135 research outputs found
Updating Reay, Berta & Kohn EBMgt systematic review
No full textEvidence-based management (EBMgt) is a relatively new and emerging movement in
management theory, and modeled after evidence-based medicine (Briner, Denyer, & Rousseau,
2009). Interest in the topic appears to be gaining momentum, with an increasing amount of
literature being published each year. However, according to the systematic review conducted by
Reay et al. (2009), this literature, for the most part remains based more on expert opinion and
very little empirical studies. As a result, Reay et al. (2009) called for more empirical research to
be conduct on EBMgt.
This study reviews the most recent literature on EBMgt to evaluate whether the calls for
increased research on the topic have generated stronger levels of evidence. The author replicates
Reay et al. (2009) and uses the same inclusion criteria to qualify the published research during
the period between 2009 and 2012. The results of this research will be compared to that of Reay
et al. to determine whether the research on EBMgt remains, for the most part, expert opinion or
has the research strengthened since the last systematic review.
Overall, the findings of this study, similar to Reay (2009), find a severe lack of empirical
research regarding EBMgt. This systematic review reiterates the need for more research
generating stronger levels of evidence to promote the development, transition of EBMgt learning
into practice. This study adds fUrther support to the call for more empirical research to be
conducted on EBMgt and its potential benefits to organizational performance
Hemicriconemoides minor Brzeski & Reay 1982
No full text<i>Hemicriconemoides minor</i> Brzeski & Reay, 1982 <p>Flinders Chase, nr Rocky River, SA. 5 females. 3.6.93</p>Published as part of <i>Khudhir, Manda, Hodda, Mike, Nicholas, Evelyn, Campbell, Jennifer & Nicholas, Warwick L., 2023, A catalogue of the nematode slide collection from the late W. L. Nicholas held at National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 5388 (1)</i> on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5388.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10390008">http://zenodo.org/record/10390008</a>
Hands Up!: Close reading of the book and interview with Breanna J. McDaniel
No full textThis article interweaves a close reading of the text with an author interview in order to explore the ways in which Hands Up! expresses urgent social justice concepts in a way that is inclusive, defiant, and, above all, hopeful
Correction: Szymanski et al. Recent Advances in Loop Heat Pipes with Flat Evaporator. Entropy 2021, 23, 1374
Get PDF\ua9 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The author of the original publication [1] wishes to make the following corrections to the Authorship, Author Contributions, and Funding Information: Richard Law, Ryan J. McGlen, and David A. Reay have been added to the list of contributing authors. The updated Author Contributions statement is provided below: Author Contributions: P.S.: conceptualization, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing; R.L.: conceptualization, formal analysis, project administration, resources, investigation, methodology, supervision, writing—review and editing, funding acquisition; R.J.M.: conceptualization, formal analysis, resources, investigation, methodology, supervision, writing—review and editing, funding acquisition; D.A.R.: conceptualization, formal analysis, resources, investigation, methodology, supervision, writing—review and editing. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The authors wish to update the missing Funding statement as follows: Funding: This work was funded by the UK EPSRC, Newcastle University, the Aavid Thermal Division of Boyd Corp under a CASE PhD studentship, and the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Shipbuilding, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused and state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. The original publication has been updated
Book Review: The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion
Get PDFBook Title: The Mammals of the Southern African SubregionBook Author: Reay H.N. SmithersUniversity of Pretoria, Pretoria, 1983. 736 pp.
‘Silence does not sound the same for everyone’: student teachers’ narratives:Student Teachers’ Narratives Around Behavior Management in Scottish Schools
Get PDFDiscipline or behaviour management in schools is a common concern for beginning teachers and is frequently cited as a significant component in early career attrition (Goddard & Goddard, 2006; Hammerness, 2011; Hong, 2010). Moreover, the impact of perceived failure in relation to behavior in the classroom can substantially affect the self-efficacy of teachers particularly at the beginning of their careers (Hoy & Burke-Spero, 2005; Peters, 2009) and the wide variety of discipline approaches adopted within different schools can provide conflicting experiences and models. Consequently, exploring and understanding more fully how we can support student teachers in this area is important on a personal and professional level for the student teacher and teacher educators. Underpinning an urgency to consider this area, lies concern for the young people who may find themselves the focus of often punitive regimes (Bright, 2011; Reay, 2009). We know that certain pupils (Gillies, 2011; Gray, Miller, & Noakes, 1994; Reay & Wiliam, 1999) can be disproportionately affected by school discipline approaches particularly with regard to exclusion or expulsion from schools (Bright, 2011; Gillies, 2011; Osher, Bear, Sprague, & Doyle, 2010).This paper then is concerned with the details of two individual case studies of student teachers during a 1-year Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program—a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE).1 The concern, here, was with exploring the ways in which the beliefs and values of student teachers might affect their engagement with different approaches to behavior and how they could be encouraged to reflect critically on the philosophies underpinning them. This critical engagement was supported through a new elective course that set out to encourage a bridging between theoretical and practical components of early professional development (EPD). Establishing a stronger link to the cognitive aspects of EPD while also helping student teachers to engage meaningfully and critically with the social and relational influences in schools, underpinned the elective course
Scientific evidence and the toxic tort A socio-legal study of the issues, expert evidence and judgement in Reay and Hope v. British Nuclear Fuels plc
No full textProviding a socio-legal analysis of the issues, expert evidence and judgment in Reay and Hope v BNFL plc., the thesis offers an insight into the complexity of the toxic tort. Starting with an overview of the history of Sellafield, the thesis reflects on the scientific and epidemiological concerns surrounding the link between childhood cancer and nuclear installations. Drawing on scientific knowledge and epistemological considerations, the thesis moves on to the difficulties of verifying causation in science and the problems of establishing causation in law. Outlining the role of the expert witness and scientific expert evidence, the thesis proceeds with a case analysis, before broaching the thorny issue of judicial decision making and in particular, the difference between the 'discovery' and 'justification' process. Moving on to the Judgment in Reay and Hope, attention is given to the potential application of probability theory to the judicial decision making process. Lasting just short of one hundred days and including the testimony of numerous scientific experts, Reay and Hope marked new ground in a number of ways; it was the first personal injury claim to test the concept of genetic damage from radiation; the only time that a Queen's Bench Division Judge had been allocated a full-time judicial assistant, and one of the first trials to endorse a satellite video link for examination of international expert witnesses. As far as judicial management is concerned, the case was a forerunner in having Counsels' Opening Statements in writing in advance of the trial, as well as having written daily submissions of key issues from plaintiffs and defendants upon conclusion of oral evidence. The circumstances that led to the trial relate to events in excess of thirty to forty years ago when the fathers of Dorothy Reay and Vivien Hope were employed by the Defendants and their predecessors (the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) as fitters for the Sellafield Plant. Intrinsic to the litigation was whether paternal preconception irradiation caused or materially contributed to a predisposition to cancer leading to Dorothy's death from leukaemia and Vivien Hope's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. As a consequence of the various statutory provisions, the Plaintiffs did not need to prove negligence on the part of the Defendants. In order to succeed the Plaintiffs had to prove on the balance of probabilities that radiation from Sellafield was a material contributory cause of the Plaintiffs' disease. The fundamental issue therefore was causation. In addition to the case analysis, two pieces of empirical research were conducted for the purposes of this thesis. The first, a Social Survey (consisting of thirty four questions) was circulated to 160 members of the Academy of Experts (quantitative research); the second, a letter, involved written communication with sixty five judges from the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court (qualitative research). Underlying this socio-legal case analysis are fundamental questions with regard to existing legal principles, liability and judicial decision making. (author)Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN035826 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
White Working-Class Masculinity in Union Organizing
No full textAre men, and white men in particular, more likely to adopt an anti-union position in the current organizing climate? If so, why, and should the labor movement use valuable time and\ud
resources to meet the needs of white male workers as these workers become less and less central to union organizing in the United States? The author reviews In Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves-and the Labor Movement-in Harm's Way by Kris Paap as a launching point to explore certain strands of continuity that traverse recent works on white masculinity and union organizing. The author analyzed gender studies, Judith Halberstam’s “queer” methodology, and country music. In-depth interviews with professional organizers were also conducted
The role of heat pipes in intensified unit operations
No full textHeat pipes are heat transfer devices that rely, most commonly, on the evaporation and condensation of a working fluid contained within them, with passive pumping of the condensate back to the evaporator. They are sometimes referred to as ‘thermal superconductors’ because of their exceptionally high effective thermal conductivity (substantially higher than any metal). This, together with several other characteristics make them attractive to a range of intensified unit operations, particularly reactors. The majority of modern computers deploy heat pipes for cooling of the CPU. The application areas of heat pipes come within a number of broad groups, each of which describes a property of the heat pipe. The ones particularly relevant to chemical reactors are: i. Separation of heat source and sink. ii. Temperature flattening, or isothermalisation. iii. Temperature control. Chemical reactors, as a heat pipe application area, highlight the benefits of the heat pipe based on isothermalisation/temperature flattening device and on being a highly effective heat transfer unit. Temperature control, done passively, is also of relevance. Heat pipe technology offers a number of potential benefits to reactor performance and operation. The aim of increased yield of high purity, high added value chemicals means less waste and higher profitability. Other intensified unit operations, such as those employing sorption processes, can also profit from heat pipe technology. This paper describes several variants of heat pipe and the opportunities for their use in intensified plant, and will give some current examples.The work is being consolidated into PhD studies involving the use of renewable energy to drive chemical reactions with heat transport between the RE source and the reactor being via heat pipes. These are compatible with the highest temperature solar concentrators and will use the isothermalisation feature of the heat pipe, as well as heat flux transformation. Professor Reay is a leading expert in heat pipes and is co-author (initially with Prof. Dunn of Reading University and latterly with Dr. Kew of Heriot-Watt University) of the standard text on the topic, entering its 6th Edition.<br/
Opportunities for low grade heat recovery in the UK food processing industry
No full textEnergy efficiency in the process industry is becoming an increasingly important issue due to the rising costs of both electricity and fossil fuel resources, as well as the tough targets for the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions outlined in the Climate Change Act 2008. Utilisation of waste heat sources is key to improving industrial energy efficiency, with an estimated 11.4 TWh of recoverable heat being wasted each year, a quarter of which is from the food and drinks processing sector. This paper examines the low-grade waste heat sources common to the food and drinks processing sector and the various opportunities for the use of this heat. A review of the best available technologies for recovery of waste heat is provided, ranging from heat transfer between source and sink, to novel technologies for the generation of electricity and refrigeration. Generally, the most economic option for waste heat recovery is heat exchange between nearby/same process source and sink, with a number of well-developed heat exchangers widely available for purchase. More novel options, such as the use of organic Rankine cycles for electricity generation prove to be less economical due to high capital outlays. However, with additional funding provision for demonstration of such projects and development of modular units, such technologies would become more common. This work arises out of a large EPSRC project -OPTITHERM - that is directed at optimising energy use by heat recovery and other methods in industrial processes. Newcastle University (this paper), Brunel and Northumbria Universities are involved. Results are disseminated in a number of ways, including via HEXAG - The Heat Exchanger Action Group - co-ordinated by the co-author, Professor Reay. <br/
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