2,436 research outputs found
Foundation in management and leadership: a multi-method evaluation
No full textThis report presents a multi-method evaluation of feedback from the inaugural cohort (2012-2013) of Cumbria PFT’s Foundation in Leadership and Management programme (FIM). The FIM was developed through a preparatory working group, including staff and managers, to identify and target specific needs which were then cross referenced with national accredited tools such as the leadership competency framework and NHS change model. The first participating cohort was large and highly diverse in role and grade, which is an issue reflected in feedback throughout
Author Meets Reader: Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
Leadership development programme: a multi-method evaluation
No full textThis report investigates findings arising from a variety of forms of feedback provided by the first cohort of participants (2012-2013) in Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust’s “Leadership Development” Programme (LDP). The report summarises both quantitative and qualitative feedback, and synthesises findings to provide a more three-dimensional overview of participant experience and systemic impact. Feedback reflects, throughout, the diversity of the participating cohort in terms of professional roles and levels of seniority
South Thompson Valley and Pinantan official settlement plan.
Get PDFThe recommended policies contained in this plan provide the Thompson-Nicola Regional District with the means to protect and enhance the agricultural economic base, regulate the supply and location of rural residential growth, guide commercial and industrial development and satisfy the historical, recreational, social and environmental concerns of the settlement plan area.Not peer reviewedPlanning documen
Learning Leaders: a multi-method evaluation, final report
No full textThis report investigates findings arising from a variety of forms of feedback on Cumbria Partnership Foundation Trust’s “Learning Leaders” Programme (henceforth LLP) running from 2012-2013
Rural Residential Study
Get PDFThe Thompson-Nicola Regional District has recently been grappling with some of the basic problems and conflicts of trying to provide for rural residential lot demand and, at the same tie, trying to protect the resources, aesthetics and social climate of existing rural area.Not peer reviewedstudydraf
Criterion-related validity of knee joint-position-sense measurement using image capture and isokinetic dynamometry
Get PDFContext: Clinicians require portable, valid, and cost-effective methods to monitor knee joint-position-sense (JPS) ability.
Objective: To examine the criterion-related validity of image-capture JPS measures against an isokinetic-dynamometer (IKD) procedure.
Design: Random crossover design providing a comparison of knee JPS measures from image capture and IKD procedures.
Participants: 10 healthy participants, 5 female, age 28.0 ± 13.29 y, mass 60.3 ± 9.02 kg, height 1.65 ± 0.07 m, and 5 male, 29.6 ± 10.74 y, mass 73.6 ± 5.86 kg, height 1.75 ± 0.07 m.
Main Outcome Measures: The dependent variables were absolute error scores (AES) provided by 2 knee directions (flexion and extension). The independent variables were the method (image capture and IKD).
Results: There was no significant difference between clinical and IKD AES into knee-flexion data (P = .263, r = 0.55). There was a significant difference between clinical and IKD AES into knee-extension data (P = .016, r = .70).
Conclusions: Analysis of photographic images to assess JPS measurements using knee flexion is valid against an IKD positioning method, but JPS measurements using knee extension may not be valid against IKD techniques. However, photo-analysis measurements provided a lower error score using knee-extension data and thus may provide an optimal environment to produce maximal knee JPS acuity. Therefore, clinicians do not need expensive equipment to collect representative JPS ability
The Role of Coordination and Cooperation for Bt-maize cultivation in Brandenburg, Germany
Get PDFSince 2006, several varieties of transgenic Bt-maize are approved for commercial cultivation in Germany. The German regulatory framework for growing these crops comprises ex-ante regulations as well as ex-post liability rules to protect conventional and organic farming from possible negative side effects of transgenic plants and to ensure co-existence. Public regulation is also suspected to impose additional costs to those farmers who intend to plant Bt-maize. We address the question how Bt-maize growing farmers perceive the additional costs of regulation and whether coordination or cooperation takes place in order to diminish these costs. In 2006, we carried out a case study in the Oderbruch region (Brandenburg, Germany) comprising eight Bt-maize growing farmers and six adjacent neighbours. The predominantly large farms chose intrafarm coordination to manage the construction of buffer zones within their own fields and to avoid the planting of Bt-maize close to their neighbours. Inter-farm coordination or cooperation with adjacent farmers was not regarded necessary to achieve co-existence.Coordination, Cooperation, Bt-maize, Crop Production/Industries,
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