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âMaking the best of thingsâ: relatives' experiences of decisions about care-home entry
Despite the growing awareness of the significance of helping a relative to relocate to a care home as a key phase in the care-giving career, relatively few British studies have explored this experience in depth. Informed by a constructivist perspective, this study sought a better understanding of nursing home placements from the viewpoint of relatives. Data were collected in 37 semi-structured interviews involving 48 people who had assisted a close relative to move into a nursing home.
Analysis revealed three perceived phases to the transition: âmaking the best of itâ, âmaking the moveâ and âmaking it betterâ. The relatives' experiences through these phases had five perceived elements, all of which were continua, from absent to very strong, reflecting the extent to which they were felt. They were: operating âunder pressureâ or not; âin the knowâ or âworking in the darkâ; âworking togetherâ or âworking aloneâ; âin control of eventsâ or not, and âsupportedâ or âunsupportedâ both practically and emotionally. This paper reports findings about the first phase of the transition, âmaking the best of itâ, and documents the experiences of decision-making about nursing home placements. It is argued that health and social care practitioners have enormous potential to influence whether or not helping a relative to move into a nursing home is perceived as a positive choice
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Did the UK Digital Design and Technology (DD&T) programme lead to innovative curriculum change within secondary schools?
Design and technology (D&T) requires teachers to continually update their knowledge and skills, with regard to new technologies, appropriate to the needs of the time (Design and Technology Association, 2011). In 2011, Ofsted identified the need for âEngland to keep pace with global technological changeâ (Ofsted 2011, p.5), in the report âMeeting technological challenges, a survey of schools from 2007-2010â. Following the report, the UK government funded a national programme called Digital Design and Technology (DD&T). The programme set up a network of regional support centres to provide up-to-date Professional Development (PD) courses on modern D&T subject knowledge
Policy responses to regional unemployment:Lessons from Germany, Spain and Italy
The paper examines the causes of high regional unemployment in Germany, Spain and Italy, and identifies a number of areas where policy action is needed. Lower unemployment rates will not only depend on stability-oriented macroeconomic policies and a sufficiently flexible labour market, but also on moves towards more decentralised wage bargaining systems; efforts to reduce regions' long-term dependency on fiscal transfers; changes in tax-benefit systems to improve incentives to create and take up jobs; efficient public expenditure on physical and human capital and action to reduce obstacles to labour mobility.labour force,wages,policy changes,labour mobility,European Economy. Economic Papers
Close Approach during Hard Binary--Binary Scattering
We report on an extensive series of numerical experiments of binary--binary
scattering, analysing the cross--section for close approach during interactions
for a range of hard binary parameters of interest in globular cluster cores. We
consider the implied rate for tidal interactions for different globular
clusters and compare our results with previous, complementary estimates of
stellar collision rates in globular clusters. We find that the collision rate
for binary--binary encounters dominates in low density clusters if the binary
fraction in the cluster is larger than for wide main--sequence binaries.
In dense clusters binary--single interactions dominate the collision rate and
the core binary fraction must be \ltorder 0.1 per decade in semi--major axis
or too many collisions take place compared to observations. The rates are
consistent if binaries with semi--major axes are overabundant in
low density clusters or if breakup and ejection substantially lowers the binary
fraction in denser clusters. Given reasonable assumptions about fractions of
binaries in the cores of low density clusters such as NGC~5053, we cannot
account for all the observed blue stragglers by stellar collisions during
binary encounters, suggesting a substantial fraction may be due to coalescence
of tight primordial binaries.Comment: 13 pages including 13 ps figures. MNRAS in pres
How to Recover a Qubit That Has Fallen Into a Black Hole
We demonstrate an algorithm for the retrieval of a qubit, encoded in spin
angular momentum, that has been dropped into a no-firewall black hole.
Retrieval is achieved analogously to quantum teleportation by collecting
Hawking radiation and performing measurements on the black hole. Importantly,
these methods only require the ability to perform measurements from outside the
event horizon.Comment: 6 pages v2: modified protocol to discuss total angular momentum,
corrected typos, added references v3: updated with referee feedbac
Consistent analysis of neutral- and charged-current neutrino scattering off carbon
Background: Good understanding of the cross sections for (anti)neutrino
scattering off nuclear targets in the few-GeV energy region is a prerequisite
for correct interpretation of results of ongoing and planned oscillation
experiments.
Purpose: Clarify possible source of disagreement between recent measurements
of the cross sections on carbon.
Method: Nuclear effects in (anti)neutrino scattering off carbon nucleus are
described using the spectral function approach. The effect of two- and
multi-nucleon final states is accounted for by applying an effective value of
the axial mass, fixed to 1.23 GeV. Neutral-current elastic (NCE) and
charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) processes are treated on equal footing.
Results: The differential and total cross sections for the energy ranging
from a few hundreds of MeV to 100 GeV are obtained and compared to the
available data from the BNL E734, MiniBooNE, and NOMAD experiments.
Conclusions: Nuclear effects in NCE and CCQE scattering seem to be very
similar. Within the spectral function approach, the axial mass from the shape
analysis of the MiniBooNE data is in good agreement with the results reported
by the BNL E734 and NOMAD Collaborations. However, the combined analysis of NCE
and CCQE data does not seem to support the contribution of multi-nucleon final
states being large enough to explain the normalization of the
MiniBooNE-reported cross sections.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, detailed discussion of the role of FSI is adde
The Low Surface Brightness Extent of the Fornax Cluster
We have used a large format CCD camera to survey the nearby Fornax cluster
and its immediate environment for low luminosity low surface brightness
galaxies. Recent observations indicate that these are the most dark matter
dominated galaxies known and so they are likely to be a good tracer of the dark
matter in clusters. We have identified large numbers of these galaxies
consistent with a steep faint end slope of the luminosity function (alpha~ -2)
down to MB ~ -12. These galaxies contribute almost the same amount to the total
cluster light as the brighter galaxies and they have a spatial extent that is
some four times larger. They satisfy two of the important predictions of N-body
hierarchical simulations of structure formation using dark halos. The
luminosity (mass ?) function is steep and the mass distribution is more
extended than that defined by the brighter galaxies. We also find a large
concentration of low surface brightness galaxies around the nearby galaxy
NGC1291.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figure
Study of the Barringer Refractor Plate Correlation Spectrometer as a remote sensing instrument
Barringer refractor plate correlation spectrometer as remote sensing instrument of pollutant gases in atmospher
Optical/near-infrared colours of early-type galaxies and constraints on their star formation histories
(abridged) We introduce and discuss the properties of a theoretical
(B-K)-(J-K) integrated colour diagram for single-age, single-metallicity
stellar populations. This combination of integrated colours is able to largely
disentangle the well known age-metallicity degeneracy when the age of the
population is greater than ~300 Myr. We discuss in detail the effect on this
colour-colour diagram of alpha-enhanced metal abundance ratios, the presence of
blue horizontal branch stars unaccounted for in the theoretical calibration,
and of statistical colour fluctuations in low mass stellar systems. In the case
of populations with multiple stellar generations, the luminosity-weighted mean
age obtained from this diagram is shown to be heavily biased towards the
youngest stellar components. We apply this method to several datasets for which
optical and near-IR photometry are available in the literature. For the two
Local Group dwarf galaxies NGC185 and NGC6822, the mean ages derived from the
integrated colours are consistent with the star formation histories inferred
independently from photometric observations of their resolved stellar
populations. A sample of bright field and Virgo cluster elliptical galaxies is
found to exhibit a range of luminosity-weighted mean ages from 3 to 14 Gyr,
with a mean of 8 Gyr, independent of environment, and mean metallicities at or
just above the solar value. Colour gradients are found in all of the galaxies
studied, in the sense that central regions are redder. Aperture data for five
Virgo early-type dwarf galaxies show that these galaxies appear to be shifted
to lower mean metallicities and lower mean ages (range 1 to 6 Gyr) than their
higher luminosity counterparts.Comment: (1) Liverpool John Moores University, UK; (2) University of Cardiff,
UK; (3) University of Bristol, UK; (4) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di
Collurania, I; 12 pages, 9 figures, MNRAS in pres
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