scholarly journals Frank Pasquill, 8 September 1914 - 15 October 1994

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 277-288 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Income ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Research Fellowship ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Village ◽  
And Diffusion

Frank Pasquill, who made a major contribution to our understanding of atmospheric turbulence and diffusion over more than four decades, was born on 8 September 1914 in the village of Trimdon, County Durham. He was the only son of Joseph and Elizabeth Pasquill ( née Rudd), both of whom came from Atherton, near Manchester. Joseph Pasquill, one of a large family, left school at the age of twelve to supplement the family income by working in a local mine. Frank was the first member of the family to obtain a secondary education. After attending the local primary school in Trimdon village, Frank obtained an 11-plus place at the Henry Smith Secondary School in Hartlepool which emphasized discipline and hard work. From there he obtained an open scholarship in physics and the Pemberton Scholarship in Science to University College, Durham, in 1932. The university scholarships, together with a County scholarship and an endowed scholarship from Sherburn House, Durham, covered the tuition fees and living expenses so, for the first time in his life, Frank was free of financial worries. He graduated with First Class Honours in physics in 1935 and in consequence was awarded the Pemberton Research Fellowship tenable for two years in University College. This gave him a total of five very happy years in the Castle, where scientists were in the minority but well tolerated by the students of theology and the humanities.

scholarly journals Two new records of flowering plants from Lesotho

Bothalia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khotso Kobisi ◽  
Lerato S. Kose ◽  
Annah Moteetee
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Plant Identification ◽  
The Family ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Background: A number of books, articles and checklists have been published on Lesotho’s flora. The species presented here have been recorded for South Africa but have not previously been recorded for Lesotho.Objectives: As part of a study aimed at updating biodiversity records of the southern parts of Lesotho (Qacha’s Nek and Quthing districts), with the main focus of compiling a checklist for the Sehlabethebe National Park, this report presents plant species that have until now not been recorded for the Lesotho flora.Method: Several field trips were undertaken between 2004 and 2009. Plant identification was done based on observation and photographic records. After the compilation of the checklist, it became clear that two of the species observed had not been previously recorded for Lesotho. A follow-up trip was carried out in February 2016, during which plant specimens of the presumed new records were collected and deposited at the National University of Lesotho Herbarium (ROML) [and the University of Johannesburg Herbarium (JRAU)]. Plant identification was confirmed by experts in the family Apocynaceae.Results: Two species not previously recorded for Lesotho, namely Ceropegia africana subsp. barklyi and Duvalia caespitosa subsp. caespitosa, were found during the exploration of the southern parts of Lesotho which included the Sehlabathebe National Park.Conclusions: The fact that two species have been recorded in Lesotho for the first time clearly indicates that documentation of the flora of Lesotho needs to be updated. This work is therefore regarded as complementary to previous publications on the Lesotho flora.

Pem Davidson Buck,Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001. viii + 288 pp. $55.00 cloth; $21.00 paper.

2004 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 218-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Arnesen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Working People ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Class Power ◽  
First Time

Pem Davidson Buck's book is intended to offer readers a view from under the sink (1). Initially rejecting a career for which her middle-class upbringing had prepared her, Buck moved from Pennsylvania to central Kentucky, where she and her husband became back-to-the-landers, growing and canning food and raising goats and calves, sometimes supplementing the family income by working as part-time day laborers on tobacco farms, as hod-carriers, and as plumbers. But it's not so easy to leave a middle-class liberal upbringing behind, especially down on the farm living below the poverty level. Working as a helper in the small plumbing and heating business she operated with her husband, Buck spent time lying on her back on the floors of the wealthy fixing leaks; from that perspective under the sink she looked up and saw fine furniture and other manifestations of wealth she could not afford. One thing led to another: seeing the world as if for the first time, “it appeared oppressive” (2). People, working people, that is, work extremely hard, and what do they get for their efforts? Boney fingers.

scholarly journals Tobacco smoking perception and practice among pre-university students in a government boy’s college: a cross sectional study

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 440
Author(s):  
Shashidhar S. Basagoudar ◽  
Chandrashekhar R. ◽  
Shivappa Hatanoor ◽  
Rahul C. Kirte
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Smoking ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Peer Involvement ◽  
Familial Support ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
First Time ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Background: Tobacco is the single most preventable cause of death in the world hence this study was aimed at detecting the prevalence of tobacco smoking among students of a government pre-university college for boys, to find out the perception of students about tobacco smoking and factors related to the tobacco smoking among students.Methods:A cross sectional study conducted among purposively selected students of Government Pre-university College for boys. Data was collected through pre-structured questionnaire. Tobacco smoking was assessed by self reporting by filling the questionnaire.Results: The prevalence of ever use of tobacco smoking was 13.7% and current smokers were 5.6%. Mean age of starting smoking was 14.16 yrs. 66% of students were aware that tobacco smoking can lead to cancer. In majority (81.1%) of ever smoked students, their friends have motivated them to smoke for the first time. 93% of students knew that passive smoking is injurious to health. 83% of students felt that tobacco should be banned. Having a smoker in the family (p=0.035) and a student residing away from parents (p=0.007) are positively associated with ever smoking tobacco.Conclusions:Tobacco smoking is prevalent among the boys of government pre-university college students. Majority of students have better perception about tobacco smoking. Familial support and peer involvement are crucial in controlling the tobacco smoking. 

scholarly journals Flora of the Cemeterial Territories of Volgograd and the Village of Arzgir of Stavropol Territory

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Victoria Samokish ◽  
◽  
Vadim Sagalaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
State University ◽  
Regional Network ◽  
Standard Methods ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
The University ◽  
Available Information ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Village

For the first time, the article provides information about the features of the plant community of the cemeterial territories of Volgograd and the village of Arzgir of Stavropol Territory. The inventory of plants was carried out by the route method. Each route was about 10 km. For the first time, such cemetery territories were studied: the cemetery of the village of Gornaya Polyana and the Kirov cemetery in Volgograd, cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2. in the village of Arzgir of Stavropol Territory. The identification of samples was carried out by standard methods in the Laboratory of Experimental Biology of Volgograd State University (VolSU). The collected species are stored in the Botanical Herbarium of the University. The article presents an annotated list of cemeteria plants, including 44 species, indicating data on habitats and the date of collection. This annotated list will be the basis for conducting monitoring studies in the field of environmental protection, as well as optimizing the regional network of protected areas. A comparative analysis of the flora of the studied territories was carried out, according to which a slight difference was revealed. This difference is explained by the fact that the cemeterial territories of Volgograd is located inside the largest urbanized city, unlike the small village of Arzgir, and the species composition of plants in these two territories depends on the person because most of the species are cultivated. The data obtained as a result of the study will be used to develop questions of systematics, geography and ecology of plants. The revealed diversity of plants in the studied regions expands our knowledge about the ecology and distribution of species, allows us to systematize and generalize the available information, and also makes it possible to predict further botanical finds.

scholarly journals In Austrian, Polish and Soviet Lviv: prosopographical portrait of Markiyan-Orest Smishko

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 11-46
Author(s):  
Natalia Bulyk
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
The Family ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

This article is dedicated to famous Lviv archaeologist Markian-Orest Smishko, whose 120-th anniversary is celebrated by the scientific community on November 7, 2020. The life and scientific activity of archaeologists during periods of different political regimes are displayed on the basis of a large source base. Lion’s share of the researcher’s archives is preserved in Lviv. However, most of them, in particular, materials from the family archive, were introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. M. Smishko was born, lived and worked all his life in Lviv. His formation as an archaeologist can be dated back to the interwar period and is associated with the Polish University of Lviv. Till 1939, he discovered, researched, and put into scientific circulation a large number of archaeological sites that made his name well-known. Special place in his scientific research of this time belongs to sites of the Early Roman period. Simultaneously, M. Smishko conducted classes for students, took part on scientific grants, organized archaeological collection of the University and restored archaeological finds. He was one of L. Kozłowski’s favorite pupils. The next stage of M. Smishko’s life is connected with academic archeology of Lviv. From 1940 to 1961, M. Smishko headed the Department of Archeology, which was a leading academic institution in western Ukraine. Initially, it was Lviv Department of the Institute of Archeology of Academy of Sciences of USSR, and since February 1951 – Department of Archeology of the Institute of Social Sciences of Academy of Sciences of USSR. Here M. Smishko showed himself best as a scientist and organizer of academic activity, carried out his most resonant field research, published most important scientific works, including «Карпатські кургани І тисячоліття нашої ери» («Carpathian barrows of the first millennium AD») (1960) in which he distinguished a separate archaeological culture of Carpathian Tumuli, defended his doctoral dissertation (1965), raised a whole constellation of his pupils and followers. Key words: Markian Smishko, barrows, cemeteries, burial sites, Early Slavic archeology, Roman period, Carpathian Tumuli culture, glass workshop, Komariv.

scholarly journals Alfred Young, 1873 - 1940

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 761-778 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
Edward Young ◽  
Justice Of The Peace

Alfred Young was born at Birchfield, Farnworth, near Widnes, Lancashire, on 16 April 1873. He died after a short illness on Sunday, 15 December 1940. He was the youngest son of Edward Young, a prosperous Liverpool merchant and a Justice of the Peace for the county. His father married twice and had a large family, eleven living to grow up. The two youngest sons of the two branches of the family rose to scientific distinction: Sydney Young, of the elder family, became the distinguished chemist of Owen’s College, Manchester, University College, Bristol, and finally, for many years, of Trinity College, Dublin. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in his thirty-sixth year and died in 1937. Alfred, who was fifteen years his junior, was elected Fellow in 1934, at the age of sixty, in recognition of his mathematical contributions to the algebra of invariants and the theory of groups, a work to which he had devoted over ten years of academic life followed by thirty years of leisure during his duties as Rector of a country parish. Recognition of his remarkable powers came late but swiftly: he was admitted to the Fellowship in the year when his name first came up for election. In 1879 the family moved to Bournemouth, and in due course the younger brothers went to school and later to a tutor, under whom Alfred suffered for his brain power, being the only boy considered worth keeping in.

Thomas Neville George, 13 May 1904 - 18 June 1980

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 198-217
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Family Background ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Moral Belief ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Socialist Politics

Thomas Neville George, later renowned as a Carboniferous stratigrapher and palaeontologist and also as a geomorphologist, was born in Morriston, Swansea, on 13 May 1904, being the elder of two children and the only son of Thomas Rupert George (1873-1933) and Elizabeth George (née Evans, 1875-1937). The family background on both sides was dominated by school teaching driven by a deep-seated moral belief in the ability of education to improve and enrich the lives of otherwise impoverished folk. His father, Thomas Rupert George, had attended the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and originally came from Port Eynon. He became a school teacher and eventually headmaster in a Swansea school but much of his time was given to Socialist politics, particularly in organizing the local Trades and Labour Council, of which he was an honorary secretary. Neville’s mother, Elizabeth, was a school teacher from Swansea Training College and for a short time taught her son at his first primary school. She came from a chapel-going family, whereas his father did not, and Neville attended chapel sporadically until he was eight but not thereafter.

THE AGE OF MENARCHE IN LONDON IN 1870

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-300
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
College Hospital ◽  
University College ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Age Of Menarche

The following statistics were obtained from women who appeared at the University College Hospital (in 1870) to be attended in their confinement. In 2,696 cases menstruation occurred for the first time- From these cases it would appear most common at 14 years of age, then 15, 16, 13, 17, 12, 18, 19, 20, 10. The mean age in these cases is 14.96 years nearly.

scholarly journals Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, 1891-1970

1971 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Sea Of Azov ◽  
Private Lessons ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
The University

Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch was born at Berdjansk, on the Sea of Azov, on 24 January 1891, the fourth child of the family of four sons and two daughters of Samuel and Eva Besicovitch. By descent the family belonged to the Karaim people, whose ancestors were the Khazars. The once powerful kingdom of the Khazars (from the 7th to the 11th centuries) stretched between the Volga and the Dnieper. The conversion of sects of the Khazars by the Karaite Jews led to their taking the name Karaims. Their language was originally Turkish of the Qipchaq group but is now mostly Russian. Samuel Besicovitch was a jeweller by trade but, after losses by theft, he gave up his shop and took employment as a cashier. He married Eva when she was 15, and they had to live frugally to bring up their large family. All the children were talented. Moreover, they were united by strong bonds of affection. They all studied at the University at St Petersburg, the older ones in turn earning money in their spare time by giving private lessons and helping to support the younger. All the children gained high qualifications, one brother of A.S. being the author of a number of mathematical books, and another a doctor of medicine. The two daughters both kept up independent careers after marriage. In later life the sons and daughters bore witness to the intelligence of their mother and agreed that, if she had not been cut off from higher education by marrying so young and having children, she would have shown conspicuous ability, notably in mathematics. A.S. acknowledged that he owed to his father (twenty-five years older than his mother) a stern encouragement to persevere to the highest standards. From an early age the boy had shown extraordinary aptitude for solving mathematical problems. One day he brought a textbook to his father saying ‘I have been able to solve every problem except one in this book’. His father withheld praise for this achievement until A.S. had successfully solved the remaining problem.

scholarly journals William John Pugh, 28 July 1892 - 18 March 1974

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 485-495
Keyword(s):  
Birth Certificate ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Village School ◽  
Football Team ◽  
University College ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
Successful Candidate

William John Pugh was born in the village of Westbury in West Shropshire on 28 July 1892, the only son of John Pugh by his second wife Harriet. John Pugh was described as a master wheelwright on his son’s birth certificate but he subsequently became a coal merchant. In reminiscence, William Pugh tended to attribute his pursuit of academic excellence mainly to encouragement from his mother although he may well have acquired his fluency of exposition and love of teaching from his father, who was a non-conformist lay preacher of some renown in the district between Shrewsbury and Welshpool. The probability is that both his parents exerted a considerable influence on him because, with his step-brothers and step-sisters already adult and away from home, he grew up in reality as the only son of a middle-aged couple. In due course he attended the village school in Westbury and won a scholarship which took him to Welshpool County School. There his innate versatility began to manifest itself as he became captain of the first XI football team, Head Boy, and successful candidate for a place in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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