... reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2015 Abstract To gain insight into the dry season survival strategies of Anopheles gambiae s.l., a new contained semi-field system was developed and used for the first time in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The system consisted...

... (a) Quantum circuit equivalent to the action of the Jaynes–Cummings coupling on the |e,0>, |g,1> and |g,0> states of the composite atom–field system. (b) Simplified representation of this circuit. Fig. 5.31 Quantum circuit representing the quantum...

... can conclude from the occurrence of extensive field systems of (pre-)Celtic type (e.g. Saha-Loo and Loo). Numerous relict field complexes are known from the pre-Roman Iron Age, such as Proosa and Rebala ( Lang 2015b ). At the start of our era there was a change in farming systems, with earlier field...

...When is a ditch not—or not simply—a ditch? This article explores the idea of the ditch or drain, drawing on ethnographic, archaeological, and agronomic accounts of field systems in the New Guinea Highlands. The ways in which Huli speakers use ditches to manage their landscapes, subsistence regimes...

... Honiton Devon Crewkerne Cruwys Morchard Devon Cullompton Honiton Devon Luppitt North Tawton Devon place names Rudge in Morchard Bishop Devon Chard Chardstock Combe St Nicholas Membury landscape character historic landscapes regional variation field system field-boundary patterns...

... and underlying reasons for these. It begins with a discussion of the farming landscape including archaeological evidence for field systems and charters which enable the reconstruction of estates. Transhumance is also examined. Cereals were the dietary mainstay consumed as bread, porridge, gruel, and ale...

...This chapter discusses the arable field systems of the later medieval period and the demographic and social changes that lay behind their expansion, contraction, and enclosure. Field systems across the country are contrasted, the north of England and Scotland being less well understood...

... cattle equitable field system famine green fertilisers labourers marl rice slaves The reason why nitrogen is necessary for all living things was established in chapter 1 . We also saw the kind of intellectual and theoretical basis upon which the scientific understanding...

... that are brought out by a close analysis of the well-field system elaborated by the early Confucian Mengzi. Shared management of the land can help increase prosociality and reduce interpersonal and intercommunal fractiousness, and so help ameliorate political polarization. The chapter argues that, understood...

... historians, small-scale farmers in the open-field system were responsible for a considerable proportion of the productivity growth achieved between the middle ages and the nineteenth century. The process of enclosure and the replacement of these yeomen by large-scale tenant farming relying on wage labour had...