A Comparative Study of the Magnitude, Frequency and Distribution of Intense Rainfall in the United Kingdom

During the 1960s, a study was made of the magnitude, frequency and distribution of intense rainfall over the UK, employing data from more than 120 daily-read rain gauges covering the period 1911 to 1960. Using the same methodology, that study was recently updated utilizing data for the period 1961 to 2006 for the same gauges, or from those nearby. This paper describes the techniques applied to ensure consistency of data and statistical modelling. It presents a comparison of patterns of extreme rainfalls for the two periods and discusses the changes that have taken place. Most noticeably, increases up to 20% have occurred in the north west of the country and in parts of East Anglia. There have also been changes in other areas, including decreases of the same magnitude over central England. The implications of these changes are considered

Yellow roses in Fortitude Valley

This exegesis interrogates the mental illness Pure Erotomania, the rare delusional disorder which presents with the sufferer having the delusional (and therefore unshakeable) belief that the person they objectify is in love with them. My play Yellow Roses in Fortitude Valley is about one woman's emotional journey as she is relentlessly stalked by a Pure Erotomanic male. It is a fascinating mental illness, which includes all the 'box office type' features, which make it an exciting and frightening subject to write a dramatic work about. It is confusing, illusory, surreal and frightening, but best of all for the writer and audience it is a real human condition. Yellow Roses in Fortitude Valley is written in a style that truthfully represents and portrays the journey and struggle for both the victim and the sufferer. The research undertaken for both the play and exegesis was a hybrid of many overlapping disciplines involved in the current discourse. As a recently diagnosed and recognized disorder, it is still new territory for professionals in the field and for audience members. I believe this makes it an opportune time for an academically researched creative project to enter into current discourse. Previous creative works on this topic, some of which I have interrogated, have approached the issue of stalking as a predator/victim scenario, an unrequited love or a domestic violence situation. I wished to portray the stalking as a mental illness in the form of the psychiatric disorder Erotomania, my approach undertaking to explain victim impact and the prolonged and chronic course of Erotomanic stalking. I also wished to illustrate the underlying themes which I uncovered during my research, being; female victims of sex crimes; dominant patriarchal ideology; and the current interventions in stalking by the legal and mental health systems

International Research Seminar on the Rehabilitation of Deaf Persons and the World Congress of the Deaf: A Critique

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Behavioral Disorders in Deaf Clients

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Behavioral Disturbance in Deaf Adolescents and Adults – A Clinical Perspective*

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An experimental investigation of the phenomenon of auditory fatigue

Auditory fatigue is now known as Temporary Threshold Shift (subsequently abbreviated to TTS). It has been defined as the temporary elevation in the absolute threshold of hearing for a given test sound resulting from preceding auditory stimulation by a given stimulus sound (see Hirsh, 1952, page 177). Associated with the phenomenon there are six physical variables which sub-divide themselves into stimulus, test and recovery factors. In IMS study each of the latter factors was systematically Investigated using four groups of six undergraduate subjects. Thresholds were measured using the Bek6sy (1947) technique of threshold measurement. Control experiments were carried out to verify that TTS results from the application of the stimulus tone, to study the mechanisms involved in the Bekesy technique of threshold measurement and the effects of this technique on the measurement of TTS, to investigate any additive effects of TTS and to study the possibility of any measurement errors resulting from the physical test environment. The results of the experiments showed that the stimulus test and recovery factors all produced a consistent duality of results. It was concluded that the unitary definition of TTS is inadequate and that there are two TTS mechanisms. These are referred to as fatigue and temporal stimulation deafness. Fatigue is associated with moderately intense stimulus tones of fairly short duration. It increases linearly with logarithm of the stimulus duration; it is maximal at stimulus frequencies of 1000, 2000 and 3000 cps; it does not vary significantly with stimulus intensities of up to 90 db. but thence increases rapidly to a maximum; it is maximal at a test frequency equal to the stimulus frequency and recovery from it is complete within one minute of the cessation of the stimulus. Temporary stimulation deafness is associated with high intensity stimulus tones of fairly long duration. It increases linearly with the logarithm of the stimulus duration; it is maximal with stimulus frequencies of 4000 to 6000 cps; it increases rapidly as the stimulus intensity is increased; it is maximal at a test frequency an octave above the stimulus frequency and recovery from it takes longer than one minute from the cessation of the stimulus tone. It is hypothesized that fatigue is a neural, possibly bio-chemical, adaptation effect and that temporary stimulation deafness results from structural damage to the organ of Corti. Other work supports this differentiation. The phenomena of fatigue support either a "place" or a "volley" theory of hearing. The phenomena of temporary stimulation deafness are partially explicable in terms of the anatomical characteristics of the ear