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Striker Replacements in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: A Review of the Law and Empirical Research A Review of the Law andEmpirical Research

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2001
Parbudyal Singh
The debate on striker replacements is marked by considerable passion and controversy, with many unions and workers' rights advocates proposing legal prohibitions and employers and "free market" advocates generally opposing such prohibitions. In this article we go beyond the rhetoric and examine the nature and extent of striker replacement laws across North America. We also examine the research evidence on this issue and make suggestions for future research. [source]

PERFORMING AUTHORITY: DISCURSIVE POLITICS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF THEO VAN GOGH

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 1 2008
MAARTEN HAJER
In November 2004, the assassination of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist shocked The Netherlands. Critics of multiculturalism quickly linked the murder to the perceived failure of ,soft' integration policies and questioned the authority and legitimacy of Amsterdam's political leadership. This article studies the response of political leaders to those challenges from a performative perspective. Analysing governance as performance illuminates the importance of actively enacting political leadership in non-parliamentary settings such as talk shows, mosques and other religious meeting places, and improvised mass meetings in times of crisis. The authors distinguish different discursive means of performing authority, make suggestions for dealing with crisis events in ethnically and culturally diverse cities and draw some lessons from this approach as well as for methods of studying public administration. [source]

Neurocognitive Functioning in Bipolar Disorder

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Issue 2 2009
Aude Henin
Neuropsychological processes may have direct bearing on the emotional dysregulation and functional impairments characteristic of bipolar disorder. Neuropsychological deficits that have been identified in adults and children with bipolar disorder include impairments in executive functions, declarative memory, attentional processes, and possibly working memory. Structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies of adults and children with bipolar disorder also indicate abnormalities in regions thought to underlie these neuropsychological deficits, including the basal ganglia, amygdala, and dorsolateral, orbitofrontal, and anterior cingulate cortices. Study of this area is made challenging by the heterogeneity of bipolar disorder, the heterogeneity of neuropsychological deficits among groups of patients with different clinical characteristics, the lack of specificity of neurocognitive deficits for bipolar disorder, and difficulty ascertaining whether deficits are inherent in the disorder, predate the disorder, or are influenced by mood state, course, treatment, and comorbidity with other disorders. In this review, we integrate the literature on neuropsychological functioning and neuroimaging in both children and adults with bipolar disorder, propose a nascent integrative model of cognitive function in bipolar disorder, and make suggestions for future studies and model development. [source]

Social Identity, Self-Categorization, and the Communication of Group Norms

COMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 1 2006
Michael A. Hogg
We articulate the role of norms within the social identity perspective as a basis for theorizing a number of manifestly communicative phenomena. We describe how group norms are cognitively represented as context-dependent prototypes that capture the distinctive properties of groups. The same process that governs the psychological salience of different prototypes, and thus generates group normative behavior, can be used to understand the formation, perception, and diffusion of norms, and also how some group members, for example, leaders, have more normative influence than others. We illustrate this process across a number of phenomena and make suggestions for future interfaces between the social identity perspective and communication research. We believe that the social identity approach represents a truly integrative force for the communication discipline. [source]

Renal dysfunction in cystic fibrosis: Is there cause for concern?,

PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY, Issue 10 2009
Natalie Soulsby
Abstract Most people associate cystic fibrosis (CF) with lung disease. Although this is the major cause of morbidity and mortality, CF is in fact a multi-organ disease. Patients with CF are living longer. Accompanying their increased life expectancy are complications not previously encountered. One of the less obvious concerns is that of renal dysfunction associated with long-term exposure to aminoglycosides as well as renally toxic immunosuppressants in lung transplant recipients. This article reviews what is known about the extent of the problem, summarizes what the current practices of measuring and monitoring renal function in patients with CF, and makes suggestions for alternative approaches. In particular, the potential role of cystatin C will be discussed. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2009; 44:947,953. ©2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

A comparative study of laws, rules, codes and other influences on nursing homes' disaster preparedness in the Gulf Coast states

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & THE LAW, Issue 5 2007
Professor Lisa M. Brown Ph.D.
In 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated several Gulf Coast states and caused many deaths. The hurricane- related deaths of 70 nursing home residents,34 believed drowned in St. Rita's Nursing Home in Louisiana and 36 from 12 other nursing homes,highlighted problems associated with poorly developed and executed disaster plans, uninformed evacuation decision-making, and generally inadequate response by providers and first responders (DHHS, 2006; Hyer, Brown, Berman, & Polivka-West, 2006). Such loss of human life perhaps could have been prevented and certainly lessened if, prior to the hurricanes, policies, regulations, and laws had been enacted, executable disaster guidelines been available, vendor contracts been honored, and sufficient planning taken place. This article discusses applicable federal and state laws and regulations that govern disaster preparedness with a particular focus on nursing homes. It highlights gaps in these laws and makes suggestions regarding future disaster planning. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]