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Traditional roof coverings in the North York Moors National Park
Full text linkPurpose – The paper seeks to deal with vernacular roofing practices within the North York Moors National Park. Design/methodology/approach – Initially the paper carries out a literature review of the geography and geology of the area and identifies what makes it physically unique. The paper then examines the development of various roofing materials, including thatch, stone slates and pantiles with case studies of old practice and modern methods from around the Park.
Findings – Roofing styles are simplistic and have steered away from the intricate in favour of the indigenous or readily available. The paper demonstrates the much-regionalised nature of the roofing materials and recognises this as one of the special cultural features worthy of conservation.
Research limitations/implications – The results are limited to the North York Moors National Park but the approach taken could be extended to other conservation areas. Practical implications – The results of the research will benefit those involved in the conservation of vernacular buildings in the North York Moors National Park.
Originality/value – The paper calls for additional guidance for roofers and specifiers on traditional vernacular techniques and for existing funding under the Environmental Stewardship Scheme to be extended to include rural communities in National Parks
Peat bog tale: personal reflections on Thorne Moors
No full textIn this highly reflective and poetic account, Gretel Boswijk provides a personal perspective on Thorne Moors and takes us back to the Moor almost 6000 years ago. She describes what Thorne Moors and its wider surroundings may have looked like in the distant past by metaphorically peeling back the layers of the bog, describing changes to this unique wetland landscape
Walking research in the North York Moors
No full textFrom 2017-2021, NYMA Trustee Tom Ratcliffe conducted a PhD research project which investigated how people identify with three landscapes within the North York Moors and the role communities have in influencing decisions about landscape protection and change. The project researched the identity and influence of new community groups and the valorisation of landscapes with alternative management purposes in the National Park. The project was a qualitative study of the viewpoints held by a wide range of communities and key National Park stakeholders and how these people connect with these landscapes. Key groups and individuals interviewed included the National Park Authority, government bodies, conservation organisations and NGOs, landowners, land managers, developers and local voluntary groups. Tom conducted 58 interviews using ‘walking interviews’ as his primary method of data collection. He recorded the interviews then transcribed and analysed the data. Participants were taken on a set walking route on Sneaton Low Moor, Fylingdales Moor, and also other locations around the Park, which took around 1 hour to walk whilst questions were being asked. This article outlines some of Tom’s experiences and findings of walking on the moors
Early approach and avoidance tendencies can be goal-directed: Support from a transcranial magnetic stimulation study.
Full text linkDual-process models with a default-interventionist architecture explain early emotional action tendencies by a stimulus-driven process, and they allow goal-directed processes to intervene only in a later stage. An alternative dual-process model with a parallel-competitive architecture developed by Moors, Boddez, and De Houwer (Emotion Review, 9(4), 310-318, 2017), in contrast, explains early emotional action tendencies by a goal-directed process. This model proposes that stimulus-driven and goal-directed processes often operate in parallel and compete with each other, and that if they do compete, the goal-directed process often wins the competition. To examine these predictions, we set up a goal-directed process in an experimental group by rewarding participants for avoiding positive stimuli and for approaching negative stimuli and punishing them for the opposite behavior. We expected this process to compete with a potentially preexisting stimulus-driven process in which positive stimuli are associated with approach and negative stimuli with avoidance. We compared the elicited action tendencies of participants in this group with a control group in which only the stimulus-driven process could operate. Early approach and avoidance tendencies were assessed via motor evoked potentials (MEP) measured in the finger muscles previously trained to approach or to avoid stimuli after single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) delivered at 400 ms. Results confirmed that positive/negative stimuli led to stronger avoidance/approach tendencies in the experimental group but not to approach/avoidance tendencies in the control group. This suggests that goal-directed processes are indeed able to determine relatively early emotional action tendencies, but it does not show that goal-directed process can defeat stimulus-driven processes.sponsorship: Preparation of this article was supported by Research Program G073317N of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) and Grant C14/17/047 of the Research Fund of KU Leuven. The data and stimulus ratings are available from the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/m9rhw/). The experiment was not preregistered. The authors thank Yannick Joye, Eike Buabang, and Massimo Koester for their valuable feedback on this project and/or this manuscript. (Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)|G073317N, KU Leuven|C14/17/047)status: Publishe
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Thorne Moors: a contested wetland in north-eastern England
No full textThis paper explores the past, present and future of Thorne Moors. First, the paper addresses the landscape context of the Moors within the Humberhead Levels, and the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental resource. It also explores the management and protection of the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental resource of the Moors. Finally, it looks at the future with reference to the opportunity provided by its possible designation as a Ramsar site
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Full text linkThe Intimate Politics of Publicly Staging “Mixed Couples”:The Gendered Racialization of a Poster Campaign
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