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Social and democratic participation in residential settings for older people: realities and aspiration
This paper explores some of the experiences of older people living in residential settings (sheltered, very sheltered housing and residential care), in the context of theories of participation, consumerism and citizenship. It draws on material from personal interviews undertaken with over 100 older people in England and Wales, and also from discussions with staff. Two-thirds of respondents were aged over 85. A significant minority of residents expressed some concerns about the routines of life, such as meals and social contact. Staff expectations of social participation were often unrealistic : for many residents, social contact was more a matter of adjustment than of friendship. Residents did not participate in deciding how the residential settings where they lived should be organised and managed, except for helping with simple domestic tasks. There is a need to change both attitudes and practice to enable older people to participate more fully in these settings
On the anomalous component
The so-called anomalous cosmic ray component, which occurs at energies of about 10 MeV/nucleon and consists only of He, N, O, and Ne, has been a subject of interest for more than a decade. The origin of this component is generally considered to be interstellar neutral gas that is ionized and accelerated in the solar wind. The mechanism and the location for the acceleration, however, remains an unsolved problem. A model is used which includes the effects of gradient and curvature drifts and considers the implications of observed spatial gradients of the anomalous component for the location of the acceleration region. It is concluded that if drifts are important the acceleration region cannot lie at the solar poles. It is also concluded that there is no single region for the acceleration which can account for both the observed intensities and gradients in models which include drift effects
Magnetotransport in the low carrier density ferromagnet EuB_6
We present a magnetotransport study of the low--carrier density ferromagnet
EuB_6. This semimetallic compound, which undergoes two ferromagnetic
transitions at T_l = 15.3 K and T_c = 12.5 K, exhibits close to T_l a colossal
magnetoresistivity (CMR). We quantitatively compare our data to recent
theoretical work, which however fails to explain our observations. We attribute
this disagreement with theory to the unique type of magnetic polaron formation
in EuB_6.Comment: Conference contribution MMM'99, San Jos
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