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A consideration of the antiquarian and literary works of Joseph Strutt, with a transcript of a hitherto inedited manuscript novel
No full textPhDThe first part of this thesis considers Joseph Strutt's
life, and his place in antiquarian 8tudieo. Strutt (1749-
1802) was trained as an engraver. Some of his early
commissions introduced him to the illuminated, manuscripts of
the British Museum, and led to the serie8 of illustrated
volumes on antiquarian subjects which he published between
1773 and. 1778 (the Regal and. Ecclesiastical Antiquities, the
Manners and Customs, the Chronicle of England.). The next
fifteen. years were devoted to engraving and related work,
including an extens ively-researched biographical dictionary
of engravers: this aspect of Strutt's work is not covered by
the present study. In the 1790's, Strutt pubLished two more
work6 of antiquarian research, the Dress and Habits and the
ports and Pastimes. A number of literary works were
published posthuniously:two plays (Ancient Times and The Test
of Guilt); a mock-epic poem (The Bumpkins' Disaster); and. a
four-volume novel set in the fifteenth century (Queenhoo-wall).
A further prose work survives in manuscript. The literary
works are studied. in the second part of the thesis, and a
transcript is given of the unpublished maiuscript.
This study attempts to show how Strutt's interpretation
of the early periods of English history and literature helped
to form the pre-Romantic taste for the medieval. The plates
of his antiquarian works, taken almost exclusively from
manuscripts contemporary with the subjects described,
familiarised his audience with what had formerly been strange
to all but the specialist. His works of fiction are attempts
to do the same thing by literary means. Walter Scott was
employed. to edit the incomplete manuscript of Queenhoo-JTall:
be was encouraged by Strutt's example to take up his own
writing of historical fiction
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Geophysical Survey and sub-surface investigations at Quesna and Kom el-Ahmar (Minuf), Governorate of Minufiyeh: an Integrated Strategy for mapping and understanding sub-surface remains of mortuary, sacred and domestic contexts.
No full textJohn E. Smith, UC Irvine University Librarian, shows Friends of the Library member E. Strutt around facility
No full textHandwritten on sheet: "11/10/69 Friends of the Library J. Smith E. Strutt "University of California, Irvine. University Communications
New achaeological surveys at Wolvesey Palace, the cathedral and Winchester college, Winchester, Hampshire
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Growth in densely populated Asia: implications for primary product exporters
No full textEconomic growth and integration in Asia is rapidly increasing the global economic importance of the region. To the extent that this growth continues and is strongest in natural resource-poor Asian economies, it will add to global demand for imports of primary products, to the benefit of (especially nearby) resource-abundant countries. How will global production, consumption and trade patterns change by 2030 in the course of such economic developments and structural changes? We address this question using the GTAP model and Version 8.1 of the 2007 GTAP database, together with supplementary data from a range of sources, to support projections of the global economy from 2007 to 2030 under various scenarios. Factor endowments and real gross domestic product are assumed to grow at exogenous rates, and trade-related policies are kept unchanged to generate a core baseline, which is compared with an alternative slower growth scenario. We also consider the impact of several policy changes aimed at increasing China's agricultural self-sufficiency relative to the 2030 baseline. Policy implications for countries of the Asia-Pacific region are drawn out in the final section
The Ave Valley, northern Portugal: an archaeological survey of Iron Age and Roman settlement
No full textThe article presents the results of the HRB-funded survey of a sample of the Ave valley undertaken between 1994 and 1998. Introductory sections describe the geographical background and summarise the approaches followed. The field-walking results are then presented with especial emphasis on the ceramics. The field-walking evidence is used to identify a series of newly discovered sites which are assessed. The results of geophysical surveys of several of these sites are also presented. Information about the settlement patterns is presented based on a GIS analysis of both previously known sites and the results of the field-walking. Patterns in the changing distribution of settlement are discussed in relation to local social dynamics and the Roman annexation and exploitation of the region.The article is supported by databases which present the results of the field-walking and ceramic analyses.The article is jointly authored by: Martin Millett, Francisco Queiroga (Universidade Fernando Pessao, Porto), Kris Strutt, Jeremy Taylor and Steven Willis. The nature of a field-walking survey which produces a sequence of related databases (for field and finds) attached to a sequence of maps is particularly appropriate for electronic publication. Attempting such a publication in electronic form seems a worthwhile project in itself aside from the importance of the results
Benchmarking risk management practice within the water utility sector
No full textExplicit approaches to risk analysis within the water utility sector, traditionally
applied to occupational health and safety and public health protection, are now seeing
broader application in contexts including corporate level decision making, asset
management, watershed protection and network reliability. Our research suggested that
neither the development of novel risk analysis techniques nor the refinement of existing
ones was of paramount importance in improving the capabilities of water utilities to
manage risk. It was thought that a more fruitful approach would be to focus on the
implementation of risk management rather than the techniques employed per se.
Thus, we developed a prescriptive capability maturity model for benchmarking
the maturity of implementation of water utility risk management practice, and applied it
to the sector via case study and benchmarking survey. We observed risk management
practices ranging from the application of hazard and operability studies, to the use of
scenario planning in guiding organisational restructuring programmes. We observed
methods for their institutionalisation, including the use of initiation criteria for applying
risk analysis techniques; the adoption of formalised procedures to guide their
application; and auditing and peer reviews to ensure procedural compliance and provide
quality assurance.
We then built upon this research to develop a descriptive1 capability maturity
model of utility risk analysis and risk based decision making practice, and described its
case study application. The contribution to knowledge of this stage of the research was
three-fold, we: synthesized empirical observations with behavioral and normative theories to codify the processes of risk analysis and risk based decision making; placed
these processes within a maturity framework which distinguishes their relative maturity
of implementation from ad hoc to adaptive; and provided a comparative analysis of risk
analysis and risk based decision making practices, and their maturity of
implementation, across a range of utility functions.
The research provides utility managers, technical staff, project managers and
chief finance officers with a practical and systematic understanding of how to
implement and improve risk management, and offers preliminary guidance to regulators
concerning how improved water utility governance can be made real
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