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ILRI research on animal diseases in Africa—Developing vaccines and diagnostics
No full textFor the November 2011 'liveSTOCK Exchange' event at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Phil Toye, reflects on ILRI's vaccine and diagnostics research accomplishments, from the past 10 years, that involved partnerships with other centres and countries in Africa
Author Q and A with editor Phil Crockett Thomas and contributors on abolition science fiction
No full textIn this author Q&A, Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa speaks to editor Phil Crockett Thomas and contributors about their recent collection, Abolition Science Fiction, a collection of short science fiction stories written by activists and scholars involved in prison abolition and transformative justice in the UK
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Phil Magness: COVID-19 Interview
No full textPhil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States. Listen to the Policy@McCombs podcast to learn more about the data shaping public policy and the data that should be. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch video versions of the podcasts.Salem Cente
The Phil Rogers Russell, D.O. Collection
No full textFinding aid for The Phil Rogers Russell, D.O. CollectionPhil Rogers Russell, D.O., practiced osteopathic medicine in the state of Texas from his 1917 graduation from the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, until his death at the age of 80 in 1975. He was a strong supporter of the profession and was instrumental in the establishment and growth of the Fort Worth Osteopathic Hospital and the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He won numerous awards and honors from the American Osteopathic Association, the Texas Osteopathic Association, other osteopathic institutions and associations, and civil awards. He was the author of "Quack Doctor", a memoir of his years as an osteopathic physician.The Phil R. Russell, D.O. Collection consists of speeches, articles, book manuscripts, books, memorabilia, photographs, certificates and awards that Dr. Russell authored or was presented during his lifetime
Phil Raisor, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPhil Raisor is the author of Swimming in the Shallow End and Outside Shooter: A Memoir, and the editor of Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass. His poetry and reviews have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, 5AM, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, Ascent , Poetry Northwest , Midwest Quarterly, Aethlon and Poet Lore. He was on the Board of Directors of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs and managing editor of New Virginia Review. Raisor is an emeritus professor of English at Old Dominion University
Re-engaging with the intimacy of materials through touch
No full textIn today’s retail led world consumers are suffocating through an excess of soulless products. It is time we paused to breathe.
"Touch has a memory" - John Keats. [A1]
It is often assumed that product designers, especially in the fashion industry, will have a deep understanding of the tactile properties of materials that they use. This tacit knowledge is also assumed to be an essential ingredient for intimate engagement with the materials, for touch is about direct contact, close and personal; it is not sensation at a distance in the way of sound and vision. Through this intimacy, the designer can fully understand the potential sensory impact on their customers and can share their knowledge of this intimacy with the customers.
However the rise of fast, offshore manufacture has led to a virtual design approach where cad-cam rules and the first direct contact that the designer has with their material is often when they receive the finished goods. The approach has become embedded in teaching, where virtual-oriented design is cheap and simple as well as effective.
This runs in parallel to what Black [A2] describes as "The Fashion Paradox", i.e. the tension between an industry which has become dependent on the overconsumption of the consumer society made possible by low cost design and manufacture processes with emerging imperatives of environmental and ethical issues. It has become easy to make and sell a lot of goods, but perhaps a new approach is needed before we drown in an ocean of stuff.
We hypothesise that a business strategy to introduce a new intimacy with materials to consumers through goods and experiences that celebrate "the joy of touch" will a) spawn better, higher value goods with cutting-edge appeal and b) provide a positive piece in the jigsaw necessary to address the Fashion Paradox, taking the line described by Fletcher and Early in "5-Ways" [A3, A4] that touch is relevant to the production of "supersatisfiers...which begin to break the chain of consumption and dissatisfaction".
There are always many old voices that decry the lack of materials knowledge in the "designers of today", and we do not wish simply to join them. To avoid this yet to achieve new thinking in the territory we take a tangential approach that does not get stuck into stuff to early.
Accordingly, the method will apply a method of research and teaching based on storytelling in multidisciplinary teams developed by Smith and Sams [A5, A6]. This reflects on the role of designer-storytellers described by Seah [A7] and Erikson [A8]. Thus, perhaps counter-intuitively, we seek to stimulate word-based approaches to a physical effect.
The resultant project vehicle "Touch Stories" is inspired by the observations of experimental psychologist Charles Spence, e.g. [A9], that people have difficulty in detecting and remembering touch, but can be taught touch skills. This builds on earlier design projects "Touch Gourmet" by Torres and Sams [A10]. We provide below a short summary of the science context as well as the more usual design context for the project.
The work described here is our first experiment using this method in the touch context with a fashion student community of young business and design professionals. In recognition, we report in the style of a science experiment - which also reflects the background of the second author.
We are at the very start of a journey which we intend to take well beyond fashion (for the challenge of new materials and "too much stuff" spreads well beyond Fashion and its Paradox), thus to stretch and develop the territory, through the processes described in [A5, A6]. It’s a journey the design world needs to ‘touch on’
Maine Voices piece by Phil Hoose of Portland, whose cousin Don Larsen on Octob
No full textMaine Voices piece by Phil Hoose of Portland, whose cousin Don Larsen on October 8, 1956, pitched a perfect game in the World Series. Hoose, an author, wrote It\u27s Our World, Too!, which was named a Lupine Honor Book by the Maine Library Association
How Phil Collins became cool (no, really)
No full textThe piece is based on an article the authors have coming up in Research in the Sociology of Organisations.Marketing and Consumer Researc
Epidemiology and clinical outcomes associated with Theileria parva in a cohort of East African short horn zebu calves
No full textThis thesis takes data from the Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock (IDEAL)
project. The project was a longitudinal calf cohort study based in Western Kenya. Indigenous
short horn zebu calves were recruited at birth and then visited every 5 weeks
through their first year of life.
The aim of this thesis was to improve understanding of the epidemiology of Theileria
parva, with a particular focus on variation in host response. 362 of the 548 calves
in the study cohort were classified as having seroconverted to T. parva, and 381 to T.
mutans before 1 year old. The diagnostic tools used to identify exposure in the calf
were compared, and environmental and calf level risk factors associated with the age
at seroconversion were sought. Decreased elevation of the homestead and increased
size of the herd were found to be significantly associated with an increased hazard of
seroconversion to T. parva. There was little variation in hazard of T. mutans captured
across the study site.
The outcome ‘clinical episode’ was used to classify whether the calf was ill at each
routine visit. A large number of calves passed through their first year of life without
clinical disease being observed, and a minority of calves experienced the majority of
clinical episodes. Multiple clinical episodes were apparently related in time, suggesting
that they were due either to the same or connected pathogenic processes. A low birth
weight, larger herds, and older farmers were all risk factors for being a sick calf. Both
high helminth burden and T. parva were found to be significantly associated with clinical
disease at a population level.
A lot of variation was seen in the clinical presentation of disease. The clinical signs
associated with fatal East Coast Fever (ECF), the clinical disease associated with T.
parva infection, were found to be very variable. Although this may have been partly due
to the varying times in the disease process that calves were observed prior to death, the
complication of the clinical picture was also suggested to be due to co-infections.
71% of the cohort was infected with T. parva in their first year of life, but only a fraction
(8.7%) went on to die from that infection. Unmatched and matched nested case control
study formats were used to investigate the risk factors associated with death following
T. parva infection (ECF death) in these calves. It was found that being infected young
was a risk factor for death. Calves owned by older farmers were also at higher risk of
death following infection. Going out grazing was found to be protective, and equivocal
evidence was found for an association between prior T. mutans exposure and reduced
odds of ECF death. If these initial findings from this work are correct, it is likely that T.
mutans is influencing the clinical presentation of T. parva in endemic regions
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