595 research outputs found
Julia Lesage: “I was never anything less than the person I am.” An Interview with the Author, Editor, and Filmmaker Julia Lesage
No full textLong recognized as a pioneer of experimental filmmaking and feminist documentary theory, Julia Lesage is the closest we have to a feminist film scholar-practitioner. This interview was conducted by Sonja Boos on 16 January, 2020.</jats:p
The HoneyComb Paradigm for Research on Collective Human Behavior
No full textCollective human behavior such as group movement frequently shows surprising patterns and regularities, such as the emergence of leadership. Recent literature has revealed that these patterns, often visible at the global level of the group, are based on self-organized, individual behaviors that follow several simple local parameters. Understanding the dynamics of human collective behavior can help to improve coordination and leadership in group and crowd scenarios, such as identifying the ideal placement and number of emergency exits in buildings. In this article, we present the experimental paradigm HoneyComb, which can be used to systematically investigate conditions and effects of human collective behavior. This paradigm uses a computer-based multi-user platform, providing a setting that can be shaped and adapted to various types of research questions. Situational conditions (e.g., cost-benefit ratios for specific behavior, monetary incentives and resources, various degrees of uncertainty) can be set by experimenters, depending on the research question. Each participant's motions are recorded by the server as hexagonal coordinates with timestamps at an accuracy of 50 ms and with individual IDs. Thus, a metric can be defined on the playfield, and movement parameters (e.g., distances, velocity, clustering, etc.) of participants can be measured over time. Movement data can in turn be combined with non-computerized data from questionnaires garnered within the same experiment setup. The HoneyComb paradigm is paving the way for new types of human movement experiments. We demonstrate here that these experiments can render results with sufficient internal validity to meaningfully deepen our understanding of human collective behavior
Competition in human groups Impact on group cohesion, perceived stress and outcome satisfaction
No full textThis study on competition in human groups was performed within the context of the competitive outcome interdependence concept: the degree to which personal outcomes among group members are affected by the consequences of task performance of others, e.g. when one group member gains a high reward for a task, this lowers the available reward for other group members. Our computer-based multi-participant game empirically assessed how competitive versus neutral conditions influenced the reward-maximising behaviour of 200 undergraduate students functioning in ten-person groups - each playing two games (1 neutral and 1 competitive), their perceived pay satisfaction as well as perceived stress levels and sense of calmness within the games' task to search for coins. Participants were represented by black dots moving on a virtual playground. Results showed that competition led to reward-maximising but fellow group member disadvantaging behaviour, and all participants experienced lower pay satisfaction, higher stress levels and less calmness. We conclude that short-term behavioural consequences of positive individual competitive behaviour were gained at the above-mentioned potential long-term negative costs for all group members. This implies group paradigms aimed at sustainability should avoid introducing competitive factors that at best result in short-lived gains and at worst cause widespread dissatisfaction, stress and a pervasive lack of calmness. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V
Correction to: Second International Consensus Conference on lesions of uncertain malignant potential in the breast (B3 lesions) (Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, (2019), 174, 2, (279-296), 10.1007/s10549-018-05071-1)
No full textThe article Second International Consensus Conference on lesions of uncertain malignant potential in the breast (B3 lesions), written by Christoph J Rageth, Elizabeth AM O’Flynn, Katja Pinker, Rahel A Kubik-Huch, Alexander Mundinger, Thomas Decker, Christoph Tausch, Florian Dammann, Pascal A. Baltzer, Eva Maria Fallenberg, Maria P Foschini, Sophie Dellas, Michael Knauer, Caroline Malhaire, Martin Sonnenschein, Andreas Boos, Elisabeth Morris, Zsuzsanna Varga, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on November 30, 2018 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on May 30, 2019 to © The Author(s) 2018 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creat iveco mmons.org/licen ses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The original article has been corrected
Gender Inequality in the Wealth of Older Canadians
No full textBeyond income, wealth is an important measure of economic well-being, because while income captures the current state of inequality, wealth has the potential for examining accumulated and historically structured inequality. This paper documents the extent of gender inequality in wealth for Canadian women and men aged 45 and older. The analysis uses data from the 1999 Canadian Survey of Financial Security, a large nationally representative survey of household wealth in Canada. Wealth is measured by total net worth as measured by total assets minus debt. We test two general hypotheses to account for gender differences in wealth. The differential exposure hypothesis suggest that women report less wealth accumulation because of their reduced access to the material and social conditions of life that foster economic security. The differential vulnerability hypothesis suggests that women report lower levels of wealth because they receive differential returns to material and social conditions of their lives. Support is found for both hypotheses. Much of the gender differences in wealth can be explained by the gendering of work and family roles that restricts women’s ability to build up assets over the life course. But beyond this, there are significant gender interaction effects that indicate that women are further penalized by their returns to participation in family life, their health and where they live. When women do work, net of other factors, they are better able to accumulate wealth than their male counterparts.wealth, retirement, net assets, gender differences
Gender Inequality in the Wealth of Older Canadians
No full textBeyond income, wealth is an important measure of economic well-being, because while income captures the current state of inequality, wealth has the potential for examining accumulated and historically structured inequality. This paper documents the extent of gender inequality in wealth for Canadian women and men aged 45 and older. The analysis uses data from the 1999 Canadian Survey of Financial Security, a large nationally representative survey of household wealth in Canada. Wealth is measured by total net worth as measured by total assets minus debt. We test two general hypotheses to account for gender differences in wealth. The differential exposure hypothesis suggest that women report less wealth accumulation because of their reduced access to the material and social conditions of life that foster economic security. The differential vulnerability hypothesis suggests that women report lower levels of wealth because they receive differential returns to material and social conditions of their lives. Support is found for both hypotheses. Much of the gender differences in wealth can be explained by the gendering of work and family roles that restricts women’s ability to build up assets over the life course. But beyond this, there are significant gender interaction effects that indicate that women are further penalized by their returns to participation in family life, their health and where they live. When women do work, net of other factors, they are better able to accumulate wealth than their male counterparts.wealth, retirement, net assets, gender differences
Where Would You Turn for Help? Older Adults’ Awareness of Community Health and Support Services for Dementia Care
No full textPrevious findings on older adults’ awareness of community support services (CSSs) have been inconsistent and marred by acquiescence or over-claiming bias. To address this issue, this study used a series of 12 vignettes to describe common situations faced by older adults for which CSSs might be appropriate. In telephone interviews, 1,152 adults aged 50 years and over were read a series of vignettes and asked if they were able to identify a community organization or agency that they may turn to in that situation. They were also asked about their most important sources of information about CSSs. The findings show that, using a vignette methodology, awareness of CSSs is much lower than previously thought. The most important sources of information about CSSs included information and referral sources, the telephone book, doctors’ offices, and word of mouth.aging, community support services, awareness, knowledge, acquiescence bias, vignette methodology
Conservatismo en el simbolismo de Oaxaca: un breve informe.. Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Num. 49 Tomo I (1967-1968) Séptima Época (1967-1976)
No full textCaso, A. 1928 Las Estelas Zapotecas. Monografías del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnografía. México.Caso, A. y Bernal, l. 1952 Urnas de Oaxaca. Memorias del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, II. México.Boos, Frank H. 1964 Las Urnas Zapotecas en el Museo Real de Ontario. Corpus Antiquitatum Americanensium, vol. l. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. México.Boos, Frank H. 1965 The Oaxacan Urn of the Zapotec God One Z and the Urn of his Feminine Companion. Wadsworth Athenaeum Bulletin. Sixth series, vol. 1. No. 2. Hartford, Connecticut.Boos, Frank H. 1966 The Ceramic Sculptures of Ancient Oaxaca. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York y Thomas Yoseloff Ltd., London.Leigh, H. 1958 An Identification of Zapotec Day Names. Boletín de Estudios Oaxaqueños, No. 6. Mexico City College, México.Paddock, J. 1966 Ancient Oaxaca. Stanford University Press
Una nueva categoría de urnas "acompañantes".. Anales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Num. 43 Tomo XIV (1961) Sexta Época (1939-1966)
No full textCaso, A. Las Estelas Zapotecas, Monografías del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnografía. México, 1928.Caso, A. y Bernal, l. Urnas de Oaxaca. Memorias del lnstituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. México, 1952.Leigh, H. Boletín de Estudios Oaxaqueños. Mexico City College, No. 2, marzo I, 1958 y No. 6, mayo 15. México, 1958
- …
