Carter and Nugent (eds.), Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds (Manchester University Press, 2016)

Queen Victoria

world's history presents only during occasional long periods of widespread prosperity, to Mr. Lytton's eyes her personal influence does not account either for the great events that happened in her time or for the eminence of the chief characters which surrounded her. We see in his biography, what is lacking in the earlier book, a sincere attempt to refrain from belittling his subject, but certa...

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750-2015 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. xiii, 378, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9769-0.

to have it and to rely on it. The price of the book, at £90, makes it inaccessible to them. I don’t know of plans to make the book more easily available in East Africa, but it is vital that this happen. In conclusion, Doyle’s analysis is subtle and rich. The body of research on which it is based is monumental. It is a book we can all rely on in moving towards the next stage in studying the prob...

Sandra Cavallo and  Tessa Storey (eds), Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture: Bodies and Environments in Italy and England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. xvi, 328, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-5261-1347-4.

The University of Manchester First

Generalised epileptic seizures are frequently accompanied by sudden reversible transitions from low amplitude irregular background activity to high amplitude, regular spike-wave discharges (SWD) in the EEG. The underlying mechanisms responsible for SWD generation and for the apparently spontaneous transitions to SWD and back again are still not fully understood. Specifically, the role of spatia...

Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Manchester

This paper is concerned with the automatic mapping of array computation to processors efficiently. One of the major overheads associated with the mapping of computation is load imbalance. An optimising compiler should find a mapping such that this overhead is minimised. This paper describes formally the mapping of loop iterations to processors so as to minimise load imbalance. The class of perf...