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Malcolm MacLeod, 86
No full textMalcolm Macleod, a resident of Sunrise Senior Residence in Palo Alto who owned his own construction company and briefly played for the Stanford football team, has died. He was 86
Malcolm MacLeod, November 20, 1933 - April 20, 2020
No full textWe are heart-broken to announce that Malcolm MacLeod, born November 20, 1933, age 86, died on April 20, 2020, in Palo Alto, California, after a long battle with prostate cancer
09 Malcolm Macleod Paris 150519.pptx
No full textPresentation by Professor MacLeod at CBMRT's 2019 European Biomedical Transparency Summit held on 15th May in Paris. Professor Macleod presented on animal research methodology/practical challenges and the appropriate translation of animal research into human research
Research Culture Survey
No full textQuantitative results of 2020 University of Edinburgh Research Culture Survey, based on Wellcome Trust 2019 Research Culture Survey. Line listing of 1491 responses from research academic, postgraduate research students and research professional staffin associated file data_dictionary.cs
Anonymised results of the 2022 University of Edinburgh Research Culture Survey
No full textAnonymised results of the 2022 University of Edinburgh Research Culture Survey. Research active institutions can be considered as having a “research culture”, which helps frame the expectations and actions of members of their research communities. Some aspects of some research cultures may be detrimental to researcher productivity and to their liver experience of research. Institutional efforts to improve research cultures are important, but would require some ability to assess the features of an existing research culture, and to track changes over time. The questions deployed have in some cases been changed from the 2020 survey (also available in Datashare); and the Question ids provided in the data dictionary are consistent: although the question numbering in the question text descriptor may be different.Data dictionary available in this collectio
Malcolm Saville Archive of Letters
No full textThree files contain the entire archive of letters by the children's author Malcolm Saville held by the ILS Research Collections, and owned by the Malcolm Saville Society. The collection and additional commentary was made by the archivist, Dr Stephen Bigger
Malcolm Saville, Writer for Children: Collected Critical Papers
No full textThis is a collection of 21 published articles on the writings of Malcolm Saville for children, written between 1998 and 2010, and now revised. The author is the archivist of the Malcolm Saville Society
Multicenter evaluation of geometric accuracy of MRI protocols used in experimental stroke
Full text linkIt has recently been suggested that multicenter preclinical stroke studies should be carried out to improve translation from bench to bedside, but the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners routinely used in experimental stroke has not yet been evaluated. We aimed to assess and compare geometric accuracy of preclinical scanners and examine the longitudinal stability of one scanner using a simple quality assurance (QA) protocol. Six 7 Tesla animal scanners across six different preclinical imaging centers throughout Europe were used to scan a small structural phantom and estimate linear scaling errors in all orthogonal directions and volumetric errors. Between-scanner imaging consisted of a standard sequence and each center’s preferred sequence for the assessment of infarct size in rat models of stroke. The standard sequence was also used to evaluate the drift in accuracy of the worst performing scanner over a period of six months following basic gradient calibration. Scaling and volumetric errors using the standard sequence were less variable than corresponding errors using different stroke sequences. The errors for one scanner, estimated using the standard sequence, were very high (above 4% scaling errors for each orthogonal direction, 18.73% volumetric error). Calibration of the gradient coils in this system reduced scaling errors to within ±1.0%; these remained stable during the subsequent 6-month assessment. In conclusion, despite decades of use in experimental studies, preclinical MRI still suffers from poor and variable geometric accuracy, influenced by the use of miscalibrated systems and various types of sequences for the same purpose. For effective pooling of data in multicenter studies, centers should adopt standardized procedures for system QA and in vivo imaging
Whose Tweet? Authorship analysis of micro-blogs and other short-form messages
Full text linkApproaches to authorship attribution have traditionally been constrained by the size of the message to which they can be successfully applied, making them unsuitable for analysing shorter messages such as SMS Text Messages, micro-blogs (e.g. Twitter) or Instant Messaging. Having many potential authors of a number of texts (as in, for example, an online context) has also proved problematic for traditional descriptive methods, which have tended to be successfully applied in cases where there is a small and closed set of possible authors. This paper reports the findings of a project which aimed to develop and automate techniques from forensic linguistics that have been successfully applied to the analysis of short message content in criminal cases. Using data drawn from UK-focused online groups within Twitter, the research extends the applicability of Grant’s (2007; 2010) stylistic and statistical techniques for the analysis of authorship of short texts into the online environment. Initial identification of distinctive textual features commonly found within short messages allows for the development of a taxonomy which can then be used when calculating the ‘distance’ between messages containing instances of these feature types. The end result is an automated process with a high level of success in assigning tweets to the correct author. The research has the potential to extend the scope of reliable and valid authorship analysis into hitherto unexplored contexts. Given the relative anonymity of the internet and the availability of cloaking technology, linguistic research of this nature represents a crucial contribution to the investigative toolkit
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Truth is trouble with Malcolm Knox
No full textOn this Democracy Sausage Extra, award-winning journalist and author Malcolm Knox joins Mark Kenny to discuss the saga of Israel Folau - former star rugby union player sacked for sharing anti-LGBTQ views on social media - and how free speech got so complicated. The sacking of former star player Israel Folau by Rugby Australia for his comments on social media once again revealed faultlines which had recently been laid bare during Australia’s marriage equality plebiscite. So what did the saga reveal about freedom of expression in Australia? What is the significance of groups like the Australian Christian Lobby in Australia’s public discourse? And, with ‘free speech’ very much a political battleground, what might the future hold? On this Democracy Sausage Extra, Professor Mark Kenny speaks with Australian journalist and author Malcolm Knox about the Israel Folau issue, Australia’s evangelical movement, and the ‘culture wars’. This episode was recorded live as part of the ANU/Canberra Times ‘Meet the Author’ series
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