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ABSTRACTHuman–wildlife conflict (HWC) poses a significant threat to both human livelihoods and conservation, particularly for large, potentially dangerous species such as big cats. Here, we provide an overview of community camera trapping (CCT) and the expanded community camera‐trapping plus (CCT+) programs, which are innovative, inclusive approaches that can help reduce conflict and improve coexistence. We illustrate how CCT, through a combination of participatory monitoring and tangible benefits directly linked to wildlife presence, helps create initial changes in attitude and tolerance towards big cats and other wildlife. CCT+ builds on this by introducing additional incentives and disincentives that promote conservation‐friendly behavior change, leading to tangible improvements in coexistence. We explain the approaches, highlight key aspects for practitioners to consider, and discuss the potential to scale these approaches to strengthen human–wildlife coexistence across diverse contexts.

ABSTRACTThere is increasing global interest in developing market‐based financial mechanisms to direct greater private capital funding into biodiversity conservation. Additional funding derived through credit or bond‐based products can offer hope to improve local cost:benefit ratios of wildlife presence and incentivize coexistence. However, conservation is complex, and we fear these mechanisms carry risks of unintended consequences, particularly where conservation metrics are insufficiently thought through, and locally affected communities are not equitably engaged. Here, we outline our perspective of these hopes and fears, with a particular focus on big cat conservation, conflict and coexistence. We encourage conservation scientists, practitioners, and community members not to cede the development of these mechanisms completely to financial experts or standard setters, but to take a more active role in learning, offering critique, and supporting the engagement of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. This engagement is vital to managing risk head on and maximizing the potential benefit of these mechanisms for human‐big cat coexistence.

It is common practice to describe the coordination of metal atoms in a binding configuration with their nearest neighbors in terms of oxidation state, a measure by which the number of electrons redistributed between atoms forming chemical bonds. In XPS terms, change to an oxidation state is commonly inferred by correlating photoemission signal with binding energy. The assumption, when classifying photoemission signals into distinct spectral shapes, is that a distribution of intensities shifted to lower binding energy is evidence of a reduction in oxidation state. In this Insight note, we raise the prospect that changes in photoemission peak shape may occur without obvious changes, determined by XPS in stoichiometry for a material. It is well known that TiO 2 measured by XPS yields reproducible Ti 2p photoemission peaks. However, on exposing TiO 2 to ion beams, Ti 2p photoemission evolves to complex distributions in intensity, which are particularly difficult to analyze by traditional fitting of bell‐shaped curves to these data. For these reasons, in this Insight note, a thin film of TiO 2 deposited on a silicon substrate is chosen for analysis by XPS and linear algebraic techniques. Alterations in spectral shapes created from modified TiO 2 , which might be interpreted as the change in oxidation state, are assessed in terms of relative proportions of titanium to oxygen. It is found through detailed analysis of spectra that quantification by XPS, using procedures routinely used in practice, is not in accord with the typical interpretations of photoemission shapes. The data processing methods used and results presented in this work are of particular relevance to elucidating fundamental phenomena governing the surface evolution of materials‐enabled energy processes where cyclic/non‐steady usage changes the nature of bonding, especially in the presence of contaminants.

This chapter explores how the immediacy and feeling of past times and places, and how they are important to health and wellbeing, might be conveyed through the humanities tradition of oral history. It reports on 17 oral history interviews conducted between 2005 and 2012 with senior residents of the town of Teignmouth, Devon, UK, who experienced the World War II coastal homefront first-hand, and in particular the numerous ‘tip and run’ air attacks that took place. The chapter focuses on how respondents recollect events as sensory encounters. It argues that these encounters are important experiences on their own right, involving their own level and form of knowing time and place, but also in terms of how they interplay with meanings consciously attributed to them. Whilst encounters can re-emerge like ‘hauntings’ from the past in the process of respondents recalling and conveying, they might equally act like pre-emptive affective facts, helping researchers feel, empathise with and ultimately reanimate what it felt like to be there.

The purpose of the present study was to identify the factor structure of manic symptoms as assessed by the Scale for Manic States (SMS). The pattern of symptoms in a group of 225 adults with an ICD-10-DCR diagnosis of manic episode was studied. A factor analysis was conducted of the broad range of psychiatric symptoms covered by SMS. A principal component analysis followed by oblimin rotation was performed. Six eigenvalues were greater than unity and parallel analysis indicated four factors. After observing the scree plot a five-factor solution seemed appropriate. Nevertheless, a six-factor solution was chosen that described the data appropriately and was clinically relevant. The six factors (psychosis, irritability aggression, dysphoria, accelerated thought stream, hedonia, and hyperactivity) captured 59.29% of the total variance. A six-factor solution explains the clinical dimensions of mania in the present sample and dysphoria appeared as a separate factor.

WeatherVolume 62, Issue 12 p. 350-350 Letter Abingdon recalled Bryan Boswood, Corresponding Author Bryan Boswood Teignmouth, DevonTeignmouth, DevonSearch for more papers by this author Bryan Boswood, Corresponding Author Bryan Boswood Teignmouth, DevonTeignmouth, DevonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 29 November 2007 https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.171AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume62, Issue12December 2007Pages 350-350 RelatedInformation