Jennifer Purcell Livres

The lives of six women on the home front 1939-1945: the true history of what our grandmothers did in the war.

Exploring the paradox of sadness and joy, the poems delve into raw vulnerability and the quest for peace amidst turmoil. Purcell's voice resonates like "the lone soldier in a hurricane," inviting readers to reflect on life's complexities. Vivid imagery, such as an antique bench and a wedding, serves as metaphors for existence, while the detailed descriptions encourage a sensory exploration of the human heart's uncertainty and resilience. Each piece captures the essence of emotional depth and the intricate dance of human experiences.

Preface.- Identification key for young ephyrae: a first step for early detection of jellyfish blooms.- Blooms of the invasive ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi, span the Mediterranean Sea in 2009.- Effects of pH on asexual reproduction and statolith formation of the scyphozoan, Aurelia labiata.- Effects of low salinity on settlement and strobilation of scyphozoa (Cnidaria): Is the lion's mane Cyanea capillata (L.) able to reproduce in the brackish Baltic Sea?.- Effects of El Niño-driven environmental variability on black turtle migration to Peruvian foraging grounds.- Recurrence of bloom- forming scyphomedusae: wavelet analysis of a 200-year time series.- Behavior of Nemopsis bachei L. Agassiz, 1849 medusae in the presence of physical gradients and biological thin layers.- Avoidance of hydrodynamically mixed environments by Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora: Lobata) in open-sea populations from Patagonia, Argentina.- Response of Chrysaora quinquecirrha medusae to low temperature.- Use of respiration rates of scyphozoan jellyfish to estimate their effects on the food web.- Planktonic cnidarian distribution and feeding of Pelagia noctiluca in the NW Mediterranean Sea.- Bioenergetics and growth in the ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus.- Degradation of the Adriatic medusa Aurelia sp. by ambient bacteria.- Identification of jellyfish from Continuous Plankton Recorder samples.- Separation and analysis of different types of nematocysts from Cyanea capillata (L.) medusae.- Characterisation of neurotoxic polypeptides from Cyanea capillata medusae (Scyphozoa).- Gill cell toxicity of northern boreal scyphomedusae Cyanea capillata and Aurelia aurita measured by an in vitro cell assay.