The systemic nature of duty of care in coaching: coach, client, customer and beyond

Duty of care is part of the ethical framework of conduct in how coaches act, and whilst codes of ethics can help guide coaches, they do not address the complexity of duty of care. The executive coach's role is complicated as they operate in tripartite relationships which include the coach, the client and the customer. This qualitative research involved interviews with thirty executive coaches where duty of care in coaching was explored. This article discusses one of the practical contributions of the study, how a coach’s duty of care is systemic and includes all those in the coaching relationship

Sing and Old-Fashioned Coon Song / music by Phyllis Mayhead; words by Kathleen Wooffitt

Cover: drawing of an African American male singing and playing banjo; Publisher: Cecil Lennox Ltd. (London)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sharris_e/1023/thumbnail.jp

SHOOT INITIATION AND MULTIPLICATION OF CORSICAN PINE IN VITRO

From different combinations of basal medium and growth regulators tested, itwasfound that the best niediumfor producing shoots front mature embryos wasAI."'I 2 ppnt BAP + 2 ppnt NAil -1 I. 25 pplll IIIlI; front apical tneristems' CD +I. 12 pplll !:fA P + 0.0./ pptn 2, .J-D r- 0.01 pplll J.:; andfrom needle fascicles, cowith no growth regulator. Of 3 substrates tested for growing seedlings toproduce explants, the best (jiJl' apical-meristem explants) was low-nutrientcompost, and the best age o/' seedling was 2 I days. Explants from one-year oldplants and shoots produced in vitro gave more shoots than did those frotnmature trees; there was no significant difference in the length of the shoots.Production of adventitious budsfor rapid multiplication was greater on exp Iants0/ apical meristem origin than on those front mature embryos or needle[ascicles; the percentage survival decreased significantly in second and thirdgenerations ofexplants oral! three origins

Aerodynamic roughness parameters in cities: inclusion of vegetation

A widely used morphometric method (Macdonald et al. 1998) to calculate the zero-plane displacement (zd) and aerodynamic roughness length (z0) for momentum is further developed to include vegetation. The adaptation also applies to the Kanda et al. (2013) morphometric method which considers roughness-element height variability. Roughness-element heights (mean, maximum and standard deviation) of both buildings and vegetation are combined with a porosity corrected plan area and drag formulation. The method captures the influence of vegetation (in addition to buildings), with the magnitude of the effect depending upon whether buildings or vegetation are dominant and the porosity of vegetation (e.g. leaf-on or leaf-off state). Application to five urban areas demonstrates that where vegetation is taller and has larger surface cover, its inclusion in the morphometric methods can be more important than the morphometric method used. Implications for modelling the logarithmic wind profile (to 100 m) are demonstrated. Where vegetation is taller and occupies a greater amount of space, wind speeds may be slowed by up to a factor of three

CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDIVIDUAL TREE TOTAL VOLUME PREDICTION MODEL FOR Pinus nigra var. maritima (Ait.) Melville (CORSICAN PINE) IN GREAT BRITAIN

A total volume prediction model for individual trees was constructed using total height anddiameter at breast height (dbh) as explanatory variables for intermediate and neutralthinning types using the data obtained from the British Forestry Commission.The key question used was V, = g, * h, * J, where v, g, h, andf represent the total volume.basal area. total height and form factor of an individual tree. Form factor is the mostdifficult variable to measure because, it is highly correlated with species. age. site.variations, stand density, crown growth and competition from the neighbouring trees.Assuming hasal area and total height of the particular tree will indicate the competition andage, direct functions were not constructed for competition. However, it was tested indirectlyusing crown parameters, stand density (N) and total basal area (G). Top height relatedfunctions were used to represent the site quality. The final equation tested was\' =Tts. h. s, G. N, crown growth).For each thinning type, 75('k of plots were used for model construction and the remaining25'Yr for the validation of the constructed models. Data were divided by thinning type andthen by age in order to fit the models to one year at a time.Crown parameters, site parameters, total number of trees or total basal area were notstatistically significant when fitted and the standard residual distribution indicated noimprovement. Basal area and total height were the significant variables. Finally, basal areawas replaced by dbh. For the final model at each age Rl was between 0.972-0.999 andstandard residuals were distributed without showing any particular pattern. Quantitativetests indicated negligible bias and very high modelling efficiency for all ages. Lack of fittest indicated the model was adequate.There was an attempt to construct parameter prediction models with age which was notsuccessful because the estimated parameters for all ages were distributed around 0.5. Finallyan averaged value of the parameter which replaced the form factor was selected for all agesfor both thinning types. The finalmodcl is given below.v = 0.5040 * h * (;rdbh2 1400(0

PREDICTION OF INDIVIDUAL TREE DIAMETERS OF Pinus nigra var. maritima (Ait.) Melville (CORSICAN PINE)

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Testing the Waste Based Biorefinery Concept: Pilot Scale Cultivation of Microalgal Species on Spent Anaerobic Digestate Fluids

PurposeA waste based biorefinery approach has been tested.MethodsThis has been investigated by culturing in a 800 L photobioreactor two autotrophic microalgae namely Nannochloropsis oceanica and Scenedesmus quadricauda utilising filtered spent anaerobic digestate fluids of N:P ratio 14.22 as substrate.ResultsSignificant rates of bioremediation simultaneously with biomass and associated end product formation were achieved. Nitrogen and phosphorus of waste based media was decreased up to 90%. The biomass biochemical analysis of the microalgae when grown on the waste based formulated media demonstrated the comparable content of lipids and proteins with the species grown on f/2 media.ConclusionsTheoretical biomethane potential generation, should the algal cultures be placed in an anaerobic digester, was calculated at 0.58 L CH4 g−1 VS for N. oceanica and 0.48 L CH4 g−1 VS for S. quadricauda showing comparable results with other studies of different source of biomass

Baseline Expression of Immune Gene Modules in Blood is Associated With Primary Response to Anti-TNF Therapy in Crohn’s Disease Patients

Background and Aims: Anti-tumour necrosis factor [anti-TNF] therapy is widely used for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, yet many patients are primary non-responders, failing to respond to induction therapy. We aimed to identify blood gene expression differences between primary responders and primary non-responders to anti-TNF monoclonal antibodies [infliximab and adalimumab], and to predict response status from blood gene expression and clinical data. Methods: The Personalised Anti-TNF Therapy in Crohn’s Disease [PANTS] study is a UK-wide prospective observational cohort study of anti-TNF therapy outcome in anti-TNF-naive Crohn’s disease patients [ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03088449]. Blood gene expression in 324 unique patients was measured by RNA-sequencing at baseline [week 0], and at weeks 14, 30, and 54 after treatment initiation [total sample size = 814]. Results: After adjusting for clinical covariates and estimated blood cell composition, baseline expression of major histocompatibility complex, antigen presentation, myeloid cell enriched receptor, and other innate immune gene modules was significantly higher in anti-TNF responders vs non-responders. Expression changes from baseline to week 14 were generally of consistent direction but greater magnitude [i.e. amplified] in responders, but interferon-related genes were upregulated uniquely in non-responders. Expression differences between responders and non-responders observed at week 14 were maintained at weeks 30 and 54. Prediction of response status from baseline clinical data, cell composition, and module expression was poor. Conclusions: Baseline gene module expression was associated with primary response to anti-TNF therapy in PANTS patients. However, these baseline expression differences did not predict response with sufficient sensitivity for clinical use.</p