Kingston College

This article revises interpretations of the post-Reformation English Chapel Royal as a place for the performance of ‘conservative’ or ‘traditional’ forms of the Book of Common Prayer and establishes its importance as a space for negotiating Protestant royal worship. By detailed analysis of the sound and appearance of royal chapels under Elizabeth i and James vi & i the Chapel Royal is emphasised not for its anticipation of a Laudian ascendancy, but its sensitivity to the ceremonial boundaries of the reformed Church of England, and ability to negotiate a form of Protestant majesty in royal worship.

Pellets of frozen material traveling into a magnetically confined fusion plasma are accelerated by the so-called pellet rocket effect. The nonuniform plasma heats the pellet ablation cloud asymmetrically, producing pressure-driven, rocketlike propulsion of the pellet. We present a semianalytical model of this process by perturbing a spherically symmetric ablation model. Predicted pellet accelerations match experimental estimates in current tokamaks (∼10^{5} m/s^{2}). Projections for ITER high-confinement scenarios (∼10^{6} m/s^{2}) indicate significantly shorter pellet penetration than expected without this effect, which could limit the effectiveness of disruption mitigation.

Social media has become an integral part of modern life, with children and adolescents increasingly engaging with platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat. A recent study by Anderson, Faverio, and Gottfried (2023) found that teenagers spend a significant amount of time using social media and other technology for entertainment purposes. While these platforms offer opportunities for connection, creativity, and information sharing, they can also have significant implications for children’s physical, mental, and emotional health. This research paper explores the multifaceted impact of social media on the physical, mental, and emotional health of children. As digital platforms become increasingly integrated into young people’s lives, understanding their effects on overall well-being is crucial. This study synthesizes current literature and empirical evidence to provide a comprehensive analysis of both positive and negative outcomes associated with social media use among children.

Steganography is the method that convert data into bits to make it suitable for hiding. While embedding data the factors such as stego image quality and distortion which cannot be observed by the human eyes. The aim of this study is to increase the stego image with good quality. Initially, the image pixels are separated into different bit planes then it is compared with the secret data bit planes using Fruitfly Optimization Improved Hybridized Algorithm Pixel Similarity (FOIS-PS). For that similar pixel Fitness Function (FF) is applied based on the three important criteria such as edge, entropy and correlation. Finally, the data is embedded in the LSB bits based on their Embedding Capacity (EC). Using this method, the size of the input is reduced. Then, the data is embedded based on difference of pixels within each group of similar pixels. Evaluation metrics shows the quality of the stego image is boosted and also reduces the processing time.

Aims: Pharmacogenetics (PGx) is increasingly recognised as a strategy for medicines optimisation and prevention of adverse drug reactions. According to guidelines produced by the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) and the Dutch Pharmacogenetic Working Group (DPWG), most medicines with drug-gene interactions (DGIs) are prescribed in primary care. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of potential and actionable DGIs involving all medicines dispensed in Irish primary care. Methods: Dispensings of 46 drugs to General Medical Services (GMS) patients in the Health Service Executive Primary Care Reimbursement Service (HSE-PCRS) Irish pharmacy claims database from 01/01/21-31/12/21 were analysed to estimate the national prevalence of total dispensings and incidence of first time dispensings of drugs with potential DGIs according to the CPIC and/or DPWG guidelines. Phenotype frequency data from the UK Biobank and the CPIC were used to estimate the incidence of actionable DGIs. Results: One in five dispensings [12,443,637 of 62,754,498; (19.8%)] were medicines with potential DGIs; 1,878,255 of these dispensed for the first time. On application of phenotype frequencies and linked guideline based therapeutic recommendations, 2,349,055 potential DGIs i.e. (18.9%) required action, such as monitoring, guarding against maximum dose, drug or dose change. One in five [369,700 (19.7%)] first time dispensings required action, with 139,169 (7.4%) requiring a change in prescribing. Antidepressants, weak opioids and statins were most commonly identified as having actionable DGIs. Conclusions: There is a high prevalence of DGIs in primary care in the Irish setting, identifying the need and opportunity to optimise drug therapy through PGx testing.

"Murphy, Henry VIII, the Duke of Albany and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1522–1524." Scottish Historical Review, 103(1), pp. 182–183

Abstract The face of the government is the interface through which citizens come into contact with and perceive the government via representation and face‐to‐face encounters. This article focuses on Colombian government officials in charge of delivering ‘peace pedagogy’ to explain to society the peace negotiations with the FARC guerrillas, before and after a polarizing referendum which narrowly rejected the 2016 peace agreement that sought to end fifty years of war. It builds on their idiom of ‘giving face’ (dar la cara), denoting the work of representing the government to society in face‐to‐face encounters and assuming responsibility as the government, and explores its resonance with academic and popular discourses about the state having many ‘faces’. It brings this idiom, and theories of the face, into the anthropology of the state, calling for the study of governments as discrete entities within states, and examining the way that a government's overarching character or ‘face’ is interactively co‐produced in the public gaze through embodied acts of representation by officials with their audiences, and intertwined with people's macro‐political opinions. It offers a framework for analysing government‐society relations, giving insight into how all governments ‘face’ society, and highlights presence and responsibility as key dimensions of this relationship.

This article explores the cultural and social context of Honest to God. It focuses on the media controversy about the book, and broader 1960s debates about permissiveness and secularization.

ABSTRACT While awaiting direct velocity measurements of gas motions in the hot intracluster medium, we rely on indirect probes, including gas perturbations in galaxy clusters. Using a sample of ∼80 clusters in different dynamic states from Omega500 cosmological simulations, we examine scaling relations between the fluctuation amplitudes of gas density, δρ/ρ, pressure, δP/P, X-ray surface brightness, Sunyaev–Zel’dovich (SZ) y-parameter, and the characteristic Mach number of gas motions, M1d. In relaxed clusters, accounting for halo ellipticities reduces δρ/ρ or δP/P by a factor of up to 2 within r500c. We confirm a strong linear correlation between δρ/ρ (or δP/P) and M1d in relaxed clusters, with the proportionality coefficient η ≈ 1. For unrelaxed clusters, the correlation is less strong and has a larger η ≈ 1.3 ± 0.5 (1.5 ± 0.5) for δρ/ρ (δP/P). Examination of the M1d − δρ/ρ relation shows that it is almost linear for relaxed clusters, while for the unrelaxed ones, it is closer to $\delta \rho /\rho \propto M_{\rm 1d}^2$. In agreement with previous studies, we observe a strong correlation of M1d with radius. Correcting for these correlations leaves a residual scatter in M1d of ∼4(7) per cent for relaxed (perturbed) clusters. Hydrostatic mass bias correlates with M1d as strongly as with δρ/ρ in relaxed clusters. The residual scatters after correcting for derived trends is ∼6−7 per cent. These predictions can be verified with existing X-ray and SZ observations of galaxy clusters combined with forthcoming velocity measurements with X-ray microcalorimeters.