621 research outputs found
The antiquarian photography of Cosmo Innes
Get PDFThe article focuses on the photography of historian Cosmo Innes. The author provides a brief historical background on Innes, discusses his interest in photographing pre-Reformation Scottish churches, and contrasts his work depicting church architecture to his photographs of country mansions, including Cawdor Castle, Auldbar Castle, and Gordon Castle
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The John Innes Cytology Department of 1952
No full textThis exhibit presents a photograph of the John Innes Cytology Department in 1952, featuring renowned cytologist C.D. Darlington. The presence of Ahraful Haque, originating from Dacca, demonstrates the international collaboration and diverse talent that characterized the John Innes Institute during that time. Ahraful Haque worked at the John Innes Horticultural Institute in the early 1950s, resigning in 1953.
Author: L.S. Clarke
Date: 1952
People Featured: L. Sachs, R. de Pienaar, A. Haque, R.D. Brock, J. McLeish, G.J. Dowrick, J. Morrison, J.B. Hair, L.F. La Cour, C.D. Darlington, A. Rutishauser
Source: John Innes Centre Archives, Folder: JI/P/AL1/75
© John Innes Archives, courtesy of the John Innes Foundation.</p
Innes Smith Medical Portrait
No full textPortrait of Sir Thomas Browne. Physician and author. After a paintin
Innes Smith Medical Portrait
No full textPhotograph of a sculpture of John Heysham. Author of "The Carlisle Bills of Mortality
Innes Smith Medical Portrait
No full textPortrait of David Macbeth Moir. Physician and author at Musselburg. After a painting by Sir John Watson Gordo
Facilitating independence: The benefits of a post-diagnostic support project for people with dementia.
No full textProviding support in the form of information, advice and access to services or social events is promoted as beneficial for people newly diagnosed with dementia and their families. This paper reports on key findings from an evaluation of a post-diagnostic support pilot project in Scotland addressing local service gaps, namely information provision, emotional and practical support and maintaining community links. Twenty-seven participants (14 people newly diagnosed with dementia and 13 family carers) were interviewed at two time points: T1 shortly after joining the pilot project and T2 approximately six months later, to ascertain their views on existing services and the support offered by the pilot project. A comparative thematic analysis revealed that the project facilitated increased independence (associated with increased motivation and self-confidence) of people with dementia. The project illustrates what can be achieved if resources are targeted at providing individualised post-diagnostic support, particularly where there are service delivery gaps
Des passions monumentales à l’âge de l’idéologie : Edward Gordon Craig et Norman Bel Geddes
Get PDFDurant toute leur carrière, Craig and Bel Geddes ont été préoccupés par un immense projet. Celui de Craig était la Passion selon saint Matthieu de Bach, tandis que pour Bel Geddes, c’était La divine comédie de Dante. Pour réaliser ces projets, chacun a non seulement créé un espace théâtral spécifique, mais a également conçu un éclairage et des scénarios élaborés. Examiner ces deux projets éclaire non seulement le mouvement moderniste — dans lequel les deux ont joué un rôle majeur —, mais ouvre aussi de nouvelles perspectives sur la politique de la période de l’entre-deux-guerres, relativement au fascisme et au communisme.Craig and Bel Geddes each had a mammoth project that preoccupied them for their whole careers. For Craig it was the Bach St Matthew Passion, for Bel Geddes it was Dante's Divine Comedy, and each not only designed a specific performance space, but also worked out elaborate lighting and scenarios for their project. Examining these two projects not only illuminates the modernist movement, in which both played major roles, but also provides insights into the politics of the interwar period, relating as they do to Fascism and Communism
Not just a lawyer: Thomas Craig and humanist Edinburgh
No full textEdinburgh lawyer and jurist Thomas Craig was a prominent public figure in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jacobean Edinburgh. Our appreciation of Craig's cultural and intellectual legacy has usually been understood only through the prism of his well-known vocational activities in the law. Craig, however, was much more than a lawyer. He was part of a vibrant humanist culture in Edinburgh that played a significant part in wider European intellectual debates pushing the Scientific Revolution forward. Craig was an engaged and enthusiastic member of a circle of friends and family who were at the forefront of the sixteenth century's radical and transformative astronomical and mathematical debates. Evidence from a cross-section of Latin literary material reveals Craig's part in a remarkable intellectual awakening that took place in Humanist Edinburgh, and whose significance is only now beginning to be understood
Empty Boots - A Whaling Story: Alan Innes-Taylor
Get PDFThe following is a heretofore unpublished account of a small but significant part of the 1st Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-1930. It recounts one man\u27s first journey to Antarctica. The author is the late Alan Innes-Taylor, polar survival expert, and the manuscript was recently made available by his family. Only minor grammatical changes have been made. ... [The account describes his time aboard a whaling ship enroute to the Antarctic.
Interactions between ship rats and house mice
No full textInteractions between coexisting invasive species can cause complications when their populations are managed to protect native biodiversity. The ship rat (Rattus rattus) is a widespread invasive species often targeted for management because of its negative impacts on native wildlife, particularly in otherwise mammal-depauperate ecosystems such as in New Zealand. However, where ship rats are removed, another common, coexisting invasive species, the house mouse (Mus musculus), is often detected more frequently, which may undermine the benefit of the management operation for biodiversity. The aim of this study was to better understand why house mice become more abundant, or potentially also more active and detectable, when released from suppression by ship rats through determining the mechanism involved. The hypothesised mechanisms were: exploitation competition, interference competition and intraguild predation.
Focusing on New Zealand, I reviewed diet studies of ship rats and house mice to have a clearer understanding of the resources they may share. I found that whilst some features of their diets differ, ship rats and house mice do show overlap in the range of food items they consume. Therefore they could compete for these shared resources if they were limited. However, in captive experiments I confirmed that ship rats exhibit predatory aggression towards house mice and therefore have potential to directly negatively influence mouse populations regardless of resource availability.
In response to the threat of predation by ship rats, house mice exhibited avoidance of caged rats during further captive experiments and this restricted their foraging choices. In the field, the foraging behaviour of mice in podocarp-broadleaf forest was also limited by the risk posed from abundant ship rats, which prevented them from accessing resources. In similar habitat at Pureora Forest Park during a longer term study of mouse populations, mice captured when ship rats were abundant had lower body mass compared to those captured when ship rats were controlled, an effect that was not offset by supplementary feeding.
At Pureora, the ship rat control operations did not achieve optimal low ship rat levels, however, despite small mouse sample sizes, both the abundance of mice measured by live-trapping and their activity in tracking tunnels were positively affected. These measures were moderately correlated indicating that activity was related to mouse abundance. However, capture probability varied seasonally and according to rat abundance in unexpected ways, indicating more subtle and complex potential influences of ship rats on the probability of detecting mice.
My results indicate that the main mechanism by which ship rats suppress house mice is intraguild predation. This is because though apparently food restricted, house mice did not access resources I provided for them when ship rats were abundant, which rules out exploitation competition. Ship rats appear to view house mice as prey and opportunistically consume them, which differentiates intraguild predation from interference competition as the latter is primarily driven by resource defence. Even if predation events are rare, my research demonstrates that the risk effects of avoiding an abundant opportunistic predator appear to have a strong influence on the abundance and distribution of house mice
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