2,022 research outputs found
Introduzione
No full textIntroduction to the issue of Textus, edited by the author and Stuart Curran, dedicated to "Renaissance and Romanticism: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Transmission of Literary and Cultural Models
James Curran: Ethereal Scottish Athlete and American Coaching Legend
No full textIn common with many professional coaches of the Edwardian era there is little trace of Jimmy Curran in documentary records; he is normally remembered as the former professional athlete who noticed Wyndham Halswelle’s running talent when they were serving together in the Highland Light Infantry in the Boer War. Curran convinced Halswelle to take up athletics seriously when the regiment returned to Britain and coached him to success in the Army 880 yards championship in 1904 and both the Scottish and English 440 yards titles in 1905. Halswelle went on to win the controversial 400 metres in the 1908 London Olympics. Curran had left for America in 1907 leaving fellow ex-soldier and Powderhall professional Jack Dalziel to coach Halswelle. Today, Curran is remembered in America as the legendary coach of Mercersburg Academy who was involved in the development of 13 Olympic track and field athletes between 1912 and 1964 who won six gold, one silver and two bronze medals between them. This paper seeks to expound the biography of Curran particularly analysing his own negotiated relationship with amateurism and professionalism whilst also examining the struggle between the value systems of the Charterhouse (Public School) and Sandhurst (military school) educated gentleman amateur Lieutenant Halswelle and the working class Lance Corporal Curran. The paper then considers Curran’s motivation in travelling to America in 1907 and his relationship with Mike Murphy, the University of Pennsylvania coach and chief coach of the 1908 U.S. Olympic team, who recommended Curran to Mercersburg Academy as their track and field coach in 1910
Estimating monthly poverty rates in the United States
No full textOfficial poverty estimates for the United States are presented annually, based on a family unit's annual resources, and reported with a considerable lag. This study introduces a framework to produce monthly estimates of the Supplemental Poverty Measure and official poverty measure, based on a family unit's monthly income, and with a two-week lag. We argue that a shorter accounting period and more timely estimates of poverty better account for intra-year income volatility and better inform the public of current economic conditions. Our framework uses two versions of the Current Population Survey to estimate monthly poverty while accounting for changes in policy, demographic composition, and labor market characteristics. Validation tests demonstrate that our monthly poverty estimates closely align with observed trends in the Survey of Income & Program Participation from 2004 to 2016 and trends in hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework to measure trends in monthly poverty from January 1994 through September 2021. Monthly poverty rates generally declined in the 1990s, increased throughout the 2000s, and declined after the Great Recession through the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Within-year variation in monthly poverty rates, however, has generally increased. Among families with children, within-year variation in monthly poverty rates is comparable to between-year variation, largely due to the average family with children receiving 37 percent of its annual income transfers in a single month through one-time tax credit payments. Moving forward, researchers can apply our framework to produce monthly poverty rates whenever more timely estimates are desired
Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran 1927
No full textTrichopalpus nigribasis Curran, 1927 Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran, 1927: 255. HOLOTYPE: J, Canada,Alta.[= Alberta], Banff, 23.viii.1922, No. 2606, C. B. G. Garrett leg. (CNC). Chaetosa pilirostris Ringdahl, 1936: 178. HOLOTYPE: J, Norway, ‘im nördlichen Norwegen [= in northern Norway], Ein J vom Verf. bei Tromsö [= one male collected by the author near Tromsø]’ (probably MZLU). Synonymized by GORODKOV (1986: 28). Distribution. Finland (HACKMAN 1980: 131); Norway (NELSON & GREVE 2002: 46); Nearctic region (VOCKEROTH 1965: 836).Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on pages 140-141, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.534249
The effects of the monthly and lump-sum Child Tax Credit payments on food and housing hardship
No full textIn March 2021, the US Congress passed the American Rescue Plan (ARP), which included a large but temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC). This study investigates the effects of the expanded CTC on two key indicators of material hardship: food insufficiency and not being caught up on rent or mortgage payments.Prior to the expanded CTC, tax filers could receive a maximum of 3,000 for children ages 6-17 and 250 per older child or 1,500 (over age 6) or $1,800 (under 6) was provided around March 2022 upon tax filing.Our findings on the CTC's effects on food and housing hardship are consistent with earlier research that studied the consequences of the initial monthly payments for food hardship (Parolin et al. 2021; Perez-Lopez 2021; Shafer et al. 2022) but expand on that work by using stronger research design to isolate plausibly causal effects, studying housing hardship in addition to food hardship and assessing the differential effects of the lump-sum as well as monthly payments. Previous theoretical literature (Thaler and Johnson 1990) and empirical work on other types of government payments (Shaefer, Song, and Shanks 2013; Sykes et al. 2015) suggest that households treat lump-sum payments differently from monthly payments, reserving the former for larger expenditures and debt repayment and the latter to meet ongoing, basic needs such as groceries. We find that households respond to the CTC in exactly this way, with food insecurity declining during the monthly payment period and rent/mortgage arrears falling during the lump-sum payment period
Simple microfluidics for complex organisms: A microfluidic chip System for growth and Morphogenesis studies of filamentous fungi
No full textGrünberger A, Schmitz K, Probst C, Noack S, Wiechert W, Kohlheyer D. Simple microfluidics for complex organisms: A microfluidic chip System for growth and Morphogenesis studies of filamentous fungi. In: 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2013). Red Hook, NY: Curran; 2014
Liver fibrosis markers and all cause mortality in people with type 2 diabetes: a population based study (The Ayrshire Diabetes Outcomes Cohort (ADOC) Study)
No full textAims: To describe the distribution of the biomarker scores Fibrosis-4 (FIB4), nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) fibrosis score (NFS), and aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI), and the associations between risk categories and all-cause mortality. Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of 12 589 patients, with follow-up from January 2012 until November 2021. The cut-off points used to identify low risk were: FIB4 <1.3 if aged <65 years or <2.0 if aged ≥65 years; NFS < −1.455 if aged <65 years or <0.12 if aged ≥ 65 years; APRI <1 (independent of age). High-risk cut-off points were FIB4 >2.67, NFS >0.676 and APRI ≥1 (all independent of age). Multivariable Cox regression analysis was performed to assess the association between liver fibrosis scores and all-cause mortality. Results: The mean ± standard deviation age was 65.2 ± 12.1 years, 54.5% were men and the median (interquartile range) diabetes duration was 5.8 (2.8–9.3) years. The prevalence of high-risk categories was 6.1% for FIB4, 23.5% for NFS and 1.6% for APRI. During a median follow-up of 9.8 years, 3925 patients (31.1%) died, resulting in a crude mortality rate of 40.4 per 1000 person-years. The overall adjusted all-cause mortality hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) in the high- compared with low-fibrosis-risk groups were 3.69 (1.95–2.75) for FIB4, 2.32 (2.88–4.70) for NFS, and 3.92 (2.88–5.34) for APRI. Stratified adjusted all-cause mortality hazard ratios for individuals under 65 years and people over 65 years of age at cohort entry were 3.89 (95% CI 2.99–5.05) and 1.44 (95% CI 1.28–1.61) for FIB4, 2.50 (95% CI 1.89–3.18) and 1.35 (95% CI 1.24–1.48) for NFS and 3.74 (95% CI 2.73–5.14) and 1.64 (95% CI 1.24–2.17) for APRI. Conclusions: All three fibrosis risk scores were positively associated with all-cause mortality in people with type 2 diabetes, with higher relative risks in younger than older people. Effective interventions are required to minimize excess mortality in people at high risk of liver fibrosis.</p
Widening the gap – Indigenous affairs
No full textThe author points out the implications for aboriginal Australians of the decision to cut funding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services. Curran gives individual examples to show how early intervention to give aboriginals effective access to services and avoid jail helps to close the gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people and saves taxpayers’ money
sj-docx-3-aop-10.1177_10600280221120405 – Supplemental material for Impact of a Multicomponent Educational Intervention on Community Pharmacy–Based Naloxone Services Implementation: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-aop-10.1177_10600280221120405 for Impact of a Multicomponent Educational Intervention on Community Pharmacy–Based Naloxone Services Implementation: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial by Lindsey A. Hohmann, Brent I. Fox, Kimberly B. Garza, Chih-Hsuan Wang, Christopher Correia, Geoffrey M. Curran and Salisa C. Westrick in Annals of Pharmacotherapy</p
sj-docx-4-aop-10.1177_10600280221120405 – Supplemental material for Impact of a Multicomponent Educational Intervention on Community Pharmacy–Based Naloxone Services Implementation: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-4-aop-10.1177_10600280221120405 for Impact of a Multicomponent Educational Intervention on Community Pharmacy–Based Naloxone Services Implementation: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial by Lindsey A. Hohmann, Brent I. Fox, Kimberly B. Garza, Chih-Hsuan Wang, Christopher Correia, Geoffrey M. Curran and Salisa C. Westrick in Annals of Pharmacotherapy</p
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