Postmodernization: a phase we're going through? Management in social care

This paper considers the challenges facing managers of social care services in public sector organizations in the UK. Some theorists might argue that these challenges are the manifestation of a new postmodern era. It is argued here, however, that society is not fully postmodern: indeed modernity continues with some of its features (such as a concern with rationality and reason) heightened and intensified. Social trends associated with this transitional phase of postmodernization have been highlighted in the literature and here they form the framework for discussing social care management today

Cobalt base superalloy has outstanding properties up to 1478 K (2200 F)

Alloy VM-103 is especially promising for use in applications requiring short time exposure to very high temperatures. Its properties over broad range of temperatures are superior to those of comparable commercial wrought cobalt-base superalloys, L-605 and HS-188

silences [score]

The piece consists of nine (or ten) sections alternating between free and scored; the scored sections all consist of silences of different qualities asking the players to explore ways to facilitate the scored silences. In composing with scored silences, the piece attempts to challenge the idea of silence as a transcendental signifier (or of signifying nothing) and seeks to question the assumption that a piece can convey particular experiences for an audience—silences, in particular, can evoke vastly different responses in people experiencing the ‘same thing’. In this sense, one might read the piece as ‘impossible’ and/or an exploration of the impossibilities of communication, but hopefully one that pushes the players (and perhaps audience) to explore these impossibilities with more rigour or attention to detail

Federal Policy Responses to the 9/11 Attacks: An assessment of the policy making process since September 11, 2001

Directly following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United States government initiated a self study to determine how it could better prevent, prepare for, and respond to terrorist attacks within its boarders. After only a short time, the public policy response began to occur. The main question that this research attempted to address was if the United States government\u27s public policy response, through public laws, was adequate and appropriate to address the threat of a terrorist attack on the United States involving nuclear weapons. The research first addressed and categorized the types of threats that involved nuclear terrorism and its origins. The second portion of the research focused on the policy responses and public laws that have been adopted since 9/11 to address the threat of nuclear terrorism. These laws were signed into law from September 11, 2001 until January 1, 2005. The third phase of the research systematically analyzed the public laws that were identified in phase two to determine if they were appropriate, reasonable, and relevant to the threat of nuclear terrorism based on three separate factors. These factors included prevention and deterrence, protection, and response. The findings suggest that there were no significant measures adopted to deter or prevent an act of nuclear terrorism. In some instances, the response to an attack involving nuclear weapons was addressed. Furthermore, the public policy response to 9/11 can best be characterized as reactive rather than proactive. In other words, the policy response was geared toward fighting the last war. Research also has indicated that the policy response adds additional layers of bureaucracy to homeland security. Based on the analysis conducted in this research, the United States government\u27s public policy response to 9/11 was neither adequate nor appropriate to the threat of nuclear terrorism

GERMAN SOCIAL HONOR COURTS

Germany\u27s National Socialist regime has prided itself on its ability to maintain peaceful employer-employee relations at a time when other countries of the world are seriously troubled by industrial disturbances. The German government has actively intervened to see that neither employers nor workers overstep bounds set for them by Nazi social and economic policies. Dr. Robert Ley, head of the German Labor Front, has said that the government owes its success in this field to measures that are a healthy combination of freedom and compulsion. Since Hitler\u27s advent to power, the former organizations of both employers and employees have largely been supplanted by new institutions. The new structure can exist only so long as it is supported by the authority of the Nazi government. The transition to the present system has been brought about through the use of force and through alterations in the legal framework within which employer-employee relations have been carried on. In this new deal for German labor, the social honor courts assume a role of great significance

Religious Ministry in Bristol 1603-1689: Uniformity to Dissent

This is the proof version. The final version is available from Bristol Record Society via the link in this record Bristol Record Society's publications vol. 69Archived with permission of the Bristol Record Societ

Changes in the pronunciation of Māori and implications for teachers and learners of Māori

This paper discusses changes in the pronunciation of Māori and implications for teachers and learners of Māori. Data on changes in the pronunciation of Māori derives from the MAONZE project (Māori and New Zealand English with support from the Marsden fund). The project uses recordings from three sets of speakers to track changes in the pronunciation of Māori and evaluate influence from English. Results from the project show changes in both vowel quality and vowel duration and some evidence of diphthong mergers in pairs such as ai/ae and ou/au, especially amongst the younger speakers. In terms of duration the younger speakers are producing smaller length distinctions between long/short vowel pairs other than /ā, a/. We discuss the implications of such changes for those teaching Māori and for students learning Māori as a subject. These changes raise interesting questions concerning the pronunciation of Māori by future generations

/u/ fronting and /t/ aspiration in Māori and New Zealand English

This article examines the relationship between the frontness of /u/ and the aspiration of /t/ in both Māori and New Zealand English (NZE). In both languages, these processes can be observed since the earliest recordings dating from the latter part of the nineteenth century. We report analyses of these developments for three groups of male speakers of Māori spanning the twentieth century. We compare the Māori analyses with analyses of related features of the speakers' English and of the English of monolingual contemporaries. The occurrence of these processes in Māori cannot be seen simply as interference from NZE as the Māori-speaking population became increasingly bilingual. We conclude that it was the arrival of English with its contrast between aspirated and unaspirated plosives, rather than direct borrowing, that was the trigger for the fronting of the hitherto stable back Māori /u/ vowel together with increased aspiration of /t/ before both /i/ and /u/

Do hypothermic tissue tolerances limit torpor expression?

1. Arrest temperatures and Q10 values for extensor digitorum longus (EDL), soleus, trabecula, and jejunum muscle twitch strength, contraction time, and 0.5 relaxation time were calculated for a deep torpor hibernator, white-tailed prairie dog (WTPD) (Cynomys leucurus), a shallow torpor hibernator, black-tailed prairie dog (BTPD) (Cynomys ludovicianus), and a non-hibernator, lab rat (Rattus norvegicus) to test the hypothesis that tissue temperature tolerances limit the depth of expressed torpor. 2. There were no temperature tolerance differences between the tissues of the two species of hibernators. Both hibernating species had arrest temperatures and Q10 values more indicative of cold temperature tolerance than the lab rat in all tissues, with the exception of the soleus muscle. 3. These data imply that a limited cold tolerance of contractile tissue does not preclude a shallow torpor hibernator such as the black-tailed prairie dog from expressing deep torpor patterns. Other mechanisms, such as central neural control, are more likely to be important in determining the torpor strategy utilized by hibernating species