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Interview with Dorothy Duffy in Twickenham, England recorded on 08.05.2018.
Full text linkEmily Moss interviewed her mother, Dorothy Duffy. Dorothy’s interview tells a story of growing up as the youngest of 10 children in a West of Ireland family where the experience of love, loyalty and fun were set against the backdrop of significant family dysfunction and conflict with her father. This is underscored with rich commentary on the impact and prevalence more broadly of the restrictive and oppressive influences of the catholic church. There is reference to an experience of child sexual abuse from outside the family and protection from within, as well as physical abuse both at home and at school. Education and academic achievement gets particular prominence. What is described as a liberating move from Ireland to London in the late 70s includes some critical reflection on the attitudes of the time to being Irish in England. Further travel includes time spent in Australia and New Zealand. Her early ambition for and success in nursing, alongside Dorothy’s love and talent for theatre are strong themes as are settling in London and ‘growing’ a family. Additional note: During the Covid 19 pandemic Dorothy’s sister Billy, referenced in the transcript and previously interviewed for this oral history project ‘passed away’ in a UK residential home. Billy became the subject of a poem written by Dorothy to commemorate her life and death, and the circumstances of her passing. Recordings of Dorothy reciting said poem were widely distributed in the summer of 2020 across media outlets in the UK, Ireland and the US
A virtual graphic log for clastic sediments - Supplementary data images
Full text linkSupplementary figures
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Supplementary figure A
Supplementary figure B
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Supplementary figure D
Supplementary figure E
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Supplementary figure G
This dataset consists of images which support the linked publication in Sedimentary Geology.
The images are of clastic sediments, including cross-stratified sands and gravels of Holocene age that were deposited along the southern shores of palaeolake Mega-Chad
Tracing the template - Investigating the representation of perceptual relevance: Experimental data
No full textThis data collection contains the behavioural and EEG data from the main experiments conducted in this research project. The main goals of this project were as follows: human visual perception is strongly affected by current expectations and intentions. What is perceived is determined by what is attended, and what is attended is determined by "images in the mind" that guide attention in line with active goals and preferences. This project uses new experimental procedures and new methodological techniques (including temporally precise measures of electrical brain activity) to investigate how many things we can attend to at any time, and to study the adverse consequences of having to simultaneously attend to multiple objects in perception, visual working memory, and action. Are there systematic differences between individuals in their ability to attend to more than one thing at a time? We will also develop new methods to obtain precise measures of the speed of voluntary visual attention shifts: If attention is engaged at a particular location, how fast can it be moved to a new potentially relevant object? Our results suggest that the top-down guidance of attention is faster and more flexible than usually assumed, and we will test whether and under which circumstances this is the case. Our results will have important consequences for current theoretical models of how attention operates. The question how "images in the mind" control conscious experience and voluntary action is central to theories of selective attention. Finding new answers to this question will have important general theoretical and conceptual implications for attention research. But our research is also important from an applied perspective. A defining feature of life in our technologically advanced society is the attentional competition between multiple sources of information, which result in permanent demands on attentional object selection and choice. New insights into how attentional templates guide what individuals perceive and how they choose to act therefore has obvious practical implications for areas as diverse as education, workplace design, and economic decision making.
Adaptive perception requires the prioritization of relevant over irrelevant information. When we are looking for a specific book of which we only remember the color of its cover, we can limit our search to mainly that color. The mental representation of what we are looking for is called the attentional template (also target template, search template, attentional set; e.g., Folk et al., 1992). An attentional template is a flexible representation reflecting current selection preferences, as derived from continuously changing task demands and prior selection history. Even though attentional templates are essential for shaping and controlling perception and action in everyday life, surprisingly little is known about their nature. For example, when you look for your car keys, do you look for their shape, their color, or both? In case of the latter, are shape and color integrated in a single representation, or are they independently represented? Can you look for your wallet at the same time, without affecting your "key" template? Furthermore, it is often assumed that visual attention is guided by visual templates, but it is perfectly possible that non-visual types of representation (e.g., semantic codes) are also involved. Finally, the nature of the template may change fundamentally in the course of learning, as a result of selection history. The aim of this collaborative project is to answer some of these fundamental questions
Data Files for the Mapping Museums Report, March 2020
No full textThis archive is part of Mapping Museums project (mappingmuseums.org). The Mapping Museums research project began in October 2016 and will conclude in September 2020. It is based at Birkbeck, University of London and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project focuses on growth and change in the UK museum sector from 1960 to 2020 and it has four main outputs:
- A database containing information on over 4,000 museums. This data can be browsed, searched, and visualised through a web application, and is free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons (BY) license.
- A website that houses the database and web application, and additional resources linked to the project. These include a glossary, detailed information on research methods, transcripts of interviews with museum founders, films and podcasts, and links to the project publications.
- A series of academic articles addressing research methods and findings.
- A monograph that draws on data, interviews with museum founders, and historical research, to analyse how and why so many new museums were established in the late twentieth century. Publication is planned for 2021.
Report reference:
Fiona Candlin, Jamie Larkin, Andrea Ballatore, Alexandra Poulovassilis (2020) Mapping Museums 1960–2020: A report on the data. London: Birkbeck, University of London
Data files for "Metal–silicate partitioning of W and Mo and the role of carbon in controlling their abundances in the Bulk Silicate Earth", Jennings et al. (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
Full text linkSupplementary tables S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6. These constitute the raw research data for the paper: "Metal–silicate partitioning of W and Mo and the role of carbon in controlling their abundances in the Bulk Silicate Earth" by Jennings et al. (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta).
Table S1: Details of methods
Table S2: EPMA and LA-ICP-MS data for silicate and metal phases. See captions and paper for details.
Table S3: Sources used for additional data used in the data compilation in the paper
Table S4: Variance-covariance matrices for data fitting
Tables S5 and S6: Model outputs, see captions and paper for details
Interviews with Gillian Beecher in Cork, Ireland recorded on 13.02.2017 and 29.10.2017.
No full textMrs Gillian Beecher talks to her daughter Ruth about her home Dalmally on the Ballinlough road in Cork, Ireland and about her mother and sister. She talks about going to church 'socials,' i.e. dances, and her friends and boyfriends in the 1960s. She recalls the stigma of her mother’s suicide in 1958 and her time in the Baptist Church in Cork.
In the second interview, Mrs Beecher talks about attending Rochelle School in Cork in the 1950s, about her first summer job and her first full-time job in a stockbroker’s office. She revisits her mother’s suicide and what she remembered of her mother and father meeting, and speaks again about her time in the Baptist Church.
Mrs Beecher’s interviews were recorded in a nursing home in Cork in 2017. She had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in April 2016 and moved into the nursing home in November of that year. Her memory was starting to fail so there is some repetition and her sentences are shorter and less fluid than they had been. The content of her interviews, however, was not different to when she had previously recounted these memories
Interviews with Gillian Beecher in Cork, Ireland recorded on 13.02.2017 and 29.10.2017.
Full text linkMrs Gillian Beecher talks to her daughter Ruth about her home Dalmally on the Ballinlough road in Cork, Ireland and about her mother and sister. She talks about going to church 'socials,' i.e. dances, and her friends and boyfriends in the 1960s. She recalls the stigma of her mother’s suicide in 1958 and her time in the Baptist Church in Cork.
In the second interview, Mrs Beecher talks about attending Rochelle School in Cork in the 1950s, about her first summer job and her first full-time job in a stockbroker’s office. She revisits her mother’s suicide and what she remembered of her mother and father meeting, and speaks again about her time in the Baptist Church.
Mrs Beecher’s interviews were recorded in a nursing home in Cork in 2017. She had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in April 2016 and moved into the nursing home in November of that year. Her memory was starting to fail so there is some repetition and her sentences are shorter and less fluid than they had been. The content of her interviews, however, was not different to when she had previously recounted these memories
Data for Close Reading with Computers Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
No full textThis dataset contains the supplementary data files for the book Martin Paul Eve, Close Reading With Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s_ Cloud Atlas (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019).
Data appendices are detailed in Appendix B, in the volume and also below.
Digital Appendix 1: Data for Chapter Two
This appendix is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file that is used to generate Figure 2 using the SankeyTextualVariant software.
Digital Appendix 2: Data for Chapter Three
This appendix contains:
* The data used to generate figures 5 through 13.
* The data used to make the claims about Melville’s texts.
* The part-of-speech tagging outputs of Cloud Atlas E.
Digital Appendix 3: Data for Chapter Four
This appendix contains the data used to generate figures 14 through 16
Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception
No full textHere we present auditory stimuli for the Multi-Dimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP), a novel tool for the assessment of prosody perception. It consists of two subtests-- Linguistic Focus, which measures the ability to hear emphasis or sentential stress, and Phrase Boundaries, which measures the ability to hear where in a compound sentence one phrase ends, and another begins. Perception of individual acoustic dimensions (Pitch and Time) can be examined separately, and test difficulty can be precisely calibrated by the the experimenter because stimuli were created using a continuous voice morph space
flexiMAP: A regression-based method for discovering differential alternative polyadenylation events in standard RNA-seq data
No full textAn “idealized” dataset of RNA-seq reads was created using the polyester R package (Frazee et al., 2015). This simulated dataset is clean of technical biases and fold changes between isoforms are known, allowing testing of the sensitivity limits of the method in the absence of external factors. The simulation experiment comprises 20 samples, 10 in each of two conditions.
For the "main" dataset, polyadenylation sites splitting each transcript into two isoforms (short and long) were obtained from the poly(A) site atlas (Gruber et al., 2016) for 11000 human transcripts. Each isoform (“short” and “short + long”) was simulated as a different transcript. The expression of the “shot + long” isoform was unchanged between conditions, whereas eleven different fold changes were applied between conditions for the “short” isoform in order to produce a range of different ratios, R. Hence, each fold change is represented by ~ 1000 transcripts in the dataset. Additionally, for each fold change category we assigned 100 different mean expression levels (from 100 to 1000) with the aim of sampling the effect of the expression level on the ability of the method to detect alternative polyadenylation events.
For the "biased" dataset, the aim was to create a scenario where fold changes between two conditions are confounded by the presence of an additional factor. In the specific example set up, we created an imbalanced dataset with 1000 transcripts where male and female-origin samples are present in unequal numbers in the control (7 males and 3 females) and condition (3 males and 7 females) groups. Although the group membership for the factor of interest (condition) plays no role in the choice of polyadenylation site of these transcripts, membership to male or female group does, confounding the outcome of methods that do not take into account additional covariates