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Women's experiences of increasing subjective well-being in CFS/ME through leisure-based arts and crafts activities: A qualitative study
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright © 2008 Informa Plc.Purpose. To understand the meanings of art-making among a group of women living with the occupational constraints and stigma of CFS/ME. The study explored their initial motives for art-making, and then examined how art-making had subsequently influenced their subjective well-being.
Method. Ten women with CFS/ME were interviewed; three provided lengthy written accounts to the interview questions.
Findings. Illness had resulted in devastating occupational and role loss. Participants took many years to make positive lifestyle changes. Art-making was typically discovered once participants had accepted the long-term nature of CFS/ME, accommodated to illness, and reprioritized occupations. Several factors then attracted participants specifically to art-making. It was perceived as manageable within the constraints of ill-health. Participants also tended to be familiar with craft skills; had family members interested in arts and crafts, and some desired a means to express grief and loss. Once established as a leisure activity, art-making increased subjective well-being mainly through providing increased satisfaction in daily life, positive self-image, hope, and contact with the outside world. Participants recommended provision of occupational/recreational counselling earlier in the illness trajectory.
Conclusions. Creative art-making occurred as part of a broader acceptance and adjustment process to CFS/ME, and allowed some psychological escape from a circumscribed lifeworld
Investigation of ligand interactions with human RXRα by hydrogen/deuterium exchange and mass spectrometry
Embracing the complexity of religion in relation to Spiritual Wellbeing (SWB): findings from the international validation study of the EORTC QLQ-SWB32
Monitoring the Dynamics of Monomer Exchange Using Electrospray Mass Spectrometry: The Case of the Dimeric Glucosamine-6-Phosphate Synthase
Conservation unit status inferred for plants by combining interspecific crosses and AFLP
Hybridization and introgression are common in plants and lead to morphological similarity between species and taxonomic confusion. This gene flow with closely related species can complicate efforts to determine whether an endangered taxon is evolutionarily distinctive and should be identified as a separate conservation unit. Potentilla delphinensis is a rare and threatened endemic species of the Southern French Alps. Two common related taxa (P. grandiflora and P. thuringiaca) are morphologically similar and occur in the same geographical locations. Thus, whether P. delphinensis represents a reliable conservation unit remained unclear. Our evaluation procedure based on a combination of molecular biology and interspecific crosses was used to define taxa within these plants. Plants were sampled from a total of 23 single and mixed localities for the three supposed taxa and were genotyped with 68 polymorphic Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) loci. Fourty-one seedlings from interspecific crosses were obtained and genotyped. Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism markers identified four genetically distinct units (P. delphinensis, P. grandiflora and two distinct groups of P. thuringiaca). All individuals of P. delphinensis formed a homogeneous and distinct taxon. This taxon was most probably an old allopolyploid from P. grandiflora and the related group of P. thuringiaca. Interspecific crosses gave low seed set and low germination rate. Furthermore, assignment test indicated that seedlings obtained from interspecific crosses were essentially apomictic rather than hybrids. These results suggest that a reproductive barrier exists between the different taxa. In conclusion, all results supported P. delphinensis as a true biological species and justified its conservation unit status. A surprising outcome of this work was the evidence of a potential new cryptic species. This study demonstrated the need to combine a molecular marker-based approach and pollination experiments for an accurate evaluation of plant taxa
Investigation of the scope and regiochemistry of alkynylboronate cycloadditions with sydnones
Thermal ion measurements on board Interball Auroral Probe by the Hyperboloid experiment
Hyperboloid is a multi-directional mass
spectrometer measuring ion distribution functions in the auroral and polar
magnetosphere of the Earth in the thermal and suprathermal energy range. The
instrument encompasses two analyzers containing a total of 26 entrance windows,
and viewing in two almost mutually perpendicular half-planes. The nominal
angular resolution is defined by the field of view of individual windows
≈13° Ă 12.5°. Energy analysis is performed using spherical
electrostatic analyzers providing differential measurements between 1 and 80 eV.
An ion beam emitter (RON experiment) and/or a potential bias applied to
Hyperboloid entrance surface are used to counteract adverse effects of
spacecraft potential and thus enable ion measurements down to very low energies.
A magnetic analyzer focuses ions on one of four micro-channel plate (MCP)
detectors, depending on their mass/charge ratio. Normal modes of operation
enable to measure H+, He+, O++, and O+
simultaneously. An automatic MCP gain control software is used to adapt the
instrument to the great flux dynamics encountered between spacecraft perigee
(700 km) and apogee (20 000 km). Distribution functions in the main analyzer
half-plane are obtained after a complete scan of windows and energies with
temporal resolution between one and a few seconds. Three-dimensional (3D)
distributions are measured in one spacecraft spin period (120 s). The secondary
analyzer has a much smaller geometrical factor, but offers partial access to the
3D dependence of the distributions with a few seconds temporal resolution.
Preliminary results are presented. Simultaneous, local heating of both H+
and O+ ions resulting in conical distributions below 80 eV is
observed up to 3 Earth's radii altitudes. The thermal ion signatures associated
with large-scale nightside magnetospheric boundaries are investigated and a new
ion outflow feature is identified associated to the polar edge of the auroral
oval. Detailed distribution functions of injected magnetosheath ions and
ouflowing cleft fountain ions are measured down to a few eVs in the dayside.Key words. Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere; particle
acceleration; ionosphere-magnetosphere interactions)