40 research outputs found
In vitro resistance of gram-negative enteric bacilli from wound infections to honey
Letter to the Edito
Conviviality and Parallax in David Olusogaâs Black and British: A Forgotten History
Through examining the BBC television series, Black and British: A Forgotten History, written and presented by the historian David Olusoga, and in extending Paul Gilroyâs assertion that the everyday, banality of living with difference is now an ordinary part of British life, this article considers how Olusogaâs historicization of the black British experience reflects a convivial rendering of UK multiculture. In particular, when used alongside ĆœiĆŸekâs notion of parallax, it is argued that understandings of convivial culture can be supported by a historical importance that deliberately âshocksâ and, subsequently dislodges, popular interpretations of the UKâs âwhite pastâ. Notably, it is parallax which puts antagonism, strangeness and ambivalence at the heart of contemporary depictions of convivial Britain, with the UKâs cultural differences located in the âgapsâ and tensions which characterize both its past and present. These differences should not be feared but, as a characteristic part of our convivial culture, should be supplemented with historical analyses that highlight but, also, undermine, the significance of cultural differences in the present. Consequently, it is suggested that if the spontaneity of conviviality is to encourage openness, then, understandings of multiculturalism need to go beyond reification in order to challenge our understandings of the past. Here, examples of âalterityâ are neither ânewâ nor âcontemporaryâ but, instead, constitute a fundamental part of the nationâs history: of the âgapâ made visible in transiting past and present
Exploring stressors and coping among volunteer, part-time and full-time sports coaches
© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group The stressor and coping experiences of full-time and paid coaches have been reported in the literature, yet researchers have largely overlooked the experiences of part-time and voluntary coaches who make a substantial contribution to the coaching workforce. This study aimed to begin addressing these voids by exploring volunteer, part-time and full-time coachesâ stressors and coping strategies. In addition, this study aimed to explore both men and women coachesâ experiences of stressors and coping because most published literature has focused on the experiences of male coaches. Guided by our interpretive paradigm and blended constructionist and critical realist perspective, theoretically informed semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 men and women coaches who represented a range of team and individual sports. Data were thematically analysed using an abductive approach. We constructed 141 codes that were represented by three themes of stressors (coach-related, athlete-related and organisational) and 131 codes relating to coping, which we grouped into seven themes (problem-solving, information seeking, escape, negotiation, self-reliance, dyadic coping and support seeking). Based on these findings, we propose several impactful recommendations for researchers and practitioners. For example, we recommend that researchers continue to generate rich understanding of stressors and coping among coaches who are working on different employment bases to work towards the development of effective stress management interventions. Further, we encourage national governing bodies work with practitioners to incorporate specific foci on stress and stress management during coach education programmes to contribute to more effective performance under pressure
Shades of empire: police photography in German South-West Africa
This article looks at a photographic album produced by the German police in colonial Namibia just before World War I. Late 19th- and early 20th-century police photography has often been interpreted as a form of visual production that epitomized power and regimes of surveillance imposed by the state apparatuses on the poor, the criminal and the Other. On the other hand police and prison institutions became favored sites where photography could be put at the service of the emergent sciences of the human bodyâphysiognomy, anthropometry and anthropology. While the conjuncture of institutionalized colonial state power and the production of scientific knowledge remain important for this Namibian case study, the article explores a slightly different set of questions. Echoing recent scholarship on visuality and materiality the photographic album is treated as an archival object and visual narrative that was at the same time constituted by and constitutive of material and discursive practices within early 20th-century police and prison institutions in the German colony. By shifting attention away from image content and visual codification alone toward the question of visual practice the article traces the ways in which the photo album, with its ambivalent, unstable and uncontained narrative, became historically active and meaningful. Therein the photographs were less informed by an abstract theory of anthropological and racial classification but rather entrenched with historically contingent processes of colonial state constitution, socioeconomic and racial stratification, and the institutional integration of photography as a medium and a technology into colonial policing. The photo album provides a textured sense of how fragmented and contested these processes remained throughout the German colonial period, but also how photography could offer a means of transcending the limits and frailties brought by the realities on the ground.International Bibliography of Social Science
The 'living of time': entangled temporalities of home and the city
This paper explores the entanglements between urban and domestic temporalities in order to understand what it means to live in the city. Inspired by the film Estate: a reverie (Zimmerman, 2015a), and drawing on a series of home-city biographies, this paper explores the âliving of timeâ through the memories, experiences, and narratives of residents
living on different housing estates near Kingsland Road in Hackney, East London. We address two key questions: how are residents' experiences of urban living shaped by multi-layered and entangled temporalities of home and the city? What can an understanding of the urban and domestic 'living of timeâ reveal about temporality, home and the city? We explore the ways in which entangled and multi-scalar ârootsâ and âroutesâ
(Clifford, 1997) chart migration, housing and family histories for urban residents which, in turn, shape and help to articulate narratives of domestic and urban change in terms of stability and instability. We then turn to the overlapping and/or contested temporalities of urban and domestic lives, whereby residentsâ home lives â and their wider ideas about the estate, street, neighbourhood or city as home â are affected
by processes of urban change in complex and often contradictory ways. Finally, we investigate the ways in which home-city temporalities have shaped, and are shaped by, peopleâs hopes and fears for their future homes. Urban dwelling is shaped by multiple and multi-layered temporalities, intertwining the past, present and future, generations and
life courses, and housing, family and migration histories. The urban and domestic âliving of timeâ reveals how residents adapt to, negotiate and at times resist processes of change and continuity at home and in the city
Race and the Legacy of the First World War in French Anti-Colonial Politics of the 1920s
There has been relatively little historical research on the small number of African veterans who stayed on in France after the First World War and became militants in the radical anti-colonial movements created in the 1920s. From his entry onto the political stage in late 1924 until his early death three years later, the most celebrated and feared of these anti-colonial militants was Lamine Senghor, a decorated war veteran from Senegal. This chapter will chart Senghorâs brief career as an activist, focusing primarily on the ways in which he projected his identity as a veteran in his speeches and writings, as well as exploring, more generally, how Franceâs âblood debtâ to its colonial subjects became a key theme of anti-colonial discourse in the interwar period
Incidence of Syphilis in Prostate Specific Antigen Samples of Patients Attending Cancer Screening Unit in Nigeria
The relationship between prostate cancer and syphilis and the relevance
of the known risk factors such as age, occupation and physical/social
activities of these patients on this relationship was determined. Blood
samples were collected by convenience sampling method from 132 men (45
â 89 yrs) attending the Cancer Screening Clinic of University
College Hospital, Ibadan between January and June 2006. All these
patients presented for Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test for various
reasons ranging from suspicious of prostate cancer to routine
screening. The Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) of these patients was
categorized into 0-4”g/L (normal), 4.1-20”g/L and
>20”g/L. Out of the 132 patients used in this study, fifty-six
(42.4%) had Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) value of 0-4”g/L,
twenty-six (19.6 %) had PSA value of 4.1-20”g/L and the rest of
the patients ( 56%) with values; >20”g/L. A total of fourteen
(10.6%) of these patients were syphilis positive, patients with normal
PSA value had the least incidence of syphilis, 7.1% (4 out of 56). In
patients with PSA >20”g/L the incidence was 12.0% (6 of 50)
while the group 4.1-20”g/L recorded the highest incidence of
syphilis with 15.4% (4 of 26). Highest incidence of syphilis was found
at the age group 70-79 with PSA value 4.1-20”g/L, 25.0%, followed
by age group 60-69 with PSA value >20”g/L, 22.2%. Retirees had
14.3 and 9.1% incidence of syphilis at the age groups 50-59 and 60-69
years respectively and at PSA value of 0-4”g/L. High PSA value was
found to be more prevalent in retirees 65.0% (52 out of 80). This study
suggests social status and age related relationship between syphilis
and PSA