511 research outputs found
Norman Biggs – Strictly not dancing
No full textNorman Biggs is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at LSE. He is the author of 13 books and over 100 papers on Mathematics, and has also published in the fields of Numismatics and Metrology. He has been Librarian and General Secretary of the London Mathematical Society, and Vice-President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. Follow him on Twitter: @norman_biggs
Norman Biggs – Calculus on Clay?
No full textNorman Biggs is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at LSE. He is the author of 13 books and over 100 papers on Mathematics, and has also published in the fields of Numismatics and Metrology. His latest book, “Quite Right: The Story of Mathematics, Measurement, and Money” was released in February 2016. Follow him on Twitter: @norman_biggs
How many abortions are there in Australia?
No full text Much of the recent debate on abortion in Australia has focused on the question of how many abortions take place in Australia each year. Angela Pratt, Amanda Biggs and Luke Buckmaster discuss the existing statistics on abortion in Australia, their limitations for accurately quantifying how many abortions take place each year, and some options for improving Australian data on abortion numbers
Book review: improving criminal justice workplaces: translating theory and research into evidence-based practice by Paula Brough, Jennifer Brown and Amanda Biggs
No full textIn Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces: Translating Theory and Research into Practice, Paula Brough, Jennifer Brown and Amanda Biggs bridge academic research into organisational behaviours and the experiences of workers within criminal justice workplaces at a time of significant funding cuts and decreasing morale to both identify a number of problems and to suggest strategies and solutions. Emma Smith finds this a well-researched, timely and informative text that sheds light on the effects of austerity upon criminal justice organisations
Electronic Supplementary Material;Photo of Chris Biggs holding a hydrophone from Reproductive resilience of an estuarine fish in the eye of a hurricane
No full textDetailed description of research methods, additional figures, and additional references.;Chris Biggs, the lead author and a graduate student in the Coastal Fisheries Research Program at UT Austin holding one of his hydrophones used to monitor spawning activity in spotted seatrou
Norman Biggs – History of Mathematics: The LSE Course
No full textNorman Biggs is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at LSE. He is the author of 13 books and over 100 papers on Mathematics, and has also published in the fields of Numismatics and Metrology. His latest book, “Quite Right: The Story of Mathematics, Measurement, and Money” was released in February 2016. Follow him on Twitter: @norman_biggs
Necessary, Unnecessary and Sufficient Conditions
No full textIt is the claim of this paper that the judgement and classification of a work as research is a judgement that is made by the audience and is an issue of its reception, rather than being determined by the intention of the “author”. This is because a work must meet a few basic conditions in order to function as research, and these are centred on issues of communication and audience. While the researcher must purposefully position the work, its reception depends upon it meeting these conditions in the opinion of peers. In recent years there has been much debate about these conditions, and in previous papers I have developed arguments from the practical need to acknowledge the conditions set by research funding agencies on researchers. However, more recent papers have moved the argument from production issues concerning the instrumentality of language (Biggs 2002), through issues of the affect of context on interpretation (Biggs 2003), to the role of the audience in determining what constitutes a meaningful question that needs to be addressed, what would constitute a meaningful response to such questions and therefore the methods that would robustly connect one to the other (Biggs 2005). The present paper is a further contribution to the development of an ontology of research based on first principles and it identifies three necessary and sufficient conditions for a work to be research, and contrasts them with one often cited condition that appears to be unnecessary: authorial intention. The necessary and sufficient conditions are dissemination, originality and context. Other requirements such as the identification of an explicit question are regarded as consequences of these conditions
Tactile stimulation designs adapted to clinical settings result in reliable fMRI-based somatosensory digit maps
No full textMovement constraints in stroke survivors are often accompanied by additional impairments in related somatosensory perception. A complex interplay between the primary somatosensory and motor cortices is essential for adequate and precise movements. This necessitates investigating the role of the primary somatosensory cortex in movement deficits of stroke survivors. The first step towards this goal could be a fast and reliable functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)-based mapping of the somatosensory cortex applicable for clinical settings. Here, we compare two 3 T fMRI-based somatosensory digit mapping techniques adapted for clinical usage in seven neurotypical volunteers and two sessions, to assess their validity and retest-reliability. Both, the traveling wave and the blocked design approach resulted in complete digit maps in both sessions of all participants, showing the expected layout. Similarly, no evidence for differences in the volume of activation, nor the activation overlap between neighboring activations could be detected, indicating the general feasibility of the clinical adaptation and their validity. Retest-reliability, indicated by the Dice coefficient, exhibited reasonable values for the spatial correspondence of single digit activations across sessions, but low values for the spatial correspondence of the area of overlap between neighboring digits across sessions. Parameters describing the location of the single digit activations exhibited very high correlations across sessions, while activation volume and overlap only exhibited medium to low correlations. The feasibility and high retest-reliabilities for the parameters describing the location of the single digit activations are promising concerning the implementation into a clinical context to supplement diagnosis and treatment stratification in upper limb stroke patients
Possible reforms to rehabilitation practice in Ireland
No full textA recent period of residence in Ireland has given the author a contemporary over-sight of challenges for rehabilitation professionals in the Irish context. But in the author's view, significant change may not be far away..
SAP - Song Archive Project Publication
No full textPLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL BOOK TEXT - PUBLISHER POLICY ONLY ALLOWS ACCESS TO AN EXTRACT OF THIS BOOK IN THE UWE BRISTOL RESEARCH REPOSITORYThe publication brings together specialists from a wide range of disciplines and academic institutions whereby selected video work from Buchheim’s Song Archive Project facilitate a process of dialogue and exchange between the contributors and the editors. SAP looks at the act of singing and the role of amateur song in contemporary culture drawing together contributions from the fields of art, musical psychology, behavioral psychology, neurology, philosophy and fictional writing.Contributors:Dr Jens Asendorpf is a psychologist, professor and head of department for Psychology at the Humboldt University, Berlin.Sean Ashton is a writer of fiction and and criticism and a contributing editor of MAP Magazine.Dr Liam Devlin is a writer and visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London and the University of Wales, Newport.Dr Alinka Greasley is senior lecturer in Psychology of Music in the School of Music, University of Leeds.Dr Oliver Sacks is a physician, author, and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.Dr Iain Biggs is reader in Visual Art Practice in the Department of Art & Design, UWE, Bristol, and is a director of PLaCE.Yvonne Buchheim is an artist and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England
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