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The Economic Value of Wild Resources to the Indigenous Community of the Wallis Lakes Catchment
No full textThere is currently a growing policy interest in the effects of the regulatory environment on the ability of Indigenous people to undertake customary harvesting of wild resources. This Discussion Paper develops and describes a methodology that can be used to estimate the economic benefi ts derived from the use of wild resources. The methodology and the survey instrument that was developed were pilot tested with the Indigenous community of the Wallis Lake catchment. The harvesting of wild resources for consumption makes an important contribution to the livelihoods of Indigenous people living in this area.Indigenous; harvesting of wild resources; natural resource management
Jim Wallis, Author of God's Politics, to speak at UMC
No full textLemos, Krista. (2005). Jim Wallis, Author of God's Politics, to speak at UMC. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/220557
Wetland biodiversity in coastal New South Wales: the Wallis Lake catchment as a case study
No full textThe floristic composition and environmental relations of wetland vegetation in the Wallis Lake catchment (32˚ 09’S; 152˚ 20’E), area 1292 km2, on the lower North Coast of NSW are described. The catchment supports wetlands listed as Endangered Ecological Communities (NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995) and plant species of high conservation value. A methodology of air photo interpretation, site-based sampling (114 quadrats) and landscape differentiation was developed. A total of 393 vascular plant taxa were recorded (including 10% exotics). Wetland vegetation formations and subformations including mangrove forest, swamp sclerophyll forest, wet heathland, chenopod shrubland, tussock grassland, sedgeland and rushland are described using numerical classification. 31 plant species of national or regional conservation significance are identified. Four Endangered Ecological Communities are discussed – Coastal Saltmarsh, Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest, Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains, and Freshwater Wetlands on Coastal Floodplains. A key recommendation is the completion of reliable wetland vegetation and soil landscape mapping for all land tenures in the catchment – to assess wetland condition and conservation significance, and representation in formal conservation reserves, thereby directing future priorities for the protection of wetland biodiversity on both public and private lands. The methodology developed can be applied to the survey and conservation of wetland biodiversity in other parts of coastal NSW
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The Holbrook bequest for commemorative plaques: tradition, narrative and 'local patriotism' in Victorian Nottingham
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Structural studies of peri-interactions and bond formation between electron-rich atomic centres and N-phenylcarboxamides or nitroalkenyl groups
No full textStructural studies of peri-interactions with dimethylamino groups in naphthalene systems indicate that the N-phenylcarboxamide group has a through-space electron attracting power closer to that of a carboxylic ester than a N,N-dialkylcarboxamide, while 2-nitroalkenyl groups have a lower through-space electron attracting power. However, addition of a benzoyl group to the 2-position of the nitroethenyl group leads to cyclisation to give a zwitterion, in which the carbanion is stabilised by full conjugation with the nitro group and partial conjugation with the carbonyl group. An interesting case where a steric interaction overrides an electrophile/nucleophile attraction is also described. The limitations to the interpretation of short contact distances from crystallographic measurements are discussed
Why Death is so Important in YA Fiction
No full textShould adults be concerned about how much death appears in teen books? Not at all, argues YA author Rupert Wallis, in fact, they could learn a lot about life and death by reading them to
John Wallis (1616–1703)
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Three centuries after its publication, John Wallis’ Grammatica Linguae An-glicanae (1653) is still worth the attention of the readers interested in the study of English. Considered within the context of its day, it appears as a significant contribution to the field, and indeed a work which constitutes a landmark in the history of the study of English. Its author, a remarkable mathematician looked upon as one of the most important precursors of Newton, succeeded in handling facts of the English language (both phonetics and grammar) better than any of his predecessors. His work, which illustrates the empirical approach, is important through the degree of independence attained in it from the Latin model which, at that time, still exerted a strong influence on attempts at describing the European vernaculars. In the advent of comparative linguistics in the 19th century Wallis’ grammar fell into disgrace. Even in our time scholars often repeat, with little justification, earlier criticisms of Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae – thus suggesting that Wallis’ contribution to the study of English has not always been examined in terms of the advances it represented when it was first published more than three centuries ago. When mapping out the development of linguistics in a historiography of our discipline there are two aspects in which Wallis’ grammar of English deserves special mention: when tracing the evolution of articulatory phonetics and when examining the roots of modern structural descriptivism.</jats:p
Des limites de l'insularité. Le cas de Wallis (Polynésie) (About the notion of insularity. The case of Wallis French Polynesia)
No full textAbstract. - The author shows the economic dependancy of the island of Wallis and the necessity of emigration. The continued growth of the wallisian population forbids return migrations, because home production is still too low. The author thinks that the main reason of this situation is the underdevelopment, and not the insularity.Résumé. - L'auteur montre le dépendance économique de l'île, et la nécessité de l'émigration (successivement vers les Nouvelles Hébrides et la Nouvelle Calédonie). La persistance de la croissance démographique dans l'île interdit le retour des émigrés, du fait de la faiblesse des ressources. Pour l'auteur le sous-développement compte plus dans cette situation que l'insularité.Saussol Alain. Des limites de l'insularité. Le cas de Wallis (Polynésie) (About the notion of insularity. The case of Wallis French Polynesia). In: Bulletin de l'Association de géographes français, 65e année, 1988-3 ( juin). pp. 271-281
Mieczysław Wallis – a Historian of Art or a Philosopher?
No full textThe paper presents a scientific profile of Mieczysław Wallis in the perspective of the question of his intellectual status. The author looks for the answer within two areas that were the subject of Wallis’ interest: philosophy and history of art. She analyses the path of Wallis’ intellectual development and the formation of his creative interests: from his education (in Heidelberg and Warsaw) and inspirations, through his first intellectual concerns, to an analysis of his scientific output. In his youth, Wallis wrote about the desire to create a philosophical system. Did this aspiration determine his scientific work, and to what extent? Did it set the course of his intellectual path? Was Wallis’ profile dichotomous in nature? For, as a philosopher, Wallis asked himself a fundamental question about the phenomenon of human being and its relation to the world. As a historian of art, he sought the answer by analyzing the world of man’s creative activity, his aesthetic experiences and artistic creations. Thus, on the one hand, the author emphasizes the role of philosophy in the development of Wallis’ intellectual views; on the other hand, she points to the philosophical depth of his achievements in the field of art theory
John Wallis
No full textReading, writing, and doing mathematics in turbulent times, John Wallis (1616–1703) became the Savilian Professor of Geometry in unpromising circumstances, but held that position for longer than any other. Taking seriously the founder’s injunctions to study, edit, and publish the ancient mathematical texts, as well as to teach mathematics, he also enjoyed a long career as a robust and combative mathematical author. In this chapter we consider Wallis’s achievements as a reader, writer, and shaper of mathematics in the early modern world. In the long history of the Savilian professorships at Oxford, John Wallis’s tenure of the Geometry chair is unique
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