Accommodations and Compliance Series: Employees with Learning Disabilities

[Excerpt] The Accommodation and Compliance Series is a starting point in the accommodation process and may not address every situation. Accommodations should be made on a case by case basis, considering each employee\u27s individual limitations and accommodation needs. Employers are encouraged to contact JAN to discuss specific situations in more detail

"What if No One Had Spoken out Against this Policy?" The Rise of Asylum Seeker and Refugeee Advocacy in Australia

This paper examines the rise of an asylum seeker and refugee advocacy movement in Australia in recent years. It situates this phenomenon within Alberto Melucci's understanding of social movements as variable and diffuse forms of social action involved in challenging the logic of a system. Following this theoretical framework, it explores the empirical features of this particular collective action, as well as the struggle to redefine the nature of the relationship between citizens of a sovereign state and 'the other' in the personage of asylum seekers and refugees

Demonstration of astrocytes in cultured amniotic fluid cells of three cases with neural-tube defect

We have investigated the origin of rapidly adhering (RA) cells in three cases of neural tube defects (two anencephali, one encephalocele). We were able to demonstrate the presence of glial fibrillary acidic (GFA) protein in variable percentages (4–80%) of RA cells cultured for 4–6 days by use of indirect immunofluorescence with GFA antiserum. Cells cultured from amniotic fluids of normal pregnancies and fetal fibroblasts were completely GFA protein negative. GFA protein is well established as a highly specific marker for astrocytes. Demonstration of astrocytes may prove to be a criterion of high diagnostic value for neural tube defects. The percentage of astrocytes decreased with increasing culture time, while the percentage of fibronectin positive cells increased both in amniotic fluid cell cultures from neural tube defects and normal pregnancies

An investigation into the origin and nature of some organic deposits of the Ingleborough region

Five sites were investigated, in the Ingleborough region of Yorkshire, Helwith Moss, Thieves Moss, Scar Close, Moughton, and Howrake Rocks. Samples of peat were extracted by means of a borer, or taken from monoliths, and their structure and pollen content examined. Profiles and pollen diagrams were produced for each site. Helwith Moss was found to have developed from a former lake which became invaded by aquatic mosses, then reed swamps and finally raised bog. Peat formation began in zone V, and raised bog was initiated at the Boreal-Atlantic transition, when the climate became wetter. An important recurrence surface was found in, sub-zone VIIb, where the peat changes noticeably from a relatively humified Eriophorum- spaghum type to light brown less humified Sphagnum imbricatum. As this did not coincide with the suggested position of the VII/VIII boundary of the pollen diagram, a transition zone was postulated from the recurrence surface at 235 cms. to the start of zone VIII at 120 cms. Thieves Moss also was found to have developed from a former lake which became colonised by Carex swamp, hypnoid moss, and then Sphagnum bog. The upper layer is of a mixed peat including monocotyledonous material. Pollen is preserved from zones II to VII, the latter zone being the latest to which any of the peat belongs. The change from swamp to bog took place at the end of sub-zone VIa, when a lowering of the water table took place probably caused by the removal of a barrier at the southern side of the Moss. This would lessen considerably the influence of calcareous drainage water allowing more acid conditions to develop with a corresponding vegetational change. The surface of the bog appears to be affected by erosion and peat formation is not actively taking place, probably because of the well developed drainage system of a limestone area. At Scar Close the peat lies in a continuous layer on slopes above the limestone pavement but only in patches on the pavement itself. Profiles and pollen diagrams from eight sites suggest that this peat cover was once continuous over the whole pavement area. The peat belongs to zone VIII. On the slopes above the pavement it has formed on a layer of drift which covers the limestone The peat on the pavement is in actual contact with the limestone. It may have formed on a thin drift layer which has now been washed into the grykes, or directly on the limestone with a later widening of grykes under peat, because of an increase in the rate of solution of the limestone. The series of pollen diagrams from the upper to the lower sites show a progressive truncation from below. These may be interpreted, either as a gradual spreading of the peat onto the pavement from the slopes above, or the result of oxidation of the lower peat layers in contact with the limestone. The information from Moughton and Howrake Rocks suggests that the peat on the limestone pavement at Scar Close has formed in situ, and has not slipped down from the slopes above

Male mating constraints affect mutual mate choice: Prudent male courting and sperm limited females

Costs of sperm production may lead to prudence in male spermallocation and also to male mate choice. Here, we develop a life history–based mutual mate choice model that takes into account the lost-opportunity costs for males from time out in sperm recovery and lets mate competition be determined by the prevailing mate choice strategies. We assume that high mating rate may potentially lead to sperm depletion in males, and that as a result, female reproduction may be limited by the availability of sperm. Increasing variation in male quality leads, in general, to increased selective mate choice by females, and vice versa. Lower-quality males may, however, gain access to more fecund higher-quality females by lowering their courting rate, thus increasing their sperm reserves. When faced with strong male competition for mates, low-quality males become less choosy, which leads to assortative mating for quality and an increased mating rate across all males. With assortative mating, the frequency of antagonistic interactions (sexual conflict) is reduced, allowing males to lower the time spent replenishing sperm reserves in order to increase mating rate. This in turn leads to lower sperm levels at mating and therefore could lead to negative effects on female fitness via sperm limitation

MINDS MOVING ON SILENCE: P.B. Shelley, Robert Browning, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot.

The purpose of this study is to explore the function and significance of the various representations and manifestations of silence in the poetry of Shelley, Browning, Yeats and Eliot. Attention ranges from specific allusions to the absence of speech and sound, to the role played by punctuation and poetic form. The choice of these poets stems from Shelley’s function as an acknowledged, influential precursor to both Browning and Yeats and, as an un-acknowledged, though arguably no less essential, influence on Eliot. The aim is to establish to what extent poetic interaction with silence alters and shifts in the period under study, and to make coherent the development from Shelley to Eliot in their fascination with silence, and its centrality to poetic expression. The approach primarily involves close textual analysis of the poetry itself, the objective being to access a new angle of consideration by focusing on each poet’s particular relationship with silence, and the extent to which this cumulatively expands into either a coherent philosophy, or a series of recurring themes on the part of the poet. The thesis is also concerned with poetic influence. Theorists who have previously written on silence, such as Steiner and Wagner-Lawlor, are also engaged with, as are critics concerned with the specific poets and epochs addressed (e.g Bloom, Ricks, Keach, O’Neill, and Perry). Chapters look in turn at Shelley’s Mont Blanc, considering the role played by silence in the poem’s consideration of the relationship between imagination and nature (1); at the same poet’s treatment of the relationship between poetry and death (2); at Browning’s relationship with the unrealized objective, especially in relation to love (3); at the role of the silent auditor in Browning’s dramatic monologues (4); at the relationship between silence and the unknown in Yeats’s poetry, and the extent to which he substituted an aesthetic approach for Browning’s preoccupation with justice and pragmatism (5); at silence and the fertile nature of the contradictory in Yeats (6); at modernity and language’s simultaneous pursuit of, and resistance to, silence in the poetry of Eliot (7). Overall, the thesis demonstrates that to discuss the silence of poetry should be as natural, and as necessary, as to discuss the language of it

Britannia in numbers: 50 years of the journal of Romano-British and kindred studies

This paper reviews contributions to the journal Britannia over the last 50 years, and considers future directions. Papers are examined in relation to topic and the gender and professional associations of authors

THE PRESIDENT AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: AN EXPERIMENT IN THE CARTER WHITE HOUSE

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