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Israel in Egypt is an oil on canvas painting by Sir Edward Poynter. In 1868 the painting was depicted in the Illustrated London News in which there are reports of changes made to the composition of the painting after its first exhibition. Visible and infrared imaging techniques have been used to determine whether additions to the initial composition can be identified from underdrawings. The painting measures 137 cm × 317.5 cm and was not able to be relocated for the study, therefore portable imaging equipment was used throughout. A Canon 700D DSLR camera was modified to allow nearinfrared imaging when combined with a set of longpass filters at 720 nm, 850 nm and 950 nm. An Osiris infrared reflectography camera was also used to look further into the infrared with a sensitivity range of 900 nm – 1700 nm. To obtain high-resolution images with the modified DSLR, a 100 mm lens was used from a distance of 6 metres. In both visible and near-infrared, eight images were taken across the surface of the painting and these images were combined into high-resolution visible and near-infrared panoramas. Images from the Osiris infrared camera were processed in Matlab to create a mosaic from the overview image with high-resolution regions of interest. All processed images were registered in Matlab along with the woodcut engraving of the painting shown in the Illustrated London News. An interactive web-browser viewer was created to enable display and comparison of the registered high-resolution images, allowing users to explore and zoom in to specific areas of interest across the four high-resolution images simultaneously. Conservators and art historians can utilise the resulting images combined with the image viewer to analyse the painting and potentially develop a new interpretation of the composition.

This volume contains selected essays in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. The essays address a number of different questions in medieval economic and social history, as the volume looks at the activities of merchants, their trade, legal interactions and identities, and on the importance of money and credit in the rural and urban economies. Other essays look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and the role that merchants played in the Hundred Years War.

AIIDE 2014 is the second AIIDE event that has featured a playable experience track. This paper describes the seven entries that were accepted in the 2014 track, as well as the motivation behind the track and the criteria used to evaluate and accept entries.

ANACHRONISTIC JUDICIAL APPROACHES TO DISABILITY BENEFITS LAW

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Explores the perceptions of investment trust chairmen about the role of the annual statement in communications policy and management. A short survey of all investment trust chairmen was undertaken. The results identify two major themes in chairmen’s perceptions of the annual statements role. The statement communicates with individual shareholders and seeks to create good impressions and build confidence. It is primarily a one‐way exchange.

Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany. J. Nicholas Ziegler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp.253. £30 (cloth) ISBN 0–8014–331–8; £14.99 (paper) ISBN 0–8014–8371–9 Representation: Theory and Practice in Britain. David Judge. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp.x + 230, biblio., index. £55 (cloth) ISBN 0–415–08196–3; £17.99 (paper) ISBN 0–415–08197–1. European Social Democracy: Transformation in Progress. Edited by Rene Cuperus and Johannes Kandel. Amsterdam: Wiardi Beckman Stichting/Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 1998. Pp.302. NP. ISBN 90–72575–58‐X The Challenge of Globalization for Germany's Social Democracy: A Policy Agenda for the Twenty‐First Century. Edited by Dieter Dettke. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1998. Pp.viii + 262, 4 figures, 1 table, index. £28 (cloth) ISBN 1–57181–180‐X. The Left's Dirty Job: The Politics of Industrial Restructuring in France and Spain. W. Rand Smith. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp.xv + 294, 6 figures, 22 tables, notes, index, $50 (cloth) ISBN 0–8229–4053–1; $22.95 (paper) ISBN 0–8229–5658–6. Parteien in Perspektive (Parties in Perspective). Elmar Wiesendahl. Opladen/Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1998. Pp.284, 2 tables, biblio. DM 68 (paper) ISBN 3–531–13121–4. Österreich im europäischen Mehrebenensystem. Konsequenzen der EU‐Mitgliedschaft für Politiknetzwerke und Entscheidungsprozesse (Austria in the European Multi‐Level System. The Consequences of EU Membership for Policy Networks and Decision‐Making Processes). Edited by Gerda Falkner and Wolfgang C. Müller. Vienna: Signum‐Verlag, 1998. Pp.249, biblio. 291 Austrian Schillings. ISBN 3–85436–242–0. Price of Power: The Secret Funding of the Tory Party. Colin Challen, London: Vision, 1998. Pp.x + 198, references, index. £9.99 (paper) ISBN 1–901250–18–0. European Integration and Supranational Governance. Edited by W. Sandholtz and A. Stone Sweet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.389, index. £45 (cloth) ISBN 0–19–829457–3; £17.99 (paper) ISBN 0–19–829464–6. Democracy in the European Union. By Dimitris N. Chryssochoou. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 1998. Pp.viii + 280. £39.50. ISBN 1–86064–336–1.

The following books are reviewed. Equivocal Feminists: the Social Democratic Federation and the woman question, 1884–1911 KAREN HUNT, 1996 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiii + 296 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0521 55451 9 Radclyffe Hall: a woman called John SALLY CLINE, 1997 London: John Murray. xiv + 434 pp., £15.99, ISBN 0 7195 5408 X Sexology Uncensored: the documents of sexual science LUCY BLAND & LAURA DOAN (Eds), 1998 Cambridge: Polity Press. xv + 261 pp., ISBN 0 7456 2113 9 Sexology in Culture: labelling bodies and desires LUCY BLAND & LAURA DOAN (Eds), 1998 Cambridge: Polity Press. ix + 236 pp., ISBN 0 7456 1983 5 The Acceptable Face of Feminism: the Women's Institute as a social movement MAGGIE ANDREWS, 1997 London: Lawrence & Wishart. xv + 176 pp., £12.99 ISBN 0 85315 833 9 ‘My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates’: the unsettled lives of women in nineteenth century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, family and friends FRANCES PORTER & CHARLOTTE MACDONALD (Eds), 1996 Auckland: Auckland University Press, with Bridget Williams Books. x + 518 pp., £29.95, ISBN 1 86940 129 8 Domestic Dangers: women, words, and sex in early modern London LAURA GOWING, 1996, 1998 Oxford: Clarendon Press. £35.00 hardback, £15.99 paperback Radical Femininity EILEEN JANES YEO (Ed.), 1998 Manchester: Manchester University Press. 229 pp., ISBN 0 7190 5244 0 Brave New Causes: women in British post-war fictions DEBORAH PHILIPS & IAN HAYWOOD, 1998 London: Leicester University Press. 171 pp., ISBN 0 7185 0059 8 Nation, Empire, Colony: historicizing gender and race RUTH ROACH PIERSON & NUPUR CHAUDHURI (Eds), 1998 Bloomington: Indiana University Press. viii + 314 pp., ISBN 0 253 33398 8 hardback, 0 253 21191 3 paperback Unbridled Spirits, Women of the English Revolution: 1640–1660 STEVIE DAVIES, 1998 London: The Women's Press. xii + 356 pp., £17.99, ISBN 0 7043 5082 3 Women in Early Modern England SARA MENDELSON & PATRICIA CRAWFORD, 1998 Oxford: Clarendon Press. xviii + 480 pp., £25.00, ISBN 0 19 820124 9 Contentious Traditions: the debate on sati in colonial India LATA MANI, 1998 University of California Press. £13.95, ISBN 0 520 214027 Resisting the Holocaust RUBY ROHRLICH (Ed.), 1998 Oxford: Berg. 264 pp., £14.99 1 85973 216 X Lise Meitner RUTH LEWIN SIME, 1996 Berkeley: University of California Press. xiii + 526 pp., ISBN 0 520 20860 9 Women Writers of the 1930s: gender, politics and history MAROULA JOANNOU (Ed.), 1999 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. x + 224 pp., ISBN 0 7486 1112 6