Geographic Influences on the Uptake of Infant Immunisations: 1. Concepts, Models, and Aggregate Analyses

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
M L Senior ◽  
S J New ◽  
A C Gatrell ◽  
B J Francis
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Health Authority ◽  
Statistical Problem ◽  
Multilevel Analyses ◽  
District Health ◽  
Transport Time ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender

This is the first of two papers in which the effects on the uptake of immunisation of transport, time—space, and gender-role constraints, among a wider range of influences, are assessed statistically. A critique of a paper by Jarman et al leads to the formulation of an improved conceptual and statistical framework for analyses of uptake. Within this framework, the possibility of explaining immunisation uptake by using readily available data at the District Health Authority scale is reevaluated. Results suggest that analyses solely at this highly aggregate scale are plagued by the statistical problem of overdispersion, and cannot provide reliable explanations of uptake. Rather, it is argued, disaggregate or, preferably, multilevel analyses are required. Such analyses form the subject matter of the second paper.

Geographic Influences on the Uptake of Infant Immunisations: 2. Disaggregate Analyses

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
M L Senior ◽  
S J New ◽  
A C Gatrell ◽  
B J Francis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Health Authority ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
District Health ◽  
Transport Time ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Parent Status ◽  
Time Space ◽  
And Gender

This is the second of two papers in which the effects of transport, time—space, and gender-role constraints on the uptake of immunisation are assessed statistically. In the first paper, it was concluded that aggregate analyses, conducted solely at the District Health Authority level, provide unreliable explanations of uptake. In this paper, individual-level analyses are described in which information from interviews with mothers resident in the districts of Salford and Lancaster is used. Childcare commitments, illness, educational attainment, and possibly lone-parent status are found to be significant determinants of immunisation uptake. A future research focus is given.

Does Lara Croft Wear Fake Polygons? Gender and Gender-Role Subversion in Computer Adventure Games

Leonardo ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
First Person ◽  
Adventure Games ◽  
Gaming Culture ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Person Shooter

The subject matter of this article emerged in part out of research for the author's thesis project and first game patch, Madame Polly, a “first-person shooter gender hack.” Since the time it was written, there has been an upsurge of interest and research in computer games among artists and media theoreticians. Considerable shifts in gaming culture at large have taken place, most notably a shift toward on-line games, as well as an increase in the number of female players. The multidirectional information space of the network offers increasing possibilities for interventions and gender reconfigurations such as those discussed at the end of the article.

scholarly journals An Empirical Analysis Of Underlying Factors Affecting The Choice Of Accounting Major

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Heiat ◽  
Doug Brown ◽  
Debra M. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Accounting Profession ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Choice Of Major ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Accounting Major ◽  
Selection Of

This study explores the factors that influence a student’s choice of major along with students’ perceptions of accounting classes and the accounting profession The results indicate that students are most strongly influenced in their choice of major by a genuine interest in the subject matter.  This finding is the same regardless of major and gender.  Other influential factors include availability of employment, starting pay, and the ability to interact with people.  The factor with the least amount of influence on selection of a major is the expected ease of earning a degree.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hilliard
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Basic Pattern ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Interwar Britain

The introduction sketches the basic pattern of the events—a quarrel between neighbours led to a storm of abusive letters, private prosecutions for criminal libel, one of the antagonists going to prison, protesting her innocence, and securing a re-examination of her case, which led to the eventual resolution of the affair, though not before further trials that became media spectacles—and then identifies some of the stakes of the subject matter. The dispute can be explained with the existing historiography of class and gender in interwar Britain, but the oddities of the language in the libellous letters lead to more elusive questions about agency and literacy.

Other Women: Thinking Class and Gender in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary Film

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Maia
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Impact

Focusing on the relational dimension of some selected works, this essay proposes to consider the subject matter as films with women rather than films of women. The main effort is to understand something that takes place in-between spaces – before and after the camera, but also between viewer and film – and critically reflect on the aesthetic, ethical and political potential that a cinema marked by different women’s perspectives can bring to light. The author concludes that instead of reflecting a certain proximity between women, most films by contemporary female documentarists in Brazil, are suffering from the impact of the difference in social station between the director and the women being filmed.

‘Pushing the envelope’: The Representation of Jazz, Sex and Violence in Fred Khumalo’s Bitches’ Brew

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-95
Author(s):  
Jabulani Mkhize
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Bitches Brew ◽  
Jazz Performance ◽  
The Relationship

This paper, primarily, explores the extent to which Fred Khumalo’s novel, Bitches’ Brew, can be considered a jazz novel by looking at both its subject matter and form. It argues that the transgressive power of Khumalo’s novel lies in its use of epistolary form as a narrative strategy that is akin to a jazz solo, marked as it is by a dialogical narrative that is similar to the call and response pattern that bears an affinity to a jazz performance. In terms of the subject matter, the central thrust of the argument is that the over-arching predominance of sex and violence in the text threatens to overshadow the musicality of the text, even as masculinity and misogyny are considered as the other side of the coin of jazz. In its exploration of the jazz and gender interface, this paper highlights how the phallocratic logic that informs and dominates the novel is indicative of the fact that Khumalo may have ‘pushed the envelope’ too far in his representation of masculinity and misogyny in jazz culture in his writing of this work. That Khumalo's novel fails to interrogate the relationship between jazz and black masculinity, but rather endorses and valorises it, serves to reinforce the stereotype of misogyny in jazz culture. Keywords: Fred Khumalo, Bitches’ Brew, jazz, musicality, masculinity, misogyny

scholarly journals Concentration, Memory and Gender - A Case Study on High School Students

2019 ◽  
pp. 756-760
Author(s):  
Sankara Pitchaiah Podila
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Good Concentration ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender

Concentration and memory are considered as sisters. Without classroom concentration, students cannot memorize the subject matter. Even a student has a good concentration, without memory it may not be useful. The present study was observed the level of concentration and memory in 8th to 10th studying high school students. A total of 2132, students from 9 High schools were selected for the study. Out of them, 1352 are male and 780 are female. Using simple questions, student's response was taken. The study revealed that high percent of male students expressed concentration and memory problem compared to female students.

GENDER ASPECT OF INVECTIVE METAPHORICAL NOMINATIONS OF THE GALICIAN LANGUAGE

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
O.V. Merzlikina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Gender Construction ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Source Domain ◽  
Gender Differentiation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Aspect

The article represents the results of analyzing the gender oppositions in reflection of the Galician metaphoric invective nominations. The subject matter of the analysis is gender invective metaphors: source domains that are focused in the process of gender metaphorization and gender construction as the main aspects of this analysis. The study of metaphorical invective nominations in the gender aspect showed the absence of typical features when choosing a source domain for metaphorical modeling of a human, as well as the specificity of using certain motivational bases. The most demanded source domains for the invective metaphorical modeling of human turned out to be “animals”, followed by the frequency of occurrence are “artifacts”, “human”, “food”, “mythological images” and “naturofacts”. The gender fixation of the metaphorical invective nomination depends on the word-formation and grammatical characteristics of the lexemes, which act as the source’s domains of such nominations. If the names of the source domains (fauna, human, and mythical images) contain semantic components in the lexical meaning that distinguish the gender opposition, then, as a rule, with the metaphorical transfer such opposition is preserved. Such metaphorical invective nomination can be either gender unmarked or gender marked. Metaphoric zoomorphic nominations, the source domains of which do not have gender differentiation, or that name various objects (nautrofacts, artifacts, food) in their original nominative meaning, can be identified either with a human in general or with a man or a woman.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

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