Formative contacts between Britain and Islam, and their repercussions for contemporary British Muslim communities

Chapter 1 introduces the Terms of Reference, Methodology, and Dissertation Structure. In Chapter 2, formative contacts are discussed chronologically and regionally, specifically concentrating on primary sources as indicators in the development of perceptions and knowledge of Islam within Britain - forming part of European interpretation of Islam. The historical narrative incorporates a discussion of earliest contacts between Britain and Islam; 'evolution' of knowledge about Islam; movement of British agents into the Islamic world - and their importance in providing crucial information about different forms of Islam; (mis)representation of Islam; isolation of themes regarding perceptions of Islam. In Chapter 3, contemporary issues concerning Muslims in Britain are surveyed in the context of themes emerging as important in assessment of Islam, during the discussion of formative contacts. These themes are discussed within the context of a Survey of Islam in Britain; an analysis of 'Fundamentalism’; The Satanic Verses controversy; British Muslim Community Representation and Leadership; the position of Women in British Islam; Islam in Europe; the role of the contemporary Media in perceptions of Islam; a survey of the 1991 Gulf War, in which many impressions of Islam conveyed by formative contacts were re-articulated. Within Chapter 4, other important issues affecting Muslims in Britain, notably education, interfaith dialogue, and social welfare, are incorporated into a discussion on British Muslim identity. The dissertation concludes with establishing whether there is correlation between formative contacts and contemporary British Muslim issues. It assesses the way forward for Islam in Britain in the light of lessons learnt - and what work needs to be done by Muslim and non-Muslim communities in Britain to improve the perception of Islam

An Unstructured CFD Mini-Application for the Performance Prediction of a Production CFD Code

Maintaining the performance of large scientific codes is a difficult task. To aid in this task, a number of mini-applications have been developed that are more tractable to analyze than large-scale production codes while retaining the performance characteristics of them. These “mini-apps” also enable faster hardware evaluation and, for sensitive commercial codes, allow evaluation of code and system changes outside of access approval processes. In this paper, we develop MG-CFD, a mini-application that represents a geometric multigrid, unstructured computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, designed to exhibit similar performance characteristics without sharing commercially sensitive code. We detail our experiences of developing this application using guidelines detailed in existing research and contributing further to these. Our application is validated against the inviscid flux routine of HYDRA, a CFD code developed by Rolls-Royce plc for turbomachinery design. This paper (1) documents the development of MG-CFD, (2) introduces an associated performance model with which it is possible to assess the performance of HYDRA on new HPC architectures, and (3) demonstrates that it is possible to use MG-CFD and the performance models to predict the performance of HYDRA with a mean error of 9.2% for strong-scaling studies

Developing and Using a Geometric Multigrid, Unstructured Grid Mini-Application to Assess Many-Core Architectures

Achieving high-performance of large scientific codes is a difficult task. This has led to the development of numerous mini-applications that are more tractable to analyse, while retaining performance characteristics of their full-sized counterparts. These 'mini-apps' also enable faster hardware evaluation, and for sensitive codes allow evaluation of systems outside of access approval processes. In this paper we develop a mini-application of a geometric multigrid, unstructured grid Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code, designed to exhibit similar performance characteristics without sharing code. We detail our experiences developing this application, using guidelines detailed in existing research, and contribute further additions to these to aid future mini-application developers. Our application is validated against the inviscid flux routine of HYDRA, a CFD code developed by Rolls-Royce, which confirms that the parent kernel and mini-application share fundamental causes of parallel inefficiency. We then use the mini-application to assess the impact of Intel's Knights Landing (KNL) on performance. We find that the mini-app and parent kernel continue to share scaling characteristics, however a comparison with Broadwell performance exposed significant differences between the kernels that were undetected by the validation

Practitioners’ ability to remotely develop understanding for personalised care and support planning: a thematic analysis of multiple data sources from the feasibility phase of the Dementia Personalised Care Team (D-PACT) intervention

Practitioner understanding of patients’ preferences, wishes and needs is essential for personalised health care i.e., focusing on ‘what matters’ to people based on their individual life situation. To develop such an understanding, dementia practitioners need to use communication practices that help people share their experiences, preferences, and priorities. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, dementia support is likely to continue to be delivered both remotely and in-person. This study analysed multiple sources of qualitative data to examine the views of practitioners, people living with dementia and carers, and researchers on how an understanding of what matters to people living with dementia can be developed remotely via telephone and video call. Access to environmental stimuli, the remote use of visual tools, peoples’ tendency to downplay or omit details about their troubles and carers’ ability to disclose privately were interpreted, through thematic analysis, to be factors affecting how practitioners sought to develop understanding remotely. Cumulatively, findings show that while remote support created unique challenges to practitioners’ ability to develop understanding for personalised care, practitioners developed adaptive strategies to overcome some of these challenges. Further research should examine how, when and for whom these adapted practices for remote personalised care work, informing the development of evidence-based guidance and training on how practitioners can remotely develop the understanding required for personalised care

Practitioners' ability to remotely develop understanding for personalised care and support planning: a thematic analysis of multiple data sources from the feasibility phase of the Dementia Personalised Care Team (D-PACT) intervention

Practitioner understanding of patients' preferences, wishes and needs is essential for personalised health care i.e., focusing on 'what matters' to people based on their individual life situation. To develop such an understanding, dementia practitioners need to use communication practices that help people share their experiences, preferences, and priorities. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, dementia support is likely to continue to be delivered both remotely and in-person. This study analysed multiple sources of qualitative data to examine the views of practitioners, people living with dementia and carers, and researchers on how an understanding of what matters to people living with dementia can be developed remotely via telephone and video call. Access to environmental stimuli, the remote use of visual tools, peoples' tendency to downplay or omit details about their troubles and carers' ability to disclose privately were interpreted, through thematic analysis, to be factors affecting how practitioners sought to develop understanding remotely. Cumulatively, findings show that while remote support created unique challenges to practitioners' ability to develop understanding for personalised care, practitioners developed adaptive strategies to overcome some of these challenges. Further research should examine how, when and for whom these adapted practices for remote personalised care work, informing the development of evidence-based guidance and training on how practitioners can remotely develop the understanding required for personalised care

The Grizzly, November 5, 1991

Red and Gold Day • Changes for Education Majors • Golf Cart Stolen • Unrest in the Quad • Alcohol Update • Fourth Annual Grizzly Network Career Day • U.S.G.A. Minutes • Chemical Awareness • Biology Department Update • Environmental Notes • Fraternities Experience Humanity of Habitat • The Winner Is: Mudslinger #1 • The Harm of Rumors • Priorities in College Athletics • Feed Your Mind • Halloween Flop • Soviet Art at Ursinus • The Quad Peacock • College Choir Performs Requiem • Senior Barn Bash • Goodfellas • Bears Rush by the Mules in 13-9 Upset • Volleyball Ends Season with a Loss • Field Hockey Passes by Princeton • Senior Runners Reflect on Seasonhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1282/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 22, 1991

Alumni Return for Homecoming Celebration • Phi Beta Kappa Charter Approved for Ursinus • Thomas Confirmed to Supreme Court • Gibson to Speak at Ursinus • GALA Seeks Recognition • U.S.G.A. Minutes • GALA Comes Out • Modern Medical Imaging • The Vision of Science Through Art • Beware of Bad Moods • Woman Fixing Her Hair? • Critics\u27 Corner: The Fisher King; Sleeping With the Enemy • Giggles Night Club Comedians • Letters: In Defense of Harley; Harassment Response; An Appeal for the Trees • Apples and Oranges • Dining Turf • Bears Blank the Bullets in Homecoming Game • Cross Country Runs to Victory • Field Hockey Strikes Back, Raises Record to 5-5-2 • Volleyball Spikes Cabrini • Lady Bears Cruise to 1st Place • Winds Fill Ursinus\u27 Sails • Soccer Bounces Back with Three Straight Winshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1280/thumbnail.jp