215 research outputs found
sj-pdf-1-eax-10.1177_21676968221090039 – Supplemental Material for A Cross-Country Network Analysis of Resilience Systems in Young Adults
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-eax-10.1177_21676968221090039 for A Cross-Country Network Analysis of Resilience Systems in Young Adults by Philip Jefferies, Jan Höltge, Jessica Fritz and Michael Ungar in Emerging Adulthood</p
Comentário sobre “Sraffa e a Teoria do Valor do Trabalho: uma nota”: resposta a William Jefferies
No full textThis is a reply to the criticisms raised by William Jefferies (Jefferies, 2020) to my article “Sraffa and the Labour Theory of Value: a note” (Araujo, 2019). In Jefferies (2020) the author has given great emphasis to the question of physical commensurability between input and output in Sraffa’s price model.
JEL Classification: B12; B51.Esta é uma resposta às críticas levantadas por William Jefferies (Jefferies, 2020) ao meu artigo “Sraffa e a Teoria do Valor do Trabalho: uma nota” (Araujo, 2019). Em Jefferies (2020), o autor deu grande ênfase à questão da comensurabilidade física entre insumo e produto no modelo de preços de Sraffa.
Classificação JEL : B12; B51
Soul-Life: Richard Jefferies’ Mystical Vision of Nature
No full textThis paper examines Richard Jefferies’ contribution to the study of nature mysticism. I argue that the study of nature mysticism can be utilized as a valuable source of insight to cultivate a more ecocentric response to the ecological crisis. Historically, the study of mysticism in the West has been shaped by a monotheistic bias that tends to marginalize the teachings of nature mystics. I seek to redress this lacuna in the field by calling attention to the understudied teachings of the English mystic and author, Richard Jefferies. I claim that Jefferies’ spiritual autobiography, The Story of My Heart ([1883] 2014) presents a compelling vision of nature mysticism that challenges the reader to reflect critically on conventional understandings of God, body, and time/being. Most significantly, I argue that Jefferies’ concept of “soul-life” can be interpreted as an ontological category characterized by an intellectual and moral sensitivity towards the wonders of nature. Jefferies believed that the cultivation of soul-life is transformative and key to unlocking the full potential of our relationship to the earth and each other
Whose Book is it Anyway?: A View from elsewhere on publishing, copyright and creativity
No full textWhose Book is it Anyway? is a provocative collection of essays that opens out the copyright debate to questions of open access, ethics, and creativity. It includes views – such as artist’s perspectives, writer’s perspectives, feminist, and international perspectives – that are too often marginalized or elided altogether.
The diverse range of contributors take various approaches, from the scholarly and the essayistic to the graphic, to explore the future of publishing based on their experiences as publishers, artists, writers and academics. Considering issues such as intellectual property, copyright and comics, digital publishing and remixing, and what it means (not) to say one is an author, these vibrant essays urge us to view central aspects of writing and publishing in a new light.
Whose Book is it Anyway? is a timely and varied collection of essays. It asks us to reconceive our understanding of publishing, copyright and open access, and it is essential reading for anyone invested in the future of publishing
A Brief History of Investment Banking and My Internship at Jefferies and Company
No full text39 p.The author describes his summer internship at Jefferies & Company reviews the changes in investment banking in this country. The author discusses the separation of commercial and investment banking and the significance of the Glass Steagall Act, then discusses the various components and divisions of investment banking
“The Peripatetic Philosopher”: Unlocking the Trauma of Richard Jefferies
No full textThis article considered the juvenilia of Richard Jefferies in light of the traumatic experiences of his early childhood, which included the sudden loss of his elder sister and a move from the country to the city to live with his aunt and uncle. Using a psychobiographical approach the article considers the impact of the prejudice directed towards him from the local Swindon community during his mid-to-late teens, which spurred him forward in honing his skill as an observational writer. Consonant with this process was the discovery and expression of his authentic voice, which was tempered by the financial need to write for the local newspapers. The article illustrates how his treatment of an area of waste land near his boyhood home affords insight into his emotional wellbeing and his maturation as an author and thinker. Through the close reading of passages written between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, alongside excerpts from his mature works, the article identifies a new unexplored dimension to the author and his works at a formative time in his career.</jats:p
Variants in the genes encoding TNF-?, IL-10, and GSTP1 influence the effect of a-tocopherol on inflammatory cell responses in healthy men
No full textBackground: Despite evidence of antioxidant effects of vitamin E in vitro and in animal studies, large, randomized clinical trials have not substantiated a benefit of vitamin E in reducing inflammation in humans. An individual's genetic background may affect the response to ?-tocopherol supplementation, but this has rarely been investigated. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the role of genetic polymorphisms on changes in LPS-stimulated inflammatory cytokine production from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) after ?-tocopherol supplementation. Design: A total of 160 healthy, middle-aged male volunteers (mean age: 52.7 y) were given dietary supplements of either 75 IU (low dose; n = 57) or 600 IU (high dose; n = 103) ?-tocopherol/d for 6 wk. The production of TNF-? and IL-1?, -6, and -10 by PBMCs after LPS stimulation was measured at baseline and after 6 wk. Polymorphisms in 15 genes involved in inflammation or responses to oxidative stress were characterized in the subjects. Results: The ability of ?-tocopherol to affect TNF-? production by LPS-stimulated PBMCs was influenced by the TNFA ?238 polymorphism (P = 0.016). The ability of ?-tocopherol to affect IL-6 production was influenced by the GSTP1 313 polymorphism (P = 0.019). The ability of ?-tocopherol to affect IL-1? production was influenced by the IL10 ?592 and ?1082 polymorphisms (P = 0.025 and P = 0.016, respectively). Conclusions: In healthy control subjects, the effect of ?-tocopherol supplementation on the production of inflammatory cytokines appears to be dependent on an individual's genotype. These genotype-specific differences may help explain some of the discordant results in studies that used vitamin E
Longitudinal audit of assessment and pharmaceutical intervention for cardiovascular risk in the Australasian Diabetes Data Network
No full textFirst published: 29 October 2021Abstract not available.Claire A. Robertson, Arul Earnest, Melissa Chee, Maria E. Craig, Peter Colman, Helen L. Barrett, Philip Bergman, Fergus Cameron, Elizabeth A. Davis, Kim C. Donaghue, P. Gerry Fegan, P. Shane Hamblin, D. Jane Holmes–Walker, Craig Jefferies, Stephanie Johnson, Meng T. Mok, Bruce R. King, Richard Sinnott, Glenn Ward, Benjamin J. Wheeler, Anthony Zimmermann, Timothy W. Jones, Jenny J. Couper, the ADDN Study Grou
Mental Health Group Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance)
No full textTelevision actress Vivian Vance, second from left, and her husband, actor Philip Ober, helped raise funds for the Pima County Association for Mental Health in May of 1958. Tucsonans Mary I. Jefferies and Claire Alberts were leaders of the drive. [Chapter 2 Page 26
The natural history of the future: The related importance of history and nature to the work of Richard Jefferies, William Morris, H. G. Wells, and Aldous Huxley.
No full textUtopias and dystopias are forms of social criticism in which the author draws on an existing society to create a perfected (utopian) or exaggerated (dystopian) projection which is set in a different time and/or space from the original. As reactions to problematic, or potentially problematic, situations and developments, utopias and dystopias are always connected to change---they explicitly or implicitly present an argument for change, and/or they embody a response to it. This thesis focuses on four English authors who wrote utopias and/or dystopias between the latter part of the Nineteenth Century and the middle part of the Twentieth: Richard Jefferies, William Morris, H. G. Wells, and Aldous Huxley. In each case they not only responded to recent, endemic, or continuing change, but also implicitly or explicitly sought it. The narratives they wrote are founded in change and emerged during a time of flux. Jefferies responded to a declining rural culture, Morris to an expanding industrial culture, Wells to the material uncertainties evoked by evolution theory, and Huxley to the post-Darwin, post-War metaphysical incertitude which appeared to him to have decentred the culture. Each author also sought appropriate change to remedy the particular circumstances of which he was critical. This thesis looks at these authors, not simply in terms of their response to change, but in terms of their attitudes to the relatively enduring structures of nature and history. Nature, in its various manifestations, had different connotations for different authors. To Jefferies, nature---as local landscape and cosmic immensity, as ears of corn and universal life force---offered, amongst other things, an essential continuity that modern life was eroding. For Morris, nature offered inspiration and the possibility of a harmonious interrelationship with humanity once the restless era of capitalism had been succeeded by a restful future in communism. To Wells, both external and internal nature offered a dangerous unpredictability which must be controlled, while Huxley believed that humanity's struggle with the environment and consequent negative impact on it could be dissolved in the possibility of epiphanic fusion with the cosmos. Central to all their various conceptions of, and attitudes toward, nature, however, is the question of what are the shaping characteristics of humanity's relationship with nature. The unfolding of history, in the simple sense of time passing, was not synonymous with progress for these writers, and the perception that the temporal current was actually carrying society, or elements of it, toward regression and/or fragmentation inspired their remedial dystopian and utopian texts. (Abstract shortened by UMI.
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