Shadows and light: diversity management as phantasmagoria

 Within the field of critical diversity studies increasing reference is made to the need for more critically informed research into the practice and implementation of diversity management. This article draws on an action research project that involved diversity practitioners from within the UK voluntary sector. In their accounts of resistance, reluctance and a lack of effective organizational engagement, participants shared a perception of diversity management as something difficult to concretize and envisage; and as something that organizational members associated with fear and anxiety; and with an inability to act. We draw on the metaphor of the phantasmagoria as a means to investigate this representation. We conclude with some tentative suggestions for alternative ways of doing diversity.

EPIdemiology of Surgery-Associated Acute Kidney Injury (EPIS-AKI) : Study protocol for a multicentre, observational trial

More than 300 million surgical procedures are performed each year. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after major surgery and is associated with adverse short-term and long-term outcomes. However, there is a large variation in the incidence of reported AKI rates. The establishment of an accurate epidemiology of surgery-associated AKI is important for healthcare policy, quality initiatives, clinical trials, as well as for improving guidelines. The objective of the Epidemiology of Surgery-associated Acute Kidney Injury (EPIS-AKI) trial is to prospectively evaluate the epidemiology of AKI after major surgery using the latest Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) consensus definition of AKI. EPIS-AKI is an international prospective, observational, multicentre cohort study including 10 000 patients undergoing major surgery who are subsequently admitted to the ICU or a similar high dependency unit. The primary endpoint is the incidence of AKI within 72 hours after surgery according to the KDIGO criteria. Secondary endpoints include use of renal replacement therapy (RRT), mortality during ICU and hospital stay, length of ICU and hospital stay and major adverse kidney events (combined endpoint consisting of persistent renal dysfunction, RRT and mortality) at day 90. Further, we will evaluate preoperative and intraoperative risk factors affecting the incidence of postoperative AKI. In an add-on analysis, we will assess urinary biomarkers for early detection of AKI. EPIS-AKI has been approved by the leading Ethics Committee of the Medical Council North Rhine-Westphalia, of the Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster and the corresponding Ethics Committee at each participating site. Results will be disseminated widely and published in peer-reviewed journals, presented at conferences and used to design further AKI-related trials. Trial registration number NCT04165369

Narrative enquiry

It is falling increasingly to international organisations and institutions to provide a coherent and workable global value system which embraces difference internally and externally with compliance expected from every level of the organisation. International human rights conventions and statutory regulations require compliance to human rights principles putting such organisations at the forefront of cultural relations. A global values framework gives them the opportunity to shake off colonial pasts and to strive to make a good business case for adherence to such principles. As principles are more challenging to enact than to formulate, to support this values portfolio, research is needed into how principles can be enacted in every day matters of the organisation. Current literature highlights the use of storytelling as sense-making and, as such, has become a growing trend in the use of the narrative approach across disciplines and professional sectors. Its contributors are from anthropology, education, linguistics, translation studies, literature, politics, psychology and sociology, organization studies and history. This chapter surfaces the link between local and grand narratives through an ethno narrative approach contextualised within a recent study of EDI and specifically Global Diversity Management

Balıklarda yüzme davranışı ve trol operasyonu açısından önemi

During trawling operations, many fish species were observed to swim in the mouth area for a while, then exhaust and fall back towards the codend and finally some were seen to escape from the codend. Answers to the questions of ;amp;#8220;which factors trigger this behaviours and why?;amp;#8221; have been important in the way to increase the efficiency and selectivity of fishing gears. For this purpose swimming performances of fish were investigated in flumes, and muscle phsyology studies produced important findings which helped to explain the results, during the course of last half a century. This review outlines the historical developments of studies on fish swimming, types and levels of swimming activities, and muscles used in swimming, then it higlights the effects of fish length and water temperature on the swimming performance of fish in relation to trawl operation.Trol avcılığı sırasında bir çok türün, ağın ağız kısmında bir süre yüzdüğü, sonra yorulup torbaya doğru gerilediği ve bazılarının torbadan kaçabildikleri gözlenmiştir. Bu davranışları hangi etmenlerin nasıl tetiklediği; av araçlarının etkinliğini ve seçiciliğini arttırmak yolunda yanıtlanması gereken önemli sorular olmuştur. Bu amaçla son yarım yüzyılda yapay akıntı ortamlarında balıkların yüzme performansları incelenmiş ve kas fizyolojisi çalışmalarıyla da sonuçları açıklamakta önemli bulgular ortaya konmuştur. Bu derleme, balıkların yüzme davranışına yönelik çalışmaların tarihsel gelişimini, yüzme şekil ve seviyelerini ve yüzmede kullanılan kas yapılarını açıklamakta, balık boyu ve su sıcaklığının yüzme performansına etkisini trol avcılığıyla ilişkilendirerek vurgulamaktadır

Financial market participation and the developing country business cycle

I explore the implications of limited participation in financial markets on a standard small open economy business cycle model. Despite its parsimony, the limited participation model developed in this paper improves over the standard model in terms of explaining two important features of business cycle facts of developing countries: high volatility of consumption, and high negative correlation between the trade balance and output. Limited participation model is then used to inspect the effects of financial development and integration on macroeconomic volatility. Under a standard calibration, limited participation model leads to the conclusion that financial development and integration are associated with higher investment and output volatility. Effect of more participation on consumption volatility is dependent on the specification of the risk premium function.Small open economy Business cycles Financial integration Financial development Developing countries