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Harnessing Marine Renewable Energy from Poole Harbour: Case Study
No full textGlobal warming and its impact on our environment, society, economies and security is one of the fundamental concerns of our time. In response, the United Kingdom government has put in place a legally binding target of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions on 1990 levels by 2050. The United Kingdom will need to achieve a tenfold expansion of energy supply from renewable sources by 2020 to meet its share of the European Union renewable energy target. The marine and coastal environment’s renewable energy potential in Britain is high. It is estimated that it has 50% of the tidal energy, 35% of wave and 40% of wind resources in the European Union. Use of geothermal resources using heat pump technology is the least evolved sector, but in 2010 contributed to 0.7 TWh of energy and it is believed that non domestic heat pumps could contribute up to 22 TWh by 2020. In the Southwest of England, Poole Harbour has been recognised as a potential, highly predictable source of tidal and heat energy. Local groups are embarking on a feasibility study for harnessing this energy for the benefit of the community. The purpose of this article is to examine the potential conflict of interest between the laudable aims of promoting the use of renewable energy and of safeguarding ecosystems and their biodiversity. Using Poole Harbour as a case study, it will consider the environmental and economic costs and benefits of a Community Renewable Energy project (the Poole Tidal Energy Partnership) in the context of an area subject to a number of statutory and non-statutory designations to protect nationally and internationally important habitats and species. The paper identifies key environmental legislation, including spatial planning law and policy, which will facilitate exploring whether there is potential for reconciling what may be perceived as competing objectives for sustainable development
The metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes
No full textThe metabolic syndrome describes the clustering of dyslipidaemia, glucose intolerance and hypertension with central adiposity. The syndrome is increasing in prevalence worldwide as a consequence of increasing obesity prevalence. It will have global effects on the prevalence of cardiovascular disease. This review summarises current knowledge of the syndrome with special emphasis on the aetiology and pathogenesis and examines the clinical consequences of occlusive vascular disease and non alcoholic steatohepatitis. The roles of nutrition, exercise and pharmacological treatments of the syndrome are discussed
Poole, R A C, QX41078
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/411213Surname: POOLE. Given Name(s) or Initials: R A C. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: QX41078. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 52326.226926
Item: [2016.0049.43479] "Poole, R A C, QX41078
Motor scooter registration / by Heather Poole, associate analyst
No full text1 online resource (5 pages)."October 16, 2020."Discusses when a motor scooter must be registered in Connecticut, recent motor scooter registration proposals, and identifies which states require motor scooter registration. Updates OLR research report 2015-R-025
One Hundred Years of Showmanship: Poole's 1837-1937
No full textBooklet describes the Poole family's history as creators of 'panoramas, dioramas, myrioramas, theatres, variety halls, and cinemas.' Illustrations of some of the scenes portrayed, and an explanation of how some of the spectacular effects were produced. Second part consists of a Jim Poole autograph postcard (dated Feburary 1985; addressed to Bill Douglas). Jim Poole was son of the author. Page number(s) as given:
files ending 01_001, 01_001_2, 01_010, 01_010_2, 02, 02_2 are not included in pagination, files ending 002-009_2 are pp.1-1
Long-term morphological model of Poole Harbour
No full textThe study focuses on the impact of human interventions on the natural behaviour of estuaries in response to sea-level rise. In particular it focuses on the affect of managed realignment on the critical sea level rise (SLRcrit) for the Poole Harbour. Numerical model ASMITA (Aggregated Scale Morphological Interaction between a Tidal inlet and the Adjacent coast, Stive and Wang, 1996) is used to study the response of the system to the external forcing (both natural and anthropogenic). ASMITA model schematises the tidal-inlet system and characterises each model element by a single variable volume. Volumetric data of the Poole harbour inlet elements obtained through the digitisation of the historical admiralty charts was used to calibrate the model. The model assumes that the each inlet elements tends towards an equilibrium volume which can be defined using the empirical equations. These equilibrium equations consist of equilibrium parameters that depend on the regional properties like hydrodynamics and topography of the Poole harbour. Once the model is calibrated, simulations were performed with various sea level rise scenarios (historic and future SLR) to observe the natural behaviour of the Poole harbour. Managed realignment is being introduced in the model and a range of values of critical sea-level rise was obtained and compared with the predicted sea-level rise rate given in the literature for the next century. Results suggest that the “hold the line” management scenario (current situation) would not result in the complete loss of inter-tidal flats and the coastal flooding is unlikely to occur over the next century, as a result of critical sea-level rise values exceeds the predicted rate. However research suggests, introducing realignment (coastline retreat management scenario) reduces SLRcrit values for the estuary; thus making the estuary more sensitive to the predicted future SLR rates.CoMEMHydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Leakage current by Frenkel–Poole emission on benzotriazole and benzothiadiazole based organic devices
No full textIn this study three different organic semiconductors were used in the fabrication of ITO/ PEDOT:PSS/Polymer:PCBM/LiF/Al configuration. Reverse current density-voltage (J(r)-V) measurements of the samples were investigated to define the reverse-bias leakage current mechanisms on benzotriazole and benzothiadiazole based organic devices. Our results indicate that the J(r)-V plot behaviors are given by linear dependence between In (J(r)) and V-1/(2), where J(r) is the reverse current density, and V is the applied voltage. This behavior is well known as the Poole-Frenkel (PF) effect where it is found to be dominating in the reverse-bias leakage current
Ray Poole
No full textRay Poole with basketball. Handwritten below photograph: Ray Poole (All S.E.C. in Football for \u2746). [Full page images can be found in Box 1 scrapbook, also in this image gallery.]https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cofield/1153/thumbnail.jp
Synthetic representations of the Poole Frenkel (PF) and Poole regimes
No full textA synthetic study of the field-induced ionization of donors is presented in order to bring some insights, usefull to experimentalits, into the Poole and Poole Frenkel (PF) regimes. Emphasis is made on the similarities of some of the fundamental assumptions, as on the artificial character of the hypotheses specific to Poole regime. Some ambiguities dealing with plottings met in literature are also reported. Likewise, discrepancies existing between the authors approaches are put forward, dealing : with the barrier to be overcome by electrons at low and high field strengths ; and with the notion of transition field from one regime to the other. The account concerns essentially Coulomb potentials, though the case of more steeper wells is also evoked. Two block diagrams are built up, supplemented by simulations deduced from Hill's models, with the purpose of clear quantitative delimitation of the ranges of validity of Poole and PF regimes, the latter being eventually assorted with a thermally assisted tunnelling.Une étude synthétique de l'ionisation de donneurs par un champ électrique est présentée afin d'apporter des éclaircissements, utiles à l'expérimentateur, sur les régimes Poole et Poole Frenkel (PF). L'accent est mis sur la similitude de certaines des hypothèses fondamentales, ainsi que sur le caractère artificiel des hypothèses spécifiques au régime Poole. Quelques ambiguïtés des représentations graphiques rencontrées dans la littérature sont aussi rapportées. De même sont mises en évidence les divergences existant entre les auteurs à propos : de la barrière de potentiel qu'ont à franchir les électrons en bas et en hauts champs ; et de la notion de champ de transition entre les deux régimes. L'exposé est essentiellement consacré au cas des puits coulombiens, bien que des puits à plus court rayon d'action soient aussi évoqués. Deux diagrammes à trois dimensions sont construits, accompagnés de simulations annexes déduites des modèles de Hill, dans le but de délimiter clairement, sur des bases quantitatives, les intervalles de validité respectifs des régimes Poole et PF, ce dernier étant. éventuellement assorti d'un effet tunnel assisté thermiquement
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