University Of Exeter Research Articles

Return To Ground Zero, 2012

Return To Ground Zero, 2012 Christopher Southgate (bio) No entry to the new memorial.On-line booking is down because of the hurricane.I lose my chance to lose my eyesin a square pool inside a square poolin water falling out of falling. Instead I sit in a small church;a choir grapples with Bach in a placewhere firemen slept on pewsand on boards and railings there gatheredline on line of pleas for the missinglines about the missing. The conductor tells the choir they are all over the place.Which is what here is, eleven years on.It will not settle into history, this jumbleof mementoes, teddy bears,badges from fire departments across the world -outstretched longing, letters left about longing. Eleven years ago I looked down at Ground Zero still burning.Relatives were being led in to breathethe ruined, lachrymal air.I am not able to drown that memory in neat square pools;on-line booking is down, because of the hurricane.There is only this jumbled hoping, this endlessly battered hoping about loving. [End Page 271] Christopher Southgate Christopher Southgate teaches in the area of science and religion at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and is also involved in the training of Anglican and Methodist ordinands. He is the author of a verse biography of T. S. Eliot, A Love and its Sounding (Salzburg, 1997) and three collections of poems, all published by Shoestring Press: Beyond the Bitter Wind, Easing the Gravity Field: Poems of Science and Love, and most recently A Gash in the Darkness. c.c.b.southgate@exeter.ac.uk Copyright © 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press

Providing support while overseas

Jo Batey Jo is a senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Winchester. Jo gained a BSc (Hons) from the University of Surrey, before undertaking an MSc at Exeter University. She is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Winchester. Jo is accredited by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and has worked at both professional and amateur levels in football, rugby union, fencing, archery, hockey, swimming, diving, mountaineering, netball, tennis and rowing. She has also worked extensively with the British Armed Forces.

Chemicals Of The Rich And Famous, Dog Doody Duty

Some status symbols are familiar to everyone: the car you drive, the clothes you wear. Now add to that list the level of mercury in your bodily fluids. According to researchers at England’s University of Exeter, the amount of certain types of toxicants in our bodies is an excellent indicator of socioeconomic status (Environ. Int. 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2013.06.017). The team reached this conclusion after analyzing 10 years’ worth of blood and urine data collected by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Initially, the Exeter researchers thought such data would demonstrate that low-income individuals possess more toxic chemicals in their bodies than the rich. That, however, is not the case. The team instead uncovered nine toxicants that are more common among wealthy individuals as well as nine toxicants that are more common among those who are poorer. So what are the hottest, trendiest chemicals among the rich? They include mercury ...

Cycles and Instability in a Rock-Paper-Scissors Population Game: A Continuous Time Experiment

Cycles and Instability in a Rock-Paper-Scissors Population Game: a Continuous Time Experiment ∗ Timothy N. Cason † Daniel Friedman ‡ Ed Hopkins § Purdue University UC Santa Cruz University of Edinburgh July 19, 2012 Abstract We report laboratory experiments that use new, visually oriented software to ex- plore the dynamics of 3 × 3 games with intransitive best responses. Each moment, each player is matched against the entire population, here 8 human subjects. A “heat map” offers instantaneous feedback on current profit opportunities. In the continuous slow adjustment treatment, we see distinct cycles in the population mix. The cycle amplitude, frequency and direction are consistent with standard learning models. Cy- cles are more erratic and higher frequency in the instantaneous adjustment treatment. Control treatments (using simultaneous matching in discrete time) replicate previous results that exhibit weak or no cycles. Average play is approximated fairly well by Nash equilibrium, and an alternative point prediction, “TASP” (Time Average of the Shapley Polygon), captures some regularities that NE misses. JEL numbers: C72, C73, C92, D83 Keywords: experiments, learning, mixed equilibrium, continuous time. We are grateful to the National Science Foundation for support under grant SES-0925039, and to Sam Wolpert and especially James Pettit for programming support, and Olga Rud, Justin Krieg and Daniel Nedelescu for research assistance. We received useful comments from audiences at the 2012 Contests, Mech- anisms & Experiments Conference at the University of Exeter; Purdue University; and the 2012 Economic Science Association International Conference at NYU. In particular, we want to thank Dieter Balkenborg, Dan Kovenock, Dan Levin, Eyal Winter and Zhijian Wang for helpful suggestions. cason@purdue.edu, http://www.krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/cason/ dan@ucsc.edu, http://leeps.ucsc.edu E.Hopkins@ed.ac.uk, http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/hopkinse/

Effects of human atrial ionic remodelling by β-blocker therapy on mechanisms of atrial fibrillation: a computer simulation

College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK; Biological Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, ManchesterM13 9PL, UK; Department of Computer Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK; Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, 126 University Place, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK; School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK; and School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS6 9JT, UK

Brain injury and the law

Brain injury among offenders Brain injury increases the risk of offending and reoffending. A recent study found that young offenders are more likely to have suffered a brain injury than the rest of society and that, while a brain injury alone is unlikely to increase an individual’s chances of criminal activity, it is likely to be a factor in those already susceptible to crime and could increase the chance of repeat offending (Williams et al, 2010). The researchers, from the University of Exeter, concluded that problems with the neuro-cognitive effects of brain injuries could lead to behaviours such as impulse control problems, not reading other people well, not understanding facial expressions and being too quick to act on a perception of a threat. Any of these could result in a brush with the law. Similarly, although there is no link between ASDs and criminality—and people with ASDs can be very concerned with not breaking rules—it is often those with an undiagnosed ASD condition who come into contact with the law, often as victims and sometimes as unwitting accomplices to crimes. Such individuals are vulnerable and may not understand the motives or dishonest intentions of those who may take advantage of them. Where they are involved in violent incidents it may be because they have become agitated when confronted with an unexpected disruption to their routine. Or there may have been a simple misunderstanding.

Coordinated Government Responding to Terrorism

Public Administration ReviewVolume 73, Issue 4 p. 651-652 BOOK REVIEW Coordinated Government Responding to Terrorism Yusuf Ustun, Yusuf Ustun Ministry of the Interior, TurkeySearch for more papers by this author Yusuf Ustun, Yusuf Ustun Ministry of the Interior, TurkeySearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 May 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12086 Yusuf Ustun: is chief civil inspector in the Turkish Ministry of the Interior, with 10 years of senior management experience as district governor. He holds a master's degree in public administration from University of Exeter and has completed professional training on managing migration and refuge protection, border and customs operations, and refuge and refugee law. He is currently a doctoral student in the School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida, studying on a scholarship awarded by the Turkish Ministry of the Interior. E-mail: ysfustun@yahoo.com Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume73, Issue4July/August 2013Pages 651-652 RelatedInformation

Others, Spectatorship, and the Ethics of Verbatim Performance

In this article Patrick Duggan interrogates The Paper Birds' 2010 production Others to explore the political and ethical implications of embodying the (verbatim) texts of others. Built from a six-month exchange of letters between the company and a prisoner, a celebrity (a very non-committal Heather Mills, apparently), and an Iranian artist, Others fuses live music with verbatim and physical theatre texts to investigate the ‘otherness’ of women from vastly divergent cultural contexts. With equal measures of humour and honesty the performance deconstructs these voices both to highlight their particular concerns and problems and to interrogate larger issues relating to ‘others’ with whom we have conscious or unconscious contact. The ethical implications of continuing or discontinuing the correspondences with the three women are explored, and trauma and embodiment theories are used alongside Lévinasian and Russellian theories of ethics to ask what an encounter with such others might teach us about ourselves, about the traumatized other and about the ethics of encounter within performance texts. Patrick Duggan is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Exeter. A practising director, he has also taught extensively in the UK and Ireland as well as in Germany and the United States. He is author of Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance (Manchester University Press, 2012) and co-edited Reverberations: Britishness, Aesthetics and Small-Scale Theatres (Intellect, 2013) and a special issue of the journal Performance Research ‘On Trauma’ (Taylor and Francis, 2011).

Internet activism and the Egyptian uprisings: transforming online dissent into the offline world

Tim Eaton currently works for BBC Media Action on media development projects in the Middle East. He previously completed his postgraduate degree at the University of Exeter, majoring in Middle East Studies. He is also a former researcher for Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Tim has a long-standing interest in the politics of Egypt, where he worked as a political researcher at the Ibn Khaldun Center throughout the 2005 elections.<br />This article aims to investigate the role of internet activism in the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. It suggests that the significance of internet activism in Egypt in this period was twofold: first, in its utility as a tool for activists to mobilize, organize and inspire Egyptians to take to the streets on 25 January 2011; and, second, in its use as a medium to document events in Egypt beyond the reach of the authorities. Particular attention is paid to the growth of the ‘We Are All Khaled Said’ (WAAKS) campaign on Facebook and its capacity to translate online dissent into the offline world. The transformation of protesters into citizen journalists through information and communication technologies, and Twitter in particular, is examined for its success in challenging the narrative set by Egyptian state media and in providing a window into events for the outside world.

The betrayal of research confidentiality in British sociology

Research confidentiality in Britain is under attack. Indeed, in some quarters the ‘Law of the Land’ doctrine that absolutely subjugates research ethics to law is already a fait accompli. To illustrate the academic freedom issues at stake, the article discusses: (i) the Cambridge Psychology Research Ethics Committee’s ban of interview questions about a research participant’s involvement in criminal acts; (ii) the awarding of damages against Exeter University when it reneged on its agreement to uphold a doctoral student’s guarantee of ‘absolute confidentiality’ in his research on assisted suicide; and (iii) the controversy around the UK government’s attempt to obtain confidential records from the Belfast Project − an oral history of paramilitaries involved in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The article urges British researchers to practice – or, at least, defend the academic freedom of their colleagues to practice – the ‘ethics-first’ doctrine of strict confidentiality that several North American disciplinary associations encourage.

Critical Essay on British South Asian Theatre ed. by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell (review)

Reviewed by: Critical Essay on British South Asian Theatre ed. by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell Kathy Foley Critical Essay on British South Asian Theatre. Edited by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012 (distributed by University of Chicago Press). Paper, $48.00. A companion volume to British South Asian Theatres, this collection adds to the growing literature on artists of South Asian descent working in English theatre since the 1970s. Essays range from historical overviews that set the stage for contemporary work to discussions of specific companies or individual performers. Most of the papers were presented at the 2008 British Asian Theatre: Past to Present Conference at the University of Exeter. The book is less useful [End Page 250] to scholars of South Asian theatre in Asia than to those researching Indian diasporic artists working in Anglophone cultures. While there is limited discussion of the use of Indian aesthetics in developing Western plays (as in a discussion by Chandrika Patel of Jatinder Verma's "Binglish" version of Marriage of Figaro placed in Mughal India and using Guajarati bhavai as a "style"), most discussion is of contemporary text-oriented modern drama by British of South Asian descent who use theatre as a forum for cultural-political examination. In the introduction the editors note that, given the visibility of British South Asian work in the theatres since the 1980s, "Its absence from the academic or critical record seems inexplicable"—the book intends to redress this lack of "an appropriate level of secondary reception . . . from an academic or critical standpoint" (p. 1). The first essay is an overview by Naseem Khan. She is author of the groundbreaking book The Arts Britain Ignores: The Arts of Ethnic Minorities in Britain (London: Community Relations Commission, 1976), which laid the groundwork for the change in government funding policy by the 1980s and helped landmark companies like Tara Arts and Tamasha to emerge as strong producing units with significant public funding. Khan discusses the multicultural movement from the 1970s to the present, noting the generational divides within the South Asian community and the confusion over what British Asian arts are (classical or contemporary? community-based or in professional venues?). She acknowledges weaknesses of the Arts Council policies, but she also asserts successes. The support encouraged British South Asian artists to look outward, partnering with non-Asian artists and producers or bringing in noted artists from the subcontinent as collaborators. The funding, she states, created a "stepping stone from ethnic specificity to mainstream statement" and "nudged Britain into seeing itself as a multicultural society" (p. 13). Khan contrasts the firm basis from which South Indian dance launches into its postmulticultural-era existence. She praises such extravaganzas as Escapade (directed by Keith Kahn, 2003), mounted by the dance institution Akademi with 137 performers in a piece that combines club culture, film, and skateboarding. Khan sees it as part of a dance new wave, but she questions whether theatre moves from as strong a base, given the more fragile place theatre holds (compared to dance or music) within the the diasporic community (pp. 18-19). The next few essays help the reader see aspects of the chronology. Colin Chambers's in "Images on Stage: A Historical Survey of South Asians in British Theatre before 1975" (pp. 21-40) considers depiction of South Asians, noting the early use of the Indian (usually Native American) as "other" in the English Renaissance literature, the rise of East Indians [played by British] as peripheral characters onstage accompanying the rise in the importance of the British East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and nineteenth-century orientalism and the ethnological fascination of cultural exhibitions. Chambers takes time for the twentieth-century phenomenon of Tagore's dramatic work, as well as discussion of the importance of Indian student theatrical activities at British universities. This overview is a useful survey. [End Page 251] The next essays give insights into transformations in the 1980s. Susan Crofts discusses the emergence of bilingual (English-Bengali) theatre, especially the participatory Half Moon Young People's Theatre in London, which worked on "bridging the gaps between language communities in Tower Hamlets and between the theatrical...

Dispatches

Dispatches

Simulating the User Experience: Design Optimisation for Visitor Comfort

AbstractMuch emphasis in computation has been put on the potential of building information modelling (BIM) and other software in the coordination of the design and construction process and on building performance. What, however, can modelling techniques offer to shift the focus to simulating the user experience? Shrikant Sharma and Al Fisher of Buro Happold SMART Solutions, which offers specialist computational innovation services to external clients, describe how their team has developed SMART Move, a crowd‐modelling software that has been used in the development of the designs for Wilkinson Eyre's Exeter University Forum and Foster + Partners' Thomas Deacon Academy.

D. A. Agius, et al. (eds.), Navigated Spaces, Connected Places. Proceedings of Red Sea Project V held at the University of Exeter, 16-19 September 2010

Book review.

Quantifying uncertainty in climate science

Quantifying uncertainty in climate science

Erratum to: Using Information-Gap Decision Theory for Water Resources Planning Under Severe Uncertainty

Water Resour Manage (2013) 27:1173–1174DOI 10.1007/s11269-013-0276-5The online version of the original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org10.1007/s11269-012-0164-4.B. Korteling (*)Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Amory Building,Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UKe-mail: bak203@exeter.ac.ukS. DessaiSustainability Research Institute and ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy,School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UKe-mail: S.Dessai@leeds.ac.ukZ. KapelanEngineering, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter,Harrison Building, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QF, UKe-mail: Z.Kapelan@exeter.ac.uk

Radiation damping optical enhancement in cold atoms

The typically tiny effect of radiation damping on a moving body can be amplified to a favorable extent by exploiting the sharp reflectivity slope at one edge of an optically induced stop-band in atoms loaded into an optical lattice. In this paper, this phenomenon is demonstrated for the periodically trapped and coherently driven cold 87Rb atoms, where radiation damping might be much larger than that anticipated in previous proposals and become comparable with radiation pressure. Such an enhancement could be observed even at speeds of only a few meters per second with less than 1.0% absorption, making radiation damping experimentally accessible. Subjecting an ensemble of cold rubidium atoms to a particular combination of optical beams should enable the study of ‘radiation damping’, a typically minuscule velocity-dependent effect that a light source exerts on a moving body. This is the finding of a theoretical study performed by Jin-Hui Wu at Jilin University, China, in cooperation with researchers from the university of Exeter (UK), the Lens Laboratory and Scuola Normale Superiore (IT). Their proposal is based on exploiting reflections at the boundary between allowed and forbidden frequency bands in the photonic crystal made by periodically distributed cold atoms. This approach should provide a way of amplifying radiation damping to a level suitable for experimental study, making it useful for manipulating cold atoms and potentially other material systems.

Writing food history: a global perspective

Introduction: Surveying World Food Historiography. Kyri W. Claflin & Peter Scholliers Part One: The West Food and Drink In The Ancient World. John Wilkins, University of Exeter (UK) Food Histories Of The Middle Ages. Paul Freedman, Yale University (USA) Food Among The Historians: Early Modern Europe . Kyri W. Claflin, Boston University (USA) The Many Rooms In The House: Research On Past Foodways In Modern Europe. Peter Scholliers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) Sustenance, Abundance, and The Place of Food In United States History. Amy Bentley, New York University (USA) Five Hundred Years Of Fusion: A Historiography Of Food In The Iberian World. Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Minnesota (USA Part Two: The Middle East Food Studies In Ottoman-Turkish Historiography. Ozge Samanci, Yeditepe University (Turkey) From Heaven, Bread From The Earth: Recent Trends In Jewish Food History. Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Wheaton College (USA) Food Culture In The Arab World: Long On History, Short On Historiography. Nawal Nasrallah, Independent scholar Part Three: South & East Asia New Directions Of Scholarship On Indian Food. Krishnendu Ray, New York University (USA) The Shadow Of Shinoda Osamu: Food Research In East Asia. Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden University (Netherlands) and Yujen Chen, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism (Taiwan) Part Four: Africa Writing On The African Pot: Recipes and Cooking As Historical Knowledge. James McCann, Boston University (USA) Conclusion: Contours Of Global Food Historiography. Peter Scholliers and Kyri W. Claflin Bibliography Index

Framing the Drift and Drifting the Frame: Walking with Wrights &amp; Sites

The proliferation of pedestrian performances since the beginning of the twenty-first century has led to an active rethinking of the defining parameters of site-based practice. Does the action of walking deterritorialize or strengthen the boundaries of site, or is the terming of ‘site’ itself redundant for these types of performance? In this article Kris Darby examines one of the most influential types of walking practice on this mode of performance, that of the dérive (‘drift’), and its subsequent adoption and renovation by arts collective Wrights &amp; Sites. Beginning with a contextualization of ‘drifting’ within the Situationist International, this study then focuses on key terms derived from the collective's use of this type of walking in their performance work. The three types of drifting defined by Wrights &amp; Sites – reconnaissance, group, and simultaneous – are then analyzed, illustrating how, through ‘framing’, the defining parameters of site begin to shift further. The article concludes by suggesting that Wrights &amp; Sites’ drifting can be termed situation-specific rather than site-specific, due to its movement across multiple places. Kris Darby is a PhD student in the Drama Department of the University of Exeter, whose research concerns an expansion of the defining properties of pedestrian performance.

Does Exposure to the Repo Market Make Banks More Opaque?

This paper is based on my PhD dissertation, which dissertation wouldn’t have been possible without the guidance of my PhD Supervisors: Ken Peasnell, Paraskevi Vicky Kiosse (Exeter University) and Zoltan Novotny-Farkas. I wish to also thank Joachim Gassen (HU-Berlin University), Wayne Landsman (University of North Carolina), Catherine Shakespeare (University of Michigan), John McInnis (University of Texas at Austin), seminar participants at the 2012 AAA Annual Congress, seminar participants at the 2012 EAA Annual Congress and seminar participants at Lancaster University Accounting seminars for their comments and suggestions. All errors are my own. Corresponding author: Justin Chircop, Department of Accounting and Finance, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, LancasterLA1 4YX, UK, [m] (+44)07513025396 [e] j.chircop1@lancaster.ac.uk. (v.4.4) Does exposure to the repo market make banks more opaque?