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Building belonging: Developing religiously inclusive cultures for Muslim students in Higher Education
No full textThe Relationship between Skinfold and Ultrasound Measures of Subcutaneous Fat in Untrained Healthy Males
Get PDFUltrasound measurement of adipose tissue offers an alternative measure of body composition with less technical skill requirement than skinfolds. However, the relationship between skinfold and ultrasound measurements of adipose tissue is uncertain. The aim of this study was to compare these measures in a healthy untrained male population. One hundred male participants (aged 18–40 years) of varying body compositions had skinfold measures taken at the biceps, triceps and front thigh sites. Ultrasound measures were also taken at the same sites using B-wave ultrasound with a linear probe in the transverse plane. Strong, significant (p < 0.01), positive correlations were observed between skinfold and ultrasound measures at the biceps (r = 0.828), triceps (r = 0.813), and front thigh (r = 0.888) sites. However, there was significant (p < 0.01) variance between the techniques at all measurement sites. Whilst skinfold and ultrasound measures of adipose tissue have good linear agreement, skinfolds are consistently higher at all sites indicating a difference in the nature of the tissue measured via each technique. The exact nature of the relationship should be established on a population-specific basis.</p
Socrates On Trial
No full textSocrates On Trial tells of Socrates's return to a modern city that is plagued by prejudice, privilege and populism. On resuming his questioning in the agora he is arrested, interrogated by his prosecutors, questioned by his Judge, and confessed to by his inquisitor. On a Festival Day, he explores a new model for the just city --a city based not on mastery but on learning --before offering a new apology to the court that will, once again, decide his fate
Fear, Hatred and Strategy during the Wars of the Roses
Get PDFThis article examines the importance of emotions such as fear, enmity and hatred during the Wars of the Roses. Despite the large body of scholarship on the wars and extensive corpus of primary sources, historians have not looked at the Wars of the Roses from this perspective. This lacuna is unfortunate for two reasons. First, examining the role of emotions provides an additional insight into the wars that current discussions have viewed as tangential. Second, the Wars of the Roses provide a different way of viewing emotions in medieval warfare from studies of emotions in other wars. Discussions of emotions in medieval warfare tend to examine the experiences and mental worlds of individual combatants, the performative value of emotions in political conflict or the use of emotions in the memory of wars. In contrast, this article demonstrates that, during the Wars of the Roses, emotions had a real and tangible influence on the course and outcome of the wars, also influencing military strategy. This article highlights the potential of the late medieval English sources for revealing the use of emotions in war. It then examines three ways in which emotions shaped the wars: the personal enmities between successive dukes of Somerset and members of the House of York; regional hatreds between northerners and southerners; and finally collective hatred and blame directed towards individual councillors. Taken together, the material examined here provides new insights into the tangible effects that emotions had on the strategies of commanders and the politics a late medieval conflict
"Strong in Zeal but Impotent in Head:" British Responses to the Cattle Plague in the eighteenth century.
No full textThe essay explores the eighteenth-century outbreaks of rinderpest in Britain, which set up the current government practice to control the spread of very infectious diseases. Had the essay been written six months later, it would have explored the current COVID-19 Lockdown as a similar response
Threats in Industrial IoT
No full textAs the Internet of Things (IoT) environment rapidly grows, so do the distribution and utilization of IoT devices in a variety of areas within the industry. This leads to a number of challenges that can occur when being implemented. The implementation of IoT within the Industry increases the attack surfaces of these organizations specially to threats such as cyber-attacks, which alongside the technological development evolve greatly as well. Due to the amount of IoT devices increasing steadily and being easily accessible to everyone, these devices can also be used as a weapon in the cyber-world to implement threats.This chapter elaborates the key security goals as well as relevant deployment architectures of industrial IoT areas such as agriculture and farming, industry safety, and preventative maintenance. Specific IIoT domains as well as technologies are elaborated. Possible threats endangering these domains as well as incidents of such in the past have been outlined to establish the threats within Industrial IoT and achieve a better understanding of such
‘Banks 1 – Portugal 0’? Financial player entanglements in the Eurozone crisis
No full textThe euro has been at the heart of the debate about the crisis in the Eurozone. For some, it represents a fixed exchange rate regime, which hampered peripheral countries’ competitiveness, and for others, the European Monetary Union has a ‘flawed institutional design’ and an insufficient degree of integration that engendered the crisis. The present article analyses monetary integration from a materialist perspective. It draws attention to political agency, power and crisis management. The article focuses on the case of Portugal and poses the question of how the country’s authorities were compelled to request a rescue package from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission in 2011. It shows that this decision was triggered by the political agency of a series of players within the world of finance, mostnotably Portugal’s domestic banks, the independent Bank of Portugal and the European Central Bank. Reflecting their material interconnection through the European monetary system, their agency was highly coordinated. The strategies for crisis management that came to deepen the recession were not the result of insufficient European integration – they rather reflected Portugal’s form of integration within the European Monetary Union at the specific moment ofcrisis
Innovation and Tradition in Metal Music Production
No full textTechnological development has changed the way record producers need to work with Metal music; employing a far more fragmented and, sometimes, anxious approach to producing Heavy Metal Records. Technology permeates the recording process in unique ways, both influencing the recording itself, and the performance styles that Metal artists have developed since the late 1960s. The view of literature that focuses on the socio-cultural influence of Metal would suggest that production has evolved as a direct result of subculture; and that aesthetic choices made by record producers are influenced by both socio-cultural anticipations and an abstract production methodology. This paper analyses the experience of seven renowned Metal producers to determine the role of technology and how it has influenced the narrative of contemporary Metal music production.Whilst the technology that defines the sound of the genre remains, more innovative technological processing, and approaches to producing the instrumental elements of the genre, takes place. It is this observed movement away from traditional, performance focused, recording, towards a more fragmented, technologically architectural approach that presents phenomenological problems for record producers and researchers alike; how to balance tradition and innovation in the production of HM music. The difficulties and intricacies of producing HM music are explored and re-evaluated in the context of the participant interviews. <br/
From Archaeopolis to Onoguris: Excavations in the heart of Lazika
Get PDFThe ruins in the small village of Nokalakevi in Samegrelo, west Georgia, have attracted scholarly interest since the first half of the 19th century. They were first excavated in 1930, confirming their identification as the remains of the fortress of Archaeopolis mentioned in early Byzantine historical sources, and known as Tsikhegoji or ‘the triple-walled fortress’ by Georgian chroniclers. Archaeological evidence demonstrates more or less continual occupation of Nokalakevi from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC, and the renewed military importance of the site in the early Byzantine period, contemporary with the fortifications recently revealed outside the village of Khuntsi, 18km to the east