This mini review aimed at analyzing how mass customization and the Maker movement are modifying the production and consumption of textile and clothing goods. This paper focus on the consumer role in the production and consumption. Both mass customization and Maker movement propose a new role for the consumers, in which they actively participate in the construction, modification and manufacturin...

Back ground: Absence of abduction or presence of restricted abduction movement of shoulder or presence of infection or space occupying mass in axilla creates difficulties or offers impossibilities to expose axilla for brachial plexus block at the same level. Aims: To introduce axillary block in the presence of axillary infection, mass and restricted movement of the shoulder through anterior fol...

This paper presents the results of geohazards mapping and evaluation their role in modifying urban landscape Poznań, Poland. Information on specific to an lowland area (river floods, flash mass movement, wind erosion) because increasing climate change was compiled into a geomorphological map. The most spatially widespread Poznań include: (a) moraine hills/uplands: erosion, floods (4.9% city are...

The authors draw upon social, personality, and health psychology to propose and test a self-stereotyping and psychological resource model of overweight and obesity. The model contends that self-stereotyping depletes psychological resources, namely self-esteem, that help to prevent overweight and obesity. In support of the model, mediation analysis demonstrates that adult Hispanics who highly se...

Background The three papers of this doctoral thesis are based on the social construction of reality through the analysis of communication relating to health issues. We have analysed the contents of parliamentary, institutional, and mass media to uncover whether their communications create, transmit, and perpetuate gender biases and/or stereotypes, which may have an impact on people's health, wi...

Laboratory studies have suggested that the preferred cadence of walking is approximately 120 steps/min, and the vertical acceleration of the head exhibits a dominant peak at this step frequency (2 Hz). These studies have been limited to short periods of walking along a predetermined path or on a treadmill, and whether such a highly tuned frequency of movement can be generalized to all forms of ...

INTRODUCTION Since the turn of the century, the global community has experienced a constant wave of popular uprisings and public protests. The " Arab Spring " triggered a chain reaction that spread not just to the Eastern world, but also to many stable Western democracies, including the indig-nados (indignant citizens) movement of Spain, the Portuguese Geração a Rasca (desperate generation), an...

OBJECTIVES To investigate how South Asian patients conceptualise the notion of clinical trials and to identify key processes that impact on trial participation and the extent to which communication difficulties, perceptions of risk and attitudes to authority influence these decisions. Also to identify whether 'South Asian' patients are homogeneous in these issues, and which factors differ betwe...

All professions, including nursing, rest on a cultural base. Berger and Luckman argue that the sociology of knowledge concerns itself more with common sense than with theoretical abstractions. Everyone must exist within some kind of structure, some kind of ordered world, and so people create a "reality" for themselves about nurses and nursing which is based on things they "know," regardless of ...

This study was based on the theory that adolescents view scenes of violent ethnic conflicts in the mass media through the lens of their own ethnicity, and that the resulting social-cognitive reactions influence their negative stereotypes about similar ethnic groups in their own country. We interviewed 89 Jewish and 180 Arab American high school students about their exposure to the Israeli-Pales...