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Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm
No full textThe relations among early cumulative medical risk, cumulative environmental risk, attentional control, and brain activation were assessed in 15 – 16-year-old adolescents who were born preterm. Functional magnetic resonance imaging found frontal, temporal, and parietal cortex activation during an attention task with greater activation of the left superior-temporal and left supramarginal gyri associated with better performance. Individual differences in early cumulative risk are related to patterns of brain activation such that medical risk is related to left parietal cortex activation and environmental risk is related to temporal lobe activation. The findings suggest that early risk is related to less mature patterns of brain activation, including reduced efficiency of processing and responding to stimuli.This is the accepted version of the following article: Carmody, D. P., Bendersky, M., Dunn, S. M., DeMarco, J. K., Hegyi, T., Hiatt, M. and Lewis, M. (2006), Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm. Child Development, 77: 384–394, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00877.x/abstract.Peer reviewe
Cloud motion analysis
No full textContentsTechniques for the Analysis of Spatial Data (P. Atkinson N. Tate); Land Cover Classification Revisited (P. Mather); Image Classification with a Neural Network: From Completely-Crisp to Fully-Fuzzy Situations (G. Foody); Cloud Motion Analysis (H. Lewis, et al.); Methods for Estimating Image Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) (G. Smith P. Curran); Modelling and Efficient Mapping of Snow Cover in the UK for Remote Sensing Validation (R. Kelly P. Atkinson); Using Variograms to Evaluate a Model for the Spatial Prediction of Minimum Air Temperature (D. Cornford); Modelling the Distribution of Cover Fraction of a Geophysical Field (J. Collins C. Woodcock); Classification of Digital Image Texture Using Variograms (J. Carr); Geostatistical Approaches for Image Classification and Assessment of Uncertainty in Geologic Processing (F. van der Meer); A Syntactic Pattern-Recognition Paradigm for the Derivation of Second-Order Thematic Information from Remotely Sensed Images (S. Barr M. Barnsley); The Rôle of Classified Imagery in Urban Spatial Analysis (V. Mesev P. Longley); Image Classification and Analysis Using Integrated GIS (J. Hinton); Per-Field Classification of Land Use Using the Forthcoming Very Fine Spatial Resolution Satellite Sensors: Problems and Potential Solutions (P. Aplin, et al.); Modelling Soil Erosion at Global and Regional Scales Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques (N. Drake, et al. ); Extracting Information from Remotely Sensed and GIS Data (P. Atkinson N. Tate
When are Discussions of Thought Experiments Poor Ones? A Comment on Peijnenburg and Atkinson
No full textIn their recent paper, "When are thought experiments poor ones?" (Peijnenburg/Atkinson 2003), Jeanne Peijnenburg and David Atkinson present an argument to the conclusion that most, if not all, philosophical thought experiments are "poor" ones with "disastrous consequences" and that they share this property with some (but not all) scientific thought experiments. The moral they draw is that the use of thought experiments in science is generally more successful than in philosophy (of mind). In this comment I shall briefly try to show that Peijnenburg's and Atkinson's view on thought experiments as it is presented in Peijnenburg/Atkinson 2003, but also in Atkinson/Peijnenburg [forthcoming], and Atkinson 2003, is based on an misleading characterization of both, the dialectical situation in philosophy as well as the history of physics. By giving an adequate account of what the discussion in contemporary philosophy is about, we will arrive at a quite different evaluation of philosophical thought experiments
Early child neglect: Does it predict obesity or underweight in later childhood?
No full textChild neglect has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for both obesity and underweight in early childhood, although little research has examined the relation between neglect and body mass index (BMI). The present study examined the relation between neglect and BMI among 185 children (91 with a Child Protective Services history of neglect) who were initially seen at ages 4 to 6 years and who were followed through ages 7 to 9 years. Neglected and comparison children were found to have similar BMIs, although both groups had BMIs that were significantly greater than CDC norms for age, gender, and ethnicity. Neglect chronicity did predict lower BMIs but only at age 8 and 9 years. The present findings suggest that greater examination of moderators is needed to identify the specific contexts in which neglect is related to children’s weight.This is the authors' accepted manuscript for an article that was published in Child Maltreatment (2010), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 250-254. doi: 10.1177/1077559510363730Peer reviewe
Radical Realism and Other Possibilities in Contemporary Indigenous Intercultural Cinema
No full textTraumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma theory and affect theory, two areas of crucial relevance to contemporary thought. While both fields continue to offer insights into individual and collective experience, exploring their nexus offers timely and necessary critiques of film, literature, art, culture and politics.
This collection of essays by established and emerging thinkers considers the dynamic relations within and between affect and trauma. Varied in style and approach, this volume asks how the relational subject conceived by affect theory might bring into question certain presuppositions common to trauma theory and how the ethical imperatives of trauma might require a rethinking of aspects of affect theory. Thus the contributors reimagine the unrepresentability of trauma, reveal its affective economies, and chart innovative understandings of experiences, embodiments, and events. From the silence into which Walter Benjamin fell after the suicide of his closest friend to the trauma of becoming the emblematic media figure of the London bombings, Traumatic Affect traverses diverse terrain: gesture and the everyday, cinema and torture, art and writing, civility and specters, media representation and Indigenous Australian film.
Featuring essays by Shoshana Felman, Karyn Ball, Jennifer L. Biddle, Anna Gibbs, Ben O’Loughlin, Anne Rutherford, Magdalena Zolkos, Aaron Kerner, Ricardo Mbarkho, Jonathan L. Knapp, Michael Richardson and Meera Atkinson, Traumatic Affect ventures into bold new territories at the juncture between trauma and affect, illuminating pressing realities that demand engagement
Exploring the relations between river bank erosion and geomorphological controls using geographically weighted logistic regression
No full textThe relations between riverbank erosion and geomorphological variables that are thought to control or influence erosion are commonly modelled using regression. For a given river, a single regression model might be fitted to data on erosion and its geomorphological controls obtained along the river's length. However, it is likely that the influence of some variables may vary with geographical location (i.e., distance upstream). For this reason, the spatially stationary regression model should be replaced with a non-stationary equivalent. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) is a suitable choice. In this paper, GWR is extended to predict the binary presence or absence of erosion via the logistic model. This extended model was applied to data obtained from historical archives and a spatially intensive field survey of a length of 42 km of the Afon Dyfi in West Wales. The model parameters and the residual deviance of the model varied greatly with distance upstream. The practical implication of the result is that different management practices should be implemented at different locations along the river. Thus, the approach presented allowed inference of spatially varying management practice as a consequence of spatially varying geomorphological process
Fear the Machine?
No full textHealthCareHow do the technological changes caused by increased automation and A.I. affect workers�������� wages and jobs? This article summarizes PERC working paper 1801, PERC��������s Director Dennis W. Jansen and co-author Michael D. Bradley study the effects of automation and artificial intelligence on employment and labor income over multiple gen-erations
Michael Chabon in a Queer Time and Place
No full textPursuing the congruency between his preoccupation with portrayals of modulating sexuality on one hand, and hybridising of literary and genre fiction on the other, this article elucidates a speculative point of contact between Michael Chabon’s work and contemporary queer thought on temporality. Exploring formations of development, hope, and utopia in his novels and essays, this article argues that analysing how gender and genre are troubled in Chabon’s work affords a new perspective on our understanding of him as a Jewish-American author
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