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Insurance law and the Financial Ombudsman Service [in 3 volumes]
No full textThis thesis is the only study there is of the workings of the Financial Ombudsman Service ('FOS') and a comparison between court and FOS attitudes and approaches to insurance cases. A court and the FOS may decide matters differently because the FOS does not have to apply the law strictly, whilst a court does. The author of this thesis has examined the FOS and Financial Services Authority ('FSA') websites, handbooks and other material, and all of the near monthly journals of Ombudsman News ('O.N.') since the FOS began in 2001, analysing it against the law to determine the question of this thesis: whether the FOS should in fact apply the law strictly, and not allow principles of fairness and reasonableness to override the law in the particular circumstances of a case. Should certainty of outcome and of applying law established and modified over hundreds of years be sacrificed to allow the FOS to apply its overriding discretion in the interests of justice in a relatively few cases? Should both insurers and insureds be able to obtain legal advice on their relative positions, without that advice having to mention unpredictable outcomes if the ombudsman chooses not to follow the strict legal position? If the law does not offer the consumer insured enough protection, should the FOS be the forum that does, and if so, does it give enough protection? This study does not look at the decisions of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau ('IOB') which preceded the FOS. Where a point is not dealt with below, it has not been highlighted in FOS publications to date and it is unclear how relevant IOB decisions on that point will be
International year of older persons: Mentoring research project
No full textA report, by Judith MacCallum and Susan Beltman, Murdoch University, that identifies models of good practice of mentoring in school settings. The report looks at issues associated with the implementation of mentoring programs in school settings and key recommendations for consideration by Australian schools and education systems
Examining a culturally diverse non-governmental organization through the lens of embedded intergroup relations theory: an exploratory study
No full textOrganizational psychology as a field has been moving toward more work with social change organizations. The non-governmental organization (NGO) is one common type of social change organization, but while studied in the international development literature, it is rarely explored through the lens of organizational psychology theory. This study uses one such theory, Embedded Intergroup Relations Theory, and its related methodology of organizational assessment, organizational diagnosis, to examine a culturally diverse NGO. The analysis describes the NGO from an intergroup perspective, revealing how organizational and identity group memberships affected individuals’ experiences of their roles, including their personal and professional needs, work orientation, and attitudes toward power, authority, and decision making. Results also show how the intersection of group memberships and the system within which the organization was embedded helped explain individual experiences, group dynamics, and organizational functioning. Overall, the study found that challenges the NGO faced were related to both organizational growth and diversity. This study serves as a rare model of an organizational diagnosis of a culturally diverse NGO. Recommendations for consultants working with culturally diverse NGOs include using self-awareness and a social justice perspective. Findings imply a need for further research on different cultural models of work, organizational growth, and change in order to better inform consultants in their work.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical references (p. 160-166)by Melissa Judith Extei
Factores Epidemiológicos relacionados con la adherencia al tratamiento inmunológico antirrábico humano en la población expuesta a mordedura del Centro de Salud Javier Llosa García, Hunter, Arequipa 2024
No full textEl estudio de tipo descriptivo y nivel observacional relacional que tuvo como objetivo
determinar la relación entre los factores epidemiológicos y la adherencia al tratamiento
inmunológico antirrábico en el Centro de Salud Javier Llosa García-Hunter, Arequipa, 2024;
empleó dos cuestionarios para la recolección de datos; la población de estudio estuvo
conformada por 120 personas mordidas por un can que recibieron tratamiento inmunológico
antirrábico. Los resultados demostraron que el nivel de adherencia al tratamiento
inmunológico antirrábico en personas expuestas a mordeduras alcanzó el nivel medio. Los
factores con mayor impacto fueron los económicos; asimismo, los factores relacionados con
el sistema sanitario y los factores relacionados con el paciente. En cuanto a los factores
relacionados con el conocimiento, el tratamiento inmunológico fue el aspecto más
comprendido. Finalmente, dentro del sistema sanitario, la principal fortaleza fue el personal
calificado. Se concluyó, de acuerdo a la prueba de Rho de Spearman, una relación
significativa (p = 0.000) y una alta correlación positiva (r = 0.760) entre los factores
epidemiológicos y la adherencia al tratamiento inmunológico antirrábico. Esto indica que
los factores epidemiológicos están fuertemente asociados con la adherencia al tratamiento
en el Centro de Salud Javier Llosa García, Hunter, Arequipa 2024
Judith Butler’s Concept of Nonviolence: the View of the Feminist Theorist on the Issues of Combating Violence in Modern Society
No full textThe article focuses on the book "The force of nonviolence: An ethico-political bind" by American professor Judith Butler, a famous political philosopher, feminist theorist, and creator of the performative gender concept. The study examines the approaches to the definition of violence, its various forms and describes the reasons that are considered sufficient justification for the implementation of violent actions in modern society. Particular attention is paid to the content side of the theory of nonviolence, which is interpreted not as a denial of coercion, but as the practice of resistance to various forms of violence, the way to redirect people's aggression in order to assert the ideals of equality and freedom. The author of the article analyzes Butler's general conceptual approach, emphasizing the problems of inequality and such phenomenon asfemicide, the fight against which is relevant both for Russia and the entire world community. The protest against violence towards women gives birth to new projects and movements that conduct educational work, provide assistance to victims, and strive to unite people from different social strata in the fight against inequality. According to the American philosopher, the problem of violence in society can be solved only by implementing a policy of equality, which requires treating every life as a value, regardless of gender, skin color, and social status. It is concluded that Judith Butler's theory, seemingly utopian at first glance, in the future may become the foundation of ideological transformations of society
Genome sequence of Rhodobacter sphaeroides strain WS8N
No full textCopyright © 2011, American Society for MicrobiologyRhodobacter sphaeroides is a metabolically diverse photosynthetic alphaproteobacterium found ubiquitously in soil and freshwater habitats. Here we present the annotated genome sequence of R. sphaeroides WS8N.This research was funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Zigzag Books2eat ABC
No full text1 volume (8 accordion folds), [80] pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Artist's statement: "This zigzag shaped ABC was inspired by the 1st UK Books2eat tea party, held in Thame. Edible Books High/Low Tea was initiated by Judith Hoffberg in 1999 and became international through the artist Béatrice Coron's website . . . Digital images are from works by partygoers. Collagraphs are from various artists and young people, including friends who meet up to grow food and eat together."
Collagraph prints: Pineapple / Kristy Harris -- Tea Anyone / Harriet Batty -- Untitled / Sophie McMaster -- Spaghetti / Sophie -- Pomegranate / Cassidy Bell -- Cherry bite / Louise Hall -- Vine tomatoes / Heather Hunter -- Two tomatoes / Susie Wilson -- Fish and chips / Dean -- Growing child / Hannah Rodgers -- Giving / Alex Chaloner -- Untitled / Leah Allen -- Bag of sweets / Katey -- Untitled / Stephanie Allen -- Strawberries and cream / Shane -- Pineapple story / Pam Coleman -- End paper: Baked potato / Cath -- Cover: Sweet food / Laura Merry.
Laser prints with text: A-W Books2eat: 2001, 02, 03, 04 -- K: Keep a place in your diary -- L: List of titles to conjure with -- M: Make your own Fillosophy -- Q: Question? Why Books2eat? -- U: Under construction -- V: Various surfaces to play on -- X: eXtra helpings -- Y: whY Thame? -- Z: Zigzag book colophon / text by Sparksartists.
Number 1 of 25 copies in the edition.
Call number: SPL N7433.3 .B74 200
A sense of place in selected African works by Doris Lessing read in conjunction with novels of education by contemporary white South African women writers
No full textBibliography: leaves 211-217.This study provides a more intensive reading of certain works by Doris Lessing set in Southern Africa than has yet been attempted, and reads them,• for the first time, in conjunction with a particular literary lineage within Southern African letters, the novel of education by white women. The works by Lessing chosen for discussion are: two short stories, "The Old Chief Mshlanga" (1951) and "Sunrise on the Veld" (1951), the first two volumes of the Children of Violence series, Martha Quest (1952) and A Proper Marriage (1954), and Lessing's autobiographical account of a return visit to Rhodesia in 1956, Going Home (1957). Those by the other Southern African women writers--all of which, with the exception of Gordimer's The Lying Days have received virtually no critical attention to date--are: Nadine Gordimer's The Lying Days (1953)', Jillian Becker's The Virgins• (1976), Carolyn Slaughter's Dreams of the Kalahari (1981), Lynn Freed's Home Ground (1986), E.M. / MacPhail's Phoebe and Nio (1987), and Menan du Plessis's A State of Fear (1983)
Typing methods and combinations in order by Hunter-Gaston index of discriminatory ability (n = 405) and cluster results.
No full text<p>Typing methods and combinations in order by Hunter-Gaston index of discriminatory ability (n = 405) and cluster results.</p
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