The Public Place of the (Neo-)Victorians

The Victorians are everywhere. Neo-Victorian adaptations of their writings, lives and culture are all around us in the contemporary marketplace. (Neo)Victorianism sells in its most popular forms, from blockbuster films, TV serialisations and bestselling novels. The public appetite for the nineteenth century and modern re-workings of it is therefore a given in a global cultural economy. How, though, do we academics engage those audiences, readers, viewers with the research on the Victorians and the neo-Victorian? What strategies might we consider to maximise the benefits, impacts and purpose of our scholarship to a society-at-large which is so attentive to creative interpretation but not necessarily critical approaches? This presentation will draw on my personal experience as a researcher in both Victorian and neo-Victorian studies. It will involve some highlights and low moments from my  own past projects engaging the public with the (neo)Victorian (be it in libraries, archives or public squares), and some suggestions for ways in which reciprocal engagement, co-production of research and the consideration of contemporary public concerns, can offer an entry point to scholarly debate. I will also draw on over five years of work as Director of Research at the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, including examples from projects focussed on public engagement and partnership experience with museums, galleries, local history and community groups and organisations such as the BBC.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Review of the Lightning Strike Incident at Launch Complex 37 on July 27, 1967, and Comparison to a Gemini Lightning Strike

The Launch Complex 37 lightning strike of July 27, 1967, was reviewed and compared to a similar incident on the Gemini Program. Available data indicate little likelihood of damaging currents having been present in SA-204 Launch Vehicle or the ground equipment during the July 27th incident. Based on the results of subsystem and system testing after the strike, anticipated results of future testing, the six months elapsed time between the strike-and launch, and the fact that much of the critical airborne electrical/electronic equipment has been removed since the strike for other reasons, no new actions are considered necessary at this time in the Gemini case, significant failures occurred in both airborne and ground circuits. Due to the resultant semi, condlictor uncertainty, and the relatively' short time prior to planned launch, all critical airborne components containing semiconduetors were replaced, and a sophisticated data comparison task was implemented

Ecological study of aquatic midges and some related insects with special reference to feeding habits

Published also as thesis (PH.D.) Cornell University, 1916.From Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, vol. XXXVIII, 1921-22.Bibliography: p. 60-61.Mode of access: Internet

Viruses infecting daphne in New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Horticultural Science

The genus Daphne belongs to the Thymelaeaceae and contains both evergreen and deciduous shrubs which produce attractive, highly fragrant flowers. Plants are neat and shapely and seldom grow more than 3-4 feet high, fitting well into rock gardens or herbaceous borders. A large number of species of this very popular ornamental are grown in New Zealand, the most common of which is Daphne odora Thunb. This latter species contains several cultivars and one (Daphne odora 'Leucanthe') is almost ubiquitous at least in the North Island. Its importance is illustrated by the fact that several nurseries visited during the study cited production figures for Leucanthe of between 5,000 and 12,000 specimens per annum and one firm has also entered the export trade. Daphne burkwoodii Turrill and Daphne cneorum L. are two other species which are also commonly grown in N.Z. [FROM PREFACE

Outlook 2005: Return to Sender

Am 17. und 18. März 2005 findet in der britischen Botschaft in Berlin die diesjährige "CESifo International Spring Conference" statt. Am ersten Tag werden die wirtschaftlichen Perspektiven wichtiger Weltregionen im Mittelpunkt stehen. Thema des zweiten Tages ist die konjunkturelle Entwicklung in bedeutenden Branchen der europäischen Industrie. John Llewellyn, Lehman Brothers, New York, wird einer der Referenten sein. Hier gibt er eine kurze Einschätzung zur Entwicklung der Weltwirtschaft.Internationale Wirtschaftskonferenz, Konjunktur, Prognose, Branche, Industrie, Finanzpolitik

The Case of Dinosaur Metabolism

In lieu of an abstract, here is the article\u27s first paragraph: To learn the critical skill of scientific argumentation, students need learning experiences that involve constructing evidence-based explanations. Students often struggle to propose, support, critique, refine, justify, and defend a scientific position (Llewellyn 2013). This article describes a lesson in which biology students are challenged to support their claims with evidence-based reasoning as they research the thermoregulation of dinosaurs

Vortex dynamos

We investigate the kinematic dynamo properties of interacting vortex tubes. These flows are of great importance in geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics: for a large range of systems, turbulence is dominated by such coherent structures. We obtain a dynamically consistent 2(2)-(1)-dimensional velocity field of the form (u(x, y, t), upsilon(x, y, t), w(x, y, t)) by solving the z-independent Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of helical forcing. This system naturally forms vortex tubes via an inverse cascade. It has chaotic Lagrangian properties and is therefore a candidate for fast dynamo action. The kinematic dynamo properties of the flow are calculated by determining the growth rate of a small-scale seed field. The growth rate is found to have a complicated dependence on Reynolds number Re and magnetic Reynolds number Rm, but the flow continues to act as a dynamo for large Re and Rm. Moreover the dynamo is still efficient even in the limit Re much greater than Rm, providing Rm is large enough, because of the formation of coherent structures