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Crime and the economy of makeshifts: Kent and Oxfordshire 1830-1885
This thesis examines the link between legislative reforms, crime and the makeshift strategies that
the poor used to support their households in the Medway basin and rural districts in north Oxfordshire
between 1830 and 1885. In short, this thesis considers whether the poor relied on different criminal
strategies to maintain their makeshift households in both rural and urban environments. To this end,
it examines how the labouring population in the two regions coped with a raft of legislative reforms
and the sort of socio-economic changes that occurred over the longer term. This thesis also
demonstrates how the technique of Record Linkage can help eliminate some of the problems that
arise when data-sets are incomplete or when source documents are missing. To fulfill these
objectives, this thesis is divided into eight chapters. The first of these outlines the research
questions and definitions that are used throughout this survey. Chapter two engages with the
current historiography that relates to the study of crime and poverty in Kent and Oxfordshire in the
nineteenth century. It establishes how this thesis improves our understanding of the way that
legislative reforms and socio-economic change helped to shape the criminal strategies that the
labouring poor utilised in the two regions, between 1830 and 1885. Chapter three identifies the
socio-economic emergence of the Medway basin as an industrial centre and explains why similar
changes did not occur in Oxfordshire. The chapters which follow detail how population growth and
industrial development affected labour markets and the distribution of welfare in the two regions.
In doing so. they establish whether the poor in the two regions were reliant on the proceeds of crime
to support their makeshift households. or whether they simply exploited weaknesses in the
administration of local government institutions. so that they might improve the state of their
household economies. When considered together, this thesis establishes that crime was one of the
components that the labouring poor in Kent and Oxfordshire used to support their makeshift
economies, when legislative reforms and socio-economic change threatened to undermine the
solvency of their households
Modeling-based determination of physiological parameters of systemic VOCs by breath gas analysis, part 2
In a recent paper we presented a simple two compartment model which describes
the influence of inhaled concentrations on exhaled breath concentrations for
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with small Henry constants. In this paper we
extend this investigation concerning the influence of inhaled concentrations on
exhaled breath concentrations for VOCs with higher Henry constants.
To this end we extend our model with an additional compartment which takes
into account the influence of the upper airways on exhaled breath VOC
concentrations
Coherence of Spin Qubits in Silicon
Given the effectiveness of semiconductor devices for classical computation
one is naturally led to consider semiconductor systems for solid state quantum
information processing. Semiconductors are particularly suitable where local
control of electric fields and charge transport are required. Conventional
semiconductor electronics is built upon these capabilities and has demonstrated
scaling to large complicated arrays of interconnected devices. However, the
requirements for a quantum computer are very different from those for classical
computation, and it is not immediately obvious how best to build one in a
semiconductor. One possible approach is to use spins as qubits: of nuclei, of
electrons, or both in combination. Long qubit coherence times are a
prerequisite for quantum computing, and in this paper we will discuss
measurements of spin coherence in silicon. The results are encouraging - both
electrons bound to donors and the donor nuclei exhibit low decoherence under
the right circumstances. Doped silicon thus appears to pass the first test on
the road to a quantum computer.Comment: Submitted to J Cond Matter on Nov 15th, 200
Coupling the Biophysical and Social Dimensions of Wildfire Risk to Improve Wildfire Mitigation Planning
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/113114/1/risa12373.pd
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