260 research outputs found
10 Questions with Attorney, & Writer Philippa Davies
No full textInterview with attorney, writer, and St. Andrew High School for Girls graduate Philippa Davies, author of Travel Light: Memories of a Covenant Journey which was published on February 11th, 2011
Competitions: A Chapter in Your Story
No full text'Fresh from the publication of her debut novel, author Philippa Holloway shares her thoughts on how writing competitions helped her get there.
Lexical verbs in a medical case-report wordlist
No full textClinical case reports or clinical cases (CRs) are, perhaps, the most widely
read text type in medicine, since they contain a detailed description of the patient’s
medical history and symptoms and thus furnish ample teaching material for
physicians-in-training. For non-native speakers of English in medicine, autonomous
learning is often restricted because of a lack of medical lexicon, poor academic
vocabulary, and weak lexical verb use. Here, we present the results of an investigation
of lexical verbs: their distribution, classification, and contextual use in the
different sections of the genre CRs. We suggest that lexical verbs with contextual
use should be included in medical dictionaries to aid vocabulary development for all
levels of English language competence. We found that relational and reporting
verbs predominate in CRs and are used to describe and contextualize author
observations. Stative verbs are generally found to describe patient data, while
change of state verbs generally refers to patient response to therapy. Contextual
analysis suggests that lexical verbs categories might be related to the moves of this
genre, useful for teaching the structure of medical publications. We give some
applications of this investigation to dictionary building and in integrating corpora in
teaching and eventually in testing activities
Philippa gregory: lawrence e o gênero “perfeitamente correto”
No full textPerfectly Correct, a “novel of personal politics, passion, and pigs”, by Philippa Gregory (1997), traces the story of a love triangle in which D. H. Lawrence is studied through the lenses of feminism by the main female character, Dr Louise
Case.
My objective in reading this contemporary novel is to analyse – from a feminist viewpoint – the way the author uses “The Virgin and the Gypsy”, a Lawrentian
short story studied by Gregory’s character, in order to see how the notion of Lawrence’s “Dark Man” collides with the “New Man” in the novel, a notion very much in vogue during the late eighties and early nineties in U.K. From this
“collision” Gregory rewrites Lawrence’s “Dark Man” by transforming him into a “New Dark Man”, apparently more akin to contemporary taste.Perfectly Correct, um “romance sobre política pessoal, paixão e porcos”, de Philippa Gregoy (1997), conta a história de um triângulo amoroso no qual D. H. Lawrence é estudado através das lentes do feminismo pela principal personagem feminina, a professora doutora Louise Case
An algebraic analysis for multiple, social networks
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 1980 Dr. Philippa Eleanor PattisonProcedures are advanced in the thesis for analysing the semigroup representation of structure in systems of social relations. Such systems may consist of multiple, social networks (Lorrain, 1975; Lorrain and White, 1971) or of blockmodels derived from multirelational network data (Boorman and White, 1976; White, Boorman and Breiger, 1976). The aim of the proposed analysis is to clarify the nature of the representation, as well as to enhance its potential usefulness, by making explicit the relational features upon which it depends. An underlying purpose is therefore also a general evaluative one. (For complete abstract open document.
Research data management education for future curators
No full textScience has progressed by “standing on the shoulders of giants” and for centuries research and knowledge have been shared through the publication and dissemination of books, papers and scholarly communications. Moving forward, much of our understanding builds on (large scale) datasets, which have been collected or generated as part of the scientific process of discovery. How will this be made available for future generations? How will we ensure that, once collected or generated, others can stand on the shoulders of the data we produce?Educating students about the challenges and opportunities of data management is a key part of the solution and helps the researchers of the future to start to think about the problems early on in their careers. We have compiled a set of case studies to show the similarities and differences in data between disciplines, and produced a booklet for students containing the case studies and an introduction to the data lifecycle and other data management practices. This has already been used at the University of Southampton within the Faculty of Engineering and is now being adopted centrally for use in other faculties. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the case studies and the guide, and reflect on the reception the guide has had to date
Philippa Foot’s Quest for Nature in Moral Philosophy
No full textInternational audienceThis paper traces the evolution of Philippa Foot's way of thinking about moral issues, going beyond her particular opinions and philosophical positions to examine her methodology. Guided by a continuous struggle against the limits of what moral philosophy sees as a legitimate statement, her work is much more coherent than the author herself seems to have thought. Philippa Foot looked for a natural raison d'être to morality-one that would ensure its reality-without always being sure what "natural" means. Her work evolved around this theme across three distinct periods. To begin, she was simply a realist. Then, she drew close to David Hume and his refusal to give a definitive and universal foundation for morality. Finally, she ended her philosophical work by adopting Neo-Aristotelianism. Her contribution to moral philosophy was twofold. Her first philosophical stances were made in dialogue with expressivism to advance a metaethics. She later moved on to practical ethics, or rather a general reflection on the variety of normativities engaged in difficult life decisions. While sympathetic to this struggle, the present text will not simply follow all the choices made by Foot. It may indeed be the case that contemporary moral philosophy cannot, and should not, propose such wide-ranging conceptions. Working on the grammar of morality means working on its conceptual errors, its flawed definitions, and its unacknowledged presuppositions rather than providing a general anthropology, which requires a different methodology. Moral philosophy as grammar should probably concentrate the critical work. The practical consequence of this effort leads to elucidating the decisions made on a case-by-case basis as much as possible
El carácter natural de la moral: Cuestionamientos al naturalismo ético propuesto por Philippa Foot.
No full textPhilippa Foot argumenta en su obra más
notable,
Bondad natural
, que la naturaleza
humana (expresada a través de la forma
de vida particular de los seres humanos)
y la razón son los factores que permiten
que el juicio moral tenga carácter objetivo. El propósito de este texto es for-
mular algunas limitaciones de esta con-
cepción desde la categoría de ética de la
virtud que propone la autora británica.Philippa Foot argues in her most rec
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ognized creation,
Natural Goodness
, that
human nature (expressed through the
human way of living) and reasoning are
the key factors which grant that moral
judgement be objective. The purpose
of this text is to offer a critical position
about this conception from the virtue
ethics category that is proposed by the
British author
Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought
No full textElectronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James
provokes her readers to think theologically. I present evidence from the body of
James’s work, including her detective fiction that features the Detective Adam
Dalgliesh, as well as her other novels, autobiography, and non-fiction work. I also
present a brief history of detective fiction. This history provides the reader with a
better understanding of how P.D James is influenced by the detective genre as well as
how she stands apart from the genre’s traditions.
This dissertation relies on an interview that I conducted with P.D. James in
November, 2008. During the interview, I asked James how Christianity has
influenced her detective fiction and her responses greatly contribute to this
dissertation. However, James’s novels should be interpreted and explored in the
manner that they are received by the reader. How the reader receives and responds to
the novels, not only how James writes the novels, is what causes her stories to
provoke theological thinking.
By examining Christian symbolism that is present in setting, character, the
Detective Adam Dalgliesh, and plot, this dissertation seeks to assert that James
contributes to a theological conversation through her popular detective fiction
Using vignettes as self-reflexivity in narrative research of problematised history pedagogy
No full textThis article focuses on the use of vignettes as an emergent dimension of narrative research writing. The author draws on doctoral research that problematised history curriculum and pedagogy with pre-service teachers in the context of secondary teacher education in New Zealand. Pedagogic crossings of history education sites, and negotiation of disciplinary boundaries were storied in the narrative research. A lived experience of curriculum continuity and change had shaped a critical pedagogy orientation in the author's theorising and practice. This featured a self-reflexivity of pedagogic identities including those of student, practitioner, and researcher. The narrative writing was conceptualised as a layered bricolage of academic socialisation, engagement with theory, and practitioner work. Accordingly, it proved unworkable to distance the author's lived experience and pedagogic identities from the narrative, for these lay at the heart of the research. Therefore, the styling of vignettes became a creative way to story self-reflexivity within academic writing. Vignettes were conceived as inside stories that recalled pedagogic voices and evoked themes of curriculum disturbance as transgression, and desire as re-imagined history curriculum
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