150 research outputs found
Grace N. Brough, Golden Spike Oral History Project, GS-22, American West Center, University of Utah
No full textTranscript (34 pages) of interview by Greg Thompson and Phil Notarianni with Grace N. Brough on September 5, 1974 for the Golden Spike Oral History Project.Brough (b. 1885) details her genealogy and discusses homesteading in the Promontory area. Other topics include the Bar-M ranch, mustangs, Lavina Rock, the towns of Wells and Fernley, social activities, the WPA, and World War II. Interviewed by Greg Thompson and Phil Notarianni. 34 pages
The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3: The Brough of Birsay, Orkney: Investigations 1954-2014
No full textThe Brough of Birsay was the power-centre of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014.
This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014.
Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself.
The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-centre and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods.
As well as being the author’s third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curle’s and Prof John Hunter’s earlier monographs
Author response to : Brough et al. in response to\ud the recently published article : Lottering,N., MacGregor,D.M.,Barry,M.D.,Reynolds,M.S., Gregory,L.S., 2014. Introducing standardized protocols for anthropological measurement of virtual sub-adult crania using computed tomography 2(1),34–38
No full textFirstly, we would like to thank Ms. Alison Brough and her colleagues for their positive commentary on our published work [1] and their appraisal of our utility of the “off-set plane” protocol for anthropometric analysis. The standardized protocols described in our manuscript have wide applications, ranging from forensic anthropology and paleodemographic research to clinical settings such as paediatric practice and orthopaedic surgical design. We affirm that the use of geometrically based reference tools commonly found in computer aided design (CAD) programs such as Geomagic Design X® are imperative for more automated and precise measurement protocols for quantitative skeletal analysis. Therefore we stand by our recommendation of the use of software such as Amira and Geomagic Design X® in the contexts described in our manuscript..
Author Correction: Economic value of protected areas via visitor mental health
No full textCorrection to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12631-6, published online 12 November 2019.
The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Alienor Chauvenet, which was incorrectly given as Ali Chauvenet.
Reference [90] originally incorrectly read ‘Rutstein, S. E. et al. The annual burden of seasonal influenza in the US veterans affairs population. Glob. Publ. Health 12, 1269–1281 (2017).’ The corrected version of this reference is ‘Rutstein, S. E. et al. Hidden costs: the ethics of cost-effectiveness analyses for health interventions in resource-limited settings. Global Public Health 12, 1269–1281 (2017).’
Reference [91] originally incorrectly read ‘Benson, T. We propose a novel measure for social welfare and public health: capability-adjusted life-years, CALYs. J. Med. Econ. 20, 107–113 (2017).’ The corrected version of this reference is ‘Benson, T. The load model: an alternative to QALY. J. Med. Econ. 20, 107–113 (2017).’
Reference [97] originally incorrectly read ‘Hlatky, M. A. The social value of childhood vaccination in the United States. JAMA Cardiol. 2, 534–535 (2017).’ The corrected version of this reference is ‘Hlatky, M. A. Are novel anticoagulants worth their cost? JAMA Cardiol. 2, 534–535 (2017).’
Reference [104] originally incorrectly read ‘Whiteford, H. A. et al. Interpreting scores on the Kessler psychological distress scale (K10). Aust. NZ J. Publ. Health 25, 494–497 (2001).’ The corrected version of this reference is ‘Whiteford, H. A. et al. Estimating treatment rates for mental disorders in Australia. Austr. Health Rev. 38, 80–85 (2014).’
Reference [115] originally incorrectly read ‘Smyth, R. et al. Tourism and natural world heritage: a complicated relationship. Pop. Environ. 32, 353–375 (2011).’ The corrected version of this reference is ‘Smyth, R. et al. A study of the impact of environmental surroundings on personal well-being in urban China using a multi-item well-being indicator. Popul. Environ. 32, 353–375 (2011).’ This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.Full Tex
A new species of Habroichthys BROUGH, 1939 (Actinopterygii; Peltopleuriformes) from the Pelsonian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Yunnan Province, South China
No full textHabroichthys broughi n. sp. is described on the basis of eleven well-preserved specimens from the Luoping Biota, a newly discovered marine vertebrate fauna of the Pelsonian (Middle Anisian, Middle Triassic) in the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation of Luoping County, Yunnan Province, South China. The new taxon provides new insights to the anatomy of Habroichthys BROUGH, 1939: maxilla shorter than mandible and free from the pear-like preopercle; clavicle present; tail slightly asymmetrical, with a very small body lobe supporting few epaxial rays. Additionally, some Ladinian material of Habroichthys from the Zhuganpo Member of the 'Falang Formation' is investigated. In consequence, Habroichthys of the Triassic of the Eastern Tehtys (South China) greatly extends the temporal and spatial range of this small, enigmatic subholostean fishes.PaleontologySCI(E)4ARTICLE179-8926
Mary Grace Quackenbos, A Visitor Florida Did Not Want
No full textBy the early twentieth century the Florida turpentine industry was at its zenith. Hundreds of thousands of pines were boxed for turpentine, and thousands of men in scores of isolated camps tended the trees for their employers. The operators of the camps in turn sold their products to naval stores marketing firms in Jacksonville, Savannah, or Tampa. These large factors then disposed of the turpentine and resin according to price quotations usually established by the Savannah market and followed by those of other cities. It was big business and heavily influenced by the harshest competitive practices of the day. Fierce competition between the large marketing firms often brough ruin to one while giving temporary advantage to the victor. With no alternative but to sell through the large factors, turpentine farmers were obliged to trim their costs to bare minimums. As was often the case, those at the lowest level of the industry bore the brunt of the sharp competition. The workers in the forests labored long and hard for bare subsistence wages, and in many camps it appears that they realized no gain at all. This was certainly true where state and county convicts were leased to turpentine operators when the practice was still legal. It was also the case for many others who were trapped by ignorance, abject want, and lack of alternatives. Workers often found themselves in perpetual debt and peonage. Employers who perpetuated this labor system felt that their well-being depended upon it, that it was a reasonable way to deal with black workers, and that anyone who criticized the system was an enemy to be dealt with swiftly and severely. When Mary Grace Quackenbos of New York City began trying to expose the system, turpentine farmers and their powerful allies and supporters in and out of goverment used all the methods at their disposal to quiet her
Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA) : AUTOZ spectral redshift measurements, confidence and errors
No full textThe Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has obtained spectra of over 230 000 targets using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. To homogenize the redshift measurements and improve the reliability, a fully automatic redshift code was developed (AUTOZ). The measurements were made using a cross-correlation method for both the absorption-and the emission-line spectra. Large deviations in the high-pass-filtered spectra are partially clipped in order to be robust against uncorrected artefacts and to reduce the weight given to single-line matches. A single figure of merit (FOM) was developed that puts all template matches on to a similar confidence scale. The redshift confidence as a function of the FOM was fitted with a tanh function using a maximum likelihood method applied to repeat observations of targets. The method could be adapted to provide robust automatic redshifts for other large galaxy redshift surveys. For the GAMA survey, there was a substantial improvement in the reliability of assigned redshifts and in the lowering of redshift uncertainties with a median velocity uncertainty of 33 kms-1.Peer reviewe
Transnationalism and the Karen wrist-tying ceremony: An ethnographic account of Karen settlement practice in Brisbane
No full textWhen settling, people often use cultural schema from their original homeland to build familiarity in unfamiliar surrounds. This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the first author in Brisbane, with the Karen community from Burma, during which participant observation and interview methods were used. We present an ethnographic account of the Brisbane Karen wrist-tying ceremony. The ceremony acts as an insight into the challenges for Karen whilst settling into Australia. It reflects multiple accounts of history and tradition, but simultaneously speaks to emerging, contemporary Karen contexts. This research contributes to richer understandings of settlement: it frames transnational cultural practice as a flexible mode of integration, rather than an exclusionary mode of othering. We propose that the integrative discourse of the ceremony creates familiarity and social connection in local and diasporic spaces. This acts as a counter to the challenges of Karen settlement including the negotiations of local/global identity politics
Mobile voices: design as a method to explore the possibilities and limitations of community participation
No full textPublished in: Mobile Media & Communication on December 6, 2017.Despite the growing significance of mobile devices,
especially among marginalized communities, there are few
explorations of how participatory design (PD) can be applied to
mobile communication technologies. This case study of Mobile
Voices (VozMob) explores a community-based approach to PD
and its potential to promote the participation of groups
typically marginalized from the design process and empower
users. VozMob is a mobile platform that was co-designed with
and for immigrant workers and organizers to facilitate the
online publishing of multimedia stories about their lives and
their social justice efforts. Through collective visualization
methods, observation, and interviews, this study investigates
the factors that enabled or hindered meaningful user
participation in the VozMob design process. Significant
differences emerged between participants’ experiences of the
design process, which allow for the exploration of themes
related to technology appropriation, design ownership, and
power sharing in collaborative processes. Our findings reveal
that a community-based approach to PD can shed light on the
degree to which—and how—collaborative design and equitable
participation is possible through mobile media
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