“Well this is it. Just get on with it”: Pain willingness and activity engagement in people with chronic pain

Pain is recognised as a problem of significant concern worldwide and in the latest Global Burden of Disease Study, low back pain was identified as the biggest contributor worldwide to Years Lived with Disability. There is evidence to suggest that people who accept their chronic pain have a higher quality of life, lower levels of disability and distress, and function better emotionally, socially and physically. Findings on the specific pathways linking pain acceptance to quality of life outcomes are less clear. the two widely accepted pain acceptance factors, pain willingness and activity engagement, have not been well explored in qualitative studies on acceptance of chronic pain. To address this deficit in the literature, the current study has two related aims: 1) to explore pain willingness and activity engagement in the lives of people with chronic pain, and ; 2) to find out what people believe helps them to successfully get on with life in spite of chronic pain.

Photoacoustic Investigation of Glass Transition in AsxTe1-x Glasses

Photoacoustic (PA) technique is used to study glass transition and temperature dependence of thermal diffusivity in AsxTe1-x glasses with 0.25 0.60. PA amplitude goes through a minimum and the phase shows a maximum at glass transition temperature Tg. The variation of thermal diffusivity with temperature shows sharp decrease near Tg. The variation of thermal diffusivity with composition shows maximum at = 0.40 for all temperatures T Tg.

Compositional dependence of crystallization of As-Te glasses

Thermal crystallization studies have been carried out on bulk, semiconducting AsxTe100−x glasses of different compositions using Differential Scanning Caloritmery. AsxTe100−x glasses with x < 40, are found to exhibit one glass transition and one crystallization. On the other hand, glasses with composition 40 less-than-or-equals, slantxless-than-or-equals, slant 50 show one glass transition and two crystallization reactions. It has been found that in glasses with x greater-or-equal, slanted 40, the two crystallization reactions progressively merge with an increase in arsenic concentration. Consequently AsxTe100−x glasses with x greater-or-equal, slanted 50 show only one crystallization. The composition dependence of crystallization temperatures and activation energies for crystallization estimated by Kissinger's method, show marked deviations at a composition x = 40. These observations can be explained in terms of the changes in the local structure of the material with composition.

Effect of High Pressure on the Electrical Conductivity of TlInX2 (X = Se, Te) Layered Semiconductors

The dc electrical conductivity of TlInX2 (X = Se, Te) single crystals, parallel and perpendicular to the (001) c-axis is studied under high quasi-hydrostatic pressure up to 7.0 GPa, at room temperature. Conductivity measurements parallel to the c-axis are carried out at high pressures and down to liquid nitrogen temperatures. These materials show continuous metallization under pressure. Both compounds have almost the same pressure coefficient of the electrical activation energy parallel to the c-axis, d(ΔE∥)/dP = −2.9 × 10−10 eV/Pa, which results from the narrowing of the band gap under pressure. The results are discussed in the light of the band structure of these compounds.

Electrical switching and short-range order in As-Te glasses

The local structural order in chalcogenide network glasses is known to change markedly at two critical compositions, namely, the percolation and chemical thresholds. In the AsxTe100-x glassy system, both the thresholds coincide at the composition x = 40 (40 at. % of arsenic). It is demonstrated that the electrical switching fields of As-Te glasses exhibit a distinct change at this composition.

The role of women in marketing of frozen fish in Lagos State of Nigeria

The involvement of women in the marketing of frozen fish in Lagos State (Nigeria) was examined in this study. Two hundred questionnaires were administered to fish marketers in five markets randomly selected within the Lagos metropolis based on their storage capacities. These markets were Balogun (500 tones), Idumagbo and Idumota (250 tonnes each) Obalende and Epetedo (37.5 tonnes each). From the study results, a greater percentage of women (64.2%) are actively involved in marketing of frozen fish in the study areas. Over 56% of these traders are retailers while about 33% are wholesalers. More than 91% of the marketers were found to be literate. A high percentage of the frozen fish are imported (68%), 27% from coastal fishing and 5% from riverine fishing. The commonest fish in the markets were titus (34%), sardine (32%), hake 19%, catfish 10% and argentine 5%. Catfish has the highest profit margin. The greatest problem of these traders is the lack of modern storage facilities and where available, the erratic power supply constitutes a problem

Coastal plant growth and CO2 enrichment: Can the productivity of black needle rush keep pace with sea level rise?

The rate of sea level change has varied considerably over geological time, with rapid increases (0.25 cm yr-1) at the end of the last ice age to more modest increases over the last 4,000 years (0.04 cm yr-1; Hendry 1993). Due to anthropogenic contributions to climate change, however, the rate of sea level rise is expected to increase between 0.10 and 0.25 cm year-1 for many coastal areas (Warrick et al. 1996). Notwithstanding, it has been predicted that over the next 100 years, sea levels along the northeastern coast of North Carolina may increase by an astonishing 0.8 m (0.8 cm yr-1); through a combination of sea-level rise and coastal subsidence (Titus and Richman 2001; Parham et al. 2006). As North Carolina ranks third in the United States with land at or just above sea level, any additional sea rise may promote further deterioration of vital coastal wetland systems. (PDF contains 4 pages)

Museos, redes sociales y tecnología 2.0

Índice: - Sobre museos, redes sociales y tecnología 2.0 (Alex Ibáñez Etxeberria). - Sitios web y museos: nuevas aplicaciones para el aprendizaje informal (Mikel Asensio, Elena Asenjo y Alex Ibáñez Etxeberria). - From headphones to microphones: mobile social media in the museum as distributed network (Nancy Proctor). - Mobile learning y patrimionio: aprendiendo historia con mi teléfono, mi GPS y mi PDA (Alex Ibáñez Etxeberria, Mikel Asensio y José Miguel Correa). - Digital asset management strategies for multi-platform content delivery (Titus Bicknell). - Redes sociales y museos participativos: la irrupción de las tecnologías 2.0 en la sociedad y su aplicación en los museos a través del caso de Arazi (Juan José Aranburu).

Casamento, vida privada e comicidade à luz das comédias de Plauto e Gil Vicente

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo crítico-teórico da comediografialatina pré-clássica e portuguesa humanista nas figuras de Plauto e Gil Vicente,considerando os aspectos relativos ao conceito de família, de casamento e de vidaprivada. Investigando as obras "" e "Comédia do Viúvo", realizamosAululariainicialmente um minucioso estudo da função e importância social destes conceitosnos contextos específicos da Roma Antiga, no período republicano, e de Portugal natransição da Idade Média para o Renascimento. Procedendo então a análises dasobras, à luz dos temas propostos, identificaremos como se expressam nodesenvolvimento temático no interior da encenação. A partir do conceito decomicidade e possíveis estratégias para sua obtenção fundamentadas em teóricoscomo Henri Bergson e Vladimir Propp, procuramos encontrar pontos deconvergência e divergência entre os tratamentos temáticos dos autores de modo aelucidar também a influência do modo de pensar social como elemento decisivo daexpressão literária. Tal estudo do elemento cômico será aprofundado tendo comoponto de partida trabalhos filosóficos e teóricos de Gilles Deleuze, Mikhail Bakhtin eFriedrich Nietzsche

Os Menecmos de Plauto e Os Estrangeiros de Sá de Miranda em uma abordagem comparativa

Este trabalho tem como objetivo criar um diálogo entre aspectos da cultura popular presentes no teatro de Plauto na peça Os Menecmos e no teatro de Sá de Miranda na peça Os Estrangeiros, estabelecendo uma abordagem comparativa entre as duas obras. Pensadores separados por séculos, mas ligados por característica do teatro de natureza popular da Antiguidade, recriada no teatro renascentista português do século XVI. Plauto será analisado em sua peça Os Menecmos através do texto e das representações no teatro romano, dos personagens tipo da sociedade e das situações de fundo cômico. Sá de Miranda, o verdadeiro mensageiro do renascimento em Portugal, um grande imitador do teatro romano, será estudado comparativamente através de sua peça "Os estrangeiros". O teatro romano renasceu na imitação promovida pelo teatro renascentista português do qual Sá de Miranda é o grande representante

De Amphitruo a Enfatriões: a recriação camoniana da comédia paliata de Plauto

Luís de Camões buscou na comédia romana da Antiguidade elementos estruturais para a construção de seu teatro renascentista. Dirigiu-se, sobretudo, ao texto Amphitruo (Anfitrião), de Plauto, uma comédia paliata romana, que serve de modelo, até os dias atuais, para muitos escritores. Deste modo, este trabalho tem por escopo analisar o diálogo que se pode entrever entre o Anfitrião camoniano e o plautino, tendo como base a construção das estruturas da comicidade. Pretende-se, ainda, analisar, a partir de passagens dessas duas peças, a visão humorística de cada autor sobre o espaço-temporal e o cotidiano em que cada um se insere

Motyw listu w komediach Plauta

The article presents an analysis of letters found in Plautus' comedies. Dividing the correspondence into that which is read and that which is not read on the stage and into the authentic and falsifed, presents its structures, studies its coherence and defnes dependencies between the type of a letter and the role it plays in the comedy.

Motyw rozpoznania a sposób prezentacji postaci kobiecych w palliacie

The article shows how the recognition infuences on the way that female characters are presented in palliata. This motif is very common in Plautus’ and Terence’s comedies. It can be said that anagnorismos enables the introduction of women on the stage and is not at variance with antique customs and decorum.

Evaluating Alternative Nutrient Sources in Subsistence-Level Aquaponic Systems

Many food production methods are both economically and environmentally unsustainable. Our project investigated aquaponics, an alternative method of agriculture that could address these issues. Aquaponics combines fish and plant crop production in a symbiotic, closed-loop system. We aimed to reduce the initial and operating costs of current aquaponic systems by utilizing alternative feeds. These improvements may allow for sustainable implementation of the system in rural or developing regions. We conducted a multi-phase process to determine the most affordable and effective feed alternatives for use in an aquaponic system. At the end of two preliminary phases, soybean meal was identified as the most effective potential feed supplement. In our final phase, we constructed and tested six full-scale aquaponic systems of our own design. Data showed that soybean meal can be used to reduce operating costs and reliance on fishmeal. However, a more targeted investigation is needed to identify the optimal formulation of alternative feed blends.