With the start of the pandemic in 2020, central banks re-deployed unconventional policy tools used for the Global Financial Crisis but also added new and even less conventional ones. The steps they took followed a textbook description of a risk management approach to monetary policy when operating close to the effective lower bound on interest rates.[1] This involved loosening policy aggressively and working with many different instruments simultaneously to maximise policy impact. Judging from the aftermath, they were successful. They steered the economy through a crisis and avoided a depression. One could argue that the episode has shown that monetary policy can be effective also in a low interest rate environment if central banks are willing and able to deploy multiple measures with scale and speed. This suggests that central banks are well equipped for the future, irrespective of the path of interest rates.

The role of the coroner is to investigate violent, unnatural or unexplained deaths, as set out in the Coroners and Justice Act of 2009. The coroner is a creature of statute; the oldest judicial office confirmed in 1194, but in existence before that time, to assist the Crown with the valuable and inevitable business of death. This chapter outlines the duties and responsibilities of a coroner.

In everyday language, something is called simple if it is easy to understand. Here, though, simplicity is contrasted with being composite – with having distinct aspects or parts. Composite things might be compounds of bodily parts or portions, of matter and form, of nature and “suppositum,” of existence and essence, of genus and difference, or of substance and accident. The Tradition claims that God is not composite in any of these ways. Is it correct?

Models for the kinetic and transport processes in the population balance equation (PBE) are discussed. Since the range of population balance problems is very wide, the focus is on the general forms of models and their incorporation into the PBE. More specific examples are drawn from the fields of aerosols and crystallisation that feature in the case studies of Chapter 6. The determination of model parameters from experimental data, or the inverse problem, is also discussed.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become essential for qualitative researchers to adopt online interviews for data collection. However, ensuring the validity of the interview protocol is no easy task, especially when the research involves people with intellectual disabilities. With these unique challenges, we attempted to validate the interview protocol to ensure the trustworthiness of the data. An online semi-structured interview protocol was developed and refined by integrating the Interview Protocol Refinement (IPR) Framework into a seven-step refinement process. A pilot test was conducted via video conference with five participants across five different groups. From the current pilot test, insights gained include (1) rephrasing the interview questions to assume casual conversation; (2) having a contingency plan in case of technical failure; (3) refining probes and follow-up questions; and (4) enhancing the reliability of proxy in interviewing person with Down syndrome. It is essential to develop a valid and reliable interview protocol to ensure a trustworthy qualitative finding. The process should be reflective and reiterative and should always be done in such a manner.

Working as a psychiatric trainee, further pregnancy, early loss, acute stress reaction. Back to work, pregnant again, passed Part 1 MRCPsych. Second daughter born.

The purpose of this chapter is to speculatively explore the future of digital platforms and how they transform the nature of many conventional markets. Digital platforms create novel connections between actors in multi-sided markets, whilst generating and capitalizing on vast amounts of data. Platforms are thus not just match but market-makers, exercising asymmetric power over their multi-sided users whilst framing the institutional and regulatory environment in which they operate. However, platforms are also the outcome of the market shaping activities enrolling a variety of actors, and may involve multiple economization modes (e.g., market, gift giving). The chapter draws upon examples of retail digital platforms to develop a conceptual discussion of the role of platforms in the contemporary economy and considers their implications for the future of markets and market-making. The dual purpose of this chapter is to examine what the rise of digital platforms means for Market Studies and what a Market Studies perspective brings to the study of platforms. We propose and discuss three specific themes at the intersection of Market Studies and digital platforms.