Search results
11,237 records were found.
Open peer commentary on "Animal innovation defined and operationalized" Grant Ramsey, Meredith L. Bastian and Carel van Schaik
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30, Issue 04, August 2007, pp 393-407
The Bunyaviridae family is one of the largest among RNA viruses, comprising more
than 350 serologically distinct viruses. The family is classified into five genera,
Orthobunyavirus, Hantavirus, Nairovirus, Phlebovirus, and Tospovirus.
Orthobunyaviruses, nairoviruses and phleboviruses are maintained in nature by a
propagative cycle involving blood-feeding arthropods and susceptible vertebrate hosts.
Like most arthropod-borne viruses, bunyavirus replication causes little damage to the
vector, whereas infection of the mammalian host may lead to death. This situation is
mimicked in the laboratory: in cultured mosquito cells no cytopathology is observed
and a persistent infection is established, whereas in cultured mammalian cells
orthobunyavirus infection is lytic and leads to cell death.
Bunyaviruses encode four common structural proteins...
Early users of medieval books of hours and prayer books left signs of their reading in the form of fingerprints in the margins. The darkness of their fingerprints correlates to the intensity of their use and handling. A densitometer is a machine that measures the darkness of a reflecting surface can reveal which texts a reader favored. This article introduces a new technique, densitometry, to measure a reader's response to various texts in a prayer book.
In magnetised plasmas, magnetic reconnection is the process of magnetic field merging and recombination through which considerable amounts of magnetic energy may be converted into other forms of energy. Reconnection is a key mechanism for solar flares and coronal mass ejections in the solar atmosphere, it is believed to be an important source of heating of the solar corona, and it plays a major role in the acceleration of particles in the Earth's magnetotail. For reconnection to occur, the magnetic field must, in localised regions, be able to diffuse through the plasma. Ideal locations for diffusion to occur are electric current layers formed from rapidly changing magnetic fields in short space scales. In this thesis we consider the formation and nature of these current layers in magnetised plasmas.
The study of current sheets and cur...
Evidence provided in response to the Welsh Assembly consultation entitled 'A living Wales : a new framework for our environment, our countryside and our seas'.
Today, in 21st century healthcare at least 10% of hospitalised patients are subjected to some degree of unintended harm as a result of the treatment they receive. Despite the growing patient safety agenda there is little empirical evidence to demonstrate that patient safety is improving. Patient Safety Leadership Walk Rounds (PSLWR) were introduced to the UK, in March 2005, as a component of the Safer Patients Initiative (SPI), the first dedicated, hospital wide programme to reduce harm in hospital care. PSLWR are designed, to create a dedicated ‘conversation’ about patient safety, between frontline staff, middle level managers and senior executives.
This thesis, explored the use of PSLWR, as a proactive mechanism to engage staff in patient safety discussion and detect patient harm within a Scottish healthcare system- NHS Tayside. F...
This dissertation presents and analyses original contributions to rehearsal and performance practice. Flow criticism - the use of flow theory to examine performance practice - is proposed as a tool for evaluating existing identification-oriented processes. Flow criticism demonstrates that several dimensions of flow are impeded by any process that simultaneously requires actor-character merger and the execution of pre-agreed-upon performance structures. In this circumstance, goals exist on one level of consciousness (the character) while feedback exists on another (the actor). The schism between these two dimensions of flow results in divided consciousness, which affects other flow dimensions: action and awareness cannot fully merge; actors cannot exercise control over the outcome of the fictional performance. A hypothesis is then advan...
We compare three methods for the elicitation of time preferences in an experimental setting: the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak procedure (BDM); the second price auction; and the multiple price list format. The first two methods have been used rarely to elicit time preferences. All methods used are perfectly equivalent from a decision theoretic point of view, and they should induce the same `truthful' revelation i dominant strategies. In spite of this, we find that framing does matter: the money discount rates elicited with the multiple price list tend to be higher than those elicited with the other two methods. In addition, our results shed some light on attitudes towards time, and they permit a broad classification of subjects depending on how the size of the elicited values varies with the time horizon.
[From the Prefatory note]. All the biographical accounts of David Steuart
Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, are slight, and often very
unsympathetic. Most have relied for factual information
on his obituary, published in volume 99 of The Gentleman’s
Magazine.
Malicious and distorted comments, particularly
by Sir Walter Scott, have been responsible for the growth
of a legend about Buchan’s eccentricity, although the
charge of absurd conduct was lodged against him in his
own lifetime. It is interesting to note that a tradesman in Galashiels, near Buchan’s former residence at
Dryburgh Abbey, was found to talk about Buchan’s patriotism,
but at much greater length about his oddities, as recently
as 1962.
Those who could have given posterity a fair
assessment of Buchan did not do so, and the way was left
open for those who saw him only as vai...
In his paper, written from the perspective of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Michael Fuller argues that attention to the formation of those called to authorised ministry in the church has never been more essential than at the present. The churches are facing challenges from within and without as they witness to the Christian faith in word and deed in twenty-first century Scotland. Traditional models of formation which, in the Anglican tradition, have involved candidates for ministry spending time together in learning communities, are now under acute pressure in terms both of financial viability and the fewer numbers called to full-time ministry. The necessity remains, however, for the provision of a fully validated programme that is pedagogically and academically sound. The goal is to provide a range of foundational competencies within...
