562 research outputs found
Uranium isotope fractionation in non-sulfidic anoxic settings and the global uranium isotope mass balance - Dataset
No full textAll geochemical data published in Cole, D.B., Planavsky, N.J., Longley, M., Boning, P., Wilkes, D., Wang, X., Swanner, E.D., Wittkop, C., Loydell, D., Busigny, V., Knudsen, A., Sperling, E.A. Uranium isotope fractionation in non-sulfidic anoxic settings and the uranium isotope mass balance. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 202
Poor Travellers on the Move in Devon, 1598 - c.1800
No full textThe author of this thesis confirms that any third party copyright material contained within this thesis has been used with the permission of the copyright holders viz. South West Heritage Trust for Somerset and also Devon Heritage Centre and Dorset History Centre and in compliance with their terms of use. Full Acknowledgements have been given in the text alongside the relevant material.This study examines poor travellers who were on the move during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The focus is the County of Devon, with Exeter dealt with only briefly as it was a separate county. It is shown that the travellers, including numbers of Irish in the seventeenth century and foreign-born, particularly in the eighteenth century, were affected by a number of factors, but that the most important influence on their numbers and types was the incidence of wars. Economic factors, such as food supply, were of some importance, but the economy too was influenced by the effects of wars. Legislation also was found to have had less influence than expected. However, the legislation effective from 1700 did have a marked impact on the documentation available.
The main sources used for this study are the parochial documents provided by churchwardens’ accounts of payments made to travellers in need and some of those of the parish overseers. These are supplemented by the records of Devon’s County Quarter Sessions. A combination of Devon’s geography, its strong international maritime connections and the influence of wars and their locations combined to affect the chronological and spatial variations in the numbers and types of travellers through the two centuries
Music and elite identity in the English country house, c.1790-1840
No full textIn this thesis I investigate two untapped music book collections that belonged to two women. Elizabeth Sykes Egerton (1777-1853) and Lydia Hoare Acland (1786-1856) lived at Tatton Park, Cheshire, and Killerton House, Devon, respectively. Upon their marriage in the early nineteenth century, they brought with them the music books they had compiled so far to their new homes, and they continued to collect and play music after marriage. I examine the vocal music in Elizabeth’s and Lydia’s collections, and I aim to show how selected vocal music repertoires contributed toward the construction of landed elite identity in these women and their husbands, concentrating on gender, class, national identity and religion.In chapter one, I concentrate on songs that depict destitute and suffering individuals to move both listeners and performers to compassion. The songs are topical and provide insights into contemporary understandings of sympathy and landed elite responsibility for the distressed. In chapter two, I focus on the ingoing and outgoing movements of music in the country house, and the consumption of foreign music in the home. I divide the chapter into two sections, first examining Elizabeth’s Italian vocal music that she collected during her girlhood years in London and York in the 1790s. The Italian music that Elizabeth brought to Tatton complemented other Italian objects and items in the home. Italian culture appealed to the Egerton family both before and after Elizabeth and Wilbraham married. In the second section, I investigate Lydia and her family’s journey to Vienna for the Congress in 1814-1815. Lydia took away with her a book of vocal music to remind her of home in a foreign environment. While away in Vienna, the Aclands attended concerts and music salons, and they purchased music books to bring back home to add to their collection. In the final chapter, I concentrate on the man of the house at music and I consider the social expectations, duties and responsibilities that had befallen our landed elite men, Thomas Dyke Acland and Wilbraham Egerton. I discuss Thomas’s and Wilbraham’s musical engagements and occasions for performing music, and how men’s music-making contributed to a masculine identity.By placing the vocal music in broader social and cultural contexts, reading personal correspondence, newspaper articles, account books and diaries, we can begin to understand what our families thought about music, and how they used and experienced music in and around their homes, forming an important part of their lifestyle
Family influence and psychiatric care: Physical treatments in Devon mental hospitals, c. 1920 to the 1970s
No full text‘What is it that appears to make the mentally ill so vulnerable to therapeutic experimentation?’11Scull A. Somatic treatments and the historiography of psychiatry. History of Psychiatry 1994;5:1–12, p. 12. One commentator wrote in the 1990s, regarding mental hospitals as repressive, coercive and custodial institutions where medical staff subjected patients to orgies of experimentation. A careful study of surviving documents of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum (DCLA), however, paints a different picture. Rather than medical staff, patients’ relatives and the wider community exercised a considerable influence over a patient's hospital admission and discharge, rendering the therapeutic regime in the middle of the 20th century the result of intense negotiations between the hospital and third parties
40Ar/39Ar Dating of Paleoproterozoic Shear Zones in the Ellesmere-Devon Crystalline Terrane, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic
No full textPaleoproterozoic gneisses of the Ellesmere–Devon crystalline terrane on southeast Ellesmere Island are deformed by m-scale, E-striking mylonite zones. The shear zones commonly offset pegmatitic dikes and represent the last episode of ductile deformation. Samples were dated by theThe presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
The Other Sister Research Seminar: Book "Medieval Religious Women"
No full textby Julia Cole and Devon Sherwood On Friday, December 15th, The Other Sister met for a discussion of Medieval Religious Women, c. 800-1500, ed. Kimm Curran and Janet Burton (Boydell, 2023). Kimm Curran, Janet Burton, Cate Gunn, and Alison More joined us to discuss their contributions (listed below) to this exciting new publication. The thematic session was organized by Delfi Nieto-Isabel and Mary Doyno. Kimm Curran and Janet Burton, "Introduction," p. 1-21. Alison More, "Change and Renew..
Cold temperatures as a source of stress: seasonality, sand burrowing and hemocyanin levels in Atlantic Canada sandy beach amphipods
No full textSandy beach species are adapted to a harsh physical habitat, but for those living at relatively high latitudes, the cold, often freezing winter conditions, entail a challenge that has not been thoroughly examined. We therefore examined the individual response of talitroid amphipods (Americorchestia longicornis; Say 1818) to the strong seasonality affecting sandy beaches in Prince Edward Island, Atlantic Canada (46°N). We then experimentally assessed the influence of low temperatures upon amphipod burrowing behavior and stress levels (hemocyanin concentrations), hypothesizing that cold and freezing temperatures prompt drastic behavioral and physiological responses in the amphipods. Biweekly amphipod samples collected over three years (2019–2021) made evident the narrowness of their activity season and its tight correlation with temperature (Spearman’s r = 0.85). While amphipods were abundant above 10 °C, they were very few under 5 °C and none near 0 °C. In the laboratory, amphipods exposed to 10 °C remained at shallow depths in the sand (70% at 0–4 cm of depth). By comparison, amphipods exposed to 5 °C were found at several depths (0–40 cm), while those exposed to 0 °C concentrated (70%) at depths of 16–40 cm. The assessment of stress levels showed that in comparison to amphipods at ambient temperatures, those exposed to freezing conditions exhibited hemocyanin levels 55 and 82% higher after 1 and 2 weeks, respectively. Combined, these results suggest that cold and freezing temperatures shorten the season of the amphipods and prompt them to burrow deeper into the sand and increase their stress levels, possibly influencing other life history traits.Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC
Long Distance Paths as Catalysts for Local Development: The Role of Parish Councils
No full textLong distance paths are local resources, but previous research by the author
suggested that they are not fully exploited by many rural communities. The continuing
debate on rural governance following the publication of the Rural White Paper in
November 2000, together with a curiosity as to the potential development role of
parish councils resulted in the current research. This had three clear objectives.
• What socio-cultural, environmental and economic benefits could be derived
for local people from the presence of a long distance path?
• Do parish councils assist in unlocking this potential, and if so, how?
• Could this process be improved if parish councils acted differently?
A two-phase research approach was adopted. Initially telephone interviews were
used to conduct a broad based seeping study. This identified many relevant issues
and provided introductions that led to the second phase when three case study
locations were explored in greater depth. Here data was collected primarily through
face-to-face semi structured interviews supplemented with documentary evidence.
It was confirmed that there were minimal disbenefits but that the benefits were
potentially considerable. At least half of the parish councils contributing to the
research were found to participate in relevant local development to greater or lesser
degrees. However it appears that not all parish councils are willing or able to accept
responsibility for local development initiatives related to long distance paths. Some
thought that local businesses or other agencies should promote and lead projects,
whilst others were too busy dealing with routine matters. In addition parish councils
were not always receptive to suggestions for collaborative working with other
organisations. In all instances it was found that this local resource was not fully
exploited by parish councils.
Local authorities have more recently acknowledged the potential benefits brought by
long distance paths. Thus during the last ten years new routes have been devised
and it was found that parish councils were always consulted during the development
phases, whilst historically the reason for, and the method of development of long
distance routes was completely divorced from parish councils. In these latter
instances parish councils needed to adopt a proactive approach to harness maximum
community benefits. Generally however their activities were inhibited by several
identified constraints. These were concerned with a lack of representation, skills and
positive attitude towards local development initiatives.
Examples of successful local development were identified that maximised
endogenous resources and one of these is local people. It is suggested that if parish
councils are to be successful the Government should first allocate sufficient resources
for the capacity building of councillors and clerks which would enable them to take a
more positive role in local development initiatives
Als2-deficient mice exhibit disturbances in endosome trafficking associated with motor behavioral abnormalities
No full textALS2 is an autosomal recessive form of spastic paraparesis (motor neuron disease) with juvenile onset and slow progression caused by loss of function of alsin, an activator of Rac1 and Rab5 small GTPases. To establish an animal model of ALS2 and derive insights into the pathogenesis of this illness, we have generated alsin-null mice. Cytosol from brains of Als2 mice shows marked diminu- tion of Rab5-dependent endosome fusion activity. Furthermore, primary neurons from Als2 mice show a disturbance in endo- somal transport of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and BDNF receptors, whereas neuronal viability and endocytosis of trans- ferrin and dextran seem unaltered. There is a significant decrease in the size of cortical motor neurons, and Als2 mice are mildly hypoactive. Altered trophic receptor trafficking in neurons of Als2 mice may underlie the histopathological and behavioral changes observed and the pathogenesis of ALS2.Peer reviewedfinal article publishedmotor neuronRab5ALSalsinknockout mous
Shifting ground: Can community development loan funds continue to serve the neediest borrowers?
No full textCommunity development financial institutions (CDFIs) are designed to improve economic conditions for low-income individuals and communities by providing a range of financial products and services that often are not available from mainstream lenders and financiers. ; Part I of this paper reviews CDLF origins, structures, and current activities. Part II discusses the field’s historic sources of subsidized capital and why they have shrunk. Part III reviews potential new sources of capital and the organizational ways that CDLFs are responding to their changed environment. The paper concludes with recommendations for CDLFs, funders, and policy makers.Community development ; Loans
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