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Transnormativity And The Visual Hierarchies Of Acceptance, Katie Mcbride Dec 2017

Transnormativity And The Visual Hierarchies Of Acceptance, Katie Mcbride

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper presents a critical analysis of the subjective, symbolic, and systemic harmsexperienced as hate by transgender individuals. An analysis of the lived experiences oftransgender individuals in this way illustrates how neoliberal discourses create and sustain a hierarchy of acceptable forms of self-identity for transgender individuals that is transnormative.The data presented is drawn from my doctoral research and was obtained using in-depth qualitative interview methods that generated thick descriptions and reflections of the lived experiences of individuals. The research incorporated the use of visual narrative methods that helped to elucidate the role of symbolic and systemic harm in the shaping …

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Trajectories Of Change In Mediterranean Holocene Vegetation Through Classification Of Pollen Data, Ralph M. Fyfe, Jessie Woodbridge, C. Neil Roberts Dec 2017

Trajectories Of Change In Mediterranean Holocene Vegetation Through Classification Of Pollen Data, Ralph M. Fyfe, Jessie Woodbridge, C. Neil Roberts

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

© 2017 Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature Quantification of vegetation cover from pollen analysis has been a goal of palynologists since the advent of the method in 1916 by the great Lennart von Post. Pollen-based research projects are becoming increasingly ambitious in scale, and the emergence of spatially extensive open-access datasets, advanced methods and computer power has facilitated sub-continental analysis of Holocene pollen data. This paper presents results of one such study, focussing on the Mediterranean basin. Pollen data from 105 fossil sequences have been extracted from the European Pollen database, harmonised by both taxonomy and chronologies, and …

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The Challenge Of Urban Design In Securing Post-Event Legacies Of Olympic Parks, Renata Sanchez, Stephen Essex Dec 2017

The Challenge Of Urban Design In Securing Post-Event Legacies Of Olympic Parks, Renata Sanchez, Stephen Essex

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Olympic Parks demand a very distinctive built environment in order to function for their primary purpose, namely to host major sporting competitions. These spaces, however, require substantial reconfiguration in the post-event mode to ensure viable, mixed use and liveable places. This paper evaluates the challenges of transforming Olympic Parks, using evidence from four past hosts: Munich (1972), Sydney (2000), London (2012) and Rio de Janeiro (2016). The discussion raises questions about retaining the ceremonial focus of the Olympic Park and whether a more decentralised model might make the associated urban design and planning legacies more deliverable for future host cities.

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Holocene Fluctuations In Human Population Demonstrate Repeated Links To Food Production And Climate, Andrew Bevan, Sue Colledge, Dorian Fuller, Ralph Fyfe, Stephen Shennan, Chris Stevens Dec 2017

Holocene Fluctuations In Human Population Demonstrate Repeated Links To Food Production And Climate, Andrew Bevan, Sue Colledge, Dorian Fuller, Ralph Fyfe, Stephen Shennan, Chris Stevens

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Investigating Multiple Domains Of Household Livelihood Security: Insights From Urban Slums In Bangladesh, S Akter, S Rahman Dec 2017

Investigating Multiple Domains Of Household Livelihood Security: Insights From Urban Slums In Bangladesh, S Akter, S Rahman

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

In this article, the authors construct indices of Household Livelihood Security (HLS) domains, namely, economic, food, health, and education securities and empowerment with data from 1,120 poor households in two urban settlements of Bangladesh. The authors then jointly identify domain-specific socioeconomic determinants employing a multivariate Tobit model. A quintile analysis of domains shows high levels of inequalities among these poor households. The HLS domains are significantly positively correlated, and a host of factors significantly influence individual HLS domain. Interventions targeted at improving education, provision of business training and building of land asset are suggested to improve livelihood security.

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A Glaciologic And Palaeoclimatic Reconstruction Of Younger Dryas Conditions Using Geomorphic Evidence From Selected Sites In The Fforest Fawr, Brecon Beacons National Park, Henry Irvine Dec 2017

A Glaciologic And Palaeoclimatic Reconstruction Of Younger Dryas Conditions Using Geomorphic Evidence From Selected Sites In The Fforest Fawr, Brecon Beacons National Park, Henry Irvine

The Plymouth Student Scientist

During the Younger Dryas the climate in southern Wales enabled topographically constrained glaciers to develop within high elevation areas of the Brecon Beacons. Previous studies in this area have attributed numerous basin-floor ridge systems to both glacial and non-glacial origins. An approach considering viability based upon reconstructed dynamics has been found to yield results comparable with contemporary analogues, reducing reliance upon subjective interpretation of field evidence. Due to the sensitivity of cirque glaciers to changes in climate, palaeoglacial modelling may provide insight into past environmental conditions. This study contributes to published literature by undertaking glaciologic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions at four …

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Pelagic Habitat: Exploring The Concept Of Good Environmental Status, Mark Dickey-Collas, Abigail Mcquatters-Gollop, Eileen Bresnan, Alexandra C. Kraberg, John P. Manderson, Richard D.M. Nash, Saskia A. Otto, Anne F. Sell, Jacqueline F. Tweddle, Verena M. Trenkel Dec 2017

Pelagic Habitat: Exploring The Concept Of Good Environmental Status, Mark Dickey-Collas, Abigail Mcquatters-Gollop, Eileen Bresnan, Alexandra C. Kraberg, John P. Manderson, Richard D.M. Nash, Saskia A. Otto, Anne F. Sell, Jacqueline F. Tweddle, Verena M. Trenkel

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Marine environmental legislation is increasingly expressing a need to consider the quality of pelagic habitats. This paper uses the European Union marine strategy framework to explore the concept of good environmental status (GES) of pelagic habitat with the aim to build a wider understanding of the issue. Pelagic ecosystems have static, persistent and ephemeral features, with manageable human activities primarily impacting the persistent features. The paper explores defining the meaning of "good", setting boundaries to assess pelagic habitat and the challenges of considering habitat biodiversity in a moving medium. It concludes that for pelagic habitats to be in GES and …

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Bromine In Plastic Consumer Products - Evidence For The Widespread Recycling Of Electronic Waste., Andrew Turner, Montserrat Filella Dec 2017

Bromine In Plastic Consumer Products - Evidence For The Widespread Recycling Of Electronic Waste., Andrew Turner, Montserrat Filella

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

A range of plastic consumer products and components thereof have been analysed by x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry in a low density mode for Br as a surrogate for brominated flame retardant (BFR) content. Bromine was detected in about 42% of 267 analyses performed on electronic (and electrical) samples and 18% of 789 analyses performed on non-electronic samples, with respective concentrations ranging from 1.8 to 171,000μgg(-1) and 2.6 to 28,500μgg(-1). Amongst the electronic items, the highest concentrations of Br were encountered in relatively small appliances, many of which predated 2005 (e.g. a fan heater, boiler thermostat and smoke detector, and various …

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Exploring The Future Potential Of Jute In Bangladesh, S Rahman, Mmh Kazal, Ia Begum, Mj Alam Dec 2017

Exploring The Future Potential Of Jute In Bangladesh, S Rahman, Mmh Kazal, Ia Begum, Mj Alam

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The study assesses the future potential of the jute sector in Bangladesh by examining its growth performance, international competitiveness, profitability, and production efficiency using national time-series data of over the period 1973-2013 and farm survey data from 289 farmers from two major jute growing areas of Bangladesh. Results revealed that the jute sector has experienced substantial growth in area, production, productivity, prices, and exports. However, productivity has stagnated during the latter 10-year period (2004-2013), while it grew at a rate of 1.3% per annum (p.a.) during the first 31-year period (1973-2003). …

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Communicating Seismic Risk: The Geoethical Challenges Of A People-Centred, Participatory Approach, Is Stewart, J Ickert, R Lacassin Dec 2017

Communicating Seismic Risk: The Geoethical Challenges Of A People-Centred, Participatory Approach, Is Stewart, J Ickert, R Lacassin

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) encourages scientists to participate in bottom-up risk communication approaches that directly engage hazard-prone populations. Effective communication of seismic risks not only has economic impacts in terms of hazard mitigation but also provides social value in potentially empowering the marginalized populations that disproportionately live in high-risk areas. This emphasis on community-focused disaster preparedness, however, presents a novel set of communication challenges for geoscientists. Few scientists have training in or experience of translating their science for lay publics, and conveying complex risk information is especially difficult in circumstances where scientific issues are socially contested …

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Earthquakes As Precursors Of Ductile Shear Zones In The Dry And Strong Lower Crust, L Menegon, G Pennacchioni, N Malaspina, K Harris, E Wood Dec 2017

Earthquakes As Precursors Of Ductile Shear Zones In The Dry And Strong Lower Crust, L Menegon, G Pennacchioni, N Malaspina, K Harris, E Wood

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The rheology and the conditions for viscous flow of the dry granulite facies lower crust are still poorly understood. Viscous shearing in the dry and strong lower crust commonly localizes in pseudotachylyte veins, but the deformation mechanisms responsible for the weakening and viscous shear localization in pseudotachylytes are yet to be explored. We investigated examples of pristine and mylonitized pseudotachylytes in anorthosites from Nusfjord (Lofoten, Norway). Mutual overprinting relationships indicate that pristine and mylonitized pseudotachylytes are coeval and resulted from the cyclical interplay between brittle and viscous deformation. The stable mineral assemblage in the mylonitized pseudotachylytes consists of plagioclase, amphibole, …

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Mudstones And Embedded Concretions Show Differences In Lithology-Related, But Not Source-Related Biomarker Distributions, Sk Lengger, Im Melendez, Re Summons, K Grice Nov 2017

Mudstones And Embedded Concretions Show Differences In Lithology-Related, But Not Source-Related Biomarker Distributions, Sk Lengger, Im Melendez, Re Summons, K Grice

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The mudstones of the Western Australian Gogo Formation harbour numerous carbonate concretions which often contain preserved fossils of Lagerstätte-like quality. These are especially notable in places where the mudstone has eroded, giving way to nodule fields, which afford valuable paleobiological records. It is, however, a challenge to determine their paleoenvironmental context. Here, we analysed concretions from a core drilled in the Canning Basin Gogo Formation. At two different depths, concretions were compared to the surrounding mudstone found at the same depth. Electron microscopy and X-ray spectroscopy showed that the concretions were carbonate-rich and contained detrital fragments. Biomarker data showed that …

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Haunted Bodies: Cell Switching, Getting Lost And Adaptive Geographies, Jane Grant, Joanne Bob Whalley Nov 2017

Haunted Bodies: Cell Switching, Getting Lost And Adaptive Geographies, Jane Grant, Joanne Bob Whalley

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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The Displaced ‘Dispositif’, Guy Edmonds, Shaun Lewin Nov 2017

The Displaced ‘Dispositif’, Guy Edmonds, Shaun Lewin

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Let’S Improv It: The Embodied Investigation Of Social Collaboration, K Łucznik, A Jackson, A Sakuta, E Siarava Nov 2017

Let’S Improv It: The Embodied Investigation Of Social Collaboration, K Łucznik, A Jackson, A Sakuta, E Siarava

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

How do we share embodied knowledge? How do we understand the world through our bodies? How can we effectively interpret and communicate somatic experiences to a wider audience? These questions emerged during a collaborative research project Let’s Improv It (August 2016, Plymouth University), which set out to explore how kinaesthetic empathy and multisensory perception help us to understand our own actions, intentions and emotions, as well as those of others. We additionally questioned the role and perception of physical and emotional touch within embodied knowledge. After a five-day practice-led investigation, a 20-minute improvised somatic movement score was developed with the …

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Rapid Fore-Arc Extension And Detachment-Mode Spreading Following Subduction Initiation, Antony Morris, Mark W. Anderson, Ahmed Omer, Marco Maffione, Hinsbergen Djj Van Nov 2017

Rapid Fore-Arc Extension And Detachment-Mode Spreading Following Subduction Initiation, Antony Morris, Mark W. Anderson, Ahmed Omer, Marco Maffione, Hinsbergen Djj Van

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Changes To Arctic Land Ice, Je Box, M Sharp, G Aðalgeirsdóttir, M Ananicheva, Et Al Nov 2017

Changes To Arctic Land Ice, Je Box, M Sharp, G Aðalgeirsdóttir, M Ananicheva, Et Al

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Intrinsic And Extrinsic Factors Drive Ontogeny Of Early-Life At-Sea Behaviour In A Marine Top Predator, Matt I.D. Carter, Deborah J.F. Russell, Clare B. Embling, Clint J. Blight, David Thompson, Philip J. Hosegood, Kimberley A. Bennett Nov 2017

Intrinsic And Extrinsic Factors Drive Ontogeny Of Early-Life At-Sea Behaviour In A Marine Top Predator, Matt I.D. Carter, Deborah J.F. Russell, Clare B. Embling, Clint J. Blight, David Thompson, Philip J. Hosegood, Kimberley A. Bennett

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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The Hydrothermal Alteration Of Carbonatite In The Fen Complex, Norway: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, And Implications For Rare Earth Element Resource Formation, C Marien, Ah Dijkstra, C Wilkins Nov 2017

The Hydrothermal Alteration Of Carbonatite In The Fen Complex, Norway: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, And Implications For Rare Earth Element Resource Formation, C Marien, Ah Dijkstra, C Wilkins

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

ABSTRACTThe Fen Complex in Norway consists of a ~583 Ma composite carbonatite-ijolite-pyroxenite diatreme intrusion. Locally, high grades (up to 1.6 wt.% total REE) of rare-earth elements (REE) are found in a hydrothermally altered, hematite-rich carbonatite known as rødbergite. The progressive transformation of primary igneous carbonatite to rødbergite was studied here using scanning electron microscopy and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry trace-element analysis of 23 bulk samples taken along a key geological transect. A primary mineral assemblage of calcite, dolomite, apatite, pyrite, magnetite and columbite with accessory quartz, baryte, pyrochlore, fluorite and REE fluorocarbonates was found to have transformed progressively into a …

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Respecting Young People’S Informal Learning: Circumventing Strategic Policy Evasions, Jocey Quinn Nov 2017

Respecting Young People’S Informal Learning: Circumventing Strategic Policy Evasions, Jocey Quinn

Plymouth Institute of Education

No abstract provided.

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Sensory Qualities Of Oysters Unaltered By A Short Exposure To Combined Elevated Pco2 And Temperature, Anaëlle J. Lemasson, Victor Kuri, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Stephen Fletcher, Roy Moate, Antony M. Knights Nov 2017

Sensory Qualities Of Oysters Unaltered By A Short Exposure To Combined Elevated Pco2 And Temperature, Anaëlle J. Lemasson, Victor Kuri, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Stephen Fletcher, Roy Moate, Antony M. Knights

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Reliance on the marine environment for the provision of food is ever-increasing, but future climate change threatens production. Despite this concern, the impact on seafood quality and success of the seafood industry is unknown. Using a short-term study, we test these concerns using a major aquaculture species-Crassostrea gigas-exposing them to three acidification and warming scenarios: (1) ambient pCO2 (~400 ppm) & control temperature (15°C), (2) ambient pCO2 (~400 ppm) & elevated temperature (20°C), (3) elevated pCO2 (~1,000 ppm) & elevated temperature (20°C). Oyster quality was assessed by scoring appearance, aroma, taste, and overall acceptability. A panel of …

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Discussion On ‘An Enigmatic Echinoid Spine From South Devon, Uk: Devonian Or Cretaceous?’, Proceedings Of The Yorkshire Geological Society , 61, 165–167, Mb Hart Nov 2017

Discussion On ‘An Enigmatic Echinoid Spine From South Devon, Uk: Devonian Or Cretaceous?’, Proceedings Of The Yorkshire Geological Society , 61, 165–167, Mb Hart

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The echinoid spine described by Donovan & Fearnhead (2017) is reportedly from close to the famous Wolborough Quarry [SX 852704], which is located just to the SW of Newton Abbot in south Devon. The Middle Devonian limestones of this quarry have been described by Scrutton (1978), Leveridge et al. (2003), Leveridge (2011) and Wilmut et al. (2014). As indicated by the authors, and previous research, cherts are exceedingly rare in these limestones.

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A Defining Moment: Transnational Nursing Education, N Arunasalam Oct 2017

A Defining Moment: Transnational Nursing Education, N Arunasalam

School of Nursing and Midwifery

A DEFINING MOMENT, Transnational Nursing Education by Dr Nirmala ARUNASALAM is a competent and accessible text focusing on nurse education. Recommended for teaching and learning as well as pedagogical courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is a must have and a must read in a world of “pseudo factum knowledge” where social and human oriented professions and scientific disciplines such as nursing are getting little attention. The depth of the background for this study, and the intimate self-reflection Dr Arunasalam provides for this monograph greatly enhances the quality of the study. This book is an insightful exploration of an …

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A New Occurrence Of The Early Jurassic Brachiopod Anarhynchia From The Canadian Cordillera Confirms Its Membership In Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems, J Palfy, Zsófia Kovács, Gregory D. Price, Attila Vörös Oct 2017

A New Occurrence Of The Early Jurassic Brachiopod Anarhynchia From The Canadian Cordillera Confirms Its Membership In Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems, J Palfy, Zsófia Kovács, Gregory D. Price, Attila Vörös

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Cold seeps, where seepage of hydrocarbon-rich fluids occurs in the sea floor, are sites that harbor highly specialized ecosystems associated with distinctive carbonate sediments. Although their Mesozoic record is scarce and patchy, it commonly includes dimerelloid rhynchonellide brachiopods. Here we report a monospecific assemblage of Anarhynchia from a limestone boulder of early Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) age in the Inklin Formation of the Whitehorse Trough in the Stikine terrane, from a locality at Atlin Lake in northern British Columbia. Specimens are among the largest known Mesozoic brachiopods, up to 9 cm in length, and described here as Anarhynchia smithi n. sp. …

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Effect Of Soil Saturation On Denitrification In A Grassland Soil, Gp Matthews, L Cardenas, R Bol, D Lewicka-Szczebak, A Gregory, W Whalley, T Misselbrook, D Scholefield, R Well Oct 2017

Effect Of Soil Saturation On Denitrification In A Grassland Soil, Gp Matthews, L Cardenas, R Bol, D Lewicka-Szczebak, A Gregory, W Whalley, T Misselbrook, D Scholefield, R Well

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is of major importance as a greenhouse gas and precursor of ozone (O3) destruction in the stratosphere mostly produced in soils. The soil-emitted N2O is generally predominantly derived from denitrification and, to a smaller extent, nitrification, both processes controlled by environmental factors and their interactions, and are influenced by agricultural management. Soil water content expressed as water-filled pore space (WFPS) is a major controlling factor of emissions and its interaction with compaction, has not been studied at the micropore scale. A laboratory incubation was carried out at different saturation levels for a grassland soil and emissions of …

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Studying The Role Of Axon Fasciculation During Development In A Computational Model Of The Xenopus Tadpole Spinal Cord, O Davis, R Merrison-Hort, Sr Soffe, R Borisyuk Oct 2017

Studying The Role Of Axon Fasciculation During Development In A Computational Model Of The Xenopus Tadpole Spinal Cord, O Davis, R Merrison-Hort, Sr Soffe, R Borisyuk

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

During nervous system development growing axons can interact with each other, for example by adhering together in order to produce bundles (fasciculation). How does such axon-axon interaction affect the resulting axonal trajectories, and what are the possible benefits of this process in terms of network function? In this paper we study these questions by adapting an existing computational model of the development of neurons in the Xenopus tadpole spinal cord to include interactions between axons. We demonstrate that even relatively weak attraction causes bundles to appear, while if axons weakly repulse each other their trajectories diverge such that they fill …

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Simvastatin As A Potential Disease-Modifying Therapy For Patients With Parkinson’S Disease: Rationale For Clinical Trial, And Current Progress, Camille B. Carroll, Richard K.H. Wyse Oct 2017

Simvastatin As A Potential Disease-Modifying Therapy For Patients With Parkinson’S Disease: Rationale For Clinical Trial, And Current Progress, Camille B. Carroll, Richard K.H. Wyse

Peninsula Medical School

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Human Responses And Non-Responses To Climatic Variations During The Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition In The Eastern Mediterranean, Neil Roberts, Jessie Woodbridge, Andrew Bevan, Alessio Palmisano, Stephen Shennan, Eleni Asouti Oct 2017

Human Responses And Non-Responses To Climatic Variations During The Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition In The Eastern Mediterranean, Neil Roberts, Jessie Woodbridge, Andrew Bevan, Alessio Palmisano, Stephen Shennan, Eleni Asouti

More Faculty of Science and Engineering Research

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. We review and evaluate human adaptations during the last glacial-interglacial climatic transition in southwest Asia. Stable isotope data imply that climatic change was synchronous across the region within the limits of dating uncertainty. Changes in vegetation, as indicated from pollen and charcoal, mirror step-wise shifts between cold-dry and warm-wet climatic conditions, but with lag effects for woody vegetation in some upland and interior areas. Palaeoenvironmental data can be set against regional archaeological evidence for human occupancy and economy from the later Epipalaeolithic to the aceramic Neolithic. Demographic change is evaluated from summed radiocarbon date probability distributions, …

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Agriculture Production As A Major Driver Of The Earth System Exceeding Planetary Boundaries, Jason M. Hall-Spencer Oct 2017

Agriculture Production As A Major Driver Of The Earth System Exceeding Planetary Boundaries, Jason M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Obstacle Avoidance Approaches For Autonomous Navigation Of Unmanned Surface Vehicles, Riccardo Polvara, Sanjay Sharma, Jian Wan, Andrew Manning, Robert Sutton Oct 2017

Obstacle Avoidance Approaches For Autonomous Navigation Of Unmanned Surface Vehicles, Riccardo Polvara, Sanjay Sharma, Jian Wan, Andrew Manning, Robert Sutton

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

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