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Fasti aberdoneses; selections from the records of the University and King's college of Aberdeen, 1494-1854.
No full textSpalding club, Aberdeen. Publication .Ed. by Cosmo Innes.Mode of access: Internet
Early life factors, childhood cognition and postal questionnaire response rate in middle age: the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study.
No full textBACKGROUND: Little is known about the relationship between early life factors and survey response in epidemiological studies of adults. METHODS: The Children of the 1950s cohort is composed of 12,150 children (boys 51.7%) born in Aberdeen 1950-56 and in primary schools in the city in 1962. Information on birth weight, gestational age, growth, behaviour and socio-economic position at birth and in childhood were obtained from contemporaneous records. Cognitive test scores at ages 7,9 and 11 years were also available from school records. The outcome was response to a postal questionnaire sent (2001-2003) to surviving cohort members in middle age. RESULTS: Of 11,282 potentially mailed subjects, 7,183 (63.7%) returned questionnaires. Response rates were highest among females, and those whose parents were married at birth, were in a non-manual social class at birth or in childhood, had fewer siblings, were taller and heavier in childhood for their age and had lower Rutter B behavioural scores. Childhood cognitive test scores at every age were strongly and positively related to the response rate to a postal questionnaire independently of other early life factors monotonically across the entire range of test scores. Those in the bottom fifth at age 11 had a response rate of 49% while those in the top fifth 75%. CONCLUSION: The strength and consistency of the association of childhood cognition with questionnaire response rate in middle age is surprisingly large. It suggests that childhood cognition across the entire normal range is a powerful influence on the complex set of later behaviours that comprise questionnaire response. The extent of possible response bias in epidemiological studies of the associations between childhood characteristics (particularly those related to cognition) and later health is probably larger than is generally realised, at least in situations where the survey instrument is a postal questionnaire
A coastal criminological exploration : Approaching urban industrial strain using visual sensory methods in Aberdeen
No full textAcknowledgements: I owe this short paper to those people in Aberdeen who are responsible for our street art and the visuals featured within this piece, all of whom have made it possible for me to start expanding my criminological and sociological imagination thanks to their creativity in our home town. I hope that paying closer attention to ‘unlikely places’ will mean that those unknowns will feel acknowledged and less alienated (Ewen, 2020). With the utmost thanks to artist and researcher Maja Zeco, who organised the sea-sound group walk supported by the North-East creative arts programme, ‘Look Again Aberdeen’. A friend who helped me to improve my visual sensory walk maps, Richard Kjellgren, PhD student at Stirling University, I look forward to you visiting me so we can explore together. I would like to give a fresh acknowledgement to those women who worked in Aberdeen’s sex industry tolerance zone in the port area (where part of this exploration takes place), an area that has long been treated as “seedy”. I witnessed your banishment and inner-city harassment due to the fallout from the scrapping of the tolerance zone in 2007—this is for all of you. I hope that this modest contribution will begin to improve what has been a lesser engagement in criminology and sociology in Northeast Scotland.Peer reviewe
Authority and discipline in Aberdeen, 1650-1700
No full textThis study is concerned with aspects of urban society in the
Scottish city of Aberdeen in the second half of the seventeenth
century. The principal aim is to examine the multi-faceted nature
and workings of civic government, of the interlocking hierarchies of
people and institutions which together formed an invisible web of
authority and discipline in the town. The burgh's three main
administrative and judicial bodies - the town council, the kirk
session, and the justice of the peace court - are examined in some
detail. Other matters discussed include the 1640's legacy of civil
war, plague, and severe economic dislocation; the impact of eight
years of Cromwellian occupation; the demographic and socio-economic
structures of the urban community; aspects of secular and
ecclesiastical politics; the continuing challenge to the established
kirk posed by Catholic recusancy, and the new challenge posed by the
advent of Quakerism in the town; patterns of office-holding and the
characteristics of the urban elite; and poor relief and social
control. The fundamental structures of urban society underwent no
sudden transformation in these years, but neither did they remain
static: far from obscuring the true dynamics of urban society, civic
institutions remained vital social, economic, and political forums
around which the forces of critical change coalesced, whether to be
adopted, adapted, repulsed; or neutralised, but always in such a way
as to shape the very structure and character of life in the town
Unionism and peer-referencing
No full textThis study assesses the “fair-wage-effort” hypothesis, by examining (a) the relationship between relative wage comparisons and job satisfaction and quitting intensions, and (b) the relative ranking of stated effort inducing-incentives, in a novel dataset of unionised and non-unionised European employees. By distinguishing between downward and upward-looking wage comparisons, it is shown that wage comparisons to similar workers exert an asymmetric impact on the job satisfaction of union workers, a pattern consistent with inequity-aversion and conformism to the reference point. Moreover, union workers evaluate peer observation and good industrial relations more highly than payment and other incentives. In contrast, non-union workers are found to be more status-seeking in their satisfaction responses and less dependent on their peers in their effort choices The results are robust to endogenous union membership, considerations of generic loss aversion and across different tenure profiles. They are supportive of the individual egalitarian bias of collective wage determination and self-enforcing effort norms.EPICURUS, a project supported by the European Commission through the 5th Framework Programme “Improving Human Potential” (contract number: HPSE-CT-2002-00143
IHS Health Care Delivery Four State Aberdeen Area
No full textOn February 24, 1975, the Four State Indian Health Board contracted with the Aberdeen Office of the Indian Health Service to assess the health delivery system to Indian people in the four state area. The predominant emphasis of the project was to assess the existing contract care system with the underlying general purpose being to determine if this could not be made more effective. A specific purpose was to explore the possibility of establishing an Indian Health Service medical referral center in the Aberdeen Area as a way of increasing the cost-effectiveness of the health delivery system. This report grows out of the Medical Referral Center Evaluation Project. The report has three general objectives. First, it describes the contract health care situation for Indian People in IHS Aberdeen Area service population. Secondly, following the presentation of this information, possible alternatives for improving health care delivery are outlined and discussed. Third, the additional data and analysis required for arriving at a choice among these alternatives is detailed.An inhouse task force was appointed by the Acting Aberdeen Area Director. This task force consisted of three IHS Service Unit Directors and two IHS physicians. Their assignment was to do a feasibility study on establishing an IHS medical referral center in Rapid City, South Dakota. This report was a first step but more was needed before such a major investment could be seriously contemplated--capital costs alone for an Aberdeen Area referral center were estimated by the in-house task force at $30,000,000. Basic data for the report, e.g.. expenditures in the Aberdeen Area for given disorders, vendor lists, etc., was supplied by Aberdeen Area staff. This data was analyzed and compiled to reflect the recommendations.The Aberdeen Area was receiving only 52% of the resources needed for contractual health care. There is a need to more than double the current contract care funding and--since the cost of care is rising yearly--to develop a system whereby funds are increased automatically each year as costs rise. All service units are understaffed and have been forced to assume almost the entire burden of providing medical treatment beyond the primary care level. From a standpoint of overall Indian health care, the situation is deplorable. Service units are not meeting the basic health needs of the Indian population in the Aberdeen Area. A large part of the total service population has never had a diagnostic examination. When incidence and treatment figures are coupled with the known health situation for Indian people generally, it can be concluded that the unmet medical/surgical needs in the Aberdeen Area service population in FY 1974 were undoubtedly far more numerous that the treated cases. The Aberdeen Area service population is increasing and is expected to continue. Thus, it seems safe to that the health care needs of the future Aberdeen Area will be considerably greater than the needs of the present population. Insufficient money is the overriding problem with the IHS contract care system.Four possible alternatives will be presented for improving the health care of the Aberdeen Area service population. The four possible alternatives are: 1) increased funding for the present system; 2) upgrading service unit facilities; 3) a mini-center system; and (4) an IHS Area medical center. Any one of the four or a combination of the four would be an improvement over the present situation. In order to make a choice, consideration must be given to general information regarding capital cost data, operating cost data, benefit data, and service population desires. Attention must also be addressed to specific needs such as: obtaining staff, location, feasibility of mini-centers, preliminary planning/design, and securing funding. One last point in connection with the improvement of health care facilities in the Aberdeen Area is the development of a tentative plan to how national health insurance could be interwoven with a new approach to health care delivery
The Subtour Centre Problem
No full textThe subtour centre problem is the problem of finding a closed trail S of bounded length on a connected simple graph G that minimises the maximum distance from S to any vertex ofG. It is a central location problem related to the cycle centre and cycle median problems (Foulds et al., 2004; Labbé et al., 2005) and the covering tour problem (Current and Schilling, 1989). Two related heuristics and an integer linear programme are formulated for it. These are compared numerically using a range of problems derived from tsplib (Reinelt, 1995). The heuristics usually perform substantially better then the integer linear programme and there is some evidence that the simpler heuristics perform better on the less dense graphs that may be more typical of applications
Microbiologically influenced corrosion in Aberdeen Harbour
No full textThis project was developed in partnership with Aberdeen Harbour Board to assess the likelihood of MIC occurrence on steel pilings in Aberdeen Harbour, and to predict the effect of various environmental variables on this process. The literature review (Chapter 1) describes the corrosion process and presents the evidence for the role of microorganisms in aggressive forms of localised corrosion. Chapter 3 details the development of general methods that were then used in subsequent experimental chapters. Data from various surveys carried out in Aberdeen Harbour were analysed in Chapter 4 for pertinent information. This information was used to plan microcosm experiments (reported in chapter 5) designed to mimic field conditions in Aberdeen Harbour. These microcosm experiments were initially carried out over a range of temperatures (100C to 300C) and corrosion rate increased as temperature increased. The initial microcosm experiment demonstrated that carbon addition had little effect on corrosion rate, whereas N & P addition increased corrosion rates, both biotically and abiotically. The second microcosm experiment, reported in Chapter 6, demonstrated that the addition of a sediment bacterial inoculum did not affect bacterial population densities or rate of steel weight loss, suggesting that an inoculum from the water column alone would suffice to produce a biofilm containing SRB and thiobacilli that may affect steel corrosion. The third microcosm experiment presented in Chapter 7, demonstrated that although increased light intensity caused an increase in the rate of corrosion, the effect was abiotic, rather than biotic. The field experiment carried out in Aberdeen Harbour, and reported in Chapter 8, showed that in situ corrosion processes were similar to those observed in the laboratory. The findings from this research project can be used by Aberdeen Harbour Board to develop strategies that will help predict the occurrence, and severity, of MIC within the harbour.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Haemoglobin Concentration and Cognitive Ability in the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s
No full textWe are grateful to the Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS) participants, the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s (ACONF), and Walker subset of GS:SFHS who have taken part in the STratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL) study. We also thank the families of the participants and the wider GS:SFHS and STRADL project teams. We also are thankful to the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre for their support and guidance in carrying out this project.Peer reviewe
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