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Adam Ferguson\'s Political Philosophy: an interpretation
No full textA tese pretende demonstrar como Adam Ferguson constrói sua filosofia política, sobretudo no Ensaio sobre a História da Sociedade Civil, tendo em vista avaliar o progresso das sociedades comerciais modernas; essa avaliação é feita, particularmente, em termos morais e políticos. Para tanto, o autor faz uma divisão epistemológica entre lei física e lei moral, que o permite, a um só tempo, investigar empiricamente o homem e a sociedade, a partir das influências recebidas de Bacon e Newton, além de seus contemporâneos Hume, Buffon e Smith, e estabelecer uma filosofia moral normativa, próxima à tradição antiga e preocupada com o estabelecimento de regras de conduta para o homem. A filosofia política fergusoniana é expressão desses dois vieses.The thesis aims to demonstrate how Adam Ferguson builds his political philosophy, especially in the Essay on the History of Civil Society, in order to evaluate the progress of modern commercial societies; this assessment is made, particularly in moral and political terms. In order to do so, the author makes an epistemological division between physical law and moral law, which allows him, at the same time, to investigate empirically man and society, from the influences received from Bacon and Newton, in addition to his contemporaries Hume, Buffon and Smith, and establish a normative moral philosophy, close to the old tradition and concerned with the establishment of rules of conduct for man. Fergusonian political philosophy is an expression of these two biases
Limitations of fasting indices in the measurement of insulin sensitivity in Afro-Caribbean adults
No full textIn young Afro-Caribbean adults, HOMA-IR compared poorly with other measures of insulin sensitivity. It remains important to determine whether similar findings occur in a more insulin resistant population. However, HOMA-IR correlated with clinical measures of insulin sensitivity (i.e. adiposity), so it may still be useful in epidemiological studies
Author Correction: Results of the phase IIa RADICAL trial of the FGFR inhibitor AZD4547 in endocrine resistant breast cancer (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (3246), 10.1038/s41467-022-30666-0)
No full text\ua9 The Author(s) 2023.In the original version of this article, the following author (Veronica Ferguson) was omitted from the author list. Author list, Author contributions and competing interests statements have now been updated in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article
Education and welfare in professional football academies and centres of excellence: A sociological study
No full textA career as a professional footballer has long been regarded as a highly sought after occupation for many young males within the UK and, against this backdrop, since the 1970s increasing attention has come to be placed on the way young players are identified and developed within professional clubs. Particular concern has been expressed over the number of players who, having been developed by professional clubs, fail to secure a professional contract, and the ways in which clubs should help young players safeguard their futures through alternative career training. There, have, however, been very few studies that have analyzed the education and welfare provisions that are offered within professional football Academies and Centres of Excellence, and fewer still that have done this from a sociological perspective. By drawing upon the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias, concepts derived from symbolic interactionism, and existing work in the sociology of youth, the objective of this study is to examine the realities of young players' day-to-day working-lives, the experiences they have of the educational programmes they follow, and the welfare-related matters that arise within present-day Academies and CoE. Using data generated by self-completion questionnaires and focus groups with 303 players in 21 Academies and CoE in England and Wales, the findings of the study suggest that players continue to be socialized into a largely anti-academic culture that has traditionally underpinned the world of professional football, and in which the demonstration of a 'good attitude' and commitment to the more central members of players' interdependencies (especially coaches and managers) dominated all other concerns. Indeed, it was also clear that the deep-seated values players held in relation to the professional game as part of their individual and group habituses were shaped by the figurations into which they were born and had been developed during the more impressionable phases of childhood and youth. Players' welfare needs were significantly compromised by the strong degree of suspicion and obvious degree of mistrust that characterized their relationship with club management, which emanated from players' fears that confidential matters would always 'get back' to others inside the club. This was exacerbated, in almost all cases, by players' observations that they were treated as if they were 'bottom of the club' and whose welfare needs were not generally well understood by those working within Academies and CoE
Copyright and media releases: Implications for professional use: Media release: Who owns it?
No full textFerguson, AE ORCiD: 0000-0002-8734-5735Although words themselves cannot be owned it is when they become a compilation of words authors would normally become the owner, author and therefore retain copyright over the work. Currently this does not relate to the media release produced by public relations professionals. While it is not the purpose of this book to simplify the media release authorship, ownership and copyright issue because it is a complex one, it is the intention of this book to raise and discuss the complex relationship that exists between the media release, public relations practitioners and journalists because it is exists outside the normal boundaries of ownership, authorship and copyright.The automatic assumption of authorship, ownership and copyright being waived and therefore assigned to another person(s) may have long term ramifications that have not yet been realized
Distinctive Roles of Canonical and Noncanonical Wnt Signaling in Human Embryonic Cardiomyocyte Development
No full textOpen Access funded by British Heart Foundation Under a Creative Commons license Acknowledgments Our thanks go to Gioia Polidori Francisco for training and discussions, Kate Watt and Yvonne Turnbull for technical and laboratory managerial support, Kadri Oras and Laura Ferguson for experimental support, Po-Lin So and Bruce Conklin (Gladstone Institutes) for providing their unpublished protocols, and Yukio Nakamura for discussion. This research is supported by the British Heart Foundation (PG/12/75/29851) and the Institute of Medical Sciences. A.S.B. was supported by the British Heart Foundation (FS/12/37/29516).Peer reviewe
Laboratory estimation of fracture compliance of a fluid-filled fracture using AVO response of a nonwelded interface
No full textWe explore the potential of multi-angle AVO inversion of P-P and P-S reflections from a fracture to estimate fracture proper- ties. Although AVO analysis of welded interface like geologi- cal layer boundaries is common, the use of AVO variations for nonwelded boundaries like fractures is yet to be investigated. We conduct laboratory experiments to measure reflection re- sponses of dry and wet fractures. The observed P-P reflec- tions of the fracture and the fracture aperture are very well pre- dicted by the nonwelded interface model. We invert the angle- dependent P-P reflectivity of the fracture to estimate both nor- mal and tangential fracture compliances. The estimated value of the normal compliance is accurate, and it is also possible to obtain the value of the non-zero tangential compliance. We find that supplementing the information of converted P-S re- flections in the AVO inversion greatly improves the estimate of the tangential compliance. The calculated compliance ra- tio clearly shows the existence of fluid in the fracture. This finding can be crucial for new applications in a wide range of scale - from earthquake seismology, deep and shallow seismic exploration, to nondestructive material testing.Applied Geophysics and Petrophysic
The attitudes of seventy-five parents toward the 1966 head start program in Marlboro County, South Carolina, 1969
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