Regional diversity in social perceptions of (ing)

This research was funded by the Leverhulme Trust (grant RPG-215, Erik Schleef PI). We are grateful to all participants in our perception surveys and those students who kindly let us use their voice samples in our experiments. We thank Maciej Baranowski, Miriam Meyerhoff, and Danielle Turton for their expert advice and Ann Houston who kindly granted permission to reproduce her wonderfully illuminating map on the relation of the modern [ɪŋ] ∼ [ɪn] alternation to the distribution of -ing in the 15th century. Michael Ramsammy was involved in the sociolinguistic interview recordings, stimuli and survey creation for Manchester and London. Audiences at the Sixth Northern Englishes Workshop in Lancaster in April 2014 and at the Third Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English in Zurich in August 2014 have provided helpful formative feedback. We alone are responsible for any failings in this paper.Peer reviewedPostprin

A Consequence of Principle

Historically, the universal teaching tool kit does not contain advanced technologies (e.g. radio and movies). Only the blackboard, introduced around 1840, is ubiquitous as an artifact of teaching. Teachers adopted and adapted any other technology as an individual option (Cubin, 1986). Driven by the reactionary political rhetoric in A Nation at Risk (National Commission, 1983), a standardized national curriculum is being established and computer technology is being forced upon unprepared teachers. Both invade the educative principle by compelling change through mandate. In doing so the reformers have misinterpreted the current reality of a global world (Friedman, 1999). Worse yet, they have ignored another reality—the rapidity and uncertainty of technological change. As a result, the diversity that is the intellectual strength of the United States is sorely compromised and teachers are not being served or supported in their role as cultural conduits

Hildegard of Bingen

A book review is presented for Honey Meconi, Hildegard of Bingen. Women Composers 3. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2018. xiii + 157 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-08367-9

Debating deliberative democracy: how deliberation changes the way people reason

The concepts of deliberation and deliberative democracy have attracted much attention in political theory over the past twenty years. At first seen as both highly idealised and unreflective of reality, they have now shed this accusation of impracticality, as practitioners and policy makers alike have attempted to institute deliberative principles on a national and international scale. Running alongside this has been the desire to both understand political deliberation and its effects more fully, and to then apply this new information back to deliberative democratic theory. This thesis sits in the latter tradition, presenting an empirical investigation of political deliberation and then discussing how it relates back to deliberative models of democracy. Where it departs from all of the contemporary experimental work, however, is the methodology and conceptual model it is founded upon. Embracing the decision and game theoretic approaches, I develop a three-fold framework to study the effects of deliberation on individual decision-making. After outlining two levels of ‘preference’ and ‘issue’, I focus on the third, which I term agency. I then compare a particular case of agency revision, which moves people from individualistic to team reasoning, before developing and putting into action an experimental test of the phenomenon. Finally, I then combine these results with the most recent drive in deliberative democracy towards a systemic approach, and derive an alternative, more positive argument for this recasting

Finite-volume matrix elements in multi-boson states

We derive the relations necessary for the extraction of matrix elements of multi-hadron systems from finite-volume QCD calculations. We focus on systems of $n \ge 2$ weakly interacting identical particles without spin. These results will be useful in extracting physical quantities from lattice QCD measurements of such matrix elements in many-pion and many-kaon system

A survey and summary of some recent studies concerned with the possible relationships of tobacco, cigarette smoking and certain disease conditions

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Leveraging Social Media to Promote EvidenceBased Continuing Medical Education

Importance New dissemination methods are needed to engage physicians in evidence-based continuing medical education (CME). Objective To examine the effectiveness of social media in engaging physicians in non-industry-sponsored CME. Design We tested the effect of different media platforms (e-mail, Facebook, paid Facebook and Twitter), CME topics, and different “hooks” (e.g., Q&A, clinical pearl and best evidence) on driving clicks to a landing site featuring non-industry sponsored CME. We modelled the effects of social media platform, CME topic, and hook using negative binomial regression on clicks to a single landing site. We used clicks to landing site adjusted for exposure and message number to calculate rate ratios. To understand how physicians interact with CME content on social media, we also conducted interviews with 10 physicians. Setting The National Physicians Alliance (NPA) membership. Participants NPA e-mail recipients, Facebook followers and friends, and Twitter followers. Main Outcomes and Measures Clicks to the NPA’s CME landing site. Results On average, 4,544 recipients received each message. Messages generated a total of 592 clicks to the landing site, for a rate of 5.4 clicks per 1000 recipients exposed. There were 5.4 clicks from e-mail, 11.9 clicks from Facebook, 5.5 clicks from paid Facebook, and 6.9 clicks from Twitter to the landing site for 1000 physicians exposed to each of 4 selected CME modules. A Facebook post generated 2.3x as many clicks to the landing site as did an e-mail after controlling for participant exposure, hook type and CME topic (p Conclusions Social media has a modest impact on driving traffic to evidence-based CME options. Facebook had a superior effect on driving physician web traffic to evidence-based CME compared to other social media platforms and email