scholarly journals The impact of kin proximity on net marital fertility and maternal survival in Sweden 1900–1910—Evidence for cooperative breeding in a societal context of nuclear families, or just contextual correlations?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai P. Willführ ◽  
Björn Eriksson ◽  
Martin Dribe
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Breeding ◽  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Maternal Survival ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Perceptions of hospital admission in patients with cystic fibrosis

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merel Visse ◽  
Tineke Abma ◽  
Hetty Van den Oever ◽  
Yvonne Prins ◽  
Vincent Gulmans
Keyword(s):  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Intravenous Injections ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Normative Expectations ◽  
The Impact

Aims and objectives: This paper is a report of a study of experiences of people with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) with their hospital admission. It evaluates how they perceive their treatment and care and the impact on their social life (school or work). Background: In The Netherlands, people with CF are hospitalized in seven CF centers. In general, hospitalization may raise several challenges concerning the patient’s psychosocial well-being, before, during and after the admission. The admission of people with CF is complicated, because of segregated treatment and care that aims to prevent hospital-based cross-infection. Design: This article reports on a qualitative study. Methods: Data were collected during 2009 and 2010. Nineteen people with CF admitted for more than 5 days in one of the seven Dutch CF-centres participated. Results and conclusions: The findings are organized into five contexts with subthemes: Before admission & Arrival (1); Treatment & Care (2); Room & Stay (3); Discharge (4); Social & Societal context (5). The findings show that patients express a need for enhancing the quality of some treatments, like intravenous injections and patients express normative expectations of professionals that directly relate to their psychosocial well-being, e.g. they want to be ‘seen’ and treated as human beings and not solely as patients. They desire segregation policies to be consistent, whilst simultaneously they prefer flexible segregation guidelines. In general, respondents are satisfied with hospital facilities. The study reports on challenges concerning continuation of school and work during the admission. The paper is relevant to every hospital where people are being nursed in isolation.

The Assessment of Product Archaeology as a Platform for Contextualizing Engineering Design

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kemper Lewis ◽  
Deborah Moore-Russo ◽  
Phil Cormier ◽  
Andrew Olewnik ◽  
Gül Kremer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
National Network ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Innovations ◽  
Global World ◽  
The Impact

Many engineering departments struggle to meet “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context” (Outcome h) that is required for ABET. As a result, engineering students receive meaningful contextual experiences in piecemeal fashion and graduate with a lack of concrete competencies that bridge knowledge and practice in the global world in which they will live and work. By considering products as designed artifacts with a history rooted in their development, our product archaeology framework combines concepts from archaeology with advances in cyber-enhanced product dissection to implement pedagogical innovations that address the significant educational gap. In this paper, we focus on assessing elements of a sustainable and scalable foundation that can support novel approaches aimed at educating engineering students to understand the global, economic, environmental, and societal context and impact of engineering solutions. This foundation is being developed across a network of partner institutions. We present recent results from freshman, sophomore, and senior courses at two of the partners in the national network of institutions.

Improving Students’ Understanding of the Impact of Engineering Solutions in a Global and Societal Context

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bannerot ◽  
Chad Wilson ◽  
Ross Kastor
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Capstone Course ◽  
The Past ◽  
College Course ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Step Over ◽  
The Impact

ABET 2000 imposes the requirement that engineering programs demonstrate that graduates “have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context”. (Criterion 3h) The implication is that providing the “exposure” to the impact of engineering should be sufficient. However, demonstrating learning takes the process another step. Over the past few years, we have added material to several existing, traditional mechanical engineering courses and added one entirely new course in response to the requirements of ABET 2000 in general and Criterion 3h in particular. We have also introduced additional surveys, assignments and testing into these courses to assess specific aspects of student learning. This paper describes the changes in the sophomore design class, the second course in thermodynamics, the heat transfer course, and the capstone course as well as the new College course in technical communications related to the impact of engineering solutions. The assessment processes are also described.

scholarly journals The Impact of War, Famine, and Economic Decline on Marital Fertility in Ethiopia

Demography ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 247 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Lindstrom ◽  
Betemariam Berhanu
Keyword(s):  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Energy Saving for GO Green Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9S2) ◽  
pp. 844-846
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Natural Lighting ◽  
Air Circulation ◽  
The Impact

Green environment is not only planting of trees . It need not always be to create or invent something new for having a green surroundings and neighborhood. It can also be to measure to be taken to save our neighborhood from pollution. Many of us do not know the impact of using halogen lamps, neon lamps and other high voltage generating lighting system on our environment. These bulbs not only generate more heat in the surroundings where they are used but also consume high electricity. These lights when discarded will produce gases which are more harmful for the environment. They pollute the air by producing argon gas which will cause health issues like cancer, skin diseases. In the present day of nuclear families people are using more electricity and burn more lamps to have lighting in their homes. To give more clarity they are using artificial lighting to make their homes bright. This problem never arouse in the earlier period as the homes constructed were naturally built in such a way more air circulation was there and more ventilation. Homes in earlier days had backyards and more open space for good air circulation and natural lighting. But in the present few decades the culture of cluster homes apartments, multiplex complexes have become more common as people from rural areas are shifting towards urban cities. To accommodate these migrated families it has become a must to go for multiplex complexes and apartments. This is generating more pollution in the environment. In earlier days we never heard the terms of global warming, pollution control measures, Go green concepts. All these concepts have evolved in the last few decades. One of the reason is during increase in number of apartments, nuclear families. In places where one joint family was using a single lamp to complete their day to day activities are now replaced by 2 or 3 families using one light each in each house. So instead of one light we are using 3 or 4 lamps and generating more heat and pollution in our environment. The present study is an attempt to find out the alternative solution of using LED/LCD, iCaTS lamps on the energy saving and cost saving and environment friendly electric usage system

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility As Institutional Hybrids

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Eva Boxenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
Foreign Institution ◽  
Business Setting ◽  
Level Problem ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This paper empirically examines the impact of societal context on constructsof corporate social responsibility (CSR). The empirical analysis is informed byneo-institutional theory, which conceptualizes CSR constructs as potential oractual institutions. A case study from the Danish business setting identifies thesteps that a project group of business actors took to develop a new CSR construct.The steps include the transfer and translation of a foreign institution in responseto a field-level problem, major events, and partial deinstitutionalization of anestablished CSR construct. The findings suggest that the new CSR construct is aninstitutional hybrid, a combination of foreign and familiar institutions that makea new CSR construct innovative, legitimate, and continuous with existing practicein the business setting. The paper proposes that CSR constructs are malleableinstitutional hybrids that are most easily implemented if tailored to the socialcontext. It concludes with implications for managers who want to select, designand implement CSR constructs in their own business settings.

scholarly journals Delayed Marriages in Pakistan

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeba A. Sathar ◽  
M. Framurz K. Kiani
Keyword(s):  
Marital Fertility ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Never Married ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact

Delayed marriages played a very important role in slowing down population growth during the European Demographic Transition. Similarly, some developing countries have recently undergone even more rapid changes in marriage patterns, leading to declining levels of fertility. Curtailing marriage or entry into sexual unions is one of the "positive" checks posited by Malthusian theory and is worthy of some renewed attention because of the lack of decline in marital fertility in Pakistan. Several researchers have identified changes in nuptiality behaviour in Pakistan, in terms of a rise in both the average age at marriage [8; 11; 12] and changes in cohort nuptiality [7]. One researcher observed a slight decline in fertility and attributed it to a rise in the age at marriage in the late Seventies [1], but his observation was found to be an artefact of data and was, therefore, refuted (18] . Thus, nuptiality behaviour has been noted to have changed in Pakistan since the Fifties with no notable accompanying changes in marital fertility. This paper's primary objective is to explore the impact of modernization, particularly of expansion of education and modern sector employment, urbanization and migration, on proportions never married in various age groups.

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