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College library as nerve centre for research activities
No full textGovin, D.; Rafferty, B.; Carelse, M.; - Provincial Goverment: Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICAThe role of the libraries research activitie
College library as nerve centre for research activities
No full textGovin, D.; Rafferty, B.; Carelse, M.; - Provincial Goverment: Western Cape, SOUTH AFRICAThe role of the libraries research activitie
[Fe(en)(3)](2)(Hg2Te9): A novel tellurometalate containing one-dimensional chains of weakly bound zintl anions (Hg2Te9)(4-)
No full text[Fe(en)3]2Hg2Te9, a novel tellurometalate containing a new type of Zintl ion (Hg2Te9)4-, has been synthesized from solvothermal reactions. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis shows that this compounds contains one-dimensional chains of weakly bound (Hg2Te9)4- ions separated by iron tris(ethylenediamine). Not only is [Fe(en)3]2Hg2Te9 the first tellurometalate produced from solvothermal reactions, it is also the first example of an interesting structure containing a Zintl ion and transition metal complex (as counterion) in the same phase
Combining social network analysis and the NATO Approach Space to define agility. Topic 2: networks and networking
No full textThis paper takes the NATO SAS-050 Approach Space, a widely accepted model of command and control, and gives each of its primary axes a quantitative measure using social network analysis. This means that the actual point in the approach space adopted by real-life command and control organizations can be plotted along with the way in which that point varies over time and function. Part 1 of the paper presents the rationale behind this innovation and how it was subject to verification using theoretical data. Part 2 shows how the enhanced approach space was put to use in the context of a large scale military command post exercise. Agility is represented by the number of distinct areas in the approach space that the organization was able to occupy and there was a marked disparity between where the organization thought it should be and where it actually was, furthermore, agility varied across function. The humans in this particular scenario bestowed upon the organization the levels of agility that were observed, thus the findings are properly considered from a socio-technical perspective
In Tune, BBC Radio 3: 'Berta Joncus in conversation with Sean Rafferty about her book Kitty Clive, or The Fair Songster'
No full textSean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performance in the studio from mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz with Jaume Santonja Espinós. The viol consort Fretwork join us too, and author Berta Joncus chats to Sean about her new book Kitty Clive, or The Fair Songster
The Locomotion of Babakotia radofilai Inferred From Epiphyseal and Diaphyseal Morphology of the Humerus and Femur
No full textPalaeopropithecids, or “sloth lemurs,” are a
diverse clade of large-bodied Malagasy subfossil primates
characterized by their inferred suspensory positional
behavior. The most recently discovered genus of the
palaeopropithecids is Babakotia, and it has been
described as more arboreal than Mesopropithecus, but
less than Palaeopropithecus. In this article, the withinbone
and between-bones articular and cross-sectional
diaphyseal proportions of the humerus and femur of
Babakotia were compared to extant lemurs, Mesopropithecus
and Palaeopropithecus in order to further understand
its arboreal adaptations. Additionally, a sample of
apes and sloths (Choloepus and Bradypus) are included
as functional outgroups composed of suspensory adapted
primates and non-primates. Results show that Babakotia
and Mesopropithecus both have high humeral/femoral
shaft strength proportions, similar to extant great apes
and sloths and indicative of forelimb suspensory behavior,
with Babakotia more extreme in this regard. All three
subfossil taxa have relatively large femoral heads, also
associated with suspension in modern taxa. However,
Babakotia and Mesopropithecus (but not Palaeopropithecus)
have relatively small femoral head surface area to
shaft strength proportions suggesting that hind-limb positioning
in these taxa during climbing and other behaviors
was different than in extant great apes, involving
less mobility. Knee and humeral articular dimensions
relative to shaft strengths are small in Babakotia and
Mesopropithecus, similar to those found in modern sloths
and divergent from those in extant great apes and
lemurs, suggesting more sloth-like use of these joints during
locomotion. Mesopropithecus and Babakotia are more
similar to Choloepus in humerofemoral head and length
proportions while Palaeopropithecus is more similar to
Bradypus. These results provide further evidence of the
suspensory adaptations of Babakotia and further highlight
similarities to both extant suspensory primates and
non-primate slow arboreal climbers and hangers
The history of ministerial workforce policy and planning in British nursing, 1939-1960
No full textThis thesis examines the government's tripartite
approach to
workforce policy and
planning in British nursing from 1939 until
1960. Emerging histories have
placed
emphasis on the ministries and their effect upon the
development
of nursing.
However,
there remains no examination of their
distinctive
and
interrelated
roles
in
managing
nursing workforce policy and planning,
This thesis
examines the
contribution
of
three
of
these ministries from initial workforce
involvement in the
early
1940s, through to the
1950s and the advent of the Committee on
Senior
Nursing
Staff Structure
(the Salmon
Report). It concludes that three distinct roles
emerged
from
each of
the
ministries.
The
Ministry of Labour and National Service (MLNS)
dealt
with nurse
recruitment,
the
Ministry of Health addressed retention through
conditions
of service,
while
the
Colonial
Office represented replenishment. Such division
of ministerial
roles
and
any
limited
collaboration, however, did not appear to
be
a
part of
any
conscious workforce
policy.
The thesis argues that although the Ministry of
Health
and the
MLNS
viewed
nursing
as
less prestigious than a traditional profession, strategies
appealing to
nurses'
aspirations
were used to promote a sense of professional value
in
an
occupation
of
many
countervailing tensions. Nursing appeared to
occupy
its
own
unique
space
between
professions and industrial labour.
i The post-war management of the nursing workforce emerges as a
highly
reactive
policy,
focusing upon diverse groups for recruitment.
It
covered the
use
of part-time
nurses
to fit
into the social expectations of post-war women,
the
recruitment
of male
nurses and
a
manipulation of colonial legislation to the
clear
benefit
of
British
nursing.
Nurse
shortages are explored against government unease
in the immediate
post-war period with
the effects of increasing colonial immigration of
black
workers,
which
was uncontrolled
due to their status as British subjects.
The
ultimate
inadequacy
of
workforce
policies
in
nursing to deal with the recruitment of
black
nurses
remains
a
current
and controversial
workforce issue
THE EFFECTS OF VERBAL MODELING AND REHEARSAL ON COUNSELOR TRAINEES' PERFORMANCE OF COUNSELING BEHAVIORS WITHIN A NEGATIVE DIDACTIC SUPERVISION STYLE
No full textSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-05, Section: B, page: 2522.Ph.D. American University 1976.Englis
Portable X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer analysis of the Pylos Linear B tablets
No full textThis thesis investigates similarities in the chemistry of the Linear B clay tablets and sealings found at the Palace of Nestor in Pylos, located in the western Peloponnese. These similarities, or lack thereof, provide clues to the flow of material goods in and out of the palace and therefore to the degree of centralization of the government. Over a thousand 3000 year-old clay tablets and sealings currently housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens were analyzed using a pXRF over the course of the summers of 2015 and 2016. The chemical compositions were analyzed statistically. Results of the study and the conclusions are presented here
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