Excavation at Newton, Islay

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
R McCullagh ◽  
M Andrews ◽  
Anne Clarke ◽  
G Collins ◽  
E Halpin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Soil Resource ◽  
Three Phases

Summary Excavations at Newton have revealed three phases of land use. Mesolithic activity was restricted to small flint working and domestic sites. A Neolithic phase appears to relate to a fragile soil resource which rapidly declined in quality. The final phase, possibly related to a Christian Irish presence on the island, occurs late in the sequence.

Listening for the “Still Small Voice” of Mendelssohn’s Domestic Elijah

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-77
Author(s):  
Peter Mercer-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Second Phase ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Will To Live ◽  
Three Phases

The notion that there might be autobiographical, or personally confessional, registers at work in Mendelssohn’s 1846 Elijah has long been established, with three interpretive approaches prevailing: the first, famously advanced by Prince Albert, compares Mendelssohn’s own artistic achievements with Elijah’s prophetic ones; the second, in Eric Werner’s dramatic formulation, discerns in the aria “It is enough” a confession of Mendelssohn’s own “weakening will to live”; the third portrays Elijah as a testimonial on Mendelssohn’s relationship to the Judaism of his birth and/or to the Christianity of his youth and adulthood. This article explores a fourth, essentially untested, interpretive approach: the possibility that Mendelssohn crafts from Elijah’s story a heartfelt affirmation of domesticity, an expression of his growing fascination with retiring to a quiet existence in the bosom of his family. The argument unfolds in three phases. In the first, the focus is on that climactic passage in Elijah’s Second Part in which God is revealed to the prophet in the “still small voice.” The turn from divine absence to divine presence is articulated through two clear and powerful recollections of music that Elijah had sung in the oratorio’s First Part, a move that has the potential to reconfigure our evaluation of his role in the public and private spheres in those earlier passages. The second phase turns to Elijah’s own brief sojourn into the domestic realm, the widow’s scene, paying particular attention to the motivations that may have underlain the substantial revisions to the scene that took place between the Birmingham premiere and the London premiere the following year. The final phase explores the possibility that the widow and her son, the “surrogate family” in the oratorio, do not disappear after the widow’s scene, but linger on as “para-characters” with crucial roles in the unfolding drama.

Effects of land use on the solodic soils of the Poplar Box (Eucalyptus populnea) lands.

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
BR Tunstall ◽  
AA Webb
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Compaction ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Soil Resource ◽  
Infiltration Rates ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Domestic Livestock ◽  
Effects Of Land Use ◽  
Soil Changes ◽  
Eucalyptus Populnea

Information on soil changes under various forms of land use in poplar box (Eucalyptus populnea) lands on solodic soils is summarized and generalizations on the effects of management practices on the soil resource are made. The implications of the results for land use are considered and problems seen as requiring further research are outlined. Crazing by domestic livestock results in soil compaction which, through decreasing the infiltration rates, causes an increase in the surface run-off of water. These effects are enhanced by the killing of trees, and the associated changes in soil water content profiles are accompanied by changes in the distribution of soluble soil salts. Scalds develop in some areas. Tnese deleterious changes are reversed where there is shrub growth and livestock are excluded. The reasons for the development and persistence of scalds require further elucidation. In particular, the conditions requited for the recruitment of grass and shrub species, and the relative importance of the various pathways for salt movement in these systems, should be defined.

Semantic Mapping Based on Ontology and a Bayesian Network and Its Application to CAD and PDM Integration

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min-Jung Lee ◽  
Min Jung ◽  
Hyo-Won Suh
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Bayesian Network ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Semantic Mapping ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Product Life ◽  
Collaborative Product Commerce ◽  
Identical Character ◽  
Three Phases

In a Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) environment, it is necessary that the participants in a product life cycle should share semantics of terms although they may be represented differently. In order to manage this sharing of semantics, it is necessary to recognize automatically that two terms represented differently can have equivalent semantics. To this end, a semantic mapping logic that utilizes ontology and a Bayesian Network is proposed. The proposed approach consists of three phases: character matching, definition comparisons and similarity checking. First, character matching maps two terms that have identical character strings; second, the definition comparison step compares the two terms using their ontological definitions. Finally, similarity checking evaluates the similarity between two terms using their ontological structure and the Bayesian network. This final phase consists of three steps. Firstly, it calculates similarity between two terms in terms of their character strings and ontological definitions. After this step, it constructs a Bayesian network with the paired terms based on their ontological structure. Finally, it infers whether the pairs are mapped based on the network through a probability equation. The proposed approach is also applied to the integration of the CAD and PDM systems.

scholarly journals Jesuits in the Highlands: Three Phases

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Alasdair Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Jesuit Mission ◽  
Three Phases

The Jesuit mission to Scotland began with minimal numbers in the sixteenth century but built up with the support of Catholic nobles. Leading members of the Society had serious hopes of converting James vi to his mother’s religion although the king merely used them and their lay patrons as a counter to Presbyterian pressure. Apart from the show-piece victory at Glenlivet there was no Jesuit presence in the Highlands. John Ogilvie was not, as has been suggested, a Highlander. During most of the seventeenth century, gentry families in the Grampian mountains were served on a small scale from neighbouring Lowland bases. No knowledge of Gaelic was required. The final phase represented a change of approach, as Jesuits worked among some of Scotland’s poorest people in forbidding terrain and extreme weather. Setting themselves to learn the Gaelic language they achieved notable success in Braemar and Strathglass.

Cossacks and Bannermen on the Argun Frontier

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-38
Author(s):  
Sören Urbansky
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
The Third ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
Border Surveillance ◽  
Three Phases

This chapter reviews the affairs of frontier people from the first direct but sporadic encounters between Russians and Chinese. Relations between the Russian and Chinese empires on their shared steppe frontier can be divided into three phases. The first phase lasted through the late seventeenth century. During this time, Cossacks entered Transbaikalia and came in contact with Mongol nobles while the Qing established rule over Hulunbeir. The second phase, from roughly 1728 to 1851, was characterized by a balance of power between Beijing and Saint Petersburg, the establishment of permanent yet deficient border surveillance by both polities, and intensifying contacts on the border, in particular routed through Kiakhta, the year-round location for border trade. The third and final phase lasted from 1851 to the end of the nineteenth century. This period was marked by a shift of power in favor of Russia.

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Ecological Security Pattern of Urban Agglomerations in Yangtze River Delta Based on LUCC Simulation

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
Shiyao Zhang ◽  
Huaiyong Shao ◽  
Xiaoqin Li ◽  
Wei Xian ◽  
Qiufang Shao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Ecological Security ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
Security Pattern ◽  
Three Phases

Urbanization has not only promoted economic development, but also significantly changed land use and development strategy. The environmental problems brought by urbanization threaten ecological security directly. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce changes in land use when constructing an ecological security pattern. This study takes the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, one of the most economically developed regions in China, as the research area. Based on its land use status, the Cellular Automata–Markov model was used to predict the quantitative change and transfer of land-use types in 2025, and three types of land-use patterns were simulated under different scenarios. Combined with the pressure–state–response model, the Entropy TOPSIS comprehensive evaluation model is used to evaluate the three phases in the years of 2005, 2010, and 2015, and the results indicated that the safety level dropped from 85.45% to 82.94%. Five spatial associations were obtained from the spatial autocorrelation analysis using GeoDA, and the clustering distribution of the three phases was roughly the same. Based on the requirements of “Natural Growth” scenario, “Urban Sprawl” scenario, and “Ecological Protection” scenario, the transfer matrix of the various land-use types were modified rationally. The results of scenario simulations illustrated that the level of urbanization was inversely proportional to the level of ecological security. The surrounding cities in the northern part of Taihu Lake were developing rapidly, with low levels of ecological security. The hilly cities in the southern part, in contrast, developed slowly and had a high level of ecological security. Based on the temporal and spatial changes in the ecosystem, an ecosystem optimization model was proposed to determine the ecological functional areas. The nature of each functional area provided the basis to formulate urban construction and management plans and achieve sustainable urban development.

THE THREE PHASES OF LAND-USE CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIODIVERSITY

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1864-1878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Huston
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Three Phases

Death-Scenes and Farewell Stories: an Aspect of the Master-Disciple Relationship in Mark and in Some Talmudic Tales

1986 ◽  
Vol 79 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 187-197
Author(s):  
Jacob Neusner
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Intermediate Phase ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Structure ◽  
Three Phases

Vernon K. Robbins' Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark points to the master-disciple relationship as the critical structure in that Gospel. He sees three phases: the initial one, involving summons and response; the intermediate phase, encompassing teaching and learning; and the final phase, one of farewell and death. Robbins' stimulating account at the first two points compares Mark's portrait of the relationship with, among others, the relationship between master and disciple related in stories in the writings of the ancient rabbis of the Talmud and related literature. When he reaches the final phase, however, Robbins does not undertake such a comparison. It seems to me a suggestive exercise. So, in honor of the great master honored in this volume, I shall begin to fill the gap in Robbins' fine account.

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