scholarly journals Gender-Based Differences in Actual Thumb Force Exertions at Various Target Force Levels

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Kyeong-Hee Choi ◽  
Jae-Kyeong Kim ◽  
Hyun-Ho Shim ◽  
Yong-Ku Kong

Measurement of thumb force in the industrial filed is important to quantify the risk of manual tasks. However, few studies have assessed the thumb force. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between actual thumb force and perceived force according to the force levels and gender. A total of 31 healthy participants (23 males and 8 females) were asked to exert a maximum thumb force (MTF) and random levels of target thumb force (10, 30, 50, 70, and 90% MTF). Results indicated that females exerted approximately 73.6% (100.6 N) of the strength exerted by males (136.7 N). Based on the differences between actual and perceived thumb exertions, the highest accuracy was achieved at 50% MTF, designated as “50%-phenomenon”. At 10% and 30% MTF levels, participants tended to exert greater strength (over-exertion) than the perceived exertions, whereas participants showed less strength (under-exertion) than the perceived exertions at 70% and 90% MTFs. Participants generally exerted greater and lesser thumb force than the perceived exertions at levels lower and higher than 50% MTF, respectively. Thus, the relationship between the actual and perceived force of exertion displayed a nonlinear S-shaped curve.

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-334
Author(s):  
Marina Della Rocca ◽  
Dorothy Louise Zinn

In recent years, so-called honor-based violence has become a major issue for the operators of the women's shelters in South Tyrol (Northern Italy) that support women who have suffered from domestic violence. The antiviolence operators who work in the women's shelters generally relate this form of violence to the experiences of young migrant-origin women. In this article, we discuss the operators' definitions of honor-based violence, which present a variety of dichotomous categories that reveal a process of othering and evoke the lexicon of the international conventions on gender discrimination and gender-based violence. Indeed, some traces of an essentialist understanding of culture are still recognizable in this lexicon, most of all in the relationship of culture with the concept of honor. We conclude by identifying possible ways to overcome the risk of essentialization in the antiviolence operators' practices, suggesting how to redefine them by incorporating the migrant-origin women's perspectives and stressing the significance of this study for a wider understanding of the women's empowerment in the advocacy work of the women's shelters.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Shakila Khalid ◽  
Raja Norashekin Raja Othman ◽  
Marlyana Azzyati Marzukhi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the spatial dominance in public spaces from a gendered and women perspectives and to analyse the relationship with the spatial configuration of street networks. In analysing the street networks in Space Syntax, the question arises; to what extent the movement and activity may explain street integration among gender-based pedestrians. The result found that there is a correlation between spatial configurative analyses and women present in the streets. In essence, the less integrated streets attract more women pedestrians and improve better quality of space. The research is relevant to spatial design interventions and policymaking to enhance gender equal access to public space.


Author(s):  
Asel Myrzabekova

This chapter combines the two themes of security against ethnic and gender-based violence, which have been at the center in the previous chapters. Frequently, violence against women becomes intertwined with ethnic identity politics in Kyrgyzstan. A particularly controversial topic here is ethnically 'mixed' relationships. If a Kyrgyz female decides to become involved with a non-Kyrgyz partner, she can often expect to be ostracized by her family, in some cases even beaten and threatened with death. The chapter looks at various cases and shows the different ways in which couples deal with this situation. The choice usually boils down to either keeping the relationship secret or to running away with one's partner and trying to make a new life for oneself in another place.


2020 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 102365
Author(s):  
Amanda Alderton ◽  
Nicola Henry ◽  
Sarah Foster ◽  
Hannah Badland

2007 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon J. Hogerzeil ◽  
David Richardson

The mortality of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic crossing has long preoccupied historians but the relationship between slave traders' purchasing strategies and slave mortality rates in transit has escaped close investigation. We address these issues by using records of 39 eighteenth-century voyages of the Dutch Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie. These allow shipboard mortality rates of enslaved Africans to be estimated. They also reveal previously un-noticed age- and gender-based variations in slave purchase and mortality patterns, which in turn shed light on the relative importance of African and shipboard conditions in determining slave survival rates in the middle passage.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Bruna Aparecida Rodrigues Duarte ◽  
Fernanda Galvão ◽  
Glaucia Nunes Diniz de Oliveira Esmeraldo ◽  
Et Al

A violência de gênero tem perdurado há anos gerando a necessidade de discutir os fatores desencadeadores e comuns nesse cenário, como, a relação de poder e a relação íntima com o agressor. Nesse sentido, levando em consideração o contexto atual, o presente estudo objetivou apresentar as discussões de um grupo de estudo a respeito da relação da pandemia e aumento do índice de violência de gênero. Foram levantadas algumas categorias para discutir o assunto, sendo: As faces da violência baseada no gênero; Isolamento social e violência de gênero; Estratégias para constatação e diminuição dos casos de violência. É perceptível que o fenômeno da violência sempre existiu, porém, devido a alguns fatores do isolamento o deixou mais aparente e discutível. Paravras-chave: Violência de Gênero. Pandemia Covid 19.Relação de poder.   Abstract Gender-based violence has persisted for years, generating the need to discuss the triggering and common factors in this scenario, such as the power relationship and the intimate relationship with the aggressor. In this sense, taking into account the current context, the present study aimed to present the discussions of a study group regarding the relationship of the pandemic and the in crease in the rate of gender violence. Some categories  were raised to discuss the subject being: The faces of gender-based violence; Social isolation and gender violence; Strategies for finding and reducing cases of violence. It is notice able that the phenomenon of violence has always existed, but due to some isolation factors it has become more apparent and debatable. Keywords: Gender Violence. Pandemic Covid 19. The Power Relationship.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E. Davies ◽  
Jacqui True

In this article we explore the relationship between pre-existing patterns of gender inequality and the occurrence of widespread and systematic sexual and gender based violence (sgbv). We ask three questions: What do we know about the status of gender inequality in high-risk situations prior to the outbreak of atrocities (which include sgbv)? What can be done to understand the relationship between systemic gender inequality and the use of sexual violence in the particular high-risk situations? And what long-term approaches are necessary to prevent sgbv?


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