A new varve thickness record from Allt Bhraic Achaidh Fan, middle Glen Roy, Lochaber:implications for understanding the Loch Lomond Stadial glaciolacustrine varve sedimentation trends

Glen Roy, Lochaber is a key UK site for understanding Late Devensian environmental change, as it contains an annually-resolved glaciolacustrine varve record. This paper develops our understanding of varve sedimentation within Glen Roy through the examination of a new varve sequence located in a more proximal position on the Allt Bhraic Achaidh Fan, one of a series of major fans within the valley. This new varve record consists of c. 203 annual layers, much fewer years than at other sites in the Lochaber area probably due to five significant hiatuses within the record. Varve sediment characteristics and thickness are comparable to, but not statistically correlated with, other varve series that were used to construct a consolidated varve record for the area, the Lochaber Master Varve Chronology. Sedimentological characteristics, analysed by thin section micromorphology, suggest that varve thickness changes within the basin are controlled mainly by distance from the valley sides rather than the position of the ice margin during the Loch Lomond Readvance, as previously proposed

What lurks beneath the event evaluation - Social media!

In August 2013 Northern Ireland hosted the World Police and Fire Games. The official event evaluation found that the games projected Northern Ireland in a positive light; however this survey does not tell the full story. Leading up to this event Northern Ireland experienced four months of civil unrest. Many consumers turned to social media to seek reassurance and guidance. However, the event organisers did not provide such support. In fact, by mismanaging concerns regarding political stability and visitor safety this event in effect reinforced the negative stereotypical images of Northern Ireland and because it happened on-line it was ignored in the official event evaluation. The two key lessons pertinent to event organisers and destination marketers from this case study are do not underestimate the power of social media especially in a time of crisis, and in this digital age an event evaluation must consider comments made on social media

Rogue waves and other solutions of single and coupled Ablowitz–Ladik and nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We provide a simple technique for finding the correspondence between the solutions of Ablowitz–Ladik and nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Even though they belong to different classes, in that one is continuous and one is discrete, there are matching solutions. This fact allows us to discern common features and obtain solutions of the continuous equation from solutions of the discrete equation. We consider several examples. We provide tables, with selected solutions, which allow us to easily match the pairs of solutions. We show that our technique can be extended to the case of coupled Ablowitz–Ladik and nonlinear Schrodinger (i.e. Manakov) equations. We provide some new solutions

Sports Tourism: Marketing Ireland's Best Kept Secret -- The Gaelic Athletic Association.

Destination marketing has assumed heightened importance in the tourism industry as destinations are confronted with increasing competition from new and emerging countries. Kolter et al. (1993) employ the term 'place wars' to describe the cut-throat nature of modern tourism. Consumer profiles and preferences are constantly changing and this has implications for Irish tourism. In terms of development, the tourism industries in both the North and South of Ireland have reached a crossroads and to remain competitive they must diversify their product. This paper examines the opportunities that exist for the island of Ireland in one of the world's fastest growing niche markets: sports tourism. The first section provides an update on Ireland's tourism performance and establishes the need for diversification and niche marketing. The second section analyses the sport tourism market from an Irish perspective and stresses the importance of promoting local sport as part of both the sports tourism portfolio in its own fight and its contribution to the cultural tourism product. The paper then deals specifically with the tourism potential of Gaelic Games and how they could be developed into an attractive and marketable tourism product. In order to establish whether there is a latent demand for Gaelic Games a survey was carried out on a sample of overseas visitors and the results are discussed in the paper. Given the positive response to the questionnaire the final section of this paper focuses on strategies that could be adopted by the GAA, Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board to manipulate the cornerstone of marketing -- the 4-P's -- to develop, package, and promote Gaelic Games as a sports tourism product

Sports Tourism: Marketing Ireland's Best Kept Secret -- The Gaelic Athletic Association.

Destination marketing has assumed heightened importance in the tourism industry as destinations are confronted with increasing competition from new and emerging countries. Kolter et al. (1993) employ the term 'place wars' to describe the cut-throat nature of modern tourism. Consumer profiles and preferences are constantly changing and this has implications for Irish tourism. In terms of development, the tourism industries in both the North and South of Ireland have reached a crossroads and to remain competitive they must diversify their product. This paper examines the opportunities that exist for the island of Ireland in one of the world's fastest growing niche markets: sports tourism. The first section provides an update on Ireland's tourism performance and establishes the need for diversification and niche marketing. The second section analyses the sport tourism market from an Irish perspective and stresses the importance of promoting local sport as part of both the sports tourism portfolio in its own right and its contribution to the cultural tourism product. The paper then deals specifically with the tourism potential of Gaelic Games and how they could be developed into an attractive and marketable tourism product. In order to establish whether there is a latent demand for Gaelic Games a survey was carried out on a sample of overseas visitors and the results are discussed in the paper. Given the positive response to the questionnaire the final section of this paper focuses on strategies that could be adopted by the GAA, Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board to manipulate the cornerstone of marketing -- the 4-P's -- to develop, package, and promote Gaelic Games as a sports tourism product

Minding the children: a longitudinal study of mental state talk, theory of mind and behavioural adjustment from age 3 to age 10

Mothers’ use of mental state talk (MST) is linked to young children’s performance on false belief tests of theory of mind (ToM) and to their behaviour in social contexts. However, little is known about MST beyond the early years. This investigation is the first to examine continuity in both mother and child MST from preschool (age 3–4 years) to middle childhood (age 10) and examines the role of early maternal MST in children’s later ToM and use of MST. We examine the novel association between MST and children’s behavioural adjustment from pre‐school into late childhood. Participants were mother–child dyads from a 7‐year longitudinal study. Measures of MST, ToM, and language were administered at home when children were 3 and 4 years old and again at the age of 10. Also at 10, behavioural adjustment was measured using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Mother and child MST were highly stable from preschool to later childhood. Early maternal MST accounted for unique variance in later child MST and behavioural adjustment at 10 years of age; children whose mothers used more MST, specifically references to cognitions, when they were 3 or 4 experienced fewer behavioural difficulties (externalising behaviour) when they were 10 years old

Pan-Cancer Analysis of lncRNA Regulation Supports Their Targeting of Cancer Genes in Each Tumor Context

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are commonly dys-regulated in tumors, but only a handful are known toplay pathophysiological roles in cancer. We inferredlncRNAs that dysregulate cancer pathways, onco-genes, and tumor suppressors (cancer genes) bymodeling their effects on the activity of transcriptionfactors, RNA-binding proteins, and microRNAs in5,185 TCGA tumors and 1,019 ENCODE assays.Our predictions included hundreds of candidateonco- and tumor-suppressor lncRNAs (cancerlncRNAs) whose somatic alterations account for thedysregulation of dozens of cancer genes and path-ways in each of 14 tumor contexts. To demonstrateproof of concept, we showed that perturbations tar-geting OIP5-AS1 (an inferred tumor suppressor) andTUG1 and WT1-AS (inferred onco-lncRNAs) dysre-gulated cancer genes and altered proliferation ofbreast and gynecologic cancer cells. Our analysis in-dicates that, although most lncRNAs are dysregu-lated in a tumor-specific manner, some, includingOIP5-AS1, TUG1, NEAT1, MEG3, and TSIX, synergis-tically dysregulate cancer pathways in multiple tumorcontexts