Embodied knowledge

Embodied knowledge situates intellectual and theoretical insights within the realm of the material world. Embodied knowledge is sensory; it highlights smell, touch, and taste as well as more commonly noted sights and sounds. Knowledge grounded in bodily experience encompasses uncertainty, ambiguity, and messiness in everyday life, eschewing sanitized detached measurement of discrete variables. Such an epistemology, or way of knowing, resists the Cartesian mind–body split that underlies Enlightenment philosophy and its persistent remnants, including the scientific method and the glorification of objectivity. Embodied knowledge is inherently and unapologetically subjective, celebrating—rather than glossing over —the complexities of knowledge production. Fieldwork, interviewing, writing, and other qualitative methods involve embodied practices performed by actors occupying specific standpoints or positions within cultures. The researcher\u27s body—where it is positioned, what it looks like, what social groups or classifications it is perceived as belonging to—matters deeply in knowledge formation

Spirituality within the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Process

In this chapter, Ellingson argues that the comprehensive geriatric assessment ( CGA) , which is used in the development of treatment plans for elderly individuals in poor health, has failed to acknowledge the import of some aspects of the elderly patient\u27s life experiences. Ellingson uses case study analysis to demonstrate the significance of spiritual and religious beliefs and practices and suggests that the CGA model should be expanded to include explicit coverage of spirituality and religious issues

Sensitivity of Antenna Arrays for Long-Wavelength Radio Astronomy

A number of new and planned radio telescopes will consist of large arrays of low-gain antennas operating at frequencies below 300 MHz. In this frequency regime, Galactic noise can be a significant or dominant contribution to the total noise. This, combined with mutual coupling between antennas, makes it difficult to predict the sensitivity of these instruments. This paper describes a system model and procedure for estimating the system equivalent flux density (SEFD) - a useful and meaningful metric of the sensitivity of a radio telescope - that accounts for these issues. The method is applied to LWA-1, the first "station" of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) interferometer. LWA-1 consists of 512 bowtie-type antennas within a 110 x 100 m elliptical footprint, and is designed to operate between 10 MHz and 88 MHz using receivers having noise temperature of about 250 K. It is shown that the correlation of Galactic noise between antennas significantly desensitizes the array for beam pointings which are not close to the zenith. It is also shown that considerable improvement is possible using beamforming coefficients which are designed to optimize signal-to-noise ratio under these conditions. Mutual coupling is found to play a significant role, but does not have a consistently positive or negative influence. In particular, we demonstrate that pattern multiplication (assuming the behavior of single antennas embedded in the array is the same as those same antennas by themselves) does not generate reliable estimates of SEFD.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Trans. Antennas & Propagation, December 31, 2009; accepted April 21, 2010; currently in press. 9 pages, 13 figure

Disability

People with disabilities (PWD) are the fastest growing minority social group in the world. Moreover, this group is one in which many, if not all individuals, will eventually join due to accidents, injuries, illnesses, wear and tear on aging bodies, and genetic factors. Disabilities can be physical, cognitive, social, and/or emotional. The disability community overlaps with people of all races, ethnicities, age groups, genders, sexual orientations/ expressions, and socioeconomic statuses, although PWD are overrepresented among people who are economically disadvantaged and under-served in health care, environmental safety, nutrition, and other basic needs. While the proportion of people with disabilities increases with age, the majority of people with disabilities remains under the age of 65

THE ALLOCATION OF RESEARCH PERSONNEL: ADMINISTRATORS' RESPONSE TO EXPECTED RATES TO RETURN

Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,

The Performance of Dialysis Care: Routinization and Adaptation on the Floor

Previous studies of communication in dialysis centers primarily focused on communication between nurses and patients. In this study, ethnographic methods were used to explore the dominant communication performances enacted by dialysis staff members, including registered nurses, patient care technicians, technical aides, a social worker, and a dietitian. Findings suggest a dialectic between extreme routinization of care and continual adaptation. The dominant routine involved repeating the same preparation, treatment, and discharge process 3 shifts per day, thrice weekly for each patient. At the same time, near-constant adjustments to scheduling, coordination of tasks, and problem solving were needed to maintain the performance of repetition. The balancing of this dialectic has significant implications for new staff training and socialization, understanding the role of technology and routine in dialysis and in health care systems more generally, and in further theorizing the role of unbounded communication interactions in health care

A REVIEW AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STUDIES REGARDING IRRIGATION INSTITUTIONS, MANAGEMENT AND INVESTMENT IN ASIA

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Quasars in rich galaxy clusters

The evolution of AGN activity in rich clusters of galaxies is found to be approximately 5 times more rapid than that in poor clusters. This rapid evolution may be driven by evolution in the dynamics of galaxy cluster cores. Results from our spectroscopic studies of galaxies associated with quasars are consistent with this scenario, in that bright AGN are preferentially found in regions of lower velocity dispersion. Alternately, the evolution may be driven by formation of a dense intra-cluster medium (ICM). Galaxies close to quasars in rich cluster cores are much bluer (presumably gas rich) than galaxies in the cores of other rich clusters, in support of this model