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Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
Prenatal care advice to see a dentist: results from a population-based study
No full textMeredith L. Vandermeer (Department of Public Health, Oregon State University), Kenneth D. Rosenberg (Office of Family Health, Oregon Department of Human Services), Alfredo P. Sandoval (Oregon Health & Science University).Title from PDF caption (viewed on August 14, 2020).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
Impact of scour on lateral resistance of wind turbine monopiles: An experimental study
No full textThe majority of offshore wind structures are supported on large-diameter, rigid monopile foundations. These piles may be subjected to scour due to the waves and currents that causes a loss of soil support and consequently decreases the pile capacity and system stiffness. The results of numerical models suggest that the shape of the scour hole affects the magnitude of pile capacity loss; however, there is a dearth of experimental test data that quantify this effect. This paper presents a series of centrifuge model tests on an instrumented model pile that investigates the effects of scour-hole geometry on the response of a laterally loaded pile embedded in sand. The pile instrumentation allowed load–displacement and p–y (soil reaction – displacement) curves to be derived. Three scour geometries (global, local wide, and local narrow) and three scour depths (1D, 1.5D, and 2D; where D is pile diameter) were modelled. For all three scour types, pile moment capacity decreased almost linearly with increase of scour depth. Simple empirical relations were proposed to evaluate the detrimental influence of scour on the pile moment capacity. A new method has been developed to allow designers to quantify the effect of scour-hole shape and severity of scour on the pile response.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Geo-engineerin
Leading 4 Value: Transforming Field Tested Thinking and Tools into Inspired Healthcare Leadership
No full textHUMAN CAPITAL ASSESSMENT INDICATORS AS INFLUENTIAL DETERMINANTS PERTAINING TO THE ADMISSION CRITERIA UTILIZED BY PRE-LICENSURE PROGRAMS FOR NURSING EDUCATION
No full textThe attainment of educational credentials contributes to the acquisition of human capital. Academic preparedness is a component therein that allows for the attainment of increased levels of education. Most institutions of higher education utilize measures of academic preparedness, such as grade point averages or standardized tests. Requirements for the levels of academic preparedness are based upon many factors. The requirements most relevant to this study are the selectivity of the institution and the academic preparedness of potential candidates of pre-licensure programs for nursing education.
The pre-licensure education of nurses is enigmatic when compared to other professional disciplines. Pre-licensure education for registered nurses exists in three distinct and differently classified programs: a hospital-based diploma program, an associate degree program, or a baccalaureate program. (There is an additional baccalaureate program, known as accelerated second degree programs, for students possessing a baccalaureate degree in another discipline. These accelerated programs are not included in this discussion.) The National Center for Education Statistics classifies each of the three programs, making clear that the differing program levels of post-secondary education are neither equivalent nor interchangeable.
According to the literature, the academic preparedness of individuals and the level of selectivity of higher education institutions vary greatly depending upon the particular classification of nursing program. What then, is the level of programmatic selectivity, given that all three pre-licensure programs produce candidates for the identical occupational certification while attracting candidates known to have varying levels of academic preparedness? This study aimed to determine the levels of selectivity of the three pre-licensure nursing education programs types so as identify trends and patterns within and across pre-licensure program types. In order to determine these trends and patterns, the author examined the admissions requirements that are transparent to the public on schools’ websites in which these programs are housed, employing the methodology of document analysis. The determination for the level of selectivity was based upon Barron’s Measure of Selectivity (Barron’s Educational Series, 2011)
Balancing the urban stomach: public health, food selling and consumption in London, c. 1558-1640
No full textUntil recently, public health histories have been predominantly shaped by medical and scientific perspectives, to the neglect of their wider social, economic and political contexts. These medically-minded studies have tended to present broad, sweeping narratives of health policy's explicit successes or failures, often focusing on extraordinary periods of epidemic disease viewed from a national context. This approach is problematic, particularly in studies of public health practice prior to 1800. Before the rise of modern scientific medicine, public health policies were more often influenced by shared social, cultural, economic and religious values which favoured maintaining hierarchy, stability and concern for 'the common good'. These values have frequently been overlooked by modern researchers. This has yielded pessimistic assessments of contemporary sanitation, implying that local authorities did not care about or prioritise the health of populations. Overly medicalised perspectives have further restricted historians' investigation and use of source material, their interpretation of multifaceted and sometimes contested cultural practices such as fasting, and their examination of habitual - and not just extraordinary - health actions. These perspectives have encouraged a focus on reactive - rather than preventative - measures.
This thesis contributes to a growing body of research that expands our restrictive understandings of pre-modern public health. It focuses on how public health practices were regulated, monitored and expanded in later Tudor and early Stuart London, with a particular focus on consumption and food-selling. Acknowledging the fundamental public health value of maintaining urban foodways, it investigates how contemporaries sought to manage consumption, food production waste, and vending practices in the early modern City's wards and parishes. It delineates the practical and political distinctions between food and medicine, broadly investigates the activities, reputations of and correlations between London's guild and itinerant food vendors and licensed and irregular medical practitioners, traces the directions in which different kinds of public health policy filtered up or down, and explores how policies were enacted at a national and local level. Finally, it compares and contrasts habitual and extraordinary public health regulations, with a particular focus on how perceptions of and actual food shortages, paired with the omnipresent threat of disease, impacted broader aspects of civic life
Choroidal image analysis for OCT image sequences with applications in systemic health
No full textThe retina is a light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye and is responsible for vision. Light-sensitive photoreceptor cells in the outer retina detect light and, through a series of neuronal and vascular layers, process it into signals for the brain. The photoreceptors are perfused and maintained indirectly by the choroid and choriocapillaris, a highly vascularised layer posterior to the retina. The choroid is an extension of the central nervous system and has parallels with the renal cortex, but choroidal blood flow is four-fold higher per unit mass than the kidney and ten-fold higher than the brain. Thus, there has been growing interest in the structure and function of the choroidal circulation reflecting physiological status of systemic disease in the kidney and brain. The choroid can be imaged using optical coherence tomography (OCT), a non-invasive imaging technique which uses interferometry to capture three-dimensional, cross-sectional visualisations of ocular tissue at micron resolution. Advancements in OCT technology now permit deeper penetration and improved visualisation of the choroidal vessels. However, conventional methods of characterising and quantifying this vascular space have not kept pace with the improvements in OCT technology which visualise it, resulting in non-standardised manual or semi-automatic approaches as commonplace methods for choroidal measurement. The ability to measure anatomy consistently at micron-scale both intra- and inter-patient is paramount to capturing the inherent biological change or signal being studied – a signal which can be corrupted when exposed to human subjectivity.
In this thesis, I develop and evaluate several novel methods to analyse the choroid in OCT image sequences, with each successive method markedly improving on its predecessors. In the first instance, I develop two semi-automatic approaches for choroid region (Gaussian Process Edge Tracing, GPET) and vessel (Multi-scale Median Cut Quantisation, MMCQ) analysis, which improve on manual approaches but ultimately are biased by the end-user's biological interpretation and technical experience. As a first step to fully automatic choroid segmentation, I develop DeepGPET as a deep learning-based method for choroid region segmentation, which significantly improves on semi-automatic approaches in terms of time, reproducibility, and end-user accessibility. However, DeepGPET lacks choroidal vessel quantification and still requires manual input for generating standardised, choroid-derived measurements. Improving on this, I developed Choroidalyzer}, a fully automatic, deep learning-based, end-to-end pipeline which fully characterises the choroidal space and vessels, and automatically generates clinically meaningful and reproducible choroid-derived metrics. I provide rigorous evaluation of these four approaches, and consider their use-case and potential clinical value in three distinct applications into systemic health: OCTANE: evaluating longitudinal choroidal change and its association with renal function in transplant recipients and donors; PREVENT: investigating associations between the choroid and risk factors for developing later-life Alzheimer's disease in a mid-life cohort; D-RISCii: assessing choroidal variation and feasibility of OCT imaging in critical care. This thesis has contributed several new approaches to the research community which are all open-source and freely available, enabling consistent and reproducible measurement of the choroid. This thesis also highlights the potential role the choroid may play in reflecting pathophysiology in the kidney, brain and wider systemic health from iatrogenic shock, thus helping accelerate the nascent field of choroidal analysis in OCT image sequences
Sphingosine kinase 2 promotes acute lymphoblastic leukemia by enhancing MYC expression
No full textAbstract not availableCraig T. Wallington-Beddoe, Jason A. Powell, Daochen Tong, Stuart M. Pitson, Kenneth F. Bradstock and Linda J. Bendal
Charmonium levels near threshold and the narrow state X(3872)->pi(+)pi(-)J/psi
No full textWe explore the influence of open-charm channels on charmonium properties and profile the 1^3D2, 1^3D3, and 2^1P1 charmonium candidates for X(3872). The favored candidates, the 1^3D2 and 1^3D3 levels, both have prominent radiative decays. The 1^3D2 might be visible in the D0D*0 channel, while the dominant decay of the 1^3D3 state should be into D¯D. We propose that additional discrete charmonium levels can be discovered as narrow resonances of charmed and anticharmed mesons.First author draf
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