The mining community and the ageing body

In the following article, Professor Derickson examines the motivation for and the results of employee medical screening of workers in a midwestern mining community. He argues that, contrary to the goals of the associative state as envisioned by Herbert Hoover and others, government and mine operator efforts to determine the extent of respiratory disease among mine workers in the Tri-State were neither impelled by a concern for workers' welfare nor conducive to the amelioration of their problems.

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Thoughts on the Ageing Body

Journal of Population Ageing ◽

10.1007/s12062-021-09342-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Francesca Ghillani

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Older People ◽

Active Role ◽

The Body ◽

Negative Stereotypes ◽

Artificial Image ◽

The Media ◽

Ageing Body ◽

The Individual ◽

Positive Representations

AbstractRecent studies have taken into account the fact that the lives of older people have changed drastically in the past fifty years. Older people today engage more with society and are also expected to maintain an active role in their communities. In order to maintain a positive social status, todays older adults need both to challenge negative stereotypes and also to achieve the “unachievable” positive representations in the media. Society plays a complex game of bodily images: the artificial image of the human body in the media, the image that individuals try to project, and the image that society reflects back to the individual. When the three don’t coincide, the collision creates a distancing effect. To truly understand the lived experiences of older adults in contemporary society we must explore the changing perceptions of the body. This review will illustrate the arguments both classical and contemporary through an exploration of the ageing female body, which remains the focus of most of the literature.

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A Review of Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches for Business Applications in Social Networks

International Journal of E-Business Research ◽

10.4018/jebr.2013010103 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 36-53

Author(s):

Evis Trandafili ◽

Marenglen Biba

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Data Mining ◽

Social Networks ◽

Large Scale ◽

Viral Marketing ◽

Social Network Mining ◽

Business Applications ◽

Mining Community ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Analysis Of Social Networks

Social networks have an outstanding marketing value and developing data mining methods for viral marketing is a hot topic in the research community. However, most social networks remain impossible to be fully analyzed and understood due to prohibiting sizes and the incapability of traditional machine learning and data mining approaches to deal with the new dimension in the learning process related to the large-scale environment where the data are produced. On one hand, the birth and evolution of such networks has posed outstanding challenges for the learning and mining community, and on the other has opened the possibility for very powerful business applications. However, little understanding exists regarding these business applications and the potential of social network mining to boost marketing. This paper presents a review of the most important state-of-the-art approaches in the machine learning and data mining community regarding analysis of social networks and their business applications. The authors review the problems related to social networks and describe the recent developments in the area discussing important achievements in the analysis of social networks and outlining future work. The focus of the review in not only on the technical aspects of the learning and mining approaches applied to social networks but also on the business potentials of such methods.

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Bodily disintegration and successful ageing in Body Bereft by Antjie Krog

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde ◽

10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.52i2.1763 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Antoinette Pretorius

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

Older Age ◽

Successful Ageing ◽

Ageing Body ◽

The Relationship ◽

Selection Of

Antjie Krog’s Body Bereft (2006) details both the bodily changes brought about by older age and the ways in which these changes fracture a person’s previously-stable sense of self. This article reads Krog’s depiction of the ageing body in a small selection of poems from this collection in relation to the unavoidable reality of bodily decay and what is referred to in gerontological theory as ‘successful ageing’. This tension dominates large parts of the gerontological field, and can be seen in Krog’s ambivalent representation of older age in Body Bereft. Through close readings of a number of poems, I will investigate the ways in which Krog problematises the relationship between the lived experience of older age with its concomitant sense of deterioration, and the societal impetus to age well and accept ageing with magnanimity. I will demonstrate that this collection foregrounds the poet’s refusal to accept pre-existing discourses that delimit ageing as something either to bemoan or celebrate. I will conclude that this refusal finds particular expression in her poems “dommelfei / crone in the woods” and “how do you say this”.

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