Policy Implications of Ageing Sexualities

This article aims to open up debate on the policy implications of ageing sexualities. The article begins by discussing the heteronormative perspective that frames current discourse on older people’s needs and citizenship. It then presents data from an empirical study to highlight the concerns that older lesbians and gay men have about housing, health and social service provision, work and job security, and relationship recognition. The article illustrates how the heterosexual assumption that informs policy making can limit the development of effective strategies for supporting older lesbians and gay men; and raises broader questions about policy making, social inclusion and citizenship

Active artefact management for distributed software engineering

We describe a software artefact repository that provides its contents with some awareness of their own creation. "Active" artefacts are distinguished from their passive counterparts by their enriched meta-data model which reflects the work-flow process that created them, the actors responsible, the actions taken to change the artefact, and various other pieces of organisational knowledge. This enriched view of an artefact is intended to support re-use of both software and the expertise gained when creating the software. Unlike other organisational knowledge systems, the meta-data is intrinsically part of the artefact and may be populated automatically from sources including existing data-format specific information, user supplied data and records of communication. Such a system is of increased importance in the world of "virtual teams" where transmission of vital organisational knowledge, at best difficult, is further constrained by the lack of direct contact between engineers and differing development cultures

The Vindication of a National Public Policy Under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act

Vi går mot en tid med fler och fler bonusfamiljer, där halvsyskon och bonusbarn är något vanligt och ibland förväntat. Att det ska vara svårt och kräver en del jobb är nog de flesta medvetna om, men hur blir det med kärleken mellan parterna som en gång blev förälskade? Uppbackningen från samhället är liten, samtalsforumen få och litteraturen begränsad (om än ökande). Syftet med denna studie är att genom en kvalitativ intervjustudie ta reda på hur den vuxna kärleksrelationen påverkas av att leva med bonusbarn. Undersökningspopulationen bestod av fem kvinnor som lever med en man och hans barn från en tidigare relation. Frågeställningarna är: Vad säger bonusmammorna i denna intervjustudie om relationen till mannen? Vad säger bonusmammorna i denna intervjustudie om sin relation till bonusbarnen? Analysmetoden är en narrativ analys där kvinnornas berättelser återges i form av citat och i en berättande form. Ur materialet växte fem teman fram som blev gemensamt för alla kvinnorna. Slutsatserna i denna studie visar att det finns ett flertal områden som är extra problematiska för ett kärlekspar med barn från en tidigare relation. Dessa är: 1) Detta skulle jag aldrig göra om. 2) Känslorna för bonusbarnet. 3) Hur kärleksrelationen påverkas. 4) Exet. 5) Uppfostran. Något nästan alla kvinnor är överens om är att detta med bonusbarn är svårare än vad de trodde, att de inte kan se några egentliga fördelar med att ha ett bonusbarn och att de inte skulle göra om detta igen. Då urvalet av tidigare forskning är relativt begränsat, har det mesta som finns skrivet i Sverige i modern tid kring detta ämne tagits del av inför denna studie och byggt upp empirin. Det har blivit synligt att just den vuxna kärleksrelationen kommit i skymundan i tidigare forskning

Combining SLA prediction and cross layer adaptation for preventing SLA violations

Abstract. Service-based Applications (SBA) are deployed in highly dy-namic and distributed settings, where various parts of the constituent components- services and their infrastructure- are controlled by dif-ferent third parties. In such a loosely coupled environment, adaptation capabilities are needed to manage deviations and unforeseen situations which might lead to negative consequences (e.g. contractual penalties). Current approaches either focus on cross-layer-adaptation or the pre-vention of SLA violations. In contrast to this, the approach presented in this paper combines both. The paper presents an architecture as a generic framework for the management of arising problems during ser-vice execution. Multiple adaptation mechanisms are available to react on adaptation needs, acting on different layers of the SBA (including e.g. the composition layer and the infrastructure layer). The final goal of the cross-layer adaptation capability is to avoid the violation of agreed Service Level (in SLAs) and thus ensure the benefits of SBAs for both customers and providers.

Transgendered in Alaska: Navigating the Changing Legal Landscape for Change in Gender Petitions

Background: Detecting intracellular bacterial symbionts can be challenging when they persist at very low densities. Wolbachia, a widespread bacterial endosymbiont of invertebrates, is particularly challenging. Although it persists at high titers in many species, in others its densities are far below the detection limit of classic end-point Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). These low-titer infections can be reliably detected by combining PCR with DNA hybridization, but less elaborate strategies based on end-point PCR alone have proven less sensitive or less general. Results: We introduce a multicopy PCR target that allows fast and reliable detection of A-supergroup Wolbachia -even at low infection titers -with standard end-point PCR. The target is a multicopy motif (designated ARM: A-supergroup repeat motif) discovered in the genome of wMel (the Wolbachia in Drosophila melanogaster). ARM is found in at least seven other Wolbachia A-supergroup strains infecting various Drosophila, the wasp Muscidifurax and the tsetse fly Glossina. We demonstrate that end-point PCR targeting ARM can reliably detect both high-and low-titer Wolbachia infections in Drosophila, Glossina and interspecific hybrids. Conclusions: Simple end-point PCR of ARM facilitates detection of low-titer Wolbachia A-supergroup infections. Detecting these infections previously required more elaborate procedures. Our ARM target seems to be a general feature of Wolbachia A-supergroup genomes, unlike other multicopy markers such as insertion sequences (IS)