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The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
No full textBibliography: leaves 376-401.This thesis investigates the ways in which three eighteenth-century writers, Bishop Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen embody orthodox Anglican doctrine according to their individual perceptions of the enlightening properties of Protestant Christianity. After situating them in their respective gender, literary and ecclesiastical contexts, I examine some of their key doctrines and analyse excerpts from their works. My selection of passages from Sherlock's works is fairly comprehensive, but in the case of More and Austen, where there is already a formidable body of literary criticism, it is more selective. Thus, I focus on doctrine in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies some of them invoke to circumvent certain taboos, Sherlock, More and Austen champion the same central orthodox doctrines, defend them against current alternatives to orthodoxy such as Latitudinarianism, Deism and various forms of Freethinking, and promote similar moral and ecclesiastical reforms. However, indirectly (through female characters who resist male representation or control) the women writers subject their ostensibly authorially-endorsed male narrators/characters to scrutiny and sometimes (when the males objectify the women) subversion
Politicising stardom: Jane Fonda, IPC Films and Hollywood, 1977-1982
No full textPhDThis thesis is an empirical analysis of Jane Fonda’s films, stardom, and political activism during the most commercially successful period of her career. At the outset, Fonda’s early stardom is situated in relation to contemporaneous moral and political ideologies in the United States and how she functioned as both an agent and symbol of these ideologies. Her anti-war activism in the early-1970s constituted the apex of Fonda’s radicalisation and the nadir of her popular appeal; a central question of this thesis, therefore, is how her stardom was rehabilitated for the American mainstream to the point of becoming Hollywood’s most bankable actress.
As the star and producer of IPC Films, Fonda developed political projects using commercial formats, namely Coming Home (1978), The China Syndrome (1979), Nine to Five (1980), and Rollover (1981). The final IPC film, On Golden Pond (1981), signalled an ideological breach in this political strategy by favouring a familial spectacle, and duly outperformed its predecessors significantly. The first and last chapters of this work provide historical parameters for IPC in Fonda’s career, while the remaining chapters are structured by the conceptual and political aspects of each IPC project. Julia (1977) is discussed as an IPC prototype through its dramatisation of political consciousness. Coming Home, The China Syndrome, Nine to Five, and Rollover all exhibit this motif whereas On Golden Pond employs melodramatic nostalgia. Often discussed reductively as a star symbolising change, this thesis instead uses archival and published sources to analyse Fonda’s individual agency in historical context, as well as the cultural and political impact of her stardom. The IPC enterprise provided cinematic apparatus for Fonda’s political recuperation within the American mainstream, which, more broadly, harboured significance for the nation’s conservative resurgence at the end of the 1970s
mHealth Research Group NUI Galway: Using mobile technologies for effective health behaviour change
No full textThe European Health Psychologist mHealth (mobile health) is the practice of medicine, public health and allied healthcare or self-care supported by mobile devices (e.g. smartphones, tablet computers, wearable activity monitors). Among the world's population of 7 billion there are over 5 billion mobile devices and over 90% of users have their mobile device near them 24 hours a day (European Commission, 2014). Mobile health apps have captured the public imagination allowing for unobtrusive self-monitoring and the dawn of the 'quantified self' movement as a potentially major aspect of health improvement (Commission for Communications Regulation, 2014). The development of these apps provides a unique opportunity for researchers in population health to track real-time, continuous, accurate and objective measures of health indices and related behaviour. Mobile devices provide a potentially very powerful platform for delivering behavioural interventions and providing health relevant feedback to users. Well-designed mHealth interventions may effectively change patient health-related behaviour, improve patient knowledge and support for active involvement in self-management and lifestyle change leading to better health outcomes (EU Green Paper on mHealth, 2014). However, it is critical that mHealth app developers work closely with behavioural scientists to ensure that interventions are informed by relevant behavioural theory. Health psychologists are leading the development of scientific methods for studying behaviour change, with the potential to significantly enhance public health research through employing theory-linked, evidence-based behaviour change techniques
Cancer-related fatigue in post-treatment cancer survivors: application of the common sense model of illness representations
No full textBACKGROUND: Cancer-related fatigue (CrF) is a common and disruptive symptom that may be experienced during and after cancer. Research into the subjective experience of fatigue in this group is required. The common sense model of self-regulation of health and illness (SRM) addresses personal beliefs or mental representations-whether medically sound or unsubstantiated- that a person holds about a health issue. The current study assesses if the SRM could be used as a theoretical framework for organizing the experiences of people with CrF, with a view to identifying methods to address fatigue in cancer survivors.METHOD: Four focus groups were held with a total of 18 cancer survivors who reported they experienced 'significant fatigue or reduced energy.' A thematic analysis was conducted within the framework of the SRM.RESULTS: Findings were aligned with the SRM, with participants discussing fatigue with reference to representation, coping, and appraisal of symptoms. In particular, the wider social context of CrF was frequently addressed. Perceived inadequacies in support available to those with lingering fatigue after the completion of cancer treatment were highlighted by the participants.CONCLUSION: This study explored the subjective experience of fatigue after cancer using the SRM. CrF should be approached as a complex psychosocial issue and considered from the patient perspective to facilitate better understanding and management of symptoms. The SRM is an applicable framework for identifying modifiable factors that could lead to improved coping with CrF in post-treatment cancer survivors.</p
An mHealth intervention using a smartphone app to increase walking behavior in young adults: A pilot study
No full textBACKGROUND: Physical inactivity is a growing concern for society and is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, obesity, and other chronic diseases.OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the efficacy of the Accupedo-Pro Pedometer mobile phone app intervention, with the goal of increasing daily step counts in young adults.METHODS: Mobile phone users (n=58) between 17-26 years of age were randomized to one of two conditions (experimental and control). Both groups downloaded an app that recorded their daily step counts. Baseline data were recorded and followed-up at 5 weeks. Both groups were given a daily walking goal of 30 minutes, but the experimental group participants were told the equivalent goal in steps taken, via feedback from the app. The primary outcome was daily step count between baseline and follow-up.RESULTS: A significant time x group interaction effect was observed for daily step counts (P=.04). Both the experimental (P<.001) and control group (P=.03) demonstrated a significant increase in daily step counts, with the experimental group walking an additional 2000 steps per day.CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study demonstrate that a mobile phone app can significantly increase physical activity in a young adult sample by setting specific goals, using self-monitoring, and feedback.</p
Jane M. G. Foster - Clip 3
No full textFrom the video archives of the Cornell Law School Heritage Project. The interviewer/videographer is Thomas R. Bruce. This video covers recollections of Jane Foster by her friend, John Walsh of Portsmouth, Ohio.
Jane Foster was born in Ohio. Her father was a doctor and her mother a teacher who founded a weekly newspaper. She had already travelled widely by the time she came to Cornell in 1914. She was one of only two women in the class of 1918, and one of the first women to join the editorial board of the Cornell Law Quarterly. Although she graduated Order of the Coif, near the top of her class, no law firm would hire her.
For over a decade she worked as a legal assistant for the New York City firm of Davies, Auerbach, and Cornell. As there was no prospect for advancement to partnership, she left in 1929. She lived in Brooklyn Heights using her considerable talents, independence, and expertise in corporate finance and banking to assist her friends, community, Cornell Law School, and her own growing financial interests. In the 1950s she returned to Portsmouth, Ohio to care for her ailing mother and lived there until her own death.
Cornell Law School was the beneficiary of Jane Foster\u27s endless generosity. Jane had invested in one of the companies she had helped restructure in the 1920s, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, and on her death was a wealthy woman thanks in part to her stock in IBM (so renamed in 1924). The Jane Foster wing in the Law School, the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law endowed chair, the Ida C. and William Ogden Kerr Memorial Prize, and many unrestricted gifts came from her alone.
Jane Foster was born in 1893. She was a well educated, talented, but modest woman who was denied a law career by virtue of her sex. When she died in 1993, one week shy of her hundredth birthday, she had done more to support legal education at Cornell than any other in the school\u27s history
Walsh & Hoyt: Millard-Gubler
No full textA lesion in the basis pontis, usually a stroke involving paramedian arterioles from the basilar artery, causes the medial pontine syndrome or Millard-Gubler syndrome of ipsilateral sixth and seventh nerve fascicular palsies with contralateral hemiplegia
Walsh & Hoyt: Acquired
No full textWhen an etiology can be determined, blunt head trauma, usually a direct orbital, frontal, basal, or oblique cranial blow, is the most common cause of isolated, acquired, unilateral and bilateral trochlear nerve palsy in both adults and children. As with other ocular motor nerve palsies, almost any pathologic process can damage the trochlear nerve at any point from its nucleus to its termination in the orbit where it innervates the superior oblique muscle. Lesions of the trochlear nerve nucleus. Lesions of the trochlear nerve fascicle. Lesions of the trochlear nerve in the subarachnoid space. Lesions of the trochlear nerve within the cavernous sinus and superior orbital fissure. Lesions of the trochlear nerve within the orbit. Lesions of the trochlear nerve of uncertain or variable location. Recovery from acquired trochlear nerve palsy
Walsh & Hoyt: Ocular Neuromyotonia
No full textThis is an acquired condition in which various eye muscles go into brief intermittent spasm, causing diplopia that comes and goes
Walsh & Hoyt: Acquired
No full textAs with oculomotor and trochlear nerve palsies, many series report a variety of causes of abducens nerve palsy. These articles have the same limitations as those described with respect to other ocular motor nerve palsies. Nevertheless, certain specific syndromes do occur, depending on the location and nature of the lesion producing the palsy. Lesions of the abducens nerve nucleus. Lesions of the abducens nerve fascicle. Lesions of the abducens nerve in the subarachnoid space. Lesions of the extradural portion of the abducens nerve at the petrous apex. Lesions of the abducens nerve in the cavernous sinus and superior orbital fissure. The sphenocavernous syndrome. Lesions of the abducens nerve within the orbit. Lesions of the abducens nerve of uncertain or variable location. Chronic, isolated abducens nerve paralysis
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