Memes in the time of corona: an autoethnographic visual essay on memes as relational resources during the COVID-19 pandemic

- The diagnosis of cancer troubles people and their identity; it is a threat for their survival. To cope with cancer, people have to collect all their psychological and relational resources. The behavioral system of attachment is activated when people are in danger and it makes them looking for significant others who can be a "secure base" for them. This study investigates the role of specific adult attachment relationships, such as the bond with God and with the partner, on coping with cancer, hypothesizing that patients with a secure attachment with God or with the partner cope better and perceive less stress, respect to patients with an insecure attachment. The results show that the intensity of religious beliefs and security of attachment with God and with the partner are associated to some specific coping strategies to cancer. In particular, insecurity of attachment to God and a specific aspect of insecurity of attachment to the partner (fear of loss) are connected to a higher level of anxiety and a lower level of fighting spirit in coping with cancer. Only attachment to God is associated to a lower level of perceived stress.

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Creation and Returns of Social Capital. A new Research Program

The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville ◽

10.3138/ttr.20.1.5 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 5-26

Author(s):

Henk Flap

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Capital ◽

Research Program ◽

Theoretical Development ◽

Political Sciences ◽

The Social ◽

Relational Resources ◽

New Research ◽

Recent Theoretical Development

A recent theoretical development within the social sciences has been the emergence of the social capital research program. This is a program on relational resources, their creation, use. and effects. It took shape first within sociology and anthropology, nowadays it is also growing in popularity within political sciences and economics.

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Navigating the Turbulent Time: A Qualitative Inquiry into Resilience among Vietnamese ESL Teachers during COVID-19

International Journal of TESOL & Education ◽

10.54855/ijte2202013 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 49-53

Author(s):

Thi Thuy Trang Pham

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Protective Factors ◽

School Leadership ◽

Autonomous Motivation ◽

Qualitative Inquiry ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Qualitative Research Design ◽

Resilience Process ◽

Protective Resources ◽

Relational Resources

The aim of this study is to explore the dynamics of the resilience process among Vietnamese ESL (English as the Second Language) university teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Specifically, this study investigated the interactions between risk factors and protective factors at both personal and contextual levels that shape teachers' resilience patterns. Fifteen teachers from different stages of teaching career participated in in-depth semi-structured interviews in qualitative research design, and the collected data were analyzed by means of a two-cycle analysis procedure. Findings of the study revealed two major risk factors, including turbulence and ambiguity and decreasing autonomous motivation. Despite this, teachers drew on three primary resources to adapt to the abrupt changes: positive imaginaries about the future, sense of professionalism, and relational resources. Analysis showed that these protective factors were located across personal level and microsystems; however, there were missing links for protective resources at institutional level, mesosystems, and macrosystems. Taking cognizance of this, the study emphasizes the role of transparent policies and school leadership in bolstering teachers’ resilience in adversities.

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The Influence of Social Networks on the U.S. Senate Roll-Call Voting

International Journal of E-Politics ◽

10.4018/jep.2010100102 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 22-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jang Hyun Kim ◽

George A. Barnett ◽

K. Hazel Kwon

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Communication Networks ◽

United States Senate ◽

Roll Call ◽

Party Membership ◽

Roll Call Voting ◽

Complex Models ◽

Network Properties ◽

Committee Membership ◽

Relational Resources

Along with individuals’ ideological factors, various network properties play a crucial role in the process of legislators’ political decision making. Social networks among legislators provide relational resources through which communication occurs, exerting social influence among the members in a network. This paper examines six social relationships among the members of the 109th United States Senate as predictors of senatorial voting (roll call votes), shared committees, co-sponsorships, party membership, PAC donation, geographical contiguity, and internet hyperlinks, which may be considered as direct or indirect representations of communication networks. The six networks are modeled using MRQAP, and results suggest that roll call voting was predicted by party membership, co-sponsorship, geographical proximity, and PAC donation networks, while shared committee membership did not contribute significantly. As for hyperlinks, results were mixed, showing a small variance of contribution in a simpler model but not significant with more complex models.

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Literature mining for context-specific molecular relations using multimodal representations (COMMODAR)

BMC Bioinformatics ◽

10.1186/s12859-020-3396-y ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (S5) ◽

Author(s):

Jaehyun Lee ◽

Doheon Lee ◽

Kwang Hyung Lee

Keyword(s):

Biological Networks ◽

Domain Knowledge ◽

Contextual Information ◽

Main Idea ◽

Relation Extraction ◽

Literature Mining ◽

Computing Methodologies ◽

Multimodal Representations ◽

Relational Resources ◽

Context Specific

Abstract Biological contextual information helps understand various phenomena occurring in the biological systems consisting of complex molecular relations. The construction of context-specific relational resources vastly relies on laborious manual extraction from unstructured literature. In this paper, we propose COMMODAR, a machine learning-based literature mining framework for context-specific molecular relations using multimodal representations. The main idea of COMMODAR is the feature augmentation by the cooperation of multimodal representations for relation extraction. We leveraged biomedical domain knowledge as well as canonical linguistic information for more comprehensive representations of textual sources. The models based on multiple modalities outperformed those solely based on the linguistic modality. We applied COMMODAR to the 14 million PubMed abstracts and extracted 9214 context-specific molecular relations. All corpora, extracted data, evaluation results, and the implementation code are downloadable at https://github.com/jae-hyun-lee/commodar. Ccs concepts • Computing methodologies~Information extraction • Computing methodologies~Neural networks • Applied computing~Biological networks.

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Addressing embodied inequities in health: how do we enable improvement in women’s diet in pregnancy?

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980020001093 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (16) ◽

pp. 2994-3004

Author(s):

L McKerracher ◽

S Oresnik ◽

T Moffat ◽

B Murray-Davis ◽

J Vickers-Manzin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Intervention Development ◽

Embodied Experience ◽

Care Providers ◽

Network Analyses ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Conceptual Maps ◽

Canadian City ◽

Multiple Levels ◽

Relational Resources ◽

Support Programmes

AbstractObjective:To disrupt cycles of health inequity, traceable to dietary inequities in the earliest stages of life, public health interventions should target improving nutritional wellbeing in preconception/pregnancy environments. This requires a deep engagement with pregnant/postpartum people (PPP) and their communities (including their health and social care providers, HSCP). We sought to understand the factors that influence diet during pregnancy from the perspectives of PPP and HSCP, and to outline intervention priorities.Design:We carried out thematic network analyses of transcripts from ten focus group discussions (FGD) and one stakeholder engagement meeting with PPP and HSCP in a Canadian city. Identified themes were developed into conceptual maps, highlighting local priorities for pregnancy nutrition and intervention development.Setting:FGD and the stakeholder meeting were run in predominantly lower socioeconomic position (SEP) neighbourhoods in the sociodemographically diverse city of Hamilton, Canada.Participants:All local, comprising twenty-two lower SEP PPP and forty-three HSCP.Results:Salient themes were resilience, resources, relationships and the embodied experience of pregnancy. Both PPP and HSCP underscored that socioeconomic-political forces operating at multiple levels largely determined the availability of individual and relational resources constraining diet during pregnancy. Intervention proposals focused on cultivating individual and community resilience to improve early-life nutritional environments. Participants called for better-integrated services, greater income supports and strengthened support programmes.Conclusions:Hamilton stakeholders foregrounded social determinants of inequity as main factors influencing pregnancy diet. They further indicated a need to develop interventions that build resilience and redistribute resources at multiple levels, from the household to the state.

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Beyond feedback: understanding how feedforward can support employee development

Journal of Management Development ◽

10.1108/jmd-12-2017-0402 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 46-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marie-Hélène Budworth ◽

Jennifer A. Harrison ◽

Sheryl Chummar

Keyword(s):

Positive Psychology ◽

Future Research ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Content Type ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Relational Resources ◽

Psychology Literature ◽

Environmental Limits ◽

Direct Guidance ◽

Effective Use

Purpose Recent research has found that a technique called feedforward interviewing (FFI) can be used to develop employees on the job. Currently the mechanisms and boundary conditions of the FFI-performance relationship are unexplored. Using a positive psychology framework, the purpose of this paper is to discuss how FFI supports the creation of personal and relational resources, and explores the contextual and environmental limits to the effectiveness of the technique. Design/methodology/approach Through a review of the literature as well as examination through appropriate theoretical lenses, moderators of FFI are proposed and the implications for the effectiveness of the technique are examined. Findings The FFI model explored in this paper is rooted in broaden and build theory as well as other theories from the positive psychology literature. Design recommendations and future research directions are discussed. Originality/value Through a scholarly review of the literature, the potential for the effective use of a new developmental technique is explored. Direct guidance on how to apply FFI in organizations is given.

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