bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Understanding the Experiences of African American Nursing Students
Authors: Hill Shanell , Albert Nancy M.
Published: March 2021

Background:

Although African Americans represent the largest racial minority group, their nursing program success rates are lower. Understanding circumstances that lead to nursing school success may facilitate changes in educational practices that increase graduation among African American students.

Method:

A qualitative, phenomenological research study of 11 African Americans was used to understand their experiences as nursing students. Data were collected through an interview process, and Colaizzi's analysis methods and synthesis of themes were used.

Results:

Four themes were identified: Resolve to Succeed, Ineffective Education Models, A Need for Support of the College Experience, and Finding African American Mentors.

Conclusion:

Enhanced student connections via racial minority mentors and revised teaching pedagogies, including integration of classroom and clinical learning and use of case studies and simulation, may foster retention in nursing education and promote graduation. Increasing the number of practicing African American nurses may improve the care experience for African Americans.

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J Nurs Educ
. 2021;60(3):150–154.]
New insights into the antifungal activity of lactic acid bacteria isolated from different food matrices
Authors: Panebianco F. , Caridi A.
Published: March 2021

The anti-mold activity of 397 strains of lactic acid bacteria was evaluated using both the spot method in Petri plates and coculture in liquid medium. The study led to the selection of 34 strains isolated from table olives or olive brines, 15 strains from dairy products, and 10 strains from sourdoughs, all able to inhibit a strain of Penicillium crustosum and/or a strain of Aspergillus section Nidulantes, prevailing in two Calabrian olive brines. Seven representative strains were identified as Lactobacillus pentosus (four strains) and Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis (three strains) and are currently under testing for their antifungal activity during table olive fermentation. This research constitutes an initial contribution to the control of fungal growth and mycotoxin accumulation during table olive fermentation. The selected strains could be used as adjunct cultures in table olive fermentation, allowing for the biological control of table olive safety.
A Consecration That Never Comes
Authors: Sinigaglia Jérémy
Published: March 2021

An artist’s life is nurtured by seldom fulfilled aspirations, of recognition and success especially. Indeed, most ordinary artists only partially or occasionally reach consecration in its various facets. Yet, while pleasure of practising one’s art is generally the main reason for satisfaction at work, the long-term lack of recognition—or of credible prospects of recognition—is frequently a source of frustration. How do these artists of often humble origins manage to keep their careers going even though the symbolic rewards meant to make up for their precarious conditions escape them? This paper’s central hypothesis holds that the careers of ordinary artists are largely shaped by very unequal faculties to play with their aspirations: some lower them to ensure that the goal of making their childhood dreams come true isn’t immediately an insurmountable obstacle; others adjust them so that their expectations better fit the objective chances of success during their careers; yet others convert them into a new career plan when sustaining their artistic careers no longer appears possible.
Des carrières ratées ?
Authors: Bataille Pierre
Published: March 2021

Alors que la plupart des représentations (savantes ou non) des diplômés d’institutions scolaires d’élite tendent à privilégier la mise en scène de « belles carrières », cet article propose de s’intéresser aux diplômés de grandes écoles ayant suivi des parcours plus ordinaires. À partir du cas des anciens élèves des Écoles normales supérieures de Fontenay, Saint-Cloud et Lyon évoluant dans l’enseignement secondaire une vingtaine d’années après la fin de leurs études, une analyse statistique révèle que ces carrières sont relativement peu communes au sein du groupe étudié et surtout empruntées par des femmes et des individus issus de milieu modeste. L’analyse des entretiens permet ensuite de montrer que ces bifurcations ne sont pas systématiquement vues comme des relégations, leur perception variant fortement en fonction du genre et de l’origine sociale notamment. Enfin, on établit une typologie des différentes formes d’appropriation subjective de cette expérience et de son incidence sur l’engagement professionnel, politique ou familial des anciens élèves.
Arpenter la vie littéraire
Authors: Ducournau Claire , Glinoer Anthony
Published: March 2021

À rebours des élans actuels en faveur du caractère soi-disant disruptif des « humanités numériques », ce dossier porte sur la manière dont les études sociohistoriques sur l’imprimé et le littéraire ont, hier comme aujourd’hui, construit et utilisé des bases de données. Le recours aux bases de données répond à des enjeux techniques et scientifiques décisifs : l’administration de la preuve ou la définition des objets et des problématiques de recherche. En ouvrant sur les coulisses de leur utilisation, ce dossier explore comment les données numériques, devenues essentielles dans bien des travaux, permettent d’arpenter la vie littéraire à différentes périodes (au double sens de la mesurer et de la revisiter, à plus ou moins grands pas). Cette mise au jour se fait selon trois axes de recherche : la conception des bases de données, leurs usages et leur stockage.
De 7 à 280 joueurs
Authors: Bonifay Florence
Published: March 2021

La base de données « RéseauxPoètesXVI » recense 2 200 pièces de contact témoignant des regards croisés d’environ 280 hommes et femmes de plume sur l’activité poétique de 1549 à 1586. Elle enregistre le réseau de citations entre poètes (qui nomme qui ?) et donne accès aux textes en intégralité. Ce faisant, elle permet d’envisager sous un angle nouveau – celui des sociabilités représentées – l’histoire littéraire de ce temps, en considérant la « Pléiade » comme un microphénomène au sein d’une sociabilité poétique bien plus vaste. Outil pour l’analyse de l’organisation et des mises en scène des réseaux de poètes, cette base de données valorise l’intense activité réflexive des auteurs sur le groupe social qu’ils forment avec leurs pairs. Les textes qu’elle réunit contribuent ainsi à déterminer progressivement la place et la valeur des lettres françaises, fournissant un terreau important à ce qu’Alain Viala a pointé comme étant une autonomisation progressive du « champ littéraire » au xviie siècle.
20 ans d’archivage du web
Authors: Genin Christine
Published: March 2021

Depuis les premières initiatives de sauvegarde du web à la fin des années 1990 et la création d’un dispositif légal français en 2006, l’archivage du web est une aventure passionnante pour les bibliothécaires. Tout en s’inscrivant dans la tradition du dépôt légal, il confie à des robots la tâche de prendre le relai des êtres humains pour archiver au mieux le web. Les bibliothécaires les nourrissent par des collectes thématiques qui ont pour but de repérer plus précisément les sites qui pourraient échapper à la collecte large. La mise en œuvre du dépôt légal du web a conduit à une évolution du métier de bibliothécaire : définir de nouveaux objets, faire connaître cette mission, baliser les archives du web. Outre les nécessaires adaptations aux évolutions du web, il reste encore de nombreux chantiers à venir, notamment proposer une meilleure indexation des collectes et travailler plus étroitement avec les chercheur·e·s. Le web fait aujourd’hui figure de « mémoire partagée » de l’humanité. Constituer une mémoire de cette mémoire et la partager avec le plus grand nombre est l’un des enjeux les plus importants de notre temps.
De la sociologie aux théories littéraires
Authors: Dumont Lucile
Published: March 2021

L’article interroge les modalités d’intégration et l’évolution de la recherche sur la littérature à la VIe section de l’EPHE, en montrant comment elle passe de la sociologie au pôle de spécialistes des lettres et des arts qui se constitue autour de la sémiologie et de diverses appropriations du structuralisme. Le suivi de l’objet littéraire dans l’établissement permet également d’observer les transformations des découpages disciplinaires et d’inscrire celles-ci dans l’évolution du champ académique à la même période. Les proximités initiales de promoteurs d’approches dites « internes » et « externes » des textes littéraires permettent de nuancer les oppositions entre ces approches et de saisir certains mécanismes de leur séparation progressive. La réinscription de ces petits groupes d’enseignants-chercheurs dans les espaces académiques et intellectuels contribue enfin à la compréhension plus générale de certaines logiques de spécialisation académique.
Les céramistes d’art, « satellites » du champ artistique
Authors: Bajard Flora
Published: March 2021

En étudiant l’autonomisation d’un groupe professionnel (les céramistes d’art), cet article donne à voir une conception complémentaire des logiques d’autonomie et d’hétéronomie. Le métier de céramiste d’art en France est très autonome car non seulement différencié des autres activités de création artistique, mais aussi régi par des règles propres et doté de moyens pour perdurer. Il a également la particularité de s’être constitué dans le même temps par attraction envers le champ artistique et par opposition avec son nomos – soit sa loi fondamentale : c’est sur la définition de l’art, reposant notamment sur le critère de non-utilité des œuvres, que se cristallise ce hiatus. Dans un premier temps, l’article montre ainsi que la théorie bourdieusienne des champs et ses corollaires – sous-champ, champ faible, espace hybride, etc. – ne rendent pas totalement compte de cette forme d’autonomie très ambiguë à l’égard du champ artistique ; nous proposons plutôt l’idée d’espace « satellite ». Cette position du groupe professionnel génère de multiples confrontations à des formes d’hétéronomie avec des segments étatiques, qui ont le pouvoir de réitérer ou d’infléchir cette règle centrale du champ artistique. Par le recours au droit, chacune de ces confrontations constitue alors un pari réalisé par des membres du groupe professionnel sur leur capacité à négocier une hétéronomie ajustée à leurs conceptions de l’activité. Ces logiques sociales qui se déploient aux frontières du champ artistique participent simultanément à son renouvellement et à la construction de l’autonomie du groupe professionnel des céramistes d’art.
Transformations in Music Booking
Authors: Picaud Myrtille
Published: March 2021

This article examines the links between structural and professional autonomy by comparing the subfields of music venues in Paris and Berlin. Today, live music is undergoing profound economic changes, and this article explores how variations in the autonomy of a subfield influence the way those responsible for booking in live music venues in both cities define their activity. The growing heteronomy of the Parisian subfield, facilitated by strong professional development, threatens the autonomy of bookers, who adjust by redefining their professional territory. The situation in Berlin, on the other hand, sheds light on the conditions of possibility of autonomy in a music subfield with a less developed economy, where the bookers’ professional autonomy is limited. Thus, structural and professional autonomy do not go hand in hand, but links between the two must be understood in light of the balance of power within the overall field of music.
Artistic Ceramists, “Satellites” of the Artistic Field
Authors: Bajard Flora
Published: March 2021

By studying a professional group—“artistic ceramists”—this article brings to light a complementary conception of the logics of autonomy and heteronomy. In France, an artistic ceramist’s craft is highly autonomous, for not only is it distinguished from other activities of artistic creation, but it is also governed by its own rules and equipped with its own means of survival. It also has the defining feature of being constituted by both attraction towards the artistic field and by opposition to its nomos, that is, its fundamental law. This hiatus centres around the definition of art, which is essentially based on the principle that works of art must be non-utilitarian. This article will show that the Bourdieusian theory of fields and its corollaries—sub-field, weak field, hybrid space, etc.—do not completely account for this form of autonomy, which has a very ambiguous relation to the artistic field. Instead, I propose the idea of a “satellite” space. The position of this professional group generates multiple confrontations with forms of heteronomy that include parts of the state, which have the ability to re-affirm or influence the central rule of the artistic field. In appealing to the law, each of these confrontations constitutes a bet made by members of the professional group on their ability to negotiate a heteronomy adjusted to their understanding of their activity. In so doing, the logics deployed at the boundaries of the field participate in constructing the autonomy of the group and, at the same time, renew the artistic field.
Écrire pour tout le monde
Authors: Mille Muriel
Published: March 2021

À partir de l’exemple d’un feuilleton télévisé français, cet article montre comment les scénaristes de séries intègrent les contraintes d’audience à la fabrication de fiction. Les auteur·ice·s se tiennent au courant des taux d’audience, même si la préoccupation pour les chiffres du public reste du ressort de la chaîne et du producteur. Elles-mêmes et eux-mêmes fortement diplôm·é·e·s et appartenant aux professions intellectuelles, ils et elles se représentent leur public comme plutôt populaire. Cette représentation sous-tend les règles d’écriture qu’ils se donnent et qui visent à attirer et captiver un public souvent perçu comme inattentif. Elle suppose aussi une croyance dans les effets de la télévision et dans sa capacité à susciter l’addiction. Or cette représentation n’est fondée ni sur une connaissance précise de leur public ni sur leur propre visionnage des programmes télévisuels. Le rapport des scénaristes à leur public est alors défini par la distance sociale qu’ils et elles éprouvent vis-à-vis de celui-ci. C’est en fonction de cette représentation qu’ils et elles revalorisent leur travail en fixant au feuilleton une mission pédagogique.
Les collectifs de scénaristes ou la « fabrique » du métier
Authors: Béliard Anne-Sophie , Lécossais Sarah
Published: March 2021

Dans un contexte actuel de revalorisation de certains formats télévisuels, les scénaristes de séries télévisées constituent un groupe professionnel en voie de visibilité mais toujours en quête de reconnaissance en France. Cet article propose d’étudier la façon dont les « collectifs », groupes informels de scénaristes professionnels, contribuent à requalifier les pratiques, les identités et les relations professionnelles mêmes de leurs membres. Les résultats présentés s’appuient sur une enquête qualitative en cours composée d’entretiens avec des scénaristes impliqués dans ces collectifs (N=22). L’article montre comment le fonctionnement et la gestion collégiale des collectifs contribuent à faire de ces espaces de discussion, socialement homogènes, des supports de formation. Le collectif contribue à fédérer les auteur·ice·s et à stabiliser leur identité professionnelle en concentrant la réflexion collective qu’ils et elles développent sur leurs compétences d’écriture et sur la mise à distance des logiques individualistes du travail créatif. Les collectifs fournissent, finalement, à leurs membres un soutien à la reconnaissance et à l’autonomie professionnelle dans l’industrie télévisuelle par un effet de labellisation et de rééquilibrage des rapports de pouvoir dans les relations avec les producteurs et les réalisateurs.
Screenwriters’ Collectives or the “Making Of” a Profession
Authors: Béliard Anne-Sophie , Lécossais Sarah
Published: March 2021

Amid the resurgence of some television formats, writers of TV series form a professional group that has gained exposure but is still looking for recognition in France. This paper examines how ‘collectives,’—informal groups of professional screenwriters—contribute to redefining their members’ practices, identities, and professional relationships. Findings are drawn from an ongoing qualitative study based on interviews with writers involved in these collectives (N=22). We show that the collegial functioning and management of these groups is instrumental in turning them into socially homogeneous venues for discussion and training aids. Collectives help bring together writers and stabilize their professional identity by focusing their collective reflection on their writing skills and ways to combat the individualistic rationales currently prevailing in creative work. Ultimately, collectives support their members in their quest for recognition in the profession and autonomy within the television industry through their labelling effect and contribution to the reversal of power relations with producers and directors.
Lire des classiques sur liseuse en bibliothèque municipale
Authors: Kellner Stéphanie
Published: March 2021

Cet article propose d’étudier un dispositif expérimental de prêt de liseuses électroniques, chargées d’œuvres de littérature classique, mis en œuvre par une bibliothèque municipale. En s’appuyant sur des données quantitatives et qualitatives, l’enquête cherche à situer socialement les pratiques de lecture sur liseuse et à appréhender l’ambivalence des comportements culturels des lecteur·rice·s. L’analyse permet de saisir le poids des positions et trajectoires sociales et met en évidence des enjeux générationnels et professionnels d’acquisition de compétences numériques sous-jacents à la démarche d’emprunt de l’appareil par les usager·ère·s. Si l’attrait pour l’appareil découle du philonéisme de ces lecteurs et lectrices et est justifié par les intérêts pratiques de l’appareil, faisant écho au discours de bibliothécaires eux/elles-mêmes tournés vers la nouveauté, l’étude montre que ces lecteur·rice·s persistent toutefois à attribuer une valeur symbolique plus élevée au livre papier qu’au livre numérique. Ces représentations se renforcent d’autant plus par l’absence de compétences numériques faisant, qu’in fine, l’expérience de la lecture devient un projet abandonné.
« Moi, il me faut du papier »
Authors: Guittet Emmanuelle
Published: March 2021

L’article interroge conjointement, chez les lecteur·rice·s de romans, les pratiques effectives de lecture numérique et les représentations qui y sont associées, en les mettant en lien avec leur « carrière » de lecteur·rice·s. Il s’appuie sur une enquête qualitative par entretiens (trente-six) menés avec des lecteurs et lectrices de romans. Il présente d’abord les représentations positives associées à la lecture sur liseuse, dont la praticité potentielle est appréciée. Il analyse ensuite les freins au développement de la lecture numérique que peuvent constituer l’attachement à la lecture sur papier, le besoin de posséder et le désir d’exposer les livres. Enfin, l’article étudie les pratiques effectives de lecture sur liseuse et met au jour les déterminismes sociaux expliquant que la structure des pratiques de lecture ne soit pas renouvelée par le recours au numérique, et donc que l’ensemble du lectorat ne soit pas concerné par ces nouvelles pratiques de lecture.
Quand la bande dessinée « tient salon » sur Instagram
Authors: Tréhondart Nolwenn
Published: March 2021

Scènes littéraires et artistiques émergentes, les réseaux socionumériques sont investis par des écrivains, artistes, amateurs mais aussi par des institutions et industries culturelles, curieuses d’expérimenter des pratiques narratives renouvelant les formes de médiation avec les publics. Tel est le cas de la bande dessinée numérique Été, co-produite par la chaîne publique Arte et la société de community management Bigger Than Fiction, et originellement parue sur Instagram durant les mois de juillet et août 2017 et 2018 à raison d’un ou deux épisodes par jour.Empruntant une démarche sociosémiotique s’intéressant aux processus de négociation engagés entre dispositifs techniques, producteurs-concepteurs culturels et récepteurs, cet article se propose de questionner les formes d’hybridation entre des logiques de création et de narration issues de la bande dessinée et des stratégies de production, de circulation et de réception propres à la plateforme Instagram. L’analyse de l’énonciation éditoriale des pages-écrans d’Été est articulée à une enquête empirique permettant d’éclairer, dans un premier temps, les contraintes de production et de représentation présidant au processus de création (deux entretiens menés avec des concepteurs d’Été), et, dans un second temps, de soulever certains enjeux d’appropriation chez les abonné·e·s-lecteur·rice·s par l’analyse des contenus des commentaires placés en vis-à-vis des illustrations, complétée par une enquête par questionnaire (quatre-vingt-dix réponses).
Actors Excluded from the Business
Authors: Katz Serge
Published: March 2021

This enquiry is focused on the situation of ordinary artists; it is based on the observation of the trajectories of professional actors in France who have been affected by a prolonged, or even definitive, loss of the right to regular unemployment compensation. The focus is thus on the ordinary disqualification and professional devalorization that occurs in the job market for actors. The cases of these individuals are indeed exemplary of a lack of financial recognition of artistic activity except in the most institutionalized realms of the theatrical space. This phenomenon contributes to a professional destabilization for the actors concerned here, and thus to a deterioration in their working conditions and degradation of their artistic practice. While the job market for theatre actors indeed appears to be flexible and deregulated, publicly-funded jobs, which are ultimately those where salary standards are completely respected, have become rare and coveted situations—lack of access to which tends to determine a form of professional disaffiliation.
Machine Learning for Big Data
Authors: M. S. Supriya , Sasidaran Keerthana
Published: March 2021

Big data and machine learning currently play an important role in various applications and in research. These approaches are explored in depth in this chapter. The chapter starts with a summary of big data and its implementation in a number of fields, and then deals with the problems that big data presents and the need for other technology to resolve these issues/challenges. Big data can best be used with the aid of the machine learning model, even though they are not directly related. Thus, the paradigms of machine learning that support big data can be combined with big data technology, thus providing insight into a range of big data machine learning approaches and techniques. Although big data cannot rely solely on the few paradigms of machine learning, the underlying problems are addressed. New machine learning algorithms are needed that can explore the full scale of the big data process and enable software engineering firms to come up with better solutions.
Ascertaining the Interest of Women to Drive Innovation Through Entrepreneurship Post-Pandemic
Authors: Chakravarti Sriya
Published: March 2021

Our prosperity and sustainability in the future depends on the ability to innovate. Therefore, innovation needs to be embedded in all sections of an economy. A research study took place in a higher education setting of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on offering an entrepreneurship major to local women students. The aim was to explore the interest and views of these Generation Z students on driving innovation and entrepreneurship in the country through building homegrown companies. This research is highly relevant as the society re-imagines itself post pandemic. The findings from the research may be useful to members of academia, professionals related to this sector, and policy makers of nations. They may use the information to design suitable academic programs for women that may help drive entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability for every strata of the society in the post-COVID-19 era.
Role of Media in Health Literacy
Authors: Özkan Seçil , Şirin Hülya
Published: March 2021

The World Health Organization defines health literacy as the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health. Health literacy improves the life expectancy and quality and removes health inequalities. Health literacy includes the stages of reading, listening, analyzing, participating, and making decisions and adapting to life. An infodemic is an overabundance of information. It includes deliberate attempts to disseminate wrong information to undermine the public health response and advance alternative agendas of groups or individuals. Mis- or disinformation can be harmful to people's health, threaten precious health gains, and lead to poor observance of public health measures, thus endangering countries' ability to stop the pandemic. Media is one of the important sectors in health and health literacy. The concepts of infodemic became a current issue with the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed how important the role the media plays in intervening the health problems is.
Media and Public Health in the Context of HIV/AIDS
Authors: Kiylioğlu Levent
Published: March 2021

AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the deadly epidemics that affected millions of people, especially in poor sub-Saharan Africa. Sexual intercourse is the most important transmission route of HIV. Condom and mutually faithful sexual relationships are accepted as the main methods of protection against HIV risk today. Media is an important tool that informs, enlightens, and affects the public. Scientific studies have revealed that the media has important functions in prevention from HIV. This study focused on the media's role in HIV prevention. Today's media is generally divided into mass media and social media. Exposure to mass media programs about HIV prevention topics generally can help increase HIV/AIDS awareness and reduce risk behaviors. Social media, even if not used sufficiently in countries where HIV is common, has also an important role in informing and educating people about HIV/AIDS, its transmission, and prevention.
COVID-19 Deaths on the Digital Media
Authors: Ayaz Ferihan
Published: March 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has reached a level that threatens the health of the whole world. This study aimed to prevent misinformation on this subject by examining the death-related dimension of COVID-19 disease. In the study, the internet archive of three newspapers (Sabah, Hürriyet, and Sözcü) with the highest circulation as of October 2020 was searched with the keywords “corona death” and “COVID-19 death.” A total of 120 contents in three newspapers (40 items from each newspaper) were selected by a simple random sampling technique and all of them were subjected to content analysis. As a result, the COVID-19 disease was handled in a panic-inducing manner. This situation reflected the images. The deaths will increase even more in the winter months of 2020. Although there are initiatives regarding vaccination, not all people can benefit equally in the short term. Measures are often emphasized, especially by the Minister of Health. While COVID-19 deaths are increasing all over the world, how are they so low in China? This is a question in the contents.
Analysing Digital Media Contents Representing COVID-19 Pandemics With “21-K Method”
Authors: Yılmaz Altuntaş Elgiz , Akgün Çomak Nebahat
Published: March 2021

COVID-19 was originated in Wuhan city of Hubei Province, China in December 2019 and has seen many countries ask people who have potentially come into contact with the infection to isolate themselves at home or in a dedicated quarantine facility. In the study, the authors aimed to analyse the context of news and informative scientific discourses of World Health Organization and Turkish Ministry of Health published in digital media with “21-K” method, which is a content analysis method developed by the authors. The categories to be used in the “21-K” method and their discursive examples are as follows: Topic; Heroes: Primary Heroes, Secondary Heroes, Living Heroes, Dead Heroes; Contrasts; Culture; Intersection; Intent; Adoption; Word/Word Games; Rules; Badness; Fight; Proving; Fear; Crisis; Cunning; Anger; Anxiety; Loss; and Codes.
Patients’ Satisfactions on the Waiting Period at the Emergency Units. Comparison Study before and during Covid-19 Pandemic
Authors: Abdelhadi Abdelhakim
Published: March 2021

Background

This paper analyzes the patients’ experience and satisfaction regarding the waiting period at the emergency unit's hospital before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design and methods

Brainstorming methodology and data analysis from the public domain used on male and female patients in a private hospital in a middle eastern country. The data analyzed seek the patients’ level of satisfaction about the waiting period before entering the treatment area, inside the treatment area before the doctor's check, and during the rest period after the doctor's visit. The customer's satisfaction is a significant measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, as it may affect the patient's perspective of the facility. A paired t-test at 95% confidence level was conducted.

Results and Conclusions

The results indicated no difference in satisfaction of the period spent in the emergency room before and during the pandemic.
Parvovirus B19 infection in a patient with common variable immunodeficiency
Authors: Zanelli Magda , Reggiani Loredana , Sanguedolce Francesca , Zizzo Maurizio , Martino Giovanni , Genua Angelo , Ascani Stefano
Published: March 2021

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Outer retina reconstruction following inverted internal limiting membrane flap technique for large macular holes
Authors: Okonkwo Ogugua N. , Hassan Adekunle O. , Gyasi Michael E. , Oderinlo Olufemi
Published: March 2021

PURPOSE:

The aim of this study is to investigate the outer retina reconstruction using postoperative spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT) in large diameter macular holes (MHs) treated with the inverted internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap technique.

METHODS:

A retrospective study of 14 consecutive eyes that had vitrectomy and inverted ILM flap technique for MHs with a base diameter of 400 μ or greater. Preoperative and postoperative SD OCT images were assessed for MH closure and for outer retina presence; represented by the external limiting membrane (ELM) and ellipsoid zone (EZ), in the subfoveal and parafoveal areas.

RESULTS:

The average MH base diameter was 963 μ. Postoperative SD-OCT revealed an absence of the outer retina in six eyes, a continuous (regular) presence of the outer retina in four eyes, and a discontinuous (interrupted) presence in four eyes. There was an inverse relationship between MH size and presence or absence of ELM and EZ. A larger MH base diameter size was associated with a higher probability of an absent ELM and EZ (P = 0.04). Eyes in which an outer retina was present postoperatively achieved 6/18 and better vision compared to eyes without (P = 0.08).

CONCLUSION:

The outer retina in some large MHs treated with ILM flap technique can undergo reconstitution and remodeling which improves over time. The average size for MHs with complete reconstitution was 652 μ, 855 μ for those with interrupted reconstitution, and 1242 μ for eyes with no outer retina reconstruction. This suggests that MHs having a size within the limit of the no outer retina reconstitution MH group may be candidates for other surgical techniques in which postoperative outer retina presence is expected.
Bing meets Sobolev
Authors: Onninen Jani , Pankka Pekka
Published: March 2021

We show that, for each

1\le p < 2

, there exists a wild involution

\mathbb{S}^3\to \mathbb{S}^3

in the Sobolev class

W^{1,p}(\mathbb{S}^3,\mathbb{S}^3)

.
The Role of Qualitative Methods in Early Childhood Education: A Review of J. Amos Hatch’s Early Childhood Qualitative Research
Authors: Del Rio-Roberts Maribel
Published: March 2021

Early Childhood Qualitative Research is an edited book that captures the importance of conducting educational research and the significance of such research being scholarly and rigorous. In addition, this book does a phenomenal job of stressing the importance of giving participants in educational research a voice to describe their experiences is stressed, including the experiences of classroom teachers. The aim to provide professionals in the early childhood arena an opportunity to see different perspectives than they make typically be exposed to and to provide them with opportunities to critique current practices, in order to enhance qualitative research practices in the field of early childhood education.
Resilience of Gendered Spheres in Transnational Migration: An Interpretive Book Review of Sheba Mariam George’s When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration
Authors: Calderon Jose
Published: March 2021

Dr. Sheba George’s ethnographic study based using participant observation and purposive sampling and an insider transnational journey to examine changes in family and social roles that result when nurses from Kerala, India immigrate to the US ahead of their husbands. The author concludes that the economic and political gain immigration affords nurses does not translate into enhanced social status for their family in India or for their husbands in the US when they undergo gender transferral to homemaker. This transference causes a shift in gender structure from the home to the community, in this case the church as a way of counteracting the social emasculation Kerali men experience. This review cross culturally examines the resilience of patriarchal cultural mores and gender roles when Kerali and Puerto Rican immigrant men face the prospect of social emasculation; Puerto Ricans are examined from an insiders perspective.
Qualitative research is consonant with the espoused values of occupational therapy: A Review of Qualitative Research in Occupational Therapy
Authors: DeNault Kathleen
Published: March 2021

In her 2001 edited text, Qualitative Research in Occupational Therapy: Strategies and Experiences, Joanne Valiant Cook presents an approachable and informative introduction to qualitative research for occupational therapists. As the discipline of occupational therapy continues to develop its own base of knowledge, the need for research methods which capture the complexity of occupation has become evident. Through considering the similarity between the founding principles of occupational therapy and the world-view of qualitative research, Cook presents a theoretically-oriented research guide specific to the domain of concern of occupational therapy. Examples of qualitative studies and reflections of occupational therapy researchers will be helpful to occupational therapy practitioners and researchers embarking upon the journey of qualitative inquiry to contribute to the discipline’s body of knowledge.
Self-Reflection, Politics, Art, and Qualitative Research: A Review of Denzin and Lincoln’s Third Edition of Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials
Authors: Rabionet Silvia
Published: March 2021

The third edition of Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials, edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, illustrates the varied perspectives of twenty five experienced qualitative researchers focusing on collecting, analyzing, and interpreting empirical materials. New topics are introduced in this third edition capturing the dynamic nature and emerging trends in the field such as arts-based approaches. It is a great reference book and a resource of unlimited possibilities. It provides a window for further inquiry for beginners, intermediate and experienced qualitative researchers. Many of the chapters read as powerful essays provoking self-reflection, political involvement, activism, and alternate ways of looking at the world around us.
THE ISSUE OF NATIONALITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN BEHBUDI'S PUBLICITY
Authors: Axmedov Tursinali
Published: March 2021

Мақолада Маҳмудхўжа Беҳбудийнинг матбуотсаҳифаларида Туркистон аҳолисининг миллий онгини оширишга ва миллийўзлигини англашига йўналтирилган ёки миллатлараро муносабатлар соҳасигабағишланган ижтимоий-сиёсий мақолалари атрофлича таҳлил қилинган.Унинг жамиятдаги муаммоларни таҳлил қилишда доимо миллий нуқтаиназардан ёндашганлигини, турли соҳоларга бағишлаб ёзилганмақолаларининг бош мавзуси миллият бўлганлигини исботлашга ҳаракатқилинган. Шу мақсадда “Самарқанд”, “Ҳуррият”, “Ойна” каби газета важурналларда турли йилларда чоп этилган мақолалари таҳлил қилинган.
MAHMUDKHOJA BEHBUDIY AND HIS "MIRROR" MAGAZINE
Authors: Egamqulova Nodira
Published: March 2021

Ushbu maqolada 1913–1915-yillarda SamarqanddaMahmudxo`ja Behbudiy tomonidan nashr qilingan “Oyina” jurnalining faoliyati,uning o`zbek vaqtli matbuotida tutgan o`rni, mahalliy aholining jurnal xususidabildirgan munosabati hamda “Oyina”ning tugatilish sabablari yoritilgan.
POLITICAL VIEWS OF BEHBUDI AND TURKESTAN JADIDS
Authors: Ashurova Xurshida
Published: March 2021

This article is devoted to the emergence of the Jadid movement inTurkestan and its transformation into the process of politicization. Scientific considerations highlighted the need to promote political ideas for sustainabledevelopment of society. The importance of Mahmudkhodji Behbudi's calls for thecreation of political parties in Turkestan, which came forward with progressive ideas, isdiscussed.
CORRESPONDENCE OF JADID PRESS REPRESENTATIVES ON UZBEK TELEVISION
Authors: Rahmatullayeva Ilmira
Published: March 2021

The article analyzes the work done on Uzbek television to coverthe activities of the national liberation movement in the twentieth century, focuseson his literary work, the first steps in the field of journalism, the criteria for theircoverage.
BEHBUDI'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE ISSUE (on the example of articles in "Oyina" magazine)
Authors: Saidov Yo , Mamadaliyeva М
Published: March 2021

Мақолада Маҳмудхўжа Беҳбудийнинг илмий-ижодийфаолиятида матбуотнинг ўрни қисман белгиланган, “Ойина” журналида чопэтилган миллий тил масалаларига доир мақолалари батафсил таҳлил этилган,янги ўзбек адабий тилини шакллантириш ва тараққий эттириш бўйичақарашлари фактик материаллар асосида очиб берилган.
DINAMIKUS ÁRAZÁS ÉS STRATÉGIAI FOGYASZTÓK: KIHÍVÁSOK ÉS EGYÜTTMŰKÖDÉS A HOTELSZEKTORBAN
Authors: Fazekas Lajos Róbert
Published: March 2021

Néhány évtizede a dinamikus árazás varázsszónak számított a szállodaiparban. Mitikus tevékenység, amelynek bevezetésétől az üzemeltetők, tulajdonosok a jövedelmezőség drasztikus növekedését várták. Aztán kiderült szisztematikus adatgyűjtés, az erőforrások által megengedett, lehető legjobb informatikai háttér és szakember szükséges hozzá. Tényként kezelhető, hogy aki kimaradt az lemaradt. Azonban aki beszállt, merre indult? Hová jutott? Önálló, sok irányzattal és kapcsolódási ponttal rendelkező tevékenységgé vált. Joggal nevezhetjük a szállodaipari yield management alapkövének. Áttekintésemben bemutatom, ma hol tart a szállodaipar a dinamikus árképzés területén. Az egyes irányzatok képviselőinek szeme előtt azonban egyetlen cél lebeg, a bevétel hosszútávú maximalizálása.
The use of IPAD technology to give multi-modal feedback to British Sign Language /English Interpreting undergraduate students
Authors: Whistance Thaïsa
Published: March 2021

Students undertaking the BA Honours British Sign Language/English Interpreting course at the University of Wolverhampton regularly submit video clips to the VLE to be commented on by their tutor and/or their peers. These clips are either of their practise interpretations or presentations delivered in British Sign Language (BSL). This kind of collaborative feedback is extremely valuable in helping students to develop their language skills. The feedback has, historically, been provided in written English. However, this presents a challenge because BSL is a visual language which does not have a standard written format. This case study focuses on the way digital technology has enabled the development of a method of feedback which uses IPAD technology to allow tutors to use audio narration, video modelling and annotation tools to comment upon a student's video clip. This annotated video is then returned to students for viewing. Feedback was sought from students during the early stages of development of this method and this information has been used to make improvements to the feedback format.
Speech and Language Therapy students' experience of Peer Assisted Learning: an undergraduate dissertation project
Authors: Guyon Anne , Butterfint Zoe , Lacy Andrea , Sanosi Aisha , Sheridan Katie , Unwin Jessica
Published: March 2021

The implementation of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) on healthcare courses in Higher Education has been explored in a number of studies. This paper presents peer research conducted by final year undergraduate Speech & Language Therapy students into the experience of PAL mentees and mentors on the same course. The focus was on the effects of PAL on academic and professional development. Data were generated from standard PAL evluations and focus groups. Findings indicate that mentees benefit from PAL in terms of their university experience and learning. Engagement with PAL results from its structured yet informal nature and the enthusiasm of the mentors. The collaborative nature of PAL took time to develop, impacting on the behaviours of the mentees and mentors. All participants commented on gaining from PAL. Overall PAL offers mentees and mentors opportunities which enhance their academic learning and professional development.
Postgraduate peer tutors supporting academic skills in online programmes
Authors: Boyd Sharon , Paterson Jessie
Published: March 2021

This case study presents an evaluation of an online, distance-learning, postgraduate peer tutor project, covering the pilot and post-pilot years 2013-15. The project has two core aims: first, to develop student academic skills in group facilitation and learning support; second, to enhance support for increasing numbers of online, distance-learning students by facilitating more live sessions and providing postgraduate study advice. Feedback from staff, peer tutors and the students involved suggests that peer tutoring is successful in improving distance learnersÃ¢â¬â¢ experience through enhanced support and fostering a sense of community; for the peer tutors, the opportunities to develop graduate skills in tutoring and collaborating as part of the academic community.ÃÂ
Mapping the Territory: a new direction for information literacy in the digital age
Authors: McKie Annamarie
Published: March 2021

Evidence increasingly suggests that the information behaviours of students entering further and higher education have changed dramatically as a consequence of the internet. As learning developers in an HE art and design context, we are seeing many new students who exhibit an unfocused approach to research, bouncing from link to link with little analytical or critical thought. Such behaviour is leading to a growing lack of understanding concerning plagiarism and issues surrounding academic integrity. This in turn is having a significant effect on the quality of students' academic writing and is challenging the role academic libraries have traditionally played in the student experience.This paper reflects on a research project called Mapping the Territory at the University for the Creative Arts. The project, which began in 2006, seeks to investigate a new pedagogy for information literacy. The project team has been looking at an integrated approach between librarians, study advisors and key academic staff in order to develop workshops that actively engage learners and help them to develop transferable skills in information literacy and information behaviour. Our research so far has focused on an extensive literature review exploring areas such as inquiry based learning, information behaviour, cognitivist theories and the nature of research in art and design. We have also conducted a series of focus groups at the Maidstone and Canterbury campuses, asking students about their experience of research and how such skills could relate to employability. A workshop model is being piloted where students have the opportunity to search for, select and begin to make use of information which is relevant to their field of enquiry. This model can be adapted to suit a range of disciplines and aims to start to embed research skills at an early stage with the hope of having a positive impact on student retention and employability.
Mrs Mop, Mechanic and /or Miracle Worker : Metaphors of Study Support
Authors: Bishop Celia , Bowmaker Christine , Finnigan Terry Jane
Published: March 2021

It is important to document and reflect on the work we do, to share knowledge and practices and to build up a series of case studies around our work. As study support tutors we are part of the academy, not separate from it, and we need to reflect on our own relationships within our own community and the institution we work in.As members of the ALDinHE we are a specific academic discourse community who create themselves through talk, formal and informal; through shared use of metaphor as well as practices. (Blythman & Orr 2006:1) In this paper we explore our own roles within the university , how we see ourselves and how we are perceived by others .Increasingly we see our role as one of not only supporting students when writing or talking about their work but also helping to provide some of the expected cultural capital (Bourdieu 1997) which large numbers of students may not have the same access to as traditional students. Through sharing our own perceptions in a workshop at the last ALD in HE conference we encouraged debate and reflection around metaphors to describe the work we do. We are interested to continue this discussion with more staff in our future exploration of metaphors of study support to develop a sharper, more refined perspective on the work we do with the students and staff across the various institutions we work in.
Optimising disruptive approaches: extending academic roles and identities in higher education
Authors: Quinney Anne , Lamont Carly , Biggins David , Holley Debbie
Published: March 2021

Responding to the changing landscape of higher education (HE) requires the development and implementation of flexible and imaginative approaches to continually inspire, engage and support academics and professional services staff in delivering high quality student-centred learning experiences. At Bournemouth University (BU), the cross-university Centre for Excellence in Learning (CEL) was created to promote, support and co-ordinate pedagogic initiatives and embed the explicit valuing of teaching and learning into all aspects of university life. It represents a collaborative, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary model with multiple stakeholder voices. Operationalised through the secondment of academics two days a week, and taking a thematic approach, Theme Leaders 'bid' for the secondment, and drive forward an agreed agenda. The BU 'Fusion' corporate strategy promotes clear links between Pedagogy, Professional Practice and Research, complemented by the current CEL themes of: Employability; Innovation in Technology Enhanced Learning and Innovative Pedagogies; Assessment and Feedback.We believe that the sustainability and creativity required to deliver this agenda are promoted through the building of strong networks, the sharing of challenges and the collaborative development of solutions, however, as academics moving into the realms of learning development, our roles and identities are constantly being challenged, contested, and reframed by the responses of peers, students and our wider disciplinary roots. This paper offers a model for mapping and managing change and optimising these and other 'disruptive' practices within HE institutional settings, and considers the flexible and blended academic identities that facilitate this approach.