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Understanding social support during pregnancy:A qualitative study of women's lived experiences in Nepal
No full textThis research study examines the experience and understanding of available social support in Nepal and its importance during pregnancy. The interviews, utilising twenty in-depth interviews with pregnant women in Nepal, were analysed inductively using a thematic analysis approach. The findings suggested that women consider their husband's support the most important and desired support during pregnancy, while women also acknowledged support from relatives and neighbours. None of the women experienced any organised community support or NGO/INGO support, and the support from healthcare providers was limited. At the policy level, the maternity leave policy by the government of Nepal is seen as inadequate support in promoting working women in Nepal, and it lacks implementation in informal work sectors. The study concludes that appropriate social support can significantly enhance the well-being of pregnant women. Given the limited availability of formal support systems and the central role of spousal and informal community support, these findings highlight the need for context-specific interventions. Therefore, we recommend conducting interventional studies to design and evaluate targeted support mechanisms that address the diverse needs of pregnant women in Nepal, shaped by their socioeconomic and cultural contexts.</p
Normalising Fan Parasociality within Pathologising Traces
No full textThe past decade has seen an influx of academic work on and popular usage of the term ‘parasocial’, but this work largely theorises fans rather than listens to them. This paper corrects that. Drawing on 16 focus groups with fans of Harry Styles, I explore fans’ understanding and appropriation of the once-forgotten academic term, parasocial. Fans, here, are quite aware of Styles’s star persona and the illusion of their intimacy. They use the concept of parasociality to manage, understand, and police both their own behaviour and that of other fans. The paper argues that the fans actual parasociality and their usage of the term exists as a multisocial, fandom-wide experience, and mimics well-explored concepts in fan studies, including performativity, playful engagement with “easter eggs”, the “fangirl as pathology”, and boundary policing. Their performance of parasociality positions the concept as a normal part of the fan persona to be explored further academically, and at the same time, their self-conscious and hyper-nuanced use of the term contradicts its very definition
Order Tracking Based Electrical Signature Analysis (OT-ESA) for Monitoring and Diagnosing Wind Turbines
No full textAI-Driven Predictive Analytics and Interactive Visualisation to Enhance Energy Efficiency in Residential Buildings
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Foreshadowing Terror:Exploring the Time of Online Manifestos Prior to Lone Wolf Attacks
No full textPrevious research has highlighted the prominent behavior of lone wolf terrorists to produce and share a manifesto publicly, outlining their frustrations and motivations for their eventual terrorist attack. This article aims to explore this phenomenon, focusing on the timelapse between when a terrorist manifesto is posted online and when the eventual attack occurs, discussing the time difference between the two events for 12 cases of lone wolf terrorism. The results revealed that the average time lapse between when a manifesto was posted online and when the terrorist attack occurs is one hour, 43 min. Limitations and implications are discussed in detail.</p
‘From there everything changed’:conversion narrative in the biomimicry movement
No full textAn increasingly influential approach to solving human ecological problems is an innovative design practice known as biomimicry. The Biomimicry Institute, a major stakeholder in the Biomimicry Movement, promotes biomimicry as a practice that mimics nature’s genius to solve human challenges and provides hope of sustainable futures. Despite increasing global interest in the practice, so far little is known about the value placed on biomimicry within practitioner communities. Employing a corpus-assisted discourse-analytic approach, this paper explores the ways video narratives shared by practitioners affiliated with and curated by the Biomimicry Institute position biomimicry as a sacred practice. Drawing on Stibbe’s ecolinguistic approach and Hobbs’ functional religious language framework, we observe an overarching discursive pattern of conversion narrative (incorporating both personal and collective storylines) which highlights the sacred significance of the movement. We explore how the linguistic strategies underlying these conversion narratives centre human experience, mark group identity and attract new converts, while constructing an ecologically ambivalent discourse. In particular, we find that use of vague language obscures the precise nature of involvement in the movement and blurs the lines between member and non-member, contributing to the conversion narratives’ potential as powerful proselytising tools.</p
Mandatory CSR disclosure, institutional ownership and firm value:Evidence from China
No full textThis study aims to contribute to the relevant accounting, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature by examining the value relevance of mandatory CSR disclosures in China. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) research design and a sample based on propensity score matching (PSM) over the period from 2003 to 2020, our findings suggest that mandatory CSR disclosures are negatively associated with firm’ values. We also find that firms with a high level of institutional ownership and leverage experience a relatively lower drop in firms’ values as a result of the mandatory CSR disclosures. These findings remain robust to alternative sampling design, use of market to book value as an alternative measure of firms’ market-based performance, and a parallel test to validate our DID analysis. Our findings have useful implications for managers, regulators, policy makers and other stakeholders
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