Botanical travel, climate and David Moore’s moral geographies of Europe

During his forty-year curatorship of the Royal Dublin Society's botanical gardens in Glasnevin (1838–1879), David Moore undertook a number of excursions to continental Europe. These served to deepen the networks of plant exchange between Dublin and other botanical institutions and allowed him to examine the relationships between climate, plant survivability and societal development. This paper focuses on two trips taken in the 1860s to Scandinavia and Iberia and charts how Moore situated his experience of these places within a climatic hermeneutic. Moore's understanding of northern and southern Europe was organized around a set of judgments about their relative backwardness or advancement with respect to his experience of home and was seen through the lens of a moral climatology. Moreover, his Scots Presbyterian background and his commitment to natural theology informed his interpretation of the landscapes he encountered in his excursions across Europe.

Reconstructing apology: David Cameron's Bloody Sunday apology in the press

While there is an acknowledgement in apology research that political apologies are highly mediated, the process of mediation itself has lacked scrutiny. This article suggests that the idea of reconstruction helps to understand how apologies are mediated and evaluated. David Cameron's apology for Bloody Sunday is examined to see how he constructs four aspects of apology: social actors, consequences, categorization, and reasons. The reconstruction of those aspects by British, Unionist, and Nationalist press along with reconstructions made by soldiers in an online forum are considered. Data analysis was informed by thematic analysis and discourse analysis which helped to explore key aspects of reconstruction and how elements of Cameron's apology are altered in subsequent mediated forms of the apology. These mediated reconstructions of the apology allowed their authors to evaluate the apology in different ways. Thus, in this article, it is suggested that the evaluation of the apology by different groups is preceded by a reconstruction of it in accordance with rhetorical goals. This illuminates the process of mediation and helps to understand divergent responses to political apologies.

Summary of the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume: A high-elevation, multi-proxy biotic and environmental record of MIS 6-4 from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA

In North America, terrestrial records of biodiversity and climate change that span Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 are rare. Where found, they provide insight into how the coupling of the ocean-atmosphere system is manifested in biotic and environmental records and how the biosphere responds to climate change. In 2010-2011, construction at Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village, Colorado (USA) revealed a nearly continuous, lacustrine/wetland sedimentary sequence that preserved evidence of past plant communities between similar to 140 and 55 lea, including all of MIS 5. At an elevation of 2705 m, the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site also contained thousands of well-preserved bones of late Pleistocene megafauna, including mastodons, mammoths, ground sloths, horses, camels, deer, bison, black bear, coyotes, and bighorn sheep. In addition, the site contained more than 26,000 bones from at least 30 species of small animals including salamanders, otters, muskrats, minks, rabbits, beavers, frogs, lizards, snakes, fish, and birds. The combination of macro- and micro-vertebrates, invertebrates, terrestrial and aquatic plant macrofossils, a detailed pollen record, and a robust, directly dated stratigraphic framework shows that high-elevation ecosystems in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado are climatically sensitive and varied dramatically throughout MIS 5 

Old St. David's, Cheraw, South Carolina, 1770-1947

A history of Old St. David's Church in Cheraw, SC from 1770 to 1947.

The Church of the Abandoned Christ: David Peace's 'Red Riding Quartet' and the Wreck of the White Ship

David Peace’s novel Nineteen Seventy-seven concludes with the hack journalist Jack Whitehead being granted a terrifying apocalyptic vision, seconds before he is trepanned with a Phillips screwdriver by the sinister Reverend Martin Laws. Included in this vision is a curious reference to the wreck of the White Ship, a maritime disaster in 1120 that drowned William Atheling, heir to the English throne, and ultimately doomed England to years of civil war. This article explores Peace’s strange use of the shipwreck in his “Red Riding Quartet,” particularly the way he links it—in the quartet’s final volume, Nineteen Eighty Three—to a revisionist account of the aftermath of the crucifixion that leads a wounded Christ to a tragic death in the cold waters of the English Channel.

Estudo comparativo dos modelos de Markowitz e Sharpe

A teoria da carteira de Harry Markowitz, originalmente publicada em 1952 no Journal of Finance, "Portfolio Selection", desenvolveu um método de solução geral do problema da estrutura das carteiras, que engloba o tratamento quantificado do risco. Propõe a determinação de um conjunto de carteiras eficientes empregando unicamente os conceitos de média para a rentabilidade que se espera obter e de variância (ou desvio padrão) para a incerteza associada a essa rentabilidade, e daí a denominação de média-variância à análise de Markowitz. Chamou também a atenção para a diversificação das carteiras, mostrando como um investidor pode reduzir o desvio padrão da rendibilidade da carteira através da escolha de acções cujas variações não sejam exactamente paralelas.

Projecto de tratamento do Espólio do cientista e Professor José Francisco David Ferreira - Enquadramento, ponto de situação problemas e soluções

O objectivo deste trabalho, relaciona-­‐se com o levantamento de informação escrita relativa ao espólio documental deixado por José Francisco David Ferreira (JFDF), Cientista e Professor Catedrático da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa (FML) nascido em 1929 e falecido em 2012. Versa a descrição do processo e da metodologia utilizada, para o projecto em curso, de tratamento do espólio do Cientista e Professor José Francisco David Ferreira. Está enquadrado nos Espólios de Personalidades & Arquivos Científicos em História Contemporânea da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Recensão: David Santos, "A Reinvenção do real – Curadoria e Arte contemporânea no Museu do Neo-realismo"

Recensão de: David Santos, "A Reinvenção do real – Curadoria e Arte contemporânea no Museu do Neo-realismo", Lisboa: Sistema Solar CRL (Documenta), 2014

Grève de cheminots anglais, M. [le ministre du Travail George Henry] Roberts et sir David Shackleton [secrétaire permanent du ministère du Travail] quittant Downing Street : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 56199