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This quantitative survey study aimed to identify “active ingredients” of a science festival in The Netherlands. Active ingredients are the elements of science communication activities that drive the impact on visitors' knowledge, attitudes, or behavior. Factor analyses of data from on-site surveys conducted in two different festival years (Total N=456) revealed three active ingredients: personal relevance, accessibility, and interactivity. Furthermore, the analyses revealed two impacts: increased knowledge/insight and increased familiarity with science. The strongest predictor of impact was personal relevance, which denotes the feeling that the festival activities touched on visitors' emotions and personal life.

The position of geography journals published by learned societies has undergone major changes over the last decades. Growth of scientific output, specialisation, the growing importance of English as the common language for scientific publication and changes in the science publishing industry due to the rise of the Internet have challenged and continue to challenge the classic geography journals from the various national geography societies. This paper shows how these journals perform in terms of numbers of citations, internationalisation of authorship and exposure in libraries, databases and on the web, compared to some key journals from commercial publishers. It discusses choices made by these journals and the threats and opportunities they are confronted with. The paper concludes that although the conditions for non-UK and non-US society journals in geography have become less favourable, there are viable routes forward. On the occasion of its publication centennial, the position of the Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie ( TESG ) is highlighted.

Seven unexplored sources of the Irish origine legend (Lebor gabála) are discussed: Prudentius of Troyes and the poem Waltharius; Alcuin as magister e partibus Scythiae in BL, Add. 47679; Ralph de Diceto and Henry of Huntingdon (cf. Geoffrey of Monmouth); John of Fordun; the Annals of Roscrea (pre-Patrician section); the Lecan Synchronisms; Dublin; and National Library of Ireland, MS G 6. The last two tracts are still unedited.

Study about the manuscript and manuscript fragments which originally belonged to the library of St Paul's Abbey in Utrecht. In the 112 volumes (44 manuscripts and 68 old printed books) most are now in Utrecht University Library (a list is given). The oldest manuscripts and manuscripts fragments (in carolingian and pregothic scripts), are discussed. The fragments contain several liturgical texts, some with musical notation.

Discussion (in Dutch) about a number of medieval manuscript fragments found in books in the Utrecht University Library. Includes a discussion of a fragment of the Vita Sancti Martini (10/11th c.) from St Paul's Abbey in Utrecht; a kalender of saints from Echternach (11/12th c.); and a Middle Dutch exegetical (mystical) text on Genesis and Exodus (15th c.) form the Carthusians in Utrecht.

The now lost Psalter of Cashel included a section with genealogical material. References in the existing Irish genealogical manuscripts suggest that it was first drafted c. 900 by Cormac mac Cuilennáin, who used records compiled in Munster ca. 740. It was later updated ca. 1000 during the reign of Brian Bóroime, and after a limited update c. 1015 it was further edited by northern  scholars. With the updates, genealogical doctrines could change.