Toward the adoption of digital assistive technology: Factors affecting older people's initial trust formation

In recent decades, Europe has experienced a major societal challenge—the aging of the human population. The Finnish government has responded to this challenge by focusing on individually tailored services that enable older adults to live independently and comfortably at home for longer with the help of digital assistive technology. This paper presents the findings of an empirical study on how initial trust is formed with regard technology adoption by older people. Four bases of trust (personality, cognitive, calculative, and institutional) underpin the theoretical framework of the study. A qualitative research approach was adopted, utilizing individual and focus group interviews with older people living independently in urban and rural areas of South Finland. The findings derived from thematic analysis offer new insights into the complex and multidimensional process of older people's initial trust formation, which is affected by an interplay of 12 identified factors shaping the four bases of trust and four supplementary factors. These findings lead to propositions for future research.     

CLAIMING SPACE,LAND AND ECOLOGY: Mapping Geographies of Indigenous and Decolonial Urbanisms in Taipei

The city is often understood as the antithesis of Indigeneity. In Taiwan, a settler colony where the Han Chinese have colonized Austronesian Indigenous peoples, dominant understandings and representations situate Indigenous vibrancy outside large cities such as Taipei and Kaohsiung, despite the large-scale urbanization of Indigenous peoples over the past several decades. This essay is based on long-term ethnographic research in Taipei and explores how urbanized Indigenous people in the Taiwanese metropolis persist in claiming the city's space, land and ecology despite both cartographic and physical displacements of their presence. It maps out emerging Indigenous and decolonial urbanisms in Taiwan, discussing the work of Indigenous artists and the spatial and ecological practices of urban Indigenous community residents.     

Who gets injured at home? Evidence from older people in France

The study analyses unintentional home and leisure injuries (HLIs) for the French senior population using data from the 2012 wave of the French health, health care and insurance survey. The results of our logit models reveal that health status, age, and risky attitudes are the main characteristics associated with HLIs for older people. When the severity of injuries is taken into consideration, the highest exposure to HLIs concerns the oldest seniors, aged 85 years old or older, with deteriorated health. This result is confirmed in the case of severe indoor HLIs, whereas for severe outdoor injuries, the most vulnerable individuals seem to be younger seniors, that is, 75–79 years old. Moreover, our findings suggest that HLIs, and mainly severe home HLIs, generate a short-term influence on a person's health.     

盐城“菜篮子”工程——蔬菜产业发展研究

“菜篮子”工程是一项民生工程,关系到老百姓的切身利益。随着经济社会发展与惠民政策的大力实施,“菜篮子”工程建设取得突破性进展。但发展的同时还存在着品牌不强、产业化经营水平不高、种植成本攀升、科技支撑力度不足、全产业链建设不完善、线上销售及流通能力不强等制约因素。因此,建议从组织保障、市场流通、科研力度、基础设施、绿色生产、全产业链建设等方面推进现代化蔬菜产业建设和发展。     

INDIGENOUS URBANISM AS AN ANALYTIC: Towards Indigenous Urban Theory

In Canada, the terms Indigeneity and urbanity have been configured by colonialism and are often understood as antithetical. Given the baggage these terms carry, conceptualizing Indigenous urbanism in a manner that does not replicate the same problems these categories suggest is an important intellectual task for both urban and Indigenous studies. In this essay, I propose that Indigenous urbanism might be best understood as an analytic that highlights a dialectical relationship between Indigeneity and urbanism, marking both concepts as constantly in flux and open to contestation. Indigenous urbanism marks urban space as potentially both liberatory and oppressive, and as the basis for a liberatory research agenda.     

弥勒县彝族文化旅游资源研究

弥勒县是彝族人口比较多的一个县市,彝族人口在10万以上,居住着众多支系,各支系都创造了丰富多彩的文化。本文对弥勒县的彝族文化旅游做了一个简单的探析,以便为进一步的旅游开发提供参考。