486 research outputs found
Crook County deadly physical force plan ORS 181.781-181.796
No full textDeadly force plan -- Roster of Planning Authority members -- Exhibits/Appendices (Including agency specific deadly force guidelines -- Attorney General's plan approval.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 4, 2020).Separate documents compiled into one report by the State Library of Oregon.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Moisture in Printed Concrete: How the Pore Network Influences Moisture Transport & Storage
No full textPoster submitted by Thomas Crook to the ERBE Colloquium, London, 5 Nov 2025© the author</p
Lifestyle factors, hormonal contraception, and premenstrual symptoms: the United Kingdom Southampton Women's Survey
No full textObjective: to estimate the prevalence of premenstrual symptoms in women from the general population in Southampton, U.K., and examine their association with lifestyle factors and contraceptive use.Methods: this was a cross-sectional survey in the city of Southampton, U.K., of 974 women aged 20–34 years (53% of the 1841 women invited to participate). The survey consisted of interviews, questionnaires, and completion of a prospective 6-week menstrual symptom diary recording on a daily basis the presence and severity of 11 common premenstrual symptoms. Premenstrual symptoms were identified from the diaries by two clinicians who reviewed them independently using a predefined algorithm to assess the onset and decline of symptoms in relation to the start of menstruation.Results: of the women surveyed, 24% were considered to have premenstrual symptoms (95% confidence interval [CI] 21-27). Women were less likely to have symptoms if they had higher levels of educational attainment and suffered less from stress. No associations were found between premenstrual symptoms and diet, alcohol, or strenuous exercise nor after adjustment for other factors, with age, smoking, or body mass index (BMI). Use of any form of hormonal contraceptives was associated with a lower prevalence of premenstrual symptoms (prevalence ratio 0.66, 95% CI 0.52-0.84).Conclusions: premenstrual symptoms were common in this cohort. Use of hormonal contraceptive methods was associated with a lower prevalence of these symptoms
Writing Audio Drama
No full textWriting Audio Drama is a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online production. The book uses new and original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years.
Audio drama in the context of podcasting is now experiencing a global and exponential expansion. Through analysis of examples of past and present writing, the author explains how to originate and craft drama which can explore deeply psychological and intimate themes and achieve emotional, truthful, entertaining, and thought-provoking impact. Practical analysis of the key factors required to write successful audio drama is covered in chapters focusing on audio play beginnings and openings, sound story dialogue, sustaining the sound story, plotting for sound drama and the best ways of ending audio plays. Each chapter is supported by extensive companion online resources expanding and supporting the writers and subjects discussed and explored, and extensive information on how to access online many exemplar and model sound dramas referenced in the chapters.
This textbook will be an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules and courses on radio drama, theatre and media drama, audio theatre, audio drama, scriptwriting, media writing
The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon\u27s Italy
No full textThe Imprisoned Traveler is a fascinating portrait of a unique book, its context, and its elusive author. Joseph Forsyth, traveling through an Italy plundered by Napoleon, was unjustly imprisoned in 1803 by the French as an enemy alien. Out of his arduous eleven-year “detention” came his only book, Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy (1813). Written as an (unsuccessful) appeal for release, praised by Forsyth’s contemporaries for its originality and fine taste, it is now recognized as a classic of Romantic period travel writing. Keith Crook, in this authoritative study, evokes the peculiar miseries that Forsyth endured in French prisons, reveals the significance of Forsyth’s encounters with scientists, poets, scholars, and ordinary Italians, and analyzes his judgments on Italian artworks. He uncovers how Forsyth’s allusiveness functions as a method of covert protest against Napoleon and reproduces the hitherto unpublished correspondence between the imprisoned Forsyth and his brother.https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/bucknell-press/1041/thumbnail.jp
The Secret Lives Of A Secret Agent: The Mysterious Life and Times of Alexander Wilson
No full textAlexander Wilson was a major spy fiction writer of the 1920s and 1930s but disappeared and published nothing more after 1940. His 9-year-old son was told he had been killed at El Alamein in 1942. More than 60 years later that young boy, Mike Shannon, asks Goldsmiths academic Tim Crook to find out more.
This unique investigation into the life of a secret agent and writer of espionage reveals a significant author ‘lost to history’ and whose intelligence legend masked a double life more dramatic, complex, romantic and tragic than any character or plot conjured by the world of spy fiction.
The book analyses the rituals of espionage, the ethics of intelligence work, and its relationship with popular spy fiction in the 20th century. It assesses the cultural capital of fictional and journalistic representations of intelligence operations, and constitutes an original body of research in studying a significant and important 'literary spy' overlooked and hitherto not recognised by previous and existing academic criticism of the subjec
The development of a bearing of high stiffness and a wide speed range
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University.For abstract see full text
Pain assessment in the elderly: a psychometric evaluation of self-report and behavioral methods.
No full textLimited research has been done that examines appropriate and reliable methods to assess for pain in the elderly population. For the cognitively impaired elderly, pain assessment is further complicated by their limited communication abilities. Reliable and clinically feasible methods are desperately needed to assess pain so that it can be managed appropriately. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties (Le., testretest and interrater reliability, criterion concurrent validity) of three verbal pain assessment tools (i.e., Faces scale, numerical rating scale, present pain intensity scale) and a behavioural pain assessment scale within the elderly population. This measurement study used a repeated measures design to examine the reliability and validity of these pain assessment tools across four groups of elderly participants: 1) cognitively intact, 2) mildly cognitively impaired, 3) moderately cognitively impaired, and 4) extremely cognitively impaired, using a nonrandom stratified sample of 130 elderly residents who live in long term care. The findings support the test-retest and interrater reliability of the behavioural pain assessment tool across all four groups of the elderly whereas the same measures of reliability for the verbal pain assessment tools decrease with increasing cognitive impairment. However, the majority of elderly with mild to moderate cognitive impairment were able to complete at least one of the verbal pain assessment tools. The Present Pain Intensity scale had the strongest criterion concurrent validity for the elderly with moderate cognitive impairment (r=0.64, p=O.OOl). The findings are discussed in relation to its clinical and research implications.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD
Reproducibility and Rigour in Computational Neuroscience
No full textThis eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contac
The Secret Lives of a Secret Agent: The Mysterious Life and Times of Alexander Wilson Second Edition
No full textThe Second World War Chief of MI6 said Alexander Wilson had 'remarkable gifts as a writer of fiction, and no sense of responsibility in using them!' Wilson's three year career in the Secret Intelligence Service ended when the country's spy chiefs decided his creativity got the better of his grasp of reality. His 'secret lives' extended to his private life. Four wives and four families; not necessarily one after the other. In this second Edition Tim Crook unravels more of the mysteries of this extraordinary story. The first edition of his biography is the foundation of the BBC drama series 'Mrs Wilson' produced by and starring his award-winning granddaughter Ruth Wilson. It is eight years since Tim first told the story of the life and times of the father of his friend Mike Shannon. In the spring of 1941 Mike was only 7 years old when he said goodbye to his father, Alexander Wilson, dressed as a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army. As the steam train pulled away from the Yorkshire railway station platform that would be the last time he ever saw him. More than six decades later Tim Crook would help unlock the secrets of his father's life. The biography was published in October 2010 shortly before Mike passed away. Not only had he learned that his father had worked for MI6 during the Second World War, but that he had been one of the leading spy, crime and romance authors of the 1920s and 30s. At first he seemed to be a man with no beginning and no end. There was no record of his death in action in the North African desert, and there was no record of his birth in the identity his father had put on his son's birth certificate. Mike would have to come to terms with the fact that his father had faked his own death, had lived double, triple and quadruple lives. He would be revealed as a multiple bigamist, but at the same time also a celebrated and successful author. Details of crimes and imprisonment would be mixed with the discovery of relatives and a new family he had no idea existed. The second edition includes more revelations about Wilson's work in MI6, where his talent for invention is said to have done more harm than good, his role as a university chief in British India where he enjoyed great success despite getting the job with a fake CV, and more spy novels under a pseudonym that indicates that he must have loved the son he abandoned. Fabulist and multiple bigamist, or patriotic author whose imagination blurred the lines between truth and fantasy? The new edition gives focus to the four remarkable women in his life. Wilson created a chief of a fictional British Secret Service, Sir Leonard Wallace, who appears substantially based on the first real 'C' of MI6, Captain Mansfield Smith-Cumming. The story involves the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, the Security Service, MI5, and two World Wars. It is a story of love, betrayal, broken hearts, terrorism, patriotism, and a triumph of human dignity on the part of the women and children in his life
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