Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction
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Open AccessInstitutional Responsibility is Prior to Personal Responsibility in a Pandemic
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Open AccessA Collaboratively-Derived Research Agenda for E-assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics
This paper describes the collaborative development of an agenda for research on e-assessment in undergraduate mathematics. We built on an established approach to develop the agenda from the contributions of 22...
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Open AccessPolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons
Dipeptide repeat proteins are a major pathogenic feature of C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (C9ALS)/frontotemporal dementia (FTD) pathology, but their physiological impact has yet to be fully determined. He...
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Open AccessFeeding Infants: Choice-Specific Considerations, Parental Obligation, and Pragmatic Satisficing
Health institutions recommend that young infants be exclusively breastfed on demand, and it is widely held that parents who can breastfeed have an obligation to do so. This has been challenged in recent philos...
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Open AccessDeference or critical engagement: how should healthcare practitioners use clinical ethics guidance?
Healthcare practitioners have access to a range of ethical guidance. However, the normative role of this guidance in ethical decision-making is underexplored. This paper considers two ways that healthcare prac...
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Open AccessThe Causal Relationship Between Volunteering and Social Cohesion: A Large Scale Analysis of Secondary Longitudinal Data
It is often taken for granted that social cohesion and volunteering are inextricably related. Previous research suggests both that social cohesion creates a conducive environment for volunteering to emerge and...
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Open AccessAssessing Proof Reading Comprehension Using Summaries
In this paper, we explore the role of mathematical proof summaries as a tool for capturing students’ reading comprehension of a given proof. We present an interview study based on mathematicians’ pairwise eval...
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Open AccessThe involvement and autonomy of young children undergoing elective paediatric cardiac surgery: a qualitative study
Standards generally reported in the literature about informing children and respecting their consent or refusal before elective heart surgery may differ from actual practice. This research aims to summarize th...
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Open AccessChanges in political trust in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: integrated public opinion evidence and implications
In this paper, we document changes in political trust in the UK throughout 2020 so as to consider wider implications for the ongoing handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed data from 18 survey organisat...
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Open AccessThe Right Not to Know: some Steps towards a Compromise
There is an ongoing debate in medicine about whether patients have a ‘right not to know’ pertinent medical information, such as diagnoses of life-altering diseases. While this debate has employed various ethic...
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Open AccessGenome-wide CRISPR/Cas9-knockout in human induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-derived macrophages
Genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas9 technology enables simple, efficient and precise genomic modifications in human cells. Conventional immortalized cell lines can be easily edited or screened using genome-wi...
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Open AccessComparative judgement, proof summaries and proof comprehension
Proof is central to mathematics and has drawn substantial attention from the mathematics education community. Yet, valid and reliable measures of proof comprehension remain rare. In this article, we present a ...
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Open AccessFrom Sufficient Health to Sufficient Responsibility
The idea of using responsibility in the allocation of healthcare resources has been criticized for, among other things, too readily abandoning people who are responsible for being very badly off. One response ...
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Open AccessA randomised trial of the influence of racial stereotype bias on examiners’ scores, feedback and recollections in undergraduate clinical exams
Asian medical students and doctors receive lower scores on average than their white counterparts in examinations in the UK and internationally (a phenomenon known as “differential attainment”). This could be d...
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Enhancement and the Conservative Bias
Nicholas Agar argues that we should avoid certain ‘radical’ enhancement technologies. One reason for this is that they will alienate us from current sources of value by altering our evaluative outlooks. We sho...
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Hymenality: On Chesil Beach
This chapter offers a conceptualisation of the ‘heterotopic hymen’. Reading Foucault’s essay ‘Of Other Spaces’ (1984) and Derrida’s ‘The Double Session’ together with Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (2007), Davies a...
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Sexual Sets: The Act of Love
Reading Agamben’s interpretation of set theory together with Howard Jacobson’s The Act of Love, Davies argues that the protagonist’s desire to be cuckolded by his wife results in the creation of a sexual set, of ...
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Introduction: Exceptionality
The Introduction offers a detailed overview of Agamben’s theory of the state of exception and an exploration of how the present book interprets and uses his concepts in its analysis of sex, time, and space in ...
