Laura Deluca
Biographic Data
| ID | 178203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Deluca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Deluca |
| SIGNATURE | DELUCA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yeshiva University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7134-030X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Men’s Weight Loss Outcomes, Behaviors, and Perceptions in a Self-Directed Commercial Mobile Program: Retrospective Analysis
Background There is little understanding of men’s weight loss outcomes and behaviors in self-directed contexts, such as digital commercial mobile weight management programs. This is an especially pressing question given that men often express disinterest in weight management programs and it is unknown how that manifests in self-directed environments. Aims. Two studies fill this gap by retrospectively observing how men lose weight and engage in we…
Cross-National Outcomes of a Digital Weight Loss Intervention in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand: A Retrospective Analysis
Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are ubiquitous and effective treatment options for obesity. There is a widespread assumption that the mHealth interventions will be equally effective in other locations. In an initial test of this assumption, this retrospective study assesses weight loss and engagement with an mHealth behavior change weight loss intervention developed in the United States (US) in four English-speaking regions: the US, Austral…
How Do Emotions during Goal Pursuit in Weight Change over Time? Retrospective Computational Text Analysis of Goal Setting and Striving Conversations with a Coach during a Mobile Weight Loss Program
During behavioral weight management, individuals reflect on their progress and barriers through goal pursuit (goal setting and goal striving). Emotions during goal pursuit are largely unknown, and previous investigations of emotions in weight management have primarily relied on self-report. In this retrospective study, we used a well-validated computational text analysis approach to explore how emotion words changed over time during goal setting …
Psychosocial Characteristics by Weight Loss and Engagement in a Digital Intervention Supporting Self-Management of Weight
There is substantial variability in weight loss outcomes. Psychosocial characteristics underlying outcomes require better understanding, particularly on self-managed digital programs. This cross-sectional study examines differences in psychosocial characteristics by weight loss and engagement outcome, and which characteristics are most associated with weight loss, on a self-managed digital weight loss program. Some underexplored psychosocial char…
Building Peace from Within
This book seeks to examine how successful models of building ‘peace from within’ in the African context function. It draws emerging lessons to provide critical recommendations on policy, practice and academia – our primary audience. While there are numerous examples of failures of conflict resolution in Africa, shown by intractable conflict axes, less attention is paid to successes. While acknowledging the challenges that exist, this edited volum…
Adopting Cultivation to Remain Pastoralists: The Diversification of Maasai Livelihoods in Northern Tanzania
Nuer American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration. By Dianna J. Shandy
More than half a century after Evans-Pritchard wrote his classic ethnography on the Nuer, a group of nomadic pastoralists living in southern Sudan, Shandy's book sheds light on the experience of contemporary Nuer people who have moved to the United States as refugees. The volume focuses primarily on the Sudanese refugee population in Minnesota, USA but also includes interviews with Nuer refugees in other parts of the United States as well as Ethi…
"Transnational Migration, the Lost Girls of Sudan and Global "Care work: A Photo Essay
This essay explores the work lives of a group of Sudanese refugees known popularly as the Lost Girls of Sudan. Like other women from the Global South, the Lost Girls often work in the care work sector as maids, babysitters, nannies, preschool attendants, food service workers, nurses, personal care attendants for elderly and disabled people. The article also explores the U.S. refugee policy of self-sufficiency
Sudanese Refugees and New Humanitarianism
It Takes Two Hands to Clap: Sudanese Refugee Women Contribute to Conflict Resolution in Sudan
Lost and Found: Fragmented Fieldwork among Sudanese Refugees
Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa
Cohen. David William and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann; London: James Currey, 1992
Lost and found: Lessons from collaborative research with undergraduate students on the Lost Girls of Sudan
This article focuses on the challenges and rewards of working with undergraduate research assistants. The anthropological research project involves interviews and participant observation with Sudanese refugees living in the United States. Five undergraduates share their reflections as neophyte anthropologists. The audience for this article is primarily anthropologists and others interested in involving students in field-based research. Undergradu…
Adopting Cultivation to Remain Pastoralists: The Diversification of Maasai Livelihoods in Northern Tanzania
Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa
Cohen. David William and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann; London: James Currey, 1992
"Transnational Migration, the Lost Girls of Sudan and Global "Care work: A Photo Essay
This essay explores the work lives of a group of Sudanese refugees known popularly as the Lost Girls of Sudan. Like other women from the Global South, the Lost Girls often work in the care work sector as maids, babysitters, nannies, preschool attendants, food service workers, nurses, personal care attendants for elderly and disabled people. The article also explores the U.S. refugee policy of self-sufficiency
Sudanese Refugees and New Humanitarianism
It Takes Two Hands to Clap: Sudanese Refugee Women Contribute to Conflict Resolution in Sudan
Lost and found: Lessons from collaborative research with undergraduate students on the Lost Girls of Sudan
This article focuses on the challenges and rewards of working with undergraduate research assistants. The anthropological research project involves interviews and participant observation with Sudanese refugees living in the United States. Five undergraduates share their reflections as neophyte anthropologists. The audience for this article is primarily anthropologists and others interested in involving students in field-based research. Undergradu…
Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa
Cohen. David William and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann; London: James Currey, 1992
Lost and Found: Fragmented Fieldwork among Sudanese Refugees
It Takes Two Hands to Clap: Sudanese Refugee Women Contribute to Conflict Resolution in Sudan
Sudanese Refugees and New Humanitarianism
Nuer American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration. By Dianna J. Shandy
More than half a century after Evans-Pritchard wrote his classic ethnography on the Nuer, a group of nomadic pastoralists living in southern Sudan, Shandy's book sheds light on the experience of contemporary Nuer people who have moved to the United States as refugees. The volume focuses primarily on the Sudanese refugee population in Minnesota, USA but also includes interviews with Nuer refugees in other parts of the United States as well as Ethi…
"Transnational Migration, the Lost Girls of Sudan and Global "Care work: A Photo Essay
This essay explores the work lives of a group of Sudanese refugees known popularly as the Lost Girls of Sudan. Like other women from the Global South, the Lost Girls often work in the care work sector as maids, babysitters, nannies, preschool attendants, food service workers, nurses, personal care attendants for elderly and disabled people. The article also explores the U.S. refugee policy of self-sufficiency
Adopting Cultivation to Remain Pastoralists: The Diversification of Maasai Livelihoods in Northern Tanzania
Building Peace from Within
This book seeks to examine how successful models of building ‘peace from within’ in the African context function. It draws emerging lessons to provide critical recommendations on policy, practice and academia – our primary audience. While there are numerous examples of failures of conflict resolution in Africa, shown by intractable conflict axes, less attention is paid to successes. While acknowledging the challenges that exist, this edited volum…
Cross-National Outcomes of a Digital Weight Loss Intervention in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand: A Retrospective Analysis
Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are ubiquitous and effective treatment options for obesity. There is a widespread assumption that the mHealth interventions will be equally effective in other locations. In an initial test of this assumption, this retrospective study assesses weight loss and engagement with an mHealth behavior change weight loss intervention developed in the United States (US) in four English-speaking regions: the US, Austral…
How Do Emotions during Goal Pursuit in Weight Change over Time? Retrospective Computational Text Analysis of Goal Setting and Striving Conversations with a Coach during a Mobile Weight Loss Program
During behavioral weight management, individuals reflect on their progress and barriers through goal pursuit (goal setting and goal striving). Emotions during goal pursuit are largely unknown, and previous investigations of emotions in weight management have primarily relied on self-report. In this retrospective study, we used a well-validated computational text analysis approach to explore how emotion words changed over time during goal setting …
Psychosocial Characteristics by Weight Loss and Engagement in a Digital Intervention Supporting Self-Management of Weight
There is substantial variability in weight loss outcomes. Psychosocial characteristics underlying outcomes require better understanding, particularly on self-managed digital programs. This cross-sectional study examines differences in psychosocial characteristics by weight loss and engagement outcome, and which characteristics are most associated with weight loss, on a self-managed digital weight loss program. Some underexplored psychosocial char…
Men’s Weight Loss Outcomes, Behaviors, and Perceptions in a Self-Directed Commercial Mobile Program: Retrospective Analysis
Background There is little understanding of men’s weight loss outcomes and behaviors in self-directed contexts, such as digital commercial mobile weight management programs. This is an especially pressing question given that men often express disinterest in weight management programs and it is unknown how that manifests in self-directed environments. Aims. Two studies fill this gap by retrospectively observing how men lose weight and engage in we…
Sociology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Obesity (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Weight loss (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Citation (3 works)