The political context of John Mulgan’s Greek wartime life and death

This paper provides a wider perspective on New Zealand author John Mulgan’s wartime experiences with Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Greece. Specifically, it focuses more deeply on the political and international relations dimensions than do previous studies. In doing so, it also reveals the interest of Peter Fraser’s Labour government in Mulgan’s assessment of the political situation in Greece. The specifics of that encounter between the soldier long absent from New Zealand and the Wellington administration provide a reassessment of New Zealand’s attitude toward Anglo-Greek policy in late 1944 and early 1945. The investigation into Mulgan’s death in Cairo also provides a litmus test of the extent of Dominion independence at the time

The Political Context of John Mulgan's Greek Wartime life and Death

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Infection prevention and control challeneges of using a therapeutic robot

This work was part of a National Institute for Health Research participatory action research and practice development study, which focused on the use of a therapeutic, robotic baby seal (PARO, for personal assistive robot) in everyday practice in a single-site dementia unit in Sussex. From the beginning of January 2017 until the end of September 2017, the cleaning and cleanliness of PARO was monitored through a service audit process that focused on the cleaning, amount of use and testing of contamination of PARO being used in everyday clinical practice with individuals and in group sessions. Its use and cleaning followed protocols developed by the study team, which incorporated hand hygiene and standard precaution policies. Its cleanliness was determined using an adenosine triphosphate (ATP) luminometer, with a benchmark of 50 relative light units (RLU). A reading of ATP below 50RLU is the level of cleanliness recommended for social areas in hospital settings. Throughout the study period, monitoring showed that all swab zones on PARO were within the benchmark of the 50RLU threshold for cleanliness. PARO has an emerging evidence base as a useful therapeutic device. However, introducing such devices into clinical practice may encounter barriers or concerns from an infection prevention and control (IPC) perspective. This study of PARO in clinical practice aims to address the IPC concerns raised and offers cleaning and testing protocols and results

The PARO seal: weighing up

The PARO robotic seal can improve the wellbeing of people with dementia, but is it safe for use on hospital wards? Kathy Martyn and colleagues carried out research and found that it passed hygiene tests. But Carlene Rowson and her collaborators claim (opposite) that infection control concerns have not been adequately answered.In this debate, they argue the case for and against PARO on hospital wardsand her collaborators claim (opposite) that infection control concerns have not been adequately answered. In this debate, they argue the case for and against PARO on hospital wards

Investigating the death of a Legend

Includes image: '___', 1927.AbstractThe untimely death of the New Zealand iconic figure John Mulgan shortly after leaving liberated Greece in 1945 has fuelled popular conjecture about his suicide. An analysis of the investigation archive is carried out to determine to what extent one could argue he did not take his own life but was a victim of a British conspiracy. The degree of ambiguity, a key variable in conspiracy theorising, in the extended investigations of Mulgan's death, is considered, as well as any possible motivation for a cover-up

Work in a spiritual place: an ethnographic study of the nature of organisational life in self-sustaining spiritual communities

This study investigates a body of work under the banner of 'spirituality in the workplace', which, although having precedents in numerous earlier writings examining the relationship between religion and organisational life, arguably began in the middle 1980's and continues to the present. The literature appears to be broadly divided into those authors promoting the idea of a more spiritually informed workplace, and those offering more critical views; this study approaches the subject from this more critical position. More specifically, where most of the literature discusses the notion of 'spirituality in the workplace', and does not engage with theological or mystical work, this study offers a critical perspective based on empirical work carried out in two self-supporting spiritual communities, and therefore represents a consideration of 'work in a spiritual place'. Furthermore, the study is supported by reference to theological and mystical writing, as well as contributions from Jungian psychology. The empirical work takes the form of an ethnographic study of two self- supporting spiritual communities; a Benedictine monastery in Gloucestershire and a Buddhist giftware business based in Cambridge. Data was collected by in-depth interviews and participant observation spanning approximately two and a half years, and included substantial time spent in both communities. Essentially, the study finds that the form of spiritual workplace envisaged by much of the spirituality in the workplace writing differs from the experience of the people in these two communities in certain important respects. Most notably these communities do not adopt a managerial stance in regards to decision making and they also aspire to non-dualistic and non-reified orientations that contrast sharply with the emphases in the spirituality in the workplace literature. In addition, the communities studied here consciously engage with traditional symbol and ritual, and these represent the imaginal means by which the community is held together and by which the individual seeks spiritual growth. The conclusions drawn from these observations are that spiritual communities offer a rich source of understanding to organisation theory in general, and to the spirituality in the workplace discourse more specifically

Numerical simulation of multiquantum barriers in 630nm laser diodes.

Red-emitting quantum well (QW) 630nm laser diodes have many potential applications in industry and medicine. The main profiteers would be in areas such as the development of critical memory, barcode readers and in the treatment of cancer. The limitation of the low inherent band offsets of the materials used to create such devices, gives rise to a high percentage of electron leakage via thermal activation in the QW active region. However, implementation of Multiquantum Barrier (MQB) into the p-type cladding region of the device enhances the effective conduction band discontinuity, thus increasing the reflection probability of carriers back into the device active region, consequently elevating output power of the laser device. A study of (Al[0.7].Ga[0.3])[0.5]ln[0.5]P/(Al[0.3]Ga[0.7])[0.5]ln[0.5]P (barrier/well) MQB has been investigated as a feasible material structure to enhance electron confinement within laser diodes in the 630nm regime. The structure was optimised theoretically based on the Gamma-X transport mechanisms, using an effective mass approximation and the transfer matrix technique. To accurately model such structures it is important to include possible distortion to the conduction band profiles induced by the different positions of the Fermi level with respect to the vacuum level. Thus, a dual-band device simulator was developed to model the band bending features, of both the Gamma and X minima. This novel simulator simultaneously solves the constituent expressions making up the drift-diffusion equation set, which is then solved iteratively with Schrodinger's equation to yield a self-consistent solution. Using these two simulation models a novel MQB structure is proposed which inhibits electron transmission across it in both the Gamma and X bands. Subsequently, this MQB structure predicts a theoretical effective enhancements of 50% the height of the intrinsic conduction band offset