The Unseeing Eye: Disability and the hauntology of Derrida’s ghost. A story in three parts

Through the employment of the three stanzas of Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘The Self-Unseeing’ this paper seeks to tremble the picture of disability located in the pedagogical materials in English Schools. By mobilising, and then reversing, Derrida’s concept of the visor and the ghost, as well as Bentham’s Panopticon, this story reveals the power of the Them, the Their and the They. In materialising the ghost of the real of disability within a utopia of hope this story deconstructs the power of Their transparent house by revealing disabled people as magnificent beings

A cross-sectional cluster analysis of the combined association of physical activity and sleep with sociodemographic and health characteristics in mid-aged and older adults

This study aimed to identify how different patterns of physical activity, sleep duration and sleep quality cluster together, and to examine how the identified clusters differ in terms of socio-demographic and health characteristics.Participants were adults from Brisbane, Australia, aged 42-72 years who reported their physical activity, sleep duration, sleep quality, socio-demographic and health characteristics in 2011 (n=5854). Two-step Cluster Analyses were used to identify clusters. Cluster differences in socio-demographic and health characteristics were examined using chi square tests (

Ocorrência de fungos xilófagos em depósito de postes, de Eucalyptus, tratados com pentaclorofenol

Este trabalho analisa o desenvolvimento de quatro basidiomycetes xilófagos na presença do pentaclorofenol. As espécies utilizadas foram: Pycnoporus sanguineus, Phaeocoriolellus trabeus, Dacryopinax spathularia e Tyromyces palustris. Apresenta-se tabelas com os resultados obtidos.<br>This work analyses the development of four xylophagous basidiomycetes in the presence of pentachlorophenol. The following species were used. Pycnoporus sanguineus, Phaeocoriolellus trabeus, Dacryopinax spathularia and Tyromyces palustris. Lists with the results obtained are presented