scholarly journals On body and culture - medicine and embodiment.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Szél
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Therapeutic Efficiency ◽  
Body Sensations ◽  
Embodiment Theory ◽  
Insight Into

Embodiment theory shows up in several fields of (clinical) medicine, it has been applied in studying various diseases, conditions, and treatments. The aim of this short review - due to its extent limitation - is to provide some insight into the diversity of interpretation and application of the embodiment paradigm within medicine.The question of embodiment was often discussed regarding diseases and conditions with physical modifications or lesions, as well as in case of those with notable changes in perception (e.gpregnancy, cancer or organ transplantation). However, studies were also performed in seemingly distant areas such as psychiatry (schizophrenia, dementia, depression, anorexia), pulmonology (asthma and COPD), or endocrinology (perimenopause). Meanwhile embodiment was most frequently explored in connection with the lived experience of femininity-masculinity, physical symptoms, movement limitations, altered body sensations, some of these articles discussed more general concerns such as therapeutic relationship, (disease) perceptions, compliance and therapeutic efficiency.

scholarly journals Long COVID and the role of physical activity: a qualitative study

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. e047632
Author(s):  
Helen Humphreys ◽  
Laura Kilby ◽  
Nik Kudiersky ◽  
Robert Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

ObjectivesTo explore the lived experience of long COVID with particular focus on the role of physical activity.DesignQualitative study using semistructured interviews.Participants18 people living with long COVID (9 men, 9 women; aged between 18–74 years; 10 white British, 3 white Other, 3 Asian, 1 black, 1 mixed ethnicity) recruited via a UK-based research interest database for people with long COVID.SettingTelephone interviews with 17 participants living in the UK and 1 participant living in the USA.ResultsFour themes were generated. Theme 1 describes how participants struggled with drastically reduced physical function, compounded by the cognitive and psychological effects of long COVID. Theme 2 highlights challenges associated with finding and interpreting advice about physical activity that was appropriately tailored. Theme 3 describes individual approaches to managing symptoms including fatigue and ‘brain fog’ while trying to resume and maintain activities of daily living and other forms of exercise. Theme 4 illustrates the battle with self-concept to accept reduced function (even temporarily) and the fear of permanent reduction in physical and cognitive ability.ConclusionsThis study provides insight into the challenges of managing physical activity alongside the extended symptoms associated with long COVID. Findings highlight the need for greater clarity and tailoring of physical activity-related advice for people with long COVID and improved support to resume activities important to individual well-being.

Exact analysis of the bending of wide beams by a modified elastica approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 225 (11) ◽  
pp. 2759-2764 ◽  
Author(s):  
L F Campanile ◽  
R Jähne ◽  
A Hasse
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Substantial Reduction ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Computational Effort ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Finite Element Calculations ◽  
Dimensional Finite Element ◽  
Wide Beams ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

Classical beam models do not account for partial restraint of anticlastic bending and are therefore inherently inaccurate. This article proposes a modification of the exact Bernoulli–Euler equation which allows for an exact prediction of the beam's deflection without the need of two-dimensional finite element calculations. This approach offers a substantial reduction in the computational effort, especially when coupled with a fast-solving schema like the circle-arc method. Besides the description of the new method and its validation, this article offers an insight into the somewhat disregarded topic of anticlastic bending by a short review of the published theories and a selection of representative numerical results.

scholarly journals Racist Victimization, Legal Estrangement and Resentful Reliance on the Police in Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 096466392110239
Author(s):  
Kıvanç Atak
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Racial Minorities ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Police Response ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Racial Hatred ◽  
Vicarious Experiences ◽  
Insight Into

Scholarly literature offers much insight into aggressive policing of racial minorities. However, research is not equally extensive regarding the experiences of racial minorities with law enforcement when police response might be decisive for their sense of recognition and protection as a community. Bridging debates from critical race studies, hate crimes and legal cynicism, this paper addresses how policing of racist victimization is experienced by members of racially targeted communities in Sweden. Drawing on interviews with people having personal and/or vicarious experiences with racist victimization, I analyze resentful reliance on the police through the concept of legal estrangement. While most respondents describe police treatment in somewhat positive terms, there is a shared resentment at the police due to the lived experience that racism often remains undetected. Previous interactions with law enforcement also pave the way for accumulated skepticism toward the utility of the policing of racial hatred. Disenchantment with law enforcement notwithstanding, reliance on the police manifests a will not just to be recognized as a victim, but also to make the pervasiveness of racism more visible.

The Logic of Ambiguity

Janus Head ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McManaman Tyler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
First Person ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Person Experience ◽  
First Person Experience

While recent work on trauma provides insight into the first-person experience of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Aristotelian propositional logic, which underlies Western paradigms of thought, contains implicit ontological assumptions about identity and time which obscure the lived experience of PTSD. Conversely, Indian Buddhist catuskoti logic calls into question dualistic and discursive forms of thought. This paper argues that catuskoti logic, informed by Buddhist ontology, is a more fitting logical framework when seeking to describe and understand the first-person experience of PTSD, as it allows for ambiguity, non-duality, and polysemy.

Perception of the lived experience of women with dyspareunia and vaginismus: qualitative study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Heydarian ◽  
Maryam Gholamzadehjefreh ◽  
Shahbazi Masoud
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
The Family ◽  
Data Saturation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Inferiority Feeling

Aim: Dyspareunia and vaginismus are important issues in the lives of women with these disorders and have adverse, damaging consequences for the individual, the family, and the couple's intimacy. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the lived experience of women with dyspareunia and vaginismus. Methods: The method of this study was descriptive-phenomenological psychological in which nine female participants suffering from dyspareunia and vaginismus were selected through purposeful sampling and data collection was continued through semi-structured interviews until data saturation was reached. After collecting the data and transcribing them, the researcher used Giorgi’s five-step phenomenological data analysis method. Results: Analyzing data led to 12 contributing components of the lived experience of women with dyspareunia and vaginismus which included: lack of awareness, experiencing the physical symptoms of anxiety, fear, predicting pain, feeling of inadequacy and inferiority, feeling of shame, hatred of sex and of spouse, a feeling of suffering, feeling of anger, feeling of guilt, decreased emotional and sexual intimacy, and regret about marriage. Conclusion: The results of this study also enrich the previous research literature on the lived experience of dyspareunia and vaginismus. Also, the structure of the lived experience of dyspareunia and vaginismus derived from this study is widely used to develop and apply preventive and therapeutic programs for this condition and its consequences.

Why is lived experience important for market stewardship? A proposed framework for why and how lived experience should be included in stewarding disability markets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariella Meltzer ◽  
Helen Dickinson ◽  
Eleanor Malbon ◽  
Gemma Carey
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Key Points ◽  
People With Disability ◽  
And Control ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Inputs And Outputs

Background: Many countries use market forces to drive reform across disability supports and services. Over the last few decades, many countries have individualised budgets and devolved these to people with disability, so that they can purchase their own choice of supports from an available market of services.Key points for discussion: Such individualised, market-based schemes aim to extend choice and control to people with disability, but this is only achievable if the market operates effectively. Market stewardship has therefore become an important function of government in guiding markets and ensuring they operate effectively.The type of evidence that governments tend to draw on in market stewardship is typically limited to inputs and outputs and has less insight into the outcomes services do or do not achieve. While this is a typical approach to market stewardship, we argue it is problematic and that a greater focus on outcomes is necessary.Conclusions and implications: To include a focus on outcomes, we argue that market stewards need to take account of the lived experience of people with disability. We present a framework for doing this, drawing on precedents where people with disability have contributed lived experience evidence within other policy, research, knowledge production and advocacy contexts.With the lived experience evidence of people with disability included, market stewardship will be better able to take account of outcomes as they play out in the lives of those using the market and, ultimately, achieve greater choice and control for people with disability.<br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Market stewardship is key to guiding quasi-markets, including in the disability sector;</li><br /><li>Evidence guiding market stewardship is often about inputs and outputs only;</li><br /><li>It would be beneficial to also include lived experience evidence from people with disability;</li><br /><li>We propose a framework for the inclusion of lived experience evidence in market stewardship.</li></ul>

scholarly journals Brief structural insight into the allosteric gating mechanism of BK (Slo1) channel

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 498-502
Author(s):  
János Almássy ◽  
Péter P. Nánási
Keyword(s):  
Quaternary Structure ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Bk Channel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gating Model ◽  
Cryo Electron Microscopy ◽  
Gating Mechanism ◽  
Electrophysiological Measurements ◽  
Structural Insight ◽  
Insight Into

The big conductance Ca2+-dependent K+ channel, also known as BK, MaxiK, Slo1, or KCa1.1, is a ligand- and voltage-gated K+ channel. Although structure-function studies of the past decades, involving mutagenesis and electrophysiological measurements, revealed fine details of the mechanism of BK channel gating, the exact molecular details remained unknown until the quaternary structure of the protein has been solved at a resolution of 3.5 Å using cryo-electron microscopy. In this short review, we are going to summarize these results and interpret the gating model of the BK channel in the light of the recent structural results.

scholarly journals Giant Unilamellar Vesicle Electroformation: What to Use, What to Avoid, and How to Quantify the Results

Membranes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 860
Author(s):  
Zvonimir Boban ◽  
Ivan Mardešić ◽  
Witold Karol Subczynski ◽  
Marija Raguz
Keyword(s):  
Short Review ◽  
Automatic Analysis ◽  
Giant Unilamellar Vesicle ◽  
Giant Unilamellar Vesicles ◽  
High Cholesterol ◽  
Unilamellar Vesicles ◽  
Cholesterol Crystals ◽  
Manual Analysis ◽  
Insight Into

Since its inception more than thirty years ago, electroformation has become the most commonly used method for growing giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). Although the method seems quite straightforward at first, researchers must consider the interplay of a large number of parameters, different lipid compositions, and internal solutions in order to avoid artifactual results or reproducibility problems. These issues motivated us to write a short review of the most recent methodological developments and possible pitfalls. Additionally, since traditional manual analysis can lead to biased results, we have included a discussion on methods for automatic analysis of GUVs. Finally, we discuss possible improvements in the preparation of GUVs containing high cholesterol contents in order to avoid the formation of artifactual cholesterol crystals. We intend this review to be a reference for those trying to decide what parameters to use as well as an overview providing insight into problems not yet addressed or solved.

scholarly journals Exploring the Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells During Normothermic Organ Perfusion: A New Paradigm to Enhance Outcome Following Allograft Transplantation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Mohamed Morsy ◽  
Mohammad Ayaz Hossain ◽  
Atul Bagul
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Mesenchymal Stem Cells ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Solid Organ Transplantation ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Solid Organ ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Liver And Kidney

Background: Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) has been established in the field of solid organ transplantation for both liver and kidney allografts. The ability to perfuse organs at body temperature enables viability assessment as well as optimisation prior to implantation. Discussion: A recent in vitro report of the use of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) in the use of a normothermic lung perfusion circuit has raised the possibility of their use in solid organ transplantation. The aim of this short review is to outline the potential uses of bone marrow derived MSCs for their use in renal allograft ex vivo NMP. An overview is provided of current literature of NMP as well as theorised uses for MSCs.

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