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A380 South Devon Link Road, Kingskerswell, Devon
No full textArchaeological investigations along the route of the A380 South Devon Link Road, Kingskerswell, Devon, were undertaken by AC archaeology between October 2012 and June 2013. All works were carried out in advance of construction of the bypass and comprised the excavations of an important prehistoric and multi-phase Romano-British enclosed settlement site and associated remains at Aller Cross, medieval and post-medieval buildings at Edginswell Lane North, survey and recording of earthworks and hedgebanks affected by the route, recording of historic non-listed buildings and structures and palaeo-environmental work in the valley bottom adjacent to Aller Brook and Edginswell Stream
Death and memory on the Home Front: Second World War commemoration in the South Hams, Devon
No full textThis is the publisher's PDF of an article published in Cambridge archaeological journal© 2010. The definitive version is available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CAJThis article discusses two World War II monuments - the Slapton Sands Evacuation Memorial and the Torcross Tank Memorial - as commemorations of events and as a method of defining the identities of local people
An oxygen-isotope climatic record from the Devon Island ice cap, arctic Canada
No full textIsotope measurements on two adjacent cores through the Devon Island ice cap provide a well-dated climatic record for the past 5000 yr. Fluctuations in annual values include much ‘noise’, and ice flow over a rough bed produces distortions in the lowest 5% of core which covers roughly 120,000 yr. Comparison with the Camp Century, Greenland, record helps to separate climatic changes from changes in ice thickness or flow pattern
Kick It Over: The evolution of a journal
No full textAn outline of the founding and development of the anarchist magazine "Kick It Over," which began publication in 1981.https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/23317/AlexanderSMSC.pdf?sequence=3Ron Hayley is the pen name of Don Alexander.This is a digitized version of an article originally published as: Devon, A. & Hayley, R. (1988). Kick It Over:
The evolution of a journal. In F. Cunningham, S. Findley, M. Kadar, A. Lennon, & E. Silva (Eds.), Social
movements/social change: The politics and practice of organizing (pp. 228-235). Between the Lines
Palaeoecological, archaeological and historical data and the making of Devon landscapes. I. The Blackdown Hills
No full textThis paper presents the first systematic study of the vegetation history of a range of low hills in SW England, UK,lying between more researched fenlands and uplands. After the palaeoecological sites were located bespoke archaeological, historical and documentary studies of the surrounding landscape were undertaken specifically to inform palynological interpretation at each site. The region has a distinctive archaeology with late Mesolithic tool scatters, some evidence of early Neolithic agriculture, many Bronze Age funerary monuments and Romano- British iron-working. Historical studies have suggested that the present landscape pattern is largely early Medieval. However, the pollen evidence suggests a significantly different Holocene vegetation history in comparison with other areas in lowland England, with evidence of incomplete forest clearance in later-Prehistory (Bronze?Iron Age). Woodland persistence on steep, but poorly drained, slopes, was probably due to the unsuitability of these areas for mixed farming. Instead they may have been under woodland management (e.g. coppicing) associated with the iron-working industry. Data from two of the sites also suggest that later Iron Age and Romano-British impact may have been geographically restricted. The documented Medieval land management that maintained the patchwork of small fields, woods and heathlands had its origins in later Prehistory, but there is also evidence of landscape change in the 6th–9th centuries AD. We conclude that the Blackdown Hills area was one of many ‘distinctive subregions’, which due to a combination of edaphic, topographic and cultural factors could qualify as an eco-cultural region or ‘pays’. It is argued that the use of such eco-culturally distinctive regions or pays can provide a spatial and archaeological framework for palaeoecology, which has implications for landscape research, designation and heritage management
Predominance of industrial Pb in recent snow (1994-2004) and ice (1842-1996) from Devon Island, Arctic Canada
No full textAbstract: Atmospheric Pb contamination was studied using snow and ice from the Canadian arctic. Forty-five samples representing the past ten years of snow accumulation on Devon Island contain an average of 45.2 pg/g of Pb but only 0.43 pg/g of Sc. The average ratio of Pb to Sc (105) is far greater than that of soil-derived dust particles ( in the range 1 to 5) which indicates that ca. 95 to 99% of recent Pb is anthropogenic. Isotopic analyses (Pb-206, Pb-207, Pb-208) confirm that anthropogenic sources continue to dominate atmospheric Pb inputs. Unlike snow from Greenland which receives Pb predominantly from the U. S. (Pb-206/Pb-207 approximate to 1.2), snow from Devon Island is less radiogenic (Pb-206/Pb-207 approximate to 1.15). There are pronounced seasonal variations, and the snow samples containing the greatest Pb enrichments are from winter when the Arctic is dominated by air masses originating in Eurasia. While the elimination of gasoline lead additives in Europe, North America and Japan has helped to reduce Pb emissions during the past two to three decades, aerosols in the Arctic today are still highly contaminated by industrial Pb
Elective surgical referral guidelines : background educational material or essential shared decision making tool? : a survey of GPs' in England
No full textBackground: To investigate general practitioners’ (GPs’) attitudes to guidelines for elective surgical referral in
England. To understand their use of guidelines, and attitudes to shared decision making in the referral decision.
Methods: A questionnaire was developed which investigated attitudes to and use of guidelines. It was given to a
stratified random sample 30% (n = 310) drawn from GP lists of 10 English health districts (primary care trusts
(PCTs)). GPs were invited to respond online, by telephone, fax or post. Data were analysed using descriptive
statistics and backwards stepwise logistic regression.
Results: Responses were representative of GPs in England, but (despite up to 6 contacts per non-responder) the overall
response rate was 41.6% (n = 129; with the range across PCTs of 25-61%). Most responding GPs indicated support for
referral guidelines but 18% reported that they had never used them. Less than three per cent reported use for most or
all referral decisions. The odds of using guidelines decreased with increasing age, with a ten year increase in age
associated with halving odds of use (OR = 0.53, 95%CI = 0.29-0.90). Over 50% of GPs wanted good access to electronic
guidelines with expert information and advice on guideline availability. Almost all (>89%) GPs agreed with sharing
referral decisions with patients. Female doctors (OR = 5.2, 95%CI: 1.02-26.3) were more likely to agree with this than
male GPs as were those working in larger compared to small or single handed practices (OR = 5.3, 95%CI: 1.4-19.9).
Conclusions: This group of responding GPs was supportive of guidelines but used them in different ways. Referral
guidelines should have an educational component for background reading; include key messages for
internalisation and application; and incorporate mechanisms to facilitate accessibility and appropriate shared
decision making with patients
The Russian Cubo-Futurist Opera “Victory over the Sun”: Aleksei Kruchenykh’s Alogical Creation
No full textIn this essay the Author analyses the libretto of A. Kruchenykh's Futurist opera "Victory over the Sun, exploring the literary influences and the formal devices
Spatial and temporal variability in the snowpack of a High Arctic ice cap: implications for mass-change measurements
No full textInterpretation of ice mass elevation changes observed by satellite altimetry demands quantification of the proportion of elevation change which is attributable to variations in firn densification. Detailed stratigraphic logging of snowpack structure and density was carried out at similar to 1 km intervals along a 47 km transect on Devon Ice Cap, Canada, in spring (pre-melt) and autumn (during/after melt) 2004 and 2006 to characterize seasonal snowpack variability across the full range of snow facies. Simultaneous meteorological measurements were gathered. Spring (pre-melt) snowpacks show low variability over large spatial scales, with low-magnitude changes in density. The end-of-summer/autumn density profiles show high variability in both 2004 and 2006, with vastly different melt regimes generating dissimilar patterns of ice-layer formation over the two melt seasons. Dye-tracing experiments from spring to autumn 2006 reveal that vertical and horizontal distribution of meltwater flow within and below the annual snowpack is strongly affected by the pre-existing, often subtle stratigraphic interfaces in the snowpack, rather than its bulk properties. Strong interannual variability suggests that using a simple relationship between air temperature, elevation and snowpack densification to derive mass change from measurements of elevation change across High Arctic ice caps may be misguided. Melt timing and duration are important extrinsic factors governing snowpack densification and ice-layer formation in summer, rather than averaged air temperatures
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