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Caribbean Report 30-10-1996
No full text1. Headlines (00:00-00:32)2. In Grenada cane farmers and government at odds over a million dollar tourism land deal. Prime Minister Mitchell's Press Secretary Nancy McGuire and President of the Grenada Cane Farmers Association Elliot Bishop are interviewed (00:33-07:34)3. Conservationists in St. Lucia say the recent floods are a reminder of the dangers of deforestation. Yves Renard, Caribbean Natural Resources Institute is interviewed (07:35-10:03)4. The Director of Public Presecutions in Guyana has chosen a prosecutor to lead the case of the man accused of murdering Dr Walter Rodney (10:04-10:36)5. In Britain a new study highlighted the problems faced by poorly qualified Afro-Caribbean young men when it comes to finding jobs. Co-author of the report Research Fellow Edgar Hassan is interviewed (10:37-13:36)6. Three former US Presidents back Bill Clinton in saying no to legalising marijuana. Warren Gordon (13:37-14:56)7. Investigators from the US and the Dominican Republic say human error was to blame for a plane crash in February which killed one hundred and eighty-nine passengers (14:57-15:28
Modelling and simulation of fluidized-bed boilers and gasifiers for carbonaceous solids.
No full textSUMMARY
A comprehensive computer simulation program that
can deal with a wide range of different operating
conditions in fluidized bed combustion and gasification has
been developed.
It includes the possibility of simulating
operations with various types of coal, charcoal or wood and
can predict the behaviour of a real unit by giving several
important performance parameters, such as:
(a) Emulsion and bubble gas composition profiles throughout
the bed height. The components included are: CO2 , CO, 02,
N 2 , H2 0, H2 , CH4 , SO2 , NO, C2 H 6 , H2 S, NH3 and Tar.
(b) Gas phase composition throughout the freeboard height.
(c) Solid compositions of the coal (or any other
carbonaceous material), limestone and inert in the bed and
throughout the freeboard. The considered components are: C,
H, 0, N, S, ash, volatiles, moisture in the coal, CaCO3,
CaO, CaSO4 , moisture in the limestone, Si0 2 , and moisture
in the inert.
(d) Temperature profiles of all phases throughout the bed
and the freeboard.
(e) Solid particle size distributions in the bed and in the
freeboard sections. The considered effects are:
elutriation, entrainment, attrition and recycling in all
the three possible types of solid phases present;
(f) Heat transfered to water/steam inside the tubes, steam
production and tube surface temperatures in the case of
boiler simulation
Spontaneous music : the first generation British free improvisers
No full textThe British free improvisation scene originated in London and Sheffield during the
mid 1960s. In groups such as AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Joseph
Holbrooke, a distinctive and ambitious musicality developed that still occupies most
of its protagonists forty years later.
Marked stylistic contrasts developed within the genre, notably the `atomistic' and
`laminar' methods of interaction. Nonetheless, a consistency of principle and practice
was also apparent that defined British free improvisation as unique. In some respects
the genre resembled its German, Dutch and American counterparts, and also the jazz
and classical avant-gardes that had inspired them. Both conceptually and practically,
however, clear differences remained.
The British free improvisers refined a method and an aesthetic of musical creativity,
which suggested an intimate perspective and a detailed analysis of that which we
accept as `music'. Its techniques and results were unconventional, but remained
consistent with music's defining concepts and experiences. As such, British free
improvisation suggested a more inclusive model of musicality than is common, and
implied a broad critique of the cultural values that define `music' at all. Though the
free improvisers themselves did not explicitly state the connection, their work may be
viewed in the context of Deconstruction: the post-structuralist analytical strategy
associated with philosopher Jacques Derrida.
British free improvisation culminated from innovations within the twentieth century
avant-garde. Referencing styles such as atonality and free jazz, it challenged the
aesthetic, technical and hierarchical standards of Western tradition in a form that was
striking and extreme, but also of logical development and focus. Free improvisation
owed explicit debt to a variety of other musics; its most singular achievement
however, was the redefinition of `rhythm' by which it disguised this fact.
The music of the first generation British free improvisers is reliant upon precise
conceptual and practical execution. But though this has enabled the genre to be
musically innovative, in the long term it has also become a logical problem. With
British free improvisation as its subject, the scrutiny of Deconstruction reveals
significant discrepancies between what `free improvisation' implies and what it
actually represents
Complex variation in measures of general intelligence and cognitive change
No full textCopyright: © 2013 Tenesa et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: Genotyping of the ABC1936, LBC1921, and LBC1936 cohorts and the analyses conducted here were supported by the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Phenotype collection in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 was supported by the BBSRC, The Royal Society, and The Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government. Phenotype collection in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 was supported by Research Into Ageing (continues as part of Age UK's The Disconnected Mind project). Phenotype collection in the Aberdeen Birth Cohort 1936 was supported by the BBSRC, the Wellcome Trust, and the Alzheimer's Research Trust. SJR, AR and AT are funded by the BBSRC through the Roslin Institute's strategic programme grant and project grant BB/K000195/1. The Brain data was provided by the Division of Aging Biology and the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology (NIA) through the NIH GWAS Data Repository (dbGaP Accession Number: phs000249.v1.p1) and funded as part of the Intramural Research Program, NIA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewe
An analysis of construction related contractual issues (risk, time and claim related) in the context of the construction related contractual obligations of the contractor and the employer in fidic yellow (plant and design-build) general conditions of
No full textIncludes abstract.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-169)
Back of the envelope estimates of environmental damage costs in Mexico
No full textFor developing countries, budget constraints help set the agenda on mitigating environmental damage, one of the indelible marks of our era. Political considerations often dictate the measures taken. There are no firm analytical formulas to help even environmentally conscious policymakers rank needs and remedies. A developing country such as Mexico - the focus of this paper - cannot afford an in-depth study of every environmental issue. Policymakers need to be provided with rough,"back-of-the envelope"estimates of the economic costs of various environmental problems. This allows them to rank the issues and act. In this paper the author applied existing methods to estimate the costs stemming from different environmental problems in Mexico. Although the examples are from Mexico, the method can be useful in other developing countries as well. The author how creative use of U.S. and other data can help provide simple estimates of the likely costs of soil erosion, air pollution, mining of underground waters, and estimates of the health effects of water and solid waste pollution, lack of sanitation, and the ingestion of food contaminated by polluted irrigation. The assumptions underlying all calculations are conservative. Some environmental damage issues, such as loss of biodiversity, were too complex to permit quantification.Water Conservation,Economic Theory&Research,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Pollution Management&Control
An investigation into violence against nurses in the southern region of Malawi Chimwemwe Chikoko.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Incidences of violence in nursing have been reported in local media in Malawi. Although violence in the health sector is not a new concept, it has become a global concern in the 21st century (Needham, Kingma, O'Brien-Pallas, McKenna, Tucker & Oud, 2008:6). The aim of the study was to investigate and describe the nature and extent of violence against nurses and the perceived effects thereof on nurses in selected health facilities in the southern region of Malawi
Michal, contradicting values : understanding the moral dilemma faced by Saul's daughter
No full textValue conflicts due to cultural differences are an increasingly pressing issue in many societies. Because Old Testament texts hail from a very different milieu to our own they may provide new perspectives upon contemporary conflicts and, in this context, the present dissertation investigates one particular value clash in 1 Samuel.
Studies of Old Testament ethics have attended to narrative only relatively recently. Although social-scientific interpretation has a longer pedigree, there are important debates about how to employ the fruits of anthropology in biblical studies. The first part of this thesis, therefore, attends to methodological issues, advancing four main propositions. First, attention should be paid to the moral goods that feature in the text. Second, the family, a central feature of Old Testament morality, should be understood as a set of practices rather than an institution. Third, 'models' of social action that purport to comprehend the social world of the Bible should be used only cautiously. Finally, a modified version of Bakhtin's theory of heteroglossic voices can help readers appreciate how authors present a moral vision by approving some characters' actions whilst undermining others.
The second part of the thesis employs this methodology to examine 1 Samuel 19.10-18a. The discussion of the moral dilemma facing Michal adduces anthropological theories and ethnographic data concerning violence, lying, and the relationship between fathers and daughters. Given that the conflicts of moral goods are 'resolved' by characters choosing to act in a certain way, the dissertation enquires after the author's assessment of each character's moral choices, and hence their theological import. The dissertation argues that Michal's loyalty to David and deception of Saul was counter-cultural, and by approving of her choice the author affirms the importance of loyalty to the Davidic dynasty
The uses of madness in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction : the relation between narrative strategy and disturbed states of consciousness
No full textThe thesis operates upon the premise that there has been, in the
course of the last two centuries, a radical transformation in narrative
presentations of exceptional states of consciousness. It sets out to
identify the main characteristics of the fictional transformation, and to
situate them in the context of wider cultural shifts. I decided to rest
my approach upon the relatively conservative sense that, roughly speaking,
the structural and linguistic analysis of a narrative topos - that is to
say the protagonist's madness - can elicit a clearer understanding of the
changing, underlying dynamics and thematics of fictional works as they
emerge over a given historical period.
The thesis is set out in two parts; Part I explores nineteenth
century uses of madness, and Part II compares and contrasts more recent
treatments. The study of the different presentations of madness in
fiction is organized diachronically for heuristic purposes, although the
typological emphasis of the thesis must eventually take precedence over
the imposition of a rigid historical framework.
In the nineteenth century it is predominantly an intellectually
marginalized kind of fiction (often termed 'gothic') which deals with
exceptional psychic experience. It does so in a way which engages with
the treacherous 'otherness' of mad experience, which is often aligned with
the supernatural. In these texts the position of the narrator in relation
to such phenomenon is of paramount importance. More recent treatments of
'madness' display a tendency to undermine its 'otherness' and to move
towards narrative identification with such states.
The method of investigation functions upon several levels. In order
to provide a constructive counter-perspective upon fictional treatments of
madness and to forge the link with contemporary methodologies, the study
commences with the narratological analysis of a work written by a
(clinically diagnosed) psychotic author which has achieved the status of a
classic within psychiatric, psychoanalytical and even recent cultural
theory. The narrative structure of D. P. Schreber's Memoirs finds its
equivalent in a kind of fiction identified in this thesis as 'paranoid'.
Twentieth century clinical discourse increasingly has recourse to the
very broad term 'schizophrenia' as a synonym for the outmoded term
'madness'. The current emphasis upon linguistic concerns in the definition
and location of psychosis allows the critical grouping of certain kinds of
texts under the heading of 'schizoid', due to the discovery of analogous
characteristics at work within their (anti)narrative strategy. Again, these
terms are heuristically intended and cannot be scientifically precise. The
thesis concludes with a discussion of the current centrality of a
terminology of psychopathology to the ways in which fictionists, critics
and theorists describe, prescribe and understand the 'postmodern' self and
world.
This project offers an overview of attitudes to madness as they are
transformed in fiction in the course of a historical period. The way in
which madness functions in these texts is, first of all, not only as the
instrument of literary exploration but also as a means of transgressing
boundaries between sanity and insanity. The period is crucial, further, in
its radical transitional nature with regard to concepts of fundamental
import for the novel form: most particularly, ideas of the 'self' and ideas
of 'reality', as objectively stable or as sub. iective and illusory. For the
fictional articulation of these, the topos of 'madness' serves as the
ultimate measure
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