Institutional Transition and Local Self-Government in Russia

This paper includes the following parts: 1) "Vertical or Triangle? Local, regional and federal government in the Russian Federation after Law 131.", by Adrian Campbell, and 2) comments to the paper "Softness and hardness of the institutions in Russian ocal self-government" by Satoshi Mizobata, 3) "Local budget and local self-government in Russia" by Kazuho Yokogawa and 4) "The Struggle for Power in the Urals" by Adrian Campbell and Elena Denezhkina.

Developing team resilience to prevent burnout in statutory residential care

This study reports on the outcomes of 15 semi-structured interviews undertaken with managers employed by one Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Trust within the residential child care sector. The purpose of the research was to explore the concept of 'team resilience' as a method to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue amongst residential social workers and care workers. The findings show that high levels of support already exist, but recruitment, communication, supervision, team meetings, team development, reflective practice, resilient individuals, team ethos and management style are all factors that contribute to team resilience. Teams need to be acknowledged, valued and nurtured to make them more effective and resilient. The more a team spends time together and is permitted to grow together the more resilient it becomes. Strong internal dialogues and communication are key functions to a resilient team that ultimately promotes the quality of care for service users. Developing a team to be internally self-aware, with an ability to embrace change whilst acknowledging individual core strengths, provides a solid foundation for promoting team resilience. The article discusses how trust and a sense of team purpose can contribute to the development of cohesion and resilience

Sight (un)specific: performance as research predicated upon deploying acts of visual negation

This paper promotes debate into varying aspects of practice that was produced as part of You Don't Need Eyes To See, You Need Vision, a recent event which presented new work by artists Lee Campbell, Adrian Lee and Carali McCall. Using performance practice-as-research, the artists interrogated the following question: How can acts exploring visual negation be used to generate public pedagogy and what may it bring to the experience of removal of sight

The Future of Professional Photojournalism: Perceptions of Risk

The work practices of the professional photojournalist are currently undergoing rapid change in the digital era. New technologies, new platforms and new methods of visual storytelling are exerting a range of pressures and influences that require photojournalists to adapt and respond in different ways. The changes provoke a number of questions that are critical to the future of professional photojournalism: What are the new risks being faced by photojournalists? How are the transformations in the media economy affecting photojournalists’ employment? What does this mean for image quality? How do photojournalists think about the manipulation of images or the staging of events? Given the rise of citizen journalism, digital technology and social media, will there even be professional photojournalists in the future? This paper presents some of the results and new analysis from the first international study into the current state and future of professional photojournalism, with a specific focus on risk and on perceptions of risk among photographers. The results indicate a high degree of risk is experienced among professional photographers with a very strong correlation to the country in which they are based

»Der innere Feind«: Eine Rückschau auf den britischen Bergarbeiterstreik von 1984/85

Der im Frühjahr 1985 beendete Bergarbeiterstreik in Großbritannien war die längste, teuerste und härteste Auseinandersetzung, die die Geschichte der britischen Arbeiterbewegung aufzuweisen hat. Hierzu einige Fakten: Auf nationaler Ebene dauerte der Streik vorn 2. März 1984 bis zum 5. März 1985 - in einigen Gegenden jedoch begann er beispielsweise zwei Wochen früher und endete eine Woche später. Parallel zu diesem Streik führte die Dachorganisation der Bergarbeitergewerkschaft, die National Union ofMine Workers (NUM) in der Zeitvom Oktober 1983 bis Mai 1985 eine Kampagne für die Überstundenbegrenzung auf nationaler Ebene. Zur Sicherung des Streiks in der Zeit von 1984 bis 1985 marschierten in dem gesamten Zeitraum jede Woche durchschnittlich 5300 Polizisten auf; 9778 Verhaftungen und 7785 richterliche Belehrungen wurden vorgenommen. Die Mehrzahl der zwei Drittel Beschuldigten wurde aufgrund geringfügiger Vergehen angeklagt und für schuldig befunden. Sechzig Bergarbeiter waren im Juli 1985 noch immer in Haft- angeklagt wegen schwerer Vergehen

A Frame Work for Identifying Factors to Consider When Implementing an Academic Program at a Satellite Campus

Making a strategic decision to launch an academic degree program at a satellite site offers unique challenges. Many factors should be carefully considered in creating degree offerings, supporting student needs, allocating faculty resources, satisfying accreditation concerns, and meeting student demand. This paper establishes a framework and decision model regarding a satellite campus program utilizing an undergraduate accounting degree program as a case analysis. The case analysis provides details of how the components of the framework should be considered in making decisions regarding the possible implementation of a satellite academic program. The purpose of this paper is to propose a roadmap while highlighting the resources required and information to be considered in order to launch a 2+2 BBA- Accounting degrees at a satellite campus. The Kennesaw State University (KSU) BBA- Accounting program at the satellite campus in Paulding County is designed for graduates of Georgia Highland College’s (GHC) Associate of Science in Business Administration degree, located at the KSU/GHC Paulding County Instructional Site

To what extent do lay people and healthcare providers differ in the allocation of scarce medical resources in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Studying the most ethical way to allocate scarce medical resources has been of interest within the last year, due to shortages associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to establish differences between what healthcare providers (HCP) and laypeople consider to be the most ethical way to prioritise the distribution of scarce resources. Healthcare providers (n = 100) and laypeople (n = 102) were asked to rank ethical principles from most to least ethical for the allocation of ICU beds in a COVID-19 outbreak, COVID-19 vaccinations and organ transplantation, and the rankings from each scenario across the two groups were compared. Results indicated that HCPs preferred utilitarian principles informed by medical knowledge, such as ‘prognosis’, whereas laypeople preferred less situation-specific and prioritarian principles, such as ‘sickest first’, replicating pre-pandemic findings. Laypeople showed increased in-group agreement when ranking principles, potentially due to the collective experience of the pandemic. Demographic variables such as older age, identifying as Black, Asian or minority ethnic and greater experience with COVID-19, were also associated with a preference for ‘prognosis’

Haemoglobin mass responses and performance outcomes among high-performance swimmers following a three-week Live-High, Train-High camp at 2,320m

Greater quantification and characterisation of training load (TL) throughout Live-High, Train-High (LHTH) altitude (ALT) training is required to identify periodisation strategies that may lead to physiological and performance improvements in swimmers. Purpose: This study aimed to examine the physiological responses and performance outcomes of fourteen high-performance swimmers (FINA points: 836.0 ± 35.1) following three-weeks of LHTH at 2,320m, while characterising the training load periodisation strategy adopted during the intervention. Methods: Haemoglobin (Hb) mass was measured pre-, seven- and fourteen-days post-ALT via CO rebreathing. Performance in each athlete’s primary event at national standard meets were converted to FINA points and compared from pre-to-post ALT. TL was quantified at sea level (SL) and ALT through session rating of perceived exertion (RPE), where duration of each session was multiplied by its RPE for each athlete, with all sessions totalled to give a weekly TL. Pre-to-post ALT changes were evaluated using repeated-measures ANOVA.Results: Hb mass increased significantly from 798±182g pre-ALT, to 828±187g at seven-days post (p=0.013) and 833±205g 14-days post-ALT (p=0.026). Weekly TL increased from SL (3179±638 au) during week one (4797±1349 au, p&lt;0.001) and week two (4373±967 au, p&lt;0.001), but not week three (3511±730 au, p=0.149). No evidence of improved SL swimming performance was identified. Conclusion: A periodisation strategy characterised by a sharp spike in TL followed by a slight de-load towards the end of a LHTH intervention led to improved physiological characteristics but no change in the competitive performance of high-performance swimmers.<br/

Excess Cancer Mortality in Psychiatric Patients

Objectives: There are conflicting data oil cancer incidence and mortality in psychiatric patients, although most Studies suggest that while cancer mortality is higher, incidence is no different from that in the general population. Different methodologies and outcomes may account for some of the conflicting results. We investigated the association between mental illness and cancer incidence, first admission rates, and mortality in Nova Scotia using a standard methodology