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Feeling in control: comparing older people’s experiences in different care settings
No full textThe promotion of choice and control for older people is a policy priority for social care services in the United Kingdom and is at the heart of recent drives to personalise services. Increasingly, we are seeing a move away from institutionalised care (e.g. in care homes) towards enablement, with more services being delivered in community-based settings. Extra care housing has been promoted as a purpose-built, community-based alternative to residential care for older people. However, whilst accounts of users' experiences in particular service types are plentiful, the use of different instrumentation and measures makes comparison between settings difficult. We combined data from four studies where participants were older people either living in care homes or extra care housing or receiving care at home. All of these studies asked participants to rate their control over daily life, using the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT). This paper presents the results of an ordinal logistic regression analysis indicating that, after controlling for differences in age, ability to perform activities of daily living and self-rated health, setting had a significant effect on older people's sense of control. Residents in care homes and extra care housing report similar levels of control over daily life but consistently report feeling more in control than older people receiving care at home. Implications for policy and practice are discussed
Morley Callaghan and Albert Laberge : contrasted views of their "œuvres
No full textA parallel study of the theme of violence and of the motif of crime and punishment in the short story oeuvres of Albert Laberge and Morley Callaghan sets in evidence the intricate polymorphous guilt complex which is the major feature of these two writers' literary accomplishments. The feeling of guilt which the work of art expresses and at the same time subtly transmutes stems from the depth of the individuals unconscious memory as well as from the substrata of collective mind in which he has been immersed from the beginning and that decisively contributed to the formation and to the cristallisation of his particular frame of mind. The study of the many manifestations of the guilt complex in both oeuvres, and especially in the oedipean conflictual situations becomes the royal way for the exploration of the obscure regions where the work of art originates. Its complex overstructures are determined long before the writer has any intention of producing it. To tangle with the matter of creation at such a level is an exciting enterprise which leaves one in awe since it leads to the contemplation of infinitesimal margin between freedom and determinism in the act of producing the only possible anti—Destiny, art. Such an experience of awe the reader and the critic share with the characters Laberge and Callaghan created. Unquestionably it was both authors' attitude toward man and his fate
Morley Callaghan and Albert Laberge : contrasted views of their "œuvres
No full textA parallel study of the theme of violence and of the motif of crime and punishment in the short story oeuvres of Albert Laberge and Morley Callaghan sets in evidence the intricate polymorphous guilt complex which is the major feature of these two writers' literary accomplishments. The feeling of guilt which the work of art expresses and at the same time subtly transmutes stems from the depth of the individuals unconscious memory as well as from the substrata of collective mind in which he has been immersed from the beginning and that decisively contributed to the formation and to the cristallisation of his particular frame of mind. The study of the many manifestations of the guilt complex in both oeuvres, and especially in the oedipean conflictual situations becomes the royal way for the exploration of the obscure regions where the work of art originates. Its complex overstructures are determined long before the writer has any intention of producing it. To tangle with the matter of creation at such a level is an exciting enterprise which leaves one in awe since it leads to the contemplation of infinitesimal margin between freedom and determinism in the act of producing the only possible anti—Destiny, art. Such an experience of awe the reader and the critic share with the characters Laberge and Callaghan created. Unquestionably it was both authors' attitude toward man and his fate
Interview: Anne-Marie Fortier
No full textThis paper is an edited version of an email interview conducted by Debra Ferreday and Adi Kuntsman with Anne-Marie Fortier, the author of Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation (Routledge, 2008). Fortier’s work has been informative in the development of some of the arguments explored in this special issue; in their conversation Ferreday and Kuntsman asked her to comment on the ideas of haunting, racial imaginaries, nostalgia, national anxieties, political feelings and hopes for the future
Beholder halfway #25: beyond unwanted sound with Marie Thompson
No full textOn this month's episode I discuss the recent book Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism with its author, Marie Thompson. We discuss different conceptions of 'noise', as anti-music or the cacophony of industrial society, competing theories of noise and Marie's powerful argument that noise is neither inherently bothersome nor transgressive. We end by discussing some of the musicians and sound artists that Marie argues transcend the dominant morality by which noise is related to.</p
Marie-Rose: She Who Believed in Tomorrow: The Story of the Foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (Expanded Edition 2015)
No full text40 leaves; a brief history of Mother Marie-Rose, née Eulalie Durocher, and her life of service
Précisions sur les vagues/On Waves
No full textPowerful and poetic prose meditation on oceanic energy by French author, Marie Darrieussecq. Translated from the French by Peter Schulman, ODU Professor of French and International Studies.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/worldlanguages_books/1022/thumbnail.jp
Wilhelmina Marie Williamson Lambourne
No full textWilhelmina Marie Williamson Lambourne was the wife of Alfred Lambourne, a Utah artist, author, and poet
BIOFUELS, AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
No full textIn the context of ever-increasing petroleum prices combined with concerns about climate change, timing of adoption and rate of diffusion of land-based fuels and backstop technologies for transportation use are examined in this paper. A global model of land allocation joined with a Hotelling model has been developed. Using this framework, effects of climate and energy policies on world agricultural and energy markets have been explored. Further, their regional impacts are also analyzed. Whereas mandatory blending bio-fuels have substantial effects on world food prices and do not succeed in curbing down carbon emissions fluxes, carbon targets are expected to speed up date of adoption of backstop technologies. Then, sensitivity scenarios with regards to technological parameters reveal that higher is the rate of technological change, earlier backstop technologies are adopted and lower is the stock of carbon accumulated into the atmosphere. Finally, interplay between land-based fuels and deforestation has been studied. Results show that land-based fuels production speeds up world deforestation and causes substantial carbon emissions due to conversion of forests into agricultural lands.Ricardian rents, land use, biofuels, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
No full textIn a sample of fourteen source countries making bilateral investments in forty five countries, the author finds that taxes, capital controls, and corruption, all have large, statistically significant negative effects on foreign investment. Moreover, there is no robust support in the data for the"efficient grease"hypothesis - that corruption helps attract foreign investment by reducing firms'tax burden and the irritant of capital controls.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Capital Markets and Capital Flows,Decentralization,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Theory&Research,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Governance Indicators,National Governance,Capital Flows
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