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Retracing Footsteps - The Changing Landscape Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon
No full textThe exhibition draws on Bos’ extensive archival and ethnographic research, which feeds into a long-term research project exploring the cultural and historical geographies of Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon. Quayle also undertook preliminary research at Tate Britain in the Prints and Drawings Study Room as part of related research which investigates J.M.W. Turner's 1799 Welsh Tour in the context of a contemporary understanding of the sublime, which follows formative research of Turner's print publications and artist travel as part of his undergraduate dissertation.Retracing Footsteps - The Changing Landscape of Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon is the working title of a long-term, interdisciplinary research project by artist Cian Quayle (Art and Design) and cultural geographer Daniel Bos (Geography and the Environment) at the University of Chester. The first iteration of their collaborative research, which also involved the participation of two BA Photography graduates Jane Evans and Emma Petruzzelli, was exhibited at CASC in Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces: Chester. The exhibition also formed part of Chester Contemporary [Fringe] (September 22 - December 1, 2023). The project emerged as a result of Bos' study of 19th c. Snowdon summit hotels, visitor books, in which tourists recorded their experience of ascending the mountain. The visitor books are housed at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Bangor University. Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon is an iconic mountain, a signifier of Welsh identity and a place rooted in history, myth, folklore and legend. The mountain attracts over 600,000 visitors a year and the project sets out to respond to the mountain and surrounding landscape as it is walked, and experienced today, at the same time as considering the threat and impacts on the ecology, environment and local communities. From May 2023 the team undertook fieldwork based on a series of ascents to photograph and video record their experience and encounter of the mountain. An edit and selection of photographs was made towards the end of summer 2023. The exhibition, which manifest initial practice and research completed up to this point was conceived and curated by Quayle, and Bos selected a collection of extracts from the visitors books, which were juxtaposed with a final selection of images, which the project team edited and selected from a larger body of work. The visitor book extracts were typeset in Albertus by Darren Prior, and an exhibition brochure was designed by Dr Alan Summers.University of Cheste
The New Classical Counter-Revolution: False Path or Illuminating Complement?
No full textIn this paper the author responds to Laurence Seidman’s recent article, ‘The New Classical Counter-Revolution: A False Path for Macroeconomics’. The author challenges the view that new classical macroeconomics has been a false path and provides a critique of Seidman’s arguments with respect to his interpretation of the 1970s ‘stagflation’, the relevance of new classical macroeconomics for practical policymaking, the contribution of real business cycle theory, and the new classical content of contemporary macroeconomic textbooks. The author concludes that the new classical counter-revolution has had an extremely productive influence on the current mainstream new neoclassical synthesis framework.
Marketing and clinical trials : a case study
No full textBackground: Publicly funded clinical trials require a substantial commitment of time and money. To ensure that sufficient numbers of patients are recruited it is essential that they address important questions in a rigorous manner and are managed well, adopting effective marketing strategies. Methods: Using methods of analysis drawn from management studies, this paper presents a structured assessment framework or reference model, derived from a case analysis of the MRC's CRASH trial, of 12 factors that may affect the success of the marketing and sales activities associated with clinical trials. Results: The case study demonstrates that trials need various categories of people to buy in – hence, to be successful, trialists must embrace marketing strategies to some extent. Conclusion: The performance of future clinical trials could be enhanced if trialists routinely considered these factors.We would like to thank the National Co-ordinating Centre for Research Methodology for commissioning this research; the MRC and the DH for providing funding; and the CRASH trial team. The Health Services Research Unit is funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Executive Health Department. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the funders and the funders had no involvement in the study.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Histogram of confidences for person detection
No full textThis paper focuses on the problem of person detection in harsh industrial environments. Different image regions often have different requirements for the person to be detected. Additionally, as the environment can change on a frame to frame basis even previously detected people can fail to be found. In our work we adapt a previously trained classifier to improve its performance in the industrial environment. The classifier output is initially used an image descriptor. Structure from the descriptor history is learned using semi-supervised learning to boost overall performance. In comparison with two state of the art person detectors we see gains of 10%. Our approach is generally applicable to pretrained classifiers which can then be specialised for a specific scen
An investigation of patients' motivations for their participation in genetics-related research
No full textDesign: Qualitative interview study. Participants: Fifty-nine patients with a family history of cancer who attend a regional cancer genetics clinic in the UK were interviewed about their current and previous research experiences. Findings: Interviewees gave a range of explanations for research participation. These were categorised as (a) social—research participation benefits the wider society by progressing science and improving treatment for everyone; (b) familial—research participation may improve healthcare and benefit current or future generations of the participant’s family; and (c) personal—research participation provides therapeutic or non-therapeutic benefits for oneself. Conclusions: We discuss the distinction drawn between motives for research participation focused upon self (personal) and others (familial/social), and observe that personal, social and familial motives can be seen as interdependent. For example, research participation that is undertaken to benefit others, particularly relatives, may also offer a number of personal benefits for self, such as enabling participants to feel that they have discharged their social or familial obligations. We argue for the need to move away from simple, static, individualised notions of research participation to a more complex, dynamic and inherently social account. <br/
The Greek Freedom and Roman Hegemony: The Transaction of Roman rule in the Greek East (201 BCE - 14CE)
No full textTitle: The Greek Freedom and Roman Hegemony: The Transaction of Roman rule in the Greek East (201 BCE - 14CE), Author: Michael Snowdon, Location: MillsThis study investigates the nature, operation and development of Roman rule in the Greek East during the second and first centuries BCE through the communications between
states preserved in the epigraphic record. Using Roman senate decrees, letters of
magistrates and laws, and Greek civic decrees, it addresses the questions of how the
Romans and their Greek subjects mutually understood Roman rule and why the Greeks,
whose political traditions valued autonomy, came to accept subordination into the
Romans' imperial state. An investigation into the provincial system of the Roman empire
- the institutional and administrative apparatus of the imperial state - reveals its limited
arrangement and reliance to a great degree on local civic autonomy. In fact, the
documents of state demonstrate the broader significance of freedom in Greco-Roman
relations: more than simply propaganda or political sloganeering, it was a central political
discourse whose normative values and rules circumscribed relations between Rome and
the pole is of the East, complementing the limited structural arrangement of the empire
itself, while also directing and constraining the actions of ruler and ruled. These actions
are preserved in the state documents - actual artifacts of the transaction of empire - and
reveal a dynamic, interactive empire. With reciprocity as the mode of interaction, this
interactive empire operated through interstate benefactions, and social relationships like
friendship and patronage that allowed Greek cities to negotiate their positions with Rome
and de-problematize Roman authority as consistent with the traditional autonomy of the
polis. Through these communications, the Romans and Greeks reached a consensus
about the nature and operation of their relationship such that a Greek city-state in the first
century could rationally declare war on behalf of both Roman hegemony and Greek
freedom.ThesisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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