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sj-docx-2-cre-10.1177_02692155241230270 - Supplemental material for Spatial Neglect: An Exploration of Clinical Assessment Behaviour in Stroke Rehabilitation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-cre-10.1177_02692155241230270 for Spatial Neglect: An Exploration of Clinical Assessment Behaviour in Stroke Rehabilitation by Georgia Fisher, Camila Quel de Oliveira, Peter W. Stubbs, Emma Power, Matthew Checketts, Alison Porter-Armstrong and David S. Kennedy in Clinical Rehabilitation</p
sj-docx-3-cre-10.1177_02692155241230270 - Supplemental material for Spatial Neglect: An Exploration of Clinical Assessment Behaviour in Stroke Rehabilitation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-cre-10.1177_02692155241230270 for Spatial Neglect: An Exploration of Clinical Assessment Behaviour in Stroke Rehabilitation by Georgia Fisher, Camila Quel de Oliveira, Peter W. Stubbs, Emma Power, Matthew Checketts, Alison Porter-Armstrong and David S. Kennedy in Clinical Rehabilitation</p
sj-docx-1-cre-10.1177_02692155241230270 - Supplemental material for Spatial Neglect: An Exploration of Clinical Assessment Behaviour in Stroke Rehabilitation
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-cre-10.1177_02692155241230270 for Spatial Neglect: An Exploration of Clinical Assessment Behaviour in Stroke Rehabilitation by Georgia Fisher, Camila Quel de Oliveira, Peter W. Stubbs, Emma Power, Matthew Checketts, Alison Porter-Armstrong and David S. Kennedy in Clinical Rehabilitation</p
Facing femininities : women in the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1899.
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Accuracy of weight status perception in contemporary Australian children and adolescents
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Globalisation and economic regionalism: a survey and critique of the literature
No full textThe relationship of regionalism to globalisation is modelled in the literature either as open regionalism aimed at integration with the global market or as a project of resistance to global market forces. While the model of open regionalism is underwritten by the liberal political economy perspective on IPE, the resistance model pays close attention to domestic politics. Although they offer considerable insights into the globalisation-regionalism relationship, the former model lacks a realistic notion of both the international and domestic political economies, while the latter adopts a somewhat Euro-centric view of dynamics at the domestic level based on the European welfare state. This paper argues that the economic realist perspective on IPE combined with an approach to domestic politics that pays especial attention to historical and political context offers additional insights into the globalisation-regionalism relationship. First, it makes it possible to (a) identify two variants of open regionalism (a neoliberal variant and an FDI model), and (b) to advance a fourth ideal-type model of the globalisation-regionalism relationship, namely developmental regionalism. The latter model, which also draws on strategic trade theory, involves making a conceptual distinction between foreign-owned and domestic-owned capital, a distinction that is presently missed in the literature and that may be relevant in settings where domestic-owned capital plays crucial political/social roles. Second, it suggests that it is primarily domestic political economic dynamics that determines which of these models emerges in response to globalisation, although the push to regionalism may have initially come from systemic forces. The domestic level is consequently a key level of analysis in explanations of regionalism
An Ethnographic Focus on Family Dynamics in Ghana, West Africa versus the United States
No full textThe purpose of this study to explore and describe the family dynamics in Ghana, West Africa in comparison to those of African Americans in the United States of America. Analyzing these culture sharing patterns is especially important in the context of the historically black institution of higher learning, where African and American cultures intersect. Both groups, Africans in Africa and African-Americans in the U.S., will benefit from this research because this will bridge gaps in knowledge, making us a citizen of the world. I was able to travel to Ghana and immerse myself into their culture and for that short period of time, I was able to observe the differences in family dynamics in America versus those in Ghana. My research explores family dynamics in three sectors: Daily life, education, marriage/childbearing. Many components make these three overarching sectors. Both Ghana and America are countries going through changes with a diverse population that provides different perspectives and opportunities for the exchange of new ideas that can stimulate innovation and creativity (VanAlstine, Cox, & Roden, 2015). Research has been conducted to investigate the educational system in both America and Ghana and the different levels in which one can obtain a degree/certificate. Studies also explore the extent to which families in both Ghana and America value education. Marriage practices also differ in Ghana versus the United States and have changed many times over centuries. This study is important in that it explores these differences based on the lived experiences of the participants who are a part of each culture. In order to collect data, three focus groups were conducted among college students in both Ghana and the United States. Students who attended The University of Ghana, The University of Cape Coast, and students of the Atlanta University Center shared their lived experiences and their family dynamics. There were a total of 13 interview questions in order to explore daily life, education, roles/hierarchy, occupation, and marriage. All questions asked were open-ended, allowing the participants to discuss their experiences in detail. For example, Describe the roles of men and women in your family is a question that received extensive responses due to the fact that is was more subjective than objective. Atlas Ti revealed the following themes that arose from the analysis 'meals, leisure activities, the value of education, attitudes toward premarital childbearing, and family roles among others. Validation strategies used are rich thick descriptions, reflexivity, and member checking. Understanding the daily lives and contexts of individuals in Ghana and in the U.S. has not been conducted systematically to date, and such an exploration is expected to help build a bridge of understanding and respect between the related cultures in addition to using best practices that will benefit the cultures mutually
Poly(styrene)-b-Poly(dimethylsiloxane)-b- Poly(styrene)/single walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites. synthesis of triblock copolymer and nanocomposite preparation, 2016
No full textMolecular weights of 2,000, 6,000 and 10,000 of silane functionalized atactic polystyrene (aPS) and ?,?-divinyl functionalized polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) were prepared via living anionic polymerization and bulk anionic ring opening polymerization respectively. Functionalization of the homopolymers was confirmed by FT-IR and 1H-NMR spectroscopy and their molecular weights were determined via 1H-NMR end group analysis. A hydrosilylation reaction between the functionalized homopolymers of different molecular weights produced nine polystyrene-block-polydimethylsiloxane-block-polystyrene (aPS-b-PDMS-b-aPS) triblock copolymers. Field emission scanning electron microscopy observations revealed the copolymers self-assemble into supramolecular structures. Dynamic Light Scattering measurements show only small increase in the order of nanometers of its hydrodynamic radius as the individual molecular weights of the homopolymers were increased. Nanocomposites of the copolymers were prepared by incorporating 1% of oxidized single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) within the aPS-PDMS-aPS matrices via coagulation precipitation. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) thermal analysis shows the SWNT interacting with both aPS and PDMS constituting blocks. SWNTs interaction with aPS block either increases the polymer glass transition temperature (Tg) by restricting its segmental motion or decreases the Tg by a plasticization effect. Within the PDMS block the SWNTs act as nucleating sites accelerating the crystallization rate of the polymer. This is evident by the appearance of single and double melting endotherms in the DSC thermograms. KEY TERMS: Triblock copolymer, Polystyrene, Polydimethylsiloxane, carbon nanotubes, nanocomposites, polymer nanocomposites, Polymer Chemistr
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Identifying idiolect in forensic authorship attribution: an n-gram textbite approach
No full textForensic authorship attribution is concerned with identifying authors of disputed or anonymous documents, which are potentially evidential in legal cases, through the analysis of linguistic clues left behind by writers. The forensic linguist “approaches this problem of questioned authorship from the theoretical position that every native speaker has their own distinct and individual version of the language [. . . ], their own idiolect” (Coulthard, 2004: 31). However, given the diXculty in empirically substantiating a theory of idiolect, there is growing concern in the Veld that it remains too abstract to be of practical use (Kredens, 2002; Grant, 2010; Turell, 2010). Stylistic, corpus, and computational approaches to text, however, are able to identify repeated collocational patterns, or n-grams, two to six word chunks of language, similar to the popular notion of soundbites: small segments of no more than a few seconds of speech that journalists are able to recognise as having news value and which characterise the important moments of talk. The soundbite oUers an intriguing parallel for authorship attribution studies, with the following question arising: looking at any set of texts by any author, is it possible to identify ‘n-gram textbites’, small textual segments that characterise that author’s writing, providing DNA-like chunks of identifying material
Manifestations of humanism in Cuban history, politics, and culture
No full textThe thesis explores what it deems are some of the most perceptible humanistic features in Cuban history, politics, and culture, less specified, or highlighted, or generally not presented in a cohesive body of knowledge in the western scholarly world. In the context of its subject, the thesis embraces rational-critical thinking and supports the custom of non-violent dispute. Insofar as the Cuban Constitution incorporates a range of goals structured on socialist principles, the thesis sets out to scrutinise manifestations in Cuban thinking emblematic of the Marxist-humanist and/or anti-Stalinist philosophical traditions of revolutionary praxis. The thesis' main body investigates, illustrates, and analyses the presence of such features, focussing predominantly on the period 1959 to the late 1960s. Where the thesis does delve into timeframes beyond this era, it endeavours to show the continuity of relevant facets previously identified. Preceding the main examination, the thesis looks into what is widely perceived as the main roots of the country's humanist tradition, the moral ideas and standpoints of Jose Marti, the country's national hero. A further objective of this thesis lies in the belief that aspects of Cuba's national cultural policy in large measure addresses historical issues post-Apartheid South Africa confronts today
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