Dublin referred to the Second World War as the Emergency, but, when applied to the minorities, even this concise and elegant understatement deserves a question mark, partly because for many Éire citizens the war was a time of opportunities and partly because their response to the war was largely a matter of individual choice. The chapter first discusses aspects of the ‘pro-fascism’ allegedly shared by the Protestant middle classes at the beginning of the war and then moves to the way the war encouraged a rethinking of British values as universal liberal principles. It contrasts such lofty rhetoric with the response of the Loyal Orange Institute in the three Ulster counties of Éire, suggesting that the turn to democracy owed more to tactical choices than conviction politics. What turned out to be permanent, however, was a tendency to articulate minority issues as either Irish concerns or universal claims. A parallel development took place within the Dublin Jewish community from the end of 1944, as the ‘old acquaintance’ with Britain was rapidly forgotten, and Zionism emerged as – simultaneously – more Irish and more self-confidently aligned with the nascent Israeli state.

In addition to their usage in density estimation and nonparametric regression, 'kernel methods' also refer to a different concept, where the goal is to augment a feature space and thereby extend the scope of certain existing prediction techniques. The basic idea is to map our observations into a higher-dimensional space and then apply a simple (e.g. linear) method to the transformed data; in the context of regression, for instance, this can yield a nonlinear regression surface that may fit the responses better. For a certain rather large class of methods, namely those whose fitted values depend on inner products between observations, a key point is that this general procedure can often be carried out implicitly, and in ways that ensure the cost of the computations involved is independent of the dimension of the final feature space. The underlying theory relies on a particular type of Hilbert space structure known as a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Some of the most well-known examples of kernel machines include support vector machines and kernel ridge regression, though the class of methods to which the ideas here may be applied is very broad.

Beyond the War challenges war-centered interpretations of one ot the twentieth century’s most publicized armed conflict by recontructing the largely overlooked history of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands before 1982. Whereas most scholarship treats the Islands’ past and aftermath as chapters in a bilateral sovereignty dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom, this book shifts the focus to the complex and evolving relationships between islanders—mostly of British origin—and Argentines in the four decades preceding the war. It traces how mutual ignorance shaped these relations until the 1960s, and how political, economic, and diplomatic changes gradually transformed them. The book examines the Islands’ structural vulnerabilities, Argentina’s claims following the 1965 UN resolution, and the controversial actions of Argentine nationalists, while reconstructing the impact of the 1971 Communications Agreement both in the Islands and in the mainland. It also explores how ordinary Argentines perceived the Malvinas by analyzing popular culture. Ultimately, the book argues that war was not inevitable, revealing moments of collaboration and exchange that made alternative futures conceivable.

This chapter introduces network analysis as an emerging approach in health research, providing tools to study the structure and dynamics of relationships between individuals, groups, or variables. It explains key concepts such as nodes, edges, centrality, and network density, and demonstrates how these measures capture the complexity of social, biological, or informational systems. Applications in epidemiology include modelling infectious disease transmission, understanding health behaviours, and identifying influential individuals or groups for interventions. Network analysis also supports systems-level understanding of comorbidities, genetic pathways, and healthcare delivery. Strengths of the method include its ability to visualise complex relationships, identify patterns not visible through traditional approaches, and generate novel insights into mechanisms of health and disease. Limitations include the need for high-quality relational data, complex analytical techniques, and challenges in interpretation. The chapter also highlights software tools and visualisation methods that make network analysis more accessible to researchers. Practical examples illustrate its use in mapping HIV transmission networks and analysing patterns of collaboration in healthcare teams. This chapter maps to syllabus section 3.2.13, which encourages knowledge of newer approaches including network and systems analysis.

Manin’s program, initiated in [FMT89] and [BM90], provides a way to understand the asymptotic formula for the counting function of rational points on a Fano variety, and this program leads to Manin’s conjecture, which was further revised in a series of papers [Pey95], [BT98b], [Pey03], [Pey17], [LST22], and [LS24]. In this chapter, we discuss the formulation of Manin’s conjecture and examples that have been verified in the literature. In Manin’s conjecture it is important to remove the contribution of the exceptional set so that the asymptotic formula of the counting function reflects the global geometry of a projective variety.

Chapter 3: Out of the Rabbit Hole. The scenes on the Berlin Foundry Cup illustrate activities in a workshop during the joining and finishing of statues and reveal the nature of the now-lost aboveground spaces of an ancient foundry. The scenes confirm use of the indirect lost-wax process in the early fifth century BC. The simultaneous production of two statues of different stylistic types, one archaic and the other classical, is a reminder that one style did not supplant another. Votives behind a furnace ward off the dangers of working with molten metal, although the conventionally naked participants in the scenes overlook that risk. Workshop practices were designed to suit specific commissions – a purple bruise in the cheek of a boxer, a colossus, the materials used for inlaid eyes. From normal procedures in a modern workshop to Benvenuto Cellini’s Renaissance description of tackling immediate problems, we see how little materials and procedures have changed since antiquity.

This chapter outlines the design and application of cohort studies, which follow groups of individuals over time to examine associations between exposures and outcomes. Cohort studies may be prospective, tracking participants into the future, or retrospective, using historical records. The measure of association most frequently derived from these designs is the relative risk, which quantifies the likelihood of disease in exposed compared to unexposed individuals. Advantages of cohort studies include their ability to establish temporal sequence, study multiple outcomes from a single exposure, and calculate incidence rates. They are particularly useful for investigating common exposures and outcomes with moderate frequency. Limitations include high cost, long follow-up periods, and vulnerability to loss to follow-up and confounding. Practical examples, such as studies linking smoking to lung cancer or occupational exposures to chronic disease, highlight their contribution to public health evidence. Strategies for minimising bias, including careful selection of cohorts, use of standardised data collection, and adjustment for confounders, are discussed. By combining methodological explanation with illustrative examples, the chapter positions cohort studies as powerful tools in epidemiology. This chapter maps to syllabus section 3.2.4, which requires knowledge of cohort designs, measures of risk, and confounding control.

Welcoming new teachers to the profession provides an important opportunity to build the foundations for professional growth, satisfaction, and positive impacts on students’ lives. Creating a meaningful dialogue and orientation helps new educators transition into their roles with confidence while developing a reflective, adaptive, and student-centred practice.

Consumed by thoughts of a blue flower, Heinrich leaves his cold homeland and travels south until he meets Mathilde, who opens his eyes to the world’s mysteries. Then a tragic event reveals the secret power of poetry …

Heinrich von Ofterdingen, left unfinished at the time of the author’s death, is a masterpiece of philosophical fiction and a classic of German literature. This highly detailed and original interpretation is the most comprehensive and systematic study of the novel ever written. Developing fresh insights into the philosophical ideas of the novel while also attending to its symbolic, literary, and creative qualities, Owen Ware explores how Novalis probes the core problem of modern life – fragmentation, and our sense of alienation from the world. Ultimately, he shows us, this novel is a timeless expression of the Romantics’ idea that only the imagination, guided by love, can bring us back to our spiritual home.

This chapter directly examines whether social context influences crime on street segments by building statistical models that examine the relationship between social context and crime, while taking into account key elements of opportunities for crime at place. Our findings reinforce the importance of including social context and informal social control in understanding crime rates at micro geographic places, while also confirming that opportunities for crime are important underlying causes of crime at the micro geographic level.

There are numerous factors which influence how inclusive an early childhood service is. While you can address curriculum considerations and environmental adaptations, for example, one crucial component that is often overlooked is self-reflection. Considering our own lens ensures we can reflect on our own personal philosophy and the factors that have contributed to it. Attitudes of educators cannot be underestimated, as they lay a foundation for practice. A literature review conducted in 2020 revealed research which found that attitudes held by educators has an impact on inclusive practices. When individuals see challenges as opportunities to grow and learn, the outcome for everyone is very different to when challenges are perceived as barriers that are insurmountable.