A reappraisal of the Pelshenke test as a screening technique in the breeding of bread-making wheats for the United Kingdom

1975 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona M. Pushman ◽  
J. Bingham
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Grain Protein Content ◽  
N Fertilization ◽  
Bread Making ◽  
Wheat Varieties ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Gluten Quality ◽  
Grain Moisture ◽  
Growing Conditions ◽  
Selection Of

SUMMARYGrowing conditions and testing methods were varied to investigate the use of the Pelshenke test in breeding wheat varieties for good bread-making quality in the United Kingdom. Varieties of winter wheat representing a range of bread-making quality were consistently differentiated. Fresh compressed yeast gave greater varietal differences than did dried yeast but kneading time and grain moisture content were not critical. The values obtained were relatively insensitive to the early stages of germination, to the addition of α-amylase and to variation in grain protein content resulting from N fertilization and irrigation. Thus it appears that the Pelshenke test mainly reflects gluten quality, rather than the whole complex of characters which are integrated by baking tests, and the ranking of the varieties is sufficiently independent of environmental conditions to be of considerable value for selection of early generation breeding material.

scholarly journals United Kingdom : Good Ideas from Successful Cities : Municipal Leadership on Immigrant Integration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Turner
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Us ◽  
Selection Of

Our main report, Good Ideas from Successful Cities: Municipal Leadership in Immigrant Integration, explores these themes through a selection of nearly 40 profiles of municipal practice and policies from cities across Canada, the US, Europe and Australasia. In this companion report, United Kingdom: Good Ideas from Successful Cities, we present an additional snapshot of municipal leadership and excellence in immigrant integration from cities in the United Kingdom. Each of these five city profiles includes a selection of related international city practices to encourage comparative perspective and enriched learning

scholarly journals United Kingdom : Good Ideas from Successful Cities : Municipal Leadership on Immigrant Integration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Turner
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Us ◽  
Selection Of

Our main report, Good Ideas from Successful Cities: Municipal Leadership in Immigrant Integration, explores these themes through a selection of nearly 40 profiles of municipal practice and policies from cities across Canada, the US, Europe and Australasia. In this companion report, United Kingdom: Good Ideas from Successful Cities, we present an additional snapshot of municipal leadership and excellence in immigrant integration from cities in the United Kingdom. Each of these five city profiles includes a selection of related international city practices to encourage comparative perspective and enriched learning

Some of my friends have told me that most foreign doctors who go to the United Kingdom fail to get any job. I am interested in psychiatry; what is the situation?

BMJ ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 328 (7443) ◽  
pp. s132.2-s132
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Related Problem ◽  
Similar Question ◽  
Link Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Careers ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
The Right ◽  
Foreign Doctors ◽  
Selection Of

Got a career or related problem that needs answering? Can't find the right person to point you in the right direction? Log on to the Advice Zone (www.bmjcareers.com/advicezone) for reliable medical careers advice. You can post a question or see if one of our 300 advisers has already answered a similar question. Here is a selection of questions and answers posted on the site.

Translating Local Issues in Global Formats: The Case of Memes

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Michela Canepari
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Visual Perspective ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Local Varieties ◽  
Global Models ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Selection Of

The present article aims to study the phenomenon of memes, in the attempt to identify the level of globalization vis à vis localization these communicative, social and cultural products voice. This article therefore presents a small selection of memes from both the United Kingdom and Italy, and briefly analyses them from a linguistic and visual perspective. For reasons of space, the quantitative analysis of the corpus will not be discussed at length here. However, the qualitative analysis of the memes selected for this study will prove that the majority of the existing material, while adapting to global formats and visuals, often exploits regional and local varieties of language. Thus, since language is the expression of specific cultures, the analysis demonstrates how, despite globalization, local (and localized) features of the communities that create memes survive in their uniqueness. Hence, since memes are privileged forms of communication among younger members of society, the results point to a generation of youth that, despite the tendency to follow global models, is well aware of the traditional and local cultures they stem from and strive to keep them alive. On the basis of this analysis, the article finally argues that memes – like many other products of popular culture – represent a privileged arena which, if studied systematically through the tools of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, can reveal important aspects of the societies that produce them and their evolution. 

A Selection of GMPEs for the United Kingdom Based on Instrumental and Macroseismic Datasets

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 1378-1400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Villani ◽  
Barbara Polidoro ◽  
Rory McCully ◽  
Thomas Ader ◽  
Ben Edwards ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Ground Motion ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Stochastic Simulations ◽  
Motion Prediction ◽  
Ground Motion Prediction ◽  
Ground Acceleration ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Moderate Seismicity ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract In countries with low‐to‐moderate seismicity, the selection of appropriate ground‐motion prediction equations (GMPEs) to be used in a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) is a challenging step. Empirical observations of ground motion are limited, and GMPEs, when available, are generally based on stochastic simulations or adjusted empirical GMPEs from elsewhere. This article investigates the suitability of recent GMPEs to the United Kingdom. To this end, the spectral accelerations obtained from available instrumental ground‐motion data in the United Kingdom with magnitude lower than 4.5 are compared with the GMPEs’ predictions through the analysis of residuals and the application of statistical tests. To compensate for the scarcity of data for the magnitude range of interest in the PSHA, a macroseismic dataset is also considered. Macroseismic intensities are converted to peak ground acceleration (PGA) and statistically compared with the PGA predicted by the GMPEs. The GMPEs are then compared in terms of median ground‐motion prediction through Sammon’s maps to evaluate their similarities. The analyses from both datasets led to six suitable GMPEs, of which three are from the Next Generation Attenuation‐West2 project, one is European, one is based mainly on a Japanese dataset, and one is a stochastic GMPE developed specifically for the United Kingdom.

The Athlone Fellowship Scheme for the Practical Training in Industry of Canadian Engineering Graduates in Great Britain

1953 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-274
Author(s):  
W. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Postgraduate Training ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Constructive Criticism ◽  
And Training ◽  
Important System ◽  
Selection Of

This scheme, now in its third year of operation, is designed to bring to Great Britain every year thirty-eight Canadian graduates in engineering for post-graduate studies. The Fellowships have a duration of two years and are tenable in industry, in universities, or partly in each of these. The author has been connected with the scheme from its inception; he assists in the selection of the graduates in Canada and arranges for their location and training in the United Kingdom. The paper describes in some detail the origin, purpose, and operation of the scheme and raises many issues of interest and importance. The author also gives summaries of the reactions of Athlone Fellows who are now receiving postgraduate training in Great Britain. The purpose of the paper is twofold: to give information concerning a new and important system of Fellowships, and to evoke constructive criticism from professional engineers of its objects and operation.

scholarly journals Does Social Trust Influence Charitable Giving for NGOs?

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Halina Waniak‑Michalak ◽  
Ivana Perica
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Panel Regression ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of the paper is to find a link between the level of NGOs’ revenues and the trust in non‑governmental organisations (NGOs). We investigate if social trust, as measured by the Charities Aid Foundation, influences their charitable revenues. We analyse the revenues of NGOs in three countries: Poland, Croatia and the United Kingdom. We analyse the change in social trust in these countries and revenues in the years 2013–2017. The design and methodology approach includes a literature review and panel regression analysis. The main results of the panel regression analysis indicate that the amount of donations depends not only on the level of public trust but also on certain external and independent factors. We find that NGOs revenues vary from country to country due to different levels of economic development and wealth of countries. The results also show that apart from demographics, NGOs’ revenues and the donations they receive are also influenced by the philanthropic goal, the numer of years since it was established (the age of the organization) and the financing model. The research limitations include the selection of only a few countries for the analysis. This paper’s originality and value lie in the fact that the problem of low social trust in NGOs is analysed by linking it with the NGOs’ revenues.

scholarly journals First Report of Powdery Mildew on Azalea Cv. Mollis (Rhododendron japonicum × R. molle) in Italy

Plant Disease ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-329
Author(s):  
A. Garibaldi ◽  
G. Gilardi ◽  
D. Bertetti ◽  
M. L. Gullino
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Powdery Mildew ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
First Report ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Powdery Mildews ◽  
Initial Symptoms ◽  
Leaf Surfaces ◽  
Microscopy Examination ◽  
Selection Of

Rhododendron cultivation has a long history in northern Italy, where a wide selection of varieties and hybrids are grown. In summer 2001, a previously unknown powdery mildew was observed on azalea cv. Mollis (Rhododendron japonicum × R. molle) grown in several gardens in the province of Biella. Initial symptoms included chlorotic spots, followed by white fungal mycelia on both leaf surfaces. Eventually, infected leaves turned reddish and dropped prematurely. Fruit were also infected. On infected tissues, dark brown-to-black spherical cleistothecia developed, alone or in groups. The teleomorph was identified by light microscopy examination of cleistothecia. Cleistothecia measured 110 to 140 µm and were dark brown. They contained four to eight stalked or sessile asci that measured 35 to 45 µm × 40 to 55 µm, each containing six to eight ascospores. Ascospores were ellipsoid to ovoid and measured 12 to 18 µm × 20 to 25 µm. Cleistothecial characteristics were consistent with those described for Microsphaera azaleae but were different from those of the recently described species M. digitata reported in Belgium (1). The presence of conidia was rare in the specimens, so the anamorph could not be identified. To our knowledge, this is the first report of M. azaleae in Italy, but three outbreaks of powdery mildew on rhododendron were first reported in the United Kingdom on plants grown in glasshouses in the mid-1950s, 1969 and 1973 (1). Outdoors, powdery mildew was first reported on rhododendron in Europe in 1981. M. azaleae has been identified as the causal agent of rhododendron powdery mildew in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland (1). In most cases the disease is readily controlled by regular application of fungicides commonly used against powdery mildews of other crops. Reference: (1) A. J. Inman et al. J. Phytopathol. 148:17, 2000.

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