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Functional activation during the Rapid Visual Information Processing task in a middle aged cohort: an fMRI study
No full textData from the above titled research paper published in PLOS ONE. Ref: PONE-D-14-01701R2
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Interview of author Tenea D. Johnson at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida
No full textTenea D. Johnson, award winning author and founder of Progress By Design, is interviewed by Grace Chun, project coordinator at University of Florida Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, as part of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. Tenea speaks about her work, afrofuturism, and how her stories and songs create worlds to examine big questions. She defines speculative fiction anything that doesn't abide by the rules, that is not based in reality. Tenea says she hopes that afrofuturism and Black speculative fiction will become a greater force than just entertainment and that Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies influenced her the most as she demonstrated confidence not out of ego but of skill, exemplifying bravery and openness
An investigation into the identity of the active component in Pseudocatalase
No full textAn Investigation into the Identity of the Active Component in Pseudocatalase By Neale Wareham Pseudocatalase is a potential treatment for the disease Vitiligo (characterised by patchy loss of the pigment melanin in the skin). It has been developed by Professors K., U. Schallreuter and J. M. Woods of Bradford University in collaboration with Stiefel Laboratories International R & D, Maidenhead, UK. It was originally thought that the active moiety of Pseudocatalase was a manganese/bicarbonate complex, which mimics the action of the enzyme catalase in the melanogenesis pathway. This Thesis describes the methods used to try to identify and quantitatively assay the active component. The catalytic activity of Pseudocatalase upon the dye Alizarin, in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, was examined using UV/vis spectroscopy. A capillary electrophoresis method was developed and validated for the assay of manganese EDTA. ESR spectroscopy was used to study the manganese complex in Pseudocatalase. The Thesis also sheds some light on the mode of action of Pseudocatalase in melanogenesis and the role of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and bicarbonate in the formation of the active moiety, possibly a bi-nuclear manganese/EDTA/bicarbonate complex.</p
Body, time, and the others: African-American anthropology and the rewriting of ethnographic conventions in the ethnographies by Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This research looks at the ethnographies Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938) by Zora Neale Hurston focusing on representations of Time and the anthropologist’s body. Hurston was an African-American anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist who conducted research particularly between the end of the 1920s and the mid-1930s. At first, her fieldwork and writings dealt with African-American communities in Florida and Hoodoo practice in Louisiana, but she consequently expanded her field of anthropological interests to Jamaica and Haiti, which she visited between 1936 and 1937. The temporal and bodily factors in Hurston’s works are taken into consideration as coordinates of differentiation between the ethnographer and the objects of her research. In her ethnographies, the representation of the anthropologist’s body is analysed as an attempt at reducing temporal distance in ethnographical writings paralleled by the performative experience of fieldwork exemplified by Hurston’s storytelling: body, voice, and the dialogic representation of fieldwork relationships do not guarantee a portrayal of the anthropological subject on more egalitarian terms, but cast light on the influence of the anthropologist both in the practice and writing of ethnography. These elements are analysed in reference to the visualistic tradition of American anthropology as ways of organising difference and ascribing the anthropological ‘Others’ to a temporal frame characterised by bodily and cultural features perceived as ‘primitive’ and, therefore, distant from modernity. Representations and definitions of ‘primitiveness’ and ‘modernity’ not only shaped both twentieth-century American anthropology and the modernist arts (Harlem Renaissance), but also were pivotal for the creation of a modern African-American identity in its relation to African history and other black people involved in the African diaspora. In the same years in which Hurston visited Jamaica and Haiti, another African-American woman anthropologist and dancer, Katherine Dunham, conducted fieldwork in the Caribbean and started to look at it as a source of inspiration for the emerging African-American dance as recorded in her ethnographical and autobiographical account Island Possessed (1969). Therefore, Hurston’s and Dunham’s representations of Haiti are examined as points of intersection for the different discourses which both widened and complicated their understanding of what being ‘African’ and ‘American’ could mean.Isambard Research Scholarship from Brunel University and grant from Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust
Neale, Kay: transcript of a video interview (18-May-2016)
No full textInterview with Ms Kay Neale, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 18 May 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Ms Caroline Overy. The project management and the technical support (filming and production) were undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Ms Kay Neale MSc SRN (b. 1946) qualified as a nurse at the Royal Free Hospital in 1967 and was appointed as a District Nurse in Islington in 1969. In 1974 she started to work at St Mark’s Hospital as a Research Nurse funded by the Cancer Research Campaign. She worked with Dr Michael Hill, who was studying gut chemistry and flora at the Centre for Applied Microbiological Research at Porton Down, and patients with polyposis were part of the group included in their research. In 1984 she was appointed to work alongside Dr H J R Bussey and Dr Sheila Ritchie in the Polyposis Registry, funded by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. She gained a Master’s degree in 1985 in survey research methods and helped with the computerization of data, collected since St Mark’s Polyposis Registry began in 1924. This unique database has provided support for both clinical and laboratory based research, including the localization of the APC and MYH genes. She is currently employed by London North West Healthcare NHS Trust. She was a founder member of the Leeds Castle Polyposis Group (1985), which evolved into the International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours (2005), of which she remains the Honorary Administrative Secretary.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Genomic Analysis of Polygenic Traits
No full textPosthuma, D. [Promotor]Daly, M.J. [Copromotor]Neale, B.M. [Copromotor
Neale, Kay: transcript of an audio interview (18-May-2016)
No full textInterview of Ms Kay Neale, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 18 May 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Ms Caroline Overy. The project management and the technical support were undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson and Mr Alan Yabsley, respectively. Ms Kay Neale MSc SRN (b. 1946) qualified as a nurse at the Royal Free Hospital in 1967 and was appointed as a District Nurse in Islington in 1969. In 1974 she started to work at St Mark’s Hospital as a Research Nurse funded by the Cancer Research Campaign. She worked with Dr Michael Hill, who was studying gut chemistry and flora, initially based in Colindale but moved to the Centre for Applied Microbiological Research at Porton Down, and patients with polyposis were part of the group included in their research. In 1984 she was appointed to work alongside Dr H J R Bussey and Dr Sheila Ritchie in the Polyposis Registry, funded by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. She gained a Master’s degree in 1985 in survey research methods and helped with the computerisation of data, collected since St Mark’s Polyposis Registry began in 1924. This unique database has provided support for both clinical and laboratory based research, including the localisation of the APC and MYH genes. She is currently employed by London North West Healthcare NHS Trust as the Manager of the Department of Inherited Intestinal Cancer Syndromes. She was a founder member of the Leeds Castle Polyposis Group (1985), which evolved into the International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours (2005), of which she remains the Honorary Administrative Secretary.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
Perceived justice in email service recovery
No full textThis study adds to the limited research of service recovery in an online environment, drawing on data from Australia. It is perhaps the first non-US study of email service recovery as well as the first to apply a theoretical perspective - perceived justice - to email service recovery. The results of three annual studies resemble US results and support extending perceived justice to service recovery via email. The distributive elements of replying and offering compensation, the procedural element of answering completely, and the interactional element of thanking the customer showed significant positive relationships with customer satisfaction, positive word-of-mouth and repurchase intent. Perhaps most importantly for practitioners, the results of a stepwise regression showed that incorporating the simple phrase "thank-you" in the email reply was a strong predictor of successful email service recovery. Finally, this study found that response time might be less critical than previously thought
<b>Data for: Zoey R Neale and Volker HW Rudolf. 2024. </b><b>Latitudinal differences in thermal response curves across populations demonstrate context-dependent warming effects within species</b>
No full textThis is data and code used in paper: Zoey Neale and Volker HW Rudolf. 2024. Latitudinal differences in thermal response curves across populations demonstrate context-dependent warming effects within species. In preparationIt contains data collected on the number of Daphnia pulex consumed by individual Notonecta irrorata collected from three latitudes and exposed to a temperature gradient. Data include temperature treatment, latitudinal site, pond ID, environmental chamber ID, water bath ID, location in water bath, and the number of surviving and dead D. pulex at the end of the feeding rate trial. Code files include all statistical analyses performed in the corresponding paper.See readme file for detailed descriptions of data and code.</p
The trials of W. L. Neale
No full textW. L. Neale, the Chief Inspector of the Education
Department of South Australia, was invited
to accept appointment as Director of Education in
Tasmania in 1905. His attempts to centralise
control of the Department antagonised the local
Boards of Advice and his curricular innovations
confused the many incompetent teachers, whom
he rebuked and criticised publicly. The opposition
of these two groups to Neale was so bitter that
three Royal Commissions were held to investigate
allegations made against him. The few competent
teachers supported Neale, but his own lack of tact
alienated public opinion and Parliament accepted
the recommendation of the third Commission to
terminate his services.
His ability was outstanding and his dismissal a
sad setback to education in Tasmania
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