Search results for "MOBILITY"

Multilingual language use and metapragmatic reflexivity in Finnish internet football forums : a study in the sociolinguistics of globalization

2013

Neighborhood Mobility and Unmet Physical Activity Need in Old Age: A 2-Year Follow-Up

2020

Background: Many older people report a willingness to increase outdoor physical activity (PA), but no opportunities for it, a situation termed as unmet PA need. The authors studied whether lower neighborhood mobility and PA precede the development of unmet PA need. Methods: Community-dwelling 75- to 90-year-old people (n = 700) were interviewed annually for 2 years. Unmet PA need, neighborhood mobility, and PA were self-reported. In addition, accelerometer-based step counts were assessed among a subgroup (n = 156). Results: Logistic regression analyses revealed that lower baseline neighborhood mobility (odds ratio 3.02, 95% confidence interval [1.86, 4.90] vs. daily) and PA (odds ratio 4.37…

Introduzione. Disfigurare il genere

2023

La mobilità come esperienza transitoria e instabile sembra avere nel concetto di genere la sua versione teorica più pregnante. Un concetto difficile perché azzera le rassicuranti categorie binarie moltiplicando i soggetti e obbligandoci a riflettere sulla fluidità delle identità. La mobilità assume, così, una dimensione politica non solo lungo le rotte di un mondo in diaspora ma anche nella sua sfera più domestica. La call si chiede come la fluidità dei generi definisca e sfidi le rappresentazioni consolidate dei corpi, della casa, della città, aprendo verso possibili forme di ricerca che riconfigurino la mobilità e la transitorietà come chiave di lettura dell’esistenza e della relazione co…

Map-based assessment of older adults’ life space: validity and reliability

2020

Background Map-based tools have recently found their way into health-related research. They can potentially be used to quantify older adults’ life-space. This study aimed to evaluate the validity (vs. GPS) and the test-retest reliability of a map-based life-space assessment (MBA). Methods Life-space of one full week was assessed by GPS and by MBA. MBA was repeated after approximately 3 weeks. Distance-related (mean and maximum distance from home) and area-related (convex hull, standard deviational ellipse) life-space indicators were calculated. Intraclass correlations (MBA vs. GPS and test-retest) were calculated in addition to Bland-Altman analyses (MBA vs. GPS). Results Fifty-eight older …

Psychometric properties of the MOBITEC-GP mobile application for real-life mobility assessment in older adults

2022

Aim of this study was to test the reliability and validity of the life-space measures and walking speed delivered by the MOBITEC-GP app. Participants underwent several supervised walking speed assessments as well as a 1-week life-space assessment during two assessment sessions 9 days apart. Fifty-seven older adults (47.4% male, mean age= 75.3 (±5.9) years) were included in the study. The MOBITEC-GP app showed moderate to excellent test-retest reliability (ICCs between 0.584 and 0.920) and validity (ICCs between 0.468 and 0.950) of walking speed measurements of 50 meters and above and of most 1-week life-space parameters, including life-space area, time spent out-of-home, and action range. T…

Grain boundary ridges slow dawn grain boundary motion: In-situ observation

2014

Abstract The impact of grain boundary (GB) ridge on motion of high-angle GB in Zn was studied. The steady-state motion of faceted GB half-loop with [ 10 1 ¯ 0 ] tilt GB and GB ridge was recorded in-situ. The temperatures of faceting–roughening transition were experimentally defined for three GB half-loops. Above the transition temperature GB half-loops had GB “rough-to-rough” ridge with continuously curved GB segments. Below the transition temperature a facet appeared and coexisted with two “facet-to-rough” ridges. For the first time we could extract mobility of “rough-to-rough” and “rough-to-facet” ridges and bring out clearly that GB ridge slows down GB motion. Present removes contradicti…

Macrosocial determinants of social integration: Social class and area effect

1995

Theory and research on social support have paid little attention to the existence of important macrosocial variables determining level and content of social relationships. This study examines variations in social integration as a function of social class and residential area characteristics. Results for 234 subjects living in high and low risk neighbourhoods indicated that differences between higher and lower social class groups follow different patterns in different residential areas. Also, same social class position appeared to have different significance as a function of residential area characteristics. The levels of three social integration measures—community integration and satisfacti…

Augstākās izglītības internacionalizācija: Monaša Universitātes un Latvijas Universitātes salīdzinošā analīze

2018

This thesis seeks to аddress how University of Lаtviа аnd Monаsh University cаn successfully cooperаte in а wаy thаt increаses exchаnge student number, enhаnces productivity аnd sаtisfаction (effectiveness). Previous reseаrch demonstrаted thаt the lаndscаpe of work is quickly being shаped аnd defined by new study methods, new knowledge economy`s requirements, new societаl vаlues, chаnging demogrаphics, аnd rаpid globаlisаtion. Therefore, trаditionаl exchаnge progrаmmes such аs Erаsmus, Erаsmus+, аnd Erаsmus Mundus, which hаve been the mаin focus for University of Lаtviа аccording to its Strаtegy Plаn 2010-2020, do limit the exchаnge of students within the frаmework of Europeаn Union аnd sho…

Les populations périurbaines face à l'automobile en grande couronne francilienne

2007

The present article is attempting to identify if the automobile, which took part in development of periurban spaces but which causes strong disparities of mobility between households, according to their incomes and of their age, leads to exclude an increasing part of the population in this spaces. We looked more closely into not-motorized population but also motorized households, of modest income or older age, for which cost or physical requirements of automobile mobility are too high. Our results show that number of not-motorized households, most strongly marginalized, decrease in particular in periurban territories most dependent on car, in spite high level of unemployment and ageing of p…

Intra-regional mobility of PhD students in the European Union : the outcomes of region-making policy?

2022

This paper examines the flow of intra-European Union (EU) students for doctoral (PhD) studies to identify reasons for differences in international student mobility and migration (ISM) among member states. Rather than conceptualising intra-EU PhD student ISM only through push–pull forces, we theorise the intra-EU PhD ISM is associated with relative levels of national resources or levels of capital. We investigate the intra-EU PhD ISM through dyadic country pairings allowing the use of Gravity models to estimate the effect of variables associated with stocks of capital ascribed to a country to the change in the number of PhD students. The findings of this study indicate while there is asymmet…