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    Physical education and health: moving forwards or ‘going round in circles’?

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    Alfrey, Cale and Webb (2012a) conducted research to explore and also try to explain physical education teachers’ experiences, views and understandings of health within physical education, inclusive of their professional development. This article provides a summary of this study and draws on and reports selected findings from this initial paper, as well as wider literature, to debate the role, contribution and effectiveness of physical education and physical education teachers in the delivery of health. A number of observations and issues are highlighted and these are used to address the question: is physical education making progress and moving forwards in this area

    Provision for students with learning difficulties in general colleges of further education - have we been going round in circles?

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    This is a PDF version of an article published in British journal of special education© 2006. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.This article discusses the current situation for students with severe learning difficulties in general colleges of further education. Findings are presented from a critical review of the literature and a small-scale preliminary investigation which set out to explore the idea that, despite radical changes to the special school sector and to the structure and organisation of further education, provision in colleges of further education for these students is poorly focused. Students with severe learning difficulties experience provision that is, at best, circuitous and repetitive and that, at worst, leads individuals back into dependence, unemployment and social segregation. Using the outcomes of interviews and the scrutiny of inspection reports, a searching critique of current practice and an interesting set of recommendations for ways in which the situation could be radically reviewed and improved is provided

    Going Round in Circles with N -> S Acyl Transfer

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    It is not highly sophisticated, yet the N→S acyl transfer reaction of a native peptide sequence potentially fills an important technology gap. While several routes to synthetic peptide thioesters exist, only one is routinely applicable for biologically derived samples. Using the naturally occurring amino acid cysteine as the sole activator for N→S acyl transfer we have demonstrated transformation of synthetic and biologically derived precursors into thioesters for use in Native Chemical Ligation, providing a viable alternative for biological samples. Further refinement will be key to realising the full potential of this intriguing process, and increase the number of applications in peptide engineering and therapeutics

    Going Round in Circles with a Multisystemic Disease: A Unique Case of Parasitic Aortitis

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    Aortitis results from aortic inflammation, frequent causes being infections and rheumatological disorders. The authors report the case of a 33-year-old black male with recent arterial hypertension, who presented with recurrent abdominal pain, jaundice, anorexia, weight loss and diarrhoea. Laboratory work-up was compatible with inflammatory anaemia and obstructive jaundice, while abdominal imaging revealed a dilated biliary tract, no visible gallstones, cephalic pancreatic globosity and aortic thickening. Pancreatic aspirate was negative for malignant cells, bacteria and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The jaundice spontaneously subsided and the pancreatic globosity improved over time. Following positive PPD and IGRA, isoniazid was started. However, follow-up investigations revealed a severe bulbar stenosis with intense eosinophilic infiltrate, multiple non-necrotizing granulomas, and thoracic and abdominal aortitis not previously recognized. Immunological profile (ECA, ANCA and IgG4), eggs and parasites in stool samples were negative. The multisystemic disease, with an insidious and migrating behaviour, gastrointestinal and vascular involvement, granulomatous inflammatory response and tissue eosinophilia, raised the suspicion of a parasitic infestation (despite negative screening) or vasculitis. After 7 days of empirical treatment with albendazole and ivermectin, the patient passed a specimen of Ascaris lumbricoides in the stool and improved clinically

    Why do Unionists want art to be universal?

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    Long live theory : an interview with Derek Attridge

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    ANTAE: You seem to like using opening sentences in the form of short questions. For example, in your introduction to Jacques Derrida’s Acts of Literature, you start by asking ‘what is literature?’1 Why would you say you do this? Would it have anything to do with the fact that the questions you start with can never be answered?peer-reviewe

    Magnetic and axial-vector transitions of the baryon antidecuplet

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    We report the recent results of the magnetic transitions and axial-vector transitions of the baryon antidecuplet within the framework of the chiral quark-soliton model. The dynamical model parameters are fixed by experimental data for the magnetic moments of the baryon octet, for the hyperon semileptonic decay constants, and for the singlet axial-vector constant. The transition magnetic moments μΛΣ\mu_{\Lambda\Sigma} and μNΔ\mu_{N\Delta} are well reproduced and other octet-decuplet and octet-antidecuplet transitions are predicted. In particular, the present calculation of μΣΣ∗\mu_{\Sigma\Sigma^*} is found to be below the upper bound 0.82μN0.82\mu_N that the SELEX collaboration measured very recently. The results explains consistently the recent findings of a new N∗N^* resonance from the GRAAL and Tohoku LNS group. We also obtain the transition axial-vector constants for the Θ+→KN\Theta^+\to KN from which the decay width of the Θ+\Theta^{+} pentaquark baryon is determined as a function of the pion-nucleon sigma term ΣπN\Sigma_{\pi N}. We investigate the dependence of the decay width of the Θ+\Theta^{+} on the gA(0)g_{A}^{(0)}, with the gA(0)g_{A}^{(0)} varied within the range of the experimental uncertainty. We show that a small decay width of the Θ+→KN\Theta^{+}\to KN, i.e. ΓΘKN≤1\Gamma_{\Theta KN} \leq 1 MeV, is compatible with the values of all known semileptonic decays with the generally accepted value of gA(0)≈0.3g_{A}^{(0)} \approx 0.3 for the proton.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, Talk given at the Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) 2006, "New frontiers in QCD", Kyoto, Japan, 20 Nov. - 8 Dec. 200
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