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Wells, Stanley. "Boys Should be Girls: Shakespeare's Female Roles and the Boy Players." New Theatre Quarterly 25, no. 2 (2009): 172–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x09000268.
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Recent performances of female roles in Shakespeare's plays by adult males help to perpetuate the myth that this was the practice of Shakespeare's time. This article attempts to reinforce the view that all female roles were played by boys – i.e., young males with unbroken voices – by analyzing the demands made by the plays. Shakespeare regularly had available to him up to four boy actors, perhaps more. Yet some plays have as few as two female roles, and few have more than four. The conclusion is that Shakespeare would have been highly unlikely to waste the resources of his company by calling upon adult males to play parts that make use of the talents of his boys. Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. A former editor of Shakespeare Survey and director of the Shakespeare Institute, he is author of numerous books on Shakespeare, general editor of the Penguin and Oxford editions of Shakespeare, and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.
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Dobson, Michael. "Cutting, Interruption, and the End of Hamlet." New Theatre Quarterly 32, no. 3 (2016): 269–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x16000245.
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In this essay Michael Dobson considers the evolution of certain habitual cuts to the text of Hamlet between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries, identifying in particular a tendency to increase the abruptness with which the play's last act interrupts its otherwise digressive movement. Looking in particular at the fate of Fortinbras, he examines changes to the ways in which these cuts have been indicated to readers, arguing that a decisive separation between the play as read and as acted makes itself felt at the turn of the nineteenth century. He concludes with a discussion of when and why it became desirable to advertise not manageably edited stage versions, but ‘uncut’ marathons. Michael Dobson is Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. His publications include the co-editorship of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Amateur Performance, Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today, and The Making of the National Poet.
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Jackson, Russell. "Oscar Asche: an Edwardian in Transition." New Theatre Quarterly 12, no. 47 (1996): 216–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00010216.
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Oscar Asche is one of a number of Edwardian actor-managers who have been largely ignored by theatre historians in favour of the dominant figure of Herbert Beerbohm-Tree. Asche was one of that generation of directors, which also included Lewis Waller, Sir John Martin-Harvey, and Arthur Bourchier, who regarded the staging of pictorial productions of Shakespeare as a sign of status – a claim to be taken seriously in his profession. He had an adventurous career, representative in many respects of the energy and enterprise that characterized the Edwardian theatre – yet his work also exemplified attitudes and practices that would be discounted by a generation of playgoers enthused by different ways of interpreting Shakespearean drama, a new theatrical aesthetic, and the broader social and educational aims of the non-commercial stage. After his death in 1936, he was remembered more as the author of one of the new century's most successful romantic fantasies – Chu Chin Chow – than as a Shakespearean actor-manager. The author of this reassessment, Russell Jackson, is Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. His publications include editions of plays by Wilde and Jones, and Victorian Theatre: a New Mermaid Background Book (1989). He is currently working on a study of Shakespeare in Victorian criticism and performance.
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Jackson, Russell. "Staging and Storytelling, Theatre and Film: ‘Richard III’ at Stratford, 1910." New Theatre Quarterly 16, no. 2 (2000): 107–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00013622.
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The film of F. R. Benson's company in scenes fromRichard III, released in 1911 and now available on the BFI'sSilent Shakespearevideo, was shot on stage in Stratford-upon-Avon, using stock scenery from the Memorial Theatre. Because of this, it is a unique document of Shakespearean production in the period, exemplifying the uneasy relationship between stage and film. The settings can be documented from a number of other sources: the original designs; a photograph of the stage set with the medieval street which appears in two episodes; and a series of postcards – the latter apparently ‘production stills’ of the film.Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, andJulius Caesarwere also filmed, but have not survived, though the Stratford archives contain some photographic evidence of them. Russell Jackson is Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute, the University of Birmingham's graduate school of Shakespeare studies in Stratford-upon-Avon. Recently he has published a translation of a work by Theodor Fontane,Shakespeare in the London Theatre, 1855–58(Society for Theatre Research, 1999), and he is editor of the forthcomingCambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film.
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Sierz, Aleks. "‘Big Ideas’ for Big Stages, 2004." New Theatre Quarterly 21, no. 1 (2005): 96–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x04210363.
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Maleki, Sepideh. "Personalizing health careHugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute, University of Alabama Birmingham." XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 25, no. 2 (2019): 54–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3292418.
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Werstíne, Paul. "Shakespeare, More or Less: A.W. Pollard and Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Editing." Florilegium 16, no. 1 (1999): 125–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.16.011.
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Those who have disputed Shakespeare's authorship of the plays and poems usually attributed to him have been inclined to name the eminent Shakespeare scholars who have vilified the anti-Stratfordian cause. In the Preface to his 1908 book The Shakes-peare Problem Restated, the urbane Sir Granville George Greenwood quoted Sidney Lee, then chair of Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust, mocking the Baconian theory as "foolish craze,' morbid psychology,' madhouse chatter" (vii) and John Churton Collins, chair of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, denouncing it as "ignorance and vanity" (viii). More recently, Charlton Ogburn has listed among the detractors of the Oxfordian theory Louis B. Wright, former director of the Folger Shakespeare Library (154, 161, 168); S. Schoenbaum, author of Shakespeare's Lives, which devotes one hundred pages "to denigration of...anti-Stratfordian articles and books" (152); and Harvard Shakespeare professors G. Blakemore Evans and Harry Levin (256-57). In view of the energy and labour expended by numerous prominent scholars defending Shakespearean authorship, it is not surprising to discover that this defence has influenced reception of Shakespeare's works and their editorial reproductions. This essay deals with the very successful resistance movement against the anti-Stratfordians that was led by A.W. Pollard from 1916 to 1923, and with the peculiar influence that Pollard's efforts have continued to exert, even upon today's Shakespeare editors.
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Wells, Stanley, and Anne Sophie Haahr Refskou. "Shakespeare, Globalization, and the Digital Revolution." New Theatre Quarterly 30, no. 1 (2014): 65–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x14000086.
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In an interview given during a lecture tour in Scandinavia organized by the universities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Aarhus in October and November, 2012, Stanley Wells talks about his own career in Shakespeare studies and discusses past and present major changes and issues within the field, including his own Oxford Complete Works of 1986, co-edited with Gary Taylor et al., revision and collaboration theories, global Shakespeare, and new challenges for Shakespearean scholars. He shares thoughts on his own current and future research projects, which include a new monograph on Shakespearean actors through time, and he also comments on the relationship between academic scholars and theatre practitioners, and ways in which to understand the ever-shifting concept of a Shakespearean play in relation to performance, reading, and personal and critical responses. Following a long career of many publications and editions, Stanley Wells is now Professor Emeritus of the University of Birmingham, and Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Anne Sophie Haahr Refskou is a Doctoral Fellow in English and Dramaturgy at Aarhus University, Denmark. She works with Shakespearean acting and dramaturgy, focusing on the relationship between text and performance, particularly in relation to the actor's body and physical expressions.
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Brown, John Russell. "Representing Sexuality in Shakespeare's Plays." New Theatre Quarterly 13, no. 51 (1997): 205–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00011210.
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Sexuality resides in much more than what is spoken or even enacted, and its stage representation will often work best when the minds of the spectators are collaboratively engaged in completing the desired response. John Russell Brown, founding Head of Drama at the University of Birmingham and a former Associate Director of the National Theatre, here explores Shakespeare's arts of sexual obliquity, whether in silence, prevarication, or kindled imagination, and their relationship both with more direct forms of allusion and with an audience's response. John Russell Brown, currently Professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan, is author of numerous books on Shakespeare and modern drama, and editor of many Elizabethan and Jacobean texts – most recently a new edition of Shakespeare for Applause Books, New York.
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Pulford, David. "The Library of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham." Art Libraries Journal 35, no. 4 (2010): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200016631.
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The Barber Institute of Fine Arts is acknowledged as one of the finest small art galleries in Europe. It has a richly resourced library which functions both as a curatorial library for the Barber’s curators and as part of the University of Birmingham’s network of site libraries. Students of art history thus benefit from the combined resources of a specialist art gallery library and a major university library. The Barber also houses a visual resources library, music library and coin study room.
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Gash, Sarah. "Educating the business information professional." Business Information Review 12, no. 2 (1995): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026638219501200204.
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Sarah Gash is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central England in Birmingham. Previous positions include: Course Resources Officer, Brighton Polytechnic and Faculty Liaison Officer, W Australia Institute of Technology. Author of Effective Literature Searching for Students, Gower 1989 and Business Information & How to Find It, Routledge, 1995.
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Bittar, Adriano Jabur, Valéria M. Chaves Figueiredo, and Alexandre Donizete Ferreira. "Brazil-United Kingdom Dance Medicine and Science Network as a Place for Poetic Preparation Research." International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies 7, no. 1 (2018): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijacdt.2018010101.
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This article presents the Brazil-United Kingdom (BR-UK) Dance Medicine and Science (DMS) Network as a potent place for poetic-creative research. Through the BR-UK DMS Network, institutions such as the University of Wolverhampton, a leader in the DMS field, the National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science, formed by this University and Birmingham Royal Ballet, One Dance UK, Trinity Laban and University of Birmingham, started, in 2016, a broad dialogue with the Brazilian State Universities of Goiás and Campinas, Federal Universities of Goiás, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul, Federal Institutes of Goiás and Brasília and Salgado de Oliveira University, as well as with other stakeholders from the private sector and individuals, in order to create an international cooperation. The main objective is to develop research and collaborative services during a 15-year period, establishing transdisciplinary ways for the advancement of the partnership between Dance, Science and Health.
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FIGUEIREDO, VALERIA Maria Chaves, Adriano Bittar, and Alexandre Ferreira. "A criação da Rede Brasil-Reino Unido em Medicina & Ciência da Dança como um lugar potencial de relações entre pesquisas poético-criacionais." ouvirOUver 13, no. 1 (2017): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/ouv20-v13n1a2017-6.
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A Medicina e Ciência da Dança (MCD) é uma área que se desenvolve há mais de 20 anos através da colaboração entre profissionais da dança, medicina, educação, psicologia, nutrição, dentre outros. O objetivo é promover o bem-estar e saúde dos dançarinos através do desenvolvimento de pesquisas e serviços nas diversas vertentes, desde a saúde, treinamento, performance, bem-estar, educação e a cena artística. No Reino Unido, a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, líder na área da MCD, em parceria com o NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE – NIDMS, formado por esta instituição e o BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET, ONE DANCE UK, TRINITY LABAN E UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, iniciou em 2016, amplo diálogo com a UEG, UFG, IFG, USP, UNICAMP, UNIVERSO e UFRGS, além de outros interessados da iniciativa privada e pessoas físicas, no sentido de estruturar uma cooperação internacional, constituindo assim, a REDE BRASIL-REINO UNIDO EM MCD. O objetivo central é desenvolver pesquisas e serviços colaborativos durante o período de 15 anos, estabelecendo caminhos transdisciplinares para o sucesso da parceria Dança, Ciência e Saúde.
 
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 Dance Medicine & Science (DMS) is a field of study that has developed globally over the last 20 years through the collaboration of different professionals, from dance, medicine, education, psychology, nutrition, among others. The goal is to promote the well-being and health of dancers through the development of research and services in various aspects, from health, training, performance, well-being and education. In the United Kingdom, the UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, a leader in the DMS field, in partnership with the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DANCE MEDICINE AND SCIENCE - NIDMS, formed by this university and BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET, ONE DANCE UK, TRINITY LABAN AND UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, started, in 2016, a broad dialogue with UEG, UFG, IFG, USP, UNICAMP, UNIVERSO and UFRGS, as well as with other stakeholders from the private sector and individuals, in order to create an international cooperation, through the BRAZIL-UNITED KINGDOM DMS NETWORK. The main objective is to develop research and collaborative services during a 15-year period, establishing transdisciplinary ways for the advancement of the partnership Dance, Science and Health.
 
 
 KEY WORDS: Network, dance, medicine, science.
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Affuso, Olivia. "SBM Mid-Career Leadership Institute." Translational Behavioral Medicine 10, no. 4 (2020): 884–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibaa066.
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Abstract My purpose for participating in the 2017 Society for Behavior Medicine (SBM) Leadership Institute was to redefine my career goals in an effort to do more work that mattered. I felt overwhelmed by the numerous tasks as a mid-level researcher, including leadership roles outside of my university to fill a desire to pursue activities that were purposeful but not valued by the academy. For example, I served on the Board of Girls on the Run (GOTR) where I was chair, leading a team of about 12 board members to provide a running-based life skills program for girls in Grades 3–5. After stepping down from the Board, I chose to develop a partnership between GOTR and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM) that would provide an opportunity for me to lead an outreach effort extending the GOTR program into Birmingham City Schools. The goal was not only to reach more girls from disadvantaged backgrounds but also to also reach their family members. We used survey results to assess parent/family preferences for receiving physical activity training resources to be able to support their girls at the end-of-the program 5K celebration. The resources were made available via the UCEM website and a link was sent by GOTR to all families of participants in the program. Overall, the partnership allowed us to reach more girls and their families and I know that the SBM Leadership program contributed to my delegation and organizational skills coupled with coaching to reveal my strengths and blind spots.
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Brown, John Russell. "Shakespeare, the Natyasastra, and Discovering Rasa for Performance." New Theatre Quarterly 21, no. 1 (2005): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x04000284.
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Recognizing analogies between the assumptions about theatricality found in the classic Sanskrit treatise on acting, the Natyasastra, and those of the Elizabethan theatre, John Russell Brown suggests that the concept of rasa as the determining emotion of a performance is similar to that of the Elizabethan ‘humour’, or prevailing passion, as defined by Ben Jonson. Here he describes his work exploring what happens when actors draw on their own life experiences to imagine and assume the basic rasa of the character they are going to present, based on experiments in London with New Fortune Theatre; in Bremen with actors of the Bremer Shakespeare Company; and in New Delhi with actors of the National School of Drama. Using actors both young and experienced, familiar and unfamiliar with ensemble playing, and well or poorly acquainted with the concepts involved, he suggests that the results merit further exploration of a technique which could empower actors to bring Shakespeare's plays to new kinds of life. John Russell Brown founded the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University, and for fifteen years was an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre. His New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia was published by Routledge in 1999, and his Shakespeare Dancing: a Theatrical Study of the Plays by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004. He edited and contributed to The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre (1995), and for Routledge has been General Editor of the ‘Theatre Production Studies’, ‘Theatre Concepts’, and forthcoming ‘Theatres of the World’ series.
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Montoito, Rafael. "CITAR OU NÃO CITAR, EIS A QUESTÃO (OU A INUSITADA UNIÃO LITERÁRIA DE SHAKESPEARE E LEWIS CARROLL PARA DEFENDER EUCLIDES)." Boletim Cearense de Educação e História da Matemática 4, no. 11 (2018): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.30938/bocehm.v4i11.40.
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Este artigo integra a série de estudos que temos feito, nos últimos anos, sobre as inter-relações entre Matemática e Literatura, com especial ênfase nas obras de Lewis Carroll. Ao traduzir seu livro Euclid and his Modern Rivals para a língua portuguesa, chamou-nos a atenção a quantidade de citações feitas a partir das peças de Shakespeare. A partir daí, pesquisamos a estreita relação entre Carroll e o teatro para compreender como esta arte influenciou alguns de seus escritos e como ele se apropriou das falas escritas pelo dramaturgo inglês para construir uma obra matemática cujo objetivo principal era defender a permanência d’Os Elementos de Euclides como o único livro-texto para o ensino de Geometria na Inglaterra Vitoriana. Nossa pesquisa sobre as obras de Carroll ganhou fôlego novo pelo acesso aos diários e cartas de Carroll, possibilitado pela nossa participação no Brazil Visiting Fellowship Scheme, da University of Birmingham[1], em 2016. Com a concepção de que qualquer disciplina deveria investir também no processo de aprendizagem de leitura e de escrita, este artigo se propõe a apontar um exemplo de como textos literários podem ser aproximados das aulas de Matemática, no curso de formação de professores; a discussão de temáticas implícitas nos textos têm o objetivo de estimular no aluno uma visão ainda mais ampla sobre os modos como a Matemática se relaciona com outras formas do conhecimento e com outras artes.
 [1] Gostaríamos de agradecer profundamente ao professor John Holmes (Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham, Inglaterra) que, nos acolhendo como fellow, dividiu seus conhecimentos conosco e nos introduziu na Bodleian Library, em Oxford, onde tivemos acesso às cartas e aos diários de Carroll.
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James, Paula. "How Classical is Ariadne's Parrot? Southall's Painting and Its Literary Registers." Ramus 39, no. 1 (2010): 53–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0048671x00000539.
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In this article I suggest ways in which a gorgeously crafted, colourful, compelling 20th century painting of an abandoned Ariadne highlights both her tragic and comic presence in classical literary representations. Joseph South-all's 1925-6 work Ariadne in Naxos (tempera on linen, 83.5 × 101.6 cm), reproduced below, can be viewed in all its glory in the Birmingham City Art Gallery (bequeathed by the artist's widow, Anne Elizabeth, in 1948) but it was featured to fine effect in the 2007 exhibition The Parrot in Art: From Dürer to Elizabeth Butterworth, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham. It was in this psittacine (psittaceous?) context that I first encountered Ariadne's parrot so the bird perhaps loomed larger in the painting than it might as a stand-alone Southall on its home ground in the Gallery.
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Jones, Daniel, John Meyer, John Meyer, Jingyu Huang, and Jingyu Huang. "Reflections on Remote Teaching." MSOR Connections 19, no. 1 (2021): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.21100/msor.v19i1.1137.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reconsider the way we teach our students. The inability of UK-based lecturers to deliver via traditional lecture-based courses in China (due to ongoing travel restrictions) has been an obstacle to overcome but also an opportunity to investigate innovative remote-teaching methods. Here we review a case study based on teaching three different year groups at the Jinan University - University of Birmingham Joint Institute during the early part of 2020. We reflect on how technology was used, draw conclusions and discuss potential opportunities for the future of remote-teaching.
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Rogozińska, Marta. "Tilgungstendenzen in Konferenzvorträgen. Eine korpusbasierte Studie." Studia Linguistica 35 (March 29, 2017): 205–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1169.35.11.
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Deletion trends in academic talks. A corpus-based analysisThe purpose of this paper is to describe some current deletion trends in modern spoken German. The study is based on orthographic transcriptions of academic talks made by German native speakers. The analysis has been conducted in order to show the most common phonetic reductions of the formal Standard German variety as used today in official situations in Germany. The linguistic data are taken from the GeWiss corpus, which is a comparative corpus of audio recordings and transcriptions of spoken academic languages German, Polish, English. The research organizations involved were the Herder Institute at the University of Leipzig, Wrocław University and Aston University in Birmingham.
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Brown, Sherri. "The Shakespeare Quartos Archive2012120The Shakespeare Quartos Archive. URL: www.quartos.org/: Bodleian Library, Folger Shakespeare Library and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland Last visited October 2011. Gratis." Reference Reviews 26, no. 3 (2012): 29–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09504121211211334.
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Brown, John Russell. "Learning Shakespeare's Secret Language: the Limits of ‘Performance Studies’." New Theatre Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2008): 211–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x08000274.
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As author of one of the pioneering books advocating the study of Shakespeare's Plays in Performance (1966), founder of the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University, and for fifteen years an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre, John Russell Brown is in a uniquely authoritative position to look back over the intervening years as ‘Performance Studies’ have increasingly displaced the study of Shakespeare's plays as texts. But has this been as helpful as many, including the author, hoped, when in practice it is so often based on the second- or third-hand recreation of lost and isolated theatrical moments, and fails entirely to give a sense of the progressive experience of watching a play? John Russell Brown here argues for closer attention to what he calls the ‘secret language’ of the plays – implicit instructions to actors that are buried in the texts themselves, at a time when there was no director to encourage or impose a particular interpretation or approach. He concludes: ‘Rather than trying to describe and understand what very different people have made of the plays in very different circumstances and times, we can best study them in performance by allowing them to reflect our own lives.’ John Russell Brown's most recent books are Shakespeare Dancing (Palgrave, 2005) and, as editor, The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare (2008). In 2007 he was appointed Visiting Professor at University College London.
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Holderness, Graham, and Bryan Loughrey. "Text and Stage: Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Performance Studies." New Theatre Quarterly 9, no. 34 (1993): 179–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00007764.
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This article continues the debate initiated by Brian Parker, who in NTQ24 (1990) offered a critique of the new Oxford Shakespeare, and one of its editors, Stanley Wells, who responded in NTQ 26 (1991) with a defence of his departure from traditional practices of textual conflation. Here, Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey suggest that, on a closer examination, there is evidence that editorial intervention and conflation have been regularly employed in the Oxford edition: and in arguing against all such attempts to reconstruct ‘authoritative’ texts, they propose that, in their inevitable absence, the originals present the closest we are likely to approach to recreating the collaborative theatrical practice of Shakespeare's time. In illustrating the effects of editorial intervention from a close comparative examination of particular passages, they suggest, for example, that the stage directions make a shovel a likelier object of Hamlet's graveside contemplation than Yorick's skull. Graham Holderness, newly-appointed Professor and Dean of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, and Bryan Loughrey, Research Director at Roehampton Institute, have recently begun, through the Centre for Textual Studies, a programme of publishing accessible reprints of the important early editions, of which the first three have now appeared from Harvester Wheatsheaf.
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Merlin, Bella. "Mamet's Heresy and Common Sense: what's True and False in ‘True and False’." New Theatre Quarterly 16, no. 3 (2000): 249–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00013877.
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David Mamet's book, True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Faber, 1998), is rapidly becoming recommended reading amongst the acting fraternity. In this article Bella Merlin offers a critical dissection of Mamet's approach, drawing on the working knowledge of Stanislavsky's Method of Physical Actions, or Active Analysis, which she acquired at the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. She underlines the fragility of Mamet's dismissal of Stanislavsky, and illustrates how much of his ‘common sense’ actually derives from the principles underlying the Method of Physical Actions. Bella Merlin is an actor and lectures in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University.
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Farlow, Colin. "Lesley Grayson and Margaret Hobson (eds), INLOGOV Informs on The Third Age, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 1995, 155 pp., £35, ISBN 0 704 41564 X." Ageing and Society 16, no. 3 (1996): 385–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x00003512.
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Hunter, David. "A Catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection in the Music Library, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, The University of Birmingham (review)." Notes 57, no. 3 (2001): 610–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/not.2001.0030.
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Dou, Paige. "Reviewer Acknowledgements for Review of European Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1." Review of European Studies 12, no. 1 (2020): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v12n1p106.
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Review of European Studies wishes to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Their help and contributions in maintaining the quality of the journal are greatly appreciated.
 
 Review of European Studies is recruiting reviewers for the journal. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, we welcome you to join us. Please find the application form and details at http://recruitment.ccsenet.org and e-mail the completed application form to res@ccsenet.org. 
 
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Brown, John. "Tomorrow's Theatre – and How to Get There from Today's." New Theatre Quarterly 18, no. 4 (2002): 334–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x02000441.
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Taking a wide-ranging look at the aesthetics and economics of theatre on both sides of the Atlantic, and highlighting the increasing interest in learning about theatre in the educational sphere at a time when institutional theatre appears to be floundering, John Russell Brown here draws on his own visits over the past decade to traditional and contemporary theatres in China, India, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia to suggest how new approaches to and locations for theatre might build on forms which continue to draw audiences worldwide. John Russell Brown founded the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University, and for fifteen years was an Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre. His New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia was published by Routledge in 1999. His articles on Asian theatres and their influence in Europe and America have appeared in recent years in New Theatre Quarterly and several Indian journals. He edited and contributed to The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre (1995) and has been General Editor of the ‘Theatre Production Studies’ and ‘Theatre Concepts’ series, both for Routledge. This article is based upon his inaugural lecture at Middlesex University, where he is currently Visiting Professor.
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Ward Jones, P. "Book review. A Catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection in the Music Library, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, The University of Birmingham. I Ledsham." Music and Letters 82, no. 2 (2001): 312–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ml/82.2.312.
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Berry, R. "TOM MERRIAM, The Identity of Shakespeare in Henry VIII. Pp. iv+167 (Renaissance Monographs 32). Tokyo: The Renaissance Institute, Sophia University, 2005. Paperbound." Notes and Queries 53, no. 2 (2006): 229–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjl046.
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Brown-Johnson, Cati, Laura J. Holdsworth, Eben Rosenthal, Steve Asch, and Marcy Winget. "The implementation of a lay care navigation service at the Stanford Cancer Institute." Journal of Clinical Oncology 35, no. 8_suppl (2017): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2017.35.8_suppl.119.
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119 Background: Lay care navigators address barriers to care, provide a single point of contact in complex health systems, and help efficiently resolve non-clinical patient issues. Despite navigation program proliferation, each is crafted to fit local institutional and patient needs. In Summer 2016, Stanford Cancer Institute (SCI) launched a care navigation pilot to improve patient engagement, facilitate better access to services, and improve coordination. The Stanford Care Navigator (SCN) program was based on a framework for lay navigation from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) who consulted on this project. This study describes the evolution of the SCN model and drivers of changes as SCN was iteratively designed and implemented. Methods: Qualitative study including document review of training materials, observation of cross-functional design meetings, stakeholder interviews, and a focus group with Care Navigators. Results: In spite of common goals of reducing patient distress and improving care coordination, the resulting SCN service is quite distinct from the consulting organization. Primary factors driving design changes were differences in: clinic access, patient populations and needs (e.g., SCN language translation needs vs. UAB poverty-related barriers), and a suite of pre-existing services at SCI (e.g. referral triage). Navigators call all new patients to address common barriers (traffic, parking vs. lack of transportation in Alabama). SCN refers some service items (e.g., financial support) to existing service groups, including Social Work. Conclusions: While Stanford navigation retains elements of the UAB-originating lay navigator program, in this radically different setting, service parameters differ substantially. The model was, therefore, substantially adapted rather than simply adopted. Ongoing evaluation explores navigators’ impact on patients and staff/providers.
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Brown, John Russell. "Cross-Dressed Actors and their Audiences: Kate Valk's Emperor Jones and William Shakespeare's Juliet." New Theatre Quarterly 15, no. 3 (1999): 195–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00012999.
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Male cross-dressing in leading female roles in the Elizabethan theatre has, at different extremes of modern stage practice, been either ignored as a no longer relevant convention or appropriated to make some kind of sexual-political statement. In either case, at issue is the ‘lifelikeness’ or otherwise achieved, and how far modern deployment should or should not be taken to challenge our own assumptions. John Russell Brown takes a recent production by the Wooster Group, in which Kate Falk played the eponymous male lead in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, to suggest that cross-dressing can engage us with other perceptions of reality altogether – and demand, in relation to Shakespearean performance, a reading of the text that responds to resonances more often ignored or avoided. He illustrates his argument with close reference to the presentation and representation of sexuality in Romeo and Juliet. John Russell Brown was the first professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham and, subsequently, Associate Director at the National Theatre in London. More recently he has taught and directed in the USA, New Zealand, and Asia. He is now based in London, and is Consultant in Theatre at Middlesex University. His most recent book is New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience and Asia (Routledge, 1999) and his most recent theatre work a production of Surrena Goldsmith's Blue for the Wandsworth Arts Festival (November 1998) and an acting and Living Newspaper workshop for the National School of Drama in Delhi (March 1999).
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Brown, John Russell. "Voices for Reform in South Asian Theatre." New Theatre Quarterly 17, no. 1 (2001): 45–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00014317.
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The classical theatres of southern Asia are variously treated with the reverence thought due to sacrosanct and immutable forms – or as rich sources for plunder by western theatre-makers in search of intra-cultural building-blocks. The rights and wrongs of this latter approach have been much debated, not least in the pages of NTQ; less so the intrinsic desirability of leaving well alone. At the symposium on Classical Sanskrit Theatre, hosted in Dhaka by the Centre for Asian Theatre in December 1999, an unexpected consensus sought ways in which classical theatre forms might best meet contemporary needs, not only by drawing upon their unique qualities – but also by respecting the injunction in the Natyasastra that the actor must combine discipline with a readiness for improvisation. John Russell Brown here supports the conclusions of the symposium that the qualities of Asian theatre which differentiate it from western forms – of a quest for transformation rather than representation, a concern with emotional truth rather than ideological ‘meaning’ – can best be pursued by such an approach, restoring to the theatre ‘its enabling and necessary role in society’. John Russell Brown was the first professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, and subsequently Associate Director at the National Theatre in London. More recently he has taught and directed in the USA, New Zealand, and Asia, and is now Visiting Professor of Performing Arts at Middlesex University. The most recent of his numerous books is New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience and Asia (Routledge, 1999).
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Zubrzycki, Anna, and Grzegorz Bral. "Song of the Goat Theatre: Finding Flow and Connection." New Theatre Quarterly 26, no. 3 (2010): 248–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x10000448.
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Anna Zubrzycki and Grzegorz Bral worked for a number of years with Gardzienice before founding Teatr Pieéń Kozła – Song of the Goat Theatre – in Wrocław in 1996. The conversation that follows took place on 22 June 2009, during Song of the Goat's run of Macbeth, their most recent production. Created in tandem with the Year of Grotowski theatre festival, the ‘World as a Place of Truth’ held in Wrocław on 13–30 June 2009, it was one of a series of meetings, presentations, and performances organized by Joanna Klass of Arden 2 for the US Artists Initiative, a project established in partnership with the Grotowski Institute and the Center for International Theatre Development. Macbeth will be performed at the Barbican Centre in London as part of Song of the Goat's two-month-long British tour of this production in October and November 2010, accompanied by workshops and demonstrations. Its itinerary is Eastleigh (4–9 October), Birmingham (11–15 October), Cambridge (18–23 October), Manchester Metropolitan University (25–30 October), London (3–20 November), and Brighton (21–26 November). This conversation about some of the principles of the company's work was led by Maria Shevtsova, Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly.
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Niemann, Marilyn A., Michael L. Miller, and Thelma Davis. "The University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Community OutReach Development Summer Science Institute Program: A 3-Yr Laboratory Research Experience for Inner-City Secondary-Level Students." Cell Biology Education 3, no. 3 (2004): 162–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.03-12-0027.
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This article describes and assesses the effectiveness of a 3-yr, laboratory-based summer science program to improve the academic performance of inner-city high school students. The program was designed to gradually introduce such students to increasingly more rigorous laboratory experiences in an attempt to interest them in and model what “real” science is like. The students are also exposed to scientific seminars and university tours as well as English and mathematics workshops designed to help them analyze their laboratory data and prepare for their closing ceremony presentations. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of student performance in these programs indicates that participants not only learn the vocabulary, facts, and concepts of science, but also develop a better appreciation of what it is like to be a “real” scientist. In addition, the college-bound 3-yr graduates of this program appear to be better prepared to successfully academically compete with graduates of other high schools; they also report learning useful job-related life skills. Finally, the critical conceptual components of this program are discussed so that science educators interested in using this model can modify it to fit the individual resources and strengths of their particular setting.
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Smith, Robert. "Reviewer Acknowledgements." Journal of Education and Training Studies 5, no. 4 (2017): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v5i4.2299.
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Journal of Education and Training Studies (JETS) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether JETS publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 5, Number 4Anne M. Hornak, Central Michigan University, USACarmen Pérez-Sabater, Universitat Poltècnica de València, SpainChosang Tendhar, Baylor College of Medicine, USACynthia M. Compton, Wingate University, USADamodar Khanal, The University of Manchester, UKErica D. Shifflet-Chila, Michigan State University, USAErkal Arslanoğlu, Sinop University, TurkeyFethi Arslan, Mersin University, TurkeyGobinder Gill, Birmingham Metropolitan College, UKHalis Sakiz, Mardin Artuklu University, TurkeyHyesoo Yoo, Virginia Tech., USAIbrahim Can, Gumushane University, TurkeyIntakhab Khan, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi ArabiaJosé D Badia, University of Valencia, SpainLeila Youssef, Arab Open University, LebanonLisa Marie Portugal, Grand Canyon University, USALorna T. Enerva, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, PhilippinesMahmoud Radwan, Tanta University, EgyptMarcie Zaharee, The MITRE Corporation, USAMarieke van der Schaaf, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsMehmet Inan, Marmara University, TurkeyMin Gui, Wuhan University, ChinaMukadder Baran, Hakkari University, TurkeyMürşet Çakmak, Mardin Artuklu University, TurkeyMustafa Çakır, Marmara Üniversity, TurkeyNele Kampa, Leibniz-Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN), GermanyNiveen M. Zayed, MENA College of Management, JordanOnder Daglioglu, Gaziantep University, TurkeyÖzgür Bostanci, Ondokuz Mayis University, TurkeyRecep Aslaner, Inonu University, TurkeyRichard Penny, University of Washington Bothell, USASandra Kaplan, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USAŞenay Koparan, Uludağ University, TurkeyShengnan Liu, Ocean University of China, ChinaSimona Savelli, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, ItalyThomas K. F. Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong KongTurhan Toros, Mersin Üniversitesi, TurkeyYalçın Dilekli, Aksaray University, TurkeyYerlan Seisenbekov, Kazakh National Pedagogical University, KazakhstanZachary Wahl-Alexander, Northern Illinois University, USAZeki Coşkuner, Fırat University, Turkey Robert SmithEditorial AssistantOn behalf of,The Editorial Board of Journal of Education and Training StudiesRedfame Publishing9450 SW Gemini Dr. #99416Beaverton, OR 97008, USAURL: http://jets.redfame.com
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Bakitas, Marie, J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Maria Pisu, et al. "Measuring implementation of early, concurrent palliative care in community settings." Journal of Clinical Oncology 33, no. 29_suppl (2015): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2015.33.29_suppl.145.
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145 Background: ASCO recommends “…combined standard oncology and palliative care…early in the course of illness for any patient with metastatic cancer and/or high symptom burden”. Few settings have implemented this recommendation and rural community cancer centers (CCC) are particularly disadvantaged due to scarce palliative care (PC) resources. The evidenced-based ENABLE (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends) early concurrent PC intervention has demonstrated efficacy and benefit for rural patients and caregivers and we are implementing ENABLE using a virtual learning collaborative funded by the American Cancer Society. Since no PC-specific implementation measures exist, one of our primary efforts has been instrument development. Methods: This Implementation Study includes 4 racially-diverse CCCs: Gibbs Cancer Center, Spartanburg, SC; Mitchell Cancer Institute, Mobile, AL; Birmingham VAMC; and Gyn Oncology/University of Alabama at Birmingham. The project aims are to: 1. Build an interactive research community to assess sites’ institutional structure and PC resources; and 2. Evaluate pre- and post-ENABLE implementation using RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) framework. An expert panel assisted with implementation measure development specific to ENABLE’s essential elements. Instruments include: the General Organizational Index, the RE-AIM Assessment Tool, Oncology Providers Perceptions of Early Concurrent PC, and Implementation Costs. Results: All measures were found to have face and content validity. Feasibility and inter-rater reliability were determined during pilot-testing. Data, (housed in a REDCap database), have been collected using face-to-face interviews and web-based platforms over 2 cycles of pre- and post-implementation site visits. Measurement challenges include: 1. Inconsistent IRB interpretation of implementation science practices; 2. Limited implementation resources (space, staff, and time); and 3. Difficulties with centralized data collection. Conclusions: Valid measures are critical to determine implementation success. We will present implementation measures (Toolkit) and examples of outcome data.
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Bathala, Lokesh. "A visit to the stroke belt of the United States." Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice 03, no. 03 (2012): 426–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.102653.
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ABSTRACTSoutheastern part of United States has been called the Stroke Belt due to a much higher incidence of stroke compared to the rest of the country. In this article, I summarize my 2 weeks of observations as a clinical preceptor at the Comprehensive Stroke Center, University of Alabama Hospital, Birmingham, AL. 57 patients were admitted during these 2 weeks, 61% had ischemic strokes, and 23% received intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV rt-PA). Endovascular neuro-interventionalists were performing diagnostic catheter angiography in 14% and emergent revascularization procedures in 7% of consecutive patients. Also, the stroke team enrolled 6 patients into National institute of health (NIH) funded clinical trials (3 Argatroban tPA stroke study (ARTSS), 2 Safety study of external counter pulsation as a treatment for acute ischemic stroke (CUFFS), 1 stenting and aggressive medical management for preventing recurrent stroke in intracranial stenosis (SAMMPRIS). In my opinion, these observations provided me with useful knowledge how to develop a cutting edge, proactive stroke treatment system. In particular, availability 24 × 7 and consistent application of a curative, “finding reasons to treat approach” coupled with state-of the-art technologies and skilled operators could make a huge difference.
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Hines, Robert B., Chakrapani Chatla, Harvey L. Bumpers, et al. "Predictive Capacity of Three Comorbidity Indices in Estimating Mortality After Surgery for Colon Cancer." Journal of Clinical Oncology 27, no. 26 (2009): 4339–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2009.22.4758.
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Purpose Although, for patients with cancer, comorbidity can affect the timing of cancer detection, treatment, and prognosis, there is little information relating to the question of whether the choice of comorbidity index affects the results of studies. Therefore, to compare the association of comorbidity with mortality after surgery for colon cancer, this study evaluated the Adult Comorbidity Evaluation-27 (ACE-27), the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) Comorbidity Index, and the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). Patients and Methods The study population consisted of colon cancer patients (N = 496) who underwent surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital from 1981 to 2002. Hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% CIs were obtained using the method of Cox proportional hazards for the three comorbidity indices in predicting overall and colon cancer–specific mortality. The point estimates obtained for comorbidity and other risk factors across the three models were compared. Results For each index, the highest comorbidity burden was significantly associated with poorer overall survival (ACE-27: HR = 1.63; 95% CI, 1.24 to 2.15; NIA/NCI: HR = 1.83; 95% CI, 1.29 to 2.61; CCI: HR = 1.46; 95% CI, 1.14 to 1.88) as well as colon cancer–specific survival. For the other risk factors, there was little variation in the point estimates across the three models. Conclusion The results obtained from these three indices were strikingly similar. For patients with severe comorbidity, all three indices were statistically significant in predicting shorter survival after surgery for colon cancer.
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Kreinecker, Christina M. "The Earliest Commentaries on Paul as Sources for the Biblical Text – A New Research Project at the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham." Early Christianity 3, no. 3 (2012): 411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1628/186870312803853683.
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Drewry, David J. "Children of the ‘Golden Age’ Gordon de Quetteville Robin." Polar Record 39, no. 1 (2003): 61–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247402002814.
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This is the third in a series of biographies entitled ‘Children of the Golden Age,’ the purpose of which is to describe the background and contributions of significant living figures in polar research who began their scientific careers following World War II. Born on 17 January 1921 in Melbourne, Gordon de Quetteville Robin was educated at Wesley College and the University of Melbourne, graduating in physics with an MSc in 1942. Following submarine training in Scotland, he served in HMS Stygian in the Pacific. Soon after commencing as a research student in nuclear physics at Birmingham University, he joined the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and was the first base commander at Signy Station in the South Orkney Islands (1947–48). In 1949–52 he was third-in-command on the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition responsible for the successful oversnow seismic ice thickness campaign. In 1958, following a brief sojourn in Canberra, he was appointed the first full-time director of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. During the next 24 years he developed SPRI into a world-class research institute. In the austral summer 1959–60 he undertook research operating from RRS John Biscoe in the Weddell Sea into the penetration of ocean waves into pack ice. During the early 1960s he stimulated development of radio echo sounding (RES) with Dr Stan Evans, which remains the standard technique for ice-thickness measurement. He undertook experimental fieldwork in Northwest Greenland in 1964 and airborne sounding in Canada in 1966. He was responsible for organising international collaborative programmes of airborne RES in Antarctica with American air support, leading fieldwork in 1967–68, 1969–70, and 1974–75. He was elected secretary of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research in 1958, serving for 12 years, and was president between 1970 and 1974. In 1975 he developed with Dr Terence Armstrong a postgraduate course in Polar Studies at SPRI. He retired as director in 1982 and continues his interests in glaciology as a senior research associate at SPRI.
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Lu, Liping, Cheng Chen, Wenjing Tang, David Jacobs, James Shikany, and Ka He. "Calcium Intake Is Inversely Related to the Risk of Obesity Among American Young Adults over a 30-Year Follow-Up." Current Developments in Nutrition 4, Supplement_2 (2020): 1445. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa061_073.
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Abstract Objectives It has been suggested that high calcium intake may promote weight reduction and prevent obesity, but data from longitudinal studies investigating the potential long-term associations of calcium with weight maintenance are limited and the findings are inconsistent. Therefore, we prospectively examined dietary calcium and serum calcium concentrations in relation to the incidence of obesity in a cohort of American young adults. Methods This study includes 4097 participants in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study who were age 18–30 years at baseline in 1985–86. Participants were reexamined in 8 follow-ups over 30 years. Calcium intake from diet and supplements was estimated by the CARDIA diet history questionnaire at baseline and two re-exams (year 7 and 20). Serum calcium concentrations were measured at baseline. Incident obesity was defined as a body mass index ≥30 kg/m2. Multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to examine the associations between calcium levels (intake and serum concentrations) and the incidence of obesity. Results During 30 years of follow-up, a total of 1675 participants became obese. Both calcium intake and serum calcium concentrations were inversely associated with obesity incidence independent of sociodemographics, major lifestyle factors, medical history, dietary quality and clinical measurements (blood pressure, lipid profiles, and fasting insulin) [hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) of quintile 5 (highest) vs. quintile 1 (lowest) calcium intake from diet and supplements: 0.76 (0.62, 0.93), P for trend = 0.02; serum calcium: 0.83 (0.71, 0.97), P for trend = 0.04]. A similar inverse association was observed between the consumption of dairy products, a major food source of calcium, and obesity incidence. Conclusions Calcium intake and serum calcium concentration are longitudinally and inversely associated with incidence of obesity among American young adults. Funding Sources The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study is supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, and Kaiser Foundation Research Institute. This study is also partially supported by the NIH grants.
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Stephens, Neil, and Marianne Ellis. "Cellular agriculture in the UK: a review." Wellcome Open Research 5 (January 24, 2020): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15685.1.
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This review details the core activity in cellular agriculture conducted in the UK at the end of 2019, based upon a literature review by, and community contacts of the authors. Cellular agriculture is an emergent field in which agricultural products—most typically animal-derived agricultural products—are produced through processes operating at the cellular level, as opposed to (typically farm-based) processes operating at the whole organism level. Figurehead example technologies include meat, leather and milk products manufactured from a cellular level. Cellular agriculture can be divided into two forms: ‘tissue-based cellular agriculture’ and ‘fermentation-based cellular agriculture’. Products under development in this category are typically valued for their environmental, ethical, and sometimes health and safety advantages over the animal-derived versions. There are university laboratories actively pursuing research on meat products through cellular agriculture at the universities of Bath, Newcastle, Aberystwyth, and Aston University in Birmingham. A cellular agriculture approach to producing leather is being pursued at the University of Manchester, and work seeking to produce a palm oil substitute is being conducted at the University of Bath. The UK cellular agriculture companies working in the meat space are Higher Steaks, Cellular Agriculture Ltd, CellulaRevolution, Multus Media and Biomimetic Solutions. UK private investors include CPT Capital, Agronomics Ltd, Atomico, Backed VCs, and Breakoff Capital. The UK also has a strong portfolio of social science research into diverse aspects of cellular agriculture, with at least ten separate projects being pursued over the previous decade. Three analyses of the environmental impact of potential cellular agriculture systems have been conducted in the UK. The first dedicated third-sector group in this sector in the UK is Cultivate (who produced this report) followed by Cellular Agriculture UK. International groups New Harvest and the Good Food Institute also have a UK presence.
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Stephens, Neil, and Marianne Ellis. "Cellular agriculture in the UK: a review." Wellcome Open Research 5 (October 12, 2020): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15685.2.
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This review details the core activity in cellular agriculture conducted in the UK at the end of 2019, based upon a literature review by, and community contacts of the authors. Cellular agriculture is an emergent field in which agricultural products—most typically animal-derived agricultural products—are produced through processes operating at the cellular level, as opposed to (typically farm-based) processes operating at the whole organism level. Figurehead example technologies include meat, leather and milk products manufactured from a cellular level. Cellular agriculture can be divided into two forms: ‘tissue-engineering based cellular agriculture’ and ‘fermentation-based cellular agriculture’. Products under development in this category are typically valued for their environmental, ethical, and sometimes health and safety advantages over the animal-derived versions. There are university laboratories actively pursuing research on meat products through cellular agriculture at the universities of Bath, Newcastle, Aberystwyth, and Aston University in Birmingham. A cellular agriculture approach to producing leather is being pursued at the University of Manchester, and work seeking to produce a palm oil substitute is being conducted at the University of Bath. The UK cellular agriculture companies working in the meat space are Higher Steaks, Cellular Agriculture Ltd, CellulaRevolution, Multus Media and Biomimetic Solutions. UK private investors include CPT Capital, Agronomics Ltd, Atomico, Backed VCs, and Breakoff Capital. The UK also has a strong portfolio of social science research into diverse aspects of cellular agriculture, with at least ten separate projects being pursued over the previous decade. Three analyses of the environmental impact of potential cellular agriculture systems have been conducted in the UK. The first dedicated third-sector group in this sector in the UK is Cultivate (who produced this report) followed by Cellular Agriculture UK. International groups New Harvest and the Good Food Institute also have a UK presence.
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Wang, Hong Tao, Jin Yong Zhao, Gai Ling Wang, and Qing Hong Huangfu. "Significance of Ecohydraulics in Aquatic Ecosystem Protection." Advanced Materials Research 864-867 (December 2013): 2413–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.864-867.2413.
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Ecohydraulics is an emerging interdisciplinary science and mainstream engineering researching on the interaction relationship between hydrodynamic characteristic and aquatic ecosystem, it integrates biology, geology, hydrology, morphology, ecology, engineering and other disciplines. Based on the collection of literature on ecohydraulics from Web of Science database, the bibliometric analysis on 563 literatures from the year 1991 to 2012 has been conducted, including publication year, author, country, institution, subject, source journal and keyword analysis. Some conclusions have been made that these literatures on ecohydraulics are growing exponentially year by year; these literature involves a lot of authors and forms three research groups which scattered in Britain, the United States and New Zealand, the result clearly shows a positive correlation between the number of published literatures and the length of the research history in this subject; the main institutions of these literature include United States Geological Survey, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Lyon and University of Birmingham; and the subjects of these literature include environmental sciences & ecology, water resources, marine & freshwater biology, engineering and other subjects; more than 40% of the literature published in journals with the impact factors greater than 2.0. The main research contents are as follow: biological characteristics of aquatic organism, the impact of hydrodynamics on river habitats and aquatic organisms and, the feedback of the organism on flow. Theoretical analysis, system testing, statistical analysis and hybrid analog-digital simulation are primary research techniques and applications of the research concentrate on environmental flow requirement, habitat assessment, eco-engineering design and flow field control.
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Colicchio, Tiago K., and James J. Cimino. "Twilighted Homegrown Systems: The Experience of Six Traditional Electronic Health Record Developers in the Post–Meaningful Use Era." Applied Clinical Informatics 11, no. 02 (2020): 356–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1710310.
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Abstract Objectives This study aimed to understand if and how homegrown electronic health record (EHR) systems are used in the post–Meaningful Use (MU) era according to the experience of six traditional EHR developers. Methods We invited informatics leaders from a convenience sample of six health care organizations that have recently replaced their long used homegrown systems with commercial EHRs. Participants were asked to complete a written questionnaire with open-ended questions designed to explore if and how their homegrown system(s) is being used and maintained after adoption of a commercial EHR. We used snowball sampling to identify other potential respondents and institutions. Results Participants from all six organizations included in our initial sample completed the questionnaire and provided referrals to four other organizations; from these, two did not respond to our invitations and two had not yet replaced their system and were excluded. Two organizations (Columbia University and University of Alabama at Birmingham) still use their homegrown system for direct patient care and as a downtime system. Four organizations (Intermountain Healthcare, Partners Healthcare, Regenstrief Institute, and Vanderbilt University) kept their systems primarily to access historical data. All organizations reported the need to continue to develop or maintain local applications despite having adopted a commercial EHR. The most common applications developed include display and visualization tools and clinical decision support systems. Conclusion Homegrown EHR systems continue to be used for different purposes according to the experience of six traditional homegrown EHR developers. The annual cost to maintain these systems varies from $21,000 to over 1 million. The collective experience of these organizations indicates that commercial EHRs have not been able to provide all functionality needed for patient care and local applications are often developed for multiple purposes, which presents opportunities for future research and EHR development.
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Altalib, Omar. "A Report on the International Seminar on Religions and Contemporary Development." American Journal of Islam and Society 10, no. 2 (1993): 277–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v10i2.2518.
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The International Seminar on Religions and Contemporary Developmentwas sponsored by the Sunan Kalijaga Stale Institute for IslamicStudies, located in Jogjakarta, Java, Indonesia. This seminar was a majorevent for scholars of Islamic studies in Indonesia, as it was opened by theIndonesian Minister of Religious Affairs, Munawir Sjadzili. The conferencesecretary, Rifa'i Abduh, and the conference chair, BurhanuddinDaya, organized the conference in order to addres.5 the is.5ues of religiousfundamentalism, and Islam and development.Peter Clarke (King's College, University of London, UK) spoke on"Contemporary Problems of Religion in Europe." He stated that technologyhas become a religion, for many Europeans actually believe in it.In the same way that Christians believe that God can do anything andeverything, secularists believe that technology can do anything and everything.Bert Breiner (Selly Oak College, Birmingham, UK), speaking onthe same is.5ue, said that religious groups in western Europe have tendedto accept the dominant epistemology of scientific empirical objectivity:The major problem of religion in contemporary Europe is thequestion of revelation. Unless religious thinkers can evolve anunderstanding of religious truth in general, and of religion in particular, which is independent of this particular epistemologicalprinciple, it will have little to offer the development of contemporaryEuropean civilization.Martin van BNinessen (University of Leiden, the Netherlands) addressed"Muslim Fundamentalism: Can It Be Understood or Should It BeExplained Away?" He thinks that it can be understood and notes that violentaction in the name of Islam is not a direct result of radical religiousdoctrines, but a consequence of certain social factors that may predisposesome people to militancy. How a person becomes a fundamentalist canbe explained by the religious climate in his/her family, the accessibilityof certain literature, and the frequency of contact with recruiting activists ...
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Limon, Jerzy. "Waltzing in Arcadia: a Theatrical Dance in Five Dimensions." New Theatre Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2008): 222–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x08000286.
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Time structures are essential to any analysis of drama or theatre performance, and in this article Jerzy Limon takes the final scene from Tom Stoppard's Arcadia as an example to show that non-semantic systems such as music gain significance in the process of stage semiosis and may denote both space and time. The scene discussed is particularly complex owing to the fact that Stoppard introduces two different time-streams simultaneously in one space. The two couples presented dance to two distinct melodies which are played at two different times, and the author explains how the playwright avoided the confusion and chaos which would have inevitably resulted if the two melodies were played on the stage simultaneously. Jerzy Limon is Professor of English at the English Institute at the University of Gdańsk. His main area of research includes the history of English drama and theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and various theoretical aspects of theatre. His most recent works, published in 2008, include a book on the theory of television theatre, Obroty przestrzeni (Moving Spaces), two chapters in books, and articles in such journals as Theatre Research International, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Journal of Drama Theory and Criticism, and Cahiers élisabéthains.
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Merlin, Bella. "Albert Filozov and the Method of Physical Actions." New Theatre Quarterly 15, no. 3 (1999): 228–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00013026.
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As a complementary piece to her preceding article on the formative significance of The Seagull to Stanislavsky's early thinking, Bella Merlin here looks at the play in the context of Stanislavsky's later work, when he was developing the Method of Physical Actions – an approach to a text which placed improvisation and the physical exploration of a scene at the centre of the actor's rehearsal process. This was in some ways a contravention of what was becoming codified in the West (through limited material being available in translation) as the psychological basis of the system. In 1995, Bella Merlin undertook a ten-month course of actor-training at the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, where she worked with acting ‘master’, Albert Filozov, who had trained with Mikhail Kedrov, one of the first developers of Stanislavsky's work following his death in 1938. Here, she examines the roots of Filozov's training and the nature of the Method of Physical Actions in theory and in practice. Bella Merlin trained as an actress in Britain and Russia, and has worked extensively in theatre and television. She is currently a lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at Birmingham University, where her area of research is acting processes and the psycho-physical nature of performance. This article is based on a paper delivered at the ‘Flight of the Seagull’ conference at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, in November 1996, to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the premiere of The Seagull.
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Lu, Liping, Cheng Chen, Yuexia Li, et al. "Magnesium Intake Is Inversely Associated with the Risk of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Among American Young adults." Current Developments in Nutrition 4, Supplement_2 (2020): 1446. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa061_074.
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Abstract Objectives To examine magnesium (Mg) intake from diet and supplements during young adulthood in relation to risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in midlife. Methods A total of 2712 black and white American adults aged 18 to 30 years were recruited in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adult (CARDIA) study in 1985–1986 (baseline) with 8 additional examinations during 25 years thereafter. Mg intake was assessed at baseline and exam years 7 and 20 using the CARDIA diet history questionnaires. Computed tomography (CT) scanning was performed at exam year 25 (2010–2011) to ascertain NAFLD cases, which was defined as liver attenuation (LA) ≤51 Hounsfield units after exclusion for other causes of liver fat. Logistic regression was used to examine the association between cumulative average Mg intake and the risk of NAFLD. Results At exam year 25, 638 NAFLD cases were documented. An inverse association between total Mg intake (from diet and supplements) and NAFLD risk was observed after adjustment sociodemographics, major lifestyle factors, dietary quality, and clinical measurements (body mass index, blood pressure, lipid profiles, and fasting insulin). Compared with participants in the lowest quintile of Mg intake, those in the highest quintile had a 54% lower risk of NAFLD [multivariable-adjusted odds ratio = 0.46, 95% confidence interval = (0.25, 0.87), P for trend = 0.0498]. Consistently, there was an inverse association between whole grain consumption (a major food source of magnesium) and NAFLD risk. Conclusions This study suggests that higher intake of Mg throughout adulthood is associated with a lower risk of NAFLD in middle age. Funding Sources The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study is supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, and Kaiser Foundation Research Institute.This study is also partially supported by the NIH grants and NHLBI.
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Emeljanow, Victor. "Pleasure Gardens. Performing Arts Resources, vol. 21. Edited by Stephen M. Vallillo and Maryann Chach. New York: Theatre Library Association, 1998; pp. 105. $30 cloth; Their Championship Seasons: Acquiring, Processing, and Using Performing Arts Archives. Performing Arts Resources, vol. 22. Edited by Kevin Winkler. New York: Theatre Library Association, 2001; pp. 142. $30 cloth." Theatre Survey 45, no. 1 (2004): 133–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557404290081.
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The annual publication of the Theatre Library Association is designed “to gather and disseminate scholarly articles dealing with the location of resource materials” relating to all media as well as popular entertainments, the evaluation of those resources, and to include as well “monographs of previously unpublished original material.” The volumes are slim ones, so we should not expect coverage of the many theatre collections available to scholars and practitioners, but rather a highly selective series of essays reflecting the priorities of the Association or of the individual volume editors. This certainly appears to be the case here: the 1998 volume concerns itself with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American pleasure gardens, whereas, after a publication hiatus of three years, the 2001 volume is focused around the acquisition, scope, and use of four major archives—those of the Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Festival and of Lucille Lortel in the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University, and the holdings of the Weill—Lenya Research Center in New York. As a consequence, the tones of the two volumes are very different, as is their utility. The first volume appears to be directed toward a disinterested readership; the second addresses those who might actually use the particular collections.