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Budget 2011: Little action for children in poverty
No full textGareth Jenkins of Save the Children UK finds little to be optimistic about in George Osborne’s ‘neutral’ budget
1.6 million children in the UK live in severe poverty: the government must do more to target areas of high deprivation, poverty and worklessness
No full textChild poverty in the UK is not unique to times of recession or austerity, but may be made worse by expected job losses, inflation and increases in VAT. Gareth Jenkins of Save the Children UK discusses new research which finds that in some areas of high deprivation there are as many as one in four children in severe poverty, and that government must do more to tackle worklessness and increase financial support to families in desperate need
Interview met Gareth Jenkins, Dirk Rochtus en Yavuz Baydar: Nieuwe coup in de maak in Turkije?
No full textTurkije kent een lange geschiedenis van succesvolle staatsgrepen. De enige mislukte staatsgreep in het land vond elf maanden geleden plaats. Heeft Turkije militaire interventies definitief achter zich gelaten of is het slechts een kwestie van tijd voordat er een nieuwe couppoging wordt ondernomen? Zijn Atatürks seculiere principes in gevaar? Is Erdogan nog steeds sterk of is zijn macht aan het afbrokkelen? De Kanttekening vroeg dat aan drie Turkije-experts, Gareth Jenkins, Dirk Rochtus en Yavuz Baydar.status: Publishe
UCE of FIT Presents: Now or Never: The Fight to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment with Carol Jenkins
No full textThe United College Employees of FIT presents this interview with Carol Jenkins, moderated by Elena Romero, a professor in the Advertising and Marketing Communications Department.Carol Jenkins is an advocate for human, civil and women’s rights, an award-winning author and Emmy-winning TV anchor and television journalist. A board member since its inception in 2014, she joined the leadership team of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality in December 2018. Jenkins is also the host of the multi-award winning show Black America, on CUNY TV
Science for All: The struggle to establish school science in England
No full textThe secure position science now occupies in most school curricula has been achieved only after widespread individual, institutional and political debate. In Science for All, Edgar Jenkins offers a thoroughly researched account of the long battle to establish school science in England, from its introduction to the classroom in the mid-nineteenth century to the launch of the National Curriculum in 1989. The book addresses the underlying question of what school science is for and reveals when, how and why the answer has changed. It exposes issues relating to the educational function of school science and obstacles to curriculum reform that are of fundamental and international significance. In so doing, the author offers a unique perspective on current and future developments in primary and secondary school science education
Evidence for the non-quasispecies evolution of RNA viruses
No full textThe quasispecies model of RNA virus evolution differs from those formulated in conventional population genetics in that neutral mutations do not lead to genetic drift of the population, and natural selection acts on the mutant distribution as a whole rather than on individual variants. By computer simulation, we show that this model could be inappropriate for many RNA viruses because the neutral sequence space may be too large to allow the formation of a quasispecies distribution. This view is supported by our analysis of gene sequences from vesicular stomatitis virus, which is considered a prototype RNA virus quasispecies. Our results are relevant to the evolution of RNA systems in general
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