Creative Integration: Persian Bahá’í Newcomers in New Brunswick

Our paper analyzes the experiences of Persian Bahá’ís who arrived more than twenty years ago and stayed in New Brunswick. We conducted seven interviews involving ten people. This paper presents a widely ignored aspect of immigrant life: namely, the creativity that immigrants use to overcome local residents’ hesitancy in reaching out to them in friendship. This paper further analyzes two aspects of these immigrants’ arrival that account for their success. First, the receiving Bahá’í communities integrated them immediately into the social and administrative affairs of their communities. Second, the immigrants’ recent spiritual connection to the birth place of the Bahá’í faith became the means of Canadian Bahá’ís to welcome their brothers and sisters from Iran. Résumé L’article analyse l’expérience qu’ont connu les Persans Bahá’is qui se sont installés ici, au Nouveau-Brunswick, il y a plus de vingt ans et qui y sont restés. Nous avons mené sept entrevues avec dix personnes. L’article présente une facette souvent méconnue de la vie des immigrants : notamment la créativité dont ils doivent faire preuve afin de vaincre les hésitations des résidents de la région pour se lier d’amitié avec eux. De plus, cet article analyse deux aspects de l’arrivée de ces immigrants qui favorisent leur réussite. D’abord, les communautés d’accueil bahá’í ont intégré immédiatement les immigrés dans les affaires sociales et administratives de leur communauté. Ensuite, les liens spirituels récents des immigrants envers leur pays natal ont contribué à ce que les Bahá’í Canadiens accueillent leurs frères et sœurs de l’Iran

Social Activism Among Some Early Twentieth-Century Baha’is

This article discusses the socialist involvement of three of Canada’s earliest Bahá’ís, namely Paul Kingston Dealy, Honoré Jaxon, and Rose Henderson. Given that the Bahá’í Faith had an authentic interest in economic and social justice from its earliest days, a number of these early Bahá’ís were involved in socialism. This paper seeks to explain such an engagement despite the Bahá’í proscription of involvement in partisan politics. Because of the paucity of Bahá’í core writings until the early 1920s, a number of early Bahá’ís fit what they perceived to be Bahá’í teachings to their personal views, which led a number of them to engage in political activism. These views stand in sharp contrast to the Bahá’í teachings forbidding such involvement. Moreover, the porous membership boundaries in the early days of the Bahá’í community did not allow members to be consistent about criteria of Bahá’í membership. However, by the 1920s, membership in the Bahá’í community had become formalized and the prohibition against engaging in political affairs became a sine qua non for such membership. As a result, these early Bahá’ís either formally relinquished their membership or withdrew from active participation. At the current time, the Bahá’í Community of Canada numbers approximately 33,000 adherents. It is a religion that was founded in 1844

Autobiographical Notes from Inside the Ethics Regime: Some Thoughts on How Researchers in the Social Sciences Can Own Ethics

The medical model of research ethics codes operates from a privileged perspective. The reaction of social researchers spans the broad spectrum, from deference to rebellion. In this contribution, I explore an approach that would yield a move away from adversarial relationships that have come to characterize the discourse between the upholders of the medically framed research ethics codes and those who see no relevance in those codes in terms of their own research. The path away from this adversarial approach is to maintain the institutionalized ethics codes for medical research, but to insist that researchers in the social sciences use their own well-established disciplinary codes for conducting ethical research. Once we have moved away from this adversarial relationship, researchers in the social sciences will have no need to "other" themselves in research ethics review; they can now own their own ethics in research. These views represent my autobiographical reflections from my position as a founding-member of Canada's Panel on Research Ethics as a qualitative sociologist with extensive experience who has participated in the debate since 2001

Hydropneumbox: yesterday, today, tomorrow

Викладено історію розвитку гідроприводу, як найважливішого засобу механізації і автоматизації виробничих процесів. Відзначено внесок вітчизняних вчених у становлення теорії гідравлічного і пневматичного привод у як науки. Підкреслено провідну роль України в розробці та виробництві елементів і систем гідропневмоприводів. Показані нові тенденції і принципи функціонування мехатронних гідропневмосистем, які забезпечили широкомасштабне впровадження їх в гнучкі автоматизовані виробництва.The prerequisites and history of the emergence and development of industrial hydraulic drive as the most important means of mechanization and automation of production processes is outlined. The contribution of domestic scientists in the process of establishing the theory of hydraulic and pneumatic actuator as science is noted. The leading role of Ukraine both in the past and in the post-Soviet space in the development and production of elements and systems of hydro-pneumatic actuators is underlined, the main enterprise-developers and manufacturers of this equipment are listed. Much attention is paid to the modern stage of development of this industry as an integral part of mechatronic systems. New trends and principles of the functioning of mechatronic hydropneumatic systems are shown, which ensured their large-scale introduction into flexible automated production. Examples of modern elements of mechatronic hydropneumatic systems and schemes of their use in industrial processes are given

Understanding food vulnerability and health literacy in older bereaved men: A qualitative study

Background: Older people are sometimes challenged in maintaining a healthy diet but, because of age and disadvantage, are also more vulnerable to the adverse health consequences of poor nutrition. It has been claimed that older adults have low levels of health literacy regarding food; and struggle to discern which foods are healthy from the vast range available in developed counties (1). However, nutrition and eating behaviour are modifiable risk factors for health in old age (2) and health benefits can accrue from promoting healthy eating later in life . In order to achieve these health benefits, it is necessary to understand more about the capabilities and vulnerabilities of older people in terms of acquiring and maintaining a healthy diet. Objective: To understand the potential for issues around food vulnerability to arise in that group and to characterise that vulnerability, if present. Design: Narrative interviews were conducted to collect the data. An interpretative thematic approach to analysis was utilised. Participants: Twenty older, bereaved men from two communities in the North of England. Findings: Five overarching themes were identified: financial security, social networks, cooking skills, food and routine, and single servings. Discussion: Our findings suggest that some older men experience cumulative benefit from resources at their disposal, which contributes towards their capabilities to avoid food vulnerability