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Gold standard of UK degrees is lost in translation
No full textInflated marks, overworked staff and politically compromised courses are the price of exploiting offshore UK registered students, says Michael Day
Retelling racialized violence, remaking white innocence: the politics of interlocking oppressions in transgender day of remembrance
No full textTransgender Day of Remembrance has become a significant political event among those resisting violence against gender-variant persons. Commemorated in more than 250 locations worldwide, this day honors individuals who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. However, by focusing on transphobia as the definitive cause of violence, this ritual potentially obscures the ways in which hierarchies of race, class, and sexuality constitute such acts. Taking the Transgender Day of Remembrance/Remembering Our Dead project as a case study for considering the politics of memorialization, as well as tracing the narrative history of the Fred F. C. Martinez murder case in Colorado, the author argues that deracialized accounts of violence produce seemingly innocent White witnesses who can consume these spectacles of domination without confronting their own complicity in such acts. The author suggests that remembrance practices require critical rethinking if we are to confront violence in more effective ways. Description from publisher's site: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/srsp.2008.5.1.2
Samuele R. Bacchiocchi and Family
No full textSeventh-day Adventist author and theologian, Samuele R. Bacchiocchi and his wife and their children at a graduation ceremony at Pontifical University
Epistatic interaction between variations in the angiotensin I converting enzyme and angiotensin II type 1 receptor genes in relation to extent of coronary atherosclerosis
No full textOBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that gene-gene interaction of the renin-angiotensin system is associated with an effect on the extent of coronary atherosclerosis. SETTING AND RESULTS: A cohort of 1162 patients with coronary artery disease were genotyped for genetic polymorphisms in the renin-angiotensin system. Patients carrying the D allele of the angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) gene had greater coronary extent scores (defined as the number of coronary segments with 5% to 75% stenosis) than those not carrying this allele (p = 0.006 in non-parametric analysis and p = 0.019 in parametric analysis). This association remained significant after adjusting for age, body mass index, hypertension, and diabetes, which were also significantly associated with coronary extent scores. There was a significant interaction (p = 0.033) between genotypes of ACE and angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AGTR1). The association between the ACE gene D allele and increased coronary extent scores was significant (p = 0.008 in non-parametric and p = 0.027 in parametric analysis) in those carrying the +1166 C allele of the AGTR1 gene, but was absent in those not carrying the AGTR1 gene +1166 C allele. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that variation in the ACE and AGTR1 genes and their interaction may not only contribute to susceptibility of coronary artery disease as previously found but also modify the disease process, thus contributing to interindividual differences in severity of the disease
A good stroke, [R. C. Bourne] [picture] /
No full textInscriptions: Signed "Ape Junior"--Lower right; "A good stroke"--Below image centre; "(R. C. Bourne)"--Below image right; "Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd lith."--Below image left; "Vanity Fair supplement"--Above image.; Caricature of R.C. Bourne by "Ape Junior", originally published in "Vanity Fair, 23 March, 1911".; Condition: Tears at right and lower edges.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3585481.Vanity fair (London, England : 1868
Scholars' Day Review vol. 1 frontmatter
No full textIncludes journal cover, editors, editorial board, Scholars' Day Committee, copyright, "About Scholars' Day Review," and table of contents.Archived web conten
View of the Wairoa Creek (pheasant shooting on the estate of Alexander Kennedy Esquire) on the road leading to the Wairoa Valley [picture] /
No full textPl. no. 5 of: Views in the Province of Auckland /F.R. Stack.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK62.; U5454; S9058 not col
View of Auckland Harbour, New Zealand [picture] : taken during the Regatta of January 1862, the race of the Maori war canoes /
No full textPl. no. 1 of: Views in the Province of Auckland /F.R. Stack.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9579424; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK1332, NK62.; U3496; U5450; S9053
Being a refugee university student: a collaborative auto-ethnography
No full textIn this paper, we adopt a collaborative autoethnographic approach to explore the experiences of one refugee university student. Our method involved all three authors systematically analysing narratives written by one of us, R Student. These accounts provide deep descriptions of his life while studying at three different UK universities and our analysis of them demonstrates that higher education was a double-edged sword for R student. Our research illuminates how R Student’s past as a survivor of genocide and forced migration; his corrosive and supportive relationships; and neo-liberal policies and practices; all intersected in complex ways to circumscribe his agency and inform his experience as a refugee student. This understanding runs counter to neo-liberal policies and practices within higher education which often blame individuals for the problems they encounter and obscure social and relational forces. In describing the operable effects of abstract policies and concepts upon R Student, our study provides a counter-narrative to neo-liberal discourse and identifies systemic issues that may affect other students too
Samuele R. Bacchiocchi
No full textSamuele R. Bacchiocchi was a Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian best known for his work on the Sabbath in Christianity, particularly in the historical work "From Sabbath to Sunday," based on his doctoral thesis from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Bacchiocchi defended the validity of the Feasts of the Lord, situated in Leviticus 23. He wrote two books on the subject. He was also known within the Seventh-day Adventist church for his opposition to rock and contemporary Christian music, jewelry, the celebration of Christmas and Easter, certain dress standards, and alcohol. This photograph was taken during a graduation ceremony from Pontifical University
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