scholarly journals Extreme territorial aggression by urban Peregrine Falcons toward Common Buzzards in South-West England

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Dixon ◽  
Andrew Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
City Centre ◽  
Territorial Aggression ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
South West ◽  
Peregrine Falcons ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Number Frequency ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
South West England

Abstract Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) breeding on a city centre church in Exeter, in the south-west of England, have been studied in detail since first occupation in 1997. During this period, changes in both male and female falcons have been recorded. Following the arrival of a new female Peregrine in 2009, a dramatic change in behaviour towards Common Buzzards (Buteo buteo) on passage over the city was noted. Buzzards flying over Exeter are attacked by the falcons, especially so when in proximity to the church. We have attempted to document these attacks through our own observations, with additional information from local residents and wildlife organisations. Further records have come from veterinary surgeries and wildlife rehabilitators regarding injured buzzards found in the city. This paper documents the extreme levels of territorial aggression as demonstrated by the pair of Peregrines during cooperative attacks on Buzzards. We reveal this unique interspecific behaviour by summarising the number, frequency, timing and outcome of attacks undertaken over an eight-year period. We describe and illustrate the strategy employed by the Peregrines during a typical attack, plus consider implications on breeding productivity and the future scenarios should one of the current pair be replaced.

scholarly journals Building a predictive machine learning model of gentrification in Sydney

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Thackway ◽  
Matthew Kok Ming Ng ◽  
Chyi Lin Lee ◽  
Christopher Pettit
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
City Centre ◽  
North West ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
South West ◽  
Socioeconomic Index ◽  
Machine Learning Model ◽  
Neighbourhood Change ◽  
The City

In an era of rapid urbanisation and increasing wealth, gentrification is an urban phenomenon impacting many cities around the world. The ability of policymakers and planners to better understand and address gentrification-induced displacement hinges upon proactive intervention strategies. It is in this context that we build a tree-based machine learning (ML) model to predict neighbourhood change in Sydney. Change, in this context, is proxied by the Socioeconomic Index for Advantage and Disadvantage, in addition to census and other ancillary predictors. Our models predict gentrification from 2011-2016 with a balanced accuracy of 74.7%. Additionally, the use of an additive explanation tool enables individual prediction explanations and advanced feature contribution analysis. Using the ML model, we predict future gentrification in Sydney up to 2021. The predictions confirm that gentrification is expanding outwards from the city centre. A spill-over effect is predicted to the south, west and north-west of former gentrifying hotspots. The findings are expected to provide policymakers with a tool to better forecast where likely areas of gentrification will occur. This future insight can then inform suitable policy interventions and responses in planning for more equitable cities outcomes, specifically for vulnerable communities impacted by gentrification and neighbourhood change.

scholarly journals Understanding our value; assessing the nature of the impact of library services

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (105) ◽  
pp. 62-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bawden ◽  
Andrew Calvert ◽  
Lyn Robinson ◽  
Christine Urquhart ◽  
Colin Bray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
South West ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Information Requests ◽  
South West England

This paper reports an approach to assessing the nature of the impact and benefit of library services, based on the concepts introduced in Urquhart's Value Project for healthcare information services. Two studies are described and compared. A project in the City of London public library service examined the benefits obtained from specific information requests. A project in several public library services in South West England examined the value obtained from the borrowing and reading of books, linking this with categories of learning objectives. These studies showed the promise, and also the difficulties, of adapting existing impact frameworks to understand the nature of the impact and value of library services

Recent Work in Rome

Antiquity ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 36 (144) ◽  
pp. 262-270
Author(s):  
J. B. Ward-Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Poor Quality ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
South West ◽  
South Wall ◽  
Set Up ◽  
End Wall ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Published Account

After the feverish archaeological activity of the Fascist era, the postwar years in Rome have been a period of relative calm. There have been a few major discoveries, such as the Vatican cemetery and the new catacomb of the Via Latina, the recently published account of which is unfortunately marred by the poor quality of the colour-plates, inexcusable in a volume of this price. On the whole, however, excavation has very sensibly been diverted to clearing up specific problems, notably in the Forum and Palatine, and students of Roman topography and monuments have had a chance to pause and take stock. The results of this much-needed stock-taking are just beginning to appear, and very valuable they are proving to be.One of the most important and remarkable monuments of classical antiquity to have come down to us, at any rate in part, is the great marble plan of Rome which Septimius Severus set up on the end wall of a large room opening off the south-west corner of the Forum of Peace, a wall which is now the outer south wall of the church of SS Cosmas and Damian. The fragments recovered since their first recognition in 1562 represent barely a tenth of the total inscribed surface, and many of these were lost before, in 1741, the collection passed from the Farnese family into the safe-keeping of the city authorities, and are known to us only from drawings. But what has survived is fundamental for the reconstruction of the topography of classical Rome and for the study of its lost monuments.

The ammonite succession in the Lower Oxford Clay and Kellaways beds at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and the zones of the Callovian stage

1955 ◽  
Vol 239 (664) ◽  
pp. 215-264 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
West Germany ◽  
North West ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
South West ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Callovian Stage ◽  
Lower Callovian ◽  
South West England

The paper describes temporary sections through the Lower Oxford Clay, Kellaways Rock and Kellaways Clay down to the Cornbrash in a part of England in which these beds were previously little known. All the beds were fossiliferous, and more than 200 ammonites ascribed to twentyfive species were collected in situ , bed by bed throughout the succession. The ammonites of the genus Kosmoceras in the Lower Oxford Clay were sufficiently numerous to allow them to be studied statistically by the methods employed by Brinkmann in 1929 on similar ammonites of the same age from the Lower Oxford Clay at Peterborough. His results for the lower part of the sequence comprising the jason Zone were fully reproduced. In addition, ammonites of other genera were found, including several specimens of Reineckeia, among the first to be recorded from beds of this age in this country. The Kellaways Rock, consisting mainly of sands, was extremely fossiliferous and yielded, besides many lamellibranchs and gastropods, numerous, although poorly preserved, ammonites. These were the same as those of the Kellaways Rock of Wiltshire, with the addition of a specimen of Macrocephalites sensu stricto . The Kellaways Clay was poorly fossiliferous, but it produced six specimens of Macrocephalites (subgenera Kamptokephalites and Dolikephats ), an assemblage similar to that of the Upper Cornbrash of Yorkshire and quite different from that of the Kellaways Clay of Wiltshire. The position of this clay above typical Upper Cornbrash as developed in south-west England, and belonging to the siddingtonensis and in part lagenalis brachiopod Subzones, confirms previous suspicions that the Cornbrash of Yorkshire is later than that of the south-west. In the light of these results, the older evidence relating to the beds of this age in this country and abroad, including some of the old collections, is re-examined. Additional information from new or undescribed exposures at Calvert, Frome, Sutton Bingham near Yeovil, Weymouth, and Herznach in Switzerland, is included. In consequence, a much closer correlation of the beds of the Middle and Lower Callovian than was previously possible is now made between outcrops in Scotland, Yorkshire, north-west Germany, central and south-west England and the Argovian Jura. A revised zonal table of the Callovian has been constructed, designed to be generally applicable to the area outlined above and including as subzones finer divisions which are in practice recognizable more locally. The relation between these west European zones and some of those used in the Mediterranean province is briefly indicated.

Guardian of Eden, Guardian of the City: The Lost Mosaic of the Archangel Michael in Hagia Sophia of Constantinople

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-105
Author(s):  
Andrea Torno Ginnasi
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
South West ◽  
Hagia Sophia ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Artistic Tradition

Abstract This contribution aims to shed light on the lost mosaic of the Archangel Michael with a drawn sword once set, according to Niketas Choniates, in a πρόναος of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. After an overview of previous hypotheses, I will argue for a position just outside of the south-west vestibule of the church in the 10th century. Such a location and dating would be in line with the connotation of the Archangel as defender of a sacred space, perceived as a sort of Eden in Byzantine textual and visual sources. The spread of similar representations confirms the role of a reference point that the mosaic soon acquired by virtue of its position at the ceremonial entrance of the most important church of the Empire, not to mention its political importance. The ideological character of the Archangel went a step further during the last centuries of the Empire. A unique use of the First Arab Siege of Constantinople as a stage for St. Michael’s role as sword-wielding guardian in a 14th century Serbian painting is more broadly reflective of a theme throughout Byzantine artistic tradition in varied media. This representation reflected the duty of the Archangel not just as guardian of Hagia Sophia, but also of the emperor, Constantinople and the Empire in a broader sense.

scholarly journals Om ett museifartyg i Åbo som politiskt argument

1970 ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Ulla Kallberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
South West ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Maritime Museum

A museum ship as a political argument In Turku, South-West Finland, the Forum Marinum, a local maritime museum and maritime centre, wished to move a museum ship, the Suomen Joutsen, from a quay where she has been stationary since 1960 to a quay in front of the museum. The museum argued, that the ship would be better preserved in a new place with less air pollution and deeper water, would be easier to take care of and demand lower investment. However, the ship is owned by the municipality and decisions concerning it are made by politicians, who were neither willing to discuss nor make a decision about changing her moring. This behaviour was influenced by the imminent elections. The Suomen Joutsen is of great national interest and is expected to arouse passionate reactions.The article discusses how a museum piece, a museum ship, can become a political apparatus, a means for achieving personal or political goals. We can analyse the discussion about the ship’s moring on the River Aura by asking, who is constructing and defining cultural meanings and for what end. At the same time we can see how the presence of the ship can strengthen local identity, and how cultural values and objects can be used to achieve personal goals and simultaneously question the views of the researchers. But it has to be remembered that the museum is a part of the community and also uses its power. Finally, the ship celebrated her centenary in the summer of 2002, and the local museum received permission to move her temporarily to the quay in front of the museum to join the other stationary museum ships already there.The inhabitants reacted. Some people thought that the ship looked nice and it was all right to move her, others claimed that the ship was no longer visible in the city centre where she belonged. They also claimed that she was a part of the urban landscape which her removal had ruined. They used the argument that a line had been drawn between other Finns and the people in the city. Only the people in the city had the right to say anything about the Suomen Joutsen. When it was time to return the ship back to her old moring, the water level was too low. While waiting for it to rise, the politicians decided to leave the ship in front of the museum for another year. Some people were disappointed and called the politicians traitors. 

Reform and Reaction in the Colombian Catholic Church

1973 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Schoultz
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Benign Nature ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

In the autumn of 1509 the explorer Alonso de Ojeda landed on the northern coast of South America, near where is today the city of Cartagena, and claimed the region in the name of Spain. As some of the natives appeared inclined to question the acquisitive proclivities of the Crown, Ojeda had read to them the principal articles of the Christian faith, hoping to demonstrate the benign nature of his invasion. Apparently feeling that his obligation to the Church was not yet fulfilled, he then informed the local residents “ especially of the supreme jurisdiction of the pope ” and required that they embrace the Catholic religion. Ojeda barely escaped with his life.

TBE in United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Clinical Disease ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Probable Case ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South West ◽  
Louping Ill ◽  
The Uk ◽  
North And South ◽  
South West England

Until 2019, TBE was considered only to be an imported disease to the United Kingdom. In that year, evidence became available that the TBEV is likely circulating in the country1,2 and a first “probable case” of TBE originating in the UK was reported.3 In addition to TBEV, louping ill virus (LIV), a member of the TBEV-serocomplex, is also endemic in parts of the UK. Reports of clinical disease caused by LIV in livestock are mainly from Scotland, parts of North and South West England and Wales.4

DIALOG Z HUMANIZMEM RENESANSOWYM W DZIEŁACH PIOTRA SKARGI / PIOTR SKARGA’S DIALOGUE WITH RENAISSANCE HUMANISM

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 405-424
Author(s):  
Alina Nowicka -Jeżowa
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

Summary The article tries to outline the position of Piotr Skarga in the Jesuit debates about the legacy of humanist Renaissance. The author argues that Skarga was fully committed to the adaptation of humanist and even medieval ideas into the revitalized post-Tridentine Catholicism. Skarga’s aim was to reformulate the humanist worldview, its idea of man, system of values and political views so that they would fit the doctrine of the Roman Catholic church. In effect, though, it meant supplanting the pluralist and open humanist culture by a construct as solidly Catholic as possible. He sifted through, verified, and re-interpreted the humanist material: as a result the humanist myth of the City of the Sun was eclipsed by reminders of the transience of all earthly goods and pursuits; elements of the Greek and Roman tradition were reconnected with the authoritative Biblical account of world history; and man was reinscribed into the theocentric perspective. Skarga brought back the dogmas of the original sin and sanctifying grace, reiterated the importance of asceticism and self-discipline, redefined the ideas of human dignity and freedom, and, in consequence, came up with a clear-cut, integrist view of the meaning and goal of the good life as well as the proper mission of the citizen and the nation. The polemical edge of Piotr Skarga’s cultural project was aimed both at Protestantism and the Erasmian tendency within the Catholic church. While strongly coloured by the Ignatian spirituality with its insistence on rigorous discipline, a sense of responsibility for the lives of other people and the culture of the community, and a commitment to the heroic ideal of a miles Christi, taking headon the challenges of the flesh, the world, Satan, and the enemies of the patria and the Church, it also went a long way to adapt the Jesuit model to Poland’s socio-cultural conditions and the mentality of its inhabitants.

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