Social Gospel in the City: Rev. W. E. Gilroy and Hamilton Clergymen Respond to Labour Issues, 1911–1918

This paper examines clergymen’s response to labour issues in early-twentieth-century Hamilton, Ontario. While the majority of Hamilton clergymen ignored the issue of labour, a small group of ministers, with Congregational minister W. E. Gilroy at the helm, established strong ties with organized labour. These ministers championed labour’s cause both inside and outside the pulpit. In addition to making labour issues a regular subject of their sermons, they organized workingmen’s meetings to discuss social issues, publicly supported and spoke at the meetings of working-class organizations, and positioned themselves on the side of unemployed and striking workers.Cet article examine les réponses du milieu ecclésiastique aux problèmes que posait le milieu du travail au début du XXe siècle à Hamilton en Ontario. Alors que la majorité des religieux de Hamilton ont ignoré ces problèmes, un petit groupe de pasteurs, dirigé par le pasteur congrégationaliste W. E. Gilroy, a développé des relations étroites avec la main-d’oeuvre syndiquée. Les pasteurs de ce groupe ont soutenu la cause des travailleurs autant hors de la chaire qu’en chaire. En plus de faire de ces problèmes du travail des thèmes réguliers de leurs sermons, ces pasteurs ont organisé des réunions de travailleurs pour discuter des enjeux sociaux de leur milieu, dans lesquelles ils ont pris la parole, soutenu publiquement les causes sociales et pris la défense des chômeurs et des ouvriers en grève

The Effect of Cognitive Load on Discourse Fluency in Women with TBI

Each year, approximately 125,000 individuals in the United States sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from which they are expected to have life-long disability (Selassie et al., 2008). Social communication deficits are common (Coelho, 1995) in individuals with TBI, and contribute to negative social outcomes (Galski, Tompkins, & Johnston, 1998; Struchen et al., 2008). Though social communication deficits after TBI are well characterized (Coelho, 1995), the underlying neurpsychological mechanisms of these deficits remain unclear. One neuropsychological deficit that has been linked to social communication impairments in the TBI literature is executive dysfunction (Channon & Watts, 2003; Coelho, Liles, & Duffy, 1995; Douglas, 2010), yet it is unclear whether this relationship is correlational (e.g., brain injury affects both social communication and executive functioning) or causal (e.g. executive dysfunction causes poor social communication). To address this knowledge gap, the aim of this study was to characterize the relationship of executive dysfunction to social communication by manipulating the executive function (EF) demands of a discourse task and investigating the effects of this manipulation on discourse performance. Participants were women with and without TBI. Women were chosen for this investigation because they are frequently under-represented in TBI research, in part to their lower risk for TBI (Faul, Xu, Wald, & Coronado) and also because there is evidence of sex-based differences in social communication outcomes following TBI (Dahlberg et al., 2006; Turkstra). The study focused on one aspect of discourse performance that might be affected by EF demand, discourse fluency

Functional Workplace Communication Elicitation for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury

Background: People with traumatic brain injury have characteristic pragmatic language deficits linked to unstable employment outcomes. Aims: A functional workplace communication elicitation procedure designed to assess expressive pragmatics is described. Methods & Procedures: Twenty participants with TBI,10 stably employed and 10 with unstable employment, recorded voicemail messages. Transcripts were analyzed using exchange structure analysis, codes for politeness and linguistic mazes. Outcomes & Results: Participants with unstable employment histories after TBI produced fewer politeness markers and provided information less efficiently than a stably employed cohort. Conclusions: The voicemail elicitation task differentiates high-level communication skills related to workplace outcomes in TBI

Promover la seguridad de la tenencia de tierras para los desplazados internos

El caso de Maslakh, en la zona oeste de Afganistán, es un ejemplo de una nueva política de desplazados internos. Si triunfa, el proyecto garantizará la seguridad de la tenencia de tierras para los desplazados internos que se encuentren en entornos urbanos y sentará un precedente para su integración local a lo largo y ancho de Afganistán, una cuestión muy controvertida y politizada hasta la fecha

Fundamental Symmetries and Interactions - Some Aspects

In the framework of nuclear physics and at nuclear physics facilities a large number of different experiments can be performed which render the possibility to investigate fundamental symmetries and interactions in nature. In particular, the precise measurements of properties of fundamental fermions, searches for new interactions in $\beta$-decays, and violations of discrete symmetries have a robust discovery potential for physics beyond standard theory. Precise measurements of fundamental constants can be carried out as well. Low energy experiments allow probing of New Physics models at mass scales far beyond the reach of present accelerators or such planned for the future in the domain of high energy physics and at which predicted new particles could be produced directly.Comment: Review Talk ENAM'0

Yes, The Government Should Tax Soft Drinks: Findings from a Citizens’ Jury in Australia

Taxation has been suggested as a possible preventive strategy to address the serious public health concern of childhood obesity. Understanding the public’s viewpoint on the potential role of taxation is vital to inform policy decisions if they are to be acceptable to the wider community. A Citizens’ Jury is a deliberative method for engaging the public in decision making and can assist in setting policy agendas. A Citizens’ Jury was conducted in Brisbane, Australia in May 2013 to answer the question: Is taxation on food and drinks an acceptable strategy to the public in order to reduce rates of childhood obesity? Citizens were randomly selected from the electoral roll and invited to participate. Thirteen members were purposively sampled from those expressing interest to broadly reflect the diversity of the Australian public. Over two days, participants were presented with evidence on the topic by experts, were able to question witnesses and deliberate on the evidence. The jurors unanimously supported taxation on sugar-sweetened drinks but generally did not support taxation on processed meats, snack foods and foods eaten/ purchased outside the home. They also supported taxation on snack foods on the condition that traffic light labelling was also introduced. Though they were not specifically asked to deliberate strategies outside of taxation, the jurors strongly recommended more nutritional information on all food packaging using the traffic light and teaspoon labelling systems for sugar, salt and fat content. The Citizens’ Jury suggests that the general public may support taxation on sugar-sweetened drinks to reduce rates of obesity in children. Regulatory reforms of taxation on sugar-sweetened drinks and improved labelling of nutritional information on product packaging were strongly supported by all members of the jury. These reforms should be considered by governments to prevent childhood obesity and the future burden on society from the consequences of obesity

Dual Magnetic Separator for TRIμ\muP

The TRI$\mu$P facility, under construction at KVI, requires the production and separation of short-lived and rare isotopes. Direct reactions, fragmentation and fusion-evaporation reactions in normal and inverse kinematics are foreseen to produce nuclides of interest with a variety of heavy-ion beams from the superconducting cyclotron AGOR. For this purpose, we have designed, constructed and commissioned a versatile magnetic separator that allows efficient injection into an ion catcher, i.e., gas-filled stopper/cooler or thermal ionizer, from which a low energy radioactive beam will be extracted. The separator performance was tested with the production and clean separation of $^{21}$Na ions, where a beam purity of 99.5% could be achieved. For fusion-evaporation products, some of the features of its operation as a gas-filled recoil separator were tested.Comment: accepted by Nucl.Instr. Meth., final versio

Working-class Churches in Early Twentieth Century Hamilton: Fostering a Distinctive Working-class Identity and Culture

In Hamilton in the early twentieth century, workers and their families could and did attend churches that were predominantly working class. These churches were simple and modest, were managed and financially sustained by their working-class congregations, offered an old-fashioned evangelical message on Sunday mornings, and provided a rich and diverse associational life. While these churches attracted working-class families, gender and marital status influenced individuals' participation. Church members were more likely to be women than men, and married rather than single. Many families also had irregular contact with the church; parents who were not church members, for example, often chose to baptize their children and send them to Sunday School. Church attendance was only one aspect of the religious life of Hamilton's working-class families. Au début du XXe siècle, les travailleurs de Hamilton et leurs familles pouvaient fréquenter et fréquentaient des églises dont les paroissiens provenaient surtout de la classe ouvrière. Il s’agissait d’églises simples et modestes qui étaient gérées et financeés par des assemblées de fidèles de la classe ouvrière, prêchaient un message évangélique traditionnel les dimanches matins et offraient une vie associative riche et diversifiée. Certes, ces églises attiraient des familles de la classe ouvrière, mais la participation des gens dépendait également de leur sexe et de leur état matrimonial. Les fidèles étaient plus susceptibles d’être des femmes que des hommes et mariés que célibataires. Beaucoup de familles ne fréquentaient également que sporadiquement l’église; les parents qui n’en étaient pas membres, par exemple, choisissaient souvent de baptiser leurs enfants et de les envoyer à l’école du dimanche. La fréquentation de l’église n’était qu’un des aspects de la vie religieuse des familles de la classe ouvrière de Hamilton