Families in the Netherlands consisting of individuals falling into a variety of racialized migrant categories, are often the focus of governmental scrutiny and scientific curiosity. These ‘migrant families’ are constructed in a variety of ways, all which make it possible to center them as the object of interventions aiming to address their assumed cultural distance and their ‘traditional’ way of life, often within the discourse of ‘integration’ and within government mandated civic integration programmes. The paradox arises when these migrant families, problematized in their traditionality, their ‘unmodernity’, are seen as a threat to the Dutch ‘modern’ families and what are seen as their own national Dutch ‘traditions’. Embracing ‘tradition’ is therefore simultaneously seen as a sign of a lack of progress when attributed to migrant families, while also seen as something which must be protected, as an inherent characteristic of national identity of the modern Dutch nation state. This paper aims to explore this paradox and the constructions of the modern and unmodern family by focusing on the everyday doing of these families, and how they are studied and described in a variety of knowledge production reports. The everyday, and the description and governance of it, is a site which contributes to the (re)production of the logics of modernity, yet it is often ignored or left unseen, perhaps because of its assumed mundanity. What hierarchical descriptions exist in these reports between migrant and Dutch families on how daily family life is organized, enacted in parent child interactions, in gender roles, in community involvement, in celebratory traditions, and in work/leisure activities? How do these everyday activities, act as signifiers of the extent to which the doing of modern values (such as equality, solidarity, participation, and freedom) are enacted in everyday life in migrant vs Dutch families. Understanding these constructions, and the role that scientific research publications play in (re)producing them, will be explored to better understand how the normalization of these logics set the stage for the further scrutiny and discipline of these migranticized families.
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Local Gabor features (jets) have been widely used in face recognition systems. Once the sets of jets have been extracted from the two faces to be compared, a proper measure of similarity (or distance) between corresponding features should be chosen. For instance, in the well known Elastic Bunch Graph Matching (EBGM) approach and other Gabor-based face recognition systems, the cosine distance was used as a measure. In this paper, we provide an empirical evaluation of seven distance measures for comparison, using a recently introduced face recognition system, based on Shape Driven Gabor Jets (SDGJ). Moreover we evaluate different normalization factors that are used to pre-process the jets. Experimental results on the BANCA database suggest that the concrete type of normalization applied to jets is a critical factor, and that some combinations of normalization + distance achieve better performance than the classical cosine measure for jet comparison.
Little is known about effective nursing interventions for adolescents with anorexia nervosa. The purpose of this study was to discover which aspects of nursing care are most effective, according to nurses, in recovery of normal body weight in adolescents with anorexia nervosa. METHODS: A qualitative descriptive research design was applied with individual in-depth interviews and a focus group. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. FINDINGS: Nurses state that they are in a key position in guiding patients with anorexia nervosa toward a path of weight recovery.A good therapeutic relationship is essential to the implementation of targeted nursing interventions in the areas of eating and exercising, social support, and parent counseling. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this research can be used to define more detailed nursing interventions, the effectiveness of which can be tested in follow-up research.
Achtergrond Steeds meer technologie is beschikbaar om zelfmanagement en kwaliteit van leven van ouderen te bevorderen. Zorgorganisatie Livio maakt gefragmenteerd gebruik van die technologie en zoekt naar een manier om technologie duurzaam te implementeren en in te bedden in reguliere werkprocessen, steeds in samenwerking met de cliënt. De Normalization Process Theory (NPT) biedt concrete aanwijzingen om inbedding van innovaties in werkprocessen te ondersteunen. Daarbij is de focus op het concrete wat en hoe het werk gedaan wordt. De NPT onderscheidt daarbij vier mechanismen: samenhang, betrokkenheid, samen doen en reflectie. Met het op NPT gebaseerde NoMAD-instrument kan innovatiebereidheid en implementatievoortgang op die vier mechanismen gemonitord worden. Doelstelling Met deze aanvraag wordt een breed implementatieproject voorbereid gericht op inbedden van technologie in verpleeghuis, thuiszorg en woonzorgcentra (VVT) in Oost-Nederland, met (inter)nationale opschalingsmogelijkheden. In dit project werken hogeschool Saxion, zorgorganisatie Livio en Roessingh Research & Development samen om dit te realiseren. De doelen van deze voorbereidende aanvraag zijn: a) Het aanpassen van het NoMAD instrument voor de implementatie van technologie, voor de context van verpleeghuis, thuiszorg en woonzorgcentra, b) het uitwerken van een werkwijze om cliënten te betrekken in de implementatie van technologie. Daarnaast is het doel van deze aanvraag om een consortium te vormen van zorgorganisaties, netwerk-, onderwijs-, MKB- en kennisinstellingen ten behoeve van het brede implementatieproject om daarmee een subsidieaanvraag voor RAAK Publiek te schrijven, gericht op implementatie van technologie in Oost-Nederland. Resultaten - Aangepaste versie van NoMAD geschikt voor het monitoren van de implementatie van technologie in de VVT; - Een werkwijze voor cliëntparticipatie tijdens het implementatieproject; - Consortium met partners van zorgorganisaties, netwerkorganisaties, MKB, onderwijs, kennisinstellingen en cliëntenorganisaties, ten behoeve van - RAAK Publiek subsidieaanvraag gericht op implementatie van technologie in VVT in regio Oost-Nederland.
