Analysis of eye movements can provide insights into processes underlying performance of cognitive tasks. We recorded eye movements in healthy participants and people with idiopathic Parkinson disease during a token foraging task based on the spatial working memory component of the widely used Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery. Participants selected boxes…Continue Reading Eye Movements in the “Morris Maze” Spatial Working Memory Task Reveal Deficits in Strategic Planning
Month: February 2019
Modulatory mechanisms underlying high-frequency transcranial random noise stimulation (hf-tRNS): A combined stochastic resonance and equivalent noise approach.
High-frequency transcranial random noise stimulation (hf-tRNS) is a neuromodulatory technique consisting of the application of alternating current at random intensities and frequencies. hf-tRNS induces random neural activity in the system that may boost the sensitivity of neurons to weak inputs. Stochastic resonance is a nonlinear phenomenon whereby the addition of an optimal…Continue Reading Modulatory mechanisms underlying high-frequency transcranial random noise stimulation (hf-tRNS): A combined stochastic resonance and equivalent noise approach.
Inter-institutional Relationships in Global Health: Regulating Coordination and Ensuring Accountability
In this paper we will explore issues related to the governance of inter-organisational relationships in the field of global health – taking the multi-layered response to the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak as our point of departure. We note that, ideally organisations engaged in global health activity would have a clear set of governance rules…Continue Reading Inter-institutional Relationships in Global Health: Regulating Coordination and Ensuring Accountability
Mixed methods, mixed outcomes? Combining an RCT and case studies to research the impact of a training programme for primary school science teachers
A randomised controlled trial (RCT) and a series of case studies were used to determine the impact of two variants of an intervention (a professional development programme) aimed at improving primary school science teachers’ subject and pedagogic content knowledge, and enhancing their subject leadership ability. Ninety-six schools were randomly assigned to full or partial treatment…Continue Reading Mixed methods, mixed outcomes? Combining an RCT and case studies to research the impact of a training programme for primary school science teachers
Effect of ART scale-up and female migration intensity on risk of HIV acquisition: results from a population-based cohort in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Despite increased antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage, the incidence of HIV infection among women in rural South Africa remains high. While many socio-demographic and behavioral factors have been identified, the effect of female migration intensity on the risk of HIV acquisition before and after ART scale-up has not been evaluated in the country. We followed 13,315…Continue Reading Effect of ART scale-up and female migration intensity on risk of HIV acquisition: results from a population-based cohort in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Understanding Economic Abuse Through an Intersectional Lens: Financial Abuse, Control, and Exploitation of Women’s Productive and Reproductive Labor
Financial abuse refers to men’s control over money, assets, and women’s education or paid work. As a corrective to existing undertheorization of men’s (and their family’s) abuse of and control over women’s unpaid (domestic) labor, this article proposes a new conceptualization of economic abuse. Drawing upon life-history interviews with 41 South Asian women from the…Continue Reading Understanding Economic Abuse Through an Intersectional Lens: Financial Abuse, Control, and Exploitation of Women’s Productive and Reproductive Labor
British Academy ‘Representing Homelessness’ Conference
Location: University of Lincoln Date: Thu 18th Jul 2019, 09:00 to Fri 19th Jul 2019, 17:00 Book here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/representing-homelessness Homelessness is a lived experience for many thousands of people every day. This experience is routinely captured in different kinds of texts: newspapers, TV scripts, novels, expert research, government policy documents, and the law. Broadly-defined, texts have an enormous…Continue Reading British Academy ‘Representing Homelessness’ Conference