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Peter Macinnis conducting a teachers' workshop at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22 October 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Teachers' workshop for the book Australian backyard explorer by author Peter Macinnis at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22 October 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Peter Macinnis addressing teachers at a workshop at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22 October 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Teachers' workshop for the book Australian backyard explorer by author Peter Macinnis at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22 October 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
The early political career of Angus MacInnis
No full textAngus MacInnis was elected Member of Parliament for Vancouver South in 1930 as a representative of the Independent Labour Party and on a socialist platform. During his first session of Parliament, he began a political career that would last twenty-seven years, and also played a prominent role in the development of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of Angus MacInnis' early political career, both in Vancouver and in Ottawa, and to assess his role in the development of the Co-operative Commonwealth
Federation in its formative years from 1932 to 1935.
The most important primary source of information is the Angus MacInnis Collection in the Special Collections Division of The University of British Columbia Library. This collection includes MacInnis' private correspondence and his scrapbooks; the records of the C.C.F. and its predecessors in British Columbia; and material of a general nature on the early socialist movement in British Columbia. Other primary sources in Vancouver include the labour press in the period 1915-1935, the daily press, records of Parliamentary debates and relevant government documents. Records of the national Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and several of MacInnis' contemporaries are found in the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa. Also, associates of Angus MacInnis in the period under study were interviewed. Secondary sources include studies of the period, and biographies of contemporaries.
Because this study is only of Angus MacInnis' early political career, the 1935 federal election has been selected as the termination point.
This election was the first test at the polls of his Parliamentary efforts, and of his commitment to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Had he and the C.C.F. failed, all his efforts in the preceding ten years would have been for naught. His personal success and the comparative success of the C.C.F. vindicated his efforts.
Angus MacInnis was first and foremost a socialist; not, however, of the doctrinaire, Marxian variety so typical of British Columbia, but rather pragmatic and Fabian in his approach, preferring constitutional to violent means. He was Canadian-born and understood Canadian problems to a much greater extent than did most of the British-born socialists in B. C. For this reason, Angus MacInnis was able to see the need for, and prospects of, a national, broadly based, constitutional, socialist party in Canada. Because of his pragmatism and his faith in constitutional methods, and because of early experience, he was adamantly anti-communist. As a member of Parliament, he showed himself to be conscientious, forthright
and quick witted. He stood out in particular as a humanitarian in his defence of the victims of the Depression, especially the unemployed. He also indicated on many occasions his pragmatism and his faith in parliamentary democracy. In spite of these qualities, he was narrow in his interests, concentrating primarily on the failure of capitalism, the ineptitude of the Bennett government, the plight of British Columbia and Vancouver, and the condition of the unemployed.
Angus Maclnnis' most lasting contribution in this period was not made in Parliament but rather in the C.C.F. To a great extent, it was because of his efforts that there was a strong socialist party in British Columbia when the C.C.F. began. His influence did much to bring the Socialist Party of Canada into the C.C.F., and to merge the two affiliates in the British Columbia C.C.F. into one party. As a political realist, he saw the need for a strong party structure, and did much to bring about such
a development in B. C. and Ontario. It was for this reason that he attempted to forestall any compromise on the C.C.F.'s anti-communism, because
he knew that the communists would destroy the Federation. As a socialist, he saw the need for the B. C. socialists in the national federation, and did much, by his own efforts and by bringing the B. C. socialists into the C.C.F., to ensure that the C.C.F. retained its socialist goals.Arts, Faculty ofHistory, Department ofGraduat
Erratum to: Thromboelastometry and platelet function during acclimatisation to high altitude
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Thromboelastometry and Platelet Function during Acclimatization to High Altitude
Thromb Haemost 2018; 118(01): 063-071
DOI: 10.1160/TH17-02-0138
In the Original Article by Rocke et al. “Thromboelastometry and platelet function during acclimatization to high altitude” (Thromb Haemost 2018; 118: 063-071) after publication of the article it has come to the corresponding author's attention that an author was inadvertently omitted from the manuscript. The author, Martin MacInnis, made a significant contribution to: 1. initiating the coagulation research that led to the manuscript, 2. designing the research protocol and performing the initial data analysis, 3. recruiting volunteers, writing applications for ethical approval and making other logistical arrangements that were necessary to complete the study. Martin MacInnis has read and approved the published version of the manuscript. Furthermore, a middle initial was added to the updated list (Shona E. Main) and misspelling of Elizabeth Horn's surname was corrected. The amended author list is as above
Latent heat fluxes during two contrasting years from a juvenile plantation established over a waste disposal landscape
No full textIsa A.M. Yunusa, Sigfredo Fuentes, Anthony R. Palmer, Catriona M.O. Macinnis-Ng, Melanie J.B. Zeppel, Derek Eamu
Optimizing kiwifruit quality through estimation of leaf stomatal conductance from sap flux density: the KIWIQUALI project
No full textMost fruit crop irrigation is performed on an empirical basis, with very little awareness of the consequences on yield and on water use efficiency. A model is available for predicting leaf stomatal conductance from sap flux measurements in olive, which is a fruit crop that requires less water than kiwifruit vines. The main objective of the KIWIQUALI project is to estimate leaf stomatal conductance (gs) through models from sap flux density (Js) measurements in Actinidia chinensis, allowing assessment of the plant’s water status continuously and to improve irrigation management, while optimizing fruit quality. This goal will be reached through the following specific objectives: i) to adjust models for estimation of kiwifruit trees gs from continuous Js and atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (D) measurements; ii) to understand which irrigation level optimizes fruit quality and productivity; iii) to develop precision irrigation protocols based on gs estimation. To obtain measurements from plants with different levels of water status, kiwi vines in the Emilia Romagna region (Italy) were submitted to four irrigation treatments, being one well-watered (100% of crop evapotranspiration ETC) and three deficit irrigation treatments (ca. 68, 57 and 40% of ETC). The KIWIQUALI project will lead to innovative results as it will i) provide a model to continuously estimate gs on an isohydric, drought sensitive crop (kiwifruit), improving the knowledge on the hydraulic limitations and physiological responses of one of the most water requiring fruit crops; ii) improve understanding on how plant water status and physiological performance affects fruit yield and quality, and; iii) provide a tool to optimize irrigation scheduling of Actinidia chinensis. The first season of measurements will happen during the European summer (from June to ca. October), therefore, this contribution will present the KIWIQUALI project and its preliminary results
PESTICIDES AND CHILD HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM HISPANIC CHILDREN IN THE U.S.
No full textThis paper examines whether there is an externality of parental occupational exposure to pesticides on children's health, and whether some children are more severely affected by the externality than others. Using the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination survey, we find children of exposed parents are more likely to develop chronic conditions and less likely to attain good health than children of unexposed parents, after controlling for a large set of child and family characteristics. Furthermore, children from low socioeconomic status are most vulnerable to health shocks resulting from pesticides and other related environmental toxins. Our analysis suggests that terminating the pathway of parental occupational exposure would be cost effective to correct the externality. Taken together with earlier findings that poor childhood health is associated with lower adult earnings, our results suggest more attention to be paid to the health shocks from environmental toxins for the poor as a potential mechanism through which the increasing poverty across generations at the very poor takes place: poverty makes individuals more susceptible to health shocks at childhood, which is associated with worse poverty for their children.Health Economics and Policy,
Seasonal frequency and positioning of parasitic midges (Chironomidae) on Pteronarcys biloba nymphs (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae)
No full textMature nymphs of Pteronarcys biloba collected from Catamaran Brook, New Brunswick, between October 1994 and October 1995, were hosts to high numbers of parasitic chironomid larvae [Nanocladius (Plecopteracoluthus) undescribed sp., nr, branchicolus]. Nanocladius (P.) sp. has a univoltine life cycle in Catamaran Brook, with emergence occurring nearly simultaneously with the stonefly host in late May and early June. The chironomid larva constructs a silken case on the stonefly nymphs and feeds on hemolymph by piercing the gill tissue or the intersegmental membranes. Stoneflies were collected from different habitat types in 4 stream reaches from the headwaters to the mouth, and the position and number of attached chironomids was recorded for each nymph. The frequency and density of parasitic chironomids was not related to habitat type, but was related to reach; significantly more larvae/host were found in mid-catchment reaches than at the headwaters or mouth (p < 0.05). No parasitized stoneflies were found in the headwater reach, but between 80 and 100% of mature stonefly nymphs collected from the mid-catchment and mouth reaches were parasitized. Mean chironomid densities ((x) over bar +/- SE) were 6.7 +/- 0.4 chironomids/mature host in the fail of 1994 and 3.5 +/- 0.44 in the summer and fall of 1995. Both frequency and density of chironomids were highest on the oldest stonefly age class present; younger stoneflies were also parasitized, but at significantly lower levels. Larval positioning on stoneflies differed with age of larvae; early instar chironomids attached mainly to the thoracic pleura, just under the wingpads, but most migrated to femora by early fall (September), and overwintered on the femora.PT: J; CR: BENEDICT PR, 1972, ANN ENTOMOL SOC AM, V65, P109 BOTTORFF RL, 1987, ENTOMOL GEN, V12, P97 CLAASEN PW, 1931, PLECOPTERA NYMPHS N CORBET PS, 1961, B ENTOMOL RES, V52, P695 CUNJAK RA, 1990, CANADIAN TECHNICAL R, V1751 CUNJAK RA, 1993, CANADIAN TECHNICAL R, V1914 DELAROSA CL, 1992, J N AMER BENTHOL SOC, V11, P316 DELATORREBUENO JR, 1978, GLOSSARY ENTOMOLOGY DOSDALL LM, 1981, CAN ENTOMOL, V113, P141 DOSDALL LM, 1986, CAN ENTOMOL, V118, P511 EPLER JH, 1995, J N AMER BENTHOL SOC, V14, P50 GOTCEITAS V, 1986, CAN J ZOOL, V58, P2260 HILSENHOFF WL, 1968, ANN ENTOMOL SOC AM, V61, P1622 HITCHCOCK SW, 1974, B STATE GEOLOGICAL 7, V107 JACOBSEN RE, 1993, CURRENT DIRECTIONS R, P317 SMITH LW, 1917, T ENTOMOLOGICAL SOC, V43, P433 STEFFAN AW, 1965, CAN ENTOMOL, V97, P1323 STEFFAN AW, 1967, NATURE, V213, P846 STEFFAN AW, 1967, SYMBIOSIS, V2, P207 STEWART KW, 1993, NYMPHS N AM STONEFLY SVENSSON B, 1976, ARCH HYDROBIOL, V77, P22 WHITE TR, 1980, ENTOMOL NEWS, V91, P69; NR: 22; TC: 7; J9: J N AMER BENTHOL SOC; PG: 8; GA: WC658Source type: Electronic(1
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