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... This paper examines an artefact type of unknown function, found in several places across medieval England. These artefacts are mostly made from goose radii, but other species, such as chicken and hare, are also known. The worked radii have often been interpreted as being related to writing, but a closer examination suggests that they are more likely to be awls. ...
... A large collection of goose bones was recovered from excavations at Wheatcroft Farm, Bradwell, Norfolk. The goose bones were of particular interest due to the large quantity present and the presence of medullary bone in some of the specimens. All of the goose bones derived from two 11th-12th century contexts found in close association with a grain drying kiln and related sunken structure. The majo ...
England, etc ; Simulium; autumn; rivers; summer; temperature; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Data on pre-imaginal stages of blackflies obtained in southern England during the summer and early autumn of 2020 were supplemented by additional surveys and analysed in relation to environmental factors. Fourteen taxa from 29 locations were recorded. Of these, seven are of medical and/or veterinary importance: Simulium (Wilhelmia) equinum (Linnaeus, 1758), S. (Boophthora) erythrocephalum (De Geer ...
... This paper proposes a two-step framework for techno-economic analysis of a demand-side flexibility service in distribution networks. Step one applies optimization-based modelling to propose a generic problem formulation which determines the offer curve, in terms of available flexible capacity and its marginal cost, for flexible distribution-connected assets. These offer curves form an input to the ...
England, etc ; climate; hydrology; rain; research; watersheds; Show all 6 Subjects
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... This paper presents the spatial variation of the annual maximum daily rainfall (AMDR) in more than 900 catchments of England and Wales over the last century with respect to different spatial features including geographic location, elevation, size, orientation and shape of catchments. A spatial pattern extraction and recognition (SPER) toolbox is employed to extract the spatial features of catchmen ...
England, etc ; anorexia; dementia; health services; minorities (people); Show all 5 Subjects
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... Eating and drinking difficulties, such as loss of appetite and swallowing problems, are common in dementia, but little is known about the experiences of ethnic minority groups who are managing these difficulties at home. The purpose of our study was to explore the meaning of food, the impact of dementia on eating and drinking, and carers’ experiences of support. We undertook semi-structured interv ...
England, etc ; deer; humans; seroprevalence; tick-borne encephalitis; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a neurotropic flaviviral disease. TBE was previously thought to be absent from the United Kingdom. We report the second probable case of United Kingdom-acquired TBE and demonstrate deer TBE-serocomplex seropositivity in the surrounding area, providing further evidence of the presence of TBE in England. ...
England, etc ; employment; industrialization; industry; people; urbanization; villages; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Recent years have seen the growth of planetary perspectives related to urbanisation and gentrification that have challenged the significance of differentiations of rural and urban space. This paper explores the arguments advanced in these perspectives, highlighting claims that they are based on a critique of methodological territorialism that has long been employed in rural and urban studies, as w ...
England, etc ; ecology; environment; environmental impact; macroinvertebrates; rivers; water; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Flow–ecology relationships within river systems are an important area of ongoing investigation, because of potential applications such as understanding the ecological impact of flow alteration at modified sites. This study analyses relationships between flow characteristics and benthic macroinvertebrates from 18 streams of similar size and typology within Northern England, to develop quantitative ...
England, etc ; bibliometric analysis; databases; educational research; veterinary education; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Research of veterinary communication education is a relatively rare but important field, and its importance has been increasingly noticed recently. This study aims to describe the existing veterinary education research literature by adopting the systematic bibliometric approach. We conducted a comprehensive literature exploration on worldwide veterinary education and veterinary communication educa ...
England, etc ; environmental health; environmental monitoring; functional diversity; hydrology; sediments; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Fine sediment is a leading cause for the decline of aquatic biodiversity globally. There is an urgent need for targeted monitoring to identify where management methods are required in order to reduce the delivery of fine sediment to aquatic environments. Existing sediment-specific biomonitoring indices and indices for general ecological health (taxonomic and trait-based) developed for use in the U ...
England, etc ; bibliometric analysis; hydrology; satellite altimetry; China; France; Germany; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Scientometric reviews, facilitated by computational and visual analytical approaches, allow researchers to gain a thorough understanding of research trends and areas of concentration from a large number of publications. With the fast development of satellite altimetry, which has been effectively applied to a wide range of research topics, it is timely to summarize the scientific achievements of th ...
New England region, etc ; ecological economics; kriging; models; Connecticut; Massachusetts; Show all 6 Subjects
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... We investigate residential property-price effects of the spread of the Hemlock wooly adelgid infestation northward through central portions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, USA. We find that hemlock trees and the accompanying adelgid infestation within 0.1 km buffers of properties affect sale prices, but the results do not extend to buffers of 0.5 and 1.0 km's. Further, within the 0.1 km buffer, ...
Jemma L Walker; Anna Schultze; John Tazare; Arina Tamborska; Bhagteshwar Singh; Katherine Donegan; Julia Stowe; Caroline E Morton; William J Hulme; Helen J Curtis; Elizabeth J Williamson; Amir Mehrkar; Rosalind M Eggo; Christopher T Rentsch; Rohini Mathur; Sebastian Bacon; Alex J Walker; Simon Davy; David Evans; Peter Inglesby; George Hickman; Brian MacKenna; Laurie Tomlinson; Amelia CA Green; Louis Fisher; Jonathan Cockburn; John Parry; Frank Hester; Sam Harper; Christopher Bates; Stephen JW Evans; Tom Solomon; Nick J Andrews; Ian J Douglas; Ben Goldacre; Liam Smeeth; Helen I McDonald
England, etc ; COVID-19 infection; hospitals; mortality; risk; vaccination; vaccines; Show all 7 Subjects
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... We investigated the potential association of COVID-19 vaccination with three acute neurological events: Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), transverse myelitis and Bell’s palsy. With the approval of NHS England we analysed primary care data from >17 million patients in England linked to emergency care, hospital admission and mortality records in the OpenSAFELY platform. Separately for each vaccine bran ...
England, etc ; females; fire fighting; fire safety; fires; journals; males; Show all 7 Subjects
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... In this paper we examine the fire injuries sustained by householders fighting accidental dwelling fires in Merseyside in the North West of England over the period 2006 to 2016. In particular, we examine the distribution of injuries sustained by householders fighting accidental dwelling fires by age, gender, and level of deprivation, the types of housing in which injuries related to householders fi ...
England, etc ; agricultural sciences; cognition; models; process design; stakeholders; technology; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Farmer-led innovation brings farmers together with other stakeholders in a collaborative endeavour that recognises multiple forms of expertise. Critical engagement with mainstream models of agricultural science and technology (AST) development has drawn attention to the isolation of farmers as technology adopters within a compartmentalised model of AST development and dissemination. Academic, gove ...
England, etc ; administrative management; cost effectiveness; models; privatization; water; water utilities; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Performance assessments of water utilities are essential to protect the interests of citizens, because utilities operate under natural monopolies and their costs are recovered from customers through water tariffs. In this study, a four-error component model was applied to estimate cost efficiency (CE), persistent efficiency (PE) and transient efficiency (TE) for a sample of English and Welsh water ...
England, etc ; agroecology; biodiversity; ecosystems; exercise; land policy; land use; livestock; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Growing concerns about the impacts of food systems have led to fierce debate over the pros and cons of different modes of production. In parallel, conservationists have debated “land-sparing” versus “land-sharing” as competing rationales for a land use policy that aims to halt biodiversity loss. As a contribution to these debates, we share research conducted in the South-East of England where cont ...
England, etc ; Thaumetopoea processionea; entomology; forestry; forests; larvae; monitoring; moths; pests; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The expansion of oak processionary moth (OPM) in South‐East England continues despite ongoing efforts to control the pest since its introduction in 2006. Using locations of OPM larval nests, supplied by the Forestry Commission and recorded as part of ongoing surveillance and control measures from 2006 onwards, we show that the expansion of the range of OPM in South‐East England up to 2019 was biph ...
England, etc ; compliance; nonlinear models; river flow; rivers; time series analysis; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Monitoring and predicting river floods have always been of concern for hydrologists. Anomalies in flow patterns alert us of upcoming events. The effect of such anomalies on the multifractality and nonlinear dynamics of the river flow is investigated in this research. The river flow of the River Trent in England from 2018 to 2019 was dissected using the multifractal, power spectrum, and phase space ...