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The Cartographic Fool: Prints, Religion, and Visual Culture in Renaissance Europe
No full textThis book reconstructs the lost history of the "Fool's Cap Map," a printed engraving that appeared anonymously in Antwerp in 1590. A careful reconstruction of the image's history not only reveals the image's maker but also ties its message to a short-term Catholic rejection of flat world maps
Polling the public to select flagship species for tourism and conservation—A ‘Big Five’ for the Peruvian Amazon?
Full text linkFlagship species are used to promote conservation and tourism. Africa's famous ‘ Big five ’ have become marketing flagships that fundraisers and tourism promoters emulate globally. Species can be selected systematically for marketing using characteristics such as colour, size or behaviour, but this approach can overlook unique animals or homogenise selections. Alternatively, polling the public can reveal existing preferences for animals directly. We used questionnaires with tourists in the Peruvian Amazon to identify existing biases for species and rank them for suitability for tourism and conservation marketing. Polling revealed several species that would not be considered good flagship candidates using systematic methods based on species characteristics. ‘Free listing’ tourists expressed preferences at inconsistent taxonomic levels. The response ‘monkeys’ (infraorder Simiiformes) was highest ranked, followed by ‘jaguar’ ( Panthera onca ), ‘Amazon dolphin’ ( Inia geoffrensis ), ‘sloths’ (suborder Folivora), and ‘caiman’ (subfamily Caimaninae) and ‘birds’ (class Aves). When ranking from a preselected shortlist, jaguar, Amazon dolphins and sloths (represented by Bradypus variegatus ) remained popular, while vote splitting within higher taxonomic levels, in particular monkeys, made room for green‐winged macaw ( Ara chloropterus ) and anaconda ( Eunectes murinus ). When asked about their willingness to pay for excursions or donate to conservation, tourists were overwhelmingly more likely to quote larger figures for jaguars than any other species, but results for other species were more homogenous. Some popular taxonomic groups are diverse in Amazonia; up to 14 monkey species may be present at some sites Amazonia, alongside several hundred bird species. A Big five strategy obscures this diversity. Using physical characteristics as selection criteria underplays diversity and overlooks popular taxa—notably sloths for the Amazon. A strategy of polling the public to select popular species as flagships more directly identifies salient species for marketing and efficiently considers existing biases. However, diversity will trump a Big five approach in megadiverse areas
The everyday pastoral: rural nostalgia and Englishness.
No full textThis paper is an inquiry into these debates around; Englishness, rural nostalgia and the ant-development narrative surrounding landscapes of cultural significance and natural beauty.
The research’s primarily aim is to examine how the pre-occupations found in 18th and 19th century romantic English landscape painting foreground our understanding of the contemporary countryside. The inquiry is underpinned through challenging the traditional reading of landscape and artistic practice through the paradigm of Gainsborough’s and Constable’s paintings; cultural conventions which have informed legislation for the past 100 years and which continue to pervade current positions on landscape preservation and cultural management.
As a new geopolitical landscape emerges, the paper extends this inquiry through scrutinizing the tensions around the country’s areas of Green and Grey Belts, as the need for new housing dominates the political agenda. These marginal spaces are the territory of a sub-genre of nature writing whose prose mediates the disciplines of ecological scrutiny and aesthetic awareness. Adjoining the synchronous practices of historical painting and contemporary literature, ‘The Bucolic Ordinary’, asks us to consider what constitutes Englishness, nature, beauty and landscape in the 21st century
What It means to be female
No full textThis chapter explores the concept of ‘being female’ within nursing and midwifery higher education (HE), examining the intersections of sex and gender and discussing contemporary theory and debates on gender theory. Gender Critical Theory (GCT) is summarised and contrasted with gender affirming perspectives, considering the implications for nursing and midwifery education.
The discussion extends to a reflection on the role of the regulator in shaping gender inclusivity and the evolving use of inclusive language in both healthcare and healthcare education. It also highlights the challenges faced by female academics in leadership, professional equity and emotional labour, illuminating the persistent gendered expectations in HE.
The chapter calls for a more nuanced and inclusive understanding of gender, recognising its complexity within healthcare and education. It calls for institutions to foster inclusivity, challenge gender-based discrimination and prepare further health professionals for compassionate care for all
The social mobility of nursing educators
No full textThis chapter explores the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of the authors as three working-class nursing academics within higher education (HE) to examine how staff representation may influence and shape the widening participation agenda and how this can be leveraged to support student success. We define working class and demonstrate how the three authors have navigated academia over two decades, from first-generation students qualifying as registered nurses and then the move into academia. How working-class academics can play a crucial role in promoting social mobility and empowering others to achieve academic success, particularly individuals from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Their lived experiences, resilience, and advocacy efforts can inspire and support others facing similar challenges in accessing and navigating HE. The movement into academia has been exciting for these academics, but they have experienced many challenges including impostor syndrome which, albeit common in all social classes, can be more acute for the working class. This chapter will explore how inclusive modern universities can help to disperse these feelings allowing working-class academics to thrive in their careers and provide appropriate coaching to the future nursing workforce
Shakespeare for free: The accessibility and politics of audio Shakespeare in Anglo-American contexts
No full textFocusing on performances of Shakespeare in which there are no visuals at all, this chapter examines Anglo-American radio productions of Shakespeare. It documents some of the tools and techniques (including music, sound effects, textual editing and adaptation, and the vocal talents of voice actors) that have been used to bring audio Shakespeare to a wide audience of listeners, as well as the politics involved in doing so. In particular, the chapter shows that while radio Shakespeare has often been intended and assumed to be a way of making Shakespeare accessible to everyone, questions of whether and how it achieves this remain
Anatomical graph-based multilevel distillation for robust Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis with missing modalities
Full text linkThe multimodal model has shown superior potential for accurate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis; however, its reliance on complete modalities limits its use in a clinical setting. This study proposes a novel Anatomical Graph-based Multilevel Distillation (AGMD) framework that effectively transfers multimodal knowledge using layered modeling. Specifically, we develop a hierarchical distillation framework with three dedicated branches to explicitly capture the features of AD from multiple levels (local structural details, regional connectivity patterns, and global semantic information) to achieve complete knowledge transfer.
Moreover, we introduce anatomical constraints to model the brain adjacent connection patterns to help better learn the relationships between key ROIs, particularly in disease-relevant regions, e.g., the hippocampus.
The prediction entropy as regularization is introduced to refine instancelevel knowledge, comprehensively alleviating the negative impact of the teacher’s noisy information. Extensive experiments on the ADNI dataset demonstrate that AGMD achieves the best classification accuracy, with an improvement of 3.7% over the state-of-the-art methods, while significantly reducing the performance gap between teacher and student models. The code is available at https://github.com/LiuFei-AHU/AGMD
Interview on BBC Radio Suffolk re: new book
No full textInterview with Sarah Lilley on BBC Radio Suffolk about my new book, Shakespeare on the Radi