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South Africa first entered my consciousness when I was a primary school student growing up in Jinja, Uganda. One day, at our school assembly, we had a visitor from Durban, South Africa. He had trav...

Two recent randomized controlled efficacy trials showed that harm-reduction treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD)-or patient-driven treatment that does not require abstinence and instead supports decreased alcohol-related harm and improved quality of life (QoL)-is efficacious for adults experiencing homelessness and AUD. The present study provides qualitative and quantitative analysis of one component of harm-reduction treatment, participants' harm-reduction goal-setting, within these two trials. Aims of this secondary, dual-trial study (Trial 1 N = 208, Trial 2 N = 86) were to describe participant-generated harm-reduction goals and determine whether aspects of harm-reduction goal-setting predict treatment outcomes. Across both trials, qualitative findings indicated improving QoL, meeting basic needs, improving physical and mental health, and changing drinking behavior were participants' top four goals. Only 2%-6% of goals centered on attaining alcohol abstinence. Regarding quantitative findings, Trial 1 showed statistically significant increases in goals generation over the course of treatment, while proportion of achieved goals stayed constant. In Trial 2, number of goals generated remained constant, while proportion of goals achieved increased. Trial 2 findings showed greater goal generation over time was associated with better physical health-related QoL, and drinking-related goals predicted improved alcohol outcomes. Overall, this secondary, dual-trial study suggests patient-driven goal-setting in harm-reduction treatment is feasible: Participants generated diverse, personalized, and clinically relevant goals. This study built on positive efficacy trial findings, indicating participants' generation of goals was associated with improved treatment outcomes. More research is needed to further understand more nuanced relationships between harm-reduction goal-setting and treatment outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Avtar Brah est professeure emerite au Birkbeck College de l’Universite de Londres. Son livre Cartographies of a Diaspora (1996) a ete largement lu a l’echelle internationale et a ouvert de nouvelles perspectives sur la « difference » et la « diversite », eclairees par le feminisme et le post-structuralisme. Ancree dans l’approche intersectionnalle, elle est une de plus ancienne membre de la Feminist Review. Dans cet entretien, mene en decembre 2016, Avtar Brah revient sur son parcours universitaire et militant ; elle discute l’importance d’une approche postcoloniale pour saisir les questions d’identite, de migration, ainsi que la necessite d’interroger la notion de frontiere en periode de renaissance du nationalisme. En particulier, elle eclaire la notion de feminisme transnational et l’utilite d’un cadre d’analyse intersectionnel pour comprendre la pretendue « crise des refugies », la persistance du racisme et du sexisme dans la culture contemporaine.

On 3 August 2012, Shafilea Ahmed’s parents were convicted of her murder, nine years after the brutal ‘honour’ killing. The case offers important insights into how ‘honour’-based violence might be tackled without constructing non-Western cultures as inherently uncivilised. Critiquing the framing devices that structure British debates about ‘honour’-based violence demonstrates the prevalence of Orientalist tropes, revealing the need for new ways of thinking about culture that do not reify it or treat it as a singular entity that can only be tackled in its entirety; instead, it is important to recognise that cultures consist of multiple, intersecting signifying practices that are continually ‘creolising’. Thus, rather than talking purely about culture, debates on ‘honour’-based violence should explore the intersection of culture with gender and other axes of differentiation and inequality.

Using, as a point of departure, Tim Lott's recent autobiography where he attempts to make sense of his mother's suicide of 1988 through a reconstruction of his family genealogy, this article tries to map the production of gendered, classed, and racialized subjects and subjectivity in west London. It addresses the tension between Lott's discourse of his own white working-class boyhood during the 1970s where questions of ‘race’ are all but absent, and the racialized ‘commonsense’ that pervades the interviews with other local white contemporaries of Lott and his parents. These narratives are analysed in relation to the socio-economic context and the political activism of the period. Theoretically, it analyses the ‘diaspora space’ of London/Britain, interrogating essentialist ‘origin stories’ of belonging; reaching out to a glimmer on the horizon of emerging non-identical formations of kinship across boundaries of class, racism, and ethnicity; and exploring the purchase of certain South Asian terms – ‘ajnabi’, ‘ghair’, and ‘apna/apni’ – in constructing a non-binarized understanding of identification across ‘difference’.

There are three parts to the article. First, it addresses the figure of the Asian in British cultural formation, charting the major changes in its configuration since World War II. Second, it considers negotiations through the terrain of feminism, with particular reference to the debate between ‘black’ and ‘white’ feminism. And third, it addresses certain debates and issues across the field of difference and identity.

PurposeTotal quality management (TQM) and technology are fast becoming essential features of business strategy for the success of many leading organizations in the world. More and more companies are using technology and adapting TQM for sustaining competitiveness in the marketplace. TQM works well for internal integration of logistics companies and they can benefit from the use of technology, including information technology (IT), to gain further internal and external integration. Seeks to examine this issue.Design/methodology/approachThis research examines the relationship between quality management practices, technology and performances of the logistics companies. The study seeks to gain insights from organizational variables and their effect on operational, quality, technology and overall business performance.FindingsTQM and technology play important and complementing roles in improving the performance. The analysis shows that both high technology firms and high technology TQM firms perform significantly better than their low technology peers.Research limitations/implicationsThe use of IT is crucial in improving operational, quality and overall business performance. The information and management technologies strongly correlate to TQM and serve as an enabler to quality performance.Practical implicationsThe use of technology assists logistics operations in many ways, such as cutting down information and processing lead‐time, improve efficiency and minimize errors to the minimum. Perhaps, the logistics companies should look at the long‐term benefits of technology and gradually engage its use to streamline their operations.Originality/valueThe results in this research provide recognition for the importance of technology in quality management in the logistics industry.

Total quality management (TQM) is widely accepted as a means of obtaining and sustaining competitive edge. This study finds support for the proposition that TQM implementation correlates with quality performance. Behavioral factors (role of top management leadership, customer focus, human resource focus, and quality focus) as well as TQM tools and techniques (corporate planning, process focus, and information and analysis) contribute to the successful implementation of TQM. Also, the study finds that the size of the company (big or small), the company’s adoption of TQM, and the duration of a company’s experience with TQM affect the rigor of implementation and the resulting level of quality performance. However, the nature of the company (manufacturing or service) does not seem to have a significant effect on the rigor of quality management implementation and level of quality performance.

Investigates the state of benchmarking in the manufacturing and service sectors of Singapore. Our aim is to understand the state of benchmarking in Singapore as well as the expectations and motivation of non‐benchmarking companies. Our approach to the adoption of benchmarking is to view it as a major organisational change. We seek to understand the many dimensions of the transformation process. In addition, we examine the role of factors such as motivation, objectives, driving force, top management’s commitment, preconditions, process, company culture, employee participation, presence of pitfalls, and the potential benefits in determining the success of a benchmarking project. We identify driving forces, preconditions and effectiveness of implementation as the major facilitators of benchmarking. Also, we establish the importance of these facilitators towards the achievement of benefits and success of benchmarking. Moreover, the study emphasises the importance of preconditions and effectiveness of implementation for the success and benefits of benchmarking.

Malaria is a parasite disease that is endemic in tropical country as Niger (West Africa). Hydroxychloroquine sulfate (HCQ) is a synthetic antimalarial drug that is very often used to treat connective tissue diseases such as, scleroderma, systemic or discoid lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis. This drug may induce numerous cutaneous adverse reactions as well as the other anti-malarial drugs. We report on a case of intermediate Lyell syndrome that occurred in the first week of treatment of malaria attack with a young woman, aged 19, following the administration of hydroxychloroquine sulfate.

This article attempts to develop an analytical framework for understanding the racialised gendering of labour markets. It is offered as part of an effort to theorise more adequately the place of paid work in the lives of Asian young Muslim women in Britain. Based upon in‐depth interviews with individual young Muslim women of Pakistani origin as well as group interviews it addresses their narratives as social biographies embedded within changing economic poitical and cultural conditions of present‐day Britain. Arguing against a general theory of gender that could then be applied to analysing specific instances of paid work the framework proposed highlights the importance of studying the intersections between gender, class, ethnicity, racism, religion and other axes of differentiations empiricallly and historically as contingent relationships. The young Muslim's women's narratives demonstrate the contradictory interplay of these articulations in their lives. Whilst the majority of women favour wome...

Feminist theory has been at the forefront of new directions in political, social, and cultural theory. These developments are inherently indebted to the internal critique within feminism made by ‘women of color’ who have been pivotal in raising questions of ‘difference’ around such social axes as class, racism, ethnicity, sexuality, and the problematic of global inequities. The critique consists of debates that emerged through political contestation both within and outside the women's movements, drawing attention to the centrality of slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and postcoloniality in understanding contemporary gender relations and global predicaments.

This volume brings together research covering a diverse range of collectivities which are rarely analysed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African, Indian, etc. The aim of the volume is to interrogate and critique orthodox theorisation of the processes which underpin the production of these identities. The background to the work is the changing political conditions of the 1990s: challenges to the configuration of the United Kingdom, a new Europe, nation-building in Africa, conflicts in Eastern and Central Europe and the territories of the former Soviet Union.

(1978). South Asian teenagers in Southall: Their perceptions of marriage, family and ethnic identity. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 197-206.

1. Distributions of some economically‐important traits in two strains of White Leghorn chickens over six generations were examined. 2. Negative skewness and positive kurtosis were observed for egg production whereas age at first egg showed positive skewness, reflecting an excess of undesirable birds in both the cases. Body weight and egg size showed little or no departure from normal distributions. 3. Such deviations from normality as skewness and kurtosis are associated with characters of relatively low heritability which are more prone to environmental effects. Extremes of gene frequencies and non‐additive genetic effects may also contribute to deviation. 4. Positive kurtosis and skewness cause decreased selection intensity.

Distributions of egg weight and egg deformation values of 10,548 eggs, obtained from 530 pullets, were examined. The deviations from normality based on mean values of all eggs from individual pullets over the experimental period were small relative to the estimates obtained when all 10,548 values were used. The effect of these deviations from normality on selection intensities was studied when 5 to 95% of the pullets were hypothetically retained for reproduction. Distribution of both egg weight and deformation using individual data showed considerable departure from presumed normal distribution in the form of positive skewness and positive kurtosis. The nonnormality of distribution tended to over- or underestimate the selection intensities, depending upon the fraction saved and type and extent of deviations from normality.

The purpose of this paper is to study the scheduling problem in the intermittent gas lift operations, and to present a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation for solving it. Some heuristic methods are also developed to gain insight into the gas lift scheduling problem of larger problem size. Finally, the performances of the heuristic methods are compared and contrasted based on the computational efficiency and the solution quality.

Black unemployment has risen dramatically over the last decade. Between 1973 and 1982 while total unemployment in Great Britain increased by 309 per cent registered unemployment among black people rose by 515 per cent. The proportion of the unemployed in 1973 who were black was 2.7 per cent. In 1982, the figure was 4.1 per cent (Runnymede Trust, 1983).1 A survey carried out by the Policy Studies Institute found unemployment rates of 13 per cent for whites, 25 per cent for people of Afro-caribbean origin and 20 per cent for those of Asian origin. Asian women were found to have an unemployment rate twice as high as white women, and Afro-caribbean women a rate one-and-a-half times that of white women (Brown, 1984).