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Agricultural and Food Policy,

Alexander and Africa (332-331 BC and beyond): the facts, the traditions and the problems

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Animal magic

This is a draft of a chapter/article that has been published by Oxford University Press in the book The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life edited by Gordon Campbell, published in August 2014. You can purchase the volume on the Oxford University Press website here: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199589425.do.Abstract not available

Alexander, Agathos Daimon and Ptolemy: the Alexandrian foundation myth in dialogue

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The quality of life and social needs of international medical graduates : emerging themes in research

A literature review was conducted to identify the experiences, challenges and acculturation of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) living and working throughout rural and remote Australia. As such recently published literature highlighted key factors impacting IMGs living and working in rural and remote areas which informed the acculturation process in western society. IMGs acculturation throughout Australian rural settings occurs rapidly among these higher educated migrants. Those IMGs with Australian spouses or who have practiced in rural settings prior to migration also experience a new phase of acculturation. However, maintaining cultural and religious connectivity continues to be challenging in these settings. Community awareness and an ability to embrace IMGs and cultural differences remain crucial for identity and cultural retention. Nevertheless, few studies recognised quality of life and social needs of IMGs and their family’s impact on the rural acculturation and settlement success. Previous research has focused primarily on employment integration, satisfaction and practice support. The identified literature is in no way extensive as it focuses on IMGs in the Australian context, which may impact on transferability. A gap exists where quality of life and social needs of IMGs and their families have been overlooked. These are crucial factors impacting rural acculturation, retention and IMGs health and wellbeing. The literature highlights insights into IMGs acculturation as they migrate and reside in Tasmania, a less culturally diverse population, remains absent with very little comparable research conducted

Alexander, Agathoi Daimones, Argives and Armenians

Intriguing and complex traditions are preserved about Alexander and the agathos daimon house-snakes of Alexandria by Phylarchus, the Alexander Romance, ps.-Epiphanius and the Chronicon Paschale. These bear upon both a foundational myth and upon a related cultural practice. New light is shed on these traditions by some striking comparative folkloric evidence gathered in Armenia at the end of the nineteenth century. In primis, the Armenians’ practice of addressing their friendly house snakes as ‘Armenians’ suggests that the Alexandrians’ practice of addressing their own friendly house snakes as ‘Argives’ entailed a notion that they were themselves, somehow, ‘Argive’ in origin, a notion that can be evidenced in several further ways.Intrigantes y complejas tradiciones se han preservado sobre Alejandro y las serpientes domésticas del agathos daimon de Alejandría en Filarco, el Romance de Alejandro, Ps. Epifanio y el Chronicon Paschale. Todos ellos parecen conducer a un mito fundacional y a una práctica cultural vinculada. Una nueva perspectiva parece asomar sobre estas tradiciones mediante la sorprendente comparative de evidencias folclóricas armenias recogidas a finales del s. XIX. De hecho, la práctica armenia de referirse a sus amigables serpientes domésticas como “armenias” sugiere que la práctica de los alejandrinos de referirse a sus propias amigables serpientes domésticas como “argivas” supone una noción que habría estado, de algún modo, “argiva” en su origen, una noción que puede mostrarse en muchas diferentes formas

Luminescent lanthanoid complexes of a tetrazole-functionalised calix[4]arene

p-t-Butylcalix[4]arene functionalised at the lower rim with two tetrazole moieties is found to be a useful receptor for lanthanoid cations. The luminescence of the resulting complexes can be controlled by addition of base, with emission achieved in the visible and infrared regions

The Cognitive Representation of Time and Duration

How do people represent the duration of an event in memory and which mechanisms except timing are involved in processing and maintaining temporal information within the cognitive system? The speakers of this symposium will address this and related questions. Anne-Claire Rattat focuses on long-term retention of durations in children and adults. Ruth Ogden discusses executive functions that are involved in timing and time perception. Hedderik van Rijn and Niels Taagten show how general principles of memory and attention can be connected with theories about time perception. Finally, Daniel Bratzke reviews prominent ideas about how temporal information is coded within and across sensory modalities. The titles and abstracts of the four talks are given below