scholarly journals Distinguishing suicides of people reported missing from those not reported missing: retrospective Scottish cohort study

BJPsych Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Woolnough ◽  
Emily Magar ◽  
Graham Gibb
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
The Public ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Suicide Group

BackgroundUnderstanding what distinguishes the suicide of individuals reported missing (missing-suicides) from those of individuals not reported missing (other-suicides) may have preventative and/or operational utility and inform our knowledge of suicide.AimsTo assess whether specific epidemiological, sociodemographic or circumstantial characteristics differ between individuals reported missing and those not reported missing who take their own life.MethodContent analysis of Scottish Police Death Reports, detailing 160 suicides/undetermined deaths over a 3-year period in the North-East of Scotland.ResultsThose in the missing-suicide group were more likely to be older but did not differ from the other-suicide group on any other epidemiological or sociodemographic characteristics. Individuals in the other-suicide group were more likely to be found inadvertently by people known to them. The missing-suicide group took longer to find and were more likely to be located in natural outdoor locations by police/searchers or members of the public.ConclusionsIndividuals who die by suicide and who are reported as a missing person differ from those not reported as missing in terms of factors relating to location and how they are found but not epidemiological or sociodemographic characteristics.Declaration of interestNone.

scholarly journals Late antique domus in Skelani (Municipium Malvesiatium)

Starinar ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 197-220
Author(s):  
Nadezda Gavrilovic-Vitas ◽  
Bojan Popovic
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The North ◽  
Wall Heating ◽  
North Western ◽  
Main Entrance ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

During June and July 2014, at the site of Zadruzni Dom in Skelani, archaeological investigations of the late antique building were carried out, whose rooms were first discovered in the course of archaeological excavations in 2008. The building has a rectangular base, of a northeast-southwest orientation, with the discovered part measuring 20.90 x 30.90 m. What is distinguishable within the asymmetrical base is an entrance, along with eleven rooms, two of which have apses, and a peristyle, i.e. an inner courtyard with a roofed corridor surrounding it which connects all the rooms of the building. During the archaeological excavations, entrance thresholds and extremely well preserved mortar floors with mortar skirting were noted in most rooms, along with traces of fresco painting on the walls and mosaic floors, executed in the opus tesselatum technique, observed in several rooms, the peristyle and the encompassing corridor. The discovered mosaic fragments are decorated with geometric motifs in the form of a swastika, a Solomon?s knot, a square, a rhomboid, overlapping circles, etc. and floral motifs of ivy and petals, as well as a double braid motif. Small but, unfortunately, fragmented pieces of a mosaic with a figural representation were discovered in the central part of the peristyle, while the mosaic in room K was decorated with a motif portraying the winged head of Medusa. Two construction phases were noted, an older and a younger, with the walls, which were two Roman feet wide and built from dressed stone, and the older mortar floor belonging to the older construction phase, and the second, younger construction phase comprising mosaics, fresco painting, the younger mortar floor and two furnaces. Contemplating the planimetry of the building, one gets the impression of the rooms being divided between two parts - public and private, whereby the public part of the building would be located near the main entrance hall and would comprise rooms A, B, C, D and F, with mortar floors and traces of fresco painting on the walls. The other, possibly private, part of the building would include five rooms G, H, I, J and K and the inner courtyard. Rooms I, J and K had floor and wall heating, while rooms G and H had an arched apse and possibly functioned as a reception hall and/or a stibadium. The hallway with mosaics, which flanks the inner courtyard, was most likely roofed. Traces of burning in the north-western corridor testify to the destruction of the building in a fire. Based on the architectural elements and the traces of fresco painting and mosaics in the building at the site of Zadruzni Dom in Skelani, it can be deduced that this is a late antique building which can roughly be dated to the period between the end of the 3rd and the mid-4th century AD, and whose lavish decoration implies that it was owned by an affluent resident of Skelani from the aforementioned period.

scholarly journals Attitudes towards community mental health care of residents in North London

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 731-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sawsan Reda
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Facilities ◽  
Hospital Closure

The closure of large psychiatric hospitals and the opening of community-based mental health facilities is a central part of British health policy for the care of people with mental illness. The North East Thames Regional Health Authority's (NETRHA) psychiatric hospitals closure plan started in 1985. As part of this a programme was established to assess the closure process (Leff, 1993). This study was carried out between 1988 and 1992 and was designed to study the reactions of the public to the hospital closure decision (Reda, 1993).

scholarly journals Intra-Specific Venom Variation in the Australian Coastal Taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus

Toxins ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Tasoulis ◽  
Anjana Silva ◽  
Punnam Chander Veerati ◽  
Mark Baker ◽  
Wayne C. Hodgson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Snake Venom ◽  
Geographical Variation ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Population Variation ◽  
The Other ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Specific Variation ◽  
Two Populations

Intra-specific venom variation has the potential to provide important insights into the evolution of snake venom, but remains a relatively neglected aspect of snake venom studies. We investigated the venom from 13 individual coastal taipans Oxyuranus scutellatus from four localities on the north-east coast of Australia, spanning a distance of 2000 km. The intra-specific variation in taipan venom was considerably less than the inter-specific variation between it and the other Australian elapids to which it was compared. The electrophoretic venom profile of O. scutellatus was visually different to six other genera of Australian elapids, but not to its congener inland taipan O. microlepidotus. There was minimal geographical variation in taipan venom, as the intra-population variation exceeded the inter-population variation for enzymatic activity, procoagulant activity, and the abundance of neurotoxins. The pre-synaptic neurotoxin (taipoxin) was more abundant than the post-synaptic neurotoxins (3FTx), with a median of 11.0% (interquartile range (IQR): 9.7% to 18.3%; range: 6.7% to 23.6%) vs. a median of 3.4% (IQR: 0.4% to 6.7%; range: 0% to 8.1%). Three taipan individuals almost completely lacked post-synaptic neurotoxins, which was not associated with geography and occurred within two populations. We found no evidence of sexual dimorphism in taipan venom. Our study provides a basis for evaluating the significance of intra-specific venom variation within a phylogenetic context by comparing it to the inter-specific and inter-generic variation. The considerable intra-population variation we observed supports the use of several unpooled individuals from each population when making inter-specific comparisons.

A ‘Stracathro’-gated Temporary Camp at Raeburnfoot, Dumfriesshire, Scotland

Britannia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Rebecca H. Jones ◽  
Peter Mckeague
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Ground Plan ◽  
Roman World ◽  
North East ◽  
The North

ABSTRACTThe review of a series of oblique aerial photographs recording a Neolithic bank barrow and adjacent post-medieval feld-system identifed the ground-plan of a Roman temporary camp on the rising ground to the north-east of the Roman fort at Raeburnfoot, Dumfriesshire. Further analysis, later confrmed by feld survey, recognised the presence of at least two upstanding gateways of a form usually referred to as the ‘Stracathro’-type and so far only known in Scotland. All the other examples are known only as cropmarks, making the camp at Raeburnfoot the sole visible earthwork camp with these unusual entrances known in the Roman world.

scholarly journals XI.—Notes on the Geology of the Eildon Hills, in Roxburghshire

1853 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-217
Author(s):  
James D. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Eastern Slope ◽  
The West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
North Bank ◽  
The Town

The following remarks, being the result of a careful examination of a small district of country characteristic of the relations of the trap formations, are perhaps worthy of being recorded; although the general features of the county of Roxburgh have been very clearly stated in a paper by Mr Milne, published in the 15th volume of the Edinburgh Transactions.The outburst of porphyritic trap forming the conspicuous small group of the Eildon Hills, may be stated to be surrounded by the characteristic greywacke of the south of Scotland. It forms an elongated patch on the map, extending from the west end of Bowden Muir in the direction of the town of Selkirk, and running from west-south-west to east-north-east (true) towards Bemerside Hill, on the north bank of the Tweed. The breadth is variable, probably less than is generally supposed; but it cannot be accurately ascertained, owing to the accumulated diluvium which covers the whole south-eastern slope of this elevated ridge. On this account, my observations on the contact of rocks have been almost entirely confined to the northern and western boundaries of the trap, although the other side was examined with equal care.

The School in the Park. A purpose for our future: 0 km water.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Paolessi
Keyword(s):  
Tap Water ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
School Year ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Direct Observations ◽  
Regional Interest ◽  
Hotel Managers

<p>IPSSEOA “via De Gasperi” is a hotel management high school specialized in reception and “enogastronomy” (food and wine). Over 750 students are divided into different sections according to specialization and study for five years. The school is located in Palombara Sabina, in the north east province of Rome, on the edge of a protected area of ​​regional interest, Parco Naturale Regionale dei Monti Lucretili. For several years the school has been carrying out environmental education programs oriented towards sustainability and the acquisition of good environmental habits by students and their families through targeted projects, workshops and excursions.</p><p>We believe that an educational institution that trains potential kitchen and hotel managers should have as one of its main purpose the care of people and environment. Therefore, the school year 2019-2020 project focuses on reducing plastic consumption by encouraging the use of public water, which comes from some springs, “Sorgenti Le Capore” in the territory of the Monti Lucretili Park. Students will personally test the goodness of tap water through excursions, workshops, direct observations and analysis of samples. Even the emotional side and the sense of belonging will be solicited, also thanks to the support of associations and entities present in the area. In particular, the "Terraemani" association and the APS (Acqua Pubblica Sabina) organization that manages the public aqueduct will be involved in the project. Then, students will have the opportunity to rationally choose which water to consume, public or bottled water. The challenge will therefore be to promote 0 km water.</p><p>Presentation type preference: Poster</p><p> </p><p> </p>

The biting habits of Aedes (Skusea) pembaensis Theo. and some other mosquitos of Faza, Pate Island, East Africa

1964 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. C. van Someren ◽  
M. Furlong
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moon Phase ◽  
Moon Phases ◽  
Biphasic Pattern ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Biting Behaviour ◽  
Made In

Descriptions are given of 24-hour biting catches, made in and around Faza, a village on Pate Island, off the north-east coast of Kenya, East Africa.Aedes pembaensis Theo. was the predominant mosquito in these catches but fair numbers of Aedes mombasaensis Mattingly were also taken; the biting cycles of these two are discussed. Six other species were taken in small numbers.For Ae. pembaensis, biting cycles calculated on catches grouped for site, moon phases, neap tides and spring tides show that both moon and tide and light intensity influence the biting behaviour. Different but recurring patterns occur with various combinations of these factors.For Ae. mombasaensis, the cycles have a very constant biphasic pattern. Catches grouped for moon phases, tides and catch sites, as for Ae. pembaensis, show that more biting females are taken at neap tides than at spring tides. Two patterns of behaviour occur, one associated with spring tides and the other with neap tides. An even level of biting activity occurs during the night with intense and prolonged moonlight; otherwise moon-phase cycles have little effect on biting behaviour.It is felt that 24-hour biting catches can give useful information on behaviour patterns but it is desirable to have a long series of catches to analyse. For the purpose of calculating biting cycles, the results of catches showing similar modifications in behaviour should be treated separately.

‘The Old Work’ at the Roman Public Baths at Wroxeter

1966 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-239
Author(s):  
Graham Webster ◽  
Paul Woodfield
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
Public Baths ◽  
Northern Side ◽  
The Town

The Public Baths in the Roman town of Viroconium, the tribal centre of the Cornovii, have long attracted the attention of the antiquary through the miraculous preservation above ground of a length of walling. This is in fact one of the only three substantial portions of walls of Roman civil buildings in Britain which have survived the stone robbers of medieval and later times. The other two, the Mint Wall at Lincoln and the Jewry Wall at Leicester must owe their survival to being incorporated in later buildings in the middle of a medieval town. But at Wroxeter ‘The Old Work’, as it has been called since Camden's time, stands today as it has stood for centuries in the midst of cornfields. Why this wall should have stood while others were demolished and even their foundations grubbed out must remain a problem. It was clearly a place to begin excavations and Thomas Wright records that ‘on the 3rd February 1859 a pit was sunk against the northern side of the ‘Old Wall’. His excavation developed to the north and revealed the long basilican hall which can now be recognized as the palaestra of the Baths, although at the time this was not fully understood. Indeed after further work by G. E. Fox and W. H. St. John Hope in 1896 and 1899, summarized by F. Haverfield, the identification of this as the Basilica or lawcourts of the town persisted.

Ophlitaspongia and Ophlitaspongia papilla reinstated, and a new species of Ophlitaspongia described (Porifera: Demospongiae: Microcionidae)

1999 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.M. Howson ◽  
S.J. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
The Other ◽  
East Atlantic ◽  
Halichondria Panicea ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Ophlitaspongia (Porifera: Microcionidae) from wave-exposed sublittoral rock in the north-east Atlantic is described and compared to the two other species recorded from the genus in the north-east Atlantic. The species known as Ophlitaspongia seriata is considered to be a junior synonym of Halichondria panicea. Consequently, the name O. papilla has been reinstated. The other recorded species O. basifixa, is from deep water. Ophlitaspongia basifixa has characters which differentiate it from Ophlitaspongia sp. nov. The genus Ophlitaspongia has been separated from related genera and reinstated for species in the North Atlantic.

Sorghum midge, Contarinia sorghicola (Coq.), and other causes of grain-sorghum loss in Ghana

1965 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bowden
Keyword(s):  
Grain Sorghum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Threshold ◽  
Considerable Proportion ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Differential Attack ◽  
Contarinia Sorghicola ◽  
Sorghum Midge ◽  
North East ◽  
The North

An account is given of the biology and importance of sorghum midge, Contarinia sorghicola (Coq.), in Ghana. It is distributed throughout the interior savannah areas and because of traffic in grain sorghum (guinea corn) has spread into forest localities and some places in the coastal savannahs. Host-plants comprise all varieties of Sorghum vulgare sens. lat. and the grass Sorghum arundinaceum. Its occurrence in Pennisetum polystachyon has not been confirmed.The biology of C. sorghicola in Ghana does not differ significantly from that described elsewhere. Adult emergence occurs early in the morning and peak oviposition is from 0800 to 1000 hr., shortly after emergence. The majority of spikelets contain only one larva or pupa, but 64 per cent. of immature stages (larvae + pupae) nevertheless occur two or more per spikelet. Density per spikelet is related to rate of infestation, with maximum density at about 2·5 immature stages per spikelet at infestation rates of about 40 per cent. The mean density over two seasons was l·7 immature stages per spikelet. The cycle from egg to adult requires 17 to 21 days to complete.The onset of diapause in larvae and the eventual breaking of diapause may be the consequences of threshold reactions to moisture and temperature, with a cumulative process operating in breaking diapause. It is suggested that observed differences between northern and southern localities in dates of appearance of adults and subsequent infestations indicate that moisture is the critical threshold factor in the north and temperature in the south.Parasites are of little importance. Only Eupelmus popa Gir. has been identified from Ghana, and it exerts no influence on population levels.A most important relation exists between midge infestation and time of main flowering of the crop. When main flowering is early in the season, midge attack is very low, below 5 per cent. or even non-existent, but as dates of flowering are delayed so the percentage of spikelets infested rises rapidly, an infestation of 81 per cent, having been recorded in a late crop. In general, it seems that infestation is heavier in the less severe climate of the Guinea savannah than in the Sudan savannah areas.A sampling method is described in which three categories, ‘sound’, ‘midge attacked’ and ‘others’ (which included all undersized or damaged grains not resulting from midge attack) were set up. In respect of midge, it was shown that attack was evenly distributed over the head of sorghum but that in some cases the ‘others’ category gave highest rates at the bottom of the head. This, it is suggested, may be due to differential attack by various species of Hemiptera, which may be responsible for a considerable proportion of the grains included in the ‘others’ class. Surveys carried out in 1952 and 1953 showed that midge was not a very serious problem, infestation rates above 10–15 per cent, being unusual except in late-flowering crops. On the other hand, losses hi the ‘others’ category were rarely below 15 per cent. and were often well over 30 per cent., indicating a major source of loss.It is confirmed that Nunaba, which typifies the group of varieties in which the glumes remain closed at anthesis, is resistant to midge. It is also confirmed that this resistance breaks down in the absence of a more favoured alternative variety. There is evidence that susceptibility to loss in the ‘others’ category varies between some Nunaba × Belko crosses, one cross, AA226, showing an appreciably smaller loss than two others; the variety Kamolgu may also be less susceptible.It is suggested oft the basis of field observation in Ghana and references to literature that Hemiptera are the primary cause of loss in the ‘others’ class; in Ghana, Riptortus spp. and Mirperus spp. are important. If this damage is consistently serious, the problem of measures needed to reduce losses is complicated. Midge could, in the long run, be controlled or even eliminated as an economic pest by adoption of practices leading to early flowering in periods before the appearance of midge. In Ghana, these periods are given for the main sorghum areas of the north and north-east, and it is suggested that development of varieties of shorter maturity periods would assist by easing the congestion at normal sowing times in May and June. There is no significant relation between percentages recorded in the ‘others’ category and flowering date, so that other methods of control must be looked for, and it is suggested that search for resistant, or less susceptible, varieties offers a promising avenue of approach. Evidence is presented that losses from both midge and ‘others’ can be reduced by a 1 per cent. DDT spray, but chemical control is unlikely to be of general use.The most urgent need is for a general investigation of causes of loss in sorghum, with particular attention to the agents other than midge that are responsible for what appear to be large annual losses. Standard trials covering a range of conditions and flowering dates, and aimed at establishing the economic status of the sorghum midge when related to dates of flowering, are proposed. These would also provide much of the information necessary for the formulation of further programmes for the study of the other agents.

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