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Writers Talk Featuring Mark Dawidziak & Susan Streeter Carpenter
No full textWriters Talk, featuring two interviews from the May 7 Ohioana Book Festival. First, Mark Dawidziak, co-author of a book on forgotten American author Jim Tully. Then a talk with Susan Streeter Carpenter, author of "Riders on the Storm," a historical novel set in 1960s Cleveland.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/cstw12/WT_WCRS_04-16-11_MarkDawidziac_SusanStreeterCarpenter.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
Misaligned or misheard? Physical activity and healthy eating messaging to ethnic minority communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study and scoping review
No full textThis mixed-methods study identified physical activity (PA) and healthy eating messages produced during the COVID-19 pandemic and explored how they were received by UK ethnic minority communities. A scoping review of research and grey literature identified categories of PA and healthy eating messaging targeted at ethnic minorities. Individual and group interviews were conducted, audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed using inductive thematic analysis. There was active community engagement in all study phases to ensure relevance and co-production of findings. Interviews were held with 41 study participants aged 18-86 years (20 men) residing in England and Wales using digital conferencing and in person. The scoping review identified 24 records containing messages grouped into three categories: 1) PA messages; 2) healthy eating messages; 3) risk messages. Five themes described participants’ views of these messages: 1) lack of awareness of messaging; 2) responses to PA messaging; 3) responses to healthy eating messaging; 4) perceptions of risk messaging and 5) perceptions of conflict in messages. The review revealed that physical activity and healthy eating messaging specifically targeting ethnic minority communities is limited. This limited messaging was almost entirely missed by these communities. When received, the messaging was not interpreted as intended, perceived to be conflicting and risk messaging was perceived as blaming. More work with ethnic minority communities needs to be done to co-produce meaningful and appropriate PA and healthy eating messaging in a timely manner
sj-docx-1-anp-10.1177_00048674221082525 – Supplemental material for Building a National Clinical Trials Network in child and youth mental health: Growing Minds Australia
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-anp-10.1177_00048674221082525 for Building a National Clinical Trials Network in child and youth mental health: Growing Minds Australia by David J Hawes, Mark R Dadds, Lucy A Tully and Jaimie C Northam in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry</p
Object-orientated planning domain engineering
No full textThe development of domain independent planners focuses on the creation of generic problem solvers. These solvers are designed to solve problems that are declaratively described to them. In order to solve arbitrary problems, the planner must possess efficient and effective algorithms; however, an often overlooked requirement is the need for a complete and correct description of the problem domain. Currently, the most common domain description language is a prepositional logic, state-based language called STRIPS. This thesis develops a new object-orientated domain description language that addresses some of the common errors made in writing STRIPS domains. This new language also features powerful semantics that are shown to gready ease the description of certain domain features. A common criticism of domain independent planning is that the requirement of being domain independent necessarily precludes the exploitation of domain specific knowledge that would increase efficiency. One technique used to address this is to recognise patterns of behaviour in domains and abstract them out into a higher-level representations that are exploitable. These higher-level representations are called generic types. This thesis investigates the ways in which generic types can be used to assist the domain engineering process. A language is developed for describing the behavioural patterns of generic types and the ways in which they can be exploited. This opens a domain independent channel for domain specific knowledge to pass from the domain engineer to the planner
Public Philosophy in a New Key
No full textThese two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor Tully takes the reader step-by-step through the principal debates in political theory and the major types of political struggle today. These volumes represent a genuine landmark in political theory from the author of Strange Multiplicity, one of the most influential and distinctive commentaries on politics and the contemporary world published in recent years. This first volume of Public Philosophy in a New Key consists of a presentation and defence of a contextual approach to public philosophy and civic freedom, and then goes on to study specific struggles over recognition and distribution within states.</jats:p
Including the values of UK ethnic minority communities in policies to improve physical activity and healthy eating
No full textPhysical activity and healthy eating are important for physical and mental health, yet long-standing inequalities constrain the ability of ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom (UK) to adopt these behaviours. Programmes aimed to improve these behaviours have also often not been engaged with by these communities. This study therefore aimed to: (1) identify the values underlying the physical activity and healthy eating behaviours of UK ethnic minorities and (2) explore how structural, socio-economic and environmental factors interact with these values to influence their physical activity and healthy eating behaviours. The study adopted a relativist ontological and subjectivist epistemological philosophical assumption. Qualitative interviews were used to address research objectives. A total of 10 group and five individual interviews were conducted with 41 participants. All participants were from an ethnic minority background (Black, Asian or Mixed according to the UK Office for National Statistics classification), recruited purposively and aged between 18 and 86 years and were living in England and Wales. Data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Community engagement was embedded throughout the study. We found that culture and family, community and social life, and health are important values underlying the physical activity and healthy eating behaviours of UK ethnic minority communities. External factors, including racism and access (geographical, social and economic), interact with these values to drive health behaviours. Using an illustrative guide, we conclude the paper with policy and practice recommendations on how public health programmes on physical activity and healthy eating can be aligned with these values to ensure relevance for ethnic minority communities
Public Perceptions of Elections: An Australia-New Zealand Comparison
No full texthis collection of essays honouring the late Emeritus Keith Jackson addresses the public interest in New Zealand. This subject is of increasing importance at a time when politicians are grappling with serious issues that call into question the boundaries between the private and public spheres. The essays, by leading scholars and acknowledged experts in their field, reflect Keith's own preoccupations with institutional politics and with communicatio
Sedentary behaviours and cognitive function among community dwelling adults aged 50+ years: Results from the Irish longitudinal study of ageing
No full textBackground: Sedentary behaviours (SB) are risk factors for poor cardiovascular health and all-cause mortality. However, their role in cognitive health in older adults is unclear. A few studies have examined associations between sedentary behaviours and cognition, but are limited by heterogeneity and insufficient longitudinal analyses. Therefore more robust studies, which would address identified limitations, are needed to accurately determine associations. Method: This study analysed data collected from participants aged 50+ years of The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (TILDA). We conducted cross-sectional linear regression with multivariate imputation analyses of baseline data from wave 1 (N = 8163, weekday-sitting time), and wave 3 (N = 6400, weekday-television viewing); longitudinal analyses between waves 1–3 (sitting) and waves 3–4 (television). Sedentary behaviours were analysed as both categorical and continuous variables. Outcome of cross-sectional analyses was standardised regression co-efficient of associations between sedentary exposures and cognitive function in respective waves, while for longitudinal analyses was cognitive change (verbal memory, verbal fluency, and global cognition) between waves based on standardised residuals. Result: Study found significant but mild cross-sectional associations between 1-h increase in weekday-television viewing and poorer verbal memory (b = −0.02, CI: −0.04, −0.003, P < 0.05) and verbal fluency (b = −0.02, CI: −0.04, −0.002, P < 0.05). Baseline television viewing of 3.5+ h/day had mild but significant association with a decline in verbal fluency 2 years later in participants aged 65+ years, when compared with a reference category of <1.5 h of TV viewing (b = −0.12, CI: −0.23, −0.001, P < 0.05). Conclusion: Our study findings indicated some association between increased levels of weekday-television viewing time, independent of physical activity, and poor cognition cross-sectionally and longitudinally in middle-aged and older adults. Intervention studies are needed to confirm the effects of SB on cognition in older adults. Public health campaigns should be targeted at displacing high levels of television viewing, in excess of 3.5 h/day among older adults. © 2020 Elsevier Lt
The Calibration of the WISE W1 and W2 Tully-Fisher Relation
No full text22 page, 21 figures, accepted to ApJ, Table 1 data at http://spartan.srl.caltech.edu/~neill/tfwisecal/table1.txtIn order to explore local large-scale structures and velocity fields, accurate galaxy distance measures are needed. We now extend the well-tested recipe for calibrating the correlation between galaxy rotation rates and luminosities -- capable of providing such distance measures -- to the all-sky, space-based imaging data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) W1 (m) and W2 (m) filters. We find a linewidth to absolute magnitude correlation (known as the Tully-Fisher Relation, TFR) of (0.54 magnitudes rms) and (0.56 magnitudes rms) from 310 galaxies in 13 clusters. We update the I-band TFR using a sample 9% larger than in Tully & Courtois (2012). We derive (0.46 magnitudes rms). The WISE TFRs show evidence of curvature. Quadratic fits give (0.52 magnitudes rms) and (0.55 magnitudes rms). We apply an I-band -- WISE color correction to lower the scatter and derive and (both 0.46 magnitudes rms). Using our three independent TFRs (W1 curved, W2 curved and I-band), we calibrate the UNION2 supernova Type Ia sample distance scale and derive (stat) (sys) kms Mpc with 4% total error
The author as actor: a defense of Quentin Skinner
No full textIn this thesis, I defend Quentin Skinner's work against some criticisms raised by three of his interlocutors: John Keane, Kennet Minogue, and Joseph Femia. All three of these critics take issue with Skinner's author-centered approach to the historical interpretation of texts. Femia, invoking Roland Barthes 'death of the author' thesis, argues that Skinner's attempt to recover the intentions of authors is impossible. While Minogue and Keane do not dispute the possibility of recovering an author's intentions, they question the unity of such an enterprise. In order to answer Femia's criticism of Skinner, I draw an analogy between Skinner's figure of the author, and Arendt's figure of the political actor. I argue that just as it is possible for someone to know what a political actor is doing in performing a political act, it is similarly possible for an intellectual historian to understand what political acts an author was doing in writing his or her text. To refute Minogue's and Keane's claims that a Skinnerian approach to intellectual history is of no use to the political theorist, I point to three examples of how Skinner's recovery of forgotten political discourses have been applied to contemporary debates in political theory.Graduat
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