A Comparison of Urban with Rural Support Networks: Liverpool and North Wales

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Clare Wenger
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
North Wales ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
High Level ◽  
The City

AbstractThis paper compares findings on the distribution of support networks in the City of Liverpool and in rural communities in North Wales. It demonstrates that while support network type is highly correlated with a wide range of demographic and social variables in both urban and rural samples, the nature of the relationships are not always comparable. The paper shows how cultural, migration and socio-economic factors interact to affect the formation of different types of support networks. As a result of a more stable elderly population, more old people in Liverpool have network types able to provide a high level of informal care and support.

scholarly journals Taking Care of Us from the Neighborhoods in Times of Quarantine. Citizen Solidarity Practices in Vallcarca, Barcelona (Spain)

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-245
Author(s):  
Ana Belén Cano-Hila ◽  
Rafel Argemí-Baldich
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

In the last weeks and months, COVID-19 has challenged and changed societies and social life around the world. In the case of Spain, the health crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic led to the declaration of a state of alert by the central government, which involved partial home confinement. Given this exceptional situation, neighborhood activation through mutual support networks has been very important in the city of Barcelona. This article describes and analyses, based on the method of autobiographical imagination, the example of a citizen solidarity practice Xarxa de Suport Mutu Vallcarca [Vallcarca mutual support network] in the Vallcarca neighborhood. Its main objective is to carry out actions of social support to palliate the effects of the confinement, fundamentally in the areas of care and support, as well as childhood and education. From 2008, the creativity of the neighborhoods and citizens has been a relevant motor and multiplier for social protection and change.

Unmet Needs for Care and Support for the Elderly in Nigeria: Gaps in Experiences and Expectations of the Aged in Ilesa, South-West Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akanni Ibukun Akinyemi ◽  
Ambrose Akinlo
Keyword(s):  
Unmet Need ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
South West ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
High Level

The study is focused on understanding the broad issues of care and support of the elderly with a view to explaining factors influencing the gaps in their expectations and experiences. This is an empirical attempt with a view to understanding and underscoring the importance and limitation of the domains of support from core family members (spouses and children) within the available support networks for the elderly. The study utilized primary dataset including quantitative and qualitative data collected in Ijesa communities in South-west, Nigeria. The findings showed that children and spouses ranked highest among sources of support networks rated by the elderly for five patterns of support identified. Logistic regression results showed that individual variables including age, education, family of orientation, and living in same town with children to a large extent determine level of unmet need for support. The study concluded that personal attributes rather than other social variables are important determinants of high level of unmet need for elderly.

Community Structure and Support Network Variations

1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Clare Wenger ◽  
Fred St Leger†
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Population Stability ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
North Wales ◽  
Network Type

ABSTRACTThis paper presents data from two studies of support networks conducted in North Wales and Northern Ireland. Five types of support networks are identified and it is shown that the distribution of network type is related to community. Distribution of network type is further shown to be influenced by population stability and population density. It is argued that since network type is correlated with service use, identification of network type provides a useful tool for policy makers and practitioners in the context of care in the community.

scholarly journals General characterization of regeneration in Aeolosoma viride

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiao-Ping Chen ◽  
Sheridan Ke-Wing Fok ◽  
Yu-Wen Hsieh ◽  
Cheng-Yi Chen ◽  
Fei-Man Hsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Model Organisms ◽  
Regenerative Processes ◽  
Blastema Cell ◽  
Microtubule Inhibitor ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
High Level ◽  
Complete Regeneration

Regeneration has long attracted scientists for its potential to restore lost, damaged or aged tissues and organs. A wide range of studies have conducted on different model organisms on both cellular and molecular levels. Current evidences suggest that a variety of regenerative strategies are developed and used by different species, and their regenerative strategies are highly correlated to their reproductive methods. Our present work focused on the freshwater annelid Aeolosoma viride, which reproduces by paratonic fission and is capable of complete regeneration. We found out that A. viride can regenerate both anterior and posterior end, even with only 3 segments remained. This process is characterized by epimorphosis that involves large amount of cell proliferation which drives the formation of blastema. Cell proliferation and regeneration successful ratio were significantly decreased when treated with microtubule inhibitor taxol or Avi-tubulin dsRNA, which confirmed that cell proliferation served as a key event during regeneration. Together, our data described the regenerative processes of A. viride, which includes high level of cell proliferation and the formation of blastema. Furthermore, our findings demonstrated A. viride as a potential model for the study of regeneration.

African American Elders: The Support Network of Generational Kin

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Luckey
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Service System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Functional Roles ◽  
Formal Service ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Kin Support

The informal support networks of African American elders have an important impact on the effectiveness of social service interventions. The author identifies and discusses critical functions performed by second-and third-generation adult kin (niece, nephew, and grandchild) in the care and support of low-income African American elderly. Complementary functional roles and tasks performed by grandchildren, nieces, or nephews assist the elderly as well as the primary caregiver in interacting with the formal service system. Practitioners need to be knowledgeable about and sensitive to the complexities of kin support networks of African American elderly.

The state of urban soils during the operating the Baikalsk paper and pulp mill (the cartographic aspect)

2019 ◽  
Vol 946 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
E.V. Naprasnikova ◽  
Е.А. Rasputina
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Status ◽  
Pulp Mill ◽  
Biochemical Activity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Functional Zones ◽  
Alkaline Conditions ◽  
Paper And Pulp ◽  
Soil Activity ◽  
High Level ◽  
The City

This experimental work was done before the stopping the Baikalsk Paper and Pulp Mill. As the informative criteria for the present state of anthropogenic soils used in this study the degree of their biochemical activity and the acid-alkaline conditions which belong to integral indicators was taken. The basic technique for carrying out mass analyses of biochemical activity of soils characterizing the territory of the city of Baikalsk was the rapid analysis method suggested by T. V. Aristovskaya and M. V. Chugunova. The study revealed a high level of soil activity in all functional zones of the city. The acid-alkaline contents were determined for the soils under investigation, which showed a wide range of values (from 6,7 to 8,5 рН). On the basis of the data obtained and point measurements in the geoinformation environment the IDW Nearest Neighbors method was used to construct isopleth maps. A trend for a weak but positive correlation was revealed between the acid-alkaline conditions and soil biochemical activity. All the findings provide a basis for further monitoring the post-technogenic recovery of the city’s soil ecological status in the setting of Southern Baikalia.

Death in the City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Violent Death ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Intimate Friend ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
European Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple

Popular culture has long conflated Mexico with the macabre. Some persuasive intellectuals argue that Mexicans have a special relationship with death, formed in the crucible of their hybrid Aztec-European heritage. Death is their intimate friend; death is mocked and accepted with irony and fatalistic abandon. The commonplace nature of death desensitizes Mexicans to suffering. Death, simply put, defines Mexico. There must have been historical actors who looked away from human misery, but to essentialize a diverse group of people as possessing a unique death cult delights those who want to see the exotic in Mexico or distinguish that society from its peers. Examining tragic and untimely death—namely self-annihilation—reveals a counter narrative. What could be more chilling than suicide, especially the violent death of the young? What desperation or madness pushed the victim to raise the gun to the temple or slip the noose around the neck? A close examination of a wide range of twentieth-century historical documents proves that Mexicans did not accept death with a cavalier chuckle nor develop a unique death cult, for that matter. Quite the reverse, Mexicans behaved just as their contemporaries did in Austria, France, England, and the United States. They devoted scientific inquiry to the malady and mourned the loss of each life to suicide.

Museum Preserves in the Sphere of “Cultural Tourism”: Through the Example of the Cultural Preserves of Tatarstan

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
Lyudmila S. Timofeeva ◽  
Albina R. Akhmetova ◽  
Liliya R. Galimzyanova ◽  
Roman R. Nizaev ◽  
Svetlana E. Nikitina
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Business Elite ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Tourist Center ◽  
Regional Authorities ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

Abstract The article studies the existence experience of historical cities as centers of tourism development as in the case of Elabuga. The city of Elabuga is among the historical cities of Russia. The major role in the development of the city as a tourist center is played by the Elabuga State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve. The object of the research in the article is Elabuga as a medium-size historical city. The subject of the research is the activity of the museum-reserve which contributes to the preservation and development of the historical look of Elabuga and increases its attractiveness to tourists. The tourism attractiveness of Elabuga is obtained primarily through the presence of the perfectly preserved historical center of the city with the blocks of integral buildings of the 19th century. The Elabuga State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, which emerged in 1989, is currently an object of historical and cultural heritage of federal importance. Museum-reserves with their significant territories and rich historical, cultural and natural heritage have unique resources for the implementation of large partnership projects. Such projects are not only aimed at attracting a wide range of tourists, but also stimulate interest in the reserve from the business elite, municipal and regional authorities. The most famous example is the Spasskaya Fair which revived in 2008 in Elabuga. It was held in the city since the second half of the 19th century, and was widely known throughout Russia. The process of the revival and successful development of the fair can be viewed as the creation of a special tourist event contributing to the formation of new and currently important tourism products.

The way of value of Correlation of genomic DNA microsatellite loci and live weight of Chukchi reindeer

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
V. Dodokhov ◽  
N. Pavlova ◽  
T. Rumyantseva ◽  
L. Kalashnikova
Keyword(s):  
Microsatellite Markers ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Live Weight ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Tribal Community ◽  
High Germination ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Mean ◽  
High Level ◽  
Dna Microsatellite

The article presents the genetic characteristic of the Chukchi reindeer breed. The object of the study was of the Chukchi reindeer. In recent years, the number of reindeer of the Chukchi breed has declined sharply. Reduced reindeer numbers could lead to biodiversity loss. The Chukchi breed of deer has good meat qualities, has high germination viability and is adapted in adverse tundra conditions of Yakutia. Herding of the Chukchi breed of deer in Yakutia are engaged only in the Nizhnekolymsky district. There are four generic communities and the largest of which is the agricultural production cooperative of nomadic tribal community «Turvaurgin», which was chosen to assess the genetic processes of breed using microsatellite markers: Rt6, BMS1788, Rt 30, Rt1, Rt9, FCB193, Rt7, BMS745, C 143, Rt24, OheQ, C217, C32, NVHRT16, T40, C276. It was found that microsatellite markers have a wide range of alleles and generally have a high informative value for identifying of genetic differences between animals and groups of animal. The number of identified alleles is one of the indicators of the genetic diversity of the population. The total number of detected alleles was 127. The Chukchi breed of deer is characterized by a high level of heterozygosity, and the random crossing system prevails over inbreeding in the population. On average, there were 7.9 alleles (Na) per locus, and the mean number of effective alleles (Ne) was 4.1. The index of fixation averaged 0.001. The polymorphism index (PIC) ranged from 0.217 to 0.946, with an average of 0.695.

COVID-19 Outbreak Prediction with Machine Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sina Faizollahzadeh Ardabili ◽  
Amir Mosavi ◽  
Pedram Ghamisi ◽  
Filip Ferdinand ◽  
Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Standard Models ◽  
High Level

Several outbreak prediction models for COVID-19 are being used by officials around the world to make informed-decisions and enforce relevant control measures. Among the standard models for COVID-19 global pandemic prediction, simple epidemiological and statistical models have received more attention by authorities, and they are popular in the media. Due to a high level of uncertainty and lack of essential data, standard models have shown low accuracy for long-term prediction. Although the literature includes several attempts to address this issue, the essential generalization and robustness abilities of existing models needs to be improved. This paper presents a comparative analysis of machine learning and soft computing models to predict the COVID-19 outbreak as an alternative to SIR and SEIR models. Among a wide range of machine learning models investigated, two models showed promising results (i.e., multi-layered perceptron, MLP, and adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system, ANFIS). Based on the results reported here, and due to the highly complex nature of the COVID-19 outbreak and variation in its behavior from nation-to-nation, this study suggests machine learning as an effective tool to model the outbreak. This paper provides an initial benchmarking to demonstrate the potential of machine learning for future research. Paper further suggests that real novelty in outbreak prediction can be realized through integrating machine learning and SEIR models.

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