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Nanoparticle formation in a free turbulent jet under high nucleation rate conditions
No full textNanoparticle formation in hydrodynamic flows is an often occurred process in industry. In this work mathematical modelling of di-ethyl-hexyl-sebacate (DEHS) nanoparticle formation due to homogeneous nucleation, condensation and coagulation in a hot free turbulent jet issuing into a colder environment is performed. The free jet is considered as the step of a particle formation process in the continuously stirred tank reactor. The influence of nozzle diameter on the aerosol characteristics formed in the turbulent jet is investigated
Tokyo story by Emily Allchurch
No full textCatalogue essay for an exhibition of work by the British photographic artist Emily Allchurch at the Manchester Art Gallery. Sophisticated digital techniques allow the artist to revisit the famous woodblock prints of the Japanese Utagawa Hiroshige in such a way as to remind viewers that woodblock was itself a contemporary medium in Edo-period Japan, and that what we mistake for traditional views of the city were in fact highly charged and ultra-modern
Material Histories: Objects and Imaginings of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
No full textThis chapter examines the changing ways in which the identities of the Andaman and Nicobar Islanders have been constructed through material culture, and explores how histories of the Islands in the West have been bound up with the interpretation and display of objects. I examine the capricious histories of the Islands as they have been constructed in the West and especially in the UK. I eveal that even the British, hegemonic versions of Andamanese and Nicobarese history are not singular or unchanging manifestations, but rather contested, complex and multifaceted in their ways of seeing. Investigating selected moments from the modern history of British intervention in the Islands, I explore firstly how such objects have been used to categorize or fix their makers and users as ethnographic subjects; secondly, how objects have acted to harness the histories of the Islands in order to shed light on European agendas and concerns, and thirdly how Andamanese and Nicobarese objects have been used to relate the Islands’ populations to wider entities such as ‘Asia’, ‘India’ and the ‘Andaman and Nicobar Islands’
Championing good governance through an appreciation of legitimacy dialogues
No full textThis presentation aims to address how urbanisation and privisation over the past two decades have changed the policy landscape within which water professionals work. In order to meet the challenges of this new era the author argues that water professionals need to better understand the legitimation dialogues that exist between water planners, water companies and water users. By strengthening the bonds of trust and co-operation between the three domains, opportunities for good governance are greatly improved
Mechanical performance and cost correlation of Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC)
No full textPrediction of Users' Response Time in Q&A Communities
No full textSocial media and online Question and Answer (Q&A) communities in particular have become a successful solution for finding answers on diverse topics. However, not all questions are answered by these communities. Also, many questions are not answered quickly enough. In this paper, we propose a framework for predicting users' response time. The framework uses a diverse set of features including information on users, the content they generate while communicating, question tags, spatial and temporal features. Then these features are used as input for training predictive models by various machine learning algorithms. As a case study, three diverse Q&A communities from Stack Exchange are selected to test the framework. We demonstrate that Deep Belief Networks outperform Logistic Regression (LR), k-nearest neighbors (k-NN), and Decision Trees (DT) in the accuracy of the prediction across the three diverse Q&A communities
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the sentencing guidelines for corporate manslaughter: more bark than bite?
No full textComputational modelling of locomotor muscle moment arms in the basal dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus: assessing convergence between birds and basal ornithischians
No full textPierdom: a kingdom by the sea
No full textAccompanying text for Simon Roberts' photographic project on British pleasure piers. Setting both the piers and the photographs in context, Hodgson's text comments upon Roberts' continuing exploration of the leisure industry, expanding all the time as automation and globalization make more hours avaialble for more people than ever before
Une Porsche 911 jaune canari
No full textCritical and contextual text in Bernard Plossu's collection of reproduced Fresson prints from his time in the South Western United States in 1970s and 1980s. Plossu was much admired as a freewheeling photographer and adopted as one of their own by a generation of American artists. Hodgson argues that for all that, the Frenchman retained a profoundly European sensibility