Creative enterprise in west Yorkshire Arts organisations

This report describes and theorises the findings of a workshop discussion, commissioned by WYLLN, into the views of arts organizations on the challenges they face in becoming more enterprising and less grant dependent

Metaphor in texts about climate change

This article discusses the use of metaphors and metonyms in texts about climate change in different registers, with a particular focus on the information given to young people, and what they understand about the topic. It begins by considering the role of metaphorical thinking and language in science, and reviews some of the work on scientific metaphor in expert and popular genres. The article analyses the different functions of metaphors in two texts about anthropogenic climate change from different genres, arguing that in the popular text analysed, metaphors tend to have the function of entertaining and dramatizing, and introducing and concluding (interpersonal and textual), as opposed to their informational (ideational) function in the research article that was analysed. I then discuss a corpus and discourse analysis of young people’s talk about climate change. The young people’s use of figurative language is compared with that of researchers and educationalists. The analysis finds that, as is consistent with work on scientific popularisations, written texts for non-specialists tend to ‘open up’, in Knudsen’s (2003) terms experts’ metaphors, extending them creatively. I found that on occasion this seems to lead to, or reflect, misunderstandings of the underlying science. I also find that young people reference Arctic and Antarctic animals as symbols of the problem of climate change

The Protestant Community in Sligo, 1914-1949

This thesis traces the economic, social, political and cultural aspects of the Protestant community in Sligo from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 to the declaration of an Irish republic in 1949. In the immediate period before the First World War the Protestant community in Sligo were predominantly unionist and were well organised and vocal in their opposition to Home Rule. The strong commitment of Protestants and unionists to the war effort weakened the unionist movement in Sligo. The inability of the Sligo unionists to reactivate their movement after the war and their refusal to reach any accommodation with moderate nationalists resulted in the alienation of many Protestants from the Catholic and nationalist majority. However, by 1949, Sligo Protestants had pragmatically adapted to the changes in the period and had ditched unionism in favour of more economic and interestbased political parties. They had weathered well the difficult periods of the War of Independence and the Civil War and few Sligo Protestants suffered hardship in the period from 1919 to 1923. The change from British administration to an Irish one was not disastrous for Sligo’s Protestant population and two-thirds had remained in Sligo after the Civil War and they continued to take an active interest in, and make a large contribution to both the political and economic life of Sligo. In so doing they were able to argue their points of view and were able to work together with Catholics and nationalists, while still being able to honour their heritage and traditions and remaining loyal to their own groups and clubs which gave rise not only to a socially healthy community with a feeling of belongingness to a new state, but also a community with a sense of a separate identity

New passerine birds from the Indo-Chinese subregion

Aware of my interest in the races of the babbling thrush, Pellorneum ruficeps Swainson, Dr. Dillon Ripley has sent for my examination five specimens of this bird recently collected by him in the hill country of eastern Assam…

A comparison of the effectiveness of two group discussion methods

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston Universit

Differential Response of the Microbiome of Pocillopora acuta to Reciprocal Transplantation Within Singapore

As corals continue to decline globally, particularly due to climate change, it is vital to understand the extent to which their microbiome may confer an adaptive resilience against environmental stress. Corals that survive on the urban reefs of Singapore are ideal candidates to study the association of scleractinians with their microbiome, which in turn can inform reef conservation and management. In this study, we monitored differences in the microbiome of Pocillopora acuta colonies reciprocally transplanted between two reefs, Raffles and Kusu, within the Port of Singapore, where corals face intense anthropogenic impacts. Pocillopora acuta had previously been shown to host distinct microbial communities between these two reefs. Amplicon sequencing (16S rRNA) was used to assess the coral microbiomes at 1, 2, 4, and 10 days post-transplantation. Coral microbiomes responded rapidly to transplantation, becoming similar to those of the local corals at the destination reef within one day at Raffles and within two days at Kusu. Elevated nitrate concentrations were detected at Raffles for the duration of the study, potentially influencing the microbiome's response to transplantation. The persistence of corals within the port of Singapore highlights the ability of corals to adapt to stressful environments. Further, coral resilience appears to coincide with a dynamic microbiome which can undergo shifts in composition without succumbing to dysbiosis