258 research outputs found
Essentials of business law / Ewan MacIntyre.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.xxxiii, 464 pages.
THE TUBERCULOSIS JOURNEY — Symptoms to Sequelae: Evaluating diagnostic pathways and improving the measurement of the tuberculosis patient experience
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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
Identifying actions to foster cross-disciplinary global health research:a mixed-methods qualitative case study of the IMPALA programme on lung health and tuberculosis in Africa
Get PDFObjectives To identify actions for fostering cross-disciplinary research (CDR) skills and collaborations in global health, and to produce recommendations for improving the design, implementation and management of cross-disciplinary global health research programmes. Design Using a North-South global health research programme as a case study - and following an adapted framework - we conducted qualitative research using document reviews, semi-structured interviews (purposive sampling) and participatory observation. We used baseline survey findings to identify potential interviewees and tailor interview guides. Setting Our case study was a 4.5-year (2017-2021) programme, namely, the International Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung Health and Tuberculosis in Africa (IMPALA). Led by a UK research institute, IMPALA spanned 22 partner organisations from 13 countries (10 in sub-Saharan Africa), and involved five research discipline groups: clinical science, social science, health systems, health economics and policy/research capacity. Participants Thirty-one IMPALA members were interviewed (July 2018-November 2019), with interviewees evenly split by gender (16 female and 15 male) and by Global North/South institution (15 non-African and 16 African). Twenty-five (81%) were researchers, comprising 18 senior researchers (professors, readers, associate professors and senior lecturers) and seven early career researchers (assistant professors, lecturers, research fellows, postdocs, research assistants and PhD students). Twenty-four programme events were observed (September 2018-April 2020) and 49 documents were reviewed (December 2017-April 2020). All 66 IMPALA staff were sent the baseline survey, receiving 51 responses (43/56 researchers and 8/10 non-researchers). Results Fourteen themes emerged, which suggested that CDR - while valued by many - is not universally understood, and the time it requires is often underestimated. We found that fostering CDR and managing tensions needs planning and continuous discussions and interactions. A shared vision with explicitly agreed goals and roles and active management of cross-disciplinary activities is essential. Conclusions Active planning, implementation and management of cross-disciplinary activities are essential for the success of cross-disciplinary global health research and should be separate from the primary research activities
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?
Get PDFDisfluency 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
Cost of treatment support for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis using patient-centred approaches in Ethiopia : a model-based method
Get PDFBACKGROUND: Patient and health system costs for treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) remain high even after treatment duration was shortened. Many patients do not finish treatment, contributing to increased transmission and antimicrobial resistance. A restructure of health services, that is more patient-centred has the potential to reduce costs and increase trust and patient satisfaction. The aim of the study is to investigate how costs would change in the delivery of MDR-TB care in Ethiopia under patient-centred and hybrid approaches compared to the current standard-of-care. METHODS: We used published data, collected from 2017 to 2020 as part of the Standard Treatment Regimen of Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs for Patients with MDR-TB (STREAM) trial, to populate a discrete event simulation (DES) model. The model was developed to represent the key characteristics of patients' clinical pathways following each of the three treatment delivery strategies. To the pathways of 1000 patients generated by the DES model we applied relevant patient cost data derived from the STREAM trial. Costs are calculated for treating patients using a 9-month MDR-TB treatment and are presented in 2021 United States dollars (USD). RESULTS: The patient-centred and hybrid strategies are less costly than the standard-of-care, from both a health system (by USD 219 for patient-centred and USD 276 for the hybrid strategy) and patient perspective when patients do not have a guardian (by USD 389 for patient-centred and USD 152 for the hybrid strategy). Changes in indirect costs, staff costs, transport costs, inpatient stay costs or changes in directly-observed-treatment frequency or hospitalisation duration for standard-of-care did not change our results. CONCLUSION: Our findings show that patient-centred and hybrid strategies for delivering MDR-TB treatment cost less than standard-of-care and provide critical evidence that there is scope for such strategies to be implemented in routine care. These results should be used inform country-level decisions on how MDR-TB is delivered and also the design of future implementation trials
strategie k dosažení autentičnosti performera na jevišti
Get PDFThis 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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