scholarly journals INVENTORY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EROSIVE FORMS IN THE BARBANTIÑO RIVER (MIÑO BASIN, GALICIA, NW PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA)

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Elena De Uña-Álvarez ◽  
Miguel Ángel Álvarez-Vázquez ◽  
Maria Luz Rodríguez-Blanco ◽  
Alexandra Maria Ramírez-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Bedrock Rivers ◽  
Geomorphological Heritage ◽  
New Information ◽  
Qualitative Variables ◽  
Length Width ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The University

The existence of forms sculpted by fluvial erosion is frequent in Bedrock Rivers. Since 1999, the Area of Physical Geography of the University of Vigo (Ourense Campus) has been conducting research on these rock cavities in various reaches of the middle Miño River. The exploratory study that is presented corresponds to the case of a section upstream of the Barbantiño river waterfall (Ourense, Galicia). Carried out within the framework of a research line with the objectives of inventorying, characterizing, interpreting and evaluating the erosive forms in the rocky channels of the Miño River and its tributaries, the employed methodology included phases of field work, creation of a database, and statistical analysis. From the records in the sampled sectors of the Barbantiño River, an inventory was made with 60 erosive forms, considering quantitative variables (measurements of length, width, depth) and qualitative variables (morphology of the bottom, state of the walls, and presence of deposits). The preliminary results of the exploratory analysis provide new information on the sculpted forms in bedrock, allowing comparison with previous studies. The erosive forms of the studied section are characterized by great variability in their depth (between 2 cm and 2.7 m), length (between 7 cm and 2.5 m) and width (between 4 cm and 2 m); the strong correlation between surface and bottom dimensions (Spearman's r> 0.85); and the coexistence of cavities in an incipient state, furrows and potholes. These results contribute to the advancement of knowledge of a natural legacy that is part of the geodiversity of the Miño River basin, with a complex of values associated with its condition of geomorphological heritage.

The Early Career of Gerard of Abbeville

Vivarium ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-359
Author(s):  
Chris Schabel
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Original Sequence ◽  
New Information ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
The University ◽  
Future Focus

Abstract Gerard of Abbeville (†1272) was a secular master of theology at the University of Paris and a contemporary of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure. In the context of reviewing Stephen Metzger’s new two-volume book on Gerard, this paper first adds some new information about Gerard’s early career, notably concerning benefices he claimed in Saint-Omer, Tournai, and Amiens. Afterwards, the salient features of Metzger’s volumes are presented: his placement of Gerard in his institutional context; his characterization of Gerard’s doctrines of wisdom, knowledge, and contemplation in comparison with those of Gerard’s contemporaries; and his editions of texts. In the end, the chronological repercussions of maintaining that Vat. lat. 1015 reflects the original sequence of Gerard’s Quodlibeta, Metzger’s future focus, are discussed.

scholarly journals Are we witnessing a renesance of the dialectology?

2014 ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Zuzana Topolinjska
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
World War ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
New Information ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Slavistics is a relatively young linguistic discipline. Its beginnings, in the period of domination of the historical linguistics, are characterized with the rapid development of the ?classical? dialectology, which means field-work in the domain of comparative phonetics and inflection leading to the defining of the kinship relations in the Slavic group of the IndoEuropean languages. Only after the First World War observe a shift to the synchronic linguistics with the focus on the functional analysis of standard Slavic languages. In the period between the two World Wars in the Northern Slavic countries dialectology is not a part of the university program, while in the South it has more pertinent position. The dominant analytical studies follow the line: form > function > meaning, and concentrate mainly on the grammatical and not on the lexical language structure. In the period after the Second World War multiply theories starting with the sense analysis. It is in the framework of these theories and in connection with the trend to interdisciplinary ?human-studies? in historical anthropology, ethnology, psychology, history of the material and spiritual culture that the dialectology is rediscovered as a rich source of new information. Macedonian dialects, which for a long period evolved without the pressure of a standard norm are especially interesting from that point of view.

scholarly journals Making the most of the University campus for teaching ecology

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L Bacon ◽  
Julie Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
First Year ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Lecture Material ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

University campuses provide an accessible, cheap and useful means of teaching ecology to undergraduate students.  We describe a short campus-based activity that was trialed in the 2015-16 academic year to engage first year physical geography students with both ecology and urban ecology. Students undertook a 40-minute investigation of the campus to identify niches and ecosystems and were asked to relate their findings to previous lecture material. Overall, the activity was enjoyed by students and considered useful by both students and staff in supporting students’ engagement with ecology.Keywords: Field work; practical work; urban ecology; campus

Doctoral Training of Psychology Students in France

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Roland-Lévy
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
University System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychology Doctoral ◽  
Phd Programs ◽  
Phd Program

Abstract: The aim of doctoral programs in psychology is to help students become competent psychologists, capable of conducting research and of finding suitable employment. Starting with a brief description of the basic organization of the French university system, this paper presents an overview of how the psychology doctoral training is organized in France. Since October 2000, the requisites and the training of PhD students are the same in all French universities, but what now differs is the openness to other disciplines according to the size and location of the university. Three main groups of doctoral programs are distinguished in this paper. The first group refers to small universities in which the Doctoral Schools are constructed around multidisciplinary seminars that combine various themes, sometimes rather distant from psychology. The second group covers larger universities, with a PhD program that includes psychology as well as other social sciences. The third group contains a few major universities that have doctoral programs that are clearly centered on psychology (clinical, social, and/or cognitive psychology). These descriptions are followed by comments on how PhD programs are presently structured and organized. In the third section, I suggest some concrete ways of improving this doctoral training in order to give French psychologists a more European dimension.

Sharing of Worldwide Spread Knowledge Using Hypermedia Facilities & Fast Communication Protocols (Mosaic and World Wide Web): The Example of ExPASy

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (01/02) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Appel ◽  
O. Golaz ◽  
Ch. Pasquali ◽  
J.-C. Sanchez ◽  
A. Bairoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Central Element ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
New Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Link Information

Abstract:The sharing of knowledge worldwide using hypermedia facilities and fast communication protocols (i.e., Mosaic and World Wide Web) provides a growth capacity with tremendous versatility and efficacy. The example of ExPASy, a molecular biology server developed at the University Hospital of Geneva, is striking. ExPASy provides hypermedia facilities to browse through several up-to-date biological and medical databases around the world and to link information from protein maps to genome information and diseases. Its extensive access is open through World Wide Web. Its concept could be extended to patient data including texts, laboratory data, relevant literature findings, sounds, images and movies. A new hypermedia culture is spreading very rapidly where the international fast transmission of documents is the central element. It is part of the emerging new “information society”.

The training of a polar scientist: Patrick Geddes and the student career of William Speirs Bruce

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. SWINNEY
Keyword(s):  
Future Career ◽  
New Information ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT: The university career of the polar scientist William Speirs Bruce (1867–is examined in relation to new information, discovered amongst the Bruce papers in the University of Edinburgh, which elucidates the role played by Patrick Geddes in shaping Bruce's future career. Previous accounts of Bruce's university years, based mainly on the biography by Rudmose Brown (1923), are shown to be in error in several details.

scholarly journals Coastal sand dune vegetation of Velika plaža (Montenegro)

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danijela Stešević ◽  
Filip Küzmič ◽  
Đorđije Milanović ◽  
Milica Stanišić-Vujačić ◽  
Urban Šilc
Keyword(s):  
Sand Dune ◽  
Sandy Beach ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Dune Vegetation ◽  
Sand Beach ◽  
New Associations ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Sand Dune Vegetation ◽  
Phytosociological Study

Velika plaža (Ulcinj, Montenegro) is the largest sandy beach along the coast of the eastern Adriatic that still has well-developed sand-dune vegetation. Although the characterization of the flora and vegetation of Velika plaža has been addressed by many authors, knowledge on its vegetation remained poor. We made a phytosociological study of sand beach vegetation comprising both dunal and wetland areas to provide a comprehensive survey of sand dune vegetation and habitat typology of Velika plaža. Based on 149 relevés (both from literature and recent field work), and with numerical classification (Flexible beta) and ordination (Non-metric multidimensional scaling) our results show that the vegetation of Velika plaža is much more diverse than previously known. Altogether, 19 plant communities from 6 vegetation classes were identified. Among them we described two new associations: Cuscuto cesatianae-Phyletum nodiflorae and Onobrychido caput-galli-Vulpietum fasciculatae.

scholarly journals Beacon in Information System as Way of Supporting Identification of Cattle Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1062
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Koszela ◽  
Wojciech Mueller ◽  
Jakub Otrząsek ◽  
Mateusz Łukomski ◽  
Sebastian Kujawa
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Physiological State ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Dairy Herd ◽  
Weather Forecast ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
New Information ◽  
Conducting Research

The paper concentrates on researching the possibilities of using modern information technologies in animal production in order to monitor and identify behavior and well-being of cows. Having in mind the challenges related to managing dairy herds, and economic pressure put on breeders (as well as the broadly defined well-being of animals), an endeavor was made to create a new method, which would be competitive in comparison with the existing solutions. The proposed method of collecting data and data processing with beacon devices as well as data warehouse, allows—according to the authors—a more complete identification of behaviors and physiological condition of a dairy herd. It is also worth pointing out that this method is competitive in terms of price. By virtue of the multitude of data that were collected, a decision was made to resign from processing data on a local computer and use a cloud compute engine instead. The presented information system creates a sequence of components, which were subject to verification both on the level of creating and conducting research. Research results that were received were then compared with knowledge presented in the literature. A vital element of validation of the aforementioned methodology was comparing results that were achieved in the course of research work with the system making use of pedometer. The aim of the authors was to develop a new information technology solution, as well as a method based on beacons, which are rather universal devices, with the use of data warehouses, allowing the identification of behavior and physiological state of milk cattle, the method which would be competitive in comparison with the existing solutions, especially in terms of price. In the proposed solution, both information coming from microcomputers and weather forecast data coming from weather forecast stations, which make the above identification easy, were used as data sources.

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