Our example, however, serves as a reminder that material culture is imbued with meaning.
Bob Geldof's Band Aid tune "Do They Know Its Christmas" tapped into the social conscious, profiling the holidays as a reminder of material inequity and as an occasion to care for others.
I taught school in Miyako for more than two years in the 1990s, and it was while hiking in the mountains above one of those picturesque fishing villages that I came across my first material reminder of the intricate relationship between the area's breathtaking geography, its people — generous and direct — and powerful seismic forces.
… One of the things I would say if the student was not engaging was a reminder that the material that you were doing in this activity could be in a future quiz".
Other interventions include point-of-prescribing prompts (e.g. reminder bookmark), promotional material (e.g. wall posters) and a feedback presentation with comparative state and national data, provided for local adaptation by each hospital.
The Kentish frontier town has many of the ingredients that allow Ukip to thrive: an attitude-survey anxiety about immigration and asylum seekers, high unemployment and material reminders in the boarded-up shops of the high street and the decayed grandeur of Georgian hotels-become-hostels that the past sometimes represented an insistently more prosperous Folkestone than the present.
Marusco pointed out, however, that the notes you take are often only useful to yourself, and that email inboxes are a pretty cluttered place for the assignments, reminders, and additional material that is sent afterwards.
Furthermore, educational material, reminders, feedback and revision of professional roles had more effect than other intervention strategies.
The effects of educational material, reminders and feedback remained statistically significant, while the effects of educational meetings and patient-mediated interventions disappeared.
Application of the multifactorial intervention designed for this study (COPD information, dose reminders, audio-visual material, motivational aspects and training in inhalation techniques) resulted in an improvement in therapeutic adherence in COPD patients with scheduled inhalation therapy.
