388 research outputs found
A prey on normal people: C. Killick Millard and the euthanasia movement in Great Britain, 1930-55
No full textExamines the contribution of English public health activist C. Killick Millard to the euthanasia movement. Implications of the legislative decisions on the right to die; Contribution of the early twentieth-century Unitarians to humanism; Reaffirmation of the Christian messages of compassion.; Examines the contribution of English public health activist C. Killick Millard to the euthanasia movement. Implications of the legislative decisions on the right to die; Contribution of the early twentieth-century Unitarians to humanism; Reaffirmation of the Christian messages of compassion
Kellock
No full textkillick nkellock. a boat's anchor. In use at Salem, Mass. an anchor .... Kellock is properly a stone - sometimes in, sometimes not in - a frame. 0Rev. Richard Chipman MS notes in a copy of Bartlett.an anchor_DAE_Used I and SupUsed Sup1Not usedcillick, kellick, killock, lose your killick, and [you'll] find it in the fall, have a rock in one's killick, killick-claw, killick-rod, killick-stone, keel-log, kellock, keylock, GRANNY 2Checked by Raji Sreeni on Wed 22 Jul 201
Land, Poverty and Human Development in Kenya
No full textThe question of poverty has become central to the work of development economists in the last decade and a half. The 2000 World Development Report was entitled Attacking Poverty and the UN held a series of World Conferences in the 1990s, all of which addressed in some form or fashion the problem of poverty. Despite this and because of limited data there has been relatively little empirical work at the household level on determinants of poverty in Africa generally and Kenya specifically. In the few econometric studies that have been done for Kenya land has not been a significant determinant of poverty. This is a surprising result for a country where 80 per cent of the population depends on agriculture. Further the little that has been done has not incorporated the role of human development in the determination of poverty. Via an examination of a nationwide sample this paper will examine the role that land and social capital play in determining households poverty status in rural Kenya in addition to the standard theorized determinants. JEL Categories: O150, Q150Poverty, Rural, Land, Kenya, Africa, Human Development
kellick
No full textkillick n'Let 1 out wi' th' "kellick."' author footnotes "kellick" : "The local name for the stone used as an anchor in fishing boats." term is used in dialect sketch concerning an evening's fishing at Lyme Regis, Dorset.Used I and SupUsed I and SupUsed Supcillick, kellick, killock, lose your killick, and [you'll] find it in the fall, have a rock in one's killick, killick-claw, killick-rod, killick-stone, keel-log, kellock, keylock, GRANNY 2Checked by Raji Sreeni on Fri 10 Jul 201
GSK3α exhibits β-catenin and tau directed kinase activities that are modulated by Wnt
No full textIn the presence of a Wnt signal β-catenin is spared from proteasomal degradation through a complex mechanism involving GSK3β, resulting in the transcription of Wnt target genes. In this study we have explored whether GSK3α, a related isoform, can also regulate nuclear β-catenin levels and whether this and the tau-directed kinase activity of GSK3α are modulated by Wnt. GSK3α or GSK3α and their substrates, β-catenin and tau, were transiently expressed in mammalian cells. Immunoblotting revealed that GSK3α reduces nuclear levels of β-catenin, whilst reporter gene assays demonstrated that GSK3α inhibits β-catenin-directed Tcf/Lef-dependent transcription. Moreover, activation of the Wnt pathway was found to attenuate both the β-catenin- and the tau-directed kinase activities of GSK3α and GSK3β. By immunoprecipitation we also found that axin-1, the β-catenin destruction complex scaffold protein, binds GSK3α. In the light of these findings GSK3α warrants further investigation regarding its involvement in Wnt signalling and tauopathies such as Alzheimer's disease
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Treason, felony and Lollardy: a common petition in the hand of Richard Osbarn, Clerk of the Chamber of the Guildhall 1400–c. 1437
No full textThis article examines a common petition presented in the English parliament of 1425 requesting that those imprisoned for long periods for the crimes of treason, felony and Lollardy might be brought to trial. On the basis of palaeographical and orthographical evidence, this petition is demonstrated to be written by Richard Osbarn, clerk of the chamber of the London Guildhall between 1400 and 1437. The implications of this discovery throw new light on the way petitions were formulated, suggesting that the scribes of petitions played a greater role than previously thought, and in some cases identified with the complaint itself
Anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, Kabul, Afghanistan.
No full textA prevalence survey in Kabul City showed that 2.7% and 21.9% of persons have active leishmaniasis lesions or scars, respectively. Incidence of disease was estimated to be 2.9% (29 cases/1,000 persons per year; 95% confidence interval 0.018 to 0.031). Disease was associated with age and gender; logistic regression analyses showed significant clustering of cases
BOOK REVIEW
No full textAuthor: Steve Killick; Emotional literacy at the heart of the school ethos; London/Seven Oakes/New Delhi; Paul Chapman, A SAGE Publications Company; ISBN 1-4129-1186-
Young Workers, Old Workers, and Convergence
No full textThe human capital of young and old workers are imperfect substitutes both in production and in on-the-job training. This helps explain why capital does not flow from rich to poor countries, causing instantaneous convergence of per capita output. If each generation chooses its human capital optimally given that of the previous and succeeding generations, human capital follows a unique rational- expectations path. For moderate substitutability, human capital within each sector oscillates relative to that in other sectors, but aggregate human capital converges to the steady state monotonically, at rates consistent with those observed empirically.
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