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Bulpitt, Joseph Henry
No full textJoseph Bulpitt was born in Southampton, England on November 29, 1886. As a young man, he immigrated to Canada where he and his wife, Isabella made their home in Lethbridge, Alberta. Joseph was active in the Salvation Army Church and enjoyed playing in the Citadel Band. At time of enlistment, he was employed as a bricklayer.
On July 18, 1915, Joseph Bulpitt enlisted with the 63rd Battalion CEF. He arrived in England on May 5, 1916 on the SS Metagama. Because of his musical talents, he spent much of his time in England on band duty. In March 1917, Pte Bulpitt was stricken with influenza and hospitalized for nearly a month. He embarked for France on May 17, 1917, and was taken on strength by the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. He served with the PPCLI for 5 months and saw action in Belgium that fall at the battle of Passchendaele.
On October 31, 1917, Pte Bulpitt suffered a severe gun shot wound to the arm and died later that day. He was laid to rest at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. Joseph Bulpitt was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal. His wife, Isabella was awarded the Memorial Cross and death plaque in honour of her husband
Instrumento de avaliação da qualidade de vida para hipertensos de Bulpitt e Fletcher Instrumento de evaluación de la calidad de vida para hipertensos de Bulpitt y Fletcher Bulpitt and Fletcher's specific questionnaire for quality of life assessment of hypertensive patients
No full textEste estudo realizou a tradução para o português e a validação do questionário específico para avaliação da qualidade de vida em hipertensos de Bulpitt e Fletcher. A tradução e o back-translation foram realizados por 4 professores de inglês e a versão final submetida a um corpo de juizes. Questões com Índice de Validade de Conteúdo menor que 80% foram modificadas e reavaliadas. O questionário foi aplicado em 110 hipertensos ambulatoriais (52 ± 8 anos, 65% mulheres, pressão arterial 128±17/ 75±13 mmHg), que também responderam ao SF-36, e em 20 normotensos, com características semelhantes às dos hipertensos. Os domínios do SF-36 e do instrumento de Bulpitt e Fletcher se correlacionaram (pEste estudio ha realizado la traducción para el portugués y la validación del cuestionario específico para evaluación de la calidad de vida en hipertensos de Bulpitt y Fletcher. La traducción y el back-translation fueron realizados por 4 profesores de inglés y la versión final sometida a un cuerpo de jueces. Cuestiones con Índice de Validad de Contenido menor que 80% fueron modificadas y reevaluadas. El cuestionario fue aplicado en 110 hipertensos en seguimiento ambulatorial (52 ± 8 años, 65% mujeres, presión arterial 128±17/ 75±13 mmHg), que también respondieron al instrumento de evaluación de calidad de vida SF-36, y en 20 normotensos, con características semejantes a de los hipertensos. Los dominios del SF-36 y del instrumento de Bulpitt y Fletcher se correlacionaron (pThis study translated and validated Bulpitt and Fletcher's Specific Questionnaire for Quality of Life Assessment of hypertensive patients. The translation and the back-translation were performed by four English teachers, and the final version was submitted to a board of referees. Questions with a Content Validity Index lower than 80% were modified and re-evaluated. The questionnaire was applied in 110 hypertensive outpatients (52 ± 8 years old, 65 % female, blood pressure 128 ± 17/75 ± 13 mmHg), which also answered the SF-36, and also in 20 normotensive people, whose characteristics were similar to those of the hypertensive subjects. The domains of SF-36 and Bulpitt and Fletcher's instrument correlated to each other (p < 0.05), except for the social aspects (r=0.07, p= 0.04) and the general state of health (r=0.04, p= 0.61). Hypertensive patients showed more positive responses to the symptoms (40%) than the normotensives (15%). The instrument was validated and is now ready to be used in our midst
Who am I and what am I doing? Becoming a qualitative research interviewer
No full textQualitative research can be influenced by the researcher's role in the study. Here, the authors propose reflexive methodologies as a means by which the processes undertaken by the researcher can be made transparent and used as part of the data. Using this approach, this paper explores the experience of becoming a qualitative research interviewer. It provides an account of dilemmas faced while undertaking a series of semi-structured interviews as part of a discourse analytic study into the practice of clinical supervision in a number of mental health professions
Fine-grained differentiable physics: a yarn-level model for fabrics
No full textDifferentiable physics modeling combines physics models with gradient-based
learning to provide model explicability and data efficiency. It has been used to
learn dynamics, solve inverse problems and facilitate design, and is at its inception of impact. Current successes have concentrated on general physics models
such as rigid bodies, deformable sheets, etc, assuming relatively simple structures and forces. Their granularity is intrinsically coarse and therefore incapable
of modelling complex physical phenomena. Fine-grained models are still to be
developed to incorporate sophisticated material structures and force interactions
with gradient-based learning. Following this motivation, we propose a new differentiable fabrics model for composite materials such as cloths, where we dive
into the granularity of yarns and model individual yarn physics and yarn-to-yarn
interactions. To this end, we propose several differentiable forces, whose counterparts in empirical physics are indifferentiable, to facilitate gradient-based learning.
These forces, albeit applied to cloths, are ubiquitous in various physical systems.
Through comprehensive evaluation and comparison, we demonstrate our model’s
explicability in learning meaningful physical parameters, versatility in incorporating complex physical structures and heterogeneous materials, data-efficiency
in learning, and high-fidelity in capturing subtle dynamics
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
is augmentation index a good measure of vascular stiffness in the elderly?
No full textObjectives: we investigated the exact relationship between age and gender on augmentation pressure (AG) and augmentation
index (AI) measured over the radial (muscular) and carotid (elastic) arteries.
Design and Methods: AG is the contribution that wave reflection makes to systolic arterial pressure. AI is an indirect measure of arterial stiffness and is calculated as AG divided by pulse pressure (PP) ×100. AG and AI both increase with age.
AG and AI were measured in 458 subjects using SphygmoCor. A total of 755 readings were obtained (302 carotid, 453 radial).
The mean age was 57.5 ± 13.7 years. Diabetic subjects were excluded. Among the subjects, 13.5% were hypertensive.
Results: statistically, women had mean values of AI significantly higher than men in both radial and carotid arteries. These
differences were less marked with AG.
Quadratic equations better described the relationship between AI and age but not AG and age. Thus, AI increased with age up to our median age of 55 years but plateaued thereafter, whereas the AG continued to increase steadily with age. A multiple regression analysis demonstrated that both AI and AG were negatively related to height and positively related to
diastolic blood pressure (DBP).
Conclusions: AG continues to increase in the elderly over the age of 55, but not AI. AI is higher in women and higher when
measured over the carotid than the radial. AI is positively related to DBP and negatively to height. AG is proposed as a more
suitable measure of arterial stiffness than AI
Learning about reflection from the student
No full textReflection, in a classroom setting, presents educators with a method for narrowing the theory-practice gap. Material from the practice environment can be brought into the classroom and used as the substance of learning from experience. Enabling students to understand and value reflection is an essential part of this process. It is also a process which should be a carefully considered and managed part of the curriculum. This article reports on a small-scale participatory action research project that examines the development of reflection from the perspective of the student. <br/
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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