Interactive nature of fat activism and fat studies within and outside academia

Fat Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Stefanie Snider ◽  
Jason Whitesel
1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Verdolini ◽  
Ingo R. Titze

In this paper, we discuss the application of mathematical formulas to guide the development of clinical interventions in voice disorders. Discussion of case examples includes fundamental frequency and intensity deviations, pitch and loudness abnormalities, laryngeal hyperand hypoadduction, and phonatory effort. The paper illustrates the interactive nature of theoretical and applied work in vocology


Crisis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 376-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke A. Levandowski ◽  
Constance M. Cass ◽  
Stephanie N. Miller ◽  
Janet E. Kemp ◽  
Kenneth R. Conner

Abstract. Background: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health-care system utilizes a multilevel suicide prevention intervention that features the use of standardized safety plans with veterans considered to be at high risk for suicide. Aims: Little is known about clinician perceptions on the value of safety planning with veterans at high risk for suicide. Method: Audio-recorded interviews with 29 VHA behavioral health treatment providers in a southeastern city were transcribed and analyzed using qualitative methodology. Results: Clinical providers consider safety planning feasible, acceptable, and valuable to veterans at high risk for suicide owing to the collaborative and interactive nature of the intervention. Providers identified the types of veterans who easily engaged in safety planning and those who may experience more difficulty with the process. Conclusion: Additional research with VHA providers in other locations and with veteran consumers is needed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 152-152
Author(s):  
Ying-Ling Jao ◽  
Carissa Coleman ◽  
Kristine Williams ◽  
Diane Berish ◽  
Wen Liu ◽  
...  

Abstract Communication is fundamental for daily care activities in nursing homes (NHs). Second-by-second behavioral coding of video observations is an ideal approach to examine the interactive nature of communication but requires a reliable coding scheme. Recent studies have adapted the Peron-Centered Behavioral Inventory (PCBI) and Task-Centered Behavioral Inventory (TCBI) to analyze caregiver communication during mealtime interactions, but their use for coding general daily caregiving activities has not been widely evaluated. This pilot study adapted the PCBI and TCBI of video observations and determined their inter-rater reliability for measuring caregiver verbal communication with persons with dementia (PwD). We analyzed videos from a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to improve caregiver communication in NHs. We selected one 1-minute segment from 12 videos that included interactions of caregiver-resident dyads. One research assistant transcribed caregivers’ verbal communication and segmented the communication into utterances. Two other research assistants independently coded each utterance using the adapted PCBI and TCBI. The coding scheme was expanded by modifying the existing operational definitions, adding three new codes, and developing a coding decision guide. Residents were Caucasian (100%), mean age 86 years with dementia and resistive behaviors. The adapted PCBI and TCBI had an inter-rater reliability of Kappa=0.656 (p<.001) across the 12 videos. Overall, our adapted PCBI and TCBI showed substantial inter-rater reliability. The results support the use of our adapted PCBI and TCBI to distinguish between person-centered and task-centered communication in video observations, which, in turn, allows for sequential analysis to examine the impact of caregiver communication on PwD.


Author(s):  
Christine Howes ◽  
Arash Eshghi

AbstractFeedback such as backchannels and clarification requests often occurs subsententially, demonstrating the incremental nature of grounding in dialogue. However, although such feedback can occur at any point within an utterance, it typically does not do so, tending to occur at Feedback Relevance Spaces (FRSs). We present a corpus study of acknowledgements and clarification requests in British English, and describe how our low-level, semantic processing model in Dynamic Syntax accounts for this feedback. The model trivially accounts for the 85% of cases where feedback occurs at FRSs, but we also describe how it can be integrated or interpreted at non-FRSs using the predictive, incremental and interactive nature of the formalism. This model shows how feedback serves to continually realign processing contexts and thus manage the characteristic divergence and convergence that is key to moving dialogue forward.


2021 ◽  
pp. 004912412110099
Author(s):  
Helen Pluckrose ◽  
James Lindsay ◽  
Peter Boghossian

In April, 2020, Dr. Geoff Cole published, “Why the ‘Hoax’ Paper of Baldwin (2018) Should Be Reinstated.” We are the authors of the “Baldwin” paper published in Fat Studies. The paper satirized theoretical ideas within Fat Studies as part of a larger project to demonstrate the lack of rigor in certain theoretical approaches to cultural studies. In this response, we agree with Cole that our project should not be understood as hoaxes and that the retracted article should be reinstated, but defend our methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-520
Author(s):  
Nicola Pozza

AbstractNumerous studies have dealt with the process of globalization and its various cultural products. Three such cultural products illustrate this process: Vikas Swarup’s novel Q and A (2005), the TV quiz show Kaun banega crorepati? (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), and Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). The novel, the TV show and the film have so far been studied separately. Juxtaposing and comparing Q and A, Kaun banega crorepati, and Slumdog Millionaire provides an effective means to shed light on the dialogic and interactive nature of the process of globalization. It is argued through this case study that an analysis of their place of production, language and content, helps clarify the derivative concepts of “glocalization” and “grobalization” with regard to the way(s) contemporary cultural products respond to globalization.


1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana L. Hoag ◽  
Fritz M. Roka

AbstractLivestock production and manure handling decisions often have been treated in the literature as separate enterprises. Policymakers, too, have ignored the interactive nature of manure management by focusing on land application for nutrient disposal. This study outlines a systems approach to describe the interrelated decisions producers face, using examples from North Carolina and Iowa that show how producers' attitudes toward manure management lead them to handle manure differently in different regions. In North Carolina, nutrients in manure are “not wanted.” There are economic incentives to treat manure, thus reducing its nutrient content, and to apply it on as little land as possible. In Iowa, nutrients are “not wasted.” Producers conserve the nutrients in manure and use them more fully, applying manure to higher value crops such as corn. Policies that influence manure management can be made more effective by accounting for the differences in producers' incentives to waste or want the nutrients.


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