‘Rapt up with joy’: children’s emotional responses to death in early modern England

The chapter is an investigation of the child’s emotional response to death in early modern England. While much valuable scholarship has been produced on parents’ responses to the deaths of children, the reactions of the young themselves have rarely been explored. Drawing on a range of printed and archival sources, I argue that children expressed diverse and conflicting emotions, from fear and anxiety, to excitement and ecstasy. By exploring the emotional experiences of Protestants, the chapter contributes to the bourgeoning literature on emotion and religion, and contests earlier depictions of reformed Protestantism as an inherently intellectual, rather than an affective, faith. This study also suggests that we revise the way we classify the emotions, resisting the intuitive urge to categorise them as ‘positive’ or ‘negative’. The fear of hell, for example, though profoundly unpleasant, was regarded as a rational, commendable response, which demonstrated the work of the Holy Spirit in the soul, and was a prerequisite for the attainment of a joyful assurance of heaven. An underlying question is to what extent children’s responses to death differed from those of adults. I propose that although their reactions were broadly similar, the precise preoccupations of dying children were different. Through highlighting these distinctive features, we can come to a closer idea of what it was like to be a child in the early modern period.

Willingness-to-pay for a probabilistic flood forecast: a risk-based decision-making game

Probabilistic hydro-meteorological forecasts have over the last decades been used more frequently to communicate forecastuncertainty. This uncertainty is twofold, as it constitutes both an added value and a challenge for the forecaster and the user of the forecasts. Many authors have demonstrated the added (economic) value of probabilistic over deterministic forecasts across the water sector (e.g. flood protection, hydroelectric power management and navigation). However, the richness of the information is also a source of challenges for operational uses, due partially to the difficulty to transform the probability of occurrence of an event into a binary decision. This paper presents the results of a risk-based decision-making game on the topic of flood protection mitigation, called “How much are you prepared to pay for a forecast?”. The game was played at several workshops in 2015, which were attended by operational forecasters and academics working in the field of hydrometeorology. The aim of this game was to better understand the role of probabilistic forecasts in decision-making processes and their perceived value by decision-makers. Based on the participants’ willingness-to-pay for a forecast, the results of the game show that the value (or the usefulness) of a forecast depends on several factors, including the way users perceive the quality of their forecasts and link it to the perception of their own performances as decision-makers.

Managing enthusiasm: between ‘extremist’ volunteers and ‘rational’ professional practices in architectural conservation

Geographical research has considered enthusiasm to be a shared passion and a motivator to action. Tensions between enthusiasm as productive, and enthusiasm as negative and prohibitive. Highlights the role of emotion in volunteering with amenity societies. Highlights the presence of enthusiasm in contexts where it is actively denied.

Utmaningen från andra berättelser : En studie om moraliskt omdöme, utvidgat tänkande och kritiskt reflekterande berättelser i dialogbaserad feministisk etik

The present study has a threefold aim: First, the theoretical aim is to give a contribution to refinement of the theory of dialogue based feminist ethics, concerning the understanding of judgment and narration within such an ethics.  The study also has an empirical aim, defined as to clarify what kind of knowledge, relevant to the moral judgment of an engaged outsider actor, can be received from dialogical interpretation and analysis of a limited selection of critically reflecting life stories. Third, a methodological aim is defined as to develop an approach to interpretation and analysis of reflecting life stories, which renders the storyteller visible as a reflecting moral subject, and makes the story accessible as a source of knowledge for the moral judgment of an engaged outsider actor. The thesis combines philosophical reflection and argumentation, with a narrative-hermeneutic method for interpretation of life stories, relating the two to each other in a hermeneutic process.  The theoretical reflection draws on Seyla Benhabibs theory of communicative ethics. A dialogue based model for moral justification and a likewise dialogue based model for political legitimacy are at the heart of this universalistic theory, although in combination with a conception of a narratively and hermeneutically constituted context sensitive moral judgment, based on Hannah Arendt’s concept “enlarged thought”. In the reflection, this model is related to other feminist theorizing within the tradition of dialogue based feminist ethics, as found in the works of Iris M. Young, Georgia Warnke and Shari Stone-Mediatore. The empirical study draws on three critically reflecting life stories from Israeli-Palestinian women activists for a just peace. The methodology for interpretation and analysis that is worked out combines dialogical interpretation as presented in Arthur W. Frank’s socio-narratology with a method for structural analysis derived from Shari Stone-Mediatores theory of storytelling as an expression of political resistance struggle. The results show that some stories drawing on marginalized experiences have a potential­ to stimulate further public debate through their capacity to enable a stereoscopic seeing, elucidating a tension between ideologically structured discourse and non-linguistic experience; implying that narrative-hermeneutic competence should be considered crucial for public debate.  

Sjuksköterskans oberoende omvårdnadsåtgärder för att förebygga smärta hos barn vid venpunktion – en litteraturöversikt

Bakgrund: Många barn genomgår venprovtagningar och PVK-inläggningar utan någon smärtlindring på akutmottagningar. Detta kan leda till mycket obehag och smärta. Det kan även skapa rädsla för medicinska procedurer i framtiden och leda till att barnen inte söker vård när de blir sjuka som vuxna. Syfte: Syftet var att hitta och sammanställa oberoende omvårdnadsåtgärder som sjuksköterskan kan använda före eller under venpunktioner hos barn på akutmot-tagningen för att lindra smärta. Metod: Kunskapsläget sammanställdes i en litteraturöversikt. Resultat: De flesta aktiva och passiva distraktionsmetoderna och lokala smärtlind-ringsmetoder var effektiva för att lindra smärtan vid venpunktioner hos barn. Slutsats: Det behövs mer forskning om effekterna av oberoende omvårdnadsåtgär-der för att lindra procedursmärta hos barn för att kunna bli en rutinmässig del inom vården.

Medically Underserved Areas and Populations in Maine 2008

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WIND POWER IN MAINE: BALANCING CONSERVATION AND ENERGY PRODUCTION

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Wind Power in Maine: Balancing Conservation and Energy Production

An expedited permitting area has been created to facilitate the development of wind power projects in Maine. The purpose of this project was to investigate the impact of removing areas of conservation interest from the expedited permitting area. We found that the removal of these areas impacts the total wind potential of the state, in an amount proportional to the size of the area removed. The impact on the total wind potential ranged from 0.46-29.0% decrease, depending on the calculation scenario used. These findings may have implications for future policy decisions concerning wind power development.

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Expressão imunohistoquímica do p53 e ki-67 na carcinogênese esofágica induzida pela dietilnitrosamina: modelo experimental em camundongos

O carcinoma epidermóide do esôfago é neoplasia com alta taxa de mortalidade e distribuição geográfica peculiar. O estudo da célula tumoral ou suas diferenciações pré-tumorais, demonstraram ter por análise imunohistoquímica e genética, inúmeros determinantes que podem ajudar no tratamento. Neste trabalho foi avaliada a expressão imunohistoquímica de p53 e ki-67 na carcinogênese esofágica induzida quimicamente através do uso de dietilnitrosamina, em um grupo de 100 camundongos fêmeas. O estudo experimental foi realizado com 4 grupos de animais, onde os grupos I e II foram considerados controles, sendo diferenciados por gavagem esofágica, uma vez semana, com água fria (temperatura ambiente) ou quente (60º-70ºC). E os grupos III e IV foram considerados estudos, os quais receberam dietilnitrosamina por 3 dias consecutivos semanalmente, também sendo diferenciados por gavagem, uma vez por semana, com água fria ou quente. O estudo apresentou data progressiva de sacrifícios com colheita de peças esofágicas, que iniciava aos 30 dias de experimento e terminava aos 150 dias. Demonstrou-se que não houve diferença na incidência tumoral quando foi acrescida a variável temperatura da água; provavelmente devido ao episódio único semanal que era adicionado ao animal em experimentação. A análise imunohistoquímica do p53 não evidenciou diferença estatística durante a evolução da carcinogênese até 150 dias, porém quando analisado a relação com alterações patológicas demonstra-se que apresenta significância em relação à patologia baixo grau de displasia, alto grau e carcinoma. A análise imunohistoquímica do ki-67 demonstrou diferença estatística durante a evolução da carcinogênese a partir do dia 120 de experimento e quando analisada a relação com alterações patológicas demonstrou-se que apresenta significância também em relação à lesão intraepitelial de alto grau e carcinoma.

Caráter público e identidade acadêmica na educação superior : uma análise da diversificação institucional por meio do estudo de centros universitários

Esta tese interpreta o caráter das mudanças que ocorrem na educação superior a partir do processo de reformas iniciado nos anos 1990. O contexto dos acontecimentos é o das reformas políticas com dimensão globalizada. Focalizou-se a diversificação institucional por meio do estudo de casos de centros universitários. A análise exigiu o estudo de disputas históricas, da legislação recente e de concepções e práticas sobre a vida acadêmica em instituições de ensino superior. A ótica sobre a realidade e sobre elementos da filosofia política, a partir de Hannah Arendt e de Jurgen Habermas, bem como da sociologia política de Boaventura de Souza Santos permitiram a constituição das categorias analíticas de caráter público e de legitimidade pública. A compreensão a que se chegou permite defender que a diversificação institucional na educação superior, uma tendência internacional, possui caráter público frágil e está presente no caso brasileiro, expressando-se por meio dos centros universitários, os quais, não possuindo identidade acadêmica consolidada, contam com baixa legitimidade no sistema, embora situem-se em um marco legal de definição crescente e tendam a aprimorar-se academicamente. Nos casos estudados, vê-se que a legitimidade pública existente é oriunda dos históricos institucionais comunitário e/ou confessional.