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Gender differences in self-reported late effects, quality of life and satisfaction with clinic in survivors of lymphoma
No full textObjectives: gender differences in perceived vulnerability to late effects and views about follow-up among cancer survivors have received little attention. As lymphoma affects both genders similarly, we compared the consequences of cancer (late effects, perceived vulnerability and quality of life (health-related quality of life (HRQoL)), and satisfaction with clinic visits between genders.Methods: a cohort of 115 younger adults (18–45 years, >5 years disease-free survival), who had been treated for lymphoma participated. Questionnaires (n = 91) were completed before and after (n = 62) routine consultant-led appointments. Survivors (n = 24) without appointments were recruited by post. Questionnaires included HRQoL, late effects, perceived vulnerability, issues survivors wanted to discuss and reported discussing in clinic, time waiting in clinic and consultation satisfaction.Results: there were no gender differences in number of self-reported late effects or perceived vulnerability. Men with more late effects reported worse psychological HRQoL (r = 0.50, p<0.001). While men wanted to discuss more topics than they did, women were able to discuss the topics they wanted (ANOVA, p = 0.01). Multiple regression analyses showed a shorter wait in clinic (r = ?0.46, p = 0.009) and discussing more topics (r = 0.34, p = 0.06) explained 30.6% of the variance in consultation satisfaction for men.Conclusions: issues surrounding follow-up provision are increasingly important given the length of survival in young adults following treatment for lymphoma. Men may experience poor psychological well-being due to distress about unanswered concerns. Consideration of their concerns should be prioritised, given that satisfaction and ultimately continued attendance at clinic and HRQoL may be dependent on the extent to which follow-up meets survivors' expectation
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The compositional nature and performance practice of the Grave of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata in C, BWV 564
No full texttextThe compositional peculiarities of the Grave of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata in C, BWV 564 make authoritative performance practice of the same quite difficult. Often, disparate solutions concerning the performance practice thereof, primarily those that concern registration and interpretation of the work, result. Upon discussing the resemblance of BWV 564 in its entirety with that of the genre of the Italian concerto, I assess the precise nature of Italian concerto influence upon the work, assigning primary compositional influence to Tomaso Albinoni, specifically via Johann Gottfried Walther’s transcription of Concerto IV of Albinoni’s Concerto a cinque, Op. 2 of 1700, effectively placing such influence prior to Bach’s c. 1713-1714 encounter with the concerted works of Antonio Vivaldi and thus assigning Bach’s composition of the work to his initial years as court organist and chamber musician at the Weimar ducal chapel. I also assess the resemblance of the sectional character of BWV 564 with that of the early Baroque multisectional Praeludium, exemplified in Dieterich Buxtehude’s Praeludium in A, BuxWV 151, ultimately to assert the rhetorical orientation of BWV 564 and to raise the registration implications thereof. Given the numerous renovations to the Compenius organ in the Weimar ducal chapel that occurred before, during, and after Bach’s tenure as court organist and chamber musician, I set forth a likely specification set for the Compenius organ of the Weimar ducal chapel during the initial years of Bach’s first appointment at Weimar. With the compositional timeframe and physical conditions reasonably established, and on account of both the accompanimental textures and musical idiomatic allusions present in the movement, I advance not only a one-manual performance practice of the Adagio of BWV 564 in its entirety but also a single general registration scheme resonant with continuo performance practices that were contemporaneous with the composition of the work.Musi
Bankruptcy Survey
No full textThe author provides a detailed review of recent developments in U.S. bankruptcy law, highlighting how recent case law, statutory amendments, and regulatory shifts are affecting bankruptcy practice. The article examines major judicial decisions that interpret key provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, particularly in areas such as claims priority, debtor protections, automatic stays, and dischargeability. The author discusses how legislative reforms are interacting with economic conditions to influence both the volume and character of bankruptcy filings. The survey also considers emerging procedural issues, including court administration, creditor‑debtor negotiation dynamics, and the role of trustees in shaping case outcomes. Hancock concludes by identifying areas of uncertainty or conflict in current doctrine, urging further clarity from courts or Congress to ensure fairness and efficiency in bankruptcy proceedings
Copestylum truncatum Rotheray & Marcos-García & Hancock & Pérez-Bañón & Maier 2009, SP. NOV.
No full text<i>COPESTYLUM TRUNCATUM</i> MARCOS, HANCOCK & ROTHERAY SP. NOV. <p> <i>Adult:</i> Male holotype: face with lateral margins inflated and sharply tapered from just above margin of mouth (view from in front). Face yellow with narrow (about as wide as antennal bases are apart) black, mid-dorsal vitta extending from the base of the antennae to the margin of the mouth and face yellow haired. Tubercle slight frons yellow with black hairs. Lateral vittae black reaching mouth and genae black and pale haired (Fig. 4). Antennae dark yellow and arista densely pilose with short, incurved hairs and basoflagellomere dorsally not excavated and more than 3¥ as long as broad. Ocellar triangle black with long black hairs and suture same length as ocellar triangle. Eyes black haired, hairs longer at top of head, and reaching lower margin but hairs absent on posterior margin. Eye hairs denser and darker in the middle of the eye forming a vertical, black stripe. Ground colour of mesonotum black except for uniformly pale yellow lateral margins and a medial pair of bar-shaped pale yellow markings with a bright yellow apex on the posterior margin. Mesonotum white haired with a pair of dusted stripes dorsocentrally ending before the transverse suture. Scutellum yellow with short black hairs and long pale hairs. Pleurae black, only pale on the dorsal part of posterior anepisternum and with long white hairs on posterior anepisternum, anepimeron, and katepisternum. Wings hyaline, without markings or microtrichia. Legs black haired and blackish with knees and basal two thirds of tibiae yellow. Sternites 2 and 3 yellow and pale haired, fuscous medially, remaining sternites black and black haired except anterior corners of sternite 4 with a pair of vague yellow spots. Tergites black except tergite 2 with yellow spots rounded towards the medial line and reaching the side margins. Tergite 3 with a pair of semicircular spots in anterior two thirds and not reaching side margins. Tergite 4 with a pair of yellow bars on the anterior margin and not reaching the side margins. Tergite 1 pale haired except for posterior lateral margins. Tergite 2 pale haired except black haired on posterior third and medial line. Tergite 3 black haired except for pale hairs on anterior margin. Male genitalia: epandrium squarish in shape; surstylus taller than broad and drawn out to a rounded projection on the upper, inner margin; hypandrium not inclined backwards, straight in lateral view; superior lobe with a rounded, hook-like, pinched apex (Figs 13, 14).</p> <p> <i>Female:</i> Similar to holotype male except frons black marked at the vertical triangle, black haired, with one medial and two lateral grooves; width of vertex about one fifth width of head.</p> <p> <i>Length:</i> Body 11.0– 11.2 mm; wing 9.5–10.0 mm (<i>N</i> = 5).</p> <p> <i>Larva and puparium:</i> Anterior fold with a narrow spicule band. Crochets of metathoracic prolegs forming a U-shaped band. Metathorax with lateral folds bearing broad setae at sensilla 4 and 5. Anal lobe with spicules. Posterior breathing tube with AP</p> <p>1.09¥ length of TR, smooth, shining and not tapering. Pupal spiracles about 0.96¥ length of AP.</p> <p> <i>Material examined:</i> Holotype: male with puparium MEXICO, Oaxaca, San Sebastián Frontera, Cerro Colorado 1740 m (18°16′23.5″N, 97°39′31.9″W) 8.vii.1999, ex decaying stem of <i>N. mezcalaensis</i> (Bravo) Backeb (Cactaceae), collected by M. A. M. (CIBIO). Paratypes: 2 ♂ with puparia, same data as holotype (CIBIO); 1 ♀, Hidalgo, Barranco de Metzitlán, 18.vi.2005, adult collected M. A. M. (CIBIO); 2 ♂, two puparia, one larva MEXICO, Oaxaca, San Sebastian Frontera, Santiago 8.vii.1999 E. G. H., M. A. M., G. E. R. ex decaying stem of fallen <i>N. mezcalaensis</i> (Cactaceae) (NMS); 1 ♂, one puparium MEXICO, Oaxaca, San Sebastian Frontera, Cerro Colorado 17.vii.1999 E. G. H., M. A. M., G. E. R. ex decaying stem of fallen <i>N. mezcalaensis</i> (NMS).</p> <p> <i>Etymology:</i> The name <i>truncatum</i> is descriptive of the surstylar shape.</p> <p> <i>Taxonomic notes:</i> The male of species can be separated easily from other members of the Marginatum group by the male genitalia, yellow frons, and wings with brown basal area and dark cross veins. The larva and puparium of <i>C. truncatum</i> are similar to other members of the Marginatum group in having the AP longer than the width of the TR. It is distinguished from all of these species except <i>C. limbipenne</i> by the narrow band of spicules on the anterior fold and U-shaped arrangement of crochets on the mesothoracic prolegs. It is separated from <i>C. limbipenne</i> by the nontapering AP which is about the width of the TR.</p>Published as part of <i>Rotheray, Graham E., Marcos-García, Maria-Angeles, Hancock, Geoff, Pérez-Bañón, Celeste & Maier, Chris T., 2009, Neotropical Copestylum (Diptera, Syrphidae) breeding in Agavaceae and Cactaceae including seven new species, pp. 697-749 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (4)</i> on pages 710-711, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00503.x, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5443474">http://zenodo.org/record/5443474</a>
Can Plants Save Money: A Look At The Biowall
No full textThe objective of this research was to design, demonstrate, and monitor the Biowall; a novel system for improving indoor air quality in a residential building, which has the potential to save energy compared to traditional air quality control. The Biowall was integrated into the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning system of a high performance home and utilized plants as a passive filter system to remove volatile organic compounds from the interior space of the home. The testing environment in this study was a 984 square foot efficient residential home constructed for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 competition. A number of sensors were installed in the home to monitor the operation of the wall including temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide, and total volatile organic compound (TVOC) sensors. The main outcomes of the project included the design and construction of a test platform for the current study and future research, energy results that showed as high as 160% ventilation energy savings over a 1 week test period and $170 per year in projected cost savings versus a traditional ventilation strategy, and lessons learned and suggestions for future research
Ecological approaches to education and educational research: relationality, reciprocity, and resilience
No full textIn the face of unprecedented social and environmental crises, there have been calls
for approaches to education which are fundamentally relational, emphasising our
interconnectedness with each other and with the world (Blenkinsop & Kuchta, 2024).
However, western education systems have been critiqued for prioritising individual
success and values associated with marketisation, moves which run counter to
fostering reciprocity and a sense of community that are crucial for sustainability
(Biesta, 2020). Educational research has developed along similar lines, with projects
focusing on how to maximise performance and increase test scores, and
researchers placed at a remove from the field rather than in relation with participants
and data (Hultman & Lenz-Taguchi, 2010).
In this thesis, I argue that ecological approaches to conceptualising educational
spaces and educational research can reorient learning and teaching towards values
rooted in our connection as human beings and our relationships with the world. I
critically engage with the theory of learning ecologies, which stems from the concept
of ecosystems in the biological sciences (Barnett & Jackson, 2020), and brings focus
to relationships between learners, their environment, and the different elements that
impact upon and are impacted by their learning (Jackson, 2013). Understanding
different educational spaces as an ecology can put our relationships into the
spotlight, asking questions of the quality of interactions for students, teachers, and
the wider environment. However, ecological models have also been described as
overly complex, with a need for further empirical evidence and clearer frameworks to
understand the concept in practice (Sangrà et al., 2019). These debates, dilemmas,
and opportunities call for further investigation of learning ecologies across varied
educational contexts: specifically indoor, outdoor, and online spaces.
I engage directly with these tensions by presenting a model for ecological
approaches to education and educational research to critically review seven of my
research project publications. The studies focus on a variety of educational contexts,
actors, and environments, addressing key UK and Scottish policy drivers (Scottish
Attainment Challenge; Learning for Sustainability; Scottish Government 1+2
Language Strategy; National Curriculum Guidance for EAL (English as an Additional
Language)) and their interpretation in practice. The studies are also outward-looking, as they address global issues of migration and environmental and educational
sustainability.
In the Introduction to this thesis (Chapter 1), I outline my conceptual model for
ecological approaches to education and educational research. Employing this
theoretical lens, I undertake a critical review of my three lead author publications
(Chapter 2) and four co-author publications (Chapter 3), highlight my contribution to
the research and writing, and consider impact and limitations. In the critical review I
apply reflexive qualitative thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2019) using my
conceptual model, focusing on spatial and temporal dimensions, and concepts of
agency, identity, and uncertainty. My aim has been to draw light on the nature of
learning ecologies, how they can be defined and developed in a range of educational
contexts, and how they can be further researched and realised.
A critical review of my publications reveals that, despite their perceived complexity,
ecological approaches and considerations of space in learning and teaching can
surface the relational and reciprocal in education (Sepie, 2017), and capacities for
building resilience. An ecological framing situates educational research as an
ongoing dialogue and in a state of emergence and becoming, encouraging
engagement with uncertainty and the quality of relationships as they are unfolding.
Across my publications and the different educational spaces (indoors, outdoors,
online), an ecological lens reveals a plurality of ways of being and doing, reimagining
education as it could be.
I conclude by discussing the impact of my publications in relation to research on
educational spaces, learning for sustainability, and the influence on policy and
practice in education. By emphasising values of relationality, reciprocity, and
resilience, I argue that developing educational spaces as healthy ecologies can bring
hope and possibility in the face of uncertain times
atlas of plant invasion
No full textLarge-scale biodiversity data, for example, on species distribution and richness information, are being mobilized and becoming available at an increasing rate. Interactive web applications like atlases have been developed to visualize available datasets and make them accessible to a wider audience. Web mapping tools are changing rapidly, and different underlying concepts have been developed to visualize datasets at a high cartographic standard. 2. Here, we introduce the Combined Atlas Framework for the development of interactive web atlases for ecological data visualization. We combine two existing approaches: the five stages of the user-centred design approach for web mapping applications and the three U approach for interface success. 3. Subsequently, we illustrate the use of this framework by developing the Atlas of Plant Invasions based on the Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database. This case study illustrates how the newly developed Combined Atlas Framework with a user-centred design philosophy can generate measurable success through communication with the target user group, iterative prototyping and competitive analysis of other existing web mapping approaches. 4. The framework is useful in creating an atlas that employs user feedback to determine usability and utility features within an interactive atlas system. Finally, this framework will enable a better-informed development process of future visualization and dissemination of biodiversity data through web mapping applications and interactive atlases.publishe
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Doctoral thesis recital (organ)
No full textCarillon / Herbert Murrill -- Präludium in C, BuxWV 137 / Dietrich Buxtehude -- Nun komm der Heide Heiland : BWV 659 ; Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot : BWV 678 ; Wir glauben all an einen Gott : BWV 680 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- There is a spirit that delights to do no evil : from A Quaker reader / Ned Rorem -- Sonata in Dminor, op. 65 no. 6 / Felix Mendelssohn -- A meditation on "Draw us in the Spirit's tether" / Gerre Hancock -- Live wire / Iain Farrington.Musi
Quichuana pulverifacies Ricarte & Marcos-García & Hancock & Rotheray 2012, SP. NOV.
No full text<i>QUICHUANA PULVERIFACIES</i> RICARTE & HANCOCK SP. NOV. <p>FIGURE 20</p> <p> <i>Description</i></p> <p>Female</p> <p> <i>Head:</i> Ocellar triangle with pale hairs; frons with an anteriorly directed chevron of pollinosity; frons with sparse, anteriorly and laterally directed, golden yellow hairs; dorsal surface of frontal prominence with hairs conspicuously longer than those on frons; antenna black; basoflagellomere straight ventrally and curved dorsally (Fig. 20); bf = 1.5; face white pollinose, except for a very narrow central, shiny stripe not reaching the antennae nor the mouth edge; face with golden yellow hairs, bare on the central stripe; occiput with white pollinosity on the lower two-thirds.</p> <p> <i>Thorax:</i> Scutum black, covered mainly in short, pale hairs; scutum with two conspicuous, white pollinose stripes extending beyond the TS; NP and PAPT posterodorsally with tufts of white hairs; hairs on PC longer than those on the scutum; scutellum dark brown, with short, pale hairs; legs black, except for tibiae, tarsi, and apical third of femora, which are darker, especially in metalegs; apicoventral half of metafemur with black hairs; ventral surface of mesotibia with scattered black hairs; wings brown, pigmented anteriorly and extensively microtrichose, except for some bare areas on cells BM, CuP, and alula; calypteres white, but with dark-brown margin.</p> <p> <i>Abdomen:</i> Tapering towards the apex; terga black; terga I–IV mostly pale haired; tergum I without a conspicuous moustache arrangement of hairs; anterior section of the lateral margins of tergum II with long, white hairs, some of them wavy at the tip (the longest hairs at each of terga III–IV also occur on the anterior section of the lateral margins of terga); tergum V with scattered black hairs posteriorly; sterna with white hairs, shorter on sterna III–IV.</p> <p>Male</p> <p>Unknown.</p> <p> <i>Etymology</i></p> <p> The noun in apposition ‘ <i>pulverifacies</i> ’ means ‘dusty face’ and refers to the fact that the face is extensively pollinose, only showing a short, narrow, central, shiny stripe.</p> <p> <i>Material examined (NHM)</i></p> <p> <i>Holotype:</i> 1f, Upper Amazons, Peru, J.J. Mounsey/ Yahuas Terr, 16.vii–12.viii.13 (handwritten)/C. J. Wainwright Collection., B.M. 1948-488/ <i>Quichuana</i> ? <i>bezzii</i> Ceresa, N.P. Wyatt det. 1986 (species name and author handwritten).</p> <p> <i>Paratype:</i> 1f, same data as those in the holotype, but without identification label.</p> <p> <i>Range</i></p> <p>Peru.</p> <p> <i>Taxonomic notes</i></p> <p> Very large species (14.7 mm) with slender abdomen; body extensively pale haired; similar to <i>Q. knabi</i> but conspicuously larger; face covered in pollinosity more than any other species; in <i>Q. pulverifacies</i> sp. nov. the basoflagellomere is shorter (bf = 1.5) than that of <i>Q. knabi</i>, and nearly oval (Fig. 20), whereas in <i>Q. knabi</i> it is elongate; cell BM and the alula have areas bare of microtrichia, whereas in <i>Q. knabi</i> these are microtrichose.</p> <p> <i>QUICHUANA QUIXOTEA</i> HULL, 1946</p>Published as part of <i>Ricarte, Antonio, Marcos-García, M. Ángeles, Hancock, E. G. & Rotheray, Graham E., 2012, Revision of the New World genus Quichuana Knab, 1913 (Diptera: Syrphidae), including descriptions of 24 new species, pp. 72-131 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 166 (1)</i> on pages 108-109, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00842.x, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5408533">http://zenodo.org/record/5408533</a>
Cutback management and its effects on comprehensive planning and service delivery: Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission: a case study, 1983
No full textThe primary intent of this degree paper is to discuss the functions of the Brooke-Hancock-Jeffersofl (BHJ) Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission, a regional commission in the Upper Ohio Valley, and the effects of decreased funding onthis organizations ability to provide services to area governments. An attempt has also been made to present alternative solutions of reducing staff and personnel without threatening the exist ence of the organization itself. Private and public organiza tions solutions are presented along with those of the writer. Regional planning commissions have played key roles in com municating regional needs to state and federal agencies and offices; initiating or suggesting programs or policies to area governments which would address local problems; and facilitat ing the use of available public funds for local projects. These types of organizations have been instrumental in getting county and municipal governments to work together on issues and prob lems that transcend state, county and local boundaries. How ever, the point of this discussion is how such organizations deal with a decline in funds which would affect the delivery of the aforementioned services. The BHJ Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission is pre sented as an organization that faced the problem, derived and initiated a method of cutting back services and personnel, and retained a high quality and quantity of services rendered. The main sources of information were notes made during the internship experience, books that provided insights on the types of regional planning commissions and the definition of cutback management, and the BHJ Regional Development Plan. Personal interviews were also conducted with practitioners in the field of cutback management
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