How Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer Contributed to Organic Agriculture in Australia

Ehrenfried Pfeiffer (1899-1961) was 25 years old when Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) delivered his eight lectures on agriculture from 7th June to 16th June 1924. In those eight lectures at Koberwitz, Rudolf Steiner laid the basis for biodynamic agriculture. Steiner advocated an agriculture informed by anthroposophy, and that the ideas he expounded in the eight agriculture lectures should be developed by experiments, practice and observation. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer took up this task and he spent the rest of his life in the pursuit. Pfeiffer published his book ‘Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening’ in 1938. It was the first popular account of bio-dynamic agriculture. In that book Pfeiffer presented the practical results of more than a decade of farming practice and experimentation. Pfeiffer was a major contributor to Australia’s first organic farming journal, the 'Organic Farming Digest' (1946-1955); he was the leading contributing author from the USA. Pfeiffer's lecture tour to Australia planned for 1953, and visiting the states of NSW, Victoria, and South Australia, was cancelled at short notice due to his ill health

Additions to the Known Endemic Flora and Fauna of Arkansas

Robison and Smith\u27s (1982) list of endemic species of Arkansas rendered a valuable service to the community of biologists interested in the endemic biota of the state. These authors listed seven species of plants and forty species of animals endemic to Arkansas. This paper stimulated my interest in the endemic biota of the Ozark/Ouachita Mountain region of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. During the course of compiling a list of Ozark/Ouachita endemic species several references were found that listed Arkansas endemic taxa inadvertently overlooked by Robison and Smith. Most notable among these references was Chamberlin and Hoffman (1958), Checklist of the Millipeds of North America. This paper chronicles the work of N. B. Causey and R. V. Chamberlin who describe thirty-two species of endemic Arkansas Millipeds. These records as well as a few additional records for other animal and plant taxa are presented in this paper

Análisis y evolución del protocolo institucional del Ayuntamiento de Segovia

Este trabajo de fin de grado se centra en el estudio del protocolo y la organización de eventos en el seno de las administraciones públicas locales de España. Para ello utiliza el análisis del caso como metodología y analiza el caso concreto del Ayuntamiento de Segovia. Uno de sus puntos fuertes es el estudio de la evolución histórica del protocolo local en Segovia desde los primeros años del Franquismo hasta nuestros días. Tras el análisis de los cuatro Reglamentos de Protocolo, Honores y Distinciones de 1963, 2004, 2005 y 2011, este trabajo sugiere fórmulas de mejora y facilita información para el debate en esta materia abierto por la nueva corporación municipal. La principal hipótesis de este trabajo es que el protocolo no es una herramienta inútil del pasado. Debe ser actualizado y usado como herramienta de gestión corporativa adaptada a los principios democráticos.Grado en Publicidad y Relaciones Pública

Thermodes and Theories

This brief outline reviews some of the important studies done with various types of thermodes employed for heating or cooling loci in the brain and discusses some sources of the findings relevant to our understanding of temperature regulation in mammals

A controversial idea as a cultural resource : The Lysenko controversy and discussions of genetics as a \u27democratic\u27 science in postwar Japan.

The Japanese discussion of the theory of Soviet agronomist Trofim D. Lysenko began in the postwar years under the American occupation. Leftists introduced Lysenko’s theory immediately after the war as part of a postwar scientists’ movement. Unlike many American geneticists, who sharply criticized the theory, Japanese geneticists initially participated in the discussion in an even-handed way; their scientific interests in the roles of cytoplasm and the environment in heredity shaped their initial sympathetic reaction. As the Cold War divide deepened, however, Japanese scientists began expressing sharp anti-Lysenko criticisms that resembled the American criticisms. Interestingly, throughout the period, Japanese geneticists’ overall aim in the discussion remained largely unchanged: to effectively reconstruct their discipline and maintain its proper image and authority. However, the shift in their reaction occurred due to an evolving sociopolitical context, especially the shift in the meaning of ‘democratic’ science from a science that employed democratic processes to a science of a liberal-democratic state. Regarding Lysenko’s idea as a cultural resource could help to explain how and why it was treated differently in different places, and why a controversy emerged in certain contexts but not in others

Hans Luther, ett hundraårsminne

Vol 92 Yearbook 2016.Hans Edmund Luther (July 2, 1915 - June 9, 1982) was Professor in Botany (chair with Swedish as statutory language) at Helsinki University 1961-1978. Hans Luther's main topic was the ecology and distribution of brackish water macrophytes of the Baltic Sea, mainly in the Pojoviken - Tvärminne area on the southwestern coast of mainland Finland. He studied also algae, e.g. the Xanthophyceae, fungi and terrestrial vascular plants, especially some of polemochorous origin and other ruderals. This paper by two of his pupils describe his career as a scientist and university teacher. Some anecdotes about him are also dealt with. A list of Hans Luther's publications is included.Peer reviewe

Hans Luther, ett hundraårsminne

Vol 92 Yearbook 2016.Hans Edmund Luther (July 2, 1915 - June 9, 1982) was Professor in Botany (chair with Swedish as statutory language) at Helsinki University 1961-1978. Hans Luther's main topic was the ecology and distribution of brackish water macrophytes of the Baltic Sea, mainly in the Pojoviken - Tvärminne area on the southwestern coast of mainland Finland. He studied also algae, e.g. the Xanthophyceae, fungi and terrestrial vascular plants, especially some of polemochorous origin and other ruderals. This paper by two of his pupils describe his career as a scientist and university teacher. Some anecdotes about him are also dealt with. A list of Hans Luther's publications is included.Peer reviewe