APFIC/FAO Regional Consultative Workshop: Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries: Bringing together responsible fisheries and social development, Windsor Suites Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand 68 October 2010

In the Global Overview, we attempt to view reefs in terms of the poor who are dependent on reefs for their livelihoods, how the reefs benefit the poor, how changes in the reef have impacted the lives of the poor and how the poor have responded and coped with these changes. It also considers wider responses to reef issues and how these interventions have impacted on the lives of the poor

The time of translation in Wauchier de Denain’s Histoire des moines d’Égypte

This article explores the temporality of translation in Wauchier de Denain’s Histoire des moines d’Égypte, an early thirteenth-century French rendering of Rufinus of Aquileia’s fourth-century Latin Historia monachorum in Aegypto. Examining relationships not only between source and copy but also between the different narrative perspectives present in the text, Campbell explores the complex ways in which the only complete manuscript of the work presents these perspectives through prose and verse, French and Latin, text and image. She argues that the Histoire encourages reflection on the ways in which translation cultivates temporal as well as linguistic and cultural heterogeneity, an issue that has been given scant attention in translation studies

Key Factors Supporting Small-Scale Coastal Fisheries Management

This synthesis was designed to provide an evidence base on the success factors in small-scale coastal fisheries management in developing countries and, in turn, to assist the Rockefeller Foundation in developing its strategy for its Oceans and Fisheries Initiative. In doing so, it identifies and describes some 20 key factors believed to influence success in small-scale coastal fisheries management. The report was completed via a rapid review of key sources of knowledge from formal published literature, institutional literature, key informants and Internet searches. The focus was on key success factors in achieving a balance of social, economic and ecological benefits from the management of small-scale coastal fisheries. A summary of these success factors can also be explored via an interactive visualization that accompanies this report

Hydrocarbon Pool Mechanisms in zeolite catalysts studied by Kerr-gated Raman Spectroscopy

Hydrocarbon pools (HCP) are thought to be an integral part of some zeolite-catalysed hydrocarbon conversion mechanisms. The composition of a HCP can vary due to reaction conditions and to zeolite properties, i.e., topology and acidity. The HCP composition and behaviour control the activity and selectivity of the reaction, and therefore a full understanding of the speciation in these reactions is necessary for future reaction developments to improve efficiency. In this thesis, Kerr-gated Raman Spectroscopy is applied under operando conditions using a visible wavelength laser (400 nm) to identify HCP intermediates during catalytic conversion of methanol, and biomass derived model-compounds. In this work the application of the Kerr-gate is vital for removing the inherent emission signals from zeolite samples which typically dominate Raman spectra. In Chapter 3, this technique is used to unravel the Methanol-to-Olefins (MTO) reaction. The first part of this chapter identifies the role of polyenes during the initial stages of catalyst deactivation in small pore zeolites, while the second part interrogates how calcium affects the HCP and therefore the reaction mechanism. Chapter 4 focuses on furan conversion, as a model compound for biomass to study Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP). This reaction is followed by Raman and UV-Vis spectroscopy during temperature ramping, allowing the changes that lead to aromatics and olefins production on four zeolites (ZSM-5, beta, Zeolite Y and ferrierite) to be followed and understood. Only in ZSM-5 is benzofuran observed to form on the zeolite, an intermediate linked with higher aromatic formation. Chapter 5 continues the study of converting model compounds of biomass using ZSM-5 only, but changing the chemical feed to acetic acid, acetaldehyde, and hydrogenated furan. Finally, in Chapter 6, the results from a UV-Raman study of the MTO and CFP reactions are shown, demonstrating the usefulness of probing samples with different incident wavelengths to capitalize on resonance enhancement

A real-time PCR method for quantification of the total and major variant strains of the Deformed wing virus

Funding: ELB was supported by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership (http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk) [grant number BB/J01446X/1] and an Eastern Association Regional Studentship (EARS) and The Morley Agricultural Foundation awarded to ASB. CRC was supported by a KTN BBSRC CASE studentship (BB/M503526/1) (http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk), part-funded by the Scottish Beekeeping Association (https://www.scottishbeekeepers.org.uk/) and the Animal Health - Disease Prevention, Scottish Government awarded to ASB CRC. This project received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 613960 (SMARTBEES) (http://www.smartbees-fp7.eu/) awarded to ASB. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank Mr W. Thrale, Mr Z. Blackmore, Mr J. Quinlan, and Mr J. Palombo for sample collection from the South East of England and Margie Ramsey for Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve sample collection.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The educative role of a regional newspaper : learning to be drier

Throughout the world, people have to deal with the issues of global warming and other more direct consequences of environmental change. This paper considers how a local newspaper has an educative function in a small community in advising people of specific issues and learning how to deal with changing resources. Across the period of several months in 2009, the Buloke Times, a local newspaper in the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, was scanned for articles relating to the issue of water scarcity. In the 24 editions of the paper, 68 articles of various themes were found. The articles/themes were analysed along a number of lines: frequency across time, frequency within each issue, prominence of articles and unusual events. This research paper develops an overview of the role of the newspaper and its capacity to influence and educate the people who constitute its readership