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Disability: getting it ârightâ.
This paper critically engages with Tom Shakespeareâs book Disability rights and wrongs. It concentrates on his attempt to demolish the social model of disability, as well as his sketch of an âalternativeâ approach to understanding âdisabilityâ. Shakespeareâs critique, it is argued, does British disability studies a âwrongâ by presenting it as a meagre discipline that has not been able to engage with disability and impairment effects in an analytically sophisticated fashion. What was required was a measured presentation and evaluation of the rich mix of theoretical and empirically based ideas to be found in the discipline, as the groundwork for forward thinking located within a social oppression paradigm. Shakespeareâs undermining of the disciplineâs credibility in the eyes of outsiders and newcomers represents a diversionary missed opportunity by an influential writer and activist. Shakespeareâs book1 has certainly stirred up debate, and invited a flurry of angry reviews, in disability studies (DS) in the UKâthe social science discipline that has been developing radical ideas about disability and disablism since the 1980s. Peopled by both disabled academics and like-minded non-disabled researchers and writers, the DS community recognises that Shakespeareâs book seeks to deliver a fatal wound to what he sees as its sacred cow: the British social model of disability. Shakespeare explains that what he calls the âstrongâ version of the social model of disability was formulated by Michael Oliver, a leading DS writer and disability activist, on the basis of the social and political ideas advanced in the 1970s by a group of disabled individuals fighting to free themselves from what they experienced as an oppressive care system that relegated and segregated people with serious impairments to residential institutions and to the category of the unemployable.2 3 In short, the social model asserts that âdisabilityâ is not caused
HVAC system size â getting it right
There is evidence that many heating, ventilating & air conditioning (HVAC) systems, installed
in larger buildings, have more capacity than is ever required to keep the occupants
comfortable. This paper explores the reasons why this can occur, by examining a typical
brief/design/documentation process.
Over-sized HVAC systems cost more to install and operate and may not be able to control
thermal comfort as well as a âright-sizedâ system. These impacts are evaluated, where data
exists.
Finally, some suggestions are developed to minimise both the extent of, and the negative
impacts of, HVAC system over-sizing, for example:
⢠Challenge ârules of thumbâ and/or brief requirements which may be out of date.
⢠Conduct an accurate load estimate, using AIRAH design data, specific to project
location, and then resist the temptation to apply âsafety factors
⢠Use a load estimation program that accounts for thermal storage and diversification
of peak loads for each zone and air handling system.
⢠Select chiller sizes and staged or variable speed pumps and fans to ensure good part
load performance.
⢠Allow for unknown future tenancies by designing flexibility into the system, not by
over-sizing. For example, generous sizing of distribution pipework and ductwork will
allow available capacity to be redistributed.
⢠Provide an auxiliary tenant condenser water loop to handle high load areas.
⢠Consider using an Integrated Design Process, build an integrated load and energy
use simulation model and test different operational scenarios
⢠Use comprehensive Life Cycle Cost analysis for selection of the most optimal design
solutions.
This paper is an interim report on the findings of CRC-CI project 2002-051-B, Right-Sizing
HVAC Systems, which is due for completion in January 2006
Getting it Right
Writing a tribute for any beloved colleague who is retiring is a difficult experience. Writing about Tom Bergin, who is retiring after twenty-nine years at the Law School, is an even greater challenge. The challenge stems from Tom\u27s legacy to his students and to his colleagues at the Law School; both the challenge and the legacy require some explanation
Getting It Right: Strategies for After-School Success
This report synthesizes the last 10 years of findings from P/PV's and other researchers' work to address one of the most demanding challenges facing today's after-school programs -- how to create and manage programs that stand the best chance of producing specific, policy-relevant outcomes. It examines recruitment strategies that attract young people to activities, the qualities that make activities engaging and motivate participants to attend regularly, and the infrastructure -- staffing, management and monitoring -- needed to support such activities. The report's final chapter explores the fiscal realities of after-school programming, considering how administrators might stretch existing dollars to enhance services
Are We Getting It Right? Values and Life Satisfaction
The research agendas of psychologists and economists now have several overlaps, with behavioural economics providing theoretical and experimental study of the relationship between behaviour and choice, and hedonic psychology discussing appropriate measures of outcomes of choice in terms of overall utility or life satisfaction. Here we model the relationship between values (understood as principles guiding behaviour), choices and their final outcomes in terms of life satisfaction, and use data from the BHPS to assess whether our ideas on what is important in life (individual values) are broadly connected to what we experience as important in our lives (life satisfaction).life satisfaction, utility, values
Marketing-China and getting it right
China has become a synonym for future business growth. It is the business nirvana of the 21st century. It is the place to be. Companies are scrambling to get a share of the action. Not a day passes without some company making an announcement of an investment in their future which involves China.<br /
Getting It Right from the Start
This is a book review of "Teaching English to Young Learners: Critical Issues in Language Teaching with 3â12 Year Olds" edited by Janice Bland. The book was published in 2015. The book discusses a variety of theoretical and practical issues related to young learners, their specific needs, interests, and learning styles
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