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ERRATUM: Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards interlaboratory study on intensity calibration for x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy instruments using low-density polyethylene
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The Solicitors' Qualifying Exam and Qualifying Work Experience: Dispelling Common Misconceptions
No full textFull text not available from this repository. See additional link above for full text.Andrea Todd, Director of Pro Bono and Community Engagement at the University of Chester, and Lucy Blackburn, Director of the Advice and Resolution Centre at the University of Central Lancashire, are co-Chairs of the Clinical Legal Education Organisation. In this article they provide a taste of their QWE Toolkits for students and careers advisers by explaining the reality behind eight common QWE misconceptions
A comprehensive review on food hydrocolloids as gut modulators in the food matrix and nutrition: The hydrocolloid-gut-health axis
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Food hydrocolloids are versatile natural food ingredients, which can be authentically present in food matrices or can be added as functional food ingredients and/or food additives. All hydrocolloids are common in industrial use with enhancers of viscosity, emulsifiers, coating, gelling agents, stabilizing agents and/or thermodynamic stability providers. While safety issues of hydrocolloids in the food industry have been discussed until now, research has turned to their effects on gut modulation, human health and wellbeing.
Scope and approach
This review focuses on a comprehensive discussion of certain food hydrocolloids in gut modulation and their potential interaction with health through gut modulation.
Key findings and conclusions
Novel literature suggests that certain food hydrocolloids could substantially change the range and structure of the microbiota of the gut and the primary bioactive metabolites. Besides, hydrocolloids show important outcomes on gut microbiota because of their physicochemical and structural properties. Moreover, they may have various impacts, and the mechanisms of gut microbiota activity are quite diverse depending on their polymeric structure and source. Despite some discrepancies and divergences in their impacts on the gut microbiota-health axis, their reassuring outcomes on health are mainly associated with their prebiotic or prebiotic-like effects. In this way, it can directly/indirectly affect host health. Therefore, while investigating the possible health and safety effects of the use of hydrocolloids in the form of food additives, it may be useful to investigate the benefits and side effects on the gut
Treaties, Frontiers and Borderlands: the making and unmaking of Mercian border traditions in English, Aethelflaedan and Viking Mercia
Get PDFThis article explores the complexity and nuance of borderlands and border relations focusing on Mercia. Identifying a host of border maintenance strategies negotiating control over people, places and resources, mitigation of risk and maximisation of opportunity, but also strategic escalation and de-escalation of tensions, the study re-evaluates how Mercian border traditions supported expanded hegemony between the seventh and ninth centuries. The significant departures of the approach presented here are (i) rethinking the traditional focus on military, religious and ethnic identities to integrate these among other activities and experiences defining early medieval frontiers and borderlands and (ii) considering the reimagining not only Mercia’s frontiers and borderlands during its emergence and heyday as a kingdom but also reflecting on how Mercian territory itself became a borderland under the rule of Aethelred and Aethelflaed during the Viking Age, and as such how it was formative in the creation of the Danelaw and of England. The Alfred/Guthrum Treaty and Ordinance of the Dunsaete are here contextualised against other strategies and scales of negotiation and activity framing Mercian/Anglo-Welsh and Anglo-Danish borderlands. Different ‘Mercian borderlands’ are compared in this study and analysed as complex zones of interaction, responsive to geographical factors, but also criss-crossed by multi-stranded pathways of daily life. Mercian borderlands were understood and maintained militarily, physically, spiritually, and ideologically. The article considers how these zones were shaped by convenience but also need and were reinforced or permeable at locality, community and kingdom level
A Strategic Analysis of Halton Children’s Fund
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University College ChesterThe Children’s Fund is a government programme of work with children aged five to 13 years, the objective of which is to put in motion a series of initiatives for the prevention of social exclusion. The programme aims to support the reorganisation of services by breaking down traditional professional boundaries and developing multi-agency collaborative working arrangements. In this way, the Children’s Fund fits with other policy initiatives that offer provision for children and young people as part of a drive towards the seamless provision of services for people up to the age of 19.
Halton Children’s Fund (HCF) has been in existence since 2001 with the express commitment to work in favour of the creation and maintenance of a network of services that meet the needs of children, young people and families who are at risk of social exclusion, according to guiding principles developed by Halton’s Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP). The Halton Children’s Fund Board commissioned the Centre for Public Health Research (CPHR) to carry out an evaluation of its activities at a strategic level
Parental participation in Sure Start Jolly Giraffe The role and effectiveness of the Parents’ Forum
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University College Chester. Reprinted April 2008.The aim of the commissioned research project was to examine Sure Start Jolly Giraffe’s model for facilitating parental participation. Commitment to, and evidence of, user involvement is now included as a central theme in the design and delivery of initiatives which impact upon individuals and their communities. An additional and increasingly prominent issue for scrutiny is the effectiveness and significance of the methods selected by service providers for promoting consultation and participation.
A key principle of the Sure Start initiative is the transparent involvement of service users in all aspects of programme decision making. A further requirement of local programmes is to provide evidence of parental consultation and participation. Sure Start guidance places significant emphasis on the need for local programmes to provide relevant and appropriate services to match the needs of their communities. In acknowledging Jolly Giraffe’s parents’ group, the Parents’ Forum, as the primary arena for parental feedback in the programme, a need was identified for an in-depth examination of its role, processes and impact
Glocalisation, Arab Values, and Traditions in Jeem TV Content
Get PDFThis thesis explores the ways in which Jeem TV negotiates cultural content and values in its programming. It also studies the Hierarchy of Influences at the pan-Arabic children's channel based in Qatar by focusing on its internal policy, and it examines the effect of societal factors and the external media market. The research examines these issues through the prism of the glocalisation process and the Hierarchy of Influence model proposed by Shoemaker and Vos (2009). Fifty-six hours of Jeem TV‘s programmes broadcast across three different seasons were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Interviews were also conducted with presenters, Arabic language experts, Arab sociologists, children‘s media experts, and individuals who worked with the channel. Jeem TV offered a version of Arab programming that encompassed both traditional values and adaptations. More specifically, the channel included other languages, such as English, non-Arab cultures, representation of genders, and new formats. Whereas the viewers‘ culture, as an external force, had an effect on Jeem TV‘s agenda, the external media market allowed some of the cultural values to be blended with other culture. Additionally, there is a correlation between the external media market and Jeem TV in the context of the economic and political dimensions. The thesis showed a complex interplay of processes on Jeem TV involving culture, religion, glocalisation process, globalisation, Jeem TV's policy, non-Arab cultures, and regional politics. Furthermore, the nature of the interrelation between these factors is dynamic. This suggested that established theories like gatekeeping theory and the glocalisation process which focus on a specific national context do not provide a full explanation for the processes that happened at Jeem TV
Nicolas Mathieu entre le restaurant Drouant et la France périphérique
Get PDFSpace is a central factor in Nicolas Mathieu's novels. Notably his last ones Leurs enfants après eux et Connemara present a threefold spatial divide: the little city of peripheral France, the major regional capital and Paris. This divide is presents both through the lense of his fictional texts, but also in the light of the paratext. Whilst some attention is carried to the idea of posture as theorised by Meizoz, we endeavour to show that the paratopie (Maingueneau) of Mathieu is that of a mediator between classes and postions stemming precisely from his position inbetween places
Researching Poverty and Austerity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies and Policy Applications
No full textThis book chapter is not available on ChesterRepThis chapter offers an introductory overview of relevant literature at the intersection of poverty and austerity, seeking to frame this edited collection and its unique interdisciplinary contributions. The chapter traces the evolution of, and interconnections between, poverty and austerity politics, reflecting critically on their increasingly pervasive and enduring impacts on individuals, markets and society. To guide the reader, this introduction provides an overview of how the book is organised and each of its chapters, explaining to students and researchers the theories, methods, policy applications and empirical contexts addressed in the book
Pressurised anaerobic digestion for reducing the costs of biogas upgrading
Get PDF© The Author(s) 2023.The version of record of this article, first published in [BioEnergy Research], is available online at Publisher’s website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12155-023-10602-wThe overall purpose of this study is to investigate the potential for producing higher energy biogas at elevated fermentation pressures. Upgrading of biogas is often carried out to increase its methane (energy) content by removing carbon dioxide. Upgrading is used, for example, to give methane of sufficient purity that it can be injected directly into the gas supply grid. In this research, freshwater algae are used as the feedstock for anaerobic digestion (AD) to produce biogas as a source of renewable energy. Although this has been the subject of extensive research over the past few decades, the main reason why AD has not been more widely commercialised is because it can have poor economic viability. In this paper, we used two similar bioreactors of capacity 1.5 L to generate biogas at different pressures. The methane concentration of the biogas increases to at least 70.0% for a headspace pressure greater than 4 bara compared to 57.5% or less when the pressure is less than 1.6 bara. The higher pressure operation therefore reduces the amount of upgrading required leading to a reduction in the cost of this step. Another interesting finding of this study is that the solubility of biogas in the digestate is estimated to be only 3.7% (best fit value) of its solubility in pure water, which is much lower than the values previously reported in the literature.Acknowledgements: The authors gratefully acknowledge the technical support provided by David Morris (Autichem Ltd., UK) while fabricating the system and using the bioreactor
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