150 research outputs found
St. Cuthbert, Ascet, Bishop and Saint of Anglo-Saxon Church
No full textThe author presents one of the best-known figures of northumbrian Church, in time of the transitional period from paganism to Christianity. On the base of two Lives of St. Cuthbert (The Anonymous life, Bede’s prose life) author describe life of Saint (childhood, youth, a monk, solitary life, a prior of Melrose and Lindisfarne, bishop of Northumbria). Finely author describes the spread of the cult of St. Cuthbert in Ireland, Scotland, North of England and Continent
The race. By Mercurius Spur, Esq. [electronic resource] : With notes. By Faustinus Scriblerus.
No full textMercurius Spur = Cuthbert Shaw.With a half-title.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Assessing the exposure risk and impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment on individuals and ecosystems
No full textCopyright @ 2013 The authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.The use of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals is increasing. Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of research into potential environmental impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment. A Royal Society-supported seminar brought together experts from diverse scientific fields to discuss the risks posed by pharmaceuticals to wildlife. Recent analytical advances have revealed that pharmaceuticals are entering habitats via water, sewage, manure and animal carcases, and dispersing through food chains. Pharmaceuticals are designed to alter physiology at low doses and so can be particularly potent contaminants. The near extinction of Asian vultures following exposure to diclofenac is the key example where exposure to a pharmaceutical caused a population-level impact on non-target wildlife. However, more subtle changes to behaviour and physiology are rarely studied and poorly understood. Grand challenges for the future include developing more realistic exposure assessments for wildlife, assessing the impacts of mixtures of pharmaceuticals in combination with other environmental stressors and estimating the risks from pharmaceutical manufacturing and usage in developing countries. We concluded that an integration of diverse approaches is required to predict 'unexpected' risks; specifically, ecologically relevant, often long-term and non-lethal, consequences of pharmaceuticals in the environment for wildlife and ecosystems
Brief sketch of the first settlement of the county of Schoharie, by the Germans : being an answer to a circular letter addressed to the author by the Historical and Philosophical Society of the State of New York /
No full textReprint of: Scoharie, [N.Y.] : Printed for the author by L. Cuthbert, 1823.Mode of access: Internet
An African perspective on the Water-Energy-Food nexus
No full textThere is a need to address resource security and distributional justice in developing countries. People need water, energy, and food to sustain their livelihoods, grow economies, and achieve sustainable development. The interactions between these resource sectors form the crux of water-energy-food (WEF) nexus assessments. In this study, we have utilised the WEF Nexus Index to analyse the WEF nexus of 54 African nations. The results from the analysis were used to illustrate the opportunities and constraints for future development. Generally, African countries are performing sub-optimally in the WEF Nexus Index due to the insecurity of water, energy and/or food. The performance of countries varies with context, highlighting the need for contextual analysis in identifying challenges and potential solutions. Implementation of interventions for achieving WEF security needs to be planned from an integrated perspective to optimise synergies and minimize trade-offs. Implementation of the WEF nexus approach towards simultaneous security of WEF resources has potential to improve the WEF nexus. For example and for many African countries, policies that undergird investments in energy supply projects are needed to unlock available freshwater resources and meet food requirements—energy is shown to be a critical enabler of development. Such projects can be utilised to enhance the ability of farmers to manage water through drought-proofing rainfed agriculture, an increase in irrigation development, or both. WEF nexus-based studies, policies, and projects must be focused on the direct and indirect achievement of SDGs 1, 2, 6, 7, and 13, both in terms of access and availability, to ensure distributional justice, especially in the African context. Such actions, combined with broad public participation, can have a ripple effect on other SDGs such as SDGs 5, 10, and 17, thereby reducing inequalities and building partnerships to attain these aspirational goals. The assessment of Africa’s relatively low scores in terms of the WEF Nexus Index does not represent a negative narrative. Instead, it provides an entry point to identifying hotspots and understanding the underlying challenges, through which more detailed analyses can lead to identified solutions and policies. Many African countries are trapped in an environment that could be termed a ‘poverty-unemployment-inequality nexus’ (due to the interlinkages that exist between these ‘wicked’ problems). The WEF Nexus Index provides high-level insights into these opportunities.Water Resource
Linking weather and climate information services (WCIS) to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices
No full textThis study synthesises existing knowledge on the linkages between Weather and Climate Information
Services (WCIS) and Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices. Specifically, it addresses the following
questions: (1) What is the current status of knowledge on WCIS and CSA in the global south, specifically the
African continent?, (2) Are WCIS effectively tailored and linked to CSA practices and technologies to improve
agricultural water management (AWM) amongst smallholder farmers?, and (3) How can linking WCIS and CSA
facilitate the identification, appraisal and prioritization of regionally differentiated and context-specific climateappropriate
technologies and policies that enhance agricultural water management at various levels (field, farm,
scheme, and catchment)?
Methods: The study used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic and Meta-Analysis Protocol (PRISMA-P)
guidelines. It involved the search of the Scopus and Web of Science databases for peer-reviewed articles, books,
and grey literature focussed on the global south.
Results: The results revealed that seasonal forecasts were the main WCIS available to farmers who utilised them to
plan predominantly for irrigation and water harvesting activities. Daily forecasts were linked to practices such as
irrigation. The study also revealed that temperature and rainfall (amount and distribution) were predominantly
disseminated to farmers through extension services. The dominant CSA practices used by farmers were carbonsmart
(e.g., composting), water-smart practices (improved varieties, irrigation, RWH), weather-smart practices
(IPM & crop insurance), and nitrogen-smart practices (organic fertiliser, crop diversification). Advisories on
carbon-smart practices generally aligned closely with the start and end of rainfall information, while the watersmart
practices were corroborated with the rainfall onset, end of rainfall season, and rainfall intensity. Weather
smart practices were strongly linked to drought, temperature, and rainfall distribution, whereas nitrogen smart
practices were linked with the end of rainfall and temperature.
Conclusions: The study concluded that distinct linkages exist between WCIS and various CSA categories. The
study argues that increasing access to WCIS can facilitate the adoption and scaling of CSA practices
The restoration of creation in the early Anglo-Saxon vitae of Cuthbert and Guthlac
No full textThis thesis explores the relationship between Creation and the saints Cuthbert and Guthlac in their Anglo-Latin and Old English vitae. It argues that this relationship is best understood through received theological exegesis concerning Creation's present state in the postlapsarian world. The exegesis has its foundation in Augustineâs interpretations of the Genesis narrative, though it enters the textual tradition of the vitae via an adapted portion of De Genesi contra Manichaeos in Bedeâs metrical Vita Sancti Cuthberti (VCM). Both Augustine and Bede argue, with slight differences, that fallen Creation can be restored into prelapsarian harmony with humanity by way of sanctity. Each individual vita engages with this understanding of the Fall in distinct, though ultimately interrelated, ways, and the chapters of this thesis will therefore explore each text individually.
Chapter 1 argues that the anonymous Vita Sancti Cuthberti (VCA) unites Cuthbertâs ability to restore Creation with the theme of monastic obedience, linking the ordering of a monastery to the restoration of prelapsarian harmony. The VCA also seeks to create sites for potential lay pilgrimage in the landscapes of Farne and Lindisfarne by highlighting the present efficacy of Cuthbertâs miracles. Chapter 2 argues that Bedeâs VCM not only reveals his early attempt to fashion Cuthbert into the primary saint for Britain, via a focus on Cuthbert's obedience to the Divine Office, but also that the restoration of Creation functions as a ruminative tool. Chapter 3 argues that Bede transforms the nature of Cuthbertâs sanctity in his prose Vita Sancti Cuthberti (VCP) from static to developmental, influenced by the Evagrian Vita Antonii, and that Creation is adapted to function as the impetus for, and evidence of, Cuthbertâs progression. Chapter 4 argues that Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci (VSG) unites the development of Guthlac with a physically delineated Creation, and that the restoration of Creation is elevated to an even greater degree here than in Bede's hagiography. Chapter 5 argues that the author of the Old English Prose Guthlac (OEPG) grounds his vita by utilizing a landscape lexis shared with contemporary boundary clauses, so that here the relationship between the saint and Creation has greater force; it further argues that Guthlac A uniquely connects Guthlac with the doctrine of replacement, consolidating links between his arrival to the eremitic space and the restoration of prelapsarian Eden.</p
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