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    The Cord Weekly (October 16, 1997)

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    Proceeding: 3rd Java International Nursing Conference 2015 “Harmony of Caring and Healing Inquiry for Holistic Nursing Practice; Enhancing Quality of Care”, Semarang, 20-21 August 2015

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    This is the proceeding of the 3rd Java International Nursing Conference 2015 organized by School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University, in collaboration with STIKES Kendal. The conference was held on 20-21 August 2015 in Semarang, Indonesia. The conference aims to enable educators, students, practitioners and researchers from nursing, medicine, midwifery and other health sciences to disseminate and discuss evidence of nursing education, research, and practices to improve the quality of care. This conference also provides participants opportunities to develop their professional networks, learn from other colleagues and meet leading personalities in nursing and health sciences. The 3rd JINC 2015 was comprised of keynote lectures and concurrent submitted oral presentations and poster sessions. The following themes have been chosen to be the focus of the conference: (a) Multicenter Science: Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, etc. in Holistic Nursing Practice, (b) Complementary Therapy in Nursing and Complementary, Alternative Medicine: Alternative Medicine (Herbal Medicine), Complementary Therapy (Cupping, Acupuncture, Yoga, Aromatherapy, Music Therapy, etc.), (c) Application of Inter-professional Collaboration and Education: Education Development in Holistic Nursing, Competencies of Holistic Nursing, Learning Methods and Assessments, and (d) Application of Holistic Nursing: Leadership & Management, Entrepreneurship in Holistic Nursing, Application of Holistic Nursing in Clinical and Community Settings

    Seriously, What Did One Robot Say to the Other? Being Left out From Communication by Robots Causes Feelings of Social Exclusion

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    While humans actually need some overt communication channel to transmit information, be it verbally or nonverbally, robots could use their network connection to transmit information quickly to other robots. This raises the question how this covert robot-robot communication is perceived by humans. The current study investigates how transparency about communication happening between two robots affects humans’ trust in and perception of these robots as well as their feeling of being included/excluded in the interaction. Three different robot-robot communication styles were analyzed: silent, robotic language, and natural language. Results show that when robots transmit information in a robotic language (beep sounds) this leads to lower trust and more feelings of social exclusion than in the silent (i.e., covert) or natural language conditions. Results support the notion that humans are over-sensitive to signs of ostracism which seems to be detected in this style of overt but nonhuman robot-robot communication

    Interactive Tango Milonga: An Interactive Dance System for Argentine Tango Social Dance

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    abstract: When dancers are granted agency over music, as in interactive dance systems, the actors are most often concerned with the problem of creating a staged performance for an audience. However, as is reflected by the above quote, the practice of Argentine tango social dance is most concerned with participants internal experience and their relationship to the broader tango community. In this dissertation I explore creative approaches to enrich the sense of connection, that is, the experience of oneness with a partner and complete immersion in music and dance for Argentine tango dancers by providing agency over musical activities through the use of interactive technology. Specifically, I create an interactive dance system that allows tango dancers to affect and create music via their movements in the context of social dance. The motivations for this work are multifold: 1) to intensify embodied experience of the interplay between dance and music, individual and partner, couple and community, 2) to create shared experience of the conventions of tango dance, and 3) to innovate Argentine tango social dance practice for the purposes of education and increasing musicality in dancers.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Music 201

    Pediatric Providers\u27 Perceptions of their Role in Early Detection of Postpartum Depression

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    The birth of a child is usually a happy occasion in a woman\u27s life. It is also often a time of overwhelming anxiety, stress and hormonal changes. Postpartum depression (PPD) could occur during the first year of childbirth in approximately 10-20% of mothers (Waldrop, Ledford, Perry, & Beeber, 2017). PPD is the most common maternal health problem within the first year after childbirth (the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2018). Recognition of mothers who are at risk for PPD allows health professionals to initiate care that can prevent further problems for the mother, infant, and the rest of their family. Screening, assessing, and treating maternal mental health problems should be a main concern in pediatric care, since maternal depression has major effects on children. There is overwhelming evidence of the long-term impact maternal PPD has on infant well-being throughout various research articles. Although there is evidence of the impact PPD has on the mother-infant dyad, there continues to be a lack of implementation within the pediatric care areas, and the lack of national guidelines and policies. Pediatric providers play a significant role in the prevention of negative outcomes for the infant and the maternal-infant dyad (Kurtz, Levine, & Safyer, 2018). Pediatric providers are in a perfect position to support healthy positive outcomes for maternal/infant health. Eleven providers who see infants within their first year of life from five different organizations were interviewed. the participants were interviewed regarding their perceptions of their role in early detection of PPD. Using a descriptive, qualitative methodology, the data from the interviews were analyzed. the data from the interviews were coded into 7 codes, and consisting of thirteen sub-codes. the codes that emerged consisted of a wide range of perceptions from healthcare providers who see infants and their mothers during the first year of life. Data from the interviews demonstrated how providers perceive their role as a critical aspect of early detection. Participants unanimously stated the importance of their role in early detection. Although participants were in accordance with the importance of their role in early detection, many issues and concerns did develop from the interviews. These issues ranged from inconsistencies regarding the lack of resources available to offer mothers, lack of collaboration, lack of screening protocols, and the lack of education the providers felt they received. Findings from this study offer much insight into the perceptions providers that see infants within their first year of life have regarding their role in early detection of PPD. in conclusion, this study demonstrates the need to increase awareness, and ensure that proper national guidelines are implemented among healthcare providers, policy makers, and organizations to secure a proper and efficient protocol to ensure the practice of screening all mothers. in addition, the results from this study have major implications in public policy, nursing practice, education, and further research

    Developing an Intervention Toolbox for the Common Health Problems in the Workplace

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    Development of the Health ↔ Work Toolbox is described. The toolbox aims to reduce the workplace impact of common health problems (musculoskeletal, mental health, and stress complaints) by focusing on tackling work-relevant symptoms. Based on biopsychosocial principles this toolbox supplements current approaches by occupying the zone between primary prevention and healthcare. It provides a set of evidence-informed principles and processes (knowledge + tools) for tackling work-relevant common health problems. The toolbox comprises a proactive element aimed at empowering line managers to create good jobs, and a ‘just in time’ responsive element for supporting individuals struggling with a work-relevant health problem. The key intention is helping people with common health problems to maintain work participation. The extensive conceptual and practical development process, including a comprehensive evidence review, produced a functional prototype toolbox that is evidence based and flexible in its use. End-user feedback was mostly positive. Moving the prototype to a fully-fledged internet resource requires specialist design expertise. The Health ↔ Work Toolbox appears to have potential to contribute to the goal of augmenting existing primary prevention strategies and healthcare delivery by providing a more comprehensive workplace approach to constraining sickness absence

    Seeing through the shades of situated affectivity. Sunglasses as a socio-affective artifact

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    Debates on situated affectivity have mainly focused on tools that exert some positive influence on affective experience. Far less attention has been paid to artifacts that interact with the expression of affect, or to those that exert some negative influence. To shed light on that shadowy corner of our affective social lives, I describe the workings of an atypical socio-affective artifact, namely, sunglasses. Drawing on insights from psychology and other social sciences, I construe sunglasses as a social shield that helps us block spontaneous emotional expressions, as well as affecting other social processes that heavily depend on the eye region: gaze direction detection, identity recognition, and the sense of intimacy afforded by eye contact

    The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Communication

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    There are increasing efforts to support cisgender women to make an informed decision before participating in biennial screening mammography. I adopted a feminist-relational perspective to explore women’s knowledge about screening and determine how screening mammography is socially constructed by women, healthcare providers, and the media. The findings indicated that opportunities for women to make an informed choice regarding their participation in screening mammography are limited and underscore the need to reconceptualise informed decision-making
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