ICRP Fukushima dialogue seminars: joint learning at many levels

TorsinA Movement at Many Levels

TorsinA is the causative protein in the human neurologic disease early onset torsin dystonia, a movement disorder involving dysfunction in the basal ganglia without apparent neurodegeneration. Most cases result from a dominantly acting three-base pair deletion in the TOR1A gene causing loss of a glutamic acid near the carboxyl terminus of torsinA. Torsins are members of the AAA(+) superfamily o...

Radiation risks and radiation protection training for healthcare professionals: ICRP and the Fukushima experience.

Teaching and Learning in First Year Seminars

An experiment is carried out on a subset of a first year group in Semester 1, 2001 for five separate fiftyminute sessions. Five groups are taught using one teaching technique based around the idea of passive learning. Five further groups are taught using a second technique based on active learning within small groups. The remaining three groups face a third approach based on a combination of th...

Navigating joint projects with dialogue

Dialogue has its origins in joint activities, which it serves to coordinate. Joint activities, in turn, usually emerge in hierarchically nested projects and subprojects. We propose that participants use dialogue to coordinate two kinds of transitions in these joint projects: vertical transitions, or entering and exiting joint projects; and horizontal transitions, or continuing within joint proj...

Gene and genome trees conflict at many levels.

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a significant role in microbial evolution. It can accelerate the adaptation of an organism, it can generate new metabolic pathways and it can completely remodel an organism's genome. We examine 27 closely related genomes from the YESS group of gamma proteobacteria and a variety of four-taxon datasets from a diverse range of prokaryotes in order to explore th...