A contested Brexit would be disruptive for Ireland, both North and South

Ireland’s exposure to Brexit has been widely anticipated in political, policy and academic commentary and analysis. The resulting vulnerability – and the challenges and opportunities arising from it – have been confirmed by the dramatic events of the days following the vote to Leave. Paul Gillespie explains

A British departure would have major consequences for Ireland, both North and South

From an Irish perspective it matters hugely that the UK not only votes to remain in the EU but that it does so after a clearly decisive vote, argues one of the participants of the LSE Commission of the Future of Britain in Europe Paul Gillespie. He insists the run-up to the referendum should be marked by a well-informed debate about the European as well as the British issues involved. Ireland is the EU member-state most exposed to the consequences of a Brexit decision. It has the only land border with the UK and probably the highest level of interdependence with it. A British departure would have major consequences for Ireland North and South across all these dimensions, concludes Gillespie as part of his response to Kevin Featherstone’s article

Sex-role congruence: Marital satisfaction and household division of labor

This study examines household organization and the perceived level of marital well-being by focusing on the married couple as the unit of analysis. The amount of time that both spouses are involved in the work force and participate in household labor is investigated through reports from both the husband and wife, as are the measures of marital satisfaction; Fifty-eight husbands and wives completed a series of questionnaires and psychological scales that assessed demographic information, sex-role orientation, sex-role congruence, marital satisfaction, and household task performance. The findings of this investigation support earlier contentions of the importance of focusing on sex-role attitude congruency as a critical variable in marital research; The results of this study indicate that couples of the Modern Wife/Traditional Husband type have greater levels of marital dysfunction than couples of the opposite incongruent configuration. Additionally, Traditional/Traditional couples are represented in the data as more husband dominated in the family decision-making process than families of the Modern/Modern type. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)

The Ecology of the Nitrogen-fixing Azotobacter and Klebsiella in Selected South Dakota Lakes

The importance of nitrogen in an aquatic ecosystem is quite well known. Nitrogen, being originally derived from the atmosphere, enters into a complex cycle involving both the plant and animal components of the ecosystem. The nitrogenous compounds of natural waters may be broken down into the main categories according to their source, either allochthones or autochthonous. Allochthones nitrogen is that derived from the outside sources and includes those compounds carried into the lake by precipitation, by surface runoff containing terrestrial nitrogen, or by the inflow of ground water. Autochthonous nitrogenous compounds are those which result from the fixation of elemental nitrogen within the body of water itself. This investigation concerns the possible significance of bacterial nitrogen fixation in the over-all nitrogen balance of a lake. Very little work has been reported demonstrating the numbers of the various nitrogen-fixing bacteria which are capable of nitrogen fixation have been followed in five lakes within a 40-mile radius of Brookings, South Dakota. This study was initiated on a preliminary basis using samples taken from Lake Cochrane (Fig. 1). After a period of four months it was decided to expand the study to include an additional four lakes. It was not the purpose of this study to achieve a representative sampling of each lake, but only to take a composite sample of the same sites in each lake at designated time intervals

Assessment in senior secondary physical education. Questions of judgement

The ways in which various aspects of senior physical education courses should be assessed and whether some can, or indeed should be incorporated in external examinations, are matters of longstanding professional debate across Australia and internationally. Differences in current practice across Australasia reflect an ongoing lack of consensus about how assessment requirements and arrangements and particularly, examinations in senior physical education, can best address concerns to ensure validity, reliability, equity and feasibility. An issue never far from such debates is that of ‘professional judgement’ and more specifically, whether and how professional judgement does and/or should ‘come into play’ in assessment. This paper reports on research that has explored new approaches to examination assessment and marking in senior physical education, using digital technologies. It focuses specifically on the ways in which ‘professional judgement’ can be deemed to be inherent to two contrasting methods of assessment used in the project: ‘analytical standardsbased’ assessment and ‘comparative pairs’ assessment. Details of each method of assessment are presented. Data arising directly from assessors’ comments and from analysis which explored intermarker reliability for each method of assessment and compared results generated by internal teacher assessment, standards-based and comparative pairs assessment, is reported. Discussion explores whether the data arising can be seen as lending weight to arguments for (i) more faith to be placed in professional judgement and (ii) for the comparative pairs methods to be more widely employed in examination assessment in senior physical education

Interview with Laura Quakenbush

An interview with Laura Quakenbush regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/ors/1166/thumbnail.jp

The response of a marine bacterium to cupric ion and its use to estimate cupric ion activity in seawater

Experiments were conducted to determine the relationship between the response of a bacterial isolate to copper, as measured by cellular incorporation of 14C-glucose, and the complexation of copper by organic ligands. Inhibition of glucose incorporation was dependent on the cupric ion activity and independent of the concentration of organic complexes of copper both in UV-treated seawater (36‰) containing different concentrations of a model chelator, nitrilotriacetate (NTA), and in low salinity media (1.8‰) containing varied amounts of commercially-prepared or river-borne humic compounds...

Hill of Banchory Geothermal Energy Project Feasibility Study Report

This feasibility study explored the potential for a deep geothermal heat project at Hill of Banchory, Aberdeenshire. The geology of the Hill of Fare, to the north of Banchory, gives cause to believe it has good geothermal potential, while the Hill of Banchory heat network, situated on the northern side of the town, offers a ready-made heat customer. The partners in the consortium consisted of academics and developers with relevant expertise in deep geothermal energy, heat networks, and financial analysis, together with representatives of local Government. They conducted geological fieldwork around the Hill of Fare, engaged with local residents to establish their attitudes to geothermal energy, and built business models to predict the conditions under which the heat network at Hill of Banchory would be commercial if it utilised heat from the proposed geothermal well. They also estimated the potential carbon emission reductions that could be achieved by using deep geothermal energy, both at Hill of Banchory and more widely