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Letter from Nicholas Scott King to Commission regarding Closure of Cannon AFB
No full textLetters from Nicholas Scott King to each of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) regarding the closure of Cannon AFB. King has copied a letter for each member of the Commission
Leonard Weinberg. Global terrorism: a beginner’s guide. Oxford, UK, Oneworld Publications, 2005. Paperback US $14.95, pp. 182. ISBN: 1-85168-358-5 [Book review]
No full textReviewed by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk, University of Aberdeen.Publisher PD
Introduction: Strategies for survival in a self-made world: (Re)reading Gracián
No full text1 online resource (PDF, page 1-5)Spadaccini, Nicholas; Ehrenburg, Scott. (2012). Introduction: Strategies for survival in a self-made world: (Re)reading Gracián. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/202478
Response to Comments on “No Study Left Behind: A Network Meta-Analysis in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Demonstrating the Importance of Considering All Relevant Data”
No full textExternal interventions and the duration of civil wars
No full textThe authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using"expected"rather than"actual"external intervention as an explanatory variable in the duration model. Unlike previous studies, they find that external intervention is positively associated with the duration of civil war. They distinguish partial third-party interventions that extend the length of war, from multilateral"peace"operations, which have a mandate to restore peace without taking sides - and which typically take place at war's end, or at least when both sides have agreed to a cease-fire. In a future paper, the authors will examine whether partial third-party interventions - whatever their effect on a war's duration - increase the risk of war's recurrence. If that proves true, then even if interventions reduce the length of civil war, they may do so at the cost of further destabilizing the political system, and sowing the seeds of future rebellion.Children and Youth,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Social Conflict and Violence,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs
Heritability and Linkage Analysis of Appendicitis Utilizing Age at Onset
No full textAppendicitis usually afflicts the young, but there is a large tail in the distribution of onset age. The genetics of this disease are still not well understood. A heritability analysis and genome wide linkage analysis of a large twin dataset was undertaken. Treating age of onset of appendicitis as a censored survival trait revealed a heritability of 0.21, and found evidence of linkage to Chromosome 1p37.3. Author(s): Christopher Oldmeadow 1 * | Kerrie Mengersen 2 | Nicholas Martin 3 | David L. Duffy
No study left behind: a network meta-analysis in non-small-cell lung cancer demonstrating the importance of considering all relevant data.
No full textOBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the importance of considering all relevant indirect data in a network meta-analysis of treatments for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS: A recent National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence appraisal focussed on the indirect comparison of docetaxel with erlotinib in second-line treatment of NSCLC based on trials including a common comparator. We compared the results of this analysis to a network meta-analysis including other trials that formed a network of evidence. We also examined the importance of allowing for the correlations between the estimated treatment effects that can arise when analysing such networks. RESULTS: The analysis of the restricted network including only trials of docetaxel and erlotinib linked via the common placebo comparator produced an estimated mean hazard ratio (HR) for erlotinib compared with docetaxel of 1.55 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.72-2.97). In contrast, the network meta-analysis produced an estimated HR for erlotinib compared with docetaxel of 0.83 (95% CI 0.65-1.06). Analyzing the wider network improved the precision of estimated treatment effects, altered their rankings and also allowed further treatments to be compared. Some of the estimated treatment effects from the wider network were highly correlated. CONCLUSIONS: This empirical example shows the importance of considering all potentially relevant data when comparing treatments. Care should therefore be taken to consider all relevant information, including correlations induced by the network of trial data, when comparing treatments
Interview - Meta-Education: The Attempt to Get Beyond a Politicized Conceptual Framework in Philosophy of Education
No full textThis interview on Meta-Education, published in the Theory and History of Education International Research Group’s Open Monograph Series, is conducted by Prof. Nicholas Burbules of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with the author, James Scott Johnston. The interview is wide-ranging and discusses topics and issues arising from the monograph. Chief among these include the importance of a philosophy of education that resists dominant political ideologies. The nature of ideologies and their role in politics is also discussed. The importance of resistance in each of the main functions of education – teaching and learning, the curriculum, and schools and schooling – is addressed. Finally, certain ways of introducing students to philosophy of education are critiqued for their subtle invocations of ideology.Cette interview au sujet de la récente publication du livre Meta-Education, publié dans la série de monographies ouvertes du Groupe de recherche international sur la théorie et l'histoire de l'éducation, est menée par le professeur Nicholas Burbules de l’Université de l’Illinois à Urbana-Champaign avec l’auteur James Scott Johnston. Cet entretien de grande envergure aborde des sujets et des problèmes découlant de Meta-Education, dont le plus important est l’importance d’une philosophie de l’éducation qui résiste aux idéologies politiques dominantes. La nature des idéologies et leur rôle dans la politique sont également abordés. L’importance de la résistance dans chacune des fonctions principales de l’éducation – l’enseignement et l’apprentissage, le programme d’études, et les écoles et la scolarisation – est aussi discutée. En dernier lieu, certaines façons d’initier les étudiants à la philosophie de l’éducation sont critiquées en raison de leurs invocations subtiles de l’idéologie.Esta entrevista fue hecha en relación a la monografía titulada Meta-Education: The Attempt to Get Beyond a Politicized Conceptual Framework in Philosophy of Education, publicada en the Theory and History of Education Open Monograph Series. La entrevista es conducida por el Prof. Nicholas Burbules de la Universidad de Illinois, Urbana-Champaign con el autor de la monografía, James Scott Johnston. La entrevista cubre un amplio espectro y trata tópicos y asuntos que surgen texto. Así, se discute la importancia de una filosofía de la educación que resista las ideologías políticas dominantes. La naturaleza de las ideologías y su papel en lo político es también discutida. La importancia de esta resistencia en cada una de las funciones de la educación - aprendizaje y enseñanza, curiculum, escuelas y escolaridad son tratados. Finalmente, se hace una crítica a la manera en que se introduce estudiantes a la filosofía de la educación por la invocación sutil a ideologías que se hace
What is human society? It is a feeling society: a response to Gane and Scott
No full textResponds to comments by Nicholas Gane & by John Scott on this author's article 'Towards an Emotionally Conscious Social Theory' (all, 2005). While the ongoing debate over the future of social theory is heartening, it is striking nonetheless that neither Gane nor Scott engaged with the empirical evidence put forth in the article: the matter of emotional pain & its social outcomes. The charges of insufficient debt granted to classical social theorists despite their relative indifference to the sociology of emotions are addressed, & the central points of the essay are reiterated. Emotions are indeed both emotional & biological, but these two dimensions intersect within each human body. In a society fraught with pain, that which is felt & that which is communicated are frequently in disharmony, thereby impacting personal & social embodiment as well as the civility of that particular society. 9 References. K. CoddonSource type: Electronic(1
Hyper-scaling relations in the conformal window from dynamic AdS/QCD
No full textDynamic AdS/QCD is a holographic model of strongly coupled gauge theories with the dynamics included through the running anomalous dimension of the quark bilinear, gamma. We apply it to describe the physics of massive quarks in the conformal window of SU(N_c) gauge theories with N_f fundamental flavours, assuming the perturbative two loop running for gamma. We show that to find regular, holographic, renormalization group flows in the infra-red the decoupling of the quark flavours at the scale of the mass is important and enact it through suitable boundary conditions when the flavours become on shell. We can then compute the quark condensate and the mesonic spectrum (M_rho, M_pi, M_sigma) and decay constants. We compute their scaling dependence on the quark mass for a number of examples. The model matches perturbative expectations for large quark mass and naive dimensional analysis (including the anomalous dimensions) for small quark mass. The model allows study of the intermediate regime where there is an additional scale from the running of the coupling and we present results for the deviation of scalings from assuming only the single scale of the mass
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