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A Tale of an Airlines Company: Towards A Model of Strategy Formulation Through the Lenses of Sustainable Development Goal
No full textObjective: The purpose of this paper is to explore a few insights into the national airlines of Bangladesh (called Biman) and how they can achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Further, the paper evaluates the available strategies using IEF, EFE, SWOT, IE & QSPM matrices/techniques as proposed by David & David (2017).
Theoretical Framework: IFE (Internal Factor Evaluation) & EFE (External Factor Evaluation (e.g. input stage), SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threats) & IE (Internal and External) matrix (e.g. matching stage), and finally QSPM (Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix) (e.g. decision-making stage) are used for strategy formulation.
Method: This study applies a mixed-method approach. Face-to-face interviews with the passengers of London-Dhaka-London are conducted, and additionally, the content analysis of relevant newspapers and journal articles is carried out.
Results and Discussion: QSPM finds, that market development (priority-1), offensive strategy (priority-2), and product development (priority-3) are the appropriate strategies for the airline.It would be not easy to generalize the results as the study is based on one public airline company in a particular country (Bangladesh).
Research Implications: This study has both theoretical and practical implications. The study demonstrates how to formulate plans using a quantitative method. The result of this study might be beneficial to Bangladesh's Civil Aviation Authority. The recommendations of this study may help generate profits in Biman.
Originality/Value: This study contributes to the strategy literature. Strategy development processes for any business, including aviation, may be eye-opening.</p
Correction: Study protocol of a randomized control trial on the effectiveness of improvisational music therapy for autistic children
No full textFollowing the publication of the original article [1], the authors identified that the funding statement was incomplete. The funding is given below: The incorrect funding statement is: This research has been funded by the Rosetrees Trust, the Stoneygate Trust and the Autism Centre for Excellence (ACE). The correct funding statement is: This research has been funded by the Rosetrees Trust, the Stoneygate Trust and the Autism Centre for Excellence (ACE). SBC received funding from the Wellcome Trust 214,322\Z\18\Z. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. The results leading to this publication have received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 777,394 for the project AIMS-2-TRIALS. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA and AUTISM SPEAKS, Autistica, SFARI. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. SBC also received funding from the Autism Centre of Excellence, SFARI, the Templeton World Charitable Fund and the MRC. All research at the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Cambridge was supported by the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203312) and the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East of England. The original article [1] has been corrected.</p
The Sarcoma Assessment Measure (SAM): Preliminary Psychometric Validation of a Novel Patient-Reported Outcome Measure
No full textThe Sarcoma Assessment Measure (SAM) was developed as a sarcoma-specific patient-reported outcome measure to be used in clinical practice. We have reported in detail how SAM has been developed in collaboration with patients and healthcare professionals. The aim of this paper is to report the preliminary validation of SAM. The 22-item SAM was administered alongside a validated quality of life questionnaire and measure of activities of daily living. Linear modelling was used to build a measure, which had predictive validity in comparison to more established outcome measures. Of the 762 patients who participated in the study, 44.1% identified as male, and participant age ranged from 13 to 82 years. Clinically, participants presented with a range of soft tissue (82.2%) and bone (21.8%) sarcomas. Our preliminary analysis indicates that SAM accounts for 35% of the global quality of life scale and 18% of the Toronto Extremity Salvage Scale (TESS); so psychometrically, it overlaps with quality of life and activities of daily living, but also measures distinct concerns. This demonstrates that this measure picks up issues that are important to patients with sarcoma that are not reflected in other measures. We have established the preliminary validity of SAM and believe it has utility as a patient-reported outcome measure both as a research tool and for assessing the impact of symptoms and dysfunction related to sarcoma as part of clinical care. Further validation using a larger and more clinically diverse sample is now needed.</p
Risks of alopecia areata in long COVID: binational population-based cohort studies from South Korea and Japan
No full textPrevious studies have proposed alopecia areata (AA) as a potential outcome of COVID-19 infection among autoimmune diseases, yet the findings might be inconclusive and difficult to generalize due to limited sample sizes and evidence levels. Thus, we aimed to investigate in detail the long-term risk of AA following SARS-CoV-2 infection based on large, binational, general population-based cohort studies. Our study investigated the long-term AA risk after SARS-CoV-2 infection by analyzing bi-national, claim-based cohorts in South Korea and Japan: a Korean nationwide cohort (K-COV-N cohort; discovery cohort; total n = 10 027 506) and a Japanese claims-based cohort (JMDC cohort; validation cohort; total n = 12 218 680). AA was identified based on the international classification of diseases 10th revision code (L63) requiring at least three claims within 1 year. After exposure-driven propensity score matching, SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with an increased risk of incident AA (aHR, 1.66; 95% CI, 1.38–1.99). This increased risk was observed and persisted for up to 6 months. A similar pattern was observed in the validation cohort. As modifiable factors, severe COVID-19 increased the risk of AA, whereas receiving two or more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine before infection decreased the risk of AA. Through a bi-national cohort study in South Korea and Japan, SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with an elevated risk for incident AA in the aspect of long COVID.</p
Chapter 4: Supporting students from Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater communities in higher education: The role of professional services
No full textThis chapter explores how professional services and support staff in a range of roles can engage with good practice initiatives which support Romany Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boater students (and potential students) into and within Higher Education. Conversations with students and community groups highlighted the critically necessity of taking a joined-up approach to undertaking the social justice work of supporting GTRSB students in their educational journey. Modelling both a ‘whole university’ approach which embeds enhancing cultural competency and knowledge of professional services staff as well as lecturers and other academics, whilst engaging in learning exchange with communities and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) can be fundamentally important in creating a welcoming environment in which learners and their families feel confident in self-identifying and celebrating their ethnicity and heritage in the same way as other minoritised populations. This chapter presents examples and proposals from a range of perspectives, including that of a higher education experienced Romany student, support professionals and academics.</p
The transformation of UK Chilean diaspora space: new Chilean migrants and encounters across time
No full textThe Chilean diaspora space in the United Kingdom has been transformed over its 50‐year existence. From its origins as a diaspora born of political conflict and the arrival of Chilean exiles during the dictatorship, it has evolved into an altogether more diverse arena. New migrants with different interests and agendas have unsettled the delicate balance of exile life, and the impact of the clash of different histories in this diaspora space remains unknown. Although the experience of Chilean exiles has been actively studied, new empirical data introduces the existence of a much broader diaspora than that portrayed in the literature. The UK space of the Chilean diaspora has been radically altered through the diverse interests that the new cohorts bring and the organizations that reflect these new forms of interaction, as well as the divisive issues of past and present conflict that highlight the unresolved nature of the long‐term experience of exile.</p
On the Eve: William Benbow, Francis Macerone and the Transmission of Revolution
No full textThis chapter argues that instead of the 1830s being seen as a quiet gap between the noise of the post-Waterloo period and the rise of Chartism, it has its own, under-examined, violently radical, character. I concentrate on William Benbow and Francis Macerone, who produced inciting revolutionary works including Grand National Holiday and Defensive Instructions for the People, which pointed to the 1830s being a time of class conflict. During the 1820s Benbow produced cheap editions of poetry for the working classes. It was through Benbow that many readers, amongst them John Clare and Robert Browning, first read Shelley’s verse. Benbow also produced a cut-price edition of Byron’s Don Juan. However, Grand National Holiday was designed to promote a general strike that would lead to revolution. Colonel Francis Macerone, a revolutionary ultra-radical, created works that would be banned today, such as Defensive Instructions for the People. This pamphlet shows amateurs how to make pikes, bullets, incendiary devices, and bombs, as well as ways to engage in street-fighting against soldiers. I argue that Benbow and Macerone are central figures in pre-Chartist 1830s radicalism and examine the revolutionary early 1830s through their works published on the eve of the Reform Bill.</p
Autoethnographic reflections on mental distress and medication management: Conceptualising the biomedical and recovery models of mental health
No full textThis article uses autoethnography to explore the author’s lived experiences of mental distress and how she has conceptualised and explained these symptoms to herself using both the biomedical and recovery models of care. Autoethnography is a process of reflection that enables connection between the personal and the political. Experiences of mental distress are recounted alongside the decision to reduce medication. This personal experience is then explored in the context of the limited evidence base on the effectiveness of reducing medication and the situation in which prescribers often feel reluctant to recommend and support service users in these choices. Shared decision-making in medication management is introduced which is an approach which draws on the models of recovery and co-production, challenging traditional biomedical approaches which locate the prescriber as expert. Moreover, the radical service user led model is highlighted, within which, the Hearing Voices Network and Open Dialogue offer alternative approaches which promote co-production and empowerment. The author connects the personal to the political and reflects on her dual identity as an expert-by-experience and social work academic. She details how she has drawn on biomedical explanations to describe her distress yet has been challenged by the recovery model throughout her journey of recovery. She concludes that rationalising her own position, in identifying herself as an academic and expert-by-experience is an important step in challenging notions of expertise and approaches to mental health care.</p
Educational affordances of music gaming mobile apps and video games
No full textThe rapid advancement of mobile and computing technologies has made the enjoyment of music in the video gaming experience more accessible and affordable, and has raised the interest of educators in the affordances of music-related games for informal music learning. This study aimed to examined the educational affordances of music-related games through content analysis. User reviews of music gaming mobile apps and video games were collected from two major digital distribution platforms and analysed to identify patterns and meanings related to their educational affordances and learning design. The findings reflected a sense of competence, autonomy and engagement resulting from playing video games, which motivated players to become self-directed learners in the context of informal learning. Several bias and limitations were identified, suggesting that an overreliance on video games may lead to unbalanced musical growth and incomprehensive musicianship training. Educators and individuals need to be aware of the educational affordances of music gaming mobile apps and video games, and how they can be effectively utilised to support the self-directed music learning process.</p
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