12,591 research outputs found
The International Study of Insulin and Cancer
No full textThe international study of insulin and cancer.
Grimaldi-Bensouda L, Marty M, Pollak M, Cameron D, Riddle M, Charbonnel B, Barnett AH, Boffetta P, Boivin JF, Evans M, Rossignol M, Benichou J, Abenhaim L; ISICA group
Beyond labelling: What strategies do nut allergic individuals employ to make food choices? A qualitative study
No full textThis article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ 2013 Barnett et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Objective: Food labelling is an important tool that assists people with peanut and tree nut allergies to avoid allergens.
Nonetheless, other strategies are also developed and used in food choice decision making. In this paper, we examined the
strategies that nut allergic individuals deploy to make safe food choices in addition to a reliance on food labelling.
Methods: Three qualitative methods: an accompanied shop, in-depth semi-structured interviews, and the product choice
reasoning task – were used with 32 patients that had a clinical history of reactions to peanuts and/or tree nuts consistent
with IgE-mediated food allergy. Thematic analysis was applied to the transcribed data.
Results: Three main strategies were identified that informed the risk assessments and food choice practices of nut allergic
individuals. These pertained to: (1) qualities of product such as the product category or the country of origin, (2) past
experience of consuming a food product, and (3) sensory appreciation of risk. Risk reasoning and risk management
behaviours were often contingent on the context and other physiological and socio-psychological needs which often
competed with risk considerations.
Conclusions: Understanding and taking into account the complexity of strategies and the influences of contextual factors
will allow healthcare practitioners, allergy nutritionists, and caregivers to advise and educate patients more effectively in
choosing foods safely. Governmental bodies and policy makers could also benefit from an understanding of these food
choice strategies when risk management policies are designed and developed.United Kingdom Food Standards Agenc
The strategies that peanut and nut-allergic consumers employ to remain safe when travelling abroad
No full textCopyright @ 2012 Barnett et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Background: An understanding of the management strategies used by food allergic individuals is needed as a prerequisite to improving avoidance and enhancing quality of life. Travel abroad is a high risk time for severe and fatal food allergic reactions, but there is paucity of research concerning foreign travel. This study is the first to investigate the experiences of, and strategies used by peanut and tree nut allergic individuals when travelling abroad. Methods: Thirty-two adults with a clinical history of reaction to peanuts or tree nuts consistent with IgE-mediated allergy participated in a qualitative interview study. Results: Travel abroad was considered difficult with inherent risks for allergic individuals. Many participants recounted difficulties with airlines or restaurants. Inconsistency in managing allergen avoidance by airlines was a particular risk and a cause of frustration to participants. Individuals used a variety of strategies to remain safe including visiting familiar environments, limiting their activities, carrying allergy information cards in the host language, preparing their own food and staying close to medical facilities. Conclusions: Participants used a variety of allergen avoidance strategies, which were mostly extensions or modifications of the strategies that they use when eating at home or eating-out in the UK. The extended strategies reflected their recognition of enhanced risk during travel abroad. Their risk assessments and actions were generally well informed and appropriate. A need for airline policy regarding allergy to be declared and adhered to is needed, as is more research to quantify the true risks of airborne allergens in the cabin. Recommendations arising from our study are presented.This study is funded by the UK Food Standards Agency under project code T07058
Mayriella ebbei Shattuck & Barnett, 2007, sp. nov.
No full textMayriella ebbei Shattuck & Barnett, sp. nov. Figures 6 - 9 TYPE MATERIAL Holotype worker from Australia, Booroomba Rocks, 35 ° 33 ' S148 ° 59 ' E, Australian Capital Territory, 16 March 1992, S. O. Shattuck, eucalypt woodland (ANIC); ca. 60 worker and 1 dealate queen paratypes, same data as holotype (ANIC, BMNH, MCZC) (as well as numerous additional larvae and worker pupae and 2 male pupae). ADDITIONAL MATERIAL (In ANIC unless otherwise noted). Australia, ACT: 5 km SW Orroral Tracking Station(Lowery, B. B.); Black Mt., S slope (lake road) (Taplin, I. C.); Blundells Creek Rd, 3.5 km E Piccadilly Circus (Lawerence, J.);Booroomba Rocks, 35 ° 33 ' S148 ° 59 ' E (Shattuck, S. O.); Brindabella Range(Lowery, B. B.);Wombat Creek, 6 km NE Piccadilly Circus, 35 ° 19 ' S148 ° 51 ' E (Weir, Lawerence & Johnson); foot of Mt. Majura(Lowery, B. B.); nr. Lees Spring,Brindabella Range (Taylor, R. W.);New South Wales: 4.5 km WNW Pigeon House Mt., 35 ° 21 ' S150 ° 13 ' E (Hill, L.); Burns Bay, Lane Cove, Sydney(Lowery, B. B.); Castle Flat, Clyde River floodplain, 32 ° 21 ' S150 ° 13 ' E (Hill, L.); Gerroa, 10 mi S Kiama(Lowery, B. B.); Kanangra Brook and Rocky Spur,Kanangra-Boyd Natl Pk (Hill, L.);Kanangra-Boyd Natl Pk (Hill, L.); Lane Cove, Sydney(Lowery, B. B.); Riverview College, Lane Cove, Sydney(Lowery, B. B.); Tallaganda State Forest, Captain's Flat (Lowery, B. B.); Tamborine Bay, Lane Cove,Sydney(Lowery, B. B.); Tamborine Bay, Sydney(Lowery, B. B.);South Australia: Belair (Greenslade, P. J. M.); Bridgewater (Hutson); Bridgewater, Englebrook (Greenslade, P. J. M.); Christenson Park, Sevenhill(Lowery, B. B.); Maclaren Flat (Kirkby, C. A.); Mt. Lofty, S Para (Hutson); Sevenhill(Lowery, B. B.); West Bay, Kangaroo Island(Greenslade, P. J. M.);Tasmania: Eddystone Point (Trueman, J. & Cranston, P.);Victoria: 12 km E Warburton(Newton, A. & Thayer, M.); Arthur's Seat (McCrae) (Brown, W. L.) (MCZC);Mt. Buffalo Natl Pk(Newton, A. & Thayer, M.); Narbethong (McAreavy, J.); Oberon Creek, Summit Mt., Wilsons Prom. (Ettershank, G.); One Tree Hill, Melbourne(Lowery, B. B.); Portland (Beauglehole, C.); Queenstown, nr. Hurstbridge(Lowery, B. B.). DIAGNOSIS This species can be separated from others in this genus by the presence of numerous erect hairs on the gaster. It shares the shape of the outer margins of the postpetiole with M. spinosior, but differs from this species in the shape of the petiolar node and in having more than four erect hairs on the postpetiole. WORKER DESCRIPTION Sculpturing in posterior section of antennal scrobe well developed and distinct; sculpturing on dorsal surface of mesosoma consisting of large, closely spaced pits; propodeal spines relatively long and thin; dorsal surface of petiole in lateral profile uniformly convex, without distinct dorsal and posterior faces and forming an obtuse angle with the anterior face; in dorsal view, anterior region of postpetiole expanded relative to posterior region; dorsum of postpetiole with more than four erect hairs; dorsum of gaster with numerous erect hairs. Measurements. Worker (n = 10) - CI 0.90 - 0.98; HL 0.47 - 0.58; HTL 0.26 - 0.34; HW 0.43 - 0.54; ML 0.49 - 0.64; PW 0.30 - 0.40; SI 0.62 - 0.66; SL 0.27 - 0.35. COMMENTS This is the southernmost species of Mayriella and occurs in generally drier sites compared to other species. Although widely distributed it shows minimal geographic variation in the characters examined during this study. Biologically, this species is found primarily in drier habitats such as sclerophyll woodlands, low scrub, ti-tree scrub and coastal heath and less commonly in wet sclerophyll and rainforests. Nests occur in soil in the open or under stones or other objects on the ground, and in rotten wood.Published as part of Shattuck, S. O. & Barnett, N. J., 2007, Revision of the ant genus Mayriella., pp. 437-458 in Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80 on pages 444-44
Would you ever drink the water?
No full textThis chapter brings together the physical hydrology of the river catchment and the estuary, population growth and water demand, management of wastewater and polluting behaviours, people’s trust in the government, and the styles of government decision-making to model the possible futures for Shanghai’s water supply using a Bayesian Belief Network. Three scenarios, each with two variants, are modelled: high growth rate with an authoritarian socio-political order; slower growth, authoritarian and inflexible; slower growth, flexible, participatory and pluralist. The variants are environmental states: (a) the environment imposes increasing challenges; (b) the environment is relatively benign. This model combines quantitative forecasting techniques with a qualitative understanding of broader structural changes. The results indicate that lower growth leads to a greater quantity of water in the Changjiang and that more inclusive forms of governance have additional benefits for water quality, water quantity and trust in the water that is delivered
Canon Barnett and the first thirty years of Toynbee Hall
No full textPhDThis thesis is a study of the changing role which Toynbee
Hall, the first university settlement, played in East London between
1884 and 1914. The first chapter presents a brief biography of
Sainiel Augustus Barnett, the founder and first warden of the
settlement, and analyzes his social thought in relation to the
beliefs which were current in Britain during the period. The
second chapter discusses the founding of the settlement, its organization, structure and the aims which underlay its early work. The
third chapter, concentrating on three residents, C.R. Ashbee, .H.
Beveridge and T. Edmund Harvey, shows the way in which subsequent
settlement workers reformulated these aims In accordance with their
own social and economic views. The subsequent chapters discuss the
accomplishments of the settlement in various fields. The fourth
shows that Toynbee Hall's educational program, which was largely an
attempt to work out Matthew Arnold's theory of culture, left little
impact on the life of East London. The fifth chapter discusses the
settlement residents' ineffectual attempts to establish contact with
working men's organizations. The final chapter seeks to demonstrate
that In the field of philanthropy the residents were far more successful than in any other sphere in adapting the settlement to changing
social thought
Effect of blood flow on ultrasound-induced heating in fetal and neonatal brain
No full textJournal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2000; 19(4): S34.S. B. Barnett, M. M. Horder and P. M. Dugga
Recommended from our members
Graham Barnett: A Dangerous Man
No full textGraham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a storied career, but not an end to the legends that claimed he was a gunman, a hired pistolero on both sides of the border, a Texas Ranger known for questionable shootings in Company B under Captain Fox, a deputy sheriff, a bootlegger, and a possible “fixer” for both law enforcement and outlaw organizations. In real life he was a good cowboy, who provided for his family the best way he could, and who did so by slipping seamlessly between the law enforcement community and the world of illegal liquor traffickers. Stories say he killed unnumbered men on the border, but he stood trial only twice and was acquitted both times.
Barnett lived in the twentieth century but carried with him many of the attitudes of old frontier Texas. Among those beliefs was that if there were problems, a man dealt with them directly and forcefully—with a gun. His penchant to settle a score with gunplay brought him into confrontation with Sheriff W. C. Fowler, a former friend, who shot Barnett with the latter’s own submachine gun on loan. One contemporary summed it up best: “Officers in West Texas got the best sleep they had had in twenty years that Sunday night after Fowler killed Graham.” The contents include: Graham Barnett 1890-1931, It was him or me -- 1890-1908 "He shot dove with a rifle" -- 1908-1913 "A fair man but he expected my brothers and me to live by his strict rules" -- 1912-1913 "When I put my hand in my pocket, he knew it was all over" -- 1914-1916 "I was shot all to pieces" -- 1914-1915 "I knew Graham was in some kind of trouble" -- 1915-1917 "Conspiring to steal certain property of the United States of America" -- 1917-1925 "Wild West won't do" -- 1925 "Come on in, you're as welcome as a corpse" -- 1925 "No, he isn't going to kill me, he hasn't nerve enough" -- 1925-1928 "I want you to send him a telegram and tell him that I am the biggest damn liar in the State of Texas" -- 1928-1929 "As frequently occurs, jealousy and enmity between rival gangs developed" -- 1929-1931 "He would kill you in a holy second" -- December 7, 1931 "I wasn't surprised when they told me" -- March 1932-present "It was all too true" -- Postscript "Death steals everything from us except our stories"
International Financial Aggregation and Index Number Theory: A Chronological Half-Century Empirical Overview.
No full textThis paper comprises a survey of a half century of research on international monetary aggregate data. We argue that since monetary assets began yielding interest, the simple sum monetary aggregates have had no foundations in economic theory and have sequentially produced one source of misunderstanding after another. The bad data produced by simple sum aggregation have contaminated research in monetary economics, have resulted in needless “paradoxes,” and have produced decades of misunderstandings in international monetary economics research and policy. While better data, based correctly on index number theory and aggregation theory, now exist, the official central bank data most commonly used have not improved in most parts of the world. While aggregation theoretic monetary aggregates exist for internal use at the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and many other central banks throughout the world, the only central banks that currently make aggregation theoretic monetary aggregates available to the public are the Bank of England and the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. No other area of economics has been so seriously damaged by data unrelated to valid index number and aggregation theory. In this paper we chronologically review the past research in this area and connect the data errors with the resulting policy and inference errors. Future research on monetary aggregation and policy can most advantageously focus on extensions to exchange rate risk and its implications for multilateral aggregation over monetary asset portfolios containing assets denominated in more than one currency. The relevant theory for multilateral aggregation with exchange rate risk has been derived by Barnett (2007) and Barnett and Wu (2005).Measurement error, monetary aggregation, Divisia index, aggregation, monetary policy, index number theory, exchange rate risk, multilateral aggregation, open economy monetary economics.
- …
