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2. CCS Working Papers
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Schmalen, Barbara
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Politik ,NSU ,Identity ,FOS: Political science ,ddc:320 ,Police ,Polizei ,Identität ,Political science - Abstract
In the context of dealing with the NSU complex, the police's involvement in racist structures is becoming increasingly clear. Social Identity Theory (SIT) posits that this entanglement jeopardizes the preservation of a positive police identity, and that, in response to this, police officers use identity management strategies to reconcile the handling of NSU crimes by law enforcement with their identity. This paper examines how this reconciliation is implemented narratively. The analysis of five narrative interviews shows that the personal stories of police officers primarily rely on the master narrative of the security authorities on the NSU complex and that a police-specific NSU narrative seems absent. Nevertheless, fragments of the counter narratives of the victims of the NSU complex also find their way into the reality of the police officers' lives. However, these are integrated by means of narrative strategies of depoliticization, individualization, and color-blind racism, possibly to keep up a positive and consistent police image. However, a culture of error management within the police nonetheless emerges through engagement with the narratives of the victims of the NSU complex., Im Zusammenhang mit dem Umgang mit dem NSU-Komplex wird die Verstrickung der Polizei in rassistische Strukturen immer deutlicher. Die Soziale Identitätstheorie (SIT) postuliert, dass diese Verstrickung den Erhalt einer positiven polizeilichen Identität gefährdet und dass Polizeibeamte als Reaktion darauf Identitätsmanagementstrategien einsetzen, um den Umgang der Strafverfolgungsbehörden mit NSU-Verbrechen mit ihrer Identität zu versöhnen. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, wie diese Versöhnung narrativ umgesetzt wird. Die Analyse von fünf narrativen Interviews zeigt, dass sich die persönlichen Erzählungen der Polizeibeamten primär auf das Masternarrativ der Sicherheitsbehörden zum NSU-Komplex beziehen und ein polizeispezifisches NSU-Narrativ abwesend scheint. Dennoch finden sich auch Fragmente der Gegenerzählungen der Opfer des NSU-Komplexes in der Lebenswirklichkeit der Polizeibeamten wieder. Diese werden jedoch durch narrative Strategien der Entpolitisierung, Individualisierung und des farbenblinden Rassismus integriert, möglicherweise um ein positives und konsistentes Polizeibild aufrechtzuerhalten. Dennoch entsteht durch die Auseinandersetzung mit den Narrativen der Opfer des NSU-Komplexes eine Kultur des Fehlermanagements innerhalb der Polizei.
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- 2021
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3. Entre el 'patio' y el 'paper'. Un análisis sobre las propuestas curriculares para la formación de profesores de Educación Física, Argentina (1970-1989)
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Alejo Levoratti
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Research ,Argentina ,Theory and practice of education ,Formación ,Identidad ,Pesquisa ,Formação ,Identity ,Identidade ,Educação Física ,Educación Física ,Investigación ,Training ,Physical Education ,LB5-3640 - Abstract
A lo largo de la segunda mitad siglo XX en la Argentina diferentes actores inscriptos en las instituciones de formacion de profesores de Educacion Fisica procuraron promover disimiles discursos y practicas con el objeto de legitimar en distintas esferas sociales a la disciplina. En esos procesos se establecieron dialogos con diversos saberes cientificos constituyendose lo que los actores de la Educacion Fisica denominaron como “tradiciones disciplinares”, asimismo promovieron desiguales inscripciones dentro del sistema de educacion superior. En este articulo profundizaremos en los procesos de configuracion de las saberes y practicas que hicieron a la construccion de la identidad de los profesores de educacion fisica en las decadas de 1970 y 1980. Para ello, analizaremos fuentes primarias y secundarias entre ellas se destacan los planes de estudio y los expedientes administrativos de distintas instituciones de formacion. En cada uno de los casos atenderemos a las tramas de construccion de los mismos. El recorrido posibilitara evidenciara que en el periodo considerado las producciones identitarias de los profesores de educacion fisica comenzaran a pensarse en una relacion de necesidad y de tension entre la investigacion y la docencia., Ao longo da segunda metade do século XX, na Argentina, diversos atores matriculados nas instituições de formação de professores de Educação Física buscaram promover discursos e práticas díspares para legitimar a disciplina em diferentes esferas sociais. Nestes processos, estabeleceram-se diálogos com saberes científicos diversos, constituindo o que os atores da Educação Física denominaram de “tradições disciplinares”, promovendo também matrículas desiguais no sistema de ensino superior. Este artigo tenta analisar tais processos. Nos aprofundaremos nos processos de configuração dos saberes e práticas que fizeram a construção da identidade dos professores de educação física nas décadas de 1970 e 1980. Para tanto, analisaremos fontes primárias e secundárias, entre elas, os planos de estudos e os arquivos administrativos de diferentes instituições de formação. Em cada um dos casos, atenderemos aos planos de construção do mesmo. O passeio permitirá mostrar que, no período considerado, as produções identitárias dos professores de educação física passam a pensar numa relação de necessidade e tensão entre pesquisa e ensino., Throughout the second half of the 20th century, in Argentina, different actors registered in Physical Education teacher training institutions tried to promote different discourses and practices to legitimize the discipline in different social spheres. In these processes, dialogues were established with diverse scientific knowledge, constituting what the actors of Physical Education called “disciplinary traditions”, also promoting unequal enrollment in the higher education system. This article seeks to analyze such processes. We will delve into the processes of configuration of knowledge and practices that built the identity of physical education teachers in the 1970s and 1980s. For this, we will analyze primary and secondary sources, including the study plans and administrative records of various training institutions. In each of the case, we will attend to the plans of its construction. The tour will show that, in the period considered, the identity productions of physical education teachers start thinking about a relationship of need and tension between research and teaching., Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
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- 2021
4. Arab Cyberactivism: from papers to social networks
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Salud Adelaida Flores Borjabad
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Revolution ,Árabe ,Arab ,Historical method ,Identidad ,Dibujo ,Medios ,Cartoon ,Identity ,Political science ,Revolución ,Ethnography ,Cultural ,Humanities ,Mass media - Abstract
El activismo en el mundo arabe ha sido representado en la clandestinidad. Destaca el uso de la caricatura, que ha sido un elemento clave, debido a que a traves de simbolos el caricaturista era capaz de convertirse en un activista de la pluma. No obstante, con el desarrollo del ciberespacio esa fuente de activismo marcada en el papel se tradujo a la red, haciendo que la caricatura cobrara aun mas importancia al poder transmitir ideas de una manera mas directa, al mismo tiempo que desarrollaba una forma de activismo virtual. Por ello, este trabajo pretende estudiar y analizar la historia de la caricatura arabe para ver su cristalizacion en una forma de activismo revolucionario, asi como tambien pretende reflejar como se ha generado una comunidad virtual en torno a ello. Se ha usado una metodologia cualitativa, empleando un metodo historico que permita recolectar informacion sobre la historia de las caricaturas en el mundo arabe. Luego, se ha desarrollado un metodo visual etnografico que permita estudiar el uso de las caricaturas usadas. Por tanto, los resultados y la discusion esperados son demostrar que la caricatura es una forma de revolucion y activismo, que se ha afianzado con el uso de internet. Palabras clave: Dibujo, revolucion cultural, Arabe, identidad cultural, medio de comunicacion de masas. Abstract:Activism in the Arab world have been represented in hiding. One of the most important forms has been political cartoons which have been an important tool that has been consolidated over time because cartoonists were able to become activists thanks to the use of symbols. However, the development of cyberspace translated cartoons into the network, by making them even more important as they transmitted ideas in a more direct way and developed a form of virtual activism . Therefore, the aim of this research is to study and analyze the history of the Arab political cartoons to see how it has consolidated in a form of revolutionary activism. Additionally, the attempt to this research is to reflect how a virtual community has been generated around that figure. As a result, a qualitative methodology has been used to carry out this research. A historical method has been used to collect information about the history of cartoons in the Arab world. Then, an ethnographic visual method has been developed to study the use of cartoons used. The results and discussion are to demonstrate that the cartoon is a form of revolution and activism which has strengthened itself with the use of the internet.
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- 2021
5. Book Review: Karen Exell, Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula (London: Routledge, 2016). Pp. 216. $140 cloth, $49.95 paper.*
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Islam Hassan and Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar
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lcsh:Museums. Collectors and collecting ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Anthropology ,Persian Gulf ,Modernity ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Art ,Identity ,Peninsula ,Identity (philosophy) ,Museum ,Museum Studies ,Cultural Studies ,Museology ,lcsh:AM1-501 ,media_common - Published
- 2018
6. Volatile Memories: Personal Data and Post Human Subjectivity in The Aspern Papers, Analogue: A Hate Story and Tacoma
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Rob Gallagher
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Cultural Studies ,Subjectivity ,narrative ,walking simulators ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Identity (social science) ,050801 communication & media studies ,privacy ,memory ,0508 media and communications ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,genre ,Debt ,subjectivity ,Narrative ,Sociology ,Applied Psychology ,identity ,media_common ,Communication ,05 social sciences ,literature ,06 humanities and the arts ,16. Peace & justice ,060202 literary studies ,posthumanism ,Human-Computer Interaction ,Aesthetics ,Anthropology ,0602 languages and literature ,Posthumanism - Abstract
Contemporary narrative video games still owe a debt to notions of plotting and characterization inherited from realist novels, even as they demonstrate how digital technologies are driving the development not merely of new fictional forms but also new conceptions of identity and subjectivity. This article expands upon these claims through analyses of three texts. Published in 1888 and revised in 1908, Henry James’s novella The Aspern Papers follows a protagonist obsessed with laying his hands on a long-dead Romantic poet’s archive; released in the 21st-century, Christine Love’s (2012) Analogue: A Hate Story and Fullbright’s (2017) Tacoma imagine technologically advanced posthuman futures in order to pose questions about datafication, identity, and the terms on which the past remains accessible in the present. Considered together, they shed light on longer generic traditions, the relationship between literature and video games, and the ethical and epistemological issues raised by new technologies.
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- 2019
7. A Protocol Paper on the Preservation of Identity: Understanding the Technology Adoption Patterns of Older Adults With Age-Related Vision Loss (ARVL)
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Colleen McGrath, Elena J. Sheldrake, Arlene Astell, Monica L Molinaro, and Debbie Laliberte Rudman
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critical ethnography ,030506 rehabilitation ,Activities of daily living ,vision loss ,Identity (social science) ,technology adoption ,Education ,Developmental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Occupational Therapy ,Critical ethnography ,Age related ,lcsh:H1-99 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,lcsh:Social sciences (General) ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,Protocol (object-oriented programming) ,older adults ,identity - Abstract
There are a growing number of older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL) for whom technology holds promise in supporting their engagement in daily activities. Despite the growing presence of technologies intended to support older adults with ARVL, there remains high rates of abandonment. This phenomenon of technology abandonment may be partly explained by the concept of self-image, meaning that older adults with ARVL avoid the use of particular technologies due to an underlying fear that use of such technologies may mark them as objects of pity, ridicule, and/or stigmatization. In response to this, the proposed study aims to understand how the decision-making processes of older adults with ARVL, as it relates to technology adoption, are influenced by the negotiation of identity. The study protocol will justify the need for this critical ethnographic study; unpack the theoretical underpinnings of this work; detail the sampling/recruitment strategy; and describe the methods which included a home tour, go-along, and semistructured in-depth interview, as well as the collective approach taken to analyze the data. The protocol concludes by examining the ethical tensions associated with this study, including a focus on the methods adopted as well as the ethical challenges inherent when working with an older adult population experiencing vision loss.
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- 2019
8. An Undue Burden: Race, Gender, and Mobility in Digital Humanities Conferences
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Siddiqui, Nabeel, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,spatial & spatio-temporal analysis ,Library & information science ,Statistics ,Geography and geo-humanities ,meta-criticism (reflections on digital humanities and humanities computing) ,GIS ,conferences ,Short Presentation ,FOS: Mathematics ,modeling and visualization ,mapping ,identity ,data modeling - Abstract
This project draws on the Index of DH Conferences compiled by Scott Weingart, Matthew Lincoln, and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara that covers approximately 60 years of DH conferences, 7300 presentations, 8650 different authors, 1850 institutions, and 8 countries (Lincoln et al., 2021). The objective was to assess how the burden of conference travel— represented by a measure of distance traversed—differs based on race, gender, work type (keynote, paper, workshop, and poster), and previous authorship.
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- 2023
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9. About the identity of immersion. Reader in the ‘post paper’ age
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Mikuła, Ewa, Urbańska, Monika, and Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Filologiczny
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immersion ,immersja ,czytelnictwo ,tożsamość ,identity - Published
- 2018
10. Deconstruction of the Landscape in Contemporary Art Based on the Example of the Installation 'Do Plants Dream of the Future?' by Igor Eškinja
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Katarina Rukavina
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General Medicine ,identity ,installation ,Do Plants Dream of the Future? ,weed ,landscape ,space ,wall-papers ,Igor Eškinja - Abstract
In Igor Eškinja’s installation Do Plants Dream of the Future? the main artistic motif is the living plant world growing in specific locations. The theme is therefore a landscape, but at the same time an anti-landscape because the plants are weeds, and the location is not determined by the natural, but by the industrial environment. The artist scrutinizes the plants in such an artificial environment and the nature here is inseparable from the urban layer. Moreover, the binarity of nature and culture is illustrated throughout the entire artwork, as well as the paradoxical nature of this relationship. This text aims to demonstrate to what extent is Eškinja’s installation is a landscape and what it tells us about the topic of nature in contemporary art.
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- 2023
11. Ageing well? Older Adults’ Stories of Life Transitions and Serious Leisure
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Sue Stuart
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Original Paper ,Retirement ,General Computer Science ,Identity ,Ageing well ,COVID-19 ,Lifestyle entrepreneurship ,Serious leisure - Abstract
This (auto)ethnographic case study documents two intertwined stories. The first traces the author’s evolutionary path from a post in full-time teaching and management to lifestyle entrepreneurship as an exercise instructor for older adults. The second arises from the experience of the participants in those classes and their interaction with the author. As the stories merge life experiences are shared and compared. Identity is formed and reformed. This is an original study covering a period exceeding fifteen years. Offered as a piece of Creative Analytical Practice the stories aim to show rather than tell how serious leisure is allied to the concept of ageing well. The work invites readers to respond and question in the light of their own experience. Attention is especially drawn to periods of life transition, for example retirement or confinement due to COVID-19. Data is drawn from doctoral and post-doctoral research supported by longer term personal diary entries. The events involved, the timescale covered and the authenticity of the interaction document a unique trajectory and an example which other older adults are being encouraged to emulate.
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- 2022
12. Coworking spaces as talent hubs: The imperative for community building in the changing context of new work
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Dóra Horváth, Anna Pilková, Marko Orel, Manuel Mayerhoffer, Marzena Starnawska, and Jana Fratricova
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Original Paper ,Human Capital ,Entrepreneurship ,Knowledge management ,Talent Management ,Community building ,Talent Development ,business.industry ,Identity (social science) ,Context (language use) ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,90B70 ,Identity ,90B50 ,Human resource management ,Mediation ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY ,Sociology ,Empirical evidence ,business ,Knowledge transfer ,Human Resource Management - Abstract
Coworking spaces are flexible and shared work environments that make a significant effort to connect users with supportive networks that commonly result in efficient work outputs, a high level of collaboration and knowledge transfer. Recent years have seen swift growth and popularisation of the coworking model, making these spaces an integral part of local entrepreneurial ecosystems and transforming them into the localised pools of specialised talent. However, little research has been conducted to understand the role of human talent in coworking spaces, indicating a knowledge gap in human resource management and the role of contemporary coworking environments. Therefore, the purpose of the following paper is to contextualize coworking spaces as (local) talent hubs by investigating how they tend to build their identity on their userbase. The manuscript explores the managerial practices and mediation techniques by presenting empirical evidence and subsequent analysis of talent attraction and retention mechanisms commonly used in coworking environments. The study shows that by facilitating interaction and collaboration between users, coworking spaces offer support throughout the business life cycle and identify themselves as local accelerators of entrepreneurship and talent development within their local environments. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11846-021-00487-4.
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- 2021
13. The quest for sustainable futures: designing transformative learning spaces with multilingual Black, Brown, and Latinx young people through critical response-ability
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Deborah J. Tippins and Shakhnoza Kayumova
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Cultural Studies ,Original Paper ,Environmental ethics ,Equity ,Youth empowerment ,Transformative learning ,Relationality ,Sustainability ,Identity ,Participatory design ,Thriving ,Situated ,Sociology ,Sociology of Education ,Futures contract ,Science education - Abstract
In an era of global climate change, intertwined with social and ecological predation, there is growing recognition of the importance of building socially, environmentally, culturally pluralistic, just and sustainable futures. Yet many of the calls for reform and discourses around sustainability are authored and defined through top-down approaches, by those who have power, privilege, and cognitive authority, and excludes the voices, identities, and epistemologies of those in the margins. In this paper we argue for the need to design and develop transformative learning ecologies that explicitly position the diverse voices of youth from nondominant communities as central to re-defining and re-envisioning relationally just, pluralistic, and sustainable futures. To this end, we seek to provide examples from participatory design-based learning ecologies to illustrate the centering of middle school youth voices and agencies from multilingual Black, Brown, and Latinx communities through critical response-ability. These examples highlight how these youth grapple with the uncertain landscapes of sustainability in their communities and provide counter-narratives to traditional deficit-based discourses and youth empowerment. We draw on what we have learned from multilingual youth to offer some suggestions for designing transformative learning ecologies situated within the framework of critical-response-ability in the quest for sustainable, thriving, and just futures.
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- 2021
14. Materiality and Identity. Selected papers from the proceedings of the ATrA Conferences of Naples and Turin 2015
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Micheli, Ilaria
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Identity ,Lingue, letteratura e teatro ,human sciences - Abstract
In each and every discourse on issues such as contact, evolution, transition, migration, integration and encounter, identity plays a central role. Being a manifold, uneasily describable object in itself, identity represents a very difficult object of study and many scholars from different disciplines of the human sciences (psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and linguists) have tried in recent years to give their contribution to the debate born around it. In the two meetings organized in Naples, April 14th 2015 and Turin, October 8-9th 2015 in the framework of the ATrA project, the issue has been discussed by archaeologists, linguists, philologists and anthropologists specifically adopting the perspective of observing and discussing identity through a reflection on its material manifestations in transitional contexts (be it in terms of language, of economical exchanges or of traditional handicraft). This book is a collection of selected papers from those meetings.
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- 2016
15. Recommendations for Responsible Development and Application of Neurotechnologies
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Meredith Whittaker, Jonathan R. Wolpaw, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Joseph J. Fins, Rafael Yuste, Alan Rubel, Adam H. Marblestone, Michelle Pham, Christine Mitchell, Erik Parens, Philipp Kellmeyer, Jose M. Carmena, Mina Teicher, Guo-Qiang Bi, David Wasserman, Phoebe Friesen, Norihiro Sadato, Sara Goering, Anna Wexler, Jack L. Gallant, Jane E. Huggins, Eran Klein, and Laura Specker Sullivan
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Information privacy ,Public policy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Psychology of self ,Identity (social science) ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Bias ,Identity ,Neurotechnology ,Agency (sociology) ,media_common ,Original Paper ,Human rights ,Enhancement ,Health Policy ,06 humanities and the arts ,Democracy ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Agency ,Neurology ,Privacy ,Engineering ethics ,060301 applied ethics ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Advancements in novel neurotechnologies, such as brain computer interfaces (BCI) and neuromodulatory devices such as deep brain stimulators (DBS), will have profound implications for society and human rights. While these technologies are improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental and neurological diseases, they can also alter individual agency and estrange those using neurotechnologies from their sense of self, challenging basic notions of what it means to be human. As an international coalition of interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners, we examine these challenges and make recommendations to mitigate negative consequences that could arise from the unregulated development or application of novel neurotechnologies. We explore potential ethical challenges in four key areas: identity and agency, privacy, bias, and enhancement. To address them, we propose (1) democratic and inclusive summits to establish globally-coordinated ethical and societal guidelines for neurotechnology development and application, (2) new measures, including "Neurorights," for data privacy, security, and consent to empower neurotechnology users' control over their data, (3) new methods of identifying and preventing bias, and (4) the adoption of public guidelines for safe and equitable distribution of neurotechnological devices.
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- 2021
16. Introduction to the papers of TWG20: Mathematics teacher knowledge, beliefs, and identity: Some reflections on the current state of the art
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Ribeiro, Miguel, Aslan-Tutak, Fatma, Charalambous, Charalambos, Meinke, Julia, Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim] (NTNU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Boǧaziçi üniversitesi = Boğaziçi University [Istanbul], University of Cyprus [Nicosia], Georg-August-University [Göttingen], Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, ERME, Konrad Krainer, Naďa Vondrová, and Boğaziçi University [Istanbul]
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[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education ,[MATH.MATH-HO]Mathematics [math]/History and Overview [math.HO] ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Teachers' knowledge ,beliefs ,teacher practices ,identity - Abstract
International audience; In this introductory chapter for the Thematic Working Group " Mathematics teacher knowledge, beliefs, and identity " (TWG20) at CERME9, we address the main issues discussed during our working sessions. We aim to provide a critical and broader view on the work being done, including the work undertaken at previous conferences , although not extensively. We also seek to take a new look at areas of potential improvement with regard to the focus of, discussion about, and problems inherent to research in the area of teacher knowledge, beliefs and identity, all with the goal of improving teacher education and practices. This paper brings to the forefront some critical features of this area of research and aims to contribute to the genesis of a new focus on our research and a new vision of our own roles as researchers and teacher educators.
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- 2015
17. Searching for a new normal—Hospital‐employed researchers' experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic
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Connie Berthelsen, Bibi Hølge-Hazelton, and Malene Beck
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media_common.quotation_subject ,researchers ,nurse ,allied health ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,COVID‐19 ,law ,Health care ,Pandemic ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Pandemics ,profession ,identity ,General Nursing ,media_common ,Medical education ,Contingency plan ,030504 nursing ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,COVID-19 ,Focus group ,Hospitals ,Original Research Paper ,Negotiation ,Content analysis ,Preparedness ,CLARITY ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Psychology ,Delivery of Health Care ,Original Research Papers - Abstract
BACKGROUND: This study focuses on hospital-employed researchers, a relatively new staff group. Their job descriptions vary, which may lead to lack of clarity or preparedness regarding their roles and core tasks during a crisis such as COVID-19.AIM: The aim of this study was to explore hospital-employed healthcare researchers' experiences of work during the COVID-19 pandemic.DESIGN: A qualitative design based on Graneheim and Lundman's latent content analysis of two focus groups with researchers in clinical practice was chosen to explore researchers' experiences of work during the COVID-19 pandemic.METHODS: Fifteen hospital researchers participated in two focus groups, divided into predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Focus groups were conducted in May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, using the voice over IP service, Skype®, due to risk of contagion.FINDINGS: 'Searching for a new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic' was the main theme during the latent content interpretation, with subthemes of (i) balancing calm and insecurity, (ii) negotiating core tasks and (iii) considering the future.CONCLUSION: The 15 researchers tried to balance calm and insecurity within work and family, on standby for the hospital's contingency plan, and in their research tasks. This led them to negotiate their core tasks and to reflect on the changes and consequences for their positions as researchers in clinical practice in the future.SUMMARY STATEMENT: What is already known about this topic? During a major healthcare crisis, normal plans and procedures at hospitals are set aside. Working under unexpected and unsecure conditions may lead to postcrisis reactions. Researchers with nursing and allied health backgrounds, who are the first generation of these researchers at hospitals, do not have fully developed and recognized positions. What this paper adds? Nurse and allied health researchers searched for a new normal in their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurse and allied health researchers tried to balance calm and insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the imbalance between their research-related tasks and their status on standby for clinical tasks in the hospital contingency plan. Nurse and allied health researchers struggled with identifying and negotiating their core tasks by reconsidering possible changes and consequences for their positions as researchers in clinical practice in the future. The implications of this paper: Nurse and allied health researchers employed in clinical practice were willing to participate on the frontline, monitoring and evaluating major healthcare crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. This could potentially lead to new and important context-sensitive learnings after crisis but only if healthcare leaders and organizations clearly formulate the expectations for the researchers.
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- 2021
18. The impact that cultural food security has on identity and well-being in the second-generation U.S. American minority college students
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Julie Lucero, Kathrine E. Wright, Paul G. Devereux, Jenanne K. Ferguson, Eric Crosbie, Jennifer L. Pearson, and Michelle L. Granner
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Original Paper ,Food security ,Cultural identity ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Culture ,Well-being ,Foodways ,Ethnic group ,Identity (social science) ,Development ,Identity ,Happiness ,Thematic analysis ,Psychology ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Social psychology ,Food Science ,media_common - Abstract
Food contributes to an individual’s physical and mental well-being and expresses one’s cultural identity through preparation, sharing, and consumption (i.e., foodways). Inadequate access to cultural foods can create cultural stress and affect one’s identity and well-being. In particular, second-generation U.S. American student populations may have a higher risk for cultural stress due to being away from family, academic stress, environmental changes, and diminished financial stability to purchase cultural foods. Thus, an exploratory qualitative methodology was used to elicit information about second-generation U.S. Americans’ food experiences to identify how cultural foods play a role in individual identity and how individual well-being is influenced by the presence or lack of cultural foods. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with second-generation American students at the University of Nevada, Reno, who self-identified as a cultural or ethnic minority. A standard thematic analysis was conducted. The authors identified that cultural food security influenced the ability to practice foodways, which tied Second-generation American students to their cultural identities. The absence of foodways led to anxiety and depression among students, amplifying the feelings of identity degradation. Second-generation American students discussed that the ability to practice their foodways improved multiple well-being components and led to feelings of happiness, decreased stress, warmth, better digestion, and a sense of belonging, comfort, and safety. College populations continue to grow and become more diverse, and with the increasing Second-generation American students, it is essential to improve the access and availability of cultural foods to improve their overall well-being. (245/250 words). Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12571-020-01140-w.
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- 2021
19. ‘I’ve become so healthy that I can’t live anymore’: exploring ‘health as balance’ discourses and the construction of health and identity among young urban South African adults
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Michelle De Jong, Simóne Plüg, and Anthony Collins
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Balance ,Original Paper ,Self ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Discourse analysis ,Neoliberalism ,Identity (social science) ,Gender studies ,Self-control ,Moderation ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,South Africa ,Empirical research ,Health ,Identity ,Sociology ,Foucauldian discourse analysis ,media_common - Abstract
Social science research on health in South Africa tends to focus on illness and how to address health problems. Qualitative empirical research focussing on lay understandings and experiences of healthiness, or health discourses, in South Africa is fairly limited. This article addresses this gap by critically exploring how young South African adults used discourses of balance to make sense of what it means to be a healthy person and highlights the implications of these discourses for identity. Foucault’s concepts of ‘technologies of the self’ and ‘techniques of discipline’ are discussed as a theoretical grounding for this paper. Data were collected from 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews, and analysed using Foucauldian discourse analysis. This paper will specifically explore a key discourse identified through the analysis: ‘health as balance’ and 2 interrelated sub-discourses which fall within it. Through this discourse, healthiness was constructed as requiring a broad focus on improving all aspects of one’s life (‘health as holistic’) and the avoidance of any behaviours or emotions which could be classified as extreme (‘health as moderation’). Constant, careful management of the self, or ‘calibration’, functions to both perpetuate a cycle of ‘anxiety and control’ and to obscure ways in which health discourses can be harmful or problematic.
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- 2021
20. Appropriating and asserting power on inflammatory arthritis teams: A social network perspective
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Annette M. McKinnon, Laura Nimmon, Linda C. Li, Wendy Hartford, and Catherine L. Backman
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Psychological intervention ,Social Networking ,power ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Multidisciplinary approach ,treatment decisions ,Agency (sociology) ,Health care ,Humans ,Assertiveness ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Disadvantage ,Qualitative Research ,identity ,inflammatory arthritis ,media_common ,lcsh:R5-920 ,Social network ,business.industry ,030503 health policy & services ,Arthritis ,Communication ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,illness stories ,Original Research Paper ,agency ,Thematic analysis ,Patient Participation ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Psychology ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,Decision Making, Shared ,Original Research Papers ,control - Abstract
Background Therapeutic interventions for people with inflammatory arthritis (IA) increasingly involve multidisciplinary teams and strive to foster patient-centred care and shared decision making. Participation in health-care decisions requires patients to assert themselves and negotiate power in encounters with clinicians; however, clinical contexts often afford less authority for patients than clinicians. This disadvantage may inhibit patients' involvement in their own health care. Objective To identify communication attributes, IA patients use to influence and negotiate their treatment with members of their health-care network. Method A qualitative social network approach was used to analyse data from a larger study that investigated IA patients' overall experiences of multidisciplinary care. Fourteen patients with IA attended individual semi-structured interviews. Researchers used thematic analysis to identify patterns of assertiveness and influence in the data. Results Participants experienced loss of identity, control and agency in addition to the physical symptoms of IA. However, they had a sense of personal responsibility for managing their health care. Perceptions of health-care team support enhanced patients' influence in treatment negotiations. Notably, there appeared to be an underlying tension between being empowered or disempowered. Discussion and conclusions The findings have significant implications for treatment decision communication approaches to IA care. A social network perspective may provide a pathway for clinicians to better understand the complexities of communication with their patients. This approach may reduce unequal power dynamics that occur within clinician/patient interactions and afford people with IA agency, control and affirmation of identity within their health-care network.
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- 2020
21. The impact of living with long‐term conditions in young adulthood on mental health and identity: What can help?
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Ceri Wilson and Jennifer Stock
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Adult ,Male ,young adults ,media_common.quotation_subject ,long‐term conditions ,Psychology of self ,Identity (social science) ,Anger ,Anxiety ,Developmental psychology ,Interviews as Topic ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Optimism ,Denial ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Young adult ,identity ,media_common ,lcsh:R5-920 ,Depression ,030503 health policy & services ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Age Factors ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,Mental health ,Self Concept ,Original Research Paper ,Affect ,Chronic Disease ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,Original Research Papers ,chronic illness ,mental health - Abstract
Background It has been suggested that the mental health impacts of living with long-term conditions are greater in young adulthood compared to older adulthood, due to greater disruption to identity and routine life events. Objectives To explore the impact of living with long-term conditions in young adulthood on mental health and identity, and what helps living well with these conditions. Methods Fifteen in-depth interviews with young adults with various conditions were conducted and analysed thematically. Results Themes related to the impacts on mental health and identity include the following: negative mood and depression; anxiety and fear for the future; and identity as 'ill'/abnormal compared to former self and 'normal' others. Themes related to suggestions for addressing negative impacts include the following: promotion of positive thinking; support reaching acceptance with altered identity and limitations (through stages of denial, anger, depression, then acceptance); and more professional mental health support. Discussion In order to promote mental health and a positive sense of self/identity, young adults with long-term conditions should be offered advice and support on positive thinking; the long and difficult process of reconstructing identity; and reaching acceptance. This is particularly important for young adults for whom the identity reconstruction process is more complex and psychologically damaging than for older adults, as this life stage is associated with health/vitality and illness represents a shift from a perceived normal trajectory to one that appears and feels abnormal.
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- 2019
22. <Original Paper>Ningyo(人形)and the Doll : Kami sama(神様)and the Alter Ego
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WRIGHT, Rosemary
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ningyo ,doll ,shaman ,creativity ,identity - Published
- 2001
23. <Original Paper>Development of a Fulfillment Sentiment Scale for Pregnant Women : Assessment of Reliability and Validity by Factor Analysis
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SAITO, Hisako
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psychological scaling ,fulfillment sentiment ,pregnant women ,identity - Published
- 2000
24. The masking and making of fieldworkers and data in postcolonial Global Health research contexts
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René Gerrets, Patricia Kingori, and Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body (AISSR, FMG)
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research ,030505 public health ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Identity (social science) ,Persona ,Space (commercial competition) ,Research Papers ,Making-of ,Masking (Electronic Health Record) ,Epistemology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Identity ,Ethnography ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Sociology ,0305 other medical science ,Liminality ,Construct (philosophy) ,management ,media_common - Abstract
This paper centres on the roles and contributions of fieldworkers-local data-collectors in Global Health research in postcolonial contexts. It is informed by two separate ethnographies, conducted in two different East African biomedical research institutions. It discusses how common characterisations of fieldworkers as ‘low-skilled’ and ‘local’ make them attractive to research institutions in two important ways – as community-embedded data-collectors thus facilitating community participation and as being unlikely to fabricate data because they lack the skills to avoid detection. This paper questions these assumptions. It draws on Daston’s idea of the ‘scientific persona’ and Fanon’s concepts of mask-making to explore how fieldworkers construct identities and data within their liminal roles. Fieldworkers create particular pseudo-personae or masks for getting and staying employed. They dumb-down CVs and emphasise their similarities with community members in ways which are partially ‘real’ but also ‘fake’. These constructed identities provide fieldworkers with a persona that allows them to fabricate or modify data without raising suspicions. They frequently engage in practices known as ‘genuine fake’ data fabrication which is data perceived as factually correct and verifiable yet methodologically incorrect, hence it is real and fake in varying degrees. We understand the ‘pseudo’ as the blurry space between real and fake where fieldworkers construct their identities and data. Given the seemingly laudable aims of Global Health, we argue that fieldworkers’ masking and making up data signal the need for greater attention by those designing its research, to better understand and address why and how these practices unfold.
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- 2019
25. Narrative Devices: Neurotechnologies, Information, and Self-Constitution
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Emily Postan
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narrative ,History ,Polymers and Plastics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Neurotechnology ,Identity (social science) ,Neuroimaging ,Neurodata ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,information governance ,03 medical and health sciences ,Narrative ,0302 clinical medicine ,Identity ,Information governance ,Sociology ,Business and International Management ,BCI ,identity ,media_common ,Original Paper ,neurodata ,neuroimaging ,Constitution ,Health Policy ,cognitive privacy ,06 humanities and the arts ,16. Peace & justice ,Epistemology ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Philosophy ,Neurology ,Embodied cognition ,Normative ,neurotechnology ,060301 applied ethics ,Cognitive privacy ,Psychology ,Neuroethics ,Coherence (linguistics) ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
This article provides a conceptual and normative framework through which we may understand the potentially ethically significant roles that information generated by neurotechnologies about our brains and minds may play in our construction of our identities. Neuroethics debates currently focus disproportionately on the ways that third parties may (ab)use these kinds of information and, in particular, putative threats to ‘neuro-privacy’. These debates occlude interests we may have in whether and how we ourselves encounter information about our own brains and minds. This gap is not yet adequately addressed by most allusions in the literature to potential identity impacts. These lack the requisite conceptual or normative foundations to explain why we should be concerned about such effects or how they might be addressed. This article addresses this gap by presenting a normative account of identity as constituted by embodied self-narratives. It proposes that information generated by neurotechnologies can play significant content-supplying and interpretive roles in our construction of our self-narratives. It argues, to the extent that these roles support and detract from the coherence and inhabitability of our self-narratives, access to information about our brains and minds engages non-trivial identity-related interests. These claims are illustrated using examples drawn from empirical literature reporting reactions to information generated by implantable predictive BCIs and psychiatric neuroimaging. The article concludes by highlighting ways in which information generated by neurotechnologies should be governed so as to protect information subjects’ interests in developing and inhabiting their own identities.
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- 2020
26. The Great Secession: Ethno-National Rebirth and the Politics of Turkish–German Belonging
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Özgür Özvatan
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content analysis ,Sociology and Political Science ,Turkey ,Turkish ,analysis ,narrative theory ,far right ,Türkei ,boundary studies ,ddc:070 ,immigrant integration ,German ,Exklusion ,Germany ,050602 political science & public administration ,Mainstream ,Migration ,identity ,politische Rechte ,Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung ,Habermas, J ,Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ,05 social sciences ,social integration ,inclusion politics ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,0506 political science ,lcsh:Sociology (General) ,language ,ddc:300 ,soziale Integration ,politische Strategie ,integration policy ,Inhaltsanalyse ,050101 languages & linguistics ,action theory ,Social Psychology ,Integrationspolitik ,lcsh:HM401-1281 ,Handlungstheorie ,Political communication ,Federal Republic of Germany ,Media Contents, Content Analysis ,germany ,Politics ,political strategy ,Secession ,Political science ,Medien ,turkey ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Narrative ,political communication ,Migration, Sociology of Migration ,politische Kommunikation ,belonging ,Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ,exclusion ,News media, journalism, publishing ,300 Sozialwissenschaften ,media ,Media studies ,daily paper ,political right ,Analyse ,politischer Akteur ,language.human_language ,political actor ,inclusion ,Narratology ,Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ,Tageszeitung ,Inklusion - Abstract
Germany is facing a contemporary mainstreaming of the far right, which has a long tradition of wanting “Turks out!” Turkish immigrants have been the main strangers in Germany following the guest-worker treaty signed in 1961, physically close as friends, yet culturally distant as foes. From September 2015 onwards, German–Turkish politics of belonging, the Turkish issue, underwent a contentious period resulting in secessions between German and Turkish authorities in September 2017. Against this background, this article asks: How did mainstream political actors in Germany emplot the Turkish issue while a far-right challenger party sought to establish a far-right narrative of ethno-national rebirth? The temporal unfolding of the Turkish issue is explored by drawing on media analysis (n = 1120), interpretive process-tracing and narrative genre analysis of claims raised by political actors in German and Turkish newspapers. In order to visualize how the Turkish issue evolved between 2000 and 2017 in media discourse, 546 articles in the mainstream quality newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung were collected. The Great Secession period between 2015 and 2017 was selected for an in-depth case study. To conduct interpretive process-tracing and narrative genre analysis of this case, another 574 articles in the German Süddeutsche Zeitung and Turkish Hürriyet were analysed. In so doing, this article contributes to (1) the study of belonging and identity by adopting a novel approach to boundary studies, combining narrative genre analysis with Habermas’ communicative action theory, and (2) the study of political strategies of adapting, ignoring or demarcating far-right contenders by, again, introducing a narrative approach to political communication and mobilization processes. The analysis shows that, in the first stage of the Great Secession period, inclusionary and exclusionary boundaries competed, while in later stages inclusionary boundaries were cast aside by exclusionary boundaries after reputable mainstream party-political actors adopted and thus legitimized far-right story elements.
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- 2020
27. Acceptance, Use, and Barriers of Telemedicine in Transgender Health Care in Times of SARS-CoV-2: Nationwide Cross-sectional Survey
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Hertling, Stefan, Hertling, Doreen, Martin, David, and Graul, Isabel
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Original Paper ,cross-sectional ,telehealth ,SARS-CoV-2 ,COVID-19 ,usage ,transgender ,Transgender Persons ,health services research ,Telemedicine ,transgender health care ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,framework ,Germany ,gender ,barrier ,Humans ,survey ,Prospective Studies ,implementation ,Pandemics ,identity ,acceptance - Abstract
Background The global incidence in the treatment of transgender people is increasing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many consultations had to be cancelled, postponed, or converted to a virtual format. Telemedicine in the management of transgender health care could support physicians. Objective The aim of this study was to analyze the acceptance, use, and barriers of telemedicine in transgender health care in times of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany. Methods This prospective cross-sectional study was based on a survey of gynecological endocrinologists and transgender patients undergoing gender-affirming hormone treatment in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive statistics were calculated, and regression analyses were performed to show correlations. Results We analyzed responses of 269 transgender patients and 202 gynecological endocrinologists treating transgender patients. Most believed that telemedicine was useful. Physicians and patients rated their knowledge of telemedicine as unsatisfactory. The majority of respondents said they did not currently use telemedicine, although they would like to do so. Patients and physicians reported that their attitudes toward telemedicine had changed positively and that their use of telemedicine had increased due to COVID-19. The majority in both groups agreed on the implementation of virtual visits in the context of stable disease conditions. In the treatment phases, 74.3% (150/202) of the physicians said they would use telemedicine during follow-ups. Half of the physicians said they would choose tele-counseling as a specific approach to improving care (128/202, 63.4%). Obstacles to the introduction of telemedicine among physicians included the purchase of technical equipment (132/202, 65.3%), administration (124/202, 61.4%), and poor reimbursement (106/202, 52.5%). Conclusions Telemedicine in transgender health care found limited use but high acceptance among doctors and patients alike. The absence of a structured framework is an obstacle for effective implementation. Training courses should be introduced to improve the limited knowledge of physicians in the use of telemedicine. More research in tele-endogynecology is needed. Future studies should include large-scale randomized controlled trials, economic analyses, and the exploration of user preferences.
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- 2021
28. Early modern noblemen and the use of paper communication media : the media-politics of the 'Lesser' Nassau (c. 1570-1620)
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Sarah Verhaegen
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Cultural Studies ,History ,Sociology and Political Science ,communication ,representation ,General Arts and Humanities ,media ,Orange (colour) ,Genealogy ,language.human_language ,Dutch Revolt ,German ,dynasty ,Scholarship ,Politics ,language ,aristocracy ,Classics ,identity ,Social status ,Nassau family - Abstract
William of Orange, the leader of the Dutch Revolt and one of the most famous members of the family of Orange-Nassau, is known as a ‘propagan- dist’, producing various printed and handwritten media during the Revolt. However, besides the prestigious princes of Orange, the lineage of William of Orange also included other family, the German counts of Nassau. These less prestigious relatives, the ‘lesser’ Nassau, assisted their princely kin in various ways, but received little attention in the scholarship on the lineage. Therefore, this article sketches the relations between the ‘lesser’ Nassau and the princes of Orange, and deals with the media-politics of the ‘lesser’ Nassau, understood as their attempts to reproduce, present and communi- cate their social status to different publics in different contexts by the use of paper communication media.
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- 2012
29. Migration and cultural integration in the early medieval cemetery of Finglesham, Kent, through stable isotopes
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Sam Leggett and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Mobility ,Archeology ,Original Paper ,Foodways ,Identity (social science) ,Community integration ,mobility ,Diet ,Geography ,Isotopes ,4301 Archaeology ,Early medieval ,Identity ,Anthropology ,Ethnology ,Narrative ,early medieval ,diet ,Kent ,4303 Historical Studies ,43 History, Heritage and Archaeology ,identity ,isotopes ,Social status - Abstract
Funder: Cambridge Philosophical Society; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013858, Debate over migrations to Britain during the fifth and sixth centuries AD is still rampant in archaeological discourse. Stable carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotope values from multiple tissues in individuals buried at Finglesham in Kent during the first millennium AD demonstrate not only migration of individuals to the region but also highlight community integration through foodways and refute previous models of ‘invasion’ and replacement. This case study community suggests gendered differences in mobility into early medieval England, with males more likely to be migrants from cooler regions than women. It also challenges traditional narratives of social status in these furnished cemeteries being linked to diet or migrant status with no clear correlations found between funerary treatment and isotopic signatures. This multi-tissue and multi-isotope study tracks dietary changes in this multi-origin community throughout their lives and shows that they may have even changed their diets to adapt to Christianising influences in the region.
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- 2021
30. Demented patients and the quandaries of identity: setting the problem, advancing a proposal
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Giovanni Boniolo
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Persistence (psychology) ,History ,Dementia ,Empirical approach to identity ,Identity ,Moral decisions ,Whole phenotype ,Socio-culturale ,Identity (social science) ,050105 experimental psychology ,Personhood ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Terminology as Topic ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,History of science ,Ego ,Original Paper ,Philosophy of science ,Social Identification ,05 social sciences ,medicine.disease ,Epistemology ,Philosophy of biology ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
In the paper, after clarifying terms such as ‘identity’, ‘self’ and ‘personhood’, I propose an empirical account of identity based on the notion of “whole phenotype”. This move allows one to claim the persistence of the individuals before and after their being affected by dementia. Furthermore, I show how this account permits us to address significant questions related to demented individuals’ loss of the capacity of moral decisions.
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- 2021
31. Robert Skenderović, ed. Identitet bačkih Hrvata: Zbornik radova međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa (Zagreb, 27. i 28. studenoga 2008.)[The Identity of Bačka Croats. The Collection of Papers From International Conference held in Zagreb on November 27 and 28, 2008] (Zagreb and Subotica: Hrvatski institut za povijest and Hrvatsko akademsko društvo, 2010), pp. 364
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Mihaljević, Josip
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Bačka Croats ,Identity - Abstract
Book review.
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- 2011
32. Computing sums in terms of beta, polygamma, and Gauss hypergeometric functions
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Feng Qi and Chuan-Jun Huang
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Pure mathematics ,Binomial (polynomial) ,Determinant ,33B15 ,11A25 ,01 natural sciences ,Inversion (discrete mathematics) ,11B65 ,symbols.namesake ,Beta function ,Identity ,Gauss hypergeometric function ,Differentiable function ,0101 mathematics ,Hypergeometric function ,Secondary 05A10 ,Mathematics ,Original Paper ,Algebra and Number Theory ,Applied Mathematics ,010102 general mathematics ,Gauss ,Sum ,Primary 33C05 ,Binomial inversion formula ,Polygamma function ,010101 applied mathematics ,Derivative formula for a ratio of two differential functions ,Computational Mathematics ,symbols ,Partial derivative ,Geometry and Topology ,Analysis - Abstract
In the paper, by virtue of the binomial inversion formula, a general formula of higher order derivatives for a ratio of two differentiable function, and other techniques, the authors compute several sums in terms of the beta function and its partial derivatives, polygamma functions, the Gauss hypergeometric function, and a determinant. These results generalize known ones in combinatorics. This preprint has been formally published as "Feng Qi and Chuan-Jun Huang, Computing sums in terms of beta, polygamma, and Gauss hypergeometric functions, Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales Serie A Matematicas, Vol. 114, Paper No. 191, 9 pages (2020); available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-020-00927-y."
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- 2020
33. A Mobile App Adopting an Identity Focus to Promote Physical Activity (MoveDaily): Iterative Design Study
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Floris Hooglugt, Geke D.S. Ludden, and Interaction Design
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behavior change ,research through design ,020205 medical informatics ,Iterative design ,Applied psychology ,design ,Psychological intervention ,physical activity ,Health Informatics ,02 engineering and technology ,Information technology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Conceptual design ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,eHealth ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,habits ,mHealth ,Exercise ,identity ,Original Paper ,Motivation ,Behavior change ,T58.5-58.64 ,Mobile Applications ,Self Concept ,Identity (object-oriented programming) ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 ,Engineering design process ,Psychology - Abstract
Background Web-based and mobile interventions to influence physical activity behavior have had limited effects on sustained behavior change. One reason may be that the interventions aim to change largely habitual behavior. Following an identity-oriented approach could be a successful strategy to behavior change because people are committed to behave in line with their self-perception of identity. Objective In this paper, we take a closer look at the role of motivation in long-term adherence to lifestyle interventions. The paper outlines a method for web-based or mobile intervention development that allows exploration of integrating behavior change theory into the design process. We will describe the development of a mobile app that allows people to be self-determined and to value and self-regulate physical activity by adopting an identity-oriented approach. Methods This paper describes a Research through Design (RtD) process in which design activities are carried out as part of the knowledge-generating process. Two RtD phases were completed, followed by a conceptual design phase. In the first RtD phase, 8 participants used diary cards to study initial attitudes toward starting with small changes in physical activity. In the second RtD phase, 26 participants used a web-based app to study changes in physical activity. We used an adapted version of the Self-Report Habit Index (SRHI) to evaluate individuals’ perceptions of a particular behavior with respect to the three facets of a habit. The conceptual design phase consolidated the results from first two RtD phases into a design of a mobile app that combines an identity approach with gamification principles. The conceptual design was evaluated in a user-experience study with 4 participants. Results In the first RtD phase, we found that interacting daily with diary cards and reflecting on physical activity patterns is a promising strategy but works better through a digital medium. In the second RtD phase, SHRI ratings from all participants generally increased each week. In the conceptual design phase, we found that the concept of the mobile app was positively evaluated by participants. However, participants mentioned that terms such as “identity” do not resonate with them and that scenarios could be simpler. Conclusions This paper provides deeper insights into designing for electronic health (eHealth) interventions and services and suggests a new way that motivation can be shaped by the design of an intervention and adherence to physical activity. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first iterative design study in which the effects of adopting an identity approach to both motivation and physical activity were included and observed. Initial promising results were found for using a web-based intervention where habits and identification with the personal importance of a behavior were repetitively triggered.
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- 2020
34. Shared Musics and Minority Identities: Papers from the Third Meeting of the 'Music and Minorities' Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM), Roč, Croatia, 2004
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Ceribašić, Naila and Haskell, Erica
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music ,minority ,identity ,community ,ethnicity ,inter-ethnic relations ,ethnomusicology - Abstract
The volume contains papers from the Third Meeting of the "Music and Minorities" Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music, which was held in 2004 in Roč, Croatia. The first group, consisting of ten papers, indicates that differences do not stop at the level of a certain minority ethnic group, but continue inside it. Besides ethnic, there are other components of identity, multiple feelings of belonging and diverse actions which confirm and create them. Therefore the ethnic in correlation with these other components never has a single meaning. The second group of eleven papers adds to the first one by addressing inter-ethnic and inter-cultural communication, and borrowings of musical concepts, genres, styles, instruments and/or tunes, usually between a minority and a majority. The last group of six papers considers the application of ethnomusicological knowledge on the ground, and the dynamics of etics and emics.
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- 2006
35. What really matters in binge drinking: a dominance analysis of binge drinking psychological determinants among University students
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Fabien Gierski, Hélène Beaunieux, Denis Jacquet, Pascale Leconte, Nicolas Cabé, Ludivine Ritz, Nicolas Mauny, Nicolas Margas, Virginie Bagneux, Jessica Mange, Maxime Mauduy, Cécile Sénémeaud, Laboratoire de psychologie de Caen Normandie (LPCN), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Neuropsychologie et imagerie de la mémoire humaine (NIMH), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Mobilités : Vieillissement, Pathologie, Santé (COMETE), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Centre d'étude sport et actions motrices (CesamS), Cognition, Santé, Société (C2S), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-SFR CAP Santé (Champagne-Ardenne Picardie Santé), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne (MSH-URCA), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), SFR CAP Santé (Champagne-Ardenne Picardie Santé), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and MANGE, Jessica
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050103 clinical psychology ,Coping (psychology) ,Research paper ,binge drinking, University students, identity, enhancement motives, subjective norm, social motives ,media_common.quotation_subject ,030508 substance abuse ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Binge drinking ,[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology ,Enhancement motives ,Social motives ,Impulsivity ,Conformity ,[SHS.PSY] Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology ,Identity ,medicine ,Psychology ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Big Five personality traits ,Social identity theory ,Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) ,HV1-9960 ,media_common ,4. Education ,05 social sciences ,Regression analysis ,Loneliness ,3. Good health ,BF1-990 ,University students ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Subjective norm ,[SCCO.PSYC] Cognitive science/Psychology ,[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology ,medicine.symptom ,0305 other medical science ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Highlights • A dominance analysis of psychological variables associated to BD is proposed. • Positional, inter-individual and intra-individual factors were investigated. • The variables most associated to BD were enhancement motives and drinking identity. • The second order variables associated with BD were subjective norm and social motives. • Prevention actions may benefit of specifically targeting inter-individual variables., Introduction Binge drinking (BD) is a public health concern, especially in young people. Multiple individual factors referring to different level of analyses - positional, inter-individual and intra-individual – are associated to BD. As they have mainly been explored separately, little is known about the psychological variables most associated with BD. This study, based on an integrative model considering a large number of variables, aims to estimate these associations and possible dominance of some variables in BD. Methods A sample of university students (N = 2851) participated in an internet survey-based study. They provided information on alcohol related variables (AUDIT, BD score), positional factors (sex, age), inter-individual factors (subjective norm, social identity, external motivations), and intra-individual factors (internal motivations, meta-cognitions, impulsivity and personality traits). The data were processed via a backward regression analysis including all variables and completed with a dominance analysis on variables that are significantly associated with BD intensity. Results The strongest variables associated with BD intensity were enhancement motives and drinking identity (average ΔR2 = 21.81%), followed by alcohol subjective norm and social motives (average ΔR2 = 13.99%). Other associated variables (average ΔR2 = 2,84%) were negative metacognition on uncontrollability, sex, coping motives, lack of premeditation, positive metacognition on cognitive self-regulation, positive urgency, lack of perseverance, age, conformity motives and loneliness. Conclusion Results offer new avenues at the empirical level, by spotting particularly inter-individual psychological variables that should be more thoroughly explored, but also at the clinical level, to elaborate new prevention strategies focusing on these specific factors.
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- 2021
36. Correction: Assessment of the Effectiveness of Identity-Based Public Health Announcements in Increasing the Likelihood of Complying With COVID-19 Guidelines: Randomized Controlled Cross-sectional Web-Based Study
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Alan R. Dennis, Alexander S. Dennis, Antino Kim, and Patricia L. Moravec
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medicine.medical_specialty ,020205 medical informatics ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,social media ,Internet privacy ,Identity (social science) ,effectiveness ,Health Informatics ,02 engineering and technology ,public health announcement ,compliance ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,public service announcement ,Amazon Mechanical Turk ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,medicine ,custom ,Web application ,Short Paper ,030212 general & internal medicine ,identity ,business.industry ,Public health ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,public health ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,COVID-19 ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,web-based health information ,business ,Psychology ,guideline - Abstract
Background Public health campaigns aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 are important in reducing disease transmission, but traditional information-based campaigns have received unexpectedly extreme backlash. Objective This study aimed to investigate whether customizing of public service announcements (PSAs) providing health guidelines to match individuals’ identities increases their compliance. Methods We conducted a within- and between-subjects, randomized controlled cross-sectional, web-based study in July 2020. Participants viewed two PSAs: one advocating wearing a mask in public settings and one advocating staying at home. The control PSA only provided information, and the treatment PSAs were designed to appeal to the identities held by individuals; that is, either a Christian identity or an economically motivated identity. Participants were asked about their identity and then provided a control PSA and treatment PSA matching their identity, in random order. The PSAs were of approximately 100 words. Results We recruited 300 social media users from Amazon Mechanical Turk in accordance with usual protocols to ensure data quality. In total, 8 failed the data quality checks, and the remaining 292 were included in the analysis. In the identity-based PSA, the source of the PSA was changed, and a phrase of approximately 12 words relevant to the individual’s identity was inserted. A PSA tailored for Christians, when matched with a Christian identity, increased the likelihood of compliance by 12 percentage points. A PSA that focused on economic values, when shown to individuals who identified as economically motivated, increased the likelihood of compliance by 6 points. Conclusions Using social media to deliver COVID-19 public health announcements customized to individuals’ identities is a promising measure to increase compliance with public health guidelines. Trial Registration ISRCTN Registry 22331899; https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN22331899.
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- 2021
37. Paper and Memory: Constructing the Processes of Local Identification in the Indian Villages of Jujuy in the 17th century
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Gabriela Sica
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lcsh:G ,lcsh:GN1-890 ,Procesos Identitarios ,Identity ,Ethnic Authorities ,lcsh:Geography. Anthropology. Recreation ,lcsh:Anthropology ,Oralidad ,Rituales ,Oral Tradition ,Ritual ,Autoridades Étnicas - Abstract
Este trabajo analiza los modos de construcción de identidades locales centradas en los pueblos de indios de la jurisdicción de San Salvador de Jujuy (Gobernación de Tucumán) durante el siglo XVII. En este proceso tuvieron una activa participación los caciques y autoridades de los pueblos de indios con acciones que tendían a proteger el espacio y la supervivencia de los propios pueblos como así también las tierras comunales. Estas significaban tanto el medio de sustento económico como el espacio de la reproducción social de los integrantes de los pueblos de indios. Para asegurar la tenencia de las tierras comunales se recurría al uso de documentos escritos y rituales de posesión, que permitían la legitimación dentro de la sociedad colonial, pero estos papeles se combinaban con el uso de la memoria y la tradición oral. This study delves into the construction of local identities in Indian villages around San Salvador de Jujuy (Gobernación del Tucumán) in the seventeenth century. The caciques and other ethnic authorities in the Indian villages participated actively in actions aiming at the community survival and the protection of communal landownership. Ownership of communal lands was at the center of their economy as well as social reproduction. To guarantee the continuity of communal landownership caciques appealed to the use of written documents and possession rituals that permitted legitimation in colonial times, as well as to memory and oral tradition.
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- 2008
38. ‘Who Am I?’: An Exploratory Study of the Relationships Between Identity, Acculturation and Mental Health in Autistic Adolescents
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Lily Cresswell and Eilidh Cage
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Exploratory research ,Identity (social science) ,Developmental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Identity ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Autistic Disorder ,media_common ,Original Paper ,Public health ,05 social sciences ,medicine.disease ,Mental health ,Acculturation ,Adolescence ,Increased risk ,Personal identity ,Autism ,Female ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
Autistic adolescents are at increased risk of mental health difficulties. One potential factor contributing to this is identity development, although this hypothesis has been little explored. These adolescents also have to consider how autism forms their identity, a process called acculturation. This exploratory study examined the relationships between identity, acculturation and mental health in autistic adolescents. Twenty-four participants completed measures investigating identity, acculturation and mental health. Findings suggested mental health was not related to personal identity. Mental health scores did not differ between acculturation groups, however those aligned to non-autistic culture tended to generate more positive self-statements than those aligned to neither culture. These findings suggest autistic adolescents should be encouraged to explore autistic culture and supported in constructing their identity.
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- 2019
39. The Social Life of IDs in Contemporary Africa
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Awenengo Dalberto, Séverine, Banégas, Richard, Awenengo Dalberto, Séverine, Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CERI), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Centre de recherches internationales (CERI)
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citizenship ,biometrics ,Identification ,[SHS.ANTHRO-SE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,papiers d'identité ,[SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,bureaucracy ,biométrie ,[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,Afrique ,[SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,Africa ,identity papers ,[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,citoyenneté ,[SHS.SCIPO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,identity - Abstract
International audience; This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores scope to refine, and sometimes considerably qualify, certain points of this interpretation. It explains that personal identity booklets began to be issued in conjunction with the census in 1930. The book argues that the bureaucratic mobilization for the ethnic registration of Rwandans began immediately after independence, with major political effects. It describes the post-war identification reforms undertaken by the Ouattara regime certainly helped to deradicalize this ideological opposition under a technicist veneer, but at the price of a general amnesty for documentary fraud that amounted to state institutionalization of identity falsification. The book focuses on the use of ethnic identity cards in the violent history of Rwanda, and the preparation and conduct of the 1994 genocide.
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- 2021
40. Mapping public health responses with attitude networks: the emergence of opinion-based groups in the UK's early COVID-19 response phase
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Paul J. Maher, Pádraig MacCarron, Michael Quayle, and ERC
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Male ,Longitudinal study ,societal divides ,Editors: Laura G. E. Smith and Stephen Gibson ,050109 social psychology ,Public opinion ,identity ,media_common ,Distrust ,Special Section Paper ,05 social sciences ,Politics ,Female ,Public Health ,Psychology ,Coronavirus Infections ,Social psychology ,Attitude to Health ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Social Psychology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Health Promotion ,Trust ,050105 experimental psychology ,Betacoronavirus ,COVID‐19 ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Partisan ,Pandemics ,political polarization ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Public health ,Polarization (politics) ,Social change ,Special Section Papers ,COVID-19 ,attitude networks ,United Kingdom ,Health promotion ,Socioeconomic Factors ,opinion‐based groups ,Public Opinion ,Self Report ,business ,Risk Reduction Behavior - Abstract
peer-reviewed Partisan patterns of compliance with public health measures are a feature of early COVID-19responses. In many cases, these differences in behaviour relate to pre-existing group identities. However, in times of rapid societal change, novel opinion-based groups can emerge and provide a new basis for partisan identification and divergent collective behaviour. Here, we use network methods to map the emergence of opposing opinion based groups and assess their implications for public health behaviour. In a longitudinal study, we tracked public health attitudes and self-reported behaviour ina sample of UK participants over four time points. Network visualisation reveal a rift in attitudinal alignment over time and the genesisof twodistinct groups characterised by trust,ordistrust, in science (Study1a; N = 253). These groups also diverge in public health behaviour. In a brief follow-up study (N = 206),we find that this opinion polarization partially reflects underlying societal divides. We discuss implications for opinion-based group research and public health campaigns
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- 2020
41. Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Political Impasse
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Hewitt, Anne S.
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ISLL Papers. The Online Collection of the Italian Society for Law and Literature ,IUS/20 Filosofia del diritto ,Aeschylus ,political impasse ,judgement ,identity - Abstract
What can we do in the face of irreconcilable conflict, when two opposing parties (be they individuals, groups, nations) have disagreements in which there seems to be no common ground, no hope for resolution? Further still, what do we do when both sides of an argument appear to be rational? In this paper, I explore this kind of ‘tragic’ im-passe through the lens of Aeschylus’ Eumenides. This play has been taken by some scholars to be the precursor of the Western legal system (establishing the jury trial and neutral, third-party judge). Others see it less optimistically, as a portrayal of a misogynistic abuse of power. I diverge from these lines of interpretation and suggest that the Eumenides offers a useful approach to disagreement, building on the idea that those bitter struggles that result in impasse can be resolved only through a deliberate reorientation of identity, guided by an engaged judge whose most important actions come after the trial.
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- 2019
42. How to Recover from a Brain Disease: Is Addiction a Disease, or Is there a Disease-like Stage in Addiction?
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Anke Snoek, RS: MHeNs - R1 - Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, and Metamedica
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Psychotherapist ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Neuroscience (miscellaneous) ,Agency (philosophy) ,Addiction ,Identity (social science) ,DRUG-USE ,Disease ,Duress ,BEHAVIORS ,Compulsion ,050105 experimental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Recovery ,Qualitative research ,mental disorders ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Narrative ,media_common ,Original Paper ,Health Policy ,05 social sciences ,Self-control ,BDMA ,SELF-CONTROL ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Philosophy ,Lewis ,Agency ,Neurology ,Feeling ,IDENTITY ,Psychology (miscellaneous) ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
People struggling with addiction are neither powerless over their addiction, nor are they fully in control. Lewis vigorously objects to the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA), because it makes people lose belief in their self-efficacy, and hence hinders their recovery. Although he acknowledges that there is a compulsive state in addiction, he objects to the claim that this compulsion is carved in stone. Lewis argues that the BDMA underestimates the agency of addicted people, and hence hinder their recovery. Lewis's work offers us a very much to be welcomed neurobiology of recovery. It offers addicted people a hopeful and respectful narrative for their recovery that treats them as agents rather than as damaged brains. However, I argue that overestimating people's agency can also result in people losing belief in their self-efficacy. Lewis's strong focus on the agency of addicted people might not match their experiences of struggle, hence reinforcing their feelings of guilt when they fail to control their use. I propose to replace the notion of addiction as a disease with a notion of a disease-like stage in addiction. I call this stage the duress stage in addiction, in which the addictive behaviour is largely impervious to the agent's values and to available techniques of self-control. However, the agent can overcome this stage by developing new techniques of self-control, by building on their self-concept and belief in self-efficacy, by changing their environments and habits, and by engaging in projects that are meaningful to the agent.
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- 2017
43. The ethics of brain-computer interfaces
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Liam, Drew
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Brain computer interfaces ,Original Paper ,Intelligence ,Neurosciences ,Advisory system ,Predictive brain devices ,Estrangement ,Brain machine interfaces ,Assistive system ,Self ,Embodiment ,Indenes ,Agency ,Artificial Intelligence ,Identity ,Brain-Computer Interfaces ,Implantable device ,Control ,Qualitative interviews ,Humans ,Brain implant, brain device, capacities ,Phenomenology ,Predictive device ,Autonomy - Abstract
While new generations of implantable brain computer interface (BCI) devices are being developed, evidence in the literature about their impact on the patient experience is lagging. In this article, we address this knowledge gap by analysing data from the first-in-human clinical trial to study patients with implanted BCI advisory devices. We explored perceptions of self-change across six patients who volunteered to be implanted with artificially intelligent BCI devices. We used qualitative methodological tools grounded in phenomenology to conduct in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Results show that, on the one hand, BCIs can positively increase a sense of the self and control; on the other hand, they can induce radical distress, feelings of loss of control, and a rupture of patient identity. We conclude by offering suggestions for the proactive creation of preparedness protocols specific to intelligent—predictive and advisory—BCI technologies essential to prevent potential iatrogenic harms.
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- 2019
44. A developmental arrest? Interruption and identity in adolescent chronic pain
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H Connell, Abbie Jordan, Line Caes, Melanie Noel, and Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Identity (social science) ,Developmental arrest ,Chronic pain ,Development ,lcsh:RD78.3-87.3 ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Identity ,medicine ,INNOVATIONS IN Pediatric Pain Research and Care ,Centre for Health and Clinical Research ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Autonomy ,Acute pain ,adolescence, chronic pain, development, identity, autonomy ,media_common ,business.industry ,Persistent pain ,medicine.disease ,Adolescence ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,lcsh:Anesthesiology ,Pediatric pain ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Clinical psychology ,Research Paper - Abstract
Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. Introduction: Although the pediatric pain literature has explored the role of developmental factors in young children’s acute pain, relatively less is known about specific developmental challenges in adolescents with chronic pain. Objectives: To meet this knowledge gap, this study sought to adopt an idiographic phenomenological approach to examine how adolescents make sense of their own development in the context of living with chronic pain. Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with ten adolescents (12–17 years; 7 females) recruited from a tertiary care pain treatment programme. Interview data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results: Study findings identified 2 themes: “An externally imposed lens on identity” and “Paradoxes of developmental progress.” The first theme highlighted an understanding of how adolescent identity is perceived. Some adolescents perceived identity as distinct from pain, whereas others perceived identity as part of their chronic pain condition. This theme also detailed how identity was negotiated by adolescents and others through engagement with valued activities. The second theme represented an understanding of how chronic pain disrupts and alters adolescent developmental trajectories at an individual level, suggesting possibilities of enhanced and delayed trajectories. Enhanced trajectories were associated with increased management of emotionally difficult situations and resulted in mastery of complex interpersonal skills. Conclusion: Findings provided a nuanced understanding of developmental progress in the context of adolescent chronic pain and suggested challenges with drawing normative comparisons. Future research could extend findings by adopting a longitudinal approach to studying adolescent development and eliciting accounts from broader social groups.
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- 2018
45. Social Inclusion in Macro-Level Diagnostics : Reflecting on the World Bank Group's Early Systematic Country Diagnostics
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Das, Maitreyi Bordia
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COLONIAL TIMES ,EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES ,INFRASTRUCTURE ,CHILDREN ,PARTNERSHIP ,EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ,JOB ,CULTURE ,PROJECTS ,ETHNIC MINORITIES ,DISCRIMINATORY LAWS ,MINORITIES ,EQUAL ACCESS ,INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES ,EMPLOYMENT ,SOCIETIES ,POPULATION ,LENDING ,CIVIL SOCIETY ,INDEPENDENCE ,PLACE OF RESIDENCE ,EDUCATION ,HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ,JOBS ,MALNUTRITION ,GOVERNMENTS ,SEXUAL ORIENTATION ,DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ,DIFFERENTIAL OUTCOMES ,BANK ,GROUP IDENTITY ,HIV/AIDS ,ACCESS ,VIOLENCE ,EQUAL ACCESS TO SERVICES ,SOCIAL INCLUSION ,POLICY DISCUSSIONS ,SOCIETY ,SOCIAL ISSUES ,ETHNIC GROUPS ,MARKETS ,PUBLIC SERVICES ,PEACE ,SOCIAL IDENTITY ,INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ,PROGRESS ,SOCIAL ORDER ,INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ,DIGNITY ,INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ,PUBLIC EXPENDITURES ,DISABILITY ,WORKSHOP ,SERVICES ,BARRIER ,DEVELOPMENT POLICY ,MOBILITY ,IDENTITY ,SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ,QUALITY SERVICES ,LIVING CONDITIONS ,PROPERTY ,EQUALITY ,ACCESS TO EMPLOYMENT ,AUTONOMY ,INCLUSION ,CULTURAL FACTORS ,UNIVERSAL ACCESS ,MINORITY ,ACCESS TO MARKETS ,UNEQUAL OUTCOMES ,PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ,PARTNERSHIPS ,EXCLUSION ,DEVELOPMENT GOALS ,WORTH ,CITIZENS ,LIFE EXPECTANCY ,HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ,VALUE ,RISK ,RACE ,ACCESS TO EDUCATION ,ETHNIC IDENTITY ,SOCIAL MOBILIZATION ,POLICIES ,GOVERNANCE ,POLICY ,LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ,COMMUNITY ,AIDS ,HEALTH CARE ,STEREOTYPING ,EDUCATION SYSTEM ,HUMAN CAPITAL ,ETHNIC GROUP ,CITIZEN ,SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ,EQUITY ,INDIGENOUS GROUPS ,LAND ,SOCIAL PROTECTION ,PARTICIPATION ,SOCIAL EXCLUSION ,CREDIT ,POLICY RESEARCH ,EDUCATION GAP ,FULL POTENTIAL ,MICROFINANCE ,KNOWLEDGE ,POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER ,LABOR ,LABOR MARKETS ,POLITICS ,RELIGIOUS GROUPS ,SOCIAL ORGANIZATION ,HOUSING ,ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE ,BARRIERS ,MDAS ,PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ,HIV ,APPROPRIATE SERVICE ,NATURAL RESOURCES ,TRANSPORT ,LAWS ,TRANSPORTATION ,INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ,SOCIAL STRUCTURES ,HEALTH SERVICES ,DISCRIMINATION ,MAINSTREAM ,ECONOMIC ELITE ,DISABILITIES ,GENDER ,COMMUNITIES ,EQUITABLE ACCESS ,ACCOUNTABILITY ,CONCENTRATION OF POVERTY - Abstract
The idea of social inclusion has garnered considerable attention, especially in the context of two recent developments: the Sustainable Development Goals and the heightened attention to inequality. This paper reviews the manner and extent to which social inclusion is addressed in the first 17 Systematic Country Diagnostics (SCDs), which are ex ante, country-level assessments conducted by the World Bank Group, ahead of the preparation of its Country Partnership Frameworks. In addition to this primary purpose, the paper fulfils three other purposes. It allows for a broader reflection on the value of the social inclusion construct in macro-level diagnostics; it takes the opportunity to develop and refine a methodology to assess social inclusion and finally, it positions the narrative on social inclusion into the ongoing discourse on poverty, shared prosperity, inequality and the thinking around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is therefore, a refined articulation of the idea of social inclusion in the context of global epistemological shifts
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- 2016
46. Stability or renewal : the judicialisation of representative democracy in American and German constitutionalism
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Miles, David Jonathan, Lang, Anthony F., Rengger, N. J. (Nicholas J.), and Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
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German constitutionalism ,Community ,Political theory ,Nation ,State legislatures ,Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ,Autocracy ,Germany ,The Fourteenth Amendment ,Human rights ,Incorporation ,The Basic Law ,Judicial activism ,Baker v Carr ,The Weimar Republic ,Constitutional courts ,The Civil War ,Free speech ,Values ,The judiciary ,Democracy ,Isonomy ,Social cohesion ,Checks and balances ,Legal positivism ,James Madison ,Representative democracy ,The Federal Republic of Germany ,Hitler ,Majority rule ,Justice ,Restraint ,United States. Supreme Court ,The Second World War ,Racism ,Liberal democracy ,Judicial authority ,Republican government ,Cold War ,Christian Democratic Union ,Segregation ,Aristotelian polis ,The Socialist Reich Party ,Franklin D Roosevelt ,Electoral participation ,German Constitutional Court ,Constitutionalism ,William Brennan ,Federal government ,Collective guilt ,European Parliament ,Civil rights movement ,Groups ,The Holocaust ,Ruth Bader Ginsburg ,Institutions ,Jeremy Waldron ,Carolene Products footnote four ,US Supreme Court ,The New Deal ,Freedom of speech ,Andreas Voßkuhle ,Autonomy ,Electoral threshold cases ,Militant democracy ,Far right ,Populism ,Thomas Jefferson ,Alexander Hamilton ,Interpretation ,Constitutional complaints ,Illiberal democracies ,Böckenförde dilemma ,European Convention on Human Rights ,Religion ,Constitutional government ,Oligarchy ,Felix Frankfurter ,State and society ,Civic republicanism ,Citizens ,Progress ,The League of Women Voters ,Higher law ,Stability ,Joseph McCarthy ,Arbitrary government ,Democratic suicide ,Constitutional culture ,Carl Schmitt ,Individual ,Hannah Arendt ,The Declaration of Independence ,Identity ,Republicanism ,Society ,The Countermajoritarian Difficulty ,Individual rights ,The people ,The law of democracy ,Totalitarianism ,The Green Party of Germany ,Power ,The Greens ,Voting rights ,American constitutionalism ,Rights ,EU ,Law ,Adolf Hitler ,Voters ,Civic association ,Lyndon Johnson ,Electoral law ,Gerrymandering ,Elections ,Courts ,Electoral threshold ,Legislatures ,The European Union ,Social forces ,Constitutional law--Germany ,Minority rights ,Political participation--Germany ,The living constitution ,Nationalism ,The Nazi past ,Earl Warren ,Democratic deficit ,Civic society ,Constitutional values ,Eurosceptics ,The Bill of Rights ,Hans Kelsen ,Social movements ,Reynolds v Sims ,Parties ,Equal Protection Clause ,The Federalist Papers ,Orwell ,Weimar ,Civic space ,Slavery ,Constitutional law--United States ,Incorporation of the Bill of Rights ,Malapportionment ,Alexis de Tocqueville ,The German Basic Law ,John Adams ,George Orwell ,Political parties ,Judicial restraint ,Emancipation ,Konrad Adenauer ,Judges ,Voter engagement ,Vergangenheitsbewältigung ,Judicial supremacy ,Civil rights ,Civic engagement ,Hungary ,World War Two ,Political culture ,Private law ,Citizenship ,KF4554.M5 ,Poland ,Principles ,Human dignity ,The French Revolution ,Legislative fragmentation ,Constituent power ,Democratic participation ,Bundesverfassungsgericht ,The American Civil War ,CDU ,Communitarianism ,Suffrage ,Barring clauses ,The US Constitution ,Electoral hurdle ,Angela Merkel ,Powers ,Universal Declaration of Human Rights ,Brown v Board of Education ,Positive law ,Germany. Bundesverfassungsgericht ,Politics ,Polis ,Rechtsstaat ,Representation ,Kant ,Constitutions ,The Warren Court ,Juridification ,John F Kennedy ,Reapportionment ,Robert Dahl ,Liberty ,Sperrklauseln ,Opinions ,Institutional space ,Natural law ,Equality ,Aristotle ,Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr ,Grundgesetz ,The American Bill of Rights ,Social Democratic Party of Germany ,Public law ,Separation of powers ,Tyranny ,Majoritarianism ,West Germany ,National Socialism ,The National Socialist Party ,Security ,Hersch Lauterpacht ,Judicialisation ,Dignity ,Political participation--United States ,Legitimacy ,Voter exclusion - Abstract
This thesis examines how American and German constitutionalism, as shaped by the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), have mediated the tension between threats to stability and the imperative of renewal through occasional or constant interventions in their democratic processes. To do this, it primarily assesses the 1960s U.S. reapportionment cases and the European Parliament electoral threshold cases of 2011 and 2014. It also considers the ideas of four thinkers, theorists and jurists who have wrestled with the dilemma of how to maintain the bond between citizen and state: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Jefferson and Alexis de Tocqueville. Stability and renewal represent the twin orientation points for constitutionalism and the courts against which they must adjust to possible democratic threats, or new political and social forces in need of recognition. Threats to the state can emerge either from a surfeit of illiberal views in politics and society aimed at destroying an existing constitutional order, or when democratic channels become starved of new opinions through the constitutional or unconstitutional exclusion of voters and parties. A distinctive feature of the approach taken is the conceptual division between the ‘legal/institutional’ space in which the Supreme Court and Bundesverfassungsgericht interpret constitutional meaning, and the ‘civic space’ in which citizens accept or reject constitutional meaning. One central question is how American and German constitutionalism, and the U.S. Supreme Court and Bundesverfassungsgericht shape and influence the vital civic space that is integral to the democratic relationship between citizen and state, and the survival of the state itself. Ultimately it is concluded that without acceptance of the importance of law and constitutionalism by citizens in the civic space, the influence of the Supreme Court and the Bundesverfassungsgericht becomes purely institutional and effectively consigned to the courtroom.
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- 2017
47. Systemic evaluation of cellular reprogramming processes exploiting a novel R-tool: eegc
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Hongkang Mei, Guofeng Meng, Christine Nardini, and Xiaoyuan Zhou
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0301 basic medicine ,Statistics and Probability ,Computer science ,Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells ,Gene regulatory network ,Computational biology ,Biochemistry ,Biological pathway ,Bioconductor ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Transcriptome profiling ,Humans ,Induced pluripotent stem cell ,Molecular Biology ,Gene ,Transcription factor ,Protocol (object-oriented programming) ,Regulation of gene expression ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Systems Biology ,Computational Biology ,Cellular Reprogramming ,Original Papers ,Computer Science Applications ,Cellular engineering ,Computational Mathematics ,030104 developmental biology ,Computational Theory and Mathematics ,Gene Expression Regulation ,DEFINED FACTORS ,TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS ,ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS ,DIRECT CONVERSION ,STEM-CELLS ,FIBROBLASTS ,DIFFERENTIATION ,IDENTITY ,NETWORKS ,NEURONS ,Molecular Medicine ,Reprogramming ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Software ,Transcription Factors - Abstract
Motivation Cells derived by cellular engineering, i.e. differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells and direct lineage reprogramming, carry a tremendous potential for medical applications and in particular for regenerative therapies. These approaches consist in the definition of lineage-specific experimental protocols that, by manipulation of a limited number of biological cues—niche mimicking factors, (in)activation of transcription factors, to name a few—enforce the final expression of cell-specific (marker) molecules. To date, given the intricate complexity of biological pathways, these approaches still present imperfect reprogramming fidelity, with uncertain consequences on the functional properties of the resulting cells. Results We propose a novel tool eegc to evaluate cellular engineering processes, in a systemic rather than marker-based fashion, by integrating transcriptome profiling and functional analysis. Our method clusters genes into categories representing different states of (trans)differentiation and further performs functional and gene regulatory network analyses for each of the categories of the engineered cells, thus offering practical indications on the potential lack of the reprogramming protocol. Availability and Implementation eegc R package is released under the GNU General Public License within the Bioconductor project, freely available at https://bioconductor.org/packages/eegc/. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- 2017
48. A Failure to 'Do No Harm' -- India's Aadhaar biometric ID program and its inability to protect privacy in relation to measures in Europe and the U.S
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Pam Dixon
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020205 medical informatics ,Privacy by Design ,Privacy policy ,Internet privacy ,Biomedical Engineering ,India ,Bioengineering ,ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING ,Digital identity ,02 engineering and technology ,050905 science studies ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Unique identifier ,Consent ,Biometrics in schools ,Identity ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Data Protection Act 1998 ,media_common.cataloged_instance ,Aadhaar ,European union ,GDPR ,media_common ,Original Paper ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Biometrics ,Privacy ,Public service ,Business ,0509 other social sciences ,Biotechnology ,ID card - Abstract
It is important that digital biometric identity systems be used by governments with a Do no Harm mandate, and the establishment of regulatory, enforcement and restorative frameworks ensuring data protection and privacy needs to transpire prior to the implementation of technological programs and services. However, when, and where large government bureaucracies are involved, the proper planning and execution of public service programs very often result in ungainly outcomes, and are often qualitatively not guaranteeable. Several important factors, such as the strength of the political and legal systems, may affect such cases as the implementation of a national digital identity system. Digital identity policy development, as well as technical deployment of biometric technologies and enrollment processes, may all differ markedly, and could depend in some part at least, on the overall economic development of the country in question, or political jurisdiction, among other factors. This article focuses on the Republic of India’s national digital biometric identity system, the Aadhaar, for its development, data protection and privacy policies, and impact. Two additional political jurisdictions, the European Union, and the United States are also situationally analyzed as they may be germane to data protection and privacy policies originated to safeguard biometric identities. Since biometrics are foundational elements in modern digital identity systems, expression of data protection policies that orient and direct how biometrics are to be utilized as unique identifiers are the focus of this analysis. As more of the world’s economies create and elaborate capacities, capabilities and functionalities within their respective digital ambits, it is not enough to simply install suitable digital identity technologies; much, much more - is durably required. For example, both vigorous and descriptive means of data protection should be well situated within any jurisdictionally relevant deployment area, prior to in-field deployment of digital identity technologies. Toxic mixes of knowledge insufficiencies, institutional naivete, political tomfoolery, cloddish logical constructs, and bureaucratic expediency must never overrun fundamental protections for human autonomy, civil liberties, data protection, and privacy.
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- 2016
49. Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India
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Sanyal, Paromita, Rao, Vijayendra, and Majumdar, Shruti
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PUBLIC DEBATE ,COMMUNITY RESOURCE PERSONS ,MIGRANT ,CHILDREN ,ECONOMIC GROWTH ,FAMILIES ,CULTURE ,PUBLIC SUPPORT ,HEALTH CENTERS ,AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ,India [L13] ,TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ,BENEFIT ,SOCIETIES ,EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN ,POPULATION ,MIGRANTS ,MANDATES ,WOMEN ,SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ,HOUSES ,POLITICAL POWER ,STATUS OF WOMEN ,TOWNS ,MATERIAL RESOURCES ,PENSION ,HUMAN BEINGS ,DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ,Sociology [T19] ,WIDOWS ,GIRLS ,POPULATIONS ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,SOCIAL CLASSES ,SOCIAL ACTION ,SANCTIONS ,OLD AGE ,PARTICIPATION IN DECISION ,VICIOUS CYCLE ,POLITICAL PROCESS ,"Social services ,association" ,STORIES ,PENSIONS ,POLICY DISCUSSIONS ,SOCIETY ,SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS ,SUBSIDIES ,DEMOCRACY ,LAND OWNERSHIP ,POLICE OFFICER ,PUBLIC SERVICES ,RELIGION ,PEACE ,SANITATION ,SOCIAL SCIENCES ,SPATIAL MOBILITY ,RITUAL ,PROGRESS ,HOUSE ,MODERNIZATION ,SYMBOLS ,POLITICAL PARTICIPATION ,DISTRICTS ,CULTURAL SYSTEMS ,SOCIAL NORMS ,LITERACY ,WIDOW ,DEVELOPMENT POLICY ,PUBLIC SPHERE ,HOUSEWIVES ,WARS ,LIBERTY ,PATRIARCHY ,CULTURAL CHANGE ,NUMBER OF WOMEN ,FEMININITY ,IDENTITY ,LIVING CONDITIONS ,SOCIAL IMPACT ,INEQUALITY ,LABOR LAWS ,HUSBAND ,EQUALITY ,FEMALES ,CAPITALISM ,ALLIANCES ,PEER PRESSURE ,GENDER NORMS ,EMPOWERMENT ,DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ,KINSHIP ,MASCULINITY ,RITUALS ,OLD-AGE ,WIVES ,CULTURAL PRACTICES ,HISTORY ,SOCIAL PROCESSES ,JAIL ,SOCIAL CHANGE ,WOMANHOOD ,HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ,MARRIAGE ,WILL ,WOMAN ,FOOD SECURITY ,ENHANCING WOMEN ,SELF-SUFFICIENCY ,POOR FAMILIES ,VILLAGES ,GENDER DIFFERENCES ,POLICY ,FAMILY ,GENDER INEQUALITY ,Anthropology [T18] ,FORMAL EDUCATION ,INEQUALITIES ,NUTRITION ,SEX ,HOUSEHOLDS ,PUBLIC HEALTH ,RESPECT ,DAILY LIFE ,HOUSEHOLD WORK ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,TRAINING ,MIGRATION ,POWER ,WOMEN LEADERS ,ANTHROPOLOGISTS ,POLICY RESEARCH ,CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK ,BENEFITS ,SOCIAL GROUPS ,SEXUALITY ,KNOWLEDGE ,HOME ,POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER ,ABUSE ,LABOR MARKETS ,CIVILIZATION ,DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS ,WIFE ,MARGINALIZATION ,HOMES ,WORKSHOPS ,GENDER EQUALITY ,PARTNER ,WEDDING ,CORRUPTION ,SOCIAL INEQUALITY ,SOCIOLOGY ,COERCION ,SUBSIDY ,ILLITERATE WOMEN ,LAWS ,NORMS ,DISCOURSE ,SMALL LOANS ,NURSE ,GENDER ,GENDER ROLES ,HUSBANDS ,FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS ,LAW - Abstract
This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question – how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World Bank-assisted poverty alleviation project targeted at women, and find support for an integrative view of culture. The paper argues that Jeevika created new “cultural configurations” by giving economically and socially disadvantaged women access to a well-defined network of people and new systems of knowledge, which changed women’s habitus and broke down normative restrictions constitutive of the symbolic boundary of gender.
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- 2015
50. Does Memory Modification Threaten our Authenticity?
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Alexandre Erler
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Neuroscience (miscellaneous) ,Identity (social science) ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,Memory modification ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Enhancement Technologies ,Identity ,President’s council on bioethics ,Practical ethics ,media_common ,Original Paper ,Enhancement ,Health Policy ,Ethics of the biosciences ,Fitting attitudes ,06 humanities and the arts ,Bioethics ,Authenticity ,Epistemology ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Neurology ,Psychology (miscellaneous) ,060301 applied ethics ,Worry ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
One objection to enhancement technologies is that they might lead us to live inauthentic lives.Memory modification technologies (MMTs) raise this worry in a particularly acute manner. In this paper I describe four scenarios where the use of MMTs might be said to lead to an inauthentic life. I then undertake to justify that judgment. I review the main existing accounts of authenticity, and present my own version of what I call a “true self” account (intended as a complement, rather than a substitute, to existing accounts). I briefly describe current and prospective MMTs, distinguishing between memory enhancement and memory editing. Moving then to an assessment of the initial scenarios in the light of the accounts previously described, I argue that memory enhancement does not, by its very nature, raise serious concerns about authenticity. The main threat to authenticity posed by MMTs comes, I suggest, from memory editing. Rejecting as inadequate the worries about identity raised by the President’s Council on Bioethics in Beyond Therapy, I argue instead that memory editing can cause us to live an inauthentic life in two main ways: first, by threatening its truthfulness, and secondly, by interfering with our disposition to respond in certain ways to some past events, when we have reasons to respond in such ways. This consideration allows us to justify the charge of inauthenticity in cases where existing accounts fail. It also gives us a significant moral reason not to use MMTs in ways that would lead to such an outcome.
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- 2010
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