616 research outputs found
Ethnicity as a determining factor for instrumental support in mid and later life in England and Wales
No full textObjectives. Minority ethnic groups are often assumed to exchange higher levels of informal support than the majority population, despite evidence that controlling for socioeconomic and health inequalities eliminates differences. Using a unique data set from England and Wales, we examined instrumental support across ethnic groups in mid and later life. Method. Employing data from the Home Office Citizenship Survey 2005 (N = 14,081), we investigated ethnic group differences in instrumental support among people aged 55 and older in England and Wales (n = 4,710). Multiple logistic regression was used to investigate the determinants of support given and received, guided by the Andersen–Newman behavioral model. Results. Compared with the White British group, the Indian group reported significantly higher odds (odds ratio [OR] = 2.2, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0–4.7) of receiving instrumental support from household members but significantly lower odds of giving support to relatives outside the household (OR = 0.7, 95% CI 0.5–0.9). Three other ethnic groups (Pakistani and Bangladeshi, Mixed, Other) reported significantly lower odds in unadjusted findings, but when adjusted, ethnic group differences were no longer significant. Discussion. Our analyses suggest few ethnic group differences in instrumental support once need and enabling factors were taken into account. Such findings are contrary to the belief that minority groups exchange more informal support and therefore have less need for formal services. The Andersen–Newman model is useful for guiding the analysis of support both given and received. <br/
Managing today's news media : audience first /
No full textThe business of journalism is in the midst of massive change. Managing Today's News Media: Audience First offers practical solutions on how to cope with and adapt to the evolving media landscape. News media experts Samir Husni, Debora Halpern Wenger, and Hank Price introduce a forward-looking framework for understanding why change is occurring and what it means to the business of journalism. Central to this new paradigm is a focus on the audience. The authors introduce "The 4Cs Strategy" to describe how customers, control, choice, and change are all part of a strategy for successful media organizations. Every chapter in the book relates to one or more of these four key principles: * Customer - Each platform must offer a unique experience to the customer. ...Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and index.The business of journalism is in the midst of massive change. Managing Today's News Media: Audience First offers practical solutions on how to cope with and adapt to the evolving media landscape. News media experts Samir Husni, Debora Halpern Wenger, and Hank Price introduce a forward-looking framework for understanding why change is occurring and what it means to the business of journalism. Central to this new paradigm is a focus on the audience. The authors introduce "The 4Cs Strategy" to describe how customers, control, choice, and change are all part of a strategy for successful media organizations. Every chapter in the book relates to one or more of these four key principles: * Customer - Each platform must offer a unique experience to the customer. ...Description based on MARC record for print version
Applying the Andersen behavioural model to informal support among Britain’s ethnic minorities
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DEBORA: Developing an Interface to Support Collaboration in a Digital Library
No full textInterfaces to library systems have largely failed to represent the in-herently collaborative nature of information work. This paper describes how collaborative functionality is being implemented as part of the DEBORA project to provide access to digitised Renaissance documents. Work practices of users of Renaissance documents are described and the collaborative features of the client software are outlined. Functionalities discussed include annotation, the creation of virtual books and the inclusion of user-supplied metadata
Investigating the effect of price tag colours on cortical, cardiac and ocular responses
No full textThe present study was aimed at exploring how different combinations of price tag colours can influence consumer approach, arousal, and price visibility. An experimental investigation was set out to compare individual responses to two different hues conveying different degrees of perceived sophistication, excitement, and visual salience. Specifically, cortical responses were processed to calculate an index of individual approach-withdrawal. Cardiac responses were tracked to assess sympathetic activations. Behavioural measures were related to instinctive nonverbal responses and included ocular behaviours, through eye-tracking, used as a measure of visual salience. Cortical activations showed how black labels affected positively the observer. Sophisticated price displays were connected to positive initial impressions towards the visual stimulus. Orange hues tended to elicit higher physiological arousal and visual salience, pointing to a signaling role effective to generate a sense of alertness
Grandparental childcare: a reconceptualisation of family policy regimes
No full textThis exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting practices. It is the only collection that brings together theory-driven research on grandparenting from a wide variety of cultural and welfare state contexts - including chapters on Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia - drawing broad lines of debate rather than focusing at a country level.Building on the success of ‘Contemporary grandparenting’, edited by Virpi Timonen and Sarah Arber, this book further deepens our understanding of how social structures continue to shape grandparenting across a wide range of cultural and economic contexts. The book is essential reading and reference for researchers, students and policy-makers who want to understand the growing influence of grandparents in ageing families and societies across the world
On the avant-garde : Bruno Schulz and Debora Vogel
No full textIn his recent book devoted to the study of Schulz, Michał Paweł Markowski rebukes the scholars of Schulz that they have ignored the indebtedness of the write r in Hegel's philosophy, and at the same time he claims that it is hard to find in Schulz any evidence that he had actually read the philosopher. The author of the article argues the contrary: Hegelian themes are treated by Schulz with an ironic distance, and it is certain the w rite r read Hegel as his
closest friend, Debora Vogel, devoted her PhD dissertation to the author of The Phenomenology of Spirit. The influence of Hegel can be rather seen in Vogel's writings, as she
was fascinated by the avant-garde idea of progress pursued by the anonymous masses. Seemingly Schulz the bumpkin is behind but in the long run he went ahead of his friend,
because unlike her he stressed the subjective aspect of the avant-garde revolution. Jarzębski Wobec awangardy: Bruno Schulz i Debora Vogel
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