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    Return to work with chronic pain: employers' and employees' views

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    This conference papers given to the Society of Occupational Medicine's Annual Scientific Meeting discusses tensions and some possible ameliorating activities from our 2013 paper of the same name., published in their journal: Wainwright, E., Wainwright, D., Keogh, E. and Eccleston, C. Return to work with chronic pain: employers’ and employees’ views. Occupational Medicine 2013: doi:0.1093/occmed/kqt109. The conference homepage is here;http://www.som-asm.org.uk/Programme_SOM_ASM.aspAbstractBackgroundThe sickness certification and return to work (RTW) of people with chronic pain are important health and economic issues for employees, employers, taxpayers and the UK government. The ‘fit note’ and a national educational programme promoting RTW were introduced in 2010 to curb rising rates of sickness absence. AimsTo investigate employers’ and employees’ experiences of managing RTW when someone has taken sick leave for chronic pain, and to explore the perceived efficacy of the fit note.MethodsA qualitative study, comprising semi-structured interviews with employers who had managed sick leave cases and employees who had experienced sick leave for chronic pain. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and the data analysed using constructivist grounded theory principles.ResultsFive themes were elicited. Firstly, frequent enquiry after health status was seen as intrusive by some employees but part of good practice by employers and acknowledging this difference was useful. Secondly, being able to trust employees due to their performance track record was helpful for employers when dealing with complex chronic pain conditions. Thirdly, feeling valued increased employees’ motivation to return to work. Fourthly, guidelines about maintaining contact with absent employees were useful if used flexibly. Finally, both parties valued the fit note for its positive language, interrogative format and biomedical authority. ConclusionsThe fit note was perceived to be helpful if used in combination with other strategies for managing sick leave and RTW for people with chronic pain. These strategies may be applicable to other fluctuating, long-term conditions with medically unexplained elements. <br/

    Successful return to work with chronic pain? Stakeholders' negotiation strategies

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    This paper discusses findings from Wainwright et al (2014) (research with doctors and patients) and Wainwright et al (2013) (research with employers and employees) into issues and potential ameliorating factors regarding sickness certification and return to work processes for chronic pain patients and stakeholders. They found that fit notes were perceived to be helpful if used in combination with other strategies for managing sick leave and RTW for people with chronic pain. These strategies may be applicable to other fluctuating, long-term conditions with medically unexplained elements

    U-n-f-o-l-d

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    U-n-f-o-l-d is a touring exhibition co-curated by Chris Wainwright and David Buckland (Founder and Director of Cape Farewell). It comprises a body of work promoting the value and importance of a cultural response to climate change made by a diverse group of artists, musicians and other creative practitioners made in response to the three Cape Farewell expeditions; the High Arctic 2007 and 2008 and the Andes expedition 2009. Exhibitors include: Ackroyd + Harvey, Balkin, A., Buckland, D., Colburn, A., Collins, S., Edwards, N., Feist, L., Galeazzi, N., Gallagher, N., De Haas,M., Hitchcock, R. & Tunstall, KT., McEwan, I., McGuire, B., Montag, D., Noach, M., Orta, L. & Orta J., Prasad, S., Rowledge, T., Sissay, L., Takatani, S., Twomey, C., Wainwright, C

    Complementary microCT data for Scale diversity in bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus): fat-filled trabecular scales made of cellular bone

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    Wainwright, D. K., Ingersoll, S., and Lauder, G. V. (2018) Scale diversity in bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus): fat-filled trabecular scales made of cellular bone. Journal of Morphology

    The Memorial of Prof. William J. Wainwright

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    Editor’s NoteThe Memorial of Prof. William J. WainwrightThe member of Editorial Board of Journal of Philosophical Theological ResearchWilliam “Bill” Judson Wainwright (1935-2020), a distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was the member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Philosophical Theological Research (JPTR).Wainwright is the author of several books in various fields of philosophy, especially the philosophy of religion, and numerous articles and chapters. Monotheism and Hope In God (2020), Reason, Revelation, and Devotion: Inference and Argument in Religion (2015), Religion and Morality (2005), and Heart and Reason (1995) are among his published books.His last published article is “God, Love and Inter-religious Dialogue”1, which was published by the Journal of Philosophical Theological Research in the autumn of 2020. Wainwright gave final approval to his paper but unfortunately could not see its publication. He passed away on November 5, 2020, a few days before we published his article. May he be in peace and God’s grace. I never met him but I understood from my contacts with him that “He was a very kind, respected, noble, and patient philosopher.”We decided to dedicate a special issue titled “Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics”: In Memory of William J. Wainwright to him. I would like to express my gratitude to all the philosophers who accepted my invitation and generously and kindly helped us in publishing this special issue by writing their valuable articles. We hope that Wainwright would be pleased with the publication of this issue.I will end my words with this wish, which was Wainwright’s wish too, that: I wish that the followers of monotheistic religions can establish peace and tranquility in the world through inter-religious dialogue, mutual understanding, and extending their love for God to each other.1. Wainwright, W.J. (2020), God, Love, and Interreligious Dialogue, Journal of Philosophical Theological Research, 22(85), 5-13

    Low (D. A.), Iltis (J. C.) et Wainwright (M. D.), Government Archives in South Asia. A guide to National and State Archives in Ceylon. India and Pakistan, 1969

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    Duchein Michel. Low (D. A.), Iltis (J. C.) et Wainwright (M. D.), Government Archives in South Asia. A guide to National and State Archives in Ceylon. India and Pakistan, 1969. In: La Gazette des archives, n°76, 1972. p. 65

    Low (D. A.), Iltis (J. C.) et Wainwright (M. D.), Government Archives in South Asia. A guide to National and State Archives in Ceylon. India and Pakistan, 1969

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    Duchein Michel. Low (D. A.), Iltis (J. C.) et Wainwright (M. D.), Government Archives in South Asia. A guide to National and State Archives in Ceylon. India and Pakistan, 1969. In: La Gazette des archives, n°76, 1972. p. 65

    Finding a Way Forward. Lessons from the Corbyn Project in the UK (James Schneider interviewed by Hilary Wainwright)

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    Within hours of Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the British Labour Party, the gloves were off. The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), the mainstream media (assisted by much of the Labour Party’s administrative apparatus) and the British capitalist class were all intensely hostile and launched a relentless attack that constantly stymied Corbyn’s project of a transformative socialist government, culminating in the party’s heavy defeat in the general election of December in 2019, in which the right-wing populist project of ‘Brexit’ (leaving the European Union) split Labour’s members and its electoral base. Corbyn and his supporters were quickly marginalized, as the right wing reasserted its grip under the new leader, Keir Starmer. James Schneider not only had a ringside seat at all these events, but was sufficiently part of the team to feel keenly the moments of exhilaration, sweat and pain of the five-year struggle, while all the time knowing, from his year as Momentum’s National Organizer, the vast untapped potential for movement initiative and mobilizations that lay beyond the ‘tyranny of the immediate’ which dominated life in the Leader’s office in Westminster. In this interview, he assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the extra-parliamentary forces that backed Corbyn, from the low ebb of trade union organization when Corbyn first became leader to the limited but important ways in which the new leadership of the Labour Party revalidated trade unions, and the positive legacy of the Corbyn leadership in encouraging popular self-confidence and politicization. At a time when many on the left are leaving or considering leaving the Labour Party, Schneider urges a strategy which transcends the ‘inside the party or out of it’ dichotomy which has constantly exhausted left thinking in the UK. Instead, he outlines the idea of a hybrid movement rooted primarily in communities and workplaces while at the same time, without compromising its mobilizing and campaigning energies, continuing the struggle for democratic control of the Labour Party. Schneider is interviewed in May 2021 by Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper and contributing editor to the Socialist Register, and author of numerous books on the politics of the left. Wainwright has long been an advocate of the need for the left across Europe to experiment in ‘parties of a new kind’ that would break from both traditional social democracy and the vanguard party models of the far left

    Complete classification of the Wainwright Petrov type D perfect fluid models

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    Perfect fluid spacetimes of Petrov type D, for which the fluid's four-velocity, the vorticity vector and one of the shear eigenvectors lie in the plane of principal null directions at each point, were naturally subdivided by Wainwright into four classes. The complete classification of these models is presented

    Die-elasticity errors during nett-forming of engineering components

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    Form errors in components which are manufactured by the plastic deformation of engineering materials originate from several sources; among the most elusive of these are those which originate from the deflection of the machine during the deformation cycle and the elastic deflection of the die. To-date, it has not been possible to eliminate these errors for want of a systematic theory and supporting technologies. The proposed approach is based on the use of Physical Modeling techniques and the use of an innovative transducer for the measurement of the three components of force at any point on the die-cavity which can be used to map the force contour. This contour is used to initalise an FE simulation to establish the die deflection history and, hence the die-compensation requirements
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