Sweet Home Research Articles

Needs for Aging in Place: Views of Older Moroccan Adults in the Netherlands.

Due to health and/or financial limitations, older migrants may become especially dependent on their neighborhoods, highlighting the importance of investigating their experiences. We explored older Moroccan adults' views on the relative importance of neighborhood resources for aging in place. Thirty Moroccans aged ≥65 years residing in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht were interviewed and asked to perform a ranking task developed with the combined quantitative and qualitative Q methodology. They ranked the relative importance of 38 statements representing the World Health Organization's 8 global age-friendly cities domains, with explanation of their reasoning. By-person factor analysis was performed to identify factors representing distinct viewpoints, which were interpreted with reference to the interviewees' comments. Four viewpoints were identified: "home sweet home"; "connected, well-informed, and engaged"; "suitable and affordable living"; and "a lively neighborhood." The perceived importance of neighborhood resources for aging in place differed among viewpoints. Older Moroccan adults prioritize different neighborhood resources for aging in place. Our findings suggest that their diverse needs can be satisfied by enabling family to live in close proximity, providing diverse, inclusive neighborhoods with affordable, suitable housing, understandable information, social/cultural activities, and care services for vulnerable groups. Future studies may build on our findings to explore older (migrant) adults' views on needs for aging in place in the Netherlands and other western countries.

Tinjauan Penerapan Prinsip Pembangunan Berkelanjutan pada Bangunan Indekos Home Sweet Home, Sukajadi, Bandung

Boarding houses or what are often known as boarding houses are buildings that are definitely frequent and often found around campuses, especially in urban areas. A boarding house is a residential or residential building that is intended to be able to accommodate individual residents who are able to accommodate many residents. This causes the boarding house to be one of the buildings that consumes a lot of energy, is prone to generate a lot of waste, and is one of the buildings that is prone to causing environmental problems or global warming. That is why it is important for a boarding house to apply the concept of sustainable design. One of the boarding houses in the city of Bandung is Home Sweet Home which is located around the Maranatha Christian University campus. The purpose of this study was to determine the application of sustainable development principles to Home Sweet Home boarding houses. It is also hoped that this paper can help readers understand how important it is to apply the concept of sustainable design to residential buildings, especially boarding houses. The method used to collect data in writing this article is a qualitative method using a case study theory approach. The result of data analysis from writing this article is that the Home Sweet Home boarding house is a residential building that has not yet implemented a sustainable design. This also shows that there are still many boarding houses or residential buildings in big cities in Indonesia that have not yet implemented the concept of sustainable design.

Movement fracturing “the international” —or, what does it mean to give primacy to movement?

Movement fracturing “the international” —or, what does it mean to give primacy to movement?

“Home sweet home”. How staying more at home impacted residential satisfaction and residential attachment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sydney, Australia

Previous studies of residential satisfaction and residential attachment have primarily focused on the influence of objective residential characteristics, and paid little attention to the time spent at home and in the neighbourhood. This study uses the COVID-19 lockdown in Greater Sydney, Australia, as an opportunity to investigate the effect of staying more at home on the interplay between residential satisfaction and residential attachment. In doing so, this paper contributes to the discussion about long-term impacts of COVID-19 on residential location choices. A structural equation model was estimated using data from an online survey of employed respondents (N = 748) which questions changes in the frequency of working from home. The results show that respondents who worked almost full time at home (4 plus days working from home) did enjoy higher residential satisfaction, relative to respondents who never worked at home and this leads to respondents having higher residential attachment. Consequently, assuming that working from home becomes more of a norm after the pandemic, it is unlikely that this will be accompanied by large-scale residential relocations. The survey also allows an in-depth analysis of objective and perceived neighbourhood characteristics and the way in which these influence the interplay between residential satisfaction and residential attachment. The results suggest that residential satisfaction is significantly influenced by perceptions of safety and accessibility. The paper concludes with policy implications of how to encourage residential attachment which brings with it benefits of greater commitment to, and willingness to work to improve the neighbourhood.

Home Sweet Home: The Impact of Lifestyle on a Cat's Approach to Impossible Tasks in the Home Environment.

Cat welfare is a topic of growing interest in the scientific literature. Although previous studies have focused on the effects of living style (i.e., indoor/outdoor) on cat welfare, there has been a noticeable dearth of analysis regarding the impact of lifestyle on cats' inclination and mode of communication with humans. Our research aimed to analyze the possible effect of lifestyle (e.g., living indoors only or indoor/outdoor) on cat-human communication. The cats were tested using the impossible task paradigm test, which consists of some solvable trials in which the subject learns to obtain a reward from an apparatus, followed by an impossible trial through blocking the apparatus. This procedure triggers a violation of expectations and is considered a useful tool for assessing both the decision-making process and the tendency to engage in social behaviors towards humans. A specific ethogram was followed to record the behavioral responses of the cats during the unsolvable trial. Our results show the effects of lifestyle and age on domestic cats, providing valuable insights into the factors that influence their social behaviors. Cats that can roam freely outdoors spent less time interacting with the apparatus compared to indoor-only cats. Additionally, roaming cats showed stress behaviors sooner following the expectancy of violation compared to indoor cats. The lifestyle of cats can influence their problem-solving approach while not affecting their willingness to interact with humans or their overall welfare. Future studies on this topic can be useful for improving the welfare of domestic cats.

Home sweet home: Comparison of epibiont assemblages associated with cultivated and wild sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima), co-cultivated blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) and farm infrastructure

Seaweed farming is expanding in Europe and may provide environmental benefits similar to those from natural kelp forests and shellfish farms, including habitat provisioning. Few studies have substantiated these claims however, and it remains uncertain whether seaweed farms will support similar biodiversity to kelp forests or provide valuable long-term habitat beyond the harvest season. We repeatedly surveyed an integrated sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) and blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) farm in southwest UK to compare epibiont assemblages between cultivated kelps, to those from three nearby wild kelp populations, and to epibionts on farmed mussel lines and unseeded ‘bare’ lines. We found farmed kelps supported over 217 times the abundance of epibionts living on wild kelps at harvest time, however, taxonomic diversity per kelp was lower at the farm. Farmed kelp assemblages were dominated by amphipods, which were present on the wild kelps but in much lower numbers. Farmed kelp also supported distinct assemblages to cultivated mussels, which were similarly dominated by amphipods, but hosted higher relative abundances of crabs, echinoderms, worms and red algal biomass. The bare lines were heavily colonised by another pseudo-kelp, Saccorhiza polyschides, which supported similar epibiont assemblages to the seeded S. latissima lines. Our findings indicate that cultivating bivalves alongside seaweed can increase habitat provisioning at a seaweed farm and extend its permanence beyond typical seaweed cultivation periods as bivalves have longer, continuous farming periods. However, the presence of mussels will likely influence the epibiont assemblages on the farmed kelp, which are distinct from wild kelp populations.

ВИДЕОЗАПИС НА ДОПЪЛНИТЕЛНА ФОРМА СЪС STEM ПОДХОД

Video recording of an additional form with a STEM approach for the third age group on the topic: „My sweet home“, to consolidate and upgrade the knowledge of geometric figures, rules for safe behavior in disasters, separate waste collection by modeling and composing a candy house. Expected results: • Knows some safety rules in case of storm, flood, fire and earthquake. • Builds an adequate idea of the immediate environment. • The backslider looks for more than one solution and way of implementation. • Model the figures using a variety of materials and objects. • Observes and demands from others the observance of rules and norms of behavior in team activities. Teams: „Earth“, „Water“, „Fire“, „Metal“ and „Wood“

Home sweet home, how money laundering pollutes the real estate market: an agent based model

Home sweet home, how money laundering pollutes the real estate market: an agent based model

Home Sweet Home: Strengthening Pagibig Fund’s Housing Programs towards Building Sustainable Homes

A global housing crisis is caused by a number of things: overpopulation, inflation, the lack of affordable housing units, low income, land and labor shortage, and there are many international and nationwide efforts to combat this housing shortage. Among the several sustainable and affordable housing initiatives and programs by the Philippine government is the conception of the Pag-IBIG Fund, tasked to be responsible for national savings and affordable home financing. The objective of this study is to formulate and propose an action plan that would help strengthen Pag-IBIG Fund’s housing programs to promote sustainable housing among low-income Filipino workers. To formulate this, various literature suggest the need to gather the perceptions of both low-income and minimum-wage individuals who are members of the Pag-IBIG Fund and the Pag-IBIG Fund housing developer partners. To determine the housing problems, perception of sustainable housing, and effectiveness of Pag-IBIG’s housing programs, the researcher employed a quantitative approach with the use of a survey with data analyzed through various statistical treatments. Results show that the respondents concur that physical inadequacy, limited selection, and proximity are common housing problems of Filipino low-income earners. The study’s results served as the researcher’s basis in formulating the action plan containing a policy brief and a public relations plan for information dissemination.

The Design of Indonesian Furniture as a Solution to Human Life Balance Issues Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

The focus on achieving life balance has been widely discussed in various aspects of human life after the COVID-19 pandemic. The increased stress level results from losing boundaries between work and other aspects of life due to the lack of physical and temporal limitations, causing an imbalance. As one of the world's furniture material producers, Indonesia needs to improve its design's quality for the export market. This paper discussed the solution of interior product design for the European export market as an activity that helps to address the imbalance of human life after the pandemic. The authors applied the Kelley design thinking method through the stages of empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing. The wellness, sustainability, and home sweet home concepts were applied to the design as the emerging megatrends in Europe while also considering the sustainable global cultural and aesthetic aspects. Natural materials from Indonesia were applied with this consideration. The main focus of the design system is on the easy installation concept to achieve product shipping efficiency to the European market. Three designs are discussed in this paper, including the Rotan Storage Credenza, Multifunctional Lounge Chair, and Sisal Lounge Chair. The resulting designs are expected to solve the European market's problems after the pandemic. The designs must still be tested in the market through e-commerce and internationally recognized exhibitions.

Post-Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Care in the "Home Sweet Home" Setting: A Treatment Paradigm Shift.

Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common hematologic malignancy, with 34,470 estimated new cases in 2022. High-dose therapy followed by autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (auto-HCT) remains a standard treatment for MM even in the era of novel therapies. This is usually performed in hospital-based settings, either in the inpatient or outpatient units. Advanced Care at Home (ACH) represents a virtual hybrid hospital-at-home program that combines a virtual provider-staffed command center with a vendor-mediated supply chain capable of delivering high-acuity care in the comfort of the patients' own homes. In our program, we used the existing ACH platform to deliver post-HCT care for recipients of auto-HCT. Four patients (female = 2, 50%) with MM, with a median age of 60 (range, 40-74) years, were admitted to the inpatient Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) unit. The conditioning regimen consisted of melphalan 200 mg/m2, administered on day -2. All patients received stem cell infusion (day 0) in the inpatient setting, with a median dose of 3.64 (range, 2.92-8.22) × 106/kg CD34 cells. Patients were discharged to their homes after completing the infusion on day 0 or day +1 at the latest. Post-infusion care was provided by the ACH team in coordination with the BMT team. The median time intervals to absolute neutrophil count and platelet engraftment were 12 (range, 11-13) and 11 (range, 9-16) days, respectively. All patients were successfully discharged from the ACH program at a median of day +14 (range, day +14 to day +15). Our results highlight the feasibility of delivering post-HCT care for auto-HCT recipients in the home setting and confirm the generalizability of this approach.

The American Woman's Home Sweet Home: Recentering and Commodifying the Hearth in National Ideology

May 01 2023 The American Woman's Home Sweet Home: Recentering and Commodifying the Hearth in National Ideology Carrie Gammell Carrie Gammell Carrie Gammell is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, working at the intersection of architectural history, property law, and political economy. Her dissertation examines the claim house and the single-family home as intermediaries of dispossession in the American West, from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the Housing Act of 1934. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Carrie Gammell Carrie Gammell is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, working at the intersection of architectural history, property law, and political economy. Her dissertation examines the claim house and the single-family home as intermediaries of dispossession in the American West, from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the Housing Act of 1934. Online ISSN: 2572-7338 Print ISSN: 1091-711X © 2023 Carrie Gammell2023Carrie Gammell Thresholds (2023) (51): 170–189. https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00808 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Carrie Gammell; The American Woman's Home Sweet Home: Recentering and Commodifying the Hearth in National Ideology. Thresholds 2023; (51): 170–189. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00808 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsThresholds Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2023 Carrie Gammell2023Carrie Gammell Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

“Home, Sweet Home”: Identity and Diaspora in Bai Jing-rui’s Qiong Yao Films

Abstract This paper discusses the Qiong Yao films directed by Bai Jing-rui in the 1970s, arguing that these romantic dramas took a proactive part in representing a cultural identity in Taiwan society of the time. The paper investigates how various issues, such as “home”, nationhood and diaspora, are treated in the films. In the process, the paper situates the filmic discussion in the wider context of a highly politicised environment in general and the industrial discourses of “healthy realism” and “healthy variety-show” in particular. The paper proposes that Bai Jing-rui’s Qiong Yao films grew out of a push-and-pull between three elements: (1) the authorities that wanted to promote certain moral and political messages; (2) Bai Jing-rui as an auteur strongly committed to the art of filmmaking; and (3) the audience at large whose support was needed to sustain a film industry. The paper gives close attention to how Bai’s Qiong Yao films tried various ways of reconciling those competing forces. As case studies, the paper examines closely two of Bai Jing-rui’s Girl Friend (1975) and Far Away from Home (1977) to show how they blended modernity with nativism in articulating a sense of cultural identity.

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Urban Taxi Slogans: The People's Arts

Urban Taxi Slogans: The People's Arts

Netflix's presence: Investigating content producers' understanding of Netflix in the Korean media industry

The expansion of over-the-top services is exemplified by the growth of Netflix, a global subscription video-on-demand platform that has globally expanded its services. Netflix's hit series, The Squid Game and Sweet Home, created by South Korean producers, has gained popularity worldwide, enabling Netflix to gain a greater presence in the global markets. Although Netflix has triggered the transformation of local media markets, very few studies have examined its impact, particularly from the perspective of content producers who play a key role in the content creation and development of the over-the-top industry. Accordingly, this study aims to explore their perception of Netflix in terms of the opportunities provided, and the challenges posed to the South Korean media industry. We conducted semi-structured interviews with content producers and employed a core-periphery analysis of social representations. By revealing producers' perceptions of Netflix, this study enhances the overall understanding of its impact on the local media industry and provides theoretical and managerial insights into the global platform's impact on the local market.

Home sweet home… or is it?

Home sweet home… or is it?

Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock by Michael Ray FitzGerald

Reviewed by: Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock by Michael Ray FitzGerald Ben Wynne Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock. By Michael Ray FitzGerald. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, 2020. Pp. xiv, 207. $28.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-6665-3.) In this compact volume, Michael Ray FitzGerald gives readers an overview of the origins of a musical movement that helped alter popular culture in the United States. While many use the term southern rock to label this movement, it was actually broader and more layered. It included the work of a number of musicians who had southern roots in common, but who also flourished because of their individuality. While FitzGerald notes that calling Jacksonville “the birthplace of southern rock” is “strictly speaking, hyperbole” and [End Page 189] “erroneous,” the significant infusion of talent that the city provided the music industry in the late 1960s and beyond is undeniable (p. 13). The author argues that southern rock might be simply a variation of country rock “with more rock,” and he cites Gram Parsons as an alternating direct and underlying influence on those who helped create the genre (p. 29). Originally from Waycross, Georgia, Parsons spent his early life in Jacksonville, a testament to the Florida city’s reputation as the cultural capital of south Georgia, where many from that region ended up congregating. Parsons’s career was famously cut short by alcohol and drug use, but he had established a musical reputation that lived on in fact and legend. The author takes some exception to Parsons’s place in history as the first to promote “country rock” but still recognizes him as a pivotal figure who bravely bridged “the gap between hippies and rednecks” during the late 1960s and early 1970s (p. 28). Parsons is thus significant to one of the author’s conclusions, that southern rock is “a dialectic of two opposing philosophies: the nonviolent, long-haired, drug-using hippie and the hard-drinking, brawling, fiercely independent redneck” (p. 152). FitzGerald also does a nice job relating the early history of the Allman Brothers Band, the group whose star burns brightest in the constellation of southern rock heroes. In this regard, the book takes a potentially tedious story and makes it digestible for the reader. The Allman Brothers Band rose out of a collection of personalities and bands that performed in Jacksonville and elsewhere, among them the Allman Joys, Second Coming, and the 31st of February. The cast of characters is many and varied, but FitzGerald does an admirable job of telling their stories, whether of rock icons like Duane and Gregg Allman or lesser-known but still significant players like Johnny Sandlin and Paul Hornsby, who also had great careers as producers. FitzGerald recognizes guitarist Dickey Betts’s country proclivities as the driving force behind the band’s “southern” image, noting that the Allman Brothers Band changed in force and character when the guitarist sang lead—not into something better or worse, but into something different. By tracing the careers of a cross section of other prominent Jacksonville-area bands, FitzGerald paints southern rock with broader strokes while proving that a succinct definition of the term is impossible to pin down. Lynyrd Skynyrd promoted the “redneck” elements of southern rock through its iconic hit “Sweet Home Alabama” and its aggressive use of Confederate imagery, while Cowboy’s releases on Capricorn Records, the famous southern rock label in Macon, Georgia, were a softer sound, “more like the California country rock of Gram Parsons or Poco” (p. 70). Toiling in the shadows of the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special had more chart hits than both of those acts combined, while the band Molly Hatchet broke through and then quickly burned out. FitzGerald finally offers a brief treatment of the career of Derek Trucks, the nephew of Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks, pointing out that he may represent either the future of southern rock or its final flourish. Anyone with an interest in music history, southern culture, or the bands included in this book will certainly enjoy what Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock has to offer. [End Page 190] Ben...

Home Sweet Home: CEOs Acquiring Firms in their Birth Countries

Home Sweet Home: CEOs Acquiring Firms in their Birth Countries

Elizabeth Bouzonviller (ed.), “Home Sweet Home”: Places of Belonging in Anglophone Narratives

Elizabeth Bouzonviller (ed.), “Home Sweet Home”: Places of Belonging in Anglophone Narratives