2,133 research outputs found
E.M. Jellinek: The Hungarian connection
No full textThis is the second in a series of papers depicting the mostly undocumented life of E.M. Jellinek. This paper establishes the connection between Jellinek Morton, a well-known figure in Hungary in the early part of the 20th Century, and E.M. Jellinek, one of the founders of alcohol studies. Newly found documents in Hungary and at the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies Library and Archives provide compelling evidence of this connection and shed some light on the mysterious circumstances of his 1920 disappearance from Hungary. The information in these papers was first presented at the 36th Annual Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS) Conference on May 1st, 2014, by seven presenters in a panel entitled “Mystery and speculations: Piecing together E.M. Jellinek’s redemption.”Peer reviewe
Tomb with a view: three recent publications by E.M. Forster
No full text6000-word review article concerning three recent collections of essays, broadcasts and diaries by English modernist novelist, author and critic E.M. Forste
Hayo Haya Maaseh [= Once upon a time]
No full textAnthology of East European Jewish folklore, with introduction and sources. The anthology includes: songs, tales, traditions, customs, jokes, proverbs, riddles. Authored by Chaim Ben Zion Elon-Baranik (born 1901). Published immediately after the Second World War. Illustrations by Moritz Oppenheimer, L. Pilichowski, Yosef Budko, E.M. Lilien (his signature in print). Most of the illustrations are printed on separated chrome paper, on one side of the page. Folklore publishing, Tel Aviv. HaIvri press, Jerusalem. 22 em. [1],303, [3] pages. Excellent condition. Chipped top of spine. . '... Olb price140-160This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: HebrewChaim Ben Zion Elon-Barani
Integrated difference: Counteracting exclusion of migrants through intercultural spatial planning and governance in Athens
No full textThis research-and-design research addresses the influence of urban conditions on social conditions (and vice versa) and explores interdisciplinary alternatives. In the context of Athens (Greece), spatial planning and its governance support social exclusion of migrants, which is expressed through conflicts with native residents. The project experiments with alleviating these effects by establishing spatial planning as active agent of integration. The main aim of the research is to develop an appropriate strategy in areas with migrants, by re-adjusting the principles of urban space. Instead of providing one fixed solution, the project will design flexible initiatives that help the community achieve the desirable outcome. The methodology of this urban integration can be replicable, provided that it is adjusted for similar urban and social contexts
Letter from E.M. Rowalt, Acting Regional Director, War Relocation Authority, to Mr. Joseph Smart, Regional Director, War Relocation Authority, September 29, 1942
No full textCorrespondence from E.M. Rowalt to Joseph Smart regarding the transportation and storage of incarcerees personal belongings.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Stress coping styles in family and relatives of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in the South of Iran : application of Lazarus and Folkman’s theory of stress coping
No full textAVAILABILITY OF DATA AND MATERIALS : The data supporting the findings of the article is available from corresponding author [E.M] upon reasonable request.BACKGROUND :
The ongoing outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a major challenge for mental health care systems and causes and exacerbates
mental anxiety.
OBJECTIVE :
This study sought to investigate the coping styles of stress in families and relatives of COVID-19 patients in the south of Iran, according to Lazarus
and Folkman’s Transactional theory of Stress coping model.
METHODS :
The present cross-sectional study was performed in the period from March 5 to July 5, 2020. Data collection was done electronically using a
standard questionnaire on Lazarus and Folkman’s coping methods. Finally, the output data of the electronic questionnaire were analyzed using
descriptive and inferential statistics.
RESULTS :
A total of 276 people participated in the present study. There was a statistically significant difference between age and all emotion-oriented coping
style domains (P <0.05), except planful problem solving (P = 0.817) and positive reappraisal (P = 0.153). The results of the present study showed
that from the emotion-oriented coping, the domain of self-controlling (%55.9) received an unfavorable score, but in the problem-oriented coping
(60.02%), the two domains of social support (%71.27) and positive reappraisal (70%) obtained scores above 50%.
CONCLUSION :
Families and relatives need help to improve coping with stress in the area of self-controlling. The results of the present study showed that emotionoriented
coping (self-controlling) had less effect on family stress than problem-oriented coping (domains of social support and positive
reappraisal). Also, with domains of social support and positive reappraisal, the stress in the families was reduced. Factors influencing coping styles
were age, literacy, source of information, and underlying disease. Since the COVID-19 pandemic condition is a unique stressful situation, it is
necessary to implement psychological and educational interventions to gain the ability to control stress, especially in relatives with COVID-19.https://openpublichealthjournal.comam2023Statistic
Local economic development strategy implementation within Bushbuckridge Local Municipality
No full textA dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Development Studies in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Zululand, 2017Local government structures have a particularly important role to play in harnessing national and regional resources to promote their areas and in facilitating strategic local partnerships to enhance and sustain economic growth. The study sought to examine the implementation of Local Economic Development Strategy implementation in Bushbuckridge Local Municipality (BLM) in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.
The sample comprised of BLM LED officials and at least 5 respondents selected from10 projects and these included the project management team and workers. The Chosen projects were chosen based on proximity and availability but maintaining balance to cover the entire municipality. This allowed the researcher to have a balanced view from both the municipal officials and people at the project sides. A purposive sampling method was used to select the sample for the study. The primary data was collected using interviews and structured observations. Secondary data was collected using the document analysis method. SPSS and the content analysis methods were used in the study. The study found that BLM has an LED strategy as prescribed in the municipal IDP and projects have been implemented to promote local economic development in the region. However, there is a knowledge gap from project participants as some have no access to information and cannot access and use the services from the LED offices to enhance their economic activities, due to their peripheral location. The BLM LED strategy is implemented following the Location Theory, projects were planned and positioned in places where they will maximise profit and minimise production costs by employing local ideas and resources, packing them to attract outside interest.
The participatory model adopted by the municipality in planning and implementing LED activities does not yield the desired results due to some projects that are unable to be part of the participatory planning processes. The consultative activities during the conception and planning should target the poor. The study recommends therefore, that LED in BLM has to be a participatory model which is based on a holistic approach to incorporate different activities from different areas based on their local potential and available resources to create economic Spin-offs. The study also makes a number of specific recommendations to facilitate the planning and implementation of LED strategy in BLM.First, participatory processes such as the IDPs at local municipal levels should be used to facilitate people’s participation in the whole process, from conception, planning, implementation and evaluation of all LED activities in the local municipality. The beneficiaries have to be active participants in their own development; hence this will ensure full and active participation. The study also discovered that there is lack of coordination among the stakeholders to create viable establishment of cooperatives development and to formalise their economic participation in order to promote sustainable SMME development, growth and sustainable cooperative movement.
Challenges of LED strategy implementation in BLM included that the municipality, like many others in the country, do not have adequate economic growth strategies, and if they do, it will only sound good on paper but the implementation on the ground does not happen as depicted in the strategy. This further perpetuates the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality
Psycholinguistic Characteristics of the Discourse with a «Colour Black» Component (based on E.M. Remarque’s works)
No full textIn recent decades, colour vocabulary has been actively studied by the Ukrainian and foreign scientists. Modern Linguistics has significant achievements in research of this issue, however, some of its aspects, in particular, psycholinguistic characteristics of the discourse with a colour element, still remain relevant and poorly researched.
Colour has always played an important role in artistic discourse. The names of individual writers are
inextricably associated with certain coloronyms, which is a so-called marker in their work.
One example of this phenomenon is the colour black, that is dominant in the discourse of E.M. Remarque, which, given the mostly dramatic themes of the author’s novels, is quite expected, especially if the
fact is considered through the prism of Psycholinguistics.
The purpose of the given scientific investigation is to provide psycholinguistic characteristics of the
discourse with the «black colour» component in E.M. Remarque’s works and to identify the impact it has
on the reader in the process of perceiving the outstanding author’s texts.
Implementation of the stated tasks of research involved the integrational usage of general scientific methods (such as description, induction, deduction), as well as the analysіs of dictionary definitions, current native and foreign psycholinguistic sources; contextual and structural-thematic analysis; modelling
and classification of actual material.
The results of the analysis of the Remarque’s discourse with the «black colour» component allow us
drawing the following conclusion: the coloronym «schwarz» in E.M. Remarque’s is characterised by a wide
semantic content, wherein the black colour is used by the writer both to determine the colour of the described object neutrally and to convey figurative negative semantics.
Lexemes denoting black, in their direct meaning, indicate the colour of the depicted object directly.
Using the colour nomination «schwarz» in symbolic meaning, the author resorts to «painting» in dark natural phenomena, which are not characterised by black; depicts dishonest and illegal actions; demonstrates
negative attitude towards people.
Using the specified colour nomination as the colour of clothing, objects, buildings, as well as emotions,
experiences and feelings, non-verbal means of intensification the semantics of “black” – the designation of
poses, gestures, facial expressions, body movements the author demonstrates not only his personal attitude
towards the characters of his novels, but by focusing the consciousness of the reader on their difficult psychological and physical state, he encourages to rethink the causes and consequences of their actions.
Stable association with the black colour, peculiar for a long historical and cultural development of
mankind, and therefore with sad events in human life, losses, failures, loneliness, is verbalized in all analysed Remarque’s works. Thus, the black colour is the necessary element of the psycholinguistic portrait of
Remarque’s character
Finite element reduced order models for nonlinear vibrations of piezoelectric layered beams with applications to NEMS
No full textThis article presents a finite element reduced order model for the nonlinear vibrations of piezoelectric layered beams with application to NEMS. In this model, the geometrical nonlinearities are taken into account through a von Kármán nonlinear strain–displacement relationship. The originality of the finite element electromechanical formulation is that the system electrical state is fully described by only a couple of variables per piezoelectric patches, namely the electric charge contained in the electrodes and the voltage between the electrodes. Due to the geometrical nonlinearity, the piezoelectric actuation introduces an original parametric excitation term in the equilibrium equation. The reduced-order formulation of the discretized problem is obtained by expanding the mechanical displacement unknown vector onto the short-circuit eigenmode basis. A particular attention is paid to the computation of the unknown nonlinear stiffness coefficients of the reduced-order model. Due to the particular form of the von Kármán nonlinearities, these coefficients are computed exactly, once for a given geometry, by prescribing relevant nodal displacements in nonlinear static solutions settings. Finally, the low-order model is computed with an original purely harmonic-based continuation method. Our numerical tool is then validated by computing the nonlinear vibrations of a mechanically excited homogeneous beam supported at both ends referenced in the literature. The more difficult case of the nonlinear oscillations of a layered nanobridge piezoelectrically actuated is also studied. Interesting vibratory phenomena such as parametric amplification or patch length dependence of the frequency output response are highlighted in order to help in the design of these nanodevices.This research is part of the NEMSPIEZO project, under funds from the French National Research Agency (Project ANR-08-NAN O-015-04), for which the authors are grateful
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