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Designed Memories: How can the built environment affect memories
Get PDFMemories have served as a fundamental conduit for transmitting history across generations, whether shared around a dining room table or by the flickering flames of a campfire. These memories serve as our bridge to the past, offering invaluable lessons from prior experiences. The process through which information is transformed into lasting memories is known as encoding.
Encoding, in essence, relies on our sensory faculties, encompassing taste, smell, touch, vision, and hearing. These senses enable us to capture and preserve information within the intricate framework of our brains. An exploration of the individual strengths and weaknesses inherent in each sensory modality opens the door to enhancing our capacity for information retention, while concurrently addressing the limitations of these processes. This prompts an examination of how impairments can impact these senses and subsequently influence our ability to process information.
A comprehensive study of memory necessitates an inquiry into memory loss and the challenge of retaining information. By delving into the vulnerabilities of the human brain and assessing two prevalent theories, the Decaying theory and the Interference theory, we can gain deeper insights into the intricate workings of memory.
This research endeavors to unearth the profound role of encoding in shaping information into memories and the manner in which disabilities or impairments can disrupt this crucial cognitive process. Furthermore, it underscores the potential of designed spaces to not only stimulate memory creation but also enhance the likelihood of preserving these cherished recollections
Occupational Therapist-Led Remedial Vision Program after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Pre/Post Pilot Study
Get PDFBackground: Vision disorders are common after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and can affect occupational performance. The study was designed to support occupational therapy’s role in providing remedial vision rehabilitation (RVR) by demonstrating changes in vision efficiency and patient reports of vision-related occupational performance in adult patients with a mTBI after occupational therapy-led RVR.
Method: In this retrospective study, data was collected pre/post-RVR treatment at an outpatient clinic using a convenience sample of adults 18 years of age and older with vision disorder diagnosis and mTBI diagnosis. Vertical/horizontal saccades, vergence jumps, near-point convergence, Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey (CISS), and Canadian Occupational Performance Measurement (COPM) were measured before and after RVR.
Results: Statistically significant changes were found in all outcome measurement scores after RVR with a large-size effect using t-test analysis. (Vertical saccades: t = -2.71; p = .022. Horizontal saccades t = -3.87; p = .003. Vergence jumps t =- 4.98; p= .001
Conclusions: Evidence-based RVR after mTBI injury may improve vision efficiency disorders and vision-related occupational performance and satisfaction, demonstrating occupational therapy’s distinct role
Which Side (of the Balance Sheet) Are You On? Household Financial Resources and Participation in the 2020 Protests
No full textThe summer of 2020 was marked by widespread protests. Though research has often examined the predictors of protest participation, there exists little work examining the relationship between different types of wealth and protesting. Drawing on resource-based theories of protest participation and asset-based theories of civic engagement, we constructed regression models disentangling relationships between income, liquid assets, investment assets, homeownership, and protesting. Using a national survey administered during the protests, we find that liquid assets are negatively associated, homeownership is positively associated, and investment assets exhibit a non-linear association with protesting. These relationships hold when controlling for income, demographics, and ideology, but largely disappear when controlling for measures of economic vulnerability. These results are consistent across different protest types. Our work speaks to the role of protests as a means of political participation for economically marginalized groups and contributes to our knowledge of the intersection between economic indicators and political behaviors. Further, this work highlights how individual and contextual factors influence political behavior in varied ways, which has implications for protest organizers, civic engagement promoters, as well as policies aimed at protecting the right to protest
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Review of Anthi Andronikou, Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean
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No full textThe Experiences of Routine Powered Mobility Users in an Assisted Living Facility: A Case Study
Get PDFBackground: The purpose of this study was to explore the contrasting experiences of two routine powered mobility device (PMD) users in an assisted living facility (ALF).
Method: A case study approach using three forms of data (semi-structured interview, observation, and media collection of pictures) was used to formulate a comprehensive description of the two PMD user’s experiences. Data analysis was completed using line-by-line coding and in vivo to generate possible themes. Process coding, descriptive coding, and analytic memos were then employed to better understand the connection of the data and ensure themes generated were appropriate.
Results: Following data analysis, five themes emerged from the data: (a) “I swore I’d never be in a wheelchair” – Initial disapproval, (b) “Because I lost my leg” – The need to use a power wheelchair, (c) “I don’t know what I’d do without it” – Independence and usability, (d) “If somebody tells you STOP! You stop” – Adaptations for safety, and (e) “They just put me in it and let me go” – Lack of training.
Conclusion: The importance of screening users before implementing a PMD and providing training to all PMD users when provided is indicated