The Learned Press: Oriental Languages

Abstract

The publications of the Oxford press indicate the growing interest in Eastern languages from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The earliest publications were in the biblical languages Hebrew and Aramaic, for the study of Hebrew had become an essential part of the humanist tradition in England and two works of Hebrew grammar were published in the 1630s. Even before William Laud established a professorship of Arabic at the university, he acquired oriental types from Holland so that the press collection grew to include Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Coptic, Armenian, Samaritan, and Cyrillic. While composing and proofing in these languages was laborious and expensive, print runs remained small and sales were seldom satisfactory. The Press nevertheless maintained consistently high standards of production and continued to advance oriental studies by supporting important new critical scholarship and commentary.

Improving the application of Important Plant Areas to conserve threatened habitats: a case study of Uganda

“…Forest clearance in Uganda has been well-documented. The earliest evidence of forest clearance in Uganda originated from at least 2,000 years ago (Chapman & Chapman, 1996; Hamilton, 1984). In more recent history, the British Protectorate promoted the clearance of forests for introduced cash crops such as coffee, tea and sugar from the 1890s, while valuable hardwood stands were designated Crown Forests (Turyahabwe & Banana, 2008).…”

“…In more recent history, the British Protectorate promoted the clearance of forests for introduced cash crops such as coffee, tea and sugar from the 1890s, while valuable hardwood stands were designated Crown Forests (Turyahabwe & Banana, 2008). These forests were managed under a forestry regime which at times included supplementary planting of desirable species and arboricide use on less commercially viable trees (Hamilton, 1984; Howard, 1991). The impact of the latter appears not to have been documented within Langdale-Brown et al .…”

“…IUCN incorporated A3 into the RLE criteria to recognise the negative impact of historical declines on present day resilience of an ecosystem (Bland et al, 2015). Although it is widely accepted that there is a longstanding history of human influence on the vegetation of Uganda (Chapman & Chapman, 1996; Hamilton, 1984), past declines in habitat types will have negatively impacted their resilience in the present and they should therefore be recognised as threatened habitats on this basis.…”

“…Uganda hosts a wide range of habitats, influenced by the country’s large variation in altitude, precipitation, soils and geology (Hamilton, 1984; J. Kalema & Bukenya-Ziraba, 2005).…”

Mapping Condition-Dependent Regulation of Lipid Metabolism inSaccharomyces cerevisiae

“…After development, lipid spots were visualized using 2,7-dichlorofluorescein and silica gel in the spots was carefully scraped off of TLC plates for analysis of fatty acid content and distribution of each lipid class. Specifically, glycerolipids were trans -methylated using a method combining alkaline methanolysis and BFl 3 -catalyzed trans -methylation described by Hamilton et al (1992), which has been validated in-house and analyzed on a GC equipped with a flame-ionization detector (GC-FID), as described (Brix et al 2010). Masses of each lipid class were calculated based on the peak area of the heptadecanoic acid released from the internal standards.…”