262 research outputs found
Bruce Findlay, 1994
No full textBruce Findlay, lecturer in Psychology, author of "How to Write a Psychology Laboratory Report", a guide to working through the maze of communication and statistical conventions. Swinburne Staff News 12 May 1994
Data relating to Smith et al 2022.xlsx
No full textData relating to Smith et al (final author Dr Emily Gwyer Findlay) published 2022.</p
First person – Amy Findlay
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Amy Findlay is first author on ‘Mouse Idh3a mutations cause retinal degeneration and reduced mitochondrial function’, published in DMM. Amy is a postdoc in the lab of Ian Jackson at MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. The focus of her research is using mouse models of human disease to investigate the genetic causes of retinal degeneration
Strangers in Style: Digital Intimacy and the Self Becoming on the Style Blogosphere
No full textPublic talk/panel featuring Dr Rosie Findlay (London College of Fashion) and Rosalind Jana (digital editor of Violet magazine, blogger and author) in conversation with Dr Agnes Rocamora (London College of Fashion). A joint event hosted by the Cultural and Historical Studies Hub and the Fashion Media and Imagery Hub at London College of Fashion, Wednesday 22 November 2017
New insights into cancer-related skeletal muscle depletion and malnutrition in patients with head and neck cancer
No full textMalnutrition is prevalent in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) impacting negatively on clinical, economic and patient-centred outcomes. As diagnostic assessment and phenotypic criteria of malnutrition should include evaluation of muscle mass, body composition analysis by computed tomography (CT) has become a focus of cancer research arising from its well-documented prognostic significance. Positioned within the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) Nutrition Care Process (NCP) Model, this thesis aimed to examine the impact of CT-defined skeletal muscle depletion on outcomes for adult patients (≥18 years) who had completed radiotherapy ± other treatment modality of curative intent for HNC. Key findings include: i) both skeletal muscle depletion and malnutrition impact negatively on outcomes and therefore hold important prognostic value for patients with HNC; ii) human body composition is complex, influencing individualised risk in an era of personalised medicine; iii) methodological consensus and reporting guidelines in CT-defined skeletal muscle research are required; and iv) the clinical utility of CT-defined skeletal muscle depletion warrants further exploration. The powerful prognostic value of nutritional status reinforces the importance of comprehensive nutrition assessment using validated tools in the oncology population, aligning with current evidence-based guidelines. This thesis substantially advances the knowledge and understanding of the impact of CT-defined skeletal muscle depletion and nutritional status on outcomes for patients with HNC. The overall findings highlight that adhering to evidence-based guidelines for optimum cancer nutrition care plays a central role in the identification of patients at high risk of poor outcomes. This research holds important implications for clinical care, education, research and policy in which dietitians are ideally placed to take a leadership role to improve outcomes for this complex patient group
Best evidence to best practice: Implementing an innovative model of care for nutritional management of patients with head and neck cancer
No full textThis project aims to implement and evaluate an innovative best-practice dietetic model of care (MOC) based on published Evidence Based Guidelines for Nutritional Management of Patients with Head and Neck Cancer. Through integration with the multidisciplinary team, the MOC will take a patient-centred approach to delivery of nutritional care to minimise the detrimental sequelae of malnutrition and improve outcomes in this complex patient group.$172,911.00Translating Research into Practice Fellowship
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Law's regulatory relevance?:property, power and market economies /
No full textFocusing on the information economy, free trade exploitation, and confronting terrorist violence, Mark Findlay critiques law's regulatory commodification. Conventional legal regulatory modes such as theft and intellectual property are being challenged by waves of property access and use, which demand the rethinking of property 'rights' and their relationships with the law. Law's Regulatory Relevance? theorises how the law should reposition itself in order to help rather than hinder new pathways of market power, by confronting the dominant neo-liberal economic model that values property through scarcity. With in-depth analysis of empirical case studies, the author explores how law is returning to its communal utility in strengthening social ties, which will in turn restore property as social relations rather than market commodities. In a world of contested narratives about property valuing, law needs to ground its inherent regulatory relevance in the ordering of social change. This book is an essential read for students of law and regulation wanting to explore the contemporary dissent against neo-liberal market economies and the issues of communitarian governance and social resistance. It will also appeal to policy makers interested in law's failing regulatory capacity, particularly through criminalising attacks on conventional property rights, by offering insights into why law's regulatory relevance is at a cross-roads
“We're not financial organisations!”: Financial innovation without regulation in China's rural cooperative funds
No full textThis study is based on a detailed survey of a township-based RCF in Jiangsu Province of China undertaken by the first author in 1997. RCFs are well developed in Jiangsu. In terms of organisational structure, this RCF is typical of RCFs in Jiangsu and nearby regions of China. This RCF is, however, one of the best managed in Jiangsu province with a strong financial position. The study is supplemented by data collected from other field work in China. Recent developments in China's rural financial markets and institutions are documented in Section 2. Section 2 also reviews the emergence and development of the RCFs in Jiangsu. The innovations in lending methodologies introduced by the case-study RCF in Jiangsu are examined in Section 3. Section 4 discusses the regulation and supervision of the case-study RCFs. Conclusions and policy implications are drawn in Section 5.Cheng, Enjiang; Findlay, Christopher Charles; Watson, Andre
Exploring HOD-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape galaxy clustering analysis
No full textN. Findlay et al. -- Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey Year 1 resultsWe analyse the robustness of the DESI 2024 cosmological inference from the full shape of the galaxy power spectrum to uncertainties in the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model of the galaxy-halo connection and the choice of priors on nuisance parameters. We assess variations in the recovered cosmological parameters across a range of mocks populated with different HOD models and find that shifts are often greater than 20% of the expected statistical uncertainties from the DESI data. We encapsulate the effect of such shifts in terms of a systematic covariance term, CHOD, and an additional diagonal contribution quantifying the impact of our choice of nuisance parameter priors on the ability of the effective field theory (EFT) model to correctly recover the cosmological parameters of the simulations. These two covariance contributions are designed to be added to the usual covariance term, Cstat, describing the statistical uncertainty in the power spectrum measurement, in order to fairly represent these sources of systematic uncertainty. This novel approach should be more general and robust to the choice of model or additional external datasets used in cosmological fits than the alternative approach of adding systematic uncertainties to the recovered marginalised parameter posteriors. We compare the approaches within the context of a fixed ΛCDM model and demonstrate that our method gives conservative estimates of the systematic uncertainty that nevertheless have little impact on the final posteriors obtained from DESI data.We would like to acknowledge Mark Maus and Kazuya Koyama for serving as internal reviewers of this work and providing useful feedback. We thank Samuel Brieden for a comment on the limitation of fixing nuisance parameters in the creation of the HOD covariance that helped to shape this paper. NF acknowledges support from STFC grant ST/X508688/1 and funding from the University of Portsmouth. SN acknowledges support from an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, with grant reference ST/T005009/2. CGQ acknowledges support provided by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51554.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS5-26555. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of High-Energy Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract. Additional support for DESI was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Astronomical Sciences under Contract No. AST-0950945 to the NSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology of Mexico (CONAHCYT); the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN), and by the DESI Member Institutions: https://www.desi.lbl.gov/collaborating-institutions. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, or any of the listed funding agencies. The authors are honored to be permitted to conduct scientific research on Iolkam Du’ag (Kitt Peak), a mountain with particular significance to the Tohono O’odham Nation.Peer reviewe
Does Migration Make You Happy?:A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being
No full textThe majority of quantitative studies on the consequences of internal migration focus almost exclusively on the labour-market outcomes and the material well-being of migrants. We investigate whether individuals who migrate within the UK become happier after the move than they were before, and whether the effect is permanent or transient. Using life-satisfaction responses from twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey and employing a fixed-effects model, we derive a temporal pattern of migrants’ subjective well-being around the time of the migration event. Our findings make an original contribution by revealing that, on average, migration is preceded by a period when individuals experience a significant decline in happiness for a variety of reasons, including changes in personal living arrangements. Migration itself causes a boost in happiness, and brings people back to their initial levels. The research contributes, therefore, to advancing an understanding of migration in relation to set-point theory. Perhaps surprisingly, long-distance migrants are at least as happy as short-distance migrants despite the higher social and psychological costs involved. The findings of this paper add to the pressure to retheorize migration within a conceptual framework that accounts for social well-being from a life-course perspective
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