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The brow-antlered deer in Burma—its distribution and status
Two of the three subspecies of brow-antlered deer are endangered and only the Burmese subspecies is still relatively abundant. Even so, it is a species of major concern in Burma. The authors describe the results of their surveys to determine the deer's status, the main threats to its survival and what needs to be done to conserve i
Education and civic engagement: A comparative study of the benefits of post-compulsory education in England and Germany
This paper examines the role of different types of post-compulsory education in determining civic engagement (political interest and election participation) in England and Germany. The educational systems of England and Germany provide ideal comparators for investigating the social benefits of education, in particular those that accrue from vocational education. The paper uses two longitudinal panel surveys, the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for empirical purposes. Contrary to our expectations, our findings revealed few differences between the two countries: the level of political interest is the same for youth who had a vocational degree as those without any further qualifications, in both England and Germany. Similarly, greater levels of interest in politics were observed in adulthood for youth who had achieved academic qualifications in both countries. Likewise voting behaviour in particular was associated with the achievement of academic qualifications in Germany and to some extent with the achievement of mixed vocational and academic qualifications in England.This research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council under grant ES/J021326/1
Education and civic engagement: A comparative study of the benefits of post-compulsory education in England and Germany
This paper examines the role of different types of post-compulsory education in determining civic engagement (political interest and election participation) in England and Germany. The educational systems of England and Germany provide ideal comparators for investigating the social benefits of education, in particular those that accrue from vocational education. The paper uses two longitudinal panel surveys, the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for empirical purposes. Contrary to our expectations, our findings revealed few differences between the two countries: the level of political interest is the same for youth who had a vocational degree as those without any further qualifications, in both England and Germany. Similarly, greater levels of interest in politics were observed in adulthood for youth who had achieved academic qualifications in both countries. Likewise voting behaviour in particular was associated with the achievement of academic qualifications in Germany and to some extent with the achievement of mixed vocational and academic qualifications in England.This research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council under grant ES/J021326/1
Challenging Social Cognition Models of Adherence:Cycles of Discourse, Historical Bodies, and Interactional Order
Attempts to model individual beliefs as a means of predicting how people follow clinical advice have dominated adherence research, but with limited success. In this article, we challenge assumptions underlying this individualistic philosophy and propose an alternative formulation of context and its relationship with individual actions related to illness. Borrowing from Scollon and Scollon’s three elements of social action – “historical body,” “interaction order,” and “discourses in place” – we construct an alternative set of research methods and demonstrate their application with an example of a person talking about asthma management. We argue that talk- or illness-related behavior, both viewed as forms of social action, manifest themselves as an intersection of cycles of discourse, shifting as individuals move through these cycles across time and space. We finish by discussing how these dynamics of social action can be studied and how clinicians might use this understanding when negotiating treatment with patients
The nature of the Class I population in Ophiuchus as revealed through gas and dust mapping
The Ophiuchus clouds, in particular L~1688, are an excellent region to study
the embedded phases of star formation, due to the relatively large number of
protostars. However, the standard method of finding and characterizing embedded
young stellar objects (YSOs) through just their infrared spectral slope does
not yield a reliable sample. This may affect the age determinations, often
derived from the statistics on the total number of embedded YSOs and pre-main
sequence stars within a cloud.Our aim is to characterize the structure of
protostellar envelopes on an individual basis and to correctly identify the
embedded YSO population of L1688. Spectral maps of the HCO+ J=4--3 and C18O
J=3--2 lines using the HARP-B array on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and
SCUBA 850 micron dust maps are obtained of all sources in the L1688 region with
infrared spectral slopes consistent with, or close to, that of embedded YSOs.
Selected 350 micron maps obtained with the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
are presented as well. The properties, extent and variation of dense gas,
column density and dust on scalesup to 1' are probed at 15" resolution. Using
the spatial variation of the gas and dust, together with the intensity of the
HCO+ J=4--3 line, we are able to accurately identify the truly embedded YSOs
and determine their properties. RESULTS The protostellar envelopes range from
0.05 to 0.5 Msun in mass. The concentration of HCO+ emission (~0.5 to 0.9) is
generally higher than that of the dust concentration. Combined with absolute
intensities, HCO+ proves to be a better tracer of protostellar envelopes than
dust, which can contain disk and cloud contributions. Our total sample of 45
sources, including all previously classified Class I sources, several
flat-spectrum sources and some known disks, was re-classified using the ....Comment: accepted for publication in A&A, 29 pages including online appendi
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