scholarly journals Early Diagnosis of Autism in the United Arab Emirates: Autism Knowledge and Attitudes Among Primary Healthcare Providers in Ras Al Khaimah

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Wentz
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Repetitive Behaviors ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Pediatric Healthcare ◽  
Primary Healthcare Providers ◽  
Insight Into

Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by impaired social interactions, verbal and nonverbal communication, and stereotyped, repetitive behaviors. While the Autism prevalence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is comparable to that observed in other countries, children in the UAE are being diagnosed later as their conditions are not being detected by the available pediatric healthcare oversight protocols or being reported by parents. Pediatricians and parents are at the best vantage point to spot the earliest warning signs of autism. If the disorder is detected in its infancy, early intervention programs can help ameliorate the symptoms significantly. This study provides insight into the important issues impacting autism’s early detection in the UAE, using the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah as a case study to better understand and mitigate local phenomena that might be delaying diagnosis, negatively impacting the future of autistic children and their families.

scholarly journals Global Art Market in the Aftermath of COVID-19: A Case Study on the United Arab Emirates

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Eve Grinstead
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Rare Instance

How has COVID-19 affected the global art market? This virus interrupted 2020 in unforeseen ways globally, including the cancellation of the most important art events of the year. Through a close chronological study of the Emirati art scene’s response, both in commercial and noncommercial venues, this essay explains how, and why, the UAE’s art scene was able to react quickly and perhaps more effectively than that of other nations, and what that means for its future. Based on fieldwork and press articles, this article posits that the Emirati art scene evolved from being virtually non-existent to a thriving contemporary art hub in a matter of decades because it has always had to adapt to challenges such as nonexistent art infrastructure or the 2008 financial crisis. By studying the UAE, we find examples of exhibitions that quickly moved from being in situ to online, a rare instance of galleries and art auction house collaborating, government and institutional structures stepping up to support artists and galleries, and the renaissance of Art Dubai taking place in person in 2021 after being abruptly cancelled in 2020. This knowledge provides insight into how the global art market is changing to face the consequences of COVID-19.

Developing professional education for primary healthcare providers about nutrition

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 534
Author(s):  
Catherine J. Lucas ◽  
Anne T. McMahon ◽  
Karen E. Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
Nutrition Training ◽  
Primary Healthcare Providers

Nutrition care is an important component of primary health care as a way to promote positive lifestyle behaviours and reduce risks of chronic disease. Despite this, it appears that primary healthcare settings, including antenatal care, miss opportunities to deliver nutrition care. Time constraints, lack of nutrition knowledge and lack of confidence have been identified as barriers for primary healthcare providers in delivering nutrition care. Nutrition training to upskill primary healthcare providers to deliver nutrition care in a timely manner therefore appears warranted. This forum article discusses models and methods of continuing professional development (CPD) and the effectiveness of nutrition CPD for primary healthcare professionals. It includes a case study as an example of developing nutrition CPD for midwives using adult learning theory and concludes with implications for developing nutrition education resources for primary healthcare providers.

Dramaturgical Challenges of Parkinson's Disease

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Doyle Lyons ◽  
Linda Tickle-Degnen
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Collective Case Study ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Dramaturgical Analysis ◽  
Insight Into

Being able to engage in satisfying and effective interpersonal interactions is an important component of health. Parkinson's disease (PD) is an example of a chronic illness that can make social interactions difficult and awkward. The aim of this study was to explore the nature of the challenges people with PD face during social occupations. Following a collective case study design, two men and one woman each participated in two qualitative interviews. Dramaturgical analysis of the interview data was conducted to offer insight into why some interactions are problematic. Elements seen in the stories of problematic encounters included a dramaturgical challenge created by PD symptoms, resulting discomfort or confusion, and the adoption of an attitude or action to surmount the challenge. Using dramaturgical analysis to explore the occupational form of social interactions can develop knowledge about the facilitation of social well-being.

A Case Study in Autism Spectrum Disorder

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Jatinder Goraya
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Special Education Teachers ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Dsm V

Autism spectrum disorder is a common neurodevelopmental disorder with onset during early life but with life-long implications for the affected person. The term is now broader and all-inclusive and represents the whole spectrum of disorders previously classified under autism and related disorders such as Asperger syndrome. Incidence of autism spectrum disorder appears to be rising, related in part to increase in awareness and recognition by the parents and the healthcare providers. Autism spectrum disorder is most often diagnosed using DSM-V criteria. These diagnostic criteria include persistent deficits in social communication/social interaction and restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests, or activities. Treatment requires a multidisciplinary team incorporating pediatricians, therapists, social workers, special education teachers, etc. to optimize the outcomes. A case study is presented to highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of autism spectrum disorder.

scholarly journals Social Isolation Alters Social and Mating Behavior in the R451C Neuroligin Mouse Model of Autism

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. Burrows ◽  
A. F. Eastwood ◽  
C. May ◽  
S. C. Kolbe ◽  
T. Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Repetitive Behaviors ◽  
Neural Mechanisms

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder typified by impaired social communication and restrictive and repetitive behaviors. Mice serve as an ideal candidate organism for studying the neural mechanisms that subserve these symptoms. The Neuroligin-3 (NL3) mouse, expressing a R451C mutation discovered in two Swedish brothers with ASD, exhibits impaired social interactions and heightened aggressive behavior towards male mice. Social interactions with female mice have not been characterized and in the present study were assessed in maleNL3R451Cand WT mice. Mice were housed in social and isolation conditions to test for isolation-induced increases in social interaction. Tests were repeated to investigate potential differences in interaction in naïve and experienced mice. We identified heightened interest in mating and atypical aggressive behavior inNL3R451Cmice.NL3R451Cmice exhibited normal social interaction with WT females, indicating that abnormal aggressive behavior towards females is not due to altered motivation to engage. Social isolation rearing heightened interest in social behavior in all mice. Isolation housing selectively modulated the response to female pheromones inNL3R451Cmice. This study is the first to show altered mating behavior in theNL3R451Cmouse and has provided new insights into the aggressive phenotype in this model.

Psychotherapy versus Voice Therapy for a Child with a Deviant Voice, a Case Study

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 887-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris P. Mosby
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Vocal Cord ◽  
Voice Therapy ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Voice Problem ◽  
Insight Into

A case study is presented of a boy, age 10–11, who had a “severe voice problem” characterized by hoarseness, stridency, tension, low pitch and the presence of vocal cord nodules. He proved resistive to traditional voice therapy techniques in two separate blocks of voice therapy. Only minimal changes were made initially in psychotherapy alone. Nodules continued to recur. However, the modest gains initiated in psychotherapy became more marked in a second block of psychotherapy. The voice therapy alone did not produce such consistent gains. A discernible voice change in the range of normal quality was noted. Behavior became characterized by less manifest tension and diminished aggression in overt acts. Self-insight into how the voice was used aggressively in social interactions was developed. At an ENT examination 4 mo. after termination of psychotherapy, no vocal-cord nodules were found. At an interview follow-up 13 mo. after psychotherapy, personality functioning appeared to be adequate. It is suggested that (1) psychotherapy may be the preferred method of treatment for functional voice deviations which are resistive to the “usually successful” voice therapy and (2) voice therapy in conjunction with psychotherapy seems to yield lasting improvement in both the voice and the behavior of a client.

Margins and Modernity: A Geocritical Approach to Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Ruth Knezevich
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Insight Into

The genre of annotated verse represents an under-explored form of transporting romanticism. In annotated, locodescriptive poems like those in Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale, readers are invited to read not only the spatiality of the landscapes depicted in the verse but also the landscape of the page itself. Seward's poems, with their focus on understanding geographical, political, and historical spaces both real and imaginary, provide geocritical insight into poetic productions of the early Romantic era. Likewise, geocriticism offers a fresh and useful – even necessary – analytic approach to such poems. I adopt Anna Seward as a case study in annotated verse and argue that attending to the materiality and paratextuality of her work allows us to access the complexities of her poetry and prose as well as her position within the wider framework of transporting Romanticism.

Transformative Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies: Biotechnology and Contemporary Art – A Practitioner's Approach and Perspective

Somatechnics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svenja J. Kratz
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Culture ◽  
Human Skin ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Skin Equivalent ◽  
Biomedical Innovation ◽  
Equivalent Models ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Human Skin Equivalent

Abstract: Presented from an ArtScience practitioner's perspective, this paper provides an overview of Svenja Kratz's experience working as an artist within the area of cell and tissue culture at QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI). Using The Absence of Alice, a multi-medium exhibition based on the experience of culturing cells, as a case study, the paper gives insight into the artist's approach to working across art and science and how ideas, processes, and languages from each discipline can intermesh and extend the possibilities of each system. The paper also provides an overview of her most recent artwork, The Human Skin Equivalent/Experience Project, which involves the creation of personal jewellery items incorporating human skin equivalent models grown from the artist's skin and participant cells. Referencing this project, and other contemporary bioart works, the value of ArtScience is discussed, focusing in particular on the way in which cross-art-science projects enable an alternative voice to enter into scientific dialogues and have the potential to yield outcomes valuable to both disciplines.

A Novel Integrated Reliability Test System for BEOL TDDB Study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jifeng Chen ◽  
Peilin Song ◽  
Thomas M. Shaw ◽  
Franco Stellari ◽  
Lynne Gignac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Dielectric Breakdown ◽  
Test System ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Reliability Test ◽  
Electrical Measurements ◽  
Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown ◽  
Microscopy Images ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new methodology and test system to enable the early detection and precise localization of Time-Dependent-Dielectric-Breakdown (TDDB) occurrence in Back-End-of-Line (BEOL) interconnection. The methodology is implemented as a novel Integrated Reliability Test System (IRTS). In particular, through our methodology and test system, we can easily synchronize electrical measurements and emission microscopy images to gather more accurate information and thereby gain insight into the nature of the defects and their relationship to chip manufacturing steps and materials, so that we can ultimately better engineer these steps for higher reliable systems. The details of our IRTS will be presented along with a case study and preliminary analysis results.

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