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Author Meets Reader: Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
South Thompson Valley and Pinantan official settlement plan.
No full textThe recommended policies contained in this plan provide the Thompson-Nicola Regional District with the means to protect and enhance the agricultural economic base, regulate the supply and location of rural residential growth, guide commercial and industrial development and satisfy the historical, recreational, social and environmental concerns of the settlement plan area.Not peer reviewedPlanning documen
Rural Residential Study
No full textThe Thompson-Nicola Regional District has recently been grappling with some of the basic problems and conflicts of trying to provide for rural residential lot demand and, at the same tie, trying to protect the resources, aesthetics and social climate of existing rural area.Not peer reviewedstudydraf
The Role of Coordination and Cooperation for Bt-maize cultivation in Brandenburg, Germany
No full textSince 2006, several varieties of transgenic Bt-maize are approved for commercial cultivation in Germany. The German regulatory framework for growing these crops comprises ex-ante regulations as well as ex-post liability rules to protect conventional and organic farming from possible negative side effects of transgenic plants and to ensure co-existence. Public regulation is also suspected to impose additional costs to those farmers who intend to plant Bt-maize. We address the question how Bt-maize growing farmers perceive the additional costs of regulation and whether coordination or cooperation takes place in order to diminish these costs. In 2006, we carried out a case study in the Oderbruch region (Brandenburg, Germany) comprising eight Bt-maize growing farmers and six adjacent neighbours. The predominantly large farms chose intrafarm coordination to manage the construction of buffer zones within their own fields and to avoid the planting of Bt-maize close to their neighbours. Inter-farm coordination or cooperation with adjacent farmers was not regarded necessary to achieve co-existence.Coordination, Cooperation, Bt-maize, Crop Production/Industries,
Radio broadcasting for health: a decision maker's guide
No full textInformation and Communication for DevelopmentAndrew Skuse, Nadia Butler, Fiona Powe, Nicola Woods, Mary Myers, Nicola Harford, Heather Budge-Reid and Gordan Ada
TNRD Thompson-Nicola Regional District The First 25 Years 1967-1992: Municipalities and Electoral Areas Working Together as Regional Government to Tackle Common Challenges
No full textNot peer reviewe
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation: September 2021
No full textWe included 61 completed studies, representing 16,759 participants, of which 34 were
RCTs. Five of the 61 included studies were new to this review update. Of the included
studies, we rated seven (all contributing to our main comparisons) at low risk of
bias overall, 42 at high risk overall (including all non-randomized studies), and
the remainder at unclear risk.
There was moderate-certainty evidence, limited by imprecision, that quit rates were
higher in people randomized to nicotine EC than in those randomized to nicotine replacement
therapy(NRT) (risk ratio (RR) 1.53, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.21 to 1.93; I
= 0%; 4 studies, 1924participants). In absolute terms, this might translate to an
additional three quitters per 100 (95%CI 1 to 6). There was low-certainty evidence
(limited by very serious imprecision) that the rate of occurrence of AEs was similar
(RR 0.98, 95% CI 0.80 to 1.19; I
= 0%; 2 studies, 485participants). SAEs were rare, but there was insufficient evidence
to determine whether rates differed between groups due to very serious imprecision
(RR 1.30, 95% CI 0.89 to 1.90: I
= 0;4 studies, 1424 participants).
There was moderate-certainty evidence, again limited by imprecision, that quit rates
were higher in people randomized to nicotine EC than to non-nicotine EC (RR 1.94,
95% CI 1.21 to3.13; I
= 0%; 5 studies, 1447 participants). In absolute terms, this might lead to an additional seven quitters per 100 (95% CI 2 to 16). There was moderate-certainty evidence of
no difference in the rate of AEs between these groups (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.11;
I
= 0%; 3studies, 601 participants). There was insufficient evidence to determine
whether rates of SAEs differed between groups, due to very serious imprecision (RR
1.06, 95% CI 0.47 to 2.38; I
= 0;5 studies, 792 participants).
Compared to behavioural support only/no support, quit rates were higher for participants randomized to nicotine EC (RR 2.61, 95% CI 1.44 to 4.74; I
= 0%; 6 studies, 2886participants). In absolute terms this represents an additional
six quitters per 100 (95% CI 2 to15). However, this finding was of very low certainty,
due to issues with imprecision and risk ofbias. There was some evidence that non-serious
AEs were more common in peoplerandomized to nicotine EC (RR 1.22, 95% CI 1.12 to
1.32; I = 41%, low certainty; 4 studies,765 participants), and again, insufficient evidence
to determine whether rates of SAEs differed between groups (RR 1.51, 95% CI 0.70 to
3.24; I = 0%; 7 studies, 1303 participants).
Data from non-randomized studies were consistent with RCT data. The most commonly reported AEs were throat/mouth irritation, headache, cough, and nausea, which tended
to dissipate with continued use. Very few studies reported data on other outcomes
or comparisons, hence evidence for these is limited, with CIs often encompassing clinically significant harm and benefit
Author Meets Reader Session: 'Not the Marrying Kind'
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
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