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Essentials of business law / Ewan MacIntyre.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.xxxiii, 464 pages.
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Applied Social Science for Early Years
No full textApplying social science subjects such as psychology, sociology, social policy and research methods to Early Years can help to raise standards and ensure good practice. These subjects inform much of the academic curriculum within many Early Years programmes and are subjects that make an important contribution to understanding children’s behaviour, growth and development. The book identifies, analyses and assesses how social science enriches Early Years as opposed to regarding Early Years and social science as distinct. Each chapter imaginatively introduces the main learning objectives and includes formative activities, which apply social science to particular themes to aid students’ cognitive skills
We carry the light, comprising : i) Writing in lockdown: exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on writers' creativity, ii) We carry the light, a family novel set in Scotland during the pandemic
No full textThis paper examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on writers’ practice during the periods that social distancing restrictions were in place. The study focuses on – but is not limited to – the first UK lockdown, which began on 23rd March 2020.
Structured interviews were conducted with five writers, with an additional person responding to the questions in writing. This group included writers of fiction and non-fiction, as well as poets. Interviewees were at various points of their careers, ranging from an undergraduate creative writing student to a prize-winning author who has been publishing for over thirty years. Through these interviews, the impact of the pandemic on writing was explored in three main areas: the impact of emotions on the writing process; the effect Covid had on conditions needed for writing; and the ability of writers to find and/or act on inspiration.
Incorporating evidence from these interviews – as well as from writing anthologies, newspaper articles, and literature relating to the pandemic – this study demonstrates that the pandemic did have a noticeable impact on writers’ creativity. Although two writers wrote more during lockdown, nearly all described the negative impact emotions had on their ability and/or motivation to write. Where the pandemic disrupted the conditions they need to write, writers wrote nothing, or significantly less than pre-pandemic; writers whose children lived with them during this time were most affected. Some noticed a negative correlation between finding/acting on inspiration and social distancing restrictions. Writers reflected on the impact of the pandemic and were able to identify positive and negative aspects that were a result of the restrictions, such as the benefits in terms of inclusion at literary events. The findings presented in the final section show the importance of learning from and recording the pandemic through writing."This work was supported by the Ewan and Christine Brown Postgraduate Studentship in the Arts and Humanities. I would, therefore, like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Ewan and Christine Brown for the financial support that allowed me to undertake this doctoral research.”--Fundin
Fossil fuel divestment, directors’ duties, and derivative claims: McGaughey and Davies v. USS Ltd and its directors
No full textA Climate Change Laws of the World insight In July 2023, at that time the hottest ever month in human history, the UK Court of Appeal gave judgment in McGaughey and Davies v. USS Ltd and its Directors [2023] EWCA Civ 873. The author of this note, Professor Ewan McGaughey, and his colleague, Professor Neil Davies, had undertaken the largest crowdfunded drive in the UK so far, to sue the board of directors personally to reverse (the roughly) 30% cuts to defined benefit pensions, and to require the UK’s biggest pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), to divest of its fossil fuels assets. Out of court, after the Truss mini-budget, years of strikes, and shortly after the complainants got leave to the Court of Appeal, USS capitulated: the CEO announced his resignation, and USS declared it would reverse the pension cuts. Despite this victory, McGaughey and Davies went on to lose in the Court of Appeal, but by then they had already succeeded in most of their goals. The key issue where they had limited success was in fossil fuel divestment. The focus of this Climate Change Laws of the World note is why they lost on the fossil fuel claim, but also how the case sets a positive precedent for beneficiaries seeking to uphold directors’ duties, thus it may be instructive for the future wave of litigation against directors complicit in climate damage
A critical philosophy of microaggressions
No full textThis thesis addresses three main questions: (1) ‘what are microaggressions?’; (2) ‘how do they harm marginalised people?’; and (3) ‘how should we deal with them?’.
I begin by offering a brief review of the psychological and philosophical literature on microaggressions, with a particular focus on the critique that the microaggression concept is too ill-defined to offer certainty over what counts as a microaggression. I intervene in this debate by rejecting the claim that we require this level of certainty and defend a structural account of microaggressions which characterises them as a subtly oppressive social practice. Following this, I motivate why microaggressions are oppressive by exploring the ways in which they constitute a form of violence against marginalised people. More specifically, I introduce the concept of existential violence to describe how microaggressions diminish the subjectivity of their targets by denying, homogenising, and inferiorising their identities and experiences, and substantiate this by offering a phenomenological account of microaggressions.
To address how we should deal with microaggressions, I first consider how we might respond to the microaggressor. Starting with anger, I warn against uncritically buying into the argument that anger is a ‘counterproductive’ response to microaggressions by exposing how this critique promotes a masterful form of disciplinary control which reinforces the oppression of marginalised people. Next, I explore the potential for disarming microaggressions through cringe, putting forward my own account of ‘cringeworthiness’ in order to show how microaggressions can be understood as cringeworthy, and outlining some of the benefits and drawbacks of cringing at microaggressors. Finally, I consider what each of us can do to reduce the likelihood that we engage in microaggressions. Moving beyond popular rhetorics around acknowledging our bias and privilege, I argue that we should embrace a politics of disorientation, characterised by an openness to being transformed by those moments of discomfort where our habits of oppression, like microaggressions, become disrupted
A critical philosophy of microaggressions
No full textThis thesis addresses three main questions: (1) ‘what are microaggressions?’; (2) ‘how do they harm marginalised people?’; and (3) ‘how should we deal with them?’.
I begin by offering a brief review of the psychological and philosophical literature on microaggressions, with a particular focus on the critique that the microaggression concept is too ill-defined to offer certainty over what counts as a microaggression. I intervene in this debate by rejecting the claim that we require this level of certainty and defend a structural account of microaggressions which characterises them as a subtly oppressive social practice. Following this, I motivate why microaggressions are oppressive by exploring the ways in which they constitute a form of violence against marginalised people. More specifically, I introduce the concept of existential violence to describe how microaggressions diminish the subjectivity of their targets by denying, homogenising, and inferiorising their identities and experiences, and substantiate this by offering a phenomenological account of microaggressions.
To address how we should deal with microaggressions, I first consider how we might respond to the microaggressor. Starting with anger, I warn against uncritically buying into the argument that anger is a ‘counterproductive’ response to microaggressions by exposing how this critique promotes a masterful form of disciplinary control which reinforces the oppression of marginalised people. Next, I explore the potential for disarming microaggressions through cringe, putting forward my own account of ‘cringeworthiness’ in order to show how microaggressions can be understood as cringeworthy, and outlining some of the benefits and drawbacks of cringing at microaggressors. Finally, I consider what each of us can do to reduce the likelihood that we engage in microaggressions. Moving beyond popular rhetorics around acknowledging our bias and privilege, I argue that we should embrace a politics of disorientation, characterised by an openness to being transformed by those moments of discomfort where our habits of oppression, like microaggressions, become disrupted
Numerical models of Hall thruster ionization oscillations
No full textThesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-143).In this thesis, low frequency ionization oscillations in Hall thrusters resembling the breathing mode are studied through computational simulation. The relationship between wall erosion and discharge current oscillations is analyzed using particle-in-cell simulation, and a series of parametric simulations is used to determine the effects of macro-particle size, floating body potential, electron injection region, ion time step size, grid refinement, heavy particle mass reduction, and an artificial permittivity factor. These studies help to determine the parameters that will produce accurate simulations in the future, and identify the parts of the model that need improvement. One-dimensional steady and unsteady Hall thruster models, as well as a generalized sheath model are then developed, and the effects of the parameters that determine stability on the thruster's operating conditions are determined.by Ewan Samuel Kay.S.M
Disfluency in dialogue:an intentional signal from the speaker?
No full textDisfluency is a characteristic feature of spontaneous human speech, commonly seen as a consequence of problems with production. However, the question remains open as to why speakers are disfluent: Is it a mechanical by-product of planning difficulty, or do speakers use disfluency in dialogue to manage listeners' expectations? To address this question, we present two experiments investigating the production of disfluency in monologue and dialogue situations. Dialogue affected the linguistic choices made by participants, who aligned on referring expressions by choosing less frequent names for ambiguous images where those names had previously been mentioned. However, participants were no more disfluent in dialogue than in monologue situations, and the distribution of types of disfluency used remained constant. Our evidence rules out at least a straightforward interpretation of the view that disfluencies are an intentional signal in dialogue
Size-mediated, density-dependent cannibalism in the signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852) (Decapoda, Astacidea), an invasive crayfish in Britain
No full textMany thanks to the University of Aberdeen who funded the project and Robert Laughton, director of the Findhorn, Nairn and Lossie Fisheries Trust, who provided useful field work advice and equipment. Thank you to Scottish Natural Heritage for support and facilitating the project with swift licensing (licence no. 22482). We would also like to acknowledge the Peoples Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) for their sponsoring of Connor Wood and for their support of our research. Many thanks also to Ewan McHenry for his assistance with data collection in the field.Peer reviewe
strategie k dosažení autentičnosti performera na jevišti
No full textThis M.A. thesis is based on author Tinka Avramova’s practical research and findings from the canon of her works created at DAMU regarding how to create authentic moments on stage specifically with regards to the performer’s authenticity. The aim of this paper is to describe the conclusions regarding how to create authentic performances in regards to the performers’ authenticity through analyzing the process and results from her works. The first part includes grounds the reader in what authenticity in performance means for the author goes through her early works, Lectures From My Father and For INTELLIGENT People Only, where she describes her path of discovery to working authentically. The second part focuses mainly on Avramova’s “Identity Series,” which includes the three works: Doubting Identity, Pull My Finger, and Rockets & Bombs. The author outlines and describes her approaches and methods of working with performers to achieve authenticity and recapitulates these methods’ discovery and development. Based on her personal findings, the author mostly uses personal experience and knowledge; she also references and discusses other contemporary theatre companies that use similar approaches concerning her own work.Tato diplomová práce vychází z praktického výzkumu autorky Tinky Avramové a zjištění, která vycházejí ze soupisu jejích děl vytvořených na DAMU. Zaměřuje se jak vytvořit autentické momenty na pódiu, především na autentičnost performera. Cílem této práce je popsat analýzu tohoto procesu a potom výsledky autorčiny práce. První část je zaměřena na to, co pro autorku autentičnost znamená, cituje její raná díla jako, “Lectures From My Father” a “For INTELLIGENT People Only”. Popisuje cestu svého osobního objevu autentické práce. Druhá část je zaměřena na Avramové „Identity Series“, která zahrnuje tři díla: Doubting Identity, Pull My Finger a Rockets & Bombs. Autorka zde nastiňuje a popisuje její přístupy a metody práce s interprety k dosažení autentičnosti a rekapituluje jejich objev a vývoj. Tato zjištění jsou založena na osobních zkušenostech a znalostech. Ona také odkazuje a diskutuje o jiných současných divadelních společnostech, které používají podobné přístupy jako jsou její vlastní
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