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The impact of service charges to freeholders on new estates: A case study from the UK.
No full textThere is currently a massive development of new housing taking place in the UK to meet rising demand predominantly being delivered in multi-owned new estates which include a mix of freehold houses, leasehold flats and models of affordable housing. Since the financial constraints imposed by the government on local authorities there appears to be a growing requirement for the new residents to set up private companies to manage communal space contained within. This is unprecedented at this scale in freehold purchase and binds new owners to service charges for upkeep and maintenance and for permissions for development in addition to those imposed by statutory legislation. Purchasers are advised that a limited company will be set up to manage a selection of: green infrastructure, parking, roads, lighting and drains. Each resident will hold a share in this company and will then be responsible for appointing voluntary directors from the estate who can in turn appoint a property management agents. This paper investigates the back-ground to the current position and uses case studies and interviews with residents of a number of estates where these service charges are payable to determine how this is working in practice
Locomotion in ornithischian dinosaurs: an assessment using three-dimensional computational modelling
No full textMapping the terrain of selection for social work: a critical analysis.
No full textThis paper explores the implications of the changing UK policy and regulatory contextsfor the often competing or contradictory interests and agendas operating within the arenaof admission decisions in social work education, highlighted by the introduction of thenew social work degrees in 2003-04 and the associated care councils. Other contextualfactors that impact on admissions to higher education more generally will also be touchedupon, including the widening participation agendas; increased requirements fortransparency of decision making in the selection process; questioning of the predictivequality of A-level scores; and, concern regarding recruitment and retention issues. Acritical review of relevant research into social work admissions processes and outcomes isreported on. The validity of current selection tools is examined utilising research findingsfrom within social work and allied disciplines. The authors argue that the increasedspotlight upon admissions and the ‘front-loading' of gate-keeping into social workeducation is both unrealistic and irresponsible as it omits the crucial ongoing role ofassessment throughout the process of qualifying education
Strengthening of unreinforced masonry structures using Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC)
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Modelling of non-isothermal two- phase flows with phase transitions using Lagrangian methods
No full textNumerical and experimental analysis of a gasoline fuel spray.
No full textCalculations of number densities of inertial droplets in complex flows are encountered in modelling of numerous engineering and environmental phenomena, including the processes in internal combustion engines and air pollution [1, 2]. Traditionally, these calculations have been performed using either the Eulerian approach or Lagrangian approach based on the direct calculation of droplet trajectories in each computational cell [3]. An alternative method suggested by Osiptsov [4], also referred to as the fully Lagrangian method, is based on the droplet continuity equation in the Lagrangian form and predicts droplet number densities along pathlines by solving the equations for the components of the Jacobi matrix of the Eulerian-Lagrangian transformation. The method allows us to deal with regions of high number density gradients and intersections of droplet trajectories. Also, it significantly decreases the computational requirements in comparison with the conventional Lagrangian approach [5]. In this work the results of implementation of the fully Lagrangian approach into commercial CFD code ANSYS Fluent are discussed. A new methodology of the numerical analysis of the results of experimental observations of a gasoline spray at representative fuel injection conditions is suggested. Preliminary results of comparison between the predictions of the customized version of ANSYS Fluent, with the fully Lagrangian model implemented into it, and experimental data are presented. Heating and evaporation of droplets is not considered [6]
What drove reversions to quadrupedality in ornithischian dinosaurs? Testing hypotheses using centre of mass modelling
No full textA conversation: James Barnor, Margaret Busby and Francis Hodgson
No full textAn extended conversation with the eminent Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, published to accompany a major exhibition of his work at Autograph ABP in London. Barnor's archive is one of the very major surviving West African archives, on a par with his far better-known colleagues from Mali, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibe. This exhibition and publication were the first full-length examination of Barnor's work, and the long interview with the elderly photographer was a key part of the research