Many great tasks in society today which are either visibly seen or silently observed pay homage to the fact that the end result of the task completed is due to individuals who collectively prescribed to a common goal;...
Many great tasks in society today which are either visibly seen or silently observed pay homage to the fact that the end result of the task completed is due to individuals who collectively prescribed to a common goal; however, even though the result canbe easily observed, how can one dissect the actual ingredients which made this phenomenon possible? While many aspects canbe highlighted, self-awareness is one which has caught the focus of researchers and practitioners allike to try and explain this process (Jelani, 2002). Furthering knoeledge about the effects self-awareness has on group's performances can aid any organization wanting to explore options that may help increase efficiency and coheaion among its members.
As I stated in the introduction, this thesis was written over the course of three years, which was the duration of my Gender and Women's Studies PhD programme, and of my contract as one of the fifteen Early Stage ...
As I stated in the introduction, this thesis was written over the course of three years, which was the duration of my Gender and Women's Studies PhD programme, and of my contract as one of the fifteen Early Stage Researchers of the GRACE-Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe project. 938 With this dissertation, I have aimed at enriching possible alliances between feminist practices, documentary cinema and academic knowledge by building a bridge between feminist new materialism(s), specifically Karen Barad's diffractive methodology, and feminist (documentary) film theory. Diffraction as a visualisation metaphor and as a reading (but also looking/thinking/imagining) strategy has been my main tool for analysing how feminist material-discursive practices in contemporary documentary cinema (can) visualise gender in/equalities. In the next paragraphs, I will reflect upon the objectives and hypothesis established in the introduction, in light of the results obtained through my research process. Next, I will present a list of the contributions that my thesis might offer to feminist documentary film theory and practice. Finally, stemming from my work's limitations, I will enunciate future research lines. Objective 1: Building a bridge between feminist documentary film theory and a diffractive methodology, by approaching non-fiction cinema that deals with social inequalities as a diffraction apparatus The first chapter of this thesis has laid the theoretical and methodological foundation for my proposal of encountering documentary films as diffraction apparatuses: that is, as technologies that make part of the world intelligible to another part of the world in specific ways, by means of intra-actions between human and non-human agencies and objects of observation. In order to render this definition operational, I have proposed three analytical tools: materiality, emotionality and performativity. Diffraction is a multi-layered concept. In this dissertation, I have applied
Objective: To examine the association between food insecurity and the prevalence of pre-hypertension and hypertension among U.S. adults. Additionally, this project will examine the association between food insecurity ...
Objective: To examine the association between food insecurity and the prevalence of pre-hypertension and hypertension among U.S. adults. Additionally, this project will examine the association between food insecurity and the awareness, treatment and control (ATC) of hypertension. Design: A cross-sectional study using data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 waves was deployed to examine the association between food insecurity and the prevalence and ATC of hypertension. Food security was measured by the cumulative number of affirmative responses to the 10-item U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM) questionnaire which were graded into four categories; full food security, marginal food security, low food security and very low food security. Blood pressure readings were taken at the mobile examination centers. Blood pressure was categorized into normal, pre-hypertensive and hypertensive based on the eighth Joint National Committee (JNC) guidelines. Patients were excluded from the analyses if they were below the age of 20, were pregnant, and had missing data for blood pressure, food security and body mass index (BMI). Multinomial regression was used to examine the association between food insecurity and the prevalence of hypertension and pre-hypertension. Logistic regression was then used to examine the levels of ATC among hypertensive individuals and the association with food insecurity. Results: A total of 9,871 participants were included in the prevalence analysis after exclusion criteria were applied. An elevated odds of hypertension was observed among individuals who were food insecure (Prevalence Odds Ratio = 1.61, 95% CI: 1.31 – 1.99) compared to food secure individuals. The ATC analyses included 3,413 hypertensive individuals. There were decreased odds of having controlled blood pressure among food insecure individuals (POR = 0.80, 95% CI: 0.67-0.96) compared to food secure individuals. Conclus
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