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Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought
No full textElectronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James
provokes her readers to think theologically. I present evidence from the body of
James’s work, including her detective fiction that features the Detective Adam
Dalgliesh, as well as her other novels, autobiography, and non-fiction work. I also
present a brief history of detective fiction. This history provides the reader with a
better understanding of how P.D James is influenced by the detective genre as well as
how she stands apart from the genre’s traditions.
This dissertation relies on an interview that I conducted with P.D. James in
November, 2008. During the interview, I asked James how Christianity has
influenced her detective fiction and her responses greatly contribute to this
dissertation. However, James’s novels should be interpreted and explored in the
manner that they are received by the reader. How the reader receives and responds to
the novels, not only how James writes the novels, is what causes her stories to
provoke theological thinking.
By examining Christian symbolism that is present in setting, character, the
Detective Adam Dalgliesh, and plot, this dissertation seeks to assert that James
contributes to a theological conversation through her popular detective fiction
Erratum: Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Purtiwi, P.D. (2017): Author Purtiwi, P.D. is spelled Pertiwi, P.D.
No full textAllen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Purtiwi, P.D. (2017) Descriptions of four new species of damselfishes (Pomacentridae) in the Pomacentrus philippinus complex from the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 25, 47–76.
corrected spelling of third author’s name to:
Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Pertiwi, P.D. (2017) Descriptions of four new species of damselfishes
(Pomacentridae) in the Pomacentrus philippinus complex from the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 25, 47–76
Impact of surgery for stress incontinence on the social lives of women
No full textObjective: To assess the feasibility of collecting disease-specific and generic data on the impact of surgery on the social lives of women with stress incontinence; to describe the social impact of surgery in a representative group; and to determine the effect of timing on the assessment of outcome.Design Longitudinal study: questionnaires before and three, six, and twelve months after surgery.Setting: Eighteen hospitals in North Thames region.Participants: Four hundred and forty-two women undergoing surgery for stress incontinence between January 1993 and June 1994.Main outcome measures: Post-operative recovery time, stress incontinence symptom impact index, activities of daily living, and cost of protection.Results: Post-operative recovery was uneventful for most women, but three months after surgery 24% of those in paid employment beforehand were still on sick or unpaid leave. Most women (75%) reported that stress incontinence had less adverse impact on their lives three months after surgery, though 18% reported no change, and 7% felt life was worse. The likelihood of improvement was similar regardless of whether pre-operative urodynamic studies had been conducted. The extent of improvement was dependent on pre-operative severity. Similar findings were obtained six and twelve months after surgery. After an initial slight but nonsignificant deterioration in their ability to carry out activities of daily living, women gained a slight benefit from surgery (proportion with no or only slight limitation rose from 72% to 82%; P= 0.0001). The mean cost of protection (pads and towels) fell from £8.59 a month before surgery to £2.99 a month one year after surgery, by which time 68% of women were not using protection. In contrast, 11% were still spending over £10 a month.Conclusions: It is possible to collect standard data on the impact of surgery on social functioning and, thus, provide women with better information on likely outcomes. The benefits of pre-operative urodynamic investigations need to be assessed. The stability of the outcome measures over the first post-operative year suggest that outcomes need to be assessed only once and at any time from three to twelve months after the operation
Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units
No full textPatients who suffer an acute illness and are admitted to hospital are often admitted into an acute care ward with many services provided. But while recovering from the illness they may not need those intense services and will need to prepare to go home. Nursing led inpatient units, which are managed by nurses as opposed to physicians, have been designed to prepare patients for home. Ten studies, including over 1800 patients, were analysed to determine if patients sent to a nursing led inpatient unit benefited or at least fared no worse than patients in a unit providing usual care. Compared to usual care, patients in nursing led inpatients units functioned better and experienced greater well-being; more patients were discharged home and not to an institution after about 3 months (but not after 6 months); fewer were readmitted back into hospital soon after discharge; but they stayed in hospital longer. The number of deaths during stay in hospital and 3 to 6 months after discharge was similar between the units (but there was a trend for more deaths early while in nursing led inpatients units that needs to be researched further). It is still not known whether nursing led inpatient units save money - studies in the United Kingdom found them more expensive than usual care units but studies in the United States found them cheape
Sociodemographic and symptomatic characteristics of women undergoing stress incontinence surgery in the UK
No full textObjectives To: (ii describe the sociodemographic characteristics of women undergoing surgery for stress incontinence in the UK and the ways in which they differ from women of a similar age in the general population; (ii) the severity and impact of their symptoms and their expectations of surgery and; (iii) their general state of health.Patients and methods A prospective cohort study was carried out on 442 women undergoing surgery for stress incontinence in 18 hospitals in the North Thames region between January 1993 and Tune 1994. Sociodemographic factors, stress incontinence severity, symptom impact scores, and general health status were measured.Results Women undergoing surgery for stress incontinence were similar to their peers in the general population apart from being more likely to have smoked (61.4 against 51.1%), to have subsequently given up (39.5 and 25.3%) and to be of higher parity (greater than or equal to 4; 19.7 and 12.0%). Most women (81.6%) reported moderate to very severe stress incontinence, The impact of symptoms was correlated positively with severity (P<0.001) after accounting for its positive correlation with mental health status (P<0.005), socioeconomic status (P<0.05) and its negative correlation with age (P<0.02). Many women also suffered from other urinary symptoms including urgency (76%) and frequency (42.3%). Apart from their urinary problems, women were in good health (77% reported no or only mild coexistent conditions), However, a very high proportion (34.2%) had previously undergone a hysterectomy.Conclusions These results suggest that women undergoing stress incontinence surgery are remarkably similar to their peers, apart from their primary condition. The effect that stress incontinence has on women's lives depends not only on the severity of the problem but also on other factors. The high rate of previous hysterectomy warrants further study
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No full textTradução de dois contos de P.D. James : os desafios da tradução do policial na contemporaneidade
No full textO presente projeto pretende apresentar uma proposta de tradução de dois contos integrados na obra de P.D. James Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, publicada em 2017, e procura desenvolver uma reflexão acerca dos desafios da tradução de ficção policial nos dias de hoje. No seu início, este tipo de ficção foi desvalorizado, visto como literatura inferior. Porém, uma evolução positiva tem vindo a ocorrer nas últimas décadas, encaminhando o subgénero para uma posição cada vez mais respeitada. Assim, partindo da própria prática da tradução de ficção policial, o interesse pela análise deste fenómeno surgiu com a obra da autora britânica P.D. James, e com o recurso às abordagens e estratégias de tradução de diversos investigadores dos Estudos de Tradução. O projeto pretende dar ênfase ao contributo de P.D. James para uma visão crescentemente positiva do policial. A reflexão incide nos desafios emergentes desta nova visão, e analisam-se as dificuldades concretas que se levantaram à tradução, assim como as estratégias utilizadas e soluções encontradas. Considera-se que este projeto é pertinente para os Estudos de Tradução, na medida em que o policial é um dos subgéneros literários mais consumidos e, consequentemente, traduzidos no mundo. Por essa razão, é essencial que haja mais reflexão e investigação no campo da tradução acerca deste tipo de literatura, sendo que é pela tradução que estas obras literárias se disseminam, algo que traz uma grande responsabilidade ao tradutor.This project aims to present a proposal for the translation of two short stories by P.D. James from the work Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales, published in 2017, and seeks to reflect on the challenges of translating crime fiction today. At its beginning, this type of fiction was devalued, seen as inferior literature. However, an interesting and positive evolution has been taking place in the last couple of decades, leading the genre to an increasingly respected position. An interest in analysing this phenomenon arose, starting from the actual practice of translating crime fiction, with the British author P.D. James, and using the approaches and translation strategies of various researchers in the field of Translation Studies. The project aims to emphasize P.D. James' contribution to the increasingly positive view of the crime fiction genre. It will reflect on the challenges emerging from this new vision, and analyse the difficulties that have arisen in translation, as well as the strategies used, and solutions found. I believe that this project is relevant to the field of Translation Studies, as crime fiction is one of the most widely consumed and, consequently, translated literary genres in the world. For this reason, it is essential that there is more reflection and research in the field of translation about this type of literature, since it is through translation that these literary works are disseminated, something that imposes a great responsibility on the translator
PAST AND PRESENT LAND TENURE SYSTEMS IN ALBANIA: PATRILINEAL, PATRIARCHAL, FAMILY-CENTERED
No full textThis paper attempts to evaluate whether Albanian rural social structure has changed to the extent that individual rights and protection of those rights have become important policy questions. If the evaluation suggests that rural Albanians retain the set of family-oriented norms and beliefs that are based primarily on patriarchalism and patrilineal inheritance, we must address the following questions: How appropriate is the mixture of western law that emulates individualistic notions of property rights with the customary family-tenure system of rural Albania? What are the likely problems that could emerge during the transition given a potential conflict between family notions of ownership and individual notions of ownership? This paper discusses five broad issues: the contemporary importance of family ownership, the role of the patriarch, the contemporary inheritance procedures, the vulnerability of specific groups of women, and the structure of the Albanian family. Keywords: Land tenure -- Albania Right of property -- Albania Inheritance and succession -- Albania Albania -- Social conditionsLand tenure -- Albania, Right of property -- Albania, Inheritance and succession -- Albania, Albania -- Social conditions, Land Economics/Use,
Author Correction: Common variants in Alzheimer’s disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores (Nature Communications, (2021), 12, 1, (3417), 10.1038/s41467-021-22491-8)
No full textThe original version of this Article omitted from the author list the 212th author Patrizia Mecocci, who is from the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. Consequently, the “Sample Contribution” section of Author Contributions was updated to add “P.M” between “P.D.” and “R.C.”. Additionally, the original version of this Article contained the incorrect affiliation for author Patrick Gavin Kehoe, which incorrectly read “German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany”. The correct version replaces this affiliation with “Bristol Medical School (THS), University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK”. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
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