Grievance Redress and the Judiciary

2019 ◽  
pp. 330-393
Author(s):  
Florian Matthey-Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Advocacy Groups

Chapter 6 explains why the judiciary, when assessing the State’s measures for furthering access to justice, should focus on the RTE grievance redress system, and should order that it be improved in order to compensate for the current lack of access to justice. Strategic PIL litigation may play an important role. The chapter shows what alterations are necessary in order for the system to provide adequate and effective means of enforcement. It shall be concluded that a system of ‘micromanagement’ through grievance redress at the ‘bottom’, with right-bearers approaching the redress bodies themselves, and ‘macromanagement’ of systemic deficiencies through adjudication in the higher judiciary at the ‘top’, with advocacy groups raising issues at that level, might actually be superior to the system that was originally conceived by the Constitution.

Empowerment Politics and Access to Justice

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-88
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L. MacDowell
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
Protection Orders ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Legal Remedies

This chapter examines how domestic violence advocates and activists conceptualize empowerment, and the implications for low-income survivors seeking protection orders in family courts. Findings from an empirical study of self-help programs assisting unrepresented survivors are analyzed in light of empowerment principles. The chapter shows that the multidimensional empowerment ideals of participants in the early battered women’s movement—which included the development of personal agency and political consciousness, ultimately resulting in political action—have been replaced in these self-help settings by a much narrower focus. Advocacy groups hope that information about legal remedies and procedures will empower applicants for protection orders. However, these programs provided incomplete information and are objectively disempowering. The chapter concludes that more research is needed about the impacts of self-help services on legal consciousness, and access to justice efforts would benefit from the insights of more multidimensional approaches.

An Ultrastructural Study of Chronic Pyelonephritis in Macaca Arctoides

1976 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
T.W. Smith ◽  
J.A. Roberts ◽  
B.J. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Ultrastructural Study ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Chronic Pyelonephritis ◽  
Macaca Arctoides ◽  
Left Ureter ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Sizeable Number

Chronic pyelonephritis is one of the most common diseases of the kidney and accounts for a sizeable number of cases of renal insufficiency in man, however its pathogenesis requires further elucidation. Transmission electron microscopy may serve as a uniquely effective means of observing details of the nature of this disease. The present paper describes preliminary results of an ultrastructural study of chronic pyelonephritis in Macaca arctoides (stumptail monkey).The infection was induced in these experiments in a retrograde fashion by means of a unilateral catheterization of the left ureter whereby an innoculum of 10 cc of broth containing approximately 2 billion E. coli per cc and radio-opaque dye were injected under pressure (mimicing vesico-ureteric reflux).

Benefits and Characteristics of Mentoring Students and Young Professionals

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristal Mills
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Workplace Retention

Abstract Mentoring has long been believed to be an effective means of developing students' clinical, research, and teaching skills to become competent professionals. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has developed two online mentoring programs, Student to Empowered Professional (S.T.E.P. 1:1) and Mentoring Academic Research Careers (MARC), to aid in the development of students. This paper provides a review of the literature on mentoring and compares and contrasts mentoring/mentors with clinical supervision/preceptors. Characteristics of effective mentors and mentees are offered. Additionally, the benefits of clinical mentoring such as, teambuilding in the workplace, retention of new staff, leadership development, and improved job satisfaction are discussed.

A Pilot Study of Mobile Telephone Message Interventions with Suicide Attempters in China

Crisis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Chen ◽  
Brian L. Mishara ◽  
Xiao Xian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Quick Method ◽  
Suicide Attempters ◽  
To Receive

Background: In China, where follow-up with hospitalized attempters is generally lacking, there is a great need for inexpensive and effective means of maintaining contact and decreasing recidivism. Aims: Our objective was to test whether mobile telephone message contacts after discharge would be feasible and acceptable to suicide attempters in China. Methods: Fifteen participants were recruited from suicide attempters seen in the Emergency Department in Wuhan, China, to participate in a pilot study to receive mobile telephone messages after discharge. All participants have access to a mobile telephone, and there is no charge for the user to receive text messages. Results: Most participants (12) considered the text message contacts an acceptable and useful form of help and would like to continue to receive them for a longer period of time. Conclusions: This suggests that, as a low-cost and quick method of intervention in areas where more intensive follow-up is not practical or available, telephone messages contacts are accessible, feasible, and acceptable to suicide attempters. We hope that this will inspire future research on regular and long-term message interventions to prevent recidivism in suicide attempters.

Parallel Computing for Tire Simulations

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Surendranath ◽  
M. Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Turnaround Time ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Rolling Contact ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Parallel Solvers ◽  
Design Changes ◽  
Highly Nonlinear

Abstract Over the last few decades, finite element analysis has become an integral part of the overall tire design process. Engineers need to perform a number of different simulations to evaluate new designs and study the effect of proposed design changes. However, tires pose formidable simulation challenges due to the presence of highly nonlinear rubber compounds, embedded reinforcements, complex tread geometries, rolling contact, and large deformations. Accurate simulation requires careful consideration of these factors, resulting in the extensive turnaround time, often times prolonging the design cycle. Therefore, it is extremely critical to explore means to reduce the turnaround time while producing reliable results. Compute clusters have recently become a cost effective means to perform high performance computing (HPC). Distributed memory parallel solvers designed to take advantage of compute clusters have become increasingly popular. In this paper, we examine the use of HPC for various tire simulations and demonstrate how it can significantly reduce simulation turnaround time. Abaqus/Standard is used for routine tire simulations like footprint and steady state rolling. Abaqus/Explicit is used for transient rolling and hydroplaning simulations. The run times and scaling data corresponding to models of various sizes and complexity are presented.

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