165 research outputs found
Brief and Appendix of Appellant A.Z.
No full textBrief of Appellant A.Z. in A.Z. v. Higher Education Student Assistance Authorit
One health: professional stakeholder engagement key to tackling zoonotic disease
No full textGlobally, endemic and emergent disease risks persist as significant challenges to human and animal health. Rural livestock farming communities in low and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by zoonoses and animal diseases due to poverty and concomitant poorly available health and veterinary services. Dr. Alison Z. Pyatt, Dr. Stephen C. Mansbridge and Dr. Vetja Haakuria explain why a One Health approach to tackling zoonosis is now broadly advocated and a successful strategy requires sector stakeholder recognition, inclusion, and engagement to ensure a holistic response to a complex problem
Service provision in the animal health sector
No full textDomesticated animals form an important part of modern life fulfilling roles as companion, working or food producing animals. Regardless of their role, the health care of animals is complex and can involve a range of health practitioners. The discerning nature of the veterinary client, in combination with the developing roles of professionals and changing demographics, has transformed market dynamics and highlighted the need for the sector to reflect on service quality.
Drawing on the extant literature in the domains of service quality and co-creation, the study focuses on sector stakeholder groups of clients, paraprofessionals and veterinarians with the aim of proposing a framework to understand service quality in the animal health sector, through three phases of research. Phase one comprises a detailed exploratory mapping exercise of the industry utilising an extensive range of secondary data. Phase two uses takes a critical incident technique and applies the principles of grounded analysis to semi-structured, interviews with sector stakeholders (n=13). Interview data is subject to thematic analysis utilising NVivo to identify emergent service quality dimensions. The third phase involves quantitative survey of stakeholders (n=663), including veterinarians, paraprofessionals and clients analysed through multivariate techniques to identify factors and test relationships between them.
Triangulation of literature, mapping results and primary data reveals six latent dimensions of service quality: empathy; bespoke outcome; professional integrity; value for money; confident relationships and access.
These results lead to the development of a conceptual framework for animal health service, confirming the importance of the notions of value co-creation and outcome. The thesis contributes to the theoretical debate on context-specific service quality and has the potential for impact on practice in the rapidly changing animal health businesses
Exploring Overarching PSS Design in B2B Industrial Manufacturing
No full textPurpose: The objective of this study is to explore PSS design approaches for product-service innovation in the B2B manufacturing industry. This paper builds on current research within the Delft University of Technology, researching the role of design as a driver for change and servitization.Design/Methods/Approach: We studied 13 product-service design cases of ten weeks, carried out by students industrial design engineering. We collected the case data, observed their process and analysed the outcome of the project. We mapped the product-service proposals and built frameworks categorising levels of innovation and the applied strategic design elements and methods.Findings: Taking an overarching innovation approach, creating a broader perspective on the value chain, exploring new business contexts without being hindered by conventions and limitations and using state-of-art design methods, increase the innovation level of product-service propositions.Originality/Value: This study draws attention to the importance of strategic design processes in PSS innovation.Methodologie en Organisatie van DesignMarketing and Consumer Researc
Exploration of veterinary service supply to rural farmers in Namibia: a One Health perspective
No full textntroduction: expansion of the Namibian beef export market presents benefits for both the National economy and small-scale farming communities. However, meeting animal health and productivity requirements whilst securing veterinary public health are identified as key challenges to the sector. Farmer access to veterinary services, animal health advice and veterinary medicines is scarce due to the geographical expanse, and on-going risks from endemic and emergent zoonotic diseases.
Methods: an exploratory, qualitative research methodology was adopted to obtain ground-up rich data from pastoral livestock farmers (n=60) through a series of ten focus groups. Groups were stratified by the geographical regions of Otjozondjupa and Omaheke, representing key beef cattle producing areas in Namibia. Transcribed data were analysed using theoretical thematic analysis, constructed in Grounded Theory methodology, with an iterative constant comparison technique used to identify common themes. Triangulation analysis was completed between authors to ensure consistency in coding.
Results: focus group data analysis revealed three emergent themes representative of farmer experiences, belief and opinions. Themes relevant and important to pastoralist farming in the regions, and to veterinary public health, were defined and described as; access to veterinary services and advice; veterinary medicines supply chain; farmer knowledge and understanding.
Conclusion: control of endemic zoonoses and the prevention of emergent zoonotic disease is essential to secure livestock health, welfare and productivity, and human health and livelihoods in the region. Contemporaneously is the need to improve livestock farmer access to veterinary and public health advice and education, which should be derived through a One Health approach
Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
Value co-creation in the animal healthcare sector
No full textDomesticated animals form an important part of modern life, fulfilling roles as household companions, working animals or food producing livestock. Regardless of the position they realise within contemporary society,their day to day care is now complex and involves a range of animal healthcare practitioners in addition to the veterinary \ud
professional, termed paraprofessionals. The discerning nature of the modern client in combination with the \ud
developing roles of professionals within the sector has transformed market dynamics and highlighted the need for reflection on measures of service quality and its provision.\ud
This paper presents a conceptualisation of value co-\ud
creation within animal healthcare based on an analysis of sector stakeholders’ service experiences. Interviews with service providers and clients provide data for content analysis and highlight the dimensions of communication and integrated care as important components of service provision. Exploratory factor analysis of questionnaire data (n=271) following surveying of veterinarians\ud
and paraprofessionals,loaded onto seven latent factors, with strong dimensions of trust and communication identified. Disparity between veterinarian and client opinion was of interest and is worthy of further investigation,but results obtained support the application \ud
of value co-creation models to develop service quality within the UK animal healthcare sector
Uptake of the lameness Five-Point Plan and its association with farmer-reported lameness prevalence: a cross-sectional study of 532 UK sheep farmers
No full textThe aims of this research were to determine the uptake of a national strategy to reduce lameness in the UK flock, known as the Five-Point Plan (5 P P); explore the association between footrot vaccination (Footvax®) use and 5 P P adoption; investigate the management practices associated with farmer-reported percentage lameness through risk factor analysis; and identify the population attributable fractions of these management practices. In 2014, the 5 P P was launched to provide a practical, farm-level framework to help farmers reduce lameness to reach Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC) targets. No published studies have explicitly explored its uptake in UK flocks nor its association with lameness prevalence. Understanding what parts of the 5 P P farmers adopt and which elements contribute towards the greatest reduction in lameness are integral in informing future strategies.
Between November 2018 and February 2019, 532 UK sheep farmers completed a cross-sectional online and paper-based survey. The geometric mean of farmer-reported percentage lameness in ewes was 3.2 % (95 % CI: 2.8–3.6). Farmers adopted a median of 3 points of the plan, but was only fully-adopted by 5.8 % of farmers. The number of points adopted increased with flock size, with larger commercial flocks more likely to cull and vaccinate against footrot, but smaller, pedigree flocks were more likely to treat individual lame sheep. Vaccination was poorly associated with the uptake of other points of the 5 P P.
Eight flock management factors were associated with significantly higher percentage lameness in ewes; not carrying out measures to avoid lameness transmission, not quarantining bought in stock, not treating individual lame sheep within three days, maintaining an open flock and foot trimming were all associated with a higher risk of lameness in flocks studied. In addition, using Footvax® for ≤5 years was associated with a higher risk of lameness, although vaccination could be a consequence of high flock lameness or these farmers were not implementing other effective managements, such as treating promptly. The highest PAFs were calculated for trimming lame sheep (16.9 %), maintaining an open flock (13.5 %) and not carrying out measures to avoid lameness transmission (11.8 %).
We provide new evidence documenting the benefits of adopting parts of the 5 P P on reducing lameness prevalence in UK flocks, although uptake of these measures could be improved in flocks. Encouraging uptake of these measures could make an important contribution towards reducing the prevalence of lameness and reaching 2021 FAWC ≤ 2% lameness prevalence targets
Plant introduction. Terminology
No full textThis reference book issued by the Donetsk Botanical Garden includes the main terms, concepts, definitions widely used in research and applied activities of plant introduction. While compiling this book the author kept in mind the traditional and modern approaches to solving the problems of this biological field of knowledge. The reference is intended for a wide range of specialists in Botany, Ecology and related fields of knowledge, as well as amateurs involved in plant introduction activities. Teachers, post-graduates and students of the Biology and Earth Science departments of higher education institutions are the intended audience and can use this edition as a reference and manual
Knowledge, memory, and the boundaries of subject [ЗНАНИЕ, ПАМЯТЬ И ГРАНИЦЫ СУБЪЕКТА]
No full textThis article is dedicated to the question: may the subject who uses an artificial device for storing information and consulting it literally know the information contained in this device and got by the subject by way of consulting it? Some philosophers claim the thesis of extended mid, i.e. they consider human mind as a system some parts of which may be external to human body. From this point of view the subject may know the information which is stored not in his memory, but in some computer implanted in him or even in some external storage. The author does not agree with this thesis and think that we don't have sufficient reasons for its statement. But the hypothesis that someone may know what is stored outside of his memory might seem more justified if it could be shown that at least a system consisting from human brain and computer could have the same knowledge as that which corresponding human being would have. Unlike systems consisting from human beings and some external storages working as substitutes of human memory, systems with human brains is based on the same biological processes which provide the work of normal human memory. Can such system have normal human knowledge? The author critically analyzes this hypothesis and shows that we don't have sufficient reasons to answer this question positively. © 2019 RAS Institute of Philosophy. All rights reserved
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