The Land of Saddle-bags: A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia

This charming account of life in Appalachia at the turn of the century is one of the three most important books from the early twentieth century that, as Dwight Billings writes in his foreword, have “had a profound and lasting impact on how we think about Appalachia and, indeed, on the fact that we commonly believe that such a place and people can be readily identified.” Originally published in 1924, it was advertised as a “racy book, full of the thrill of mountain adventure and the delicious humor of vigorously human people.” James Watt Raine, professor of English literature and later head of the English and drama departments at Berea College from 1906 until his retirement in 1939, provides eyewitness accounts of mountain speech and folksinging, education, religion, community, politics, and farming. In a conscious effort to dispel the negative stereotype of the drunken, slothful, gun-toting hillbilly prone to violence, Raine presents positive examples from his own experiences among the region\u27s native inhabitants. A lively, first-hand account of a Berea College professor\u27s favorable experience with mountain people. -- Now & Then Will enable modern readers to experience how early-twentieth-century writers viewed the Appalachian region and its people. The foreword, penned by Dwight Billings, is especially outstanding as a modern critique of the work. -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society First published in 1924, The Land of the Saddle-Bags provides a unique and timeless study of Appalachia and its people. -- The Bourbon Timeshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1014/thumbnail.jp

“Glossary”. The Charters of Endowment, Inventories, and Account Rolls of the Priory of Finchdale

Glosario. -- Durham. -- Yorkshire. -- Inglés del norte de Inglaterra. -- Pertenece a la colección Varia 1500-1699 del Salamanca Corpus. -- James Raine, 1791-1858. -- “Glossary”. The Charters of Endowment, Inventories, and Account Rolls of the Priory of Finchdale. -- 1837.[ES]Glosario de los inventarios y libros de cuentas del monasterio del convento de Finchdale entre los siglos XIV y XVI. [EN] Glossary of the inventories and account rolls of the Priory of Finchdale, Durham, between the XIVth and XVIth centuries

Introduction: the Public Archaeology of Treasure

Open-access book chapter. Permission granted by Archaopress.Setting the stage for The Public Archaeology of Treasure, this chapter presents the complex intersections of ‘treasure’ in archaeological teaching and research and archaeology’s interactions with a range of different publics on local, regional, national and international scales. The chapter also identifies the global issues in heritage conservation, management and interpretation as well as the looting of archaeological sites and the illicit trade in antiquities relating to ‘treasure(s)’ as legally defined, popularly perceived and metaphorically articulated. Having introduced the breadth and complexity of ‘treasure(s)’, we survey the 2020 student conference from whence this project derived before reviewing the span and foci of the book itself

Pollen sedimentation in relation to the Quaternary vegetation history of the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales

Pollen influx into Blue Lake in the alpine area of the Snowy Mountains of southeastern Australia was measured by pollen traps, snow and stream water samples and lake sediment traps. Pollen deposition in a nearby forested area was also investigated. Pollen deposition rates were calculated for a pair of cores from the lake, yielding a record over the last 13000 years, supplementary material from the nearby Twynam Cirque extending the sequence to 20000 years B.P. Possible causes of distortions in the pollen diagrams arising from differential pollen deposition and sediment redeposition are regarded as not significant. Vegetation was absent from the area before 17000 B.P., when snowpatch and feldmark communities appeared. Further amelioration occurred between 13000 and 17000 years B.P., after which conditions appeared to remain the same until 8700 years B.P., when a great increase in total pollen deposition rate was associated with rise of the treeline to its present position, and further development of the alpine vegetation. Forest of moister aspect than the present day prevailed from 7700 to 6500 years B.P., after which relative wetness declined to a minimum at about 3800 years B.P. Slight increase in available moisture has occurred since 1500 years B.P

Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions

In online communities, antisocial behavior such as trolling disrupts constructive discussion. While prior work suggests that trolling behavior is confined to a vocal and antisocial minority, we demonstrate that ordinary people can engage in such behavior as well. We propose two primary trigger mechanisms: the individual's mood, and the surrounding context of a discussion (e.g., exposure to prior trolling behavior). Through an experiment simulating an online discussion, we find that both negative mood and seeing troll posts by others significantly increases the probability of a user trolling, and together double this probability. To support and extend these results, we study how these same mechanisms play out in the wild via a data-driven, longitudinal analysis of a large online news discussion community. This analysis reveals temporal mood effects, and explores long range patterns of repeated exposure to trolling. A predictive model of trolling behavior shows that mood and discussion context together can explain trolling behavior better than an individual's history of trolling. These results combine to suggest that ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, behave like trolls.Comment: Best Paper Award at CSCW 201

Introduction: the Public Archaeology of Treasure

Setting the stage for The Public Archaeology of Treasure, this chapter presents the complex intersections of ‘treasure’ in archaeological teaching and research and archaeology’s interactions with a range of different publics on local, regional, national and international scales. The chapter also identifies the global issues in heritage conservation, management and interpretation as well as the looting of archaeological sites and the illicit trade in antiquities relating to ‘treasure(s)’ as legally defined, popularly perceived and metaphorically articulated. Having introduced the breadth and complexity of ‘treasure(s)’, we survey the 2020 student conference from whence this project derived before reviewing the span and foci of the book itself

Quantitative optical spectroscopy of 87^{87}Rb vapour in the Voigt geometry in DC magnetic fields up to 0.4T

We present a detailed spectroscopic investigation of a thermal ⁸⁷Rb atomic vapour in magnetic fields up to 0.4T in the Voigt geometry. We fit experimental spectra with our theoretical model ElecSus and find excellent quantitative agreement, with RMS errors of backsim0.3%. We extract the magnetic field strength and the angle between the polarisation of the light and the magnetic field from the atomic signal and find excellent agreement to within backsim1% with a commercial Hall probe. Finally, we present an investigation of the relative sensitivity of this technique to variations in the field strength and angle with a view to enabling atom-based high-field vector magnetometry

Epidemiology of Mental Health Attendances at Emergency Departments: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

BACKGROUND: The characteristics of Emergency Department (ED) attendances due to mental or behavioural health disorders need to be described to enable appropriate development of services. We aimed to describe the epidemiology of mental health-related ED attendances within health care systems free at the point of access, including clinical reason for presentation, previous service use, and patient sociodemographic characteristics. METHOD: Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies describing ED attendances by patients with common mental health conditions. FINDINGS: 18 studies from seven countries met eligibility criteria. Patients attending due to mental or behavioural health disorders accounted for 4% of ED attendances; a third were due to self-harm or suicidal ideation. 58.1% of attendees had a history of psychiatric illness and up to 58% were admitted. The majority of studies were single site and of low quality so results must be interpreted cautiously. CONCLUSIONS: Prevalence studies of mental health-related ED attendances are required to enable the development of services to meet specific needs

Stochastic Theory of Accelerated Detectors in a Quantum Field

We analyze the statistical mechanical properties of n-detectors in arbitrary states of motion interacting with each other via a quantum field. We use the open system concept and the influence functional method to calculate the influence of quantum fields on detectors in motion, and the mutual influence of detectors via fields. We discuss the difference between self and mutual impedance and advanced and retarded noise. The mutual effects of detectors on each other can be studied from the Langevin equations derived from the influence functional, as it contains the backreaction of the field on the system self-consistently. We show the existence of general fluctuation- dissipation relations, and for trajectories without event horizons, correlation-propagation relations, which succinctly encapsulate these quantum statistical phenomena. These findings serve to clarify some existing confusions in the accelerated detector problem. The general methodology presented here could also serve as a platform to explore the quantum statistical properties of particles and fields, with practical applications in atomic and optical physics problems.Comment: 32 pages, Late