Advancing Wellbeing in People, Organizations, and Communities

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Kreitzer ◽  
Louise Delagran ◽  
Andrea Uptmor
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Santa Monica ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Wellbeing goes beyond the management of disease or illness; it is a larger concept that is characterized by a general contentment in life and the way things are. This chapter uses the framework of the University of Minnesota Wellbeing Model to explore the evidence-based factors that influence wellbeing, including health, relationships, security, purpose, environment, and community. Mindfulness, a way of being that provides another core component of wellbeing, is defined and its evidence based discussed. Exemplars of wellbeing at the individual, organizational, and society level are described. Some applications of similar models in towns such as Albert Lea, Minnesota, Austin, Texas, and Santa Monica, California, are discussed, as well as initiatives in Canada and the UK.

Enabling New Market Exploitation by SMEs

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceris Burns
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Medical Electronics ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This article provides a practical case example of the way in which international collaboration between government, higher education and business can lead to new commercial opportunities for small companies which would otherwise lack the necessary resources for the extensive market research required, and also to enhanced knowledge and understanding for all participants. The author summarizes the results of her market research in France, undertaken as part of a TCS programme of the University of Stirling and Albyn Medical, a small Scottish-based company in the medical electronics business. The six-week visit to France was the result of a TCS scholarship supported by institutions in both France and the UK.

Individual Sanctions of Competition Law: A Comparison between the UK and Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-171
Author(s):  
Samet Caliskan ◽  
Saliha Oner
Keyword(s):  
Competition Law ◽  
Deterrent Effect ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

It is a highly advocated view that a competition law with sanctions targeting individuals would achieve a greater deterrent impact than one that does not. Having introduced individual sanctions does not, however, guarantee that a market would have less anticompetitive conduct, because these sanctions are effective only insofar as they are severely implemented on wrongdoing individuals. UK competition law is one example of this issue because cases where individuals have been targeted and punished are significantly fewer than the authorities expected, in spite of it being more than 15 years since individual sanctions were introduced amidst high expectations. This article examines the individual sanctions of competition law in the UK and Turkey. It argues that Turkey is on the right path by departing from the way in which EU law enforces the rules of competition law, and is moving closer to UK law. However, it is argued that further steps should be cautiously considered to avoid the same issues which UK competition law is currently experiencing, as there are serious doubts that the latter has achieved the desired deterrent effect.

The Psychology of Opioid Tapering

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-250
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Doleys ◽  
Nicholas D. Doleys
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Physical System ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Double Pendulum ◽  
The Future ◽  
Opioid Tapering ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Evidence Based Guidelines ◽  
Existing Data ◽  
The Way

The pendulum has swung; in this case, it may be a double pendulum. The double pendulum is a pendulum hanging from a pendulum. It is a simple physical system used in physics to demonstrate mathematical chaos. When the motion of its tip is monitored, it appears very predictable at the outset, but soon reveals a very chaotic and unpredictable pattern. It is very difficult to know where the tip of the double pendulum will be at any given time in the future. This seems to describe the course of the use of opioids, especially for the treatment of chronic pain. Once, all but ignored, then heralded, and then demonized. At every step of the way, pundits will argue the incompleteness, absence, or misinterpretation of existing data. It is important to understand the psychological environment is which the opioid tapering movement occurs and to carefully consider the process in the context of the individual patient. Simply instituting another set of presumptive evidence-based guidelines could have unforeseen, and potentially tragic, consequences for the patient.

scholarly journals Before compassion: sympathy, tact and the history of the ideal nurse

2020 ◽  
pp. medhum-2019-011842
Author(s):  
Sarah Chaney
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Patient Management ◽  
Personal Characteristic ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

The word ‘compassion’ is ubiquitous in modern healthcare. Yet few writers agree on what the term means, and what makes it an essential trait in nursing. In this article, I take a historical approach to the problem of understanding compassion. Although many modern writers have assumed that compassion is a universal and unchanging trait, my research reveals that the term is extremely new to healthcare, only becoming widely used in 2009. Of course, even if compassion is a new term in nursing, the concept could have previously existed under another name. I thus consider the emotional qualities associated with the ideal nurse during the interwar period in the UK. While compassion was not mentioned in nursing guidance in this era another term, ‘sympathy’, made frequent appearance. The interwar concept of sympathy, however, differs significantly from the modern one of compassion. Sympathy was not an isolated concept. In the interwar era, it was most often linked to the nurse’s tact or diplomacy. A closer investigation of this link highlights the emphasis laid on patient management in nursing in this period, and the way class differentials in emotion between nurse and patient were considered essential to the efficient running of hospitals. This model of sympathy is very different from the way the modern ‘compassion’ is associated with patient satisfaction or choice. Although contemporary healthcare policy assumes ‘compassion’ to be a timeless, personal characteristic rooted in the individual behaviours and choices of the nurse, this article concludes that compassionate nursing is a recent construct. Moreover, the performance of compassion relies on conditions and resources that often lie outside of the nurse’s personal control. Compassion in nursing—in theory and in practice—is inseparable from its specific contemporary contexts, just as sympathy was in the interwar period.

The allied health collective

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-56
Author(s):  
Susan Nancarrow ◽  
Alan Borthwick
Keyword(s):  
Allied Health ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Heterogeneous Group ◽  
Allied Health Professions ◽  
Professional Project ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Individual Professional ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the concept of allied health as a confederation of constituent professions. We examine: the way that different jurisdictions define the allied health collective; the rationale for those groupings; and the impact of inclusion (or otherwise) of the groupings on the individual professional project of specific allied health professions. Concepts that will be explored include the considerations around a heterogeneous group of occupations attempting to work together to achieve a single professional project. It also also explores the international contexts of the allied health professions and the relevance of the specific comparisons between Australia and the UK.

A New Emphasis in Strategies for Developing Lignin-Based Plastics

1990 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Dutta ◽  
Simo Sarkanen
Keyword(s):  
Noncovalent Interactions ◽  
Chemical Species ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
The United States ◽  
Kraft Lignin ◽  
Size Exclusion ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Molecular Components

ABSTRACTLignins, a truly abundant group of biopolymers exhibiting some significant diversity, are usually thought to be constituted by a random proportionate distribution of ten different linkages between p-hydroxphenylpropane units. Over 20 million tons of kraft lignin derivatives are produced annually in the United States by the pulping industry, but 99.9% of these aromatic polymeric materials are consumed as fuel. Such industrial byproducts are generally viewed as being almost hopelessly complicated mixtures of partially degraded and condensed chemical species. However, a very different picture has begun to emerge from a more coherent understanding of the physicochemical behavior exhibited by kraft lignin preparations. Noncovalent interactions between the individual molecular components under a variety of solution conditions orchestrate pronounced associative processes that are characterized by a remarkable degree of specificity. Their consequences may be readily observed both size-exclusion chromatographically and electron microscopically, and are reflected in an anomalous variation of glass transition temperature, Tg, with molecular weight of paucidisperse kraft lignin fractions. How these effects may influence the mechanical properties of lignin-based polymeric materials is presently being scrutinized at the University of Minnesota.

Discourses on LGBT Asylum in the Uk

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaut Raboin
Keyword(s):  
Queer Studies ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
The Way

Discourses on LGBT asylum in the UK analyses fifteen years of debate, activism and media narrative and examines the way asylum is conceptualized at the crossroads of nationhood, post colonialism and sexual citizenship, reshaping in the process forms of sexual belongings to the nation. Asylum has become a foremost site for the formulation and critique of LGBT human rights. This book intervenes in the ongoing discussion of homonationalism, sheds new light on the limitations of queer liberalism as a political strategy, and questions the prevailing modes of solidarity with queer migrants in the UK. This book employs the methods of Discourse Analysis to study a large corpus encompassing media narratives, policy documents, debates with activists and NGOs, and also counter discourses emerging from art practice. The study of these discourses illuminates the construction of the social problem of LGBT asylum. Doing so, it shows how our understanding of asylum is firmly rooted in the individual stories of migration that are circulated in the media. The book also critiques the exclusionary management of cases by the state, especially in the way the state manufactures the authenticity of queer refugees. Finally, it investigates the affective economy of asylum, assessing critically the role of sympathy and challenging the happy goals of queer liberalism. This book will be essential for researchers and students specializing in refugee studies and queer studies.

scholarly journals From Deficiency to Development: the evolution of academic skills provision at one UK university

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Hill ◽  
Amanda Tinker ◽  
Stephen Catterall
Keyword(s):  
Academic Skills ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Study Support ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

This article discusses the context in which 'study support' has emerged in higher education in the UK. Within this context the article documents the establishment of a 'devolved model' of academic skills at the University of Huddersfield. Whilst acknowledging that this model is not unique, its formation allows for the exploration of pedagogical and practical issues. It highlights the complexity of providing support which is effective and viable, recognising that the increasing diversity of the student body calls for multiple strategies.  An examination of the evolution of the provision at Huddersfield illustrates the journey from a focus on student deficit and retention towards one clearly associated with learning development.  This model assumes an integrated, flexible and student centred approach within the subject discipline, rather than one which is extra-curricular and may be perceived as 'remedial'. Originally predicated on the individual student tutorial and standalone workshop, the provision is now focusing on working within the disciplines to embed academic development within the curriculum.

Variance estimation from systematic samples in Minnesota timber stands

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1255-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Reber ◽  
Alan R. Ek
Keyword(s):  
Variance Estimation ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Simple Random Sample ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Sampling Errors ◽  
Forest Survey ◽  
Lake States ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

A 402 permanent-plot inventory of the University of Minnesota Cloquet Forestry Center was used to assess the adequacy of systematic samples for estimating population variance. The inventory plots were arranged in the form of four approximately equal-size systematic samples or clusters. The design was systematic sampling with multiple random starts. Population variances were estimated for number of trees, basal area, and volume per hectare for four different measurements spanning 17 years. Results indicate that the individual random starts and the aggregate of 402 plots treated as a simple random sample provide estimates of variance comparable to those obtained by treating the inventory as a cluster sample design. This report plus reports in the literature suggest that plots in the Lake States that are at least 80 to 362 m apart are likely to provide useful estimates of population variances and sampling errors for common forest-survey variables.

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