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New Materiality in Intimate Care
Textiles have a long history of supporting personal health and wellbeing, and textile innovations concerned with the body abound. This paper delves into the biology of the body and brings to the fore its materiality as embodiment to reimagine modes of knowing in intimate care through textiles. It introduces two designerly studies of intimate care in women to advance that material engagement enables knowing and that the fabric of the body is a material of care in itself. In this paper, I embrace an epistemic practice that entwines a feminine sociocultural imaginary that challenges traditional approaches to health and care and, nonetheless, the design of textiles
Intervención internacional a través de los medios de comunicación en sociedades posguerra: Perspectivas a partir de las epistemologías del sur
Over the past two decades, international intervention
in post-war settings has strictly followed liberal
assumptions and practices. Efforts to build and
shape the media in the aftermath of armed conflict
are no exception. In setting the foundations for
the rule of law, liberal democracy and free market,
external actors have (re)defined what constitutes
the mediascape – that is, the various spheres of
communication within public discourse – and how to
(re)construct it. Imprinted with modernity’s tenets
and western assumptions about the public space, this
approach has understood the mediascape narrowly
as limited to traditional, established, liberal media,
serving to validate particular actors and processes
whilst obscuring, neglecting and shutting off global
diversity. Law and technology, this paper argues, are
the two main axes through which legitimation and
exclusion are effected. A myopic focus on legal and
technological aspects of the media reduces a rich
space of local discourses, norms and practices to
western-like media legislation, training and outlets,
narrowing in turn the sites for addressing violence
and building peace.Durante las últimas dos décadas, la intervención
internacional en contextos posguerra ha seguido
estrictamente los supuestos y prácticas liberales. Los
esfuerzos para construir y dar forma a los medios
de comunicación después de los conflictos armados
no son una excepción. Al sentar las bases del estado
de derecho, de la democracia liberal y del libre
mercado, los actores externos han definido lo que
constituye el paisaje mediático, es decir, las diversas
esferas de la comunicación en el discurso público y
cómo reconstruirlo. Imbuido con los principios de
la modernidad y los supuestos occidentales sobre
el espacio público, este enfoque ha entendido el
panorama mediático estrechamente como limitado
a los medios tradicionales, establecidos y liberales,
sirviendo para validar actores y procesos particulares
mientras oscurece, descuida y cierra la diversidad
global. El derecho y la tecnología, sostiene este
documento, son los dos ejes principales a través de los
cuales se efectúan la legitimación y la exclusión. Un
enfoque miope en los aspectos legales y tecnológicos
de los medios de comunicación que reduce un rico
espacio de discursos, normas y prácticas locales a la
legislación, la formación y los medios de comunicación
de los medios occidentales, reduciendo a su vez los
sitios para abordar la violencia y construir la paz
Not all data is created equal: the promise and peril of algorithms for inclusion at work
Firms must improve processes to reduce bias in datasets and set AI on a positive path of supporting inclusion, writes Teresa Almeid
Substructuring in four populations of African descent
When a suspect\u27s DNA profile is admitted into court as a match to evidence the probability of the perpetrator being another individual must be calculated from database allele frequencies. The two methods used for this calculation are phenotypic frequency and likelihood ratio. Neither of these calculations takes into account substructuring within populations. In these substructured populations the frequency of homozygotes increases and that of heterozygotes usually decreases. The departure from Hardy- Weinberg expectation in a sample population can be estimated using Sewall Wright\u27s Fst statistic. Fst values were calculated in four populations of African descent by comparing allele frequencies at three short tandem repeat loci. This was done by amplifying the three loci in each sample using the Polymerase Chain Reaction and separating these fragments using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The gels were then silver stained and autoradiograms taken, from which allele frequencies were estimated. Fst values averaged 0.007+- 0.005 within populations of African descent and 0.02+- 0.01 between white and black populations
Índice da Global AgeWatch 2015: Sumário executivo
Tradução do inglês: "Global AgeWatch Index 2015: Insight report
Knowledge management : critical perspectives on e-business activities
This article is both a review and an agenda-setting piece. It argues that knowledge management suffers from conceptual and definitional ambiguity, oversimplification of its development processes, and methodological limitations. Nevertheless, there is a consensus in business and academia that knowledge is a key component of success and allows firms to achieve and sustains competitive advantages. In a digital era, these advantages arise from the potential of data and information that can be gathered, processed, shared, and used to improve e-business activities. Thus, this research bridges the gap in the assessment of knowledge management and e-business relationship, by applying an SEM to a large database sample of KM activities performed by European firms.N/
On being human: how behavioural science can help virtual working
By the time the pandemic is over, firms can have laid the groundwork for an engaged and connected workforce, write Teresa Almeida and Grace Lorda
Moving from cheap talk to action: the case of diversity and inclusion
Recruiters must ask candidates for leadership positions to give past evidence that they have enabled diverse talent to thrive, write Teresa Almeida and Grace Lorda
Inclusion, inequality, and responses to the cost-of-living crisis
With the costs of energy, housing, and food on the rise around the world, families are in desperate need of support. Some employers in the UK have been providing employees with food, discounts, and flexibility. Trade union membership is higher than in the past 30 years, but low-paid workers are underrepresented, and the government must provide targeted support for them. Sarah Ali and Teresa Almeida analyse business and government responses to the crisis and discuss the steps taken, how effective these forms of support have been, and the economic inequalities they have exacerbated
"My sex-related data is more sensitive than my financial data and I want the same level of security and privacy": User Risk Perceptions and Protective Actions in Female-oriented Technologies
The digitalization of the reproductive body has engaged myriads of
cutting-edge technologies in supporting people to know and tackle their
intimate health. Generally understood as female technologies (aka
female-oriented technologies or 'FemTech'), these products and systems collect
a wide range of intimate data which are processed, transferred, saved and
shared with other parties. In this paper, we explore how the "data-hungry"
nature of this industry and the lack of proper safeguarding mechanisms,
standards, and regulations for vulnerable data can lead to complex harms or
faint agentic potential. We adopted mixed methods in exploring users'
understanding of the security and privacy (SP) of these technologies. Our
findings show that while users can speculate the range of harms and risks
associated with these technologies, they are not equipped and provided with the
technological skills to protect themselves against such risks. We discuss a
number of approaches, including participatory threat modelling and SP by
design, in the context of this work and conclude that such approaches are
critical to protect users in these sensitive systems
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