753 research outputs found
Introduction: The Politics of Resilience and Recovery in Mental Health Care
No full textThe articles included in this special issue engage these themes across a number of national settings, institutional spaces, and empirical sites, from universities to mental health commissions, to national policy in an international context. They focus, especially, on Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, where recent and significant changes in mental health governance have relied heavily on the notions of recovery and resilience, often to questionable effect. They deal, as we have said, with some of the most central themes in social justice studies. As a collection, the articles help us think through some of the pressing political questions about social justice that have arisen with the adoption of the mantras of resilience and recovery in mental health governance
Negotiating the Culture of Resistance: A Critical Assessment of Protest Politics
No full textBoth for those within the movement and the public at large, the anti-globalization movement has become increasingly defined by large-scale protests such as those opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City. Such events successfully render visible the strength of the movement, expose an emerging global elite, politicize neoliberal restructuring, and capture the media and public's attention. Yet the privileging of large-scale protest for advancing anti-globalist politics is increasingly being questioned both by those involved in the movement and by the Left in general.Peer reviewe
Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
Evaluation of the 2020 wildfire season
No full textan evaluation conducted by University of Oregon in partnership with Oregon Health Authority ; Michael R. Coughlan, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Benjamin Clark, and Alison Deak.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Do UK based weight management programmes cause weight loss maintenance in adults? A systematic review
No full textThe aim of this dissertation was to examine whether UK based weight management programmes promote weight loss maintenance (follow up of 12 months to assess effectiveness of intervention in weight loss) in adults through the process of a systematic review. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described obesity as a "global epidemic". Weight management comprises two phases; weight loss and weight loss maintenance. The latter phase is the true goal for obesity and the most difficult element of weight management to achieve. However much less is know about this as compared with the weight loss phase. There is little purpose in committing time and money to reducing obesity if the weight is regained. This is counter-productive and weight loss maintenance is essential to combat the obesity epidemic. Searches were made for relevant information from a variety of scientific online databases and journals,. Seven articles met the inclusion criteria and were analysed in the review. All studies incorporated a multi-component (diet, exercise, behaviur modification) intervention approach. All control and internvetion groups reported weight loss at 12 months when compared with baseline. All groups recieved an intervention. One study reported a significant difference (P<0.05) between groups. Four studies reported on at least one component (diet, physical activity, behaviour modification) however there was not enough information to conclude whether they complied with national guidelines (NICE CG43 and SIGN 115). High attrition rates and loss to follow up are problematic for each study except one. Analysis on an intention to treat basis was common however this is problematic and there are alternative methods which may be more suitable for dealing with missing data
Utilizando tecnologias chatbot para responder dúvidas sobre as vacinas do COVID-19
No full textTCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Campus Araranguá. Engenharia da Computação.Chatbots são softwares capazes de interagir com o usuário e compreender mensagens
em linguagem natural. São várias as vantagens do uso de tecnologias chatbots. Uma
das vantagens é a capacidade de interação dessas tecnologias, o que pode ser utilizado
para sanar dúvidas e questionamentos de usuários sobre um determinado assunto. No
contexto da pandemia da covid-19, onde existem diversas dúvidas acerca das vacinas e
suas respectivas características, uma ferramenta como um chatbot pode ser útil e eficaz
em fornecer informações. Com esse intuito, esse trabalho descreve uma investigação sobre
tecnologias chatbots, e um estudo de caso sobre o desenvolvimento de um chatbot voltado
a responder dúvidas acerca das vacinas da covid-19. Em nosso estudo de caso, realizamos
diversas etapas, iniciando com a coletada das principais dúvidas que as pessoas possuem
sobre as vacinas da covid-19, o levantamento de informações necessárias para construir a
base de conhecimento do chatbot para responder as dúvidas levantadas, o desenvolvimento
do chatbot, e um teste empírico do mesmo. Nosso estudo demonstra que tecnologias
chatbots podem ser utilizadas de forma eficiente para fornecer informações de forma
interativa sobre um tema atual e relevante
A latent semantic analysis of gender stereotype-consistency and narrowness in American English
No full textThe financial imaginary: Dreiser, DeLillo, and abstract capitalism in American literature
No full textThis dissertation examines the representation of capitalism as an abstract phenomenon in American literature at the beginning and end of the “long᾿ twentieth century. Comparing the two most recent ends-of-century—both notorious for the promotion of “new᾿ economic rules and extremes of wealth redistribution—allows us to chart writers’ efforts to find formal strategies adequate to represent changing conditions of economic abstraction. Reading fictions from the period of the American “economic novel᾿ from 1885 to 1912 by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, and from contemporary narratives of “late᾿ capitalism from 1998 to 2003 by Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Jane Smiley, and David Denby, I show how texts from these two turns-of-century pose a question of parallel historical urgency: how to find new ways of seeing forces of capitalism that are thought to exceed conventional narrative powers of representation. The financial imaginary thus invites us to consider the novel’s attempts—and its failures—to make late capitalism legible in realist terms. I consider how these texts historicize a particular view of late capital as able to evolve beyond its origins as “real᾿ money and toward new levels of financial immateriality. Exploring the ways in which the representation of capital is reconceived in literature as a problem of historical perception and understanding rather than as an account of a system of material production, I argue that the “financialization᾿ of the novel’s imagination—an expansive projection of cause and effect through the abstract terms of the market—is a literary expression of and a response to the market’s seeming ability to exceed social control. Just as late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century texts seek to define historically viable modes of financial selfhood, late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century texts allow us to track the ways that contemporary narrative returns to the preoccupations of the nineteenth-century economic novel even as it models the inadequacies of such fiction to tell the story of twentieth-century capitalism.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215)
Results from pilot interviews with key informants
No full textGrace Kaplowitz, Alison Deak, Michael Coughlan, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Hollie Smith, Autumn Shafer.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Funding for this project was provided by a University of Oregon Resilience Initiative seed funding grant.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
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