Strangers Come to Devour the Land: Changing Views of Foreign Migrants in Early Eighteenth-Century England

This article investigates the debates surrounding immigration to England some three hundred years ago and considers why it was that between the 1680s and the 1710s a discernible change occurred in how migrants were treated. Work on the emergence of a “British” Protestant identity and its relationship with continental Europe, on changing ideas of Englishness and on the campaign for a relaxation in rights of access to the English and colonial labor market are considered. The shift in popular and political responses to the arrival of refugees in England in 1709 provides a contrast to the charitable welcome extended to migrants a generation before and offers an opportunity to see that views of foreign migrants changed for a combination of reasons. True vocalization of “England’s first nationalist revolution” of 1688-89 came one generation later in 1709. Then, the first full pronouncement of a rhetoric of “suitability” for English society and of economic utility meant that a refugee community was denied Protestant charity, denied employment, and was directed away from England’s shores.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brill via http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-1234251

Fogelstrom_Ehrlen_2019

Data and code for estimation of phenotypic and genotypic selection on first flowering day (FFD), the relationships between FFD and the probability of escaping grazing, fruit set, the number of seeds per fruit and intensity of seed predation, as well as estimation of heritability of FFD for Lathyrus vernus individuals in southern Sweden

En utvärdering av Audiolet för portandet avett röst-drivet program till webben

We where asked to write a webapplication, with similar functionality as an existing desktop application. The application can today record sounds from a person, mix it together at the optimal place with another, similar sound and play back the result. The application used mathematical calculation that the developers where not familiar with, therefore it was decided to focus on the parts that involved recording and playing sound, to pave the way for any future implementation. The follwing prototypes where implemneted: 1. Read a sound clip from a file. 2. Splicing of two sound clips at different points in the clips. 3. Generate the sound of a guitar. The result of this evaluation is that web browsers today are not ready for this type of application, but that there is potetial as soon as W3C have standardised the use of a microphone as a source to the existing DSP functions.Vi blev ombedda att skriva en webbapplikation, som har liknande funktionalitet som en befintlig applikation på skrivbordet. Applikationen kan idag läsa in ljud från en person, klippa ihop det ljudet på det optimala stället med ett annat, likartat ljud och spela upp resultatet. Applikationen gjorde matematiska beräkningar som utvecklarna inte är särskilt familjära med, därför sattes fokus på de delarna som involverar inspelning och uppspelning av ljud, för att bana väg för en framtida implementation. Det implementerades följande prototyper: 1. Läsa in ett ljudklipp från fil. 2. Skarva ihop två ljudklipp på olika punkter i klippen. 3. Generera ljudet av en gitarr sträng. Resultatet av vår undersökning är att webbläsare och Audiolet ännu inte riktigt är redo för den här typen av applikation, men att det finns potential och webbläsaren är redo när W3C 17 har standardiserat användandet av mikrofon som källa i de befintliga DSP funktionerna

Simultaneous selection on vegetative and reproductive phenology in a perennial herb

The timing of different life history events are often correlated, and selection might only rarely be exerted independently on the timing of a single event. In plants, phenotypic selection has often been shown to favour earlier flowering. However, little is known about to what extent this selection acts directly vs. indirectly via vegetative phenology, and if selection on the two traits is correlational. We estimated direct, indirect and correlational phenotypic selection on vegetative and reproductive phenology over three years for flowering individuals of the perennial herb Lathyrus vernus. Direct selection favoured earlier flowering and shorter timespans between leaf-out and flowering in all years. However, early flowering was associated with early leaf-out, and the direction of selection on leaf-out day varied among years. As a result, selection on leaf-out weakened selection for early flowering in one of the study years. We found no evidence of correlational selection. Our results highlight the importance of including temporally correlated traits when exploring selection on the phenology of seasonal events.The dataset contains data describing the size, flowering phenology, leaf-out phenology and fitness (number of intact seeds) of Lathyrus vernus individuals from a natural population. The variables in the dataset have been calculated or estimated from data collected in the field