Amanda M Thomson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94240 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amanda M Thomson |
| PRENOMES | Amanda M |
| SOBRENOME | Thomson |
| ASSINATURA | THOMSON A M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7306-4545 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 278 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Land in Landscapes Circum Landnám
The initial settlement of Iceland in the 9th and 10th centuries AD was based on animal husbandry, with an emphasis on dairy cattle and sheep. For this activity, land resources that offered a range of grazing and fodder production opportunities were required to sustain farmsteads. In this paper, the nature of land within the boundaries of settlements in an area of Western Iceland centered on Reykholt, which became the estate of the writer and chie…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Collaboration
This article conceptualizes and measures collaboration. An empirically validated theory of collaboration, one that can inform both theory and practice, demands a systematic approach to understanding the meaning and measurement of collaboration. We present findings from a study that develops and tests the construct validity of a multidimensional model of collaboration. Data collected using a mail questionnaire sent to 1382 directors of organizatio…
Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland
Early settlement in the North Atlantic produced complex interactions of culture and nature. The sustained program of interdisciplinary collaboration is intended to focus on ninth- to 13th-century sites and landscapes in the highland interior lake basin of Mývatn in Iceland and to contribute a long-term perspective to larger issues of sustainable resource use, soil erosion, and the historical ecology of global change
Modeling Historic Rangeland Management and Grazing Pressures in Landscapes of Settlement
Historical Ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands
We present palaeoenvironmental, geomorphological, archaeological, and place-name data which allow a holistic assessment of the history of landscape change on Sandoy, Faroe Islands, especially in terms of the changes that occurred in response to the colonization of the island by humans. In contrast to other situations in the North Atlantic region, there is considerable continuity in the patterns and processes of landscape evolution across the init…
Sustainable Rangeland Grazing in Norse Faroe
Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland
This paper assesses the contribution of historical and traditional winter grazing to long‐term land degradation in northeast Iceland. To do so, indicators of soil erosion from two contrasting historical winter grazing areas, set in a tephrochronological framework, are compared against their temporal and regional land degradation contexts. The observations made indicate distinctive and different landscape responses to historical winter grazing dep…
Inside a Swiss Army Knife
This study reviews the goals and achievements of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed by President Clinton and approved by Congress in 1993. We identify five AmeriCorps goals: satisfying unmet social needs, developing corps members, enhancing the civic ethic, reinvigorating lethargic bureaucracies, and bridging race and class. The evidence of AmeriCorps' effectiveness is not definitive. Self-reports from recipient programs, selecti…
Investment appraisal in developing countries
Journal Article Investment appraisal in developing countries Get access Investment appraisal in developing countries. By S. M. O. Amachree. Aldershot: Avebury. 1988. 418pp. £35.00. ISBN 0 566 05462 0. A. M. Thomson A. M. Thomson 1University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 383–384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621391 Published: 01 April 199…
What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries
Journal Article What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries Get access What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries. By Paul Streeten. London: Macmillan. 1988. 126pp. Index. £27.50; ISBN 0 333 44196 6. Pb.: £9.95; ISBN 0 333 44197 4. A. M. Thomson A. M. Thomson 1University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4,…
Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa
Journal Article Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa Get access Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado and Malcolm J. Blackie. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press for International Food Policy Research Institute. 1987. 417pp. Index. £31.05. ISBN 0 8018 3390 6. A. M. Thomson A. M. Thomson 1University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Weight-for-height in adolescence
Weight-for-height in adolescence was investigated on the basis of observations on 669 boys and 753 girls. It was found: (a) that given the age, the expected weight of individuals of the same height changes considerably with pubertal status; (b) that the change in weight for a given change in height also depends on pubertal status, and (c) that these relations vary with age so that chronological age should be taken into account when constructing w…
A longitudinal study of growth in Newcastle upon Tyne adolescents
White Newcastle upon Tyne schoolchildren born in 1962 were examined at approximately half-yearly intervals from 9 to 17 years of age. During the last year of compulsory education losses to follow-up became selective with respect to socio-economic background, and the results reported here are restricted to 564 boys and 669 girls seen regularly between the ages of 10 and 15 years at least. Newcastle adolescents were slightly shorter and lighter tha…
Menarche in Newcastle upon Tyne girls
Age at menarche was recorded for 699 white Newcastle upon Tyne girls taking part in a longitudinal study of growth and development during puberty. Girls from large (5+) families started menstruation about five months later than girls from small families. This effect was observed only among girls with fathers in manual occupations. The occurrence of menarche had a peak in January and a possible secondary peak about August. Height and to some exten…
Pubertal changes in boys and girls in Newcastle upon Tyne
669 boys and 753 girls born in 1962 and living at home were observed at approximately half-yearly intervals from 9 to 17 years of age. Mean ages of reaching various developmental stages were calculated for voice change and facial hair in boys, menarche and breast development in girls, and for axillary hair in both sexes. Peak height velocity and age at which it occurred were also calculated for both sexes. Means were generally in good agreement w…
Post-menarcheal menstrual cycles in British (Newcastle upon Tyne) girls
Data for the first 36 menstrual intervals immediately following menarche were analysed for 298 girls studied in Newcastle upon Tyne. The mean cycle length decreased from 49 . 5 days for the first cycle in 29.5 days for cycles 31-36. There was no clear seasonal pattern in cycle length. The standard deviation within subjects in the length of menstrual interval fell sharply from 23 . 3 days for cycles 1-6 to 10-7 days for cycles 7-12 and more slowly…
Skeletal maturation of Hong Kong Chinese children in the first five years of life
This report describes the skeletal maturity during the first five years of life of 492 Chinese children in Hong Kong in a longitudinal study. Hand-wrist radiographs taken half-yearly were assessed by the Tanner-Whitehouse method and rated according to the TW1 20-bone self-weighting maturity score. Skeletal age was in advance of chronological age in both sexes, but significantly more so in females, especially between 18 months and three years. The…
The Biology of Human Fetal Growth
Foetal growth from 50 to 150 days of gestation
Weight and several linear measurements have been related to postmenstrual age in a series of fresh, apparently normal foetuses, ranging in age from 8 to 21 weeks. Although the correlation between these variables and age was high, the prediction of foetal age from such measurements can never be precise, due in part to difficulties inherent in the concept of postmenstrual age. The average relationships agreed in general with those in previous repor…
Human foetal measurements between 50 and 150 days of gestation, in relation to crown-heel length
Weights and a number of linear measurements were related to crown-heel length in fresh apparently normal foetuses ranging from 8 to 21 weeks' post-menstrual age. The average relationships agreed remarkably well with results reported many years ago on the basis of preserved specimens mostly from spontaneous abortions. There was no evidence of sex differences
Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland
Early settlement in the North Atlantic produced complex interactions of culture and nature. The sustained program of interdisciplinary collaboration is intended to focus on ninth- to 13th-century sites and landscapes in the highland interior lake basin of Mývatn in Iceland and to contribute a long-term perspective to larger issues of sustainable resource use, soil erosion, and the historical ecology of global change
Conceptualizing and Measuring Collaboration
This article conceptualizes and measures collaboration. An empirically validated theory of collaboration, one that can inform both theory and practice, demands a systematic approach to understanding the meaning and measurement of collaboration. We present findings from a study that develops and tests the construct validity of a multidimensional model of collaboration. Data collected using a mail questionnaire sent to 1382 directors of organizatio…
Historical Ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands
We present palaeoenvironmental, geomorphological, archaeological, and place-name data which allow a holistic assessment of the history of landscape change on Sandoy, Faroe Islands, especially in terms of the changes that occurred in response to the colonization of the island by humans. In contrast to other situations in the North Atlantic region, there is considerable continuity in the patterns and processes of landscape evolution across the init…
Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland
This paper assesses the contribution of historical and traditional winter grazing to long‐term land degradation in northeast Iceland. To do so, indicators of soil erosion from two contrasting historical winter grazing areas, set in a tephrochronological framework, are compared against their temporal and regional land degradation contexts. The observations made indicate distinctive and different landscape responses to historical winter grazing dep…
Inside a Swiss Army Knife
This study reviews the goals and achievements of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed by President Clinton and approved by Congress in 1993. We identify five AmeriCorps goals: satisfying unmet social needs, developing corps members, enhancing the civic ethic, reinvigorating lethargic bureaucracies, and bridging race and class. The evidence of AmeriCorps' effectiveness is not definitive. Self-reports from recipient programs, selecti…
Modeling Historic Rangeland Management and Grazing Pressures in Landscapes of Settlement
What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries
Journal Article What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries Get access What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries. By Paul Streeten. London: Macmillan. 1988. 126pp. Index. £27.50; ISBN 0 333 44196 6. Pb.: £9.95; ISBN 0 333 44197 4. A. M. Thomson A. M. Thomson 1University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4,…
Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa
Journal Article Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa Get access Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado and Malcolm J. Blackie. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press for International Food Policy Research Institute. 1987. 417pp. Index. £31.05. ISBN 0 8018 3390 6. A. M. Thomson A. M. Thomson 1University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Sustainable Rangeland Grazing in Norse Faroe
Land in Landscapes Circum Landnám
The initial settlement of Iceland in the 9th and 10th centuries AD was based on animal husbandry, with an emphasis on dairy cattle and sheep. For this activity, land resources that offered a range of grazing and fodder production opportunities were required to sustain farmsteads. In this paper, the nature of land within the boundaries of settlements in an area of Western Iceland centered on Reykholt, which became the estate of the writer and chie…
The Biology of Human Fetal Growth
Foetal growth from 50 to 150 days of gestation
Weight and several linear measurements have been related to postmenstrual age in a series of fresh, apparently normal foetuses, ranging in age from 8 to 21 weeks. Although the correlation between these variables and age was high, the prediction of foetal age from such measurements can never be precise, due in part to difficulties inherent in the concept of postmenstrual age. The average relationships agreed in general with those in previous repor…
Human foetal measurements between 50 and 150 days of gestation, in relation to crown-heel length
Weights and a number of linear measurements were related to crown-heel length in fresh apparently normal foetuses ranging from 8 to 21 weeks' post-menstrual age. The average relationships agreed remarkably well with results reported many years ago on the basis of preserved specimens mostly from spontaneous abortions. There was no evidence of sex differences
Skeletal maturation of Hong Kong Chinese children in the first five years of life
This report describes the skeletal maturity during the first five years of life of 492 Chinese children in Hong Kong in a longitudinal study. Hand-wrist radiographs taken half-yearly were assessed by the Tanner-Whitehouse method and rated according to the TW1 20-bone self-weighting maturity score. Skeletal age was in advance of chronological age in both sexes, but significantly more so in females, especially between 18 months and three years. The…
The Biology of Human Fetal Growth
Post-menarcheal menstrual cycles in British (Newcastle upon Tyne) girls
Data for the first 36 menstrual intervals immediately following menarche were analysed for 298 girls studied in Newcastle upon Tyne. The mean cycle length decreased from 49 . 5 days for the first cycle in 29.5 days for cycles 31-36. There was no clear seasonal pattern in cycle length. The standard deviation within subjects in the length of menstrual interval fell sharply from 23 . 3 days for cycles 1-6 to 10-7 days for cycles 7-12 and more slowly…
Menarche in Newcastle upon Tyne girls
Age at menarche was recorded for 699 white Newcastle upon Tyne girls taking part in a longitudinal study of growth and development during puberty. Girls from large (5+) families started menstruation about five months later than girls from small families. This effect was observed only among girls with fathers in manual occupations. The occurrence of menarche had a peak in January and a possible secondary peak about August. Height and to some exten…
Pubertal changes in boys and girls in Newcastle upon Tyne
669 boys and 753 girls born in 1962 and living at home were observed at approximately half-yearly intervals from 9 to 17 years of age. Mean ages of reaching various developmental stages were calculated for voice change and facial hair in boys, menarche and breast development in girls, and for axillary hair in both sexes. Peak height velocity and age at which it occurred were also calculated for both sexes. Means were generally in good agreement w…
Weight-for-height in adolescence
Weight-for-height in adolescence was investigated on the basis of observations on 669 boys and 753 girls. It was found: (a) that given the age, the expected weight of individuals of the same height changes considerably with pubertal status; (b) that the change in weight for a given change in height also depends on pubertal status, and (c) that these relations vary with age so that chronological age should be taken into account when constructing w…
A longitudinal study of growth in Newcastle upon Tyne adolescents
White Newcastle upon Tyne schoolchildren born in 1962 were examined at approximately half-yearly intervals from 9 to 17 years of age. During the last year of compulsory education losses to follow-up became selective with respect to socio-economic background, and the results reported here are restricted to 564 boys and 669 girls seen regularly between the ages of 10 and 15 years at least. Newcastle adolescents were slightly shorter and lighter tha…
Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa
Journal Article Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa Get access Accelerating food production in sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado and Malcolm J. Blackie. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press for International Food Policy Research Institute. 1987. 417pp. Index. £31.05. ISBN 0 8018 3390 6. A. M. Thomson A. M. Thomson 1University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries
Journal Article What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries Get access What price food? Agricultural price policies in developing countries. By Paul Streeten. London: Macmillan. 1988. 126pp. Index. £27.50; ISBN 0 333 44196 6. Pb.: £9.95; ISBN 0 333 44197 4. A. M. Thomson A. M. Thomson 1University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 4,…
Investment appraisal in developing countries
Journal Article Investment appraisal in developing countries Get access Investment appraisal in developing countries. By S. M. O. Amachree. Aldershot: Avebury. 1988. 418pp. £35.00. ISBN 0 566 05462 0. A. M. Thomson A. M. Thomson 1University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 383–384, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621391 Published: 01 April 199…
Inside a Swiss Army Knife
This study reviews the goals and achievements of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed by President Clinton and approved by Congress in 1993. We identify five AmeriCorps goals: satisfying unmet social needs, developing corps members, enhancing the civic ethic, reinvigorating lethargic bureaucracies, and bridging race and class. The evidence of AmeriCorps' effectiveness is not definitive. Self-reports from recipient programs, selecti…
Assessing the role of winter grazing in historic land degradation, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland
This paper assesses the contribution of historical and traditional winter grazing to long‐term land degradation in northeast Iceland. To do so, indicators of soil erosion from two contrasting historical winter grazing areas, set in a tephrochronological framework, are compared against their temporal and regional land degradation contexts. The observations made indicate distinctive and different landscape responses to historical winter grazing dep…
Historical Ecology on Sandoy, Faroe Islands
We present palaeoenvironmental, geomorphological, archaeological, and place-name data which allow a holistic assessment of the history of landscape change on Sandoy, Faroe Islands, especially in terms of the changes that occurred in response to the colonization of the island by humans. In contrast to other situations in the North Atlantic region, there is considerable continuity in the patterns and processes of landscape evolution across the init…
Sustainable Rangeland Grazing in Norse Faroe
Conceptualizing and Measuring Collaboration
This article conceptualizes and measures collaboration. An empirically validated theory of collaboration, one that can inform both theory and practice, demands a systematic approach to understanding the meaning and measurement of collaboration. We present findings from a study that develops and tests the construct validity of a multidimensional model of collaboration. Data collected using a mail questionnaire sent to 1382 directors of organizatio…
Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland
Early settlement in the North Atlantic produced complex interactions of culture and nature. The sustained program of interdisciplinary collaboration is intended to focus on ninth- to 13th-century sites and landscapes in the highland interior lake basin of Mývatn in Iceland and to contribute a long-term perspective to larger issues of sustainable resource use, soil erosion, and the historical ecology of global change
Modeling Historic Rangeland Management and Grazing Pressures in Landscapes of Settlement
Land in Landscapes Circum Landnám
The initial settlement of Iceland in the 9th and 10th centuries AD was based on animal husbandry, with an emphasis on dairy cattle and sheep. For this activity, land resources that offered a range of grazing and fodder production opportunities were required to sustain farmsteads. In this paper, the nature of land within the boundaries of settlements in an area of Western Iceland centered on Reykholt, which became the estate of the writer and chie…
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