1,144 research outputs found
Fungal infections increase the mortality rate three-fold in necrotizing soft-tissue infections
Beings in their own right? Exploring Children and young people's sibling and twin relationships in the Minority World
This paper examines the contributions that the sociological study of sibship and twinship in the Minority World can make to childhood studies. It argues that, in providing one forum within which to explore children and young people's social relationships, we can add to our understanding of children and young people's interdependence and develop a more nuanced understanding of agency. As emergent subjects, children, young people and adults are in a process of âbecomingâ. However, this does not mean that they can âbecomeâ anything they choose to. The notion of negotiated interdependence (Punch 2002) is useful in helping us to grasp the contingent nature of children and young people's agency
Generationing development
The articles in this special issue present a persuasive case for accounts of development to recognise the integral and fundamental roles played by age and generation. While the past two decades have witnessed a burgeoning of literature demonstrating that children and youth are impacted by development, and that they can and do participate in development, the literature has tended to portray young people as a special group whose perspectives should not be forgotten. By contrast, the articles collected here make the case that age and generation, as relational constructs, cannot be ignored. Appropriating the term âgenerationingâ, the editors argue that a variety of types of age relations profoundly structure the ways in which societies are transformed through development â both immanent processes of neoliberal modernisation and the interventions of development agencies that both respond and contribute to these. Drawing on the seven empirical articles, I attempt to draw some of the ideas together into a narrative that further argues the case for âgenerationingâ but also identifies gaps, questions and implications for further research
Dilemmas in doing insider research in professional education
This article explores the dilemmas I encountered when researching social work education in England as an insider researcher who was simultaneously employed as an educator in the host institution. This was an ethnographic project deploying multiple methods and generating rich case study material which informed the student textbook Becoming a Social Worker the four-year period of the project. First, ethical dilemmas emerged around informed consent and confidentiality when conducting surveys of students and reading their portfolios. Second, professional dilemmas stemmed from the ways in which my roles as a researcher, academic tutor, social worker and former practice educator converged and collided. Third, political dilemmas pertained to the potential for the project to crystallize and convey conflicts among stakeholders in the university and community. Since the majority of research in social work education is conducted by insiders, we have a vital interest in making sense of such complexity
âDraw, write and tellâ. A literature review and methodological development on the âdraw and writeâ research method.
The creative research method âdraw and writeâ has been used in health, social care and education research
for several decades. A literature search of studies utilising this method was conducted during the planning
stages of a study exploring primary school childrenâs perceptions of infant feeding. A review of this literature
noted a range of benefits of âdraw and writeâ in enabling child participation. However, it also identified that
the method has been used inconsistently and found that there are issues for researchers in relation to
interpretation of creative work and analysis of data. As a result of this, an improvement on this method,
entitled âdraw, write and tellâ, was developed in an attempt to provide a more child-orientated and consistent
approach to data collection, interpretation and analysis. This article identifies the issues relating to âdraw
and writeâ and describes the development and application of âdraw, write and tellâ as a case study, noting its
limitations and benefit
Between overt and covert research: concealment and disclosure in an ethnographic study of commercial hospitality
This article examines the ways in which problems of concealment emerged in an ethnographic study of a suburban bar and considers how disclosure of the research aims, the recruitment of informants, and elicitation of information was negotiated throughout the fieldwork. The case study demonstrates how the social context and the relationships with specific informants determined overtness or covertness in the research. It is argued that the existing literature on covert research and covert methods provides an inappropriate frame of reference with which to understand concealment in fieldwork. The article illustrates why concealment is sometimes necessary, and often unavoidable, and concludes that the criticisms leveled against covert methods should not stop the fieldworker from engaging in research that involves covertness
There is plenty for everyone: Transection of the infracardiac inferior vena cava during organ recovery
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90551/1/23404_ftp.pd
Liver and intestine transplantation
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73604/1/j.1600-6135.2004.00400.x.pd
SWIFT observations of TeV BL Lac objects
Context: We present the results of a set of observations of nine TeV detected
BL Lac objects performed by the XRT and UVOT detectors on board the Swift
satellite between March and December 2005. Aims: We are mainly interested in
measuring the spectral parameters, and particularly the intrinsic curvature in
the X-ray band. Methods: We perform X-ray spectral analysis of observed BL Lac
TeV objects using either a log-parabolic or a simple power-law model . Results:
We found that many of the objects in our sample do show significant spectral
curvature, whereas those having the peak of the spectral energies distribution
at energies lower than ~0.1 keV show power law spectra. In these cases,
however, the statistics are generally low thus preventing a good estimate of
the curvature. Simultaneous UVOT observations are important to verify how X-ray
spectra can be extrapolated at lower frequencies and to search for multiple
emission components. Conclusions: The results of our analysis are useful for
the study of possible signatures of statistical acceleration processes
predicting intrinsically curved spectra and for modelling the SED of BL
Lacertae objects up to TeV energies where a corresponding curvature is likely
to be present.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astronomy and
Astrophysic
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