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Watkinson, David, and Matthew Tanner. "SS GREAT BRITAIN: CONSERVATION AND ACCESS – SYNERGY AND COST." Studies in Conservation 53, sup1 (January 2008): 109–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/sic.2008.53.supplement-1.109.
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Williams, Mark. "Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Britain: Occupational Class and the Wage Structure in the Wake of the Great Recession." Sociology 51, no. 6 (July 7, 2017): 1299–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038517712936.
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Occupations traditionally played a central role in stratification accounts. In the wake of the Great Recession, debates regarding the extent and nature of occupational stratification have been reinvigorated. An exploration of occupational wage stratification patterns defined by both detailed occupational unit groups and the broader occupational class categories of the National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) reveals the proportion of wage inequality between occupations and occupational classes has remained broadly stable 1997 to 2015. No compelling evidence is found for growing wage inequalities between detailed occupations within NS-SEC categories. This article underlines the continued utility of occupations and particularly the NS-SEC grouping of them in describing the structure of stratification in contemporary Britain.
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Smith, Chloe Wigston. "Dressing the British: Clothes, Customs, and Nation in W. H. Pyne's "The Costume of Great Britain"." Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 38, no. 1 (2009): 143–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sec.0.0039.
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Boichu, Marie, Olivier Favez, Véronique Riffault, Jean-Eudes Petit, Yunjiang Zhang, Colette Brogniez, Jean Sciare, et al. "Large-scale particulate air pollution and chemical fingerprint of volcanic sulfate aerosols from the 2014–2015 Holuhraun flood lava eruption of Bárðarbunga volcano (Iceland)." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19, no. 22 (November 27, 2019): 14253–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-14253-2019.
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Abstract. Volcanic sulfate aerosols play a key role in air quality and climate. However, the rate of oxidation of sulfur dioxide (SO2) precursor gas to sulfate aerosols (SO42-) in volcanic plumes is poorly known, especially in the troposphere. Here we determine the chemical speciation as well as the intensity and temporal persistence of the impact on air quality of sulfate aerosols from the 2014–2015 Holuhraun flood lava eruption of Icelandic volcano Bárðarbunga. To do so, we jointly analyse a set of SO2 observations from satellite (OMPS and IASI) and ground-level measurements from air quality monitoring stations together with high temporal resolution mass spectrometry measurements of an Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) performed far from the volcanic source. We explore month/year long ACSM data in France from stations in contrasting environments, close and far from industrial sulfur-rich activities. We demonstrate that volcanic sulfate aerosols exhibit a distinct chemical signature in urban/rural conditions, with NO3:SO4 mass concentration ratios lower than for non-volcanic background aerosols. These results are supported by thermodynamic simulations of aerosol composition, using the ISORROPIA II model, which show that ammonium sulfate aerosols are preferentially formed at a high concentration of sulfate, leading to a decrease in the production of particulate ammonium nitrate. Such a chemical signature is however more difficult to identify at heavily polluted industrial sites due to a high level of background noise in sulfur. Nevertheless, aged volcanic sulfates can be distinguished from freshly emitted industrial sulfates according to their contrasting degree of anion neutralization. Combining AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) sunphotometric data with ACSM observations, we also show a long persistence over weeks of pollution in volcanic sulfate aerosols, while SO2 pollution disappears in a few days at most. Finally, gathering 6-month long datasets from 27 sulfur monitoring stations of the EMEP (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme) network allows us to demonstrate a much broader large-scale European pollution, in both SO2 and SO4, associated with the Holuhraun eruption, from Scandinavia to France. While widespread SO2 anomalies, with ground-level mass concentrations far exceeding background values, almost entirely result from the volcanic source, the origin of sulfate aerosols is more complex. Using a multi-site concentration-weighted trajectory analysis, emissions from the Holuhraun eruption are shown to be one of the main sources of SO4 at all EMEP sites across Europe and can be distinguished from anthropogenic emissions from eastern Europe but also from Great Britain. A wide variability in SO2:SO4 mass concentration ratios, ranging from 0.8 to 8.0, is shown at several stations geographically dispersed at thousands of kilometres from the eruption site. Despite this apparent spatial complexity, we demonstrate that these mass oxidation ratios can be explained by a simple linear dependency on the age of the plume, with a SO2-to-SO4 oxidation rate of 0.23 h−1. Most current studies generally focus on SO2, an unambiguous and more readily measured marker of the volcanic plume. However, the long persistence of the chemical fingerprint of volcanic sulfate aerosols at continental scale, as shown for the Holuhraun eruption here, casts light on the impact of tropospheric eruptions and passive degassing activities on air quality, health, atmospheric chemistry and climate.
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McGovern, R. J., and T. E. Seijo. "Petal Blight of Callistephus chinensis Caused by Itersonilia perplexans." Plant Disease 83, no. 4 (April 1999): 397. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis.1999.83.4.397a.
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From November 1997 to March 1998, a cut-flower grower in southwest Florida reported post-harvest losses due to a petal blight of 10 and 50%, respectively, in China aster (Callistephus chinensis (L.) Nees) cultivars Rainbow Mix and Matsumoto Lavender. Initial symptoms observed included pinpoint, bleached lesions on petals. Enlargement of lesions resulted in bleached streaks on ray flowers and eventually necrosis of entire blossoms. Symptomatic petals were surface disinfested in 0.5% NaOCl and suspended on the lids of plastic culture plates over acidified potato dextrose agar (APDA). Itersonilia perplexans Derx was isolated consistently from diseased petals but not from symptomless controls. Confirmation of the pathogenicity of I. perplexans used three detached, mature flowers of China aster cv. Matsumoto Rose and seven mature flowers of Bidens bipinnata L., a common composite found near the production site. The pedicels of flowers were placed in sterile, deionized water, and 1 ml of a spore suspension (1.2 × 104 spores per ml) of I. per-plexans was sprayed on aster flowers, and 0.5 ml was applied to flowers of B. bipinnata. An equal number of noninoculated control flowers were sprayed with sterile, deionized water only. The flowers were incubated in a controlled environment chamber at near 100% relative humidity, a constant temperature of 18°C, and a 12-h photoperiod. Bleached spots were detected on the petals of Matsumoto Rose flowers 10 days after inoculation, and the fungus was reisolated on APDA. Control asters remained symptomless, and were negative for I. perplexans. Brown blotches appeared on the petals of B. bipinnata flowers 12 days after inoculation, and infection by I. perplexans was confirmed by reisolation. The fungus was not detected in noninoculated B. bipinnata flowers, including some that exhibited brown discoloration. A survey was conducted in early March 1998 to examine the incidence of Itersonilia petal blight in China aster and the occurrence of the fungus in B. bipinnata. Fifty flowers of each of four China aster cultivars were collected at random without regard to symptoms. Approximately 20 flowers of B. bipinnata exhibiting brown spots were also collected near this site. The fungus was isolated at incidences of 18, 6, 8, and 6% in flowers from aster cultivars Rainbow Mix, Matsumoto Blue, Matsumoto Pink, and Matsumoto Scarlet, respectively. I. perplexans was not detected in B. bipinnata flowers collected from the field during this period. I. perplexans previously was detected in florists' chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum × morifolium Ramat.) at the same cut-flower production site in January 1973 during a period of uncharacteristically cool weather (2). The weather during the recent outbreak of Itersonilia petal blight in aster was also unusually cool and rainy and resulted from the “El Niño” weather pattern prevalent during the period. I. perplexans has been found to over-season on many weeds in Great Britain, particularly on those in the Compositae (1). Experimental transmission of I. perplexans to B. bipinnata suggests that it and other wild composites may serve as reservoirs of the fungus in Florida. References: (1) D. G. Gandy. Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 49:499, 1966. (2) J. J. McRitchie et al. Plant Dis. Rep. 57:181, 1973.
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Steinberg, Marc W. "Coercion in the Cradle." Sociology of Development 7, no. 2 (2021): 186–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sod.2021.7.2.186.
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Important recent research highlights the role of forced labor in the expansion of neoliberal capitalism in the global South. In this article I make the case that coerced labor was central to the first industrial revolution, the classical case of Great Britain. I demonstrate that in an area known as the Black Country for its coal, steel, and related industries, master and servant laws allowed criminal prosecution of workers deemed problematic, to insure labor control in the workplace. Employers relied on these laws when they were unable to use machinery to embed control in the labor process, and when they had recourse to reliable local courts (or petty sessions), in which many were magistrates, so they could rely on convictions under summary jurisdictions for fines, damage payment, and incarceration. I conclude by suggesting that this particular historical case can reorient our perspective on labor coercion and the law across the long arc of modern capitalism.
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Hansell, Anna, Marta Blangiardo, Chloe Morris, Danielle Vienneau, John Gulliver, Kayoung Lee, and David Briggs. "Association Between Black Smoke and SO2 Air Pollution Exposures in 1971 and Mortality 1972–2007 in Great Britain." Epidemiology 22 (January 2011): S29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.ede.0000391748.54172.af.
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Ozhigina, Vera V. "STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN TRADE IN GOODS OF THE EAEU WITH ASEAN, SCO AND EU." International Trade and Trade Policy, no. 1 (March 31, 2018): 50–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2410-7395-2018-1-50-66.
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The article considers tendencies, peculiarities and problems of formation of geographical, commodity, industrial structure of export and import of goods, by the degree of their technological intensity (manufacturing), between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and regional integration groups, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), European Union (EU) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The analysis was conducted using UNCTAD statistics on the digit commodity codes of the International Standard Trade Classification (SATC). The directions of trade diversification are offered. The countries for access of the EAEU to the markets of manufactures of ASEAN, EU and SCO are selected. Positive changes in the structure of trade, especially with ASEAN as well as the SCO, are noted. On the basis of calculation of index of intra-industry trade the sensitive goods are allocated, in trade by which EAEU competes with integration groups, the directions of development of industrial cooperation and inclusion in Global Value Chains (GVC) are offered. The presence of a large number of sensitive positions in trade with China, India, Poland, Great Britain, France, Vietnam, Singapore is noted. Prospective export products have been identified into these integration groups, recommendations to reduce barriers to trade have been developed.
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Guravskaya, G. I., and A. P. Kassatkina. "Specific features of the head region in euconodont animals." Zoosystematica Rossica 24, no. 1 (June 25, 2015): 122–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2015.24.1.122.
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New data on morphology of the head region of euconodonts are discussed based on a study of its imprint from the Lower Carboniferous deposits of the Polar Urals (Russia); on its external ventral surface, the animal had an oval expansion of the head region, supposedly, a mouth food sac. A similar structure is also described in one of the imprints from Granton (Great Britain) exposed from internal surfaces. A hypothesis is put forward on the mechanism of functioning of the feeding apparatus in euconodonts which consists of hard S, M, and P tooth elements and H attaching skeletal elements as well as soft connective structures. The food sac probably served for filtering food particles from the water which was removed through special openings and for formation of the food bolus and transferring the latter into the alimentary canal (gut). These data gave to reasons for a new interpretation of feeding behaviour of euconodonts. It is suggested that the euconodont animals were filter feeders adapted to the near-bottom dwelling over substrates, where there was greatest concentration of small food items available for filtration.
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Lyashchenko, Konstantin P., Rena Greenwald, Javan Esfandiari, Shelley Rhodes, Gillian Dean, Ricardo de la Rua-Domenech, Mireille Meylan, HMartin Vordermeier, and Patrik Zanolari. "Diagnostic Value of Animal-Side Antibody Assays for Rapid Detection of Mycobacterium bovis or Mycobacterium microti Infection in South American Camelids." Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 18, no. 12 (October 19, 2011): 2143–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/cvi.05386-11.
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ABSTRACTTuberculosis (TB) in South American camelids (SAC) is caused byMycobacterium bovisorMycobacterium microti. Two serological methods, rapid testing (RT) and the dual-path platform (DPP) assay, were evaluated using naturally infected SAC. The study population included 156 alpacas and 175 llamas in Great Britain, Switzerland, and the United States. TB due toM. bovis(n= 44) orM. microti(n= 8) in 35 alpacas and 17 llamas was diagnosed by gross pathology examination and culture. Control animals were from herds with no TB history. The RT and the DPP assay showed sensitivities of 71% and 74%, respectively, for alpacas, while the sensitivity for llamas was 77% for both assays. The specificity of the DPP assay (98%) was higher than that of RT (94%) for llamas; the specificities of the two assays were identical (98%) for alpacas. When the two antibody tests were combined, the parallel-testing interpretation (applied when either assay produced a positive result) enhanced the sensitivities of antibody detection to 89% for alpacas and 88% for llamas but at the cost of lower specificities (97% and 93%, respectively), whereas the serial-testing interpretation (applied when both assays produced a positive result) maximized the specificity to 100% for both SAC species, although the sensitivities were 57% for alpacas and 65% for llamas. Over 95% of the animals with evidence of TB failed to produce skin test reactions, thus confirming concerns about the validity of this method for testing SAC. The findings suggest that serological assays may offer a more accurate and practical alternative for antemortem detection of camelid TB.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Great Britain Soc"
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Bines, Jeffrey. "The Polish country section of the Special Operations Executive 1940-1946 : a British perspective." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/929.
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This thesis is a history of the Polish Country Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British organisation whose purpose was to infiltrate agents behind enemy lines during World War II. The thesis covers the period 1940 – 1946, the entire period that SOE existed, and its close connection with the Polish special department, formally known as the Sixth Bureau of the Polish Government in Exile. Chapters contained herein each cover a full year of operations from 1941 -1943, followed by two chapters for 1944, and one chapter for 1945-1946. Covered are details of agent training, information on the first flight to Poland to drop agents and couriers and the problems encountered. The German invasion of the Soviet Union and SOE’s thoughts on the predicted outcome is covered, as are also Polish operations in France and indications of support for Polish operations in other parts of the world. Throughout, is evidence of the difficulties in obtaining sufficient air support for flights to Poland which, although inadequate for Polish requirements, were more abundant than many realised at the time. This is especially true with reference to supplies dropped to Warsaw during the rising of 1944. Brief accounts of the meetings between the ‘Big Three’, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, at Teheran and Yalta in as much as they affected SOE/Polish relations. The thesis finishes with appendices detailing agent/courier parachute drops, lists of personnel involved, a bibliography and glossary.
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Taylor, Edwin Arthur. "Engendering peace : masculinity, femininity, and the Good Friday negotiations in Northern Irealand [sic] /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1296094851&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. "Research for this dissertation took place from September 2003 to September 2005, and included two field research visits to Northern Ireland during September 3-17, 2003 and April 5-June 8, 2005"--P. 3. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 186-199). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Caulker, Tcho Mbaimba. "The African-British long eighteenth century and Sierra Leone a reading of diplomtic [sic] treaties, economic and anthropological discourse, and Syl Cheney-Coker's "The last harmattan of Alusine Dunbar /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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J, Stalans Loretta, ed. Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 2000.
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J, Stalans Loretta, ed. Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1997.
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Baines, Edward. Baine's [sic] history of the late war between the United States and Great Britain. Baltimore: Printed by Benja. Edes ..., 1986.
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Rule, John. Crime, protest, and popular politics in southern England, 1740-1850. London: Hambledon Press, 1997.
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Outsider inside no 10: Protecting the prime ministers, 1974-79. [Place of publication not identified]: The History Press Ltd, 2015.
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Martin, Alfie. Bale [sic] out!: Escaping occupied France with the Resistance. Newtownards, Northern Ireland: Colourpoint Books, 2005.
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Anand, Paul. Qualies [sic] and capabilities: Remarks on the purchase of health care. Oxford: Templeton College, Oxford Centre for Management Studies, 1993.
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McCrystal, Patrick. Evaluation of the Southern Health and Southern [sic.] Services Board Children Order training (November 1995-March 1997). Belfast: Centre for Child Care Research, Queen's University of Belfast, 1997.
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Commission, Great Britain Forestry. Cynllun iaith Gymraeg: A baratowyd yn unol [sic] Deddf yr Iaith Gymraeg 1993 ; ymgynghoriad Mawrth 1999 = Welsh language scheme. [Aberystwyth]: Comisiwn Coedwigaeth Cymru, 1999.
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Petegorsky, David W. Left-wing democracy in the English Civil War: Gerarrd [sic] Winstanley and the Digger movement. Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: A. Sutton Pub., 1995.
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"The Restorationist Movement in Great Britain." In Notes from a Wayward Son, 56–66. The Lutterworth Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10vm110.11.
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Bischof, Christopher. "Introduction." In Teaching Britain, 1–20. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833352.003.0010.
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The illegitimate son of a servant from the Scottish Highlands, William Campbell effected his own upward social mobility by becoming a teacher. The state paid for his apprenticeship as a pupil teacher in the small village of Durness and then his teacher training programme in bustling Edinburgh. After his training and an initial job in the village of Nethybridge, he settled into a position as an elementary teacher in the scattered crofting community of Rogart in Sutherland in 1898. Though he followed Whitehall policymakers’ directives and taught quite a bit of English history and literature during school hours, he went to great lengths to acquire Gaelic dictionaries, grammars, and works of literature so that he could teach the language and literary culture to children and adults alike in the evenings. This was no defiant gesture of nascent Scottish cultural nationalism. Campbell was determined to serve the distant British state ...
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Lomas, Daniel W. B. "Wartime apprenticeship: Labour and intelligence during the Second World War." In Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099144.003.0002.
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Chapter One examines Labour involvement in the wartime Coalition government and Ministerial access to and use of intelligence. It argues that the Second World War provided an important opportunity for future Ministers in the post-war government to gain knowledge and experience of handling and using intelligence. Within months of the coalition’s formation, Labour Ministers had access to the fruits of British codebreaking. Further, the chapter also suggests that this experience ended any lingering animosity that resulted from the Zinoviev Letter Affair. The chapter places particular emphasis on Attlee’s wartime experiences and provides examples of his use of intelligence and early views on it. It also looks at Labour involvement with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Party attempts to add an ideological facet to British special operations in Europe under Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare until 1942. Beyond intelligence and special operations, Labour involvement with intelligence and security extended to the domestic front with Herbert Morrison, appointed Home Secretary in November 1940. Already a fierce opponent of British Communists, he received the product of MI5’s surveillance of the Communist Party of Great Britain and provided the Cabinet with information warning of Communist espionage.
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Tignor, Robert L. "Getting Started: Education and Race." In W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics, 6–41. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691202617.003.0002.
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This chapter discusses W. Arthur Lewis's early years growing up in the West Indies and studying and teaching in Great Britain, which left a deep imprint on him and shaped personality traits and intellectual activities that stayed with him throughout his life. The son of upwardly mobile school-teachers, he took advantage of the escape hatches that the West Indies system of education afforded to persons of exceptional intellectual merit. Unlike some of his peers, he did not allow the ferocious academic competition to gain a West Indian government scholarship or the many overt acts of racial discrimination and the daily routine of bias that his generation of young intellectuals experienced to rob him of his humanity. His mastery of a field of economic knowledge vital to the colonizers made him immensely attractive to the colonial elite. Yet he desperately wanted to use his skills to advance the cause of racial and political equality. Even at this early stage, Lewis's life abounded in contradictions and tensions, clearly manifested in his writings. He struggled to articulate a middle position between free market economics and the planned and regulated economies that were attracting political leaders and economists in many parts of the world.
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Beerling, David. "Global warming ushers in the dinosaur era." In The Emerald Planet. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192806024.003.0012.
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Reverend William Buckland (1784–1856), a British vicar and palaeontologist, was the first Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford (1813) (see Plate 8). Charming and eloquent, Buckland was also an accomplished lecturer. His biographer summed him up rather well, remarking in 1894 ‘it is impossible to convey to the mind of any one who had never heard Dr. Buckland speak, the inimitable effect of that union of the most playful fancy with the most profound reflections which so eminently characterized his scientific oratory’. Brilliant and famously eccentric, he once offended stuffier colleagues at a British Association meeting in Bristol by strutting around the lecture theatre imitating chickens to demonstrate how prehistoric birds could have left footprints in the mud. On another occasion he: . . . attracted an audience totalling several thousand for a lecture in the famous Dudley Caverns, specially illuminated for the purpose. Carried away by the general magnificence, he was tempted into rounding off with a shameless appeal to the audience’s patriotism. The great mineral wealth lying around on every hand, he proclaimed, was no mere accident of nature; it showed rather, the express intention of Providence that the inhabitants of Britain should become, by this gift, the richest and most powerful nation on Earth. And with these words, the great crowd, with Buckland at its head, returned towards the light of day thundering out, with one accord, ‘God save the Queen!’. . . Buckland also claimed to have eaten his way straight through the animal kingdom as he studied it and, allegedly, part of Louis XIV’s embalmed heart, pinched from the snuffbox of his friend the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was aided in the eccentric culinary consumption of animals by his son Francis Buckland (1826–80), the celebrated Victorian naturalist and one-time Inspector of Her Majesty’s Salmon Fisheries, who evidently inherited his father’s eccentricity. Francis Buckland lived amongst beer-swilling monkeys, rats, and hares and regarded firing benzene at cockroaches through syringes as a fine sport. Francis arranged with London Zoo to receive off-cuts from the carcasses of unfortunate animals.
Conference papers on the topic "Great Britain Soc"
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Cooper, Nathanial, Anna Panteli, and Nilay Shah. "A Biomass Supply Chain Optimization Framework With Linear Approximation of Biomass Yield Distributions for Improved Land Use." In ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-11399.
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Abstract Biomass and the bio-economy have strong potential to help shift dependency away from petroleum. Supply chain optimisation (SCO) has been used to help other industries and can be used to boost biomass industry viability. Biomass supply chain models frequently average the biomass yield of large tracts of land in their calculations. However, there can be large variation in the biomass yield within those tracts, losing useful information. This work presents a biomass SCO framework which approximates the available quality of land by piecewise linearly approximation of the biomass yield distribution, and incorporates this information into the optimisation. The linear estimates of the biomass yield distributions allow the SCO model to make more informed decisions about quantity and location of biomass growth operations, affecting all downstream decisions. A case study of mainland Great Britain has been examined using the framework to illustrate the impact of retaining biomass yield information in the optimisation, versus averaging the yield across tracts of land. The case study found that using biomass yield linear estimates reduced the overall land usage by 10%. Further, it improved biomass output, which increased the quantity of bio-products produced. All of this led to an increase in the overall profit.
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Zoccoli, Michael J., and Kenneth P. Rusterholz. "An Update on the Development of the T407/GLC38 Modern Technology Gas Turbine Engine." In ASME 1992 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/92-gt-147.
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The T407/GLC38 is a modern technology 6000 SHP class turboshaft/turboprop gas turbine engine which is being developed jointly by Textron Lycoming (Stratford, Connecticut), General Electric Aircraft Engines (Lynn, Massachusetts), Bendix Controls (South Bend, Indiana), and Ruston Gas Turbines (Great Britain). The gas generator core for the T407/GLC38 engine series is also common to the CFE738, a new generation turbofan which is being developed by General Electric and the Garret Engine Division. The T407 (military)/GLC38 (commercial) is a derivative of the highly successful U.S. Army/GE27 MTDE engine which has been redesigned to meet commercial engine life standards. The design philosophy for this engine was directed at achieving high output power per unit airflow, reliability from reduced parts count, ease of maintenance via extensive modularity, and state-of-the-art SFC levels that are up to 25% below those of existing 5000–6000 SHP powerplants. The latter characteristic manifests itself in reduced life cycle and direct operating costs and (where applicable) tradeoff versatility amongst range, time on station, and payload increase. This paper is a continuation in a documentary series on the T407/GLC38 design and development. It traces the evolution of the T407/GLC38 program from First Engine to Test, wherein all thermodynamic and mechanical objectives were essentially achieved or exceeded, through full system turboprop evaluation, turbofan development testing, and qualification/certification testing completed to date. A comprehensive review of the test objectives, testing requirements, setup, and basic results are provided; in addition, the relevancy and impact of each phase of engine testing towards the goal of qualification/certification and ultimately production is provided.
Reports on the topic "Great Britain Soc"
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Zhytaryuk, Maryan. UKRAINIAN JOURNALISM IN GREAT BRITAIN. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11115.
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Professor M. Zhytaryuk’s review is about a book scientific novelty – a monograph by Professor M. Tymoshyk «Ukrainian journalism in the diaspora: Great Britain. Monograph. K.: Our culture and science, 2020. 500 p. – il., Them. pok., resume English, German, Polish.». Well-known scientist and journalism critic, Professor M. S. Tymoshyk, wrote a thorough work, which, in terms of content, is a combination of a monograph, a textbook and a scientific essay. This book can be useful for both students and practicing journalists or anyone interested in the history of the Ukrainian diaspora, Ukrainian journalism and Ukrainian culture. The author dedicated his work to Stepan Yarmus from Winnipeg, Canada – archpriest, journalist, editor, professor. As the epigraph to the book were taken the words of Ivan Bagryany: «Our press, born under the sword of Damocles of repatriation», not only survived and survived to this day, but also showed a brilliant ability to grow and develop. It was shown that beggars that had come to the West without money at heart can and know how to act so organized. It was also an example of how a modern «enbolshevist» and «denationalized» by the occupier man person is capable of a combined mass action».
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Seamans, Thomas, and Allen Gosser. Bird dispersal techniques. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, August 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2016.7207730.ws.
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Conflicts between humans and birds likely have existed since agricultural practices began. Paintings from ancient Greek, Egyptian, and Roman civilizations depict birds attacking crops. In Great Britain, recording of efforts at reducing bird damage began in the 1400s, with books on bird control written in the 1600s. Even so, the problem persists. Avian damage to crops remains an issue today, but we also are concerned with damage to homes, businesses, and aircraft, and the possibility of disease transmission from birds to humans or livestock. Bird dispersal techniques are a vital part of safely and efficiently reducing bird conflicts with humans. The bird must perceive a technique as a threat if it is to be effective. No single technique can solve all bird conflicts, but an integrated use of multiple techniques, each enhancing the other, generally provides relief.
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Hilbrecht, Margo, David Baxter, Alexander V. Graham, and Maha Sohail. Research Expertise and the Framework of Harms: Social Network Analysis, Phase One. GREO, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33684/2020.006.
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In 2019, the Gambling Commission announced a National Strategy to Reduce Gambling Harms. Underlying the strategy is the Framework of Harms, outlined in Measuring gambling-related harms: A framework for action. "The Framework" adopts a public health approach to address gambling-related harm in Great Britain across multiple levels of measurement. It comprises three primary factors and nine related subfactors. To advance the National Strategy, all componentsneed to be supported by a strong evidence base. This report examines existing research expertise relevant to the Framework amongacademics based in the UK. The aim is to understand the extent to which the Framework factors and subfactors have been studied in order to identify gaps in expertise and provide evidence for decision making thatisrelevant to gambling harms research priorities. A social network analysis identified coauthor networks and alignment of research output with the Framework. The search strategy was limited to peer-reviewed items and covered the 12-year period from 2008 to 2019. Articles were selected using a Web of Science search. Of the 1417 records identified in the search, the dataset was refined to include only those articles that could be assigned to at least one Framework factor (n = 279). The primary factors and subfactors are: Resources:Work and Employment, Money and Debt, Crime;Relationships:Partners, Families and Friends, Community; and Health:Physical Health, Psychological Distress, and Mental Health. We used Gephi software to create visualisations reflecting degree centrality (number of coauthor networks) so that each factor and subfactor could be assessed for the density of research expertise and patterns of collaboration among coauthors. The findings show considerable variation by framework factor in the number of authors and collaborations, suggesting a need to develop additional research capacity to address under-researched areas. The Health factor subcategory of Mental Health comprised almost three-quarters of all citations, with the Resources factor subcategory of Money and Debt a distant second at 12% of all articles. The Relationships factor, comprised of two subfactors, accounted for less than 10%of total articles. Network density varied too. Although there were few collaborative networks in subfactors such as Community or Work and Employment, all Health subfactors showed strong levels of collaboration. Further, some subfactors with a limited number of researchers such as Partners, Families, and Friends and Money and debt had several active collaborations. Some researchers’ had publications that spanned multiple Framework factors. These multiple-factor researchers usually had a wide range of coauthors when compared to those who specialised (with the exception of Mental Health).Others’ collaborations spanned subfactors within a factor area. This was especially notable forHealth. The visualisations suggest that gambling harms research expertise in the UK has considerable room to grow in order to supporta more comprehensive, locally contextualised evidence base for the Framework. To do so, priority harms and funding opportunities will need further consideration. This will require multi-sector and multidisciplinary collaboration consistent with the public health approach underlying the Framework. Future research related to the present analysis will explore the geographic distribution of research activity within the UK, and research collaborations with harms experts internationally.