Appraisal of data available on violence against children in and around schools (VACS)

While violence against children (VAC) has been a long-established global concern, more recently attention has been drawn to how violence occurs in and around schools (VACS) and the role of education in preventing and responding to violence. Whilst awareness about VACS is growing, more robust data are needed to inform policy and practice. Concerns about ethical and methodological challenges may be hampering the inclusion of questions relating to violence in surveys and Education Management Information Systems (EMIS), and in data-informed programming. This resource aims to help Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) country advisers, their teams and partners to make use of existing data and plan for further data if needed to support programming. It will also be of interest to others working to improve data monitoring and use on VACS. This appraisal was prepared with funding support from UKAID. The appraisal identifies that, although there is no single survey that collects all data needed on VACS in all LMICs, a large amount of relevant data is collected regularly from a range of school-based and population-based surveys. Basic data are available in survey reports online and there is potential for additional analysis to be undertaken to further understand patterns of violence in and around school. The report concludes with recommendations for FCDO global and country-level wor

Roadwork: expertise at work building roads in the Maldives

This article engages critically with concepts of ‘skill’, ‘expertise’, and ‘capacity’ as they operate as markers of distinction and domination and shape migratory labour relations among road construction workers from across South Asia in the Maldives archipelago. The article examines roadwork at three levels: the professional biographies leading to ‘flexible specialization’ rather than technical expertise amongst Maldivian managers; the technical expertise and social incorporation of ‘skilled’ Sri Lankan supervisors; and the key material expertise of ‘non-skilled’ Bangladeshi labourers in precarious employment. Whilst discussions of South Asian labour migration have been dominated by caste and class, this article argues that it is important to consider how the cultural production and understanding of concepts such as ‘expertise’, ‘capacity’, and ‘exposure’ at worksites can (also) become distinguishing factors in (hierarchical) migratory labour relations.Abstrait: En chantier : l'expertise au travail dans la construction de routes aux Maldives Résumé L'article examine de façon critique les concepts de « compétence », « expertise » et « capacité » comme marqueurs de distinction et de domination et facteurs d'organisation des relations de travail sur les chantiers routiers. Venus d'Asie du Sud et de tout l'archipel des Maldives, ces travailleurs sont étudiés à trois niveaux : les biographies professionnelles qui conduisent les cadres maldiviens de l'expertise technique à la « spécialisation flexible », l'expertise technique et l'intégration sociale des contremaîtres srilankais « qualifiés » et l'expertise matérielle essentielle des ouvriers bangladais, « non qualifiés » et précaires. Alors que les discussions sur les migrations de travail depuis l'Asie du Sud sont jusqu'ici dominées par les notions de caste et de classe, les auteurs avancent qu'il est important d'examiner la façon dont la production culturelle et la compréhension de concepts tels que « capacité », « expertise » et « exposition » sur les chantiers peuvent (aussi) devenir des facteurs distinctifs dans les relations au sein de la main-d’œuvre (migrante).European Research Council. Grant Numbers: FP/2007-2013, 616393

Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives: gifts, hospitality, and rumours

This paper examines the longest and most developed road in the Maldives archipelago, a 15km link road connecting four islands of the Laamu (Haddummati) Atoll. In the planning phase, there were tensions between those who argued that the road should connect houses to the school and the mosque and those who argued that the road should connect the harbour to the market. Such appeals, bifurcated along gender lines, reflect local mobility concerns and were tied to existing political rifts between the four islands that were intensified by the appearance of a new infrastructural asset. The built road facilitates a multitude of local encounters as people travel further and more regularly, but it is also through the road that islanders encounter the global forces of capital and construction that shape their islands. The Laamu link road was a ‘gift’ from the Chinese government, constructed by the Jiangsu Transportation Engineering Group (J-TEG), and amidst local mobility concerns and inter-island politics swirl rumours and hearsay of land grabs and international power struggles between China, India, the USA, and Saudi Arabia. This chapter, as well as being an ethnographic exposition of Chinese infrastructure development in a South Asian archipelago, explores the road as a social experience as it crosscuts competing visions of modernity, global connectivity, and anxiety about material change on remote coral atolls in the Indian Ocean.Marie S. Curie Individual Action Fellowship from the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant no. 751131, 2018-2019); Highland Asia research Group (Remoteness and Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World, ERC Starting Grant no. 637764); US Department of Education; Social Science Research Council for an International Dissertation REesearch Fellowship

Орнаментальні форми кримськотатарського традиційного мистецтва

Historically Crimea was the land of culture of various tribes. And it had its influence on the Art style. The study of Crimea-Tatar Ornament dates to the 1880th. Its elements creates the system of symbols which gives the possibility to see the genetic ties of Crimea-Tatars with others ethnos. The author analyzed types of ornaments and their symbolic meanings

ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF WEATHER PROTECTION FOR LARGE ROUND BALES

. 1986. Economic benefits of weather protection for large round bales. Can. An economic evaluation ofthe storage losses ofvarious haying systems isreported. This information was necessary to augment a study of the effect of storage characteristicson round bale quality in which round bales from two different round baler types (fixed and variable bale chamber) were stored in five different manners. In addition, the costs of harvesting and storing hay by several methods were evaluated. These costs were translated into costs per "useable" tonneof hay. Values of spoiledhay were compared with the values of weather protection for round bales. The values ofhay spoilage indifferent types of storage were combined with detailed costs of growing, harvesting and storing hay and compared. Economic comparison with traditional rectangular bale harvesting methods is also included. It was found that round bale harvesting was the least expensive method at all volumes. Round bale harvesting with inside storage or plastic wrap protection provided a higher value than outside storage of round bales because of the increased spoilage when not protected. The cost of inside storage was equal to 14% spoilage of round bales

Positive energy unitary irreducible representations of D=6 conformal supersymmetry

We give a constructive classification of the positive energy (lowest weight) unitary irreducible representations of the D=6 superconformal algebras osp(8*/2N). Our results confirm all but one of the conjectures of Minwalla (for N=1,2) on this classification. Our main tool is the explicit construction of the norms of the states that has to be checked for positivity. We give also the reduction of the exceptional UIRs.Comment: 27 pages, TeX with harvmac, amssym.def, amssym.tex; v.2: minor corrections and references added; v.3: minor corrections; v.4: to appear in J. Phys.

Evaluating the Potential of Using 5-Azacytidine as an Epimutagen

A number of early flowering lines were induced when 5-azacytidine was applied to germinating flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) seed. The genetics of these lines indicate that the induced changes are epigenetic and probably result from demethylation of the genomic DNA at loci that affect flowering age. Although the growth and development of three stable early flowering lines are altered and the percentage of filled seed was reduced in all three lines compared with controls, measures of seed productivity demonstrated that harvest index was unaffected in two of the lines. In the third, harvest index was lower than normal and both seed set per capsule and seed mass per 100 seed were reduced. Furthermore, six generations after induction this line began to display relatively high levels of polyembryony. The late appearance of this twinning and other aspects related to working with lines induced by 5-azacytidine and using 5-azacytidine as an epimutagen are discussed

Guernsey voluntary and charitable sector research study

The study‘s focus was on social inclusion, and how voluntary and charitable organisations try to overcome the barriers and inequalities which prevent people participating on equal terms in society. Its aim was to identify gaps in provision and ways to fill them. Its methodology included a literature review, focus groups and a questionnaire.The report reviews literature and research, from the UK and Europe as well as Guernsey, on social exclusion, social inclusion, the voluntary sector and its changing relationship with the statutory sector. Some of the themes of this broader review are reflected in the findings of the study of the VCS in Guernsey.Most households in Guernsey are not at risk of becoming poor in the near future, but the 2007 Household Expenditure Survey indicated that 16.6% of respondents lived in households with an income below 60% of median income. Those most affected by poverty are lone parent households, single pensioner households and households with children. This means poorer diet, worse health and housing, greater vulnerability to crime and less social support

Gauge-invariant correlation functions in light-cone superspace

We initiate a study of correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory using the light-cone superspace formalism. Our primary aim is to develop efficient methods to compute perturbative corrections to correlation functions. This analysis also allows us to examine potential subtleties which may arise when calculating off-shell quantities in light-cone gauge. We comment on the intriguing possibility that the manifest N=4 supersymmetry in this approach may allow for a compact description of entire multiplets and their correlation functions.Comment: 35 pages, several figure