26 research outputs found
Theatre and Neighbourhood in Early Modern London; Introduction: Exploring Neighbourhoods
No full textThis essay summarizes scholarship about the neighbourhoods and parishes surrounding London’s early modern theatres, and in the process introduces three essays for the Early Theatre Issues in Review ‘Theatre and Neighbourhood in Early Modern London’
A clinician's guide to obesity prevention in the UK
No full textAcross the UK, people's lives are being cut short because of obesity, and the lives of the most deprived members of our communities are being cut the most. The role of the medical professional in managing overweight and obesity is extensive, but, for many patients, maintaining a healthy weight needs to be supported by creating environments that help people to stay healthy in the first place. The building blocks of health are the environmental, commercial, economic and social factors that largely determine our health and wellbeing and impact our capability, opportunity and motivation to maintain healthy-weight behaviours. Although the role of the healthcare professional generally is to focus on the individual patient, clinicians can still influence these building blocks. Clinicians have the skills to create change, they often hold power in organisations with local to international impact and there are actions, big or small, that every clinician can take to improve obesity prevention. Here, we outline an environmental–behavioural framework for the primary prevention of obesity and consider the role of clinicians in catalysing change
Reasons for rejecting the presumptive evidence of Mr. Almon, that "Mr. Hugh Boyd was the writer of Junius," with passages cited to prove the real author of the Letters of Junius.
No full textMode of access: Internet
‘The most feared disease of childhood and adolescence’ and ‘a deafening silence’: polio and post-polio in Australia
No full textExtremely contagious and potentially fatal, polio reaped an annual harvest from the late 19th through the middle of the 20th centuries. Polio has since been almost eradicated by programs of mass vaccination and is now forgotten. Yet the threat of polio persists in two ways. An unknown number of survivors suffer ‘post-polio syndrome’, with its crushing fatigue and further muscle weakening. Meanwhile, in rich countries, complacency, ignorance, suspicion and deliberate misinformation lead worryingly large numbers of parents to refuse to have their children vaccinated, with potentially tragic consequences. Ben Tipton was intrigued to find three recent books that feature this old disease here in Australia -- a history, a novel and an account of a broken family, all of them highly readable and rewarding. Read his very compelling article in the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
Book Title: Dancing in My Dreams: Confronting the Spectre of Polio
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Date published: 2015
Author: Kerry Highley
Book Title: The Golden Age
Publisher: Random House/Vintage Books Australia
Date published: 2015
Author: Joan London
Book Title: Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
Publisher: Queensland University Press
Date published: 2013
Author: Kristina Olsso
Interview of Stephen Andrilli, Ph.D.
No full textStephen Francis Andrilli was born in August 1952 in Bryn Mawr, PA. He was born to Francis and Leatrice Andrilli. Dr. Andrilli is the oldest of four children; his three sisters are Carol (now Carol Strosser), Patricia (now Patricia Kempczynski), and Barbara (now Barbara Parkes). Aside from a few years of living in Gettysburg, Dr. Andrilli has lived in the Philadelphia area for most of his life. He attended St. Jerome School, where he finished 8th grade. He then attended LaSalle College High School, where he graduated in 1969 at age 16. He entered La Salle University (formerly La Salle College) in 1969 and graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1973. From La Salle, he went directly to Rutgers University, where he earned a Master’s in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1979, both in Mathematics. His dissertation is titled “On the Uniqueness of O’Nan’s Sporadic Simple Group.” He taught for two years at Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, MD, and then joined La Salle University\u27s Mathematics and Computer Science Department in 1980, where he was hired as Assistant Professor. He became Associate Professor in 1992 and then Professor in 2017. Among many publications, he is the co-author of two textbooks: Elementary Linear Algebra (5th edition) and Linear Methods: A General Education Course. In 1990, Dr. Andrilli was awarded the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. In addition to teaching math courses at all undergraduate levels, Dr. Andrilli also taught courses in the Education Department and was the supervising professor for education students pursuing a career in math education. Being a “coach” for these pre-service student-teachers for 19 years has been the greatest source of pride and joy for Dr. Andrilli. He supervised 89 undergraduate and graduate students as they were beginning to learn the craft of teaching math at local secondary schools. With his wife Ene, Dr. Andrilli loves to travel, and has made many trips to Europe, including a pilgrimage through Italy with two priests and many parishioners. He looks forward to visiting Estonia, which is where Ene\u27s family is from
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No full textAbstract. Of the many rodenticides available for rodent management, few provide immediate control on a large scale while also offering a high level of safety to non-target predators and scavengers in the food chain. These are minimum requirements for the control of rodents in broadacre crops and in certain other agricultural situations. The need to meet the combined objectives of high potency and high safety has led to renewed interest in zinc phosphide (ZP) as a suitable active constituent of rodent baits. ZP is generally well accepted by rodents, is relatively safe for secondary non-target species, and does not leave any significant residues in crops, soil, water or the atmosphere. MOUSEOFF® zinc phosphide mouse bait been used successfully to protect large areas of Australian crops from mouse infestation, first under emergency permit in 1997, and in all major mouse infestations subsequent to registration in 2000. More recently, research on related ZP technology has led to the use, under permit, of RATTOFF® to control rats in Queensland cane fields and hoop pine plantations. The research may be extended to the development of formulations and presentations of ZP bait that are suitable for rodent control in industrial situations including grain storages, warehouses, farm machinery areas, and perhaps for intensive animal and fodder storage facilities. Industry-sponsored extension and training programs have also commenced to improve knowledge about the new technology and to encourage a more proactive and less reactive management approach to rodent infestations in crops. The use of the new ZP technology will thus form a part of, rather than alternative to, integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for rodents. 1 Corresponding author: <[email protected]>. 2 RATTOFF® is a registered trade mark and has patents pending
Uncalibrated Chronotypes: Circadian Clocks in the Wake of COVID-19
No full textBackground: All life is attuned to Earth’s light–dark cycle. In humans, the hypothalamus calibrates the body to circadian cycles of homeostatic activity. The mechanism responsible may run shorter or longer than 24 hours, which is thought to be the basis of chronotype—an intrinsic preference for mornings or evenings. Circadian rhythms can be recalibrated by environmental cues (lighting, temperature, mealtimes) to keep the body aligned with societal time; however, chronic disruptions produce a range of adverse cognitive effects. Early COVID-19 stay-at-home conditions were unique for students because their cues no longer adhered to strict scheduling. Our objective was to determine how this loss of timing affected medical students’ sleep behaviors. We hypothesized that stay-at-home would unmask chronotype-concordant schedules, uncoupling them from societal time.
Methods: We created a Qualtrics survey modeled on the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire to ask about sleep and related habits. Medical students were recruited from Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home order began 3/19; enrollment spanned 5/8–5/18 to ensure students had settled into their routines. Our primary measures were self-reported sleep times, pre-pandemic versus stay-at-home. Other measures included changes in sleep-related habits. Surveys also predicted each respondent’s current chronotype, which they could verify and indicate whether it had changed. Excel and Prism GraphPad were used for analyses.
Results:We received 123 entries with complete responses from 103, of which 78% reported consistent changes in sleep habits. For the chronotype-predicting portion, we received 66 responses with an accuracy of 93% excluding mispredictions of “no preference.” Of the 50 correctly predicted chronotypes, 28% had changed from before the pandemic.
Discussion: These outcomes suggest that the unstructured nature of stay-at-home unveiled individual chronotypes in some medical students. Self-governed scheduling in preclinical years might therefore be beneficial for medical students’ circadian rhythms, supporting novel paradigms like the flipped classroom
(The) man, his body, and his society: masculinity and the male experience in English and Scottish medicine c.1640-c.1780.
No full textThis thesis examines the relationship(s) between medicine, the body and societal codes of masculinity in England and Scotland between c.1640 and c.1780. It responds to the way in which the men in histories of post-1660 masculinity are often disembodied, and to the comparative absence of men’s gendered experiences from the history of medicine. Its findings show that in both centuries the experience of being a man with a body that was the site of health and sickness was an open, candid, and often communal, one, inside and outside of the formal medical encounter. Thus, and on both sides of 1700, ill men had full freedom in the pursuit and acceptance of medical, familial and social assistance, while their physical suffering, and associated emotional distress, was met with sympathy. With their sick bodies the sites of honest self-examination and open discussion, it was in part this very public nature of their sicknesses that allowed men, as a gender and as individuals, independence and agency in their non-commercial health care. Indeed, later-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century men suffered no constraints in their ability to respond to the vulnerabilities of their bodies, even where this involved behaviours or attributes allegedly associated with women and femininity, or inconsistent with ideals of active, independent, masculinity.
These findings indicate, therefore, great continuity across the period 1640-1780, and not only in masculine ideals of and involving the male corporeality. There seems to have been significant consistency across time in men’s social and medical experiences of both sickness and their pre-emptive preparation for it, and in an apparent collective self-confidence concerning their corporeal masculinity, their sex, and, possibly, even their sexual potential. Indeed, these sources suggest that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century men had a resilient sense of self-identity (and personal masculinity), conceptually separable from the corporeal body and its known fragilities
