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'The world is full of big bad wolves': investigating the experimental therapeutic spaces of R.D. Laing and Aaron Esterson
In conjunction with the recent critical assessments of the life and work of R.D. Laing, this paper seeks to demonstrate what is revealed when Laing’s work on families and created spaces of mental health care are examined through a geographical lens. The paper begins with an exploration of Laing’s time at the Tavistock Clinic in London during the 1960s, and of the co-authored text with Aaron Esterson entitled, Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964). The study then seeks to demonstrate the importance Laing and his colleague placed on the time-space situatedness of patients and their worlds. Finally, an account is provided of Laing’s and Esterson’s spatial thinking in relation to their creation of both real and imagined spaces of therapeutic care
The cytochrome P450 family in the parasitic nematode <i>Haemonchus contortus</i>
<i>Haemonchus contortus</i>, a highly pathogenic and economically important parasitic nematode of sheep, is particularly adept at developing resistance to the anthelmintic drugs used in its treatment and control. The basis of anthelmintic resistance is poorly understood for many commonly used drugs with most research being focused on mechanisms involving drug targets or drug efflux. Altered or increased drug metabolism is a possible mechanism that has yet to receive much attention despite the clear role of xenobiotic metabolism in pesticide resistance in insects. The cytochrome P450s (CYPs) are a large family of drug-metabolising enzymes present in almost all living organisms, but for many years thought to be absent from parasitic nematodes. In this paper, we describe the CYP sequences encoded in the <i>H. Contortus</i> genome and compare their expression in different parasite life-stages, sexes and tissues. We developed a novel real-time PCR approach based on partially assembled CYP sequences “tags” and confirmed findings in the subsequent draft genome with RNA-seq. Constitutive expression was highest in larval stages for the majority of CYPs, although higher expression was detected in the adult male or female for a small subset of genes. Many CYPs were expressed in the worm intestine. A number of <i>H. Contortus</i> genes share high identity with <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> CYPs and the similarity in their expression profiles supports their classification as putative orthologues. Notably, <i>H. Contortus</i> appears to lack the dramatic CYP subfamily expansions seen in <i>C. elegans</i> and other species, which are typical of CYPs with exogenous roles. However, a small group of <i>H. Contortus</i> genes cluster with the <i>C. elegans</i> CYP34 and CYP35 subfamilies and may represent candidate xenobiotic metabolising genes in the parasite
The magnetized medium around the radio galaxy B2 0755+37: an interaction with the intra-group gas
We explore the magneto-ionic environment of the isolated radio galaxy B2
0755+37 using detailed imaging of the distributions of Faraday rotation and
depolarization over the radio source from Very Large Array observations at
1385,1465 and 4860 MHz and new X-ray data from XMM-Newton. The Rotation Measure
(RM) distribution is complex, with evidence for anisotropic fluctuations in two
regions. The approaching lobe shows low and uniform RM in an unusual `stripe'
along an extension of the jet axis and a linear gradient transverse to this
axis over its Northern half. The leading edge of the receding lobe shows
arc-like RM structures with sign reversals. Elsewhere, the RM structures are
reasonably isotropic. The RM power spectra are well described by cut-off power
laws with slopes ranging from 2.1 to 3.2 in different sub-regions. The
corresponding magnetic-field autocorrelation lengths, where well-determined,
range from 0.25 to 1.4 kpc. It is likely that the fluctuations are mostly
produced by compressed gas and field around the leading edges of the lobes. We
identify areas of high depolarization around the jets and inner lobes. These
could be produced by dense gas immediately surrounding the radio emission
containing a magnetic field which is tangled on small scales. We also identify
four ways in which the well known depolarization (Faraday depth) asymmetry
between jetted and counter-jetted lobes of extended radio sources can be
modified by interactions with the surrounding medium.Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Full
resolution paper available at: ftp://ftp.ira.inaf.it/pub/outgoing/guidetti/
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO
A relativistic model of the radio jets in NGC 315
We apply our intrinsically symmetrical, decelerating relativistic jet model
to deep VLA imaging of the inner 140 arcsec of the giant low-luminosity radio
galaxy NGC 315. An optimized model accurately fits the data in both total
intensity and linear polarization. We infer that the velocity, emissivity and
field structure in NGC 315 are very similar to those of the other
low-luminosity sources we have modelled, but that all of the physical scales
are larger by a factor of about 5. We derive an inclination to the line of
sight of 38 degrees for the jets. Where they first brighten, their on-axis
velocity is approximately v/c = 0.9. They decelerate to v/c = 0.4 between 8 and
18 kpc from the nucleus and the velocity thereafter remains constant. The speed
at the edge of the jet is roughly 0.6 of the on-axis value where it is best
constrained, but the transverse velocity profile may deviate systematically
from the Gaussian form we assume. The proper emissivity profile is split into
three power-law regions separated by shorter transition zones. In the first of
these, at 3 kpc (the flaring point) the jets expand rapidly at constant
emissivity, leading to a large increase in the observed brightness on the
approaching side. At 10 kpc, the emissivity drops abruptly by a factor of 2.
Where the jets are well resolved their rest-frame emission is
centre-brightened. The magnetic field is modelled as random on small scales but
anisotropic and we rule out a globally ordered helical configuration. To a
first approximation, the field evolves from a mixture of longitudinal and
toroidal components to predominantly toroidal, but it also shows variations in
structure along and across the jets, with a significant radial component in
places. Simple adiabatic models fail to fit the emissivity variations.Comment: 20 pages, 17 figures, MNRAS (in press
Direct dialling of Haar random unitary matrices
Random unitary matrices find a number of applications in quantum information
science, and are central to the recently defined boson sampling algorithm for
photons in linear optics. We describe an operationally simple method to
directly implement Haar random unitary matrices in optical circuits, with no
requirement for prior or explicit matrix calculations. Our physically-motivated
and compact representation directly maps independent probability density
functions for parameters in Haar random unitary matrices, to optical circuit
components. We go on to extend the results to the case of random unitaries for
qubits
Chimera states in networks of phase oscillators: the case of two small populations
Chimera states are dynamical patterns in networks of coupled oscillators in
which regions of synchronous and asynchronous oscillation coexist. Although
these states are typically observed in large ensembles of oscillators and
analyzed in the continuum limit, chimeras may also occur in systems with finite
(and small) numbers of oscillators. Focusing on networks of phase
oscillators that are organized in two groups, we find that chimera states,
corresponding to attracting periodic orbits, appear with as few as two
oscillators per group and demonstrate that for the bifurcations that
create them are analogous to those observed in the continuum limit. These
findings suggest that chimeras, which bear striking similarities to dynamical
patterns in nature, are observable and robust in small networks that are
relevant to a variety of real-world systems.Comment: 13 pages, 16 figure
Unlocking the potential of anti-CD33 therapy in adult and childhood acute myeloid leukaemia
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) develops when there is a block in differentiation and uncontrolled proliferation of myeloid precursors, resulting in bone marrow failure. AML is a heterogeneous disease clinically, morphologically, and genetically, and biological differences between adult and childhood AML have been identified. AML comprises 15-20% of all children
less than fifteen years diagnosed with acute leukaemia. Relapse occurs in up to 40% of children with AML and is the commonest cause of death.1,2 Relapse arises from leukaemic stem cells (LSCs) that persist after conventional chemotherapy. The treatment of AML is challenging and new strategies to target LSCs are required. The cell surface marker CD33 has been identified as a
therapeutic target, and novel anti-CD33 immunotherapies are promising new agents in the treatment of AML. This review will summarise recent developments emphasising the genetic differences in adult and childhood AML, while highlighting the rationale for CD33 as a target for therapy, in all age groups
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