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Experiences of Fixed Oral Rehabilitation in Older Persons — Motivation, Procedural Strains and Rewarding Improvements

open access: yesJournal of Oral Rehabilitation, EarlyView.
In this study, eight older adults with poor oral function were interviewed to explore their experience of life before, during, and after fixed oral rehabilitation. A descriptive qualitative content analysis method was employed. Three key findings related to the oral rehabilitation process were identified: Emotional loneliness prior to the oral ...
L. Hedberg   +6 more
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Nominative Data and Global Census History: Russia and the West

open access: yesИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016
The article presents an original, comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the civil registration system in the world, based on wide empirical materials.
Gunnar Thorvaldsen
doaj   +1 more source

The Uneven Effect of Airbnb on the Housing Market: Evidence Across and Within Italian Cities

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 339-377, March 2025.
ABSTRACT We investigate if Airbnb diffusion affects residential property values differently across and within cities leveraging the heterogeneity of five Italian cities in terms of tourist attractiveness, local housing markets, and socioeconomic conditions. We find that Airbnb density growth leads to increases in house prices in all cities. Within‐city,
Raffaele Congiu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legislating for Madness: Legal Exceptionalism and the Professional Identity of UK Mental Health Nursing. A Discussion Paper

open access: yesJournal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Mental health nursing in the United Kingdom has developed along a distinctive historical and legal trajectory shaped by statutory frameworks governing mental distress, detention, capacity and coercion. While adult/general nursing largely professionalised through Nightingalean reform, biomedicine and public health, mental health ...
Victoria Sweetmore
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land use rights and gender in Ovamboland, North- Central Namibia, since the 1930s

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2009
In agrarian economies arable land is the most important form of property and productive resource, so that access to land defines the political and social status of a member of society.
Harri Siiskonen
doaj  

Community as Catalyst for Change: Factors Contributing to US Catholic Sisters Engaging in Environmental Activism

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
wiley   +1 more source

Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on 3 years of qualitative fieldwork at a United Methodist church and a Catholic parish in Minneapolis‐St. Paul, I analyze how White, liberal congregations translated race‐conscious ideals into organizational practice in the wake of the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
Daniel Cueto‐Villalobos
wiley   +1 more source

“Go Ahead and Bring Me Up on Charges—The Rocks Will Sing Out”: Organizational Structure, Ally Activism, and the Struggle for Marriage Equality in the UMC

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After decades of struggle, the United Methodist Church (UMC) removed all LGBTQ‐restrictive language from its Book of Discipline in 2024, overturning exclusionary policies that forbid same‐sex weddings and the ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy. This research sheds light on the activism that preceded institutional change within the UMC.
Nancy L. Malcom, Melinda D. Kane
wiley   +1 more source

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