Kind Of Help Research Articles

The Language Centre: A dynamic space to foster the development of multiple interactions?

The present context within French Universities, with language policies under construction, the evolution of technology and their effects on language learning, brings us to question the Language Centre's (LC) role in this process today. How is it being used? What activities are implemented and how does the LC support language learning?While a certain number of universities are equipping themselves with "new learning areas" including "active rooms" and "friendly spaces", why maintain these areas when students can work from home? What kind of help or guidance can be provided?We ask whether the current interactions at the LC correspond to students' needs, and do in fact provide the necessary social, psychological, or linguistic support required. To do so, an analysis of students' usage of the LC was carried out. We will underline the fact that the question is not so much to oppose a physical to a virtual LC but rather, referring to a systemic approach, to underline the type of support the LC can offer, developing interactions with resources whether they be material and digital or human, by offering tutoring and guidance.

Contested spaces of hegemony: left alliances after the crisis

This reflects on the insights that geography can bring to bear on discussions of hegemony. It draws heavily on the work of Doreen Massey, for whom this essay is a form of tribute. It shows how Massey was able to make a very specific contribution to discussions about the politics of a given moment (the conjuncture) through her insistence on including the specificities of place into the many overlapping levels that constitute a political moment. This can be seen in her work on London, in which she drew attention to its role as a city in shaping the emergence of neoliberalism, or her work on de-industrialisation, which showed how unequal regional development is driven by specific interest groups – as seen in the strikingly different kind of help offered by successive governments to the bankers of the City as compared with the steel workers of the de-industrialised regions. Drawing on this work, David Featherstone draws on this work to discuss the current political situation in the devolved nations, the Northern Powerhouse, and relationships between nationally based parties and the Labour Party.

Exploring characteristics of suspended users and network stability on Twitter

Social media is rapidly becoming a medium of choice for understanding the cultural pulse of a region; e.g. for identifying what the population is concerned with and what kind of help is needed in a crisis. To assess this cultural pulse, it is critical to have an accurate assessment of who is saying what. Unfortunately, social media is also the home of users who engage in disruptive, disingenuous, and potentially illegal activity. A range of users, both human and non-human, carry out such social cyber-attacks. We ask, to what extent does the presence or absence of such users influence our ability to assess the cultural pulse of a region? Our prior research on this topic showed that Twitter-based network structures and content are unstable and can be highly impacted by the removal of suspended users. Because of this, statistical techniques can be established to differentiate potential types of suspended and non-suspended users. In this extended paper, we develop additional experiments to explore the spatial patterns of suspended users, and we further consider how these users affect structural and content concentrations via the development of new metrics and new analyses. We find significant evidence that suspended users exist on the periphery of social networks on Twitter and consequently that removing them has little impact on network structure. We also improve prior attempts to distinguish among different types of suspended users by using a much larger dataset. Finally, we conduct a temporal sentiment analysis to illustrate differences between suspended users and non-suspended users on this dimension.

Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Mental Fatigue of Family Caregivers of Patients With Cancer in Phase I Trials.

To examine family caregivers' experience of mental fatigue, identify strategies they use to manage it, and ascertain the kind of help they would like from healthcare professionals. . Descriptive, qualitative study that was part of a larger mixed-methods study. . Metropolitan comprehensive cancer center in the midwestern United States. . 79 family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer who were participating in phase I clinical trials. . Caregivers completed a semistructured, open-ended questionnaire and demographic and health history forms. . Caregivers were able to define mental fatigue and give many examples of it. They reported that mental fatigue did not interfere with patient care, but that it did have a negative effect on their own self-care. They identified strategies to manage mental fatigue. They wanted more information and support from professionals. . The majority of caregivers experienced mental fatigue, which manifested as trouble concentrating, difficulty remembering things, and irritability. The majority worked outside of the home and had health problems of their own. . Healthcare professionals need to assess caregivers for mental fatigue and find ways to help them reduce mental fatigue and restore their attention. Nurses are in a prime position to mobilize resources for caregivers to effectively manage burden and reduce mental fatigue.

Wanting and Getting Help for Substance Problems on Both Sides of the US-Mexico Border.

The US-Mexico border presents potential cultural and logistic barriers to obtaining substance abuse treatment. We compare the prevalence and correlates of wanting and getting help between border and non-border residents in both the US and Mexico. Data come from the 2011 to 2012 US-Mexico Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions which surveyed 3214 border and 1582 non-border residents in the US and Mexico. Multivariate logistic regressions estimate the effect of border residence on desire for and receipt of help. In both countries, border substance users were about half as likely as nonborder substance users to have wanted or obtained any kind of help, independent of predisposing, need and enabling factors, including migration status. Among those desiring help, however, about half had obtained it, both on and off the border in both countries. While substantial proportions of those who need help do not get it either on or off the border, lower motivation for treatment may be more important than access in explaining border/non-border differences. Future research should investigate whether there are border-specific barriers to wanting help, and how to minimize them.

Midwives and women׳s views on using UK recommended depression case finding questions in antenatal care

Objectivedetecting and treating depression early on in pregnancy can improve health outcomes for women and their children. UK guidelines recommend that Midwives screen for antenatal depression (AND) at the woman׳s first Midwife appointment using recommended depression case finding questions. This is the first qualitative study to explore Midwives׳ and women׳s views of using these questions in the context of antenatal care. Design: Semi-structured interviews with Midwives and pregnant women exploring their views and experiences of screening for AND, conducted alongside a validation study of the depression case finding questions. Settingthe initial appointment with the Midwife when the woman is 10–12 weeks pregnant. Interviewees were working or living in Bristol, England. Participantsmaximum variation samples of 15 Midwives and 20 pregnant women. Measurements and findings: Midwives and pregnant women viewed the depression case finding questions as a useful way of introducing mental health issues. Midwives often adapted the questions rather than using the phrasing specified in the UK guideline. Sometimes Midwives chose not to use the questions, for example if a partner was present. Both Midwives and women struggled to differentiate symptoms of early pregnancy from antenatal depression; yet thought that detecting depression early on in pregnancy was important. Women were unsure about the kind of help that was available; some women reported this as a reason for withholding their true feelings. There was a general lack of awareness among Midwives about the range of non-drug treatments potentially available to women and referral pathways to access them. Key conclusionboth Midwives and women regard screening for AND as acceptable and important but reported shortcomings with the recommended depression case finding questions. Implications for practiceproviding training for Midwives on how to frame the questions and increase their knowledge and application of the referral pathways suggested by UK guidelines will help address some of the issues raised by Midwives and women in our study.

Characteristics of streetworkers’ work and work environment based on research carried out on a particular group of streetworkers

Characteristics of streetworkers’ work and work environment based on research carried out on a particular group of streetworkers

Charakterystyka środowiska i pracy streetworkerów na podstawie badań w wybranej grupie pracowników ulicy

When helping other person we usually focus on what kind of help we offer and who we help. We often don't pay attention to person, who offers help. The goal of this summary is to talk about that person – to show, who the volunteer is, in a specific context of street work with homeless people. This article shows not only, who street workers are, but it also shows their work ethics and their attitude towards people they help. The research that has been done omits detailed stat analysis in order to focus full attention to parameters and indicators of this particular social study. Because of this process we manage to obtain a vivid and true image of street worker‘s agenda.

Helping Older People: Is there an App for that?

From social networks to health and fitness, everyday a lot of mobile devices applications (apps) are being developed. The variety and availability is such that people start to think that indeed “there's an app for everything”. Many of these apps address either problems or characteristics that affect older people and that are related with the ageing process (e.g. memory and visual aids apps). They can effectively help people and are under constant evolution.However, the lack of knowledge about these available technological aids can undermine its dissemination and consequently the help that people really receive, especially those who need it the most: older people. As such, a methodological search for available aid apps was made both in Google Play and in iTunes: 536 were selected, their classification analysed and the kind of help that they provide identified. It was noted that either in Google Play or in iTunes the apps’ categories are similar. Furthermore, it is not easily perceived what the type of help that each app can provide is and how is it provided.Hence, based on the results from the aforementioned methodological search, this paper proposes a new scalable tree-based classification methodology for aid apps, which is considered more suited to perceive what the available aid apps for mobile devices are. The existing apps were then characterized based on the proposed classification, to determine what the main aid that they provide is.

Victims of Racket: Entrepreneurs and Traders Dealing with Cosa Nostra, ‘Ndrangheta, and Camorra

This work proposes research on a still unexplored psychical world: thoughts, emotions, and real events experienced by racket victims of the three largest criminal organizations of the South of Italy: Mafia, Camorra, and ‘Ndrangheta. The purpose is to understand the multifaceted psycho-anthropological and social issues criminal organizations have settled on, and particularly which psycho-relational dynamics and sociocultural codes come into play in the complex and controversial relationship between victim and criminal system, between victim and support systems. With entrepreneurs and tradesmen victims of organized crime, we have analyzed lived experiences—in particular fear—and psychological problems they had to cope with; events and motivations that allowed them “breaking” the silence and asking for help; the representation of a support network before and after their possible pressing charges; the kind of help offered by support systems. Dignity and self-respect, the fight for one's own freedom and honor, deep values of southern cultures, those same values the various Mafias use and radicalize, turning them upside down and transforming them into suppression and domination tools, seem to be the main themes leading the rebellion to victimization. Together with this are the strong supports of anti-racket association networks.

Social Samaritan Justice: When and Why Needy Fellow Citizens Have a Right to Assistance

In late 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the U.S., causing much suffering and devastation. Those who could have easily helped Sandy's victims had a duty to do so. But was this a rightfully enforceable duty of justice, or a nonenforceable duty of beneficence? The answer to this question is often thought to depend on the kind of help offered: the provision of immediate bodily services is not enforceable; the transfer of material resources is. I argue that this double standard is unjustified, and defend a version of what I call “social samaritanism.” On this view, within political communities, the duty to help the needy—whether via bodily services or resource transfers—is always an enforceable demand of justice, except when the needy are reckless; across independent political communities, it is always a matter of beneficence. I defend this alternative double standard, and consider its implications for the case of Sandy.

Verbal sexual harrassment: A hidden problem for Turkish adolescent girls

This study is a descriptive one that seeks to determine how adolescent girls cope with verbal sexual abuse in Turkey. The study sample comprised 500 female secondary school students who agreed to participate in the investigation. Data was obtained via a questionnaire that focused on the background of the respondents, the kinds of verbal sexual abuse they had faced, how they felt afterwards, if they had sought to take any action, what coping strategies they adopted, how they explained the abuse and so on. All of them felt that the sexual abuse was abnormal. After the abuse most of the female students did not seek any kind of help and felt that it cannot be stopped. The respondents have had to make some changes in their life styles and restrict their lives to some extent in order to protect themselves from verbal sexual abuse. Some suggestions are made to address the issue and for improving the situation and viewing verbal sexual abuse as an important social and health problem in different educational and health institutions, the family and society.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure at medical journals in Japan: a nationwide survey of the practices of journal secretariats

ObjectivesMedical journals in Japan generally have appropriate policies regarding disclosure of conflicts of interest (COI). However, COI management depends on the staff members of each journal's editorial secretariat. This study's...

The USSR Victory in World War II and the Emergence of the Independent Republic of Indonesia

Victorious ending of the World War 2 on May, 9, 1945, stroke a crushing blow on the military axis Berlin - Rome - Tokyo. The USSR played a decisive role both on European and Asian fronts. Fulfilling its allied duty the Soviet Union entered the war in the Far East on 9 August, 1945 and defeated the Japanese army in Manchuria. This act became a great contribution to liberation of Asian peoples from the Japanese occupation. On the 17 August 1945 the Republic of Indonesia declared its independence. The recognition on the side of international community as well as diplomatic support became\e vital for the survival of the newly emerged Republic.The Soviet victory together with the allied nations in the Second World War, the new status of the USSR as a superpower, its constant anticolonial stance stimulated former colonies to appeal to the Soviet Union for backing and support. One of the first was the Republic of Indonesia, to which the USSR rendered all kind of help and encourages. The present article which is a result of the study of newly available documents from several recently opened Soviet archives shows the Soviet backing of Indonesia in the UN, its diplomatic recognition, in strengthening of Indonesian status as a sovereign state on the international arena as a whole.

乌鲁木齐机场几种常见天气的观测

本文从观测角度分析了影响乌鲁木齐机场飞行的主要天气，希望今后能对此类天气的观测和气象保障提供一定的帮助。 This paper analyzed the main weather which impacts the flight of Urumqi airport from the point of observation view. We expect that the results can provide a certain kind of help in future on weather observation and meteorological support.

Extraction, selection and distribution of meaning elements for monolingual information tools

Abstract In this contribution, we analyze concrete user needs in reception situations based on concrete text examples. The point of departure is that a potential dictionary user reads a text and does not understand a word or a fixed expression, and therefore he seeks help in an information tool. Our topic is how lexicographers can provide the kind of help that the dictionary user needs to solve his reception problem. In order to do this, our starting point is not: “encyclopedic items do not belong to dictionaries” or “you always have to follow a certain schema for meaning explanations”. The starting point is: what meaning elements are needed to give the dictionary user the help he seeks (here: understand a word)? And how could and should these meaning elements be incorporated, i.e. formulated and presented, in the dictionary article? Having user needs as our focus point, we try to isolate and extract data elements from a text corpus, in which we find a number of text examples, collocations, synonyms, links, images etc. Among these different types of data, we select a number of meaning elements; these meaning elements could be presented in one field (the meaning field), but in many cases they are distributed into different parts of a dictionary entry, e.g. links, lexical remarks and synonym remarks. This distribution as well as the formulation of the meaning elements will depend on the user and his needs.

Požiūris į kitokį vaiką: pradinės mokyklos atvejis

The article summarizes the attitudes of primary school students towards classmates that have SEN (special educational needs).Purpose of the study is to analyse the attitudes of regular schoolchildren in primary grades towards the SEN pupils learning with them, i.e., pupils with various disabilities of intellect, motion or state. The following were studied: regular students’ attitudes towards the usefulness of SEN students learning together with regular students; relationships between students of regular development and SEN students; the disposition of regular students to cooperate with students that have disabilities and provide them with help if necessary. The study included 105 primary students of regular development, 15 students with special educational needs due to severe disability and the 5 pedagogues that teach these children. The study was conducted by applying quantitative and qualitative research methods and later processed by applying statistical and content analysis methods. The children also think that the best places for educating these children are special schools or at home. It was also determined that regular students did not view SEN students as their equals and could not even imagine what kind of help they could receive from them or what kind of help they could provide for them themselves. Despite this, the majority of regular students willingly befriend SUP students and help them understand new communications technology (the internet, mobile connection). However, they admit that occasional teasing occurs due to the SUP student’s physical weakness or inability related to their mental or physical disability. An especially saddening discovery is that a substantial number of children choose to “not get involved”, “pay no attention” and “mind my own business” when a disabled or weaker child is being hurt. Keywords: children in special needs, dissability, mental disorders, physical disorders, inclusive education. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/su.2014.05

Only unpaid labour force? Women's and girls' work and property in family business in early modern Italy

This paper aims to investigate the nature of the women's contribution in family businesses in eighteenth-century Turin. Specifically, it discusses the reliability of the notion of unpaid work; it suggests that the latter is a too ambiguous concept and that some kind of distinction which clarifies the role played by each family member should be introduced. Economic and labour relationships between the partners or between the head of the household and other women of the family network were complicated by the presence of the female's personal property, and especially by the dowry. Married women invested in the family business their dowry or, alternatively, they used it in order to set up and run an independent economic activity or to buy a set of tools that enabled them to work autonomously. Widows (mothers or mothers-in-law) did the same. Women therefore were workers and owners at the same time. Their economic contribution to the household was based on an intricate mixture of physical work and property, and precisely for this reason they cannot be considered as an unpaid labour force. Finally, the paper shows that property gave the women the bargaining power necessary to negotiate their position in the household or to obtain some kind of help or support.

AB0914 Patient Education in Pediatric Rheumatology: A French Experience

BackgroundPatient education for chronic diseases has become a priority in French health care and recent laws on health have rendered patient education obligatory in our country. Patient education also restores...

Problems, visions and concerns of pre-service music and general education teachers in Greece resulting from their teaching practice in music

This study explores music education teaching practice in Greece, collecting data from three university departments: two music departments (M1 and M2) and one primary education department (P) during the academic year 2006–2007. The project was based on data from 84 students (N = 84). Fieldwork in students' teaching practice comprised a selection of: (1) daily teaching plans, (2) students' self-evaluation diaries for each of their teaching lessons and (3) note-keeping from the regular meetings between the academic instructor and the students during the teaching practice period. Data from each of the three university departments are first described separately; then a comparison among the three departments is made, which is based on the following three strands: (1) what problems students faced, (2) what kind of help they needed the most and (3) what they gained out of their teaching practice.