Report of the departmental committee appointed by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries to consider the outbreak of foot and mouth disease wich occurred in 1923-24 ...

Ernest G. Pretyman, chairman.

Incursión en el espacio ontológico de las novelas “La ninfa inconstante” de Guillermo Cabrera Infante y “Todos se van” de Wendy Guerra

This thesis examines the phenomenological projection of space in two Cuban novels: La ninfa inconstante (2008) by Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005), and Todos se van (2006) by Wendy Guerra (1970–). Both novels are paradigmatic of two generations of Cuban writers who portray the city of Havana as a backdrop against which to project socio-political and biographical narratives. To problematize ethical and political omissions in the novels, this work incorporates disciplines such as philosophy, urbanism, architecture, sociology and literary theory. Through the concepts of prominent phenomenologists, such as Gaston Bachelard, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, amongst others, this study evaluates how space becomes a construction to ambivalent dynamics of truth telling within contrasting, suffocating sociopolitical contexts. In addition, it explores how these phenomenological spaces are defined in relation to power. For instance, the Cuban Revolution, and its aftermath of more than 52 years, brings forth a sense of displacement and placelessness. The novels present and develop both authors’ spatial consciousness (that we call “ontological space”), which is not necessarily a container of three-dimensional objects, but instead, fictional emergent constructions. This thesis concludes that literature can become a meaningful space to cope with unbearable realities.

Lincoln Institute Board of Curators Meeting Minutes, 1921 to 1923

Board of Curators Meeting Minutes for Lincoln Institute (later Lincoln University) from August 4, 1921 to August 10, 1923.

Georeferenced standardized apparent wave power along the coastline of Cabrera National Park for analysis of essential habitats of littoral species

Wind- induced exposure is one of the major forces shaping the geomorphology and biota in coastal areas. The effect of wave exposure on littoral biota is well known in marine environments (Ekebon et al., 2003; Burrows et al., 2008). In the Cabrera Archipelago National Park wave exposure has demostrated to have an effect on the spatial distribution of different stages of E.marginatus (Alvarez et al., 2010). Standarized average wave exposures during 2008 along the Cabrera Archipelago National park coast line were calculated to be applied in studies of littoral species distribution within the archipelago. Average wave exposure (or apparent wave power) was calculated for points located 50 m equidistant on the coastline following the EXA methodology (EXposure estimates for fragmented Archipelagos) (Ekebon et al., 2003). The average wave exposures were standardized from 1 to 100 (minimum and maximum in the area), showing coastal areas with different levels of mea wave exposure during the year. Input wind data (direction and intensity) from 2008 was registered at the Cabrera mooring located north of Cabrera Archipelago. Data were provided by IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB, TMMOS http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/tmoos/boyas/). This cartography has been developed under the framework of the project EPIMHAR, funded by the National Park's Network (Spanish Ministry of Environment, Maritime and Rural Affairs, reference: 012/2007 ). Part of this work has been developed under the research programs funded by "Fons de Garantia Agrària i Pesquera de les Illes Balears (FOGAIBA)".

Caracterização da reprodução e ensaios de crescimento da Tilápia Moçambicana (Oreochromis mossambicus, Peters 1852)

Três grupos constituídos por indivíduos de tilápia da espécie Oreochromis mossambicus foram observados por um período de 6 meses e registado os seus comportamentos reprodutivos, número de fêmeas em incubação e o número de fry que nasceram durante este tempo. Cada grupo apresentava proporções sexuais distintas (macho:fêmea), nomeadamente, 1:3, 1:4 e 2:2. Após a evolução do estágio das fry a alevins, foram testados nestes indivíduos 3 dietas experimentais: a dieta RT (ração para tilápia), a dieta RD (dieta para douradas) e a Mix (uma mistura de 50% de cada uma das rações anteriormente referidas). Os alevins foram distribuídos em 9 tanques, 20 indivíduos/tanque, existindo três réplicas por dieta e todos se encontravam a uma temperatura de 28 ± 1ºC. Foram alimentados 3 vezes por dia durante 11 semanas, fazendo jejum 1 dia por semana. A cada 2 semanas, os indivíduos eram pesados e medidos e a quantidade de ração era ajustada de acordo com o seu crescimento. Como forma de se reduzir o stress neste procedimento de medição e pesagem, utilizaram-se três anestésicos a diferentes concentrações: MS-222 (0,15, 0,25 e 0,35ml L-1), óleo de cravo (0,10, 0,15 e 1,2ml L-1) e 2-fenoxietanol (0,40, 0,60, 0,80 e 1,00ml L-1). Registaram-se os tempos de indução e recuperação e avaliou-se qual o anestésico mais eficaz. No final do ensaio, os indivíduos foram mortos por choque térmico, filetados e sujeitados a estudos para avaliação do teor de proteína, lípidos, humidade e cinzas. No final de todo este trabalho experimental verificou-se que existiu reprodução nos Grupos 1 e 2 durante os 6 meses e que a melhor proporção sexual é 1:3 (macho:fêmea). Observou-se que as fêmeas que produzem mais posturas seguidas têm um menor número de fry por postura e as que fazem um maior intervalo de tempo entre cada postura, produzem posturas com um maior número de fry. Para qualquer uma destas opções das fêmeas, a taxa de mortalidade das fry é muito reduzida. No ensaio das dietas, os alevins aceitaram com boa aceitabilidade as três dietas mas com o decorrer do tempo, os indivíduos da dieta RD começaram a ganhar hemorragias em algumas partes do corpo. Não existiram diferenças significativas entre as dietas. A dieta Mix foi a que mostrou melhores resultados finais com um peso e comprimento máximos de 4,51 ± 3,39g e 3,36 ± 1,81cm, respetivamente. Para os valores de WG, SGR e FCR também não existiram diferenças significativas para as três iv dietas, sendo a dieta Mix a obter os valores máximos para WG (4,71g) e SGR (2,97% dia-1) mas com o FCR baixo (12,45 g/g). Para os resultados da composição química obtiveram-se diferenças estatisticamente significativas (P < 0,05) nos dados da proteína e humidade. A dieta RT foi a que apresentou um maior teor de proteína (18,53%) e os valores máximos para a humidade foram nas dietas RT (80.54%) e Mix (80,57%). Os lípidos e as cinzas não tiveram diferenças significativas e os valores máximos para estes dois parâmetros foram 1,38% e 1,50% na RT, respetivamente. Para os anestésicos estudados existiram diferenças significativas (P < 0,05) para os tempos de anestesia e recuperação pertencentes ao MS-222 e 2-fenoxietanol; o óleo de cravo apenas apresentou diferenças significativas no tempo de indução. As concentrações que mais eficazes se mostraram para anestesiar Tilápias Moçambicanas foram: 0,25ml L-1 para o MS-222, 0,10ml L-1 para o óleo de cravo e 0,80ml L-1 e 1,00ml L-1 para o 2-fenoxietanol. Os resultados deste trabalho sugerem que a reprodução de Tilápia Moçambicana se consegue com bastante sucesso quando se proporcionam condições ótimas, principalmente, a temperatura que é um dos fatores mais importantes; é uma espécie que aceita com facilidade variados tipos de rações; e os anestésicos utilizados mostraram-se eficazes a anestesiar os juvenis desta espécie apesar de ser necessário continuar o estudo com mais concentrações.

Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona Basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)

Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene (Bartonian and Priabonian) sedimentary succession of the Pamplona Basin are described. This succession was accumulated in the western part of the South Pyrenean peripheral foreland basin and extends from deep-marine turbiditic (Ezkaba Sandstone Formation) to deltaic (Pamplona Marl, Ardanatz Sandstone and Ilundain Marl formations) and marginal marine deposits (Gendulain Formation). The micropalaeontological content is high. It is dominated by foraminifera, and common ostracods and other microfossils are also present. The fossil ichnoasssemblages include at least 23 ichnogenera and 28 ichnospecies indicative of Nereites, Cruziana, Glossifungites and ?Scoyenia-Mermia ichnofacies. Body macrofossils of 78 taxa corresponding to macroforaminifera, sponges, corals, bryozoans, brachiopods, annelids, molluscs, arthropods, echinoderms and vertebrates have been identified. Both the number of ichnotaxa and of species (e. g. bryozoans, molluscs and condrichthyans) may be considerably higher. Body fossil assemblages are comparable to those from the Eocene of the Nord Pyrenean area (Basque Coast), and also to those from the Eocene of the west-central and eastern part of South Pyrenean area (Aragon and Catalonia). At the European scale, the molluscs assemblages seem endemic from the Pyrenean area, although several Tethyan (Italy and Alps) and Northern elements (Paris basin and Normandy) have been recorded. Palaeontological data of studied sedimentary units fit well with the shallowing process that throughout the middle and late Eocene occurs in the area, according to the sedimentological and stratigraphical data.

Commentary on International Copyright Act 1852

Legislation introducing the concept of translation rights within British copyright law. The document contains the following associated material: Hansard: 119 (1852): 498-502 (uk_1852a); 121 (1852): 4 (uk_1852b); Anglo-French Copyright Treaty (uk_1851).
Introduced to implement the obligations of the Anglo-French Copyright Convention, agreed in November 1851, this Act provided that the British monarch could, by Order in Council, provide foreign authors with the right to prevent the reproduction and performance of their literary and dramatic works in translation. The Act also introduces the first statutorily defined permitted acts within the UK, and is indicative of the increasing influence that international standards and obligations began to exert upon the content and substance of domestic copyright law.
The commentary locates the Act within the context of the two previous International Copyright Acts (see: uk_1838; uk_1844) and the Anglo-French Convention, highlighting the selective manner in which the British legislature implemented its obligations under the 1851 Convention, in particular in drawing a distinction between the reproduction of political and non-political material, as well as the difficulty that foreign authors experienced in complying with the provisions of the legislation.

Compensating Irish female revolutionaries, 1916-1923

The newly released Irish Military Service Pensions Collection offers the most comprehensive opportunity to examine the role of women in the Irish revolution (1916-1923) or in any comparable nationalist revolution. It is also an extremely useful source of evidence for an emerging historiographical trend of tracing the post-revolutionary lives of female veterans by examining the award of service pensions to them by that state. This article will examine the role played by gender in the award of such pensions, the economic and financial significance of them in a state that had under-developed welfare provision and the importance of them as a symbolic recognition of women’s roles in helping to achieve Irish independence. It also compares the post-conflict experience of Irish female revolutionary veterans with women who were involved in comparable international military conflicts.

Diosas de ébano para "Cuentos negros de Cuba" de Lydia Cabrera

Programa de doctorado: Literatura y Teoría de la Literatura. La fecha de publicación es la fecha de lectura. La fecha de publicación es la fecha de lectura

Intégration d'une communauté minoritaire en période d'industrialisation : les Irlandais catholiques de la ville de Québec, 1852-1911

Au courant de la période industrielle, la ville de Québec a connu une croissance démographique rapide alimentée, entre autres, par une immigration européenne massive. Celle-ci contribua d’une façon notable aux changements socioéconomiques de la capitale durant cette période. Parmi les migrants, les Irlandais catholiques furent nombreux à transiter ou à s’établir à Québec et y laissèrent des traces encore visibles aujourd’hui. Or, bien que l’histoire de la diaspora irlandaise en sol nord-américain ait fait l’objet de plusieurs recherches, le cas de la ville de Québec, tout comme sa période d’industrialisation, reste encore peu étudié à ce jour. Grâce à l’utilisation des recensements nominatifs canadiens de 1852 à 1911 et des actes de mariage, cette étude a comme objectif d’analyser le niveau d’intégration de la communauté irlandaise de Québec sur les plans économique, social et spatial, et ce, à micro-échelle. Ainsi, en observant les emplois et la mobilité socioprofessionnelle des travailleurs, les unions exogames et l’évolution de l’établissement irlandais sur le territoire à l’étude, la présente recherche permet d’établir un constat positif : les Irlandais catholiques ont su s’intégrer à la société urbaine de Québec. Néanmoins, considérant la forte diminution démographique de la communauté au tournant du siècle, l’intégration s’est effectuée davantage à l’échelle des ménages que pour l’ensemble de la communauté.

John Holt, 1923-85