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William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine
No full textThe thesis looks in detail at three inter-related aspects of
Alison's life. It examines, firstly, his role in the development
of Edinburgh's rudimentary 'health' network, achieved through the
expansion of the existing medical charity structure and the
introduction of a more interventionist and coordinated approach to
the city's health problems. It traces, secondly, the development
of Alison's social thought - in 1820 he believed that medical and
practical relief for the poor could and should be supplied through
the voluntary charities and only when that proved unsatisfactory
through the poor law, whereas by 1840 he argued that public health
should be the responsibility of government and that the excessive
increase in poverty and disease in Scotland, which he believed had
occurred, was proof that the charitable and legal relief provided
was inadequate. Finally, Alison's influence on the passage of
Scottish poor law and public health legislation in the 1840s and
1850s is examined - the latter involving an assessment of how far
he was responsible for the legislative delay. The poor law debate,
1840-1845, which reveals the forces shaping the reform and the
prevailing attitudes to poverty, highlights the challenge which
Alison's opinions represented and the resulting turmoil in Scottish
social thinking, while his reasons for opposing health legislation,
which established London control are of great importance. They
reveal differences in the rationale behind, and way in which, the
concept of public health was developed in Scotland and England.
Unlike Chadwick and his supporters, Alison emphasised poverty
amelioration and sanitary reform. Part of the explanation for the
differing opinions lay in their respective miasmatic and
contagionist theories for fever generation, but it also reflects,
perhaps more significantly, the impact of European medical police
ideas on Scottish medical opinion - Alison's view of public health
closely resembled that of the French hygienists
Southern Thailand: from conflict to negotiations?
No full textSummary: In this Analysis, University of Leeds professor Duncan McCargo argues that the recent Malaysian-backed Southern Thai peace initiative has now run into some serious problems. He argues that despite its various shortcomings the initiative is still worthy of support, since it has gained far more traction that any previous attempts to address the decade-long insurgency. Thailand needs to maintain focus on the southern conflict despite its current preoccupation with a national-level political crisis that threatens to topple the government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
Key findings
The conflict in Southern Thailand is one of Asia’s most serious insurgencies, with over 6,000 dead over the last 10 years.
The Malaysian government sponsored negotiations represents the best hope for reaching a political settlement and bringing peace to the region.
However, both sides need to show greater commitment to the negotiations, introducing new structures and procedures
Preservation assessment of the collections at the Oregon State Library, Salem, Oregon: October 6, 7 & 8, 2009
No full textReport -- Appendix A. Documentation Images -- Appendix B. Resources -- Appendix C. Recommended Books, Collection Policy Resources, Organizations for Reference & Vendors for Supplies -- Appendix D. Cost Estimates.prepared by Lisa Duncan, Art Conservator, LLC.Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 8, 2023).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Douglas and Duncan Wain
No full textPhotograph - Douglas and Duncan Wain with their mother in front of a house, Athabasca, Albert
Semiometrics: producing a compositional view of influence
No full textHigh-impact academic papers are not necessarily the most cited. For example, Einstein's 'Special Relativity' paper from 1905 received (and continues to receive) fewer citations from other papers than his 'Brownian Motion" paper of the same year, despite the former radically changing the course of an entire scientific discipline to a much greater extent. Similarly, 'impact' metrics using citation count alone are, it is argued, not adequate for determining the scientific influence of papers, authors or small groups of authors. Although valid, they remain controversial when used to determine influence of larger groups or journals. While the term 'impact' has become closely linked to a journal's citation-based Journal Impact Factor score, this thesis uses the term 'influence' to describe the wider effectiveness of research, combining citation and metadata analysis to allow richer calculations to be performed over large-scale document networks. As a result, more qualitative influence ratings can be determined and a broader outlook on scientific disciplines can be produced. These ratings are best applied using an ontology-based data source, allowing more efficient inference than under a traditional RDBMS system, and allowing easier integration between heterogeneous data sources. These metrics, termed 'Semantic Bibliometrics' or 'Semiometrics', can be applied at a variety of levels of granularity, allowing a compositional framework for impact and influence analysis. This thesis describes the process of data preparation, systems architecture, metric value and data integration for such a system, introducing novel approaches at all four stages, thereby creating a working semiometrics system for determining influence at different semantic levels of granularity
Do UK based weight management programmes cause weight loss maintenance in adults? A systematic review
No full textThe aim of this dissertation was to examine whether UK based weight management programmes promote weight loss maintenance (follow up of 12 months to assess effectiveness of intervention in weight loss) in adults through the process of a systematic review. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has described obesity as a "global epidemic". Weight management comprises two phases; weight loss and weight loss maintenance. The latter phase is the true goal for obesity and the most difficult element of weight management to achieve. However much less is know about this as compared with the weight loss phase. There is little purpose in committing time and money to reducing obesity if the weight is regained. This is counter-productive and weight loss maintenance is essential to combat the obesity epidemic. Searches were made for relevant information from a variety of scientific online databases and journals,. Seven articles met the inclusion criteria and were analysed in the review. All studies incorporated a multi-component (diet, exercise, behaviur modification) intervention approach. All control and internvetion groups reported weight loss at 12 months when compared with baseline. All groups recieved an intervention. One study reported a significant difference (P<0.05) between groups. Four studies reported on at least one component (diet, physical activity, behaviour modification) however there was not enough information to conclude whether they complied with national guidelines (NICE CG43 and SIGN 115). High attrition rates and loss to follow up are problematic for each study except one. Analysis on an intention to treat basis was common however this is problematic and there are alternative methods which may be more suitable for dealing with missing data
Semiometrics: Applying Ontologies across Large-Scale Digital Libraries
No full textAs large-scale digital libraries become more available and complete, not to mention more numerous, it is clear there is a need for services that can draw together and perform inference calculations on the metadata produced. However, the traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) model, while efficiently constructed and optimised for many business structures, does not necessarily cope well with issues of concurrent data updates and retrieval at the scale of hundreds of thousands of papers. At the same time the growth of RDF and the increasing interest in Semantic Web technologies perhaps begins to present a viable alternative at a scalable, practical level. This paper considers a specific application of large-scale metadata analysis and conducts scalability tests using real-world data. It concludes that RDF technologies are both a scalable and performance-realistic alternative to traditional RDBMS approaches. It also shows that for relationship-based queries on large-scale metadata stores, RDF technologies can significantly out-perform traditional RDBMS approaches by allowing both retrieval and updating of data in a timely manner
ALISON LEE Piano MASTER’S RECITAL Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall
No full textPROGRAM: Impromptu in B-flat Major, Op. 142, No. 3 / Franz Schubert -- Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No.2, "Tempest" / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 / Robert SchumanThis recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Music
"Fit for a Picture:" Aestheticizing Southwestern Utah and the Creation of Zion National Park
No full textThe exploration of the monumental landscapes of the trans-Mississippi West in the decades following the Civil War produced a vast archive of imagery detailing the strange new landforms that would not only elucidate the Earth’s geological history but provide the justification for the country to expand westward. The artists and photographers who accompanied these expeditions not only gave visual form to the scientific findings but also fueled public enthusiasm for such explorations in images widely circulated by such popular magazines as Appleton’s, Harper’s Weekly, and The Aldine. Working within the conventions of landscape painting these artists aestheticized these sites, transforming land into scenery, which not only helped the American public to recognize the sometimes newly-acquired lands as American sites by inviting viewers to imaginatively inhabit the scene but also fueled such an enthusiasm for conserving such scenery leading to the establishment of the first national parks. When the National Park Service Act passed in 1916, the conservation of scenery was of the utmost importance to develop these sites into tourist destinations. Combined with the histories, place names, and visitors who projected cultural values onto the land, these aesthetic treatments of a site helped form landmarks and narrative traditions that would teach potential tourists how to look at and interact with the land itself. For the Virgin River Valley in southwestern Utah, which would eventually become Zion National Park in 1919, this process of aestheticizing the land and imbuing it with cultural referents began with artists from the Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1870, with photographer Charles Savage, who was the first to bring images of the canyon to the public through his photography studio in Salt Lake City. He and his Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) colleagues, easel painters George Ottinger and Alfred Lambourne, interpreted the canyon with the religious fervor of both their LDS community that settled Utah Territory and wider romantic conceits about the American West’s beauty as proof of the young republic’s desire to expand its influence. Soon thereafter came the United States geological survey of the Colorado River, headed by John Wesley Powell and accompanied by photographers and artists, such as James Fennemore, John K. Hillers, and Thomas Moran. Their pictures would go on to become some of the most popular and widely circulated images of Zion Canyon in the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the commercial sale of stereographs and prints as well as published illustrations in popular periodicals. The exhibition of some of these images at World’s Fairs in Philadelphia (1876), Chicago (1893), and St. Louis (1904) further extended the public reach of several Zion Canyon images, particularly those of the UGSG by Jack Hillers. Against the backdrop of the See America First movement in the opening decades of the twentieth century, promotional publications, written by those eager to nurture tourism to Zion Canyon, recalled the earliest images of the gorge not only to establish landmarks but to firmly place the canyon within the scope of uniquely American sites that defined the country’s exceptionalism
ALISON BAZALA Cello MASTER'S RECITAL Saturday, April 18, 1998 5:30 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall
No full textQuality of recording varies.Program: Cello Concerto in D Major, Hob.VIIb:2 / Franz Joseph Haydn -- Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 / Antonin DvorakThis recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree
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