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Clayton, Christine Ann. Teacher appraisal: challenges and perceptions. Guildford: University of Surrey, 1990.
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The challenge of religion: A philosophical appraisal. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1985.
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Munson, Thomas N. The challenge of religion: A philosophical appraisal. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1985.
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McQuitty, William. From performance appraisal to performance management: The challenge facing the Department of Economics Development. [s.l: The Author], 1996.
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Jørgensen, Nils-Johan. Northern Light. GB Folkestone: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781898823902.
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Here is a new, challenging appraisal of Norway, the author’s country of birth, that redefines its history, culture and heritage – ‘after Ibsen’ – and looks, with a degree of ominous foreboding, at its future and the future of Europe. Ex-diplomat and widely published author Jørgensen explores an array of topics, from Norway’s Viking past, its pursuit of independence, the German occupation, its politics and cultural heritage , the defence of NATO, the relationship with Europe, and the challenge of Russia, concluding with ‘self-image and reality’. In Northern Light, the author challenges many existing perceptions and stereotypes, making this an essential reference for anyone interested in Norway and its people, international affairs, European history and its cultural legacy.
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Future challenges for inland navigation: A scientific appraisal of the consequences of possible strategic and economic developments up to 2030. Brussels: UPA University Press Antwerp, 2011.
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Samarakoon, Jayampathy. An appraisal of challenges in the sustainable management of the micro-tidal barrier-built estuaries and lagoons in Sri Lanka. Colombo: IUCN, Sri Lanka Office, 2012.
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Sys, Christa, and Thierry Vanelslander. Future challenges for inland navigation: A scientific appraisal of the consequences of possible strategic and economic developments up to 2030. Brussels: UPA University Press Antwerp, 2011.
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Performance appraisal: Expert solutions to everyday challenges. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Press, 2009.
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Goldman, Alvin I. Gettier and the Epistemic Appraisal of Philosophical Intuition. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724551.003.0013.
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Gettier’s 1963 paper was enormously influential. Virtually all epistemologists agreed with Gettier that the JTB analaysis was mistaken. But this conclusion evidently depended on the reliability of the shared intuitions of Gettier’s and his philosophical contemporaries about the epistemological examples described in his chapter. How reliable are such intuitions? Today many philosophers challenge the reliability of classification intuitions. How are such challenges to be addressed, and what can we learn about the comparative reliability of putative experts (e.g. philosophers) and laypersons? Here it is proposed that philosophers can study this with the help of psychological techniques—including not only interview techniques of the kind utilized by experimental philosophers but other experimental techniques as well. Ways to investigate intuition’s reliability are illustrated.
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Elwood, Mark. Critical appraisal of a randomized clinical trial. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199682898.003.0012.
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This chapter presents a randomised trial carried out in primary care in the UK, assessing the use of an antibiotic, chloramphenicol, for acute eye infections (conjunctivitis) in children. This study shows the challenges of conducting a high quality randomised trial in primary care, including issues of the appropriate assessment of outcome. The critical assessment follows the scheme set out in chapter 10: describing the study, assessing the non-causal explanations of observation bias, confounding, and chance variation; assessing time relationships, strength, dose-response, consistency and specificity, and applying the results to the eligible, source, and target populations; and then comparing the results with evidence from other studies, considering consistency and specificity, biological mechanisms, and coherence with the distribution of exposures and outcomes. The chapter gives a summary and table of the critical assessment and its conclusions; and comments on the impact of the study and research carried out since.
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Dorfan, Nicole M., and Sheila R. Woody. Assessing OCD Symptoms and Severity. Edited by Gail Steketee. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376210.013.0051.
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This chapter describes methods and tools for assessing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The chapter outlines the purposes of assessment and discusses special challenges presented by OCD, such as shame associated with socially unacceptable obsessional content. Several types of assessment tools are discussed, including structured diagnostic interviews, semistructured clinician interviews to assess OCD symptom profile and severity, self-report instruments, behavioral assessment and self-monitoring, assessment of appraisals and beliefs relevant to OCD, and functional impairment. The importance of linking assessment findings to an evidence-based treatment plan is discussed.
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Peter, Christina R., Russell B. Toomey, Justin E. Heinze, and Stacey S. Horn. Positive Development During Emerging Adulthood for Queer Populations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190260637.003.0052.
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This chapter focuses on salient internal and external supports and challenges situated within a broader lifespan development framework for queer (e.g., queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual) emerging adults (EAs). The authors review indicators of, and disparities in, well-being, as well as the role of romantic and sexual partners, parents, family, and peer support in promoting healthy development. Challenges to positive development for queer EAs such as school harassment, lack of health-supporting education, and discriminatory laws and employment practices are reviewed alongside recent advances in rights. Research and practice recommendations for how to further improve educational and legal contexts to support the well-being of queer EAs are discussed. The developmentally situated and positive view of queer EA thriving taken in this chapter allows for the appraisal of experiences and opportunities to better support, and combat barriers to, healthy development for queer populations.
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Gilbert, Jérémie. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795667.003.0008.
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This chapter concludes the book, and its summary offers an appraisal of the content and value of human rights law in the overall architecture dominating international resource law. To do so, it examines who are the rights-holders and the duty-bearers in the human rights-based approach to natural resources management. The conclusion argues that human rights law offers a significant platform that can help transfer sovereignty over natural resources away from corporations and private actors and into the hands of communities and peoples. Additionally, it may help promote policy changes that will empower indigenous peoples, local communities, small-scale farmers, and rural women to challenge the lack of respect, protection, and fulfilment of their fundamental rights over natural resources.
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McCann, Gerard, and Féilim Ó hAdhmaill, eds. International Human Rights, Social Policy & Global. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447349211.001.0001.
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From a Critical Social Policy perspective and with a Global Development remit, this book addresses a range of key questions regarding international human rights. With human rights constantly under challenge, this collection of chapters represent a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis. Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geo-political affairs. For those with an interest in social policy, ethics, development, politics and international relations, this is an honest appraisal of both the concepts of international human rights and their realities.
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Bynner, John, and Walter Heinz. Youth Prospects in the Digital Society. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447351467.001.0001.
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Youth Prospects in the Digital Society In an age when the next generation have worse prospects than their parents, this book appraises the challenges that young people face resulting from the instability and uncertainty of their lives. Based on young people’s experience of education, training, employment, family life and political participation in England and Germany, the book examines the impact of digitalisation on identity in the context of rising inequality. The focus is on the effects of technological transformation, fragile European Union institutions, growing nationalism and mental and economic stress arising from the Covid-19 pandemic on youth transitions and the ever-present shadow of climate change. Such an uncertain context presents systemic challenge for the forms and effectiveness of youth policy in the different national contexts as addressed in each of the chapters that follows. Youth policy is shaped by such key issues as the future of vocational education and training in the digital society, job creation, family, political engagement and community life, the impact of social media and universal connectivity. The book argues that government should be under an obligation to ensure that every young person has access to the technical, economic, and educational resources needed to shape their personal transition to adulthood and acquire the capability needed to participate fully in the digital society.
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Guiney, Thomas C. Conceptualizing Policy Change. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803683.003.0002.
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The chapter sets out a theoretical framework for the systematic and historically grounded analysis of early release in England and Wales between 1960 and 1995. It reviews the existing criminological literature on the history of criminal justice and reflects upon the tendency to conceptualize policy change as the product of individual action or the socio-economic shifts associated with late twentieth-century modernity. It goes on to consider the mediating role of political institutions in shaping complex policy outcomes and presents a theoretical framework for the analysis of early release based upon the broad tradition of historical institutionalism. The chapter concludes with an honest appraisal of the challenges facing a criminologist doing historical study and reflects upon the largely untapped potential of archival research as a criminological and social science methodology.
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Gebhardt, Mareike, ed. Staatskritik und Radikaldemokratie. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748900474.
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This anthology discusses Jacques Rancière’s political thinking from the perspective of political theory. It particularly focuses on the relationship between democracy, governance and statehood. The first contributions discuss key theoretical concepts in Rancière’s thinking, which is then addressed in terms of its discrepancies. In this context, the authors address the areas in which Rancière’s political theory and other works from the 20th and 21st centuries that relate to democratic and political theory overlap and clash. In a final section, the authors subject Rancière’s political thinking to a critical appraisal using queer and feminist, postcolonial and anarchistic theorisations in order to highlight its shortcomings and to use Rancière to challenge Rancière. With contributions by Marvin Dreiwes, Matthias Flatscher, Mareike Gebhardt, Johannes Haaf, Anastasiya Kasko, Alexander Kurunczi, Christian Leonhardt, Thomas Linpinsel, Niklas Plätzer, Kenneth Rösen, Luca Sagnotti, Sergej Seitz, Anna-Terese Steffner de Marco and Carolin Zieringer.
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Malhi, Gin S., and Yulisha Byrow. The current classification of bipolar disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198748625.003.0001.
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The current chapter describes and critically appraises the diagnosis of bipolar disorders in relation to widely used classification systems; namely, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition) (DSM-5) and the International Classification of Diseases (10th revision) (ICD-10). In addition, it overviews the diagnostic criteria in relation to the draft version of ICD-11. Patients with bipolar disorder experience extreme fluctuations in mood ranging from depression to mania and, because of the complex nature of the illness, diagnosis remains a clinical challenge. Recent iterations of DSM and ICD have attempted to harmonize taxonomy; however, notable differences remain. These differences are likely to impact the assessment and diagnosis of bipolar disorder and could potentially result in disparate epidemiological findings. Thus, practitioners and researchers alike need to apply careful clinical consideration when assessing those with bipolar disorder.
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Leurs, Robert. Reflections on the Perceived Impact Quality and Contextual Challenges of Participatory Rural Appraisal in South Asia: A Report of Seven Workshops with Seven NGO's and Government Projects. Univ.B'ham, 1995.
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Wills, Anne Blue. “An Odd Kind of Cross to Bear”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190683528.003.0011.
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It is no understatement to say that Ruth Bell Graham significantly shaped her husband. This chapter appraises her creativity and theological vision by examining several distinctive ways that Ruth publicly served God with Billy: her direct involvement in the crusades; her editing and writing work; her public appearances and board service; and her advocacy of particular projects, such as the Cove Training Center. Moreover, media outlets regularly covered Ruth’s domestic life, endowing it with public significance. This chapter examines what Ruth represented for Billy’s followers, especially with respect to Ruth’s final public episode, the 2007 controversy over her burial place. Ruth’s life epitomizes the challenges and opportunities of being a “private woman” married to a “public man.” In exploring her impact on Billy, this chapter examines the dynamics of clergy marriages and contributes to a more historically textured story about twentieth-century marriage and gender.
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Haggard, Stephan, and Myung-Koo Kang. The Politics of Growth in South Korea. Edited by Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199845156.013.22.
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This article examines the political origins of South Korea’s rapid economic development in the 1960s and 1970s, with emphasis on the enduring effects of the developmental state era. It begins by considering developments since 1980, including the influence of democratization, the causes and consequences of the financial crisis of 1997–1998, and the market-oriented reforms pursued by the government in the wake of the crisis. It then discusses the legacy of the developmental state era in the coverage of the welfare state, along with the liberalization of the Korean economy beginning in the 1980s. The article documents South Korea’s transition into a market economy, marked by reforms in the financial sector and corporate governance, as well as reforms in foreign direct investment and even labor markets. Finally, it appraises a number of challenges that the Korean political economy must deal with, including growing economic and social polarization, inequality, and the social policy agenda.
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Joyce, EB, and DA McCann, eds. Burke and Wills. CSIRO Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643103337.
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This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition.
The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian Exploring Expedition as a serious scientific exploration of hitherto unexplored regions of inland and northern Australia. Members of the expedition were issued with detailed instructions on scientific measurements and observations to be carried out, covering about a dozen areas of science. The tragic ending of the expedition meant that most of the results of the scientific investigations were not reported or published. Burke and Wills: The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition rectifies this historic omission.
It includes the original instructions as well as numerous paintings and drawings, documents the actual science undertaken as recorded in notebooks and diaries, and analyses the outcomes. It reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of both the Burke and Wills expedition and the various relief expeditions which followed.
Importantly, this new book has led to a re-appraisal of the shortcomings and the successes of the journey. It will be a compelling read for all those interested in the history of exploration, science and natural history, as well as Australian history and heritage.
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Garner, Alice, and Diane Kirkby. Academic ambassadors, Pacific allies. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526128973.001.0001.
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This book recounts the history of the Fulbright Program in Australia, locating academic exchange in the context of US cultural diplomacy and revealing a complex relationship between governments, publicly funded research and the integrity of academic independence. The study is the first in-depth analysis of the Fulbright exchange program in a single country. Drawing on previously unexplored archives and a new oral history, the authors investigate the educational, political and diplomatic challenges experienced by Australian and American scholars who won awards and those who managed the complex bi-national program. The book begins with the scheme’s origins, moves through its Australian establishment during the early Cold War, Vietnam War dilemmas, civil rights and gender parity struggles and the impacts of mid-to-late 20th century belt-tightening. How the program’s goal of ‘mutual understanding’ was understood and enacted across six decades lies at the heart of the book, which weaves institutional and individual experiences together with broader geopolitical issues. Bringing a complex and nuanced analysis to the Australia-US relationship, the authors offer fresh insights into the global influence of the Fulbright Program. It is a compelling account of academic exchange as cultural diplomacy. It offers a critical appraisal of Fulbright achievements and limitations in avoiding political influence, integrating gender and racial diversity, absorbing conflict and dissent, and responding to economic fluctuations and social change
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Reamer, Frederic G. On the Parole Board. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231177337.001.0001.
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Few people experience life inside of prison. Even fewer are charged with the responsibility of deciding whether inmates should be released. In his twenty-four years on the Rhode Island Parole Board, Frederic G. Reamer has judged the fates of thousands of inmates, deciding which are ready to reenter society and which are not. It is a complicated choice that balances injury to victims and their families against an offender’s capacity for transformation. With rich retellings of criminal cases, On the Parole Board is a singular book that explains from an insider’s perspective how a variety of factors play into the board’s decisions: the ongoing effect on victims and their loved ones, the life histories of offenders, the circumstances of the crimes, and the powerful and often extraordinary displays of forgiveness and remorse. Pulling back the curtain on a process largely shrouded in mystery, Reamer lays bare the thorny philosophical issues of crime and justice and their staggering consequences for inmates, victims, and the public at large. Reamer and his colleagues often hope, despite encountering behavior at its worst, that criminals who have made horrible mistakes have the capacity for redemption. Yet that hope must be tempered with a realistic appraisal of risk, given the potentially grave consequences of releasing an inmate who may commit a future crime. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the complexities of the criminal justice system, the need to correct its injustices, and the challenges of those who must decide when justice has been served.
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Arthurson, Kathy. Social Mix and the City. CSIRO Publishing, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643104440.
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Concern about rising crime rates, high levels of unemployment and anti-social behaviour of youth gangs within particular urban neighbourhoods has reinvigorated public and community debate into just what makes a functional neighbourhood. The nub of the debate is whether concentrating disadvantaged people together doubly compounds their disadvantage and leads to 'problem neighbourhoods'. This debate has prompted interest by governments in Australia and internationally in 'social mix policies', to disperse the most disadvantaged members of neighbourhoods and create new communities with a blend of residents with a variety of income levels across different housing tenures (public and private rental, home ownership). What is less well acknowledged is that interest in social mix is by no means new, as the concept has informed new town planning policy in Australia, Britain and the US since the post Second World War years.
Social Mix and the City offers a critical appraisal of different ways that the concept of ‘social mix’ has been constructed historically in urban planning and housing policy, including linking to 'social inclusion'. It investigates why social mix policies re-emerge as a popular policy tool at certain times. It also challenges the contemporary consensus in housing and urban planning policies that social mix is an optimum planning tool – in particular notions about middle class role modelling to integrate problematic residents into more 'acceptable' social behaviours. Importantly, it identifies whether social mix matters or has any real effect from the viewpoint of those affected by the policies – residents where policies have been implemented.