A Collaborative Investigation of the Experiences of Elders Using an Older Adult Home Treatment Team: From Understanding to Action

Introduction: Older Adult Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams (OA-CRHTT) have become more prominent in NHS services in recent years. The research on such services thus far has focused on the business aspect of measures, namely hospital admissions. There is no current evidence exploring the experiences of elders using these services, and how these services are perceived by elders. Method: Five co-researchers were recruited from an OA-CRHTT in inner London, and agreed to engage in a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project. Narrative analysis was used to investigate how the co-researchers experienced support from the OA-CRHTT. A particular focus was paid to the element of action based on the findings of this research project. Narrative stories were created using a collaborative framework. The data was analysed by first creating personal narratives and then having a group collective statement based on these narratives. Results: The interpretation from the personal narratives suggest that elders who have not had prior experience with mental health services require support in understanding the service and how it operates and what it is meant to provide, and that stigma played a role in perceptions of engaging with an acute community mental health team. Humanising care was reported as the main factor of what elders found as useful, with a need for understanding and good assessment to be achieved. Discussion: Co-researchers each presented different aspects of what they found helpful about the service, steeped in their own context and experience of services. The need for dominant narratives regarding elders about the ability for services to be responsive to these was imperative. Implications for the research highlight the need for further investigation of elder views of the workings of CRHTT for elders, specifically hearing from people who are diagnosed with dementia, and elders from marginalised groups

Journalistic investigations and cabinet crises in the Third Polish Republic (selected examples)

This article focuses on the influence of investigative journalism on the system of government, and, in particular, on the functioning and break-up of cabinet coalitions in Poland after 1989. It focuses on the parliamentary-cabinet form of government. The source of conflicts which led to the loss of the necessary trust or accelerated the fall of the government were often crises caused by the work of investigative journalists, in which they disclosed facts uncomfortable for members of the Council of Ministers, related to them either directly, through their own reprehensible activities, or indirectly, through the activities of their closest associates. The aim of this article is to show that the unmasking of scandals involving members of the government, their associates or politicians and officials from their political base is a catalyst that can generate cabinet crises, including the collapse of the government. Analyses show the impact of scandals revealed during the term of office of four governments, that of Waldemar Pawlak, Leszek Miller, Jarosław Kaczyński and Donald Tusk

On any topic? Topics of publications of investigative journalism and journalistic intervention in the local press (on the examples of Poland and the USA)

The author raises an interesting subject, hitherto unexplored comprehensively in American and Polish media studies, namely, the problem o f topics o f investigative journalism and journalistic intervention at the level o f local newspaper publishers. In local media, just as in national media, disclosure of corruption and misconduct of local government happens quite rarely. Additionally, the checking activity - as the watchdog function o f the press - is present in the Polish reality only in some local commercial media which are independent from local government. The author discusses the impact of the media’s checking function for the selection o f topics by local investigative journalists and the nature of the activities of local political and business decision-makers limiting the subjects addressed by investigative reporters. A comparative analysis relates the problems of the functioning o f local government andlocal communities which are aired in articles published by investigative journalists and journalistic intervention. For the comparison, articles recognised by the jury of the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism 1926-2015 and texts submitted and recognised in the “Local Press” competition 2012-2013 organised by the Association o f Local Newspapers were used.Autor podjął ciekawy, chociaż do tej pory niezbadany kompleksowo na gruncie amerykańskiego i polskiego medioznawstwa problem tematyki poruszanej w publikacjach dziennikarstwa śledczego i interwencyjnego na poziomie lokalnych wydawnictw prasowych. Podobnie jak w mediach ogólnokrajowych ujawnianie afer i nagłaśnianie niewłaściwych zachowań władzy zdarza się dosyć rzadko w mediach lokalnych, a działalność kontrolna w ramach watchdog function of the press występuje w polskich realiach tylko w nielicznych lokalnych mediach komercyjnych, niezależnych od organów samorządowych. Autor omawia wpływ funkcji kontrolnej mediów na dobór tematyki przez lokalnych dziennikarzy śledczych oraz charakter działań lokalnych decydentów politycznych i biznesowych ograniczających tematykę podejmowaną przez reporterów dochodzeniowych. Analizie porównawczej poddano problemy funkcjonowania organów samorządowych oraz społeczności lokalnych nagłaśniane w publikacjach demaskatorskich i interwencyjnych. Do porównania wykorzystano artykuły o tematyce lokalnej nagrodzone Pulitzer Prize za dziennikarstwo śledcze w latach 1926-2015 oraz materiały nadesłane i nagrodzone w latach 2012-2013 w konkursie ,,Local Press”, organizowanym przez Stowarzyszenie Gazet Lokalnych

Properties of random sequential adsorption of generalized dimers

Saturated random packing of particles built of two identical, relatively shifted spheres in two and three dimensional flat and homogeneous space was studied numerically using random sequential adsorption algorithm. The shift between centers of spheres varied from 0.0 to 8.0 sphere diameters. Numerical simulations allowed determine random sequential adsorption kinetics, saturated random coverage ratio as well as available surface function and density autocorrelation function.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figure

Random sequential adsorption of trimers and hexamers

Adsorption of trimers and hexamers built of identical spheres was studied numerically using the Random Sequential Adsorption (RSA) algorithm. Particles were adsorbed on a two dimensional, flat and homogeneous surface. Numerical simulations allow to establish the maximal random coverage ratio, RSA kinetics as well as the Available Surface Function (ASF), which is crucial for determining kinetics of the adsorption process obtained experimentally. Additionally, the density autocorrelation function was measured. All the results were compared with previous results obtained for spheres, dimers and tetramers.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure

Muckraker websites (American and European examples)

The goal of the article is to compare contemporary websites used by investigative reporters for organising their inquiries and propagating their outcomes. To achieve that goal, I compare the experiences of American and European muckrakers in conducting investigative activities through websites. I analysed 10 such projects in total, 3 from the USA and 7 from Europe. The discussed criteria include the modes of financing, the size of annual budgets, the modes of operation, and HR policies.The goal of the article is to compare contemporary websites used by investigative reporters for organising their inquiries and propagating their outcomes. To achieve that goal, I compare the experiences of American and European muckrakers in conducting investigative activities through websites. I analysed 10 such projects in total, 3 from the USA and 7 from Europe. The discussed criteria include the modes of financing, the size of annual budgets, the modes of operation, and HR policies

STAR Highlights on Heavy Ion Physics

RHIC-STAR is a mid-rapidity collider experiment for studying high energy nuclear collisions. The main physics goals of STAR experiment are 1) studying the properties of the strongly coupled Quark Gluon Plasma, 2) explore the QCD phase diagram structure. In these proceedings, we will review the recent results of heavy ion physics at STAR.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures. The proceedings of ICNFP201

RSA Study of Dimers

The first theoretical study of a dimer's adsorption process at homogenous surface is presented. By using the RSA algorithm, we show example monolayers, discuss estimations of random jamming coverage and measure the surface blocking function, which could be used for calculating real systems kinetics. We also found the correlation function for generated coverages and analyzed orientational ordering inside the adsorbed monolayer. Results were compared with theoretical and experimental data. Keywords: adsorption, RSA, monolayer, colloid particlesComment: 13 pages, 13 figure