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Replication data for Katz-Mair (1992) 'Party organizational data'
No full text22 data files, 1 manifest file (ZIP compressed)Katz-Mair Party Organizational Data are the data-set in the form of Excel and PDF files from the volume Party Organizations: A Data Handbook on Party Organizations in Western Democracies, 1960-90, edited by Richard S Katz and Peter Mair, and originally published by Sage (London) in 1992. The data cover various aspects of party organizational development from the 1960s through to the end of the 1980s, including for each party in each country (and for the European Community party federations, where relevant) the membership levels; the qualifications, obligations, and rights of membership; the number of basic units or branches; number of paid employees; the organization of the national executive and national congress; the membership and function of these bodies; rules about candidate selection and gender representation; party finance, including sources of income and target of expenditure, as well as the rules regarding public subventions to parties. The data are reproduced here on a non-exclusive basis as a still relevant resource for comparative party research, and as a way of encouraging scholars in the field to contribute to the eventual extension and updating of the figures. The countries included in the original data set, with the original authors of the data collection and analysis also indicated, are Austria (Wolfgang C. Müller); Belgium (Kris Deschouwer); Denmark (Lars Bille); Finland (Jan Sundberg and Christel Gyllig); Germany (Thomas Poguntke and Bernhard Boll); Ireland (David M. Farrell); Italy (Luciano Bardi and Leonardo Morlino); The Netherlands (Ruud Koole and Hella van der Velde); Norway (Lars Svǻsand); Sweden (Jon Pierre and Anders Widfeldt); United Kingdom (Paul D. Webb). At a later stage we also hope to add the data for the United States (Robin Kolodny and Richard S. Katz) and for the Transnational Federations in the European Community (Luciano Bardi), both cases having been included in the original volume. OPPR and EUDO are grateful to Ken Janda for his work in preparing these data in this format
Content and Language Integrated Learning in European Preschools
No full textContent and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a form of bilingual education tied to a European political and educational vision of producing plurilingual citizens who are able to live and work in a global, mobile, multilingual society. Since the term was coined in 1994 it has become part of mainstream education. This chapter provides an overview of the development of CLIL and its application to preschool contexts with very young learners. Although CLIL has been adopted in policy in some parts of Europe, preschool CLIL programs are usually self-activated and largely undocumented in research. There are several overlaps, however, in the theoretical underpinning of early years education and CLIL, both of which are influenced by a social-constructivist approach to learning, emphasizing the importance of experiential, child-centered learning. At the theoretical heart of CLIL is the integration of language and content and this is a critical issue as far as CLIL teacher education and the planning and implementation of CLIL programs are concerned. There are no major studies on CLIL at preschool and there is little empirical evidence of the benefits of a CLIL approach at this level, so there is a clear need for a research agenda to be established. As more preschool programs are documented, new data from classrooms and from the various stakeholders – children, teachers, and parents – is starting to emerge. Future research directions are likely to investigate all forms of outcomes in CLIL programs at this level, including aspects of first and second oral language learning and curricular outcomes. They are also likely to address teacher education, training, and implementation as well as investigating stakeholder perspectives. Given the importance of oral learning, the adoption of classroom discourse analysis could provide insight into CLIL practice at this level
Feasibility Study of the CT Clock for Estimating Onset Time of Ischaemic Stroke
No full textIschaemic stroke is a devastating disease with high rates of death and disability affecting around 100,000 people annually in the UK. Effective treatments are only offered when the time of stroke onset is known and within specific limits. For the 20% where onset time is unknown or delayed, advanced imaging methods can identify people for safe and effective treatment. However, this advanced imaging is not always available. We have developed a method for identifying patients who can still be treated even without advanced imaging. The CT Clock uses only the non-enhanced CT brain scan that most patients with stroke receive upon arrival at hospital, to determine whether patients are eligible for treatment.
This project provides the first prospective clinical testing of the CT Clock in a single-centre (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, RIE) feasibility analysis. Between October 2023 and October 2024, we recruited 35 patients presenting to RIE with ischaemic stroke. We invited treating clinicians to apply our CT Clock method in real time, but we did not alter routine care pathways or otherwise involve patients. Participating clinicians including stroke physicians and radiologists provided 130 CT Clock assessments for the 35 recruited patients in their care.
This dataset includes all non-imaging data collected during the study and includes: anonymised patient demographics, baseline clinical data, date-time of stroke onset and CT, details of participating clinician, clinician's assessment of CT, clinician's experience of using the CT Clock method, expert assessment of CT at 14-day follow-up, final diagnosis.CT_Clock_Baseline_210325.csv - 35 participants: Age, sex, date & time of CT scan, date & time of symptom onset/wake-up/last known well, stroke severity (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, NIHSS), stroke sub-type.
CT_Clock_Clinician_ Assessments_210325.csv - 130 clinician assessments of 35 participant CT scans acquired at baseline: Clinician specialty & grade, location of visible ischaemic lesion OR expected side of brain affected, presence of dense artery, CT angiography/perfusion reviewed, if dense artery/CTA/CTP helped identify ischaemia on CT, attenuation measurements of ischaemic & normal brain, ease of finding & measuring ischaemia, ease of estimating location of ischaemia, time spent using CT Clock method.
CT_Clock_Expert_Follow-up_210325.csv - Expert review of imaging for 35 participant scans: Location of visible ischaemic lesion on baseline CT, presence of dense artery, chronic brain changes at baseline (old stroke lesions, small vessel disease), presence of relevant abnormalities on baseline CT angiography/perfusion, whether follow-up imaging helped identify ischaemia on baseline CT, attenuation measurements of ischaemic & normal brain, final diagnosis
Theoretical orientations: Editorial: Ethnomethodological readings of philosophy, social theory, and the social sciences
No full textThis editorial statement introduces Section II: "Theoretical Orientations". The editorial discusses the organisation of the section and adumbrates the content that constitutes the section. Chapters provide readers with more granular detail on how ethnomethodology relates to philosophy, and to social theory. Chapters explore ethnomethodology's engagements with phenomenology; versions of phenomenological notions that afford ethnomethodology with ways to highlight members' methodic practices; how readings of philosophy and social theory provide for an alternate stance toward the topics, and the bases of, the social sciences; as well as the elaboration of ethnomethodology using Winchean and Wittgensteinian philosophy. The editorial situates Section II within the context of the Handbook
Factors that promote or inhibit the implementation of e-health systems: an explanatory systematic review
No full textOBJECTIVE: To systematically review the literature on the implementation of e-health to identify: (i) barriers and facilitators to e-health implementation, and (ii) outstanding gaps in research on the subject.METHODS: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PSYCINFO and the Cochrane Library were searched for reviews published between 1 January 1995 and 17 March 2009. Studies had to be systematic reviews, narrative reviews, qualitative metasyntheses or meta-ethnographies of e-health implementation. Abstracts and papers were double screened and data were extracted on country of origin; e-health domain; publication date; aims and methods; databases searched; inclusion and exclusion criteria and number of papers included. Data were analysed qualitatively using normalization process theory as an explanatory coding framework.FINDINGS: Inclusion criteria were met by 37 papers; 20 had been published between 1995 and 2007 and 17 between 2008 and 2009. Methodological quality was poor: 19 papers did not specify the inclusion and exclusion criteria and 13 did not indicate the precise number of articles screened. The use of normalization process theory as a conceptual framework revealed that relatively little attention was paid to: (i) work directed at making sense of e-health systems, specifying their purposes and benefits, establishing their value to users and planning their implementation; (ii) factors promoting or inhibiting engagement and participation; (iii) effects on roles and responsibilities; (iv) risk management, and (v) ways in which implementation processes might be reconfigured by user-produced knowledge.CONCLUSION: The published literature focused on organizational issues, neglecting the wider social framework that must be considered when introducing new technologies.<br/
M. Hesiod, The poems and fragments done into english prose with introduction and appendices, by A . W. Mair
No full textPuech Aimé. M. Hesiod, The poems and fragments done into english prose with introduction and appendices, by A . W. Mair. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 23, fascicule 101,1910. p. 79
M. Hesiod, The poems and fragments done into english prose with introduction and appendices, by A . W. Mair
No full textPuech Aimé. M. Hesiod, The poems and fragments done into english prose with introduction and appendices, by A . W. Mair. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 23, fascicule 101,1910. p. 79
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