Atlantic Conference Research Articles

The Special Relationship and the Allure of Transatlantic Travel in the Work of Elinor Glyn

Winston Churchill famously said that the United Kingdom and the United States of America had a ‘special relationship’. This article takes a look at Elinor Glyn's Atlantic travel in her life and in her novels, and her visits to the United States, drawing on her archives, her memoir, magazine articles and contemporary newspaper reports of her trips. Her novel Six Days (1924) was adapted into a popular silent film which was exhibited in Europe and the United States. It is a combination of love and romance, transatlantic travel on a Cunard liner, a secret military mission and political cooperation, and is taken as an example of how the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom has been depicted in romance novels. It draws parallels between the movies 6 Days (1923) and Titanic (1997). This article was the keynote address at the Love Across the Atlantic Conference at the University of Roehampton in June 2017.

The meandering path to the discovering of cryptic sponge species

The meandering path to the discovering of cryptic sponge species

Infaunal macrobenthos in the Porcupine Bank (NE Atlantic)

Infaunal macrobenthos in the Porcupine Bank (NE Atlantic)

Otolith shape analysis as a tool for stock discrimination of the blue jack mackerel (Trachurus picturatus) in the northeast Atlantic

Event Abstract Back to Event Otolith shape analysis as a tool for stock discrimination of the blue jack mackerel (Trachurus picturatus) in the northeast Atlantic Joana P. Vasconcelos1, 2, 3*, José A. González4 and Leonel S. Gordo5 1 Direção de Serviços de Investigação e Desenvolvimento das Pescas / Direção Regional de Pescas, Portugal 2 MARE – Marine and Environemental Sciences, Portugal 3 Universidade da Madeira, Portugal 4 Applied Marine Ecology and Fisheries group, i-UNAT, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 5 Departamento de Biologia Animal & MARE Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal The stock structure of the blue jack mackerel, Trachurus picturatus (Osteichthyes, Carangidae), in the Northeast Atlantic is still unknown. The knowledge of this important aspect of the species population dynamics is essential to effectively assess their stocks and manage their fisheries. Otolith shape analysis has been successfully applied in stock identification using the elliptic Fourier approach. This methodology was used to evaluate possible differences in the otolith shape of T. picturatus specimens caught off mainland Portugal (Peniche) and around Madeira and Canary Islands. A total of 300 individuals ranging from 17 to 36 cm in total length, equally distributed by area, were analysed. The multivariate analysis of variance performed on the otolith normalized elliptic Fourier descriptors (NEFDs) revealed significant differences among the three areas. An overall classification success of 86.3% in the canonical discriminant analysis was achieved for both sexes combined. These results suggest the usefulness of otolith shape analysis for stock differentiation of blue jack mackerel from the northeast Atlantic. Keywords: Blue jack mackerel, Trachurus picturatus, otolith, Shape Analysis, elliptical Fourier analysis, Stock discrimination, Northeast Atlantic Conference: XIX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies, Porto, Portugal, 5 Sep - 9 Sep, 2016. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: 4. FISHERIES, AQUACULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Citation: Vasconcelos JP, González JA and Gordo LS (2016). Otolith shape analysis as a tool for stock discrimination of the blue jack mackerel (Trachurus picturatus) in the northeast Atlantic. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: XIX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies. doi: 10.3389/conf.FMARS.2016.05.00115 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 29 Apr 2016; Published Online: 03 Sep 2016. * Correspondence: MD. Joana P Vasconcelos, Direção de Serviços de Investigação e Desenvolvimento das Pescas / Direção Regional de Pescas, Funchal, Madeira, 9004-562, Portugal, joana.vasco@gmail.com Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Joana P Vasconcelos José A González Leonel S Gordo Google Joana P Vasconcelos José A González Leonel S Gordo Google Scholar Joana P Vasconcelos José A González Leonel S Gordo PubMed Joana P Vasconcelos José A González Leonel S Gordo Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.

Predicting Wins and Losses: A Volleyball Case Study

SummaryFor a sports fan, predicting whether a favored team will win or lose can be an enticing past time. Using the mathematical ranking method known as the Massey method, we use data from volleyball matches to rate and rank teams. We then use our rankings to predict the outcome of future matches. As an example, we apply these methods to the 2013 women's indoor volleyball season of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

Student Athletes’ Perceptions of Concussions through Media Consumption

Recently, concussions have become a popular topic among media outlets. Because of the long-term health effects associated with traumatic brain injuries as studied in football players such as Alzheimer’s and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, this health crisis coverage is on the rise. On August 31, 2012, the National Football League (NFL) and the United States Army announced a partnership to raise awareness of traumatic brain injuries, specifically concussions in athletes and those serving in the armed forces. This partnership between the NFL and the Army received enormous media attention and was profiled on most major media outlets. Information concerning concussions is readily available to the public through various media outlets and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “Heads Up” campaign. Based on this readily available data, do college athletes actively engage and utilize information to become more knowledgeable about concussions and the impact upon their future health? To determine an answer, a 10-question, IRB-approved survey was sent via email to athletes who played football, lacrosse, soccer, basketball, and field hockey at three National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) colleges and universities. Female athletes completed the survey at 52.6% while males completed the survey at 47.4%. The age range of survey respondents was 18 to 22 and the data they provided were descriptively and inferentially analyzed. This study determined there is a relationship between college athletes sustaining concussions and their concussion management though the consumption of the media portrayals of these traumatic brain injuries. In addition, respondents used new media vehicles 69% as compared to traditional media vehicles at 31% to investigate the long term health effects of concussions.

‘An opium smoker's dream’: the 4000-bomber plan and Anglo-American aircraft supply diplomacy at the Atlantic conference, 1941

This article explores British aircraft supply diplomacy conducted around the Atlantic conference held off Newfoundland in August 1941. By mid-1941, the British sought to reorient the US aircraft production programme involved in the Lend-Lease supply towards the production of the heavy bombers required for their strategic bombing offensive against Germany. This demanded that the British overcome the growing resistance of the US Army Air Force (USAAF) to the outcomes of Anglo-American supply diplomacy agreed at the highest level, a resistance aggravated by the British relegation of the early variants of American heavy bombers away from strategic bombing operations. The ultimate failure of British diplomacy, and their response to this failure, represents a challenge to the received wisdom of the British dependence upon American aircraft supply in particular and Lend-Lease supply in the wider sense.

SHIPPING POLICY AND SOCIAL-DARWINISM: ALBERT BALLIN AND THEWELTPOLITIKOF THE HAMBURG-AMERICA LINE 1886–1914

We saw ourselves compelled to give notice of termination [of the Atlantic Conference], as the existing agreements did not sufficiently take into account the natural growth of our enterprise……

Economic diplomacy at the Atlantic Conference II: a reply to Pressnell and Hopkins

I am flattered that Professor L. S. Pressnell and Sheila V. Hopkins took the time to write a commentary on my ‘Economic Diplomacy at the Atlantic Conference’, which was published in the Review of International Studies in 1984, and am grateful to them for pointing out a number of errors which I made.

Economic diplomacy at the Atlantic Conference

Of the family of war conferences the Atlantic meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941, has been a neglected relation. It has been covered in general histories but only one substantial account of the conference has appeared to date. This state of affairs is regrettable given the intrinsic importance of some of the issues which were raised at Argentia and the fact that T. A. Wilson's account,The First Summit, was written before some of the official records were released. However, though there is a need for an overall review of the conference, this paper has the modest goal of reconsidering the economic questions which resulted in point four of the Atlantic Charter. The reasons for a new account of the genesis and formulation of the main economic provisions of the joint declaration are three-fold. First, the context of economic discussions in which the conference took place has never been adequately described; consequently the reasoning behind certain decisions, as well as some of the nuances of the talks, have been misunderstood. Secondly, the injudicious character of Welles' proposals for point four and the nature of America's diplomatic defeat at the hands of the British have never been properly explained. Finally, it has not previously been detected that Churchill evaded full consultation with his Cabinet and ignored some of their advice which, ironically, resulted in a less serious set-back for American economic goals than would otherwise have been the case.

The Significance of Pre-Yalta Policies Regarding Liberated Countries in Europe

NE OF THE RESULTS of the onset of the cold war has been a protest against the expansion of the Soviet Union and its failure in the postwar period to redeem wartime promises of self-determination. This protest was accompanied by condemnation of the Yalta negotiations as a political betrayal which made possible this breach of faith. Such thinking overlooks several previous acts in the drama. A study of military developments and Big Three policies in the period before Yalta leads to the conclusion that the fate of liberated countries in Europe, particularly those in the Balkans and eastern-central Europe, had been largely determined before the meetings in the Crimea. A brief review of the succession of conferences, negotiations, and declarations affecting liberated countries will reveal the attitudes of the Big Three during the stages of the war before Yalta. The first of these was the Atlantic Conference, at which President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met off the coast of Newfoundland and issued the Atlantic Charter on August 14, 1941. The United States had not yet entered the war but was deeply committed to the British cause and was preparing to extend lend-lease to the Soviet Union, which had been invaded by Hitler on June 22, 1941. In Points 2 and 3 of the eight-point declaration the principle of self-determination was stated in very broad terms:

More than 200 attend Atlantic textile conference, November 4–5, in Raleigh, N. C.

More than 200 attend Atlantic textile conference, November 4–5, in Raleigh, N. C.

Soviet Far Eastern Relations Since 1941

XWE ARE ALL in the same boat now, and will either perish together or together triumph. Thus Litvinov in his statement on December 13, 1941 expressed the Soviet view of the Pacific war. How completely the short six months that separated Pearl Harbor from the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union had reversed the trend of relations between the U.S.S.R. and the Anglo-American is easily forgotten today. Right up to the moment of the German invasion of the U.S.S.R. relations with America and Britain had been deteriorating. Soviet commentators saw in British warnings of an impending attack a desire to exacerbate Soviet-German relations. And London and Washington suspected that every ounce of Soviet imports was destined to aid the Nazi war machine. But on the morrow of invasion, the die was cast. A common enemy threw the erstwhile strangers into a common camp. It was Churchill's immediate and unqualified recognition on June 22, 1941 of Britain's community of interest with the Soviet Union as a fighting ally that assured the coalition warfare of today and prevented the war from being perhaps fatally divided into private wars of differing ideological content. By July 12, Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. were wartime allies-not just associated powers and on August 2 the United States and the Soviet Union renewed their annual trade agreement with an exchange of notes to accelerate wartime trade under the loans being extended to the U.S.S.R. In August, Harry Hopkins made his flying trip to Moscow and reported back enthusiastically to President Roosevelt and Churchill at their Atlantic Conference. In September, the Soviet Union, along with other anti-Axis in Europe endorsed the Atlantic Charter. In October the Beaverbrook and Harriman missions to Moscow paved the way for more cooperation and material aid, and November saw the extension of Lend-Lease to cover the U.S.S.R. For the Far East, it was of immense importance that the foundations of