Proterozoic orogeny questioned: a view from Scottish Highland Field Workshops, 1995–1996.

Taking the Long View: A Report on Two Recent Workshops on Long-Term Autonomy [From the Field]

T he topics of long-term autonomy and lifelong learning are attracting an increasing amount of attention in the robotics research community. Robots now routinely operate without human intervention for short periods of time, and several systems have demonstrated operation over longer durations. However, in the future, the majority of robots will need to function autonomously, outside the laborat...

Scottish independence: the view of psychiatry from Edinburgh

some trepidation that I ‘Ubered’ to Professor Eve Johnstone’s house in Edinburgh, which boasts over a hundred roses in her immaculate garden. After all, I was going to meet the woman whose research work had wrenched the pendulum radically in the direction of biological psychiatry, with her landmark Lancet paper showing anatomical differences on CT scans between the brains of those with and with...

Landscape features affect gene flow of Scottish Highland red deer (Cervus elaphus).

Landscape features have been shown to strongly influence dispersal and, consequently, the genetic population structure of organisms. Studies quantifying the effect of landscape features on gene flow of large mammals with high dispersal capabilities are rare and have mainly been focused at large geographical scales. In this study, we assessed the influence of several natural and human-made lands...

Orogeny can be very short.

In contrast to continent/continent collision, arc-continent collision generates very short-lived orogeny because the buoyancy-driven impedance of the subduction of continental lithosphere, accompanied by arc/suprasubduction-zone ophiolite obduction, is relieved by subduction polarity reversal (flip). This tectonic principle is illustrated by the early Ordovician Grampian Orogeny in the British ...

Developing Curriculum for Excellence in Highland Schools A report on the qualitative findings for the Highland Council and the Scottish Government