Narratives of ethnic identity among practitioners in community settings in the northeast of England

The increasing ethnic diversity of the UK has been mirrored by growing public awareness of multicultural issues, alongside developments in academic and government thinking. This paper explores the contested meanings around ethnic identity/ies in community settings, drawing on semi-structured interviews with staff from Children’s Centres and allied agencies conducted for a research project that examined the relationship between identity and the participation of parents/carers in services in northeast England. The research found that respondents were unclear about, especially, white ethnic identities, and commonly referred to other social categorizations, such as age, nationality, and circumstances such as mobility, when discussing service users. While in some cases this may have reflected legitimate attempts to resist overethnicizing non-ethnic phenomena, such constructions coexisted with assumptions about ethnic difference and how it might translate into service needs. These findings raise important considerations for policy and practice

Responding to Deficiencies in the Architecture of Privacy: Co-Regulation as the Path Forward for Data Protection on Social Networking Sites

Social Networking Sites like Facebook, Twitter and the like are a ubiquitous part of contemporary culture. Yet, as exemplified on numerous occasions, most recently in the Cambridge Analytica scandal that shook Facebook in 2018, these sites pose major concerns for personal data protection. Whereas self-regulation has characterized the general regulatory mindset since the early days of the Internet, it is no longer viable given the threat social media poses to user privacy. This article notes the deficiencies of self-regulatory models of privacy and contends jurisdictions like Canada should ensure they have strong data protection regulations to adequately protect the public. However, while underscoring the economic value of Big Data technologies, it posits regulation does not necessarily need to come at the cost of economic prosperity. By adopting a co-regulatory model based on regulatory negotiation, various stakeholders can come together and draft robust and flexible data protection regulations, including both tailored rules and oversight mechanisms. Beginning with a survey of the challenges and opportunities of Big Data and social networking sites (I), this article then canvasses the data protection framework of three jurisdictions, namely the United States, Canada, and the European Union (II). Finally, it shows the clear advantages of co-regulation as a regulatory paradigm and offers an outline for the regulation of social networking sites using regulatory negotiation (III)

Y chromosome variants in cattle Bos taurus and Bos indicus

International audienc

Presentación

Cuadernos de Rusística Española (CRE) es una publicación del Grupo de Investigación «Investigaciones de Filología Eslava» (HUM- 417) de la Junta de Andalucía. CRE acaba de nacer, sin embargo el Grupo de Investigación que se encuentra detrás con su trabajo se formó en 1995; desde entonces sus miembros vienen llevando a cabo investigaciones sobre las lenguas eslavas que se han reflejado en numerosas monografías, proyectos de investigación y artículos publicados en revistas nacionales e internacionales. CRE pretende ser una aportación más al desarrollo de la eslavística española en general, junto con Slavica Complutense y Mundo Eslavo, y a la rusística en particular. Juntos podremos reforzar aún más el proceso de desarrollo de unos estudios y unas investigaciones que, como es sabido, no han contado con una larga tradición en España. Este primer número de CRE ve la luz en una fecha importante para la eslavística española: 10 años desde la implantación de la titulación de Filología Eslava en la Universidad de Granada, en octubre de 1994. Cada número de CRE estará dedicado a una temática concreta; éste lo está a cuestiones actuales de la lengua rusa. La revista consta de dos secciones: la primera recoge artículos de investigadores que gozan de reconocimiento en la rusística española e internacional, y la segunda pretende ser un medio para que los investigadores jóvenes den a conocer sus trabajos

A fully explicit fluid-structure interaction approach based on the PFEM

The efficient numerical simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problems is of growing interest in many engineering fields. Staggered approaches are particularly interesting because they allow for the reuse of existing softwares. In this work we propose a staggered scheme based on the weakly compressible PFEM for the fluid domain and SIMULIA Abaqus/Explicit for the solid domain. The coupling is treated with a do- main decomposition approach based on the Gravouil-Combescure algorithm. The main goal is to show the possibility of a fully explicit coupling with different time step size on the two phases (fluid and solid) and incompatible mesh at the interfaces. 2D test-cases will be presented to validate the proposed coupling technique. The explicit time integra- tion scheme for both the fluid and solid subdomains, together with the explicit treatment of the coupling, makes this method appealing for applications in a variety of engineering problems with fast dynamics and/or a high degree of non-linearity