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No.435 J. D. Williams
No full textTranscript (77 pages) of interviews by Everett L. Cooley with J. D. Williams on October 22 and November 5, 1984. Accompanied by an outline of Williams\u27 career at the University of Utah, 1952 to 1992Williams recalls his education in the Salt Lake City public school system, and at Stanford and Harvard. He talks about his early interest in politics and his tenure at the University of Utah. Other topics covered include academic freedom, the Vietnam War period on campus, and his relationship with various officials connected with the university and with the Mormon Church. Interviewer: Everett L. Coole
Williams Cancels Kershaw Invitation
No full textArticle concerning Chancellor J. D. Williams\u27s rescinding of Reverend Alvin L. Kershaw\u27s invitation to speak at Religious Emphasis Week at the University of Mississippi, and including a reprint of Williams\u27s message to Kershaw; Source: The Mississippian; Unknown datehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1091/thumbnail.jp
Proceedings of the Cairns Topical Workshop on Light-Cone QCD and Nonperturbative Hadron Physics Cairns, Australia - 7-15 July 2005 - Preface
No full textedited by D.B. Leinweber, L. von Smekal and A.G. Williamshttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505717/description#descriptio
Exploring face perception in disorders of development: evidence from Williams syndrome and autism
No full textIndividuals with Williams syndrome (WS) and autism are characterized by different social phenotypes but have been said to show similar atypicalities of face-processing style. Although the structural encoding of faces may be similarly atypical in these two developmental disorders, there are clear differences in overall face skills. The inclusion of both populations in the same study can address how the profile of face skills varies across disorders. The current paper explored the processing of identity, eye-gaze, lip-reading, and expressions of emotion using the same participants across face domains. The tasks had previously been used to make claims of a modular structure to face perception in typical development. Participants with WS (N=15) and autism (N=20) could be dissociated from each other, and from individuals with general developmental delay, in the domains of eye-gaze and expression processing. Individuals with WS were stronger at these skills than individuals with autism. Even if the structural encoding of faces appears similarly atypical in these groups, the overall profile of face skills, as well as the underlying architecture of face perception, varies greatly. The research provides insights into typical and atypical models of face perception in WS and autism
The development of metaphorical language comprehension in typical development and in Williams syndrome
No full textThe domain of figurative language comprehension was used to probe the developmental relation between language and cognition in typically developing individuals and individuals with Williams syndrome. Extending the work of Vosniadou and Ortony, the emergence of nonliteral similarity and category knowledge was investigated in 117 typically developing children between 4 and 12 years of age, 19 typically developing adults, 15 children with Williams syndrome between 5 and 12 years of age, and 8 adults with Williams syndrome. Participants were required to complete similarity and categorization statements by selecting one of two words (e.g., either “The sun is like ___” or “The sun is the same kind of thing as ___”) with word pairs formed from items that were literally, perceptually, or functionally similar to the target word or else anomalous (e.g., moon, orange, oven, or chair, respectively). Results indicated that individuals with Williams syndrome may access different, less abstract knowledge in figurative language comparisons despite the relatively strong verbal abilities found in this disorder
Marriage record of Williams, J. D. and Brown, L. T.
No full textMarriage license for J.D. Williams and L .T. Brown. E.S. Tyner was the officiant
Genetic contributions to visuospatial cognition in Williams syndrome: insights from two contrasting partial deletion patients
No full textBackground
Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder arising from a hemizygotic deletion of approximately 27 genes on chromosome 7, at locus 7q11.23. WS is characterised by an uneven cognitive profile, with serious deficits in visuospatial tasks in comparison to relatively proficient performance in some other cognitive domains such as language and face processing. Individuals with partial genetic deletions within the WS critical region (WSCR) have provided insights into the contribution of specific genes to this complex phenotype. However, the combinatorial effects of different genes remain elusive.
Methods
We report on visuospatial cognition in two individuals with contrasting partial deletions in the WSCR: one female (HR), aged 11 years 9 months, with haploinsufficiency for 24 of the WS genes (up to GTF2IRD1), and one male (JB), aged 14 years 2 months, with the three most telomeric genes within the WSCR deleted, or partially deleted.
Results
Our in-depth phenotyping of the visuospatial domain from table-top psychometric, and small- and large-scale experimental tasks reveal a profile in HR in line with typically developing controls, albeit with some atypical features. These data are contrasted with patient JB’s atypical profile of strengths and weaknesses across the visuospatial domain, as well as with more substantial visuospatial deficits in individuals with the full WS deletion.
Conclusions
Our findings point to the contribution of specific genes to spatial processing difficulties associated with WS, highlighting the multifaceted nature of spatial cognition and the divergent effects of genetic deletions within the WSCR on different components of visuospatial ability. The importance of general transcription factors at the telomeric end of the WSCR, and their combinatorial effects on the WS visuospatial phenotype are also discussed
Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on supportive care needs, psychological distress and quality of life in UK cancer survivors and their support network
No full textThe AAM is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hulbert-Williams, N. J., Leslie, M., Hulbert-Williams, L., Smith, E., Howells, L., & Pinato, D.J. (2021). Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on supportive care needs, psychological distress and 3 quality of life in UK cancer survivors and their support network.. European Journal of Cancer Care, 30(5), e13442, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13442. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic is having considerable impact on cancer care, including restricted access to hospital-based care, treatment and psychosocial support. We investigated the impact on unmet needs and psychosocial wellbeing.
Methods: 144 participants (77% female), including people with cancer and their support networks, were recruited. The most prevalent diagnosis was breast cancer. Forty-one participants recruited pre-pandemic were compared with 103 participants recruited during the COVID-19 pandemic. We measured participants’ unmet supportive care needs, psychological distress and quality of life.
Results: Half of our patient respondents reported unexpected changes to treatment following pandemic onset, with widespread confusion about their longer-term consequences. Although overall need levels have not increased, specific needs have changed in prominence. People with cancer reported significantly reduced anxiety (p=.049) and improved quality of life (p=.032) following pandemic onset, but support network participants reported reduced quality of life (p=.009), and non-significantly elevated anxiety, stress and depression.
Conclusion: Psychological wellbeing of people with cancer has not been detrimentally affected by pandemic onset. Reliance on home-based support to compensate for the lost availability of structured healthcare pathways may, however, explain significant and detrimental effects on the wellbeing and quality of life of people in their support and informal care networks
Le refuge dei Fous: l´Univers Romanesque de Williams Sassine
No full textWilliams Sassine, jeune romancier guinéen exilé, est de ce groupe de visionnaires-observateurs qui voient la complémentarité des éléments apparemment contradictoires de la réalite africaine et qui oeuvrent pour en forger une nouvelle société eu un nouvel homme. Ses deux romans traitent tant de la société coloniale que de celle d\u27après le départ des colonialistes. Ils sont axés sur une prémisse fort importante, à savoir, que l\u27individu ne peut exister dans le vide, qu\u27il fait partie d\u27une communauté, communauté qui influe sur son existence et son destin et communauté que lui aussi peut, et doit, essayer de changer. L\u27objectif de l\u27oeuvre de Williams Sassine est l\u27homme, précisément, l\u27homme noir et son sort au sein de la société.L´Histoire, de faits ou de littérature, est le symbole d´un certain scientism mensonger hérité de la civilisation européenne
De la pré-performance postmoderne: les personnages tardifs de Williams et le “jeu d\u27acteur plastique”
No full textDans les “Notes de Production” de The glass menagerie, Tennessee Williams appelle à un théâtre “plastique” qui utiliserait tous les moyens théâtraux pour en faire un art visuel et performatif total. Cependant, les productions théâtrales qui ont contribué à faire de Williams l\u27un des plus grands dramaturges américains ont mis en scène les pièces dans un style réaliste, qui se reflète également dans le style d\u27interprétation des acteurs. En effet, la plupart des acteurs étaient formés dans une technique américaine moderne et réaliste. La tradition du jeu réaliste invite les acteurs à construire leur personnage à partir d\u27une base psychologique qui aide à expliquer et à identifier le personnage. Dans quelle mesure le style réaliste d\u27interprétation a-t-il contribué à établir le théâtre de Williams dans la catégorie du théâtre psychologique et naturaliste, et à quel point a-t-il contribué à la mécompréhension de ses pièces ultérieures et plus subversives? Comment le jeu d\u27acteur peut-il aider à préparer les acteurs et les spectateurs au théâtre total et “plastique” que Williams imaginait? Les œuvres tardives de Williams renversent radicalement l\u27ordre réaliste et mettent en jeu des personnages irréels, insaisissables, voire grotesques, ce qui oblige l\u27acteur à les approcher d\u27une manière nouvelle. Cet article propose de réfléchir à la responsabilité de l\u27acteur et à la possibilité de réhabiliter les textes tardifs de Williams dans la pratique. L\u27objectif est d\u27étudier l\u27imaginaire nouveau et postmoderne des textes et d\u27examiner leurs implications pratiques. Les pièces tardives, avec leur corps subversif et antipsychologique, leurs personnages insondables, demandent de nouveaux corps sur scène qui intègrent dans leur pratique même des réflexions postmodernes.
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