30 research outputs found
Non-intimate femicide: A scoping review protocol
No full textThis document presents the pre-registration of the scoping review protocol for the study 'Concepts and definitions of non-intimate femicide: A scoping review'
Non-intimate femicide: A scoping review protocol
No full textThis document presents the pre-registration of the scoping review protocol for the study 'Concepts and definitions of non-intimate femicide: A scoping review'
The Ability of Achieving the Goals Set in the Waste Management Plan of the Estonian Defence Forces
No full textKaitseväe prioriteet number üks on riigikaitse ja selle võimekuse tagamine. Ajateenijate koolitamisega ja õppuste korraldamistega kaasnevad aga suured kogused jäätmeid. Sellest tulenevalt seati kaitseministri 09.08.2010 käskkirjaga 292 „Kaitseministeeriumi keskkonnapoliitika ja keskkonnategevuskava aastateks 2011-2014“ p. 5.1 Kaitseväele kohustuslikuks koostada jäätmekava. 2012. aastal hakati kava koostama, mille tulemusena valmis jäätmekava ning jäätmekava lisa 1 Kaitseväe jäätmekava tegevuskava 2013-2017. Tegevuskavas on kuus põhitegevust, mis jagunevad omakorda täiendavateks tegevusteks. Tegevused on liigitatud prioriteetsemateks ja vähem prioriteetseteks. Põhitegevused on paika pandud lähtuvalt jäätmekavast ning seal seatud peamistest eesmärkidest. Kaitseväe jäätmekava üldine eesmärk on jäätmekäitluse edendamine, et see oleks keskkonnaohutum, paremini korraldatud ning majanduslikult põhjendatud. Lisaks soovitakse parandada koostööd organisatsiooni partneritega. Töö koostaja andis töö esimeses osas ülevaate jäätmekavast ja seal seatud eesmärkidest. Teises osas analüüsis jäätmekava tegevuskava ning leidis teostatavad ja teostamatud eesmärgid. Kolmandas osas on toodud ettepanekud tegevuskava paremaks ellurakendamiseks. Kokkuvõtvalt saab öelda, et tegevuskava on väga hästi koostatud. Seatud eesmärgid on reaalsed ning mitmed punktid on juba praegu täidetud. Näiteks on täidetud tegevused „1.6. kasarmutes ja kontorites ohtlike jäätmete kogumiseks (akud, patareid, tahmakassetid) väikeste kogumiskastide paigaldamine“, „1.9. meditsiinipunktides kehavedelikega kokkupuutunud sidumismaterjalile ning teravatele ja torkivatele esemetele kogumiskohtade loomine“ ja „2.5. Kaitseväe harjutusväljade kasutuseeskirjade ühtlustamine jäätmekäitlust käsitlevas osas“. Samuti on haldurid täitnud enamus ülejäänud tegevustest, mis puudutavad jäätmete sorteerimist ja selleks võimaluste loomist. Plaanis on kujundada ja paigaldada infotahvlid, mis edastaksid infot prügi sorteerimise ja prügikastide asukoha kohta erinevatel Kaitseväe territooriumitel. Harjutusalade keskkonnaspetsialisti Merili Vipperi sõnul on see üks esimesi tegevusi, mille jaoks on ressursid 2014. aastal leitud. Samuti on esmane prioriteet üldiste ja üksuste põhiste jäätmehoolduseeskirjade väljatöötamine ja kehtestamine. Merili Vipper on välja töötanud ka keskkonnaalased õppematerjalid ajateenijatele ja töötajatele. Jäätmekava kinnitamise järel saab muuta õppepäevad kõigile kohustuslikuks ning tõsta sellega keskkonnateadlikkust. Eelneva põhjal saab öelda, et juba täidetud või esmajärjekorras täitmist ootavad tegevused tagavad efektiivsema jäätmete sorteerimise, mis on kogu jäätmemajanduse parema toimimise aluseks. Teostamatud eesmärgid on suures osas seotud sellega, et jäätmekava ootab siiani kinnitamist. Mitme eesmärgi puhul on määrav see, et kava pole veel kinnitatud ning puuduvad ressursid. Samuti pole hetkel sellist ametikohta nagu Logistikakeskuse keskkonnanõunik. Tegevused, mis puudutavad erinevaid tasuvusuuringuid ning uurimistöid on vähem prioriteetsed ning samuti autori arvates teostamatud, sest hetkel puudub konkreetne inimene selleks ja on palju olulisemaid tegevusi. Autor on arvamusel, et kõik seatud prioriteetsed eesmärgid saavad täidetud. Seatud tähtajad võivad edasi liikuda mõne aasta võrra, kuid tulenevalt tegevustest 2.8. ja 2.10. tuleb need üle vaadata ning täiendada. Vähem prioriteetsed tegevused tuleb üle vaadata ning vajadusel nende sõnastust muuta. Töö lõpus tehti ettepanekud, kuidas tegevuskava efektiivsemalt rakendada. Kokkuvõtvalt on ettepanekud järgnevad: • kaaluda sorteerimiseks lahtritega prügikastide ning ohtlike jäätmete jaoks survevalu-polüetüleenist konteinerite ostmist või rentimist; • vaadata üle tegevused 2.6., 3.1. ja 3.2. ning neid täpsustada; • muuta töötajatele ja ajateenijatele keskkonnaalased infopäevad kohustuslikuks. Lähtuvalt analüüsist, tehtud järeldustest ning ettepanekutest tegevuskava efektiivsemaks rakendamiseks leiab töö koostaja, et tegemist on kergesti mõistetava, suuremas osas teostatava ja rakendatava jäätmekavaga ning jäätmekava tegevuskavaga.The aim of the Estonian Defence Forces is to preserve the independence of the state, the integrity of its area and its constitutional order. In addition, the Defence Forces co-operate with the armed forces of NATO and EU member states and they participate in the full range of Alliance missions. Therefore, about 3000 men, who take part in several exercises, are trained every year. During the training such amount of people produces tons of waste. Consequently, the Defence Forces must contribute its environmental activities. In 2012, the Ministry of Defence ordered the Defence Forces to compile the Waste Management Plan and set goals for the next five years. The document was prepared in January 2013 and now is waiting for approval. The paper first gives an overview of waste management in the Estonian Defence Forces. The next chapter is the analysis of the goals set in Appendix 1 in the Waste Management Plan. The author of the thesis explains the attainability or un-attainability of the goals. The suggestions to achieve the goals in waste management are also given. The final chapter gives detailed instructions in order to carry out the waste management goals. Overall, it can be said that although national defence is priority number one for the Defence Forces, they also pay attention on environmental issues. The Waste Management Plan is very simple, easy to understand and sensible. The author finds that the goals set are realistic and many of them have been achieved already. For example, the waste is sorted almost in every unit and they plan to write instructions for employees and conscripts to promote the waste sorting. However, the main negative aspect is that the document still waits for approval. Because of that there are several unrealistic deadlines and the Defence Forces do not have enough employees to reach some goals. For example, there is no one who would be responsible for different research and feasibility studies. In conclusion, the Estonian Defence Forces have made a remarkable progress in waste management. They show that they are willing to improve and develop in the field of environment
How priority ordering of offence codes undercounts gendered violence: An analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales
No full textThe Offence Classification System (OCS) of the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) applies a priority order of offences that undercounts violence. By prioritising burglary and criminal damage above some types of assault, physical violence that co-occurs with property crimes is discounted from official counts of incidents and victims of violence. Analysing CSEW data from 2010/11 to 2019/20, we find the OCS omits approximately 210,000 incidents of violence every year. Out of these incidents, 51 per cent are domestic violence against women, contributing further evidence to the CSEW’s gendered data gap. Socioeconomically disadvantaged victims are also disproportionately undercounted. Whilst prior research has highlighted the undercounting of violence prevalence and repetition in the CSEW, the OCS undercounts the concurrency of violence
The Woman as Wolf (AT 409): Some Interpretations of a Very Estonian Folk Tale
No full textThe article analyses tale type The Woman as Wolf, which is one of the most popular folk tales in the Estonian Folklore Archives and is represented there both in the form of a fairy tale and in the form of a legend. The vast majority of the versions of The Woman as Wolf were written down in the first part of the 20th century within Estonia and where recorded from Estonians. The article introduces the content of the tale, the origin of the first records from the early 19th century, and the dissemination area of the tale, which remains outside Western Europe: apart from the Estonian versions there are Sami, Karelian, Vepsian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian versions. While in almost all the Estonian versions the main protagonist is transformed into a wolf, in most of the versions written down in other areas and ethnic groups, another animal or bird replaces the wolf. The author is of the opinion that the Finnic area is central to the distribution of the folk tale The Woman as Wolf. The animal the woman is transformed into in the plot would not have been a wolf in earlier times. The article provides an explanation why the wolf is predominant in Estonian written sources. For that purpose the ways in which the wolf and werewolf were perceived in earlier Estonian folk belief are introduced. At the end of the article interpretation of the folk tale is provided. The author states that the plot and some of the motifs found in this folk tale reflect the difficulties women had in submitting to the norms and values of patriarchal order within their society
<i>The Woman as Wolf</i> (AT 409): Some Interpretations of a Very Estonian Folk Tale
No full textThe article analyses tale type The Woman as Wolf, which is one of the most popular folk tales in the Estonian Folklore Archives and is represented there both in the form of a fairy tale and in the form of a legend. The vast majority of the versions of The Woman as Wolf were written down in the first part of the 20th century within Estonia and where recorded from Estonians. The article introduces the content of the tale, the origin of the first records from the early 19th century, and the dissemination area of the tale, which remains outside Western Europe: apart from the Estonian versions there are Sami, Karelian, Vepsian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian versions. While in almost all the Estonian versions the main protagonist is transformed into a wolf, in most of the versions written down in other areas and ethnic groups, another animal or bird replaces the wolf. The author is of the opinion that the Finnic area is central to the distribution of the folk tale The Woman as Wolf. The animal the woman is transformed into in the plot would not have been a wolf in earlier times. The article provides an explanation why the wolf is predominant in Estonian written sources. For that purpose the ways in which the wolf and werewolf were perceived in earlier Estonian folk belief are introduced. At the end of the article interpretation of the folk tale is provided. The author states that the plot and some of the motifs found in this folk tale reflect the difficulties women had in submitting to the norms and values of patriarchal order within their society
Increasing students' reading motivation in home-reading lessons with extensive reading
No full textMany researchers, for example, Day and Bamford (1998), Prowse (2002), Maley (2008) and Grabe (2009) have brought out a number of key characteristics of extensive reading in language learning. Simply put, extensive reading is reading a lot of books that are easy to understand without a dictionary, so that the activity is enjoyable and fun. It is different from intensive reading which is reading a short and troublesome text slowly and deliberately. (Donaghy, 2016) The main purpose of the thesis is to answer the questions whether the amount of reading done has diminished recently and if it has, then how to motivate students to read more literature or any other interesting text during their free time. It also tries to find out the attitudes of students towards home-reading and, based on the results of the research carried out, to suggest procedures that could be used in home-reading lessons. In order to study students’ home reading activities and to enquire into their interest in reading books in general, the author of the present thesis carried out a questionnaire, in three schools in Tartu and one near the city (schools designated with the letters A, B, C and D). Schools A and B are schools with selective student in-take, which are compared to one regular school in Tartu (C) and one outside of the city (D). Making use of other research papers done in the same field and comparing the findings with the author’s own research, the author of the present thesis will suggest activities for an extensive reading programme. The thesis will consist of an introduction, three chapters (chapter I will contain the review of pertinent literature, chapter II will talk about study methodology, its data, analysis and the results, chapter III will contain the materials of home reading lessons that could be added to the extensive reading program) and a conclusion. The conclusion summarizes the results of the paper.https://www.ester.ee/record=b5156574*es
Perpetrators of domestic abuse against older adults – a rapid evidence assessment
No full textThis rapid review examines the existing, published research on the demographic and health characteristics, and the offending behaviours and histories of perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse against adults aged 60 and over. Using a systematic methodology, searches were conducted in five databases: MEDLINE Complete, APA PsychInfo, CINAHL Complete, SociINDEX with Full Text, Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text, and Web of Science (Core Collection), resulting in 75 papers being included in the review. Much of the available evidence comes from the elder abuse field, with few specific domestic abuse studies. The review found that non-intimate partners, that is (adult) children or other family members, are the most frequently reported perpetrator group. Most perpetrators tend to be male, and, where information is available, poor health, and drug and alcohol problems are often reported. We conclude that we need to build more evidence on perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse using a wider methodology, which should be situated within the conceptual lens of domestic abuse, and that policy and practice should urgently review whether existing risk assessment tools and perpetrator programmes are suitable given most domestic abuse of older adults is perpetrated by younger sons, daughters or other family members
Domestic abuse in later life: A secondary analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales
No full textUntil recently, older victims – and perpetrators – of domestic abuse were largely absent from both research and policy, leaving a lacuna of empirical and theoretical understandings of abuse in later life. This article presents the findings from the first study to use Crime Survey for England and Wales data on older adults to explore prevalence and risk factors for domestic abuse against adults aged 60–74 years old and, separately, adults aged 16–59 years. We find that risk factors for abuse are similar across the life course. In particular, socio-economic disadvantage, poor health and disability, and victim sex are constant correlates for victimisation, regardless of age. However, there are some important differences in the risk factors for partner and non-partner abuse in later life. Consistent with previous research involving all ages, we found that women were significantly more likely to be victimised by a partner than men (almost three times more likely in our study). However, when looking at abuse by non-partner family members, there was no statistically significant difference between the risk of victimisation for men and women. In other words, partner abuse disproportionately affects older women, but men and women are equally at risk of non-partner abuse. We propose that a move towards life course theories for understanding domestic abuse is required
Implementation of SAP in Kalev Factory, Sugar Candy Unit
No full textSelleks et tänapäeva tööstused suures konkurentsis ellu jääksid ning suudaksid kohaneda turu
muutustega on oluline väga täpselt jälgida kuluallikaid, et toota võimalikult efektiivselt. SAP
majandustarkvara pakub võimalust jälgida täpselt toote valmistamiseks kuluvat aega, tööjõu
ressurssi ning materjale. Tänu sellele on võimalik optimeerida protsesse ning ka laovarusid.
Uurimise ja analüüsi käigus otsiti vastuseid põhilistele uurimisküsimustele: kas
juurutusprotsess vastas üldistele uue majandustarkvara juurutuspõhimõtetele, millised olid
Suhkrukommi üksuse töötajate hirmud ning kas need ka realiseerusid ning kas
juurutusprotsess oli edukas või oleks saanud midagi teha teisiti.
Uue majandustarkvara juurutusprotsess Kalevi tehases vastas üldistele juurutuspõhimõtetele.
Kõik vajalikud etapid olid kaetud ning langesid kokku soovitusliku juurutusstruktuuriga.
Suhkurkommi üksuse töötajate kõige suuremateks hirmudeks olid hirm oma arvutikasutamise
oskuste pärast ning kardeti ka inglise keelset programmi. Lisaks toodi välja ka kartust uute
tööülesannete ees ning kardeti ka seda, et tavapäraste tööülesannete kõrvalt ei jää aega
arvutis vajalike liigutuste tegemiseks. Kardeti ka harjumuste muutmist, sest olles pikalt
töötanud ühe programmiga ja minnes üle teisele, on kõik liigutused vaja ümber õppida. Üle
poolte küsimustikule vastajatest hindas, et nende hirmud realiseerusid osaliselt ning 6 vastajat
arvasid, et nende hirmud ei osutunud tõeseks.
Juurutusprotsess oli edukas, sest ei toimunud ühtegi suurt seisakut ega möödapanekut
materjalide või planeerimise osas. Tootmistöötajad said kiiresti tootmist alustada ning kiiresti
oldi valmis üle minema saja protsendilisele tootmismahule. Ettepanekuteks oleks varuda õiged
seadmed uue majandustarkvara kasutuselevõtuks varemalt ning pöörata rohkem tähelepanu
masterdata andmete õigsusele, et juba harjutades saaksid töötajad kohaneda õigete
andmetega.The goal of this graduation thesis Implementation of SAP in Kalev factory, Sugar Candy unit
is to analyze if the implementation process went according to the new ERP implementation
strategies.
The research addresses the challenges that modern production companies face in an
increasingly competitive environment, highlighting the importance of an efficient ERP system
to reduce costs and optimize processes, including inventory management.
The decision to implement SAP was driven by Kalev’s need to align with other Orkla Group
companies and improve it’s operations.
The author has focused on three research questions:
• Did the implementation process go according to the new ERP implementation
recommendation?
• What did the people in Sugar Candy unit fear the most before the implementation of the
new system and did all their fears came true?
• Was the process successful and what could have been done differently?
As the shift leader in Sugar Candy unit, the author played a key role in leading the SAP
implementation. To better understand the concerns of the workers, a questionnaire was
distributed to the employees.
Chapter one is introductory and describes what is SAP ERP and what are the advantages of
having it.
Chapter two reviews the company Kalev and introduces the project SMART EST One which
was the project of implementing SAP.
Chapter three describes the implementation process in production and explains it more
thoroughly in Sugar Candy unit.
It was concluded that the implementation of SAP was successful, and it aligned with the
implementation strategies. There were no significant production disruptions, and all the
needed materials were provided within the reasonable time. Main fears for the workers in
Sugar Candy unit were fear of using computers as part of everyday work and, they were
concerned about the language of the program.
The author suggests that for future implementations, all the new equipment should be in place
before the system is launched. Also, it is important to check the data and make sure that it is
correct before the test system is made because then users can start practicing with the correct
data and improve the overall process
