Researchers with experiential disability knowledge increasingly engage in socio-medical research. In this paper the author discusses her experiences with employing her own lived experiences with disability in academic and non-academic research projects. Incorporating one’s own lived experiences in research implies…

Power relations and the researcher's gaze are extremely relevant to the research of blind people, yet rarely documented. Based on three years of anthropological research with blind women in Israel, this paper discusses the methodological considerations raised by the ethnography…

The purpose of this article is to consider the implications to reflexivity in disability research. The author begins by positioning herself in the field of disability studies, disclosing her own experiences. She goes on to trouble the expectation to disclose.…

My pathway to becoming a disability studies researcher has been a series of discontinuities, a circuitous route full of twist and turns with the occasional misstep. Enmeshed in my peregrinations are my academic training as a geographer, my shift in…

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Malgré les progrès de la médecine moderne et l’avancement des connaissances, le soulagement de la douleur demeure un domaine peu étudié et peu compris. Les enfants avec un diagnostic de paralysie cérébrale et une incapacité de communiquer verbalement font partie…

The aim of this study was to gain some fundamental knowledge on the thermal degradation pathways of poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone) using Thermogravimetry coupled with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (TG–FTIR) in addition to IR and 1H NMR spectroscopic studies of the partially…

, This paper proposes a high performance nonlinear fuzzy multi-input-multi-output controller for a drying control process. The highly nonlinear characteristics of drying processes make classical control theory unable to provide the same performance results as it does in more well…

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