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Flash Fiction
No full textThis article, which appears in the bestselling guide to publishing and the media, introduces the short-short story, most commonly known as 'flash fiction'. It outlines the historical rise of the flash, considers the defining characteristics of the form, and offers advice on writing flash fiction and getting it published. It includes an example of flash fiction and a structured list of suggestions for further primary and secondary reading
Will Future Resource Demand Cause Significant and Unpredictable Dislocations for the UK Ministry of Defence?
No full textThis paper focuses on the drivers which may affect future trends in material availability for defence, in particular, the availability of rare earth elements (REE). These drivers include resource concentration, tighter regulatory policy and its enforcement, export policies, their use in economic statecraft, increases in domestic demand, promoting greater efficiency in resource use, efforts to mitigate resource depletion and more efficient resource extraction while reducing its associated environmental impact. It looks at the effect these factors might have on global systems and supply chains, the impact on material insecurity and how this may exacerbate the issue of their use in UK military equipment. It finds that these drivers are likely to have an increasing impact on material availability (if measures are not taken to mitigate them), which will have consequences for the provision of military capability by the UK
The multi-dimensional Stochastic Stefan Financial Model for a portfolio of assets
Get PDFThis is an electronic version of an article published in [Antonopoulou, D. C., Bitsaki, M., & Karali, G. (2022). The multi-dimensional stochastic Stefan financial model for a portfolio of assets. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 27(4), 1955-1987. https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2021118]The financial model proposed in this work involves the liquidation process of a portfolio
of n assets through sell or (and) buy orders placed, in a logarithmic scale, at a (vectorial) price
with volatility. We present the rigorous mathematical formulation of this model in a
financial setting resulting to an n-dimensional outer parabolic Stefan problem with noise. The
moving boundary encloses the areas of zero trading, the so-called solid phase. We will focus on
a case of financial interest when one or more markets are considered. In particular, our aim is to
estimate for a short time period the areas of zero trading, and their diameter which approximates
the minimum of the n spreads of the portfolio assets for orders from the n limit order books of each
asset respectively.
In dimensions n = 3, and for zero volatility, this problem stands as a mean field model for
Ostwald ripening, and has been proposed and analyzed by Niethammer in [25], and in [7] in a more
general setting. There in, when the initial moving boundary consists of well separated spheres, a first
order approximation system of odes had been rigorously derived for the dynamics of the interfaces
and the asymptotic pro le of the solution. In our financial case, we propose a spherical moving
boundaries approach where the zero trading area consists of a union of spherical domains centered
at portfolios various prices, while each sphere may correspond to a different market; the relevant
radii represent the half of the minimum spread. We apply It^o calculus and provide second order
formal asymptotics for the stochastic version dynamics, written as a system of stochastic differential
equations for the radii evolution in time. A second order approximation seems to disconnect the
financial model from the large diffusion assumption for the trading density. Moreover, we solve the
approximating systems numerically
STOP-sexual violence: evaluation of a community based nightlife worker awareness raising bystander training programme
Get PDFThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in European Journal of Public Health following peer review. The version of record "Quigg, Z., Bellis, M.A., Hughes, K., Kulhanek, A., Brito, I., Ross-Houle, K., Bigland, C., Calafat, A., Duch, M. (2021). STOP-sexual violence: evaluation of a community-based nightlife worker awareness raising bystander training programme. European Journal of Public Health, 31(3), 659–664" is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa245.Background
Preventing sexual violence in nightlife environments is a pervasive issue across many countries. This study explored the associated impact of a nightlife worker sexual violence awareness raising/bystander training programme (STOP-SV) on trainees’ sexual violence myth acceptance and readiness and confidence to intervene.
Methods
: Pre- and post-test (n = 118), and 3-month follow-up (n = 38) trainee surveys were implemented across three countries (Czech Republic, Portugal and Spain). Paired-sample tests examined changes across time-periods in participants’ myth acceptance (e.g. unwanted sexual advances are a normal part of a night out), and readiness and confidence to intervene. Multi-nominal regression was used to examine the relationship between the change in pre-to-post-training scores and trainee characteristics.
Results
Compared to pre-training, post-training participants were significantly (P < 0.01) less likely to agree with sexual violence myths, and more likely to be ready and confident to intervene. In bi-variate and multi-variate analyses, we found no significant associations between the change in pre-to-post-training scores and trainee characteristics. Analyses of the small follow-up sub-sample illustrated some positive changes at the post-training and follow-up time-periods (i.e. reduction in sexual violence myth acceptance).
Conclusion
This exploratory study suggests that the STOP-SV training programme was associated with a decrease in trainees’ acceptance of sexual violence myths, and an increase in their readiness and confidence to intervene. Our findings support the case for further implementation and evaluation of awareness raising/bystander programmes for nightlife workers that aim to prevent and respond to sexual violence
Book Review: Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins, by Paul Nugent, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, xx + 610 pp.
Get PDFThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in Canadian Journal of African Studies. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2021.1937809Book revie
The networked economy of firms in city-region peripheries
Get PDFFrom SAGE Publishing via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: epub 2020-12-15Publication status: PublishedFunder: Economic and Social Research Council; FundRef: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000269; Grant(s): 1650742City-regions have become a core unit of analysis for spatial economy, providing an explicit link between bounded administrative units and more networked spaces of production. Too often, however, such analysis is focused on the core of the city-region, applying presumptions of gravity-based agglomeration. This paper examines these networked spaces of production from the city-region periphery, using a firm-based approach as critical determinants of spatial economy via their key interactions. Focused on the Greater Birmingham city-region, UK, the paper explores the integration of city-regional geography with firm-based networked economy. In doing so, it applies a set of networks of practice, focused on firms’ factored, transactional, and transitional dependencies. Using these networks of practice, it critically analyses the spaces of production formed through firm-based interactions, and their concomitance with city-regional designations. It makes two key contributions. First, it enhances the call for greater understanding of the relationship between core and periphery in the context of city-regions. Second, it argues that network-based approaches, which form spatial economy around firm interactions over administrative configurations, offer useful insight into understanding firm–place relationships which more conventional place-based approaches cannot
“‘To whom shall the outcast prostitute tell her tale?’” (Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton): Elizabeth Gaskell: Rewriting Fallenness
Get PDFConceptions of inclusion and inclusive education: A critical examination of the perspectives and practices of teachers in England
Get PDFThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in Educationalfutures. To access the final edited and published work see https://educationstudies.org.uk/journal/ef/volume-31-2011/conceptions-inclusion-inclusive-education-critical-examination-perspectives-practices-teachers-england/alan_4/; https://educationstudies.org.uk/journals/educationalfutures/This paper details the development and operation of a system of inclusive education in England during the latter part of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st Century. Through the employment of a literature review and in-depth semi-structured interviews the study sought to determine how teachers defined and operationalised inclusive education in their schools. The studys conclusion details that although many teachers had struggled to understand and operationalise inclusion they had tried very hard to make this initiative work for them, their pupils and their schools. Where inclusion had been most successful was in schools where levels of training were high and ones in which the ethos was positive and supportive of this important educational initiative
The appropriation of information and communication technologies by the Plymouth Brethren Christian church
Get PDFThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in [The Journal of CESNUR]. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.26338/tjoc.2021.5.2.5].This article examines why the PBCC has adopted and adapted information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their community, given that until recently they have rejected them on theological grounds. Starting by tracing the attitudes of Brethren leaders toward emerging technologies such as the radio and television, I argue that the adoption and adaptation of technology has been necessary and fundamental in maintaining the integrity of the core belief in separation from the world, a doctrine central to the Brethren way of life. Using Silverstone et al.’s notion of the moral economy of the family in relation to how Brethren negotiate their way around ICTs, I conclude that without the reconstruction and cultural appropriation of ICTs the Brethren would not be able to maintain separation from wider society
National Health Service interventions in England to improve care to Armed Forces veterans
Get PDFArmed Forces veterans (AFVs) are first and foremost citizens of the UK and are therefore—like all UK residents—entitled to universal healthcare, free at the point of need. This means that AFVs have nearly all their healthcare needs met by the NHS, which provides access to a full range of generic services. However, since 2013 there has been an Armed Forces team that can also support veterans. This review is an assessment of the work of this group over the last eight years. The health needs of AFVs have been investigated and are not significantly different from those of their demographically matched peers. However, due to their demographics, selection at recruitment and their roles, AFVs compared with the general population are more likely to be male, white and old and have fewer pre-existing or hereditary conditions. However, they do suffer from higher rates of musculoskeletal injury, different patterns of mental health illness and have historically been higher users—and abusers—of alcohol and tobacco. In addition to supporting mainstream services used by AFVs, the NHS in England commissions a bespoke range-specific ‘Priority’ NHS services such as those for mental health or for rehabilitation of veterans using prostheses. New interventions are continuing to be developed to improve AFVs’ healthcare and are aligned to the NHS Long Term Plan and the restoration and recovery plans after the COVID-19 pandemic
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