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No full textHere is a curious book. Its title-page declares "The Artist's Book of Fables" but its pre-title-page has "Fables, Original and Selected, with a Memoir of the Author." After that title-page, it is identical with "Fables, Original and Selected" as in our copy printed by John Murray in 1833. There is again an AI at the front and an index of engravings and engravers at the back. I found that copy twenty years ago. I had found an inferior copy twenty-two years before that. At that time, I noted Aesopic fables here including "Stone Broth" and "The Mouse and the Oyster."This is a hardbound book (hard cover)James Northcote, R.A
Education in the United States; a series of monographs,
No full textContains bibliographies.Introduction, by N.M. Butler.--Educational organization and administration, by A.S. Draper.--Kindergarten education, by Susan E. Blow.--Elementary education, by W.T. Harris.--Secondary education, by E.E. Brown.--The American college, by A.F. West.--The American university, by E.D. Perry.--Education of women, by M. Carey Thomas.--Training of teachers, by R.A. Hinsdale.--School architecture and hygiene, by G.R. Morrison.--Professional education, by J.R. Parsons, jr.--Scientific, technical, and engineering education, by T.C. Mendenhall.--Agricultural education, by C.W. Dabney.--Commercial education, by E.J. James.--Art and industrial education, by I.E. Clarke.--Education of defectives, by E.E. Allen.--Summer schools and university extension, by G.F. Vincent.--Scientific societies and associations, by J. McK. Catttell.--Education of the Negro, by B.T. Washington.--Education of the Indian, by W.N. Hailmann.--Education through the agency of the several religious organizations, by W.H. Larrabee.Mode of access: Internet
Stepping out of our paradigm: a path for the integration of scientific and traditional ecological knowledge in natural resource management
No full textThe call for the integration of scientific and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in natural resource and environment management (NREM) is now stronger than ever. Australian central and state governments have indicated that "knowledge integration" in NREM is a way to pursue social equity and enhance sustainability. Yet a clear path for integrating knowledge systems on the ground is still to be developed, which often hinders the dialogue between holders of different knowledge systems. In this paper we argue that the integration of knowledge systems in NREM should be pursued at the level of the knowledge production process and with the involvement of knowledge holders. We are aware that integrating TEK and scientific knowledge requires a change of social values. To achieve this change, we argue that both scientific and traditional ecological knowledge holders need to step out of their own paradigms and meet each other half way
Landscape-painter as landscape-gardener : the case of Alfred Parsons R.A.
No full textIn 2 vols.Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN016830 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
The synthesis and structural characterisation of novel 4- and 5- membered nitrogen heterocycles derived from azoacetates
No full textAzo-drugs are among the earliest fully synthetic chemotherapeutic agents known (Prontosil 1935).
However the synthesis and application of phenylazo compounds in the area of medicinal chemistry
has largely been restricted to derivatives of primary aromatic amines. This has been due, in the most
part, to a perceived view that azo compounds not containing two aromatic groups are unstable. The
syntheses of a number of novel heterocycles including important medicinal structures directly
linked to an arylazo moiety are reported. The literature survey introduces a range of four and five
membered heterocycles with established pharmaceutical activity. In particular the attention is drawn
to molecules containing the azo functional group. This thesis contains a chapter detailing the
introduction of a variety of alkyl and aryl groups into novel �-lactam molecules bearing the arylazo
and arylazoxy functional groups. The succeeding chapter investigates the role of the azocarbinol
group as an intermediate in the rearrangement of azoacetates to N-acyl hydrazides. The
deacetylation reactions of azoacetates derived from L-threonine are also described. This work
resulted in the synthesis of novel oxazolidinone and hydantoin species, also with phenylazo
attachments. The final chapter describes the incorporation of a cyanide unit into heterocyclic
compounds through intermolecular cyclisations of a range of substituted azoacetates when
potassium cyanide is employed as base. It is shown that the azo group may be incorporated into the
cyclic system to produce pyrazoles, or as an exocyclic pendant group attached to a 2-
iminopyrrolidin-5-one; X-ray crystal structures of these compounds are reported. The 2-
iminopyrrolidin-5-one was easily modified to produce the corresponding pyrrolidine-2,5-dione
(succinimide) derivative. All of the heterocycles reported were generated from azoacetates derived
from simple, cheap and readily available starting materials (ethylacetoacetate and L-threonine), thus
showing azoacetates to be versatile and valuable building blocks in the field of heterocyclic
chemistry
[Review of the book Madness and society in eighteenth-century Scotland, by R.A. Houston]
No full textDeformation partitioning, foliation successions and their significance for orogenesis: hiding lengthy deformation histories in mylonites
No full textAlthough orogenesis commonly lasts 100 million years, a maximum of three foliations are usually preserved within any outcrop. They record little of the total history due to the effects of preferential partitioning of progressive shearing along S0. Such reactivation eventually destroys or
rotates multiple successive foliations into parallelism with any layering that is present. Plate motion subjects a collisional orogen to spatially partitioned, episodic, but non-stop deformation. The bulk forces operating are horizontal and intermittently vertical (associated with gravitational load due to crustal thickening) forming sub-vertical and sub-horizontal foliations. These orientations are preserved in the strain shadows of anything competent that hinders reactivation of the compositional layering. Deformation partitioning results in portions of rock remaining unaffected for many events. Gravitational collapse of over-thickened orogen cores leads to significant extrusion in orogen rims and a dominance of sub-horizontal foliations in the latter and episodically continues throughout orogenesis. Reactivation causes decrenulation and/or rotation of foliations into parallelism with S0, destroying evidence that multiple sub-vertical and sub-horizontal foliations have developed except where preserved as inclusion trails in porphyroblasts and multiply truncated foliations in mylonites. However, the same processes operate in both the cores of orogens and ductile portions of their margins
The evolution of the general certificate of secondary education to 1986
No full textThe evolution of the G.G.S.E. was a phase both in the history of examinations and also in the social and political interaction of education with its environment. Each subject discipline has its own development. The turbulent development of modern languages appears to have experienced a more easily discernible phase of progression in the period approaching the G.G.S.E. than at other times over the century and more especially in the post-wax period; in fact 'languages' reached a greater spread of effective contact of the school population than ever before. Such an incidence of events merits .some attention even though alternative sequences were occurring in other subject disciplines. The G.G.S.E. followed in the tradition of the School Certificate, the G.G.E. and the G.S.E. yet it also mirrored major movements in British society and its expectation of public education. Competition became paramount. Differentiation resolved, somewhat, the problems of a common system for the high and low achievers. The irony was that the G.C.S.E. suited the comprehensive schools but the comprehensive schools did not suit everybody. The teaching profession, whilst trying to deal vrith this problem sensitively, felt its national profile deteriorate. These fundamental changes took place at a time of growing concern over the education system. Yet fundamental changes in society were the key to fundamental changes in education. Languages, throughout, democratized down the hierarchy of learning; other subjects followed the pattern. World War II had polarized for languages a pacific, literature-civilization from a message-communication. These became the opposing sides of the battleground, the victory being a merger of the two. This century's main lost soul of the curriculum found its resting-place in G.G.S.E. practicability'. The post-war extension to the whole ability range forced a lonesome mental introversion. Sound experienced psychoanalysis and therapy by the subject association with basic guidance from the examination boards brought restoration to a new state of health. In fact restoratives primarily for the low achiever had been vital. The new government in 1979 encouraged practicality and usefulness of school subjects. Having advised throughout, the subject associations, like others, took the initiative in the teachers' cold war lull, to sound out true opinion (which could not be done publicly due to the intractability of positions) and made recommendation to the government. The contribution of the low achiever was finally acknowledged. The subject associations, uniquely, were in a position to test opinion and act with speed. The disappearance of Ordinary Level and Grammar Schools had proved a strong brake, yet the post World War II period up to the 1980s was inevitably between staging posts of major educational reform and nothing was to stop the G.G.S.E. being by accident or design the frontrunner of a series of reforms. The sources for this study have been the professional literature and reviews underpinned by personal interviews with relevant and representative personnel
A research process and criteria–indicators framework for developing indigenous freshwater ecosystem health monitoring
No full textIndigenous Australians’ rights, interest and priorities for water management are currently recognised only to a limited extent in Australian water management policies and decision-making processes. Research has demonstrated that water monitoring based on the values, knowledge and interests of indigenous communities has empowered them in negotiating greater involvement in water management. We hereby present a case study focused on developing water monitoring that is an expression of an Indigenous Australian community’s interests and vision for management. The monitoring system takes the form of a set of criteria and indicators for freshwater ecosystem health. From the case study, we derive a research process aimed at developing similar criteria and indicator frameworks for water monitoring applicable in other collaborative community-based water monitoring research initiatives
A composite threat indicator approach to monitor vegetation condition in the Wet Tropics, Queensland, Australia
No full textMany indicators and indices have been previously developed to report biodiversity condition at a regional scale. However, none have specifically focused on vegetation condition as a surrogate for biodiversity, and also incorporated threats at multiple scales. Using five indicators (forest cover fragmentation, urbanisation, weeds, feral animals and road density) identified from the scientific literature and selected in collaboration with natural resource management (NRM) stakeholders to reflect the state of vegetation condition in the World Heritage-listed Wet Tropics Bioregion of Queensland, Australia, we constructed a simple composite threat index which allowed the spatial display of information at the regional and subregional scale. Using this approach we identified that the overall vegetation condition of the Wet Tropics in the period 2003–2007 was 'good', but at a finer scale five of the bioregions nine subregions had 'moderate' condition, and only four had 'good' condition. The primary threat contributing to the 'moderate' condition was vegetation fragmentation due to clearing for agriculture, housing and related transport infrastructure. The composite threat index approach provided managers with a report card for the Wet Tropics landscape which allows rapid assessment of vegetation condition and contributory threats, and thus prioritization for the allocation of limited resources to threatening processes at the subregional scale
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