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Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition
No full textHans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition provides the first sustained examination of Hans Kelsen’s critical engagement, itself founded upon a distinctive theory of legal positivism, with the Natural Law Tradition. This edited collection commences with a comprehensive introduction which establishes the character of Kelsen’s critical engagement as a general critique of natural law combined with a more specific critique of representative thinkers of the Natural Law Tradition. The subsequent chapters are then devoted to a detailed analysis of Kelsen’s engagement with prominent theorists from the Natural Law Tradition. The volume concludes with an exploration, focusing upon the delineation of a non-positivist legal theory in the debate between Robert Alexy and Joseph Raz, of the continued presence of Kelsenian legal positivism in contemporary legal theory
A performance evaluation of two bispectrum analysis methods applied to electrical current signals for monitoring induction motor-driven systems
Get PDFThis paper investigates the performance of the conventional bispectrum (CB) method and its new variant, the modulation signal bispectrum (MSB) method, in analysing the electrical current signals of induction machines for the condition monitoring of rotor systems driven by electrical motors. Current signal models which include the phases of the various electrical and magnetic quantities are explained first to show the theoretical relationships of spectral sidebands and their associated phases due to rotor faults. It then discusses the inefficiency of CB and the proficiency of MSB in characterising the sidebands based on simulated signals. Finally, these two methods are applied to analyse current signals measured from different rotor faults, including broken rotor bar (BRB), downstream gearbox wear progressions and various compressor faults, and the diagnostic results show that the MSB outperforms the CB method significantly in that it provides more accurate and sparse diagnostics, thanks to its unique capability of nonlinear modulation detection and random noise suppression
Introduction: Robert Snape and Karl Spracklen
Get PDFIntroduction to special issue of Leisure-Loisir - Histories of Modern Leisur
Contextual analysis of educational monitoring and progression as a service (EMPaaS) system in Higher Education
Get PDFThe arrival of new technologies has opened a window of opportunity for UK
higher education institutions. Although UK Higher education (HE) has recently
become a huge phenomenon owing to an increase in students attending
University, many UK universities are not investing enough in technology to facilitate teaching, management and research practices that aim to improve
the student experience. This paper discusses the potential for an information
system solution, which can facilitate the institutional practices in UK HEIs from multiple stakeholder perspectives. An existing system employed at a UK University known as “MyPGR” was evaluated in order to shed some light on
the existing technical problems UK Universities are currently facing, with the
support of a soft systems approach (CATWOE). The proposed solution is the
Educational-Monitoring-and-Progression-as-a-Service (EMPaaS), which is
based on the Cloud Computing model. EMPaaS has the potential to monitor
student progression and key milestones relating to their PGR programme, in addition to enabling students to use free cloud applications to keep track of
milestones and progressions. The highly accessible and flexible nature of
cloud applications adds to the cost-effectiveness of adopting cloud services,
which in turn frees up additional funds for UK Universities to pursue other
important investments
Remarkable Lives : John McManus in conversation with Jerome Carson
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of John McManus.
John provides a short life history and is then interviewed by Jerome.
John tells us about the insidious development of his illness and how for many years it was masked by substance abuse.
As Patricia Deegan has stated, “Each person’s journey of recovery is unique,” (Deegan, 1996). That is why we can learn so much from case studies like Johns.
John’s account shows the value of Early Intervention Teams. The service he received from his local team was “second to none.”
John talks about the value of volunteering and how it helped him believe that he could once more play a constructive role in life.
There is no doubt that John benefitted from support from professionals, experts by experience and his family. Equally he was also open to all these sources of support
Drug and alcohol workers’ view of positive psychology in the treatment of coexisting problems
Get PDFPurpose - Positive psychology interventions have been suggested to be beneficial in the treatment of dual diagnosis. This
exploratory study investigated the perspective of psychosocial intervention workers to explore the potential of a positive strengthsbased
approach in dual diagnosis recovery.
Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative approach was employed with psychosocial intervention workers who attended and
observed a positive intervention delivered to dual diagnosis clients. A focus group explored what these practitioners are already
doing that resembles positive psychology and their opinion regarding the utility of such interventions in recovery.
Findings - Findings revealed that practitioners were already engaging in positive practice, however, randomly and infrequently with
limited impact. Although this new approach was found valuable, potential challenges were identified and a possible discrepancy
between staff views of clients and clients’ views of themselves in terms of their potential was detected.
Research limitations – The study involved a small and homogeneous sample. Further research is necessary to investigate staff
views and ways of integrating positive psychology with traditional treatment.
Practical implications - Rather than merely attending to the psychological problems and dealing with symptoms, it is also
necessary to directly target well-being to enable people to flourish with consideration of their readiness to change.
Originality/value - Addressing a gap in the literature, the present study explored positive themes in current practice and forms part
of the evaluation of a newly developed strengths-based approach for individuals with coexisting problems
Taking the register: the government's proposal for children not in school
Get PDFIn April 2019, the Department of Education released its consultation document Children not in school: proposed legislation. One proposal is that Local Authorities should be under a statutory obligation to maintain a register of all children of compulsory school age in its area. This would be complemented by a proposed new parental duty to register their child if the child is not in specified education (for example, where a child is home schooled).
These proposals are a significant departure from the existing law which places no obligation on Local Authorities to maintain such a Register or on parents to register their children as being educated otherwise than at a school. This is despite s436A(1) of the Education Act 1996 requiring Authorities to ‘make arrangements to enable them to establish (so far as it is possible to do so) the identities of children in their area who are of compulsory school age but are not registered pupils at a school, and are not receiving suitable education otherwise than at a school’. The proposed register and parental duty may enable Local Authorities to better meet this obligation.
In this paper, I will discuss the Government’s proposals and their implications for monitoring those children who are educated otherwise than in school. In particular, I will examine the significance of these proposals for what might be called ‘invisible children’ (eg: children who have never attended school and, consequently, are not on the Local Authority register). I will also consider the meaning of the phrase ‘suitable education’ and whether, as it currently stands, this phrase has any useful meaning at all
The great work: Whitman and the end of death in Chris Adrian’s Gob’s Grief (2002)
Get PDFIn Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry, grief and mourning emerge alongside democracy as the poet’s key themes. This paper argues, however, that it is not simply his elucidation of (personal and/or national) grief, or indeed mourning, that comprises Whitman’s key contribution(s) to poetic (and American) discourse, but rather his use of what Leslie Jamison refers to as ‘embodied empathy’ (Jamison, 2007, p.23) as an affective response to that grief, whereby Whitman’s celebrated (and frequently problematized) anti-hierarchical vision of American democracy is manifested through his empathic dissolution of the bodily boundaries between the subjects and (wounded and dying) objects of his work. While Whitman’s racial politics have been (rightly) criticized, his work has, nonetheless, a continuing and significant resonance to twenty-first century readers in the wake of the crisis in American democracy occasioned by the terrorist attacks of September 11th2001 and the U.S. government’s subsequent ideological and legislative response(s). This paper looks at a recent fictional reimagining of both Whitman and his democratic vision – Chris Adrian’s Gob’s Grief(2002) – and argues that Whitman’s work on the Civil War provides Adrian, and his contemporary readers, with an empathic framework for the articulation of a productive response both to individual loss and mass carnage, a framework that has become particularly necessary post-9/11
Answer the Question : Voice training, habitus and political intervention
No full textVoice training, in the right context, can be a tool of political intervention and a tool of resistance to social, cultural and economic structures. Voice training can be repurposed from a practice of individual pedagogy and personal transformation (both for professional and personal reasons) to an instrument of social and political purpose