No Child Left Unharmed: The Image of the Child in The Hunger Games

This project seeks to examine the role of the child presented in The Hunger Games by comparing the image of the child to that of the adult, both in the individual districts and in the utopian city of the Capital. By using the contrasting images, I aim to show how imagery is used to draw on the significance of the misplaced roles. Director Gary Ross uses opposing color themes to show stark differences between the Capital and the districts. However, I feel that a further argument can be made in the way that the children and adults are expressed on screen. The image of the child is important to look at in this film, because of how the Capital uses children—both their image on screen and by tools within this society—to manipulate the power within the dystopian city of Panem

Narrating landscape: The potential of oral history for landscape archaeology

Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © 2004 James & James(Science Publishers) Ltd.The potential of an oral history approach to the study of landscape archaeology is considered. The paper presents the findings from an AHRB-funded project ‘Landscape archaeology and the community in Devon: an oral history approach’, which aims to transgress some of the epistemological boundaries of archaeology by drawing on the discursive genre of oral history in order to augment, challenge and destabilize existing landscape narratives. We suggest that oral histories can offer both consensual as well as alternative narratives of landscape and have the ability to engage the public, not just in terms of the popular consumption of archaeological knowledge, but also in the actual construction of archaeological knowledge.AHRB-funde

Divers portraits : étude et édition critiques

Cette thèse a une double vocation: elle présente une lecture des Divers portraits de Mademoiselle de Montpensier et fournit la première édition critique complète de ce recueil de portraits littéraires publié à un tirage limité en 1659. Notre étude porte sur l'ambiguïté fondatrice des Divers portraits: oeuvre témoin d'une mode du portrait littéraire qui dura moins de trois ans (1656-1659) et livre d'apparat à prétention historique dédié à la mémoire d'Anne-Marie-Louise de Montpensier. De la genèse des Divers portraits jusqu'à l'histoire de sa réception, les enjeux du recueil sont évalués sous l'angle de ce double statut de production mondaine et d'archive aristocratique. Afin de retracer les lignes de force qui accusent de la singularité des Divers portraits, notre enquête fait dialoguer l'histoire littéraire et l'histoire du livre. Aussi accorde-t-elle une place centrale à l'histoire de la représentation de Mademoiselle de Montpensier dont la place est déterminante dans la constitution du recueil. L'appartenance des Divers portraits à la mode du portrait. littéraire ayant déjà été attestée, nous consacrons une bonne part de notre recherche à l'analyse de son statut de galerie aristocratique dans sa dimension autant symbolique que matérielle. La genèse du recueil est d'abord éclairée par les portraits d'hommes illustres de cette période. L'examen spécifique du recueil s'établit ensuite à partir d'une typologie de.1a société représentée dans l'ouvrage collectif, ce qui nous permet de témoigner de la position d'autorité de la princesse de Montpensier dans l'économie d'ensemble de l'oeuvre. La réception des Divers portraits comme objet patrimonial boucle notre enquête : nous montrons que les prétentions mémorielles à l'origine de la création du livre coïncident avec la fortune des Divers portraits que consacrent les historiens et bibliophiles au XIXe siècle. L'édition critique des Divers portraits complète notre étude à plus d'un titre. Les nombreuses notes historiques, littéraires et linguistiques ancrent l'ouvrage dans son contexte social et culturel. Quant aux notices annexées à chaque portrait, elles fournissent non seulement un éclairage biographique sur la communauté représentée dans le volume, mais apportent également des précisions sur l'architecture et la cohérence symbolique de l' oeuvre collective

Pengaruh Job Insecurity Terhadap Turnover Intention Karyawan Bagian Sales di Mediasi Kepuasan Kerja

Turnover intention is the desire of employees to quit their jobs in order to get another job. This study aims to analyze job insecurity against turnover intention mediated job satisfaction. The sample in this study was 51 sales employees at Kredit Plus (PT Finansia Multi Finance) Ambon Branch and used a simple random sampling method. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires using Likert scale.  The analysis tool used in this study is Smart PLS 3.0 software. The results obtained from this study are: (1) job insecurity has a positive and significant effect on turnover intention, (2) job insecurity has a negative and significant effect on job satisfaction (3) job satisfaction has a negative and significant effect on turnover intention (4) job satisfaction does not mediate the effect of job insecurity on turnover intention.      Keywords ;; Job Insecurity, Job Satisfaction, Turnover Intention. &nbsp

The Clinical Reasoning Assessment Tool for Learning from Standardized Patient Experiences: A Pilot Study

Purpose: Clinical reasoning (CR) is the ability to integrate the knowledge of diagnoses with the use of supporting theories to create effective, client-centered interventions. One means of teaching CR to rehabilitation students is using standardized patient (SP) experiences. The relationship between faculty and student CR ratings after SP experiences has not been researched. The purpose of the study was to determine if there would be correlations between physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) student and faculty ratings of CR skills after an SP experience. Method: The Clinical Reasoning Assessment Tool (CRAT) was used by students to self-reflect on their CR performance after an SP experience and compared to their respective faculty ratings. The CRAT includes three subsections: content knowledge, procedural knowledge, and conceptual reasoning, each with a visual analog scale. Correlations between students’ self-assessment of CR and faculty reviews were analyzed using Spearman’s rho correlations. Results: Seventeen PT and seventeen OT students participated. Spearman’s rho correlation coefficients for the PT students and their faculty were: content knowledge (r=.180; p=.488), procedural knowledge (r=.697; p=.002), and conceptual reasoning (r=.258; p=.317). Spearman’s rho correlation coefficients for the OT students and their faculty were: content knowledge (r=.103; p=.693), procedural knowledge (r=.676; p=.003), and conceptual reasoning (r=.505; p=.039). Conclusions: Neither PT nor OT student ratings was a statistically significant correlation in content knowledge ratings in relation to respective faculty ratings. Both PT and OT student procedural knowledge rating correlations with faculty were strong and statistically significant. PT student and faculty ratings were not significantly correlated in conceptual reasoning compared to faculty; however, OT students and faculty ratings were strong, had positive correlations, and were statistically significant. Further research is needed to assess students’ CR development longitudinally across curricula

A randomised trial of an internet weight control resource: The UK Weight Control Trial [ISRCTN58621669]

BACKGROUND: Obesity treatment is notoriously unsuccessful and one of the barriers to successful weight loss reported by patients is a lack of social support. The Internet offers a novel and fast approach to the delivery of health information, enabling 24-hour access to help and advice. However, much of the health information available on the Internet is unregulated or not written by qualified health professionals to provide unbiased information. The proposed study aims to compare a web-based weight loss package with traditional dietary treatment of obesity in participants. The project aims to deliver high quality information to the patient and to evaluate the effectiveness of this information, both in terms of weight loss outcomes and cost-effectiveness. METHODS: This study is a randomised controlled trial of a weight loss package against usual care provided within General Practice (GP) surgeries in Leeds, UK. Participants will be recruited via posters placed in participating practices. A target recruitment figure of 220 will enable 180 people to be recruited (allowing for 22% dropout). Participants agreeing to take part in the study will be randomly allocated using minimisation to either the intervention group, receiving access to the Internet site, or the usual care group. The primary outcome of the study will be the ability of the package to promote change in BMI over 6 and 12 months compared with traditional treatment. Secondary outcomes will be the ability of the Internet package to promote change in reported lifestyle behaviours. Data will be collected on participant preferences, adherence to treatment, health care use and time off work. Difference in cost between groups in provision of the intervention and the cost of the primary outcome will also be estimated. CONCLUSION: A positive result from this study would enhance the repertoire of treatment approaches available for the management of obesity. A negative result would be used to inform the research agenda and contribute to redefining future strategies for tackling obesity

A briefing for mental health professionals : why asking about abuse matters to service users (REVA project, briefing 3)

There are high prevalence rates of violent and abusive experience in both the childhoods and adult lives of mental health service users. Histories of childhood sexual and physical abuse amongst women service users are particularly well documented. Although many of the samples in studies are small, figures of over 50% are not unusual (Palmer et al, 1992; Bryer et al, 1987; Walker and James, 1992; Wurr and Partridge, 1996). In secure settings this figure is even higher (Bland et al, 1999). Studies of severe domestic violence among psychiatric in-patients report lifetime prevalence ranging from 30% to 60% (Golding, 1999; Howard et al. 2010). The REVA study, on which this briefing is based, has also found that people who suffer violence and abuse are much more likely to have a mental disorder, self-harm or attempt suicide than those with little or no experience of this kind (Scott et al, 2013). Given the prevalence of experiences of abuse among users of adult mental health services it is vitally important that these experiences are identified to ensure appropriate diagnosis, support and referral. Since 2003 it has been Department of Health policy that all adult service users should be asked about experiences of violence and abuse in mental health assessments. Yet actually disclosing experiences of violence and abuse can be very difficult. Survivors can feel a deep sense of shame and responsibility for the abuse they have experienced – feelings that are often strategically encouraged by their abusers (Clark and Quadara, 2010). These feelings can be compounded by unhelpful responses from professionals when they try to disclose (Imkaanetal, 2014). And survivors consistently say that disclosure has to be ‘at the right time for them’, which may be immediately or many years after the abuse (McNaughton Nicholls, 2012). In this briefing paper we present findings from research funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme on responding effectively to the needs of survivors of violence and abuse: the REVA study. The study included specifically asking survivors of violence and abuse about their views on routine enquiry, their experiences of disclosing abuse and their recommendations for how staff should ask clients about abuse

Guidance for Trust managers : implementing and sustaining routine enquiry about violence and abuse in mental health services (REVA project, briefing 2)

Since 2003 it has been Department of Health policy that all adult service users should be asked about experiences of violence and abuse in mental health assessments. However, by 2006 it was apparent that mental health provider trusts were not generally implementing the policy and a two-year initiative was launched to pilot an approach to introducing routine enquiry and embedding it in clinical practice. The pilot involved a total of 15 trusts and its evaluation identified key lessons for effective implementation of routine enquiry in all trusts. In 2012 the Department of Health funded follow-up research on responding effectively to the needs of survivors of violence and abuse to include case-studies of four of the original pilot trusts to implement routine enquiry (the REVA study). This guidance is based on findings from this study

Violence, abuse and mental health in England (REVA project, briefing 1)

In 2006 the Department of Health introduced routine enquiry about peoples’ experience of violence and abuse as part of adult mental health assessments. This was in response to evidence that such experience was a significant aspect of the histories and difficulties of many service users. This research extends the evidence base by showing how mental illness is linked with experience of abuse and violence. It is based on a representative community-based sample rather than a patient population and examines experiences of both women and men across the life course