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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
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