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Why do people live apart together?
Interpretations of living apart together (LAT) have typically counter-posed 'new family form' versus 'continuist' perspectives. Recent surveys, however, construct LAT as a heterogeneous category that supports a 'qualified continuist' position ā most people live apart as a response to practical circumstances or as a modern version of 'boy/girlfriend', although a minority represents something new in preferring to live apart more permanently. This article interrogates this conclusion by examining in depth why people live apart together, using a nationally representative survey from Britain and interview accounts from 2011. Our analysis shows that LAT as a category contains different sorts of relationship, with different needs and desires. While overall coupledom remains pivotal and cohabitation remains the goal for most, LAT allows people flexibility and room to manoeuvre in adapting couple intimacy to the demands of contemporary life. Hence, we suggest, LAT is both 'new' and a 'continuation'
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Using shared goal setting to improve access and equity: a mixed methods study of the Good Goals intervention
Background: Access and equity in childrenās therapy services may be improved by directing cliniciansā use of resources toward specific goals that are important to patients. A practice-change intervention (titled āGood Goalsā) was designed to achieve this. This study investigated uptake, adoption, and possible effects of that intervention in childrenās occupational therapy services.
Methods: Mixed methods case studies (n = 3 services, including 46 therapists and 558 children) were conducted. The intervention was delivered over 25 weeks through face-to-face training, team workbooks, and ātools for changeā. Data were collected before, during, and after the intervention on a range of factors using interviews, a focus group, case note analysis, routine data, document analysis, and researchersā observations.
Results: Factors related to uptake and adoptions were: mode of intervention delivery, competing demands on therapistsā time, and leadership by service manager. Service managers and therapists reported that the intervention: helped therapists establish a shared rationale for clinical decisions; increased clarity in service provision; and improved interactions with families and schools. During the study period, therapistsā behaviours changed: identifying goals, odds ratio 2.4 (95% CI 1.5 to 3.8); agreeing goals, 3.5 (2.4 to 5.1); evaluating progress, 2.0 (1.1 to 3.5). Childrenās LoT decreased by two months [95% CI ā8 to +4 months] across the services. Cost per therapist trained ranged from Ā£1,003 to Ā£1,277, depending upon service size and therapistsā salary bands.
Conclusions: Good Goals is a promising quality improvement intervention that can be delivered and adopted in practice and may have benefits. Further research is required to evaluate its: (i) impact on patient outcomes, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and (ii) transferability to other clinical contexts
Living apart together: uncoupling intimacy and co-residence
Over a fifth of those normally classified as āsingleā are actually in a
relationship but not living with their partner ā which is 9% of adults
in Britain. This sizeable minority has only recently been recognized
by social researchers, even though people have long been
having relationships without moving in together. In the context of
increasing attention to the diversity of ways in which people live and
love outside the conventional family, understanding āliving apart
togetherā (LAT) relationships is vital for policy-makers, practitioners
and researchers who are concerned with couples, families, and
individual well-being today.
This briefing paper presents the findings of the most
comprehensive study of living apart together in Britain to date
Arcuate nucleus homeostatic systems reflect blood leptin concentration but not feeding behaviour during scheduled feeding on a high-fat diet in mice
Acknowledgements T.B. was funded by a CASE studentship from the BBSRC and AstraZeneca. J.B. was a summer student from Bordeaux Sciences Agro and funded by student laboratory experience grant from the British Society of Neuroendocrinology. The authors are also grateful for funding from the Scottish Government, and from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements 266408 (Full4Health) and 245009 (NeuroFAST).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Large-area sheet task: Advanced dendritic-web-growth development
Thermally generated stresses in the growing web crystal were reduced. These stresses, which if too high cause the ribbon to degenerate, were reduced by a factor of three, resulting in the demonstrated growth of high-quality web crystals to widths of 5.4 cm. This progress was brought about chiefly by the application of thermal models to the development of low-stress growth configurations. A new temperature model was developed which can analyze the thermal effects of much more complex lid and top shield configurations than was possible with the old lumped shield model. Growth experiments which supplied input data such as actual shield temperature and melt levels were used to verify the modeling results. Desirable modifications in the melt level-sensing circuitry were made in the new experimental web growth furnace, and this furnace has been used to carry out growth experiments under steady-state conditions. New growth configurations were tested in long growth runs at Westinghouse AESD which produced wider, lower stress and higher quality web crystals than designs previously used
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