Mustache as Resistance: Representation and Reception of Mei Lanfang’s Masculinity

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanda Wu
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
Male Player ◽  
Female Roles

Mei Lanfang, the internationally renowned male player of female roles, astonished those who were concerned about his personal and professional well being during the Second Sino-Japanese War by growing a mustache. At the empirical level, the mustache signaled a dismissal of the androgynous glamour for which Mei’s body was best known. At the allegorical level, Mei’s wartime mustache foregrounded an unyielding and unmistakably masculine Chinese body.

scholarly journals Clustering Smart City Services: Perceptions, Expectations, Responses

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miltiadis Lytras ◽  
Anna Visvizi ◽  
Akila Sarirete
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Well Being ◽  
End Users ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
Research And Policy

Smart cities research evolved into one of the most vibrant fields of research and policy-making with sustainability and well-being becoming the bons mots of the debate. The business sector, i.e., the developers and the vendors, form an equally important group of stakeholders in this context. The question is to what extent that debate yields the kind of output that the end-users would expect and would consider useful and usable. A plethora of smart city services exists. Literature suggests that a myriad of new ICT-enhanced tools could find application in urban space. Methodologically speaking, the question is how to link these two meaningfully. The objective of this paper is to address this issue. To this end, smart city services are mapped and clusters of services are identified; end users’ perceptions and expectations are identified and observations are drawn. The value added of this paper is threefold: (i) at the conceptual level, it adds new insights in the ‘normative bias of smart cities research’ thesis, (ii) at the empirical level, it typifies smart city services and clusters them, and (iii) it introduces a practical toolkit that policymakers, regulators, and the business sector might employ to query end-users’ perceptions and expectations to effectively respond to citizens’ needs.

scholarly journals Agricultural Productivity and Farmers Welfare Involution (Case Study in Meunasah Pinto Aceh Utara)

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirzalin . ◽  
Nulwita Maliati
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agricultural Production Systems

<p>ABSTRACT<br />Abundant rice productivity as a result of the success of the modernization of the system, pattern of production and use of seeds are carried by the Indonesian government in agriculture was not automatically change the level of farmers welfare. Based on studies in meunasah Pinto North Aceh District, this article is going to show that the issue of farmers’ welfare is a complex issue strands. At the empirical level narrow land ownership, capital dependence on the elite village economy, changes in the production system of reciprocity into a wage complex obstacles to change farmers’ welfare.In fact, this modernization not only exposes farmers to the issue of involution wellbeing but also directly contribute to the flourishing of social segregation in society as in Meunasah Pinto, North Aceh. As a result, the social insurance obtained by citizens when agricultural production systems is reciprocity now after changing the wage system of social insurance is gone. The high individuality as a new mode of social life also requires farmers to adapt to the problems of their lives increasingly problematic in the midst of well-being that low.<br />Keywords: Farmers, Welfare, modernization of production systems, Meunasah Pinto, North Aceh</p><p>ABSTRAK<br />Produksi pertanian yang melimpah sebagai konsekuensi dari keberhasilan modernisasi sistim, pola produksi dan penggunaan bibit unggul tidak secara otomatis dapat mengubah tingkat kesejahteraan petani. Berdasarkan studi di Meunasah Pinto Kabupaten Aceh Utara. Artikel ini hendak menunjukkan kompleksitas persoalan kesejahteraan petani. Dalam tataran empiris, sempitnya lahan,, ketergantungan modal pada elite ekonomi desa dan pergeseran sistim reprositas dalam sistim produksi sebagai akibat dari modernisasi sistim pertanian merupakan hambatan-hambatan mendasar terhadap perubahan kesejahteraan petani. Realitasnya, modernisasi sistim pertanian tidak hanya berakhir pada terjadinya involusi kesejahteraan petani tetapi juga berkontribusi langsung pada terjadinya segregasi sosial pada masyarakat petani Meunasah Pinto, Aceh Utara. Implikasinya, asuransi sosial yang terjalin melalui sistim reprositas pada pelbagai aspek kehidupan termasuk pada sistim produksi pertanian kini hilang. Modernisasi yang diikuti dengan rasionalisasi dalam pola hubungan produksi menyebabkan pola hubungan produksi tradisional yang bersifat komunal dan reprositas berubah menjadi serba upah dan individual. Gaya hidup individual ini menghadapkan para petani pada pelbagai persoalan dalam kehidupan mereka.<br />Kata kunci: Kesejahteraan petani, modernisasi sistim produksi, Meunasah Pinto, Aceh Utara</p>

scholarly journals Motivational Incentives of Civil Servants in Lithuanian Municipalities

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-370
Author(s):  
Aušra Druskienė ◽  
Ingrida Šarkiūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Monetary Incentives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
Direct Management

Effective public management cannot be imagined without an efficiently functioning civil service apparatus. It is often stated that people working in the civil service are driven by idealistic motives, however, to ensure the implementation of the state's objectives, the efficiency and quality of civil servant activities, adequate motivational incentives of civil servants are necessary. The article analyzes theoretical and analytical aspects of the motivational incentives of civil servants: the concept of incentives for civil servants, their value and typology, empirical level of investigation and the experience in the motivation of civil servants at the level of the local government. Theoretical and analytical analysis revealed that the motivation system for civil servants must be balanced, based on the combination of monetary, moral, political, normative and emotional stimuli as well as responding to the motives of civil servants and increasing their job satisfaction. The results of the research showed that the civil servants in Lithuanian municipalities are mostly motivated by moral and normative, and less often by political and monetary incentives. Institutions mostly focus on the willingness of civil servants to contribute to the creation of a society's well-being, to carry out their duty to the public and to serve as well as loyalty and commitment to the institution and promotion of personal development. The study highlighted the importance of the management and direct management in motivating civil servants.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.17.3.21952

The Relationship Between Hearing Loss Self-Management and Hearing Aid Benefit and Satisfaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Convery ◽  
Gitte Keidser ◽  
Louise Hickson ◽  
Carly Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Hearing Aid Benefit ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Hearing loss self-management refers to the knowledge and skills people use to manage the effects of hearing loss on all aspects of their daily lives. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-reported hearing loss self-management and hearing aid benefit and satisfaction. Method Thirty-seven adults with hearing loss, all of whom were current users of bilateral hearing aids, participated in this observational study. The participants completed self-report inventories probing their hearing loss self-management and hearing aid benefit and satisfaction. Correlation analysis was used to investigate the relationship between individual domains of hearing loss self-management and hearing aid benefit and satisfaction. Results Participants who reported better self-management of the effects of their hearing loss on their emotional well-being and social participation were more likely to report less aided listening difficulty in noisy and reverberant environments and greater satisfaction with the effect of their hearing aids on their self-image. Participants who reported better self-management in the areas of adhering to treatment, participating in shared decision making, accessing services and resources, attending appointments, and monitoring for changes in their hearing and functional status were more likely to report greater satisfaction with the sound quality and performance of their hearing aids. Conclusion Study findings highlight the potential for using information about a patient's hearing loss self-management in different domains as part of clinical decision making and management planning.

Inclusion of Transgender Voice and Communication Training in a University Clinic

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Oates ◽  
Georgia Dacakis
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Effectiveness Of Training ◽  
Negative Impacts

Because of the increasing number of transgender people requesting speech-language pathology services, because having gender-incongruent voice and communication has major negative impacts on an individual's social participation and well-being, and because voice and communication training is supported by an improving evidence-base, it is becoming more common for universities to include transgender-specific theoretical and clinical components in their speech-language pathology programs. This paper describes the theoretical and clinical education provided to speech-language pathology students at La Trobe University in Australia, with a particular focus on the voice and communication training program offered by the La Trobe Communication Clinic. Further research is required to determine the outcomes of the clinic's training program in terms of student confidence and competence as well as the effectiveness of training for transgender clients.

Improving Feeding Outcomes in the NICU: Moving From Volume-Driven to Infant-Driven Feeding

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Shaker
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Dynamic Systems Theory ◽  
Feeding Problems ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Extremely Preterm ◽  
Extremely Preterm Infants

Current research on feeding outcomes after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) suggests a need to critically look at the early underpinnings of persistent feeding problems in extremely preterm infants. Concepts of dynamic systems theory and sensitive care-giving are used to describe the specialized needs of this fragile population related to the emergence of safe and successful feeding and swallowing. Focusing on the infant as a co-regulatory partner and embracing a framework of an infant-driven, versus volume-driven, feeding approach are highlighted as best supporting the preterm infant's developmental strivings and long-term well-being.

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