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2. Toward an Alaskan Critical Regionalist Pedagogy: Mapping the Cruise Ship Industry through Visual Spatial Tactics

Author

Richard Simpson

Subjects
alaska, countermap, cruise ship, globalization, higher education, pedagogy, regionalism, spatial relations, urban, visual spatial tactic, countermapping, Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology, GN301-674
Abstract

In an era when urban space is theorized as an educative science enhancing productivity, business, and management, we witness the emergence of teaching as a dominant productive force for the first time in the history of capital. Given the decisive role of knowledge production in the development of globalized urbanization it becomes vital to identify critical pedagogies that not only engage the production of space but grasp the production of space as pedagogical. To do so, I attend to interventions into regionalist studies and the global city to argue for visual spatial tactics as a tool for a critical regionalist pedagogy capable of linking material, affective, and discursive practices with a placed-based approach to globalized urbanization. Students design a collaborative website documenting the spatial history of cruise ship tourism in Alaska as an argument over the right to the city. Identifying this living process—framing the cruise industry as a constitutive system fusing discourse, space, and identity to restructure history, nature, and region—becomes a means of questioning and revising otherwise generalized theories often brought to bear on tourist landscapes, on Alaska, and on critical pedagogy itself. This case study shows the emergence of the cruise ship city as inseparable from the onset of globalized urbanization and how it, in turn, provides edifying material to mobilize a critical regionalist pedagogy within contemporary forms of educative landscapes.

Published
2021
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3. Home-Based Exercise Prehabilitation During Preoperative Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer Is Associated With Improvement in Physical Function and Quality of Life

Author

An Ngo-Huang DO, Nathan H. Parker PhD, Eduardo Bruera MD, Rebecca E. Lee PhD, Richard Simpson PhD, Daniel P. O’Connor PhD, Maria Q. B. Petzel RD, Rhodora C. Fontillas DPT, Keri Schadler PhD, Lianchun Xiao MS, Xuemei Wang MS, David Fogelman MD, Sunil K. Sahai MD, Jeffrey E. Lee MD, Karen Basen-Engquist PhD, and Matthew H. G. Katz MD

Subjects
Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract

Purpose: To investigate relationships among physical activity, changes in physical function, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma enrolled in a home-based exercise prehabilitation program. Methods: Patients with resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma receiving preoperative chemotherapy and/or chemoradiation were enrolled on this prospective, single-arm trial and were advised to perform ≥60 minutes each of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise and strengthening exercise weekly. Activity was measured via self-report and accelerometers, including moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), light physical activity (LPA), and sedentary activity (SA). Physical function measures at baseline and restaging follow-up included 6-minute walk test (6MWT), 5 times sit-to-stand (5×STS), handgrip strength (HGS), 3-m walk for gait speed (GS), and the PROMIS Physical Function Short Form. HRQOL was measured via the FACT-Hep questionnaire. Results: Fifty participants with mean age 66 years (standard deviation = 8 years) were enrolled. The 6MWT, 5×STS, and GS significantly improved from baseline to restaging follow-up (P=.001, P=.049, and P=.009, respectively). Increases in self-reported aerobic exercise, weekly MVPA, and LPA were associated with improvement in 6MWT (β=.19, P=.048; β=.18, P=.03; and β=.08, P=.03, respectively) and self-reported physical functioning (β=.02, P=.03; β=.03, P=.005; and β=.01, P=.02, respectively). Increased weekly LPA was associated with increased HRQOL (β=.03, P=.02). Increased SA was associated with decreased HRQOL (β=-.02,P=.01). Conclusions: Patients with potentially resectable pancreatic cancer exhibit meaningful improvement in physical function with prehabilitation; physical activity was associated with improved physical function and HRQOL. These data highlight the importance of physical activity during treatment for pancreatic cancer.

Published
2019
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4. Driving Backwards Using a Semi-Autonomous Smart Wheelchair System (DSS): A Clinical Evaluation

Author

Vinod Sharma, Richard Simpson, Edmund LoPresti, and Mark Schmeler

Subjects
Biotechnology, TP248.13-248.65, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract

Some wheelchair users have difficulty looking backward when backing up in confined spaces due to limited neck range of motion or low vision, which can lead to collisions which may result in personal injury or property damage. The Drive Safe System (DSS) was evaluated in a controlled laboratory setting with blindfolded able-bodied individuals on various backward driving tasks. Performance with the DSS was compared with a standard white cane used for navigation assistance by people with visual impairment. Results indicate that the DSS significantly reduced the number of collisions compared to using a cane (p = 0.0001) alone. There was no difference in task completion time when participants were using the cane or the DSS (p = 0.915). Users rated the DSS favourably as they experience less total workload (p = 0.026), less physical demand (p = 0.006), felt less frustrated (p = 0.002) and put less effort (p = 0.007) to achieve better performance when using the DSS, compared to using a cane. These findings suggest that the DSS can be a viable powered mobility solution for wheelchair users with visual impairments.

Published
2012
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5. Severity of omicron variant of concern and effectiveness of vaccine boosters against symptomatic disease in Scotland (EAVE II) : a national cohort study with nested test-negative design

Author

Aziz Sheikh, Steven Kerr, Mark Woolhouse, Jim McMenamin, Chris Robertson, Colin Richard Simpson, Tristan Millington, Ting Shi, Utkarsh Agrawal, Safraj Shahul Hameed, Elliott Hall, Igor Rudan, Syed Ahmar Shah, Lewis Ritchie, Sarah Stock, and Colin McCowan

Subjects
Cohort Studies, Scotland/epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Influenza Vaccines, SARS-CoV-2/genetics, QA273, Case-Control Studies, Humans, COVID-19/epidemiology, RS
Abstract

Background: Since its emergence in November, 2021, in southern Africa, the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant of concern (VOC) has rapidly spread across the world. We aimed to investigate the severity of omicron and the extent to which booster vaccines are effective in preventing symptomatic infection. Methods: In this study, using the Scotland-wide Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) platform, we did a cohort analysis with a nested test-negative design incident case-control study covering the period Nov 1–Dec 19, 2021, to provide initial estimates of omicron severity and the effectiveness of vaccine boosters against symptomatic disease relative to 25 weeks or more after the second vaccine dose. Primary care data derived from 940 general practices across Scotland were linked to laboratory data and hospital admission data. We compared outcomes between infection with the delta VOC (defined as S-gene positive) and the omicron VOC (defined as S-gene negative). We assessed effectiveness against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, with infection confirmed through a positive RT-PCR. Findings: By Dec 19, 2021, there were 23 840 S-gene-negative cases in Scotland, which were predominantly among those aged 20–39 years (11 732 [49·2%]). The proportion of S-gene-negative cases that were possible reinfections was more than ten times that of S-gene-positive cases (7·6% vs 0·7%; p

Published
2022

6. Gendered microaggressions towards the ‘only’ women coaches in high-performance sport

Author

Leanne Norman and Richard Simpson

Subjects
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Business and International Management, human activities, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Abstract

For women, being underrepresented in high-performance sport coaching is endemic. They also often report a sense of minoritisation, and incidents of discrimination. The purpose of the present study was to understand, using a gender-microaggressions perspective, how sexism manifests for women in elite coaching who report to be the “only” woman in their context, how they respond to such experiences, and how such discrimination is enabled. Through interviews with nine high-performance female head coaches globally, the prevalent type of microaggressions experienced were gendered microinvalidations. But findings also demonstrate that these women attempted to resist sexism. Nevertheless, being the “only” women restricted their resistance because they could not form collective power that led to transformations in the coaching culture. More action is required to build critical, evenly distributed masses of women across the coaching pathway. Future research must also address the features of organisational contexts that provide fertile grounds for exclusionary cultures.

Published
2022

9. Roman Coins, Money, and Society in Elizabethan England: Sir Thomas Smith's On the Wages of the Roman Footsoldier

Author

Andrew Burnett, Richard Simpson, Deborah Thorpe, Andrew Burnett, Richard Simpson, and Deborah Thorpe

Subjects
Numismatics--Great Britain, Coins, Roman--Great Britain
Abstract

The idea of publishing Sir Thomas Smith's On the Wages of the Roman Footsoldier (OWRF) grew out of the successful conference held at the Society of Antiquaries of London in December 2013 to mark the 500th anniversary of Smith's birth. OWRF is virtually unknown to modern scholarship, and, although it is the first original work written in England to use the evidence of ancient coins, it has previously played no part in the history of numismatics. Yet it clearly deserves to be better known, both for that reason and for many others. It throws new light on the “Cambridge circle,” the group of academics-turned-politicians who played a crucial role in the smooth accession of Elizabeth I. It allows us to reconstruct something of the humanistic interest in numismatics, adumbrated earlier in the century by Tunstall and More, but otherwise only returning to visibility with the work of Camden, Cotton, and the Elizabethan College of Antiquaries. It provides another strand to our knowledge of the importance of the Roman precedent in both influencing contemporary thought and having a direct bearing on contemporary politics. Sir Thomas Smith, like many of his works, has also slipped from public awareness, overshadowed in the modern imagination by contemporaries like Cecil, Walsingham, or Gresham. Yet Smith was one of the most important politicians and intellectuals of the day; a brilliant academic career at Cambridge was followed by his active participation in politics under Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth. He played a leading role in the controversial reform of Greek pronunciation, he introduced a new style of continental architecture to England, and he wrote analyses of the politics of his day, including his views on the relations between the monarch and parliament, views which were to be seized on in the crisis of the 17th century in a way which would no doubt have startled Smith, had he lived to see it. For this reason the publication of the OWRF is accompanied by Richard Simpson's personal and intellectual biography of this most important of the “missing persons” of the 16th century. The biography is intended partly to remedy some of the misconceptions about Smith, but, more importantly to set OWRF and his other writings in a coherent biographical framework.

Published
2017

10. The Economy of Green Cities : A World Compendium on the Green Urban Economy

Author

Richard Simpson, Monika Zimmermann, Richard Simpson, and Monika Zimmermann

Subjects
Sustainable development, Urban economics--Environmental aspects, City planning--Environmental aspects
Abstract

This volume bridges the gap between the global promotion of the Green Economy and the manifestation of this new development strategy at the urban level. Green cities are an imperative solution, not only in meeting global environmental challenges but also in helping to ensure socio-economic prosperity at the local level.

Published
2013

11. The group III allergen from the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus is a trypsin-like enzyme

Author

Stewart, G. A., Ward, L. D., Richard Simpson, and Thompson, P. J.

Subjects
Mites, immune system diseases, Molecular Sequence Data, Animals, Humans, Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, Trypsin, Amino Acid Sequence, Allergens, Chromatography, Affinity, respiratory tract diseases, Research Article
Abstract

Faecally enriched extracts of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus were shown to contain a trypsin-like enzyme which was allergenic. Chromatofocusing studies revealed the presence of nine major isoforms in D. pteronyssinus, with pI in the range 4 to greater than 8, but only two (range 4-5) in D. farinae. Trypsin isolated from D. pteronyssinus by benzamidine-Sepharose 6B affinity chromatography and gelfiltration was found to be a 31-kDa protein which was enzymatically similar to both invertebrate and vertebrate trypsins. The N-terminal sequence obtained (IVGGEXALAGEXPYQISL) was identical to that reported for the mite allergen Der p III and showed homology with crayfish trypsin and Der f III from D. farinae. Mite trypsin underwent autolysis and the N-terminal sequences of two fragments were found to be ALAGEXPYQI and NNQVXGI respectively. Both showed homology with crayfish trypsin, and the former sequence was identical to residues 7-18 of the native enzyme and Der p III. All isoforms of mite trypsin were showed to be allergenic by radioallergosorbent assay and further studies indicated that the trypsin degradation products were also allergenic. The enzyme was compared with other mite allergens and the rank order of allergenic potency was shown to be: whole mite extract greater than Der p I greater than trypsin. However, all sera from a panel of mite allergic individuals showed IgE reactivity to trypsin, comparable to that seen using whole mite extract and Der p I. These data indicate that mite trypsin is a major allergen corresponding to the previously described allergen, Der p III.

Published
1992

12. The rear view Carol won't show us!

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

CAROL VORDERMAN has spent the past few months wowing her Instagram followers with the panoramic views of the dramatic Pembrokeshire coastline she enjoys from the balcony at her staycation home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2021

14. Alas, poor Sir Ian!

Author

Richard Simpson [ Amy Oliver

Abstract

IT WAS billed as one of Sir Ian McKellen's most ambitious roles yet - returning to the traditionally youthful role of Hamlet at the age of 82 in an 'age, colour and gender-blind' version of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2021

15. Alas, poor Ian!

Author

Richard Simpson ; Amy Oliver

Abstract

IT WAS billed as one of Ian McKellen's most ambitious roles yet - returning to the traditionally youthful role of Hamlet at the age of 82 in an 'age, colour and gender-blind' version of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2021

17. HAS WILFUL WILLS 'REINED IN' PIPPA?

Author

RICHARD SIMPSON; KATIE NICHOLL

Abstract

SHE SEEMED to have the world at her feet, with a £400,000 advance for her party planning book, lucrative contracts with glossy magazines and even a budding career as a television presenter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

19. Spot anything fishy in Noel's rowing boat?*.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

WITH his baseball cap pulled down tight and his gaze intent on the water in front of him, this hunched figure looks every bit the contemplative fisherman. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2017

20. SNP GIVEAWAYS HAVE STARVED NHS OF FUNDS.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

LAST year when I spent ten days in hospital in Glasgow, I did not volunteer the information that I am a former GP, an MSP and Scottish Labour's public health spokesman. Much better, I thought, to view the patient experience as an ordinary member of the public rather than invite any special treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2014

21. Drivers beware, Snow on the road.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

AS figurehead of a society which represents the interests of Britain's 20million cyclists, news presenter Jon Snow might be expected to set an example behind the handlebars. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2010

24. 'So madly in love' Baroness Bra dumps her man.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

SHE recently spoke openly of wanting a child at the age of 45 with the 'amazing man' with whom she was 'madly in love'. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

25. Eddie pulls a fast one!

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

HE WAS shamed for running high society sex parties and jailed for his part in a multi-millionpound fraud. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

26. Zeta-Jones knocks £7m off price of her mansion in Majorca.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

AS the home of two of Hollywood's biggest stars, boasting an expansive vineyard, cinema and stunning sea views, you might think it would have buyers queuing up for the chance to own it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

27. Zeta-Jones knocks off price of her mansion in Majorca £7m.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

AS THE home of two of Hollywood's biggest stars, boasting an expansive vineyard, cinema and stunning sea views, you might think that buyers would be queuing up for the chance to own it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

28. Douglas knocks off price of his mansion in Majorca €8m.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

IT'S the home of two of Hollywood's biggest stars, boasting an expansive vineyard, cinema and sea views, so you might think buyers would be queuing up for the chance to own it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

29. Help! You need a lower key, fans tell Macca.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

AT THE grand old age of 74, Sir Paul McCartney is a national treasure, and rightly lauded after writing some of the most memorable pop hits of all time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

30. Help! McCartney can't reach the high notes.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

AT the grand old age of 74, Paul McCartney is rightly lauded after writing some of the most memorable pop hits of all time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

31. Family joy at the lastminute.com! Surrogate twin boys for Martha Lane Fox, 43.

Author

Richard Simpson and Olga Craig

Abstract

A DEVASTATING car crash robbed her of the chance to have a family naturally. But last night internet pio­ neer Martha Lane Fox announced she is now the proud mother to iden­ tical twin boys - born to a surrogate mother in America The arrival of the twins named Milo and Felix follows more than a decade of pain and recuperation for the 43-­year­ old crossbench peer, whose long term partner is Chris Gorell Barnes, 42. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2016

34. Sorry, Olly, it was always Joe's show.

Author

Richard Simpson ; Simon Cable

Abstract

TEENAGE drama student Joe McElderry was last night crowned X Factor champion, winning a £1million record contract and pole position in the race for the Christmas No 1. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

36. Ahoy there ladies, it's Ni cholson and son.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

AT 72, he is getting a bit long in the tooth to impress a boatload of young ladies all by himself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

38. SOCCER'S £80m LILY SAVAGE.

Author

Richard Simpson ; Christian Gysin

Abstract

THEY have plenty in common. Well OK, then, they both shave their legs and both are worth a fortune. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

39. SOCCER'S €94m LILY SAVAGE.

Author

Richard Simpson ; Christian Gysin

Abstract

THEY have plenty in common. Well OK, then, they both shave their legs and both are worth a fortune. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

40. SuBo falls... now for the backlash.

Author

Paul Revoir; Richard Simpson

Abstract

TV WATCHDOGS are set to investigate the treatment of Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent after a flood of complaints from viewers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

41. SHAHEEN v SUSAN.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

WITH only two days to go before the final of Britain's Got Talent, it looks like the hot favourite is feeling the pressure 'Hairy angel' Susan Boyle stunned a packed bar when she allegedly swore, smashed a chair with her fists and stormed out after her self-proclaimed crush, Piers Morgan, said on TV that her closest rival could beat her Susan, 48, won legions of fans the world over for her angelic voice and ostensibly courteous demeanour behind an unkempt outer shell. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

42. SHAHEEN vSUSAN.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

WITH only two days to go before the final of Britain's Got Talent, it looks like the hot favourite is feeling the pressure. 'Hairy angel' Susan Boyle stunned a packed bar when she allegedly swore, smashed a chair with her fists and stormed out after her self-proclaimed crush, Piers Morgan, said that her closest rival could beat her. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

43. From unknown to hit of the Brits.

Author

Richard Simpson; Jo Clements

Abstract

SHE came, she sang... she conquered. Duffy - a virtual unknown just 12 months ago - was the toast of the Brit Awards last night after winning a hat-trick of prizes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

44. Jade's wedding to net her £1.5m.

Author

Richard Simpson

Abstract

JADE Goody will earn £1.5million from her wedding to Jack Tweed this weekend. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

45. Just the Oscar to go now, Kate.

Author

Richard Simpson; Paul Revoir

Abstract

KATE Winslet moved a step closer to Oscar glory last night after winning the best actress award at the Baftas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

46. Just the Oscar to now, Kate.

Author

Richard Simpson; Paul Revoir

Abstract

KATE Winslet moved a step closer to Oscar glory last night after winning the best actress award at the Baftas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2009

47. Before the ball, a little shopping...

Author

Rebecca English; Richard Simpson

Abstract

WITH her glossy hair, megawatt smile and £4,000 sequinned dress, she had all eyes on her. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2011

48. Biker Wills speeds off for a kickabout.

Author

Fay Schlesinger; Richard Simpson

Abstract

PRINCE William has already confessed that his knees are 'tapping quite nervously' as the wedding day approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2011

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