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Although protean and boundaryless career orientation have been seen mainly as different yet related constructs, a recent meta-analysis suggests a reconsideration of this career concept structure into a distinction between two independent dimensions of ‘proactive career orientation’ (including sub-dimensions ‘self-directed’, ‘values driven’, and ‘boundaryless mindset’) and ‘physical mobility preferences’ (including sub-dimension ‘organizational mobility preference’). To examine whether or not this new proposed structure is sustained we analyze the dynamics between the boundaryless career orientation (using with subdimensions ‘boundaryless mindset’ and ‘organizational mobility preference’) and attitudinal outcomes of organizational commitment, job satisfaction, turnover intention and pay satisfaction. The results provide empirical validation for the propositions in the meta-analysis, not only regarding career concept structure but also its dynamics. They confirm areas of similarity of ‘boundaryless mindset’ and protean dynamics but also important differences between these dynamics for employees with a mobility preference. Boundaryless mindset employees are more intrinsically motivated and proactive in developing their career. Those having high organizational mobility preference are more extrinsically motivated and reactive when facing organizational and environmental determinants. The results show that a ‘traditional’ boundaryless career orientation is a two-sided coin and organizations need to differentially manage the diverse profiles of a boundaryless careers.

Objective: This research aimed to study the effects of a physical exercise program on physical mobility in cranial surgery patients.Materials and Methods: The researcher used a quasi-experimental method of surveying 58 patients who had cranial surgery at Siriraj Hospital. The research group was divided into two groups: an experimental group (28 patients) participating in a physical exercise program of patients after cranial surgery, and a control group (30 patients) receiving routine nursing care only. The evaluation of the patients’ physical mobility was performed three days after the surgery.Results: Most patients in the research group had an intracranial tumor (86.2%). One day after the surgery, the experimental group had minor pain at the wound site while the control group had moderate pain. Both groups felt discomfort (64.2%) or had muscle stiffness in the neck and shoulder areas (63.3%). Three days after the surgery, at the end of the program, the body movement function of both groups was reduced compared with the preoperative data. However, the experimental group showed better body movement function scores than the control one as the scores of the former were reduced less than those of the latter at p < 0.05.Conclusion: Nurses who provide health care services to patients after cranial surgery should apply the physical exercise program to promote the recovery of the patients’ physical mobility.

Suffering during events such as the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the quality of life (QoL) of older adults with physical and mobility disabilities. This study aims to determine the QoL of older Thai adults with such disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and its predictor. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 360 older adults with physical and mobility disabilities. Data were collected by structured interview questionnaires. Data analyses comprised Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The mean age of the participants was 73.52 years; a total of 58.6% of them were female and 97.8% had completed only primary education. More than half of them had a moderate QoL (63.3%). Self-esteem, age, and perception of the benefits of disability were found to be associated with the participants’ QoL (p < 0.05) and capable of predicting it with 54.7% accuracy. As self-esteem and the perception of the benefits of disability were found to be indicators of the QoL of older adults with physical and mobility disabilities, the healthcare providers of such older adults should organize activities that could enhance their self-esteem and the perception of the benefits of disability to improve their QoL, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stroke merupakan masalah yang perlu diberikan perhatian khusus karena stroke dapat menimbulkan kematian dan kecacatan akibat kerusakan saraf. Kerusakan saraf mengakibatkan kehilangan kemampuan untuk bergerak sehingga berdampak pada tingkat ketergantungan individu dan inimembutuhkan tindakan keperawatan berupa mobilisasi pasif dan aktif untuk meningkatkan kemandirian diri.Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk menggambarkan pemenuhan kebutuhan mobilitas fisik pada pasien SNH.Jenis penelitian studi kasus deskriptif. Subyek penelitian pada dua pasien SNH yang mengalamigangguan pemenuhan kebutuhan mobilitas fisik dengan tingkat ketergantungan yang sama yaitu partial careTempat /lokasi dilakukannya studi kasus ini adalah di Ruangan Penyakit Dalam III RSUD Ende pada tanggal11-13 Juli 2017.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa responden mengalami hemiparase yaitu kekakuan dankelemahan pada anggota gerak sehingga mengalami kesulitan untuk melakukan gerakan atau mobilisasi.Strategi pemenuhan mobilitas fisik pada responden dilakukan dengan ROM pasif dan ROM aktif. Dampakdari tindakan pengaturan mobilitas fisik tersebut adalah responden mengalami peningkatan kekuatan ototkarena tindakan ROM yang dilakukan tersebut secara baik dan optimal.Kesimpulan bahwa gangguan mobilitas fisik pada pasien SNH antara lain mengalami kekakuan dankelemahan pada anggota gerak yang mengalami hemiparase, kesulitan untuk megubah posisi tidur, kesulitanuntuk bangun dari tempat tidur, kesulitan untuk duduk, kesulitan untuk berdiri dan berjalan. Disarankan bagipasien SNH dan keluarga untuk selalu melakukan tindakan mobilitas fisik berupa ROM pasif maupun aktifdi rumah, sehingga dapat meningkatkan kembali kekuatan otot yang mengalami kelemahan, dan diharapkankeluarga juga untuk selalu memberikan dukungan dan motivasi pada pasien dalam melakukan ROM.

El tema de la migración es un factor fundamental de la literatura latinoamericana, porque nos permite investigar las acciones de los sujetos que experimentan el fenómeno de muchas maneras. Me interesa examinar las expresiones literarias de Víctor Hugo Viscarra, escrita desde la periferia de la Paz (Bolivia) y de Susy Shock (Argentina) que se define como una “artista trans-Sudaca”, porque muestran una movilidad física y en sus modos de conocimiento y condición. Los espacios de escritura que se definen pueden leerse a partir de las categorías de “sujeto migrante” y “heterogeneidad” trabajados por Antonio Cornejo Polar y Raúl Bueno.A su vez, el cuerpo travesti de Susy Shock funciona como un desestabilizador del orden heteronormativo, “buceando” en los intersticios de la oposición binaria del género, mostrándose como un cuerpo que redefine en cada representación performativa; es decir, en su voz y escritura, otros procesos de desplazamiento.

An increasingly dynamic career context has changed the nature of careers and led to the emergence of more autonomous and self-directed boundaryless careers. The common idea in different forms of boundaryless careers is mobility. Psychologically and physically mobile individuals start to manage their own careers in terms of their personal pursuits. In such a career environment, the nature of career success has also changed. The importance of subjective career success has been emphasized more than objective career success because only individuals themselves can meaningfully define and assess their career success with reference to their own self-defined standards, needs, and values in such an unstable environment. With the transmission of career responsibility to the individuals, the need to develop career competencies as knowing why competencies, knowing whom competencies, and knowing how competencies emerge in order to survive and become successful. This study reviews career concept and the new perspectives as a boundaryless career within a constantly changing environment which makes it impossible to become successful unless gaining new competencies and survival methods and the new perspectives on career success with a growing increase in subjective career success instead of objective career success

Introduction: Patients with symptoms (Sx) of gastrointestinal (GI) motor disorders have limitations in physical strength and mobility. We hypothesized that physical frailty correlated with severity of GI symptoms, and that a motility frailty index (MFI) could be constructed. Patients: We conducted a prospective pilot study on 40 patients, (38 F, 2 M, mean age 39.9 years) with the following diagnoses: 10 with diabetes mellitus and 30 with non-diabetic/idiopathic disorders. Upper and lower GI Sx were quantified using an FDA-compliant, traditional patient-reported outcomes (PRO) system. Methods: Patients underwent a series of physical performance measures involving standing balance (SB), usual walk speed (UW), and chair sit-and-stands (CS). A GI motility frailty index (MFI) was constructed by fitting several models with a combination of physical performance measures and correlating with PRO. Pearson’s correlation compared the constructed index with the GI Sx PRO to construct a GI MFI. Results: The studied patients collectively showed marked limitations in mobility compared with standard performance values with mean (sd) ratios of SB = 0.87 (0.20), UW = 0.45 (0.13), and CS = 0.38 (0.17). Correlations between physical mobility and GI Sx were noted for upper GI Sx (rho = 0.47, p = 0.002) but not for lower GI Sx. Conclusions: In this pilot study of patients with GI motility disorders, we found increased physical limitations on performance-based testing, which had a statistically significant positive correlation with severity of upper GI motor Sx using a standardized PRO system. A motility frailty index has been constructed that may serve as a basis for better quantifying limitations in patient mobility.

PURPOSE: Understanding enablers of and barriers for physical activity (PA) participation in people with intellectual disability (ID) is an essential first step to develop effective interventions. This systematic review examined correlates of PA across the socio-ecological model (i.e., intra-personal, inter-personal, environmental and policy level) in people with ID across the lifespan. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Major electronic databases were searched from inception until 15 February 2021. Keywords included "physical activity" or "exercise" and "intellectual disability" or "mental retardation." A summary coding was used to analyze the data for adolescents (

This case study documents a 13-year-old female who presented to our intensive inpatient chronic pain rehabilitation program with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) of her left leg, which was significantly interfering with her normal daily functioning. She participated in a full day of traditional interdisciplinary therapies, including physical and occupational therapy for 3 hours daily. As assistive equipment was altered or weaned her physical mobility, balance, and tremors worsened and/or increased. As she began advancing her legs more independently (versus requiring physical assist), she demonstrated more variable functional strength and stability, inconsistent balance reactions, and a more unsteady gait pattern. The team was treating her according to her incoming CRPS diagnosis; however, as treatment progressed, her physical and psychological presentation seemed more aligned with diagnostic criteria of functional neurologic symptom disorder (FND). Staff then treated according to the FND diagnosis resulting in successful long-term outcomes. The clinical impact from this case study includes highlighting the commonalities between CPRS and FND clinically, discussing treatment suggestions depending on the diagnosis, and emphasizing key components of family/patient education.

This paper explores how physical mobility shapes migrant youth's changing relationships to their or their parents' country of origin. Increasing numbers of youth in the Global North have a migration background and are transnationally engaged in virtual, imaginative and material mobilities. Yet our knowledge of their physical mobility is lacking, having largely been based on retrospective accounts from the country of residence, resulting in depictions of static relationships to a monolithic country of origin. This study takes a processual approach, focusing on mobility trajectories and exploring the sensorial, embodied and emotional aspects of physical mobility as it unfolds. Drawing on 14 months of mobile ethnographic fieldwork with 20 Ghanaian-background young people (aged 15-25) living in Hamburg, Germany, we focus on visits to Ghana to explore how physical mobility changes relationships to the country of origin over time (across several visits) and space (between different places within one visit). We use Urry's typology of proximity to analyse the specific and changing constellations of people, places and moments that constitute visits and thus shape these relationships. We also reflect on the methodological implications of using three mobile methods: mobility trajectory mapping, following mobility in real-time, and before-and-after interviewing.

Do the returns to migration extend beyond migrants themselves and accrue to the children of migrants? Drawing upon data from a unique 19-year longitudinal survey from Tanzania, this paper empirically investigates this question by exploiting the variation in the outcomes of the children of migrants and the children of the migrants' siblings who stayed behind conditional upon a range of individual characteristics of their parents. Parental migration has important implications for child development and this relation depends on the destination and the timing of the move. More specifically, children whose parents migrated from rural areas to cities are heavier, taller and more educated for their age. The effects on height and schooling are strongest for children who were exposed to the city environment during their early childhood. In contrast, children whose parents moved to a different rural village do not appear to experience any health advantage and those moving alongside their parents even start schooling at a later age. In addition to conferring a broader view of the returns to physical mobility, this analysis contributes to the debate on the origin of spatial inequalities in developing countries. ispartof: Economic Development And Cultural Change vol:70 issue:3 pages:1229-1293 status: published

The purpose of this study is to assess the burden and correlates of morbidity and other dimensions (perceived health and physical mobility) of the health status of older adults (defined as those aged 60 and above). We used data from the National Sample Survey (NSS) 71st round for understanding the health status of older adults in India. The NSS 71st round collected data from 65,932 households (36,480 in rural and 29,452 in urban areas). The present analysis is based on data related to 27,245 persons aged 60 and above living in the sample households. Overall, 30% of those aged 60 and above reported that they have morbidity, either chronic or acute. More than one-fifth (22%) rated their health status as poor while 8% are physically immobile. Forty-three percent of older adults have overall poor health status. Multivariate analysis reveals that age, religion, expenditure quintile are significantly associated with poor overall health of the older adults. Given the high proportion of poor overall health status among older adults and their increasing population size, this study indicates the need to strengthen healthcare services as well as the economic and social security programs directed at the welfare of older adults in the country.

Multimodality – the behavioural phenomenon of using multiple modes of transport – has been suggested to be a useful indicator of an individual’s willingness to adopt more sustainable transport alternatives. Analysing temporal patterns in multimodality provides the opportunity to understand the formation of multimodal practices. Yet the existing studies on this topic share one limitation: they fail to simultaneously incorporate into their analysis the three interconnected temporal dimensions: age, period, and (birth) cohort. Given that age, period, and cohort are mathematically intertwined, the omission of any of these three variables may lead to biased explanations. Using the National Travel Survey in England, from 2001 to 2017, this research explored the extent to which individual multimodality varied by age, period, and cohort. We adopted the hierarchical age-period-cohort model to estimate the net effects of age, period, and cohort on multimodality. Our analyses showed that travellers tend to be less multimodal as they get older. The age effects may be moderated by work or physical mobility constraints, which accelerate the decrease in multimodality before or after reaching 30 years old, respectively. Individual multimodality exhibited significant variation across periods and cohorts. The total variance in multimodality accounted for by cohorts was larger than that explained by periods. Multimodality reached the lowest level for cohorts born between 1945 and 1969. This may be partially explained by the joint influence of multiple spatial mobility constraints as well as by the distinctive early life conditions and formative experience of baby boomers in terms of driving during the post-war economic expansion.

To evaluate healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) by osteoarthritis (OA) pain severity.Cross-sectional surveys of US physicians and their patients were conducted between February and May 2017. Using the Numeric Rating Scale, patients were classified by self-reported pain intensity in the last week into mild (0-3), moderate (4-6), and severe (7-10) cohorts. Parameters assessed included clinical characteristics, HCRU, and current caregiver support. Descriptive statistics were obtained, and analysis of variance and chi-square tests were performed.Patients (n = 841) were mostly female (60.9%) and white (77.8%), with mean age of 64.6 years. Patients reported mild (45.4%), moderate (35.9%), and severe (18.7%) OA pain. Mean number of affected joints varied by pain severity (range mild: 2.7 to severe: 3.6;Greater current pain was associated with more prior HCRU including imaging for monitoring progression, HCP visits including more specialty care, hospitalizations, surgery/planned surgery, and loss of independence due to functional disability. Yet rates of hospitalizations and X-ray use were still sizable even among patients with mild pain. These cross-sectional findings warrant longitudinal assessment to further elucidate the impact of pain on HCRU.

EnglishThe essay presents the public and private space from the reconfiguration imposed by the pandemic. It is considered that the information technology was inevitably intensified in order to face the pandemic and allow the continuation of life without major damages to the daily life. If before sociotechnologies were based on physical mobility and information technology for daily activities, restrictions on the use of public space have made information technology the main means of safe confrontation against the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With this, the delimitation between public and private space is questioned, which also allows the problematization of the relationship between the individual and the collective based on biopolitical concepts, which are resized by the new context that is imposed. portuguesTrata-se de um ensaio que apresenta o espaco publico e o espaco privado a partir da reconfiguracao imposta pela pandemia. Considera-se que a tecnologia da informacao foi inevitavelmente intensificada a fim de enfrentar a pandemia e permitir a continuidade da vida sem maiores prejuizos para o cotidiano. Se antes as sociotecnologias se pautavam na mobilidade fisica e na tecnologia da informacao para as atividades do cotidiano, as restricoes de uso do espaco publico tornaram a tecnologia da informacao o principal meio de enfrentamento seguro contra o avanco do virus SARS-CoV-2. Com isso a delimitacao entre o espaco publico e o espaco privado e posta em questao, o que permite tambem a problematizacao da relacao entre o individual e o coletivo com base em conceitos biopoliticos, os quais sao redimensionados pelo novo contexto que se impoe.

Objective: To investigate the use of custom-made knee-ankle-foot orthoses in daily life and differences in usability factors of knee-ankle-foot orthoses between users and discontinued users.Design: Cross-sectional survey study.Subjects: A total of 163 polio survivors provided with a knee-ankle-foot orthosis at an outpatient clinic of a university hospital.Methods: Use and usability of knee-ankle-foot orthoses in daily life were assessed with a postal questionnaire. Usability factors were formulated using the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9241-11 standard.Results: A total of 106 respondents (65%) returned the questionnaire. Of these, 98 were eligible for analysis. Seventy-four respondents (76%) reported using their knee-ankle-foot orthosis. Compared with discontinued users (24%), users experienced more limitations when walking without an orthosis (p = 0.001), were more often experienced with wearing a previous orthosis (p

This paper documents daily compound indicators on physical mobility and sales activity in Switzerland during the Corona crisis. We report several insights from these indicators: The Swiss population substantially reduced its activities already before the shops closed and before the authorities introduced containment policies in mid-March 2020. Activity started to gradually recover from the beginning of April onwards, again substantially before the first phase of the shutdown easing started at the end of April. Low physical mobility during the second half of March and during April likely contributed to the quick fall in new COVID-19 infections since mid-March. The sharp drop in economic activity in consumer-related services during March and April and the gradual recovery in these sectors since May correlate strongly with the reduction and subsequent gradual resurgence of mobility. In addition, while activity within Switzerland was back to normal levels by late June, activity of Swiss residents outside of Switzerland was still below normal., Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 156, ISSN:0303-9692, ISSN:2235-6282

Traditional methods of fieldwork delivery can present learners with a range of physical, cognitive and social challenges which may subsequently hinder their ability to engage effectively with learning. We developed a residential geoscience field course designed to be physically accessible to, and socially inclusive of, a diverse range of learners including those with limited physical mobility and neurodiverse conditions. This paper presents the logistical and pedagogical challenges involved in delivering such a field course. In terms of pedagogic design scheduling, pace and timing, and the ability to access content in multiple ways were critical to ensuring that all students were included in the learning. The most effective mitigations were the simplest and benefitted the whole group. Practical interventions found to support access and inclusion for the benefit of all participants included using an audio tour-guide system to communicate with students at field locations, using a four-wheel drive vehicle to improve access to specific locations, providing alternative exercises such as prepared photomicrographs and rock specimens, providing electronic tablets with suitable apps, and selecting accommodation with accessible common-room spaces, and a dedicated quiet room.

SummaryGeriatric assessments, nutritional counseling and monitoring of muscle health before and during therapy are of high clinical significance in the management of elderly cancer patients. Criteria, data and cut-offs characterizing cancer-related geriatric sarcopenia are sparse and no consensus about definitions exists to date. We hence highlight a need for clinical trials focusing on sarcopenia in elderly cancer patients, based on its high prevalence and potential negative consequences on therapy outcomes, mortality, quality of life and physical mobility.

In Quebec (Canada), the plural religious landscape has strengthened a rhetoric that structures time, space, and morality dichotomously. In local Pentecostal congregations, identity narratives echo this national discourse as they frame religious trajectories within a paradigm of discontinuity that distinguish before and after being Christian, sin and grace, perdition and salvation. By examining Pentecostal migrants’ narratives that have been collected in ethnographic fieldworks among churches located in Montreal (Quebec, Canada), I question the construction of such a binary view in local migratory landscape and propose that we think of the various mobilities of Christian believers and ideology in terms of continuity, fluidity, and dividuality. Drawing on the concept of gendered dividuality, I understand Pentecostals’ charismatic experiences with the Holy Spirit as exchanges that constitute their personhood at the intersection with Quebecois collective debates focused on gender and migration issues. I argue that Pentecostalism’s ontological fluidity is part of a hermeneutics of the dividual self that features religious actors in a postmodern setting.

Issue 68 of the Forced Migration Review includes a special feature on mobility and agency for those living in protracted displacement, produced in collaboration with TRAFIG. Content "Understanding the dynamics of protracted displacement" by Albert Kraler (Danube University Krems), Benjamin Etzold (BICC) and Nuno Ferreira (University of Sussex) Displaced persons’ mobility and their translocal networks can provide important resources in the search for durable solutions. "Mobility dynamics in protracted displacement: Eritreans and Congolese on the move" by Carolien Jacobs (Leiden University) and Markus Rudolf (BICC) Millions of Eritreans and Congolese find themselves in situations of protracted displacement. A more nuanced understanding of how physical and social mobility affects their daily lives is crucial to developing more effective tailor-made interventions. "Family networks and Syrian refugees’ mobility aspirations" by Sarah A Tobin (Chr. Michelsen Institute), Fawwaz Momani (Yarmouk University), Tamara Adel Al Yakoub (Yarmouk University), Are Knudsen (Chr. Michelsen Institute) and Rola Fares Saleem AlMassad (Yarmouk University) Syrian refugees’ aspirations to move contradict the notion that those refugees who are ‘stuck’ in displacement are passive victims without agency. Rather, in the absence of viable options for physical mobility, refugees may still engage in aspirations to ‘move on’ even when they are not able to do so physically. "‘Constrained mobility’: a feature in protracted displacement in Greece and Italy" by Panos Hatziprokopiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Evangelia Papatzani (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Ferruccio Pastore (FIERI) and Emanuela Roman (FIERI) People living in protracted displacement in Italy and Greece are frequently more mobile than is generally recognised in public discourse and policy. "Humanitarian Admission Programmes: how networks enable mobility in contexts of protracted displacement" by Benjamin Etzold (BICC) and Simone Christ (BICC) Recent research explored how refugees make use of their networks to escape from protracted displacement. Germany’s Humanitarian Admission Programmes have been able to provide legal ‘complementary’ pathways for Syrian refugees who had transnational ties. The effectiveness and reach of these schemes, however, are constrained by various factors. The Forced Migration Review issue 68 is available in two formats: a 68-page magazine and a 6-page Editors’ briefing, both online at www.fmreview.org/externalisation.

espanolObjetivo: identificar las principales etiquetas diagnosticas de Enfermeria (EDE) y los principales diagnosticos medicos motivo de ingreso en una Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, y establecer la asociacion de las EDE con el sexo, la edad y los dias de ingreso en el momento de recogida de datos. Metodo: estudio descriptivo transversal. Se anoto la edad, el sexo, el numero de dias de ingreso en el momento de la recogida de datos, el diagnostico medico motivo de ingreso y las EDE presentes en el momento de la recopilacion de datos. Dicha recogida de datos se realizo un dia aleatorio al mes durante 11 meses. Se emplearon las pruebas de U de Mann-Whitney, T de Student y Chi cuadrado para analizar diferencias. Resultados: se identificaron las EDE tras la valoracion de 136 pacientes: un 58,1% era hombre, la edad media fue 57,9 (DE: 18,1) anos. Las EDE mas habituales fueron: Riesgo de infeccion (66,2%) y Deficit de autocuidado: bano (40,4%). Se observaron diferencias segun sexo en la Disposicion para mejorar el autocuidado (p= 0,028) y la Incontinencia urinaria (p= 0,032), entre otros. Se observaron diferencias con la edad en el Deficit de autocuidado: bano y en el Deterioro de la movilidad fisica entre otros (p Conclusiones: las EDE tienen una baja asociacion con el sexo y la duracion del ingreso, pero tienen una gran asociacion con la edad. EnglishObjective: to identify the main Nursing diagnostic labels (NDLs) and the main medical diagnoses that lead to admission at an Infectious Diseases Unit, and to determine the association of said NDLs with gender, age, and days of hospitalization at the time of data collection. Method: a descriptive cross-sectional study; the data collected were: age, gender, number of hospitalization days at the time of data collection, the medical diagnosis leading to the admission, and the NDLs present at the time of data collection. Said data collection was conducted on a random day per month for 11 months. The Mann-Whitney U, Student’s T and Square Chi tests were used to analyze the differences. Results: NDLs were identified after assessing 136 patients: 58.1% were male, and their mean age was 57.9 (SD: 18.1) years. The most common NDLs were: Risk of infection (66.2%) and Self-Care Deficit: bathing (40.4%). Differences by gender were observed in: Willingness to improve self-care (p= 0.028) and Urinary Incontinence (p= 0.032), among others. Differences with age were observed in Self-Care Deficit: bathing, and in Deterioration in Physical Mobility, among others (p Conclusions: NDLs have a low association with gender and hospital stay duration, but a high association with age.

Yoga has been found to provide numerous health benefits to older adults including preventing or slowing physical frailty and subsequent functional limitations. The purpose of this study was to exam...

The article presents the benefits of virtual exchanges/telecollaboration in higher education. Telecollaboration is a form of virtual mobility which can complement or substitute physical mobility. Taking part in virtual exchanges brings benefits which are in line with the recent European recommendations on education. Importantly, telecollaboration requires lower financial outlays and less time comparing to participation in physical exchanges. Thus, its implementation allows the development of various competences (linguistic, digital, intercultural, etc.) despite students’ economic and personal situation. The second part of the study presents a Polish-Italian virtual exchange conducted in the 2018/2019 academic year between the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University and the University of Turin. During the exchange learners of Polish and learners of Italian played the role of their mother tongue teachers. The research aimed to determine whether such a structure of virtual exchange is possible to be successfully implemented among students at the bachelor level. Three factors were analysed during the project: the students’ choice of online tools, forms of presenting language content to partners, and acts of code switching. The data were collected from the students’ production in telecollaborative tasks. It was found that giving students the possibility to choose the language code autonomously did not affect the exchange negatively. However, the students were not sufficiently prepared to act as teachers. Despite being familiar with various online tools, they chose those not adapted to the digital environment, and they found the language issues too complex to be successfully explained to their exchange partners.

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is the key technology enabling platooning. This letter proposes an analytical framework that combines the characteristics of V2V communication (packet loss probabilities and packet transmission delays) with the physical mobility characteristics of vehicles (speed, distance between vehicles and their brake capacities). First, we present the feasible region of communications delays which guarantees safe emergency braking in platooning scenarios. Second, we derive a bound on the probability of safe braking. The presented framework is applied to understand the performance of the state-of-the-art V2V communication protocol for platooning.

Background: The elderly group is a high risk group that experiences various health problems, especially degenerative diseases. Elderly people tend to experience a decrease in the musculoskeletal system. Decreases in the musculoskeletal system can cause disruption to physical mobility in the elderly. Methods: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of gymnastic on musculoskeletal disorders. The study was quantitative research with experimental one group pre-test post-test design. It was conducted at the Posyandu in Nggaren, Pandeyan Village, Ngemplak, Boyolali. Sampling was done by total sampling technique with a total of 48 respondents . Analysis of data using Wilcoxon. Results: p-value = 0.001 (p

Little is known about how, when, or why individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) retire. Recognizing the changing needs of older adults with IDD is critical to support person-driven services and development of best practices in aging transitions. Using secondary analysis of the 2016 to 2017 National Core Indicators–Adult Consumer Survey (NCI-ACS) data for adults with IDD, we examined the relation between independent mobility (i.e., without aids), age group, level of intellectual disability, and type of employment/activity program, with a focus on mobility and community-based employment in older age groups. There was an overall age-related decline in mobility, but the prevalence of mobility impairment by age group was related to employment type. The percentage who were independently mobile was highest for community employment in every age group. The percentage of individuals by age group in community employment fell significantly from middle age onward, suggesting some former community-based workers had retired. There was no significant age-related difference in the percentage in facility-based employment across these age groups. Mobility limitations may be a barrier to obtaining or retaining community-based employment. Age-related mobility impairment may be associated with premature retirement, and could affect travel to and from work, undertaking work tasks, or both. Closer examination is needed of aging, community employment, and age-related mobility limitations to understand the specific causes of these effects on employment and identify supports and accommodations.

This article examines Toni Morrison's anomalous use of antithetical images of physical mobility and frailty to deconstruct the conventional medical discourse that associates the white race ...

This article examines the experiences of students with mobility disabilities accessing higher education institutions in the Accra metropolis of Ghana. To capture the accessibility issues that peopl...

The domains of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) cover self-care, mobility and social function. Employing this inventory as an operational definition of functional per...

Little research is available concerning the use of technology to connect non-mobile senior adults with museums. This paper explores the viability of Interactive Virtual Learning (IVL) programs to g...

As a way of slowing COVID-19 transmission, many countries and U.S. states implemented shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. However, the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health. The effect of SIP policies on COVID-19 transmission and physical mobility is mixed. To understand the net effects of SIP policies, we measure the change in excess deaths following the implementation of SIP policies in 43 countries and all U.S. states. We use an event study framework to quantify changes in the number of excess deaths after the implementation of a SIP policy. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases. The increase in excess mortality is statistically significant in the immediate weeks following SIP implementation for the international comparison only and occurs despite the fact that there was a decline in the number of excess deaths prior to the implementation of the policy. At the U.S. state-level, excess mortality increases in the immediate weeks following SIP introduction and then trends below zero following 20 weeks of SIP implementation. We failed to find that countries or U.S. states that implemented SIP policies earlier, and in which SIP policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths than countries/U.S. states that were slower to implement SIP policies. We also failed to observe differences in excess death trends before and after the implementation of SIP policies based on pre-SIP COVID-19 death rates.

The resilience of the healthcare industry, often considered recession-proof, is being tested by the COVID-19 induced reductions in physical mobility and restrictions on elective and non-emergent medical procedures. We assess early COVID-19 effects on the dynamics of decline and recovery in healthcare labor markets in the United States. Descriptive analyses with monthly cross-sectional data on unemployment rates, employment, labor market entry/exit, and weekly work hours among healthcare workers in each healthcare industry and occupation, using the Current Population Survey from July 2019−2020 were performed. We found that unemployment rates increased dramatically for all healthcare industries, with the strongest early impacts on dentists’ offices (41.3%), outpatient centers (10.5%), physician offices (9.5%), and home health (7.8%). Lower paid workers such as technologists/technicians (10.5%) and healthcare aides (12.6%) were hit hardest and faced persistently high unemployment, while nurses (4%), physicians/surgeons (1.4%), and pharmacists (0.7%) were spared major disruptions. Unique economic vulnerabilities faced by low-income healthcare workers may need to be addressed to avoid serious disruptions from future events similar to COVID-19.

The 2020 pandemic has been changing for months the everyday mobility of part of the world: we concentrate on one of the first areas hit by COVID-19, soon after China. One of the main elements of change is the consolidation of teleworking, which further prompted motionless communications. The emergency-induced reduction of the systematic travel demand has been counterbalanced by the increased volume of web traffic. As a result, communications which formerly required commuting or travel missions have been regularly performed motionless during the lockdown. All this is known, also by experience. The novelty is that this paper quantifies this phenomenon, with a focus on the city of Turin, Italy, and makes hypotheses on the post-COVID. Local mobility data, so as trends before and during the lockdown are presented, thereafter compared. Implications for the “new normal” ahead are fully elaborated, to reply to a pre-existing research question on the role of motionless communications in the future urban mobility management. Eventually, the paper provides directions to advance and create a reference for further transport policies, within the general research goal to contribute to advance scientific knowledge in this new transportation study topic.

This chapter provides an elaboration of how and why Filipino transnational families in Japan often adopt temporal physical mobility as a strategy for social advancement. Particularly, the chapter explores the practical realities of families whose children, due to various societal issues, are not able to access suitable education in Japan, and are therefore forced to travel to the Philippines to pursue their education. The evidence presented shows that these families do not only aim for their children to acquire institutional education, but are also invested in cultural socialization and the acquisition of various forms of cultural capital that are perceived as valuable for future transnational careers and the maintenance of kinship ties.

People have always moved guided by the need to carry out various activities in different places, including that of meeting and communicating with other people. Over the past two decades, the concept of “communication” has significantly evolved given the introduction of multimedia digital technologies, which have enabled people to communicate without necessarily their physical presence. During the COVID-19 pandemic, “virtual mobility” (or “virtual communication”) played a crucial role in ensuring communications between people in different contexts of social life, growing in few months to previously unforeseeable levels and demonstrating that it can substitute physical movements in many occasions. A smart management of mobility that combines the ability to virtually communicate and the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to support physical mobility, can therefore strongly influence people's choice to move or not, and how. Starting from the analysis of physical mobility and virtual communications trends before and during the health emergency in Italy, this paper analyses the relationships between these two forms of communication, evaluating how virtual communication affected the different segments of Italian mobility during the pandemic and how it will affect the way people move in the post COVID-19 period. A SWOT analysis of virtual mobility is performed for each communication segment, with the aim of highlighting its pros and cons, but also future opportunities and possible threats. Some policy indications are also provided in relation to different mobility segments, governance levels (urban, regional and national) and congestion/pollution scenarios, highlighting how virtual mobility can help regulate physical movements, with the ultimate goal of pursuing a safe, sustainable, effective, efficient and connected mobility.

Perceived footwear comfort influences wearability and can impact on physical mobility, performance and foot-related complaints. To date, there has been no comprehensive review of the characteristics or methods for measuring perceived footwear comfort. The aims of this systematic review were to identify, appraise and synthesise the literature on methods used to assess perceived footwear comfort, and report their validity and reliability. Electronic databases were systematically searched and the articles screened and appraised for methodological risk of bias using a modified Quality Index checklist. Data on footwear comfort assessment tools (methods, populations, footwear types, reliability/validity) was extracted by two reviewers. A narrative synthesis was undertaken to describe the findings. Ninety-nine articles involving 6980 participants were assessed as eligible for review. Perceived footwear comfort has been assessed by a variety of methods including the visual analogue scale (VAS), Likert-type scales, ranking scales and questionnaires. The studies have covered a range of populations, both healthy and pathological, ranging between ages 8 and 75 years, most commonly adults. Investigations into reliability of perceived footwear comfort scales were limited, and whilst some tools had evidence of moderate to high reliability, findings were population dependent. Developmental or independent validity testing was typically not undertaken. Risk of bias was variable across studies. Perceived footwear comfort assessment has been performed across a wide range of populations and footwear types. Whilst select measures had evidence for their reliability, the results were variable and population dependent. There is scope for further research into the reliability and validity of perceived footwear comfort assessment tools in different populations. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Listening and appreciating the views of the academic staff and students is critical in a learning period characterised by abrupt changes in the mode of classroom delivery where the traditional classroom teaching and learning is replaced by virtual classes. This study explored the “carrots” and “sticks” of on-line learning experienced by both academic staff and students at Uganda Martyrs University in Uganda. The study used a qualitative research approach involving in-depth interviews for academic staff and focus groups with selected university students from three academic Faculties. The study results showed that both students and academic staff found on-line learning beneficial in terms of incurring reduced transport expenses and chances of getting infected with Covid-19 due to reduced physical mobility. Due to increased use of technologies, the participants became more innovative and conscious in time use during the teaching-learning process. However, the effectiveness of on-line learning was limited by the challenges of limited data, unreliable internet connection, failure to record lectures, few zoom links at Faculty level, limited class control, and unstable attendance by students. Results further revealed the challenges of time constraint for computational subjects, assessment challenge, limited skills and knowledge in using , limited consultations, and speedy lecturers. The results provide valuable information on the progress in adjusting to the demands of the “new normal” in higher education teaching and learning. Concerted efforts of institutional leadership, academic staff and students should be the norm especially in acquiring and using ICT Infrastructure to enable academic staff and students’ transit to the “new normal”.

International audience; The purpose of this contribution is to study mobility in education, through the prism of digital school interactions. To do this, we will study the uses and perceptions around digital education, of teachers and learners, from college to university. In the first part, we will propose a typology of educational mobility that we will conceptualize according to three levels: micro-mobility, meso-mobility and macro-mobility. These levels will be detailed by a mind-mapping. In the second part and thanks to the results of an empirical study carried out on five establishments in a French city, we will illustrate certain forms of educational mobility and answer various questions relating to digital technology as a learning medium. In the end, has our educational ecosystem taken hold of digital, in particular to develop mobility in a globalized society?; L’objet de cette contribution est d’étudier la mobilité en éducation, au prisme des interactions numériques scolaires. Nous étudierons pour cela les usages et perceptions autour du numérique éducatif, des enseignants et apprenants, du collège à l’université. En première partie, nous proposerons une typologie des mobilités éducatives que nous conceptualiserons selon trois niveaux : micro-mobilité, méso-mobilité et macro-mobilité. Ces niveaux seront détaillés par une cartographie conceptuelle. En deuxième partie et grâce aux résultats d’une étude empirique menée sur cinq établissements d’une ville française, nous illustrerons certaines formes de mobilités éducatives et répondrons à diverses questions portant sur le numérique comme support d’apprentissage. Au final, notre écosystème éducatif s’est-il emparé du numérique, notamment pour développer la mobilité dans une société mondialisée ?

Introducción: La calidad de vida relacionada con la salud se entiende como el efecto funcional y anímico que una enfermedad produce en una persona, incluyendo el tratamiento y cómo este proceso es percibido por la persona, el cual puede estar influido por el género.Objetivo: Determinar la percepción de la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud entre hombre y mujeres adultos mayores en la Comarca Lagunera de Coahuila.Método: Estudio cuantitativo y descriptivo de corte transversal. La muestra estuvo conformada por 100 adultos mayores seleccionados a conveniencia en la escuela de Lic. en Enfermería, U.T. de la Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila y un hospital público de la localidad. Los datos se analizaron en el programa SPSS v22 para Mac, se utilizó estadística descriptiva y la prueba U de Mann-Withney.Resultados: El análisis entre el género y la percepción de calidad de vida relacionada con la salud no observó diferencia significativa (U= 922.00, p=.178); sin embargo, al analizar la calidad de vida por dimensiones, existe diferencia significativa en tres componentes que son movilidad física (U= 812.00, p>.05), dolor (U= 816.00, p>.05) y energía (U= 807.50, p>.05).Conclusiones: En la presente investigación, se puede observar que los hombres y mujeres adultos mayores perciben la calidad de vida relacionada a la salud de una forma muy parecida, sin embargo, se encontró diferencia en algunos componentes que desde el punto de vista de los autores están muy ligados al rol social que cumple una mujer o un hombre adulto mayor. Introduction: The quality of life related to health is understood as the functional and emotional effect that a disease produces in a person, including treatment and how this process is perceived by the person, which may be influenced by gender.Objective: To determine the perception of quality of life related to health among men and older women in the Comarca Lagunera of Coahuila.Method: Quantitative and descriptive cross-sectional study. The sample was 100 old adults selected at convenience in the Nursing School, U.T. from the Autonomous University of Coahuila and a public hospital in the town. Data were analyzed in the SPSS v22 program for Mac, descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney U test were used.Results: The analysis between gender and health-related quality of life perception did not observe a significant difference (U=922.00, p=.178); However, when analyzing the quality of life by dimensions, there is a significant difference in three components that are physical mobility (U= 812.00, p< .05), pain (U= 816.00, p< .05) and energy (U= 807.50, p< .05).Conclusions: In the present investigation, it can be observed that older men and women perceive the quality of life related to health in a very similar way, however, a difference was found in some components that from the point of view of the authors, they are closely linked to the social role played by a woman or an older adult man.

Background & Objective:Hyper- kyphosis negatively affects health status, physical mobility, and quality of life. Corrective exercise interventions are often utilized to manage subjects with thoracic hyper-hypnosis. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of multimodal spine strengthening exercises (spinal strengthening, spinal alignment and other such exercises for increased spine mobility) and posture training in young individuals with functional thoracic hyper-kyphosis. Materials & Methods:97 young men with hyper-kyphosis abnormality (a kyphosis angle of more than 42 degrees) with a mean age of 23.82±2.96 years, the height of 174.74 ± 7.75 cm, and the weight of 70.36 ± 8.53 kg were selected. The individuals were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Experimental group subjects participated in a 12-week progressive corrective exercise program with postural training that was performed 3 sessions per week for one hour, while the control group subjects underwent daily activities during the same period. The kyphosis angle was measured with a flexible ruler. Data was analyzed by ANCOVA. Results:The findings of the study showed that the multimodal spine strengthening exercise (spinal strengthening, spinal alignment and exercises for increased spine mobility) and postural training had a significant effect on the reduction of the thoracic kyphosis angle in the experimental group (P≤0.05). Conclusion:Corrective exercises along with postural training are recommended for the correction of hyper-kyphosis abnormalities in young adult. Keywords:Kyphosis,Exercise therapy,Postural balance

The concept of boundaryless careers characterizes emerging career patterns that are less dependent on traditional organizational career management. Based on an evidence-based review of literature on the relationship between career boundarylessness and career success published from 1994 to 2018, we found that boundaryless careers have mixed effects on the various indictors of career success, and these effects depend on the operationalization of career boundarylessness, the motives (voluntary vs. involuntary), career competencies, adaptive capabilities and career resources held by individuals, as well as the structural constraints and institutional support for boundary-crossing behaviors. In addition, career success was also found to predict subsequent career mobility. Based on these findings, we develop an integrative model to understand the complicated and dynamic relationship between boundaryless careers and career success. This review serves as an important step to integrate theories and research on boundaryless careers and career success, and more interdisciplinary work should be done in the future to examine this question.

Independent mobility in typically developing infants and young children has been linked to growth in many areas of child development and changes in family behavior and interaction. Research suggests similar benefits in young children with motor disability who use powered mobility. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of how families experienced their child’s development, growth, and abilities after using a power wheelchair for 1 year with the intent to generate a preliminary model to capture the process and relationships among these experiences. Eight families participated in interviews, and using grounded theory methodology the research team investigated their experiences. Results informed the development of the preliminary model that framed three key themes: (a) child competence, (b) parenting experience, and (c) the influence of power wheelchair use along with the key category It will help in the long run that titled and anchored the model. This model provides a possible view into how the use of powered mobility may influence development by supporting both child competence and the parenting experience.

Globalization means that a few borders disappear all over the world, and this both encourages and increases physical mobility of goods and people around the globe. But, at the same time, the increased mobility puts a strain on a few other borders. Europe has recently faced an emergency situation related to the massive arrival of refugees across the Mediterranean. It has been suggested that the problem can be addressed by strengthening international cooperation for development with the countries of origin of refugees and, more generally, of irregular migrants. The underlying idea is that the development of countries of origin will reduce the migration flow. This proposal seems consistent with the slogan, launched by various populist parties, “Let’s help them at home.” However, it conceals some possible misunderstandings, which this article aims to analyze. Firstly, the most intense flows of irregular migrants currently come from countries that either are at war or oppressed by dictatorial regimes. Hence, it would not be realistic to start development processes in these countries, which first require complex actions that are studied to promote pacification. Secondly, it should be noted that, as a result of the so-called migration hump, the development of poor countries is generally associated with an increase and not a decrease in emigration. However, if helping the countries of emigration to develop and establishing partnerships with them does not reduce migration flows, it will improve the management of these very flows.

Background Contemporary higher education requires that all midwifery students have insight and understanding of global health practice and demonstrate intercultural sensitivity. However, the mobility models currently offered do not often fit the lives of large numbers of midwifery students. Objectives To investigate midwifery students' international physical mobility activities and factors that affect mobility; to determine midwifery students' learning needs and preferences for related e-learning packages. Design Multi-centre, descriptive quantitative survey. Settings Four European Higher Education Institutions based in the United Kingdom, Estonia, Italy and the Netherlands offering an undergraduate midwifery programme. Participants The sample included 205 midwifery students from Italy (n = 93), the Netherlands (n = 51); United Kingdom (n = 35) and Estonia (n = 26). Methods Data were collected in June–July 2020 through an online cross-sectional, bespoke questionnaire and analysed using summary statistical analysis. Results There is a high level of interest across a range of mobility opportunities, especially those of shorter duration. Barriers to mobility comprised finance, caring responsibilities, concerns about fitting mobility activities into the midwifery programme, negative impact on studies and language barriers. The most frequently identified facilitators of mobility included professional perspectives such as interest in other cultures and midwifery in other settings and an endorsement that mobility would add value to their development as a midwife. When engaging in virtual learning, the most preferred resources mentioned by the students were videos, video calls with peers, choice quiz and discussion forum. Conclusions The barriers identified require new approaches to enable all midwifery students to benefit from transnational learning. The survey findings provide insights into midwifery students' perspectives from which a new mobility model can be developed.