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Cwbr Author Interview: Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined The Army After 1861
No full textInterview with Dr. Kenneth W. Noe, Professor of History at Auburn University Interviewed by Nathan Buman Civil War Book Review (CWBR): I\u27m here today with Kenneth Noe, author of Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861. Professor Noe, thank you for joining me. Kenneth Noe (KN): I\u27m happy to be here Nathan
Kenneth W. Ashley
No full textImage submitted by author for Poetry Spotlight 2023.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/vapoets-images/1083/thumbnail.jp
Modification of nektonic fish distribution by piers and pile fields in an urban estuary
No full textLarge urban piers degrade habitat value for several estuarine benthic fish species by shading, but their effects on mobile nektonic species is less well understood due to sampling challenges. Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) allowed equal access to sampling in the water column of structured shaded and unshaded vs. open environments in both dark and light conditions by methods similar to video but without light. Sampling (n = 228, 5-minute transects) occurred under and around four large municipal piers of varying dimensions in the Hudson River estuary during day and night from summer and fall in 2007 - 2009. The distribution of small (5 - 25 cm in length) and large (25 – 850 cm) fishes were analyzed separately in recognition of functional guild differences. Small fishes occupied open water, shaded under-pier, and un-decked relict piling habitats, but were significantly more abundant during the day in open unshaded water than under adjacent piers or in piling habitats.. Small fish occurred under 3 of 4 piers of varying size and configuration at 10 - 20% of the median abundances of adjacent open water. However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers. The differences among habitats was not significant at night, and the difference among piers was also not significant at night. School membership for small fish appeared to mitigate adverse effects of shading and may influence scaling of their response to shading and could therefore influence pier design. Large (>25 cm) predatory fish were uncommon but responded similarly to habitat effects as did small fish. Habitats did not segregate fish by guild as small forage fish co-occurred in 65.8% of samples with large piscivores. Studies that provide species-specific and mechanistic interpretation of dynamic habitat use as well as further quantification of scaling effects could improve our understanding of how fishes respond to piers and other structures on urban shorelines.Peer reviewed
G. Ross Roy: A Tribute
No full textRobert Burns & Friends
essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows
presented to G. Ross Roy
edited by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson
This volume of essays about the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) pays tribute to the distinguished Burns scholar G. Ross Roy. Subjects covered include writers who influenced Burns; aspects of the writing of Burns and that of his friends and contemporaries; and Burns\u27s influence on later writers. The volume also includes essays on Ross Roy\u27s own accomplishments and on the Burns collection he built (now at the University of South Carolina), together with a checklist of his published writings.
G. Ross Roy, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, founded the journal Studies in Scottish Literature in 1963, and as its editor for nearly fifty years he has had a central role in establishing international academic recognition for the field. His own scholarly work includes the standard Letters of Robert Burns (2 vols., Clarendon Press, 1985). His contributions to Scottish literature have earned him honorary doctorates from the Universities of Edinburgh (2002) and Glasgow (2009).
The contributors are all former W. Ormiston Roy Visiting Fellows at the University of South Carolina.
This book is also available in a print edition (ISBN: 978-1439270974) through the usual on-line vendors. It is not available for direct purchase from the editors or the University of South Carolina
“Epistolary Performances”: Burns and the arts of the letter
No full textRobert Burns & Friends
essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows
presented to G. Ross Roy
edited by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson
This volume of essays about the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) pays tribute to the distinguished Burns scholar G. Ross Roy. Subjects covered include writers who influenced Burns; aspects of the writing of Burns and that of his friends and contemporaries; and Burns\u27s influence on later writers. The volume also includes essays on Ross Roy\u27s own accomplishments and on the Burns collection he built (now at the University of South Carolina), together with a checklist of his published writings.
G. Ross Roy, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, founded the journal Studies in Scottish Literature in 1963, and as its editor for nearly fifty years he has had a central role in establishing international academic recognition for the field. His own scholarly work includes the standard Letters of Robert Burns (2 vols., Clarendon Press, 1985). His contributions to Scottish literature have earned him honorary doctorates from the Universities of Edinburgh (2002) and Glasgow (2009).
The contributors are all former W. Ormiston Roy Visiting Fellows at the University of South Carolina.
This book is also available in a print edition (ISBN: 978-1439270974) through the usual on-line vendors. It is not available for direct purchase from the editors or the University of South Carolina
Cynocephalidae Simpson 1945
No full textFamily Cynocephalidae REVIEWED BY: J. H. Honacki (JH). ISIS NUMBER: 5301404001000000000.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Dermoptera, pp. 110 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 110, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735299
Ngarluma as a W* language
No full textAn account of the morpho-syntax of Ngarluma, an Australian language spoken in the Pilbara, is given based on Kenneth Hale's fieldnotes together with Carl von Brandenstein's published texts. The analysis uses the W* framework proposed by Kenneth Hale, to describe the free word order, discontinuous phrases, valence-changing suffixes, case system and use of case to indicate identity of controllers
Understanding the groundwater system of a heavily drained coastal catchment and the implications for salinity management
No full textThe Thurne catchment in north-east Norfolk, UK, is an extremely important part of the Broads National Park,
an internationally important wetland environment. Extensive engineered land drainage of the marshes of this
low-lying coastal catchment over the past two centuries has led to land subsidence and the need for drainage
pumps to control water levels sufficiently below sea-level to maintain agricultural productivity.
Consequently, seawater from the North Sea has intruded into the underlying Pleistocene Crag (sand) aquifer
and brackish groundwater enters into land drainage channels, thereby raising their salinity. Powerful pumps
discharge these brackish drainage waters into a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and RAMSAR site,
leading to adverse ecological impacts on salt-sensitive species.
Chloride concentrations within drainage channels throughout the network have been found to significantly
vary, with several influential factors affecting channel salinity such as proximity to the sea and connectivity to
the underlying aquifer. A thorough understanding of the surface-water/groundwater system and a subsequent
quantification of the various processes has been necessary for the development for the drain/aquifer
interactions and a numerical groundwater model. These models are used to estimate the long-term
distribution of the salinity within the drainage system under current conditions. The model credibility is
justified by comparable aquifer-drain water balance, a comparable coast water inflow/ total groundwater ratio
and the particle tracking from the coastal reaches trace to previously-measured saline-vulnerable locations.
The numerical groundwater model has demonstrated that the average daily inflow of saline groundwater into
the Crag aquifer of the Thurne catchment is 3,081 m3/day, of which the HempsteadMarshes main drain is one
of the main conduits for saline inflow into the Brograve system, which discharges directly into the SAC.
Various changes to the engineering design or operation of the drainage system have been proposed to
minimise the saline inflow to the SAC, but the implementation of any proposals must be considered in
conjunction with the current dynamics of the system. Three separate management or engineering remedial
measures have been modelled: (i) raising the water levels in the drains of the Hempstead Marshes in the north
east of the catchment (ii) lining the main drain of the HempsteadMarshes with low permeability material, and
(iii) The construction of a new coastal open ditch drain which is intended to ‘intercept’ the saline intrusion
and prevent ingress into inland drains of the Brograve system. The results suggest that raising the water
levels in the Hempstead Marshes will reduce the saline inflow into the Brograve sub-catchment substantially,
and decrease the overall saline inflow into the Thurne catchment from 3081 m3/day to 2822 m3/day). The
lining of the main drain in Hempstead produces a less than 10% decrease in saline inflow into the catchment
from 3,081 m3/day to 2,958 m3/day. The simulated coastal interceptor drain could in theory through
maintaining a low groundwater head near the coast, prevent the inflow of saline groundwater into the
Brograve system. However, such a drain would increase the saline inflow across the coastal boundary by
around six times (from 3,081 m3/day to 19,750 m3/day), remove large quantities of fresh groundwater from
the Pleistocene Crag aquifer and lead to high energy and pumping costs.
The research has shown that there are partial solutions to reducing the saline inflow into the drainage systems
in this lowland coastal catchment. However, any intended alterations must first consider other potential
impacts, such as changes to flood risk, land management restrictions or hydrodynamic effects on the receiving
watercourse through changed discharge volumes
Front Matter
No full textRobert Burns & Friends
essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows
presented to G. Ross Roy
edited by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson
This volume of essays about the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) pays tribute to the distinguished Burns scholar G. Ross Roy. Subjects covered include writers who influenced Burns; aspects of the writing of Burns and that of his friends and contemporaries; and Burns\u27s influence on later writers. The volume also includes essays on Ross Roy\u27s own accomplishments and on the Burns collection he built (now at the University of South Carolina), together with a checklist of his published writings.
G. Ross Roy, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, founded the journal Studies in Scottish Literature in 1963, and as its editor for nearly fifty years he has had a central role in establishing international academic recognition for the field. His own scholarly work includes the standard Letters of Robert Burns (2 vols., Clarendon Press, 1985). His contributions to Scottish literature have earned him honorary doctorates from the Universities of Edinburgh (2002) and Glasgow (2009).
The contributors are all former W. Ormiston Roy Visiting Fellows at the University of South Carolina.
This book is also available in a print edition (ISBN: 978-1439270974) through the usual on-line vendors. It is not available for direct purchase from the editors or the University of South Carolina
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