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Problem-based learning case writing by students based on early years clinical attachments: a focus group evaluation
Authors: Idowu Yewande , Muir Elizabeth , Easton Graham
Published: March 2016

Objectives

To evaluate the perception of medical students of the new approach to problem-based learning which involves students writing their own problem-based learning cases based on their recent clinical attachment, and team assessment.

Design

Focus group interviews with students using purposive sampling. Transcripts of the audio recordings were analysed using thematic analysis.

Setting

Imperial College School of Medicine, London.

Participants

Medical students in the second year of the MBBS course, who attended the problem-based learning case writing session.

Main outcome measures

To elicit the students’ views about problem-based learning case writing and team assessment.

Results

The following broad themes emerged: effect of group dynamics on the process; importance of defining the tutor’s role; role of summative assessment; feedback as a learning tool and the skills developed during the process.

Conclusions

Overall the students found the new approach, writing problem-based learning cases based on patients seen during their clinical attachments, useful in helping them to gain a better understanding about the problem-based learning process, promoting creativity and reinforcing the importance of team work and peer assessment which are vital professional skills. Further tutor development and guidance for students about the new approach was found to be important in ensuring it is a good learning experience. We hope this evaluation will be of use to other institutions considering introducing students’ case writing to problem-based learning.
The impact of the European Working Time Directive 10 years on: views of the UK medical graduates of 2002 surveyed in 2013–2014
Authors: Lambert Trevor W , Smith Fay , Goldacre Michael J
Published: March 2016

Objectives

To report doctors’ views about the European Working Time Directive (‘the Directive’).

Design

Survey of the medical graduates of 2002 (surveyed in 2013–2014).

Participants

Medical graduates.

Setting

UK.

Main outcome measures

Questions on views about the Directive.

Results

The response rate was 64% (2056/3196). Twelve per cent of respondents agreed that the Directive had benefited senior doctors, 39% that it benefited junior doctors, and 17% that it had benefited the NHS. More women (41%) than men (35%) agreed that the Directive had benefited junior doctors. Surgeons (6%) and adult medical specialists (8%) were least likely to agree that the Directive had benefited senior doctors. Surgeons (20%) were less likely than others to agree that the Directive had benefited junior doctors, whilst specialists in emergency medicine (57%) and psychiatry (52%) were more likely to agree. Surgeons (7%) were least likely to agree that the Directive had benefited the NHS. Most respondents (62%) reported a positive effect upon work–life balance. With regard to quality of patient care, 45% reported a neutral effect, 40% reported a negative effect, and 15% a positive effect. Most respondents (71%) reported a negative effect of the Directive on continuity of patient care, and 71% felt that the Directive had a negative effect upon junior doctors’ training opportunities. Fifty-two per cent reported a negative effect on efficiency in managing patient care.

Conclusions

Senior doctors agreed that the Directive benefited doctors’ work–life balance. In other respects, they were more negative about it. Surgeons were the least positive about aspects of the Directive.
Shooting in the Dark: Do Prices Matter in Ambiguous Environments?
Authors: Dasgupta Utteeyo
Published: March 2016

In an experiment, we evaluate whether prices of investment options influence choice in an ambiguous environment. We find that even with feedback on previous period’s investment, and repeated decision-making, prices do influence choice in our ambiguous environment. Modal behaviour is rational, that is, for each category of investment subjects choose the lowest available price. However, there is a tendency to associate high-priced ambiguous investment options with better quality. This effect becomes stronger as the price differences between available investment options become larger.
In Thyroidectomized Thyroid Cancer Patients, False-Positive I-131 Whole Body Scans Are Often Caused by Inflammation Rather Than Thyroid Cancer
Authors: Garger Yana Basis , Winfeld Mathew , Friedman Kent , Blum Manfred
Published: March 2016

Objective. To show that I-131 false-positive results on whole-body scans (WBSs) after thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer may be a result of inflammation unassociated with the cancer. Methods. We performed a retrospective image analysis of our database of thyroid cancer patients who underwent WBS from January 2008 to January 2012 to identify and stratify false positives. Results. A total of 564 patients underwent WBS during the study period; 96 patients were referred for 99 I-131 single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT/CT) scans to better interpret cryptic findings. Among them, 73 scans were shown to be falsely positive; 40/73 or 54.7% of false-positive findings were a result of inflammation. Of the findings, 17 were in the head, 1 in the neck, 4 in the chest, 3 in the abdomen, and 14 in the pelvis; 1 had a knee abscess. Conclusions. In our series, inflammation caused the majority of false-positive WBSs. I-131 SPECT/CT is powerful in the differentiation of inflammation from thyroid cancer. By excluding metastatic disease, one can properly prognosticate outcome and avoid unnecessary, potentially harmful treatment of patients with thyroid cancer.
The REDE Model of Healthcare Communication: Optimizing Relationship as a Therapeutic Agent
Authors: Windover Amy K. , Boissy Adrienne , Rice Thomas W. , Gilligan Timothy , Velez Vicente J. , Merlino James
Published: March 2016

The REDE model is a conceptual framework for teaching relationship-centered healthcare communication. Based on the premise that genuine relationships are a vital therapeutic agent, use of the framework has the potential to positively influence both patient and provider. The REDE model applies effective communication skills to optimize personal connections in three primary phases of Relationship: Establishment, Development and Engagement (REDE). This paper describes the REDE model and its application to a typical provider-patient interaction.
Seven Guiding Commitments: Making the U.S. Healthcare System More Compassionate
Authors: Lown Beth A.
Published: March 2016

Despite the current focus on patient centeredness, healthcare professionals face numerous challenges that impede their ability to provide compassionate care that ameliorates concerns, distress, or suffering. These include fragmentation and discontinuity of care, technologies that both help and hinder communication and relationship-building, burgeoning operational and administrative requirements, inadequate communication skills training, alarming rates of burnout, and increased cost and market pressures. A compassionate healthcare system begins with compassionate people, but the organizations in which they train and work must reliably enable them to express and act on their compassion rather than impede it. We present a set of guiding commitments and recommendations to foster a more compassionate healthcare system. We urge healthcare organizations to adopt these commitments and take action to embed compassionate care in all aspects of training, research, patient care and organizational life.
Workshops that Work: Physician Involvement in Service Training
Authors: Brantley Meredith , Niekamp Cheryl
Published: March 2016

Physician involvement in service training initiatives can have a significant impact on the patient experience. This paper highlights some of the key components of what makes physician involvement in training engagements successful and includes anecdotes and data to support the findings.

Our service training program emerged from a desire to help clinic sections improve the patient experience. Our workshops contained customized materials that addressed service priority areas, as identified by patient satisfaction survey results, for individual clinic sections and included opportunities to practice the concepts introduced in each session. However, we were missing one key ingredient in the recipe for a successful training program — physician involvement.

This paper focuses on a best practice in which two physicians took an active role in creating, customizing and delivering service training for their clinic section and made a tremendous impact on their overall patient satisfaction scores and section morale.
Who is Taking Care of the Caregiver?
Authors: Sullivan Amy Burleson , Miller Deborah
Published: March 2016

In neurology practices, the patient's caregiver is often overlooked, but it is essential to understand the importance of the caregiver in the management of a chronic neurological condition. Caring for a loved one with a chronic condition can often be profoundly fulfilling, as many times individuals move closer together when challenges arise; however it can also become overwhelming, physically and emotionally challenging, and isolating. At times, it can be thought of as a burden. Caregivers must learn to take care of themselves physically and emotionally. The multidisciplinary care model used in the treatment of chronic medical conditions is important not only for the patient or care recipient, but also for the caregiver. This care model allows for several practitioners to interact with the caregiver to assess and determine the optional interventions. The purpose of this article is to review common caregiver challenges and to determine how, as providers, we can address and help caregivers more effectively care for themselves while maintaining their responsibility to the patient or care recipient.
Do I Buy It? How AIDET™ Training Changes Residents' Values about Patient Care
Authors: Braverman Andrea Mechanick , Kunkel Elisabeth J. , Katz Leo , Katona Austin , Heavens Teresa , Miller Andrew , Arfaa Jennifer Jasmine
Published: March 2016

Objectives

Acquiring communication and interpersonal skills is an important part of providing patient-centered care and improving patient satisfaction. This study explores whether residents' own values about patient communication can be influenced by training.

Methods

As part of service excellence, a three-hour communication skills training in AIDET™ (Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, Thank You) was delivered to first and second Post-Graduate Year (PGY) residents (n = 123). A survey was designed to measure the value of patient communication and administered pre/post communication skills training.

Results

Residents' scores about communication values improved significantly for all areas pre- to post-training for patient communication skills (p<0.04). After training, there was little difference by medical specialty, other than surgical specialties, which showed the greatest increase in valuing requesting permission (p=0.034). Gender was also not associated with differences in values, except men showed a greater increase in valuing sitting down (p=0.021) and introductions (p=0.005) than women who already valued these specific behaviors prior to training.

Conclusions

Residents value communication, and AIDET™ training is a useful tool to increase the values of good communication and interpersonal skills to enhance service excellence.
Puppy Love, Adolescence, and Chronic Illness: The Importance of Pets for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes
Authors: Walker Ashby F. , Johnson Cathryn , Schatz Desmond A. , Silverstein Janet H. , Rohrs Henry J.
Published: March 2016

The benefits of animal-companion ties to well-being are consistently documented, yet few studies use patient-centered methodologies to examine how youth living with chronic illnesses rely on domestic pets for support. Youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D) aged 12 to 19 years (N=40) completed surveys involving a prompt to take five photos of “what diabetes means to you,” with an accompanying narrative. Content analysis was conducted for photos/narratives and numeric variables analyzed including socio-economic status (SES: measured by total household income and years of parental education) and HbA1C. More than half of the youth participants took pictures of coping mechanisms, including pictures of their pets. In fact, pictures of pets outnumbered pictures of people three to one. Pet depictions were captured by youth from all SES levels. Youth with T1D identify pets as an important source of support. More research is needed to understand how pets may offset disease burden for youth with T1D.
Patient-Centered Care Transition for Patients Admitted through the ED: Improving Patient and Employee Experience
Authors: Algauer Andrea , Rivera Stephanie , Faurote Robert
Published: March 2016

With increasing wait times in emergency departments (ED) across America, there is a need to streamline the inpatient admission process in order to decrease wait times and more important, to increase patient and employee satisfaction. One inpatient unit at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center initiated a program to help expedite the inpatient admission process from the ED. The goal of the ED Bridge program is to ease the patient's transition from the ED to an inpatient unit by visiting the patient in the ED and introducing and setting expectations for the inpatient environment (i.e. telemetry alarms, roommates, hourly comfort rounds). Along with improving the patient experience, this program intends to improve the collaboration between ED nurses and inpatient nurses. With the continued support of our nurse management, hospital administrators and most important, our staff, this concept is aimed to increase patient satisfaction scores and subsequently employee satisfaction.
Randomized multicenter phase 2 study of pomalidomide, cyclophosphamide, and dexamethasone in relapsed refractory myeloma
Authors: Baz Rachid C. , Martin Thomas G. , Lin Hui-Yi , Zhao Xiuhua , Shain Kenneth H. , Cho Hearn J. , Wolf Jeffrey L. , Mahindra Anuj , Chari Ajai , Sullivan Daniel M. , Nardelli Lisa A. , Lau Kenneth , Alsina Melissa , Jagannath Sundar
Published: March 2016

Key Points

PomCyDex results in a higher overall response rate than pomalidomide and dexamethasone. PomCyDex is an effective, all oral regimen for refractory myeloma patients.
A Campus-Wide Investigation of Clicker Implementation: The Status of Peer Discussion in STEM Classes
Authors: Lewin Justin D. , Vinson Erin L. , Stetzer MacKenzie R. , Smith Michelle K.
Published: March 2016

At the University of Maine, middle and high school teachers observed more than 250 university science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes and collected information on the nature of instruction, including how clickers were being used. Comparisons of classes taught with (n = 80) and without (n = 184) clickers show that, while instructional behaviors differ, the use of clickers alone does not significantly impact the time instructors spend lecturing. One possible explanation stems from the observation of three distinct modes of clicker use: peer discussion, in which students had the opportunity to talk with one another during clicker questions; individual thinking, in which no peer discussion was observed; and alternative collaboration, in which students had time for discussion, but it was not paired with clicker questions. Investigation of these modes revealed differences in the range of behaviors, the amount of time instructors lecture, and how challenging the clicker questions were to answer. Because instructors can vary their instructional style from one clicker question to the next, we also explored differences in how individual instructors incorporated peer discussion during clicker questions. These findings provide new insights into the range of clicker implementation at a campus-wide level and how such findings can be used to inform targeted professional development for faculty.
Introduction to the special section: Subsalt imaging
Authors: Etgen John T. , Foster Doug J. , Zhang Yu
Published: March 2016

Not all hydrocarbon provinces are influenced by salt tectonics. Judging by the level of interest and effort the seismic-imaging community has dedicated to imaging in the vicinity of and below salt structures, one might think subsalt imaging is the most important imaging challenge the industry faces. It certainly is an important challenge, and, because imaging around and below salt structures is so difficult yet so potentially rewarding, the magnitude of industry interest in subsalt imaging is, in the special-section editors' view, justified.
The effect of TOC on acoustic impedance for a Middle Eastern source rock
Authors: Broadhead Michael K. , Cheshire Stephen G. , Hayton Shaun
Published: March 2016

Acoustic impedance (AI) is correlated with total organic carbon (TOC), where AI decreases as TOC increases. An example is presented that demonstrates this relationship using wireline and lab data for a source rock from northwest Saudi Arabia. We discuss why this relationship is expected and support this expectation quantitatively with a simple, theoretical rock-physics model (not calibrated to any data). We then use well and lab data to establish an empirical relation and combine it with seismic data to map the areal distribution of TOC over our study area. We verify quantitatively that the addition of seismic data improved the map. Finally, we discuss various issues regarding the confidence that can be attributed to such a map.
SLS students build lifelong professional networks
Authors: James Stephanie
Published: March 2016

Fifty students from 23 different countries gathered 17–18 October 2015 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, for an educational and motivational weekend at the SEG/Chevron Student Leadership Symposium (SLS). Sponsored by Chevron, this annual SEG short course brings student leaders together for the weekend preceding the SEG Annual Meeting and International Exposition by providing travel, lodging, and registration.
Prognostic Value of Ki-67 Index, Cytology, and Growth Pattern in Mantle-Cell Lymphoma: Results From Randomized Trials of the European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Network
Authors: Hoster Eva , Rosenwald Andreas , Berger Françoise , Bernd Heinz-Wolfram , Hartmann Sylvia , Loddenkemper Christoph , Barth Thomas F.E. , Brousse Nicole , Pileri Stefano , Rymkiewicz Grzegorz , Kodet Roman , Stilgenbauer Stephan , Forstpointner Roswitha , Thieblemont Catherine , Hallek Michael , Coiffier Bertrand , Vehling-Kaiser Ursula , Bouabdallah Réda , Kanz Lothar , Pfreundschuh Michael , Schmidt Christian , Ribrag Vincent , Hiddemann Wolfgang , Unterhalt Michael , Kluin-Nelemans Johanna C. , Hermine Olivier , Dreyling Martin H. , Klapper Wolfram
Published: March 2016

Purpose

Mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rather aggressive B-cell malignancy whose considerable variability of individual outcome is associated with clinical characteristics (Mantle Cell Lymphoma International Prognostic Index [MIPI]). The Ki-67 index is a strong independent prognostic factor; however, the biologic MIPI (MIPI-b) distinguishes only two groups, which does not appropriately depict the clinical heterogeneity. By using the cohort from the European MCL Younger and MCL Elderly trials, we aimed to evaluate the additional prognostic impact of cytology and growth pattern and to improve risk stratification with the Ki-67 index and MIPI.

Patients and Methods

Diagnostic tumor biopsies were reviewed by the European Mantle Cell Lymphoma Pathology Panel to determine Ki-67 index by using published guidelines, cytology, and growth pattern. We evaluated prognostic effects for overall survival (OS) by Cox regression. For the cohort used for MIPI-b development (German Low-Grade Lymphoma Study Group [GLSG] 1996 and GLSG2000), we checked whether the equally weighted combination of Ki-67 index (dichotomized at the validated 30% cutoff) and MIPI risk groups was adequate and compared the prognostic power of this modified combination to MIPI and MIPI-b for the MCL Younger/MCL Elderly cohort.

Results

The Ki-67 index was assessed in 508 of 832 patients (median age, 62 years). Blastoid cytology was associated with inferior OS independently of MIPI but not independently of the Ki-67 index. Growth pattern was not independently prognostic. The modified combination of the Ki-67 index and MIPI separated four groups with 5-year OS: 85%, 72%, 43%, and 17% (P < .001) and was more discriminative than MIPI and MIPI-b.

Conclusion

Using the Ki-67 index is superior to using cytology and growth pattern as prognostic factors in MCL. The modified combination of the Ki-67 index and MIPI showed a refined risk stratification, reflecting their strong complementary prognostic effects while integrating the most relevant prognostic factors available in clinical routine.
Syphilologies: Fracastoro's Cure and the Creation of Immunopoetics
Authors: Piechocki Katharina N.
Published: March 2016

Renaissance poet and physician Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553) coined the neologism “syphilis” in the first poem that fictionalizes Columbus's voyage to the New World. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus (1530) captures, as this article shows, the bonds among poetic, philological, and medical discoveries as an unprecedented inquiry into the emerging discipline of immunology. A unique hinge between poetics and medicine as well as between ancient and modern languages, the poem takes the shape of a powerful philological intervention that is here called immunopoetics. An immunopoetic look at Syphilis not only underscores Fracastoro's crucial role in the history of immunitas, a juridical term that acquired, from the Renaissance on, an increasingly medical connotation and meaning. It also offers a new etymology for the word syphilis, which has hitherto remained obscure.
Nabokov's McCarthyisms:PnininThe Groves of Academe
Authors: Naiman Eric
Published: March 2016

This article explores the role of surveillance in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pnin both within its contemporary political context and as a response to two earlier examples of American campus fiction: Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution and Mary McCarthy's The Groves of Academe. In particular, Pnin resonates not only with the text of McCarthy's novel but also with McCarthy's practice of appropriating the lives of others in her fiction. In important respects, McCarthy and Nabokov take their cue from Dostoevsky's The Possessed, but while McCarthy depoliticizes Dostoevsky's novel by turning it into dark comedy, Pnin transforms the world of Dostoevsky's novels from a forum of ideas into an arena for the struggles of metafiction. At a time when Joseph McCarthy was concerned with the infiltration of American institutions by communist agents, Russian literature, and in particular Dostoevsky, played a crucial part in the birth of the American campus novel.
Explorations between Philosophy and History
Authors: Lorenz Chris F.g.
Published: March 2016

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Review of Golia, Υμνώντας το έθνος
Authors: Papandreou Zeta G
Published: March 2016

Paraskevi Golia, Υμνώντας το έθνος. Ο ρόλος των σχολικών γιορτών στην εθνική και πολιτική διαπαιδαγώγηση 1924-2010 [Praising the nation: The role of national day school commemorations in national and political-education policy, 1924-2010], Thessaloniki: Epikentro, 2011, 445 pp
A paradoxical relationship between Resveratrol and copper (II) with respect to degradation of DNA and RNA
Authors: Subramaniam Siddharth , Vohra Iqbal , Iyer Aishwarya , Nair Naveen K , Mittra Indraneel
Published: March 2016

Resveratrol (R), a plant polyphenol, is known to reduce Cu (II) to Cu (I) generating reactive oxygen species that can cleave plasmid DNA. Here we report a surprising observation of a paradoxical relationship between R and Cu whereby plasmid DNA cleaving / degrading activity of R-Cu increased progressively as the ratio of R to Cu was increased i.e., the concentration of Cu was successively reduced with respect to a fixed concentration R. Whereas cleavage of plasmid DNA occurred at low molar ratios of R to Cu, at higher ratios, complete degradation of DNA was achieved. By further increasing the ratio, whereby the concentration of Cu was reduced to very low levels, the DNA degrading activity of R-Cu was lost. This paradoxical relationship is also seen with respect to eukaryotic genomic DNA and RNA. Since R-Cu may have anti-cancer and anti-viral activities, our findings may not only help to improve the therapeutic efficacy of R-Cu but also reduce its toxic side effects with the use of low concentration of Cu.
Information Model as an Instrument for the Analysis of News Discourse
Authors: Добросклонская  , Dobrosklonskaya T.
Published: March 2016

Under the conditions of information society special importance is attached

to a systematic and consistent study of the news texts, which are regarded

as the pinnacle of all media discourse, its basic structure around which all

media content is organized. At present the study of news texts applies a

wide range of different methods traditionally used for the analysis of socially

and culture bound discourse – linguistic, sociological, discursive, contentanalysis

etc. However the method specifically designed for the analysis of

the news has not been fully described yet. To fill in this gap the author offers

to use “the information model” that was designed within the framework of

media linguistics – a relatively new but already firmly established branch of

language studies. The article focuses on the use of information model for

the analysis of news discourse, specifically dealing with all its elements –

selection of facts, interpretation, shaping images, forming stereotypes and

cultural-ideological context.
Linguistic Economy Principle in Written Spontaneous Speech (on Texts of Spanish Social Networks Facebook, Twitter, Tuenty)
Authors: Кузьмина  , Kuzmina E.
Published: March 2016

The article is devoted to methods of linguistic economy and fixing the oral

speech peculiarities in the texts of social networks. The interaction of oral

speech strategies with written text presentation in Internet communication

are considered. The conversational nature of the text with several violations

of a spelling rules, and the print efforts economy, which leads to the

use of unconventional spelling characters, are among the main underlined

peculiarities of colloquial written speech in Spanish social network communication.
Features of Speech Organization of the Corporate System
Authors: Селезнева  , Selezneva Larisa
Published: March 2016

This article focuses on speech organization of a corporate system, which is

understood as the whole array of texts are created in the framework of one

or another body corporate in relation to the intelligent structure of subjects

of speech. Haierarchical structure is dominated by corporation, all interests

are subordinated to the interests of the сorporation and all language activities

are consistent with the company’s leaders. In speech organization

distinguish groups of texts on the basis of mandatory or voluntary disclosure

by the сorporation, the recipient factor, which is incorporative and captive

audience. In accordance with this, the texts have different communicative

status in speech organization of the сorporation. As a practical material

used the texts of the official sites of several Russian companies.
Personnel Costs and Internal Communication
Authors: Шонохова  , Shonokhova E.
Published: March 2016

The article describes the features of personnel costs. Also different types of

costs on workers are revealed. The features of the cost of the development

of communication links within the organization are allocated. The types of

economic indicators and evaluation methods of personnel costs are identified.
Main directions of updating and development of educating potential of tourism activities in educational organization
Authors: Нечаев Михаил , Nechaev Mikhail
Published: March 2016

The article is devoted to solving the problem of actualization, search, implementation and further development

of the educational capacity of school tourism. Using the environmental approach to the organization of educational

space of a school, the potential is defined as the aggregate of the environment cash, its resources and

possibilities. The author, paying attention to the regent function of education in modern education, highlights

the most significant directions of updating of educating potential tourist activity. These are methodical, psychological

and pedagogical, organizational and managerial areas. Methodological direction is the methodical

support of teachers, organizing school tourism, the design and implementation of the activities for updating

and development of educating potential in the unity of curricular and extracurricular activities of students.

Psycho-pedagogical direction focuses on the creation of the child-adult community, self-revelation and selfrealization

potential of the individual as teacher and learner. Managerial direction is the development of

professional and personal qualities of the teacher in the organization and implementation of tourist activity of

pupils. The article presents a scheme of the implementation model of the above areas, which reflects the goals,

objectives and their implementation. The article reveals the essence and summary of the main directions of

development of educating potential of tourism activity in educational organizations. The presented materials

will help in modeling the development of the educational system of school and will help to actualize educational

function of tourism activity.
Recursive Inspection Games
Authors: von Stengel Bernhard
Published: March 2016

We consider a sequential inspection game where an inspector uses a limited number of inspections over a larger number of time periods to detect a violation (an illegal act) of an inspectee. Compared with earlier models, we allow varying rewards to the inspectee for successful violations. As one possible example, the most valuable reward may be the completion of a sequence of thefts of nuclear material needed to build a nuclear bomb. The inspectee can observe the inspector, but the inspector can only determine if a violation happens during a stage where he inspects, which terminates the game; otherwise the game continues.

Under reasonable assumptions for the payoffs, the inspector’s strategy is independent of the number of successful violations. This allows to apply a recursive description of the game, even though this normally assumes fully informed players after each stage. The resulting recursive equation in three variables for the equilibrium payoff of the game, which generalizes several other known equations of this kind, is solved explicitly in terms of sums of binomial coefficients.

We also extend this approach to nonzero-sum games and “inspector leadership” where the inspector commits to (the same) randomized inspection schedule, but the inspectee acts legally (rather than mixes as in the simultaneous game) as long as inspections remain.
The Dynamics of Interrelated Routines: Introducing the Cluster Level
Authors: Kremser Waldemar , Schreyögg Georg
Published: March 2016

This paper explores interrelationships between organizational routines and their effect on routine dynamics. We introduce a more aggregate perspective on routines, the cluster level, and develop a theoretical framework that helps understanding the dynamics of routine clusters. The framework combines thoughts on the division of labor, modularity, and the consequences of complementarities. It explains why single routines are grouped into clusters and how complementarities between the specialized routines of a cluster will affect its evolution. It is the main argument of this paper that, in contrast to the expanding dynamics of single routines, which continuously bring about variations, the dynamics of clusters are restricting, amounting to a selection mechanism in organizational practice. To illustrate and substantiate our argument, we use a historical case study on CEWE, the European market leader in photofinishing. We analyze how the cluster for 35mm photofinishing—the core routines of the analog years—reacted to the upcoming digital revolution in the 1990s. Our paper offers three contributions: First, we theorize on the interrelationship between routines and the anatomy of clusters. Second, we provide a conceptual framework for analyzing the dynamics of routine clusters that builds on complementarities and the related misfit costs. Third, by elaborating on these dynamics, our findings contribute to a multilevel theory of organizational routines by adding the meso level of the routine cluster to the micro level of single routine dynamics.
Expanding boundaries: Nongovernmental organizations as supply chain members
Authors: Hyatt David G. , Johnson Jonathan L.
Published: March 2016

Using a social movement perspective, we propose a framework that includes nonprofit actors as members of supply chains in a context that we call sustainable supply chain facilitation, particularly within multi-stakeholder supply chain sustainability initiatives. In this framework, certain nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) work alongside other supply chain firms, going beyond technical roles to serve as coordinators, conveners, organizers, brokers, and negotiators who facilitate multiparty agreement on sustainability issues within and across supply chains. We describe a set of roles consisting of third-party facilitators (3PF), fourth-party facilitators (4PF), and fifth-party facilitators (5PF) serving in increasingly strategic roles with increasing numbers of actors, and with increasing potential for co-creation of value in global supply chains. Reframing nongovernmental organizations as members of supply chains instead of outsiders provides a dramatically different perspective. This explicit acknowledgement of membership can help business and NGO managers to rethink their own roles and motivations and to find collaborative solutions in the steady transition to more sustainable supply chains.
Linking performance management to CPD
Authors: Clay Bridget
Published: March 2016

Some staff do not see the links between performance management and CPD. How can we ensure that performance management supports professional learning? Bridget Clay offers some advice
A lasting legacy to the First World War
Authors: Lee-Potter Emma
Published: March 2016

The First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours continue this year, with thousands of students having already taken part. Emma Lee-Potter updates us on the government-funded initiative
Schools' key role in change of culture over sex abuse
Authors: Henshaw Pete
Published: March 2016

We must stop waiting for victims of abuse to come forward and start working together to spot the signs, children's commissioner tells MPs
SEND: Addressing sexual exploitation
Authors: Surr Michael
Published: March 2016

Safeguarding against child sexual exploitation is vital, especially for students with SEND. Michael Surr examines the latest research and recommendations
Engaging staff in character education
Authors: Bawden Matt
Published: March 2016

Continuing his regular series in SecEd, expert Matt Bawden considers how we can engage staff in delivering effective character education
Speech and language support in the secondary setting
Authors: McKeown Sal
Published: March 2016

Speech and language skills continue to develop as students move into secondary education, with many needing particular help and support. Sal McKeown looks at the approaches and strategies of three schools
Overcoming coastal challenges
Authors: Lepkowska Dorothy
Published: March 2016

The challenges facing isolated and coastal schools are well known. A range of initiatives at Clacton Coastal Academy is helping its pupils to overcome the odds. Dorothy Lepkowska reports
Creating the right culture
Authors: Weston David
Published: March 2016

How can schools create a culture to enable their staff to excel? David Weston considers six strategies to achieve great staff motivation and development
A design for learning: The five lesson keys
Authors: Bromley Matt
Published: March 2016

In a new five-part series for SecEd, Matt Bromley dissects his five tenets for well-planned lessons. In part one, he outlines these principles and looks at how we can introduce variety and surprise into teaching while still having lessons that are structured and regular
Ofsted chief gives insights into surviving one-day inspections
Authors: Henshaw Pete
Published: March 2016

After more than 300 one-day inspections of good schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw reveals the reasons behind the successes and failures so far
How to engage in an effective appraisal
Authors: Gill Sonia
Published: March 2016

How to handle appraisals is something every teacher must think about. Sonia Gill offers some tips to help you survive and thrive
Labelling mental health
Authors: Thornton Stephanie
Published: March 2016

Are we too quick to label the young as having mental health problems? Dr Stephanie Thornton considers this very sensitive question
The Duke of Edinburgh's
Authors: Lee-Potter Emma
Published: March 2016

Many schools embrace the opportunities offered by the Duke of Edinburgh's Award – not least at South Bromsgrove High School, which is the largest school-based DofE centre in the country. Emma Lee-Potter takes a look
Five keys to learning: Making connections
Authors: Bromley Matt
Published: March 2016

Continuing his five-part series, Matt Bromley is dissecting his five key aspects of engaging and effective lessons. Key number one is connecting the learning…
Five keys to learning: Personalise the learning
Authors: Bromley Matt
Published: March 2016

Continuing his five-part series, Matt Bromley is dissecting his five key aspects of engaging and effective lessons. Key number two is personalising the learning…
How to build a hospital
Authors: Sanders David
Published: March 2016

On the delicate art of building a hospital that is both an efficient system and a comforting place to be.
National Agenda for Policy-oriented Research
Authors:   IPS National Academic Council
Published: March 2016

As the country moves ahead steadily after the 2013 elections, certain key issues confronting the nation should be on the priority of think-tanks and research organizations with an aim to present policy-oriented advice. Preserving the national sovereignty and freedom are paramount. Governance, or lack of it - running through and along most of our problems of today - must assume a priority attention. Challenges of external and internal security, a renewed foreign policy centered on safeguarding the country's own interest and further cementing the relations with friendly countries are also priority areas. Among the national issues the reorganization of the federal structure, education, economy, energy and water problems and their various dynamics should be central focus of research.

The National Academic Council (NAC) of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Islamabad meets every year to identify priority areas for IPS' annual research program. The annual session of council brings together senior academicians, intellectuals, former civil and military bureaucrats and leading intellectual-politicians. This write up is based on the council's deliberations for 2013. The ideas and priorities set forth the context and agenda for research in the policy arena and are equally relevant for other organizations in the same field, independent researchers, faculty and students of universities and institutions of higher learning, as well as media.
Natural Monopoly, Public Trust and Vested Interests: Case of Power Sector in Pakistan
Authors: Naheed Zia Khan
Published: March 2016

The advent of neo-liberalism in the last quarter of 20th century was a landmark development in the modern history of economic activity. One of the major features of the neo-liberalist counter-revolution, as opposed to the Keynesian interventionist revolution, was privatization of public utilities which were globally operating as natural monopolies in the state sector. The biggest of the latter universally existed in the power sector. Notwithstanding the global wave of power sector reforms and persistent deficit of financial resources and public trust in the corresponding sector of Pakistan, reforms of GENCOs and privatization of DISCOs in the country remain an unfulfilled promise and a wishful thinking respectively. This paper looks into the factors justifying the privatization of state monopolies in the power sector world over and attempts to make a similar case for Pakistan, advocating a consistent, gradual and sustainable process of reforms to protect societal welfare, save on public resources and help boost up industrial production. It is argued that vested interests are having formidable strongholds in the power sector of Pakistan, while economic theory and universal empirical evidence no longer favor the monopoly in electricity generation and distribution. The findings of study lead to the conclusion that world of 21st century is being led by enterprising investors with bags full of money and a preparedness to welcome risk wherever the niche exists in the market. It is recommended that tangibly concrete efforts should be made to build up the confidence of domestic and foreign investors in the profitability potential of large scale industry of Pakistan; specifically, power sector reforms ought to be the frontline item of public policy agenda, given the current state of affairs regarding electricity supply to domestic and commercial users.
Pakistan's Power Sector: Tracking the First Year's Progress of the Present Government
Authors: Ashfaq Mahmood
Published: March 2016

The paper tracks the performance of the power sector during last one year (2013–14) against the policy of the government announced in August 2014. It brings out that while several projects had been announced to increase power supply through mainly imported coal based projects, integrated and analytic approach is lacking. A number of MOUs have been signed but concrete agreements for implementation are yet to be signed in most of the cases. Development and use of indigenous energy resources is not being pursued proactively and aggressively. There are mismatches in the power generation initiatives and the logistic infrastructure (transmission lines, coal transportation, import facilities and storage etc). Demand Side Management (DSM) is not given due priority. In many areas there are deviations from the policy. Slogans are not matched with actions and the ground realities. The institutions are in disharmony and organization culture is more of dictation than professional. On the whole, the sector is not driven professionally and with proper planning and is thus unsustainable.
The United Nations and the Peace Movement
Authors: Unto Vesa
Published: March 2016

The interaction and cooperation between United Nations and the peace movements world over have grown steadily. Much of it is done at the UN arms such as UNESCO, ECOSOC, UNIDA and UNIDIR. United Nations is an organization of sovereign states, while peace movements are part of civil society. Certain problems and challenges in the relationship between the UN and peace movement are necessarily of a permanent nature, producing pressure and tensions. Peace movements can well support the UN and regard it as the most important peace organization, but at the same time their legitimate task is to exert constant pressure.

Revised version of a paper presented in the 25th IPRA General Conference “Uniting for Peace”, Security and Disarmament Commission, Istanbul, 11–15 August, 2014
The Parameter and Paradigm of Chinese Reforms
Authors: Muhammad Zamir
Published: March 2016

The unparalleled growth in the last couple of decades had made China the powerhouse of the global economy. However, this economic miracle is coupled with many socio-economic challenges – such as inequalities and disparities, problems of land and water availability and increasing demand for social sector services. Moreover, growth has slowed somewhat in recent years in the wake of global economic downturn. The new Chinese leadership taking reins in March 2013 has embarked upon a route of wide-ranging economic, social and structural reforms. These reforms target improving of the state owned enterprises (SOEs), further easing of private economic activities, tackling corruption and mismanagement, rule of law, and focus on social security and provision of basic needs. Efforts are also being made to enhance domestic demand instead of single-headed stress on export-oriented growth. These reforms will not only help balance China's economic growth, but will also create new opportunities for the rest of the world in terms of increased demand. Moreover, these reforms are expected to take the country towards realization of the much talked about ‘Chinese Dream.’ However, transparency and relatively more social freedom will be inevitable.
Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Doha to Bali and Beyond
Authors: Fasih Uddin
Published: March 2016

The latest round of multilateral trade negotiation under the World Trade Organization (WTO) – known as the Doha Development Agenda – has remained inconclusive for well over 13 years. There have been serious differences between the developed and developing countries on issues such as market access and agricultural subsidies. While a compromise deal was reached in the Bali ministerial conference of the WTO, making the round a success remains an uphill task as divergences are there and apparently reaching a consensus is hard. However, it will be in the interest of all the member nations and the global economy to take the round towards a successful conclusion.