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    Abscess of the brain

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    Although it is generally regarded as a surgical subject, it will be seen that the various technical procedures constitute a very small part of the problem, and that general medical principles govern diagnosis and all of treatment except the operation itself. I would say that of the worry and difficulty in dealing with these cases, not more than five per cent has to do with the actual operation - for the rest, a physician would be as much concerned as a surgeon.Neurosurgery is a rather hybrid specialty, and for those who practice it a sound knowledge of general medicine and neurology is just as necessary as operative competence. Indeed, in our own University we have a. Department of Surgical Neurology rather than a department of neurological surgery. The slight shift of emphasis is a significant development because for many years diseases have been losing their identity as purely "medical" or "surgical" problems. I considered that Abscess of the Brain was a sufficiently good example of this equal concern for physician and surgeon to justify the presentation of this thesis

    115 Vernon: The Writing Associates Journal, Vol.1, No.1

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    Table of Contents: 2. Nevvs and Notes ... . Head Tutors 2002-03 Dorothy Francoeur \u2704 Erica Martinson \u2703 3 Thoughts on Writing ....... Maggie Kagan \u2703 4 Entropy .. . Sean Hojnacki \u2705 5 Baby, You\u27re the Write Kind of Wrong ......... Erica Martinson \u2703 7 Some Thoughts on Diversity .... Matt Barison \u2704 9 Musings on Memorials .... Dorothy Francoeur \u2704 10 The Letter. .. Diana Potter \u2703 11 Confession# 9 .... Dorothy Francoeur \u2704 12 The Writing Centerfold .................... Diana Potter \u2703 Sean Hojnacki \u27O5 14 My True Voice .... Emily Foote \u2705 17 Five Pages about a Pirate ..... Diana Potter \u2703 22 Professor Voices..... Irene Papoulis, English Susan Pennybacker, Histor

    A stochastic multicellular model identifies biological watermarks from disorders in self-organized patterns of phyllotaxis

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    Exploration of developmental mechanisms classically relies on analysis of pattern regularities. Whether disorders induced by biological noise may carry information on building principles of developmental systems is an important debated question. Here, we addressed theoretically this question using phyllotaxis, the geometric arrangement of plant aerial organs, as a model system. Phyllotaxis arises from reiterative organogenesis driven by lateral inhibitions at the shoot apex. Motivated by recurrent observations of disorders in phyllotaxis patterns, we revisited in depth the classical deterministic view of phyllotaxis. We developed a stochastic model of primordia initiation at the shoot apex, integrating locality and stochasticity in the patterning system. This stochastic model recapitulates phyllotactic patterns, both regular and irregular, and makes quantitative predictions on the nature of disorders arising from noise. We further show that disorders in phyllotaxis instruct us on the parameters governing phyllotaxis dynamics, thus that disorders can reveal biological watermarks of developmental systems

    Style, Character and Revelation in Parry’s Fourth Symphony

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    Maritime labour, transnational political trajectories and decolonisation from below: the opposition to the 1935 British Shipping Assistance Act

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    This paper uses a discussion of struggles over attempts by the National Union of Seamen to exclude seafarers form the maritime labour market in the inter-war period to contribute todebates at the intersection of maritime spaces and transnational labour geographies (cf Balachandran, 2012, Hogsbjerg, 2013). Through a focus on struggles over the British Shipping Assistance Act of 1935 it explores some of the transnational dynamics through which racialized forms of trade unionism were contested. I argue that the political trajectories, solidarities and spaces of organising constructed through the alliances which were produced to oppose the effects of the Act shaped articulations of ‘decolonisation from below’ (James, 2015). Engaging with the political trajectories and activity of activists from organisaions like the Colonial Seamen’s Association can open up both new ways of understanding the spatial politics of decolonisation and new accounts of who or how such processes were articulated and contested. The paper concludes by arguing that engagement with these struggles can help assert the importance of forms of subaltern agency in shaping processes of decolonisation
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