Physical Reminders Research Articles

Move-it: a paperclip-shaped sensing and actuating system for sticky notes

We developed a paperclip-shaped motion-actuating system, named “Move-it”. With this system, users can add motions to sticky notes just by clipping it. This system is constructed by using clip-shaped devices that have sensors and actuators. The recognition system uses photo interrupter module as sensor. Each clip device can recognize which note it has been attached to by calculating how much infrared light is being reflected by the grayscale image printed on the flip side of each note. The actuation system is made of a coil-shaped shape memory alloy combined with a polyolefin sheet that is embedded to the clip device, and can provide a sufficient motion for actuating the note. By writing for example, “meeting 16:00” on the sticky note using a digital pen and our device, the user can get physical reminder without any complex setting. This paper presents the design and evaluation of the recognition and actuation system of our clip-shaped device.

Messages of Hope: Using Positive Stories of Survival to Assist Recovery in Rwanda

For the past twenty years, the overriding story of Rwanda has been centred around the events and consequences of the genocide. In Rwanda, public expressions of that story have occurred in the gacaca courts, where survivors and perpetrators testified about their experiences and actions, during ongoing annual remembrance and mourning commemorations, and in memorial sites across the country that act as physical reminders of the genocide. While important as mechanisms for justice, testimony, and commemoration, on their own such events and installations also have the potential to re-traumatise. Accordingly, Rwandan agencies have encouraged a focus on the future as the overarching theme of recent national commemorations. Yet, opportunities for Rwandans to recount and disseminate positive, future-oriented stories of survival and healing remain sparse. Creation and awareness of positive stories have the potential to assist in recovery by increasing feelings of hope and efficacy; and recent research has demonstrated the value of hopefulness, well-being, and social support for vulnerable people. The Messages of Hope program seeks to leverage those ideas into a framework for generating positive messages by Rwandan survivors, providing an opportunity for everyday Rwandans to record and transmit their own positive stories of survival to demonstrate recovery and growth after the genocide, and to reinforce connectedness by sharing their challenges and aspirations. We describe the development and early implementation of this initiative and its potential longer-term application in other contexts of vulnerability.

A Taste for the Transgressive: Pushing Body Limits in Contemporary Performance Art

A Taste for the Transgressive: Pushing Body Limits in Contemporary Performance Art

Villa San Luis de Las Condes :lugar de memoria y olvido

«Villa San Luis de Las Condes» stands as a physical reminder of a past in which the city was thought of as a place of integration among the different sections of society. Its history symbolizes the path of a city that forgets to move on, towards «modernity».

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Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV to DSM-5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV to DSM-5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Patient assessment and documentation integrated in community practice: Chat, check, and chart

ObjectiveTo explore how pharmacists integrated the Chat,Check andChart (CCC) tools in community practice and to identify barriers and facilitators to use. DesignConcurrent nested mixed-method study. Open-ended, semi-structured qualitative interviews on tools use and a quantitative survey were completed via telephone. SettingCommunity-based pharmacy practice. Participants39 community pharmacists consented to interviews2 months after the CCC training workshop; 22 completed an interview. InterventionWorkshop training on CCC tools and workplace implementation strategies. Main outcome measuresBarriers, facilitators and implementation strategies for CCC tools. ResultsMore pharmacists were implementing or had made patient assessment part of their practice (54%) than documentation of patient care (36%). Integration was facilitated by patient success, collaborative worksite, personal beliefs, and provincial regulations. Lack of routines, patient expectations, reimbursement, and time were familiar barriers. Strategies to overcome these barriers included practicing new habits, using technology, starting small, using physical reminders, and recognizing benefits. ConclusionPatient care tools for assessment and documentation had both positive and negativeeffects on patients, pharmacists, and community pharmacies because of demands on time, lack of resources, and limited personal, external, and patient expectations of pharmacists’ care. Findings resulted in Alberta College of Pharmacists academic detailing of the CCC tools duringonsite pharmacy assessments to help pharmacists meet or exceed provincial practice standards.

Identifying with a process of change: A qualitative assessment of the components included in a smoking cessation intervention at antenatal clinics in South Africa

Introductionprevious research has suggested that pregnant women prefer a person-centred approach for smoking cessation interventions. However few studies have illustrated the mechanism through which such an approach has an influence on quitting or reduction rates among pregnant women in resource poor settings. Purposeto explore the role of different components included in a smoking cessation intervention delivered to disadvantaged pregnant women with high smoking rates attending public health antenatal clinics in South Africa. Methodsa qualitative design consisting of focus-group discussion with women exposed to the intervention was used. Women were purposively selected from four antenatal clinics and one tertiary hospital to represent different experiences of the intervention. Focus group discussions with four groups of smokers and four groups of quitters were conducted and a total of 41 women were interviewed. Data were analysed using content analysis. Main findingsthe main theme describing the intervention effect that emerged from the interviews was, ‘Making identification with change possible’. The categories ‘An impulse for change’, ‘An achievable recipe’, ‘A physical reminder’ and ‘A compassionate companion’ further described how each intervention component was perceived by women and how it contributed to behaviour change. Conclusionsbehaviour change interventions that are directly informed by the target population with regards to its design, content and delivery offer great opportunities for positive behaviour change. Women positively evaluated all the components employed in this intervention but rated the social support they received from peer-counsellors as the overriding aspect of the intervention.

Colliding worlds: How boundary work on online social networks impacts professional relationships

Most individuals manage multiple roles, using social cues and temporal and physical barriers to conduct boundary work between their professional and personal identities. However, social worlds tend to collide in online social networks. Employees find themselves interacting with personal and professional contacts simultaneously, and social faux pas may occur due to the lack of clear social scripts and physical reminders of who is in the audience. Given the collision of their personal and professional identities in cyberspace, how do employees recreate and manage boundaries? We build a framework to theorize the key motivational mechanisms driving the adoption of audience, content, hybrid, and open boundary management strategies in online networks, and the consequences for individuals engaging in these strategies on the way they are regarded by co-workers and professional acquaintances.

Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festivals (review)

Reviewed by: Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festivals Travis D. Stimeling Bean Blossom: The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festivals. By Thomas A. Adler. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. [xxii, 239 p. ISBN 9780252036156 (hardcover), $75; ISBN 9780252078101 (paperback), $24.95.] Bibliography, index. Every June since 1967, bluegrass musicians and fans have descended on the small Indiana town of Bean Blossom, a crossroads town located between Indianapolis and Bloomington, to participate in one of the most important rituals of the bluegrass community, the Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Festival, known to most simply as “Bean Blossom.” Bean Blossom was not the first bluegrass music festival (previous festivals had been held in Berryville, Virginia in 1960; Luray, Virginia in 1961; and near Fincastle, Virginia in 1965), nor is it the best-attended (the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival regularly sell more tickets). Yet the festival holds a central place in the folklore and collective memory of participants in the widely-dispersed international bluegrass scene, embodying the cordial and cooperative spirit of the ubiquitous parking lot jam session, representing a rural idyll in which traditional acoustic music can thrive, and, perhaps most importantly, standing as a physical reminder of the “father of bluegrass,” Bill Monroe, who purchased the festival grounds in 1951 and, until his death in 1996, could be found on-stage, trading licks with amateur pickers, or performing emergency maintenance on the property. But, while Bean Blossom may best be known for its central place in the bluegrass scene, the site has a much deeper and broader significance to the history of country music and to the development of Brown County, Indiana, a place often treated as a hillbilly foil to the sophistication of Indianapolis. In his meticulously researched monograph on Bean Blossom and its predecessor, the Brown County Jamboree, folklorist Thomas Adler draws upon his own long history with Bill Monroe’s festivals, detailed archival study, and oral history to document the important place that this Indiana community has played in the bluegrass community. Further more, Adler adds to such recent work as the Chad Berry-edited collection The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance (University of Illinois Press, 2008) and director Stephen Perry’s 2011 documentary film of the same name to offer an alternative narrative of country music’s early history that more fully accounts for the genre’s long history in the Midwest. Adler frames his discussion of the Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bean Blossom Festival within the context of “rural music parks,” venues that can trace their roots variously to the “trolley parks” [End Page 772] that emerged in such cities as Chicago and Philadelphia and the Chautauqua movement that flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rural country music parks thrived from the 1930s until the middle of the 1960s across the Southeast and Midwest, providing valuable training grounds and employment for local musicians and venues for barnstorming groups and touring radio acts while promoting the consumption of country music as an attractive entertainment for the entire family. Moreover, as the narrative that Adler traces suggests, country music parks also offered opportunities for rural communities to develop economies based upon cultural tourism, creating “place[s] where the worlds of music-as-work and music-as-play intersected” (p. xxii). Such was certainly the case in Brown County, Indiana, which, despite its location between the state capital and its land-grant university, was isolated from much economic development until the late 1920s. Although an artist colony formed in Brown County in the first decades of the twentieth century, the area was perhaps best known as a rural backwater that was home to the Ku Klux Klan and the fictional Abe Martin, a rube character developed by Indianapolis News journalist and political cartoonist Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard in 1905 and syndicated to more than two hundred newspapers nationwide (pp. 5–6). Brown County was also the home of several string band musicians, including most notably the Van Buren String Busters, and by 1941 (and perhaps as early as 1935...

<i>Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country</i> (review)

Reviewed by: Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country Jack Williams (bio) Alison K. Hoagland Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 328 pages. 115 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 978-0-8166-6566-2, $75.00 HB ISBN 978-0-8166-6567-9, $25.00 PB America’s industrial landscapes contain many evocative clusters of subsidized housing built by a parent company for its workers. Usually peripheral to a company’s manufacturing or mining structures, these modest worker dwellings serve as physical reminders of the difficult and sometimes dramatic struggles of their inhabitants for dignity and equality. Often these clusters are all that remain after the demolition of the main industrial structures. Their at times monotonous similarity renders them intelligible within an often grim and marginalized context. Even individualized changes over time, such as porch additions or wrappings of vinyl or asphalt siding, cannot disguise their once standardized construction and simple site plans. Familiar examples exist in most regions of the United States, like the alphabetized streets of the mill community of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, or the unrelenting streets of repetitive housing forms in the mining towns of Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region. Mill communities in the South such as Monroe, Georgia, have row upon row of “shot-gun” houses whose tiny pedimented entrances front tree-lined streets. Southern New England’s larger former textile centers have entire neighborhoods of ubiquitous “triple deckers,” long blocks of matched multifamily dwellings. The discovery of these forgotten fragments of replicated worker housing reveals other deeply hidden layers of history. The most famous, and beautiful, example is the failed social experiment of Pullman, Illinois, south of Chicago. Pullman’s attractive brick row houses and hierarchical streets and squares make a harmonious urban composition envied today by planners and architects, in spite of its deeply flawed paternalism. The repetition of housing forms in these and other examples suggest a complex urban ambiguity. On the one hand, repetition negates individuality, reducing inhabitants to faceless cogs in the vast impersonal machinery of nineteenth-century industrial capitalism. Yet these same forms also tell a different story—of individuals joined together into communities that offered hope and resilience. The resolution of the tension between repetitive parts that perhaps constitutes a larger whole and the expression of the individual though his or her private dwelling is the essence of successful urbanism. In this thoughtful, rigorously researched book, Alison K. Hoagland addresses this ambiguity through discovery and discussion of unique company towns in Michigan’s northern peninsula. She finds her evidence in housing and other aspects of the area’s material culture—schools, churches, libraries, and other communal structures—and weaves a fascinating tale of immigrant workers that brings alive the people and communities that labored in the region’s copper mines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Because Hoagland describes modest buildings that have often been demolished, the book relies heavily on plans and historic photographs. Mine Towns is unusually rich and graphically complete, with many illustrations that are well explained and thoughtfully integrated with the text. The author’s grasp of the subtleties of architectural spaces inferred from plans is remarkable and rewards a close study of her thorough research. After a brief introduction to the Copper Country of the upper Michigan peninsula, Hoagland discusses the different typologies of the region’s worker housing, such as “saltboxes and T-plans.” By interpreting historic plans and photographs, her writing exposes the daily lives of immigrant families and their different living arrangements. Poignant photographs capture the sparseness of the interior furnishings of these homes; Hoagland’s writing explains the incredible crowding. The density of boarders within such limited spaces recalls the conditions of New York’s Lower East Side tenements. She notes that workers may have shared the same beds in shifts corresponding to their working hours. In “Acquiring Conveniences” (chapter 4), she elaborates housing modernizations such as interior plumbing, central heating, and electrical services in fascinating detail and provides an insightful history of the conveniences we take for granted today. As many of these [End Page 103] changes to the interiors of dwellings took place within...

Pig: A Scholarly View

In George Orwellrs Animal Farm, the pigs infamously changed the law to read: lsome animals are more equal than othersr (108). From Charlotters Web to Babe, there are a plethora of contemporary cultural references, as well as expressions of their intelligence and worth, which would seem to support the pigsr cause. However, simultaneously, the term lpigr is also synonymous with negative attributesmgreed, dirtiness, disarray, brutality and...

"Supernatural" bodies: Writing subjugation and resistance onto Sam and Dean Winchester

Although Sam and Dean are marked by various forces, wounds tend to disappear or be rendered invisible. Fan fiction writers bring these into the forefront, creating physical reminders of the plights that claim their bodies.

Improving Inpatient and Follow-Up TBI Services

Improving Inpatient and Follow-Up TBI Services

From Newspaper Row to Times Square

Until the early twentieth century, Park Row was synonymous with New York newspapers. Of the newspapers that left Park Row, the New York Times was notable for having established a geographic landmark that was identified with the newspaper. In fact, by 1906, Times Square had replaced Park Row as a place for New Yorkers to get election night news or to celebrate New Year's Eve. Nevertheless, Times Square did not remain associated with its newspaper namesake, and today a successor to the “zipper” is the last physical reminder of the paper's presence in this area of New York City. Drawing on the Archives of the New York Times Company, this article traces the history of Times Square from the construction of Times Tower through the twentieth century as the Times lost its identity as the neighborhood's namesake.

Himmelsbrück by Joachim Walther

> I H * I z * I ? I < I * I HH 0 I ? I Though this is his firstnovel, Arjen Terpstra is no novice writ er. He has been honing his skills for many years as a journalist and screenwriter. Now a novelist, no doubt he has more books to come. The differencebetween a good book and a great book isoften amatter of scope and depth, a depth of explor inghuman meaning that stimulates thought and feeling.This is a good book, impressively entertaining and consistently interesting. Readers may expect a lot less from a first novel. Henry J.Baron Calvin College Joachim Walther. Himmelsbr?ck Halle (Saale), Germany. Mitteldeutscher. 2009. 279 pages. 19.90. isbn978-3 89812-602-1 "Seit einem Jahrwar alles auf die Katastrophe zugelaufen. Nun war sie geschehen. Der Unfall, wie immer er entstanden war, ein Zufall, kein Zufall." (For one year, every thing led to the catastrophe. And now it had happened. The acci dent, no matter how it happened, a coincidence or not.) Though these words come near the conclusion of Joachim Walther's Himmelsbr?ck, they capture perfectly the tone,dra matic tension, indeed the feelings of uncertainty in this story of love, self-doubt, mistrust, and ultimately tragedy. From thebeginning of the novel, the reader expects the pro tagonists, Marti and Ria, to meet some kind of catastrophic end, yet is surprisedwhen and how ithappens, all of which underscores Walther's ability to capture and maintain his reader's interest. Matthias, a recently divorced thirty-nine-year-old artist and oper ator of an illegal art gallery in East Berlin, meets at a party Ria, almost twentyyears his junior and likewise newly liberated from a poisonous relationship.Despite warnings from the Emanze Lilith, Ria's friend and Seelenschwester, Ria responds toMat thias's advances and soon thereafter theyare living together in an apart ment in Prenzlauer Berg. Harassed by the Stasi, Matthias decides to relocatewith Ria to the countryside, in the fictitiousvillage ofHimmels briick inMecklenburg, where they intend to create their Utopia. How ever, their rural idyll quickly trans forms into a psychological torture chamber, where both suffer mental ly and emotionally. Matthias is con sumed by jealousy and Ria's sexual history, and is neither at ease with his love forormarriage with Ria nor with himself as an artist. Ria's dys functional family and Lilith's influ ence give rise toher insecurities with men and her own abilities, and she seems tobe perpetually in flightand insearch ofher identityand purpose in life.Her need to be trusted, as well as her youthful good looks and sexuality, coupled with Math's jeal ousy, can only lead to disaster. Matti and Ria's agony is set against the backdrop of the final phase of the German Democratic Republic, and the demise of their relationship mirrors the gradual implosion of the state. Walther craftily juxtaposes episodes of per sonal suffering with scenes of daily life in the GDR, such as the per vasiveness of the Stasi in every day life,political demonstrations in 1989, and the social unrest and soci etal transformations in 1990. How ever, political and social freedoms after the fallof theBerlinWall could not resuscitate their relationship, which neither could end nor affirm. Not knowing how Ria died in a car accident and even doubting if it was an accident, Matti felt liberat ed, indeed relieved: "Als er dachte, sp?rte er in sich ein Gef?hl, das ihn schokierte und ihn doch wieder seinen Willen erfasste. Die starke Freude, ?berlebt zu haben. Tiefe Dankbarkeit. Sie hatte sich get?tet, bevor sie ihn get?tet hat." (When he thought about it,he detected a feeling thatboth shocked him and seized hiswill. The great joy tohave survived. Deep gratitude. She had killed herselfbefore she killed him.) Critics may draw parallels between Ria and the GDR, their inner conflicts, fragmented exis tence, and agonizing demise. Mat ti's attempt to purge all memories and physical reminders of Ria by burning their country farmhouse evokes comparisons to how the Federal Republic of Germany con sumed the GDR, thereby erasing itshistory and identity. In any case, Hitnmelsbruck is a story driven by anxiety, fear, and self-destruction, words that could also apply to the Gregory H. Wolf North CentralCollege iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim 70 1 World Literature Today ^^^H ...

Co-operation or Co-presence? The Comforting Ideal of Community in a Master Planned Estate

Given the long and well-documented decline in the existence and relevance of place-dependent urban community, we explore the use of an idealised version of community of place in the marketing and implementation of a new suburban master planned estate (MPE) in Australia. In a social policy environment where strong communities of place are idealised, we find residents lack the resources or inclination to devote to the establishment of civic norms or durable social networks within the boundaries of the development and, for the most part, they are content to leave the establishment of the symbols of community to the property developer. It is the idea, rather than the reality, of community that is important, but in order to generate that idea, the developer needs to go to some lengths to create an ‘illusion’, or ‘sense’ of strong local community in the estate through marketing, the creation of nostalgic physical reminders, and selected community interventions such as cyclical events and celebrations. These all play an important role in the establishment of subjective ontological security for residents; to the benefit of both resident and developer.

The Lineup for Meat: The Stalin Statue in Prague

In Prague a debate is taking place over whether an aquarium ought to be built on the site that once housed the largest monument to Stalin. The site is difficult to contend with, not only because it is a physical reminder of the atrocities committed during the Communist rule but also because of the monument's bizarre history, one plagued by absurd events. The monument's history is preserved in obscure historical and fictional narratives. I explore these narratives in terms of monumentality, foreign imposition, socialist-realist aesthetics, power, and humor. I concentrate on the dual function the absurd served in the history of the statue. Reliance on humor, while enabling the Czechs to undercut the monumentality of this emblem of the imposition of foreign power, also fostered a forgetting of the statue's history and political significance. Thus, the Czechs' propensity for the absurd, even if temporarily freeing, ultimately undermines the nation's understanding of its past.

Villa San Luis de Las Condes :lugar de memoria y olvido

La Villa San Luis de Las Condes queda como reducto de un pasado en el que se planteó la ciudad como espacio de integración entre los distintos sectores de la sociedad. La historia de este lugar, simboliza el recorrido de una ciudad que olvida para poder marchar hacia la «modernidad».

“It’s Like Crossing a Bridge” Complexities Preventing Physicians from Discussing Deactivation of Implantable Defibrillators at the End of Life

OBJECTIVETo understand potential barriers to physician-initiated discussions about Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) deactivation in patients with advanced illness.DESIGNQualitative one-on-one interviews.PARTICIPANTSFour electrophysiologists, 4 cardiologists, and 4 generalists (internists and geriatricians) from 3 states.APPROACHClinicians were interviewed using open-ended questions to elicit their past experiences with discussing deactivating ICDs and to determine what barriers might impede these discussions. Transcripts of these interviews were analyzed using the qualitative method of constant comparison.RESULTSAlthough many physicians believed that conversations about deactivating ICDs should be included in advance care planning discussions, they acknowledged that they rarely did this. Physicians indicated that there was something intrinsic to the nature of these devices that makes it inherently difficult to think of them in the same context as other management decisions at the end of a patient’s life. Other explanations physicians gave as to why they did not engage in conversations included: the small internal nature of these devices and hence absence of a physical reminder to discuss the ICD, the absence of an established relationship with the patient, and their own general concerns relating to withdrawing care.CONCLUSIONWhereas some of the barriers to discussing ICD deactivation are common to all forms of advance care planning, ICDs have unique characteristics that make these conversations more difficult. Future educational interventions will need to be designed to teach physicians how to improve communication with patients about the management of ICDs at the end of life.