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Sandwell, W D, 415685
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/415290Surname: SANDWELL. Given Name(s) or Initials: W D. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 415685. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 54161.235746
Item: [2016.0049.47551] "Sandwell, W D, 415685
Experiences of the food environment and the role of the ‘routine’ in producing food practices: an ethnography of Sandwell residents
No full textPhDDespite a sustained academic interest in food environments and their impact
upon dietary practices, relatively little is known about the ways in which
individuals interact with the food environment. The multiple and complex
factors that influence food choices are difficult to investigate, especially in the
family setting where individual and collective practices intersect. This thesis
investigates how people perform food practices and unpacks how specific
contexts shape, promote and constrain food behaviours. The case study through
which this is examined is that of the food practices of 26 residents of Sandwell, a
uniformly deprived metropolitan borough in the West Midlands. Through
ethnographically collecting accounts and observations of how residents
performed food practices, both in the home and while shopping for food, highly
routinized behaviours were revealed. The notion of routinized decision making,
as it appears in social science research, is developed and adapted to incorporate
descriptions of general approaches to routine food behaviours. The novel
concept of routines-of-practice is employed to characterise these routines in
terms of agency, attitudes towards individualism, and reliance on environmental
and contextual cues.
Food shopping practices are positioned, to an extent, as acts of
consumerism performed in the pervasive consumption environment of the
supermarket. The home, by contrast, was depicted as a site of both privacy and
responsibility. The ways in which responsibility was interpreted and enacted
dictated how family meals and routine home food behaviours were structured.
By looking at food practices in terms of repetitive, context specific and often
uncritical behaviours, this thesis highlights the importance of place in moulding
food practices. Understanding how people interact and interpret their
environment has been underestimated in diet-related health policy and
promotion. This thesis specifically examines the way food practices are
influenced by environment and context at the micro level
Decorrelation of L-Band and C-Band Interferometry to volcanic risk prevention
No full textThis work studies correlation of pairs of SAR images focusing on the influence of surface and climate conditions,
especially snow coverage and temperature. Furthermore, the effects of the acquisition band on correlation are taken into
account, comparing L-band and C-band images. All the chosen images cover most of the Yellowstone caldera (USA)
over a span of 4 years, sampling all the seasons. Interferograms and correlation maps are generated. To isolate temporal
decorrelation, pairs of images with the shortest baseline are chosen. Correlation maps are analyzed in relation to snow
depth and temperature. Results obtained with ENVISAT and ERS satellites (C-band) are compared with the ones from
ALOS (L-band).
Results show a good performance during winter and a bad attitude towards wet snow (spring and fall). During summer
both L-band and C-band maintain a good coherence with L-band performing better over vegetation
Living in Sandwell: An Exploratory Study into the Key Issues and Challenges that Affect a Small Group of People with Mild Learning Disabilities
No full textThis paper is concerned with a small group of people with a mild learning disability; who they are and what their lives are like. This group is not typically known by the label of mild learning disability in research, social policy or in service provision, due to a lack of suitable assessment or identification methods.
This small study, using focus groups as a data collection method and undertaken as a pilot study for further research, has shown this group experienced wide ranging social disadvantage, and difficulties and challenges in daily living due to their learning disability. These included travel, shopping, parenting, lack of IT skills, plus experiencing local anti-social behaviour on a regular basis. Lack of recognition and appropriate support can leave them vulnerable to a range of difficulties and issues including social isolation and harassment
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Invisible families: The strengths and needs of black families in which young people have caring responsibilities
No full textThis study investigated the experiences and needs of black young people caring for disabled or ill family members and their access to services. A joint research team from Manchester Metropolitan University and the Bibini Centre for Young People interviewed young people and adults from 20 families and also sought the views of professionals from relevant social care
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