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Has structural change contributed to a jobless recovery?
The current recovery has seen steady growth in output but no corresponding rise in employment. A look at layoff trends and industry job gains and losses in 2001-03 suggests that structural change - the permanent relocation of workers from some industries to others - may help explain the stalled growth in jobs.Business cycles ; Employment (Economic theory) ; Labor mobility ; Unemployment ; Industries ; Recessions
The Grundtvigian »Folkelighed« and Leopold Senghorâs »NĂ©gritude«
Grundtvigsk »Folkelighed« og Leopold Senghors »Négritude«Af Erica Simo
Accuracy of sex determination for northeastern Pacific Ocean thornyheads (Sebastolobus altivelis and S. alascanus)
Determining the sex of thornyheads (Sebastolobus alascanus
and S. altivelis) can be difficult under field conditions. We assessed our ability to correctly assign sex in the field by comparing results from field observations to results obtained in the laboratory through both macroscopic
and microscopic examination of gonads. Sex of longspine thornyheads was more difficult to determine than that of shortspine thornyheads and correct determination of sex
was signif icantly related to size. By restricting the minimum size of thornyheads to 18 cm for macroscopic
determination of sex we reduced the number of fish with misidentified sex by approximately 65%
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Teacher change within a reading improvement model : a case study of a first grade teacher's changing reading instruction with struggling readers
textThis study examined a first grade, general education teacher's changing practices related to reading intervention for struggling readers as she worked with a group of university researchers to develop and implement a first grade reading instruction model. This study also investigated the following research questions: What changes in a first grade, general education teacherâs reading instructional practices occurred because of a year long university-teacher collaborative relationship in implementing evidence-based reading instruction for struggling students? What were the facilitators and barriers for implementing evidence-based reading practices for struggling readers? Analyses of classroom observations, teacher interviews, intervention validity checklists (IVC's), observations, support team meeting notes, research team meeting notes, field notes, and other forms of documentation provided a view into the process of change of one teacher.Special Educatio
Economic restructuring in New York State
When economic activity slows down, labor markets may undergo extensive structural change-the permanent reallocation of workers across industries. Job losses can be heavy, and creating new jobs and retraining displaced workers to fill them can take time. A high degree of restructuring may help to explain why New York State's most recent downturn persisted for well over two years. Subseries: Second District Highlights.Employment - New York (State) ; Labor market - New York (State) ; Industries - New York (State) ; Federal Reserve District, 2nd
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âWe come in as âthe nothingââ: Researching non-intervention in palliative care
In our ethnographic study of palliative care in a UK medical setting, we concerned ourselves with instances when medical staff chose not do something, which we came to call ânoninterventionsâ. Such instances raised an obvious question: how does one study something that is not happening? In this Position Piece, we outline three ways in which we have tried to engage with this methodological question, from the initial grant application process to the point we are at now: first, a somewhat positivist approach, which allowed us to delineate the phenomenon of our study; second, a following technique, adopted to understand noninterventions as and when they are conceived by our informants; and third, an approach that tries to trace enactments of ânot doingâ by mapping the range of different practices and, in so doing, elucidates how ânot doingâ invariably occurs alongside other forms of doing. We describe what these approaches have taught us so far and reflect on the limits of each. We do so in the hope of providing others with starting points for studying nothings, ânot doingsâ, and absences
The Spatial and Kinematic Distributions of Cluster Galaxies in a LCDM Universe -- Comparison with Observations
We combine dissipationless N-body simulations and semi-analytic models of
galaxy formation to study the spatial and kinematic distributions of cluster
galaxies in a LCDM cosmology. We investigate how the star formation rates,
colours and morphologies of galaxies vary as a function of distance from the
cluster centre and compare our results with the CNOC1 survey of galaxies from
15 X-ray luminous clusters in the redshift range 0.18 to 0.55. In our model,
gas no longer cools onto galaxies after they fall into the cluster and their
star formation rates decline on timescales of 1-2 Gyr. Galaxies in cluster
cores have lower star formation rates and redder colours than galaxies in the
outer regions because they were accreted earlier. Our colour and star formation
gradients agree with those those derived from the data. The difference in
velocity dispersions between red and blue galaxies observed in the CNOC1
clusters is also well reproduced by the model. We assume that the morphologies
of cluster galaxies are determined solely by their merging histories.
Morphology gradients in clusters arise naturally, with the fraction of bulge-
dominated galaxies highest in cluster cores. We compare these gradients with
the CNOC1 data and find excellent agreement for bulge-dominated galaxies. The
simulated clusters contain too few galaxies of intermediate bulge-to-disk
ratio, suggesting that additional processes may influence the morphological
evolution of disk-dominated galaxies in clusters. Although the properties of
the cluster galaxies in our model agree extremely well with the data, the same
is not true of field galaxies. Both the star formation rates and the colours of
bright field galaxies appear to evolve much more strongly from redshift 0.2 to
0.4 in the CNOC1 field sample than in our simulations.Comment: 17 pages, sumitted to MNRAS. Simulation outputs, halo catalogs,
merger trees and galaxy catalogs are now available at
http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/GIF
âWe come in as âthe nothingââ
In our ethnographic study of palliative care in a UK medical setting, we concerned ourselves with instances when medical staff chose not do something, which we came to call ânoninterventionsâ. Such instances raised an obvious question: how does one study something that is not happening? In this Position Piece, we outline three ways in which we have tried to engage with this methodological question, from the initial grant application process to the point we are at now: first, a somewhat positivist approach, which allowed us to delineate the phenomenon of our study; second, a following technique, adopted to understand noninterventions as and when they are conceived by our informants; and third, an approach that tries to trace enactments of ânot doingâ by mapping the range of different practices and, in so doing, elucidates how ânot doingâ invariably occurs alongside other forms of doing. We describe what these approaches have taught us so far and reflect on the limits of each. We do so in the hope of providing others with starting points for studying nothings, ânot doingsâ, and absences
Placing death and dying:the work of making place at the end of life
Background: Palliative care policy and professionals are concerned about the location of care, epitomised in phrases like âpreferred place of careâ and âpreferred place of deathâ. There has been an emphasis on home being the ideal place. Conversely, it is recognised that high quality palliative and end-of-life care can be delivered in a wide variety of settings.
Methods: This presentation is part of the ongoing Forms of Care project about palliative care. Ethnographic methods include observation of over 60 in- and outpatient palliative care team meetings, 1 year of shadowing palliative care team members in their daily work, and 15 interviews with palliative care staff, including doctors, nurses, social workers, and physiotherapists. Three patients and their families were also interviewed multiple times. Data was thematically analysed, drawing on social theory.
Results: Palliative care professionals consider place as part of the care they deliver. Hospital was typified as a place of control, known infrastructure, skilled staff and support, and constant monitoring. The home was a place of being a âguestâ and unknown quantity, creating a shift in power dynamics between professionals, and patients and their families. The drive for patients to be cared for at home came with added costs in terms of resources and the emotional labour. However, many cases extended beyond this binary. We highlight the work both professionals and patients do to keep a place stable. We suggest such efforts of âplacingâ show how place is not merely a geographical location, but made through relations, interactions and activities.
Conclusion: In the push to enable patients to die at home, what tends to be overlooked is the work that goes into âplacingâ: the work of âmaking placeâ. The research indicates the importance of understanding how placing gets done as a form of car
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