3,555 research outputs found
Atheta dadopora Thomson 1867
No full textAtheta dadopora Thomson, 1867 Gusarov (2003b) treated this species as an introduced Palaearctic one, however, Majka and Klimaszewski (2008a, 2008b) regarded it as probably being a widely distributed Holarctic species.Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Sikes, Derek, 2009, Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island, pp. 267-283 in ZooKeys 22 (22) on page 274, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.93, http://zenodo.org/record/57653
Leckhamptom House and the George Thomson builiding fromt the south-east
No full textnot signed, not dated."Leckhamptom House and the George Thomson builiding fromt the south-east" [1995.2737.000.000], Abel, DerekArtist and Role: Abel, Derek,Extent: imageExtent: shee
Belonging: natural histories of place, identity and home
No full textCanongate's synopsis:
"Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest.
Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves.
Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson’s artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are."
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2023
Some of the reviews...
Outstanding - ROBERT MACFARLANE
Amanda Thomson’s new book manages to carve out a distinctive niche for itself . . . This is a passionate book and infused with a sense of rootedness - STUART KELLY, The Scotsman
In recent years rural landscapes have turned into battlegrounds, and nature writing has become increasingly polemical. Belonging is a quiet book of questions in a genre full of answers, but it is all the more powerful and beautiful for this - PATRICK GALBRAITH, TLS
One of the best things I have read in ages . . . Quiet and beautiful and powerful - ALYS FOWLER
Thomson writes of the natural in a way I have yet to encounter before. There is no real hoo-haa, no flowery description of which to speak yet somehow, I came away with that ache inside me — that renewed obsession with the world that is only borne of a very particular kind of writing — poetic, loving, raw . . . Like no other - KERRI Ní DOCHARTAIGH, Caught by the River
In strikingly original takes on Scottish history, environmentalism, Black feminist theory, artmaking, list-making, memory, and memoir, Thomson crafts a cadence that is as wise as it is vitally alive. - MARGOT DOUAIHY, author of Scorched Grac
Sumatriptan and episodic pain syndromes other than migraine
No full textIan Roberts-Thomson, John Argyrides, Peter Pannall, and Derek Frewi
Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water - Live Event
No full text‘When we read and write, when we love our fellow creatures, when we walk on the beach, when we just listen and notice, we are not little cogs in the machine, but part of the remedy.’ These luminous words by Kathleen Jamie form part of the introduction to Antlers of Water, an outstanding collection of contemporary Scottish writing about nature and landscape.
The generosity of Jamie’s approach as editor of the collection goes beyond the stellar selection of contributors such as Amy Liptrot, Karine Polwart and Malachy Tallack: she also invokes the agency of readers to make a difference. ‘If, by reading, you are encouraged or confirmed in your love of the natural world, if you’re inspired simply to… look outside, then our job is done.’
In a discussion led by the BBC's Clare English, Jamie is joined by award-winning journalist Chitra Ramaswamy as well as visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson – both contributors to the anthology – to discuss Scotland, landscape and the more-than-human world around us.
This is a live event, with an author Q&A.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Making Climate Change Personal festival theme
The country of lost sons : poems
No full textJeffrey Thomson\u27s second collection of poems, The Country of Lost Sons, investigates the narrative environment of childhood, especially the way violence is inscribed on children through myth, culture, and legend. The poems trace the growth of the author\u27s young son (his vulnerability and equal potential for violence) across a landscape of rewritten myth and narrative. From the Trojan War (bracketed as it is by the deaths of two children, Iphegenia and Astyanax) through the Biblical accounts of Job, Jeremiah, and Jephthah to the modern tragedies of the war in Kosovo, AIDS, and the contemporary culture of violence, the poems build to a culmination of fear that is only tempered by love, grace, and the redemptive power of storytelling itself. About the Author The Country of Lost Sons is Jeffrey Thomson\u27s third collection of poetry. His first collection of poetry was The Halo Brace (Birch Brook Press). Renovation, his third book, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press. He has also published poetry and nonfiction in Quarterly West, New Delta Review, Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast, and Willow Springs, as well as critical essays on Sandra Cisneros, James Wright, Derek Walcott and the environmental elegy. His works have won numerous awards, including the Master\u27s Poetry Contest and the Academy of American Poets\u27 Prize on three occasions. What Others Have Said In the midst of so many fast-talking contemporary poetry books comes Jeffrey Thomson\u27s lovely The Country of Lost Sons. Here is a book that chooses tender, meditative music over electric chatter. Here are the poems that tell us poetry can still explore and heal earnestly. More than praise, I want to offer gratitude for such an intimate book. After reading it, you will want to offer gratitude too. -Terrance A. Hayeshttps://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1069/thumbnail.jp
Figures of Speech: Place - Amanda Thomson and Roseanne Watt
No full textEvent as part of Scotland's Year of Stories 2022, Edinburgh City of Literature & the Scottish Storytelling Centre present figures of speech. " ... Our hosts Amanda Thomson and Roseanne Watt take us on a tour through nature, landscape, community and the language of place, whilst also discussing their own experiences of writing and working in Scotland."
Figures of Speech: place. One of a series of events covering six universal themes (music, friendship, future, love, place, big ideas), each event explores literary blockbusters, hidden gems and modern classics.
Our expert guides will take us on a journey through Scotland’s iconic books and stories, navigating the dazzling array of new voices, and presenting newly commissioned work by artists responding to each theme.
'Let us take you on a journey across the curious contrasts and contradictions that define Scottish literature.
In our first season (May - July), we'll be covering Music, Friendship and Future. On May 20th writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan and author Arusa Qureshi will be exploring Music, and presenting a newly commissioned dance piece from poet and performer Katie Ailes. Poet Michael Pedersen and author Val McDermid will be diving into Friendship on June 24th, with music from Kim Carnie. And on July 22nd, poet Russell Jones and writer T.L.Huchu will be looking to the Future, with new poetry from Jeda Pearl.
The second season of Figures of Speech (September - November) will take in Love, Place and Big Ideas. On September 23rd Gaelic poet Peter Mackay will talk love with romance writer Jenny Colgan. Visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson will drop a pin in the literary map with a discussion on Place with poet and film maker Roseanne Watt on October 21st (postponed to February '23). The season concludes on St. Andrew’s Day (November 30th) with some Big Ideas from Professor David Farrier with activist and author Jessica Gaitán Johannesson.
We want to welcome as wide an audience as possible and extend this conversation across Edinburgh, Scotland and the world. All the events will be recorded and made available online a week later, and both the live and recorded events will be supported by BSL interpretation.
Joule-Thomson Expansion of Gas-Condensates: Literature review
No full textRecently it was communicated that during gas-condensate production in a North Sea gasfield strong heating of the production stream occurred instead of the expected cooling. This contradictory behaviour called for an investigation of the thermodynamics of these gas condensate reservoirs. It is expected that due to the high pressure and high temperature conditions in these gas-condensate reservoirs (pressures of approximately 1000 bar and temperatures of 100-200 °C), the Joule-Thomson coefficient will have a negative value and thus heating will take place at expansion; this is called the Joule-Thomson inversion effect. To ensure a safe operation and to ensure that downhole and surface equipment is specified according to downhole temperatures, it is required that pressure and temperature profiles can be accurately estimated for future productions. The present work is a literature review of what has been reported in the open literature with respect to the Joule-Thomson inversion effect and the heating of gas-condensates at expansion. Chapter 2 will give a general introduction to the Joule-Thomson effect. In chapter 3 the various methods of how to characterize the inversion curve are described and chapter 4 will discuss the calculation of the temperature changes due to expansion. The gas-condensate systems are dealt with in chapter 5 and finally in chapter 6 a summary is given and different aspects, which are important to predict temperature changes for gas-condensate systems, are considered.Applied SciencesApplied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibri
Controlling the assembly of coiled-coil peptide nanotubes
No full textAn ability to control the assembly of peptide nanotubes (PNTs) would provide biomaterials for applications in nanotechnology and synthetic biology. Recently, we presented a modular design for PNTs using α-helical barrels with tunable internal cavities as building blocks. These first-generation designs thicken beyond single PNTs. Herein we describe strategies for controlling this lateral association, and also for the longitudinal assembly. We show that PNT thickening is pH sensitive, and can be reversed under acidic conditions. Based on this, repulsive charge interactions are engineered into the building blocks leading to the assembly of single PNTs at neutral pH. The building blocks are modified further to produce covalently linked PNTs via native chemical ligation, rendering ca. 100 nm-long nanotubes. Finally, we show that small molecules can be sequestered within the interior lumens of single PNTs. Thick to thin: The assembly in coiled-coil peptide nanotubes (PNTs) can be controlled. Arrays of hexameric coiled-coil PNTs can be reversibly disassembled by acidification. Accordingly, repulsive-charge interactions engineered into the coiled-coil units result in the formation of single PNTs at neutral pH. Non-covalent or covalent linkage by native chemical ligation can be used to vary the stability of, and small-molecule encapsulation by, the resulting PNTs.</p
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