The Mind of God

A radically dualist view of the relationship between God and the universe is apt to make the problem of Divine intervention more difficult than under other metaphysical conceptions. We need to find a closer relationship than this if the causal picture is to work. We could try saying that God is realized by the universe, without being reducible to the universe. He has no further substance over and above that of the universe, but he is not simply identical to the universe. I am not sure I know what this idea of realization comes to for the case of God and the universe, but it least it promises to make it feasible for God to be enmeshed in the natural causal order, without collapsing into it. It is not so much that God intervenes as supervenes, to use the jargon. On this picture, there is a mega- universe that includes both the physical universe and God, with the two locked somehow together

Investigations into the absorption of insulin and insulin derivatives from the small intestine of the anaesthetised rat

Experiments have been undertaken to determine the extent to which cholic acid conjugates of insulin were absorbed from the small intestine of anaesthetised rats by means of the bile salt transporters of the ileum. The measure used to assess the absorption of the cholyl-insulins was the amount of hypoglycaemia following infusion into the small intestine. Control experiments involving infusion of natural insulin into the ileum showed either nil absorption or absorption of a small amount of insulin as indicated by transient dip in the blood glucose concentration. However, when insulin was co-infused with the bile salt taurocholate, this was followed by a marked hypoglycaemic response which was specific to the ileum and did not occur on infusion into the jejunum. When the two cholyl conjugates of insulin were tested viz. B 29-Lys-cholyl-insulin and B 1-Phe-cholyl-insulin, both were biologically active as indicated by hypoglycaemic responses on systemic injection, though their potency was about 40% of that of natural insulin. While there was no evidence for the absorption of B 29-Lys-cholyl-insulin when infused into the ileum, B 1-Phe-cholyl-insulin did cause a long lasting hypoglycaemic response, indicating that absorption had occurred. Since the hypoglycaemic response was blocked on co-infusion with taurocholate and was absent for infusion of the conjugate into the jejunum, these results were taken as evidence that B 1-Phe-cholyl-insulin had been taken up by the ileal bile salt transporters. This would indicate that B 1-Phe-cholyl-insulin is worthy of further investigation for use in an oral insulin formulation

Italian for speakers of Spanish

Through the creation of Doodly videos, this project will draw the attention of speakers of Spanish to both the commonalities and where the languages diverge to speed up their comprehension and assimilation of Italian. Making these videos available to students will attract those who are looking to study a new language, namely Italian, after several years of studying Spanish.Accepted manuscrip

Health Care and the Middle Class: More Costs and Less Coverage

Examines the availability, affordability, and stability of health insurance coverage for middle-income families; trends contributing to their growing medical cost burden and percentage among the newly uninsured; and implications

The adaptation of the education profession in identifying radicalisation in schools. A review of the evidence and observations from a cohort of educators and prevent practioners

This thesis examines how the educational profession has adapted to the role of identifying extremism in the classroom. It explores how in a liberal, secular democracy, a security policy, Prevent, has been wrapped in the language of safeguarding and implemented as such. The Prevent duty was made a statutory requirement under the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 in which responsible authorities must have due regard for those at risk of radicalisation. This research explores the lived experiences and assessments of a cohort of Designated Safeguarding Leads and senior school leaders. It further asks a group of Prevent practitioners, whose responsibility it is to investigate claims of vulnerability and concerns of extremism, how they see the adoption of the duty by educationalists. The thesis looks at a portion of the published literature which focuses its attention on Prevent in the classroom, which questions the educational professional about how the policy is working in their school. Through a series of semi-structured questioned interviews, this thesis seeks to understand the feelings of those tasked to have due regard for young people vulnerable to extremism. Finally it asks whether they think the Prevent duty achieves its aims. The analysis of responses indicates a profession comfortable with the Prevent duty and their role within it. It shows how educationalists and practitioners have worked together in understanding each other’s perspectives, but feel there is more to do and understand. This thesis concludes that the Prevent duty has been legitimised and normalised into school safeguarding policies. The terminology adopted emulates that of other safeguarding procedures and provides common ground for educator and Prevent investigator. It is now part of every day school life, its effectiveness imprecise and it remains a complex theory in the eyes of educationalists and practitioners

Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation

We study the framing effects of communication in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to be more truthful and revealing than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference-revealing, it may effectively frame bargaining around a logic of fairness or competition, moving parties on a path toward or away from equal-division agreements. These endogenous framing effects may outweigh any overall social utility effects due to the mere presence of communication. In two experiments, we find that non-binding talk of fairness within a three-party, complete-information game leads toward off-equilibrium, equal division payoffs, while non-binding talk focusing on competitive reasoning moves parties away from equal divisions. Our two studies allow us to demonstrate that spontaneous within-game dialogue and manipulated pre-game talk lead to the same results.communication, fairness, bargaining