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Women's experiences of increasing subjective well-being in CFS/ME through leisure-based arts and crafts activities: A qualitative study
No full textThis is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright © 2008 Informa Plc.Purpose. To understand the meanings of art-making among a group of women living with the occupational constraints and stigma of CFS/ME. The study explored their initial motives for art-making, and then examined how art-making had subsequently influenced their subjective well-being.
Method. Ten women with CFS/ME were interviewed; three provided lengthy written accounts to the interview questions.
Findings. Illness had resulted in devastating occupational and role loss. Participants took many years to make positive lifestyle changes. Art-making was typically discovered once participants had accepted the long-term nature of CFS/ME, accommodated to illness, and reprioritized occupations. Several factors then attracted participants specifically to art-making. It was perceived as manageable within the constraints of ill-health. Participants also tended to be familiar with craft skills; had family members interested in arts and crafts, and some desired a means to express grief and loss. Once established as a leisure activity, art-making increased subjective well-being mainly through providing increased satisfaction in daily life, positive self-image, hope, and contact with the outside world. Participants recommended provision of occupational/recreational counselling earlier in the illness trajectory.
Conclusions. Creative art-making occurred as part of a broader acceptance and adjustment process to CFS/ME, and allowed some psychological escape from a circumscribed lifeworld
The Story of "Me" Contemporary American Autofiction
No full textCover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Masculinity, Whiteness, and Postmodern Self-Consciousness -- 2. Rage against the Dying of the Author -- 3. The New Journalism as the New Fiction -- 4. Trauma Autofiction, Dissociation, and the Authenticity of "Real" Experience -- 5. Memoir vs. Autofiction as the Story of Me vs. the Story of "Me" -- Coda -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Familiarity, schemata and patterns of listening
No full textThe origins of this work, as in much research, lie in a personal experience. My first exposure to a selection of Schoenberg’s piano works (which happened to be through a recording) had resulted in an ambivalent response, but upon hearing the same recording some months later for a second time, I found the experience more enjoyable and the music much easier to understand. Perhaps this was to be expected, but I was curious: what was it about the second listening that made it so much easier than the first? What was it that let me access the music in a manner akin to other piano music, and experience emotional responses to it, when I had not been able to do either of these things the first time? There may have been many situational factors, but becoming familiar with the music almost certainly played a role in this transformation
Read Me
No full textThis file explains all of the variables in each of the datasets that accompany: Gordon SCC, Meadley-Dunphy SA, Prior KM, Frederickson ME, 2018ms. Asynchrony between ant seed dispersal activity and fruit dehiscence of myrmecochorous plants
Insights into the influence of priors in posterior mapping of discrete morphological characters: a case study in Annonaceae
No full textBackground - Posterior mapping is an increasingly popular hierarchical Bayesian based method used to infer character histories and reconstruct ancestral states at nodes of molecular phylogenies, notably of morphological characters. As for all Bayesian analyses specification of prior values is an integrative and important part of the analysis. He we provide an example of how alternative prior choices can seriously influence results and mislead interpretations. Methods/Principal Findings - For two contrasting discrete morphological characters, namely a slow and a fast evolving character found in the plant family Annonaceae, we specified a total of eight different prior distributions per character. We investigated how these prior settings affected important summary statistics. Our analyses showed that the different prior distributions had marked effects on the results in terms of average number of character state changes. These differences arise because priors play a crucial role in determining which areas of parameter space the values of the simulation will be drawn from, independent of the data at hand. However, priors seemed to fit the data better if they would result in a more even sampling of parameter space (normal posterior distribution), in which case alternative standard deviation values had little effect on the results. The most probable character history for each character was affected differently by the prior. For the slower evolving character, the same character history always had the highest posterior probability independent of the priors used. In contrast, the faster evolving character showed different most probable character histories depending on the prior. These differences could be related to the level of homoplasy exhibited by each character. Conclusions - Although our analyses were restricted to two morphological characters within a single family, our results underline the importance of carefully choosing prior values for posterior mapping. Prior specification will be of crucial importance when interpreting the results in a meaningful way. It is hard to suggest a statistically sound method for prior specification without more detailed studies. Meanwhile, we propose that the data could be used to estimate the prior value of the gamma distribution placed on the transformation rate in posterior mappin
Remember Me A Novella about Finding Our Way to the Cross
No full textShades of Light.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- 1 The Word Became Flesh -- 2 The Gift of Myrrh -- 3 Taking the Cup -- 4 With a Kiss -- 5 Awakened -- 6 Accused -- 7 Bearing the Cross -- 8 Lament -- 9 Stripped -- 10 Pierced -- 11 It Is Finished -- 12 Into Your Hands -- 13 Buried -- 14 Risen -- Epilogue -- Journey to the Cross -- Acknowledgments -- Also Available -- Praise for Remember Me -- About the Author -- More Titles from InterVarsity PressShades of Light.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Nonmanipulable Bayesian Testing
No full textThis paper considers the problem of testing an expert who makes probabilistic forecasts about the outcomes of a stochastic process. I show that, under general conditions on the tester's prior, a likelihood test can distinguish informed from uninformed experts with high prior probability. The test rejects informed experts on data-generating processes where the tester quickly learns the true probabilities by updating her prior. However, the set of processes on which informed experts are rejected is topologically small. These results contrast sharply with many negative results in the literature.Probability forecasts, testing, experts
"Test me and treat me" - attitudes to vitamin D deficiency and supplementation: a qualitative study
No full text© 2015 BMJ Open, "Test me and treat me"-attitudes to vitamin D deficiency and supplementation: a qualitative study. This manuscript version is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Licens
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