THE CONSTITUTION AND THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR CONVENTIONS

The International Labor Organization, since its establishment in 1919, has become one of the most active of the international institutions of the post-war period. It was founded upon that provision of the Treaty of Versailles which binds each signatory nation and those which should later join the organization to endeavor to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labor for men, women and children, both in their own countries and in the countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend

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Beneath The Pavement

In 2014 Anna Francis (lead artist) and AirSpace Gallery were commissioned by Appetite Stoke and the City Centre Partnership, Stoke-on-Trent to design and lead a professional artist development programme, bringing 15 artists to work with 4 lead artists to explore the role of the artist in city development. Information about the programme, its remit and aims: City planners, governors and stakeholders all over the world are waking up to the value (both in economic terms, and in placemaking terms) of culture and creativity, and for that reason many are building art and artists into their vision. Stoke-on-Trent is a city very much in the process of changing and developing, making now the perfect time to discuss the role of the artist within these developments, and to begin to demonstrate how artists can rethink public space and open the conversation with the public about it’s experience and consumption of it. In July, 2014, Appetite and the City Centre Partnership commissioned AirSpace Gallery to design a consultation and visioning programme designed to work with artists to find spaces and opportunities in the city centre for artists and other creative practitioners to work, put on events and activities, but also to consider how the city might work differently, identifying the gaps and the opportunities to be found here. From this, AirSpace Director, Anna Francis created Beneath the Pavement, drawing on previous experience of leading professional development activity for artists, as well as a working knowledge of a city in flux. Over two days, four lead artists - Anna Francis, Emily Speed, S Mark Gubb and Dan Thompson worked with fifteen applicant artists to explore the City Centre; scrutinising it’s open and overlooked spaces, identifying opportunities and responding to it’s particularities and peculiarities. The artists then used their own artistic practice and experience to develop a series of proposals for a brighter cultural future for the city centre of StokeOn-Trent. This publication was created to document the outcomes of the programme

Laboratory evaluation of Drawtex Hydroconductive Dressing with LevaFiber technology

Good wound bed preparation is an essential aspect of wound care and effective wound healing. Removal of dead and necrotic tissue either through autolytic or interventional debridement, followed by good exudate management, inhibition of matrix metalloproteases and bacterial bioburden control should allow the chronic wound to process to closure. It is known, still, that wound healing in these circumstances is not a simple process and that maintaining a healthy wound bed is central to the process. Many practitioners rely on the TIME (Tissue, Infection/Inflammation, Moisture balance and wound Edge) framework to help them with wound bed preparation and there are a variety of dressings available to help with debridement, exudate management, reduction of bacterial bioburden and inhibit metalloproteases. The sequence of application of the various dressings will depend upon their function. This study describes the function of a dressing, Drawtex, a hydroconductive dressing, which can be used to assist with wound bed preparation through its absorption, sequestration and retention properties. The absorption over time, ability to sequester and retain bacteria were assessed in the laboratory using a variety of methods. Drawtex was shown to absorb eight times its own weight in fluid over time and it showed a 90% reduction in bacterial numbers over a 24hr period in sequestration experiments. Utilisation of direct observation by scanning electron microscopy demonstrated bacterial retention in the fibres

Advanced deposition phase diagrams for guiding Si:H-based multijunction solar cells

Abstract Phase diagrams have been established to describe very high frequency (vhf) plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of intrinsic hydrogenated silicon (Si:H) and silicon-germanium alloy (Si 1Àx Ge x :H) thin films on crystalline Si substrates that have been over-deposited with n-type amorphous Si:H (a-Si:H). The Si:H and Si 1Àx Ge x :H films are prepared under conditions used for the top and middle i-layers of high efficiency triple-junction a-Si:H-based n-i-p solar cells. Identical n/i cell structures were co-deposited in this study on textured (stainless steel)/Ag/ZnO which serve as substrate/back-reflectors in order to relate the phase diagrams to the performance parameters of single-junction solar cells. This study has reaffirmed that the highest efficiencies for a-Si:H and a-Si 1Àx Ge x :H solar cells are obtained when the i-layers are prepared under previously-described maximal H 2 dilution conditions. Published by Elsevier B.V

A systematic scoping review of speech and language therapists’ public health practice for early language development

Background: There have been calls for speech and language therapists (SLTs) to work within a public-health framework to support language development. Innovative practice is reported, but the range of services remains unknown. Furthermore, the potential impact of public health practice in speech and language therapy on early child development is also currently unknown. A new method in SLT research, systematic scoping reviews enable greater breadth of focus than traditional systematic reviews when identifying innovative practice. Aim: To report scope and critically appraise evidence of family-focused health-promotion practice for early language development in this area. Methods & Procedures: Using the Cochrane Public Health Group scoping review framework, data from reports of health-promotion practice with families of children aged 0-3 years were extracted and critically appraised on service delivery, information, reach and evaluation. Main contribution: Group-based service delivery was the most popular form of service delivery. There were limited reports on the information given in services and on their reach. Questionnaires were the most popular reported evaluation method. Quality of evaluations was poor due to lack of replicability and experimental control in the studies reported. Conclusions & Implications: This method of systematic review has highlighted the scope of health-promotion practice in speech and language therapy and also demonstrated the lack of evidence for its effectiveness on child language development. It is argued that systematic scoping reviews are valuable for scoping innovative practice in areas where either there is a lack of robust evidence or there is a high level of heterogeneity in practice or evaluation. To support clinician appraisal of available evidence, recommendations are given for development of questionnaire appraisal and for categorization of evidence levels on summary databases

Gender differences in conversation topics, 1922–1990

Gender differences in conversation topics were first systematically studied in 1922 by Henry Moore, who theorized that the gender differences in topic choice he observed in a field observation study would persist over time, as they were manifestations of men's and women's “original natures.” In this paper, I report a 1990 replication of Moore's study, in which similar but smaller gender differences in topic choice are found. In order to explore further the apparent trend toward smaller gender differences, reports of quantitative observation studies conducted between 1922 and 1990 are examined. Other explanations besides change over time—such as variations in conversation setting and audience, target populations, and researcher's intentions—may account for the decline in gender differences in topic choice. Social influences are seen more clearly in the discourse about gender differences in conversation than in gender differences in conversation topics themselves.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45599/1/11199_2004_Article_BF00289744.pd

How does working on university-industry collaborative projects affect science and engineering doctorates' careers? Evidence from a UK research-based university

This paper examines the impact of industrial involvement in doctoral projects on the particular nature of the training and careers of doctorates. We draw on an original survey of job histories of doctorates in physical sciences and engineering from a research-based university in the UK. Using multivariate probit analysis and linearised (robust) and resampling (jackknife) variance estimation techniques, we found that projects with industrial involvement are associated with higher degree of socialisation with industry. There is some evidence showing that these projects are also more likely to focus on solving firm-specific technical problems or developing firm-specific specifications/prototypes, rather than exploring high-risk concepts or generating knowledge in the subject areas. Crucially, these projects result in fewer journal publications. Not surprisingly, in line with existing literature, we found that engaging in projects with industrial involvement (in contrast to projects without industrial involvement) confers advantages on careers in the private sector. Nevertheless, there is also a hint that engaging in projects with industrial involvement may have a negative effect on careers in academia or public research organisations. While acknowledging that the modelling results are based on a small sample from a research-based university and that therefore the results need to be treated with caution, we address implications for doctorates, universities and policymakers

The Influence of Dormitory Architecture On Resident Behavior

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66943/2/10.1177_001391657300500402.pd