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Manufacturing extremism: political consequences of profit-seeking media
No full textWe analyze the consequences of a monopolistic, non-partisan, profit-maximizing media on policy divergence. The media undertakes costly coverage that may reveal the quality of an office-seeking political challenger only if quality-conscious voters pay an access fee. Voters are ideologically homogenous and the incumbent politican is a populist with known quality. We show that while media absence implies a populist challenger, media presence yields platform extremism: it creates demand for information about quality and provides incentives to the media to invest in coverage that are exploited by high-quality challengers to signal strength.
JEL Classifiers: C72, D72, D8
Choice and wellbeing in informal care
No full text‘Choice’ is increasingly pursued as a goal of social policy. However the degree to which choice is exercised when entering an informal care role is open to debate. In this study of UK carers, we examined whether caring was perceived as a free choice, and what the consequence of choice was for carers’ wellbeing. Our data were derived from responses to a postal survey conducted in a large British city. One thousand one hundred respondents reported providing care to a close person and of these, 72% answered a further set of questions about caregiving and about their own well-being. We found that informal care was generally perceived to be a free choice, albeit in most cases, a choice that was constrained by duty, financial or social resources. Having a sense of free choice in entering care was strongly and positively associated with wellbeing. The positive impact on wellbeing persisted across different measures of wellbeing and when controlling for socio-demographic characteristics and the nature of the caring role. Further work is needed to better understand the modifiable aspects of choice for carers. Nonetheless, this study suggests that enabling individuals to have more choice in their caring roles may improve their lives
Tipping the balance: targeting the thymus for production of immune cells protective against Auto-Immune Disease
No full textThe thymus is the unique site of production of T-cells, an essential arm of the adaptive immune system which is targeted by vaccinations as a defense against infectious diseases. In generating a potent cohort of pathogen- clearing T-cells, small numbers of cells capable of attacking tissues within the body are also produced. Under normal conditions these are kept in check by “regulatory” cells, however if the balance of “auto-immune” and regulatory cells is altered, it has the potential to trigger auto-immune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes.
Using mouse models, we aim to investigate the potential to manipulate thymic production of anti-inflammatory T-cells to aid treatment of auto-immune disease
An XML Synopsis of the Old Latin Manuscripts of John
No full textThis is an XML file of the synopsis of manuscripts created for the 'Vetus Latina Iohannes Electronic Edition' by the Verbum Project.
The synopsis was published online as part of the electronic edition version 2.0 on 30.4.2015.
An XSL transformation file is included to improve the display of the data when viewed directly in the repository; non-technical users, however, are encouraged to view the online edition at http://www.iohannes.com/vetuslatina/edition
Re-imagining clinical legal education
No full textA report on the March 2015 CEPLER Workshop, which drew together practitioners and scholars in the field of clinical legal education to reflect on the subject from a variety of perspectives, its inherent challenges and future opportunties
Shutter problems in Carnarvon in 2015 February
No full textThe shutter motor keeps tripping out, and causing the dome to become stuck open. The dome and shutter motors were swapped over to eliminate a fault with the motor. It was discovered that there was no keyway on the shutter motor shaft which was allowing the motor to slip. A second fault was found on one of the SSR relays in the relay box. A keyway was installed, and the faulty SSR bridged out. The shutter now operates correctly. Additional work was done on the weather arm, replacing the rain detector and repairing the anemometer
A Novel gene amplification causes up-regulation of the PatABC transporter and fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Get PDFQur'anic transcriptions produced by Alba Fedeli for her PhD thesis (Birmingham 2015)
No full textXML transcriptions of surah 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 in Cambridge University Library Or. 1287 and surah 18, 19, 20 in Birmingham, Mingana Collation, Arabic 1572 in a self-standing website.
The transcriptions continue to be developed and the latest version may be found at http://purl.org/itsee/fedeli
Distributing abstract machines - Online Appendix
No full textThis is the online appendix for Olle Fredriksson's PhD thesis titled: "Distributing abstract machines", from 2015.
This appendix consists the source code for four compilers, and Agda formalisations of two of them.
The most feature-complete compiler (based on DCESH) is in the floskel directory.
The Agda formalisations are in the krivine (formalising DKrivine) and secd (formalising DCESH) directories.
The goi and games directories contains compilers based on the Geometry of Interaction and game semantics.
For further information, see the README files in the sub-directories
Guidance and the regulatory space for solicitors
No full textExploring the use and distinction of 'guidance', in its various forms, as applied by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
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