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Engaging Researchers with Social Media Tools: 25 Research Things@Huddersfield
No full textGraham Stone and Ellen Collins investigate whether 25 Research Things, an innovative online learning programme, could help researchers understand the value of Web 2.0 tools
The Massett-Graham Island Coal Company: the Nearest Coal Fields to Prince Rupert:
No full textThis little booklet is compiled to show the possibilities of the property controlled by this company in The Graham Island Coal Fields, near Prince Rupert, British Columbia Canada.--P. [1
Management of Hodgkin lymphoma in the era of brentuximab vedotin: real-world data from five European countries
No full textWe examined real-world data on management of relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma (R/R HL) in five European countries and the consistency of these data with guideline recommendations. Retrospective clinical and epidemiologic data for 509 patients with R/R HL treated between January 2014 and March 2015 were collected at centers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Mean age was 46.3 years; 73.3% were receiving second-line therapy for a first relapse during the reporting period. Most patients received ABVD as front-line chemotherapy, except in Germany where escalated BEACOPP was used more often. The proportion of patients receiving stem cell transplantation (SCT) was 44%; 85% of transplants occurred at first relapse. Brentuximab vedotin (BV) was usually administered after autologous SCT, and was initiated for 65% of patients following SCT failure. Our findings suggest that R/R HL management across these countries is broadly consistent with guideline recommendations and that BV is well-integrated into treatment pathways
OAPEN-UK: an Open Access Business Model for Scholarly Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences
No full textThis paper presents the initial findings of OAPEN-UK, a UK research project gathering evidence on the social and technological impacts of an open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences
Recent rural community studies
No full textThis article examines recent rural community studies by considering, in turn: comparisons, methods, theories and community studies as vehicles for developing social scientific arguments. 'Recent' is defined as from 1980 onwards. 'Rural' is taken to include research conducted in country towns. And 'community studies' is understood as an inclusive term embracing various research methodologies. Because this field cannot be covered exhaustively, attention is focused on research that has a special bearing on the future of community studies. Particular reference is made to the work of Colin Bell, which helped to shape recent research agendas
Compulsory loyalty? Accountability, citizenship and the BBC
No full textThis paper situates contemporary debates about the governance and accountability of public service broadcasting in the context of debates in the UK about renewal of the BBC’s Charter. It draws on Warnock’s (1974) notion of accountability as provision of information and the ability to exercise sanctions and on Hirschman’s (1970) and Thompson’s (2003) distinctions between exit, voice and loyalty and hierarchical, market and network forms of governance. How is accountability to be exercised in the contexts defined by Hirschman and Thompson and what is the role of trust (O’Neill 2002)? In contrast to the “strong” framing of the normative conception of the consumer (see Peacock 1986, Potter 1988, Sargant 1992 and 1993) as an active user able to hold institutions to account in a well functioning market the citizen in broadcasting is constructed (following Marshall 1981) merely as the “weak” object of distribution of welfare rather than as an active agent able to hold broadcasters to account. In consequence, the UK Government’s proposals for a new BBC governance regime are considered perhaps inadequate to meet contemporary demands for improved public service accountability
A libertarian theory of property: its justification, critique and implications
No full textThe author's major concern in this dissertation is a justification, it's critique and some of its implications, of the libertarian theory of property according to which property, following John Locke, is legitimately acquired through a man's mixing of his labour with unowned resources and held in perpetuity or until the owner voluntarily alienates his just claim. Libertarian theory asserts that property thus acquired is held by natural right. Accordingly, this dissertation commences with an elucidation of how we are to understand the concept of property and the concept and language of natural rights. The dissertation then attempts to show that: .1. The concept of universal natural right, at least in relation to private property, is not non-sensical. 2. The libertarian justification of exclusive private property can be argued for coherently. 3. Universality in the natural right to private property entails (coercive) redistribution. Over 3 the author departs from the 'orthodox' libertarianism of Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand and John Hospers in favour of a 'welfarist' libertarianism that is more in accord with the positions of Robert Nozick, Milton Friedman, Friedrich v. Hayek and others, and which is closer to the spirit of Locke's Second Treatise. Welfarist libertarianism leads the dissertation through 4. Marx's critique of private property and capitalist political economy. 5. Liberal/non-Marxist arguments advocating equality or greater egalitarianism. 6. Certain implications welfarist libertarianism holds regarding the justification, extent, and operations of the state. The conclusions the author arrives at include: 1. There is a natural right to limited exclusive private property. 2. Property is limited not in its acquisition but in its (perpetual) holding. 3. Redistribution may be coercive, but that coercion is legitimated on grounds of justice. 4. Property rights preserve the liberty of some but necessarily infringe the liberty of others. This too is legitimated on grounds of justice. 5. The Marxist argument that private property and capitalist political economy is exploitative is mistaken, and that it alienates man an argument insufficiently contended for. 6. Egalitarianism and greater egalitarianism as political policies are wrong if welfarist libertarianism is just. Bot? also fail to accord persons a sufficiently central place in moral-political philosophy. Egalitarianism is, furthermore, necessarily self-defeating. 7. The state is not necessary for the protection of our lives, liberty, and property nor for the implementation of redistribution. These functions could be performed through the free market. Should a state justly evolve from the market it cannot ensure its stability due to the pressures morally demanded financial obligations impose upon it
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