The Articulation of Different Life Domains among Female Senior Managers and Their Subjective Well-Being : Focusing on Meaning Constructions in Everyday Life

Work-life issues have become a major concern across Western societies with the objective to promote women's careers and well-being. However, despite growing attempts to increase the number of women in senior management positions in European countries, such as Switzerland, they remain highly underrepresented. Inspired from the cultural approach in psychology, this article focuses on these women's concrete everyday life to understand how they articulate different life domains and how this influences their subjective well-being. A narrative approach based on reflexivity is adopted to analyze women's activity. Results show meaning intertwinements between life priorities that are often conflicting. Two psychological functions are identified: the feeling of control and the letting go of control. Each of these contributes to women's subjective well-being through the use of diversified supports, but their structuring roles appear only in relation to one another. Results are discussed in the light of existing literature and of their implications

The Life-World and Its Multiple Realities: Alfred Schütz's Contribution to the Understanding of the Experience of Illness

Alfred Schütz original contribution to the social sciences refers to his analysis of the structure of the "life-world". This article aims to invigorate interest in the work of this author, little known in the field of health psychology. Key concepts of Schütz' approach will be presented in relation to their potential interest to the understanding of the experience of illness. In particular, we develop the main characteristics of the everyday life and its cognitive style, that is, its finite province of meaning. We propose to adopt this notion to define the experience of chronic or serious illness when the individual is confronted to the medical world. By articulating this analysis with literature in health psychology, we argue that Schütz's perspective brings useful insight to the field, namely because of its ability to study meaning constructions by overcoming the trap of solipsism by embracing intersubjectivity. The article concludes by outlining both, the limitations and research perspectives brought by this phenomenological analysis of the experiences of health and illness

Evaluation of tree-based routing Ethernet

Tree-based Routing (TRE) revisits Tree-based Routing Architecture for Irregular Networks (TRAIN)—a forwarding scheme based on a spanning tree that was extended to use some shortcut links.We propose its adaptation to Ethernet, using a new type of hierarchical Ethernet addresses and a procedure to assign them to bridges. We show that compared to RSTP, TRE offers improved throughput. The impact of transient loops in TRE is lower compared to the application of the classical shortest path routing protocols to Ethernet. Finally, TRE is self-configuring and its forwarding process is simpler and more efficient than in standard Ethernet and shortest path routing proposals.Publicad

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Hierarchical Up/Down Routing Architecture for Ethernet backbones and campus networks

We describe a new layer two distributed and scalable routing architecture. It uses an automatic hierarchical node identifier assignment mechanism associated to the rapid spanning tree protocol. Enhanced up/down mechanisms are used to prohibit some turns at nodes to break cycles, instead of blocking links like the spannning tree protocol does. The protocol performance is similar or better than other turn prohibition algorithms recently proposed with lower complexity O(Nd) and better scalability. Simulations show that the fraction of prohibited turns over random networks is less than 0.2. The effect of root bridge election on the performance of the protocol is limited both in the random and regular networks studied. The use of hierarchical, tree-descriptive addresses simplifies the routing, and avoids the need of all nodes having a global knowleddge of the network topology. Routing frames through the hierarchical tree at very high speed is possible by progressive decoding of frame destination address, without routing tables or port address learning. Coexistence with standard bridges is achieved using combined devices: bridges that forward the frames having global destination MAC addresses as standard bridges and frames with local MAC frames with the proposed protocol.Publicad

General Practitioners' Perceptions of the Use of Wearable Electronic Health Monitoring Devices: Qualitative Analysis of Risks and Benefits.

The rapid diffusion of wearable electronic health monitoring devices (wearable devices or wearables) among lay populations shows that self-tracking and self-monitoring are pervasively expanding, while influencing health-related practices. General practitioners are confronted with this phenomenon, since they often are the expert-voice that patients will seek. This article aims to explore general practitioners' perceptions of the role of wearable devices in family medicine and of their benefits, risks, and challenges associated with their use. It also explores their perceptions of the future development of these devices. Data were collected during a medical conference among 19 Swiss general practitioners through mind maps. Maps were first sketched at the conference and their content was later compared with notes and reports written during the conference, which allowed for further integration of information. This tool represents an innovative methodology in qualitative research that allows for time-efficient data collection and data analysis. Data analysis highlighted that wearable devices were described as user-friendly, adaptable devices that could enable performance monitoring and support medical research. Benefits included support for patients' empowerment and education, behavior change facilitation, better awareness of personal medical history and body functioning, efficient information transmission, and connection with the patient's medical network; however, general practitioners were concerned by a lack of scientific validation, lack of clarity over data protection, and the risk of stakeholder-associated financial interests. Other perceived risks included the promotion of an overly medicalized health culture and the risk of supporting patients' self-diagnosis and self-medication. General practitioners also feared increased pressure on their workload and a compromised doctor-patient relationship. Finally, they raised important questions that can guide wearables' future design and development, highlighting a need for general practitioners and medical professionals to be involved in the process. Wearables play an increasingly central role in daily health-related practices, and general practitioners expressed a desire to become more involved in the development of such technologies. Described as useful information providers, wearables were generally positively perceived and did not seem to pose a threat to the doctor-patient relationship. However, general practitioners expressed their concern that wearables may fuel a self-monitoring logic, to the detriment of patients' autonomy and overall well-being. While wearables can contribute to health promotion, it is crucial to clarify the logic underpinning the design of such devices. Through the analysis of group discussions, this study contributes to the existing literature by presenting general practitioners' perceptions of wearable devices. This paper provides insight on general practitioners' perception to be considered in the context of product development and marketing

Aplicación del método de valoración contingente en la evaluación del sistema de gestión de residuos sólidos domiciliarios en la ciudad de Salta, Argentina

La higiene urbana, para una población de 489.098 habitantes, comprenden los siguientes servicios: barrido y limpieza; recolección y transporte; limpiezas de imbornales, canales y espacios verdes; y disposición final de residuos. El presente trabajo aplica el método de valoración contingente referéndum (MVCR) para evaluar el sistema de gestión de los residuos sólidos domiciliarios (SGRSD). La evaluación se realizó mediante encuestas personales distribuidas al azar a usuarios del servicio ambiental, en cinco estratos de ingresos familiares. Se indagó sobre la percepción de los usuarios frente al SGRSD mediante valoración cualitativa numérica y contingente. Se realizaron 779 encuestas distribuidas en 13 Barrios. El 38 % de los usuarios manifestaron no conocer la diferencia entre RSD de RP. Un 13 % de los ciudadanos usuarios valoraron la calidad del barrido y limpieza como excelente. La recolección y transporte de domiciliarios fue valorado como muy bueno por el 37 % de los entrevistados. Del tratamiento de disposición final de los RSD el 98 % de los usuarios desconocen las características del servicio. De la aplicación del MVCR y mediante un ajuste LOGIT, se obtuvo un excedente del consumidor individual equivalente a 5,31 dólares mensuales por catastro servido, que representa el nivel de bienestar del usuario frente al SGRSD actual. El 34,02 % de los entrevistados manifestaron la necesidad de incorporar mejoras al servicio, de los que sólo el 27,9 % contestó afirmativamente a la pregunta de la DAP. Se discute sobre la utilidad del MVCR en la evaluación de los SGRSD como herramienta para su evaluación y mejora integral

ARP-Path: ARP-based Shortest Path Bridges

This letter is a summary proposal for an evolution of the Ethernet transparent bridge paradigm that provides simple, shortest path bridging in campus networks. ARP-Path Ethernet Switches set up an on-demand path between two hosts just reusing and flooding the standard ARP request frame through all links and confirming the path reaching to the destination host with the ARP reply frame. ARP-Path uses the standard Ethernet frame format, is fully transparent to hosts and does not require spanning tree or link state protocol. Simulation results show superior performance to spanning tree and similar to shortest path routing, with lower complexity. Our implementations confirm backward compatibility, robustness and performance.This work was supported in part by grants from Comunidad de Madrid and Comunidad de Castilla la Mancha through Projects MEDIANET-CM (S- 2009/TIC-1468) and EMARECE (PII1I09-0204-4319).Publicad

Aplicación del método de valoración contingente en la evaluación del sistema de gestión de residuos sólidos domiciliarios en la ciudad de Salta, Argentina

La higiene urbana, para una población de 489.098 habitantes, comprenden los siguientes servicios: barrido y limpieza; recolección y transporte; limpiezas de imbornales, canales y espacios verdes; y disposición final de residuos. El presente trabajo aplica el método de valoración contingente referéndum (MVCR) para evaluar el sistema de gestión de los residuos sólidos domiciliarios (SGRSD). La evaluación se realizó mediante encuestas personales distribuidas al azar a usuarios del servicio ambiental, en cinco estratos de ingresos familiares. Se indagó sobre la percepción de los usuarios frente al SGRSD mediante valoración cualitativa numérica y contingente. Se realizaron 779 encuestas distribuidas en 13 Barrios. El 38 % de los usuarios manifestaron no conocer la diferencia entre RSD de RP. Un 13 % de los ciudadanos usuarios valoraron la calidad del barrido y limpieza como excelente. La recolección y transporte de domiciliarios fue valorado como muy bueno por el 37 % de los entrevistados. Del tratamiento de disposición final de los RSD el 98 % de los usuarios desconocen las características del servicio. De la aplicación del MVCR y mediante un ajuste LOGIT, se obtuvo un excedente del consumidor individual equivalente a $ 5,31 mensuales por catastro servido, que representa el nivel de bienestar del usuario frente al SGRSD actual. El 34,02 % de los entrevistados manifestaron la necesidad de incorporar mejoras al servicio, de los que sólo el 27,9 % contestó afirmativamente a la pregunta de la DAP. Se discute sobre la utilidad del MVCR en la evaluación de los SGRSD como herramienta para su evaluación y mejora integral.