76 research outputs found
The faith and patience of departed saints, [electronic resource] : recommended to the imitation of surviving Christians. A sermon occasioned by the death of Mr Joseph Longhurst, ... who departed this life June 12th, 1769, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. ... By Samuel Wilton.
No full textHalf-title: 'A funeral sermon for Mr Joseph Longhurst'.'A funeral oration .. ' has a separate half-title.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
'Thinking-through-Complicity' with Te Iwi o Ngāti Hauiti: Towards a Critical Use of Participatory Video for Research
No full textThis thesis explores some of the seductions and dangers of participatory video for research (PVR) involving Indigenous Māori and Pākehā research partners. The project within which PVR was used focused on exploring relationships between place, identity and social cohesion within ‘remote’ rural communities. It involved about 15 members of the Potaka whānau of Te Iwi o Ngāti Hauiti in the central Rangitīkei district of the North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. A small group of iwi members, myself and an audiovisual specialist and trainer negotiated the project’s focus, process and ethics during 1998. A different group of iwi members were then trained in video production and community research methods later that year and supported to produce their own productions, and carry out video research interviews with other iwi members. The entire process of negotiation, training and collaborative research was filmed for archival and research purposes with everyone’s consent, and several collaborative publications and presentations have been produced since 1999.
The discursive space opened up by Ngāti Hauiti’s engagement with, and use of, video provides an opportunity to attend to the ‘cultural mediations’ that occurred throughout the research partnership and to inquire into the possible ‘empire building effects’ of visual technologies within participatory research more generally. The focus on PVR within a Māori context also prompts questions about the visual’s transformative potential within geographic research, and the implications of working through the use of a visual medium for rethinking disciplinary practices and knowledges, particularly when working cross-culturally.
In the thesis, I first review the evolution and attendant challenges associated with both the use of participation and video within research contexts. I trace their similar origins in modernist attempts to ‘know’ and ‘empower’ marginalised others, and highlight the ongoing marginalisation of Indigenous perspectives within mainstream debates. I then engage with conceptualisations of complicity and develop an analytical framework that expands on current discursive and ideological discussions to also attend to its material, embodied and spatial dimensions.
Using this framework and a complementary autoethnographic and ‘hyper-self-reflexive’ approach, I track aspects of my own power, complicity and desire within my research practice in the PVR project during the period 1998-2001. This approach involves the development of a particular reading position to focus on critical incidents of my research practice and a means of grappling productively with the polyvalent nature of my audiovisual and other information sources. I discuss these critical incidents within three processes associated with the research: facilitation, production and reception, attending to the complex and multifaceted interplay of audiovisual texts, their producers and their audiences throughout.
Such a thesis is expedient given that powerful and often uncritical rhetoric that besets participatory research and development is fast taking hold within geography. It is also timely given the proliferation of affordable and accessible audiovisual technology and its increasing use within geography and other social sciences. As geographers respond to calls to embrace more visual, tactile and other methods, this thesis offers possibilities for the repoliticisation of participatory discourse within social geography, through a more considered engagement with participatory action research, Indigenous research practices and audiovisual media such as video. I offer cautionary insights into the ‘power-full’ effects of these ways of working
Incorporating Rural and Farm Novels in the Secondary School Classroom: Where We Come From is Who We Are
No full textPlace-based education has received significant attention in recent years. This article briefly surveys common place-based education models and then argues for a more place-focused English language arts classroom in secondary schools where rural and regional literature is often absent from the curricula. The author posits that teacher-education programs do not usually address rural or regional literature and consequently, teachers enter the classroom unprepared to teach it. The article presents a rationale for focusing on rural literature written before 1965 as well as a rationale for foregrounding the rural experience in such a course. The author then describes the process of researching and developing a course template for teacher-education programs wishing to focus on regional literature. Also included are the course template and materials developed using the Rural Lit. R.A.L.L.Y. regional and rural authors database
An investigation into variables impacting on psychological adjustment to retirement
No full textThis thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Development of a Novel Cognitive-Motor Dual Task Assessment Battery in Neurodegenerative Disease
No full textAutomaticity --- the ability to perform a task with directing attentional resources to its completion --- is commonly reduced among individuals with neurodegenerative diseases. These automaticity deficits result in impaired functional and daily activities and are sensitive to subtle, subclinical impairments. However, current measurement of automaticity by dual task paradigms is methodologically limited. In order to gain insight into the current state of the literature regarding cognitive-motor interference in symptomatic and prodromal neurodegenerative disease, the author of this dissertation conducted a scoping review (Chapter 1). To address the methodological limitations of current measurement of automaticity, a new measurement tool was proposed and evidence for its reliability and validity provided (Chapter 2). Next, the utility of this novel measure of automaticity was then investigated. In Chapter 3, the relationship between automaticity and cortical thickness was investigated among individuals with AD, revealing a relationship between the dorsal lateral prefrontal and superior parietal cortices. The relationship between amyloidosis and automaticity was then investigated among healthy individuals (Chapter 4), demonstrating the utility of this novel tool to identify individuals with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Overall the findings of this dissertation provide evidence of the reliability and validity of this novel measure of automaticity, and provide several examples of its utility over previously used measures of automaticity. Future research should investigate similar relationships with real-time functional imaging, such as functional near infrared spectroscopy, during cognitive-motor dual tasks
La colección ictiológica de la campaña Guinea 90
No full textEn este informe se presentan los datos referentes a los peces recogidos durante la campaña "GUINEA 90", con
el objetivo de dar a conocer a los ictiólogos la existencia de esta colección que se conserva actualmente
en el Centro Oceanográfico de Fuengirola.
Las 200 especies, pertenecientes a 101 familias, se incluyen en las comunidades demersales del Atlántico
Tropical Oriental (FAGER and LONGHURST, 1968; LONGHURST, 1969) y se capturaron entre 20 y 700 m de
profundidad en la plataforma y talud continental de Sierra Leona, Liberia, Cote d'lvoire y Ghana, con artes
de arrastre de fondo provistos de una luz de malla en el copo de 45 mm (RAMOS et al., 1990; FAO, 1992).
Los especímenes fueron fotografiados en fresco, determinados y congelados en abril de 1990, a bordo del B/C
"Lagoapesca", arrastrero español a bordo del cúal se llevó a cabo la campaña. Con posterioridad se
trasvasaron a frascos de vidrio con una disolución de alcohol etílico (70%) o formaldehído (10%).
El archivo de datos de las 308 ejemplares de que consta la colección, está confeccionado en DBASE III PLUS
y contiene para cada una de ellos la siguiente información: código, familia, género, especie, autor, año,
talla, número de la fotografía, nombre vulgar, zona, latitud geográfica, longitud geográfica, profundidad,
nombre de la campaña, arte, número de la estación, método de conservación y observaciones.This report presents data on fishes collected in the "GUINEA 90" Survey with the objective of informing
ichthyologists about the existence of this collection which is at the moment stored up in Oceanographic
Center of Fuengirola (Málaga).
The 200 species and 101 families belong to demersal communities of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (FAGER and
LONGHURST, 1968; LONGHURST, 1969) and were caught from 20 to 700 m depth in continental shelf and slope of
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'lvoire and Ghana, using bottom trawl gear with 45 mm mesh size in the cod-end
(RAMOS et al., 1990; FAO, 1992).
Specimens were photographeds in fresh, classified and frozen on April 1 990, on board of "Lagoapesca", a
Spanish trawler in which the survey was carried out. These were afterwards decanted to glass jars in an
alcohol (70%) or formaldehyde (10%) solution.
Data file of 308 exemplaires which compose the collection, is in a DBASE III PLUS file and has information
on cede, family, genus, species, author, year, size/s, common name, preservation, photographie number/s,
zone, geographical latitude, geographical longitude, depth (in meters), Survey name, gear, number station
and observations.0,000
Unamuno o la novela como empresa filosófica. Tres conceptos: libertad, identidad, comunidad
No full textOutside of Spain, Unamuno is scarcely thought of as a significant thinker. He is seen rather as a versatile but unsystematic writer, the author of an impassioned essay on religion and, more particularly, of highly original literary products, especially novels. Yet in common with some other continental writers of the twentieth century, Unamuno used literature as a medium through which to explore abstract ideas, and many of his major works can be properly regarded as explorations of philosophical themes, and are susceptible of analysis as such. The present article studies four of Unamuno’s best-known novels from the point of view of three perennial topics in Western philosophy: the problem of free will, the nature of personal identity, and the role of community in our livesFuera de España, Unamuno carece de relieve como pensador. Se le considera primordialmente autor de un apasionado ensayo sobre religión y especialmente de obras literarias fuertemente originales, sobre todo novelas, pero su versatilidad como escritor ha inhibido la sistematización de su pensamiento. No obstante, Unamuno comparte con otros escritores de la Europa continental del siglo XX el hecho de haber utilizado la literatura como vehículo de exploración de ideas abstractas, y muchas de sus principales obras literarias constituyen incursiones en temas filosóficos que podemos analizar desde la correspondiente perspectiva. A través de cuatro de sus más conocidas novelas, este artículo estudia el planteamiento que hace Unamuno de tres temas recurrentes de la filosofía occidental: el problema del libre albedrío, la naturaleza de la identidad personal, y el papel de la comunidad en nuestra vida
‘They need somebody to talk to':Parents' and carers' perceptions of school-based humanistic counselling
No full textAbstract Parents and carers are likely to take on a significant responsibility for managing an adolescent's mental health and well-being. Accordingly, their perceptions provide insight into the value of an intervention. This study explored parents' and carers' perceptions and expectations of school-based humanistic counselling, as received by a socially diverse group of young people (13–16 years old) in secondary schools in Greater London, UK. Semi-structured interviews from 17 parents and carers were analysed thematically. Two superordinate themes were identified: (a) the context of counselling, and (b) the content of counselling, the latter referring to stages of the therapeutic process and its outcomes. Schools were perceived as an ideal environment for the provision of professional mental health support, as it reaches young people in a natural, convenient setting and therefore promotes and/or widens access to universal support, as well as targeted interventions. Parents and carers further emphasised the importance of overall well-being, academic performance and social relationships.© 2021, The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ <br/
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