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Contemporary British Philosophy, Personal Statements, edited by J. H. Muirhead
No full textKremer René. Contemporary British Philosophy, Personal Statements, edited by J. H. Muirhead. In: Revue néo-scolastique de philosophie. 29ᵉ année, Deuxième série, n°16, 1927. pp. 493-494
Andrew N. T. Muirhead, Reformation, Dissent and Diversity – The Story of Scotland’s Churches 1560–1960
No full textReformation, Dissent and Diversity – The Story of Scotland’s Churches 1560–1960
Andrew N. T. Muirhead, , Reformation, Dissent and Diversity – The Story of Scotland’s Churches 1560–1960 (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015); 245 pp.: 9781441139030, £22.99/78.00 (hbk)
Nimbacinus dicksoni Muirhead & Archer 1990
No full text† <i>Nimbacinus</i> <p> SPECIES SCORED: † <i>Nimbacinus dicksoni</i> (type species).</p> <p>GEOLOGICAL PROVENANCE OF SCORED SPECIMENS: AL90 and Henk’s Hollow sites (Riversleigh Faunal Zone C), Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia.</p> <p>AGE OF SCORED SPECIMENS: Riversleigh Faunal Zone C is interpreted to be middle Miocene based on biostratigraphy (Archer et al., 1989, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2006; Creaser, 1997;; Travouillon et al., 2006; Black et al., 2012b, 2013; Woodhead et al., 2014; Arena et al., 2015). AL90 site has been radiometrically dated as 14.17–15.11 Mya (Woodhead et al., 2014), but such dates are currently unavailable for Henk’s Hollow site, so we conservatively assume the entire span of the middle Miocene (Langhian-Serravallian; Cohen et al., 2013 [updated]) for this taxon.</p> <p>ASSIGNED AGE RANGE: 15.970 –11.630 Mya.</p> <p> REMARKS: † <i>Nimbacinus dicksoni</i> was originally described by Muirhead and Archer (1990) based on fragmentary dental material, most of it from the Riversleigh Henk’s Hollow site. Subsequently, a nearly complete cranium and associated mandibles (QM F36357) from the Riversleigh AL90 site were described by Wroe and Musser (2001); this specimen also includes an associated skeleton (Long et al., 2002: 61), which remains undescribed. Muirhead and Archer (1990) also identified a broken m2 from D Site at Riversleigh (Faunal Zone A, probably late Oligocene; see † <i>Badjcinus</i> above) and a partial right mandible from the Bullock Creek Local Fauna (probably middle Miocene; see † <i>Mutpuracinus</i> above) in the Northern Territory as representing † <i>N. dicksoni</i>. Subsequently, Murray and Megirian (2000) referred the Bullock Creek specimen mentioned by Muirhead and Archer (1990) to a new species, † <i>N. richi</i>, together with several additional Bullock Creek thylacinid specimens. Murray and Megirian (2000) also suggested that the D Site specimen represents a third distinct taxon. Wroe and Musser (2001) agreed with Murray and Megirian (2000) that the D Site specimen is probably not † <i>N. dicksoni</i>, but they questioned whether † <i>N. richi</i> should be recognized as a distinct species. Most recently, Rovinsky et al. (2019) concluded that † <i>N. richi</i> is probably synonymous with † <i>N. dicksoni</i>, and considered the D Site specimen referred to <i>N. dicksoni</i> by Muirhead and Archer (1990) to be Thylacinidae incertae sedis. Only specimens of † <i>N. dicksoni</i> from the Riversleigh Henk’s Hollow and AL90 sites have been used for scoring purposes here.</p> <p> Published phylogenetic analyses consistently support thylacinid affinities for † <i>Nimbacinus</i> (Wroe and Musser, 2001; Murray and Megirian, 2006a; Yates, 2014, 2015b; Archer et al., 2016; Kealy and Beck, 2017; Rovinsky et al., 2019).</p>Published as part of <i>Beck, Robin M. D., Voss, Robert S. & Jansa, Sharon A., 2022, Craniodental Morphology And Phylogeny Of Marsupials, pp. 1-353 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (457)</i> on pages 323-324, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.457.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6971356">http://zenodo.org/record/6971356</a>
Suppression of secondary hyperparathyroidism in uraemia: acute and chronic studies
No full textA study was conducted evaluating the response of serum parathyroid hormone to acute hypercalcaemia and long term administration of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3) in patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis. During infusion of elemental calcium 4 mg/kg/h over four hours in 12 patients not receiving vitamin D the concentration of serum amino terminal parathyroid hormone fell by 31-96% (mean 74.8 (SD 17.6)%) while that of carboxy terminal parathyroid hormone changed little. There was a strong inverse correlation between baseline serum calcium concentration and percentage fall in amino terminal parathyroid hormone during infusion (r = 0.88; p less than 0.001). In seven patients who received prolonged treatment with 1,25(OH)2D3 after calcium infusion there was a positive correlation between maximum percentage fall in amino terminal parathyroid hormone during infusion and the percentage fall in amino terminal parathyroid hormone after 1,25(OH)2D3 treatment (r = 0.79; p less than 0.05). The responsiveness of the parathyroid glands to changes in calcium in acute studies may be used to predict the efficacy of long term treatment with 1,25(OH)2D3. Patients in whom calcium infusion does not suppress parathyroid hormone may have true parathyroid autonomy and require early parathyroidectomy
Long-term effects of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 and 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 in renal osteodystrophy
No full textTwenty-three patients with end-stage renal failure on maintenance haemodialysis were treated with 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 or 24-25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 for 3-32 months (total 232 patient months). Treatment with 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 was marked by symptomatic, biochemical and histological improvements in the majority of patients. In contrast, treatment with 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 produced no biochemical or histological improvements and such patients developed severe symptomatic bone disease. Successful renal transplantation resulted in rapid improvement in symptoms, biochemistry and bone histology in nine of 10 patients irrespective of whether prior treatment was with 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3, 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 or both. During treatment with 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 progressive reduction in dosage was required in the majority of patients because of hypercalcaemia, which was rapidly corrected by stopping treatment for a few days. Hypercalcaemia did not occur until serum alkaline phosphatase (AP) and amino terminal parathyroid hormone (N-PTH) had fallen towards normal. Treatment failure was uncommon in 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3-treated patients and was characterized by the early development of hypercalcaemia. Addition of 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 in such patients rendered the hypercalcaemia more manageable but did not lead to any further improvement in biochemistry or bone histology. Treatment with 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 was accompanied by the development of severe symptomatic bone disease in the majority of patients and a characteristic pattern of biochemical abnormalities with hypocalcaemia and rises in AP and N-PTH. Substitution of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 treatment for 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 in these patients resulted in prompt improvement in clinical, biochemical and histological abnormalities. Successful renal transplantation was accompanied by rapid resolution of clinical, biochemical and histological features of renal osteodystrophy irrespective of whether previous treatment was with 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 or 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3. Hypophosphataemia was common in the early months after renal transplantation without evidence of continuing hyperparathyroidism. The studies have confirmed that 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 is effective in controlling clinical, biochemical and histological features of renal osteodystrophy while 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 did not have a useful therapeutic effect in the dose used
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
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