Service Scholarship: The Underutilized Component in Meeting Social Needs

In conditions of market competition, the fundamental goal of any commercial organization is to obtain the greatest profit, which directly depends on the amount of income received and expenses incurred. Current paper discuses about main source of development of the material and technical base of the enterprise, replenishment of its own working capital, ensuring the social needs of the companies. Main objectivity is income factor in the stability of the existence and progress of the monopoly companies. In this regard, the management of the income of the organization is currently quite an urgent task for every giant entrepreneur. The article reveals the essence, purpose, objectives and measures in the field of enterprise revenue management. On the example of a particular enterprise, a dynamic and structural analysis of its revenues is carried out.

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New Approaches to Understanding Judicial Ethics in the Information

Pravosudie / Justice ◽

10.37399/2686-9241.2020.3.12-32 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 12-32

Author(s):

E. V. Burdina ◽

Keyword(s):

Self Regulation ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Subject Area ◽

Social Needs ◽

Legal Norms ◽

Stage Of Development ◽

Judicial Administration ◽

Personal Approach ◽

Personal Qualities ◽

The Subject

Introduction. The article is devoted to the problems of the essence and content of judicial ethics in the new conditions of the technical revolution and with other social needs for legal regulation. Theoretical Basis. Methods. The work used a systematic, activity-personal approach to the study of moral and ethical standards of the conduct of judges. This made it possible to reveal a new and broader view on judicial ethics, which is not simply a set of moral restrictions and obligations imposed on a judge. Results. The work has identified and analysed the signs of judicial ethics at the current stage of development. It is argued that ethical regulation is precautionary in relation to the legal regulation of the independence of judges, for they complement ethical rules and reinforce legal norms. The ethical conduct of judges is an instrument guaranteeing judicial independence in all of its manifestations, including in organisational and judicial relations. The new realities of our time recognise the expansion of boundaries and the subject area itself of ethical regulation. A broader view on judicial ethics, which differs from the traditional one, is hereby justified. The latter is defined in two ways – namely both as a system of professional values, as well as a means of judicial administration based on the principle of self-regulation. By its very nature, judicial ethics is the result (and the way) of judicial self-governance, developed on the basis of the experience of functioning bodies of the judicial community. Discussion and Conclusion. Conclusions are drawn on both the instrumental and the managerial impact of the categories of ethics. The subject of judicial ethics has been defined, which constitutes the rules of conduct of judges in the performance of their professional duties and beyond – namely the set of general principles of work of a judge, as well as the personal qualities of a judge personifying the judicial power. Proposals on the optimisation of the mechanism of ethical influence, differentiation of ethical and disciplinary norms have also been substantiated.

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GPS mHealth Intervention among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Feasibility Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.25553 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Leticia R. Moczygemba ◽

Whitney Thurman ◽

Kyler Tormey ◽

Anthony Hudzik ◽

Lauren Welton-Arndt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Community Health ◽

Mobile Health ◽

Care Coordination ◽

Information Exchange ◽

Social Needs ◽

Local Health ◽

Hospital Visit ◽

Mhealth Intervention ◽

Significant Difference ◽

E Mail

BACKGROUND People experiencing homelessness are at risk for gaps in care after an emergency department (ED) or hospital visit, which leads to increased utilization, poor health outcomes, and high health care costs. The majority of homeless individuals have a cell phone of some type, which makes mobile health interventions a feasible way to connect a person experiencing homelessness with providers. OBJECTIVE To investigate the accuracy, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a global positioning system-enabled mobile health (GPS-mHealth) intervention designed to alert community health paramedics when people experiencing homelessness were in the ED or hospital. METHODS This was a pre-post design with baseline and 4-month post-enrollment assessments. A person experiencing homelessness taking at least two medications for chronic conditions who scored at least 10 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and had at least two ED or hospital visits in the prior 6 months was eligible. Participants were issued a study smartphone with a GPS app programmed to alert a community health paramedic when a participant entered an ED or hospital. For each alert, community health paramedics followed up via telephone to assess care coordination needs. Participants also received a daily e-mail to assess medication adherence. GPS alerts were compared to ED and hospital data from the local health information exchange (HIE) to assess accuracy. Paired t-tests compared scores on the PHQ-9, Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey, and ASK-12 adherence survey at baseline and exit. Semi-structured exit interviews examined perceptions and benefits of the intervention. RESULTS Thirty participants enrolled; the mean age was 44.1 years (SD 9.7). Most were male (67%; n = 20), White (57%; n = 17), and not working (63%; n = 19). The GPS app showed limited accuracy in ED or hospital visit alerts. Only 18.8% of the alerts aligned with HIE data (3/16), mainly due to patients not having the phone with them during the visit, phone being off, and gaps in GPS technology. There was a significant difference in depressive symptoms between baseline (M=16.9, SD=5.8) and exit (M=12.7, SD=8.2); t(19)=2.9, p=.009 and a significant difference in adherence barriers between baseline (M=2.4, SD=1.4) and exit (M=1.5, SD =1.5); t(17)=2.47, p = .025). Participants agreed that the app was easy to use (M=4.4/5 with 5 = strongly agree (SA)) and indicated the e-mail helped them remember to take their medications (M=4.6/5). Qualitative data indicated that unlimited phone access allowed participants to meet social needs and maintain reliable contact with case managers, healthcare providers, family, and friends. CONCLUSIONS mHealth interventions are feasible for and acceptable to people experiencing homelessness. Objective data from the HIE provided more accurate ED and hospital visit information, but unlimited access to reliable communication provided benefits to participants beyond the study purpose of improving care coordination. CLINICALTRIAL Not applicable

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Reinterpreting ‘the Mason Court Revolution’: An Historical Institutionalist Account of Judge-Driven Constitutional Transformation in Australia

Federal Law Review ◽

10.22145/flr.43.1.1 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Theunis Roux

Keyword(s):

Institutional Development ◽

Social Needs ◽

Constitutional Courts ◽

Political Values ◽

Exogenous Shock

There have been two major periods of judge-driven constitutional transformation in Australia. The first spanned the High Court's successful transformation over the course of the last century of the strongly federalist 1901 Constitution into a weakly federalist one. The second took the form of what is generally thought to have been the less than fully realized ‘Mason Court revolution’ – the Court's attempt, from 1987-1995, to turn the Constitution into a device for expressing core Australian political values. What explains these different outcomes – why was the first transformation so successful and the second only partially achieved? This article proposes an answer to this question based on a generalisable account of the role of constitutional courts in processes of constitutional transformation. In short, the argument is that the seminal Engineers decision triggered a self-reinforcing trajectory of institutional development that led to a stable politico-legal equilibrium by the middle of the last century. The judges responsible for the second attempted transformation sought to break free of this equilibrium in order to respond to what they thought were pressing social needs. In the absence of a significant exogenous shock to the system, however, the equilibrium structured and constrained what they were able to do.

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Improving Electricity Access through Policy Reform

10.1093/oso/9780198819837.003.0017 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sam Amadi

Keyword(s):

Policy Reform ◽

Social Needs ◽

Private Capital ◽

Power Sector ◽

Legal Regime ◽

Sector Reform ◽

State Institutions ◽

Reform Programme ◽

Electricity Access ◽

Improve Reliability

In Nigeria, an estimated 170 million people depend on less than 4,000 megawatts of electricity from the grid for economic and social needs. Since 2000 the country has embarked on an ambitious power sector reform programme, the main objective of which is to ensure adequate, available, and reliable electricity. The power sector reform adopts a neo-liberal development model that is based on the triple strategy of liberalization, commercialization, and privatization. This strategy has relied heavily on the reform of the existing legal regime of state institutions so as to attract foreign private capital to increase capacity, expand connection, and improve reliability. This chapter reviews the incompletely theorized neo-liberal assumptions in the reform policies and shows how these assumptions have undermined the efficacy of legal reform in the electricity industry and resulted in failed expectation.

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A Consumer Behavior-Influenced Multidisciplinary Transcendent Model of Motivation for Music Making

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190244705.013.21 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Valerie L. Vaccaro

Keyword(s):

Consumer Behavior ◽

Music Education ◽

Well Being ◽

Social Needs ◽

Self Identity ◽

Music Making ◽

Self Actualization ◽

Psychic Energy ◽

Self Transcendence

This chapter reviews multidisciplinary research from the fields of consumer behavior, humanistic and positive psychology, music education, and other areas to develop a new Transcendent Model of Motivation for Music Making. One’s “extended self” identity can be defined partly by possessions and mastery over objects, and objects can “complete” the self. Music making involves a person’s investment of “psychic energy,” including attention, time, learning, and efforts, and is a creative path which can lead to peak experiences and flow. Music making can help satisfy social needs, achieve self-actualization, experience self-transcendence, enhance well-being, strengthen spirituality, and improve the quality of life.

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