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Beefeaters, British History and the Empire in Asia and Australasia since 1826
The Yeoman Warders at the Tower of London (colloquially known as ‘Beefeaters’) have been represented as a quintessential part of British history. Their distinctive Tudor costumes and their highly visible role at the Tower made them iconic symbols of Britishness. One would think that the Beefeater could only be seen in London yet the iconography of the Beefeater was widespread across the British Empire, including India, Hong Kong, Malaya, Australia and New Zealand. This essay explores the transmission of a symbol of Britishness, arguing that while the Beefeater was a global icon, it resonated most with those who desired a direct connection to Anglo-British history. The reception and consumption of the Beefeater differed substantially. In Australia and New Zealand, the Beefeater allowed ‘distant Britons’ to celebrate a nostalgic history shared with the old country, while elsewhere in the Empire and Commonwealth, the Beefeater was too historically obscure to hold resonance and often symbolised the commercialism associated with marketing alcohol. This essay explores the changing representations and meaning of the Beefeaters as an icon of Britishness across the rise and fall of the British Empire
Editorial: North American Journal of Welsh Studies Vol. 6, 1 (Winter 2011)
The North American Journal of Welsh Studies was first published in 2001. It represents the continuing interest in North America in the origins of its immigrants, and also provides a valuable and important transatlantic link to scholars working on Welsh studies in Wales and Britain more generall
Prediction and Situational Option Generation in Soccer
Paul Ward, Michigan Technological University
Naturalistic models of decision making, such as the Recognition-
Primed Decision (RPD) model (e.g., Klein, Calderwood, &
Clinton-Cirocco, 1986; Klein, 1997), suggest that as individuals
become more experienced within a domain they automatically
recognize situational patterns as familiar which, in turn, activates
an associated situational response. Typically, this results in a
workable course of action being generated first, and subsequent
options generated only if the initial option proves ineffective
The effect of a structured internship on the clinical performance of novice nurses?
Objective: The study examined the clinical performance differences of novices before and after a critical care internship and compare their performance attributes to a reference group comprised of experienced critical care nurses. The extant research regarding clinical internship programs has focused on retention in practice, workforce issues and competence. While studies have shown a pattern of improved retention in practice settings, they have failed to objectively measure actual clinical performance.
Methods: The study design was based on pre-post comparisons of novice nurses and a reference group comprised of experienced nurses who served as a benchmark. The novice group was required to respond to patient needs in high-fidelity clinical scenarios before and after an internship. The experienced nurses attended a single testing session.
Results: Findings revealed statistically significant improvement in the performance of the novice group; however, they failed to perform at the level of the experienced nurses.
Conclusions: The study is the first to detail the degree to which a structured internship can facilitate changes in selected aspects of clinical performance. The study establishes the effect associated with engagement in a structured internship. While novices improve significantly, they fail to achieve the level of clinical performance seen in experienced nurses. The paper will present background information related to the established effects of internship programs, and will then present the data related to the current study. The paper will then present similarities and differences between the results of the current study, and the literatur
Splines are Universal Solutions of Linear Inverse Problems with Generalized-TV regularization
Splines come in a variety of flavors that can be characterized in terms of
some differential operator L. The simplest piecewise-constant model corresponds
to the derivative operator. Likewise, one can extend the traditional notion of
total variation by considering more general operators than the derivative. This
leads us to the definition of the generalized Beppo-Levi space M, which is
further identified as the direct sum of two Banach spaces. We then prove that
the minimization of the generalized total variation (gTV) over M, subject to
some arbitrary (convex) consistency constraints on the linear measurements of
the signal, admits nonuniform L-spline solutions with fewer knots than the
number of measurements. This shows that non-uniform splines are universal
solutions of continuous-domain linear inverse problems with LASSO, L1, or
TV-like regularization constraints. Remarkably, the spline-type is fully
determined by the choice of L and does not depend on the actual nature of the
measurements.Comment: 28 pages, 1 figur
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