Summer diet of two sympatric species of raptors Upland Buzzard (Buteo hemilasius) and Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) in alpine meadow: problem of coexistence

Summer diets of two sympatric raptors Upland Buzzards (Buteo hemilasius Temminck et Schlegel) and Eurasian Eagle Owls (Bubo bubo L. subsp. Hemachalana Hume) were studied in an alpine meadow (3250 m a.s.l.) on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. Root voles Microtus oeconomus Pallas, plateau pikas Ochotona curzoniae Hodgson, Gansu pikas O. cansus Lyon and plateau zokors Myospalax baileyi Thomas were the main diet components of Upland Buzzards as identified through the pellets analysis with the frequency of 57, 20, 19 and 4%, respectively. The four rodent species also were the main diet components of Eurasian Eagle Owls basing on the pellets and prey leftovers analysis with the frequency of 53, 26, 13 and 5%, respectively. The food niche breadth indexes of Upland Buzzards and Eurasian Eagle Owls were 1.60 and 1.77 respectively (higher value of the index means the food niche of the raptor is broader), and the diet overlap index of the two raptors was larger (C-ue = 0.90) (the index range from 0 - no overlap - to I - complete overlap). It means that the diets of Upland Buzzards and Eurasian Eagle Owls were similar (Two Related Samples Test, Z = -0.752, P = 0.452). The classical resource partitioning theory can not explain the coexistence of Upland Buzzards and Eurasian Eagle Owls in alpine meadows of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. However, differences in body size, predation mode and activity rhythm between Upland Buzzards and Eurasian Eagle Owls may explain the coexistence of these two sympatric raptors.

Tudur Aled ai cant yn dda om barn i: Cywydd Cymod Wmffre ap Hywel ap Siancyn o Ynysymaengwyn a'i Geraint

Williams, G. (2007). Tudur Aled ai cant yn dda om barn i: Cywydd Cymod Wmffre ap Hywel ap Siancyn o Ynysymaengwyn a'i Geraint. Ll?n Cymru. 30, pp.57-99. RAE2008

Green Owl and the Corn Maiden

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to engage a different notion of feminism in accounting by addressing the issues of feminism, balance, and integration as a means of understanding differently the world for which one accounts. The ideas are communicated by the sharing of experiences through myth and storytelling.

Design/methodology/approach: An alternative lens for understanding the giving of accounts is proposed, drawing on earlier feminist accounting literature as well as storytelling and myth.

Findings: Including the subjective and intersubjective approaches to experiencing and understanding the world recommends an approach whereby both the feminine-intuitive and the masculine-rational processes are integrated in constructing decision models and accounts.

Research limitations/implications: Through an expanded view of values that can be included in reporting or recounting a different model is seen, and different decisions are enabled. The primary limitation is having to use words to convey one’s subjective and intersubjective understandings. The written medium is not the most natural language for such an undertaking.

Practical implications: By enabling the inclusion of more feminine values, a way is opened to engage more holistically with the society in which decisions are embedded.

Originality/value: Drawing on the storytelling tradition, a holistic model is suggested that can lead to emergence of a more balanced societal reporting.

Keywords: Feminism, Integration, Accounting, Storytelling, Myths

Paper type: Research paper

Banished to the Barn - John Doherty and 'Bonnie Kate'

John Doherty (1900-1980) was one of the most influential Irish musicians of the twentieth century. His music has had a lasting impact on Irish traditional music making around the globe. This paper traces the development of his setting of the canonical reel 'Bonnie Kate'. Using transcription historical investigation Doherty's style is examined in comparison to his contemporaries.

A box in the field: modernity and the barn in twentieth-century Ireland

This paper argues that the modern barn in Ireland is a complex social and architectural phenomena that is without, or has yet to find, a satisfactory discourse. Emerging in the middle third of the twentieth century, the modern barn – replete with corrugated iron and I-sections – continues to represent a presence in the Irish landscape whose ubiquity is as emphatic as its flexibility. It is, however, its universal properties that begin to suggest connections with wider narratives. The modernising aspects of the barn that appear in the 1920s and 30s begin to conflate with a rhetoric of architectural modernism which was simultaneously appearing across Europe. But while the relationship between high modernism’s critique of what it divined as the inspirational qualities of utilitarian buildings – Walter Gropius on grain silos, Le Corbusier on aircraft hangers etc. – has been well-documented, in Ireland this relationship perhaps contains another layer of complexity.
The barn’s consolidation as a modern type coincided with the search for a nation’s cultural identity after centuries of colonial rule. This tended to be an introspective vision that prioritised rural space over urban space, agriculture over industry, and imagined the small farm as a central tenet in the construction of a new State. This paper suggests that the twentieth-century barn – as a product of the mechanisation of agriculture promoted by the new administrations – is an iconic structure, emblematic of attempts to reconcile the contradictory forces and imagery of modernity with the mores of a traditional society. Moreover, given a cultural purview that was often ambivalent or even hostile to the ideologies and forms of modernity, the barn in Ireland is, perhaps, not so much the inspiration but the realisation of an architectural modernism in that country at its most pervasive, enduring and unself-conscious.

Occupational exposure to particulate matter and respiratory symptoms in Portuguese swine barn workers

Certain environmental conditions in animal and plant production have been associated with increased frequency in respiratory illnesses, including asthma, chronic bronchitis, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, in farmers occupationally exposed in swine production. The aim of this study was to characterize particulate matter (PM) contamination in seven Portuguese swine farms and determine the existence of clinical symptoms associated with asthma and other allergy diseases, utilizing the European Community Respiratory Health Survey questionnaire. Environmental assessments were performed with portable direct-reading equipment, and PM contamination including five different sizes (PM0.5, PM1.0, PM2.5, PM5.0, PM10) was determined. The distribution of particle size showed the same trend in all swine farms, with high concentrations of particles with PM5 and PM10. Results from the questionnaire indicated a trend such that subjects with diagnosis of asthma were exposed to higher concentrations of PM with larger size (PM2.5, PM5, and PM10) while subjects with sneezing, runny nose, or stuffy nose without a cold or flu were exposed to higher concentrations of PM with smaller size (PM0.5 and PM1). Data indicate that inhalation of PM in swine farm workers is associated with increased frequency of respiratory illnesses.

Age-related change in melanin-based coloration of Barn owls (Tyto alba): females that become more female-like and males that become more male-like perform better

Ornament expression fluctuates with age in many organisms. Whether these changes are adaptively plastic is poorly known. In order to understand the ultimate function of melanin-based ornaments, we studied their within-individual fluctuations and their covariation with fitness-related traits. In barn owls (Tyto alba), individuals vary from reddish-brown pheomelanic to white and from immaculate to marked with black eumelanic spots, males being less reddish and less spotted than females. During the first molt, both sexes became less pheomelanic, females displayed larger spots and males fewer spots, but the extent of these changes was not associated with reproduction. At subsequent molts, intra-individual changes in melanin-based traits covaried with simultaneous reproduction changes. Adult females bred earlier in the season and laid larger eggs when they became scattered with larger spots, while adults of both sexes produced larger broods when they became whiter. These results suggest that the production of melanin pigments and fitness-related life history traits are concomitantly regulated in a sex-specific way.

Recueil de pièces, manuscrites et imprimées, mémoires, actes royaux, comptes, suppliques, etc., concernant le Béarn, la Navarre, le pays de Soule, le Dauphiné, la Bresse, la Bourgogne, la Lorraine, le Ponthieu, la Normandie et le Berry.

Contient : Pièces relatives au Béarn, et principalement à la réunion du Béarn à la Couronne de France (f. 1), — et au pays de Soule (f. 45). — Navarre, etc. : Supplique orig. des députés des Trois États de la Basse-Navarre (f. 77) ; Pièces diverses, comptes, etc., concernant le domaine de Navarre, notamment : « Estat des sommes que le Roy veult et entend estre doresnavant paiées aux gens de son Conseil d'Estat et privé de ses maison et finances de Navarre et ancien domaine...», 1607 ; « Advis de ce qui se peult faire pour la réduction des officiers de la maison de Navarre et Béarn... » ; Baux du domaine de Navarre ; Pièces relatives aux revenus ecclésiastiques du Béarn ; « Estat de la recepte et despence du domaine de la maison de Navarre, pour l'année 1619 » ; « Mémoire du nomé Du BOURG, touchant les forests de l'antien domaine de Navarre, au resort de Thoulouze » ; Copies d'actes de Henri IV ; Mémoire orig., signé Hurault « de Maisse », concernant une adjudication de l'ancien domaine de Navarre ; Pièces relatives à Bayonne (f. 218), — à Tartas (f. 222), — à Saint-Béat (f. 224), — à Blaye (f. 226). — Dauphiné : « Extrait d'un Registre aux archifs de la Chambre des Comptes et Cour des Finances du Dauphiné, institué [intitulé] Homagia Chalançonis , 1489 et 1490 » (f. 250) ; Pièces relatives à la Bresse (f. 260). — Bourgogne : « Du duché de Bourgogne, et de ceux qui l'ont tenue et possédée... » (f. 282). — Lorraine : « Mémoire au Roy..., des choses qui ce sont passées au gouvernement et ville de Toul » [contre le sieur de Vannes], orig. signé « Vuiry » (f. 294) ; « Remonstrances qu'il fault faire au Roy, pour conserver la ville de Toul en son obéissance... » ; Copie d'un acte de Charles-Quint, 1521 ; Pièces relatives à l'évêché de Metz (f. 316), — notamment, actes orig. de Georges de Bade, évêque de Metz, 1473 (f. 318 et 351) ; « Articles proposez au nom du Roy par Mr [Louis] d'Auzance à Mr le cardinal de Lorraine, pour le suject de la ville et ecclésiastiques de Metz, avec les responses dudict cardinal..., 1565 » ; « Mémoire pour la ville de Verdun, et comme elle est venue souz l'obéissance du Roy... » ; Pièce concernant Épinal, 1463 (f. 349). — Ponthieu : Extraits relatifs à l'abbaye de Sain t-Josse-aux-Bois (f. 352) ; Prisée du comté de Boulogne, 1477 (f. 356). — Normandie : Copie d'un arrêt du Parlement de Rouen, 1643 (f. 374). — Berry : Copie d'un acte de Charles VII pour Issoudun, 1423 (f. 440)