'Across the pond'—a response to the NICE guidelines for management of multi-morbidity in older people

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DANI EL DERONDA : GEORGE ELIOT\u27S NEGRO NOVEL

Daniel Deronda, G.H. Lewes once rather ingenuously explained, was all about English ladies and gentlemen with the scene laid in Wiltshire (Letters 6:136)2 ... and although the novel is evidently about far more than that, Lewes\u27 words are a useful reminder that Deronda gains his entree to the world of the novel as a gentleman, the ward of Sir Hugo Mallinger, and not as a political figure: a believer in a Palestinian homeland for the Jews. I t is necessary for the novel that he believe in something, of course; as R. T. Jones has commented, In order to have the moral authority that can challenge Gwendolen\u27s superficial complacency, Deronda must himself be capable of devoting himself entirely to a worthy cause ) But nothing in the novel requires that the cause be a foreshadowing of Zionism. Why, then, does Deronda find himself committed to the idea of a Jewish national home? Part of the answer has long been evident. Eliot was interested in the sense of national ·and racial destiny which grips Deronda, and she had elaborated upon this theme eight years before in The Spanish Gypsy (1868), in which the heroine finds that she has both gypsy blood and a mission to her people. Further, Eliot had been personally enthusiastic about the idea of the restoration of the Jews to Palestine ever since meeting Emmanuel Deutsch - a passionate advocate of the return. Do notdistrust your call, she had written to him in 1868: 1 believe in it still . (Letters 4:446) But neither The Spanish Gypsy and its sources nor Deutsch (and the impressive reading list on Jewish history that Eliot worked through when· preparing to write Daniel Deronda) fully account for the highly political vision Deronda inherits from his mentor in Judaism, . Mordecai. Eliot\u27s source for the politics of the novel was the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and in all probability it was also reading Stowe that persuaded Eliot to address a Jewish theme

Evolution in cluster cores since z~1

A large fraction of the stellar mass in galaxy clusters is thought to be contained in the diffuse low surface brightness intracluster light (ICL). Being bound to the gravitational potential of the cluster rather than any individual galaxy, the ICL contains much information about the evolution of its host cluster and the interactions between the galaxies within. However due its low surface brightness it is notoriously difficult to study. We present the first detection and measurement of the flux contained in the ICL at z~1. We find that the fraction of the total cluster light contained in the ICL may have increased by factors of 2-4 since z~1, in contrast to recent findings for the lack of mass and scale size evolution found for brightest cluster galaxies. Our results suggest that late time buildup in cluster cores may occur more through stripping than merging and we discuss the implications of our results for hierarchical simulations.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 295 - The intriguing life of massive galaxie

The evolution of galaxies in massive clusters

We present a study of the evolution of galaxies in massive X-ray selected clusters across half the age of the Universe. This encompasses galaxies on the red sequence from the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) to the faint red population. We begin at the tip of the red sequence with an investigation into the near infrared evolution of BCGs since z =1. By comparing the BCG Hubble diagram and near-infrared colour evolution to a set of stellar population and semi-analytic models we constrain the evolution and formation redshift of these massive galaxies. Moving down in luminosity from the BCG, in chapter 3 we study the build up of the red sequence in massive clusters. To achieve this we compare the luminosity functions for red galaxies in a homogeneous sample of ten X-ray luminous clusters at z ~ 0.5 to a similarly selected X-ray cluster sample at z ~ 0.1. We quantify this result by measuring the dwarf to giant ratio to ascertain whether faint galaxies have joined the red sequence over the last 5 Gyr. In chapter 4 we study the evolution of the red sequence slope in massive clusters from z=l to present day. We compare our observed slope evolution to that predicted from semi- analytical models based on the Millennium simulation. We also look for trends between the red sequence slope and other cluster observables, such as X—ray luminosity, to investigate whether this will effect cluster detection methods which search for a colour-magnitude relation. In the final science chapter we present the details of our own cluster detection algorithm. This simple algorithm is based on finding clusters through the near-infrared and optical properties of the red sequence, drawing on our galaxy cluster evolution research. We describe the application of the algorithm to object catalogues from the UKIDSS DXS fields in order to find clusters at z ~ 1. To confirm the presence of the clusters we employ deep multi-object spectroscopy on the photometric members. The clusters found in this study are fed back into the high redshift regime of our galaxy evolution research

Neither Genius nor fudge : Edgar Allan Poe and Eureka

Eureka (1848) has been taken at face value as an expanded version of a lecture on cosmology that Poe gave earlier the same year. However, its seriousness as a work of science should be questioned. Its treatment of themes found in other works by Poe shows the author's unconcern for consistency, and the text unlikely to have resulted from a serious engagement with scientific argument. Instead it should be approached as a hoax: an attempt to reveal the gullibility of its readers. Poe's hoaxes relied for their effect on the trust created in readers by their recognition of generic conventions, and Eureka exploited and ridiculed public trust in cosmological lecturers such as John Bovee Dods.Eureka (1848) ha sido considerado superficialmente como una versión expandida de una conferencia sobre cosmología que Poe había dado ese mismo año. Sin embargo, la seriedad de este trabajo como un trabajo científico debería ser cuestionada. El tratamiento de algunos temas, que se encuentran en otros escritos de Poe, muestra que el autor no busca ser consistente. Entonces, el texto no parece el resultado de un interés serio por la argumentación científica. Por el contrario, debería ser considerado un engaño: un intento de revelar la credulidad de los lectores. Los engaños de Poe contaban con el hecho de que el reconocimiento de convenciones de género llevan a la confianza, y Eureka aprovecha y ridiculiza la confianza pública en conferenciantes cosmológicos como John Bovee Dods.Eureka (1848) ha estat considerat superficialment com una versió expandida d'una conferència sobre cosmologia que Poe va donar aquell mateix any. Tot i així, la serietat d'aquest text com a treball científic hauria d'ésser qüestionada. El tratament d'alguns temes, que es poden trobar a d'altres escrits de Poe, mostra que l'autor no cerca d'ésser consistent. Aleshores, el text no sembla el resultat d'un interés seriós per l'argumentació científica sinó que hauria de ser considerat un engany: un intent de revelar la credulitat dels lectors. Els enganys de Poe es basen en el fet que el reconeixement de les convencions genèriques impliquen confiança, i Eureka aprofita i ridiculitza aquesta confiança publica en conferenciants cosmològics com John Bovee Dods.Eureka 1848ko otsailean Poek kosmologiari buruz eman zuen ikastaro baten bertsio luzatutzat onartua izan da. Hala ere, obra testu zientifikoa ote den ez dago hain garbi. Poeren beste obra batzuetan ikusi da gaiak lantzerakoan ez zuela koherentziarekiko arretarik jartzen; ondorioz Eureka ezin da hartu pentsamendu zientifikoaren emaitza gisa. Iruzurra bat dela pentsatu behar da: irakurleen sinesgarritasuna salatzeko saiakera bat. Irakurleei konbentzio orokorrak aurkitzeak eragiten dien sinesgarritasunean datza, hain zuzen, Poeren txantxa. Eurekak John Bovee Dods bezalako irakurleen konfiantza erabili eta irrigarri utzi zuen ikuskera kosmologikoa ematen zela uste izan zutelako

Vanilla Sky – The Narcissist’s Tale

[EN] Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky (2001) is usually approached as a mind game, but its theme is much darker than such a label suggests. As it traces the stages of David Aames’ dream—a dream in which he moves from a pretense of love to murder—we can recognize that David’s self-esteem is pathological. Drawing on Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction (1987) to demonstrate an inability to take the needs of others into account, Crowe’s movie provides a case study in Narcissistic Personality Disorder. David kills because he cannot accept the demands of another (doing so would make him less than self-sufficient); not surprisingly, therefore, at the end of the movie, when he wakes to discover that his lover is still alive, he is shocked. [ES] Vanilla Sky (2001), de Cameron Crowe, normalmente se aprecia como un juego intelectual; no obstante, su temática es mucho más oscura que lo que dicha etiqueta podría sugerir. Mientras recorre las diferentes fases del sueño de David Aames (un sueño en el que se mueve de una pretensión de amor a una de homicidio), nos damos cuenta de que David padece un trastorno de la autoestima. Utilizando como referencia Atracción Fatal (1987), de Adrian Lyne, para demostrar la incapacidad de tener en cuenta las necesidades de otros, la película de Crowe nos muestra un caso práctico de trastorno narcisista de la personalidad. David mata porque no es capaz de aceptar las exigencias de otros, ya que supondría para él ponerse en una condición inferior a la autosuficiencia. No resulta sorprendente, por lo tanto, su horror cuando al final de la película se despierta y descubre que su amante sigue viva

Environments and Morphologies of Red Sequence Galaxies with Residual Star Formation in Massive Clusters

We present a photometric investigation into recent star formation in galaxy clusters at z ~ 0.1. We use spectral energy distribution templates to quantify recent star formation in large X-ray selected clusters from the LARCS survey using matched GALEX NUV photometry. These clusters all have signs of red sequence galaxy recent star formation (as indicated by blue NUV-R colour), regardless of cluster morphology and size. A trend in environment is found for these galaxies, such that they prefer to occupy low density, high cluster radius environments. The morphology of these UV bright galaxies suggests that they are in fact red spirals, which we confirm with light curves and Galaxy Zoo voting percentages as morphological proxies. These UV bright galaxies are therefore seen to be either truncated spiral galaxies, caught by ram pressure in falling into the cluster, or high mass spirals, with the photometry dominated by the older stellar population.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 11 pages, 11 figure

On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney

Theoretical perspectives that give primacy to ideological or structural determinism have dominated criminological analysis of the 2011 English ‘riots’. This paper provides an alternative social psychological perspective through detailed empirical analysis of two of these riots. We utilise novel forms of data to build triangulated accounts of the nature of the events and explore the perspectives of participants. We assert these riots cannot be adequately understood merely in terms pre-existing social understandings and political realities and that identity based interactional crowd dynamics were critically important. The paper demonstrates the value of the social identity approach in providing criminological theory with a richer and deeper perspective on these complex social phenomena