Bench marks and flush brackets in Keswick - a legacy of the Ordnance Survey

The article highlights the presence and absence of Ordnance Survey (OS) bench marks (of the crow’s foot, bolt and rivet types) and flush brackets in Keswick. Some bench marks date to the 1st (Primary) Geodetic Levelling of 1840-60, while others are late-19th and 20th century indicators of OS activity. Several of the early bench marks can no longer be found and are presumed to have been destroyed as a consequence of re-developments. Four flush brackets were fixed to buildings, probably early in the period 1935-62 as part of the re-triangulation of Great Britain; one of these is now lost. The bench marks and flush brackets are no longer maintained by the OS and have no legal protection other than through that accorded to the structure on which they exist. Their significance as heritage assets related to the mapping of Britain is not in doubt and their continuing loss is lamentable

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Mining Sector in Southern Africa: A Focus on Mining in Malawi, South Africa and Zambia

The research conducted by the Bench Marks Foundation on mining in Southern provides SADC governments, mining companies and local mining community stakeholders with information and guidance on issues to consider in the process of empowerment and sustainable development through corporate social responsibility. At the same time it also alerts the global world of the human rights shortfalls that are being practised in the SADC mining communities

Richmond Law Magazine: Fall 2001

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Shoprite in Malawi, Swaziland and Zambia: A Report by the Bench Marks Foundation

This report produces a number of penetrating findings which are presented in such a manner as to indicate both the change imperative required to support principles of empowerment and sustainable development through corporate social responsibility, and the necessary guidance to initiate such change

Benchmarking for high-level synthesis

This paper discusses issues in benchmarking for synthesis, and suggests techniques for the comparison of benchmark descriptions, the synthesis tools used, as well as the synthesized designs finally generated. We propose a classification scheme for the assumptions made for the comparison of different synthesis tools, and present an Assumptions Chart that can be used to visualize different benchmarks, tools and synthesis results. We illustrate application of this Assumptions Chart using synthesis experiments that were conducted on some sample High-Level Synthesis Workshop bench-marks

Analysis of Southern Segment of Sumatran Fault Monitoring Bench Mark as Preliminary Approach in Updating Earthquake Hazard Map

Sumatran Fault is one of hazard located in Sumatra Island. Southern segment of Sumatran fault is one of sources of earthquakes in Lampung Province. Hazard map is used as consideration in developing region. The source of hazard comes from stress accumulation of crust which can be derived from movement of points in surface. The study of points or monitoring bench mark to accommodate more precise fault movement or slip and stress accumulation is important for sustainable development in Lampung Province. Tool used for analysis is geographic information system especially buffer analysis. Available monitoring bench mark is analysed so that each bench mark can be classified based on its contribution of fault movement based on distance from segment of current fault. High class bench marks are prioritized to be used as survey sites to monitor fault movement. The other analysis is analysis to obtain region that lack bench mark to monitor segment of current fault or even discover new fault which is branch of segment of current fault. The result of this research is there are four high class bench marks. 58.54% of total segments of 164.020 km long Sumatran fault in Lampung Province is segments with no monitoring bench marks. Three most possible district to build bench mark are Airhitam, Lemong, and Ngambur District

Estimating Physical Capital and Land for States and Sectors of the United States, 1850-2000

This paper introduces new estimates of physical capital and land for the states of the United States covering up to 150 years, from 1850{2000. The estimates of physical capital are decomposed into estimates for agriculture, manufacturing, and a residual sector, while the estimates of land are for agriculture only. The paper describes the data sources and methodology used to generate the estimates. It provides sensitivity analysis when alternative choices are possible and comparison to alternative bench-marks when available.state physical capital, state land, farming, land, non-manufacturing, non-farming

Математическое моделирование геодинамических процессов

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF GEODYNAMIC PROCESSES V. KOROVKIN, A. SOLOVJEV Mathematical modelling of geodynamic processes by results of the high-precision repeated levelling, re-ceived in Polotsko-Kurzemskaj zone of tectonic breaks, is presented. Quasiperiodic character of vertical movements of bench marks on investigated level profile has caused application of the model based on Fourier trigonometric sequence. The best results, characterised by the maximum coordination of calculated speeds of movements of bench marks with their measured values, are received at the set period. КОРОВКИН, В.Н.- доктор физ.-мат. наук, доц. (Полоцкий государственный университет); А.Н. СОЛОВЬЕВ (Полоцкий государственный университет)Представлено математическое моделирование геодинамических процессов по результатам высокоточного повторного нивелирования, полученным в Полоцко-Курземской зоне тектонических разломов. Квазипериодический характер вертикальных движений реперов на исследуемом нивелирном профиле обусловил применение модели, основанной на тригонометрическом ряде Фурье. Наилучшие результаты, характеризующиеся максимальной согласованностью вычисленных скоростей движений реперов с их измеренными значениями, получены при заданном периоде

The high partial wave phenomenon of spin changing atomic transitions

The collisional transition between two highly excited atomic states with different spin is investigated theoretically. Taking helium-like n1S − n3P as an example, it is found that the transition is driven in the highly ion-ized Fe ion purely by exchange, and the cross section becomes increasingly dominated by partial waves of high orbital angular momentum as the scattering energy increases. Whereas for the near-neutral Li ion the transition is dominated by channel coupling in low partial waves. Analytical bench-marks and numerical methods are developed for the accurate calculation of the exchange integral at high angular momentum. It is shown how the partial wave and energy dependence of the collision strength for high n spin changing transitions in the highly ionized ion is related to the overlap of the extended atomic orbitals.</p

R-Hadron and long lived particle searches at the LHC

If long lived charged particles exist, and produced at the LHC, they may travel with velocity significantly slower than the speed of light. This unique signature was not considered during the design of the LHC experiments, ATLAS and CMS. As a result, hardware and trigger capabilities need to be evaluated. Model independent approaches for finding long lived particles with the LHC experiments are introduced. They are tested using two bench marks, one in GMSB and one in Split SUSY. The focus is on hardware and trigger issues, as well as reconstruction methods developed by ATLAS and CMS. Both experiments suggest time of flight (TOF) based methods. However, the implementation is different. In ATLAS a first beta estimation is done already at the trigger level. CMS also uses dE/dx to estimate beta.Comment: Submitted for the SUSY07 proceedings, 4 pages, LaTeX, 7 eps figure