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Editing Aphra Behn in the Digital Age: An Interview with Gillian Wright and Alan Hogarth
Full text linkThis interview provides a view of the work in progress for the Cambridge University Press edition of the Complete Works of Aphra Behn. Gillian Wright serves as a general editor (with Elaine Hobby, Claire Bowditch, and Mel Evans) as well as the volume editor for Behn’s poetry. Alan Hogarth is the Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Mel Evans on the computational stylistics and author attribution testing. The discussion focuses on the scope and principles of editing the poetry of Aphra Behn, the role of stylometry in establishing the corpus, the status of work, a few particular poems, and some surprises
Are UK Healthy?
No full textResearch by Gillian Wright suggests that effective knowledge sharing in public services is shaped by wider organisational issues beyond the sharer-receiver unit. This paper was presented at the 8th International Research Conference on Quality, Innovation and Knowledge Management, New Delhi, 1114 February 2007
Stakeholder Engagement and Co-Creation in Logistic Industry: The Emerging Influence of Service Science Perspective
No full textThe purpose of the paper is to analyze the stakeholder engagement (Andriof and Waddock, 2002; Noland and Phillips,2010) according to service-science perspective (Sporher and Maglio, 2008; Vargo and Akaka, 2009; Barile and Polese, 2010), in order to underline the influence of ICT on service co-creation, especially within logistic industry. Service
science combines organization and human understanding with business and technological ones, offering an important support in classification of online service systems and in evaluation of their impact on engagement and co-creation. An analysis of the Italian context has been conducted according to GILDANET case study, in order to understand the real
influence of IT solutions in multimodal transport chains design and management (e.g. automotive industry, transport of perishables, empty Container Cycle etc.)
Impact of tide gates on diadromous fish migration in the UK
No full textAnthropogenic structures fragment river connectivity, impeding the migration of diadromous fish between essential habitats. Tide gates are used worldwide primarily for flood protection and land reclamation by closing under hydraulic pressure during the flood tide and opening when head differential is sufficient during the ebb. Although tide gates are known to decrease fish species richness, abundance, and movement, their impacts on the migration of ecologically and socioeconomically important diadromous fish in terms of passage efficiency and delay have not been reported elsewhere.Acoustic and passive integrated transponder telemetry revealed that passage efficiencies of upstream migrating adult brown trout, Salmo trutta (92%), and downstream migrating juvenile sea trout smolts (96 - 100%) and adult European eel, Anguilla anguilla (98%), were high at top-hung tide gates in two small English streams. However, these fish experienced delay at the gates (adult brown trout, median = 6.0 h; sea trout smolts, mean = 6.5 and 23.7 h; eels, mean = 66.2 h) when compared to migration through unimpeded reaches. The percentage of time the gates were closed and mean angle of opening were positively related to delay in both species and life stages. Diel periodicity also influenced delay for smolts and eels, which were more active at night. For adult trout, water temperature was positively associated with delay. Upstream and downstream water temperature and salinity were influenced by the temporal operation of the gates.Orifices installed in the gates did not mitigate delay for adult or juvenile trout. For adult eels, delay was decreased when an orifice was operational, although this coincided with more eels first approaching the gates when open, higher tides and greater saline intrusion upstream of the gates.When gates were open, fish would not pass immediately through, indicating the potential influence of a behavioural avoidance component. To examine the effect of hydrodynamics created by top-hung tide gates with different aperture sizes, wild sea trout smolt behaviour was observed by video cameras in an experimental flume at night. Avoidance responses occurred within an average of 1.4 fish body lengths upstream of the gate. Fish were more likely to exhibit avoidance (switch in orientation from negative to positive rheotaxis, increased tail beat frequency and/or retreat upstream) in the vicinity of a model gate with a smaller angle of opening and passage aperture.Overall, top-hung tide gates delayed the migration of diadromous fish, potentially increasing energy expenditure and predation risk. Delay was not decreased by orifices. Modifying or replacing top-hung tide gates with designs that allow them to open wider and for longer could reduce migratory delay and improve the environmental conditions that cause behavioural avoidance.<br/
Igniting a spark: Creativity in Higher Education
No full text27 March 2020 Igniting a spark: Creativity in Higher Education, Theme: Creativity and imagination in HE teaching and learning, Dr Gillian Judson, Dr. Jesse Stommel, Dr Chrissi Nerantzi, facilitated by Kathy Wright, invited Advance HE webina
"Ice Road" by Gillian Slovo. [review - radio script]
No full text"Ice road" is a novel of nineteenth century proportions by prolific British author Gillian
Slovo. With its broad canvas of Russian history and large cast of characters, led by a
young woman called Natasha, it consciously harks back to Tolstoy’s "War and Peace".
The story begins with a cleaner called Irina Davydovna Arbatova, a pragmatic
worker born at the beginning of the twentieth century, who by various chance encounters
becomes involved in the family of Boris Aleksandrovic Ivanov, a party official, one of the new soviet ruling class. The setting is Leningrad, and the year is 1934
VOLT Volume 1, 1994-1995
No full textContents: Michael Burkard / Four Poems --Barbara Cully / Desire Reclining -- Madeline DeFrees / Death and Bleitz in Seattle -- Frances Driscoll / Two Poems -- Russell Edson / Of Kings and Queens -- George Evans / Three Poems -- Jane Hirshfield / The Thief -- Jo Whaley / Four Photographs -- Paul Hoover / Same Difference -- Claudia Keelan / Three -- Edward Kleinschmidt / Two Poems -- Gina Berriault / The Overcoat -- Nancy Wyllie / Three Works -- Yusef Komunyakaa / Three Poems -- Joyce Mansour / Three Poems -- Hawley Hussey / Not Even a Memory -- Frances Mayes / Waiting for Grace, Believing in Waters -- Bill Barich / From The California Book -- Hawley Hussey / The Devil Book -- Jane Miller / Two Poems -- Jan Gilbert / Two Paintings -- Laura Mullen / For the Reader (Blank Book) -- Tracy Philpot / Two Poems -- Bin Ramke / A Kind of Holiness, a Kindness -- John Keeble / The Messenger from the Fallen State -- Anonymous / Urban Hieroglyph -- Frances Phillips / A Poet’s Journal -- Carol Snow / Helpless, Behind Her -- David St. John / Memphis -- Lee Upton / An Island Story -- Arthur Vogelsang / Three Poems -- Kim Westerman / Little Shade -- C.D. Wright / Autographs -- Ira Watkins / Three Paintings --Ralph Angel / Twice Removed --Domenic Stansberry The Magic ZeppelinVOLT was created in San Francisco in 1991. The journal was originally published by Pacific Film and Literary Association, a non-profit organization registered in California. VOLT is now housed at Sonoma State University. Innovative in design and content, VOLT publishes a range of adventurous writing. Founded and edited by Gillian Conoley, VOLT appears every fall. VOLT has received many awards and honors, including several Pushcart Prize Anthology selections, a Fund for Poetry grant, and several selections for the annual anthology, The Best American Poetry. VOLT is produced with the help of Assistant Editors Paula Koneazny and Marjorie Stein
Why should I believe this? Deciphering the qualities of a credible online customer review
No full textCarl J. Clare, Gillian Wright, Peter Sandiford and Alberto Paucar Cacere
Childhood overweight and obesity at the start of primary school: external validation of pregnancy and early-life prediction models
No full textTackling the childhood obesity epidemic can potentially be facilitated by risk-stratifying families at an early-stage to receive prevention interventions and extra support. Using data from the Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort, this analysis aimed to externally validate prediction models for childhood overweight and obesity developed as part of the Studying Lifecourse Obesity PrEdictors (SLOPE) study in Hampshire. BiB is a longitudinal multi-ethnic birth cohort study which recruited women at around 28 weeks gestation between 2007 and 2010 in Bradford. The outcome was body mass index (BMI) ≥91st centile for overweight/obesity at 4-5 years. Discrimination was assessed using the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC). Calibration was assessed for each tenth of predicted risk by calculating the ratio of predicted to observed risk and plotting observed proportions versus predicted probabilities. Data were available for 8003 children. The AUC on external validation was comparable to that on development at all stages (early pregnancy, birth, ~1 year and ~2 years). The AUC on external validation ranged between 0.64 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.62 to 0.66) at early pregnancy and 0.82 (95% CI 0.81 to 0.84) at ~2 years compared to 0.66 (95% CI 0.65 to 0.67) and 0.83 (95% CI 0.82 to 0.84) on model development in SLOPE. Calibration was better in the later model stages (early life ~1 year and ~2 years). The SLOPE models developed for predicting childhood overweight and obesity risk performed well on external validation in a UK birth cohort with a different geographical location and ethnic composition
Handbook on Lived Experience in the Justice System
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in [Handbook on Lived Experience in the Justice System] on [11/12/2025], available online: http://www.routledge.com/Handbook-on-Lived-Experience-in-the-Justice-System/Dum-Fader-LeBel-Wright/p/book/9781041016052Lived experience-informed justice practices are increasingly recognised as a resource for improving criminal justice policies and practices. However, these practices remain under-researched and under-theorised within criminology. This chapter employs Tomczak and Buck's hybrid model of the penal voluntary sector as a conceptual framework to map a diversity of lived experience contributions to justice. Drawing on methodical searches and deductive analysis, the chapter identifies five types of activity: fixers, who focus on individual rehabilitation; enablers of individuals, who provide person-centred support; thought changers, who challenge dehumanising ideologies; distribution changers, who seek structural reforms; and brokers, who mediate cross-sectoral alliances for systemic change. Examples from UK and international contexts illustrate these categories, highlighting global significance. The chapter also explores hybrid approaches, where multiple aims and activities intersect. By offering a rigorous conceptual mapping of these diverse and hybrid practices, this work contributes original insights to the underexplored domain of lived experience-led justice, advancing theoretical understanding and potentially informing future research and policy.unfunde
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