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Evaluation of a Drama-Based Experiential Learning Group Programme for Multidisciplinary Staff and People With Lived Experience in Psychiatry
- Rupal Dave, Thomas Walker, Hugh Grant-Peterkin, Robert Fisher, Frank Rohricht
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- BJPsych Open / Volume 8 / Issue S1 / June 2022
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- 20 June 2022, pp. S2-S3
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Experiential learning, such as simulation-based training, is widely used in health education. Dramatic self-expression adds another layer through enacted perspective taking, and embodied self-exploration of interaction with others, to foster situated learning. We describe the evaluation of an innovative drama-based experiential learning project involving collaboration between multidisciplinary mental healthcare staff and people with lived experience of mental illness. The programme was facilitated at East London NHS Foundation Trust by a theatre company experienced in delivering workshops with service users. A weekly group programme took place online over 8 weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic and included activities of improvisation, embodied enactments and debriefing. The programme led to co-production of a drama piece that was filmed and distributed online. It was hypothesised that the experiential learning might result in individual benefits for all participants, such as improved well-being and increased mutual understanding of each other's experience of mental health care. The project aimed to improve relationships between healthcare disciplines, and between staff and service users. Additionally, aims were to empower service users, and support staff to practice core interpersonal skills. Objectives of the evaluation were to study the impact of the experiential learning, understand participants’ experience, and explore challenges and benefits.
MethodsA mixed methods approach was taken to evaluate the programme. Following completion of the project, participants were invited to complete a questionnaire utilising a Likert scale rating of overall satisfaction with the project, perceived benefit and impact on specific domains such as working with others. One-to-one semi-structured interviews were conducted according to a topic-guide, and qualitative data were analysed using open & axial coding for thematic analysis.
Results11 participants, including Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists and current service users, completed the experiential learning and filming. Questionnaire data suggested participants were highly satisfied with the learning and felt it would be valuable to others. Themes include the positive experience of creativity, dismantling of hierarchy, improved empathy, confidence and connection. Potential challenges were digital inequality and lack of dedicated time for professional development.
ConclusionA drama-based experiential learning group programme for healthcare staff and service users is a highly beneficial learning experience. Participants describe changes on a personal level as well as improved understanding of others’ perspectives. This form of experiential learning features collaborative working that aligns with principles of co-production and supports the development of interpersonal skills; the findings suggest that drama-based experiential learning is a useful method in health education to complement knowledge acquisition.
Intelligence as a planetary scale process – CORRIGENDUM
- Adam Frank, David Grinspoon, Sara Walker
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- International Journal of Astrobiology / Volume 21 / Issue 2 / April 2022
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Intelligence as a planetary scale process
- Adam Frank, David Grinspoon, Sara Walker
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- International Journal of Astrobiology / Volume 21 / Issue 2 / April 2022
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Conventionally, intelligence is seen as a property of individuals. However, it is also known to be a property of collectives. Here, we broaden the idea of intelligence as a collective property and extend it to the planetary scale. We consider the ways in which the appearance of technological intelligence may represent a kind of planetary scale transition, and thus might be seen not as something which happens on a planet but to a planet, much as some models propose the origin of life itself was a planetary phenomenon. Our approach follows the recognition among researchers that the correct scale to understand key aspects of life and its evolution is planetary, as opposed to the more traditional focus on individual species. We explore ways in which the concept may prove useful for three distinct domains: Earth Systems and Exoplanet studies; Anthropocene and Sustainability studies; and the study of Technosignatures and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). We argue that explorations of planetary intelligence, defined as the acquisition and application of collective knowledge operating at a planetary scale and integrated into the function of coupled planetary systems, can prove a useful framework for understanding possible paths of the long-term evolution of inhabited planets including future trajectories for life on Earth and predicting features of intelligentially steered planetary evolution on other worlds.
Decreased Stroke Presentation Rates at a Comprehensive Stroke Center during COVID-19
- Dar Dowlatshahi, Grant Stotts, Aline Bourgoin, Sophia Gocan, Laura Dunn, Jodi Powell, Frank L. Silver, Greg Walker, Vignan Yogendrakumar, Robert Fahed, Dylan Blacquiere, Michel Shamy
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- Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Volume 48 / Issue 1 / January 2021
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We reviewed stroke care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic at our stroke center and provincial telestroke system. We counted referrals to our prevention clinic, code strokes, thrombolysis, endovascular thrombectomies, and activations of a provincial telestroke system from February to April of 2017–2020. In April 2020, there was 28% reduction in prevention clinic referrals, 32% reduction in code strokes, and 26% reduction in telestroke activations compared to prior years. Thrombolysis and endovascular thrombectomy rates remained constant. Fewer patients received stroke services across the spectrum from prevention, acute care to telestroke care in Ontario, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Brittan, Justin Broackes, Dan W. Brock, Aaron Bronfman, Jeffrey E. Brower, Bartosz Brozek, Anthony Brueckner, Jeffrey Bub, Lara Buchak, Otavio Bueno, Ann E. Bumpus, Robert W. Burch, John Burgess, Arthur W. Burks, Panayot Butchvarov, Robert E. Butts, Marina Bykova, Patrick Byrne, David Carr, Noël Carroll, Edward S. Casey, Victor Caston, Victor Caston, Albert Casullo, Robert L. Causey, Alan K. L. Chan, Ruth Chang, Deen K. Chatterjee, Andrew Chignell, Roderick M. Chisholm, Kelly J. Clark, E. J. Coffman, Robin Collins, Brian P. Copenhaver, John Corcoran, John Cottingham, Roger Crisp, Frederick J. Crosson, Antonio S. Cua, Phillip D. Cummins, Martin Curd, Adam Cureton, Andrew Cutrofello, Stephen Darwall, Paul Sheldon Davies, Wayne A. Davis, Timothy Joseph Day, Claudio de Almeida, Mario De Caro, Mario De Caro, John Deigh, C. F. Delaney, Daniel C. Dennett, Michael R. DePaul, Michael Detlefsen, Daniel Trent Devereux, Philip E. Devine, John M. Dillon, Martin C. Dillon, Robert DiSalle, Mary Domski, Alan Donagan, Paul Draper, Fred Dretske, Mircea Dumitru, Wilhelm Dupré, Gerald Dworkin, John Earman, Ellery Eells, Catherine Z. Elgin, Berent Enç, Ronald P. Endicott, Edward Erwin, John Etchemendy, C. Stephen Evans, Susan L. Feagin, Solomon Feferman, Richard Feldman, Arthur Fine, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, William FitzPatrick, Richard E. Flathman, Gvozden Flego, Richard Foley, Graeme Forbes, Rainer Forst, Malcolm R. Forster, Daniel Fouke, Patrick Francken, Samuel Freeman, Elizabeth Fricker, Miranda Fricker, Michael Friedman, Michael Fuerstein, Richard A. Fumerton, Alan Gabbey, Pieranna Garavaso, Daniel Garber, Jorge L. A. Garcia, Robert K. Garcia, Don Garrett, Philip Gasper, Gerald Gaus, Berys Gaut, Bernard Gert, Roger F. Gibson, Cody Gilmore, Carl Ginet, Alan H. Goldman, Alvin I. Goldman, Alfonso Gömez-Lobo, Lenn E. Goodman, Robert M. Gordon, Stefan Gosepath, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Daniel W. Graham, George A. Graham, Peter J. Graham, Richard E. 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Quinn, Philip L. Quinn, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Diana Raffman, Gerard Raulet, Stephen L. Read, Andrews Reath, Andrew Reisner, Nicholas Rescher, Henry S. Richardson, Robert C. Richardson, Thomas Ricketts, Wayne D. Riggs, Mark Roberts, Robert C. Roberts, Luke Robinson, Alexander Rosenberg, Gary Rosenkranz, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Adina L. Roskies, William L. Rowe, T. M. Rudavsky, Michael Ruse, Bruce Russell, Lilly-Marlene Russow, Dan Ryder, R. M. Sainsbury, Joseph Salerno, Nathan Salmon, Wesley C. Salmon, Constantine Sandis, David H. Sanford, Marco Santambrogio, David Sapire, Ruth A. Saunders, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Charles Sayward, James P. Scanlan, Richard Schacht, Tamar Schapiro, Frederick F. Schmitt, Jerome B. Schneewind, Calvin O. Schrag, Alan D. Schrift, George F. Schumm, Jean-Loup Seban, David N. Sedley, Kenneth Seeskin, Krister Segerberg, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Dennis M. Senchuk, James F. Sennett, William Lad Sessions, Stewart Shapiro, Tommie Shelby, Donald W. Sherburne, Christopher Shields, Roger A. Shiner, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert K. Shope, Kwong-loi Shun, Wilfried Sieg, A. John Simmons, Robert L. Simon, Marcus G. Singer, Georgette Sinkler, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Matti T. Sintonen, Lawrence Sklar, Brian Skyrms, Robert C. Sleigh, Michael Anthony Slote, Hans Sluga, Barry Smith, Michael Smith, Robin Smith, Robert Sokolowski, Robert C. Solomon, Marta Soniewicka, Philip Soper, Ernest Sosa, Nicholas Southwood, Paul Vincent Spade, T. L. S. Sprigge, Eric O. Springsted, George J. Stack, Rebecca Stangl, Jason Stanley, Florian Steinberger, Sören Stenlund, Christopher Stephens, James P. Sterba, Josef Stern, Matthias Steup, M. A. Stewart, Leopold Stubenberg, Edith Dudley Sulla, Frederick Suppe, Jere Paul Surber, David George Sussman, Sigrún Svavarsdóttir, Zeno G. Swijtink, Richard Swinburne, Charles C. Taliaferro, Robert B. Talisse, John Tasioulas, Paul Teller, Larry S. Temkin, Mark Textor, H. S. Thayer, Peter Thielke, Alan Thomas, Amie L. 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Wolterstorff, Rega Wood, W. Jay Wood, Paul Woodruff, Alison Wylie, Gideon Yaffe, Takashi Yagisawa, Yutaka Yamamoto, Keith E. Yandell, Xiaomei Yang, Dean Zimmerman, Günter Zoller, Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert, Jack A. Zupko (J.A.Z.)
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Outcome Feedback within Emergency Medicine Training Programs: An Opportunity to Apply the Theory of Deliberate Practice?
- Timothy R. Dalseg, Lisa A. Calder, Curtis Lee, Jaymie Walker, Jason R. Frank
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- Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine / Volume 17 / Issue 4 / July 2015
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- 24 February 2015, pp. 367-373
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Outcome feedback is the process of learning patient outcomes after their care within the emergency department. We conducted a national survey of Canadian Royal College emergency medicine (EM) residents and program directors to determine the extent to which active outcome feedback and follow-up occurred. We also compared the perceived educational value of outcome feedback between residents and program directors.
MethodsWe distributed surveys to all Royal College-accredited adult and pediatric EM training programs using a modified Dillman method. We analyzed the data using student’s t-test for continuous variables and Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables.
ResultsWe received 210 completed surveys from 260 eligible residents (80.8%) and 21 of 24 program directors (87.5%) (overall 81.3%). Mandatory active outcome feedback was not present in any EM training program for admitted or discharged patients (0/21). Follow-up was performed electively by 89.4% of residents for patients admitted to the hospital, and by 44.2% of residents for patients discharged home. A majority of residents (76.9%) believed that patient follow-up should be mandatory compared to 42.9% of program directors (p=0.002). The perceived educational value of outcome feedback was 5.8/7 for residents and 5.1/7 for program directors (difference 0.7; p=0.002) based on a seven-point Likert scale (1=not important; 7=very important).
ConclusionWhile Canadian EM training programs do not mandate follow-up, it is performed electively by the majority of residents surveyed. Residents place a significantly greater educational value on outcome feedback than their program directors, and believe that follow-up should be a mandatory component of EM residencies.
The Murchison Widefield Array Commissioning Survey: A Low-Frequency Catalogue of 14 110 Compact Radio Sources over 6 100 Square Degrees
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- Natasha Hurley-Walker, John Morgan, Randall B. Wayth, Paul J. Hancock, Martin E. Bell, Gianni Bernardi, Ramesh Bhat, Frank Briggs, Avinash A. Deshpande, Aaron Ewall-Wice, Lu Feng, Bryna J. Hazelton, Luke Hindson, Daniel C. Jacobs, David L. Kaplan, Nadia Kudryavtseva, Emil Lenc, Benjamin McKinley, Daniel Mitchell, Bart Pindor, Pietro Procopio, Divya Oberoi, André Offringa, Stephen Ord, Jennifer Riding, Judd D. Bowman, Roger Cappallo, Brian Corey, David Emrich, B. M. Gaensler, Robert Goeke, Lincoln Greenhill, Jacqueline Hewitt, Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Justin Kasper, Eric Kratzenberg, Colin Lonsdale, Mervyn Lynch, Russell McWhirter, Miguel F. Morales, Edward Morgan, Thiagaraj Prabu, Alan Rogers, Anish Roshi, Udaya Shankar, K. Srivani, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Steven Tingay, Mark Waterson, Rachel Webster, Alan Whitney, Andrew Williams, Chris Williams
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We present the results of an approximately 6 100 deg2 104–196 MHz radio sky survey performed with the Murchison Widefield Array during instrument commissioning between 2012 September and 2012 December: the MWACS. The data were taken as meridian drift scans with two different 32-antenna sub-arrays that were available during the commissioning period. The survey covers approximately 20.5 h < RA < 8.5 h, − 58° < Dec < −14°over three frequency bands centred on 119, 150 and 180 MHz, with image resolutions of 6–3 arcmin. The catalogue has 3 arcmin angular resolution and a typical noise level of 40 mJy beam− 1, with reduced sensitivity near the field boundaries and bright sources. We describe the data reduction strategy, based upon mosaicked snapshots, flux density calibration, and source-finding method. We present a catalogue of flux density and spectral index measurements for 14 110 sources, extracted from the mosaic, 1 247 of which are sub-components of complexes of sources.
Rights to trade for species conservation: exploring the issue of the radiated tortoise in Madagascar
- JÖRG U. GANZHORN, THEODORE MANJOAZY, OLINGA PÄPLOW, ROMA RANDRIANAVELONA, JULIE H. RAZAFIMANAHAKA, WILLIAM M. RONTO, ESTER VOGT, FRANK WÄTZOLD, RYAN C. J. WALKER
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- Environmental Conservation / Volume 42 / Issue 4 / December 2015
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In many developing countries, people rely on natural resources for subsistence and cash income. The trade ban on species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List may be counter-productive, as increasing the rarity and thus price of these species acts as a stimulus to illegal markets rather than a deterrent. Since illegal markets cannot have legal property rights, there is no basis for any form of sustainable harvesting based on property rights. The Malagsy radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata) is an example of a species that is threatened by domestic and international trade; legalizing international trade could, under certain circumstances, provide financial incentives that might effectively reduce the domestic trade and subsistence harvest of this animal. This paper argues this critically-endangered species may be more effectively conserved by assigning trading rights to local communities, rather than demanding a trade ban that cannot be enforced successfully.
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Perceptions and attitudes of hospital staff toward paging system and the use of mobile phones
- Muhammad Haroon, Faiza Yasin, Rachael Eckel, Frank Walker
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- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care / Volume 26 / Issue 4 / October 2010
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Objectives: Our objective was to document the pattern of mobile phone usage by medical staff in a hospital setting, and to explore any perceived benefits (such as improved communications) associated with mobile phones.
Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in Waterford Regional Hospital, Ireland, where bleep is the official system of communication. All non-consultant hospital doctors, of medical disciplines only, were asked to participate. The questionnaire was designed to explore the pattern and different aspects of mobile phone usage.
Results: At the time of study, there were sixty medical junior doctors, and the response rate was 100 percent. All participants used mobile phones while at work, and also for hospital-related work. For 98.3 percent the mobile phone was their main mode of communication while in the hospital. Sixty-two percent (n = 37) made 6–10 calls daily purely for work-related business, and this comprised of ≥80 percent of their daily usage of mobile phones. For 98 percent of participants, most phone calls were work-related. Regarding reasons for using mobile phones, all reported that using mobile phone is quicker for communication.
Conclusions: Mobile phone usage is very common among the medical personnel, and this is regarded as a more efficient means of communication for mobile staff than the hospital paging system.
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- By Rose Teteki Abbey, K. C. Abraham, David Tuesday Adamo, LeRoy H. Aden, Efrain Agosto, Victor Aguilan, Gillian T. W. Ahlgren, Charanjit Kaur AjitSingh, Dorothy B E A Akoto, Giuseppe Alberigo, Daniel E. Albrecht, Ruth Albrecht, Daniel O. Aleshire, Urs Altermatt, Anand Amaladass, Michael Amaladoss, James N. Amanze, Lesley G. Anderson, Thomas C. Anderson, Victor Anderson, Hope S. Antone, María Pilar Aquino, Paula Arai, Victorio Araya Guillén, S. Wesley Ariarajah, Ellen T. Armour, Brett Gregory Armstrong, Atsuhiro Asano, Naim Stifan Ateek, Mahmoud Ayoub, John Alembillah Azumah, Mercedes L. García Bachmann, Irena Backus, J. Wayne Baker, Mieke Bal, Lewis V. Baldwin, William Barbieri, António Barbosa da Silva, David Basinger, Bolaji Olukemi Bateye, Oswald Bayer, Daniel H. Bays, Rosalie Beck, Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Guy-Thomas Bedouelle, Chorbishop Seely Beggiani, Wolfgang Behringer, Christopher M. Bellitto, Byard Bennett, Harold V. Bennett, Teresa Berger, Miguel A. 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A nematode FMRFamide-like peptide, SDPNFLRFamide (PF1), relaxes the dorsal muscle strip preparation of Ascaris suum
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PF1 (SDPNFLRFamide) is a FMRFamide-like peptide extracted from the free-living nematode Panagrellus redivivus. Here we show that this peptide causes a hyperpolarization of somatic muscle cells of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum and a relaxation of the somatic muscle strip preparation. We have assessed whether or not the relaxation of Ascaris dorsal muscle strip by PF1 is due to (i) inhibition of the release of the excitatory neuromuscular junction transmitter acetylcholine (ACh), (ii) potentiation of the release of the inhibitory neuromuscular junction transmitter γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) or (iii) a direct inhibitory action of the peptide on the muscle cells. Under the experimental conditions described here, tonic ACh release does not seem to be involved in determining the resting membrane potential or resting tone of the Ascaris dorsal muscle strip and thus inhibition of tonic ACh release is unlikely to explain the relaxation elicited by the peptide. Furthermore, PF1 (100 nM–1 μM) inhibited the contraction of the muscle strip elicited by bath application of ACh, suggesting either a direct inhibitory action of the peptide on the muscle cells or a potentiation of GABA release. In electrophysiological experiments, the reversal potential for the PF1 hyperpolarization was not the same as that for GABA. Thus, PF1 hyperpolarizes Ascaris muscle by a mechanism that does not involve stimulation of GABA release from inhibitory pre-synaptic terminals.
The effect of the nematode peptides SDPNFLRFamide (PF1) and SADPNFLRFamide (PF2) on synaptic transmission in the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum
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The action of two peptides isolated from the nematode Panagrellus redivivus, PF1 (SDPNFLRFamide) and PF2 (SADPNFLRFamide) have been studied on synaptic transmission in the motornervous system of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum. Intracellular recordings were made from Ascaris somatic muscle cells and excitatory junction potentials (EJPs) elicited by stimulation of the ventral nerve cord. The EJPs were cholinergic as they were blocked by the Ascaris nicotinic receptor antagonist, benzoquinonium. PF1 caused a slow hyperpolarization, similar to the action of this peptide first reported by Bowman, Geary & Thompson (1990) and further characterized by Franks et al. (1994). The hyper-polarization was accompanied by a marked decrease in the amplitude of the EJPs with an EC50 of 311 ± 30 nM (n = 5). This inhibition is unlikely to be due to a post-synaptic site of action of the peptide as the muscle cell input conductance was not significantly altered by PF1 and furthermore the response to bath-applied acetylcholine was not inhibited by PF1 at concentrations up to 10μM (n = 6). PF2 also inhibited the EJPs in a similar manner to PF1. These studies indicate that both of the peptides isolated from the free-living nematode Panagrellus redivivus have biological activity in the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum. PF1 and PF2 have inhibitory actions in contrast to the predominantly excitatory actions of the Ascaris endogenous peptides AF1 (KNEFIRFamide) and AF2 (KHEYLRFamide). The potent actions of the Panagrellus neuropeptides PF1 and PF2 in Ascaris suggest that peptides with a similar or identical sequence may also occur in Ascarisand have an inhibitory role in the motornervous system.
The effects of the nematode peptide, KHEYLRFamide (AF2), on the somatic musculature of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum
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AF2 is an endogenous RFamide-like peptide from the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum. The potent stimulatory effects of this peptide on the somatic musculature of Ascaris strongly suggest that it may have an important role in the motornervous system. Here we have investigated the possibility that AF2 may elicit a stimulatory action on Ascaris muscle by potentiating the actions of the excitatory cholinergic motornervous system either pre-synaptically, post-synaptically or both. In in vitro pharmacological experiments AF2 produced a dose-dependent increase in the frequency and amplitude of spontaneous contractions of Ascaris muscle strip which lasted for more than 1 h after a 3 min application of AF2 (10 nM–10µM; N = 7). In addition, AF2 (100 nM) potentiated the contraction elicited by ACh by 43 ± 9% (P < 0·01; N = 8). In electro-physiological recordings from muscle cells, AF2 (10–100 nM; N = 10) potentiated the amplitude of EJPs (excitatory junction potentials). For 100 nM AF2, the potentiation of the EJP was 218 ± 48% (N = 7; P < 0·01). This effect reversed after a wash of 10 min. AF2 did not potentiate the depolarization of the muscle cell elicited by bath applied ACh. These latter two observations are consistent with a presynaptic action of AF2. AF2 (10–100 nM) generated spontaneous muscle cell action potentials in previously quiescent cells. This effect took more than 1 h to wash out. These observations are discussed in terms of the paralysis of Ascaris that is elicited by AF2.
Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism By Maria Georgopoulou Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001 390 pp, 136 mono illus ISBN 0-521-78235-X Price £50 (hb)
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Morality and Architecture Revisited
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Twenty-five years after its publication in 1977, David Watkin's ‘time-bomb’ demolition of Modernist architectural theory has appeared under the cliché-augmented title Morality and Architecture Revisited. Whether the book merits this jubilee re-issue is open to some debate. Of the reasons given on the flyleaf, the suggestion that ‘many of the old fallacies still persist’ seems at once an unnecessary admission of the author's failure or, at any rate, partial success in convincing us of his thesis, and an equally unnecessary concern for the recidivist views of a handful of unreconstructed Functionalists. Can there really be many who are not, after a quarter of a fast-moving century, persuaded that Pevsner was wrong and Popper right? When it comes to architectural theory, historicism in the strict philosophical sense is surely largely discredited.
John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton Yale University Press, London, 2000544 pp., 32 mono illus. ISBN 0 300 08311 4 Price £20.00 (hb) - Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites by Robert Hewison with contributions by Ian Warrell and Stephen Wildman Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 2000288 pp., 250 colour illus. ISBN 1 85437 203 X Price £29.00 (pb) - Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited by Sarah Quill Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2000206pp., 210 colour and 70 b/w illus. ISBN 1 840 14 697 4 Price £30.00 (hb)
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Six Villas by James Salmon
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To suggest that the architectural reputation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh rests on one major building, the Glasgow School of Art, and two remarkable houses, is perhaps glib. Yet Mackintosh's contribution to the urban streetscape was minimal — and this in a city of the most densely agglomerated mercantile facades. Seldom did he find the kind of munificent commercial patronage so frequently enjoyed, for example, by Thompson, Honeyman or Burnet. But while Mackintosh's street buildings have been few and little remarked (pace those who have recently so delightfully restored the Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street) a visit to one or other of his country houses has long been something of an architectural pilgrimage.
“On China's Descending Spiral”
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