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Self-selection Policing and the Disqualified Driver
No full textPrevious research has identified those who commit serious driving offences, such as driving while over the legal limit for alcohol, dangerous and reckless driving, and driving while legally disqualified, as more likely to engage in other types of criminality, including serious offences, than their non-serious driving offender counterparts. Furthermore, those who continue to drive while disqualified have been singled out as the most likely group of serious driving offenders to be involved in a wide array of different types of offending and at rates more consistent with mainstream criminals than those who simply commit other driving-related offences. The present study builds on previous findings by focusing explicitly on the offending versatility of a sample of 50 disqualified drivers, the different categories of crime they commit, and the recency of other offences relative to the driving whilst disqualifying offence. With an overwhelming percentage of the sample found to have convictions for other types of offences, the study concludes with the suggestion that although driving while disqualified should be considered a trigger offence in self-selection policing, several anticipated obstacles to implementation must first be removed before it can be firmly integrated into current police practice
New cyclometalated iridium(III) dye chromophore complexes for p-type dye-sensitised solar cells
No full textThe synthesis of seven iridium complexes [Ir(CˆN)2(NˆN)][PF6] (AS9-15) designed as dyes for p-type DSSC is described. These complexes comprise a 4-(pyrid-2-yl)benzoic acid as the cyclometalating/anchoring ligand with different diimine ligands acting as electron accepting ancillary ligands. DFT analysis together with photophysical investigations reveal how using different π-systems on the ancillary ligand it is possible to tune the absorption spectra of these complexes and to enhance the spatial separation between the HOMO and LUMO. Computational studies demonstrate an ideal HOMO to LUMO charge transfer directionality for the presented [Ir(CˆN)2(NˆN)]+ frameworks, promoting a favourable hole transfer into the NiO cathode valence band upon photoexcitation in p-type DSSC devices. Preliminary tests on NiO-based p-type DSSCs have been carried out confirming the potential use of complexes AS9-15 as a basis for continued development as DSSC chromophores
Free-sugar, total-sugar, fibre and micronutrient intake within elite youth British soccer players: a nutritional transition from schoolboy to fulltime soccer player.
No full textIt is recommended that soccer players consume a high carbohydrate (CHO) diet to augment performance. However, growing evidence suggests that there is a link between high free-sugar (FS) intake (>5% total energy intake; TEI) and metabolic diseases. Furthermore, foods that are often high in sugar, such as processed foods, are typically lacking in nutrient quality. We therefore analysed total- and FS, dietary fibre and micronutrient intake of players from an English Premier League academy under(U) 18 (n=13); U15/16 (n=25); U13/14 (n=21) using a 7-day food diary. Data was compared to current UK dietary reference value (DRV) for free-sugar via a t-test. The U13/14s (1018 %) and U15/16s (1130 %) both consumed higher amounts of free-sugar in comparison to the UK DRV of 5% TEI 5% (P<0.01), conversely, the U18s did not exceed the DRV (513 %). Furthermore, FS intake of the U18s was significantly lower than the U13/14s and U15/16s (P<0.01). Dietary fibre was below the DRV (25g/d for U13/14 & U15/16s; 30g/d for U18s) for all squads (19.04.7; 19.68.3; 17.14.2 g/d, respectively), but not different between squads. Additionally, micronutrient reference intakes were generally met. In conclusion, we provide novel data on dietary sugar, fibre and micronutrient intake within elite youth soccer players. We report an apparent 'nutritional transition' from schoolboy to fulltime soccer player, with U18s showing a significantly lower intake of sugar in comparison to younger squads, and a similar intake of FS to the UK DRVs. Practitioners should target improving player education around sugar and fibre consumption
Review of Measure for Measure (directed by Yukio Ninagawa), Sainokuni Shakespeare Company
No full textApplying Quality Function Deployment to Social Housing?
No full textPurpose of this
paper This paper focuses on the application of Quality Function Deployment
(QFD) in a Housing Association located in the UK. Facing the problem of improving a company‟s performance, practitioners and academics have fashioned and applied a variety of models, theories and techniques.
Design / methodology / approach The research questions were developed from a review of the quality and process improvement literature and tested using evidence from field- based, action research within a UK Housing Association company. The case study provides insight to the benefits and challenges arising from the application of QFD.
Findings The results provided insight to the benefits and challenges arising from the application of a specific tool, QFD. The primary findings were: i) QFD can be successfully adapted, applied and utilised within the challenging environment of social housing and other sectors, such as professional services; ii) the model can be modified to use most processes/sub-processes; it must include both external and internal requirements and, to be useful, use more detailed process parameters appropriately.
Practical implications The conclusions drawn add to on-going commentaries on aspects of quality improvement, especially the application of QFD within the service sector. The authors develop questions for future research regarding improvement projects.
Originality/ Value The conclusion proposes that the implementation of QFD should have a positive impact upon a company; if approached in the right manner. It provides a useful mechanism for developing evidence based strategy of operational change, control and improvement. The research proposes questions for future research into aspects of operational quality and efficiency
Challenges for Feminist Research: Contested Stories, Dominant Narratives and Narrative Frameworks
No full textIn this chapter I discuss narrative frameworks and dominant narratives. I argue for the need to go beyond the story as told to explore how and why we come to tell particular stories—often in the context of limited alternatives—and in doing so identify some of the difficulties for feminists in interrogating women’s stories. I draw on my own research on women’s engagement with narratives of childhood sexual abuse to explore how and why women might draw on such a narrative framework to construct themselves as damaged and responsible for their own unhappiness, often with no concrete memories on which to base their stories. In identifying some of the limitations of (telling) particular damage narratives the chapter also serves as a cautionary tale of the dangers of contemporary stories
All precarious? Institutional change and turning points in labour market trajectories in Spain: Insights from narrative biographies.
No full textA Mystagogical View to ‘withness’ in Enterprise Education
No full textThis paper provides a philosophical conceptualisation of how learners engage in entrepreneurial learning from within by focusing on the role of the inner identity and mission of the learner. Klapper and Neergaard (2012) add ‘withness’ to the learning frameworks of EE, but there is hardly any literature discussing the implications of learning from within in this context. Fayolle (2013) calls for investigating how learners learn in order to address the vast differences among audiences in EE, and understand the rationale behind ‘effective didactical design’. This paper adopts a postmodernist perspective to understand the role of self in EE, and draws on the Learning Onion Model for learning from within (Korthagen et al., 2013). A mystagogical perspective is proposed to help learners engage with their inner missions and identities, and improve their core reflection skills, thus, highlighting and inspirational dimension to EE
The ethics of researching something dear to my heart with others 'like me'
Get PDFIn this chapter I revisit some of the incidents, concerns and pre‐occupations that arose
for me while doing research for my PhD and which I see as arising precisely because of
what I was researching, how I was going about it and why I had started it in the first
place
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