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Cradle-to-cradle vs consumer preferences
No full textSustainability is a buzzword within the fashion industry and has received increased attention due to heightened negative media focusing on environmental and social concerns. Cradle-to-cradle lays the foundations for the circular economy, which seeks to challenge the current system’s thinking approach of a linear economy, by fostering the opportunity to design materials for circularity, and thus create closed loop systems that allow for products to have multiple life cycles prior to their end of life. However, the fast fashion paradigm fosters a see-now-buy-now behaviour in customers, which could be seen as counteractive to the cradle-to-cradle approach, and impact on consumer preferences
Ethical Governance: Insight from the Islamic perspective and an empirical enquiry
No full textCharity governance is undergoing a crisis of confidence. In this paper, we suggest an alternative approach to how governance could be perceived and conceptualized by considering the ethical notions of governance embedded in religious enquiry, with a specific focus on the Islamic perspective of governance. We firstly develop an ethical framework for charity governance, utilizing insight from the Islamic perspective. Secondly, we undertake an empirical study to assess the experience of governance within Islamic charity organizations. Our theoretical framework provides a comprehensive approach to viewing organizational governance with an emphasis on governance as a mechanism for working towards social justice and the public good. However, our empirical findings reveal an ‘ethical gap’ between the ideals of the Islamic Ethical Framework and the reality of governance practice within Muslim charity organizations. We consider the implications of these findings and outline avenues for future research
Shalom alikoum! Challenging the conflictual model of Jewish-Muslim relations in France through stand-up comedy
No full textRevolution From the Margins:Commemorating 1917 and RT’s Scandalising of the Established Order
No full textIn this article I explore what RT’s unusually open-ended project commemorating the centenary of the Russian Revolution - #1917Live – tells us about its tendentious, mainstream output. I adopt an epistemological framework locating meaning in the marginal and different rather than the normative and recurrent, treating this ‘un-RT like’ project’s components as multi-layered cultural texts to be interpreted rather than sociological data to be counted and coded. I read them through a hermeneutically inflected version of mediatization theory. This theory’s central precept posits a fusion of media practices with those of politics and everyday life. An under-researched corollary of that precept is a short-circuiting of the ‘subject’ and ‘object’ of media representations. As well as influencing #1917Live’s emphasis on broadcaster-audience co-production, the short-circuiting effect foregrounds the modality of those representations – their truth claims and the subjectivities attached to the realities they depict. In analysing this effect, I highlight: (i) #1917Live’s chronotopic intertwining of past and present; (ii) its ‘event-ness’: the sense that it constitutes a news story in its own right; (iii) the ludic elements modalising its commemorative narratives by according them a distinctive ironic voice which re-establishes distance between ‘subject’ and ‘object’. Linked to a late Soviet cultural phenomenon known as ‘stiob’, such features render #1917Live reflexive, carnivalesque and deeply dialogic, re-aligning it with RT’s disruptive mainstream output and constituting a new kind of ‘media event’. They indicate that RT’s scandalous, ‘pariah’ reputation is internalised within a fragmented institutional identity key to the entire ‘information war’ dynamic
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No full textA literary novel set in 2016 which moves between gentrified London and the postindustrial north and engages with the growing divisions in the country
Lessons from the failure of implementing the ‘Better Care Better Value’ prescribing indicator for renin-angiotensin system drugs in England:A qualitative study of general practitioners’ perceptions using behaviour change framework
No full textOBJECTIVES: To explore reasons for the lack of uptake of 'Better Care Better Value (BCBV)' prescribing indicators for renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors and identify learning lessons to inform the implementation of future prescribing policies. DESIGN: In-depth, semistructured interviews to explore: general practitioners' (GPs) experiences in prescribing RAAS, perceptions of the BCBV policy and potential barriers to policy implementation and suggestions for improving future policy implementation. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically, then mapped onto behavioural change frameworks (the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation and Behaviour) model and Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW)). SETTING: Primary care setting in England PARTICIPANTS: Interviews were conducted with 16 GPs recruited from a purposive sample of 91 GP practices in three English counties. RESULTS: Four factors/barriers, related mainly to GPs' psychological capability and reflective motivation, emerged as the possible barriers for the BCBV's lack of uptake, including: lack of the policy awareness, negative attitude to the policy, lack of incentives and GPs' reluctance to switch patients from angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) to ACE inhibitors (ACEIs). The participating GPs proposed interventions to improve future BCBV implementation and they were related to six intervention/policy functions of the BCW, addressing the four identified barriers: education/communication (increase GPs' awareness) and environmental restructuring/regulations (provide GPs with reminding alerts); incentivisation/fiscal (provide GPs with financial incentives); enablement/guidelines-regulations (provide GPs with benchmarking against peers) and enablement/regulations and education/guidelines (facilitate switching from ARBs to ACEIs). CONCLUSIONS: The main reason underpinning the low uptake of the BCBV indicator appears to be lack of a proactive implementation strategy. This case study demonstrated that passively disseminating policy without an effective implementation strategy results in low uptake. Furthermore, multifaceted implementation strategies are necessary to influence complex clinical decision making in a time-limited environment, such as prescribing behaviours. These findings suggest that effective policy implementation requires the application of a systematic comprehensive behaviours change framework.</p
Optimal Real-Time Detection of a Drifting Brownian Coordinate
No full textConsider the motion of a Brownian particle in three dimensions, whose two spatial coordinates are standard Brownian motions with zero drift, and the remaining (unknown) spatial coordinate is a standard Brownian motion with a (known) non-zero drift. Given that the position of the Brownian particle is being observed in real time, the problem is to detect as soon as possible and with minimal probabilities of the wrong terminal decisions, which spatial coordinate has the non-zero drift. We solve this problem in the Bayesian formulation, under any prior probabilities of the non-zero drift being in any of the three spatial coordinates, when the passage of time is penalised linearly. Finding the exact solution to the problem in three dimensions, including a rigorous treatment of its non-monotone optimal stopping boundaries, is the main contribution of the present paper. To our knowledge this is the first time that such a problem has been solved in the literature
Is tumour sphericity an important prognostic factor in patients with lung cancer?
No full textBackground and purpose: Quantitative tumour shape features extracted from radiotherapy planning scans have shown potential as prognostic markers. In this study, we investigated if sphericity of the gross tumour volume (GTV) on planning computed tomography (CT) is an independent predictor of overall survival (OS) in lung cancer patients treated with standard radiotherapy. In the analysis, we considered whether tumour sphericity is correlated with clinical prognostic factors or influenced by the inclusion of lymph nodes in the GTV. Materials and methods: Sphericity of single GTV delineation was extracted for 457 lung cancer patients. Relationships between sphericity, and common patient and tumour characteristics were investigated via correlation analysis and multivariate Cox regression to assess prognostic value of GTV sphericity. A subset analysis was performed for 290 nodal stage N0 patients to determine prognostic value of primary tumour sphericity. Results: Sphericity is correlated with clinical variables: tumour volume, mean lung dose, N stage, and T stage. Sphericity is strongly associated with OS (p < 0.001, hazard ratio (HR) (95% confidence interval (CI)) = 0.13 (0.04-0.41)) in univariate analysis. However, this association did not remain significant in multivariate analysis (p = 0.826, HR (95% CI) = 0.83 (0.16-4.31), and inclusion of sphericity to a clinical model did not improve model performance. In addition, no significant relationship between sphericity and OS was detected in univariate (p = 0.072) or multivariate (p = 0.920) analysis of N0 subset. Conclusion: Sphericity correlates clearly with clinical prognostic factors, which are often unaccounted for in radiomic studies. Sphericity is also influenced by the presence of nodal involvement within the GTV contour
Education, Law and Diversity:Schooling for One and All?
No full textProvides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how the relevant social and cultural rights of individuals and groups are affected. It spans wide-ranging areas of school provision: types of school (including faith schools), the school curriculum, choice of school, out-of-school settings, and duties towards children with special needs and disabilities. It gives extensive coverage to children’s rights in the context of education and includes considerable new material on issues including relationships and sex education, exclusion from school, home education, equal access, counter-extremism and academisation. The new edition also retains and updates areas of debate in the book, such as those concerned with multiculturalism and the position of religion in schools. It continues to focus on England but also makes reference to other jurisdictions within the UK and internationally
The Masnavi of Jalaloddin Rumi Vol. 2:A New English Translation with Persian Text and Explanatory Notes
No full textThis volume is a new metrical English translation of Book 2 of the great 13th Century mystical poet Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, which includes an edition and critical apparatus of the Persian text from the oldest manuscripts, complete with the author's Introduction, analytical index of stories and discourses, and explanatory notes