John Kent Research Articles

John Kent’s contribution to the Discussion of the ‘Discussion Meeting on Probabilistic and statistical aspects of machine learning’

John Kent’s contribution to the Discussion of the ‘Discussion Meeting on Probabilistic and statistical aspects of machine learning’

Wernicke-Like Encephalopathy Associated With Ifosfamide.

Images in Clinical Neurology The Neurohospitalist 2017, Vol. 7(1) 49-50 a The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1941874416637407 journals.sagepub.com/home/nhos Wernicke-Like Encephalopathy Associated With Ifosfamide John Kent Lin, MD 1 , Daniel S. Chow, MD 2 , Leslie Sheu, MD 1 , and Bhavya Rehani, MD 2 Keywords imaging, Wernicke encephalopathy, dyskinesia, drug induced A 73-year-old female with maxillary chondroblastic sarcoma, chronic kidney disease, and undernutrition presented with ataxia, myoclonus, and confusion 1 week after ifosfamide and etoposide. Three days later, she became obtunded. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed abnorm- alities in the bilateral thalami (Figure 1) and mammillary bod- ies (Figure 2), suggestive of thiamine deficiency. Treatment dose of intravenous thiamine was administered, and her neu- rologic status normalized within 24 hours. Ifosfamide rarely causes a Wernicke-like encephalopathy, particularly in patients with sarcoma, elevated creatinine, and hypoalbuminemia. 1 Toxicity is likely mediated through its metabolite Chloroacetaldehyde, which may impair thiamine function, and is treated with methylene blue or thiamine. 2 Figure 2. Axial fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) magnetic resonance (MR) image demonstrates increased signal intensity in the mammillary bodies, bilaterally (arrows). Author’s Note John Kent Lin, Daniel Chow, Leslie Sheu, and Bhavya Rehnai contrib- uted to drafting or revising the manuscript for intellectual content. Bha- vya Rehani is the corresponding author, principal author, and guarantor. Department of Medicine, University of California–San Francisco, San Fran- cisco, CA, USA Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California– San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Figure 1. Axial fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) magnetic resonance (MR) image demonstrates increased signal intensity involving the thalami, bilaterally (arrows). Corresponding Author: Bhavya Rehani, University of California–San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Email: bhavya.rehani@ucsf.edu

Alcohol, Babies and the Death Penalty: Saving Lives by Analysing the Shape of the Brain

AbstractAlcohol can damage the brains of unborn babies. Shape analysis can assess the damage in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Kanti Mardia, Fred Bookstein and John Kent explain how it works, and how it can help babies and even murderers.

MIRACLES AND THE NEW TESTAMENT

C.S. Lewis, the scholar of English mediaeval and Renaissance literature who died in 1963 and is still widely respected as a Christian apologist, complained that academic biblical scholars simply assume that miracles cannot have occurred in the fashion reported in the New Testament. In a lecture quoted by A.I.C. Heron1, he said: ‘The canon “If miraculous, unhistorical” is one they bring to their study of the texts, not one they have learned from it.’ In fact, as John Kent retorted, they did not rule out in advance the idea of supernatural events, but were able, without it, to give adequate and plausible accounts of how the biblical documents reached their present form, by means of a method ‘based on questions of probability in terms of evidence’, not ‘on an a priori rejection of miracle’.2 Conclusions concerning historical events of any kind are similarly based. ‘No historians’, says the historian R.J. Evans, ‘really believe in the absolute truth of what they are writing, simply in its probable truth, which they have done their utmost to establish by following the usual rules of evidence’.3 To this question of ‘absolute’ truth I shall return.

Culture and Piety in the Far West: Revival in Penzance, Newlyn, and Mousehole in 1849

A brief but classic account of a Cornish revival is to be found in Salome Hocking’s book Some Old Cornish Folk, published in 1903. Writing semi-fictionally but also semi-ethnographically about a number of years before, the author, herself sprung from Cornish Methodism, described the thronging penitents, the exuberant singing and the ‘thrill of excitement’ that went through the village. Crucially she commented on the circumstances. The revival, she explained, had arisen ‘at a time when no one was thinking about it, and no special services were being held. It seemed to have nothing to do with the preacher either…’ The event, she was suggesting, was entirely spontaneous. Although it was triggered by a young girl going forward to kneel as a convert below the pulpit, the subsequent stir was not the result of any earlier contrivance. The awakening was unexpected, not planned. Much of the writing about revivals – periodic episodes of religious enthusiasm attended by mass conversions in evangelical Protestantism – revolves around this distinction. Nineteenth-century advocates of revivals, in America as well as in the British Isles, contrasted the older pattern in which ‘Christians waited for them as men are wont to wait for showers of rain’ with the later way in which the episodes were promoted by ‘systematic efforts’. Subsequently historians have taken up the theme. John Kent, the leading commentator on English revivals of the Victorian era, while recognizing the existence of planning among some early nineteenth-century Methodists, places the dividing line between the prevalence of contagious spontaneity, and the use of devices to achieve conversions, after 1860.

Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by John Kent

"Wesley and the Wesleyans: Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by John Kent." Canadian Journal of History, 39(3), pp. 586–587

Early Methodism

John Wesley. The evangelical revival and the rise of Methodism in England. By John Munsey Turner. Pp. x+214. Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2002. £14.95 (paper). 0 7162 0556 4Wesley and the Wesleyans. Religion in eighteenth-century Britain. By John Kent. Pp. vi+229. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £37.50 (cloth), £13.95 (paper). 0 521 45532 4; 0 521 45555 3A brand plucked from the burning. The life of John Wesley. By Roy Hattersley. Pp. vii+451+18 plates. London: Little, Brown, 2002. £20. 0 316 86020 4Mirror of the soul. The diary of an early Methodist preacher, John Bennet, 1714–1754. Edited and introduced by S. R. Valentine. Pp. xii+243 incl. 2 frontispieces. Peterborough: Methodist Publishing House, 2002. £15 (paper). 1 85852 216 1The tercentenary of John Wesley's birth saw the appearance of a whole crop of studies on various aspects of the Wesleys and early Methodism. Whether the current conversations between Methodists and Anglicans concerning the Covenanting Proposals is providing an additional spur remains to be seen. However, there can be no doubt that there is continued interest in the Wesleys and the way that Methodism developed, particularly in the eighteenth century, as the following four studies show in their very different ways.

A Conversation with Kanti Mardia

Kantilal Vardichand Mardia was born on April 3, 1935, in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India. He earned his B.Sc. degree in mathematics from Ismail Yusuf College–University of Bombay, in 1955, M.Sc. degrees in statistics and in pure mathematics from University of Bombay in 1957 and University of Poona in 1961, respectively, and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from the University of Rajasthan and the University of Newcastle, respectively, in 1965 and 1967. For significant contributions in statistics, he was awarded a D.Sc. degree from the University of Newcastle in 1973. He started his career as an Assistant Lecturer in the Institute of Science, Bombay and went to Newcastle as a Commonwealth Scholar. After receiving the Ph.D. degree from Newcastle, he joined the University of Hull as a lecturer in statistics in 1967, later becoming a reader in statistics in 1971. He was appointed a Chair Professor in Applied Statistics at the University of Leeds in 1973 and was the Head of the Department of Statistics during 1976–1993, and again from 1997 to the present. Professor Mardia has made pioneering contributions in many areas of statistics including multivariate analysis, directional data analysis, shape analysis, and spatial statistics. He has been credited for path-breaking contributions in geostatistics, imaging, machine vision, tracking, and spatio-temporal modeling, to name a few. He was instrumental in the founding of the Center of Medical Imaging Research in Leeds and he holds the position of a joint director of this internationally eminent center. He has pushed hard in creating exchange programs between Leeds and other scholarly centers such as the University of Granada, Spain, and the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He has written several scholarly books and edited conference proceedings and other special volumes. But perhaps he is best known for his books: Multivariate Analysis (coauthored with John Kent and John Bibby, 1979, Academic Press), Statistics of Directional Data (second edition with Peter Jupp, 1999, Wiley) and Statistical Shape Analysis (coauthored with Ian Dryden, 1998, Wiley). The conferences and workshops he has been organizing in Leeds for a number of years have had significant impacts on statistics and its interface with IT (information technology). He is dynamic and his sense of humor is unmistakable. He is a world traveler. Among other places, he has visited Princeton University, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, the University of Granada, Penn State and the University of Connecticut. He has given keynote addresses and invited lectures in international conferences on numerous occasions. He has been on the editorial board of statistical, as well as image related, journals including the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference and Journal of Applied Statistics. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a Fellow of the American Dermatoglyphic Association. He is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Senior Member of IEEE. Professor Mardia retired on September 30, 2000 to take a full-time post as Senior Research Professor at Leeds—a new position especially created for him.

Nicholas Tarling. <italic>Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950</italic>. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. x, 488. $64.95

Journal Article Nicholas Tarling. Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. x, 488. $64.95 Get access Tarling Nicholas. Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. x, 488. $64.95. John Kent John Kent London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 105, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 521–522, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.2.521 Published: 01 April 2000

SHORTER NOTICES

Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN KENT JOHN KENT Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 448, September 1997, Pages 1027-b–1028, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.448.1027-b Published: 01 September 1997

The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia, 1935-1941.Haile M. LareboThe Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France, and Black Africa, 1939-1956.John Kent , John D. Hargreaves , Michael Twaddle , Terence Ranger

<i>The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia, 1935-1941.</i>Haile M. Larebo<i>The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France, and Black Africa, 1939-1956.</i>John Kent , John D. Hargreaves , Michael Twaddle , Terence Ranger

SHORTER NOTICES

Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN KENT JOHN KENT Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 445, February 1997, Pages 221–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.445.221 Published: 01 February 1997

SHORTER NOTICES

Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN KENT JOHN KENT University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 442, June 1996, Pages 771–772, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.442.771 Published: 01 June 1996

SHORTER NOTICES

Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN KENT JOHN KENT University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 440, February 1996, Pages 232–233, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.440.232 Published: 01 February 1996

Late Modern

The Industrial Revolution in World History. By Peter N. Steams. Essays in English Population History. By Peter Razzell. Political Alignment in the French National Assembly, 1789–1791. By Harriet B. Applewhite. Refractory Men, Fanatical Women: Fidelity to Conscience during the French Revolution. By Edwin Bannon. Theatre and Performance in Austria: From Mozart to Jellinek. Edited by Ritchie Robertson and Edward Timms. Alexander I. By Janet Hartley. A Concise History of Greece. By Richard Clogg. From Jacobin to Liberal: Marc‐Antoine Jullien, 1775–1848. Edited and translated by R. R. Palmer. Duncannon: Reformer and Reconciler 1781–1847. By Dorothy Howell‐Thomas. Dreams of Happiness: Social Art and the French Left. By Neil Me William. History, Religion and Identity in Modern Britain. By Keith Robbins. Disraeli: A Biography. By Stanley Weintraub. Benjamin Disraeli: Letters, Volume 5: 1848–1851.Edited by M. G. Wiebeet al. Scotland in the Age of Disruption. Edited by Stewart J. Brown and Michael Fry. The University Movement in Wales. By J. Gwynn Williams. Children's Work and Welfare, 1780–1880s. By Pamela Horn. Child Welfare, England 1872–1989. By Harry Hendrick. Skipness: Memories of a Highland Estate. By Angus Graham. Elites ed educazione femminile nell' Italia dell' Ottocento; L'Istituto della SS. Annunziata di Firenze. By Sylvia Franchini. The German Colonial Empire 1884–1919. By W. O. Henderson. Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894–1917. By Anna Geifman. Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872–1969. By John W. Cell. Britain and the Threat to Stability in Europe, 1918–45. Edited by Peter Catterall with C. J. Morris. Monguls and Mandarins: Oil, Imperialism and the Middle East in British Foreign Policy, 1900–1940. By Marian Kent. A History of British Trade Unions since 1889, Volume 3: 1934–1951. ByHugh Armstrong Clegg. Berlin Cabaret. By Peter Jelavich. Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant. By Amy Knight. Franco. By Sheelagh M. Ellwood. Scientists, Engineers, and National Socialism. Edited by Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker. Antoine de Saint‐Exupéry: The Life and Death of the Little Prince. By Paul Webster. How Great Generals Win. B Bevin Alexander. Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. By David Fraser. The Best War Ever. By Michael C. C. Adams. The Longman Companion to Britain in the Era of the Two World Wars, 1914–45. By Andrew Thorpe. Collaboration in Belgium: Léon Degrelle and the Rexist Movement, 1940–1944. By Martin Conway. The Politics of Continuity: British Foreign Policy and the Labour Government, 1945–46. By John Saville. Labour Defence Policy since 1945. By Dan Keohane. British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944–49. By John Kent. From Reconstruction to Integration: Britain and Europe since 1945. Edited by Brian Brivati and Harriet Jones. Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics. By Philip G. Roeder. The Origins of Democratization In Poland. By Michael H. Bernhard.

Dynamic response: its impact on the textile marketing chain. Part 2‐the finisher

In this second instalment of their article, Mike Bradbury and John Kent look at the impact and influence the introduction of a dynamic response management style has on the finisher.

Modern religious rebels. Presented to John Kent. Edited by Stuart Mews. Pp. x + 262. London: Epworth Press, 1993. £12.50. 0 7162 0488 6

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Dynamic response: its impact on the textile marketing chain.

Retailers, garment makers and fabric suppliers measure the success of the finisher in terms of product and supplier performance, response time, and costs and margins. Mike Bradbury and John Kent look at the introduction of a dynamic response management style, an approach which can meet the rapidly changing needs of the textile chain and provide improved financial performance. The second part of this article, looking at the implications for the finisher, will be published in the next issue of the Journal.

The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956

Journal Article The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956 Get access The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956 by John Kent. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1992. pp. xi+365. £45.00. ISBN 0 19 820302 0. ROBERT HOLLAND ROBERT HOLLAND Institute of Commonwealth Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 369, October 1993, Page 624, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098677 Published: 01 October 1993

Arabic Adventurers and American Investigators: Cultural Values in Adolescent Detective Fiction

Arabic Adventurers and American Investigators:Cultural Values in Adolescent Detective Fiction Sylvia Patterson Iskander (bio) The international smuggler Kent was able to slip through the hands of the police in many countries. Suddenly Inspector Sami received a message stating that this dangerous smuggler had arrived in Egypt. . . . The five adventurers appeared in the heart of the chase. Were they able to reach John Kent? Were they able to succeed where police from all over the world had failed? [International Smuggler, preface] With this opening Mahmoud Salem hooks his adolescent readers into one of the Five Adventurers series; other contemporary series in Arabic—the Three Adventurers and the Four Adventurers—begin in similar fashion.1 These contemporary Arabic Adventurers series, set in Egypt, invite comparison with the American Three Investigators series, particularly the earlier volumes by Robert Arthur.2 Arabic series of detective fiction, a fairly recent development, have become popular among Middle Eastern children, who have not had their own children's literature until this century (Ghurayyib 17), much later than European and American children.3 John Cawelti's description of "the world of a formula . . . as an archetypal story pattern embodied in the images, symbols, themes, and myths of a particular culture" (16) and Dennis Porter's belief that Western detective fiction is a "valuable barometer of [a] society's ideological norms" (1), although written about detective fiction for adults, are both valid concepts for adolescent fiction whether Eastern or Western.4 The formula for detective fiction largely remains constant, but cultural differences clearly distinguish the Eastern Adventurers series from the Western Investigators; furthermore, techniques for creating suspense subsequently produce a slower pace in the Arabic stories.5 Stories from both cultures generally adopt the viewpoint of the youthful detective, never that of the criminal. Because romanticizing [End Page 118] crime or criminals is not acceptable in Middle Eastern culture, the Arabic stories do not focus on the criminal;6 Western stories for children also do not romanticize the criminal, though some adult American stories may. The attitude toward crime, however, can be significantly different in Eastern and Western detective fiction. The attitudes that crime is a social problem and that criminal acts are "not evil deeds but the result of defective social arrangements or heredity" (Cawelti 57) do not coincide with Islamic law, which, rather than faulting society, generally punishes the individual doer of the act. In spite of their different attitudes toward criminals, both Eastern and Western youths with prior experience in reading detective fiction enjoy the contrast between the "safely familiar" and the "tantalizingly new and different" (Billman 37), the rarity of the crime, the clever solution to a common crime, the development of suspense, and the arousal of the reader's emotions (Porter 236). As Anne Scott MacLeod has written, "The real protagonist of [formula fiction] is the reader; the real plot is a satisfying vicarious experience that also—and not incidentally—conveys messages the reader wants and is able to hear" (129). Both Eastern and Western tales affirm their readers' beliefs; indeed, "the persistence of certain recognizable national cultural traditions within the large corpus of detective fiction" is, according to Porter, "remarkable" (127). Although Porter speaks of fiction for adults, his remarks prove valid for children's fiction in which cultural differences permeate the characterization, action, and setting, as well as the methods for creating suspense and the resulting pace of the story. All detective stories obviously require a victim, a criminal, a detective, and others who, though involved with the crime, are incapable of solving it. The victim must not be so prominent as to overshadow the detective's role, but the reader must know enough about the victim to care about the crime's solution (Cawelti 91). In some Arabic stories, such as The Bride of Sinai, the reader knows almost nothing about the bride but can sympathize with her having been kidnaped from her wedding without knowing her more intimately. Rules exist for the creation of the criminal as well; his or her motives must not be probed too deeply, the goal of the detective story being to establish clearly the criminal's guilt (Cawelti 92). In the Arabic and American...