mannion and davies’ article recognises whistleblowing as an important means of identifying quality and safety issues in healthcare organisations. while ‘voice’ is a useful lens through which to examine whistleblowing, it also obscures a shifting pattern of uncertain ‘truths.’ by contextualising cultures which support or impede whislteblowing at an organisational level, two issues are overlooked...

A key to integrate voice and data traffic onto a common radio channel is the silence gaps detection technique. By restraining the voice terminals while silence from occupying the slots, the system capacity can be significantly improved. This paper considers the integrated voice/data services using NC-PRMA protocol in which the silence gaps detection technique is provided. Also, two additional s...

In this paper, we present a polling scheme which allows for augmenting the support of voice communications in point co-ordination function (PCF) of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. In this scheme, the Access Point (AP) of the Basic Service Set (BSS) maintains two polling lists, i.e. the talking list and the silence list. Based on the talking status of the stations identified via silence detection...

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This paper examines food couriers’ utilization of voice mechanisms as mobilization against employer silencing within platform capitalism. The concepts ‘worker silence’ and voice’ are used to facilitate an understanding the way in which workers respond workplace problems, well their capacity this specific context. Findings illustrate role technology a facilitator but also inhibitor worker voice....

In this conversation with Mama, I use my mother’s voice as a reflexive mirror to explore the social work silences that COVID-19 pandemic expresses so eloquently in own life and work. seek highlight intimate link between Mama’s silence silence.

whistleblowing by health professionals is an infrequent and extraordinary event and need not occur if internal voices are heard. mannion and davies’ editorial on “cultures of silence and cultures of voice: the role of whistleblowing in healthcare organisations” asks the question whether whistleblowing ameliorates or exacerbates the ‘deaf effect’ prevalent in healthcare organisations. this comme...

The article aims at showing how, in Hardy’s fiction, all sound aspires to the condition of silence.For example in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, sounds are very often conveyed as visual impressions, andTess’s voice is hardly every heard – her voice seems choked, throttled, “stuck in her throat”. Thearticle also examines Far from the Madding Crowd and the import of the voice, of silence,...