Household's Access to specific Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Case of Kabwe Urban

The JCTR is a faith based organisation whose main area of focus is education and advocacy for improved standard of living among the poor. To strengthen its education and advocacy work, the JCTR conducts research in various aspects of society that have an effect on people’s lives. The research is aimed at generating information for use in its educational programs as well as to inform its advocacy work. It is against this background that the JCTR in 2012 commissioned this study on access to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCRs).This report is one of three reports produced for phase I of the JCRT/UNDP project on access to ESCRs. ESCRs are socio-economic human rights which include the right to education, right to housing, right to adequate standard of living and the right to health. These rights are recognised and protected in international and regional human rights instruments and countries that subscribe to these human rights instruments have a legal obligation to respect, protect and fulfil economic, social and cultural rights; and are also expected to take “progressive action” towards their fulfilment. It was realised however that the extent to which these rights are realised in Zambia was extremely low and needed to be promoted. But there was a problem of sufficient reliable data on the status quo. The JCTR therefore, through its Social Conditions Programme, implemented this study focusing on the right to food, housing, health, education, employment and adequate standard of living. The study was conducted in Kabwe while the other two were conducted in Livingstone and Kasama. The indicators obtained in this study paint a picture on the degree of access to ESCRs and has a lot of implications on policy aiming at enhancing access to these ESCRs.United Nations Development Programme (UNDP

How Event Managers Lead: applying competency school theory to event management

A lack of research into human resource development, managerial skillsets, and leadership practices of event managers has resulted in widespread assumptions about the nature of leadership within events, which is unsupported by primary research. This qualitative research based on semistructured interviews focused on event managers working within the business events industry. Data analysis using thematic analysis and a ranking list establishes six key leadership practices—engaging communication, strategic perspectives, critical analysis and judgement, resource management, emotional resilience, and interpersonal sensitivity. This research argues that these leadership practices are essential for the development of successful event managers. Additionally, this study shows there is tension at the heart of leadership within events—event projects are intangible and temporary in nature, providing only one opportunity to get it right and this results in event managers attempting to control all aspects of the event delivery. However, in order to be successful leaders, they also need to work in teams, motivate and empower others, and develop team members. This then is the challenge for human resource development in event management: How do event managers resolve this tension in order to become successful leaders

Household's Access to specific Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Case of Kasama Urban

The JCTR is a faith based organisation whose main area of focus is education and advocacy for improved standard of living among the poor. To strengthen its education and advocacy work, the JCTR conducts research in various aspects of society that have an effect on people’s lives. The research is aimed at generating information for use in its educational programs as well as to inform its advocacy work. It is against this background that the JCTR in 2012 commissioned this study on access to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCRs).This report is one of three reports produced for phase I of the JCRT/UNDP project on access to ESCRs. ESCRs are socio-economic human rights which include the right to education, right to housing, right to adequate standard of living and the right to health. These rights are recognised and protected in international and regional human rights instruments and countries that subscribe to these human rights instruments have a legal obligation to respect, protect and fulfil economic, social and cultural rights; and are also expected to take “progressive action” towards their fulfilment. It was realised however that the extent to which these rights are realised in Zambia was extremely low and needed to be promoted. But there was a problem of sufficient reliable data on the status quo. The JCTR therefore, through its Social Conditions Programme, implemented this study focusing on the right to food, housing, health, education, employment and adequate standard of living. The study was conducted in Kasama while the other two were conducted in Kabwe and Livingstone. The indicators obtained in this study paint a picture on the degree of access to ESCRs and has a lot of implications on policy aiming at enhancing access to these ESCRs.United Nations Development Programme (UNDP

NT 501 Comprehensive Greek

(1) Black, David Alan. Learn to Read New Testament Greek. Expanded edition; Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1994. Learn. (2) [You need only choose one of the following, though it would not hurt to have more than one!!!] Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998. Still. Or Wallace, Daniel B., The Basics of New Testament Syntax: An Intermediate Greek Grammar. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000. BNTS. Or Wallace, Daniel B., Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2418/thumbnail.jp

NT 500 Concise Greek

Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998). Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995). Douglas, J.D., ed. The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1993) NT500 Course Packethttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3141/thumbnail.jp

Exploring relational connections and the emergence of shared leadership in experiential agencies

This exploratory and cross-sectional study focussed on the specific setting of experiential event agencies and explored leadership through the lens of the ‘post-heroic’ leadership theories, in particular the theory of shared leadership. Adopting a social constructionist perspective, the investigation took the form of a collective case study, using a constructionist grounded theory approach to guide the data collection, analysis and theory development. The research explores the way in which leadership is shared among team members within three experiential event agencies. Despite the growing body of research which indicates that shared leadership has a positive effect on team performance and team effectiveness, there has yet to have been any research that explores the conditions which enable shared leadership to be practiced in the context of cross functional, interdependent, project based teams such as those found in experiential agencies. This, coupled with the lack of empirical research around the form and function of the leadership within the event industry, forms the background to this research. This thesis addresses these gaps in knowledge by identifying which conditions of work enable shared leadership to become a useful process in project based event organisations. The study therefore responds to the following overarching question: ‘How is leadership shared in an experiential agency?’ The analysis of the data collected from the three case studies resulted in the emergence of a new theory of relational connections and the emergence of shared leadership. The theory suggests that shared leadership develops through relational connections within organisations, and demonstrates that the relationships between individuals within these organisations are the cornerstone of effective participation in shared leadership. This research is the first to closely examine the nature of workplace 5 relationships in the context of shared leadership and, in particular, it has illuminated how these connections are constructed through a sense of belonging in the workplace and trust between team members. The developed theory therefore reveals the dynamics that underpin shared leadership and gives a clear understanding of how these relational connections are constructed. In doing so, it indicates that shared leadership is an influence process that emerges from interactions, and resides in the relationships that exist in work groups. This study has therefore engaged with the complex – and topical - problems of how shared leadership emerges and the processes of leadership within experiential agencies, and has provided new empirical material which is important from both theoretical and practical perspectives

NT 500 Concise Greek

Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998). Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995). Douglas, J.D., ed. The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1993)https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3731/thumbnail.jp

NT 500 Concise Greek

Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995). Douglas, J.D., ed. The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1993) Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998).https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3201/thumbnail.jp

Molecular Verification of the UK National Collection of Cultivated Liriope and Ophiopogon Plants

open access articleA collection of cultivated Liriope and Ophiopogon plants was established in 1996–1998 and subsequently hosted at a horticultural college. Uncertainties about the identification of the accessions, compounded by potential errors in propagation and labelling have led to waning confidence in the identities of the plants in the collection. The potential for using DNA barcoding to determine the species identities of the accessions was investigated. The DNA barcode regions of the plastid ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit gene (rbcL) and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nrITS) were amplified. DNA sequence analysis allowed the sequences of the accessions to be compared to reference sequences in public databases. A simple haplotype map of the characteristic polymorphic positions in the rbcL regions was used to clearly distinguish between the two genera and assign Ophiopogon accessions to individual species or sub-groups of species. The ITS sequence data confirmed these genus and species assignations and provided greater resolution to distinguish between closely related species. The combination of two DNA barcodes allowed most of the accessions to be assigned to individual species. This molecular verification confirmed the identity of about 70% of the accessions, with the remaining 30% demonstrating a range of mistaken identities at the species and genus level