Afterword: Reading India

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máire ní Fhlathúin
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Over Time

The boundary between lived experience and discursive representation, inherent in the formal division of this book, is in practice neither clear-cut nor sustainable, though it serves its purpose as an organising principle. Looking at individual writers’ representations of India, what comes over time and again is the complexity of what they perceive: that is, their sensory engagement with the materiality of India is both shaped by their previously formed expectations, and overlaid with their knowledge of the responses of others. Their expression of these perceptions is equally complex, formulated as it is in negotiation with existing metropolitan, colonial and indigenous tropes and genres....

Part VI Global Approach of State Aid Law—WTO Law and EU Trade Defence Instruments, 2 Anti-subsidy Law and Practice of the European Union

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kreuschitz Viktor ◽  
Nehl Hanns Peter
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Approach ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Past ◽  
Export Subsidies ◽  
Very High ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Eu

This concluding chapter explores EU's anti-subsidy instruments, which are designed to address subsidization by other WTO members. After a hesitant start, the EU since 1995 has progressively used the AS instrument to act against subsidization by third-country governments. While initially focusing on relatively clear-cut export subsidies, over time the EU has more and more also countervailed domestic subsidy programmes. This is clearest in the AS cases initiated against China during the past five years, where the majority of the countervailed programmes have consisted of domestic subsidies. In this context, it is important to note that the findings of specificity reached by the EU in cases concerning China are largely based on the use of facts available, resulting from the imposition of very high burdens of proof on the Chinese government that domestic subsidies in fact are not specific.

The Final Score

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-210
Author(s):  
Steven M. Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Professional Athlete ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Empowerment ◽  
Final Score ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Over Time

The conclusion provides some final observations about the longitudinal research itself and its short- and long-term effects on the women involved. It briefly touches on the few areas of the sport marriage that have seen improvement in the past few decades, discusses the conscious decisions the women make to continue normalizing the career-dominated marriage, and reports on how the marriages fared over time. It also describes the women’s personal empowerment as a result of their participation in the research. Finally, it summarizes the advice and suggested keys to a successful sport marriage that the wives in both studies offered, based on their lived experience. This overview essentially describes how and why the wife of a male professional athlete must adapt to realities if she wants her marriage to survive her husband’s career and retirement.

Who knows best? Older people’s and practitioner contributions to understanding and preventing avoidable hospital admissions

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-246
Author(s):  
Jon Glasby ◽  
Rosemary Littlechild ◽  
Nick Le Mesurier ◽  
Rachel Thwaites
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Emergency Hospital ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Emergency Hospital Admissions ◽  
Line Staff ◽  
The Media ◽  
Study Sites

AbstractWhenever there are well-publicised pressures on acute care, there is a tendency for policy makers and the media to imply that a significant number of older people may be taking up hospital beds when they do not really need the services provided there. However, evidence to back up such claims is often lacking, and existing research tends to fail to engage meaningfully with older people themselves. In contrast, this research explores the emergency hospital admissions of older people in three English case study sites, drawing on the lived experience of older people and the practice wisdom of front-line staff to explore the appropriateness of each admission and scope for alternatives to hospital. Contrary to popular opinion, the study did not find evidence of large numbers of older people being admitted to hospital inappropriately. Indeed, some of the older people concerned delayed seeking help and only ended up at hospital as a very last resort, possibly due to concerns about being seen as a burden on scarce public resources. While older people and front-line staff identified a number of suggestions to improve services in future, there seemed few clear cut, easy answers to the longstanding dilemma of how best to reduce emergency admissions. Seeking to understand and potentially reduce emergency hospital admissions is complex, and it is important to consider the experiences and expertise of older people and front-line staff.

scholarly journals Enhancing Accessibility of Physical Activity During Pregnancy: A Pilot Study on Women’s Experiences With Integrating Yoga Into Group Prenatal Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 233339281983488
Author(s):  
Patricia Kinser ◽  
Nancy Jallo ◽  
Leroy Thacker ◽  
Christine Aubry ◽  
Saba Masho
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Prenatal Care ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Group Prenatal Care ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Over Time

Introduction: Health guidelines suggest that pregnant women should participate in daily physical activity, yet rarely do they meet these guidelines. Means to enhance accessibility of physical activity for pregnant women are required, and yoga has been suggested as a possible method to enhance women’s sense of confidence and competence with physical activity. In this pilot study, our primary aim is to evaluate pregnant women’s perceptions about their lived experience of an intervention which integrates a low-intensity form of physical activity, yoga, into prenatal care; our secondary aim is to evaluate changes in participants’ self-efficacy for physical activity and time spent in physical activity over time. Methods: Held in an outpatient obstetrics department of an urban hospital system in the United States, this pilot study enrolled 16 pregnant women to participate in the intervention throughout their pregnancy. We explored participants’ lived experience of the intervention using qualitative methods (phenomenology). Means, variances, and covariances were calculated for the 2 measures (self-efficacy and time spent in physical activity) over the intervention period. Results: Qualitative findings from focus groups suggest that it is acceptable for prenatal yoga to be integrated into group prenatal care classes and women reported increased confidence with physical activity during pregnancy. Participants did not consider the intervention to fit within the traditional definition of exercise. Women reported increased amounts of time spent in physical activity from baseline to the end of pregnancy, but there were no statistically significant changes in self-efficacy over time. Discussion: The integration of gentle physical activity into the group prenatal care model warrants further attention for potential benefits with regard to maternal physical and mental wellness.

Is Anorexia Nervosa an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

1990 ◽  
Vol 157 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil L. Holden
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Anterior Pituitary ◽  
World Health ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Over Time

Although anorexia nervosa may vary widely in its severity and outcome, it is usually regarded as an illness in its own right, as patients do not display major changes in the form of the illness over time (Russell, 1970). It readily lends itself to being accorded clear-cut diagnostic criteria (Russell, 1977) and this is reflected in ICD–10 (World Health Organization, 1987). However, the nosological independence of anorexia nervosa has undergone vigorous assault since its classic description by William Gull (1874). For example, the psychological nature of anorexia nervosa was obscured for 30 years by Simmond's (1914) description of anterior pituitary lesions and cachexia, and Kay & Leigh's (1954) influential study of anorexia nervosa concluded with their doubts about its status as a ‘psychiatric entity’.

In Another World: Five Years Later – A Phenomenological Nursing Inquiry Into Meanings, “Essences” of Mothers’ Lived Experience With Perinatal Death of a Wished-For Baby Unfolding Over Time

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Sarah Steen Lauterbach
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Perinatal Death ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Over Time

This article discusses the author’s qualitative nursing research, which used M. van Manen’s and P. Munhall’s method of phenomenology to investigate mothers’ experience with the death of a wished-for baby. The findings from the original doctoral inquiry are discussed, along with the findings from the 5-year followup with participants from the original research. Further, this paper articulates the first use of a longitudinal perspective to phenomenology and proposes its use when looking at meanings in human experience over time. In addition, there is a discussion of the balancing of therapeutic and research imperatives and the emergence in qualitative research of a caring imperative into sensitive human phenomena.

Ranking of finance journals: a stochastic dominance analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 312-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin H. Kao ◽  
Chuan-Hao Hsu ◽  
Yunlin Lu ◽  
Hung-Gay Fung
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Dominance ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Citation Distribution ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Purpose – Prior studies in citation-based journal rankings tend to be static to compare across journals. One journal may be judged better in citations than other journals at some points in time but not at the others. The assumption that the citation distribution is normally distributed and that the citation observations are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) may not be appropriate. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a stochastic dominance (SD) analysis, which overcomes the dynamic nature of changes in citation over time. The SD method proposed by Linton, Maasoumi, and Whang (hereafter LMW, 2005) does not require the data to be i.i.d. We use the LMW method to compare the relative ranking of 23 finance journals using citations for all articles from them during 1990-2010. Findings – The study indicates that the citation distribution changes over time. Thus a SD analysis is a better approach for a comparison of journal ranking. The findings unambiguously place JF, JFE, RFS, JFQA, and JFI in the top five spots of the finance journal ranking. The “near-top” journals, such as JBF, JCF, and FM, are not clear cut in the SD analysis. Research limitations/implications – The results confirm that ranking for the lower ranked journals may change over time especially, but the top three journals appear to be robust across methods and over time. Originality/value – The results of SD analysis provides more convincing evidence on finance journal ranking and could be useful to rank academic institutions, faculty research quality, and help the authors to decide what to read and which journals are influential.

scholarly journals Together We Read, Together We Learn: Examining Book Clubs as a Means of Connecting LIS to a Feminist Diversity Ethic

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Brown
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Book Club ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Book Clubs ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

This article examines the significance of dialogic exploration of feminist and diversity-orientedtexts in book clubs consisting of Library and Information Science (LIS) master’s students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Through this research, I sought to achieve an understanding of how participation in book clubs that espouse a feminist or diversity ethic inspire members to create deeper, more insightful connections between these values and LIS. While the two book clubs under study began as separate entities with distinct memberships, participants’ dualmembership increased over time. The initially distinct ideals of each book club—feminism and diversity—coalesced, and a new value schema emerged in common between the two: a feminist diversity ethic. A feminist diversity ethic is a form of intersectional feminism that values experiential knowledge, the multifaceted nature of identity, respectful communication, caring, and orientation toward social justice as a means of dismantling interlocking systems of oppression. In the book clubs, this ethic encouraged the proactive search for exposure to diverse cultural and experiential paradigms through texts and stories of lived experience. Emphasis onthis ethic informed book club members’ approach to LIS in several ways: first, it challenged participants to define diversity and its importance in LIS; second, it fostered the deconstruction of the notion of the other; and third, it enabled participants to actualize a feminist diversity ethic within the structure of the book clubs, thus preparing them to continue this ethic in their future roles as LIS practitioners.

scholarly journals Interpreting Lived Experience through Writing Online in a Graduate Seminar

1944 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Clare Courtland ◽  
John Novak ◽  
Gail LaFleur ◽  
Ken McClelland ◽  
Steve R. Sider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Interpretive Community ◽  
Graduate Seminar ◽  
Writing Strategy ◽  
Online Format ◽  
Over Time

Participants in an online doctoral seminar participated in the use of a writing strategy to explore the sociocultural contexts of their lived experience. Creating literary texts in three forms was an effective strategy in mediating participants' understanding. Each form provided a new lens through which to interpret experience. Participants functioned as an interpretive community. The final papers, autobiographical narratives, illuminated the complex relations among prediscursive experience, reflection on experience, distancing, and the iterative transformational quality of time. The online format embodied a virtual interpretive location which allowed participants to revisit texts and postings over time.

scholarly journals Bryophyte Conservation in Managed Boreal Landscapes: Fourteen-Year Impacts of Partial Cuts on Epixylic Bryophytes

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Opoku-Nyame ◽  
Alain Leduc ◽  
Nicole J. Fenton
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Coarse Woody Debris ◽  
Black Spruce ◽  
Woody Debris ◽  
Permanent Plots ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Old Growth Forest ◽  
Old Growth Forests ◽  
Over Time

Clear cut harvest simplifies and eliminates old growth forest structure, negatively impacting biodiversity. Partial cut harvest has been hypothesized (1) to have less impact on biodiversity than clear cut harvest, and (2) to encourage old growth forest structures. Long-term studies are required to test this hypothesis as most studies are conducted soon after harvest. Using epixylic bryophytes as indicators, this study addresses this knowledge gap. Fourteen years after harvest, we examined changes in epixylic bryophyte community composition richness and traits, and their microhabitats (coarse woody debris characteristics and microclimate) along an unharvested, partial cuts and clear cuts harvest treatment in 30 permanent plots established in the boreal black spruce (Picea mariana) forests of northwestern Quebec, Canada. Our results were compared to those of an initial post-harvest study (year 5) and to a chronosequence of old growth forests to examine species changes over time and the similarity of bryophyte communities in partial cut and old growth forests. Coarse woody debris (CWD) volume by decay class varied among harvest treatments with partial cuts and clear cuts recording lower volumes of early decay CWD. The epixylic community was richer in partial cuts than in mature unharvested forests and clear cuts. In addition, species richness and overall abundance doubled in partial and clear cuts between years 5 and 14. Species composition also differed among treatments between years 5 and 14. Furthermore, conditions in partial cut stands supported small, drought sensitive, and old growth confined species that are threatened by conditions in clear cut stands. Lastly, over time, species composition in partial cuts became more similar to old growth forests. Partial cuts reduced harvest impacts by continuing to provide favorable microhabitat conditions that support epixylic bryophytes. Also, partial cut harvest has the potential to encourage old growth species assemblages, which has been a major concern for biodiversity conservation in managed forest landscapes. Our findings support the promotion of partial cut harvest as an effective strategy to achieve species and habitat conservation goals.

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