Farming Tourism: A Review Of Entrepreneurial Skills

 The topic of entrepreneurial competencies and skills in farm tourism is of great importance both in the field of tourism entrepreneurship and niche tourism management. Farmers develop a specific set of skills to meet the specific needs of farm management such as conceptual and theoretical, strategic, and forecasting, and stakeholder relationship management. Farm tourism is a distinct field, very different from farm management. This article will review the set of skills required to run a farm as a tourism business. The article argues that a lot of farm business and management competencies and skills are transferable skills, and therefore, highly compatible with farming tourism entrepreneurship. </p

The Characteristics of High-Quality Health and Social Care for People on Probation: Professional and Lived Experience Perspectives

   We investigated the characteristics of high-quality health and social care for people on probation and how they might be measured. Online open-ended survey responses and focus group data were analysed using thematic analysis. Providing high-quality care involves an understanding of the population’s needs; tailoring practice to accommodate and meet individuals’ needs; inter-agency collaboration; and seeking and acting on lived experience input. High-quality care is evidence-based and accessible and produces positive outcomes for people on probation. Foundations for achieving these outcomes are supportive, trusting, and consistent supervisory relationships (working alliances) with professional practice that is sufficiently resourced, compassionate, and person-centred.</p

Uniaxial negative thermal expansion facilitated by weak host-guest interactions

A nitromethane solvate of 18-crown-6 was investigated by means of variable-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction in response to a report of abnormal unit cell contraction. Exceptionally large positive thermal expansion in two axial directions and negative thermal expansion along the third was confirmed. The underlying mechanism relies exclusively on weak electrostatic interactions to yield a linear thermal expansion coefficient of -129 × 10-6 K-1, the largest negative value yet observed for an organic inclusion compound. © 2014 The Partner Organisations.</p

Breaking the trade-off between selectivity and adsorption capacity for gas separation

The trade-off between selectivity and adsorption capacity with porous materials is a major roadblock to reducing the energy footprint of gas separation technologies. To address this matter, we report herein a systematic crystal engineering study of C2H2 removal from CO2 in a family of hybrid ultramicroporous materials (HUMs). The HUMs are composed of the same organic linker ligand, 4-(3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)pyridine, pypz, three inorganic pillar ligands, and two metal cations, thereby affording six isostructural pcu topology HUMs. All six HUMs exhibited strong binding sites for C2H2 and weaker affinity for CO2. The tuning of pore size and chemistry enabled by crystal engineering resulted in benchmark C2H2/CO2 separation performance. Fixed-bed dynamic column breakthrough experiments for an equimolar (v/v = 1:1) C2H2/CO2 binary gas mixture revealed that one sorbent, SIFSIX-21-Ni, was the first C2H2 selective sorbent that combines exceptional separation selectivity (27.7) with high adsorption capacity (4 mmol·g−1). © 2021 The Authors</p

Hydration-dependent anomalous thermal expansion behaviour in a coordination polymer

A coordination polymer is shown to possess anomalous anisotropic thermal expansion. Guest water molecules present in the as-synthesised material can be removed upon activation without loss of crystal singularity. The fully dehydrated form shows considerably different thermal expansion behaviour as compared to the hydrate. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016.</p

Colossal Trellislike Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Structural Transformations in Two 1D Coordination Polymers

Two 1D coordination polymers exhibit a dramatic trellislike structural contraction during activation, resulting in the contortion of conceptually rigid ligands in the guest-free forms. Structural expansion may be effected by a liquid guest in both cases and by vapor in one. The vapor sorption behavior varies with changes in vapor pressure and kinetic diameter of the solvent in question. © </p

Tuning extreme anisotropic thermal expansion in 1D coordination polymers through metal selection and solid solutions

The thermal expansion behaviour of a series of 1D coordination polymers has been investigated. Variation of the metal centre allows tuning of the thermal expansion behaviour from colossal positive volumetric to extreme anomalous thermal expansion. Preparation of solid solutions increased the magnitude of the anomalous thermal expansion further, producing two species displaying supercolossal anisotropic thermal expansion (ZnCoCPHTαY2= −712 MK−1, αY3= 1632 MK−1and ZnCdCPHTαY2= −711 MK−1,αY3= 1216 MK−1). © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021.</p

Diffusion of vaporous guests into a seemingly non-porous organic crystal

The tetragonal apohost phase of p-tert-butyltetramethoxythiacalix[4]arene absorbs hydrochloric acid and iodine. These guest molecules occupy different sites in the solid-state structure – either within the small intrinsic voids of the macrocycle or within the interstitial spaces between the host molecules. This study illustrates the dynamic deformation of the host, providing strong mechanistic insight into the diffusion of guests into this seemingly non-porous material. 2014 © The Royal Society of Chemistry.</p

The liquid phase epitaxy approach for the successful construction of ultra-thin and defect-free ZIF-8 membranes: Pure and mixed gas transport study

The liquid-phase epitaxy (LPE) method was effectively implemented to deliberately grow/construct ultrathin (0.5–1 μm) continuous and defect-free ZIF-8 membranes. Permeation properties of different gas pair systems (O2–N2, H2–CO2, CO2–CH4, C3H6–C3H8, CH4–n-C4H10) were studied using the time lag technique. © 2014 The Royal Society of Chemistry.</p

Pyrogallol[4]arenes as frustrated organic solids

Two forms of interdigitated layered arrangements of C-pentylpyrogallol[4] arene (PgC5) have been structurally elucidated and show variations in packing arrangements and host-guest interactions. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal a propensity for formation of self-included dimers, with or without incorporated solvent. Combined gas sorption and PXRD results show the presence of seven forms of PgC5, with and without CO2 (and their interconversions). This is the first CO2 gas sorption study of pyrogallol[4]arenes, and it provides evidence that pyrogallol[4]arenes may act as frustrated organic solids. © 2013 American Chemical Society.</p