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Rezension von Hille, A. & Schiedermair, S. (2021). Literaturdidaktik Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. Eine Einführung für Studium und Unterricht. Narr Francke Attempto.
Get PDFFamily members’ experiences and concerns as loved ones undergo chemotherapy treatment for cancer
Get PDFImagine hearing that one of our family or someone we dearly love has just been given a diagnosis of colorectal cancer, has to undergo major surgery and then at minimum, a six month course of chemotherapy. These are stories doctors relate to patients and their families every day. However, when it comes to us personally, when we are that family member sitting in that chair in the doctor’s office with a loved one, and, hearing those words, we are shocked to the core. Our lives as well as theirs, will change forever, and whether we know it or not we (family members) are the most important people for that patient to help them get through this most difficult life-threatening experience. So the question is - how would we face it? How would we deal with it and, what would it be like for us as family members to care for, ..
The digital age: an exploration of the influence of media on children’s lives
Get PDFThis research looks at how technology, and in particular visual media (television, Internet and video games), has influenced the lives of young children. In the last two decades the amount of children’s media usage time has increased significantly, which affects their play, learning, interactions and development, particularly as consumers. To date there has been no in depth analysis of the nature of children’s interactions with media and, this has led to the development of the following research questions: Children for the purposes of this article will be defined as between 0-10 years of age, due to the fact that research has shown that children do not fully understand the meaning of adverts; that they can coerce and persuade the viewer to buy something, until around nine years of age. Contemporary childhood is characterised by early and frequent media use, preparing children for lifelong relationships with communication technologies. The home environment ..
Detecting Loneliness in People Using Technology
Get PDFLoneliness has a negative effect on both physical and mental health, which increases the risk of both morbidity, including heart conditions, and death. Poor social bonds have been linked to a 29% rise in coronary heart disease and a 32% rise in strokes in a study that looked at thousands of people. Loneliness can have a serious impact on the brain, and it can also weaken the body’s immune system, which can cause many health problems. Loneliness can reduce a person’s life expectancy by fifteen years, which is equivalent to being overweight or smoking 15 cigarettes per day. That’s why early detection of chronic loneliness is very important to avoid its long-term health problems
Sustainable Healthy Diets: Missing Pieces of the Puzzle
Get PDFClimate change has become a prominent topic in the media. There is clear evidence that an increase in greenhouse gases is causing global warming, above what is typical, which is resulting in more extreme weather events. It is estimated that the food system accounts for up to one-third of the total emissions produced globally, therefore, urgent changes are required. In addition, the food system is providing unhealthy diets for many. A sustainable diet must address environmental, social, economic, and health-related challenges. Dietary change is one solution to making diets more sustainable, including increases in fruit and vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds, and whole grains and decreases in ruminant meats and discretionary foods. Food-based dietary guidelines will be an important policy tool in communicating these changes to the population, however, to date the messages are inconsistent. Experimental data are lacking and will be required to fully assess the effectiveness and safety of sustainable diets. The MyPlanetDiet study will help address these gaps and make an important contribution to the development of sustainable guidelines both in Ireland and globally
Table of Contents Special Issue: The Past, Present and Future of Irish Anthropology: Irish Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 24 (1) 2021 Special Issue
No full textTeaching and learning online through performing arts: Puppetry as a pedagogical tool in higher education
Get PDFDue to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a Swiss university course called “Psychology and Migration” had to move online over the Spring semester 2021. In this course, Psychology and Education students learn about the sociocultural considerations of migration, through a theoretical, personal and artistic exploration of the subjective experience of migration, based on performing arts. As part of the main pedagogical strategies, students are invited to collectively create a short theatre play based on some selected literary texts. Under the conditions imposed by the pandemic, puppetry arts were chosen as a new tool for distance-learning. Collaborating with theatre professionals, the students created a short play, and performed it online using sock puppets, image theatre or object theatre. Using data collected during the course (video recordings of online sessions and students’ diaries), this article explores the critical process of reduction and expansion, and the (potentially) productive tensions that the course creates. It analyses two main appropriation modes for course students: in adaptative appropriation, students aim to reduce these tensions by adapting to the perceived expectations of teachers; in transformative appropriation, students creatively use possibilities offered by the course to conduct a personal exploration, integrating theories with their own experiences and questions
Embodying Colonial Ghosts in Postcolonial Italian Women\u27s Writing
No full textWhile Italian colonialism in Africa is an aspect of Italy’s history that has started to receive academic attention in the last three decades, it remains outside the collective memory of many Italians. In opposition to this lack of mainstream cultural awareness, a proliferation of literary works has been produced, predominantly by female writers with origins in Italy’s former colonies in East Africa, filling in the historical omissions and, importantly, providing a transnational voice to gendered experiences of colonial trauma. Many of these authors foreground the female corporeal experience of colonialism and its legacy. My PhD thesis explores the representation of gendered colonial trauma and its intergenerational transmission through the female body. I examine a range of literary texts by women writers with origins in Somalia and Ethiopia, dating from 2007 to the present. Their work ranges across contexts and languages (Italian and English), yet each narrates colonial history in a highly embodied way, providing an alternative discourse to the nostalgic, mythologising historiography offered by mainstream Italian literature from the post-war period to the present
Sensors for Chemical Contaminants in Water
Get PDFLong-term exposure to chemical contaminants in our drinking water can have adverse effects on human health. Such exposure has been linked to cancers, neurological diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. Examples of chemical contaminants found in our water systems include nitrates, heavy metals such as lead, and disinfectant by-products. These contaminants are not visible to the human eye; therefore, it is essential to test the water sample to determine their presence. This work presents an electrochemical sensing platform to detect chemical contaminants in water. This sensing platform has advantages over traditional lab based methods as it eliminates the need to transport samples to a lab by giving at-source, real-time analysis. The sensing component used consisted of two combs of electrodes that were sandwiched together with ultra-small gaps between the opposing combs. This configuration notably enabled the reduction of the sensor footprint by ?6,000 times compared to previous designs. The significance of this reduction in size means these sensors are lower in cost to produce and require less power to operate. Another benefit of interdigitated electrodes investigated was the ability to use them for in-situ pH control. In situ pH control was successfully demonstrated using lead. Lead requires acidic conditions for analysis and therefore pH adjusting buffers are typically required for the analysis of lead in tap water which is normally a neutral pH between pH 6 to 8. The ability to electrochemically control the pH of the water sample allowed detection of lead as low as 10 ppb without the need for any additional buffers
Care (Packages) in a Time of Crisis: Irish Expatriates in Germany, Transnational Sympathy and Circulation
Get PDFThis paper suggests a novel research direction in ‘Anthropology Ireland’ in which closer attention is paid to the intensification of the desire for creature comforts among the Irish expatriate community in Germany. Physical expressions of ‘care’ and travel have been hampered by the structural restrictions brought about by both COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and the departure of the UK from the European Union in Brexit. The notion that we advance is that these two crises, one a medical pandemic and the other a democratic crisis of sorts, have reshaped and reoriented Irish expatriates’ relationships to ‘home comforts’, digital and face-to-face encounters, and have distorted perceptions of/on the future. The paper is grounded in a wealth of research obtained from Irish expatriates in Germany and was collected during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021). This provided a unique research vantage point to examine a context in which interlocutors were adapting to the necessity for mediated electronic engagements (using video-telephony and instant messaging tools) at the same time as the researchers were. This paper contends that necessity can be birthmother to adaptation, as well as invention, necessitating the renegotiation of everyday practices for this group. This is demonstrated through a context-sensitive analysis of ‘goodies’/gift-giving, sharing (both in terms of material and experience), and ‘stashing’ as a measure of solidarity and strength in uncertain times