‘Doing the "Right" Thing’: How parents experience and manage decision-making for children’s ‘Normalising’ surgeries

'Doing the "right" thing': how parents experience and manage decision-making for children's 'normalising' surgeries.

Using cleft lip and palate as an exemplar, this article examines parents' decision-making for children in the context of elective treatments which aim to 'normalise' a child's function, appearance, communication or identity. Using purposive and theoretical sampling, 35 parents with children from infancy to young adulthood were recruited through a specialist cleft centre in England. Parents were...

Doing the Right Thing

Doing the right thing.

In this paper we examine a phenomenon which has proved difficult to account for using standard assumptions of current syntactic theory, namely extraposition. Starting with Rosenbaum (1967), all analyses we are aware of (with the exception of Emonds (1976)) treat extraposition as adjunction of a phrase to some right peripheral projection of a matrix sentence. This adjunction may either be analyz...

Doing the Right Thing or Doing the Thing Right: Allocating Resources Between Marketing Research and Manufacturing

M production with sales potential is essential for survival in volatile markets. Manufacturing and marketing managers compete for staff, space, cash, and other assets as they struggle both to determine what and how many products ought to be produced, and to actually produce them. We develop an analytical framework to answer one simple question, “How much marketing research should a firm do when...

Lean Engineering: Doing the Right Thing Right

Lean techniques are having a major impact on aerospace manufacturing. However, the cost and value of aerospace (and many other) products is determined primarily in product development. Migrating lean to engineering processes is ongoing in the industry, and a subject of study at the MIT Lean Aerospace Initiative. This paper summarizes findings to date, with references to both research literature...