints de démence prend sa source dans la perception de l'auteure selon laquelle la rhétorique politique sur l'importance du soutien que l'État doit accorder à ces populations à haute incidence de stress trouve peu d'applications pratiques dans l'organisation des services sociaux et sanitaires en Nouvelle-Zélande. Opie relève deux discours opposés dans l'expérience des soignants et des travailleurs sociaux en matière de services de soutien. Le premier est un discours de gestion/organisation axé sur l'efficacité, des définitions étriquées des besoins et du bien-être, des images réductrices de la signification du soutien et des pratiques de travail social de plus en plus orientées sur la routine. Le second, relativement effacé, est un discours qui met en lumière l'aspect complexe de la tâche des soignants, ses transitions et sespertes, ainsi que la valeur d'un service substantial et efficace, intégrant une aide à la fois pratique et émotive accordée sur une base continue. Àpartir de données provenant des soignants, des travailleurs sociaux, d'autres intervenants du secteur de la santé et de gestionnaires, l'auteure étudie l'axe et l'importance des différentes approches d'évaluation des services sous-jacentes à ces deux discours. Que ce soit à titre de praticiens, de chercheurs, d'activistes ou d'éducateurs, nous avons tous beaucoup à apprendre de l'analyse nuancée faite par Opie d'un territoire semblable à celui du Canada et qui a évolué plus loin etplus rapidement vers une limitation des droits des soignants et des aînés vulnérables dont Us prennent soin, et vers une définition de plus en plus restrictive des activités formelles de soutien et de soin.
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Oladokun, Sunday Olarinre, and Cyril Ayodele Ajayi. "Assessing users' perception of Facilities Management services in a Public University: A case study approach." Journal of Facility Management Education and Research 2, no. 2 (January 1, 2018): 62–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.22361/jfmer/00071.
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ABSTRACT Facilities play a vital role in the attraction and retention of quality staff and students in tertiary institution. Hence, the perception of these facilities users is important in assessing Facilities Management (FM) services. Few studies exist in Nigeria on FM practice in tertiary institutions. Therefore, this study investigated the perception of staff and students on FM services within the campus of one of the foremost public universities in Nigeria. This study utilised survey approach by eliciting data from staff and students through self-administered questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and independent sample t-test. It was found that staff and students were more satisfied with cleaning and security services than other FM services in the study area. A significant difference was also found between the perception of staff and that of students over five out of nine categories of FM services while staff were more satisfied in in all the five. The findings suggest the need for all-inclusive performance assessment of FM units and the need to embrace a more user-focused FM policy in tertiary institution. Further research covering more tertiary institutions and other stakeholders within university system may provide more generalisable results.
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Chadwin, Joseph. "Overt and Covert Buddhism: The Two Faces of University-Based Buddhism in Beijing." Religions 11, no. 3 (March 16, 2020): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11030131.
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As more and more students in China turn to religion, it follows that an increasing number of students in Chinese universities self-identify as Buddhist. Chinese academia has a tendency to treat this as problematic, offering reasons for this trend as well as solutions but neglecting to examine the nature of student belief and identity. By utilising two case studies, this paper seeks to demonstrate how the Buddhist identity and practice of self-proclaimed Buddhist students in Beijing can manifest in two very different ways: overtly or covertly. More specifically, each case study provides an example of students in Beijing who very much break with the commonly held perception that students in China who self-identify as religious have a fundamentally flawed and limited understanding of their religion and rarely actually practice it.
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Geaves, Ron. "From Divine Light Mission to Elan Vital and Beyond: An Exploration of Change and Adaptation." Nova Religio 7, no. 3 (March 1, 2004): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2004.7.3.45.
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ABSTRACT: The following article will put forward the argument that it is necessary to take into account the worldview of the insider in order to appreciate the coherence or ““rationality”” of actions of a religiousspiritual teacher or organization. As a case study, the article examines the transformations that have occurred in the organizational forms utilized by Prem Rawat (a.k.a. Maharaji). While bringing readers up to date with Maharaji's activities since the 1980s, I argue that these developments owe more to Maharaji's self-perception of his role as a master and his wish to universalize the message historically located in the teachings of individual sant iconoclasts, than to external or internal pressures brought to bear upon the organizational forms themselves.
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Pack, Margaret. "Defining moments in practice. Clinical supervision as a method of promoting critical reflection in fieldwork: A qualitative inquiry." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 23, no. 4 (July 8, 2016): 45–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol23iss4id150.
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In 2008, as coordinator and lecturer of a postgraduate allied mental health programme, I asked clinical supervisors and their supervisees who were completing the programme what their ‘most difficult’ practice scenario taken to supervision had been as part of a research project approved for ethics by Victoria University. Secondly, I asked clinical supervisees and clinical supervisors about how they had re- solved or dealt with this practice issue. The aim of the research was to determine if the self reflective and reflexive process described by Napier and Fook (2001) and Gardner (2009) was experienced by the social workers and occupational therapists completing their post- graduate studies. The results indicate that for students, through discussing complex and difficult cases in clinical supervision, they came to view their practice both more positively and more self reflectively and reflexively through engagement in clinical supervision. For supervisors, the most difficult scenarios for those who were the students’ line managers involved navigating a mixed role that balanced providing performance feedback in addition to clinical supervision. The implications for clinical supervision as the method of learning in fieldwork education are discussed.
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Khatib, Hakim. "Impact of perceptual biases on cultural perception towards the ‘other’: the case of Egypt versus the European Union." Contemporary Arab Affairs 8, no. 4 (October 1, 2015): 505–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17550912.2015.1079979.
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The empirical literature has focused on political, socio-economic and even religious indicators when attempting to understand the rise of Islamic factions in Egypt, thereby minimizing the role of cultural aspects in driving mobilization and contestation processes in the Arab World. With this issue in mind, this paper focuses on the alteration of cultural perception of the public through the capitalization of perceptual biases. The contribution of European Union policies in the region has served as useful material for the Islamic rhetoric of the ‘Salafi Call’ and the Muslim Brotherhood in creating a European Union-sceptical culture to contest and mobilize for the elections in 2012 in Egypt. Based on the sixth edition of Jerald Greenberg and Robert Baron's Behavior in Organizations (London, 1997), perceptual biases of stereotyping, which may distort the image of the target collective, and comparative examples of Islamic rhetoric from the period covering the Egyptian elections will be analyzed to demonstrate how Islamic factions took advantage of these perceptual biases to disparage the ‘West’ in the region and, at the same time, to gain more sympathy, support and legitimacy from the Egyptian people. Whilst there is a significant knowledge gap about Europe in the Arab world, clouded by generalization and stereotyping, the European Union likewise lacks accurate and up-to-date information about religious movements. Religious elites constitute a significant player in altering cultural perception in the Arab region. Pragmatism of politically active religious factions increases their impact on perception of the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’.
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Landgrebe, M., U. Frick, S. Hauser, B. Langguth, R. Rosner, G. Hajak, and P. Eichhammer. "Cognitive and neurobiological alterations in electromagnetic hypersensitive patients: results of a case-control study." Psychological Medicine 38, no. 12 (March 26, 2008): 1781–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291708003097.
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BackgroundHypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields (EMF) is frequently claimed to be linked to a variety of non-specific somatic and neuropsychological complaints. Whereas provocation studies often failed to demonstrate a causal relationship between EMF exposure and symptom formation, recent studies point to a complex interplay of neurophysiological and cognitive alterations contributing to symptom manifestation in electromagnetic hypersensitive patients (EHS). However, these studies have examined only small sample sizes or have focused on selected aspects. Therefore this study examined in the largest sample of EHS EMF-specific cognitive correlates, discrimination ability and neurobiological parameters in order to get further insight into the pathophysiology of electromagnetic hypersensitivity.MethodIn a case-control design 89 EHS and 107 age- and gender-matched controls were included in the study. Health status and EMF-specific cognitions were evaluated using standardized questionnaires. Perception thresholds following single transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) pulses to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were determined using a standardized blinded measurement protocol. Cortical excitability parameters were measured by TMS.ResultsDiscrimination ability was significantly reduced in EHS (only 40% of the EHS but 60% of the controls felt no sensation under sham stimulation during the complete series), whereas the perception thresholds for real magnetic pulses were comparable in both groups (median 21% versus 24% of maximum pulse intensity). Intra-cortical facilitation was decreased in younger and increased in older EHS. In addition, typical EMF-related cognitions (aspects of rumination, symptom intolerance, vulnerability and stabilizing self-esteem) specifically differentiated EHS from their controls.ConclusionsThese results demonstrate significant cognitive and neurobiological alterations pointing to a higher genuine individual vulnerability of electromagnetic hypersensitive patients.
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Lebedeva, Nataliya, Victoria Ismatullina, Shamil Sheymardanov, and Talgat Zhussipbek. "The Teacher is a Guide or Barrier to Mathematics: Case Studies in Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan." Education & Self Development 17, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 278–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/esd.17.3.20.
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Mathematics is an important subject to study. But the presence of mathematical and gender stereotypes affects the self-perception of mathematical abilities for boys and girls. In the future it may be associated with the choice of educational and career trajectories. In turn, the teacher acts as a guide in the formation of these ideas and motivation for the subject. Among the factors of the impact of the teacher on these formations, one can distinguish: the teacher's pleasure from teaching mathematics, their beliefs and ideas about mathematics, including teachers’ self-confidence in order to teach mathematics, etc. At the same time, the role of the teacher may vary depending on the structure of the educational process. This article discusses how important is the teacher in the educational environment when choosing an educational trajectory, as it develops interest to the subject and motivation for further learning on the example of three countries: Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. The research methodology is a case-study research strategy: research I - the study of the attitude and motivation of schoolchildren to study mathematics, the role of the teacher in its study; research II - evaluation of the effectiveness of separate education based on the opinion of teachers. Our research showed that the main motivational factors are the content of education, which forms a set of knowledge about different types of careers, and the individual characteristics of teachers who introduce students to different subject areas. And segregated education can become an alternative strategy for achieving gender equality.
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MANN, STEPHEN KA FAI, and BONNIE BO WAH CHONG. "HOW STIGMA FROM THE PUBLIC AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS AFFECTS SELF-PERCEPTION IN PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS IN HONG KONG: A QUALITATIVE STUDY." Hong Kong Journal of Social Work 50, no. 01n02 (January 2016): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219246216000036.
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This study aims to explore the interrelationship between different types of stigma experienced by people with mental illness. A multiple case studies approach was adopted, and semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with ten Chinese with mental illness in Hong Kong. Thematic analysis of the data revealed that the respondents were stigmatized by the public, their significant others, and themselves. Results suggested that stigma from the public and significant others might have remarkable association with self-stigma among the respondents. Moreover, self-stigma might reinforce the sense of powerlessness and the adoption of negative coping strategies. A self-disruptive vicious cycle of stigma of people with mental illness is proposed and discussed.
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Monzo, Carlos, Germán Cobo, José Antonio Morán, Eugènia Santamaría, and David García-Solórzano. "Remote Laboratory for Online Engineering Education: The RLAB-UOC-FPGA Case Study." Electronics 10, no. 9 (May 1, 2021): 1072. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics10091072.
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Practical experiments are essential for engineering studies. Regarding the acquisition of practical and professional competences in a completely online scenario, the use of technology that allows students to carry out practical experiments is important. This paper presents a remote laboratory designed and developed by the Open University of Catalonia (RLAB-UOC), which allows engineering students studying online to carry out practical experiments anywhere and anytime with real electronic and communications equipment. The features of the remote laboratory and students’ satisfaction with its use are analyzed in real subjects across six semesters using a self-administered questionnaire in an FPGA-based case study. The results for the FPGA-based case study present the perception and satisfaction of students using the proposed remote laboratory in the acquisition of subject competences and content.
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Gavala-González, Juan, Amanda Torres-Perez, Ismael Gálvez-Fernández, and José Carlos Fernández-García. "Lifestyle and Self-Perceived Quality of Life in Sports Students: A Case Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 3 (January 30, 2022): 1598. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031598.
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Adolescence has been considered a crucial stage for the adoption of healthy habits such as physical activity. In addition, numerous research studies have shown that physical activity is a positive factor for health behaviors and quality of life. In this sense, the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between physical activity levels and perceived quality of life in a sample of students studying physical activity and sport. This is a descriptive observational study with a population of physical activity and sports students from the San Pablo High School in Seville, Spain. The participants (N = 86), with a mean age of 18.56 ± 1.88 years, were pursuing professional qualifications in Physical Activity and Sport. They were administered the short version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-SF) and the SF-36 questionnaire on perceived health status. For data analysis, a correlation analysis (Spearman’s rho) was performed. The results indicate that students attending sports-related vocational training programs engaged in more physical activity (96.9%) than the population average suggested by the World Health Organization (20%). In addition, a direct relationship was shown between participating in physical activity and perceived health. Depending on the intensity of the physical activity, students found less physical interference (IPAQ Vigorous—Physical Function (rho = 0.252; p = 0.019); IPAQ Sedentary—Bodily Pain (rho = 0. 223; p < 0.039); IPAQ Total—Physical Function (rho = 0.256; p = 0.018)) and emotional interference (IPAQ Moderate—Emotional Role (rho = 0.237; p = 0.028)) when performing exercise or activities of daily life; therefore, physical activity appears to be beneficial for self-perception of quality of life.
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Wahyuni, Faradita. "Factors Influencing Young Women’s Self Concept In Facing Primary Dysmenorrhoea At Smp Negeri 8 Medan." JURNAL KEPERAWATAN DAN FISIOTERAPI (JKF) 5, no. 1 (October 31, 2022): 75–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.35451/jkf.v5i1.1273.
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Preliminary study of 2018 in Ponorogo, about the effect of menstrual pain on daily activities, there were 11 people from 49 respondents or as much as 22,4% admitted his activity was disrupted due to menstrual pain and 3 people from 49 respondents or as much as 6,2% said experiencing pain weight during menstruation, Of the case studies are suspected that the concept of self plays a major role for adolescents in dealing with dysmenorrhea during menarche. This research use analytic research design with cross sectional approach. Sample taken by random sampling. The result showed that there is a significant influence between the independent variables of development, significant-other, self-perseptions studied with the dependent variable self-concept where optained R Value of 0,694 and R Square 0,482 which means the independent variable contributes influence on the dependent varible of 48,2%. Based on F test found that the results of the three independent variables strongly influence the dependent variable where obtained P = 0,000<0,05. But based on T test, it is found that the variables that influence only self perception with P = 0,000 < 0,05 whereas developmental variable with sig 0,175 and significant other to sig 0,234 are concidered have no effect to self concept variable. The conclution of this study is the adolescent self-perseption of himself most influential on the formation of adolescent self-concept. Good self-perception will shape good self concept and vice versa.
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Gilchrist, Gail, Sandra Davidson, Aves Middleton, Helen Herrman, Kelsey Hegarty, and Jane Gunn. "Factors associated with smoking and smoking cessation among primary care patients with depression: a naturalistic cohort study." Advances in Dual Diagnosis 8, no. 1 (February 16, 2015): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/add-10-2014-0036.
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Purpose – People with a history of depression are more likely to smoke and less likely to achieve abstinence from smoking long term. The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors associated with smoking and smoking cessation among patients with depression. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reports on smoking prevalence and cessation in a cohort of 789 primary care attendees with depressive symptoms (Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale score of=16) recruited from 30 randomly selected Primary Care Practices in Victoria, Australia in 2005. Findings – At baseline, 32 per cent of participants smoked. Smokers were more likely to be male, unmarried, receive government benefits, have difficulty managing on available income, have emphysema, a chronic illness, poor self-rated health, to have more severe depressive and anxiety symptoms, to be taking anti-depressants, to be hazardous drinkers, to report suicidal ideation and to have experienced childhood physical or sexual abuse. At 12 months, 20 participants reported quitting. Females and people with good or better self-rated health were significantly more likely to have quit, while people with a chronic illness or suicidal ideation were less likely to quit. Smoking cessation was not associated with increases in depression or anxiety symptoms. Only six participants remained quit over four years. Practical implications – Rates of smoking were high, and long-term cessation was low among primary care patients with depressive symptoms. Primary care physicians should provide additional monitoring and support to assist smokers with depression quit and remain quit. Originality/value – This is the first naturalistic study of smoking patterns among primary care attendees with depressive symptoms.
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Tsuroyya, Chasna. "STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON PEER CORRECTION IN ACADEMIC ENGLISH WRITING: A CASE STUDY IN A HIGHER EDUCATION." Research and Innovation in Language Learning 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.33603/rill.v3i2.3108.
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Peer correction has taken an important role in language teaching and learning as in contribution to motivate the performance of L2 learners in writing classroom. Peer correction encourages the development of autonomous learning due to teachers' review that took over-dependence thus lowered the students' initiative. However, the previous studies show that many teachers are still doubting the effectiveness of peer correction because of students' lack of knowledge and unable to assist other students. The current study investigated the writing performance of English L2 learners who either provided or received written peer correction in the context of academic writing tasks. Twenty participants enrolled and attended writing class in English Education Department in a state university in Surakarta. They were given a rubric to both reviews other students' writing tasks and receive peer feedback. In collecting data, questionnaires were collected after the writing projects. Results show the use of peer correction increased their writing motivation, self-regulated reflection, bidirectional communication, and deeper critical thinking. Thus, this study provide a clear finding of the efficiency of peer correction in improving students' academic writing and can be useful to be implemented in writing class for English learners
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Nanda, Ratih Oktri, Lolita Lolita, Wiwik Indayati, Ivong Rusdiyanti, Nurjannah Nurjannah, Azis Ikhsanudin, and Silvia Mareti. "COVID-19 risk perception among Indonesians in early stage of the outbreak." International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijphs.v10i2.20678.
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Indonesia confirmed its first coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) case on 2nd March 2020, when other countries have already reported several numbers in the previous month. This study aimed to explore the risk perception of Indonesians in the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 495 participants using a web-based questionnaire. Primary data were collected from 3rd to 27th March 2020 including the perceived severity, vulnerability, threat, self, and response efficacy of the participants. The results showed that the perceived threat of the outbreak in its early stage is the second highest compared to other diseases. The perceived severity among the participants was high. However, they had a low vulnerability. Those in the middle region showed a higher level of self and response efficacy. Meanwhile, people who work as private sector employee (β=0.146, p=0.004), live in the western region (β=-0.184, p=0.000), with a higher knowledge score (β=0.096, p=0.032) had a higher perceived threat. These results found those who had high knowledge, was also had higher perceived risk. The most important of these studies have determined various factors related to risk perception, thus it could be good preliminary evidence for public health authorities to arrange an effective way for epidemic control.
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Tumwine, Christopher, Peter Aggleton, and Stephen Bell. "Interface between biomedical and traditional systems of treatment and care among HIV positive fisher folk in two fishing communities on Lake Victoria, Uganda." African Health Sciences 21, no. 3 (September 27, 2021): 1040–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i3.11.
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Background: Fisherfolk have been identified as a key population in the HIV response in Uganda due to high HIV preva- lence and low engagement in HIV services. While studies have examined lifestyles and risk, much remains to be understood about help and health seeking experiences, including the combined use of biomedical and traditional health care.
Objective: To examine the use of biomedical and traditional health care in two fishing communities around Lake Victoria in Uganda.
Methods: Exploratory, in-depth qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 42 HIV positive fisherfolk.
Results: Prior to HIV diagnosis, participants who described becoming ill sought different forms of help including biomedical treatment prescribed by health workers or self-prescribed; biomedical and herbal medicines together; herbal medicines only; or no form of treatment. Following HIV diagnosis, the majority of participants used ART exclusively, while a smaller number used both ART and traditional care strategies, or reported times when they used alternative therapies instead of ART. Prior to HIV diagnosis, fisherfolk’s health care seeking practices inhibited engagement with HIV testing and access to biomedical HIV treatment and care. After HIV diagnosis, most resorted only to using ART.
Conclusion: Study findings provide insight into how fisherfolk’s use of biomedical and traditional care prior to diagnosis influences subsequent engagement with HIV treatment. Efforts are needed to reach fisherfolk through everyday health seeking networks to ensure HIV is diagnosed and treated as early as possible.
Keywords: HIV care; fisherfolk; HIV; Uganda; traditional healers; anti-retroviral therapy.
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Bourrier, Karen. "NARRATING INSANITY IN THE LETTERS OF THOMAS MULOCK AND DINAH MULOCK CRAIK." Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no. 1 (December 7, 2010): 203–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000355.
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Scholars have had a difficult time assessing the significance of Dinah Mulock Craik (1824–1887), best remembered as the author of John Halifax, Gentleman (1856). The critical verdict on her life and letters has swung toward extremes. Some critics have seen her, to quote Henry James, as “kindly, somewhat dull, pious, and very sentimental” (172); her novels embody the Victorian values of self-help, moral earnestness, and hard work, and it is assumed that her life did too. Elaine Showalter's and Sally Mitchell's feminist recoveries of Craik's work in the 1970s and early 1980s found that just the opposite was true, and that Victorian sentimentality allowed Craik to voice the subversive desires of her female readers covertly, in a form that was acceptable to the general public (Showalter 5–7, Mitchell 31). This critical tradition tended to overemphasize the melodramatic aspects of Craik's life and career as a means of dramatizing the struggles of women in a patriarchal society. The most recent scholarship eschews Craik's life altogether for the most part, focusing on her novelistic representations of disability, of Irish and Scottish nationality, and of class and enfranchisement. This criticism engages Craik's writing as an interesting cultural artifact rather than as an aesthetic object: her work is once again seen as embodying normative Victorian values, but to what extent the author was the cognizant promoter of these values, and to what extent she was their unwitting filter, and whether it matters, is unclear. But new archival work shows the importance of her life in understanding her career. The Mulock Family Papers, held at the University of California at Los Angeles, underscore Craik's challenges in managing an abusive father, who suffered from periods of dejection followed by periods of great happiness, and who was frequently absent and incarcerated. Craik was intensely private when it came to her personal life, and scholars like Showalter have read her reserve as a bow to womanly decorum in a life otherwise dominated by literary celebrity. But the archive suggests that Craik's taciturnity was instead a strategy for managing the threat of violence and scandal.
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Schlough, Kathleen, Deborah Nawoczenski, Laura E. Case, Karen Nolan, and Janet K. Wigglesworth. "The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Endurance, Strength, Function and Self-Perception in Adolescents with Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Report of Three Case Studies." Pediatric Physical Therapy 17, no. 4 (2005): 234–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.pep.0000186508.35880.6c.
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Baumann, Matthias, and Stephan Stubner. "Self-control through board control: formalized governance in controlling owner family businesses." Corporate Ownership and Control 14, no. 2 (2017): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv14i2art12.
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Our study examines the role of board control tasks in mitigating self-control problems in controlling owner family businesses. We challenge the common perception that controlling owners do not require and use board control because of the concentration of ownership and management in a single individual. We argue that self-control problems, that is agency problems with oneself, have often been overlooked by existing studies on the relevance of control tasks. By using a multiple case study design, we demonstrate that controlling owners frequently use board control as a self-governing mechanism and develop several propositions on favorable board processes and compositions. Rather than independence, we propose that controlling owners should select their board members based on trust and expertise. Moreover, we propose that probing and challenging behavior by board members in combination with the controlling owner’s willingness to prepare in a formalized manner support the reduction of self-control problems.
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Palluel, Estelle, Jane Elizabeth Aspell, and Olaf Blanke. "Leg muscle vibration modulates bodily self-consciousness: integration of proprioceptive, visual, and tactile signals." Journal of Neurophysiology 105, no. 5 (May 2011): 2239–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00744.2010.
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Behavioral studies have used visuo-tactile conflicts between a participant's body and a visually presented fake or virtual body to investigate the importance of bodily perception for self-consciousness (bodily self-consciousness). Illusory self-identification with a fake body and changes in tactile processing—modulation of visuo-tactile cross-modal congruency effects (CCEs)—were reported in previous findings. Although proprioceptive signals are deemed important for bodily self-consciousness, their contribution to the representation of the full body has not been studied. Here we investigated whether and how self-identification and tactile processing (CCE magnitude) could be modified by altering proprioceptive signals with 80-Hz vibrations at the legs. Participants made elevation judgments of tactile cues (while ignoring nearby lights) during synchronous and asynchronous stroking of a seen fake body. We found that proprioceptive signals during vibrations altered the magnitude of self-identification and mislocalization of touch (CCE) in a synchrony-dependent fashion: we observed an increase of self-identification and CCE magnitude during asynchronous stroking. In a second control experiment we studied whether proprioceptive signals per se, or those from the lower limbs in particular, were essential for these changes. We applied vibrations at the upper limbs (which provide no information about the position of the participant's body in space) and in this case observed no modulation of bodily self-consciousness or tactile perception. These data link proprioceptive signals from the legs that are conveyed through the dorsal column-medial lemniscal pathway to bodily self-consciousness. We discuss their integration with bodily signals from vision and touch for full-body representations.
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Reel, Candice, J. Hunter Williams, Emma Brennan, Jonna Williams, Kristen Payne, and Rebecca Allen. "Role-reversals in Caregiving: Case Studies of Two Women Living With Late Stage Cancer." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 794. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2927.
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Abstract Many studies have examined the effects of caregiving burden and many others have focused on the effects of having a caregiver (Haynes-Lewis et al., 2018; Trevino, Prigerson, & Maciejewski, 2018; Semere et al., 2020). However, there is little data on the experience of role reversal, once responsible for caring for others and now being cared for while living with cancer. This project aims to identify ways in which women living with cancer cope with the internal struggles of receiving care. The current project is a case study of two females, one age 67, NHW, with a breast cancer diagnosis and one age 60, Black, with an ovarian cancer diagnosis, who once were caregivers and are now being cared for by family. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted that were approximately 60 minutes each. The study data are from a larger project focused on the self-perception of older women with late-stage cancer. Four independent researchers used thematic analysis to uncover common themes of coping between the two women receiving care. The themes uncovered were acceptance of the loss of autonomy, positive death attitudes, good relationships with their caregivers, and religiosity were identified and coded as coping strategies. The qualitative data showed that the use of these coping strategies helped the women be more accepting to care with less internal conflict. Future research should focus on generalizing these findings on a larger sample and use the data to help cancer patients better accept care from others.