cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sea Level, Salt Marsh and Fen, Shaping the Severn Estuary Levels in the Later Quaternary Ipswichian Holocene
Creators: name: Allen, John R L
name: Turner, Rick
name: Rippon, Stephen J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 1-12
description: The Holocene sediments (c.8 km3) in the Severn Estuary Levels (c.840 km2) rest on a rockhead platform that was dissected by streams prior to the lpswichian (last interglacial) high-stand of the sea (c.6 m OD). lpswichianfluvial gravels plug these valleys and grade up into shelly, littoral deposits which also lie buried in places along the inner margin of the Holocene outcrop. The Devensian cold period saw widespread periglacial conditions, with ice entering the levels in the Carmarthen Bay, Swansea Bay and Cardijj Bay areas during the glacial maximum (19-23 ka ea! BP) Sea level rose unevenly during the Holocene which followed, significant fluctuations being superimposed on the underlying upward trend, which was at first ve,y rapid. The uneven rise created on the margins of the Severn Estuary a Holocene sequence, typically 10-15 m thick, of transgressive estuarine silts (salt marshes with creek networks, some mudflats) which alternate with regressive, high intertidal-terrestrial peats (chiefly reed swamp,fen carr, woodland, raised bog). These peats are very variable in development, both regionally and locally, but in response to environmental factors tend to become thicker with increasing distance from the sea and the rivers that cross the levels. Continuous sediment compaction strongly influenced the character of the local succession and ensured, together with the configuration of the underlying bedrock surface, that quasi-isochronous lithological contacts within the sequence now have a relief of up to several metres. The continuing rise of sea level, coupled with an increase in tidal range, is driving the estuary as a whole northeastward up the Severn Vale, together with the Holocene sequence on its margins.
Avaliação externa de escolas
Creators: name: Sousa, Joana
name: Costa, Natália
name: Marques, Micaela
name: Pacheco, José A.
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2016

description: A Avaliação Externa de Escolas (AEE) encontra‑se numa fase de consolidação nas instituições, tendo‑se tornado num significativo objeto de pesquisa a nível nacional. Neste artigo, apresenta‑se um metaestudo, a partir de um corpus documental, constituído por oito estudos empíricos sobre a AEE para efeitos de obtenção do grau de mestre, realizados entre 2011 e 2014, numa universidade portuguesa. Os resultados deste estudo procuram responder à questão «Que resultados são evidenciados pelos estudos empíricos sobre a AEE?». O metaestudo realizado revela que a recetividade à AEE está relacionada com as lideranças estabelecidas nas instituições, sendo que os efeitos produzidos são distintamente percecionados pelos atores educativos. Em termos de efeitos da AEE, os dados apontam para a existência de uma linha de gradação descendente, sendo mais intensa na dimensão organizacional e menos percecionada nas dimensões curricular e pedagógica. Há também uma relação entre a AEE e os resultados académicos, o que faz com que as práticas pedagógicas dos docentes confluam para uma cultura escolar de valorização de resultados, sendo ainda de referir a estreita associação entre a AEE e a autoavaliação das instituições.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 47 (2016): A avaliação das escolas: políticas, perspetivas e práticas
Inspecionar e avaliar
Creators: name: Justino, David
name: Almeida, Sílvia De
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2016

description: A avaliação externa das escolas tem sido considerada como um dos instrumentos decisivos dos novos modos de regulação dos sistemas educativos europeus, enquadrável no que alguns autores identificam como a emergência do «Estado avaliador». Na maior parte dos países europeus são os serviços de inspeção que desempenham o papel central nesse processo de regulação coerciva da educação. Partindo da análise do caso português, pretende‑se explorar a hipótese dessa convergência institucional constituir, desde as suas origens no século XIX, uma expressão das dinâmicas de isomorfismo mimético que as teorias neoinstitucionalistas identificaram no desenvolvimento mundial da escola de massas. Pela análise comparada dos normativos estruturantes e orientações produzidas sobre as inspeções ordinária e extraordinárias, desde 1835 a 1910, é possível identificar as duas dimensões fundamentais da ação inspetiva – a burocrática e a «pedagógica» ou avaliativa –, bem como as diferentes soluções organizacionais, consoante se associem a políticas de centralização, desconcentração ou descentralização.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 47 (2016): A avaliação das escolas: políticas, perspetivas e práticas
Environmental Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, Progress and Prospects
Creators: name: Bell, Martin G
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 69-103
description: Past environmental work on the Severn Estuary Levels, much of it in the last decade, is reviewed and areas of particular future potential are identified. The main topics in prehisto,y include sedimentary context, vegetation history (table of pollen site~), faunal evidence (table of faunal evidence), animal husbandry, seasonality, fishing practise, and invertebrates. There is evidence for seasonal (winter) activity in the Mesolithic. In the Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age activity on the wetlands is limited. Clearance associated with pastoralism and some arable is attested on adjacent dryland. From the middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age there was extensive wetland activity associated particularly with seasonal (mainly spring and summer) cattle husbandry. In this landscape bones may be compared with animal footprint tracks and a range of other sources of environmental evidence. Wetland, wetland-edge and dryland bone assemblages are compared, suggesting there are more ovicaprids in the wetland edge and on dry land. The Romano-British landscape was extensively drained: in some areas marine influence was excluded facilitating year-round activity, while elsewhere ditched landscapes seem to have been subject to seasonal marine inundation. Evidence for continuity and change in the Romano-British and later landscape is noted. It is argued that future research should give particular emphasis to the analysis of biota from settlement sites and to the study of wetland/dryland interactions. The value of comparative studies using multiple sources of environmental evidence is clear but in the future resources will need to be tmgeted on particular research questions and priorities. An attempt is made to identify these and the sources of evidence most likely to contribute to their solution.
Alcian blue staining of the vocal fold
Creators: name: Ban, Myung Jin
name: Lee, Seung Won
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Alcian blue staining of the vocal fold injected with (A) phosphatebuffered saline (PBS) and (B) fibroblast growth factor (FGF). Injection was performed 3 months after the scar-inducing injury.
Neoliberalismo como discurso
Creators: name: Saura, Geo
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2016

description: El texto explora cómo el discurso de la evaluación en educación se utiliza para introducir tecnologías políticas neoliberales y nuevos roles que la nueva filantropía está ocupando en la arena política educativa española. Examino cómo el neoliberalismo ha sido analizado desde una óptica foucaultiana y desde una perspectiva neomarxista para defender que analizar el neoliberalismo como discurso es un medio para reconciliar ambas interpretaciones. Analizo cómo en las evaluaciones estandarizadas coexisten mecanismos disciplinares, de gestión poblacional y de la conducción de las conductas para extender la «gubernamentalidad neoliberal» y reformar los sistemas educativos mediante tecnologías políticas neoliberales. Exploro discursos extraídos de normativas, webs, artículos de investigación y vídeos donde gobiernos y nuevas fundaciones filantrópicas argumentan sobre la evaluación y diferentes tecnologías políticas para defender el neoliberalismo. Ránquines, ferias de colegios, sistemas incentivos, gestión empresarial y rendición de cuentas son las tecnologías políticas neoliberales que defienden los gobiernos. La fundación filantrópica «Empieza por Educar» es un nuevo actor relevante en la arena política educativa española que construye neoliberalismo y crea nuevos procesos de formación docente propios del ámbito empresarial.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 47 (2016): A avaliação das escolas: políticas, perspetivas e práticas
Wood as an Archaeological resource The Severn Estuary Evidence
Creators: name: Brunning, Richard A
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 175-185
description: Wood is one of the most important and overlooked of archaeological materials. The Severn estuary region is fortunate in having a larger quantity of archaeological wood- both excavated and still in situ - than any other rural area of the UK. The evidence it contains can be analysed in many ways and provides a view of past societies which is more intense and more meaning than that derived from 'normal' dry archaeology. The challenge which faces present day archaeologists is to develop strategies to overcome the forces which threaten the survival of this important resource.
A avaliação das escolas
Creators: name: Fernandes, Preciosa
name: Fialho, Isabel
name: Bolívar Botía, Antonio
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2016

description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 47 (2016): A avaliação das escolas: políticas, perspetivas e práticas
Celebration and Reflection The Severn Estuary Levels After 10 Years
Creators: name: Coles, John M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 209-211
description: This paper is a reflection on work that has been done in the past decade in the Severn Estuary and problems that face archaeologists working within it
Wooden Remains as an Archaeological resource Some Insights from the London Wetlands
Creators: name: Goodburn, Damian M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 187-195
description: Although prehistoric worked wood has been excavated in recent years in London, it is the structural woodwork of the historic periods that has received most attention over the last 3 decades. Much of this work was initially lead by G. Milne and was concerned with waterfront installations such as quays, warehouses, river walls,jetties and bridges. Work on the nautical finds made along the upper estuary of the Thames was lead by P Marsden until the late 1980s. Much of this earlier work has been published relatively fully and set standards for waterfront archaeology in historic port towns. During the last 12 years much new material has been excavated and some new lines of inquiry taken up by this writer and co workers at the Museum of London. Details of woodworking practice indicated by features such as toolmarks have been examined in detail and a series of new insights gained. Methods of timber conversion have been reconstructed in detail for several periods and also explored through experimental work. Aspects of early sawing technology are considered here. Attempts have also been made to reconstruct the raw materials used by early woodworkers and changes in the treescapes harvested are now becoming apparent. Some of these general trends are discussed below. All of this work has been greatly aided by the use of tree-ring studies not just for dating but also examining issues of trade and woodland management in timber supply.
The Changing Estuarine Environment in Relation to Holocene Sea Level and the Archaeological Implications
Creators: name: Haslett, Simon K
name: Davies, Paul
name: Davies, C F C
name: Margetts, Anthony J
name: Scotney, K H H
name: Thorpe, D J J
name: Williams, H O O
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 35-53
description: Estuarine development has been previously modelled in relation to the rate of relative sea-level rise, suggesting intertidal surfaces attain different vertical positions within the tidal frame according the rate of sea-level rise. These model results are significant in the context of Holocene sea-level rise, which experienced a continuum of very rapid to low sea-level rise rates, in that the estuarine palaeoenvironment and its resource potential for prehistoric populations is suggested to have changed through time. The present study empirically investigates the palaeoenvironmental development of the Somerset Levels (UK), an extensive coastal wetland (palaeo-estuarine system) that is of international archaeological importance. A composite sequence of Holocene sediments is analysed using foraminiferal and molluscan-based palaeoenvironmental techniques, and dated through radiocarbon and chemostratigraphic methods. The results indicate that during the Early Holocene (Mesolithic) the estuary was dominated by low saltmarsh and mudflat palaeoenvironments dictated by the rapid rate of post-glacial sea-level rise. This intertidal surface, low within the contempory tidal frame, would have been characterised by soft mud and sparse vegetation due to frequent tidal indundation, and would have possessed a high hydraulic duty (cf the amount of tidal water accommodated by the surface) with associated large tidal creeks/channels. Towards the Middle Holocene (Neolithic) a transition to palaeoenvironments higher within the tidal frame is evident, so that mid and then high saltmarsh dominate the estuary. This transition was in response to a progressively decreasing sea-level rise rate, allowing the intertidal surface to elevate through the tidal frame. These intertidal surfaces are likely to have become progressively drier and more richly vegetated due to increasingly infrequent tidal inundation, with a corresponding reduction in hydraulic duty and creek/channel size, culminating in emergence and supratidal peat growth. The results also suggest that this sequence is reversed through the Late Holocene (late Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age) so that Roman reclamation of the Somerset Levels took place against a rising sea-level. These data support previous theoretical models, and have significant implications for the resource potential of these changing estuarine palaeoenvironments for prehistoric populations.
Quantitative Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction Techniques in Sea Level Studies
Creators: name: Horton, Benjamin P
name: Edwards, R J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 105-119
description: Sea-level indicators such as foraminifera and diatoms are commonly used in the reconstruction of former sea levels although contemporary distributions and their relationship to the modern environment are often poorly understood. The analysis of contemporary foraminiferal and diatom distributions from a number of study sites around the UK identifies general and site-specific trends. Cluster analysis separates. foraminiferal death assemblages from ten study areas into three zones: a high to middle marsh zone dominated by agglutinated species; a mixed low marsh zone; and a tidal flat zone dominated by calcareous species. The diatom assemblages show a clear transition from freshwater and salt-tolerant .freshwater taxa in relation to the high-marsh conditions, through the low-marsh environments where a mixed diatom community is found, to a group dominated by marine-brackish diatoms associated with tidalflat conditions. Partial canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was used to elucidate the relationship between the microfossil assemblages and environmental data. Partial CCA shows that the standardized water level index (SWLI), a surrogate for altitude, is the single most important and statistically significant controlling variable for the .foraminiferal and diatom data. The statistically significant relation between SWLI and the. foraminiferal and diatom data was used to develop foraminifera-based and diatom-based transfer functions using weighted averaging calibration and regression. The former transfer function was applied to a single sediment sequence from Holkham, North Nor.folk, UK, to illustrate their potential to produce high precision relative sea-level reconstructions.
The pioneer legend of Frank Jardine
Creators: name: Mullins, Stephen
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024

description: "' ... their less tried successors,"¹ When Frank Jardine died at Somerset on the tip of Cape York Peninsula in 1919, he left behind him an immense diary consisting of some 40 volumes and embracing a period of over 50 years.² On those pages was recorded the life of the far north's earliest and most enigmatic pioneer. His own account of the years he spent on the Cape as explorer, cattleman, administrator, pearler and planter, as well as the tale of his epic overlanding trip from Carpentaria Downs Station to Somerset during the wet season of 1864-65, would have provided an invaluable source for those interested in the pattern of European occupation of the Cape. Thankfully an edited version of the journal of the expedition was published in 1867 and copies survive,³ but the other volumes of Jardine's diary were taken by his eldest son 'Chum' to the Aru Islands in the 1920s and lost when the Japanese took control there during the Second World War.⁴ Partly in consequence of this the history of Frank Jardine has become an amalgam of legend and fact."--Introduction.
Bee Warned
Creators: name: Höcherl, Nicole
name: Berg, Stefan
Publisher: name: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2020

description: Die Ausbreitung der Asiatischen Hornisse (Vespa velutina) wird seit ihrer Einschleppung nach Frankreich im Jahr 2004, beobachtet. In der Zwischenzeit wurde sie auch in Deutschland nachgewiesen. Zudem wurde der Kleine Beutenkäfer (Aethina tumida) 2014 ebenfalls nach Europa eingeschleppt. Beide Schädlinge können Bienenvölkern großen Schaden zufügen und es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis sie Deutschland (Kleiner Beutenkäfer) oder Bayern (Asiatische Hornisse) erreichen. Daher wurde im Mai 2017 das Projekt „Bee Warned“ ins Leben gerufen. Die Ziele des Projektes sind Imker und Veterinäre im Erkennen der zwei vorhergenannten exotischen Schädlinge zu schulen und ein Monitoringsystem für eine frühe Erkennung in der ersten Phase des Auftretens einzurichten. Damit die Monitoring-Imkereien möglichst gleichmäßig verteilt sind, wurde Bayern in Quadrate mit 25 km Kantenlänge eingeteilt. In jedem der 140 Quadrate sollte mindestens ein Monitoring-Imker oder –Imkerin drei Mal jährlich Daten zu beiden Tieren aufnehmen, indem er/sie Beutenkäferfallen in die Völker einlegt und zeitgleich die Bienenvolk-Eingänge auf räubernde Hornissen beobachtet. Ein erster Testlauf mit nur einigen, wenigen Imkereien fand im Herbst 2017 statt. Bis April 2018 konnte die Anzahl der teilnehmenden Monitoring-Imkereien auf knapp 200 erhöhrt werden. Mit diesen startete die Pilotphase, während der zwei Datenaufnahmen im April und September stattfanden. Bis zum Frühjahr 2019 war IBI nochmal in der Lage, die Zahl der Imkereien auf 238 zu erhöhen. Diese Imkereien erhoben im Jahr 2019 drei Mal Daten zu beiden Schädlingen (April, Juli und September). Glücklicherweise konnten bisher weder die Asiatische Hornisse, noch der Kleine Beutenkäfer in Bayern nachgewiesen werden. Das System der Datenaufnahme hat sich in der Praxis bewährt und stellt ein äußerst effektives Werkzeug zur Früherkennung der beiden Schädlinge dar. Darüberhinaus wurde in den knapp drei Jahren des Projekts deutlich, dass in Bezug auf den Kleinen Beutenkäfer und der Asiatischen Hornisse eine Ansprechperson für die Imkerschaft, Bienensachverständige und Amtsveterinäre absolut notwendig ist. Diese Person oder auch Institution kann bei der Bestimmung verdächtiger Tiere helfen, Ängste nehmen und in Zweifelsfällen beratend zur Seite stehen.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Aktuelle Beiträge
Signal peptide efficiency: from high-throughput data to prediction and explanation
Creators: name: Anonymous
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: protein secretion
signal peptide
Gram positive
high-throughput screening
machine learning
SHAP

description: Supplementary information associated with the paper "Signal peptide efficiency: from high-throughput data to prediction and explanation" (submitted) The present repository presents two folders: Supplementary_material: contains the 6 Supplementary Tables, the 9 Supplementary Figures, and the 3 Supplementary Files. This folder is also available as a zip package (Supplementary_Material.zip) in this folder. Model_exploration: contains the Random Forest model itself and its associated data, together with a jupyter notebook to explore the SHAP model. More information is contained in each folder. Contacts You can contact us at: ***
title: Human Lower Limb Joint Biomechanics in Daily Life Activities: A Literature Based Requirement Analysis for Anthropomorphic Robot Design
Creators: name: Grimmer, Martin
name: Elshamanhory, Ahmed A.
name: Beckerle, Philipp
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2020

description: Daily human activity is characterized by a broad variety of movement tasks. This work summarizes the sagittal hip, knee, and ankle joint biomechanics for a broad range of daily movements, based on previously published literature, to identify requirements for robotic design. Maximum joint power, moment, angular velocity, and angular acceleration, as well as the movement-related range of motion and the mean absolute power were extracted, compared, and analyzed for essential and sportive movement tasks. We found that the full human range of motion is required to mimic human like performance and versatility. In general, sportive movements were found to exhibit the highest joint requirements in angular velocity, angular acceleration, moment, power, and mean absolute power. However, at the hip, essential movements, such as recovery, had comparable or even higher requirements. Further, we found that the moment and power demands were generally higher in stance, while the angular velocity and angular acceleration were mostly higher or equal in swing compared to stance for locomotion tasks. The extracted requirements provide a novel comprehensive overview that can help with the dimensioning of actuators enabling tailored assistance or rehabilitation for wearable lower limb robots, and to achieve essential, sportive or augmented performances that exceed natural human capabilities with humanoid robots.
FUTBOL MASHG'ULOTLARIDA JISMONIY TAYYORGARLIKNI RIVOJLANTIRISH USULLARI
Creators: name: Ilyosboyev, Sirojiddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada futbol mashg‘ulotlari jarayonida jismoniy tayyorgarlikni rivojlantirishning samarali usullari tahlil qilinadi. Futbolchilarning kuch, tezlik, chidamlilik, epchillik kabi muhim jismoniy sifatlarini shakllantirishda zamonaviy sport metodikalarining o‘rni, ularning yosh, tayyorgarlik darajasi va pozitsiyalariga moslashtirilgan yondashuvlar asosida qo‘llanishi yoritiladi. Shuningdek, individual va guruhli mashqlar, intervalli treninglar, funksional tayyorgarlik mashqlari orqali futbolchilarning umumiy va maxsus jismoniy holatini oshirishning ahamiyati ko‘rsatib o‘tiladi. Tadqiqot natijalari futbol mashg‘ulotlarini samarali tashkil etish va o‘quv-mashg‘ulot jarayonining sifatini oshirishga xizmat qiladi.
Photo of lichen on tree: Caution on identifying microorganismsbased on photographs
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: 60504 Microbial Ecology
subject: 60208 Terrestrial Ecology
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60704 Plant Pathology
subject: 60703 Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology
subject: 60705 Plant Physiology
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lichen, a collection of cyanobacteria and fungus, grows on various surfaces such as drains, pavement etc. Typically, these are concrete matrixes and inanimate; however, cases exist where lichen grows on living matter. Cursory observations along the streets of Singapore indicate that layers of green slimy living matter closely resembling lichen in color, shape and form cover fragmented tree bark. These bark surfaces also show serious signs of disease as they are dark in color, and on a more circumstantial note, adjacent bark surfaces are also “coated” with an orange material that resemble fungal rust. Appended in this short write-up is an optical photograph showing extensive coverage of a green slimy lichen-like organic material on fragmented bark surfaces. Accompanying the photograph is a short description of lichen, the diseased state of the tree where lichen coverage of the pictured bark surface approaches 90%, and most importantly, that it is impossible to identify a microorganism through optical pictures. What is needed to conclusively identify the microorganisms in the green slime of this case is (i) sampling of the tree bark, (ii) aerobic culture of the microbes, (iii) isolation of pure culture, (iv) extraction of DNA from colonies, and (v) 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phylogenetic comparison. Besides 16S rRNA microbe identification methodology, availability of more resources would enable whole genome sequencing to be used. Alternatively, the increasingly widely used technology of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) microbe identification through mass spectrometry profiling of ribosome proteins is also a suitable option for answering this etiology question. Collectively, green slimy material was observed on fragmented tree bark of many trees around Singapore. Possibly lichen growth on diseased trees with fragmenting tree bark, it is important for students to remember not to use optical pictures for conclusive identification of causative microbes. Rather, standard identification methodology involving sampling, cell culture, isolation of pure culture (a critical step), and instrumented analysis such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing, whole genome sequencing and mass spectrometry enabled microbe identification should be followed.
Archaeological Prospection and Evaluation in the Severn Levels, 1989-1999, Developing a Methodology
Creators: name: Locock, Martin
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 143-161
description: The recognition of prehistoric and later archaeological features exposed by erosion on the Severn foreshore in the 1980s prompted an increased interest in the potential of the equivalent deposits behind the sea wall. The main practical problems were how to locate sites masked by subsequent sediment deposition and how to define areas of high and low potential in the absence of models of site distribution and palaeotopography. In this paper the strategies adopted for a series of major construction projects on the Levels are discussed, demonstrating the shift in focus away from the long-term natural sequence towards specific horizons considered likely to relate human activity, alongside an increased confidence in our ability to define areas and periods of high potential. The main projects discussed are the Rumney Alternative Feeding Grounds (J 989), Second Severn Crossing (English Approaches) evaluation (1991), Barland's Farm/Europark (1993), Goldclif.f Wetlands Reserve (1996), Cabot Park (1994-1999) and Europark Wilkinsons (1999). The types of feature typical o.f theforeshore archaeology first recognised have proved to be unrepresentative of the full range of the buried resource, which is in many ways comparable to 'dry land' archaeology. There has been considerable experimentation with methods of site prospection, with limited results. Deep cores from boreholes and augers have proved only partially effective at locating horizons of interest, and trenching remains the main method. Aerial photography and archaeomagnetism have limited application, but geophysical techniques are beginning to have some success, particularly caesium vapour magnetometry. Despite the undoubted progress that the decade has seen, the approach to the evaluation of sites on the Levels remains at the forefront of debates about how far it is reasonable to require developers to undertake extensive archaeological work to address a possible but unproven 'interest '. Even when evaluation is carried out, planning policies which permit development on the levels effectively consign parts of a significant archaeological resource to unseen destruction.
Photos of lichen on tree: Caution on identifying microorganisms based on photographs
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: 60504 Microbial Ecology
subject: 60208 Terrestrial Ecology
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60704 Plant Pathology
subject: 60703 Plant Developmental and Reproductive Biology
subject: 60705 Plant Physiology
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lichen, a collection of cyanobacteria and fungus, grows on various surfaces such as drains, pavement etc. Typically, these are concrete matrixes and inanimate; however, cases exist where lichen grows on living matter. Cursory observations along the streets of Singapore indicate that layers of green slimy living matter closely resembling lichen in color, shape and form cover fragmented tree bark. These bark surfaces also show serious signs of disease as they are dark in color, and on a more circumstantial note, adjacent bark surfaces are also “coated” with an orange material that resemble fungal rust. Appended in this short write-up is an optical photograph showing extensive coverage of a green slimy lichen-like organic material on fragmented bark surfaces. Accompanying the photograph is a short description of lichen, the diseased state of the tree where lichen coverage of the pictured bark surface approaches 90%, and most importantly, that it is impossible to identify a microorganism through optical pictures. What is needed to conclusively identify the microorganisms in the green slime of this case is (i) sampling of the tree bark, (ii) aerobic culture of the microbes, (iii) isolation of pure culture, (iv) extraction of DNA from colonies, and (v) 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phylogenetic comparison. Besides 16S rRNA microbe identification methodology, availability of more resources would enable whole genome sequencing to be used. Alternatively, the increasingly widely used technology of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) microbe identification through mass spectrometry profiling of ribosome proteins is also a suitable option for answering this etiology question. Collectively, green slimy material was observed on fragmented tree bark of many trees around Singapore. Possibly lichen growth on diseased trees with fragmenting tree bark, it is important for students to remember not to use optical pictures for conclusive identification of causative microbes. Rather, standard identification methodology involving sampling, cell culture, isolation of pure culture (a critical step), and instrumented analysis such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing, whole genome sequencing and mass spectrometry enabled microbe identification should be followed.
Sociology of education after globalisation
Creators: name: Dale, Roger
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: This paper starts from the argument that what counts as sociology of education has been predominantly shaped by its «project» – the political understandings and goals of its proponents, which, it is argued, are meliorative, even redemptive – and by its «location», predominantly in institutions devoted to teacher education. This has meant that its contributions have had as their main objective producing commentary on the reasons for success or failure of education policy, rather than a more rigorous problematisation and critique of those policies and practices. The paper develops the argument that the «globalisation» of education made it easier to distinguish between commentary and critique. There are three, linked, aspects to this argument. First, it problematizes the continuing value of each of the terms in the standard «commentary» assumptions of «national, «education», «systems», arguing that in an era of globalisation, the assumptions on which they rest, particularly those relating to the governance of education, are no longer valid. They result in a set of what are referred to as «isms»; that is, rather than being problematized, they become «fixed, abstract and absolute» (Fine, 2003: 465). A further aspect is the need to problematise the «composition» of education systems. Here, it is argued that this arises from the combinations of four key elements; modernity, capitalism, the «grammar” of schooling, and the relationships of education with national societies. The final means of problematisation is a set of «education questions». Here, rather than accepting that we all «know» what education «is», it should be approached by a set of questions that relate to all education systems and thus enable us to discover and explain their differences. These questions are raised in respect of four levels of «Education»: practice, policy, politics, and outcomes.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 46 (2015): Promovendo a excelência pedagógica na universidade
title: ICPSR. Data excellence. Research impact.
Creators: name: Detterman, Linda
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ICPSR data archive sharing research methods
subject: Statistics and Numeric Data
subject: Social Sciences

description: This poster was presented as part of the Institute for Social Research's 75th Anniversary Symposium. Jenna Tyson, Brand Manager, ICPSR, created the poster.
description: This poster describes the primary functions of ICPSR including the sharing of research data, learning research methods of analysis, and best practices in data management and curation. It also outlines ICPSR's award from NSF called, Research Data Ecosystem (RDE).
Mosses and lichen growing symbiotically on concrete surfaces: How do they got there and why can they live there?
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 60504 Microbial Ecology
subject: 60208 Terrestrial Ecology
subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology

description: How can anything survive and grow on concrete? What are the nutrients that could support the growth of plants on concrete? By forming the energy and carbon source at the base of the food chain, cyanobacteria form the basis for the establishment of a more complex niche where fungus can use the organic compounds produced by cyanobacteria as food for growth. This is the keystone species concept in ecology, where a specific species helps lay the foundations (in this case, nutrients, or coax a habitat from non-habitable to habitable) for other species to thrive at the same ecological niche. Cyanobacteria is the pillar of oxygen requiring life on Earth, and led to the establishment of land-based ecosystems by being able to photosynthesize and convert carbon dioxide into complex molecules and release oxygen as a byproduct in the process. Known as symbiosis, the complex exchange of metabolites and other as yet unknown functions between fungus and cyanobacteria is a good example for students to understand mutually beneficial interactions between species at the cell cluster level. Naturally, different levels of biological organization and complexity will have differing impact on how symbiosis is articulated in practice, whether it is exchange of metabolites, byproducts as nutrients, energy or shelter. Green slimy material on concrete drains in urban Singapore arose my curiosity on how beautiful they are, and how tenacious life is, and led to a rapid capture of photographs of what is probably mosses and lichen (cyanobacteria and fungus symbiont). The photographs are embedded within the appended PDF file together with a short write-up that highlights important and interesting research questions on how life could possibly start on inorganic materials many eons ago. Questions which I have no answers to, but which are fundamental to our understanding of how life first evolved on Earth. Educators are free to use the photographs to tell the important concept of symbiosis between organisms, keystone species as laying the bedrock of an ecosystem, as well as introduce the shape and form of such symbiotic community in an urban environment. What I saw is likely to be mats of mosses growing on lichen in a drain, but my conjecture cannot be verified without standard microbiology technique of sampling, cultivation, pure culture and identification through 16S rRNA gene sequencing, whole genome sequencing, or the increasingly useful and reliable mass spectrometry enabled microbe identification. The last point is crucial: what you see in microbes’ identities need to be verified through understanding their genetic repertoire at 16S rRNA.
The Mid and Late Holocene Evolution of Romney Marsh and the Thames Estuary
Creators: name: Long, Anthony
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 55-68
description: This paper reviews evidence for the mid and late Holocene evolution of two coastal lowlands in southern England; the Romney Marsh depositional complex and the Thames Estuary. During this interval sedimentation at both sites is dominated by a protracted period of organic sedimentation which lasted several thousand years and ended with an expansion of tidal mudflat and saltmarsh conditions. In the initial phase, between c. 6000 and 4000 14C yrs BP, basal and intercalated peats developed simultaneously at both sites, demonstrating that relative sea level (RSL) was rising during this interval. Spatial and temporal variations in vegetation communities, as well as the nature of organic sedimentation, reflect variations in the altitude of the pre-Holocene surface, proximity to open marine influences, as well as the influences of groundwater pathways and precipitation. Stratigraphic variability is greatest within the lower part of the Thames Estuary where transitional reed swamp and saltmarsh communities appear more susceptible to tidal inundation compared with the more established fen carr communities which flourished in parts of the mid and inner Thames ( as well as the Romney Marsh complex). The gross stratigraphic similarities between these sites points to a regional forcing mechanism; initial peat expansion coincided with the onset of a decline in the rate of RSL rise, whilst the late Holocene inundation most probably records renewed RSL rise coupled with sediment reworking and poor conditions for organic accumulation and preservation.
Wie nachhaltig und konkurrenzfähig ist die grünlandbasierte Milcherzeugung in benachteiligten Mittelgebirgslagen Süddeutschlands?
Creators: name: Dentler, Juliane
name: Kiefer, Lukas
name: Hummler, Theresa
name: Bahrs, Enno
name: Elsäßer, Martin
Publisher: name: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2020

description: Grünlandbetriebe in benachteiligten Regionen bewirtschaften insgesamt 62 % des gesamten Dauergrünlandes (ha LF) in Baden-Württemberg. Aufgrund geringer Erträge, geringer Milchleistungen und hohen Arbeitskosten gilt eine grünlandbasierte Bewirtschaftung speziell in diesen Regionen aber oft weder als ökonomisch wettbewerbsfähig noch als ökologisch sowie sozial nachhaltig. Andererseits werden durch die landwirtschaftliche Bewirtschaftung dieser Flächen wichtige und für die Gesellschaft unverzichtbare Ökosystemdienstleistungen erbracht, die eine geringere Produktionseffizienz voraussetzen und häufig in der Bewertung der Nachhaltigkeit nicht berücksichtigt werden. Im Rahmen des EIP-Projekts „Nachhaltige Grünlandnutzung in ausgewählten Problemgebieten Baden-Württembergs“ wurden daher insgesamt 12 Milchviehbetriebe im Schwarzwald und auf der Schwäbischen Alb umfangreich hinsichtlich ökonomischer, ökologischer und sozialer Nachhaltigkeit ausgewertet und mit erfolgreichen Milchviehbetrieben mit ganzjähriger Stallhaltung in Gunstlagen verglichen. Innerhalb der untersuchten Stichprobe stellten die wirtschaftlich erfolgreichsten Grünlandbetriebe auf Basis des kalkulatorischen Betriebszweigergebnisses je kg Milch (ECM) und je Kuh im Vergleich zu erfolgreichen Betriebssystemen der Gunstlagen eine sehr hohe Wettbewerbsfähigkeit unter Beweis, allerdings unter Berücksichtigung überdurchschnittlich hoher Förderungen durch die 2. Säule. Beim Vergleich des CO2-Fußabdrucks schnitten, unter Berücksichtigung der CO2-Speicherung und der erbrachten Ökosystemdienstleistungen, die Grünlandbetriebe der Ungunstlagen, trotz einer geringeren Produktionseffizienz, besser ab. Außerdem konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Betriebsleiter der EIP-Pilotbetriebe ein höheres Maß an Freizeit hatten, insgesamt mit der Betriebssituation zufriedener waren und sich von der Bevölkerung und durch Berufskollegen wertgeschätzter fühlten. Die Auswertungen zur Nachhaltigkeit machen folglich deutlich, dass derzeit auf den besseren Standorten der benachteiligten Gebiete bei guten Betriebsleiterfähigkeiten auch im Vergleich zu sehr erfolgreichen Betrieben aus Gunstlagen ökonomisch, ökologisch und sozial nachhaltig Milch produziert werden kann. Andererseits gibt es jedoch auch Problemlagen, auf denen eine Fortführung der Milchproduktion, auch bei sehr guten Managementfähigkeiten der Betriebsleiter, unrentabel erscheint. Vor diesem Hintergrund sollten die z. T. höheren Ökosystemdienstleistungen in diesen Problemlagen gesellschaftlich angemessen ökologisch bewertet und ökonomisch entlohnt werden. Damit wäre auch eine ökonomisch nachhaltige Weiterbewirtschaftung des Grünlands in diesen Problemlagen verstärkt möglich.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Aktuelle Beiträge
title: 01_1906
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Reconstructing the Neolithic Landscape at Western Lake Constance, Germany
Creators: name: Maier, Ursula
name: Vogt, Richard
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 121-130
description: Investigations in the Neolithic lake-side settlement of Hornstaad Hornle IA , Lake Constance, Germany (dendrochronologically dated to 3917-3905 BC) have answered many questions concerning Neolithic life. The reconstruction of landscape development, agricultural activities and land use have been the main subjects for pedological and archaeobotanical research. The settlement was built in the seme-terrestric zone of the lake. Beechlime- oak-forests occurred on the soils (luvisols) that lie beyond the site, mostly developed on glacial and young Holocene sediments. it was there that the first agricultural occupation took place. The high quality of the cultivated soils meant manuring was not necessary. The location of the Neolithic fields has been reconstructed by soil mapping, and huge carbonized cereal stores made it possible to reconstruct the extent of the arable land. As most of the wild plant remains in the stores were from annual field weeds, it was concluded that the arable land has been cultivated continously, probably for the whole duration of the settlement. In contrast to the Bronze Age, only a few signs of soil erosion and accumulation processes could be observed during the Neolithic. All investigations took place within a long-term project involving interdisciplinary research financed by the 'Deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft'.
title: 03_0392
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: LaMOP

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/