675 research outputs found
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
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
A dyke with dry eyes. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home as crypto-bio-graphy
No full textThis paper is a close-reading of Alison Bechdel’s comics Fun Home, subtitled A Family Tragicomic, as a complicated game with the biography of a lesbian cartoonist faking an intimate testimony of her own coming-out and her father’s supposed suicide. This article analyses a dialectic relation of revealing and concealing within the book, tracking both textual and iconic strategies, accompanying Bechdel’s comments and comic spin-offs as well. The main thesis is that the analysed strategy applied to the convention of queer narratives by the author is a deliberate attempt at challenging the hierarchical relations of word and image, male and female, and high and low
A latent semantic analysis of gender stereotype-consistency and narrowness in American English
No full textBrutalist Trauma, Picturesque Repair
No full textA discussion of the interrelations between post-war Brutalism and Picturesque revival in the work of Alison and Peter Smithson, in response to the conference question of urban design urgencies of today, most notably the question of city repair.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Space & Typ
Sex Transm Dis
No full textBackground:Chancroid has been a nationally notifiable condition in the United States since 1944, with cases reported to Centers Disease Control and Prevention through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). Although frequently reported during the 1940s, <20 cases have been reported annually since 2011. We assessed the performance and utility of national case-based chancroid surveillance.Methods:We reviewed the literature to contextualize chancroid surveillance through NNDSS. We then assessed 4 system attributes, including data quality, sensitivity, usefulness, and representativeness: we reviewed chancroid cases reported during 2011\u20132020, conducted interviews with a) STD programs reporting 651 case in 2019 or 2020 (n = 9) and b) CDC subject matter experts (n=10), and reviewed published communicable disease reporting laws.Results:Chancroid diagnostic testing is limited, which affects the surveillance case definition. National case-based surveillance has poor data quality; of the 2019 and preliminary 2020 cases (n = 14), only 3 were verified by jurisdictions as chancroid cases. STD programs report the system has low sensitivity given limited clinician knowledge and resources; experts report the system is not useful in guiding national control efforts. Review of reporting laws revealed it is not representative, as chancroid is not a reportable condition nationwide.Conclusions:Critical review of system attributes suggest that national case-based chancroid surveillance data have limited ability to help describe and monitor national trends, and chancroid\u2019s inclusion on the national notifiable list might need to be reconsidered. Alternative strategies might be needed to monitor national chancroid burden.CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States
Penser la frontière entre essai et autobiographie à partir de la bande dessinée. Are You My Mother? d\u27Alison Bechdel
No full textBased on Alison Bechdel\u27s autobiographical essay Are You My Mother?, this article is a discussion on two boundaries of the essay : a generic boundary between essay and autobiography, questioned by the possibility of autobiographical essay, and an intermedial boundary challenged by the development of graphic essays in comics. Are You My Mother? is a self-reflexive autobiographical work which describes the author\u27s discovery of psychoanalysis and deals at the same time with mother-child relationships and the continuity between novel writing, autobiography and psychoanalysis, thus articulating autobiographical material and general thoughts. The book can be described in particular as a consistent dialogue with Donald Winnicott\u27s work, which we can see through the profusion of panels entirely devoted to quotes or the association of each chapter title to one of his articles. The boundary between essay and autobiography is embodied in the specificities of the medium, in particular its sequential mode, usually associated with narrative, and text / image relations. Alison Bechdel frequently breaks narrative sequentiality and uses parallel progressions of recitatives and iconic sequences to confront her experience and theoretical concepts, disrupting in the process any simple correspondence by multiplying narratives and fictional or real characters.Based on Alison Bechdel\u27s autobiographical essay Are You My Mother?, this article is a discussion on two boundaries of the essay : a generic boundary between essay and autobiography, questioned by the possibility of autobiographical essay, and an intermedial boundary challenged by the development of graphic essays in comics. Are You My Mother? is a self-reflexive autobiographical work which describes the author\u27s discovery of psychoanalysis and deals at the same time with mother-child relationships and the continuity between novel writing, autobiography and psychoanalysis, thus articulating autobiographical material and general thoughts. The book can be described in particular as a consistent dialogue with Donald Winnicott\u27s work, which we can see through the profusion of panels entirely devoted to quotes or the association of each chapter title to one of his articles. The boundary between essay and autobiography is embodied in the specificities of the medium, in particular its sequential mode, usually associated with narrative, and text / image relations. Alison Bechdel frequently breaks narrative sequentiality and uses parallel progressions of recitatives and iconic sequences to confront her experience and theoretical concepts, disrupting in the process any simple correspondence by multiplying narratives and fictional or real characters.Based on Alison Bechdel\u27s autobiographical essay Are You My Mother?, this article is a discussion on two boundaries of the essay : a generic boundary between essay and autobiography, questioned by the possibility of autobiographical essay, and an intermedial boundary challenged by the development of graphic essays in comics. Are You My Mother? is a self-reflexive autobiographical work which describes the author\u27s discovery of psychoanalysis and deals at the same time with mother-child relationships and the continuity between novel writing, autobiography and psychoanalysis, thus articulating autobiographical material and general thoughts. The book can be described in particular as a consistent dialogue with Donald Winnicott\u27s work, which we can see through the profusion of panels entirely devoted to quotes or the association of each chapter title to one of his articles. The boundary between essay and autobiography is embodied in the specificities of the medium, in particular its sequential mode, usually associated with narrative, and text / image relations. Alison Bechdel frequently breaks narrative sequentiality and uses parallel progressions of recitatives and iconic sequences to confront her experience and theoretical concepts, disrupting in the process any simple correspondence by multiplying narratives and fictional or real characters.Dans cet article, Are You My Mother? d\u27Alison Bechdel nous permet d\u27interroger deux frontières de l\u27essai : d\u27une part la frontière générique entre essai et autobiographie questionnée par la possibilité d\u27un « essai autobiographique », d\u27autre part une frontière médiatique remise en cause par l\u27émergence de l\u27essai de bande dessinée. Are You My Mother? est une œuvre autobiographique fortement réflexive qui suit la découverte par l\u27autrice des travaux de la psychanalyse et se penche à la fois les relations mère-enfant et les continuités entre écriture romanesque, autobiographie et psychanalyse, articulant ainsi matériau autobiographique et réflexion générale. L’œuvre prend en particulier la forme d\u27un dialogue constant avec les travaux de Donald Winnicott, dialogue très visible formellement à travers l\u27abondance de cases uniquement dédiées aux citations ou bien l\u27association du titre de chaque chapitre à un article du psychanalyste. La frontière entre essai et autobiographie s\u27incarne dans les spécificités du médium de la bande dessinée, en particulier son fonctionnement séquentiel, traditionnellement associé au récit, et la relation entre texte et images. Alison Bechdel s\u27appuie ainsi sur de nombreuses ruptures de la séquentialité narrative et sur des progressions parallèles entre récitatifs et séquence d\u27images pour confronter expérience et concepts théoriques, en déstabilisant en même temps toute correspondance univoque par la multiplication des récits et des personnages réels ou fictionnels
A meta-analysis on the malleability of automatic gender stereotypes
No full textThis meta-analytic review examined the efficacy of interventions aimed at reducing automatic gender stereotypes. Such interventions included attentional distraction, salience of within-category heterogeneity, and stereotype suppression. A small but significant main effect (g?=?.32) suggests that these interventions are successful but that their scope is limited. The intervention main effect was moderated by publication status, sample nationality, and intervention type. The meta-analytic findings suggest several issues worthy of further investigation, such as whether (a) other categories of intervention not yet identified or tested could be more effective, (b) suppression necessarily produces ironic effects in automatic stereotyping, (c) various indirect measures are differentially sensitive to stereotype change, and (d) automatic stereotypes about men differ in their malleability from those about women.<br/
Index of University of Rochester Ph. D. Dissertations with Chemistry Department Advisors
No full textList of University of Rochester Ph. D. dissertations from 1933-2009 where the advisor was a Department of Chemistry faculty. This is sorted by author, publication year and advisor.List of University of Rochester Ph. D. dissertations from 1933-2009 where the advisor was a Department of Chemistry faculty. This is sorted by author, publication year and advisor
"On the threshold of becoming": an examination of three works of postcolonial Caribbean women's fiction: Zee Edgell's Beka Lamb, Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey, and Merle Collins' Angel, 2001
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