Sounds of sedition: music and emotion in Ireland, 1780–1845

Katie Barcla

Emotions, the law and the press in Britain: seduction and breach of promise suits, 1780-1830

The role played by the press in shaping emotions is a topic of increasing interest. Moral panics and sexual scandals have long been recognised as key discursive sites in the shaping of modern Britain. This article contributes to that debate with an exploration of how the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century press shaped an emotional public opinion through the reporting of breach of promise and seduction suits. It argues that the press directed men into roles as defenders of the nation through their protection of female virtue, using emotion to invest the British public in nation-building.Katie Barcla

Experimental demonstration of evanescent coupling from optical fibre tapers to photonic crystal waveguides

Experimental results demonstrating nearly complete mode-selective evanescent coupling to a photonic crystal waveguide from an optical fibre taper are presented. Codirectional coupling with 98% maximum power transfer to a photonic crystal waveguide of length 65 μm and with a coupling bandwidth of 20 nm is realised

Ocean, Empire and Nation: Japanese fisheries politics

Water has been as important as land in Japanese senses of self and belonging in relation to place.' Scholar Amino Yoshihiko has proposed that ways of life revolving around the sea were at least as influential as wet rice agriculture in the historical development of Japanese cultures, and that Japanese people should be understood as being 'sea folk' (kaimin) (Amino 1994). Other scholars who have contributed to this field include Tanabe Satoru, who wrote of 'sea people' (kaijin), and proposes that the coastal peoples of Japan shared a common culture with coastal peoples in areas we now call China, Korea and Taiwan (Tanabe 1990; Habara 1949). This kaijin culture was based on shared experiences of lives lived on or ncar the sea, involving fishing, travel, trade and piracy. Marcia Yanemoto (1999) has written of Japanese imaginaries of the world in the Tokugawa era (1608-1868) through to the early modem era being made up of a 'complex web of regional and global connections' across the seas

Oxidation of L-tyrosine by liver tissue

The synthesis of DL-tyrosine containing isotopic nitrogen has been effected is good yields by a four-step process: the Erlenmeyer azlactone synthesis as modified at Herbst and Shemin, in 52--66% yield; breaking the ring by mild hydrolysis with acetone and water, in 71--94% yield; acid hydrolysis to obtain the hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid, in 48--53% yield; and catalytic hydrogenation of the substituted pyruvic acid in the presence of isotopic 73--90% yield;N15-acetyl-DL-tyrosine has been resolved by the use of d-alpha-phenylethylamine, to give yields of 35--60% of the salt of the L-isomer, from which N15-L-tyrosine was isolated is 77% yield. This new method of resolution involves less manipulation, thus is less time-consuming, and gives slightly better yields than the methods reported heretofore;The isotopic tyrosine was oxidized in vitro by guinea pig liver homogenate, and alanine subsequently isolated from the reaction mixture as the azobenzene-p-sulfonate salt;Isotopic analysis of the isolated compound showed almost all of the N 15 from tyrosine to be contained in the alanine derivative;Isotopic tyrosine was fed to guinea pigs on scorbutigenic diets with and without supplements of ascorbic acid and pteroylglutamic acid, and the urine and feces examined for isotope content. These experiments indicated that the vitamins apparently have little effect on the disposal or fate of the amino-nitrogen of tyrosine;A simple but satisfactory method has been described for collecting isotopic nitrogen gas for analysis on the mass spectrometer

Local capitalisms and sustainability in coastal fisheries: Cases from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands

Purpose: To critically assess engagements with capitalism in coastal fisheries development, considering their success or otherwise for coastal villagers. Approach: Using field research and written reports of projects and the concept of "social embeddedness" we analyze two fisheries development projects as local instances of capitalism. Findings: Coastal peoples in the Pacific have been selling marine products for cash since the earliest days of contact with both Europeans and Asians. Since the 1970s, there have also been fisheries development projects. Both types of engagement with capitalism have had problems with commercial viability and ecological sustainability. One way to understand these issues is to view global capitalist markets as penetrating into localities through the lens of local cultures. We find, however, that local cultures are only one factor among several needed to explain the outcomes of these instances of capitalism. Other explanations include nature, national political and economic contexts, and transnational development assistance frameworks. The defining features of "local capitalisms" thus arise from configurations of human and nonhuman, local and outside influences. Social implications: Development project design should account for local conditions including: (1) village-based socioeconomic approaches, (2) national political economic contexts, (3) frameworks that donors bring to projects, and (4) (in)effective resource management. Originality/value of paper: The chapter builds on the experience of the authors over 15 years across multiple projects. The analysis provides a framework for understanding problems people have encountered in trying to get what they want from capitalism, and is applicable outside the fisheries sector. © 2013 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Infrared spectra of C2H4 dimer and trimer

Spectra of ethylene dimers and trimers are studied in the nu11 and (for the dimer) nu9 fundamental band regions of C2H4 (~2990 and 3100 cm-1) using a tunable optical parametric oscillator source to probe a pulsed supersonic slit jet expansion. The deuterated trimer has been observed previously, but this represents the first rotationally resolved spectrum of (C2H4)3. The results support the previously determined cross-shaped (D2d) dimer and barrel-shaped (C3h or C3) trimer structures. However, the dimer spectrum in the nu9 fundamental region of C2H4 is apparently very perturbed and a previous rotational analysis is not well verified.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figure

Introduction: performing the self: women's lives in historical perspective

Katie Barclay and Sarah Richardso

Governance of tuna industries: The key to economic viability and sustainability in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

The Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) tuna fishery is an important global food resource, and the economies of many Pacific Islands Countries (PICs) rely heavily on tuna industries. This paper proposes that governance by PICs is the key to improving the sustainability and profitability of tuna industries in the region. 'Governance' is usually used to refer to corruption, but here is interpreted more broadly to encompass the whole process by which decisions regarding public life are made and enacted, by government and also civil society. Argument is supported by empirical material from an interview study with stakeholders and a survey of reports. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Conversion of neutral nitrogen-vacancy centers to negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy centers through selective oxidation

The conversion of neutral nitrogen-vacancy centers to negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers is demonstrated for centers created by ion implantation and annealing in high-purity diamond. Conversion occurs with surface exposure to an oxygen atmosphere at 465 C. The spectral properties of the charge-converted centers are investigated. Charge state control of nitrogen-vacancy centers close to the diamond surface is an important step toward the integration of these centers into devices for quantum information and magnetic sensing applications.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure