Fifteen years on: the legacy of section 28 for LGBT+ teachers in English schools

ABSTRACT

This article examines the legacy of Section 28 of the Local Government Act in England for LGBT+ school teachers between 1988 and the repeal of the Section in 2003. Section 28 stated that ‘A local authority shall not – (a) intentionally promote homosexuality… (b) promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’. A questionnaire examined the ways in which LGBT+ teachers in England experienced their work environments in 2017–18. The current perceptions of LGBT+ teachers who experienced Section 28 were compared with the perceptions of those LGBT+ teachers entering the profession after the repeal of Section 28 in 2003. Responses suggest that Section 28 continues to adversely affect the LGBT+ teachers who experienced it. These teachers are, in 2017–18, less open about their sexuality, unlikely to engage in the school community with their partner and more likely to see their teacher and sexual identities as incompatible. Whilst a climate of oppression, discrimination and harassment consistent at the time of Section 28 also played contributed to LGBT+ teachers’ experiences, despite advances in equalities legislation those teaching during the Section 28 era are still deeply affected by their experiences.     

The effects of accountability on higher education

This paper analyzes the effects of a higher education accountability system in Brazil. For each discipline, colleges were assigned a grade that depended on the scores of their students on the ENC, an annual mandatory exam. These grades were then disclosed to the public and colleges were rewarded or penalized based on them. I find that the ENC had a positive effect on the education and the proportion of full-time faculty and that it increased the number of vacancies offered, applicants and enrollments. Colleges were affected differently depending on grades, ownership and academic organization, changing the distribution of students among them.     

Information world mapping: A participatory arts-based elicitation method for information behavior interviews

Participatory, arts-based methods generate rich data with which researchers can explore information behavior in context, and may be particularly apt when engaging with youth or participants with low literacy levels. Information world mapping (IWM) is an innovative and interactive drawing-based interview technique for data elicitation. Initially developed for use in a study of young parents’ health information practices, IWM guides participants in depicting their personal social information worlds, including items, places, and relationships. Maps are then used to facilitate critical incident elicitation of participants' stories about, and interpretations of, their information practices. Within the young parent study, three styles of map were commonly seen: the directional map, the mind map, and the symbolic map. Use of IWM requires time and ethical care, but the method enables researchers to center participants’ own perspectives on information practices, triangulate data obtained via more traditional methods, and enrich understanding of social information worlds.     

28、29届奥运会中国男子篮球队比赛数据的对比分析

文章运用文献资料法、数理统计法、录像分析法等研究方法,对第28、29届奥运会上中国男篮所参加比赛的各项技术指标进行了对比分析。研究结果表明:两届奥运会相比除在防守、罚球、盖帽上略显优势外,在助攻、失误、篮板、抢断、2分命中率和快攻得分与对手都有明显差距。29届奥运会在防守质量方面有所提高,但助攻变得更差。本研究通过两届奥运会对中国男篮各项技术指标的研究,旨在深入地分析中国男子竞技篮球运动的发展趋势,为中国男篮今后的发展提供理论的参考依据。     

美国梦六队雅典奥运会失利原因分析

美国梦六队在第28届奥运会上只取得了第三名的成绩,从而打破了美国梦之队自1992年参加奥运会以来不败的局面.通过对美国梦六队在本届奥运会上比赛失利原因进行分析,从而客观地认识美国梦六队的实力,并为其他国家篮球队提供借鉴经验,为更好地推动世界篮球运动的全面发展提供参考.     

Production of recombinant enveloped structural proteins from the Chinese WSSV isolate

The white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is one of the deadly pathogens of penaeid shrimps and other crustaceans. The WSSV virion consists of an enveloped rod-shaped nucleocapsid enclosing a large circular double stranded DNA genome of 305 Kb with 181 open reading frames. The two major structural genes, VP19 and VP28 were amplified from the genomic DNA of Chinese isolate of WSSV and cloned in pUCm-T vector and sub cloned in pET-30a (+) vector. The expressions of genes inE. coli (BL21) were confirmed by SDS-PAGE analysis. The clones were sequenced, submitted to the gene bank and the Xiang Shan strain of WSSV were compared with the previous reported sequence of WSSV of various regions which revealed that VP19 and VP28 gene sequences had certain differences from the sequences of similar genes of the isolate already reported. The recombinant proteins expressed, purified and characterized.     

从第28届奥运会看世界男子跳马运动的发展趋势

采用录像统计法和资料研究法对第28届奥运会男子跳马比赛前8名运动员的比赛成绩、动作难度及完成情况进行把统计分析。结果表明：跳马动作的难度发展呈现出停滞性；动作类型的选择趋于集中；动作完成的质量尚自待提高。     

略论一·二八上海事变

九一八事变之后,日本扩张分子又在上海挑起事端,以压迫中国的抗日运动。虽然上海事变看似偶然,其实为日本对外扩张政策的必然表现。中国国内存在着各种各样的地方性割据势力,蒋介石主导的南京国民政府难以全力抵抗日本对上海的侵略。但十九路军和第五军英勇战斗的精神,显示了中华民族捍卫独立的决心。美英等西方大国为维护其在华利益而积极斡旋中日停战。上海事变让越来越多的中国人意识到日本的威胁,对中国现代民族国家的建构具有重要影响。     

Study and Evaluation in CMOS Full Adders

Low power adder circuits ,SERF,10T-Ⅰ，10T-Ⅱ,10T-Ⅲ and a complementary adder (28T) at physical layout level are evaluated.Simulations based on the extracted adder circuit layouts are run to assess how various circuit setups can impact the speed and power consumption.In addition,impacts of output inveners on the circuit perfomance of modified SERF and 10T adders due to threshold loss problem are also examined.Differences among these adders are addressed and applications of these adders are suggested.     

Commercializing the laboratory: Faculty patenting and the open science environment

This paper investigates the relationship between patenting and publication of research results by university faculty members. Our study adds to the limited evidence on this topic with an empirical investigation based on a panel data set for a broad sample of university researchers. Results suggest that publication and patenting are complementary, not substitute, activities for faculty members. This is not consistent with recent concerns regarding deleterious effects of patenting on the research output of faculty members. Average citations to publications, however, appear to decline for repeat patenters, suggesting either a decrease in quality or restrictions on use associated in patent protection.