Correspondence [Mary Newberry Adams]

Mary Adams and the producer's role in early BBC science broadcasts.

Mary Adams was a science producer at the BBC from 1930-6. She is shown to have played a crucial role in shaping science broadcasts, in particular devising formats and styles of presentation. However, her approach is shown to have been primarily motivated by broadcasting considerations rather than by the popularisation of science. Through her interaction with scientists she helped to construct a...

Mary Ainsworth

Saul McLeod John Bowlby (1969) believed that attachment was an all or nothing process. However, research has shown that there are individual differences in attachment quality. Indeed, one of the primary paradigms in attachment theory is that of the security of an individual’s attachment (Ainsworth & Bell, 1970). Much research in psychology has focused on how forms of attachment differ among inf...

Mary Miller

This article summarizes a study of classroom television use. It describes the study methodology as "eclectic, drawing on traditions of action research ... ethnography ... history ... and constructivism..." (Ellipses in quote represent omitted citations.) The article is not particularly well organized. The author quotes extensively from the findings of earlier research studies, but does not alwa...

Adams, H

Experiments were performed to determine the effect of community composition on system function (bacterial production) in arctic Alaska. In this system bacterial production is controlled by: community, temperature, nutrients, and carbon source. Lake inlet and outlet communities in these experiments were different in composition, based on PCR-DGGE fingerprinting of 16S rDNA. For both communities,...

Indian Trade Cloth in Egypt: The Newberry Collection