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Paicardo\u27s Funding ministry with five loaves and two fishes (Book Review)
Paicardo, R. (2016). Funding ministry with five loaves and two fishes. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. 124 pp. ISBN 978150181892
The Precautionary Principle in Australia: Policy, Law & Potential Precautionary EIAs
Dr. Gullet argues that environmental impact assessments are a logical vehicle for factoring the precautionary principle into large-project-approval processes
Librarians as Disciples and Disciple-Makers
Librarians as Disciples and Disciple-Makers was a workshop at the 2016 Conference for the Association of Christian Librarians. This session focused on exploring the concept of being led by God, sharing round-table ideas on big-picture vision questions, and writing a personal sixty-month action plan for balanced discipleship living. This article is a summation of the workshop
Back to the future in NHS reform
PURPOSE - In the mid 1990s the NHS âdidâ competition, in the mid 2000s the NHS is âdoingâ choice. This paper aims to cut through the rhetoric, highlight the differences and parallels between then and now and identify if these differences will have a different or the same impact on local services. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH â Following a review of literature from the 1990s, a qualitative research study is used to examine the impact of competition and markets in the 1990s. The discussion examines the implications of this study for current system reform. FINDINGS - Patient choice recreates many of the features of the internal market, but despite concerns at the time, the internal market did not have a significant impact on services. It is likely that patient choice will similarly have a limited impact. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS - The research is a case study confined to Day Surgery in one part of the North of England. ORIGINALITY/VALUE - The paper reminds academics and practitioners what happened last time the NHS attempted to introduce a market-based system
International Students in the UK : how can we give them a better experience?
This paper focuses on practical actions that can be taken to improve the learning experience of international students in the UK. Informed by personal experience in the UK, New Zealand and Australia, supplemented by an extensive literature search, a series of actions are recommended to improve the learning experience of international students from culturally diverse backgrounds. The suggested actions cover issues for individual lecturers, Departments, Higher Education Institutions and national level bodies. The approach taken is to incorporate personal reflection and personal views and the ideas of writers in the field. The paper is written in the first person and sets out the authorâs wish list of ideas, hopes and aspirations for the future, from the perspective of a teaching fellow working in a research focussed University in the UK
âBeing Involved in Community Based Research; Lessons from the Objective 1 South Yorkshire Contextâ
This article reports the findings of a qualitative investigation into community based research within the Objective 1 Programme, South Yorkshire. Based upon semi-structured interviews with participants undertaking community based research and then developing action plans based upon the research findings, the study highlights the issues associated with involvement in such research from participantâs perspectives. Beginning with an examination of involvement in research and then moving on to discuss the wider issues of involvement in regeneration and partnerships, the article argues that despite the increased policy focus on bottom-up approaches, involvement is complex and conceptualised in a number of different ways and therefore requires further investigation
The justification of homeschooling vis-a-vis the european human rights system
The very idea of the European Convention on Human Rights is to bring the laws of contracting states into line with fundamental human rights principles. Where the Convention is not explicit, the Court should never rule restrictively so as to reduce the scope of a general right. In the case of homeschooling, the Convention sets forth the general principle that âthe state shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.â It must not, therefore, allow a contracting state to eliminate a means of achieving this desired by parentsâunless the state can show that the means in question is ineffective
Low-luminosity X-ray sources and the Galactic ridge X-ray emission
Using the XMM-Newton Slew Survey, we construct a hard-band selected sample of
low-luminosity Galactic X-ray sources. Two source populations are represented,
namely coronally-active stars and binaries (ASBs) and cataclysmic variables
(CVs), with X-ray luminosities collectively spanning the range 10^(28-34) erg/s
(2-10 keV). We derive the 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity function (XLF) and volume
emissivity of each population. Scaled to the local stellar mass density, the
latter is found to be 1.08 +/- 0.16 x 10^28 erg/s/M and 2.5 +/- 0.6 x 10^27
erg/s/M, for the ASBs and CVs respectively, which in total is a factor 2 higher
than previous estimates. We employ the new XLFs to predict the X-ray source
counts on the Galactic plane at l = 28.5 deg and show that the result is
consistent with current observational constraints. The X-ray emission of faint,
unresolved ASBs and CVs can account for a substantial fraction of the Galactic
ridge X-ray emission (GRXE). We discuss a model in which roughly 80 per cent of
the 6-10 keV GRXE intensity is produced in this way, with the remainder
attributable to X-ray scattering in the interstellar medium and/or young
Galactic source populations. Much of the hard X-ray emission attributed to the
ASBs is likely to be produced during flaring episodes
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