The crown, the peerage and high politics 1689-1760.

PhDIt is the contention of this thesis that the crown went through some rather marked change during the course of the period, starting with the Bill of Rights and effectively ending with the Act of Settlement in 1701. In 1689 the crown had an extensive prerogative and a limited executive, in 1702 it had a more limited prerogative (although it did come into operation until after Annets 1714 death) and an extensive executive. Thereafter, there was no deterioration in the crown's position during the subsequent decades to the period's end. The importance of the crown has been underestimated because of the limited amount of direct research on it as a political entity. This thesis makes advances in terms of both factual knowledge and historiography. Its body falls into two principal parts. The first of these are three structural analyses of crown patronage in relation to the peeragetitles, central office and local office. The second is a broad political narrative. The analyses show that the crown was a very definite presence in high politics. Over the period as a whole the crown defined the limitations that its political managers had to operate within these. As the period progressed crown prejudices, especially with relation to the peerage, grew more marked rather than declining in the Revolution Settlement's wake as has been the general interpretation previouslY. In the narrative. the reigns of William III, Anne and George I are principally innovative in terms of historiography. For George II's reign there is such advance but also a far higher share of new material, the latter part of the period having had far less research on it than the former one. A notable example of this is the patterns of occurrence and general character of Post-1727 tory tergiversation

Impact Of Intranets On Employee Perception And Behavior: A Case Study In A UK Bank

This paper deals with the question of how intranets impact on employee perception and behavior. The study uses a five year longitudinal study following the evolution of an intranet in a UK bank to analyze how it changed the relationships between employees and between managers and employees. The discussion integrates two different research domains, the intranet literature and the organizational trust literature. Qualitative data is presented to show the impact of intranets on communication, sharing of information, collaboration, organizational bonding, feeling of empowerment, power distance and sense of closeness. The discussion uses three metaphors to convey the key findings: The Plumbing System, the Iconic Building and the Soap Opera. The main contribution of this paper is in using constructs from the organizational trust literature to better understand how intranets impact on employee perception and behavior

Molasses-Urea Block Supplementation of Beef Cattle on the Barkly Tableland of Northern Territory During the Dry Season

One challenge of nutrition of cattle in extensive situations in Australia is to supplement the pasture deficiencies to achieve better productivity. 'Productivity' includes increased fertility, decreased mortality of breeding cattle and calves and increases in growth rates leading to decreased time to sale. The use of multi-nutritional supplements in the form of blocks is one method used to try to achieve this increase in productivity. The problems with conducting research to verify what effect the supplements are exerting, especially on properties in the Northern Territory, are: 1. The sizes of individual paddocks are usually so large that a regular total muster of animals is impractical 2. The unhandled nature of the animals precludes the use of invasive techniques or sophisticated procedures and the effect of the stress of handling becomes significant 3. The setting up of controlled experiments in the extensive situation is very difficult. This has often led to short-term experiments, examining retrospective parameters, to achieve measurable responses. The measurements made are usually short-term weight gain and branding rates. ... This study was undertaken to ascertain if it was possible to establish the intake pattern of this supplement and verify the intake over a number of samplings up to 12 months apart

Anisotropic intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of phosphorene from first principles

Phosphorene, the single layer counterpart of black phosphorus, is a novel two-dimensional semiconductor with high carrier mobility and a large fundamental direct band gap, which has attracted tremendous interest recently. Its potential applications in nano-electronics and thermoelectrics call for a fundamental study of the phonon transport. Here, we calculate the intrinsic lattice thermal conductivity of phosphorene by solving the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) based on first-principles calculations. The thermal conductivity of phosphorene at $300\,\mathrm{K}$ is $30.15\,\mathrm{Wm^{-1}K^{-1}}$ (zigzag) and $13.65\,\mathrm{Wm^{-1}K^{-1}}$ (armchair), showing an obvious anisotropy along different directions. The calculated thermal conductivity fits perfectly to the inverse relation with temperature when the temperature is higher than Debye temperature ($\Theta_D = 278.66\,\mathrm{K}$). In comparison to graphene, the minor contribution around $5\%$ of the ZA mode is responsible for the low thermal conductivity of phosphorene. In addition, the representative mean free path (MFP), a critical size for phonon transport, is also obtained.Comment: 5 pages and 6 figures, Supplemental Material available as http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cp/c4/c4cp04858j/c4cp04858j1.pd