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Publication date: 4 December 2017

Marguerite C. Sendall, Phil Crane, Laura McCosker, Marylou Fleming, Herbert C. Biggs and Bevan Rowland

Workplaces are challenging environments which place workers at the risk of obesity. This is particularly true for Australian road transport industry workplaces. The Analysis Grid…

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Purpose

Workplaces are challenging environments which place workers at the risk of obesity. This is particularly true for Australian road transport industry workplaces. The Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity (ANGELO) framework is a public health tool which can be used to conceptualise obesogenic environments. It suggests that workplaces have a variety of roles (in the physical, economic, political and sociocultural domains) in responding to obesity in transport industry workplaces. The purpose of this paper is to present the findings which explore this idea.

Design/methodology/approach

The project used a mixed-methods approach located within a participatory action research framework, to engage workplace managers and truck drivers in the implementation and evaluation of workplace health promotion strategies. The project involved six transport industry workplaces in Queensland, Australia.

Findings

This study found that transport industry workplaces perceive themselves to have an important role in addressing the physical, economic, political and sociocultural aspects of obesity, as per the ANGELO framework. However, transport industry employees – specifically, truck drivers – do not perceive workplaces to have a major role in health; rather, they consider health to be an area of personal responsibility.

Practical implications

Balancing the competing perceptions of truck drivers and workplace managers about the workplace’s role in health promotion is an important consideration for future health promotion activities in this hard-to-reach, at-risk population.

Originality/value

The use of the ANGELO framework allows the conceptualisation of obesity in a novel workplace context.

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International Journal of Workplace Health Management, vol. 10 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1753-8351

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Publication date: 1 September 1999

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Circuit World, vol. 25 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-6120

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Publication date: 25 September 2023

Mary J. Dudas

Reading the political and the familial in The Americans illuminates central features of the New Right. In particular, The Americans provides an opportunity to reconsider the…

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Reading the political and the familial in The Americans illuminates central features of the New Right. In particular, The Americans provides an opportunity to reconsider the significance of the ‘pro-family’ label to New Right organising, the importance of mothering to the ‘pro-family’ narrative offered by the New Right, and the relationship between this account of mothering and democratic citizenship more broadly. This paper argues: first, the ‘pro-family’ label served to weaponise American families against equality and egalitarian public institutions; second, that this weaponisation of the family was accomplished through a rhetorical and real elevation of the moralised work of mothers in the home; and third, this account of mothering is incompatible with democratic citizenship not only because it reproduces inequality but also because it presents families, particularly mothers, as surrounded by enemies. Surrounded by enemies, their children appear endangered or dangerous should they become products of enemy forces. The pro-family rhetoric of the New Right – with its emphasis on the labour of women, particularly mothers – concealed an insurgent factional bid for power just as the Jennings family concealed an insurgent operation inside the United States. The displacement of law in The Americans mirrors the displacement of law in American conservative politics in the 1980s and law’s replacement by the ideal of sanctified families that the guard republic. The Americans both recognises this reversal in American conservative politics and parodies the reversal of the idea that law protects the family.

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Law, Politics and Family in ‘The Americans’
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83753-995-6

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Publication date: 9 January 2007

Rowan Bosworth‐Davies

This paper sets out to evaluate the financial security consequences of the terrorists attack on the USA of 11 September 2001 with specific regard to money laundering.

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This paper sets out to evaluate the financial security consequences of the terrorists attack on the USA of 11 September 2001 with specific regard to money laundering.

Design/methodology/approach

The study itemises in minute detail the litany of actual and potential financial legislation in the wake of 9/11 in both the USA and the UK.

Findings

Basically, the study finds the depriving criminals of the proceeds of their crimes is illusory and ineffectual, since they never have sufficient funds available for confiscation in the first place.

Originality/value

The paper arguably represents the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the financial issues, both real and hypothetical, thrown up on both sides of the Atlantic by the events of 9/11.

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Journal of Money Laundering Control, vol. 10 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1368-5201

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Publication date: 1 March 1996

Phil Cross

Staff at Boumemouth University Library & Information Services had been receiving requests from students for guidance on how to cite sources of information found on the Internet…

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Staff at Boumemouth University Library & Information Services had been receiving requests from students for guidance on how to cite sources of information found on the Internet. No standards yet exist, although there are many suggestions to be found on the Web itself. We decided to put together a set of recommendations based on those suggestions that seemed most likely to be adopted by the UK information community. The article describes the chosen style, gives advice for finding the information required for producing a reference and discusses some of the issues involved, both for those wishing to cite online sources and those responsible for producing them.

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VINE, vol. 26 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-5728

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Publication date: 12 December 2003

James E Roper

According to Harvard historian Crane Brinton, “…a cynical democracy, a democracy whose citizens profess in this world one set of beliefs and live another, is wholly impossible. No…

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According to Harvard historian Crane Brinton, “…a cynical democracy, a democracy whose citizens profess in this world one set of beliefs and live another, is wholly impossible. No such society can long endure anywhere. The tension between the ideal and the real may be resolved in many ways in a healthy society; but it can never be taken as non-existent” (Brinton, 1950, p. 249).

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Spiritual Intelligence at Work: Meaning, Metaphor, and Morals
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-76231-067-8

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Publication date: 1 May 1992

“ALL employees of Dunlop Aviation Division are totally committed to providing products and services which meet the needs and requirements of the Company, it's customers and the…

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“ALL employees of Dunlop Aviation Division are totally committed to providing products and services which meet the needs and requirements of the Company, it's customers and the certificating authorities.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 64 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 14 December 2015

Joseph K. Achua and David A. Utume

This chapter addresses the need to evaluate the outcomes of extractive companies in the mining industry’s behaviours in terms of CSR expectations of the host communities as…

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This chapter addresses the need to evaluate the outcomes of extractive companies in the mining industry’s behaviours in terms of CSR expectations of the host communities as perceived by the indigenous peoples themselves. Employing Dangote Cement Company Plc as a case study, questionnaires were conducted using a Likert-type scale on the immediate host communities of the company. Chi-squared, Kolmogorov–Smirnov normality test and t-test distribution were employed for the study. The result is that the impact of CSR of the company on the host communities, as perceived by the indigenous peoples, is abysmally low on economic, environmental, philanthropy and legal perspectives. The implications are discussed.

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Publication date: 1 August 2002

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 54 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 3 September 2021

Wennan Zhang, Kai Kang and Ray Y. Zhong

This paper proposes an evaluation model for prefabricated construction to guide a supply chain with controllable costs. Prefabricated construction is prevalent due to area…

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This paper proposes an evaluation model for prefabricated construction to guide a supply chain with controllable costs. Prefabricated construction is prevalent due to area limitations. Nevertheless, the development is limited by budget control and identifying the factors affecting cost. The degree of close collaboration in the supply chain is closely interconnected with cost performance that includes direct and indirect factors. This paper not only quantizes these factors but also distinguishes the degree of influence of various factors.

Design/methodology/approach

System dynamics is applied to simulate and analyze the construction cost factors through Vensim software. It can also clarify the relationship between cost and other influencing factors. The input data are collected from an Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled system under a Building Information Modeling (BIM) system and Hong Kong government reports.

Findings

Simulation results indicate that prefabricated construction cost is mainly influenced by government promotion degree (GPD), working pressure from on-site construction (WPOSC), prefab quality (PQ), load-bearing capacity per vehicle (LBPV) and mold quality (MQ). However, it is more sensitive toward GPD, which indicates that the government should take measures to promote this construction technology. On-site worker management is also essential for the assembly process and indirectly influences the construction cost.

Research limitations/implications

This paper quantifies indirect influential factors to clarify the specific features for prefabricated construction. The investigated factors are limited.

Practical implications

The contractor can identify all factors and classify the levels of influence to make decisions under the supply chain system boundary.

Social implications

The input data are collected from an IoT-enabled system under a BIM system and Hong Kong government reports. Thus, the relationship between construction cost influential factors can be investigated.

Originality/value

This paper quantifies indirect influencing factors and clarifies the specific features in prefabricated construction. The contractor could identify these factors to make decisions and classify the levels of influence under the supply chain system boundary.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 121 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-5577

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