scholarly journals Killers in the bush

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Mike Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Rural Health ◽  
Extreme Environments ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Chief Executives ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk

Three senior Chief Executives of acute hospital trusts in the UK recently visited the Northern Territory (NT)and South Australia (SA) to study remote and rural health care in general - and Aboriginal health in particular. As with all other aspects of Aboriginal life, the subject of health status is highly charged and generates heightened emotions and intense political debate across the country but particularly in the NT and SA where many of the remote indigenous people live. Every "mainstream" Australian has an opinion on the trials and tribulations of the indigenous people.The field study was part of the NHS Leadership Centre's Senior Chief Executives' Development Programme. Itcomprised a longitudinal journey across the continent from Darwin (NT) through to Alice Springs to Tanundain the Barossa Valley and then on to Adelaide following the route of the 2,500 kilometre Stuart Highway. Itinvolved visiting rural health services, and meetings with Aboriginal leaders, academics, health practitioners and senior officials of the SA government.A specific research topic was to understand how practitioners working in extreme environments, and delivering long-term programmes of care, can maintain their morale and motivation.

Entrepreneurship: predictive profiling a game changer

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emerging Nations ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Profiling Techniques ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Distinct Field

Purpose – Addresses the subject of the entrepreneur, describes the significant and growing number of small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK, and outlines the author's development of an entrepreneurial competency profile (ECP). Design/methodology/approach – Draws on statistics taken form the UK government-sponsored Young Report, Make Business Your Business, and the author's own research into entrepreneurial efficacy. Findings – Describes how governments in developed countries and those in emerging nations are driving to create an environment that nurtures and sustains entrepreneurship. They believe it can rapidly create jobs, improve GDP and increase long-term productivity. Practical implications – Will benefit those in senior management positions by discussing the use of predictive profiling techniques to facilitate wealth creation. Originality/value – With so much attention being paid to entrepreneurship, and given our knowledge of predictive behavioral economics, can it be justifiably classified as a relatively distinct field in organizational sciences? Whilst there are many notable entrepreneurial successes, there are equally a large number of failures. How can we mitigate the failure rate?

Refugia within refugia: in situ speciation and conservation of threatened Bertmainius (Araneae : Migidae), a new genus of relictual trapdoor spiders endemic to the mesic zone of south-western Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark S. Harvey ◽  
Barbara York Main ◽  
Michael G. Rix ◽  
Steven J. B. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Morphological Criteria ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Refugia Within Refugia ◽  
Western Australian

The trapdoor spider family Migidae has a classical Gondwanan distribution and is found on all southern continents except the Indian region. The Australian fauna consists of three genera including Moggridgea O. P. Cambridge from south-western Australia and Kangaroo Island, South Australia; Moggridgea is otherwise widespread throughout Africa. The sole named species of Moggridgea from Western Australia, M. tingle Main, and its unnamed relatives are the subject of the present paper, which was stimulated by concern for the long-term persistence of populations, and the discovery of deep genetic divergences between populations. A phylogeny of the Western Australian species relative to African and South Australian Moggridgea was generated using molecular COI and ITS rDNA data, and based on both molecular and morphological criteria we conclude that the Western Australian taxa should be removed from Moggridgea and transferred to a new genus, Bertmainius. The seven species are delimited using both morphological and molecular criteria: B. tingle (Main) (the type species), and six new species, B. colonus, B. monachus, B. mysticus, B. opimus, B. pandus and B. tumidus. All seven species are considered to be threatened using IUCN criteria, with the major threatening processes being inappropriate fire regimes and climate change.

scholarly journals ‘Ulster Says No’: Regulating the consumption of commercial sex spaces and services in Northern Ireland

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 806-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J Maginn ◽  
Graham Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Strip Clubs ◽  
Land Usage ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Uk

Commercial forms of sex such as prostitution/sex work, strip clubs and even sex shops have been the subject of much political debate and policy regulation over the last decade or so in the UK and Ireland. These myriad forms of commercial sex and land usage have managed to survive and even thrive in the face of public outcry and regulation. Despite being part of the UK we suggest that Northern Ireland has steered its own regulatory course, whereby the consumption of commercial sexual spaces and services have been the subject of intense moral and legal oversight in ways that are not apparent in other UK regions. Nevertheless, in spite of this we also argue that the context of Northern Ireland may provide some lessons for the ways that religious values and moral reasoning can influence debates on commercial sex elsewhere.

scholarly journals Career choices for psychiatry: national surveys of graduates of 1974–2000 from UK medical schools

2005 ◽  
Vol 186 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Goldacre ◽  
Gill Turner ◽  
Seena Fazel ◽  
Trevor Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Career Choices ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Personal Assessment ◽  
Conditions Of Work

BackgroundConcerns continue about recruitment levels of junior doctors into psychiatry in the UK.AimsTo report career choices for and career progression in psychiatry.MethodPostal questionnaire surveys of qualifiers from all UK medical schools in eight qualification years since 1974.ResultsTotals of 75% (21 845 out of 28 980) and 74% (17 741 out of 24 044) of doctors responded atone and three years after qualification. One and three years after qualification, 4–5% of doctors chose psychiatry This has changed very little between 1974 and 2000. Most doctors who chose psychiatry one and three years after qualification were working in psychiatry at year 10. Hours and conditions of work, the doctor's personal assessment of their aptitudes and skills and their experience of the subject as a student influenced long-term career choices for psychiatry.ConclusionsGreater exposure to psychiatry for clinical students and in junior hospital jobs might improve recruitment.

scholarly journals MODELLING INFILTRATION ON GRAVEL BEACHES WITH AN XBEACH VARIANT

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (32) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Hidayat Jamal ◽  
David J. Simmonds ◽  
Vanesa Magar ◽  
Shunqi Pan
Keyword(s):  
Sandy Beaches ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Waves And Currents ◽  
Profile Changes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Gravel Beaches ◽  
Sediment Transport Equation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Sand And Gravel

Coarse-grained beaches are particularly prevalent in the UK, composed of accumulations of either gravel, or mixed sand and gravel sediments. Understanding and predicting their morphological behaviour in response to short-term and long-term forcing has been the subject of recent research. Despite the focus on sandy beaches, it is important to understand that the balance of processes that govern different behaviour between sandy and gravel beaches. In this study we show how a public domain numerical model, XBeach, developed for sandy environments (Roelvink et al., 2009) can be modified for use in predicting the cross-shore profile changes of gravel beaches. Improvements investigated here include: use of Lagrangian interpretation of velocity in place of Eulerian for driving sediment movement; incorporation of Packwood’s (1983) pragmatic model of infiltration in the unsaturated area of the swash region; introducing of new morphological module based upon Soulsby’s (1997) sediment transport equation for waves and currents. These changes are suggested in order to significantly improve the application of this model to gravel beaches, especially with regard to swash velocity asymmetry which is responsible for development of the steep accretionary phase steep berm above waterline. The results from the model agree well with the measured experimental data and improve upon the results presented by Pedrozo-Acuña et al. (2006).

Using the Change4Life Disney Branded 10-minute Shake Ups During the COVID-19 ‘Lockdown’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Budzynski-Seymour ◽  
James Steele ◽  
Michelle Jones
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Exertion ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Perceived Effort ◽  
Qualitative Feedback ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
The Uk

Physical activity (PA) is considered essential to overall health yet it is consistently reported that children are failing to meet the recommended levels. Due to the bidirectional relationship between affective states and PA, affective responses are a potential predictor to long term engagement. Since late March 2020 the UK government enforced ‘lockdown’ measures to help control the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19); however, this has impacted children’s PA. Using online resources at home to support PA is now common. The primary aim of this research was to investigate the use of the Change4Life 10-minute Shake Ups to support PA by examining the effects of Disney branding upon children’s (n=32) post activity affective responses and perceived exertion. The secondary was to investigate the effect of the lockdown on PA habits. Children had similar positive affective responses and perceived effort to activities; however, branding was considered to be a key contributing factor based upon qualitative feedback from parents. Children’s PA levels dropped slightly since ‘lockdown’ was imposed; though online resources have been utilised to support PA. The use of immersive elements such as characters and narrative in PA sessions, as well as utilising online resources during ‘lockdown’ appear potentially promising for future research.

GA: Armani’s Giorgio Armani

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Brooker ◽  
Margaret Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Shop ◽  
The Third ◽  
Haute Couture ◽  
Fashion Designer ◽  
The Body Shop ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Career Woman

The Armani high-fashion example illustrates the importance of adaptive rational methods in his founding and developing of an iconic high-fashion firm. Armani adapted stylistically to fashion’s new times in the 1970–80s by creating a new style catering for the career woman. His stylistic adaptation is compared with that of another famous Italian fashion designer, Versace, who instead modernized haute couture fashion and created a succession of glamourous styles. Both leaders exploited the same opportunity but in different ways. The third section compares these leaders’ legacies in the 1990s–2000s and assesses from a long-term perspective how capably they had used adaptive rational methods. The final section shifts the focus from fashion to the cosmetics industry and from Italy to the UK. Anita Roddick used adaptive rational methods to establish The Body Shop corporation in the 1970s–80s. However, she then abandoned rational methods with dire results for her corporation in the 1990s.

scholarly journals Knowledge and attitudes towards concussion in UK-based male ice hockey players: A need for attitude change?

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hutchinson ◽  
Paul Ellison ◽  
Andrew Levy ◽  
David Marchant
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Accurate Knowledge ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Sport Concussion ◽  
Concussion History ◽  
Concussion Knowledge ◽  
The Uk

Objective Concussion is a common injury in ice hockey, and previous research suggests some misconceptions and unsafe attitudes amongst players. The purpose of this study was to assess sport concussion knowledge, attitudes and the effect of sport concussion history in UK-based male ice hockey players across three levels of competition: professional, semi-professional and amateur. Methods Sixty-one participants across a number of UK ice hockey teams completed the Rosenbaum Concussion Knowledge and Attitudes Survey and reviewed a series of statements to assess knowledge (concussion knowledge index), attitudes (concussion attitude index) and misconceptions of concussion. Results Level of competition and concussion history had no significant effect on concussion knowledge index or concussion attitude index. A positive significant relationship exists between playing experience and concussion knowledge index and concussion attitude index. Statements identified common misconceptions and areas of accurate knowledge regarding concussion symptoms suggesting that male ice hockey players have a higher level knowledge compared to a sample of the UK general public. Playing experience was associated with increased knowledge and increasingly safe attitudes towards concussion. Conclusion Despite knowledge relating to loss of consciousness and correct management of symptoms being generally accurate, there are worryingly unsafe attitudes regarding aspects of concussion. Such attitudes may well pose significant threats to players’ safety and long-term health.

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