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Median Joining Network for ECM John as of 31 October 2017
Get PDFMedian Joining Network for ECM John as of 31 October 2017 (excluding witnesses <85% extant)
Created using Network from http://www.fluxus-engineering.com/sharenet.htm (See Bandelt, H. J., P. Forster, and A. Rohl. ‘Median-Joining Networks for Inferring Intraspecific Phylogenies’. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16, no. 1 (1 January 1999): 37–48. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026036.
Creative Differences? Measuring creative economy employment in the US and UK using microdata
Get PDFUsing high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares, and grows faster over the study period; the US’ is absolutely larger, and is distributed more evenly across industries. Regional results are shaped by deeper differences in national urban systems. The paper highlights possibilities for widely varying national configurations of creative economies, considers potential mechanisms driving differentiation, and reflects on the usefulness of the creative trident approach.
Keywords
creative industries, creative trident, cities, labour markets, occupations, cross-country analysi
Powering West Midlands Growth: A Regional Approach to Clean Energy Innovation
Get PDFThe West Midlands is uniquely positioned to lead the UK in taking advantage of the economic opportunities arising from the global transition to a clean energy system. The region’s strengths include: strong and coherent political leadership committed to sustainability; the diversity of economic needs and scale of demand required to build competitive markets to support radical innovation; a world-class concentration of both academic and commercial expertise in the low-carbon energy sector; a massive programme of public and private investment in infrastructure planned for the next decade, and above all, the determination to secure long-term economic benefit from clean energy innovation.
This report makes the case for the creation of a small number of Energy Innovation Zones (EIZs) across the region, acting as pathfinders for an approach that might subsequently be adopted across the country as a whole. EIZs enable barriers – such as powerful institutional silos separating transport, digital, planning and energy – to be overcome within designated geographies. They create a risk-managed and commercial-scale context for the development of new local clean energy markets. They also provide a practical mechanism to help attract investment and muster local political support. At a national level, they can help ensure innovation is built into the government’s strategic sector deals and other large scale public investment projects
First Steps in Air Quality for Built Environment Practitioners
Get PDFAir pollution is the biggest environmental risk to health. Globally, nine out of ten people live in a city that does not comply with WHO air quality standards. Within the UK, poor outdoor air quality is linked to 50,000 deaths each year. The most vulnerable are children, the elderly, or those with pre-existing
medical conditions. The design of our urban infrastructure – including Green Infrastructure (GI) such as trees, parks, and green walls – determines
where air pollution is produced, and how it disperses. Built environment professionals should consider air
quality at all stages of urban design and development
How to evaluate sustainable solutions for post disaster buildings
Get PDFIn the world, both the ecological balance and the health of the people are endangered with the increase of environmental problems and disasters. At the bottom of the environmental problems lies the use of energy resources far from sustainability and without consideration of nature. However, the needs of today must be met without jeopardizing for the needs of the next generation, which is achieved through the provision of environmental sustainability. Avoiding depletion in the natural sources and ensuring environmental sustainability is possible with saving energy and protecting natural resources. Buildings play an important role in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. Therefore, disaster relief housing with district scale solutions is considered to be potential area to increase energy efficiency and decrease environmental impacts throughout their life span
Swallow it whole
Get PDFOne of the major concerns of oral medicines is patient's ability to swallow. It was reported that 4 of 10 of adults struggle to swallow medicines. Notably, in the older populations this difficulty is often enhanced by dysphagia or dry mouth. Coating oral medicines with polymers is a common method to improve swallowing of the tablets. We carry out the clinical study to examine swallowability of tablets with different coatings in comparison with uncoated tablets. Moreover, our research looks into the texture and overall mouthfeel of the tablets. The study was designed according to the standard rules of sensory analysis. We aim to compare the influence of variables like time to swallow or amount of used water, on the swallowability of the tablets. Additionally we try to evaluate the attributes of mouthfeel and use them to predict the acceptability of bespoke tablets
A gun of one´s own: gender representation in contemporary westerns
Get PDFThis research dissertation deals with issues of gender representation in contemporary film Westerns. The classic view of the Western as a male genre that marginalizes women has been contested in the last twenty-five years. A trend of films has challenged the idea of the feminine as inferior to the masculine within the Western landscape. Reversal of roles, violence, and the exposure of oppression are used as strategies in order to allow the Western to accommodate feminist discourse. It can be argued that the impact of this research can be found within the current political and social debates around feminism, the necessity to equal women´s rights to men´s, and the pervasiveness of masculine gender violence. Proving a feminist reversal in a traditionally masculine film genre would help it to maintain social relevance, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, could result in some valuable dissemination of feminist ideology
SplitsTree Neighbour-Joining tree for John chapter 1 (automatic collation)
Get PDFNeighbour-Joining tree for John chapter 1 created using SplitsTree. The data is from the IGNTP transcriptions, automatically collated using CollateX using the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm
TDAG Midlands Oct 2018: Biodiversity & Ecology in Birmingham, by Simon Needle and Nicola Farrin, Principle Ecologists, City Design Team, Birmingham City Council.
Get PDFMission impossible! Setting up a branch library in Dubai
No full textIn spring 2018 the University of Birmingham announced that it would be the first global top 100 and Russell Group University to open a branch campus in Dubai. Initially this would take the form of an incubator campus providing capacity for approximately 350 students across 4 disciplines with a target of opening a full scale campus in 2020, accommodating up to approximately 4,500 UG and PG students.
A library was required; however there would be no dedicated library staff in Dubai and no additional staffing resource within the UK. Library Services therefore faced the challenge of setting up a library from scratch, at arm’s length, with no additional resource.
This presentation addressed how we successfully set up that branch library, including Resource Lists, e-resource licensing and print book supply, and how we used it as an opportunity to employ a different approach to change management
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