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The paper outlines a text analytic project in progress on a corpus of entries in the historical burgh and council registers from Aberdeen, Scotland. Some preliminary output of the analysis is described. The registers run in a near-unbroken sequence form 1398 to the present day; the early volumes are a UNESCO UK listed cultural artefact. The study focusses on a set of transcribed pages from 1530...

There are eight essays and an introduction in this excellent monograph. It is concerned particularly with the demographic effects of plague and is aimed at the historian and general reader. General issues are dealt with in articles on 'Some medical aspects of plague' (Leslie Bradley), 'Current medical and epidemiological views on plague' (J. N. Biraben), 'Plague in Britain' (Christopher Morris)...

We present emission line mapping of the strongly barred galaxy NGC 1530 obtained using Fabry-Pérot interferometry in Hα, at significantly enhanced angular resolution compared with previously published studies. The main point of the work is to examine in detail the non-circular components of the velocity field of the gas, presumably induced by the strongly non-axisymmetric gravitational potentia...

Commercial harvesting of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from the eastern Canada-West Greenland population started with Basque whalers in Strait Belle Isle ca 1530 AD. Subsistence harvests have an even longer history, and first culture to be active was Thule, which replaced Dorset central Arctic 1200 Previous harvest compilations been incomplete, back-calculated models thus negatively biase...

We investigate the linear propagation of 800 and 1530 nm ultrashort optical pulses in water. For all pulse repetition rates studied, we observe pure exponential decay down to a transmission of 2.5 x 10(-5). We further demonstrate that previous observations of nonmonoexponential decay and pulse splitup in broadband pulses are consistent with Beer's law in the purely linear regime.