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The designation 'legal procurator' as known to us appears to have crept gradually into use towards the closing years of the eighteenth or in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. It may, in fact, be stated with some certainty that no reference to procurators as 'legal' is to be found in the Code de Rohan of Diritco Munidpale di Malta which was promulgated in 1784 and as closely as it seems possible to ascertain, the earliest evidence ·of legislative recognition of this professional title is to be found in Proclamation No. XII of October 15, 1827. ; peer-reviewed

The COVID-19 pandemic is expanding at an unprecedented rate. As a result, diagnostic services are stretched to their limit, and there is a clear need for the provision of additional diagnostic capacity. Academic laboratories, many of which are closed due to governmental lockdowns, may be in a position to support local screening capacity by adapting their current laboratory practices. Here, we describe the process of developing a SARS-Cov2 diagnostic workflow in a conventional academic Containment Level 2 laboratory. Our outline includes simple SARS-Cov2 deactivation upon contact, the method for a quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase PCR detecting SARS-Cov2, a description of process establishment and validation, and some considerations for establishing a similar workflow elsewhere. This was achieved under challenging circumstances through the collaborative efforts of scientists, clinical staff, and diagnostic staff to mitigate to the ongoing crisis. Within 14 days, we created a validated COVID-19 diagnostics service for healthcare workers in our local hospital. The described methods are not exhaustive, but we hope may offer support to other academic groups aiming to set up something comparable in a short time frame.

Increased Southern Ocean productivity driven by sea-ice feedbacks contributed to a slowdown in rising CO(2)levels during the last deglaciation, according to analyses of marine-derived aerosols from an Antarctic ice core. The Southern Ocean occupies 14% of the Earth's surface and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and climate. It provides a direct connection to the deep ocean carbon reservoir through biogeochemical processes that include surface primary productivity, remineralization at depth and the upwelling of carbon-rich water masses. However, the role of these different processes in modulating past and future air-sea carbon flux remains poorly understood. A key period in this regard is the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR, 14.6-12.7 kyrbp), when mid- to high-latitude Southern Hemisphere cooling coincided with a sustained plateau in the global deglacial increase in atmospheric CO2. Here we reconstruct high-latitude Southern Ocean surface productivity from marine-derived aerosols captured in a highly resolved horizontal ice core. Our multiproxy reconstruction reveals a sustained signal of enhanced marine productivity across the ACR. Transient climate modelling indicates this period coincided with maximum seasonal variability in sea-ice extent, implying that sea-ice biological feedbacks enhanced CO(2)sequestration and created a substantial regional marine carbon sink, which contributed to the plateau in CO(2)during the ACR. Our results highlight the role Antarctic sea ice plays in controlling global CO2, and demonstrate the need to incorporate such feedbacks into climate-carbon models. ; Australian Research Council Royal Society of NZ fellowships Linkage Partner Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions LP120200724 Australian Climate Change Science Program (ACCSP), an Australian Government Initiative Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol European Research Council (ERC) 25923 German Research Foundation (DFG) We2039/8-1 Keele University