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Not in my back yard! Sports stadia location and the property market
In recent years sports stadia have been built in the UK, not only for their intended sporting purpose but with the twin aim of stimulating economic and physical regeneration. However, proposals to locate stadia in urban areas often prompt a negative reaction from local communities, fearing a decline in property prices. This paper will use a case study of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and the City of Manchester Stadium to illustrate that in contrast to this widely held belief, sports stadia can actually enhance the value of residential property. Furthermore, it will argue that stadia also contribute indirectly to property value through the creation of pride, confidence and enhanced image of an area.</p
Immigration into the mainstream: Conflicting ideological streams, strategic reasoning and party competition
Investigation of the magnetic field characteristics of Herbig Ae/Be stars: Discovery of the pre-main sequence progenitors of the magnetic Ap/Bp stars
We are investigating the magnetic characteristics of pre-main sequence Herbig
Ae/Be stars, with the aim of (1) understanding the origin and evolution of
magnetism in intermediate-mass stars, and (2) exploring the influence of
magnetic fields on accretion, rotation and mass-loss at the early stages of
evolution of A, B and O stars. We have begun by conducting 2 large surveys of
Herbig Ae/Be stars, searching for direct evidence of photospheric magnetic
fields via the longitudinal Zeeman effect. From observations obtained using
FORS1 at the ESO-VLT and ESPaDOnS at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, we
report the confirmed detection of magnetic fields in 4 pre-main sequence A- and
B-type stars, and the apparent (but as yet unconfirmed) detection of fields in
2 other such stars. We do not confirm the detection of magnetic fields in
several stars reported by other authors to be magnetic: HD 139614, HD 144432 or
HD 31649. One of the most evolved stars in the detected sample, HD 72106A,
shows clear evidence of strong photospheric chemical peculiarity, whereas many
of the other (less evolved) stars do not. The magnetic fields that we detect
appear to have surface intensities of order 1 kG, seem to be structured on
global scales, and appear in about 10% of the stars studied. Based on these
properties, these magnetic stars appear to be pre-main sequence progenitors of
the magnetic Ap/Bp stars.Comment: v2: Include comment regarding publication source To appear in the
proceedings of "Solar Polarisation 4", held in Boulder, USA, Sept. 200
Preparation and characterization of protein-nanotube conjugates
This chapter describes methods of immobilizing proteins on carbon nanotubes, using two different routesâphysical adsorption and covalent attachment. We also provide an overview on how such conjugates can be characterized with the help of various techniques, such as Raman, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), circular dichroism (CD), and fluorescence spectroscopies, in addition to the standard enzyme kinetic analyses of activity and stability. Both the attachment routesâcovalent and noncovalentâcould be used to prepare protein conjugates that retained a significant fraction of their native structure and function; furthermore, the protein conjugates were operationally stable, reusable, and functional even under harsh denaturing conditions. These studies therefore corroborate the use of these immobilization methods to engineer functional carbon nanotube-protein hybrids that are highly active and stable
A zone of preferential ion heating extends tens of solar radii from Sun
The extreme temperatures and non-thermal nature of the solar corona and solar
wind arise from an unidentified physical mechanism that preferentially heats
certain ion species relative to others. Spectroscopic indicators of unequal
temperatures commence within a fraction of a solar radius above the surface of
the Sun, but the outer reach of this mechanism has yet to be determined. Here
we present an empirical procedure for combining interplanetary solar wind
measurements and a modeled energy equation including Coulomb relaxation to
solve for the typical outer boundary of this zone of preferential heating.
Applied to two decades of observations by the Wind spacecraft, our results are
consistent with preferential heating being active in a zone extending from the
transition region in the lower corona to an outer boundary 20-40 solar radii
from the Sun, producing a steady state super-mass-proportional
-to-proton temperature ratio of . Preferential ion heating
continues far beyond the transition region and is important for the evolution
of both the outer corona and the solar wind. The outer boundary of this zone is
well below the orbits of spacecraft at 1 AU and even closer missions such as
Helios and MESSENGER, meaning it is likely that no existing mission has
directly observed intense preferential heating, just residual signatures. We
predict that {Parker Solar Probe} will be the first spacecraft with a perihelia
sufficiently close to the Sun to pass through the outer boundary, enter the
zone of preferential heating, and directly observe the physical mechanism in
action.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journal on 1 August 201
Use of ERTS-1 data to assess and monitor change in the Southern California environment
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The Association of Early Dietary Supplementation with Vitamin E with the Incidence of Ulcerative Dermatitis in Mice on a C57BL/6 Background
The purpose of this study was to ascertain if prophylactic ingestion of a diet rich in vitamin E would prevent or impede the development of ulcerative dermatitis in mice on a C57BL/6 background. Mice were fed after weaning a standard mouse diet, vitamin E (99 IU/kg), or a mouse diet fortified with vitamin E (3000 IU/ kg). Cases of ulcerative dermatitis were recorded by individuals (i.e. aware of) the diet assignment. The incidence of ulcerative dermatitis in a retrospective cohort of mice on standard diet was compared with the group on the diet fortified with vitamin E. Age was associated with ulcerative dermatitis in standard diet and vitamin E fortified diet groups, r = 0.43, p-value < 0.0001 and r = 0.18, p-value < 0.02, respectively. The average age of incidence for ulcerative dermatitis in the mice fed the standard diet was 89 weeks and for the mice fed the vitamin E diet it was 41 weeks. The unadjusted odds ratio comparing the incidence of ulcerative dermatitis between the two diet groups was 4.6 with a 95% confidence interval of (2.44, 8.58), x2 p-value < 0.0001. Therefore, there was an association between the diets and ulcerative dermatitis, with the mice on the vitamin E fortified diet having almost five times the odds of having ulcerative dermatitis compared with mice on the standard diet. Incidence of ulcerative dermatitis was not influenced by sex or genotype. Our study results show that a diet fortified in vitamin E initiated at weaning does not prevent or impede the development of ulcerative dermatitis in mice on a C57BL/6 background and on the contrary accelerate development when administered to young mice.
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