The importance of the express delivery industry for the East Midlands economy

This report assesses the importance of the express delivery industry for the economy of the East Midlands. It complements a similar report looking at the economic importance of the express industry for the UK as a whole. As well as quantifying the direct economic contribution made by companies in the express industry to employment and Gross Value Added (GVA) in the East Midlands, it also considers the importance of express services to businesses in other sectors in the region based on a detailed survey of 75 companies (a sample that we consider is appropriate to a study of this type and robust enough to help highlight key trends). This survey illustrates the contribution that the express industry makes to the capabilities and competitiveness of other sectors of the East Midlands economy

Biosamples as gifts? How participants in biobanking projects talk about donation.

Funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre based at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust University of Oxford Oxford Biomedical Research Centre FellowshipPeer reviewedPublisher PD

The power of symbolic capital in patient and public involvement in health research

Print-Electronic This research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre based at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Oxford. LL is supported by an NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Fellowship. AMB is supported by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Oxford at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. SS is supported by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West Midlands. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. AbstractPeer reviewedPublisher PD

The fatherhood of God from Origen to Athanasius

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Is it worth it? Patient and public views on the impact of their involvement in health research and its assessment : a UK-based qualitative interview study

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Explaining Leibniz-equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the Hole Argument and physical individuation of point-events

"The last remnant of physical objectivity of space-time" is disclosed in the case of a continuous family of spatially non-compact models of general relativity (GR). The {\it physical individuation} of point-events is furnished by the intrinsic degrees of freedom of the gravitational field, (viz, the {\it Dirac observables}) that represent - as it were - the {\it ontic} part of the metric field. The physical role of the {\it epistemic} part (viz. the {\it gauge} variables) is likewise clarified as emboding the unavoidable non-inertial aspects of GR. At the end the philosophical import of the {\it Hole Argument} is substantially weakened and in fact the Argument itself dis-solved, while a specific four-dimensional {\it holistic and structuralist} view of space-time, (called {\it point-structuralism}), emerges, including elements common to the tradition of both {\it substantivalism} and {\it relationism}. The observables of our models undergo real {\it temporal change}: this gives new evidence to the fact that statements like the {\it frozen-time} character of evolution, as other ontological claims about GR, are {\it model dependent}. \medskip Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern PhysicsComment: 37 pages, talk at Oxford Conference on Spacetime (2004), to appear in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. Affiliations Correcte

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When William Penn, whose portrait still adorns the walls of Christ Church College, was expelled from Oxford in 1661 for his nonconformist views and alternative worship venues, who would have thought that one of Oxford\u27s alumni three centuries later would become one of the leading Quaker interpreters and ministers of the late 20\u27h and early 21 centuries? Having experienced a number of faith traditions in his earlier years,John Punshon actually joined the Friends movement while at Oxford. A lover of Newman and the aesthetic spirituality of the Oxford Movement, and having experienced the biblical vitality of his grandfather\u27s rural Baptist church during the Second World War, John came to appreciate the simplicty of Quaker worship during his Oxford years, and his life has been given to interpreting that faith in practice ever since

Faulkner, Paul, Knowledge on Trust

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Book Review: Teaching Interreligious Encounters

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