Social conditions of voluntary retirement scheme opted employees among selected large steel manufacturing organizations

Abstract This article summarizes a series of trips sponsored by People to People, a professional exchange program. The trips described in this report were led by the first author of this article and include trips to South Africa, Russia, Vietnam and Cambodia, and Israel. Each of these trips included delegations of 25 to 50 speech-language pathologists and audiologists who participated in professional visits to learn of the health, education, and social conditions in each country. Additionally, opportunities to meet with communication disorders professionals, students, and persons with speech, language, or hearing disabilities were included. People to People, partnered with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), provides a meaningful and interesting way to learn and travel with colleagues.

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Two-Point Discrimination in the Use of Upper Extremity Nerve Function in the AMA Guides

Guides Newsletter ◽

10.1001/amaguidesnewsletters.2015.janfeb02 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 9-11

Author(s):

Richard Katz

Keyword(s):

Case Report ◽

Sensory Function ◽

Sixth Edition ◽

Steel Manufacturing ◽

Nerve Recovery ◽

Nervous System Function ◽

Tunnel Syndrome ◽

Nocturnal Awakening ◽

Subjective Reports ◽

Obese Male

Abstract This article presents a case report regarding a 34-year-old obese male who works as a chipper and grinder at a steel manufacturing mill and uses high-frequency vibratory power tools. He presents with typical complaints of carpal tunnel syndrome, including numbness in all five digits, wrist pain, nocturnal awakening/numbness, and others. Two-point discrimination (2PD) using a caliper was tested in the digits of the upper extremities and was 5 mm throughout. 2PD first appeared in the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Fifth Edition, and the Sixth Edition states, “sensory deficits can be challenging to grade, since the clinical examination is based on subjective reports by the patient. Grading is based on the results of sensibility testing and two-point discrimination, to improve inter-rater reliability.” The discussion of “sensibility” involves a concept of sensory perception that is more appropriate in surgery literature than neurological literature, and the discussion of the case report in this article reflects the recent literature regarding 2PD as a measure of sensibility. The authors report that sensibility is not a simple recovery of sensory function following nerve injury but rather is a complex interaction between nerve recovery and modulation of central nervous system function in spinal cord, subcortical, and cortical structures. The authors ask if the value of 2PD in the clinical assessment of impairment has been overrated within the AMA Guides, as was range of motion in the assessment of spine impairment.

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Das Ende der Postdemokratie, den Pessimismus überwinden.

PROKLA Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft ◽

10.32387/prokla.v47i188.74 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (188) ◽

pp. 487-494

Author(s):

Daniel Mullis

Keyword(s):

Political Thought ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Social Conditions ◽

The Other ◽

Economic Decline ◽

Far Right ◽

Windows Of Opportunity ◽

Political Events ◽

Political Struggles ◽

The One

In recent years, political and social conditions have changed dramatically. Many analyses help to capture these dynamics. However, they produce political pessimism: on the one hand there is the image of regression and on the other, a direct link is made between socio-economic decline and the rise of the far-right. To counter these aspects, this article argues that current political events are to be understood less as ‘regression’ but rather as a moment of movement and the return of deep political struggles. Referring to Jacques Ranciere’s political thought, the current conditions can be captured as the ‘end of post-democracy’. This approach changes the perspective on current social dynamics in a productive way. It allows for an emphasis on movement and the recognition of the windows of opportunity for emancipatory struggles.

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The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2010-8-73-89 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 73-89

Author(s):

M.-F. Garcia

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Social Construction ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Spatial Organization ◽

Frame Of Reference ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Invisible Hand ◽

The Social ◽

Per Se

The article examines social conditions and mechanisms of the emergence in 1982 of a «Dutch» strawberry auction in Fontaines-en-Sologne, France. Empirical study of this case shows that perfect market does not arise per se due to an «invisible hand». It is a social construction, which could only be put into effect by a hard struggle between stakeholders and large investments of different forms of capital. Ordinary practices of the market dont differ from the predictions of economic theory, which is explained by the fact that economic theory served as a frame of reference for the designers of the auction. Technological and spatial organization as well as principal rules of trade was elaborated in line with economic views of perfect market resulting in the correspondence between theory and reality.

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Case Study: Endangered Lithuania

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v16i4.619 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 637-646

Author(s):

Vilmante Kumpikaite-Valiuniene

Keyword(s):

Birth Rate ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Dual Citizenship

Due to a decreased birth rate and increased emigration, Lithuania’s population fell from 3.5 million to 2.8 million during the period 1990 - 2017. This paper presents a picture of the endangered Lithuanian population conditioned by high emigration flows. Four emigration waves and their reasons during the 27 year period in Lithuania are discussed. Economic and social conditions have only shown a slight change for Lithuanian citizens. In addition, no option of dual citizenship is available for emigrants. These reasons, as well as the Brexit consequences, have an impact on the emigration rates and Lithuania’s endangerment generally.

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