CRESSI’s approach to social innovation: lessons for Europe 2020

A Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation (CRESSI) policy brief based on CRESSI Deliverable 1.3: Report Contrasting CRESSI’s Approach of Social Innovation with that of Neoclassical Economic

An Ideological Reading of \u3ci\u3eUncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories\u3c/i\u3e Using Critical Literacy

Uncle Arthur’s bedtime stories stands as the principal and archetypal Seventh-day Adventist children’s literature text. It is heavily inscribed with distinct ideologies, which are specifically referential to Seventh-day Adventist dogma and faith. As children read these texts, they are exposed to, and affected by, these ideologies. This thesis seeks to expose the overt and covert ideologies of the text so that their power can be recognised and their value evaluated. This is accomplished through a brief investigation of the author and the publishing institution that conceived the texts, then through an explanation of the development and aims of critical literacy reading processes. These reading processes are then applied to the text in order to render explicit the belief structures constructed into the text which sustain the stories’ proposed ‘truths’ and ‘meanings’. This investigation has revealed that Uncle Arthur’s bedtime stories assumes levels of authority over truth, interpretation and the reader, which it does not intrinsically command. This assumption of authority allows the text to propose and defend one-sided ‘truths’, spurious arguments and potentially unethical behaviour

Policy Paper. How To Facilitate The Growth Of Different Kinds Of Social Innovation: The Politics of Social Innovation

CRESSI Deliverable 5.

Re-assessing social innovation to tackle marginalisation

A Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation (CRESSI) policy briefing paper based on CRESSI Deliverable 1.1: Report on Institutions, Social Innovation & System Dynamics from the Perspective of the Marginalise

Patella intraosseous blood flow disturbance during a medial or lateral arthrotomy in total knee arthroplasty: a laser Doppler flowmetry study

Patella complications are recognized sequelae of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Disruption of blood flow to the patella and adjacent soft tissues during surgery may contribute to reduced viability of the bone and patella ligament tissue. The effect on genicular blood flow to the medial and lateral patella was compared for a medial (MA) and lateral arthrotomy (LA) during TKA. Laser Doppler flowmetry was used to measure both baseline and postarthrotomy flow in vivo for 16 primary TKA patients. Flow in the lateral patella was reduced approximately 20% for both MA and LA. Conversely, the use of MA resulted in substantial reduction in flow to the medial patella (53%) compared to the lateral approach (27%). A large standard deviation of scores was evident in all cases. Although there was a tendency for LA to disturb the patellar blood flow less, the difference was not significant. It was concluded that neither approach is superior regarding the blood flow preservation to the patella. Hence, a lateral approach might only have an advantage in knee joints that are likely to need a lateral release in combination with an MA—e.g., a valgus deformity or preoperative patella maltrackin

AN INVESTIGATION OF A RADIO FREQUENCY GENERATED CYLINDRICAL PLASMA WITH ALKALI METAL INJECTION

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76275/1/AIAA-1966-1636-392.pd

The impacts of sea-level rise on European coasts in a 2°C world. Results and analysis of task 6.5 prepared as part of IMPACT2C: quantifying project impacts under 2°C warming

The European Union is at risk of the adverse effects of rising sea-levels, potentially leading to an increase in number of people affected by flood events and increased damage costs unless adaptation is undertaken. This research answers a question, ‘What are the impacts and costs of sea-level rise around Europe in a 2°C world?’ A 2°C world could occur rapidly under high emissions, or over much longer periods of time under climate mitigation. Climate mitigation is widely seen a way to reduce adverse risk, but in the coastal zone this is less effective and could only offer potential over very long time periods due to a time lag between atmospheric warming and oceanic response, known as the commitment to sea-level rise. As such, global mean sea-level in a 2°C world is projected to be between 0.11m (under high emissions) and 0.52m (under climate mitigation) higher than 1985-2005 levels under the HadGEM2-ES model. This makes quantifying impacts challenging.Using the Dynamic Interactive Vulnerability Assessment (DIVA) modelling framework, the number of people at risk from rising sea levels and flood costs have been analysed for scenarios of 2°C and extending up to a 5°C rise compared with pre-industrial levels in European Union coastal regions. Results indicate that following widespread European practices of continued protection, that between 5,300 and 7,000 people per year may be flooded in a 2°C world of climate mitigation – which could double if climate goes unmitigated. In a 5°C world, annual sea flood costs could be up to €1.2 billion per year, but reduce by one third under climate mitigation. The greatest costs occur around many countries surrounding the North Sea, where relatively, the EU’s smaller economies and small island states benefit most from climate mitigation.Adaptation remains particularly important, with sea dikes costing up to €3.9 billion per year in a 5°C world, decreasing by more than one sixth under climate mitigation. To achieve optimum benefits of adaptation and mitigation, it is essential that shoreline management and climate change adaptation are considered over the long time periods in which sea-level rise operates, taking into account multiple factors of coastal change. This includes a range of engineering techniques, including soft adaptation, accommodation and managed retreat, simultaneously considering wider societal needs and social acceptability of coastal change.<br/

Judicious judgment: a case for very unusual minds

This paper addresses a mode of thinking that, it is argued, is manifested in Max Deutscher’s oeuvre. It explores the intricacies inherent in the ‘singular thoughtfulness’ of Deutscher, intricacies that emerge through his use of imagery in its connection with the subject matter with which he deals. The paper challenges the idiom of obvious associations and moves towards an appreciation of Deutscher in his judicious balance of his experience and thinking as well as a correlative balance of certainty and uncertainty, all contrasted on a ground of confidence and its intensified over-confidence. The paper employs an imagery of its own in order to highlight Deutscher’s peculiar use of everyday images in his work. Thus figures as diverse as Whitehead, Proust and Sand are woven into the fabric both in order to support and to distinguish Deutscher’s thought. The paper was first presented as a fifteen minute presentation: the object here is to retain a quality of brevity, swiftness and economy: all features of Max Deutscher in his extensive writings