scholarly journals Royal Holloway, University of London and the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association: New Partnerships and Challenges During COVID-19 in the Clinical Legal World

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Nicola Antoniou ◽  
Jill Marshall ◽  
Alexander Gilder ◽  
Rabia Nasimi
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Long Term Impact

<p>In January 2020, Royal Holloway, University of London set up a new Legal Advice Centre offering free legal advice to the local community, including building upon key partnerships to address unmet legal needs. This practice-paper discusses Royal Holloway’s Legal Advice Centre (LAC) and the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association’s (ACCA) collaborative approach and response to the global pandemic since March 2020. It will highlight the unprecedented challenges that they have faced, and their efforts to overcome them. In addition, the paper will discuss their research project, which provides Royal Holloway’s student volunteers with the opportunity to gain unique multidisciplinary understandings of the effect of the pandemic in Afghanistan, and a chance to put their legal skills into practice by producing legal information to support local users of both Royal Holloway’s LAC and the Law Clinic at the ACAA.</p><p><br />This practice-paper includes a road map to Royal Holloway’s long-term goal, namely, to work with ACAA to research the legal vulnerabilities of women in Afghanistan, with the aid of a research grant supporting international collaboration. Recent reports highlight that lockdown and quarantine measures will have a long-term impact on the basic rights and freedoms of Afghan women, who already face hardship.</p>

scholarly journals Royal Holloway, University of London and the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association: New Partnerships and Challenges During COVID-19 in the Clinical Legal World

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-178
Author(s):  
Nicola Antoniou ◽  
Jill Marshall ◽  
Alexander Gilder ◽  
Rabia Nasimi
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Long Term Impact

In January 2020, Royal Holloway, University of London set up a new Legal Advice Centre offering free legal advice to the local community, including building upon key partnerships to address unmet legal needs. This practice-paper discusses Royal Holloway’s Legal Advice Centre (LAC) and the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association’s (ACCA) collaborative approach and response to the global pandemic since March 2020. It will highlight the unprecedented challenges that they have faced, and their efforts to overcome them. In addition, the paper will discuss their research project, which provides Royal Holloway’s student volunteers with the opportunity to gain unique multidisciplinary understandings of the effect of the pandemic in Afghanistan, and a chance to put their legal skills into practice by producing legal information to support local users of both Royal Holloway’s LAC and the Law Clinic at the ACAA.This practice-paper includes a road map to Royal Holloway’s long-term goal, namely, to work with ACAA to research the legal vulnerabilities of women in Afghanistan, with the aid of a research grant supporting international collaboration. Recent reports highlight that lockdown and quarantine measures will have a long-term impact on the basic rights and freedoms of Afghan women, who already face hardship.

scholarly journals Green finance: Pandemic and climate change

2021 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 00042
Author(s):  
Igor Klioutchnikov ◽  
Oleg Kliuchnikov
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Green Finance ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
The Impact

In the last decade, green finance has become an important area of tackling the environmental threats associated with climate change and a prerequisite for sustainable development. The Covid-19 outbreak has drawn additional attention to green finance as an economic mechanism for creating healthy living environments. The article examines the impact of COVID-19 on the financial industry, the participation of green finance in the economic recovery after the pandemic in the direction of considering the Paris Agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The authors put forward the provision on the existence of causal relationships between the "green" financial and "green" economy: "green" finance (reason) is a mechanism for the formation of a "green" economy (consequence). The impact of green finance on society can be greatly enhanced through changes in lifestyles, the behaviour of people and companies, legislative initiatives and government decisions aimed at protecting the health and the environment; climate change and the pandemic have increased the overall fragility of development and created additional risks that are factored into green finance. The article substantiates the position that the global pandemic will have a long-term impact on people's attitudes towards the environment and on the financing of this area. As uncertainty grows about protecting people from disease and mitigating climate change, green finance may become the mainstream of finance.

Three Proposals for Interdisciplinary Study

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry C. Krasnow ◽  
Robin L. Wolkoff
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Minority Shareholders ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
The Family ◽  
Tax Savings ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
First Time

This article suggests research to determine whether more valuable legal advice can be given in three areas. The emotional distress caused by prenuptial agreements to people under 30 years old who are marrying for the first time is not justified because these agreements often do not accomplish their intended goals. Regarding estate planning, business owners and their lawyers often focus primarily on tax savings without considering the long-term impact of the estate plan on the family business. Finally, the advantages to the family business of agreements for the buyout of disgruntled minority shareholders are discussed.

Performance of constructed wetland for highway runoff treatment

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bulc ◽  
A. Sajn Slak
Keyword(s):  
Constructed Wetland ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Chemical Parameters ◽  
Highway Runoff ◽  
Reduction Efficiency ◽  
Proper Design ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Physical And Chemical

Highways have a long-term impact on the environment, therefore a sustainable approach to their design is vital. In the spring of 2001 a pilot constructed wetland (CW) system was set up at a section of the northeast-southwest motorway in Slovenia. It was designed for a critical flow of 11.75 l/s for 0.75 ha of catchment area. It consisted of a sedimentation basin covering an area of 36 m2 and a CW of 85 m2. The CW was filled with sand media and planted with reeds. Performance efficiency of the system was evaluated from summer to autumn 2001. Some of the physical and chemical parameters monitored varied noticeably. Removal efficiency was 69% for suspended solids, 97% for settleable solids, 51% for COD, 11% for BOD5 and 80% for Fe. Heavy metals such as Cu, Zn, Cd, Ni and Pb were below limited level at the inflow with reduction efficiency in the system of over 90%. Concentrations of N and P showed a limited level of nutrients for biological processes. Results of the study suggest that CW could be an alternative for highway runoff treatment. Further long-term investigations are needed to provide more data on their proper design.

Playing Locally but Commuting to a Better School: Urban Planning and Education Policies in Parental Involvement Practices and Local Community Formation

2021 ◽  
pp. 088832542110071
Author(s):  
Marta Smagacz-Poziemska ◽  
Krzysztof Bierwiaczonek
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
National Education ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Spatial Logics

In this article, we analyse the formation of local communities from the perspective of the practices of parental involvement. Adopting a practice-based approach to empirical research on six estates in three Polish cities, we reconstruct the connections between the spatial logics of the housing areas, national education, and housing polices, and their impact on the everyday life practices inside and outside the estate. Using the category of practice of parental involvement, we show the complex, long-term impact of state and local education policies on everyday life and, as a result, on the processes of structuring or fragmentation of territorial communities. The results of our qualitative studies not only develop knowledge about the connections between national polices and everyday life practices but also, we hope, could help to design effective public policies.

scholarly journals Community Infrastructuring as Necessary Ingenuity in the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 518-523
Author(s):  
Day Greenberg ◽  
Angela Calabrese Barton ◽  
Carmen Turner ◽  
Kelly Hardy ◽  
Akeya Roper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Family Groups

We report on how one community builds capacity for disrupting injustice and supporting each other during the COVID-19 crisis. We engaged long-term community partners (parents, their youth, and local community center leaders) in on-going conversation on their experiences with the pandemic. We learned with and from community partners about how and what people in communities most vulnerable in this crisis learn about and respond to COVID-19 in highly contextualized ways, individually and through extended family groups and trusted social networks. We report on how they put understandings towards educated, organized, urgent community infrastructuring actions within informal coalition networks. We explore these actions as necessary localized responses to systemic neglect from dominant institutional infrastructures during a global pandemic.

scholarly journals Potent and Persistent Antibody Response in COVID-19 Recovered Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Tian ◽  
Ling Liu ◽  
Wenguo Jiang ◽  
He Zhang ◽  
Wenjun Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antibody Response ◽  
Antibody Responses ◽  
Inhibition Assay ◽  
Viral Inhibition ◽  
Spike Glycoprotein ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Potent Neutralization

SARS-CoV-2 has caused a global pandemic with millions infected and numerous fatalities. Virus-specific antibodies can be detected in infected patients approximately two weeks after symptom onset. In this study, we set up ELISA technology coating with purified SARS-CoV-2 S and N proteins to study the antibody response of 484 serum samples. We established a surrogate viral inhibition assay using SARS-CoV-2 S protein pseudovirus system to determine the neutralization potency of collected serum samples. Here, we report robust antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in 484 recovered patients varying from 154 to 193 days, with 92% of recovered patients displaying a positive virus-specific spike glycoprotein IgG (s-IgG) response, while the ratio of positive spike glycoprotein IgM (s-IgM) reached 63%. Furthermore, moderate to potent neutralization activities were also observed in 62% of patients, correlating significantly with s-IgG response. This study strongly supports the long-term presence of antibodies in recovered patients against SARS-CoV-2, although all serum samples were collected from individuals with mild or moderate symptoms.

Alley-gates and domestic burglary

2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Colin Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Domestic Burglary ◽  
Long Term Impact

The introduction of Crime Prevention Through Environmental design (CPTED) initiatives such as alley-gating is now widespread across the United Kingdom (UK), and has become part of the urban landscape. For practitioners and policy makers alike, erecting steel gates at entrances to alleys is seen as a major initiative for reducing domestic burglary. In particular, in the current climate of economic austerity, such apparently cost-effective measures may seem more attractive to policy makers and planners alike as they struggle to maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system and reduce levels of criminality. This paper examines one such alley-gate initiative at Cadoc, Barry, South Wales, based on 10 years of data collection, and considers the long-term impact upon recorded domestic burglary. It also probes local community perceptions of the gates in tackling the problem of crime.

scholarly journals Neuropsychiatric and Cognitive Sequelae of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Kumar ◽  
Alfred Veldhuis ◽  
Tina Malhotra
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Manifestations ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Viral Respiratory Infections

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is likely to have long-term mental health effects on individuals who have recovered from COVID-19. Rightly, there is a global response for recognition and planning on how to deal with mental health problems for everyone impacted by the global pandemic. This does not just include COVID-19 patients but the general public and health care workers as well. There is also a need to understand the role of the virus itself in the pathophysiology of mental health disorders and longer-term mental health sequelae. Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 patients develop neurological symptoms such as headache, altered consciousness, and paraesthesia. Brain tissue oedema and partial neurodegeneration have also been observed in an autopsy. In addition, there are reports that the virus has the potential to cause nervous system damage. Together, these findings point to a possible role of the virus in the development of acute psychiatric symptoms and long-term neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19. The brain pathologies associated with COVID-19 infection is likely to have a long-term impact on cognitive processes. Evidence from other viral respiratory infections, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), suggests a potential development of psychiatric disorders, long-term neuropsychiatric disorders, and cognitive problems. In this paper, we will review and evaluate the available evidence of acute and possible long-term neuropsychiatric manifestations of COVID-19. We will discuss possible pathophysiological mechanisms and the implications this will have on preparing a long-term strategy to monitor and manage such patients.

Crisis Phones - Suicide Prevention Versus Suggestion/Contagion Effects

Crisis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Stack
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Contagion Effects ◽  
Long Term Impact

Abstract. Background: There has been no systematic work on the short- or long-term impact of the installation of crisis phones on suicides from bridges. The present study addresses this issue. Method: Data refer to 219 suicides from 1954 through 2013 on the Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, Florida. Six crisis phones with signs were installed in July 1999. Results: In the first decade after installation, the phones were used by 27 suicidal persons and credited with preventing 26 or 2.6 suicides a year. However, the net suicide count increased from 48 in the 13 years before installation of phones to 106 the following 13 years or by 4.5 additional suicides/year (t =3.512, p < .001). Conclusion: Although the phones prevented some suicides, there was a net increase after installation. The findings are interpreted with reference to suggestion/contagion effects including the emergence of a controversial bridge suicide blog.

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