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This is a book for those who wish to probe into the contradictions and dilemmas that shape how universities and other contemporary institutions do policy (or not). By focusing on text and interviews with diversity officers from 21 universities in Australia and the United Kingdom during 2003, 2004 and 2009, Ahmed offers important ethnographic insights into how contemporary universities enact institutional ideologies within an audit culture. She uses a feminist and critical race theory framework, which challenged this reviewer in a variety of ways and ultimately offered thoughtful comment on the leadership challenge of contemporary universities. This contribution builds upon a substantial body of Ahmed's ( ) previous work in feminist, post-colonial and queer studies and focuses on her experience of institutions, as well as her time advancing equity and diversity policy within a university. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life digs into the social complexity of the contemporary university, while drawing upon an extensive variety of influences (i.e., Butler, Bannerji, Derrida, Fanon, Husserl, Lyotard, Mohanty). Those who may find conceptual contentment within a structural-functionalist understanding of universities are unlikely to appreciate this work. This book offers insight into why universities are increasingly concerned with other universities and how it became important for the contemporary university, whether in the UK, Australia, or Canada, to expend increasing amounts of time and resources on self-representation. Many conversations within On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life are original, noteworthy, and reason enough to spend time with this offering. Each of the following points standout, as they illustrate the tricky social terrain in which universities must operate: (1) discursive text and the language of diversity; (2) commitment within audit culture; and (3) excellence as a heraldic and hegemonic device of university leadership. Ahmed focuses on text as a methodological consideration and in doing so asks the reader to consider whether or not the contemporary university is a reified and unitary subject. She differentiates between a textually produced reality of the university and a second reality constituted in the lived experience of individuals within it. This is a method that has been used elsewhere with great impact, such as Rankin's (2004) institutional ethnography of the nursing profession, where she explores the replacement of individual patients with discursively produced entities that exist in the text-based hyper-reality of healthcare information systems and institutions. Ahmed asks how we can know anything about what takes place within the contemporary university and 110

Despite years of research done regarding the impacts of domestic violence, significant questions remain about the implications of arrest and conviction for women who are charged with domestic violence. Complex interactions between a woman's role as victim and offender are relevant in the approaches researchers take when examining women as domestic violence perpetrators. In this investigation, I analyzed arrest and sentencing data from the Boulder County Domestic Violence Research Team, and then investigated those trends by interviewing legal professionals in Boulder County to determine if gender affects sentencing outcomes in intimate partner abuse cases. My results demonstrate that in the domestic violence sentencing process, gender is related to the criminal history of the defendant, the types of abuse that are committed, and the likelihood of a case dismissal. These trends point to the need for more extensive research about the ways that arrests and sentencing in domestic violence cases affect both victims and perpetrators. Importantly, this investigation also demonstrates that there is a need to establish policies which acknowledge the gendered dynamics of intimate partner abuse.

Explosive substances are very important compounds from the point of manufacture, storage, transport and use. Research and development of secondary explosives in the previous time is intensified in order to obtain improved explosive materials is physical, chemical and explosive characteristics. One of the directions of development are research in the field of co-crystals. In this paper, present the literature results of previous studies of co-crystals of modern conventional explosives. The co-crystal of the compound represented CL-20, octogen (HMX), TKX-50, trotyl (TNT) and certain compounds of explosive to be used to a minor extent. Analysis of test results of crystal structure, intermolecular interactions, mechanical sensitivity, thermal decomposition, reaction mechanisms creation products and explosion characteristics indicate improved explosives properties in relationship to components that make it.

Primena lasera sa procesima rasejanja i interakcije zahteva rešavanje teorijskih problema, koji se razvojem računarskih alata svode na brze provere. Zadaci u vezi metroloških problematika pokrivaju zadatake sa angularnom raspodelom, monohromatskih i polihromatskih problema matrice rasejanja, specijalne funkcije ili komponentni prilaz definisanim geometrijama i koherentnih osobina snopa, rasejavača i ugla posmattranja. Laserski snopovi velikog intenziteta izazivaju niz efekata u atmosferi ili u prolazu kroz materijal, uključujući i disturbanse u rezonatorima zbog uticaja elastičnih i neelastičnih rasejanja i promene koeficijenata refleksije elemenata (ogledala), koji su u radnom prostoru kvantnog generatora-pojačavača. Rad se bavi izabranom problematikom teorijsko-analitičko-numeričke prirode i pored pozivanja na zadatke iz prakse, analizira podrške informacione tehnologije

Odnosom 134Cs/137Cs u nekom uzorku utvrđuje se porijeklo 137Cs, globalni fallout ili reaktorski akcident. Njihova detekcija i razdvajanje NaI(Tl) detektorom otežana je bliskim energijama zraka (605 keV i 662 keV), kao i zracima bliskih energija iz prirodnih radionuklida, zbog čega se nameće potreba razvoja koincidentnog metoda mjerenja. Koristeći 2 detektora spektrometra PRIPJAT (∼180°) izvor 134Cs razmatran je u integralnom, nekoincidentnom i režimu dvostrukih koincidencija.The origin of 137Cs, whether it was generated as a global fallout or reactor (Chernobyl) accident, is determined with assessment its relationship with 134Cs. 134Cs is artificial radionuclide, produced in nuclear power reactors, with a half-life of 2.1 years. Since the data on 134Cs activity in Montenegro weren’t publish after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, there is no information about relation between these two radionuclides and therefore its detection in the Montenegro’s environment is not possible nowadays. ...

El trabajo como base del sistema económico que se analizará aquí será a partir de la historia de vida realizada a una mujer con universidad incompleta, la cual, presenta detalles sobre su origen, educación, y actividad económica ejercida como trabajadora informal, así como lo correspondiente a su intento por insertarse al mercado laboral. Por tanto, mediante un cuestionario semiestructurado inicialmente de 27 preguntas, aplicados en la entrevista, recopilamos distintas vivencias transitadas por ella, que exponen elementos interseccionales descritos en varias de sus respuestas, contrastables con la data oficial de entidades nacionales y otros aportes cualitativos de organismos internacionales fijados en el trabajo digno, el género y la identidad, condicionantes que pueden intensificarse en el contexto de la pandemia de la COVID-19.

Odnosom 134Cs/137Cs u nekom uzorku utvrđuje se porijeklo 137Cs, globalni fallout ili reaktorski akcident. Njihova detekcija i razdvajanje NaI(Tl) detektorom otežana je bliskim energijama zraka (605 keV i 662 keV), kao i zracima bliskih energija iz prirodnih radionuklida, zbog čega se nameće potreba razvoja koincidentnog metoda mjerenja. Koristeći 2 detektora spektrometra PRIPJAT (∼180°) izvor 134Cs razmatran je u integralnom, nekoincidentnom i režimu dvostrukih koincidencija.The origin of 137Cs, whether it was generated as a global fallout or reactor (Chernobyl) accident, is determined with assessment its relationship with 134Cs. 134Cs is artificial radionuclide, produced in nuclear power reactors, with a half-life of 2.1 years. Since the data on 134Cs activity in Montenegro weren’t publish after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, there is no information about relation between these two radionuclides and therefore its detection in the Montenegro’s environment is not possible nowadays. ...

Dobijanje uniformnog tankog sloja grafena je od izuzetnog znaĉaja za njegovu primenu u razliĉitim oblastima, pre svega elektronici i medicini. Stoga je dobijanje kontinualnih, homogenih grafenskih tankih slojeva cilj mnogih istraživaĉa u oblasti ugljeniĉnih nanomaterijala. Predmet prouĉavanja ove doktorske disertacije je sinteza tankih slojeva jednoslojnog i višeslojnog grafena metodom brzog termalnog odgrevanja (eng. Rapid Thermal Annealing – RTA). Sinteza tankih slojeva grafena vršena je na razliĉitim podlogama i iz razliĉitih ugljeniĉnih prekursora. Kao podloge za sintezu grafena korišteni su silicijum, bakarna folija i grafitna elektroda. Kao ugljeniĉni prekursor korištene su grafenske kvantne taĉke, fulerol, amorfni ugljenik i grafit. Za sintezu grafena RTA metodom, sloj metala je deponovan na dva naĉina: autokatalitiĉki na silicijumsku i bakarnu foliju i fiziĉkim putem na grafit. Ispitan je uticaj podloge, ugljeniĉnog prekursora, temperature i vremena odgrevanja na sintezu gra...

The aim of this study is to determine the level of communication skills of Ankara University, Faculty of Health Sciences students. The population of the research consisted of 1,601 students studying at six different departments (Nutrition and Dietetics, Child Development, Midwifery, Nursing, Health Services Management and Social Work) during April 2012. In total 66% (1,062) of the students were reached, but 937 questionnaires were included in the evaluation. In the research, personal information form and the inventory of communication skills were used. Statistical comparisons were performed by using SPSS 15.0. Descriptive statistics were used to identify the personal characteristics of the population and given by using the frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and  standard deviation. Parametric tests (Student's t-test and ANOVA) were used for the normally distributed variables with Post Hoc comparisons using the Fisher's Least Significant Difference test (LCD) (p<0.05). A significance level of 0.05 was chosen. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the inventory was found to be 0.77. A statistically significant difference was determined between the students in the dimension of mental communication skills and the total inventory according to the gender. The difference was statistically significant between the students in the behavioural dimension of communication skills and total communication skills by the departments in which they were studying. A statistically significant difference was determined in the dimension of emotional communication by the residence of students surveyed. As a result, it was found that the level of communication skills of students were not affected by the age, years of study, family type, and

Despite years of research done regarding the impacts of domestic violence, significant questions remain about the implications of arrest and conviction for women who are charged with domestic violence. Complex interactions between a woman's role as victim and offender are relevant in the approaches researchers take when examining women as domestic violence perpetrators. In this investigation, I analyzed arrest and sentencing data from the Boulder County Domestic Violence Research Team, and then investigated those trends by interviewing legal professionals in Boulder County to determine if gender affects sentencing outcomes in intimate partner abuse cases. My results demonstrate that in the domestic violence sentencing process, gender is related to the criminal history of the defendant, the types of abuse that are committed, and the likelihood of a case dismissal. These trends point to the need for more extensive research about the ways that arrests and sentencing in domestic violence cases affect both victims and perpetrators. Importantly, this investigation also demonstrates that there is a need to establish policies which acknowledge the gendered dynamics of intimate partner abuse.

Highlights of the recommendations:  Implement best practices that ensure victims/survivors a compassionate and thorough response to their reports of sexual violence, focusing on measuring the work of the professionals rather than on conviction outcomes.  Assure law enforcement, prosecution, and advocacy agencies are adequately staffed to address these cases.  Facilitate communication among law enforcement agencies about trends and case investigations to assure repeat offenders are held accountable.  Implement formalized training and experience expectations for both law enforcement and prosecutors on sexual violence, trauma, and current best practices.  With the established baseline from the review, continue to monitor and measure progress in best practices across disciplines.

This project was sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a legislative agency of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania is a bipartisan, bicameral legislative agency that serves as a resource for rural policy within the Pennsylvania General Assembly. It was created in 1987 under Act 16, the Rural Revitalization Act, to promote and sustain the vitality of Pennsylvania’s rural and small communities. Information contained in this report does not necessarily reflect the views of individual board members or the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. For more information, contact the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 625 Forster St., Room 902, Harrisburg, PA 17120, telephone (717) 787-9555, email: [email protected], www.rural.palegislature.us. Domestic Violence Cases in Rural Pennsylvania Magisterial Courts: Practices, Effectiveness and Consequences

provides services to over 1000 victims of family violence (women, children and men) every month. The Family Justice Center was launched in 2002 by the City of San Diego as a public safety initiative to assist police and prosecutors respond to domestic violence. Under one roof are 25 agencies (government and non-profit) who have come together provide wrap-around services to victims of domestic violence and their children. Prior to this appointment, Gael was a prosecutor for over 17 years at the San Diego City Attorney's Office. She joined the office in 1987 and served in many capacities including an Assistant City Attorney for the San Diego City Attorney's Office and Head Deputy City Attorney overseeing the Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Unit. She has also worked as a deputy public defender and a deputy county counsel for the San Diego County Counsel's office handling juvenile dependency matters. She graduated from Western State College of Law in December 1985. Judge Eugene M. Hyman is a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara (San Jose) where he has served for sixteen years. Judge Hyman has presided over cases in the criminal, civil, probate, family, and delinquency divisions of the court. He previously has presided over an adult domestic violence court and in 1999 presided over the first juvenile domestic violence and family violence court in the United States. Judge Hyman has lectured nationally and internationally and has written on issues surrounding domestic violence in the criminal and family courts especially with cooccurring issues of substance abuse and mental health. He has a special interest in domestic violence as it affects children, especially in the family court. His most recent projects include a speaking tour of Feiburg, Germany where he addressed judges, prosecutions, defense counsel, probation officers, police officers, advocates, intervention professionals, and custody evaluators. His most recent article,-Domestic Violence Cases Merit Greater Attention By CJA‖ appeared in the Fall issue of The Bench, California Judges Association Quarterly Journal. Prior to his appointment as a judge, Judge Hyman