Against All Odds, from All-Girls Schools to All-Boys Workplaces

2010 ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Marie Griffiths ◽  
Helen Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Influential Factors ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Employment Gap ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Uk

The trend for women to be severely under-represented in the UK ICT (information and communication technology) sector persists. Girls continue, year in year out, to excel in academia whilst initiatives are put in place to challenge the gender employment gap in ICT1 professions. As part of a larger research study of women in the ICT labour market, over 500 women were asked about their initial routes into ICT; this included educational backgrounds, influential factors and perceptions of that transition. In analysing the findings we attempt to explain the tendency for women in our sample group to come from single-sex schools and to have a predilection for mathematics and the sciences, then move into male dominated educational and work environments. Our findings report on the personal experiences of women’s unsuspecting trajectory into the UK ICT sector.

scholarly journals MODERN THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL TRANSFORMATION ASPECTS OF STARTUPS ACTIVITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Halakhova ◽  
Olena Yevdochenko ◽  
Olga Kyslytsyna
Keyword(s):  
Innovative Development ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Investment Funds ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Fast Development ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Sectoral Development ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Global Arena

The article discusses and summarizes the modern theoretical and practical transformational aspects of startups. Authors` attention is paid to the analysis of approaches of determining the startup by foreign and domestic researchers, which take into account at least three criteria, and it is mentioned that either quantitative or qualitative parameters of most of these definitions should be clarified. The authors identify the key transformational aspects of modern startup activities, among which thre are the implementation of completely new innovative solutions and existing advanced innovative technologies in the field of artificial intelligence and big-date; creation of highly skilled jobs and priority of innovative development and growth over short-term profits; attracting grant and investment funds to implement a startup idea. An analysis of the geographical and sectoral development of startups is conducted: leading countries in the number of startups for several years are the USA, India and the UK; the largest share of startups is concentrated in the information and communication technology sector and services. Authors also highliged the key activities of startups in the EU and US markets – the creation and sale of intellectual property and the provision of various services oppositing to the development, creation and sale of physical items, as well as key ambitions of startups focused not on maximizing short-term profits but on business scaling and promising innovative development. The key obstacles to the startups effective and fast development are also identified: uncertainty and variability of the market environment, the difficulty of attracting external financing, the effectiveness of the system of regulation and support of business, knowledge and competence of staff, the markets size. The generalization of modern theoretical and practical transformational aspects of startups provides a basis for further theoretical and practical developments in this areas as the researches on the development of startups both within Ukraine and in the global arena today is extremely actual.

Workplace “Digital Culture” and the Uptake of Digital Solutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 368-402
Author(s):  
Simeon J. Yates ◽  
Eleanor Lockley
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Company Culture ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Uk

This chapter reviews prior work on technology acceptance and then reports on a nationally representative survey of UK employees exploring both employee’s personal experiences of digital technologies at home and work and their evaluations of the effectiveness of the technologies and the “digital culture” in their organization. Presenting the results of 3040 UK workers, it seeks to explore the factors that influence digital roll-outs by focusing on the experiences and perceptions of the UK workforce as a whole, with the expectation that introducing new technology alone isn’t enough. This research explores how “digitally ready” organizations are in the UK in terms of people, processes, and company culture. It concludes that a large proportion of the UK workforce are not seeing the benefits of digital technologies. Importantly, there is a need for organizations to understand that making digital solutions a success is a process of cultural change in their organization.

scholarly journals Diarylureas: Repositioning from Antitumor to Antimicrobials or Multi-Target Agents against New Pandemics

Antibiotics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Catalano ◽  
Domenico Iacopetta ◽  
Michele Pellegrino ◽  
Stefano Aquaro ◽  
Carlo Franchini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anticancer Agents ◽  
Kinase Inhibitors ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Drug Repositioning ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Antiviral Treatment ◽  
Far East ◽  
Mild Disease ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Uk

Antimicrobials have allowed medical advancements over several decades. However, the continuous emergence of antimicrobial resistance restricts efficacy in treating infectious diseases. In this context, the drug repositioning of already known biological active compounds to antimicrobials could represent a useful strategy. In 2002 and 2003, the SARS-CoV pandemic immobilized the Far East regions. However, the drug discovery attempts to study the virus have stopped after the crisis declined. Today’s COVID-19 pandemic could probably have been avoided if those efforts against SARS-CoV had continued. Recently, a new coronavirus variant was identified in the UK. Because of this, the search for safe and potent antimicrobials and antivirals is urgent. Apart from antiviral treatment for severe cases of COVID-19, many patients with mild disease without pneumonia or moderate disease with pneumonia have received different classes of antibiotics. Diarylureas are tyrosine kinase inhibitors well known in the art as anticancer agents, which might be useful tools for a reposition as antimicrobials. The first to come onto the market as anticancer was sorafenib, followed by some other active molecules. For this interesting class of organic compounds antimicrobial, antiviral, antithrombotic, antimalarial, and anti-inflammatory properties have been reported in the literature. These numerous properties make these compounds interesting for a new possible pandemic considering that, as well as for other viral infections also for CoVID-19, a multitarget therapeutic strategy could be favorable. This review is meant to be an overview on diarylureas, focusing on their biological activities, not dwelling on the already known antitumor activity. Quite a lot of papers present in the literature underline and highlight the importance of these molecules as versatile scaffolds for the development of new and promising antimicrobials and multitarget agents against new pandemic events.

scholarly journals Assessing Factors Associated with TB Awareness in Nepal: A National and Subnational Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 5124
Author(s):  
Yoko Iwaki ◽  
Santosh Kumar Rauniyar ◽  
Shuhei Nomura ◽  
Michael C. Huang
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
High Level

Tuberculosis (TB) has still remained a serious global health threat in low- and middle-income countries in recent years. As of 2021, Nepal is one of the high TB burden countries, with an increasing prevalence of cases. This study evaluates factors associated with TB awareness in Nepal. This study uses data from the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, a cross-sectional survey carried out from June 2016 to January 2017. Multilevel logistic regression is performed to examine the association of demographic and socioeconomic factors with TB awareness. Our findings show a high level of TB awareness in all seven provinces of Nepal. Province 5 has the highest level of awareness (98.1%) among all provinces, followed by provinces 3 and 4, while province 6 has the lowest awareness level (93.2%) compared to others. Socioeconomic factors such as wealth, education and owning a mobile phone are significantly associated with TB awareness. Socioeconomic determinants are influential factors associated with TB awareness in Nepal. The wide variation in the proportion of awareness at a regional level emphasizes the importance of formulating tailored strategies to increase TB awareness. For instance, the use of mobile phones could be an effective strategy to promote TB awareness at a regional level. This study provides valuable evidence to support further research on the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) usage to improving TB awareness in Nepal.

scholarly journals When mountains weep: psychological care for those affected by the earthquake in northern Pakistan

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 454-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murad M. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Substance Misuse ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Day Hospital ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Psychological Care ◽  
Reality Testing ◽  
Rotation Scheme ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Uk

Fate, it seems, conjures up all sorts of ways for us to be in a certain place at a certain time. In 1982 as a trainee psychiatrist in the UK, I found myself co-facilitating a group at the Castlewood Day Hospital, then part of the Bexley psychiatric rotation scheme, in the south-east of London. Group psychotherapy was part of our training. Held thrice a week the groups were open-ended and patients ranged from those with interpersonal relationship and personality problems to those with anxiety and substance misuse problems. At the time the experience was somewhat baffling. Not only was I from a different country and culture, my exposure to psychiatry was limited to about 12 months. More often than not I felt lost as I tried to come to terms with ‘group dynamics', ‘reality testing’, ‘transference’, ‘multiple transference’, ‘group cohesion’, ‘group pressure’, etc.

scholarly journals Overseas doctors' training scheme

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 701-702
Author(s):  
R. A. Adeniran
Keyword(s):  
Training Programme ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Early Arrival ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Uk

About a year after applying to come on the Overseas Doctors' Training Scheme (ODTS), I was offered a post. The letter arrived about two months before I was to start work in the UK; it contained pertinent information about my job, the training programme, and the community I would live in. The information and its early arrival enabled me to make adequate preparation for my trip.

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