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The Gospel on the Margins: The Ideological Function of the Patristic Tradition on the Evangelist Mark
No full textIn spite of the virtually unanimous patristic opinion that the evangelist Mark was the interpreter of Peter, one of the most prestigious apostolic founding figures in Christian memory, the Gospel of Mark was mostly neglected in the patristic period. Not only is the text of Mark the least well represented of the canonical Gospels in terms of the number of patristic citations, commentaries and manuscripts, the explicit comments about the evangelist Mark reveal some ambivalence about its literary or theological value. In my survey of the reception of Mark from Papias of Hierapolis until Clement of Alexandria, I will argue that the reason why the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace the Gospel of Mark was that they perceived the text to be amenable to the Christological beliefs and social praxis of rival Christian factions. The patristic tradition about Mark may have little historical basis, but it had an important ideological function in appropriating the text in the name of an apostolic authority from the margins or periphery
Even while they teach, newly-qualified teachers learn
No full textThe Training and Development Agency sets national standards in the UK for qualified teacher status. These standards set out the areas of knowledge and skills that aspiring teachers should acquire during their training. One of these areas of knowledge and skills concerns the identification and teaching of pupils with special educational needs yet the effectiveness of current training routes for teachers in this area remains a matter of ongoing debate. In this article, Nicola Barber, a senior educational psychologist working in Medway, and Mark Turner, who runs an online training company and is a part-time tutor at the University of East London and senior educational psychologist in Medway, focus on the experiences of newly-qualified teachers during their induction and first year of teaching. These authors sent out questionnaires to newly-qualified teachers working in primary schools in two local authorities and received 60 responses. Their results suggest that these teachers, during this opening phase of their careers, experienced an increase in confidence in relation to special educational needs and report that they feel more skilled in this area at the end of their first year of teaching. Nicola Barber and Mark Turner analyse the factors that contribute to this scenario and begin to draw out implications for future approaches to the training and induction of teachers with regard to special educational needs and inclusio
Bruce Barber : Work 1970 - 2008
No full text"Developing out of major survey exhibitions at Artspace Visual Arts Centre (Australia) and Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts (New Zealand), this book surveys almost four decades of work by Canada-based artist Bruce Barber. Ranging across performance, installation, film, video and photography, Barber’s practice has long been consistently situational and propositional, resulting in works that engage and question social and political regimes of power" -- Art Metropole website
A Soviet quasi-market for inventions : jet propulsion, 1932–1946
No full textThis paper is about how a command system allocated resources under profound uncertainty. The command system was the Soviet economy, the period was Stalin's dictatorship, and the resources were designated for military research & development. The context was formed by the limits of the existing aviation propulsion technology, the need to replace it with another, and uncertainty as to how to do so. We observe the formation of a quasi-market in which rival agents proposed projects and competed for funding to carry them out. We find rivalry and rent seeking, imperfectly regulated by principals. As rent seeking spread and uncertainty was reduced, the quasi-market was closed down and replaced by strict hierarchical allocation and monitoring. In theory, a dictator cannot commit to refrain from taxing the returns from today's effort tomorrow; therefore, we expect agents in a command system to seek only short-term returns from quasi-market activity. Agents’ willingness to invest in the Soviet quasi-market for inventions is ascribed to a reputation mechanism that enforced long-run returns
True ancient woodland? – 10,000 years of continuous woodland cover at Mark Ash Wood, New Forest
No full textResearch Day 2016
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The Participedia Project responds to a transformation of democratic governance, one possibly as revolutionary as the development of representative, party-based democracy that evolved out of the universal franchise. The transformation involves hundreds of thousands of new channels of citizen involvement in government, often outside of the more visible politics of electoral representation, and occurring in most countries in the world. Given this rapid and extensive development, we need to know what kinds of processes exist, and we need to know what kinds work best for specific problems and issues, for specific goals, under specific circumstances. We need to map this rapidly developing domain of political institutions. We need to explain why these processes are developing as they are. We need to assess their contributions to democracy and good governance. And we need to transfer this knowledge back into practice. But these needs exceed the capacities of traditionally-organized research teams. The Participedia Project meets this challenge by combining an extensive partnership with new information technologies to create the information base necessary for high quality research and evidence-based practice. At its heart is an open source research platform (www.participedia.net) that enables decentralized, collaborative creation and mobilization of knowledge from thousands of contributors.Arts, Faculty ofPolitical Science, Department ofUnreviewedFacultyResearche
Transmitted deletions of medial 5p and learning difficulties; Does the cadherin cluster only become penetrant when flanking genes are deleted?
No full textThe central portion of the short arm of chromosome 5 is unusual in that large, cytogenetically visible interstitial deletions segregate in families with and without phenotypic consequences. Here we present a family in which a transmitted interstitial deletion of 5p13.3 to 5p14.3 co-segregated with learning and/or behavioral difficulties in six family members. Facial dysmorphism was not striking but a father and daughter both had lacrimal fistulae. The deletion was 12.23?Mb in size (chr5:20,352,535–32,825,775) and contained fifteen known protein coding genes. Five of these (GOLPH3; MTMR12; ZFR; SUB1; and NPR3) and an ultra-conserved microRNA (hsa-miR-579) were present in an 883?kb candidate gene region in 5p13.3 that was deleted in the present family but not in previously reported overlapping benign deletions. Members of the cadherin precursor gene cluster, with brain specific expression, were deleted in both affected and benign deletion families. The candidate genes in 5p13.3 may be sufficient to account for the consistent presence or absence of phenotype in medial 5p deletions. However, we consider the possibility of position effects in which CDH6, and/or other cadherin genes, become penetrant when adjacent genes, or modifiers of gene expression, are also deleted. This could account for the absence of intellectual disability in benign deletions of the cadherin cluster, the cognitive phenotype in medial 5p deletion syndrome and the greater severity of intellectual disability in patients with cri-du-chat syndrome and deletions of 5p15 that extend into the region deleted in the present family
Fig. 1. Begonia yapenensis M in Begonia yapenensis (sect. Symbegonia, Begoniaceae), a new species from Papua, Indonesia
No full textFig. 1. Begonia yapenensis M.Hughes sp. nov., cultivated specimen at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, accession 20090830. A. Whole plant showing spreading habit (scale bar = 5 cm). B. Female flower and ovary (left, corolla dissected; right, corolla entire) (scale bar = 1 cm). C. Cross section of ovary showing three locules with bilamellate placentae (scale bar = 1 cm). D. Stigmas (scale bar = 5 mm). E. Male flower (bottom, corolla dissected; upper, corolla entire; scale bar = 10 cm).Published as part of Hughes, Mark, Barber, Sadie, Heatubun, Charlie D. & Gagul, Janet, 2015, Begonia yapenensis (sect. Symbegonia, Begoniaceae), a new species from Papua, Indonesia, pp. 1-6 in European Journal of Taxonomy 119 on page 3, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.119, http://zenodo.org/record/377944
Fig. 1. Begonia yapenensis M in Begonia yapenensis (sect. Symbegonia, Begoniaceae), a new species from Papua, Indonesia
No full textFig. 1. Begonia yapenensis M.Hughes sp. nov., cultivated specimen at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, accession 20090830. A. Whole plant showing spreading habit (scale bar = 5 cm). B. Female flower and ovary (left, corolla dissected; right, corolla entire) (scale bar = 1 cm). C. Cross section of ovary showing three locules with bilamellate placentae (scale bar = 1 cm). D. Stigmas (scale bar = 5 mm). E. Male flower (bottom, corolla dissected; upper, corolla entire; scale bar = 10 cm).Published as part of Hughes, Mark, Barber, Sadie, Heatubun, Charlie D. & Gagul, Janet, 2015, Begonia yapenensis (sect. Symbegonia, Begoniaceae), a new species from Papua, Indonesia, pp. 1-6 in European Journal of Taxonomy 119 on page 3, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.119, http://zenodo.org/record/377944
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