475 research outputs found
Intermittency and interrelationships between turbulence scaling exponents: phase-randomisation tests
No full textMolecular size and configuration of xylan.
No full textThis thesis describes an investigation on the fractionation and physicochemical characterization of .xylan from white birch. The work forms part of a current series of macromolecular etudies in Wood and Cellulose Chemistry. After a Preface and General Introduction, the work is presented as a series of Parts written in the form of scientific papers and are to be submitted for publication with little modification. Part I deals with the preparation and properties of various xylan fractions. Part II is a study of the molecular weight and configuration of the polysaccharide in solution. Part III is an investigation on the viscosity-temperature relationships tor dilute solutions of xylan in dimethyl sulfoxide. The main text ot the thesis ends with concluding remarks, suggestions tor further work and claims for original research. Additional details are given in a series of Appendices. Appendix I is a report on some physical properties of dimethyl sulfoxide-water mixtures and has already been published by Dr. D.A.I. Goring and the author
Walsh_etal_PNWFire: Repository version as accepted - AN-2014-0079
No full text<p>This version accompanies the publication:</p>
<p>Walsh MK, Marlon JR, Goring S, Brown KJ, Gavin D. A regional perspective on Holocene fire-climate-human interactions in the Pacific Northwest of North America. <em>Annals of the Association of American Geographers.</em> Accepted: AN-2014-0079</p>
<p>Note that the title included in the Rmd file reflects an earlier version of the title. The title above, and on the current GitHub repository is as published: https://github.com/SimonGoring/Walsh_etal_PNWFire</p>
A Personality Comparison of Evangelical Seminarians, Catholic Nuns, and University Graduates in A Colombian Setting
No full text The recent observation that a large proportion of the evangelical population in Colombia is characterized by notable psychological and social distress (Goring, 1975) is further investigated by means of a comparison of personality profiles between groups of Colombian evangelical and Roman Catholic subjects. T-score elevations on the various scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory are compared between 21 male evangelical seminarians, 34 Catholic nuns, 52 male and 84 female university graduates. The results of an informal comparison show the evangelical seminarians to have the highest mean scores of all the groups on the following scales: F, Hs, D, Hy, Pd, Pt, and Sc. Social stress, poverty, Colombian sex role stereotypes, and deficient parenting are suggested as possible factors which contribute to the greater psychopathology observed in the evangelical seminarians. The need for Christian leaders to be trained in pastoral psychology and counseling, and the implied inappropriateness of some of the claims made for evangelical Christianity are also discussed. </jats:p
The rhetoric of sensibility in eighteenth-century culture
No full text"This book explores the burgeoning 18th-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body within a number of cultural arenas--particularly oratory, the theatre, and the novel--and charts the efforts of projectors and reformers who sought to exploit the textual potential of the body for the public assertion of modern politeness. The author shows how diverse writers and performers, including David Garrick, James Fordyce, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding and Laurence Sterne, were involved in the construction of new ideals of physical eloquence--bourgeois, sentimental ideals which stood in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. Through innovative readings of fiction and contemporary manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the human body was treated as an instrument for the display of sensibility and polite values."--Book Jacket
Goring Ox in the Nomocanon of Saint Sava
No full textFamous legislation concerning goring ox attracted considerable interest of legal historians and comparatists. In the first part of the article the author presents ancient Near Eastern provisions of the Laws of Eshnunna, the Code of Hammurabi and the Moses' legislation in their interrelationship. The singularity of the biblical legislation is stressed particularly under two points: 1) the ox must be stoned to death 2) its flesh may not be consumed. The same set of rules exists also in the Zakonopravilo of Saint Sava - chapter 48 paragraph 21. These rules are taken over from the Old Testament. Compared to the biblical text there is a small but very importaint modification in the Ilovica transcript, the oldest transcript preserved: the ox has to be stoned but its flesh may be eaten. The Ilovica transcript (ca. 1262) is not only chronologically nearest to Sava's autograph. It is probably also textually closest to it. The same wording can be found in the Sarajevo transcript (ca. 1371) and in the Belgrade transcript (ca. 1470). After examining some relevant historical and social circumstances, author came to the final, highly hypothetical conclusion that the mistake was present already in the lost original
Searching for Pigeons in the Belfry: The Inquest, the Abolition of the Deodand and the Rise of the Family
No full textThis article explores the abolition in 1846 of the deodand – the object or animal declared responsible for death by an inquest jury – and its relationship with the family of the deceased. Drawing on the work of Jacques Donzelot, it argues that the deodand brought contingency into the heart of law, and that its replacement with a legal right to compensation for dependents was a move to rationalize the investigation of death. This rationalization had consequences; limiting the place of the unruly community, centering and regulated the family, and disconnecting the inquest from the material of death
Sea-level change and storm surges in the context of climate change
No full textThis paper reviews the latest research in New Zealand surrounding the issues of sea-level rise and extreme sea levels in the context of global warming and variability in the Pacific-wide El Nino– Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Past records of climate, sea level (excluding tides) and sea and air temperatures have shown that they are continuously fluctuating over various long-term timescales of years, decades and centuries. This has made it very difficult to determine whether the anthropogenic
effects such as increased levels of “greenhouse” gases are having an accelerating effect on global sea levels or an increased incidence of extreme storms. Over the past century, global sea level has risen by 10–25 cm, and is in line with the rise in relative sea level at New Zealand’s main ports of +1.7 mm yr –1. What has become very clear is the need to better understand interannual (year-to-year) and decadal variability in sea-level, as these larger signals of the order of 5–15 cm in annual-mean sea level have a significant “flow-on” effect on the long-term trend in sea level. The paper describes sea level variability in northern New Zealand—both long- and short-term—involved in assessing the regional trends in sea level. The paper also discusses the relative contributions of tides, barometric pressure and wind set-up in causing extreme sea levels during storm surges. Some recent research also looked at a related question—Is there any sign of increased storminess, and hence storm surge, in northern New Zealand due to climate change? The paper concludes that, while no one can be completely sure how sea-level and the degree of storminess will respond in the near future, what is clear is that interannual and decadal variability in sea level is
inextricably linked with Pacific-wide ENSO response and longer inter-decadal shifts in the Pacific climate regime, such as the latest shift in 1976
Engraved portrait of Sir John Suckling, (bap. 1609, d. 1641?)
No full textEngraved portrait of Sir John Suckling, (bap. 1609, d. 1641?) by Michael Vandergucht. Line engraving in oval, titled: 'Sr. John Suckling'. Mr Fairclough has written in pencil at the foot of the mount: 'concerned in First Army Plot with Goring: voted guilty of High Treason by Parliament 1641: died abroad 1642'
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No full textOne of the first achromatic instruments, the microscope has a heavy flat folding tripod base. The limb is attached to the pillar by a ball-and-socket joint of Ross design, and carries the body-tube, stage, condenser, and mirror. It comes with a mahogany carrying case and accessories which include a Goring engiscope. Dr. John Bunyan believed that this instrument was made by Andrew Ross and Hugh Powell, who had earlier worked for Pritchard. Signed: Andrew Pritchard, 162 Fleet Street, London
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