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Twenty Years in Tea: The Letters of Iris Macfarlane from Assam Tea Gardens 1946-1965
No full textA very detailed account of life on several Assamese tea gardens from 1946-1965. It is written by the authoress Iris Macfarlane, the wife of Donald Macfarlane a Tea Manager. Much of the letter consists of letters to her son Alan and notebook entrances. Fully illustrated with colour and black and white photographs
Marriage record of Hamilton, Charles F. and Macfarlane, Margaret
No full textMarriage license for Charles F. Hamilton and Margaret Macfarlane. R. Lee Kirkland was the officiant
Re-framing student academic freedom: a capability perspective
No full textThe scholarly debate about academic freedom focuses almost exclusively on the rights of academic faculty. Student academic freedom is rarely discussed and is normally confined to debates connected with the politicisation of the curriculum. Concerns about (student) freedom of speech reflect the dominant role of negative rights in the analysis of academic freedom representing ‘threats’ to academic freedom in terms of rights which may be taken away from a person rather than conferred on them. This paper draws on the distinction between negative and positive rights and the work of Sen (1999) to re-frame student academic freedom as capability. It is argued that capability deprivation has a negative impact on the extent to which students can exercise academic freedom in practice and that student capability can be enhanced through a liberal education that empowers rather than domesticates students
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A symposium to mark the retirement of Alan Macfarlane
No full textA symposium to mark the retirement of Professor Alan Macfarlane from the Department of Social Anthropolog
Phytoseius intermedius Evans & MacFarlane
No full textPhytoseius intermedius Evans & MacFarlane Phytoseius (Dubininellus) intermedius Evans & MacFarlane, 1962: 588. Phytoseius (Phytoseius) intermedius.— Ehara, 1972: 170. Phytoseius intermedius.— Moraes et al., 2004: 242; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 129; Ueckermann et al., 2007: 12; Demite et al., 2008 a: 17. Phytoseius (Phytoseius) yira Pritchard & Baker, 1962: 227 (synonymy according to Denmark, 1966). Specimens examined: Macaubal: P. guajava, XII- 2007 (2); Sales: H. brevispira, IX- 2007 (1); Sto. Antônio do Aracanguá: Miconia sp. 2, XII- 2007 (2); Turmalina: G. ulmifolia, XII- 2007 (2), III- 2008 (11), H. lhotzkyana, XII- 2007 (1), T. casaretti, VII- 2008 (1); União Paulista: C. sellowiana, VI- 2007 (1), IX- 2007 (2), M. fistulifera, VI- 2007 (1), III- 2008 (1). Previous records: Benin (Ueckermann et al., 2007), Burundi (Ueckermann et al., 2007), Brazil (Demite et al., 2008 a), Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo (Ueckerman et al., 2007), India, Japan, Madagascar, Malawi (Ueckermann et al., 2007), Mozambique (Ueckermann et al., 2007), Philippines, Reunion Islands, Rwanda (Ueckermann et al., 2007) and Zimbabwe.Published as part of Demite, Peterson R., Lofego, Antonio C. & Feres, Reinaldo J. F., 2011, Phytoseiidae (Acari) in forest fragments in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 31-56 in Zootaxa 3086 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20537
Portrait of Dr. Catherine Macfarlane presented by Cancer Clinic Volunteers
No full textLeft to right: Mrs. John B. Kelly, Dean Marion Fay, Dr. Macfarlane, Mrs. Andrew F. Lippi (Dr. Concetta Lippi
'Sorry to have kept you waiting so long, Mr Macfarlane': Further education after the Coalition
No full textThis chapter focuses on the further education (FE) sector in England. Initially it gives an overview of the ‘condition’ of the FE sector and summarises of some of the main characteristics of the current Government’s approach to further education. The chapter locates the Coalition’s position on FE, and some of the key initiatives associated with this stance, within a broader social, economic and cultural context, before turning to the future of further education. Whilst I acknowledge that much will need to be done across all sectors of education after the Coalition loses power, it is argued that no one part of the education system – if indeed system is the correct term – operates in isolation; and that FE’s role and remit is strongly influenced, not only by the nature of the labour market and the economy more broadly, but by the relative status and position of universities, schools and other providers of education and training. Drawing on the ideals of the comprehensive movement and some of the recommendations made in the first draft of the often forgotten Macfarlane Report, the remainder of the chapter provides a vision for further education after the coalition by arguing that FE needs to be repositioned at the heart of a coherent system of tertiary education and play a key role in integrating academic with vocational learning. It finishes by offering a critical overview of the far-reaching cultural, structural and curricular changes that would be required, not only within the further education sector, but across other parts of the compulsory and post-compulsory education system, in order to enable this
From a discrete model of chemotaxis with volume-filling to a generalized Patlak–Keller–Segel model
No full textWe present a discrete model of chemotaxis whereby cells responding to a chemoattractant are seen as individual agents whose movement is described through a set of rules that result in a biased random walk. In order to take into account possible alterations in cellular motility observed at high cell densities (i.e. volume-filling), we let the probabilities of cell movement be modulated by a decaying function of the cell density. We formally show that a general form of the celebrated Patlak–Keller–Segel (PKS) model of chemotaxis can be formally derived as the appropriate continuum limit of this discrete model. The family of steady-state solutions of such a generalized PKS model are characterized and the conditions for the emergence of spatial patterns are studied via linear stability analysis. Moreover, we carry out a systematic quantitative comparison between numerical simulations of the discrete model and numerical solutions of the corresponding PKS model, both in one and in two spatial dimensions. The results obtained indicate that there is excellent quantitative agreement between the spatial patterns produced by the two models. Finally, we numerically show that the outcomes of the two models faithfully replicate those of the classical PKS model in a suitable asymptotic regime
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Interviews of Dilmaya Gurung of Nepal, by Alan Macfarlane
No full textA transcript of a set of interviews done in central Nepal by Alan Macfarlane in 1992. The subject, Dilmaya Gurung, died in 1995. Films of the interviews, and over 50 other films of Dilmaya at work can be seen on the Cambridge Streaming Media Service, searching for 'Dilmaya'
Figure 1a–f. DELTA Editor. a dropdown menus b in DELTA for Beginners. An introduction into the taxonomy software package DELTA
No full textFigure 1a–f. DELTA Editor. a dropdown menus b pane for items (= taxa) c pane for characters d buttons for formatting selections e pane showing the character state description in number form and possible additional descriptions in angle brackets f pane for character state selection with check boxes.Published as part of Coleman, Charles Oliver, Lowry, Jim & Macfarlane, Terry, 2010, DELTA for Beginners. An introduction into the taxonomy software package DELTA, pp. 1-75 in ZooKeys 45 (45) on page 7, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.45.263, http://zenodo.org/record/57666
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