cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Intertidal Archaeology at Old Passage Aust Gloucestershire, A Sketch of the Surviving Evidence
Creators: name: Allen, J R L
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 53-64
description: The Old Passage, functioning until 1966, was an ancient and strategically significant but hazardous ferry that linked Aust with Beachley across narrows on the Severn Estuary. It provided a means of communication between England and Wales. The remains of four landing piers survive in the intertidal zone at the Aust end of the route. Dating in part from around the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the most recent of these is an elaborate, compound, timber and stone structure which served both vehicles and foot passengers. The other three are apparently earlier but their date is otherwise uncertain. Two of these piers are also timber and stone structures which accommodated vehicles as well as foot passengers. Documentary evidence from the eighteenth century shows that vehicles could at that time be carried on the sailing boats that formed the ferry. The piers represent one of a number of essentially rural sites at which there is archaeological evidence for the network of trade and communications in the Severn Estuary and inner Bristol Channel that existed up to the middle decades of the twentieth century
Figure6
Creators: name: Lescano, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Figure 6. Effect of Campomanesia adamantium peel peel extract in T84 cell proliferation. Results are presented as mean + SEM. n=6; Two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey´s test; *P <0.05 compared to Control (baseline) group.
Una Maestra Republicana: El Viejo Futuro de Julia Vigre (1916-2008)
Creators: name: Abrantes, Pedro
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: Recensão à obra de : San Román, Sonsoles (2015). Una maestra republicana: El viejo futuro de Julia Vigre (1916-2008). Madrid: Machado Grupo de Distribución.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 44 (2015): Educação e gerações
The Context and Meaning of the Roman Goldcliff Stone, Caldicot Level
Creators: name: Allen, J R L
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 147-154
description: A reconsideration in terms of modern knowledge is made of the geological and archaeological contexts of the Goldcliff Stone, a contentious intertidal discovery of 1878. The Stone, in combination with recently excavated features in the neighbourhood, is suggested to record the construction of a paired bank and back-ditch defining a substantial Roman military land-claim to the west and south of the late Quaternary bedrock island at Gold Cliff on the Caldicot Level. An Iron Age date for the land-claim has been proposed but is not accepted. Taken together with other discoveries, the land-claim points to the variety of ways in which the Caldicot Level may have been exploited during the Roman period.
A comparison of facemask and respirator filtration test methods
Creators: name: Rengasamy, Samy
name: Shaffer, Ronald
name: Williams, Brandon
name: Smit, Sarah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: NIOSH published a Federal Register Notice to explore the possibility of incorporating FDA required filtration tests for surgical masks (SMs) in the 42 CFR Part 84 respirator certification process. There have been no published studies comparing the filtration efficiency test methods used for NIOSH certification of N95 filtering facepiece respirators (N95 FFRs) with those used by the FDA for clearance of SMs. To address this issue, filtration efficiencies of “N95 FFRs” including six N95 FFR models and three surgical N95 FFR models, and three SM models were measured using the NIOSH NaCl aerosol test method, and FDA required particulate filtration efficiency (PFE) and bacterial filtration efficiency (BFE) methods, and viral filtration efficiency (VFE) method. Five samples of each model were tested using each method. Both PFE and BFE tests were done using unneutralized particles as per FDA guidance document. PFE was measured using 0.1 µm size polystyrene latex particles and BFE with ∼3.0 µm size particles containing Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. VFE was obtained using ∼3.0 µm size particles containing phiX 174 as the challenge virus and Escherichia coli as the host. Results showed that the efficiencies measured by the NIOSH NaCl method for “N95 FFRs” were from 98.15–99.68% compared to 99.74–99.99% for PFE, 99.62–99.9% for BFE, and 99.8–99.9% for VFE methods. Efficiencies by the NIOSH NaCl method were significantly (p = <0.05) lower than the other methods. SMs showed lower efficiencies (54.72–88.40%) than “N95 FFRs” measured by the NIOSH NaCl method, while PFE, BFE, and VFE methods produced no significant difference. The above results show that the NIOSH NaCl method is relatively conservative and is able to identify poorly performing filtration devices. The higher efficiencies obtained using PFE, BFE and VFE methods show that adding these supplemental particle penetration methods will not improve respirator certification.
A Cautionary Note on Beta Families of Distributions and the Aliases Within
Creators: name: Hutson, Alan D.
name: Vexler, Albert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: In this note we examine the four parameter beta family of distributions in the context of the beta-normal and beta-logistic distributions. In the process we highlight the concept of numerical and limiting alias distributions, which in turn relate to numerical instabilities in the numerical maximum likelihood fitting routines for these families of distributions. We conjecture that the numerical issues pertaining to fitting these multiparameter distributions may be more widespread than has originally been reported across several families of distributions.
title: Path Expressions Revisited
Creators: name: Hövelmann, Thomas Alexander
name:  Krause, Alexander
name:  Ulbrich, Peter
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Synchronization
subject: Path Expressions
subject: Parallelism
subject: Predicates

description: Path expressions provide a precise and concise method for defining synchronization rules for accessing shared data. In conjunction with predicates, even finer control of the sequences can be achieved. Furthermore, path expressions, with their ability to abstract from a specific synchronization technique, demonstrate a high level of adaptability. Despite being developed nearly five decades ago, they remain underrepresented in current software engineering and have yet to achieve widespread applicability. This paper reevaluates existing approaches and presents an automaton-based version of path expressions written in C++. We extend the concept of predicates to allow access to external system states and evaluate the feasibility and performance of our approach.
Chemical Composition and Repellency of Essential Oils from Four (1).PDF
Creators: name: Taher, Eman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In our search for effective tick repellents from plant origin, we investigated the effectof essential oils of four medicinal and culinary plants belonging to the family Lamiaceae on nymphsof the tick Ixodes ricinus (L.). The essential oils of the dry leaves of Rosmarinus officinalis (Rosemary)(L.), Mentha spicata (Spearmint) (L.), Origanum majorana (Majoram) (L.), and Ocimum basilicum(Basil) (L.) were isolated by steam distillation and 15 g/cm2 concentration of oils was tested againstticks in a laboratory bioassay. The oils of R. officinalis, M. spicata, and O. majorana showed strongrepellency against the ticks 100, 93.2, and 84.3%, respectively, whereas O. basilicum only showed64.5% repellency. When tested in the Þeld, the oils of R. officinalis and M. spicata showed 68.3 and59.4% repellency at a concentration of 6.5 g/cm2 on the test cloths. The oils were analyzed bygas chromatography mass spectrometry and the major compounds from the most repellent oilswere 1,8-cineole, camphor, linalool, 4-terpineol, borneol, and carvone
Mesolithic, Late Bronze Age and Medieval Activity at Katherine Farm, Avonmouth 1998
Creators: name: Allen, Michael J
name: Godden, David
name: Matthews, Charlotte
name: Powell, Andrew B
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 89-105
description: During archaeological investigations at Katherine Farm, Avonmouth, in 1998, two humic layers were revealed within the alluvial clays of the Wentlooge Formation, the post-glacial sediment sequence that underlies the Avon Levels. Both deposits were interpreted as 'soil ripening or stasis horizons', indicating breaks in the cycle of inundation and alluviation that enabled the formation of these soils under drier conditions. The upper layer contained pottery sherds, imported stone and bone indicating Late Bronze Age activity, and adds to the growing evidence of late prehistoric occupation and activity on the Avon Levels. Until recently, the inhospitable tidal mudflat and salt marsh environments were thought to have been largely avoided, in terms of any consistent occupation or economic exploitation, by late prehistoric communities. The lower organic layer contained no artefacts. It was initially considered to be a Neolithic soil ripening layer (the 'BaRAS' layer) recorded at other locations, radiocarbon dating showed, however, that here it formed during the Mesolithic period. A number of later ditches were also investigated and these may relate to the medieval and/or postmedieval Katherine Farm. Finds of pottery and fired clay with wattle impressions suggest that the site was occupied in the medieval period.
title: 02_0035
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/
Mesolithic to Neolithic Coastal Environmental Change, Excavation at Goldcliff East 2002
Creators: name: Bell, Martin G
name: Allen, J R L
name: Buckley, Shaun
name: Dark, S P
name: Haslett, Simon K
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 1-29
description: This is the second interim report on a project investigating the ecology of coastal environments and the interplay between natural factors and human agency in the period c. 6500-3500 Cal BC. Work during 2002 concentrated on survey and excavation of later Mesolithic sites at Goldcliff East which are intertidal and were successively inundated by Holocene sea-level rise. Occupation horizons contained lithics, bones, including those of fish, and preserved organic environmental evidence. The survey area includes submerged forests of Mesolithic date, and extensive spreads of charcoal with evidence that trees and reeds were burnt. Human and animal footprint-tracks of Mesolithic date have also been recorded. The report also includes evidence of tree orientation in the submerged forest and analysis of foraminifera assemblages from a probable last glacial beach that underlies the Mesolithic occupation horizon.
Goldstein 1981.pdf
Creators: name: Goldstein, Lynne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Archaeology

description: 1981 "One-Dimensional Archaeology and Multidimensional People: Spatial Organization and Mortuary Analysis" in The Archaeology of Death (Chapman, Kinnes, and Randsborg, eds.). Cambridge University Press; Chap 4; pp. 53-69.
title: 03_0056
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/
Oceanographic Signatures and Pressure Monitoring of Seafloor Vertical Deformation in Near-coastal, Shallow Water Areas: A Case Study from Santorini Caldera
Creators: name: Vilaseca, Géraud
name: Deplus, Christine
name: Escartín, Javier
name: Ballu, Valérie
name: Nomikou, Paraskevi
name: Mével, Catherine
name: Andreani, Muriel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Bottom pressure, tilt, and seawater physical properties were monitored for a year using two instruments within the immerged Santorini caldera (Greece). Piggybacked on the CALDERA2012 cruise, this geodetic experiment was designed to monitor evolution of the 2011–2012 Santorini unrest. Conducted during a quiescent period, it allowed us to study oceanographic and atmospheric signal in our data series. We observe periodic oceanographic signals associated with tides and seiches that are likely linked to both the caldera and Cretan Basin geometries. In winter, the caldera witnesses sudden cooling events that tilt an instrument towards the Southeast, indicating cold water influx likely originating from a passage into the caldera between Thirasia island and the northern end of Thera island to the northwest. We did not obtain evidence of long-term vertical seafloor deformation from the pressure signal, although it may be masked by instrumental drift. However, tilt data suggest a local seafloor tilt event ∼1/year after the end of the unrest period, which could be consistent with inflation under or near Nea Kameni. Seafloor geodetic data recorded at the bottom of the Santorini caldera illustrate that the oceanographic signature is an important part of the signal, which needs to be considered for monitoring volcanic or geological seafloor deformation in shallow water and/or nearshore areas.
Mesolithic to Bronze Age Human Activity and Impact at the Wetland Dryland Edge Investigation at Llandevenny
Creators: name: Brown, Alex Douglas
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 41-46
description: This short paper details the results of initial fieldwork at Llandevenny, southeast Wales, undertaken as part of the author's postgraduate research in the Archaeology Department, The University of Reading, supervised by Prof. Martin Bell and Dr. Petra Dark. The research is concerned with understanding the ways in which human communities were utilising the wetland and associated dryland environments of the Severn Estuary from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age. The focus, in particular, is on the pollen, macrofossil, micro-charcoal and artefactual evidence for human activity and impact (eg fire events, clearances, agricultural activity) in close proximity to the wetland-dryland edge, and from selected intertidal sites. Prior to current research, Barland's Farm, Vurlong Reen (Walker et al 1998) and Caldicot (Nayling and Caseldine 1997) represented the only palaeoenvironmental studies undertaken along the northern margins of the Gwent Levels. However, despite such studies, there remains a general paucity of research concerning evidence for human activity and impact from wetland-dryland edge sites in comparison to both palaeoenvironmental and archaeological work undertaken from upland and coastal/intertidal contexts (eg Bell et al 2000;Caseldine 1990; Crampton and Webley 1966; Scaife 1994; Smith and Cloutman 1988; Smith and Morgan 1989). In intertidal contexts the associated archaeology is often well exposed and abundant. As a consequence, whilst we may have a reasonable understanding of the pattern of human activity within the former wetland, we have far less understanding of the relationship between these activities and those which occurred on the neighbouring dryland. As such, the present study will be significant, not just in advancing our understanding of the relationships between human activity on the wetlands and associated drylands, but also in providing additional information on potential patterns of human landuse, settlement and mobility within the wider landscape during prehistory.
title: 01_1978
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/
Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 2002
Creators: name: Brunning, Richard A
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 0-0
description: This short note by the secretary of the SELRC details work and activities undertaken in 2002. This includes details about the discovery of the newport ship, details about the AGM and meetings held in 2002 and the contents of this volume
Oceanographic signatures and pressure monitoring of seafloor vertical deformation in near-coastal, shallow-water areas: A case study from Santorini Caldera
Creators: name: Vilaseca, Géraud
name: Deplus, Christine
name: Escartín, Javier
name: Ballu, Valérie
name: Nomikou, Paraskevi
name: Mével, Catherine
name: Andreani, Muriel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Bottom pressure, tilt and seawater physical-properties were monitored for a year using two instruments within the immerged Santorini caldera (Greece). Piggy-backed on the CALDERA2012 cruise, this geodetic experiment was designed to monitor evolution of the 2011–2012 Santorini unrest. Conducted during a quiescent period, it allowed us to study oceanographic and atmospheric signal in our data series. We observe periodic oceanographic signals associated with tides, and seiches that are likely linked to both the caldera and Cretan basin geometries. In winter, the caldera witnesses sudden cooling events that tilt an instrument towards the Southeast, indicating cold-water influx likely originating from a passage into the caldera between Thirasia island and the northern end of Thera island to the northwest. We do not obtain evidence of long-term vertical seafloor deformation from the pressure signal, although it may be masked by instrumental drift. However, tilt data suggests a local seafloor tilt event ∼1 year after the end of the unrest period which could be consistent with inflation under or near Nea Kameni. Seafloor geodetic data recorded at the bottom of the Santorini caldera illustrates that the oceanographic signature is an important part of the signal, which needs to be considered for monitoring volcanic or geological seafloor deformation in shallow-water and/or nearshore areas.
Green Chemistry: Sustainable Approaches for Environmental Protection
Creators: name: Dr. Seema Arora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: This review paper explores the evolving paradigm of green chemistry as a scientifically grounded and environmentally responsible approach to chemical design, production, and application. Rooted in the 12 principles of green chemistry, the study highlights the significance of designing safer chemicals, minimizing waste, enhancing energy efficiency, and using renewable feedstocks to mitigate ecological degradation. By analyzing a broad spectrum of published literature and research studies up to 2014, the paper provides qualitative and quantitative insights into how green chemistry has reshaped both academic research and industrial practices. Key sustainable techniques such as atom economy, catalytic transformations, solvent-free synthesis, and biocatalysis are examined for their role in reducing hazardous emissions and improving process efficiency. The paper also discusses the substantial reduction in E-factors, increases in atom economy exceeding 90% in optimized systems, and the economic and environmental advantages of green solvents and reaction conditions. Through comparative data tables and case-based evaluation, the paper underscores how green chemistry offers practical solutions to pressing global challenges such as climate change, pollution, and resource depletion. Despite certain limitations in scalability and cost, green chemistry holds immense promise as a transformative force in achieving long-term environmental protection and industrial sustainability.
Was the AD 1607 Coastal Flooding Event in the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel UK Due to a Tsunami
Creators: name: Bryant, Edward A
name: Haslett, Simon K
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 163-167
description: Extensive coastal lowlands known as Levels border the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel in southwest Britain. The Levels are the result of many years of salt marsh reclamation, apparently initiated during the Roman Period, through a programme of sea bank construction. The altitude of the Levels is typically between 5-6 m Ordnance Datum (OD), an altitude that is below the current Mean High Water Springs level in the Severn Estuary. Therefore, the Levels are vulnerable to flooding, not only from river sources, but also from the sea at times when sea banks are overtopped and/or breached. A number of significant historic coastal flooding events have affected the Levels, but the event attributed with causing the greatest devastation occurred on 20th January 1607, and is the subject of this study. This flood event is often cited as being caused by a storm, alternatively however, we consider that some evidence suggests that the flood may have been the result of a tsunami, and that a reassessment of the cause is required. In this note, our intention is to discuss the existing literature, whilst results from our recent fieldwork in the area will be prepared for future publication.
Community Woodland Establishment on the Avon Levels and Archaeological Site Assessment, A Case Study
Creators: name: Crow, Peter
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 155-157
description: Lower Knole Farm is situated just north of Bristol on the Avon levels surrounded by the M4, M5 and M49 motorways. The site lies within the Avon Community Forest area and an application was made to establish a woodland on part of the farm. However, like much of the wider Avon and Severn Estuary Levels, the application area is regarded as land with archaeological potential. Concerns were therefore expressed over the depth of any buried archaeological evidence and the possibility of hydrological and physical rooting impacts following woodland establishment. This note outlines the work carried out at the site to enable a risk assessment to be made.
A Medieval Pottery Kiln Site on the Camley Gardens Estate, Maidenhead
Creators: name: Pike, Gladys
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2008

description: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal, 62, 22-33
description: Four kilns of the 13th cent were excavated, each with a furnace chamber, central pillar and two opposed flues. Features diagnosed as floor supports from the furnace chamber wall to the central pillar appear to be an integral part of kiln 4. Five more kilns were identified and dated 13th cent, while another is attributed to 15th or 16th cent. Brief descriptions of types of vessel, fabrics, glazes and decoration are accompanied by drawings; a full pottery report is forthcoming. There is a report on samples taken for magnetic dating. PM
Reclamation and Utilisation of the Upper Axe Valley During the Roman Period
Creators: name: Grove, Janice C
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 65-87
description: The Axe Valley is a little studied part of the Somerset Levels, but has the most outstanding landscape remains relating to the Roman period. Focusing on an area known as Monk Moor, the occupation and utilisation of the upper Axe Valley is reviewed and original fieldwork and research presented. Evidence indicates that the landscape was heavily farmed from the second century onwards, taking advantage of the protected location of the valley and the prevailing environmental conditions. The presence of a canal within this landscape is examined in relation to the settlement and exploitation of the valley.
Gooseland in the Upper Axe Valley, Somerset
Creators: name: Lane, Barry
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 139-145
description: Large areas of the central Somerset Levels were owned by the Abbots of Glastonbury and the Bishops of Wells (or Bath and Wells from 1091) from the early medieval period. Relatively little has been written about land and estate management by the Bishops probably because of the dearth of documentary evidence. Goose/and lies below the Mendips on the moors in the upper Axe Valley 7 km west of Wells (see Figure 1: inset). It separates Westbury-subMendip from Wookey, both manors of the Bishops from before the Norman Conquest. Along its southern boundary flows the Wookey Axe, a tributary of the main River Axe, which still flows northwards through the Bleadney-Panborough gap. Research and fieldwork suggest that Goose/and was created out of the moor as a large hay meadow by Bishop John de Tours at the same time that he enclosed his adjacent deer park in Westbury in the early l2th century (Nott 1997). Its use by wild or semi-domesticated geese then, or later, probably gave it its name.
Fa[r]do Escolar
Creators: name: Pessoa, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2014

description: Recensão à obra de: Souta, Luís (2014). Fa[r]do escolar. Lisboa: ExLibris.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 43 (2014): Educação em Portugal 40 anos após o 25 de abril de 1974
Geographically widespread mitochondrial lineages of the African saw-wings inconsistent with species boundaries
Creators: name: Barrow, Lisa N
name: Desiré L Dalton
name: Kotzé, Antoinette
name: Evans, Steven W
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The African saw-wings (genus Psalidoprocne) are a group of swallows endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Although currently described as five species with several subspecies, the taxonomy of the saw-wings is unclear. We sequenced two mitochondrial genes (ND2 and cytb; 1 717 sites) from 20 individuals in order to investigate phylogenetic relationships across the range of Psalidoprocne. We obtained similar results from maximum likelihood (RAxML) and Bayesian (BEAST) phylogenetic analyses, which reveal multiple well-supported mitochondrial clades in the genus. The geographic overlap of distinct lineages suggests reproductive isolation, although these clades do not correspond entirely to current species designations.
An Archaeological evaluation at Western Approach Business Park, Severnside, South Gloucestershire
Creators: name: Moore, Chris
name: Allen, Michael J
name: Scaife, Robert G
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 159-162
description: Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Redraw Commercial Developments Limited to undertake the archaeological evaluation of Plots 6010 and 6020 at the Western Approach business park, Sevemside, South Gloucestershire (centred on ST 5530 8360). The evaluation comprised the excavation of four trial trenches, targeted on the footprints of proposed buildings. The fieldwork was undertaken during 20-29 May 2002.
Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and risk of breast cancer in nonsmoking women. An updated review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Lee, Peter N.
name: Hamling, Jan S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Context: In 2006, we reviewed the evidence on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and breast cancer in nonsmoking women. Since then various studies and reviews have been published but opinion remains divided. Objective: To provide an updated review. Methods: We extracted study details, derived relative risk (RR) estimates with confidence intervals (CIs) for various ETS exposure indices, and conducted meta-analyses. Results: The update increased the number of studies from 22 to 47. Using an index for each study most closely equivalent to “spouse ever smoked”, a weak but significant association was seen (random-effects RR = 1.15, 95% CI = 1.07–1.23). However, the estimates were heterogeneous: higher for Asian studies than for North American or European studies, higher for studies adjusting for fewer potential confounding variables, and close to 1.0 for prospective studies, regardless of whether or not they asked detailed questions on ETS exposure. The RR for eight prospective studies asking detailed questions was 1.003, 95% CI = 0.96–1.05. Risk was increased in premenopausal women (RR = 1.36, 95% CI = 1.15–1.60), but not postmenopausal women. Dose–response findings were similarly heterogeneous. No significant increase was seen for childhood or workplace exposure, but an increase was seen for total exposure (RR = 1.22, 95% CI = 1.09–1.37). Conclusions: Increases mainly derived from case-control studies are prone to recall bias. Study weaknesses and possible publication bias limit interpretation. Considering also the weak association of smoking with breast cancer, and the much lower exposures from ETS than from smoking, our analyses do not clearly demonstrate that ETS exposure increases risk of breast cancer in nonsmokers. More research is needed.
Integrated System for Solar Desalination, CO2 Capture, and Ecosystem Restoration
Creators: name: DEL AMO, IÑAKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Climate Change
Carbon Capture
Global Temperature Reduction
Albedo Modification
Iron Fertilization
Arctic Ecosystem
CO₂ Sequestration
Marine Biodiversity
Environmental Sustainability
Climate Mitigation Strategies
Renewable Energy
Ecosystem Restoration
Biogeochemistry
Sustainable Technology
Interdisciplinary Climate Solutions

description: The rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and the escalating impacts of climate change underline the urgent need for comprehensive and scalable solutions integrating carbon capture, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable freshwater production. This study proposes an innovative system that combines solar-powered desalination buoys, high-efficiency microalgae cultivation, and bivalve biomineralization for CO2 sequestration, coupled with gravity-fed aqueducts for inland freshwater distribution. Inspired by successful initiatives such as the Sahara Forest Project and the Great Green Wall in Africa, the proposed system addresses multiple environmental challenges, including water scarcity, land degradation, and biodiversity loss, while providing climate adaptation benefits such as wildfire risk reduction and local climate moderation. This multi-benefit approach supports climate resilience, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable development in arid and coastal regions.
A Sub Fossil Insect Assemblage from the Fourth Peat, Rewick, Gwent c. 4910-2930 BP
Creators: name: Paddock, Emma
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 47-52
description: The exceptional value of beetles and other insects as a method of site-specific palaeoenvironmental reconstruction within the inter-tidal zone of the Gwent Levels has already been demonstrated by Smith et al (1997, 2000). This Ph.D research aims to build upon previous work at Goldcliff, with a series of localised studies at sites on both the English and Welsh shores of the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel. the ultimate aims are to produce an estuary wide reconstruction of the changing biomes within the severn estuary, provide an examination of the possible factors which forced these changes, to examing the degree of synchroneity between sites, and to assess the potential scope of human maniuplation and exploitation within the intertidal zone.
A Sustainable Solution for CO Capture, Freshwater Production, and Climate Mitigation: An Integrated System of Solar Desalination Buoys, Algae Cultivation, and Acueducts
Creators: name: DEL AMO, IÑAKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Climate Change
Carbon Capture
Global Temperature Reduction
Albedo Modification
Iron Fertilization
Arctic Ecosystem
CO₂ Sequestration
Marine Biodiversity
Environmental Sustainability
Climate Mitigation Strategies
Renewable Energy
Ecosystem Restoration
Biogeochemistry
Sustainable Technology
Interdisciplinary Climate Solutions

description: This article presents an innovative approach to climate change mitigation, integrating CO₂ capture technologies, albedo modification, and iron supplementation in the Arctic ecosystem. The proposal aims to reduce global temperatures by up to 2 °C through a combination of natural and technological strategies. By implementing systems involving algae and mussel cultivation, reflective buoys, and iron fertilization, the article addresses both global warming mitigation and the restoration of vulnerable marine ecosystems. Case studies and an analysis of ecological and economic implications are presented, positioning this solution as one of the most comprehensive and viable approaches in the current climate change context.
A Sustainable Solution for CO Capture, Freshwater Production, and Climate Mitigation: An Integrated System of Solar Desalination Buoys, Algae Cultivation, and Acueducts
Creators: name: DEL AMO, IÑAKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Climate Change
Carbon Capture
Global Temperature Reduction
Albedo Modification
Iron Fertilization
Arctic Ecosystem
CO₂ Sequestration
Marine Biodiversity
Environmental Sustainability
Climate Mitigation Strategies
Renewable Energy
Ecosystem Restoration
Biogeochemistry
Sustainable Technology
Interdisciplinary Climate Solutions

description: This article presents an innovative approach to climate change mitigation, integrating CO₂ capture technologies, albedo modification, and iron supplementation in the Arctic ecosystem. The proposal aims to reduce global temperatures by up to 2 °C through a combination of natural and technological strategies. By implementing systems involving algae and mussel cultivation, reflective buoys, and iron fertilization, the article addresses both global warming mitigation and the restoration of vulnerable marine ecosystems. Case studies and an analysis of ecological and economic implications are presented, positioning this solution as one of the most comprehensive and viable approaches in the current climate change context.
Ski-piste revegetation promotes partial bird community recovery in the European Alps
Creators: name: Caprio, Enrico
name: Chamberlain, Dan
name: Rolando, Antonio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Capsule: Restoration of grasslands on ski-pistes caused a recovery in the bird community, but not to the extent that it was equivalent to a natural Alpine grassland community. Aim: To test whether revegetation of ski-pistes in open habitat areas results in bird community recovery. Methods: The bird communities in two ski resorts in the Italian Maritime Alps were surveyed using a standardized area count method in three different plot types: non-restored ski-pistes (newly constructed), restored ski-pistes and control plots in grassland far from ski-pistes. Results: In 49 independent plots, 32 species were recorded. Species richness and abundance of birds were significantly higher on restored than on non-restored ski-pistes, independently of the species group considered and the analyses carried out. Bird community parameters of restored ski-pistes were still lower than those of natural grassland, as shown by results of typical grassland species. Conclusion: Our results suggest that an apparently successful restoration of ski-pistes may be not enough to promote a complete recovery of bird communities. The complete recovery of local bird communities may be promoted only if an integral recovery of the original vegetal communities is achieved. We suggest the best conservation option is to adopt techniques to maintain as far as possible original grassland if construction of new ski-pistes is unavoidable.
Implementation: Optimal low-rank approximations for Bayesian linear inverse problems.
Creators: name: Hale, Jack S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 10401 Applied Statistics

description: Implementation: Optimal low-rank approximations for Bayesian linear inverse problems.
Code author: Jack S. Hale.Paper Authors: Spantini, Solonen, Cui, Martin, Tenorio, Marzouk.This Python script (numpy, scipy, matplotlib required) implements Example 1 from the paper "Optimal low-rank approximations of Bayesian linear inverse problems" by Spantini et al.The main theorem in this paper states that when updating the prior covariance to the posterior covariance, the optimal low-rank update is the one that minimises the Förstner metric between the low-rank update and the exact posterior covariance. Performing this update involves solving a generalised eigenvalue problem on the matrix pencil defined by the Hessian and the inverse of the prior covariance. This script shows how to do that using numpy and scipy and produces a plot similar to the one in the paper.
Making the Most of a Bad Situation, Glastonbury Abbey, Mear and the Medieval Exploitation of Wetland Resources in the Somerset Levels
Creators: name: Rippon, Stephen J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 133-138
description: Meare, in the Somerset Levels, is famous for the Abbot of Glastonbury's 'Fish House' , and it is well known that it lay to the south of a large open lake, known as Meare Pool. The manor of Meare was centred on a small bedrock island that protrudes through the extensive wetlands of the Brue Valley immediately west of Glastonbury: this was about the lowest-lying and most poorlydrained part of the Somerset Levels, and a question that has to be asked is why on earth did anyone bother living there? A current programme of research at the University of Exeter is attempting to reconstruct the wider medieval landscape of Meare and its environs, in particular showing how highly valued wetland resources were in the medieval period. A strongly interdisciplinary approach is being used, taking advantage of Glastonbury's remarkably rich documentary archives (eg Musgrove 1999; 2001). In the past these have been extensively 'quarried' for the information they contain on socio-economic history, but they also include abundant, but previously neglected, references to landscape features - such as settlements, fields, mills, fisheries, roads, and canals (yes, artificial canals!). In this project an attempt has been made to actually locate where these features were and address the question: what did the medieval landscape on one of Glastonbury Abbey's manors actually look like?
Footprint Tacks at Goldcliff East 2002
Creators: name: Scales, Rachel R L
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 31-35
description: This note details the footprint tracks and trails in Goldcliff east that date from the Mesolithic. It details work that has been untertaken on the lowershore sites C and E
The Submerged Forest at Goldcliff East
Creators: name: Timpany, Scott
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 37-39
description: this paper describes survey that was undertaken in the 2002 fieldwork season of the upper sugmerged forest that lie 50 m south of the study site of Smith and Morgan (1989). For the location of this study site, see Bell et al 2003. it was hope further ecological information could be gleaned from this site which would complement earlier work done in the peats by Smith and Morgan in 1989
A Sub Tidal Water Cistern at Chepstow Castle
Creators: name: Turner, Rick
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 13, 123-131
description: This paper describes a limited excavation and recording of a stone water cistern at the base of the limestone cliff below the Great Tower of Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire. The surviving stone structure is set into the estuarine silts below high water mark and was built to capture a vigorous fresh water spring, which emerges at the foot of the cliff. Originally the cistern must have risen well above the high water mark to allow uncontaminated fresh water to be raised to the castle above. This beautifully made stone structure probably dates to the early 13th century.