39 research outputs found
Out of reach the poetry of Philip Larkin
No full textSince his death in 1985, Philip Larkin, generally regarded as England's finest post-war poet, has become the subject of fierce debate. The publication of his Collected Poems, his letters and his official biography has led to a radical reassessment of one of our most popular and elusive writers. This new study of Larkin's poetry is the first to draw on previously unpublished manuscript material, as well as on the biographical revelations. But, as the author shows, the relationship between Larkin's life and work is especially problematic. Rather than interpreting the poems by way of the life, Andrew Swarbrick examines in detail the rhetorical strategies which make Larkin's poems so universally appealing and yet so ultimately mysterious. In doing so, he reveals a Larkin altogether more adventurous, challenging and disturbing than his critics, and some of his admirers, have hitherto encountered
The Language of The Other in Between the Acts
No full textCet article se concentre sur l’idée de la quintessence visée par Woolf à travers ses écrits, dans son rapport aux dislocations qui caractérisent son œuvre. Il cherche à explorer la façon dont ces aspects apparemment opposés de sa fiction se lient pour donner naissance à la dimension de l’étrangeté toute particulière que l’on découvre dans les deux textes abordés par cette analyse : Les Vagues et Entre les actes. Son inspiration prend comme point de départ les observations de Kristeva sur la relation entre la folie de Woolf et les liens qu’entretient celle-ci avec l’ordre symbolique et paternel théorisé dans les œuvres de Lacan. Jusqu’à quel point une lecture du Séminaire livre III de Lacan, peut-elle élucider l’unique étrangeté que l’on trouve dans le dernier roman de Woolf et l’impact de ce texte sur le destin de l’auteure ?This article examines Woolf’s quest to create the quintessential text, in its relation to the ruptures and dislocation which characterise her work. It seeks to shed light on the links between these apparently opposing aspects of her fiction and their role in the creation of the quality of strangeness familiar to her reader, through an analysis of The Waves and Between the Acts. Following Kristeva’s observation on the madness of Woolf, which links it to the author’s relation with the symbolic paternal order theorised in the works of Lacan, this investigation seeks to explore what constitutes the strangeness of Between the Acts—and the impact the final novel visited on its author—through a reading of selected concepts from Lacan’s Seminar III (The Psychoses)
Partnership experiences in developing the Preparation for Tertiary Learning course in the Teachers in Training programme.
No full textThis article is a collection of three partnership voices: Roselyn Maneipuri, Immaculate Runialo and Noeline Wright. The first two, lecturers in the Arts and Languages Department at the School of Education (SOE), Honiara, Solomon Islands, found themselves working with a New Zealander who was tasked with helping them review and develop new courses for a new cohort of teacher education students. The three had never met before, but within about three weeks had to build a professional relationship, build some contextual understanding, establish what elements the course needed, and develop it in time for Roselyn and Immaculate to teach the first cohort of students (currently teaching in schools but without any teacher education background), who were due to arrive in less than three months' time
A self-regulation model of recovery from psychiatric disability
No full textIt is widely recognized that many people with serious mental illness experience severe distress and disruption of their goal and role functioning, and there is widespread and growing interest in personal recovery as a positive response to that distress and disruption. There is considerably less consensus as to what, precisely, constitutes “recovery” in this context, and what psychological mechanisms might underlie it. This thesis will briefly survey the thinking about recovery from psychiatric disability, then propose and test a self-regulation model of goal structures, skills, efficacy, and affect to improve our understanding of this important phenomenon.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Aaron J. Levit
Predicting the impact of social influence on physical activity in adults with mental health conditions
No full textStatement of the Problem
Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) perform less physical activity (PA) and live more sedentary lifestyles than the general population (USDHHS, 2018). The physical inactivity of people with SMI is associated with an increased rate of negative physical and mental health issues and shorter life expectancy compared to the general population (DeHert et al., 2011; Seabury et al., 2019; Stubbs et al., 2015). Engaging in regular PA is an underutilized intervention that can improve the physical and mental health of the SMI population. There is a lack of understanding of how to promote PA in the population, especially how types of social influence from relationships may promote or hinder PA behaviors.
Methods
This study utilized the Social-Ecological Model to examine how individual, relationship, and community variables predict PA in the SMI population. Participants (n=141) had a diagnosis of SMI and were over the age of 18. They completed a battery of questionnaires about their PA behaviors, types and sources of social influence, the conduciveness of the community to perform PA, functional ability, and demographic variables.
Results
This study used three hierarchal regressions to examine and compare results by different relationship sources around the participants (family, friends, and healthcare providers). It was found that the negative type of inhibiting influence from all three sources was a negative predictor for PA behaviors. Family and healthcare providers who provided positive esteem support positively predicted PA behaviors, and friends who provided the negative type of justifying influence positively predicted PA behaviors.
Conclusions
This study was the first known examination of sources and types of social influence for PA behaviors in the SMI population. The results suggest that negative types of influence may be more important to consider than positive types when working with a client with SMI. The results also offer each source a unique prescription for best supporting PA behaviors. Healthcare providers, family, and friends should focus on providing positive social influence and reducing negative social influence when discussing PA with someone with an SMI.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical reference
‘… This is my home and my neighbourhood with my very good and not so good memories’ : The story of autobiographical place-making and a recent life with dementia
No full textAs part of the wider Neighbourhoods and Dementia Study, co-researchers from the Open Doors Research Group (based in Salford, UK) produced a series of three films with the title ‘The Changing Face of our Neighbourhood’. These films were subsequently placed on ‘YouTube’ and document co-researchers’ storied experiences of Salford and the industrial, economic and social changes that have occurred over the inquiry group’s lifetime. Drawn directly from this autobiographical and socio-generational work, this article focuses on the experience of lead author Lesley Calvert, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2013 and has been a member of the Open Doors Research Group since 2014. Lesley grew up and worked as a district nurse for almost 40 years, remaining close to her place of birth in Salford all her life. In this article, Lesley draws upon her autobiographical narrative which she shares in the three films to describe the intersections between biography, place-making, belonging and dementia. The article concludes with the importance of democratising the research space and why academic researchers need to create opportunities for personal stories to be told, heard and acted upon
The Moral Self in Eighteenth-Century Poetry: A Study in the Poetics of Gray, Goldsmith, Cowper and Yearsley
No full textThis thesis explores one aspect of the ‘inward turn’ that is a significant feature of English poetry in the later eighteenth century. It claims that a representative group of poets construct an authorial ‘self’ in which the personal pronoun ‘I’ becomes an authoritative guarantor of social and moral judgements. It suggests that this move was a response to Lockeian ideas of personal identity and economic individualism which were subsequently refined and developed by theoreticians such as David Hume and Adam Smith such that the ‘self’ was conceived not merely as the site of the sensorium but also the site of moral judgement.
It identifies Thomas Gray as the initiator of this development, arguing that his earlier poems, and particularly his Elegy, were revolutionary in their attempts to accommodate Locke’s ideas as a means of combating both the fissiparous nature of the literary market place and the hegemonic practices of the aristocratic class. The reception of the Elegy led Gray to believe he had failed, but his construction of the ‘swain’s’ dual identity who both judges and is judged was to resonate in the persona of Goldsmith’s narrator of The Deserted Village. Goldsmith’s essentially conservative outlook meant that this poem was fractured and it was not until Cowper’s The Task that a fully coherent realisation of Gray’s poetics was achieved.
The thesis finally considers Ann Yearsley’s work, arguing that her construction of a ‘self’ as narrator and social judge was fraught with difficulty both because of her position as a female labouring-class poet, and because of the repressive response to the French Revolution. The concluding chapter draws together the implications of the preceding chapters
Effects of a Novel Long Noncoding RNA, lncUSMycN, on N-Myc Expression and Neuroblastoma Progression
No full textBackground Patients with neuroblastoma due to the amplification of a 130-kb genomic DNA region containing the MYCN oncogene have poor prognoses. Methods Bioinformatics data were used to discover a novel long noncoding RNA, lncUSMycN, at the 130-kb amplicon. RNA-protein pull-down assays were used to identify proteins bound to lncUSMycN RNA. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, multivariable Cox regression, and two-sided log-rank test were used to examine the prognostic value of lncUSMycN and NonO expression in three cohorts of neuroblastoma patients (n = 47, 88, and 476, respectively). Neuroblastoma-bearing mice were treated with antisense oligonucleotides targeting lncUSMycN (n = 12) or mismatch sequence (n = 13), and results were analyzed by multiple comparison two-way analysis of variance. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results Bioinformatics data predicted lncUSMycN gene and RNA, and reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction confirmed its three exons and two introns. The lncUSMycN gene was coamplified with MYCN in 88 of 341 human neuroblastoma tissues. lncUSMycN RNA bound to the RNA-binding protein NonO, leading to N-Myc RNA upregulation and neuroblastoma cell proliferation. High levels of lncUSMycN and NonO expression in human neuroblastoma tissues independently predicted poor patient prognoses (lncUSMycN: hazard ratio [HR] = 1.87, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.06 to 3.28, P =. 03; NonO: HR = 2.48, 95% CI = 1.34 to 4.57, P =. 004). Treatment with antisense oligonucleotides targeting lncUSMycN in neuroblastoma-bearing mice statistically significantly hindered tumor progression (P <. 001). Conclusions Our data demonstrate the important roles of lncUSMycN and NonO in regulating N-Myc expression and neuroblastoma oncogenesis and provide the first evidence that amplification of long noncoding RNA genes can contribute to tumorigenesis. © 2014 The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
Reduction of methane emission from landfills using bio-mitigation systems – from lab tests to full scale implementation
No full textLandfills are significant sources of methane, which contributes to climate change. As an alternative to mitigation by gas utilization systems, bio-mitigation systems may be implemented. Such systems are based on microbial methane oxidation in full surface biological covers, so-called biocovers, or open or closed bed biofilter systems. The objective of this paper is to describe the relationship between research on process understanding of the oxidation of landfill gas contained methane and the up-scale to full bio-mitigation systems implemented at landfills. The oxidation of methane is controlled by several environmental factors such as soil texture, temperature, soil moisture content, methane and oxygen supply, and nutrients, and both soils and compost materials have been shown to exhibit high methane oxidation rates. For compost materials high methane oxidation is observed even during cold periods due to self-heating processes. Bio-mitigation can be used as a stand-alone technology or combined with active or passive gas collection. When implementing bio-mitigation systems focus should be on additional fugitive methane emissions or the presence of uncontrolled point releases. A protocol for implementing a bio-mitigation system is presented, and the reported landfill-implemented bio-mitigation systems either established as full-scale or pilot-scale systems are reviewed. It is concluded that bio-mitigation systems have a large potential for providing cost-efficient mitigation options for reducing methane emissions when landfill gas utilization systems cannot be implemented or cease to perform as cost-efficient, sustainable solutions
Correction to: does stress perfusion imaging improve the diagnostic accuracy of late gadolinium enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance for establishing the etiology of heart failure?
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], the author reported his name has erroneously spelled as Abishek Shetye. The correct name is Abhishek Shetye
