225 research outputs found
Verity
No full textLowen, a struggling writer grieving her mother\u27s recent death and wondering where her career is headed, is offered an incredible opportunity: to finish bestselling author Verity Crawford’s series of novels. While staying at the Crawford house to finish the series, Lowen uncovers an unpublished autobiography of Verity that reveals shocking secrets about her life. Lowen gets entangled in a heated relationship with Jeremy, Verity’s husband, and is caught in a dilemma of whether she should tell Jeremy about Verity’s secrets.
Author Colleen Hoover is incredibly popular in the romance community today for very good reason. Verity is in production to be her second movie adaptation due to its immense popularity. This book takes romance and layers darker and more suspenseful themes, making it extremely engaging.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_popularromance/1097/thumbnail.jp
Pieris daplidice subsp. nitida Verity 1908
No full textPieris daplidice race nitida Verity, 1908 (Rhop. Pal., p. 132; also cited as a “forme” both on this same page and on Pl. XXX, Fig. 9) LT: Asia Minor: Fanaraki, and [Spain]: Andalusia: Malaga (TD: MZUF, Syntypes 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀: Kudrna 1983). This taxon was listed as a synonym of either Pontia edusa (e.g. Hesselbarth et al. 1995, 1: 426) or of P. daplidice (García-Barros et al. 2013, p. 960), respectively for the fauna of Turkey and for that of Spain. Kudrna (1983: 58), Wagener (1988: 35) and Hesselbarth et al. (1995: 426) regarded “nitida” Verity, 1908 as an unavailable infrasubspecific name. However, Art. 45.6.4 states that [the rank denoted by a species-group name following a binomen] “is subspecific if first published before 1961 and its author expressly used one of the terms “variety” or “form” …, unless its author also expressly gave it infrasubspecific rank, or the content of the work unambiguously reveals that the name was proposed for an infrasubspecific entity …”. Verity wrote: “[dans les régions] qui semblent être surtout les plus arides (telles que l’Espagne, l’Algérie et l’Asie Mineure) [Pieris daplidice] semble avoir une tendance à être plus petit, à avoir les ailes plus larges, le limbe externe plus convexe, les dessins d’un noir plus profond et à contours plus arrêtés …”. The name Pieris daplidice race nitida Verity, 1908 is therefore available. The originally designated syntypes probably belong to two separate species, but no lectotype was validly designated by any of the preceding authors under Art. 74. Both Pontia daplidice and P. edusa may possibly co-occur in parts of Turkey (see Geiger et al. 1988, Hesselbarth et al. 1995 and John et al. 2013), while only P. daplidice is known to occur in Spain. We therefore designate the ♂ Syntype in MZUF from: [Spanien]: Andalusien: Malaga, C. Ribbe [legit], as Lec- totype of Pieris daplidice race nitida Verity, 1908 (see Fig. 1A). Consequently, the latter name becomes fixed as a junior subjective synonym of Papilio daplidice Linnaeus, 1758.Published as part of Balletto, Emilio, Barbero, Francesca, Bonelli, Simona, Casacci, Luca P. & Dapporto, Leonardo, 2020, Stabilisation of some names of European butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in their prevailing usage, pp. 387-395 in Zootaxa 4780 (2) on page 388, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/384245
In conversation with M.G.Leanord
No full textVerity Jones and Amanda Webber caught up with M. G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy, to talk about why getting the science right in children’s fiction is so important and how this book might inspire an interest in understanding and protecting insects
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Literature Review
No full textThe author list for the literature review is provided below:
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Literature Review
Chapter authors:
Introduction and methods
Verity, F., Wallace, S., Llewellyn, M., Anderson, P. and Lyttleton-Smith, J.
Well-being
Anderson, P., Lyttleton-Smith, J., Kosnes, L., Read, S., Blackmore, H. and Williams, Z.
Prevention and early intervention
Verity, F., Read, S. and Richards, J.
Co-production
Andrews, N., Calder, G., Blanluet, N., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, S.
Multi-agency
Wallace, C., Orrell, A., Garthwaite, T., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, S.
Voice and control
Llewellyn, M., Saltus, R., Blackmore, H., Tetlow, S., Williams, Z. and Wallace, S.
Financial and economic
Phillips, C., Prowle, M., Tetlow, S. and Williams, Z.
Service user and carer experiences under the Act
Wallace, S.This report is a summary of the extensive review of the literature to inform the evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. This document is a summary of the extensive review of the literature undertaken to inform the evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (hereafter referred to as ‘the Act’).1 The Welsh Government has commissioned a partnership between academics across four universities in Wales and expert advisers to deliver the evaluation. The Act sets out a government vision to produce ‘transformative changes’ in social service public policy, regulations, and delivery arrangements across Wales. It has 11 parts and is informed by five principles that set out a vision to produce transformative changes in public policy, regulations, and service delivery. Aligned to it are structures, processes, and codes of practice. The Evaluation of the Act – a study called IMPACT – is organised around each of the five principles together with a focus on the financial and economic aspects of the Act’s implementation. The approach to undertaking this evaluation research is to structure the evaluation by using the fundamental principles of the Act as the scaffolding. These principles are: • Well-being • Prevention • Co-Production • Multi-agency working • Voice and control There is also a focus on the financial and economic considerations of the implementation of the Act and this area constitutes the sixth evaluation study theme
The “Verity” Concept Development Journey of the Western Painting
No full text西方绘画艺术的“真”的概念在数千年的嬗变中,其内涵和外延不断丰富。不论绘画是作为通过精确计算再现三维空间的“欺骗眼睛的艺术”,还是以明晰的形、严整有序的结构,寻求诸种关系的和谐的形式出现,亦或回到艺术家主观纯粹情感,极力表现个体情感真实的方式,实际上人们都在力求让绘画与外在或内在的“真”达到相似或者吻合一致,强调达到“逼真”的把握。论文试通过绘画史不同阶段绘画特点及当时美学思想的分析,大致整理出西方绘画真实观发展变化之脉络。The “verity” concept of western painting has experienced thousands of year's evolution,during which its connotation and extension are improving continuously.Painting,which is no matter as “the art of cheating the eyes” that calculating and reappearing precisely three-dimensional space or aim at harmonious form appearance of various kinds of relations with clear form and neat orderly structure,or return to the artist's objective pure emotions,making every effort to express their individual true feelings form,is trying its best to attain the similarity even conformity between painting and the “verity” of either external or internal,emphasizing to grasp the purpose of “verisimilitude”.In this essay,the author intends to analyze the characters of painting in its different phases and the time being aesthetic conception,and thus obtains the course during which the “verity” concept of western painting develops
A systematic review and synthesis of outcome domains for use within forensic services for people with intellectual disabilities
No full textBackgroundThere is limited empirical information on service-level outcome domains and indicators for the large number of people with intellectual disabilities being treated in forensic psychiatric hospitals. Aims This study identified and developed the domains that should be used to measure treatment outcomes for this population. Method A systematic review of the literature highlighted 60 studies which met eligibility criteria; they were synthesised using content analysis. The findings were refined within a consultation and consensus exercises with carers, patients and experts. Results The final framework encompassed three a priori superordinate domains: (a) effectiveness, (b) patient safety and (c) patient and carer experience. Within each of these, further sub-domains emerged from our systematic review and consultation exercises. These included severity of clinical symptoms, offending behaviours, reactive and restrictive interventions, quality of life and patient satisfaction. Conclusions To index recovery, services need to measure treatment outcomes using this framework.</p
Researching outcomes from forensic services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities: a systematic review, evidence synthesis and expert and patient/carer consultation
No full textBackground: Inpatient services for people with intellectual and other types of developmental disabilities
(IDD) who also have forensic or risk issues are largely provided in secure hospitals. Although this is a
health service sector with high levels of expenditure, there is limited empirical information on patient
outcomes from such services. In order for a future substantive longitudinal outcomes study in forensic IDD services to be informed and feasible, more needs to be understood about the outcome domains that are of relevance and importance and how they should be measured. A preliminary series of studies were undertaken.
Objectives: To synthesise evidence in relation to the outcome domains that have been researched in the existing literature from hospital and community forensic services for people with IDD, within the broad domains of service effectiveness, patient safety and patient experience. To identify a definitive framework of outcome domains (and associated measures and indicators) based both on this research evidence and on the views of patients, carers and clinicians. To synthesise the information gathered in order to
inform design of future multisite longitudinal research in the sector.
Design: Three linked studies were conducted. Stage 1 was a systematic review and evidence synthesis of outcome domains and measures as found within the forensic IDD literature. Stage 2 was a consultation exercise with 15 patients with IDD and six carers. Stage 3 was a modified Delphi consensus exercise with 15 clinicians and experts using the information gathered at stages 1 and 2.
Results: At stage 1, 60 studies that researched a range of outcomes in forensic IDD services were identified from the literature. This resulted in the construction of an initial framework of outcome domains. The consultation with patients and carers at stage 2 added to these framework domains that related particularly to carer experience and the level of support post discharge in the community. The Delphi process at stage 3 confirmed the validity of the resulting framework for clinician. This survey also identified
the outcome measures preferred by clinicians and those that are currently utilised in services. Thus, indicators of appropriate measures in some important domains were identified, although there was a paucity of measures in other domains.
Conclusions: Together, these three linked studies led to the development of an evidence-based framework of key outcome domains and subdomains. A provisional list of associated measures and indicators was developed, although with the paucity of measures in some domains development of specific indicators may be required. With further refinement this could eventually be utilised by services and
commissioners for comparative purposes, and in future empirical research on outcomes in forensic IDD services. An outline research proposal closely linked to recent policy initiatives was proposed. Limitations of the study include the relatively small number of carers and patients and range of experts consulted. Future work: This would comprise a national longitudinal study tracking IDD in patients through hospitalisation and discharge.
Study registration: This study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42015016941.
Funding: The National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme
Errors in juvenile copepod growth rate estimates are widespread: problems with the Moult Rate method
No full textThe ‘Moult Rate’ (MR) method has been used widely to derive stage-specific growth rates in juvenile copepods. It is the most common field-based method. Unfortunately, the equation underlying the method is wrong and, consequently, large errors in juvenile growth rate estimates are widespread. The equation derives growth from the mean weight of 2 consecutive stages (i and i + 1) and the duration of stage i. The weight change and the period to which this change is attributed are, therefore, offset. We explore this potential source of error in the MR method critically. Errors arise as a result of 2 primary factors: (1) unequal durations of successive stages and (2) unequal rates of growth of successive stages. The method of deriving the mean weight (arithmetic or geometric) also has an impact and is examined. Using a steady-state assumption, a range of scenarios and the errors that arise are examined. The literature is then reviewed and the size of errors resulting from MR method application in both field and laboratory situations is estimated. Our results suggest that the MR method can lead to large errors in growth estimation in any stage, but some stages are particularly prone. Errors for the C5 stage are often large because the following stage (the adult) does not moult, and has a different rate of body weight increase. For the same reason, errors are also great where the following stage is not actively moulting (e.g. when diapausing). In these circumstances, published work has commonly greatly underestimated growth. For example, MR growth ranges from 11 to 47% of the value derived correctly for this stage, gi_corr (calculated assuming the non-moulting stage does not grow). In late stages that are followed by actively moulting stages, the MR method has commonly given values in excess of 150% of gi_corr, but underestimation also occurs, with values <90% of gi_corr. We propose new methods and equations that overcome these problems. These equations are written with and without within-stage mortality included. The equations are relatively insensitive to mortality rates within the range found in the field, but only provided that the stage duration is not determined from moult rate. Stage duration estimates obtained from measuring moulting rates of field-collected animals are very sensitive to mortality rates of the animals prior to capture, and field mortality rates are often high enough to produce dramatic over-estimation of stage duration
Head banging as a form of self-harm among inpatients within forensic mental health and intellectual disability services
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