British Isles
This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles 1482 1746
... a British state’, helped consolidate an empire, and ‘made a standing army acceptable for both civilians and officers’ ...the British Isles, this is an Anglo-centric history, with little place for ...
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Eucalyptus - part 1: species with forestry potential in the British Isles
... All the earlier reviews (cited above) on growing eucalypts in the British Isles have recognised that the greatest threat is cold damage. Therefore, matching species to site on the basis of experience is ...
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Seasonal changes in flight direction of migrant butterflies in the British Isles
... SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION An examination of over a thousand records of directional flights in the British Isles, relating to six species of butterflies, shows distinct evidence of a nor[r] ...
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Climate driven trophic cascades affecting seabirds around the British Isles
... There is much evidence to suggest climate-driven trophic cascades have already affected seabirds in the waters around the British Isles. Whilst the basis for changes being driven by primary production are ...
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Disunited Kingdoms: Peoples and Politics in the British Isles: 1280 1460
... 1280–1460 time-frame encompasses the later reign of Alexander III (1241–86), and the series of wars against Wales (1) and Scotland (2) conducted by Edward I (1239-1307) extending to the end of the reign of James II ...
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Constraining the geotherm beneath the British Isles from Bayesian inversion of Curie depth: integrated modelling of magnetic, geothermal, and seismic data
... Curie depth is < 20 km in Northern Ireland and Scotland, which is strongly associated with the high spatial density of plutons and mafic volcanics (Fig. 1). Curie depth at the northern edge of the Midland Platform in ...
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Eucalyptus in the British Isles
... Renewable Obligation Certificates, promote the use of renewable energy sources and particularly biomass crops. Two recently proposed schemes supporting renewable energy in Britain are likely to have a positive impact on ...
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The O and H stable isotope composition of freshwaters in the British Isles 1 Rainfall
... by short-term changes in factors such as temperature, rainfall amount and air-mass movement — in other words, weather. However, these factors also affect the isotopic balance of rainfall over the longer term in the form ...
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A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles
... This is a philological paper about some of the earliest linguistic evidence for human habitation in the British Isles. Its theme has not been thought up as a plank in an argument for some preconceived ...
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Modelling Future Coronary Heart Disease Mortality to 2030 in the British Isles
... the British Isles by optimal improvements in average population dietary salt and saturated fat intake, reductions in unac- ceptable high levels of smoking prevalence and increases in physical activity ...
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Poverty and Illness in the 'Old Countries': archaeological approaches to historical medical institutions in the British Isles.
... Institutional archaeology has forged a distinctive strand of historical archaeological research in the last two decades. However, the bracketing of public ‘institutions’ for human confinement together as a few specific ...
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The British Isles and the War of American Independence
... among British historians, but among American historians and scholars of nationalism more ...The British Isles and the War of American Independence not only presents a succinct and comprehensible ...
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The glacial isostatic adjustment signal at present day in northern Europe and the British Isles estimated from geodetic observations and geophysical models
... Abstract. The glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) signal at present day is constrained via the joint inversion of geode- tic observations and GIA models for a region encompassing northern Europe, the British ...
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The current system around the British Isles as it relates to offshore structures: an assessment
... In its simplest form applied to an unbounded, homogeneous ocean of uniform depth it predicts a current structure in which the flow is 45° to the right of the wind at the surface, and rot[r] ...
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The relationship between local wind and current in coastal waters of the British Isles
... It is shown that at three of the four light vessels considered the wind-induced water movement at approximately 14 feet below the surface is about 1.7% of the wind travel, but that local[r] ...
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Pioneering in Ethics Teaching: The Case of Management Accounting in Universities in the British Isles
... some British-oriented textbooks, teachers of business ethics in the UK still suffer from a lack of UK and European case studies and other support materials (Cummins, 1999; Cowton and Cummins, ...
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Gender in the economy: female merchants and family businesses in the British Isles, 1600 1850
... For England and Ireland the number of women in the Goldsmith's Company and the Sun Insurance records rose between 1650 and about 1770, then fell off into the nineteenth century.52 Philip[r] ...
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Long term wave height distribution at seven stations around the British Isles
... Hogben 1967 has compared the fit of the log-normal and the Weibull distribution to visual wave height observations at a number of locations in the North Atlantic and to the instrumental [r] ...
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Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles
... Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British.. 1 Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South.[r] ...
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Economic aspects of new methods of building with particular reference to the British Isles, the Continent and America
... 133 but the Swedish figures of both wage rates and earnings show that the size of the earnings differential is much larger than the differential between time rates In Britain, however, t[r] ...
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