Urgency of Legal Protection for Labor Rights within Waging Sector

National development is initiated in goal to achieve fully-fledged developments for Indonesians and the society as a whole through achieving prosperity, wealthy, equality either materially or spiritually in accordance to Pancasila and Undang-Undang Dasar 1945 ‘The 1945 Constitution of Republic of Indonesia’. For labors or workers, doing what they are assigned with are clearly intended to help sustaining their daily needs, as they will later receive remunerations based on their working contributions. Wage as mean of incomes is one of the rights embedded to the workers that need to be protected in line with the relevant regulations in force. Keywords: Legal Protection, Workers Right, Wages

Personalising resource access at Leeds Beckett University

At Leeds Beckett University the library is constantly working to personalise resource discovery and access in response to user demands, to make the user experience as efficient and simple as possible. This talk will go into practical examples of how the library personalises resources to achieve this goal. Examples include: the creation of unique placards within our discovery platform, selection strategies and policies for creating Patron Driven Acquisition profiles, personalisation of MARC records to counter issues with supplied records and the creation of subject specific searching platforms. Undertaking these tasks involves a significant amount of staff time but is driven by user requests to improve the service provided by the library. The personalisation of resource discovery and access makes the collection work more effectively and ensures that the collection is providing value for money. This is especially important in the current financial climate where resources must offer excellent value-per-use for the library service

Teaching to the Teachers: Secondary Education English Students in the Introductory Linguistics Course

Non-linguistic majors can benefit from well-designed lessons in the introductory linguistics course that raise issues students will need to know about in their future careers. At our institution, the introductory linguistics course is populated by students majoring in English Literary Studies, Secondary Education English, and Professional Writing. Secondary Education English (SEE) majors take Language and Linguistics because they must fulfill requirements mandated by the state: knowledge of morphology, phonology, syntax, history of the English language, and so on. In addition to these required subjects, we introduce other issues as well that we feel are essential to developing these particular students’ critical awareness of language issues that will affect them as they pursue their careers in education. Research has shown that most teacher education courses limit exposure to language and linguistic topics (Goodman, 2003; Baugh, 2005; Ann and Peng, 2005). So, for instance, while a course in secondary language arts pedagogy may teach students how to help their future students develop reading strategies for assigned texts, the course probably does not discuss how community or home dialects may impede understanding of such texts. Even career topics may be differently handled depending on whether they are part of a teacher education or a linguistics course: while an education course may inform students about the possibility of studying to teach ESL, or even earn a teaching certificate in ESL, a linguistics course might alternatively explore the issue of bilingual education, opening up the topic for students to learn about some of the national and state policies that influence whether bilingual education, and thus ESL instruction, is offered or not. Because SEE majors are less likely, then, to be introduced to contemporary language and linguistic topics in their education classes, we make a point of including such issues in the introductory linguistics course. The course curricula has included, for example, historical analyses of treatments of particular language groups – Hawaiian, Native American, for instance – , investigation into the motives and goals of the U.S. English movement, study of the contested issue of bilingual education and its use across the country, researching books that have been banned for language reasons, the study of regional and ethnic dialects, and other topics that future teachers must know about to be well-informed and successful instructors. Our presentation would include suggestions for ways in which content of the introductory course can be adjusted to specific populations of students to create the most effective and relevant learning experiences. To access PowerPoint slides for this presentation: Click the Download button on the upper right-hand side of the page

Effective Magnetic Hamiltonian and Ginzburg Criterion for Fluids

We develop further the approach of Hubbard and Schofield (Phys.Lett., A40 (1972) 245), which maps the fluid Hamiltonian onto a magnetic one. We show that all coefficients of the resulting effective Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson (LGW) Hamiltonian may be expressed in terms of the compressibility of a reference fluid containing only repulsive interactions, and its density derivatives; we calculate the first few coefficients in the case of the hard-core reference fluid. From this LGW-Hamiltonian we deduce approximate mean-field relations between critical parameters and test them on data for Lennard-Jones, square-well and hard-core-Yukawa fluids. We estimate the Ginzburg criterion for these fluids.Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX, To appear in Phys.Rev.

Faculty Development As a Tool to Impact Culturally Competent Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities

Presentation: 5:39 Background: This poster focuses on the integration of faculty development of sexual and gender identity health knowledge and skill into health education. There is a gap in inclusion of this content in health professional curriculum. While awareness of LGBTQ+ population health has been indirectly addressed within curriculum, a consistent approach targeting all coursework and faculty can increase culturally competent care of patients that identify as LGBTQ+. Faculty confidence, awareness, and experience regarding knowledge, respectful terminology, and skill directly impacts the likelihood of students becoming culturally competent practitioners. Objectives: The objectives of this poster are to share outcomes of faculty development. This poster will: ● Discuss integration of faculty roles in academia and health profession accreditation standards with theories of cultural competence and humility inclusive of sexual and gender minorities; ● Describe a faculty development program to build foundational understanding of respectful terminology to optimize trust and respect when conversing with/about individuals within sexual and gender minority populations; ● Demonstrate changes in knowledge, awareness, skill, and perceived comfort with sexual and gender minority communities following participation in the program. Methods/ Research: Monthly structured learning sessions were paired with 20-30 minute mentoring check-ins with Sexual and Gender Minorities Education and Training (SG-MET) faculty to address components of LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum. Pre, mid, and post surveys, composed of open and close-ended questions, assessed satisfaction and changes in knowledge, awareness, and perception of skills. Standardized assessments of sexual and gender minority knowledge, experience and clinical skills were completed and collected anonymously through an electronic survey system to protect the faculty’s identification. Conclusions/ Impact: This faculty development program provides pilot data to suggest that this is an effective way to increase knowledge, awareness, and skills in the area of sexual and gender minority health content delivery and practice to impact healthcare disparities in these populations.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/sexandgenderhealth/1001/thumbnail.jp

Optical pulse labeling studies reveal exogenous seeding slows α-synuclein clearance

The accumulation of α-synuclein (α-syn) in intracellular formations known as Lewy bodies (LBs) is associated with several neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease and Lewy Body Dementia. There is still limited understanding of how α-syn and LB formation is associated with cellular dysfunction and degeneration in these diseases. To examine the clearance and production dynamics of α-syn we transduced organotypic murine brain slice cultures (BSCs) with recombinant adeno-associated viruses (rAAVs) to express Dendra2-tagged human wild-type (WT) and mutant A53T α-syn, with and without the addition of exogenous α-syn fibrillar seeds and tracked them over several weeks in culture using optical pulse labeling. We found that neurons expressing WT or mutant A53T human α-syn show similar rates of α-syn turnover even when insoluble, phosphorylated Ser129 α-syn has accumulated. Taken together, this data reveals α-syn aggregation and overexpression, pSer129 α-syn, nor the A53T mutation affect α-syn dynamics in this system. Prion-type seeding with exogenous α-syn fibrils significantly slows α-syn turnover, in the absence of toxicity but is associated with the accumulation of anti-p62 immunoreactivity and Thiazin Red positivity. Prion-type induction of α-syn aggregation points towards a potential protein clearance deficit in the presence of fibrillar seeds and the ease of this system to explore precise mechanisms underlying these processes. This system facilitates the exploration of α-syn protein dynamics over long-term culture periods. This platform can further be exploited to provide mechanistic insight on what drives this slowing of α-syn turnover and how therapeutics, other genes or different α-syn mutations may affect α-syn protein dynamics

Benthic biodiversity, carbon storage and the potential for increasing negative feedbacks on climate change in shallow waters of the Antarctic Peninsula

Seafloor biodiversity provides a key ecosystem service, as an efficient route for carbon to be removed from the atmosphere to become buried (long-term) in marine sediment. Protecting near intact ecosystems, particularly those that are hotspots of biodiversity, with high numbers of unique species (endemics), is increasingly being recognised as the best route to protect existing blue carbon. This study measured globally significant stocks of blue carbon held within both rocky (17.5 tonnes carbon km−2) and soft (4.1 t C km−2) substrata shallow (20 m) seafloor communities along the Antarctic Peninsula. Along the 7998 km of seasonally ice-free shoreline, 59% of known dive sites were classified as rocky and 12% as soft substratum. This gave estimates of 253k t C in animals and plants found at 20 m depth, with a potential sequestration of 4.5k t C year−1. More carbon was stored in assemblages with greater functional groups. Of the Antarctic Peninsula shore, 54% is still permanently ice covered, and so blue carbon ecosystem services are expected to more than double with continued climate warming. As one of the few increasing negative feedbacks against climate change, protecting seafloor communities around the Antarctic is expected to help tackle both the biodiversity and climate crises

Assessment of fetal presentation: Exploring a woman-centred approach

This article explores the core midwifery skill of fetal presentation assessment from the perspective of women’s meanings and experiences, including the social and relational aspects of antenatal palpation. Brief background information is provided, explaining the clinical purpose of determining presentation antenatally, and the key debates surrounding the available interventions applied when babies present breech, eg. external cephalic version and caesarean section. In order to make the screening process transparent, women need to know the accuracy (or rather, inaccuracy) of abdominal palpation, and what her options will be if her baby is found to be presenting breech, either before or during labour. Specialist midwifery care may help meet women’s increased needs for counselling and reassurance, and provide continuity throughout the breech care pathway, which for low-risk women begins with palpation

Spatial and temporal dynamics of Antarctic shallow soft-bottom benthic communities: ecological drivers under climate change

Background: Marine soft sediments are some of the most widespread habitats in the ocean, playing a vital role in global carbon cycling, but are amongst the least studied with regard to species composition and ecosystem functioning. This is particularly true of the Polar Regions, which are currently undergoing rapid climate change, the impacts of which are poorly understood. Compared to other latitudes, Polar sediment habitats also experience additional environmental drivers of strong seasonality and intense disturbance from iceberg scouring, which are major structural forces for hard substratum communities. This study compared sediment assemblages from two coves, near Rothera Point, Antarctic Peninsula, 67°S in order to understand the principal drivers of community structure, for the frst time, evaluating composition across all size classes from mega- to micro-fauna. Results: Morpho-taxonomy identifed 77 macrofaunal species with densities of 464–16,084 individuals m−2 . eDNA metabarcoding of microfauna, in summer only, identifed a higher diversity, 189 metazoan amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) using the 18S ribosomal RNA and 249 metazoan ASVs using the mitochondrial COI gene. Both techniques recorded a greater taxonomic diversity in South Cove than Hangar Cove, with diferences in communities between the coves, although the main taxonomic drivers varied between techniques. Morphotaxonomy identifed the main diferences between coves as the mollusc, Altenaeum charcoti, the cnidarian Edwardsia sp. and the polychaetes from the family cirratulidae. Metabarcoding identifed greater numbers of species of nematodes, crustaceans and Platyhelminthes in South Cove, but more bivalve species in Hangar Cove. There were no detectable diferences in community composition, measured through morphotaxonomy, between seasons, years or due to iceberg disturbance. Conclusions: This study found that unlike hard substratum communities the diversity of Antarctic soft sediment communities is correlated with the same factors as other latitudes. Diversity was signifcantly correlated with grain size and organic content, not iceberg scour. The increase in glacial sediment input as glaciers melt, may therefore be more important than increased iceberg disturbance

Achieving sustainable quality in maternity services – using audit of incontinence and dyspareunia to identify shortfalls in meeting standards

BACKGROUND: Some complications of childbirth (for example, faecal incontinence) are a source of social embarrassment for women, and are often under reported. Therefore, it was felt important to determine levels of complications (against established standards) and to consider obstetric measures aimed at reducing them. METHODS: Clinical information was collected on 1036 primiparous women delivering at North and South Staffordshire Acute and Community Trusts over a 5-month period in 1997. A questionnaire was sent to 970 women which included self-assessment of levels of incontinence and dyspareunia prior to pregnancy, at 6 weeks post delivery and 9 to 14 months post delivery. RESULTS: The response rate was 48%(470/970). Relatively high levels of obstetric interventions were found. In addition, the rates of instrumental deliveries differed between the two hospitals. The highest rates of postnatal symptoms had occurred at 6 weeks, but for many women problems were still present at the time of the survey. At 9–14 months high rates of dyspareunia (29%(102/347)) and urinary incontinence (35%(133/382)) were reported. Seventeen women (4%) complained of faecal incontinence at this time. Similar rates of urinary incontinence and dyspareunia were seen regardless of mode of delivery. CONCLUSION: Further work should be undertaken to reduce the obstetric interventions, especially instrumental deliveries. Improvements in a number of areas of care should be undertaken, including improved patient information, improved professional communication and improved professional recognition and management of third degree tears. It is likely that these measures would lead to a reduction in incontinence and dyspareunia after childbirth