231 research outputs found
Falkland Islands, 1851
No full textRelief indicated by hachures.
Shows settlements and rivers.
Includes inset vignettes featuring Jason Islands; sea eagles; penguins; Fugeans; and Christmas Sound, Tierra del Fuego.
Date of publication based on date of atlases.
Appears in Tallis's illustrated atlas and modern history of the world : geographical, political, commercial & statistical / edited by R. Montgomery Martin. London ; New York : Published by John Tallis and Company, 1851.
Appears in Illustrated atlas and modern history of the world : geographical, political, commercial & statistical / edited by R. Montgomery Martin. London ; New York : J & F Tallis, [1857?].
Scales approximated from horizontal bar scales given in miles.Color;approximately 1:1,200,000 (W 61°22ʹ--W 57°41ʹ/S 51°00ʹ--S 52°32ʹ).
approximately 1:1,600,000 (W 76°--W 60°/S 39°--S 56°)
Falkland Islands and Patagonia [cartographic material] /
No full textMaps of Falkland Islands and Patagonia with relief shown by hachures.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection Map NK 11200. Vignettes: Jason Islands -- Sea eagles -- penguins --Fugeans -- Christmas Sound, Tierra del Fuego
Measuring facets of Worry: A LISREL analysis of the Worry Domains Questionnaire
No full textIn the development of the Worry Domains Questionnaire (WDQ) for the measurement of nonpathological worry, (Tallis, Eysenck & Mathews, 1992. A questionnaire for the measurement of nonpathological worry. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 161–168) Tallis et al. had used cluster analytical procedures to establish the number of worry domains. The resulting structure of the WDQ, however, was never adequately tested. This study therefore examined the WDQ's structure by use of confirmatory factor analysis comparing models of different factor structures. In the first sample of 466 participants, a five-factor model yielded the best fit to the data, characterized by highly correlated yet distinct domains of everyday worrying as they were originally proposed. This model was cross-validated with a second sample of 503 participants, showing stable factor loadings across samples. Whereas these analyses displayed a good fit of the five-factor representation for the item-based models, overall fit of all models was more prominent when items were aggregated (subscale models). Implications of the results and suggestions for future research are discussed
Weekly assessment of worry: an adaptation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for monitoring changes during treatment
No full textAn adaptation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) [Meyer, T. J., Miller, M. L., Metzger, R. L. and Borkovec, T. D. (1990). Development and validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 487-495.] for weekly assessment of worry was evaluated in a brief treatment study. Cognitive restructuring techniques were taught to 28 nonclinical high-worriers, 14 of whom served as a control group in a lagged waiting-list design. Results showed that the Penn State Worry Questionnaire-Past Week (PSWQ-PW) was highly reliable and substantially valid in the assessment of both (a) weekly status of worry and (b) treatment-related changes in worry: average Cronbach's alpha was 0.91; average convergent correlation with a past-week adaptation of the Worry Domains Questionnaire [Tallis, F., Eysenck, M. W. and Mathews, A. (1992). A questionnaire for the measurement of nonpathological worry. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 161-168.] was 0.63 and pre-post improvement on PSWQ-PW showed a 0.71 correlation with the Questionnaire of Changes in Experiencing and Behavior [Zielke, M. and Kopf-Mehnert, C. (1978). Veränderungsfragebogen des Erlebens und Verhaltens. Weinheim, Germany: Beltz Test Gesellschaft.]. It is concluded that the PSWQ-PW is a useful instrument for monitoring pathological worry in experimental and applied settings
New theories for old music : an analysis of Lamentations settings by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
No full textMovement through pitch space in the Common Practice Period is generally acknowledged as being structured on the fifth relation, whereas movement through the pitch space of the highly chromatic music of the nineteenth century is thought of as being structured on the third relation. Pitch-space structures in pre-tonal music are rarely if ever discussed. This study presents an alternative method for the analysis of pre-tonal music primarily by defining criteria for an examination of long-term movement through pitch space, as seen in the settings from the Lamentations of Jeremiah by English composers Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. It is the author\u27s hypothesis that composers in the latter half of the sixteenth century increasingly organized musical pitch space into circle-of-fifths substructures. Even though third relations continued to persist to some extent, it was the fifth relation that was to prevail for the next two centuries
Placebo effects of caffeine on maximal voluntary concentric force of the knee flexors & extensors
No full textIntroduction: We examined the placebo effect of caffeine and the combined effect of caffeine and caffeine expectancy on maximal voluntary strength. Methods: Fourteen men completed 4 randomized single-blind experimental trials: 1) Told caffeine, given caffeine (5mg.kg) (CC); 2) Told caffeine, given placebo (CP); 3) Told placebo, given placebo (PP); 4) Told placebo, given caffeine (PC). Maximal voluntary concentric force and fatigue resistance of the knee flexors and extensors was measured using isokinetic dynamometry. Results: A significant and equal improvement in peak concentric force was found in the CC and PC trials. Despite participants believing caffeine would evoke a performance benefit, there was no effect of CP. Conclusion: Caffeine caused an improvement in some aspects of muscle strength, however there was no additional effect of expectancy. Performance was poorer in participants who believed caffeine would have the largest benefit, which highlights a link between expected ergogenicity, motivation, and personality characteristics. Publisher statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Tallis, J. , Muhammad, B. , Islam, M. and Duncan, M.J. (2016) Placebo effects of caffeine on maximal voluntary concentric force of the knee flexors & extensors. Muscle & Nerve, volume 54 (3): 479-486, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mus.25060 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving
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L.O.S.T. for 16-part mixed choir a cappella
No full textL.O.S.T. is a 25-minute composition scored for a 16-part unaccompanied mixed choir. Related to the Renaissance practice of the paraphrase mass, the work is a compositional response, and potential companion piece, to Lamentations of Jeremiah by Thomas Tallis. L.O.S.T. is designed such that Tallis' work can be interleaved with it in performance. Both pieces are shaped by the Hebrew Bible's penitential "Book of Lamentations," which chronicles an attempt to understand and cope with a devastating loss -- in particular, the sacking of Jerusalem. The book is divided into 5 chapters. Each chapter consists of 22 lines of text or a multiple thereof, whereby each line begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Likewise, the English language lyrics created for L.O.S.T. by the composer contain 22 lines, each beginning with a different letter of the English alphabet. The four letters omitted from the list are, in order: L, O, S, and T. Relating to the five distinct poems that comprise the "Book of Lamentations", as well as the five florid, melismatic passages that punctuate Tallis' musical setting, L.O.S.T. is divided into five movements. Each movement of the piece outlines one of the five stages of grief as hypothesized by Kübler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Within or against this emotional context for each movement of L.O.S.T., Tallis' melodic material is transformed and re-imagined, overtly and covertly, thereby creating a set of evocations, which in turn can interact with the text syntactically or abstractly
A short form of the Worry Domains Questionnaire: Construction and factorial validation.
No full textThe Worry Domains Questionnaire (WDQ) [Tallis, F., Eysenck M.W., & Mathews, (1992). A questionnaire for the measurement of nonpathological worry. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 161–168)] is an instrument widely used to assess the amount of worry across five domains of everyday concern: relationships, lack of confidence, aimless future, work, and financial issues. With 25 items, however, the WDQ is somewhat lengthy. The aim of the present study was therefore to construct a 10-item short form (WDQ-SF). A sample of 1080 university students completed the 25 items of the WDQ. One-half of the sample was used to construct the WDQ-SF by selecting two appropriate items from each of the five WDQ domain subscales. The other half of the sample was used to cross-validate the factorial structure of the WDQ-SF by means of confirmatory factor analysis. Like the WDQ, the WDQ-SF displayed high internal consistency (Cronbach's ALPHA=0.88) and a clear five-factor structure. Moreover, the WDQ-SF showed a near-perfect correlation with the WDQ long form (r=0.97). Thus, the WDQ-SF represents a reliable and economical alternative to the full 25-item scale
What can isolated skeletal muscle experiments tell us about the effects of caffeine on exercise performance?
No full textCaffeine is an increasingly popular nutritional supplement due to the legal, significant improvements in sporting performance that it has been documented to elicit, with minimal side effects. Therefore, the effects of caffeine on human performance continue to be a popular area of research as we strive to improve our understanding of this drug and make more precise recommendations for its use in sport. Although variations in exercise intensity seems to affect its ergogenic benefits, it is largely thought that caffeine can induce significant improvements in endurance, power and strength-based activities. There are a number of limitations to testing caffeine-induced effects on human performance that can be better controlled when investigating its effects on isolated muscles under in vitro conditions. The hydrophobic nature of caffeine results in a post-digestion distribution to all tissues of the body making it difficult to accurately quantify its key mechanism of action. This review considers the contribution of evidence from isolated muscle studies to our understating of the direct effects of caffeine on muscle during human performance. The body of in vitro evidence presented suggests that caffeine can directly potentiate skeletal muscle force, work and power, which may be important contributors to the performance-enhancing effects seen in humans. Publisher statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Tallis, J. , Duncan, M.J. and James, R.S. (2015) What can isolated skeletal muscle experiments tell us about the effects of caffeine on exercise performance?. British Journal of Pharmacology, volume 172 (15): 3703-3713, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.13187. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms)
Effect of physiological caffeine concentration on isolated skeletal muscle force, power and fatigue resistance
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