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    UWE - Celebrating Bristol Green Capital 2015 activities catalogue

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    This catalogue showcases and celebrates examples of the work of the hundreds of UWE staff and students who contributed to Bristol Green Capital 2015

    Health, education, and social care provision after diagnosis of childhood visual disability

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    Aim: To investigate the health, education, and social care provision for children newly diagnosed with visual disability.Method: This was a national prospective study, the British Childhood Visual Impairment and Blindness Study 2 (BCVIS2), ascertaining new diagnoses of visual impairment or severe visual impairment and blindness (SVIBL), or equivalent vi-sion. Data collection was performed by managing clinicians up to 1-year follow-up, and included health and developmental needs, and health, education, and social care provision.Results: BCVIS2 identified 784 children newly diagnosed with visual impairment/SVIBL (313 with visual impairment, 471 with SVIBL). Most children had associated systemic disorders (559 [71%], 167 [54%] with visual impairment, and 392 [84%] with SVIBL). Care from multidisciplinary teams was provided for 549 children (70%). Two-thirds (515) had not received an Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP). Fewer children with visual impairment had seen a specialist teacher (SVIBL 35%, visual impairment 28%, χ2p < 0.001), or had an EHCP (11% vs 7%, χ2p < 0 . 01).Interpretation: Families need additional support from managing clinicians to access recommended complex interventions such as the use of multidisciplinary teams and educational support. This need is pressing, as the population of children with visual impairment/SVIBL is expected to grow in size and complexity.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

    Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

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    The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∌99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∌1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

    Avant-garde nu och dÄ : ett förÀnderligt koncept?

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    I denna undersökning har jag utgÄtt ifrÄn Sassower och Cicotellos bok The Golden Avant-Garde: Idolatry, Commercialism, and Art. I den diskuterar författarna deras uppfattning utav vad som utgör en avant-garde konstnÀr och de bygger upp en modell för detta. Jag har utgÄtt ifrÄn denna modell och jÀmfört en dÄtida avant-garde konstnÀr, Marcel Duchamp, och en samtida, Cory Arcangel, för att ta reda pÄ eventuella likheter och skillnader. Mitt syfte har varit att ta reda pÄ om avant-garde som koncept har förÀndrats frÄn 100 Är sedan, pÄ Duchamps tid, fram till nu. Sassower och Cicotellos teori utgÄr mycket ifrÄn en ekonomisk synvinkel och de diskuterar Àmnen som konstmarknad och monetÀrt vÀrde i samband med avant-gardens innebörd. Författarna tar upp ett par, för mig, nya koncept; technoscience och detached engagement, som de menar Àr avgörande att besitta för att som konstnÀr anses som avant-garde. En del av mitt syfte har ocksÄ varit att ta reda pÄ om Sassower och Cicotellos modell Àr ett givande sÀtt att undersöka avant-garde som koncept. Jag kommer fram till att modellen Àr trovÀrdig och givande samt att det Àr ett intressant sÀtt att ta sig an avant-garde som konstform. I min undersökning hittar jag mÄnga likheter och olikheter emellan de bÄda konstnÀrerna utifrÄn Sassower och Cicotellos modell och dÀrför kommer jag ocksÄ fram till att det Àr svÄrt att göra en exakt jÀmförelse pÄ en sÄ pass liten skala. För att komma fram till ett mer omfattande resultat hade jag behövt göra fler jÀmförelser mellan flera olika konstnÀrer

    The Myth of Primitivism : Perspectives on Art

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    "An anthology of writings and photo-essays, this is the first book to address the major cultural implications of the complex and open-ended subject of 'the primitive' in art. It scrutinizes western concepts of primitivism, 'primitive' art itself, and the ways western artists have taken over primitivist imagery, ideas, and techniques." -- Back cover

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