scholarly journals Social media in the infertile community—using a text analysis tool to identify the topics of discussion on the multitude of infertility blogs

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 174550652110632
Author(s):  
Taina Sormunen ◽  
Margareta Westerbotn ◽  
Arthur Aanesen ◽  
Bjöörn Fossum ◽  
Klas Karlgren
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
The Body ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
History Of ◽  
Negative Statements ◽  
Insight Into

Background: Infertility affects one in six couples. New digital resources exist which enable the study of lived experience of persons with infertility. Blogging represents a forum for sharing narratives and experiences. To provide high quality care for persons with a history of infertility, it is crucial to ascertain what they value as significant in their situation. Blogs with a focus on infertility may provide this information. Objectives: The aim of this study was to gain insight into which infertility-related issues are discussed on Swedish infertility blogs. Methods: In total, 70 infertility blogs were identified on the Internet and 25 met the inclusion criteria. A quantitative–qualitative content analysis was performed with the support of the Gavagai Explorer text analysis software. Results: A total of 4508 postings were retrieved from the blogs, all of which were written by women. The outcome of the analysis resulted into the following topics: Emotions (16.8%), Relations (12.5%), Time and waiting (7.1%), Body (6.6%), Care and treatment (4.2%), Food and diet (1.4%) and Exercise (0.5%). For most topics, there was a balance between positive and negative statements, but the body topic stood out by having more negative than positive sentiment. Conclusion: By considering the topics expressed in blogs, health care personnel are provided with an opportunity to better understand the situation of individuals affected by infertility.

A Welcome Conversation: Toward a New Historiography of Intellectual Property

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 1113-1129
Author(s):  
Kali Murray
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay considers what tools should be used to study the legal history of intellectual property. I identify three historiographical strategies: narration, contest, and formation. Narration identifies the diverse “narrative structures” that shape the field of intellectual property history. Contest highlights how the inherent instability of intellectual property as a legal concept prompts recurrent debates over its meaning. Formation recognizes how intellectual property historians can offer insight into broader legal history debates over how to consider the relationship between informal social practices and formalized legal mechanisms. I consider Kara W. Swanson's Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk and Sperm in Modern America (2014) in light of these historiographical strategies and conclude that Swanson's book guides us to a new conversation in the legal history of intellectual property law.

scholarly journals У каждого своя Сибирь. Два женских рассказа о депортации калмыков

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 778-800
Author(s):  
Elza-Bair M. Guchinova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Introduction. The proposed publication consists of an introduction, texts of two biographical interviews and comments thereon. Both the conversations took place in Elista (2004, 2017) as part of the research project ‘Everyone Has One’s Own Siberia’ dedicated to the important period in the history of Kalmykia though not yet sufficiently explored by anthropologists and sociologists — the deportation of Kalmyks to Siberia (1943–1956) and related memories. Goals. The project seeks to show the daily survival practices of Kalmyks in Siberia. In the spontaneous biographical interviews focusing on the years of Kalmyk deportation, not only the facts cited are important — of which we would otherwise stay unaware but from the oral narratives — but also the introduced stories of inner life: feelings and thoughts of growing girls. Methods. The paper involves the use of textual analysis and the method of text deconstruction. Results. The transcribed texts show survival and adaptation strategies employed by the young generation of ‘special settlers’ in places of forced residence. For many Kalmyks of that generation, high school was a ‘glass ceiling’, a limitation in life choices. In the narrative of R. Ts. Azydova, we face a today unthinkable social package for KUTV students with children — this illustrates how the korenization policy for indigenous populations in the USSR worked, and provides insight into daily practices of pre-war Elista. The story of T. S. Kachanova especially clearly manifests the ‘language of trauma’, first of all, through the memory of the body, vocabulary of death and displays of laughter. The texts of the interviews shall be interesting to all researchers of Kalmyk deportation and the memory of that period.

scholarly journals IN THE LENSE OF THE ODD: CONSTRUCTING THE OTHERNESS IN MALAYSIAN HISTORY

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-88
Author(s):  
Norena Abdul karim zamri ◽  
ADAM Abdul Karim Zamri
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Different Types ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

This study provides an understanding of Otherness concept  in contemporary social and cultural thought. It tries to delves on the many histories consumed by the Malaysian publics. It is based on the premised that historical knowledge of the nation is ethnicized. This study is aware that there is no official history of the nation. What has come to be known as the nation’s history evolved over space and has been accepted currently as mainstream history. By combining the fields of postcolonial theory and culture studies, it uses a theoretical framework that attaches contemporary cultural debates regarding the representation discourse with the colonial stereotypes and racialized imageries. Through the application of qualitative content analysis and quantitative analysis,  the study strives to make a theoretical contribution and adding to the body of the knowledge. This study deduce with a review of different types of racial otherness in Sarawak, by highlighting Orientalism as a form of persistent that has been maintained by colonial binaries throughout the history of Malaysia.

population of potential patients, but be such that they produce different effects when a patient is switched from formulation T to formulation R or vice-versa. In other words there is a significant subject-by-formulation interaction. To show that this is not the case T and R have to be shown to be IBE, i.e., individually bioequivalent. The measure of IBE that has been suggested by the regulators is an aggregate measure involving the means and variances of T and R and the subject-by-formulation inter-action. We will describe this measure in Section 7.4. In simple terms PBE can be considered as a measure that permits patients who have not yet been treated with T or R to be safely prescribed either. IBE, on the other hand, is a measure which permits a patient who is cur-rently being treated with R to be safely switched to T (FDA Guid-ance, 1997, 1999a,b, 2000, 2001). It is worth noting that if T is IBE to R it does not imply that R is IBE to T. The same can be said for PBE. An important practical implication of testing for IBE is that the 2×2 cross-over trial is no longer adequate. As will be seen, the volunteers in the study will have to receive at least one repeat dose of R or T. In other words, three-or four-period designs with sequences such as [RTR,TRT] and [RTRT,TRTR], respectively, must be used. The measures of ABE, PBE and IBE that will be described in Sec-tions 7.2, 7.5 and 7.4 are those suggested by the regulators. Dragalin and Fedorov (1999) and Dragalin et al. (2002) have pointed out some drawbacks of these measures and suggested alternatives which have more attractive properties. We will consider these alternatives in Section 7.7. All the analyzes considered in Sections 7.2 to 7.4 are based on sum-mary measures (AUC and Cmax) obtained from the concentration-time profiles. If testing for bioequivalence is all that is of interest, then these measures are adequate and have been extensively used in practice. How-ever, there is often a need to obtain an understanding of the absorb-tion and elimination processes to which the drug is exposed once it has entered the body, e.g., when bioequivalence is not demonstrated. This can be done by fitting compartmental models to the drug con-centrations obtained from each volunteer. These models not only pro-vide insight into the mechanisms of action of the drugs, but can also be used to calculate the AUC and Cmax values. In Section 7.8 we de-scribe how such models can be fitted using the methods proposed by Lindsey et al. (2000a). The history of bioequivalence testing dates back to the late 1960s and early 1970s. Two excellent review articles written by Patterson (2001a, 2001b) give a more detailed description of the history, as well as a more extensive discussion of the points raised in this section. The regulatory

2003 ◽  
pp. 351-351
Keyword(s):  
Practical Implication ◽  
The Body ◽  
Repeat Dose ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Time Profiles ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Bioequivalence Testing ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Insight Into

scholarly journals Beyond Stasis: The Medium of Moving Bodies in the Work of Choreographer Ginette Laurin

eTopia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niomi Anna Cherney
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Phenomenological Model ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Concrete Form ◽  
Collaborative Engagement ◽  
Moving Bodies ◽  
Insight Into

The following paper proposes a model for considering the nature of embodiment through the lensof contemporary dance. The primary aim of this study is to examine the methods through whichthe medium of performance can offer insight into the specificities of the lived body. I pose thematerial body as site of intercorporeal exchange and as a locus of dialogue. Rather thanaccounting for the body as always already being in motion, scholarship on the body has atendency to consider it as a static and concrete form. In order to develop a methodology fortheorizing the lived experience of corporeality, I consider the work of Montreal choreographerGinette Laurin’s evening length work, La Chambre Blanche, by way of example. It is the aim ofthis paper to suggest that a collaborative engagement of Brian Massumi’s post-Deleuzian body,alongside a reading of the traditional phenomenological model of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’snotion of “the flesh” (1968), may provide the tools necessary for a comprehensive reading of thebody in motion.

scholarly journals The unemployed mid-career adult: stressors and support

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Ribton-Turner ◽  
Gideon P De Bruin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Insight Into

The high rate of unemployment in South Africa is of national concern yet the experience of being unemployed is little understood; not enough is known about the unemployed condition in South Africa. In this study eight unemployed mid-career adults who had been out of work for longer than six months were interviewed in order to explore their lived experience. A qualitative methodology was used and from the extensive interview data, using qualitative content analysis, themes relating to the unemployed condition emerged. Results support, to a large degree, the existing literature and studies on the stressors impacting on the unemployed. This study offers additional insight into the support structures available for the unemployed adult.

From Montserrat to Settler-Colonial Australia: the Intersecting Histories of Caribbean Slave-owning Families, Transported British Radicals, and Indigenous Peoples

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Curthoys
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
British Government ◽  
Intersecting Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Family Groups

Abstract When the British government abolished slavery in the Caribbean and compensated the slave-owners, some of the beneficiaries and/or their children and grandchildren went to Australia to make a new life and if possible a new fortune. This essay traces the history of one such family, the Shiells of Montserrat, alongside two other contemporaneous histories – that of Yorkshire radical and convict, John Burkinshaw, and his family, into which one of the Shiells married, and that of the several Indigenous communities these families encountered. Through the experiences of these disparate and intersecting family groups, we can gain insight into both the lived experience and the wider imperial context of the expansion of Australian settler colonialism.

Aspergillus Spondylodiscitis After Spinal Stenosis Surgery: A Case Report

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3 And 4) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
Mohsen Aghapoor ◽  
◽  
Babak Alijani Alijani ◽  
Mahsa Pakseresht-Mogharab ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antifungal Drugs ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Lumbar Pain ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Delay In Diagnosis ◽  
Death Case ◽  
Therapeutic Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Probable Diagnosis

Background and Importance: Spondylodiscitis is an inflammatory disease of the body of one or more vertebrae and intervertebral disc. The fungal etiology of this disease is rare, particularly in patients without immunodeficiency. Delay in diagnosis and treatment of this disease can lead to complications and even death. Case Presentation: A 63-year-old diabetic female patient, who had a history of spinal surgery and complaining radicular lumbar pain in both lower limbs with a probable diagnosis of spondylodiscitis, underwent partial L2 and complete L3 and L4 corpectomy and fusion. As a result of pathology from tissue biopsy specimen, Aspergillus fungi were observed. There was no evidence of immunodeficiency in the patient. The patient was treated with Itraconazole 100 mg twice a day for two months. Pain, neurological symptom, and laboratory tests improved. Conclusion: The debridement surgery coupled with antifungal drugs can lead to the best therapeutic results.

Re-imagining Reproduction: Unsettling Metaphors in the History of Imperial Science and Commercial Surrogacy in India

Somatechnics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalindi Vora
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Commercial Surrogacy ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Travel Industry

This paper provides an analysis of how cultural notions of the body and kinship conveyed through Western medical technologies and practices in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) bring together India's colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing, globalisation and instrumentalised notions of the reproductive body in transnational commercial surrogacy. Essential to this industry is the concept of the disembodied uterus that has arisen in scientific and medical practice, which allows for the logic of the ‘gestational carrier’ as a functional role in ART practices, and therefore in transnational medical fertility travel to India. Highlighting the instrumentalisation of the uterus as an alienable component of a body and subject – and therefore of women's bodies in surrogacy – helps elucidate some of the material and political stakes that accompany the growth of the fertility travel industry in India, where histories of privilege and difference converge. I conclude that the metaphors we use to structure our understanding of bodies and body parts impact how we imagine appropriate roles for people and their bodies in ways that are still deeply entangled with imperial histories of science, and these histories shape the contemporary disparities found in access to medical and legal protections among participants in transnational surrogacy arrangements.

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