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Verity
No full textLowen, a struggling writer grieving her mother\u27s recent death and wondering where her career is headed, is offered an incredible opportunity: to finish bestselling author Verity Crawford’s series of novels. While staying at the Crawford house to finish the series, Lowen uncovers an unpublished autobiography of Verity that reveals shocking secrets about her life. Lowen gets entangled in a heated relationship with Jeremy, Verity’s husband, and is caught in a dilemma of whether she should tell Jeremy about Verity’s secrets.
Author Colleen Hoover is incredibly popular in the romance community today for very good reason. Verity is in production to be her second movie adaptation due to its immense popularity. This book takes romance and layers darker and more suspenseful themes, making it extremely engaging.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_popularromance/1097/thumbnail.jp
Pieris daplidice subsp. nitida Verity 1908
No full textPieris daplidice race nitida Verity, 1908 (Rhop. Pal., p. 132; also cited as a “forme” both on this same page and on Pl. XXX, Fig. 9) LT: Asia Minor: Fanaraki, and [Spain]: Andalusia: Malaga (TD: MZUF, Syntypes 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀: Kudrna 1983). This taxon was listed as a synonym of either Pontia edusa (e.g. Hesselbarth et al. 1995, 1: 426) or of P. daplidice (García-Barros et al. 2013, p. 960), respectively for the fauna of Turkey and for that of Spain. Kudrna (1983: 58), Wagener (1988: 35) and Hesselbarth et al. (1995: 426) regarded “nitida” Verity, 1908 as an unavailable infrasubspecific name. However, Art. 45.6.4 states that [the rank denoted by a species-group name following a binomen] “is subspecific if first published before 1961 and its author expressly used one of the terms “variety” or “form” …, unless its author also expressly gave it infrasubspecific rank, or the content of the work unambiguously reveals that the name was proposed for an infrasubspecific entity …”. Verity wrote: “[dans les régions] qui semblent être surtout les plus arides (telles que l’Espagne, l’Algérie et l’Asie Mineure) [Pieris daplidice] semble avoir une tendance à être plus petit, à avoir les ailes plus larges, le limbe externe plus convexe, les dessins d’un noir plus profond et à contours plus arrêtés …”. The name Pieris daplidice race nitida Verity, 1908 is therefore available. The originally designated syntypes probably belong to two separate species, but no lectotype was validly designated by any of the preceding authors under Art. 74. Both Pontia daplidice and P. edusa may possibly co-occur in parts of Turkey (see Geiger et al. 1988, Hesselbarth et al. 1995 and John et al. 2013), while only P. daplidice is known to occur in Spain. We therefore designate the ♂ Syntype in MZUF from: [Spanien]: Andalusien: Malaga, C. Ribbe [legit], as Lec- totype of Pieris daplidice race nitida Verity, 1908 (see Fig. 1A). Consequently, the latter name becomes fixed as a junior subjective synonym of Papilio daplidice Linnaeus, 1758.Published as part of Balletto, Emilio, Barbero, Francesca, Bonelli, Simona, Casacci, Luca P. & Dapporto, Leonardo, 2020, Stabilisation of some names of European butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) in their prevailing usage, pp. 387-395 in Zootaxa 4780 (2) on page 388, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/384245
In conversation with M.G.Leanord
Get PDFVerity Jones and Amanda Webber caught up with M. G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy, to talk about why getting the science right in children’s fiction is so important and how this book might inspire an interest in understanding and protecting insects
Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Literature Review
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Evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014: Literature Review
Chapter authors:
Introduction and methods
Verity, F., Wallace, S., Llewellyn, M., Anderson, P. and Lyttleton-Smith, J.
Well-being
Anderson, P., Lyttleton-Smith, J., Kosnes, L., Read, S., Blackmore, H. and Williams, Z.
Prevention and early intervention
Verity, F., Read, S. and Richards, J.
Co-production
Andrews, N., Calder, G., Blanluet, N., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, S.
Multi-agency
Wallace, C., Orrell, A., Garthwaite, T., Tetlow, S. and Wallace, S.
Voice and control
Llewellyn, M., Saltus, R., Blackmore, H., Tetlow, S., Williams, Z. and Wallace, S.
Financial and economic
Phillips, C., Prowle, M., Tetlow, S. and Williams, Z.
Service user and carer experiences under the Act
Wallace, S.This report is a summary of the extensive review of the literature to inform the evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. This document is a summary of the extensive review of the literature undertaken to inform the evaluation of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (hereafter referred to as ‘the Act’).1 The Welsh Government has commissioned a partnership between academics across four universities in Wales and expert advisers to deliver the evaluation. The Act sets out a government vision to produce ‘transformative changes’ in social service public policy, regulations, and delivery arrangements across Wales. It has 11 parts and is informed by five principles that set out a vision to produce transformative changes in public policy, regulations, and service delivery. Aligned to it are structures, processes, and codes of practice. The Evaluation of the Act – a study called IMPACT – is organised around each of the five principles together with a focus on the financial and economic aspects of the Act’s implementation. The approach to undertaking this evaluation research is to structure the evaluation by using the fundamental principles of the Act as the scaffolding. These principles are: • Well-being • Prevention • Co-Production • Multi-agency working • Voice and control There is also a focus on the financial and economic considerations of the implementation of the Act and this area constitutes the sixth evaluation study theme
The “Verity” Concept Development Journey of the Western Painting
No full text西方绘画艺术的“真”的概念在数千年的嬗变中,其内涵和外延不断丰富。不论绘画是作为通过精确计算再现三维空间的“欺骗眼睛的艺术”,还是以明晰的形、严整有序的结构,寻求诸种关系的和谐的形式出现,亦或回到艺术家主观纯粹情感,极力表现个体情感真实的方式,实际上人们都在力求让绘画与外在或内在的“真”达到相似或者吻合一致,强调达到“逼真”的把握。论文试通过绘画史不同阶段绘画特点及当时美学思想的分析,大致整理出西方绘画真实观发展变化之脉络。The “verity” concept of western painting has experienced thousands of year's evolution,during which its connotation and extension are improving continuously.Painting,which is no matter as “the art of cheating the eyes” that calculating and reappearing precisely three-dimensional space or aim at harmonious form appearance of various kinds of relations with clear form and neat orderly structure,or return to the artist's objective pure emotions,making every effort to express their individual true feelings form,is trying its best to attain the similarity even conformity between painting and the “verity” of either external or internal,emphasizing to grasp the purpose of “verisimilitude”.In this essay,the author intends to analyze the characters of painting in its different phases and the time being aesthetic conception,and thus obtains the course during which the “verity” concept of western painting develops
The neurophysiology of paediatric movement disorders
Get PDFPurpose of review To demonstrate how neurophysiological tools have advanced our understanding of the pathophysiology of paediatric movement disorders, and of neuroplasticity in the developing brain. Recent findings Delineation of corticospinal tract connectivity using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is being investigated as a potential biomarker for response to therapy. TMS measures of cortical excitability and neuroplasticity are also being used to investigate the effects of therapy, demonstrating neuroplastic changes that relate to functional improvements. Analysis of evoked potentials and event-related changes in the EEG spectral activity provide growing evidence for the important role of aberrant sensory processing in the pathophysiology of many different movement disorders. Neurophysiological findings demonstrate that children with clinically similar phenotypes may have differing underlying pathophysiology, which in turn may explain differential response to therapy. Neurophysiological parameters can act as biomarkers, providing a means to stratify individuals, and are well suited to provide biofeedback. They therefore have enormous potential to facilitate improvements to therapy. Summary Although currently a small field, the role of neurophysiology in paediatric movement disorders is poised to expand, both fuelled by and contributing to the rapidly growing fields of neuro-rehabilitation and neuromodulation and the move towards a more individualized therapeutic approach. <br/
Sensorimotor integration in childhood dystonia and dystonic cerebral palsy – a developmental perspective
Get PDFDystonia is a disorder of sensorimotor integration, involving dysfunction within the basal ganglia, cortex, cerebellum or their inter-connections as part of the sensorimotor network. Some forms of dystonia are also characterised by maladaptive or exaggerated plasticity. Development of the neuronal processes underlying sensorimotor integration is incompletely understood but involves activity-dependent modelling and refining of sensorimotor circuits through processes that are already taking place in utero and which continue through infancy, childhood and into adolescence.Classical DYT1 dystonia has clinical onset in early childhood, but there is evidence that sensorimotor circuit development may already be disrupted prenatally in this genetic condition. Dystonic cerebral palsy is a form of acquired dystonia with perinatal onset during a period of rapid neurodevelopment and activity-dependent refinement of sensorimotor networks. However, physiological studies of children with dystonia are sparse. This discussion paper addresses the role of neuroplasticity in the development of sensorimotor integration with particular focus on the relevance of these mechanisms for understanding childhood dystonia, dystonic cerebral palsy and implications for therapy selection, including neuromodulation and timing of intervention.<br/
EEG measures of sensorimotor processing and their development are abnormal in children with isolated dystonia and dystonic cerebral palsy
Get PDFDystonia is a disorder of sensorimotor integration associated with abnormal oscillatory activity within the basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical networks. Event-related changes in spectral EEG activity reflect cortical processing but are sparsely investigated in relation to sensorimotor processing in dystonia. This study investigates modulation of sensorimotor cortex EEG activity in response to a proprioceptive stimulus in children with dystonia and dystonic cerebral palsy (CP). Proprioceptive stimuli, comprising brief stretches of the wrist flexors, were delivered via a robotic wrist interface to 30 young people with dystonia (20 isolated genetic/idiopathic and 10 dystonic CP) and 22 controls (mean age 12.7 years). Scalp EEG was recorded using the 10-20 international system and the relative change in post-stimulus power with respect to baseline was calculated for the alpha (8-12Hz) and beta (14-30Hz) frequency bands. A clear developmental profile in event-related spectral changes was seen in controls. Controls showed a prominent early alpha/mu band event-related desynchronisation (ERD) followed by an event-related synchronisation (ERS) over the contralateral sensorimotor cortex following movement of either hand. The alpha ERD was significantly smaller in the dystonia groups for both dominant and non-dominant hand movement (ANCOVA across the 3 groups with age as covariate: dominant hand F(2,47)=4.45 p=0.017; non-dominant hand F(2,42)=9.397 p<0.001. Alpha ERS was significantly smaller in dystonia for the dominant hand (ANCOVA F(2,47)=7.786 p=0.001). There was no significant difference in ERD or ERS between genetic/idiopathic dystonia and dystonic CP. Conclusion: Modulation of alpha/mu activity by a proprioceptive stimulus is reduced in dystonia, demonstrating a developmental abnormality of sensorimotor processing which is common to isolated genetic/idiopathic and acquired dystonia/dystonic CP
Errors in juvenile copepod growth rate estimates are widespread: problems with the Moult Rate method
Get PDFThe ‘Moult Rate’ (MR) method has been used widely to derive stage-specific growth rates in juvenile copepods. It is the most common field-based method. Unfortunately, the equation underlying the method is wrong and, consequently, large errors in juvenile growth rate estimates are widespread. The equation derives growth from the mean weight of 2 consecutive stages (i and i + 1) and the duration of stage i. The weight change and the period to which this change is attributed are, therefore, offset. We explore this potential source of error in the MR method critically. Errors arise as a result of 2 primary factors: (1) unequal durations of successive stages and (2) unequal rates of growth of successive stages. The method of deriving the mean weight (arithmetic or geometric) also has an impact and is examined. Using a steady-state assumption, a range of scenarios and the errors that arise are examined. The literature is then reviewed and the size of errors resulting from MR method application in both field and laboratory situations is estimated. Our results suggest that the MR method can lead to large errors in growth estimation in any stage, but some stages are particularly prone. Errors for the C5 stage are often large because the following stage (the adult) does not moult, and has a different rate of body weight increase. For the same reason, errors are also great where the following stage is not actively moulting (e.g. when diapausing). In these circumstances, published work has commonly greatly underestimated growth. For example, MR growth ranges from 11 to 47% of the value derived correctly for this stage, gi_corr (calculated assuming the non-moulting stage does not grow). In late stages that are followed by actively moulting stages, the MR method has commonly given values in excess of 150% of gi_corr, but underestimation also occurs, with values <90% of gi_corr. We propose new methods and equations that overcome these problems. These equations are written with and without within-stage mortality included. The equations are relatively insensitive to mortality rates within the range found in the field, but only provided that the stage duration is not determined from moult rate. Stage duration estimates obtained from measuring moulting rates of field-collected animals are very sensitive to mortality rates of the animals prior to capture, and field mortality rates are often high enough to produce dramatic over-estimation of stage duration
Stationary and sparse denoising approach for corticomuscular causality estimation
Get PDFObjective: Cortico-muscular communication patterns are instrumental in understanding movement control. Estimating significant causal relationships between motor cortex electroencephalogram (EEG) and surface electromyogram (sEMG) from concurrently active muscles presents a formidable challenge since the relevant processes underlying muscle control are typically weak in comparison to measurement noise and background activities. Methodology: In this paper, a novel framework is proposed to simultaneously estimate the order of the autoregressive model of cortico-muscular interactions along with the parameters while enforcing stationarity condition in a convex program to ensure global optimality. The proposed method is further extended to a non-convex program to account for the presence of measurement noise in the recorded signals by introducing a wavelet sparsity assumption on the excitation noise in the model. Results: The proposed methodology is validated using both simulated data and neurophysiological signals. In case of simulated data, the performance of the proposed methods has been compared with the benchmark approaches in terms of order identification, computational efficiency, and goodness of fit in relation to various noise levels. In case of physiological signals our proposed methods are compared against the state-of-the-art approaches in terms of the ability to detect Granger causality. Significance: The proposed methods are shown to be effective in handling stationarity and measurement noise assumptions, revealing significant causal interactions from brain to muscles and vice versa
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