27 research outputs found
Introducing a web-based portal to explore the concept of coastal resilience
No full textFor operational use there is a need to identify a set of measures that quantify the resilience. The ‘CoastRes’ project, a component of the UK Climate Resilience Programme, examined how an operational interpretation of resilience might be applied to the coast, building on existing approaches to shoreline management in the UK. The development of the methodology and resulting Coastal Resilience Model has been reported elsewhere. For this communication, we provide a brief summary of the management framework, the Coastal Resilience Model (CRM) and the preparation of the datasets, so that the limitations of the data available at a national scale are clear. We then illustrate how the Coastal Resilience Model has been implemented as the web-based CRM Portal. The purpose of the portal is to allow users to explore (i) the implications of future change on local and national resilience; and (ii) their own view of the relative importance of the Performance Measures that make up the Coastal Resilience Index. By exploring the influence of these weightings it is hoped that Stakeholders can develop a shared understanding of what is important for coastal communities. The CRM Portal can be accessed at: https://coastalresilience.uk/crm/
Predicting and mitigating small fluctuations in station dwell times
No full textOn busy railway networks, exceeding station dwell times by only a few seconds can adversely affect overall network performance. However, while these performance impacts are well known, the causes of small dwell time perturbations are not widely understood (or are not widely communicated at an operational level) and exhibit a high level of spatial and temporal variation. A lack of information and understanding makes it difficult to implement effective mitigation measures to reduce the occurrence and impact of such delays. For this paper On Train Monitoring Recorder (OTMR) data were obtained for a large number of services over a 14month period, which included the wheel stop and wheel start timings associated with station stops at a 1 second resolution. These were combined with other relevant data sources in order to investigate small fluctuations in station dwell time. An interface for communicating these variations to railway operating staff was developed, along with models to predict future dwell time fluctuations, potentially enabling mitigation measures to be implemented
Cosmophasis baehrae Zabka & Waldock 2012
No full text2. <i>Cosmophasis baehrae</i> Żabka & Waldock 2012 <p>Figures 12-17, Map (Figures 1-2) #5</p> <p> <i>Material examined</i>. Two adult females (HC-BN5f and HC-BN6f) were collected 13 FEB 2017 (preserved 18 FEB 2017) by the senior author on small garden croton plants (Euphorbiaceae: <i>Codiaeum variegatum</i> (L.) A. Juss.) growing along the roadside on Banda Neir in the Banda Islands. These specimens will be deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA), Gainesville. One male (Figure 11) and two more females from this habitat were also photographed but not collected.</p> <p> <i>Diagnosis</i>. Adult males (Figure 12) can be identified by their mostly black and white colouration, including a median stripe of white setae extending from the front of the eye region, between the AME, to the clypeus. The sides of the carapace are covered with iridescent violet scales. Females (Figures 13-17) vary in appearance, but are generally brown to bronze or light-orange and ivory-white in colour, with white setae extending to the clypeus between the AME, as in the males. Identification can be confirmed by examining the epigynum, which bears two darker figures, each shaped like a retort (Figure 17). This is a widely-distributed but little-studied species, mostly from the tropical north of Australia (Figure 1).</p>Published as part of <i>Hurni-Cranston, Tiziano & Hill, David E., 2021, Three new jumping spiders of the genus Cosmophasis from Wallacea (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini), pp. 1-84 in Peckhamia 228 (1)</i> on page 12, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/7171908">10.5281/zenodo.7171908</a>
"Doing Church" During COVID-19: An Autistic Reflection on Online Church: An Autistic reflection on Online Church
No full textThis creative piece illuminates an Autistic perspective on faith and church attendance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Autistic people may be stereotyped as less likely to be religious, or have a belief system, yet we can have a belief system much in the same manner as a non-autistic person. It is also emerging that Autistic people are also disadvantaged in the current climate of a global pandemic. For me, this piece is asserting the Autistic voice in a creative manner, where both researchers and the general public can journey with me in my story of online church during Covid-19 in how church is “done.” This includes the notion of being an “outsider,” an “edge walker” and being “deviant.” Some academic, biblical and creative references are included, but only to uplift and help express the voice of the author. 
A re-examination of the evidence for parade-grounds at auxiliary forts in Roman Britain
No full textThis Thesis examines the underlying evidence for parade-grounds at auxiliary forts in Roman Britain. Firstly by examining the evidence supporting forts with actual physical remains, such as the altars and the tribunal at Maryport and the artificially levelled area at Hardknott, and those with flagged areas which have been interpreted as parade-grounds, such as Ambleside and Gelligaer. The literary evidence of ancient authors is examined with particular reference to training and exercising and where this might have been undertaken. The occasions when a parade might have been appropriate in Roman times are examined, as is the possibility of a modem concept being superimposed on an ancient action
Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries
No full textHuman mobility continues to increase in terms of volumes and reach, producing growing global connectivity. This connectivity hampers efforts to eliminate infectious diseases such as malaria through reintroductions of pathogens, and thus accounting for it becomes important in designing global, continental, regional, and national strategies. Recent works have shown that census-derived migration data provides a good proxy for internal connectivity, in terms of relative strengths of movement between administrative units, across temporal scales. To support global malaria eradication strategy efforts, here we describe the construction of an open access archive of estimated internal migration flows in endemic countries built through pooling of census microdata. These connectivity datasets, described here along with the approaches and methods used to create and validate them, are available both through the WorldPop website and the WorldPop Dataverse Repository
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The British judges of the International Court of Justice ::an explication? the later jurists /
No full text"The monograph considers the individual and joint dissertations, separate opinions and dissenting opinions that British judges Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, Sir Humphrey Waldock, Sir Robert Jennings, Dame Rosalyn Higgins and Sir Christopher Greenwood appended to Judgments and Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice. It provides information of the life of, and reviews some of the scholarship of, these judges. In the final chapter, the author endeavours to identify characteristics of the British judges of the International Court of Justice that are shared by some of all of these five jurists - together with their predecessors at the Court, Baron Arnold McNair and Sir Hersch Lauterpacht"-
Autistic people's perspectives on functioning labels and associated reasons, and community connectedness
No full textFunctioning labels have been used in relation to autistic people and differentiating between support needs. The main purpose of our study was to identify perspectives regarding language about being autistic. In regard to themselves and functioning. Furthermore, we investigated the influential factor of community connectedness on use of language acceptability and functioning labels.
516 autistic respondents completed our survey. We asked about demographic characteristics, how respondents would like autistic people to be termed in the survey, and their acceptability (person with autism, Aspergers, disorder, conditions, living with autism, autistic). We also asked about respondents? Autistic Community Connectedness, acknowledging the implicit nature of language and identity (Stets & Serpe in New directions in identity theory and research, Oxford University Press, 2016). The main focus of our survey was whether or not to use functioning labels, and the supporting rationale.
Qualitative study using Merleau-Ponty's hermeneutic phenomenology as a philosophical framework. Data collection took place between 2020 and 2021 in a southern Spanish province. A total of 22 in-depth interviews were conducted using open-ended questions until data saturation was reached.
97% of respondents stated that they find the term 'autistic' acceptable. Respondents who did see merit in using functioning labels to describe autistic people also reported not necessarily using them about themselves. Community membership was found to impact the participants' language preferences to describe the support needs of autistic people, including the use of functioning labels.
The proposed best option for language preferences is not to find consensus but instead, opt for the optimal choice that people find the least offensive or disagreeable. This means using identity-first language and not using functioning labels. [Abstract copyright: © 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Milton\u27s covering cherub : the influence of Stanley Fish\u27s Surprised by Sin on twentieth-century Milton criticism
No full textDuring a time when ideological debates between Milton critics remained largely unresolved, Stanley Fish reconciled both sides of the “Milton Controversy” with Surprised by Sin, positing a theoretically sophisticated method that centers the poem’s meaning in the reader’s experience. Christian and non-Christian critics became enfranchised in critical debate since their reactions, according to Fish, were valid and intended by Milton. Borrowing his intentionalist approach from A.J.A. Waldock, Fish asserts his version of both author and text while implicitly employing a radically subjective hermeneutics. Fish focuses on the multiple and contradictory linguistic meanings within Paradise Lost, locating the source of these contradictions in the human mind. Viewing the problems of language as a result of human distance from the originator of language (the divine Logos), Fish’s Milton strongly draws on the Christianity of C.S Lewis. In contrast to the methods of post-Derridean deconstruction, Fish’s Milton evinces the instability of language in order to strengthen the mind of his reader in a metaphysically Christian faith. Over the course of four decades, Fish’s historically plausible critical framework became accepted as a valuable basis for critical practice. However, his work also posed a challenge to later critics who disagreed with its ideological basis and its effect on critical method. Critical response to Fish’s work often reflects an anxiety that recalls the theory of Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence. Loosely following Bloom’s terms, I contend that critical reactions to Surprised by Sin reflect an ongoing anxiety over Fish’s effective mediation with Milton’s Paradise Lost
Development of a Rockoon Launch Platform and a Sulfur Fuel Pulsed Plasma Thruster CubeSAT
No full textAmateur rocket launches are unable to reach heights much above 30 km due to the high drag of the dense lower atmosphere. Using a balloon to rise to an altitude of 30 km before launching is one means to increase a rockets range. An overview of the concept and a summary of the launch history for the University of Washington rockoon (rocket / balloon) program are given. Such a system will be capable of providing an inexpensive and reduced complexity launch method for student projects. Additionally, the university has recently opened a CubeSAT laboratory to give students hands-on experience with satellite hardware. Once in orbit, CubeSAT missions are limited, in part, due to an inability of low power thrusters to offset atmospheric drag. Recent results show that a coaxial sulfur-fuel Pulsed Plasma Thruster can provide a impulse/energy ratio of 20 mN/kW from a 10 J discharge, double of what a similar geometry Teflon variant is capable of. This increase in performance can provide CubeSATs the propulsion necessary for station-keeping in orbit. With launches planned over the next five years, the University of Washington aims to launch a 3U CubeSAT from a rockoon on a suborbital flight as a student project
