84 research outputs found
Can the Common Fisheries Policy achieve Good Environmental Status in exploited ecosystems : the west of Scotland demersal fisheries example
No full textAlan R. Baudron, Niall G. Fallon and Paul G. Fernandes were funded by the Horizon 2020 European research project MareFrame (grant No. 613571). Natalia Serpetti and Johanna J. Heymans were funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under the Marine Ecosystems Research Programme (MERP) (grant No. NE/L003279/1). We thank two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments.Peer reviewe
Less than half of the European dietary recommendations for fish consumption are satisfied by national seafood supplies
No full textFunding This research was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) under the East of Scotland Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (EastBio DTP) [grant number BB/M010996/1]. The research of BdR is supported by the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS). Acknowledgements We thank Dr Niall. G Fallon (University of Aberdeen) for his analytical assistance.Peer reviewe
Fish distributions reveal discrepancies between zonal attachment and quota allocations
No full textPF and NF were funded by the Horizon 2020 European research project ClimeFish (grant No. 677039). PF also received a small grant from the Scottish Fishermen's Federation. Data are freely available at https://datras.ices.dk/Data_products/Download/Download_Data_public.aspx. EEZs shapefiles came from www.marineregions.org and bathymetry from www.bodc.ac.uk. Analysis code is available at the GitHub repository: https://github.com/niafall/zonal-attachment.Peer reviewe
Karl Polanyi’s the great transformation: Perverse effects, protectionism and gemeinschaft
No full textDrawing upon Karl Polanyi’s journalistic writings and unpublished lectures from the 1920s and 1930s, this article reconstructs the lineaments of his research programme that was to assume its finished form in The Great Transformation. It identifies and corrects a common misinterpretation of the thesis of that book, and argues that Polanyi’s basic theoretical framework is best conceived as Tönniesian: the ‘protective counter-movement’ of The Great Transformation is Gemeinschaft, understood dynamically, while the market society is Gesellschaft. It examines the two central mechanisms by which, in Polanyi’s understanding, Gesellschaft broke down in the mid-twentieth century: the ‘clash between democracy and capitalism,’ and a doctrine of ‘perverse effects’ whereby political intervention in markets impairs profitability and saps the vitality of the market system
Outputs of the Jupyter Notebook - Concatenating a gridded rainfall reanalysis dataset into a time series
No full textThe dataset contains the outputs of the notebook "Concatenating a gridded rainfall reanalysis dataset into a time series" published in The Environmental Data Science Book.
Contributions
Notebook
Timothy Lam (author), University of Exeter, @timo0thy
Marlene Kretschmer (author), University of Reading, @MarleneKretschmer
Samantha Adams (author), Met Office Informatics Lab, @svadams
Rachel Prudden (author), Met Office Informatics Lab, @RPrudden
Elena Saggioro (author), University of Reading, @ESaggioro
Nick Homer (reviewer), University of Edinburgh, @NHomer
Alejandro Coca-Castro (reviewer), The Alan Turing Institute, @acocac
Dataset originator/creator
NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction (creator)
Dataset authors
Eugenia Kalnay, Director, NCEP Environmental Modeling Center
Dataset documentation
E. Kalnay, M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin, M. Iredell, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, Y. Zhu, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, W. Higgins, J. Janowiak, K. C. Mo, C. Ropelewski, J. Wang, A. Leetmaa, R. Reynolds, Roy Jenne, and Dennis Joseph. The ncep/ncar 40-year reanalysis project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77(3):437 – 472, 1996. URL: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/77/3/1520-0477_1996_077_0437_tnyrp_2_0_co_2.xml, doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1996)0772.0.CO;2.
Pipeline documentation
Marlene Kretschmer, Samantha V. Adams, Alberto Arribas, Rachel Prudden, Niall Robinson, Elena Saggioro, and Theodore G. Shepherd. Quantifying causal pathways of teleconnections. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(12):E2247 – E2263, 2021. URL: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/102/12/BAMS-D-20-0117.1.xml, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0117.1
FIS workshop on Global synthesis of climate impacts on fish distribution and growth and implications for Scottish fisheries : FIS028
No full textAll workshop attendees and remote participants (identified in Table 1) are thanked for their contributions to presentations, discussion and this report. A. Audzijonyte, R. Allman, B. Bogstad, C. Champion, T. Essington, M. Haltuch, A. Haynie, T. Helser, E. Hjörleifsson, J. Morrongiello, M. Peck, G. Pecl, J. Pinnegar, M. Pinsky, C. Stawitz, B. Townhill, J. Thorson, and P.D. van Denderen contributed text to this report. George R. West is thanked for his participation in the public event. Jens Rasmussen assisted in the development of recommendations for future research. The assistance of Mindfully Wired Communications (Harriet Yates and Ginny Russell) is gratefully acknowledged
Cognitive Biases and Gaze Direction: An Experimental Study
No full textThis paper investigates the validity of the model of dual processing by means of eyetracking methods. In this theoretical framework, gaze direction may be a revealing signal of how automatic detection is modified or sustained by controlled search. We performed an experiment by using a stylized decisional framework, i.e. informational cascade, proposed by economists to investigate the rationality of imitative behavior. Our main result is that automatic detection as revealed by gaze direction is driven by mechanisms that are dependent on cognitive biases. In particular, we find significant statistical correlation between subjects’ first fixation and their revealed patterns of choice. Our findings support the hypothesis that the process of automatic detection is not independent on cognitive processes.informational cascades, overconfidence, eye-tracking, information processing, cognitive biases
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Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771
No full textMaurice Benyowsky's colourful version of his global adventures during the heady, expansive days of the late-Enlightenment remains still as an historical account, and is perhaps destined for reification at a time of romantic, postmodernist cultural affirmation. Yet this paper argues that within it there lies a virile and possibly dangerous Orientalism, one at least partially based upon a lurid, opportunistic and self-seeking fabrication of his visit to Taiwan (Formosa) in the year 1771. This paper examines the veracity, provenance and historiography of the Benyowsky account of late-eighteenth century Formosa, both as an exercise in one facet of Taiwanese history and as some exploration of the origin and maintenance of European views of the "other" and of the "orient" as they were transforming during the late-Enlightenment period. Furthermore a principal task is to provide an historiographical analysis that illustrates both the initial reasons for the acceptance of Benyowsky's lurid account as well as the wider contexts of its long life as a seemingly reliable and authentic tale. Questions remain as to the cultural contexts of any general acceptance of otherwise doubtful stories, experiments, claims and "adventures". Here there is little doubt that the original Memoirs were given greater credence by Benyowsky's talent in self-fashioning his character and status as those of a reliable gentleman
Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers of Epigenetic Drift within the Cardiovascular Compartment
No full textabstract: Biomarkers encompass a wide range of different measurable indicators, representing a tangible link to physiological changes occurring within the body. Accessibility, sensitivity, and specificity are significant factors in biomarker suitability. New biomarkers continue to be discovered, and questions over appropriate selection and assessment of their usefulness remain. If traditional markers of inflammation are not sufficiently robust in their specificity, then perhaps alternative means of detection may provide more information. Epigenetic drift (epigenetic modifications as they occur as a direct function with age), and its ancillary elements, including platelets, secreted microvesicles (MVs), and microRNA (miRNA), may hold enormous predictive potential. The majority of epigenetic drift observed in blood is independent of variations in blood cell composition, addressing concerns affecting traditional blood-based biomarker efficacy. MVs are found in plasma and other biological fluids in healthy individuals. Altered MV/miRNA profiles may also be found in individuals with various diseases. Platelets are also highly reflective of physiological and lifestyle changes, making them extremely sensitive biomarkers of human health. Platelets release increased levels of MVs in response to various stimuli and under a plethora of disease states, which demonstrate a functional effect on other cell types.View the article as published at https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2016/2465763
Assessing consistency of fish survey data : uncertainties in the estimation of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) abundance at South Georgia
No full textAcknowledgments The authors wish to thank the crews, fishermen and scientists who conducted the various surveys from which data were obtained, and Mark Belchier and Simeon Hill for their contributions. This work was supported by the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. Additional logistical support provided by The South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute with thanks to Paul Brickle. Thanks to Stephen Smith of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) for help in constructing bootstrap confidence limits. Paul Fernandes receives funding from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland), and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. We also wish to thank two anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions on earlier versions of this manuscript.Peer reviewe
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