I.L. Bourgeault, S. Lindsay, E. Mykhalovskiy, P. Armstrong, H. Armstrong, J. Choiniere, J. Lexchin, S. Peters and J. White
In the majority of the literature on the social organization of care work, care is often defined in more traditional terms to refer to work on or directly related to the body. In…
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In the majority of the literature on the social organization of care work, care is often defined in more traditional terms to refer to work on or directly related to the body. In this paper, we would like to venture beyond the body to elaborate upon a particular type of care work – negotiating care – that involves negotiations and sometimes petitions for the purpose of securing care. It is a concept that was salient in a comparative study of the experiences of health care providers with the increasing management of health care in Canada and the United States. For physicians and nurses in both settings we find a sense of the increasing burden of negotiating for care for patients – particularly textually mediated negotiations – as the access to and amount of care is increasingly limited through managed care policies. Moreover, the contexts for these negotiations are continually in flux exacerbating the time devoted to negotiate care. It is in the U.S. context, however, that textual negotiation of care is most extensive and differs in terms of audience – insurers as opposed to providers – and purpose – securing payment and not just care.
J.H. ARMSTRONG and J.D. McDONNELL
The DC‐9 Super 80 will be delivered with advanced avionics in early 1980. This paper discusses from the aircraft manufacturer's point of view the avionics system architecture, its…
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The DC‐9 Super 80 will be delivered with advanced avionics in early 1980. This paper discusses from the aircraft manufacturer's point of view the avionics system architecture, its digital implementation, and some hardware details of most major system elements. New operational features are discussed including Category IIIa autoland, some new autopilot and autothrottle cruise modes, a head‐up display system, and a “hot on‐board spare” flight guidance computer. Finally, some of the advantages of the digital system over analog systems are noted.
Ugochukwu K. Elinwa and Nothando Moyo
Conflicts are a form of man-made disaster changing the economy of nations, influencing energy concerns, food, shelter and demographic distributions. The breakdown of global…
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Conflicts are a form of man-made disaster changing the economy of nations, influencing energy concerns, food, shelter and demographic distributions. The breakdown of global systems has become a huge concern that needs working mechanisms to develop resilient cities. The working mechanisms vary from one country to another, thus making the process a complex reality. Resilience is a word that was derived from the Latin word “resalire” which means “to spring back”. In this work, the housing environment was considered as a system constituting of several subsystems (Social, Environmental, Political, Economic subsystems). It argues that for resilience to occur within the post-conflict housing environment there is a need for an inclusive evaluation of users' preferences and expectations. With a focus on the social subsystem, it tried to determine the level of significance of gender, age, income and level of exposure on the perceived social character of a post-conflict housing environment and the satisfaction derived thereof. The study showed the importance of inclusivity as it influences perception and satisfaction. Using regression analysis, the study revealed that Perception and satisfaction within a post-conflict housing environment were influenced by age (73%), gender (74%), income and level of exposure (54%).
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THE claims of the small library on the attention of librarians have been so completely overshadowed by those of the more showy and, in many respects, more important, large…
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THE claims of the small library on the attention of librarians have been so completely overshadowed by those of the more showy and, in many respects, more important, large library, that comparatively little literature of a useful kind exist relating to book collections in their early stages of development. By small library is meant the small general collection of books numbering from 200 to 5,000 volumes, such as is gathered by private individuals, schools, churches, commercial firms, and other agencies, to which books are either tools, or a valuable means of affording recreation. As a rule, such collections are formed without much regard to order or care in selection, save in the case of the special libraries of private collectors, and the majority of the small libraries are, accordingly, very heterogenous in their contents and hopelessly primitive in their methods. The same is unfortunately true of many of the smaller Public Libraries of this country, which are ill‐proportioned, ignorantly selected and thoroughly unsatisfactory heaps of literary refuse. If anyone is sufficiently curious and patient to study the catalogue of the average small British subscription, private or semi‐private library, he will be surprised by the revelations therein made of bad judgment in selection, and an extraordinary lack of proportion between class and class, author and author, and subject and subject. No attempt is made in such libraries to keep in touch with modern scientific, artistic, historical, social or literary progress, because most of the limited funds available for this purpose are squandered in the provision of third‐rate fiction and the cheapest kinds of elementary primers. The ambition to place as many books on the shelves in the shortest space of time is responsible for the poor quality of the literature stocked by the average small library. Instead of purchasing and adding with care and attention to quality, such libraries practically accept anything which comes their way, whether in the shape of donations or purchases, and they would probably house a well‐bound grocer's price list with as much alacrity as an edition of Shakespeare or any other literary masterpiece.
Summary The engineering plant in buildings needs to be maintained but no standard forms of contract exist at present. The Building Services Research and Information Association…
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Summary The engineering plant in buildings needs to be maintained but no standard forms of contract exist at present. The Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) is currently investigating this situation. Several types of maintenance agreements exist, ranging from simple response to failure, to fully comprehensive agreements in which total responsibility for plant performance is devolved to the contractor.
WHILE the general principles of gas‐fuel propulsion for airships have been enunciated in a former article, there remain to be considered both the gases available and the means…
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WHILE the general principles of gas‐fuel propulsion for airships have been enunciated in a former article, there remain to be considered both the gases available and the means whereby they can be procured.