Biosphere reserves have been studied around the world, but methods to elicit community's values, worldviews and perceptions are missing. A greater understanding of these can help avoid tension and improve successful management. This paper used a mixed-methods survey to elicit local community's environmental values, ecological world views and perceptions of the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Bio...

The long term response of surface waters to changes in sulphur deposition and afforestation is investigated for three upland river systems in the Galloway region of south-west Scotland. From 1984-1999, these rivers exhibited a statistically significant decline in non-marine sulphate concentrations in response to reduced acid deposition. This reduction in non-marine sulphate was, however, insuff...

THE Royal Burgh of Dumfries has much to occupy those interested in the life of Robert Burns. During his tenancy of Ellisland Farm, six miles from Dumfries, the poet was a frequent visitor to the town. On 4 June 1787, two months after publication of the second edition of his poems, he was admitted burgess of the Burgh. Later, at Martinmas, 1791, he took up permanent residence in Dumfries with hi...

Abstract Turbulent dynamo theories have faced difficulties in obtaining evolution of large-scale magnetic fields on short dynamical time-scales due to the constraint imposed by helicity balance. This has critical implications for understanding field astrophysical systems like Sun, stars and galaxies. Direct numerical simulations (DNS) past with isotropically forced helical turbulence shown that...

A SYMPOSIUM ON DECISION MAKING IN THE FIRM ON RELAXIffi THE MAXIMIZATION POSTULATE Harvey Leibenstein BEHAVIORAL ELEMENTS IN THE THEORY OF THE FIRM: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Warren S. G r a m n THEORY of SURPRISE AND BUSINESS FAILURE B. Gilad, S. Kaish and P. D. Loeb ROUTINIZED BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS Howard M. Weiss 6 Daniel R. Ilgen A THEORY OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL EFFORT DECISIONS Roger Frant...

Expressing concurrency in applications has always been a difficult and error-prone endeavor, yet effective utilization of multi-core processors requires that the concurrency in applications be understood. One approach to the expression of concurrency is streaming, which has shown real promise as a safe and effective method for many application classes. Here, we express a classic problem, sortin...

Hypertension, oedema, or serious potassium loss has been reported in up to 50% of patients receiving carbenoxolone sodium, 300 mg. daily, for the treatment of gastric ulcer (Doll, Hill, Hutton, and Underwood, 1962; Doll, Hill, and Hutton, 1965; Turpie and Thomson, 1965; Horwich and Galloway, 1965). According to Turpie and Thomson's observations on 10 patients, these side effects can also occur ...