Employee Lived Experiences and Initiative Success in Arkansas Quality Award Recipient Organizations

Businesses with failed quality initiatives lose revenue, experience high expenses, and have fewer market opportunities. Researchers attribute failed quality initiatives to human and social factors. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of employees in companies that received an Arkansas Governor\u27s Quality Award between 2010 and 2015. No one knows how employees\u27 experiences contribute to successful quality initiatives, or how their stories about their experiences influence quality management and continuous improvement. The conceptual framework consisted of Weick\u27s theory of sense-making and Deming\u27s system of profound knowledge. Data were collected via semistructured interviews with 11 participants across 8 organizations. Participants checked the member experience summary created from verbatim interview transcriptions analyzed per van Manen\u27s whole-part-whole model. The analysis of the transcripts showed that participants\u27 most meaningful experiences were those with people, followed by materials, feelings, time, and space. The study findings also showed that people transferred proven problem-solving methods from the workplace to their home and out into the community. The results of this study could contribute to positive social change by helping managers increase the potential for a successful quality initiative when they consider people\u27s needs and contributions before adopting a set of quality management tools and practices

Antidepressant use and risk of adverse outcomes in older people: population based cohort study

Objectives To investigate the association between antidepressant treatment and risk of several potential adverse outcomes in older people with depression and to examine risks by class of antidepressant, duration of use, and dose

The Lookout: An Excerpt from Five Luminous Towers

clamshell box cover; pg 1-2; poem The Lookout ; pg 3-4; pop-up tower; clamshell box with lighted pop-up tower. edition of 400https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1086/thumbnail.jp

Loom

book inside clear plastic box; tunnel book variation; accordion side-panel; front, view into tunnel structure;. copy 61 of 600, Anonymous Persian versehttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1042/thumbnail.jp

Vision Shifts

accordion, pop-up panels with cut-out windows, pocket inside back cover with 6 illustrated cards; pg 3-4; between thought and its expression ... ; pg 7-8; from familiar ground ... . copy 51 of 500, signed by the artisthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1102/thumbnail.jp

Five Luminous Towers: A Book to be Read in the Dark

pop-up tower; clamshell box, pop-ups, laser cuts, wire-edge binding; cover; page spread La Torre degli Artisani. edition of 50; Carol Barton Artist Book Process Archive for this book available in Special Collectionshttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1030/thumbnail.jp

Instructions for Assembly: three how-to projects that will improve your life.

tab binding with pop-up overlays; cover; page spread The Style ;. edition of 600?https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1039/thumbnail.jp

Dynamic tracking of functional gene modules in treated juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Background We have previously shown that childhood-onset rheumatic diseases show aberrant patterns of gene expression that reflect pathology-associated co-expression networks. In this study, we used novel computational approaches to examine how disease-associated networks are altered in one of the most common rheumatic diseases of childhood, juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Methods Using whole blood gene expression profiles derived from children in a pediatric rheumatology clinical trial, we used a network approach to understanding the impact of therapy and the underlying biology of response/non-response to therapy. Results We demonstrate that therapy for JIA is associated with extensive re-ordering of gene expression networks, even in children who respond inadequately to therapy. Furthermore, we observe distinct differences in the evolution of specific network properties when we compare children who have been treated successfully with those who have inadequate treatment response. Conclusions Despite the inherent noisiness of whole blood gene expression data, our findings demonstrate how therapeutic response might be mapped and understood in pathologically informative cells in a broad range of human inflammatory diseases

Look Who’s Talking:Using creative, playful arts-based methods in research with young children

Young children are often ignored or marginalised in the drive to address children’s participation and their wider set of rights. This is the case generally in social research, as well as within the field of Arts-Based Education Research. This article contributes to the growing literature on young children’s involvement in arts-based research, by providing a reflective account of our learning and playful engagement with children using creative methods. This small pilot project forms part of a larger international project titled Look Who’s Talking: Eliciting the Voices of Children from Birth to Seven, led by Professor Kate Wall at the University of Strathclyde. Visiting one nursery in Scotland, we worked with approximately 30 children from 3 to 5 years old. Seeking to connect with their play-based nursery experiences, we invited children to participate in a range of arts-based activities including drawing, craft-making, sculpting, a themed ‘play basket’ with various props, puppetry and videography. In this article, we develop reflective, analytical stories of our successes and dilemmas in the project. We were keen to establish ways of working with children that centred their own creativity and play, shaped by the materials we provided but not directed by us. However, we struggled to balance our own agenda with the more open-ended methods we had used. We argue that an intergenerational approach to eliciting voice with young children – in which adults are not afraid to shape the agenda, but do so in responsive, gradual and sensitive ways – creates the potential for a more inclusive experience for children that also meets researcher needs