247 research outputs found
Oral history interview with Robert W. Topping, 2008 May 8
No full textRobert Topping was born in West Lafayette, Indiana. His father was on the faculty in the School of Electrical Engineering from 1903 to 1949. Topping talks about growing up in West Lafayette and graduating from Purdue in 1950 with a BS in Science. During the Korean War, he served as an Information Specialist in the US Air Force at Castle Air Force Base in Merced, California. After serving a stint on a newspaper in Michigan, he came to Purdue in 1962 as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Information. He served as Director of the University News Service until 1976. He then became Assistant to the Vice President for Advancement. Topping talks about the Office of Publications and its role in the university communication chain. Topping is the author of several publications about Purdue: The Hovde Years and A Century and Beyond: The History of Purdue University
Soluble arabinoxylan alters digesta flow and protein digestion of red meat-containing diets in pigs
No full textAbstract not availableDagong Zhang, Barbara A. Williams, Deirdre Mikkelsen, Xiuhua Li, Helen L. Keates, Allan T. Lisle, Helen M. Collins, Geoffrey B. Fincher, Anthony R. Bird, David L. Topping, Michael J. Gidley, Wayne L. Bryde
When We Were a Child, We Were Hypnotised By Our Dentist
No full textThe Material: Art & Technology Research Group,
Bath School of Art, Film & Media
Fiction Machines IV - One-Day Symposium: 20th July 2023
Strand: Personification and Voicing As Method
When We Were a Child, We Were Hypnotised By Our Dentist
In 1982, the child Jane Topping was hypnotised by her dentist, Dr George W. Fairfull Smith. Simultaneously – and unbeknownst to everyone in the dental surgery - the alien nou left her home planet on a mission, was drawn off course and became trapped beneath a filling in one of the child Jane’s rotten pre-molars. And so, the alien/human hybrid nouJane came into being. Though the whole thing was recorded for the BBC and broadcast as the documentary Hypnosis and Healing (dir. Michael Barnes, 1982), it is not until today that we hear nouJane speak…
This performative reading develops the idea of alien invasion as an alternative mode of reproduction while giving voice to a new kind of being, by drawing on my film nou (2018), my online artwork www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com (2018-ongoing) and the correspondence of Scottish writer Naomi Mitchison, unearthed from the archives of The National Library of Scotland. As mentioned above, this session is performed by the alien/human hybrid nouJane.
The conference Fiction Machines IV (Bath Spa University) is part of a long-term research strand which is interested in methods of fiction and personification within art practice research to engage with and give voice to more-than-human lifeforms and materials. The conference is interested in fiction and method within art practice, ‘Far from being an escape from the world’, as Shaws and Reeves-Evison have argued, ‘fiction takes us to its symbolic centre and might allow us to establish some leverage within the tangled contingencies and hidden conventions that lie there.’ (2017:7). For Fiction Machines IV ‘I’ will perform a reading with AV which develops the idea of alien invasion as an alternative mode of reproduction by drawing on my film nou (2018), my online artwork www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com (2018-ongoing) and the correspondence of Scottish writer Naomi Mitchison, unearthed from the archives of The National Library of Scotland. Crucially, this session will be performed, not by Dr Jane Topping, but by the alien/human hybrid nouJane. The short film nou (2018) is a tale of space travel, hypnosis and transformation in which the protagonist nou leaves the alien world of her home planet and travels through a kaleidoscopic tunnel, emerging in the tooth of a child who has been hypnotised by a dentist. At the end of the film, nou the alien and Jane the child are one – a hybrid named nouJane. www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit is an online artwork - a self-generative digital wunderkammer - a cut-up, intertextual cabinet of uncontrollable curiosities. By performing as nouJane, the being ‘born’ at the end of the film nou, the performance channels the innermost concerns of a hybrid – a being who seeks answers in the interstices created by the self-generating (self-aware?) www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com. This performative reading addresses two of the conference strands: Machine Futurisms (as it gives voice to a speculative alien/human hybrid and draws from a generative online artwork) or Personification and Voicing As Method strand (as it collages autobiography, sci-fi meanderings and correspondence to and from Naomi Mitchison)
Health insurance reform in four Latin American countries : theory and practice
No full textThe author examines public economics rationales for public intervention in health insurance markets, draws on the literature of organizational design to examine alternative intervention strategies, and considers health insurance reforms in four Latin American countries -- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia -- in light of the theoretical literature. Equity has been the main reason for large-scale public intervention in the health insurance sector, despite the well-known failures of insurance and health care markets associated with imperfect information. Recent reforms have sought less to make private markets more efficient than to make public provision more efficient, sometimes by altering the focus and function of existing institutions (such as the obras sociales in Argentina) or by encouraging the growth of new ones (such as Chile's ISAPREs). Generally, these four Latin American countries have reformed the ways insurance and care are organized and delivered, have tried to extend formal coverage to previously marginalized groups, and have tried to finance this extension fairly. Colombia instituted an implicit two-tiered voucher scheme financed through a proportional wage tax. Chile's financing mechanism is similar but the distribution of benefits is less progressive, so the net effect is less redistributive. Argentina's remodeled obras system went halfway: the financing base is similar and there is some implicit redistribution from richer to poorer obras, but the quality of insurance increases with income. On the face of it, Brazil's health insurance system is less redistributive than those of the other three countries, as no tax is earmarked for financing health insurance. But taxes paid by higher-income taxpayers are not reduced when they choose private insurance, highlighting the problem of examining the health sector independent of the general tax and transfer system.Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Insurance Law,Economic Theory&Research
Restoration of depressed prostanoid-induced ileal contraction in spontaneously hypertensive rats by dietary fish oil
No full textCopyright © 2005 by AOCS PressWe have reported that dietary fish oil (FO) rich in n−3 PUFA modulates gut contractility. It was further demonstrated that the gut of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) has a depressed contractility response to prostaglandins (PG) compared with normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. We investigated whether feeding diets supplemented with n−3 PUFA increased gut contractility and restored the depressed prostanoid response in SHR gut. Thirteen-week-old SHR were fed diets containing fat at 5 g/100 g as coconut oil (CO), lard, canola oil containing 10% (w/w) n−3 FA as α-linolenic acid (18∶3n−3), or FO (as HiDHA®, 22∶6n−3) for 12 wk. A control WKY group was fed 5 g/100 g CO in the diet. As confirmed, the SHR CO group had a significantly lower gut response to PGE2 and PGF2α compared with the WKY CO group. Feeding FO increased the maximal contraction response to acetylcholine in the ileum compared with all diets and in the colon compared with lard, and restored the depressed response to PGE2 and PGF2α in the ileum but not the colon of SHR. FO feeding also led to a significant increase in gut total phospholipid n−3 PUFA as DHA (22∶6n−3) with lower n−6 PUFA as arachidonic acid (20∶4n−6). Canola feeding led to a small increase in ileal EPA (20∶5n−3) and DHA and in colonic DHA without affecting contractility. However, there was no change in ileal membrane muscarinic binding properties due to FO feeding. This report confirms that dietary FO increases muscarinic- and eicosanoid receptor-induced contractility in ileum and that the depressed prostanoid response in SHR ileum, but not colon, is restored by tissue incorporation of DHA as the active nutrient.Glen S. Patten, Michael J. Adams, Julie A. Dallimore, Paul F. Rogers, David L. Topping, and Mahinda Y. Abeywarden
Increasing response rates to lifestyle surveys: a pragmatic evidence review
No full textAims: Lifestyle surveys are often a key component of a local Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), undertaken to inform public health planning. They are usually administered to a large number of people in order to provide a comprehensive profile of population health. However, declining response rates coupled with the under-representation of certain population groups in lifestyle survey data has led to doubts concerning the reliability of findings. In order to inform the design of their own lifestyle survey, NHS Calderdale commissioned an evidence-based review of the methodological literature relating to the administration of lifestyle surveys, with the specific aim of identifying practical and resource-efficient strategies shown to be effective for maximizing whole-population response rates.
Methods: A pragmatic review of the published literature was undertaken, specifically to explore the most practical and resource-efficient ways to maximize lifestyle survey response rates to the most commonly used methods (postal surveys, face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews and electronic surveys). Electronic databases including MEDLINE, CINAHL, DARE, EMBASE and PsychINFO were searched. Empirical evidence published in the last 10 years was identified and citation tracking performed on all retrieved articles. An internet search for ‘grey literature’ was also conducted.
Results: The postal questionnaire remains an important lifestyle survey tool, but reported response rates have decreased rapidly in recent years. Interviews and telephone surveys are recommended in order to supplement data from postal questionnaires and increase response rates in some population groups, but costs may be prohibitive. Electronic surveys are a cheaper alternative, but the empirical evidence on effectiveness is inconclusive. Careful planning and tailoring of survey design to the characteristics of target populations can increase response rates and representativeness of lifestyle survey data.
Conclusions: The results of this pragmatic review could provide a valuable resource for those involved in the design and administration of lifestyle surveys
Northern Irish Elegy
No full textThis thesis proposes that Northern Irish elegy is a distinctive genre of contemporary poetry, which has developed during the years of the Troubles, and has continued to be adapted and defined during the current peace process. It argues that the practice of writing elegy for the losses of the Troubles has established a poetic mode in which Northern Irish poets have continued to work through losses of a more universal kind. This thesis explores the contention that elegy has a clear social and political function, providing a way in which to explore some of the losses experienced by a community over the past half-century, and helping to suggest ideas of consolation.
Part one focuses on three first generation Northern Irish elegists: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Heaney is considered in a chapter which takes in a poetic career, through which might be traced the development of Northern Irish elegy. Following this are two highly focused studies of the elegies of Longley and Mahon. The place of artifice in elegy is considered in relation to Longley's Troubles elegies, while Mahon’s irony is discussed in relation to his elegiac need for community.
Part two looks at a second generation, represented by Ciaran Carson and Paul Muldoon. Carson's elegies for Belfast are read in a discussion of the destruction and reconstruction that occurs during the process of remembering. This study explores the idea that elegies might also be written for places and temporal spaces. Carson's interest in poetic form is shown to be intricately related to his elegiac practice. The chapter on Muldoon surveys a career which has interrogated the connections between art and suffering. Muldoon raises questions of poetic responsibility, and also challenges poetry itself, on a formal and linguistic level. As his career develops, he includes not only the local threats of Troubles violence within his elegies, but also the global threats of disease, violence and terror.
Part three starts with Medbh McGuckian, whose work is discussed in relation to the third generation poets Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn and Colette Bryce. As McGuckian's poetry is perhaps the least immediately accessible of all the poetry covered here, the thesis considers ways in which her work might be read, before her poems are discussed as Northern Irish elegies. Following this are readings of poems from Morrissey, Flynn and Bryce, noting ways in which this generation works to develop the genre of elegy, working in the same broad themes that have been charted throughout this thesis
The Emerging Pacific Island States: The Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Pacific Islands Studies Conference
No full text28 cmIncludes bibliographical referencesPacific Islands Studies Conference (4th : 1979 : University of Hawaii)Editor's Introduction / Jane N. Hurd -- Opening Remarks / Carl J. Daeufer -- Hawaii's Plans for Future Relations with the Other Pacific Islands / Hideto Kono -- Tahiti et Mama France / Ben R. Finney -- From Atoll to Federal Agency: The Politics of Feeding People / Craig J. Severence -- Dependence and Independence: Kapingamarangi Atoll and a Central Bougainville Community Compared / Michael P. Hamnett -- United States Policy in the South Pacific / William Bodde -- American Samoa--Gateway to Opportunity in the South Pacific / Frederick W. Rohlfing -- China as a Pacific Power / Michael R. Godley -- South Pacific Fisheries Politics / George Kent -- Media's Role in Pacific Islands Politics: A Roundtable Discussion / Thomas J. Brislin -- The Pacific and the Law of the Sea / Scott Allen -- Summary Remarks / Donald M. Topping
Language universals without universal categories
No full textIn this article, the authors present their views on an article by author Sandra Chung related to lexical categories. According to them, Chung's article critiques an analysis of word classes in Chamorro by author Donald M. Topping. They discuss the restatements made by Chung on Topping's criteria for defining two word classes. According to them, Chung defined that the words from Class I form predicates of passive clauses with the infix in or the prefix ma but Class II words do not. The words from Class II serve as predicates of clauses whose subject is a weak pronoun but Class I words do not
“Words That Open Your Heart”—Overcoming Social Barriers to Heritage Language Reclamation in Ishigaki City
No full textIshigaki Yaeyaman, a heavily minoritized Southern Ryukyuan language, is not a language of commerce, education, media, or government validated by the socioeconomic center. Nevertheless, it holds a certain value for a group of people in Ishigaki City that is intangible and deeply personal. In keeping with the goal of this special issue—to step out of the established dichotomies that impede the vision and practice of Ryukyuan language learning—this work sheds light on the ideologies and practices of new speakers of Ishigaki Yaeyaman, who traverse a ‘third space’ in their use of the language between public-and-private, polite-and-rude, spoken-and-written, and Japanese-and-Ryukyuan. It builds on the author’s findings, including field observations made during doctoral research at University of the Ryukyus. A participatory action research methodology is employed, drawing upon qualitative data from semi-structured personal interviews and the in-person observation of Master–Apprentice language learning sessions within a local grassroots initiative begun in December 2019. The analysis suggests a need to break away from the dichotomies dictating the environment and situations in which new speakers may interact with traditional speakers and among themselves. This is recommended to take the form of Master–Apprentice training in a context that encourages the transformation of language attitudes and awareness, creating a ‘safe space’ that is dialogic, collaborative, and transdisciplinary
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