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Institutional Racism and the Dynamics of Privilege in Public Health
No full textInstitutional racism, a pattern of differential access to material resources and power determined by race, advantages one sector of the population while disadvantaging another. Such racism is not only about conspicuous acts of violence but can be carried in the hold of mono-cultural perspectives. Overt state violation of principles contributes to the backdrop against which much less overt yet insidious violations occur. New Zealand health policy is one such mono-cultural domain. It is dominated by western bio-medical discourses that preclude and under-value Māori, the indigenous peoples of this land, in the conceptualisation, structure, content, and processes of health policies, despite Te Tiriti o Waitangi guarantees to protect Māori interests.
Since the 1980s, the Department of Health has committed to honouring the Treaty of Waitangi as the founding document of Māori-settler relationships and governance arrangements. Subsequent Waitangi Tribunal reports, produced by an independent Commission of Inquiry have documented the often-illegal actions of successive governments advancing the interests of Pākehā at the expense of Māori. Institutional controls have not prevented inequities between Māori and non-Māori across a plethora of social and economic indicators.
Activist scholars work to expose and transform perceived inequities. My research interest lies in how Crown Ministers and officials within the public health sector practice institutional racism and privilege and how it can be transformed. Through dialogue with Māori working within the health sector, fuelled by critical analysis and strategic advice from a research whānau (family) of Māori health leaders and a Pākehā Tiriti worker, and embracing the traditions of feminist and critical race theory I provide evidence of racism that can invoke strong emotional reactions. More disturbing is its normalisation to nigh imperceptibility within ones personal and professional life. The exposure of racism as a socially created phenomenon is a strength of the research presented here.
My action orientation is my ethical response. Honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a pathway to transforming racism. Such change is likely to be resisted by the Pākehā majority. This anticipated resistance is not a credible reason to weaken responsibility for such necessary change. Transforming institutional racism needs to be driven by senior managers, professional bodies, unions, and by communities. Policies, practices and leadership that enable institutional racism need to be systematically eliminated from the health sector. Crown officials must be supported to strengthen their professional accountabilities and to embrace ethical bicultural practice. Greater transparency could enable more effective monitoring of Crown behaviour and support transformed practice
Is the anthelmintic effect of heather supplementation to grazing goats always accompanied by anti-nutritional effects?
No full textTo test the hypothesis that the beneficial anthelmintic effect of consuming moderate amounts of tannins may not always be
accompanied by anti-nutritional effects in goats, two experiments were conducted. In the first, 48 Cashmere goats were randomly
assigned to two treatments: supplementation with tannin-containing heather (6.4% total tannins) and non-supplementation.
All goats grazed continuously from May to September under farm conditions in a mountainous area of northern Spain. The mean
percentage of heather incorporated into the diet of the supplemented animals was 29.1%. Supplementation reduced the mean
number of nematode eggs in faeces (P,0.001) and the goat mortality rate (P,0.05). The rumen ammonia concentration was
markedly reduced in the goats receiving the heather supplement (160 v. 209 mg/l; P,0.01), while volatile fatty acid (VFA)
concentrations were significantly greater (63.0 v. 53.6mmol total VFA/l; P,0.05). The heather-supplemented goats also showed
a lower loss of live weight (P,0.01) and body condition score (P,0.001). In the second experiment, batch cultures of rumen
microorganisms with rumen fluid from nine goats whose diet included 29% heather – or not, were used to incubate three
substrates (pasture, pasture1heather and pasture1heather1polyethylene glycol) to investigate in vitro ruminal fermentation.
Differences (P,0.01) among substrates were observed in terms of dry matter disappearance (DMD), in vitro true substrate
digestibility (ivTSD), gas production and ammonia concentration, the greatest values always associated with the pasture substrate.
Cultures involving rumen inoculum derived from goats receiving the heather-containing diet showed slightly lower DMD (46.9 v.
48.5 g/100 g; P,0.05), ivTSD (64.6 v. 65.9 g/100 g; P,0.10) and gas production (105 v. 118 ml/g; P,0.001) values, but much
greater total VFA concentrations (48.5 v. 39.3 mmol/l; P,0.05), and suggest that the efficiency of ruminal fermentation in these
animals was probably improved. Together, the results support the absence of a clear nutritional cost counteracting the beneficial
anthelmintic effect of supplementing the diet of grazing goats with tannin-containing heathe
Dialogue and Collaboration in the Creation of New Works for Clarinet
No full textThis PhD thesis explores dialogue-based, “intimate” collaboration through the creation of new works for clarinet. It borrows from Grounded Theory in order to facilitate an analysis through which emergent themes within a dialogue-based
collaboration are discovered. The aim has not been to insist on one model of collaboration, but to discover methods for improving one’s collaborative skills and to identify ways in which one benefits from a focus on dialogue in
collaboration. Furthermore, it aims to suggest that through collaboration one can make discoveries about the instrument: original contributions to clarinet technique are made within this thesis. The literature from which the research draws inspiration to further collaborative “technique” is cross-disciplinary and wide-ranging: it draws from social theory, collaborative creative writing, dance, the visual arts and of course, music. Added to this is a select discussion of collaboration throughout the repertoire of the clarinet. Finally, this consists of practice-based research. Seven new pieces for clarinet accompany the text
Is the anthelmintic effect of heather supplementation to grazing goats always accompanied by antinutritional effects?
No full text8 pages, 4 tables, 1 figure.--Printed version published Oct. 2008Previously presented at the 12th Seminar of the FAO-CIHEAM Sub-Network on Sheep and Goat Nutrition "Nutritional and foragin ecology of sheep and goats" (Thessaloniki (Greece) from Oct 11-13, 2007) and Later Published as Proceeding at the Options Méditerranéennes A, 85: 43-48 (2009). https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/15650To test the hypothesis that the beneficial anthelmintic effect of consuming moderate amounts of tannins may not always be accompanied by anti-nutritional effects in goats, two experiments were conducted In the first, 48 Cashmere goats were randomly assigned to two treatments: supplementation with tannin-containing heather (6.4% total tannins) and non-supplementation. All goats grazed continuously from May to September under farm conditions in a mountainous area of northern Spain. The mean percentage of heather incorporated into the diet of the supplemented animals was 29.1%. Supplementation reduced the mean number of nematode eggs in faeces (P < 0.001) and the goat mortality rate (P < 0.05). The rumen ammonia concentration was markedly reduced in the goats receiving the heather supplement (160 v. 209 mg/l, P < 0.01), while volatile fatty acid (VFA) concentrations were significantly greater (63.0 v. 53.6 mmol total VFA/l, P < 0.05). The heather-supplemented goats also showed a lower loss of live weight (P < 0.01) and body condition score (P < 0.001). In the second experiment, batch cultures of rumen microorganisms with rumen fluid from nine goats whose diet included 29% heather - or not, were used to incubate three substrates (pasture, pasture + heather and pasture + heather + polyethylene glycol) to investigate in vitro ruminal fermentation. Differences (P < 0.01) among substrates were observed in terms of dry matter disappearance (DMD), in vitro true substrate digestibility (ivTSD), gas production and ammonia concentration, the greatest values always associated with the pasture substrate. cultures involving rumen inoculum derived from goats receiving the heather-containing diet showed slightly lower DMD (46.9 v. 48.5 g/100 g, P < 0.05), ivTSD (64.6 v. 65.9 g/100 g; P < 0, 10) and gas production (105 v. 118 ml/g; P < 0.001) values, but much greater total VFA concentrations (48.5 v. 39.3 mmol/l; P < 0.05), and suggest that the efficiency of ruminal fermentation in these animals was probably improved Together, the results support the absence of a clear nutritional cost counteracting the beneficial anthelmintic effect of supplementing the diet of grazing goats with tannin-containing heather.This work was supported by the Spanish National Institute for Agrarian and Food
Research and Technology (INIA, project RTA2007-00098).Peer reviewe
Fast identification of biological pathways associated with a quantitative trait using group lasso with overlaps.
No full textWhere causal SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) tend to accumulate within biological pathways, the incorporation of prior pathways information into a statistical model is expected to increase the power to detect true associations in a genetic association study. Most existing pathways-based methods rely on marginal SNP statistics and do not fully exploit the dependence patterns among SNPs within pathways.We use a sparse regression model, with SNPs grouped into pathways, to identify causal pathways associated with a quantitative trait. Notable features of our "pathways group lasso with adaptive weights" (P-GLAW) algorithm include the incorporation of all pathways in a single regression model, an adaptive pathway weighting procedure that accounts for factors biasing pathway selection, and the use of a bootstrap sampling procedure for the ranking of important pathways. P-GLAW takes account of the presence of overlapping pathways and uses a novel combination of techniques to optimise model estimation, making it fast to run, even on whole genome datasets.In a comparison study with an alternative pathways method based on univariate SNP statistics, our method demonstrates high sensitivity and specificity for the detection of important pathways, showing the greatest relative gains in performance where marginal SNP effect sizes are small
Voucher privatization with investment funds : an institutional analysis
No full textCommon wisdom among post-socialist reformers has beento use voucher investment funds to provide the corporate governance needed to restructure newly privatized enterprises after mass privatization efforts. The idea has been that mass privatization would spread the ownership too wide and make corporate governance difficult. The author examines the likely institutional behavior of voucher funds and the possible effects of their development on a transition economy. Since most policy advice has been in favor of voucher privatization with investment funds, the author can be seen as playing the devil's advocate, but his argument is institutional, not statistical. Policymaking requires insight and foresight into how institutions will tend to function. He concludes that voucher funds will introduce a bias in the economy away from the real industrial sector toward an ersatz"financial sector"that will have little if any positive financial role but will be well-protected by friendly regulators. One long-term consequence of voucher privatization with investment funds, according to this view, is a de facto"industrial policy"of real sector decapitalization in favor of short-term rent-seeking by fund managers through board sinecures and lucrative side deals with portfolio companies and through financial market manipulation and paper entrepreneurship in the"financial sector."Without strong corporate governance from the funds and without stable ownership of their own, many enterprise managers will exploit the post-socialist version of the"separation of ownership and control"to grab what they can in the form of salaries, bonuses, perquisites, and side deals. The most likely results of the strategy of voucher privatization with investment funds may be a two-sided grab fest by fund managers and enterprise managers -- together with the accompanying drift, stagnation, and decapitalization of the privatized industrial sector.Economic Adjustment and Lending,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Adjustment and Lending,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research
Notes on low degree L-data
No full textThese notes are an extended version of a talk given by the author at the conference Analytic Number Theory and Related Areas held at Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University in November 2015. We are interested in L‐data, an axiomatic framework for L\sim‐functions introduced by Andrew Booker in 2013 [3]. Associated to each L‐datum, one has a real number invariant known as the degree. Conjecturally the degree d is an integer, and if d\in \mathrm{N} then the L‐datum is that of a
mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}_{n}(\mathrm{A}_{F}) ‐automorphic
representation for n\in \mathrm{N} and a number field F (if F=\mathbb{Q} , then n=d This statement was shown to be true for 0\displaystyle \leq d<\frac{5}{3} by Booker in his pioneering paper [3], and in these notes we consider an extension of his methods to 0\leq d<2. This is simultaneously a generalisation of Booker’s result and the results and techniques of Kaczorowski‐Pereli in the Selberg class
[10]. Furthermore, we consider applications to zeros of automorphic L-‐functions. In these notes we review Booker’s results and announce new ones to appear elsewhere shortly
Dialogue: November 1988
No full textEditorial Features4 John LaGrand; 7 Tinuviel Andy Deliyannides; 15 Cross Country with Oma and Opa Phil Klapwyk; 16 A Semester Abroad: London Karl Swedberg; 20 Compassion Coping Series Robin Jensen; 31 Musings of a Disillusioned Apple-treader Rose CunninghamWords & Works Poetry22 A True Nigerian: An Interview with Bill Evenhouse Poetry6 Perfection I, L. VanPoolen; 11 B.C. nulled, L. VanPoolen; 13 Modernist Poetry, Heather Gemmen - Poet\u27s Familiar, Heather Gemmen - Perfection III, L. VanPoolen - Perfection IV, L. VanPoolen; 14 Horton Street 7:02 pm, Heather Gemmen - Perfection VI, L. VanPoolen - Perfection VII, L. VanPoolen; 32 question xiii, Andy DeliyannidesArt2 Tim VanNoord; 5 Dawn Curtis; 6 D. Huibregtse; 7 Tim VanNoord; 9 Unknown; 11 Tim VanNoord; 12 D. Huigbregtse; 15 Tim VanNoord; 27 Mark Yarhouse; 28 Timothy Graziani; 29 Timothy Graziani; 30 Tim VanN oordhttps://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/dialogue/1122/thumbnail.jp
The validation of the True Colors Personality Style Inventory and the True Colors Leadership Style Inventory and their use in investigating the relationship between personality style and leadership style in school administrators, 1998
No full textThe purpose of this study was two-fold: 1) to establish validity for the True Colors Personality Style Inventory and the True Colors Leadership Style Inventory, and 2) to use both inventories to examine the relationship between the preferred personality styles and leadership styles of 41 elementary, 10 middle school, and 15 secondary principals in the DeKalb County School System. Personality and leadership style preferences were investigated in terms of four moderator variables; school type, gender, race, and years of administrative experience. Chi-square, Pearson correlation, analysis of variance, t-tests for Equality of Means and Cronbach alpha tests were used to establish the validity for both inventories as well as to assess the 11 hypothesis and 13 research questions posed. The primary findings indicated that: 1. Both the True Colors Personality Style Inventory and the True Colors Personality Style Inventory are valid measures of the constructs of personality and leadership, respectively. 2. There was a significant relationship between a principal's personality style and leadership style, regardless of color. 3. Gold was the preferred personality style and leadership style for DeKalb County principals. 4. There was no significant difference between the personality or leadership styles of principals in relation to school type, race, or years of administrative experience. 5. There was a significant difference between the personality styles of .. male and female principals but not a difference.in their leadership styles .. The main recommendations from the findings were that the DeKalb County School System should: 1. administer the True Colors Personality Style Inventory and the True Colors Leadership Style Inventory to prospective and veteran administrators in order to ascertain an indication of leadership style strengths and areas for staff development training and to ensure a better match between an administrative placement decision and the principal. 2. ensure that local school administrative teams are multi-colored to capitalize on the strengths which various administrators on the team bring to the position
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
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