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Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance
No full textThis thesis comparatively examines a selection of twenty-first century sheikh romances and Middle English romances from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that imagine an erotic relationship occurring between east and west. They do so against a background of conflict, articulated in military confrontation and binary religious and ethnic division. The thesis explores the strategies used to facilitate the cross-cultural relationship across such a gulf of difference and considers what a comparison of medieval and modern romance can reveal about attitudes towards otherness in popular romance.
In Chapter 1, I analyse the construction of the east in each genre, investigating how the homogenisation of the romance east in sheikh romance distances it from the geopolitical reality of those parts of the Middle East seen, by the west, to be "other". Chapter 2 examines the articulation of gender identity and the ways in which these romances subvert and reassert binary gender difference to uphold normative heterosexual relations. Chapter 3 considers how ethnic and religious difference is nuanced, in particular through the use of fabric, breaking down the disjunction between east and west. Chapter 4 investigates the way ethnicity, religion and gender affect hierarchies of power in the abduction motif, enabling undesirable aspects of the east to be recast.
The key finding of this thesis is that both romance genres facilitate the cross-cultural erotic relationship by rewriting apparently binary differences of religion and ethnicity to create sameness. While the east is figured differently in Middle English and modern sheikh romance, the strategies they use to facilitate the cross-cultural erotic relationship are similar. The thesis concludes that the constancy of certain attitudes towards the east in both medieval and modern romance reveals a persistence of conservative values in representations of the east in romance
Investigating and learning lessons from early experiences of implementing ePrescribing systems into NHS hospitals:a questionnaire study
No full textePrescribing systems have significant potential to improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare, but they need to be carefully selected and implemented to maximise benefits. Implementations in English hospitals are in the early stages and there is a lack of standards guiding the procurement, functional specifications, and expected benefits. We sought to provide an updated overview of the current picture in relation to implementation of ePrescribing systems, explore existing strategies, and identify early lessons learned
Validity of clinical severity scores for respiratory syncytial virus: a systematic review - data extraction sheet
No full textThe file presented is the standardised data extraction sheet that was used to extract data for the systematic review on the validity of severity scores for respiratory syncytial virus in children (≤24 months). This systematic review was conducted as a part of the Preparing for RSV Immunisation and Surveillance in Europe (PROMISE) project, funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (grant number: 101034339). The file is related to the upcoming publication Sheikh Z., E. Potter, Y. Li, R. Cohen, G. Dos Santos, L. Bont and H. Nair (in submission). Validity of clinical severity scores for respiratory syncytial virus: a systematic review
Sheikh Maguid Mosque
No full textPhotographer's description: Le mosquée du Chiek Migaud où Arabi fit sa derniére priére. Translation of photographer's description: The mosque of Sheikh Migaud where 'Urabi said his last prayer
Houses of Pasha and Sheikh Ibrahim houses
No full textPhotographer's description: Les maisons Nubar Pacha et Chiek Ibraïm (ruines). Translation of photographer's description: The houses of Nubar Pasha and the Sheikh Ibrahim (ruins)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Krožna oskrbovalna veriga in vplivi na trajnost, vključujoč krepitev kompetenc na področju logistike
No full textThis thesis focuses on creating a framework for evaluating the influence of closed-loop on supply chain performance in the case of petrochemical industry in the Egyptian context, with a focus to test the influence of sustainability on the supply chain performance, to investigate the function of sustainability as a mediator between reverse logistics and supply chain performance, and evaluate the impact of closed-loop supply chains (environmental legislation, customer awareness and economic motivations) on sustainable development. The gathering of primary data helped the current study\u27s goals get accomplished. Surveys are used to gather data to estimate how reverse logistics impacts the effectiveness of the supply chain. The employees of supply chain companies in Egypt received the surveys from the researcher. The study\u27s findings indicate a strong link between sustainability and reverse logistics. Additionally, there is a marginally significant correlation between supply chain performance and sustainability. The outcomes also showed that the closed-loop supply chain has little influence on supply chain efficiency and sustainability. Furthermore, there is a marginally significant association between supply chain effectiveness and reverse logistics. The results also revealed that sustainability has a function in supply chain performance and reverse logistics.Trajnostni razvoj in njegova implementacija sta od leta 1992, ki sovpada z vrhom v Riu de Janeiru, deležna globalne pozornosti. Vrh v Riu je privedel do sprememb v svetovni družbi in njenih gospodarstvih ter je spodbujal predloge za izboljšave v gospodarskih, družbenih, okoljskih in političnih razsežnostih, ne le na makroravni, temveč tudi na mikroravni. Tako so podjetja začela vključevati načela trajnostnosti v svoje strategije in vsakodnevne dejavnosti, pri čemer so se osredotočila predvsem na zmanjšanje stroškov virov in materiala. Vendar se podjetja za doseganje in prilagajanje ciljev, povezanih s trajnostnostnimi zahtevami, običajno zanašajo na metode za oblikovanje, izvajanje in spremljanje svojih sistemov z vidika okoljskih, družbenih in gospodarskih vidikov (Baumgartner, 2014).
Za vse tri vidike je bilo predlaganih več pristopov ali opredelitev. Na primer, vidik ekonomske trajnostnosti je povezan s finančno zmogljivostjo podjetja, da lahko neomejeno podpira gospodarsko proizvodnjo. Poleg tega je ekonomska trajnostnost predstavljena kot sedanja in prihodnja vrednost naravnih virov (npr. pitne vode) ter zajema izdelke, potrošnjo, naložbe, lokalne trge in svetovno gospodarstvo (Zhong in Wu, 2015). Okoljska trajnostnost se osredotoča na dolgoročno preživetje ljudi. Okoljska trajnostnost tako velja za odgovorno interakcijo med človekom in okoljem, ki vključuje preprečevanje degradacije in izčrpavanja naravnih virov ob ohranjanju dolgoročne kakovosti okolja (Zhong in Wu, 2015). Družbena trajnostnost je po drugi strani povezana s kakovostjo življenja, v vseh družbenih segmentih. Predstavlja splošno skrb in sodelovanje, ki ju podjetja in posamezniki izvajajo v interesu družbe. Družbena trajnostnost zahteva, da vsi člani družbe sprejmejo razlike in jih obravnavajo kot središče moči in premoči, kar zagotavlja rast in blaginjo za vse (Vallance et al., 2011). Poleg tega sta Glavič in Kovačič Lukman (2007) predstavila trajnostnost s sistemskega vidika kot proces, ki poudarja razvoj človeške družbe z upoštevanjem odgovornega gospodarstva, v skladu z okoljskimi in naravnimi proces
Health Providers in India: On the Frontlines of Change
No full textPresents a view of a particular group of frontline health providers, based on field research or on the authors' respective experiences of working with or as providers. This title addresses such health providers as: doctors, nurses, public health workers, counsellors, traditional practitioners and homecare providers.
Introduction: India's health providers-diverse frontiers, disparate fortunes / Kabir Sheikh and Asha George --
Government rural health assistants as social beings / Asha George --
The midwifery role of the auxiliary nurse midwife / Dileep Mavalankar, Kranti Vora and Bharati Sharma --
Dilemmas and conflicts on HIV counselors in VCTCs / Akhila Vasan and Jayashree Ramakrishna --
Public sector doctors in an era of commercialization / Rama V. Baru --
Working with private practitioners on a public health intervention / Risha Hess, Saswati Sinha and Pritpal Marjara --
Understanding practitioners' responses to national policy guidelines / Kabir Sheikh and John DH Porter --
The dynamics of medicos' anti-reservation protest of 2006 / V. Venkatesan --
The community role of indigenous healers / Madhura Lohokare and Bhargavi V. Davar --
Traditional orthopaedic practitioners' place in contemporary health / Unnikrishnan PM, Lokesh Kumar HP and Darshan Shankar --
The critical role of family care providers in HIV/AIDS / Shilpa Karvande [and others] --
Sexual harassment of women health workers / Paramita Chaudhuri --
Gender and health training of male multipurpose workers / Anagha Pradhan, Renu Khanna, and Korrie de Koning
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