The first lady geologist, or collector par excellence?

This is a PDF version of an article published in Geology Today© 2001. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com. The illustrations have been removed.This article discusses the life and career of the British geologist Etheldred Benett (1776-1845), one of the first female geologists and and expert on the early history of Wiltshire geology

Dermatolysis: With Report of Two Cases

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Letter from George Cadbury in England to William Cooper in Australia, 1920

Letter from George Cadbury (1839-1922), prominent English Quaker and founder of the original 'factory in the garden' at Bournville, near Birmingham in 1879, to William Cooper, regarding the establishment of a garden suburb along the same lines in Claremont, Tasmania. The photograph is of the Cadbury's factory with its 'garden city' housing in the foreground. The Cadbury's advertisement is from the Australian Women's Weekly, Tasmanian edition, 25 July 1936. William Cooper, also a Quaker, was a frequent visitor to Tasmania although he never lived there. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors of The Friend's School from 1924-1949 and two of his sons, William Livingstone Cooper and Joseph Howard Cooper moved to Hobart to work for Cadburys at Claremont

Executive pay and performance: did bankers’ bonuses cause the crisis?

This paper examines the pay-performance relationship between executive cash compensation (including bonuses) and company performance for a sample of large UK companies, focusing particularly on the financial services industry, since incentive misalignment has been blamed as one of the factors causing the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Although we find that pay in the financial services sector is high, the cash-plus-bonus pay-performance sensitivity of financial firms is not significantly higher than in other sectors. Consequently, we conclude that it unlikely that incentive structures could be held responsible for inducing bank executives to focus on short-term results

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Time Trails: ‘presencing’ digital heritage within our everyday lives

The Time Trails project is a collaboration between the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, 1010 Media, and Exeter City Football Club Supporters Trust (2013). It is a mobile web app to allow users to follow, annotate and create trails using text, images and videos, and to respond to them via social media. Two trails narrating the history of Exeter City Football Club and its Supporters Trust, used for mobile learning and as part of sport and cultural tourism experiences are presented. We show how Time Trails can be used as a presencing tool to establish new ways of encountering and learning on digital heritage within our daily lives

Corporate governance and family firm performance during the Global Financial Crisis

We investigate the impact of corporate governance on accounting and market performance relationships of family firms during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We expect the monitoring aspects of corporate governance to complement the long-term orientation of family firms, improving the value relevance of accounting and market performance during times of exogenous financial shocks such as the GFC. We find that the family-firm value is more sensitive to book value than earnings changes. We also find better corporate governance, irrespective of whether it is a family firm or non-family firm, is associated with better accounting and market performance during the GFC