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If It Thunders on All Fool's Day
No full textIf It Thunders on All Fool’s Day was a residency and exhibition held at Eastside Projects (Birmingham), convened by artist–curator Dinosaur Kilby.
The project brought together three collaborative artist-led groups – GLOAM (Sheffield), Chaos Magic (Nottingham), and The Field (Derbyshire) – for a week intensive of co-inhabiting, co-thinking, and open-ended making. Functioning as part exhibition, part gathering, and part collaborative experiment, If It Thunders on All Fool’s Day was designed to embrace uncertainty as a generative method. Rather than being outcome-driven, the project focused on the fertile possibilities that emerge through gathering, exploring how collaboration, ritual, and co-habitation inform the production of new practices and networks.
As part of this, Sharples produced a site-responsive performance (and waters carry it, 2023) that transformed the gallery into a ceremonial site, allowing artists from each group and members of the public to come together to assemble and exchange thoughts.
Exhibition & Residency with GLOAM, The Field, Chaos Magic, Ishmail De Niro, Leah Hickey. GLOAM artists: Victoria Sharples, Stu Burke, Thomas Lee Griffiths, Rose Hedy Squires. The Field artists: Sean Roy Parker, Adam Grainger, Sonia Odedra, Dudley Dream–Walsh, Milly Melbourne. Maggie, Will. Chaos Magic artists: Chloe Willis, Francis Slip, Harry Martin, Tomas Corbettm, Winter Beaumont
Fetal urinary tract obstruction
No full textIntroduction: Lower urinary tract obstruction (LUTO) is rare and is associated with significant congenital bladder neck obstruction, but also associated with high perinatal mortality and morbidity that tracks into child- and adulthood [1-3]. The underlying pathologies are diverse but, as an isolated problem in a male fetus, posterior urethral valves (PUV) is the commonest cause (approximately 60% of cases), with urethral atresia (UA) also being common (30%) [4]. More complex pathologies exist such as inherited mutations of the anti-muscarinic receptors on bladder smooth muscle causing the megacystis-microcolo n-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome (MMIHS). Classically the end-stage clinical presentation is of the prune belly syndrome (PBS), which consists of the triad of deficient or absent abdominal wall musculature, dilation of the proximal and distal urinary tract. The poor clinical outcomes associated with this disease have led to considerable research, both using animal models and clinically, to further elucidate the underlying pathogenesis of the condition and to evaluate methods of clinical diagnosis, investigation, and triage. From these data, it was hoped that there would be appropriate targeting of antenatal intervention and which intervention would af ord the best chance of overall survival but also lead to an improvement in long-term postnatal renal function. h is chapter will review the current evidence surrounding these issues.</p
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The Response of Table Grape Growth, Production, and Ripening to Water Stress
No full textFour year old 'Flame Seedless' grapevines, located in a commercial vineyard, were subjected to increased water stress levels based on infrared canopy temperatures and the Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI) for two years. CWSI levels were approximately .18, .30 and .33 for the wet, medium and dry treatments. In the first year there were no significant differences in yield however, there was a significant reduction in the amount of water applied in both the medium and dry treatments when compared to the wet treatment. In addition, the wet treatment had significantly greater growth during the first growing season when comparing pruning weights.Sponsored by the Arizona Citrus Research Counci
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
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The Response of Table Grape Growth, Production, and Ripening to Water Stress
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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