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The inclusion 'ideal' is one which has been both celebrated and maligned. It paved the way for equality; but also, out of its diversity sprang many misconceptions and concerns for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). It is within this maelstrom of difficulty that the Special Educational Needs Co‐ordinator (SENCo) role is placed, so that those undertaking the position of SENCo face numerous barriers in the pursuit of providing effectively for children with SEND. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with fifteen SENCos employed at mainstream primary schools within the North West of England. Findings revealed conflict between how SENCos viewed their role and responsibilities, and the expectations that they perceived to be placed on them by parents of children with SEND and mainstream colleagues. This study brings to the fore the complexities of the role of the SENCo, and the continuing demands placed on these practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The British equestrian sector is experiencing growth – 27 million people have an interest in equestrianism, participation in riding is increasing and the economic contribution of the industry has grown to £4.7 billion.1 The current equine population of Great Britain is estimated to be 847,000 horses, donkeys and mules, with the majority of these being privately owned and kept for sport and leisure riding purposes.1,2 Despite the growth in popularity of equestrianism, Great Britain has arguably been in the maelstrom of an ongoing equine welfare crisis since the start of the current decade.3,4 No statutory equine database exists, there is no regulation of breeding or ownership and the current poor economic climate continues to increase the costs of horse ownership. Alongside this, the equine industry acknowledges there is an obesity crisis among recreational horses,5 and a recent study has shown horse owners scored poorly in a quiz evaluating their general knowledge and understanding of common equine management practices.6 The result is an increasing burden on the equine charities, which, despite often already operating close to capacity, have to also provide support for welfare cases, homes for unwanted horses and education for horse owners to empower them to be able to appropriately discharge the duty of care they have to their horses. In this climate, it is essential that charities are able to source responsible homes for the horses in their care. Understanding human behaviour and decision making is essential within the horse-human relationship.7 Developing and maintaining a strong positive horse-human relationship can promote positive welfare and management, while the breakdown of this relationship is often associated with deficits within equine management and training systems.8 Therefore, establishing key attributes that make ‘sustainable and safe’ horse-human …

This essay highlights the economic, rather than the more traditional analyses of Poe's sea tales. The first section focuses on Poe's interest in sea journeys against the background of maritime exploration in antebellum America. I then discuss Poe's ambivalence toward the “horrid laws of political economy.” Poe's heroes react to the changing sea through the prism of economic benefit. From capital maximization to optimal satisficing, regret aversion, and risk tolerance, Poe goes beyond the nineteenth century notion of economic men and prompts his readers to see that rational agents can often be rational fools.

Maritime complex, infinite horizon, interregional arena, floating cosmopolis, Afrasian sea, poet's muse, linguistic caravan, coastal zone, superpower battleground, bookseller's highway, aquatic maelstrom, girmit passageway, civilizational basin, trade circuit, piecework carrier, pilgrim path, monsoon corridor, seafarer's route, mobile marketplace, province of pirates, burial ground – the Indian Ocean is all of these things and much more besides. Though historians have long imagined it as a world both unto itself and integral to histories of global capital, nation-building, imperial rivalry and sustainability in many dimensions, the Indian Ocean and environs have become a preoccupation for scholars from a wide variety of locations, disciplinary and institutional, in the last two decades.

A stem cell niche is a microenvironment that supports self-renewal of a population of stem cells, and their production of differentiated cells. While the definition evokes images of a stem cell Shangri-La-where a serene stem cell pool nestles within a niche that shelters and sustains it-the reality is much more tumultuous. Niches are subject to an ever-changing maelstrom of environmental factors, the ravages of old age, and the sly tactics of disease. Presented here is a basic overview of the different ways in which stem cell niches respond to local and systemic environments, and their impact on stem cell behavior. The primer culminates with a discussion of the topic with stem cell and niche biologists D. Leanne Jones, Ph.D., and Tudorita Tumbar, Ph.D.

Prior to the Asian crisis, benign liquidity conditions contributed to credit expansion and overinvestment in the East Asian economies until they were hit by a deep recession (Saxena and Wong 2002). Similarly to the developments in the tiger economies in the nineties, the CEE economies grew rapidly from 2001 to 2007, due to foreign capital inflows. But the current global financial turmoil and economic downswing also pulled the CEE economies into the maelstrom of the crisis. With the Asian experience in mind, the aim of this paper is to analyze whether overinvestment due to benign liquidity conditions possibly emerged and contributed to the crisis in CEE.

In this essay on eighteenth-century authorship, Kathryn Temple sketches a history of authorship from the perspective of the cultural, regional, and national conflicts that led to modern authorship's emergence. Arguing that the figure of the modern author arose in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, not from an uncontested common moral and ethical center, but from a maelstrom of conflicting practices and standards emanating from an amazingly varied array of national, class, and gendered sources, she suggests that ‘literary scandals’ played a special role in the construction of a nationalized author in that they brought high, low, and official juridical culture together to construe what authorship would come to mean in the modern world.

It is hardly necessary to point out that we as we know them today substantially unfamstand today in the midst of revolutionary iliar in another generation. Because our comchanges in medical care. Even if you as promunication has become almost instantaneous, fessionals in the health field were not aware these extraordinary advances in technology by personal involvement of the great and exand techniques have been widely trumpeted citing changes which are underway, you throughout the land and in a society which is would, nevertheless, almost feel it in the air. as affluent as ours, the aspiration for health, There is chaos and confusion and yet all this for protection against disease and for longer bespeaks great change and, hopefully, if we life has become a meaningful and achievable do it well, enormous enhancement of our opgoal aspired to by all. portunities as health professionals to provide more and better care to all of the American THE BEST IN THE WORLD? people. There are many who take the promise inIt seems to me that there are two sets of stead of the fact, who tell us we have great forces which have plunged us into this excitmedical care-the best in the world. The iming and potentially fruitful maelstrom: one plication is that things are all right as they of these is the scientific revolution. It has are. been said that medicine has made more progWell, the facts contradict this posturing on ress in the last fifty years than it did in the the part of some of our so-called medical leadpast 5,000 years and there is little question ers. We are fifteenth in the world in infant in my mind that this is true. My own career in mortality: a pretty sensitive yardstick by medicine began before the days of antibiotics, which to measure medical care and social and today we are talking about replacing responsibility, and this poor standing promhearts, kidneys and other organs. Not only ises to get worse. For we all know that one of has there been great impact through research the factors reducing neonatal mortality is prewithin medicine itself, but research in other natal care. In the last few years in the U. S., fields has also had and will continue to two per cent fewer women each year seek arid have a profound effect upon medicine and receive prenatal care. health care. Developments in electronics, physEven for those people who are self-supics and now in computer technology, I preporting, our medical care should be better dict, will revolutionize the practice of mediand safer than it is. It is, however, among cine and make the tasks of doctors and nurses the poor that the gap between what can be