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Achieving the Gold Standard of end-of-life care for people with dementia living in care homes
No full textNoCare homes play a major role in supporting people with dementia at the end of their lives. Seeking to understand the views of staff on the care they provide, Nicola Wheeler and Jan R Oyebode held focus groups with a range of staff in nine care homes in the West Midlands. Here they discuss their findings and implications for practice
The personal experience of partners of individuals with motor neuron disease
No full textMost research on partners’ experiences of living with a person with MND is questionnaire-based with no qualitative study focusing on the period between diagnosis and end-of-life care. This study aimed to provide an in-depth qualitative exploration of the experience of living with, and caring for, a partner with MND.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight individuals, and transcripts analysed from an interpretative phenomenological perspective. Two main themes were derived. ‘Impact on life’ included having concern for partner's safety, having social restrictions, being continually tired, struggling with anger and frustration, loss of intimacy and uncertainty around the future; while ‘Adjusting to the situation’ included trying to be strong, retaining a sense of normality, appreciation of specialist services, adopting a problem-solving approach, living day to day and ability to remain positive. In conclusion, experiences of stress and loss are illustrated in this sample of partners of those with MND, and it is suggested both these aspects should be integrated into understanding of carers’ experiences. Carers appear to inhibit their grief in order to appear strong. Greater understanding of the consequences of this would help in providing appropriate emotional support
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Combining Optimality Theory and a Cognitive Architecture
No full textOptimality Theory (OT) has had a lot of attention from the linguistics research community but also still largely lacks cognitive grounding. We used the ACT-R cognitive architecture to gain greater insight into the cognitive grounding issues that OT needs to address, most notably the GEN process and the learning of the constraint ranking. A generic ACT-R 5.0 model was developed guided by OT principles. The generic model was instantiated in two specific models, one for syllabification and one for past tense formation. Realistic perception data was used to train the models, both were successful in learning the correct constraint ranking for their domain. This result partly bridges the gap between Optimality Theory and ACT-R, providing OT with a better cognitive grounding and ACT-R with better linguistic capabilities.The definitive version of this paper was published in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive ModelingMisker, Jan A.V. & Anderson, John R. (2003). Combining Optimality Theory and a Cognitive Architecture. In f. Detje, D. Dorner, H. & Schaub, (Eds.): The logic of cognitive systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Bamberg: Universitäts-Verlag Bamberg.ISBN: 9783933463159 (Published conference proceedings
The Busy Caregiver's Guide to Advanced Alzheimer's Disease Edited by Jennifer R. Stelter with Rachael Wonderlin John Hopkins Press. 2020. US$19.95 (pb). 192 pp. ISBN 9781421441085
No full textBlood Groups and Physiognomy of British Columbia Coastal Indians:
No full textby R. Ruggles Gates, and Geo. E. Darby.Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. LXIV, Jan.-June 1934
Author correction: obesity and ethnicity alter gene expression in skin
No full textDaniel Butler was omitted from the author list in the original version of this Article. The Author contributions section now reads: “J.M.W. designed, conducted, and contributed to the writing of the manuscript, prepared Fig. 1. S.G. evaluated and did statistical analysis on the skin and fat samples, prepared Figs. 2–9. J.O.A. evaluated and contributed to writing the manuscript. D.B prepared and sequenced DNA libraries for the skin microbiota data, and wrote the applicable parts of the methods section. C.M. analyzed and wrote up the skin microbiota data, prepared Fig. 10. All authors have read the manuscript and approved its contents. D.D. analyzed and wrote up the skin microbiota data. S.Z. ran and analyzed the skin metabolite data. J.S. assisted in design, analysis and wrote up the skin metabolite data. J.K. assisted in analysis write up of skin and fat data. J.L.B. assisted in analysis, interpretation and writing of the manuscript. P.R.H. designed, analyzed, interpreted the data, and was the primary author of the manuscript.” This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article, and in the accompanying Supplementary Information file.</p
Jan Kochanowski – Jan Matejko. W 440 rocznicę śmierci poety
No full textThe text is a result of work on a scenario prepared by the author in 2021 for the exhibition “Jan Kochanowski in the works of Jan Matejko. Around the hero and the image”, referring to Jan Matejko’s (1838–1893) interest in the figure of the Renaissance poet. Matejko repeatedly depicted events and figures important to the history of culture, including Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584). He made portrait sketches, compositional sketches for paintings, historical paintings, and imaginative portraits of the poet. He also immortalized him in the work Ubiory w Polsce 1275–1795. The artist collected artifacts related to the era. In the early years of Matejko’s career, the painting Jan Kochanowski z Urszulką (1862) was created, depicting the poet, the author of the “Laments”, suffering after the loss of his daughter.
In 1884, the Cracow Academy of Sciences commemorated the three-hundredth anniversary of Jan Kochanowski’s death with a scientific congress in his honour. Matejko donated a whimsical portrait of the poet with a humorous verse of his own composition placed on the back of the painting. The artist was also involved in the cultural and social activities surrounding the exhibition held in the Cloth Hall Art Museum. Among other things, he made artifacts from his own collection available to the public, and his portrait of the poet welcomed visitors to the exhibition.Tekst jest efektem pracy nad scenariuszem przygotowanej przez autorkę w 2021 r. wystawy „Jan Kochanowski w twórczości Jana Matejki. Wokół bohatera i obrazu” nawiązującej do zainteresowań Jana Matejki (1838–1893) postacią poety epoki Odrodzenia. Jan Matejko kilkakrotnie w swojej twórczości przedstawiał wydarzenia i postacie ważne dla historii kultury, a wśród nich pojawia się także Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584). Artysta wykonał szkice portretowe, szkice kompozycyjne do obrazów, obraz historyczny czy też portret imaginacyjny poety, uwiecznił go także w dziele Ubiory w Polsce 1275–1795. Znakomity malarz gromadził w kolekcji artefakty związane z epoką. W pierwszych latach twórczości Matejki powstał obraz Jan Kochanowski z Urszulką (1862) przedstawiający poetę, autora Trenów cierpiącego po stracie córki.
W roku 1884 krakowska Akademia Umiejętności uczciła trzechsetną rocznicę śmierci Jana Kochanowskiego zjazdem naukowym jego imienia. Jan Matejko ofiarował fantazyjny portret poety z humorystycznym wierszykiem własnego autorstwa umieszczonym na odwrocie obrazu. Artysta w ówczesnej działalności kulturalnej i społecznej był również zaangażowany w powstanie wystawy, organizowanej w salach Sukiennic przez Zarząd Muzeum Narodowego. Między innymi udostępnił publiczności artefakty z własnej kolekcji, a portret poety jego autorstwa witał gości wystawy
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