Independent Living, Politics and Implications [PDF]
, 2003 [Excerpt] The idea of ‘independent’ living as used by the disabled people’s movement around the world is a radical concept firmly rooted in the ideological, cultural and pragmatic traditions of western society.
Barnes, Colin
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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Franciscanum, 2017 What is there to see in others? How to avoid sorters trends that lead us to include a fixed or negative identity; a fortiori when it is a disability? How to articulate, from an ethical point of view, the necessary diagnostic of others’ suffering with ...
Fred Poché
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Fabric‐Based Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton Gloves: Advancements and Challenges
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights interdisciplinary technological advances in fabric‐based robotic gloves, focusing on progress in design, fabrication, actuation, sensing, control, and power and energy requirements. It also addresses performance testing and validation, including biomechanical, strength, functional, user experience, and durability assessments, to ...
Ayse Feyza Yilmaz +2 more
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The Role of the Evaluation in the Theoretical Focuses on the Social Politics: the Case of Disability
Santiago, 2015 The social politics constitute a space of interesting diverse and contradictory analysis inside the different social contexts. Their reach should guide us toward the different sectors of the society in the search of its social well-being.
MSc. Osmanys Soler-Nariño +1 more
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Chinese Special Needs Adoption, Demand, and the Global Politics of Disability
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019 This article explores three related phenomena: first, the abandonment and institutionalization of children with disabilities in China that increased disproportionately in the 2000s; second, the important relationships between such abandonments, culture ...
Erin Raffety
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Elite athletes or superstars? Media representation of para-athletes at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games [PDF]
, 2016 This article offers a discourse analysis of media representations of para athletes before, during and post the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in print and online sources, drawing on the lens of critical disability theory.
McGillivray, David +3 more
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Incapacity and Theatricality: Politics and Aesthetics in Theatre Involving Actors with Intellectual Disabilities. By Tony McCaffrey. London: Routledge, 2019; 198 pp. $155.00 cloth, e-book available. [PDF]
, 2020 Jessica Watkin
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Non‐Invasive Multidimensional Capacitive Sensing for In Vivo Traumatic Brain Injury Monitoring
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Single‐electrode, multidimensional capacitive sensors noninvasively assess cerebral autoregulation and compliance for traumatic brain injury monitoring. ABSTRACT Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, but invasive intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring is risky, and current non‐invasive methods lack the resolution and ...
Shawn Kim +8 more
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Cripping inquiry: breathing life into co-produced disability methodologies
Frontiers in SociologyIntroductionOur contributions within this article emerge from our experiences of co-leading a new Wellcome Discovery Award funded project, Cripping Breath: Towards a New Cultural Politics of Respiration.
Julie Ellis +19 more
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