The ethics of practical reasoning : exploring the terrain

Social work has been under sustained scrutiny regarding the quality of decision-making. The assumption is that social workers make poor quality decisions. And yet our knowledge and understanding of how social workers make decisions is, at best, partial. In our view, examination of practitioner decision-making will be enhanced by considering the role that ethics plays in practical judgement in practice. Although there has been significant work regarding the role of values and ethics in practice, this work tends to idealise morality setting up external standards by which practice is judged. In this paper, we will argue that ethics in practice needs to be understood as more than simply operationalise ideal standards, ethics also entails critical engagement with social and ethical issues and can challenge idealised statements of values. We outline the idea of the ethical dimension of practical reasoning, consider its relationship to professional discretion, judgments and decision-making in order to provide a clear focus for this research agenda, and identify the practical challenges researching ethics in professional decision-making entails

An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

Ultra-short period (USP) planets are a class of low mass planets with periods shorter than one day. Their origin is still unknown, with photo-evaporation of mini-Neptunes and in-situ formation being the most credited hypotheses. Formation scenarios differ radically in the predicted composition of USP planets, it is therefore extremely important to increase the still limited sample of USP planets with precise and accurate mass and density measurements. We report here the characterization of an USP planet with a period of 0.28 days around K2-141 (EPIC 246393474), and the validation of an outer planet with a period of 7.7 days in a grazing transit configuration. We derived the radii of the planets from the K2 light curve and used high-precision radial velocities gathered with the HARPS-N spectrograph for mass measurements. For K2-141b we thus inferred a radius of $1.51\pm0.05~R_\oplus$ and a mass of $5.08\pm0.41~M_\oplus$, consistent with a rocky composition and lack of a thick atmosphere. K2-141c is likely a Neptune-like planet, although due to the grazing transits and the non-detection in the RV dataset, we were not able to put a strong constraint on its density. We also report the detection of secondary eclipses and phase curve variations for K2-141b. The phase variation can be modeled either by a planet with a geometric albedo of $0.30 \pm 0.06$ in the Kepler bandpass, or by thermal emission from the surface of the planet at $\sim$3000K. Only follow-up observations at longer wavelengths will allow us to distinguish between these two scenarios.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures., accepted for publication in A

Plain Talk About Health: Linguistic Aspects of Mediation between Amish and Mennonites and Health Care Professionals

As the population of Amish and Old Order Mennonites grows exponentially, so are the contacts between Plain people and medical professionals increasing. All Plain adults are bilingual; however, the fact that the primary everyday language for most is Pennsylvania Dutch is important for understanding how they navigate the health care system. In this article I give an overview of language-related questions involved in communication between Plain people and health care providers with a focus on three areas: translation, interpretation, and patterns of language use. Much of the information I present in this article is drawn from my experience as an interpreter and cultural mediator for Plain people in a number of different public spheres, mainly health care

Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, Vol. 13, no. 2, Summer 2004

Quarterly Newsletter of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-MadisonContents: "Barns the Focus of Friends Dinner" --- "New Co-Director Joins the Max Kade Staff" --- "Tales of Contact and Change: Traditional Stories of Immigration" --- "Friends Profile: Newest Friends Board Member Has Ties to Goethe House," by Eric Platt --- "Director's Corner: MKI Staff Stays Busy with Digitization, Outreach," by Mark L. Louden --- "Thank You Fran! Welcome, Ed!" by Antje Petty --- "Pommerscher Verein Group Hears the Story of How Dialect Tapes Were Rescued and Preserved," by Linda Wiederhoeft --- "Collection Feature: Poems of Gemutlichkeit, Chuckles, and Umlauts--The Work of Kurt M. Stein," by Kevin Kurdylo --- "Excerpt of War Letter from a Turner Civil War Soldier to Family in Germany," by Adolph Ahrens (1861)

Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, Vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 2005

Quarterly Newsletter of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-MadisonContents: "Investigating the Emigration Experience: New German Initiatives" --- "Directors' Corner: Spring Forward--Activities, Improvements, and Fundraising" --- "Friend's Profile: Mary and Peter Monkmeyer, MKI Friends and Neighbors" --- "Highlights of Recent Library Acquisitions" --- "Speaking of Language: What's in a German Name? Part 1" --- "German Influences on Wisconsin English" --- "Collection Feature: Let's Go to the Fair! The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition" --- "Book Review: The American Civil War and Race in Transatlantic Perspective" --- "Genealogy Corner: Passenger Lists and Ship Manifests.

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Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter, Vol. 13, no. 4, Winter 2004

Quarterly Newsletter of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-MadisonContents: "Conference Explores Tales of Immigration" --- "Directors' Corner: MKI Resources Attracting Researchers" --- "Friend's Profile: Family Letters Inspired Ritsche to Write Novel" --- "Speaking of Language: Elias Molee and the Dream of an International Language" --- "Milwaukee's German-American Taverns in the 1940s" --- "Luxembourg-American Cultural Center in Ozaukee County" --- Collection Feature: Sehen Sie Amerika! Photographic Portfolios in German" --- "Book Review: Finding a German-American Family's Treasure in Milwaukee. A Mystery Novel for Children" --- "German-American Symposium in Bielefeld.