271 research outputs found
'We are deaf, though we hear; we are dumb, though we talk; we are blind, though we see' : understanding Iranian late-in-life immigrants' perceptions and experiences of health, illness and culturally appropriate care
No full textDespite the fact that elderly immigrants constitute nearly nine percent of the total population over 65-years of age, they have remained conspicuous by their absence in reports that underlie national welfare- and health care decision making in Sweden. The aim of this thesis was to deepen the understanding of Iranian late-in-life immigrants' experiences and perceptions of health, illness and culturally appropriate care.In paper I the findings elucidate the participants' description and explanation of their situation by utilizing phenomenological hermeneutic method. The findings thereby get an insight of the participants' life situation, their experiences of immigration and its effect on their health and social well-being.In paper II by using ethnographic method the culturally appropriate intervention program for senior Iranians and the manner in which the participants considered attending the day care center to be beneficial for their experiences of health was studied. Knowledge gained from this study calls for including culturally appropriate programs in order to meet the clients' needs and concerns for maintaining and/or improving their health and well-being.In paper III by using interpretive phenomenological method participants' perceptions of health and illness are elucidated. Participants in this study consider health as feeling continuity and balance in their life. Social well-being and a well-functioning familial relationship are the core aspects for maintaining and/or promoting health. Knowledge gained from this study opens up a new horizon in considering health and illness from the clients' perspective.In paper IV by utilizing interpretive phenomenological method based on participants' reflections on health and illness a socio-cultural explanatory model of health is developed. This study indicates that the process of maintaining and/or promoting health and participants' interpretation and reflections on health is a dynamic process that is influenced by participants' process of life. The findings presented in this study challenge health providers to consider the socio-cultural meaning of health as a central aspect in influencing clients' possibilities and difficulties in maintaining and/or promoting health and well-being.Paper V, by qualitative secondary-analyzing, challenges the concept of culture as the central, influential aspect for constituting an explanatory model of illness. This study sheds light on the importance of life disruptions and the dynamic process of life changes such as immigration, which confront the cultural understanding of illness.Conclusively this research suggest that in order to give and advocate health and medical services to persons, health professionals need to acquire a broad empathic sensitivity in understanding a person and her/his life-world as the source of healing, recovery, and health promotion possibilities. A socio-cultural awareness of a person, which embraces understanding of her/his cultural, socio-economic, educational, spiritual and environmental circumstances gives access to a person's situated possibilities in health care.List of scientific papersI. Emami A, Ekman SL (1998). Living in a foreign country in old age - life in Sweden as exerienced by elderly Iranian immigrants. Health Care in Later Life. 3:183-98.II. Emami A, Torres S, Lipson JG, Ekman SL. (2000). An ethnographic study of a day care center for Iranian immigrant seniors. West J Nurs Res. 22(2):169-88. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10743409III. Emami A, Benner P, Lipson JG, Ekman SL (2000). Health as continuity and balance in life. West J Nurs Res. 22(7):812-25. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11077549IV. Emami A, Benner P, Ekman SL (2000). A preliminary socio-cultural health model for late-in-life immigrants. J Transcult Nurs. 12(1):15-24. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11988980V. Emami A, Torres S (2000). The process of migration as a point of departure for elderly immigrans´ understanding of illness. [Submitted]</p
Optical Interconnects: Design and Analysis
No full textThis paper focuses on design challenges and solutions for realization of low-power high-speed electronics for optical interconnects. Design methodologies for high sensitivity receivers and optimized driver circuitries at the transmitter side are presented
Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2013 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference
No full textThis Special Issue of the IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE
CIRCUITS is dedicated to the best papers taken from the
Analog, Data Converter, RF,Wireless, and Wireline Communications sessions at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, CA, USA, held in February 2013. As always, selecting a subset of papers from these high quality sessions proved to be a difficult task. However, we hope that the papers included in this issue are representative of the key innovations seen at the conference
Academic Leadership Roles and the Promotion of Research, Education, and Practices That Reframe Aging
No full textThe Pilgrim's Way: The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
No full text29 p.I read that the pilgrimage used to be a religious journey, but now it
is known more for spiritual purposes. With all this on mind and still in search
for a SIP topic, it all came together; I came to the conclusion that the
pilgrimage would be a perfect project for me to write about and to experience,
allowing me to sort things out.
Without a doubt, the pilgrimage had a huge impact on me and it
helped me see things in a new way. Dr. Schmeichel, my SIP advisor, once
asked me during a meeting, "Tell my why you did this project." I think I have
answered this question in this brief introduction. But only after this meeting
did I come up with one last reason: to inform people about this wonderful
experience. This SIP will provide information about the pilgrimage itself, the
beliefs behind it, the history of St James, and as well as my own personal
experience as I become a part of history
Professor Mark Horowitz: A Remarkable Innovator, Researcher, and Teacher [Guest Editorial]
No full textPresents an introduction to the issue devoted to the work and contributions of Mark Horowitz
A Wideband Injection-Locking Scheme and Quadrature Phase Generation in 65-nm CMOS
No full textA novel technique for wideband injection locking in an LC oscillator is proposed. Phased-lock-loop and injection-locking elements are combined symbiotically to achieve wide locking range while retaining the simplicity of the latter. This method does not require a phase frequency detector or a loop filter to achieve phase lock. A mathematical analysis of the system is presented and the expression for new locking range is derived. A locking range of 13.4-17.2 GHz and an average jitter tracking bandwidth of up to 400 MHz were measured in a high- Q LC oscillator. This architecture is used to generate quadrature phases from a single clock without any frequency division. It also provides high-frequency jitter filtering while retaining the low-frequency correlated jitter essential for forwarded clock receivers
A 25Gb/s APD-based burst-mode optical receiver with 2.24ns reconfiguration time in 28nm CMOS
No full textThis paper describes an avalanche photodetector (APD) based burst-mode optical receiver in 28nm CMOS with 1-tap feed forward equalization (FFE) and 2-tap decision feedback equalization (DFE) implemented in current-integrating fashion to improve the sensitivity. Integrating DC comparator and integrating amplitude comparator are proposed to replace the conventional RC low-pass filters and peak detectors, respectively, to reduce the reconfiguration time for burst-mode operation. The receiver achieves −16dBm sensitivity, 2.24ns reconfiguration time with 5dB dynamic range, and 1.37 pJ/bit energy efficiency at 25Gb/s
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