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This article explores the evolving dynamics between musicians and technological artifacts. Building on Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action, I intend to show how musicians and digital musical instruments (DMIs) mutually shape, influence, and transform one another. This perspective shifts the view of technologies from purely functional tools to an integral part of a larger system. I aim to explore the concept of musical intra-action with DMIs, suggesting that the capacities of all entities, both human and non-human, to affect music production emerge through their mutually constitutive relationships. To support this investigation, I analyse the results of a workshop I organised with musician-scholars, alongside subjective observations from studio sessions. By focusing on the mutual entanglements, I aim to show how musical intra-action might enable a more relationally incorporated music production process, in which musicians and technological entities are co-constituted, dynamically shaping and transforming one another and their contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between material conditions and affective components of subjective well-being in a representative sample, using data from the International Survey of Children's Well-being (ISCWeB), of 1994 Chilean children in the 5th and 7th grades, with a mean age of 10.50 years (SD = 0.66) and 12.51 years (SD = 0.69), respectively. Descriptive statistical analyses were carried out, in addition to a regression analysis, considering age and gender variables. The main results showed that the majority of children report having material resources in the material conditions associated with basic needs and feeling happier to a greater extent. Regression analysis showed that children's material conditions had a significant effect on positive and negative affect in both age groups. Children who reported greater access to material conditions had a higher mean positive affect. This effect was greater in the older group of children. In relation to gender, no significant differences were observed between girls and boys in the 10-year-old group, while in the 12-year-old group there were significant differences, both in positive and negative affect, with women reporting lower affective well-being. The results are discussed, which highlight the importance of considering the affective components of children's subjective well-being when analyzing the material conditions in which they live and the differential effects according to age and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Manicule. Literature’s Guiding Hand The ☛ manicule ☚ or typographical pointer has a unique place in literary history. Originally a reader’s annotation, it became a printer’s mark and an advertiser’s tool-in-trade before making the leap into narrative as a fictional object in its own right. In this essay I trace the manicule’s evolution from the medieval scriptorium to electronic publishing in the late age of print before examining its narrative and aesthetic functions in V. F. Palmblad’s Törnrosens Bok (1840), August Strindberg’s Röda rummet (1879), and Hjalmar Söderberg’s Doktor Glas (1905). In this trio of novels, I argue, the manicule is not just another element of narrative realism but a way to thematize historic changes in the material conditions of literary production. More than visual gimmicks, these pointing hands invite us to reassess the wider significance of these landmark works of Swedish literature.

This article presents a series of results that are linked to the admission of indigenous students to degree courses offered by the National University of Salta, Argentina. The analytical corpus is made up of 865 surveys carried out on young people who belong to an indigenous people. These data are provided by the General Directorate of University Statistics of the University. The analysis focuses on the material-objective and symbolic-subjective dimensions that constitute the diverse and unique starting points of these young people, while functioning as signs of social distinction. Such particularities make up a field of multiple meanings where income is conditioned by mechanisms of inequality, contributing to generating differentiated educational processes. The results show that in recent years the indigenous presence in this scenario has increased, although not in the same way as other groups. In this sense, the programs and projects that have been developed in recent decades at the institutional, provincial and national levels collaborate with processes of socio-educational inclusion for members of indigenous peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Across his career Shaun McNiff wrote of the role of witnessing art makers' processes in the context of art therapy. In 2004 he reminded his readers that offering useful interpretations conveys imagination and insight, opening the possibility of new ways to see artwork and warm it with human contact. In this article the authors consider how McNiff's ideas about witnessing have informed their understanding of creative practice. Throughout this process an enhanced familiarity of the emergent life within the artwork is found to simultaneously foster a subjective sense of well-being and trust in McNiff's (1998) call to consider the deeper ecology of creation. McNiff (2004) famously calls on art makers to dialogue with their images. In this article the authors inquire into the experience of witnessing and communicating with words and images in the development of paintings, from the alternating contexts of studio and the screen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract Background Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors have been attributed to both structural and individual factors, but untangling the complex, dynamic pathways through which these factors influence inequalities requires more empirical research. This study examined whether and how two factors, material conditions and time orientation, sequentially impact socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors. Methods Dutch adults 25 and older self-reported highest attained educational level, a measure of socioeconomic position (SEP); material conditions (financial strain, housing tenure, income); time orientation; health behaviors including smoking and sports participation; and health behavior-related outcomes including body mass index (BMI) and self-assessed health in three surveys (2004, 2011, 2014) of the longitudinal GLOBE (Dutch acronym for “Health and Living Conditions of the Population of Eindhoven and surroundings”) study. Two hypothesized pathways were investigated during a ten-year time period using sequential mediation analysis, an approach that enabled correct temporal ordering and control for confounders such as baseline health behavior. Results Educational level was negatively associated with BMI, positively associated with sports participation and self-assessed health, and not associated with smoking in the mediation models. For smoking, sports participation, and self-assessed health, a pathway from educational level to the outcome mediated by time orientation followed by material conditions was observed. Conclusions Time orientation followed by material conditions may play a role in determining socioeconomic inequalities in certain health behavior-related outcomes, providing empirical support for the interplay between structural and individual factors in socioeconomic inequalities in health behavior. Smoking may be determined by prior smoking behavior regardless of SEP, potentially due to its addictive nature. While intervening on time orientation in adulthood may be challenging, the results from this study suggest that policy interventions targeted at material conditions may be more effective in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in certain health behaviors when they account for time orientation.

From the analysis of the Wave 5 National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey 2021 dataset, the study conducted in South Africa, we developed a model of analysis based on three dimensions, namely, subjective well-being, material living conditions, and importance attributed to education during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional analysis of the data for Gauteng area indicates that the dimension of subjective well-being of families in South Africa--even in relation to the factors such as conditions of deprivation (e.g., hunger)--does not necessarily influence the importance the respondents attach to their children's education, this as reflected in whether or not they send them to school when COVID-19 restrictions allowed for schools to come back to face-to-face teaching. Subjective well-being of parents and guardians is, however, a predictor of concern about their children's education and future. Our working hypothesis is that, although there is little evidence that subjective wellbeing has a significant association with the respondents' willingness for their children to continue their schooling, there is a significant indirect effect of subjective wellbeing--which is especially determined by the gender as well as of the living material conditions--and the greater or lesser importance that the respondents attribute to their children's education. Likewise, and in more general terms, subjective well-being is clearly related to gender, with women having the lowest levels of subjective well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the analysis of the Wave 5 National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey 2021 dataset, the study conducted in South Africa, we developed a model of analysis based on three dimensions, namely, subjective well-being, material living conditions, and importance attributed to education during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional analysis of the data for Gauteng area indicates that the dimension of subjective well-being of families in South Africa—even in relation to the factors such as conditions of deprivation (e.g., hunger)—does not necessarily influence the importance the respondents attach to their children’s education, this as reflected in whether or not they send them to school when COVID-19 restrictions allowed for schools to come back to face-to-face teaching. Subjective well-being of parents and guardians is, however, a predictor of concern about their children’s education and future. Our working hypothesis is that, although there is little evidence that subjective well-being has a significant association with the respondents’ willingness for their children to continue their schooling, there is a significant indirect effect of subjective well-being—which is especially determined by the gender as well as of the living material conditions—and the greater or lesser importance that the respondents attribute to their children’s education. Likewise, and in more general terms, subjective well-being is clearly related to gender, with women having the lowest levels of subjective well-being.

ISO/ASME geometrical tolerancing standards point out the significance of applying material conditions, which not only is convenient for manufacturing but also does not disturb the free assembly of parts. Unfortunately, the influence of material conditions is rarely considered in the existing studies on statistical geometrical tolerance analysis. Ignoring the influence of material conditions related to the dimensional and geometrical tolerances will directly lead to reduce the accuracy of tolerance analysis. In this paper, a new statistical tolerance analysis approach for mechanical assemblies with dimensional and geometrical tolerances under material conditions is proposed. The proposed approach is fully compatible with the ISO/ASME geometrical tolerancing standards and takes into account the application of various material conditions such as envelope requirement (ER), maximum material condition (MMC), least material condition (LMC), and reciprocity requirement (RPR). The tolerance zones of dimensional and geometrical feature variations are modeled based on the concept of small displacement torsor (SDT), in which torsor models that describe assembly variations caused by complex parallel joints between mating parts are mainly studied. Then, the material conditions effects for features of size with pin/hole and tab/slot shapes are modeled as additional constraints of torsor parameters. After integrating these torsor parameters into the unified Jacobian–Torsor model, a new approach of statistical geometrical tolerance analysis containing the application of material conditions is presented based on the combination of the unified Jacobian–Torsor model and Monte Carlo simulation. Finally, the centring pin assembly is taken as an example to illustrate the application of the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the relationships between the material conditions and the subjective well-being of 3,716 children (50.5% girls) between 10 and 12 years of age (M = 11.4) in Chile and Brazil. These are the two Latin American countries that took part in the third wave of the Children's Worlds research. The material conditions of the children were assessed using latent classes. A multivariate analysis of covariance was done next in order to test the influence of material conditions over the children's subjective well-being and interpersonal relationships. The association between gender and country variables of the children was also studied. The results showed that although the average subjective well-being scores of the children were high in general, the class analysis showed significant differences between the results for children with better material conditions than those with poorer material conditions. The latter group presented lower subjective well-being levels. MANCOVA was used to analyze the mean differences in subjective well-being levels and interpersonal relationships controlling variables of gender and country of residence. This showed that children with greater access to better material conditions showed significantly higher levels of subjective well-being levels and had a more positive view of their interpersonal relationships in all areas assessed compared to those who reported worse material conditions. These results are discussed in view of the high indices of material deprivation that exist in Latin America during childhood as well as how these findings may help better understand the well-being of children living in Latin American countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essential elements of arbitration that make the decision binding and enforceable are the arbitrator's obligation to resolve the dispute, based on the jurisdiction given to it through the arbitration agreement or the arbitration clause, as well as the basic contract of the parties where their rights and obligations are defined, which are disputable as a result of non-fulfillment. Since the main interest of the parties is to resolve the dispute fairly and as soon as possible, the settlement of the dispute through arbitration, as a more flexible judicial instrument, would help the parties to continue to exercise their activity without being damaged in material and formal aspect. In this regard, it is not enough for the dispute to be resolved by the relevant institution, but the decision must be enforced for the dispute to be resolved. Therefore, when it comes to implementing decisions of foreign arbitration, recognition is required, and it needs to meet the material and formal conditions provided in the national norms. This paper deals with the material conditions that must be met following the Law on Arbitration of the Republic of Northern Macedonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors have been attributed to both structural and individual factors, but untangling the complex, dynamic pathways through which these factors influence inequalities requires more empirical research. This study examined whether and how two factors, material conditions and time orientation, sequentially impact socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviors. Methods: Dutch adults 25 and older self-reported highest attained educational level, a measure of socioeconomic position (SEP); material conditions (financial strain, housing tenure, income); time orientation; health behaviors including smoking and sports participation; and health behavior-related outcomes including body mass index (BMI) and self-assessed health in three surveys (2004, 2011, 2014) of the longitudinal GLOBE (Dutch acronym for "Health and Living Conditions of the Population of Eindhoven and surroundings") study. Two hypothesized pathways were investigated during a ten-year time period using sequential mediation analysis, an approach that enabled correct temporal ordering and control for confounders such as baseline health behavior. Results: Educational level was negatively associated with BMI, positively associated with sports participation and self-assessed health, and not associated with smoking in the mediation models. For smoking, sports participation, and self-assessed health, a pathway from educational level to the outcome mediated by time orientation followed by material conditions was observed. Conclusions: Time orientation followed by material conditions may play a role in determining socioeconomic inequalities in certain health behavior-related outcomes, providing empirical support for the interplay between structural and individual factors in socioeconomic inequalities in health behavior. Smoking may be determined by prior smoking behavior regardless of SEP, potentially due to its addictive nature. While intervening on time orientation in adulthood may be challenging, the results from this study suggest that policy interventions targeted at material conditions may be more effective in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in certain health behaviors when they account for time orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our world suffers. Some people suffer more than others. Since the first part of 2020, ours is justly described as a time of uncertainty, threat, and upheaval. In this article, we offer reflections threaded narratively, told from the specificity of our societal contexts in Iran, Canada, and Australia. What might we learn in the present and anticipated future from people living chronically within conditions of uncertainty and immobility and also those experiencing uncertainty and immobility for the first time? We argue that reflexive comparative analysis bridging social and visual analysis, anchored in embodied conditions of such people, offers a way to learn from responses to COVID-19 while also being an exercise in ethical research practice. This reflection builds on and extends from our scholarly collaborations that have been ongoing since 2015. Our title recognizes this specific virus as stealthy. Importantly, our choice of words identifies resident Iranians—whose experiences were the original impetuses for this paper, and whose lives provide its empirical basis (98 is Iran's country code)—as equally steely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first phase of class formation in mid-nineteenth-century Sweden was characterized by its liberal stance. The first workers' organizations in continuous operation focused on attaining political rights and representation; offered self-help, education and social and economic support; and were engaged in neither socialist agitation nor contentious politics. The middle classes and even the bourgeoisie often supported these endeavours in various ways. The aim of this article is to provide a new explanation of why this first transitional phase developed. Previous explanations of class formation have paid scant attention to the material economic conditions behind the survival and stability of workers' organizations. I argue that the material should be brought back into the analysis of class formation to further our understanding of organized class politics. By analysing the economics and strategies of a typical liberal workers' association in Sweden, I show that organized politics were conditioned by the market. The organization's main source of income were commercial activities. This strategy speaks to the structural significance of commercial economic thinking. In conclusion, the first phase of working-class organizational development was profoundly conditioned by the economic structures of an industrializing social formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The crisis of journalism has been the subject of extensive scholarly and public debate. We argue that this debate needs to focus on actual developments on the ground that may be specific for a given society and that have serious consequences for the material conditions of journalists’ work. We focus specifically on local print newsrooms in the Czech Republic, one of the ‘new democracies’ of Eastern Europe. We interviewed local journalists in middle-management positions at key stages of the transformation of the local newspaper publishing group Vltava Labe Press (VLP). We first approached journalists in 2015 when VLP’s German owners – the publishing house Verlagsgruppe Passau – sold the company to the Slovak investment group Penta and followed up a year later when the ‘re-structuralization’ of the local newspaper publisher was completed. It is not surprising that our case study demonstrates that commercial pressures impact directly on the material conditions and the locations and spaces of journalists’ work, with the latter ones representing areas that form a crucial part of workplace autonomy, but have thus far been under-researched. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background The lifestyles of family caregivers pose risks to their physical, mental and social health. The capability to stay healthy may be protective in the context of poor socioeconomic conditions and risk behaviours, but the interrelations between its aspects and their respective influences remain unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the interrelations between the factors comprising health capability of family caregivers (HCFC) and the respective contributions of its components. Methods All stroke patients admitted to all hospitals in Luxembourg were identified by the ‘Inspection Générale de la Sécurité Sociale’ using the national database system for care expenditure reimbursement, and asked to designate the main person caring for them. Sixty-two caregivers (mean age 59.3 years; 40 women and 22 men) responded face to face, to a questionnaire including 20 items measuring eight aspects of health capability (physical functioning, psychological functioning, lifestyle value, self-efficacy towards the use of health services, family support, social capital, material conditions/sense of security, and satisfaction with the interactions with health services). Using a Bayesian approach, significance values were estimated by comparing the test values to the posterior distribution of the parameters. Structural equation modelling with standard deviations was applied. Results Female family caregivers had lower scores than men in physical and psychological functioning. Family caregivers with the lowest incomes had the least lifestyle value, social capital and material conditions/security. Self-efficacy towards health services increased with age. The material conditions/sense of security factor was positively correlated with almost all the others. The items that impacted health capability factors the most were - for physical functioning – fatigue, and - for family support - feeling abandoned by the family. Conclusions During the chronic phase, relationships between risk behaviours can help guide social and health decision-makers to determine their priorities in improving the lives of family caregivers. Enhancing health capability involves implementing programs that relieve family caregivers physically, and foster family networking around the person being cared for. Special attention should also be paid to the socially disadvantaged in order to fight inequalities in health capability.

Following recommendations from the Stiglitz et al. (2009) Commission, this paper proposes the use of a new methodology to measure the joint distribution of households’ income, consumption and wealth. Based on a multi-dimensional extension of the generalized mean framework, the paper justifies the application of this methodology based on a set of standard and acknowledged properties. The derived multi-dimensional index has an intuitive structure, which allows evaluating the overall material conditions of households under different perspectives and with varying sensitivity to distributional issues. Under its general form, the index encompasses a class of sub-indices that impose various restrictions on its parameters; the paper discusses the extent to which different restrictions on parameters affect the multi-dimensional assessments of various population groups, and provides some empirical illustrations using those different specifications. The question addressed by the multi-dimensional measure presented here is whether the joint consideration of household income, consumption and wealth modifies substantially the picture of material living standards of different individuals and groups relative to the one provided by income alone. Based on the dataset used here, the paper provides strong evidence on the importance of such a multi-dimensional assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the objective possibilities of Swedish schools to offer an equal and functional pedagogical practice for students’ acquisition of knowledge and skills. The data consist of policy documents, observations, and interviews with students, teachers, and head teachers in three educational settings distinguished by different social demographics. The focus allows for a comparative understanding of how tangible objects generate formations of schools as a relational phenomenon depending on geographic location and social background of students. The article indicates that the impact of materiality lies in its preceding power. It shapes the condition of institutions visualised in architecture, buildings, and the quality of and design of facilities and artefacts. From this material root emanates schools’ values, appeal, social status, and pedagogical organisations – school effects – that empower or weaken the school’s attraction and self-confidence. Different materialities influence each school’s institutional habitus, producing school effects with unequal educational outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I integrate economic, behavioral, and social support perspectives to provide a theoretical account of the HIV/AIDS experience in India. Given the complex nuances of the current appearance of the infection in the nation, no one particular theoretical interpretation might suffice to provide a holistic comprehension of the AIDS situation in the nation. The conflict perspective highlights class effects and poverty in explaining the spread of the infection. The behavioral framework, although allied to the Marxian postulate, moves beyond economic determinism and explains the spread of the infection among other marginal social groups (India's hijra population or men who have sex with men). The social support model outlines social attitudes towards the marginalized which impedes with health intervention, risk assessment or disclosure of health status. Each theoretical tradition provides a cognitive link and is intertwined. In speculating how agency can emerge in the middle of social obstacles, I will discuss how Marxian notions of class consciousness, Goffman's idea of the stigmatized educating the nonstigmatized and Bourdieu's concept of social capital correspond with the preliminary, coalescence and institutional stages of a collective movement raising consciousness about HIV and AIDS in a developing context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo analiza las condiciones habitacionales de la población de la provincia de Jujuy en la primera mitad del siglo XX, a la luz de los cambios y continuidades en el proceso de crecimiento económico local y nacional. Mucho se sabe acerca del problema de la vivienda en Argentina, sobre todo en el ámbito rioplatense, pero poco se ha profundizado sobre sus características e implicancias en otras regiones tales como en el Noroeste. De este modo, al centrar la atención en Jujuy se rescata no sólo la experiencia jujeña, sino también se develan ciertos rasgos habitacionales compartidos en esta región. A lo largo de este estudio se brindan nuevos aportes que son articulados dentro de aquel conocimiento en el nivel nacional y, cuando ello es posible, también discutidos.This paper examines the housing situation of the population of the province of Jujuy in the first half of the twentieth century, in light of the changes and continuance in the process of local economic growth. Much is known about the problem of housing in Argentina, especially in the River Plate area, but little has been deepened on its characteristics and implications in other regions such as the Northwest. Thus, the focus of the observation in Jujuy not only is rescued this provincial experience but it has also revealed certain housing traits shared in this region. In this study it is provided new contributions that are articulated with the national knowledge and, when possible, also discussed.

According to Vygotsky, personality is the ensemble of real relations that we have lived with others. If personality is the ensemble of societal relations, and if who people are coincides with the material conditions of their productions, then school-based games that produce failure may contribute in non-negligible ways to the production of loser personalities. A case study is used to exhibit the kind of collective work by means of which failures and losers are recognizably produced and are produced for being recognized as such. The study thereby develops a political dimension of Vygotskian theory not frequently encountered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The lifestyles of family caregivers pose risks to their physical, mental and social health. The capability to stay healthy may be protective in the context of poor socioeconomic conditions and risk behaviours, but the interrelations between its aspects and their respective influences remain unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the interrelations between the factors comprising health capability of family caregivers (HCFC) and the respective contributions of its components.Methods: All stroke patients admitted to all hospitals in Luxembourg were identified by the 'Inspection Générale de la Sécurité Sociale' using the national database system for care expenditure reimbursement, and asked to designate the main person caring for them. Sixty-two caregivers (mean age 59.3 years; 40 women and 22 men) responded face to face, to a questionnaire including 20 items measuring eight aspects of health capability (physical functioning, psychological functioning, lifestyle value, self-efficacy towards the use of health services, family support, social capital, material conditions/sense of security, and satisfaction with the interactions with health services). Using a Bayesian approach, significance values were estimated by comparing the test values to the posterior distribution of the parameters. Structural equation modelling with standard deviations was applied.Results: Female family caregivers had lower scores than men in physical and psychological functioning. Family caregivers with the lowest incomes had the least lifestyle value, social capital and material conditions/security. Self-efficacy towards health services increased with age. The material conditions/sense of security factor was positively correlated with almost all the others. The items that impacted health capability factors the most were - for physical functioning - fatigue, and - for family support - feeling abandoned by the family.Conclusions: During the chronic phase, relationships between risk behaviours can help guide social and health decision-makers to determine their priorities in improving the lives of family caregivers. Enhancing health capability involves implementing programs that relieve family caregivers physically, and foster family networking around the person being cared for. Special attention should also be paid to the socially disadvantaged in order to fight inequalities in health capability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from 12 countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four- to five-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative income has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of poor material conditions, such as subjective poverty or low wealth, significantly increase the probability of transition to poor health among the healthy and reduce the chance of recovery from poor health over the time interval analysed. In addition to this, the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 65% among men and by 68% among those aged 50-64. Material conditions affect health among older people. We suggest that if attempts to reduce poverty in later life and corresponding policy targets are to focus on the relevant measures, they should take into account broader definitions of poverty than those based only on relative incomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the results of a comprehensive study (N = 497) among Slovene primary school teachers with the aim of examining practical work in Primary Science courses (age 9-11). The study examined the attitude towards practical work and obstacles. The aim was also to find out whether the level of socio-economic development impacts on attitudes and obstacles. The main obstacles to the implementation of practical work at class level are: lack of material support, oversized classes, poor spatial conditions and a need for assistants. Surprising results followed an analysis of differences in the development of the environment: primary school teachers from less developed regions show a more positive attitude towards practical work compared to those from more developed regions. In addition, obstacles are perceived similarly regardless of the socio-economic situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attempts to demonstrate how an entirely unexplored and seemingly unimportant episode, at least to grand historical narratives, can open up multiple lines of inquiry. In the course of my research on everyday life in Warsaw during the First World War, I came across an intriguing phenomenon—one might even call it a movement—of going “barefoot” (boso in Polish) during the last two years of the war. Initiated by students from Warsaw’s institutions of higher education as a means of symbolic protest against collapsed living standards, the barefoot movement would quickly spread to other groups. As it did, it generated a discourse that revealed existing cultural, political, ethnic, social, and gender-based tensions among an urban population made destitute by the exactions of the Great War. Having mined Warsaw’s daily press for any kind of reference to the barefoot movement, I have attempted in these pages to make some sense of this fleeting phenomenon by linking analysis of social and political unrest, metropolitan cultural debates, and the quotidian economic realities of wartime. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Through this co-author paper, it will be reconsidered the role of social organizations towards sport-recreational activities and securing of material-technical means as a basis for successful organization of PE. It will also be reconsidered the role of social organizations towards sport-recreational activities. The role of school and pedagogical psychological service, personnel doing expert work, system of organization with special emphases onto securing and financing, information as the entire organizational teaching and extracurricular activities within PE, sport and recreation influences onto improvement of motor abilities and physical development of a student. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cette recherche vise à mieux comprendre le rôle de l'hébergement dans le rétablissement des personnes vivant avec une maladie mentale grave. Quarante résidents et résidentes de différents types d'hébergement communautaire structuré ont été interrogés sur les conditions d'hébergement qui favorisent leur rétablissement. Les résultats indiquent qu'aux yeux des résidents et résidentes, les conditions matérielles d'existence ont une influence déterminante sur le rétablissement. Leurs préoccupations s'articulent autour des besoins de base tels que l'alimentation, le coût, les commodités et la qualité de leur hébergement. Les relations sociales avec leur entourage immédiat ont également une grande influence sur le rétablissement des personnes, lesquelles souhaitent d'abord conserver leurs modestes acquis, tant matériels que sociaux. Cette stabilité est prérequise à leur rétablissement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This study investigates the association between Ronald Inglehart''s materialist/postmaterialist index, a psychological aspect of the material pathway to inequalities in health, and health locus of control and psychological health. The data used is from the 2008 public health survey in Skåne, a cross-sectional postal questionnaire study with 28,198 respondents (response rate 54%), conducted in southern Sweden during the fall of 2008. Psychological health (GHQ12), health locus of control (external vs. internal) and the four-item Inglehart''s index were assessed. A Multiple Logistic Regression Model was used to control for age, sex, country of origin, socioeconomic status and interpersonal trust. External locus of control was observed among 32.7% of the respondents. Poor psychological health was found in 18.2% of the women and 13.8% of the men. Materialist values were positively associated with low socioeconomic status, while a reverse association between postmaterialist values and low socioeconomic status was observed. External health locus of control was strongly and positively associated with materialist values among both men and women. Psychological health was not associated with materialist/postmaterialist values. The materialist/postmaterialist index, a psychological aspect of the material pathway to inequalities in health, is associated with health locus of control but not with mental health. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]