Real fields and repeated radical extensions

The main result of this paper is that if E is a field extension of finite odd degree over a real field Q, and if E is a repeated radical extension of Q, then every intermediate field is also a repeated radical extension of Q. This paper also contains a number of other results about repeated radical extensions

On Holiday! Policy and provision for disabled children and their families

This summary describes some findings from the On Holiday! study, carried out by the Thomas Coram Research Unit between 2004 and 2006 and funded by DfES. The study investigated the experiences of disabled children and their families outside school time and especially during the school holidays. The study took an approach informed by a social model of disability, one which emphasises the social construction of disability, rather than impairment

Diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: clinical insights and vascular mechanisms

Hypertension and type 2 diabetes are common comorbidities. Hypertension is twice as frequent in patients with diabetes compared with those who do not have diabetes. Moreover, patients with hypertension often exhibit insulin resistance and are at greater risk of diabetes developing than are normotensive individuals. The major cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetes is cardiovascular disease, which is exacerbated by hypertension. Accordingly, diabetes and hypertension are closely interlinked because of similar risk factors, such as endothelial dysfunction, vascular inflammation, arterial remodelling, atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia, and obesity. There is also substantial overlap in the cardiovascular complications of diabetes and hypertension related primarily to microvascular and macrovascular disease. Common mechanisms, such as upregulation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, oxidative stress, inflammation, and activation of the immune system likely contribute to the close relationship between diabetes and hypertension. In this article we discuss diabetes and hypertension as comorbidities and discuss the pathophysiological features of vascular complications associated with these conditions. We also highlight some vascular mechanisms that predispose to both conditions, focusing on advanced glycation end products, oxidative stress, inflammation, the immune system, and microRNAs. Finally, we provide some insights into current therapies targeting diabetes and cardiovascular complications and introduce some new agents that may have vasoprotective therapeutic potential in diabetes

I\u27m Longing For My Own, Dixie Land

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A Gravity Survey and Analysis of the Mount Stuart Block of Washington State

Gravity data were gathered in the vicinity of the Mt. Stuart Block, a horst of pre-Tertiary rocks which include the Chiwaukum Schist, the composite Mt. Stuart Batholith, and the Ingalls Complex with its related metasedimentary-volcanic sequence, located in the east central Cascade Mountains of Washington. The final complete Bouguer map suggests the following features: (1) displacement of the Chiwaukum Graben occurs mostly on the west side in a narrow, 4-5 km, block 5.5 to 7.5 km deep, expanding in width to the north; (2) the Ingalls Complex is a relatively shallow feature: certainly a model hypothesizing a deep plug of peridotite is incompatible with the gravity data; (3) there is gabbroic rock at depth, below the Mt. Stuart Batholith, which on the west side has been intruded in part by rock of the Snoqualmie Batholith; (4) there is a thickening of the Teanaway volcanic rocks south of the western part of the Mt. Stuart Block; and (5) rock of the Mt. Stuart Batholith extends to the south beyond the Ingalls Complex and forms basement for the Swauk Formation

The Incestuous Family: Development of an Enmeshed Family Inventory

A systems model has been proposed as useful theoretical framework for the study of incestuous families (Alexander, 1985) and is frequently used in the therapeutic treatment of the victim of sexual abuse and his or her perpetrator (Larson and Maddock, 1986). The purpose of this study was the construction and standardization of an instrument for assessing a multiaxial model of enmeshed and disengaged family systems which is based on the prior work of Minuchin et al. (1978) and Kog et al. (1987). Minuchin et al. (1978) suggest that enmeshment, conflict-avoidance, over-protectiveness and rigidity are four characteristics that are key to an understanding of the behavioral transactions that occur in an enmeshed family system. Kog et al. (1987) suggest that these family traits are better conceptualized as dimensions and contrasted enmeshment with disengagement, rigidity with adaptability, conflict-avoidance with problem solving, and over protectiveness .with intrafamilial tension. In the proposed model, dimensions similar to Kog\u27s were formulated. However, the sub-dimension of enmeshment was contrasted with detachment, conflict-avoidance with confrontation, protection with punishment, and rigidity with adaptability. In the present study, a test instrument consisting of 40 paired statements was developed. To answer each item, subjects were asked to choose the statement that best fit his or her family and rate it on a 5 point likert-scale format, ranging from fits slightly to fits exactly The test instrument was administered to 626 male and female subjects. The results were factor analyzed using a principal components, varimax rotation. The initial analysis resulted in 12 factors on which all items had loadings of .40 or higher. The most meaningful and parsimonious solution resulted in six factors consisting of 23 items that could account for 49.3% of the test variance. These factors were renamed as scales. Scale 1 was named Family Enmeshment/ Detachment, Scale 2 was named Information Repression/ Confrontation, Scale 3 was named Structural Homeostasis/ Entropy, Scale 4 was named Boundary Permeability/ Restriction, Scale 5 was named Parental Coalition/ Triangulation and Scale 6 was named Resistance/ Obediance to Authority. A revised model was developed in order to incorporate the dimensions that resulted from the current study. As the overall distribution of scores in this study found a marked bias towards one or another statement within many items, it is suggested that the forced-choice format be abandoned in future uses of the inventory

Social Misconstructions in the Analysis of the Australian Experiences of the French-Canadian Patriote Convicts, 1839-1848

In June 1839 conditional pardons were approved for 58 convicted participants in the Lower Canada Patriote Rebellion, and their death sentences were commuted to penal transportation to New South Wales for life. They sailed as convicts on board H.M. store ship Buffalo and arrived in Sydney in February 1840. Some wrote diaries or journals of their experiences, and these documents present a view that has come to dominate current discussion of the period of “exile”. This view proposes that the Patriotes were frequently humiliated and subjected to slave labour conditions that were alleviated only by benevolent interference on the part of leaders of the Roman Catholic Church. However, recent archival research contests the accuracy of such self-serving descriptions and indicates that their continued acceptance is an ongoing social misconstruction of reality. The Patriotes were treated more humanely than was usual and were provided with far more significant alleviations to their situation by a colonial government usually depicted as indifferent.En juin 1839, des pardons conditionnels furent approuvés pour 58 détenus reconnus coupables d’avoir participé à la rébellion des Patriotes du Bas-Canada et leurs peines de mort furent commuées en déportation pénale à vie en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, en Australie. Naviguant comme détenus, ils arrivèrent à Sydney en février 1840. Certains tinrent des journaux de leur expérience et ces documents offrent un point de vue qui en est venu à dominer le débat actuel sur la période de l’exil. Selon ce point de vue, les Patriotes furent humiliés fréquemment et soumis à des conditions d’esclavage que ne réussit à soulager que la seule intervention bienveillante des dirigeants de l’Église catholique romaine. Cependant, une recherche archivistique récente met en doute l’exactitude d’une telle auto-mésinterprétation de la réalité. Les Patriotes furent traités plus humainement qu’on n’avait l’habitude de le faire et leur situation fit l’objet d’allégements beaucoup plus importants de la part d’un gouvernement colonial réputé indifférent

Ancient Egypt 1916 Part 1

Part 1 of the 1916 Ancient Egypt books. Contents include Egypt in the Grail Romance, French and Italian Egyptology, the Grenfell scarabs, and the end of the Hittites.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/kweeks_coll/1005/thumbnail.jp