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Harper, Peter: transcript of a video interview (06-Jun-2015)
No full textInterview with Professor Peter Harper, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 06 June 2015, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Mr Alan Yabsley. The project management was undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson. Professor Peter Harper (b. 1939) is Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics at Cardiff University. He has been closely involved with the identification of the genes underlying Huntington’s disease and muscular dystrophies, and with their application to predictive genetic testing. He has also been responsible for the development of a general medical genetics service for Wales. He is a Consultant to the ‘Makers of Modern Biomedicine Project’ for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary University of London.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)
Peter Dut
No full textabstract: Peter is a Lost Boy of Sudan who has written a book titled, Words of Wisdom from the Clan Chief Angon Guot Wethoou: Autobiography of Peter Dut son of Angon-Dhook.This interview was originally shot in Peter's home and at ASU West
Clinical Genetics in Britain: Origins and development
No full textAnnotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 September 2008. Introduction by Professor Sir John Bell, Uiversity of Oxford.First published by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2010.©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2010.All volumes are freely available online at: www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/wellcome_witnesses/Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 September 2008. Introduction by Professor Sir John Bell, Uiversity of Oxford.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 September 2008. Introduction by Professor Sir John Bell, Uiversity of Oxford.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 September 2008. Introduction by Professor Sir John Bell, Uiversity of Oxford.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 September 2008. Introduction by Professor Sir John Bell, Uiversity of Oxford.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 September 2008. Introduction by Professor Sir John Bell, Uiversity of Oxford.Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 23 September 2008. Introduction by Professor Sir John Bell, Uiversity of Oxford.Clinical genetics has become a major medical specialty in Britain since its beginnings with Lionel Penrose’s work on mental handicap and phenylketonuria (PKU) and John Fraser Robert’s first genetic clinic in 1946. Subsequent advances in diagnosis and prediction have had key impacts on families with inherited disorders and prospective parents concerned about their unborn children. The Witness Seminar focused on the beginnings of British clinical genetics in London, Oxford, Liverpool and Manchester, the development of subspecialties, such as dysmorphology, and also the roles of the Royal College of Physicians, the Clinical Genetics Society and the Department of Health in the establishment of clinical genetics as a specialty in 1980. Specialist non-medical genetic counsellors, initially from the fields of nursing and social work, progressively became a more significant part of genetic services, while lay societies also developed an important influence on services. Prenatal diagnosis became possible with the introduction of new genetic tools in regional centres to identify fetal anomalies and chromosomal disorders. This volume complements the 2001 Witness Seminar on genetic testing which emphasizes laboratory aspects of medical genetics, with limited coverage of clinical genetics. Participants include: Ms Chris Barnes, Dr Caroline Berry, Professor Martin Bobrow (chair), Professor Sir John Burn, Dr Ian Lister Cheese, Professor Angus Clarke, Dr Clare Davison, Professor Joy Delhanty, Dr Nick Dennis, Professor Dian Donnai, Professor Alan Emery, Professor George Fraser, Mrs Margaret Fraser Roberts, Professor Peter Harper, Dr Hilary Harris, Professor Rodney Harris, Professor Shirley Hodgson, Dr Alan Johnston, Mrs Ann Kershaw, Mrs Lauren Kerzin-Storrar, Professor Michael Laurence, Professor Ursula Mittwoch, Professor Michael Modell, Professor Marcus Pembrey, Professor Sue Povey, Professor Heather Skirton, Professor Sir David Weatherall. Harper P A, Reynolds L A, Tansey E M. (eds) (2010) Clinical genetics in Britain: Origins and development. Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 39. London: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity, no. 210183
Harper Lee’s Guide to Surviving December in Education
No full textAs we hurtle towards the Christmas break, we would add a caveat to Harper Lee’s observation and that is that you can’t choose your co-workers either…. Or to put it another way; it’s very difficult to choose your work family
Photograph - Economics and Commerce. From left: Peter Lloyd, R. A. Johnson and John Harper
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/286573Economics and Commerce. From left: Peter Lloyd, R. A. Johnson and John Harper292432
Item: [2003.0003.03552] "Photograph - Economics and Commerce. From left: Peter Lloyd, R. A. Johnson and John Harper
“A Good Editor is Such a Fantastic Learning Experience”: A Chat with Memoirist Jean Harper
No full textJean Harper is the author of, most recently, Still Life with Horses, a memoir (Howling Bird Press, 2017). Her other writings have appeared in The Iowa Review, North American Review, Florida Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Prose, and has been in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches writing at Indiana University East. More at www.jeanharper.org
Environmental Consequence of Deep Learning
No full textDeep learning and artificial intelligence are often viewed as panacea technologies — ones which can decarbonise many industries. But what is the carbon cost of these systems? Damian Borowiec, Richard R. Harper and Peter Garraghan discuss
The Exhibition of People's Technology, 1972
No full textAt the periphery of the landmark June 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) in Stockholm, in the Skeppsholmen Annexe of the Moderna Museet, the Exhibition of People’s Technology proposed that environmental crises could be addressed through the low-tech solutions of alternative technology. Alternative Technology (AT) was a term in use since the eponymous conference at the Bartlett School of Architecture the previous February. It was a de-industrialising movement which extolled the small-scale, decentralised, labour-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound and locally controlled. One of a number of UNCHE fringe events sponsored by the Swedish “PowWow” group, the Exhibition of People’s Technology was organised by the UK editors of a new magazine Undercurrents: The Journal of Radical Science and People’s Technology, launched that same year.1 In 1976, its founder Godfrey Boyle co-edited a major and widely read survey of alternative technology, Radical Technology, with Peter Harper, to whom the term “alternative technology” is attributed (Boyle/Harper 1976). Harper, a student of biology and experimental psychology, was a key organiser of the Exhibition of People’s Technology and in 1983 joined the pivotal Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales, of which he had been a frequent visitor and occasional teacher since 1974.2
This article begins with Harper’s recollections of the exhibition and then moves to a record and discussion by Harper of its contents. It concludes with a more free-ranging conversation between Harper and design historian Simon Sadler about the exhibition’s philosophical and scientific context and implications, transcribed by Iris Xie.PREPRINT of interview articl
Dilbert-Peter Model of Organization Effectiveness: Computer Simulations
No full textWe describe a computer model of general effectiveness of a hierarchical organization depending on two main aspects: effects of promotion to managerial levels and efforts to self-promote of individual employees, reducing their actual productivity. The combination of judgment by appearance in the promotion to higher levels of hierarchy and the Peter Principle (which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence) results in fast declines in effectiveness of the organization. The model uses a few synthetic parameters aimed at reproduction of realistic conditions in typical multilayer organizations. It is shown that improving organization resiliency to self-promotion and continuity of individual productiveness after a promotion can greatly improve the overall organization effectiveness.Organization Productivity, Peter Principle, Agent Based Modeling
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
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