Return Journey Research Articles

Poselstwo Jana Potockiego do Chin w 1806 r.

Jan Potocki’s mission to China in 1806 Jan Potocki – the most famous European traveler of the Enlightenment and a scholar who was expert in many cultures – made a journey by land to China in 1806. As part of a group of eleven scholars, which he led, he was included in an official Russian mission numbering 250 persons that traveled to the Middle Kingdom in order to establish trading links. On the way, the scholars carried out, inter alia, geological, botanical, and climate research. Potocki prepared maps, descriptions of specimens, and reports of scientific achievements. However, the Russian mission was turned back from the border area for infringing diplomatic principles regarding respect for the traditions and culture of China. Only Potocki obtained permission to cross the border of the Empire on the return journey. This was the first entry of a European into China by land.

Polskie opisy Rzymu ze zbiorów Gabinetu Starych Druków BUW. Studium proweniencyjne

Polish Descriptions of Rome in the Collection of the Early Printed Books Department of the University of Warsaw Library—a Provenance Study Descriptions of the Eternal City written or translated by Poles began to appear in print in the second half of the 16th century. Before 1800 only eight titles were published, three of which are kept in the Early Printed Books Department of the University of Warsaw Library. Analysing the individual characteristics of the copies, such as ownership marks, marginalia, or bindings, an attempt is made to establish the identity of the owners of the books, their interests and reading practices, and to determine the ways in which Rome was perceived by readers born in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The aim of the study is also to show how the way of thinking about the Eternal City changed over the years and to present the purposes for which the former guides and accounts about Rome were used by the 17th, 18th, and 19th century readers. Five editions and eight copies of three titles were analysed. These are: O Rzymie pogańskim i chrześcijańskim (On Pagan and Christian Rome) by Andrzej Wargocki (two editions, five copies), Delicyje ziemie włoskiej (Italian Delicacies) by Georg Kranitz (two editions, two copies), and Droga rzymska z nawrotem do swojej ojczyzny (A Return Journey to Rome) by Kazimierz Kognowicki (one edition, one copy).

'I don't want to have a separated home': Reckoning family and return migration among married Nigerians in China.

The growing 'Africans in China' literature has documented the extent and extensiveness of flows from Africa to Chinese cities. However, return migration has not received much attention, and even less is known about the role of the family in return consideration. The article focuses on how married Nigerians reckon return and family in Guangzhou city using data from ethnographic observations and interviews with 25 participants. While the family is central to how married migrants think about return, the dynamics vary among the participants. Migrants whose spouses/children reside in Nigeria complain about being distant from their families and the challenge of unification and 'absentee fatherhood'. Nigerian couples that live in Guangzhou as a family consider the high cost of raising children and the future competitiveness of their children as 'China-educated' as factors in return calculations. Moreover, despite living with their husbands in China, some Nigerian women desire to return to Nigeria to improve their lives, but they did not embark on a return journey to avoid family separation. Among Nigerians in an interracial relationship with Chinese women, the feeling of (un)belongingness resonates in their return consideration owing to poor experiences with access to residence permit and social welfare. While integration issues impact on return migration of married Nigerians in Guangzhou, the transnational practices of the men suggest that a return behaviour would probably accompany return consideration.

The English Search for a Northeast Passage to Asia Reconsidered: How ‘Flemish’ fishermen put the Edward Bonaventure in jeopardy on its return journey in 1554

In 1553 the Edward Bonaventure set sail from England with two other ships to search for a Northeast Passage to Asia. Eventually the ship made it to the White Sea and the captain of the ship, Richard Chancellor, reached Moscow where he met Tsar Ivan IV, ‘the Terrible’, at the Kremlin. In 1554 the ship returned to England but was ‘robbed by Flemings’, according to Richard Hakluyt. The discovery of a case file in the archives of the Great Council of Malines, the supreme court of the Netherlands in the sixteenth century, concerning the robbing of the Edward Bonaventure on its return voyage offers a new perspective on the spectacular first English expedition which resulted in the discovery of the North Cape and Anglo-Russian trade connections and diplomatic relations. Besides offering new knowledge on England’s pioneering voyage of 1553, this article explores possibilities and limitations of case files for historical research and offers a revealing example of political pressure on legal decision-making and shows that legal institutions were not necessarily the puppets of their rulers.

P6134Understanding non-attendance to an inner city tertiary centre heart failure clinic: a pilot project

Abstract Background Tackling health inequalities is a priority in heart failure (HF). We do not fully understand why some patients do not attend their hospital HF clinic appointments. Currently when a patient DNAs (does not attend) they are offered a repeat appointment often months later or are discharged from the service with a request to the primary care physician to re-refer. Non-attendance represents a missed opportunity to improve patients' health. Purpose The purpose of this pilot was to look at the demographics and patient factors that contribute to non-attendance. The aim is to understand and personalise our DNA policy to reduce health inequality, improve outcomes, and reduce inefficiencies in our service. Methods The last consecutive 45 patients who DNAd HF clinic were identified and for each, a patient who did attend the same clinic date (Attender), was chosen at random (random.org). The demographics were obtained (age, ethnicity, contact details) and medical notes reviewed (LVEF%, co-morbidities). The patient address was scored for its Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) – a UK government dataset measuring relative deprivation by ranking 32,844 neighbourhoods nationally using 37 indicators across 7 domains of deprivation where neighbourhood 1 is the most deprived nationally. Patients were phoned up to three times to establish the patient's mode, duration and cost of their last journey to clinic and, for those patients who DNAd, to ascertain the reason for non-attendance. Results Demographic and medical history was obtained for all patients. It was not possible to contact 2/45 of the Attenders, and 13/45 of the DNA patients. There was no significant difference in age, gender, number of comorbidities, LVEF%, travel time, or travel cost between DNAs and attenders. The mean one-way journey time was 53.4 mins (range 15–210 mins) and the mean return journey cost was GBP ≤10.95 (range ≤0–≤80). Common reasons for non-attendance were not receiving appointment details, forgetting appointments, being unwell on the day and difficulties with travel. The IMD score for the patients who DNAd was significantly lower confirming these patients lived in more deprived areas (9436±5863 vs. 15414±7801, p<0.001) with 71% of DNA patient's addresses in the bottom third most deprived neighbourhoods nationally. Figure 1 Conclusions There was a significant difference in deprivation score between patients who attended and DNAd their clinics. In addition, we found that all patients were travelling up to an hour each way to attend clinic, and that the cost of travel may be a barrier to attendance, even in a healthcare system that is free at the point of delivery. Despite calling three times, we were unable to speak to 29% of patients who DNAd and 4% of the patients who attended their appointments. Work is ongoing to reduce our DNA rates and personalise our response in this deprived population, with the aim of improving engagement and health inequality.

Art History, Boundary Crossing, Making Worlds

Art History, Boundary Crossing, Making Worlds

Design methodology of a novel variable stiffness actuator based on antagonistic-driven mechanism

This paper concerns the construction of a novel variable stiffness actuator with antagonistic-driven mechanism (ADM-VSA). The ADM-VSA consists of two cam mechanisms and two constant stiffness spring mechanisms establishing the antagonistic structure to eliminate the empty return journey. The former with symmetrical cam profiles are designed for the movement of actuator, while the latter are explored substituting traditional springs of generating compliance for compact structure. To obtain desired performance of the actuator, the design methodology is developed for constructing the ADM-VSA, integrating the constant stiffness spring mechanism design method from four-bar mechanism to multi-bar mechanism, the comprehensive optimization of cam profiles and sensitivity analysis of structural parameters. The comprehensive optimization is conducted with different-order Bezier splines considering the torque, stiffness, and energy by friction simultaneously. The sensitivity analysis is performed to investigate the influence of structural errors on the performance of actuator, with new indexes decreasing the workload of calculation, and several guidelines for the design and manufacturing are achieved. Finally, a prototype is developed to verify the reliability of ADM-VSA and, further, proves the validity of proposed design methods.

Sense of Humour in Muna Madan

Muna Madan exploits humor, an elemental device in Laxmi Prasad Devkota’s narrative, in a series of instances, ranging from Madan’s departure to his return journey after his business trip to Lhasa. In this article, there is a short description of black bile (melancholy), as one of the four types of 'humors', present in the great epic poem 'Muna Madan' by the great poet Devkota. This sense of 'humor' is realized throughout the poem. For the research study, secondary resources were consulted. Books and journals were studied for the purpose. The data were collected and analyzed for exploration of the humor in this short epic. Finding suggests that Madan and Devkota, in his real life, had a similar experience of melancholy as the sense of humor.

A Return Journey: Hope and Strength in the Aftermath of Alzheimer’s

Sue Petrovski’s short book, A Return Journey: Hope and Strength in the Aftermath of Alzheimer’s, is a collection of personal stories as she and her husband cared for her mother during the course of the disease as well as the shared stories of others. A Return Journey provides an insider’s view of the challenges of caring for those with Alzheimer’s and is useful for current and future caregivers as well as those who are studying and working in the health professions.

An Open Knowledge System for Navigational Science: Zheng He’s Maritime Expeditions and Sino-Foreign Overseas Exchange

The first section of this article begins by investigating the term “going down to the Western Oceans” (xia xiyang 下西洋), which was used as early as the time of Zheng He. It also discusses the origin of the concepts of the Eastern and Western Oceans. The second section discusses the influx of overseas geographical knowledge into China before the time of Zheng He, especially over two important periods: first, the coming of Indian geographical knowledge along with Buddhism to China from the Wei-Jin period (220–420 ce), and second, the advent of Islamic geographical knowledge during the Mongol-Yuan period (ca. 1206–1368). The third section discusses the contributions of foreign members in Zheng He’s fleet, especially fanhuozhang 番火長 (foreign pilot). Through an analysis of the records of three military encounters—the suppression of the pirate Chen Zuyi 陳祖義, the attack on Ceylon, and the battle with pirates on a return journey—we find that the term fanhuozhang appears in all three cases, showing that foreign experts were commonly present in all branches or segments of Zheng He’s fleet, and that it must have been their job to navigate in the Indian ocean portion of the journey. Based on these findings, the author suggests that even before the beginning of Ming, Chinese people had developed an understanding of navigation technology and absorbed expertise from other peoples, and that this knowledge formed the technological foundation of Zheng He’s long-distance voyages, evident of the fact that China’s ancient navigational technology was an open knowledge system.

Dylan Thomas's ‘Return Journey to Swansea’: A Collaborative Radio Poetic

This article explores how Dylan Thomas's engagement with radio created an innovative collaborative radio poetic. Thomas contributed many broadcast essays and features to the Third Programme, the Home Service, the Welsh Home Service and the Eastern Service. Scholars have also long been aware of Thomas's important creative relationship with BBC producers such as Douglas Cleverdon (who produced Under Milk Wood). Yet there remains little analysis of his features for radio. Drawing on archival memos from the BBC's Literary Output Committee (held at the BBC's Written Archives in Caversham), this article initially considers the institutional relationship between poets and the BBC during the 1940s. Against this institutional backdrop, it then focuses on a specific 1947 BBC feature that Thomas wrote about post-blitz Swansea: ‘Return Journey to Swansea’. Examining the history and practicalities of the collaboration involved between Thomas and the producer P. H. Burton, the discussion links the feature's social commentary to the audio radio poetic collaboratively created between poet, broadcast institution, producer, and medium.

Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies by James E. Dobson

Reviewed by: Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies by James E. Dobson Susan Shelangoskie (bio) Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies James E. Dobson Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, vii + 117 pp. ISBN 978-3319673219, $69.99 hardcover. James E. Dobson's Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies takes on an ambitious project, attempting to connect the rise of rapid travel and communication technologies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with changes in both the form and purpose of the American autobiography. Further, Dobson interrogates the role of detachment, an Enlightenment era ideal and emblem of the realist narrative perspective, as it is used in the self-reflections of autobiographical works by Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, and Henry Adams. Individual chapters on each of these writers make up the core of the text, following two chapters that establish a theoretical framework. The first chapter surveys the turn from the traditional linear progressive view of American history, reinforced by notions such as Leo Marx's "complex pastoralism," to the recognition of multiple perspectives that accompanied the rise of the modernist movement in the early twentieth century (5–6), setting the stage for Dobson's argument that American autobiographies registered ambivalence about the dominant narrative of progress. The second chapter takes up the question of detachment as a philosophical concept with both positive and negative valences that evolves to become a tool for narrative perspective in the realism movement. Philosophical detachment is then juxtaposed with the disruptions in nineteenth-century American life—the Civil War, economic upheaval, forced migration—that created literal detachment from past homes for many Americans. This discussion becomes the vehicle for introducing the examination of the homecoming travel narrative as a specific type of autobiography. Dobson's focus on personal, return-home narratives is a strength of his work. Dobson notes that homecoming narratives were popular in fin-de-siècle America, and he further contextualizes these plots with the economic realities of the time. Forced mobility due to economic need or other types of displacement, rapid urbanization, and the boom and bust of the Gilded Age meant that many lost their homes. His engagement with these narratives of a lost past, particularly in an American culture that did not seem to value the past, is a powerful contribution to life writing. Dobson's work highlights the varied responses to this loss by James and Dreiser. Both writers utilize a detached third person perspective in their autobiographical works, and both are frustrated in their quest to recover a sense of the past because of the loss of physical homes that they seek to revisit. In these failures, Dobson locates modern disruption, and he analyzes the use of detachment by each author as a way of coping with this failure. For James, detachment signifies "a removal from the relentless growth and systemization of modernization run amok" (52), while Dreiser's detachment allows him to identify moments of repetition [End Page 886] between past and present that Dobson aligns with "one's true home … a cosmic temporality of eternal repetition" (76). In these two chapters, Dobson presents the most forceful version of his argument about the use of autobiography as a means of grappling with modernization in an attempt to create a coherent identity between the present and past self. Another strength of Dobson's analysis is his discussion of the rise of modernity as a disruptive force, and, through this examination of disruption, Dobson most clearly explores travel and communication technologies. For example, as travel technologies enabled swift movement across the country, more people were able to make that return journey home. However, when travelers who journeyed towards an idealized past arrived and confronted the reality of the lost home, they felt a sense of disruption and even disorientation, and the personal temporality connecting the present to the past may have remained uncomfortably incomplete. Travel technologies as instruments of this increased mobility are therefore important to the analysis. However, Dobson does not address in much detail the specific representations of these technologies. For example, James...

A unified framework for operational range estimation of mobile robots operating on a single discharge to avoid complete immobilization

Mobile robots are being increasingly deployed in fields where human intervention is deemed risky. However, in doing so, one of the prime concern is to prevent complete battery depletion which may in turn lead to immobilization of the robot during the mission. Thus, we need to carefully manage the energy available to explore as much of the unknown environment as feasible whilst guaranteeing a safe return journey to home base. For this, we need to identify the key components that draw energy and quantify their individual energy requirements. However, this problem is difficult due to the fact that most of the robots have different motion models, and the energy consumption usually also varies from mission to mission. It is desirable to have a generic framework that takes into account different locomotion models and possible mission profiles. This paper presents a methodology to unify the energy consumption models for various robotic platforms thereby allowing us to estimate operational range in both offline and online fashions. The existing models consider a given mission profile and try to estimate its energy requirements whilst our model considers the energy as a given resource constraint and tries to optimize the mission to be accomplished within these constraints. The proposed unified energy consumption framework is verified by field experiments for micro UGV and multi-rotor UAV test-beds operating under myriad of environmental conditions. The online model estimates operational range with an average accuracy (measured with respect to true range across multiple field trials) of 93.87% while the offline model attains 82.97%.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Procedure for Ventilated Intensive Care Patient in the International Islamic University Malaysia Medical Centre: Issues and Challenges

Managing a ventilated patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) procedure requires precise planning. Vigilant anesthetist with adequate MRI compatible monitoring of a critically ill patient and in preparation of any crisis event during transport to MRI suite, during MRI and return journey to ICU is essential. Problems in transporting ICU patient are usually equipment related, deterioration in gas exchange and increased rate of ventilator associated pneumonia. Preparation includes clinical reassessment for swift and systematic transport, airway management, optimum sedation and record keeping close to the patient. This is a case report of a 64 year-old gentleman who presented to International Islamic University Malaysia Medical Centre with right sided headache for one week associated with high intracranial pressure symptoms. His initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was 15/15 and Computed Tomography (CT) scan of his brain showed bilateral acute-on-chronic subdural haemorrhage, uncal herniation and minimal midline shift. His GCS dropped to 6/15 (E1V1M4) in the ward and proceeded with right craniectomy, evacuation of clot and duraplasty. Post operatively, his GCS improved to 15/15 in ICU and was extubated. On Day 2 post extubation, his GCS dropped to 6/15 (E1V1M4) and intubation was performed. Repeat CT Brain in ICU showed no evidence of new bleeding or mass effect. MRI was performed and it showed acute infarctions at right pons and right occipital region. Tracheostomy was done and the patient was sent to the general ward on fixed performance mask.

Agriculture in Motion: Intertwined Geographical and Socio-professional Mobilities in North Africa s Groundwater Economy

In this paper, we examine the greenhouse horticulture in Algeria's Sahara, which is one illustrative example of the agricultural transitions that have taken place in North Africa on the new irrigation frontiers created through groundwater use. The entrepreneurial farming systems in the region are characterized by considerable mobility. Geographic mobilities of people, ideas, capital, information, and objects and socio-professional mobilities are intrinsically intertwined, whereby skilled sha-recroppers and laborers move sometimes over hundreds of kilometers, attracted by the opportunities of quick monetary gains and by the opportunities of rapid so-cio-professional upward mobility. This paper analyzes, first the different forms of socio-professional and geographical mobilities associated with the groundwater-ba-sed farming systems in Algeria's Sahara, with a particular focus on mobile young farmers; then focuses on the multiple borders that these young farmers crossed on their trajectory; and their return journey after they quit the Sahara.

Icarus in the Holy Land: Moments of Frailty

Icarus in the Holy Land:Moments of Frailty Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod (bio) I. Crossing My mother has crossed the ocean. She has spread her wings and flown—unlike Icarus, avoiding the sun—but really, more like Odysseus, for she has spread her skirts and paddled here across the wine-dark Mediterranean Sea. And okay, yes, it was a cruise ship, because it really is the rainy season and as Odysseus discovered, the Mediterranean is too cold and stormy at this time of year for floating and paddling on one's own. And it is true that my mother is no spring chicken. Plus, the corn syrup exploded everywhere, all over her luggage, all over her cabin. I'm sure it would have attracted sharks if she'd just been paddling, hand over hand, spread out on fluttering denim fabric like a manta ray. My corn syrup. A bottle of corn syrup, a last-minute impulse, because certain things are Hard to Get here in Israel. Most things are fine, but there are some things we miss. Corn syrup that is golden yellow; breakfast cereal with the right balance of salt and malt, the two ingredients that I swear make any cereal more delicious. Her bags full of Starbucks; her bags full of Rice Krispies, which perversely they simply do not sell here. At the museum in Jaffa, relics are on display which washed ashore thousands of years ago, and I picture my mother's suitcases washing onto some Cyprus beach a few millennia from now. Encased in plastic, the coffee powder, the malty goodness of cereal, will surely survive, though perhaps not keep its delightful crispness through the ages. Then there is the corn syrup, which has not even withstood its journey across the sea. But overall, we are doing just fine. If my mother is no spring chicken, this makes me the chicken, pecking gratefully at the cereal she releases from her bags. [End Page 139] If my mother is Odysseus, what does that make me? Penelope? Indeed, I worry that I will not recognize my mother when we go to meet her at the seaport in Haifa. I worry each time that the mother in my mind is not the mother who will walk towards me; that she will have been reduced, diminished, aged beyond recognition. A beggar in rags, and we'd walk right past her, rushing, arms outstretched, towards some stranger with a neutral smile. II. Kneeling It's not every day that you cross an ocean to be with the people you love. Years ago, it would have taken forever to make the pilgrimage to this Holy Land. If you survived the journey at all, that is. You set aside a year—hope you didn't have any plans—and hopped on your horse or your donkey or your feet; whatever you had, really. If you went by foot, you'd have to stop along the way, resting, refreshing, burying your dead. If you were royalty, hopefully you had a boat, because that was the best way of all, except for storms or pirates. Then it might take only two years for the return journey. There was a strong chance, for most people, that it would be a one-way trip, the way going to Mars might be today. It's easy to imagine people's reaction when they first touched down on this holy soil after a journey like that. They'd kneel, weep, kiss the ground, thank their lucky stars, shake the captain's hand, or slip a tip into the hand of the camel driver who didn't stab them in their sleep. Here is my mother's reaction. Ready? Okay, wait for it. Here it comes. And . . . "Hi!" Okay, I'm lying; there was no exclamation mark. I have put it in because I will weep if I must take it out. Don't make me take it out. It is a line of my own blood, a dot pricked with a hatpin, because yes, my mother carries hatpins. But no, she doesn't exclaim. I was ready for almost anything, except "Hi." The dailiness of it. The barely...

Energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions analysis for a concept design of a hydrogen hybrid railway vehicle

Diesel is the most common energy source used by many railway vehicles globally but it also has an impact on the environment due to carbon emissions from the diesel engine. Railway electrification is an effective way to reduce emissions but fails to be a very cost effective solution particularly for routes where passenger traffic is low. This study has undertaken a propulsion system concept design based on a vehicle similar to the British class 150 diesel-powered vehicle. A return journey was simulated over the British regional route Birmingham Moor Street to Stratford-upon-Avon to set a benchmark for the development of hydrogen-powered and hydrogen-hybrid trains. A fuel cell power plant and hydrogen compressed at 350 bars were used as part of the concept design. It was found that all the components essential for the train propulsion system can be installed within the space available on original diesel-powered class 150 train. The installation of equipment does not compromise passenger capacity and weighs similar to original class 150. Energy consumption was reduced by 44% on the hydrogen-powered train and by 60% on the hydrogen-hybrid train. Carbon-dioxide emissions were reduced by 59% using the hydrogen-powered train and by 77% using the hydrogen-hybrid train.

A different perspective on the brain

Five contemporary artists, who collaborated with scientists to explore current biological research, showcased their works as part of the Brilliant Brains exhibition at the Cambridge Science Festival (Cambridge, UK), whose theme was “making sense of the brain”. Intended originally for a neutral gallery environment, the selection and display were rethought for an alternative space—where bookshelves and furniture evoked an old-fashioned library—late in the curatorial process. This was an appropriate setting for the ingenious thought-provoking works resulting from the five artist–scientist pairings, three of which engaged directly with human consciousness and are reviewed here. “I started to see the brain as a representation of an inner space; vastly complex and uncharted as a field of exploration”, says artist Sarah Harley. Her exhibited works result from collaboration with Srivas Chennu (University of Cambridge, UK), whose research into alterations in brain activity in minimally conscious states has shown how EEG can be used to characterise brain networks, measure cognition, and detect awareness in patients in vegetative states. Harley's use of textiles in conjunction with printmaking adds a domestic familiarity and intimacy to her cloud-shaped etchings and monoprints of brains. Various 3D mixed-media works are displayed on crocheted doilies, whose scalloped forms and intricately linked threads evoke the brain's gross anatomy and its myriad interconnected neurons. The search for your spark, a lidded glass jar filled with water, represents the sense of separation and unreachability of patients in vegetative states. White threads, some tipped with gold leaf, float above a white porcelain head submerged at the bottom of the jar. The entangled threads and their gold tips refer respectively to cerebral neurons and neural transmission. “Floating flecks of gold leaf refer to the urge to shake a person to wake them or bring them into a conscious state”, Harley explains. “I am particularly interested in the complex dynamics between body and mind, perception, and knowledge”, says artist Charlotte Morrison. Her exhibited works were inspired by her collaboration with Madeline Lancaster (Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK), who grows in vitro 3D tissues called cerebral organoids (so-called mini-brains). Generated from human pluripotent stem cells, they are used in studying the stages of human brain development microscopically. Morrison's artwork Making Brains shadows Lancaster's methodology in two stages. First, she creates 3D disks by building up layers of glue and ink on Perspex. Then, using a rectangular light-impermeable template with four circular openings, she positions her “glue brains” on sheets of light-sensitive paper. By exposing the Perspex disks to light, she captures their inner structures as cyanotype prints. Works created by Sally Stenton in collaboration with neuroscientist Marty Fiati (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK) connect both with our perception of places and of the movement between them. The Forensic Corridor, displayed horizontally across three shelves of adjacent bookcases, presents her “walk from art to science and back again”. Strapping a smartphone to her belt, she recorded a video of her return journey between the Cambridge School of Art and the Faculty of Science and Technology building at Anglia Ruskin University. Using two facing projectors, flickering footage of her outbound walk was projected from left to right on the left-hand shelf, and her return footage was projected from right to left on the right-hand one. The intermediary shelf was filled with an eclectic selection of appropriately titled books, chosen by the artist and the scientist, including The Mind at Night, Fleeting Memories, Neurophysiology of Vision, and Memory, Aging and The Brain. Art theory titles were also borrowed from the Ruskin Gallery. Displayed in this library setting, the artist's walk suggests that the “two cultures” of art and science famously described by C P Snow are easily bridged, at least in this university town. Trying to read your thoughts, Harley's tiny handmade book provides the final word in this intriguing exhibition. It was made by stitching blank white embossed pages between endpapers and covers, printed with etched fragments of grey doilies, and embroidering “your beautiful brain”' in red thread on its front cover. When fanned open, the contours embossed onto its pages evoke convoluted folds in sections of cerebral cortex, while their blank whiteness hints at what is still unknown about the brain and its function. It's a mute but eloquent comment on the adjacent bookshelves, crammed with research findings and scholarly conjecture on human consciousness, mind, and matter. Brilliant Brains: seeing science through art CB2 Restaurant Café, Cambridge, UK, March 12–18, 2018, during the Cambridge Science Festival Brilliant Brains: seeing science through art CB2 Restaurant Café, Cambridge, UK, March 12–18, 2018, during the Cambridge Science Festival

Cost-Consequence Analysis Alongside a Randomised Controlled Trial of Hospital Versus Telephone Follow-Up after Treatment for Endometrial Cancer.

BackgroundRegular outpatient follow-up programmes are usually offered to patients following treatment for gynaecological and other cancers. Despite the substantial resources involved in providing these programmes, there is evidence that routine follow-up programmes do not affect survival or the likelihood of detecting recurrence and may not meet patient needs. Alternative follow-up modalities may offer the same outcomes at lower cost. We examined the costs of using telephone-based routine follow-up of women treated for endometrial cancer undertaken by specialist gynaecology oncology nurses in comparison to routine hospital-based follow-up.MethodsThe ENDCAT trial randomised 259 women at five centres in the north west of England with a known diagnosis of Stage I endometrial cancer who had completed primary treatment on a 1:1 basis to receive either standard hospital outpatient follow-up or a telephone follow-up intervention administered by specialist nurses. A cost-consequence analysis was undertaken in which we compared costs to the health system and to individuals with the trial’s co-primary outcomes of psychological morbidity and participant satisfaction with information received.ResultsPsychological morbidity, psychosocial needs, patient satisfaction and quality of life did not differ between arms. Patients randomised to telephone follow-up underwent more and longer consultations. There was no difference in total health service mean per patient costs at 6 months (mean difference £8, 95% percentile confidence interval: − £147 to £141) or 12 months (mean difference: − £77, 95% percentile confidence interval: − £334 to £154). Estimated return journey costs per patient for hospital consultations were £11.47. Productivity costs were approximately twice as high under hospital follow-up.ConclusionTelephone follow-up was estimated to be cost-neutral for the NHS and may free up clinic time for other patients. There was some evidence that telephone follow-up may be more efficient for patients and wider society, and is not associated with additional psychological morbidity, lower patient satisfaction or reduced quality of life.Trial RegistrationISRCTN: 75220876, prospectively registered 28 October 2011.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1007/s40258-018-0378-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Commuter Train Passenger Safety Model Using Positive Behavior Approach: The Case Study in Suburban Area

Currently, Train passanger safety measures are more predominantly measurable using negative dimensions in user mode behavior, such as accident rate, accident intensity and accident impact. This condition suggests that safety improvements aim only to reduce accidents. Therefore, this study aims to measure the safety level of light train transit modes (KRL) through the dimensions of traveling safety on commuters based on positive safety indicators with severel condition departure times and returns for work purposes and long trip rates above KRL. The primary survey were used in data collection methods. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were used in data analysis. The results show that there are different models of the safety level of departure and return journey. The highest difference is in the security dimension which is the internal variable of KRL users.