Over the last two decades, there has been an accelerating advancement of acoustic and optical plankton samplers, opening many opportunities for fine-scale studies of plankton distribution. To date, however, the imaging systems have been limited in the volume of water being sampled, thereby restricting their utility to quantifying highly abundant, small zooplankton like copepods, but not relativ...

TEXT: This paper will examine the central role of women in Irish keening (caoineadh) or ritual lamentation, its “submersion” through the eventual suppression of the rite and its subsequent “de-ritualisation” . The bean chaointe (keening woman) inhabited a liminal state between the living and the world of the dead for the duration of the mourning period, entering a kind of “divine madness” which...

Randomized field experiments, which in the United States has been proposed as the gold standard of educational research, (National Research Council, 2002) is dismissed by some critics as ―positivistic‖. Although this dismissal over identifies positivism with a specific research method, the larger point is accurate: the ―gold standard‖ is often insensitive to local situations and human value and...