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Serie: OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers, no.47

Inhalt: Health systems in OECD countries are under pressure to improve their performance. Against that background, this paper has three main aims: To compare concepts of the ‘performance’ of health care systems developed by the WHO and by the OECD, with ‘performance frameworks’ adopted in selected OECD countries. To compare the key indicators of performance derived from these proposed performance concepts. A secondary objective, here, is to try to identify new performance variables that might eventually be included in OECD Health Data. To compare and contrast the different performance management arrangements in the selected OECD countries, and to evaluate the extent to which there is evidence that new indicators and new institutions have been brought together successfully to improve performance itself. In order to achieve these aims, the paper reviews the performance frameworks and some of the performance indicators adopted recently by WHO, OECD, Australia, Canada, the UK and ...

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (85 p. )

Serie: OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers, no.36

Inhalt: OECD health-care systems confront the dual challenge of containing costs and maximising the health of their populations. The effectiveness of health-care provision in fostering longer and healthier lives is therefore of fundamental importance. In order to respond to these challenges, policy makers are demanding more and better information on health outcomes. Therefore, this paper presents a summary of the current state-of-the-art in health outcome indicators for monitoring population health status and for evaluating the performance and effectiveness of various health policies and medical-care interventions. The paper begins by developing a framework for classifying the range of indicators that have been put forward to measure health outcomes. It then illustrates the potential value of different indicators for policy making within this framework and describes some recent trends in health status in OECD countries ...

Sprache: Englisch

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Anmerkung: Orig.: Kanada, 2004 , Special features: Audio commentary by Guy Maddin; Love-Chaunt Workbooks: Four short-film blueprints from a lost Maddin feature, plus audition reels; Behind-the-scenes look at Maddin's new feature-and Cowards companion piece-The Brand upon the Brain!; Cowards Photo Archive: Production photos, plus vintage beauty shop and hockey shots from Maddin's personal collection; Watch the film as a whole, or as 10 individual short films plus: Artistic statement, character sketches, missing chapter script excerpt and the essay " A Note on Hands" , Stummfilm mit engl. Untertiteln

In: The quintessential Guy Maddin : 5 films from the heart of Winnipeg ; [DVD-Video], [NewYork, NY], 2010, (2010)

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Cowards bend the knee ; Kommentar ; DVD-Video ; Kommentar ; DVD-Video

Mehr zum Autor: Maddin, Guy

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xix, 255 pages)

ISBN: 9789401200561

Serie: Cross/cultures ; 134

Inhalt: Striding Both Worlds illuminates European influences in the fiction of Witi Ihimaera, Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost Māori writer, in order to question the common interpretation of Māori writing as displaying a distinctive Māori world-view and literary style. Far from being discrete endogenous units, all cultures and literatures arise out of constant interaction, engagement, and even friction. Thus, Māori culture since the 1970s has been shaped by a long history of interaction with colonial British, Pakeha, and other postcolonial and indigenous cultures. Māori sovereignty and renaissance movements have harnessed the structures of European modernity, nation-building, and, more recently, Western global capitalism, transculturation, and diaspora - contexts which contest New Zealand bicultural identity, encouraging Māori to express their difference and self-sufficiency. Ihimaera's fiction has been largely viewed as embodying the specific values of Māori renaissance and biculturalism. However, Ihimaera, in his techniques, modes, and themes, is indebted to a wider range of literary influences than national literary critique accounts for. In taking an international literary perspective, this book draws critical attention to little-known or disregarded aspects such as Ihimaera's love of opera, the extravagance of his baroque lyricism, his exploration of fantasy, and his increasing interest in taking Māori into the global arena. In revealing a broad range of cultural and aesthetic influences and inter-references commonly seen as irrelevant to contemporary Māori literature, Striding Both Worlds argues for a hitherto frequently overlooked and undervalued depth and complexity to Ihimaera's imaginary. The present study argues that an emphasis on difference tends to lose sight of fiction's capacity to appreciate originality and individuality in the polyphony of its very form and function. In effect, literary negotiation of Māori sovereign space takes place in its forms rather than in its content: the uniqueness of Māori literature is found in the way it uses the common tools of literary fiction, including language, imagery, the text's relationship to reality, and the function of characterization. By interpeting aspects of Ihimaera's oeuvre for what they share with other literatures in English, Striding Both Worlds aims to present an additional, complementary approach to Māori, New Zealand, and postcolonial literary analysis.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- Māori Nationalism -- International Aesthetics -- The Local and the Global -- Ambivalent Indigeneity -- Composite Identity and Literature -- Works Cited -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Kennedy, Melissa. Striding Both Worlds : Witi Ihimaera and New Zealand's Literary Traditions. Amsterdam : Rodopi, ©2011 ISBN 9789042033573

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Umfang: 1 online resource (184 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789004688889

Serie: Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2023 2

Inhalt: Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays that continue our explorations of vampires as representations of the cultural Other, which builds on the work of our previous texts. The editors argue, ultimately, the vampire is a queer icon, infinitely blurring the boundaries of identity and cultural norms and queering even the most seemingly stable notions, such as life, death, humanity, and monstrosity. The Vampire is the undead monarch of subtextual articulations of Otherness, especially queer behaviors and desires, offering explorations of the AIDS epidemic, the destabilization of ideas of fixed and stable sexuality, the search for community and chosen family, and the issues of individual and generational trauma. In current fictions, vampires are coming out of the coffin and the closet, identifying as openly queer and often created by queer writers, artists, and directors and bringing the subtext to the surface of the narrative. This volume seeks to create a dialogue about the impact and importance of the vampire on queer identity and queer theory and to answer the questions of why the vampire is such a compelling queer icon and what visions of vampires articulate about our ideas surrounding issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and desires.

Anmerkung: Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / , English

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Queering the Vampire Narrative. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. ISBN 9789004688872

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xxi, 384 pages)

ISBN: 9789004230699

Serie: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287488.

Inhalt: Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on aspects of temporal processing in clinical populations, in the ultimate hope of elucidating the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. Such research may inform not only typical psychological functioning, but may also elucidate the psychological consequences of any pathophysiological differences in temporal processing. This collection of current knowledge on temporal processing in clinical populations is an excellent reference for the student and scientist interested in the topic, but it also serves as the stepping-stone to share ideas and push forward the advancement in understanding how distorted timing can lead to a disturbed brain and mind or vice versa. Contributors to this volume: Ryan D. Ward, Billur Avlar, Peter D Balsam, Deana B. Davalos, Jamie Opper, Yvonne Delevoye-Turrell, Hélène Wilquin, Mariama Dione, Anne Giersch, Laurence Lalanne, Mitsouko van Assche, Patrick E. Poncelet, Mark A. Elliott, Deborah L. Harrington, Stephen M. Rao, Catherine R.G. Jones, Marjan Jahanshahi, Bon-Mi Gu, Anita J. Jurkowski, Jessica I. Lake, Chara Malapani, Warren H. Meck, Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Dawn Wimpory, Brad Nicholas, Elzbieta Szelag, Aneta Szymaszek, Anna Oron, Melissa J. Allman, Christine M. Falter, Argiro Vatakis, Alexandra Elissavet Bakou

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material / , Distorted Multisensory Experiences of Order and Simultaneity / , Abnormal Timing and Time Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder? A Review of the Evidence / , A Social Timing Model of Autism, Informed by Typical Development / , Time Processing in Schizophrenia / , Sense of Time Continuity: Possible Mechanisms of Disruption in Schizophrenia / , Predictive Timing for Rhythmic Motor Actions in Schizophrenia / , Interactions of Timing and Motivational Impairments in Schizophrenia / , Timing in Neurogenerative Disorders of the Basal Ganglia / , Timing in the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders / , Striatal and Frontal Pathology: Parkinson's Disease and Patients with Lesions of the Basal Ganglia and Frontal Cortex / , Bayesian Models of Interval Timing and Distortions in Temporal Memory as a Function of Parkinson's Disease and Dopamine-Related Error Processing / , Aphasia as a Temporal Information Processing Disorder / , How Could Circadian Clock Genes influence Short Duration Timing? / , Index /

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Time Distortions in Mind: Temporal Processing in Clinical Populations Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9789004230644

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Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Alleinerziehende Mutter ; Mohawk ; Schmuggel ; Polizei ; Mystery ; DVD-Video

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Umfang: 1 online resource (vi, 96 pages)

ISBN: 9789004331211

Serie: Brill research perspectives

Inhalt: If a key aspect of diplomacy is how countries are seen abroad, official diplomats are not the only actors. In contexts as diverse as Syria, Myanmar and the South China Sea, think tanks are influential actors whose impact deserves greater study. As organisations producing independent intellectual outputs to influence public policy, think tanks engage in at least four diplomatic functions: negotiation, communication, information-gathering and promoting friendly relations in international affairs. Detailed case studies show that think tanks both directly perform and indirectly support diplomatic functions: as metaphorical hired guns, charm offensive, witnesses and safe space; as a school for diplomats, personal trainers, chief knowledge officer and wise counsel. To reach their full potential, think tanks need to overcome obstacles including resource constraints and relationships with policymakers.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- Think Tank Diplomacy.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Think Tank Diplomacy Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2017, ISBN 9789004331204

Sprache: Englisch

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