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Developmental disturbances associated with agenesis of the permanent maxillary lateral incisor
The aim of this study was to characterise the intra and extra-oral phenotype associated with agenesis of the permanent maxillary lateral incisor. We compared three groups: (1) subjects with agenesis of one or both permanent maxillary lateral incisors (n=80); (2) first and second degree relatives of group 1 with no agenesis of the permanent maxillary lateral incisor and (3) subjects with no agenesis of the maxillary lateral incisor or family history of it (n=49). For each of the 201 subjects detailed clinical information was reviewed and panoramic radiographs were analysed. Considering only the sample with unilateral agenesis, microdontia of the contralateral permanent maxillary lateral incisor was significantly more frequent in group 1 (82.4%) than in group 2 (25%) and the control group (2%). This supports the theory that microdontia is a variable expression of the same developmental disturbance that causes tooth agenesis. The absence of third molars occurred more often in group 1 (36.2%) than in groups 2 and 3 (18.6% and 18.9% respectively), confirming that agenesis of third molars was markedly associated with the agenesis of the permanent maxillary lateral incisor. Agenesis of teeth other than third molars was not significantly different among subjects with agenesis of the permanent maxillary lateral incisor and their relatives. The frequencies of supernumerary teeth, permanent maxillary canine impaction, general health condition and minor anomalies were not significantly different between the three groups
'I'm not going to tell you cos you need to think about this': A conversation analysis study of managing advice resistance and supporting autonomy in undergraduate supervision
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer in Postdigital Science and Education, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00194-5
The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.This article firstly, critically analyses a face-to-face supervision meeting between an
undergraduate and a supervisor, exploring how the supervisor handles the twin strategies of
fostering autonomy while managing resistance to advice. Conversation Analysis is used as
both a theory and a method, with a focus on the use of accounts to support or resist advice.
The main contribution is the demonstration of how both the supervisor and student are jointly
responsible for the negotiation of advice, which is recycled and calibrated in response to the
student’s resistance. The supervisor defuses complaints by normalising them, and moving his
student on to practical solutions, often with humour. He lists his student’s achievements as
the foundation on which she can assert agency and build the actions he recommends.
Supervisor-student relationships are investigated through the lens of the affective dimensions
of learning, to explore how caring or empathy may serve to reduce resistance and make
advice more palatable. By juxtaposing physically present supervision with digitally-mediated
encounters, while acknowledging their mutual entanglement, the postdigital debate is
furthered. In the context of Covid-19, and rapid decisions by universities to bring in digital
platforms to capture student-teacher interactions, the analysis presented is in itself an act of
resistance against the technical control systems of the academy and algorithmic capitalism