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Group of men at Las Lomas Camp in Mexico
No full textCaption: L-R- G. O. Clark, Red Trotti, John Curry, Burt Wathen, E. G. Cole, Newton, Gov't Inspector, Baker and Grigold. Las Lomas Camp
Environmental Related Offences. Overview
No full textThis article tries to reveal the existing particularities regarding criminal liability in environmental law, by defining the notion of ecologic offence and making a short synthesis of compared law in this field.criminal liability, ecologic offence
Low energy architecture for a severe US climate: design and evaluation of a hybrid ventilation strategy
No full textThis paper presents the novel hybrid ventilation strategy developed by Lomas for the Judson College Library and Faculty building, located near Chicago, USA. The project was won against a short list of 12 competition entrants drawn from a total of 85 submissions; Lomas was a member of the competition team. He was the lead author of this paper and headed the environmental design and evaluation work, co-authors Cook and Fiala conducted simulation analyses.
A companion paper, for which Lomas was the lead writer and corresponding author, ‘Short CA and Lomas KJ, Exploiting a
hybrid environmental design strategy in a US continental climate, Building Research and Information, Vol 35, No 2, pp 119-143,
(2007)’: describes the ventilation strategy in the context of the architecture; elucidates the ventilation control strategy devised by
Lomas; and presents the projected energy savings.
The building’s design resulted in the awarding of a number of prestigious grants (see RA5 Esteem). The research reported in this paper, and the research for the SSEES building (Lomas Output 1), won the RIBA President’s Awards for Research, gold medal, in 2007; the work was submitted by Short and Associates (the IESD is ineligible for this competition)
An autoethnography exploring the engagement of records management through a computer mediated communication focused co-operative inquiry
No full textThis thesis is an autoethnography exploring the engagement of records management (RM) through the vehicle of a computer mediated communication (CMC) focused co-operative inquiry. CMC is defined as, “communication that takes place between human beings via the instrumentality of computers” (Herring, 1996, p.81). The PhD stance was that with the advent of new technologies, such as CMC, the role and place of RM has been challenged. RM practitioners needed to evaluate their principles and practice in order to discover why RM is not uniformly understood and also why it fails to engage many CMC users and information professionals. The majority of today’s information is generated as the result of unstructured communications (AIIM, 2005 and 2006) that no longer have a fixed reality but exist across fragmented globalised spaces through the Cloud, Web 2.0 and software virtualisation. Organisational boundaries are permanently perforated and the division between public and private spaces are blurred. Traditional RM has evolved in highly structured organisational information environments. Nevertheless, RM could lie at the heart of the processes required for dealing with this splintered data. RM takes a holistic approach to information management, establishing the legislative requirements, technical requirements and the training and support for individuals to communicate effectively, simultaneously transmitting and processing the communications for maximum current and ongoing organisational benefits. However RM is not uniformly understood or practiced. The focus of the thesis was to understand how RM engagement can and should be achieved.
The research was conducted by establishing a co-operative inquiry consisting of 82 international co-researchers, from a range of disciplines, investigating the question, ‘How do organisations maximise the information potential of CMC for organisational benefit, taking into account the impact of the individual?” The PhD established a novel approach to co-operative inquiry by separating, managing and merging three groups of co-researchers (UK Records Managers, UK CMC users, international Records Managers and CMC users). I was embedded as a co-researcher within this wider inquiry personally exploring as an autoethnography the relevance of RM to the wider research question, the ability of RM practitioners to advocate for RM and the co-researchers’ responses to the place of RM within this context.
The thesis makes several contributions to the research field. It examines how records managers and RM principles and practice engaged through the inquiry, articulating the reasons why users sometimes failed to engage with RM principles and practice, and what assists users to successfully engage with RM. It was found that national perspectives and drivers were more significant as to whether or not individuals engaged with RM concepts than age, gender or professional experience. In addition, users engaged with RM when it was naturally embedded within processes. In addition, as a result of the inquiry’s discussions and actions, the thesis suggests that RM principles and practice need to be refined, for example in regards to the characteristics that define a record. In this respect it concludes that there is rarely likely to be an original archival record surviving through time given the need for migration. The research delivered a novel approach to co-operative inquiry whereby merging groups through time produced new learning at each merger point. The thesis recommends further research to build upon its findings
Supplemental Material - An overheating criterion for bedrooms in temperate climates: Derivation and application
No full textSupplemental Material for An overheating criterion for bedrooms in temperate climates: Derivation and application by Kevin J Lomas and Matthew G Li in Building Services Engineering Research & Technology</p
Four men at a cantina in Las Lomas, Mexico
No full textCaption: Cantina at Las Lomas. These places sell beer and liquor, candles and a few odds and ends that they might have on hand. Note strips of meat drying in background. These strips will eventually go into "chili con carne." L.R. Roberto (owner), two Mexicans, G. O. Clark
La vegetación serpentinícola de lomas de La Coca, Ciudad de La Habana
No full textThe serpentine outcrop of "lomas de La Coca" is one of the more studied serpentine area in Cuba. However, its complex flora and vegetation have conduced to contradictories results. In this work we discuss previous results and propose vegetation units based on biotic and abiotic factors such as: aspect, soil type and soil deep. The primary defined vegetation types are the microphyllous semideciduos forest on serpentine soil, the thorny xeromorphic shrubwood on serpentine soil and the gallery forest. Secondary vegetation types are represented by disturbed thorny xeromorphic shrubwood on serpentine soil, grassland with shrubs and palms, disturbed gallery forest and grassland with Cecropia schreberiana.Peer reviewedfinal article publishedserpentinevegetation typesLa Coc
Linderiella baetica Alonso & Garcia-de-Lomas 2009 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca): On the verge of extinction?
No full textThe province of Cadiz (South of Spain) hosts the only known locality in the world of Linderiella baetica Alonso & Garcia-de-Lomas 2009 (Anostraca). In this paper, the geographical distribution of the species based on published sampling data focused on large branchiopods and temporary pools in Andalusia and the entire Iberian Peninsula is assessed. The current situation is summarized based on the threats to their survival, which are mainly related to habitat alteration. In the Iberian Peninsula, at least 1,648 bodies of water (about 720 in Andalusia) have been explored. Prevalence data suggest that L. baetica is a rare species (localities with presence / sample locations = 6.07 . 10-4). The application of the IUCN (2012) criteria suggests that L. baetica is a threatened species, catalogued as "critically endangered". Several emergency solutions such as translocation of individuals or their propagules to newly created ponds and to sustain the efforts of exploration have been proposed. However, conservation of the species in the current circumstances it is not considered viable if the natural habitat remains unprotected. The legal protection of L. baetica is proposed
Improving the performance of the JET Shape Controller
No full textThe JET Shape Controller (SC) uses nine distinct circuits, powering the JET poloidal field coils, to control in real time the coil currents, and the plasma shape, current and position. The control scheme presently used [1] is based on a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) controller, which is designed to decouple the inductive coupling of the different coils. Achieving such a decoupling, the SC allows the user to tune independently the time response of each circuit. As a matter of fact the intended decoupling algorithm has been incorrectly coded in the JET SC system. This paper describes the modelling and experimental activities performed to correct the code error, and to improve the performance on a subset of the controlled parameters. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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