Doing the Business? Newspaper reporting of the business of football

This research draws upon a growing interest within media sociology in the ways in which news is shaped by information flows between sources; it focuses on how the media, and newspapers in particular, report on the business aspects of the UK football industry. Media interest in the workings of the City and issues of corporate governance extend beyond the conventional business pages to encompass the sports pages, commentary and even editorializing. The case study in this article centres on the Scottish club, Celtic, and serves to illustrate how public interest in sport can help illuminate aspects of how financial news is produced and reported in the print media. The article argues that much of the growing and complex business side of the game goes largely unreported and that there is evidence of an over-reliance on celebrity sources by journalists and a lack of knowledge or experience among sports reporters in reporting business stories

Chip-firing groups of iterated cones

Let $\Gamma$ be a finite graph and let $\Gamma_n$ be the "$n$th cone over $\Gamma$" (i.e., the join of $\Gamma$ and the complete graph $K_n$). We study the asymptotic structure of the chip-firing group $\text{Pic}^0(\Gamma_n)$.Comment: 8 pages. v4: added Remark 1.

Exploration of Protein-Protein Interactions Involving Deinococcus radiodurans PriA, DnaB and SSB

Deinococcus radiodurans is a species of bacteria that has sparked a lot of interest since its discovery due to its incredible resistance to ionizing radiation. When exposed to ionizing radiation the genome of D. radiodurans will sustain over one hundred double stranded breaks. D. radiodurans demonstrates the ability to repair its genome and restart replication after sustaining, typically lethal, DNA damage. This project examined the mechanism of replication restart in D. radiodurans by investigating primosome protein PriA interacting with replicative helicase DnaB and single stranded binding protein. Many different types of gel electrophoresis were employed to investigate potential protein complex formations between D. radiodurans PriA and DnaB. Native agarose gel electrophoresis successfully revealed an interaction between D. radiodurans PriA and DnaB. Results in this work indicate that D. radiodurans PriA can interact with DnaB

Toward eco -citizenship: A praxis for empowerment

My teaching practice and research is about holistic education which assumes that, at some fundamental level, everything is connected. Holistic education is a philosophy, a worldview, that challenges the fragmented, reductionist, mechanistic and nationalistic assumptions of mainstream culture and education. The ultimate goal is to transform the way people look at themselves and their relationships in/to the world from a fragmented to an integrative perspective. This emerging paradigm can also be called ecological, evolutionary, spiritual and global. There is a growing belief that such education is fundamentally spiritual, in its search for wholeness. Western civilization has been dominated from its Graeco-Roman beginnings by separateness which was given philosophical legitimacy by Aristotelian logic and theological legitimacy by Augustine. The entire Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm is built on this reductionist, pragmatic philosophy. Many great scientific discoveries have resulted from this model. However, in the light of serious degradation to the biosphere, many scholars and physicists now recognize an implicit wholeness and connectedness. Our educational models need to reflect this unity and, as such, holistic education has the potential for transforming the world, each individual-in-relationship at a time. This dissertation explores and develops an emerging educational model aimed at helping students come to a deeper and broader ecological-spiritual awareness and attitude toward nature through a spiritual identification with it. I argue that this \u27identification\u27 actively facilitates and promotes a change in students\u27 behaviour toward the environment and thereby supports a sustainable, ecological ethic. The model will be grounded in case studies from the classroom, follow-up interviews, the writings of various classic and contemporary writers and hands-on experience with teachers and practitioners. The writings of my students in \u27their own words\u27 and text excerpts will be woven throughout. The aim of phenomenological \u27truth\u27 is expressive disclosure of immediate experience that enables, in this case, eco-spiritual learning to be seen. So, I offer up some of the students\u27 reflections to see what can be uncovered in our search for understanding what might be involved in eco-spiritual learning and transformation

Boundedness of hyperbolic varieties

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and let $X/k$ be a projective variety. The conjectures of Demailly--Green--Griffiths--Lang posit that every integral subvariety of $X$ is of general type if and only if $X$ is algebraically hyperbolic i.e., for any ample line bundle $\mathcal{L}$ on $X$ there is a real number $\alpha(X,\mathcal{L})$, depending only on $X$ and $\mathcal{L}$, such that for every smooth projective curve $C/k$ of genus $g(C)$ and every $k$-morphism $f\colon C\to X$, $\text{deg}_Cf^*\mathcal{L} \leq \alpha(X,\mathcal{L})\cdot g(C)$ holds. In this work, we prove that if $X/k$ is a projective variety such that every integral subvariety is of general type, then for every ample line bundle $\mathcal{L}$ on $X$ and every integer $g\geq 0$, there is an integer $\alpha(X,\mathcal{L},g)$, depending only on $X,\mathcal{L},$ and $g$, such that for every smooth projective curve $C/k$ of genus $g$ and every $k$-morphism $f\colon C\to X$, the inequality $\text{deg}_Cf^*\mathcal{L} \leq \alpha(X,\mathcal{L},g)$ holds, or equivalently, the Hom-scheme $\underline{\text{Hom}}_k(C,X)$ is projective.Comment: v2: 41 pages. Significant updates throughout to address several mistakes in previous version. Results remain unchanged. Comments are welcome

Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of Behavioral Consultation with Latinx Teachers and Students

Daily behavioral report cards are an efficacious intervention for children with ADHD, yet there is little information on Latinx teachers’ perceptions about ADHD and preferences related to behavioral treatment, including the Daily Report Card (DRC). The purpose of our convergent, mixed-method study was to examine the feasibility and acceptability of behavioral consultation with Latinx teachers and students, as well as potentially associated factors. Teachers completed DRCs which included a chart with individualized, operationalized target behaviors, such as remaining in seat/area. Their students’ behavioral targets were titrated via a changing criterion design, and students’ daily performance was rewarded via a menu of reinforcers (e.g., screen time) if approximately 80% or more of a student’s daily behavioral goals were successfully completed. We found that Latinx teachers’ (n= 23) DRC completion rates (80%) were comparable to previous studies with predominantly non-Latinx white teachers and students (Fabiano et al., 2010; Owens, Murphy, Richerson, Girio, & Himawan, 2008). Quantitative indicators of acceptability were also similar to previous research conducted (Chafouleas et al., 2006), with teachers in our study reporting that the DRC was somewhat beneficial to students. Notably, meetings attended were brief, and teachers completed DRCs for more than two students in their class on average. Qualitative findings expanded upon these trends; thematic analyses revealed two overarching themes, that (1) teachers’ attitudes toward behavioral interventions matter a great deal, and that (2) teachers’ perceived behavioral control over DRC implementation depends a lot on the environment. Findings highlight the importance of stakeholders’ perspectives in translating research to routine practice